\repeat unfold... *zero*

2009-04-13 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
Hello, lilyponders, first of all -- thank you, everybody, who makes lilypond better. Lilypond is *so* great, so i can not express this ever in my native language, Ukrainian. (Now i'm a-kind-of-working on some score books with lilypond lilypond-book latex -- i would not like ever imagine that i

relative position of tempo and rehearsal marks

2009-04-13 Thread Frédéric Bron
with 2.12.2 (windows): { \tempo Ziemlich langsam 4 = 66 R1 \mark \default R1 } puts A above Ziemlich langsam but I would expect A to be below. How can I reverse the default behaviour? Frédéric ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

tag questions

2009-04-13 Thread Ivo Bouwmans
Hallo all, I have two questions concerning tags. (1) Is it possible to tag other elements than music elements? I would like to do something like: subtitle = \tag #'reduct { Piano Reduction } (2) Is it possible to tag multiple lines at once? Like: \tag #'text { \new Lyrics \lyricsto

Re: relative position of tempo and rehearsal marks

2009-04-13 Thread Simon Bailey
frédéric, On Apr 13, 2009, at 8:41 AM, Frédéric Bron wrote: with 2.12.2 (windows): { \tempo Ziemlich langsam 4 = 66 R1 \mark \default R1 } puts A above Ziemlich langsam but I would expect A to be below. How can I reverse the default behaviour? try this: \version 2.12.2 { \once \override

Re: relative position of tempo and rehearsal marks

2009-04-13 Thread Simon Bailey
the documentation trail for this is fairly convoluted: i'll take that back, it's in the LM 4.4.3 Placement of objects - Outside-staff objects. regards, sb -- Simon Bailey Oompa Loompa of Science +43 699 190 631 25 ___ lilypond-user mailing list

How to input a time signature in \markup?

2009-04-13 Thread Wei-Wei Guo
Dear all, I want to present time signatures in my reading notes. I tried \markup { \time 2/4 } It seems \time cannot be used in this way. I got a dirty way \markup { \center-column { {\musicglyph #2} {\musicglyph #4} } } which can show a time signature, but the vertical space between the

Re: How to input a time signature in \markup?

2009-04-13 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
2009/4/13 Wei-Wei Guo wwgu...@gmail.com:  \markup { \center-column { {\musicglyph #2} {\musicglyph #4} } } This (just stacking two markups): \relative c'' { c4 -\markup {\number 4} -\markup{\number 2} c c c } shows numbers closer to each other in my case. No sure this is a good way. --

Re: Slur / phrasingSlur half dashed, half solid

2009-04-13 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi all you Slur-happy people, 1. Kudos to Mark for his amazing and generous contributions! +1. Wow! 2. Does it (now) bother anyone else that dashed slurs do not look like real slurs? I guess I always assumed — without visually confirming, obviously — that dashed

Re: How to input a time signature in \markup?

2009-04-13 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Wei-Wei, I want to present time signatures in my reading notes. I tried \markup { \time 2/4 } It seems \time cannot be used in this way. I got a dirty way \markup { \center-column { {\musicglyph #2} {\musicglyph #4} } } which can show a time signature, but the vertical space between the

Re: Slur / phrasingSlur half dashed, half solid

2009-04-13 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jon (et al.), The publisher of my guitar music [...] uses dashed slurs like these with invariant thickness I note that Barenreiter also uses invariant-thickness dashed lines (e.g., Mozart Jupiter Symphony, m. 167). So that appears to be standard practice. It probably would look nicer

Re: Slur / phrasingSlur half dashed, half solid

2009-04-13 Thread David Stocker
2. Does it (now) bother anyone else that dashed slurs do not look like real slurs? I guess I always assumed — without visually confirming, obviously — that dashed slurs were real slurs (that thickened and tapered, etc.) with cutouts; I now see that dashed slurs are simply dashed lines (of

Re: Slur / phrasingSlur half dashed, half solid

2009-04-13 Thread David Stocker
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Jon (et al.), The publisher of my guitar music [...] uses dashed slurs like these with invariant thickness I note that Barenreiter also uses invariant-thickness dashed lines (e.g., Mozart Jupiter Symphony, m. 167). So that appears to be standard practice. I

Re: How to input a time signature in \markup?

