Using Lilypond to produce publication-ready music

2009-09-08 Thread Mark Engelberg
For my first outing with Lilypond, I wanted to see whether I could produce sheet music that fits this publication specification: http://tinyurl.com/barbershop-notation-manual Note that this document spells out exactly what is expected for this style of music, and a full example is given at the

Re: New user question - relative bowing and fingering marks

2009-09-08 Thread Trevor Daniels
Neil Puttock wrote Tuesday, September 08, 2009 12:01 AM 2009/9/7 Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk: The relative positioning of script objects is controlled by the 'script-priority property. By default this left unspecified for most articulations (including bowing commands) and set to 100

Re: Using Lilypond to produce publication-ready music

2009-09-08 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello Mark, one first point: to set the right margin, you have to set the line-width in the paper-block. This is, what I include in my scores (it does not fit your specifications, but should be adjustable): % set the paper size #(set-default-paper-size a4) \paper { % alternativly set

footer, only for a certain first page

2009-09-08 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, is it possible to define a footer, only for a certain page? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

clip-regions: trouble with linebreaks

2009-09-08 Thread Ullrich Franke
Hi there, I'm using LilyPond-2.13.3 and the clip-regions feature to extract snippets from a piano score. However, I have defined a range in which LilyPond inserts a linebreak, so I actually get 2 snippets extracted - one from the start-of-range up to the linebreak and one from the linebreak

[Fwd: Cron 404 report]

2009-09-08 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Hi, It would be nice if you added symlinks for pictures and examples, or removed this css test draft from lilypond.org ... ---BeginMessage--- popularity page [referrer]... 3130 /~graham/out/flat-design.png http://lilypond.org/~graham/out/Introduction.html

Custom trill articulation?

2009-09-08 Thread Hilary Snaden
Is it possible to define custom articulations? I'm looking for an articulation (called, say, \etrill) which behaves exactly as \trill except that instead of tr being rendered as a glyph, it's rendered in a standard upright font. (This is to distinguish editorial trills.) -- Hilary Snaden

RE: Using Lilypond to produce publication-ready music

2009-09-08 Thread Nick Payne
I see someone has answered about the L/R margins. For a larger top margin only on p.1, if you want additional space between the title and first stave, you can attach a markup something like ^\markup { \raise #12 { } } To the first note. If you want the additional space above the title, you

Re: Using Lilypond to produce publication-ready music

2009-09-08 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mark, If anyone can offer more suggestions for developing a template that fits this specification and can handle all the notational elements this style requires, that would be great. If anyone wants to take a stab at engraving a Lilypond version of the sample song, and see how close we

Re: The LilyPond Report, again!

2009-09-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Jan Nieuwenhuizenjanneke-l...@xs4all.nl wrote: Very nice PR.  Writing about lilypond in music[school] magazines seems like a very good idea to me!  This is really the audience we're aiming at. Thanks, at least, this will be one thing my opera will prove useful

Re: Custom trill articulation?

2009-09-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Try the following: editorial = { \once \override TrillSpanner #'bound-details #'left #'text = tr } \relative c'{ c \startTrillSpan d e f \stopTrillSpan \editorial c \startTrillSpan d e f \stopTrillSpan } It should be possible to define a macro \startEditorialTrillSpan, that both does the

Re: NR typo: Minor-major seventh chord

2009-09-08 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/7/09 10:24 PM, Brett Duncan bdd1...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Andrew Tucker wrote: m7.7+ does provide the desired results, though I believe it's because lilypond uses only the last alteration of a particular note (ie. 7.9+.9- will end up 7/b9 and lose the sharp nine). This behavior might

Re: New user question - relative bowing and fingering marks

2009-09-08 Thread John Ervin
Jan, Fair enough the scans show your point, though there is other music I know that has the asymmetric glyph for upbow and I do think the glyph I'm proposing better matches the stroking on the downbow. That matter of taste aside, the problem I'm having - while trying to typeset chamber music

Re: centered textspanner dynamics

2009-09-08 Thread Helge Kruse
Sorry for re-send. Has anybody any suggestion what I could do to include this text in piano staff dynamics? Helge 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

shortcut for creating new Staff subclass context?

2009-09-08 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, Let's say I want to create a new subclass of the Staff context called MyStaff, and the only thing it does is override the InstrumentName settings. Do I really have to include all the \consists from engraver- init.ly? i.e., do I really have to use \context { \type

Re: [Fwd: Cron 404 report]

2009-09-08 Thread Graham Percival
Fine, deleted. I'll look at this again when I've arrived in Glasgow. - Graham On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 12:12:19PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Hi, It would be nice if you added symlinks for pictures and examples, or removed this css test draft from lilypond.org ... Content-Description:

Re: Left Bar; Repeated Clefs

2009-09-08 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/9/8 Gustavo Caicedo gus@gmail.com: Very nice, thanks. Do you also know how to put barlines at the beginning of a clefless line? (The first four lines in my exercise sheet). Thanks. Add the following below \remove Bar_number_engraver: \override SystemStartBar #'collapse-height = #4 If

Re: Relative thickness of PianoStaff Braces

2009-09-08 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jonathan, Shouldn't the brace be stretched vertically without changing the thickness? +1 Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: shortcut for creating new Staff subclass context?

