Re:Transpose

2009-03-30 Thread Ossie Wilson Snr
I am using LP 2.8.6 on a Windows 98 300MHz machine. My current problem is in transposing a song (for a grand daughter) and a whole bunch of double accidentals and natural/accidental combinations have turned up in the resultant printout - not too good for fast recognition by the accompanist

Re: Transpose

2009-03-30 Thread David Bobroff
Maybe if you posted your *.ly file we could give you a more informative answer. Without seeing that it is difficult to diagnose your problem. -David Ossie Wilson Snr wrote: I am using LP 2.8.6 on a Windows 98 300MHz machine. My current problem is in transposing a song (for a grand

Re: Stopping a melismata extender

2009-03-30 Thread Johan Vromans
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes: I found one hack to accomplish this: give the third note a 'lyric' syllable consisting of a single hard space. But I'm sure there are better ways. I don't know if it's better, but I've defined nullLyric = \markup \null Yes

Re: Transpose

2009-03-30 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/3/30 Ossie Wilson Snr os...@exemail.com.au: I am using LP 2.8.6 on a Windows 98 300MHz machine. My current problem is in transposing a song (for a grand daughter) and a whole bunch of double accidentals and natural/accidental combinations have turned up in the resultant printout – not

Re: Transpose

2009-03-30 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/3/30 Ossie Wilson Snr os...@exemail.com.au: My current problem is in transposing a song (for a grand daughter) and a whole bunch of double accidentals and natural/accidental combinations have turned up in the resultant printout – not too good for fast recognition by the accompanist

Re: download versie 2.12

2009-03-30 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op zondag 29-03-2009 om 10:38 uur [tijdzone +], schreef dirk van der eerden: Hi Dirk, [dit is een engelstalige lijst, kun je in het vervolg hier Engels praten?] probeer 2.12 te installeren, maar krijg waarschuwing uitgever onbekend, geen digitale handtekening. Wordt geadviseerd niet te

Re: download versie 2.12

2009-03-30 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:26:29AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: I believe we can consider downloads from lilypond.org to be safe, but Dirk does have a point: how does he verify [binary] downloads? Perhaps we could add a column with md5sums of all the installers to the download page? This

Re: Sibelius conversion - sib2ly (from NtEd author)

2009-03-30 Thread Joerg Anders
Hi all! Here some remarks by the author of NtEd concerning sib2ly and the mail by Johan Vromans: NtEd has problems importing the MIDI. It seems to insist on putting the 4 voices on a single staff. Indeed, NtEd is the one and only LINUX software which distributes the MIDI notes onto

Re: invisible slurs in tablature

2009-03-30 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Marc Hohl wrote: Grammostola Rosea schrieb: Neil Puttock wrote: 2009/3/28 Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com: Hi, I want to get invisible slurs in tablature... how? Simply \override Slur #'transparent in the same way as you've done for the other objects in your TabStaff

Re: invisible slurs in tablature

2009-03-30 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Grammostola Rosea wrote: Marc Hohl wrote: Grammostola Rosea schrieb: Neil Puttock wrote: 2009/3/28 Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com: Hi, I want to get invisible slurs in tablature... how? Simply \override Slur #'transparent in the same way as you've done for the other

Re: download versie 2.12

2009-03-30 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Patrick McCarty pnor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:26:29AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: I believe we can consider downloads from lilypond.org to be safe, but Dirk does have a point: how does he verify [binary] downloads? Perhaps we could

Re: Sibelius conversion - sib2ly (from NtEd author)

2009-03-30 Thread Johan Vromans
Joerg Anders j.and...@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de writes: Therefore, I first separate the notes according to the instrument which shall play them. Unfortunately, this algorithm sorts 4 flutes which appear in 4 tracks into one staff :-(( Aha! But then the workaround is simple: just assign each

Change fontsize for textscript under acciaccatura?

2009-03-30 Thread Roel Spruit
Hey guys, Is there any way to change the fontsize for textscript above acciaccatura for an entire piece? I have drum sticking under it but I'd like it to be smaller is it's a grace note or acciaccatura. Regards, Roel ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Change fontsize for textscript under acciaccatura?

2009-03-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It should work to add the following lines at the top of your file startAcciaccaturaMusic = { s1*0( \override Stem #'stroke-style = #grace \override TextScript font-size = #-2 } stopAcciaccaturaMusic = { \revert Stem #'stroke-style \revert TextScript font-size s1*0) }

Re: Change fontsize for textscript under acciaccatura?

2009-03-30 Thread Roel Spruit
Excellent! you forgot a #' in front of the font-size I think though. after adding that it worked like a charm. thanks for helping a poor newbie :) Roel On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 13:38, Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se wrote: It should work to add the following lines at the top of your

Re: Transpose

2009-03-30 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/30/09 5:07 AM, Ossie Wilson Snr os...@exemail.com.au wrote: Good evening David and Francisco I tried the snippet in my Ly file but there was no change to the pdf file output. There were no errors flagged in the Log file ­ just a record of straight-forward processing. I then

increasing the distance between tie and note generally

2009-03-30 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, in the below quoted snippet the position of the tie isn't convincing, in my opinion. It should be al little further apart from the notes. Off couse I could type \override Tie #'staff-position all the time, but I would be interested in tweaking it generally. Is there a possibilitie?

