Re: Vertical spacing on final page of score

2014-03-30 Thread Graham King
On Sun, 2014-03-30 at 12:28 +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: Graham King To: lilypond-user Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2014 9:37 AM Subject: Vertical spacing on final page of score I'm having a bit of a struggle with the spacing of systems on the final page

Re: Scheme: default values?

2014-02-12 Thread Graham King
On Sun, 2014-02-09 at 12:09 +0100, Marc Hohl wrote: I found another solution somewhere buried in my files: #(define TACTUS (if (defined? TACTUS) TACTUS 50)) Perhaps that's something better suited to your needs? Marc Brilliant! Thanks Marc. Just one minor

Re: Scheme: default values?

2014-02-02 Thread Graham King
On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 08:51 +0100, Marc Hohl wrote: Am 29.01.2014 06:41, schrieb Graham King: To generate MIDI output, I use a piece of boilerplate lilypond code, containing: \midi { \context { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #currentTempo }} where it is expected

Scheme: default values?

2014-01-29 Thread Graham King
To generate MIDI output, I use a piece of boilerplate lilypond code, containing: \midi { \context { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #currentTempo }} where it is expected that: currentTempo = #(ly:make-moment TACTUS RF) I would like to generalise the boilerplate code so that it works with

Re: Survey: Git (G)UIs

2014-01-09 Thread Graham King
On Wed, 2014-01-08 at 22:19 +0600, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: snip I (also) mostly use Atlassian SourceTree, since development on GitX seems to have stopped a long time ago (already tried some branches) and it keeps crashing. If I’m in Eclipse/Aptana anyway, I use its team tools. snip I

Re: Scheme: passing arguments to music-function?

2013-11-22 Thread Graham King
On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 06:56 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Graham King graham.k...@tremagi.org.uk writes: On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 00:46 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Graham King lilyp...@tremagi.org.uk writes: Assuming a reasonably recent version of 2.17, use the predicate symbol

Scheme: passing arguments to music-function?

2013-11-21 Thread Graham King
I'm trying, in a somewhat haphazard way, to learn some more Scheme, but I'm clearly not reading the right stuff to solve the following problem. Please can someone point me in the right direction. I have the following function (hugely abbreviated here): foo = #(define-music-function( P L arg1

Re: On creating title pages and the like (with snippet 368)

2013-10-31 Thread Graham King
containing a lot of now-redundant code. hope it helps -- Graham On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 12:44 +, Graham King wrote: I ran convert-ly -ed as suggested, and then ran lilypond on the resulting file to have a look at the embedded example. Here's the resulting error message (lilypond 2.16.2 on OSX

Re: On creating title pages and the like (with snippet 368)

2013-10-31 Thread Graham King
wrote: 2013/10/31 Graham King lilyp...@tremagi.org.uk: Here's some progress in getting snippet 368 to run with lilypond 2.16.2. [...] Hi Graham, I followed this thread only cursorily. Though, now I tried it out and had no problems with said snippet. I copied it to file with \version

Re: On creating title pages and the like

2013-10-29 Thread Graham King
/Contents/Resources/bin/convert-ly /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/convert-ly: ERROR: line 163: regex error 17, (illegal byte sequence) I suspect that there might be a problem with convert-ly on OSX. kind regards -- Graham King On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 07:54

Re: On creating title pages and the like

2013-10-29 Thread Graham King
Josh, you can run convert-ly from the command line (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) using the commands in my previous post to this thread this afternoon. I hope you have better luck than I had! -- Graham On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 11:41 -0500, Joshua Nichols wrote: I have no idea how to do

Re: convert-ly on Mac?

2013-09-27 Thread Graham King
On OSX /Applications/Lilypond.app looks like a single file. However, if you right-click on it in the Finder, and select Show package contents, you'll find convert-ly (and a lot else) inside. To do this, you'll first need to have enabled right-click. To do so on a Macbook, go to System

staff-specific markup?

