Putting a natural sign on a note

2015-02-10 Thread William Marchant
Hi all, The following two bars of code result in the music correctly written, however, I would like to place a natural symbol on the first note of the second bar, just to remind folks that it is different. I know this is not the convention, but I want to do it anyhow. Is there a way? Bill

Re: Putting a natural sign on a note

2015-02-10 Thread William Marchant
Thanks to you and Jan-Peter. Bill On 15-02-10 11:16 AM, Kevin Barry wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 3:13 PM, William Marchant wmarch...@eastlink.ca mailto:wmarch...@eastlink.ca wrote: I would like to place a natural symbol on the first note of the second bar, just to remind folks

Re: Putting a natural sign on a note

2015-02-10 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi William, you can use the exclamation or question mark: b! b? or you place a markup as a text script above the note: b^\markup \natural HTH Jan-Peter Am 10.02.2015 um 16:13 schrieb William Marchant: Hi all, The following two bars of code result in the music correctly written, however, I

Re: Putting a natural sign on a note

2015-02-10 Thread Noeck
As an addition: If you want this behaviour as a general rule (reminder in the next bar), you can use the modern accidental style: \version 2.18.2 \language english { \accidentalStyle modern bf4 bf bf8 bf bf bf | b b b b d4 d | }

Re: Pianostaff 4-part writing and rests

2015-02-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Michael Rivers wrote: I just engraved a piece for which the standard solutions given in this thread worked especially badly. There were many 8th notes alternating with 8th rests (which should be merged by Lilypond, but can't be automatically), so switching back and forth between a polyphonic

Re: Pianostaff 4-part writing and rests

2015-02-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, Cool solution, but still a shame that it is necessary … I agree that it’s a clever solution… *and* that it’s a shame it’s necessary. In particular, this solution introduces a non-content “voice” in order to solve a presentation problem — yuck (as a requirement, not as a solution!).

Re: Putting a natural sign on a note

2015-02-10 Thread Kevin Barry
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 3:13 PM, William Marchant wmarch...@eastlink.ca wrote: I would like to place a natural symbol on the first note of the second bar, just to remind folks that it is different. I know this is not the convention, but I want to do it anyhow. Is there a way? Bill

Re: Gridly: simple Segmented Grid

2015-02-10 Thread Urs Liska
Am 10. Februar 2015 20:35:23 MEZ, schrieb Matteo Ceccarello matteo.ceccare...@gmail.com: Dear Urs, Il 09/02/2015 10:16, Urs Liska ha scritto: Am 09.02.2015 um 09:56 schrieb Matteo Ceccarello: Here I see room for starting some discussion on automated testing. I think that example files can

Re: Gridly: simple Segmented Grid

2015-02-10 Thread Matteo Ceccarello
Dear Urs, Il 09/02/2015 10:16, Urs Liska ha scritto: Am 09.02.2015 um 09:56 schrieb Matteo Ceccarello: Here I see room for starting some discussion on automated testing. I think that example files can serve also as test files, to check that code changes or version changes do not break things.

Vertical axis grob error

2015-02-10 Thread Chris Trahan
When I compile a score that I'm working on I'm getting the following errors. programming error: could not find this grob's vertical axis group in the vertical alignment continuing, cross fingers I can't seem to recreate the problem in a simple example and the source file is 533 lines long so I

Re: Vertical axis grob error

2015-02-10 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Chris, On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Chris Trahan trahan.ch...@gmail.com wrote: When I compile a score that I'm working on I'm getting the following errors. programming error: could not find this grob's vertical axis group in the vertical alignment continuing, cross fingers I can't

Re: Vertical axis grob error

2015-02-10 Thread David Nalesnik
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 4:30 PM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chris, On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Chris Trahan trahan.ch...@gmail.com wrote: When I compile a score that I'm working on I'm getting the following errors. programming error: could not find this grob's

Re: Putting a natural sign on a note

2015-02-10 Thread David Stephen Grant
Also you may like to look at options for automatic handling of accidentals in the documentation: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-pitches#automatic-accidentals Best, David On 10 February 2015 at 16:24, William Marchant wmarch...@eastlink.ca wrote: Thanks to

Re: Pianostaff 4-part writing and rests

2015-02-10 Thread Peter Danemo
Hi Kieren! I’ll check that! Thanks! /P Peter Danemo +46-70-653 21 91 E-post: petedom...@gmail.com Web: danemo.com 10 feb 2015 kl. 13:21 skrev Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca: Hi Peter, I tried your suggestion but got this error message Did you fix any mailing-list

Re: Pianostaff 4-part writing and rests

2015-02-10 Thread Urs Liska
Am 10. Februar 2015 11:53:54 MEZ, schrieb Robin Bannister r...@dataway.ch: Michael Rivers wrote: I just engraved a piece for which the standard solutions given in this thread worked especially badly. There were many 8th notes alternating with 8th rests (which should be merged by Lilypond, but

Re: Pianostaff 4-part writing and rests

2015-02-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Peter, I tried your suggestion but got this error message Did you fix any mailing-list “reformatting” problems? Sometimes, for example, “” gets replaced with “| |”. Hope this helps, Kieren. ___ Kieren MacMillan, composer www: http://www.kierenmacmillan.info email:

Re: Vertical axis grob error

2015-02-10 Thread Chris Trahan
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 5:00 PM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 4:30 PM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chris, On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Chris Trahan trahan.ch...@gmail.com wrote: When I compile a score that I'm working

Re: Vertical axis grob error

2015-02-10 Thread tisimst
tisimst wrote Chris, If I were structuring a song as you described, I would NOT use the first \repeat volta 3, unless EVERYTHING were supposed to repeat. Here's how I would do it: %- SNIP \relative c' { % first interlude c d e f % start repeated verses

Re: Vertical axis grob error

2015-02-10 Thread tisimst
Chris Trahan wrote The 1st three verses of the song are arranged like this. (Not actual score code, just a structure example.) \repeat volta 3 { \repeat volta 2 { c d e f } \alternative { { a b c d } { d c b a } } c d e f g a b c } The strange thing is that if I

Re: Vertical axis grob error

2015-02-10 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Chris, On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Chris Trahan trahan.ch...@gmail.com wrote: One thing that I've found is than I an insert a \break and get the messages to stop. [...] The strange thing is that if I code it this way, the errors go away. \repeat volta 3 { \repeat volta 2 {