Re: A new Scheme tutorial (Jean Abou Samra)

2022-07-24 Thread Peter Toye
- Saturday, July 23, 2022, 8:56:57 PM, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Thanks a lot Peter and others (privately) for your suggestions. > Sorry for the very late reply, I've been distracted by other > things. Your comments are most appreciated. > Le 13/07/2022 à

Re: A new Scheme tutorial (Jean Abou Samra)

2022-07-13 Thread Peter Toye
This looks great! Just what I'd needed a couple of years back when I was still programming.   I've only just started with it, but there are a few niggling comments about the English version. I've only got to page 2 (getting started) so far. * On my browser (Firefox in Windows) the 'v. latest' is

Re: Piano pedalling in (conductor) scores

2022-05-31 Thread Peter Toye
Werner, :-)>   The problem with ligatures is that they have 3 meanings - ties, bowing/breathing marks and phrasing marks. And sometimes a note will have all three. But this is getting a bit off-topic. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com -

Re: Piano pedalling in (conductor) scores

2022-05-30 Thread Peter Toye
st..." > Today's Topics: >    1. Re: Piano pedalling in (conductor) scores (Kieren MacMillan) >    2. Re: Piano pedalling in (conductor) scores (Kieren MacMillan) >    3. Re: Piano pedalling in (conductor) scores (Peter Toye) &

Re: Piano pedalling in (conductor) scores

2022-05-30 Thread Peter Toye
Lilypond-user-request, Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Monday, May 30, 2022, 2:40:08 PM, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 30 May 2022 15:07:48 +0200 > From: David Kastrup > To: Kieren MacMillan > Cc: Simon

Re:piano sustain pedal between notes

2022-05-22 Thread Peter Toye
Yes, it's very common. The way that I use is to create a separate dynamics staff for the pedal indication and use silent notes to position the pedals exactly where you want them. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Sunday, May 22, 2022,

When the previous typesetter states "with pedal", what exactly does this mean?

2022-03-26 Thread Peter Toye
Ken,   'With pedal' means that the composer wants you to use the pedal at your discretion. Not much help to MIDI I'm afraid.   I suggest you play through the piece, noting what sounds good and put explicit pedal markings in, but this won't help the next performer who may  have completely

Re: Feedback wanted: syntax highlighting in the LilyPond documentation

2022-01-03 Thread Peter Toye
Jean,   There are various types of colour-blindness - red-green is the most common. I did a quick Google on "design for colour-blind" and got several useful hits, mostly for web designers. The basic message is "don't rely on colour to get a message across", which isn't much help to you.   One

Re: Export from LilyPond to MusicXML (Thomas Morley)

2021-10-07 Thread Peter Toye
mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Thursday, October 7, 2021, 10:46:44 AM, Thomas Morley wrote: > Am Do., 7. Okt. 2021 um 11:30 Uhr schrieb Peter Toye : >> The potential need has gone away now - my Sibelius user has told me that he >> uses ScoreMuse to

Re: Export from LilyPond to MusicXML (Thomas Morley)

2021-10-07 Thread Peter Toye
PI afterwards to > build fancy Webapps. > Best regards, > Jan-Peter > Am 07.10.21 um 11:30 schrieb Peter Toye: >> The potential need has gone away now - my Sibelius user has told me that >> he uses ScoreMuse to export the PDF into a suitable format for Sibelius. >> Lo

Re: Export from LilyPond to MusicXML (Thomas Morley)

2021-10-07 Thread Peter Toye
a contact for him to ask - is he on this mailing list? Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Wednesday, October 6, 2021, 8:05:12 PM, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le 05/10/2021 à 13:08, Peter Toye a écrit : >> Sorry - edited subject to get th

Re: Export from LilyPond to MusicXML (Thomas Morley)

2021-10-05 Thread Peter Toye
Agreed, but it's possible that someone here might know more about this project and now it's getting on. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Tuesday, October 5, 2021, 12:53:43 PM, m.tarensk...@kpnmail.nl wrote: > lilypond-to-musicxml export is

