Re: \transpose and \transposition combination error(?)

2009-02-24 Thread Trevor Daniels
Anthony W. Youngman wrote In message 874oyl28nj.wl%pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au, Peter Chubb pet...@gelato.unsw.edu.au writes Trevor == Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk writes: Trevor Hmm. Not sure it's a bug. The \transpose command transposes I think it is (and I reported it as one

Re: [LilyKDE] Re: [Frescobaldi] Bass and Electric Bass template, tab tunings support

2009-02-24 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op dinsdag 24 februari 2009, schreef Grammostola Rosea:     \new Staff \with {       midiInstrument = acoustic bass     } {  *\clef bass_8* \bass }     \new TabStaff \with {       stringTunings = #bass-tuning     } \bass If this is the most used way, ( \clef bass_8 for Acoustic or Electric

Re: [LilyKDE] Re: [Frescobaldi] Bass and Electric Bass template, tab tunings support

2009-02-24 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Wilbert Berendsen wrote: Op dinsdag 24 februari 2009, schreef Grammostola Rosea: \new Staff \with { midiInstrument = acoustic bass } { *\clef bass_8* \bass } \new TabStaff \with { stringTunings = #bass-tuning } \bass If this is the most used way, ( \clef

Re: Looking for proper beam grouping

2009-02-24 Thread Trevor Daniels
Carl, you wrote Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:43 AM On 2/23/09 12:52 PM, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: I have a piece of music in 3/4 which has bars like { d4. c8 b8. a16 } Lilypond groups the last three notes together, making it look like a 6/8 measure, but I want the c8 to be

Re: staffsize

2009-02-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Strangely enough, the solution is to use the following strategy: #(set-global-staff-size 13) \book{ % Complete score ... } #(set-global-staff-size 20) \book{ % Part 1 ... } ... /Mats Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Hi Lilyponders, I'm trying to set up a score with a piece for 4 piano's. I have

Re: \transpose and \transposition combination error(?)

2009-02-24 Thread Peter Chubb
Trevor == Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk writes: Trevor Producing the correct pitch in MIDI for transposing Trevor instruments being notated at pitch is certainly the principal Trevor use of \transposition. It's other use is to transpose cues Trevor into the correct pitch when they

Re: \transpose and \transposition combination error(?)

2009-02-24 Thread Trevor Daniels
Peter Chubb wrote Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:28 AM Trevor == Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk writes: Trevor Producing the correct pitch in MIDI for transposing Trevor instruments being notated at pitch is certainly the principal Trevor use of \transposition. It's other use is to

Re: [LilyKDE] Re: [Frescobaldi] Bass and Electric Bass template, tab tunings support

2009-02-24 Thread David Stocker
By convention, double-bass and electric bass are notated using a standard bass clef with the understanding that the notes sound one octave lower than they appear on the staff. Guitar is the same way, but it is becoming more common to to use a modern tenor clef (i.e. treble_8) now than in the

Re: guitar tab feature request

2009-02-24 Thread David Stocker
I'm working on the first group of missing LilyPond Tab features and it pertains to finger bends. I expect this to be a slow process. We have two (or maybe three) individuals who have expressed interest in joining the discussion, so when I have something, I'll send it out to those individuals

Re: [LilyKDE] Re: [Frescobaldi] Bass and Electric Bass template, tab tunings support

2009-02-24 Thread Jonathan Kulp
David Stocker wrote: By convention, double-bass and electric bass are notated using a standard bass clef with the understanding that the notes sound one octave lower than they appear on the staff. Guitar is the same way, but it is becoming more common to to use a modern tenor clef (i.e.

Re: [LilyKDE] Re: [Frescobaldi] Bass and Electric Bass template, tab tunings support

2009-02-24 Thread David Stocker
Editorially, I prefer the treble_8 clef as well, but I think it's safe to say that most readers (to the extent they notice at all) are more accustomed to seeing the regular treble and bass clefs, as opposed to treble_8 or bass_8. Dave Jonathan Kulp wrote: David Stocker wrote: By convention,

Re: [LilyKDE] Re: [Frescobaldi] Bass and Electric Bass template, tab tunings support

2009-02-24 Thread Grammostola Rosea
David Stocker wrote: Editorially, I prefer the treble_8 clef as well, but I think it's safe to say that most readers (to the extent they notice at all) are more accustomed to seeing the regular treble and bass clefs, as opposed to treble_8 or bass_8. Dave Jonathan Kulp wrote: David Stocker

Re: Looking for proper beam grouping

2009-02-24 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 2/24/09 2:46 AM, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk wrote: Carl, you wrote Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:43 AM On 2/23/09 12:52 PM, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: I have a piece of music in 3/4 which has bars like { d4. c8 b8. a16 } Lilypond groups the last three notes

problem with installing frescobaldi

2009-02-24 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear lilypond-users, I tried to install Frescobaldi from source. But I get the following error message: The C++ compiler CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER-NOTFOUND is not able to compile a simple test program. I don't undertand the meaning of it- I use Kubuntu, with KDE 4.2

Re: Partial measures

2009-02-24 Thread jpeters
Since pickups conventionally are subtracted from the last measure of a section, a future edition might change \partial to partial {} where the beat/measure count could be correctly adjusted across the section. M Watts wrote: jpeters wrote: One way to do this is with measureLength:

