Re: RUMOR Midi utility Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

2013-01-08 Thread SoundsFromSound
I am on Ubuntu 12.10 - how can I log in as anything other than the default Unity? I have no pull-down menus or options on my generic/default login screen with my user name. It just logs me in w/ a password, as normal. Thanks for the help! I'd really like to avoid/fix this bug...it's killing my

Re: RUMOR Midi utility Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

2013-01-08 Thread David Kastrup
SoundsFromSound soundsfromso...@gmail.com writes: I am on Ubuntu 12.10 - how can I log in as anything other than the default Unity? I have no pull-down menus or options on my generic/default login screen with my user name. There is sort of a star on the login window in the shape of a man.

Re: Evince (Was: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?)

2013-01-08 Thread Carlo Stemberger
Il 08/01/2013 08:14, Johan Vromans ha scritto: Although I use evince all of the time, I never use it for printing LilyPond scores. There are (very long standing) bugs in its printing engine that particularly affect LilyPond pdfs. For example, vertical bars are printed be much too black, and

Multiple voices Stem

2013-01-08 Thread EmilLask
Hi, I want to unifie the stem of notes with same value but in different voice. EX. \include italiano.ly \parallelMusic #'(voiceA voiceB voiceC){ fa4.fa8 | \stemUp re4. re8 | \stemDown re16 la re mi fa re fa

Re: Evince

2013-01-08 Thread Johan Vromans
Carlo Stemberger carlo.stember...@gmail.com writes: Maybe fixed? https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20714 That could very well be the case. After a couple of years on non-response I lost interest in the bug and just stuck to never print LilyPond pdf's with evince... -- Johan

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-01-08 Thread Josiah Boothby
I'd like to collect some suggestion for a replacement font for Century Schoolbook. So far, Linux Libertine[1] has been my go-to replacement font, especially when I want to be more economical with horizontal space. It's not the most beautiful font in the world, but it does look good on paper,

Re: sophisticated SystemStartBar callback needed

2013-01-08 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca To: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 5:26 AM Subject: Re: sophisticated SystemStartBar callback needed Hi Phil, Why do you need

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2013-01-08 Thread James Harkins
Antonio Gervasoni agervasoni at gmail.com writes: There is one reason: software like Sibelius and Finale need even more tweaks than Lilypond! For a concrete example of this (never mind the vacation chatter): http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words/blog5.php/2011/07/11/the-year-s-over-and-done

Re: Multiple voices Stem

2013-01-08 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: EmilLask laske...@gmail.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 10:12 AM Subject: Multiple voices Stem Hi, I want to unifie the stem of notes with same value but in different voice. EX. \include italiano.ly \parallelMusic

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-01-08 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 01/08/2013 11:23 AM, Josiah Boothby wrote: I'd like to collect some suggestion for a replacement font for Century Schoolbook. [...] Another source of open fonts that may be of sufficient quality for use in scores is Arkandis Digital Foundry[4]. [...] 4.

Re: Multiple voices Stem

2013-01-08 Thread EmilLask
Thanks, I want to keep the three different voices, but the separate stems produce a bad look, like 1/16 instead of 1/8. Emil -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Multiple-voices-Stem-tp139025p139032.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at

Re: Multiple voices Stem

2013-01-08 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: LaskEmilgmail angeloscozzare...@gmail.com To: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 10:40 AM Subject: Re: Multiple voices Stem Thanks, I want to keep the three different voices, but the separate stems produce a bad look, like

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2013-01-08 Thread Noeck
Am 08.01.2013 08:09, schrieb Werner LEMBERG: If you have a whole passage of tuplets, then... [...] And with a small music function like [...] Excellent, but I would say that only musicians who are also programmers and with a good knowledge of Scheme might be able to figure out such

Use functions within functions

2013-01-08 Thread Noeck
Hi, how can I use a self-defined function with in another one? I tried the following pseudo-code, but then myfunc is no valid function name in the scope of the second function. --ly-file--- #(… scheme function definition of function myfunc …) #(…

Re: Use functions within functions

2013-01-08 Thread David Kastrup
Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de writes: Hi, how can I use a self-defined function with in another one? I tried the following pseudo-code, but then myfunc is no valid function name in the scope of the second function. --ly-file--- #(… scheme function

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-01-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 07.01.2013 10:14, schrieb Urs Liska: Dear community, I'd like to collect some suggestion for a replacement font for Century Schoolbook. Hi all, thank you for your diverse suggestions. I found quite a number of fonts that seem to be very fine and deserve a closer look. I'm still not

Re: Use functions within functions

2013-01-08 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Noeck, here's a little snippet with a nonsense-function, embedding one function in another in two ways: %--snip-- \version 2.16.1 % define a music function funA = #(define-music-function (parser location x y)(number? number?) (ly:input-message location I am here!)

