Re: non-triplet tuplets collide with staff

2017-10-28 Thread Ben
On 10/28/2017 5:38 PM, Mason Hock wrote: Lilypond by default seems to place all tuplet numbers/brackets so that they collide with the staff, with the exception of triplets, which it places outside the staff. I would like all tuplets outside of the staff like triplets. /\override

non-triplet tuplets collide with staff

2017-10-28 Thread Mason Hock
Lilypond by default seems to place all tuplet numbers/brackets so that they collide with the staff, with the exception of triplets, which it places outside the staff. I would like all tuplets outside of the staff like triplets. \override Staff.TupletNumber #'outside-staff-priority = #1 fixes

Re: "Text spanner"-ish thing with text in the middle

2017-10-28 Thread Ben
On 10/28/2017 10:30 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Ben writes: Thank you so much for sharing this function. It will come in handy for a project I'll be working on shortly. However, I had one question for you. I just went to try to use the function 'as is' and I'm seeing

Re: "Text spanner"-ish thing with text in the middle

2017-10-28 Thread David Kastrup
Ben writes: > Thank you so much for sharing this function. It will come in handy for > a project I'll be working on shortly. > However, I had one question for you. > I just went to try to use the function 'as is' and I'm seeing an > error. I cannot use the function at

Re: "Text spanner"-ish thing with text in the middle

2017-10-28 Thread Ben
On 10/28/2017 1:43 AM, Andrew Bernard wrote: Hi James, This comes up so frequently it puzzles me why it is not considered for addition to the lilypond baseline. Here's my function. Andrew === snip \version "2.19.39" % Annotation bracket with centred text. % Andrew Bernard and Thomas Morley

Re: "Text spanner"-ish thing with text in the middle

2017-10-28 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 2:23 AM, James Harkins wrote: > On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 13:55:49 +0800 Nathan Ho wrote > >> On 2017-10-27 21:37, James Harkins wrote: >> > I couldn't find this quickly: for an unmetered section, I'd like to >> >

Re: Cross-staff beam slope - can it be specified?

2017-10-28 Thread Ben
On 10/27/2017 1:33 PM, David Sumbler wrote: In the above rather silly example, the beam between the 2 cross-staff notes slopes slightly upwards.  If I add a dynamic, say \f , after 2. in line 7, the staves are forced further apart, and the beam slopes slightly downwards. If I now add a

Re: Made In The Pond™ update

2017-10-28 Thread Noeck
Hi Kieren, thanks a lot! > but I suppose I do slam out a lot of scores fairly quickly, and I have pretty > high aesthetic standards. I like very much what Lilypond offers by default. And I have my own styles and tweaks to get what I consider more beautiful. But your scores look so much better!

Re: Rhythmic clusters (i.e. *not* \makeClusters)

2017-10-28 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 28.10.2017 um 10:01 schrieb David Kastrup: James Harkins writes: That other question... I would like to notate some clusters, but articulated: blocks instead of notes, but showing repeated, re-articulated blocks. \makeClusters doesn't do it. Even if I put a "s"kip

Re: Rhythmic clusters (i.e. *not* \makeClusters)

2017-10-28 Thread David Kastrup
James Harkins writes: > That other question... > > I would like to notate some clusters, but articulated: blocks instead > of notes, but showing repeated, re-articulated blocks. > > \makeClusters doesn't do it. Even if I put a "s"kip in between, it > still connects them into

Rhythmic clusters (i.e. *not* \makeClusters)

2017-10-28 Thread James Harkins
That other question... I would like to notate some clusters, but articulated: blocks instead of notes, but showing repeated, re-articulated blocks. \makeClusters doesn't do it. Even if I put a "s"kip in between, it still connects them into one massive gesture. Plus, I need rhythmic notation.

Re: "Text spanner"-ish thing with text in the middle

2017-10-28 Thread James Harkins
On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 13:55:49 +0800 Nathan Ho wrote > On 2017-10-27 21:37, James Harkins wrote: > > I couldn't find this quickly: for an unmetered section, I'd like to > > indicate duration by tuplet-style brackets, only not a tuplet (no > > change to note

RE: "Text spanner"-ish thing with text in the middle

2017-10-28 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi James, This comes up so frequently it puzzles me why it is not considered for addition to the lilypond baseline. Here's my function. Andrew === snip \version "2.19.39" % Annotation bracket with centred text. % Andrew Bernard and Thomas Morley TextSpannerCentredText =

RE: "Text spanner"-ish thing with text in the middle

2017-10-28 Thread Andrew Bernard
HI Nathan, Indeed yes. This is clever, and short, but it is a hack, no disrespect intended. As you say, it hijacks the tuplet concept and introduces tuplet semantics where there are none. Whether this bothers people or not is entirely up to them, but I prefer my solution as it keeps the semantics