Re: chords with artificial harmonics

[David Kastrup]

"Christopher Brooks" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Why does this work:
>
> e4 \harmonicsOn e' \harmonicsOff \tiny e''?
>
> But it won’t create a chord?

One note after the other.  \harmonicsOn/Off/\tiny work by setting
context properties that are valid for the whole time step.

> <e4 \harmonicsOn e' \harmonicsOff \tiny e''>

>From 2.17.6 (?) on, you should be able to write

<e \single\harmonicsOn e' \tweak font-size -2 e''>4

Before, you probably need to write \tweak #'font-size -2 ..., and before
2.17.4 there is no \single to convert overrides to tweaks, so you need
to look in detail what \harmonicsOn does and convert that manually.

For harmonics, there are a few more predefined commands for producing
them; looking at them might make sense.

The solution using \single was just the way requiring the least amount
of thinking on my part.

\tiny translates to \set fontSize = #-2, and converting that to
\tweak font-size ... is outside of the expertise of the \single
command.  So you need to do turn this into a \tweak manually,
unfortunately.

-- 
David Kastrup