Re: Rendering athenian Sagittal using microlily

> I'm having trouble getting Graham Breed's microlily to engrave > athenian Sagittal accidentals properly in *.pdf files, using the > Bravura font. > The accidentals are replaced with random Unicode symbols (such as \rho > and \xi). An example *.pdf with this issue is attached. My version of the

Re: Assistance to Create a Recipe for 41-EDO and "Kite Guitar" Tablature

You already found my page about microtonal usage of LilyPond. I specifically used LilyPond with tripod notation, which is not far off a tablature for Kite guitar. You can get the PDF about it and the source code for generating it, which includes LilyPond code, from here: http://x31eq.com/magic/

Re: Microtonal midi output

On 09/05/2021, Hans Åberg wrote: > >> On 9 May 2021, at 19:31, Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: >> >> I looked into it a bit today, and I can gladly report that (while the code >> still needs some cleaning up), I managed to patch my LilyPond to >> automatically generate the MTS messages that Graham's

Re: Microtonal midi output

it like that. The MIDI value is tied to the note values, the > other way around. And you can't adjust the tuning frequency, it is C4 not > A4. One can do fine tunings by going up in ET, Graham Breed is doing that, > but I do not keep track of that. No, you can do fine tuning. LilyPond w

Re: Two or more accidentals per note.

> From: Freeman Gilmore > Subject: Two or more accidentals per note. > How do you wright two (or more) accidentals to modify the same note? > Where is this written?And is there more than one way to do this? For > example how would I write 3 #; 2 double sharps; 2 or more microtonal >

Re: Writing notes in Pythagorean tuning in microlily

On 24/11/2019, Hans Åberg wrote: > >> On 24 Nov 2019, at 11:57, Graham Breed wrote: >> >> LilyPond can easily handle multiple generators with alternative pitch >> names. I've had "tripod notation" support with 3 generators for >> several years. I

Re: Writing notes in Pythagorean tuning in microlily

On 24/11/2019, Hans Åberg wrote: [amended] > An extended meantone temperament has two generators, which traditionally is > the octave and the the fifth, but one can change basis and take any two, > such as the minor and major second. LilyPond uses the sharp and the major > second. Two generators

Re: Writing notes in Pythagorean tuning in microlily

at Lilypond calculates its accidentals relative to is not the same as the whole tone that will be tuned to 9:8 in just intonation. So it's correct that a comma will be 1/10 of a whole tone. 9:8 is a comma flat of two sharps, and so will be 9 commas wide. >>> I see. Who wrote regular.ly? An

Re: Pitch inflection

Thank you for your message. I am hoping to reproduce the arrow notation used by the composer, rather than substituting a different notational convention (which this composer has employed in other pieces). The fact that he implies a difference between a slightly lowered F & a slightly raised E

Re: (modified) Ben Johnston tuning system script

On 28/12/17 13:16, allfifthstuning wrote: I've described my method of determining a note name (see attachment). Currently I'm reading the scheme git book (https://scheme-book.ursliska.de/) which is very helpful. Do I understand correctly that to determine the right note name with EH and

Re: (modified) Ben Johnston tuning system script

On 23/12/17 17:00, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: I would like to write music in just intonation. I would like to make a script similar to the (great!) Sagittal script of Graham Breed (http://x31eq.com/lilypond/) but for the so called Ben Johnston tuning system (BJTS) (I've noticed

Re: 48 and 72 ET

I'm answering the whole thread here. You should be able to do 48 ET with the standard Lilypond font. You can, for example, start with 12 ET and add arrowed accidentals to get 12*3=36. Then add 12 quartertones to get 48 ET. All you need is to define new note names. I found the font wasn't

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 168, Issue 174

On 21/11/16 13:51, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: Message: 5 Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 09:42:33 +0100 From: Urs Liska To: lilypond-user Subject: Pitch bend output in MIDI Message-ID:

Extended Helmholtz-Ellis JI PItch Notationn

I now have my Lilypond JI code working with the Extended Helmholtz-Ellis Pitch Notation. This is something I've been putting off for some time because it means the function that determines the original accidental has to know the original ratio that it refers to. After the more recent

Re: Microtonal notation - arrows up and down

On 13/01/16 16:53, Luca Danieli wrote: I tried to find information on how to do it on internet, but I am unable to find anything. I am sorry to continuously asking, but can you give me any hint on how to do it? I think this is what you want: arrowGlyphs = #`( (,DOUBLE-SHARP .

