Re: The best way for a book?

2009-09-06 Thread Pierre Couderc
Thank you, Yes, as I want to make think fairly complex (bilingual+ music) , I shall study more Scribus.. Provero... PC Federico Bruni a écrit : Pierre Couderc wrote: What is the best way for a book with Lilypond extracts in it? I have tried LaTeX with lilypond book, but I get mixs of

Re: The best way for a book?

2009-09-06 Thread Pierre Couderc
Mmm, I note that you that you write : you'll have to split each pdf produced by LilyPond. I do not understand well, because in lilypond-books used with LaTex, each individual staff is generated in an indivudual .pdf Is it not the case with Scribus..? Pierre Federico Bruni a écrit :

Re: The best way for a book?

2009-09-06 Thread Federico Bruni
___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Articulate midi script

2009-09-06 Thread Peter Chubb
Grammostola == Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com writes: Grammostola But I got this message: Grammostola d...@debian:~/lilypondfiles$ lilywrap lilywraptest.ly Grammostola /usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond: unrecognized Grammostola option: `--midi' Here's an updated lilywrap

Re: PATH and definitions.ly problem

2009-09-06 Thread Trevor Daniels
Ralph Palmer wrote Saturday, September 05, 2009 4:06 PM I haven't had much time to do much Lilypond work on my new-ish Ubuntu setup. I'd like some advice on where to put a generic definitions.ly file that I want to include in most of my pieces. I'm afraid that if I put the definitions.ly in

Merged noteheads getting filled with NoteColumn #'ignore-collision = ##t

2009-09-06 Thread Nick Payne
Following test code demonstrates the problem on my system. I obviously don't need ignore-collision set for this particular example, but I do for the score where I noticed the problem. Can I stop the merged noteheads from getting filled in this situation? \version 2.13.3 \relative d {

Re: Articulate midi script

2009-09-06 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Peter Chubb wrote: Grammostola == Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com writes: Grammostola But I got this message: Grammostola d...@debian:~/lilypondfiles$ lilywrap lilywraptest.ly Grammostola /usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond: unrecognized Grammostola option:

Re: Articulate midi script

2009-09-06 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Peter Chubb wrote: Grammostola == Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com writes: Grammostola But I got this message: Grammostola d...@debian:~/lilypondfiles$ lilywrap lilywraptest.ly Grammostola /usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond: unrecognized Grammostola option:

Occasional lyrics

2009-09-06 Thread Mark Engelberg
I'm notating a score similar to the SATB template provided in the learning manual, where lyrics are above and below both staves of the system. However, through large chunks of the song, the lyrics are all the same (and thus can be printed once between the staves). The different lyrics only

Re: Articulate midi script

2009-09-06 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Peter Chubb wrote: Grammostola == Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com writes: Grammostola But I got this message: Grammostola d...@debian:~/lilypondfiles$ lilywrap lilywraptest.ly Grammostola /usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond: unrecognized Grammostola option:

Re: Occasional lyrics

2009-09-06 Thread James E. Bailey
On 06.09.2009, at 12:29, Mark Engelberg wrote: I'm notating a score similar to the SATB template provided in the learning manual, where lyrics are above and below both staves of the system. However, through large chunks of the song, the lyrics are all the same (and thus can be printed

Re: Occasional lyrics

2009-09-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sonntag, 6. September 2009 schrieb Mark Engelberg: Right now, the way I'm dealing with this is to set up my ChoirStaff to have four lyrics lines throughout the song, above and below each staff. Then, I add a \skip 1 for every note for which no lyrics should be printed. you could use _ to

centered textspanner dynamics

2009-09-06 Thread Helge Kruse
Hello, I am using centered dynamics for some scores (id=357). Now I need to use a text for a dynamic change spread over several measures. I found an appropriate snippet in LSR (id=456). But I failed to combine both snippets. The hairpin is not replaced by the text. What's going wrong here?

