Re: initial acciaccatura confuses things?

2007-08-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
This bug is described in the manual in the section on grace notes, together with an explanation on how to solve the problem. /Mats Quoting Ed Ravin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am trying to transcribe a piano piece that beings with a grace note in the lower staff. lower = \relative c, {

Re: Aligning instrument names - another try

2007-08-22 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/21, Michael Käppler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe you could enhance your example by something like this: % To avoid inequal spacing if some systems start with a brace and others don't, % make all systems have braces and then optically remove the unwanted ones. That is a good idea, but it

Re: How to deal with Time Signatures horizontal alignment?

2007-08-22 Thread Joe Neeman
On Tuesday 21 August 2007 20:34, Valentin Villenave wrote: That being said, do you think it would be a good idea to make TimeSignature accept the break-alignable-interface? No, because TimeSignature already accepts an interface (break-aligned-interface) that determines its horizontal position;

Re: How to deal with Time Signatures horizontal alignment?

2007-08-22 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/22, Joe Neeman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No, because TimeSignature already accepts an interface (break-aligned-interface) that determines its horizontal position; it wouldn't make sense for it to accept another one. The cleanest way of getting this functionality into the lilypond core, in my

Re: initial acciaccatura confuses things?

2007-08-22 Thread Ed Ravin
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 08:04:47AM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote: This bug is described in the manual in the section on grace notes, together with an explanation on how to solve the problem. Funny, I've read that section many times, and even down to the bottom when I was first learning LilyPond.

Re: initial acciaccatura confuses things?

2007-08-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Ed Ravin wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 08:04:47AM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote: This bug is described in the manual in the section on grace notes, together with an explanation on how to solve the problem. Funny, I've read that section many times, and even down to the bottom when I

Re: initial acciaccatura confuses things?

2007-08-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Now I realize that you didn't read the relevant part of the text. What you should read is the paragraph starting with Grace note synchronization can also lead to surprises. ... /Mats Mats Bengtsson wrote: Ed Ravin wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 08:04:47AM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

Re: initial acciaccatura confuses things?

2007-08-22 Thread Ed Ravin
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 03:15:53PM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote: [...] A score that starts with an \grace section needs an explicit \context Voice declaration, otherwise the main note and grace note end up on different staves. But it would be nice if the manual had an example. It

How does one write a title

2007-08-22 Thread Malcolm Lyons
Looks like a good programme. However, I have a problem writing the Title, Composer and comment about the tempo Could you tell me how I could write the Title ONETWO composed by ML to the following \relative c' { \time 4/4 c d e f g a b c } \addlyrics { One two three four

how to combine standard and gregorian notation

2007-08-22 Thread Marek Klein
Hi, I try to combine standard notation with gregorian notation like this: section1 standard section2 gregorian section3 standard... I am using \include gregorian-init.ly in second section. How should I re-init before section3 to have back default formating? Here you can see, how it looks like

Re: How does one write a title

2007-08-22 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/22, Malcolm Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Looks like a good programme. This is quite an euphemism :) Could you tell me how I could write the Title ONETWO composed by ML to the following Just insert it in a \header block: \header { title= OneTwo composer= ML } You might want to read

how to combine standard and gregorian notation

2007-08-22 Thread Marek Klein
Hi, I try to combine standard notation with gregorian notation like this: section1 standard section2 gregorian section3 standard... I am using \include gregorian-init.ly in second section. How should I re-init before section3 to have back default formating? Here you can see, how it looks like

Re: Arrow arpeggio

2007-08-22 Thread TiagoM
Nobody? Can one do \arpeggioUp and erase the zig-zag line, then print a postscript line at it's place? Henrik Frisk wrote: Is there any easy solution to make an arrow (up or down) out of an arpeggio? Somenthing like \arpeggioUp or \arpeggioDown but instead of getting a zigzag line,

songbooks with guitar tablature

2007-08-22 Thread Roy Zimmerman
Hi -- I intend to produce songbooks of my songs in piano/vocal format with occasional lines of guitar tablature. Is Lilypond capable of doing that? Thank you, Roy ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

RE: songbooks with guitar tablature

2007-08-22 Thread Ed Ardzinski
Hi Roy! Yes, Lilypond supports tab. In the version I use (2.6.5) the guitar tab is a little limited compared to what you sometimes see for wild rock guitar solo's, but it should be effective for things that don't need advanced guitar technique. I'm not sure if the newer versions have added

pictures in score

2007-08-22 Thread Marek Klein
Hi, is it possible to have pictures in lilypond score, or lilypond book? Marek Klein, Slovakia http://gregoriana.sk ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: pictures in score

2007-08-22 Thread Dominic Neumann
With lilypond-book this isn´t a problem because you can create normal LaTeX documents with everything you know from LaTeX ... 2007/8/22, Marek Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, is it possible to have pictures in lilypond score, or lilypond book? Marek Klein, Slovakia http://gregoriana.sk

how to combine standard and gregorian notation

2007-08-22 Thread Marek Klein
Hi, I try to combine standard notation with gregorian notation like this: section1 standard section2 gregorian section3 standard... I am using \include gregorian-init.ly in second section. How should I re-init before section3 to have back default formating? Here you can see, how it looks like

Re: how to combine standard and gregorian notation

2007-08-22 Thread Charlotte
Marek, I couldn't get your code to compile at all at first until I fixed a couple of simple problems. I think you need to remove the spaces within the quotes in your \include (should be \include gregorian-init.ly). Also, you've got upper-case 'S' in your first two \Score marks. This needs to

Re: How to deal with Time Signatures horizontal alignment?

2007-08-22 Thread Joe Neeman
On Wednesday 22 August 2007 21:30, Valentin Villenave wrote: 2007/8/22, Joe Neeman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No, because TimeSignature already accepts an interface (break-aligned-interface) that determines its horizontal position; it wouldn't make sense for it to accept another one. The cleanest

Re: how to combine standard and gregorian notation

2007-08-22 Thread Marek Klein
Charlotte, many thanks for your help. Where exactly did you put \override ? Marek 2007/8/22, Charlotte [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think you're having the same problem I had recently with a similar document. I eventually figured out from another post on here that somewhere in gregorian-init.ly

Re: how to combine standard and gregorian notation

2007-08-22 Thread Marek Klein
2007/8/22, Charlotte [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think you're having the same problem I had recently with a similar document. I eventually figured out from another post on here that somewhere in gregorian-init.ly is a property called 'packed-spacing' which is needed for gregorian notation but

Re: pictures in score

2007-08-22 Thread Vivian Barty-Taylor
It's also possible in Lilypond - just add the picture as an EPS markup. The syntax is: \markup { \epsfile #1 #1 #filename.eps } Also see the documentation - 8.1.6 Overview of text markup commands. If you have your image as a bitmap, Inkscape is a good piece of free software which allows