Re: Style

[Mats Bengtsson]

One easy way to implement such specific tweaking is to use macros:

If you for example want to move a fermata upwards at a few places in
an individual part but not in the full score, you could do something like:

\possiblyRaiseFermata c1^\fermata

in the music definition. Then, for the full score, you add a definition
possiblyRaiseFermata = {}
and for the individual part you use another definition:
possiblyRaiseFermata = {\once \override Script #'padding = #2.0 }

Another possibility is to use the \tag feature and/or \quoteDuring feature
or define your own commands or ...

  /Mats


Carl D. Sorensen wrote:

> I think there are two things that are getting mixed up in this
> discussion. 
>
> ...

> The second issue is the fact that sometimes the engraving rules don't
> work appropriately, i.e. there is a collision that is not detected, or a
> horizontal or vertical spacing isn't correct.  At present, in lilypond
> we apply a \once \override to make it happen only on one note.  But the
> problem that David is identifying is that the failure in the engraving
> rules may only happen in one of the three instances where I want to
> reuse the same music.  So he'd like to be able to put an identifier in
> the music, but not actually apply the tweak.  Then, in each instance
> where the music is used, he could choose what tweaks to apply to which
> identifier in the music.
>