Re: New lines (whishlist) ... ?

[Dimitris Marinakis]

Hi,

If you search in the mailing list archives you will find little bits of code that partially achieve what you want. If you actually want a sleek official solution for a future stable version this is going to take a while I imagine.

Sort answer: all of that is possible but the required ease of use and smartness of the code can massively complicate the solutions.

The only think I can almost definitely say won't happen is the last one since I haven't seen such deep integration of (realtime?) MIDI input to advanced features of Lilypond in my experience. Most advanced users I've seen active rarely integrate MIDI in their code. In fact there isn't any notation software that lets you manipulate non fixed objects with MIDI in such a way. I'm not saying it isn't cool I'm just lowering the expectations since coding just the spanner functions alone won't be insignificant. 

On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 5:56 PM Charlie Boilley <boilley.c@outlook.com> wrote:

Hi,

The latest Lily release is very welcomed with great contempory lines and layout objets rotation, thank you !

Would it be possible to :

- Combine multiple shapes into one line (with primitives : sin, tri, square, saw, Bravura glyphs, ...) ?

- Stretching the line with anchor points ex. one to the left and stretch the line to the right in order to make a progressive vibrato or vibrato that would change in speed and amplitude multiples times per line in which case each anchor point could be vertically linked to some event like a pulse or hidden note ?

- Increase or decrease the thickness of the line progressively and at multiple times between start and end note ?

- Assign one line to local midi CC like CC1 for vibrato amplitude, linked to the height of the line ?

Have a good day !

Yours,

ChB