Default Tie positions too close

2009-10-02 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hello, For some large chords, the tie positions end up nearly on top of one another. The commented-out override in the snippet below helps somewhat, but it would be nice if these could be handled more elegantly by default. -Jonathan Snippet: \version 2.13.3 \relative c' {

Re: using lilypond for leadsheets

2009-10-02 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello Peter, a short answer about transposition in schort: Need to transpose to 'C', 'Bb', 'Eb' and have treble and bass keys. What I do, if I have a trumpet voice is: - snippet --- \new Staff { \transposition bes % display in Bb for trumpet

Re: LilyPond group on Identi.ca

2009-10-02 Thread Federico Bruni
Francisco Vila wrote: 2009/10/1 Federico Bruni brunol...@gmx.com: *REQUEST* Where can I find the source file (.svg or whatever) for the LilyPond logo? I could create a 96x96px image for the avatar of the group on Identi.ca (the favicon on the website is a bit too small..) Here

Re: problems with layout variables in 2.13.4

2009-10-02 Thread Federico Bruni
James E. Bailey wrote: On 01.10.2009, at 16:50, Federico Bruni wrote: I wonder also if it's possible to put some text on the right side of a short and not ragged staff. I'd like to add a description to each effect (see attached .pdf). I don't know if it will work with what you're doing,

Re: LilyPond group on Identi.ca

2009-10-02 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/10/2 Federico Bruni brunol...@gmx.com: thanks Francisco, I'll suggest the owner of the group to use this 40x40px image: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=blob_plain;f=texinfo/pictures/lily-home.png;hb=web-gop it's not 96x96 but it's the perfect image for an avatar I

Re: more midi2ly

2009-10-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl wrote: I have attached my current experimental version of midi2ly, and an example result file that demonstrates the improvements as well as the TODO's. ( Long notes ! ) Hi Martin, I've updated the tracker page on

sign for a special ornament

2009-10-02 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, has someone an idea, how to produce the sign for the comle (in german: Schleifer) in Lilypond? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: MY error, but wish the log was clearer.

2009-10-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se wrote: However, your feature request is certainly relevant, so I forward it to the bug mailing list. Don't we already have a no music in this file error message? `aliteralmind': could you please post a minimal example of

Re: MY error, but wish the log was clearer.

2009-10-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Valentin Villenave wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se wrote: However, your feature request is certainly relevant, so I forward it to the bug mailing list. Don't we already have a no music in this file error message? `aliteralmind': could

Re: problems with layout variables in 2.13.4

2009-10-02 Thread Federico Bruni
Federico Bruni wrote: Thanks to Francisco's link I managed to put the music in a markup block. Now I have problems with aligning text on the right. I've made several tries, but nothing is working as expected. Any suggestion? (see example attached) I've resolved the aligning problems (both

Re: problems with layout variables in 2.13.4

2009-10-02 Thread Marc Hohl
Federico Bruni schrieb: Federico Bruni wrote: Thanks to Francisco's link I managed to put the music in a markup block. Now I have problems with aligning text on the right. I've made several tries, but nothing is working as expected. Any suggestion? (see example attached) I've resolved

Re: problems with layout variables in 2.13.4

2009-10-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Perhaps the following is a starting point. \markup { \fill-line { \hammeron \override #'(line-width . 40) \justify {A hammer-on is executed by hammering one of the fingers of the left hand .. bla bla bla bla bla } } } Have you read the documentation of the markup commands,

Re: another route from MIDI to lilypond (from NtEd developer)

2009-10-02 Thread Joerg Anders
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Laura Conrad wrote: Yes, but then I have to do that for each of the 5 staves. ... So the workaround I've found is to change it to F major with the adjust notes box checked, and then uncheck the adjust notes box and change it back to C major. NtEd-1.8.6 now has a

Re: LilyPond group on Identi.ca

2009-10-02 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op vrijdag 02 oktober 2009, schreef Francisco Vila: I think its author is Wilbert Berendsen, then modified by Patrick McCarty or maybe Patrick Schmidt. Yes, I created it (drawn by hand with quasi-random star shapes in Inkscape) and there is a svgz of it at

