Re: articulate.ly with rall not working?

2012-03-14 Thread Malte Meyn
On 13.03.2012 03:52, Peter Chubb wrote: Thomas == Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com writes: Thomas \version 2.14.2 \include articulate.ly Thomas \score { \unfoldRepeats \articulate \relative c' { c8-. d-. Thomas e-. f-. g-.-rall f-. e-. d-. c-. d-. e-. f-. g-. Thomas

Fwd: Re: Example worth placing in lilyblog?

2013-08-08 Thread Malte Meyn
Oh, forgot to send a CC to the list. And yes, I’m from germany an meant “b flat minor”, not “b minor” … Original Message Subject: Re: Example worth placing in lilyblog? Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 16:38:11 +0200 From: Malte Meyn malte.m...@mnet-online.de To: Jacques Menu jacques.m

Automatically realize figured bass

2014-04-05 Thread Malte Meyn
Hi everybody, a few weeks ago my father asked me whether there is a tool that automatically realizes figured bass (I think you say “realize” for the act of composing the right hand accompaniment, don’t you?). I didn’t know such a tool, so I wrote a simple one in Haskell but this wasn’t

Re: Automatically realize figured bass

2014-04-08 Thread Malte Meyn
Hi Richard, One thing I think you would need is the ability to set the likely rate of chord change - figured bass is an ambiguous notation even when the figures are relatively complete (and they are rarely that) - but on the question of whether a note is to be treated as a passing note or a

Re: Automatically realize figured bass

2014-04-08 Thread Malte Meyn
One thing I think you would need is the ability to set the likely rate of chord change - figured bass is an ambiguous notation even when the figures are relatively complete (and they are rarely that) - but on the question of whether a note is to be treated as a passing note or a harmony note it

Re: Several types of \bar are not engraved

2014-04-08 Thread Malte Meyn
and the most current documentation page for version 2.16 http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/bars -- but I do not believe the implementation of these types of bars has changed from 2.16 to 2.18. You believe wrong:

Re: language italiano to english

2014-04-08 Thread Malte Meyn
On 08.04.2014 22:39, Federico Bruni wrote: Il 08/apr/2014 21:51 MING TSANG tsan...@rogers.com ha scritto: Hi, lilyponder, I was given a numbered (jianpu) score sheet to transcribe. I have been manually produce a table showing number equivalent english pitch name. Now I discover that

Re: language italiano to english

2014-04-09 Thread Malte Meyn
On 09.04.2014 14:31, Thomas Scharkowski wrote: Original-Nachricht Yes, but be careful: this doesn’t work correctly in all cases: “a double flat” is called “asas” or “ases” in German, only the latter is translated by frescobaldi. “b double flat” (for example called “sibb”

Re: Reducing the second VoltaBracketSpanner length.

2014-04-27 Thread Malte Meyn
On 27.04.2014 16:28, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: Well, now the problem comes at the ending barline : \once\override Score.VoltaBracket.shorten-pair = #'(1 . 0) Try a negative value like -1 instead of 0 here. ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Unknown Schumann piece

2014-05-03 Thread Malte Meyn
On 03.05.2014 21:54, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: On Sat, 3 May 2014, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: There is just one important thing that I couldn't read in Schumann's handwriting. It's overstroken by Schumann and in that typical 19th century German handwriting. But maybe someone in this group is

Re: Unknown Schumann piece

2014-05-04 Thread Malte Meyn
“Für ganz Kleiner Spieler” is grammatically wrong as well, it would be “Für ganz kleine Spieler”. And I don’t think that there is another word, it seems like this text ends with a colon or a dot (I forgot how this dot is called in English …) On 04.05.2014 09:53, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote:

Re: An old claveciniste's notation

2014-05-06 Thread Malte Meyn
Is this what you want? http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=837 Malte (Sorry, Richard, I sent this only to you but not to the list) On 06.05.2014 15:34, Richard Shann wrote: I am typesetting some music that needs a slash between the notes of a chord, as in the attached image. Any suggestions how

Re: Validating a Scheme list

2014-05-15 Thread Malte Meyn
Hi, I almost don’t know any Scheme but I think this could be done with a map, a fold, and some function composition. In Haskell, you would do this: validate = foldr () True . map ((== 2) . length) validateShort = and . map ((== 2) . length) The function and is a shortcut

