For those who need new features and bug fixes...

2012-12-21 Thread m...@mikesolomon.org
Hey all, I have two 16ish-hour flights this holiday season and I'll be filling them with composition, Sudoku, and LilyPond programming. So, this is the time to send me: 1) Features you need implemented. 2) Bugs you need fixed. 3) Things you need reviewed. I'll get as many of them done as I

Re: Tweaking notehead direction in chords

2012-12-21 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com writes: (2) LilyPond So far so good and LilyPond _does_ it quite good. Though, the amount of covering the stem-width isn't the same for left and right printed noteheads. For up-stems a left-printed notehead covers the whole stem-width but a

Re: Grace note spacing and barcheck difficulty in bagpipe music

2012-12-21 Thread Trevor Daniels
Ben you wrote Friday, December 21, 2012 5:29 AM I am stumped, but happy. I say that because LilyPond renders the tune correctly and does not error on bar checks etc unless you have the second \time 3/4 in the score block. I know that removing the second \time 3/4 from the score block fixed

Re: For those who need new features and bug fixes...

2012-12-21 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: m...@mikesolomon.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org; lilypond-de...@gnu.org Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 8:03 AM Subject: For those who need new features and bug fixes... Hey all, I have two 16ish-hour flights this holiday season and I'll be filling them

Re: For those who need new features and bug fixes...

2012-12-21 Thread m...@mikesolomon.org
On 21 déc. 2012, at 11:33, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net writes: - Original Message - From: m...@mikesolomon.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org; lilypond-de...@gnu.org Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 8:03 AM Subject: For those who need new

Re: For those who need new features and bug fixes...

2012-12-21 Thread David Kastrup
m...@mikesolomon.org m...@mikesolomon.org writes: I agree that moment addition and subtraction is a royal pain. If I tackled this, which I might, the solution would be more general in the form of what I call stream filters. I'd strongly recommend against that: the only reliable way to

Re: For those who need new features and bug fixes...

2012-12-21 Thread m...@mikesolomon.org
On 21 déc. 2012, at 12:17, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: m...@mikesolomon.org m...@mikesolomon.org writes: I agree that moment addition and subtraction is a royal pain. If I tackled this, which I might, the solution would be more general in the form of what I call stream filters.

Re: For those who need new features and bug fixes...

2012-12-21 Thread David Kastrup
m...@mikesolomon.org m...@mikesolomon.org writes: My goal is not to prepend an extra mechanism because the current one fails. It does not really matter what you call your goal with respect to issue 34 as long as this is going to be what you are doing. With respect to graces, we actually need

Re: For those who need new features and bug fixes...

2012-12-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mike, I have two 16ish-hour flights this holiday season and I'll be filling them with composition, Sudoku, and LilyPond programming. So, this is the time to send me: 1) Features you need implemented. 2) Bugs you need fixed. 3) Things you need reviewed. I'll get as many of them done

Re: 4-Drum Conga Notation in LilyPond

2012-12-21 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/12/18 Eric Pancer epan...@gmail.com: [...] How do I make things like this work with your example: (muteconga () stopped 1) or opentumba . ,(ly:make-pitch 0 -1 NATURAL)) Can I put that all in a new drum definition and have the corresponding MIDI files generated properly? Thank

Re: For those who need new features and bug fixes...

2012-12-21 Thread Aleksandr Andreev
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: The big ones for me are: 1. The completion of Janek's GSoC work on Lyrics. +1!! Aleksandr ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: note heads sharing a beam, some stems without heads

2012-12-21 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Try this : \version 2.16.1 % ?? \new PianoStaff \new Staff = up \relative c' { \stopStaff \override Staff.TimeSignature #'transparent = ##t \override Staff.Clef #'transparent = ##t \stemDown \set subdivideBeams = ##t \set baseMoment = #(ly:make-moment 3

Re: For those who need new features and bug fixes...

