Re: No mixing of different beams

2015-04-21 Thread Noeck
Hi Calixte, thanks but this is not what I am looking for. The general beaming should be 4 times four 1/16 notes. Just in case one 8th and two 16ths are in one group the 8th should be separated from the 16ths. Cheers, Joram Am 21.04.2015 um 09:16 schrieb Calixte Faure:

Re: No mixing of different beams

2015-04-21 Thread Calixte Faure
Hi Joram, You can either use brackets : { a8 a16[ a] a a a a } But I guess you want it automated in every measure, so you have to override the beatSturcutre: { \overrideTimeSignatureSettings #'(4 . 8) % timeSignatureFraction #'(1 . 16)% baseMomentFraction

Font access testers needed

2015-04-21 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, I'd like to have a few people who are interested in testing and discussing a new way to select music and text fonts in LilyPond. When finishing the infrastructure in openLilyLib it turned out that it's better to include (major) parts in LilyPond itself. As a teaser I attach the test file

Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 21.04.2015 um 14:44 schrieb Mattes: Am Dienstag, 21. April 2015 14:23 CEST, Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de schrieb: ... Yet I have taken inspiration from there to create the attached tool for making nice margins, which I’ve been using ever since. Hmm, maybe I miss the obvious,

RE: Can you determine why a grob is being typeset in scheme?

2015-04-21 Thread Steven Weber
You guys are awesome! Took me a little bit to piece everything together, but here's what I wound up with. It's almost exactly what I want - I still need to figure out how to highlight clef changes in the first bar without highlighting the initial clef indicator, and how to deal with clef

Roman Numeral placement

2015-04-21 Thread SonusProj .
Attached (for ease of reading this post, code not embedded) is a simple project that has a staff for C Major and all Major flat keys. Above each 7th chord is the chord name. I want to add below the chord, treble clef, the associated Roman numeral description of each chord. I.E. on the C Major I

Re: Slur and tie

2015-04-21 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-04-21 09:51, Urs Liska wrote: is this correct? \relative c''' { a,,( e' b' c) ~ c( b a d,) } How is it different from: \relative c''' { a,,( e' b' c ~ c b a d,) } My musical intuition prefers the second line but the original score reads the first. The first version isn't

Re: best practices for volta (was Re: Problem with repeat, alternative endings that contain lyrics andleading rests)

2015-04-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Trevor, I think the standard response to this is patches welcome ;) Touché! ;) No doubt it could - but only if someone was prepared to put the effort into coding it. My question *was*, ultimately, more of a technical inquiry than a feature request: I never use MIDI, or anything

Re: [OT] Do we really offer the future?

2015-04-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Gilles, As the question was asked on this forum, I felt I could provide my opinion that some effort might be misplaced if its sole purpose was towards improving the publishing business. My opinion is that the future should not be that. Hopefully, this thread will get wide input, so we can

Re: Do we really offer the future?

2015-04-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Gilles (et al.), Whether or not funds will be obtained is a question that comes only after people at various levels are made aware that LilyPond exists. I totally agree. We should be pushing for Lilypond to be taken up by as many educational and commercial [!!] institutions as possible,

Slur and tie

2015-04-21 Thread Noeck
Hi, is this correct? \relative c''' { a,,( e' b' c) ~ c( b a d,) } How is it different from: \relative c''' { a,,( e' b' c ~ c b a d,) } My musical intuition prefers the second line but the original score reads the first. Cheers, Joram ___

Full path with ly:system-font-load

2015-04-21 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, I can load a font with ly:system-font-load, providing the name to it, e.g. (ly:system-font-load Beethoven-11). I can also specify the full path to that file to load a font that is installed in a known location outside the LilyPond installation. What I would like to know is: Do I have to

Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-21 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 20 Apr 2015 5:27 pm, Orm Finnendahl orm.finnend...@selma.hfmdk-frankfurt.de wrote: Hi, for the orchestra parts I used B4 portrait. Orchestra musicians love this format as this fits well on a music stand (A3 is too big) and fits more music than A4 (less page turns). I also used thicker

Re: Slur and tie

2015-04-21 Thread Urs Liska
Am 21.04.2015 um 09:49 schrieb Noeck: Hi, is this correct? \relative c''' { a,,( e' b' c) ~ c( b a d,) } How is it different from: \relative c''' { a,,( e' b' c ~ c b a d,) } My musical intuition prefers the second line but the original score reads the first. The first version isn't

