Re: custom drumstyle-tables with custom noteheads?

[Tao Cumplido]

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> Datum: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 14:27:28 -0700
> Von: "Carl D. Sorensen" <address@hidden>
> An: Tao Cumplido <address@hidden>, "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> Betreff: Re: custom drumstyle-tables with custom noteheads?

Uh, it's me again.
Actually I made it to write a workaround that does the job. Better late than 
never. ^^
I still have to prepare a presentable sample before I post the result here 
though.

> Yes, the .cc files are very hard to understand.  But after you look at a
> bunch of them, it gets better....
> 
> You can see where the styles are actually used to get glyph names in
> scm/output-lib.scm.

Well, instead of medling further with the installation files I wrote now a 
workaround function that actually ignores the 'style property of the grob 
completely and just checks on the drumnote-name, i.e. bassdrum and overrides 
the 'stencil property with the function from the other thread to create custom 
stencils which produce different results depending on the duration-log.

I think that's actually more or less the same you had in mind below.

> Maybe, but this seems like too much of a hack to me.  But it's possible, I
> suppose.  But if I were going to do it in this fashion, I think I'd add a
> new style to the drumStyleTable and then try to write a new print function
> that checks the style, and if it's parallelogram, use the parallelogram
> print routine, otherwise, use the regular notehead print routine.
> 
> Now that I think about it, this approach is a promising way to do this
> without needing to add any font glyphs (which I think would be needed to
> define a new style).  You already have a template for how to do this in
> your
> parallelogram function that Neil wrote.  It checks the grob, and if its
> duration is 2, it writes the parallelogram.  Otherwise, it calls the
> regular
> notehead stuff.

> But I think the output will likely be better if you define new glyphs in
> the
> font and define a new style.

Eventually it'd definitely be easier to use and I think with some more 
tinkering I might even be able to do it but right now it works like I want it 
to and I prefer not to play with the installation files.

Regards,

Tao

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