Re: Problems with midi2ly

Am 05.03.2016 um 18:37 schrieb mark damerell: 1. Where is the manual? The man page says it is a texinfo document, but I cannot find it. There is a section about midi2ly in the ‘Usage’ documentation: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/usage-big-page.html#invoking-midi2ly

Re: Changing color when using \draw-line

Am 05.03.2016 um 16:23 schrieb Joseph N. Srednicki: Can anyone tell me how to change the color when using \draw-line? \with-color #blue \draw-line #'(0 . 3) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: OT: pagenumber

Am 04.03.2016 um 21:54 schrieb Noeck: myfoo = "ok" % but mybar = bliblablup % why is that allowed? Because LilyPond allows strings without quotes as long as they contain only certain characters (alphabet and probably some others). Good for lyrics for example, but also when using \clef

Re: OT: pagenumber

Am 04.03.2016 um 21:42 schrieb Blöchl Bernhard: Just a guess, try pagenumber = #f That’s not ‘more correct’; false is ##f, not #f in LilyPond … Besides of that, what you mean is \paper { print-page-number = ##f } So maybe try out before guessing ;)

LaissezVibrerTies, RepeatTies and ties at repeat alternatives

Hi list, I’m not very happy about LilyPond’s ties and semi-ties. Some problems/questions: 1. Is there any difference between LaissezVibrerTies and RepeatTies except of the default head-direction? Or could one save redundant code (including different grob names for basically the same thing

Re: line break anywhere-but-not-here ?

Am 28.02.2016 um 13:22 schrieb Kristin Rollins: it did not appear to have any effect on the output on my installation of 2.19.36 Probably you put it at the wrong place. It has to be put at the place where the break would be. The following works for me: \version "2.19.36" \relative c'' {

Re: line break anywhere-but-not-here ?

Am 28.02.2016 um 13:06 schrieb Graham King: Is there any way to tell her: "put line breaks wherever you wish, but_not here_" ? How about \noBreak? ;) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: install frescoba 2.18.2 in Ubuntu

Am 27.02.2016 um 19:11 schrieb Noeck: - Should it mention the --prefix option? IMO: Yes, and maybe the possibility of installing as root; these options seem to be commonly unknown. - Should it mention that you can have several versions installed in parallel? Would be nice, I didn’t

Re: Tied Notes in Voices, or change of time

Am 27.02.2016 um 03:22 schrieb William Marchant: Hi All, I have attached a snippet of code which shows a problem I have encountered. Notice that in the first measure in Voice One, there is a c16 tied to a c4, and below in Voice Two an e16 tied to e4. This I expected. Note however, at the

Re: override StaffSymbol.line-count

Am 26.02.2016 um 16:28 schrieb Bernard: /tmp/frescobaldi-CgvCtP/tmpYKvR5j/test3.ly:10:47: error: GUILE signaled an error for the expression beginning here \override StaffSymbol.line-count = #2 # generate syntax error 2) What causes the

Re: override StaffSymbol.line-count

Am 26.02.2016 um 13:06 schrieb David Kastrup: Executed : sudo chmod +x lilypond-2.18.2-1.linux-64.sh (not in manual, but requered) sh linux-64/lilypond-2.18.2-1.linux-64.sh Lilipond seemed to be installed, but is not. type in shell : lilypond returns the message, lilypond is currently not

Re: Music function for arrow directions in arpeggios

Am 23.02.2016 um 15:52 schrieb Caio Giovaneti de Barros: I'm trying to write a function to make easier for me to change arrow directions in arpeggios. I would prefer an event function with a tweak: \version "2.19.36" arpeggioUp = \tweak arpeggio-direction #UP \arpeggio \relative c' {

Re: Install on linux

Am 21.02.2016 um 22:02 schrieb David Wright: On Sun 21 Feb 2016 at 19:10:29 (+0100), Peter O'Doherty wrote: Thanks a lot. Sorted now using sudo sh lilypond... I can't help wondering what the ... stands for. It’s the install script, something like lilypond-2.18.2-1.linux-64.sh

