Re: glissando up from no note to a note

2009-03-10 Thread M Watts
Chip wrote: Robin Bannister wrote: Chip wrote: it just resulted in messed up measures A judicious use of time distortion may help you here. \transpose c c'{ \hideNotes g,32\glissando \unHideNotes c'4*7/8 c'4 c'4 r4 | \hideNotes c''32\glissando \unHideNotes c'4*7/8 c'4 c'4 r4 |

Re: glissando up from no note to a note

2009-03-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Why not use an invisible grace note to start the glissando? Then, there's no need to fiddle with the timing: \transpose c c'{ \grace{ \hideNotes g,8\glissando \unHideNotes} c'4 c'4 c'4 r4 | \grace{\hideNotes c''8\glissando \unHideNotes} c'4 c'4 c'4 r4 | a1\fermata \grace{\hideNotes

Re: glissando up from no note to a note

2009-03-10 Thread Trevor Daniels
Mats Bengtsson wrote Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:10 AM Why not use an invisible grace note to start the glissando? Then, there's no need to fiddle with the timing: \transpose c c'{ \grace{ \hideNotes g,8\glissando \unHideNotes} c'4 c'4 c'4 r4 | \grace{\hideNotes c''8\glissando \unHideNotes}

Re: glissando up from no note to a note

2009-03-10 Thread Chip
Thanks for the suggestions, I was sent the following code which does the job beautifully - r2*1/2 \hideNotes d8\glissando \unHideNotes a'8 fs d b Seems a bit overly complicated for adding something so simple don't ya think? I'll have to look for some info in the docs on the time distortion, I

Re: glissando up from no note to a note

2009-03-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Chip, Thanks for the suggestions, I was sent the following code which does the job beautifully Glad to hear you found a relatively easy solution. Seems a bit overly complicated for adding something so simple don't ya think? From that comment, I can see you don't actually appreciate

Re: glissando up from no note to a note

2009-03-10 Thread Andrew Wilson
2009/3/10 Chip c...@wiegand.org: r2*1/2 \hideNotes d8\glissando \unHideNotes a'8 fs d b I don't understand how this works, can someone explain the timing to me? It looks like you have a minim rest becoming crotchet rest through the magic of time distortion. You then add a quaver which by my

glissando up from no note to a note

2009-03-09 Thread Chip
I want to make a glissando go up from no note to a note. I tried using a spacer note, it didn't work. I tried using hideNote and unHideNote (basically reversed the sample in the snippets list) but it just resulted in messed up measures. There is no example in the documentation on how to do

Re: glissando up from no note to a note

2009-03-09 Thread Robin Bannister
Chip wrote: it just resulted in messed up measures A judicious use of time distortion may help you here. \transpose c c'{ \hideNotes g,32\glissando \unHideNotes c'4*7/8 c'4 c'4 r4 | \hideNotes c''32\glissando \unHideNotes c'4*7/8 c'4 c'4 r4 | a1*3/4\fermata \hideNotes d'4\glissando

Re: glissando up from no note to a note

2009-03-09 Thread Chip
Robin Bannister wrote: Chip wrote: it just resulted in messed up measures A judicious use of time distortion may help you here. \transpose c c'{ \hideNotes g,32\glissando \unHideNotes c'4*7/8 c'4 c'4 r4 | \hideNotes c''32\glissando \unHideNotes c'4*7/8 c'4 c'4 r4 | a1*3/4\fermata

Re: glissando up from no note to a note

2009-03-09 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/9/09 9:50 PM, Chip c...@wiegand.org wrote: \book { \score { \new Staff = trumpeta \with { \remove Instrument_name_engraver } \trumpeta \header {piece=Trumpet 1} \layout { indent = 0\mm} } } Why do you use around a single staff? I don't know that it's giving you any problems, but

Re: glissando up from no note to a note

2009-03-09 Thread Brett Duncan
Chip wrote: Robin Bannister wrote: Chip wrote: it just resulted in messed up measures A judicious use of time distortion may help you here. \transpose c c'{ \hideNotes g,32\glissando \unHideNotes c'4*7/8 c'4 c'4 r4 | \hideNotes c''32\glissando \unHideNotes c'4*7/8 c'4 c'4 r4 |

Re: glissando up from no note to a note

2009-03-09 Thread Chip
And this is relevant to the subject? How? Any suggestions on fixing the real problem I'm having with the glissando? -- Chip Here is the fixed version, without the irrelevant - - % LilyPond \include english.ly \version 2.12.1 \header{ title = Te Regalo el Corazon

Re: glissando up from no note to a note

2009-03-09 Thread Chip
Robin Bannister wrote: Chip wrote: it just resulted in messed up measures A judicious use of time distortion may help you here. \transpose c c'{ \hideNotes g,32\glissando \unHideNotes c'4*7/8 c'4 c'4 r4 | \hideNotes c''32\glissando \unHideNotes c'4*7/8 c'4 c'4 r4 | a1*3/4\fermata