Re: blank sheet and 1/4tones

2006-10-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you search through the Lilypond Index, i.e. the index of the manual for blank and quarter, respectively, you will find answers to your questions. /Mats bbarros wrote: Hi, How to print a blank sheet of music in a given layout? Could someone give me an example? Also, how to write quarter

Re: entering things like rit. or maestoso

2006-10-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
See the section on Text Scripts in the manual. /Mats Chane wrote: Hello, I am just learning how to use you program and love it! I'm just learning and can't figure out how to enter things like: rit. or accel., or espr. under the staff and things like maestoso, moderato, and the like, above

Re: Unwanted Time signatures

2006-10-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
What you have done in your example below is actually to typeset a number of separate scores after each other. Many things are optional in the LilyPond syntax, which is convenient since it saves typing but also can cause confusion if you are not familiar to the program. When you say something

Re: how to create a dynamic mark pp sempre?

2006-10-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Michael Kiermaier wrote: Thanks for the hint, Mats. ppsempre = #(make-dynamic-script (markup pp #:normal-text #:italic sempre ) ) works. Only the vertical alignment is not perfect... In what sense? I just tried it and at least to me it looks as if the pp and the sempre are aligned

Re: how do I fix warning: crescendo too small?

2006-10-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Try something like \once \override Hairpin #'bound-padding = #0.2 The default value is 1. /Mats Michael Kiermaier wrote: Hi Kieren, thanks, that works! I realized that there quite some space between the dynamic marks and the hairpin. In extreme situations like the one I had (c4\f\ c4\p),

Re: Alla breve music function

2006-10-04 Thread Markus Schneider
Hi Arvid, thanks a lot! This is exactly what I was looking for! Cheers, Markus ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Lilypond hangs when invoked

2006-10-04 Thread Vivian Barty-Taylor
I'm using 2.9.16 for Mac OSX.I'm trying to invoke Lilypond from the command line because I need to create SVG output.I type:lilypond.app/contents/MacOS/LilyPond -f svg lpfiles/treble.lyand Lilypond does... precisely nothing! The Terminal window I am using just hangs.I'm not a programmer, or

Re: Lilypond hangs when invoked

2006-10-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I recommend that you first verify that you can run LilyPond normally from the command line, i.e. that lilypond.app/contents/MacOS/LilyPond lpfiles/treble.ly (or some version of that, I don't use MacOS myself) works correctly. Ones you have managed to do that, it's just to add the extra options

Re: Lilypond hangs when invoked

2006-10-04 Thread Vivian Barty-Taylor
I tried that and it doesn't. Does anyone know if the executable I'm calling is actually the right one? I found it inside the LilyPond.app package, and assumed it was what I needed, but maybe I'm wrong.- Original Message From: Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Vivian Barty-Taylor [EMAIL

OOoLilyPond trouble

2006-10-04 Thread David Bobroff
I just downloaded and installed OOoLilyPond. I followed the instructions on the sourceforge.net page for installation/set-up. There were two or three differences in the sub-menus, but I think I got it figured out. When I try to use it, though, it doesnothing. I tried Testing the Script.

Re: how to create a dynamic mark pp sempre?

2006-10-04 Thread Michael Kiermaier
When I write c_\ppsempre for example, the parts pp and sempre are aligned at their top line. Since the letters of sempre are smaller than the pp letters, the base line of the both parts is not on the same vertical position. ~michael On Wednesday 04 October 2006 08:50, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

how to do (de)crescendos between monophonic and polyphonic parts?

2006-10-04 Thread Michael Kiermaier
I want to have a crescendo mark which starts within a monophonic part an ends within a polyphonic part. Like this (non working) example: c\cr {d\!} \\ {f} The c should be connected to the subseeding d by a crescendo. I know that I could put the first note into the polyphonic part (like this:

Re: how to create a dynamic mark pp sempre?

2006-10-04 Thread Markus Schneider
You may play around with \transparent, \combine and \fontsize get your alignment right. untested: ppsempre = #(make-dynamic-script (markup #:combine #:transparent f pp #:combine #:transparent f #:normal-text #:italic sempre ) ) Cheers, Markus Michael Kiermaier [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im

Re: how to do (de)crescendos between monophonic and polyphonic parts?

2006-10-04 Thread Markus Schneider
Hi Michael, you could do your dynamics in a sperate voice altogether: voiceI= { c {d} \\ {f} } voiceIdyn = { s\cr s\!} \score { \new Staff \context Voice = A \voiceI \context Voice = A \voiceIdyn } Cheers, Markus Michael Kiermaier [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag

Re: how to do (de)crescendos between monophonic and polyphonic parts?