Re: Install on linux

Am 21.02.2016 um 13:21 schrieb Malte Meyn: You should either install as root (using sudo): cd PATH-TO-DOWNLOAD-DIRECTORY sudo sh lilypond-2.18.2-OS-TYPE.sh Advantage: You (and all other users) can start lilypond directly from terminal etc. without changing PATH/make it known

Re: Install on linux

Am 21.02.2016 um 13:18 schrieb Jean Bréfort: Why don't you directly use the lilypond package? sudo apt-get install lilypond The installation would be clean. This only works for packaged LilyPond versions ;) Le dimanche 21 février 2016 à 13:13 +0100, Peter O'Doherty a écrit : cd

Re: convert-ly in 2.19.36-1

Am 15.02.2016 um 08:01 schrieb Anders Eriksson: When I take an old .ly file, with version \version "2.19.15", and run convert-ly I get \version "2.19.32" Have I done something wrong or is there a "bug"? This means that there are no syntax changes between 2.19.32 and 2.19.36/no convert-ly

Re: Gregorian clefs

Am 31.01.2016 um 21:02 schrieb Joseph Folens: > So, it seems the programm > does not recognize its own clefs, or is there something I missed? > > \include "gregorian.ly" > \clef vaticana-do2 > \score { Two things are wrong: 1. The \clef command is placed outside the score; it won’t have any

Re: Non-traditional key signature with double sharps/flats?

Am 26.01.2016 um 20:51 schrieb Brian Voyer: > I'm looking for something like the standard syntax for defining a scale, > but I need the ability to have double sharps and flats. > synthetic = #`((0 . ,NATURAL) (1 . ,SHARPSHARP) (2 . ,SHARP) > (3 . ,NATURAL) (4 . ,FLAT) (5 . ,FLAT) (6 .

Re: Font of accidentals changes after line break

Am 26.01.2016 um 21:36 schrieb Robert Schmaus: > I guess the missing fonts are to be found on > https://fonts.openlilylib.org ... which seems to be currently > unavailable, alas. Your guess is correct; “currently” has been a few days or weeks now. I’ll send them to you off-list.

Re: proportional horizontal space in accelerando and ritardando

Am 26.01.2016 um 21:19 schrieb Caio Giovaneti de Barros:: > > http://www.music.indiana.edu/departments/academic/composition/style-guide/images/newimages/featherEX.gif > > > What do you think would be the best way to implement this in Lilypond? > This is already implemented; see section 1.2.4

Re: Font of accidentals changes after line break

Am 25.01.2016 um 21:20 schrieb Robert Schmaus: > Unfortunately, it doesn't work ... LP v2.19.34 exits ungracefully with > an error message "fatal error: cannot find font: `LilyJAZZ-11'" > > Well, the font is there Where exactly? LilyPond looks only at the directory where Emmentaler/Feta is

Re: Font of accidentals changes after line break

Am 25.01.2016 um 10:00 schrieb Robert Schmaus: > > One more thought: My original approach of simply \include-ing LilyJAZZ should > be the standard way of using it. Which makes me think, that there's either > something missing in LilyJAZZ to work in v2.19 ... or a bug in Lilypond. Since

Re: tuplet number

Am 18.01.2016 um 23:46 schrieb Stanton Sanderson: > How does one revert \omit TupletNumber to allow the number to appear for a > specific tuplet? There are two options: 1. If you want to omit only one TupletNumber you can use \once: … \once \omit TupletNumber \tuplet … 2. Revert the

Re: tuplet number

Am 18.01.2016 um 23:52 schrieb Mark Stephen Mrotek: > In 2.18, > > Tuplet - no number\override TupletNumber #'stencil = ##f Setting the stencil to ##f is exactly what \omit does ;) (\omit already exists in 2.18) ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Instrument names and smallest possible bounding box

Am 17.01.2016 um 12:10 schrieb Carl-Henrik Buschmann: > > 1) Instrument names. > > The default placement of instrument names seems a bit messy compared to my > default Sibelius output: > > > Lilypond: > They seem "off", not alligned properly. This is of course the fault of the > author.

Re: unterminated tie

Am 15.01.2016 um 20:49 schrieb Mark Stephen Mrotek: > r4 q2 | r4 2 | q2. | > > r4 2 | r4 2 | % this line highlighted. > > 2. ( | ) | Please give a complete example; I see two possible reasons (maybe there are more) but can’t tell

Re: Repeat 8va

Am 11.01.2016 um 21:02 schrieb John Gourlay: > The pdf output contained the music I hoped for but the midi output does not > contain the second measure of this three-measure opus. You should use \unfoldRepeats (or \articulate): \version "2.18.2" foo = \relative { \repeat volta 2 { c'4

Re: Overriding tie-configuration & \shape breaks custom Scheme function since 2.19.24

Am 10.01.2016 um 02:50 schrieb Peter Crighton: > (if (or (music-is-of-type? mus 'rest-event) > (music-is-of-type? mus 'multi-measure-rest)) The overrides fall into the ‘else’ case and then the tweaks are applied. I’m not sure why this is

Re: How to reproduce this?

Am 07.01.2016 um 21:59 schrieb Simon Albrecht: > \offset positions #'(.5 . .5) Beam I’ve never seen that function before and I don’t find it in the documentation. Since when does this exist? (it’s defined in music-functions-init.ly) ___

Re: How to reproduce this?

Am 07.01.2016 um 22:53 schrieb Malte Meyn: > > > Am 07.01.2016 um 21:59 schrieb Simon Albrecht: >> \offset positions #'(.5 . .5) Beam > > I’ve never seen that function before and I don’t find it in the > documentation. Since when does this exist? (it’s defi

Re: Dynamics and markup inside tuplet bracket

Am 01.01.2016 um 04:12 schrieb Andrew Bernard: > How does one go about getting dynamics and/or markup inside a tuplet bracket? > Just change out-side-staff-priority of the dynamics/markup or the bracket: > \version "2.19.34" > > \relative c'' { \once \override

Re: Dynamics and markup inside tuplet bracket

Am 01.01.2016 um 11:54 schrieb Andrew Bernard: > Is there a list of outside staff priority values somewhere? I seem to > vaguely recall, but cannot locate it. An incomplete list can be found in the Learning Manual, section 4.4.3. Nothing in the Notation Reference but you can find all values

Re: Question about page break time indices

Am 30.12.2015 um 13:03 schrieb Thomas Morley: > there were some similiar projects for videos etc, can't remember, though. > Others? There is ly2video: https://github.com/aspiers/ly2video For examples search for ly2video on youtube. ___ lilypond-user

Re: Strings as variable names

Am 28.12.2015 um 19:20 schrieb David Kastrup: > What's wrong with violinI ? lexicographical sorting (of file names) ≠ roman numeral sorting >> flute_phrase01 = >> flute_phrase02 = >> >> or similar. > > When would you ever want to do that? Variations (one score per variation): fluteTheme = …

Re: Strings as variable names

Am 28.12.2015 um 20:30 schrieb David Kastrup: > Malte Meyn <lilyp...@maltemeyn.de> writes: > >> Am 28.12.2015 um 19:20 schrieb David Kastrup: >>> What's wrong with violinI ? >> >> lexicographical sorting (of file names) ≠ roman numeral sorting > >

Re: Notation snippets

Am 27.12.2015 um 16:18 schrieb Jayaratna: > I hope these will be understandable: > > workex.ly > > > > It should be like this, but I can't extend the lines over

Re: Notation snippets

Am 27.12.2015 um 14:34 schrieb Jayaratna: > Dear Lilipondians, > > I am trying to make a page which shows a series of music symbols, each of > them appearing on a standard staff of a given measure. So far I can print > clefs and other symbols, but with no staff lines. > > Any idea on how to

Re: Writing converter to display Notes as Numbers

Am 21.12.2015 um 12:12 schrieb David Kastrup: You presumably mean Jianpu . From the article: “There are technical methods of printing numbered notation (in various forms) with GNU LilyPond.[10][11][12]” You might want to look at

Re: Renaissance 4/2 time signature

Am 04.12.2015 um 13:42 schrieb Andrew Bernard: In my option this piece is in 4/2 and I want to set it as such, and I want to retain the cut c time signature used by the original printer. \version "2.19.30" \relative { \time 2/2 \set Score.measureLength = #(ly:make-moment 4/2) c'2 d e

Re: Rehearsal mark/tempo collision

Am 27.11.2015 um 21:10 schrieb Craig Dabelstein: and get the tempo marks to be moved a little to the right. Just do that ;) (\once) \override MetronomeMark.X-offset = 3 or something similar. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: cross-staff stems for only two of three staves

Am 20.11.2015 um 20:50 schrieb Malte Meyn: Hi list, I would like to set cross staff stems in a three-staff piano score. With stems from the middle to lower or upper staff everything works fine but not the other way (from outer to middle staff). Does anyone have an idea how to fix that or work

Re: cross-staff stems for only two of three staves

Hi Stephen, thank you for your reply. (Please always reply to the list.) I should have been clearer: I want three notes in three staves, all with stem up, and a stem only from the lower to the middle staff but not to the upper. (You suggested to omit the flag from the middle staff; that

Re: Confused about output

Am 25.11.2015 um 02:19 schrieb Shane Brandes: After fiddling with this for hours i cannot figure out why the added lyrics e and i drop below the bass as opposed to the voices they ought to be associated with which is here "melody" and "mel" that live on the soprano staff. What am I missing?

Re: tieWaitForNote

Am 24.11.2015 um 06:53 schrieb Mark Stephen Mrotek: Everything is correct except that the ties do not appear. What is my error? If you really want these note length values you need a << >> construct but without \\ because that would create new Voices. The only new Voice you need is the one

Re: Automatically transforming a FiguredBass line into a sequence of chords ?

Am 23.11.2015 um 23:56 schrieb Michael Gerdau: Hi list, does someone know of a function or snipped that automatically transforms some music together with a FigruedBass line into a sequence of chords I once wanted to do that but I hadn’t enough time and automatic a correct right hand for a

Re: function to replace notes by rests

Am 24.11.2015 um 08:10 schrieb Marc Hohl: Thanks or sharing! The drawbacks in relative mode are neglectable, I'll use absolute mode. Alternatively you could use 1. another \relative block inside of notesToRests \relative { c' d e f \notesToRests \relative { g' a b2 g8 c }

Re: function to replace notes by rests

Am 23.11.2015 um 10:46 schrieb Marc Hohl: As the file is a bit lengthy, I think of a way to just redefine \xNotes to change every note to its corresponding rest, instead of rewriting the whole file (or using sed or any other external script). Has anyone a scheme routine at hand that does

Re: outside-staff-priority?

Am 23.11.2015 um 21:58 schrieb Ralph Palmer: I tried setting the outside-staff-priority of each and/or both, but without success. \override Score.MetronomeMark.outside-staff-priority = 1501 % or \override Score.RehearsalMark.outside-staff-priority = 999 You probably missed the “Score.”

Re: Clashing ties & slurs with tieWaitForNote

Am 21.11.2015 um 20:30 schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska writes: Thanks, that makes things clearer. This is definitely what I suggested. The "outer" slur is not a tie but a phrasing slur and the inner one a slur indicating the bowing. That would not make much sense,

warning if line is too wide?

Hi list, is it possible to be informed by LilyPond if a line in the pdf is too wide because of too many notes or \noBreak etc. (like LaTeX’ overfull hbox warnings)? Sometimes this would be useful (f. e. in cases where a line is only a little bit too wide). Malte

cross-staff stems for only two of three staves

Hi list, I would like to set cross staff stems in a three-staff piano score. With stems from the middle to lower or upper staff everything works fine but not the other way (from outer to middle staff). Does anyone have an idea how to fix that or work around? \version "2.19.30" \new

Re: misleading message and exit code when "program too old"

Am 11.11.2015 um 14:19 schrieb Johannes Waldmann: Hi. I am getting this: Parsing... error: program too old: 2.18.2 (file requires: 2.19.0) but apparently it's not an error, Yes, it is because the file states to need version 2.19.0 and you cannot be sure that 2.18.2 will be sufficient.

Re: Cadenza...

Am 03.11.2015 um 22:33 schrieb Alberto Simões: Making the measure have a different duration is easy... Do you know the commands \cadenzaOn and \cadenzaOff? You don’t have to modify measure lengths if you use them ;) my main question is the notes size. You can set the font size

Re: How to force tempo markings on single line

Am 03.11.2015 um 00:38 schrieb H. S. Teoh: I'm generating parts from an orchestral score, and am running an issue where long tempo markings over collapsed multi-measure rests would force the text to stack up in an ugly way on top of each other. Is there some way of telling lilypond to prefer

Re: Valse des Sylphes - Charles GOUNOD

Hi, I don’t have the time to look at the whole score. But the f sharp in m. 1 is wrong. Maybe you or someone else should check again the whole piece for correct pitches. Am 02.11.2015 um 22:44 schrieb Alberto Simões: Hello After your precious help, I consider my task of transcribing this

Re: Using Stem.french-beaming causes segfault

Am 02.11.2015 um 23:07 schrieb Jean Menezes da Rocha: Hello, I am trying to compile a score and its parts using lilypond version 2.19.30. If I activate french-beaming (using \override Stem.french-beaming = ##t in the \context \Staff), the program returns a segfault. When french-beaming is not

Re: New Staff doesn't go away after end symbol

Am 28.10.2015 um 20:37 schrieb Ryan Michael: The following is the snippet that happens *within *my single voice cello score. \new Staff << \new Voice = "first" { \voiceOne \clef treble aes8 ges8 16 16 d16 g\harmonic\f r16 aes16 } \new Voice= "second" { \voiceTwo \clef

\stopStaff bug? [was: Re: New Staff doesn't go away after end symbol]

attached. On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Malte Meyn <lilyp...@maltemeyn.de> wrote: Am 28.10.2015 um 21:26 schrieb Ryan Michael: On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Malte Meyn <lilyp...@maltemeyn.de> wrote: Am 28.10.2015 um 20:37 schrieb Ryan Michael: The following is

Re: New Staff doesn't go away after end symbol

Am 28.10.2015 um 21:26 schrieb Ryan Michael: On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Malte Meyn <lilyp...@maltemeyn.de> wrote: Am 28.10.2015 um 20:37 schrieb Ryan Michael: The following is the snippet that happens *within *my single voice cello score. \new Staff << \new Vo

Re: Hiding bars and crescendo on last bar of a piece

Am 24.10.2015 um 16:06 schrieb Karl Husum: That did the trick, thank you! :-) , but how do you hide a complete bar in lilypond? Of course one could do something like the following, but why would you want that? Please let us know about your use case, maybe there is a much simpler solution

Re: Hiding bars and crescendo on last bar of a piece

Am 24.10.2015 um 15:17 schrieb Karl Husum: I want to hide the bar, not the barline :-) I am trying to put the end of the crescendo on an ekstra bar in the piece, and then hide it. Not sure if it the most elegant solution, but it should mbe possible. You can have a last bar of zero length:

Re: Custom dynamic vertical positioning

Am 20.10.2015 um 07:59 schrieb Andrew Bernard: When making a simple custom dynamic, a p followed by an em dash, compared to the same thing for a p followed by a hyphen, the vertical alignment differs. What am I doing wrong, or not understanding? I thought the alignment of the two in the

Re: dynamic with markup

Am 11.10.2015 um 03:58 schrieb Mark Stephen Mrotek: Hello, I recall that instructions were once given to achieve: p ma ben marcato, yet my search of the LSP was not successful. Please direct me to its location. Thank you for your kind attention. Mark If you need these ‘composite’ dynamics

