Re: Problems regarding figured bass

2009-06-15 Thread Arno Rog
Reinhold Kainhofer reinhold at kainhofer.com writes: Hi all, I'm running into several problems with figured bass while writing another large orchestral piece. Attached is a sample file highlighting these issues: And while we're at it, is it possible to enlarge the figured bass? The

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-06-15 Thread Grammostola Rosea
David Stocker wrote: Thanks, Marc and Carl for making this happen. I'll post some editorial suggestions here for how bends should look soon (next week, really! I've had occasion to work on it this week) David Hi, Some progress here? Regards, \r

Re: Are cross-staff beams and 'remove-empty *really* not compatible?

2009-06-15 Thread Trevor Daniels
Valentin Villenave wrote Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:21 AM Greetings, NR1.2.4 says: Known issues and warnings Automatically kneed cross-staff beams cannot be used together with hidden staves. Why? The following piece of code works well (and if you uncomment the last line, an ugly #76

Verses and melisma too long

2009-06-15 Thread lasconic
Hi, Find attached a small snippet. It's a melody with two verses associated to it. The two verses have the same lyrics for the first measure and both end with a melisma on the last note. Then there is a rest and a note. On this last note only the first verse have a piece of lyrics. The melisma is

[PATCH] Re: Problems regarding figured bass

2009-06-15 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 15. Juni 2009 10:26:09 schrieb Arno Rog: Reinhold Kainhofer reinhold at kainhofer.com writes: Hi all, I'm running into several problems with figured bass while writing another large orchestral piece. Attached is a sample file

Re: Looking for Testers for next version of OOoLilyPond

2009-06-15 Thread Arno Rog
Hi Arno, could you please tell me what path the variable sTemplatePath contains? Hi Samuel I've got it working now. First I had OOoLilyPond_0.3.3.oxt installed. I removed it via the extnesion-manager and installed OOoLilyPond-0.4rc1.oxt. This installation of rc1 generated an error if I

Re: Verses and melisma too long

2009-06-15 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op maandag 15 juni 2009, schreef lasconic: Any idea why the melisma is so long on second verse? Why it does not stop on the rest, just like the first verse? How can I solve it? The second verse has an extra space. When you use associatedVoice, you don't need to set the length of the syllabes.

Re: OOoLilyPond 0.4.0 released

2009-06-15 Thread Francisco Vila
Samuel, I have translated the page into Spanish (except the old news). http://www.paconet.org/ooolilypond/ I you want, link it from yours. Later I'll put a Spanish version of the sample ODT file and screenshot. 2009/6/13 Samuel Hartmann samuel.hartmann...@gmail.com: I'm glad to announce

Tie at the beginning of the piece

2009-06-15 Thread Alexandros Droseltis
Hello! I try to typeset a fragment-example which does not start at the beginning of a piece. I want to show, that there are ties that connect the example to the previous and to the next notes in the piece. That is, I want something like (this is a minimal example. The ~ causes error, it is put

Re: Point-and-click in jEdit LilyPondTool

2009-06-15 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/6/14 Father Gordon Gilbert fatherg...@gmail.com: When I look at the PDF display of my pieces, I can't point-and-click from that to my file.  I'm using jEdit 4.3pre16 with LilyPondTool, and LilyPond 2.12.1 on Ubuntu Jaunty.  Basically, when I point to a note, my application windows blink,

Re: Tie at the beginning of the piece

2009-06-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You can use the \repeatTie command to get the connecting tie before the first note, see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Long-repeats#Normal-repeats In this particular situation, it might also make sense to add invisible notes before and after the snippet and use

Re: Point-and-click in jEdit LilyPondTool

2009-06-15 Thread Bertalan Fodor
In a few days, I will release a new version of LilyPondTool having the PDF viewer as a dockable window. That will make much better point-and-click experience. 2009/6/14 Father Gordon Gilbert fatherg...@gmail.com: When I look at the PDF display of my pieces, I can't point-and-click from that

Re: Verses and melisma too long

2009-06-15 Thread lasconic
Thanks for your quick answer. Unfortunatly it does not solve the problem. Here is the result of your code: http://www.nabble.com/file/p24032925/proposition-1.png The problem is problem should be aligned with the second G, above 'sang'. The space above drink should be blank. So let me

Re: Tie at the beginning of the piece

2009-06-15 Thread Alexandros Droseltis
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 13:12 +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote: You can use the \repeatTie command to get the connecting tie before the first note, see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Long-repeats#Normal-repeats Thank you! This created the beginning tie. (I had tried

Re: Verses and melisma too long

2009-06-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Lasconic, Thanks for your quick answer. Unfortunatly it does not solve the problem. Here is the result of your code: http://www.nabble.com/file/p24032925/proposition-1.png The problem is problem should be aligned with the second G, above 'sang'. The space above drink should be blank.

Re: Verses and melisma too long

2009-06-15 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 15. Juni 2009 12:38:05 schrieb Wilbert Berendsen: \version 2.12.2 #(ly:set-option 'point-and-click #f) melody = { \clef treble \key c \major \time 6/8 r4. r8 e'8 [ c'8 ] | d'16 [ e'16 ] d'4~ d'4. | r4 g8 g8 [

Re: [PATCH] Re: Problems regarding figured bass

2009-06-15 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 15. Juni 2009 10:26:09 schrieb Arno Rog: Reinhold Kainhofer reinhold at kainhofer.com writes: Hi all, I'm running into several problems with figured bass while writing another large orchestral piece. Attached

musicxml2ly problem

2009-06-15 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Dear list, I'm encountering the same problem as James Bailey in February 2008: I'm trying to convert MusicXML-files to LilyPond-files. Here are the messages I get: /Applications/LilyPond\ ver.\ 2.12.2/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/musicxml2ly /Users/PLS/Desktop/elite.xml Reading

How To Display Cues

2009-06-15 Thread Amiable
Hi, - I'm new to this forum and Lilypond. Having completely converted to Linux Fedora now that there are no more reasons to be running a Windows OS. The last obstacle was finding a replacement for Finale.My use of Lilypond will be mainly transcription/transposition. Can anyone suggest

Re: How To Display Cues

2009-06-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Read in http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Inside-the-staff#Selecting-notation-font-size for information on how to change the size of the notes. However, LilyPond also has built-in support specifically for cue notes, so that you don't even need to repeat the music if you

Re: Subject: functional/degree theory ? symbols

2009-06-15 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Patrick, Yes, it is possible to get these symbols. See this snippet: \version 2.13.0 % Inspired by slashed-digit from scm/define-markup.scm: #(define-markup-command (slashed-char layout props ch) (char?) A character, with slash. (let* ((mag (magstep (chain-assoc-get 'font-size props 0)))

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-06-15 Thread David Stocker
I've got some things typed out, but I still need to write explanations for the placement and display of objects, and suggestions for the program behavior. As soon as I have those written out, I'll post the first batch. I'll try to get it done today or tomorrow. David Grammostola Rosea wrote:

Re: Subject: functional/degree theory ? symbols

2009-06-15 Thread Tao Cumplido
One question to the community: When I compile this file I get the message: string:3:1: error: syntax error, unexpected '}' I don't know why! Your music functions have a '}' too much. Your structure is like this: \context Voice $x { ... } } The last bracket generates the error. Actually

Re: Point-and-click in jEdit LilyPondTool

2009-06-15 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Bertalan, That sounds like a great idea. But until I got this email from Francisco, I had no idea that alt tab did anything -- now I can see that is also a great tool for switching windows ... Thanks so much -- lemme know when that version is out, and I will upgrade. Blessings, Gordon+ On

Re: Subject: functional/degree theory ? symbols

2009-06-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Stefan Thomas wrote: One question to the community: When I compile this file I get the message: string:3:1: error: syntax error, unexpected '}' I don't know why! You have an ending brace too much in each of your music function definitions, i.e. replace verkuerzter= #(define-music-function

Re: Subject: functional/degree theory ? symbols

2009-06-15 Thread Stefan Thomas
Oh, yes, thanks! 2009/6/15 Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se Stefan Thomas wrote: One question to the community: When I compile this file I get the message: string:3:1: error: syntax error, unexpected '}' I don't know why! You have an ending brace too much in each of your music

problem with beam-groups in 5/8 timeSignature

2009-06-15 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, I have a problem with different Beam-Gruops in different 5/8-bars. The first bar looks lke expected, the 2nd doesn't. How can I change the 2nd Bar to proper beam-groups of 3+2 8th-notes? Here the example: \version 2.13.0 \layout { \context { \Staff \consists

