Re: Chapter 2.1 Vocal music of LPNR

2019-08-29 Thread Jacques Menu
David, Now I see the point : if the two eighths were more distant, the extender would have to be displayed anyway - and this may depend on what other voices play during the first eighth, such a a large number of shorter notes. JM > Le 29 août 2019 à 18:19, Jacques Menu a écrit : > > Hello

Chord accidental size in substituted fonts

2019-08-29 Thread James Worlton
Hello, I'm writing a big band chart and having difficulty getting the main chords involving accidentals--B-flat, C-sharp, etc.--to look good with the lilyjazz font. MWEs: %OK size with defaults \version "2.19.83" \score { \new ChordNames { bes1 } } %NOT OK size using lilyjazz

Re: Change position of first bar of melody

2019-08-29 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Mike, just for completeness’ sake: On 28.08.19 23:03, Michael Wagner wrote: \partial 8 {c8} there’s no need for these braces (they don’t do any harm either, though… ;-) ). If you’re going to write them, it is good practice to always enclose them in spaces, even if not technically

Re: Trouble with Triplets (Corrected)

2019-08-29 Thread Michael Gerdau
>>> Ideas on how to fix these issues are greatly appreciated. >> Your pattern does not fit 4 times in a line. That's creating some of >> your problems. To circumvent that you could switch between spacing >> settings inside the notes as in the attached example. > > Thank you very much. Could you

Re: Nesting levels in the source code - why do I have to use one level more than I thought?

2019-08-29 Thread Chris Yate
Hi David, That's a very helpful answer, thanks! It's a bit of syntax I've not really understood, and so end up "coding by coincidence". Chris ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Trouble with Triplets (Corrected)

2019-08-29 Thread Timothy Lanfear
On 29/08/2019 20:57, Stefano Antonelli wrote: I understand that the pattern does not fit 4 times on a line.  How to do so is one of my questions.  Increasing the length of the line doesn't appear to have any effect.  Though theoretically with a large enough paper size it should fit.  Followed

Re: stopStaff - startStaff End-of-System Staves

2019-08-29 Thread nagymusic
Thanks, Robin, for your suggestion. I checked for auxiliary voices and found none. After some experimenting, I learned that by including \override Staff.StaffSymbol.line-count = #0 right after \stopStaff properly displays the barlines. -- Sent from:

Re: Trouble with Triplets (Corrected)

2019-08-29 Thread Stefano Antonelli
On Thu, 2019-08-29 at 12:06 +0200, Michael Gerdau wrote: > Hi Stefano, > > > > > Ideas on how to fix these issues are greatly appreciated. > Your pattern does not fit 4 times in a line. That's creating some of > your problems. To circumvent that you could switch between spacing > settings inside

Re: Re: DrumVoice Polyphony and MIDI

2019-08-29 Thread Stefano Antonelli
On Thu, 2019-08-29 at 09:53 +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > I can confirm that the problem appears in 2.18.2, but seems to have > been  > fixed in 2.19, several years ago. As has already been stated many > times  > on this list, there's no reason whatsoever to avoid the "unstable"  > version

Re: Lyrics extend question

2019-08-29 Thread Jacques Menu
Hello David, The other thread was about a score I’m adapting for our oboes band for concerts to come. This lead me to compare how various applications import MusicXML, and I found this difference. And you’re right, my interest is in the algorithms for such import. JM > Le 29 août 2019 à

Re: Lyrics extend question

2019-08-29 Thread David Wright
On Thu 29 Aug 2019 at 19:27:15 (+0200), Jacques Menu wrote: > Hello folks, > > In a MusicXML version of Amazing Grace I have, there is the syllable ‘Was’ on > a first eighth, and then another eighth without lyrics beamed with the first > one: > > > > E > -1

Re: Nesting levels in the source code - why do I have to use one level more than I thought?

2019-08-29 Thread David Wright
On Thu 29 Aug 2019 at 17:09:09 (+0200), Petr Pařízek wrote: > Hello, > > I'm currently learning to use LilyPond. I've finally succeeded in > writing a short piece of music but there's one thing I don't > understand. In my source code, there was one line that said "\score > {". In order it worked

Lyrics extend question

2019-08-29 Thread Jacques Menu
Hello folks, In a MusicXML version of Amazing Grace I have, there is the syllable ‘Was’ on a first eighth, and then another eighth without lyrics beamed with the first one: E -1 4 6 1 eighth up

Re: Chapter 2.1 Vocal music of LPNR

2019-08-29 Thread Jacques Menu
Hello folks, Thanks to all for your help and comments. My use case is that of converting MusicXML to LilyPond, and I’ve learned in this experience that: - if the MusicXML data is of good quality, such as exported by GUI scores editors, alignment of lyrics can be manual as musicxml2ly

Re: Nesting levels in the source code - why do I have to use one level more than I thought?

2019-08-29 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Petr Pařízek" To: Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2019 4:09 PM Subject: Nesting levels in the source code - why do I have to use one level more than I thought? Hello, I'm currently learning to use LilyPond. I've finally succeeded in writing a short piece

Nesting levels in the source code - why do I have to use one level more than I thought?

2019-08-29 Thread Petr Pařízek
Hello, I'm currently learning to use LilyPond. I've finally succeeded in writing a short piece of music but there's one thing I don't understand. In my source code, there was one line that said "\score {". In order it worked at all, I had to keep a single left brace { on the immediately

Re: Easy way for converting .ly to svg document

2019-08-29 Thread Hans Aikema
> On 29 Aug 2019, at 05:09, k.l. wrote: > > > Where to find the SVG file? I only get .pdf and .ps > > The missing part for you can be found in the user manual (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/usage/command_002dline-usage#advanced-command-line-options-for-lilypond) but is maybe

Re: Trouble with Triplets (Corrected)

2019-08-29 Thread Michael Gerdau
Hi Stefano, > Ideas on how to fix these issues are greatly appreciated. Your pattern does not fit 4 times in a line. That's creating some of your problems. To circumvent that you could switch between spacing settings inside the notes as in the attached example. For simplicity I've merged all

Re: Easy way for converting .ly to svg document

2019-08-29 Thread k.l.
That works, thanks a lot. Andrew Bernard wrote > Ah. OK. If you use Frescobaldi (and if you don't, it's highly > recommended) its a preference setting. > > Compiling from the command line, it's an option for the back end. > > e.g.: > > $ lilypond -dbackend=svg -o test svg.ly > > Have a read

Re: stopStaff - startStaff End-of-System Staves

2019-08-29 Thread Robin Bannister
nagymusic wrote: I attached a screenshot from the ending of my score in which I used \stopStaff and \startStaff to completely hide staves at the end of the piece for performance purposes. Would anyone be willing to have a look at the attached screenshot and explain why there're small segments of

Re: Re: DrumVoice Polyphony and MIDI

2019-08-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Sorry, I pushed "Send" before finishing. Here comes the correct version of the email. On 2019-08-28 13:14, Stefano Antonelli wrote: On Wed, 2019-08-28 at 09:01 +0200, Federico Bruni wrote: Il giorno lun 26 ago 2019 alle 20:08, Stefano Antonelli ha scritto: That is not always a convenient

Re: Re: DrumVoice Polyphony and MIDI

2019-08-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
On 2019-08-28 13:14, Stefano Antonelli wrote: On Wed, 2019-08-28 at 09:01 +0200, Federico Bruni wrote: Il giorno lun 26 ago 2019 alle 20:08, Stefano Antonelli ha scritto: That is not always a convenient format for working with drum parts though.  I would like to be able to use a syntax more

Re: Easy way for converting .ly to svg document

2019-08-29 Thread Andrew Bernard
Ah. OK. If you use Frescobaldi (and if you don't, it's highly recommended) its a preference setting. Compiling from the command line, it's an option for the back end. e.g.: $ lilypond -dbackend=svg -o test svg.ly Have a read of the Notation Reference (NR) on command line usage. I strongly