Re: Frescobaldi: Keyboard shortcut for toggling between editor and music view?

2024-02-14 Thread Guy Stalnaker
work... > > No mouse needed. > > > > Am Dienstag, dem 13.02.2024 um 13:24 -0600 schrieb Guy Stalnaker: > > I do not see such a toggle or any system call in the Key Shortcuts > > preferences that seems relevant. And perhaps that is not surprising - > > Frescobaldi is afte

Re: Frescobaldi: Keyboard shortcut for toggling between editor and music view?

2024-02-13 Thread Guy Stalnaker
I do not see such a toggle or any system call in the Key Shortcuts preferences that seems relevant. And perhaps that is not surprising - Frescobaldi is after all a code editor; that it assumes (!) one would always want the code visible makes sense to me. Regards On 2/12/24 15:36, Hajo Baess

Re: Parentheses : optional anacrouse and chords at the end of a score

2023-10-22 Thread Guy Stalnaker
This should get you what you want: %%% \version "2.24.0" startParenthesis = {   \once \override Parentheses.stencils = #(lambda (grob) (let ((par-list (parentheses-interface::calc-parenthesis-stencils grob))) (list (car par-list) point-stencil ))) } endParenthesis = {  

Re: Musicalion

2023-03-06 Thread Guy Stalnaker
ot; (state-approved library) as a sub-heading. What state? If you hover that link you get information about the subscription service, but not about some accreditation or alike. my 2 cents ;-) Stephan Am 06.03.2023 um 17:56 schrieb Jean Abou Samra: Le lundi 06 mars 2023 à 10:43 -0600, Guy

Musicalion

2023-03-06 Thread Guy Stalnaker
* legit, but in this day and age where "seems" can obscure a cloud of issues, I though I'd ask this community first, knowing that many of you have far more experience than I have with publishing music at all levels. Regards! Guy Stalnaker Madison Wisconsin USA -- -- “Happiness is t

Re: LilyPond 2.24.0 released!

2022-12-15 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Thank you Jonas and all those developers and contributors to an application I can't live without. Guy -- “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” ― Aristotle On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 3:43 PM Jonas Hahnfeld via LilyPond user discussion

Re: Alternative to Frescobaldi

2022-09-03 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Does the system produce sound (so you know sound drivers are working). If yes, does fluidsynth produce sound output if you use it to play a midi file from a to terminal (you have to provide cli options for output device, eg ALSA, and soundfont, full path). If yes, can you start fluidsynth in

Re: Prototype Frescobaldi in the browser [URL correction]

2022-08-07 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Mike - one immediate thing to note - the current privileges expose the root of the file system. Maybe there are no files outside of /home/* that can be opened, but perhaps better that anything outside of /home/* not even be visible. Will explore more later (Zoom with family now). Regards, Guy S

Re: Playback using Frescobaldi?

2022-06-21 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Never needed to use Musecore once I found Frescobaldi. It is IMO one of the best computer applications I've ever used. Perfectly suited for it's purpose. On Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 1:47 PM Vincent Gay wrote: > Le 21/06/2022 à 18:17, Guy Stalnaker a écrit : > > Linux -- a bit more co

Re: Playback using Frescobaldi?

2022-06-21 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Kira, Depends on the Operating System you use how you get sound output. Windows -- requires some software like Virtual Midi Synth ( https://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/virtualmidisynth) which you install and run (it will show up in the Windows Task bar). When you start Frescobaldi, in its Midi

Re: help for midi instruments

2022-04-02 Thread Guy Stalnaker
d of human existence.” ― Aristotle On Sat, Apr 2, 2022 at 12:58 PM Gilles Sadowski wrote: > Le sam. 2 avr. 2022 à 18:29, Guy Stalnaker a écrit : > > > > Curious question if I may. Respondents in this thread suggest something > is possible I thought was not possible. Is it true th

Re: help for midi instruments

2022-04-02 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Curious question if I may. Respondents in this thread suggest something is possible I thought was not possible. Is it true that putting on a whole note crescendo or decrescendo dynamics c1\> ... \p creates midi output with increasing or decreasing loudness for the duration of that note? It was

