Hi all,
I'm trying to create a variable to handle a certain type of markup text.
For instance, I'd like percussion strikings to be in small caps above
the staff, and what I really want is to define some sort of macro that
replaces all instances of "\striking { theText }" with
"^\markup\smallCaps { theText }".
The following clearly doesn't work (much as I would like it to):
striking = ^\markup\smallCaps
From searching around, it seems like I need to define a function using
scheme. I tried this:
striking = #(define-music-function (parser location text)
(string?)
#{
^\markup\smallCaps { #text }
#})
... and while the single line "\striking mallet" seems to render the
word mallet as a smallCaps markup above a dummy staff, when I try to
incorporate it into a series of notes, e.g.:
{c'4 \striking mallet d'4 e'4 f'4 }
I get an "error: unexpected post-event". What exactly does that mean?
I did notice something close to what I want here:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/extending/new-markup-command-definition.en.html
But it still would require me to put something like \markup\striking, as
opposed to \striking.
I'm pretty new to lilypond, so apologies if I've said something that
betrays a lack of understanding. I guess I'd just mostly like to know
what that "unexpected post-event" error means.
Thanks in advance!
Marc
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Marc Evans
PhD Candidate in Music Composition at UCSB
Stanford BA '10, Music; MA '11, Music, Science and Technology
www.marcevansmusic.com
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