Getting a function to accept a string or a markup

2024-05-09 Thread Vaughan McAlley
Hi, I have a text spanner function that shows a player that they are playing in simultaneous rhythm with one or more other players. I adapted it from code I used for indicating colouration in renaissance music. It works fine, but if it begins on the last note of a line, and the attached string is

[basic question] how to disable text spanners for the lower staff of a PianoStaff

2024-05-09 Thread James Harkins
I've got a piano staff (for guzheng, just notating on two staves), and an "accel." text spanner in a \global var. The accel is printed in both staves of the piano staff. I'd thought this would hide it from the lower staff: \new PianoStaff \with { instrumentName = "古筝"

Spacing of chords on a chord lead sheet

2024-05-09 Thread Raphael Mankin
I have generated a chord lead sheet for a bass player with just the chords on it (\chordMode, no notes). After some fiddling I got the bar lines and repeats printed. However, the chord names are mono-spaced; they are not spaced according to their durations. So that if, for instance, I have

Re: MIDI format and MIDI resolution

2024-05-09 Thread David Kastrup
Giles Boardman writes: > Is that "no, you can't tell me" or "no, it can't be done? (Just > kidding). Thanks very much. It will save me spending time looking. It is "it is hardwired into the source code to a degree where it would require some really heavy lifting to make it adaptable". It would

Re: MIDI format and MIDI resolution

2024-05-09 Thread Giles Boardman
Is that "no, you can't tell me" or "no, it can't be done? (Just kidding). Thanks very much. It will save me spending time looking. From: David Kastrup Sent: 09 May 2024 18:41 To: Giles Boardman Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: MIDI format and MIDI

Re: MIDI format and MIDI resolution

2024-05-09 Thread David Kastrup
Giles Boardman writes: > Hello, > Can anyone tell me if it is possible to generate Midi format 0 files No. > and whether it is possible to control the resolution setting. No. > I have been standardising resolution for midi files from different > sources and the value I chose is not the one

MIDI format and MIDI resolution

2024-05-09 Thread Giles Boardman
Hello, Can anyone tell me if it is possible to generate Midi format 0 files and whether it is possible to control the resolution setting. I have been standardising resolution for midi files from different sources and the value I chose is not the one output by Lilypond. Thanks Giles

Re: Showing fingering on top of slurs

2024-05-09 Thread Knute Snortum
On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 7:05 AM Paul McKay wrote: > Hi > I want to show the fingering in front of the slurs. This should keep the > fingerings evenly spaced vertically over the notes. I have tried the > following : > > \version "2.24.0" > \language "english" > > \relative { > \override

Re: Tie between staves of a PianoStaff

2024-05-09 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Thanks for your contributions. They inspired me to an easy bypass: > ties may not work between staves, but slurs do, and the difference > is not really conspicuous. [...] By the way, the original problem is an ooold bug: https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/555 Werner

Showing fingerings in front of slurs

2024-05-09 Thread Paul McKay
Hi I want to show fingerings in front of slurs in a manner very like that demonstrated in the "Using the whiteout property" snippet This is what I've tried: \version "2.24.0" \language "english" \relative { \override Staff.Fingering.layer = 2 % fingering should overwrite slurs

Showing fingering on top of slurs

2024-05-09 Thread Paul McKay
Hi I want to show the fingering in front of the slurs. This should keep the fingerings evenly spaced vertically over the notes. I have tried the following : \version "2.24.0" \language "english" \relative { \override Staff.Fingering.layer = 2 % fingering should overwrite slurs

Re: Tie between staves of a PianoStaff

2024-05-09 Thread Knute Snortum
On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 6:27 AM Kris Van Bruwaene wrote: > Thanks for your contributions. They inspired me to an easy bypass: ties > may not work between staves, but slurs do, and the difference is not really > conspicuous. Result attached. > That's great! I'd change one thing -- not related to

Re: Tie between staves of a PianoStaff

2024-05-09 Thread Kris Van Bruwaene
Thanks for your contributions. They inspired me to an easy bypass: ties may not work between staves, but slurs do, and the difference is not really conspicuous. Result attached. On Wednesday, 8 May 2024 at 18:44:10 CEST, David Wright wrote: On Wed 08 May 2024 at 13:40:23 (+), Kris