Re: force distance between bars for chord only staff
Thanks Mats, I did upgrade to unstable branch 2.7.27 and the new feature proportional spacing is working fine. Thanks ! Freddy. On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:01:58 +0100 Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro* If you search the mailing list archives, you will find that this is a very popular question (even though most people don't ask for the specific case of a score with only chords). Possibly you can use the support for proportional notation introduced in version 2.7.something, see the example called spacing-proportional.ly in the Regression Test document for version 2.7. Otherwise the standard trick is to include an invisible voice with only 16th notes or whatever, which will fix the horizontal spacing. In most scores, this kind of fixed spacing looks so ugly, so that's why it's not directly supported in LilyPond. /Mats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May I ask again for assistance on this point ? no feedback for the moment, did I miss to communicate some information ? Thanks, Freddy. On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:23:23 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro* Hi, I'm trying use 2.6.x to produce jazz staff without the melody staff. My problem is I would like to get 4 measure per line with the same distance between bars. It looks lilypond affects different distances on each measure depending on the number of chords per measure, and finaly the staff is not easy to read. I've read a bit the documentation about the SpannerSpacing interface. But because I'm a newbie with lilypond I'm not able to use it properly, that's the reason why I ask lilypond users to give me some help ! Additionnaly, if you know about websites on which I could find lilypond templates for jazz staff, I've tryed to found this with google, but I didn't success with this too... Thanks, Freddy. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Hebrew, UTF-8, etc.
Nahum Wengrov wrote: Is there a known bug in Notepad concerning UTF-8, or is it UTF-8 encoding incompatible with Lilypond? On the contrary, LilyPond only knows about UTF-8, since version 2.6.0, see the manual. I was asking if Notepad's UTF-8 encoding is incompatible with Lilypond. I have only tried it with characters such as åäöÅÄÖßü, that are also included in Latin1, but for those it has worked excellently. ... Thanks, I'm already using Notepad2 for files having unicode. Seems not to be working well with Hebrew though. That might rather have something to do with the font handling. If you search the mailing list archives, you will find a number of emails related to Hebrew lyrics, hopefully you can find some more hints there. /Mats ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
RE: TEX-Backend
Using
\paper{
...
oddFooterMarkup=\markup {}
evenFooterMarkup=\markup {}
}
makes the following lines disappear:
\lyitem{018.2363}{-169.1327}{\hbox{\magfontecrmBAmXVo{}Music engraving by
LilyPond}}% \lyitem{045.6798}{-169.1327}{\hbox{\magfontecrmBAmXVo{} }}%
\lyitem{047.2795}{-169.1327}{\hbox{\magfontecrmBAmXVo{}2.7.27}}%
\lyitem{052.9894}{-169.1327}{\hbox{\magfontecrmBAmXVo{}â }}%
\lyitem{057.5329}{-169.1327}{\hbox{\magfontecrmBAmXVo{}www.lilypond.org}}%
I think the next to last line caused the error.
Georg
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Subject: Re: TEX-Backend
Hi,
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 12:06, Georg Dummer wrote:
! Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined
(inputenc)in inputencoding `latin1'.
I seem to recall having seen something of that kind when
saving LaTeX source files (unrelated to lilypond) with UTF-8
encoding activated instead of ISO-8859-1 in my text editor
(xemacs). This might be an issue if you have, for instance,
german umlauts. Did you try that?
Can't say anything about the other stuff, sorry.
Thomas
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RE: Lilypond-book output
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From: Graham Percival [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 12:05 AM
To: Georg Dummer
Cc: lilypond-user
Subject: Re: Lilypond-book output
On 8-Jan-06, at 8:02 AM, Georg Dummer wrote:
Then I get the whole score with the markup in the correct
order but in
one picture which is only suitable for realy small scores. If I
comment out the \book block the several lines are drawn in
serveral
pictures but all \markups are put in one picture. The same thing
happens if I use the \header instead of the first markup.
Interesting. The \book behavior is what's supposed to happen. Having
\score{ {
{ notes }
\markup{}
\markup{}
}
}
is a relatively new construct. But I agree that is seems that
the two \markup sections should be processed separately
(producing separate .eps files).
Is it possible to put every separate markup, header and line of a
score in different eps-files?
You could probably fake it by inserting an empty, invisible
score in between the \markup fields.
- Graham
Thank you. I tried this but it didn't change anything.
But maybe I have to play around with this a bit.
As a start I think I can live with that. For me the most annoy thing is the
fact, that the markups are put on top of the score. Is this a bug?
Georg
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Re: Hebrew, UTF-8, etc.
Certainly it can, at least in Windows XP (unfortunately not in Win98, though)! Sorry to disappoint you. Notepad can only save as *signed* UTF-8 format. Which is indeed incompatible with Lilypond. ha ! well ! allright ! Thanks, I'm already using Notepad2 for files having unicode. Seems not to be working well with Hebrew though. Hum ! Send me your ly file I would like test. I use the version 2.7.23 for the moment ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: How to invoke Lilypond-book (Windows / Ubuntu)
On Thursday 19 January 2006 18.18, Bostjan Kuzman wrote: Thanks for the advice. However, though double clicking lilypond-book.py does something in Windows, I still don't know how to process the files. Running python c:/Progra~1/LilyPond/usr/bin/lilypond-book.py from Command prompt looks OK, but if I do python c:/Progra~1/LilyPond/usr/bin/lilypond-book.py test.lytex, then I get Path not found. Hm, seems to be a problem with temporary files or something, might be windows specific. lilypond-book works without problems under Ubuntu, so the easiest solution is to do your work on that box. If you really need to use windows, you could try the cygwin package (and the bash shell iso. native command prompt), this might help (but I don't know, I never used latex under windows). -- Erik ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
programming error: cross fingers
Hi!
I've made a short lilypond file. If i compile it with lilypond, than i get 2
(error?) messages, but lilypond did make the pdf. The pdf file looks good, but i
can't figure it out, what this messages mean.
Can anyone tell me, what did i wrong with my ly-file or what's the exact problem
here?
Thanx:
Ádám János Reviczky
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The error message is (twice):
programming error: adding reverse spring, setting to unit
continuing, cross fingers
Here is my short minimal.ly:
\version 2.6.0
\include english.ly
global = {
\key bf \major
\time 4/4
}
tenMusic = \relative {
\global
r8\mf bf'8 bf8 bf8 bf4 bf4
r8 bf8 bf8 bf8 bf8 bf8 g4
\time 5/4
r8 a8 a8 a8 bf4 a4 f8 f8
\time 4/4
bf8 bf8 bf8 bf8 a8 f4.
}
pianoright = \relative {
\global
r8 d f g bf8 d f g bf8 d f g bf8 d f g bf4 d f g bf4
r8 c e g bf8 c e g bf8 d f g bf8 c e g bf8 c e g bf8 bf e g bf4
r8 c ef f a8 c ef f a8 c ef f a8 c ef g bf4 c ef f a4 f, f'8 f'
f,8
bf, d f bf8 bf d f bf8 c ef g bf8 bf d f bf8 a d f a8 f bf d f4.
}
pianoleft = \relative {
\global
\clef bass
R1*2
r1 r4
R1
}
Text = \lyricmode {
Is this the real life? Is this just fan -- ta -- sy? Caught in a land -- slide,
No es -- cape from re -- al -- i -- ty.
}
\score {
\context Voice = melodie \global \tenMusic
\lyricsto melodie \new Lyrics \Text
\context PianoStaff \context Staff = up { \pianoright } \context Staff = down
{ \pianoleft }
}
My PC:
Debian Etch (x386)
LilyPond 2.6.3-9
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short tunes
Traditional tunes tend to be short. Just a burst of eight bars, repeated usually and then a burst of another eight bars again repeated. I would like to play the tune a number of times 1,2,3 perhaps 4 times. I could go: timidity my.tune timidity my.tune timidity my.tune but is no good as there is a delay between tunes. How can I tell Lilypond to put out the tune (ie the notes) n times, where n is taken from the command line ? I would like to have my tunes stand alone, so I can edit them an play them individually. But I would also like to suck the essential parts of these same tunes into a book for sharing or perhaps publications. I don't mind writing some perl code to do this, but I need to know the essential parts to suck in. Thanks a lot. Joe ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
devl version 2.7.27-4 windows - install problem details
I tried to reinstall the devl version for windows again and looked closely at the detailed messages. The problem seems to occur during the installation with a copy operation for gs.exe which fails. Soon after guile.exe is called and the error message pop up appears guile.exe has encountered a problem and needs to closewe are sorry for the inconvenienceCopy to C:\tool\audio\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypad-unicode.exeCopy to C:\tool\audio\LilyPond\usr\bin\gs.exe Copy failedCopy to C:\tool\audio\LilyPond\usr\etc\fonts\fonts.conf.inExecute: C:\tool\audio\LilyPond\usr\bin\guile -e main -s C:\tool\audio\LilyPond\usr\bin\fc-cache.scm C:\WINDOWS\fonts C:\tool\audio\LilyPond\usr\share\gs\fonts C:\tool\audio\LilyPond\usr\share\lilypond\2.7.27\fonts\type1 ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Context - A recommendable Windows-Editor for Lilypond
