Re: Note extension lines

2015-08-20 Thread Andrew Bernard
Answering my own question, the realisation is that one can tie a flat gliss to an invisible note. That will be excellent. Andrew On 20 August 2015 at 19:32:52, Andrew Bernard (andrew.bern...@gmail.com) wrote: How would one achieve the effect seen in the attached image, special notehead

Re: fret-diagrams.scm:657:42: Wrong type: #f

2015-08-20 Thread ClausRogge
Well, your code is not a minimal example and it does not compile and thus it does not show the error. All I can say for now: I suspect your linebreaking of the strings for the fret-diagram. Hi Harm, thanks for replying ... what is a minimal example? Anything I can do to make things easier ...

Re: Lining up notes in staves with different rhythms and time signatures

2015-08-20 Thread Jack Taylor
Thank you all very much for your help! I'm now spoiled for choice as to a solution. :) Jack ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Lining up notes in staves with different rhythms and time signatures

2015-08-20 Thread tisimst
Malte Meyn-3 wrote Am 20.08.2015 um 20:07 schrieb Jack Taylor: I have managed to make the time signatures for each song independent, but I'm having problems making the notes line up (and with stopping the music from running off the page). I've dumped my current code at PasteBin

Note extension lines

2015-08-20 Thread Andrew Bernard
Greetings All, How would one achieve the effect seen in the attached image, special notehead duration extension lines? I’m not quite sure where to start, how to attack the problem. I had a look at the flat glissando code on the list from 2012, but the difference is I need to be able to specify

Re: Lining up notes in staves with different rhythms and time signatures

2015-08-20 Thread Klaus Blum
Hi Jack, while working on a solution, I've missed that two experts already replied... :) Anyway, another approach would be to set the internal (true) time signature via \set Staff.measureLength = #(ly:make-moment 3/4) etc. which can be different from the displayed time signature set by

Notehead line extensions

2015-08-20 Thread Andrew Bernard
Greetings All, How would one achieve the sort of thing shown in the image attached, an extender line attached to a note, of a specified length? I am not sure where to start. I just need the concept, not necessarily code. Andrew [LSR currently down from my part of the world at least.]

Spanner with centred text

2015-08-20 Thread Andrew Bernard
Greetings All, Here’s a first cut at making a horizontal spanning bracket with centred text. Leveraging the semantics of TextSpanners, this is remarkably useful – at least for the scores that I encounter. Limitations are that it does not do line breaking, for one. Considering this aspect, I’m

Re: Note extension lines

2015-08-20 Thread Klaus Blum
Hi Andrew, Andrew Bernard wrote I need to be able to specify an arbitrary length, and unconnected to a following note. maybe one of those two snippets might be a start: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=961 http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=962 Cheers, Klaus -- View this message in

Re: Coloring of key signature accidentals based on their pitch

2015-08-20 Thread Paul Morris
Hi David, On Aug 19, 2015, at 10:27 PM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for doing this! (I should have thought to write it this way in the first place!) Glad to! Thanks for leading the way on how to convert these C++ functions to Scheme. By the way, later in the

Re: sharping naturals

2015-08-20 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 14:36:41 +0200 Peter Bjuhr peterbj...@gmail.com wrote: When you use key signatures like A major or B Major you end up with a lot of naturals in the score for which you may have to manually add sharps. Is there a switch that will automatically sharp all the

Re: Guitar Chord Chart - Align Fret Diagram with Chord Names and Notes

2015-08-20 Thread Stephen MacNeil
Great to hear you found a solution here is another approach chord = \markup { \override #'(size . .7) \override #'(fret-diagram-details . ((finger-code . below-string) (dot-radius . 0.35) (number-type . roman-lower) (finger-code . below-string) (fret-count . 3))) \fret-diagram

Re: Guitar Chord Chart - Align Fret Diagram with Chord Names and Notes

2015-08-20 Thread tone
An elegant solution would be to define a fretboard with fret numbers on both sides---one of them an invisible (phantom) character. This is beyond my level of expertise. Anyone know how to code this? Here is another /brute force/ solution using \concat {\hspace #1.4 \custom-fret ... }}, and a

Re: Using SVG backend to implement point-and-click to braille location

2015-08-20 Thread David Kastrup
Mario Lang ml...@delysid.org writes: Mario Lang ml...@delysid.org writes: I am using the LilyPond SVG backend in combination with Qt's SVG support. While Qt's SVG module does not implement any support for a elements, it has a way to click on svg elements with an id attribute. What I did

Re: Guitar Chord Chart - Align Fret Diagram with Chord Names and Notes

2015-08-20 Thread Stephen MacNeil
Hi tone I tested your code on 2.18.2 (doesn't compile) and on 2.19.24 (looks NOTHING like what you have) I think the first issue I would solve is - why? why does it not look correct on other versions. I only mention it because all your work could become useless once you upgrade. As a side note

Re: fret-diagrams.scm:657:42: Wrong type: #f

2015-08-20 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-08-19 22:06 GMT+02:00 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com: 2015-08-19 17:53 GMT+02:00 ClausRogge claus.ro...@aon.at: I have two nearly identical pairs of code files, one calling the other. One of them works, the other one gives me the strange error quoted. Layout file one: %%%

