Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> writes: >>> shouldn't \hideNotes also suppress music output to the MIDI file? >> >> Why? \hide\ff is nice for inserting MIDI-only instructions. > > Mhmm. Given that it actually makes the corresponding object only > transparent, thus influencing the typesetting process, I wouldn't call > that `MIDI-only'.
My bad. I meant \omit\ff >> \hideNotes allows one to have ties work "across" voices. > > I use \hideNotes to provide better positioned ties emulating `laissez > vibrer ties'. > >> You won't get accurate MIDI without actually making use of the >> hidden notes for similar reasons. > > For my use case, I don't want to hear those notes at all... "For my use case" is not enough of a rationale to make a change that moves one step further from predictability. The use case has to be the _natural_ use case until we arrive there. I admit that the case is a bit different for \hide vs. \omit. >>> Right now, it doesn't... >> >> I don't see that we'll get to a good MIDI rendition that way. >> \hideNotes is employed in situations where certain stuff only works >> in a single Voice, and that problem tends to be similar in MIDI and >> PDF. > > OK, so is there an alternative, except using tags? Something like a > \midiOnly command? That's basically what tags are for. Maybe we should have a standard convention and/or examples and/or tag group for midi/pdf/(musicXML)? It's a frequent use case, and tag groups make sure that we can implement it without messing with user-defined uses of tags. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
