Re: Towards something like a helper to write in Lilypond

2008-06-28 Thread Bertalan Fodor
lilyPondTool doesn't do this yet, but it's goal is definitely enabling that. --- Original Message --- From: Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fsarud [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08/06/28/, 6:20:32 Subject: Re: Towards something like a helper to write in Lilypond does) which at

Re: Towards something like a helper to write in Lilypond

2008-06-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/28 Bertalan Fodor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: lilyPondTool doesn't do this yet, but it's goal is definitely enabling that. Wilbert's LilyKDE also has a similar goal IIUC (not to mention my own EasyLilyPond project, that aims to integrate these different modules within a single platform). To me

Re: not-so-ancient flags

2008-06-28 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2008 schrieb luis jure: another question: i find your flags a bit small (and too slanted) In your original images, the slant is somewhere betwen 40 and 45 degrees... But I agree, that large slant does not look good. I prefer

Re: Towards something like a helper to write in Lilypond

2008-06-28 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op zaterdag 28 juni 2008, schreef fsarud: Some improvements I foresee are: - some capability to clicking somewhere on the image and the cursor going to the selected place (some like the PDF referenced files that Lilypond already does) With LilyKDE[1] (a Kate plugin for authoring LilyPond

Markup in absolute font size?

2008-06-28 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Is there any way to specify the fontsize for a markup in absolute size? In particular, the markup (title page for A4, defined in an in external include file) should always use the same font size, irrespective of the global staff size. This way, I can define one nice title page and use that for

Re: best way to code music with instrument-switch

2008-06-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Paul, In fact I don't normally use a \global key change just \global timing and dynamics. Hmmm... unfortunately, that makes for (slightly) more work and (slightly) less-maintainable code. However, it does give me an idea: perhaps one could use \tag in the \global section to control

Re: beams

2008-06-28 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 27.06.2008 um 22:55 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi James, The output has the cross staff beams horribly, horribly wrong. I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for, but maybe the following modified code will get you going in the right direction: Well, I had a guess, and it came up

Re: Markup in absolute font size?

2008-06-28 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 28 juin 08 à 17:18, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : Is there any way to specify the fontsize for a markup in absolute size? In particular, the markup (title page for A4, defined in an in external include file) should always use the same font size, irrespective of the global staff size.

Re: \repeat with upbeat (partial) and alternatives

2008-06-28 Thread Patrick Horgan
Mats Bengtsson wrote: In my experience, it's fairly uncommon in printed music to have this kind of different durations in the two alternatives, so I don't think that it's common enough to deserve a specific example in the manual. You may want to submit it to the LSR, though. It's not

Re: beams

2008-06-28 Thread Andrew Hawryluk
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 9:50 AM, James E. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 27.06.2008 um 22:55 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi James, The output has the cross staff beams horribly, horribly wrong. I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for, but maybe the following modified code will get

Re: Markup in absolute font size?

2008-06-28 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 28 juin 08 à 18:11, Nicolas Sceaux a écrit : Le 28 juin 08 à 17:18, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : Is there any way to specify the fontsize for a markup in absolute size? In particular, the markup (title page for A4, defined in an in external include file) should always use the same font

Re: Markup in absolute font size?

2008-06-28 Thread Patrick Horgan
Nicolas Sceaux wrote: oops, baseline-skip and word-space should also be fixed absolutely, and not based on the ones from props. Do you mean like: #(define-markup-command (abs-fontsize layout props size arg) (number? markup?) (let* ((ref-size (ly:output-def-lookup layout 'text-font-size 12))

||o||

2008-06-28 Thread sdfgsdhdshd
In the new documentation, after looking carefully, i was not able to find the section related to the symbol ||O|| a whole note, with two short vertical lines on both sides. In section 1.2.1.1 there is the whole note with one short vertical lines on both sides, but not 2. Thanks. -- View this

Re: \repeat with upbeat (partial) and alternatives

2008-06-28 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Samstag, 28. Juni 2008 schrieb Patrick Horgan: Mats Bengtsson wrote: In my experience, it's fairly uncommon in printed music to have this kind of different durations in the two alternatives, so I don't think that it's common enough to deserve a specific example in the manual. You may want

best practices

2008-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:26:46 -0400 Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In any case, we should really -- as a community -- come up with a set of best practices (or at least guidelines), since this is a situation that is both common and somewhat complicated to handle in Lilypond. We

Re: ||o||

2008-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
Is this a notehead for ancient music? You'll find it in NR 2.8.1.1 or NR appendix B.5. Cheers, - Graham On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:43:32 -0700 (PDT) sdfgsdhdshd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the new documentation, after looking carefully, i was not able to find the section related to the symbol

Re: best practices

2008-06-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Graham, We *have* a set of best practices. They're LM 5 Working on LilyPond projects. Unless I'm missing something, there is no best practice on how to (e.g.) efficiently handle instrument switching. There are, of course, several references to the concept widely scattered throughout the

Re: SPONSORSHIP OFFER: centering a context between two other contexts (followup)

2008-06-28 Thread Andrew Hawryluk
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, After thinking about it a bit, it seems to me that the current (*wicked awesome*, BTW) skyline coding could come to the rescue here... =) IMO, the ultimate algorithm for a piano-with-centered-dynamics

Re: best practices

2008-06-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/29 Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We *have* a set of best practices. They're LM 5 Working on LilyPond projects. I wrote them two years ago, and AFAIK nobody has ever read them. Not only have I read them too, but I think I translated them (or contributed to the translation). A very

Terrible question about a distinctive chord name system

2008-06-28 Thread hhpmusic
Hi, I think this question is extreme a big challenge to you all, but is very urgent for me. I can't go to New England Conservatory, because I was forced by the two unabled deans to learn the piano when entering my local conservatory. This stopped me from learning composition, so I have no

Re: Terrible question about a distinctive chord name system

2008-06-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
This edition uses a very distinctive chord naming system--functional chord name system. For example, the tonic major triad is written as T, subtonic triad is S, and dominant is D. Chords share two notes of both T and S or D and T are prefixed by two function letters and then the

Re: best practices

2008-06-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Valentin, Not only have I read them too There you go, Graham: at least two people have read your best practices docs! ;-) I don't think the docs are incomplete, I think *we* are, as LilyPond coders. I'm afraid all of us are actually making history right here, right now.

O Magnum Mysterium

2008-06-28 Thread Patrick Horgan
I think that I've sent a copy of my .ly file to everyone that requested one. If I missed you let me know. It's de Victoria's O Magnum Mysterium. The file generates choir, individual parts, choir with piano reduction, and midi files for choir and for each part. Patrick

Re: ||o||

2008-06-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Is this a notehead for ancient music? Not really. You'll find it in NR 2.8.1.1 or NR appendix B.5. He won't find it since we don't have a glyph for it. It's probably best to submit a bug report, together with a high-resolution scan of such a note head. Werner