Re: LilyPond group on Identi.ca

2009-10-02 Thread Federico Bruni
Wilbert Berendsen wrote: Op vrijdag 02 oktober 2009, schreef Francisco Vila: I think its author is Wilbert Berendsen, then modified by Patrick McCarty or maybe Patrick Schmidt. Yes, I created it (drawn by hand with quasi-random star shapes in Inkscape) and there is a svgz of it at

Re: another route from MIDI to lilypond (from NtEd developer)

2009-10-02 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 06:48:58PM +0200, Joerg Anders wrote: all, what we really want is for midi2ly to do the right thing ... I had a look into midi2ly. Althought I like Python and I know how much things can be done with only a few Python lines, from my experience with NtEd and a half year

Re: SVG improvements

2009-10-02 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/10/2 Patrick McCarty pnor...@gmail.com: Also, you can find some of my testcases here:  http://uoregon.edu/~pmccarty/svg/ Hello Patrick, are these samples supposed to work with inkscape 0.46? Staff lines have an undefined colour and are invisible, I can only make them show by the no-color

Re: SVG improvements

2009-10-02 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/10/3 Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com: 2009/10/2 Patrick McCarty pnor...@gmail.com: Also, you can find some of my testcases here:  http://uoregon.edu/~pmccarty/svg/ Hello Patrick, are these samples supposed to work with inkscape 0.46? Staff lines have an undefined colour and are

Re: adjusting first part of slur across system break

2009-10-02 Thread David Nalesnik
Thank you, Trevor and Mats. Overriding the positions property did the trick! David On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.ukwrote: David Nalesnik wrote Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:16 PM I've found information on how to alter the second half of slurs which

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

2009-10-02 Thread Torsten Anders
On 26.09.2009, at 18:33, Torsten Anders wrote: For the record please find the final version of the code for Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond attached. Just a brief warning. This approach does not work with \afterGrace (\grace is fine). There might be other corner cases... Best Torsten

Ancient tablatures

2009-10-02 Thread Francisco Vila
Hello, would this kind of ancient tablatures very difficult to do? http://www.mateus-lutes.com/tablature/ -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org www.csmbadajoz.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

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

2009-10-02 Thread luis jure
on 2009-09-30 at 10:12 Carl Sorensen wrote: There's actually another case that can lead to failure. That is when the 16th notes come in the 2nd or 4th beat of the measure, yes, i see. i think this has been reported by valentin more than a year ago here:

Basic Music Question

2009-10-02 Thread Athanasius Pelletier
I am formatting a song that is 4/4 and the first measure only has a quarter note and the last measure has a dotted half. How do I represent that in lilypond (and in NoteEdit if anybody knows) BrAth ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: [Issue?] hiding Accidental(s) on tied note(s) after a line break

2009-10-02 Thread Joe Neeman
On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 13:53 -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: On Saturday 30 May 2009 10:23:31 pm Werner LEMBERG wrote: shortest note playing here.) (shortest-starter-duration ,ly:moment? The duration of the shortest note that starts here.) + (hide-tied-accidental-after-break

Re: [Issue?] hiding Accidental(s) on tied note(s) after a line break

2009-10-02 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, According to Gardner Read: It is not necessary to repeat the accidental before a tied note . . . The one exception to this general rule occurs when the note or notes affected by the accidental and tied over the barline come at the end of a system or at the bottom of the page. It is helpful to

Re: Basic Music Question

2009-10-02 Thread James E. Bailey
On 03.10.2009, at 03:24, Athanasius Pelletier wrote: I am formatting a song that is 4/4 and the first measure only has a quarter note and the last measure has a dotted half. How do I represent that in lilypond (and in NoteEdit if anybody knows) BrAth

Re: [Issue?] hiding Accidental(s) on tied note(s) after a line break

2009-10-02 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Sat, 10/3/09, David Nalesnik dnale...@umail.iu.edu wrote: From: David Nalesnik dnale...@umail.iu.edu Subject: Re: [Issue?] hiding Accidental(s) on tied note(s) after a line break To: Joe Neeman joenee...@gmail.com Cc: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com, lilypond-user