bug-lilypond Digest, Vol 189, Issue 17

[Christopher Heckman]

Message: 3
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 11:43:44 +0200
Subject: Re: Doc 2.4.2: Indicating harmonics and dampened notes
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2018-08-26 11:14 GMT+02:00 Pierre Perol-Schneider

Hi Bug Squad,
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/guitar.html#indicating-harmonics-and-dampened-notes
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/guitar.html#indicating-harmonics-and-dampened-notes
1. I don't understand the reason to put the NoteHead defs at a Staff level.

Can't see a specific reason here. So I'd vote for deleting "Staff".

2. Maybe a whole note is not the best example to show the 'harmonic-mixed
result.
\relative c' {
\clef "treble_8"
\override Staff.NoteHead.style = #'harmonic-mixed
d^\markup { \italic { \fontsize #-2 { "harm. 12" }}} <g b>1
}
\relative c' {
\clef "treble_8"
\override NoteHead.style = #'harmonic-mixed
d8^\markup { \italic { \fontsize #-2 { "harm. 12" }}} <g b>4
}
Cheers,
Pierre

Agreed. Also, why not delete some of the superfluous brackets in the
markup? Only keeping the surrounding ones for better viewable
structure. I.e.
\markup { \italic \fontsize #-2 "harm. 12" }

Bad suggestion. Currently, \italic takes one argument, the next token
(unless it's an opening bracket). If you want to change it so that
\italic takes the rest of the arguments (Scheme-style), then previous
code like

\italic "this is italic " "and this isn't"

will break.

--- Chris