Re: lyrics free from notes

2007-06-04 Thread Rune Zedeler
Alan Jones wrote: I need a way to specify which beats the words of my lyrics fall on independent of the voice that they are associated with. I think your problem are somehow related to a weird bug in latest lilypond versions. I have posted a bug-report on the bug-list. -Rune

Solutions for integrating Lilypond examples in CMS? Screen and pdf output

2007-06-04 Thread Jonas Nyström
Hi! We want to use Lilypond for generating music examples integrated in text for display in a e-learning CMS context (using for example Joomla, Moodle or Wordpress as backend). We got ScoreRender ( http://scorerender.abelcheung.org/) working well for a Wordpress installation on my Linux Ubuntu

Re: need to generate mass quantities of random notes for practice

2007-06-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/6/4, Rune Zedeler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This .ly outputs 256 random notes. It will produce the same 256 random notes each time you run it, but you can create 256 new random notes by simply replacing the randomish number at the top of the file with another. Hi Rune, this is simply awesome!

Page text

2007-06-04 Thread Antanas Budriūnas
Hi, how to align page text to the right like Author or Opus properties does? My search in documentation and LSR wasn't successfull. Thaks Antanas Budriūnas ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Page text

2007-06-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
\markup{\fill-line{To the left To the right}} \markup{\fill-line{ To the right}} /Mats Antanas Budriūnas wrote: Hi, how to align page text to the right like Author or Opus properties does? My search in documentation and LSR wasn't successfull. Thaks Antanas Budriūnas

Re: lyrics free from notes

2007-06-04 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Jun 3, 2007, at 9:41 PM, Alan Jones wrote: Hi, I need a way to specify which beats the words of my lyrics fall on independent of the voice that they are associated with. In the attached example I have three words that I want on the corresponding beats: one, two, three. However, because

alignment of syllables which start a melisma

2007-06-04 Thread Kieren MacMillan
[ Lilypond 2.11.25-1 ; Mac OS X ] Hello all! Just wondering if there is yet a way to globally adjust the alignment of (only) syllables which begin melismas. I find Lilypond's default to be too far to the right (i.e., too severely left-aligned), and so I have to manually enter a macro

Re: lyrics free from notes

2007-06-04 Thread Trevor Bača
On 6/4/07, Stan Sanderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 3, 2007, at 9:41 PM, Alan Jones wrote: Hi, I need a way to specify which beats the words of my lyrics fall on independent of the voice that they are associated with. In the attached example I have three words that I want on the

Re: lyrics free from notes

2007-06-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Why not use the method described in the manual , section Lyrics independent of notes? Here's Trevor's example using that technique: \version 2.10.0 \new Staff \new Voice { \time 3/4 c'4 c'2 } \new Devnull = ref { c'4 c'4 c'4 } \new Lyrics \lyricsto ref { one two three }

Re: lyrics free from notes

2007-06-04 Thread Trevor Bača
On 6/4/07, Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not use the method described in the manual , section Lyrics independent of notes? Here's Trevor's example using that technique: \version 2.10.0 \new Staff \new Voice { \time 3/4 c'4 c'2 } \new Devnull = ref { c'4 c'4

Russian sacred (vocal) music

2007-06-04 Thread Germain G. Ivanoff-Trinadtzaty
Hello, Does anyone here engrave russian orthodox church (vocal) music ? If so, I would enjoy to swap with you music sheets, and Lilypond tips !!! Thanks, Germain G.I.T. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: lyrics free from notes

2007-06-04 Thread Alan Jones
This is exactly what I need, thank you! As Trevor suggests I'm looking for something like beat counts. I'm using lyrics to annotate harmonic changes which usually, but not always, follow a base voice. Alan On 6/4/07, Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not use the method described in

Non-unicode (UCS8 slavonic) fonts

2007-06-04 Thread Germain G. Ivanoff-Trinadtzaty
Hello all you Lilypond users, o Is it possible to engrave (vocal) music with NON-UNICODE fonts for lyrics ? I try to engrave russian orthodox church music with the help of Lilypond. Most of my fonts are either non unicode, either not correctly handled by Lilypond. For example : - UCS8

