Re: Bracketed notes

2009-05-10 Thread Mark Austin
Oops, I've been having some problems with my internet provider. What I meant to say was: This works a treat. Exactly what I wanted. However (inevitably) it has lead to another problem. The right bracket sometimes collides with the following bar line. Is there a way of increasing the distance

Typesetting a 17th century music example.

2009-05-10 Thread Kim Shrier
Hello, I am working on typesetting some music examples from a 17th century book on how to improvise. I am having trouble figuring out how to set one example in particular. The example is showing concords and discords. It has an 11 line staff where the lines are spread out to allow room for

Re: Optimal page breaking

2009-05-10 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 1241914773.13703.7.ca...@mercury, Joe Neeman joenee...@gmail.com writes On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 00:18 +0100, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: Isn't working quite right and I can't see how to fix it (12.2). From the content of your email, I suppose you mean page-turn-breaking rather than

Re: Typesetting a 17th century music example.

2009-05-10 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 10.05.2009 um 08:43 schrieb Kim Shrier: Hello, I am working on typesetting some music examples from a 17th century book on how to improvise. I am having trouble figuring out how to set one example in particular. The example is showing concords and discords. It has an 11 line staff where

defining new context - alignement issue

2009-05-10 Thread Frédéric Bron
Hi! I tried to play with the contexts and engravers but cannot reach exactly what I would like. Please look at the example given at the bottom of this message. I would like the tempo marks, rehearsal marks, bar numbers and text spanners to be written above and below each StaffGroup. I came up

Newby question about stem directions

2009-05-10 Thread Tim Rowe
I can't get the following bit of notation to work -- despite the \stemUp command the stems are down (which looks horrid!) -- can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.: \version 2.12.2 \include english.ly lower = \relative c { \clef bass \key f \major \time 4/4 {\stemDown c2 }

Newby question -- Root notes in chord notation.

2009-05-10 Thread Tim Rowe
Is there any way to get a fakebook style indication of modified root notes? For example, I'd like a D chord with a C in the bass to be notated as D/C (rather than as whatever it is formally -- presumably some sort of 13th). Thanks. -- Tim Rowe ___

Re: Newby question about stem directions

2009-05-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Tim, I can't get the following bit of notation to work -- despite the \stemUp command the stems are down (which looks horrid!) -- can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong? You're not letting Lilypond do the correct voice handling for you... \version 2.12.2 \include english.ly lower =

Re: Newby question -- Root notes in chord notation.

2009-05-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Tim, Is there any way to get a fakebook style indication of modified root notes? Read the doc section on chords -- this is explained there (right in the second example). http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Displaying- chords#Displaying-chords Cheers, Kieren.

Re: fingering

2009-05-10 Thread Mario Moles
Caro Neil esiste anche un modo per abbreviare questo?: \override StrokeFinger #'text = #(lambda (grob) (markup #:center-column (#:lower 2.5 ^ (stroke-finger::calc-text grob Grazie!

Re: Newby question about stem directions

2009-05-10 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/5/10 Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca: In the example you give, {M1} {M2} (i.e., without the \\), Lilypond simply says engrave the two musical gestures {M1} and {M2} simultaneously in the same Voice context V . Hence, there is no concern for stem direction, collision,

Re: Typesetting a 17th century music example.

2009-05-10 Thread Kim Shrier
On May 10, 2009, at 2:35 AM, James E. Bailey wrote: Am 10.05.2009 um 08:43 schrieb Kim Shrier: Hello, I am working on typesetting some music examples from a 17th century book on how to improvise. I am having trouble figuring out how to set one example in particular. The example is

Re: Newby question about stem directions

2009-05-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Tim, Does the \\ keep adding voices (effectively) indefinitely [...] I'm worried about running out of voices! I don't know the official answer. (Maybe Mats or HW or Graham can speak to this?) The attached test shows that there are at least 5 -- I'm assuming there are an indefinite

Re: Newby question about stem directions

2009-05-10 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/5/10 Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca: Why do you need two voices just to align lyrics to a dotted slur? If you post your current workaround, I'm sure someone on the list will be able to show you how to do it with only one voice. I used the snippet at

Re: Newby question about stem directions

2009-05-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Tim, Why do you need two voices just to align lyrics to a dotted slur? If you post your current workaround, I'm sure someone on the list will be able to show you how to do it with only one voice. I used the snippet at http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=308 for exactly the use mentioned

Re: missing glissando features (bugs?)

2009-05-10 Thread Marc Hohl
Neil Puttock schrieb: 2009/5/9 Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de: I tried to receive the informations needed by overriding the Glissando #'stencil with a function which simply displays the values obtained by the ly:spanner-bound call before calling ly:line-spanner::print, but I get only #Grob

Re: missing glissando features (bugs?)

2009-05-10 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I came up with the following definition: [...] and it works! Mhmm, not perfect: There should be a dx correction to avoid an overlap between the glissando line and the accidental. Werner ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: missing glissando features (bugs?)

