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

[Thomas Morley]

2017-08-26 20:24 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> 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...
>
> --
> David Kastrup

Ok, lol

Valentins original code used underscores, iirc.

Not sure when I have the time to proceed on this, though...

Cheers,
  Harm