Re: Measure counter

2013-01-08 Thread Eluze
David G wrote I'm currently using code based on the snippet in http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/snippets/repeats#repeats-measure-counterto create numbers above bars where they are repeated. However this starts with a number 2 above the second bar, and I would like a 1 above the

Re: Measure counter

2013-01-08 Thread David G
Hi Eluze, I'm not at my computer to check my actual code, but it is only trivially different from the snippet I linked from the lilypond documentation (copied here): \context Voice = foo { \clef bass c4 r g r c4 r g r c4 r g r c4 r g r } \context Voice = foo { \set

Re: Multiple voices Stem

2013-01-08 Thread EmilLask
This is what I want to. But, is there a better way to do it? ex. \include italiano.ly \parallelMusic #'(voiceA voiceB voiceC){ \autoBeamOff fa4. fa8| \stemUp re4. \override Flag #'style = #'no-flag re8 | \stemDown re16 la re mi fa re

Re: Measure counter

2013-01-08 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi David, On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:25 PM, David G castle.cub...@gmail.com wrote: I'm currently using code based on the snippet in http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/snippets/repeats#repeats-measure-counterto create numbers above bars where they are repeated. However this starts

lilypond-book include *.ly, cannot find file

2013-01-08 Thread Cognac Natanael
Hello Everybody, I’m using : \include ../config.inc.ly in the beginning of all my lilypond scores, and : \include ../new.score.ly at the end. It works smoothly with lilypond. But now, I’m trying to make a book with lilypond-book latex and include the scores into it, and I've got this message

Repeat in Score and in Midi

2013-01-08 Thread EmilLask
Hi, If I introduce a repeat (\repeat volta 2 or \bar :|) the Score is perfect, but the midi doesn't repeat the measures. Is it possible to do it? Thanks Emil -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Repeat-in-Score-and-in-Midi-tp139046.html Sent from the

Re: Repeat in Score and in Midi

2013-01-08 Thread David Kastrup
EmilLask laske...@gmail.com writes: Hi, If I introduce a repeat (\repeat volta 2 or \bar :|) the Score is perfect, but the midi doesn't repeat the measures. Is it possible to do it? URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/repeats-in-midi -- David Kastrup

Re: lilypond-book include *.ly, cannot find file

2013-01-08 Thread Olivier Biot
On Jan 8, 2013 4:13 PM, Cognac Natanael natanael.cog...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everybody, I’m using : \include ../config.inc.ly in the beginning of all my lilypond scores, and : \include ../new.score.ly at the end. It works smoothly with lilypond. But now, I’m trying to make a book

Re: Repeat in Score and in Midi

2013-01-08 Thread EmilLask
Thank you. ex. \parallelMusic #'(voiceA voiceB) { \key b \minor \time 4/4 \voiceOne \unfoldRepeats { \repeat volta 2 { b4. d16 e fis8 d cis b} | \repeat volta 2 { b,4 fis' d e} | } ais8 g' fis e d cis16 d e8 cis | fis4 ais fis cis | fis2 ~ fis8 e16 d cis8 b | d4 cis b

Re: lilypond-book include *.ly, cannot find file

2013-01-08 Thread Cognac Natanael
Thank you very much for your answer Olivier, There is no spaces or fancy character in my directories or files names. And I think I’ve tried l’option that you've mentionned, and I tried with the option you’ve mentionned : lilypond-book --include=my-lilypond-repertory/ But after some new tests, I

Re: Multiple voices Stem

2013-01-08 Thread Eluze
Am 08.01.2013 14:58, schrieb EmilLask: This is what I want to. But, is there a better way to do it? I'm not familiar with parallel input, but transforming your code - the first 2 voices in a chord - you would get (with no overrides or reverts needed): \language italiano voiceA = {

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2013-01-08 Thread Antonio Gervasoni
Werner Lemberg writes: I disagree. All the knowledge is collected in the Lilypond Snippet Repository (LSR) and this very mailing list. So users should be able to look up the LSR and to search the archive of this list. And in case someone doesn't find a solution, writing to the list is the

Re: lilypond-book include *.ly, cannot find file

2013-01-08 Thread Olivier Biot
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Cognac Natanael natanael.cog...@gmail.comwrote: Thank you very much for your answer Olivier, There is no spaces or fancy character in my directories or files names. Okay, so you don't need to use quotes around the directory names (not that it hurts having

Re: Measure counter

2013-01-08 Thread David G
That is marvellous - thank you very much! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: grace notes break preceding ties in MIDI

2013-01-08 Thread Eluze
Adam Spiers-5 wrote thanks Adams I've added an issue to the tracker: https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3091thanks=3091ts=1357666391 I'm not aware of a workaround - I could imagine using 2 voices, one without the grace the other with just the grace and a muted note - but this

