Re: Creation of a generic pattern

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Sunday 27 February 2011 14:35:51 voyageur wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a score with a reccurent rythmic pattern.
> This is an example :
> 
> \times 2/3 {c16\>[(d c\!) } e16 \staccato c \staccato]
> 
> I want to create some kind of template to save me typing the code
> many times.
> 
> I'm not sure template is the appropriate word, perhaps something like
> a C macro would be more descriptive.
> 
> >From the lilypond tutorial, I made the assumption it could be done
> >with scheme
> 
> functions. However I didn't found enough examples to get started.
> 
> Could you give some direction on how you would do that ?
 
Write your template with "*"s for values, copy it, list your
values before, and run this on the whole file or on a selection
in a capable editor.  Regards, daveA


# substar.sed replaces alpha beta re * gub * gub
# with re alpha gub beta gub
# Will leave backslashed star alone: \*

# save backslashed stars
s/[\][*]/WriteStar/g
:dostar
/[*]/{
# remove leading spaces
s/^ *//
# copy first word to after first star
s/\([^ ]*\)[^*]*[*]/&\1/
# delete first word
s/[^ ]*//
# delete first star
s/[*]//
t dostar
}
s/WriteStar/*/g

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