Philip Rhoades wrote
OK, got that working - the actual music .ly "data" file is slimming
down
now - but I still need to investigate why some notes needed manual
editing so they were in the right place when I converted a Mutopia
file.
Hi Phil, If it was just changing the octave of certain notes, and those
notes were in the bass clef, then I think it is probably a matter of
adjusting the clef settings to fit your alternative notation system so
that
notes in the bass clef land on the staff at the octave where you want
them.
Below is what I use in my include file for Clairnote (see
http://clairnote.org/software/). It will probably take some adjusting
of
the values so that it works for your system.
It modifies both the position of the clef on the staff and the position
of
middle c relative to the clef (c0-position), and provides a function
for
returning the clefs to their traditional values.
Cheers,
-Paul
% helper function for modifying clef settings
#(define (set-clefs treble-pos treble-c bass-pos bass-c alto-pos
alto-c)
;; add-new-clef args: clef-name clef-glyph clef-position
octavation
c0-position
(add-new-clef "treble" "clefs.G" treble-pos 0 treble-c)
(add-new-clef "G" "clefs.G" treble-pos 0 treble-c)
(add-new-clef "violin" "clefs.G" treble-pos 0 treble-c)
(add-new-clef "bass" "clefs.F" bass-pos 0 bass-c)
(add-new-clef "F" "clefs.F" bass-pos 0 bass-c)
(add-new-clef "alto" "clefs.C" alto-pos 0 alto-c)
(add-new-clef "C" "clefs.C" alto-pos 0 alto-c))
% set (or reset) clef settings for clairnote
#(define (set-clairnote-clefs)
(let* ((treble-pos -5)
(treble-c (- -12 treble-pos))
(bass-pos 5)
(bass-c (- 12 bass-pos))
(alto-pos 0)
(alto-c (- 0 alto-pos)))
(set-clefs
treble-pos treble-c
bass-pos bass-c
alto-pos alto-c)))
% automatically modify clef settings when this file is included
#(set-clairnote-clefs)
% use this function to reset clefs back to traditional settings
% if you want to include music in both traditional notation
% and Clairnote in the same file (i.e. for comparison)
#(define (set-traditional-clefs)
(let* ((treble-pos -2)
(treble-c -4)
(bass-pos 2)
(bass-c 4)
(alto-pos 0)
(alto-c 0))
(set-clefs
treble-pos treble-c
bass-pos bass-c
alto-pos alto-c)))