Re:

2022-03-20 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Michael, I'm not at a computer where I can help you with this immediately. But since you're using Frescobaldi, check out it's Score Wizard. You can use it to create an SA-TB score like this one. It creates the LP structure, to which you then add notes and adjustments. That structure should give

Re: Having trouble reading a piece of music (a poor-quality scan); not enough 8th notes

2022-03-13 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Doncha hate that LOL Been there! -- “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” ― Aristotle On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 11:02 PM Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > Really obvious now :-) > > On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 8:37 PM Guy Stalnak

Re: Having trouble reading a piece of music (a poor-quality scan); not enough 8th notes

2022-03-13 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Ken, The left-hand part is in triplet time and is a continuation of the right-hand triplets from the previous measures. Guy -- “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” ― Aristotle On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 10:10 PM Kenneth Wolcott wrote:

Re: LilyPond 2.23.6 released

2022-02-08 Thread Guy Stalnaker
entheses: > > > https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/blob/master/python/convertrules.py#L4410 > > > > On 8 Feb 2022, at 20:17, Guy Stalnaker wrote: > >  > I can report a change in what I see. This code does not produce an error > in 2.20 but does in 2.23.

Re: LilyPond 2.23.6 released

2022-02-08 Thread Guy Stalnaker
I can report a change in what I see. This code does not produce an error in 2.20 but does in 2.23.6: startParenthesis = { \once \override ParenthesesItem.stencils = #(lambda (grob) (let ((par-list (parentheses-item::calc-parenthesis-stencils

Re: Transposing pitches in the lilypond file itself?

2022-01-11 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Alasdair, Though it may not match your use, Frescobaldi, the LilyPond Editor, can do this using one of its built-in features. In essence you specify the interval to transpose when selecting the feature, e.g., "c d" would transpose up a major 2nd. Many on this list use other editors, but

Notated \grace arpeggio tied to following chord

2021-12-15 Thread Guy Stalnaker
All, I am s close LOL - I'm trying to replicate this: which comes from  Faure's famous Impromptu, Op. 86, for harp. I had to use \change Staff to get the notated arpeggio beamed as in the Faure, but that kills some of the ties. The code below shows what I can do with my present

Re: MIDI Program Change and Control Change messages

2021-12-05 Thread Guy Stalnaker
John, You cannot embed midi messages directly in a Lilypond score such that they become encoded in the midi output file and Lilypond comments will have no affect on the output midi file. The links provided in the first reply to your list email detail how Lilypond can be used to create midi

Re: Set midiInstrument to silence

2021-11-25 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Doh!! Of course. Obvious once you see it (or are told about it). I was keyed on using a NUL instrument & I didn't think to use a simple volume=0 approach. Thanks. On Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 10:54 AM David Kastrup wrote: > Guy Stalnaker writes: > > > If I'm using /set Staf

Set midiInstrument to silence

2021-11-25 Thread Guy Stalnaker
If I'm using /set Staff.midiInstrument = "#", can I also use some descriptor that equals NO sound, for example, "NUL" or something similar like /set Staff.midiInstrument = "#NUL" Regards, Guy S.

Re: Windows Media Player alternatives for midi playing?

2021-10-30 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Erika, there are threads on this list about configuring timidity to use an alternate sound font like the FluidR3 (which is a fairly decent GM soundfont). Can also goggle configuring timidity to use alternative soundfont. Regards. On Sat, Oct 30, 2021, 1:52 PM Erika Pirnes wrote: > I have used

Re: Windows Media Player alternatives for midi playing?

2021-10-30 Thread Guy Stalnaker
One perhaps quick alternative is to use CoolSoft Virtual Midi midi2mp3 convertor. Then you're simply playing an mp3 file, not a midi file. Another is to use VLC. It can 'play' midi after you configure it for a sound font (this is what I do). Regards. On Sat, Oct 30, 2021, 2:39 AM Pablo Cordal

Re: Trying to get the hang of "Polyphony with Shared Lyrics" section of the manual.

2021-10-29 Thread Guy Stalnaker
ht PITA). On 10/29/21 3:20 PM, Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: Am 29.10.21 um 22:14 schrieb Guy Stalnaker: Whoa! What is this magic you're doing Master Moser?? - I made sure that the bf4. on "days" stays in the voice called melody. There are various ways to do this; I chose a

Re: Trying to get the hang of "Polyphony with Shared Lyrics" section of the manual.

2021-10-29 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Whoa! What is this magic you're doing Master Moser?? - I made sure that the bf4. on "days" stays in the voice called melody. There are various ways to do this; I chose a "modern" way using \voices and \\ inside << >> which allows to automatically add a "second" voice This is a

Re: Trying to get the hang of "Polyphony with Shared Lyrics" section of the manual.

2021-10-29 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Kevin, You're encountering an known situation with polyphonic contexts like this one. A change in 2.20.x modified how lyrics are calculated in these polyphonic contexts. You need to manually add to the *lyrics* \skip1 to position the lyrics where you want them. Like so: words =

Re: Early (very early) project: The Celtic Song Book (c) 1928

2021-10-27 Thread Guy Stalnaker
. Guy On Wed, Oct 27, 2021, 3:43 PM Kevin Cole wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 3:52 PM Guy Stalnaker wrote: > > > Kevin, I get 404 Not Found errors fir the .ly source links. But the > engravings and audio pages all work well. Very nicely done!! > > Oops. The source rep

Re: Early (very early) project: The Celtic Song Book (c) 1928

2021-10-27 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Kevin, I get 404 Not Found errors fir the .ly source links. But the engravings and audio pages all work well. Very nicely done!! Regards. On Wed, Oct 27, 2021, 2:31 PM Kevin Cole wrote: > I've mentioned before that I (a) don't read music, and (b) am pretty > much a beginner with LilyPond. > >

Re: Multiple versions of Lilypond?

2021-10-23 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Kira, Your computer will care. Some operating systems "register" installed applications to open certain kinds of files (or files with specific extensions; e.g., Adobe Acrobat is registered to open files with .pdf extensions so that one can double-click on the file in the File Explorer and

Re: Placing text on multi-voice part

2021-10-22 Thread Guy Stalnaker
You did nothing wrong. A change in how these polyphonic contexts work now results in this kind of lyric placement. I have to add \skip1 *in the lyrics* for each note I need the text shifted. In this case I think two are necessary. Regards. Guy S. On Fri, Oct 22, 2021, 10:23 AM Jogchum Reitsma

Re: voiceOne and oneVoice

2021-09-30 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Just want to follow up on what Lukas-Fabian says here: If you do in-staff polyphony via << { \upperMusic } \\ { \lowerMusic } >> then the \\ makes LilyPond silently add a \voiceOne to \upperMusic and a \voiceTwo to \lowerMusic, making sure that \upperMusic has upward stems,

Re: Lilypond User Mailing List

2021-09-27 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Michael, You can find what you need here: https://lilypond.org/contact.html Regards On 9/27/21 2:32 PM, Michael T Abrams wrote: Hi, I would like to subscribe to this community mailing list. My email is        string...@rogers.com Are you able to assist me? Michael -- -- “Happiness is

Re: how to do a slur (or phrasing slur) that crosses the staff (piano score)?

2021-09-21 Thread Guy Stalnaker
See: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-keyboards An example exists on that page for what you describe. On Tue, Sep 21, 2021, 4:04 PM Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > Hi; > > how to do a slur (or phrasing slur) that crosses the staff (piano score)? > > see

Re: Concert pitch question (confused ex-tuba player)

2021-09-17 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Ken, Using Trumpet in b-flat ... When the trumpet player looks at their part written in C-major and they play the note middle-c, c', what sounds is the note b-flat, one step lower. Thus all the orchestra/wind ensemble parts that play Concert C (your tuba or trombone) must play a b-flat to

Re: midi sound quality help needed

2021-09-14 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Sorry, that's not terribly clear ... Add "--output-24bit" to the TIMIDITY commandline (there may be a way to put it in the timidity config, but I just used the CLI anyway) %> timidity --output-24bit -Ow Sorry about that. Guy On 9/14/21 6:54 PM, Guy Stalnaker wrote: Yes!! I

Re: midi sound quality help needed

2021-09-14 Thread Guy Stalnaker
to me. But since we are on the subject of midi/timidity, I wonder if you or someone else could address this: I have noticed that there is much more crackling (not sure how else to describe it) going on in the sound when playing the midi files. Any idea what might be causing that? Thanks! Hwaen Ch'uqi On 9/

Re: midi sound quality help needed

2021-09-14 Thread Guy Stalnaker
was correcting you. I *agree* with you completely. Regards. On 9/14/21 6:29 PM, Hwaen Ch'uqi wrote: Greetings Guy, Perhaps I am missing something, but the folder contents that you display don't seem to contradict what I wrote. Hwaen Ch'uqi On 9/14/21, Guy Stalnaker wrote: Thanks Hwaen

Re: midi sound quality help needed

2021-09-14 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Hwaen Ch'uqi On 9/14/21, Guy Stalnaker wrote: Ken, You are S close :-) The issue is neither Lilipond nor its midi output. MIDI is simply a specification for musical "events" describing pitch, duration, etc. It's up to a program that understands MIDI to make actual sound. Tha

Re: midi sound quality help needed

2021-09-14 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Ken, You are S close :-) The issue is neither Lilipond nor its midi output. MIDI is simply a specification for musical "events" describing pitch, duration, etc. It's up to a program that understands MIDI to make actual sound. That is typically done via a synthesizer (dedicated synth

Re: Midi Instrument: change?

2021-09-04 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Understood and thanks for the clarification. Guy On 9/4/21 5:09 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Guy Stalnaker writes: David and Jerry, I've been using the "method" shown on that Lilypond doc page for years. I confirm that it does work for me. I can put \set midiInstrument = #&q

Re: Midi Instrument: change?

2021-09-04 Thread Guy Stalnaker
David and Jerry, I've been using the "method" shown on that Lilypond doc page for years. I confirm that it does work for me. I can put \set midiInstrument = #"" anywhere in a voice and LP will change the midi instrument. Which is why I suggested it to Jerry. But there is no denying that

Re: Midi Instrument: change?

2021-09-04 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Just following the docs (per the link provided). Should the docs be updated? Guy On Sat, Sep 4, 2021, 3:51 PM David Kastrup wrote: > Guy Stalnaker writes: > > > See > > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/midi-channel-mapping > > > > Whe

Re: Midi Instrument: change?

2021-09-03 Thread Guy Stalnaker
See http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/midi-channel-mapping Where the method is shown. Basically, you put the instrument into the Voice context: %%% Code   \midi {     \context {   \Staff   \remove "Staff_performer"     }     \context {   \Voice   \consists

Re: Handling transpositions gracefully

2021-05-17 Thread Guy Stalnaker
This is how I have worked with scores. All parts written in main key then use transpose in \bookpart output section. This allows midi output for all parts in same key for audio review and PDF output for instrumentalists in proper key for their instrument. If you use variables for your parts (e.g.,

Re: Teaching

2021-05-13 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Calvin - following up on my earlier email - I'm happy to make the LP code available (it's not on CPDL, just the PDF/MID files) if you think it might be of us. Some of it is older code, when I was learning LP, and though I've developed my personal SOP for using LP, I've not gone back to older code

Re: Lyrics for ossia staff

2021-01-03 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Here is another way (especially if one uses Frescobaldi and its Score Wizard to create the score structure: %% CODE %% \version "2.19" \language "english" soprano = { a'2. << { f'4( ~ | f'4. g'8 a'4 f' ~ | } \new Staff = "Solo" \with { alignAboveContext = #"sopranos"

Re: Mass file linting

2020-12-18 Thread Guy Stalnaker
-- “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” ― Aristotle On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 11:32 AM Guy Stalnaker wrote: > You may know this, but on the chance you do not ... > > Depending on your terminal shell (e.g. I use zsh), you can use the find

Re: Mass file linting

2020-12-18 Thread Guy Stalnaker
You may know this, but on the chance you do not ... Depending on your terminal shell (e.g. I use zsh), you can use the find command and its -exec option to find all .ly files in a folder hierarchy and run the command on them. #> find ./* -type f -iname \*.ly\* -exec [python.ly command here] {}