2009-05-10 Thread Marc Hohl
Werner LEMBERG schrieb: I came up with the following definition: [...] and it works! Mhmm, not perfect: There should be a dx correction to avoid an overlap between the glissando line and the accidental. Werner Yes, I know, but I concentrated on item (2); see the start of this

Re: Newby question about stem directions

2009-05-10 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/5/10 Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca: I've attached a better (IMO) way of doing the same thing. Hope this helps! /Very/ much better, and conceptually matches how I would expect to do it. Splendid! Thanks. -- Tim Rowe ___

Re: missing glissando features (bugs?)

2009-05-10 Thread Marc Hohl
Marc Hohl schrieb: Neil Puttock schrieb: 2009/5/9 Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de: I tried to receive the informations needed by overriding the Glissando #'stencil with a function which simply displays the values obtained by the ly:spanner-bound call before calling ly:line-spanner::print, but I

Re: Newby question about stem directions

2009-05-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Tim, Does the \\ keep adding voices (effectively) indefinitely [...] I'm worried about running out of voices! I don't know the official answer. (Maybe Mats or HW or Graham can speak to this?) It seems that you can have an infinite number and looking at the

Newbie Question -- verse and chorus

2009-05-10 Thread Tim Rowe
Sorry for all the newbie questions -- I'm getting what I can from the documentation and examples, but as you can tell a few things are tripping me up. This one is a song that has verses and a chorus. I can't work out how to set them all against the music, unless I pad all verses except the first

Re: Newbie Question -- verse and chorus

2009-05-10 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 10.05.2009 um 22:54 schrieb Tim Rowe: Sorry for all the newbie questions -- I'm getting what I can from the documentation and examples, but as you can tell a few things are tripping me up. This one is a song that has verses and a chorus. I can't work out how to set them all against the

Re: Newbie Question -- verse and chorus

2009-05-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
This is explained in Sect. 3.2.3 Voices and vocals in the Learning Manual for LilyPond. /Mats Tim Rowe wrote: Sorry for all the newbie questions -- I'm getting what I can from the documentation and examples, but as you can tell a few things are tripping me up. This one is a song that has

Re: Newbie Question -- verse and chorus

2009-05-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
James E. Bailey wrote: Some prefer to use \skip1*32 (or appropriate). I can't imagine that anybody prefers this option (at least not when using \addlyrics or \lyricsto), since it doesn't work. This will not skip 32 bars and not even 32 notes, but just a single note. /Mats

Re: strange results with rightHandFinger/StrokeFinger and avoid-slur

2009-05-10 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/5/9 -Eluze elu...@gmail.com: but i am sure i have seen so many *uppercase* LEFTs RIGHTs UPs DOWNs CENTERs or others recently, so i did not care… maybe there was a # preposed, but i am sure i also saw *\override Stem #'neutral-direction = #up* so i am wondering how to memorise this - are

Re: Slurs collide with the dot of dotted notes

2009-05-10 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/5/9 bosmutus bosmu...@live.com: That changed the slur, but not enough to avoid the collision. Any other suggestions? Did you experiment with the value? It might need to be increased, but it's dependent on things like the staff-size and how tightly packed the notes are. You could also try

Re: Slurs collide with the dot of dotted notes

2009-05-10 Thread bosmutus
I found that using something like, \once \override Slur #'positions = #'(0 . 2.8) did a good job. I'll try your other suggestions and see how they compare. Thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Slurs-collide-with-the-dot-of-dotted-notes-tp23463349p23474399.html Sent

Re: defining new context - alignement issue

2009-05-10 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/5/10 Frédéric Bron frederic.b...@m4x.org: 1. The issue is the vertical alignment of Stringendo and Lebhaft. Why are they not on the same line? Two things: If you move the Metronome_mark_engraver and Mark_engraver from the Score context to another context, you also need to move the

Re: missing glissando features (bugs?)

2009-05-10 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/5/10 Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de: I came up with the following definition: #(define (glissando::calc-extra-dy grob)  (let* ((original (ly:grob-original grob))         (left-bound (ly:spanner-bound original LEFT))         (right-bound (ly:spanner-bound original RIGHT))        

Re: missing glissando features (bugs?)

2009-05-10 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/5/10 Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de: And here's my solution for tablature: #(define (glissando::calc-tab-extra-dy grob)  (let* ((original (ly:grob-original grob))         (left-bound (ly:spanner-bound original LEFT))         (right-bound (ly:spanner-bound original RIGHT))        

\set string

2009-05-10 Thread Mario Moles
Ciao a tutti! Vorrei sapere se c'è un modo per rendere costante la distanza delle corde dalle note! Grazie! -- oiram/bin/selom app = {\override StrokeFinger #'text = #(lambda (grob) (markup #:center-column (#:lower 2.5 ^ (stroke-finger::calc-text grob} napp = {\override StrokeFinger #'text

Re: fingering

2009-05-10 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/5/10 Mario Moles mario-mo...@libero.it: Caro Neil esiste anche un modo per abbreviare questo?: \override StrokeFinger #'text = #(lambda (grob) (markup #:center-column (#:lower 2.5 ^ (stroke-finger::calc-text grob You could use identifiers, but here's a better solution, using your

Re: Newbie Question -- verse and chorus

2009-05-10 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/5/10 Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se: This is explained in Sect. 3.2.3 Voices and vocals in the Learning Manual for LilyPond. I can't see anything relating to it there -- it was the first place I looked! Perhaps you don't understand what I want, or perhaps I can't see what't in