Re: The case of the repelling staccatto dot

2014-05-16 Thread Malte Meyn
Minimal example that reproduces that...¿? On 16.05.2014 06:21, Javier Ruiz-Alma wrote: v2.18.2...¿? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Adjusting distance between staves in a system

2014-05-16 Thread Malte Meyn
Not exactly the solution you asked for, but: Why don’t you use \stemDown? Would save vertical space … On 16.05.2014 09:38, Javier Ruiz-Alma wrote: v2.18.2 I have a PianoStaff and need to increase the spacing between the staves within a system where LP has them too close. The PianoStaff has a

Re: convert-ly question

2014-05-16 Thread Malte Meyn
Under Linux try: find . -name '*.ly' -exec convert-ly -e '{}' \; Or, shorter, but doesn’t work by default with all shells (for example bash needs “shopt -s globstar” in the .bashrc): convert-ly -e **/*.ly On 16.05.2014 20:32, Tim McNamara wrote: Is there a syntax for running convert-ly on

Re: convert-ly question

2014-05-17 Thread Malte Meyn
On 17.05.2014 18:20, Tim McNamara wrote: On May 16, 2014, at 1:54 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net writes: Is there a syntax for running convert-ly on a directory without having to cd into the directory and invoking convert-ly -e *.ly There

Re: \bar partially broken for just me or everyone?

2014-06-01 Thread Malte Meyn
Oh, and of course, convert-ly knows this, so you can use it to update old source files. On 01.06.2014 18:59, Malte Meyn wrote: It’s not a bug, it’s a feature (see documentation; Changes for 2.18 and Notation Reference). \bar .|: and \bar :|. should do what you want. On 01.06.2014 18:40, Tim

Re: Phrasing Slur with Arrow

2014-06-01 Thread Malte Meyn
Hello, this was discussed just a few weeks ago at the German LilyPond forum: http://www.lilypondforum.de/index.php?topic=1744.msg9669#msg9669 This post contains an (as far as I know) ready-to-use solution. Maybe Harm, who also subscribed to this list, will answer questions to this ;) Malte

Re: small notehead in a chord

2014-06-02 Thread Malte Meyn
You can tweak the font size: \tweak font-size -2 ef, ef af2. Malte On 02.06.2014 03:46, MING TSANG wrote: lilyponders: For the following code, how can I make notehead Ef, Ef, in the chords smaller? \version 2.19.7 \language english { \key ef\major \time 3/4 \clef bass ef, ef af2. |ef, ef

Re: Typesetting b bes! chord

2014-06-12 Thread Malte Meyn
On 12.06.2014 05:43, Javier Ruiz-Alma wrote: I dare not question Chopin. Attached is the same passage from a different edition of same piece. That’s correct because Chopin is right: the b flat belongs to the C7 chord which is the dominant seventh chord of the following f minor (and

Re: Irrational time signature and tuplets

2014-06-12 Thread Malte Meyn
This can be done in LilyPond without using LaTeX: \version 2.19.6 { \override Staff.TimeSignature.stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \override Staff.TimeSignature.text = \markup \override #'(baseline-skip . 0) \center-column \number { \concat { 8+2 \tiny √ \hspace

Re: Slur crossing through accidental

2014-06-12 Thread Malte Meyn
Another idea could be to change the position of the accidental: \version 2.18.2 \language english \relative c { \clef bass \time 6/8 bf8 ( d' ) r8 bf,16 ( \once \override Accidental.extra-offset = #'(-1.7 . 0) bf' ) d ( bf d bf ) } On 12.06.2014 17:13, James Harkins wrote: I am at a

Re: Irrational time signature and tuplets

2014-06-12 Thread Malte Meyn
On 12.06.2014 22:25, Hans Aberg wrote: Tying this back to LilyPond, the graphical representation will look the same, only that the meter and the tuplet numbers are changed. There is another problem in the MIDI file: how to make a better approximation than 3:2. The next is 5:3, but then one

Re: Typesetting b bes! chord

2014-06-13 Thread Malte Meyn
Wiener Urtext Edition (Schott/UE) uses Y-shaped stems here, too. On 12.06.2014 22:53, Francisco Vila wrote: 2014-06-12 15:52 GMT+02:00 Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonm...@ca.rr.com: In both measures the Paderewski Edition (The Fryderyk Chopin Institute) has two note heads on top of the “Y”