2013-09-27 Thread Graham King
I'm trying to engrave a vocal score in which the majority of markups are common to all parts. Lilypond helpfully engraves these just once, above the top part, as expected. However, there are some rare \mark \markup items that I want to appear above only one of the inner staves. Is there a way to

Re: staff-specific markup?

2013-09-27 Thread Graham King
Brilliant. Thank you. gives me something to which to attach a \markup in the absence of any nearby note. I would never have guessed that. Am I correct in thinking that there is no way to attach markup to, say, a clef or a time signature? On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 21:47 +0200, David Kastrup

Re: Extended mensuration signs in markup via Scheme

2013-09-10 Thread Graham King
On Tue, 2013-09-10 at 04:39 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Inside of markups, you can't use functions defined with define-scheme-function (their argument parsing is just not compatible with markup mode). Check out define-markup-command instead. As a note aside: case can't be used with strings

Re: Extended mensuration signs in markup via Scheme

2013-09-10 Thread Graham King
Many thanks David, On Tue, 2013-09-10 at 20:01 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: mensuration = #(define-music-function (P L mensuralTimesig .) (string? .) #{ \mark \markup { \concat { \mensSign mensuralTimesig You probably

Re: switching between halved and full note values

2013-09-10 Thread Graham King
. -- Graham King [1] the entire Credo from the Missa Rapum Meum by Baldrick. \version 2.16.0 \include articulate.ly % Reduction Factor from original notation: #(define RF 2) % 1 for note values of original MS, 2 for halved, 4 for quartered, etc. #(define TACTUS 50) % initial tempo in beats/minute

Re: switching between halved and full note values

2013-09-10 Thread Graham King
On Tue, 2013-09-10 at 20:43 +0100, Graham King wrote: The original mensural clefs, Uh, I did of course mean, The original mensuration signs... ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Extended mensuration signs in markup via Scheme

2013-09-09 Thread Graham King
I'm a novice Scheme programmer writing a music-function for manipulating temporal proportion in music transcribed from white mensural notation. Amongst other things, the function includes the original mensural timesig in a \mark \markup, using the following code: #(define mensurationSign

Re: Extended mensuration signs in markup via Scheme

2013-09-09 Thread Graham King
e f g4 \mark \markup { \mensSign #C } g g g4 a8 g f e d2. \bar |. } \score { \music } On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 20:48 +0100, Graham King wrote: I'm a novice Scheme programmer writing a music-function for manipulating temporal proportion in music

switching between halved and full note values

2013-07-12 Thread Graham King
I use lilypond to prepare modern-notation editions from mensural notation. Many performers prefer to have the original note values (lots of breves, longs, etc.) but it is quicker in lilypond to enter the notes as half-value. In other words, it is quicker, and more readable, to enter c1 c2 c1

Re: variant on many syllables to one note

2011-01-19 Thread Graham King
a type error. Likewise, I'm out of my depth stumbling around with \override and \revert. On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 18:16 -0800, Ted Stanion wrote: I'm pretty sure that adding \set melismaBusyProperties = #'() before your notes will do what you want. On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Graham King

Re: variant on many syllables to one note

2011-01-19 Thread Graham King
Thanks Jan, it works. Much simpler than I expected - I had assumed that melismaBusyProperties had some state that needed to be restored. On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 14:00 +0100, Jan Warchoł wrote: 2011/1/19 Graham King lilyp...@tremagi.org.uk: Thanks Ted, that works. The one remaining problem

variant on many syllables to one note

2011-01-18 Thread Graham King
semibreves? (So far, I've tried the suggestions for manual syllable durations and multiple syllables to one note in the Notation Reference manual) -- Graham King lilyp...@tremagi.org.uk ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org

Re: How to do simple arithmetic on bar numbers?

2011-01-17 Thread Graham King
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 22:55 +0100, jakob lund wrote: -Original Message- From: Graham King lilyp...@tremagi.org.uk Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:11:25 + To: lilypond-user@gnu.org lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: How to do simple arithmetic on bar numbers? I'm preparing a modern

How to do simple arithmetic on bar numbers?

