Re: Extract the first notes from a musical expression

[Mark Knoop]

At 00:16 on 15 Nov 2018, Gianmaria Lari wrote:
>Consider a simple code similar to the following one:
>
>\version "2.19.82"
>myVar = \fixed c' { a4 b c' a | a4 4 b c | b4 a b c' | ........
>{\myVar}
>
>
>This will generate a score containing *all* the notes specified in
>myVar.
>
>Now, suppose that I don't want to generate all the notes in myVar but
>only the first 8 quarter notes (the first 2 bars) . Is there any
>function that can do it? something like "\extractMusic \myVar 4*4".

There is indeed code available to do this. 

http://gillesth.free.fr/Lilypond/extractMusic/

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Mark Knoop