Re: triple stop warnings

[David Kastrup]

Jay Anderson <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Neil Puttock <address@hidden> wrote:
>> stop =
>> #(define-music-function (parser location music) (ly:music?)
>>   (set! (ly:music-property music 'tweaks)
>>         (acons 'before-line-breaking
>>                (lambda (grob)
>>                  (let ((dots (ly:grob-object grob 'dot)))
>>                    (ly:grob-set-property! grob 'duration-log 2)
>>                    (and (ly:grob? dots)
>>                         (ly:grob-set-property! dots 'dot-count 0))))
>>                (ly:music-property music 'tweaks)))
>>   music)
>>
>> \relative c' {
>>  <\stop c g' e'>2.\fermata
>> }
>
> Also for the other responses, sorry if I didn't explain it very well.
> This is the only way I've seen triple (and quadruple) stops notated so
> I thought it would be self-explanatory.

Again: could you explain why you want to write 2. as a duration and then
remove the dot manually?

This does not really make sense at all.

> Thanks for the other examples.  I hadn't seen it notated like that
> before (I'm not a string player).  I've attached a picture of the
> particular chord I was working on (for viola, alto clef, in 3/4). In
> this case I want to keep it explicitly notated and all in the same
> voice.

There are dots on the half notes.

-- 
David Kastrup