Re: roman numerals

2012-11-21 Thread Michael Rivers
Sweet! Thank you so much for that code, and thank you to whoever wrote it. Open source is amazing. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/roman-numerals-tp136585p136635.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: roman numerals

2012-11-21 Thread Curt
Yes, this is what I ended up using. Works pretty well, a couple of images attached. It'd be nice if lilypond supported this natively someday. Most of what I need could be accomplished just by by chord mode allowing roman numerals as well as note names. Doesn't need to support transposition since

changing staff size in \score context

2012-11-21 Thread Eby Mani
Hi, I don't know how to change staff size in the following scenario, need to reduce the size of Organ staff in the score which should be given to the choir and vice versa for the Organist. Are there any commands that can be used in \score context ?. I don't want to mess anything where the

Re: roman numerals

2012-11-21 Thread David Kastrup
Michael Rivers michaeljriv...@gmail.com writes: Sweet! Thank you so much for that code, and thank you to whoever wrote it. Open source is amazing. Dunno who I stole this from does not meet the licensing criteria for either Open Source or Free Software. -- David Kastrup

Re: lyrics to music

2012-11-21 Thread Stjepan Horvat
There is another problem. a few months ago I read a hymnbook published here in croatia that didn't care when translating the lyrics so the hard beat of the words were not on hard beat of music so it was impossible to read.. On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Fr. Michael Gilmary, mma

Re: changing staff size in \score context

2012-11-21 Thread Eluze
Eby Mani wrote Hi, I don't know how to change staff size in the following scenario, need to reduce the size of Organ staff in the score which should be given to the choir and vice versa for the Organist. Are there any commands that can be used in \score context ?. I don't want to mess

Re: roman numerals

2012-11-21 Thread Kevin Patrick Barry
Message: 2 Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:04:48 +0100 From: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: roman numerals Message-ID: 87sj83jmpr@fencepost.gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain Michael Rivers michaeljriv...@gmail.com writes: Sweet! Thank you so much for that

Re: hspace behaviour

2012-11-21 Thread Phil Burfitt
Eluze wrote Phil Burfitt wrote Hi, I have just upgraded from version 2.13.17 to 2.17.7. Has the behaviour of \hspace changed in any way? It does not seem to act upon negative values anymore. example: \markup { \override #'(circle-padding . 0.55) \fontsize #-2.5 { tune \circle 3

Re: roman numerals

2012-11-21 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Kevin, On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Kevin Patrick Barry barr...@tcd.ie wrote: Message: 2 Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:04:48 +0100 From: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: roman numerals Message-ID: 87sj83jmpr@fencepost.gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain

Re: lyrics to music

2012-11-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Eby, Clearly the first example without the beaming is easy to read. When you look close, words are too close in the beamed example. The spacing is the problem, not the beaming. Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: roman numerals

2012-11-21 Thread Kevin Patrick Barry
Thank you for the updated code; I can put an accidental in front of the numeral now just fine, but I can't seem to put one next to any of the numerals, or on its own (for altering the third above the bass). I tried various combinations of the following and the output either gave errors or printed

Re: changing staff size in \score context

2012-11-21 Thread Eby Mani
It doesn't work, i get the the following, ** GNU LilyPond 2.16.0 Processing `testing.ly' Parsing... mendel.ly:970:27: error: syntax error, unexpected '.', expecting SCM_FUNCTION or SCM_IDENTIFIER or SCM_TOKEN   \override StaffSymbol   

Re: lyrics to music

2012-11-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Father Michael, the musician who puts some music together for us monks uses beams across syllables and words ... Exactly — this is one of the main reasons the standard is now to beam according to beat. There are too many situations where the lyrics in different verses of the same music

Re: roman numerals

2012-11-21 Thread David Kastrup
Kevin Patrick Barry barr...@tcd.ie writes: Thank you for the updated code; I can put an accidental in front of the numeral now just fine, but I can't seem to put one next to any of the numerals, or on its own (for altering the third above the bass). I tried various combinations of the

Re: changing staff size in \score context

2012-11-21 Thread David Kastrup
Eluze elu...@gmail.com writes: Eby Mani wrote Hi, I don't know how to change staff size in the following scenario, need to reduce the size of Organ staff in the score which should be given to the choir and vice versa for the Organist. Are there any commands that can be used in \score

