Re: nested beaming

2024-04-08 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 08.04.24 18:22, Paul Scott wrote: Many years ago I could nest square brackets in Lilypond. How can I write this now incorrect code: a16[[ 16 16] 16[ 16 16]]  i.e. two groups of 3 beamed 16th notes joined by a single beam. The question is: what is the context and why do you want this?

Re: Adding to a tagGroup on the fly

2024-03-05 Thread Simon Albrecht
Added https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6702.

Re: Adding to a tagGroup on the fly

2024-03-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi David! On 02.03.24 12:44, David Kastrup wrote: Just naming an existing member should be enough since taggroups are exclusive. Like this, for example? \tagGroup soprano,alto \addTagToGroupWith soprano mezzosoprano I think I tend to agree with Raphael that having a name for the tagGroup

Adding to a tagGroup on the fly

2024-03-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 01.03.24 14:29, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht writes: The downside of that is that I cannot add more tags to those groups on the fly, and always have to add them directly to the library file.) Suggestions for a user interface to do that? Interesting. Would of course require

Re: extracting a single “vocal line” (including lyrics) from multiple variables

2024-03-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Kieren, On 29.02.24 15:42, Kieren MacMillan wrote: I didn’t see an issue/request for quoting lyrics, so I added one (https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6700) and we’ll see how the discussion goes. :) I was curious and tried, and in fact you can quote lyrics perfectly well.

Re: extracting a single “vocal line” (including lyrics) from multiple variables

2024-03-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 29.02.24 15:42, Kieren MacMillan wrote: use both \keepWithTag_and_ \removeWithTag like this: text = \lyricmode { \tag A { on -- ly al -- to } \tag nA { ev’ -- ry -- one ex -- cept al -- to } } #mindblown Why didn’t I think of using set theory?! THANK YOU! That hint

Re: extracting a single “vocal line” (including lyrics) from multiple variables

2024-03-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi David, On 29.02.24 15:54, David Kastrup wrote: I'd rather use \tagGroup alto,non-alto \lyricmode { \tag alto { on -- ly al -- to } \tag non-alto { ev’ -- ry -- one ex -- cept al -- to } } \keepWithTag alto ... \keepWithTag non-alto ... But one would need to look at the rest to see

Re: extracting a single “vocal line” (including lyrics) from multiple variables

2024-02-29 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Kieren, huge respect for the kind of projects you are doing :) Answering these questions is difficult because they can depend a lot on the specifics of the music and any solution can become cumbersome because of only a little instance that doesn’t fit the schematic. A few thoughts: On

Re: [large/complex projects] where should transpositions go?

2024-01-29 Thread Simon Albrecht
Dear Kieren, I’d like to share two approaches I’ve developed for such issues. There’s two caveats: Firstly, I couldn’t take time to study your setup and how that makes these approaches viable or not—sorry for that. Secondly, if possible, I always try to use vanilla LilyPond tools, so I

Re: combining two whole notes into one

2023-09-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Yuriy, it is possible, yes, but it’s not correct, unless you have a very specific reason to make an exception from the rule. There’s a reason why Lily provides commands for merging differently headed or differently dotted notes, but only for notes with a stem. If you merge notes without

Re: Obscure message in Frescobaldi

2023-09-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Hajo, I can’t answer your question, but I can say that the better place to ask it would be either the Issue tracker in the Frescobaldi project on Github, or via the contact adress included in Frescobaldi at Help->About. Hope that helps! Simon On 26.09.23 21:51, Hajo Baess wrote: This

Re: what is an articulation that looks like a marcato but is shaped like a half-moon?

2023-09-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Kenneth, On 18.09.23 04:31, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: what is an articulation that looks like a marcato but is shaped like a half-moon? This is from an arrangement of the Marcello Oboe Concerto (Adagio movement) by way of Bach and/or Vivaldi, re-arranged for two trumpets, french horn and tuba.

Re: squeezing a page

2023-07-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Tom, On 10.07.23 03:09, Tom Sgouros wrote: And also for pointing out page-count. That does seem easiest and in fact it worked. I always like it best when I can tell the computer, "you're a computer, figure it out". to add to that: The spacing considerations for music are enormously

Re: LyricExtender doesn't terminate before grace note

2023-07-08 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Abraham, On 07.07.23 16:36, Abraham Lee wrote: All, This came up on the FB group and I determined that the problem is the presence of the \acciaccatura. In the following passage, the LyricExtender somehow misses the signal to end before the grace note appears, forming a continuous line

Re: Define an alias to a parametrized command

2023-06-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 28.06.23 00:54, Valentin Petzel wrote: If you want a real alias (that is a second binding to the same function) you can do #(define acc acciaccatura) This will create another binding to the same object AFAIK, acc = #acciaccatura and likewise af = #after will have the same effect. Best,

Re: Metronome marking with non-integer value

2023-06-26 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 25.06.23 16:36, Jean Abou Samra wrote: |\layout { \context { \Score \remove Metronome_mark_engraver \cadenzaOn } \context { \Staff \remove Time_signature_engraver \consists Metronome_mark_engraver } }| Would the relatively new \layout {   \enablePolymeter } be appropriate here? (plus of

LSR 1169 issue: missing point-and-click

2023-06-20 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello everyone, it’s great to have LSR 1169 and it seems to be working as it should—many thanks to Jean Abou Samra and Werner Lemberg! However I’m sorry to write this mail because there is one issue I found ;) Any syllable but the last in a word doesn’t have point-and-click the way it is

Re: How to make a blank page

2023-06-11 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Paul, On 11.06.23 15:41, Paul McKay wrote: A solution which would also allow me to insert a blank space between scores (so I could begin a 2nd movement on an even-numbered page) would be good, but my current request is just for an initial one. Jean already gave one solution, another

Re: Magnetic snap and whiteout on LyricText: warnings

2023-06-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Jean, hi Werner, On 05.06.23 22:28, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Well, for my defense, I did also post a revised version of the “magnetic lyrics” snippet: https://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg149201.html thanks for that pointer and your contributions. I reviewed that thread,

Magnetic snap and whiteout on LyricText: warnings

2023-06-05 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello everyone, I don’t know where the “Lyric syllable magnetic snap” snippet is mainly stored, I grabbed it from the list years ago and attach it in the version that I have, from December 2011 and with links to user list archive. I hope I’m not somehow behind time with this, having followed

Re: Get the margin values

2023-06-05 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Pierre, On 05.06.23 15:07, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: So how can I get the paper values as a markp? the call to ly:output-def-lookup returns a number or an empty list. So this returns valid markup regardless: \version "2.24.1" \paper {   top-margin =

Re: nested \relative ?

2023-02-11 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 10/02/2023 19:22, Saul Tobin wrote: What is the reasoning behind having smaller relative blocks? I agree that there are many factors in the workflow, project and templates that influence this decision. I want to give just one example: Piano score or similar with changing number and

Re: nested \relative ?

2023-02-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Darren, On 10/02/2023 11:46, Darren Ng wrote: \ghostNoteWhichDoesNotActuallyAppear { c,,, } I think what you want here is \resetRelativeOctave. The best solution depends on many factors around your workflow and the setup of your project, but generally it is recommendable to split things

Re: Duplicate marks with removed Staves (frenched)

2023-02-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
  >>   \new ChoirStaff <<     \new Staff << \marks \B >>   >> >> Maybe I'm missing a way to do this while keeping the mark engravers in the ChoirStaff context. Saul On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 1:29 AM Simon Albrecht wrote: Hi Saul, On 08/02/2023 2

Re: Duplicate marks with removed Staves (frenched)

2023-02-09 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Saul, On 08/02/2023 22:03, Saul Tobin wrote: Is there a reason to have the marks in a child context rather than just a simultaneous music variable? You mean the Devnull? Just convenience. It works well with the way I assemble different ChoirStaffs for different output formats and adding

Duplicate marks with removed Staves (frenched)

2023-02-08 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello everyone, I am working on a large score with several ChoirStaves and want to have BarNumbers and Marks in the middle as well. However, when I use \RemoveEmptyStaves, removed Staves still have their BarNumbers etc. How can I solve this without hard-coding where the Staves are removed?