2012-12-21 Thread m...@mikesolomon.org
On 21 déc. 2012, at 15:05, Aleksandr Andreev aleksandr.andr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: The big ones for me are: 1. The completion of Janek's GSoC work on Lyrics. +1!! Aleksandr Janek is currently

Re: note heads sharing a beam, some stems without heads

2012-12-21 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com wrote: Try this : \version 2.16.1 % ?? \new PianoStaff \new Staff = up \relative c' { \stopStaff \override Staff.TimeSignature #'transparent = ##t \override Staff.Clef

Re: Tweaking notehead direction in chords

2012-12-21 Thread Paul Morris
On Dec 20, 2012, at 7:51 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: We should provide a shorter example than my last. I used the custom-note-heads only for advanced testings. I'd prefer a double-line, though, above the original, below the tweaked version. Sounds good to me. I

Re: note heads sharing a beam, some stems without heads

2012-12-21 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Instead of figuring out the stem length yourself, why not use the Span_stem_engraver? See this snippet: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/snippets/staff-notation#staff-notation-cross-staff-stems HTH, David Yeah good gess David ! actuyally I'm a guitarist so I don't know a

Can not get my layout right

2012-12-21 Thread Daniel Roussel
Hi, I'm a new lilypond user and I'm currently doing my first transcription. I'm mostly done, the music, the lyrics, the rhythm staff and the fret diagrams are pretty much to my liking. My problem now is with the vertical spacing. I'd like to have more space under the Title and Instrument and

Re: For those who need new features and bug fixes...

2012-12-21 Thread Urs Liska
Am 21.12.2012 09:03, schrieb m...@mikesolomon.org: Hey all, I have two 16ish-hour flights this holiday season and I'll be filling them with composition, Sudoku, and LilyPond programming. So, this is the time to send me: 1) Features you need implemented. I think the idea of having LilyPond

Re: Can not get my layout right

2012-12-21 Thread James Worlton
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Daniel Roussel dan...@droussel.org wrote: Hi, I'm a new lilypond user and I'm currently doing my first transcription. I'm mostly done, the music, the lyrics, the rhythm staff and the fret diagrams are pretty much to my liking. My problem now is with the

Re: Can not get my layout right

2012-12-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Daniel, I'm a new lilypond user Welcome!! My problem now is with the vertical spacing. There is a very comprehensive and excellent section of the documentation on vertical spacing: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/vertical-spacing Hope this helps! Kieren.

Re: Can not get my layout right

2012-12-21 Thread Eluze
Daniel Roussel wrote My problem now is with the vertical spacing. I'd like to have more space under the Title and Instrument and the score itself and I'd also like to reduce the large spacing between the music lines; the space between the rhythm staff and the next line fret diagrams.

RE: note heads sharing a beam, some stems without heads

2012-12-21 Thread Christopher Brooks
Pierre, Thanks. That’s gorgeous. Christopher Brooks violinist 925 Virginia Avenue Lancaster, PA 17603 717-291-9123 cbro...@orpheus-acoustics.com From: Pierre Perol-Schneider [mailto:pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 9:15 AM To: Christopher Brooks

Re: measures per system

2012-12-21 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Kieren, On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi David, In the interests of making the user interface friendlier, I added a feature for specifying repeats. You can now write something like this: \consists #(bars-per-line-engraver '(5 7*5

Re: measures per system

2012-12-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, Attached you'll find a engraver which seems to work. Thanks! and... if you didn't account for all the bars in the score, LilyPond should revert to normal line-breaking and pagination for the remaining measures. Excellent! Shortcut--well, maybe not, but more user-friendly: The

Re: Can not get my layout right

2012-12-21 Thread Daniel Roussel
Thank you, I read this section and tried to use those before posting to the mailing list and it would do nothing. In the end, it was a simple case of properly RTM. Those properties do not take numeric values but rather alists. I finally got my score to look like pretty much like I wanted.

Re: Grace note spacing and barcheck difficulty in bagpipe music

2012-12-21 Thread Ben Beeson
Hi Trevor, Thanks for pointing that out to me. I will remember that. Cheers and Thanks Again, Ben On Fri, 2012-12-21 at 09:06 +, Trevor Daniels wrote: Ben you wrote Friday, December 21, 2012 5:29 AM I am stumped, but happy. I say that because LilyPond renders the tune correctly

Syntax for make-dynamic-script

2012-12-21 Thread Richard Shann
Can anyone spot what is wrong with this? \version 2.16 MvmntIVoiceI = { #(make-dynamic-script (markup #:normal-text #:bold #:italic pia.)) a'4 } \score { \MvmntIVoiceI } It is supposed to place a customized dynamics pia. on the score. It does this, but the

