Re: scale notehead X and Y independently

2011-03-17 Thread Tim Sheasby
Thanks Robin. This does exactly what I need. I will use this to optically tweak note heads before trying to patch the fonts again. Lets me optically align the mi and do. On 17 Mar 2011, at 2:06 AM, Robin Bannister wrote: Tim Sheasby wrote: how do I apply it to a specific note in a \set

Re: Roman numerals in my number sequence

2011-03-17 Thread Adam Good
Carl thank you for the input! Unfortunately I get an error that I don't know how to do anything with. Below is my input and output. If you or anyone can help this would be a nice help to me. Thanks! Adam @@@ \version 2.12.3 #(define sequence-number 0) #(define-markup-command (score-sequence

Re: Roman numerals in my number sequence

2011-03-17 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
On Thu 17 Mar 2011, 09:13 Adam Good wrote: Carl thank you for the input! Unfortunately I get an error that I don't know how to do anything with. Below is my input and output. If you or anyone can help this would be a nice help to me. Thanks! Adam @@@ \version 2.12.3 #(define

Re: Roman numerals in my number sequence

2011-03-17 Thread Adam Good
Completely awesome. Thank you guys so much for your help. Long live Lilyponders!! On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Dmytro O. Redchuk brownian@gmail.com wrote: On Thu 17 Mar 2011, 09:13 Adam Good wrote: Carl thank you for the input! Unfortunately I get an error that I don't know how to do

Re: lilypond v2.13.54

2011-03-17 Thread Phil Holmes
It looks like the LilyPond installation is no longer adding the path to the executable to the Windows PATH. I have installed .54 and don't have it on my path. For me that's actually good - my PATH variable overflowed and I lost all the ones I wanted. However, for people who rely on the

looking for a way to print inverval from 2 notes

2011-03-17 Thread christophe 1710
Hello all, i'm working on the different modal structure from a score and i woud like to print the half or full ton from one not to the next one! \version "2.12.3" \include "italiano.ly" \header { } TimeKey = { \key do \minor \time 12/8}

invoking stdin: a use case?

2011-03-17 Thread Federico Bruni
Hi LilyPonders, in Usage 1.2: When invoked with a filename that has no extension, the ‘.ly’ extension is tried first. To read input from stdin, use a dash (-) for file. I wonder what's the use of stdin. Can you show a use case? I'm translating the Usage manual so I want to be sure that I've

Re: invoking stdin: a use case?

2011-03-17 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
On Thu 17 Mar 2011, 12:19 Federico Bruni wrote: Hi LilyPonders, Hi! in Usage 1.2: When invoked with a filename that has no extension, the ‘.ly’ extension is tried first. To read input from stdin, use a dash (-) for file. I wonder what's the use of stdin. Can you show a use case? I'm

Re: invoking stdin: a use case?

2011-03-17 Thread Federico Bruni
cat test.ly | lilypond -o TEST - for instance. You'll get TEST.pdf here. Ok, thanks! I had seen this before (when importing GPG keys, for example), but apparently I hadn't got the role of - :-) ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: looking for a way to print inverval from 2 notes

2011-03-17 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Mar 17, 2011, at 5:55 AM, christophe 1710 wrote: Hello all, i'm working on the different modal structure from a score and i woud like to print the half or full ton from one not to the next one! \version 2.12.3 \include italiano.ly \header { } TimeKey = { \key do \minor \time 12/8}

Re: \score block as variable/function

2011-03-17 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 15 March 2011 00:01, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: You want a markup identifier, so all you need to do is put \markup before \score: scoreOne = \markup \score { c'1 \layout {} % required! } \markup { \column { \scoreOne } } Thanks Neil! This works

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 04:16:35PM -0400, Shane Brandes wrote: I suppose since I have spent so much of my life attempting to master keyboard instruments and having watch so many students progress in their own studies that it seems to me that one cold never hope to replicate a human at an

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Marc Mouries
This is intellectually interesting but the question is not who deserves to create good music? but rather who wants to listen to music made by someone that does not practice? and who wants to listen to music played by a computer? Sure many times, nowadays, the rendition of a computer playing is

Suppress NoteNames output on ties ?

2011-03-17 Thread Michael Ellis
Is it possible to tell  the NoteNames engraver to print the name for only the first note of a sequence of tied notes?     mymusic = { c'4 c' ~ c'2 }     \score {                  \new Voice  \mymusic         \context NoteNames \mymusic              } Thanks, Mike attachment:

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: Now, at the moment, Vivi doesn't create good music, and probably requires about 10 hours of learning. I mean, you have to write a lilypond file (that could be between 1 and 5 hours, for simple music at least), and then if you know nothing

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, At first, I wasn't really interested in this thread… however, it's now gotten quite interesting. This is intellectually interesting but the question is not who deserves to create good music? but rather who wants to listen to music made by someone that does not practice? and who

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread David Kastrup
Marc Mouries m...@mouries.net writes: This is intellectually interesting but the question is not who deserves to create good music? but rather who wants to listen to music made by someone that does not practice? and who wants to listen to music played by a computer? Sure many times, nowadays,

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Mark Knoop
At 10:15 on 17 Mar 2011, Marc Mouries wrote: This is intellectually interesting but the question is not who deserves to create good music? but rather who wants to listen to music made by someone that does not practice? and who wants to listen to music played by a computer? I don't really see

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Marc Mouries
On 3/17/2011 10:57 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Marc Mouriesm...@mouries.net writes: This is intellectually interesting but the question is not who deserves to create good music? but rather who wants to listen to music made by someone that does not practice? and who wants to listen to music

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:15:46AM -0400, Marc Mouries wrote: This is intellectually interesting but the question is not who deserves to create good music? but rather who wants to listen to music made by someone that does not practice? and who wants to listen to music played by a computer?

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:02:59AM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: But I also believe that it will be a great while longer before *watching* a robot (or audio speaker) will be as compelling as watching a human performer. BS. Watching musical robots is *incredibly* interesting, and way way

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes: [...] One thing that comes to mind is that I don't want to arrive at a point where musician will be teaching computers to play instead of learning to play themselves. I hate to break the news, but we're already at that point -- as

Re: Removing accidentals from a voice

2011-03-17 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: James Lowe james.l...@datacore.com To: 'Phil Holmes' em...@philholmes.net Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 4:37 PM Subject: RE: Removing accidentals from a voice Hello, )-Original Message- )From:

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, Excellent rebuttal! The whole point is that a computer, left to its own devices, would never think of playing the violin or chess. It would sit in a corner and rust. With all due respect, I don't even think that's the point -- for at some future date, there will undoubtedly be a

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread David Santamauro
Hi, On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:02:59 -0400 Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hello all, At first, I wasn't really interested in this thread… however, it's now gotten quite interesting. Same here ... This is intellectually interesting but the question is not who

RE: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 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 David Kastrup )Sent: 17 March 2011 14:57 )To: lilypond-user@gnu.org )Subject: Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
On Thu 17 Mar 2011, 15:31 Graham Percival wrote: As for *good* computer-performed music... it's not my favorite Miku work, but can you honestly say that you feel no emotion when watching this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Dqb6uJ8WY (maybe you _can_ say that you feel nothing, but I can't

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread David Kastrup
Marc Mouries m...@mouries.net writes: On 3/17/2011 10:57 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Marc Mouriesm...@mouries.net writes: This is intellectually interesting but the question is not who deserves to create good music? but rather who wants to listen to music made by someone that does not

Re: Roman numerals in my number sequence

2011-03-17 Thread Adam Good
Another tree to bark up and on a similar note, how to set roman numerals in Score.markFormatter as rehearsal marks via \mark \default ... \version 2.12.3 \relative c' { \set Score.markFormatter = #(fancy-format #f ~@r. 1) \mark \default a b c d \mark \default a b c d } gives:

