Re: LSR updates: was: polychords: a working solution

2012-02-29 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi, 2012/2/29 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com: TODO Convert:  Converting some files gave:   Not smart enough to convert minimum-Y-extent.   Vertical spacing no longer depends on the Y-extent of a VerticalAxisGroup.   Please refer to the manual for details, and update manually

Re: LSR updates: was: polychords: a working solution

2012-03-01 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi David, 2012/3/1 David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com: Hi Harm, On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote:  Converting some files gave:   Not smart enough to convert minimum-Y-extent.   Vertical spacing no longer depends on the Y-extent

Re: How to produce this articulation mark?

2012-03-03 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Jonas, 2012/3/2 Jonas Olson jol...@kth.se: Hi, I've come a cross an articulation mark that I don't find a way to produce with Lilypond. In the attached image, they occur on me and long. It can be heard 13 seconds into

Re: LSR updates: was: polychords: a working solution

2012-03-03 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi David, 2012/3/3 David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com: Hi Harm, I attached a tarball with all fixed files (hope it's not to big). Perhaps you could test compiling them. IIRC you use windows, it should make no difference, but who knows ... Everything compiles :)  All I get are

Re: LSR updates: was: polychords: a working solution

2012-03-04 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi James, 2012/3/4 James pkx1...@gmail.com: Phil, On 4 March 2012 18:30, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote: - Original Message - From: Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com To: David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com Cc: lilypond-user lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Saturday

Re: LSR updates: was: polychords: a working solution

2012-03-04 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi David, 2012/3/4 David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com: Hi, On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote: - Original Message - From: Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com To: James pkx1...@gmail.com Cc: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net; David

Re: LSR updates: was: polychords: a working solution

2012-03-04 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi David, 2012/3/5 David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com: Hi, On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 12:07:09AM +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: I just downloaded the LSR.tarball from today and ran a last successful test

Re: LSR updates: was: polychords: a working solution

2012-03-04 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi David, 2012/3/5 David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com: Hi Harm, I just finished rewriting the description a moment ago.  I'll fix it once the update is through. Anyway, I suppose I should add the file to the conversation.  Please look through it and see if it's accurate, and I'll

Re: LSR updates: was: polychords: a working solution

2012-03-04 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi again, 2012/3/5 David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com: Hi Harm, On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi David, Sorry, I've just sent a tarball to Sebastiano. I hope that all is correct. Everything compiles, and you fixed a number

Re: How to produce this articulation mark?

2012-03-05 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Jonas, 2012/3/3 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com: Hi Jonas, 2012/3/2 Jonas Olson jol...@kth.se: Hi, I've come a cross an articulation mark that I don't find a way to produce with Lilypond. In the attached image, they occur on me and long. It can be heard 13 seconds

Re: stem length of eighth 16th notes are too long.

2012-03-05 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi, 2012/3/5 MING TSANG tsan...@rogers.com: Please check the stem length on voice one BASS cleff is too long. Did I do something wrong? How cab I shorten it? Attached is snippet and png.  I have trouble produce the snippet exactly as the png. I try \override Stem #'length-fraction =

Re: stem length of eighth 16th notes are too long.

2012-03-06 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi, 2012/3/6 MING TSANG tsan...@rogers.com: Janek, Thomas: I cut it down to 95 lines snippet.  I cannot cut it down any more. Do you need to have colored note heads?  Do you need your actual notes? Could you substitute a pair of eighth notes and demonstrate the problem? Do you need to have

Re: stem length of eighth 16th notes are too long.

2012-03-07 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi, 2012/3/7 MING TSANG tsan...@rogers.com: Thank you. If I don't integrate Ez_numbers_engraver, how can I display numbers in the notehead? I simply overlooked that you want _numbers_ to be displayed instead of _characters_. So you're right, and the Ez_numbers_engraver can't be deleted.

