Re: separating design from pure score

2012-03-15 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Stjepan, sorry that I don't have the time to really go through this thread (so I might misunderstand sth). But I think you should separate your music variables from your score definition, so you can \include them separately: music.ly myMusic = { ... } score.ly \score { \new Staff

Re: Question about missing accidentals, and banishing stems

2012-03-27 Thread Urs Liska
Does the accidental-style forget work for your case? Am 26.03.2012 18:05, schrieb Robert Schmaus: Hi Michael, the whole music is defined in a single cadenza with manual barlines in between. so, from pov of lilypond, all the music is in one bar, thus, the second ees doesn't sport an accidental.

Re: node head positions

2012-04-11 Thread Urs Liska
Am 11.04.2012 00:28, schrieb Tim Roberts: Huang wrote: Yes, I am looking for a way to highlight notes while playing MIDI. I will definitely check Frescobaldi to see how it works. I need to understand how Lily generates these notes and find out their positions. I just want to caution you about

Barline type before \time change

2012-04-12 Thread Urs Liska
Hello list, I'm sorry, but I can't find the relevant documentation. I want to change lilyPond's default behaviour and tell it to use || barlines before \time changes instead of normal ones. Although it is quite easy to do this manually, I'd like to know where and how I could change this

Re: Barline type before \time change

2012-04-13 Thread Urs Liska
} } } --snip-- With the engraver, you should be able to include an existing file while using this custom engraver globally: --snip-- \layout { \context { \Score \consists \DbBars } } \include mymusic.ly --snip-- HTH Cheers, Jan-Peter On 12.04.2012 16:29, Urs Liska wrote: Hello

Re: Barline type before \time change

2012-04-13 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Jan-Peter, thanks a lot, works perfectly! Am 13.04.2012 11:49, schrieb Urs Liska: Hello Jan-Peter and Tim, thanks for your replies. I would like to use this on sources I'm already working on. So I don't need to use your include construct. But I think I'll try out your Scheme engraver

Understanding how LilyPond handles external fonts

2012-04-18 Thread Urs Liska
Hello list, I have some difficulties understanding how to access the different versions/weights/styles of external fonts (in markups mode). And I'm not sure if this is a LilyPond or rather a documentation issue. So before submitting a documentation suggestion I'd like to really understand the

Oldstyle Figures (OSF) from OpenType Font

2012-04-18 Thread Urs Liska
Hello list, can anybody tell me if I can use the 'Old Style Figure' subset of an OpenType font in markups? Thank you for any help Urs ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

\makeOctaves broken?

2012-04-18 Thread Urs Liska
I was quite happy to find the function \makeOctaves in the LSR. But now it seems to be broken - there is no error message, but the function doesn't do anything (2.15.36). As I don't know _anything_ about Scheme I can't do more than ask if anybody has an idea what has changed with LilyPond so

Re: \makeOctaves broken?

2012-04-19 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Jay, Thanks for the link. I'l look into it, but am practically sure that I won't be able to fix anything. As mentioned I don't have any experience with Scheme. Best Urs BTW: The current piece not only has plenty of octaves (one voice is virtually octaves-only), but each octave has a -.

Re: \makeOctaves broken?

2012-04-19 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, thank you very much for all these thoughts. I'm so sorry that I don't understand a (Scheme) word from it ... But judging from my programming experience in other languages David's last solution looks _very_ elegant. And it seems to work, even with still more complex chords and multiple

Re: \makeOctaves broken?

2012-04-19 Thread Urs Liska
is correct, though. BTW: shouldn't it be quite easy (and interesting) to modify the function so that arg doesn't mean the number of octaves but a number of semitones? Best Urs Am 19.04.2012 19:58, schrieb Urs Liska: Hi all, thank you very much for all these thoughts. I'm so sorry that I don't

controlling footnote separator line

2012-04-19 Thread Urs Liska
Hello list, I was very pleased to see that by now one can write footnotes quite easily. Unfortunately I didn't find the property that controls the line separating the footnote. from the score. I would like to have the footnote either without any separator or with a short, left-aligned line.

Re: controlling footnote separator line

2012-04-20 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Gilles, thank you very much. Looks very promising. Best Urs Am 20.04.2012 10:43, schrieb Gilles: Unfortunately I didn't find the property that controls the line separating the footnote. from the score. Is this possible? is it documented (and I am blind)? or is this impossible? Well

Re: Oldstyle Figures (OSF) from OpenType Font

2012-04-21 Thread Urs Liska
Thanks for pointing to this, Werner. Just a question: In the issue report you say, LilyPond doesn't currenty (i.e. Nov 2010) support OpenType features. LilyPond does support ligatures and kerning (at least on Linux, it seems this doesn't work on Windows). Are these no OpenType features? Or

Re: Oldstyle Figures (OSF) from OpenType Font

2012-04-21 Thread Urs Liska
Unfortunately that's not possible because I can't select my font according to this. And it's not a show stopper not to have OSF, just an inconvenience. I assume such an improvement would be a non-trivial issue? Best Urs Am 22.04.2012 02:42, schrieb Nick Payne: On 22/04/12 08:26, Urs Liska

Re: Make Tie a Slur

2012-04-22 Thread Urs Liska
Am 21.04.2012 17:53, schrieb Pavel Roskin: Quoting Nils l...@nilsgey.de: Hello, I have 70 pieces with ties and slurs here. They are already in Lilypond with the correct syntax. Now my publisher says he wants that ties look like slurs. I couldn't disagree more but I have no choice here. Any

Re: Make Tie a Slur

2012-04-22 Thread Urs Liska
Am 22.04.2012 15:05, schrieb Nils: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:47:57 +0200 schrieb Urs Liskali...@ursliska.de: Am 21.04.2012 17:53, schrieb Pavel Roskin: Quoting Nilsl...@nilsgey.de: Hello, I have 70 pieces with ties and slurs here. They are already in Lilypond with the correct syntax. Now my

parenthesizing arpeggios

2012-04-22 Thread Urs Liska
Dear listers, I thought it should be simple and straightforward, but I don't understand how to put an arpeggio in brackets. If I use this code I only get a very small parenthesis: \version 2.15.36 \relative c' { %\once \override ParenthesesItem #'font-size = #6 c g' e'-\parenthesize

Re: parenthesizing arpeggios

2012-04-22 Thread Urs Liska
Thank you very much, I will try this out later today. By overriding the stencil directly you have already solved my other problem that I didn't even post so far ;-) Now I can write a macro editorialArpeggio = { \once \override Arpeggio ... } I need this because I place all my editor's additions

Fwd: Re: parenthesizing arpeggios

2012-04-23 Thread Urs Liska
: parenthesizing arpeggios Datum: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:23:01 -0500 Von:David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com An: Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de Kopie (CC): Lilypond-User lilypond-user@gnu.org Hi again! Here's something that works for arpeggios. The attached file is a bit large

Re: controlling footnote separator line

2012-04-25 Thread Urs Liska
Am 20.04.2012 10:43, schrieb Gilles: Unfortunately I didn't find the property that controls the line separating the footnote. from the score. Is this possible? is it documented (and I am blind)? or is this impossible? Well not easy to find. In paper-defaults-init.ly, you have some variable

Re: P.S. controlling footnote separator line

2012-04-25 Thread Urs Liska
Am 25.04.2012 08:15, schrieb Urs Liska: Am 20.04.2012 10:43, schrieb Gilles: Unfortunately I didn't find the property that controls the line separating the footnote. from the score. Is this possible? is it documented (and I am blind)? or is this impossible? Well not easy to find. In paper

Re: controlling footnote separator line

2012-04-25 Thread Urs Liska
Am 25.04.2012 08:18, schrieb m...@apollinemike.com: On 25 avr. 2012, at 08:15, Urs Liska wrote: Am 20.04.2012 10:43, schrieb Gilles: Unfortunately I didn't find the property that controls the line separating the footnote. from the score. Is this possible? is it documented (and I am blind

Re: controlling footnote separator line

2012-04-25 Thread Urs Liska
Am 25.04.2012 08:34, schrieb m...@apollinemike.com: On 25 avr. 2012, at 08:19, Urs Liska wrote: Am 25.04.2012 08:18, schrieb m...@apollinemike.com: On 25 avr. 2012, at 08:15, Urs Liska wrote: Am 20.04.2012 10:43, schrieb Gilles: Unfortunately I didn't find the property that controls

Access font-name in markup functions

2012-04-25 Thread Urs Liska
Hello community, I didn't find this in the manual: How can I translate \markup { \override #'(font-name . XY) Test } in a markup function? I only found how to translate e.g. \markup \italic Test etc. to #:italic. Best Urs ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Bug concerning acciaccatura and \time?

2012-04-25 Thread Urs Liska
This is a known issue and explained in the Notation Reference (see Known issues and warnings under grace notes on http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/special-rhythmic-concerns.html) Basically you have to add invisible acciaccaturas of the same length in all staves (and also

Re: Bug concerning acciaccatura and \time?

2012-04-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 26.04.2012 00:26, schrieb Thomas Ruedas: On 25/4/12 9:39 PM, Urs Liska wrote: This is a known issue and explained in the Notation Reference (see Known issues and warnings under grace notes on http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/special-rhythmic-concerns.html

Re: quotation marks in lyricmode

2012-04-26 Thread Urs Liska
Thanks to all. Janek's (simplest) solution just did it. When I noticed that hitting doesn't work because it's a special char, I didn't think of the (obvious) fact that the other quotation marks aren't special but ordinary Unicode characters ... So copy and paste worked smoothly :-[ Best Urs

Re: Access font-name in markup functions

2012-04-26 Thread Urs Liska
) ) \markup { \xfont Hallo } --snip-- HTH Cheers, Jan-Peter On 25.04.2012 10:15, Urs Liska wrote: Hello community, I didn't find this in the manual: How can I translate \markup { \override #'(font-name . XY) Test } in a markup function? I only found how to translate e.g. \markup \italic Test etc

is shapeSlur broken?

2012-04-27 Thread Urs Liska
Hi list, the shapeSlur function from the LSR (http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=777) doesn't seem to work anymore (at least for me). That's the 'entrance' function: shapeSlur = #(define-music-function (parser location offsets) (list?) #{ \once \override

Re: is shapeSlur broken?

2012-04-27 Thread Urs Liska
;-) HTH Cheers, Jan-Peter On 27.04.2012 10:11, Urs Liska wrote: Hi list, the shapeSlur function from the LSR (http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=777) doesn't seem to work anymore (at least for me). That's the 'entrance' function: shapeSlur = #(define-music-function (parser location offsets

Re: is shapeSlur broken?

2012-04-27 Thread Urs Liska
Hi David, thank you for now. I'll look into it. But isn't it very likely that I have to reshape a slur anyway when it changes from broken to unbroken? In that case I'd even say the errors are a 'feature' so you notice it ... Provided it is documented enough not to drive you crazy ... Best

Re: is shapeSlur broken?

2012-04-27 Thread Urs Liska
Am 27.04.2012 19:30, schrieb David Nalesnik: Hi Urs, On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de mailto:li...@ursliska.de wrote: Hi David, thank you for now. I'll look into it. But isn't it very likely that I have to reshape a slur anyway when it changes

Re: is shapeSlur broken?

2012-05-04 Thread Urs Liska
Am 29.04.2012 00:26, schrieb David Nalesnik: Hi Urs, On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de mailto:li...@ursliska.de wrote: Am 27.04.2012 19 tel:27.04.2012%2019:30, schrieb David Nalesnik: Hi Urs, On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Urs Liska li

parenthesizing only part of an articulation

2012-05-05 Thread Urs Liska
Hi list, I have something like c2-_ and need to enclose the 'staccato' part of the articulation with parentheses (as this is an editor's addition). Unfortunately I didn't find a way to do this. Also it doesn't seem to work to add the -. and the -- separately. How could I achieve this?

