Re: Use fingering notation for percussion and drum “ sticking”

[Ben Finney]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Oops, this was sent with too little editing, sorry.
>
> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Ben Finney <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >> What would be better is for the “fingering” feature to support “L” and
> >> “R” as fingers.
> >
> > Use \L and \R instead.
> >
> > L=-\tweak #'Fingering #'text "L"-1
> > R=-\tweak #'Fignering #'text "R"-1

(I also corrected the ‘Fignering’ typo.)

> Lilypond will not accept an assignment to R, considering it a
> multimeasure rest.

Okay, but even with the names different (I've chosen ‘LH’ and ‘RH’),
LilyPond doesn't like it:

    $ lilypond Hayate.ly
    GNU LilyPond 2.12.3
    Processing `Hayate.ly'
    Parsing...
    Hayate.ly:12:34: error: syntax error, unexpected STRING
    RH = -\tweak #'Fingering #'text "R
                                      "-1
    Hayate.ly:13:34: error: syntax error, unexpected STRING
    LH = -\tweak #'Fingering #'text "L
                                      "-2
    Hayate.ly:31:26: error: unknown escaped string: `\RH'
        \repeat unfold 4 { c8.
                              \RH c16\LH }
    Hayate.ly:31:26: error: syntax error, unexpected STRING
        \repeat unfold 4 { c8.
                              \RH c16\LH }
    [… hundreds more errors as the notation is used throughout …]

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Ben Finney