Re: how to define a boolean?

2009-08-10 Thread Marc Hohl
Carl Sorensen schrieb: [...] The *specific* behavior you have requested can be achieved by the following: #(define myBool #f) myMusicFunc = #(define-music-function (parser location) () #{ \once \override Slur #'dummyProperty = ##t #}) #(define-public (slur::boolean grob) ;; just

scheme tweak doesn't work anymore

2009-08-10 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, because I have unhappy with the placement of the tenuto-sign in combination with the accent, I've made a little scheme-script for to change it. Unfortunately, it doesn't work any more, and I don't know, what could be the reason. Here is ve short example: \version 2.13.0 ta =

staff lines blurred on my website

2009-08-10 Thread Gerard McConnell
Hello, I've been using Lilypond to draw examples for my counterpoint tutorial website at: http://homepage.eircom.net/~gerfmcc/fugue.html The staff lines are somewhat blurred. What is the likely reason for this? (I'm converting the output to .png with {lilypond --png file.ly} ) (As I state on

wrong type argument

2009-08-10 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, when compiling my most recent score, I get an strange error message, taht I don't understand. And I don't get any output! Any idea, how I can switch it off? GNU LilyPond 2.13.3 Processing `xeno04.ly' Parsing... warning: transposition by bis makes alteration larger than double

Re: wrong type argument

2009-08-10 Thread Alexander Kobel
Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear community, when compiling my most recent score, I get an strange error message, taht I don't understand. And I don't get any output! Hi, Stefan, I'm afraid it's nearly impossible to get an idea of what's going on as long as we can't see your input file. If you're

Re: wrong type argument

2009-08-10 Thread Alexander Kobel
Stefan Thomas wrote: warning: cannot find or create new `Dynamics' warning: cannot find or create new `Pedal' programming error: (de)crescendo on items with specified volume. continuing, cross fingers MIDI output to `xeno04.midi'... Solving 1 page-breaking chunks...[1: 2

Re: staff lines blurred on my website

2009-08-10 Thread Jonathan Kulp
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Gerard McConnell gerry...@indigo.iewrote: Hello, I've been using Lilypond to draw examples for my counterpoint tutorial website at: http://homepage.eircom.net/~gerfmcc/fugue.htmlhttp://homepage.eircom.net/%7Egerfmcc/fugue.html The staff lines are somewhat

Re: how to define a boolean?

2009-08-10 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/10/09 1:54 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Carl Sorensen schrieb: [...] The *specific* behavior you have requested can be achieved by the following: #(define myBool #f) myMusicFunc = #(define-music-function (parser location) () #{ \once \override Slur

Re: staff lines blurred on my website

2009-08-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jonathan, I also have a counterpoint project going, info here in you're interested: http://music2.louisiana.edu/Gratis/ Nice job on the title — the pun is amazing! =) Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 81, Issue 42

2009-08-10 Thread craigbakalian
Hi, I am sorry for not contributing to this thread that I started. I am currently writing (pencil and paper) a saxophone concerto and I am really into it. This is the piece that inspired the 8/4 measures. I have stopped typesetting because I am so focused on the actual music. I feel bad

Re: staff lines blurred on my website

2009-08-10 Thread Jonathan Kulp
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Jonathan, I also have a counterpoint project going, info here in you're interested: http://music2.louisiana.edu/Gratis/ Nice job on the title — the pun is amazing! =) Kieren. Thanks, Kieren. It

some problems with mensural music

2009-08-10 Thread Denis . Roegel
Hi, I am trying to typeset some 16th century hymns with lilypond. I mostly can make it work, but I have a few remaining problems. My working file is: http://www.loria.fr/~roegel/tmp/questions.ly My problems are the following: 1) I would like to show the tempo with mensural notes, not as

Re: some problems with mensural music

2009-08-10 Thread Laura Conrad
Denis == Denis Roegel denis.roe...@loria.fr writes: Denis 2) the ligrature \[g1( f)\] comes out with a slur, but I Denis would like to avoid the slur; however, if I remove Denis (...), the synchronization of the lyrics is screwed up Denis ; how can I put one

