Re: How to trigger rall. in articulate.ly

[Simon Albrecht]

On 14.02.2016 16:47, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-02-14 at 13:15 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> > Richard Shann <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > The articulate.ly script appears to support rallentando but I can't
> > > figure out how to trigger it. In LilyPond AFAIK rall. is expressed as
> > > text in a text spanner, there's no dedicated event type (if I'm using
> > > the right sort of terminology here ...)
> > And that's how articulate appears to be doing it:
> >
> >         ((TextScriptEvent)
> >          (let ((t (ly:music-property e 'text)))
> >           (if (not (string? t))
> >            (loop factor (cons e newelements) tail actions)
> >            (begin
> >             (cond
> >              ((or
> >                (string= t "rall")
> [...]
> > Should it rather (or additionally) heed \tempo "rall" ?  Probably.
> Thank you - I should have seen this passage but, somehow, didn't. Some
> experimenting (working back from TextScriptEvent mentioned there) and I
> have got it to work - it requires some input like ^"rall." without any
> preceding \italic or \mark or ..., in other words, very sensitive to the
> exact syntax.

Didn’t Harm recently much improve the markup->string procedure, so it 
could be used here?

Best, Simon