Re: Time signature fonts

2014-07-30 Thread Mark Polesky
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Phil Holmes em...@philholmes.net wrote: I'm typesetting some madrigals from book 2 of the Musica Transalpina. Part of one of them has the passage attached. This looks like a brief 3/2 passage that reverts to 4/4 (or their perfect/imperfect mensural

Re: See the new music fonts in action

2014-07-28 Thread Mark Polesky
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Mark Polesky markpole...@gmail.com wrote: Or Scordato, which means out of tune but also forgotten. The word scordatura is a derivative of this. Also scordare means detune and also forget ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: See the new music fonts in action

2014-07-28 Thread Mark Polesky
Or Scordato, which means out of tune but also forgotten. The word scordatura is a derivative of this. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: \relative versus \absolute (was Re: Macro/multiply notes)

2014-07-25 Thread Mark Polesky
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:48 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com writes: I just discovered that typesetting a piano piece which constantly uses temporary voices is much easier in absolute mode. Switching from voice to voice no longer gives any

Re: Selecting Staff Size by the Font Size of the Lyrics

2014-07-24 Thread Mark Polesky
Br. Samuel Springuel wrote: Is there a way to tell lilypond to select the staff size so that the accompanying lyrics are printed at 17pt? Or do I simply have to play around with the staffsize settings until I find one that gets the lyrics to approximately the right size? The default point

Re: something's wrong with \unset Score.proportionalNotationDuration

2014-07-23 Thread Mark Polesky
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:01 PM, tisimst tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: Karol, I've seen this kind of thing happen in other cases (but I can't remember a single one at the moment). The issue is that you must \unset the proportionalNotationDuration one note PRIOR to when it is to actually

Re: Creating an ly:pitch? value

2014-07-20 Thread Mark Polesky
Richard Shann wrote: My problem is that the syntax for ly:make-pitch is difficult to generate, but I can't seem to find anything to convert a string like cis' to an ly:pitch? datum. Richard, I'm having trouble visualizing what you're trying to accomplish, couldn't you just do this?

adjusting Tie details with \magnifyMusic

2014-07-01 Thread Mark Polesky
How can I tell LilyPond to allow the tie on the D to come closer to the noteheads, without resorting to manual tweaks? I'm assuming some combination of Tie.details properties will do the trick, but I can't figure it out, and the Tie.details properties are not documented... \version 2.19.9

Re: temporarily disable Dot_column_engraver?

2014-06-25 Thread Mark Polesky
Keith OHara wrote: Put the small notes in a temporary Voice and give that Voice a Dot_column_engraver. Having this engraver in both a Voice and Staff is not problem here. You get two DotColumns, but that is what you want, and the Dots that are caught by the DotColumn in the Voice are not

Re: changing global staff size on the fly

2014-06-21 Thread Mark Polesky
Your code is operating in the Voice context, and you need to be in the Staff context: \set Staff.fontSize = #new-size \override Staff.StaffSymbol.staff-space = #(magstep new-size) \override Staff.StaffSymbol.thickness = #(magstep new-size) By the way, I wouldn't reduce the thickness property

Re: custos at end of piece!

2014-05-21 Thread Mark Polesky
Andreas Stenberg wrote: Is there any easy way in version 2.18.2 to get a custos at the end of the (visible) notation in mensural or petrucci voice context? I haven't checked 2.18.2, but this works in 2.19.5.  It's a total hack, but play around with it; it might ease your situation. Hope it

Re: Function for note string to fraction?