2006-10-04 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, Michael: I want to have a crescendo mark which starts within a monophonic part an ends within a polyphonic part. Like this (non working) example: c\cr {d\!} \\ {f} The c should be connected to the subseeding d by a crescendo. Short answer: c\ { d\! } \new Voice { f } Long answer:

Re: OOoLilyPond trouble

2006-10-04 Thread Samuel Hartmann
Hi David, David Bobroff wrote: I just downloaded and installed OOoLilyPond. I followed the instructions on the sourceforge.net page for installation/set-up. There were two or three differences in the sub-menus, but I think I got it figured out. When I try to use it, though, it

Horizontal movement of SustainPedal

2006-10-04 Thread Michael J Millett
\version 2.8.4 Mac 10.39 I am trying without success to move the sustain pedal marking horizontally. Shouldn't this be doing it? \once\override SustainPedal #'extra-offset = #'(-3.0 . 0.0) or \once\override Staff.SustainPedal #'extra-offset = #'(-3.0 . 0.0) I see reference to this working:

Re: how to do (de)crescendos between monophonic and polyphonic parts?

2006-10-04 Thread Michael Kiermaier
Hi Kieren, this doesn't work for me. I get the same error message as before. I use Lilypond 2.8.6 (latest stable). ~michael On Wednesday 04 October 2006 22:08, you wrote: Hi, Michael: I want to have a crescendo mark which starts within a monophonic part an ends within a polyphonic part.

Re: how to do (de)crescendos between monophonic and polyphonic parts?

2006-10-04 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, Michael: Does the attached do what you want? Cheers, Kieren. \version 2.8.6 theMusic = \relative { c\ { \voiceTwo d\!} \new Voice { \voiceOne f } } \score { \theMusic } ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: how to do (de)crescendos between monophonic and polyphonic parts?

2006-10-04 Thread Michael Kiermaier
Thanks for your reply, Markus. I'm aware of the solution you suggested. But really I feel that the notes and the dynamics should be together. So I would like to know if that is possible. ~michael On Wednesday 04 October 2006 21:47, Markus Schneider wrote: Hi Michael, you could do your

collision between rest of one voice and the notes of the other voice

2006-10-04 Thread Michael Kiermaier
Hello, it's me again. I ran into this problem: \relative c' { {c c c c} \\ {R1} } In the output there is a collision between the rest of the second voice and the notes of the first voice. The right solution would be to put the rest on a ledger line and to lower it until no collision

Re: collision between rest of one voice and the notes of the other voice

2006-10-04 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, Michael: HTH, Kieren. \version 2.8.6 moveRestUp = \once \override MultiMeasureRest #'Y-offset = #4 moveRestDown = \once \override MultiMeasureRest #'Y-offset = #-5 theMusic = \relative { {c4 c c c} \\ { \moveRestUp R1 } \break {c4 c c c} \\ { \moveRestDown R1 } \break

Re: warning: Ignoring grob for slur. avoid-slur not set?

2006-10-04 Thread Graham Percival
Michael Kiermaier wrote: {c'( d'^\flageolet)} gives the warning: Ignoring grob for slur. avoid-slur not set? Michael: you can't get rid of this warning right now. Maybe in a future version. Devel: could we set avoid-slur to something by default? If there isn't a specific value in

Re: old-style pedals working, but brackets not? [MINIMAL EXAMPLE]

2006-10-04 Thread Graham Percival
Thanks, this has (finally) been added as http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=102 - Graham Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi, Erik: FYI, this is probably not a minimal example. Usually you can shrink problematic examples down to 5 lines of code Okay, \version 2.8.4 \layout {

Re: Figured Bass question: Why is 5 4 upside down?

2006-10-04 Thread Graham Percival
Laura Conrad wrote: This question refers to version 2.8.3 running on Ubuntu Linux 6.06. I think it was posted during one of our mailing list vacations, and may have never made it out to the list. I think it's the same issue as http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=103 - Graham

Re: Figured Bass question: Why is 5 4 upside down?

2006-10-04 Thread Trent Johnston
Hi Graham, I don't think these are bugs as such. It's got to do aligning the extender line. If you place a spacer (s8 etc) between the figures the figures are printed the right way. as in the example below taken from Issue 103: if you reduce the length of the figure to 8 and put a 's'

Instrument transposition and score transposition confusion

2006-10-04 Thread OnionRingOfDoom
I'm writing an orchestral score out, and I have a large piece.ly file in which all the individual instrument parts music is written out. Every instrument's part starts with something like varInstrumentNotes = \relative c'' { . Every part is entered with \relative c, then there are template files