Re: New, more powerful version of \shape!

2013-10-18 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, 2013/10/18 Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org: Am 18.10.2013 00:03, schrieb Janek Warchoł: Hi all, \shape is an awesome function, indispensable for creating publication-quality slurs. However, after using it 1107 times in a recent project (this number is not a joke!), How do you come up

Re: New, more powerful version of \shape!

2013-10-18 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: Hi all, \shape is an awesome function, indispensable for creating publication-quality slurs. However, after using it 1107 times in a recent project (this number is not a joke!), Well, it should be. It means that our slur shaping and quanting

Re: New, more powerful version of \shape!

2013-10-18 Thread Urs Liska
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org schrieb: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: Hi all, \shape is an awesome function, indispensable for creating publication-quality slurs. However, after using it 1107 times in a recent project (this number is not a joke!), Well, it should be. It

Re: New, more powerful version of \shape!

2013-10-18 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/10/18 SoundsFromSound soundsfromso...@gmail.com: Janek David N: Fantastic effort and a solid expansion idea for how to make a great function even better. I can't speak to how this new version of \shape will fit into the LilyPond language/code (i.e. if it will break or harm anything by

Re: New, more powerful version of \shape!

2013-10-18 Thread Urs Liska
Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org schrieb: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org schrieb: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: Hi all, \shape is an awesome function, indispensable for creating publication-quality slurs. However, after using it 1107 times in a recent project (this number

Re: New, more powerful version of \shape!

2013-10-18 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/10/18 David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com: Looks great! One omission: you've touched on everything here except the shorthand you use throughout the attachments--namely using (x y) for (x . y) Indeed! Using 2-element lists is so much more convenient to me that i've already almost

Re: New, more powerful version of \shape!

2013-10-18 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org schrieb: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org schrieb: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: Hi all, \shape is an awesome function, indispensable for creating publication-quality slurs. However, after using it 1107

Re: New, more powerful version of \shape!

2013-10-18 Thread Urs Liska
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org schrieb: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org schrieb: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org schrieb: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: Hi all, \shape is an awesome function, indispensable for creating publication-quality

Re: New, more powerful version of \shape!

2013-10-18 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi David, 2013/10/18 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: Hi all, \shape is an awesome function, indispensable for creating publication-quality slurs. However, after using it 1107 times in a recent project (this number is not a joke!), Well, it

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-18 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/10/17 Colin Campbell c...@shaw.ca: PS: @Janek: would a library of templates, not snippets, be a useful test for a workflow management system? Blimey, i've almost missed this email! Please cc me when you have a question for me, as i'm not able to read the whole list. To answer your

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-18 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/10/17 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com writes: With my template system, most hymns take me 1/2 an hour at most, and probably 85% of that is music input, 10% of it is linking the template files together, and 5% of that is fixing input errors. So here is

Re: New, more powerful version of \shape!

2013-10-18 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: 2013/10/18 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: #(define slur-count 0) oldSlur = ( ( = #(define-event-function (parser location) () (set! slur-count (1+ slur-count)) oldSlur) ... #(format #t \nSlur count: ~S\n slur-count) That's nice! Could

Re: New, more powerful version of \shape!

2013-10-18 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi all, while I am not that active with lilypond these days (distracted from family and work ;) ), I'd like to be ... just my opinion on this topic: How can lilypond create the publication-quality slurs I or whoever wants? Yes, of course there is always room for making it better ... but IMO we

Re: New, more powerful version of \shape!

2013-10-18 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/10/18 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: That's nice! Could you make it work with 2.17.3 (we had to freeze LilyPond version to ensure that no regressions in the scores appear, and so we're using 2.17.3 for almost all scores)? No. It's not just a

Re: New, more powerful version of \shape!

2013-10-18 Thread Urs Liska
Am 18.10.2013 10:17, schrieb Janek Warchoł: 2013/10/18 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: That's nice! Could you make it work with 2.17.3 (we had to freeze LilyPond version to ensure that no regressions in the scores appear, and so we're using 2.17.3

Automatic accidentals behaviour

2013-10-18 Thread Andreas Edlund
Hello everybody, I have been getting lots of great help from this list, but now for the first time I post a question. In the following example \version 2.17.17 { \accidentalStyle dodecaphonic * } Lilypond shows natural on b and flat on bes, just like I want. How can I set this behaviour

Re: Automatic accidentals behaviour

2013-10-18 Thread David Kastrup
Andreas Edlund andreas.edl...@gmail.com writes: Hello everybody, I have been getting lots of great help from this list, but now for the first time I post a question. In the following example \version 2.17.17 { \accidentalStyle dodecaphonic * } Lilypond shows natural on b and flat on

Re: Automatic accidentals behaviour

2013-10-18 Thread Andreas Edlund
sorry about that. The snippet should be: -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Automatic-accidentals-behaviour-tp152547p152549.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user

Re: Automatic accidentals behaviour

2013-10-18 Thread Urs Liska
Am 18.10.2013 10:55, schrieb David Kastrup: Andreas Edlund andreas.edl...@gmail.com writes: Hello everybody, I have been getting lots of great help from this list, but now for the first time I post a question. In the following example \version 2.17.17 { \accidentalStyle dodecaphonic * }

Re: Automatic accidentals behaviour

2013-10-18 Thread Andreas Edlund
Yes, that's it. The first post did not render the example correctly, my mistake. So, how to achieve that? Of course I could force the accidental everytime this particular chord appears, but it would be nice to get it automatically. -- View this message in context:

Re: Automatic accidentals behaviour

2013-10-18 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
In case you are interested in a non-automatic workaround (so you can get your score done as you want it), you can use the symbol ! to force accidentals: \version 2.17.17 { b! bes'1 | c'!4 cis' d'!8\pp dis'!4.\f | } This is described in the documentation on the following link (just scroll

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-18 Thread Eluze
garrettm30 wrote What I'm trying to deal with is the fact that the number of lines in the verses and the number of lines in the chorus very often do not match. See for example the attached image of where the verses and chorus meet in a particularly well-known hymn: You see that the chorus

RE: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-18 Thread Eduardo Silva
Hi, Carl. I like your sample. What do you do to make the verses left aligned (and possibly shifted) at the start of a new system? Do you do it manually? I know one could do it fairly easy if at the start of every new verse in the lyrics one could put the directive to align the syllable to the

Re: New, more powerful version of \shape!

2013-10-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Janek, Could you send me a few examples of the old behavior (lilypond code, lilypond output, documentation) so that i could quickly estimate the difficulty of the task? Unfortunately, the docs and download archive only goes back to v2.6, and I'm pretty sure we lost Slur #'attachment in

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-18 Thread Carl Peterson
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Eduardo Silva eduardo.su...@hotmail.comwrote: Hi, Carl. I like your sample. What do you do to make the verses left aligned (and possibly shifted) at the start of a new system? Do you do it manually? I know one could do it fairly easy if at the start of every

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-18 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/10/18 Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com: Someone on the list (I can't remember who, precisely) wrote a macro that allows one to left-align all the lyric syllables at an arbitrary musical point. It looks at all the syllables at that point, figures out the longest one (as typeset),

Re: Automatic generation of scores skeletons

2013-10-18 Thread Jacques Menu
Hello Johann,Here is what I've come to after some cleanup:menu@mac ./GenerateLilypondSkeleton.py -h-- Usage: ./GenerateLilypondSkeleton.py [-h|--help] [-d|--debug] [-b|--barNumbers] [(-n|--notes=) aLilypondNoteOrRest] fileNamefor example:./GenerateLilypondSkeleton.py -n dis

cadenza for two hands

2013-10-18 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Hello, Where in the manual (2.16.2) are instructions for coding a cadenza for two hands (piano)? Thank you, Mark Stephen Mrotek ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: cadenza for two hands

