Re: glissando up from no note to a note

2009-03-10 Thread M Watts
Chip wrote: Robin Bannister wrote: Chip wrote: it just resulted in messed up measures A judicious use of time distortion may help you here. \transpose c c'{ \hideNotes g,32\glissando \unHideNotes c'4*7/8 c'4 c'4 r4 | \hideNotes c''32\glissando \unHideNotes c'4*7/8 c'4 c'4 r4 |

missing feature? piano hand brackets

2009-03-10 Thread till Rettig
Hi, from the German LilyPond-Forum (at http://www.lilypondforum.de/index.php?topic=234.0): In Piano music it is some times important to indicat that a note written in one staff should be played by the hand of the other staff. This is mostly done by a l-shaped bracket pointing towards the staff

Re: missing feature? piano hand brackets

2009-03-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
For the second example, you can get almost the same layout using an arpeggio with arpeggioBracket, see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Lines#Arpeggio Unfortunately, the current implementation of these brackets is hardcoded to print them to the left of the chord. It

Re: glissando up from no note to a note

2009-03-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Why not use an invisible grace note to start the glissando? Then, there's no need to fiddle with the timing: \transpose c c'{ \grace{ \hideNotes g,8\glissando \unHideNotes} c'4 c'4 c'4 r4 | \grace{\hideNotes c''8\glissando \unHideNotes} c'4 c'4 c'4 r4 | a1\fermata \grace{\hideNotes

Re: missing feature? piano hand brackets

2009-03-10 Thread till Rettig
Yes indeed, but it should be wrapped so you could write c2\leftHand and it would automatically collect notes from polyphonic voices and put the bracked around them and place it at proper distance to the note... Who takes the challenge? :-) Greetings Till Original-Nachricht

Re: missing feature? piano hand brackets

2009-03-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: First can be easily achieved with a postscript markup. (Two straight lines) Is Postscript easier than the built-in markup commands? \markup{\concat{ \draw-line #'(0 . 3) \draw-line #'(1 . 0)}} The tricky part is to automatically get correct the length and

Re: glissando up from no note to a note

2009-03-10 Thread Trevor Daniels
Mats Bengtsson wrote Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:10 AM Why not use an invisible grace note to start the glissando? Then, there's no need to fiddle with the timing: \transpose c c'{ \grace{ \hideNotes g,8\glissando \unHideNotes} c'4 c'4 c'4 r4 | \grace{\hideNotes c''8\glissando \unHideNotes}

RE: missing feature? piano hand brackets

2009-03-10 Thread Nick Payne
You could use PostScript in a markup to get the sort of line or bracket you want. See attached. Nick -Original Message- From: lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.on@gnu.org [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.on@gnu.org] On Behalf Of till Rettig Sent:

Re: New ConTeXt module

2009-03-10 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2009-03-10 um 00:17 schrieb -Eluze: Valentin Villenave wrote: Perhaps Eluze was mixing up ConTeXt and ConTEXT :-) thanks - how could I ?! I had no idea the other one also exists! I agree that context is a bad choice as a product name, as is latex... Greetlings from Lake Constance

Re: Frescobaldi 0.7.7 released

2009-03-10 Thread James E. Bailey
On 03.03.2009, at 19:08, Wilbert Berendsen wrote: [ reusing annouce thread:-) ] Hi all, Frescobaldi 0.7.7 has been released. http://lilykde.googlecode.com/files/frescobaldi-0.7.7.tar.gz I'm having some difficulty actually just installing this. There's no makefile, and no configure

Re: glissando up from no note to a note

2009-03-10 Thread Chip
Thanks for the suggestions, I was sent the following code which does the job beautifully - r2*1/2 \hideNotes d8\glissando \unHideNotes a'8 fs d b Seems a bit overly complicated for adding something so simple don't ya think? I'll have to look for some info in the docs on the time distortion, I

Re: glissando up from no note to a note

2009-03-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Chip, Thanks for the suggestions, I was sent the following code which does the job beautifully Glad to hear you found a relatively easy solution. Seems a bit overly complicated for adding something so simple don't ya think? From that comment, I can see you don't actually appreciate

expressive marks alignment, accent position

2009-03-10 Thread Germain G. Ivanoff-Trinadtzaty
Dear all, 1) In the following snippet, I'd like the accents to be placed above the staff : { d'1- d'2- a'- a'1- } 2) Here I want all the accents be aligned (horizontally), outside (above) the staff : {d'1- d'2- a'- a'1-} \\ {d'1 d'2 a' a'1} I played with : \override DynamicLineSpanner

