Re: Incipit

[Andreas Schneider]

Thanks again for your help. Using ScoreIndent I arrive at a script that
does what I expect:

;;;StaffIncipit
(let ((tag  "StaffIncipit") (current "") (incipitLength 10) (indent
"15.0") (indentLength 15) )
(set! current (d-DirectiveGet-voice-data tag))
(if (not (string? current)) (set! current ""))
(set! current (d-GetUserInput (_ "Incipit") (_ "Give incipit for current
staff:") current))
(if (string? current)
    (begin
    (d-DirectivePut-voice-data tag current)
    (d-DirectivePut-voice-prefix tag (string-append "\\incipit { "
current " }"))
    (d-DirectivePut-layout-postfix tag (string-append "  incipit-width
= " (number->string incipitLength) "\n"))
    (set! indent (d-DirectiveGet-score-data "ScoreIndent"))
    (if (and (string? indent) (string->number indent))
      (begin
      (set! indentLength (string->number indent))
      (if (> incipitLength indentLength)
        (d-ScoreIndent (+ incipitLength indentLength))))))))

The only deficiency I still see is that the incipit length is fixed and
hard-coded in the script, but I have no idea how to calculate it and I
can live with that. If you want, you can take over the script.

Andreas


Am 17.12.23 um 11:49 schrieb Richard Shann:
> On Sat, 2023-12-16 at 21:25 +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> > Thank you very much for your help. One more question: how can I get
> > the
> > current indent
>
> There are two indent commands
>
> Command: Indent
> Alter the indent of the opening system for the current movement.
> Location: Object Menu ▶ Movements ▶ Typesetter ▶ Print Layout
> Internal Name: Indent
>
> and
>
> Command: Indent
> Indent the first system of every movement by the given amount.
> Location: Object Menu ▶ Score ▶ Typesetter ▶ Print Layout
> Internal Name: ScoreIndent
>
> The Instrument name command
>
> Command: Instrument Name
> Print Instrument name before staff at start of score,
> Location: Object Menu ▶ Staffs/Voices ▶ Staff Properties
> Internal Name: InstrumentName
>
> runs the second (*) of those Indent commands, so to retrieve the value
> set you need
> (d-DirectiveGet-score-data "ScoreIndent")
> to get that value.
> The value set by InstrumentName is just a very crude guess based on the
> length of the name, a proper job would require querying LilyPond about
> how much space is required ...
>
> Richard
> (*) I don't know why this is so, it was a long time ago and perhaps it
> would be better to do otherwise...