Re: lilypond 1.9.2 resolution/font issues on OS X 10.2.6/Fink

Hello, Han-Wen: I doubt that this will be discernible on 1200dpi print-outs. I was looking at the printed version -- from my Xanté AW 1200 (1200dpi) -- and I have to agree with you: there is no visible offset. I imagine it would be the same if I sent the PS directly to the offset printer

Re: 6/8 time triplets problem

Hi Chip, In the following code the triplets do not work properly 1. If you are going to post code, post everything needed to make it compile correctly — in this case, you omitted the time signature (6/8, I'm inferring) and the \include english.ly. there are two measures of quarter note

Re: display chords (Ami7(b5))

Hi Shamus, You're very welcome. :-) BTW, while that will work you still have to put a \popChords thing into your chord block, so it's still not 100% automatic the way language files are. If someone could tell me how to make this happen I'd be more than happy to code it. :-) Try adding the

Re: Parenthesizing chord names

Hi Tim, Rather than writing a separate ending, I'd like to just parenthesize the last three chords over the final two bars so they would render: F(Ab7Dbmaj7C7) Don't know how to (easily) parenthesize all the chords, but you can easily parenthesize each chord — see

Re: Parenthesizing chord names

Hi all, This may be the easiest solution? \version 2.12.2 #(define (left-parenthesis-ignatzek-chord-names in-pitches bass inversion context) (markup #:line (( (ignatzek-chord-names in-pitches bass inversion context #(define (right-parenthesis-ignatzek-chord-names in-pitches bass

Re: Multiple repeats

Hi Kees, OK, let me rephrase (and this time in the right list, sorry): is the way to indicate a 4 times repeated set of bars \repeat volta 4 {notes}, followed by a manual annotation indicating repeat 4 times or is there a better method? As far as I know, that's the best Lily-method. On a

Re: Forcing markup to be IN the staff

Hi Mats (et al), It would certainly not have been obvious to me that this has anything to do with repeats, if I didn't know that that's the syntax used in LilyPond. Certainly, it's related to repeating something, but I would be surprised if you could find it in any music notation handbook

MetronomeMark tweaks

Hi all, In LSR #444 (http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=444), it claims that the snippet is obsoleted by version 2.11.50. However, unless I'm mistaken, we don't have direct access to the parts of MetronomeMark (e.g., the size of the note is too big to my eye, \tempo doesn't support a

Re: MetronomeMark tweaks

Hi Neil, It's obsolete since you can use \tempo \markup for all these tweaks. Looking through the MetronomeMark docs, I've been unable to figure out how to: 1. Change the size of the note (in parentheses) without changing the rest of the font size; or, 2. Indicate a range of tempos

Re: MetronomeMark tweaks

Hi Joseph, The following code shows how \tempo \markup can be used: Fabulous -- thanks! The first \tempo mark sets the speed as far as MIDI is concerned but the markup from the second is displayed. You can therefore customise its appearance as much as you like. I don't think I ever

\bracket has no properties?

Hi all, Does the \bracket markup command have no user-settable properties? I'd like to change the thickness of the bracket, but don't want to roll my own... Thanks, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: \bracket has no properties?

Hi all, Unfortunately, it seems hard coded for the moment, but there's a comment in the file scm/define-markup-commands.scm about exactly this issue. A possible job for a Frog? I'm officially jumping into the 'Pond on Wednesday of next week (after my two big deadlines on Sunday and

Re: glissando up from no note to a note

Hi Chip, Thanks for the suggestions, I was sent the following code which does the job beautifully Glad to hear you found a relatively easy solution. Seems a bit overly complicated for adding something so simple don't ya think? From that comment, I can see you don't actually appreciate

Re: There have been a bunch of discussions lately about lillypond-book

Hi Tim, I've tried \including them like someone suggested here last week, but that method I lost the song titles and other header information. 1. Did you use print-all-headers = ##t? 2. Did you try \bookpart? Hope this helps! Kieren. ___

Re: whole rest in 5/4 bar?

