Re: Contemporary Music Notation

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Urs Liska wrote
> Am 09.10.2014 06:31, schrieb Marco Bagolin:
>> The notation contemporary music is so diverse, I know.
>> I wonder if actually Lilypond has commands for drawing graphic 
>> symbols, as line circle, curve, square, circle, etc...
> 
> A nice thing about LilyPond's approach is that once you have invented 
> something you can make it available as a command so it can easily be 
> reused. You can also make such commands process arguments so they can be 
> versatile and context-dependent.
> As an example have a look at the attached image. This is what someone on 
> the list (Piaras Hoban) came up with when I asked for a function to 
> write a stemmed glissando notation. The underlying function is quite 
> complicated but you can use it by simply writing
> 
> \stemmedGlissando #'(15 . #f) c'4
> 
> to tell LilyPond that the next glissando will have 15 stems and no (the 
> #f) trailing grace note to indicate the target note.
> 
> Stemmed-glissando.png (34K)
> <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/attachment/167377/0/Stemmed-glissando.png>

Urs,

Is there more information on that stemmed gliss function? I'd be interested
to read more on that for LilyPond. Thanks!

Ben




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