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

[Trevor Daniels]

Carl Sorensen wrote Friday, July 24, 2009 2:07 PM

> On 7/24/09 6:16 AM, "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> 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'm confused or missing something.  What's wrong
with

xHeadOn  = \override NoteHead #'style = #'cross
xHeadOff = \override NoteHead #'style = #'()

which works now?

> 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.

This works

<e \tweak #'style #'cross a c>

but I don't know a way to invoke it with a
\xHead shortcut.

> Carl

Trevor