Re: Controlling Slur Marks

2022-08-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Greg, great to hear you’re starting with LilyPond! On 30/08/2022 21:52, Greg Lindstrom wrote: I see later in the documentation there is a snippet on how to merge voices, so that's next on my list. There’s one bit of important advice that usually makes the experience of learning LilyPond

Re: Last note of a first alternative is a tie to the first note in the repeat; how to engrave this?

2022-07-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 28/07/2022 16:25, David Kastrup wrote: There is also \startTrillSpan/\stopTrillSpan, \startGroup/\stopGroup, \startGraceSlur/\stopGraceSlur, \startTextSpan/\stopTextSpan, \startMeasureCount/\stopMeasureCount, \startMeasureSpanner/\stopMeasureSpanner . On the opposite side, there is

Re: Markup command trouble

2022-07-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi David, On 25/07/2022 16:35, David Kastrup wrote: You probably meant \markup spanish = \markup \italic \etc which defines a markup command. The way you wrote it, \spanish is just a scheme function that happens to return the internals of a markup command definition. I did mean that.

Issue with download link

2022-07-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello everyone, On 24/07/2022 19:44, Jonas Hahnfeld via LilyPond user discussion wrote: Please refer to the Installing section in the Learning Manual for instructions how to set up the provided binaries: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/learning/installing This link leads to a

Markup command trouble

2022-07-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
Dear list, I wanted to define a markup command for easy switchable styling of text and ran into an issue which seems hard to understand: \version "2.23.9" spanish = \markup\italic \etc \markup \column {   \spanish \justify { test } } => “error: not a markup” My

Re: Undertie in lyrics to show no breath

2022-07-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi mancunius, On 20/07/2022 12:34, mancunius wrote: Hello. In the following example I want the undertie to be placed between the 2 “O sacrum convivium” lines of lyrics, to indicate that no breath should be taken by the singers - as per the normal choral convention. (cf. the commented-out

Re: Orchestral works good practice

2022-07-11 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, On 07/07/2022 08:50, Rip _Mus wrote: Good morning to everyone, I am preparing a large orchestral work. In my writing style, each instrument often has two voices in its staff, for various reason (for example, each clarinet can handle two voices when playing multiphonics trills with

Re: \repeat unfold has problems inside \repeat volta

2022-07-03 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 02/07/2022 18:20, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Simon, you moved this from bug-lilypond to lilypond-user. Was that intentional? Did I? I’m sure I just clicked Reply All, and the thread as I received is on the user list… this e-mail of yours is the first that for me shows the bug list as

Re: \repeat unfold has problems inside \repeat volta

2022-07-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi David and others, On 01/07/2022 12:32, David Kastrup wrote: I don't think so. The problem is that repeats now support putting the \alternative phrase inside of the construct since that is a saner way of doing things. But the previous way is still supported for compatibility reasons. Your

Re: Generating a spiccato

2022-06-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Jacques, On 27/06/2022 22:13, Jacques Menu wrote: Does anyone know of some way to generate spiccato articulations in the scores produced by Lily? what would you expect that to look like? { a'4-! } maybe? Best, Simon

Re: shiftDurations and tempo

2022-06-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi David, On 27/06/2022 21:07, David Kastrup wrote: Before looking for a possible following `=` LilyPond has to have made a decision what type the token/expression coming before that has. It cannot look at the type of a #... expression before deciding to look for `=` but it can (and will) look

Re: shiftDurations and tempo

2022-06-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Jean, On 27/06/2022 20:37, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Le 27/06/2022 à 20:10, Simon Albrecht a écrit : Hello everyone, I’m trying to encode a piece such that I can switch whether or not durations will be shifted (note values halved/doubled). Unfortunately \tempo isn’t affected

shiftDurations and tempo

2022-06-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello everyone, I’m trying to encode a piece such that I can switch whether or not durations will be shifted (note values halved/doubled). Unfortunately \tempo isn’t affected by \shiftDurations (that would be a sensible feature request, right?), so I tried this: %%%

Re: Score header and top-level markup

2022-06-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Jean, thanks once more for the speedy and helpful reply! On 06/06/2022 14:43, Jean Abou Samra wrote: How can I change that? That sounds like an XY question. Sorry about that. I meant to imply: How do I swap the placement of the headers? What is the use case? Having a large,

Score header and top-level markup

2022-06-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi everyone, %%% \version "2.23.9" \bookpart {   \markup \fontsize #10 "general title"   \header {     title = "specific title"   }   \score {     { 1 }   } } why does "general title" appear below "specific title" and not above? How can I change that? Best,

Re: Three slurs from a single voice to three voices?

2022-06-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Kevin, On 02/06/2022 22:56, Kevin Cole wrote: The hand-written score I'm looking at shows an F# with three slurs coming off of it going to each of the three notes in the following measure. I tried the following but it only shows one slur. What did I miss? without context it’s hard to tell

Re: bookTitleMarkup and tocItem cause empty page

2022-06-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Jean, On 01/06/2022 22:41, Jean Abou Samra wrote: As said on the ticket, you need to move \tocItem inside the second bookpart, thanks for looking into it and opening the issue. The workaround is inconvenient, because I want to have the \bookpart{} statement in an include file for use in

bookTitleMarkup and tocItem cause empty page

2022-06-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Jean, On 01/06/2022 15:24, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Please give an example. I’ve gone debugging, and it’s a weird combination of two things that causes the empty page: %%% \version "2.23.9" \paper {   bookTitleMarkup = \markup {     \vspace #.3   } } \bookpart {

Start bookPart on even page

2022-06-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi everybody, it’s been a long time since I’ve used bookPart, it seems, and I don’t know how to search for an answer. How can I allow Lily to start a bookPart on even pages? She will insert empty pages to avoid that. Best, Simon

Re: Scheme function and top-level markup

2022-05-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Jean, On 27/05/2022 12:34, Jean Abou Samra wrote: The solution for now is to use a plain Scheme function: Thanks a bunch for the solution and explanations, that does it! Best, Simon

Re: Openlilylib

2022-05-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Andrew, sorry that your investments into Dorico didn’t work out! It’s great to have you back in the Pond :) I have been thinking that it would be nice to invest more time into Lily myself, but I don’t yet know whether/how/when I can make that happen. Best, Simon On 27/05/2022 10:24,

Re: Scheme function and top-level markup

2022-05-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
itle "I. Kyrie" /tmp/frescobaldi-0fy0zxi0/tmpkd3e8qov/document.ly:11:1: error: bad expression type \pieceTitle "I. Kyrie" %%%%%% On 27/05/2022 12:21, Simon Albrecht wrote: Hello everyone, I’m a bit surprised that the following doesn’t work and

Scheme function and top-level markup

2022-05-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello everyone, I’m a bit surprised that the following doesn’t work and don’t know where to look for a solution. % \version "2.23.9" pieceTitle = #(define-scheme-function (str) (markup?)    #{ \markup \huge $str \noPageBreak    #}) \pieceTitle "I. Kyrie" {

Re: Openlilylib

2022-05-11 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Andrew, thanks for the information. Sorry to hear about your illness and all the best wishes nonetheless! Best, Simon On 09/05/2022 09:53, Andrew Bernard wrote: Hello All, I've been absent from the list for a long time, but recently got CC'd about an Openlilylib pull request. I must

Re: openlilylib pull request

2022-05-08 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 08/05/2022 20:37, Jean Abou Samra wrote: The case study of how OLL fell out of maintenance is one of the things leading me to think that a model where snippets providing significant functionality and becoming somewhat popular get upstreamed into the LilyPond core is a better fit for LilyPond

openlilylib pull request

2022-05-08 Thread Simon Albrecht
Dear community, I have made some small updates to keep the openlilylib/bezier module working with current versions of LilyPond and created a pull request on GitHub. Is anyone currently able to notice and approve the request? Best, Simon

