Re:Unfamiliar articulation symbol (David Kastrup)

[Guy Stalnaker]

> > There is an articulation symbol used that I cannot find in Lilypond's
> > documentation. It is the same symbol as the marcato, except upside down. I
> > have no idea what it is. I thought perhaps to take the Marcato symbol and
> > simply rotate it 180-degrees. But alas I have been unsuccessful at
> > ferreting out exactly the required directives to make this happen. I tried:
>
> rmarcato = \tweak rotation #'(180 0 0)
> \marcato
>
> {
>   c\rmarcato
> }
>
> > 1. Does anyone actually know what this symbol is? Again, looks like a
> > Marcato except rotated 180-degrees.
>
> Maybe it _is_ a marcato.  And the symbol has been reoriented in musical
> practice when violinists confused it with \upbow.

David,

I should have said I'm using v2.16.2.

Placement in code is:

<quote>
%LocalVariables
stemOn = { \override Staff.Stem #'transparent = ##f }
stemOff = { \override Staff.Stem #'transparent = ##t }
caesura = {
  \once \override BreathingSign #'text = \markup {
    \musicglyph #"scripts.caesura.curved"
  }
  \breathe
}

rmarcato = \tweak rotation #'(180 0 0)
\marcato

rightShift = {
  \once \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #0.5
}
</quote>

The rmarcato tweak as written does not work.

<quote>
Parsing...
/home/jstalnak/Dropbox/Guy/Compositions/Vaccai/Vaccai-LessonIII.ly:32:27: error: 
wrong type for argument 2.  Expecting symbol, found (180 0 0)
rmarcato = \tweak rotation
                           #'(180 0 0)
/home/jstalnak/Dropbox/Guy/Compositions/Vaccai/Vaccai-LessonIII.ly:35:0: 
error: wrong type for argument 4.  Expecting music, found "rightShift"

rightShift = {
/home/jstalnak/Dropbox/Guy/Compositions/Vaccai/Vaccai-LessonIII.ly:35:11: error: 
syntax error, unexpected '='
rightShift
           = {
</quote>


Nor does

rmarcato = { \tweak rotation #'(180 0 0) \marcato }

Error:
<quote>
/home/jstalnak/Dropbox/Guy/Compositions/Vaccai/Vaccai-LessonIII.ly:32:29: error: 
wrong type for argument 2.  Expecting symbol, found (180 0 0)
rmarcato = { \tweak rotation
                             #'(180 0 0) \marcato }
/home/jstalnak/Dropbox/Guy/Compositions/Vaccai/Vaccai-LessonIII.ly:32:50: error: 
syntax error, unexpected '}'
rmarcato = { \tweak rotation #'(180 0 0) \marcato
                                                  }
/home/jstalnak/Dropbox/Guy/Compositions/Vaccai/Vaccai-LessonIII.ly:105:2: error: 
errors found, ignoring music expression
</quote>

Or

rmarcato = "\tweak rotation #'(180 0 0) \marcato"

Error:
<quote>
Parsing...
/home/jstalnak/Dropbox/Guy/Compositions/Vaccai/Vaccai-LessonIII.ly:56:7: 
error: syntax error, unexpected STRING_IDENTIFIER
  a'4\)
       \rmarcato d''8\( a' |
/home/jstalnak/Dropbox/Guy/Compositions/Vaccai/Vaccai-LessonIII.ly:105:2: error: 
errors found, ignoring music expression
</quote>

Thanks for your help.

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