Re: scheme tweak doesn't work anymore

2009-08-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Maybe it used to read -\tweak #'extra-offset #'(6.2 . -5.6) Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: \context for named Staff

2009-08-10 Thread Mark Polesky
(sorry for the duplicate message, the first one bounced) My 2 cents... 1) The 1891 Breitkopf Härtel edition of Brahms' Piano Trio Op.8 (1889 version) has the smaller staves exactly 2/3 the height of the larger staves. Click Complete score:

Re: some problems with mensural music

2009-08-10 Thread Denis . Roegel
\override Slur #'transparent = ##t \version 2.12.0 \addInstrumentDefinition #mensuralf3 #`( (clefGlyph . clefs.mensural.f) (middleCPosition . 4) (clefPosition . 0)) \instrumentSwitch mensuralf3 Thanks, this works fine. However, is there a way to increase the size of this clef?

hiding the tempo

2009-08-10 Thread Denis . Roegel
Hi, I would like to set the tempo for the MIDI file, but not display the tempo information at the beginning of the score. Is this possible? Thanks, Denis ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

setting notes alone

2009-08-10 Thread Denis . Roegel
Hi, sometimes I want to discuss some details of a score, and I want to use the note symbols alone, without any staff. For instance, I may want to say that a breve is equal to two semibreves, and have the right symbols, and no staff. How can I achieve this? Thanks, Denis

Very small question about jEdit LilyPondTool

2009-08-10 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Hello, as I have an italian keyboard/system in windows XP, I believe I don't have a key for character ~. Is there a way to set it in a dead key in jEdit? Help me please with my ligatures, or I'll live forever in a staccato world!!! Piero - Piero Faustini Main Software used: - LyX 1.6.2 on

Re: hiding the tempo

2009-08-10 Thread Jonathan Kulp
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:09 AM, denis.roe...@loria.fr wrote: Hi, I would like to set the tempo for the MIDI file, but not display the tempo information at the beginning of the score. Is this possible? Thanks, Denis Yes, you can set it in the \midi block, although the format is a bit

Re: hiding the tempo

2009-08-10 Thread Jonathan Kulp
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:09 AM, denis.roe...@loria.fr wrote: Hi, I would like to set the tempo for the MIDI file, but not display the tempo information at the beginning of the score. Is this possible? Thanks,

non overriding \clefs

2009-08-10 Thread Denis . Roegel
Hi, if I start a score with \clef treble \clef bass, I only get the bass \clef. Is it possible to have both appear, one after the other, even though there is no note for the treble \clef? Thanks, Denis ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: setting notes alone

2009-08-10 Thread Jonathan Kulp
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:18 AM, denis.roe...@loria.fr wrote: Hi, sometimes I want to discuss some details of a score, and I want to use the note symbols alone, without any staff. For instance, I may want to say that a breve is equal to two semibreves, and have the right symbols, and no

Re: how to define a boolean?

2009-08-10 Thread Marc Hohl
Carl Sorensen schrieb: On 8/10/09 1:54 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Carl Sorensen schrieb: [...] The *specific* behavior you have requested can be achieved by the following: #(define myBool #f) myMusicFunc = #(define-music-function (parser location) () #{ \once

Re: non overriding \clefs

2009-08-10 Thread James E. Bailey
On 10.08.2009, at 17:47, denis.roe...@loria.fr wrote: Hi, if I start a score with \clef treble \clef bass, I only get the bass \clef. Is it possible to have both appear, one after the other, even though there is no note for the treble \clef? Thanks, Denis

An alternative project to Feta Font

2009-08-10 Thread Josh Nichols
Does anyone know if Feta font is available for any notation software (i.e. Sibelius, Finale, etc.)? I really enjoy the look and feel of the font, and I enjoy the engraver quality, but I would like to intertwine pieces that I engrave in notation software as well as LilyPond. Any help?

Re: wrong type argument

2009-08-10 Thread Alexander Kobel
Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear Alexander, I still have this strange error-message. The strange thing is: At the moment, it works, but if I compile the whole piece, I get problems, and nothing is compiled. I send You the score (as a zip-file, because it consists of many parts), maybee You ore

Re: An alternative project to Feta Font

2009-08-10 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Does anyone know if Feta font is available for any notation software (i.e. Sibelius, Finale, etc.)? Lilypond's font are freely available. However, I have absolutely no idea how those other notation programs access the fonts: which encoding they use, how the metrics must look like... You

Re: setting notes alone

2009-08-10 Thread Mark Polesky
Jonathan Kulp wrote: sometimes I want to discuss some details of a score, and I want to use the note symbols alone, without any staff. For instance, I may want to say that a breve is equal to two semibreves, and have the right symbols, and no staff. How can I achieve this? This snippet

Re: Very small question about jEdit LilyPondTool

2009-08-10 Thread Mark Polesky
MonAmiPierrot wrote: as I have an italian keyboard/system in windows XP, I believe I don't have a key for character ~. Is there a way to set it in a dead key in jEdit? Help me please with my ligatures, or I'll live forever in a staccato world!!! Piero, Save the following one-line file as

Re: hiding the tempo

2009-08-10 Thread Denis . Roegel
Quoting Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com: Yes, you can set it in the \midi block, although the format is a bit more convoluted. Here's an example where the quarter is set to 160 beats per minute: \midi { \context { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 160 4) } }

RE: Very small question about jEdit LilyPondTool

2009-08-10 Thread Piero Faustini
Save the following one-line file as Insert_Tilde.bsh in your /.jedit/macros directory: textArea.setSelectedText(~); Go to: Utilities Global Options jEdit Shortcuts In the Filter field, you can start typing Insert Tilde to help you find it in the list of commands. Click in the

Re: website: why do you use lilypond?

2009-08-10 Thread fiëé visuëlle
If you're still looking for a pop song and if a CC license is good enough, you can take mine: http://angerweit.tikon.ch/lieder/lied.php?src=hraban/agradini It's a italo-kitsch like piece in a nonsense language. If you'd like to take it, I'll provide a LilyPond file that someone can enhance

polyphony in tablature

2009-08-10 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi all, I would like to engrave a piece with polyphonic elements both traditionally (with noteheads) and with tablature. I found the snippet polyphony in tablature and it works fine. But: as I have only a few bars of polyphonic music I didn't want to use two voices so I tried to typeset it as

RE: hiding the tempo

2009-08-10 Thread Nick Payne
In your \score block, you can use something like \tempo 4 = 64 \tempo \markup { } Which prevents the tempo marking from being displayed. Nick -Original Message- From: lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.on@gnu.org

Re: staff lines blurred on my website

2009-08-10 Thread Patrick Horgan
It's a matter of not enough dots to have dots in all the right places. o o o o Imagine three lines have to be shown by turning on the dots above. The top and the bottom row line right up with rows

Re: Big Measures in Large Ensemble

2009-08-10 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/8/10 Joe Neeman joenee...@gmail.com: If there's a \bar and a clef in the same place, then the BreakAlignGroup will have a non-empty extent, but I think we still want the column to be loose. I'm not sure that's desirable; see for example the following snippet, where the clef is spaced

Cross Staff Beaming

2009-08-10 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hello, I'm trying to do some cross-staff beams in the middle of a piano staff. They seem to work pretty well, but I think the beaming is wrong. In beat 2, the 6-tuplet starts in the right-hand. I don't have the Kurt Stone book on modern notation in front of me, but if I remember correctly,

Re: Cross Staff Beaming

2009-08-10 Thread Mark Polesky
Jonathan Wilkes wrote: I'm trying to do some cross-staff beams in the middle of a piano staff. They seem to work pretty well, but I think the beaming is wrong. In beat 2, the 6-tuplet starts in the right-hand. I don't have the Kurt Stone book on modern notation in front of me, but if I