Re: Removing all dynamics from MIDI

2022-04-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi David, On 16/04/2022 18:11, David Santamauro wrote: Hi, it seems removing the Dynamic_performer doesn’t actually remove performance of articulations. Articulations are Script grobs, not Dynamics. Maybe removing Script_engraver as well would do the trick? I don’t work with MIDI much, so

Re: DurationLine avoiding RehearsalMarks

2022-04-12 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Jean, On 11/04/2022 18:04, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Well, maybe it doesn't make sense anyway -- I don't think I've ever seen a breathing sign in one staff and not another. It definitely happens and is perfectly valid musically. Breathing_sign_engraver sits in Voice (and similar) by

Re: Musical questions

2022-04-11 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Jacques, On 11/04/2022 16:16, Jacques Menu wrote: Also, what is the musical meaning of the ligatures above the staff? these are not standard notation and it’s impossible to tell. Maybe the larger context might give some hint, but most likely you’d need an explanation in foreword or

Re: Ignore stems

2022-03-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Jean, On 25/03/2022 13:20, Jean Abou Samra wrote: In English: these properties (X-extent, Y-extent, horizontal-skylines, vertical-skylines) have implicit defaults, which are given when the property is found not to be set. Now you're setting them to the empty list, which for some reason

Ignore stems

2022-03-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello everybody, I want to try having Lyrics placed without regard for any stems in the adjacent staff (and then using whiteout to remedy the clash, of course). The below approach doesn’t work. Why? Can I make it work? Best, Simon \version "2.23.6" \layout {   \context {   

Width proportions of large note values

2022-03-13 Thread Simon Albrecht
Dear list, while engraving 17th century music, I have an issue with the way Lily spaces large note values by default. If there are no shorter values present, breve and whole notes receive almost the same horizontal space which makes the rhythms hard to read. How can I override that? Best,

Re: Music publishing houses accepting Lilypond files?

2022-03-13 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Colin, I haven’t tried it myself, but generally publishers have a house style and want all their publications to comply with that house style. It’s offputting to me, because I have my own aesthetic preferences which don’t match with what computer typesetting typically looks like, so I

Re: Please tear apart this example lead sheet template for traditional Western folk tunes

2022-02-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Valentin, one line in your Scheme code confused me. If you don’t mind explaining, why do you write `(,CN ,FB ,VC . ,LY) instead of (list CN FB VC LY) ? Best, Simon On 22/02/2022 09:25, Valentin Petzel wrote: Hello Tom, A good template will separate content and form. Ideally you’d be

Re: LilyPond 2.22.2 released

2022-02-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 22/02/2022 14:07, Phil Holmes wrote: We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.22.2 on 2-22-22 (i.e. February the 22nd, 2022). Fabulous ;) Thanks to everyone involved!

Re: inconsistent \RemoveEmptyStaves action

2022-02-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 22/02/2022 23:28, Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: Do you consider this inferior (or unnecessarily verbose and therefore non-minimal)? No, the motivation for that was more naive. You’re probably right that it would actually be more minimal in a deeper sense to explicitly instantiate the

Re: inconsistent \RemoveEmptyStaves action

2022-02-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi, On 12/02/2022 20:22, jh wrote: This is the shortest example I could figure out how to make David and Lukas-Fabian have already answered the core question, so allow me to comment on this: tiny examples are important for communication on the list and it takes a while to learn how to make

Re: self-alignment-X on DynamicTextSpanner?

2022-01-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
to add a \right-align to have the actual markup aligned to the right (you might want to change attach-dir to CENTER, as the fff does the same. We can infact add some sugar for this, like here. Cheers, Valentin Am Sonntag, 30. Jänner 2022, 22:20:58 CET schrieb Simon Albrecht: Hi List

self-alignment-X on DynamicTextSpanner?

