Re: music definition change in 2.9.9 or thereabouts?

2006-06-28 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 07:41, Paul Scott wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote: On Monday 19 June 2006 03:21, Paul Scott wrote: This used to work in 2.8: \version 2.9.9 KeyG = \key g \major { \KeyG a'' b'' g'' a'' } Have any keywords been added or something that would break this?

Re: music definition change in 2.9.9 or thereabouts?

2006-06-28 Thread Paul Scott
Erik Sandberg wrote: On Wednesday 28 June 2006 07:41, Paul Scott wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote: On Monday 19 June 2006 03:21, Paul Scott wrote: This used to work in 2.8: \version 2.9.9 KeyG = \key g \major { \KeyG a'' b'' g'' a'' } Have any keywords been added or something

Re: Some general comments

2006-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
Ian Hawthorn wrote: 1. An extra lyric line is needed for harmony parts for a few bars. 2. An extra staff and lyric line for a soloist is required for one section. To add an extra staff, look up ossia. It works something like this: { c4 c c c {c4 c c c} \new Staff { e4 e e e } c4 c c c }

RE: Some general comments

2006-06-28 Thread Anthony Youngman
That sort of works ... but if Ian wants what I want, then it's a lot more work than just that ... This would be a very good example for Fairchild's AllAbouts. Certainly, until I clean it up, my version is a mess. I've got a linebreak at the barline where my ossia starts ... with the result that

how to remove system start bracket from the incipit

2006-06-28 Thread Am�lie Aubut
Hi everybody, I am having a hard time trying to remove the system start bracket from the first system. I am transcribing mensural music and I don't want the incipit (written with mensural note-heads) to start with modern brackets! I tried to do it by using: \once \override

Three more questions: centered instr. names / neomensural noteheads / incipit

2006-06-28 Thread Am�lie Aubut
My sheet of music would be Perfect: 1) If I could get the instrument names (Superius, Contratenor, etc...) to be centered, instead of being right-align as they are righ now. I tried to do: \set Staff.instrument = \markup{ \right-align Superius} for each instrument name, but it did not work

Re: Some general comments

2006-06-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Graham Percival wrote: Ian Hawthorn wrote: 1. An extra lyric line is needed for harmony parts for a few bars. 2. An extra staff and lyric line for a soloist is required for one section. To add an extra staff, look up ossia. It works something like this: { c4 c c c {c4 c c c} \new

Re: Some general comments

2006-06-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Ian Hawthorn wrote: ... 5. This bit of the song is in unison and needs only one staff. In addition to the answers you have already received, this situation is often easiest handled by the technique described in Hiding Staves in the manual. Then, LilyPond will automatically avoid printing

Re: Three more questions: centered instr. names / neomensural noteheads / incipit

2006-06-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Bonjour, Amélie! 1) If I could get the instrument names (Superius, Contratenor, etc...) to be centered Take a look at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/ 2006-06/msg00012.html. Best regards, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Three more questions: centered instr. names / neomensural noteheads / incipit

2006-06-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
AmXlie Aubut wrote: 2) If the modern clefs were right beside the double bar (instead of beeing apart from it). I guess this as something to do with the skips needed so that the new clefs get printed after the double bar, but I can't see what I can do to get rid of that huge space

Re: music definition change in 2.9.9 or thereabouts?

2006-06-28 Thread Paul Scott
Erik Sandberg wrote: On Wednesday 28 June 2006 07:41, Paul Scott wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote: On Monday 19 June 2006 03:21, Paul Scott wrote: This used to work in 2.8: \version 2.9.9 KeyG = \key g \major { \KeyG a'' b'' g'' a'' } Have any keywords been added or something

Strange behaviour of breakbefore option

2006-06-28 Thread Gianluca D.
Hi everybody! I'm using lilypond version 2.8.4. I was trying to use the breakbefore option in the header block inside a score to make the second score of my book start on a new page, but I couldn't afford it. So, trying on a little test file, I've discovered that breakbefore apparently

Re: Strange behaviour of breakbefore option

2006-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
Gianluca D. wrote: So, trying on a little test file, I've discovered that breakbefore apparently works only if piece string is set, and this string can't be an empty one. Yes, please see the Bugs section of the documentation about breakbefore. Cheers, - Graham

Moving a word at the beginning of a chart ?

2006-06-28 Thread joelinux
Hello, I have a college degree in Music History, taught public school music, and play several instruments. I did back up tracks for about seven years using six computer controlled synthesizers. I have been using Linux for at least 5 years. Recently I have tried notating music with Lilypond.

Re: Moving a word at the beginning of a chart ?

2006-06-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Joe: Recently I have tried notating music with Lilypond. I have to say it's been a very frustrating and arduous experience. Sorry to hear that -- I used Finale for over a decade, Igor Engraver for several years, and even Sibelius for a little while, but find Lilypond to be far less

compile problem with 2.8.4

2006-06-28 Thread Dave Phillips
Greetings: I recently upgraded my Debian Etch system (Demudi 1.3) and discovered that my home-built LP 2.8.1 failed with a report concerning Guile. I decided to compile 2.8.4 and got the same report near the end of the build :

Three questions

2006-06-28 Thread Gilles QUESNE
Hi everybody!I'm using lilypond version 2.8.5 I would like to know how to move the _expression_ "III. a" at the line 45 of myText01_ExtraitProblemVoix1.ly joint Trois questions: Three questions: A) Comment réduire les espaces entre: How does we do dwindle the spaces between:

Re: finding first page of score in scheme

2006-06-28 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to display something in the footer of the first (and last) pages of each score in a book. My current thought is to create a function (called at the beginning of each score) that records the page number into some global variable(s), and then

Re: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-28 Thread Charles Cave
Graham, I think this is a FANTASTIC suggestion and I am willing to contribute some examples. I am really struggling to learn enough about Lilypond to create a simple cello + piano accompaniment score. The resulting output would be the cello part, and the piano part. The Lilypond has a lot of

Re: Three more questions: centered instr. names / neomensural noteheads / incipi

2006-06-28 Thread Am�lie Aubut
Thanks a lot Kieren! My instrument names got centered thanks to your help! Merci encore, Amélie Original Message Follows From: Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Amélie Aubut [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Three more questions: centered instr. names /