Announcement: LilyPond performance in Berlin

2015-04-21 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, Everybody who might consider a trip to Berlin should read this post: http://lilypondblog.org/2015/04/der-rosenkavalier-chamber-version-with-berlin-philharmonic-orchestra/ Well, everybody else too ;-) I have seen the production in Baden-Baden, and I can wholeheartedly recommend

Re: mutopia's shortcomings

2015-04-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Joram, The people working on Mutopia are open for any good proposals. You want to make a huge splash, and get more Lilypond awareness than you can probably handle? ;) Crowd-engrave something big (i.e., very popular) and daring (i.e., still under copyright somewhere like the U.S.A., but

Re: best practices for volta (was Re: Problem with repeat alternative endings that contain lyrics andleading rests)

2015-04-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Trevor, Sure you did, but the point of the example the OP submitted from the NR was to show how to allow lyrics to be unfolded along with the music. Ah. Sorry for the noise. 1. Shouldn’t we be [heavily] promoting, even in tiny snippets, the use of global variables to hold \repeat

Scheme path handling on windows

2015-04-21 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, concrete version of a previous question: if I have Scheme expressions like the following #(display (ly:get-option 'datadir) #(let ((fontdir (opendir (string-append (ly:get-option 'datadir) /fonts (display fontdir)) how will path names be

Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 20.04.2015 um 08:45 schrieb Andrew Bernard: So Ponders, What size paper do you print scores on? I haven’t yet tried to use any other format than A4 (except for printing brochures on folded A3), although I learned from http://www.dante.de/tex/Dokumente/KohmSatzspiegel.pdf (only in German,

Re: Slur and tie

2015-04-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 21.04.2015 um 09:49 schrieb Noeck: Hi, is this correct? \relative c''' { a,,( e' b' c) ~ c( b a d,) } This was rather common in the 18th and 19th centuries I think and in tight vertical spacing it helps. How is it different from: \relative c''' { a,,( e' b' c ~ c b a d,) } That’s

Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-21 Thread Mattes
Am Dienstag, 21. April 2015 14:23 CEST, Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de schrieb: ... Yet I have taken inspiration from there to create the attached tool for making nice margins, which I’ve been using ever since. Hmm, maybe I miss the obvious, but in your code: (define

Re: Slur and tie

2015-04-21 Thread Noeck
Am 21.04.2015 um 14:27 schrieb Simon Albrecht: Am 21.04.2015 um 09:49 schrieb Noeck: Hi, is this correct? \relative c''' { a,,( e' b' c) ~ c( b a d,) } This was rather common in the 18th and 19th centuries I think and in tight vertical spacing it helps. How is it different from:

RE:Roman Numeral placement

2015-04-21 Thread Stephen MacNeil
actually if i like I = ^\markup \raise #2 \pad-around #.2 \halign #-2 \concat{\italic {I \lower #.5 \super 7}} ii = etc. then add roman = { \I s1 \ii s1 \iii s1 ... } then in each just add \roman fmajortreble = { \keychangevisual \key f \major \break \roman f a c e1 g bes d f1 a

Re: Roman Numeral placement

2015-04-21 Thread SonusProj .
Wow, thanks Stephen. That is wicked cool. You extended a great deal of help and I really appreciate it. I need some time to work through the alignment, markup, padding, etc that you have employed to get my head around it. As well, I need to find the definition of and other characters that are

Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-21 Thread Shane Brandes
8.5 x 11 sometimes other sizes when printing orchestral scores. What is the point of this survey? Shane On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de wrote: Am 21.04.2015 um 14:44 schrieb Mattes: Am Dienstag, 21. April 2015 14:23 CEST, Simon Albrecht

Defining custom fretboards

2015-04-21 Thread James Worlton
Hello, I am doing work for a client involving fretboard diagrams. He does not like that the default barred chords show the dots in between the outermost strings involved. Is there a way to turn off the dots in the middle of a barred fret? I can do it when I create a fretboard markup

Re: Roman Numeral placement

2015-04-21 Thread SonusProj .
I changed the line: vii = ^\markup \concat{\italic {vii \lower #.5 \pad-around #.2 \combine \super\draw-line #'(.7 . .9)\super o super 7}} To vii = ^\markup \concat{\italic {vii \lower #.5 \pad-around #.2 \combine \super\draw-line #'(.7 . .9)\super o \super \lower #.5 7}} I lowered the last