Re: expressive marks alignment, accent position

2009-03-10 Thread Neil Thornock
1) In the following snippet, I'd like the accents to be placed above the staff : { d'1- d'2- a'- a'1- } First off, articulations are Script objects, so only Script overrides will have any effect. See if perusing this page lends any clues:

Re: expressive marks alignment, accent position

2009-03-10 Thread James E. Bailey
On 10.03.2009, at 20:05, Germain G. Ivanoff-Trinadtzaty wrote: Dear all, 1) In the following snippet, I'd like the accents to be placed above the staff : { d'1- d'2- a'- a'1- } have you tried { d'1^ d'2^ a'^ a'1^ } ? ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: expressive marks alignment, accent position

2009-03-10 Thread Germain G. Ivanoff-Trinadtzaty
Dear all, 1) In the following snippet, I'd like the accents to be placed above the staff : { d'1- d'2- a'- a'1- } have you tried { d'1^ d'2^ a'^ a'1^ } ? Not suitable for my general purpose. G. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: expressive marks alignment, accent position

2009-03-10 Thread Germain G. Ivanoff-Trinadtzaty
Thanks to Neil Thornock, I've worked it out : 1) In the following snippet, I'd like the accents to be placed above the staff : { d'1- d'2- a'- a'1- } { \override Script #'direction = #UP d'1- d'2- a'- a'1- } 2) Here I want all the accents be aligned (horizontally), outside (above) the

Re: smaller distance between first Staff and TimeSig

2009-03-10 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/3/6 Stefan Thomas kontrapunktste...@googlemail.com: Dear all, I forgot to switch on \override Score.VerticalAlignment #'max-stretch = #ly:align-interface::calc-max-stretch If I do so, the distance between topmost-Staff and TimeSig is too large, in my opinion. I've already explained

Line break and page fit do not work

2009-03-10 Thread grisu_76
Hi everyone! I've got the following problem: I write a String Quartet; Line Break and page fit etc. work without any problems for the violin2, the viola and the cello (log reports to fit it on 10 to 11 pages); if I now add the violin1 it works, but only until a particular measure; from there,

Re: Line break and page fit do not work

2009-03-10 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 02:39:11PM -0700, grisu_76 wrote: Hi everyone! I've got the following problem: I write a String Quartet; Line Break and page fit etc. work without any problems for the violin2, the viola and the cello (log reports to fit it on 10 to 11 pages); if I now add the

Re: Line break and page fit do not work

2009-03-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Cameron Horsburgh wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 02:39:11PM -0700, grisu_76 wrote: Hi everyone! I've got the following problem: I write a String Quartet; Line Break and page fit etc. work without any problems for the violin2, the viola and the cello (log reports to fit it on 10 to 11

Re: expressive marks alignment, accent position

2009-03-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Germain G. Ivanoff-Trinadtzaty wrote: Thanks to Neil Thornock, I've worked it out : 1) In the following snippet, I'd like the accents to be placed above the staff : { d'1- d'2- a'- a'1- } { \override Script #'direction = #UP d'1- d'2- a'- a'1- } 2) Here I want all the accents be aligned

How to put lyrics syllable under pause?

2009-03-10 Thread melkiy
I want Lilypond to put the next syllable under pause, but it places it under the next real note. Under an invisible note it does not draw text either. This is needed because of another voice (that has not pause at that place), the common lyrics bounded to the first one. Thanks in advance. --

Re: glissando up from no note to a note

2009-03-10 Thread Andrew Wilson
2009/3/10 Chip c...@wiegand.org: r2*1/2 \hideNotes d8\glissando \unHideNotes a'8 fs d b I don't understand how this works, can someone explain the timing to me? It looks like you have a minim rest becoming crotchet rest through the magic of time distortion. You then add a quaver which by my

Suppressing dynamics marks

2009-03-10 Thread Kees van den Doel
How can I correctly suppress printing dynamics marks (which I want for the MIDI)? (I have a score where dynamics is indicated with note size.) I tried \override Score.DynamicText #'stencil = ##f which actually works fine except I get a string of scary error messages: programming error: cannot

RE: Suppressing dynamics marks

2009-03-10 Thread Nick Payne
\override DynamicText #'transparent = ##t Nick -Original Message- From: lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.on@gnu.org [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.on@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Kees van den Doel Sent: Wednesday, 11 March 2009 14:20 To: