Re: Coloring Ledger Lines

[David Nalesnik]

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Pierre Perol-Schneider <address@hidden> wrote:

Interesting, thanks David.

Cheers,

Pierre

To get more of the control any user would expect, you could do something like this:

\version "2.19.16"

\new Staff <<

  \repeat unfold 8 {

    \startStaff s4 \stopStaff

  }

  {

    a4

    \once \override Staff.LedgerLineSpanner.color = #blue

    a

    \once \override Staff.LedgerLineSpanner.color = #green

    a

    \once \override Staff.StaffSymbol.color = #red

    a

    a4 a a a

  }

>>

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I imagine this could be automated fairly easily.  Who knows the overhead with large scores, though!

(Aside: it might be interesting to come up with something emulating the old single-impression printing technique where staff lines, notes, and text were stamped together and inexactly aligned--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_music_publishing (under Rastell)  Can't come up with a good visual.)

David