Wrongly combined note heads

2016-06-22 Thread Paul Hodges
> I'm not top posting. % Note heads in different voices are combined % even though they have different accidentals \version "2.19.42" \language "english" << { g'4 gs'4 } \\ { gs'4 g'4 } >> Result: https://cassland.org/images/PWH-wrongly-combined-noteheads.png

Re: Wrongly combined note heads

2016-06-23 Thread Paul Hodges
t accidental in one part which didn't show and a note later in the bar had a missing accidental as the result of this. Although that could be patched with a "!", it was clear something was wrong, but there was no clue to help with finding it.

Re: Lilypond 2.19.80-1 hangs

2018-05-06 Thread Paul Hodges
f the slight inconsistency in behaviour, the error returned first time was 255, and subsequently it was -1073741819. Paul -- Paul Hodges ___ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond

Re: Lilypond 2.19.80-1 hangs

2018-05-05 Thread Paul Hodges
bug (which I'd worked around by making tiny changes) - but my example brings it up in only 5k characters (<50 bars of music). Paul -- Paul Hodges ___ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond

Re: Lilypond 2.19.80-1 hangs

2018-05-05 Thread Paul Hodges
to know this wonderful program well enough to contribute to a fix, I just thank those who have made it and continue to maintain and enhance it! Paul -- Paul Hodges ___ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond

Re: Lilypond 2.19.80-1 hangs

2018-05-05 Thread Paul Hodges
--On 05 May 2018 16:02 +0200 David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > Which operating system and LilyPond version? Windows 10; Lilypond 2.19.28 at the time I was having trouble. Paul -- Paul Hodges ___ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypon

Re: Lilypond 2.19.80-1 hangs

2018-05-05 Thread Paul Hodges
--On 05 May 2018 19:52 +0200 David Kastrup wrote: > There will also be the problem once you find such a change how we are > going to figure out what makes it disappear: we'll need to be able to > provide you with Windows binaries making a difference or not. Sure - but I'm happy to

Re: Lilypond 2.19.80-1 hangs

2018-05-05 Thread Paul Hodges
r a system reboot, but I can't be completely certain. It did make me wonder about some memory management issue being involved, though (but I suppose that's pretty obvious anyway). Paul -- Paul Hodges ___ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.o

Re: Lilypond 2.19.80-1 hangs

2018-05-06 Thread Paul Hodges
the fault did not return with the same change... (I recall that being a characteristic when I first hit the issue). So we have a problem which is (1) history dependent, and (2) it seems, Windows only. I even wonder now wonder if the problem is as deep as a Python for Windows issue. Paul -- Pa

Re: Lilypond 2.19.80-1 hangs

2018-05-06 Thread Paul Hodges
--On 06 May 2018 11:24 +0200 David Kastrup wrote: > Can you try with 2.19.81? It was available at some other > download location (our customary location was broken IIRC). When I return this evening. Meanwhile, I suspect that Aaron is right - there are better things to be

Re: Lilypond 2.19.80-1 hangs

2018-05-05 Thread Paul Hodges
PS - The group of commented lines near the end are the version I changed it to for successful compilation; the three following lines are the version I restored to bring back the fault. Paul -- Paul ___ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org

Re: Lilypond 2.19.80-1 hangs

2018-05-05 Thread Paul Hodges
--On 05 May 2018 19:24 +0200 David Kastrup wrote: > Any difference > when you remove the bar checks between and before and after the > respective lines? Are any of the accidentals required for triggering > the problem? No and no. I'll try later on to find a single character

Staff spacing behaviour changed in 2.19

2018-01-17 Thread Paul Hodges
on the documentation page (which I also get at home with 2.19.80) does not match the result on the corresponding page for 2.18, and is clearly wrong. I cannot find any documentation suggesting that the usage should have changed. Regards, Paul -- Paul Hodges

Re: musicxml2ly produces unexpected EOF in .ly file

2018-08-24 Thread Paul Hodges
I was planning to report this.  What's happening is that strings are being converted to 16-bit Unicode instead of UTF8, and so they are interspersed with nulls.  If you remove the nulls with a capable editor, then that issue goes away (you can do it with Frescobaldi, but it's non-intuitive -

