Re: improving Janek's \dynamic function (for combo dynamics)

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:

> 2017-08-26 16:10 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>> Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> the here so far proposed codes fail, if punctuation comes into the game.
>>> \new Staff { c''\dynamic  "poco f, but p sub. ma non troppo" }
>>
>> \dynamic "poco [f], but [p] sub. ma non troppo" ?
>
> Hi David,
>
> not sure what you want to say...
>
> I tested the input-string
> "poco [f], but [p] sub. ma non troppo"
> with Lukas-Fabian's code and my own proposal, See attached pdf.

Uh, this was a proposal for a user interface that does not need to look
at punctuation etc but rather goes by [...] for figuring out where the
"true" dynamics are, likely defaulting to taking the first pair for
alignment as well as Midi dynamics.

> I'd say this case, bracketed dynamics together with normal text, would
> need manual coding.
>
>
> That said, I've no clue whether you meant something completely
> different ... ;)

The latter...

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David Kastrup