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Re: Document/Example how to create "standalone" markup commands
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Document/Example how to create "standalone" markup commands |
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Thu, 07 Jun 2018 14:40:49 +0200 |
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Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I have regularly struggled to get this to work, and now I think there
> should be an additional example in Extending, 2.4 and/or 2.5.
>
> The description in 2.5 explains how to define a markup function that
> can be used as
>
> {
> c' \markup \double-box "Some text"
> }
>
> This makes sense, as "double-box" is a natural name for a style
> applied to a markup. However, pretty often one may want to have
> "standalone" markup commands that can be used like e.g.
>
> {
> c'1 \player "Perc. 1" d' player "Perc. 2
> }
>
> While it's perfectly possible to use "\markup \player" here too it's
> often relevant to semantically encode elements just like you encode
> \mark or \fermata.
Which are not markup at all. They can only be used in music.
> It took me some time to figure out that \double-box can be written and
> used like
>
> doubleBox =
> #(define-event-function (text) (markup?)
> (make-music 'TextScriptEvent 'text
> (markup #:override '(box-padding . 0.4) #:box
> #:override '(box-padding . 0.6) #:box text)))
>
> \relative {
> c'1 \doubleBox "Implicitly Neutral"
> c -\doubleBox "Explicitly neutral"
> c ^\doubleBox Above
> c _\doubleBox Below
> }
doubleBox = -\markup \override #'(box-padding . 0.4) \box
\override #'(box-padding . 0.6) \box \etc
There you go.
--
David Kastrup
- Document/Example how to create "standalone" markup commands, Urs Liska, 2018/06/07
- Re: Document/Example how to create "standalone" markup commands,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Document/Example how to create "standalone" markup commands, Aaron Hill, 2018/06/07
- Re: Document/Example how to create "standalone" markup commands, Aaron Hill, 2018/06/07
- Re: Document/Example how to create "standalone" markup commands, David Kastrup, 2018/06/07
- Re: Document/Example how to create "standalone" markup commands, Aaron Hill, 2018/06/07
- Re: Document/Example how to create "standalone" markup commands, David Kastrup, 2018/06/07
- Re: Document/Example how to create "standalone" markup commands, Aaron Hill, 2018/06/07
- Re: Document/Example how to create "standalone" markup commands, David Kastrup, 2018/06/07