2014-05-19 Thread Mark Polesky
Peter Bjuhr wrote:  is there already a function that converts a string 4. to the fraction '3/8', or the other-way round?   I don't think you need ly:duration-string; I think you can just skip that step.  And as far as I know, you do need to copy out the definition of

accessing NoteHead from a merged note

2014-05-19 Thread Mark Polesky
Is there a way to access one NoteHead grob from another NoteHead grob that it is merged with?  Like this:   {     \once \override NoteHead.after-line-breaking =     #(lambda (grob)    ; how to access the NoteHead grob of the    ; c'' in the other voice from here?    #f)     c''4   }

Re: Double slurs on automatic part combining

2013-09-06 Thread Mark Polesky
Karl Hammar wrote: Not so fast, \\ is a pain with vocal music, we want a explicit voice name for \lyricsto see below Carl Peterson wrote: Yes. The template I'm using is actually fairly robust. I've moved as many of the tweaks and customizations (such as autobeaming and shaped notes) to

mapping a markup-command across strings in lyricmode

2013-09-03 Thread Mark Polesky
I wrote a markup command which takes a string and parses it to make a special markup.  I'm leaving out the details, but the input might look something like: \markup \foo #abc123 I want to use this in a Lyrics context, but constantly retyping \markup \foo # is annoying and takes up a lot of space

Re: cascading font selections?

2013-08-28 Thread Mark Polesky
Carl Smith wrote: So, if you embed a font, remove it from your system, then try to edit the PDF, it fails? I've never tried that. That's not it either.  No one is editing PDF files.  Let's say I write template.ly and make that available online. Then lots of other people download template.ly and

Re: cascading font selections?

2013-08-27 Thread Mark Polesky
Carl Smith wrote: If the fonts are embedded in the PDF, you only need to have them on your system when you create the file. The recipient has the fonts, they're in the PDF. Okay, I appreciate the helpfulness, but a lot of you are missing the point.  The recipients will be editing the files

LilyPond Video Tutorials (Beginner)

2013-08-23 Thread Mark Polesky
SoundsFromSound wrote: A huge thanks to all those who helped create the documentation for LilyPond. On behalf of many who contributed to that (many of whom contributed much more than I did), you're welcome!  I'm proud of my contributions, and you should be too.  Hopefully your videos will ease

cascading font selections?

2013-08-22 Thread Mark Polesky
Is there a way to have a cascade of font selections, like with CSS?  In CSS, you can do things like: {font-family:Lucida Console, Monaco, monospace} And if Lucida Console isn't installed on a user's system, Monaco will be looked up, and if that's not installed, then the user's default monospace

Re: cascading font selections?

2013-08-22 Thread Mark Polesky
Andrew Bernard wrote: Do you mean for input?  Output to PDF embeds the font, so no requirement for it to be present in recipients system. I mean, if I write a .ly file that specifies fonts (fonts that I have on my own computer), and I give that file to somebody else to compile on his/her own

Re: Combining graphics and text in one stencil?

2013-08-21 Thread Mark Polesky
David Kastrup wrote: It's called interpret-markup and you obviously need layout and props for it.  One variant that gets them itself from a grob is grob-interpret-markup. Thank you.  It was right under my nose but I didn't understand it; and now I do. - Mark

printing actual ~ character in lyrics?

2013-08-20 Thread Mark Polesky
I know it's an odd request, but what if I actually want the ~ character to print in lyrics?  None of these work: ~ '~' \~ #~ ##\~ #(string #\~) Thanks. - Mark ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: printing actual ~ character in lyrics?

2013-08-20 Thread Mark Polesky
Thomas Morley wrote: \markup { ~ } (without ) works too. Wow, 5 replies in 15 minutes.  Some mailing list we got here! I like this one: tilde = \markup { ~ } Thanks everyone. - Mark ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Combining graphics and text in one stencil?

2013-08-20 Thread Mark Polesky
I'm able to write my own graphical stencils using ly:make-stencil, and I also can override stencils with text or markup using the ly:text-interface::print callback, but now I want to make one stencil with graphics *and* text, and I can't figure out how to do that. Is there some way to achieve

getting LedgerLineSpanner props from a NoteHead callback?

2013-08-19 Thread Mark Polesky
I'm trying to retrieve the value of LedgerLineSpanner.length-fraction from within a NoteHead callback, and I can't figure it out.  Is there a way? Thanks. - Mark ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: getting LedgerLineSpanner props from a NoteHead callback?

2013-08-19 Thread Mark Polesky
Thomas Morley wrote: I'm trying to retrieve the value of LedgerLineSpanner.length-fraction from within a NoteHead callback, and I can't figure it out.  Is there a way? Hi Mark, a quick shot, seems to work, though: Harm, that was great; thanks for that!  It was the System.all-elements

Re: problems trying to write a conditional \transpose

2013-08-19 Thread Mark Polesky
David Kastrup wrote: I'm trying to write a conditional version of the \transpose function, that would work something like this... input = {    c c    \conditionalTransposition c c' { c c } } \input = { c c c c } \processConditionalTransposition \input = { c c c' c' }

problems trying to write a conditional \transpose

2013-08-05 Thread Mark Polesky
Hi. I'm trying to write a conditional version of the \transpose function, that would work something like this: input = {   c c   \conditionalTransposition c c' { c c } } \input = { c c c c } \processConditionalTransposition \input = { c c c' c' } And I've hit another

Re: problems with a difficult function

2013-07-26 Thread Mark Polesky
David, That is fantastic, thank you!  It's funny, you wrote these functions with \glissandoize operating on the results of \untier, and for my particular project, I needed them in the opposite order, though I didn't realize that when I wrote my post.  Anyway, I was able to modify them on my own

Re: remove individual ledger line?

2013-07-02 Thread Mark Polesky
I wrote: How do I tweak an individual ledger line from within a chord? Well, an hour later, and all I've managed to achieve is printing the staff-positions of the ledger lines that happen to have noteheads on them (to the standard output), and while that makes me feel like a minor genius, it

Re: remove individual ledger line?

2013-07-02 Thread Mark Polesky
So sorry, I'm having trouble with my email client again, hope this works. I wrote: How do I tweak an individual ledger line from within a chord? Well, an hour later, and all I've managed to achieve is printing the staff-positions of the ledger lines that happen to have noteheads on them (to

remove individual ledger line?

2013-07-01 Thread Mark Polesky
How do I tweak an individual ledger line from within a chord? Thanks. - Mark ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

volta bracket right-edges; also RehearsalMark conflicts

2013-06-24 Thread Mark Polesky
Hi everyone.  It's been a while! Okay, here's the structure of a song I'm typesetting: ___ \version 2.17.20 \paper {   indent = 0   line-width = #80   tagline = ##f } \layout {   \context {     \Score     \override

Re: volta bracket right-edges; also RehearsalMark conflicts

2013-06-24 Thread Mark Polesky
Oops, here's the picture I meant to include in the previous message. \version 2.17.20 \paper {   indent = 0   line-width = #80   tagline = ##f } \layout {   \context {     \Score     \override RehearsalMark.font-size = #-3     \override RehearsalMark.font-shape = #'italic     \override

Re: volta bracket right-edges; also RehearsalMark conflicts

2013-06-24 Thread Mark Polesky
...@dataway.ch To: Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com; lilypond-user lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 1:24 AM Subject: Re: volta bracket right-edges; also RehearsalMark conflicts Mark Polesky wrote:   1) How do I get the right vertical edges of the volta   spanners to print

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-06-23 Thread Mark Polesky
Urs, I missed the big discussion earlier, but has anyone mentioned FreeSerif? http://www.fontspace.com/gnu-freefont/freeserif I'm getting some good results with lyrics.  I particularly like that it has all 5 of the common English ligatures 0xFB00 - 0xFB04 (ff fi fl ffi ffl).  Century Schoolbook

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-06-23 Thread Mark Polesky
Urs Liska wrote: http://www.fontspace.com/gnu-freefont/freeserif ... test sentence with ligatures: office flight raffle, final offer test sentence, spelled out completely: office flight raffle, final offer I just could only look at the samples on the page you linked, but it looks quite

Re: how to enter notes quickly (midi keyboard available)

2012-05-25 Thread Mark Polesky
From: Klaus Föhl I like the lilypond notation using \relative being concise and readable. Entering on a computer keyboard is fairly quick, but still it feels that playing a melody line would be so much quicker. In particular if one does not have a typing c4 d e f g1 style but c4 d4. e8 f8.

Re: Suggestions for a Contemporary Music Font

2011-07-11 Thread Mark Polesky
Bernardo Barros wrote: I'm thinking of creating a font for contemporary music with the most commonly used symbols. Bernardo, I did a ton of work on this a while ago, then ended up dropping it cold. http://repo.or.cz/w/lilypond/mpolesky.git/shortlog/refs/heads/pictograms I don't know if this

showing lyrics without the associated voice?

2011-05-20 Thread Mark Polesky
Hey everyone - Let's say I have a song with piano accompaniment: * * * * * * * * * * \version 2.13.59 melody = { g'4 g' g'2 } text = \lyricmode { Blah blah blah } RH = { e'2 e'4 e' } LH = { \clef bass c2 c4 c } \score { \new Voice = mel { \melody } \new Lyrics \lyricsto mel \text

Re: how to set a partial measure after the beginning of a piece?

2011-04-09 Thread Mark Polesky
Marc Mouries wrote: checked the doc here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Displaying-rhythms and it says: partial command is intended to be used only at the beginning of a piece.  If you use it after the beginning, some odd warnings may occur. Any pointer about

Re: arpeggio symbol placement

2010-12-21 Thread Mark Polesky
Peter Buhr wrote: In the following example, the arpeggio symbol appears over the time signature, about 1cm from the chord, and the finger number is to the left of the arpeggio symbol, while I want the finger number to be on the right of the arpeggio symbol. Suggestions? By the way, this is

Re: text inside the staff close to the notes

2010-12-13 Thread Mark Polesky
Marc Mouries wrote: I am wondering if it is possible to write text inside the staff close to the notes or without the notes like in the attached image to show the name of the notes. Have you tried \easyHeadsOn ?  It's not exactly as you describe, but perhaps it can suit your needs:

preventing DynamicText/SpanBar collisions

2010-12-11 Thread Mark Polesky
This is mostly a copy of a message I sent to the bug list: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2010-12/msg00092.html * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The \ppp collides with the SpanBar in the example below. \version 2.13.43 \new StaffGroup \relative f' \new Staff { R1 |

Re: How to parenthesize a time signature

2010-12-09 Thread Mark Polesky
Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Is there a quick way to parenthesize a simple time signature? There's a quick way to bracketify a time signature: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=169 To get real parentheses requires a little more tweaking. Maybe someone who has already done this will chime in. If

Re: repeats and alternatives

2010-12-04 Thread Mark Polesky
Neil Puttock wrote: In your first example, LilyPond sees three blocks of music inside \alternative since there's an isolated barcheck between the two music parts. This is a very easy mistake to make (and an annoying one to have to figure out on your own). Can someone mention this in the docs?

Re: Adjusting spacing between stanzas in 2.13.38

2010-11-15 Thread Mark Polesky
Karl Nelson wrote: \version 2.13.38 [...] % This throws: warning: cannot find property type-check % for `nonstaff-nonstaff-spacing' (backend-type?). % perhaps a typing error? \override VerticalAxisGroup #'nonstaff-nonstaff-spacing = #'((space . 30)) 'nonstaff-nonstaff-spacing was

Re: grace note spacing

2010-11-14 Thread Mark Polesky
Martin Kemp wrote: How can I move a single \grace note closer to the note that it precedes? I've tried many permutations eg. \override Score.GraceSpacing #'spacing-increment = #** but whilst I can move further away, I do not seem to be able to get closer. Not sure off the top of my head.

Re: annotate-spacing causing error

2010-10-30 Thread Mark Polesky
Nick Payne wrote: Lilypond barfs on this: \paper {     annotate-spacing = ##t     system-system-spacing #'space = #3 } Thanks. This has already been reported: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1338 - Mark ___ lilypond-user

Re: changing number of lines in staff, clef and note positions

2010-10-22 Thread Mark Polesky
Martin Tarenskeen wrote: To answer my own question: changing: \clef bass to: \set Staff.clefGlyph = #clefs.F \set Staff.clefPosition = #1 \set Staff.middleCPosition = #8 did the trick. Are you sure? Looks to me that middleCPosition should be #5. Anyway, you can try the following code.

Re: Header separation from markup or music

2010-10-06 Thread Mark Polesky
Jiri Zurek wrote: I cannot figure out how to increase the space (the separation) between the header of the page and anything else on the page, which can be either lines of markup or music. The head-separation settings in the paper block does not seem to work: regardless of any value which I

Re: intervallic inversion

2010-10-01 Thread Mark Polesky
Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear community, has someone created a function, that could make automatically an exact intervallic inversion, like in the following example? \version 2.12.2 original = { g4 gis a bes g1 } inversion = { g4 ges f e g1 } \new Staff { \clef bass \original \inversion }

Re: orchestral template, please comment

2010-09-28 Thread Mark Polesky
Have you looked at Reinhold's OrchestralLily package? http://kainhofer.com/orchestrallily/ - Mark ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: orchestral template, please comment

2010-09-28 Thread Mark Polesky
Brett McCoy wrote: Have you looked at Reinhold's OrchestralLily package? http://kainhofer.com/orchestrallily/ I just tried one of the examples on that site and, sadly, the orchestrallily.ly file fails to parse under Lilypond 2.12.3, tons of syntax errors. I guess the author hasn't kept up

Re: How to typeset this split voice?

2010-09-26 Thread Mark Polesky
Christopher Culver wrote: I woud like to typeset the following score sample in Lilypond exactly as it appears: http://christopherculver.com/temp/score-example.png [...] The problem, however, is the second treble voice from the top, that starting on G. In the third bar, that voice splits

Re: Twelve-tone notation

2010-09-26 Thread Mark Polesky
Werner LEMBERG wrote: Looking at the picture, it seems to me the only part which LilyPond doesn't support is the special leger lines below the stave: though the middle C superficially looks like a G, it's positioned as if it were an E, but with the first leger missing (so the leger lines

Re: Help needed - missing .pdf file after running lilypond sucessfully.

2010-09-23 Thread Mark Polesky
MING TSANG wrote: Here below is jedit console message display. According to the message a .ps file is generated and a .pdf is generated as well. However I find the .ps file but no .pdf file on the folder where the .ly file resides. It's possible that no one here knows the answer, since this

Re: Arpeggio glyph markup

2010-09-23 Thread Mark Polesky
keith Luke wrote: I'm trying to add an arpeggio glyph to the left of the c whole note, but keep getting errors. You need at least two simultaneous notes for an arpeggio. - Mark ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: laissezVibrer

2010-09-14 Thread Mark Polesky
Peter Buhr wrote: My experience is that a whole note is inappropriate.  Assume a guitar and a bar with 4 notes.  The first note is accented (drone) to ring for the duration of the bar (or possibly longer).  The 4 notes have to add up to the time signature or lilypond complains or generates

Re: Chords with unequal durations

2010-09-13 Thread Mark Polesky
Jay Anderson wrote: \new Staff \relative c' {   \stop c \stop e g2. } You can also just turn off the warnings: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Simultaneous-notes#Suppressing-warnings-for-clashing-note-columns - Mark

Re: laissezVibrer

2010-09-13 Thread Mark Polesky
Peter Buhr wrote: I want to specify a duration (tie length) for \laissezVibrer as in: a4\laissezVibrer{1} meaning put a tie of duration whole-note on the 1/4 note a. Knowing how long to let a note ring seems essential to describe the music for a player. Why not just write a whole note?

Re: programming error: cannot align on self: empty element

2010-09-10 Thread Mark Polesky
Nick Payne wrote: I have several scores that, the last time I worked on them (using 2.13.20), built without error. Now, with 2.13.32, I get programming error: cannot align on self: empty element appearing in the console log when I build the scores. Nothing to indicate where the error is

Re: (de)crescendo on items with specified volume

2010-09-06 Thread Mark Polesky
Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote: I am very sorry, i can not find original post; anyway. Original poster, please, provide a minimal example. I've tried[1] those lines by Mark[2] with no success -- i could not reproduce error message mentioned. I am sorry, very probably this is my fault. Please,

Re: arpeggioBracket spanning multiple voices on a single staff?

