Re: Chord with notes of different lengths

2014-09-06 Thread Malte Meyn
Of course it looks better ... because you used minims, not semibreves ... And it doesn’t compile (remove the \score { } and set language to english, then it will). Am 06.09.2014 um 02:16 schrieb MarcM: I had to do the same for a chord played by violins in Beethoven 5th. Check this this look

Score feedback request

2014-09-06 Thread Aura
Hello This question may be semi-off-topic. If you feel it is, let me know. I'm a blind music student learning to typeset my compositions with Lilypond. I would like to ask feedback from the community about one of my works (it is a Lied). I ask from Lilypond list for three reasons: * I can't

Re: fermatas in parentheses

2014-09-06 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Orm, 2014-09-05 13:52 GMT+02:00 Orm Finnendahl orm.finnend...@selma.hfmdk-frankfurt.de: 1. Is there a way to move the override for the font-size in the into the definition of parenfermata Try : \version 2.19 parenFermata = -\tweak ParenthesesItem.font-size #0 #(let ((m (make-music

Re: Score feedback request

2014-09-06 Thread Joram
Hi Aura, my reply is not complete and mentions only a few things I noticed: In general it looks good and looks like the output represents what you wanted (which is incredible to me if you can't see it). The most visible issue is that the piano pedal marks are not only under the piano staff

Re: Score feedback request

2014-09-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Aura, there’s one main thing I notice: the left hand has only one voice throughout, so you should better use \oneVoice instead of \voiceOne there. The same is for the last two bars of the right hand part. For the piano staff, a separate Dynamics context between the two staves might be

Re: Force auto-beaming?

2014-09-06 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Peter, how about a tiny example ? Cheers, Pierre ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Score feedback request

2014-09-06 Thread Urs Liska
??? I don't know why my message has already been sent while the editor window is still open ... So I'll continue here Hi Aura, I don't think this question is really off-topic, it's just more rare that people ask about _what_ they do with LilyPond instead of _how_. Am 06.09.2014 10:37,

Re: Upbeat as full measure or not?

2014-09-06 Thread Urs Liska
I find the version with the upbeat _slightly_ misleading. But more importantly I'd consider the relation with the last measure in this kind of music. Usually the last measure plus the upbeat make one whole measure together. In your case this would strongly indicate using a full measure with a

Re: Include a file if it exists

2014-09-06 Thread Urs Liska
Am 06.09.2014 11:43, schrieb Urs Liska: Am 06.09.2014 00:40, schrieb Urs Liska: Am 06.09.2014 00:36, schrieb Urs Liska: Hi all, I'm looking for a solution to conditionally include a file if it exists Oops. Well, the question is real, but of course I intended to add more to it ... The

Re: fermatas in parentheses

2014-09-06 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Pierre, thanks, works like a charm. This'll save me a lot of typing (and time), I really appreciate your help! I consider this input invaluable for understanding some of the inner workings of lilypond for practical purposes even if it's only on a surface level! -- Orm Am Samstag, den 06.

Re: Removing all dynamic markings from a score

2014-09-06 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi, 2014-09-04 18:31 GMT+02:00 David Bellows davebell...@gmail.com: \layout { \context { \Score \override DynamicText.stencil = ##f } } Perfect! And thank you! (Now to figure out how to squeeze that sucker in there...) \layout { \context { \Score \omit DynamicText } } in a shorter way

Re: Breaking notes up across bar lines when using lyrics

2014-09-06 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi David, 2014-09-04 22:47 GMT+02:00 David Bellows davebell...@gmail.com: In the following code, if you comment out the \addlyrics bit then it works as it should, but if you leave it in then it doesn't. Does anyone know of a solution or have any suggestions? I have seen issues about this

Re: Force auto-beaming?

2014-09-06 Thread PMA
Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: Hi Peter, how about a tiny example ? Cheers, Pierre Hi Pierre, Ok, I'll whittle down a big one (to remove home-grown non-culprit conditions you'd otherwise have to wonder about) and send the still-botching Tiny. All I want, really, is a command that says to the

How to color a text spanner

2014-09-06 Thread Urs Liska
\override TextSpanner.color won't color the TextSpanner. What would I have to do to achieve that? TIA Urs ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Reduce vertical space between \score's?

