Re: another route from MIDI to lilypond

2009-09-26 Thread lasconic
Out of curiosity, which software packages did you try? Did you try MuseScore http://www.musescore.org? lasconic Laura Conrad wrote: Villum == Villum Sejersen v...@privat.tdcadsl.dk writes: Villum Both of you ought to take a look at Jöerg Anders' NtED, Villum which to my

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

2009-09-26 Thread Hans Aberg
On 26 Sep 2009, at 07:10, Graham Breed wrote: I always get the error message: stefansMikrotoene.ly:32:6: warning: Could not find glyph-name for alteration -162/247 That says it's a warning, not an error, so it shouldn't stop anything working. To get rid of it you have to define a valid

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

2009-09-26 Thread Graham Breed
Hans Aberg wrote: Isn't the lookup dynamic, so one only gets a warning when it actually needs a glyph for an alteration? - But it is a good idea to define a glyph for each alteration. Yes, but we've overridden the glyph lookup to use strings from external fonts. There's no need to define

Re: Conditionally displaying stems in void notation

2009-09-26 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:24:19AM +0200, Rodolfo Zitellini wrote: I am trying to typeset a piece in 3/2 void notation. I entered all the music in 3/4 and altered the noteheads with #'duration-log = 1 to make all notes white. This fakes 3/2 ok, but all notes bigger than a minim (in 3/2) now

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

2009-09-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Stefan Thomas wrote: I don't understand why the distance between the barline and the cis is better if it is a whole note but not, if it is a quarter note. Well, the whole note has more room because it isn't sharing the measure with any other notes. But the barline

Conditionally displaying stems in void notation

2009-09-26 Thread Rodolfo Zitellini
Hello list, I am trying to typeset a piece in 3/2 void notation. I entered all the music in 3/4 and altered the noteheads with #'duration-log = 1 to make all notes white. This fakes 3/2 ok, but all notes bigger than a minim (in 3/2) now have stem, which requires me to turn on and off all the stems

Re: A6-sheet

2009-09-26 Thread Jeroen Heijmans
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 03:15, Andrew Tucker m.andrew.tuc...@gmail.com wrote: As far as I know, there's no way to tell LilyPond, whatever it takes, cram this onto 1 page - and that's just because there are so very many options available to change the use of space! When I was last making

Re: automatic beams: is it possible to achieve this automatically?

2009-09-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/26/09 6:45 AM, Frédéric Bron frederic.b...@m4x.org wrote: I would like the default behaviour of 2/4 time, i.e. beams end at the end of each beat. However, if there are only 8th notes in the measure, I would like the beam not to stop half measure as shown below. Is it possible to

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

2009-09-26 Thread Hans Aberg
On 26 Sep 2009, at 11:01, Graham Breed wrote: Isn't the lookup dynamic, so one only gets a warning when it actually needs a glyph for an alteration? - But it is a good idea to define a glyph for each alteration. Yes, but we've overridden the glyph lookup to use strings from external

Re: Conditionally displaying stems in void notation

2009-09-26 Thread Rodolfo Zitellini
Out of interest, why not enter the music in 3/4 ?  I'm missing something here. Well yes, it would be indeed simpler to typeset everything in normal 3/2 (or 3/4 halving everything), :) but in this particular case I am trying to faithfully reproduce the look of a seventeenth century piece, with

Re: automatic beams: is it possible to achieve this automatically?

2009-09-26 Thread Frédéric Bron
I would like the default behaviour of 2/4 time, i.e. beams end at the end of each beat. However, if there are only 8th notes in the measure, I would like the beam not to stop half measure as shown below. Is it possible to achieve that with automatic rules? With 2.13 maybe? but I did not see

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

2009-09-26 Thread Hans Aberg
On 25 Sep 2009, at 08:42, Graham Breed wrote: For the code I have, pitch names are defined as: HEPitchNames = #`( (c . ,(ly:make-pitch -1 0 0)) (g . ,(ly:make-pitch -1 4 10/1023)) (edown . ,(ly:make-pitch -1 2 -75/1096)) (bflatseven . ,(ly:make-pitch -1 6 -162/247)) (d . ,(ly:make-pitch

Re: another route from MIDI to lilypond

2009-09-26 Thread Laura Conrad
lasconic == lasconic lasco...@gmail.com writes: lasconic Out of curiosity, which software packages did you try? midi2ly, midi2abc, noteflight, nted. These all had spelling errors. I just tried rosegarden, which exports lilypond directly. It looks pretty good, and may be tweakable to be

Re: command-line usage - bus error

2009-09-26 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Just to be sure, have you deleted the ~/.fontconfig, and ~/.fonts.cache* files (again) I wanted to do that (again) but I didn't find them in ~/ even though I made them visible. and (optionally) changed Font Book to store fonts on the computer, and not the user? That solved all of my

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

2009-09-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Graham Breed gbr...@gmail.com wrote: You install them wherever fonts go on your system.  That may sound vague but, of course, it depends on your system.  I think there's a special folder LilyPond looks in as well but I'd have to check the documentation to find

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

2009-09-26 Thread Hans Aberg
On 25 Sep 2009, at 13:13, Stefan Thomas wrote: How many cents are an alteration of 10/1023? I made some Haskell functions that compute these; I use Hugs http://haskell.org/hugs/ , but perhaps somebody can translate it to Scheme code. For example, for E12276, LilyPond scale degree 4 (note G