2022-01-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi List, is there an equivalent to self-alignment-X for the left bound text of a DynamicTextSpanner? See below. Best, Simon \version "2.23.5" {   1-\tweak self-alignment-X 1 \fff   1   % this causes alignment to just fail indiscriminately   % (not a surprise, because I couldn’t find out how

Re: tagGroup question

2022-01-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
considering that I almost exclusively use them either as toplevelMusicFunctions or wrapping an entire score’s music. Best, Simon On 28/01/2022 15:17, David Kastrup wrote: David Kastrup writes: Simon Albrecht writes: Dear list, I have encountered some unexpected behaviour with tags

tagGroup question

2022-01-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
Dear list, I have encountered some unexpected behaviour with tags and tagGroups. In the following example, I thought the two staffs should look the same, even without the \removeWithTag command, but they don’t: \version "2.23.5" % tested with 2.23.5 (guile2-build)

Re: ice-9 i18n string-locale-upcase

2022-01-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 18/01/2022 18:52, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Because this is documentation for Guile 2 and current releases of LilyPond still have Guile 1.8. Thanks for the speedy reply! I wasn’t sure whether the switch to Guile 2 had already been made. I got it to work with the experimental binary you

[openLilyLib] oll-core incompatible with Guile 2.2

2022-01-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
Dear list, I have started using the experimental 2.23.5 build with Guile 2.2 [1] and it turns out to be incompatible with the core of openLilyLib. Here are the error messages I got—it may be that only the first is relevant: %%

Re: [openLilyLib] oll-core incompatible with Guile 2.2

2022-01-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
https://github.com/openlilylib/oll-core/issues/62 On 18/01/2022 20:43, Simon Albrecht wrote: I have started using the experimental 2.23.5 build with Guile 2.2 [1] and it turns out to be incompatible with the core of openLilyLib. Here are the error messages I got—it may be that only the first

ice-9 i18n string-locale-upcase

2022-01-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi everyone, I wanted to set up some customisable headings using #(string-upcase "string"), but it doesn’t work on German umlauts, so I came upon string-locale-upcase on this page: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/docs-2.2/guile-ref/Character-Case-Mapping.html#Character-Case-Mapping

Weird interference between OLL, input mode, note name language

2021-12-04 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi everyone, I have had a very weird error pop up, which doesn’t appear to be related to a specific LilyPond version, nor was it triggered by any recent update to OLL (though I’m using chordmode very rarely): In the following snippet,after loading the core package loader from

Re: lyric-syllable-magnetic-snap stopped working in 2.23.5—meta.classes error

2021-12-04 Thread Simon Albrecht
Dear Jean, amazing, thanks a lot! Best, Simon On 03/12/2021 14:03, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Please find attached an updated version.

lyric-syllable-magnetic-snap stopped working in 2.23.5—meta.classes error

2021-12-03 Thread Simon Albrecht
Dear list, I’ve just upgraded to 2.23.5 from 2.23.3 and when I now use the attached library file, I get this error message in my log: Interpreting music... fatal error: meta.classes must be non-empty list, found #f Exited with return code 1. Can someone help with fixing it? Thanks in

Re: Feature request: Alternative G clef

2020-10-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Martín, On 24.10.20 11:47, Martín Rincón Botero wrote: I wish Perol-Schneider's clef could be considered for inclusion into standard Lilypond, possibly named as "G2" (which would actually produce a "second" G clef) or as \clef varG. two things here: there has been a lot of work to making

Re: Once for all and one last time (was Future of openLilyLib)

2020-10-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
There’s no such thing as retracting an e-mail, but I would like to do it. Sorry for failing to realise how old the thread was before replying. Best, Simon On 10.10.20 14:11, Simon Albrecht wrote: Dear Karsten and list, On 22.09.20 22:40, Karsten Reincke wrote: 5) I've learned, that all

Re: Once for all and one last time (was Future of openLilyLib)

2020-10-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
Dear Karsten and list, On 22.09.20 22:40, Karsten Reincke wrote: 5) I've learned, that all(?) of you consider this an untenable if not silly position and that the PDFs and midi-files compiled by Lilypond are never affected by the strong copyleft effect of the GPL. That's good to hear. But I

Re: 2.21 and OLL

2020-07-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 16.07.20 23:27, Urs Liska wrote: I could not reproduce this with 2.21.3, which I just downloaded. Could you please try that too? If it's something that was present from 2.21.0 to 2.21.2 but not now anymore I wouldn't bother investigating more closely. Of course. And indeed, neither 2.20.0

Re: 2.21 and OLL

2020-07-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Urs et al., On 15.07.20 08:15, Urs Liska wrote: MWE please, and the error message. This one is very minimal :-) \version "2.21.0" \include "oll-core/package.ily" => Starting lilypond 2.21.0 [Untitled]... Processing

2.21 and OLL

2020-07-14 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello everybody, apologies if the question is redundant—I haven’t been able to follow the lists recently. With 2.21.0, I have GUILE throwing an error message for oll-core/package.ily:57 that doesn’t appear with 2.19.84. Is that a known problem? Should I try isolating it? Best, Simon

Re: GS problem with Lily 2.21.0

2020-04-19 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 18.04.20 09:05, Urs Liska wrote: Which gets back to my question: how did you invoke it, do you run LilyPond from Frescobaldi? Yes, and somehow when adding 2.20.0 and 2.21.0 to the ‘Preferences > LilyPond preferences’ dialogue I went down to the lilypond/usr/bin/ subdirectory instead of

Re: GS problem with Lily 2.21.0

2020-04-19 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 18.04.20 09:01, Jonas Hahnfeld wrote: To address the original problem you should invoke lilypond via the wrapper script /usr/local/lilypond-2.21.0/bin/lilypond instead of using the the directly binary from /usr/local/lilypond-2.21.0/lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond. Thanks, Jonas, for the

Re: GS problem with Lily 2.21.0

2020-04-17 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 16.04.20 20:15, Timothy Lanfear wrote: On my machine /usr/local/lilypond-2.21.0/lilypond/usr/bin/gs --version returns 9.26, conflicting with /usr/local/lilypond-2.21.0/lilypond/usr/share/ghostscript/9.21 I hadn't noticed because I run my distribution's gs not Lilypond's. A packaging

Re: GS problem with Lily 2.21.0

2020-04-17 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 16.04.20 18:09, Mats Bengtsson wrote: On 4/16/20 2:46 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote: Hello everyone, I’m having a problem with my newly installed Lilypond versions 2.20.0 and 2.21.0: Any compilation I start aborts while GS tries writing a PDF. I installed both versions yesterday

GS problem with Lily 2.21.0

2020-04-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello everyone, I’m having a problem with my newly installed Lilypond versions 2.20.0 and 2.21.0: Any compilation I start aborts while GS tries writing a PDF. I installed both versions yesterday, and the first tests were successful, before this problem came up. Inbetween I mounted and

Re: Re: An exciting new release… of Sibelius!!!

2020-03-29 Thread Simon Albrecht
Let's be honest, they really had to get their stuff together to keep any ground all against Dorico. Best, Simon > On 27.03.2020 - 15:26, Shane Brandes wrote: > > > They are really on the ball on that one. > > > -Shane > > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:09 AM Valentin Villenave > wrote: >

Re: openLilyLib website

2020-02-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Urs, this looks great! As often, I can’t offer much more than applause and some nitpicking… On the ‘About LilyPond’ I’d rather write “GNU LilyPond is a music notation program /strongly inspired by/ traditional craftsmanship”. After all, the process of working with LilyPond doesn’t

Re: [Scheme coding] turning a list into a markup/string

2020-01-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 21.01.20 22:05, Kieren MacMillan wrote: I’m pretty sure I would have taken quite a while to find my way to "make-simple-markup" Note that (make-simple-markup "foo") is equivalent to (markup #:simple "foo") in other words it’s the spelled-out version of what’s usually accessed through

