Re: slashes and percent

[Simon Albrecht]

On 09.11.2015 23:30, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote:
>     >
>     > I have a "dirty solution" for this percent ( slashes )
>     >
>     > \override Stem #'length = #0.0
>     > #'thickness = #0.0
>     > b4 b4 b4
>     > \override Stem #'length = #7.0
>     > \override Stem #'thickness = #1.3
>     >
>     >
>     > Looks good on "original sheet" but pretty ugly on the transposed
>     ones.
>
>
> Someone else suggested this approach, which I've been using happily, 
> so I'd like to pass it on.
>
> The concept is that, since rests don't move when you transpose a part, 
> you specify rests instead of notes, and change the appearance of the 
> rests to a slash.
>
> This avoids having to do any fussing with anything at all.

Did you even _read_ my replies to this thread, or even the NR paragraph 
concerned with exactly this? LilyPond has a feature (the 
Pitch_squash_engraver) to neatly deal with this, which means much less 
‘fussing’ than the hack that you suggest below.

Yours, Simon

> % Macro to print single slash
> rs = {
>   \once \override Rest #'stencil = 
> #ly:percent-repeat-item-interface::beat-slash
>   \once \override Rest #'thickness = #0.48
>   \once \override Rest #'slope = #1.7
>   r4
> }
>
> % Function to print a specified number of slashes
> comp = #(define-music-function (parser location count) ( integer?)
>   #{
>     \override Rest #'stencil = 
> #ly:percent-repeat-item-interface::beat-slash
>     \override Rest #'thickness = #0.48
>     \override Rest #'slope = #1.7
>     \repeat unfold $count { r4 }
>     \revert Rest #'stencil
>   #}
> )
>
> % Example use of slashes:
> \score {
>   \relative c' {
>     c4 d e f |
>     \rs \rs \rs \rs |
>     \comp #4 |
>   }
> }
>
>
>
> HTH,
>
> David Elaine Alt
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