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Marc Mouries
On 3/17/2011 11:31 AM, Graham Percival wrote: Art conveys emotions which are the one thing that make us human and thus should be played by human. should be? Hmm. Art conveys emotions, and thus sheet music should be engraved by a human. You are mixing unrelated things. The analogy is about

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread David Kastrup
David Santamauro david.santama...@gmail.com writes: One thing a robot, or any type of computer generated music will never replace is the simple gratification of actually playing -- from a players perspective. What a ridiculous criterion. One thing you or any type of human generated music

Re: Roman numerals in my number sequence

2011-03-17 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 3/17/11 9:37 AM, Adam Good adamg...@adamgood.com wrote: Another tree to bark up and on a similar note, how to set roman numerals in Score.markFormatter as rehearsal marks via \mark \default ... \version 2.12.3 \relative c' { \set Score.markFormatter = #(fancy-format #f ~@r. 1)

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:08:53AM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi David, The whole point is that a computer, left to its own devices, would never think of playing the violin or chess. It would sit in a corner and rust. With all due respect, I don't even think that's the point -- for

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Susan Dittmar
Quoting Marc Mouries (m...@mouries.net): This is intellectually interesting but the question is not who deserves to create good music? but rather who wants to listen to music made by someone that does not practice? and who wants to listen to music played by a computer? Sure many times,

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:08:53AM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi David, The whole point is that a computer, left to its own devices, would never think of playing the violin or chess. It would sit in a corner and rust. With all due

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:38:48PM -0400, Marc Mouries wrote: On 3/17/2011 11:31 AM, Graham Percival wrote: Art conveys emotions which are the one thing that make us human and thus should be played by human. should be? Hmm. Art conveys emotions, and thus sheet music should be engraved by a

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Graham, BS. Watching musical robots is *incredibly* interesting, and way way way more interesting than a human! (seriously! I mean, you can wonder how much power it uses, and whether they use wired or wireless transmission, or how many degrees of freedom each of the joints offers,

scores in columns - vertical alignment

2011-03-17 Thread Marek Klein
Hi all, how can I get the staff-lines vertically aligned? \version 2.13.40 \layout { line-width = 6.2\cm ragged-right = ##f } \markup \fill-line { \column{ \score { \new Staff { c''' } \layout { } } } \column{ \score { \new Staff

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, You are confusing teaching, training, and programming. No: they are simply three different levels/aspects/stages/manifestations of the same basic task. You don't teach an encyclopedia or an expert system You don't train or program an encyclopedia either -- the closest you can

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Graham, With all due respect, I don't even think that's the point -- for at some future date, there will undoubtedly be a computer which, left to its own devices, *would* think of playing the violin or chess rather than sitting in a corner and rusting. Actually, I doubt that. Wow,

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, This day has more-or-less arrived. Whether we like it or not, most of the music we hear in our daily lives, e.g., radio spots, commercials, tv-shows and ever-increasingly, major motion pictures are filled with music generated by computers, albeit mostly through samples generated by

Re: scores in columns - vertical alignment

2011-03-17 Thread -Eluze
Marek Klein wrote: Hi all, how can I get the staff-lines vertically aligned? \version 2.13.40 \layout { line-width = 6.2\cm ragged-right = ##f } \markup \fill-line { \column{ \score { \new Staff { c''' } \layout { } } } \column{

Re: scores in columns - vertical alignment

2011-03-17 Thread Robin Bannister
Marek Klein wrote: how can I get the staff-lines vertically aligned? Here's another padding hack: \layout { line-width = 6.2\cm ragged-right = ##f } centeredVAG = \with { \override VerticalAxisGroup #'Y-extent = #'(-8 . 8) } \markup \fill-line \vcenter { \column{ \score

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Michael Ellis
I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords. -- Ken Jennings :-, Mike ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: scores in columns - vertical alignment

