Gentlemen,
All of this is enlightening and helpful! Thank you. And pardon the snake
oil :-) ... that's what you get from a musician who loves LilyPond but
struggles with the computing side!
Mark
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 5:48 AM, Thomas Morley <thomasmorle...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 2016-10-11 6:26 GMT+02:00 Mark Mathias <d8val...@gmail.com>:
> > LilyPond Friends,
> >
> > The manuals explain how to hide tuplet numbers, but nowhere could I find
> an
> > explanation of how to turn them back on. After many experiments, I
> finally
> > found an easy way to control turning on tuplet numbers after turning them
> > off. The secret was to enclose within curly brackets those tuplets whose
> > number needed to be hidden. Should this be shared somewhere?
> >
> > \version "2.19.16"
> > \relative c' {
> > \tuplet 3/2 { c8 c c } c4
> > \once \hide TupletNumber { \tuplet 3/2 { c8 c c } } c4
> > \tuplet 3/2 { c8 c c } c4
> > }
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
> >
> >
> Hi Mark,
>
> others commented on it already.
>
> Let me share some general advice.
>
> I suspect you were a little confused by the \hide TupletNumber command
> and how to deal with it to fit your needs.
>
> \hide and a lot of other commands are shortcuts, or you could even say
> syntactic sugar. Sometimes it will get you more steps forward, when
> you make yourself clear what they actually represent.
>
> - Sometimes the docs help.
> Though, in the case of \hide the NR _explains_ what it is/does but the
> underlying code is not quoted (would be beyond the purpose of the NR).
>
> - You could look through the source-files.
> Using the search-function of my editor I got 13 hits for `hide' in
> .ly-files. Actually not that much for such a generic search-term and
> the wanted one is among them.
>
> - Or most simple, use \displayLilyMusic
> {
> \displayLilyMusic
> \hide TupletNumber \tuplet 3/2 { c'8 c' c' }
> }
> returns:
> \override TupletNumber.transparent = ##t
>
> Now you know it's a common override, which could be used with other
> commands like \once, \temporary etc. And/or \revert later.
>
> Letting things be displayed with the various displaying-procedures
> helps a lot. I do it all the time.
>
> HTH,
> Harm
>
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