On Mar 11, 2012, at 8:53 AM, James Harkins 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 -- >
Unfortunately, the way I created mine was way hackish and not at all extensible, intelligent, or suitable to your needs (I hijacked a beam grob). The best thing to do is go ahead w/ the score as if it were to have boxes and then put something like : c d %\startBoxedNotes e f g %\endBoxedNotes wherever you need it. There are enough people on this list who know Scheme that someone is likely to pop up w/ a more fleshed-out solution in the next 6 weeks, and if not, in 6 weeks (if not less), I'll have some time to give it a go. Cheers, MS _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