RE: Microtonal notation - arrows up and down

Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 19:39:06 +0100 From: Luca Danieli It works perfectly! I understand that I need to rename ALL pitches, otherwise the building fails.The only problem now is that I have lost the default microtonal symbols. So for example, how do I re-write the

Re: Microtonal notation - arrows up and down

Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 18:35:49 +0100 From: Luca Danieli I don't understand very much what is written within the page you sent me. But from the "quick start" I have understood the basic and was able to implement this code: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=786 It

RE: Microtonal notation - arrows up and down

Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 20:39:15 +0100 From: Luca Danieli Yes, it works perfectly. But I am only able to replace for example the standard symbol for fih (quarter-tone) with an arrow-up symbol. I was wondering if it was possible to use both symbols instead of replacing one

JI notation (was: converting svg glyph to path data for use in scheme)

From: "N. Andrew Walsh" Converting cents to ratios only makes even a bit of sense if you have some preexisting music in some temperament, which you then want to approximate in just intonation. But even that isn't really something that would be served by calculation

Re: converting svg glyph to path data for use in scheme (was: accidentals for just intonation)

From: "N. Andrew Walsh" Actually, coverting between the ratios and semitones has alread been done, as there's a simple set of log and mround functions that do it. Have a look in the OLL repository under notation-tools and you should find the .ily files. What's the

Re: converting svg glyph to path data for use in scheme (was: accidentals for just intonation)

From: Urs Liska >Maybe so, but the result is less portable because (if I understand >correctly) you'd have to have a custom font and have it installed >correctly, etc. for anyone to be able to use the glyph... as opposed >to just having the custom glyphs in an include

Re: converting svg glyph to path data for use in scheme

On 13/12/15 12:48, N. Andrew Walsh wrote: Take a look at conversions.ly (sorry; mround is the equivalend function in the spreadsheet I use to do the same thing). Those functions will convert the input (given as a fraction comprising two integers) into Lily's semitone values. That should allow

Re: Microtonal notation - arrows up and down

Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 01:05:11 +0100 From: Luca Danieli Hello everybody, I found out very few about arrows down and up for microtonal notation.Neither a quick research on the mailing-list has shown many results. I found the best example of it in the following page but I

Re: accidentals for just intonation

On 03/12/15 12:11, N. Andrew Walsh wrote: If your system requires only a range in cents to determine which accidental to use, that should be easy to calculate and apply. If it requires only the prime factors of the ratios, that should be easy, too. If it's some mixture of them, that works as

Re: accidentals for just intonation

From: "N. Andrew Walsh" To: lilypond-user If you've been watching the OpenLilyLib repository, you'll see that Urs has been working on a set of tools for rendering music in just intonation. He (quite modestly) says that it isn't ready for

Re: Git/Lilypond workflow

I use Git and Lilypond. I know Git quite well, but haven't been using Lilypond much lately. I can see from this thread that I'm not using the two together efficiently, so I'll describe what I should be doing. 1) Keep a tools repository with the include files I depend on, and really should

Re: Where to Download the New Music Fonts?

On 29/07/14 15:18, Hans Aberg wrote: Graham Breed wrote a file for equal temperaments for an earlier version of LilyPond, which I was able to tweak for the latest version (discussed on the devel list). When using the currently available microtonal symbols, then also key signatures seemed

Re:Lilypond help - arbitrary accidental glyphs

I have been studying 31 equal temperament and wish to implement Adriaan Fokker's notation in Lilypond. I would very much appreciate it if you could give me some help. In search for a solution, I found a 2008 thread between you and Graham Breed: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Arbitrary

