Color-coding \voiceXXX contents?

2013-04-10 Thread Urs Liska
Is it possible to hook into the \voiceXXX commands to (optionally) color-code them? This could be helpful when dealing with complex polyphonic situations. In my experience it is often enough to assign the right voice to get the spacing right, and it would be nice if the eye would be assisted

Re: Color-coding \voiceXXX contents?

2013-04-10 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/4/10 Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de: Is it possible to hook into the \voiceXXX commands to (optionally) color-code them? This could be helpful when dealing with complex polyphonic situations. In my experience it is often enough to assign the right voice to get the spacing right, and it

Re: Cropped output (à la -dpreview) possiblein Finale and Sibelius

2013-04-10 Thread Francisco Vila
2013/4/9 Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net: I commented in an earlier message that Sibelius, IMHO, produces witheringly appalling graphics output. Unaliased, with stems that attach to noteheads poorly. The image I attached earlier was not scanned, but used Sibelius's export to PNG function at

Re: Cropped output (à la -dpreview) possiblein Finale and Sibelius

2013-04-10 Thread Francisco Vila
2013/4/10 Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com: It must have been downsampled at some stage. I see stairs at 100% (1:1 to screen) Hm, probably I should see stairs in either case because pixels of my screen are bigger than cone cells of my retina, so to speak, but now I think I see them because

RE: musicxml2ly enhancements

2013-04-10 Thread Curt McDowell
How about allowing bar numbers as a letter+number, parsed similar to musical note+duration: B78 a,4 ( a4 ) ( b4 ) d4 | B79 e,4 ( f4 ) ( g4 ) a4 | Perhaps they could also double as bar checks: B78 a,4 ( a4 ) ( b4 ) d4 B79 e,4 ( f4 ) ( g4 ) a4 Or alternately, augment

RE: musicxml2ly enhancements

2013-04-10 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
%{ 5 %} a,4 ( a4 ) ( b4 ) d4 | instead. I like that. It's tedious to type manually, but a computer program doesn't know that word :-) Indeed, but i find it unreadable, especially if it was placed at every line. In general I think tools like musicxml2ly and other programs that convert

Re: musicxml2ly enhancements

2013-04-10 Thread Werner LEMBERG
%{ 5 %} a,4 ( a4 ) ( b4 ) d4 | I like that. It's tedious to type manually, but a computer program doesn't know that word :-) Indeed, but i find it unreadable, especially if it was placed at every line. Really? It's like having a BASIC program which always starts with a line number:

Re: call for italian users: translation of feathered beams and other terms

2013-04-10 Thread Davide Liessi
Ciao Federico, as in my previous email, Unreferenced statements are my personal opinions. Sources: [G] = Enciclopedia della Musica, Garzanti, Milano, 1996 [C] = Sandro Carnelos, Gli organi della diocesi di Vittorio Veneto, Vittorio Veneto, 2000 (a book that lists characteristics of each of

Frescobaldi/LilyPond timelapse video

2013-04-10 Thread Francisco Vila
Hello, I wanted to share this screencast with you. Duration: 1'29'' at 25x speed. http://lilypond.es/lilypond/timelapse-screencast/timelapse-aquaplane.webm also available as http://lilypond.es/lilypond/timelapse-screencast/timelapse-aquaplane.mp4 It shows trial and error, browsing manuals,

RE: Vocal music sheet - hyphens wrongly engraved

2013-04-10 Thread Jun Wang
Hi Phil I tried nwc2ly, the converted lilypond file version is 2.15.26. and It gave some syntax error under my 2.16.2 system.Any way to convert 2.15.26 to my current version or I have install a old version? ThanksJun From: m...@philholmes.net To: wj1...@hotmail.com; lilypond-user@gnu.org

Macro not working with 2.16

2013-04-10 Thread Alberto Simões
Hello Some time ago (years probably) somebody in this list helped me with this macro, for \inline that work anywhere in the music: partialInline = #(define-music-function (parser location nom den mus) (integer? integer? ly:music?) #{ \set Score.measurePosition =

Re: Macro not working with 2.16

2013-04-10 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello Alberto, the change was introduced in 2.13 or 2.15(?). If you remove the dollar signs inside the scheme expression ($nom - nom) (but not inside the lily code $mus), it should work: #{ \set Score.measurePosition = #(ly:make-moment (- nom) den) $mus #} HTH Jan-Peter Am 10.04.2013 14:50,

