Re: cross-hands, cross-staves

2012-08-29 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/8/29 Curt accou...@museworld.com Hi, a question and a meta-question. The meta-question is, is there a more appropriate list to ask for suggestions on the best way to notate something? I occasionally have questions just about the clearest notation choice. lilypond-user is the perfect

Re: cross-hands, cross-staves

2012-08-29 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/8/29 Curt accou...@museworld.com The actual question is wondering if anyone thinks there is a better/clearer way to notate the following figure. Hands alternating, with melody in the pinky. The pattern continues throughout the piece (with different notes). Right hand stays in the same

Re: how to update the makerhythm-snippet

2012-08-29 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Gilles gilles.thiba...@free.fr To: lilypond-user@gnu.org; David Kastrup d...@gnu.org; Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 10:49 PM Subject: Re: how to update the makerhythm-snippet I think only an LSR editor (like me) can do

Re: updating tremolo snippet for 2.16

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
Shevek s...@saultobin.com writes: First off, thanks to all the people who worked on 2.16! I'm super excited about it, and I'm already noticing drastically reduced compile times for my large projects, compared to 2.14. I'm looking at updating my snippet library, and the first issue I've run

Re: Attaca markup

2012-08-29 Thread Toine Schreurs
This is how I've defined it in the past: attacca = { \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'break-visibility = #begin-of-line-invisible \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'direction = #DOWN \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'font-size = 1 \once \override Score.RehearsalMark

Re: cross-hands, cross-staves

2012-08-29 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Curt, On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com wrote: 2012/8/29 Curt accou...@museworld.com The actual question is wondering if anyone thinks there is a better/clearer way to notate the following figure. Hands alternating, with melody in the pinky. The

Right way of specifying engraver name?

2012-08-29 Thread Francisco Vila
Hello, in the following score for 2.16 \score { \new PianoStaff \new Staff \crossStaff { c' e' q } \new Staff \crossStaff { \clef bass c a, q } } \layout { \context { \PianoStaff \consists #Span_stem_engraver } \context { \Staff \remove Bar_engraver

Re: Right way of specifying engraver name?

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com writes: Hello, in the following score for 2.16 \score { \new PianoStaff \new Staff \crossStaff { c' e' q } \new Staff \crossStaff { \clef bass c a, q } } \layout { \context { \PianoStaff \consists

Re: Right way of specifying engraver name?

2012-08-29 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/8/29 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Span_stem_engraver is written in Scheme and not registered as a C++ engraver. As one consequence, it is not appearing in the internals documentation along with other engravers. There currently is no way to register an engraver from Scheme. Ah right. We

Re: Right way of specifying engraver name?

2012-08-29 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com To: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 1:36 PM Subject: Re: Right way of specifying engraver name? 2012/8/29 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Span_stem_engraver is written in

Re: Right way of specifying engraver name?

2012-08-29 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/8/29 Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net: Ah right. We must improve this documentation bit. Are there more cases like this? Which bit of the documentation? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-keyboards#cross_002dstaff-stems We say just using the

Re: Right way of specifying engraver name?

2012-08-29 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com To: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net Cc: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org; lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 1:56 PM Subject: Re: Right way of specifying engraver name? 2012/8/29 Phil Holmes

Re: Right way of specifying engraver name?

2012-08-29 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/8/29 Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net: We say just using the Span_stem_engraver but the user can be confused when adding/removing other engravers because it is sometimes #Name_engraver and sometimes Name_engraver. I don't believe that would be the right place to change anything.

Re: Right way of specifying engraver name?

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net writes: - Original Message - From: Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com To: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net Cc: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org; lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 1:56 PM Subject: Re: Right way of specifying engraver

Re: cross-hands, cross-staves

2012-08-29 Thread Curt
Thank you for the perspectives! It's nice to know that it comes across clearly. I was afraid it might look too cluttered but I can always also just play with the staff spacing a bit. Curt On Aug 29, 2012, at 5:06 AM, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi Curt, On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:30 AM,

drummode and notemode

2012-08-29 Thread Curt
I have an orchestral film cue where a percussionist waits a few bars, plays a few glockenspiel notes, waits several bars, and switches to suspended cymbal for a roll. It seems a waste of score space to make it two separate staves. But I am having trouble figuring out how to switch from \drummode

