On 3/11/12 12:53 AM, "James Harkins" <jamshar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>At Sun, 11 Mar 2012 08:12:35 +0100, >m...@apollinemike.com wrote: >> The best way to achieve that with current LilyPond is Scheme engravers. >> >> There have been a few examples of Scheme engravers posted on this list >>(if you search Scheme engraver you'll find one - there are also examples >>in the input/regression folder of the LilyPond source). You'd want to >>create one that begins and ends a spanner when it hears a given event >>(you can invent a BoxNoteEvent, for example) and acknowledges note >>columns in the interim, putting them in a grob-array called >>"note-columns" or what-have-you. Then, make a print method that >>extracts these note columns (or whatever grobs you're interested in) >>finds the min/max height and width, and draws a box at those dimensions. >> >> If you want to get fancy, you can add extra spacing width to the left >>of the first note column and the right of the last note column to make >>sure there are no collisions with the box and surrounding material. > >I see... would it be too much to ask you to send your engraver to me (off >list if you prefer)? That's of course assuming you developed one for your >own music. Normally I don't mind doing some research and experimentation >on my own, but in this case -- You might offer a bounty to Mike or to David Kastrup, in which case they would write the custom engraver for you. HTH, Carl _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
