Re: invisible slurs in tablature

2009-04-02 Thread Marc Hohl
David Stocker schrieb: Marc Hohl wrote: I think you should also add: \override TabVoice.Tie #'transparent = ##t Yes, of course. But then another problem occurs: if the tie isn't visible, it looks as if there are two distinct notes. Therefore, I think strongly about a scheme function

Re: invisible slurs in tablature

2009-04-02 Thread Marc Hohl
Carl D. Sorensen schrieb: On 4/1/09 1:09 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Carl D. Sorensen schrieb: Would it be easier to define two separate staff commands? In my files, I define noten = \relative c { c d e f } and feed this into a Staff AND a TabStaff. So, why not

default midi velocity

2009-04-02 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
Hi, I have created an arrangement for 4 pianos. My score does not contain any dynamics markings. Now I have noticed that in the MIDI output all notes have the maximum Note-On midi-velocity value of 127! With 4 piano's this gives a LOT of noise. Another thing I have noticed: Lilypond uses

Re: default midi velocity

2009-04-02 Thread Hans Aberg
On 2 Apr 2009, at 09:52, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: 1. How can I change the default MIDI velocity from 127 to a more modest value, without adding dynamic marks in the printable score ? 2. Shouldn't it be a good idea to lower midi-velocity values for lilypond's MIDI output by default ? In other

Re: Lilypond crashing with cue notes

2009-04-02 Thread northofscotland
A bit more on the crash. It would seem to be a self reference problem that gets into an unending loop. As a workaround I have managed to carry on by making copies of all the files and using those as the reference for the cues, so no longer having part 1 cue part 3 and part 3 cue part 1 etc but

Re: default midi velocity

2009-04-02 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 10:43:10AM +0200, Hans Aberg wrote: On 2 Apr 2009, at 09:52, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: 1. How can I change the default MIDI velocity from 127 to a more modest value, without adding dynamic marks in the printable score ? 2. Shouldn't it be a good idea to lower

Re: default midi velocity

2009-04-02 Thread Hans Aberg
On 2 Apr 2009, at 11:21, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: I think MIDI is underdeveloped in LilyPond, and part of the reason is that it is not a suitable audio format. (strictly speaking, I think MIDI is not an audio format.) Audio generation format might be better. I don't agree. For

Re: invisible slurs in tablature

2009-04-02 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/2/09 1:14 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Oh, absolutely. But it's not necessary to add everything all at once. While we're in a development cycle (2.13), we can add features a little bit at a time, and hopefully be close to done by the time we release 2.14. Just curious:

Re: Review of Valentin's Opera

2009-04-02 Thread Laura Conrad
Reinhold == Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com writes: Reinhold The musicians really liked the good look of the score. Reinhold The only problems appear when trying to create Reinhold good-looking full scores for the conductor (part Reinhold combining is unusable and

Re: Review of Valentin's Opera

2009-04-02 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Laura, Reinhold, etc. Reinhold The only problems appear when trying to create Reinhold good-looking full scores for the conductor (part I agree. I don't, actually... While I think Lilypond could clearly do an even better job, I regularly engrave my full scores, reduced

Re: Review of Valentin's Opera

2009-04-02 Thread Laura Conrad
Kieren == Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes: Kieren Then again, I *never* use \partcombine, and I manually Kieren tweak vertical spacing a fair bit, so that might be where Kieren you are running into problems with your scores. I've always assumed that with some

Re: Review of Valentin's Opera

2009-04-02 Thread Neil Thornock
   Reinhold The only problems appear when trying to create    Reinhold good-looking full scores for the conductor (part I agree. I don't, actually... In my experience, LilyPond *is* capable of producing scores of the highest caliber. However, I often spend so much time tweaking the score

Re: Review of Valentin's Opera

2009-04-02 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Neil Thornock wrote: I am curious who out there is in a professional music-related position that relies on Lilypond when Finale or Sibelius is also an option provided by the employer. I'm one. Just curious who else. Me too. I'm a music history professor and I have a school-provided copy

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera)

2009-04-02 Thread David Stocker
I offer LilyPond engraving alongside output from Finale and Sibelius. None of my corporate clients ask for LilyPond, but I recommend it to them for classical engraving (of which I do very little). I have a handful of folks who take output from LilyPond. David Stocker http://notesettersinc.com

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera)

2009-04-02 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, In my experience, LilyPond *is* capable of producing scores of the highest caliber. However, I often spend so much time tweaking the score to get it to look perfect that it really becomes a labor of love. I used Finale for over a decade, eventually becoming the computer music lab

left aligned tempo markings different over multimeasure rests

2009-04-02 Thread Paul Scott
version 2,21,2 When creating a score and parts I have not found a reliable way to cause markup like tempo indications to always appear at the left side of a measure even when a particular part has a multimeasure rest at that location. s1*0^\markup and \tempo and left-align don't

Re: Lilypond crashing with cue notes

2009-04-02 Thread Daniel Hulme
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 01:36:24PM -0700, northofscotland wrote: All the parts seem to work perfectly as stand-alone, un-cued but as I added the cue notes, building up with a series of \include statements at the head of the file, \cueDuring in the notes and \addQuote before the \score

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera)

2009-04-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/2 Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca: I used Finale for over a decade, eventually becoming the computer music lab tutor/assistant at Shepherd School of Music (while doing my Master of Music there) -- I was as nimble with Finale as anyone I knew (know). I estimate that, for

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera)

2009-04-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi all, In my experience, LilyPond *is* capable of producing scores of the highest caliber.  However, I often spend so much time tweaking the score to get it to look perfect that it really becomes a labor of

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera)

2009-04-02 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Han-Wen, you can have the best of both worlds if you enter using finale and then musicxml2ly to go to .ly and do the typesetting. Now that I think about it, I was originally just talking about slamming in the pitches/durations... Once I factor in the slurs, articulations, dynamics, text,

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera)

2009-04-02 Thread Chris Snyder
Valentin Villenave wrote: To me, note entry is much, much, much faster with LilyPond than with Fin/Sib. (even using a MIDI keyboard -- which, by the way, is one of the less enjoyable experiences I know of). I concur here. I am much faster with Lily than I suspect I ever could be with a

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera)

2009-04-02 Thread Neil Thornock
I will agree with many of the preceding posts that entry of notes, slurs, etc, is faster for me in Lily than in Finale. However, with every new piece I have to devise a new hack to accomplish a certain advanced thing - even as simple a thing as a slanted hairpin or a cross-staff slur, which I

Re: increasing the distance between tie and note generally

2009-04-02 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/3/31 Stefan Thomas kontrapunktste...@googlemail.com: Thanks! Great! But I would like to ask one more question. If the distance between two notes is larger, I think the amount of the curve should be a little larger too. Can this be changed, generally if possible, too? I haven't tested

Strange error in compiling 2.13.0

2009-04-02 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, I am coming across a strange error when I compile a file on my Windoze box with 2.13.0, using jEdit 4.3pre16. My compile looks like this: LilyPond ready. %lilypond %args C:\Documents and Settings\Fr Gorden Gilbert\Desktop\LilyPond Files\TurnYourEyesUponJesusChords.ly Processing

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera)

2009-04-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
I think there are a couple of memorable quotes here for the website... Do we now have a team that takes care of this? On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Neil Thornock neilthorn...@gmail.com wrote: The way that music is entered for LilyPond causes me to think in a more musical way - there have

RE: Strange error in compiling 2.13.0

2009-04-02 Thread Nick Payne
I got the same warning message, see http://www.nabble.com/New-warning-msg-2.13-td22658865.html. I didn't get any response on it. I went back to using 2.12.2. Nick From: lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.on@gnu.org

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera)

2009-04-02 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/4/2 Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com: I think there are a couple of memorable quotes here for the website...  Do we now have a team that takes care of this? I am tempted to translate the whole thread into Spanish for our list, or large chunks at least. Wise, serious, experienced

Problem with barre music function

2009-04-02 Thread Nick Payne
I have a music function I use for barring indications in guitar scores, and for a reason that I haven't been able to work out, if the TextSpanner used for the barring indication wraps from the staff where it begins to the following staff, and also terminates at the first note of that staff, then

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera)

2009-04-02 Thread Grammostola Rosea
David Stocker wrote: I offer LilyPond engraving alongside output from Finale and Sibelius. None of my corporate clients ask for LilyPond, but I recommend it to them for classical engraving (of which I do very little). I have a handful of folks who take output from LilyPond. David Stocker

Re: Problem with barre music function

2009-04-02 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/4/2 Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net: I have a music function I use for barring indications in guitar scores, and for a reason that I haven't been able to work out, if the TextSpanner used for the barring indication wraps from the staff where it begins to the following staff, and

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera)

2009-04-02 Thread lasconic
For sure, a musical jazz font will be very useful! There a couple of threads in the mailing list about this. rosea wrote: Nice to read this thread. I'm wondering what about more modern or 'light' music, like POP and Jazz? How does it compare in this area? And what should be and can be

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera)

2009-04-02 Thread Andrew Hawryluk
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Chris Snyder csny...@adoromusicpub.com wrote: Valentin Villenave wrote: To me, note entry is much, much, much faster with LilyPond than with Fin/Sib. (even using a MIDI keyboard -- which, by the way, is one of the less enjoyable experiences I know of). I

default midi velocity

2009-04-02 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Martin Tarenskeen writes: Questions: 1. How can I change the default MIDI velocity from 127 to a more modest value, without adding dynamic marks in the printable score ? How about this: music = \relative c' { c' d e f } \score { \music \layout{} } \score { \new Score {

Re: Multiple scores with common layout setup

2009-04-02 Thread Helge Kruse
Anthony W. Youngman wrote: Any other suggestions are welcome. If it's all the same code, just bung it in a \include! Ok, I placed the lines in the layout block into a .ly file and include it wherever I would repeat the lines. I also tried to define an expression dynamicsContext = { %% all

Re: increasing the distance between tie and note generally

2009-04-02 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Neil, I tried it with \relative { c1 ~ c \override Tie #'(details ratio 1.2) \override Tie #'(details heigth-limit 13) c ~ c } but without sucess! 2009/4/2 Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com: 2009/3/31 Stefan Thomas kontrapunktste...@googlemail.com: Thanks! Great! But I would like to