Re: Custom note names / octavize pitch

[TaoCG]

David Kastrup wrote
> TaoCG <

> tao_lilyponduser@

> > writes:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm looking for a way to octavize a note with the least input possible. I
>> know there are music functions in the LSR that do this but they aren't
>> very
>> useful to me because in the music I need this for the octaves usually
>> aren't
>> successive and it wouldn't really save input if I had to write the
>> function
>> for single pitches, even if the function name were reduced to a single
>> letter.
>> So I was wondering if this maybe could be achieved with custom note
>> names,
>> maybe a capital letter for an additional octave. After a look at
>> define-note-names.scm I fear it's not but I thought I ask if a note name
>> accepts anything else than ly:make-pitch before I try to experiment on my
>> own.
>>
>> For illustration I imagine the following snippet (relative)
>>
>> *4 
> <d fis>
> 8 * r 
> <d fis>
>  r   |
>> r8 
> <c d>
>  r   r 
> <c d>
>  r 
> <g g'>
>  |
>>
>> to become this
>>
>> B4 
> <d fis>
> 8 B r 
> <d fis>
>  r A |
>> r8 
> <c d>
>  r A r 
> <c d>
>  r G |
>>
>> or even better
>>
>> B4 
> <d fis>
> 8 B r q r A |
>> r8 
> <c d>
>  r A r q r G |
> 
> Uh, you might want to improve your "illustration": it is utterly
> incomprehensible what you want to be your input and your output.
> 
> -- 
> David Kastrup
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Yes, I noticed and tried (see my second post). Apparently nabble
auto-converted the note 'b' in a chord-construct into a html bold tag.

@Noeck
Thanks for the links. It gave me an idea to experiment with.



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