Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-27 Thread Hans Aberg
On 27 Sep 2009, at 05:36, Graham Breed wrote: Thanks for the explanation. I recall that: LilyPond has more than one glyph-finding model. That was a problem with the key signatures, I think, which could not use those from external fonts. Lilypond has one glyph-finding model for accidentals,

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-27 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Community, I have now defined a table for mictotones (I use the division of 12 of the whole tone, which is not 100 percent just intonation). The spacing, I guess, is ok, I only get problems, sometimes, at the beginning of a measure. I've defined for that the variable machplatz (makespace, if

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-27 Thread Graham Breed
Stefan Thomas wrote: 1. The new accidentals are also played via midi, which is great. But not, when different accidentals are in a chord. Is there a possibilitie to change this? Yeah, you have to split it into separate contrapuntal lines. I've used a contraption of include files so

finale-lilypond?

2009-09-27 Thread Frédéric Bron
Hi, A friend of mine is used to Finale. I try to convert him to lilypond. What is the best way to convert a score from Finale to Lilypond? Regards, Frédéric ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: BeatLength and BeatGrouping

2009-09-27 Thread Nick Payne
Nick Payne wrote: I'm looking at the 2.13.3 documentation on this in the NR (starts on p.47 of the PDF manual), and the comments against the the second example don't seem to match the output. The comment says No auto-beaming is defined for 12/16, yet the output has the 16th notes beamed in

Again: Questions about Stem #'length

2009-09-27 Thread Marc Hohl
Despite of the answers that were given (and which normally are sufficient enough for a workaround): can someone explain to me why lilypond still (at least sometimes) displays stems when I \override Stem #'length = #0? Thanks in advance Marc \version 2.13.4 test = \relative c' { c4 d

Re: finale-lilypond?

2009-09-27 Thread Jonathan Kulp
2009/9/27 Frédéric Bron frederic.b...@m4x.org Hi, A friend of mine is used to Finale. I try to convert him to lilypond. What is the best way to convert a score from Finale to Lilypond? Regards, Export the Finale score to musicXML, then run musicxml2ly on it. This script is included with

Re: Again: Questions about Stem #'length

2009-09-27 Thread Robin Bannister
Marc Hohl asked: why lilypond still (at least sometimes) displays stems You probably haven't enabled no-stem-extend Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: finale-lilypond?

2009-09-27 Thread Laura Conrad
Frédéric == Frédéric Bron frederic.b...@m4x.org writes: Frédéric A friend of mine is used to Finale. I try to convert him Frédéric to lilypond. What is the best way to convert a score Frédéric from Finale to Lilypond? Regards, What *ought* to be the best way is to have Finale save

Re: finale-lilypond?

2009-09-27 Thread Jonathan Kulp
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org wrote: Frédéric == Frédéric Bron frederic.b...@m4x.org writes: Frédéric A friend of mine is used to Finale. I try to convert him Frédéric to lilypond. What is the best way to convert a score Frédéric from Finale to

Re: Again: Questions about Stem #'length

2009-09-27 Thread Marc Hohl
Robin Bannister schrieb: Marc Hohl asked: why lilypond still (at least sometimes) displays stems You probably haven't enabled no-stem-extend Cheers, Robin Ah, yes - thanks for the hint; I did't know that there is such a property. Now it works like a charm. Marc

Re: BeatLength and BeatGrouping

2009-09-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/26/09 10:59 PM, Nick Payne njpa...@internode.on.net wrote: I'm looking at the 2.13.3 documentation on this in the NR (starts on p.47 of the PDF manual), and the comments against the the second example don't seem to match the output. The comment says No auto-beaming is defined for

Changing the distance between a slur and a note head

2009-09-27 Thread Marc Hohl
Hello, is there a way to lower the distance between the point where a slur starts (or ends, respectively) and the corresponding (tab) note head *without* manipulating every slur's control-points? Thanks in advance Marc ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: dynamic marks vertical alignment

2009-09-27 Thread Trevor Bača
Hi Luis, You might try taking a look at a solution from Mats here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-02/msg00395.html HTH, Trevor. On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:18 PM, luis jure l...@internet.com.uy wrote: hello list, apologies in advance if this is silly or obvious,

Re: BeatLength and BeatGrouping

2009-09-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/27/09 6:08 AM, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: Nick Payne wrote: I'm looking at the 2.13.3 documentation on this in the NR (starts on p.47 of the PDF manual), and the comments against the the second example don't seem to match the output. The comment says No

sib2ly, not available?

2009-09-27 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, I wanted to install sib2ly, but I couldn't download at http://drupal.mjs-svc.com/sib2ly. Is it available somewhere else? I found another plugin at http://www.scramblelovers.com/lilypond/ but it isn't recognized by Sibelius. Maybee it works only for a special version?

regression? [was Re: BeatLength and BeatGrouping]

2009-09-27 Thread luis jure
on 2009-09-27 at 08:02 Carl Sorensen wrote: The autobeaming behavior (and the documentation) have been fixed in 2.13.4. i find a regression in 2.13.4 with respect to 2.13.3. i recently updated to 2.13.3 and i was very happy to see that the automatic placing of beams had improved greatly

Problem spacing arpeggio

2009-09-27 Thread Nick Payne
In the attached example, in the first bar I can increase the spacing between the first chord and the the arpeggio on the second chord by overriding Staff.Arpeggio #'X-extent, but in the second bar, using the same override does nothing to increase the spacing between the arpeggio and the

No fiddling claim

2009-09-27 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hello, Not too long ago, I gave my opinion that No fiddling should be changed to less fiddling for the new website. After trying to do a quick exercise with a Schumann score, which I posted here concerning a slur tweak after a line break, I don't think the less fiddling claim is

Re: No fiddling claim

2009-09-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
HI Jonathan, what do the experienced users think about what I've said here? If there's anyone out there who has used other notational software and thinks the less fiddling claim is true? I used Finale from 1991-2003, eventually becoming *quite* proficient. Then I switched to Lilypond (around

Re: Changing the distance between a slur and a note head

2009-09-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Marc, is there a way to lower the distance between the point where a slur starts (or ends, respectively) and the corresponding (tab) note head *without* manipulating every slur's control-points? Can you increase the Y-offset? Cheers, Kieren.

Re: Problem spacing arpeggio

2009-09-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Nick, in the second bar, using the same override does nothing to increase the spacing between the arpeggio and the preceding note. Hmmm... that's probably because of the multiple-voices... but seems like maybe a bug? What means can I use to increase the spacing there? Well, it's

Re: No fiddling claim

2009-09-27 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Mon, 9/28/09, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: From: Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca Subject: Re: No fiddling claim To: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Date: Monday, September 28, 2009, 12:20 AM HI Jonathan, what

Re: regression? [was Re: BeatLength and BeatGrouping]

2009-09-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/27/09 10:23 AM, luis jure l...@internet.com.uy wrote: on 2009-09-27 at 08:02 Carl Sorensen wrote: The autobeaming behavior (and the documentation) have been fixed in 2.13.4. i find a regression in 2.13.4 with respect to 2.13.3. i recently updated to 2.13.3 and i was very