PianoPedalBracket does not seem to correctly use spanner-interface for property to-barline

2015-08-14 Thread Michael Gerdau
Dear ponders, the following problem had been asked on the list several times (see also http://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=pedal+to-barlinesubmit=Search!idxname=lilypond-usermax=20result=normalsort=score) and was uniformly attributed to be issue 1128

Re: Text spanner text in the middle

2015-08-14 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 14.08.2015 um 12:32 schrieb Andrew Bernard: Just re my own suggestion of text spanners with text in the middle, although the present need is for a repeat indication, I am well aware that this is poor design, since a textual mark does not indicate a repeat structure to lilypond, so it is

Tuplet Bracket and \fermataMarkup

2015-08-14 Thread musicus
Hello Jeremy, did you try padding instead of outside-staff-priority? \version 2.18.2 \relative c { \omit Staff.TimeSignature { \hideNotes \once \override TupletNumber.text = ~ 25 sec. \once \set tupletFullLength = ##t \once \set tupletFullLengthNote = ##f

Re: Tuplet Bracket and \fermataMarkup

2015-08-14 Thread jeremyvanb
Thank you. I should have been more specific. I want the fermata under the bracket. Changing the padding does not seem to change the order of the objects. Jeremy -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Tuplet-Bracket-and-fermataMarkup-tp179574p179577.html

Re: arabic tabs?

2015-08-14 Thread BB
Indeeed the code is helpful for my purposes to rember oud fingering! I can produce midi files as well. (First I had some problems, no idea what I did wrong, started again from scratch and it worked.) I am enthusiastic with this extension!!! One (may be) problem is that one cannot mix the

Re: Align scores in markup

2015-08-14 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 14.08.2015 um 14:58 schrieb MarcM: the custom function helps for readability and reuse of score snippets. \markup { this \score { { c' d' e' } \layout { indent=0 } } should be aligned with this \score { { c d e } \layout { indent=0 } } } %% This is more concise

Re: Text spanner text in the middle

2015-08-14 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Malte Meyn lilyp...@maltemeyn.de wrote: Am 14.08.2015 um 04:40 schrieb Andrew Bernard: Hello Ponderers, I need a custom text spanner with text centred in the middle of the spanner. I know you can provide text at the left or the right with the

Re: Text spanner text in the middle

2015-08-14 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Malte Meyn lilyp...@maltemeyn.de wrote: One could go even further and have text spanners with not only two or, with centered text, three but an arbitrary number of texts evenly distributed over the length of the spanner. This is a topic that has come up

Re: arabic tabs?

2015-08-14 Thread Hans Åberg
On 14 Aug 2015, at 15:18, BB bb-543...@telecolumbus.net wrote: Persian qauartertones are generally played flatter, Turkish quartertones generally are played sharper, arabic ones are in the middle. But that is not a question of the notation. That is a regional difference in taste. Even in

Re: Tuplet Bracket and \fermataMarkup

2015-08-14 Thread David Kastrup
jeremyvanb jeremyv...@yahoo.com writes: Thank you. These suggestions help a great deal. The piece is for alto sax. and electronics. It is unmetered and the duration of many of the musical gestures are given in seconds. The point of this measure is to tell the performer to rest for 25

Re: Tuplet Bracket and \fermataMarkup

2015-08-14 Thread Blöchl Bernhard
Is that a joke code? As I was a young internet user it was usual to answer such with RTFM. Regards Am 14.08.2015 07:29, schrieb jeremyvanb: Hello, I'm setting my first piece using Lilypond, and I've run into one problem I can't solve. The piece is unmetered, and it has several long,

Re: Align scores in markup

2015-08-14 Thread Michael Gerdau
this allows to have multiple small score snippets aligned. As Harm asked: What is the advantage of the custom function ? On my system the following code produces the same visual result: \version 2.19.24 \markup { this should be aligned \score { { c' d' e' } \layout { indent=0 } }

Re: Tuplet Bracket and \fermataMarkup

2015-08-14 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 14.08.2015 um 08:57 schrieb jeremyvanb: Thank you. I should have been more specific. I want the fermata under the bracket. Changing the padding does not seem to change the order of the objects. The order is managed by outside-staff-priority, so simple increase the TupleBracket’s one. You

Re: Text spanner text in the middle

2015-08-14 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 14.08.2015 um 04:40 schrieb Andrew Bernard: Hello Ponderers, I need a custom text spanner with text centred in the middle of the spanner. I know you can provide text at the left or the right with the bound-details alist, but how would one go about making a spanner with text in the

Re: Tuplet Bracket and \fermataMarkup

2015-08-14 Thread David Kastrup
Blöchl Bernhard b_120902342...@telecolumbus.net writes: Am 14.08.2015 07:29, schrieb: Hello, I'm setting my first piece using Lilypond, and I've run into one problem I can't solve. The piece is unmetered, and it has several long, timed rests. I have the music looking almost the way I

Re: Tuplet Bracket and \fermataMarkup

2015-08-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jeremy, Sounds like you need David N’s amazing “measure-attached spanner”. I’ve included the most recent version I have (and use regularly!). Hope this helps! Kieren. __ \version 2.19.15 #(define (add-grob-definition grob-name grob-entry) (let* ((meta-entry

Re: Align scores in markup

2015-08-14 Thread Michael Gerdau
the custom function helps for readability and reuse of score snippets. Hmmlet's see. Your preferred version: %% \version 2.19.24 %= % WRITE SCORE % %= #(define-markup-command (writeScore layout

