Re: Rebroadcasting events from a single timestep

[Graham Percival]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:01:18AM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> I am working on a piece now where I need certain events to transmogrify into 
> other events.  Specifically, whole-measure rests need to turn into 
> multi-measure rests, and given the way that the piece is algorithmically 
> generated, it would take a lot of time for me to change all of the `r' to `R' 
> when this is the case.  I'd like to add a bit to rest-engraver.cc in the 
> spirit of :

This looks like using a tactical nuke to swat a fly.  Why not
write a plain old music function (in your .ly file) which changes
the events?  I see no reason to mess with C++ stuff here...?

(obviously you'd add that music function to your
algorithm-exporting code as well, but that's a minor issue)

Cheers,
- Graham