Re: RhythmicStaff - gray-scaling and getting rid of double heads for chords

[Neil Puttock]

Hi Anders,

2008/9/29  <address@hidden>:
> Id like to make a smaller RhythmicStaff with some special qualities,
> like smaller font etc.  This one works fine, but i have a couple of
> things id like to fix[1] (see below):
>
> rytmestaff = #(define-music-function (parser location navn rytmer) (string? 
> ly:music?)
>               #{
>               \context RhythmicStaff = $navn {
>               \set Staff.fontSize = #-3
>               \override Staff.StaffSymbol #'color = #(x11-color 'gray60)
>               \override Staff.StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #(magstep -3)
>               $rytmer
>             }
>               #})
>
> 1) Id like to gray-scale the whole staff.  Is there a simple way[2] instead
> of overriding zillions of objects w. properties to draw everything
> inside the RhythmicStaff context in 'gray80?  Ie:
>
>       \override Staff.StaffSymbol   #'color = #(x11-color 'grey60)
>       \override Staff.TimeSignature #'color = #(x11-color 'grey60)
>       \override Staff.Clef          #'color = #(x11-color 'grey60)
>       \override Staff.NoteHead      #'color = #(x11-color 'grey60)
>       \override Staff.Stem          #'color = #(x11-color 'grey60)
>       \override Staff.BarLine       #'color = #(x11-color 'grey60)
>       \override Staff.Beam          #'color = #(x11-color 'grey60)

Have you looked at the LilyPond Snippet Repository (http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/)?

Try searching for `color'.

Regards,
Neil