RFC: new vertical layout engine

2009-06-15 Thread Joe Neeman
I've started working on a new system for doing vertical layout in one pass (ie. positioning and stretching the systems simultaneously). This should give better default behaviour than the current code and it should also allow easier and more useful overrides. I plan to merge the code after 2.14 is

responding to poorly formatted posts (was: Re: Subject: functional/degree theory ? symbols)

2009-06-15 Thread Mark Polesky
Stefan Thomas wrote: When I compile this file I get the message: string:3:1: error: syntax error, unexpected '}' I don't know why! Mats Bengtsson wrote: You have an ending brace too much in each of your music function definitions Tao Cumplido wrote: Your music functions have a '}' too

Re: Verses and melisma too long

2009-06-15 Thread lasconic
Thank you all for your help. The \markup \null does the trick and it can be used in timed lyrics. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Verses-and-melisma-too-long-tp24031368p24037164.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-15 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message c65907ef.9d32%c_soren...@byu.edu, Carl D. Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu writes But there is a (to me) surprisingly large contingent of users who claim that there is no well-defined connection between chord names and chord notes, and that they want total control over the symbols to be

Indent

2009-06-15 Thread palama
Is there a simple way to adapt the indent program used for C sources to do proper indenting of Lilypond sources? Or perhaps, is there another automatic indenting tool for Lilypond? Thanks for your help, Antonio Palamà -- pal...@inwind.it ___

Re: RFC: new vertical layout engine

2009-06-15 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 15. Juni 2009 17:25:54 schrieb Joe Neeman: I've started working on a new system for doing vertical layout in one pass (ie. positioning and stretching the systems simultaneously). That's really great news, because the vertical stretching

Re: problem with beam-groups in 5/8 timeSignature

2009-06-15 Thread Trevor Daniels
Stefan Thomas wrote Monday, June 15, 2009 4:11 PM Dear community, I have a problem with different Beam-Gruops in different 5/8-bars. The first bar looks lke expected, the 2nd doesn't. How can I change the 2nd Bar to proper beam-groups of 3+2 8th-notes? Here the example: \version 2.13.0

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Wol et al: Let's take the notes C, Eb, F, Ab. Which chord is that? What's the root? You can easily go from the name to the notes, but not the other way round. We *could* parse it from the first note, i.e. in relative mode F C Eb Ab and Ab C, Eb F would display as the same chord

Re: Indent

2009-06-15 Thread Mark Polesky
pal...@inwind.it wrote: Is there a simple way to adapt the indent program used for C sources to do proper indenting of Lilypond sources? Or perhaps, is there another automatic indenting tool for Lilypond? I use LilyPondTool for jEdit, which has auto-indenting. There are others, of course, and

Re: Indent

2009-06-15 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:17:56PM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: pal...@inwind.it wrote: Is there a simple way to adapt the indent program used for C sources to do proper indenting of Lilypond sources? Or perhaps, is there another automatic indenting tool for Lilypond? I use LilyPondTool

Re: OOoLilyPond 0.4.0 released

2009-06-15 Thread Samuel Hartmann
Hi Francisco, Thanks for the translation. I have updated the web-site with a link. regards, Samuel 2009/6/15 Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com: Samuel, I have translated the page into Spanish (except the old news). http://www.paconet.org/ooolilypond/ I you want, link it from yours.

remove accidental from a chord?

2009-06-15 Thread Mark Polesky
How do I properly remove one accidental from a chord? I found I was able to replace the stencil with an empty-stencil, but there's still a space left where it would have been. I see that accidental-placement-interface has an internal property called accidental-grobs, but I don't know how to

Re: Indent

2009-06-15 Thread Mark Polesky
Martin Tarenskeen wrote: These editor apply indentation while editing. But I would also like a tool that can (re-)indent lilypond files AFTER they have already been created. Just like the indent tool for C programs. Maybe this is already possible with Vim or Frescobaldi, but I don't know

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-15 Thread kztone
Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message c65907ef.9d32%c_soren...@byu.edu, Carl D. Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu writes But there is a (to me) surprisingly large contingent of users who claim that there is no well-defined connection between chord names and chord notes, and that they want total

Re: Indent

2009-06-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 09:41:02PM +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:17:56PM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: I use LilyPondTool for jEdit, which has auto-indenting. There are others, of course, and IIUC some that are only available for linux. These editor apply

Re: remove accidental from a chord?