2009-09-08 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/9/8 Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca: Is there anything like this? (From what I've read and experienced, \alias does *NOT* do this.) Have you looked at engraver-init.ly? It should give you an idea how this works (see the definition for PianoStaff). Here's a quick snippet

Relative thickness of PianoStaff Braces

2009-09-08 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hello, I'm having trouble tweaking the Brace at the beginning of a system. My test code is below; basically, I'd like to make the brace oonnecting three staves less thick. That brings me to my second question. I've attached two pngs, one of Lilypond braces and the other from a Durand

Questions about PianoStaff Braces

2009-09-08 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hello, I'm having trouble tweaking the Brace at the beginning of a system. My test code is below; basically, I'd like to make the brace oonnecting three staves less thick. That brings me to my second question: \score { \new PianoStaff % \override

Re: centered textspanner dynamics

2009-09-08 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/9/8 Helge Kruse helge.kruse-nos...@gmx.net: Has anybody any suggestion what I could do to include this text in piano staff dynamics? You'll probably kick yourself (if it's any consolation, I looked at the file for quite a bit before realizing what's wrong :), but you're typesetting a

Re: Feature Request: ^\times and _\times

2009-09-08 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/9/8 Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com: I didn't see a place for feature requests on the documentation page, so I thought I'd post it here. Hmm, I'm not quite sure what you're after, though I'd guess you want a shorthand method of specifying tuplet bracket/number directions in advance of

midi2ly 3/4 time

2009-09-08 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
Hi, Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I'm having problems with midi2ly. It can't produce even the simplest tune in 3/4 time correctly. It outputs a lilypond file that does show that the 3/4 time was extracted from the midifile. But the \time 3/4 is put in the wrong place, resulting in a

Re: Feature Request: ^\times and _\times

2009-09-08 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Wed, 9/9/09, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: From: Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Feature Request: ^\times and _\times To: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 12:07 AM 2009/9/8 Jonathan Wilkes

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-08 Thread Robin Bannister
Torsten Anders wrote: Lilypond does not know about multiple-sign accidentals, so I somehow have to create more horizontal space for these manually. The following code tries to adjust this spacing automatically. But I haven't tested it with your font.

Re: midi2ly 3/4 time

2009-09-08 Thread Graham Percival
midi2ly is not supported any more, so you're almost certainly on your own here. Sorry, - Graham On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 12:43:36AM +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Hi, Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I'm having problems with midi2ly. It can't produce even the simplest tune in 3/4 time

Re: Feature Request: ^\times and _\times

2009-09-08 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 03:59:24PM -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Something else I just though of, is that there isn't a shortcut for setting the direction of stems that aren't beamed. It would be helpful if there were a shortcut you could put after c4 to set the stem direction. Maybe like

Re: midi2ly 3/4 time

2009-09-08 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Martin Tarenskeenm.tarensk...@zonnet.nl wrote: Hi, Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I'm having problems with midi2ly. It can't produce even the simplest tune in 3/4 time correctly. It outputs a lilypond file that does show that the 3/4 time was extracted

Re: Feature Request: ^\times and _\times

2009-09-08 Thread Denis . Roegel
Quoting Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca: On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 03:59:24PM -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Something else I just though of, is that there isn't a shortcut for setting the direction of stems that aren't beamed. It would be helpful if there were a shortcut you could put

Re: Feature Request: ^\times and _\times

2009-09-08 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Wed, 9/9/09, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: From: Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Feature Request: ^\times and _\times To: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 12:07 AM 2009/9/8 Jonathan

Re: centered textspanner dynamics

2009-09-08 Thread Helge Kruse
Neil, you kicked me ;-) I admit, it was too silly. But your advise showed that's simple. Tanks, Helge Neil Puttock schrieb: 2009/9/8 Helge Kruse helge.kruse-nos...@gmx.net: Has anybody any suggestion what I could do to include this text in piano staff dynamics? You'll probably kick

Re: shortcut for creating new Staff subclass context?

2009-09-08 Thread Dan Eble
On 2009-09-08, at 15:25 , Kieren MacMillan wrote: It would be so much easier to be able to force inheritance of everything, e.g. \context { \name MyStaff \from Staff instrumentName = #MyStaff shortInstrumentName = #My } Is there anything like this? (From what I've read and

Re: one bar number per system

2009-09-08 Thread Dan Eble
To whom it may concern, Here is what I have come up with. It does not meet my original goal, but it is good enough for now. \barNumber forces a bar number to appear at the current or next full-measure bar line. \manualBarNumbersOn should appear at the beginning of the score to set