Re: OOoLilyPond macro installation and use

2006-10-18 Thread Samuel Hartmann
Hi Gordon, Gordon Gilbert wrote: Hi folks! I looked at this idea of OOoLilypond, and thought -- what a fabulous idea for how I use Lilypond! So I installed the latest Lily (2.9.23), and installed and followed slavishly the instructions to download and install the macro. I don't expect

help about trill position

2006-10-18 Thread confrey
hi, I'd like to know how to tune trill, prall and other symbols' position; I tried with \once \override TexScript #'padding = #2 but it owrks with symbols created by \markup what's do I need? thanks -- confrey Linux Registered User#240359 Linux

Re: Reducing the length of a broken beam/beamlet/beam fragment?

2006-10-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Marcus Macauley schreef: The partial beams that you get with, e.g., a dotted rhythm: Is it possible to reduce the length of such beamlets? I think Lilypond's default minimum length is a bit too long, especially for tightly-spaced music, but I haven't been able to find a way to change it.

question about fontsize lyrics

2006-10-18 Thread Lieke van der Meer
Hello, A week ago I started using Lilypond. So far it seems to have fabulous possibilities. I only have one simple question. I want to change the fontsize fonttype of the lyrics in my file, but can't find a way to do so. I will ad an example of one of my files. Please tell me how to change

Re: Making an object not take up vertical space?

2006-10-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, Marcus: Is it possible to make an object (e.g., a text markup) not take up any vertical space? In order to make Lilypond think an object has no horizontal or vertical size, respectively, use \once \override ObjectName #'X-extent = #'(0 . 0) or \once \override ObjectName

Re: help about trill position

2006-10-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Please read the section on The \override command with subsections. There, you will learn how to figure this out yourself. In this specific case, the information is hidden somewhere in the section on Articulations. /Mats confrey wrote: hi, I'd like to know how to tune trill, prall and other

Re: question about fontsize lyrics

2006-10-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You are definitely on the right track. Try text = \lyricmode { \override Score . LyricText #'font-name = Vera Bold \override Score . LyricText #'font-shape = #'italic Glo- ri- a, ... However, at least on my system, there is no italic version of Vera Bold. For the font size, the manual tells that

Re: question about fontsize lyrics

2006-10-18 Thread Lieke van der Meer
Thank you Mats, I succeeded, but there seems to be a strange error when creating a PDF file. The text 'heeft' turns into something like hee@, check with: melody = \relative c' { \clef treble \key g \major \repeat volta 2 { \time 4/4 b'4 } } text = \lyricmode { \override Score . LyricText

Re: OSX 2.8.7 FontConfig cache

2006-10-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Julian Peterson schreef: Greetings. I just replaced my osx app of lilypond 2.8.5 with 2.8.7 and now get a new error: programming error: Cannot find file for FontConfig cache. It seems to be harmless (my files still render correctly) but is disconcerting.

setting a keySignature

2006-10-18 Thread lilypondtester
I know that \set Staff.keySignature = #'( (2 . -2) ) affects all E notes in all octaves. In the key signature, it displays a flat symbol over the 4th line of staff(which is an E note). Is there any way that I can change this display such that the flat symbol in the key signature is displayed on

Re: Making an object not take up vertical space?

2006-10-18 Thread Marcus Macauley
Kieren MacMillan wrote: In order to make Lilypond think an object has no horizontal or vertical size, respectively, use \once \override ObjectName #'X-extent = #'(0 . 0) or \once \override ObjectName #'Y-extent = #'(0 . 0), where the \once is optional (as always) and ObjectName

Re: Making an object not take up vertical space?

2006-10-18 Thread Marcus Macauley
Kieren MacMillan wrote: In order to make Lilypond think an object has no horizontal or vertical size, respectively, use \once \override ObjectName #'X-extent = #'(0 . 0) or \once \override ObjectName #'Y-extent = #'(0 . 0), where the \once is optional (as always) and ObjectName