Re: Experiment with an Alternative Notation for learning Guitar music

[Philip Rhoades]

Paul,


On 2014-01-12 02:21, Paul Morris wrote:
> Hi Phil,  I'm replying to the whole list so others can also benefit 
> from our
> exchange.


snip . .


> And if you want to take this a step further... the way I do it with
> Clairnote[1] is to define a custom staff context called 
> "StaffClairnote"
> that contains all the modifications.  This snippet shows how:
> http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=882
> (click the image to see the code that generated it)
>
> Then I save that custom staff definition in a separate file that I 
> include
> at the beginning of my sheet music files like this (.ily just indicates 
> a
> .ly file that's meant for including like this):
>
> \include "clairnote.ily"
>
> Then I can just use:
>
> \new PianoStaff
> <<
> \new StaffClairnote { \upper }
> \new StaffClairnote { \lower }
> > >


OK, got that working - the actual music .ly "data" file is slimming down 
now - but I still need to investigate why some notes needed manual 
editing so they were in the right place when I converted a Mutopia file.


> Another benefit to this approach is that if you should make a change to 
> the
> alternative notation, you can just make it in the include file in one 
> place,
> instead of having to make the same change in all of your sheet music 
> files.


Yes, in the great tradition of include files - now to get to grips more 
with Scheme itself . .

Thanks yet again!

Regards,

Phil.
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