Re: Macro not working with 2.16

2013-04-10 Thread Alberto Simões
Hello, Jan-Peter On 10/04/13 14:01, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: Hello Alberto, the change was introduced in 2.13 or 2.15(?). If you remove the dollar signs inside the scheme expression ($nom - nom) (but not inside the lily code $mus), it should work: #{ \set Score.measurePosition =

Re: Cropped output (à la -dpreview) possible in Finale and Sibelius

2013-04-10 Thread Carl Peterson
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 4:45 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com writes: I'm not an expert on GhostScript, but in practice it is nearly always best to rasterize vector graphics at the intended output resolution. Except when it isn't. What makes you

Re: Macro not working with 2.16

2013-04-10 Thread David Kastrup
Alberto Simões al...@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt writes: Hello Some time ago (years probably) somebody in this list helped me with this macro, for \inline that work anywhere in the music: Now I get some complains with 2.16: If you had upgraded your files/macro using convert-ly, everything

Re: Cropped output (à la -dpreview) possible in Finale and Sibelius

2013-04-10 Thread David Kastrup
Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 4:45 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com writes: I'm not an expert on GhostScript, but in practice it is nearly always best to rasterize vector graphics at

Re: Vocal music sheet - hyphens wrongly engraved

2013-04-10 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/4/10 Jun Wang wj1...@hotmail.com: Hi Phil I tried nwc2ly, the converted lilypond file version is 2.15.26. and It gave some syntax error under my 2.16.2 system. Any way to convert 2.15.26 to my current version or I have install a old version? sure, just use convert-ly:

Re: Cropped output (à la -dpreview) possiblein Finale and Sibelius

2013-04-10 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com To: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net Cc: LilyPond-User list lilypond-user@gnu.org; David Kastrup d...@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 8:20 AM Subject: Re: Cropped output (à la -dpreview) possiblein Finale and

Re: Macro not working with 2.16

2013-04-10 Thread SoundsFromSound
Hi Alberto, What does your macro do exactly? Just curious, thanks! Looks nice! Alberto Simões-2 wrote Hello Some time ago (years probably) somebody in this list helped me with this macro, for \inline that work anywhere in the music: partialInline = #(define-music-function

Re: Macro not working with 2.16

2013-04-10 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/4/10 SoundsFromSound soundsfromso...@gmail.com: Hi Alberto, What does your macro do exactly? Just curious, thanks! It's a substitution-function (see: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/extending/intermediate-substitution-functions ) for `measurePosition' (see Nr 1.2.6:

Re: Frescobaldi/LilyPond timelapse video

2013-04-10 Thread Federico Bruni
2013/4/10 Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com I wanted to share this screencast with you. Duration: 1'29'' at 25x speed. http://lilypond.es/lilypond/timelapse-screencast/timelapse-aquaplane.webm also available as http://lilypond.es/lilypond/timelapse-screencast/timelapse-aquaplane.mp4 It

Re: Frescobaldi/LilyPond timelapse video

2013-04-10 Thread Urs Liska
Am 10.04.2013 22:18, schrieb Federico Bruni: 2013/4/10 Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com mailto:paconet@gmail.com I wanted to share this screencast with you. Duration: 1'29'' at 25x speed. http://lilypond.es/lilypond/timelapse-screencast/timelapse-aquaplane.webm also

Re: Frescobaldi/LilyPond timelapse video

2013-04-10 Thread Denis Bitouzé
Le mercredi 10/04/13 à 22h18, Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com a écrit : maybe too fast to be understandable I guess one is supposed to be replay at a lower speed if he's interested in some point. -- Denis ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: call for italian users: translation of feathered beams and other terms

2013-04-10 Thread Federico Bruni
2013/4/10 Davide Liessi dal...@gmail.com direct I can't understand this glossary entry, since there isn't enough context. I don't think it is specifically a musical term, and I couldn't find occurrences of direct in NR with a different meaning from the usual, literal, common one. Why is

Re: musicxml2ly enhancements

2013-04-10 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 10 Apr 2013, at 11:38 , Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Just like my lilypond scores I often still write (simple) html code using just Vim. Maybe I'm just getting old and old fashioned :-) +1, we're not alone.. Regards, Wim. ___ lilypond-user

Frescobaldi/LilyPond timelapse video

2013-04-10 Thread Timothy Reeves
Nice! I tended to pay attention to the changes in the output which kept me from seeing what was happening on the input side...I guess I could watch again with different focus but it might be hard... I agree slower would be better. Nice wallpaper, btw! -- Tim Reeves timothyrree...@gmail.com