Re: 1.4.2 Clickable examples

On Tue 01 May 2018 at 10:45:08 (-0400), Freeman Gilmore wrote: > I have windows 10 > Reference; > *Learning Manual v2.18.2 HTML* >1.4.2 Clickable examples > > Would some one please explain how to do this in detail? > > I hace tried open, save, and open in the download file. > I have seen

Re: spacer rest *

On Tue 01 May 2018 at 09:45:47 (+0200), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > On 1 May 2018 at 09:39, David Kastrup wrote: > > > Gianmaria Lari writes: > > > > > --- Exceptions --- > > > Making "s8 8 8" acting differently than "c8 8 8" introduce an > > > exception. > >

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On Tue 01 May 2018 at 09:15:31 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright <da...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > > > On Tue 01 May 2018 at 00:15:24 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > >> David Wright <da...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > >> > >> &

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On Tue 01 May 2018 at 00:15:24 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright <da...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > > > AFAICT the important exception that was introduced with naked > > durations was that c 4 notates a single note whereas c4 4 notates two. > > There was

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On Fri 27 Apr 2018 at 22:56:31 (+0200), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > On 27 April 2018 at 15:44, David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > > > [...] > > Well, I don't know how the decision was arrived at, but my own view is > > that it's the correct one. The d

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On Fri 27 Apr 2018 at 14:58:13 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > > > On Fri 27 Apr 2018 at 13:49:24 (+0200), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > >> On 27 April 2018 at 11:56, Andrew Bernard <andrew.bern...@gmail.com>

Re: spacer rest *

On Fri 27 Apr 2018 at 13:49:24 (+0200), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > On 27 April 2018 at 11:56, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > > Hi Gianmaria, > > > > The shorthand of using a duration number only applies to notes, not rests. > > > > As per the NR: > > > > Isolated durations –

Re: Dots wrongly positioned in not merged chords

On Fri 27 Apr 2018 at 01:43:49 (+0200), 70147pers...@telia.com wrote: > Hi David, > > This was an interesting solution, which indeed produces the image I > am looking for. Well the MIDI-file does not sound as expected, but > that is not a too big problem. One often has to produce two > different

Re: Dots wrongly positioned in not merged chords

On Thu 26 Apr 2018 at 20:54:57 (+0200), 70147pers...@telia.com wrote: > Yes, this is exactly what I do, even if I did not want to make my > snippet too complicated by introducing also the piano staff. You > could of course use four staves, but in real life often two staves > are used with two

Re: Spacer Rests Global Confusion

On Thu 26 Apr 2018 at 12:20:34 (-0400), R wrote: > On 4/26/2018 12:13 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote: > >On 26.04.2018 18:02, R wrote: > >>When the duration of the called variable is explicitly given, > >>everything is correct. However, if you remove the duration and > >>have it default to the normal

Re: Spacer Rests Global Problem

On Thu 26 Apr 2018 at 08:21:24 (-0700), Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > You have > s1*4 \tempo "Largo" s1*3 \tempo "Allegro" > inside the \global. It shall start all parts. Remove it > You can change tempo with the \tempo command attached to a specific note. Not good advice. Better to understand

Re: Dots wrongly positioned in not merged chords

On Fri 27 Apr 2018 at 00:36:24 (+1000), Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hi Kaj, > > This would be clear to me: > > > > \version "2.19.81" > \new Staff { > \relative c' > << > \new Voice { > \voiceOne > \shiftOnn > 2. f4 > 2. f4 > 2. f4 > } > \new Voice

Re: frescobaldi clipboard file name

On Tue 24 Apr 2018 at 08:53:01 (+0200), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > On 23 April 2018 at 15:48, David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > > > On Mon 23 Apr 2018 at 09:43:01 (+0200), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > > > The following frescobaldi snippet

Re: \include command and local network folders

On Tue 24 Apr 2018 at 00:42:32 (-0700), foxfanfare wrote: > Knute Snortum wrote > > My tests on Windows 10 indicate that lilypond.exe can't handle UNC > > notation. This is true even of a local file. > > Let me wonder if everybody here use linux! > Maybe is it time for me to go for it... All

Re: Lilypond slow to start up on the Mac

On Mon 23 Apr 2018 at 11:40:46 (-0400), Arle Lommel wrote: > I’ve noticed on the Mac for some time that the first time I invoke Lilypond > from an external application after a reboot, it can take quite a while for it > to respond. Normally this is something like a 40–60 second delay, after which

Re: Frescobaldi external PDF viewer not updating

On Mon 23 Apr 2018 at 22:30:54 (+1000), Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hi All, > > I don't think it's case closed yet. > > Although this is referring to pdflatex, it directly references problems > with Skim and file notifications in the Mac OS kernel. > >

Re: frescobaldi clipboard file name

On Mon 23 Apr 2018 at 09:43:01 (+0200), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > The following frescobaldi snippet call the "more.com" program with the > parameter "\\readme" > > -*- python; > from subprocess import call > call(["more.com", "\\readme"]) > > This other one-line snippet pastes, in the frescobaldi

Re: \include command and local network folders

On Sun 15 Apr 2018 at 03:42:16 (-0700), foxfanfare wrote: > David Wright wrote > > It might be worth posting screenshots of Fresco failing with correctly > > specified filenames, particularly if you want to report a bug. > > > > What happens if you run your test file

Re: Frescobaldi external PDF viewer not updating

On Sun 22 Apr 2018 at 17:55:30 (+1000), Andrew Bernard wrote: > OK. Mac up and running: > > Mac OS 10.13.4 > Frescobaldi 2.20.0 > Lilypond 2.19.80 > Skim 1.4.34 > > All works fine. I am unable to duplicate your problem. I do note that I have > explicitly turned on 'check for file changes'

Re: frescobaldi destination temp folder

On Sat 21 Apr 2018 at 23:33:44 (-0400), Kieren MacMillan wrote: > I'm running Frescobaldi 2.20.0 on Mac OS X 10.12.6. > > 1. I open the Lilypond file(s) in Frescobaldi, and once the first PDF is > generated, I open that in an external PDF viewer (usually Skim; sometimes > Preview), because I

Re: cannot run ../.ly file which includes another file

On Fri 13 Apr 2018 at 19:01:27 (+0200), Federico Bruni wrote: > Hi all > > Can anybody tell me what's wrong with this minimal example? > I would expect the included file to be relative to the location of > the file which includes it, not to the current working directory. > What do you think? >

Re: \include command and local network folders

On Thu 12 Apr 2018 at 14:17:08 (-0700), foxfanfare wrote: > David Wright wrote > > Then I think that's the filename you need to use. I assume > > "Starting lilypond-windows…" means you're running on a windows box. > > Oh I see what you mean. But n

Re: \include command and local network folders

On Thu 12 Apr 2018 at 12:13:21 (-0700), foxfanfare wrote: > David Wright wrote > > I see no filenames. I only see //192.168.1.13/Public/test.ly which > > looks like an incomplete URL, but lacking its protocol (like HTTP:). > > I can only assume when you mapped the files to a

Re: \include command and local network folders

On Thu 12 Apr 2018 at 09:32:40 (-0700), foxfanfare wrote: > Giampaolo Orrigo wrote > > I had success in doing it, but instead of using IP addresses I mapped the > > remote drive to a logical drive. Maybe you want to try that. > > > > Giampaolo Orrigo, MBA > > It worked! Thank you very much

Re: The search for an API

On Wed 11 Apr 2018 at 17:48:06 (+0200), Helge Kruse wrote: > Hi Mason, > > this is intentionally not to the Lilypond list to avoid unnecessary > traffic in that list. > > I followed the link you posted. It doesn't address a sensible web > site. All you can read is: > > Web access is

Re: Exited with return code -1073741819

On Thu 05 Apr 2018 at 06:30:52 (+0200), Helge Kruse wrote: > Am 05.04.2018 4:35 vorm. schrieb "David Wright" <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk>: > > > It seems that beyond a certain level of complexity I get Exit. In the > > > current example it's return code -

Re: Exited with return code -1073741819

On Sun 01 Apr 2018 at 07:13:10 (+1000), Bruce Daniel wrote: > Just a bit more information. > The problem only occurs when I have two volta sections back to back. > Cheers, Bruce > > On 31 March 2018 at 20:41, Bruce Daniel wrote: > > > Hi Lilypond users, > > > > I've come

Re: Is lilypond really suitable for composing?

On Mon 26 Mar 2018 at 15:21:57 (+0200), Urs Liska wrote: > > > Am 26.03.2018 um 14:52 schrieb Karlin High: > >On 3/25/2018 6:43 AM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > >>Apparently you haven’t been to any new classical music concerts > >>in the last half-century. It’s*quite* clear that many composers >

Re: PianoStaff and StaffGroup brackets are truncating single line DrumStaff at top left of staff system.

On Thu 22 Mar 2018 at 10:53:49 (-0400), Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Malte, > > > Mine displays the code (including long lines) correctly. > > Same here. And the archive > (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2018-03/msg00571.html) looks > okay as well. The message was sent with

Re: Lyrics "polyphony"

On Tue 20 Mar 2018 at 12:32:30 (+0100), Urs Liska wrote: > Hi, > > I've come across the need to temporarily split lyrics into two > "stanzas" (in repeated sections). > > The code I am confronted with does this by using some kind of > polyphony construct, but this ends up creating a new \Lyrics

Re: MIDI tick resolution

On Mon 19 Mar 2018 at 21:04:47 (-0500), Karlin High wrote: > On 3/19/2018 8:49 PM, Ivan Kuznetsov wrote: > >So what if four notes are of length 77 and one note is length 76? > >No one can hear the difference. > > I'd say so, too. But human-listening is only one use case for a MIDI > file, and in

Re: Changing email address

On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 07:12:35 (+), Mark Austin wrote: > How is this done? Subscribe with the new address (making sure you send to the foo-request address and not foo itself), submit and confirmations, wait for postings to arrive ok, then unsubscribe the old address *from the old address*

Re: that migrating "opus"

On Sun 11 Mar 2018 at 12:40:35 (-0700), Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > David, > > Your continued effort to address my inquiry is uncommon. Many more esoteric > and arcane matters appear on the list with multiple, and often contentious, > responses. Yet you are the only one to respond to this simple

Re: My Lilypond 2.18 crashes when combining slur and tie on a note

On Sun 11 Mar 2018 at 20:34:42 (+0100), Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Dear list, > > after a long hiatus, I am now typing another piece for choir. But after I > had finished the first voice, the document would not compile. I narrowed it > down to the following MWE. See the comment in the second

Re: that migrating "opus"

On Sat 10 Mar 2018 at 13:28:20 (-0800), Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > David, > > Thank you for your pointed reply. > Yes, I did take away something from your explanation. > I have used it on the previously referenced score. > My basic question, more operational than technical (I really don't get

Re: lilypond --output=directory is not working

On Sat 10 Mar 2018 at 16:58:37 (+0100), Federico Bruni wrote: > > > Il giorno sab 10 mar 2018 alle 16:26, David Wright > <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> ha scritto: > >On Sat 10 Mar 2018 at 09:18:59 (+0100), Federico Bruni wrote: > >> [...] > > > >>

Re: Frescobaldi’s use of the version statement

On Fri 09 Mar 2018 at 23:02:53 (+0100), Simon Albrecht wrote: > On 09.03.2018 17:13, David Wright wrote: > >>You can even use Frescobaldi's option "Automatically choose LilyPond version > >>from document". > >Ouch. I hadn't come across that one. Sounds real

Re: lilypond --output=directory is not working

On Sat 10 Mar 2018 at 09:18:59 (+0100), Federico Bruni wrote: > Hi folks > > I'm puzzled by this error. What I'm doing wrong? > > [tmp]$ mkdir pdf > [tmp]$ cat test.ly > \version "2.18.2" > > { c1 } > > [tmp]$ ls pdf > [tmp]$ > [tmp]$ lilypond --output=pdf test.ly > GNU LilyPond 2.19.81 >

Re: that migrating "opus"

pond-user/2017-04/msg00784.html which you could use as a pattern for your own scores. > Now I am focusing on Haydn Sonatas - very inventive! > > Mark > > -Original Message----- > From: David Wright [mailto:lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk] > Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2018 9:2

Re: The frescobaldi Issue and Cannot load the 2.19 lily development version

On Fri 09 Mar 2018 at 08:25:58 (-0700), Torsten Hämmerle wrote: > peter.gentry-2 wrote > > I have been using a saved download of 2.19.65-1.mingw.exe 25,348 KB. > > > Hi Peter, > > Out of curiosity, I have just downloaded 2.19.65 via > http://lilypond.org/downloads/binaries/mingw/ > >

Re: Help I despair

On Fri 09 Mar 2018 at 06:43:58 (-0700), Torsten Hämmerle wrote: > As each LilyPond version has its own set of executables, includes, even > fonts, I always insert Lily's version number into the path during the > LilyPond installation process. That way, different LilyPond versions can > peacefully

Re: that migrating "opus"

On Thu 08 Mar 2018 at 16:17:16 (-0800), Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > I am setting a Haydn piano sonata > \version "2.19.80" > \header { > title = "Sonata" > composer = "F. J. Haydn" > opus = "XVI:6" > } > \include "XVI-6-1.ly" > \pageBreak > \include "XVI-6-2a.ly" > \pageBreak > \include

Re: Inserting a verical space, or an empty line, between two markups attached to a note.

On Tue 27 Feb 2018 at 10:13:18 (+0100), Robert Blackstone wrote: > Hi Torsten, > > Thank you very much. This does help, or better, it neatly solves my problem. > (I had never used, or even read about, "baseline-skip" so this is also a very > useful contribution to my LilyPond education.) > >

Re: Multiple staffs

On Sun 25 Feb 2018 at 23:27:31 (+), J Martin Rushton wrote: > The only slight niggle is whether I can persuade Lily to > use the full instrument names at the start of the main section rather > than the short names. You can use \set to change shortInstrumentName on the fly at any time.

Re: Snippet 888 string, was Re: Lyric centre-on-word / ignore-punctuation bug

On Sat 24 Feb 2018 at 20:27:58 (-0700), madMuze wrote: > >> What I haven't figured out is why there are two long dashes > > As davidK pointed out, three dash forms are probably desired: the hyphen, > the N-dash, and the M-dash. I didn't see him mention the hyphen, but it's all present and

Re: Snippet 888 string, was Re: Lyric centre-on-word / ignore-punctuation bug

On Sat 24 Feb 2018 at 16:59:37 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > > > On Sat 24 Feb 2018 at 11:06:20 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > >> Thomas Morley <thomasmorle...@gmail.com> writes: > >> > &g

Snippet 888 string, was Re: Lyric centre-on-word / ignore-punctuation bug

On Sat 24 Feb 2018 at 11:06:20 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > Thomas Morley writes: > > > 2018-02-24 3:45 GMT+01:00 Kieren MacMillan : > >> Hi all, > >> > >> When a lyric syllable begins with a typographer’s single quote > >> (e.g.,

Re: Spacing between notes

On Mon 19 Feb 2018 at 17:49:51 (-0700), nokel81 wrote: > \score { > \new Staff << > \new Voice = "melody" \relative g' { > \set Score.timing = ##f > g4( d) f \divisioMinima > g( a) a( g2) \divisioMinima > g4( c) a( a

Re: LilyPond 2.19.81 for Linux/Ubuntu

On Tue 20 Feb 2018 at 16:21:19 (-0500), Ralph Palmer wrote: > I went to the download site < ​ > http://lilypond.org/downloads/binaries/linux-64/ >, and tried to download < > lilypond-2.19.81-1.linux-64.sh >. When I right-clicked on the .sh link, > there was no "download" option, so I opened it in

Re: LilyPond/LaTeX template for Anglican chant

On Sun 11 Feb 2018 at 10:54:11 (+0100), Michael Gerdau wrote: > Hi Gregrs, > > > In case it's useful to anyone, I've just created a template for> > > typesetting psalms with Anglican chant using LilyPond, LaTeX and GNU > Make.> > https://github.com/gregrs-uk/anglican-chant-template > Looks nice.

Re: Re-direct write processes in Frescobaldi?

On Sat 17 Feb 2018 at 21:25:46 (-0500), Ben wrote: > On 2/17/2018 8:43 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote: > >Hi Ben, > > > >But then he is just writing a named file to the SSD, with the same > >(non) issues, so this is not any different, > > > >Using Frescobaldi is not a danger to SSD's or other life forms

Re: Two suggestions for documentation

On Sat 17 Feb 2018 at 10:18:23 (+), Peter Toye wrote: > - > Friday, February 16, 2018, 4:11:32 PM, you wrote: ↑↑↑ [Who? This attribution doesn't scale well as threads lengthen.] > > On Fri 16 Feb 2018 at 15:58:41 (+0100), Simon

Re: OT: typewriter LaTeX package

On Fri 16 Feb 2018 at 12:01:10 (-0600), msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2018, Shane Brandes wrote: > > Got it to work. Figured out you can change to what ever font you want > > in the sty file. Lessening the the grayscale variability and some of > > the other variables with the

Re: Two suggestions for documentation

On Fri 16 Feb 2018 at 15:58:41 (+0100), Simon Albrecht wrote: > On 16.02.2018 12:51, Peter Toye wrote: > >2) In at least the Learning and Notation manuals, add an alphabet > >with links at the head of each index. The indexes are (of > >necessity) very long, and scrolling down them is a bit of a

Re: OT: typewriter LaTeX package

On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 13:23:13 (+0100), Urs Liska wrote: > > Sorry for the OT post, but I just have to share this new LaTeX package: > http://www.ctan.org/pkg/typewriter > > I really hope I'll find an opportunity to use it soon:-) Neat, but do you also get this error when you run it on its own

Re: Automatic vertical spacing when *some* values are fixed

On Tue 13 Feb 2018 at 21:41:01 (+0100), Urs Liska wrote: > I know that the music can't be properly printed with the given > combination of paper size, margins and staffsize. But I want > LilyPond to prefer the solution with two systems per page (in this > example) because the compressed variant

Re: endless tab?

On Tue 06 Feb 2018 at 09:33:41 (+0100), Blöchl Bernhard wrote: > Am 06.02.2018 03:15, schrieb Andrew Bernard: > >Hi bb, > > > >Do you simply want 17/16? I use times like this very often. Just use > >time 17/16 and you will get barlines. > > > > Thank you! This is a possibilty if one really wants

Re: quetion about slur in the "<< .... \\ .....>>"

On Tue 30 Jan 2018 at 15:04:25 (+0100), Mats Bengtsson wrote: > > > On 2018-01-30 11:45, Thomas Morley wrote: > >2018-01-30 11:40 GMT+01:00 Robert Blackstone : > >>Hi Harm. > >>Your example did not work on my system. No idea why not. > >>The error message mentions an

Re: aligning lyrics to hidden notes

On Mon 29 Jan 2018 at 15:31:42 (-), Phil Holmes wrote: > - Original Message - From: "Sandro Santilli" > To: "Lilypond users" > Sent: Monday, January 29, 2018 10:09 AM > Subject: aligning lyrics to hidden notes > > > >I've been trying for some

Re: Alignment of full-page scores in text documents

On Mon 29 Jan 2018 at 09:03:46 (+0100), Urs Liska wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to figure out the best setting for page margins for mixed > text/music documents. The task is to automatically set the margins > in LilyPond depending on a LaTeX document where full-page scores are > included. > >

Re: turning a blind eye to dotted note

On Mon 29 Jan 2018 at 15:16:53 (+0100), bb wrote: > There was such a lot of information in all the responses, thanks. > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/learning/bar-lines-and-bar-checks.en.html > Bar lines > Bar checks > I have read this and I think to understand. > > \cadenzaOn

Re: Character for plural Latin, "ae"

On Thu 25 Jan 2018 at 09:30:22 (-0600), Karlin High wrote: > On 1/25/2018 7:15 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > >It changes the meaning of & . Not a good idea as a default. > > Any chance of using something like \& for special characters? Why do you want to turn LP into a toothpick language? LP uses

Re: Character for plural Latin, "ae"

On Thu 25 Jan 2018 at 10:19:33 (+0100), Werner Arnhold wrote: > On Linux there is in many environments as e.g. bash command line or vi a > way to enter Unicode characters by hex number. You press > --u, then see a litte underlined "u", then enter hex > number, followed by a blank. Then the

Re: Fraktur in plain-text?

On Wed 24 Jan 2018 at 16:18:26 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > Karlin High writes: > > > On 1/24/2018 4:34 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > >> { 햆 햇 했 행 햊 햋 햌 햍 햎 햐 햑 햒 햓 햔 햕 } > > > > How did you do that, David? > > Probably a copy from a Unicode table of math fraktur code

Re: Lead sheet with variables

On Tue 23 Jan 2018 at 11:58:39 (-0600), Tim McNamara wrote: > > > > On Jan 23, 2018, at 9:23 AM, JH Austin wrote: > > > > I tried to modify the Lead Sheet example by using a variable: > > --- > > \version "2.19.40" > > > > \music = \relative c'' { > >a4 e

Re: Font names convention

On Thu 18 Jan 2018 at 16:45:05 (+0100), Urs Liska wrote: > Hi, > > I am having problems getting text font names right. > > From LuaLaTeX I get the information about the currently used font, > and I inject this into a LilyPond file. This works well with "Linux > Libertine O", but it may fail with

Re: PDF woes

On Wed 17 Jan 2018 at 22:46:36 (-0600), Travis Weller wrote: > Hi Andrew and Karlin - > > I'm using the default editor which is included in the MacOS build of > lilypond. I'm not using Frescobaldi. > > And yes, I've checked that I'm using preview mode. The links are there. I > can see them when

Re: Crop only top and bottom

On Tue 16 Jan 2018 at 13:26:34 (+0100), Urs Liska wrote: > Am 16.01.2018 um 12:49 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: > >>I have looked for ways to crop the EPS to only two borders of the > >>bounding box but didn't find anything useful so far. > >While I can't help with the lilypond issue, I suggest to have

Re: Is anyone maintaining midi2ly?

On Sat 30 Dec 2017 at 23:11:04 (+), Michael Ellis wrote: > David Kastrup wrote: > >- I get correct PDF output on 2.21.0 but a nonsensical wash of bar >checks that appear to cater to 2/4 throughout. > > Thanks for testing it, David. What options did you use for midi2ly and >

Re: Line break ruins tie

On Thu 04 Jan 2018 at 22:57:03 (-0600), Ivan Kuznetsov wrote: > Andrew Bernard wrote: > > > > Only very quickly sketched, and rather deficient, but a more 'normal' voice > > arrangement system, and the tie to the f sharp is clear. > > When I compiled your snippet, the

Re: Auto-transposition

On Fri 15 Dec 2017 at 15:52:28 (+), Wols Lists wrote: > On 15/12/17 13:45, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 15 Dec 2017 at 10:02:19 (+), Wols Lists wrote: > >> On 15/12/17 06:20, Saul Tobin wrote: > >>> Relative mode makes perfect sense if you're entering music

Re: Auto-transposition

On Fri 15 Dec 2017 at 10:02:19 (+), Wols Lists wrote: > On 15/12/17 06:20, Saul Tobin wrote: > > Relative mode makes perfect sense if you're entering music that cares > > mainly about the relationship between notes within a phrase (i.e. most > > music). IMO absolute mode might be easier from

Re: Auto-transposition

On Wed 13 Dec 2017 at 15:15:14 (-0500), Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi David, > > >> … and if you don't take extra care when simply cutting and pasting, etc. > >> etc. etc. > > > > Yes, so I'm not sure why you cut the helpful lines above the ones > > you quoted from my post (that were not my

Re: Conditional paper block

On Tue 12 Dec 2017 at 13:34:18 (-0500), Br. Samuel Springuel wrote: > On 2017-12-12 12:08 PM, David Wright wrote: > >You can set the default paper-size with a -d option in the LP command > >line. See p10 of the "Usage" manual (2.19.80 page ref.). > > That work

