Vertically Repositioning \tempo Output

2024-04-14 Thread PMA
Hi List -- One of my several \tempo commands is printing its line too far above the staff. My attempts to affect its Y-offset (with \markup, \offset or \tweak) have failed. Could someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance, Peter A

Color for Articulations?

2023-11-02 Thread PMA
Dear LP Gurus, My piano score in progress has 3 voices.  As these voices are to become somewhat conflated, I've assigned each a unique color for its noteheads, stems, flags, and slurs.  All of this works fine. However, I can't find a way to change color default for its ARTICULATIONS (the

Re: Spacing for s4

2016-12-05 Thread PMA
My apologies, Simon. Just now registered your first request. Will reform. On 12/05/2016 03:42 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote: I don’t understand why you keep going off-list with this. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Spacing for s4

2016-12-04 Thread PMA
On 12/04/2016 11:50 AM, Carl Sorensen wrote: ... Until I reread the manual I had forgotten that spacer rests are really called "invisible rests", which exactly describes what they do. Perhaps we should change the documentation to have most of the text read "invisible rest". Well, to my mind,

Re: Spacing for s4

2016-12-03 Thread PMA
Hear hear! P On 12/03/2016 10:19 AM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi all, Or perhaps have a distinction between things like { s4 } and { c4\rest } ? I think we should distinguish between “skips” [which take up no space, horizontal or vertical], “spacers” [which take up space, but are

Re: Spacing for s4

2016-12-03 Thread PMA
On 12/03/2016 06:26 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> writes: On 03.12.2016 02:36, PMA wrote: The score setup already calls for proportional notation. I think it would be a valid request to have s-rests take up the respective space with proportional s

Re: Spacing for s4

2016-12-02 Thread PMA
On 12/02/2016 08:36 PM, PMA wrote: On 12/02/2016 07:08 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 02.12.2016 23:39, PMA wrote: Hi All! I notice that the spacer command (e.g., "s4"), though always accounting rightly for the TIME it commandeers (here a quarter-note's worth), does not always ins

Re: Spacing for s4

2016-12-02 Thread PMA
On 12/02/2016 07:08 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 02.12.2016 23:39, PMA wrote: Hi All! I notice that the spacer command (e.g., "s4"), though always accounting rightly for the TIME it commandeers (here a quarter-note's worth), does not always insert ACTUAL HORIZONTAL SPACE in the score

Re: Bad-Schemer syndrome

2016-12-02 Thread PMA
Oops. Ignore the Subject line here, and the whole lower message. I forgot to erase them. Mea culpa! On 12/02/2016 05:39 PM, PMA wrote: Hi All! I notice that the spacer command (e.g., "s4"), though always accounting rightly for the TIME it commandeers (here a quarter-note's wo

Re: Bad-Schemer syndrome

2016-12-02 Thread PMA
would have disabled it?) Thanks, Pete On 11/03/2016 03:41 PM, PMA wrote: Hi LP Gurus! I have a score (see "Original" below) full of note events like "gs 3", whose duration is MEANT always to be realized as *one triplet half-note*. Original = { gs 3 a 3g 2 a

Bad-Schemer syndrome

2016-11-03 Thread PMA
Hi LP Gurus! I have a score (see "Original" below) full of note events like "gs 3", whose duration is MEANT always to be realized as *one triplet half-note*. Original = { gs 3 a 3g 2 a 3 } Replaced = { \TR gs\TR a g 2 \TR a } So, I'm trying to concoct a function

Please help enable fussy \tempo output

2016-09-22 Thread PMA
Hi All again! I would like to alter the output of LY's \tempo command, specifically within its "( = )" assignment. Here's my original -- \tempo \markup \sans "Blah blah" 1 = 50 which o'course outputs a black whole-note glyph with both the "= 50" and the parentheses in TimesRoman font. I want

Re: Please help with Lilypond calling Scheme

2016-09-20 Thread PMA
Oh dear. *NEVER MIND*. I just now got it working. Thanks anyway! Pete On 09/20/2016 01:12 PM, PMA wrote: Hi Lilypond Gurus! I need help, when you can spare the time, to get an already- working Lilypond music function to call my just-added Scheme routine. This Scheme procedure works when

Please help with Lilypond calling Scheme

2016-09-20 Thread PMA
Hi Lilypond Gurus! I need help, when you can spare the time, to get an already- working Lilypond music function to call my just-added Scheme routine. This Scheme procedure works when called directly from Guile: entering "(colorNote -1)" get output "red". (define

Re: 2.18.2 - Thoughts so far

2015-10-03 Thread PMA
Hear, hear! Ivan Kuznetsov wrote: Do yourself a serious favor and learn vi ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-12 Thread PMA
PMA wrote: PMA wrote: Martin Tarenskeen wrote: This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users and developers? My average age is 75. Better answer -- My age is 75. I've been using Lilypond for ca 5 years, without an editor (other than VI), and entirely for original

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-12 Thread PMA
PMA wrote: Martin Tarenskeen wrote: This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users and developers? My average age is 75. Better answer -- My age is 75. I've been using Lilypond for ca 5 years, without an editor (other than VI), and entirely for original compositions

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-10 Thread PMA
PMA wrote: PMA wrote: Martin Tarenskeen wrote: This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users and developers? My average age is 75. Better answer -- My age is 75. I've been using Lilypond for ca 5 years, without an editor (other than VI), and entirely for original

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-10 Thread PMA
PMA wrote: Martin Tarenskeen wrote: This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users and developers? My average age is 75. Better answer -- My age is 75. I've been using Lilypond for ca 5 years, without an editor (other than VI), and entirely for original compositions

Re: Gallery of Interesting Music Notation

2015-09-01 Thread PMA
Trevor Daniels wrote: ... in the Learning Manual: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/learning/real-music-example Should the LH upper 'D' not be an E-flat? - PMA ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-08-24 Thread PMA
Michael Gerdau wrote: Anybody remembering APL ? APL was my main lang. for decades, as is now its superset/descendant, J. I've got weary trying to tell anybody why. But the curious might take a peek at http://www.jsoftware.com/ Pete ___

Re: Mutable and immutable

2015-08-18 Thread PMA
Andrew Bernard wrote: Greetings All, Since immutable as an adjective applied to an object in most programming languages, and in normal English usage means unchanging over time, or unable to be changed, how is it that the value of immutable objects can then be changed with \override and

Re: Slur across staves?

2015-06-25 Thread PMA
Joram wrote: Hi Pete, Will pursue -- hope the \shapell fussing doesn't carry me away To avoid frustration: The command is \shapeII with two upper case I’s (like in Iceland) and not \shapell with lower case l’s (like in low). Cheers, Joram O! (Thanks,

Slur across staves?

2015-06-24 Thread PMA
Hi List. I have in piano staff a 6/8 bar of single 8ths, with the first three in bass clef and the second three in treble. I'd like all six notes under _one_ slur (whether snaky- shaped or not). Is this somehow feasible? Thanks in advance for any thoughts. Pete

Re: Slur across staves?

2015-06-24 Thread PMA
tisimst wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Simon Albrecht-2 [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n17817...@n5.nabble.com wrote: Am 25.06.2015 um 00:34 schrieb PMA: Hi List. I have in piano staff a 6/8 bar of single 8ths, with the first three in bass clef and the second three in treble. I'd

Re: Haydn bug fix

2015-04-30 Thread PMA
Abraham, Why do you point to Haydn's Hob. XVI:37? Is it that Peters' (Köhler Ed.) handling of this particular work was especially remarkable -- and so has specifically inspired your font? - Pete ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Haydn bug fix

2015-04-30 Thread PMA
tisimst wrote: Peter, On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 9:57 AM, PMA-2 [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n17571...@n5.nabble.com wrote: Which Haydn Sonata is this? - Pete Keyboard Sonata in D major, Hob. XVI:37 No. 50 (Joseph Haydn) Here's the IMSLP link http://imslp.org/wiki

Fibbing

2015-04-30 Thread PMA
Hi List. I need to lie to Lily about an end-of-page time signature change. So that even tho she means to tick on in 3/4, she will now _say_ 6/8 instead -- for a new belated 6/8 page I want to stick in. Is there a convenient trick for doing this? (If not, nevermind, I'm just trying to avoid the

Re: Haydn bug fix

2015-04-30 Thread PMA
Which Haydn Sonata is this? - Pete tisimst wrote All Haydn users, I just discovered that I had a little bug in the font that messes up the spacing when using the \tied-lyric markup function (i.e., it introduced too much space between the tied text). This has been fixed and an updated set of

Re: Creating LilyPond Object Models

2015-04-23 Thread PMA
On the piano I can play/think in voices or not. Sorry, I've lost track as to who wrote that. But just in case -- one might consider the (single-musician) pianist accompanying a (4-voiced) sunday school hymn. Pete ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: What is the problem with \relative? (Was: Do we really offer the future?)

2015-04-23 Thread PMA
Calixte Faure wrote: I learned music in French (native French) and was at the beginning a little bit confused with 2 4 8 16 etc. because we say white, black, hooked, double-hooked, triple-, etc. . At least you weren't trapped in hemi-demi-semi-quavers! - Pete

Re: Do we really offer the future?

2015-04-22 Thread PMA
Am 22.04.2015 um 14:30 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: We try to explain this away by saying that LP is an engraving tool, not a composition tool, but -- if we're really serious about making LP more attractive to the average user of notation software, this is too glib. In using LilyPond for all my

Re: Do we really offer the future?

2015-04-22 Thread PMA
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Pete, So major compositional changes -- the ones we're calling structural here -- are implemented at that first (gen.purp.prog.lang) level, tossing LP not much to trip over then or fail to carry through. My point, then: Why stuff a complicated-enough engraving

Re: procedure vs. function

2015-04-19 Thread PMA
Andrew Bernard wrote: Yes, it is quite muddy! I just took a look at the Guile 2.0 reference manual. Generally they use procedure but the book also uses the term function interchangeably further on inside, so I suppose it does not matter so much! No doubt the book is written by a large team

Re: procedure vs. function

2015-04-19 Thread PMA
Wols Lists wrote: On 18/04/15 22:11, PMA wrote: Aha. So the improper-er their code got, the tougher time compilers had trying to -- as Martin says -- throw it out. All told, is there now any real need _not_ to use the terms function and procedure interchangeably? That is, any real need

Re: procedure vs. function

2015-04-18 Thread PMA
/lilypond-user Hi List -- AFAIK, of our major ancestor languages, only Pascal insisted on a literal working function-vs-procedure distinction. Did Wirth ever defend this insistence (as more than a track-keeping enforcer re value-outputting vs non-value-outputting code)? PMA

Re: procedure vs. function

2015-04-18 Thread PMA
J Martin Rushton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/04/15 20:41, PMA wrote: PMA wrote: Jacques Menu wrote: Hello, Yes, historically a disctinction was made between the « sub-programs » that return a value and those that don’t, but the Scheme docs seem to use

Re: procedure vs. function

2015-04-18 Thread PMA
Wols Lists wrote: On 18/04/15 19:56, PMA wrote: AFAIK, of our major ancestor languages, only Pascal insisted on a literal working function-vs-procedure distinction. Did Wirth ever defend this insistence (as more than a track-keeping enforcer re value-outputting vs non-value-outputting code

Re: procedure vs. function

2015-04-18 Thread PMA
PMA wrote: Jacques Menu wrote: Hello, Yes, historically a disctinction was made between the « sub-programs » that return a value and those that don’t, but the Scheme docs seem to use the terms function and procedure interchangeably. In C++, everything is a function : a procedure is merely

Re: Trying to replicate an obscure pedal marking from a ~1919 score...

2014-12-22 Thread PMA
Kieren MacMillan wrote: You can have the pedal line be a line drawing of Grumpy Cat if you want. ;) As a 6-year-old budding pianist I thought, seriously, that the Ped. must be a cocker spaniel. (Our best friends had one.) If I had to read this as a pedalling direction, well, fair enough.

Re: Force auto-beaming?

2014-09-06 Thread PMA
Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: Hi Peter, how about a tiny example ? Cheers, Pierre Hi Pierre, Ok, I'll whittle down a big one (to remove home-grown non-culprit conditions you'd otherwise have to wonder about) and send the still-botching Tiny. All I want, really, is a command that says to the

Re: Reduce vertical space between \score's?

2014-09-06 Thread PMA
PMA wrote: PMA wrote: Abraham Lee wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Pete, Trouble is, the vertical space between \score's is too big. This was not so in the original version (2.12.3), but is now after my upgrade to version

Force auto-beaming?

2014-09-05 Thread PMA
Hi List. I have a \cadenzaOn score with many notes, occasional rests, and no barlines. I want beaming imposed for all consecutive (flagged) notes, interruptible only by rests. That was LP 2.12's default auto-beam behavior, but 2.18 in this context (tho with \set Staff.autoBeaming = ##t) only

Reduce vertical space between \score's?

2014-08-08 Thread PMA
Hi List. An *.ly of mine has four 1-system \score's on each page, rather than one 4-system \score, because each system's Score.proportionalNotationDuration...make-moment... setting is different (and \score accepts only one such setting). Trouble is, the vertical space between \score's is too

Re: Reduce vertical space between \score's?

2014-08-08 Thread PMA
P.S. I should ask alternatively: Is there a way that proportionalNotationDuration...make-moment... can be reset _per system_ (assuming now a multi- system \score)? PMA wrote: Hi List. An *.ly of mine has four 1-system \score's on each page, rather than one 4-system \score, because each

Re: Reduce vertical space between \score's?

2014-08-08 Thread PMA
Abraham Lee wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Pete, Trouble is, the vertical space between \score's is too big. This was not so in the original version (2.12.3), but is now after my upgrade to version 2.18.2. Is it possible to

Re: Reduce vertical space between \score's?

2014-08-08 Thread PMA
PMA wrote: Abraham Lee wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Pete, Trouble is, the vertical space between \score's is too big. This was not so in the original version (2.12.3), but is now after my upgrade to version 2.18.2

Re: Retrograde and inversion clefs

2014-08-08 Thread PMA
guoguocuozuoduo wrote: Hi all, I am working on a piece that uses reversed and inverted clefs which indicate retrograde and inversion. The reversed clef is placed at the end of a line to indicate retrograde; the inverted clef is placed before the main clef to indicate inversion. How can

Re: Proportional-Notation Durations

2014-07-24 Thread PMA
PMA wrote: Thomas Morley wrote: 2014-07-09 0:24 GMT+02:00 PMApeterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu: Hi List. I'm looking for a LilyPond way to specify note duration in a Proportional Notation context using exactly _one_ stemless notehead type. Perhaps the first option is a mid-level horizontal line

Re: Proportional-Notation Durations

2014-07-24 Thread PMA
Mike Solomon wrote: On Jul 24, 2014, at 9:08 PM, PMApeterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu wrote: PMA wrote: Thomas Morley wrote: 2014-07-09 0:24 GMT+02:00 PMApeterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu: Hi List. I'm looking for a LilyPond way to specify note duration in a Proportional Notation context using

New LilyPond on Ancient Debian?

2014-07-23 Thread PMA
Hi List. My Debian version is Squeeze (oldstable), with default LilyPond at version 2.12.3-7. Has any of you successfully upgraded LP to version 2.18.0-1 on that system? Thanks, Pete ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Updating a score from version 1.4

2014-07-17 Thread PMA
I'm thinking this implies that convert-ly is best used incrementally by LP version, with no intermediate upgrading omitted. So, with original code at Ver 'A' and my destination Ver 'E', then for best results I'd install Versions B, C, D and run all four convert-ly's (A-B; B-C; C-D; D-E)? Is

Re: Updating a score from version 1.4

2014-07-17 Thread PMA
David Harm, Thank you! I let my unresolved fuzziness on this issue (and a memory of messy cumulative system upgrades) keep me from attempting a 'convert-ly' _EVER_. Now I stand -- well, sit -- corrected, and am ready to at least _try_. Pete David Kastrup wrote:

Re: List defect?

2014-07-11 Thread PMA
Simon Albrecht wrote: Hello, now there definitely seems to be something wrong with mail delivery on the list. Agreed. I had reported similar trouble with other forums' email, but now only LilyPond's hasn't returned to normal. Pete ___

Re: Proportional-Notation Durations

2014-07-10 Thread PMA
Thomas Morley wrote: 2014-07-09 0:24 GMT+02:00 PMApeterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu: Hi List. I'm looking for a LilyPond way to specify note duration in a Proportional Notation context using exactly _one_ stemless notehead type. Perhaps the first option is a mid-level horizontal line extending

Re: List defect?

2014-07-10 Thread PMA
I've no idea, and don't see it as clearly a defect _of the list_. Over the past few days I've had emails straggling in a day- or-so late from _several_ forums. Richard Shann wrote: On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 14:53 +0200, Simon Albrecht wrote: Hello, now there definitely seems to be something wrong

Proportional-Notation Durations

2014-07-08 Thread PMA
Hi List. I'm looking for a LilyPond way to specify note duration in a Proportional Notation context using exactly _one_ stemless notehead type. Perhaps the first option is a mid-level horizontal line extending distance-X from the notehead. (The space following would indicate silence.) But I

Sorta Proportional

2014-03-09 Thread PMA
since? PMA ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Move Page Numbers?

2014-02-06 Thread PMA
Thomas Morley wrote: how about: ... #(define folio-offset '( ... #(define-markup-command (place-folio layout props folio) (markup?) ... \paper { ... HTH, Harm Working beautifully (THd). Thanks Harm! Pete ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Move Page Numbers?

2014-02-05 Thread PMA
Hi List. Most of my current score's page numbers need shifting a little, both vertically and horizontally. Can \override ... #'extra-offset = #'( ... . ...) or something similar be aimed at PageNumber (instead of, say, DynamicText) to shift them? I could, I know, force the issue,

Re: Move Page Numbers?

2014-02-05 Thread PMA
Thomas Morley wrote: 2014-02-05 PMApeterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu: Hi List. Most of my current score's page numbers need shifting a little, both vertically and horizontally. Can \override ... #'extra-offset = #'( ... . ...) or something similar be aimed at PageNumber (instead of, say,

Re: Rest skipped in MIDI when music starts with it

2014-01-12 Thread PMA
My hack around this is to begin (each part) with some arbitrary pitch/duration at _zero_ Velocity (with the Rest just following, of course). This has suited my purposes, though I expect it might invite trouble for others. Pete Martin Tarenskeen wrote: On Sun, 12 Jan 2014, Eluze wrote:

Re: Lilypond Cheat Sheet 2.18

2014-01-01 Thread PMA
Thank you, Joram! P Noeck wrote: Hi all, as promised after the release of 2.16, I update my Lilypond cheat sheets for each stable version. After 2.18 came out recently, here is the corresponding version of my cheat sheet in three languages: English:

Re: LilyPond 2.18.0 released

2013-12-30 Thread PMA
Congrats, David et al! If I download lilypond-2.18.0-1.linux-x86.sh to my Debian Squeeze box (hoping to make it work there), will that file execute on its own? In any case, will its execution disable/replace my 2.12.3 (already happily running)? Thanks Happy New Year Paranoid P David Kastrup

Re: LilyPond 2.18.0 released

2013-12-30 Thread PMA
Tom Cloyd wrote: PP: As someone who is forever bewildered by Ly's download page (because no where else am I downloading a script instead of an installation module - I live a sheltered life!), allow me to assist: 1. On the unix download page - http://lilypond.org/unix.html - scroll down just a

Re: Very strange beaming example

2013-12-28 Thread PMA
Hemiola -- per half bar, over ca 100 bars. Urs Liska wrote: David Kastrupd...@gnu.org schrieb: Urs Liskau...@openlilylib.org writes: Has anybody seen this before? There are probably similar measures before and/or after. It's sort of a polyrhythm: 6 notes are one phrase starting with a

Re: stylesheet file structure

2013-12-15 Thread PMA
Urs Liska wrote: Am 15.12.2013 15:19, schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Exactly the other way around. Barenreiter_organ_classical_part_landscape_legal.ly Barenreiter is most significant, e.g. for sorting. Actually, for me “organ” is the most significant for sorting! =) But I appreciate your point.

Re: stylesheet file structure

2013-12-15 Thread PMA
Alex Loomis wrote: If they were to use the keys like Urs suggested then internal sort order wouldn't matter, so, to the user, it would seem like it is user-determined. Oh -- sorry, I should have realized he was covering this. On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 10:42 AM, PMApeterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu

Re: Other programming languages LilyPond

2013-12-02 Thread PMA
Urs Liska wrote: Answer him that ... As LP input files are plain you can use _any_ programming language to modify ... or even generate LilyPond input files. This is a nod to Urs's word _any_. All my scores are made via LP. But each LP input file is made by a program I've written either in J

Re: Other programming languages LilyPond

2013-12-02 Thread PMA
Curt wrote: On Dec 2, 2013, at 2:11 PM, PMApeterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu wrote: ...All my scores are made via LP. But each LP input file is made by a program I've written either in J (descendant superset of APL) or in good old BASH -- roughly as far apart as programming languages get. Ha - I'd

Re: Proposed horizontal spacing adjustment [was Re: film score example]

2013-09-15 Thread PMA
PMA wrote: David Kastrup wrote: PMApeterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu writes: David Kastrup wrote: PMApeterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu writes: Jim Long wrote: I suppose that, by extension, this means that a factor of #0.0 means the layout would have no spacing at all, and all glyphs would be engraved

Re: Proposed horizontal spacing adjustment [was Re: film score example]

2013-09-14 Thread PMA
Jim Long wrote: I suppose that, by extension, this means that a factor of #0.0 means the layout would have no spacing at all, and all glyphs would be engraved over the top of each other in one big blob, and a factor of #-1.0 would mean that the glyphs are engraved normally, but spaced

Re: Proposed horizontal spacing adjustment [was Re: film score example]

2013-09-14 Thread PMA
David Kastrup wrote: PMApeterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu writes: Jim Long wrote: I suppose that, by extension, this means that a factor of #0.0 means the layout would have no spacing at all, and all glyphs would be engraved over the top of each other in one big blob, and a factor of #-1.0 would

Re: Proposed horizontal spacing adjustment [was Re: film score example]

2013-09-14 Thread PMA
David Kastrup wrote: PMApeterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu writes: David Kastrup wrote: PMApeterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu writes: Jim Long wrote: I suppose that, by extension, this means that a factor of #0.0 means the layout would have no spacing at all, and all glyphs would be engraved over the

Re: Henle piano template

2013-07-29 Thread PMA
Urs Liska wrote: Am 29.07.2013 20:04, schrieb PMA: Urs Liska wrote: No, these don't, but I think that fingerings in itself _do_ belong in there, and if the original ones from Henle are copyrighted ... It seems to me that the only fingerings properly belonging in an Urtext ed are those

Re: Henle piano template

2013-07-29 Thread PMA
Urs Liska wrote: Urtext is a fiction anyway in 95% of the cases. What would you consider Urtext when you have a manuscript, a fair copy, an original edition controlled by the composer, a personal copy of the OE with corrections, and another, later manuscript with other readings than the OE or

Re: Discuss signature for new function \annotate (new version)

2013-06-11 Thread PMA
David, Thank you for this review. I wish I'd seen it 40 yrs ago, when a latest LISP book -- showcasing recursion as an iterator(?!) -- led me to throw my lot with APL instead. Music-programming-wise, of course, the joke's on me, as so relatively few computing musicians went this way. Pete

Re: LilyPond blog! who wants to join?

2013-06-03 Thread PMA
... Let's say the rule is as follows: anything that is a valid and interesting blog post will be accepted. So you just have to wrap the information you want to give into a blogpost form. For example, imagine that you want to announce Lily 2.17.1 release. Instead of writing something like:

Re: LilyPond blog! who wants to join?

2013-05-31 Thread PMA
LilyGilder[ok, nevermind] SoundsFromSound wrote: Across The Pond From Across The Pond Across the LilyPond From Across The (Lily)Pond etc ...just brainstorming. - composer | sound designer -- View this message in context:

Re: Online course that may help getting acquainted with Scheme

2013-05-30 Thread PMA
Urs Liska wrote: Hi, there is a free online course starting on Coursera.org, dealing with Introduction to Systematic Program Design: https://www.coursera.org/course/programdesign It is primarily intended for people without prior programming experience, but is said to be valuable for people who

Re: Online course that may help getting acquainted with Scheme

2013-05-30 Thread PMA
PMA wrote: Urs Liska wrote: Hi, there is a free online course starting on Coursera.org, dealing with Introduction to Systematic Program Design: https://www.coursera.org/course/programdesign It is primarily intended for people without prior programming experience, but is said to be valuable

Re: Files from Lilypond workshop @ LAC 2013

2013-05-21 Thread PMA
luis jure wrote: on 2013-05-21 at 13:18 David Kastrup wrote: It would seem that you associate the term pitch with physical frequency. no, it's not me, it's the standard meaning of the term as used in music theory, psychoacoustics, musical acoustics, music cognition, and all the disciplines

Re: Files from Lilypond workshop @ LAC 2013

2013-05-21 Thread PMA
David Kastrup wrote: It's not as much a matter of being correct, but rather of how this term is employed within LilyPond and its documentation. LilyPond also uses event in a meaning that contrary to common usage does not include birthday celebrations. Event, of course, has been in common

Re: Thank you -- Hear! Hear!

2013-03-22 Thread PMA
I've had the same experience (short of realizing). Pete Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger wrote: Hello List, I just want to let you know, that I continue to be _very_ thankful for all the great ideas, patient explanations and profound help I draw from this list! The amount of time most of you

Re: OFF-TOPIC: Changing Education Paradigms [Re: Advocating non-free softwares]

2013-03-01 Thread PMA
bobr...@centrum.is wrote: An optimist believes that we are living in the best of all conceivable worlds. A pessimist _knows_ it. -- David Kastrup NICE! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: OFF-TOPIC: Changing Education Paradigms [Re: Advocating non-free softwares]

2013-03-01 Thread PMA
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Peter, An optimist believes that we are living in the best of all conceivable worlds. A pessimist _knows_ it. Yes! Got me wondering -- How might one fit the realist in here (without loss of pithitude)? I thought the same thing… What I came up with is this: An

Re: OFF-TOPIC: Changing Education Paradigms [Re: Advocating non-free softwares]

2013-03-01 Thread PMA
PMA wrote: Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Peter, An optimist believes that we are living in the best of all conceivable worlds. A pessimist _knows_ it. Yes! Got me wondering -- How might one fit the realist in here (without loss of pithitude)? I thought the same thing… What I came up

Re: Parameterizing a LilyPond function

2012-12-03 Thread PMA
David Kastrup wrote: PMApeterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu writes: David David, Thank you Both! I'm using the one-param version, as in this score my X Y offsets always match. But on exec -- uh oh -- Scheme is yelling: string:2:65: error: GUILE signaled an error for the expression beginning

Parameterizing a LilyPond function

2012-12-02 Thread PMA
Hi List. I would like to alter this function... glissmove = { \once \override Glissando #'(bound-details left Y) = #1.3 \once \override Glissando #'(bound-details right Y) = #1.3 } to accept its 1.3 or whatever as an input parameter instead. I see docs on parameterizing Scheme functions,

Re: Parameterizing a LilyPond function

2012-12-02 Thread PMA
David David, Thank you Both! I'm using the one-param version, as in this score my X Y offsets always match. But on exec -- uh oh -- Scheme is yelling: string:2:65: error: GUILE signaled an error for the expression beginning here \once \override Glissando #(quote (bound-details

Re: Parameterizing a LilyPond function

2012-12-02 Thread PMA
You're right, man: working dory-hunky! I promise to upgrade *BTWN* projects. Thanks again, Pete David Nalesnik wrote: Hi Peter, On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 5:00 PM, PMApeterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu wrote: David David, Thank you Both! I'm using the one-param version, as in this score my X Y

Re: Ambitus-Bug

2012-09-15 Thread PMA
Keith OHara wrote: Knut PetersenKnut_Petersenat t-online.de writes: Have a look at the attached source and the png, the problem is obvious. The first appearance dictates which of the two enharmonic equivalents is chosen for the ambitus. Yes. The ambitus was formerly sorted in

Fwd: Re: [Acma-l] Sibelius ProTools . . . Woes?

2012-08-02 Thread PMA
FYI -- Original Message Subject: Re: [Acma-l] Sibelius ProTools . . . Woes? Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 09:07:28 +0930 From: Robert Pawel Wolf robert.w...@adelaide.edu.au To: Kevin Austin kevin.aus...@videotron.ca CC: electroacoust...@concordia.ca, cec-confere...@googlegroups.com,

Re: horizontal shift

2012-07-08 Thread PMA
Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger wrote: Hi List, is there any way to make lilypond shift the visible contents on a page to the _outer_ edge? It would be something like horizontal-shift, while that command within the \paper-block seems to shift the content to the right on _all_ pages (meaning even

Re: New LilyPond scores -- video editing software

2012-04-10 Thread PMA
Interesting! I do like these styles (per-system or continuous-line) for Mike's and Jay's audio entries. My audios, though, will be long -- Franck, Busoni, etc. -- and may, if displaying only very local score views at a time, hide the forrest for the trees. I'll experiment to see, probably, how

Re: New LilyPond scores -- video editing software

2012-04-06 Thread PMA
Hi List. I'm planning similar YouTube entries, i.e., music performances sync'd with their score-page turns. But this will be a first for me, and I see a hefty bunch of (Linux) softwares for video editing. If any of you has a favorite among those options (or among how-to docs), I'd appreciate

Re: Bloody mao! Valentin, you tricked us!

2012-04-03 Thread PMA
Re: complement? -- This would depend on Why he'd have had kittens, and that in turn on whether he'd 'gotten' the joke. We couldn't tell whether he was amused or, you know, merely devastated. P Valentin Villenave wrote: On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:59 AM, PMApeterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu wrote:

Re: Bloody mao! Valentin, you tricked us!

2012-04-02 Thread PMA
Indeed, Valentin! Our chiwawa JSB lives for that report and, seeing your joke, nearly had kittens. Janek Warchoł wrote: Valentin, you sneaky bastard! Tried to deceive us, huh? But i see the new LilyPond Report announced on Lily website, mwahahahaha!

Conversion to MIDI ?

2012-03-03 Thread PMA
Hi List. Please forgive a naive question. Is there such a thing as a WAV-to-MIDI or MP3-to-MIDI file format converter? My common sense is yelling, No way, Buster!, but it needs confirmation. Thanks in advance, P ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Conversion to MIDI ?

2012-03-03 Thread PMA
I sit flamboozled! Thanks, will look into this! (Yes, my system is Linux -- Debian Squeeze.) Brett McCoy wrote: On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 10:23 AM, PMApeterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu wrote: Hi List. Please forgive a naive question. Is there such a thing as a WAV-to-MIDI or MP3-to-MIDI file format

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