Re: In octaves

[Valentin Villenave]

2008/4/25 Jay Anderson <address@hidden>:

>  To make it work in a relative section always use 0 for the octave up
>  and -2 for the octave down. I don't really know how to make it work
>  both inside and outside of a relative section easily. This is my first
>  dip into some of lilypond's internals and I don't totally understand
>  how relative sections work here. If anyone knows how to fix that I'd
>  be very grateful because I have a few other similar functions where I
>  just assume one way or the other. The best solution I have for now is
>  to define one function for inside a relative block and one for
>  outside.

Most people use \relative, so I think this is more important to make
it work inside \relative.

>  One thing I'd like to do instead is something like this:
>
>  octaves = #(chord-template #{<c c'>#}) (or maybe #(chord-template 8) I
>  don't know which would be preferable.)

Oh yes! The second one looks particularly well.

>  Then you could easily define others:
>
>  thirds = #(chord-template #{<c e>#}) (or #(chord-template 3))
>  octaves-down = #(chord-template #{<c c,>#}) (or #(chord-template -8))
>  oneFourSix = #(chord-template #{<c f a>#}) (or possibly #(chord-template 4 
> 6))

That would be great; I hope you'll manage to come up with something...


Cheers,
Valentin