Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-27 Thread Johan Vromans
Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org writes: I use http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/software, which I think has been mentioned elsewhere in the thread. As being a 404? -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: variables tied with slurs

2013-09-27 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello Alexander, the \drums command implicitly creates a new DrumStaff, so I recommend using \drummode for this purpose. If you have basic patterns, which shall receive random ties, you can create SimultaneousMusic with a construct and overlay the patterns with the needed ties: --snip--

RE: \path command

2013-09-27 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, Curt McDowell wrote: Here's something like that, but using \postscript instead of \path. I can't get \path at the right origin. It seems to ignore an initial moveto. Even \postscript seems to set the origin differently depending on which note the markup goes on (hence

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-27 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 13:41 +0800, James Harkins wrote: On Sep 27, 2013 12:10 AM, Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net wrote: Since introducing this I have had zero enharmonic misspellings in my transcriptions. But this might not be suitable for some sorts of music, I confess. My

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-27 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 20:28 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net writes: Denemo completely ignores the time-stamps on the midi input stream. The midi events are serialized into a buffer by a separate thread, and Denemo just picks them up in the order they

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-27 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 09:04 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: So if you wanted some assorted collection of sharps and flats (E-flat with A-flat but F-sharp ...) whoops! it would have to be weirder than that, say D-Sharp with A-flat ... Richard ___

How to modify a syllable, if ~ (or _) is involved?

2013-09-27 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi, is there any possibility to modify one syllable of LyricText if the syllables are connected with ~? In this example the \markup disturbs ~. (Same for _) \version 2.17.26 \new Lyrics \lyricmode { foo~bar \markup { \italic foo }~bar } Thoughts? Thanks, Harm

Re: How to modify a syllable, if ~ (or _) is involved?

2013-09-27 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Harm, this seems to be tricky, because the corresponding engraver seems to look for strings containig '~'. So a markup would have to be split ... a custom engraver might do it ... If the syllable is not a string, but a markup containing a string, containing ~, then put the right stencil in

Re: variables tied with slurs

2013-09-27 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 09/27/2013 07:05 AM, Urs Liska wrote: Does A = \drums { sn8 sn8~ } { \A \A } Do what you want? I was curious of this, but Urs is right it does work. There are no obstacles in ending with a tie. Apparently it is just ignored: \version 2.17.26 % How could I write the equivalent of

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-27 Thread pls
On 27.09.2013, at 08:27, Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl wrote: Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org writes: I use http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/software, which I think has been mentioned elsewhere in the thread. As being a 404?

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-27 Thread James Harkins
On Friday, September 27, 2013 4:04:36 PM HKT, Richard Shann wrote: My music only seldom follows common practice tonality, The built-in support is for any range (e.g. E-flat to G-sharp, or D to F-double-sharp), with the modulation controller on the MIDI keyboard changing the range sharper or

Re[surrecting]: Version Control and Public Repository

2013-09-27 Thread Alexander Kobel
Dear all, long time ago there was this thread about version controlling Lily scores, and much more recently Urs' excellent essay and tutorial on the LilyPond blog [1]. Now, that surely is a great read, but I'm left with one question. Over time, I've collected a few scores, made with

Re: How to modify a syllable, if ~ (or _) is involved?

2013-09-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/9/27 Jan-Peter Voigt jp.vo...@gmx.de: Hi Harm, this seems to be tricky, because the corresponding engraver seems to look for strings containig '~'. So a markup would have to be split ... a custom engraver might do it ... If the syllable is not a string, but a markup containing a string,

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-27 Thread David Kastrup
James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com writes: On Friday, September 27, 2013 4:04:36 PM HKT, Richard Shann wrote: My music only seldom follows common practice tonality, The built-in support is for any range (e.g. E-flat to G-sharp, or D to F-double-sharp), with the modulation controller on the

Re: How to modify a syllable, if ~ (or _) is involved?

