Re: What is the problem with \relative? (Was: Do we really offer the future?)

2015-04-27 Thread ArnoldTheresius
Hello Urs Urs Liska wrote ... Another important topic for commercial users may be the management of the source code for all PDFs (and other output). What do you mean here? And finally multiple people may have to working parallel on the same score. This is something that is already

Re: how apt are comparisons to TeX/LaTeX?

2015-04-27 Thread Kevin Barry
So the first question is: how much of lilypond's goals and design are based on TeX/LaTeX? This is just my understanding, but I believe LilyPond is intended to be a music-engraving equivalent of LaTeX. IIRC it actually began life as a LaTeX package (MusicTeX? or was it another one?). Along

Re: how apt are comparisons to TeX/LaTeX?

2015-04-27 Thread Urs Liska
Am 27.04.2015 um 12:46 schrieb Kevin Barry: So the first question is: how much of lilypond's goals and design are based on TeX/LaTeX? This is just my understanding, but I believe LilyPond is intended to be a music-engraving equivalent of LaTeX. IIRC it actually began life as a

Re: Do we really offer the future?

2015-04-27 Thread Urs Liska
Am 23.04.2015 um 17:04 schrieb Gilles: Hello. On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:09:29 +0200, Urs Liska wrote: Hi all, First of all: I have _not_ asked the LilyPond team to spend any resources for whatever. First of all, nobody wrote that you did. Well, let's say that perhaps your initial reply

Re: Function to add a drone staff?

2015-04-27 Thread Paul Morris
I've added this dronify snippet to the LSR, for future reference: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1id=997 -Paul -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Function-to-add-a-drone-staff-tp174261p175515.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-04-27 Thread Urs Liska
Hey David, this is terrific. Nice that something I've done comes back to me this way ... When I'll have the time I'll look into integrating this into Frescobaldi's Layout Control Options. Urs Am 27.04.2015 um 23:14 schrieb David Nalesnik: On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 12:16 PM, David

Re: Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-04-27 Thread Jim Long
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 04:44:52PM +0200, Urs Liska wrote: What we have in Frescobaldi depends on what we can catch by either listening through engravers or by redefining command. So far I haven't found a notion of a grob knowing if it has been tweaked or not. As a Scheme/Lilypond novice

Re: Creating LilyPond Object Models

2015-04-27 Thread Paul Morris
Hi Urs, It was inspired mostly by Carl’s post and working on Jianpu notation. A tutorial on this is not a bad idea. That said: (1) it would benefit from fitting into, or coming after, a broader overview of LilyPond like Carl has written (2) it sounds like the way we create scheme engravers

getting involved with LilyPond (was: Do we really offer the future?)

2015-04-27 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi Kevin, 2015-04-24 6:49 GMT+02:00 Kevin Tough ke...@toughlife.org: On Thu, 2015-04-23 at 13:06 -0500, David Nalesnik wrote: (Please take this as a plea for more help with the project! It is not intended to downplay the efforts by the contributors to this thread.) Hi David and others, as

Re: teaching a university module on engraving with lilypond

2015-04-27 Thread Paul Morris
Dear Kevin, On Apr 27, 2015, at 10:18 AM, Kevin Barry barr...@gmail.com wrote: The scope of the course will be to teach some of the finer points of engraving (Gould is the module reference text) and then get them to produce their own editions of out-of-copyright scores which we will then

Re: Concepts that may be missing (or are at least hidden) in LilyPond

2015-04-27 Thread Anton Curl
On 27/04/2015 15:45, Urs Liska wrote: Maybe LilyPond could run through only the first stage (i.e. without producing graphical or MIDI output) and analyze the score. On that way it parses all existing contexts and could maybe determine the positions of all music content. It could then output

Re: Creating LilyPond Object Models

2015-04-27 Thread Urs Liska
Am 27.04.2015 um 23:24 schrieb Paul Morris: Hi Urs, It was inspired mostly by Carl’s post and working on Jianpu notation. A tutorial on this is not a bad idea. That said: (1) it would benefit from fitting into, or coming after, a broader overview of LilyPond like Carl has written (2) it

Re: Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-04-27 Thread David Nalesnik
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 12:16 PM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 12:12 PM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a code snippet to show that it is possible to tell if a grob has been altered. Right now you have to add the procedure

Re: Do we really offer the future?