Re: Export from LilyPond to MusicXML (Thomas Morley)

2021-10-05 Thread Peter Toye
Sorry - edited subject to get the linking correct    Harm,     https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/42315/lilypond-to-musicxml-to-sibelius#73706  has a discussion about this as well. I've started looking at the OpenLilyLib solution at the bottom of the thread but it doesn't work on later

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 226, Issue 139

2021-10-05 Thread Peter Toye
 Harm,     https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/42315/lilypond-to-musicxml-to-sibelius#73706  has a discussion about this as well. I've started looking at the OpenLilyLib solution at the bottom of the thread but it doesn't work on later versions of LilyPond.   It would seem to me that using

Re: CHanging the = sign in a metronome mark

2021-09-28 Thread Peter Toye
Paul, Thanks - I hadn't realised this. Now I see it's in NR. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 10:18:20 AM, Paul Hodges wrote: > On 28/09/2021 10:02:24, "Peter Toye" wrote: >&g

CHanging the = sign in a metronome mark

2021-09-28 Thread Peter Toye
I want to change the "=" to "~" or "ca." in a metronome mark but I can't see how to do it. There's a 'stencil' property but I assume that refers to the entire MM and not the equals sign. Can someone please help?   Thanks in advance Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com

Re: Extending the width of a glissando

2021-09-20 Thread Peter Toye
Moser wrote: > Hi Peter, > Am 19.09.21 um 18:02 schrieb Peter Toye: >> I need to extend the width of a glissando so that it's visible. There isn't >> room between the dot and the accidental for any meaningful symbol. As you >> can see, I've tried various tweaks but non

Extending the width of a glissando

2021-09-19 Thread Peter Toye
I need to extend the width of a glissando so that it's visible. There isn't room between the dot and the accidental for any meaningful symbol. As you can see, I've tried various tweaks but none of them has any effect. \version "2.22.1" \language "english" {   \override Glissando.style =

Re: Gissando

2021-09-19 Thread Peter Toye
nge the documentation to?  If you post > the verbiage and the list agrees, I can create a pull request for you. > -- > Knute Snortum > On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 9:39 AM Peter Toye wrote: >> Hi Carlos >> I've had a similar problem, and I think the documentation  for glissando

Re: \addlyrics in ossia staff

2021-09-19 Thread Peter Toye
Thanks David, Lukas-Fabian got there first! Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Sunday, September 19, 2021, 3:21:27 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Peter Toye writes: >> I'm trying to set a passage of vocal music with a short

Re: \addlyrics in ossia staff

2021-09-19 Thread Peter Toye
Hi Peter, > Am 19.09.21 um 15:15 schrieb Peter Toye: >> I'm trying to set a passage of vocal music with a short solo line. But the >> example below shows that the lyric is not attached to the correct staff. Any >> ideas how to get it right simply? > That's a matter of namin

\addlyrics in ossia staff

2021-09-19 Thread Peter Toye
I'm trying to set a passage of vocal music with a short solo line. But the example below shows that the lyric is not attached to the correct staff. Any ideas how to get it right simply?   \version "2.22.1" \language "english" {   \new Staff = "Tutti" {     <<       \new Voice = "TuttiVoice" {    

Re: Removing dynamics from PartCombined staff

2021-09-19 Thread Peter Toye
Valentin, Thanks - with a few more additions that works fine! Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Sunday, September 19, 2021, 8:11:45 AM, Valentin Petzel wrote: > Hello Peter, > If you want to get rid of all dynamics in the piano reduction

Re: Gissando

2021-09-18 Thread Peter Toye
Hi Carlos I've had a similar problem, and I think the documentation  for glissandoMap is a bit misleading as it seems to imply hat you need a gliss line for each note.  I've suggested a documentation patch to clarify. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com

Re: Removing dynamics from PartCombined staff

2021-09-18 Thread Peter Toye
Hello Kieren, One solution (possibly the easiest to implement) would be to have a PartCombine version which combines only notes, and nothing else.   I think I'm just going to write a separate piano part.  Or leave it out completely and rely on the pianist's ability to read four staves. Quite a

Re: Removing dynamics from PartCombined staff

2021-09-17 Thread Peter Toye
17, 2021, 5:11:02 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Peter Toye writes: >> I'm using PartCombine for the first time to produce a piano reduction, >> and have found a slight problem. Because the dynamics are a bit >> complex I want to remove them from the piano par

Removing dynamics from PartCombined staff

2021-09-17 Thread Peter Toye
I'm using PartCombine for the first time to produce a piano reduction, and have found a slight problem. Because the dynamics are a bit complex I want to remove them from the piano part, but adding \remove "Dynamic_engraver" to each piano staff has no effect. What am I doing wrong please?

Re: Nabble broken?

2021-06-25 Thread Peter Toye
Jean, Thanks. The references to "email thing" made me wonder if this was about something else. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Friday, June 25, 2021, 5:58:35 PM, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le 25/06/2021 à 18:56, Peter

Nabble broken?

2021-06-25 Thread Peter Toye
I wanted to look at a thread in Nabble, but nearly all of the messages say that they were deleted by the author. Is something wrong here? It's happening on all the threads I've looked at, so it can hardly be a mass desertion of contributors. Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 220, Issue 40

2021-03-14 Thread Peter Toye
Kieren, How do you manage enharmonics? Is the black key between C and D a C sharp or D flat? Unless the music is completely tonal, I'd have thought you spent more time adjusting the accidentals than simply inputting the music from the computer keyboard. But I may be wrong. Certainly in the

Re: Nested transposition

2021-03-13 Thread Peter Toye
My experience is exactly the opposite. I use the computer keyboard for input, and as most of the music is for piano, which spans several octaves outside the staves, absolute entry is a serious PITA. For vocal music, there aren't usually many wide skips, so again relative notation uses fewer

Re: Nested transposition

2021-03-12 Thread Peter Toye
: > On Fri 12 Mar 2021 at 11:52:36 (+), Peter Toye wrote: >> Thanks Christian. Not sure why that happens (bug?) but that works fine. > The problem (not a bug) is that you can't re-apply \relative > processing to absolute pitches. > \relative { … } applies the rules of relat

Re: Nested transposition

2021-03-12 Thread Peter Toye
as bs cs} } } All the best, Christian Am Fr., 12. März 2021 um 11:35 Uhr schrieb Peter Toye : I am trying to engrave a transposed song. It's written without key signature but is very tonal. It starts in C and ends in C#. I want to transpose it down a minor third. The part in C is fine, but th

Nested transposition

2021-03-12 Thread Peter Toye
I am trying to engrave a transposed song. It's written without key signature but is very tonal. It starts in C and ends in C#. I want to transpose it down a minor third. The part in C is fine, but the part in C# ends up as A## and there are far too many double-sharps for it to be performable.

Re: Workaround for (not-allowed) numbers in variable names?

2021-03-07 Thread Peter Toye
The 2.22 documentation is obviously better here: The name of a variable should not contain (ASCII) numbers, multiple underscores, multiple dashes or space characters. All other characters Unicode provides are allowed, for example Latin, Greek, Chinese or Cyrillic. Non-adjacent single

Re: Workaround for (not-allowed) numbers in variable names?

2021-03-07 Thread Peter Toye
Thanks for putting me right yet again. I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'resized'. q4 is surely legal? Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Sunday, March 7, 2021, 12:09:30 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Peter Toye writes: >>

Re: Workaround for (not-allowed) numbers in variable names?

2021-03-07 Thread Peter Toye
My personal view is that variables are important concepts and deserve a separate section somewhere - possibly 3.1.6 as a separate part of 'File Structure'. I note that the preceding section on markup text does not contain any detailed syntax definition - not even a link to the relevant section.

Re: Workaround for (not-allowed) numbers in variable names?

2021-03-07 Thread Peter Toye
Yes, it's documented in the Notation Reference Manual section 3.1.5 File Structure. It doesn't seem the obvious place to put the syntax of variable names. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - > Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2021 21:30:56 +0900

Re: Workaround for (not-allowed) numbers in variable names?

2021-03-07 Thread Peter Toye
I asked this question some time ago, and David Kastrup was kind enough to put me right. The problem , as you mentioned, is in the way that numbers are used for durations. Consider the following code: chord = chord2= c1 \chord2 Should the second element be interpreted as 2 or 1? I imagine

Re: Partial ottava sign

2021-02-19 Thread Peter Toye
, Maestraccio wrote: > If it's just one or two chords, I'd add a text markup "LH 8va bassa" (or in > classical music "MS 8va bassa"), that's clear enough for me > Met vriendelijke groet, > Bart >> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2021 at 5:17 PM >> From: &q

Re: Partial ottava sign

2021-02-19 Thread Peter Toye
Hello Kieren, No I don't - it's expensive and as I don't do this for money I really can't afford it. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Friday, February 19, 2021, 4:17:29 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Peter, >> Is there an accepted way

Partial ottava sign

2021-02-19 Thread Peter Toye
Is there an accepted way of notating an ottava sign for only part of a staff? I have a two-handed chord of which the LH part needs to be an octave lower than notated, but the RH part is at pitch. I realise that this isn't really a LilyPond question but a general music engraving one (it may

Re: Problems adding voice with rests

2021-02-17 Thread Peter Toye
gt; } > \new Voice > { > s2. s2. | > f4.\rest > } >>> > } > % > On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 at 02:28, Peter Toye wrote: >> >> I'm trying to set this piece of slightly strange voice writing (see >> attachment). >>

Re: Problems adding voice with rests

2021-02-16 Thread Peter Toye
t; } } All the best Christian Am Mo., 15. Feb. 2021 um 18:18 Uhr schrieb Peter Toye : Kieran, Christian, There's something we all missed: the tie on the final bass note. Here's the full bar/measure attached. This give as a bit of t problem as the two-voice writing goes on for some time wit

Re: Problems adding voice with rests

2021-02-16 Thread Peter Toye
clef "bass" \partCombine \up \down } } All the best Christian Am Mo., 15. Feb. 2021 um 18:18 Uhr schrieb Peter Toye : Kieran, Christian, There's something we all missed: the tie on the final bass note. Here's the full bar/measure attached. This give as a bit of t problem as the two

Re: Problems adding voice with rests

2021-02-15 Thread Peter Toye
ther problem. All the best Christian Am Mo., 15. Feb. 2021 um 16:28 Uhr schrieb Peter Toye : I'm trying to set this piece of slightly strange voice writing (see attachment). It obviously needs three voices: one for the lower line (voice 2), one for the upper line (voice 1) and a third for the res

Problems adding voice with rests

2021-02-15 Thread Peter Toye
I'm trying to set this piece of slightly strange voice writing (see attachment). It obviously needs three voices: one for the lower line (voice 2), one for the upper line (voice 1) and a third for the rest at the end. The closest I've got is below, but this has two problems with the final beat:

Re: Puzzled about installation of version 2.22

2021-02-10 Thread Peter Toye
David, Of course! My eyesight's not too good and I misread the suggested directory name. Thanks. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Tuesday, February 9, 2021, 10:01:23 PM, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 09 Feb 2021 at 16:42:58 (+), Pe

Puzzled about installation of version 2.22

2021-02-09 Thread Peter Toye
I'm trying to get up to date with Lilypond, not having used it for several months, so downloaded version 22.0. My OS is Windows 10 Home 64-bit. When I clicked on the .exe file, I was told that there was an existing installation (fair enough, I've got 3 versions already on my machine) and I'd

Re: A comment about the documentation

2021-01-01 Thread Peter Toye
David, Wow! Thank you! It works in 2.20.0 as well. It seems I'm only 5 years out of date. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Friday, January 1, 2021, 5:19:10 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi Peter, On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 10:46 AM Peter Toye

Re: A comment about the documentation

2021-01-01 Thread Peter Toye
, Pierre Le ven. 1 janv. 2021 à 17:46, Peter Toye a écrit : Carl, Thanks. The problem is that map-some-music is obviously a very useful function if you're trying to write code that performs an action at many places in a music expression, but there's no pointer to it. How the snippet writer

Re: A comment about the documentation

2021-01-01 Thread Peter Toye
- Friday, January 1, 2021, 4:06:59 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 8:59 AM Peter Toye wrote: Christian, Thanks Christian. How one is meant to know this I have no idea. Maybe it was meant to be in the missing 3rd chapter of the Extending manual. No, one is meant to search

Re: A comment about the documentation

2021-01-01 Thread Peter Toye
wrote: Hi Peter! It seems to be defined here: https://github.com/lilypond/lilypond/blob/master/scm/music-functions.scm#L2036 All the best and a happy new year, Christian Am Fr., 1. Jan. 2021 um 13:29 Uhr schrieb Peter Toye : It seems that I'm probably going to be doing more engraving after

A comment about the documentation

2021-01-01 Thread Peter Toye
It seems that I'm probably going to be doing more engraving after all. I have a comment about the documentation. I wanted to add the same articulation to all notes in a music expression, and found http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=82 which does exactly what I want. I noticed that it uses a

Re: Misaligned tempo indications

2020-06-18 Thread Peter Toye
in the vocals was aligned with the beginning of the Voice, not the beginning of the Staff. Your metronome mark in the PianoStaff aligned with the beginning of the Staff. HTH, Carl From: Peter Toye Reply-To: Peter Toye Date: Thursday, June 18, 2020 at 9:29 AM To: Subject: Misaligned tempo

Misaligned tempo indications

2020-06-18 Thread Peter Toye
I'm trying to set a song and have the tempo indications on both vocal and piano staves. I used Hwaen Ch'uqi's suggestion from way back to get the correct engravers, but they aren't aligned correctly. Here's an MWE. Any ideas how to get them to align? \version "2.20.0" \language "english"

Re: Problems with Internals manual

2020-06-17 Thread Peter Toye
, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 7:55:50 PM, Robin Bannister wrote: > Peter Toye wrote: >> I'm trying to work out what the properties of a LyricHyphen are, but the >> Internals manual for that object keeps referring

Re: Acciaccatura giving errors

2020-06-16 Thread Peter Toye
precision of the processor and of the data type. 2.20 should work for you. Carl From: Peter Toye Reply-To: Peter Toye Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 10:18 AM To: Xavier Scheuer Cc: Carl Sorensen , lilypond-user Mailinglist Subject: Re: Acciaccatura giving errors Xavier, Ah, the problems

Problems with Internals manual

2020-06-16 Thread Peter Toye
I'm trying to work out what the properties of a LyricHyphen are, but the Internals manual for that object keeps referring to rests, notes. beams. stems, See, for example, the minimum-distance property. None of these, to my mind, have much to do with lyrics or hyphens. Has some text from another

Re: Acciaccatura giving errors

2020-06-16 Thread Peter Toye
Xavier, Ah, the problems of using a Linux-developed program on Windows. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 5:06:18 PM, Xavier Scheuer wrote: On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 17:31, Peter Toye wrote: > > Thanks both. I've

Re: Acciaccatura giving errors

2020-06-16 Thread Peter Toye
Thanks both. I've found the same now. I'd assumed that 2.21.0 would be later than 2.20, but it seems not to be the case. Now sorted. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 2:41:45 PM, Robin Bannister wrote: > Peter T

Re: Acciaccatura giving errors

2020-06-16 Thread Peter Toye
Thanks Robin. Interesting. I tried it with 2.21.0 and the problem is still there. I'll get hold of 2.20.0 but am a bit busy at the moment. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 2:41:45 PM, Robin Bannister wrote: > Pe

Acciaccatura giving errors

2020-06-16 Thread Peter Toye
An acciaccatura is giving 14 "programming error: mis-predicted force" errors and corrupt layout. The former I can live with the latter I can't. The layout errors in the complete score are extremely wide spaces between the systems and a line with an extremely wide right margin on the page with

Re: convert-ly is adding newlines

2020-06-16 Thread Peter Toye
Xavier, Via Frescobaldi version 3.1.2. Thanks for the links. It seems to be a Frescobaldi issue. What a pain. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 11:20:42 AM, Xavier Scheuer wrote: On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 11:19, Peter

Re: Free rhythm in part of a bar

2020-06-16 Thread Peter Toye
just have everything at the same time.” From: Peter Toye [mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com] Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2020 3:22 AM To: Mark Stephen Mrotek ; 'David Kastrup' Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Free rhythm in part of a bar Mark, Thanks. That looks fine, but still gives a barcheck error

convert-ly is adding newlines

2020-06-16 Thread Peter Toye
I've just used convert-ly to convert 2.19.2 to 2.21.0. And an extra newline (x0D0A) has been added to every line. Odd, though, two consecutive newlines are replaced by three. This is obviously a bit of a pain - any way of stopping it? I'm on Windows 10, which may well be significant.

Re: Free rhythm in part of a bar

2020-06-14 Thread Peter Toye
{ c'4 4 4 4 | \cadenzaOn 4 4 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 \cadenzaOff c'4 c' \bar "|" } } \new Staff { \time 4/4 \clef "bass" { c1 4 4 s4*2 r2\fermata s4 c'4 c' | } } >> } From: lilypond-user [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org] On

Re: Free rhythm in part of a bar

2020-06-13 Thread Peter Toye
{\cadenzaOn d'8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 \cadenzaOff} s4 >> g'4 \bar "|" e'1 %} } } \new Staff { \time 4/4 \clef "bass" { c1 c4 4 r4\fermata g,4 | c1 } } >> } Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Saturd

Re: How to align text in a whole-bar rest?

2020-06-13 Thread Peter Toye
Xavier, D'oh!!! Silly me. My brain isn't working today. Thanks. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Saturday, June 13, 2020, 12:39:31 PM, Xavier Scheuer wrote: On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 12:37, Peter Toye wrote: > > I'm trying to add text

How to align text in a whole-bar rest?

2020-06-13 Thread Peter Toye
I'm trying to add text which needs to be aligned with certain notes in the accompaniment above a vocal staff which has a whole-bar rest, and can't work out a suitable easy way to do it. The attachment shows what's needed. I want to align the text with the second half of the bar. The only way

Re: Free rhythm in part of a bar

2020-06-13 Thread Peter Toye
David, The half note rest is because it's basically a 4/4 bar, so it needs to align with the start of the free rhythm. Here's a screenshot. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Saturday, June 13, 2020, 11:18:13 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Pe

Re: Free rhythm in part of a barpa

2020-06-13 Thread Peter Toye
adenzaOff \bar "|" R1 } } \new Staff { \time 4/4 \clef "bass" { c1 4 4 s4*2 r2\fermata s4*4 | } } >> } Mark From: lilypond-user [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Peter Toye Sent: Friday, June 12, 2020 7:26 AM To

Re: Free rhythm in part of a bar

2020-06-13 Thread Peter Toye
Kastrup wrote: > Peter Toye writes: >> David, >> What I mean is that in some music the end of the 'free rhythm' section >> may need to be synchronised with the other staves. For instance, at >> the end of a florid passage for a soloist in free rhythm, the last few &g

Re: Free rhythm in part of a bar

2020-06-13 Thread Peter Toye
inside. All the best Christian Am Fr., 12. Juni 2020 um 16:34 Uhr schrieb Peter Toye : I need to have part only of a bar notated with free rhythm. Also other staves need to be synchronised. I've tried using \cadenzaOn but then I get a barcheck problem and the next bar goes odd. I can't see

Re: Free rhythm in part of a bar

2020-06-13 Thread Peter Toye
mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Friday, June 12, 2020, 5:11:58 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Peter Toye writes: >> David, >> Thanks. That solves the vocal line, but it doesn't seem to solve the >> synchronisation issue with the accompani

