Partcombine - appear as one set of notes when the same?

2009-03-09 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
I'm working on transcribing Sousa's Fairest of the Fair for Mutopia. I just got to the Oboe part, and hit a roadblock. The Oboe part is actually Oboe 1 and Oboe2 printed on the same staff, with only one set of notes printing when they're playing together. Here's the first of the sections where

Re: Partcombine - appear as one set of notes when the same?

2009-03-09 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
Scratch that -- I had mismatched slurs at the beginning, and that threw the whole thing off. Thanks anyway. :-) On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 00:29, Garrett Fitzgerald sarekofvul...@gmail.com wrote: I'm working on transcribing Sousa's Fairest of the Fair for Mutopia. -oboe.ly starts

partcombine/instrumentName problem

2009-06-01 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
I have the following code in my ConductorScore.ly. The first one, with the combined parts, doesn't print the instumentName: the second one, with just one part, does. Anybody know offhand how to fix this? Thanks. (Files are available at http://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=1643,

Problem with multiple melody lines

2007-11-27 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
This is really a question I should not be asking when I don't have the actual code in front of me, but is there a problem with http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Switching-the-melody-associated-with-a-lyrics-line and triplets? I had the darnedest time getting something to

Re: Problem with multiple melody lines

2007-11-27 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
On Nov 27, 2007 5:29 PM, Garrett Fitzgerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is really a question I should not be asking when I don't have the actual code in front of me, but is there a problem with http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Switching-the-melody-associated

Vertical spacing

2007-12-01 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
Evening, all. I have 4 staffs (solo and chorus) that fit nicely on one page. I just added chord names, and blew it up so that only 3 staffs would fit on the first page. How do I move the chord names closer to the staff so that there's actually enough room? I tried extra-offset, but that didn't

Re: Win XP Notepad-related lilypond bugs

2007-12-12 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
On Dec 10, 2007 1:49 PM, daf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyhow, two problems with Notepad when invoked via right-click menu for a .ly file: At the risk of sounding flip, don't use Notepad. :-) I use Notepad++ for most text editing, but I use emacs with lilypond-mode for .ly files, and I wouldn't

Alternate endings without repeat marks

2007-12-19 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
Is there an easy way to do an alternate ending for a chorus that has looks like a repeat, but doesn't have the repeat mark at the end of the first ending? Or is this more involved? If it's involved, I'll play with it more before asking again. Thanks.

Re: Alternate endings without repeat marks

2007-12-19 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
before the bar line where you don't want the repeat mark. /Mats Garrett Fitzgerald wrote: Is there an easy way to do an alternate ending for a chorus that has looks like a repeat, but doesn't have the repeat mark at the end of the first ending? Or is this more involved? If it's

Manual repeats - volta ending prematurely?

2008-05-23 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
I'm transcribing an R. B. Hall march, The Sentinel. The intro repeats, then the first strain repeats, skips the third ending, plays the second strain, repeats, dal segnos, and ends at the third ending. I didn't see how to do it with repeat volta/alternative, so I tried doing it manually. However,

Music sizes

2008-05-28 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
I'm currently working on some marches, and I was thinking about getting them printed as a booklet, as well as 8.5x11. What paper size do I call this? Also, what is the typical size for printing a full-page music sheet? How about conductors' scores? Dammit, Jim, I'm a clarinetist, not a

Problem with \acciaccatura and \repeat

2013-01-27 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
I'm having a problem with the beginning repeat sign of the following code being repeated on each side of the acciaccatura. What am I doing weird? Thanks. \version 2.14.2 \score { \new Staff { \time 6/8 \transpose c des \relative c''' { R2. | \repeat volta 2 { \acciaccatura

Ending slur combined with decresc on single note

2013-02-22 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
I'm re-setting my wife's part of Grainger's Irish Tune from County Derry, because it doesn't have the authentic English-language tempo and dynamic instructions. Everything went well (I think) until the last measure, where a slur terminates on a fermata that decrescendoes from p to ppp. As a first

Fwd: Ending slur combined with decresc on single note

2013-02-22 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 3:46 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Garrett Fitzgerald sarekofvul...@gmail.com writes: As a first attempt at this, I used d4( | d1)\fermata \\ { s4\p\ s8 s s s s s\ppp } which renders the decrescendo well, but warns me of an unterminated slur. Try removing

Re: Ending slur combined with decresc on single note

2013-02-22 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: 2013/2/22 Garrett Fitzgerald sarekofvul...@gmail.com: As a first attempt at this, I used d4( | d1)\fermata \\ { s4\p\ s8 s s s s s\ppp } which renders the decrescendo well, but warns me of an unterminated

Fermata default padding too tight?