How do I designate a whole rest in a 5/4 measure? I am getting barcheck failures with R1 and also with R1 r4 I'm sure it's something simple I'm missing here. R4*5 Thanks, Chip ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: There have been a bunch of discussions lately about lillypond-book

Hi Timothy, print-all-headers = ##t if I understand correctly this goes in the paper section and lets you force headers when the are in the score block, rather than a separate header block, mine are each in their own header block in their own .ly file - it didn't seem to make any

Re: stretching horizontally

Hi, My rescuer, who didn't answer to the common mail-list for some reason, gave me the answer: in layout block, should be: ragged-right = ##f Unfortunately, your rescuer gave you an incorrect answer -- really, you should put both the solo music (Staff) and the choral music

Re: stretching horizontally

Hi, But ragged-right = ##f with two separate \score{} works and gives quick result. It works in the sense that it looks good... But it is still musically wrong -- for example, MIDI output would not be as desired/expected. GrandStaff with \RemoveEmptyStaffContext also works, but it's

Re: smaller distance between first Staff and TimeSig

Hi Stefan, Have you considered abandoning the TimeSig context, and simply adjusting the TimeSignature of the topmost Staff directly? Using #'font-size, #'X-extent, and #'X-offset (or #'extra-offset), you can get the same effect, with perfect spacing every time -- the only thing you need

Re: smaller distance between first Staff and TimeSig

Hi Stefan, that sounds good, but I'm not sure if I understood You right. Do You mean a Staff-context without notes, but with Time-Signatures? Could You give me please a very short example? Hope this helps! Kieren. % \version 2.12.2 filler = \repeat unfold 48 { c'4 } \layout {

Re: smaller distance between first Staff and TimeSig

Hi Stefan, Because I have too many bar changes in the score There is no limit to the number of bar changes in my method. and too many other things in the Time-Sig, like ritarrdando, etc. Those should be in a global variable as MetronomeMark (or at least RehearsalMark), so that you can

Re: smaller distance between first Staff and TimeSig

Hi Stefan, What could be the mistake? Might be a bug!? Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: fermata below the barline

Hi all, This is the snippet that gave me the clues: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=402 Even more useful is http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=10 If you search the LSR for fermata, it's on the first page of hits. =) Hope this helps! Kieren.

Re: fermata below the barline

Hi Gilles (et al.), It's not a troll, but i don't think it is very useable in a real music because the snippet add the Mark_engraver to the second Staff, so you have to do the choice to get also all \mark in both Staff, like in the example below. Good point... although that's easy to get

Re: variable in paper block

Hi Stefan, I would like to make a substition in the paper block, for the part title. Why not put \header { parttitle = My Part Title } in your source (notes) file/section, and then in the score file/ section, use oddHeaderMarkup = \markup { \fromproperty

Re: new Problem with Time-Sig

Hi Stefan, Yes, I don't now how to reduce the distance and first staff in this example. It is an excerpt of a larger score, and the first staff isn't always the same, it's a so called french score. If you're French scoring, you need to make a music function that turns the topmost

Re: Problem with arpeggio across voices and fingering

Hi Mats, In this bug database you can also see that this is one of 258 open issues. :-( I'd love to see Coda Music's open issues file for Finale... ;-) Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: cannot find property type-check for `no-spacing-rods'

Hi Anthony, Oops - just found my code that's doing it - but I copied it from somewhere and don't understand what it's doing or why ... tempoMark = #(define-music-function (parser location markp) (string?) #{ \once \override Score . RehearsalMark #'self-alignment-X = #left

Re: cannot find property type-check for `no-spacing-rods'

Hi Anthony, How metronome are your metronome functions? I'm just using it for text like moderately fast. \tempo \markup moderately fast =) Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Stopping a melismata extender

Hi Johan, I found one hack to accomplish this: give the third note a 'lyric' syllable consisting of a single hard space. But I'm sure there are better ways. I don't know if it's better, but I've defined nullLyric = \markup \null and use that instead. [Looking forward to this issue being

Re: various ornaments

Hi Peter and Hu, Turn after a note I write as: { c4 d4} \\ {s8. s16\turn s4} This *looks* right, (adjust the s8. and s16 to move the turn; they must add up to a crotchet). It doesn;t sound in the MIDI output, and there's no easy way to make it. Why not just offset the turn?

Re: Review of Valentin's Opera

Hello, all! LilyPond scores are used for real, serious stuff. This gets me to thinking... the website should have a section listing recent productions performances which used Lilypond scores! What does everyone think? Regards, Kieren. ___

Re: Review of Valentin's Opera

Hi Laura, Reinhold, etc. Reinhold The only problems appear when trying to create Reinhold good-looking full scores for the conductor (part I agree. I don't, actually... While I think Lilypond could clearly do an even better job, I regularly engrave my full scores, reduced

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera)

Hi all, In my experience, LilyPond *is* capable of producing scores of the highest caliber. However, I often spend so much time tweaking the score to get it to look perfect that it really becomes a labor of love. I used Finale for over a decade, eventually becoming the computer music lab

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera)

Hi Han-Wen, you can have the best of both worlds if you enter using finale and then musicxml2ly to go to .ly and do the typesetting. Now that I think about it, I was originally just talking about slamming in the pitches/durations... Once I factor in the slurs, articulations, dynamics, text,

Re: Left/right noteheads in chord containing second

Hi Nick, Is it possible, in a chord containing a second, to specify which note in the second should appear to the left of the stem and which to the right? The order of the notes doesn't change anything - ie d e gis, and e d gis, both have D to the left and E to the right. My guess is,

Re: Slur/Tie Ambiguity

Hi David, Good evening List, The snippet below shows two c naturals tied across a barline, followed by a c natural slurred to a c sharp across a barline. Lilypond makes both look identical. I think the first is right (born out by the NR) - but is the second? I know I can force the sharp or

Re: is this markup no longer applicable?

Chip: The word Fine just stays put over the rest, no matter what numbers I put in there. I think you're looking for MultiMeasureRestText, not TextScript. HTH! Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius

Hi all, How many users are aware that `c 4' is the same as `c4' I am -- I use whitespace quite consciously/critically. Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius

Werner (et al.) Do you actually use `c 4'? I don't use that exact construct. Or would you object to such a syntax change? Only if it (adversely) affected the flexibility of whitespace elsewhere -- for example, g~ versus g ~ g( versus g ( etc. If the parser is smart

TimeSignature with white border?

Hi all, Is there a way to have the TimeSignature stencil output with a thin white border? That way, you could stack Slur, TimeSignature, and StaffSymbol grobs, and the Slur would look like it disappeared behind the TimeSignature. Thanks, Kieren.

Re: TimeSignature with white border?

Hi Mark, Will using markup suffice? I've been doing something similar... However, I'd like an automated way of outlining any #'stencil -- maybe it's a task I can accomplish as a Frog? Cheers, Kieren. \version 2.13.0 \markup \combine \musicglyph #clefs.G \whiteout \pad-markup #0.75

Re: TimeSignature with white border?

Mark, This one is a little better. You rock -- thanks! Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: filling meaasures with rests automatically

Hi Stefan, there is one feature, that I know from Sibelius and Finale, which would be great to have in Lilypond too. If You have for example just one sixteenth note in a 4/4 bar, than sibelius automatically fills the rest of the bar with rests. I think rosegarden is able to do that too, but as

Re: TimeSignature with white border?

Snippet? Definitely! Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: TimeSignature with white border?

Neil, I hope Mark didn't spend too long working out the stencil overrides, as there's already the public function stencil-whiteout (used for the markup command \whiteout) which will do the job in one fell swoop: \override Staff.Clef #'stencil = #(lambda (grob) (stencil-whiteout

Re: Real-world usage of Lilypond

Hi Wei-Wei Guo, explaining what a quaver is in text line. \markup { A quaver looks like \fontsize #-2 \general-align #Y #DOWN \note #8 #1 } Hope this helps! Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Real-world usage of Lilypond

HI Wei-Wei, Could you point me to any material explaining this? It's all in the Text markup docs, in particular the Music section: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Music#Music Hope this helps! Kieren. ___ lilypond-user

Re: Real World Usage

Hi, Some time ago i tried to publish scores; therefore i was in touch with several music publishers, in 2 or 3 european countries. As one might expect, they have a few basic requirements on the look of the scores. Sadly, lilypond does not meet all of them. Can you list those? Kieren.

Re: Real World Usage

Hi Piero, we must say breaking algorhythm is far better than Finale's (the problem being that manual tweaking is *much* harder) ?? I actually find the opposite... Finale's manual breaking system is more difficult and less flexible than Lilypond's. In my Lilypond scores, I simply have a

Re: Real World Usage

Hi, For example, lilypond was not able to print this note: ||O|| You mean like this? inline: Picture 1.png =) Kieren.___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Real World Usage

For example, lilypond was not able to print this note: ||O|| You mean like this? Yes. Well, I did that image in Lilypond, and it wasn't particularly difficult. Were there other things Lilypond supposedly couldn't do? Just curious, Kieren.

Re: Real World Usage

Hi Jon, Could you put that in a snippet on LSR, Kieren? It would be useful. :) See other thread (just started). =) Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: help with doublebreve function

Hello, Here's a slightly more efficient, but no less in-need-of-Scheming, version: \version 2.12.2 dbreve = #(define-music-function (parser location note) (ly:music?) #{ \once \override ParenthesesItem #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print

help with doublebreve function

Hi all, I've come up with a way (music function) of generating double-breves of which I'm somewhat proud: %% \version 2.12.2 dbreve = #(define-music-function (parser location note) (ly:music?) #{ \once \override ParenthesesItem

Re: Real World Usage

Hi, At the time i needed this note, it was NOT available in lilypond. Although I don't have an older version of Lilypond to check against, I image my function would have worked for several versions now. In other words, this workaround has probably been available in Lilypond for several

Re: Kieren's Double Breve: Thank You.

Hi Fred, Thank you, Kieren, for that double-breve function My pleasure! which I am now using in Reading's (d.1692) Preces and Responses. I think the breve looks much better with double side-bars. Glad to see my work helping out in the real world. Looking forward to having a more elegant

Re: Real World Usage

Hi, I see no difference between the two following sentences 1) Lilypond can't do this. 2) Lilypond can do this, but nobody, including lilypond gurus, were able to do this. Maybe not, semantically... But I could do this particular thing, and I don't consider myself a Lilypond guru by any

Re: Real World Usage

Graham, what about: 3) Lilypond can do this, but nobody, including the people reading lilypnod-user, was willing to spend an hour writing a solution for my own personal problems. a) Thanks... I didn't want to say it, but I figured you would! ;-) b) It actually only took me about eight

Re: Kieren's Double Breve: Thank You.

Hi Ari, What?! I can haz breve with duble side-barz neouw? Vry nice :-) =) I asked about this a longish time ago, but it wasn't possible then. It probably was, but nobody thought to do what I've done here (i.e., abusing the ParenthesesItem #'stencil). Am I getting this right:

Re: Real World Usage

Hi Tim, I was going to object to Kieren's statement that it wasn't particularly difficult (since I think it was), but I have to suppose that he intended that it wasn't particularly difficult *for him*. Actually, what I meant was: of all the tweaks/hacks/etc. that I've seen, this is one

Tip/Trick: Double-Breve or Single-Breve-with-Double-Sidebars

Hello Ari (et al.), You'll need Kieren's scheme function as well. \version 2.12.2 dbreve = #(define-music-function (parser location note) (ly:music?) #{ \once \override ParenthesesItem #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print

Re: Tip/Trick: Double-Breve or Single-Breve-with-Double-Sidebars

Hi Robin, \draw-line was introduced after 2.10. Thanks for the version check -- if I have time, I'll rewrite it (using another glyph, or PostScript) for earlier versions. =) Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Tip/Trick: Double-Breve or Single-Breve-with-Double-Sidebars

Hi Henning (et al.), Indeed, in most hymn books I've seen, the breves have 2 lines each side, As you can see here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Double_whole_note), too. Ah... I wasn't aware that the two-sideline breve and one-sideline breve were the same duration. so huzzah for

Re: How to input a time signature in \markup?

Hi Wei-Wei, I want to present time signatures in my reading notes. I tried \markup { \time 2/4 } It seems \time cannot be used in this way. I got a dirty way \markup { \center-column { {\musicglyph #2} {\musicglyph #4} } } which can show a time signature, but the vertical space between the

Re: Slur / phrasingSlur half dashed, half solid

Hi Jon (et al.), The publisher of my guitar music [...] uses dashed slurs like these with invariant thickness I note that Barenreiter also uses invariant-thickness dashed lines (e.g., Mozart Jupiter Symphony, m. 167). So that appears to be standard practice. It probably would look nicer

Re: Real World Usage

Hi sdfgsdhdshd, 3) Lilypond can do this, but nobody, including the people reading lilypnod-user, was willing to spend an hour writing a solution for my own personal problems. a) Thanks... I didn't want to say it, but I figured you would! ;-) 1) Thanks for imagining thinks about me that are

Re: Dashed, variable-thickness slurs

Hi Carl, I've posted a patch for approval that implements variable thickness dashed and part-dashed, part-solid slurs. I hope it will be fully implemented in 2.13.1. When I posted my comment about this, I never imagined it would get solved so quickly. Amazing! As a preview, here's

Re: trills

Hi Berthold, when I want to do a pitched trill over just one single note, I always get errors: Try overriding the stencil for the \trill function: %% \version 2.12.2 trillfl = { \once \override Script #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \once \override Script #'text =

Re: flats as sharps and sharp as flats

Hi Stefan, Is it possible to define another function, that shows an written dis as an es and vice versa? The \transpose function already does this! Simply use the enharmonic transposition: \version 2.12.2 sharpMusic = \relative { cis' dis fis gis ais } \score {

Call For Info: new composer/musician models using Lilypond

Hello Lily-dippers!! A colleague of mine just landed a professorship at a U.S. college, in a program which emphasizes innovation in music. I asked him if he'd like me to do a guest lecture, and he's very interested. In addition to a short technical presentation (and cheerleading session)

Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

Hi Frédéric: Halas, for StaffGroup, the trick works but the spanners are all at the top of the score, not above each StaffGroup. Maybe this hint will help you solve the problem: \version 2.12.2 \layout { \context { \type Engraver_group

Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

Hi all, Frédéric wrote: Exellent, it is exactly what I was hoping! Glad to hear that! I am going back to the documentation to see if I can learn such magic things. Bonne chance! _ Simon wrote: now that's a far more elegant solution than anything i'd ever have come up with.

Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

Hi Simon (et al.), kieren was probably copy-pasting and saving time. Yep. - how do you find out which contexts and engravers are involved? over my head. Me, too! I simply modified the TimeSig example. =) instructor mode is good... but why FileMaker for heaven's sake? ;) Great $$,

Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

Hi Frédéric, - if you have 15 instruments (staffs) you need to add 15 stringendos - is Here again, no problem because I have it in all individual parts but the trick would work without it Précis! Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Again : notes for toms and floortoms

Hi L, how to make the stencil always associated to some notes? I believe there is a tip (in the docs or LSR) which shows how to colour a notehead based on its pitch -- it should be easy to modify that code/method to do what you're asking. Hope this helps! Kieren.

Re: date in footer?

Hi Chip, I didn't want to print something in the titles, I wanted to print something in the footer. Am I being nitpicky here? To me those are two different sections of a page. [...] I did find that code and it doesn't do what I was asking for. That puts the date in a text block, my request

Re: date in footer?

Hi Chip, It's nothing but negative attitudes here. There are over 1000 posts of mine in the archive; I think you'll find that any negative attitude is in direct proportion to the I want this, but am not willing to do any basic work to have it done factor in the post to which I'm

Re: Rotating TextSpanner

Hi Nick, Any suggestions (other than trial and error alignment of separate elements) on how to get an effect similar to that in the attached image, where the line is rotated but the text is not. The following should help: \version 2.12.2 setTS = { \override TextSpanner

Re: Rotating TextSpanner

Hi Nick, With that as a model I was able to generalize it to a music function Nice! Even better would be to take the music as a parameter, compute the correct rightY (using the relative position of the endpoints of the first and last stem) and automagically adjust -- that, however, is

Re: adding to the LSR

Hi Chip, One more option is to place the date in the footer, or as it is called in Lilypond - the tagline. This is not accurate: the tagline and the footer are two different things. (Check the docs to see what each of them are.) Please correct the LSR snippet accordingly, so we don't have

Re: adding to the LSR

Hi Chip, I already did [the testing]. Below is the list of tested/usable parameters Nice! Thanks, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

applying scaleDurations to a custom context

Hi all, How can a make a custom context with a built-in scaleDuration factor? e.g. I have \context { \Voice \name CustomVoice \alias Voice \override NoteHead #'duration-log = #8 } Now, rather than writing myMusic = \scaleDurations #'(1 . 8) \relative { ... I'd like

Re: font size in \addLyrics{}

Hi Gerard, In the following I want to change the text font size More to the point, you want to change the LyricText #'font-size. ;) misplaces the text Partly, that's because you surrounded your entire lyric line in quotes, so that Lilypond tried to attach it to a single note.