Re: Macro/multiply notes

2014-06-13 Thread Malte Meyn
Do you know \repeat unfold? \repeat unfold 4 { c'8 d' e' d' } or \repeat unfold 4 { c'8 d' e' d' | } would do what you want (depending on whether you want bar checks). Another hint (seems like you’re a LilyPond novice, correct me if I’m wrong): have you already seen \relative? \relative c'

Re: Dominant

2014-06-14 Thread Malte Meyn
Hello, you can try to use either the letter D with stroke (Đ, U+0110) or, if you want a longer an diagonal stroke, a regular D and a combining long solidus overlay from unicode (D̸, U+0044 U+0337): \version 2.19.6 \relative c' { \repeat unfold 8 { c e g c f a d f b e g c } } \addlyrics {

Re: \relative versus \absolute (was Re: Macro/multiply notes)

2014-06-14 Thread Malte Meyn
Another aspect: on english keyboards, the single quote ' is easily reachable. But on german (and maybe other?) keyboards it’s further on the right and you need the shift key to get it; the neo layout (a german ergonomic layout which I use) also needs an extra key (called mod3, at qwerty’s caps

Re: Page headings

2014-06-18 Thread Malte Meyn
This example from the LSR could help you: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=655 On 18.06.2014 13:57, Peter Meanwell wrote: How do I put the name of the piece at the top of each page (except the first page)? ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: How to indicate a set of measures should not be played?

2014-06-19 Thread Malte Meyn
On 19.06.2014 08:52, Jacques Menu wrote: How can I can in some way strike through those 14 bars as I do by hand with a pen on the printed score? Suggestion: print it in smaller font-size (cue notes). Commenting them out in the LP code would change the bars numbers in the following bars,

Fwd: Re: Variable length bars

2014-06-27 Thread Malte Meyn
Forgot CC … Original Message Subject: Re: Variable length bars Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 08:10:52 +0200 From: Malte Meyn lilyp...@maltemeyn.de To: Patrick or Cynthia Karl pck...@mac.com You don’t even need the \set Timing.measureLength, a \time command will do the same when you

Fwd: Re: Capped tuplet number

2014-07-03 Thread Malte Meyn
I really should remember to always answer to the list ... Original Message Subject: Re: Capped tuplet number Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 18:03:53 +0200 From: Malte Meyn lilyp...@maltemeyn.de To: Javier Ruiz-Alma jav...@ruiz-alma.com Of course it is. I don’t have an exact solution

Re: Updating a score from version 1.4

2014-07-17 Thread Malte Meyn
On 17.07.2014 21:56, Larry Kent wrote: David, You sent me this link: URL:http://download.lin http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/linux-x86/lilypond-ancient-1.4.15-1.linux-x86.sh uxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/linux-x86/lilypond-ancient-1.4.15-1.linux-x86.sh

Fwd: Re: Error on running convert.ly

2014-08-01 Thread Malte Meyn
forgot to CC again ... Forwarded Message Subject: Re: Error on running convert.ly Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 10:21:35 +0200 From: Malte Meyn lilyp...@maltemeyn.de To: John McWilliam jsmcwill...@gmail.com It looks to me as if your input file contains data/text that is not properly

Re: Problem with wrong font/glyphs/graphics

2014-08-24 Thread Malte Meyn
That is a known problem. If I remember correctly this only occurs with some old versions of LilyPond when using a certain version of ghostscript, but I don’t remember the exact details ... What versions of LilyPond (lilypond --version) and ghostscript (ghostscript --version) do you use? On

Re: Crowd engraving project

2014-08-25 Thread Malte Meyn
On 25.08.2014 12:24, Abel Cheung wrote: Please count me in too if more people are needed, currently I do have sufficient spare time. And agreeing to Phil -- perhaps better scan is needed. There are already some incomprehensible marks in as early as page 2. I quote Urs: “The material to work

Re: modalTranspose with chromatic

2014-08-31 Thread Malte Meyn
Try chromaticScaleDown = \relative c { c des d es e f ges g as a bes b } HTH, Malte On 31.08.2014 12:29, bobr...@centrum.is wrote: \version 2.18.0 chromaticScaleUp = \relative c { c cis d dis e f fis g gis a ais b } chromaticScaleDown = \relative c { c b bes a as g ges f e es d des }

Re: Upbeat as full measure or not?

