There is a way to make roman numerals here. http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=710 Click on the image, save the wall of text you see as roman.ly, and add the line \include roman.ly after the version line.
As for the rest, I would have to see your code to see why it was acting strange. On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Tim Ringenbach <[email protected]>wrote: > I decided I wanted to mess with some music in svg format. I decided to use > lilypond, and to typeset something from my beginner's piano book to play > around with. I was mainly using lilypond > > 2.17.91, although I also had a copy of 2.16.2. > > You can see the page I was trying to duplicate on amazon's preview, it's > page 116, "Why Am I Blue?". > http://www.amazon.com/Adult-All-In-One-Course-Lesson-Theory-Technic- > Level/dp/0882848186/ref=sr_1_2? > I was not trying to duplicate any of the red text, only the normal > notation. > > > (I was doing this for personal use and to learn lilypond, I know I can't > distribute someone else's copyrighted stuff) > > After googling and reading various pages of the manual, I decided to use > the > parallel mode. > > Things were going well until I got to the first and second endings. > Wrapping > everything in \repeat worked, but everything blew up when I tried add > \alternative. At one point I got it to compile, but it duplicated the > staffs. > I thought maybe it was broken in the 2.17 version, so I tried 2.16, and > \repeat didn't work at all in that. > > Eventually, after many wasted hours, I redid it without parallel mode and > that > worked well. (I get the impression that parallel mode just doesn't work in > certain situations, and I wish that the manual hadn't suggested that I use > it.) > > But, I still wasn't able to get the pedal in the second ending to start out > open. It always gave me a warning that the \sustainOff didn't have a > matching \sustainOn for the last measure. It worked in the first ending > though, which I thought was a little odd since they were both in the > \alternative tag. > > Eventually I gave up on that and let the pedal start on the first node of > the > last measure, and end on the first rest. > > Finally, I got to the roman numerals, and from what I could find, there's > not really a way to do that. That I also found surprising, because lilypond > seems to support so much obscure stuff, I thought > for sure it would support anything in a beginner's book. > > > Anyway, I don't really have any questions. I just wanted to relay my > experience in case it's helpful to the developers. > > Thanks, > Tim > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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