Re: roman numerals

2012-11-21 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 7:23 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Kevin Patrick Barry barr...@tcd.ie writes: Thank you for the updated code; I can put an accidental in front of the numeral now just fine, but I can't seem to put one next to any of the numerals, or on its own (for

Re: changing staff size in \score context

2012-11-21 Thread Eluze
sorry I mixed up the different syntaxes and didn't respect the version Eby gave us but I'm really fond of this new and practical feature (don't more need to write *#*,* '*, *(* so many times …) Eluze -- View this message in context:

Vertical spacing of toplevel markups

2012-11-21 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Dear friends, I want to space text stanzas (as toplevel markups) evenly, whether they have 2, 4, 6 or more lines. But it seems the vertical spacing of markups looks at the distance from the first line of every markup and not at the distance from the last line to the first of the next: This

Re: Vertical spacing of toplevel markups

2012-11-21 Thread Eluze
Wilbert Berendsen-6 wrote Dear friends, I want to space text stanzas (as toplevel markups) evenly, whether they have 2, 4, 6 or more lines. But it seems the vertical spacing of markups looks at the distance from the first line of every markup and not at the distance from the last line to

Re: lyrics to music

2012-11-21 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary, mma
On Nov 21 AD 2012, at 8:18 AM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Father Michael, Hi Kieren! There are too many situations where the lyrics in different verses of the same music have different syllabic structure. At the risk of dragging this out --- I'm very grateful for all the input ---

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2012-11-21 Thread MING TSANG
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UnquieContext3

2012-11-21 Thread MING TSANG
Hi, lily user:  sorry for my previous empty email - it is by accident. verseBassVoice = \lyricmode { He's always been faithful. } bassVoicePart = \new Staff \with { instrumentName = Bass } { \clef bass \bassVoice } \addlyrics { \verseBassVoice } The above code produce an error. What is the

Re: UnquieContext3

2012-11-21 Thread Phil Holmes
--- Original Message - From: MING TSANG To: lilypond-usermailinglist Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 5:57 PM Subject: UnquieContext3 Hi, lily user: sorry for my previous empty email - it is by accident. verseBassVoice = \lyricmode { He's always been faithful. } bassVoicePart = \new

Re: UnquieContext3

2012-11-21 Thread MING TSANG
Phil, I have hard time creating scale down of codes that produce the error.  Here is the full .ly file. It has 274 lines.   Blessing in+, From: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net To: MING TSANG tsan...@rogers.com; lilypond-usermailinglist lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Vertical spacing of toplevel markups

2012-11-21 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:21:57 -0800 (PST) Eluze elu...@gmail.com schreef: you can circumvent that problem with an additional column and a variable spacing variable: that's nice, and a useful circumvention of the problem indeed, but I have to manually insert pagebreaks and to manually decide the

Re: roman numerals

2012-11-21 Thread Michael Rivers
It would be very nice if Roman numeral analysis were integrated with figured bass in Lilypond. David's code works very well for chorale textures. However, because durations aren't specified, if the left hand of a piano part, for instance, has 16th note arpeggios but only one harmony, one needs to

Re: Custom key signature stencils, differentiating major and minor keys

2012-11-21 Thread Paul Morris
On Nov 18, 2012, at 7:26 AM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: 2012/11/18 Paul Morris p...@paulwmorris.com: [...] I do have some small changes I made to my local copy that I'd like to add. They are for the accidental signs in the text -- better spacing and putting them

Re: lyrics to music

2012-11-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Father Michael, Since no one can look at both simultaneously (unless someone's eyes move independently of each other) there will be a preference for one or the other depending on one's chief focus. My sympathy will be to have the lyrics more readable. So you're going to write out the

Re: UnquieContext3

2012-11-21 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: MING TSANG To: Phil Holmes ; lilypond-usermailinglist Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 6:16 PM Subject: Re: UnquieContext3 Phil, I have hard time creating scale down of codes that produce the error. Here is the full .ly file. It has 274 lines.