Re: parenthesizing only part of an articulation

2012-05-05 Thread Urs Liska
, schrieb Urs Liska: Hi list, I have something like c2-_ and need to enclose the 'staccato' part of the articulation with parentheses (as this is an editor's addition). Unfortunately I didn't find a way to do this. Also it doesn't seem to work to add the -. and the -- separately. How could I

Re: parenthesizing only part of an articulation

2012-05-05 Thread Urs Liska
Am 05.05.2012 23:08, schrieb Eluze: Am 05.05.2012 13:22, schrieb Urs Liska: Thanks, this works (don't know why I didn't find out myself ...) I had to tweak extra-offset instead of padding, because the tenuto is also misplaced horizontally (maybe it's aligned to the left bracket instead

Re: Pondings

2012-05-07 Thread Urs Liska
Am 07.05.2012 10:09, schrieb David Kastrup: m...@apollinemike.comm...@apollinemike.com writes: On 7 mai 2012, at 10:02, Francisco Vila wrote: 2012/5/7 Henning Hraban Rammhra...@fiee.net: 2012/5/7 m...@apollinemike.comm...@apollinemike.com: Hey LilyPond users, Just a note to let you know

Re: Pondings

2012-05-07 Thread Urs Liska
contribution. But as mentioned, I'm not responsible for this, so (all out there) get in touch with Mike ... Best Urs -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9 Mail gesendet. Henning Hraban Ramm hra...@fiee.net schrieb: 2012/5/7 Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de: And I really

(somewhat OT:) lilypond calling bash script questions

2012-05-08 Thread Urs Liska
Please excuse if I post a linux question here, but I'd prefer not to have to find a dedicated forum and subscribe there first ... I have a project with more than two dozens of lilypond scores. For several reasons I have them in individual files which I can't \include in a master file. I would

Re: (somewhat OT:) lilypond calling bash script questions

2012-05-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.05.2012 11:36, schrieb m...@apollinemike.com: On 8 mai 2012, at 11:31, Urs Liska wrote: Please excuse if I post a linux question here, but I'd prefer not to have to find a dedicated forum and subscribe there first ... I have a project with more than two dozens of lilypond scores

Re: (somewhat OT:) lilypond calling bash script questions

2012-05-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.05.2012 11:46, schrieb Jonas Olson: On 2012-05-08 11:31, Urs Liska wrote: cd 01_01_... lilypond *.ly cd .. cd 01_02_... .. in a form like for dir in [get me all directories starting with a number] do cd $dir lilypond *.ly cd .. done Perhaps like so: for dir in [0-9]*/; do cd $dir

Re: (somewhat OT:) lilypond calling bash script questions

2012-05-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.05.2012 11:46, schrieb Jan Kohnert: Hi, Am 2012-05-08 11:31, schrieb Urs Liska: I would like to write a script that allows me to compile all .ly files in one run. [...] in a form like for dir in [get me all directories starting with a number] do cd $dir lilypond *.ly cd .. done

Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.05.2012 16:27, schrieb joannesmith: Hello to all. We are in the process of making our own hymn books (we use shape notes). We have about 450 hymns that are in paper format right now (copied, pasted, written on, sloppy, taped, marked, etc.) and I have the job of making them all look nice. A

Re: is shapeSlur broken?

2012-05-08 Thread Urs Liska
Hi David, thanks for the new 'delivery'. I copied it to my project folder, but it's too late now here to investigate it (has to wait for tomorrow). I'm really looking forward to making all this available in a structured way (although it will surely take some time). Experience working with your

Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-08 Thread Urs Liska
And you can/should of course put most of such a template in an include file. So you A) don't duplicate code unnecessarily B) can change the setting and have this be reflected through all your scores and C) have nice small files for the actual piece. Best Urs -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem

Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-09 Thread Urs Liska
He doesn't even have to copypaste sources. Just save it to an appropriate place and name and include it. Hope the OP is still with us ;-) Best Urs -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9 Mail gesendet. Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com schrieb: 2012/5/8 Colin Hall

Re: (somewhat OT:) lilypond calling bash script questions

2012-05-09 Thread Urs Liska
Thanks all for the generous feedback. But the very simple solution that Jonas Olson posted quite early solved the issue. for dir in [0-9]*/; was is exactly what I needed. Best Urs Am 09.05.2012 16:31, schrieb Christopher Webster:

Re: is shapeSlur broken?

