Re: GDP: \articulation and -\articulation

[Mats Bengtsson]

Graham Percival wrote:
> That's not specific to articulations, though.  For example,
> dynamics are (normally) always below notes, while slurs depend
> on the stem direction.  I've added a note to mention that in NR
> 3.whatever.
>   
Yes and no! There are two aspects that are specific to articulations:
- The default setting is different from articulation to articulation
 (i.e. it's not the same for all Script grobs).
- For some articulations, the default direction is relative to the
 stem direction.

  /Mats
> Patrick: it's worth adding a pointer to scm/script.scm, though.
> I'd do it in the same paragraph as the formula link to
> "controlling direcition and posiitons".
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
>
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:54:41 +0100
> Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>   
> > There's one particular aspect of controlling directions that's
> > specific for articulations, namely that each separate articulation
> > has its own rule for the default direction. Some articulations, like
> > \fermata, are always above the
> > stave, some others like \marcato are always on the opposite direction 
> > compared
> > to the stem, and so on. (These default values are controlled by the 
> > settings of
> > direction or relative-direction in scm/script.scm).
> >
> >     /Mats
> >
> > Graham Percival wrote:
> >     
> > > These are both valid:
> > > {
> > >   c'2-\accent
> > >   c'2\accent
> > > }
> > >
> > > Should we keep the - version in the docs at all?  Does it really add
> > > anything (especially since most people use the plain \ version) ?
> > >
> > > It might be good as an introduction to ^ and _, but OTOH we
> > > can do ^ and _ with items that don't have any -, such as
> > > ties ~.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > - Graham
> > >
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        Mats Bengtsson
        Signal Processing
        School of Electrical Engineering
        Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
        SE-100 44  STOCKHOLM
        Sweden
        Phone: (+46) 8 790 8463                         
       Fax:   (+46) 8 790 7260
        Email: address@hidden
        WWW: http://www.s3.kth.se/~mabe
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