RE: Tweaking within markup

2009-02-15 Thread Nick Payne
Thanks. That's considerably simpler. Nick -Original Message- From: M Watts [mailto:zwy648...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, 15 February 2009 12:52 To: Nick Payne Cc: 'lilypond-user Mailinglist' Subject: Re: Tweaking within markup Nick Payne wrote: Is it possible? I want to put a

Re: LilyPond crashes Scala

2009-02-15 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
On zo, 2009-02-15 at 01:24 +, rey2009 wrote: Hence Lilypond is the culprit here.. Could it be that some of its libraries do conflict with GTK+? Yes, that could be. I do not know whas Scala is, but apparently it builds on the free software stack, just like LilyPond. Scala should

Re: NR 4.3.6 Explicit Breaks

2009-02-15 Thread Robin Bannister
Chip wrote: Lily still breaks lines where it wants to. You are fighting something very powerful and don't know it. All that blank space on those pages! It is reasonable to think that saying \pageBreak means that you are quite happy with whatever blank space is needed to skip the rest of

Re: NR 4.3.6 Explicit Breaks

2009-02-15 Thread -Eluze
Chip-5 wrote: I've been messing around with the various ragged-... settings trying to get the staffs all the same length with the last staff to end at it natural length. did you also try *ragged-last* - to me this seems what you are looking for; you can put it in a layout block

Re: Repeat in the middle of a measure

2009-02-15 Thread Tim Slattery
Tim Slattery slatter...@bls.gov wrote: I've tried putting \repeat \volta 1{ in that spot and } at the end of the piece. I get a thick bar line with a colon, and the corresponding end repeat sign at the end of the piece. OK, but then there's another begin-repeat symbol 4 measures after the one I

Re: Repeat in the middle of a measure

2009-02-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I guess you have several voices or even several staves involved in your piece. Note that the \repeat volta command should be inserted in all voices of music and also have to appear at exactly the same place in all the voices. If you don't manage to figure out what the problem is, please send a

Re: feta.ttf?

2009-02-15 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi all, 2008/10/25 Andrew Hawryluk ahawry...@gmail.com: After installing LilyPond you will have OpenType versions of the fonts (probably in a directory like .../lilypond/current/fonts/otf), but they won't work with Finale. This is because the two programs actually use different sets of glyphs

Re: feta.ttf?

2009-02-15 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2009/2/15 Risto Vääräniemi risva...@gmail.com: I had a look at the Emmentaler OTF font using the Windows Character Map tool and the font seemed to contain only the numbers, a few letters (m, f, s, etc.) and some punctuation marks. I couldn't find any musical glyphs such as sharp and flat

Re: Repeat in the middle of a measure

2009-02-15 Thread Tim Slattery
Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se wrote: I guess you have several voices or even several staves involved in your piece. Note that the \repeat volta command should be inserted in all voices of music and also have to appear at exactly the same place in all the voices. If you don't manage to

Re: Tweaking within markup

2009-02-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
To avoid all trial-and-error to figure out the relevant parameters to \raise, I would propose the following alternative (which also gets rid of the extra horizontal spacing between the parenthesis and the accidental): ^\markup { \smaller \concat { \vcenter ( \vcenter \smaller \musicglyph

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-15 Thread Kees van den Doel
I found a font which has the koron and sori, apparently it's available in Finale. See http://www.pertout.com/PhD2007Introduction.htm links at bottom (downloads) for the fonts. I have no idea how to use this in lilypond though. Kees - Original Message - - Original Message -

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-15 Thread Behnam Rassi
Yes Kees I downloaded the font and saw the glyphs. This is as far as I can go with my current work too. Except that I will add additional Persian music notations (and perhaps somewhat better looking glyphs!). But I can only produce a font in ttf format, another one perhaps in otf format. I

Re: Repeat in the middle of a measure

2009-02-15 Thread Michael Lauer
Tim Slattery Slattery_T at bls.gov writes: There are four voice parts, the \repeat volta 2 is in each one at the same place. I cannot figure out where the extra begin-repeat comes from. Here are the four voice parts, if that's not enough, I'll send more. The entire file is 105 lines

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-15 Thread Graham Breed
Behnam Rassi wrote: Yes Kees I downloaded the font and saw the glyphs. This is as far as I can go with my current work too. Except that I will add additional Persian music notations (and perhaps somewhat better looking glyphs!). But I can only produce a font in ttf format, another one perhaps

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-15 Thread Behnam Rassi
On 15-Feb-09, at 6:45 PM, Graham Breed wrote: Behnam Rassi wrote: Yes Kees I downloaded the font and saw the glyphs. This is as far as I can go with my current work too. Except that I will add additional Persian music notations (and perhaps somewhat better looking glyphs!). But I can only

Re: Repeat in the middle of a measure

2009-02-15 Thread Tim Slattery
Michael Lauer mrlau...@yahoo.com wrote: Do you have a global section in each voice with inconsistent repeats? There still isn't enough information to tell what the problem is... There's a global section that's included with each part. It has only the key and the sacredNoteHeads directive:

Re: Repeat in the middle of a measure - Alexander.ly (1/1)

2009-02-15 Thread Tim Slattery
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Re: Repeat in the middle of a measure - Alexander.ly (0/1)

2009-02-15 Thread Tim Slattery
Michael Lauer mrlau...@yahoo.com wrote: You can get what (I think) you originally wanted by - just putting the repeats where you want them - overriding the bar lines at the beginning and end of the repeats The \bar : gets me the repeat symbol I wanted. But the extra repeat is still there, and

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-15 Thread Kees van den Doel
Hi Folks, I made an init file persian.ly with support for Persian accidentals and scale signatures. The only thing missing is correct glyphs for koron and sori. I include it below. Kees - Original Message - From: Behnam Rassi beh...@videotron.qc.ca Date: Sunday, February 15, 2009 4:02

Slurs and repeats

2009-02-15 Thread Tim McNamara
I can't figure out how to end a slur across a repeat into an alternate ending and the documentation doesn't seem to cover this. I get an error message about being unable to end the slur. Of course this could always be the \endUserError bug! The workaround I have adopted is to use

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

2009-02-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I made an init file persian.ly with support for Persian accidentals and scale signatures. The only thing missing is correct glyphs for koron and sori. I include it below. Can someone please provide high-resolution scans of the Persian stuff in action? What I've seen so far are some

Re: Tweaking within markup

2009-02-15 Thread M Watts
Mats Bengtsson wrote: To avoid all trial-and-error to figure out the relevant parameters to \raise, I would propose the following alternative (which also gets rid of the extra horizontal spacing between the parenthesis and the accidental): ^\markup { \smaller \concat { \vcenter ( \vcenter

Enhancing barre function

2009-02-15 Thread Nick Payne
I have a barre function for guitar scores that I would like to enhance by adding a vertical line indicating how far the barre should extend across the fretboard. As a test I took the existing barre function and added some hard-coded Postscript that draws a line of fixed vertical height. I can add