Re: Pitch/ octave notation

2006-11-16 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 16 November 2006 00:49, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Erik Sandberg escreveu: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 13:25, Mads Sejersen wrote: 2006/11/14, Erik Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Then he could use 4c8 instead, or does lilypond have any special meaning for prepended digits? hm,

Re: placing of artificial harmonic

2006-11-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
To make a single note in a chord invisible, you have to use the \tweak feature: eih d g \harmonic \tweak #'transparent ##t f 4 /Mats Orm Finnendahl wrote: Hi, I'm trying to write a doublestop in a violin piece, where on note is played as an artificail harmonic. In the sequence 'eih d g

Re: cross staff melody

2006-11-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you first try your example without the \change Staff ..., you will notice that the same problem remains. What happens is that your polyphony in the lower part, { r8 f16 ( g ) f8 } \\ c2. has the same duration as the longest of the two voices, i.e. as the c2. Then, when you add more 16th

Re: \afterGrace - afterGraceFraction [Lilypond 2.10.0 Windows]

2006-11-16 Thread Trent Johnston
Thanks Mats, Bertalan. I'll give it a try. Trent - Original Message - From: Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Trent J [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 6:30 PM Subject: Re: \afterGrace - afterGraceFraction [Lilypond 2.10.0 Windows] |

Re: Selling music engraved by Lilypond

2006-11-16 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Frédéric Chiasson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi, I just saw a message about the tagline Engraved by Lilypond and I was wondering if it is legal to sell our own partitions of our own compositions engraved with Lilypond? Is there any limitation you put against a

Re: AW: polyphonic layout

2006-11-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Why do you have a separate {...} \\ {...} for each bar? (I agree that it might make the input more readable). Otherwise, you can save some typing by lower = \relative c { \clef bass \key b \major \time 6/8 { \slurDown \override Rest #'staff-position = #2

stupid substitution

2006-11-16 Thread yota moteuchi
Could we add to the doc, section 12.1.2 an example of an even easier substitution function with no argument. displayBarNum = #(define-music-function (parser location) () #{ \once \override Score.BarNumber #'break-visibility = ##f #}) Since I took me 15 min to understand how to derive it

Re: placing of artificial harmonic

2006-11-16 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am 16. November 2006, 09:40 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Mats Bengtsson: To make a single note in a chord invisible, you have to use the \tweak feature: eih d g \harmonic \tweak #'transparent ##t f 4 thanks, that worked. Unfortunately that creates a new problem: Tieing two such chords together creates

Re: stupid substitution

2006-11-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
In this situation, there is no need for a music function, just use a normal identifier: displayBarNum = \once \override Score.BarNumber #'break-visibility = ##f See section Saving typing with identifiers and functions, for example. /Mats yota moteuchi wrote: Could we add to the doc,

Re: placing of artificial harmonic

2006-11-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
One option is to use the new possibility in version 2.10 to specify the ties separately for each note in the chord, see the NEWS for version 2.10. /Mats Orm Finnendahl wrote: Am 16. November 2006, 09:40 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Mats Bengtsson: To make a single note in a chord invisible, you

Re: Stupid resolution questions

2006-11-16 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Rick Hansen (aka RickH passport at windcrestsoftware.com writes: IOW do I need to do one last compile of my lily work to produce a pre-press PDF using some option flag I am not aware of ? Otherwise I will tell the shop to select their highest resolution, is this enough? Am I forgetting

Adding a spacer

2006-11-16 Thread Kevin Brown
I'm brand new to lilypond and attempting to lay out bagpipe music. The problem is that the embellishments end up too close to the notes that follow them, particularly Throws on D etc. Image of the output I'm complaining about attached. Essentially, I've read the section in the manual

