Re: Change the shape of treble clef

2018-02-08 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 08/02/18 06:39, klose wrote: Hi Andrew, Thank you for your reply but it looks like the ink is dead? I get a Google "sign in" page, which IMV is worse than a dead link. (I'm happy with the Emmentaler font.) ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: MIDI dynamics

2018-02-04 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 04/02/18 05:19, Abraham Lee wrote: Hi, Hilary! On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 9:42 PM Hilary Snaden <hilary.sna...@zoho.com> wrote: I have been trying to get LilyPond to generate MIDI versions of some piano music. The music script renders nicely, and there are no errors or warnings, but th

MIDI dynamics

2018-02-03 Thread Hilary Snaden
I have been trying to get LilyPond to generate MIDI versions of some piano music. The music script renders nicely, and there are no errors or warnings, but the MIDI file plays with no dynamics at all. What am I doing wrong? (LilyPond 2.18.2.) \score { \unfoldRepeats \new Staff << {

Re: [OT] Linux Users

2017-11-21 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 17/11/17 22:59, Brett M. Gilio wrote: How many Linux users are out there in the Lilypond community? Do any of you use other type-setting software such as LaTeX or Csound rather than graphical tools? I currently use a Raspberry Pi 3 with Ubuntu 16.04 to run LilyPond, as my primary boxes run

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

2017-11-15 Thread Hilary Snaden
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 are no gendered definite or indefinite articles ('the', 'a') there is just no

Re: Stepping down and moving on

2016-11-10 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 09/11/16 17:09, David Kastrup wrote: Thanks for making me stay in the pond as long as I did! And thanks, David, for your part in changing the course of my life, for a while at least. It was discovering LilyPond some years ago which reminded me of the compositions I still had around,

Cross-staff phrase marks

2016-02-16 Thread Hilary Snaden
Are Bezier curves practical for making inter-voice and cross-staff phrase marks in LilyPond? It looks as though this could be quite labour-intensive, so any pointers or examples before I start could be useful. It's for a piano piece where a long melody moves between soprano, alto and tenor

Restoring tuplet numbers

2016-02-14 Thread Hilary Snaden
Version 2.18.2 \hide TupletNumber and \omit TupletNumber are mentioned in the notation manual, and they seem to do what I want them to. But is there a similarly straightforward way of restoring tuplet numbers after they have been hidden or omitted? -- Hilary

Font problems in \bookparts

2014-08-01 Thread Hilary Snaden
I'm making a score including a number of pieces in \bookparts. If I add a \layout block to a bookpart, that bookpart ignores my font definitions and uses the defaults instead. Is it possible to change sizes etc for each bookpart while still recognising the new fonts? -- Hilary

Font problems in \bookparts

2014-08-01 Thread Hilary Snaden
Ah, after a further search I found that it's a known issue: https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1129 with a workaround by Neil Puttock: http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-lilypond@gnu.org/msg16599.html Though this function appears to preserve the fonts requested but not the staff

Re: Guitars with capos

2014-02-01 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 2014-02-01 04:53, Rachael Thomas Carlson wrote: Hello Hilary: Hello Rachael and other contributors Please excuse a short notation question! This is a fun question! [...] In all cases, one will find that there is an indication of the use of a capo in the area of the top of the score that

Guitars with capos

2014-01-31 Thread Hilary Snaden
Please excuse a short notation question! What's the preferred way of notating music for a guitar with capo? Sounding pitch, or as a transposing instrument (so that a guitar capoed on the third fret is effectively a guitar in E flat)? -- Hilary ___

Re: tempo changes (midi)

2014-01-07 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 2014-01-07 11:44, rosea grammostola wrote: Is it possible to change tempo for a certain part of the score and make that also audible in the midi file? In the template there is: \midi { \context { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 100 4) } } I find it easier

Re: Thoughts about creating Stack Exchange page?

2013-11-08 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 2013-11-02 11:54, David Kastrup wrote: Hm, I like this idea of turning a mailing list into an entirely optional social networking medium by adding more of a feedback/scoring criterion than Report Spam. So the mailing-list continues to function as-is, with a separate system for maintaining

Re: Thoughts about creating Stack Exchange page?

