Re: Staffgroup question

2003-11-11 Thread Laura Conrad
Arvid == Arvid Grøtting [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: \property Score.automaticMelismata = ##t Arvid Some day, I wish someone could explain to me what this does, 'cuz I Arvid surely don't understand it. automaticMelismata means that if you slur notes together, all the notes under the

Re: Staffgroup question

2003-11-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
\property Score.automaticMelismata = ##t Some day, I wish someone could explain to me what this does, 'cuz I surely don't understand it. It's related to how \addlyrics works when connecting syllables to the music. If the property is set to true (which is the default, so the setting in the

Re: How to add Jazz alt chords

2003-11-11 Thread Amelie Zapf
Hi Stephan, all, I'm using lilypond to lay out a Jazz piece. I'm stuck with a chord Bb7alt which the composer specifies. How can I add this chord (as text) to the score? I hope you're using Lily 1.6.7 or higher with the corrected jazz code... I know of the problem... many jazzers write alt

How to add Jazz alt chords

2003-11-11 Thread Stephan Wehner
I'm using lilypond to lay out a Jazz piece. I'm stuck with a chord Bb7alt which the composer specifies. How can I add this chord (as text) to the score? (I'm using version 1.6 since the newer versions required too many other upgrades) Thanks a lot Stephan

Re: Another Two-Voice Question

2003-11-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you want a dotted eight note to have the duration of two triplet eight notes, you want 3/4 * X quarter notes to be the same as 2/3 quarter notes, which gives X= 2/3 /(3/4) = 8/9. Similarly, to make a sixteenth note have the duration of a triplet eight note, you want 1/4 * X quarter notes to be

Re: midi output questions

2003-11-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
One problem of your file is that you have too many staves to fit into a MIDI file. By default, a new MIDI channel is used for each Staff, Lyrics or ChordNames context. Since the maximum number of channels is 16 and channel number 10 is devoted to percussion, there are only 15 available and it

notes lyrics won't line up

2003-11-11 Thread Jeffery B. Rancier
Hi All, This is my first real attempt, although it took a some time, Emacs helped quite bit. I've got a couple quick questions: How can I assign names to the voices showing up to the left of the first line? E.g., Soprano | Alto|