2010-05-19 Thread Mark Polesky
William Bajzek wrote: My expectation and hope is that it would show the arpeggio bracket instead of the zigzag one, but it doesn't. Can this be done? Yes. - Mark * * * * * * * * * * arpeggioBracketStaff = { \revert Staff.Arpeggio #'X-extent \override Staff.Arpeggio #'stencil =

Re: Irregular 9-tuplet tremolo notation

2010-05-18 Thread Mark Polesky
u_li wrote: That said, the original problem is basically not solved yet: Is it possible to have a tremolo that doesn't repeat a pair of notes for a regular number of times? Nobody said it needed to be elegant... - Mark * * * * * * * * \version 2.13.22 silent = #(make-dynamic-script s)

Re: 3 part fugue

2010-05-17 Thread Mark Polesky
Hu Haipeng wrote: I'm learning counterpoint. The 3 part fugue below is on 2 staves. I used both and new voice, but my teacher still said the result is not good. Why? You need to organize your stem directions with the commands \voiceOne, \voiceTwo, and \oneVoice. Basically, \voiceOne puts

Re: Moving objects using wrong extent --- a question, valid solution needed!

2010-05-17 Thread Mark Polesky
Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote: I've found that it's possible to move objects (scripts, dynamics..) with wrong Y-extent so that they start to overlay other objects --- specifying Y-extent like #'(1 . -1) or like that [ ... ] So, now i have a lot of questions, specifically: 1. Is it valid way?

Re: \autochange and rests

2010-05-15 Thread Mark Polesky
Peter Chubb wrote: how can I get \autochange to fill in the gaps in the staves with rests? Off the top of my head, I don't know of an easy way to do this. For what it's worth, elementary piano books almost always omit such rests when the texture is monophonic. But if you really want them, I

polyphonic tuplets + accidentals = spacing mess

2010-05-15 Thread Mark Polesky
The accidentals in polyphonic tuplets are disrupting the horizontal spacing here. In the example file that follows, I wanted the notes of the second line to be typeset with the spacing found in the first line. I tried *everything*, and humorously, things only got further and further from the

Re: Arpeggio

2010-05-14 Thread Mark Polesky
Xavier Scheuer wrote: 2010/5/14 James Lowe james.l...@datacore.com: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=arpeggio do any of these help? This one should be the right one: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=294 I think it's preferable to refer users to the manual instead of the LSR,

Re: Getting width of markup in a music function

2010-05-11 Thread Mark Polesky
Nathan Reed wrote: I'd like to be able to compute the width of a markup inside a music function, so that I can size another element based on the size of the markup. Can we see some code? What is the music-function for? - Mark ___

Re: Accidental not properly notated in score

2010-05-05 Thread Mark Polesky
Patrick Karl wrote: Can anyone explain why the 2nd d-sharp is not notated in the music in the following snippet: [...] I understand that I could get it notated properly by writing it as dis!, but that would require that I notice the need. Remove the \partial 4 that you have inside the

Re: Percussion Setups for Contemporary Music Practice

2010-04-23 Thread Mark Polesky
Bernardo Barros wrote: 1. Yes, pictogram symbols for percussion would be *very* useful!! That's something I would help if I had the knowledge. Are you doing with Postscript? I'll reply to this separately when I have some time. 2. I was trying to make everything in the same Staff because I

Re: Centered Stem WAS: Upward stems left to the notehead

2010-04-22 Thread Mark Polesky
Bernardo Barros wrote: Sometimes I think that a centralized stem would express more precisely the time-point a note occupies. So the stem is positioned in the center of the notehead. Is there a easy way to test this? Have you tried \override NoteHead #'stem-attachment = #'(0 . 0) ? - Mark

Re: Percussion Setups for Contemporary Music Practice

2010-04-22 Thread Mark Polesky
Bernardo Barros wrote: I can't do this, I guess. But is there another way to change the number of staff lines from one measure to another? Keep your overrides, just add this before each new one: \stopStaff \startStaff - Mark ___

