Re: Messiah version for the sake of updating

2014-07-05 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 5 juil. 2014 à 16:09, Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com a écrit : Hello. This is mainly for Monsieur N. Sceaux. I have been trying to compile nenuvar/Haendel/Oratorio/Messiah and the standard way via 'make' does not work for me with lilypond 2.19.9. First of all, I'd like to update

Re: Pattern-generating Scheme function challenge

2013-07-24 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 24 juil. 2013 à 01:09, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com a écrit : Hi David, Urs, I'm sorry I didn't try to improve my recent code with David's proposals. In a few hours (after sleep) I'll start my vacations, being offline for three weeks. Perhaps someone else might catch the

Re: Book title showing up on every score in a songbook (2.14.2)

2013-01-12 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 12 janv. 2013 à 11:10, Christopher R. Maden cr...@maden.org a écrit : I expect \bookpart{} to start a new page; and if the bookpart has a title or any other header info, I expect that to be printed at the top of that new page. Christopher, Indeed, \bookpart starts a new page. In your

Re: resources for working with Nicolas Sceaux's source?

2012-12-11 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 10 déc. 2012 à 15:11, Max DeCurtins a écrit : Hello, I am just beginning to work on large, complex projects (e.g. multi-movement scores with chorus and orchestra, with extensive tagging) in Lilypond, and would like to get up to speed on current techniques for structuring projects,

Re: Possible feature request for 'q' shorthand or tie syntax

2012-09-20 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 20 sept. 2012 à 19:21, Graham Percival a écrit : On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:56:02PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Jim Long lilyp...@umpquanet.com writes: Please educate me if there is already a way to do this, but it appears that 'q' as a shorthand for the repetition of the previous

Re: problems with user-defined command line options

2011-12-25 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 25 déc. 2011 à 09:12, Marc Hohl a écrit : Hello Nicolas, Am 24.12.2011 11:13, schrieb Nicolas Sceaux: Le 23 déc. 2011 à 09:39, Marc Hohl a écrit : #(ly:add-option 'no-slurs #f Whether to print a slur or not.) The no- prefix is dealt with specially for options. For instance

Re: instrument name or \markup question

2011-12-25 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 24 déc. 2011 à 19:10, lily-user a écrit : Thanks. That worked. However, is there an automatic way to align the content instead of specifying manual numbers? Like how you do in word or even latex. I would like to do something like the following \set Staff.instrumentName = \markup {

Re: instrument name or \markup question

2011-12-25 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 25 déc. 2011 à 21:55, -Eluze a écrit : will you put it into LSR in the meantime or shall we raise a new issue!? Err, how can I say... LSR interface is a pain for all sorts of sensitive areas, so, no, sorry, I won't use it. We can raise a new issue. But I'm not sure I will be able to submit

Re: problems with user-defined command line options

2011-12-24 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 23 déc. 2011 à 09:39, Marc Hohl a écrit : #(ly:add-option 'no-slurs #f Whether to print a slur or not.) The no- prefix is dealt with specially for options. For instance, considering an option named `foo', if you use the command line switch: lilypond -dno-foo ... then (ly:get-option

Re: how to create baroque ornaments

2011-06-27 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 27 juin 2011 à 21:23, Giso Grimm a écrit : How can I create ornaments like those in the attached example? I tried \markup with creating a path, however, this is always placed outside the staff. The desired ornament should always appear at a fixed distance to the note head (similar to

Re: book and instrument

2011-05-26 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 26 mai 2011 à 22:40, Jean-Charles Malahieude a écrit : Hi all! When using a separate book for generating instrumental parts, is there a easy way to get rid of the superfluous instrument appearing with each bookpart? If you want the instrument to appear only on the title page, then you

undesired figured bass stretching

2011-05-07 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Hi, When forcing the staves spacing using \overrideProperty #Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn #'line-break-system-details = #'((alignment-distances . (...))) figured bass digits are stretched, whereas they shall be tightly stacked. I can't find how to avoid this strange behavior. Is there a way?

Re: Compile for Mac

2011-03-12 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 12 mars 2011 à 07:13, Carl Sorensen a écrit : #!/bin/bash sed -i bak 's:usr/include/FlexLexer.h:opt/local/include/Flexlexer.h:' config.make This patch is not required anymore on 10.6. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: LilyPond

2011-02-15 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Hi Tim, I'm redirecting your help request to lilypond user list, as I know nothing of the pango thing. You should provide a example of your use of make-pango-font-tree so that we could see what's wrong. Cheers Nicolas Le 15 févr. 2011 à 14:38, Tim Sheasby a écrit : Hello I am using

Re: define-music-function question

2010-08-12 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 12 août 2010 à 02:33, Ian Hulin a écrit : Hi all, In a recent piece I've had occasion to produce a trill mark with an accidental above, and stealing from the manual, I came up with g4(^\markup{ \tiny \center-column { \flat \musicglyph #scripts.trill } for example. As

Re: Emacs lily mode

2010-07-15 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 15 juil. 2010 à 08:28, David Kastrup a écrit : Well, it does not look like this is going to be a fast thing. a) Nicolas has decided against using CEDET/Semantic for the parsing of Lilypond because of performance reasons. That is a no-go for my tastes because of being Emacs fanboy:

Re: Emacs lily mode

2010-07-15 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 15 juil. 2010 à 16:06, Tim McNamara a écrit : Nicolas Sceaux wrote: Having a useful lilypond mode in Emacs would be really great. Using the existing lilypond-mode for all my .ly file editing already and it's pretty useful to me- but of course there is always room for improvement

Re: music function not duplicating manual equivalent

2010-06-05 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 4 juin 2010 à 18:13, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : Hey all! Can anyone explain what's going wrong here? [The scores are intended/expected to have identical output, i.e., the first version.] Is it the q function that's messing me up, or my \split function? Itt is the conjonction of `q',

Re: spacing/breaking issue [time-sensitive]

2010-05-31 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 31 mai 2010 à 17:57, Neil Puttock a écrit : On 31 May 2010 16:11, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Unfortunately, minimal-breaking causes Lilypond to [try to] cram everything on one page You have to use manual breaks with minimal-breaking (though I think a bug's

Re: spacing/breaking issue [time-sensitive]

2010-05-31 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 31 mai 2010 à 17:11, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : [Lilypond 2.13.21] Hey all, I'm trying to get a score out this afternoon (for a competition deadline tomorrow!) and I'm running into a bug... My score looks quite nice on 17 systems spread over 5 pages -- I would like: Page 1: title

Re: Hacking Lyqi to use quater-tones

2010-05-07 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 5 mai 2010 à 14:25, Bernardo Barros a écrit : 1. Is there an easy way to hack Lyqi to i and e increase and lower a quarter tone instead of half step? I'm looking at the file lyqi-mode.el to figure out if it is easy of not. 2. Impossible to use MIDI in OSX? Huh, actually I've rewritten

Re: Books, bookparts, includes: what?

2010-03-07 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 6 mars 2010 à 20:09, Giovanni Roversi a écrit : Ok ok, I know I'm opening a new thread on the same topic just after few days, but I saw another possible solution. The problem follows: I'm transcribing the complete Supper's Ready suite by Genesis, and I want achieve a book: in the first

Re: a \new Score question

2010-03-06 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 3 mars 2010 à 15:04, Werner LEMBERG a écrit : Using a recent development version, it is possible to print the ambitus of the whole score on the first system, by slightly adapting the example given in Documentation/snippets/new/scheme-engraver-ambitus.ly Uff. Nothing for the

Re: a \new Score question

2010-03-04 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 3 mars 2010 à 15:04, Werner LEMBERG a écrit : Using a recent development version, it is possible to print the ambitus of the whole score on the first system, by slightly adapting the example given in Documentation/snippets/new/scheme-engraver-ambitus.ly Uff. Nothing for the

Re: a \new Score question

2010-03-03 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 2 mars 2010 à 23:04, James Bailey a écrit : I know that doing \new Score is generally not recommended, but in the process of helping someone I came across a couple of questions, and the only solution I could find required me to do \new Score. First, the goal here is have a score with

Re: The q repeat command and fingerings

2010-01-29 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 29 janv. 2010 à 16:27, David Stocker a écrit : The q command is really a time saver and I'm really glad to have it. After using it in scores, I have the following observation: q makes it really easy to reprint chords and articulations that are attached to them, but it also reprints

Re: parallelMusic and repeat

2009-12-12 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 8 déc. 2009 à 18:40, Alexander Kobel a écrit : It was written by someone (Nicolas?) who needed it I've written it be never needed it nor used it. It was a very old feature request. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Orphaned and widowed lines in \markuplines

2009-11-11 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 10 nov. 2009 à 07:19, David Kastrup a écrit : Nicolas Sceaux nicolas.sce...@free.fr writes: Le 9 nov. 2009 à 11:10, Jiri Zurek (Prague) a écrit : It happens to my scores that when using \markuplines for long texts (more than a page), Lilypond leaves a first or a last line orphaned

Re: \override VerticalAxisGroup #'remove-empty works only at the beginning of a score

2009-11-11 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 11 nov. 2009 à 16:07, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : Now, this is a problem, if the whole score consists of several different parts. For example, I have a choral score with fugues and a soprano solo. during the fugues, none of the staves should be removed (if e.g. the Alto sets in 9

Re: Orphaned and widowed lines in \markuplines

2009-11-09 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 9 nov. 2009 à 11:10, Jiri Zurek (Prague) a écrit : It happens to my scores that when using \markuplines for long texts (more than a page), Lilypond leaves a first or a last line orphaned (single, alone) on a page. This is normally unwanted in printed literature. Is there a way how to

Re: Hiding header on each first page of a bookpart

2009-11-02 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 2 nov. 2009 à 11:07, Jiri Zurek (Prague) a écrit : I would like to hide displaying the header on every first page of a bookpart. Currently, the behavior I get is that the header is printed and only the page number is omitted when the first page of each bookpart is engraved. I would like

Re: Tools for critical apparatus

2009-10-31 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 31 oct. 2009 à 12:40, Jiri Zurek (Prague) a écrit : However, since the variant may at times span accross several (2-3) lines of music, I needed that there may be multi-line score fragments inside the markuplines. At the moment, you won't be able to have: Some text with =short=score=

Re: Beaming rules in 2.13.4

2009-09-28 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 28 sept. 09 à 10:34, Nick Payne a écrit : \overrideBeamSettings #'Voice #'(3 . 4) #'end #'(((1 . 32) . (4 4 4 4 4 4))) \overrideBeamSettings #'Voice #'(3 . 4) #'end #'(((1 . 8) . (2 2 2))) These are not a correct beam rules, as I was told lately. A beam setting override *must*

Re: calling a music variable using a Scheme function

2009-09-03 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 3 sept. 09 à 10:47, Valentin Villenave a écrit : On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Nicolas Sceauxnicolas.sce...@free.fr wrote: %% UNTESTED! includeList = #(define-music-function (parser location variable-names) (list?) (make-sequential-music (map (lambda (variable-name) (let

Re: Have a title page, but also default headers on first score page

2009-08-29 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 29 août 09 à 00:11, Graham Percival a écrit : On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 04:30:58AM +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: So I have had a look at the code and found scoreTitleMarkup = \markup \null BTW, this would probably be better written as scoreTitleMarkup = ##f But there is one

Re: how to define a boolean?

2009-08-09 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 9 août 09 à 13:21, Marc Hohl a écrit : #(define-public (slur::boolean grob) ;; just a test function to try and switch boolean values (display \nWithin callback\n) (display myBool: )(display myBool)(newline) (if myBool (set! myBool #f) (set! myBool #t)) this can be

Re: calling a music variable using a Scheme function

2009-07-24 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 24 juil. 09 à 10:37, Valentin Villenave a écrit : musicOne = { c''' } musicTwo = { c, } #(define mylist (list musicOne musicTwo)) includeList = #(define-music-function (parser location listname) (string?) (make-sequential-music (for-each (lambda (x) (let ((music

Re: Page breaking and squeezing as many systems on a page as possible?

2009-05-02 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 2 mai 09 à 20:56, Robin Bannister a écrit : Does anyone have an idea why the fourth system is put on the second page I'm out of my depth here, but if your title is done the normal Lilypond way, with bookTitleMarkup, it counts as a system too. So might the pagebreaker be

Re: table of contents page numbers are all question marks

2009-04-26 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 26 avr. 09 à 05:12, Chip a écrit : In using the sample code from NR 3.2.4 Table Of Contents I get all my page numbers as question marks. Even the example shows all the page numbers are page 1. There is no info on how to get the page numbers to increment, or how to manually insert the

Re: Changing font of Table of Contents

2009-04-26 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 26 avr. 09 à 01:38, Nick Payne a écrit : I'm putting together a book of pieces, and using a particular font for headers, footers, titles, subtitles, etc. The one place where I haven't figured out how to get that font used is for the header text for the table of contents that Lilypond

Re: Repeating subtltle with bookparts

2009-04-07 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 7 avr. 09 à 00:57, Nick Payne a écrit : Is it intended that a title or subtitle in the main header should be repeated in each bookpart that doesn't redefine the title or subtitle, because that's what I see [...] Main Subtitle appears in each bookpart. If I change each bookpart to use

Re: Review of Valentin's Opera

2009-04-01 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 1 avr. 09 à 13:41, Valentin Villenave a écrit : No matter the value of this project itself (or possibly lack thereof, time will tell), what makes me proud is that I've been able to pursue the path opened by people like Nicolas Sceaux, Kieren, Trevor B., Jose Padovani and several others

Re: Review of Valentin's Opera

2009-04-01 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 1 avr. 09 à 19:55, Jonathan Kulp a écrit : Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hello, all! LilyPond scores are used for real, serious stuff. This gets me to thinking... the website should have a section listing recent productions performances which used Lilypond scores! What does everyone think?

Re: Review of Valentin's Opera

2009-04-01 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 1 avr. 09 à 20:17, Francisco Vila a écrit : 2009/4/1 Nicolas Sceaux nicolas.sce...@free.fr: The première of Haendel's Giulio Cesare in Romania was perfomed using a LilyPond score, as will be the première of Lully's Armide in Houston, or instrumental pieces from Rameau's Hippolyte et

Re: \score inside define-markup-command

2009-02-24 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 23 févr. 09 à 10:36, Michael Käppler a écrit : Hi, I don't know if it will work, but perhaps you can try to type \displayMusic { \clef #testclef a4 h c } to get the scheme version of your music, and to copy/paste the output you got after the #:score markup ... good idea! But it still

Re: RemoveEmptyStaffContext

2009-02-13 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 10 févr. 09 à 10:40, Johan Vromans a écrit : Hi, I have a score with 3 voices, A, B, and C. Voices B and C have a lot in common. For about half of the score the B parts is identical to the C part. By specifying rests in voice B where it is identical to voice C, and using

Re: define-markup-function problem

2009-01-29 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 29 janv. 09 à 16:29, Carl D. Sorensen a écrit : On 1/29/09 7:12 AM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Carl, So we have the following, which all work: #(define-markup-command (test layout props stringA stringB) (string? string?) (interpret-markup layout

Re: Adding \bookpart to score and parts loses tempo indications from score

2009-01-14 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 14 janv. 09 à 03:54, nick.pa...@internode.on.net a écrit : I have a score and parts to which I have just added \bookpart plus the hack suggested in http://www.nabble.com/Separate-page-numbering-in-separate-book-parts--td20831772.html in order to get the pages renumbered to 1 for each

Re: Adding \bookpart to score and parts loses tempo indications from score

2009-01-14 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 14 janv. 09 à 20:20, Nick Payne a écrit : Ah. Something as simple as that! BTW, I also notice that although I have both title and tagline setup in the header sections for each bookpart, the tagline only prints at the end of the last part. You can see this in the example I sent by adding

Re: First Frog Task

2009-01-04 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 4 janv. 09 à 15:15, John Mandereau a écrit : When you're done with this task, each function for which you are responsible should have an internationalizable docstring. By internationalizable, I mean that it will look like (_i This is the docstring.), rather than This is the docstring.

