Re: hardcoded names in percussion notation?

[jboogie]

On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 21:23:09 +0200
Thomas Morley <address@hidden> wrote:

> 2013/7/12 jboogie <address@hidden>:
> > Hi, I'm very new to lilypond and trying to hack my way to a
> > score for a small brazilian percussion ensemble. Actually the visive
> > output is fine for now, there's just one piece of code I don't
> > understand.
> >
> > To achieve a staff with two lines for an agogo bell, I used the
> > example for woodblocks in the "Common notation for percussions"
> > manual section:
> >
> >
> > #(define agogo '((hiwoodblock default #t  2)
> >                    (lowoodblock default #t -2)))
> >
> > agogostaff = {
> >   \set DrumStaff.instrumentName = #"Agogo"
> >   \override DrumStaff.StaffSymbol #'line-positions = #'(-2 2)
> >   \set DrumStaff.drumStyleTable = #(alist->hash-table agogo)
> >   \override Staff.BarLine #'bar-size = #3
> > }
> >
> > \new DrumStaff {
> >   \agogostaff
> >   \drummode {
> >     \time 2/4
> >     wbl8 wbl16 wbl wbh8-> wbl |
> >     wbl8 wbl16 wbh-> ~ wbh wbl16 r8 |
> >   }
> > }
> >
> >
> > This works and produces the desired output. What I don't understand
> > is if "hiwoodblock", "lowoodblock", "wbl" and "wbh" are hardcoded,
> > or if I can change them, and if yes how?
> >
> > cheers,
> > renato
> >
> >
> >
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> 
> Hi renato,
> 
> easiest might be to insert new some namings into 'drumPitchNames' via:
> 
> %%%%%%%%
> %% snippet1-start
> %%%%%%%%
[...]

> %%%%%%%%
> %% snippet2-end
> %%%%%%%%

Hi, thanks! that's better :)


> Btw, from your code (\override Staff.BarLine #'bar-size = #3) I think
> you're using 2.12.3.
> Why?

I'm using 2.16.2, that example was simply copy pasted from the docs 

thanks again,
renato