\chord and \relative interaction

2003-11-30 Thread Chris Uzdavinis
Hello, I'm very new to lilypond, and find it to be very impressive. I am confused about an interaction (or lack thereof) between \relative blocks and \chords. I'm noticing that the octave for \chords{...} seems to ignore the \relative octave. Example (Lilypond version 2.0.0) \score { \notes {

lost titles for heb

2003-11-30 Thread Aaron
Hi all, after searching all my backup cd's and the lilypond users archives, I am hoping one of the wonderful users can help me find a thread to the list. I had help from the list getting hebrew lyrics to work. I didn't have hebrew titles working until recently because of an answer from someone

Re: lost titles for heb

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Scott
Aaron wrote: after searching all my backup cd's and the lilypond users archives, I am hoping one of the wonderful users can help me find a thread to the list. I had help from the list getting hebrew lyrics to work. I didn't have hebrew titles working until recently because of an answer from

Re: Help defining commands

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Scott
Guy Shaviv wrote: That's correct, I'm interested in how you can set up a command that takes a parameter. I actually even need two parameters as a partial barre has two parameters, on what fret and on how many strings. While for the full barre I can setup 12 commands (e.g. \barreI \barreII ...),

Re: lost titles for heb

2003-11-30 Thread Aaron
maybe Mats answered I think or Frenec But I remember posting a thank you. When I searched google I only found old stuff. I remember it was something simple... Thanks Aaron On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 19:54, Paul Scott wrote: Aaron wrote: after searching all my backup cd's and the lilypond users

Re: lost titles for heb

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Scott
Aaron wrote: maybe Mats answered I think or Frenec But I remember posting a thank you. When I searched google I only found old stuff. Me too. I remember it was something simple... Do you have anything in your sent folder which could maybe be reanswered? Can you make a better guess about the

Re: Help defining commands

2003-11-30 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:24:53 -0700, Paul a dit : Guy Shaviv wrote: That's correct, I'm interested in how you can set up a command that takes a parameter. I actually even need two parameters as a partial barre has two parameters, on what fret and on how many strings. While for the full

Re: Help defining commands

2003-11-30 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Mon, 24 Nov 2003 22:10:39 -0800, Guy a dit : I'm trying to typeset music for classical guitar for which I need to be able to produce the barre symbol. I've managed to acheive the desired output with text spanners via the code: \property Voice.TextSpanner \set #'edge-text = #'(C II

Re: Help defining commands

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Scott
Nicolas Sceaux wrote: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:24:53 -0700, Paul a dit : I am trying to solve the same problem. I have gotten this far: #(define textPad( lambda( pad ) \property Score.TextScript \override #'padding = pad )) with several guessed variations of (textPad 3) Thank you very

Re: free time

2003-11-30 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:03:41 +0200 Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am inputting a score in lilypond which has a section that the the quarter note gets the beat but the bar lines are used sparingly. In the score no time signiture is given. I am unsure how to notate the time signiture.

Re: free time

2003-11-30 Thread Aaron
Thanks it worked like a charm. Aaron On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 00:35, Graham Percival wrote: On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:03:41 +0200 Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am inputting a score in lilypond which has a section that the the quarter note gets the beat but the bar lines are used sparingly.

Newbie Q: Fingering annotations clobbered by lyrics.

2003-11-30 Thread Alan Robert Clark
Hi All I am learning the piano in ``fake book'' style: treble clef only, Chordnames, lyrics and now: fingering promptings. (Yes I know I'm a philistine :-) 1) Is there a way to increase the space between the staff and the lyrics to avoid the fingerings being overwritten? 2) Is there a way to