Re: Default length of laissezvibrer ties

2012-03-07 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Nick, 2012/3/7 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: The default length of laissezvibrer ties in Lilypond is extremely short compared to those I see in commercially published scores. Here's the Lilypond

Re: collision of notehead and stem

2012-03-08 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi, 2012/3/7 ornello dominik.hoer...@fun.de: The best solution I found was using \shiftOff for the half note. I would have preferred the half note be placed to the right of the colliding chord instead of merging it with the chord, [...] try: \version 2.14.2 { \new Staff \key c \major \time

articulate.ly with rall not working?

2012-03-09 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi, I forward this from the german lilypond forum. With the following code you can hear the staccati but no rallentando. \version 2.14.2 \include articulate.ly \score { \unfoldRepeats \articulate \relative c' { c8-. d-. e-. f-. g-.-rall f-.

Re: Creating a mini-system for a separate coda

2012-03-09 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Janne, 2012/3/9 -Eluze elu...@gmail.com: Janne Uusitalo wrote: Hi everyone, I'm hoping to Lilypond something not at all uncommon in pop sheet music but missing from the snippet repository and eluding my search phrases. It's basically an inline block of coda set apart from the bars

Re: lyric hyphen goes outside staff limits at line break

2012-03-10 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/3/10 Zsolt Cselényi zsolt.csele...@gmail.com: Hi!  I am working with music (chant) using the modern transcription of ancient music as recommended. I noticed that the line breaks, which can occur between any two words or even between syllables in a single word, do not take into

Re: Creating a mini-system for a separate coda

2012-03-11 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Eluze, 2012/3/10 -Eluze elu...@gmail.com: The first image is a scanned example of what I've been trying to reproduce, and the second where I've gotten so far—which is pretty close. The only thing missing is the systemStartBracket, and I'm stuck with no idea how to insert one in the

Re: lyric hyphen goes outside staff limits at line break

2012-03-11 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Zsolt, 2012/3/11 -Eluze elu...@gmail.com: Zsolt Cselényi wrote: Hi, of course in the _tiny_ example I used narrow paper (yes, 2.8 cm) to bring out the error. However, it also happens in case of normal paper size: every now and then when working with longer chants where syllables have

Re: Did you receive my LilyPond messages?

2012-03-11 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/3/11 John Link johnl...@nyc.rr.com: Hi Thomas, I just joined the LilyPond list and have sent three messages but not received copies of them despite having specified in my settings that I am to receive copies of messages I send. I have received messages from you. Have you received any of

Re: Default length of laissezvibrer ties

2012-03-12 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/3/11 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com writes: Hi Nick, 2012/3/9 Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net: Thanks. I gave it a try. The one shortcoming I've found is that the ends of LV ties on a chord containing a second no longer align. That's

Re: articulate.ly with rall not working?

2012-03-13 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/3/13 Peter Chubb peter.ch...@nicta.com.au: If I add a \displayLilyMusic before the \unfoldRepeats I see: {     { c'8*1/2 r } { d' r } { e' r } { f' r } { \set tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 9 1 0 1)       { g'-rall  r } } { f' r } { e' r } { d' r } { c' r } { d' r } { e' r

Re: Fine with dashed double barline occurring in middle of bar

2012-03-25 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Nick, Am 25. März 2012 00:28 schrieb Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net: I'm setting a short piece by Julio Sagreras that has a Fine with dashed double line in the middle of a bar. At the moment I'm duplicating the dashed with a postscript hack, because from reading the documentation I

Re: LSR updates: was: polychords: a working solution

2012-03-29 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi David, Am 5. März 2012 01:07 schrieb David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com: Hi Harm, I've just read the new description. Very nice! Of course you're aware: doing a good job means that more work of this kind will be offered. :) Ha, no problem. Oh, by the way, forgot to mention that

Re: Changing single drums-style entry

2012-03-30 Thread Thomas Morley
Am 30. März 2012 08:40 schrieb lesmondo lesmo...@gmail.com: Hi, I'm trying to alter the triangle entry in drums-styles. I've read through the manual and created the new style in a new list. #(define mydrums '( (triangle doThin #f 6) )) This gives me the correct output for my new

Re: Score layout in a separate file

2012-04-03 Thread Thomas Morley
Am 3. April 2012 15:17 schrieb Siska Ádám sa...@sadam.hu: Dear List, is there a way to put the layout block for a score in a variable that lives in a separate file? Unfortunately the following won't compile: myMusic = \relative d' {  d4 d d d }

Re: Pitch with null duration?

2012-04-03 Thread Thomas Morley
Am 4. April 2012 00:56 schrieb Eluze elu...@gmail.com: you can try something like {  \hideNotes  \grace g''(  \unHideNotes a1) } hth Eluze Or perhaps: \version 2.14.2 \relative c' { d'4\repeatTie } and tweak the Tie, if necessary. HTH, Harm

Re: Instrument Name in oddHeaderMarkup position

2012-04-04 Thread Thomas Morley
Am 4. April 2012 15:20 schrieb Mark Mathias d8val...@gmail.com: I would like to place the Instrument Name on the first page only in the position occupied by the oddHeaderMarkup. LilyPond's convention for the Instrument Name is to place it below the Title. This may be standard for

Re: Rest position in drum voice

2012-04-06 Thread Thomas Morley
Am 6. April 2012 23:09 schrieb Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com: On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Vaylor Trucks vay...@gmail.com wrote: If I try to do the following: \version 2.14.2 up = \drummode {        hh bd8[ hh ss16 bd] hh tomh16[ hh tomh bd hh sn]        r16 hh16[ hh tomh] hh

Re: Multimeasure rests over a cadenza

2012-04-08 Thread Thomas Morley
Am 8. April 2012 16:39 schrieb David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com: Possibly the following thread will be useful to you:  http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg68492.html HTH, David Hi David, you were faster. :)) -Harm ___

Re: Multimeasure rests over a cadenza

2012-04-09 Thread Thomas Morley
Am 9. April 2012 04:26 schrieb James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com: At Sun, 8 Apr 2012 09:39:13 -0500, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi James, Possibly the following thread will be useful to you:  http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg68492.html Thanks, this is a lot closer. (By the

Re: Moving notes in a chord to the opposite side of the stem?

2012-04-09 Thread Thomas Morley
Am 9. April 2012 03:25 schrieb Paul Morris p...@paulwmorris.com: Hello,  Is there a way to manually move some of the notes in a chord to the opposite side of the stem, overriding the default placement? I have looked through the docs and did not find a simple way to do this (the NoteColumn

Re: Avoiding tie/prall collision

2012-04-09 Thread Thomas Morley
Am 9. April 2012 20:53 schrieb Helge Kruse helge.kruse-nos...@gmx.net: Hello, I have some measures with similar rhythmic pattern but different pitch. But all look similar like this: \context PianoStaff  \context Staff=right \relative c'' {    \key g \major \time 3/4 s2. \stemUp    d4~

Re: System in different colors

2012-04-11 Thread Thomas Morley
Am 11. April 2012 16:16 schrieb David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com: I believe the issue here is that the barline is considered to _begin_ the new measure rather than end the old one.  I can't think of a way around this except what James suggests.  (Then there's the issue of the staff

Re: Tie question.

2012-04-15 Thread Thomas Morley
Am 16. April 2012 00:36 schrieb Hwaen Ch'uqi hwaench...@gmail.com: Greetings All,          I am attempting to tie two notes of an arpeggiated chord into the chord proper. However, one of the ties appears more as a tiny dot rather than a curve. Can anyone explain the reason for this and offer

Re: \break not working properly

2012-04-20 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi, you've used a bad \layout Try to replace it with: \layout { \context { \Score \override NonMusicalPaperColumn #'line-break-permission = ##f } \context { \Staff \override VerticalAxisGroup #'remove-first = ##t \RemoveEmptyStaves \consists

Re: \break not working properly

2012-04-20 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi, there was a typo in %{bar01-05%} r4 c4 f4 a4 | g4. c,8. d4 e4 | f4 d4 c2~ | c4 c4 f c'4 g bf4 | a4. g8 \bar\mbk Second bar: c,8. Remove the dot and it works. BTW, your file didn't compile at the first time. You had commented a } (closing the header) by accident. Cheers, Harm

Re: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext doesn't remove empty staff

2012-04-26 Thread Thomas Morley
Am 27. April 2012 01:51 schrieb Thomas Ruedas rue...@dtm.ciw.edu: Hi again, I have a piano score in which there are sometimes two, sometimes three staves, and I want the empty third staff to disappear during long stretches in which it is empty. This used to work in an earlier version (2.10)

Re: table-of-contents page links

2012-04-27 Thread Thomas Morley
Am 27. April 2012 12:36 schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt jp.vo...@gmx.de: Hello list, for some Books, I set the first page number to -1, to start page numbers with the real music. Now the PDF-internal links to the corresponding pages refer to the wrong page: If a tocItem displays page 8 it will open

Re: table-of-contents page links

2012-04-27 Thread Thomas Morley
Am 28. April 2012 01:07 schrieb David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Shouldn't (ly:output-def-lookup layout 'first-page-number) do the trick? Surprisingly not! If first-page-number is not set it returns 3 setting 2 gives 4 setting 3 gives 5 ... Well, the relationship is linear. One could deal with it.

Re: Override of fingering font is ignored by \finger

2012-04-29 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/4/29 Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net: See attached. Overriding the fingering font works fine for fingering attached to a note but is ignored when using \finger in a markup, where the default fingering font is still used. \version 2.15.37 \relative c'' {    \override

BarNumber-value?

2012-04-29 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi, in 2.14.2 I used a function to manipulate the BarNumber-stencil. It calls the value of the BarNumber as a string, via (ly:grob-property grob 'text). This doesn't work no longer with the latest devel-versions. (Due to the changes in Issue 2059 ?) (ly:grob-property grob 'text) now returns,

Re: BarNumber-value?

2012-04-29 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi David, 2012/4/30 David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com: Hi Harm, On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, in 2.14.2 I used a function to manipulate the BarNumber-stencil. It calls the value of the BarNumber as a string, via (ly:grob

Re: Controlling slur engraver

2012-05-01 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Helge, it will work, if you use a function wich selects the slurs regarding their spanner-id. (It's not documented in 2.14.2-IR, but you can watch it using \displayMusic) \version 2.14.2 keepOnlyGraceSlurs = \override Voice.Slur #'stencil = #(lambda (grob) (let* ((stil (ly:slur::print

Re: Removing Staff_symbol_engraver causes error

2012-05-05 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Javier, 2012/5/5 J Ruiz jav...@ruiz-alma.com: I need to print an arpeggio symbol as seen in chords...just the symbol.  I created the following snippet in 2.14.2, but keep getting vertical aligment called before line breaking error when I try to remove the Staff symbol engraver. perhaps:

Re: is shapeSlur broken?

2012-05-10 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi David, I thought a while about your function. I'd like to suggest some changes. In the attached file you can see: - Elimination of `function' as argument of shape-curve and introducing it as local variable. - A new condition added in shape-curve at the siblings-variable: ly:spanner? - In the

Re: is shapeSlur broken?

2012-05-10 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/11 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com: Hi David, I thought a while about your function. I'd like to suggest some changes. In the attached file you can see: - Elimination of `function' as argument of shape-curve and introducing it as local variable. - A new condition added

Re: is shapeSlur broken?

2012-05-10 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi David, 2012/5/11 David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com: I don't have 2.14.2 up to test, but this all should work there provided you add the # before the string? So: \shape #Slur #'( ... I tested what's needed to make it work with 2.14.2 (therefor the 2.14.2-version-number in the

Re: Dashed Stem

2012-05-11 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/12 David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com: Looking at this some more, I've come up with an alternate which more closely duplicates an ordinary stem.  Instead of using line segments, I used round-filled-box stencils, which is what Lily uses to draw stems. Everything is fine when the

Re: LilyPond wins LoMuS 2012!

2012-05-12 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/12 m...@apollinemike.com m...@apollinemike.com: Hey LilyPond users, I have an exciting piece of news to share with you.  LilyPond won LoMuS 2012, one of the most prestigious awards in the open source community for musical software. http://concours.afim-asso.org/ All of you should

Re: Letters as Left hand fingering

2012-05-15 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/15 Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com: Hi Group, Sometimes I need to put a letter in front of a number as a fingering. Is there any possibility to declare m (for ex;) as a number so that I could code a-m1 as a fingering ? Hi Pierre, I'm not aware of any method to

Re: Defining a new markup command (e.g. \lower by a specified amount)

2012-05-15 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/15 Philip Thomas philip.tho...@bluewin.ch: I am having great difficulty getting the hang of defining new markup commands. The examples given in the Extending manual in section 2.2.3 New markup command definition are comprehensible to me in their own right, but they aren't exactly

Re: Appending coda on last line

2012-05-19 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/19 Helge Kruse helge.kruse-nos...@gmx.net: I have a score with da capo al coda. And the coda is exactly one measure. Therefore I don't want to put the coda on a new line. But it should be a gap between the last measure of the main part and the coda. Additionally I would like to indicate

Re: Manual volta placement and invisible barline kills previous barline

2012-05-21 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/21 Philip Thomas philip.tho...@bluewin.ch: Aha, I thought: try adding an invisible barline at the beginning of bar 5. That works fine to position the volta bracket correctly, but it also makes the barline at the end of bar 4 invisible also, even when I add a manual single barline at the

Re: Voices and vocals

2012-05-21 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/21 John McWilliam jsmcwill...@gmail.com: (...) The snippet seems to compile without any errors Well, it returns: atest-14.ly:757:16: error: unknown escaped string: `\Bkey' \Bkey atest-14.ly:757:16: error: syntax error, unexpected STRING \Bkey

Re: Four Bars per Line/System, again :)

2012-05-21 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/21 David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com: Added as  http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1id=838 -David Hi David, I'm going to approve your snippet. I'd prefer to use the Standalone-snippet-option (I changed it this way). What do you think? -Harm

Re: Get the positions of a beam (or other grob with positions)

2012-05-23 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/23 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:02 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: I wish it was possible to add context to grob name in a more LilyPondish way (i.e. with a dot) It is conceivable as a parser

Re: Directed \tweak commands in 2.15.39

2012-05-23 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/23 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:49 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org writes: Very nice!  Great work, David.  A minor thing: In the given link I can see   \tweak layout-object #'grob-property value as the syntax

Re: Grace Note Thickness

2012-05-23 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/23 Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com: Hi Groups, few months ago Thoms Morley (found thanks too Google) sent this code, wiche works fine : (...) Now I would like to understand this : 1) \version 2.15.39 music = \relative c' { \grace { d,16 [des] } c4

How to catch the current height of a StaffGroup?

2012-05-23 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi, I'm trying to read out the current height of a StaffGroup, i.e. from the bottom-line of the bottom-staff up to the top-line of the top-staff. As a test I created a new BreathingSign-stencil drawing a line from top-line to bottom-line. The value for draw-line is figured out manually for now.

Re: How to catch the current height of a StaffGroup?

2012-05-23 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/23 Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de: but shouldn't a standard barline have the desired length by default? Of course, but the new BreathingSign-stencil is only to visualize that I've got the correct value. And a BarLine lives in Staff-context but I want the StaffGroup-size. Trying:

Re: Voices and vocals

2012-05-23 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/23 John McWilliam jsmcwill...@gmail.com: Have you looked at my reply. I tried to post on gmane but am told my messages are not valid due to top posting - what is that? I just want people with experience to look at my snippet and give suggestions for how to solve my problem. Please

Re: How to catch the current height of a StaffGroup?