Re: Just Intonation MIDI file

dadadharma @dslextreme.com dadadha...@dslextreme.com wrote: This YouTube by Hajo (dl1sdz) claims to have generated a just intonation MIDI file from a LilyPond file. BWV-988-Var-12-Just.AVI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rkaueIngyY How does one do this? Well, disappointingly they didn't

Re: lilypond-book download

Pablo Zumarán pab...@ymail.com wrote: I'm having trouble understanding something. In Item 4 of GNU Lilypond – Application Usage, under the heading Integrating Text and Music, it explicitly says this lilypond-book provides a way to automate this process: This program extracts snippets of

Re: Score.midiInstrument = harp

Craig craigbakal...@verizon.net wrote: Bracing for the storm here in the mid-Atlantic section of the US. What else to do but typeset. I have a score with a harp. The lilypond MIDI Instrument table is mission the MIDI timbre called harp. Why? It's called orchestral harp. Is there a

Re: Pitch-bent note's release-phase

Richard Sabey richardsa...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Since sending my initial enquiry to this list I have indeed written an app which confirmed to me what you say. Right. I also have a file that shows Timidity will share the tuning of a note even between channels, so that F and F# come out the

Re: Pitch-bent note's release-phase

Richard Sabey richardsa...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: But you don't need this problem when a note allocated to a channel is followed by a rest in that channel. Is Lilypond writing a MIDI pitch wheel change message to take effect at the same instant as the MIDI note off message? If I'm right (I

Re: LaTeX font as Lyric font in LilyPond?

On 17 April 2011 11:53, Dominic Neumann m...@dominicneumann.de wrote: is it possible to use the LaTeX font Computer Modern SansSerif (selected by \sffamily in LaTeX) as Lyrics font in LilyPond? Probably it is possible, but how (under Debian Linux). I don't believe it's possible to use it as

Re: Editing notes in a separate file

Xavier Scheuer x.sche...@gmail.com wrote: Look into \tag. Which is documented there: Notation Reference (NR) 3.2.2 Different editions from one source http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Different-editions-from-one-source ;-) That's 3.3.2, not 3.2.2

Re: vim vagaries

J. wrote: I looked at the directions on the lilypond site for setting it up but, because of my noviciate I got confused with all the places and symbols. I found a page here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-program/Vim-mode It isn't clear which of those things you

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

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

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

Hans Aberg wrote: Isn't the lookup dynamic, so one only gets a warning when it actually needs a glyph for an alteration? - But it is a good idea to define a glyph for each alteration. Yes, but we've overridden the glyph lookup to use strings from external fonts. There's no need to define

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

Hans Aberg 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, and the hooks to allow us to

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

Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear Graham, in the meantime I found out, where I have to install the font on my kubuntu machine. That's good. I was able to try out the example. There is one not convincing for me: The default accidental is an natural. But I would like to use fis and ges as before.

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

Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear Graham, absolutely, I would like to define a list of notenames, for e.g. pitches that are about 15cents lower, But I have no idea how to do it, when I use the HE-font for the accidentals. For the code I have, pitch names are defined as: HEPitchNames = #`( (c .

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

Stefan Thomas wrote: what I don't understand: How many cents are an alteration of 10/1023? It's a fraction of 200 cents. So 200 * 10/1023 = 2000/1023 = 1.955... cents, which looks like a schisma. Graham ___ lilypond-user

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

Stefan Thomas wrote: Ok, I've understood this now. In the meantime, I tried to make my own microtone-uitchtable. But, unfortunately, it doesn't work. I always get the error message: stefansMikrotoene.ly:32:6: warning: Could not find glyph-name for alteration -162/247 That says it's a

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

Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear Community, I know that I am a little late in this discussion. I wanted to try out theexample of Thorsten, I found at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-09/msg00205.html What I don't understand is: where do I have to have the files of the HE-font?