2013-09-27 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com writes: 2013/9/27 Jan-Peter Voigt jp.vo...@gmx.de: Hi Harm, this seems to be tricky, because the corresponding engraver seems to look for strings containig '~'. So a markup would have to be split ... a custom engraver might do it ... If the syllable

Re: Re[surrecting]: Version Control and Public Repository

2013-09-27 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Alexander Kobel n...@a-kobel.de To: Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 10:11 AM Subject: Re[surrecting]: Version Control and Public Repository Dear all, long time ago there was this thread about version

Re: Re[surrecting]: Version Control and Public Repository

2013-09-27 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Alexander, of course I'm interested in this topic ;-) but I have a concert tonight (anybody in/near Gelsenkirchen?) So I don't know if I can answer in detail today ... Best Urs Alexander Kobel n...@a-kobel.de schrieb: Dear all, long time ago there was this thread about version

installation denemo in window.

2013-09-27 Thread MING TSANG
Lilyponders: On the download page it said it includes lilypond.  I already have lilypond v2.16.2 and v2.17.26 installed on my desktop computer.  Will the installation clobber my existing lilypond? What version of lilypond that denemo installer include? I want to try out denemo, but am afraid to

Re: Acciaccaturas and slashed stems

2013-09-27 Thread David Kastrup
Gilberto Agostinho gilbertohasn...@gmail.com writes: Hello Peter, I am sorry for my late reply, I have been away for the past days. About Frescobaldi, though I am very thankful for you to have implemented the automatic beams for the grace notes, I have to say I am not very fond of the

Re: programming error

2013-09-27 Thread MING TSANG
Hi, Eluze: Yes, it probably doesn't 5o+ measure to show the problem, but I don't know when and where the programming error suddenly appears. The compile run seems producing .pdf ok.  I will follow you suggestion and try identify when and where that error first appears. Emanuel, Ming

Re: Acciaccaturas and slashed stems

2013-09-27 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi David, First of all, thank you so much for doing this, I really appreciate it. Unfortunately I do not know how to apply the patch, but I created a small LilyPond code that could be used as a regression test: \version 2.17.26 { \relative c'' { \grace {a8 b } a1 \grace {a8 b c b gis }

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-27 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 11:38 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Sure, that may be of interest to the other people on the thread who *are* looking for MIDI input. For myself, I prefer working with the code directly, and I will likely continue to prefer the code even if there's the option of

Re: installation denemo in window.

2013-09-27 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 04:20 -0700, MING TSANG wrote: Lilyponders: This email would be better sent to the Denemo mailing list On the download page it said it includes lilypond. I already have lilypond v2.16.2 and v2.17.26 installed on my desktop computer. Will the installation clobber my

Re: How to modify a syllable, if ~ (or _) is involved?

2013-09-27 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Am 27.09.2013 11:42, schrieb David Kastrup: Check the definition of \tied-lyrics in scm/define-markup-commands.scm ... so its easy ... \markup { \italic \tied-lyric #foo~ bar } and the documentation doesn't need improvement (IMO) http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/music

Re: Re[surrecting]: Version Control and Public Repository

2013-09-27 Thread Alec Bartsch
On Sep 27, 2013, at 3:50 AM, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote: If you have scoreA.ly and this includes my-tweak.ily and you create a commit in the git repo for this music, no matter how often you then alter my-tweak, you could always return to the commit for this music, and my-tweak

Re: Acciaccaturas and slashed stems

2013-09-27 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi David, I think your solution is absolutely great: if the graces are simple enough, then they are all beamed. This will solve 99% of the problems. If one needs something fancier, then she or he should manually write all beams. Thank you once again for all your help. Take care, Gilberto --

Re: Violin tab for fiddle tunes

2013-09-27 Thread R.D. Latimer
I've put together a sample fiddle tune with music notation, sample fiddle tab (using finger number), guitar tab (using fret number), and guitar capo 2 tab (using fret number based on capo). Let me know if anyone would like me to post. On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 8:39 AM, R.D. Latimer