Staff spacing behaviour changed in 2.19

2018-01-17 Thread Paul Hodges
In the example on the documentation page      http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/learning/building-a-score-from-scratch   the command    \override VerticalAxisGroup.staff-staff-spacing.stretchability = 5 is used to modify the spacing of the pedal staff in an organ score. The result

Re: Long compile times with many empty bars

2018-04-06 Thread Paul Hodges
Ah, the perils of recursion!  (says an aged programmer) Paul From: Simon Albrecht To: Lilypond bug list Sent: 06/04/2018 11:48 PM Subject: Long compile times with many empty bars Hello everybody, I was a bit surprised that this

Re: Lilypond 2.19.82 with multiple voices seems to fail

2019-03-02 Thread Paul Hodges
On 02/03/2019 22:36:39, "DaveAtkinson" wrote: >I'm trying to produce a score of a piano accompaniment in which I'm making >extensive use of multiple voices in a bar. These seem to work at first but >then start failing. By failing, I mean lilypond quits after the >"interpreting music" message with

Re: Lilypond 2.19.82 with multiple voices seems to fail

2019-03-03 Thread Paul Hodges
On 03/03/2019 16:36:31, "DaveAtkinson" wrote: The second reason, if I were to write a staff as two lines, all the parts where there is effectively only a single voice look horrible, because all the rests and note stems look wrong. This is where you need to learn about "\oneVoice" and

Re: Compile error

2019-06-30 Thread Paul Hodges
On 30/06/2019 10:54:05, "John McWilliam" wrote: > I got the following error when compiling the above and wonder what it > means. The compilation runs to a successful conclusion and the Music looks > fine. Any suggestions. > >Preprocessing graphical objects... >programming error:

Re: issues with musicxml2ly

2019-09-22 Thread Paul Hodges
erfectly for me, and is a significant improvement to Lilypond for my usage! Regards, Paul Hodges On 14/07/2019 21:59:41, "Knut Petersen" wrote: >Hi Gilberto! >>>Try if replacing >>> >>> musicxml ... >>> >>>with >>> >>> python

Re: issues with musicxml2ly

2019-09-22 Thread Paul Hodges
Oops! Omit the quote mark in the middle of my statement after .py. Paul On 22/09/2019 11:57:06, "Paul Hodges" wrote: >Thanks very much for this! > >I couldn't work out how your suggested changes can be applied in a >Windows installation, so instead I did the following:

Re: issues with musicxml2ly

2019-09-22 Thread Paul Hodges
Double Oops!! The first quote mark is the correct one - omit the one at the end (though in fact Windows tolerates it, which is how it got in there unnoticed). Paul On 22/09/2019 15:50:55, "Paul Hodges" wrote: >Oops! Omit the quote mark in the middle of my statement after

Re: Ugly acciaccatura slurs?

2020-06-10 Thread Paul Hodges
On 10/06/2020 19:00:29, "Caio Barros" wrote: >I don't recall right now a good example of this notation from the >literature, but I think the output should be something like Have an example, typeset by Universal Edition in 1927: https://cassland.org/images/accslurs.jpg This is Bartók, who was

Documentation error for "on-the-fly"

2021-08-25 Thread Paul Hodges
On the page: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/custom-titles-headers-and-footers the syntax for using \on-the-fly is specified as: variable = \markup { … \on-the-fly \procedure markup … } and the following examples use the same. Note the use of \ to

Re: CrossStaff makes quavers lose flag if not beamed

2021-09-14 Thread Paul Hodges
Thanks, that clarifies things and simplifies them as well. It seemed surprising to me that this could be wrong. Paul On 14/09/2021 11:03:01, "Jean Abou Samra" wrote: > >This is expected. \crossStaff is meant to be used >only in the voices that should have their stems >made to extend past their

