Re: [Callers] Fwd: List of contra dance figures

On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Linda Leslie <laleslierjg(a)comcast.net> wrote:, Thanks, you're absolutely right, Give and Take is another one I hadn't added. Sure thing; I maintain a package for the typsetting system LaTeX (used to typeset most scientific articles, lots of books, pamphlets, etc.) that can be used to typeset traditional dances for books and calling cards. On of the features I'm adding to the next version is the ability to have `shortcuts' for various common (and some uncommon) moves. Without going into the technical details, the way this works is that a publisher working on a book (or the actual caller/author they're into this sort of thing) would write out their dance using a predefined set of commands which looks something like this: \begin{contra}{Code's Compiling}{Sam Whited}{Duple becket} \dosido*[Neighbor]{8} \seesaw*[Partner]{8} \swing*[Shadow]{16} \balanceand\longpetronella \balanceand\longpetronella \swing*[Partner]{8} \rightandleftthrough*[Left diagonal:] \begin{flushleft} {\footnotesize \textbf{Notes} The Neighbor dosido into a partner see saw should be one fluid motion. Resist spinning in the dosido, and start revolving slowly over your right shoulder as you enter the see saw and everything will flow. Make sure lines have \textbf{lots} of space for the dosido.} \end{flushleft} \end{contra} This (and possibly other dances / text) then gets run through a special program and turned into a nice looking calling card, article, booklet, etc. This means the copy editor can just write out the dance and not worry about things like line spacing, kerning, etc. (someone who's job it is to do that sort of thing can deal with it later). While you can always define your own figures, it's sometimes useful to have shortcuts for moves (eg. `\swing', `\rightandleftthrough', etc. as seen above). These shortcuts make things like generating an index a lot easier, and prevent people from needing to copy and paste similar moves / phrases over and over. For anyone interested in this sort of thing, the project can be found here: http://github.com/samwhited/contra-card Thanks again, Sam -- Sam Whited pub 4096R/EC2C9934 https://samwhited.com/contact