Re: drummode and notemode

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
Curt accou...@museworld.com writes: I have an orchestral film cue where a percussionist waits a few bars, plays a few glockenspiel notes, waits several bars, and switches to suspended cymbal for a roll. It seems a waste of score space to make it two separate staves. But I am having trouble

Re: drummode and notemode

2012-08-29 Thread Curt
ah-ha! Thank you David!! I'll read deeper on \with and \accepts. Curt On Aug 29, 2012, at 12:33 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Try \include english.ly \drums \with { \accepts Voice } { ss hh \new Voice { \notemode { \clef treble a b c } } }

lilypond-book and title page

2012-08-29 Thread Daniel E. Moctezuma
Hello LilyPonders, I am trying to do a title page / cover page using LaTex without too much success. The result I get is a Y-centered text (on LaTex) but with a noticeable space on X-axis (space at the right), in addition, the next pages (of music) have indentation on the left and at the top,

Re: how to update the makerhythm-snippet

2012-08-29 Thread Gilles
I think only an LSR editor (like me) can do this. You want me to go ahead and delete it [snippet 390]? Yes, please. Done. Thanks Phil. Just a last thing that i cannot do myself :-( As the snippet 654 refers to snippet 390, is it possible to replace, in 654, the sentence : This

Re: LC_PAPER and default paper size

2012-08-29 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:19:48 +0200 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Pavel Roskin pro...@gnu.org writes: Hello! I have noticed that Lilypond 2.16.0 uses A4 paper size even if the locale is set to en_US.utf8. I can force the letter output by using -dpaper-size=\letter\ but that

Re: drummode and notemode

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
Curt accou...@museworld.com writes: On Aug 29, 2012, at 12:33 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Try \include english.ly \drums \with { \accepts Voice } { ss hh \new Voice { \notemode { \clef treble a b c } } } ah-ha! Thank you David!! I'll read deeper on

Re: LC_PAPER and default paper size

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
Pavel Roskin pro...@gnu.org writes: On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:19:48 +0200 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Pavel Roskin pro...@gnu.org writes: Hello! I have noticed that Lilypond 2.16.0 uses A4 paper size even if the locale is set to en_US.utf8. I can force the letter output by using

Re: drummode and notemode

2012-08-29 Thread Curt
On Aug 29, 2012, at 2:48 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Curt accou...@museworld.com writes: On Aug 29, 2012, at 12:33 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Try \include english.ly \drums \with { \accepts Voice } { ss hh \new Voice { \notemode { \clef treble a b c } } }

Re: drummode and notemode

2012-08-29 Thread Curt
On Aug 29, 2012, at 2:48 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Like with the previous example, I am somewhat skeptic that this will work under all important circumstances, but it looks like a somewhat feasible hack, and at least seems to do a bit more than my first proposal. -- David Kastrup Going

Re: how to update the makerhythm-snippet

2012-08-29 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/8/29 Gilles gilles.thiba...@free.fr: I think only an LSR editor (like me) can do this. You want me to go ahead and delete it [snippet 390]? Yes, please. Done. Thanks Phil. Just a last thing that i cannot do myself :-( As the snippet 654 refers to snippet 390, is it possible to

Re: cross-hands, cross-staves

2012-08-29 Thread Shane Brandes
Looks to me that the cross tie stuff lies easily under the left hand alone. Shane On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Curt accou...@museworld.com wrote: Thank you for the perspectives! It's nice to know that it comes across clearly. I was afraid it might look too cluttered but I can always

Re: cross-hands, cross-staves

2012-08-29 Thread Curt
Well... future patterns later in the piece are larger than hand size, and, it plays fast and soft enough that I find it unreasonable to play with one hand. Audio of the complete improvisation is at my site: http://curtsiffert.com/anelusivesweetness . On Aug 29, 2012, at 5:04 PM, Shane

Re: lilypond-book and title page

2012-08-29 Thread Jakub Pavlík
2012/8/29 Daniel E. Moctezuma democtez...@gmail.com Hello LilyPonders, I am trying to do a title page / cover page using LaTex without too much success. The result I get is a Y-centered text (on LaTex) but with a noticeable space on X-axis (space at the right), in addition, the next pages

Re: Attaca markup

2012-08-29 Thread David Rogers
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:50:12 -0700 Daniel E. Moctezuma democtez...@gmail.com wrote: Also, after an attaca indication should the bar numbers reset or continue counting? I take attacca to mean Go straight on, even though it's a new piece. Having the bar numbers continue would mean to me This

Re: Attaca markup

2012-08-29 Thread Paul Scott
On 08/29/2012 05:54 PM, David Rogers wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:50:12 -0700 Daniel E. Moctezumademoctez...@gmail.com wrote: Also, after an attaca indication should the bar numbers reset or continue counting? I take attacca to mean Go straight on, even though it's a new piece. Or new

running lilypond-book in frescobaldi?

2012-08-29 Thread MING TSANG
Lilypond users: 1. I am running lilypond in frescobaldi.  Can I run lilypond-book in frecobaldi as well. 2. How can pass parameter to lilypond and or lilypond-book from frescobaldi?   Blessing in+, Ming. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Hiding staff without hiding bar lines

2012-08-29 Thread Michael Rivers
I'm a relatively new LilyPond user, so I apologize if this is something I should have found in the manual. I'm trying to use LilyPond to make worksheets and theory tests, so I need to hide elements for students to fill in themselves. I also need to notate rhythms without a staff. I know that

Parenthesized Hairpin

2012-08-29 Thread Daniel E. Moctezuma
Hello, Using a snippet from LSR (http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=771) I've found that I get an *Unbound variable* error on *$leftText*. The way I've solved is to remove the *$* sign from it as well as from * $rightText*. So far so good, but I've noticed that if you do a *\break* before

Re: Attaca markup

2012-08-29 Thread Daniel E. Moctezuma
Thanks a lot for the information. Doing some research, I've seen both uses (bar number reset and number continuation) as well as not using bar numbers at all (just using rehearsal marks) and that's why I was confused. -- Daniel E. Moctezuma ___

Re: LC_PAPER and default paper size

2012-08-29 Thread Pavel Roskin
Quoting David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Pavel Roskin pro...@gnu.org writes: Doesn't TeX respect LC_PAPER? No. TeX/LaTeX is letterpaper by default. You have to ask for a4paper in the LaTeX source (or, in plain TeX, meddle with \hsize, \vsize and stuff) explicitly to change the layout. While

Re: LC_PAPER and default paper size

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
Pavel Roskin pro...@gnu.org writes: Quoting David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Pavel Roskin pro...@gnu.org writes: Doesn't TeX respect LC_PAPER? No. TeX/LaTeX is letterpaper by default. You have to ask for a4paper in the LaTeX source (or, in plain TeX, meddle with \hsize, \vsize and stuff)

Re: Parenthesized Hairpin

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
Daniel E. Moctezuma democtez...@gmail.com writes: Using a snippet from LSR (http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=771) I've found that I get an Unbound variable error on $leftText. The way I've solved is to remove the $ sign from it as well as from $rightText. Did you run convert-ly -ed on

Re: Parenthesized Hairpin

2012-08-29 Thread Daniel E. Moctezuma
Hello David, By hairpin parenthesis I mean parenthesized hairpin like the one shown on the snippet I provided. -- Daniel E. Moctezuma ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: LC_PAPER and default paper size

2012-08-29 Thread Pavel Roskin
Quoting David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: What is wrong with specifying the paper size you want in the \paper block? I want to make the scores available to everybody. I want users across the world to be able to find the music, create the PDF and print it with no problems on the paper they

Hiding expressive notation

2012-08-29 Thread Ben Eichler
Hi there, I transcribe music for guitar using a normal staff and tabstaff. About 99% of the time, when I specify a string a note must be played on, I don't want it to create a string notation on the normal staff, I only want it to change the string used (and show the correct fret) on the

Re: Hiding expressive notation

2012-08-29 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 30/08/2012 07:44, Ben Eichler ha scritto: Hi there, I transcribe music for guitar using a normal staff and tabstaff. About 99% of the time, when I specify a string a note must be played on, I don't want it to create a string notation on the normal staff, I only want it to change the string