Re: lilypond-book include *.ly, cannot find file

2013-01-08 Thread Cognac Natanael
Thank you very much for your very precise answer. So now it works like a charm. I used your script with a few changes : -- #!/bin/bash CURRENT_DIR=$(pwd) includespec= for i in $CURRENT_DIR/lilypond/* ; do if [[ -d $i ]] ; then includespec=$includespec --include=$i/ fi done

Re: new piece, typesetted with lilypond

2013-01-08 Thread Eluze
Stefan Thomas-5 wrote Dear community, my newest piece for piano, synthesizer and percussion will be premiered this saturday in the Tonhalle in Düsseldorf, Germany Is it possible to make an anouncement at the lilypond-website? not sure how it works, what the policies are, but following the

Re: grace notes break preceding ties in MIDI

2013-01-08 Thread Adam Spiers
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Eluze elu...@gmail.com wrote: I've added an issue to the tracker: https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3091thanks=3091ts=1357666391 Thanks! I'm not aware of a workaround - I could imagine using 2 voices, one without the grace the other with just

Re: new piece, typesetted with lilypond

2013-01-08 Thread Urs Liska
There is the 'Pondings' box in the top right corner of lilypond.org. I think this is still maintained by Mike Solomon? I suggest you send him a short text (or ask him first). HTH Urs Am 08.01.2013 18:51, schrieb Eluze: Stefan Thomas-5 wrote Dear community, my newest piece for piano,

Guide to Writing Orchestral Scores with Lilypond?????

2013-01-08 Thread Antonio Gervasoni
About a year ago, when I discovered Lilypond, I decided that the best way to learn it was to typeset an old composition and compare the result to the first score. I then decided that the work should be an orchestral work I composed back in 2003, mainly because it is a very complicated score - a

Shifting ties horizontally

2013-01-08 Thread Luigi
hello, i wrote some code to obtain staff where i can write some guitar rhythms with slash noteheads. All is fine except the fact, ties are tracked from center of standard note, and so the tie looks not very nice. It should start and end to the lowest point of the slash. Sorry i'm tweaking from 2

Re: Guide to Writing Orchestral Scores with Lilypond?????

2013-01-08 Thread SoundsFromSound
Hi Antonio, That's very kind of you to offer your own personal documentation on how you grasped LilyPond and its power. I'm sure that if you put together a PDF guide and uploaded it somewhere (Dropbox, your site, etc) and posted the link here in the mailing list, many would be grateful and

Re: Shifting ties horizontally

2013-01-08 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 08/01/2013 20:18, Luigi ha scritto: hello, i wrote some code to obtain staff where i can write some guitar rhythms with slash noteheads. All is fine except the fact, ties are tracked from center of standard note, and so the tie looks not very nice. It should start and end to the lowest point

Re: Shifting ties horizontally

2013-01-08 Thread Luigi
Federico Bruni fedelogy at gmail.com writes: Il 08/01/2013 20:18, Luigi ha scritto: hello, i wrote some code to obtain staff where i can write some guitar rhythms with slash noteheads. All is fine except the fact, ties are tracked from center of standard note, and so the tie looks

Re: Shifting ties horizontally

2013-01-08 Thread karol
You have to use shape-tie function. First create file shape-tie.ly and paste the following code: Then include shape-tie.ly in your document and you can do something like: Those numbers are vector pairs (x y x y x y x y). Each pair refers to different control point (thera are four control

Re: Shifting ties horizontally

2013-01-08 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:10 PM, karol karo...@wp.pl wrote: You have to use shape-tie function. First create file shape-tie.ly and paste the following code: The \shape command is available in the current stable release (and as far back as 2.15.40. if I remember correctly). HTH, David

Re: Guide to Writing Orchestral Scores with Lilypond?????

2013-01-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.01.2013 20:02, schrieb Antonio Gervasoni: ... Now, I'm almost done and I'm thinking about publishing a complete description of how I did it. Not that I think that my process for creating such a score is the right one or even the best one! I just want to share it with other users that

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-01-08 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2013-01-08 um 11:36 schrieb Alexander Kobel: On 01/08/2013 11:23 AM, Josiah Boothby wrote: I'd like to collect some suggestion for a replacement font for Century Schoolbook. [...] Another source of open fonts that may be of sufficient quality for use in scores is Arkandis Digital

Re: Guide to Writing Orchestral Scores with Lilypond?????