Re: tieWaitForNote across staves

2009-09-06 Thread Robin Bannister
Jonathan Wilkes wrote: I tried fooling around with tieWaitForNote You didn't show your code, so it's not easy to guess what you tried. I have no cross-staff experience, but it looks to me like the cross-staff run is a lot better supported than the cross-staff chord (where you have to

Re: tieWaitForNote across staves

2009-09-06 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Sun, 9/6/09, Robin Bannister r...@dataway.ch wrote: From: Robin Bannister r...@dataway.ch Subject: Re: tieWaitForNote across staves To: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com, lilypond-user lilypond-user@gnu.org Date: Sunday, September 6, 2009, 6:28 PM Jonathan Wilkes wrote:  I

Re: Articulate midi script

2009-09-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 12:23:28PM +0200, Grammostola Rosea wrote: @ Valentin, yeah would be nice if we could improve the midi output by default. I can remember I mentioned this before, but one comment (not from you) was that Lilypond was mainly a notation typesetter... And while been

Re: Articulate midi script

2009-09-06 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 18:53:37 +0100 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 12:23:28PM +0200, Grammostola Rosea wrote: @ Valentin, yeah would be nice if we could improve the midi output by default. I can remember I mentioned this before, but one comment (not

Re: Articulate midi script

2009-09-06 Thread Grammostola Rosea
David Raleigh Arnold wrote: On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 18:53:37 +0100 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 12:23:28PM +0200, Grammostola Rosea wrote: @ Valentin, yeah would be nice if we could improve the midi output by default. I can remember I mentioned

Re: custum dynamic marks: how to left align instead of center below a note?

2009-09-06 Thread Frédéric Bron
It's not so straightforward and there is no 100% perfect solution. However, several good approaches can be found on the LSR (http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/ ). Simply search for dynamics and the first snippet will be your man. Very good. Thanks! Problem solved. I should have thought at the LSR...

Re: Articulate midi script

2009-09-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 01:49:12PM -0400, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 18:53:37 +0100 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: Of course there's nothing wrong with having both! However, nobody else wants to work on midi output. Again, why not get in touch with

Re: tieWaitForNote across staves

2009-09-06 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Ok, here's my attempt at getting the cross stave ties from my previous email. The problem I'm running into is that when I try to set a tie's vertical position to get it into the RH staff, Lilypond starts a Vaudeville shtick and moves the staff up beyond my reach (which I guess is what you

Re: The LilyPond Report, again!

2009-09-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hi everybody, Here's (at last) a new LilyReport: Welcome to this sixteenth issue of the LilyPond Report! While today’s instalment certainly took its time, here it is at last, with many guests and contributions that will definitely make it up. Before reading, here’s a little game for you: Who

Re: The LilyPond Report, again!

2009-09-06 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Message: 8 Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 21:01:12 +0200 From: Valentin Villenave v.villen...@gmail.com Subject: Re: The LilyPond Report, again! To: Valentin Villenave v.villen...@gmail.com Cc: Lilypond Users lilypond-user@gnu.org Message-ID:    

Re: The LilyPond Report, again!

2009-09-06 Thread David Rogers
I don't want to be a nitpicker, but in Report 16, Jan's last name is not always spelled correctly. (Unless this was an inside joke and everybody is laughing at me now?) :-) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: The LilyPond Report, again!

2009-09-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 12:57:41PM -0700, David Rogers wrote: (Unless this was an inside joke and everybody is laughing at me now?) :-) Sucker! Cheers, - Graham Parsifal. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Articulate midi script

2009-09-06 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:49:50 +0200 Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com wrote: David Raleigh Arnold wrote: On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 18:53:37 +0100 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 12:23:28PM +0200, Grammostola Rosea wrote: @

Re: Markup Causes Beaming Problem

2009-09-06 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/9/5 Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com: Is this bug #430? No, but it has been fixed recently. I'll backport it to the stable version in a moment so it'll be included in 2.12.3. Also, what's the best way to make that slur in the bass clef look nice? It seems to be colliding with the

Re: Articulate midi script

2009-09-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 7:49 PM, David Raleigh Arnoldd...@openguitar.com wrote: Again, why not get in touch with the developer(s) of midge? The syntax is completely different, but it is *text-based* and GNU. Perhaps the newly-created `midi' mailing list could provide us (and them) with a

Re: Articulate midi script

2009-09-06 Thread Peter Chubb
Grammostola == Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com writes: Grammostola Peter Chubb wrote: Grammostola When using lilywrap I get: Grammostola lilywrap dynamics.ly /usr/local/bin/lilywrap: 23: Syntax Grammostola error: ( unexpected Hmmm. Are you using a non-standard /bin/sh ??? It

Re: The LilyPond Report, again!

