Re: BendSpanner-engraver

[Trevor Daniels]

David Nalesnik wrote Wednesday, September 14, 2016 1:33 AM
Subject: Re: BendSpanner-engraver


> Hi Harm,
> 
> This looks marvelous!  I know nothing about the notation, but the demo
> file is simply beautiful to behold.
> 
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Thomas Morley <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 2016-09-11 20:38 GMT+02:00 Trevor Daniels <address@hidden>:
>>> Hi Harm
>>>
>>> I'm not a fretted-string player, but this looks very impressive!  This will 
>>> be a tremendous addition to LP!
>>>
>>> Trevor
>>
>> Hi Trevor,
>>
>> currently the whole thing is more at pre-pre-alpha state ;)
>> Though, with David Nalesniks MeasureCounter we have at least one other
>> grob defined entirely in scheme, iirc.
> 
> It is.
> 
>> This encourages me :)
>>
> 
> It would be simple enough to move the bits into the various files.
> This will be very satisfying in the case of bend-grob-defs.ly!
> 
> One drawback, of course, is the issue of automatic documentation.
> There will be information in the IR (grob, interface, event), but the
> engraver won't be represented.

Could we not simply add a dummy .cc engraver which simply calls
the ADD_TRANSLATOR macro?  Maybe just one could document
all Scheme engravers with several such calls.  Worth a try?

Trevor