CrossStaff makes quavers lose flag if not beamed

2021-09-14 Thread Paul Hodges
Exactly as the title says - crossStaff works for all stemmed notes, but quavers which are not beamed lose their flag. I have resorted to merging in an extra note to get the flag, as in this example which shows the problem and my hack: \version "2.23.3" \score { \new PianoStaff << \new

triplet bracket restricted by event which does not restrict the notes under it

2022-02-28 Thread Paul Hodges
I've had this several times in my present project, each time with a clef in the other Piano Staff - the triplet bracket, but not the triplet notes, is forced not to share horizontal space with the clef.  I can't see anything I'm doing wrong which might prevent this being a bug.   I've managed

Re: triplet bracket restricted by event which does not restrict the notes under it

2022-02-28 Thread Paul Hodges
- The composer (Justin Connolly) writes all brackets thus; - The editor requires it to be reproduced (this is intended for publication); - Apparently it is common (normal?) practice for rhythmically complex modern piano music (at least). I also have to make all tuplet brackets horizontal, but I

Re: triplet bracket restricted by event which does not restrict the notes under it

2022-03-01 Thread Paul Hodges
Well, \set tupletFullLengthNote = ##t does lengthen the bracket in this situation; but typically (unlike my example) the problem occurs with a clef adjacent to a barline, so the bracket is then too long. I shall investigate your suggestion for adjusting the bracket length - which may also be

Re: Two possible bugs bugging me

2022-07-27 Thread Paul Hodges
From: Sam Arutuk via bug-lilypond   Sorry to just jump in here, but in Frescobaldi 3.1.3 and still in 3.2  the search and replace does not work properly, at least under Windows. I have used Search and Replace regularly in both those versions of Frescobaldi, running in Windows 10 (and in the

Re: Full bar rest printed incorrectly after time signature change

2022-10-28 Thread Paul Hodges
Is this not you want: \version "2.22.2" {   \time 3/4   \partial 4*2  % defines bar as holding two crotchets   f'4 f' |   \time 2/4   R2 |   R2 |  } Paul From: Ole V. Villumsen via bug-lilypond To: "bug-lilypond@gnu.org" Sent: 28/10/2022 10:52 Subject: Full bar rest

Re: Full bar rest printed incorrectly after time signature change

2022-10-28 Thread Paul Hodges
There are only two crotchets between your 3/4 signature and your 2/4 signature - what do you expect to happen? Paul From: Ole V. Villumsen via bug-lilypond To: "bug-lilypond@gnu.org" Sent: 28/10/2022 10:52 Subject: Full bar rest printed incorrectly after time signature

Re: Minor correction on documentation

2022-12-16 Thread Paul Hodges
Actually, the time signature should be 3/4. Paul From: Silvain Dupertuis To: Sent: 16/12/2022 13:30 Subject: Minor correction on documentation Maybe I should send this note on documentation to another mail, but I did not find which one. I just notice that on this example

Re: Melody_engraver and tied notes

2023-02-28 Thread Paul Hodges
Gould illustrates this happening for beamed quavers (page 64), but doesn't address this exact case of crotchets that I can find. Paul From: Simon Albrecht To: Lilypond bug list Sent: 28/02/2023 11:41 Subject: Melody_engraver and tied notes Hello everyone,

Re: Skipping syllables / LyricExtender

2024-01-03 Thread Paul Hodges
Replace the \skip 4 with "", as in: % \version "2.25.0"  { c' (d') e' f' }  \addlyrics { foo __ "" bar }  % Paul From: Michael Käppler via bug-lilypond Hi all, please consider the following example: \version "2.25.0" { c' (d') e' f' }

Re: Skipping syllables / LyricExtender

2024-01-04 Thread Paul Hodges
 It seems that \skip1, _, and "" all have subtle differences which the documentation doesn't make sufficiently clear... Below is the mail that summarised these findings. Paul From: Michael Werner   To: Paul Hodges   Cc:   Sent: 04/12/2023 12:37  Subject: Re: Centering a word before

Re: subtitle moves notes off staff lines

2023-12-08 Thread Paul Hodges
This is an artefact of some poorer PDF viewers; your example shows perfectly in Acrobat.  Sadly, I see the effect often in Frescobaldi (on Windows) when not zoomed in, but have got used to it - zooming in always shows that the postscript is correct. Paul From: John F. Gibson To: