Stanza is displaying at bottom of score

2013-08-19 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
In the following minimal example, a repeated stanza is showing up under the PianoStaff. Of course, I would need it to be under the first stanza, above the PianoStaff. Am I missing some setting, how can I fix this? Any help much appreciated :) Kind regards, Jethro Screenshot:

Re: Stanza is displaying at bottom of score

2013-08-19 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
Perfect, thank you so much! Jethro Phil Holmes (19 Aug 2013 @ 15:36) - Original Message - From: Jethro Van Thuyne p...@jethro.be To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 2:25 PM Subject: Stanza is displaying at bottom of score In the following minimal example

Text markup: vspace with negative number

2013-08-15 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
I'm trying to reduce the line width in a custom header template, having several lines combined in \center-column. I tried using the \vspace command, which seems the only thing in the docs slightly related to line height, but it doesn't seem to handle negative numbers. bookTitleMarkup = \markup

Re: Text markup: vspace with negative number

2013-08-15 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
Jan-Peter Voigt (15 Aug 2013 @ 16:50) Hi Jethro, you can use \override #'(baseline-skip . 0) \center-column {} to change the spacing. HTH Jan-Peter Great! Exactly what I needed, many thanks. Jethro ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Text markup: vspace with negative number

2013-08-15 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
David Kastrup (15 Aug 2013 @ 16:49) Jethro Van Thuyne p...@jethro.be writes: bookTitleMarkup = \markup { \fill-line { \center-column { \fontsize #4.5 \fromproperty #'header:title \fontsize #-3 \fromproperty #'header:copyMusic \vspace #-2 \fontsize #-3

Re: Text markup: vspace with negative number

2013-08-15 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
David Kastrup (15 Aug 2013 @ 17:04) You could try telling us the version of LilyPond you are using. With the current development version, this moves the third field right into the first one. So you are obviously using something else. I'm using 2.17.14 Oh, that's an unstable version anyway.

Abbreviating 'complex' commands

2013-08-15 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
Reading the docs, I see that a command like \rightHandFinger can be abbreviated to \RH, or any other alias, using alias=#command. Is it possible to alias a command with arguments, e.g. \change Staff = upper to \csu? Jethro ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Abbreviating 'complex' commands

2013-08-15 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
Phil Holmes (15 Aug 2013 @ 19:35) Is it possible to alias a command with arguments, e.g. \change Staff = upper to \csu? Jethro Have you tried? I have: csu=#change Staff = upper Parser says: error: GUILE signaled an error for the expression beginning here Jethro

Re: Abbreviating 'complex' commands

2013-08-15 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
Thomas Morley (15 Aug 2013 @ 19:47) 2013/8/15 Jethro Van Thuyne p...@jethro.be: Phil Holmes (15 Aug 2013 @ 19:35) Is it possible to alias a command with arguments, e.g. \change Staff = upper to \csu? Jethro Have you tried? I have: csu=#change Staff = upper Parser says: error: GUILE

FretBoard

2013-08-11 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
Is there a way to change the FretBoard size globally in a file? I'm trying the following in my stylesheet, but I don't get it to work: \context { \FretBoards \override FretBoards.FretBoard #'size = #'-2 } Jethro. ___ lilypond-user mailing

Force barline in middle of a bar

2013-03-18 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
In my (minimal) example below, I'm having trouble with displaying dashed barlines in the middle of the bar. Probably the first occurance of the tuplets in the violin - a figure which is running 'through' the bar - is making things difficult, but is there a way to force the barline anyway? I don't

Re: Force barline in middle of a bar

2013-03-18 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
Ok great, that does the trick the way I want it to be displayed :) Thanks! Jethro Thomas Morley (18 Mar 2013 @ 13:53) the bar-line-interface is heavily changed. Use \bar ! instead of \bar dashed or run convert-ly. Cheers, Harm ___

Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative

2013-03-07 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
I believe this approach, especially for new users, is less abstract than defining a 'syntactic' octave position before entering real music. I think it's a good idea. Jethro Werner LEMBERG (07 Mar 2013 @ 20:21) One rationale is to stop the distribution of the information for the first pitch

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-03-02 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
Urs Liska (02 Mar 2013 @ 17:39) If the original poster of the example could tell us what this is actually? It's a score created by John Stump, see here http://classicalconvert.com/2008/01/faeries-aire-and-death-waltz/ and here

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-03-02 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
Joseph Rushton Wakeling (02 Mar 2013 @ 18:30) On 03/02/2013 06:27 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: Alban Berg 4 Pieces for Clarinet and Piano. Out of copyright in the US (pre-1922 publication) and Europe (more than 70 years since composer's death). On IMSLP here:

Re: divisi parts and another general question

2013-03-02 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
Sarah k Alawami (02 Mar 2013 @ 18:55) Now on to the divisi. How do I do this? once I get the rhythms correct that is? I'm hoping to get the rest of it done today. The cello and bass parts will be easy. they are just octaves. I think I'll leave the 5gths out as I believe they are in the upper

Re: a lot of accidentals. how do I notate them?

2013-03-01 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
If you want to force the display of an accidental, you can append an exclamation mark to your note, like this: e4 f e4. des8 c4 | d!4 e You can also put the natural (or sharp or flat) sign between brackets, by using the question mark: e4 f e4. des8 c8 | d?4 e Jethro Sarah k Alawami

Re: Collision with \repeat tremolo and accidental of second note

2013-03-01 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
:52, Jethro Van Thuyne p...@jethro.be wrote: See minimal example below and image attached \relative c'' { \repeat tremolo 16 { bes,32 aes' } | } Is this a bug, or should I be setting some minimal distance between the two notes? Jethro Ouch, very ugly bug! Please report it to the bug

Re: Collision with \repeat tremolo and accidental of second note

2013-03-01 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
Wonderful, thank you! Jethro Noeck (01 Mar 2013 @ 23:04) Am 01.03.2013 22:56, schrieb Jethro Van Thuyne: In the mean time: is there a way for me to resolve this issue without using Inkscape to move the tremolo around? Can the vertical position of the tremolo be set manually? Jethro You

Grace notes on first bar of piano staff

2013-01-26 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
When trying to typeset grace notes on the first beat of a piano staff, something odd happens with the left hand bass clef. First there is a treble clef engraved, then a time signature, and only after that a bass clef and key signature. right = \relative c'' { \clef treble \key f \major

Re: Grace notes on first bar of piano staff

2013-01-26 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
Thank you for the work around, Nathan and Federico! Jethro Nathan (26 Jan 2013 @ 21:02) On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Jethro Van Thuyne p...@jethro.be wrote: When trying to typeset grace notes on the first beat of a piano staff, something odd happens with the left hand bass clef. First

Collision with \repeat tremolo and accidental of second note

2013-01-26 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
See minimal example below and image attached \relative c'' { \repeat tremolo 16 { bes,32 aes' } | } Is this a bug, or should I be setting some minimal distance between the two notes? Jethro attachment: collision_tremolo_grace.png___

Flag style: modern-straight-flag

2012-10-23 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
It seems like the modern-straight-flag style is no longer supported. I used to set this using \override Stem #'flag-style = #'flag-style, a syntax that now appears to be replaced by \override Flag #'style = #'flag-style. Is there a way to still use this style? Jethro

Re: Flag style: modern-straight-flag

2012-10-23 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
On 10/23/2012 09:13 PM, Marc Hohl wrote: It seems like the modern-straight-flag style is no longer supported. Is there a way to still use this style? \override Flag #'stencil = #modern-straight-flag does the trick. Regards, Marc It does, thanks! Jethro

instrumentName in style sheet

2012-10-06 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
I'm trying to centralize all layout instructions in a style sheet, but I'm struggling with the instrumentName property for GrandStaff. The code below works for staves in regular systems, but the font property isn't applied to piano staves. Any ideas? \context { \Staff \override

