Re: an "odd" accidental problem...

On 27/07/18 13:30, Torsten Hämmerle wrote: Wols Lists wrote I'm more used to seeing what you describe in key signatures, […] Yes, that's pretty much standard for key signature changes and LilyPond uses cancellation naturals by default (this can be switched off). Well, lilypond is about the

Re: Moving a tempo mark to the right

On 01/09/17 23:19, David Kastrup wrote: Anthony Youngman <antli...@youngman.org.uk> writes: On 01/09/17 22:14, David Kastrup wrote: Change the memory for known good memory, and the kernel compiled fine. No idea what Gcc does that memory test programs fail to account for. Have yo

Re: Moving a tempo mark to the right

On 01/09/17 22:14, David Kastrup wrote: Change the memory for known good memory, and the kernel compiled fine. No idea what Gcc does that memory test programs fail to account for. Have you come across the memory smashing exploit? I can't remember much about it, but if you can hammer memory

Re: Moving a tempo mark to the right

On 01/09/17 21:11, Anthony Youngman wrote: The big problem I can see is if sometimes it occurs at the start of a line, in which case the rehearsal mark will naturally move left out of the way, and letting lily move stuff around may move it to the middle of the line where I get a collision

Re: Moving a tempo mark to the right

On 01/09/17 21:36, David Kastrup wrote: I find the same thing with databases. So many people have their minds stuck in the 2-D relational world, and just cannot grasp the concept of a multi-dimensional database like Pick. Given that Pick is very much list-based (unlike SQL which is set-based),

Re: Moving a tempo mark to the right

On 01/09/17 15:17, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Wol, While it may sound weird. the reality is you probably didn't find it too hard to learn Scheme, because you're a composer not a programmer. Actually, I am a programmer: started with BASIC (and a little assembler language) in the early

Re: Moving a tempo mark to the right

On 19/08/17 15:11, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Wol, My usual moan about colliding markups :-) Given how usual your moans are… ;) Mind you, don't they say moaning customers are the best sort? They *want* the product to succeed. Can I ask why you don't just write a custom function to

Moving a tempo mark to the right

My usual moan about colliding markups :-) Anyways, I've almost got this bit how I want it ... the following code has a rehearsal mark, tempo mark, and melody name all in "the same place". s2.*3 s1*8 \bar "||" \mark \default % 111 \tempo "Languidly" \once \override

Re: : Re: transpose range

On 26/06/17 22:56, Peter Gentry wrote: dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ lilypond scheme-sandbox GNU LilyPond 2.19.59 Processing `/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.19.59/ly/scheme-sandbox.ly' Parsing... guile> (apply - (map ly:pitch-tones (list #{ eis #} #{ fes #}))) 1/2 guile> -- David Kastrup

Re: Key signatures repeated on every staff

On 15/04/17 15:55, Malte Meyn wrote: May I ask how much sheet music you have seen so far? All (!) classical sheet music repeats key signature at every line. And many editions of pop/jazz/… do that also. And most of the music I see from the turn of last century does NOT. However, imho, it

Re: Making the Dedication field align left

On 26/02/17 00:38, Simon Albrecht wrote: Am 26.02.2017 um 00:47 schrieb Wols Lists: I've stuck that definition in its own .ily file, and I just %include that file at the start of my \paper definition. I think it would be slightly cleaner to write an entire \paper{} block in the .ily file

Re: 13th chord?

On 26/02/17 13:55, Anthony Youngman wrote: On 26/02/17 13:38, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Anthony Youngman wrote: EXCEPT. This is *exactly* the scenario in which you will want my chord transposition code, and that doesn't make sense in a lyrics scenario

Re: 13th chord?

On 26/02/17 13:38, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Anthony Youngman wrote: EXCEPT. This is *exactly* the scenario in which you will want my chord transposition code, and that doesn't make sense in a lyrics scenario. Then they can use the existing code. In which case

Re: 13th chord?

On 26/02/17 11:32, Thomas Morley wrote: 2017-02-26 12:12 GMT+01:00 Anthony Youngman <antli...@youngman.org.uk>: On 26/02/17 10:52, Thomas Morley wrote: If the chordNameFunction (ignatzek-chord-names) does not do what we want, we should improve it, but not drop a plethora o

Re: 13th chord?

On 26/02/17 12:24, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Thomas Morley wrote: If the chordNameFunction (ignatzek-chord-names) does not do what we want, we should improve it, but not drop a plethora of lily-functionality. I'm not proposing to "drop a plethora of

Re: 13th chord?

On 26/02/17 10:52, Thomas Morley wrote: 2017-02-26 2:16 GMT+01:00 : On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, David Kastrup wrote: To me it would seem that the default mode of operation should be for them to have matched rules where feasible, in order to have least element of surprise.

Re: LilyPond logo?

The problem is the black lilyleaf looks like pacman. I notice that the more the split in the leaf is rotated to point down, the less it looks like a mouth (so the less it looks like pacman). The alternative - two leaves - feels unnatural. Cheers, Wol On 05/08/16 10:05, Malte Meyn wrote:

Re: LilyPond logo?

I like the first and last ones. The first is closer to the web graphic, but I think I prefer the last one. I still can't get pacman out of my mind ... you don't get that effect with the colour graphic because the colours are wrong, but as soon as it goes b ... Cheers, Wol On 05/08/16

Re: PDF author metadata

On 07/07/16 19:02, David Wright wrote: BTW one of the odd "assumptions" made in LP is in that variable called poet. What about compositions whose lyrics are prose? Of which I guess there are very few :-) "Jerusalem" is a pretty classic example - about the only one I can think of. Anything

Re: PDF author metadata

On 07/07/16 08:38, Christopher R. Maden wrote: On 07/07/2016 02:23 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Federico Bruni writes: Who should be in your opinion the author of a LilyPond score PDF? The composer or the typesetter? Usefulness does not come into play here as long as there

Re: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic)

On 19/03/14 18:13, Kieren MacMillan wrote: there is no setting that says force everything onto one page, beauty be damned Does \override Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn.line-break-permission = ##f not work for you? Cheers, Kieren. m not met that. My first reaction though, is

RE: Stacking lyrics above dynamics?

Following up on that, is there any way of altering which way round other marks go? I certainly haven't hit the lyrics/dynamics problems (apart from Pennsylvania I haven't used lyrics :-), but the problem I have is accents and slurs. Lily seems to prefer to put accents above slurs, while most

RE: correct barnumber after repeat volta

Most music I've seen simply counts the number of physical bars on the page, ignoring voltae (ie an 8-bar phrase with with two two-bar alternatives is counted as 10 (6+2+2) bars long). However, I have seen it counted as being 8 bars long (the second alternate was ignored for bar-numbering

RE: Midstring markup

3. From what I can make out, lilypond's markup language can only handle WORDS, not TEXT (as has been evidenced by people complaining that lilypond strips out any attempts at spacing. It's all very well having to place each word individually, but what do you then do if you want to change the

RE: \transpose weird staffs

A point to bear in mind - and I had exactly this trouble when I first started using lilypond ... \transpose changes the pitch of the notes as internally represented within lilypond. As such, I tend to think of it as a device for inputting from and outputting to paper. \transposition (as far as I

RE: How to generate a counter for repeated bars

Can I just add a little comment (I'm not asking anybody to look at the code, just saying if you do ... ) I regularly see repeated bars or percent bars without numbers and with numbers. I see repeated bars followed by percent bars, with or without numbers. Note that the numbers always count from

RE: Finally I found out about \myStaffSize 20

Sounds like a good idea for one of those all abouts. All About Fonts. It would need a bit more digging, though, before it could be documented in detail. Cheers, Wol -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] .org] On Behalf Of Henrik Frisk Sent: 17 August 2006

RE: triangle chord notation (bit of toppic: why c != b sharp)

Actually, that bit about all instruments are tuned in a mathematical way is just plain wrong :-) Think about it ... apart from the open strings, how do you guarantee that an a# is a b-flat on a violin? Or any other violin-like stringed instrument, for that matter? I play the trombone, and I

RE: help on invoking lilypond-book

I thought the Ghostscript people were dropping the AFPL !!! Anyways, if things haven't changed from the historic setup, they're not actually parallel versions - the GPL is the old version. It always used to be the case that the ghostscript writers released under the AFPL, but that this licence

RE: Useful expressions

One I've met now and then Tempo Primo - original tempo. Not sure whether that means starting tempo, or the most recent marked tempo - I think I've met both interpretations. Cheers, Wol -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] .org] On Behalf Of Stewart Holmes

RE: LP printing problems

I'm guessing you're in America. What size is your output pdf? A4? If it is and you tell the printer to print unscaled, then you're losing the bottom 2/3 of the page. First way round that is to tell acrobat to scale page to fit printer. Second way is to look at the relevant section of the manual

RE: Can't set next-padding - it's ignoring me

PROTECTED] Sent: 24 July 2006 08:57 To: Anthony Youngman Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Can't set next-padding - it's ignoring me Anthony Youngman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay, it's now doing what I want. Adding between-system-padding fixed it and reduced next-padding. So I'm satisfied

RE: Standard sheet music in (US)

Somethning else to look at ... a ?week? ago on the list, somebody had a similar problem which turned out to be a bug in the call to gs. He set a custom paper size, but when lily called gs it wasn't passing his custom size, it was telling gs to produce an A4 pdf. This *could* be the same bug.

