Lilypond Style Guide

2008-08-05 Thread Jordan Eldredge
I am currently working on wikilily.org and realized that one thing that could be very helpful when collaborating on Lilypond code, would be a style guide. My question for all of you is: has any other project drafted a style guide for Lilypond code? The main things I imagine it wold cover would

Re: Lilypond Style Guide

2008-08-05 Thread Graham Percival
1. LM 5 discusses general issues. 2. The doc policies on the GDP website discuss specific issues, including indents and line breaks. Cheers, - Graham On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 00:03:24 -0700 Jordan Eldredge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently working on wikilily.org and realized that one thing

Re: Lilypond Style Guide

2008-08-05 Thread James E. Bailey
I think an excellent place to look for inspiration would be LM 2.1.3 Am 05.08.2008 um 09:03 schrieb Jordan Eldredge: I am currently working on wikilily.org and realized that one thing that could be very helpful when collaborating on Lilypond code, would be a style guide. My question for all of

Re: Lilypond Style Guide

2008-08-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Jordan Eldredge wrote: I am currently working on wikilily.org and realized that one thing that could be very helpful when collaborating on Lilypond code, would be a style guide. My question for all of you is: has any other project drafted a style guide for Lilypond code? The main things I

Re: Lilypond Style Guide

2008-08-05 Thread Joe Neeman
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 00:03 -0700, Jordan Eldredge wrote: I am currently working on wikilily.org and realized that one thing that could be very helpful when collaborating on Lilypond code, would be a style guide. My question for all of you is: has any other project drafted a style guide for

Re: To emacs users: stopping emacs narrowing

2008-08-05 Thread David Kågedal
Mehmet Okonsar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To emacs users: is there a way to stop emacs getting narrow which is somewhat annoying in large scores... Please explain what you mean. The term narrow means something specific in Emacs terminology, but I suspect it's not what you are talking about.

Re: notation and tablature (+bend, slide etc.)

2008-08-05 Thread rosea
I see there's is some sort of tablature support in Mup, with bends and slides... http://www.arkkra.com/doc/uguide/tabstaff.html Would be nice if we get it in Lilypond too. Thanks in advance, notesetter wrote: I'd like to second rosea's sentiment about tablature. I'm just learning

Re: glissandi and line breaks

2008-08-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I would perhaps not classify this as a pure bug, but definitely as a limitation that deserves a feature request in the bug database. As far as I can see, the same vertical position is used the for the left end of the part of the glissando before the line break as for the part after the line

Re: combined time signature

2008-08-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
James E. Bailey wrote: Just out of curiousity, is there way to do either the clef or the time signature for real? Not that I know of! /Mats \version 2.11.52 { \override Staff.Clef #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \override Staff.Clef #'text = \markup {\musicglyph #clefs.G

Re: lyrics following split voices

2008-08-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Paul Scott wrote: What are workable explicit names for either the lyrics or the voices to connect the voices in the parallel part to some lyrics? I'm surprised that nobody answered exactly this question. If you name your main voice 1, then the upper voice of the {...} \\ {...} construct

Re: GDP: NR 1.5 Simultaneous, second draft

2008-08-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Karl Hammar wrote: Ex1: { \A } \\ { \B } creates TWO new voices, which get you into problems when doing \lyricsto, where Ex2: { \voiceOne \a } \new Voice { \voiceTwo \b } \oneVoice only creates ONE new voice, \a belongs to the same voice as the surronding music. Ex1 is a dead end,

Re: Shouldn't articulation 'stick' to note-heads?

2008-08-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
James E. Bailey wrote: Am 17.07.2008 um 07:10 schrieb George_: hi guys I was wondering if there were a way to make articulation 'stick' to a notehead, no matter where it is? I use 2.11.49 on XP, and I have a two-part melody, the lower voice is to be played staccato, like so:

Re: color notehead according to absolute pitch

2008-08-05 Thread Damian leGassick
On 5 Aug 2008, at 05:39, Jay Anderson wrote: Kenny Stephens kfstephensii at yahoo.com writes: Our church has a handbell group whose members are not all musically literate. To keep themselves from having to learn to read music, they mark their notes using differently colored highlighters.

