Re: Emacs lilypond mode formatting and indenting

[Paul Scott]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 11:17:21PM -0500, Hwaen Ch'uqi wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is still on topic, but I have found that LilyPond
> indentation on emacs goes off kilter when brackets (i.e., for beaming)
> and parentheses (i.e., for slurs and phrasing slurs) are used. The
> solution for brackets is easy enough; putting space around them
> alleviates the problem. But parentheses are another matter. I code one
> measure per line, and when slurs/phrasing slurs cross the barline, the
> indentation goes asew. It "corrects" itself in the measure after the
> slur has been closed. Any solution for this would be most fabulous!

Also the articulation "--->" cancels or resets the indentation.
Whenever I use that articulation I put it in a separate one line defonition.

Paul

> 
> Hwaen Ch'uqi
> 
> 
> On 1/26/19, David Wright <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Sun 27 Jan 2019 at 11:58:30 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote:
> >> Frescobaldi has a great formatting function that indents all the code
> >> very
> >> nicely and nearly flawlessly.
> >>
> >> But since an upgrade to Debian 9 and as the complexity of my current
> >> score
> >> increases, F. has slowed down to a molasses like rate and has sadly
> >> become
> >> unusable. [I have never seen that before until now.] Consequently I have
> >> returned to Emacs, as a long term Emacs user anyway. The PDF point and
> >> click with Emacs all works splendidly on Debian 9, and everything is
> >> lightning quick.
> >>
> >> The indenting in the current lilypond mode is to put it politely, less
> >> than
> >> optimal. My question is, can the lilypond-mode reformat and entire buffer
> >> like F. does?
> >
> > Probably not the fastest way, but I
> >
> > . move to BOT                   to see how many lines, say, 1234
> > . move to TOP                   start at the top
> > . ^X ( ^I ^N ^X )               define a macro that runs <TAB> <DOWN>
> > . ESC 1234 ^PgDn                run the last-defined macro 1234 times
> >
> > to reindent (not reformat).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > David.
> >
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