Re: horizontal alignment suggestions

Hi James, Essentially, I'd like the instrumentName to not be calculated as part of the system width. I'm confused: when I try it, the instrumentName *isn't* calculated as part of the system width: \version 2.12.2 \paper { line-width = 5\in indent = 0 } music = \relative { \repeat unfold

Re: generalize the idea in snippet 372

Hi Wilbert, based on the idea of http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=372 I created this small function that creates a filtering function to remove certain event types from a music expression: Very nice work! Please add it to the LSR when you have a chance -- it would be very useful.

Re: horizontal alignment suggestions

Hi James, Perhaps it's just my inability to explain what I want. I'd like to have the two systems centered on the page, regardless of what the instrumentName is. Ah... well, the best I can do right now is this (manual) workaround: \version 2.12.2 \paper { line-width = 8.5\in indent = 0 }

Re: colored voices

Hi Kees (and Reinhold), Better yet would be to modify LSR snippet 443 (http:// lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=443) to accept an arbitrary set of grobs to be colorized (rather than the whole Staff). This is beyond my current Scheme-fu, but someone out there would make easy work of it. =)

Re: Bracketed notes

Hi all, Another option is to (ab)use the Arpeggio, as seen in the attached snippet (which uses Mark P's postscript parens). Cheers, Kieren. \version 2.12.2 leftPar = \markup { \postscript #(let ((width 0.75) (height -4) (edge-thickness 0.1)

Re: horizontal alignment suggestions

Neil, Nice! Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Chord substitution mystery

Hi Stan, I was using a chord substitution scheme submitted here by Kieren MacMillan. Aw, shucks... ;) It works well and I enhanced it for augmented chords. However, I'm trying to display a plus sign as the augmented symbol and in the case of the C augmented7 chord it displays C7/#5

Re: Multiple skips in lyrics

Hi Stjepan, I use underscore _ multiple times, e.g. 30 underscores. Is there any more convenient way to define multiple skips \repeat unfold 30 { \skip 8 } Hope this helps! Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: \partcombine

Hi Arno, is there a way to persuade partcombine in a case like: \partcombine {{r4}{s4}} to produce a vertically centered rest, not one in the upper half of the staff? Maybe http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=336 will help? Cheers, Kieren.

Re: Bass in Chord Name

Hi Stjepan, I'd like to get the following chord D7/F#. How to define this F# as bass in chord? I can use d:7/fis but I get fis, not wanted F# as bass. If you're using english.ly, you need to use fs (not fis). Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Mark Indent Position

Hi Mats, The default setting is \override Score.RehearsalMark #'break-align-symbols = #'(staff-bar clef) which means that it's aligned to a bar line if there is one and otherwise to the clef. This is an odd default, given traditional engraving rules... it should be (in priority order)

Re: Newby question about stem directions

Hi Tim, I can't get the following bit of notation to work -- despite the \stemUp command the stems are down (which looks horrid!) -- can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong? You're not letting Lilypond do the correct voice handling for you... \version 2.12.2 \include english.ly lower =

Re: Newby question -- Root notes in chord notation.

Hi Tim, Is there any way to get a fakebook style indication of modified root notes? Read the doc section on chords -- this is explained there (right in the second example). http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Displaying- chords#Displaying-chords Cheers, Kieren.

Re: Newby question about stem directions

Hi Tim, Does the \\ keep adding voices (effectively) indefinitely [...] I'm worried about running out of voices! I don't know the official answer. (Maybe Mats or HW or Graham can speak to this?) The attached test shows that there are at least 5 -- I'm assuming there are an indefinite

Re: Newby question about stem directions

Hi Tim, Why do you need two voices just to align lyrics to a dotted slur? If you post your current workaround, I'm sure someone on the list will be able to show you how to do it with only one voice. I used the snippet at http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=308 for exactly the use mentioned

Re: Newbie Question -- verse and chorus

Hi Tim, I can kludge that by using: \set Score.currentBarNumber = #9 but that involves me counting the bars, so I'd sooner do something like \set Score.currentBarNumber = #(- 'internalBarNumber 1) except not that because it doesn't work. Drat. Am I going to have to learn more scheme, or

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