2013-11-02 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 2013-11-02 05:52, David Kastrup wrote: Gilberto Agostinho gilbertohasn...@gmail.com writes: I am also totally up for this idea as well. What's wrong with this list? Everybody wants to take his LilyPond business to the web interface of his choice that takes a lot of additional work

Re: Midi equalisation

2013-09-27 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 2013-09-15 14:45, Janek Warchoł wrote: Hi, 2013/9/10 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Hilary Snaden h...@newearth.demon.co.uk writes: This (trimmed) example doesn't work as the documentation suggests it should, in this case to reduce the volume of the organ relative to the voices. Changing

Multiple midi outputs

2013-09-12 Thread Hilary Snaden
Is there a way of generating different midi outputs from a single Lilypond script, similar to using \book with \bookOutputName? -- Hilary ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Windows registry, Python, and LilyPond

2013-09-12 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 2013-09-12 14:32, Frederick Bartlett wrote: All, I just installed LilyPond on a new laptop (same OS -- Windows 7 -- as before), but this time the registry entry HKCR\Python\shell\open\command\(Default), which is set to C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin\python.exe , interferes with my

Re: Midi equalisation

2013-09-11 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 2013-09-10 12:02, David Kastrup wrote: Hilary Snaden h...@newearth.demon.co.uk writes: This (trimmed) example doesn't work as the documentation suggests it should, in this case to reduce the volume of the organ relative to the voices. Changing the volume values makes no difference at all

Midi equalisation

2013-09-10 Thread Hilary Snaden
This (trimmed) example doesn't work as the documentation suggests it should, in this case to reduce the volume of the organ relative to the voices. Changing the volume values makes no difference at all. \dyns contains dynamics for the organ, each voice part has its own dynamics. Am I missing

Re: Score examples

2013-09-08 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 2013-09-02 13:50, Urs Liska wrote: I'm compiling a selection of examples to show LilyPond's output quality. I'm aiming at a collection of ca. 5 examples (1-page excerpts) of LilyPond scores tweaked to publication quality and a similar number of examples of out-of-the-box engraving. The

Repeated \tempo markings

2013-08-05 Thread Hilary Snaden
Is there a straightforward way of making tempo markings repeat over selected staffs? I'm thinking in particular of SATB + keyboard, where it can be useful to have tempo changes marked over each of the choir staves and the upper keyboard staff. ___

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-06-25 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 24/06/13 03:20, Nick Payne wrote: On 24/06/13 09:58, Urs Liska wrote: Am 24.06.2013 00:32, schrieb Nick Payne: How about considering Gentium Plus once the bold and bold italic faces are available (at the moment Gentium Plus contains only regular and italic faces). It's released under the

Re: the question of triplets

2013-04-27 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 27/04/13 05:02, David Kastrup wrote: Sarah k Alawamimarri...@gmail.com writes: Ok. I understand how triplets work. I've played them often enough lol! but in lily pond according to the manual it says it's written in a fraction. That's the part I don't get. I'm very horrible at math so is

Re: the question of triplets

2013-04-27 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 27/04/13 14:41, David Kastrup wrote: Hilary Snadenh...@newearth.demon.co.uk writes: \tuplet has a nicer way to deal with tupletSpannerDuration, by the way. So you can continue using it if you want to, but in a few years, newcomers might no longer recognize what you are doing even though

Re: Excellent paper on 'Copyfraud'

2013-03-10 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 2013-03-09 13:56, Urs Liska wrote: Am 09.03.2013 12:50, schrieb David Kastrup: james james.lilyp...@googlemail.com writes: On Mar 8, 2013, at 6:33 PM, Tim Slattery wrote: Mike Blackstock blackstock.m...@gmail.com wrote: This paper might be of interest to anyone typesetting public

Re: making progress I think. Thanks all.

2013-03-02 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 2013-03-02 23:30, David Kastrup wrote: SoundsFromSound soundsfromso...@gmail.com writes: Yup, check out either of those - both are solid. But I personally prefer Frescobaldi. Brilliant program. The amount of comparisons Sarah makes between LilyPond and Braille music entry makes me

Page breaking behaviour

2013-03-01 Thread Hilary Snaden
Is there a way of making LilyPond insert a blank first page if the page breaker starts content on page 2? It's a major pain adding a page once the PDF has been created. -- Hilary ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-02-21 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 2013-02-21 19:58, Urs Liska wrote: http://blog.steinberg.net/2013/02/welcome/ These from Daniel Spreadbury tell me most, I think, of what I need to know about the new project. Our application will use a proprietary file format... an open source file format is only any use if you also

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-02-21 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 2013-02-21 23:10, David Kastrup wrote: Hilary Snaden h...@newearth.demon.co.uk writes: On 2013-02-21 19:58, Urs Liska wrote: http://blog.steinberg.net/2013/02/welcome/ These from Daniel Spreadbury tell me most, I think, of what I need to know about the new project. Our application

