On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 9:27 AM elmeri <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey ML, > > I asked a similar question on the Music Practice & Theory Stack Exchange > site, and I was told that the idea of changing clef automatically is - in > most cases - a bad idea, at least musically/practically speaking. > Nevertheless, I would like to ask for pointers as to how to accomplish this > with pre-existing LilyPond capabilities or just try to implement it myself -- > I am not at all familiar with the codebase. > > The ideal situation would be that there's some kind of \clefAutoChange or > similar command, and a mechanism to override the changing points would also > be provided. This also needs to work for \transpose'd music. For example, a > cellist told me that when there's a passage that lingers long enough above E1 > (but not too much above A1 or so), the music is usually written with the > tenor clef. A similar rule (of thumb) applies to viola music and its use of > the treble clef, bassoon music etc. > > Any pointers or thoughts on this?
You might get some inspiration from http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=773. -David _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
