Re: Including tweaks in a variable

2018-03-02 Thread David Kastrup
Simon Albrecht writes: > On 01.03.2018 17:51, Michael Stickles wrote: >> It was driving me crazy at first because it still wouldn't work, >> until I dug through the documentation a bit more and found that 2.18 >> and 2.19 have a slightly different syntax for the >>

Re: Including tweaks in a variable

2018-03-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 01.03.2018 17:51, Michael Stickles wrote: It was driving me crazy at first because it still wouldn't work, until I dug through the documentation a bit more and found that 2.18 and 2.19 have a slightly different syntax for the function arguments: Truly the fact that it’s difficult for power

Re: Including tweaks in a variable

2018-03-01 Thread Michael Stickles
anks again! From: "Jan-Peter Voigt" <jp.vo...@gmx.de> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2018 10:43 AM To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Including tweaks in a variable Hello Michael, it works if you add \etc to the variable (in lily-dev 2.19.x II

Re: Including tweaks in a variable

2018-03-01 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello Michael, it works if you add \etc to the variable (in lily-dev 2.19.x IIRC): smNote = \tweak font-size #-2 \etc That way smNote becomes a music-function that takes the note as argument and the tweak is applied. If you are using 2.18 you have to create the function like this: smNote =

Including tweaks in a variable

2018-03-01 Thread Michael Stickles
This should be simple, but I just can't seem to get it to work. I'm working on re-doing a lot of our church music, and use variables extensively to help make the .ly files more readable. There are a lot of places where one vocal part splits and we want the "secondary" notes to be smaller,