Shane, Wow. Thank you! :) What you have provided is certainly MUCH MUCH better than what I had before...
I will certainly play with this, and report back any substantial finds. This is very helpful. IC, Josh On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Shane Brandes <[email protected]> wrote: > Josh, > > Rummaging around I discovered this. > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/internals/clusterspannerbeacon > > It looks like the y extent is hard coded. > > But also found this > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/internals/cluster_002dinterface > > It seems to indicate that the style can be changed and offers several > varieties. > > Therefore after fiddling a bit with the semi inscrutable instructions > I tried these two things. The padding value -.25 seems as small as it > wants to go. Maybe other values would work better, just did some > guesswork on that. It is really easy to make wonderfully large blobs > of clustery goodness by making arbitrary positive values. > > \version "2.18.0" > > > \relative c' \makeClusters { \override ClusterSpanner.padding = > #'-0.25 b2 d' a f f4 g a b f f a a d4 e f g a b c b f g g g a g } > > > \relative c' \makeClusters { \override ClusterSpanner.style = > #'leftsided-stairs b2 d' a f f4 g a b f f a a d4 e f g a b c b f g g g > a g } > > Shane > > > On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 1:10 AM, Joshua Nichols <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I am absolutely baffled by this question. > > > > > > Tell me about it. > > > >> ...it might be simplest to reduce > >> the note head sizes. Tried it that does not work either. > > > > > > Same here. > > > >> What on earth are clusters good for anyway? Aleatoric strangeness. > > > > > > You are right, and I am definitely not a fan nor in agreement with > clusters > > and other types of graphical notation, but I am working for people who do > > favor them, and I need to be able to do at least some of it (I draw the > line > > at hand-drawn graphs like Crumb and Cage, where even the publishers > wouldn't > > touch it). > > > > But, this kind of notation is really useful for outlining general cues in > > pre-recorded tracks (hence my email). But, I understand if this has > "never" > > been asked before; It would be cool to see where LilyPond takes in that > > direction. We definitely have competition; Finale 2014 can apparently > "do it > > all" and can compose stuff like George Crumb stuff. > > > > Has anyone thought about this? About advanced Contemporary Music? What > about > > our (somewhat) competitive brother "Belle, Bonne, Sage"? > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Shane Brandes <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > IC, > > > > Josh >
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