2009-06-15 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Mark Polesky wrote: How do I properly remove one accidental from a chord? I found I was able to replace the stencil with an empty-stencil, but there's still a space left where it would have been. I see that accidental-placement-interface has an internal property called accidental-grobs, but I

Re: RFC: new vertical layout engine

2009-06-15 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Joe Neeman wrote: I've started working on a new system for doing vertical layout in one pass (ie. positioning and stretching the systems simultaneously). This should give better default behaviour than the current code and it should also allow easier and more useful overrides. I plan to merge

Re: remove accidental from a chord?

2009-06-15 Thread Mark Polesky
Jonathan Kulp wrote: The crude method would be to put the wrong pitch (i.e. use b instead of bf), which would take care of the spacing problems, but of course if you need correct MIDI output then this would jack it up. I thought there might be a way to use the \tweak command for this, but

Re: remove accidental from a chord?

2009-06-15 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Mark Polesky wrote: Jonathan Kulp wrote: The crude method would be to put the wrong pitch (i.e. use b instead of bf), which would take care of the spacing problems, but of course if you need correct MIDI output then this would jack it up. I thought there might be a way to use the \tweak

Re: RFC: new vertical layout engine

2009-06-15 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/15/09 2:37 PM, Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com wrote: Joe Neeman wrote: I've started working on a new system for doing vertical layout in one pass (ie. positioning and stretching the systems simultaneously). This should give better default behaviour than the current code and it

Re: remove accidental from a chord?

2009-06-15 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/6/15 Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com: I see that accidental-placement-interface has an internal property called accidental-grobs, but I don't know how to access it, or if I could even change it from scheme if I wanted to. Use ly:grob-object. \relative c' { \override

Re: Indent

2009-06-15 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/6/15 Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com: jEdit has the following options in the Edit-Indent menu:  Indent Lines I've used this extensively when editing snippets, but it's always been a bit annoying since it fails to indent and . Regards, Neil

Trouble with staff group bracket including piano staff

2009-06-15 Thread Qian Li
Hi, folks, I have attached two files for a sextet. The reason for the format is I have to break them out into parts, but I'm willing to hand-generate those if that's the best solution. I'm having three problems having to do with staves. 1. How do I make the percussion staves Percb, Percd, and

Re: functional/degree theory – symbols

2009-06-15 Thread Hugo Leonardo Ribeiro
Here goes an attached example. The figure in eps was created in Inkscape an imported to Lilypond inside the lyrics option: acordes = \lyricmode { \markup { \epsfile #UP #1.6 # VI.eps } } Hugo Ribeiro Brazil p.s. acordes means 'chords' 2009/6/14 Patrick Schmidt p.l.schm...@gmx.de Dear

Re: RFC: new vertical layout engine

2009-06-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
- -) It should be possible to keep one context (in particular FiguredBass) as close as possible to another staff (yes, we have that already by disabling stretching above). For piano music, a centered line for dynamics should be supported somehow. Werner

Re: Subject: functional/degree theory ? symbols

2009-06-15 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Dear Stefan, thanks for your snippet. That's about what I was looking for. I like your idea of jointly building a library of functional/degree theory symbols. I will experiment with your code. In my attachment I produced the symbols with the LaTeX package »harmony«. Maybe it is possible to use

ANN: Frescobaldi 0.7.11

2009-06-15 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Dear all, Swiftly and with style: Frescobaldi-0.7.11 :) http://lilykde.googlecode.com/files/frescobaldi-0.7.11.tar.gz Sole improvement over 0.7.10 is the elimination of some more crashes. No new features. enjoy! Please report bugs and wishes to http://code.google.com/p/lilykde/issues/list

Re: functional/degree theory – symbols

2009-06-15 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Dear Hugo, thanks for your hint. I tried out Inkscape today. Indeed it is not very difficult and the result looks good. Thank you also for the information on how to use these graphic files in LilyPond. Did you see the solution of Stefan Thomas? muitos cumprimentos Patrick

Re: Trouble with staff group bracket including piano staff

2009-06-15 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/6/15 Qian Li qian...@gmail.com: 1. How do I make the percussion staves Percb, Percd, and Percf two- or single-line instead of five-line? I tried \new DrumStaff \with in the \new Voice blocks but it only made extra blank staves at the bottom. This works for me: Percb = \new DrumStaff

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 15, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Wol et al: Let's take the notes C, Eb, F, Ab. Which chord is that? What's the root? You can easily go from the name to the notes, but not the other way round. We *could* parse it from the first note, i.e. in relative mode F C Eb