2014-09-02 Thread Malte Meyn
I think this is not a matter of engraving rules but you should follow the composer. (If I was the composer I would prefer a version with a full measure beginning with a rest in this case. But I’m not Albert Becker.) I’ve seen both versions in different pieces from different composers. Also,

Re: Upbeat as full measure or not?

2014-09-02 Thread Malte Meyn
Another idea if it’s unclear what the composer wanted: The first beat of measures 6 and 40 is not the ending of the phrase before, but the beginning of a new one (phrases end in 5 and 39). So in my opinion this measure “Bleibe” doesn’t have an “upbeat character”. On 02.09.2014 12:36, Malte

Re: Where is define-line-markup defined/documented?

2014-09-04 Thread Malte Meyn
cd /usr/local/lilypond grep -r define-line-markup * doesn’t give me any results; I assume they’re not part of LilyPond. On 04.09.2014 13:38, Richard Shann wrote: The snippet http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=750 for changing the markup used for chord names makes use of Scheme procedures like

Re: Chord with notes of different lengths

2014-09-05 Thread Malte Meyn
You can use two voices. I made two variants but I don’t like the second (because semibreves don’t belong on a stem). \version 2.19.13 \relative { % my preferred version: fis'' d'1 \\ d, a'4 % IMHO ugly version: \once \override NoteColumn.ignore-collision = ##t

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

Re: markup on top staff of an orchestra piece

2014-09-16 Thread Malte Meyn
There’s a much better solution which doesn’t need a piccolo (or whatever is on top) staff that is always present, even if it’s only filled with pauses: Put \tempo and \mark into a global variable and add this to all staffs; see attachment. This also lets you change things like time signature

Re: Controlling the vertical position of ties

2014-09-17 Thread Malte Meyn
That may not be what you expected to read, but: Why not flip the tie upwards? cis ^~ ais fis4 Am 17.09.2014 um 11:06 schrieb Jacques Menu: Hello folks, I wrote the following, from the snippets, to obtain a tie between two cis’s in two voices (code for second voice not shown): cis ~ ais

Re: Automatic fixing of note between measures

2014-09-18 Thread Malte Meyn
Yes, there is the Completion_heads_engraver. I don’t remember exactly how to use it, but you’ll find it in the manuals. Am 18.09.2014 um 17:06 schrieb Jay Vara: Sometimes a note in my (generated) music falls on the bar lines. Is there a way to auto fix it by splitting the note as per the

Re: Automatic fixing of note between measures

2014-09-18 Thread Malte Meyn
I found it in one of my own scores: \layout { \context { \Voice \remove Note_heads_engraver \remove Rest_engraver \consists Completion_heads_engraver \consists Completion_rest_engraver } } Am 18.09.2014 um 18:25 schrieb Malte Meyn: Yes

Re: \override #'(font-series . medium) doesn't work anymore?

2014-09-18 Thread Malte Meyn
Probably that’s a bug, yes: It works in 2.19.13 (I don’t have a 2.19.14 to look at the different output). Am 18.09.2014 um 19:06 schrieb Karol Majewski: \override #'(font-series . medium) or \medium None of them work. Bug? \version 2.19.14 \paper { #(define fonts

Re: \override #'(font-series . medium) doesn't work anymore?

2014-09-19 Thread Malte Meyn
Did you and Karol expect “medium” to be something other than “normal”? Am 19.09.2014 um 08:59 schrieb Pierre Perol-Schneider: Hi All, Please find enclosed v2.19.14, 2.19.13, 2.18.2, 2.16.2, 2.14.2 outputs of the following code : \version 2.19.14 %\version 2.19.13 %\version 2.18.2 %\version

Re: Transpose a lilypond file

2014-10-05 Thread Malte Meyn
You can do something like the following and move the “foo = …” into song.ly: \version 2.19.13 foo = \new Score { { c' d' e' f' } } { \foo } \transpose c d \foo Am 05.10.2014 um 10:03 schrieb Jay Vara: I have a song.ly file which prints a song. Is it possible for someone to print

Re: Automatic ottava handling

2014-10-05 Thread Malte Meyn
There is a pitch-dependent staff switching automatism in LilyPond (I don’t know how it works but you can have a look at piano/harp section in the notation reference) so I think what you are asking for should at least not be impossible. Am 05.10.2014 um 17:52 schrieb David Bellows: This is

Re: Supporting ♯ and ♭

2014-10-06 Thread Malte Meyn
You can try to add another “language” (or add alias entries to the english language) in the file define-note-names.scm. I’m not sure whether this will work (does Scheme support Unicode?) but it would be definitely a simple solution. Am 06.10.2014 um 15:49 schrieb MarcM: In an effort to make

Re: Bass and Treble Clef notes on the same clef

2014-10-16 Thread Malte Meyn
Have a look at http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=326 Am 16.10.2014 um 22:32 schrieb Knute Snortum: I have a situation I don't know how to deal with in LilyPond. I have bass clef and treble clef notes on the same staff. I guess one way to do it is to create a markup and a small bass clef sign

Re: continuation bars

2014-11-26 Thread Malte Meyn
Hi Steve, what you probably are looking for is the \repeat command: { \repeat percent 3 { c'2 d' } \repeat percent 3 { c' d' e' f' } } This can be found in section 1.4 of the notation reference (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/repeats). Malte Am 26.11.2014 um 19:40

Re: generating small snippets

2014-12-01 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 01.12.2014 um 12:30 schrieb Xavier Noria: That works fine, but if there was a way to get minimal output from LilyPond with just the music I would be able to write a preprocessor that replaced the code with a image of the staff (only for display mode, not inline). Maybe you should have a look

Re: scheme problem: colored background, layers

2014-12-04 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 04.12.2014 um 00:13 schrieb Urs Liska: Am I seeing correctly that the arrows are coded with absolute coordinates from their starting points (i.e. they wouldn't adapt to layout changes)? This is not at all diminishing your snippet, but it would be absolutely awesome if someone could extend

Re: implicit tuplets

2014-12-04 Thread Malte Meyn
Explicit triplets can be set with a single \tuplet command like Urs suggested. And implicit triplets can be made by scaling the durations: \version 2.19.13 \relative c' { \time 2/4 % you might want this, try it % (1 . 24) is the duration of a 1/16-triplet ;)

Re: Arpeggio

2014-12-21 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 21.12.2014 um 20:57 schrieb Dr. Bernhard Kleine: organPart = \new PianoStaff \with { instrumentName = Orgel } \set PianoStaff.connectArpeggios = ##t \new Staff = up \with { midiInstrument = church organ I labelled the offending line and would like

Re: how to typeset temporary tempo?

2014-12-21 Thread Malte Meyn
Have you tried the \tempo command? ees4 \tempo 4 = 82 ees'2. |%m76 %%% \tempo rit. 4 = 75 ees1 |%m79 Am 22.12.2014 um 03:15 schrieb Jinsong Zhao: Hi there, I am new to LilyPond. I try to typeset a music sheet. The following is a snippet. I don't satisfy the code in \markup, especially the

Re: display flat symbol in ees major

2014-12-29 Thread Malte Meyn
To force an accidental, simply write an exclamation mark behind the pitch: bes! Am 29.12.2014 um 19:16 schrieb Jinsong Zhao: Hi there, I am try to learn LilyPond by doing. I have a score, which display a flat symbol in ees major. However, I can't get that in LilyPond. \version 2.19.15

Re: Chord between braces

2015-08-08 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 08.08.2015 um 19:32 schrieb Víctor: I desperately need the whole chord to be bracketified, does anyone knows a solution for this? Thanks and best regards, Víctor. Hi Víctor, you can use the function \parch from the following post at the German LilyPond board:

Re: Default indentation of the first staffline

2015-08-08 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 08.08.2015 um 23:07 schrieb Karl: \version 2.18.2 notes = { c4 d e f | \key d \major \break c4 d e fis | } \score { \notes } At the end of bar one there is a key signature marking. I want to overide that and only have the key change in the beginning of bar two. I didn’t test the following

Re: Default indentation of the first staffline

2015-08-08 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 08.08.2015 um 23:25 schrieb Malte Meyn: I didn’t test the following but it should do what you want. Place this line at the beginning of the music in \notes: \override Staff.KeySignature.break-visibility = #begin-of-line-visible Ok, I tested it and it didn’t work. But what you can do

Re: Randomness in layout

2015-08-21 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 21.08.2015 um 10:13 schrieb Sharon Rosner: Hi all, I have a question that is both general and specific. Is there a way to automatically introduce a bit of randomness into the way different objects are layed-out in Lilypond? Specifically, I’m trying to find a way to make slurs look more

Re: Randomness in layout

2015-08-21 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 21.08.2015 um 12:55 schrieb Malte Meyn: I think that it should be possible to redefine ( to tweak every slur with some randomness. Here you go: %%% \version 2.19.25 ( = #(define-event-function () () #{ \single \override Slur.eccentricity = #(* 0.5 (random:normal

Re: Lining up notes in staves with different rhythms and time signatures

2015-08-21 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 21.08.2015 um 21:40 schrieb David Kastrup: Malte Meyn lilyp...@maltemeyn.de writes: Am 21.08.2015 um 20:45 schrieb Blöchl Bernhard: Interesting! New rules for basics of music. I think this is too bold an assumption. It may very well be that there is one 3/4 measure here, and I would

Re: Randomness in layout

2015-08-21 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 21.08.2015 um 20:31 schrieb Nathan Ho: On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 4:16 AM, Malte Meyn lilyp...@maltemeyn.de wrote: Am 21.08.2015 um 12:55 schrieb Malte Meyn: I think that it should be possible to redefine ( to tweak every slur with some randomness. Here you go: You can also do

Re: Lining up notes in staves with different rhythms and time signatures

2015-08-21 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 21.08.2015 um 20:45 schrieb Blöchl Bernhard: Interesting! New rules for basics of music. I think this is too bold an assumption. It may very well be that there is one 3/4 measure here, and I would trust the original typeset here. Not every time signature change is printed in every music.

Re: quarter tone - hide natural that appears to cancel key sig

2015-08-21 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 22.08.2015 um 00:35 schrieb Ian Rashkin: Hi, So, I am in the key of B flat, and one melody line has in it a beh (B quarter-flat). When it renders, I get a natural sign followed by a quarter-flat sign - how can I have just the quarter flat? The natural seems redundant in this context.

Re: LilyJAZZ

2015-08-23 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 23.08.2015 um 21:39 schrieb Blöchl Bernhard: Forgot to add \include lilyjazz.ily. And still »lilyjazz-11« cannot be found as well. Tried to copy the files lilyjazz-11 into the directory of the lilypond source - does not help! The following should work: (1) put lilyjazz*.otf into

Re: LilyJAZZ

2015-08-23 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 23.08.2015 um 13:56 schrieb BB: Does anybody sucessful use LilyJAZZ? Yes. You should have a look at fonts.openlilylib.org. The use of other fonts than Feta/Emmentaler has been simplified in version 2.19.12 but you’ll find also instructions how to use these fonts in 2.18.2. And when

Re: bug in german manual

2015-08-18 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 18.08.2015 um 09:01 schrieb Blöchl Bernhard: Thanks for clarifying my confusion. As long as I used lilypond I always used \tuplet and argue that I did not even know that \times was/is a possible alternative. \time and \times are very close and so - I think - dangerous and error-prone. I

Re: Note extension lines

2015-08-20 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 20.08.2015 um 07:07 schrieb Andrew Bernard: I need to be able to specify an arbitrary length, and unconnected to a following note. Do you mean arbitrary time (like (ly:make-moment x y z)) or arbitrary length x in staff spaces/cm/inch? I have an idea for the latter: \override

Re: Lining up notes in staves with different rhythms and time signatures

2015-08-20 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 20.08.2015 um 20:07 schrieb Jack Taylor: I have managed to make the time signatures for each song independent, but I'm having problems making the notes line up (and with stopping the music from running off the page). I've dumped my current code at PasteBin http://pastebin.com/Z6kmy6yt if

Re: difficulty getting quoteDuring to work in combination with transposition

2015-08-02 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 02.08.2015 um 06:05 schrieb user3871075: Anyway, my use-case is I have a trumpet part that I want to quote into the clarinet part. Then I want to transpose the clarinet part to alto sax. Per suggestions in the lilypond documentation I have all of my raw music transposed into C so that it's

