One-time ragged-right?

2006-05-29 Thread Stewart Holmes
Hi, I'm looking to put a line break in a piece, but leave just that line ragged, in order to create some white space to the side of the bar. I'm not sure if Lilypond can do this, but is there any kind of workaround known? Thanks, Stewart ___

Slightly OT: MIDI recording on a Mac?

2006-05-29 Thread Christ van Willegen
Hi folks, a little off-topic, I admit... I want to let our keyboard player input a score, and I was thinking that the easiest, and quickest way, would be to let him play it on our keyboard and record it on my notebook, so that I can combine the various parts into one part and re-generate MIDIs

octavation at line breaks

2006-05-29 Thread Roland Goretzki
Hi, version 2.8.2 (How) is it possible to move the octavation line only AFTER line breaks? Sometimes there are in the following line fingerings and so on, which I want to have inside the octavation line, and moving the octavation line BEFORE the line break lets view the octavation line too

Re: dotted phrasing slurs

2006-05-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
There are no predefined macros to make dotted phrasing slurs. However, you can read at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.8/Documentation/user/lilypond/Default-files.html on how to find the definition of the \slurDotted macro (which is included in the file property-init.ly). Then, you can easily make

Fw: Lilypond developing: getting started

2006-05-29 Thread Eduardo Vieira
- Original Message - From: Eduardo Vieira [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kieren Richard MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 8:42 PM Subject: Re: Lilypond developing: getting started Hi, Kieren! I'm not one of the developers, of course, but I have some suggestions for your

Little slurs at finger changes?

2006-05-29 Thread Roland Goretzki
Hi, version 2.8.2: In earlier versions it was possible to take little slurs over finger changes instead of -, with writing { $\frown$ } in markup texts. I can't figure out how to do something like this yet. { $\frown$ } doesn't longer work ... :-( Could someone help, please? Best Regards

RE: dotted phrasing slurs

2006-05-29 Thread Monk Panteleimon
Dear Friends, Thanks to all who have helped me to make dotted phrasing slurs, at the same intoducin gme to the Program Reference, which is very useful indeed. XB Fr. P ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

LilyPad update

2006-05-29 Thread Ed Baskerville
Hi all, A number of you have inquired recently about LilyPad, my Mac OS X LilyPond front-end, so I thought I'd notify the list that no, it's not dead yet. I've recently restarted development, albeit slowly. (Slow progress is infinitely better than no progress.) The code is now publicly

Re: Changing volta numbering?

2006-05-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Read the section on Manual Repeat Commands, in the manual. /Mats Quoting CSÉCSYLászló [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There is a piece at http://frugalware.org/~boobaa/stuff/lvd-sample.{ly,midi,pdf} where the third volta's number should be 2., too - as it is a SATB alternative of the second, SA volta.

Re: Windows font problem?

2006-05-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
What version of LilyPond did you install? Also, what Windows version do you have? (Please answer to the mailing list) /Mats Quoting Matthew Leerberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am a new user to Lilypond, and can't get the titles or footers to appear correctly in the PDF output. Instead, it

Direction of repeat tie

2006-05-29 Thread Stefan Maier
Code like the one bellow delivers a repeat tie with wrong direction in the second alternative of the first vioce. How can I change the direction of the tie? (Use Version 2.8.2 on Windows system) Thanks a lot Stefan @Munich \relative c' { \repeat volta 2 { { f1~ } \\ { c4 c c c

Re: Mixed questions

2006-05-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you add a \bar ||:, you will get the desired double bar line before the line break and start repeat after the line break. /Mats Quoting Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The double bar-line followed by a repeat bar-line is significant for many. Every 32-bar song form of the Twentieth Century

including eps file

2006-05-29 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, In lilypond 2.8.4 I'm trying to attach an eps file above a staff with the \epsfile markup command. the eps file gets included, but seems to be anchored to the bottom of the page instead of being related to the staff no matter how I change the parameters of the markup. I attach the lilypond

RE: set Hairpin length as percentage of normal?

2006-05-29 Thread Fairchild
Clever!! For a while, the key construct a4*1/2 eluded me. Thinking about it and experimenting, it became obvious. Can't find it in the documentation. - Bruce -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin Wilding

RE: set Hairpin length as percentage of normal?

2006-05-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Fairchild [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Clever!! For a while, the key construct a4*1/2 eluded me. Thinking about it and experimenting, it became obvious. Can't find it in the documentation. - Bruce See the section on Scaling Durations. /Mats

Re: One-time ragged-right?

2006-05-29 Thread Stewart Holmes
Fantastic, just the trick. Thanks. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 11:34 PM Subject: One-time ragged-right? Hi, you can try this: By using the commands \stopStaff and \startStaff you can determine where your staff stops

RE: set Hairpin length as percentage of normal?

2006-05-29 Thread Fairchild
Mats - Ah! I get paid for looking. You get the big bucks for knowing where to look. Thanks. - Bruce -Original Message- From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 4:24 PM To: Fairchild Cc: 'Colin Wilding'; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject:

Re: Windows font problem?

2006-05-29 Thread Matthew Leerberg
Hi Mats, et al., I really appreciate your response. In trying to respond to your question, I realized that in trying to fix the problem myself, I had actually uninstalled LilyPond, and was instead producing the scores with Cygwin bash.exe. I had originally had the same problem when only using

Re: Tremolo overlaps note

2006-05-29 Thread Joe Neeman
On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 12:57 +0200, Hector M. Monacci wrote: It is five years now since I had used Lilypond for the last time. Some code of that old version (1.3.x), even after carefully converted, seems to break with the current stable version 2.8.2. Example: = = = \version 2.8.2

Re: including eps file

2006-05-29 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Orm Finnendahl schreef: Hi, In lilypond 2.8.4 I'm trying to attach an eps file above a staff with the \epsfile markup command. the eps file gets included, but seems to be anchored to the bottom of the page instead of being related to the staff no matter how I change the parameters of the

Re: Automatic beaming

2006-05-29 Thread Graham Percival
On 27-May-06, at 1:54 PM, Stewart Holmes wrote: Hmm... I think I may have misunderstood the documentation originally. If I use -snip- it works. The trick must be to define each point in the bar at which you want the beams to break. If you have any suggested clarifications for the

Re: Direction of repeat tie

2006-05-29 Thread Graham Percival
On 29-May-06, at 1:34 PM, Stefan Maier wrote: Code like the one bellow delivers a repeat tie with wrong direction in the second alternative of the first vioce. How can I change the direction of the tie? (Use Version 2.8.2 on Windows system) Please read the documentation for ties. (hint:

Re: Little slurs at finger changes?

2006-05-29 Thread Graham Percival
On 29-May-06, at 5:37 AM, Roland Goretzki wrote: In earlier versions it was possible to take little slurs over finger changes instead of -, with writing { $\frown$ } in markup texts. This is a LaTeX construct, and (as you found out) lilypond 2.8 does not support these any more. You could

Re: Windows font problem?

2006-05-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you download the latest stable version, 2.8.3, from the Downloads page at www.lilypond.org, there is no need to use Cygwin. /Mats Quoting Matthew Leerberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Mats, et al., I really appreciate your response. In trying to respond to your question, I realized that in