Re: \score inside define-markup-command

2009-02-24 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 23 févr. 09 à 10:36, Michael Käppler a écrit : Hi, I don't know if it will work, but perhaps you can try to type \displayMusic { \clef #testclef a4 h c } to get the scheme version of your music, and to copy/paste the output you got after the #:score markup ... good idea! But it still

building lilypond from freebsd ports

2009-02-24 Thread Glen Hein
Hello Everybody, I sent this question to the freebsd port maintainer, but I also wanted to ask this list. I'm trying to build lilypond from the free port (print/lilypond) and I'm getting a seg fault from Ghostscript. I was wondering if anybody has seen this problem. Here is the error I get from

Re: guitar tab feature request

2009-02-24 Thread Tony Willoughby
I am interested in contributing financially. David Stocker wrote: I'm working on the first group of missing LilyPond Tab features and it pertains to finger bends. I expect this to be a slow process. We have two (or maybe three) individuals who have expressed interest in joining the

Re: building lilypond from freebsd ports

2009-02-24 Thread Glen Hein
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Matthias Kilian k...@outback.escape.dewrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 01:03:00PM -0700, Glen Hein wrote: I sent this question to the freebsd port maintainer, but I also wanted to ask this list. I'm trying to build lilypond from the free port (print/lilypond)

Re: building lilypond from freebsd ports

2009-02-24 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:44:08PM -0700, Glen Hein wrote: - is this reproducable, i.e. does it always crash in ghostscript, and at the same file? The problem is reproducible. It fails on the same file every time. I had been building using csh, so as a WAG, I tried bash. The bash ulimit

why does this simple notation fail a barcheck?

2009-02-24 Thread Chip
trpta = { \partial 8*1 e8-. | e4 d8 c4 d8 | e4 e8-. r r e | e4 d8 c4 d8 | e4 e8 r r fs | g4 fs8 g4 e8 | d2 d8 e | \times 2/3 {f4 fs b} | \times 2/3 {d c b} | g2.\fermata \bar || | r1*5 } There errors are this - Interpreting music... [8] F:/Lilypond Files/Score Template.ly:41:21: warning:

Re: why does this simple notation fail a barcheck?

2009-02-24 Thread Gilles Sadowski
trpta = { \partial 8*1 e8-. | e4 d8 c4 d8 | e4 e8-. r r e | e4 d8 c4 d8 | e4 e8 r r fs | g4 fs8 g4 e8 | d2 d8 e | \times 2/3 {f4 fs b} | \times 2/3 {d c b} | g2.\fermata \bar || | r1*5 } There errors are this - Interpreting music... [8] F:/Lilypond Files/Score Template.ly:41:21:

Re: why does this simple notation fail a barcheck?

2009-02-24 Thread Tim Reeves
Chip wrote: trpta = { \partial 8*1 e8-. | e4 d8 c4 d8 | e4 e8-. r r e | e4 d8 c4 d8 | e4 e8 r r fs | g4 fs8 g4 e8 | d2 d8 e | \times 2/3 {f4 fs b} | \times 2/3 {d c b} | g2.\fermata \bar || | r1*5 } There errors are this - Interpreting music... [8] F:/Lilypond Files/Score

Re: why does this simple notation fail a barcheck?

2009-02-24 Thread Chip
Gilles Sadowski wrote: trpta = { \partial 8*1 e8-. | e4 d8 c4 d8 | e4 e8-. r r e | e4 d8 c4 d8 | e4 e8 r r fs | g4 fs8 g4 e8 | d2 d8 e | \times 2/3 {f4 fs b} | \times 2/3 {d c b} | g2.\fermata \bar || | r1*5 } There errors are this - Interpreting music... [8] F:/Lilypond Files/Score

Re: why does this simple notation fail a barcheck?

2009-02-24 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 2/24/09 5:09 PM, Chip c...@wiegand.org wrote: trpta = { \partial 8*1 e8-. | e4 d8 c4 d8 | e4 e8-. r r e | e4 d8 c4 d8 | e4 e8 r r fs | g4 fs8 g4 e8 | d2 d8 e | \times 2/3 {f4 fs b} | The measure above here is a 6/8 measure (f4 fs b), but you've multiplied it by 2/3, so it's only

Re: why does this simple notation fail a barcheck?

2009-02-24 Thread Brett Duncan
Chip wrote: \times 2/3 {f4 fs b} looks like 3 quarter notes to me. You've got TWO THIRDS of three quarter notes (timewise). What is it you're trying to achieve with the triplet? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Writing text in a measure

2009-02-24 Thread Kees van den Doel
I'm trying to write text in an otherwise empty measure (some special performance instructions). not above it or below, but in it. How can I do that? There is a snippet doing something like that http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=258 but when I apply it my text overwrites music after the bar

Stanza number before each line of a verse?

2009-02-24 Thread Tom
I want to put the Stanza number before every line of verse in a longer hymn, but cannot get the hint here to work: http://www.geoffhorton.com/lilypond.html#versenumbers Investigating the Stanza_number_engraver doesn't seem to give any clues, either. Is this possible to do without manual markup?