RE:Roman Numeral placement

2015-04-21 Thread Stephen MacNeil
add something like this at top I = ^\markup \pad-around #1 \halign #-2 \concat{\italic {I \lower #.5 \pad-around #.2 \super 7}} ii = ^\markup \pad-markup #1 \halign #-2 \concat{\italic {ii \lower #.5 \pad-around #.2 \super 7}} iii = ^\markup \pad-markup #1 \halign #-2 \concat{\italic {iii

Re: Font access testers needed

2015-04-21 Thread Cynthia Karl
Message: 5 Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 19:43:02 +0200 From: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org To: lilypond-user lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Font access testers needed Hi, I'd like to have a few people who are interested in testing and discussing a new way to select music and text fonts in

Re: Roman Numeral placement

2015-04-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, this becomes much less cumbersome by using \transpose. Also I’d suggest splitting it into individual scores. And there were some code style issues here also – I attach a much cleaner version (attaching is preferrable since nothing may be messed up on the way). HTH, Simon Am

Re: Do we really offer the future?

2015-04-21 Thread Wols Lists
On 20/04/15 15:54, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Some say that Microsoft obtained its original OS dominance (which at one point was approaching 95%) specifically by giving the priority to non-users: it wilfully allowed (or even secretly supported) the proliferation of pirated copies of early

Music notation in our lives survey RESULTS

2015-04-21 Thread Abraham Lee
All, I realize that I was just keeping this information to myself, so I decided, particularly with the recent discussions about the future of LilyPond in and out of the commercial world, I thought I'd publish some of the results of the survey I launched last July. Here are the results of the

Re: Music notation in our lives survey RESULTS

2015-04-21 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 11:39:00PM +0200, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: Hi Abraham, Thanks for sharing the results. And I'm surprised too : 5a persons, that's roughly 20% of the member's list (I'd bet on 100 persons at least). Too bad. I missed this survey... But FWIW, what is my

Re: Roman Numeral placement

2015-04-21 Thread Stephen MacNeil
I didn't do it just the markup but thanks anway stephen On Tuesday, April 21, 2015, Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de wrote: Hello, this becomes much less cumbersome by using \transpose. Also I’d suggest splitting it into individual scores. And there were some code style issues here also

Re: Roman Numeral placement

2015-04-21 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/21/15 10:34 AM, SonusProj . sonusproject...@gmail.com wrote: I want to add below the chord, treble clef, the associated Roman numeral description of each chord. I.E. on the C Major I would have I, the Dm7 would have ii7 with the 7 in superscript, the Em7 would have iii7 with the 7 in

Re: Music notation in our lives survey RESULTS

2015-04-21 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Abraham, Thanks for sharing the results. And I'm surprised too : 5a persons, that's roughly 20% of the member's list (I'd bet on 100 persons at least). Too bad. Cheers, Pierre 2015-04-21 23:21 GMT+02:00 Abraham Lee tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com: All, I realize that I was just keeping this

RE:Roman Numeral placement

2015-04-21 Thread Stephen MacNeil
here you go CUT \version 2.18.2 \header { title = Root Position 7th Chords composer = Lance James } harmonies = \chordmode { c1:maj7 d:m7 e:m7 f:maj7 g:7 a:m7 b:m7.5- \break f1:maj7 g:m7 a:m7 bes:maj7 c:7 d:m7 e:m7.5- \break bes1:maj7 c:m7 d:m7 ees:maj7 f:7 g:m7 a:m7.5- \break

Re: Defining custom fretboards

2015-04-21 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/21/15 1:38 PM, James Worlton jworl...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am doing work for a client involving fretboard diagrams. He does not like that the default barred chords show the dots in between the outermost strings involved. Is there a way to turn off the dots in the middle of a barred

Re: Roman Numeral placement

2015-04-21 Thread SonusProj .
That solution is also quite elegant. I need to spend some time understanding what you have created. Your chosen syntax is beyond my current understanding. Thanks for your input. Respectfully, Lance On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-04-21

Re: Roman Numeral placement

2015-04-21 Thread SonusProj .
Simon, I have several questions now that I have had a chance to review you code. 1) I wish to show the key for each staff line in lieu of showing all the accidentals relative to c. Is this possible with your current strategy? 2) If I wish to change the octave of either bass or treble clef on any

general question regarding replies

2015-04-21 Thread SonusProj .
i have received many responses to my question. i responded to each email using the lilypond-user address but do not receive notice of my reply as i would expect. am i responding correctly? i assumed, though possibly incorrectly, that a reply to this email address would send notice to all

Re: Do we really offer the future?