Re: Can not get my layout right

2012-12-21 Thread Nick Payne
On 22/12/12 05:44, Daniel Roussel wrote: Thank you, I read this section and tried to use those before posting to the mailing list and it would do nothing. In the end, it was a simple case of properly RTM. Those properties do not take numeric values but rather alists. I finally got my

combining multimeasure rests

2012-12-21 Thread Shevek
I am finding that there are many situations in which it is useful for me to insert a tagged command in the midst of a block multimeasure rest, for example to manually set the partcombine mode. When I extract the individual parts, though, I need to be able to consolidate multimeasure rests except

Re: measures per system

2012-12-21 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Kieren, On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: I'll be testing it heavily in the next day or so, and will report back. So far (with a couple quick tests on my current big score), it seems amazing! Good to hear! or have suggestions for

Re: Can not get my layout right

2012-12-21 Thread Daniel Roussel
Thank you, I read this section and tried to use those before posting to the mailing list and it would do nothing. In the end, it was a simple case of properly RTM. Those properties do not take numeric values but rather alists. I finally got my score to look like pretty much like I wanted.

Re: Syntax for make-dynamic-script

2012-12-21 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 21 December 2012 19:57, Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net wrote: Can anyone spot what is wrong with this? (snip) It is supposed to place a customized dynamics pia. on the score. It does this, but the point-and-click location given is textedit://filename:0:0:0 that is, no line or

Re: Syntax for make-dynamic-script

2012-12-21 Thread David Kastrup
Xavier Scheuer x.sche...@gmail.com writes: On 21 December 2012 19:57, Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net wrote: Can anyone spot what is wrong with this? (snip) It is supposed to place a customized dynamics pia. on the score. It does this, but the point-and-click location given is

Re: Syntax for make-dynamic-script

2012-12-21 Thread Luca Rossetto Casel
Il 22/12/2012 00:58, David Kastrup ha scritto: It is not clear to me why one would want a dynamic-script here: it is formatted like a non-dynamic script and pia means devout in Italian which is not really a dynamic instruction. Dear David, dear list, in 17-18th (and, more rarely, 19th)

Macro function for changing the size of a single staff

2012-12-21 Thread Paul Morris
Hi all, To resize a single staff you have to change three different settings, using the same value for each[1]. This felt redundant and complex, so I wrote a little macro function that sets all three at once, simplifying the process. Maybe others will find it useful too. See the snippet

Re: For those who need new features and bug fixes...

2012-12-21 Thread Jeffrey Trevino
Dear Mikey, Some chunk of this time might be usefully spent writing a crystal clear, step-by-step Scheme tutorial that explains how to create custom engravers and grobs, query position information of objects in the process, and use these in-line in lilypond code. Thanks for asking and happy

Re: For those who need new features and bug fixes...

2012-12-21 Thread m...@mikesolomon.org
On 22 déc. 2012, at 06:57, Jeffrey Trevino jeffrey.trevi...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Mikey, Some chunk of this time might be usefully spent writing a crystal clear, step-by-step Scheme tutorial that explains how to create custom engravers and grobs, query position information of objects in the

Re: Macro function for changing the size of a single staff

2012-12-21 Thread Paul Morris
On Dec 22, 2012, at 12:49 AM, Jeffrey Trevino jeffrey.trevi...@gmail.com wrote: Doesn't set-global-staff-size do this already? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Setting-the-staff-size Yes, but the difference is that set-global-staff-size sets the size _globally_ for

Re: For those who need new features and bug fixes...

2012-12-21 Thread m...@mikesolomon.org
On 21 déc. 2012, at 16:10, Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de wrote: Am 21.12.2012 09:03, schrieb m...@mikesolomon.org: Hey all, I have two 16ish-hour flights this holiday season and I'll be filling them with composition, Sudoku, and LilyPond programming. So, this is the time to send me: 1)

Re: Syntax for make-dynamic-script

2012-12-21 Thread Richard Shann
On Sat, 2012-12-22 at 00:58 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: For getting a copy with individual location data, you indeed need to write $(make-dynamic-script I replaced # with $ and this worked perfectly - I can now drag the pia. indication about on the final typeset pdf displayed in Denemo just