Re: quoteDuring with lyrics

2017-06-06 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Carl, > this would greatly help the problems I face in trying to keep the music > accessible. Yes! (meaning both "I'm glad!" and "Same here!") > It seems like if it were possible to make \addQuote work on music expressions, > rather than during translation, the partcombine problem would be

Re: quoteDuring with lyrics

2017-06-06 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 6/6/17 1:37 PM, "Kieren MacMillan" wrote: >Hi Carl (et al.), > >> Even though I think like a programmer, I have found that the extra >> fragmentation of code caused by using notes in variables is in many >>cases >> worse that redundant note typing. > >I agree.

Re: quoteDuring with lyrics

2017-06-06 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Carl (et al.), > Even though I think like a programmer, I have found that the extra > fragmentation of code caused by using notes in variables is in many cases > worse that redundant note typing. I agree. That's why I'm hoping to maximize the possibility of quotation (as opposed to

Re: quoteDuring with lyrics

2017-06-06 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 6/6/17 8:08 AM, "Kieren MacMillan" wrote: >Hi David, > >> You can of course just put lyrics in a variable, but then the >> lyrics distribution to notes will of course be done fresh when you use >> that variable. > >I was just playing around with that feature

Re: quoteDuring with lyrics

2017-06-06 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Karlin, > Apparently there is no good emoticon for "waiting with bated-breath > anticipation." Mid-Course Update: There are a few things that I think *must* be worked out before any recommendation could be released "into the wild". In particular, how

Re: quoteDuring with lyrics

2017-06-06 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Vaughan, > If you want to use variables for unison, perhaps try something like this: > unisonBarsTwoToThree = { a'4 c'' a'2 b'1 } > sop = { a'2 e''8 d'' c'' b' \unisonBarsTwoToThree } > bass = { a2 gis \transpose c' c \unisonBarsTwoToThree } > With careful labelling it should probably be fine.

Re: quoteDuring with lyrics

2017-06-06 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, > You can of course just put lyrics in a variable, but then the > lyrics distribution to notes will of course be done fresh when you use > that variable. I was just playing around with that feature when your post arrived! It's actually quite lovely and powerful, if you think like a

Re: quoteDuring with lyrics

2017-06-06 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi David, > >>> [David K:] Entering lyrics with durations actually saves a lot of headaches >>> Beyond this issue, what other headache-savings can you point to? >> >> Not having to bother with melismata and slurs and autobeaming and

Re: quoteDuring with lyrics

2017-06-06 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 6 June 2017 at 11:31, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi David, > > >> [David K:] > >>> Entering lyrics with durations actually saves a lot of headaches > >> Beyond this issue, what other headache-savings can you point to? > > > > Not having to bother with melismata

Re: quoteDuring with lyrics

2017-06-05 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, >> [David K:] >>> Entering lyrics with durations actually saves a lot of headaches >> Beyond this issue, what other headache-savings can you point to? > > Not having to bother with melismata and slurs and autobeaming and whatnot. Not sure what you mean by "not having to bother with"…?

Re: quoteDuring with lyrics

2017-06-05 Thread Karlin High
On 6/5/2017 3:46 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > I'm working on this piece with an eye towards having, at the end of the > process, a nice example/system/framework/method that I can share with the > 'Pond. Apparently there is no good emoticon for "waiting with bated-breath anticipation." --

Re: quoteDuring with lyrics

2017-06-05 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi all, > > [Harm:] >>> the lyrics of sopL are all entered with default-duration: >>> and addQuote works with this default-duration. > > Ah… of course. Thanks. > >>> You could circumvent it by entering durations in sopL. It wouldn't >>>

Re: quoteDuring with lyrics

2017-06-05 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, [Harm:] >> the lyrics of sopL are all entered with default-duration: >> and addQuote works with this default-duration. Ah… of course. Thanks. >> You could circumvent it by entering durations in sopL. It wouldn't >> disturb addlyrics or lyricsto, afaik, but addQuote would have the >>

Re: quoteDuring with lyrics

2017-06-05 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > Hi Kieren, > > as far as I understand: > > 2017-06-05 17:43 GMT+02:00 Kieren MacMillan : >> Hi Phil, >> >>> I wonder whether it's down to Lily changing the voice during some >>> quoted passages? >> >> Good guess…

Re: quoteDuring with lyrics

2017-06-05 Thread Thomas Morley
2017-06-05 22:12 GMT+02:00 Thomas Morley : > Hi Kieren, > > as far as I understand: > > 2017-06-05 17:43 GMT+02:00 Kieren MacMillan : >> Hi Phil, >> >>> I wonder whether it's down to Lily changing the voice during some quoted >>> passages?

Re: quoteDuring with lyrics

2017-06-05 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Kieren, as far as I understand: 2017-06-05 17:43 GMT+02:00 Kieren MacMillan : > Hi Phil, > >> I wonder whether it's down to Lily changing the voice during some quoted >> passages? > > Good guess… but I'm not [explicitly] using anything but single voices in this

Re: quoteDuring with lyrics

2017-06-05 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Phil, > I wonder whether it's down to Lily changing the voice during some quoted > passages? Good guess… but I'm not [explicitly] using anything but single voices in this passage. I've included, below, a M(?)WE which fails in a slightly different way than my "real-world" score. The

Re: quoteDuring with lyrics

2017-06-05 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Kieren MacMillan" <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> To: "Lilypond-User Mailing List" <lilypond-user@gnu.org> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2017 2:45 PM Subject: quoteDuring with lyrics Hello all, I’m trying to make my content co

quoteDuring with lyrics

2017-06-05 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, I’m trying to make my content code as efficient as possible (e.g., using variables, quotes, etc.). In the choral piece I'm currently engraving, there is a lot of choral unison, so I'm using quoteDuring to "copy" notes from the soprano line to the others. Unfortunately that doesn't

Re: quoteDuring for lyrics?

2012-11-11 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
for syllables assigned to notes to be quoted ... I am sorry to say, that I think, you have to copyandpaste the needed lyrics right now. Cheers, Jan-Peter On 09.11.2012 21:03, Mogens Lemvig Hansen wrote: Hi, Is there a mechanism for lyrics similar to \quoteDuring? I naively tried \version 2.16.0

quoteDuring for lyrics?

2012-11-09 Thread Mogens Lemvig Hansen
Hi, Is there a mechanism for lyrics similar to \quoteDuring? I naively tried \version 2.16.0 soprano = \relative c'' { a2 b4 c d e f g } alto= \relative c' { e4 f2 g4 a b c d } sopranoText = \lyricmode { one two three four five six seven eight } altoText= \lyricmode { en to tre fire