2012-05-09 Thread Urs Liska
Hi David, now I tested your new function. OK, I didn't test more than the sources you provided, but I think they give all the necessary combinations. So my conclusion is: This is awesome! I won't ever live without this (as long as LilyPond is concerned) anymore - as long as it won't get

Re: is shapeSlur broken?

2012-05-10 Thread Urs Liska
wrote: Hi Urs, On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de mailto:li...@ursliska.de wrote: Hi David, now I tested your new function. OK, I didn't test more than the sources you provided, but I think they give all the necessary combinations. So my

function that inserts a toplevel expression

2012-05-10 Thread Urs Liska
Hi list, I'm sorry that I once more have a basic Scheme question. [ Any suggestion for a reading to find my way into Scheme? I think I have some programming experience (although without any formal IT tuition), mainly from object pascal, but also a little bit with other languages. But when it

Re: function that inserts a toplevel expression

2012-05-10 Thread Urs Liska
Hi David, thank you for the reply Am 10.05.2012 12:05, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liskali...@ursliska.de writes: So now the question: How can I write a function that produces a toplevel expression? No such thing. :-( I want to be able to write: \debugCurvesOn or #(debug-curves-on)

Re: function that inserts a toplevel expression

2012-05-10 Thread Urs Liska
Hello Jan-Peter, thank you for the ideas, that I have partly understood. Am 10.05.2012 13:35, schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt: Hello Urs, On 10.05.2012 12:40, Urs Liska wrote: Hi David, thank you for the reply Am 10.05.2012 12:05, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liskali...@ursliska.de writes: So

Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-10 Thread Urs Liska
Am 10.05.2012 16:36, schrieb joannesmith: Thank you all for your private emails ... they have been a great encouragement to me. I will probably end up sticking with Lilypond for all the reasons you mentioned. It really does seem like the best option ... I just need to hang in there long enough

Dashed Stem

2012-05-11 Thread Urs Liska
Am I right that you can't make a Stem dashed? I didnt find anything in the IR. What would then be the proper way to attach a dashed line to a note in place of the Stem? Thanks Urs -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9 Mail

Re: is shapeSlur broken?

2012-05-11 Thread Urs Liska
Am 11.05.2012 01:27, schrieb David Nalesnik: Hi Harm, On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com mailto:thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: 2012/5/11 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com mailto:thomasmorle...@googlemail.com: Hi David,

Re: Dashed Stem

2012-05-12 Thread Urs Liska
Hi David, Hi Thomas, thank you very much! I'm increasingly fascinated by LilyPond - and this mailing list. And I'll definitely have to learn how to write Scheme functions myself ... With your suggestions I can really solve the problem at hand, so thanks. What I especially like about the new

Re: Notating same part in two different mixtures of clefs

2012-05-16 Thread Urs Liska
Am 16.05.2012 09:30, schrieb Christopher Webster: Thank you! Of your three proposed solutions, the one with tags looks like the winner. I didn't know about tags - they look ideally suited. Yes, that's exactly what they are for. A feature of your first solution which I would have hoped to

Re: Notating same part in two different mixtures of clefs

2012-05-16 Thread Urs Liska
Am 16.05.2012 10:30, schrieb Christopher Webster: Yes - just to confirm that the tags were exactly what I needed. Here's the sort of thing I wanted to do: highClef = { \tag #'cello { \clef tenor } \tag #'gamba { \clef alto } } dots = \relative c { \clef

Source management tools for lilypond projects

2012-05-17 Thread Urs Liska
Hi list, I wonder how other people manage their sources in larger lilypond projects. Currently I'm working on a project whose source folders contain ~300 files, most of them LilyPond source files. One thing I really have come to love LilyPond for during this project is the fact that several

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

2012-05-17 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, I am very much enjoying now to tweak slurs and other curves using offsets instead of hardcoded control-points. I wonder if it would be interesting to have a similar approach to grobs with a positions property (e.g. beams). While it is comparably easy to find usable #'positions for a beam

Re: Source management tools for lilypond projects

2012-05-17 Thread Urs Liska
Am 17.05.2012 12:36, schrieb Christian Andersson: Congratulations for touching upon a hot subject, pretty much like asking people what text editor to use, something that has been debated for decades without any objective conclusion. Personally I tend to prefer git, not only for lilypond score

