getting tuplets using midi2ly

2008-02-18 Thread Ledocq-Boccart
Hi, I'm managing converting a *.midi to a *-midi.ly *-midi is stored in C:\...\Lilypond\usr\bin. It contains a lot of triplets (f8 g a) Purpose is: avoid manualy modifying the *-midi.ly code to get all of the triplets! No answer found in the forums about the use of convert-ly Environment:

convert-ly seems not working

2008-02-18 Thread Ledocq-Boccart
Hi, I'm managing converting a *-midi.ly from 2.7.18 to 2.10.33 *-midi.ly is stored in C:\...\Lilypond\usr\bin. No answer found in the forums about the use of convert-ly Environment: is Lilypond 2.10.33 running on win XP. Formerly produced files *-midi.pdf, *-midi.ps and *-midi.log are

Re: Old Bass Clef

2008-02-18 Thread Rune Zedeler
Ledocq-Boccart wrote: By the way...what are these skills precisely? The Feta font has been made in METAFONT. See the .mf-files in the source. http://metafont.tutorial.free.fr/ ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Marks under the staff

2008-02-18 Thread Simon Bailey
francisco, On Feb 17, 2008, at 9:18 PM, Francisco Vila wrote: is there a proper way to place a given \mark such as segue coro, DS.al fine etc under the staff, and right-aligned to the final barline? Doesn't it work if you just \override the direction property? The problem is to have them

Re: Doing \score { ...... } and \context Staff .... in scheme?

2008-02-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: ... Also, how can I create a staff in scheme? A staff is no music expression, is it? Finally a question I can answer, or rather that LilyPond can answer for you. Just use the \displayMusic function. For example, run LilyPond on the following example and look at

Re: TimeSignature as fraction: gap between numerator and denominator

2008-02-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It sounds as if you have stumbled across some font related bug. See the section on Time Signature in the manual, for an example of what layout LilyPond should give. What LilyPond version and what operating system do you use? Werner wrote: Hello, I used 4/4 instead of C via \override

Re: Problems with several parts, movements

2008-02-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: My other problem comes from the fact that if I give multiple piece names in the \header section, only the last one is printed for all of them. You need to add a separate score for each piece, and in each of these scores, you can set the piece to something

Re: GDP: info about controlling direciton / placement

2008-02-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Graham Percival wrote: The advanced term is grobs, but I'd rather avoid that here. For some reason I prefer controlling direction instead of controlling placement, although I can't give any reason for this. I'm not fully convinced that everybody will understand what directions refers to

Re: Fermata

2008-02-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: Am Freitag, 15. Februar 2008 schrieb Victoria: Is there a way to do a fermata? I've spent upwards of 2 hours looking in the tutorial and just can't find it, if it's there. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Articulations Also, if

Re: convert-ly seems not working

2008-02-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Ledocq-Boccart wrote: Hi, I'm managing converting a *-midi.ly from 2.7.18 to 2.10.33 *-midi.ly is stored in C:\...\Lilypond\usr\bin. It's not a good idea to use this folder as your working directory! Please see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-01/msg00038.html for an

Re: getting tuplets using midi2ly

2008-02-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Don't have too high expectations on what midi2ly can do with the rhythm. As far as I know, it will only work reasonably well with MIDI files generated from other notation programs. /Mats Ledocq-Boccart wrote: Hi, I'm managing converting a *.midi to a *-midi.ly *-midi is stored in

Re: GDP: What term do you use? (redux)

2008-02-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Simon Dahlbacka wrote: FWIW, it seems that Finnish is the only? language that includes the note/rest part. (http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/user/music-glossary/Duration-names-notes-and-rests.html#Duration-names-notes-and-rests

Re: Marks under the staff

2008-02-18 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 18. Februar 2008 schrieb Simon Bailey: that is what graham was suggesting. try the following snippet. all of this information can be found in the NM, section 1.8.1.4 (Text Marks), redirected from section1.2.5.4 (Rehearsal Marks) with the

Re: GDP: info about controlling direciton / placement

2008-02-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, The advanced term is grobs, but I'd rather avoid that here. For some reason I prefer controlling direction instead of controlling placement, although I can't give any reason for this. I'm not fully convinced that everybody will understand what directions refers to (can't a

Re: Marks under the staff

2008-02-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 18. Februar 2008 schrieb Simon Bailey: that is what graham was suggesting. try the following snippet. all of this information can be found in the NM, section 1.8.1.4 (Text Marks), redirected from

Re:GDP: What term do you use?