Re: midi keyboard input

2009-01-02 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 1 janv. 09 à 23:02, Laura Conrad a écrit : It looks like there are rumor-based solutions that might be closer to what I need. I was hoping someone would say, I'm entering notes into emacs via keyboard, and here are the programs I use and the order in which I start them. But maybe nobody is

Re: Remove SpanBar from lyrics line in StaffGroup

2008-12-25 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 25 déc. 08 à 05:40, 今井雄治 a écrit : Hi, users. I am making opera full score that all staves include in StaffGroup. So, SpanBar appear in lyrics line also. Then, I want to remove SpanBar from lyrics line as following. _ flute |==|==|==| | | | | Horn

Re: calling a music variable using a Scheme function

2008-12-19 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 19 déc. 08 à 14:12, Valentin Villenave a écrit : Greetings Nicolas, hi everybody, can someone tell me why the following snippet doesn't work? (It's heavily based on Nicolas' functions -- and looked sooo promising...) %%% #(use-modules (ice-9 format)) toto = { c d c d }

Re: Segmentation fault on file with bookparts

2008-12-14 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 14 déc. 08 à 20:29, Jonathan Kulp a écrit : Running 2.11.65, Ubuntu Linux. I'm having problems running a file made up of several bookparts. It looks like it's compiling fine and then it gets to the part where it draws systems and then there's a segmentation fault that kills it. Each

Re: Horizontal Alignment of Numbers in Table of Contents

2008-12-12 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 12 déc. 08 à 07:59, Simon J Mackenzie a écrit : Hi I have a table of contents which contains the following... 1. Joy to the Universe1 56. Woe Beyond Hope3 112. Frankly

Re: Separate page numbering in separate book parts?

2008-12-04 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 4 déc. 08 à 12:52, Graham Percival a écrit : On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:58:48AM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: With the new book parts feature, is it possible to restart the page numbering for each book part. Surprisingly, \paper{ first-page-number = #1 } doesn't do this! Indeed,

Re: vertical spacing question

2008-12-04 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 4 déc. 08 à 21:25, james a écrit : I'm having some difficulty. So far, in a score that compiles fine without \bookpart, I only get bus errors when I try to use \bookpart. I've tried having just one \score in the \bookpart, I've tried having all of them in \bookparts. The example from

Re: Quick-insert mode for vim -- work in progress

2008-11-21 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 21 nov. 08 à 14:34, Bertalan Fodor a écrit : In LilyPondTool you'll be able to type: c g c s x c (try it!) Much more natural. However, it makes it complicated, because the software must know the key. So for example is c minor it will be rendered as c es c bes, b c but in h major, it

Re: String versus scheme function

2008-11-16 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 16 nov. 08 à 22:50, Johan Vromans a écrit : Hi, I can do \new Staff = FooBar ... and xxx = #(string-append Foo Bar) \new Staff = \xxx ... but not \new Staff = #(string-append Foo Bar) ... What is needed to get the last form working? That would require to change the parser.

Re: Now using 2.11 and noticed something interesting

2008-11-16 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 16 nov. 08 à 23:15, chip a écrit : Ok, I'll ignore, even though I prefer not to see errors and warnings. Not that it matter, I'm just curious, in my code I don't adjust any of the between systems padding, so what might be causing this? Is it something in my code or just some oddity in

Re: Scheme question: symbol to music

2008-11-12 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 12 nov. 08 à 05:48, Carl Sorensen a écrit : Johan Vromans jvromans at squirrel.nl writes: Stupic question, I assume... In a scheme function I have a symbol that is the name of a lilypond expression. How can I get its music value? E.g. ifDefined = #(define-music-function (parser

Re: ragged-last-bottom in multiple scores

2008-10-15 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 15 oct. 08 à 03:07, Joe Neeman a écrit : On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 17:26 -0700, Graham Percival wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:07:13 -0700 Joe Neeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:54 -0700, Graham Percival wrote: I have a collection of scores that I'd like to print in one

Re: script for running convert-ly on multiple files

2008-08-24 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 24 août 08 à 14:40, Jonathan Kulp a écrit : for LILYFILE in *.ly do echo updating syntax on $LILYFILE... convert-ly $LILYFILE $LILYFILE-new sleep 1 mv $LILYFILE-new $LILYFILE done The -e option of convert-ly can be used to modify the file in place. nicolas

Re: Prevent precautionary key signature

2008-08-02 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 2 août 08 à 20:08, Frederick Dennis a écrit : Sorry, I forgot to edit the subject line again. Dear All, \version 2.10.33 Thanks to Trevor Daniels, I can now prevent the precautionary time signature at the end of a movement by putting: \override Staff.TimeSignature #'break-visibility =

Re: footnote?

2008-07-25 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 22 juil. 08 à 16:12, luis jure a écrit : hello lilyponders, is there a way in LP to insert a markup as a footnote? i mean, i want to append a markup to a note in the score, and i'd like the text to appear at the bottom of the corresponding page. is it possible with lilypond? This is

Re: Short-indent does not seem to work

2008-07-25 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 24 juil. 08 à 01:11, Neil Puttock a écrit : 2008/7/23 James E. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't know if it's broken, or I just don't know how to use it, but my current workaround is to adjust the line-width and the horizontal shift It's definitely broken. For the record: No, it was

Re: Changing notes based on fingerings

2008-07-17 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 16 juil. 08 à 16:13, Eric Knapp a écrit : The next issue in trying to extend Lilypond for my instrument is that I want to change things in the Note based on the text in the Fingering. Here's an example, this displayMusic call results in the make-music call that is after it. I have code

Re: Changing notes based on fingerings

2008-07-17 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 17 juil. 08 à 16:16, Eric Knapp a écrit : I am using this approach with good results. I know the music expression I want to create. I just need to be able to catch music expressions so that I can get the fingering number that the user entered. Then I can create the correct note based on the

Re: \tag can't follow \lyricsto

2008-07-16 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 16 juil. 08 à 13:31, Roman Stawski a écrit : The command order I'm using is from a really old template that I've been using for years without problems. I came across your formulation when checking an answer to another post on the bugs list. Looks as if I'll have to update my templates.

Re: \tag can't follow \lyricsto

2008-07-15 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 15 juil. 08 à 21:02, Trevor Daniels a écrit : Roman Stawski wrote \new Staff { \new Voice = dirge { c''1 } } \lyricsto dirge \new Lyrics { Whoops } \tag #'harmony \new Staff { a'1 } OK, I see what you are trying to do. The error is that the order of the commands in the lyrics line is

Re: nopc -- Proposed Predefines

2008-07-14 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 14 juil. 08 à 04:21, Carl Sorensen a écrit : I propose some new predefined functions: \pointAndClickOn pointAndClickOn = #(ly:set-option 'point-and-click #t) and \pointAndClickOff pointAndClickOff = #(ly:set-option 'point-and-click #f) These do not do what you think they do. When the

Re: nopc -- Proposed Predefines

2008-07-14 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 14 juil. 08 à 14:19, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) a écrit : Well, the fun is that it seems that Scheme creators like predefined commands as well. Think of the commands cadr, caddr, cadddr, which are essentially: (car (list-tail mylist 2)) (car (list-tail mylist 3)) (car (list- tail

Re: globally set \markup \box #'box-padding

2008-07-04 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 3 juil. 08 à 21:15, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : [Lilypond 2.11.49] Hello all, I need boxed markups with a set padding, i.e. I'm currently using ^\markup { \override #'(box-padding . 1) \box { ... } } How can I set this value once, rather than needing to do it each time? I've tried

Re: globally set \markup \box #'box-padding

2008-07-04 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 4 juil. 08 à 21:31, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : Hi Nicolas, Thanks for the tip! I don't know if it is a good advice Why not? I just don't know if this text-font-defaults variable is a public interface. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Markup in absolute font size?

2008-06-29 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 28 juin 08 à 20:52, Patrick Horgan a écrit : Nicolas Sceaux wrote: oops, baseline-skip and word-space should also be fixed absolutely, and not based on the ones from props. Do you mean like: #(define-markup-command (abs-fontsize layout props size arg) (number? markup?) (let* ((ref-size

Re: Markup in absolute font size?

