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Hoofdstuk 4: Tweaking output 139
mp dolce
= 50
Clarinet
That looks better, but let’s make a few changes. The glissando is hard to see, so let’s make it
thicker and closer to the note heads. Let’s put the metronome marking above the clef, instead
of over the first note. And finally, my composition professor hates ‘C’ time signatures, so we’d
better make that ‘4/4’ instead.
Don’t change ‘music.ly’, though. Replace our ‘definitions.ily’ with this:
%%% definitions.ily
mpdolce =
#(make-dynamic-script
#{ \markup { \hspace #0
\translate #'(5 . 0)
\line { \dynamic "mp"
\text \italic "dolce" } }
#})
inst =
#(define-music-function
(parser location string)
(string?)
#{ ^\markup \bold \box #string #})
\layout{
\context {
\Score
\override MetronomeMark.extra-offset = #'(-9 . 0)
\override MetronomeMark.padding = #'3
}
\context {
\Staff
\override TimeSignature.style = #'numbered
}
\context {
\Voice
\override Glissando.thickness = #3
\override Glissando.gap = #0.1
}
}
= 50
4
4
mp dolce
Clarinet
That looks nicer! But now suppose that I want to publish this piece. My composition professor
doesn’t like ‘C’ time signatures, but I’m somewhat fond of them. Let’s copy the current
‘definitions.ily’ to ‘web-publish.ily’ and modify that. Since this music is aimed at producing
a pdf which will be displayed on the screen, we’ll also increase the overall size of the
output.