Re: Parenthesizing chord names

2009-03-01 Thread James E. Bailey
El 01.03.2009, a las 01:12, Tim McNamara escribió: A common jazz lead sheet convention is to parenthesize optional chords written over the melody staff. An example is a turnaround at the end of a song that is not played the last time through. For example in Easy Living the turnaround

Re: Parenthesizing chord names

2009-03-01 Thread M Watts
James E. Bailey wrote: El 01.03.2009, a las 01:12, Tim McNamara escribió: A common jazz lead sheet convention is to parenthesize optional chords written over the melody staff. An example is a turnaround at the end of a song that is not played the last time through. For example in Easy

Create a midi file when .ly don't have any \score tag

2009-03-01 Thread Sylvain MICHEL
Good afternoon, I have a problem. I have generated a .ly file from a musicXML file but I don't know where to write the \midi { } statement because there isn't any \score { ... } in the file (it works because I generated pdf and png without errors). I am a real beginner so I don't know what to do.

transpose leadsheet (chords + melody)

2009-03-01 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Hi, How do I transpose leadsheet? Chords and melody? \r ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

piano reduction (in other .pdf file)

2009-03-01 Thread stefanozanobini
Hi, I've a 4 voice choir score. I want to generate a second score with the only piano reduction - well, actually an organ reduction :-) In the lilypond guide there is how I can create a score with choir staffs and piano system together, but it's not what I really want. Hope someone can help

Re: Create a midi file when .ly don't have any \score tag

2009-03-01 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Sylvain MICHEL wrote: Good afternoon, I have a problem. I have generated a .ly file from a musicXML file but I don't know where to write the \midi { } statement because there isn't any \score { ... } in the file (it works because I generated pdf and png without errors). I am a real beginner so

A chordChanges toggle for the Fretboard_engraver?

2009-03-01 Thread Huub Stoffers
Hello, I'm fairly new to Lilypond, but I think I've studied the documentation fairly well, particularly those parts related to the topic addressed below. After experimenting with various ways of adding chord names and fret diagrams to a lead melody, I would like the Lilypond developers to

Re: transpose leadsheet (chords + melody)

2009-03-01 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Grammostola Rosea wrote: Hi, How do I transpose leadsheet? Chords and melody? Chords I can do with: chordNames = \chordmode { \global % Akkoordnamen volgen. \transpose g c { r2. c1:m7 f:7 bes:maj7 es:maj7 a:m7.5- d:7 g:m g:m c1:m7 f:7 bes:maj7 es:maj7 a:m7.5- d:7 g:m g:m a:m7.5- d:7

Re: Parenthesizing chord names

2009-03-01 Thread James E. Bailey
El 01.03.2009, a las 12:47, M Watts escribió: James E. Bailey wrote: El 01.03.2009, a las 01:12, Tim McNamara escribió: A common jazz lead sheet convention is to parenthesize optional chords written over the melody staff. An example is a turnaround at the end of a song that is not

Re: piano reduction (in other .pdf file)

2009-03-01 Thread James E. Bailey
El 01.03.2009, a las 15:52, stefanozanobini escribió: Hi, I've a 4 voice choir score. I want to generate a second score with the only piano reduction - well, actually an organ reduction :-) In the lilypond guide there is how I can create a score with choir staffs and piano system together, but

Re: transpose leadsheet (chords + melody)

2009-03-01 Thread James E. Bailey
El 01.03.2009, a las 16:55, Grammostola Rosea escribió: Grammostola Rosea wrote: Hi, How do I transpose leadsheet? Chords and melody? But the melody is not tranposed very well. The octaves of the notes are not right :( Or do I have to change those comma's by hand ??? You need another

Re: Parenthesizing chord names

2009-03-01 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Tim, Rather than writing a separate ending, I'd like to just parenthesize the last three chords over the final two bars so they would render: F(Ab7Dbmaj7C7) Don't know how to (easily) parenthesize all the chords, but you can easily parenthesize each chord — see

Re: transpose leadsheet (chords + melody)

2009-03-01 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 1, 2009, at 8:31 AM, Grammostola Rosea wrote: Hi, How do I transpose leadsheet? Chords and melody? With the \transpose command where you've defined the melody and the harmony. It works spectacularly well IMHO, really for me one of the biggest selling points of using LilyPond.