Can't set next-padding - it's ignoring me

Well it was ... then I copied the example in the manual and it blows up on me ... I'm trying to globally over-ride the next-padding property to squeeze more systems on a page (ie get the entire piece on one page and not have an orphan system on page 2). There's an example in the manual about

RE: Evolutionary User Strategy - A Compromise

... and I think your answer to is it possible is yes, just is it worth it? Cheers, Wol -Original Message- From: Erik Sandberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 July 2006 19:08 To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Cc: Anthony Youngman Subject: Re: Evolutionary User Strategy - A Compromise

RE: Evolutionary User Strategy - A Compromise

Something I thought of (having seen the comment about convert-ly using grep ...) I've got an on-off thing about writing a DATABASIC compiler (never mind) and have come across a tool called Antlr. It is a compiler-compiler and generates lexers, parsers and treeparsers. IF someone wants to put the

RE: Evolutionary User Strategy - A Compromise

on it. Cheers, Wol -Original Message- From: Erik Sandberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 July 2006 13:55 To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Cc: Anthony Youngman Subject: Re: Evolutionary User Strategy - A Compromise On Wednesday 12 July 2006 12:59, Anthony Youngman wrote: Something I thought

RE: tetex 2.5 and lilypond 2.0

If your new system is powerful enough (and no, I haven't any experience of this but I'm planning to do something like this myself :-) Experiment with UML (User Mode Linux) and Gentoo. There's a good chance that if you get a minimal gentoo system running, then tell it to install the packages you

RE: Clarifying otave check (\octave) in Section 6.2.2

C below middle C is just c all by itself so the syntax should be a, b, c= d e f g a b (rising steadily up the bass clef :-) I remember using this test recently, and it does work. The problem I had (Han-Wen sent me a fix) was that I needed the facility to force an octave change, but I didn't

RE: MultiMeasureRest - trying to be clever ...

things out, if you put everything in people can't see the wood for the trees. What do you do? Cheers, Wol -Original Message- From: Graham Percival [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 July 2006 16:37 To: Anthony Youngman Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: MultiMeasureRest - trying

RE: Lilypond store?

I notice you're in the UK too ... I don't know how it works, but a lot of the stuff I'm doing may be licensable but not public domain. Especially stuff that's licenced with the Performing Rights Society, we may be able to typeset it ourselves, then sell (probably printed only :-( parts of

RE: segno, coda, etc. below rehearsal mark

Read the documentation on rehearsal marks. One of the default styles is to use the barnumber. \set Score.markFormatter = #format-mark-barnumbers Incidentally, this will also probably get round the problem of keeping track - I guess the problem is the rehearsal mark counter isn't automatically

RE: Some general comments

That sort of works ... but if Ian wants what I want, then it's a lot more work than just that ... This would be a very good example for Fairchild's AllAbouts. Certainly, until I clean it up, my version is a mess. I've got a linebreak at the barline where my ossia starts ... with the result that

RE: AllAbout Examples

I've started writing something on noteheads. This seems to be where it would fit in perfectly. (I probably ought to add stems and rests to it, but that can wait :-) I do feel something like this would be useful. As you say, we currently have the User Manual (great for getting started) and the

RE: Lyrics problem ... Bug? Feature? ???

investigation to follow - my current source attached ... Cheers, Wol -Original Message- From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 June 2006 12:43 To: Anthony Youngman Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Lyrics problem ... I got the same programming error but still the output

RE: Lyrics problem ... Bug? Feature? ???

repeated in several places, so I can just drop it into the music where it's needed ... Cheers, Wol -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] .org] On Behalf Of Anthony Youngman Sent: 12 June 2006 12:04 To: Mats Bengtsson Cc: lilypond-devel@gnu.org; lilypond-user

RE: Lyrics problem ... Bug? Feature? ???

... Cheers, Wol -Original Message- From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 June 2006 13:25 To: Anthony Youngman Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org; lilypond-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: Lyrics problem ... Bug? Feature? ??? Anthony Youngman wrote: I've changed my approach - I felt all along

RE: Lyrics problem ...

Just tried swapping your version for mine. No improvement :-( And I'm still getting programming error: moving backwards in time in the logs ... Cheers, Wol -Original Message- From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 June 2006 11:34 To: Anthony Youngman Cc: lilypond-user

Lyrics problem ...

I'm now trying to add some words to a phrase ... pennsylvania = { { \override NoteHead #'style = #'cross r2_\markup{ shout } f8. f16 f8. f16 f4 f f8. f16 r4 } % \addlyrics { Penn syl van ia six five thous and } } voiceTromboneI = \relative c' { r2

RE: Lyrics problem ...

][9][12][15][16] Calculating page breaks... Layout output to `partTromboneI.ps'... Converting to `partTromboneI.pdf'... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] .org] On Behalf Of Anthony Youngman Sent: 07 June 2006 12:12 To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject