Re: markup for circular bowing

2024-02-14 Thread Orm Finnendahl
igns from SMUFL in lilypond as well and I'd be willing to sponsor or participate in sponsoring it (would 50,- Euros be ok as a starting point?). Best, Orm ---------- Prof. Orm Finnendahl Komposition Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Esche

markup for circular bowing

2024-02-14 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, I'd like to make a sign for circular bowing like in the attached png. The example was done using an epsfile, but unfortunately that doesn't export to svg, which I need. So it should be done using lilypond's builtin markup commands (or scheme code). Can someone point me to examples to do

Re: convert-ly and lilypond-invoke-editor missing gettext

2022-08-17 Thread Orm Finnendahl
rname $0)" to root="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")/.." That should be backwards compatible and work in any circumstance. -- Orm Am Mittwoch, den 17. August 2022 um 13:13:44 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Orm Finnendahl: > Hi, > > after upgrading from lilpond 2

convert-ly and lilypond-invoke-editor missing gettext

2022-08-17 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, after upgrading from lilpond 2.19 to 2.23, lilypond-invoke-editor and convert-ly stopped working. In both cases I get Traceback (most recent call last): File "~/bin/../libexec/convert-ly", line 24, in import gettext ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gettext' I installed

shift accidental

2022-08-11 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, below is a snippet and attached a pdf which shows the f sharp accidental in the lower voice on the downbeat of bar 2 too far away from the notehead. The distance seems to be related to the tied note in the upper voice. Although the accidental is not repeated there, it is taken into account

Re: woodwind-diagram overrides

2022-07-20 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am Mittwoch, den 20. Juli 2022 um 22:00:53 Uhr (+0200) schrieb David Kastrup: > Well, that's more or less what > > #(begin > > ... > > ) > > does. Wow, cool! I assume #'defines than work in the top-level, right? Should've thougt of that but admittedly my scheme is a bit rusty... -- Orm

Re: woodwind-diagram overrides

2022-07-20 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 20. Juli 2022 um 13:14:25 Uhr (-0600) schrieb Carl Sorensen: > The way to do this is to write the plain scheme code files as lilypond > files. > > Put the functions in a .ly file. > > Preface each function with # (to put the parser into scheme mode). Thanks, I'm aware of

woodwind-diagram overrides

2022-07-20 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, for a new piece I need to display Oboe woodwind fingering diagrams according to the book "The Techniques of Oboe Playing" by Peter Veale. Lilypond's standard woodwind fingerings for oboe in non graphic mode are similar, but have some significant differences to the method used in the book

Re: circle around stem

2022-07-08 Thread Orm Finnendahl
\damp c'32 \damp c''32 c''32 } 8<--- Am Freitag, den 08. Juli 2022 um 16:22:22 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Orm Finnendahl: > Hi, > > trying to define an overwrite to draw a circle around a stem I came > up with t

circle around stem

2022-07-08 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, trying to define an overwrite to draw a circle around a stem I came up with the code below. Unfortunately it doesn't automagically work for all use cases as can be seen in the attached image: The code doesn't take the number of flags into account. I know that the stem length can be altered

Re: Pat Waing Notation

2021-11-15 Thread Orm Finnendahl
understanding the notation. Best, Orm -- Prof. Orm Finnendahl Komposition Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Eschersheimer Landstr. 29-39 60322 Frankfurt am Main https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rWha1HTfFE

Pat Waing Notation

2021-11-15 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, I'm working on a piece for Pat Waing, a traditional instrument from Myanmar consisting of 20 tuned drums. Musicians from Myanmar use a special form of notation, using numbers for the pitches with dots underneath or above indicating the octave. I would like to find a generic way to notate

Re: change custom notehead for different stem direction

2021-09-08 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Lukas, thanks, looks excellent, will adopt to that style! Best, Orm -- Prof. Orm Finnendahl Komposition Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Eschersheimer Landstr. 29-39 60322 Frankfurt am Main https

Re: change custom notehead for different stem direction

2021-09-08 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi all, below is a working example for the record. You can tweak the linewidth changing "setlinewidth 1" in flpizzleft and flpizzright or the angles/proportions of the lines in the line containing the moveto, lineto and stroke. Even if you don't know Postscript it should be fairly obvious. When

Re: change custom notehead for different stem direction

2021-09-08 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Lukas, thanks, that's perfect! I'll provide a working example to share as soon as I've finished the code. Best, Orm Am Mittwoch, den 08. September 2021 um 10:32:35 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Lukas-Fabian Moser: > Hi Orm, > > > for flute pizzicato in contemporary music, it is quite common to

change custom notehead for different stem direction

2021-09-08 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, for flute pizzicato in contemporary music, it is quite common to use a ">" as a notehead. With a stem down, the ">" should be changed to a "<" as visible in the attached png. I know how to change the notehead by overriding the NoteHead stencil with an eps file, but can't find any

solved: move Full Measure Rest up

2021-03-13 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, I found it, sorry for the noise! 8<--- \version "2.19" << \override MultiMeasureRest.staff-position = #8 { R1 } \\ { aes'2 des''4 c''4 } >> 8<--- Using a note name with \rest

move Full Measure Rest up

2021-03-13 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, the example in the previous mail was inconsistent with the mail text, so here again: In the following snippet the whole measure rest in the upper voice collides with the des in the lower voice an needs to be moved up: 8<--- \version

move Full Measure Rest up

2021-03-13 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, in the following snippet the whole measure rest in the upper voice collides with the des in the lower voice an needs to be moved up: 8<--- \version "2.19" << { R1 } \\ { aes'2 bes'4 c''4 | %40 bes'4 des'4 ges'4 f'4 | %41

Re: Piano pedal gradual release

2019-11-30 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am Samstag, 30 Nov 2019 10:24:30 - schrieb Phil Holmes: > What on earth does a gradual piano pedal release achieve? Either the > dampers are touching the strings or they're not, so it's in effect a > binary choice. So a gradual release simply makes the time the sustain > ends somewhat

Re: [OT] dicemusic -- a common-lisp generator of lilypond scores

2019-09-29 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Mark, thanks for sharing. It's always good to know about people using CL. I'm an avid CL user for many years and maintain some packages. If you're interested, drop me a note off-list and we can share ideas. In case this is unintentional: Rather than "Eine Kleine Waltzer" you'd say "Ein

Hiding cautionary clef

2019-05-09 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, is there a straightforward way to remove a cautionary clef at the end of a line when the clef changes between the current and the next line while keeping it at the beginning of the next line? I tried different settings for break-visibility and \omit but that either removes the Clefs

Re: Including a score fragment in LaTeX document

2018-10-02 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Francesco try this: \version "2.19.80" \score { \new Staff { \clef treble \key c \major \time 12/8 % excerpt from Grieg Piano sonata op. 7 \relative c'' { % 16 4.->\ff -> -> ->\> | % 17 s1.*0\! | % I had to add this measure to get the hairpin printed }

Re: dotted semicircle indicating harmonics

2018-07-07 Thread Orm Finnendahl
8 Uhr (+0200) schrieb sylvius: > This is brilliant! > > Thanks to all for the various solutions! > > > On 7. Jul 2018, at 16:18, Pierre Perol-Schneider > > wrote: > > > > But of course !! Thanks very much Orm ! > > Cheers, > > Pierre > > > >

Re: dotted semicircle indicating harmonics

2018-07-07 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Pierre, Am Samstag, den 07. Juli 2018 um 15:54:41 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Pierre Perol-Schneider: > Plus : any idea why 'testTwo does not work ? because the argument type of "arg" was string?. Below is the updated version: -- Orm %circled-pattern #(define-markup-command (circled-pattern

Re: dotted semicircle indicating harmonics

2018-07-07 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi List, for conciseness the example should be reduced even more (if someone wants to post it to LSR I'd recommend this version). %circled-pattern #(define-markup-command (circled-pattern layout props radius angle num arg) (number? number? number? string?) (interpret-markup layout props

Re: dotted semicircle indicating harmonics

2018-07-07 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Pierre, I corrected your example (see below). It should work now. -- Orm Am Samstag, den 07. Juli 2018 um 13:11:25 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Pierre Perol-Schneider: > Hi All, > > I'm not sure that a poscript would be ideal. > I'm thinking about a pattern markup command that would do : > >

Re: Custom clef horizontal adjustment.

2018-07-06 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi David, good you figured it out. As I'm doing this stuff frequently, here are some remarks, maybe it's useful for you: Am Freitag, den 06. Juli 2018 um 01:49:09 Uhr (-0400) schrieb dfro: > I figured out why copying and pasting the postscript code did not > work. The 'lineto, moveto, curveto'

Re: 5/4 full measure rest

2018-05-16 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am Mittwoch, den 16. Mai 2018 um 10:11:30 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Menu Jacques: > Hello folks, > > What is the best way to write such a length, that cannot be written with dots? > > I’m not sure about R1*5/4, and I thought R1 R4 would be OK for that, but: as a general rule: If a full measure rest

Re: gridlayout of Bars with Clef

2018-04-30 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Brian, Torsten, thanks, that's doing the trick! -- Orm Am Montag, den 30. April 2018 um 06:36:06 Uhr (-0700) schrieb Torsten Hämmerle: > A *very* simple example, but that should give you an idea: > > % > \version "2.19" > > \layout { indent = 0 \context { \Staff \remove

gridlayout of Bars with Clef

2018-04-30 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, for a preface I need a grid layout of single bars with barlines on the left and right hand side, a clef for each bar and some music within. Below is a first attempt which should demonstrate the basic idea. My problems with this example: 1. The systemStartDelimiter of the bars of the first

Re: Creating orchestral score

2017-11-05 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Daniel, you have to separate the music content from the score/layout in the parts. You end up with something like 1. files for the music content of each part 2. files with the score/layout block for each part, which have an include statement for the respective music content file(s). 3.

Re: install lilypond info doc on linux

2017-10-15 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi David, thanks, that did it! @Martin: I use arch linux and installed the development version of lilypond (2.19.65) and its documentation. -- Orm Am Samstag, den 14. Oktober 2017 um 19:20:56 Uhr (-0500) schrieb David Wright: > On Sat 14 Oct 2017 at 15:02:08 (+0200), Orm Finnendahl wr

install lilypond info doc on linux

2017-10-14 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, is there any information somewhere how to install lilypond's info documentation into info/emacs on linux? On my machine the documents are in /usr/share/info but the dir file in that directory is more or less empty and I would like to populate it in the correct/recommended way. -- Orm

Re: compile time linux/windows

2017-05-04 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am Donnerstag, den 04. Mai 2017 um 14:17:02 Uhr (+0200) schrieb David Kastrup: > The culprit is likely broken font caching. Fixed in more recent > versions. Thanx! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

compile time linux/windows

2017-05-04 Thread Orm Finnendahl
could someone with a Windows computer maybe compile the score and report back to the list so that we can narrow down the culprit? Is it the lilypond version or could it be a wrong setup? Yours, Orm ------ Prof. Orm Finnendahl Komposition Hochsch

Re: cross-voice ties and merging noteheads

2017-02-25 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi all, Am Samstag, den 25. Februar 2017 um 17:41:15 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Urs Liska: > Yes, but I think the issue is solved by now with Andrew's suggestion. it is indeed. Thanks Andrew! Yours, Orm -- Prof. Orm Finnend

Re: cross-voice ties and merging noteheads

2017-02-25 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am Samstag, den 25. Februar 2017 um 14:25:52 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Urs Liska: > An image would be helpful to avoid misunderstandings. attached. I tried to keep the file size small. Let me know if you need it in better resolution. -- Orm ___

cross-voice ties and merging noteheads

2017-02-25 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, in the example below (an excerpt of the left hand piano part of the Schumann Song "Mondnacht") I'd like to resemble the rendering of Clara Schumann's Edition in the Breitkopfärtel print. %< \version "2.19.48" \score { \new Staff \with {

Re: Footnotes for subtitle

2017-01-29 Thread Orm Finnendahl
and which can export to eps and use the eps file in the markup. For markup commands see: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/formatting-text -- Orm -- Prof. Orm Finnendahl Komposition Hochschule für Musik und

Re: Getting a new computer

2016-11-17 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am Donnerstag, den 17. November 2016 um 13:24:24 Uhr (+1100) schrieb Vaughan McAlley: > Lilypond files, I was wondering which specs I should be prioritizing. As lilypond is single-threaded, the number of cores is less important, than CPU Freq and you should go for a lot of RAM (>= 16 GB). Since

Re: state-of-the-art for algorithmic hooks and Lilypond+(La)TeX

2016-07-12 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am Dienstag, den 12. Juli 2016 um 09:26:38 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Urs Liska: > > You know that in Karlsruhe every student of music informatics and > musicology has to take a class in common lisp (in their 3rd > semester)? In Essen its part of the curriculum as well, but I'm not aware of many

Re: state-of-the-art for algorithmic hooks and Lilypond+(La)TeX

2016-07-12 Thread Orm Finnendahl
for my needs and in a language hardly anybody uses, I never bothered to make it available. -- Orm ------ Prof. Orm Finnendahl Komposition Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Eschersheimer Landstr. 29-39 60322 Frank

Re: always glissandi

2016-06-24 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi David, Am Donnerstag, den 23. Juni 2016 um 20:55:50 Uhr (-0500) schrieb David Nalesnik: > I'm thinking I'm safe in betting that I've spent more time on this > than this will ever save you :) true, but it clears up things for other users like me as well, so it's well invested ;-) Thanks for

Re: saxophon multiphonic, how to

2015-12-20 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am Sonntag, den 20. Dezember 2015 um 17:47:39 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Stefan Thomas: > Dear Andrew, > I've tried it with the following code: > mphonicXCII = ^\markup { \override #'(size . 0.4) { \woodwind-diagram > #'saxophone #'((cc . (one two three )) (lh . ()) (rh . ())) } } > But the saxophone

Re: Chords and what they mean

2015-09-18 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am Freitag, den 18. September 2015 um 08:05:03 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Blöchl Bernhard: > If one "colours" that up you get the bright colourful variety of > skilled music that began with the development of orchestral events outside > the churches and cathedrals and in the brothels of New Orleans.

Re: Way to flatten nested \include's?

2015-08-24 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am Montag, den 24. August 2015 um 21:57:37 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Blöchl Bernhard: The attached file is a binary, not a lilypond file, regardless of the extension .ly? No, it is a text file but the mime type of the attachment is specified as application/octet stream. I changed it to text/plain in

Re: string harmonics with cue notes

2015-08-15 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Stephen, thanks for the help! Using your idea I ended up with this: Cue = #(define-music-function (parser location note shift) (ly:music? number?) #{ \override Stem.transparent = ##t \override ParenthesesItem.padding = #0.2 \override ParenthesesItem.font-size

Remove 3rd Staff in PianoStaff if empty

2015-08-15 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, in a piano score I'm writing sometimes a third staff on top of the other two standard staffs (with a G^15 clef) is used. I would like to remove this staff if empty, but *always* have the other two staffs active. If I remove the Keep_alive_together_engraver from the PianoStaff, every staff

Re: Remove 3rd Staff in PianoStaff if empty

2015-08-15 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am Samstag, den 15. August 2015 um 16:04:02 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Malte Meyn: If PianoStaff accepts StaffGroup the alignment works, so here is a solution: great, thanks! -- Orm ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: string harmonics with cue notes

2015-08-15 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Malte, I just realized from David's answer that your code somehow escaped my mailbox. Your solutions are exactly, what I was looking for, so please ignore my last post in that matter and thanks a lot: Your code is really helpful and very much appreciated! -- Orm

string harmonics with cue notes

2015-08-14 Thread 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. Is there an easier way than the bloated example below? \version 2.19.5 { { a' \harmonic 1 ^\markup { sul D } } \\ {

Re: Score.skipTypesetting

2015-08-13 Thread Orm Finnendahl
, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Orm Finnendahl orm.finnend...@selma.hfmdk-frankfurt.de wrote: As the instrument names are short, lilypond must know that it isn't at the beginning of the piece. It would be preferrable to have unindented first staffs, as that would better resemble the final layout

Score.skipTypesetting

2015-08-11 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, this is only a minor issue: Is there a good reason, why the first bar of a partially rendered score starting in the middle of the piece is indented? As the instrument names are short, lilypond must know that it isn't at the beginning of the piece. It would be preferrable to have unindented

Position FullBarRest

2015-08-11 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, is there a way to position a FullBarRest on a specific line, like b' \rest (but with a FullBarRest centered in the measure)? I couldn't find anything in the docs. -- Orm ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Position FullBarRest

2015-08-11 Thread Orm Finnendahl
many thanks! -- Orm Am Dienstag, den 11. August 2015 um 18:39:11 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Malte Meyn: Am 11.08.2015 um 18:22 schrieb David Kastrup: Orm Finnendahl orm.finnend...@selma.hfmdk-frankfurt.de writes: is there a way to position a FullBarRest on a specific line, like b' \rest

Re: organizing orchestral music

2015-06-25 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am Donnerstag, den 25. Juni 2015 um 11:35:18 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Gergely K.: Hi all! I'd like to engrave orchestral music, one sheet for violinist, cellist and one for conductor. I'd like to have the following structure: base.ly -- name and time signature of the music violin1.ly -- when

Re: organizing orchestral music

2015-06-25 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am Donnerstag, den 25. Juni 2015 um 18:12:42 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Gergely K.: No, you don't have to. Right-click on the tab of your main file and check always engrave this file. Thanks for the tip, one less keypress, but still have to press Ctrl-M to engrave, since only the included file

Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-20 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, for the orchestra parts I used B4 portrait. Orchestra musicians love this format as this fits well on a music stand (A3 is too big) and fits more music than A4 (less page turns). I also used thicker paper (120 g/m2) and a special binding method (glue and tape) to make the pages stay open and

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-20 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, this is the way how I finally had to do it in my piece, but unfortunately this method doesn't work very well in orchestra parts where instruments are changed (like Clarinets changing between Eb, Bb and Bassclarinet, or French Horns changing from G-Clef to F-Clef) as you either have to

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-19 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Kieren, Am Samstag, den 18. April 2015 um 17:54:44 Uhr (-0400) schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Would love to see it, but the link didn’t work for me… =\ that's strange. I just tried again and it works for me. Could it be that your browser complained because of a missing certificate as the system

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-17 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 16. April 2015 um 19:43:38 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Urs Liska: ... I'd like to know what might be the biggest score anyone has successfully created with LilyPond. the biggest score so far for me is a piece for big orchestra, 6 soloists, live-electronics and fixed media from

Re: undefined

2015-04-17 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am Freitag, den 17. April 2015 um 11:05:00 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Calixte Faure: Hi everyone! Traditionally, vocal scores are written without beams, except for melisma. But modern scores tend to keep beams everywhere and put slurs to indicate melisma. Is it possible to have both output with

Re: getting the argument list of a procedure

2015-03-04 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Dear David, Am Mittwoch, den 04. März 2015 um 15:35:46 Uhr (-0600) schrieb David Nalesnik: I would like to be able to return the argument list of a Scheme function, say as a list of symbols. I'm not sure I understand what exactly you're looking for. In scheme, you can assign a name to all

Re: segmented glissando lines

2015-01-11 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Pierre, Urs, that's excellent and very instructional, thanks! -- Orm Am Samstag, den 10. Januar 2015 um 23:56:03 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Pierre Perol-Schneider: Hi Orm, How about : \version 2.19.15 #(define (add-gliss m) (case (ly:music-property m 'name) ((NoteEvent) (set!

segmented glissando lines

2015-01-10 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, I can't find documentation about how to write segmented glissando lines, like in the attached png. The line segments have to get notated with precise rhythms, so I'm looking for something similar to glissando notation but without noteheads. I tried this: \new Staff \relative c'' { \hide

Re: segmented glissando lines

2015-01-10 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Urs, Am Samstag, den 10. Januar 2015 um 22:22:15 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Urs Liska: Can't test right now, but what about \omit NoteHead? same problem, glissandolines aren't drawn at all if NoteHeads are omitted: % \version 2.19 \new Staff

Re: Bar numbers below staff

2014-12-20 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Jay, try this: % \version 2.19.5 \relative c' { \override Score.BarNumber.break-visibility = #'#(#t #t #t) \override Score.BarNumber.direction = #DOWN c1 d e f c d e f c d e f }

Re: 3/4 time and whole notes

2014-12-13 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am Samstag, den 13. Dezember 2014 um 02:57:03 Uhr (+) schrieb Henry Baxter: Hi, I'm certain this is online somewhere but I just can't find it. How do I tell Lilypond I want a whole note? Here are 2 ways: \version 2.18.2 { \time 3/4 c1*3/4 c1*3/4 c1*3/4 c1*3/4 } or:

Re: Including a logo on the title page of a book

2014-12-06 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi John, your file format looks strange. It seems to be some sort of binary format which can't get converted to utf-8 in a straightforward way. Try the file here: https://www.selma.hfmdk-frankfurt.de/selmafile/f/c74efc507a/ (Click on any of the buttons labeled Herunterladen, which is the

Re: m above beam in guitar notation

2014-12-02 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Pierre, Federico, thanks! -- Orm Am Dienstag, den 02. Dezember 2014 um 08:58:47 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Pierre Perol-Schneider: Oups, space's missing. So, again, try fis-3 \2 -\tweak X-offset #-.5 \RH #3 2014-12-02 7:21 GMT+01:00 Pierre Perol-Schneider

m above beam in guitar notation

2014-12-01 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, in the following example, the m is printed above the beam whereas all other right hand fingerings are notated below the beam. Is this related to the larger size of the letter m? Can someone shed a light on this and how this could be avoided? -- Orm

