On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 07:43:23PM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> >
> > 1. It seems to be difficult to enter dynamical indications in word
> > form (like 'dim.', 'dimin.', 'sempre pi\'u p'). If I use e.g.
> > a8-"dimin." g f
> > there is much space around a and g, and 'dimin.' gets written in
> > roman. Should these be written as a lyrics staff? Is there a
> > nice font for these wordings? The same problem applies to
> > wordings above the staff like 'poco ritard.' or 'in tempo',
> > or 'pizz.', 'arco'.
>
> Set the property textEmptyDimension = 1 to get rid of the extra
> spacing and the property textStyle = "italic" to get a slanted
> font for the text.
Ah, this is much better, thanks! However, there's a problem when I
want to write 'pizz.' in roman above the note and 'dim. sempre'
below. I think I can try using two voices and an invisible note,
but this looks like an ugly hack to me...:
<\context Voice = x {\property Voice.textStyle="roman"
c8-"pizz."}
\context Voice = y {\property Voice.textStyle="italic"
s8-"dim. sempre">
Another problem is the phrase 'sempre pi\`u p', where I want the
'p' to be in the same font as if I use \p.
>
> > 4. Can the note on the middle line be defaulted to have a stem
> > going down instead of up? This may influence the direction of the
> > stems of a group of beamed notes, too. They go up a little bit too
> > often for my taste (and comparing to published printed works).
>
> It would be very easy to add a property to make this customizable.
>
Btw: is there anywhere an explanation about the different methods
of beam/stem positioning (damped, beam_dir_algorithm? (maybe even
a pointer into the source?)
> > 5. In bar timings < 4/4, 2/2, as e.g. 2/4, a rest r1 should have
> > a length of the bar. Or is it possible to have whole rests
> > (hanging on the 4th line from the botton of the staff) in such bars?
>
> Try typing e.g. R2 instead of r2 . The capital R indicates a multi-
> bar rest which is typeset in exactly this way.
>
Ok, thanks, this works!
In many of the printed music I own, the sign for long rests (the block
in the middle, which LilyPond uses e.g. for a 3-bar-rest), is used
for rests longer than 9 bars. Shorter rests are composed of the signs
for 1-, 2- and 4-bar-rests, e.g. 5-bar=4-bar+whole,
7-bar=4-bar+2-bar+whole. Do you intend to implement this?
I didn't find the place in the source where the sign for a rest is
chosen...
> > 6. Is it possible to have two large piano (in my case: harmonium)
> > staff with smaller string staves above them?
>
> You can mix any combination of single staffs, PianoStaffs and
> StaffGroups in a score. Take a look at input/test/orcestscore.ly.
> You could also set the staff size separately for each staff,
> see input/test/staff-size.ly.
> Unfortunately, several of Lilypond's features are not well
> documented. However, you can find examples of most things
> in the files in input/test/.
I didn't succeed with this. I experimented with fontSize and
staffLineLeading (what does this name mean), but the sizes
of the accidentials and clefs and dynamic marks didn't adjust right.
I mused a bit on the production of single instrument parts and
partitures, like it's illustrated in the Coriolan example.
Indications of tempo (like Allegro or pi\`u mosso), at least in
many of the chamber music works I've got, are written on top of
every staff group in the partiture, i.e. above the piano part
and above the strings part. In the single voice parts, it must be
written for every instrument! Is there some construct (switching
of contexts, maybe) in mudela which provides for this?
I nearly don't dare to mention the little notes (German:
'Stichnoten') that are sometimes printed at the end of a long
rest for one instrument, which show the notes of a different
instrument to help the player to realize the end of the rest...
> Yes, Dvorak himself is ``free'' (dead since more than 75 years),
> however, the edition could still be protected. There was a
> long discussion recently on this topic in this mailing list,
> see the archive.
This is a really difficult matter. My edition is English, by
Alfred Lengnick&Co., Ltd., without any date. From the printing
quality, it seems to be a photowhatsoever reproduction of an
older edition, maybe the Simrock one?
Rather weird, the number on the bottom of the first page is 4679,
whereas on all other pages, it's 8165 (perhaps the simrock number?)
I don't understand this.
>
> /Mats
Thanks, Dirk.
