Re: RhythmicStaff issues in a snippet

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* 2012-07-20 17:39 +0200 David Kastrup:

> Dominique Faure <address@hidden> writes:

> > Despite the RhythmicStaff is simplifying the process, how

> > could I make it display chord of dotted notes as single dotted

> > notes?

> > Dots are kept unmerged. Is it a bug?

>

> Calling it a bug seems like a reasonable interpretation of the

> behavior.

 

Sounds like issue #185.

 

<http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=185>

 

(Last time I checked, this was the eleventh-oldest open issue in the tracker.)

 

> You might want to pass your music through the following

> music function. It goes to a bit of effort to make sure that accents

> survive.

>

> thinout =

> #(define-music-function (parser location music) (ly:music?)

> (for-some-music

> (lambda (m)

> (and (music-is-of-type? m 'event-chord)

> (let ((elts (ly:music-property m 'elements)))

> (if (pair? elts)

> (set-cdr!

> elts

> (filter!

> (lambda (m) (not (ly:music-property m 'duration #f)))

> (cdr elts))))

> #t)))

> music)

> music)

>

> \new RhythmicStaff

> \thinout

> \relative c { <d, g d'>4 e f8 g a4 <d b g>2. c4 d4. e8 f4 g }

 

Similar workarounds have been posted on this list before, but I think this is the most compact one I have seen so far. I'm adding a comment to the report to document it.

 

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R.S.