Re: Strumming rhythm for chord progression

2009-08-14 Thread Robin Bannister
Christian Henning wrote: I'm struggling with sus4 chords. ... unexpected STRINGsus4 This is notemode complaining. It is the default input mode: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Input-modes sus4 is meant only for chord mode. But note mode is digesting your

Re: Strumming rhythm for chord progression

2009-08-14 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello Christian, everytime you want to enter chord, you have to put it in \chordmode. This version compiled in my Lilypond: -- \version 2.12.2 \header { title = \Creep\ by Radiohead } \new ChordNames { \chordmode { g1 g1:sus4 } } \new

Re: Strumming rhythm for chord progression

2009-08-14 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Christian, I think you just forgot one closing curly brace (}). This works for me: \version 2.12.2 \new ChordNames { \chordmode { g1 g2:sus4 g } } \new Voice \with { \consists Pitch_squash_engraver } { \relative c'' { \improvisationOn g4 g8. g16 g8

Re: huge file with Japanese characters

2009-08-14 Thread Michel Villeneuve
2009/8/13 Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org: This is a bug in gs.  If the Japanese font contains embedded bitmaps, they are not subsetted (as done with all outline glyphs) in the PDF but output completely.  The recent version of gs, 8.70, should simply strip these bitmaps,[1] yielding much smaller

Re: Strumming rhythm for chord progression

2009-08-14 Thread Christian Henning
Hi all, thanks a lot for your reply. I think I understand now. Inside the \improvisationOn section I don't have to reuse the real chord name. A placeholder might be sufficient? So instead of writing g1:sus I can just use g1. All I want in the end is to have the chord name to appear above the stave

Re: Strumming rhythm for chord progression

2009-08-14 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 14, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Christian Henning wrote: Hi all, thanks a lot for your reply. I think I understand now. Inside the \improvisationOn section I don't have to reuse the real chord name. A placeholder might be sufficient? So instead of writing g1:sus I can just use g1. All I want in

Re: markup help

2009-08-14 Thread James E. Bailey
On 14.08.2009, at 07:52, Mark Polesky wrote: James E. Bailey wrote: Reading the documentation, I don't understand why this doesn't work: \version 2.12.2 \markup { \musicglyph #scripts.zero \musicglyph #scripts.one ... } The glyph names for the numbers don't begin with scripts.. Do

Re: markup help

2009-08-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/14/09 9:54 AM, James E. Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com wrote: Though I reorganized them for 2.13. Hopefully you'll find this version easier to read: http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/notation/index_54.html - Mark Thank you, incidentally, after some trial and

Re: markup help

2009-08-14 Thread Mark Polesky
James E. Bailey wrote: Thank you, incidentally, after some trial and error (after I sent the email) I figured that out. Although I should point out, neither documentation source says that the glyph names for the numbers don't begin with scripts. Are you referring to the section NR 1.2.5

Re: Strumming rhythm for chord progression

2009-08-14 Thread Mark Polesky
Tim McNamara wrote: Much IMHO simpler would be to use following template which was sent to me by someone else on the list when I first started using LilyPond. An LSR search for harmonies yields some related snippets: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=harmonies - Mark

Re: markup help

2009-08-14 Thread James E. Bailey
On 14.08.2009, at 19:11, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 8/14/09 9:54 AM, James E. Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com wrote: Though I reorganized them for 2.13. Hopefully you'll find this version easier to read: http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/notation/index_54.html - Mark

Re: markup help

2009-08-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/14/09 12:27 PM, James E. Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com wrote: On 14.08.2009, at 19:11, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 8/14/09 9:54 AM, James E. Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com wrote: Though I reorganized them for 2.13. Hopefully you'll find this version easier to

horizontal/vertical text spanner alignment

2009-08-14 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Dear all, how can I align a text spanner vertically and horizontally to get something like this ➂---➁? Here is a tiny example: \version 2.13.3 scale = \relative c'' { %\once \override TextSpanner #'(bound-details left Y) = #5 %\once \override TextSpanner #'(bound-details right

