Re: Creating pizz and arco markup macros

[Olivier Biot]

Dear all,

Apparently the LilyPond snippets have disappeared from my post.
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Is there any better way to create pizzicato and arco macros than with
a TextSpanner?

Here's the code I defined in a separate 'layout.ly' file:

<raw>
pizzicato = "pizz."

arco = "arco"

playingModeSpanner =
#(define-music-function (parser location annotation) (string?)
   #{
     \override TextSpanner #'style = #'none
     \override TextSpanner #'direction = #DOWN
     \override TextSpanner #'(bound-details left-broken text) = ##f
     \override TextSpanner #'(bound-details left stencil-align-dir-y) = #CENTER
     \override TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = \markup {
\italic  $annotation }
   #}
)
</raw>

I use the macro as follows:
<raw>
    \new Staff \with {midiInstrument = #"pizzicato strings"} {
      \relative c, {
        \key f \major
        \clef "bass"
        \playingModeSpanner \pizzicato
        f4\startTextSpan r f f'    f,4 r f f'    c, r c' a'    c,, r c' c'
        \stopTextSpan
      }
    }
</raw>

Best regards,

Olivier