Test

2008-08-05 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I apologize for the trash, but I've stopped receiving the user list mailings. I changed my subscription, and this is a test. Ralph ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Chord spacing issues in 2.11 series

2008-08-05 Thread lasconic
I follow Joe Neeman's advice and it does the trick for me ! The manual for extra-spacing-width is here : http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/Outside-staff-objects I just added : \layout { \context { \ChordNames \override ChordName

RE: color notehead according to absolute pitch

2008-08-05 Thread Steven Weber
Use the (cond) expression. Here's a simplified version of your pitch-to-color function that colors all c's red and all f's blue: #(define (pitch-to-color pitch) (cond ((eqv? (ly:pitch-notename pitch) 0) (x11-color 'red)) ((eqv? (ly:pitch-notename pitch) 3)

pedals on 2.11.53

2008-08-05 Thread josepadovani
having trouble to do this c4\sostenutoDown c4\sostenutoUp... any tips? thanks ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: pedals on 2.11.53

2008-08-05 Thread josepadovani
ok ok... it is on and off now... :) josepadovani escreveu: having trouble to do this c4\sostenutoDown c4\sostenutoUp... any tips? thanks ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: pedals on 2.11.53

2008-08-05 Thread Trevor Daniels
Read Piano pedals in section 2.2.2 of the Notation Reference. Trevor - Original Message - From: josepadovani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 9:36 PM Subject: pedals on 2.11.53 having trouble to do this c4\sostenutoDown c4\sostenutoUp...

Re: color notehead according to absolute pitch

2008-08-05 Thread Damian leGassick
thanks steven cond - yes, i was trying to use case kenny - can you figure it out from here? if not i'll try tomorrow morning london time d On 5 Aug 2008, at 21:10, Steven Weber wrote: Use the (cond) expression. Here's a simplified version of your pitch-to-color function that colors all

Re: Test

2008-08-05 Thread Graham Percival
I've received the test. Cheers, - Graham On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 13:43:25 -0400 Palmer, Ralph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings - I apologize for the trash, but I've stopped receiving the user list mailings. I changed my subscription, and this is a test. Ralph

Backwards compatibility: \compressMusic, \scaleDurations, WHY WHY WHY

2008-08-05 Thread Steve Dunlop
rant You have absolutely no idea how much chaos things like this cause for people who are using Lilypond for major projects. You have absolutely no idea how much of a problem this sort of thing is for archives like Mutopia. You have no idea how the lack of input grammar stability undermines

Re: Backwards compatibility: \compressMusic, \scaleDurations, WHY WHY WHY

2008-08-05 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Steve Dunlop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rant You have absolutely no idea how much chaos things like this cause for people who are using Lilypond for major projects. You have absolutely no idea how much of a problem this sort of thing is for archives like

RE: Backwards compatibility: \compressMusic, \scaleDurations, WHY WHY WHY

2008-08-05 Thread Steve Dunlop
This has been discussed numerous times on the mailing list. Check the archives. Handling syntax changes such as \compressMusic -- \scaleDurations are easily handled by convert-ly, since there is no change in structure of the input file. Simply use the following command: $ convert-ly

Re: Chord spacing issues in 2.11 series

2008-08-05 Thread Shamus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 lasconic wrote: | I follow Joe Neeman's advice and it does the trick for me ! | The manual for extra-spacing-width is here : | http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/Outside-staff-objects | | I just added : | \layout { |

Re: lyrics following split voices

2008-08-05 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/8/5 Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm surprised that nobody answered exactly this question. If you name your main voice 1, then the upper voice of the {...} \\ {...} construct will stay the same Voice context as the single voice. That's true, it is explained in LM 3.2.1 I'm hearing

markup dynamics wrong size

2008-08-05 Thread Eric Flesher
Wondering if anyone has experienced the following problem: When creating new centered dynamics in a piano staff in ver. 2.11.55 (and several earlier versions) using \markup, three things happen: 1. the markup text created is significantly larger than the normal dynamic size 2. the text

Re: Backwards compatibility: \compressMusic, \scaleDurations, WHY WHY WHY

2008-08-05 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Steve Dunlop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't get it. If you have an archive like Mutopia, where there are thousands of files and dozens of contributors, and mixed dependencies on versions, running conver-ly doesn't work. It doesn't work because two people

Better Midi!

2008-08-05 Thread Peter Chubb
Hi Folks, I now have permission to release the articulation code to improve MIDI output for lilypond. I've attached it as a tar.bz2 file here. The code is copyright 2008 NICTA (my employer), but released under GPL version 2. The simple way to use it is to use