2015-04-27 Thread Urs Liska
Am 27.04.2015 um 08:16 schrieb Michael Hendry: See https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/issues/573 In that wish I asked if it is useful or just a personal use case. So anybody who wants to use indented lines for such cases might add a comment there (to upvote it). I have added the

Re: Do we really offer the future?

2015-04-27 Thread Michael Hendry
On 27 Apr 2015, at 00:18, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Am 27.04.2015 um 01:12 schrieb Simon Albrecht: Am 26.04.2015 um 23:53 schrieb Michael Hendry: On 26 Apr 2015, at 15:36, H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx mailto:hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at

Trouble with alternative melody and lyrics

2015-04-27 Thread Peter Heisen
Dear List, I have a song with two verses. The lyrics to the second stanza occasionally have an extra syllable, such that there is a rest on that beat in the first verse but a note in the second verse. I'm trying to address this using the code found in notation manual (v. 2.18.2) in Section

Re: What is the problem with \relative? (Was: Do we really offer the future?)

2015-04-27 Thread Urs Liska
Am 27.04.2015 um 10:35 schrieb ArnoldTheresius: Hello Urs Urs Liska wrote ... Another important topic for commercial users may be the management of the source code for all PDFs (and other output). What do you mean here? And finally multiple people may have to working parallel on the same

Re: Putting text IN the staff

2015-04-27 Thread Nick Payne
On 27/04/2015 08:14, Anthonys Lists wrote: Simple problem, I can't find the solution ... :-) Basically, what I want is \StaffOff ...text... \StaffOn. Something like this? The values for offset and makegap have to be fiddled with to get proper alignment for the text you use. \version

Re: What is the problem with \relative? (Was: Do we really offer the future?)

2015-04-27 Thread Federico Bruni
2015-04-25 19:17 GMT+02:00 Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl: It should be mentioned that Frescobaldi creates converts {c'' d'' e'' f'' g''} to old style \relative syntax like: \relative c'' {c d e f g} instead of the new syntax I like to use these days:

Re: Height of start bar brace

2015-04-27 Thread Noeck
Thanks, Nathan, that works. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Concepts that may be missing (or are at least hidden) in LilyPond

2015-04-27 Thread Urs Liska
Am 27.04.2015 um 15:00 schrieb Carl Sorensen: On 4/26/15 10:55 PM, Andrew Bernard andrew.bern...@gmail.com wrote: In what way are measures missing? Half the world calls them Œbars¹ by the way - that¹s what they are under in the index. Are you simply referring to terminology in the

Re: Concepts that may be missing (or are at least hidden) in LilyPond

2015-04-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/26/15 10:55 PM, Andrew Bernard andrew.bern...@gmail.com wrote: In what way are measures missing? Half the world calls them Œbars¹ by the way - that¹s what they are under in the index. Are you simply referring to terminology in the documentation? LilyPond creates bars (the things that

Re: mutopia's shortcomings

2015-04-27 Thread Kevin Barry
I may have missed it if someone said it in the previous messages (apologies if so), but one of the benefits of mutopia over imslp is that the scores are for paper sizes that anyone can print. Most hand engraved scores are considerably bigger than A4 (and for good reason). A student who prints a

Re: Concepts that may be missing (or are at least hidden) in LilyPond

2015-04-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Andrew, In what way are measures missing? Here’s one example: you can add/modify/delete a Staff [context] with a single command; you cannot add/modify/delete a Measure. Cheers, Kieren. Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email:

Higher-level score handling needed? (was: Do we really offer the future?)

2015-04-27 Thread Jacques Menu
Hello folks, Some remarks for what they're worth... JM -- LP is basically staff oriented, and we specify a linear sequence of notes and the like for each staff. The reactions on the « Do we really offer the future? » thread as well as many questions that arose recently on this list show a

teaching a university module on engraving with lilypond

2015-04-27 Thread Kevin Barry
Dear All, Three recent threads (are we the future, mutopia, and new users' feelings about the docs) have prompted me to start a new one rather than write separate replies to each. Apologies in advance for the length, but I would be very grateful for some replies. I am very happy to say that a

Re: mutopia's shortcomings

2015-04-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Joram, I already wanted to submit a score to Mutopia using the edition engraver. But I finally used ordinary tweaks because we were not sure how future proof this is. An excellent question/point. 1. How stable is the interface of the edition engraver? Right now, not sufficiently for

Re: mutopia's shortcomings

2015-04-27 Thread Calixte Faure
Hi all, For me one of the biggest advantage of Mutopia (as a singer) is the possibility of transposing songs in every tones! Some years ago I submitted a few *mélodies* on Mutopia. My coding policy was tweaking the least, that for two reasons : 1) I thought the file is more maintainable with

Re: Concepts that may be missing (or are at least hidden) in LilyPond

2015-04-27 Thread Urs Liska
Am 27.04.2015 um 15:37 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Urs, I would strongly oppose to *replacing* the current approach with a container based approach (I don't think you are even considering that, I just want to make that clear). +1 What would be good to have is a notion of select

Re: Concepts that may be missing (or are at least hidden) in LilyPond

2015-04-27 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi there, after just reading all these important threads partially, I want to jump in. I want to encourage Urs' position - and if I understand correctly, Carl does not object ;) The lilypond way of working made it easy for me, to spot errors in a score I received as musicXML. There where

Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-04-27 Thread Noeck
Dear all, dear Urs, I would like to color tweaks of a particular edition of the edition engraver. I know that there is a checkbox in Frescobaldi to color, so it seems possible to color tweaked grobs in general. What I would like is to specify a color (of my choice) for each of the editions I

Re: mutopia's shortcomings

2015-04-27 Thread Noeck
Dear Kieren, With the edition-engraver, there is (a) no need to mix layout with contents I already wanted to submit a score to Mutopia using the edition engraver. But I finally used ordinary tweaks because we were not sure how future proof this is. This bings me to my questions: 1. How stable

Re: mutopia's shortcomings

2015-04-27 Thread Urs Liska
Am 27.04.2015 um 16:15 schrieb Noeck: Dear Kieren, With the edition-engraver, there is (a) no need to mix layout with contents I already wanted to submit a score to Mutopia using the edition engraver. But I finally used ordinary tweaks because we were not sure how future proof this is. This

Re: Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-04-27 Thread Urs Liska
Am 27.04.2015 um 16:27 schrieb Noeck: Dear all, dear Urs, I would like to color tweaks of a particular edition of the edition engraver. I know that there is a checkbox in Frescobaldi to color, so it seems possible to color tweaked grobs in general. No, I don't think this is possible,

Re: Trouble with alternative melody and lyrics

2015-04-27 Thread Trevor Daniels
Peter wrote Monday, April 27, 2015 8:25 AM I have a song with two verses. The lyrics to the second stanza occasionally have an extra syllable, such that there is a rest on that beat in the first verse but a note in the second verse. I'm trying to address this using the code found in

Re: teaching a university module on engraving with lilypond

2015-04-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/27/15 7:18 AM, Kevin Barry barr...@gmail.com wrote: 3. Since I will, in effect, be creating a tutorial for new LilyPond users, perhaps I could encourage some collaboration here, and make the results freely available. MuseScore has an excellent series of tutorial videos, for example. I'm not

Re: Concepts that may be missing (or are at least hidden) in LilyPond

2015-04-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs, I would strongly oppose to *replacing* the current approach with a container based approach (I don't think you are even considering that, I just want to make that clear). +1 What would be good to have is a notion of select everything in measures 2-4 - over all possible parts as