2013-01-08 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Antonio, Ben, Urs, others, The idea of writing a Guide to writing an orchestral score with LilyPond is a very, very good idea. Not replacing the learning manual but as an addition with e.g. an orchestral example build in stages (with all the intermediate files available for who is

Re: lilypond-book include *.ly, cannot find file

2013-01-08 Thread Julien Rioux
On 08/01/2013 4:28 AM, Cognac Natanael wrote: Hello Everybody, I’m using : \include ../config.inc.ly in the beginning of all my lilypond scores, and : \include ../new.score.ly at the end. It works smoothly with lilypond. But now, I’m trying to make a book with lilypond-book latex and include

Re: lilypond-book include *.ly, cannot find file

2013-01-08 Thread Julien Rioux
On 08/01/2013 11:50 AM, Cognac Natanael wrote: Thank you very much for your answer Olivier, There is no spaces or fancy character in my directories or files names. And I think I’ve tried l’option that you've mentionned, and I tried with the option you’ve mentionned : lilypond-book

Tuplets (was: Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond)

2013-01-08 Thread Noeck
\set tupletSpannerDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 4) How about a command like \partial? \tupletDuration 4 % equivalent to the above command ( The rare case \tupletDuration 4*3 would be \set tupletSpannerDuration = #(ly:make-moment 3 4) ) Is there a possibility to either a) split after the

Re: Guide to Writing Orchestral Scores with Lilypond?????

2013-01-08 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Wim, this deserves a more detailed answer than I can afford right now. For now I'd only want to let you know that you _are_ welcome. Best Urs Am 08.01.2013 22:57, schrieb Wim van Dommelen: Hi Antonio, Ben, Urs, others, The idea of writing a Guide to writing an orchestral score with

Re: Layout behaviour arising from '\set chordChanges = ##t'

2013-01-08 Thread Eluze
thanks for you input! I also feel this rendering is not correct or - at least - should be adaptable. probably there should be an option ChordNamesLengthOn/Off similar to \textLengthOn to control this behavior (I'm not sure this would be sufficient) I don't think that your workaround is really

Re: BalloonGrobText spacing

2013-01-08 Thread Noeck
Am 06.01.2013 11:37, schrieb Eluze: Noeck wrote … the BalloonGrobText should not influence the positioning of the rest using \balloonLengthOff it's very important to hit the correct context when overriding properties! Thanks, I expected something like that, but these cases still remain:

Re: BalloonGrobText spacing

2013-01-08 Thread Noeck
Noeck wrote Thanks, I expected something like that, but these cases still remain: \version 2.17.7 I updated to 2.17.9 and there it works as expected. Sorry for the noise. Joram ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Guide to Writing Orchestral Scores with Lilypond?????

2013-01-08 Thread Antonio Gervasoni
Wow! I didn't expect all this enthusiasm and eagerness to collaborate... at least no so fast! Ben wrote: That's very kind of you to offer your own personal documentation on how you grasped LilyPond and its power. I'm sure that if you put together a PDF guide and uploaded it somewhere

Baroque lute tablature

2013-01-08 Thread Andrew Bernard
Greetings List, What is the present situation with regard to lilypond being able to set baroque lute tablature? Is anybody working on this? Is there any interest in the matter? Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Repeat in Score and in Midi

2013-01-08 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 08.01.2013 17:02, schrieb EmilLask: Thank you. ex. \parallelMusic #'(voiceA voiceB) { [...] \bar :|: \bar ... tells LilyPond to draw this specific bar line *without* being interpreted musically. To make MIDI work as expected, you'll have to use \repeat ... and \unfoldRepeats,

Re: Baroque lute tablature

2013-01-08 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 09/01/2013 06:05, Andrew Bernard ha scritto: Greetings List, What is the present situation with regard to lilypond being able to set baroque lute tablature? Is anybody working on this? Is there any interest in the matter? Andrew Hi Andrew I see that this request has been added recently

Tremelo Fails To Compile

2013-01-08 Thread Bob Langford
Greetings, 2.14.2 4/4 time This halts the compiler: \repeat tremolo 8 { bes16 e } I'd like to print one measure of alternating 16th notes between Bb and E. This works \repeat tremolo 4 { bes16 e } \repeat tremolo 4 { bes16 e } but I want the whole note, not two half-notes. Is there

RE: LilyPondXs

2013-01-08 Thread Kristina Vuckovic
Thanks everyone for the help - I think I'll start with Mutopia Project as Sven suggested :) Kristina Looking briefly at what NooJ seems to do, I assume you want to get access to a music corpus in Lilypond format to do some analysis on. Carlo has already suggested a possible way of translating

Re: Shifting ties horizontally

2013-01-08 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 08/01/2013 21:15, David Nalesnik ha scritto: Hi, On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:10 PM, karol karo...@wp.pl mailto:karo...@wp.pl wrote: You have to use shape-tie function. First create file shape-tie.ly http://shape-tie.ly and paste the following code: The \shape command is available