2013-10-18 Thread Simon Bailey
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonm...@ca.rr.com wrote: Where in the manual (2.16.2) are instructions for coding a cadenza for two hands (piano)? does this help? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/special-rhythmic-concerns#aligning-to-cadenzas

RE: cadenza for two hands

2013-10-18 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Mr. Bailey, Thank you for your reply. Actually, I have used that documentation for scoring a cadenza for one hand. What I am doing is an unmetered cadenza for two hands. Mark -Original Message- From: bina...@gmail.com [mailto:bina...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Simon Bailey Sent: Friday,

RE: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-18 Thread Eduardo Silva
From: janek.lilyp...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:36:20 +0200 Subject: Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user To: carlopeter...@gmail.com CC: eduardo.su...@hotmail.com; lilypond-user@gnu.org 2013/10/18 Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com: Someone on the list (I can't remember who,

2.17 documentation

2013-10-18 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi all, I came across the following page of LilyPond's documentation now ( http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/changes-big-page.html ) and its title reads New features in 2.18 since 2.16. I think it was probably meant to be 2.17 instead of 2.18, am I right? Unless someone released a

Re: 2.17 documentation

2013-10-18 Thread Francisco Vila
2013/10/18 Gilberto Agostinho gilbertohasn...@gmail.com: Hi all, I came across the following page of LilyPond's documentation now ( http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/changes-big-page.html ) and its title reads New features in 2.18 since 2.16. I think it was probably meant to be

Re: 2.17 documentation

2013-10-18 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi Francisco, I am well aware of everything you wrote about, and my suggestion would be to rename it to 2.17 since 2.16 as you say, and then change it back to 2.18 since 2.16 when that version is released. I just find it might confuse people if they come across a page talking about a version of a

Changing the shape of more than one laissezVibrer in chord

2013-10-18 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi all, I would like to change the shape of more than one laissezVibrer at the same time in chord, but I can't seem to find an way to do it because they are simultaneous. Does anyone have any idea how to solve this problem? \version 2.17.28 \markup {The top laissezVibrer is looking like I want,

Re: Changing the shape of more than one laissezVibrer in chord

2013-10-18 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/10/18 Gilberto Agostinho gilbertohasn...@gmail.com: Hi all, I would like to change the shape of more than one laissezVibrer at the same time in chord, but I can't seem to find an way to do it because they are simultaneous. Does anyone have any idea how to solve this problem? \version

Re: Changing the shape of more than one laissezVibrer in chord

2013-10-18 Thread Simon Bailey
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/10/18 Gilberto Agostinho gilbertohasn...@gmail.com: Hi all, I would like to change the shape of more than one laissezVibrer at the same time in chord, but I can't seem to find an way to do it because they are

Re: Changing the shape of more than one laissezVibrer in chord

2013-10-18 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi Harm, Thanks for your answer. I actually already came across that snippet you sent me while searching the repository , but it doesn't compile for me. On my 2.17.18, the compiler outputs: Unbound variable: $further As for the other link which contains your two .LY files, thanks a lot for it!

Re: Changing the shape of more than one laissezVibrer in chord

2013-10-18 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Now that's very clever! :D I just need to use this for a couple of two note chords in whole note, so I guess I will just cheat as well. Thanks a lot! Gilberto -- View this message in context:

Re: Changing the shape of more than one laissezVibrer in chord

2013-10-18 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/10/18 Gilberto Agostinho gilbertohasn...@gmail.com: Hi Harm, Thanks for your answer. I actually already came across that snippet you sent me while searching the repository , but it doesn't compile for me. On my 2.17.18, the compiler outputs: Unbound variable: $further For the

Is there any lilypond-book programer?

2013-10-18 Thread Marcos Press
Hi list! I'm still having problems with lilypond-book. Am I doing something wrong? The file: ### \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \begin{document} Some text and now\\ \begin[notime]{lilypond} \relative{c4 d e f g a b c} \end{lilypond} Some notes. \end{document} ### Command and terminal

Re: Is there any lilypond-book programer?