Re: ! Please answer interesting functionality question for PhD Diss

2020-10-23 Thread Guy Stalnaker
I'll confess that sometimes the LP community can be fractious - but I am truly thankful at how generous and simply astonishing the community can be. It's not been two hours and Mr. Blankenship not only has a "yes, you can do this with LP" but links to materials and documentation and, now, a

Re: Making a click track on midi output

2020-09-13 Thread Guy Stalnaker
John, Add to the beginning of the work three measures: two with quarter note (or appropriate values) beats, then one empty (for ease of later editing). Frankly, in my opinion, it's better for the singers to SEE that there are two measures with the metronomic pulse before they begin singing (much

Re: Creating midi file that is not empty

2020-08-07 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Claire - just confirming, Lilypond itself does not, and can not, play MIDI files. You must use some type of midi-capable program to play the MIDI files (e.g. timidity on *nix systems can play midi files, as can pmidi; for WindowsOS, I use Frescobaldi [a Lilypondwith VirtualMIDISynth to play the

Re: How to increase shift dynamic and end of hairpin

2020-01-13 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Kieren, You sir are a gentleman and a scholar! I didn't want to say anything, but each of the three previous suggestions worked for the MWE, but when applied to my score either either did not work at all, or only worked for some of the areas that needed the extended hairpin decrescendo.

Frescobaldi Music View

2020-01-11 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Howdy Frescobaldi users -- after a recent update to v3 and v3.1, the music view now defaults to 100%. It did not use to do this. Everytime I open a score, I now have to set the view to Page or Width, etc. I cannot find a Configuration option to tell Music View my preferred view (Page). Am I

Re: Work structure question

2020-01-11 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Thanks everyone! It took me several hours to work out how to get from the examples David directed me to in the Docs to a MWE that had the lyrics where I wanted them to be to using that structure into my existing score, but I did do it. Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com On Sat, Jan 11, 2020

Work structure question

2020-01-11 Thread Guy Stalnaker
yricsto "alto" [below staff "upper"] \new Staff = "lower" << >> \new Lyrics \lyricsto "tenor" [above staff "lower] \new Lyrics \lyricsto "bass" [below staff "lower"] Has anyone done something like this? Or am I complete off base? Thanks! Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com

Re: How to increase shift dynamic and end of hairpin

2020-01-07 Thread Guy Stalnaker
^\> c'4( bf)^\p } \addlyrics { Al -- le -- lu -- ia Al -- le -- lu -- ia } >> } %%% --- Knute Snortum (via Gmail) On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 12:53 PM Guy Stalnaker wrote: Hello everyone, I've written a choral work. There are some places in the score

Re: How to increase shift dynamic and end of hairpin

2020-01-07 Thread Guy Stalnaker
^\> c'4( bf)^\p } \addlyrics { Al -- le -- lu -- ia Al -- le -- lu -- ia } >> } %%% --- Knute Snortum (via Gmail) On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 12:53 PM Guy Stalnaker wrote: Hello everyone, I've written a choral work. There are some places in the score

How to increase shift dynamic and end of hairpin

2020-01-07 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Hello everyone, I've written a choral work. There are some places in the score where I have a four-voice choir singing Alleluia on successive half notes. I've notated a crescendo hairpin to \mf followed by a decrescendo hairpin to \p on the final half note. Some times LP engraves the score

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 3.1 has been released!

2020-01-01 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Concur on Score Wizard for 3.1 and latest Win10 (updated 12/16). Toolbar button, menu, and keystrokes all ineffective. Is there a log somewhere we can use? Guy -- “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” ― Aristotle On Wed, Jan 1, 2020,

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 3.1 has been released!

2019-12-27 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Thank Wilbert & Urs & the developer team whom I do not know! Frescobaldi remains after years of use one if the best computer programs I've ever used. I am always grateful for it and for you. Regards, Guy -- “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human

Re: Hiding unused staffs??

2019-11-12 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Thanks David, I'll review the code. Guy -- “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” ― Aristotle On Tue, Nov 12, 2019, 5:32 PM David Kastrup wrote: > Guy Stalnaker writes: > > > All, > > > > I'm writing a

Hiding unused staffs??