Re: Auto-transposition

On Wed 13 Dec 2017 at 12:06:24 (-0500), Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi all, > > > Kieran is correct relative pitch entry can cause headaches > > if you start doing manipulations on stuff. > > … and if you don't take extra care when simply cutting and pasting, etc. etc. > etc. Yes, so I'm not

Re: Auto-transposition

On Tue 12 Dec 2017 at 22:00:47 (-0500), Shane Brandes wrote: > Frescobaldi has a neat little tool to convert from relative to absolute pitch. … and AIUI the same tool is available as a standalone in ly, aka python-ly/python3-ly/…. > I prefer relative as a pitch entry for ease and speed. > Kieran

Re: Auto-transposition

On Tue 12 Dec 2017 at 20:32:34 (+0100), Simon Albrecht wrote: > On 12.12.2017 20:30, Shevek wrote: > >The alternative is to use \relative {} but to use \resetRelativeOctave > >religiously before every phrase, even the first one in a block. I find that > >more natural for composing, personally. >

Re: Conditional paper block

On Tue 12 Dec 2017 at 10:52:40 (-0500), Br. Samuel Springuel wrote: > I have a project in which I'm including a bunch of scores into a pdf > document using lyluatex. In the final product, lyluatex handles > figuring out what the appropriate line width is for the scores and > passes that

Re: Question about the horizontal spacing

On Tue 12 Dec 2017 at 02:22:23 (+0300), Rus wrote: > >>  It works well only without lyrics. With lyrics it works not well (see > >> attachment). > >> > >>  \version "2.18.2" > >>  \score { > >>  \new StaffGroup > >>  << > >>  << > >>  \new Staff { > >>  \relative c' { > >>  \override

Re: Question about the horizontal spacing

On Mon 11 Dec 2017 at 19:23:59 (+0300), Rus wrote: > >>  Hello! > >>  How can I control (I need to increase) the space between the bar line and > >> the following lyrics syllable? > >>  I use version 2.18.2 > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm not sure what you mean, but if you want to increase 'padding' so

Re: Auto-transposition

On Sun 10 Dec 2017 at 20:37:03 (+), Neo Anderson wrote: > Hi, > I'm new to Lilypond, coming over from a commercial program. Please, bear with > me as I'm still learning. > The issue: > I seem to get measures auto-transposed one by one. > I have one bar of music, then the second one gets

Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part

On Mon 11 Dec 2017 at 00:58:01 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > > > On Sun 10 Dec 2017 at 22:00:01 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > >> David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > >> > >> &g

Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part

On Sun 10 Dec 2017 at 22:00:01 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > > > On Sat 09 Dec 2017 at 21:58:58 (-0500), Chris Jones wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 08:29:54PM EST, Andrew Bernard wrote: > >> > Hi Chri

Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part

On Sat 09 Dec 2017 at 21:58:58 (-0500), Chris Jones wrote: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 08:29:54PM EST, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > > Just look up the syntax for 'cross staff stems' in the NR. It's pretty > > simple. > > > I don't know much about 2.18.2, but I imagine that feature is

Re: removing automatically generated natural signs

On Fri 08 Dec 2017 at 16:21:41 (-0500), Chris Jones wrote: > On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 02:22:32PM EST, Ben wrote: > > ( > > On 12/8/2017 2:09 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > > [..] > > > > (from documentation) > > "... > > > > To determine whether to print an *accidental*, LilyPond examines the pitches >

Re: Frescobaldi 3.0 CRASHES

On Sat 09 Dec 2017 at 09:11:58 (-0500), Ben wrote: > On 12/9/2017 9:03 AM, Simon Albrecht wrote: > > > >>However, weren't you one of those who "enjoyed" the fun of a > >>major version update? ;-) > > > >Yes, I was. But I think I know how to avoid that ‘fun’ in future: > >having a separate home

Re: removing automatically generated natural signs

On Fri 08 Dec 2017 at 14:09:31 (-0500), Chris Jones wrote: > I would need some help removing the autmatically generated natural signs > that I see in lilypond's output. > > I coded this: > > | global = { > | \time 4/4 > | \key g \major > | \tempo \markup { \concat {Mouv. \super t}

Re: Question about the horizontal spacing

On Thu 07 Dec 2017 at 02:53:51 (+0300), Rus wrote: > Hello! > I have some questions about horizontal spacing: > — How to reduce the proportional notation? No idea. > — How can I control (I need to increase) the space between the bar line and > the following note (or lyrics syllable)?