Re: moving tweaks into markup-definition

2014-09-17 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am Mittwoch, den 17. September 2014 um 07:53:48 Uhr (+0100) schrieb James: Do you have any other suggestions we could improve the documentation with perhaps? The main problem in this special case for me is the fact, that David's code suggests that the first three elements of the prop argument

markup on top staff of an orchestra piece

2014-09-16 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, in a piece for large orchestra, I need text markup and tempo markings which only appear on the top staff of the score and each part. I defined an empty (invisible) staff with removed staff symbol, time signature, etc., using skips instead of rests, which works well. Unfortunately as soon as

Re: markup on top staff of an orchestra piece

2014-09-16 Thread Orm Finnendahl
I found it. For someone googling this: You have to put \new Staff \with { \override VerticalAxisGroup.remove-empty = ##f } into your staff definition. Sorry for the noise... -- Orm Am Dienstag, den 16. September 2014 um 22:04:38 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Orm Finnendahl: Hi, in a piece

Re: markup on top staff of an orchestra piece

2014-09-16 Thread Orm Finnendahl
staffs; see attachment. This also lets you change things like time signature or key in all instruments simulatneously. Am 16.09.2014 um 22:19 schrieb Orm Finnendahl: I found it. For someone googling this: You have to put \new Staff \with { \override VerticalAxisGroup.remove-empty = ##f

moving tweaks into markup-definition

2014-09-16 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, here is the next question: Is there a way to move the tweaks in the following code into the markup definition of secs so that they don't clutter up the score? -- Orm % \version 2.19.5 #(define-markup-command (secs layout props

Re: markup on top staff of an orchestra piece

2014-09-16 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am Dienstag, den 16. September 2014 um 23:29:14 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Orm Finnendahl: The only thing I haven't figured out yet is, how I can make these invisible staves disappear in case no staff of a certain staffgroup is present at all. E.g. in large scores bar numbers normally get displayed

Re: markup on top staff of an orchestra piece

2014-09-16 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Kieren, thanks for the note, I'll try to find that. Not sure whether it makes sense at this moment to change in the current score (although it's quite well modularized, the whole thing consists of about 600 files), especially since I seem to be able to get everything worked out quite well,

Re: moving tweaks into markup-definition

2014-09-16 Thread Orm Finnendahl
of the sources of lilypond. -- Orm Am Dienstag, den 16. September 2014 um 17:52:47 Uhr (-0500) schrieb David Nalesnik: Hello, On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Orm Finnendahl orm.finnend...@selma.hfmdk-frankfurt.de wrote: Hi, here is the next question: Is there a way to move

Re: pitched note annotation

2014-09-14 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 14. September 2014 um 09:21:28 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Pierre Perol-Schneider: Try : ... thanks a lot, that worked! I wrapped that in the definition below. Two issues remain: 1. If the note is at the end of a bar, the annotation gets printed in the following bar. The

pitched note annotation

2014-09-13 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, I'd like to make a small annotation to a note specifying a sounding pitch (in parentheses) for certain special playing techniques. To show what I mean, the following snippet gives the desired result: %--- \version

Re: fermatas in parentheses

2014-09-06 Thread Orm Finnendahl
. September 2014 um 10:37:23 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Pierre Perol-Schneider: Hi Orm, 2014-09-05 13:52 GMT+02:00 Orm Finnendahl orm.finnend...@selma.hfmdk-frankfurt.de: 1. Is there a way to move the override for the font-size in the into the definition of parenfermata Try : \version

fermatas in parentheses

2014-09-05 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, the following code snippet typesets a fermata in parentheses by defining a custom articulation definition which modifies the default fermata articulation: %- \version 2.19.5 parenfermata = #(let ((m (make-music

partcombine problems

2014-08-10 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, I'm having terrible problems with partcombine. In the following code bars 2 and 3 only show the first quarter rest. \version 2.19.5 MusikObEins = { R1 | % 214 \partcombineSoloI r4 r8 b 16- \sf r16 r4 r4 | % 215 R1 | % 216 \partcombineSoloI r4 r4 \times 2/3 { r8 gis' 8- \sf r8 } r4 | %

Re: partcombine problems

2014-08-10 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am Sonntag, den 10. August 2014 um 11:01:30 Uhr (-0700) schrieb Keith OHara: % workaround: \grace s8 \partcombineSoloII Great, thanks a lot, that seems to be consistent and saves my day! I'll define a global definition for that which can be reverted in case the bug should get fixed. -- Orm

referencing and merging on the fly created staffs

2014-07-17 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, in the following example, an extra staff is created on the fly at two non-adjacent times. Unfortunately the extra staffs are at different vertical positions as they are considered different by lilypond. Is it possible to reference the first extra staff by the second? I'm aware that I could

changing global staff size on the fly

2014-06-20 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, on Fri, 20 Jun 2014 07:19:15 +0200, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote No easy way. See also http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=862 (just in case...) Thanks, I was aware of that and had tried something like this: \version 2.19.5 staffSize = #(define-music-function (parser location new-size)

changing global staff size on the fly

2014-06-19 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, is there a way to reduce the global staff size of all staffs in an orchestral score for selected pages (or a selected region) on the fly (without having to put the music of these pages into seperate books/scores or something like that)? I'm on 2.9.15. (A simple no is sufficient in case it's

Re: conditional markup

2014-06-15 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, Am Samstag, den 14. Juni 2014 um 16:56:36 Uhr (+0200) schrieb David Kastrup: Notice the - before the markup, turning this into a post-event. Thanks, that was the missing link. I had tried define-event-function and got stuck as it appeared to be pre-event. BTW: This meaning of the error

tags on tweaks

2014-06-15 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, just to verify: I assume it is always necessary to tag a complete music expression, or can just tweaks themselves get tagged? Here is an example for a use case: In the score the dynamics should get offset to the left to optimize vertical space requirements. In the part the dynamics should

problems with partcombine

2014-06-15 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, below is another example with a couple of issues I can't resolve: The issues: 1. With my lilypond version the clef change to the bass clef in the second bar is ignored (although in other situations a clef change in mid bar is printed). 2. All rests in the second bar of musictwo are

Re: conditional markup

2014-06-15 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am Sonntag, den 15. Juni 2014 um 14:26:36 Uhr (+0200) schrieb David Kastrup: Orm Finnendahl orm.finnend...@hfmdk-frankfurt.de writes: Would you have preferred orm.ly:11:20: error: music function cannot return \markup \line { Test} that doesn't really matter, the problem for me was, whether

Re: conditional markup

2014-06-15 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi David, thanks a lot for the comment. Am Sonntag, den 15. Juni 2014 um 16:07:01 Uhr (+0200) schrieb David Kastrup: A music function has to return music, period. Different music may be used in different contexts, but a music function cannot return anything but music. Maybe it would be a

conditional markup

2014-06-14 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, for defining markups which appear selectively either only in the parts or only in the score I'm trying to use the following strategy: I include a score-defs.ly or part-defs.ly file in the score or part respectively and define commands like sMarkup for markup only appearing in the score or

Re: conditional markup

2014-06-14 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am Samstag, den 14. Juni 2014 um 14:17:44 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Phil Holmes: Had you considered using tags instead? No, thanks, I wasn't aware of this. Seems to be exactly what I need. -- Orm ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

lilypond and multithreading

2014-06-04 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, rendering a score on an i7-2640M with the option -djob-count=2 shows 100% cpu load only on one thread of one of the two cores while rendering. Is there some way or a recommended technique of setting up lilypond to better distribute the load? Or does lilypond have to get compiled with

bar numbers above StaffGroups

2014-06-01 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, I'm trying to print bar numbers not only at the top of the score, but also above selected groups, (like brass, percussion, strings, etc.). The code below does the trick, but the bar numbers are both printed in columns above the topmost staff. Is there a canonical way to get them printed

compound timesig in all staves?

2014-05-29 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, in the following example, the compound timesignature is only shown on the top staff. Is there a mechanism to show it in all staffs with the 2+3/4 without wxplicitely having to restate the compundMeter statement in each staff? -- Orm \version 2.19.5 \relative c' { \new Staff =

Re: compound timesig in all staves?

2014-05-29 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi David, thanks. I agree this should be the default in LilyPond... -- Orm Am Donnerstag, den 29. Mai 2014 um 22:03:18 Uhr (+0200) schrieb David Kastrup: I think the \override Staff.TimeSignature.stencil bit should rather be \override Timing.TimeDignature.stencil instead. You can copy and

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