Re: Selling music engraved by Lilypond

2006-11-16 Thread Mike Blackstock
Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: I dont know if I will be selling all that many copies of my jazz arrangements book by the time it's finished, and by the time I've finally gotten back copyright permissions to print all these arrangements... But when I do, I will be proud to to put a credit in

pitchedTrill

2006-11-16 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, I need to do a pitchedTrill, where the bracketed pitch has to be played as a harmonic. Using \pitchedTrill f aih2~\startTrillSpan gis \harmonic f aih4~ \stopTrillSpan results in an error. In addition another pitched Trill with an es above the staff (third ledger line) doesn't display the

Re: Adding a spacer

2006-11-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, Kevin: How do I increase the spacing? I'd be perfectly happy with the equivalent of: \slurd \spacer d2 Check out the archive thread which includes http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2004-05/ msg00028.html Or, even better would be a way to define spacing after

how to not view empty lines?

2006-11-16 Thread Daniel Boronka
Does anyone know how to get empty bars and lines/staves, to not show up in following lines where empty bars of music are not needed when music is finished? See example below. Daniel Boronka \version 2.6.4 \header { title = Evening Hymn %subtitle = composer =

Re: Adding a spacer

2006-11-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
An alternative might be to redefine all or some of the predefined ornaments in bagpipe.ly to include a spacer note at the end of the grace notes, for example to replace the definition dblG = { \grace { \small g32[ G d] } } by dblG = { \grace { \small g32[ G d] s } } /Mats Kieren MacMillan

Re: how to not view empty lines?

2006-11-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I took me a while to spot the error in your input file, namely that you included the PianoStaff within the \context Staff = men ... . Once you move up the ending to below the basses voice, it should work better. Also, you do something strange with the alternative endings of the repeats, since

Re: Adding a spacer

2006-11-16 Thread Kevin Brown
Thanks both of you! I defined spacer as mentioned in the archive thread, and I'm simply adding it to the definitions of the ornaments I feel need more space so that I never have to bother with it. Perhaps these changes should be merged into the bagpipe.ly file that's shipped with

Hiding empty staves

2006-11-16 Thread Andrew Longland-Meech
Hi all! I'm using \RemoveEmptyStaffContext to 'French' a piece that I'm typesetting, but the first system still shows the empty staves. In the manual section on hiding empty staves it states ...If empty staves should be removed from the first system too, set remove-first to true in

Re: Hiding empty staves

2006-11-16 Thread Graham Percival
Andrew Longland-Meech wrote: \override Score.VerticalAxisGroup #'remove-first = ##t I don't understand where this should go. Is it in the \score section? Or in the \layout section? Or in with the notes? Please can someone guide me in the right direction? Please see chapter 5 of the

Re: stupid substitution

2006-11-16 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: yota moteuchi wrote: [...] displayBarNum = #(define-music-function (parser location) () #{ \once \override Score.BarNumber #'break-visibility = ##f #}) [...] I hope the syntax is not too bad (the result is correct though) If I'm wrong or if

Re: how to invoke lilypond from vim

2006-11-16 Thread Benjamin Esham
[Sorry about that… I replied to the sender and forgot to include the list.] Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Good night to all, I was wondering how can I invoke lilypond from vim ? I tried with :make but it invokes gnu make. I looked at lilypond.vim on compilers folder of vim plugin and it

Space between 2 headers

2006-11-16 Thread Kamal
I have the following: \score { { c } \header { title = Title1 } \layout { indent = 0.0 } } \score { { c } \header { title = Title2 } \layout { indent = 0.0 } } \version 2.8.6 What is the property which sets the vertical length between score1 score2 (indicated by a cross on the

How do I add fingering for chords

2006-11-16 Thread Kevin Dalley
Can I add fingering information for ChordNames when chords are entered using chordmode? Fingering when using staffs might be interesting as well. Since this is for an accordion, a single finger is often sufficient, and I don't need 1 number per note. \version 2.9.19 \include english.ly

Re: Space between 2 headers

2006-11-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
My first recommendation is to upgrade to version 2.10, where several of these page layout issues have been improved. /Mats Quoting Kamal [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have the following: \score { { c } \header { title = Title1 } \layout { indent = 0.0 } } \score { { c } \header { title =