Re: In-C style Typesetting?

2012-08-12 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 11.08.2012 17:52, schrieb Gabriel Taubman: Hi Marc, Thanks for the help! That looks a lot better but it still seems to have two problems: You're welcome. Please reply to all so that others may have the possibility to join in the discussion. 1) The measures at the end of the line seem to

Re: Having trouble with chord symbols above notes

2012-08-12 Thread eluze
BrAthanasius wrote I would like the F to be above the first f\breve, B-flat above the second f\breve and the D-min above the D for the last note. Here is the code below: please reduce your code to the part necessary to reproduce the problem! to solve your problem you need to add

Re: Espacio entre la última nota y la barra de compás.

2012-08-12 Thread Vicente Solsona
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 02:00:49 +0200, Antonio Soler solem.tempe...@gmail.com wrote: Saludos. Estoy en este momento trabajando en una partitura que incluye una línea de texto como indicador de repeticiones. Me gustaría obtener mayor espacio entre la última nota de cada compás y la barra de

optical sizing

2012-08-12 Thread luis jure
hello list, in the essay, under Optical sizing, we can read: At smaller sizes, LilyPond uses proportionally heavier lines so the music will still read well. is there a way to control this globally? i'm using #(set-global-staff-size 13), and i find this compensation a little bit excessive to

Re: Old Style Numbers in Title

2012-08-12 Thread Martin Straeten
Have a look at http://www.mrlauer.org/music/ The file http://www.mrlauer.org/static/etc/mrlutil.ly (utf8 section) provides some commands to use oldstyle numbers and real smallcaps Am 11.08.2012 um 14:31 schrieb Loïc Chahine loic.chah...@hotmail.fr: Dear all, In my scores, I use Adobe Caslon

Ledger line visibility issue

2012-08-12 Thread Peter Gentry
I have a score with many repeated beamed quavers and semi-quavers on ledger lines. The default layout is difficult to read as ledger lines and the staff produce an almost hypnotic effect which confuses the reader. This resuluts in loss of concentration and rythmic stumbles. I would like to space

Re: Import - convert

2012-08-12 Thread Jakub Pavlík
Not directly. But you can export your music e.g. from Finale to one of the formats supported by the standard LilyPond converters and then convert the music from this format to LilyPond. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/usage/converting-from-other-formats Jakub 2012/8/9 Jeff Mau

Re: Import - convert

2012-08-12 Thread Jakub Pavlík
Oh, blind me. Using etf2ly you can import from Finale directly... Jakub 2012/8/12 Jakub Pavlík jkb.pav...@gmail.com Not directly. But you can export your music e.g. from Finale to one of the formats supported by the standard LilyPond converters and then convert the music from this format to

Re: In-C style Typesetting?

2012-08-12 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 12.08.2012 16:54, schrieb Gabriel Taubman: Thanks Marc! I've found that if I make the measures look like this: \stopStaff s4 \startStaff \bar : \noBreak g'4 a'16 g'16 g'8 g'4 f'8 g'4 \bar : (note the \noBreak) Oh, sorry – in my test file, the \noBreak was included, but

etf2ly

2012-08-12 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
I just saw this thread: http://www.finaleforum.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7538 After the thread about Sibelius this discussion is yet another good reason not to rely (too much) on commercial software: It seems that Finale 2012 is not able to read Finale etf files anymore. (Finale 2011

Re: Import - convert

2012-08-12 Thread Laura Conrad
Jakub == Jakub Pavlík jkb.pav...@gmail.com writes: Jakub Oh, blind me. Using etf2ly you can import from Finale Jakub directly... You used to be able to. Have you done it with a recent lilypond version? I think the method that's encouraged for people with recent finale and recent

Re: Import - convert

2012-08-12 Thread Jakub Pavlík
I confess having no experience with this, as LilyPond is the single application I use for musical notation. I just shared what I found in the documentation regarding this subject. Jakub 2012/8/12 Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org Jakub == Jakub Pavlík jkb.pav...@gmail.com writes: Jakub

Re: etf2ly

2012-08-12 Thread David Kastrup
Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl writes: I just saw this thread: http://www.finaleforum.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7538 After the thread about Sibelius this discussion is yet another good reason not to rely (too much) on commercial software: It seems that Finale 2012 is not able

Re: etf2ly

2012-08-12 Thread Johan Vromans
Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl writes: So if you have been using Finale for many years, and you have payed money to upgrade to the newest Finale version year after Year, you now suddenly can't read your old .etf files anymore! Let's welcome those disappointed and angry Sibelius and

Re: etf2ly

2012-08-12 Thread David Kastrup
Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl writes: Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl writes: So if you have been using Finale for many years, and you have payed money to upgrade to the newest Finale version year after Year, you now suddenly can't read your old .etf files anymore! Let's

Re: etf2ly

2012-08-12 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012, Johan Vromans wrote: Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl writes: So if you have been using Finale for many years, and you have payed money to upgrade to the newest Finale version year after Year, you now suddenly can't read your old .etf files anymore! Let's

Re: Ledger line visibility issue (Peter Gentry)

2012-08-12 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Peter, I don't know what You want exactly, but maybee this can lead You to rhe right idea: \version 2.14.2 music = { \repeat unfold 4 { f''' c''' fis''4 } } ledgers = { s4 \override NoteHead #'no-ledgers = ##t \override NoteHead #'transparent = ##t } \new Staff {

Re: Ledger line visibility issue

2012-08-12 Thread David Rogers
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:58:41 +0100 Peter Gentry peter.gen...@sunscales.co.uk wrote: I have a score with many repeated beamed quavers and semi-quavers on ledger lines. The default layout is difficult to read as ledger lines and the staff produce an almost hypnotic effect which confuses the

Re: Ledger line visibility issue

2012-08-12 Thread Keith OHara
Peter Gentry peter.gentry at sunscales.co.uk writes: I have a score with many repeated beamed quavers and semi-quavers on ledger lines. The default layout is difficult to read as ledger lines and the staff produce an almost hypnotic effect which confuses the reader. This results in loss of

Re: Ledger line visibility issue

2012-08-12 Thread David Rogers
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:58:41 +0100 Peter Gentry peter.gen...@sunscales.co.uk wrote: ... all my attempts to make changes (apart from set-global-staff-size) have failed even when the syntax is accepted I missed this part of your post the first time. Lilypond's silence does not always indicate

What’s wrong with this snippet?

2012-08-12 Thread Vaughan McAlley
This is a slight variation on: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/snippets/vocal-music#single-staff-template-with-notes-and-lyrics I’m trying to apply the idea from Skips in lyric mode[1], so that the lyrics start in the second bar, but the \skip only skips to the next note. Vaughan

Re: What’s wrong with this snippet?

2012-08-12 Thread David Rogers
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:05:41 +1000 Vaughan McAlley vaug...@mcalley.net.au wrote: This is a slight variation on: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/snippets/vocal-music#single-staff-template-with-notes-and-lyrics I’m trying to apply the idea from Skips in lyric mode[1], so that the

Re: What’s wrong with this snippet?

2012-08-12 Thread Robert Schmaus
Hi Vaughan, Actually that has always been my understanding and experience of how the \skip command works - it skips single notes. In your case you'd need \skip 4 for the full bar. Best, Robert On 13 Aug 2012, at 07:05, Vaughan McAlley vaug...@mcalley.net.au wrote: This is a slight