Re: Changing MulitMeasureRest.stencil to a squiggle

[Marc Hohl]

Am 06.09.2016 um 16:09 schrieb David Nalesnik:
> Hi Marc,
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Marc Hohl <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I want to change the MultiMeasureRest.stencil to a squiggle as shown in the
> > appendices (quite roughly pasted together in GIMP).
> > Searching the LSR and the web does not give any informations about this
> > topic (the only thing I found was using the percent stencil, which is also
> > hardcoded in the C++ sources).
> >
> > I tried to override the stencil by
> >
> > \override MultiMeasureRest.stencil = #ly:line-spanner::print
> >
> > but this causes errors like
> >
> > "MultiMeasureRest has empty extent and non-empty stencil."
>
> Even if you for this to work, your mockup shows a line more complex
> than a squiggle.  You'd only be able to get a simple zigzag line,
> without the refinement at the ends, and without control of the
> "amplitude" (as if my simple example below).

I found out that the aplitude may be controlled by

\override Staff.MultiMeasureRest.zigzag-length = #1.33
\override Staff.MultiMeasureRest.zigzag-width = #1.33

and playing around with these values.

Marc