Thanks Reinhold.
I didn't nothing more than download the .ly in your website and put it in a
folder.
But reading your and Alex's comments, I'm realizing I'm very far from
getting OL to work. I use Windows XP and I think I can get to work LP 2.13.
But my coding/command line skills are almost
I'm running LilyPond 2.12.2 and I can't get to work any single example from
the Orchestrallily package.
It seems I also get a long series of errors beginning with:
orchestrallily.ly:699:16: error: syntax error, unexpected
NUMBER_IDENTIFIER
\huge
\bigger \bold
Is
Hello,
I need to format some musical examples for my musicology book. The examples
are tiny ones, and it would be good to isolate them from the clef/key/time
(as well as tempo) environment.
So, I need to put a small blank space (blank blank, without the staff) just
after theclef/key/time symbols,
I reply to a private message o JZ on this topic and post it here for
everyone.
JZ, you told me you couldn't run lilypond on LyX.
Actually, there's nothing bad, you simply didn't run lilypond-book and tried
to instant preview a LyX file with lilypond-book code in it! It couldn't
work!
To use
Carl Sorensen-3 wrote:
Is there a reason why you can't use lilypond-book? That's the best way I
know of to combind LilyPond with LaTeX.
It is.
But I use LyX, which simplifies almost every LaTeX operation, it only makes
difficoult - if not impossible - to use third-party
Jonathan Kulp-2 wrote:
This snippet should help you out:
http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=167
Interesting.
And how to remove clef and meter?
And how to remove just the staff pentagram, but keeping barlines?
Thanks
Piero.
-
Piero Faustini
Main Software used:
- LyX 1.6.2
Graham Percival-3 wrote:
hey, that's life in open-source projects! If you feel at all
enthusiastic about the new website, please consider helping.
Graham, I would like to help but definitely not now (and I don't know how:
I'm a zero in css, html, programming etc.)
Just a pair of
Mark Polesky wrote:
MonAmiPierrot wrote:
And how to remove clef and meter?
\layout{
\context {
\Staff
\remove Clef_engraver
\remove Time_signature_engraver
}
}
And how to remove just the staff pentagram, but keeping barlines?
\layout{
\context
Mark Polesky wrote:
But I guess you're on Windows. Anyone else?
Is it that evident? :(
-
Piero Faustini
Main Software used:
- LyX 1.6.2 on WinXP sp3; EndNote JabRef
- MikTex
- LaTeX class: Koma book
- Lilypond 2.12 for example excerpts
- BibLaTeX for bibliographies
--
View
Hello,
as I have an italian keyboard/system in windows XP, I believe I don't have a
key for character ~. Is there a way to set it in a dead key in jEdit?
Help me please with my ligatures, or I'll live forever in a staccato
world!!!
Piero
-
Piero Faustini
Main Software used:
- LyX 1.6.2 on
In my opinion, there's something that still I miss: some music notes. Newbies
should understand by glance what this program is for.
I mean, the Lilypond image is ok, and it should stay there. But somewhere in
the page I have to see some staff/note/musicsymbol. Of course one typeset
with Lilypond.
...@organum.hu
Cc: MonAmiPierrot pierofaust...@hotmail.com, lilypond-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Advanced (web) LilyPond usage for multiple authors?
Bertalan == Bertalan Fodor lilypondt...@organum.hu writes:
Bertalan A wiki would be perfect for this purpose I think. If the
Bertalan extension
MonAmiPierrot wrote:
Hello,
in a couple of months I have to speak at a conference about computers
music/critical editions. I will introduce to a Finale-enslaved audience
the great advantages of LilyPond (by the way, I'm going to talk more about
LaTeX stuff: music things will be just
Hello all,
just some difficoult (but not stupid, I hope) questions.
I talked about LilyPond in a conference on music edition and critical
editions.
With my surprise, some musicologists (some of which don't even use Finale!)
asked me if LilyPond could be used in bigger critical editions projects
rathcoffey wrote:
In the Editor, when I enter the backslash \
the editor autofills:
\melody
I have to remember each time to erase melody or else it creates errors.
It would be much more useful to have the backslash without the autofill.
How do I get rid of the autofill -
Mike Blackstock-3 wrote:
I'm on a kind
of sabbatical working on a WYSIWYG Web interface for Lilypond, with a lot
of
AJAX and JSON as the mechanism for storage of the gui parts. I make my
living (or used to up till recently) as a sysadmin and have had to deploy
every new technology
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote:
Actually as LPT has its own parser, which can tell more or less whether
the current input is valid, a constantly updated view could be possible.
(Like looking for the last valid version of the file in every 30 seconds
and generate the file.)
Yes
Mark Polesky wrote:
Oops.
Just back and I find this Easter present. Thanks Mark.
On the dashed slur: I find it in the critical edition (Chicago Univ/Ricordi)
of Verdi's Traviata edited by musicologist Fabrizio Della Seta, with the
meaning of an editor-added slur.
This Traviata looks like
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote:
in Hungarian, German and many other languages, the hyphenation often can
not be correctly done without knowing the meaning of that word.
Also, the same applies in LilyPond: if you use manual breaks to force
breaks at convenient places, upon further
...it's a dirty job but...
the italian term crescendo is not a noun, is a gerund (meaning raising,
growing), so, when substantivated, in italian language, is indeclinable -
thus if I amo il crescendo rossiniano, I still amo tutti i crescendo
rossiniani (if you find an italian who says crescendi,
Hello,
I wonder why I (and, as I can imagine, 99% of users out there) have always
to put \unfoldRepeats in a different \score block just for correct MIDI
output, thus having to put in a variable all the \score content and use it
in both \score blocks.
It's not -till now - a problem for me, but I
Graham Percival-3 wrote:
I *never* put \unfoldRepeats. If you want real music, listen to
musicians.
Uhm... so, why don't we abolish \midi output?
I undestand what you said. It's because you mostly use \repeat for just
\repeats volta, which I can understand is THE most used \repeat
Hello,
I tried without success writing piano music in which 2 different voices
(e.g. simply left and right hand) change staff automatically. I don't know
if \autochange is the right tool.
If there's no manner to achieve this, can I manually change staff in a
voice? In other words: how can I
Jay Anderson wrote:
It wouldn't be hard to have this also unfold percent repeats.
Of course, tremolos were the most important.
I'm with Hu: double tremolo notes are a must. They take the 90% of tremolos
I find in my work.
But if your \tremolos code works you'll save a huge amount
Hello,
I would like to put some gensettings in one .ly file to be included in my
pieces.
One of this settings is:
\context {
% add the RemoveEmptyStaffContext that erases rest-only staves
\RemoveEmptyStaffContext
}
for removing empty staves lines. But how can I put this in a file
Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
There is a parallel with LaTeX vs. GUI wordprocessors like Word or
OpenOffice.org. These are two different worlds, but somewhere inbetween
there is LyX. I kind of like the LyX approach.
I like it too. it's real WYSIWYM. But some LyX users (and even
Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
There is a parallel with LaTeX vs. GUI wordprocessors like Word or
OpenOffice.org. These are two different worlds, but somewhere inbetween
there is LyX. I kind of like the LyX approach.
I like it too. it's real WYSIWYM. But some LyX users (and even
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote:
Well, WYSIWYM sucks by concept for one single reason. Typesetting can
not be totally automated because of hyphenation.
So if you change something slightly that causes reflow, there is a small
chance that a word gets hyphenated at the wrong place.
Kieren MacMillan wrote:
Hi Piero,
we must say breaking algorhythm is far better than Finale's
(the problem being that manual tweaking is *much* harder)
?? I actually find the opposite... Finale's manual breaking system is
more difficult and less flexible than Lilypond's.
Yes, but
Hello,
I'm just wondering if Nabble shows ALL messages of this mailing list, or
only Nabble-posted messages.
I ask this because I found out that it didn't in other mailing lists with
Nabble.
Just for a matter of debug, please reply also to my address if you use mail
client and not just Nabble!!!
Hajo Dezelski wrote:
Hello,
thanks for the input.
After some hours of working with latex and several editors on windows
and mac I decided to take the easy road: OpenOffice with the
OOoLilypond Macro. It works not always as I thought, but with time I
will find some workarounds.
Hello,
in a couple of months I have to speak at a conference about computers
music/critical editions. I will introduce to a Finale-enslaved audience the
great advantages of LilyPond (by the way, I'm going to talk more about LaTeX
stuff: music things will be just one of the subjects).
I'm a
Is there any way to have a half-dashed-half-solid Slur, i.e. a slur that
begins dashed and at a certain point turns solid (or viceversa?)
I tried with a \( and change to \phrasingSlurDashed on-the-flow but it
doesn't change the once-started slur type.
Any idea?
Thanks.
Piero
-
Piero
Valentin Villenave wrote:
I assume you already know about Andrew's paper:
http://www.musicbyandrew.ca/finale-lilypond-1.html
Yep, and very useful! Anything more?
Thanks and regards
-
Piero Faustini, PhD student
Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche
Sezione musicologia
Università di
Jonathan Kulp-2 wrote:
I haven't written any papers on this topic but wanted to be in touch
with you anyway. My Ph.D. is in musicology and I have no formal
training in computers, though I have to say that my computer skills have
improved dramatically in the 18 months that I have been
I need to write some music to be understood by Lilypond 2.10 but I want to
include some commands which are brand new in 2.12, in a manner that if I
run 2.12 they are already present (and work). How can I tell Lilypond to
ignore a line if it's version is older, and viceversa?
It seems to be very
For whom it may be interested:
I just put
#(ly:set-option 'midi-extension midi)
in my files
This .mid thing is weird... I can't understand why they changed it.
-
Piero Faustini, PhD student
Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche
Sezione musicologia
Università di Ferrara
Software used:
- LyX
Peter Chubb-6 wrote:
Peter == Peter Chubb lily-u...@chubb.wattle.id.au writes:
Peter I embed Lily in a shell script for that kind of thing (I'm
Peter running on Unix):
Thanks Peter, but it seems I didn't explain myself:
what I need is sometihng like this (the syntax is invented: I
Werner LEMBERG wrote:
file was encoded in utf-8 so it couldn't work.
???
It seems I'm an idiot...
everything is ok right now, without any tweak. Thanks (and sorry) for your
time.
-
Piero Faustini, PhD student
Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche
Sezione musicologia
Università di
I'm working on a cadenza. I need a fermata in all staffs, silent ones and the
playing one.
- But I can't have a \fermata work on a one-bar-long R rest (just a silent
staff during the Soprano cadenza). If I put a r rest (by instance, a
horrible r4. rest!) it works but it put the note align on the
MonAmiPierrot wrote:
- But I can't have a \fermata work on a one-bar-long R rest (just a
silent staff during the Soprano cadenza). If I put a r rest (by instance,
a horrible r4. rest!) it works but it put the note align on the left...
Found this one: ^\fermataMarkup
Still no idea
I can't have lilypond-book work in any way, even test environment
I tried to create this test.tex file in my c:\test directory:
\documentclass[]{article}
\begin{document}
Normal LaTeX text.
\begin{lilypond}
\relative c'' {
a4 b c d
}
\end{lilypond}
More
Sorry, this is the (readable) quoted message:
I can't have lilypond-book work in any way, even test environment
I tried to create this test.tex file in my c:\test directory:
\documentclass[]{article}
\begin{document}
Normal LaTeX text.
SORRY
file was encoded in utf-8 so it couldn't work.
Now everything is perfect
thanks
-
Piero Faustini, PhD student
Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche
Sezione musicologia
Università di Ferrara
Software used:
- LyX 1.6.1 on WinXP; EndNote JabRef
- MikTex
- LaTeX class: Koma book
-
I already have everything updated.
No way to have my MIDI files played.
And I have another issue about reverse PDF point click, but I will post it
in another place.
I don't know where to find this lilypond invoke.
Thanks anyway
Piero
Valentin Villenave wrote:
2009/2/28 MonAmiPierrot
Hello, I'm using the latest versions of both Lilypond and LilypondTool (which
I find extremely useful) on WinXP sp3 with jEdit, but nowthe play MIDI
function doesn't work, and the player tells me Error loading MIDI. The
reason could be it tries to load a .MIDI file and not a .MID one, which
is
northofscotland wrote:
My problem is that when combining the top parts as separate voices, it
looks rather messy and confusing. I can combine two parts with
\partcombine, and that does give a much better copy, but it still leaves
the third part. I know that \partcombine can only handle
Mark Polesky wrote:
1. I have some problem with your snippet and LyX...
I'll wait for more info.