2011-03-17 Thread Timothy Sheasby
From the LilyPond essay I learned that LilyPond deliberately *avoids* lining up the staff lines vertically to make the music look more like a hand engraved manuscript . . . On 17 Mar 2011, at 10:28 PM, Robin Bannister wrote: Marek Klein wrote: how can I get the staff-lines vertically

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords. -- Ken Jennings =) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: scores in columns - vertical alignment

2011-03-17 Thread Marek Klein
Thank you all! Marek http://gregoriana.sk ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Peter Chubb
Graham == Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: It comes down to this: - new tool for composers. It's also a tool for music teachers. And I'd argue that that is as important if not more so.Human students do an awful lot of

Re: scores in columns - vertical alignment

2011-03-17 Thread -Eluze
Robin Bannister wrote: Marek Klein wrote: how can I get the staff-lines vertically aligned? Here's another padding hack: \layout { line-width = 6.2\cm ragged-right = ##f } centeredVAG = \with { \override VerticalAxisGroup #'Y-extent = #'(-8 . 8) } \markup \fill-line

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Graham, I think the impact of making it easier and better for music *composers* will outweigh any inconvience for music *performers*. [...] it's created a market for thousands of people to create music where it was previously impossible. Unfortunately, lower barrier of entry almost always

New version of articulate available

2011-03-17 Thread Peter Chubb
Version 1.5 of the Articulate scripts is now available from http://www.nicta.com.au/people/chubbp/articulate/ This version adds support for mordents --- thanks to Patrick Karl who reported the issue. The next big thing I'd like Lilypond to do is to handle dynamics in MIDI better. The problem

Re: Roman numerals in my number sequence

2011-03-17 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
Right -- markFormatter needs to be a procedure, so you define it as a lambda procedure: \set Score.markFormatter = #(lambda (mark) (fancy-format #f ~@r. mark)) Haven't tested, but this is the general idea. This lambda procedure needs 2 arguments. With : \set Score.markFormatter = #(lambda

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-17 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Peter Chubb wrote: (from Messiaen's `Abime des Oiseaux', bar 13) -- a smooth crescendo over almost the full range of the instrument. I love that piece ! Which is remarkable, since I hate most clarinet music with a few exceptions including Mozart's Clarinet Concerto and

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-17 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Peter Chubb wrote: (from Messiaen's `Abime des Oiseaux', bar 13) -- a smooth crescendo over almost the full range of the instrument. Martin I love that piece ! Which is remarkable, since I hate most Martin clarinet music with a few exceptions including Mozart's Martin

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 01:56:05AM +0100, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: But let's stay on-topic: Keep up the good work with your articulate script. Any chance articulate will be an integrated, built-in functionality in Lilypond in the future ? I estimate it would take about 5 hours from a Frog.

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-17 Thread Bernardo Barros
2011/3/17 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca: I estimate it would take about 5 hours from a Frog.  I've been estimating this for the past few years, but nobody's even attempted to tackle it yet. It is a feature that already works... would be nice to have! :-) Are there any downside?

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:20:38PM -0300, Bernardo Barros wrote: 2011/3/17 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca: I estimate it would take about 5 hours from a Frog.  I've been estimating this for the past few years, but nobody's even attempted to tackle it yet. It is a feature that

Re: Roman numerals in my number sequence

2011-03-17 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 3/17/11 5:04 PM, Gilles THIBAULT gilles.thiba...@free.fr wrote: fancy-format doen't seem to be part of guile, so only a function added by Lilypond. I found it in output-svg.scm defined as follow : (define fancy-format format) So it is exactly the same ! What the advantage to use

Re: Roman numerals in my number sequence

2011-03-17 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 3/17/11 5:04 PM, Gilles THIBAULT gilles.thiba...@free.fr wrote: Just a comment : If you use format instead of fancy-format it works too. fancy-format doen't seem to be part of guile, so only a function added by Lilypond. I found it in output-svg.scm defined as follow : (define fancy-format