Lilypond-Book not compiling LaTeX

2013-09-27 Thread Marcos Press
Hi! Finaly I decide to learn LaTeX, and integrateit with Lilypond. I've been writting in LaTeX with the usuall learning curbe problems. And finaly arrive to the moment of putting some music within the text. So I type many diferent trys, and nothing works. Always the same output. So I decide to

Re: Lilypond-Book not compiling LaTeX

2013-09-27 Thread flup2
Hello, In your example, there is a missing accolade at the end: \end{document in place of \end{document} If I add it, it compiles without problem. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Lilypond-Book-not-compiling-LaTeX-tp151496p151498.html Sent from the User

Re: Midi equalisation

2013-09-27 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 2013-09-15 14:45, Janek Warchoł wrote: Hi, 2013/9/10 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Hilary Snaden h...@newearth.demon.co.uk writes: This (trimmed) example doesn't work as the documentation suggests it should, in this case to reduce the volume of the organ relative to the voices. Changing

Re: convert-ly on Mac?

2013-09-27 Thread Graham King
On OSX /Applications/Lilypond.app looks like a single file. However, if you right-click on it in the Finder, and select Show package contents, you'll find convert-ly (and a lot else) inside. To do this, you'll first need to have enabled right-click. To do so on a Macbook, go to System

overlapping contexts and consequences

2013-09-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, In my choral scores, I often want centered dynamics and centered lyrics, e.g., \new ChoirStaff \new Staff = SA \lady_music \new Dynamics \choir_dynamics \new Lyrics \choir_lyrics \new Staff = TB \man_music 1. When the dynamics and lyrics *don't* occupy the same

staff-specific markup?

2013-09-27 Thread Graham King
I'm trying to engrave a vocal score in which the majority of markups are common to all parts. Lilypond helpfully engraves these just once, above the top part, as expected. However, there are some rare \mark \markup items that I want to appear above only one of the inner staves. Is there a way to

Re: Re[surrecting]: Version Control and Public Repository

2013-09-27 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Alec Bartsch alec.bart...@gmail.com To: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net Cc: Alexander Kobel n...@a-kobel.de; Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de; lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 5:20 PM Subject: Re: Re[surrecting]: Version Control and Public

Re: Midi equalisation

2013-09-27 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Hilary Snaden h...@newearth.demon.co.uk To: LilyPond Users lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 8:07 PM Subject: Re: Midi equalisation On 2013-09-15 14:45, Janek Warchoł wrote: Hi, 2013/9/10 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Hilary Snaden

Re: staff-specific markup?

2013-09-27 Thread Phil Holmes
use \markup instead of \mark \markup? -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Graham King To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 8:28 PM Subject: staff-specific markup? I'm trying to engrave a vocal score in which the majority of markups are

Re: staff-specific markup?

2013-09-27 Thread David Kastrup
Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net writes: use \markup instead of \mark \markup? More like ^\markup ... -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: programming error

2013-09-27 Thread MING TSANG
Eluze, I follow your suggestion and I came up with smaller file about 268 lines. I attach the .ly file and the error message log file. Please refer to red text below log file. Emanuel, Ming. Starting lilypond-windows.exe 2.17.26 [how-beautiful-your-nameTEST.ly]... Processing

Re: staff-specific markup?

2013-09-27 Thread Graham King
Brilliant. Thank you. gives me something to which to attach a \markup in the absence of any nearby note. I would never have guessed that. Am I correct in thinking that there is no way to attach markup to, say, a clef or a time signature? On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 21:47 +0200, David Kastrup

Re: Re[surrecting]: Version Control and Public Repository

2013-09-27 Thread Curt
This is a common problem in software engineering. In my day job as a java developer we use something called archiva which collects multiple versions of the libraries we depend on. So if projectA (like your score) depends on version 1.1 of a library (like your tweaks), while another project

Re: programming error

2013-09-27 Thread Colin Campbell
On 13-09-27 02:16 PM, MING TSANG wrote: Eluze, I follow your suggestion and I came up with smaller file about 268 lines. I attach the .ly file and the error message log file. Please refer to red text below log file. Emanuel, Ming. In your rehearsalMidi section, you've set the

Re: Re[surrecting]: Version Control and Public Repository

2013-09-27 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 09/27/2013 10:53 PM, Curt wrote: This is a common problem in software engineering. [...] I assumed so; I don't experience it in the projects I'm currently involved in, but I am sure it is well studied. For a git-only approach, the *classic* way of handling this - and I haven't yet

Re: programming error

2013-09-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/9/27 Colin Campbell c...@shaw.ca: On 13-09-27 02:16 PM, MING TSANG wrote: Eluze, I follow your suggestion and I came up with smaller file about 268 lines. I attach the .ly file and the error message log file. Please refer to red text below log file. Emanuel, Ming. In your

Re: Acciaccaturas and slashed stems

2013-09-27 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 09/27/2013 01:43 PM, David Kastrup wrote: I've committed a patch implementing grace autobeaming to URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3566 Hi David! I also wanted to contribute with some testing. I changed the files with your patched changes

Re: Re[surrecting]: Version Control and Public Repository

2013-09-27 Thread Franciszek Boehlke
2013/9/27 Alexander Kobel n...@a-kobel.de Dear all, long time ago there was this thread about version controlling Lily scores, and much more recently Urs' excellent essay and tutorial on the LilyPond blog [1]. Now, that surely is a great read, but I'm left with one question. Over time,

RE: \path command

2013-09-27 Thread Curt McDowell
Martin, you're absolutely right, I should have included an attachment. Sorry for the time wastage. Ming, try this version. It's just an idea. You might need to tweak relative positions and/or make the PostScript more elaborate to draw what you want. Cheers, Curt \version 2.13.51 \header {

Re: programming error

2013-09-27 Thread Eluze
Am 27.09.2013 14:33, schrieb MING TSANG: Hi, Eluze: Yes, it probably doesn't 5o+ measure to show the problem, but I don't know when and where the programming error suddenly appears. The compile run seems producing .pdf ok. I will follow you suggestion and try identify when and where that

Re: Help with Chordname

2013-09-27 Thread Alec Bartsch
On Sep 27, 2013, at 5:23 PM, Steve Noland st...@thenolands.us wrote: I am trying to typeset a score for jazz orchestra. I am having problems with some of the jazz chordnames engraving correctly. Specifically, a Dm7(b5) chord (D minor 7, flat 5) engraves as a Dº, or D diminished. What can

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 130, Issue 178

2013-09-27 Thread MING TSANG
Eluze, Thomas Colin: Thank you all for your help and patience.  Frecobaldi generate the template code, I did not check the rehearsalmidi part closely. Next time I will follow tiny-sample  to demonstrate the problem. Thanks again, emanuel, Ming.       2.

Re: \path command

2013-09-27 Thread MING TSANG
Curt Martin: Thank you for the postscript code.  I play around with different number, I finally settle for this code: \version 2.17.27 \markup { \hspace #1.5 \note #8 #1 yMt %\postscript #0.5 setlinewidth 5 -1 moveto -15 8 -10 -7 -0.5 3 \postscript #0.05 setlinewidth 0 -2.5 moveto -14 10 -10

Re: Help with Chordname

2013-09-27 Thread Tim McNamara
On Sep 27, 2013, at 7:23 PM, Steve Noland st...@thenolands.us wrote: I am trying to typeset a score for jazz orchestra. I am having problems with some of the jazz chordnames engraving correctly. Specifically, a Dm7(b5) chord (D minor 7, flat 5) engraves as a Dº, or D diminished. What