Re: anchors in the music stream?

2009-08-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/8/4 Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com: I can imagine how this would be implemented, but it would be a lot of work.  If anyone is up for a challenge, I can give some pointers. :) OK, now there's no way I'm gonna let you get away with such a promise :-)

Re: anchors in the music stream?

2009-08-04 Thread Mark Polesky
Jay Anderson wrote: global = { \time 4/4 s4*4*10 \time 3/4 s4*3*5 \time 7/4 s4*7 \time 4/4 \anchor #'coda s4*4*10 \bar |. } \addAt #'coda \global {\tempo \markup Extremely slow} IIUC, one interesting advantage of this is that scheme symbols have less restrictions than parser

Re: anchors in the music stream?

2009-08-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
IIUC, one interesting advantage of this is that scheme symbols have less restrictions than parser identifiers: \anchor #'m.32 \anchor #'flute2-entrance Mhmm, this is not something we should advertize loudly... Werner ___ lilypond-user

Re: anchors in the music stream?

2009-08-04 Thread Mark Polesky
Werner LEMBERG wrote: IIUC, one interesting advantage of this is that scheme symbols have less restrictions than parser identifiers: \anchor #'m.32 \anchor #'flute2-entrance Mhmm, this is not something we should advertize loudly... Why not? - Mark

Re: anchors in the music stream?

2009-08-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
IIUC, one interesting advantage of this is that scheme symbols have less restrictions than parser identifiers: \anchor #'m.32 \anchor #'flute2-entrance Mhmm, this is not something we should advertize loudly... Why not? I believe it confuses users that Scheme code allows more symbols

Re: anchors in the music stream?

2009-08-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Werner LEMBERG wrote: Would it be technically feasible/possible to establish a system of anchors instead? This would be indeed a great feature! Reminds me of the GOTO command in BASIC! ;-) Seriously, I seem to recall that I proposed this feature some 11-12 years ago and at that

Re: anchors in the music stream?

2009-08-03 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mats, Reminds me of the GOTO command in BASIC! ;-) An *extremely* underrated and powerful command. ;-p One alternative way to achieve the same thing is to simply do a global = { \time 4/4 s4*4*10 \time 3/4 s4*3*5 \time 7/4 s4*7 { \time 4/4 \bar |. } \anchoredStuff } Nope: that

Re: anchors in the music stream?

2009-08-03 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Mats Bengtssonmats.bengts...@ee.kth.se wrote: Reminds me of the GOTO command in BASIC! ;-) Seriously, I seem to recall that I proposed this feature some 11-12 years ago and at that Han-Wen at that time answered with a No!!! (I don't remember any details and

Re: anchors in the music stream?

2009-07-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Would it be technically feasible/possible to establish a system of anchors instead? This would be indeed a great feature! Werner ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: anchors in the music stream?

2009-07-22 Thread Mark Polesky
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Like many Lilyponders, I break down my code into variables, e.g. global (for time signature changes, etc.), notes, dynamics, etc. The main irritation with this (IMO) is that each variable requires a complete set of skips in order to keep the timing accurate. Would

Re: anchors in the music stream?

2009-07-22 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mark, Have you tried using the \tag command? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Different- editions-from-one-source#Using-tags Certainly I've used \tag for filtering content, but I don't understand how \tag could help with the problem I'm describing... could you

Re: anchors in the music stream?

2009-07-22 Thread Jay Anderson
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Kieren MacMillankieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hello all, Like many Lilyponders, I break down my code into variables, e.g. global (for time signature changes, etc.), notes, dynamics, etc. The main irritation with this (IMO) is that each variable requires