2019-11-12 Thread Guy Stalnaker
All, I'm writing a choral composition where there are varying numbers of voices in play at any one time. Starts out 4-voice SATB, then 6-voices (SAATBB), then 4 voices (TTBB), then 3 voices (SSA), then 6, then 8. I know I can simply code 8 voices, assigning rests where voices don't sing.

Re: Frescobaldi, improve support for audio export

2019-10-18 Thread Guy Stalnaker
High wrote: On 10/18/2019 3:17 PM, Guy Stalnaker wrote: So, it looks like VLC with the right syntax may be able to use FluidSynth/soundfont to "play" midi and FFMpeg to encode to AAC or other codecs - or - output WAV file as input to lame It's a complicated commandline but I've seen (a

Re: Frescobaldi, improve support for audio export

2019-10-18 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Urs, On 10/17/2019 5:17 PM, Urs Liska wrote: 17. Oktober 2019 18:59, "Guy Stalnaker" schrieb: Urs, I'm thinking you mean here "Frescobaldi on Linux" right (since you also say fluidsynth)? I don't "mean" that but it seems that's what I'm talking about. Howev

Re: Qsynth not producing sound when used from within frescobaldi

2019-10-17 Thread Guy Stalnaker
I had the same problem with QSynth. But I cannot recall how/if I fixed it (I've since given up using my old MacBook once Apple also gave up on it in favor of a new Surface Laptop). But there may be a work-around. If you run fluidsynth from the command line into shell mode (type fluidsynth

Re: Frescobaldi, improve support for audio export

2019-10-17 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Urs, I'm thinking you mean here "Frescobaldi on Linux" right (since you also say fluidsynth)? I use Frescobaldi primarily on Windows. And though one can use Cygwin, etc. to install an app like timidity, Frescobaldi does not "see" it. But I can, and to, have lame installed because I can use

Re: Creating MP3 files

2019-10-15 Thread Guy Stalnaker
If you're on Windows and use VirtualMidiSynth, it has a convert to mp3 option built in. Run the tool, open midi file, etc. You'll need, if I recall correctly, to download lame and put the lame dll in the VMS install folder. VMS docs explain this. Regards -- “Happiness is the meaning and the

Re: Noting temporarely 2 melodies (different lyrics) on same staff

2019-08-23 Thread Guy Stalnaker
ks btw for your explanation. Now I'm figuring out how to map it to the structure I usually use from Frescobaldi's Score Wizard. Guy Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 1:49 PM Simon Albrecht wrote: > Hello Ziad, > > On 23.08.19 17:28, Ziad Gholam wrote: > >

Re: Choral scores conventions question

2019-08-20 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Jacques, Do a search for "merge-rests.ily" -- this is a LP .ily file you can include in your LP files to merge the rests of differing voices to get a single rest for places like m. 4 in your score. The file includes usage examples. I use it a great deal as I mostly write choral m

Re: Repository with color themes for Frescobaldi

2019-08-05 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Much appreciated! Thanks for your work on this. Best regards. -- “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” ― Aristotle On Mon, Aug 5, 2019, 11:24 AM Robert Kubosz wrote: > I know that not all Lilyponders use Frescobaldi, but certainly all

Re: MIDI file creation - or not?

2019-07-01 Thread Guy Stalnaker
playing an Anglican chant like this one with whole and half notes. You can add \tempo 4 = ## to your \global section, or in the \midi { } add thus \midi { \tempo 4 = 72 } Regards. Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 8:47 PM Ben Potter wrote: > I am very new to Lilyp

Re: Text positioning at double bar

2019-06-06 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Thank you. -- “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” ― Aristotle On Thu, Jun 6, 2019, 2:21 AM Xavier Scheuer wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 19:33, Guy Stalnaker wrote: > > > > Thanks Phil -- "ha

Re: Text positioning at double bar

2019-06-05 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Thanks Phil -- "hackish" is word? LOVE it :-) If the output looks good, I'm good. Guy Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 11:33 AM Phil Holmes wrote: > Don't know how hack-ish you mind as a solution to do this, but using this > for the music: >

Text positioning at double bar

2019-06-05 Thread Guy Stalnaker
th { } \lyricsto "soprano" \verse \new Staff << \clef bass \new Voice = "tenor" { \voiceOne \tenor } \new Voice = "bass" { \voiceTwo \bass } >> >> \layout {} } %% SNIPPET %% Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Why does this code look different when used in a "real" score?