2009-04-13 Thread Simon Bailey
On Apr 13, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Wei-Wei Guo wrote: Combining your solutions, the following way is the better, but still to long... \markup{ \override #'(baseline-skip . 1) {\center-column {\number 2 \number 4}}} define this as a variable, then you only have to type it once: ttf =

custom key signature help

2009-04-13 Thread James E. Bailey
I don't understand custom key signatures. Why are the accidentals shown in the second measure? Do I have to set the key signature for each measure? \version 2.12.2 \relative c { \clef bass \time 5/4 \set Staff.keySignature = #`(((-1 . 0) . ,SHARP) ((-1 . 3) . ,SHARP)) cis4 d e

hiding the clef on all but the 1st line

2009-04-13 Thread Grateful Frog
Hello! I've made huge progress with learning this tool but I am now facing a problem, again a noobie issue. I'd like to remove the key signature and clef from every line of the composition except the first, so as to save space on the paper. Can anyone suggest a solution? Thanks, GF. --

Re: custom key signature help

2009-04-13 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/4/13 James E. Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com: I don't understand custom key signatures. Why are the accidentals shown in the second measure? There's a bug in Accidental_engraver: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=733 Do I have to set the key signature for each

Re: How to input a time signature in \markup?

2009-04-13 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/4/13 Simon Bailey bina...@gmail.com: On Apr 13, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Wei-Wei Guo wrote: Combining your solutions, the following way is the better, but still to long...  \markup{ \override #'(baseline-skip . 1) {\center-column {\number 2 \number 4}}} define this as a variable, then you

Re: custom key signature help

2009-04-13 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 13.04.2009 um 17:00 schrieb Neil Puttock: 2009/4/13 James E. Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com: I don't understand custom key signatures. Why are the accidentals shown in the second measure? There's a bug in Accidental_engraver: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=733

Re: Alignment of stroke fingering

2009-04-13 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/4/13 Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net: Guitar stroke fingering is lower case, but with the orientation set to up, the p is not correctly aligned with the other characters in a succession of fingering indications, and with the orientation set to down, the i is similarly misaligned.

Re: Slur / phrasingSlur half dashed, half solid

2009-04-13 Thread Mark Polesky
Kieren MacMillan wrote: I now see that dashed slurs are simply dashed lines (of invariant thickness) which curve along the path that a slur would take between two notes. What is standard engraving practice when it comes to such things? It's funny. There's a handwritten example of a

The LilyPond Report, again!

2009-04-13 Thread Valentin Villenave
Greetings everybody, Well, it's time for a reboot! The LilyPond Report is back, with a new design, new features... but still the same spirit :-) OK, let’s admit it: this installment has been released with some delay. Like, nine to ten months… How is that? What has happened since then in the

Re: relative position of tempo and rehearsal marks

2009-04-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
Whoops, Sorry Simon. I'd replied to your earlier note before I saw this. Trevor - Original Message - From: Simon Bailey bina...@gmail.com To: Simon Bailey bina...@gmail.com Cc: lilypond-user lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 12:07 PM Subject: Re: relative position of

programming error: minimise_least_squares (): Nothing to minimise

2009-04-13 Thread Nick Payne
I'm getting this error showing up in the console output when running LP 2.12.2 against a particular score. LP continues building the score and I can't see anything wrong with the PDF output produced: programming error: minimise_least_squares (): Nothing to minimise This means that vertical

Re: \repeat unfold... *zero*

2009-04-13 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/13 Dmytro O. Redchuk brownian@gmail.com:  \repeat unfold 0 { d4 d d d }   % zero here That's not a problem, i can not say why one could need \repeat unfold *zero* { :-) } That's a brilliant idea! Maybe the most useless feature ever, but it's pretty cool anyway :-) I'm not going