Re: zigzag staffline

[Paul Morris]

Hi Gagi,

On Dec 18, 2012, at 5:35 AM, Gagi Petrovic <address@hidden> wrote:

> Dear Ponders, i'm working on a composition where i'm in need of a custom 
> 3-lined-staff with a zigzagged (like the glissando style, see attachment) 
> middle line. Is it possible to make a small adjustement to the code below, or 
> should i start doing some serious tweaking? Any pointers are well 
> appreciated. Thank you very much in advance!

I don't have any suggestions beyond the colored line snippet that David already 
mentioned (see below).  I once got this advice about dashed lines:

"It may be possible to get dashed lines by writing a stencil in Scheme and 
overriding it in. But you'd have to locate which stencil draws the lines, study 
the C++ code, and write Scheme to do the same thing with some extra options."

I would be curious to see how you achieve this, so please share your solution 
if you create one.

Cheers,
-Paul



On Dec 18, 2012, at 2:48 AM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

> Gagi,
> 
>> On 15 December 2012 10:39, Gagi Petrovic <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dear Ponders, i'm working on a composition where i'm in need of a custom
>>> 3-lined-staff with a zigzagged (like the glissando style, see attachment)
>>> middle line. Is it possible to make a small adjustement to the code below,
>>> or should i start doing some serious tweaking?
> 
> So the middle line of the 3-line staff will actually be replaced with
> a zigzag line?  I'm not aware of doing something like that with a
> simple override.  I would imagine that you'd have to build up a new
> StaffSymbol from the ground up.  There's a snippet in the LSR which
> colors individual lines, and that might be something to look at and
> adapt to your needs.  Unfortunately, I don't have time right now to
> work on it.
> 
> http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=700
> 
> HTH,
> David