Re: Percussion staves

[Graham Percival]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 16:35:01 +0200
Antonio PALAMA' <address@hidden> wrote:
> i)  If I use the technique suggetsd by the manual for percussion staves 
> i.e.
> \score
>   {
>      \apply #(drums->paper 'drums)       etc.
> 
> Then I am not able to specify other requests for the \paper context like 
> e.g.
> linewidth = 27.\cm
 
What version of Lilypond are you using?  If it occurs on 1.7.29, could you
provide a short example which demonstrates this?

If it's on 1.6.x, then please wait a few days or weeks until 1.8.0 is
released and then try it on that.

> ii) I would like to typeset the percussion staff with a style that is 
> widely used in italian concert band scores i.e.
> 
> - a single line staff with no symbol at the left end
> - notes above the line are stemup, almost touch the line and are 
> interpreted as snare drum notes
> - rests above the line are centered some 2.5 noteheads above the line so 
> that 1/4 rests almost touch the stave
> - notes below the line are stemdown, almost touch the line and are 
> interpreted as either bass drum or cymbals or both according to text markup
> - rests below the line are treated similarly to rests above the line
> - full measure rests that interest all the percussion voices lie below 
> the line and touch it

This is all possible to do in Lilypond with #'(extra-offset), although it
wouldn't be pretty.  You might be able to define a new context that
does this all automatically, though.  (sorry, my knowledge of Lilypond
doesn't extend that far)

Cheers,
- Graham