2008-06-28 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 28 juin 08 à 17:18, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : Is there any way to specify the fontsize for a markup in absolute size? In particular, the markup (title page for A4, defined in an in external include file) should always use the same font size, irrespective of the global staff size.

Re: Markup in absolute font size?

2008-06-28 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 28 juin 08 à 18:11, Nicolas Sceaux a écrit : Le 28 juin 08 à 17:18, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : Is there any way to specify the fontsize for a markup in absolute size? In particular, the markup (title page for A4, defined in an in external include file) should always use the same font

Re: wordwrap inside markuplines?

2008-06-26 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 24 juin 08 à 21:41, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : Hi Reinhold, Here you really need to use \column-lines... I was trying that... but it doesn't seem to work either. =\ So, basically, each \markuplines should typically be followed by \column-lines, and the contents of \column-lines

Re: \underline properties

2008-06-26 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 25 juin 08 à 13:30, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : [Lilypond 2.11.49] Hello all, Can the properties of \underline (such as thickness, distance from text, padding/width, etc.) be tweaked? The documentation says that the thickness can be tweaked.

Re: Line spacing with \markuplines and capital Ge rman Umlaute (ÄÜÖ)

2008-06-22 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 19 mai 08 à 15:58, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : When I use \markuplines\justified-lines, I would expect that all lines are equally spaced, just like in a word processor. However, if a line contains a capital Umlaut (i.e. Ä, Ö, Ü, ...), then that line is spaced just a little bit more

Re: Convert relative into absolute

2008-06-16 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 15 juin 08 à 14:18, Arno Rog a écrit : \displayLilyMusic did the trick. Is there also a command to convert the implicit notelengths into full notation. e.g. r8 d d e f d16 e f8 g - r8 d8 d8 e8 f8 d16 e16 f8 g8 displayLilyMusicWithExplicitDuration = #(define-music-function (parser

Re: setting max-stretch to a high value still leaves some space at the bottom

2008-06-14 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 14 juin 08 à 15:11, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : Does anyone know how to fix this problem, or at least where to look in the code? You can have a look at scm/layout-page-layout.scm, function stretch-and-draw-page, in particular around line 88, where there is a comment explaining what

Re: substitution with \movement

2008-06-11 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 11 juin 08 à 13:21, Arjan Bos a écrit : May I chime in a bit here? This prodding of the scheme interpreter is one of the few things I do not like in the lilypond syntax. I do love LilyPond and as a programmer at heart, I adore its syntax. However, as a programmer, it is my duty to let

Re: setting max-stretch to a high value still leaves some space at the bottom

2008-06-08 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 8 juin 08 à 16:21, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : Can someone please explain to me how lilypond's vertical page layout works? In particular, I'm writing a full score with one system per page, so I want that one system to exactly stretch to the full page. I'm doing this by setting

Re: RUMOR

2008-05-29 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 29 mai 08 à 00:04, Stefan Thomas a écrit : Dear lilypond-users, is anyone of You experienced with RUMOR? Or with emacs Midi-input mode by Hans Lubs? I tried to install these programs from source many times, but without success! What operating system are you using? Rumor is Linux only

Re: troubles with vertical staff distance

2008-05-29 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 29 mai 08 à 17:18, Herbert Liechti a écrit : Hello all I have some problems to get a vertical distance between to staffs: s1.jpg Everything went ok from the second line in sheet: s2.jpg I'm attaching a stripped down version of the score. I tried the code in the snippet archive

Re: OS X, lyqi and rumor?

2008-05-23 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 23 mai 08 à 15:36, Christopher Suckling a écrit : On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:29:43PM +0200, Nicolas Sceaux wrote: Le 21 mai 08 à 10:44, Christopher Suckling a écrit : In The LilyPond Report #4 http://valentin.villenave.info/The-LilyPond-Report-4, there is a video in which Nicolas Sceaux

Re: Redefining \smallCaps, Sceaux method - compile error

2008-05-22 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 22 mai 08 à 12:13, Nicholas Wastell a écrit : Hello list, A couple of months ago, Nicolas Sceaux showed some code to redefine the \smallCaps function to extend support to non-ascii characters (ref: http://snipurl.com/smallcaps). I have just tried inserting his code in a .ly file, but I

Re: OS X, lyqi and rumor?

2008-05-21 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 21 mai 08 à 10:44, Christopher Suckling a écrit : In The LilyPond Report #4 http://valentin.villenave.info/The-LilyPond-Report-4, there is a video in which Nicolas Sceaux demonstrates his lyqi quick insert mode he wrote for Emacs. The video appears to demonstrate a lyqi+rumor combination

Re: Accessing header properties from ordinary markup

2008-05-21 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 21 mai 08 à 18:21, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : In one of my pieces, I want to print a similar markup as the bookTitleMarkup somewhere in the middle of a page. However, it seems that at this position, I'm not able to access the header properties, which are used in the title markup. In

Re: horizontally aligning columns in \fill-line

2008-05-19 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 19 mai 08 à 18:05, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : PS2: Is there any way to set something like ragged-bottom=##t only for the current page? It would suffice to have some \vfill construct, which simply takes up all the remaining space on the page. This would do away with the need to insert

Re: Line spacing with \markuplines and capital Ge rman Umlaute (ÄÜÖ)

2008-05-19 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 19 mai 08 à 15:58, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : When I use \markuplines\justified-lines, I would expect that all lines are equally spaced, just like in a word processor. However, if a line contains a capital Umlaut (i.e. Ä, Ö, Ü, ...), then that line is spaced just a little bit more

Re: Creating TOC entry / page reference from inside a markup

2008-05-19 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 19 mai 08 à 18:05, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : How can I add a TOC entry from inside a markup (or from a markup function)? I tried #(define-markup-command (piece-title layout props title) (markup?) (add-toc-item! 'tocItemMarkup title) (interpret-markup layout props (markup #:bold

Re: Line spacing with \markuplines and capital Ge rman Umlaute (ÄÜÖ)

2008-05-19 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 19 mai 08 à 21:56, Nicolas Sceaux a écrit : Le 19 mai 08 à 15:58, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : When I use \markuplines\justified-lines, I would expect that all lines are equally spaced, just like in a word processor. However, if a line contains a capital Umlaut (i.e. Ä, Ö, Ü

Re: Setting a global default for the \paragraph macro (NR Section 7.4.4)?

2008-05-18 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 18 mai 08 à 16:46, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : In the NR in Section 7.4.4 (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/New-markup-list-command-definition ) there is a definition of the \paragraph markup list command, which indents the first line by the value of the

Re: horizontally aligning columns in \fill-line

2008-05-18 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 18 mai 08 à 17:30, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : In one of my scores, I'm writing two pages with the lyrics of a mass, together with the corresponding German/English translations. I'm using \fill-line { \column{Latin text...} \column{German text...} \column{English text...} } to

Re: initial .ly files [was Re: *.mid vs *.midi]

2008-05-17 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 18 mai 08 à 00:24, Karl Hammar a écrit : Actually what I would like is some way to tell on the command line that this run should have /ancient fonts/c-clefs/modern clefs/... so I could easily switch style without having to write a new file. You can already do this, using -d options in

Re: LSR: caps font-shape snippet doesn't work

2008-05-05 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 5 mai 08 à 19:05, Valentin Villenave a écrit : Hi everybody, Can anyone make this snippet work? http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=100 I added it last year (it was in a set of regtests Graham sent me, I think), but IIRC it never worked. I thought it was a version compatibility problem,

Re: Line breaks in text markups

2008-05-01 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 1 mai 08 à 15:26, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : Hi all, Is there a possibility to add manual line breaks within the markup text? Yes; it's \markup { \column { Your first line } { Your second line } } Ouch. There must be a better way, no? No, this is the way, although the

Re: Line breaks in text markups

2008-05-01 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 1 mai 08 à 17:45, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : Hi Nicolas, Do any of the LaTeX commands work (e.g., \par, or \\, etc.)? this LilyPond, not LaTeX, why in the name of Mandos would LaTeX commands work? I was under the impression that LilyPond once used a LaTeX engine in the background --

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