2009-09-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 9:57 PM, David Rogersdavidandrewrog...@gmail.com wrote: I don't want to be a nitpicker, but in Report 16, Jan's last name is not always spelled correctly. Au contraire: it is *always* spelled uncorrectly. Which is quite more consistent. (Unless this was an inside joke

Re: Contemporary music documentation

2009-09-06 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/9/4 Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu: And perhaps we should avoid the \set Staff.instrumentName tweaks by defining a \setInstrumentName command setInstrumentName = #(define-music-function (parser location instrument-name) (string?)  #{    \set Staff.instrumentName = $instrument-name  

Re: Articulate midi script

2009-09-06 Thread Peter Chubb
Peter == Peter Chubb lily.u...@chubb.wattle.id.au writes: Peter You probably have dash installed as the system shell. Here's Peter an updated verion of the script that will work with Dash, and Peter will *still* work on POSIX compliant shells, but will no longer Peter work with the traditional

Programming error: unknown avoidance type

2009-09-06 Thread Nick Payne
I have a two page guitar score that had all its notes complete, and was going through adding barring, faking the barring indications with square arpeggio brackets in a voice with transparent noteheads, stems, accidentals, dots, etc. Anyway, after adding half a dozen of these brackets, I added one

Re: Programming error: unknown avoidance type

2009-09-06 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/9/6 Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net: Programming error: unknown avoidance type Continuing, cross fingers errors showing up in the console output every time I build the score. The PDF output still looks fine. I searched the documentation and mailing list archives and didn't find

Re: Articulate midi script

2009-09-06 Thread Philippe Hezaine
David Raleigh Arnold a écrit : On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:49:50 +0200 Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com wrote: David Raleigh Arnold wrote: On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 18:53:37 +0100 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 12:23:28PM +0200, Grammostola Rosea

Re: Lilypond - chord progression

2009-09-06 Thread Christian Henning
Hi Patrick, \new ChordNames { \chordmode       {               g1 |               g16*6:sus4 g16*10 | \break               bes1 |               bes16*6:sus4 bes16*10 | \break               c1 |               c2:sus4 c2| \break               c1:m |               c1:m | \break        

Re: Markup Causes Beaming Problem

2009-09-06 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Sun, 9/6/09, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: From: Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Markup Causes Beaming Problem To: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Date: Sunday, September 6, 2009, 10:38 PM 2009/9/5 Jonathan Wilkes

Re: Lilypond - chord progression

2009-09-06 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Instead of writing e.g. g16*6 you could have used g4.. A dotted quarter note consists of six sixteenth notes. Instead of g16*10 you could have used g8 s2 which is easier to read. You should consult the Learning Manual p. 14-15 and the section Rhythm in the Notation Reference (p. 29-40)

Re: tieWaitForNote across staves

2009-09-06 Thread Robin Bannister
Jonathan Wilkes wrote: I see a cross-staff property for grobs But this doesn't mean that every sort of grob has it, or uses it. The file define-grob-properties.scm lists about a dozen grobs which do: Beam, Stem, Slur, TupletBracket, among others, but not TieColumn. So your TieColumn

Thoughts on Midge (was: Re: [midi] Re: Articulate midi script)

2009-09-06 Thread Peter Chubb
Grammostola == Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com writes: Grammostola David Raleigh Arnold wrote: Again, why not get in touch with the developer(s) of midge? The syntax is completely different, but it is *text-based* and GNU. It is dedicated to midi, not notation. Why not find

Thoughts on Midge (was: Re: [midi] Re: Articulate midi script)

2009-09-06 Thread Peter Chubb
Grammostola == Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com writes: Grammostola David Raleigh Arnold wrote: Again, why not get in touch with the developer(s) of midge? The syntax is completely different, but it is *text-based* and GNU. It is dedicated to midi, not notation. Why not find

Show Clef At Every Measure

2009-09-06 Thread Gus
How can I get LilyPond to display a clef at every measure? Here's what I have so far: \version 2.12.2 \paper { #(set-paper-size a4) } #(set-global-staff-size 30) \score { { \override Staff.BarLine #'break-visibility = #'#(#t #t #t) s1 | s1 | s1 | s1 \break s1 | s1 | s1 | s1 \break s1