Re: Partcombine erratic behaviour

2013-01-11 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 2013-01-10 17:23, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: On 2013-01-10 16:02, Hilary Snaden wrote: The flute staff switches to explicit voices after two bars, That sounds like one of the two flutes has a spanner that is not ended... Partcombine will only merge the voices, if there are either

Partcombine erratic behaviour

2013-01-10 Thread Hilary Snaden
Using version 2.16.2 on windoze, I have a chunk of (pseudo-)code like this: \score { \new StaffGroup \new Staff \set Staff.soloText = #1. \set Staff.soloIIText = #2. \set Staff.aDueText = #a2 \partcombine \flutea \fluteb \set

Manually aligning notes

2012-12-14 Thread Hilary Snaden
I need to move the last d in this snippet to the *right* to avoid it colliding with the fis4 in the other voice. Inserting something like \once \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #2 after the tie doesn't move it at all. Is there a way of moving it? { \stemDown fis2 _~ fis4 e } \\ { d2 ~ d

Vertical spacing within header blocks

2012-08-17 Thread Hilary Snaden
found no references to how to do this. -- Hilary Snaden ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

On Pondish

2012-08-13 Thread Hilary Snaden
Reading Kirill Sidorov's comments on Lilypond uplist has reminded me of something which has crept into my composing, arranging and editing over the last couple of years. I often now find myself annotating paper drafts with corrections in Lilypondish (Pondish?) especially where the score is

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-06 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 2012-08-06 04:04, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: It is worth reminding that by providing high-quality notation tools for free, both Musescore and LilyPond have been a contributing factor in both Sibelius' and Finale (see http://www.makemusic.com/Pressroom/Default.aspx?pid=555) current problems It

Tempo text spacing

2012-07-08 Thread Hilary Snaden
Is there a way of making note spacing accommodate \tempo text? \textLengthOn has no effect. I'm engraving a piece with a great many tempo changes, and while their texts aren't colliding, they're overlapping in a way which is less than clear. -- Hilary

Re: Transposing instruments

2012-06-07 Thread Hilary Snaden
{} } so that the music is transposed in the score, but kept at concert pitch in the MIDI file. -- Hilary Snaden ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Lilypond source code indenter and formatter

2012-06-06 Thread Hilary Snaden
with the LilyPond mode do the indenting. (Having said this, the emacs mode which ships with LilyPond 2.14.2 gets indenting wrong after lines containing manual beaming.) -- Hilary Snaden ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https

Piano centred dynamics and justification

2012-06-04 Thread Hilary Snaden
makes no difference.) -- Hilary Snaden ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Piano centred dynamics and justification (a cautionary tale)

2012-06-04 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 2012-06-04 14:18, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: On 4 juin 2012, at 01:47, Hilary Snaden wrote: [Supposed bug report snipped.] My guess (long shot) would be that if you're using a Dynamics context, there may be extra space in the context that is pushing it to the end of the line whereas

LilyPond and Python

2011-12-06 Thread Hilary Snaden
After severe problems (which seemed to include a version conflict) with a Python hack, I uninstalled Python and LilyPond, then reinstalled first Python and then LilyPond without its bundled Python (largely to see if it still worked). So far it /has/ still worked, with my Python script calling

Re: Non-standard MIDI instruments

2011-11-23 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 2011-11-23 08:17, Keith OHara wrote: Hilary Snadenhilsat newearth.demon.co.uk writes: I've tried adding lines like this (ahh choir . ,(- 53 1)) to midi.scm That works for me. I can only suspect that you might have multiple installations, and edited the .scm file of a different

Non-standard MIDI instruments

2011-11-22 Thread Hilary Snaden
I've tried adding lines like this (ahh choir . ,(- 53 1)) to midi.scm so that I can use instrument names which match those in a soundfont set I use with the LMMS open-source sequencer, but it doesn't work, giving warning: no such MIDI instrument: `aah choir' and defaulting to voice 0. Does

Re: High-level users?

2011-09-25 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 2011-09-25 11:13, Janek Warchoł wrote: 2011/9/24 Graham Percivalgra...@percival-music.ca: On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 03:24:18PM +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: For what it's worth, i really *really* think that LilyPond and MuseScore should be integrated. What does that mean? - better lilypond

Re: Alignment bug?

2011-07-22 Thread Hilary Snaden
voices with polyphonic sections within them as necessary. -- Hilary Snaden ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Alignment bug?

2011-07-20 Thread Hilary Snaden
, c c, } } } -- Hilary Snaden test5.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Horizontally shifting notes (follow-up)

2011-07-16 Thread Hilary Snaden
These didn't work: \override Score.NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #1 \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #-n [to the other voice] This *did*: \override Voice.NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #1 (I can now complete another score which needs this!) Thanks to those folk who made suggestions.