Re: Free rhythm in part of a bar

2020-06-12 Thread Peter Toye
Kastrup wrote: > Peter Toye writes: >> I need to have part only of a bar notated with free rhythm. Also other >> staves need to be synchronised. I've tried using \cadenzaOn but then I get a >> barcheck problem and the next bar goes odd. I can't see anything about this >>

Free rhythm in part of a bar

2020-06-12 Thread Peter Toye
I need to have part only of a bar notated with free rhythm. Also other staves need to be synchronised. I've tried using \cadenzaOn but then I get a barcheck problem and the next bar goes odd. I can't see anything about this in the snippets or manuals. A minimal example follows. There seem to

Goodbye

2020-03-20 Thread Peter Toye
Circumstances dictate that I will no longer be doing any music engraving. So I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone here for their help, enthusiasm, expertise and, above all, patience in answering my questions. Happy Ponding, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com

Re: New release

2020-02-06 Thread Peter Toye
Thursday, February 6, 2020, 5:29:00 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Peter Toye writes: >>> Message: 3 >>> Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 17:57:20 +0100 >>> From: David Kastrup >>> To: Gianmaria Lari >>> Cc: Phil Holmes , LilyPond User Group >>

Re: New release

2020-02-06 Thread Peter Toye
> Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 17:57:20 +0100 > From: David Kastrup > To: Gianmaria Lari > Cc: Phil Holmes , LilyPond User Group > > Subject: Re: New release > Message-ID: <87mu9vejrj@fencepost.gnu.org> > Content-Type: text/plain > Gianmaria Lari writes: >> Hello Phil,

Re: align aftergraces

2020-01-04 Thread Peter Toye
> Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 08:38:22 -0800 > From: "Mark Stephen Mrotek" > To: > Subject: align aftergraces > Message-ID: > <001e01d5c31d$613aa980$23affc80$@ca.rr.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > Hello all, > > In the following, the two aftergraces do not align. >

Re: How does one get rid of a tagline?

2019-12-24 Thread Peter Toye
en Ch'uqi > On 12/24/19, Peter Toye wrote: >> I want an absolutely clean end to a score, but whatever I try I still get a >> tagline advertising LilyPond. I've tried setting tagline to ##f and "" and >> neither works. >> Don't worry, it's for piano 4-hands so Lily

How does one get rid of a tagline?

2019-12-24 Thread Peter Toye
I want an absolutely clean end to a score, but whatever I try I still get a tagline advertising LilyPond. I've tried setting tagline to ##f and "" and neither works. Don't worry, it's for piano 4-hands so LilyPond gets its advertising on the Primo page. Regards, Peter

Re: A suggestion - add rf to built-in dynamics

2019-12-22 Thread Peter Toye
Sunday, December 22, 2019, 4:12:42 PM, Malte Meyn wrote: > Am 22.12.19 um 13:23 schrieb Peter Toye: >> I >> agree about \sp and \spp - what on earth are they meant to mean - a >> sudden quiet note in the middle of louder ones? Not a common musical >> gesture. >

Re: A suggestion - add rf to built-in dynamics

2019-12-22 Thread Peter Toye
> add 'rf'. One could argue that the original > composers are in error, or > it's an obsolete convention, and perhaps this would mislead modern > players anyway (the infinite discussion of the urtext!). > I don't see a need for rf to be added to the core set. > [And amusingly I have all t

Re: A suggestion - add rf to built-in dynamics

2019-12-21 Thread Peter Toye
Saturday, December 21, 2019, 1:04:09 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Peter, >> May I suggest adding 'rf' to the built-in dynamics? Beethoven and Brahms >> used it quite a lot, even if it is synonymous with 'rfz' (pedants might >> disagree). > Is f the same as fz? f=forte, fz=forzando or

A suggestion - add rf to built-in dynamics

2019-12-21 Thread Peter Toye
May I suggest adding 'rf' to the built-in dynamics? Beethoven and Brahms used it quite a lot, even if it is synonymous with 'rfz' (pedants might disagree). As did some other, lesser, composers (one of whose music I am currently engraving). A far as I can see, it just needs adding rfz =

Re: How to avoid dynamic clashes?

2019-12-20 Thread Peter Toye
Hello Kieren, Yes it does. So does Phil's solution. I now have to work out which I prefer in this particular situation. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Friday, December 20, 2019, 4:14:06 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Peter, >> I'm

Re: How to avoid dynamic clashes?

2019-12-20 Thread Peter Toye
Thanks Phil. I was looking in the 'spacing issues' section. Just what I need for this particular score. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Friday, December 20, 2019, 4:26:46 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: If you read about dynamics in the NR, it

How to avoid dynamic clashes?

2019-12-20 Thread Peter Toye
I'm trying to set a score where dynamic words are too close together for beautiful typesetting. I've tried using offsets to move one of them vertically, but they don't seem to work. What's the best way of setting this to produce a good-looking result? \version "2.19.83" \score { << \new

Re: How to use make-music?

2019-12-20 Thread Peter Toye
David, Thanks for this. I'm obviously going to have to dust off my LISP lectures from 1967! Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Friday, December 20, 2019, 12:41:31 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Peter Toye writes: >> Thee are many

How to use make-music?

2019-12-20 Thread Peter Toye
Thee are many examples of the use of the make-music function in NR and Snippets, but I cannot find any reference to its definition in LR, NR or IR. I can use the examples to do what I want, but I'd like to know a bit more about how it works. Is there a definition of it and its parameters

Re: Bar lines within bars inhibit bar numbering

2019-12-12 Thread Peter Toye
d up just manually renumbering the bars numbers with: \set Score.currentBarNumber Probably not the solution you're looking for. From: lilypond-user on behalf of Peter Toye Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:04 AM To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Bar lines within bars inhibit bar number

Re: Bar lines within bars inhibit bar numbering

2019-12-12 Thread Peter Toye
bar number is explained in the first of the "Selected Snippets" of this section. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/bars#bar-numbers On 12/12/2019 17:32, Peter Toye wrote: Re: Bar lines within bars inhibit bar numbering

Re: Bar lines within bars inhibit bar numbering

2019-12-12 Thread Peter Toye
with 4/4 + 3/4 time with a dotted barline. I ended up just manually renumbering the bars numbers with: \set Score.currentBarNumber Probably not the solution you're looking for. Unfortunately not. I don't want to change the bar number, just print it. From: lilypond-user on behalf of Peter Toye

Re: Bar lines within bars inhibit bar numbering

2019-12-12 Thread Peter Toye
the solution you're looking for. From: lilypond-user on behalf of Peter Toye Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:04 AM To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Bar lines within bars inhibit bar numbering The example below shows the issue. The mid-bar line with a \break does not show the bar numb

Bar lines within bars inhibit bar numbering

2019-12-12 Thread Peter Toye
The example below shows the issue. The mid-bar line with a \break does not show the bar number at the beginning of the next line - I would expect '2'. A \break at the end of a bar gives the expected result. Also, the commented out line doesn't compile, and I can't see why, so can't see if it

Re: Overriding position of a full bar rest does not always work

2019-12-03 Thread Peter Toye
Kieren, ...but for this score I think I'll stick with what I know, or it'll never see the light of day. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Tuesday, December 3, 2019, 6:00:32 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Peter, >> I think this is the

Re: Overriding position of a full bar rest does not always work

2019-12-02 Thread Peter Toye
Hello Kieren, Thanks. I think this is the first time I've had to set a score of this complexity (which is pretty low compared with many I've seen). Thanks very much for the help. I shall now rewrite large amounts of music :( Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com

Re: Problems with \table in \markuplist

2019-12-02 Thread Peter Toye
Hi Harm, - Monday, December 2, 2019, 1:31:09 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: > Am Mo., 2. Dez. 2019 um 13:00 Uhr schrieb Peter > Toye : >> I'm trying to lay out text using a \table and have found (to date) two >> problems. >> Firstly, the wordwrap feat

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