2012-05-23 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/23 m...@apollinemike.com m...@apollinemike.com: Try the buddy engraver! (...) If you do something like \override Staff.BarLine #'my-name = #'foo in one staff and \override Staff.BarLine #'my-name = #'bar in another and then \override BreathingSign #'searching = #'(foo bar) then

Re: How to catch the current height of a StaffGroup?

2012-05-23 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/23 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com writes: #(define all-custom-grob-descriptions    (for-each      (lambda (x)        (let ((interfaces                (ly:assoc-get 'interfaces                  (ly:assoc-get 'meta                    (cdr x

Re: How to catch the current height of a StaffGroup?

2012-05-23 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/23 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com writes: It was a copy/paste-error. Actually, I don't want to define a new grob, only new properties. The foolowing seems to be ok, or not? \version 2.15.38 #(define (define-grob-property symbol type

Re: How to catch the current height of a StaffGroup?

2012-05-23 Thread Thomas Morley
Next try to tackle the main problem, without engraver, but same idea: Mark some grobs and read out their position. After defining a 'marker-property and applying it with 'foo and 'bar to some BarLines, I tried to color them from inside the BreathingSign-after-line-breaking-override. Works! But

Re: Grace Note Thickness

2012-05-23 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/23 Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com: Dear Thomas, I've followed your instruction and when I code : (...) I'm not aware I gave you any instructions. :) Problem comes with the polyphony : (...) Well, I see the problem, but I'm too tired to have any useful idea.

Re: Ugly default note spacing in single staff polyphony

2012-05-24 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/24 Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net: In the following, to look correctly positioned, the final A in the bar needs to be moved slightly to the right relative to the notes in the other voice each side of it. I tried moving the note to the right using \override NoteColumn

Re: Grace Note Thickness

2012-05-24 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/24 Xavier Scheuer x.sche...@gmail.com: Hi Pierre, Thomas, dear LilyPond users, Could you please make sure you do not cross-post your messages to the French users mailing list (lilypond-user-fr)? Hi Xavier, sorry, I answered to all, not investigating the adresses. Will do in future.

Re: Grace Note Thickness

2012-05-24 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/24 Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com:  I'm not aware I gave you any instructions. :) I just ment that I've change the beam-thickness in the graceSettings file. Sorry for the missunderstanding and for my poor english. :S Pierre 2012/5/23 Thomas Morley

Re: Segmentation fault (core dumped)

2012-05-24 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/23 Jeff Barnes jbarnes...@yahoo.com: Ok, I checked the archives and saw another crash report on \shape, so I'll post my details here. Environments: Ubuntu 12.04 Mac OSX Lion Versions: 2.14.2 on ubu 2.14.2-1 on mac Command on ubu:

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread Thomas Morley
This is a long discussion. We had similar ones in the past. That's useless. I followed the development of 2.15. in every detail, that I understood and I want to say that due to David's engagement and skill-ranks LilyPond has improved in a way that I hardly can believe. If David isn't payed for

Re: re-attacked glissandi

2012-05-29 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/29 Bernardo Barros newsgro...@bbarros.com: Hello list, How can one achieve this kind of notation. A re-attacked glissando, with possible different articulations. Glissandi appear to be possible only with adjacent notes. A possible solution would be to create notes without noteheads,

Re: I'm not top posting. (markup for tabstaff ?)