Re: Percussion Notation

Am 07.10.2015 um 02:57 schrieb Spencer Raybourne: Could someone please explain Lilypond percussion notation vs. Standard percussion notation (if there is such a thing). I have seen several examples in books that are different from Lilypond. There seems to be no such thing like a standard.

partcombineApart and combined dynamics

Hi list, I searched the list for a solution but haven’t found one yet. Is there a possibility to have \partcombine combine identical dynamics even when there are automatic or forced polyphonic sections? I’ve tried different things (see attached .ly). I don’t want to simply omit the dynamic of

Re: Best Practices for file structures, score and parts

Am 02.10.2015 um 09:58 schrieb N. Andrew Walsh: do I enter the transposing instruments into the score in concert pitch or transposed? Can Frescobaldi (my editor of choice) take an entire Voice and transpose it into concert pitch after I've edited, or should I enter the content in concert pitch

Re: Best Practices for file structures, score and parts

Am 02.10.2015 um 09:58 schrieb N. Andrew Walsh: Is there a better way to structure the files? How do I extract the instrument variables into separate part files? Can I just \include all the separate movement files, and then add the Voice variables in sequence? In other words: each movement is

Re: Tie doesn't show

Am 02.10.2015 um 19:34 schrieb S: 4 | %10 <<{e e as as}\\{f,2 f}>> | %11 Ties can only start and end in the same voice. The << \\ >> construct begins two new voices so you can’t have a tie from outside of this construct to inside. But you can do the following: <<

Re: Whiteout on hairpins?

(\once) \override Hairpin.whiteout = ##t You may have to adjust the layer to see the white: (\once) \override Hairpin.layer = 5 Am 01.10.2015 um 20:07 schrieb Connor Harris: Is there any way to print hairpins while whiting out parts of anything (specifically, in this case, note stems and

Re: Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line

Am 25.09.2015 um 16:53 schrieb David Kastrup: Now it sounds as if you did not get a useful answer on Stackoverflow. But he did on Facebook. So I am one of the people who spent time and posted a solution that was no longer needed (I did this before reading the mails from the list) …

Re: Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line

Am 25.09.2015 um 17:13 schrieb Malte Meyn: Am 25.09.2015 um 16:53 schrieb David Kastrup: Now it sounds as if you did not get a useful answer on Stackoverflow. But he did on Facebook. So I am one of the people who spent time and posted a solution that was no longer needed (I did

Re: Getting an override into a markup function

Am 25.09.2015 um 10:58 schrieb Urs Liska: { \override TextScript.self-alignment-X = #LEFT c'2 ^\markup \rotate #90 "This is a long markup" c } You could use an event function: % \version "2.19.27" verticalText = #(define-event-function (text) (markup?) #{ -\tweak

Re: Chords and what they mean

Am 17.09.2015 um 20:17 schrieb Noeck: Hi, why is the number 5 larger than other numbers? \powerChords from ly/chord-modifiers-init.ly uses \normal-size-super instead of \super but I’ve no idea why. Does Csus4 3 make sense? I’ve seen that once in Cm^sus4 for but it doesn’t make sense

Re: Time signature denominator as a note rather than number?

Am 16.09.2015 um 11:07 schrieb Malte Meyn: Am 16.09.2015 um 05:02 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Have a look at this LSR snippet: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=642 (let* ((frac (ly:grob-property grob 'fraction)) (num (if (pair? frac) (car frac) 4)) (den (if (pair

Re: triplet beam between staves

Am 16.09.2015 um 11:33 schrieb Erich Neuwirth: %% Can I get the beams of the triplets between the staves %% such that the stems are up up down? Stem directions can be manually changed by the commands \stemDown, \stemUp, \stemNeutral and by \voiceOne, \voiceTwo, \voiceThree, \voiceFour,

Re: Time signature denominator as a note rather than number?

