Re: How to tie the last note of one variable to the first note of another variable?

2011-01-24 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 24 January 2011 07:53, Jürgen Ibelgaufts juri...@gmx.de wrote: hi, maybe I'm missing something. I did not try your solution, but I suppose it works fine. but how would you append lyrics? \addlyrics gives a syntax error (unexpected \addlyrics), and \lyricsto requires different named voice

Re: Bug in ties over barlines

2011-01-24 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Jan Warchoł lemniskata.bernoulli...@gmail.com I don't agree. *Theoretically* accidental is not needed, but if it would be omitted, how can you tell the difference between aes~ | aes and aes( | a) ? In my opinion accidental here is necessary (surely it may be

Re: Using lyrics in a markup

2011-01-24 Thread jakob lund
Hi 2011/1/23 jakob lund jakob.be...@gmail.com: 2011/1/23 Jan-Peter Voigt jp.vo...@gmx.de: Hello and thank you Jakob, hello list, this piece is a great work. It compiles well in 2.13(.47 lilybuntu) and adds a very useful function to lily! The .ly is attached again, because I think it is

Re: How to start translate documents without running autoconf.sh

2011-01-24 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Hi Ben, I translated priority 1 files to Chinese. That's just great; thanks! How can I submit to key person? I can not find the way. Please send them to Francisco and read the contributor's guide; and please send any questions you may have. This may be just in time to have a Chinese

Re: Using lyrics in a markup

2011-01-24 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Jakob, hello list, I was about to answer with my 2.12-version ;-) It is essentially like your version (using let and assoc props ...) but yours is open for override extension ... Now its posted to LSR and has to be approved. Best regards and cheers! Jan-Peter On 24.01.2011 10:35, jakob

Re: Using lyrics in a markup

2011-01-24 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi, On 24.01.2011 13:22, jakob lund wrote: By the way, the first version (no line breaks) is here http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=744 might as well just update that entry if possible? This has to be done by an LSR-administrator ;-) If someone is able and willing to do this, go ahead and

Re: Using lyrics in a markup

2011-01-24 Thread jakob lund
Hi 2011/1/24 Jan-Peter Voigt jp.vo...@gmx.de: Hi Jakob, hello list, I was about to answer with my 2.12-version ;-) It is essentially like your version (using let and assoc props ...) but yours is open for override extension ... Why? The only difference (AFAICT) is that you did the clever

Re: Using lyrics in a markup

2011-01-24 Thread Phil Holmes
I've slightly lost the plot of what's needed here. There's http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=744 which I think could be edited for the new improvements, and there's an improved version waiting for approval. Please let me know if the old version is to be edited or deleted, and whether the

Re: Using lyrics in a markup

2011-01-24 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello Phil, I posted the improved version this morning with a bit more text about the possible overrides. So you can approve that and delete the old one or copy either the code of the new snippet (or the attached one) to the old and delete the new one. ... huh??? OK, I try once more ;-) -

Re: Using lyrics in a markup

2011-01-24 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Jan-Peter Voigt jp.vo...@gmx.de To: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net Cc: jakob lund jakob.be...@gmail.com; Lilypond-User lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 2:33 PM Subject: Re: Using lyrics in a markup Hello Phil, I posted the improved

Re: How to tie the last note of one variable to the first note ofanother variable?

2011-01-24 Thread Robin Bannister
Xavier Scheuer wrote: [...] James Bailey wrote: I haven't checked it, but they're probably in different voice contexts. Possible explicity doing a \new Voice = first and \context Voice = first where appropriate may solve the problem. Yes, or simply putting all in a \new Voice works:

Re: How to tie the last note of one variable to the first note of another variable?

2011-01-24 Thread Jürgen Ibelgaufts
Hi Xavier, I gave it a try and it seems that my thoughts were too complicated, your code looks very clean. But... in my case having \voiceOne and \voiceTwo and having them printed in different colors, things get confusing very quickly, and it seems that I still can't omit having several Voices.

Re: Using lyrics in a markup

2011-01-24 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 24.01.2011 15:33, schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt: Hello Phil, I posted the improved version this morning with a bit more text about the possible overrides. So you can approve that and delete the old one or copy either the code of the new snippet (or the attached one) to the old and delete the

Re: Extender style

2011-01-24 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 24.01.2011 04:24, schrieb Robert Stoddard: Undoubtedly, this is a simple request for those who understand Scheme... I don't think so, see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-05/msg00254.html How can I change the lyric extender from a solid line to a dotted one? Nothing

Re: Extender style

2011-01-24 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 24.01.2011 21:24, schrieb Marc Hohl: [...] With text spanners, customized dashed lines are easily created. Oops, you needed dotted lines, not dashed ones ... sorry, I have no clue at the moment. HTH, Marc Thanks, Robert www.bostonsing.org http://www.bostonsing.org

Understanding herd of curly braces

2011-01-24 Thread Seth Williamson
I have turned out a few simple jobs with LilyPond, mainly simple copying jobs just for practice and -- as a practical matter -- a few pieces that I needed to transpose into another key. However, as I look at LilyPond code generated by others, it's not obvious to me (usually near the end of a

Re: Understanding herd of curly braces

2011-01-24 Thread Michael Ellis
Hi Seth, It sounds as though you've not had previous exposure to programming languages where nested braces (curly and otherwise) are common. The short answer to your question is that the braces identify which pieces of text go with which command. The indentation levels are only significant in

Re: Understanding herd of curly braces

2011-01-24 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 24, 2011, at 10:07 PM, Seth Williamson wrote: I have turned out a few simple jobs with LilyPond, mainly simple copying jobs just for practice and -- as a practical matter -- a few pieces that I needed to transpose into another key. However, as I look at LilyPond code generated by

Re: Understanding herd of curly braces

2011-01-24 Thread Nick Payne
On 25/01/11 08:07, Seth Williamson wrote: I have turned out a few simple jobs with LilyPond, mainly simple copying jobs just for practice and -- as a practical matter -- a few pieces that I needed to transpose into another key. However, as I look at LilyPond code generated by others, it's not

Re: Odd vertical spacing of lyrics

2011-01-24 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 19, 2011, at 7:25 PM, James Bailey wrote: On Jan 19, 2011, at 1:27 AM, Keith OHara wrote: … The old LilyPond collapsed everything in each system to take only the vertical space needed. For lyrics, it seems that did pretty much the right thing. The new LilyPond will spread things