Re: translate a pdf file

2012-05-17 Thread Urs Liska
Am 17.05.2012 13:37, schrieb D'Arcy Cain: On 12-05-17 05:52 AM, fabio wrote: sorry i'm still at beginner level..!i want to know if it's possible to get a ly file from a pdf,if there's any way to translate a pdf file to ly file!thank you! Other than reading it and retyping, no. It's like

Harvesting comments from music sources

2012-05-19 Thread Urs Liska
Hi list, any ideas/experience on parsing lilypond input files for special comments and produce some documentation from it? I would love to write editorial comments directly in the lilypond source. Some script could then read these from the source and produce html or OpenDocumentText or some

Re: Source management tools for lilypond projects

2012-05-20 Thread Urs Liska
Am 20.05.2012 09:25, schrieb James Harkins: From: Graham Percivalgra...@percival-music.ca On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:36:35PM +0200, Christian Andersson wrote: Now, sit down and await all flames from proponents of all the other tools! Saving different versions of files to floppy disks and

Re: suppress warnings

2012-05-20 Thread Urs Liska
Am 20.05.2012 21:12, schrieb Graham Percival: On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 05:01:40PM +0200, Peter O'Doherty wrote: Is it possible to suppress specific (expected) warnings? No, unfortunately. - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

BeatStructure in 4/4 time

2012-05-21 Thread Urs Liska
I'm stuck :-( Why doesn't this work as I expect? . \version 2.15.36 \time 4/4 \set Timing. BeatStructure = #'(1 1 1 1) c8 c c c c c c c This should result in four groups of two beamed notes, isn't it? But I always get two groups of four notes. The same problem with 3/4, but with 5/4 I can do

Re: BeatStructure in 4/4 time

2012-05-21 Thread Urs Liska
Thanks, that was it. OK, it# in the docs, but I had to re-read it three times until I got it :-( Best Urs -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9 Mail gesendet. Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com schrieb: On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Urs Liska li

Re: Source management tools for lilypond projects

2012-05-21 Thread Urs Liska
Dear Susan, thank you for the valuable input. What you describe is basically what I thought how it works - but didn't know for sure due to lack of experience. Especially the aspect of branching is interesting, as I didn't really have an idea about that. So what you describe as the intention of

Re: Source management tools for lilypond projects

2012-05-21 Thread Urs Liska
, May 21, 2012 at 11:13:54PM +0200, Urs Liska wrote: Dear Susan, thank you for the valuable input. What you describe is basically what I thought how it works - but didn't know for sure due to lack of experience. Especially the aspect of branching is interesting, as I didn't really have an idea

Re: Source management tools for lilypond projects

2012-05-22 Thread Urs Liska
Dear Susan, I think this makes sense (although I can't tell if it really is what Colin wanted to express ...). Do I understand correctly that what you describe is one possible strategy to take care of the integrity of the main source tree? And another one would be what I have the impression

Re: Source management tools for lilypond projects

2012-05-22 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Colin, thanks for your patience. I somehow start to see some light ;-) Am 22.05.2012 10:53, schrieb Colin Hall: On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:26:02AM +0200, Urs Liska wrote: Dear Susan, I think this makes sense (although I can't tell if it really is what Colin wanted to express

\shape can crash Lilypond

2012-05-22 Thread Urs Liska
Hi David N, Recently we experienced strange crashes in our Lilypond scores that could only be avoided by randomly changing the order of some function calls. Now I sat down and pinned it down quite narrowly: If I use your wonderful \shape function and afterwards override any property of the

Re: \shape can crash Lilypond

2012-05-22 Thread Urs Liska
Thank you very much! Seems to work perfectly (so far - until we find something new ;-) ) Best Urs Am 22.05.2012 17:28, schrieb David Nalesnik: Hi again, The problem happens when the variable function attempts to look up the procedure for 'control-points. Each override you do is

Re: Source management tools for lilypond projects

2012-05-22 Thread Urs Liska
Dear Susan, thank you very much for taking so much of your valuable time. It's astonishing - like reading a good book, but one written with my specific questions in mind :-) Well basically everything really is very much what I had expected it to be. What I will have to see in action before

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

2012-05-23 Thread Urs Liska
No idea about Scheme, but shouldn't a standard barline have the desired length by default? Best Urs Am 23.05.2012 18:57, schrieb 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.

