Re: Different bar lines, musica ficta & lyrics font style

[Mats Bengtsson]

Marcel Korpel wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> When using Lilypond to typeset a transcription of a Palestrina Mass
> the past couple of days, I stumbled upon several things which bother
> me more or less:
>
> 1. Is it possible to change the bar line depending on whether the note
> values exceed the measure or not? For instance, when typing
>
> dl = \set Timing.defaultBarType = "dashed"
> nl = \set Timing.defaultBarType = "|"
> \new Voice \relative c'' {
>    \clef G
>    \time 3/1
>    \set Staff.timeSignatureFraction = #'(3 . 2) % tempus perfectum
>    d1 d2 c1 c2  d1 a2 c1 \dl b \nl a4 g a1 g4 a b c
> [etc.]
>    }
>
> it would be nice to automatically change the bar line to dashed when
> the b exceeds the measure, instead of enclosing it with macros that
> change the default bar type to dashed and back.
There's no such feature available as far as I know.
> 2. When notating musica ficta using 'suggestAccidentals', an
> accidental should be written above the bar for every altered note. At
> the end of a section I wrote
>
> \new Voice \relative c'' {
>    \set suggestAccidentals = ##t
>    \clef G
>    \time 3/1
>    \set Staff.timeSignatureFraction = #'(3 . 2)
>    [...] f2 g1 fis4 e fis1
>    \set Staff.measureLength = #(ly:make-moment 4 1) g\longa
>    \bar "|."
>  }
>
> and only above the first f an accidental is printed. I know I can
> place it manually adding '^\markup{\sharp}', but I don't think that's
> a good solution.
Read the section on Automatic Accidentals. I guess you want to add
  #(set-accidental-style 'forget)

> 3. When entering lyrics I need to italicize part of the text (to
> indicate the text is my addition). But I get error messages when using
>
> text = \lyricmode { Ky -- ri -- e e -- le -- i -- son
>  \italic Ky -- ri -- _ e e -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ le -- i -- son
>  Ky -- ri -- e e -- le -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ i -- son }
>
> or several variations on \italic.
There are no such macros defined, but you can make them yourself:
italics = \override LyricText #'font-shape = #'italic
upright = \revert LyricText #'font-shape



 /Mats