Re: mutopia's shortcomings

2015-04-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Gilles, And power users will complain in advance that they must tweak things (i.e. mix layout with contents) to get their required level of esthetics. Maybe that tweaked editions should not be in Mutopia's realm as a database[1] Maybe that such finely tuned editions could be managed with a

Re: Limits of algorithmic typesetting (was: Re: mutopia's shortcomings)

2015-04-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Calixte, I think the question is more: “will machines be able to engrave scores that don’t need tweaks or human correction at all.” Yes. Maybe, but in my opinion — except if you implement something like an AI — it will never have the difference that makes traditional engraving so

Re: Concepts that may be missing (or are at least hidden) in LilyPond

2015-04-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/27/15 6:37 AM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Urs, I would strongly oppose to *replacing* the current approach with a container based approach (I don't think you are even considering that, I just want to make that clear). +1 Just to clarify my intent -- I'm

Re: teaching a university module on engraving with lilypond

2015-04-27 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Kevin, Am 27.04.2015 um 16:18 schrieb Kevin Barry: Dear All, Three recent threads (are we the future, mutopia, and new users' feelings about the docs) have prompted me to start a new one rather than write separate replies to each. Apologies in advance for the length, but I would be very

Re: Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-04-27 Thread Noeck
Hi David, thank you very much! This is great. It is by far enough for my purposes. For an automatic option like in Frescobaldi it has some issues still – as you describe. There is something which has to be fixed, though. All clefs get colored, Can this be avoided (even at the cost of not

Re: Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-04-27 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Urs, On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Hey David, this is terrific. Nice that something I've done comes back to me this way ... When I'll have the time I'll look into integrating this into Frescobaldi's Layout Control Options. Thanks! There is

Re: Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-04-27 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Joram, On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de wrote: Hi David, thank you very much! This is great. It is by far enough for my purposes. For an automatic option like in Frescobaldi it has some issues still – as you describe. There is something which has to be

Tie engraver

2015-04-27 Thread Andrew Bernard
Greetings All, The tie machinery for ties between chords puts them all one way, up or down, when using  a simple tilde for tying. I have to adjust every pair of tied chords, of which I have several thousand in my score, to have some ties down and some up, according to the wishes of the

Automatically convert beams [ ] into slurs ( ) to indicate melisma (was undefined)

2015-04-27 Thread Paul Morris
Calixte Faure wrote Traditionally, vocal scores are written without beams, except for melisma. But modern scores tend to keep beams everywhere and put slurs to indicate melisma. Is it possible to have both output with one source, without complicating the typesetting? I have this in mind

Re: Tie engraver

2015-04-27 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Andrew, On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Andrew Bernard andrew.bern...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings All, The tie machinery for ties between chords puts them all one way, up or down, when using a simple tilde for tying. The following snippet has one upward tie and two downward ties. {

Re: Tie engraver

2015-04-27 Thread Urs Liska
Am 28.04.2015 um 03:41 schrieb David Nalesnik: Hi Andrew, On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Andrew Bernard andrew.bern...@gmail.com mailto:andrew.bern...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings All, The tie machinery for ties between chords puts them all one way, up or down, when using a

Re: Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-04-27 Thread Noeck
Hi Urs, thanks. I hoped it was easier. But then I will just color them by hand. Cheers, Joram ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: teaching a university module on engraving with lilypond

2015-04-27 Thread Kevin Barry
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu wrote: Given the fact that you paid a price for not reading the Learning Manual more thoroughly, would it not make sense to use the Learning Manual as your text for the module? If there are problems with the Learning Manual,

Re: mutopia's shortcomings

2015-04-27 Thread Gilles
On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:15:21 +0200, Noeck wrote: Dear Kieren, With the edition-engraver, there is (a) no need to mix layout with contents This seemed great; I looked for it in the documentation; and did not find it... I already wanted to submit a score to Mutopia using the edition