Re: instrumentName in style sheet

2012-10-06 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
{ \GrandStaff ... ? HTH Urs Am 06.10.2012 21:55, schrieb Jethro Van Thuyne: I'm trying to centralize all layout instructions in a style sheet, but I'm struggling with the instrumentName property for GrandStaff. The code below works for staves in regular systems, but the font property isn't

Glissando with artificial harmonics

2012-05-07 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
Is it in any way possible to engrave a glissando with artificial harmonics? When I try the usual syntax for glissandi with the minimal example below, I get the following error: syntax error, unexpected ''', expecting or DRUM_PITCH or MUSIC_FUNCTION or NOTENAME_PITCH Tiny example: e!

Re: Glissando with artificial harmonics

2012-05-07 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
Ah, nevermind. I should have read the error more clearly... Jethro Jethro Van Thuyne (06 May 2012 @ 18:21) Is it in any way possible to engrave a glissando with artificial harmonics? When I try the usual syntax for glissandi with the minimal example below, I get the following error: syntax

Re: ways of using Lilypond?

2010-12-19 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
Ludo Beckers: I guess I asked this question because I'm not sure whether or not I should first learn Lilypond syntax and then see if I want/need to use tools besides it. I asked about the combination vim-Lilypond sometime ago, but that would be 2 steep learning curves to tackle at once; a

Re: ways of using Lilypond?

2010-12-18 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
Ludo Beckers: Just wondering, has there ever been a poll about how many Lilypond users work with a certain specific tool. Is the majority in this group using denemo, frescobaldi, lilypondtool or other tools? Vim, with custom mappings (or without), has been the most practical tool for me so

Re: Triple b or # - do they exist?

2010-10-22 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
Google gave me Reger! :) http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/donbyrd/InterestingMusicNotation_files/Reger_TripleSharpEx+Ctxt.png As a neighbour tone between two G double sharps, beginning of the last bar in the image. Jethro. On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, David Nalesnik wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010

Re: Triple b or # - do they exist?

2010-10-22 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
Perhaps better with a full context: http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/donbyrd/InterestingMusicNotation.html Jethro. On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Jethro Van Thuyne wrote: Google gave me Reger! :) http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/donbyrd/InterestingMusicNotation_files/Reger_TripleSharpEx

Re: alternative notation for tuplets (idea)?

2010-10-15 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
Why the urge to change? When \times has been used for such a long time, replacing it with tuplet or advanced arithmetics would make things far more difficult. I don't see the problem with the current system. On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Bernardo Barros wrote: One think I don't like, since I use a

Re: Slurs at line breaks

2010-07-27 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:59:52 +0200, Jonas Müthing wrote: When a slur goes over more than one line, the lilypond prints the slur into the last bar line and starts the slur on the next line very close to the key signature. I would like to change this an achieve a result similair to the

Re: transposing instruments

2010-07-18 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
Hi, Have you taken a look at the smart-transpose snippet? http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=266 Best regards, Jethro. On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Jatziri Valtierra wrote: Hi everyone, Your suggestions help me very much, but now I have other problem whit the notes when I write des or

Re: transposing instruments

2010-07-18 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
keyword did you type in the lsr search? neither transpose nor accidental will lead to snipppet 266 here... Am 18.07.2010 um 17:25 schrieb Jethro Van Thuyne: Hi, Have you taken a look at the smart-transpose snippet? http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=266 Best regards

Re: rehearsal letter other indication

2010-07-07 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
Hi Victor, What about something like this? \relative c' { c bes aes g | \mark \markup{ \box A Lively } c bes aes g | c bes aes g | \mark \markup{ \box B Slightly faster } c bes aes g } Best regards, Jethro. _

Re: rehearsal letter other indication

2010-07-07 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
-alignment-X = #-1 Best regards, Jethro. On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Jethro Van Thuyne wrote: Hi Victor, What about something like this? \relative c' { c bes aes g | \mark \markup{ \box A Lively } c bes aes g | c bes aes g | \mark \markup{ \box B Slightly faster } c

Re: Changing staff size

2010-02-10 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
This should do the trick: #(set-global-staff-size 14) or any other number, of course. Jethro. On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Chris wrote: Hi! Is it possible to change the staff size? I found in the documentation only a command to change the note size.

