Re: Chords in LilyPond

2017-05-29 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 30 May 2017 at 01:16, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Am 2017-05-29 um 08:24 schrieb David Kastrup : > > > Johan Vromans writes: > > > >> On Mon, 29 May 2017 14:24:52 +1000, Vaughan McAlley > >> wrote: > >> > >>>

Re: Back in the Pond

2017-05-29 Thread David Kastrup
Gianmaria Lari writes: > Trevor wrote: > > >> I'll definitely turn on my financial contribution again. >> > > what's the better way to give a financial contribution? In Europe's EURO zone (guessing from your name, that would likely be the case) SEPA transfers are

Re:Chords in LilyPond

2017-05-29 Thread Peter Gentry
Thanks to Carl and Kieren for explaining chord semantics. A set of notes forming a chord may have a different "meaning" depending on the current key context. Semantics seemed like a much grander idea to the uninitiated. However this idea would surely fall on stony ground in the context

Re: double accents: > plus dot

2017-05-29 Thread Bernhard Kleine
Am 29.05.2017 um 20:01 schrieb Brian Barker: > At 19:04 29/05/2017 +0200, Bernhard Kleine wrote: >> The examples in the documentation show only how to set one of the >> two. In the original of my piece there is however, both (dot and >) >> together. I wonder how to set this. > > a\staccato\accent

Re: Chords in LilyPond

2017-05-29 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Carl, > I had not heard of quartic chords before reading this email (as I've > mentioned before, I'm a music novice). It was very interesting for me to > study quartic chords. They form a large part of my harmonic (composition and arranging) language. > But in my web search and following

Re: Chords in LilyPond

2017-05-29 Thread Robert Schmaus
Am 29.05.17 um 15:28 schrieb Carl Sorensen: I had not heard of quartic chords before reading this email (as I've mentioned before, I'm a music novice). It was very interesting for me to study quartic chords. But in my web search and following links, I never found anything that approached a

double accents: > plus dot

2017-05-29 Thread Bernhard Kleine
The examples in the documentation show only how to set one of the two. In the original of my piece there is however, both (dot and >) together. I wonder how to set this. Regards Bernhard -- spitzhalde9 D-79853 lenzkirch bernhard.kle...@gmx.net www.b-kleine.com, www.urseetal.net - thunderbird

Re: ly Source for examples on the LP Homepage

2017-05-29 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Federico Bruni" To: "Kieren MacMillan" Cc: "Lilypond-User Mailing List" Sent: Monday, May 29, 2017 5:05 PM Subject: Re: ly Source for examples on the LP Homepage Il giorno lun 29 mag

Re: ly Source for examples on the LP Homepage

2017-05-29 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno lun 29 mag 2017 alle 15:46, Kieren MacMillan ha scritto: Hi all, Il giorno lun 29 mag 2017 alle 13:41, Martin Tarenskeen ha scritto: In addition to Manuela's question: What's happening with the stems below the lower staff of the

Re: Chords in LilyPond

2017-05-29 Thread Wols Lists
On 29/05/17 06:04, Carl Sorensen wrote: > Charles's project is not to solve all three of these. In fact, his > project is not to completely solve any one of them. Rather, his problem > is to determine how best to save the semantics, so that assuming the > semantics are properly entered in

Re: Chords in LilyPond

2017-05-29 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2017-05-29 um 08:24 schrieb David Kastrup : > Johan Vromans writes: > >> On Mon, 29 May 2017 14:24:52 +1000, Vaughan McAlley >> wrote: >> >>> Does anyone actually use MIDI from the chord performer? >> >> I do. Although the

Re: How to generate a minimally sized pdf

2017-05-29 Thread David Wright
On Mon 29 May 2017 at 10:26:51 (+0300), Ivanov Dmitry wrote: > On 5/29/17, Jeffery Shivers wrote: > > > I believe other people have inquired about auto-cropping and > > such in the past, too! Might be worth searching the archives (or just > > googling to get there

Re: ly Source for examples on the LP Homepage

2017-05-29 Thread Manuela Gößnitzer
Thanks for the link, I think it would be a good idea to add it on the homepage, greetings, Manuela 2017-05-29 15:46 GMT+02:00 Kieren MacMillan : > Hi all, > > > Il giorno lun 29 mag 2017 alle 13:41, Martin Tarenskeen < > m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl> ha scritto: > >> In

Re: ly Source for examples on the LP Homepage

2017-05-29 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, > Il giorno lun 29 mag 2017 alle 13:41, Martin Tarenskeen > ha scritto: >> In addition to Manuela's question: What's happening with the stems below the >> lower staff of the Granados example on that page? If we want to show what >> LilyPond scores can look like

Re: Chords in LilyPond

2017-05-29 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Peter, > I have struggled to understand what is being discussed. Sorry for that. Hopefully, when the project is *implemented*, the user interface won’t provide a barrier to understanding. > Am I correct in seeing “semantics” in this way ? We are using semantics in the sense of “what does