2012-05-29 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/28 -Eluze elu...@gmail.com: damien-43 wrote: dear lilypond users/contributers. please can you help i would like to create  a bar of music with 2 mimims (1/2 notes) one on middle c and the other a tone higher on d. the d i would like to put into parentheses.  and above it i would

Re: Flag becomes separated from stem

2012-05-30 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/30 Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net: I have a couple of scores where I occasionally override Stem #'X-extent of a note in order to force more space around the note to prevent elements colliding. This gave no problems with version 2.14, but I notice with the current development

Re: Layout of staff systems and text blocks

2012-05-30 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/30 Philip Thomas philip.tho...@bluewin.ch: (...) The problem: How do I get the Background Notes to sit happily where I want them on page 3? (...) Hi Philip, how about this setup? It adds the Background Notes to the footer of page three. % \version 2.15.39

Re: Layout of staff systems and text blocks

2012-05-31 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/31 Philip Thomas philip.tho...@bluewin.ch: Hi Harm, Once again you have been incredibly kind and helpful. Since writing to the forum yesterday, I had been experimenting with an added Dynamics context to act as a kind of skyhook for the Background Notes. That succeeded in placing the

Re: dashed initial barline with SystemStartBar?

2012-06-01 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi, 2012/6/1 diekunstderfuge dolcevitafinea...@gmail.com: Hi all, I would like the barline printed by System_start_delimiter_engraver using SystemStartBar to print as a dashed barline instead of a solid barline. it seems that the only available style is 'bar-line. But you can override the

Re: dashed initial barline with SystemStartBar?

2012-06-01 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/6/2 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com: (...) Hi again, my suggestion in the previous mail will cause an error in some cases. Please replace `dashedStart' with the following revised definition: dashedStart = \override Score.SystemStartBar #'stencil = #(lambda (grob

Re: custom compound time signature

2012-06-02 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/6/2 diekunstderfuge dolcevitafinea...@gmail.com: Hi all, I'm trying to achieve the compound time signature seen in the image here: http://old.nabble.com/file/p33950720/custom_time_signature.png As you can see, it's meant to represent 3 bars of 2/4 grouped together as one bar. My plan

Re: stem across voices

2012-06-03 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/6/3 Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com: Il 03/06/2012 16:04, David Nalesnik ha scritto: This sort of notation is very common.  Rather than notating only what is physically possible for the player, the notator tries to show the musical sense of the passage. If you'd try to notate exactly

Re: stem across voices

2012-06-03 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/6/3 Eluze elu...@gmail.com: Am 03.06.2012 16:45, schrieb Thomas Morley: Not really. It is physically _impossible_ to play \relative c { \clef G_8{ e,8 [f] } \\ { e4}  } on a common six-string guitar. (first beat of the bar) -Harm it took me approx. 3 seconds to change the tuning

Re: stem across voices

2012-06-03 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/6/3 Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com: (...) Am 03.06.2012 16:45, schrieb Thomas Morley: But you can't hold the e on the 6th string as a crotchet. you mean it should be e4. instead of e8~ e4? this is just a notational issue, it is playable I guess I'm missing what you mean (...) Well

Re: custom compound time signature

2012-06-04 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/6/4 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com writes: 2012/6/2 diekunstderfuge dolcevitafinea...@gmail.com: Hi all, I'm trying to achieve the compound time signature seen in the image here: http://old.nabble.com/file

Re: dashed initial barline with SystemStartBar?

2012-06-05 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/6/5 David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com: Ah, OK, I now see that the spacing at the very top and bottom isn't equal with this change (though the dashed part won't overreach the top cap), so back to the drawing board :)  Sorry for the noise. Hi David, sorry for the late reply. My

Re: function does not replicate \markup?