Re: Putting text IN the staff

2015-04-27 Thread Wols Lists
On 27/04/15 09:30, Nick Payne wrote: On 27/04/2015 08:14, Anthonys Lists wrote: Simple problem, I can't find the solution ... :-) Basically, what I want is \StaffOff ...text... \StaffOn. Something like this? The values for offset and makegap have to be fiddled with to get proper

Re: mutopia's shortcomings

2015-04-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Gilles, This seemed great It *is* great — trust me. =) I looked for it in the documentation; and did not find it… Hopefully someday you will. it does not make sense to improve the maintainability of a large set of scores by relying on a functionality that has to be adapted manually

Re: Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-04-27 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Joram, hi Urs, I shall add this to my todo list. Hope to be able to work on it. Cheers, Jan-Peter Am 27. April 2015 17:51:31 MESZ, schrieb Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de: Hi Urs, thanks. I hoped it was easier. But then I will just color them by hand. Cheers, Joram

Re: Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-04-27 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Am 27.04.2015 um 16:27 schrieb Noeck: Dear all, dear Urs, I would like to color tweaks of a particular edition of the edition engraver. I know that there is a checkbox in Frescobaldi to color, so it seems

manuals page [WAS Re: teaching a university module on engraving with lilypond]

2015-04-27 Thread Federico Bruni
2015-04-27 17:25 GMT+02:00 Kevin Barry barr...@gmail.com: You know http://benlemon.me/blog/music/lilypond/operation-lilypond ? No I didn't know about this, and thank you for linking it. I will take a good look. This is listed here under Other material:

Re: Trouble with alternative melody and lyrics

2015-04-27 Thread tisimst
Peter, I like Trevor's suggestions. I'd also recommend the following: 1. In the first verse lyrics, change to (i.e., remove the space). This makes One line up better with the notehead. You can also do \skip 4 instead. For some reason, in 2.18.2, using creates a manual melisma, which is not

Re: Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-04-27 Thread David Nalesnik
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 12:12 PM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a code snippet to show that it is possible to tell if a grob has been altered. Right now you have to add the procedure for each grob you want to examine. Oh, I should mention that overrides have been

Re: manuals page [WAS Re: teaching a university module on engraving with lilypond]

2015-04-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/27/15 10:47 AM, Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-04-27 17:25 GMT+02:00 Kevin Barry barr...@gmail.com: - I'd rather use a conversational approach instead of unordered lists: Please be aware that LilyPond is a text-based(link) music engraver and read the FAQ(link) before You

Re: Is GridLY the future? (Was: Do we really offer the future?)

2015-04-27 Thread Janek Warchoł
2015-04-23 12:37 GMT+02:00 Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org: Am 22.04.2015 um 22:58 schrieb Thomas Morley: I don't think it's a problem to get new functionality into LilyPond, _if_ it's coded properly. Sometimes people are scared by a maybe too rough tone, though. [...] It *is* a problem,

Re: Is GridLY the future? (Was: Do we really offer the future?)

2015-04-27 Thread Janek Warchoł
2015-04-28 7:27 GMT+02:00 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com: I agree with Urs - in my opinion LilyPond is not developer-friendly enough. Actually it's one of the reasons why I was away for so long - the friction in the community caused me to loose some motivation to work on LilyPond.

Re: Is GridLY the future?

2015-04-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Sometimes people are scared by a maybe too rough tone, though. It *is* a problem, and not only about code quality. More than once I abandoned a patch before the quality of the code was even considered but because of fruitless discussions about use cases, when for example using LilyPond to

Re: mutopia's shortcomings

2015-04-27 Thread Janek Warchoł
2015-04-27 19:02 GMT+02:00 Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca: it does not make sense to improve the maintainability of a large set of scores by relying on a functionality that has to be adapted manually in future and thus produces more manual interventions. It also doesn’t make

Re: Concepts that may be missing (or are at least hidden) in LilyPond

2015-04-27 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:17 PM, Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu wrote: Hi all, I'm still trying to get a list of musical concepts that you commonly use to talk about music that are either missing or hard to find in LilyPond. So far we have a set of two: Instruments Measures Are