2019-05-15 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Stephan - thanks for the reply. I sometimes despair at my communication skills. I apologize. I will look at your suggestion. Guy Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 3:01 PM mu...@gmx.ch wrote: > Hi Guy > > Nobody has answered up to now. Without being a lil

Why does this code look different when used in a "real" score?

2019-05-13 Thread Guy Stalnaker
in the three 8th rests vertically aligned as expected. But in the "real" score, they are not. Only difference is that there are multiple parts (flute, string quartet, SATB choir) as this same point. Flute is tacet, strings all play a half note, choir has a quarter rest then begins o

Re: Frescobaldi question

2019-05-08 Thread Guy Stalnaker
sweet! That is excellent. I'll try and configure my FB like that. Much thanks. Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 2:13 PM Ben wrote: > On 5/8/2019 2:42 PM, Guy Stalnaker wrote: > > AH! > > I have never, in 10 years, clicked on that

Re: Frescobaldi question

2019-05-08 Thread Guy Stalnaker
AH! I have never, in 10 years, clicked on that control and saw it was a dropdown menu! Much thanks! Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 1:38 PM Urs Liska wrote: > > Am 08.05.19 um 20:31 schrieb Guy Stalnaker: > > GRRR - why does the Enter key sometimes

Re: Frescobaldi question

2019-05-08 Thread Guy Stalnaker
ChoirAndOrgan in its PDF Music View module. So, it appears that FB is choosing the "first" document of the set. And I answered my own question :-) Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 1:07 PM Urs Liska wrote: > > Am 08.05.19 um 19:56 schrieb Guy Stalnaker:

Re: Frescobaldi question

2019-05-08 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Urs, I can indeed access the files through the Lilypond menu. But they open in Acrobat and not in the Frescobaldi PDF display. I continued investigating and I see ... interesting behavior. I noticed that my output file names had an alphabetical order: Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com

Frescobaldi question

2019-05-08 Thread Guy Stalnaker
the ReducedScore \book{} and re-engrave. I have closed FB and deleted the .pdf/.mid files. FB still shows the ReducedScore when I engrave if all three /book{} are uncommented. Thanks for your help. Guy Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Compressed rests not engraving as expected

2019-04-02 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Brett, Much thanks, that does indeed fix the issue. Regards. Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 8:15 PM Brett Duncan wrote: > I think you want > > \override MultiMeasureRest #'expand-limit = #7 (or whatever value you > decide - the default is 10). > >

Compressed rests not engraving as expected

2019-04-01 Thread Guy Stalnaker
english" \score { \new Staff { \clef bass \compressFullBarRests \key bf \major \time 4/4 a2 a4.. a16 | a2.\> r4\! \bar "||" \mark \default \time 3/4 R2.*8 \bar "||" \mark \default \time 4/4 R1*15 \bar "||" \mark \default \time 3/4 \key f \major

Re: Tangled up in Lilypond syntax

2019-03-26 Thread Guy Stalnaker
epeat unfold 10 test } What I engrave this with LP 2.19.82 the a pitches after the temporary polyphonic context concludes following the \oneVoice are not engraved in the same octave as the a pitches before the temporary polyphonic context. Is that supposed to happen? Guy Guy Stalnaker jimmyg.