Re: difficulty getting quoteDuring to work in combination with transposition

2015-08-02 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 02.08.2015 um 19:39 schrieb user3871075: Regardless, I tried your various suggestions, and they do indeed fix the problem in the clarinet part, but the alto sax part stubbornly prints a C instead of a G. If you have the time and inclination, perhaps you could post an example where all three

Re: difficulty getting quoteDuring to work in combination with transposition

2015-08-02 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 03.08.2015 um 00:29 schrieb user3871075: Malte - I understand that only doing transposition at the score level would work. However, I'm entering some music from printed instrument parts so I'd much prefer to enter them as is instead of have to transpose in my head. Ok, I misunderstood

Font search path (Linux)

2015-07-28 Thread Malte Meyn
Hi list, I would like to have the fonts from fonts.openlilylib.org in a directory that is not overridden when installing a new version of LilyPond but found by the program. Is this possible and if yes, where would that be? I use the installation scripts from the LilyPond website for Linux 64 bit

Re: How to adjust the padding between a StemTremolo and a NoteHead?

2015-08-11 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 11.08.2015 um 10:00 schrieb Robin Bannister: Dominic wrote: hoist = % for moving StemTremolo beams further from notehead { \once \override Stem.length = #(lambda (grob) (+ 1 (ly:stem::calc-length grob))) } I made a scheme function from this that extends stems of quarter and half

Re: How to adjust the padding between a StemTremolo and a NoteHead?

2015-08-11 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 11.08.2015 um 13:52 schrieb Malte Meyn: might break soon; sorry for that, maybe it could be improved. For example, \unstrangleTremolos g'''2:32 extends the stem without need. But I already have an idea how to improve this: Don’t completely rely on ly:stem::calc-length but maybe do

Re: How to adjust the padding between a StemTremolo and a NoteHead?

2015-08-11 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 11.08.2015 um 16:13 schrieb Robin Bannister: This discussion of a similar (outdated?) attempt might be useful: http://www.lilypondforum.de/index.php?topic=415.msg2425;topicseen#msg2425 This looks nice! I didn’t really like the idea of having to use a music function to do that … And of

Re: Position FullBarRest

2015-08-11 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 11.08.2015 um 18:22 schrieb David Kastrup: Orm Finnendahl orm.finnend...@selma.hfmdk-frankfurt.de writes: is there a way to position a FullBarRest on a specific line, like b' \rest (but with a FullBarRest centered in the measure)? \tweak Y-offset 2 R1 If you need this for more than just

Re: Text spanner text in the middle

2015-08-14 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 14.08.2015 um 12:32 schrieb Andrew Bernard: Just re my own suggestion of text spanners with text in the middle, although the present need is for a repeat indication, I am well aware that this is poor design, since a textual mark does not indicate a repeat structure to lilypond, so it is

Re: Tuplet Bracket and \fermataMarkup

2015-08-14 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 14.08.2015 um 08:57 schrieb jeremyvanb: Thank you. I should have been more specific. I want the fermata under the bracket. Changing the padding does not seem to change the order of the objects. The order is managed by outside-staff-priority, so simple increase the TupleBracket’s one. You

Re: Text spanner text in the middle

2015-08-14 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 14.08.2015 um 04:40 schrieb Andrew Bernard: Hello Ponderers, I need a custom text spanner with text centred in the middle of the spanner. I know you can provide text at the left or the right with the bound-details alist, but how would one go about making a spanner with text in the

Re: How to adjust the padding between a StemTremolo and a NoteHead?

2015-08-10 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 11.08.2015 um 01:06 schrieb Dominic: With one slash or two slashes, everything looks fine, but with three or more slashes, the gap between the top of the NoteHead and the bottom of the StemTremolo (illustrated with red lines in my image) is too narrow for my liking. I agree on that but I

Re: string harmonics with cue notes

2015-08-14 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 14.08.2015 um 16:30 schrieb Orm Finnendahl: Hi, I often need to notate harmonics for strings and like to indicate the resulting pitch as a small parenthesized notehead above the fingered pitch. Here are some solutions, see attachments. \harmonicChord doesn’t set an explicit duration