Hello Lilypond-Friends, I found a wonderful editor to write and performe Lilypond in Windows-Systems. He is called Context and can be found at: http://www.context.cx/ Context is a relative new programmers editor and freeware. The advantages are 1. You can use the known Windows-Shortcuts to work (not all editors do that) 2. You can write an own highlightersyntax-file to highlight the Lilypond-commands 3. You can launch Lilypond from the editor with function keys, means, you can make your PDF and start the midi-file 4. When launching you have a control window to see mistakes and you can correct them pronto in the named line. If you want to launch your program, go to Options, Environment and Execute Keys. Push ADD and write in the popup-entryfield the ending ly. Then mark a function key (like F9) and write in the entryfield Execute your lilypond path and a following %n. May be this is your entry: D:\music\lilypond\usr\bin\lilypond.exe %n Make a tick in Capture Console output to have a compilercontrol in your editorwindow. The percent-entry behind lilypond.exe calls your loaded programm. You don't need to save your last writings (but the filename must exist). With another function key you can call another program. Mark another function key and write in the Execute-Entryfield: %F.pdf (calls your PDF-Reader and loads ) %F.midi (calls your Midi-Player) That's all. If you compile, you push F9. If you want to see your notes, you only push your defined function keys to see and hear your composing results. With ALT+TAB you are back in your editor and you can go on without leaving and new loading your ly-file. I think Context is a wonderful alternative to the complicated editors emacs and vim. And I think of course, lilypond is a wonderful program and has wonderful creative developers! Thanks and greetings from germany! Uli Heller ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
RE: Caesura directly underneath fermata
David -
Try this:
%%%
\version 2.4.6
\layout { raggedright = ##t }
\relative c'' {
\new Staff { | a a a a
^\markup { \hspace #2 \center-align \musicglyph #scripts-ufermata
{ \hspace #0.5 \musicglyph #scripts-caesura } }
| a a a a }
\new Staff { | b b b b
^\markup { \hspace #2 \center-align \musicglyph #scripts-ufermata
{ \hspace #0.5 \musicglyph #scripts-caesura } }
| b b b b }
\new Staff { | c c c c
^\markup { \hspace #2 \center-align \musicglyph #scripts-ufermata
{ \hspace #0.5 \musicglyph #scripts-caesura } }
| c c c c }
}
%%%
- Bruce
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Subject: Caesura directly underneath fermata
I'm typesetting a choral work (I didn't write it myself) for SATB and the
composer in his manuscript has placed a fermata directly above a caesura
(railroad tracks) directly over a barline _in all four parts_.
In other words, it looks like this
F
C
S =|=|=|=
| | |
| F |
| C |
A =|=|=|=
| | |
| F |
| C |
T =|=|=|=
| | |
| F |
| C |
B =|=|=|=
(In case that's not clear | = barline, F = fermata, C = caesura, = = staff)
In the manuscript, the fermata and caesura are directly on top of barline in
the ATB parts.
I've killed myself trying to get this to work. Does anyone have any ideas
on how to do it? I'm using Lilypond 2.4.5.
Many thanks!
David Wake
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Re: short tunes
On Friday 20 January 2006 20.01, debian wrote: Traditional tunes tend to be short. Just a burst of eight bars, repeated usually and then a burst of another eight bars again repeated. I would like to play the tune a number of times 1,2,3 perhaps 4 times. I could go: timidity my.tune timidity my.tune timidity my.tune but is no good as there is a delay between tunes. How can I tell Lilypond to put out the tune (ie the notes) n times, where n is taken from the command line ? I would like to have my tunes stand alone, so I can edit them an play them individually. But I would also like to suck the essential parts of these same tunes into a book for sharing or perhaps publications. I don't mind writing some perl code to do this, but I need to know the essential parts to suck in. Well, you could store all tunes in variables, which you keep in one static file, and then write a perl script that generates a main .ly file, which includes the static file, and then generates a score by dereferencing the variables one or more times, depending on command-line parameters to the perl script. Wouldn't that be enough? -- Erik ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Download 2.4.6 for Windows
Title: Download 2.4.6 for Windows I note version 2.4.6 for Windows is no longer available for download, though 2.4.2 is. Why? Though behind on features, 2.4.6 doesn't crash and fonts work rather well. Judging from reflector traffic, more recent versions have added features but haven't yet recovered reliability. I like 2.4.6 and recommend it for those who want to use Lily and can wait for the new features. - Bruce ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
TextTo: a modest proposal
I am interested in what other long-time users of lilypond think of
this suggestion to implement a \textto to work similarly to \lyricsto.
for lilypond entry of fingering and text:
example:
bassfinger = \text {
.3 '4 . ^Cresc\dots 4 'i;3,;^a tempo |^\segno }
123 4 5 6 7 8bar -wc
fingers a sequence with eight notes/rests in it. If
a barcheck or something else not a note/rest is used, it can have
text, but you don't have to count those as notes. The simplest
thing would be to use \time or \clef as a reference to the same
point in the score. To skip bars, use || or |20 using only the
barchecks in the notes.
