Re: MusicXML

2003-03-01 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: more than finding the closest mudela equivalent for every MusicXML directive. There is no good technical reason to read MusicXML directly into lilypond, so I prefer to keep it outside. An explanation for why you say this would be an answer to my original

How are you

2003-03-01 Thread learngis
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Re: Problems with grace notes, barlines, accidentals

2003-03-01 Thread Laura Conrad
Laura == Laura Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Laura There should be only one and not two barlines in Laura the middle of the second alternative. Sorry about that -- the test file had an error in the placement of the fake grace notes in the bass line. The other

Re: Problems with grace notes, barlines, accidentals

2003-03-01 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Laura Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The attached file exhibits several problems: There should be a bar line at the beginning of the first alternative. Putting one in explicitly does not cause it to appear in the score. [..] Presumably something

Re: Problems with grace notes, barlines, accidentals

2003-03-01 Thread Laura Conrad
Jan == Jan Nieuwenhuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Presumably something (probably the grace note) has lily confused about where the measure starts. Jan Yes, you have me confused too. It looks like instead of setting Jan barType to empty, and adding bar-line glyphs at other

Re: Problems with grace notes, barlines, accidentals

2003-03-01 Thread Hans Forbrich
If I understand grace notes correctly, they do not take any time from the base notes. The first alternative therefore has only 7 - 8ths of the 4/4 tempo or the baseline before the alternative is a 7/8 partial measure and the alternative starts 1/8 into the second bar (or some other 'partial'

Re: Problems with grace notes, barlines, accidentals

2003-03-01 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Laura Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is how abc2ly works. I don't think having it parse every measure for whether it's partial is a good idea. Are you saying that abc2ly overrides the bar positioning? I don't think that's a very good idea; it would be much better to tell lily what's

adding extra white

2003-03-01 Thread Fulko van Westrenen
Hello, The more I typeset, the more questions I have. I would like to add some extra white between groups of notes, small melodical patterns. At the moment I do that using \bar, but the white is very small, I cannot ajust it, and it feels clumbsy. Is there something like the LaTeX \hspace{} in

Re: Problems with grace notes, barlines, accidentals

2003-03-01 Thread Laura Conrad
Jan == Jan Nieuwenhuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jan Laura Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is how abc2ly works. I don't think having it parse every measure for whether it's partial is a good idea. Jan Are you saying that abc2ly overrides the bar positioning? Yes,

Re: How to make hairpins not on notes

2003-03-01 Thread Daniel Ashton
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Daniel Ashton wrote: Is there a way to lengthen the measure when using this technique? The hairpins so produced appear to be short and fat. I would like to extend the measure so that the hairpins look more natural. Just set the minumum-length property of the hairpin:

Hanging tie with cue notes

2003-03-01 Thread Daniel Ashton
Hi again, I'm setting cues following the example in input/test/cue-notes.ly . (Is there a better example?) I'd like to set the first note with a tie to the previous non-existent note, i.e. a hanging tie. Is the possible? What I have looks something like this: VoiceOne = \notes \relative

Fontsize change when setting cue notes

2003-03-01 Thread Daniel Ashton
In the middle of a voice I have the following: {)gs2 s2 | s1} \context Voice = cue { \property Staff.fontSize = #-1 \property Voice.Stem \override #'length = #5.5 \property Voice.Beam \override #'thickness = #0.384 \property Voice.Beam \override #'space-function =

Re: Hanging tie with cue notes

2003-03-01 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, 01 Mar 2003 17:53:32 -0500 Daniel Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to set the first note with a tie to the previous non-existent note, i.e. a hanging tie. Is the possible? What I have looks something like this: Take a look at invisible notes. And you might want to use a

Re: Hanging tie with cue notes

2003-03-01 Thread Daniel Ashton
Graham Percival wrote: On Sat, 01 Mar 2003 17:53:32 -0500 Daniel Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to set the first note with a tie to the previous non-existent note, i.e. a hanging tie. Is the possible? What I have looks something like this: Take a look at invisible notes. And you

Spreading staffGroups across page

2003-03-01 Thread Daniel Ashton
I'm working with organ music, so three staves, of which the top two are in a StaffGroup. This is with 1.6.8/cygwin or 1.6.5/redhat let line = a set of measures in all staves (What's a better word for line in this definition?) I can understand that lily cannot squeeze another line onto the

Staff movement broken by StaffGroup, implicit voiceOne?

2003-03-01 Thread Daniel Ashton
This is probably not news, but it tripped me up briefly today: Using 1.6.x, organ music: I have a bass voice which starts in the left hand, and after several bars moves to the pedal. I set it be on the pedal staff. In the \notes I began with \transpose Staff=leftHand . At the appropriate

Easy way to transpose voices

2003-03-01 Thread Daniel Ashton
I have the following in my score block: \global \property Score.skipBars = ##t \context StaffGroup \context Staff = rightHand \Key \context Voice=one { \voiceOne \VoiceOne } \context Voice=two { \voiceTwo \VoiceTwo } \context Staff = leftHand \clef F

Re: Spreading staffGroups across page

2003-03-01 Thread Hans Forbrich
This is one of the frustrations I meet up with regularily. I hope this helps (and also hope that others have better knowledge/experince to share), but the best I have come up with to date is in 3 steps: 1) ensure that the correct papersize is set (before setting the 'font') so at the start,

Re: Easy way to transpose voices

2003-03-01 Thread Hans Forbrich
use the \transpose 'command' \context Voice = one { \voiceOne \transpose a \VoiceOne } will change the note pitch, and all other pitch related stuff (eg: keys) in the \VoiceOne music block from c to a (down 4 1/2 steps). However, you may end up fiddling a bit ... there is an interaction

Re: Staff movement broken by StaffGroup, implicit voiceOne?

2003-03-01 Thread Hans Forbrich
I suspect you mean \translate Staff=leftHand, not \transpose ... different functions. First thing I'd check is whether all the names Staff contexts are defined and held within the StaffGroup. A similar thing happened to me it turned out I'd accidently uppercased a letter in the live staff name,

I don't know how

2003-03-01 Thread HyprCat
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Re: Hanging tie with cue notes

2003-03-01 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, 01 Mar 2003 18:42:22 -0500 Daniel Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Graham. I really appreciate your ready replies. Just trying to repay the Lilypond crew for all the help they've given me. :) I looked in the ref manual for every permutation of visib and transpar. The closest

ly2dvi vs. lilypond-book output

2003-03-01 Thread Jeff Ousley
Hello, What settings in my latex file do I need to include to make my sheet music outputted from lilypond-book look similar to the output from ly2dvi? It seems the staff sizes (heights) are smaller coming from lilypon-book. I can include my files if that will help. thanks! -jeff