This last week I've made some more progress with using Lilypond with bagpipe music. I'm just starting to get over the hump of the learning curve. I have a few comments to share with regard to getting Lilypond to do bagpipe music. I'm certain that I'll also have a few questions in the very near future.
First of all, thanks to Mats for his information on how to get things working with 32nd notes which are grace notes. I added the following to the beginning of my \notes section: #(add-grace-property 'Voice 'Stem 'beamed-lengths '(2.6 2.6 4.2)) This resulted in good-looking 32nd notes (see the output in http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/comments/pipemusic/beaton-part3.png ), as opposed to the default (in 2.2, anyway), which makes the beams intersect the note heads. Another change I made was to create a function "beam-always-down", since in bagpipe music, the beams on normal notes always go down while the beams on grace notes always go up. I added the following line to my notes section: \override Beam #'dir-function = #beam-always-down Perhaps others would find it useful to have this function available, so maybe it could be added to scm/beam.scm. The following is my implementation, which obviously suffers from my utter lack of knowledge of Scheme (I don't know a better way to say "false"): #(define-public (beam-always-down count total) (= 1 2) ) Anyway, that's where I'm at for now. Thanks again to all of you who work on Lilypond. Its output is beautiful. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
