Vertical spacing titles and highest staff in LilyPond version 2.18.2.

2016-12-22 Thread Mirosław Doroszewski
Vertical spacing titles and highest staff in LilyPond version 2.18.2. 1. When some files are included to main file, not within \book block but just added with \include command outside any block, there is put too much vertical space between titles and "piece" title. 2. I tried in a template of

Word hyphenation in LilyPond version 2.18.2.

2016-12-22 Thread Mirosław Doroszewski
Word hyphenation in LilyPond version 2.18.2. 1. Word hyphenation happens usually in justified texts. 2. Music notation software can print song books with some or many pieces. 3. Conversion poetry texts from standard publication into small one is: changing strophas into paragraphs. It implies

Two sided mode in LilyPond version 2.18.2.

2016-12-21 Thread Mirosław Doroszewski
Two sided mode in LilyPond version 2.18.2. 1. Usually printed publications are made int two sided mode. 2. It implies that istead of margins left and right are inner and outer. 3. Bug: when two sided mode is set (two-sided = ##t), then margins are always the same and unexpected, even with

Moving of lyrics in LilyPond version 2.18.2.

2016-12-21 Thread Mirosław Doroszewski
Moving of lyrics in LilyPond version 2.18.2. 1. In song books sometimes after each verse of lyrics is put an asterisk (*). Using it implies that syllable is moved left too much. 2. I have not find solution for it in manuals. 3. My solution not perfect: putting three (sometimes two or four) linked

Setting font families for entire document in LilyPond version 2.18.2.

2016-12-21 Thread Mirosław Doroszewski
Setting font families for entire document in LilyPond version 2.18.2. 1. I have put solution to template which has been not in the same directory, according to manuals: \paper { #(define fonts (make-pango-font-tree "Times New Roman" % roman "Nimbus

Size of titles when staff size and lyrics size are set independently in LilyPond version 2.18.2.

2016-12-21 Thread Mirosław Doroszewski
Size of titles when staff size and lyrics size are set independently in LilyPond version 2.18.2. 1. When staff size and lyrics size are set independently, happens that size of titles is too small. 2. My solution is not universal: it has to be dane on every titles of large document (book). 3. And

Lyric hyphens in LilyPond version 2.18.2.

2016-12-20 Thread Mirosław Doroszewski
Lyric hyphens in LilyPond version 2.18.2. 1. Making hyphens accordingly to manuals is not correct, because when syllables inside words are calculated to be print without hyphens, there is too much space created between them. Confer correct "calculation" of text editors which place not any space

Slurs and ties — most difficult to make: developer has to think about them before his work.

2016-12-20 Thread Mirosław Doroszewski
Slurs and ties — most difficult to make: developer has to think about them before his work. 1. I have noticed in main web site of LilyPond beautiful image of music. 2. The image shows correct breaking of ties between (two) systems. 3. But when I was rewriting songs, it happend that breaking ties

Setting font families for entire document.

2016-12-20 Thread Mirosław Doroszewski
Setting font families for entire document in LilyPond version 2.18.2. Setting font families for entire document is not possible in template added to document with \include. If is many documents in a book, there is necessary to set font families in each document separately. But this solution not

Putting marks over bar lines in LilyPond version 2.18.2.

2016-12-20 Thread Mirosław Doroszewski
\version "2.18.2" \include "deutsch.ly" %{ Putting marks over bar lines in LilyPond version 2.18.2. 1. When mark is put over bar line, it is placed centrally by default. But sometimes there is need to place the mark left or right aligned, i.e. in repeats. 2. I tried do so according to manuals

Setting font families for entire document in LilyPond version 2.18.2.

2016-12-20 Thread Mirosław Doroszewski
Setting font families for entire document in LilyPond version 2.18.2. Setting font families for entire document is not possible in template added to document with \include. If is many documents in a book, there is necessary to set font families in each document separately. But this solution not

Gregorian line breaking.

2006-11-29 Thread Mirosław Doroszewski
Line breaking is not always the same and depends on i. e.: font size, paper size, putting dashes instead of hyphens. Example files (in second example fifth line is too wide): \\ \version 2.10.0 \include

Gregorian lyric text.

2006-11-29 Thread Mirosław Doroszewski
Placing lyric text is too simple. Correct is: first neume of group (or single) must be exact above vowel of syllable. Solution might be with extra-offset property, but too much work is required. Example file: \\\

Gregorian ictuses.

2006-11-29 Thread Mirosław Doroszewski
Placing ictuses too low and mostly (or only) below a staff. Solution with \override Script #'padding = #-0.1 is not complete: works only vertically and for neumes placed between staff lines. Example file: \ \version

Gregorian episemas over one neume.

2006-11-29 Thread Mirosław Doroszewski
Putting episemas over one neume is impossible. Example file: \\ \version 2.10.0 \include gregorian-init.ly \paper { #(set-paper-size a4) #(layout-set-staff-size (* 18.0 pt)) indent = 0 \mm