Re: Percussion Setups for Contemporary Music Practice

2010-04-22 Thread Mark Polesky
Bernardo Barros wrote: 1. How can I indicate with precision in the score itself where is the location of each instrument? Perhaps with post-editing in Illustrator with arrow? Must be a more elegant solution. Perhaps a more semantic solution would be to use a different Staff (or

Re: Harmonica tablature

2010-04-20 Thread Mark Polesky
shelt...@berkeley.edu wrote: I am new to Lilypond. Could you give me a brief description of what the various parts of your code are doing? It would be hard to explain it if you've not yet seen how music is stored in pure scheme. You'll need to use the \displayMusic function to see what I'm

Re: Harmonica tablature

2010-04-20 Thread Mark Polesky
bradford powell wrote: I've attached an iteration with unicode arrows to indicate breath direction (blow or draw) and holes for a standard C-tuning diatonic harmonica. Veey nice work! The other issue that I'm not happy about is how ties are handled. Ideally a tab marking would not be

Re: Harmonica tablature

2010-04-19 Thread Mark Polesky
shelt...@berkeley.edu wrote: I would like to develop some harmonica tablature using Lilypond. What I need is to put a one or two digit number above (possibly below instead) each note in the standard notation. I would like to have this happen automatically - ie whenever I enter a note in the

Re: \musicglyph

2010-04-14 Thread Mark Polesky
Bernardo Barros wrote: I don't know, I tried yesterday. The contents could have musicglyph expressions or something like that? Feta font was not obvious to me, but I was sleepy. :-) It's all about the index... (: - Mark ___

Re: Woodwind Fingerings

2010-04-13 Thread Mark Polesky
Bernardo Barros wrote: Like this? c'^\markup \woodfing #'(#t #t #f #t #t #t g# D## (markup (#:natural))) (doesn't work here) Just make the markup(s) separate arguments (not part of the scheme list). See the attachment. - Mark \version 2.13.18

Re: A reminder maybe?

2010-04-12 Thread Mark Polesky
David Raleigh Arnold wrote: I hope I didn't miss this, but has the automatic further shortening of downward stems on very low notes and of upward stems on very high notes been implemented? (There was discussion of this back in the Cretaceous.) There is some recent discussion on this topic

Re: Woodwind Fingerings

2010-04-12 Thread Mark Polesky
Bernardo Barros wrote: Can I use a boolean as an argument? The solution I got is this. I would need a Boolean, but the manual says I can't use it. You should be able to use a boolean type-check in a music function. You should be able to use any type-check that appears in type-p-name-alist in

Re: Woodwind Fingerings

2010-04-12 Thread Mark Polesky
Bernardo Barros wrote: I tried but it didn't work. Did I made a mistake here? fing = #(define-music-function [...] Yes, the problem is that (if I understand correctly) you can't use a music function to define a markup command; you need to use a markup function:

Re: Woodwind Fingerings

2010-04-12 Thread Mark Polesky
Bernardo Barros wrote: Thanks guys, thank you very much. Just one thing to make it perfect. I did with the 6 holes and 2 strings for the extra keys. But I can't do it for the natural sign. the (#:natural) in the code How can I pass this information. It isn't a string, right? It should

Re: A reminder maybe?

2010-04-12 Thread Mark Polesky
David Raleigh Arnold wrote: It's a similar topic, but not the same topic. Many engravers further shortened stems on the very lowest and highest opposed notes not on the staff. To fit more systems on the page, one presumes. They can be barely a linespace long. The shortening of opposed stems

\mergeDifferentlyHeadedOn + \change Staff ?

2010-04-06 Thread Mark Polesky
In the example below, how do I get the second half-note to merge? - Mark \version 2.13.18 \new PianoStaff \new Staff = upper { { \mergeDifferentlyHeadedOn b8 c' d' e' \change Staff = lower b8 \change Staff = upper c' d' e' } \\ { b2

Re: \mergeDifferentlyHeadedOn + \change Staff ?