Am 16.09.2015 um 05:02 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Have a look at this LSR snippet: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=642 Yes! That one suffices — and is more elegant — if you don’t need “strange note values” (like dotted notes) in your denominator(s). And if you do, you can change the

Re: Misplaced rests

Am 16.09.2015 um 11:17 schrieb Erich Neuwirth: %% The rests in the third voice in the middle phrase{b,8 r8 c r} %% are placed way too high, close to the triplet beam %% Can I correct this? Yes, this is possible. Have a look at the Notation Reference or Learning Manual about polyphony.

Re: superimposing different lengths and ties across triplets

Am 16.09.2015 um 12:43 schrieb Erich Neuwirth: %% I need a tie between the second note of the first triplet and the first note of the second triplet, \set tieWaitForNote = ##t or (if outside of the polyphonic construction) \set Staff.tieWaitForNote ##t should help. %% and I need the

Re: Suppressing numbers on tupelos

Am 16.09.2015 um 13:42 schrieb Erich Neuwirth: I am using only triplets in a score, and I would like to suppress all the 3s next to the beams. An alternative to Kieren’s solution: Don’t use the \tuplet command but scaled eights. c8*2/3 d e % or \scaleDurations 2/3 { c8 d e } % Kieren’s

Re: Poor man' ossia

Am 14.09.2015 um 10:43 schrieb Menu Jacques: Trouble is that the two 16th are too much on the right \override NoteColumn.ignore-collision = ##t (in the “ossia” voice) and the stems of the « main » voice are too long. \override Beam.collision-voice-only = ##t (in the “main” voice)

Re: how to get notes without tails?

Am 30.08.2015 um 16:20 schrieb BB: I actually do some work with arabic scales (maqamat) and would like notes without tails. Is there any switch in lilypond? (As example see http://maqamworld.com/maqamat/bayati.html) The ‘tails’ you probably mean are called stems. You can remove them: \omit

Re: LilyJAZZ

Am 23.08.2015 um 21:39 schrieb Blöchl Bernhard: Forgot to add \include lilyjazz.ily. And still »lilyjazz-11« cannot be found as well. Tried to copy the files lilyjazz-11 into the directory of the lilypond source - does not help! The following should work: (1) put lilyjazz*.otf into

Re: LilyJAZZ

Am 23.08.2015 um 13:56 schrieb BB: Does anybody sucessful use LilyJAZZ? Yes. You should have a look at fonts.openlilylib.org. The use of other fonts than Feta/Emmentaler has been simplified in version 2.19.12 but you’ll find also instructions how to use these fonts in 2.18.2. And when

Re: Randomness in layout

Am 21.08.2015 um 10:13 schrieb Sharon Rosner: Hi all, I have a question that is both general and specific. Is there a way to automatically introduce a bit of randomness into the way different objects are layed-out in Lilypond? Specifically, I’m trying to find a way to make slurs look more

Re: Randomness in layout

Am 21.08.2015 um 12:55 schrieb Malte Meyn: I think that it should be possible to redefine ( to tweak every slur with some randomness. Here you go: %%% \version 2.19.25 ( = #(define-event-function () () #{ \single \override Slur.eccentricity = #(* 0.5 (random:normal

Re: Lining up notes in staves with different rhythms and time signatures

Am 21.08.2015 um 21:40 schrieb David Kastrup: Malte Meyn lilyp...@maltemeyn.de writes: Am 21.08.2015 um 20:45 schrieb Blöchl Bernhard: Interesting! New rules for basics of music. I think this is too bold an assumption. It may very well be that there is one 3/4 measure here, and I would

Re: Randomness in layout

Am 21.08.2015 um 20:31 schrieb Nathan Ho: On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 4:16 AM, Malte Meyn lilyp...@maltemeyn.de wrote: Am 21.08.2015 um 12:55 schrieb Malte Meyn: I think that it should be possible to redefine ( to tweak every slur with some randomness. Here you go: You can also do

Re: Lining up notes in staves with different rhythms and time signatures

Am 21.08.2015 um 20:45 schrieb Blöchl Bernhard: Interesting! New rules for basics of music. I think this is too bold an assumption. It may very well be that there is one 3/4 measure here, and I would trust the original typeset here. Not every time signature change is printed in every music.

