Re: Just chords and lyrics.

[Trevor Daniels]

Graham Percival wrote Friday, November 28, 2008 7:49 AM


> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 08:15:39PM -0700, Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
> > On 11/27/08 8:06 PM, "Jonathan Kulp" <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > Graham Percival wrote:
> > >> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 08:22:51PM -0600, Jonathan Kulp wrote:
> > >>> makeTransparent = {
> > >>> \override NoteHead #'transparent = ##t
> > >>> \override Stem #'transparent = ##t
> > >>> \override TupletBracket #'bracket-visibility = ##f
> > >> 
> > >> This could be added to ly/property-init.ly.  Oh, and indentation.
> > > 
>
> Let me put it this way: should \hideNotes *only* hide the noteheads
> and steams, or should \hideNotes hide everything?  My first
> instinct as that it should hide everything, but maybe somebody can
> think of a reason why not.  -- I mean, a reason that isn't highly
> tweaked out, like making Schenkerian graphs with lilypond.  People
> doing that kind of stuff should be able to figure out the
> \overrides on their own.
>
> If we *can't* think of a reason why \hideNodes should leave the
> slurs and tuplet brackets visible, then I would rather that you
> dump your overrides into the existing \hideNotes macro.

By using a second voice with \hideNotes it is possible to have
overlapping printed slurs (slurs can't be attached to spacer rests).
Not sure if this is a good-enough reason though.

Trevor