Getting glyphs.

I have Lilypond installed under Mandriva 2006 from the RPMs available for the distro. I can create Segno or Coda signs with Noteedit, but Lilypond seems to be unable to handle them. An export from Noteedit to Lilypond inserts the following code for a segno ^\segno. Lilypond complains about

Re: Re:A new freeware LilyPond editor for Windows (Thibaut Chevalier)

Hi Anders,I think you should tell conText to use Unicode. This can be done via the menu Options Environment options... Editor. Under Default settings for a new document set File format to Unicode. Existing files can be converted with Tools Convert Text To... Unicode. Good luck! Best

Re: Glissandi between specific notes in a chord?

Hi, Trevor: Is there a way to gliss instead downwards from d' to c'? You mean other than using 1. #'extra-offset plus #'rotation; or 2. hidden \voiceTwo notes? Sorry -- I don't know of another way. Good luck! KMac. ___ lilypond-user

Re: Glissandi between specific notes in a chord?

On 7/27/06, Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Trevor: Is there a way to gliss instead downwards from d' to c'? You mean other than using 1. #'extra-offset plus #'rotation; or 2. hidden \voiceTwo notes? Sorry -- I don't know of another way. Good luck! RIght. Heading

Re: layout across multiple scores

Quoting Jon Wild [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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:

Re: A new freeware LilyPond editor for Windows

Quoting Rick Hansen (aka RickH) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks, this highlighter is making my work easier too and increased my understanding of how lp language works. One question : Do you know how to use convert-ly under windows ? Is this a separate program I cannot find or it is a command to

Re: Organization of vocal scores

Benedict == Benedict Singer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Benedict My issue is that when I'm looking at the score to make Benedict corrections or tweaks, I mentally reference things Benedict based off the words. Lilypond, however, bases it off Benedict the notes, and so every

Odd placement of the Opus string

I'm typesetting an orchestral work with 2.8.0 that has two movements, and so I am using a \book holding two \scores. In the header to \book, I assigned a value to opus. However, this opus number is being typeset down alongside the title to the first movement, instead of up top with the work title

Re: neo-mensural time signatures

Am 27. Juli 2006, 16:57 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Mats Bengtsson: See the first example in the section on Polymetric notation for information on how to modify the time signature with whatever text markup. Thanks a lot. Do you know, what the Text markup would be to get the neomensural signs printed

Re: a metronome mark question

Hi Markus: so I used Kieren's example as a starting point... I put my result in the LSR (Rhythm marks / play style indication): http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=204 Have fun! Very cool, thank you. :) After looking at Kieren's example I cobbled together the following solution. It's

RE: Slide, or glissando with no start point

Thanks, Wol - It took a few tries, but it came out okay. I got fooled by the fact that at *1/10, nothing showed up. Also, unHideNotes \glissando produces a syntax error. Here's what I ended up with: \hideNotes g''2*3/10 \glissando \unHideNotes c'''2*7/10 Thanks again, Ralph -Original

LilyPondTool MacOSX help

Hi Bertalan,I used LilyPondTool exclusively for all my scores with enormous satisfaction until April of 2005 on Mac OSX.I recently updated the tool, but it no longer works. Things appear to have changed.Maybe you could help me out a bit.I've downloaded the plugin in jEdit4.2 and all of the

Re: Creating PNG output of music snippets is always the size of a page

As long as it's a single line score, try the --preview option. /Mats Quoting Charles Cave [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When I run lilypond with the --png command line switch, the generated PNG file is the size of the printed page. How can I make this image small enough so the image is cropped? It

Re: new user....

Quoting Markus Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED]: global = { \hideNotes \repeat unfold 5 { s1 | s1 | s1 | s1 | \break } } which of course can be shortened to global = \repeat unfold 5 { s1*4 | \break } /Mats ___ lilypond-user

Re: Tying only one note of a chord?

From: Trevor Ba?a [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tying only one note of a chord? To: lilypond-user lilypond-user@gnu.org 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

Non-intrusive installation of stable 2.8.5

I had to install some decent recent Lilypond-version and downloaded lilypond-2.8.5-1.linux.sh Looking into the shell-script I found === Options --prefix PREFIX install into PREFIX/lilypond/ (default: $prefix) --batch no interaction --tarball extract tar