Positioning of hyphens

2012-01-27 Thread Hannes Kuhnert
Hello, I’m setting a song, using a font with a large x-height. The standard positioning of the lyrics hyphens doesn’t fit the proportions of my font. How can the vertical position of the hyphens be adjusted? I was surprised not to find anything on this matter in the LSR. Hannes

Re: Positioning of hyphens

2012-01-27 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 27 January 2012 12:26, Hannes Kuhnert hannes.kuhn...@gmx.de wrote: Hello, I’m setting a song, using a font with a large x-height. The standard positioning of the lyrics hyphens doesn’t fit the proportions of my font. How can the vertical position of the hyphens be adjusted? I was

Re: Positioning of hyphens

2012-01-27 Thread James
Hello, On 27 January 2012 11:33, Xavier Scheuer x.sche...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 January 2012 12:26, Hannes Kuhnert hannes.kuhn...@gmx.de wrote: Hello, I’m setting a song, using a font with a large x-height. The standard positioning of the lyrics hyphens doesn’t fit the proportions of my

Minimal space between barline and next object

2012-01-27 Thread Nils
Hi list, I noticed that often in Lilypond there is not enough space after a barline. It is perfectly fine if there is an accidental etc. but not with only a note/chord. Especially if it is a thicker barline like a repeat close. (I don't want to jump to conclusions here but is it possible that

Re: Minimal space between barline and next object

2012-01-27 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Nils l...@nilsgey.de To: Lilypond-User lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:28 PM Subject: Minimal space between barline and next object Hi list, I noticed that often in Lilypond there is not enough space after a barline. It is perfectly

Re: Minimal space between barline and next object

2012-01-27 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi Nils, 2012/1/27 Nils l...@nilsgey.de: 1) Can I ask instruct Lilypond globally for minimal space after a barline? Not an overall, relative increas. I don't want notes with accidentals to move further away, they are perfect. I think it's possible, but i don't remember how to do it, sorry

Re: Minimal space between barline and next object

2012-01-27 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Nils, 2012/1/27 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com Hi Nils, 2012/1/27 Nils l...@nilsgey.de: 1) Can I ask instruct Lilypond globally for minimal space after a barline? Not an overall, relative increas. I don't want notes with accidentals to move further away, they are perfect. You

Re: Minimal space between barline and next object

2012-01-27 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi again, 2012/1/27 David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com I'm new to the Scheme engraver thing, but I've written one which appears to work, at least with my minimal example. Basically, it finds the first note-column in a measure and adds extra space to the preceding bar line if there is

Re: Minimal space between barline and next object

2012-01-27 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 27 January 2012 13:28, Nils l...@nilsgey.de wrote: Hi list, I noticed that often in Lilypond there is not enough space after a barline. It is perfectly fine if there is an accidental etc. but not with only a note/chord. Especially if it is a thicker barline like a repeat close. (I don't

Re: Minimal space between barline and next object

2012-01-27 Thread Neil Puttock
On 27 January 2012 15:20, Xavier Scheuer x.sche...@gmail.com wrote: Use  \override Staff.Barline #'space-alist =  #'((time-signature extra-space . 0.75)     (custos minimum-space . 2.0)     (clef minimum-space . 1.0)     (key-signature extra-space . 1.0)     (key-cancellation extra-space .

Re: Hiding the RH piano staff

2012-01-27 Thread PMA
I support your preference. If two staves were *needed* to avoid a performance disaster, I would say otherwise. But where, as here, the issue is merely what somebody expects, then I see no reason for you to reconsider. Jan Terje Augestad wrote: Actually there's examples of this; for instance

Switching lyrics to italic in the same syllabe

2012-01-27 Thread Nils
Questions over Questions: I have lyrics here which need switching to italics during a syllabe. It the following example it is phi where the i, and everything after, needs to be italic. Se -- ra -- ph \override LyricText #'font-shape = #'italic i -- nen If I do it like this the i moves to

Re: Switching lyrics to italic in the same syllabe

2012-01-27 Thread Marek Klein
Hello 2012/1/27 Nils l...@nilsgey.de I have lyrics here which need switching to italics during a syllabe. It the following example it is phi where the i, and everything after, needs to be italic. Se -- ra -- ph \override LyricText #'font-shape = #'italic i -- nen If I do it like this

Re: Switching lyrics to italic in the same syllabe

2012-01-27 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Nils l...@nilsgey.de To: Lilypond-User lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 5:17 PM Subject: Switching lyrics to italic in the same syllabe Questions over Questions: I have lyrics here which need switching to italics during a syllabe. It

cannot find or create new `voice'

2012-01-27 Thread cgodefro free
Hello All, i'm wondering why it can get this warning by time to time, and how to get rid of it : # -*-compilation-*- Processing `C:/Users/cgodefro/Music/Enesco/op1_6.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music... warning: cannot find or create new `voice' Preprocessing graphical objects... Finding the

Re: Switching lyrics to italic in the same syllabe

2012-01-27 Thread -Eluze
Phil Holmes-2 wrote: - Original Message - From: Nils l...@nilsgey.de To: Lilypond-User lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 5:17 PM Subject: Switching lyrics to italic in the same syllabe Questions over Questions: I have lyrics here which need switching to

Re: polychords, using root in chord markup?

2012-01-27 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
On 3 déc. 2011, at 05:27, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 12/2/11 3:59 PM, Jean-Alexis Montignies j...@montignies.info wrote: Hi, I will have to write polychords (as my jazz harmony classes is getting to that) in Lilypond. I'm looking for ways to do this. Polychord - Wikipedia, the free

Re: cannot find or create new `voice'

2012-01-27 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 27 January 2012 14:40, cgodefro free cgode...@free.fr wrote: Hello All, i'm wondering why it can get this warning by time to time, and how to get rid of it : Salut, Voice with a capital letter, not voice in \new Voice Cordialement, Xavier -- Xavier Scheuer x.sche...@gmail.com

Re: Repeating stanza numbers

2012-01-27 Thread Matie Holtzhausen
Neil Puttock wrote: It might break things on 2.14 too. It's mostly untested. :) It seems to be the ultimate solution, but it does break a few things. The line breaking seems to stop working, and blank lines also gets verse numbers. In the attached example I included both methods (the

Re: Hiding the RH piano staff

2012-01-27 Thread Shane Brandes
As someone whose primary instrument is the piano. I agree it might be disconcerting to suddenly see two staves after a page turn, but single staff treatment certainly has been around since at least Liszt's Paganini variations if not earlier. But as it is your creation you do what you want. Shane

change note names from italiano to english in existing input file

2012-01-27 Thread Frédéric Bron
Is it possible that \displayLilyMusic outputs note names in a different language? I use to work with english notations because they are shorter but I am using an existing file written with italiano. Is it possible to change the note names from do re mi fa sol... to c d e f g? I know I can try with