Re: Can NoteNames in higher octaves be changed?

[David Nalesnik]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 6:55 PM, David Nalesnik <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Jay,

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 4:27 AM, Jay Vara <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm not top posting.

NoteNames will print the higher (and lower) octave names with
printOctaveNames set to true. It prints them as c', d', c, d, etc.

My question is: Is it possible to have the higher octaves print using a
different character, say C D E F etc rather than c', d', e', f'.

Yes, it is possible to do this by modifying the stencil of the NoteName grob.  I'm not sure what your system is, so I thought I'd show how you might convert Lilypond's pitch representation into the familiar C4=middle C system.  You could probably adapt it to your needs.

This only works with single notes at the moment, but I'll fiddle around with it some more.

Well, this looks a lot better.

But you'll notice that it ignores the other two notes in the initial chord.  I wonder if this needs a Scheme engraver...

 \version "2.18.2"

pitches = \relative c,, {

  \clef bass

  <c e g> c' c' c'

  \clef treble

  c' c' c' c'

}

\new Staff {

  <<

    \pitches

    \context NoteNames {

      \set printOctaveNames = ##t 

      \override NoteName.stencil =

      #(lambda (grob)

         (let* ((cause (event-cause grob))

                (pitch (ly:prob-property cause 'pitch))

                (oct (ly:pitch-octave pitch))

                (name (note-name->markup pitch #f))

                (num (+ 4 oct))

                (num-text (number->string num))

                (full-name (make-concat-markup (list name num-text))))

           (grob-interpret-markup grob full-name)))

      \pitches

    }

  >>

}