Slide, or glissando with no start point

2006-07-26 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Hi - Running LilyPond 2.8.4.1 under Windows XP SP2. I'd like to notate a slide up to a note. The time, in the music, would come out of the note following the slide notation. For those familiar with ABC notation, this would be similar to prefixing the note with a J in .abc. In this particular

Re: a metronome mark question

2006-07-26 Thread Vivian Barty-Taylor
I also had this problem recently. I got round it by having a hidden, smaller staff running the whole length of the piece and only inserting the "notes" that I needed around the barline of the tempo change (in that case \times 2/3 {c16 c c} s16^"=" c16 c c )Very clumsy but it did get the desired

true Cmaj7 chord ?

2006-07-26 Thread joelinux
I would like to be able to write a true Cmaj7 chord. This is a I chord in the key of C major with an added scale tone 7th. There is no such chord as a Cadd(#7) which is spelled out in the Lilypond documentation examples as c e g b. A #7 in the key of C would be another C an octive above the

top posting?

2006-07-26 Thread joelinux
I tried to submit a bug regarding the documentation of chord symbols through the documentation bug reporting system, but my message appears to be rejected due to the false claim that I'm top-posting How can you top post when you are writing an original message? This seems to be just another

top posting?

2006-07-26 Thread joelinux
I tried to submit a bug regarding the documentation of chord symbols through the documentation bug reporting system, but my message appears to be rejected due to the false claim that I'm top-posting How can you top post when you are writing an original message? This seems to be just another

Re: top posting?

2006-07-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, Joe -- If you included Lily code in your post, the and can sometimes be misconstrued by the server as top-posting. Try replacing them with other symbols. Cheers, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: true Cmaj7 chord ?

2006-07-26 Thread Paul Scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to be able to write a true Cmaj7 chord. This is a I chord in the key of C major with an added scale tone 7th. There is no such chord as a Cadd(#7) which is spelled out in the Lilypond documentation examples as c e g b. c:maj7 This is in the manual. If

layout across multiple scores

2006-07-26 Thread Jon Wild
How can I specify a layout block that applies to all scores in a book? I wrote a program to generate musical examples, and each snippet is to go on its own staff. So my program writes them in separate scores like this, each with its own layout block: ==begin .ly file== \book { \score {

Re: a metronome mark question

2006-07-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, y'all -- How 'bout the attached as a starting point? Best, Kieren. \version 2.9.13 \layout { ragged-right = ##t } metMark = \mark \markup { \line \vcenter { Swing \hspace #0.5 \score

Re: layout across multiple scores

2006-07-26 Thread Paul Scott
Jon Wild wrote: Please don't use Reply to start a new thread. How can I specify a layout block that applies to all scores in a book? I wrote a program to generate musical examples, and each snippet is to go on its own staff. So my program writes them in separate scores like this, each with

Organization of vocal scores

2006-07-26 Thread Benedict Singer
Hi all, As I prepare to start on my second major vocal piece, I'm wondering if there's a nicer way to organize the lilypond file. My issue is that when I'm looking at the score to make corrections or tweaks, I mentally reference things based off the words. Lilypond, however, bases it off the

Re: layout across multiple scores

2006-07-26 Thread Jon Wild
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Paul Scott wrote: Jon Wild wrote: How can I specify a layout block that applies to all scores in a book? I wrote a program to generate musical examples, and each snippet is to go on its own staff. So my program writes them in separate scores like this, each with its own

Re: layout across multiple scores

2006-07-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, Jon: That works fine for me...? Best, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Line breaking every x bars

2006-07-26 Thread Christopher Culver
I've played at the top of \score{... the example in the manual for line breaking every x beats so that I could have Lilypond place no more than 7 bars on each page of my orchestral score, but when I run Lilypond, it complains that it cannot provide such line breaking because of constraints. The

Re: layout across multiple scores

2006-07-26 Thread Jon Wild
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Kieren MacMillan wrote: That works fine for me...? It works for me, in that it compiles and produces an output - just not the output I wanted, since all the /layout instructions are ignored. (The ragged-right and no time signature, etc.) Did it observe the /layout

Re: layout across multiple scores

2006-07-26 Thread Paul Scott
Jon Wild wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Kieren MacMillan wrote: That works fine for me...? It works for me, in that it compiles and produces an output - just not the output I wanted, since all the /layout instructions are ignored. (The ragged-right and no time signature, etc.) Did it observe

Re: layout across multiple scores Oops!

