mpdolce - LilyPond

Chapter 5: Working on LilyPond projects 136
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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.ly’ with this:
%%% definitions.ly
mpdolce = #(make-dynamic-script (markup #:hspace 1 #:translate (cons 5 0)
#:line( #:dynamic "mp" #:text #:italic "dolce" )))
tempoMark = #(define-music-function (parser location markp) (string?)
#{
\once \override Score . RehearsalMark #'self-alignment-X = #left
\once \override Score . RehearsalMark #'extra-spacing-width = #'(+inf.0 . -inf.0)
\mark \markup { \bold $markp }
#})
\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
}
}
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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.ly’ to ‘web-publish.ly’ 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.
%%% definitions.ly
mpdolce = #(make-dynamic-script (markup #:hspace 1 #:translate (cons 5 0)
#:line( #:dynamic "mp" #:text #:italic "dolce" )))
tempoMark = #(define-music-function (parser location markp) (string?)
#{
\once \override Score . RehearsalMark #'self-alignment-X = #left
\once \override Score . RehearsalMark #'extra-spacing-width = #'(+inf.0 . -inf.0)