Re: Text spanner text in the middle

2015-08-14 Thread David Kastrup
David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com writes: Hi, On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Malte Meyn lilyp...@maltemeyn.de wrote: One could go even further and have text spanners with not only two or, with centered text, three but an arbitrary number of texts evenly distributed over the length

string harmonics with cue notes

2015-08-14 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, I often need to notate harmonics for strings and like to indicate the resulting pitch as a small parenthesized notehead above the fingered pitch. Is there an easier way than the bloated example below? \version 2.19.5 { { a' \harmonic 1 ^\markup { sul D } } \\ {

Re: string harmonics with cue notes

2015-08-14 Thread Klaus Blum
Hi Orm, not a complete solution, but maybe a start for further ideas... You could define a variable to sum up all the formatting commands: % - \version 2.19.5 cueNote = { \override ParenthesesItem.padding = #0.2 \override

Re: string harmonics with cue notes

2015-08-14 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 14.08.2015 um 16:30 schrieb Orm Finnendahl: Hi, I often need to notate harmonics for strings and like to indicate the resulting pitch as a small parenthesized notehead above the fingered pitch. Here are some solutions, see attachments. \harmonicChord doesn’t set an explicit duration

Re: string harmonics with cue notes

2015-08-14 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 14.08.2015 um 19:34 schrieb Malte Meyn: This is not a very clean solution but you might find something helpful in it ;) For example, I haven’t understood completely yet when to use #arg and when $arg in a music. duration apparently needs a $ but the other occurences of $ can be

Re: problem to code page-numbers

2015-08-14 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-08-14 12:21 GMT+02:00 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com: 2015-08-14 12:11 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com writes: Hi, I'm trying to put out a \book, affecting the page-numbers in a certain way. Ofcourse this should happen under certain

Re: Text spanner text in the middle

2015-08-14 Thread Andrew Bernard
If we can have left text set, and right text set, having centred text set does not seem unreasonable. I’m not sure the generalised possible extensions are that useful. But having a bracket with some text in the middle is so commonly done by composers with a pencil (at least, the composers I

Parenthesised articulation issue

2015-08-14 Thread Andrew Bernard
Greetings All, When setting a long tuplet of short note values, the parenthesizing of is incorrect. It is otherwise correct. The run of 32s seems to be upsetting something in the engine room. Refer to the MWE below. The error reported is as follows: programming error: Improbable offset for

Re: Text spanner text in the middle

2015-08-14 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 14.08.2015 um 13:11 schrieb Malte Meyn: Am 14.08.2015 um 12:32 schrieb Andrew Bernard: Just re my own suggestion of text spanners with text in the middle, although the present need is for a repeat indication, I am well aware that this is poor design, since a textual mark does not indicate

Re: Align scores in markup

2015-08-14 Thread MarcM
the custom function helps for readability and reuse of score snippets. \markup { this \score { { c' d' e' } \layout { indent=0 } } should be aligned with this \score { { c d e } \layout { indent=0 } } } %% This is more concise and readable musicA = { c'd'

Re: Text spanner text in the middle

2015-08-14 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Maite, Thanks so much. The tuplet bracket hack mentioned there works, well enough. Obviously this calls for that sort of machinery. But the last post in that thread asks what seems to me a legitimate question: why can’t we have something like: \override

Re: problem to code page-numbers

2015-08-14 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Harm, the markup-code in the footer and header is called several times for each page. I can't tell you why and how often, (but I think it should be 3 times ;) ) but you might keep track of the processed page. So you might check, if you checked the current page. Cheers, Jan-Peter Am

Re: problem to code page-numbers

2015-08-14 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-08-14 12:12 GMT+02:00 Jan-Peter Voigt jp.vo...@gmx.de: Hi Harm, the markup-code in the footer and header is called several times for each page. I can't tell you why and how often, (but I think it should be 3 times ;) ) but you might keep track of the processed page. So you might check,

Re: problem to code page-numbers

2015-08-14 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-08-14 12:11 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com writes: Hi, I'm trying to put out a \book, affecting the page-numbers in a certain way. Ofcourse this should happen under certain conditions. Look at the minimal example below. All I try to

problem to code page-numbers

2015-08-14 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi, I'm trying to put out a \book, affecting the page-numbers in a certain way. Ofcourse this should happen under certain conditions. Look at the minimal example below. All I try to affect is the `counter', if the page is the last of the bookpart. I had expected that the counter would get up to

Re: problem to code page-numbers

2015-08-14 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com writes: Hi, I'm trying to put out a \book, affecting the page-numbers in a certain way. Ofcourse this should happen under certain conditions. Look at the minimal example below. All I try to affect is the `counter', if the page is the last of the

Re: Text spanner text in the middle

2015-08-14 Thread Andrew Bernard
Just re my own suggestion of text spanners with text in the middle, although the present need is for a repeat indication, I am well aware that this is poor design, since a textual mark does not indicate a repeat structure to lilypond, so it is architecturally incorrect, which would be grounds

Re: Tuplet Bracket and \fermataMarkup

2015-08-14 Thread jeremyvanb
Thank you. These suggestions help a great deal. The piece is for alto sax. and electronics. It is unmetered and the duration of many of the musical gestures are given in seconds. The point of this measure is to tell the performer to rest for 25 seconds. I want a bracket that spans the entire