.3 is skip 3 words. A '.' is skip a single word, either note or rest.
It's not skipping time, it's skipping words.
Chords g d are not counted, only the notes in them in order given in
\bassfinger. On the last note head in the example, there is an 'i'
above and to the left, a '3' below and to the right, and a tempo
is centered above. A '!' like '3,!' would orient the number to the
stem end instead of the head. The ';' is a separator.
A single word retains the relative position code of that which
precedes.
- are literal. They are often used literally, as has been
noted many times.
~ also literal. double quotes are for strings with spaces only.
No letters or numbers are used for anything except inserted text,
except such \commands as may be used in the block.
before note: :3 :text before
farther before: ::3
3* text before#*
| |
| |
centered above: ^a
centered below head: _a tempo below stem: _a tempo!
before and above: '3 more to left: ''3
before and below: ,3 more to left: ,,3
after note and above: 3' farther right: 3s''
after below: 3, more right: morendo,,
flushright above: ^'3 farther left: ^''3
flushright below: _,3 farther left: _,,3
flushleft above: ^dim' farther right: ^dim''
flushleft below: _dim, farther right: _dim,,
repeat position: nothing necessary
The reason for suggesting this is that fingering and text are a
different step from entering the notes, and fraught with much more
difficulty in tweaking and changes due to upgrades and just plain
editing. There is also the use of t p i m a r q c for various right
hand fingerings for plucked strings, and the use of hyphens -3 3- and
3-4. Adoption of a \textto, similar to \lyricsto, would help a lot
with every sort of revision and make editing *much* quicker for those
of us who have a lot of fingering and other text.
It would also make it much easier to read the notes in the final
lilypond file, because they would stay clean. I think this is the
strongest argument of all for making it part of LilyPond rather than
just an editing tool.
Much could be done with simple substitution, but stacking text gets
difficult because for example something left and above relative to the
note would complicate the placement of something above all that
because the latter should be somewhat lower. Worth it to me. ;-)
As for using symbols differently, you have to do that with lyrics,
so why not other text? Comments?
daveA
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Re: short tunes
Hi. How can I tell Lilypond to put out the tune (ie the notes) n times, where n is taken from the command line ? I don't think that you can pass this kind of arguments on the command line. A few weeks ago, I wished for something similar: i.e. a tool to concatenate MIDI files. [I tried it with a Perl module, but I couldn't work it out.] I would like to have my tunes stand alone, so I can edit them an play them individually. But I would also like to suck the essential parts of these same tunes into a book for sharing or perhaps publications. I don't mind writing some perl code to do this, but I need to know the essential parts to suck in. You don't need to program to achieve this; it's a matter of organizing your lilypond code in various files, using \include to put the common music either alone in a file, or grouping it with other tunes in a file with multiple \score sections. Best, Gilles ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: parallel versus series scoring
Nicolas Sceaux wrote: -- parallelMusic = #(def-music-function (parser location voice-number music) (number? ly:music?) it's hack, but it's a cool one. With a little polishing, we should be able to put it in the standard distribution. Wouldn't it be better to store the voices in different variables? It would be nice to check whether the lengths of all bars are equal. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Forcing page layout in Lilypond 2.6.4
Hello everybody! Is there any way to force Lilypond 2.6.4 to obliviously obey to \paper settings such as betweensystemspace or betweensystempadding? It's very frustrating the useless struggle against the intelligent stubborness of lilypond internal layout when it continues putting more white space on the page than staves even if you've just tried all the possible settings in the \paper block. Best regards, Gianluca D'Orazio ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
lilypond error?
I am wondering if this error i am getting is the program or me. # -*-compilation-*- Changing working directory to `C:/Documents and Settings/Alex So/Desktop/hungarian rhapsody' Processing `C:/Documents and Settings/Alex So/Desktop/hungarian rhapsody/hungarianrhapsody.txt' Parsing... C:/Program Files/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/2.7.27/ly/init.ly:28:0: error: syntax error, unexpected SCM_T #(if (and (ly:get-option 'old-relative) I have looked through all my syntax and everything seems correct. I don't understand what is wrong heresomeone explain or give me some help? View this message in context: lilypond error? Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User forum at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