2014-09-06 Thread PMA
PMA wrote: PMA wrote: Abraham Lee wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Pete, Trouble is, the vertical space between \score's is too big. This was not so in the original version (2.12.3), but is now after my upgrade to version

Re: How to color a text spanner

2014-09-06 Thread David Nalesnik
Urs, On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: \override TextSpanner.color won't color the TextSpanner. What would I have to do to achieve that? This works fine for me: \version 2.19.10 { \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = #foo \override

Re: How to color a text spanner

2014-09-06 Thread Urs Liska
Am 06.09.2014 16:08, schrieb David Nalesnik: Urs, On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org mailto:u...@openlilylib.org wrote: \override TextSpanner.color won't color the TextSpanner. What would I have to do to achieve that? This works fine for me:

Re: How to color a text spanner

2014-09-06 Thread Joram
My question should have been: Which grob draws a \crestTextCresc? And of course I could find out that it's the DynamicTextSpanner that I wanted to override ... For these cases for which I made this: http://www.joramberger.de/files/lilypond_visualindex.pdf And I can add a question: What is the

Re: How to color a text spanner

2014-09-06 Thread David Nalesnik
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Joram noeck.marb...@gmx.de wrote: And I can add a question: What is the difference between DynamicLineSpanner and Hairpin? See http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/internals/dynamic_005falign_005fengraver A DynamicLineSpanner is a grob which groups

Re: How to color a text spanner

2014-09-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 06.09.2014 um 21:52 schrieb David Nalesnik: On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Joram noeck.marb...@gmx.de mailto:noeck.marb...@gmx.de wrote: And I can add a question: What is the difference between DynamicLineSpanner and Hairpin? See

Re: Lyric word engraver bug

2014-09-06 Thread David Nalesnik
Simon, On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de wrote: It proved difficult to provide a minimal example worth the name, so you get the one attached, which has a full page of music and two include files. Sorry for that. The instances of the bug mentioned are at the

Re: Lyric word engraver bug

2014-09-06 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 4:04 PM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: I don't yet know what is causing the problem... OK, I think I may have solved it. Fingers crossed. The problem occurs when the callback which creates a stencil for the hyphen creates nothing. Now why that

Re: Removing all dynamic markings from a score

2014-09-06 Thread David Bellows
\layout { \context { \Score \omit DynamicText } } in a shorter way And nicer looking (as in easier to understand to the average person) -- thanks! On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 4:16 AM, Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 2014-09-04 18:31 GMT+02:00 David Bellows

Re: Breaking notes up across bar lines when using lyrics

2014-09-06 Thread David Bellows
I have seen issues about this with older version. Cannot find any workaround though... Dang,if a solution doesn't present itself then I'll have to make some tough decisions aesthetics vs functionality. But thanks! On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 4:19 AM, Pierre Perol-Schneider

Re: Henle Music font

2014-09-06 Thread Abraham Lee
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Nicolai Pfeffer nicolai.pfef...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Abraham! I’m a clarinetist and music editor from Cologne, Germany and I’ve worked as an engraver for some of the major German publishing houses. I highly appreciate your effort of creating a Henle-like music

Re: Lyric word engraver bug

2014-09-06 Thread David Nalesnik
Here's an unrelated suggestion. When you use \wordcompress with a value which triggers the warning, the music function doesn't return music, so you end up with a fatal error (rather defeating the gentle purpose of a simple warning!) Why not something like: wordcompress = #(define-music-function

Re: How to color a text spanner

2014-09-06 Thread James
On 06/09/14 21:17, Simon Albrecht wrote: Am 06.09.2014 um 21:52 schrieb David Nalesnik: On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Joram noeck.marb...@gmx.de mailto:noeck.marb...@gmx.de wrote: And I can add a question: What is the difference between DynamicLineSpanner and Hairpin? See

Re: Lyric word engraver bug

2014-09-06 Thread David Nalesnik
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 5:20 PM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: Here's an unrelated suggestion. When you use \wordcompress with a value which triggers the warning, the music function doesn't return music, so you end up with a fatal error (rather defeating the gentle purpose