2013-10-18 Thread Urs Liska
Didn't you also have an issue with lilyglyphs because of a wrong character (dash instead of hyphen)? The current error message points in that direction too. So you might actually have something weird in your input file. Maybe you should send your actual file as an attachment (to rule out

Re: Is there any lilypond-book programer?

2013-10-18 Thread Marcos Press
Yes. Somewhere my terminal vim editor interpretates a minus sign copied from firefox as a dash. Now lilyglyth, thanks to you, work's prefectly :) So I'll attach the actual file. Thanks. Marcos 2013/10/18 Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org ** Didn't you also have an issue with lilyglyphs because

Re: Is there any lilypond-book programer?

2013-10-18 Thread Marcos Press
I'm sorry! I miss type lilyglyphs 2013/10/18 Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org ** Didn't you also have an issue with lilyglyphs because of a wrong character (dash instead of hyphen)? The current error message points in that direction too. So you might actually have something weird in your

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-18 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/10/18 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com: 2013/10/18 Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com: Someone on the list (I can't remember who, precisely) wrote a macro that allows one to left-align all the lyric syllables at an arbitrary musical point. It looks at all the syllables at that

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-18 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/10/18 Eduardo Silva eduardo.su...@hotmail.com: Thank you, Carl and Janek. Awesome stuff. I liked your simple introduction to Lilypond, Janek, even though I don't speak any polish ;-) I'm glad you liked it :-) ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Changing the shape of more than one laissezVibrer in chord

2013-10-18 Thread Nick Payne
On 19/10/13 07:07, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: Hi all, I would like to change the shape of more than one laissezVibrer at the same time in chord, but I can't seem to find an way to do it because they are simultaneous. Does anyone have any idea how to solve this problem? \version 2.17.28 \markup

Frescobaldi now needs git installed

2013-10-18 Thread Nick Payne
The install instructions at http://frescobaldi.org/download.html need to add git as a dependency. Without git installed, when trying to run Frescobaldi I get: nick@nick-desktop:~$ /home/nick/source/frescobaldi/frescobaldi Traceback (most recent call last): File

Ties in complex polyphony

2013-10-18 Thread Joshua Nichols
I'd like to tie the common notes below: { {a1~}\\{f4 e} a1 } But I'm not sure I'm doing it correctly. Thoughts? Sincerely, Josh ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Is there any lilypond-book programer?

2013-10-18 Thread David Kastrup
Marcos Press tdy.p...@gmail.com writes: Hi list! I'm still having problems with lilypond-book. Am I doing something wrong? The file: ### \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \begin{document} Some text and now\\ \begin[notime]{lilypond} \relative{c4 d e f g a b c} \end{lilypond} Some

Re: Is there any lilypond-book programer?

2013-10-18 Thread Marcos Press
I already try that with no luck at all. Even so, I try it again :) ### $ lilypond-book --pdf -o out test.lytex lilypond-book (GNU LilyPond) 2.17.28 Reading test.lytex... ... File /home/tdy/lilypond/usr/lib/python2.4/sre.py, line 227, in _compile raise error, v # invalid expression

Re: Is there any lilypond-book programer?

2013-10-18 Thread David Kastrup
Marcos Press tdy.p...@gmail.com writes: I already try that with no luck at all. Even so, I try it again :) ### $ lilypond-book --pdf -o out test.lytex lilypond-book (GNU LilyPond) 2.17.28 Reading test.lytex... ... File /home/tdy/lilypond/usr/lib/python2.4/sre.py, line 227, in _compile

Re: Frescobaldi now needs git installed

2013-10-18 Thread Urs Liska
Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net schrieb: The install instructions at http://frescobaldi.org/download.html need to add git as a dependency. No, they don't. We have to sort out this bug instead. How did you get/download Frescobaldi? The code that raises this error should only run when