Re: Programming question

2014-11-26 Thread Jay Vara
Yay! That works. Not sure why the other way did not work. I tried various ways of getting it to output to a string instead of to a file, something like: #(set! (jv (with-output-to-string (lambda () #{ \displayMusic \music #} so that we could add the # to the string jv. No luck here as I

Note name to markup

2014-11-26 Thread Hans Aberg
Is there a way to print note names suitable for markup, in a transposable manner? - The idea is to print say ef as E followed by the flat used in the staff notation, as indicated by accidental alterations (so it also works with microtonal note names). The use I have in mind is when writing

Re: Programming question

2014-11-26 Thread David Nalesnik
Jay, On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 4:10 AM, Jay Vara j...@diljun.com wrote: Yay! That works. Not sure why the other way did not work. I tried various ways of getting it to output to a string instead of to a file, something like: #(set! (jv (with-output-to-string (lambda () #{ \displayMusic

Possible Bug with \partcombine?

2014-11-26 Thread Joshua Nichols
I was recently typesetting a song, using part combine, from a hymnal. I ran into a problem: everytime I ran \partcombine, I found that unterminated slur and cannot end slur, were common warnings. I was confused, and so I created this small snippet that should reproduce the same issues. \version

continuation bars

2014-11-26 Thread Steve Downes
Hello list people, I have started writing bass line chord charts to assist in the integration of a new bass player. I would like to make a good job of it because if it works well I will build it into a band library. It is normal in my (jazz) market to use % in a bar to mean repeat previous bar

Re: continuation bars

2014-11-26 Thread Malte Meyn
Hi Steve, what you probably are looking for is the \repeat command: { \repeat percent 3 { c'2 d' } \repeat percent 3 { c' d' e' f' } } This can be found in section 1.4 of the notation reference (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/repeats). Malte Am 26.11.2014 um 19:40

Re: continuation bars

2014-11-26 Thread Trevor Daniels
Steve, you wrote Wednesday, November 26, 2014 6:40 PM It is normal in my (jazz) market to use % in a bar to mean repeat previous bar also across the middle barline to mean repeat the previous 2 bars. I can see a number of problems, not least the use of % can find nothing on it. Has it

anti-alias-factor kills the transparency (pngalpha)

2014-11-26 Thread Noeck
Hi, lilypond -dbackend=eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts \ -dpixmap-format=pngalpha --png myfile.ly is recommended to produce a png file with transparancy. However, I want to use the anti-alias-factor like: -danti-alias-factor=4 That removes the transparency and reverts to the white

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

2014-11-26 Thread Abraham Lee
I realize that Thanksgiving is an American holiday, but I thought I'd just say, Thank you! to everyone that is or has been involved in the development, usage, support, etc. of LilyPond. There are so many talented individuals on this and other related mailing lists that provide help and insight

Re: Note name to markup

2014-11-26 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Hans, Maybe this snippet could help : http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=856 HTH, Pierre 2014-11-26 14:45 GMT+01:00 Hans Aberg haber...@telia.com: Is there a way to print note names suitable for markup, in a transposable manner? - The idea is to print say ef as E followed by the flat used

Re: Happy Thanksgiving!!!

2014-11-26 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Happy Thanksgiving Abraham! Cheers, Pierre 2014-11-27 8:38 GMT+01:00 Abraham Lee tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com: I realize that Thanksgiving is an American holiday, but I thought I'd just say, Thank you! to everyone that is or has been involved in the development, usage, support, etc. of