2010-04-06 Thread Mark Polesky
Mats Bengtsson wrote: or use \mergeDifferentlyHeadedOn in both staves. Thanks Mats! - Mark ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: more than 2 voices using partcombine

2010-03-05 Thread Mark Polesky
Eby Mani wrote: If i put OrganLHTwo on \voiceThree and the remaining on \voiceOne \voiceTwo , everything seems fine, but get messed up when \voiceOne and \voiceThree share homophonic sections. It looks like the partcombine function defaults to using voiceOne and voiceTwo. I think that it

Re: more than 2 voices using partcombine

2010-03-04 Thread Mark Polesky
Eby Mani wrote: Is it possible to combine morethan 2 voices using \partcombine ?. Did anyone re-write this ? I have need to combine 3 voices to a single staff, I've tried Don't use \partcombine. Use the funneling two different music expressions into one context trick (see

Re: more than 2 voices using partcombine

2010-03-04 Thread Mark Polesky
Mark Polesky wrote: Don't use \partcombine. Uh, sorry. I spoke too soon. My solution will only work for entirely homophonic music. Perhaps that's what you have, but a proper solution would allow different rhythms simultaneously. I'll think about it. But if anyone else sees a solution, feel

Re: more than 2 voices using partcombine

2010-03-04 Thread Mark Polesky
One thing you could do is split up the parts to be combined into homophonic and polyphonic sections. Depending on the situation, this may be more work than it's worth, but here's an example below. Hope this helps. - Mark * * * * * * * * * * \version 2.12.3 global = { \time 3/4 } OrganRHOne

Re: seeking harp notation/markup snippets and macros

2010-02-24 Thread Mark Polesky
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi all, Just wondering if anyone has done any markup macros for harp notation -- in particular, TextSpanners with graphical markup for things like rapid glissandi, etc. Couldn't find anything in the LSR or elsewhere online, and I don't want to reinvent the wheel if I

Re: Blotch in d

2010-02-21 Thread Mark Polesky
Graham, Your file produces *no* blotches for me with this setup: Ubuntu 9.10 LilyPond 2.12.3 evince (GNOME Document Viewer) 2.28.1 What is your setup? Does the blotch appear on paper when you print it out? Are you using any included files or have you altered the default command line options?

Re: Blotch in d

2010-02-20 Thread Mark Polesky
GJO wrote: I downloaded 2.12.3 Lilypond today as I thought it may have been 2.11 version causing this problem but I still get black marks in the letter d with the version 2.12.3. http://old.nabble.com/file/p27663079/Blotch%2Bin%2BD.jpeg Can you post a minimal .ly file demonstrating this? -

Re: transposing and changePitch

2010-01-30 Thread Mark Polesky
Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear community, in the below quoted snippet the change-Pitch-command does not work as expected. It doesn't produce the second pitch one octave higher! \version 2.12.2 \include changePitch.ly brokenoctaves = #(define-music-function (parser location x) (ly:music?)

Re: Does the lovely Introduction to the 2.12 LM exist in 2.13?

2010-01-18 Thread Mark Polesky
Andrew Hawryluk wrote: Yes, it has all been retained (and expanded) in the new essay, but only the PDF version is very pretty right now. Andrew, does that mean automated-engraving.itexi and automated-engraving/* can be removed from the source? We should clean that up once we're finished with

Re: hiding curves and microtones

2010-01-13 Thread Mark Polesky
Stefan Thomas wrote: What do the two pairs of numbers: \hideCurvesFrom #'Voice.Accidental #'(0.3 . 0.003) #'(0 . 0) ? I changed them, but I couldn't see a significant difference and I don't understand the function of it. A hint would be great. Stefan, the original \hideCurvesFrom is here:

Re: hiding curves and microtones

2010-01-12 Thread Mark Polesky
Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear community, in the following snippet I have the problem, that the \hideCurvesFrom -command doesn't work well with a microtonal accidental. Is there a solution possible for this problem? Try \hideCurvesFrom #'Voice.Accidental instead of \hideCurvesFrom

Re: Contemporary music documentation

2009-09-04 Thread Mark Polesky
Joseph Wakeling wrote: (i) Would people be interested in having this in the docs? (ii) Any requests or suggestions for topics that should be covered? (iii) What are the restrictions on including examples from actual contemporary scores? I'm not thinking huge

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