Re: Custom note names / octavize pitch

[David Kastrup]

TaoCG <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for a way to octavize a note with the least input possible. I
> know there are music functions in the LSR that do this but they aren't very
> useful to me because in the music I need this for the octaves usually aren't
> successive and it wouldn't really save input if I had to write the function
> for single pitches, even if the function name were reduced to a single
> letter.
> So I was wondering if this maybe could be achieved with custom note names,
> maybe a capital letter for an additional octave. After a look at
> define-note-names.scm I fear it's not but I thought I ask if a note name
> accepts anything else than ly:make-pitch before I try to experiment on my
> own.
>
> For illustration I imagine the following snippet (relative)
>
> *4 <d fis>8 * r <d fis> r   |
> r8 <c d> r   r <c d> r <g g'> |
>
> to become this
>
> B4 <d fis>8 B r <d fis> r A |
> r8 <c d> r A r <c d> r G |
>
> or even better
>
> B4 <d fis>8 B r q r A |
> r8 <c d> r A r q r G |

Uh, you might want to improve your "illustration": it is utterly
incomprehensible what you want to be your input and your output.

-- 
David Kastrup