2008-02-18 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Kurt - If I were actually speaking with another violinist about an actual piece of music, I'd most likely say something like, It's an ottava passage. If I got a blank stare, I'd probably add something like, You play the music an octave higher (lower) than it's written. If I were looking up how to

Re: shift accidental in chord

2008-02-18 Thread Werner
Damian leGassick damianlegassick at mac.com writes: \version 2.11.38 {bes'! b'!} is what i want except for the flat needs to be moved to the left (it's a pain, but the 'two-stave' or 'forked stem' solutions aren't appropriate here) Sorry, I absolutely cannot imagine, what you want.

Re: shift accidental in chord

2008-02-18 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 18. Februar 2008 schrieb Werner: Damian leGassick damianlegassick at mac.com writes: \version 2.11.38 {bes'! b'!} is what i want except for the flat needs to be moved to the left (it's a pain, but the 'two-stave' or 'forked

Two simultaneous staffs partially ina score.

2008-02-18 Thread Rafael A Gonzalez
Hello: I am typing a viola score aboyt 500 bars long? This score has 2 short stretches were 2 bars appear foe the divisi to play ( the top in alto and the bottom in treble and viceversa. How do I make this happen without calling for another full, empty staff for most of the way?

Re: Two simultaneous staffs partially ina score.

2008-02-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Look for ossia in the LilyPond index, i.e. the index of the manual. /Mats Rafael A Gonzalez wrote: Hello: I am typing a viola score aboyt 500 bars long? This score has 2 short stretches were 2 bars appear foe the divisi to play ( the top in alto and the bottom in treble and viceversa. How

Re: shift accidental in chord

2008-02-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Damian, Just to confirm... are you looking for \version 2.11.38 { \set Staff.extraNatural = ##t beses' bes' } i.e., to correct a previous accidental on the same note in the same bar? If not, please give a good reason for having both accidentals but no split stem, so we can better help

Re: shift accidental in chord

2008-02-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Damian, it's for a webern reduction - so changing the b-flat to a-sharp isn't really an option A-ha! Then how about \once \override Accidental #'restore-first = ##t b' bes'! HTH, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: shift accidental in chord

2008-02-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Damian, Just to confirm... are you looking for \version 2.11.38 { \set Staff.extraNatural = ##t beses' bes' } i.e., to correct a previous accidental on the same note in the same bar? If not, please give a good reason for having both accidentals but no split

Re: shift accidental in chord

2008-02-18 Thread Damian leGassick
almost! if i could get the flat and the natural round the other way... as it is, it implies 2 x b-flat after (say) a b-sharp (which is not unlikely in this context) thanks though - it's a useful function that i'd not noticed before d On 18 Feb 2008, at 17:00, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi

Re: shift accidental in chord

2008-02-18 Thread Damian leGassick
hi kieren what i need is this: \version 2.11.38 { \override Stem #'transparent = ##t d'! ees'bes' b'! } to become: inline: chord.jpg which is a standard way to show that both b-flat and b-natural are simultaneous it's for a webern reduction - so changing the b-flat to

Re: getting tuplets using midi2ly

2008-02-18 Thread Ledocq-Boccart
Thanks Mats! I have made some trials with various options settings: and I got something I could start with making manual corrections. I do not understand the effect of options like: --explicit-duration --start-quant=DURI did not see much effect --duration-quant=DUR With DUR=16 I get

Re: GDP: info about controlling direciton / placement

2008-02-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:26:25 -0500 Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, The advanced term is grobs, but I'd rather avoid that here. For some reason I prefer controlling direction instead of controlling placement, although I can't give any reason for this. I'm not fully

Re: shift accidental in chord

2008-02-18 Thread Damian leGassick
thanks mats changing your markup to \markup {\flat \natural } gives me what i want now i just need to bring the two accidentals closer together cheers d On 18 Feb 2008, at 17:06, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Damian, Just to confirm... are you looking for \version