2006-07-26 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: Jon Wild wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Kieren MacMillan wrote: That works fine for me...? It works for me, in that it compiles and produces an output - just not the output I wanted, since all the /layout instructions are ignored. (The ragged-right and no time signature,

setting accidental style

2006-07-26 Thread Jon Wild
Where should I insert the line #(set-accidental-style 'no-reset) in my .ly file, in order to have accidentals be remembered across barlines? I tried outside the /book block, inside the /book block but outside the /score block, and inside the /score block. Each time I got the error syntax

Re: setting accidental style

2006-07-26 Thread Paul Scott
Jon Wild wrote: Where should I insert the line #(set-accidental-style 'no-reset) in my .ly file, in order to have accidentals be remembered across barlines? I tried outside the /book block, inside the /book block but outside the /score block, and inside the /score block. Each time I got

Re: setting accidental style

2006-07-26 Thread Jon Wild
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Paul Scott wrote: Where should I insert the line #(set-accidental-style 'no-reset) in my .ly file, in order to have accidentals be remembered across barlines? I tried outside the /book block, inside the /book block but outside the /score block, and inside the /score

Re: layout across multiple scores

2006-07-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, Jon: The ragged-right and no time signature, etc. Did it observe the / layout block for you? Yes: Picture 1.png Description: application/applefile FWIW, I'm using 2.9.13 on Mac OS X. Cheers, Kieren.___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: layout across multiple scores

2006-07-26 Thread Jon Wild
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Kieren MacMillan wrote: The ragged-right and no time signature, etc. Did it observe the /layout block for you? Yes: Arg - I just double-checked and it works for me too, here at the office. But the same .ly file at home didn't work... Thank you Kieran. Do you know

Re: setting accidental style

2006-07-26 Thread Paul Scott
Jon Wild wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Paul Scott wrote: Where should I insert the line #(set-accidental-style 'no-reset) in my .ly file, in order to have accidentals be remembered across barlines? I tried outside the /book block, inside the /book block but outside the /score block, and

Re: layout across multiple scores

2006-07-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, Jon: Do you know anything about the set-accidental-style command and where it should go in the .ly file? (see other thread) Not specifically -- but why not just use \time 60*4 (or whatever you need), since you're not showing the time-sig anyway... Best, Kieren.

Re: setting accidental style

2006-07-26 Thread Jon Wild
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Paul Scott wrote: Where should I insert the line #(set-accidental-style 'no-reset) in my .ly file, in order to have accidentals be remembered across barlines? I tried outside the /book block, inside the /book block but outside the /score block, and inside the /score

Re: setting accidental style

2006-07-26 Thread Paul Scott
Jon Wild wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Paul Scott wrote: Where should I insert the line #(set-accidental-style 'no-reset) in my .ly file, in order to have accidentals be remembered across barlines? I tried outside the /book block, inside the /book block but outside the /score block, and

neo-mensural time signatures

2006-07-26 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, I'm trying to typeset a piece of renaissance music in neomensural style and would like to use the neo-mensural time signature glyphs. Unfortunately they are preset to decode 3/2 or 2/2 bars although the tempus imperfectum or perfectum should get translated into 2 or 3 semibrevis which means

a tweak to the accidental engraver

2006-07-26 Thread Jon Wild
I'm having difficulty figuring out how I should implement a tweak. The Accidental_engraver has a property called extraNatural, which for my current purposes I'd like to set to false. (This suppresses the extra natural when going directly from Gb to G#, for example.) Could someone demonstrate

Re: a tweak to the accidental engraver

2006-07-26 Thread Paul Scott
Jon Wild wrote: I'm having difficulty figuring out how I should implement a tweak. The Accidental_engraver has a property called extraNatural, which for my current purposes I'd like to set to false. (This suppresses the extra natural when going directly from Gb to G#, for example.) Could

Sponsorship - Better Incipits / Ossai Staves.

2006-07-26 Thread Trent J
Hi All, This email is mainly directed at Han-Wen but if others have ideas and suggestions then please don't hesitate. I'm looking to sponsor two features: 1: Better support for Incipits: looking at the current way of preparing incipits there isn't a way to restart the staff again e.g. to

Tying only one note of a chord?

2006-07-26 Thread Trevor Bača
Hi, Is it possible to tie only one note of a chord? This snippet using the tie-configuration property of the TieColumn is basically what I'm looking for, except that the tie prints three times, giving too heavy a weight. %%% BEGIN %%% \version 2.9.13 \new Staff { c' e' g'

Glissandi between specific notes in a chord?

2006-07-26 Thread Trevor Bača
Hi again, The glissando below appears by default between the upper notes of the two chords, ie, upwards from b' to c''. Is there a way to gliss instead downwards from d' to c'? %%% BEGIN %%% \version 2.9.13 \new Staff { d' g' b' 4 \glissando c' g' c''

Re: Line breaking every x bars

2006-07-26 Thread Graham Percival
Christopher Culver wrote: I've played at the top of \score{... the example in the manual for line breaking every x beats so that I could have Lilypond place no more than 7 bars on each page of my orchestral score, but when I run Lilypond, it complains that it cannot provide such line breaking

Re: lyrics running wider than the staff

2006-07-26 Thread Graham Percival
Michael Haynie wrote: I would be embarrassed to not have found that, except that it never occurred to me to look at the root node of the section, which doesn't suggest that it deals with such an odd topic. I've wondered if it might be a good idea to collect settings which have global