2012-06-24 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/6/24 and...@andis59.se and...@andis59.se: I want the first result. Where the number is located directly under the note or chord. Try: \version 2.14.2 fN = #(define-music-function (parser location fretp) (string?) (make-music 'TextScriptEvent 'direction -1

Re: Tie

2012-06-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/6/27 jsmcwilliam jsmcwill...@gmail.com: Question: How to achieve a tie from Bb in bar 5 to A natural in bar 2 Reference from manual suggests this is not possible: Quote: Known issues and warnings Slurs that span from a \repeat block into an \alternative block will only work for the

Re: Custom alternative/volta names

2012-07-01 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/7/1 Alberto Simões al...@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt: Hey, Phil I believe you need to make the whole of your second repeat command into a list: \set Score.repeatCommands = #(list '(volta #f) (list 'volta voltaB) 'end-repeat) Yeah, that combination I didn't try. :D Thank you. It

Re: Lyrics in color

2012-07-02 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/7/2 Aleksandr Andreev aleksandr.andr...@gmail.com: On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Did you try \addlyrics { \markup \concat { L\with-color #red a } } That worked, thanks! Now I have another question ... this one is a bit

Re: Hauptstimme Brackets?

2012-07-04 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/7/4 Nick Baskin amphio...@gmail.com: Hey all, Is there any way to create Hauptstimme and Nebenstimme brackets in LilyPond? My searches of the manual, LSR, and recent list archives have not been fruitful. I am using version 2.14.2. Cheers, Nick Baskin What is Hauptstimme and

Re: Hauptstimme Brackets?

2012-07-06 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/7/6 Mark Knoop m...@opus11.net: At 11:38 on 04 Jul 2012, Nathan wrote: Here's a solution using markup paths and text spanners: %%% \version 2.14.2 hauptstimmeStart = \markup { \path #0.25 #'((moveto 0 0) (lineto 0 -2) (moveto 0 -1)

Re: Issues with timidity, and the MIDI output

2012-07-08 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/7/8 Rokil misterro...@gmail.com: Hi everybody, I'm new here, and I'm trying to arrange Bella Ciao for my jazzband. And to check my work, I wanted to hear it, so I tried with Timidity++. Here's my code (thanks to SefandeVries! ;)): http://paste.awesom.eu/Gloomy/W0jln If I try to make

Re: Linebreak with bar |: inside bar

2012-07-08 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/7/8 Hartmut Leister hartmut.leis...@s2005.tu-chemnitz.de: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everybody, I have a repetition starting inside a bar and want to break it to the next line. But Lilypond is giving me either \bar| or \bar|| inside my bar or leaving out the

Re: Strike-through markup

2012-07-08 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/7/8 Apos vynecompi...@gmail.com: Hello everyone! I have been playing a lot with Lilypond lately and have managed to write quite a lot of partitions with it. Today, while browsing though some old partition that I had, I found the following measure:

Re: lyrics in cadenza

2012-07-09 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/7/9 Helge Kruse helge.kr...@gmx.net: Hello Phil, thanks for reply. I tried to fix this with \skip as well as with \melisma. Unfortunately both failed. When I use \skip I get near to the expected result. Inside the cadenza I have to use manual beaming. As long as I leave the last four

Re: testSpanner separate from dynamics

2012-07-10 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/7/10 Paul Scott waterho...@ultrasw.com: Is it possible to get a TextSpanner separate from the dynamics? In this example I would like the string ( tutti unison ) to start in the same horizontal position as the mf. \version 2.15.41 \relative c'' { \set crescendoText =

Re: arpeggio line

2012-07-12 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/7/12 Mario Moles mario-mo...@libero.it: Hi! I do not understand how to do arpeggio with a straight line. You know how to do? Reagards! Hi Mario, try the code below. If you want a longer line add a 'positions-override as shown in the examples. \version 2.15.39 arpeggioStrikeDown = {

Re: position of markup and eps

2012-07-14 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/7/14 Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger kai.lautenschlae...@me.com: Hi List, I want to add some information on the composer under the score. it should have picture (xxx.eps) at the left and a justified text on the right with a small white space between. Picture and text should be aligned at

Re: position of markup and eps

2012-07-14 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/7/14 Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger kai.lautenschlae...@me.com: Hi Thomas, thanks, that solves the first problem. Now I am left with a readable result but there is a lot of white space between the picture on the left and the text on the right (about 6cm of white). Is there a way, I can

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