Ummm, I can't reproduce the error in some clean way: anyway, I found it's
not exclusive of your code, although it triggers it 100% of time, while
other .ly files only rarely. And it
Mark Polesky wrote:
For the white boxes (no need to add an image, I
understand the problem), if you know the exact rgb
color of your background, you could substitute
that for white in the following line in the
tearGeneric definition (quick-and-dirty for sure).
well, due to my bad
Graham Percival-3 wrote:
AU 4.6 Inserting LilyPond output into other programs
AARRRGGHHH!!! That's pretty unbelievable I never hit on this!!!
Thanks, Graham, it works P E R F E C T (almost)
-
Piero Faustini, PhD student
Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche
Sezione musicologia
Patrick McCarty-3 wrote:
#(ly:set-option 'backend 'eps)
#(ly:set-option 'gs-load-fonts #f)
#(ly:set-option 'include-eps-fonts #t)
You can use ly:set-option for any of the -d options.
that's useful, but I think I'll made it with Graham's (well, the docs')
trick
thanks
-
Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
In Lyx go to Tools-Preferences-File Handling-Converters and add the
mentioned options to the different Lilypond converters. ( BTW: Is -b eps
the same as -dbackend=eps ? ). Then click on the modify button
append and save. ( Maybe this is not all needed. )
Mark Polesky wrote:
Mark Polesky wrote:
Here's my completed snippet.
3 issues.
1. I have some problem with your snippet and LyX, and only with your
snippet, not with other Lilypond files. I can't do a good diagnostic right
now because LyX behaviour is pretty strange and puzzling
Mark Polesky wrote:
Here's my completed snippet.
...this is what I love about open software: you just ask in a forum if it's
possibile to do something you need, and then comes some Mark and prepares it
for you (and everyone) in one week and to the last detail! And a lot of
people too
Hello, I need to use several example (90% are tiny fragments) of music, many
times just 2 or 3 measures of some melody with words for my musicological
thesis.
I'ma latex user and I DON'T want to use lilypond-book, because it's too
difficoult to implement in LyX 1.6.1 (the editor I use) if one
Thanks John, but my programming skills are not above Lilypond users
average...
thanks anyway.
Piero
Jonathan Kulp-2 wrote:
MonAmiPierrot wrote:
Hello, I need to use several example (90% are tiny fragments) of music,
many
times just 2 or 3 measures of some melody with words for my
Damian leGassick wrote:
dear MAP
(also doing my phD with LyX)
in the terminal (well, actually in textmate...) i do:
lilypond -dbackend=eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts
filename.ly
which generates a clipped eps and pdf file which i then import into lyx
Seems what I
Damian leGassick wrote:
dear MAP
(also doing my phD with LyX)
in the terminal (well, actually in textmate...) i do:
lilypond -dbackend=eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts
filename.ly
which generates a clipped eps and pdf file which i then import into lyx
Seems what I
Graham Percival-3 wrote:
NR 3.4.1 Extracting fragments of music
and maybe
AU 4.6 Inserting LilyPond output into other programs
Are you pointing to some docs?
-
Piero Faustini, PhD student
Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche
Sezione musicologia
Università di Ferrara
Software
Jonathan Kulp-2 wrote:
I have it working beautifully with BibTeX for the
bibliography, too. ... and it's very easy
just to use a text editor instead.
Thanks, but I use BibLaTeX, which is a complex package which create perfect
bibliographies. I don't want to be unpolite, but it
Arne Peters wrote:
Why not take the .ps-file generated by Lilypond, and use Ghostview to
convert it to an imagefile. This then can be further manipulated with
GIMP/Photoshop etc before importing in the textfile.
This may not be the most elegant way to do it but should work.
No,
Mark Polesky wrote:
I've cooked up a way of tearing the right side of
the staff, which you can take a look at.
...
Otherwise, is this about what you're looking for?
Thanks Mark, good job but I was looking for something different:
I don't want to draw anything, just have my staff end
Mark Polesky wrote:
This should be closer to what you want, but I need to emphasize that
it's not finished yet. It *is* possible to randomize the staff-line
tear-lengths;
Mark,
That's GREAT!!! Exactly what I need!!!
The randomization is not important, it's just that when we have many
Hello all,
I need to produce a lot of small excerpts for a musicological thesis, and
I'm wondering if there's a way to draw a torn, broken end (and/or
beginning) of a staff, as if the paper had been shredded leaving each of its
5 lines an irregular length, (or even just not a vertical aligned
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