Re: string harmonics with cue notes

2015-08-14 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 14.08.2015 um 19:34 schrieb Malte Meyn: This is not a very clean solution but you might find something helpful in it ;) For example, I haven’t understood completely yet when to use #arg and when $arg in a music. duration apparently needs a $ but the other occurences of $ can

Re: Parenthesised articulation issue

2015-08-15 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 15.08.2015 um 05:41 schrieb Andrew Bernard: Apologies for the somewhat lengthy MWE, but I only get this problem in this context, and have not found a shorter way to generate the issue. Just try to leave out things. Try less notes (and less voices), less different pitches, less staff

Re: Remove 3rd Staff in PianoStaff if empty

2015-08-15 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 15.08.2015 um 15:49 schrieb Orm Finnendahl: I tried all sorts of combinations of removing and consisting the keep-alive-together engraver, tried to create an explicit staffgroup for the main piano staves within the PianoStaff (this results in loosing the centered instrument name and the curly

Re: Making overlapping grace notes

2015-08-12 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 12.08.2015 um 08:13 schrieb Andrew Bernard: In my example, I can’t get the start of the grace to sit on top of the note in the other voice. Indeed, lilypond is being very excellent about avoiding a collision, but I want to persuade it to align. I can achieve this with normal notes, but

Re: header below the score

2015-07-23 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 23.07.2015 um 22:51 schrieb Brother Gabriel-Marie: How can I display a header below the score? I want some text to tell the reader to repeat the chorus after each verse. You don’t need any special header fields for this, just a \markup. \header { title = my song } \score { [here comes

Re: sharping naturals

2015-07-24 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 24.07.2015 um 10:12 schrieb Peter Bjuhr: I think you misunderstood Malte's (not completely properly worded) question. He didn't use 'lead' in the sense of leading note. What he meant is: If a key signature of b major (five sharps) is given and in a notation system typing 'g' would be

Re: sharping naturals

2015-07-24 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 24.07.2015 um 09:47 schrieb Robert Schmaus: So, here's how you get rid of your accitentals: Just pray them away. You might possibly be right in general but there’s no need to be so rude! It might be that you don’t understand religion but be tolerant and don’t offend anyone.

Re: Attachment size

2015-07-21 Thread Malte Meyn
The GIMP can export to jpg and png; in the export window you can change the compression level or quality – higher compression means lower quality but also smaller files. How much the file size changes and which image format is better (in quality, file size, …) depends on the image content.

Re: Key Signature only on first staff

2015-07-21 Thread Malte Meyn
You have to insert the \omit commands not in the first bar but later. The following code hopefully does what you want. Explanation: I used a spacer rest (s1) in global. Because this would move not only the \omits but also the beginning of the melody, I moved the \global from the beginning of

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 152, Issue 74

2015-07-21 Thread Malte Meyn
related display problem (Menu Jacques) 2. Re:Problem with merging notes and accidental placement in two voices (Simon Albrecht) 3. Re:Attachment size (Malte Meyn) 4. Re:Key Signature only on first staff (Brother Gabriel-Marie) 5. Re:Key Signature only on first staff (Malte Meyn

Re: sharping naturals

2015-07-25 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 25.07.2015 um 01:32 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: I’m no Scheme expert, of course… but it seems there should be a relatively easy way to code a music function which says “take all pitches [entered as ’naturals’] and add any accidentals which exist in the corresponding key signature entry

Re: sharping naturals

2015-07-23 Thread Malte Meyn
If you don’t want to write things like \relative { \key b \major b cis dis e fis gis ais b } you could enter it in another key and use the transpose function: \transpose c' b \relative { \key c \major c' d e f g a b c } \transpose bes b \relative { \key bes \major bes c d es f g a bes }

Re: sharping naturals

2015-07-23 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 23.07.2015 um 19:15 schrieb Christopher R. Maden: They will look different, but will be the same notes. The music describes itself; the key signature affects presentation.[*] That’s true and I think that this is one of LilyPonds strengths as it allows to be very flexible with

music function with access to context properties like currentBarNumber?

2015-07-15 Thread Malte Meyn
Hello list, I would like to have somthing like \version 2.19.22 { \time 3/4 % bar 1 c'2. \skipUntil #5 % s2.*4 % bar 5 c'2. \restUntil #8 % R2.*2 % bar 8 c'2. } so I don’t have to count bars every time an instrument has a long rest (could also be helpful when composing, or,

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