Re: Source management tools for lilypond projects

2012-05-24 Thread Urs Liska
Am 24.05.2012 10:57, schrieb Colin Hall: On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 01:24:11PM +0800, James Harkins wrote: Not sure if this was already discussed (I've been following the thread somewhat loosely), but it seems to me that git makes it a whole lot easier to handle a build token by virtue of the

Re: Beaming regression 2.15.39 compared to 2.14.2

2012-05-24 Thread Urs Liska
Am 24.05.2012 11:57, schrieb Toine Schreurs: On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 05:13:55PM +1000, Nick Payne wrote: In 2.14.2, the output for the second bar beams all five eighth notes together, as I would expect. In 2.15.39, the first eighth note is not beamed with the others: \relative c'' { \time

Re: Beaming regression 2.15.39 compared to 2.14.2

2012-05-24 Thread Urs Liska
Am 24.05.2012 14:14, schrieb Nick Payne: On 24/05/12 21:19, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: On 24 mai 2012, at 12:04, Urs Liska wrote: Am 24.05.2012 11:57, schrieb Toine Schreurs: On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 05:13:55PM +1000, Nick Payne wrote: In 2.14.2, the output for the second bar beams all

Re: ly2video - create videos from your LilyPond projects

2012-05-24 Thread Urs Liska
This is great! one question: How did you manage to create that endless, one-system layout? Best Urs Am 23.05.2012 20:15, schrieb FireTight: Hello, my name is Jiri FireTight Szabo and I would like to introduce program ly2video to you. This program can generate videos from your LilyPond

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-25 Thread Urs Liska
on becoming one of the lucky few who initiate a chain reaction. Best Urs Am 24.05.2012 20:36, schrieb Janek Warchoł: On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Tim Robertst...@probo.com wrote: Janek Warchoł wrote: ... Urs Liska has plans for making music publishers aware of these advantages - see last messages

Re: How to cancel voice so ties are right direction

2012-05-25 Thread Urs Liska
Write ^ or _ before the tilde to force the tie up or down. Works also with articulations, slurs and many other things. Best Urs -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9 Mail gesendet. Jeff Barnes jbarnes...@yahoo.com schrieb: This snippet illustrates a problem I'm

Re: how to enter notes quickly (midi keyboard available)

2012-05-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 26.05.2012 18:46, schrieb David Kastrup: Andrew Hawrylukahawry...@gmail.com writes: Maybe someday the computer will be able to see or hear the music in my head and type it out ... no, scratch that. Mind-reading computers doesn't sounds like a good idea at all: we're trying to keep the

Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

2012-05-31 Thread Urs Liska
We'll think about this (and some more, when I'm back and we're ready with our current job ...). OK, Janek? Best Urs Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com schrieb: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 5:31 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote:  There are also a few advantages [of using MuseScore]: a)

Visibility of text spanners after line break

2012-06-06 Thread Urs Liska
Hi listers, How can I suppress the repetition of a TextSpanner's left text after a line break? I want the dashed line to continue, but without the text being repeated. I didn't find anything in the NR, and there is only one snippet, but that refers to spanners that end immediately after the

Re: forcing two pages

2012-06-22 Thread Urs Liska
These are the \paper variables you need to try around with: system-count = 8 % total number of systems in the score page-count = 2 % number of pages in the score max-systems-per-page = 4 min-systems-per-page = 4 % if max/min are equal it's basically a hardcoded command ragged-bottom = ##f

Re: Hauptstimme Brackets?