Re: piano reduction (in other .pdf file)

2009-03-01 Thread stefanozanobini
I've given a look to the new documentation (I've still lilypond 2.10 and its guide is different from the new one), but the explanation (Separate scores showing just the vocal parts or just the piano part can be produced by changing just the structural statements, leaving the musical notation

Re: transpose leadsheet (chords + melody)

2009-03-01 Thread Grammostola Rosea
James E. Bailey wrote: El 01.03.2009, a las 16:55, Grammostola Rosea escribió: Grammostola Rosea wrote: Hi, How do I transpose leadsheet? Chords and melody? But the melody is not tranposed very well. The octaves of the notes are not right :( Or do I have to change those comma's by hand

Re: piano reduction (in other .pdf file)

2009-03-01 Thread James E. Bailey
El 01.03.2009, a las 17:50, stefanozanobini escribió: I've given a look to the new documentation (I've still lilypond 2.10 and its guide is different from the new one), but the explanation (Separate scores showing just the vocal parts or just the piano part can be produced by changing just the

Re: Parenthesizing chord names

2009-03-01 Thread Robin Bannister
Tim McNamara wrote: Rather than writing a separate ending, I'd like to just parenthesize the last three chords over the final two bars so they would render: F(Ab7Dbmaj7C7) ChordName outputs via text-interface, so the easiest way should be \once \override

Changing Staff organization

2009-03-01 Thread Alberto Simões
Hello I have a music that starts with two staffs, and at some points splits to three (for four voices). Is there any way to force this change? Or is the solution to make two separate melodies? Thanks for any hint and link Cheers Alberto -- Alberto Simões - Departamento de Informática -

horizontal spacing

2009-03-01 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Hi, Imho Lilypond uses to many bars on one 'row' in a-4 format. I got about 8 bars (4/4), I prefer to have 4. I tried to use: \layout { } \midi { \context { \Score \override SpacingSpanner #'base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1 16) But it doesn't seems

auto ottavation

2009-03-01 Thread Rob Canning
hello, is there anything i can \set or \override or anything in order for lilypond to automaticaly take care of ottavation? i would like to be able to set an upper and lower threshold and then when these are exceeded lilypond will automagicaly take care of the ottavas? thanks rob --

Re: Create a midi file when .ly don't have any \score tag

2009-03-01 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/1 Sylvain MICHEL lsme...@gmail.com: Good afternoon, I have a problem. I have generated a .ly file from a musicXML file but I don't know where to write the \midi { } statement because there isn't any \score { ... } in the file (it works because I generated pdf and png without errors).

Re: Changing Staff organization

2009-03-01 Thread Andrew Hawryluk
If you declare each of the musical voices independently, then you can \change Staff = when you want to move that voice to a different staff. It's documented under keyboards, where it happens all the time, but it works for any voice and any type of staff. You can even move the notes from the string

Re: Changing Staff organization

2009-03-01 Thread Alberto Simões
Hello, Andrew. Andrew Hawryluk wrote: If you declare each of the musical voices independently, then you can \change Staff = when you want to move that voice to a different staff. It's documented under keyboards, where it happens all the time, but it works for any voice and any type of staff.

Re: Changing Staff organization

2009-03-01 Thread James E. Bailey
El 01.03.2009, a las 19:08, Alberto Simões escribió: Hello, Andrew. Andrew Hawryluk wrote: If you declare each of the musical voices independently, then you can \change Staff = when you want to move that voice to a different staff. It's documented under keyboards, where it happens all the

Re: Changing Staff organization

2009-03-01 Thread Alberto Simões
James E. Bailey wrote: Basically, there is a portion of the music for piano (two staves), and it continues with a SATB (with three staves). Thus, I need to add a staff somewhere. You probabbly need to re-organise the way the music is defined in lilypond. It depends on how you have it