RE: GDP: info about controlling direciton / placement

2008-02-18 Thread Trevor Daniels
Since the section is going to describe the use of the 'direction property, why not call it that? Choose one of: Direction property The direction property Use of the direction property As its use is so diverse we can't hope to capture all of them in the heading. Trevor D -Original

Re: GDP: info about controlling direciton / placement

2008-02-18 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/2/18, Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What about controlling position? If there's consensus about this, I'm happy with that. The original title was Up and down, but I thought that was silly. Calling it Controlling vertical {direction/position} might be possible, but then it seems

Re: GDP: info about controlling direciton / placement

2008-02-18 Thread Graham Percival
Well, it's not *primarily* about the direction property. It's primarily about ^ _ - \fooUp \fooDown \fooNeutral We'll mention #'direction as an afterthought. Cheers, - Graham On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:14:07 - Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the section is going to

Re: TimeSignature as fraction: gap between numerator and denominator - solution

2008-02-18 Thread Werner
Mats wrote: I believe the LilyPond default layout agrees well with common typesetting standard. However, LilyPond is a very flexible tool so you can get another layout if you prefer. One method is to use the trick described in Polymetric notation as a starting point, which could result in

Re: Doing \score { ...... } and \context Staff .... in scheme?

2008-02-18 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 18 févr. 08 à 00:17, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : Am Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: 2008/2/13, Reinhold Kainhofer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In particular, what is the scheme equivalent, producing the same as the following lilypond code? IChorObIScore = \score {

space system problem

2008-02-18 Thread hhpmusic
Hi, Here is the first paragraph of my piece describing the great Three Gorges on Yantze River. But the log file said tried to space systems on bad number of pages. What does it mean? Haipeng \version 2.11.37 #(set-default-paper-size a4) \header { tagline = ##f title = \markup

Re: space system problem

2008-02-18 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Feb 18, 2008, at 5:17 PM, hhpmusic wrote: Hi, Here is the first paragraph of my piece describing the great Three Gorges on Yantze River. But the log file said tried to space systems on bad number of pages. What does it mean? Haipeng Haipeng- I just processed your file using

what does adorn mean in this context? GDP

2008-02-18 Thread Jay Hamilton
I'm working on the balloon section of Editorial and in that section is this statement There are two music functions, balloonGrobText and balloonText; the former takes the name of the grob to adorn, while the latter may be used as an articulation on a note. The other arguments are the offset

Re: Doing \score { ...... } and \context Staff .... in scheme?

2008-02-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2008/2/17, Reinhold Kainhofer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks for the hint... Works so far (see attached example). However, how can I define a function so that instead of scheme, i.e. \score { #(createscore test) } i can simply do: % This does NOT work (syntax error) \score {

Re: Several issues transcribing ancient notation (clefs, noteheads, spacing)

2008-02-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2008/2/12, till [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2. There is a lot of threads here on the list. You can play with all sorts of spacing but nothing is yet really convincing. The most simple workaround appears to be to scale all note durations to a singe duration, eg. 1/8, which can be achieved by appending

Re: Line breaking within ligature brackets

2008-02-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
I'm pretty sure this is already allowed. Maybe you have misalignment of a rhythm somewhere? Can you post a bugreport? 2008/1/23, Greg Swinford [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is it possible to allow line breaking during ligatures (or at least ligature brackets) as it is with horizontal (analysis) brackets?

Re: Error trapping \chordmode in LP 2.11.37 for Windows

2008-02-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2008/1/30, Risto Vääräniemi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jan 30, 2008 11:19 AM, Valentin Villenave wrote: There's a much simpler solution: I could just make a patch against lilypond's GUB NSIS script to call lilypond instead of lilypond-windows when double-clicking on a .ly file. Why are there

Re: getting tuplets using midi2ly

2008-02-18 Thread Ledocq-Boccart
Hi, Where can I find explanations about the effect of the options of midi2ly.py? What is quantize? What is the effect of explicit durations? etc... I mean I would like to understand the link between the options and its action on the structure of a midi file. As yet I feel to cut and try

Fixed, tight staff spacing

2008-02-18 Thread Marcus Macauley
Hello, In Lilypond 2.10.33, I want to have four staves per system, connected by a piano-style brace, with exactly enough space for two ledger lines between the upper two staves, one ledger line between the middle two staves, and two ledger lines between the lower two staves. (Measured from