Re: Guitar Chord Chart - Align Fret Diagram with Chord Names and Notes

2015-08-20 Thread Stephen MacNeil
and % \halign #-13 it's to early Stephen ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Guitar Chord Chart - Align Fret Diagram with Chord Names and Notes

2015-08-20 Thread Stephen MacNeil
Sorry you can comment out %\fill-line %\concat I used them as a markup with several chords. Stephen ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

how to engrave

2015-08-20 Thread Matej Kosik
Dear all, I am trying to figure out how to include the so called Fm(maj7) chord. With the standard modifiers: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/common-chord-modifiers I am not able to able to reach it. The desired ukulele tab (in the standard GCEA tuning) is

Re: Lining up notes in staves with different rhythms and time signatures

2015-08-20 Thread Blöchl Bernhard
That are the interesting cases where to outsmart the optimised depiction of lilypond. Usually not an easy task! First thee is an error, as d8 d4. a16 c8. | does not sum up to 2/4. Nay be that line should read | e8 g a g | e c4. | d8 d4. | a8 c4. ?? Beside any solution (I do not have any

Re: Lining up notes in staves with different rhythms and time signatures

2015-08-20 Thread Blöchl Bernhard
An experiment: \version 2.18.2 \layout { ragged-last = ##t % %{ \context { \Score \remove Timing_translator \remove Default_bar_line_engraver } \context { \Staff \consists Timing_translator \consists Default_bar_line_engraver } %} } \score { \new

Re: fret-diagrams.scm:657:42: Wrong type: #f

2015-08-20 Thread BB
Do not know if it is helpful. But if you set the code in place in the first file you get a (may be) clearer error message »/tmp/frescobaldi-VdzlyD/tmpjvJfHo/document.ly« wird verarbeitet Analysieren... Interpretation der Musik... Vorverarbeitung der grafischen

Re: Coloring of key signature accidentals based on their pitch

2015-08-20 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Paul, On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 8:56 PM, Paul Morris p...@paulwmorris.com wrote: On Aug 18, 2015, at 9:20 AM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: In the attached file, I've recoded the print routine in Scheme The attached file contains David’s Scheme recoding with the original

Re: how to engrave

2015-08-20 Thread Michael Hendry
On 20 Aug 2015, at 17:43, Matej Kosik 5764c029b688c1c0d24a2e97cd7...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I am trying to figure out how to include the so called Fm(maj7) chord. With the standard modifiers:

Re: Note extension lines

2015-08-20 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-08-20 11:36 GMT+02:00 Andrew Bernard andrew.bern...@gmail.com: Answering my own question, the realisation is that one can tie a flat gliss to an invisible note. That will be excellent. Andrew On 20 August 2015 at 19:32:52, Andrew Bernard (andrew.bern...@gmail.com) wrote: How would

Lining up notes in staves with different rhythms and time signatures

2015-08-20 Thread Jack Taylor
Hi all, I'm new to Lilypond, and I appear to have chosen a fiendishly difficult task for my first score. It's an example for an academic paper written in LaTeX with lilypond-book. I'm trying to input this scanned music snippet http://i.imgur.com/npBqY1V.jpg - a comparison of two Hungarian folk

Re: Guitar Chord Chart - Align Fret Diagram with Chord Names and Notes

2015-08-20 Thread tone
*Solved*: Here is one method I have found to align the fret diagram with the chord names and notes. It's not elegant, but it is predictable. I use \markup{ \concat {\transparent 4 \hspace #0.3 \custom-fret ... }}. The 4 is the fret number, and the #0.3 is the space added due to the fret

Re: Note extension lines

2015-08-20 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 20.08.2015 um 07:07 schrieb Andrew Bernard: I need to be able to specify an arbitrary length, and unconnected to a following note. Do you mean arbitrary time (like (ly:make-moment x y z)) or arbitrary length x in staff spaces/cm/inch? I have an idea for the latter: \override

Re: Lining up notes in staves with different rhythms and time signatures

2015-08-20 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 20.08.2015 um 20:07 schrieb Jack Taylor: I have managed to make the time signatures for each song independent, but I'm having problems making the notes line up (and with stopping the music from running off the page). I've dumped my current code at PasteBin http://pastebin.com/Z6kmy6yt if

Re: fret-diagrams.scm:657:42: Wrong type: #f

2015-08-20 Thread Michael Gerdau
Well, your code is not a minimal example and it does not compile and thus it does not show the error. All I can say for now: I suspect your linebreaking of the strings for the fret-diagram. Hi Harm, thanks for replying ... what is a minimal example? Anything I can do to make things easier

Re: Naming Substitution Functions - Numbers and Special Characters

2015-08-20 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-08-19 19:46 GMT+02:00 tone generalar...@yahoo.com: Does anyone have a list of characters that are allowed in substitution functions. I would like to make a list of chord names including fret position. For example, the following name is allowed: g_dom_seven-three = \markup{ \override