Re: controlling footnote separator line

2012-04-25 Thread Urs Liska
Am 20.04.2012 10:43, schrieb Gilles: Unfortunately I didn't find the property that controls the line separating the footnote. from the score. Is this possible? is it documented (and I am blind)? or is this impossible? Well not easy to find. In paper-defaults-init.ly, you have some variable

Re: controlling footnote separator line

2012-04-25 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On 25 avr. 2012, at 08:15, Urs Liska wrote: Am 20.04.2012 10:43, schrieb Gilles: Unfortunately I didn't find the property that controls the line separating the footnote. from the score. Is this possible? is it documented (and I am blind)? or is this impossible? Well not easy to find.

Re: P.S. controlling footnote separator line

2012-04-25 Thread Urs Liska
Am 25.04.2012 08:15, schrieb Urs Liska: Am 20.04.2012 10:43, schrieb Gilles: Unfortunately I didn't find the property that controls the line separating the footnote. from the score. Is this possible? is it documented (and I am blind)? or is this impossible? Well not easy to find. In

Re: controlling footnote separator line

2012-04-25 Thread Urs Liska
Am 25.04.2012 08:18, schrieb m...@apollinemike.com: On 25 avr. 2012, at 08:15, Urs Liska wrote: Am 20.04.2012 10:43, schrieb Gilles: Unfortunately I didn't find the property that controls the line separating the footnote. from the score. Is this possible? is it documented (and I am blind)?

Re: controlling footnote separator line

2012-04-25 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On 25 avr. 2012, at 08:19, Urs Liska wrote: Am 25.04.2012 08:18, schrieb m...@apollinemike.com: On 25 avr. 2012, at 08:15, Urs Liska wrote: Am 20.04.2012 10:43, schrieb Gilles: Unfortunately I didn't find the property that controls the line separating the footnote. from the score.

Re: controlling footnote separator line

2012-04-25 Thread Urs Liska
Am 25.04.2012 08:34, schrieb m...@apollinemike.com: On 25 avr. 2012, at 08:19, Urs Liska wrote: Am 25.04.2012 08:18, schrieb m...@apollinemike.com: On 25 avr. 2012, at 08:15, Urs Liska wrote: Am 20.04.2012 10:43, schrieb Gilles: Unfortunately I didn't find the property that controls the

Access font-name in markup functions

2012-04-25 Thread Urs Liska
Hello community, I didn't find this in the manual: How can I translate \markup { \override #'(font-name . XY) Test } in a markup function? I only found how to translate e.g. \markup \italic Test etc. to #:italic. Best Urs ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Access font-name in markup functions

2012-04-25 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello Urs, if you are using the current devel version, you can wrap any markup with #{ #} --snip-- \version 2.15.37 #(define-markup-command (nfont layout props arg)(markup?) (interpret-markup layout props #{ \markup { \override #'(font-name . DejaVu Sans) $arg } #})) \markup {

print tie without note it ties to?

2012-04-25 Thread diekunstderfuge
Hi, I'm transcribing/typesetting the music seen in the attached image. At the end of the second system there are two notes (one in the RH staff, one in the LH staff) which tie to notes not included in this excerpt. Is there a way I can manually force LilyPond to display a tie without having to

Notation of french horn

2012-04-25 Thread Timothy Reeves
Helge said: Hello, I am typesetting a concerto in G major. There are two brass instruments (french horns). I am was told that these staves should be written without key an without accidentals at the notes. I don't have neither experience with playing praxis of horns nor with notation for

Confused about contexts and scope of macro

2012-04-25 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi, I guess this is an easy one for more experienced users than me. I am trying to port an older Lilypond file (v.2.8) to 2.14.2 and am having trouble with the scope of a macro whose purpose is to switch staffs in a PianoStaff that is part of a score for flute and piano. My original setup used

printing empty staff

2012-04-25 Thread rathcoffey
The attached .LY file is a 32-bar song with the melody printed in the top staff. What I'm trying to do is print an empty staff beneath the first one (to permit pencilled in notations, etc.) The program will only print the measures in the second staff if the measure contains content. 

Re: print tie without note it ties to?

2012-04-25 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 24/04/2012 16:15, diekunstderfuge ha scritto: I'm transcribing/typesetting the music seen in the attached image. At the end of the second system there are two notes (one in the RH staff, one in the LH staff) which tie to notes not included in this excerpt. Is there a way I can manually force

Re: printing empty staff

2012-04-25 Thread Choan Gálvez
On 4/25/12 15:10 , rathcof...@comcast.net wrote: The attached .LY file is a 32-bar song with the melody printed in the top staff. What I'm trying to do is print an empty staff beneath the first one (to permit pencilled in notations, etc.) The program will only print the measures in the second

Re: print tie without note it ties to?

2012-04-25 Thread diekunstderfuge
Thank you. \laissezVibrer produces very short ties; is there a way to modify them so that they resemble normal ties? Federico Bruni-5 wrote: Il 24/04/2012 16:15, diekunstderfuge ha scritto: I'm transcribing/typesetting the music seen in the attached image. At the end of the second system

Re: print tie without note it ties to?

2012-04-25 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, Thank you. \laissezVibrer produces very short ties; is there a way to modify them so that they resemble normal ties? You might find this thread helpful: http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg70030.html -David ___

Bug concerning acciaccatura and \time?

2012-04-25 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi, please consider the code snippet below, which is part of a larger piece. It compiles without errors on my machine, but the output is incorrect in that it produces the time signature 1/4 twice in the second bar, namely first correctly at the beginning of the bar but also after the

Re: measure counter engraver

2012-04-25 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, Unrelated issue: I notice that the original post with attached files hasn't shown up on archive 2 on either -user or -devel, even though I sent that post 13 hours ago. It appears on archive 1, but there the .ly file appears as a binary data file, which I cannot open. Am I guilty of

Re: Bug concerning acciaccatura and \time?

2012-04-25 Thread Urs Liska
This is a known issue and explained in the Notation Reference (see Known issues and warnings under grace notes on http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/special-rhythmic-concerns.html) Basically you have to add invisible acciaccaturas of the same length in all staves (and also

Re: Bug concerning acciaccatura and \time?

2012-04-25 Thread Thomas Ruedas
On 25/4/12 9:39 PM, Urs Liska wrote: This is a known issue and explained in the Notation Reference (see Known issues and warnings under grace notes on http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/special-rhythmic-concerns.html) Basically you have to add invisible acciaccaturas of the

Re: String Bass Notation

2012-04-25 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 19 April 2012 03:08, Tim Roberts t...@probo.com wrote: Playing in the pit for Pirates of Penzance last night, the bass player pointed out an articulation mark in the string bass part that neither of us had seen before.  It was basically the Greek character phi -- a circle with a vertical