Horizontally shifting notes (erratic behaviour)

2011-07-16 Thread Hilary Snaden
= #0.5 f e } \new Voice { \voiceTwo a^~ c_~ f,_~1 a c f, g c c, } } } -- Hilary Snaden test5.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Horizontally shifting notes

2011-07-15 Thread Hilary Snaden
I need to shift a few notes in a lower voice to the right. These don't work: \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #1 \voiceOne \stemDown \voiceOn[n[n]] Is there a way which works? -- Hilary Snaden ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user

Page number offset and placement

2011-07-07 Thread Hilary Snaden
} } } But this adds the instrument to the header of the first page (which I don't want as it's already there) and I don't know how to decrement the page number before printing it. -- Hilary Snaden ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https

Header to score spacing

2011-07-03 Thread Hilary Snaden
Version 2.14 appears to have less default spacing between header contents and score contents than 2.12. How do I change this spacing? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Misaligned fermata

2011-07-02 Thread Hilary Snaden
correctly. I haven't so far been able to replicate this in another score. Has noticed this odd behaviour before? -- Hilary Snaden inline: oddfermata.png___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Fermata over parallel barlines

2011-07-01 Thread Hilary Snaden
Is it possible to place a fermata over barlines in more than just the top staff in a system? (In this case over all of the staffs in a choirstaff.) -- Hilary Snaden ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: Windows/DOS PATH statement again

2011-06-24 Thread Hilary Snaden
Colin Campbell wrote: On 11-06-24 05:50 AM, James Lowe wrote: As far as I can tell for 'normal' use where someone installs, uninstalls and installs the next version it all works. But not if we keep installing new versions again and again. I'm not sure it's that straightforward. I've always

Cross-staff beaming

2011-05-26 Thread Hilary Snaden
beaming code. Is this still on the to-do list, or am I missing something? (A workaround?) -- Hilary Snaden ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Blank page recognition

2011-05-12 Thread Hilary Snaden
Is there a way of defining a markup and automagically adding it to pages left blank by the page-breaker? It's not really a problem, but it would be a nice function to have. -- Hilary Snaden ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https

Parallel LilyPonds on Windoze

2011-04-05 Thread Hilary Snaden
Is it possible to install two different LilyPond versions on a Windoze box without them interfering with one another? -- Hilary Snaden ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Favorite Lilypond-Score Printer?

2011-03-31 Thread Hilary Snaden
Tim Reeves wrote: The HP 4700DN laser printer I have used jams every time I try to print double-sided. So effectively it cannot print double-sided. Otherwise, it's alright. I do agree though that laser is better than inkjet. I tested a page from my dirt-cheap desktop laser printer under

Stem length

2011-02-28 Thread Hilary Snaden
the stem lengths. Is this a known problem, or am I missing something? -- Hilary Snaden ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Stem length

2011-02-28 Thread Hilary Snaden
( bes' ees ges) } } } I've just read Nick Payne's suggestion and found that this gives the result I was looking for: \once \override Beam #'positions = #'(-5.5 . -6.5) I'm posting my earlier findings in case they are of interest. -- Hilary Snaden

Custom articulations?

2010-08-13 Thread Hilary Snaden
(acons 'padding 0.50 (ly:music-property m 'tweaks))) m) but is there a way of defining a new articulation which displays a trill symbol in parentheses, or tr in plain type, to show editorial trills? This would be *very* useful! -- Hilary Snaden

Parenthesis problems

2010-06-02 Thread Hilary Snaden
Many thanks to the people who explained how to set the size of parentheses independently of the notes within them. Alas, this brings new problems, illustrated by this code snippet. \score { \relative c'' { \clef treble \parenthesize ces \parenthesize c! \parenthesize cis s

Small note in large parentheses?

2010-05-30 Thread Hilary Snaden
I need to typeset a small note in parentheses, but parentheses usually render so small as to be very unclear. I've tried various combinations of \huge \large, \tiny, \parenthesize and \tweak to get a *small* note within *large* parentheses, but nothing has worked! Any ideas? TIA! -- Hilary

Dividing (or multiplying) note lengths?

2010-03-29 Thread Hilary Snaden
explicitly change the note lengths in the input file? (If the latter, I'll probably write a Perl or Python script to process the initial input files.) -- Hilary Snaden ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Custom trill articulation?

2009-09-08 Thread Hilary Snaden
Is it possible to define custom articulations? I'm looking for an articulation (called, say, \etrill) which behaves exactly as \trill except that instead of tr being rendered as a glyph, it's rendered in a standard upright font. (This is to distinguish editorial trills.) -- Hilary Snaden