Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-12 Thread EdBeesley
sorry if I've not given that impression! -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/cresc-whitespace-padding-tp152120p152156.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-12 Thread David Kastrup
EdBeesley edplaysdr...@gmail.com writes: Damnit David, I'm a musician not a programmer! In all seriousness though I always do my best to figure out the answer myself via the documentation. Good. Then you can tell us where the documentation falls short. To be exact, I reacted to your

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-12 Thread EdBeesley
to work it out first I would sign up immediately. This way I wouldn't have to feel guilty about asking a question and people with superior knowledge would get more than just a thank you for their time... -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/cresc-whitespace-padding

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-12 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: EdBeesley edplaysdr...@gmail.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2013 2:45 PM Subject: Re: cresc. whitespace padding David Kastrup wrote EdBeesley lt; edplaysdrums@ gt; writes: Damnit David, I'm a musician not a programmer

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-12 Thread David Kastrup
EdBeesley edplaysdr...@gmail.com writes: [...] I'm sensing a certain level of hostility here which I don't think is completely deserved I'm assuming from your experience and knowledge that you are a programmer first and foremost? You mean, as opposed to a human being? So for example

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-12 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Ed, 2013/10/12 EdBeesley edplaysdr...@gmail.com: David Kastrup wrote EdBeesley lt; edplaysdrums@ gt; writes: Damnit David, I'm a musician not a programmer! That's true for me, too! :) In all seriousness though I always do my best to figure out the answer myself via the

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-12 Thread EdBeesley
. I think your characterisation of me as the prototypical luser (yes I read BofH, my dad's in software!) who makes no effort to RTFM is a little unfair -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/cresc-whitespace-padding-tp152120p152188.html Sent from the User

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-12 Thread David Kastrup
EdBeesley edplaysdr...@gmail.com writes: I think my main problem last night was that I couldn't figure out how to turn the x-ext and y-ext into variables that could be passed to the function. But looking at it now it almost seems obvious. Perhaps if you could include an example using more

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-12 Thread EdBeesley
. making a function out of it. I definitely wouldn't mind a higher level of hand-holding through some of the more complex parts of the manual. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/cresc-whitespace-padding-tp152120p152191.html Sent from the User mailing list archive

cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-11 Thread EdBeesley
in scheme! -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/cresc-whitespace-padding-tp152120.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-11 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/10/11 EdBeesley edplaysdr...@gmail.com: I'm trying to add a bit of padding to the whiteout function when used on a \cresc. My results are best explained with code... \version 2.16.2 exampleone = \markup {how it looks with whiteout} exampletwo = \markup {how I want it to look}

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-11 Thread EdBeesley
this could be easily turned into a music-function... could we assume for a second that I'm totally dumb and have no idea how to do this? -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/cresc-whitespace-padding-tp152120p152138.html Sent from the User mailing list archive

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-11 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/10/11 EdBeesley edplaysdr...@gmail.com: Thomas Morley-2 wrote Hi, how about: \version 2.16.2 moreVerticalDynamicTextSpannerWhiteout = \once \override DynamicTextSpanner #'stencil = #(lambda (grob) (let* ((stil (ly:line-spanner::print grob)) (x-ext

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-11 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/10/11 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com: [...] It would lead to: moreVerticalDynamicTextSpannerWhiteout = #(define-music-function (parser location adds)(pair?) #{ \once \override DynamicTextSpanner #'stencil = #(lambda (grob) (let* ((stil (ly:line-spanner::print grob))

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-11 Thread Colin Campbell
On 13-10-11 01:53 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: 2013/10/11 EdBeesley edplaysdr...@gmail.com: I'm trying to add a bit of padding to the whiteout function when used on a \cresc. My results are best explained with code... \version 2.16.2 exampleone = \markup {how it looks with whiteout} exampletwo =

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-11 Thread David Kastrup
EdBeesley edplaysdr...@gmail.com writes: Now when you say this could be easily turned into a music-function... could we assume for a second that I'm totally dumb and have no idea how to do this? That's where LilyPond's documentation could come in handy... -- David Kastrup