Re: Quarter-tone notation with arrows

be reflected in different pitch alterations anyway. Graham Breed wrote me a nice note suggesting defining some kind of override or tweak to redefine the symbol on the fly, but considering it I think I'll probably go with 'cheaty' definitions of pitch alterations, like +/- 101/400 (or 1001/4000

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

Kees van den Doel wrote: Then in \context add \override Accidental #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \override Accidental #'font-name = #??? \override Accidental #'font-size = #? \override Accidental #'text = #(lambda (grob) (cdr (assoc (ly:grob-property grob 'alteration)

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

Kees van den Doel wrote: Hi Folks, I made an init file persian.ly with support for Persian accidentals and scale signatures. The only thing missing is correct glyphs for koron and sori. I include it below. You don't want glyphs. You want strings, because we're not expecting a music font,

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

Behnam Rassi wrote: Yes Kees I downloaded the font and saw the glyphs. This is as far as I can go with my current work too. Except that I will add additional Persian music notations (and perhaps somewhat better looking glyphs!). But I can only produce a font in ttf format, another one perhaps

Re: Frescobaldi 0.7.5 released

Herbert Liechti wrote: works only in vim/gvim ! o point cursor to the first line which should be commented out o enter visual mode (key v) o move cursor down to the end of the block (i.e. enter % sign for quick jumping to the closing bracket) o enter command mode with : (you see something

Re: songbook from Lily scores

Zoltan Kota wrote: I have been using Lily for a year now, and I have several music scores as separate lily files. I would like to make a songbook including them, with cover page, table of contents, correct page numbering, etc. How should I start? What sectiones should I learn in documentation?

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

Hans Aberg wrote: Graham, Do you what types of fonts that LilyPond can use? - Behnam Rassi he says he only knows how to make music fonts. There are two ways Lilypond loads its fonts: music fonts and Pango fonts. The music fonts start out as Metafont and get converted to OTF along with

Re: Persian musical koron and sori

Behnam Rassi wrote: What I'm not clear about is that you don't need just a font containing two glyphs for Sori and Koron right? You need a font containing all necessary glyphs for music writing, including Sori and Koron. So I have to add them to an existing font. Did I understand it

Re: Persian accidentals

2009/2/1 Hans Aberg hab...@math.su.se: On 30 Jan 2009, at 03:34, Kees van den Doel wrote: Is there any way to print the koron (60cents flat) and sori (40 cent sharp)? Check with Graham Breed - it might be possible now. You can use any glyph, or string of glyphs, you have in a font. I

Re: Persian accidentals

Hans Aberg wrote: On 1 Feb 2009, at 13:07, Graham Breed wrote: You can use any glyph, or string of glyphs, you have in a font. I haven't seen a mention here of such a font being available. Didn't you work with MicroABC? A quick search gave this page http://anamnese.online.fr/site2

Re: Ubuntu can't find lilypond executable

Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: I'm not sure this says that the given file wasn't found. I think it says that the given file was executed and returned the error not found. Hm. That can be true - as there is a problem with running lilypond-book: /usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond-book

Re: Ubuntu can't find lilypond executable

Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: No, it's not me. The lilypond-book script contains this as the first line: #!/home/lilydev/vc/gub/target/tools/root/usr/bin/python That's weird. I see this in ~/lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond-book as well. But lilypond-book works for me. The binary is

Re: Ubuntu can't find lilypond executable

Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: I tried to install LilyPond 2.12 on an Ubuntu machine. I found a very strange thing I couldn't explain, and couldn't solve. I used the script to install: sudo /sh lilypond-X.Y.Z.linux-x86.sh I did a local install, and it works fine as ~/bin/lilypond and

Re: Accidentals problem

2009/1/5 Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk: You could place the es in a separate temporary voice and ignore the clashing note column warning: ees! \\ \voiceOne \once \override Accidental #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \once \override Accidental #'text = #AuflB \once

Re: Accidentals problem

Following my last message, this is how to get a letter from an arbitrary font as an accidental: \version 2.12.1 \paper{ #(define fonts (make-pango-font-tree Century Schoolbook L URW Palladio L DejaVu Sans Mono

Re: Diatonic/modal transposition function

2008/12/29 John Mandereau john.mander...@gmail.com: This work is not synced at all with Graham's work, but it tries not to naively assume any temperament; in current state it only works with 7-notes scales, but the arithmetics on alteration works with any kind alteration, semi-tones or