Re: string-lines

[Jonathan Kulp]

Thanks for the help, Neil. I've added a snippet showing this 
feature to LSR here:

http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1&id=616

A TODO is to turn it into a scheme function whereby you could just 
type something like \stringNumberSpanner "5" to set all of these 
parameters:

 \override TextSpanner #'style = #'solid
 \override TextSpanner #'font-size = #-5
 \override TextSpanner #'(bound-details left stencil-align-dir-y) 
= #CENTER
 \override TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = \markup { 
\circle \number 5 }

Right now each string number in the snippet has its own 
definition, which is not very elegant.  I just got a Scheme 
programming language book for my birthday (yeah!) so maybe this 
will be my first project. :)

Jon

Neil Puttock wrote:

> You can use stencil-align-dir-y instead of \lower here.
>
>  \override TextSpanner #'font-shape = #'solid
>
> You can remove this.
>
>  \override TextSpanner #'font-size = #'-2
>
> If you use \number for the markup, -5 will match string numbers exactly.
>
> \relative c {
>  \clef "treble_8"
>  b16 d g b e
>  \textSpannerDown
>  \override TextSpanner #'style = #'solid
>  \override TextSpanner #'font-size = #-5
>  \override TextSpanner #'(bound-details left stencil-align-dir-y) = #CENTER
>  \override TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = \markup { \circle
> \number 6 }
>  \set stringNumberOrientations = #'(down)
>  g16\startTextSpan
>  b16 e g e b g\stopTextSpan
>  e16 b g d
> }
>
> Regards,
> Neil


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