2011-01-16 Thread Graham King
for any help you can offer. -- Graham King lilyp...@tremagi.org.uk % $Header$ % vim:set ai shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab fdm=marker foldcolumn=2 foldmarker=, syntax=lilypond: % #(ly:set-point-and-click 'line-column) \version 2.12.0 \paper { #(set-paper-size a4) ragged-bottom = ##f

Re: How to do simple arithmetic on bar numbers?

2011-01-16 Thread Graham King
barline from the lower part. Still hoping there's a solution somewhere... -- Graham On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 21:27 +, James Lowe wrote: Hello, -Original Message- From: Graham King lilyp...@tremagi.org.uk Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:11:25 + To: lilypond-user@gnu.org lilypond-user

Re: How to do simple arithmetic on bar numbers?

2011-01-16 Thread Graham King
...@datacore.com: Hello, -Original Message- From: Graham King lilyp...@tremagi.org.uk Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:11:25 + To: lilypond-user@gnu.org lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: How to do simple arithmetic on bar numbers? I'm preparing a modern-notation edition of a piece

Re: OOoLilyPond 0.3 released

2006-10-13 Thread Graham King
If the files are _required_ to remain until the next time the user runs OOoLilypond, /tmp might not be the best place. On some unices, /tmp is a swap-based filesystem that gets trashed at reboot; on others (including various Linux distros), there's a cron job that removes anything that has not

Using RPM to install 2.7 ?

2006-01-24 Thread Graham King
/planetccrma/mirror/all/linux/SRPMS/lilypond-2.4.5-1.src.rpm and took fright! Definitely time to ask the experts... -- Graham King [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Using RPM to install 2.7 ?

2006-01-24 Thread Graham King
Just found http://lilypond.org/download/binaries/Fedora-4/lilypond-2.7.26-1.i386.rpm How embarrassing! Sorry to waste your time. On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 16:40 +, Graham King wrote: I'd like to install lilypond 2.7 on a Fedora Core 4 box, on which all the software is (so far!) managed

Re: Languages other than English on the mailing list

2005-06-26 Thread Graham King
I'm only a tongue-tied Englishman, but I quite enjoy following the occasional thread in another language, partly for the rare chance to practise some very rusty skills. Please let's not split the list by language - we'd all be the poorer for that. I'd encourage any participant who has difficulty

Re: repeat slashes and the nature of lilypond

2005-02-18 Thread Graham King
As a mere new user, I'm not qualified to comment on most of your points, but there are two I'd like to pick up on: On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 07:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lilypond makes many assumptions about musical symbols, and notation in general, that are very rigidly tied to classical

Re: Increasing space between notes?

2005-02-07 Thread Graham King
, Graham King wrote: The three bars in the example below illustrate a problem in the middle of a piece I'm transcribing. The composer has written sfz followed by a diminuendo onto the following note, but lilypond does not make enough horizontal space for the diminuendo. Please read

Increasing space between notes?

2005-02-06 Thread Graham King
The three bars in the example below illustrate a problem in the middle of a piece I'm transcribing. The composer has written sfz followed by a diminuendo onto the following note, but lilypond does not make enough horizontal space for the diminuendo. Bar 1 illustrates that problem. Bar 2

Re: transpose, transposition, and relative

2005-02-02 Thread Graham King
Try specifying transposition before relative. The following (not quite minimal) example works for me: TptOne = \relative c''{ \key c \major % Needed here, or the part in Bb gets no key signature. % notes . } \context Staff { % \transpose must be outside \relative % -

Re: transpose, transposition, and relative

2005-02-02 Thread Graham King
a clef problem. For what it's worth, my \clef declaration is within the voice stanza, as re-instated below: On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 18:04, Graham King wrote: Try specifying transposition before relative. The following (not quite minimal) example works for me: TptOne = \relative c''{ \key c

Re: How to suppress metronome marks?

2005-01-07 Thread Graham King
Gilles, thanks for your suggestion. I failed to describe the context of the question adequately - the tempo change is in the middle of a movement. Nevertheless your answer solved another of my problems! Meanwhile, Mats Bengtsson contributed the following, which solved my problem. Thanks Mats,

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