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

2009-09-26 Thread Hans Aberg
On 26 Sep 2009, at 19:33, Torsten Anders wrote: For the record please find the final version of the code for Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond attached, ... My editor says that the encoding of HE-Lily-header.ly isn't UTF-8, but Mac OS Roman. Hans

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

2009-09-26 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Robin, thanks for Your very good advice! I made a success, but I'm still not totally happy. By the way, what's the problem with the font-including? It works properly, for me. I still have a problem with spacing. I guess I have these problems, because I dont understand what the lines

Re: Even and odd page-margins [slightly OT]

2009-09-26 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hello, I saw this thread from 2006, and it seems like there was some interest for adding the functionality for setting even and odd page margins. Did this ever get sponsored/implemented? If not, is there still interest in it getting sponsored/implemented? Thanks, Jonathan

Re: Relative thickness of PianoStaff Braces

2009-09-26 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hello again, I've tried fooling around with the various properties of SystemStartBrace, and I can't seem to find a way to make all braces the same width, regardless of the height of the brace. (The problem is really exaggerated when there are three staves in a PianoStaff-- the brace looks

Re: Relative thickness of PianoStaff Braces

2009-09-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The braces are typeset using symbols from a special font, so you cannot adjust the width and height separately. As far as I can see from the Metafont code generating these font symbols, the relationship between width and height is fixed, which may not be the best choice as you have pointed

Re: Conditionally displaying stems in void notation

2009-09-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Isn't it simplest to first use the trick described in http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=305 to modify the duration of each note to the double, and then alter the note heads. This should give you correct stems. /Mats Rodolfo Zitellini wrote: Hello list, I am trying to typeset a piece in

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

2009-09-26 Thread Torsten Anders
Dear Hans, On 26.09.2009, at 19:17, Hans Aberg wrote: On 26 Sep 2009, at 19:33, Torsten Anders wrote: For the record please find the final version of the code for Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond attached, ... My editor says that the encoding of HE-Lily-header.ly isn't UTF-8, but Mac OS

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

2009-09-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Stefan Thomas wrote: cis cis cis cis | % the sharp sign is too much left! gis' gis gis gis | % the note and the sharp sign are too much right! Well, erm, how far do we want to get into fine-tuning? OK, it looks like you only want one glyph at a time.

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

2009-09-26 Thread Torsten Anders
Dear Stefan, Sorry for my late reply. Stefan wrote I was able to try out the example. There is one not convincing for me: The default accidental is an natural. But I would like to use fis and ges as before. You can easily switch to the standard Lily accidental treatment where the HE

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

2009-09-26 Thread Hans Aberg
On 26 Sep 2009, at 22:26, Torsten Anders wrote: For the record please find the final version of the code for Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond attached, ... My editor says that the encoding of HE-Lily-header.ly isn't UTF-8, but Mac OS Roman. Thanks for your feedback. Do you have any

Re: Relative thickness of PianoStaff Braces

2009-09-26 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Sat, 9/26/09, Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se wrote: From: Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se Subject: Re: Relative thickness of PianoStaff Braces To: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Date: Saturday, September 26, 2009, 9:47 PM The braces

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

2009-09-26 Thread Torsten Anders
Dear Hans, Thank you for your careful checking of this file. On 26.09.2009, at 21:58, Hans Aberg wrote: On 26 Sep 2009, at 22:26, Torsten Anders wrote: For the record please find the final version of the code for Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond attached, ... My editor says that the

Re: The new Drummer's Gigsaw: first edition.

2009-09-26 Thread Philippe Hezaine
Philippe Hezaine a écrit : Hi all, Here is the new Puzzle du Batteur-The Drummer's Gigsaw. Published under GPLv3 or later Licence, at this time it's only available for Linux. Forget the old versions and first of all read the README. Feedbacks, suggestions, criticisms are welcome, of course.

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

2009-09-26 Thread Hans Aberg
On 26 Sep 2009, at 23:58, Torsten Anders wrote: Line 169 has spurious character A7 at the end. Looks like: %% show the markup extend as box (for debugging)ß Oops. Actually, I read this char as §, but it is certainly not necessary there. Anyway, it is a comment. Do you have any problems

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

2009-09-26 Thread Graham Breed
Hans Aberg wrote: Thanks for the explanation. I recall that: LilyPond has more than one glyph-finding model. That was a problem with the key signatures, I think, which could not use those from external fonts. Lilypond has one glyph-finding model for accidentals, and the hooks to allow us to

Re: command-line usage - bus error

2009-09-26 Thread James E. Bailey
On 26.09.2009, at 15:16, Patrick Schmidt wrote: Just to be sure, have you deleted the ~/.fontconfig, and ~/.fonts.cache* files (again) I wanted to do that (again) but I didn't find them in ~/ even though I made them visible. Well, if you're not finding them, then it probably means that

BeatLength and BeatGrouping

2009-09-26 Thread Nick Payne
I'm looking at the 2.13.3 documentation on this in the NR (starts on p.47 of the PDF manual), and the comments against the the second example don't seem to match the output. The comment says No auto-beaming is defined for 12/16, yet the output has the 16th notes beamed in four groups of three.