Re: cueDuring and its various settings

[Xavier Scheuer]

On 22 November 2010 17:35, Reinhold Kainhofer <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I'm currently trying to make cue notes much better supported in LilyPond.

That's really great, thanks!

> In particular, it's not as simple as quoting the notes in a CueVoice.

It's a pity.  I'd love if it was that simple (see below)!


> There might be even more possible options, but these are really needed in my
> scores. Since we have 3 different options, which might or might not be needed
> in a cued part, we have 8 different combinations of necessary option settings.
>
> If we follow the example of \transposedCueDuring, that will lead to 8
> different *cueDuring* function, which I don't think is what we want (see also
> naming problems, http://codereview.appspot.com/2726043 ).
>
> So, basically we then need a way to pass various options to the cueDuring
> command, but I don't know how to properly design this in proper lilypond
> syntax.
> In LaTeX, I would use something like
>    \cueDuring[clef="treble_8",cueName="Vl.1"]{...} % Uses a cue clef
>    \cueDuring[cueName="Vl.1"]{...} % No cue clef, only instrument name
>    \cueDuring{...} % no cue clef, instrument name or transposition
>
> I don't think we have anything like this in lilypond currently.
>
> Do you have any idea how to properly add options for the cueDuring command in
> LilyPond???

Well, I'm not a programmer, but...

Can't we consider a \cueDuring that would basically work like

<<
  { R1 }  % continuation of "main" voice: argument of  \cueDuring
  \context CueVoice = "fluteCue" \with {  % voice name = "partname"+Cue
    cueInstrumentName = "Quoted instrument name"
    % other CueVoice options, like:
    print-quoted-instrument-clef = ##t  % add the proper clef
    print-instrument-name-every-time = ##t  % to print cueInstrumentName
                                            % at each \cueDuring
    transpose = #-1  % value same as \ottava
  } {
    % content of the quoted voice (like now)
    % \quoteDuring #"flute" { s1 } ??
  }
>>


the corresponding  \cueDuring  command would be

\cueDuring #"flute" \with {  % "partname" = flute
  % my options above
} { R1 }  % this is the argument that would be placed in the
          % continuation of "main" voice

What's wrong with this approach?

Cheers,
Xavier

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Xavier Scheuer <address@hidden>