Re: Tangled up in Lilypond syntax

2019-03-25 Thread Guy Stalnaker
and conclude them outside one. If you need to use them, extend the measures in your TPC. This will produce stems/beams you may dislike but judicious use of "s" can fix that. Well, that's the only way I know how to use them. More experienced folks on this list may use other methods. Guy

Re: Tangled up in Lilypond syntax

2019-03-25 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Opps. True. No \\ if using my earlier code. Thanks for catching that! Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 1:02 PM Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: > > Slight amendation of Mark's suggestion. Since you're doing a vocal > composition, to keep lyrics applied into this

Re: Tangled up in Lilypond syntax

2019-03-25 Thread Guy Stalnaker
P.S. Using the syntax from my first email, you don't need any longer the \sopranoVoiceTwo. You simply put the notes in the { \voiceTwo } location of the temporary polyphonic context. Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 12:38 PM Guy Stalnaker wrote: > Tim, > &g

Re: Tangled up in Lilypond syntax

2019-03-25 Thread Guy Stalnaker
y polyphonic context { \voiceOne } and then should continue after the \oneVoice. But note that use of slurs will break the lyrics placement so you may need to include \skip1 in your lyrics to shift the lyric syllables to the proper note location. Regards, Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com On Mon,

Re: Google

2019-03-21 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Wow! None of the dozen or so I did looked anything like that! -- “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” ― Aristotle On Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 8:55 PM Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2019-03-21 6:23 pm, madMuze wrote: > >

Re: Google

2019-03-21 Thread Guy Stalnaker
I WAS LOGGING in to send an email about this :-) https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl Guy Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 12:07 PM hen...@chorus.net wrote: > Go to the Google homepage. . . their header celebrates Bach's birthday and > allows you to harmonize a

Re: Frescobaldi website in English

2019-03-20 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Andrew, It looks like it's the English homepage that's gone missing. If I click on any of the left side links and then on the English language link at the bottom of the opened page an English-language page does open. Including the manual. Guy -- “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of

Re: LP output directive to annotate contexts, staves, voices

2019-01-25 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Thank you. I'll take a look at that snippet. -- "Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." ? Aristotle From: Barbara Mroczek Sent: Friday, January 25, 2019 6:36:58 PM To: Guy Stalnaker; lil

LP output directive to annotate contexts, staves, voices

2019-01-23 Thread Guy Stalnaker
. Having LP show which contexts are which might have revealed why my \lyricsto "name" was not working. Guy Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

GAH!! Apologies for the prior spam post - Lyric placement or new staff for ending.

2019-01-02 Thread Guy Stalnaker
All, Trying to finish this piece and it's giving me fits. With Tyler's help I got the Solo lyrics where I wanted them. Thanks, Tyler. But doing this and adding appropriate dynamics for \voiceTwo results in this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/z6176sqk913xa45/LPExample_LyricsSpacingIssue.png?dl=0

Apologies for the prior spam post - Lyric placement or new staff for ending.

2019-01-02 Thread Guy Stalnaker
All, Trying to finish this piece and it's giving me fits. With Tyler's help I got the Solo lyrics where I wanted them. Thanks, Tyler. But doing this and adding appropriate dynamics for \voiceTwo results in this: Note the lyric placement in measures 63-64 for the top staff. These lyrics

Contexts and Voices

2019-01-02 Thread Guy Stalnaker
All, Trying to finish this piece and it's giving my fits. With Tyler's help I got the Solo lyrics where I wanted them. Thanks, Tyler. But doing this and adding appropriate dynamics for \voiceTwo results in this: Note the lyric placement in measures 63-64. These lyrics occur before the

Re: Lyrics above context

2019-01-02 Thread Guy Stalnaker
On 1/2/2019 1:02 PM, Tyler Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 08:00:31AM -0600, Guy Stalnaker wrote: And the answer is, "No, I can't incorporate into the larger score." Follow-up question then: can this type of Dynamics directive be ap

Re: Lyrics above context

2019-01-02 Thread Guy Stalnaker
at 08:00:31AM -0600, Guy Stalnaker wrote: And the answer is, "No, I can't incorporate into the larger score." Follow-up question then: can this type of Dynamics directive be applied in a temporary polyphonic passage? Because that's what I'm trying to do. Final four meas

Re: Lyrics above context

2019-01-02 Thread Guy Stalnaker
#"sopranos } LP puts the dynamics exactly as originally, immediately above the staff, but below the lyrics, so nothing gained by the added code. Guy On Tue, Jan 1, 2019, 11:25 PM Guy Stalnaker Tyler, > > That is exactly what I want. Now to figure out how to incorporate it into >

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