Re: lyrics to music

2012-11-21 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary, mma
On Nov 21 AD 2012, at 1:49 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: So you're going to write out the music multiple times, each beamed differently to suit the different syllabic structures of each verse? As an engraver of a lot of multi-verse vocal music, I'm definitely glad I'll never have to face

Re: Question about page number position and ornamentation

2012-11-21 Thread Rustik
Thank you! It works! -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Question-about-page-number-position-and-ornamentation-tp136399p136677.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Header at every page

2012-11-21 Thread Rustik
SoundsFromSound wrote Here is information on creating headers and footers, along with formatting instructions. Headers http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/creating-titles-headers-and-footers -Ben Thank you! I maked headers at every page. But how i can make it beside

Re: UnquieContext3

2012-11-21 Thread MING TSANG
Hi, Phil: I forgot the \include.  Here I copy and paste for the .ly file.  I compile the .ly file and I did not get the uniqueContext3 error.  Bur the programmer error  Object is not a markup.  continuing, cross fingers   is still there. Starting lilypond.exe 2.17.7

Re: Note duration line (contemporary)

2012-11-21 Thread Nick Baskin
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Jethro Van Thuyne p...@jethro.be wrote: Is there any way to obtain this kind of notation in Lilypond (to show the duration of notes, in a proportional way, with thick lines)? cfr.

Re: pitched trill spanner always displays accidental?

2012-11-21 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/11/20 Jeffrey Trevino jeffrey.trevi...@gmail.com: Hi Harm, I should have used the word default instead of just asking about what is normal. I meant to ask how to change the default behavior of TrillPitchAccidental: With the code you have written, and the attributes I find in the IR

Re: Vertical spacing of toplevel markups

2012-11-21 Thread Eluze
Wilbert Berendsen-6 wrote Op Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:21:57 -0800 (PST) …, but I have to manually insert pagebreaks and to manually decide the right distance... It would be nice if I could change the markup-markup-spacing #'padding without starting a new \bookpart{} ... not sure if it can be

Re: UnquieContext3

2012-11-21 Thread Eluze
hi MING TSANG your score involves 5 parts of which at least 2 are empty: \score { \sopranoVoicePart \altoVoicePart \tenorVoicePart \bassVoicePart \pianoPart if you could send only the parts which produce the error (one is enough) and reduce that part to the error

Re: roman numerals

2012-11-21 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Michael, On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Michael Rivers michaeljriv...@gmail.com wrote: It would be very nice if Roman numeral analysis were integrated with figured bass in Lilypond. David's code works very well for chorale textures. However, because durations aren't specified, if the

Re: roman numerals

2012-11-21 Thread Curt
I'm just curious what other jazz-lead-sheet use cases that the current snippet might not be sufficient for? That might help with making a good feature request. :-) I've long thought that using roman numerals would be a good spruced up nashville notation for helping jazz session musicians

Re: roman numerals

2012-11-21 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Ming, On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:56 PM, MING TSANG tsan...@rogers.com wrote: I try to download rN.ly from http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg69861/rN.ly and I got error 404. I'm not sure why--I click on the link I gave in the other thread

Re: UnquieContext3

2012-11-21 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/11/21 MING TSANG tsan...@rogers.com: Phil, I have hard time creating scale down of codes that produce the error. Here is the full .ly file. It has 274 lines. Hi, and it makes no fun to work on such a large file. I strongly recommend to read or reread

review of a Mutopia file (why TabStaff gives error here?)

2012-11-21 Thread Federico Bruni
Hi LilyPonders, I've updated to 2.16 the following piece of Mutopia: http://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=636 Can anyone review it? I had to do a lot of changes... Also, I have a problem with TabStaff. When I started to update the input I used also TabStaff, then I commented

Re: roman numerals

2012-11-21 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Curt, On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Curt accou...@museworld.com wrote: I'm just curious what other jazz-lead-sheet use cases that the current snippet might not be sufficient for? That might help with making a good feature request. :-) I've long thought that using roman numerals would

Re: Header at every page

2012-11-21 Thread Nick Payne
On 22/11/12 06:59, Rustik wrote: SoundsFromSound wrote Here is information on creating headers and footers, along with formatting instructions. Headers http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/creating-titles-headers-and-footers -Ben Thank you! I maked headers at every

