Re: Best name for function to create cross-style noteheads

[Marc Hohl]

Carl Sorensen schrieb:
> On 7/24/09 6:16 AM, "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > The structure of the Notation Reference is designed
> > to accommodate documenting this.  The specialist
> > sections in NR 2 would contain an indexed description
> > of all the uses of crossed note heads.  For example,
> > under "Common notation for wind instruments" would
> > appear "key-slap" and "sub-tone", with a pointer to the
> > description of crossed note heads, which is already
> > described in NR 1.1.4 Note heads (#'style=#'cross).
> > Other uses of crossed note heads should be documented
> > similarly in the appropriate specialist sections.
> >     
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> Recognizing that we may want to change noteheads to
> various styles, and that we may want to mix styles in a chord, it
> might be a good idea to define a function \changeNoteHead that accepts
> a style parameter, and then define \xHead as \changeNoteHead #'cross.
>
> I haven't tried this, and there may be some problems in making it work in a
> chord, but I think it's worth a try.
>   
Hm, I came across a usability problem:

dead notes (aka \changeNoteHead #'cross) change NoteHeads and TabNoteHeads,

whereas

palm mute (aka \changeNoteHead #'do) changes only NoteHeads.

(not that I had implemented \changeNoteHead, though!)

Marc
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