Re: Unusual cross-staff stem in Bartók

2020-01-20 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 14.01.20 18:15, Arle Lommel wrote: Why Bartók didn’t simply show the bottom D in the treble clef is an interesting question. I think he was trying to keep the relationship between the hands clear, but couldn’t quite include the upper D in a way that made sense without splitting it like

Re: Override a StaffSymbol property outside \new Staff { ... } context

2020-01-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Paolo, it seems like you have some very specific setup of lilypond files and framework and need a solution that works within that, but you’re trying to avoid explaining the whole setup either because it’s too much effort or for privacy or similar. From my experience, when I get into that

Re: ANN: LilyJSSVG, first pre-release (BIG improvement)

2020-01-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Paolo, On 05.01.20 23:32, Paolo Prete wrote: https://github.com/paolo-prete/LilyJSSVG/blob/master/LilyJSSVG.ogv it seems like github can’t display the video—even the ‘raw’ option shows a zero-length video. Best, Simon

Re: QtWebEngine vs. Ubuntu 16.04

2020-01-03 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 03.01.20 14:25, Wols Lists wrote: On 29/12/19 04:30, Simon Albrecht wrote: thanks for the reply. I have learned from painful experience that it seems better to just reinstall the OS completely, avoiding any issues with the upgrade, and restore user data from backup. I have made all

Re: Score Wizard Fresco 3.1

2020-01-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 02.01.20 13:19, Peter Gentry wrote: Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2020 17:31:10 -0700 (MST) From: Michael Rivers The score wizard does nothing for me in Frescobaldi 3.1 (Windows version). I uninstalled it and reinstalled the old version, whose score wizard works fine.

Re: nudging a note

2019-12-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Mark, another low-maintenance solution would be: <<   { %{ notes for top voice %} }   \\   { %{ notes for bottom voice %} }   \\ \\ % NB!   { %{ notes for middle voice %} } >> Best, Simon On 31.12.19 07:09, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: Hello to All Please provide some

Re: Frescobaldi doesn’t recognise python-ly

2019-12-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 30.12.19 18:11, Ralf Mattes wrote: The most sensible explanation for that would be an error in the bash file, so I attach it in case someone else can see one… Where did you get this shell script from? I tried to assemble it from the ‘echo’ calls in

Frescobaldi doesn’t recognise python-ly

2019-12-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello everybody, after upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 I freshly installed Frescobaldi (and python-ly) according to the guide in the wiki (except for writing the ~/bin/frescobaldi within gedit, because somehow the first echo line wouldn’t work… and I cloned both repos from github.com/frescobaldi/…

Re: QtWebEngine vs. Ubuntu 16.04

2019-12-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 28.12.19 20:00, ma...@masonhock.com wrote: On 12/28, Simon Albrecht wrote: I want to spend as little time as possible on maintaining/upgrading the OS. So I’m reluctant to ditch 16.04 just yet. Should I bite the bullet and take the time to install 18.04? 18.04 has been out long enough

Re: QtWebEngine vs. Ubuntu 16.04

2019-12-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi everybody, On 28.12.19 09:46, Urs Liska wrote: Before upgrading to a newer OS it might be an option to use a current Qt/PyQt downloaded or compiled from somewhere. @Simon you could do us a huge favor by exploring that possibility and providing information about it for the Wiki. This is

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 3.1 has been released!

2019-12-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 27.12.19 17:10, Kevin Cole wrote: If I'm installing on my machine, do I need QtWebEngine? (I can't find that through Ubuntu Software, either.) As to the Qt stuff, I find using synaptic ("sudo apt install synaptic") a bit more helpful than the Ubuntu Software installer. Slightly

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 3.1 has been released!

2019-12-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
Dear Frescobaldi devs, that sounds absolutely great and I chime into thanking you a lot for this great software! Best, Simon On 27.12.19 11:20, Wilbert Berendsen wrote: Dear Friends, Frescobaldi 3.1 has been released! There are many new features. Most notably: - A new Fonts dialog to

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