Re: Changing Staff organization

2009-03-01 Thread Mailing Lists
Essentially, it sounds like you want 3 staves of vocal music and one piano staff (two staves), but you want to hide the vocal staves when they are resting and ditto for the piano, right? Create a score with 5 staves, keeping the vocal and piano parts separate (rather than using the two

Re: Changing Staff organization

2009-03-01 Thread James E. Bailey
El 01.03.2009, a las 19:24, Alberto Simões escribió: James E. Bailey wrote: Basically, there is a portion of the music for piano (two staves), and it continues with a SATB (with three staves). Thus, I need to add a staff somewhere. You probabbly need to re-organise the way the music is

Re: Changing Staff organization

2009-03-01 Thread Alberto Simões
James E. Bailey wrote: El 01.03.2009, a las 19:24, Alberto Simões escribió: James E. Bailey wrote: Basically, there is a portion of the music for piano (two staves), and it continues with a SATB (with three staves). Thus, I need to add a staff somewhere. You probabbly need to

Re: Changing Staff organization

2009-03-01 Thread Alberto Simões
Hello, Kris. I think this answers to my question. Thank you. I will not try to implement it. Cheers Alberto Mailing Lists wrote: Essentially, it sounds like you want 3 staves of vocal music and one piano staff (two staves), but you want to hide the vocal staves when they are resting and

Re: horizontal spacing

2009-03-01 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The simplest is probably to insert some \break commands where you want line breaks. Then, LilyPond will stretch out the note spacing. If you want exactly 4 measures per line, you can even insert a parallel line of the form \repeat unfold 10 { s1*4 \break } (assuming that your score has 10*4=40

Re: horizontal spacing

2009-03-01 Thread Kees van den Doel
Imho Lilypond uses to many bars on one 'row' in a-4 format. I got about 8 bars (4/4), I prefer to have 4. I tried to use: \layout { }   \midi {     \context {   \Score    \override SpacingSpanner     #'base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1 16) But it

RE: horizontal spacing

2009-03-01 Thread Nick Payne
You've got the commands inside \midi. Move them to \layout: \layout { \context { \Score \override SpacingSpanner #'base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1 16) } } \midi { } Nick -Original Message- Subject: Re: horizontal spacing Imho

Re: Small notation for second voice [bug or feature?]

2009-03-01 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
found up that \cueDuring is being applied from the beginning of the melody and not from the point where I used \cueDuring... Oups, sorry. My message is already gone . So, don't take it into account. Gilles ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Parenthesizing chord names

2009-03-01 Thread M Watts
James E. Bailey wrote: El 01.03.2009, a las 12:47, M Watts escribió: James E. Bailey wrote: El 01.03.2009, a las 01:12, Tim McNamara escribió: A common jazz lead sheet convention is to parenthesize optional chords written over the melody staff. An example is a turnaround at the end of a

Re: A chordChanges toggle for the Fretboard_engraver?

2009-03-01 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/1/09 8:41 AM, Huub Stoffers huub.stoff...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm fairly new to Lilypond, but I think I've studied the documentation fairly well, particularly those parts related to the topic addressed below. After experimenting with various ways of adding chord names and fret

Re: auto ottavation

2009-03-01 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sunday 01 March 2009, Rob Canning wrote: hello, is there anything i can \set or \override or anything in order for lilypond to automaticaly take care of ottavation? i would like to be able to set an upper and lower threshold and then when these are exceeded lilypond will automagicaly

Re: Parenthesizing chord names

2009-03-01 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, This may be the easiest solution? \version 2.12.2 #(define (left-parenthesis-ignatzek-chord-names in-pitches bass inversion context) (markup #:line (( (ignatzek-chord-names in-pitches bass inversion context #(define (right-parenthesis-ignatzek-chord-names in-pitches bass

Re: stem shortening

2009-03-01 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op maandag 02 maart 2009, schreef David Raleigh Arnold: Another feature that has been on the back burner for a very long time is the automagical shortening of stems of the highest notes with stems up and the lowest notes with stems down. I think LilyPond already does this: \version 2.12.0