2012-07-06 Thread Urs Liska
Am 04.07.2012 20:55, schrieb Nick Baskin: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com mailto:thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: 2012/7/4 Nick Baskin amphio...@gmail.com mailto:amphio...@gmail.com: Hey all, Is there any way to create

Re: Turning a lilypond file into a Sibelius file

2012-08-05 Thread Urs Liska
Unfortunately there is no way to accomplish what you want ATM. There has been some (or even much) discussion about implementing a MusicXML export that doesn't contain all the layout but rather the musical information. But AFAICS that's far from becoming a reality. HTH Urs Am 05.08.2012

Re: Incremental compiling

2012-08-09 Thread Urs Liska
Another idea (based on sth so wrote earlier): What I'm doing all of the time (when working on longer pieces) is messing around with \set Score.skipTypesetting I set it - to ##t at the beginning of the piece - to ##f a few measures before the point where I'm working on and - to ##t again a

Emmentaler Glyph numbers

2012-08-14 Thread Urs Liska
Hi list, sorry if this is 'findable' somewhere. But I have searched for so many new things recently that I may not be seeing the wood for the trees anymore ;-) I need to insert single music glyphs in LaTeX text and would definitely prefer using the Emmentaler ones for this (not only, but

Re: Emmentaler Glyph numbers

2012-08-14 Thread Urs Liska
, so I'd be glad if others would participate to make it more complete. When I have started this up, I'll post a link soon. Best Urs Am 14.08.2012 12:25, schrieb Urs Liska: Hi list, sorry if this is 'findable' somewhere. But I have searched for so many new things recently that I may

Re: Emmentaler Glyph numbers

2012-08-14 Thread Urs Liska
Am 14.08.2012 19:29, schrieb Werner LEMBERG: So now I know the Emmentaler Glyphs are located from E100 throughout E31C. Don't rely on character code numbers! As soon as a new glyph gets added to the Emmentaler font, they can change. The only reliable way to access the glyphs is with glyph

Re: Emmentaler Glyph numbers

2012-08-14 Thread Urs Liska
Thank you for this, which also worked for me. As I wanted to have it the 'fontspec' way, I tried from there and came up with \newcommand*{\lilyGlyph}[2]{\fontspec[Scale=#1]{Emmentaler-11} \XeTeXglyph\XeTeXglyphindex#2 } and then (for exmple)

lilyglyphs LaTeX package

2012-08-15 Thread Urs Liska
Hi list, this is somewhat OT, but only slightly, I think. In need to insert music glyphs in continuous text (for writing a revision report) I successfully found out how to insert glyphs from LilyPond's Emmentaler font in (Xe)LaTeX documents and wrote a few first commands (thanks to Google and

Re: lilyglyphs LaTeX package

2012-08-16 Thread Urs Liska
' through package options seems over my head (as I'm practically new to LaTeX). Maybe I will learn it on the way, but any assistance in this field would be appreciated. Best for now Urs Am 15.08.2012 17:34, schrieb Urs Liska: Hi list, this is somewhat OT, but only slightly, I think. In need

Re: Subject: Re: lilyglyphs LaTeX package

2012-08-16 Thread Urs Liska
The package doesn't have real installation instructions (or even an installation procedure) yet (something for 0.1, a first official release). Fortunately xelatex-ubuntu is what I have, so I can tell you how you will make it work. One issue is that there are included files in a subfolder. (I

Re: Subject: Re: lilyglyphs LaTeX package

2012-08-16 Thread Urs Liska
Am 16.08.2012 13:57, schrieb Werner LEMBERG: * place lilyglyphs.sty and the complete definitions/ folder somewhere on your disk, e.g. in a directory ~/lilyglyphs. * create symlinks to lilyglyphs.sty and the definitions/ folder _in the directory_ where your .tex file is located:

Re: Subject: Re: lilyglyphs LaTeX package

2012-08-16 Thread Urs Liska
Now I know that, thanks :-) Just had to exclude this from the git repo that controls my texmf dir ;-) Best Urs Am 16.08.2012 14:29, schrieb Werner LEMBERG: ~/texmf/tex/xelatex/lilyglyphs/ Oops, didn't think this would work with the subfolder ... This gets searched recursively by

Re: setting Delia Derbyshire's abstract electronic scores

2012-08-16 Thread Urs Liska
Am 16.08.2012 19:31, schrieb martinwguy: On 14 August 2012 21:06, Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com wrote: El 13/08/2012 21:55, martinwguy martinw...@gmail.com escribió: Is Lilypond capable of helping with exotic stuff like this, from Delia Dervyshire's notes for her, maybe lost, Radio

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