Re: Ambitus

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Sonntag, 31. Januar 2010 20:46:14 schrieb Neil Puttock:
> On 31 January 2010 17:46, Kieren MacMillan
> 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I've been wanting to put the ambitus information on another page --
> > specifically, a vocal range for a song on the title page. Is there a way
> > to do this easily?
> 
> Hmm, I think this would be very tricky (if not impossible currently)
> since you'd need the ambitus information to be accessible from markup;
> as it stands, even getting the pitch range out of the engraver (via
> the created grobs) isn't simple: the heads only carry their
> staff-position (there's no equivalent event which has pitch
> information).

You can write your own engraver that listens to the note-event rather than the 
created NoteHead grobs. There, you can easily extract the pitch...

Cheers,
Reinhold

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