Re: quarter tone - hide natural that appears to cancel key sig

Am 22.08.2015 um 00:35 schrieb Ian Rashkin: Hi, So, I am in the key of B flat, and one melody line has in it a beh (B quarter-flat). When it renders, I get a natural sign followed by a quarter-flat sign - how can I have just the quarter flat? The natural seems redundant in this context.

Re: Note extension lines

Am 20.08.2015 um 07:07 schrieb Andrew Bernard: I need to be able to specify an arbitrary length, and unconnected to a following note. Do you mean arbitrary time (like (ly:make-moment x y z)) or arbitrary length x in staff spaces/cm/inch? I have an idea for the latter: \override

Re: Lining up notes in staves with different rhythms and time signatures

Am 20.08.2015 um 20:07 schrieb Jack Taylor: I have managed to make the time signatures for each song independent, but I'm having problems making the notes line up (and with stopping the music from running off the page). I've dumped my current code at PasteBin http://pastebin.com/Z6kmy6yt if

Re: bug in german manual

Am 18.08.2015 um 09:01 schrieb Blöchl Bernhard: Thanks for clarifying my confusion. As long as I used lilypond I always used \tuplet and argue that I did not even know that \times was/is a possible alternative. \time and \times are very close and so - I think - dangerous and error-prone. I

Re: Parenthesised articulation issue

Am 15.08.2015 um 05:41 schrieb Andrew Bernard: Apologies for the somewhat lengthy MWE, but I only get this problem in this context, and have not found a shorter way to generate the issue. Just try to leave out things. Try less notes (and less voices), less different pitches, less staff

Re: Remove 3rd Staff in PianoStaff if empty

Am 15.08.2015 um 15:49 schrieb Orm Finnendahl: I tried all sorts of combinations of removing and consisting the keep-alive-together engraver, tried to create an explicit staffgroup for the main piano staves within the PianoStaff (this results in loosing the centered instrument name and the curly

Re: Text spanner text in the middle

Am 14.08.2015 um 12:32 schrieb Andrew Bernard: Just re my own suggestion of text spanners with text in the middle, although the present need is for a repeat indication, I am well aware that this is poor design, since a textual mark does not indicate a repeat structure to lilypond, so it is

Re: Tuplet Bracket and \fermataMarkup

Am 14.08.2015 um 08:57 schrieb jeremyvanb: Thank you. I should have been more specific. I want the fermata under the bracket. Changing the padding does not seem to change the order of the objects. The order is managed by outside-staff-priority, so simple increase the TupleBracket’s one. You

Re: Text spanner text in the middle

Am 14.08.2015 um 04:40 schrieb Andrew Bernard: Hello Ponderers, I need a custom text spanner with text centred in the middle of the spanner. I know you can provide text at the left or the right with the bound-details alist, but how would one go about making a spanner with text in the

Re: string harmonics with cue notes

Am 14.08.2015 um 16:30 schrieb Orm Finnendahl: Hi, I often need to notate harmonics for strings and like to indicate the resulting pitch as a small parenthesized notehead above the fingered pitch. Here are some solutions, see attachments. \harmonicChord doesn’t set an explicit duration

Re: string harmonics with cue notes

Am 14.08.2015 um 19:34 schrieb Malte Meyn: This is not a very clean solution but you might find something helpful in it ;) For example, I haven’t understood completely yet when to use #arg and when $arg in a music. duration apparently needs a $ but the other occurences of $ can

Re: Making overlapping grace notes

Am 12.08.2015 um 08:13 schrieb Andrew Bernard: In my example, I can’t get the start of the grace to sit on top of the note in the other voice. Indeed, lilypond is being very excellent about avoiding a collision, but I want to persuade it to align. I can achieve this with normal notes, but

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