2013-03-19 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
I just used a \fermata marking on a top-line f2., and it struck me as much too tight - the dot by the half note almost ran into the bottom of the fermata. When coming up with an example, I noticed that this happened for all the notes sitting on ledger lines. \version 2.16.2 \relative c'' {

Instrument header repeating on page with multiple score blocks in file

2013-05-15 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
Lilypond 2.16.2 I suspect this is an RTFM question, but I can't find the place in the FM (or the FLSR) that tells me how to fix it. I usually create separate files for the score and individual parts, but I decided to try putting multiple bookparts in the same file to get a single PDF generated.

Cued notes with partCombine

2011-06-20 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
I was trying to re-set the first clarinet part for Fucik's Florentiner March from a copied, enlarged marching band part. Using partCombine, it went fairly well, except for the cued piccolo solo. Can anyone clue me in on what I did wrong here? It works fine as I have it below, but if I move the

Re: Cued notes with partCombine

2011-06-20 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 18:45, Keith OHara k-ohara5...@oco.net wrote: If you are printing two parts on one staff, then you probably don't want partCombine, but rather two voices \clarinetOne // \clarinetTwo but then you have to insert \voiceOne and \voiceTwo as apporpriate into the two

Slurring out of an alternative back to the beginning of a volta

2011-09-28 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
I managed to get rid of the unterminated slur message when slurring back to the beginning of a repeat with the following code, based on earlier suggestions on the list. Sharing FWIW, if anything. \alternative { { a8 r r e16( \afterGrace f16 {\once \override Rest #'transparent =

Slur from non-existent note

2010-11-15 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
Hi, all. I'm transcribing Riley's In C to experiment with in my community band from the CC-licensed version on the IMSLP. The sixth theme shows two whole notes, slurred to and from empty space between them. It's pretty well exactly expressed by the LP syntax C1( S) S( C) However, when I try

Re: Slur from non-existent note

2010-11-19 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 03:07, eluze elu...@gmail.com wrote: i would try {  c'1^( \hideNotes c') c'^( \unHideNotes   c') } you then might want to make barlines disappear: \override  Staff.BarLine #'stencil = ##f Thanks to you and Bill Mooney for your suggestions -- I'll try them out

Re: Use of Stackoverflow for Question/Answer forum

2014-12-22 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
It's actually been discussed on meta - consensus is that people should actually come over here for help. :-) http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/168297/on-which-site-are-lilypond-questions-on-topic On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: We've had this

Slurs into an \alternative

2015-07-20 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
How do you do the notation when you're slurring from the last note of the volta into the first note of _both_ endings? (Think just about every march ever) Garrett Fitzgerald Eddington, ME ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https

Unfolding percents in score only

2016-11-27 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
As far as I can tell, short of writing tagged sections, there's no way to easily unfold only percents, while leaving voltas intact. Would this be a desirable behavior for Lilypond to have? My particular use case is transcribing band music. The inner parts of marches often use percent repeats in

Beaming across rests

2016-11-13 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
Good evening, all. When typesetting march music in 6/8, I very frequently have the figure \version "2.18.2" \relative c'' { \time 6/8 b8[ r b] b[ r b] } Obviously, I can get the effect I want, with two beamed groups of 3, as above. Is there anyway to force Lilypond to automatically beam

Issues with combined parts and repeat percent

2016-12-02 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
Evening, all. I'm trying to write individual horn parts for a march, but combine them in the score to save vertical space. However, I'm running into problems with percent repeats where Horn 2 plays the same notes longer than Horn 1 does. \version "2.18.2" hornOne = \relative c'' { r8 a a r a a |

Re: Issues with combined parts and repeat percent

2016-12-02 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
; Garrett, > > > > When I replace “percent” with “unfold” everything appears as you want. > > > > Mark > > > > *From:* lilypond-user [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark= > ca.rr@gnu.org] *On Behalf Of *Garrett Fitzgerald > *Sent:* Friday, December 02, 20

Emacs for Windows lilypond mode

2017-10-24 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
I'm sorry, but I'm having the darnedest time following the directions for how to install Lilypond-mode on Windows. I installed the latest release of GNU Emacs at c:\emacs and tried to follow the directions at http://www.geoffhorton.com/lilymacs.html. Either I'm looking at the wrong .emacs, or I

\section across staves

2024-02-25 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
I see this has been raised before, and is intentional behavior, but I just wanted to be clear. When typesetting band marches, I have a \rehearsalMarks definition that includes double bars as needed. I define all the parts in a single file (for example, MaineFestival.ly) and then have multiple part