Re: Custom note names / octavize pitch

[David Kastrup]

TaoCG <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote
>> TaoCG &lt;
>
>> tao_lilyponduser@
>
>> &gt; writes:
>> 
>>> David Kastrup wrote
>>>> 
>>>> Again, it is totally unclear what you want to be your input and your
>>>> output.
>>>
>>> If my message reached you like this then indeed it is.
>>> On my side, via the nabble web interface, it looks fine though.
>> 
>> Web interfaces are somewhat treacherous.  Gmane.org seems to be more
>> reliable.
>> 
>>> I'll just post a screenshot and try to make it clearer.....
>>>
>>> 2013-12-13_154458.png
>>> &lt;http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n155723/2013-12-13_154458.png&gt;
>>>   
>> 
>> Well, an afterthought: you could probably define uppercase letters to be
>> a quartertone (or less) sharp, and then postprocess your music, turning
>> all of those back to normal pitch and adding the top octave.
>> 
>> If you do the unsharpening/octavation in the toplevel-music-functions
>> hook, it will actually happen at a time when all \relative music has
>> already been turned into absolute music, so that would not interfere.
>
> That's an interesting idea, I'll definitely try it, thanks!
> What exactly do you mean by toplevel? Are these functions defined or applied
> differently than regular music functions?

toplevel-music-functions is a central hook containing a list of Scheme
functions that are applied when scorify-music is called.  I think the
arguments they receive is the parser and music, and they return music
again.

-- 
David Kastrup