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Re: what does adorn mean in this context? GDP
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Joe Neeman |
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Re: what does adorn mean in this context? GDP |
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Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:21:01 +0100 |
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 18:26 -0800, Jay Hamilton wrote:
> I'm working on the balloon section of Editorial and in that section is this
> statement
>
> There are two music functions, balloonGrobText and balloonText; the former
> takes the name of the grob to adorn, while the latter may be used as an
> articulation on a note. The other arguments are the offset and the text of
> the label.
>
> the words after the semicolon (;) look like they make sense but adorn and
> articulation don't really make sense to a common English reader (me) can
> someone explain what is meant here so I can translate it into something I
> might understand?
I believe it's just referring to how the two functions fit in the
lilypond syntax. The former takes the name of the grob that will be
adorned:
\balloonGrobText #'Stem etc...
while the latter is used like an articulation:
c-\balloonText etc...
Hope that helps,
Joe