2015-04-21 Thread James Harkins
It's a bit of a side topic, but the the thread has touched on questions of usability, so I think it's related. I think there's one command in Finale that demonstrates a major obstacle to widespread adoption of LilyPond: Delete Measure Stack. This is an extremely common need when editing scores,

Re: general question regarding replies

2015-04-21 Thread Brian Barker
At 21:38 21/04/2015 -0500, Lance James wrote: i responded to each email using the lilypond-user address but do not receive notice of my reply as i would expect. am i responding correctly? Yes. i assumed, though possibly incorrectly, that a reply to this email address would send notice to all

Re: Roman Numeral placement

2015-04-21 Thread SonusProj .
thanks Carl. Lance On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu wrote: On 4/21/15 10:34 AM, SonusProj . sonusproject...@gmail.com wrote: I want to add below the chord, treble clef, the associated Roman numeral description of each chord. I.E. on the C Major I would

Re: Do we really offer the future?

2015-04-21 Thread Shane Brandes
Lilypond is not a terribly great tool for composition purposes. Not that I don't use it for that but when I do the whole piece is already in my head and I am not usually prone to making large changes in structure. As noted previously that tends to be a cumbersome process. Also somewhat cumbersome

Re: Defining custom fretboards

2015-04-21 Thread James
Thanks, Carl. This does what I'm looking for. Is this in the documentation? I couldn't (and still can't) find it. James Worlton On Apr 21, 2015, at 17:17 , Carl Sorensen wrote: On 4/21/15 1:38 PM, James Worlton jworl...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am doing work for a client involving

ask

2015-04-21 Thread Kond éltes
Dear lilipond Group! My name Kond éltes I just want to know how I can use the program to midi2ly after my own music scores to print ask steps midi2ly aplication eltesk...@gmail.com yours kond Éltes Éltes Kond /n.d.n.s.l./lilipon ___ lilypond-user

Re: Roman Numeral placement

2015-04-21 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-04-21 19:34 GMT+02:00 SonusProj . sonusproject...@gmail.com: Attached (for ease of reading this post, code not embedded) is a simple project that has a staff for C Major and all Major flat keys. Above each 7th chord is the chord name. I want to add below the chord, treble clef, the

Re: Roman Numeral placement

2015-04-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Harm, very impressive, but don’t you also think that it’s a little overkill to launch such big efforts on this small task? If it were on a larger scale, the automation would be more efficient, but with myself I observe that I tend to invest far more time into using as much automation as

Re: Roman Numeral placement

2015-04-21 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-04-22 1:32 GMT+02:00 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com: 2015-04-21 19:34 GMT+02:00 SonusProj . sonusproject...@gmail.com: Attached (for ease of reading this post, code not embedded) is a simple project that has a staff for C Major and all Major flat keys. Above each 7th chord is the

Re: Roman Numeral placement

2015-04-21 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-04-22 2:20 GMT+02:00 Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de: Hi Harm, very impressive, but don’t you also think that it’s a little overkill to launch such big efforts on this small task? If it were on a larger scale, the automation would be more efficient, but with myself I observe that I

Re: Do we really offer the future?

2015-04-21 Thread Gilles
On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 20:19:37 -0700, Jim Long wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 04:45:20PM +0200, Gilles wrote: If and when big publishers use LilyPond, the result will be more restricted access (through cost) to culture (because they won't release their proprietary contents). Forgive me if

Re: Slur and tie

2015-04-21 Thread Stephen MacNeil
Urs and Joram not sure about how you intend this excerpt to be personal etc. However in the past composers often indicated ideas through different ways - different groups of sixteen notes etc. to show phrasing, articulation etc. again i don't know the piece or the context so a rule of thumb is

Python update

2015-04-21 Thread Peter Gentry
python27.dll is flagged up as a vunerability by Kaspersky can I update to a later version without upsetting Lily or Fresco? regards Peter Gentry ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org