Re: roman numerals

2012-11-21 Thread David Nalesnik
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:35 PM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: I was thinking of chords like a Cm7b9 and the like. Well, that's an awful chord. I meant Cm7b5 which the example shows.. -David. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

arrow function

2012-11-21 Thread Kevin Patrick Barry
Dear LilyPond users, I would like to create a function that will draw a glissando with an arrow between two notes. I have the beginnings of a function but I don't know how to add properties like the arrowhead or change its size. Also it only works when I call the function before the first pitch

Re: roman numerals

2012-11-21 Thread Curt
Well that's just half-dim, but the other one is a good point. There are plenty of jazz chords with extensions that would be valuable to notate in roman numerals. V7 #11 b9 for instance. #5, b13, whatever. It seems like so much of this could be enabled just by allowing chord mode to accept

Re: review of a Mutopia file (why TabStaff gives error here?)

2012-11-21 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/11/22 Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com: Hi LilyPonders, I've updated to 2.16 the following piece of Mutopia: http://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=636 Can anyone review it? I had to do a lot of changes... Also, I have a problem with TabStaff. When I started to

Re: roman numerals

2012-11-21 Thread MING TSANG
Hi, David, It puzzles me.  I use my first generation ipod and I get the file.  But when I use 2 taptops (one using linus and one window 7) and desktop (window7) computers I got 404 error.  I use firefox on linux desktop.  I use chrome on window laptop. Is there any tech lily users have any

Re: arrow function

2012-11-21 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/11/22 Kevin Patrick Barry barr...@tcd.ie: Dear LilyPond users, I would like to create a function that will draw a glissando with an arrow between two notes. I have the beginnings of a function but I don't know how to add properties like the arrowhead or change its size. Also it only

Re: UnquieContext3

2012-11-21 Thread MING TSANG
Hi, Thomas Phil: I cut down the size of the .ly file - 157 lines. I got the following error - now it complains uniqueContext0 I have both verseSopranoVoiceI  verseSopranoVoiceII coded; but the \addlyric complains not found. Starting lilypond.exe 2.17.7

convert-ly not handling footnotes correctly

2012-11-21 Thread Nick Payne
In 2.15 I had footnotes set out like so: \version 2.15.35 \relative c'' { c4 c-\footnote #'(0.7 . 2) #'NoteHead \markup\teeny { Automatic footnote } c c-\footnote a) #'(0.7 . 2) #'NoteHead \markup\teeny { \concat { \lower #0.8 \super { a) } Manual footnote } } } With 2.15.35 this builds

Re: hspace behaviour

2012-11-21 Thread Keith OHara
Phil Burfitt phil.burfitt at talktalk.net writes: \markup { \override #'(circle-padding . 0.55) \fontsize #-2.5 { tune \circle 3 \hspace #-2 to f # } } though why am I having to do this? why is there so much space after the circled 3 ? The attempted fix for another bug

Re: review of a Mutopia file (why TabStaff gives error here?)

2012-11-21 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 22/11/2012 01:32, Thomas Morley ha scritto: Hi Federico, in one case you used \0 as StringNumber-indication. Seems it crashes when used in a TabStaff. Yup, I've removed it and TabStaff compiles. Now I realize that there are many string numbers missing in the second part of the piece.

Re: convert-ly not handling footnotes correctly

2012-11-21 Thread David Kastrup
Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net writes: In 2.15 I had footnotes set out like so: \version 2.15.35 \relative c'' { c4 c-\footnote #'(0.7 . 2) #'NoteHead \markup\teeny { Automatic footnote } c c-\footnote a) #'(0.7 . 2) #'NoteHead \markup\teeny { \concat { \lower #0.8 \super { a) }

Re: changing staff size in \score context

2012-11-21 Thread Eby Mani
Thanks, the file compiled with multiple warning: cannot resolve rest collision: rest direction not set errors in vocal part, where SA and TB rests are combined. I'm using the following, * global = {   \tempoMark   \tempo 8 = 132   \key g \major   \time 6/8   \set

Re: changing staff size in \score context

2012-11-21 Thread Eluze
Eby Mani wrote Thanks, the file compiled with multiple warning: cannot resolve rest collision: rest direction not set errors in vocal part, where SA and TB rests are combined. I'm using the following, * global = {   \tempoMark   \tempo 8 = 132   \key g