How to extract only lyrics and chords, step by step

2011-01-28 Thread Jürgen Ibelgaufts
Hi everybody, here is a first clumsy solution to extract lyrics, chords and guitar frets from an existing score WITHOUT changing the notes, chords and lyrics except optionally add some line breaks for layout reasons. Only remaining disadvantage is that shrinking the staff still seems to

Re: How to extract only lyrics and chords, step by step

2011-01-28 Thread Johan Vromans
Jürgen Ibelgaufts juri...@gmx.de writes: -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Bar line at beginning of piece

2011-01-28 Thread ornello
Is there any chance to start a piece with a || bar line? I have tried this: \version 2.12.2 { \time 4/4 \bar || c''4 } but it does not show the bar line (it works for |:, however). I have found the following hack: \version 2.12.2 { \time 4/4 \grace s \bar || c''4 } but this is not working

Re: Bar line at beginning of piece

2011-01-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 05:07:58AM -0800, ornello wrote: \version 2.12.2 { \time 4/4 \grace s \bar || c''4 } but this is not working for multiple staves. I suggest \partial 64 s64 \bar || and I'm pretty certain it'll work if you put it in all staves. Cheers, - Graham

Re: Bar line at beginning of piece

2011-01-28 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op vrijdag 28 januari 2011 schreef ornello: Is there any chance to start a piece with a || bar line? See: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=500 best regards, Wilbert Berendsen -- Frescobaldi, LilyPond editor for KDE: http://www.frescobaldi.org/ Nederlands LilyPond forum:

Re: incorrect displaying of Arabic text

2011-01-28 Thread James Samir Ismail
\markup { \override #'(font-name . new font) العربية } where new font is the name of the font to use. This is what I tried, and got the same (wrong) result (Arabic characters not correctly displaying in their medial and initial forms): \score { \relative d' {

grace at the start results in midi error.

2011-01-28 Thread Peter Van Kranenburg
Dear all, \version 2.13.44 \score { \relative g' { \grace a16 g4 } \midi { } \layout { } } I have a problem with a grace at the very beginning of the score. Lilypond returns an error when creating the midi: GNU LilyPond 2.13.44 Processing `tst.ly' Parsing...

RE: Bar line at beginning of piece

2011-01-28 Thread James Lowe
Hello -Original Message- From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Wilbert Berendsen Sent: 28 January 2011 14:27 To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Bar line at beginning of piece Op

Re: Bar line at beginning of piece

2011-01-28 Thread ornello
Thanks Graham, Graham Percival-3 wrote: I suggest \partial 64 s64 \bar || and I'm pretty certain it'll work if you put it in all staves. this leaves an additional space between time signature and bar line which I wanted to avoid using the grace (which has no duration). I have now

Re: incorrect displaying of Arabic text

2011-01-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
This is what I tried, and got the same (wrong) result (Arabic characters not correctly displaying in their medial and initial forms): I tried this: \relative c' { c4^\markup { \override #'(font-name . KacstOffice) العربية } d e f | g^\markup { english }

Re: incorrect displaying of Arabic text

2011-01-28 Thread James Samir Ismail
I tried this: \relative c' { c4^\markup { \override #'(font-name . KacstOffice) العربية } d e f | g^\markup { english } f e d | } and get the attached image as output, which seems to be correct (please correct me if I'm wrong). This is on a

Re: Bar line at beginning of piece

2011-01-28 Thread ornello
I have to correct my previous message. My solution is not working because it affects all line breaks (not just the beginning of the piece. So I'll try your suggestion, Graham... ornello wrote: Thanks Graham, Graham Percival-3 wrote: I suggest \partial 64 s64 \bar || and I'm

Re: Bar line at beginning of piece

2011-01-28 Thread Robin Bannister
ornello wrote: My solution is not working because it affects all line breaks (not just the beginning of the piece Having to affect all line breaks was what made was-empty.ly so cumbersome. You can make LSR 500 work by adding: \once \override Staff.BarLine #'glyph-name = ||

Re: incorrect displaying of Arabic text

2011-01-28 Thread James Samir Ismail
So this seems like a bug after all. How do I get this into the queue? I'd be more than happy to help out with testing. -Samir On 1/28/11, at 9:10 AM, James Samir Ismail wrote: I tried this: \relative c' { c4^\markup { \override #'(font-name . KacstOffice) العربية }

Re: How to extract only lyrics and chords, step by step

2011-01-28 Thread Jürgen Ibelgaufts
Things can be made easier, but there still are some questions to ask. #4 is not necessary. The lyrics may stay below the staff. #2 is not necessary. It makes no difference whether you shrink the staff or not. #6 By using negative values for the y value in the #extra-offset property, you can

Re: grace at the start results in midi error.

2011-01-28 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 28 January 2011 15:54, Peter Van Kranenburg peter.van.kranenb...@meertens.knaw.nl wrote: Dear all, \version 2.13.44 \score { \relative g' { \grace a16 g4 } \midi { } \layout { } } I have a problem with a grace at the very beginning of the score. Lilypond returns

engraving rules question - voices with merged heads

2011-01-28 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, recently i was told that this notation { \mergeDifferentlyHeadedOn b'2 \\ { b'8 a' g' f' } } is not allowed in vocal music (i.e., the noteheads shouldn't be merged). Is that true? By the way, if there is a notehead shared by two voices (i.e. with two stems, up and down), should there

Automatic metronome track?

2011-01-28 Thread Michael Ellis
I want to automate the process of generating a midi metronome track for rehearsal purposes. It's trivial if the piece is in the same meter throughout, e.g. if the piece has 97 measures in 4/4 you can do: \new Voice = Click { \set midiInstrument = #woodblock

Re: Automatic metronome track?

2011-01-28 Thread Marek Klein
Hello Mike. 2011/1/29 Michael Ellis michael.f.el...@gmail.com I want to automate the process of generating a midi metronome track for rehearsal purposes. See this message: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-09/msg00730.html HTH. Marek -- Marek Klein, http://gregoriana.sk

Re: incorrect displaying of Arabic text

2011-01-28 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/28/11 2:03 PM, James Samir Ismail j...@tenable.biz wrote: So this seems like a bug after all. How do I get this into the queue? I'd be more than happy to help out with testing. The first thing to do is to run the specified command from a terminal window: lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x

Re: incorrect displaying of Arabic text

2011-01-28 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:03 PM, James Samir Ismail j...@tenable.biz wrote: So this seems like a bug after all. How do I get this into the queue? I'd be more than happy to help out with testing. Hi, Which version of LilyPond are you using? The 2.13 series has many, many improvements in

Re: incorrect displaying of Arabic text

2011-01-28 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Patrick McCarty pnor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:03 PM, James Samir Ismail j...@tenable.biz wrote: So this seems like a bug after all. How do I get this into the queue? I'd be more than happy to help out with testing. Which version of