Re: horizontal/vertical text spanner alignment

2009-08-14 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/8/14 Patrick Schmidt p.l.schm...@gmx.de: how can I align a text spanner vertically and horizontally to get something like this ➂---➁? Here is a tiny example: You need to make the string numbers part of the text spanner using '(bound-details left text)/'(bound-details right text). Take a

complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread James E. Bailey
Look at that, even I need scheme. I wanted to have the time signature be 3+3+2 8 Apparently this is where Scheme is necessary. I've found the one that makes it 3+3+2 8 8 8 in the documentation but I don't understand how to make the change. #(define ((compound-time one two num)

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread Mark Polesky
James E. Bailey wrote: Apparently this is where Scheme is necessary. I've found the one that makes it 3+3+2 8 8 8 in the documentation but I don't understand how to make the change. Can someone just do that for me? Umm, that's probably not the best way of asking for help... We usually

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread James E. Bailey
On 14.08.2009, at 23:59, Mark Polesky wrote: Umm, that's probably not the best way of asking for help... We usually prefer can someone point me in the right direction or something like that... Usually I do, except here, a point in the right direction wouldn't be sufficient for me. I kinda

RE: horizontal/vertical text spanner alignment

2009-08-14 Thread Nick Payne
See attached. I already had a music function for indicating string numbers in guitar scores, and it only took a minute or two to modify it to have a different number on each end of the spanner. Nick -Original Message- From: lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.on@gnu.org

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/14/09 4:12 PM, James E. Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com wrote: On 14.08.2009, at 23:59, Mark Polesky wrote: Umm, that's probably not the best way of asking for help... We usually prefer can someone point me in the right direction or something like that... Usually I do,

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread Mark Polesky
James E. Bailey wrote: 3) decide if you want (#:column (one num)) ...or just... one etc. This bit I don't understand. (#:column (one num)) would be the equivalent of \markup \center-column { one num }, right? How would I do \markup \center-column {\line {one + two +

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread James E. Bailey
On 15.08.2009, at 00:30, Carl Sorensen wrote: 3) decide if you want (#:column (one num)) ...or just... one etc. This bit I don't understand. (#:column (one num)) would be the equivalent of \markup \center-column { one num }, right? How would I do \markup \center-column {\line

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread Mark Polesky
James E. Bailey wrote: 3) decide if you want (#:column (one num)) ...or just... one etc. This bit I don't understand. (#:column (one num)) would be the equivalent of \markup \center-column { one num }, right? How would I do \markup \center-column {\line {one + two +

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 14. August 2009 23:13:18 schrieb James E. Bailey: Look at that, even I need scheme. I wanted to have the time signature be 3+3+2 8 Apparently this is where Scheme is necessary. I've found the one that makes it 3+3+2 8 8 8

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/14/09 4:46 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com wrote: Attached is my current code for general complex time signatures (arbitrary # of fractions, arbitrary # of numerators). I have not yet tried to get it into master, because the auto-beaming does not yet follow the

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread James E. Bailey
On 15.08.2009, at 00:46, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 14. August 2009 23:13:18 schrieb James E. Bailey: Look at that, even I need scheme. I wanted to have the time signature be 3+3+2 8 Apparently this is where Scheme is

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:13:18PM +0200, James E. Bailey wrote: Look at that, even I need scheme. I wanted to have the time signature be 3+3+2 8 Great! Search the archives for this list, last Oct or Nov or maybe even Dec, to find the solution. lilypond elegance will help the search.

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 15. August 2009 01:06:40 schrieb Carl Sorensen: On 8/14/09 4:46 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com wrote: Attached is my current code for general complex time signatures (arbitrary # of fractions, arbitrary # of

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/14/09 5:57 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 15. August 2009 01:06:40 schrieb Carl Sorensen: On 8/14/09 4:46 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com wrote: Attached is my current code for general

Re: Trying to Replicate a Measure with Decreasing Subdivisions

2009-08-14 Thread Andrew Wiley
Okay, I think I solved this, thanks to the excellent Lilypond documentation. I needed a combination of stemLeftBeamCount, stemLeftBeamCount, stemUp, and cross-staff stems. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Trying to Replicate a Measure with Decreasing Subdivisions

2009-08-14 Thread Mark Polesky
Andrew Wiley wrote: Okay, I think I solved this, thanks to the excellent Lilypond documentation. I needed a combination of stemLeftBeamCount, stemLeftBeamCount, stemUp, and cross-staff stems. Solved what? Where is the message you're replying to? - Mark