Slur as TupletBracket

2010-02-09 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
I'm trying to replace the tuplet bracket with a slur by doing: \layout { \context { \Score \override TupletBracket #'stencil = #ly:slur::print } } Unfortunately, I get a fucked up slur, starting and ending vertically on the first note of the triplet (version 2.12.3):

Re: markup in textspanner doens't work well

2010-01-31 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Stefan Thomas wrote: in the below quoted snippet, the markup in the textspanner doesn't

Modern-straight-flag

2010-01-01 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
I can find some references to the Stem-property modern-straight-flag and old-straight-flag on the net, yet I cannot get them to be displayed. I have tried: \layout { \context { \Score \override Stem #'flag-style = #modern-straight-flag } } in an external stylesheet or within

Re: Modern-straight-flag

2010-01-01 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
Thanks, that's it indeed! Best regards, Jethro. On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: You have to set the #'flag property: \override Stem #'flag = #modern-straight-flag Cheers, Reinhold -- -- Reinhold

Re: vim vagaries

2009-11-11 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
Hi Jonathan, It's not to easy to find the right locations indeed, perhaps this might help. First you have to edit a file called filetype.vim, located in /home/yourusername/.vim/ If it isn't there, you can just create it: touch /home/yourusername/.vim/filetype.vim If the .vim directory

Re: Automatically changing the absolute scale

2009-10-01 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Skippy wrote: once I am done, I would like to add 3 tones to each note, to output F# major (without having to do it note by note obviously…). Is there a way to do this ? Something like \addtones 3 ? Hi Skippy, You can use \transpose c fis for that

Re: website draft 9

2009-09-07 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:01:56 +0200, Patrick Schmidt wrote: BTW: Has anybody out there a clue why the lily-home-png (the tab with the lily on the left) appears to be a wee bit smaller than the rest of the main menu bar even though all pngs have the same size? Patrick, Is it possible it just

Re: One big parenthesis around a note _and_ its accidental

2009-08-31 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:06:20 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: The fis in this chord is in parenthesis (basically) like this: - O ---/-\--- | # O | ---\-/--- Hi Frank, This does the trick in a bit unorthodox way: \relative c'' { \override TextScript

Re: Snare Brush Notation

2009-08-28 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
As far as I know, you can make the sweeps clear to your drummer by writing them down as tied notes. Every note will represent the lenght of a brush sweep. So, for instance: \drums { \time 3/4 sn2^brush ~ sn4 ~ | sn4 ~ sn2 } Jethro. On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, craigbakalian wrote: Hi,

Re: Fwd: Lilypond vraag: senza misura

2009-08-28 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
You should be able to use the \cadenzaOn feature, as shown below: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/user/lilypond-big-page#Unmetered-music Jethro. On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Ik heb in alle documentatie gezocht naar een manier om senza misura te realiseren, dus

Re: Lilypond Speed

2009-08-28 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: I'm curious how long it takes for other people to run lilypond on the following simple score: It took me 4,474 seconds on winxp sp3, pentium 1.7Ghz with 512mb ram on Debian, Intel Core2Duo T7250 @ 2.00GHz with 2GB ram. Jethro.

Re: Lilypond Speed

2009-08-28 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
It took me 4,474 seconds on Debian, Intel Core2Duo T7250 @ 2.00GHz with 2GB ram. And with a version statement it takes 0,941 seconds... Jethro. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Barlines in a StaffGroup, using polymetric notation.

2008-06-01 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
changes in every voice when using this code, you get quite nasty errors. When using the bar line engraver on the Score level, you can get away with it more easily). Thanks again! Jethro Van Thuyne Yes. The barlines are printed by a plugin called Default_bar_line_engraver. By default