Re: variable

On Fri 24 Nov 2017 at 10:08:29 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > Gianmaria Lari writes: > > > On 24 November 2017 at 09:49, David Kastrup wrote: > > > >> Gianmaria Lari writes: > >> > >> > I'm sorry for the trivial question but why

Re: [OT] Linux Users

On Wed 22 Nov 2017 at 11:43:37 (+0100), Simon Albrecht wrote: > On 20.11.2017 18:12, Hilary Snaden wrote: > >If there are any "graphical tools" as good as LaTeX, I'll be > >interested to hear of them. > > Adobe InDesign is certainly in many ways a “better” tool than LaTeX, > in some “just as

Re: Security problem: lilypond-invoke-editor

On Thu 23 Nov 2017 at 10:27:36 (+), J Martin Rushton wrote: > On 23/11/17 09:23, David Kastrup wrote: > > Knut Petersen writes: > > > >> 12 years ago a security problem was introduced into lilypond-invoke-editor. > >> On 2017/11/15 the problem was reported to the

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

On Fri 17 Nov 2017 at 17:43:09 (+), Wol's lists wrote: > On 17/11/17 16:10, David Wright wrote: > >On Fri 17 Nov 2017 at 07:45:58 (-0500), Kieren MacMillan wrote: > >>Hi all, > >> > > > >>[Am 17.11.2017 um 08:55 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm:]

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

On Fri 17 Nov 2017 at 07:45:58 (-0500), Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi all, > > [Am 17.11.2017 um 08:55 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm:] > > An apostrophe in German is a sign for something left out like "so’n Ding" > > (short for "so ein Ding"), similar to English use in "don’t" (do not). > > It's

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

On Wed 15 Nov 2017 at 21:32:52 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > > > On Wed 15 Nov 2017 at 11:56:07 (-0500), Kieren MacMillan wrote: > >> Hi Simon, > >> > >> > On Nov 14, 2017, at 5:47 PM, Simon

Re: Video generation on linux systems: Note and rests change color

On Wed 15 Nov 2017 at 13:11:56 (-0600), Karlin High wrote: > On 11/15/2017 12:30 PM, David Wright wrote: > >I don't understand this. sleepenh is*not* a replacement for usleep. > >Gnu systems use*their* sleep command which takes non-integer values. > >As expected, sleep uses

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

On Wed 15 Nov 2017 at 11:56:07 (-0500), Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Simon, > > > On Nov 14, 2017, at 5:47 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote: > > > >> Again, here English is very unusual because words do not have a gender > >> (the objects they refer to may, but that's different

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

On Wed 15 Nov 2017 at 07:54:03 (+), Hilary Snaden wrote: > On 15/11/17 01:13, Andrew Bernard wrote: > >Hi Simon, > > > >As a native English speaker, allow me to say that the examples you have > >given are not grammatical gender but literary. English does not have such a > >thing. Since there

Re: Video generation on linux systems: Note and rests change color

On Wed 15 Nov 2017 at 07:43:53 (-0600), Karlin High wrote: > On 11/15/2017 2:36 AM, Christian Alpen wrote: > >The only thing: In both cases it takes a rather long time to > >generate the files. > > In my case, I found that the script calls for usleep, but debian and > ubuntu have sleepenh

Re: "Guide notes"

On Tue 07 Nov 2017 at 18:02:09 (+0100), Malte Meyn wrote: > > > Am 07.11.2017 um 16:45 schrieb David Wright: > >Thanks for the replies. I did try specifying a chord, but the > >"pitch" parameter won't take it. > > That’s because I didn’t know that you want

Re: double time signature problem

On Mon 13 Nov 2017 at 17:32:09 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > > > BTW does the German used here sound as archaic as Coverdale's > > translation (Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, > > ye everlastin

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