Re: Transpose

2009-03-30 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/30/09 5:07 AM, Ossie Wilson Snr os...@exemail.com.au wrote: Ossie, The snippet in question appears to be broken. I'll try to get you a fixed version in a day or two. Thanks, Carl ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re:Transpose

2009-03-30 Thread Ossie Wilson Snr
Good evening David and Francisco I tried the snippet in my Ly file but there was no change to the pdf file output. There were no errors flagged in the Log file - just a record of straight-forward processing. I then tried the snippet example but using English notation for the notes involved

Re: Transpose

2009-03-30 Thread Robin Bannister
Ossie Wilson wrote: I have attached the Ly file After a cursory look, I would say this file is badly mangled as regards key signatures. In part one at bar 29 it helps to say \key dfinstead of\key cs because the subseqent notes are e.g. df, gf, ... Also part one should declare

Lyrics and alternative repeats default behavior

2009-03-30 Thread Pekka Siponen
I'm not top posting. I find the behavior with lyrics and alternative repeats somewhat illogical.. For me the logical thing would be something like: %--- \version 2.12.2 \score { \new GrandStaff { \new Staff { \new Voice = alku \relative c' { \repeat

Re: download versie 2.12

2009-03-30 Thread Ralph Palmer
I was able to download winMd5Sum for free from http://www.nullriver.com/. Open the application (I have a shortcut on the desktop and just double click the icon) and put in the path\filename for the file and the MD5Sum and go for it. Ralph On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:12 AM, Christ van Willegen

Re: Lyrics and alternative repeats default behavior

2009-03-30 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 30.03.2009 um 17:16 schrieb Pekka Siponen: I'm not top posting. I find the behavior with lyrics and alternative repeats somewhat illogical.. For me the logical thing would be something like: %--- \version 2.12.2 \score { \new GrandStaff { \new Staff { \new Voice

Fingering padding with accidentals

2009-03-30 Thread Nick Payne
The padding that is applied to fingering on the left when there is an accidental is greater than when there is no accidental. From my measurements it seems to default to 0.5 staff units from a note but 0.7 units from an accidental, which looks odd to me. Is it possible to reduce the default

Re: download versie 2.12

2009-03-30 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
It would be trivial, but as the md5sums would be autogenerated, so it does not buy any protection against anything. On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Patrick McCarty pnor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:26:29AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: I believe we can consider downloads

Re: Fingering padding with accidentals

2009-03-30 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/3/30 Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net: The padding that is applied to fingering on the left when there is an accidental is greater than when there is no accidental. From my measurements it seems to default to 0.5 staff units from a note but 0.7 units from an accidental, which looks

Re: increasing the distance between tie and note generally

2009-03-30 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/3/30 Stefan Thomas kontrapunktste...@googlemail.com: Dear community, in the below quoted snippet the position of the tie isn't convincing, in my opinion. It should be al little further apart from the notes. Off couse I could type \override Tie #'staff-position all the time, but I would

Re: snappizzicato on 2.13

2009-03-30 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/3/29 Patrick McCarty pnor...@gmail.com: Since the mf/ directory is changed so infrequently, it would be nice if the fonts could be recompiled whenever mf/*.mf is changed. That way we won't ever have this problem again. Good idea? Definitely. Regards, Neil

RE: Fingering padding with accidentals

2009-03-30 Thread Nick Payne
-Original Message- From: Neil Puttock [mailto:n.putt...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 31 March 2009 07:07 To: Nick Payne Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Fingering padding with accidentals 2009/3/30 Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net: The padding that is applied to

Re:Transpose

2009-03-30 Thread Ossie Wilson Snr
Good Morning Robin Robin Bannister wrote :- After a cursory look, I would say this file is badly mangled as regards key signatures. In part one at bar 29 it helps to say \key dfinstead of\key cs because the subseqent notes are e.g. df, gf, ... The original key is

re: various ornaments

2009-03-30 Thread 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng
Have anyone figure out what are the difference of these ornaments I refferred yesterday? Another thing: c\turn only places turn above c, thus c\turn e must be played as d16 c b c e4 . But I want to write a turn between c and e, thus played as c8 d32 c b c e4 . How to do that? Haipeng

Re: Transpose

2009-03-30 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/30/09 4:58 PM, Ossie Wilson Snr os...@exemail.com.au wrote: And yes, Win98 users are stuck at 2.8. I do have computers with much faster chips and later versions, but I am still waiting for a stable version to appear. I thought it would be 2.12 but now there is talk of 2.14 in the

Re: various ornaments

2009-03-30 Thread lily . user
Turn after a note I write as: { c4 d4} \\ {s8. s16\turn s4} This *looks* right, (adjust the s8. and s16 to move the turn; they must add up to a crotchet). It doesn;t sound in the MIDI output, and there's no easy way to make it. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT

Re: various ornaments

2009-03-30 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Peter and Hu, Turn after a note I write as: { c4 d4} \\ {s8. s16\turn s4} This *looks* right, (adjust the s8. and s16 to move the turn; they must add up to a crotchet). It doesn;t sound in the MIDI output, and there's no easy way to make it. Why not just offset the turn?