Re: Chords in LilyPond

2017-05-29 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/24/17 4:51 PM, "Kieren MacMillan" wrote: > >> Some things that should be thought about: >> Is the 7 an extension? Or included in the quality the chord? Or maybe >>something else? > >Since we¹re starting from the ground up, can we not assume triadic >harmony for

Re: Chords in LilyPond

2017-05-29 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/29/17 5:58 AM, "Peter Gentry" wrote: >I have been intrigued by the highly technical correspondence on this >topic. However I have struggled to understand what is being discussed. >Other links such as >http://motools.sourceforge.net/chord_draft_1/chord.html

Re:Chords in LilyPond

2017-05-29 Thread Peter Gentry
I have been intrigued by the highly technical correspondence on this topic. However I have struggled to understand what is being discussed. A bit of googling has shed some light http://debussy.music.ubc.ca/muset/guido/section3.html for instance but other sources are even more technical. I was

Re: ly Source for examples on the LP Homepage

2017-05-29 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno lun 29 mag 2017 alle 13:41, Martin Tarenskeen ha scritto: In addition to Manuela's question: What's happening with the stems below the lower staff of the Granados example on that page? If we want to show what LilyPond scores can look like this is not what we

Re: ly Source for examples on the LP Homepage

2017-05-29 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Mon, 29 May 2017, Manuela Gößnitzer wrote: Hi all, I was looking for the Lilypond source for the example gallery http://lilypond.org/examples.html (which I thought that could be really enlightening sometimes) and did not find any. I searched Github too, with no result. Are the sources

Re: ly Source for examples on the LP Homepage

2017-05-29 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno lun 29 mag 2017 alle 13:26, Manuela Gößnitzer ha scritto: Hi all, I was looking for the Lilypond source for the example gallery http://lilypond.org/examples.html (which I thought that could be really enlightening sometimes) and did not find any. I

ly Source for examples on the LP Homepage

2017-05-29 Thread Manuela Gößnitzer
Hi all, I was looking for the Lilypond source for the example gallery http://lilypond.org/examples.html (which I thought that could be really enlightening sometimes) and did not find any. I searched Github too, with no result. Are the sources for these examples on the LP-website or somewhere

Re: Additional staff with lyrics

2017-05-29 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
... or \new Staff ="main" { \relative { r4 g'8 g c4 c8 d | e4 r8 << { f8 c c } \new Staff = "extra" \with { alignAboveContext = #"main" } { f8 f c } \addlyrics \with { alignBelowContext = #"extra" } { foo bar buzz } >> r4 | } } HTH, Jan-Peter Am

Re: Chords in LilyPond

2017-05-29 Thread Thomas Morley
2017-05-29 11:44 GMT+02:00 Thomas Morley : > (2) > Finally something like the terminal-output of the fake below is aimed at: > > chrd-test-III = > \chordmode { > \displayMusic > \withMusicProperty semantics > #`((root . ,#{ c #}) > ;; or? >

Re: Additional staff with lyrics

2017-05-29 Thread Thomas Morley
2017-05-29 11:43 GMT+02:00 Bernhard Kleine : > > In http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/learning/size-of-objects > > there is this example which helped me already to add the extra Staff to the > piece I presented yesterday, however I do not see a way to add lyrics

Re: Chords in LilyPond

2017-05-29 Thread Thomas Morley
2017-05-29 7:04 GMT+02:00 Carl Sorensen : > On 5/28/17 5:53 PM, "Thomas Morley" wrote: > >> >> >>Though, why adding a Œsemantics entry to the EventChord? >>I'd suggest to write such an interpreter as a procedure which works on >>the pitchlist

Additional staff with lyrics

2017-05-29 Thread Bernhard Kleine
In http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/learning/size-of-objects there is this example which helped me already to add the extra Staff to the piece I presented yesterday, however I do not see a way to add lyrics to the upper staff. Could you please help? \new Staff ="main" {

Re: How to generate a minimally sized pdf

2017-05-29 Thread Ivanov Dmitry
On 5/29/17, Jeffery Shivers wrote: > I believe other people have inquired about auto-cropping and > such in the past, too! Might be worth searching the archives (or just > googling to get there faster). I tried this: $lilypond -dpreview file.ly And it worked: gave

Re: How to generate a minimally sized pdf

2017-05-29 Thread Ivanov Dmitry
On 5/29/17, Jeffery Shivers wrote: > I believe other people have inquired about auto-cropping and > such in the past, too! Might be worth searching the archives (or just > googling to get there faster). > > By the way, how are you compiling this? (i.e. command line,

Re: Chords in LilyPond

2017-05-29 Thread David Kastrup
Johan Vromans writes: > On Mon, 29 May 2017 14:24:52 +1000, Vaughan McAlley > wrote: > >> Does anyone actually use MIDI from the chord performer? > > I do. Although the voicing of the chords is not what a normal player > would do, it is okay for

Re: Chords in LilyPond

2017-05-29 Thread Johan Vromans
On Mon, 29 May 2017 14:24:52 +1000, Vaughan McAlley wrote: > Does anyone actually use MIDI from the chord performer? I do. Although the voicing of the chords is not what a normal player would do, it is okay for checking scores and practising. -- Johan