Re: need to generate mass quantities of random notes for practice

2007-06-04 Thread Rune Zedeler
Valentin Villenave wrote: this is simply awesome! I just added it to the LSR, as other users might be interested. Okie. Though, I would like somebody with rights to change the LSR (cc Graham) to replace the randomish number with (current-time) - so that the snippet reads \version 2.10.0

Re: need to generate mass quantities of random notes for practice

2007-06-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/6/4, Rune Zedeler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This way you get a different result each time you run lilypond. A bit more illustrative :+) This is even better. I changed the snippet myself. If I might add: this is really one of the best snippets I've ever seen in the LSR! :) Greetings, Valentin

Re: lyrics free from notes

2007-06-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Of course, in many cases the most convenient solution is to simply specify the rhythm directly in the Lyrics (except that there seems to be some bug there, as mentioned in a previous email). \version 2.10.0 \new Staff \new Voice { \time 3/4 c'4 c'2 } \new Lyrics \lyricmode { one4

Re: need to generate mass quantities of random notes for practice

2007-06-04 Thread Rune Zedeler
Valentin Villenave wrote: If I might add: this is really one of the best snippets I've ever seen in the LSR! :) Thanks :-) Well, I think the example is rather clumsy, creating the entire thing in a scheme-expression. I had hoped to be able to use \repeat unfold 256 to do the iteration, but

question/suggestion MultiMeasureRests

2007-06-04 Thread David Bobroff
By default, LilyPond prints church rests for multimeasure rests of one to ten measures rest. From eleven measures up, it switches to this style: |== 11 ==| I find that when I have a 10 measure rest I want to alter it which is easily done. I always change it because the church rests

Re: Bar line extension under last staff when lyrics

2007-06-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I forgot to mention that it also seems to help to upgrade to version 2.11.23 or newer (I'm not sure what happened there, but you don't get the same extended bar lines below the bottom stave with your original code. /Mats Mats Bengtsson wrote: Germain G. Ivanoff-Trinadtzaty wrote: Hello,

Re: question/suggestion MultiMeasureRests

2007-06-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
According to a notation hand book I have in my book shelf (Noter by B. Tyboni, in Swedish), the switch should be already when going from 8 to 9 measures. I haven't compared to any printed music, though, but since violin parts have much fewer rests than trombones, I guess you have a much better

Re: lyrics free from notes

2007-06-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Trevor Bača wrote: Oh cool Devnull magic; (if I had turned over to 7.3.7.5 Lyrics independent of notes I could have found it there). Is it possible to use the Devnull context as a general type of reference voice maker for items other than lyrics? Something like this to rhythmically position

Re: alignment of syllables which start a melisma

2007-06-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
As far as I can see from the implementation, the alignment is hardcoded to be #LEFT at the start of a melisma. /Mats Kieren MacMillan wrote: [ Lilypond 2.11.25-1 ; Mac OS X ] Hello all! Just wondering if there is yet a way to globally adjust the alignment of (only) syllables which begin

Piano Staff with Autochange and lyrics between staves

2007-06-04 Thread Carl Sorensen
I'd like to set some single-note beginning piano music for my daughter, and want to make a piano staff with lyrics between the two staves. I'd like to have just one voice in the music, and have the voice autochange. I've reviewed Automatic Staff Changes

Re: lyrics free from notes

2007-06-04 Thread Trevor Bača
On 6/4/07, Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trevor Bača wrote: Oh cool Devnull magic; (if I had turned over to 7.3.7.5 Lyrics independent of notes I could have found it there). Is it possible to use the Devnull context as a general type of reference voice maker for items other than

Re: Crescendo text too close to dynamic mark

2007-06-04 Thread Graham Percival
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi, Zoltán: %% I'm not sure whether it's wrong or not, but I think that %% the crescendo text is too close to the preceding dynamic mark. Yes, but I doubt this will be classified as a bug, since the mechanism is not intended to solve the problem you're showing. I

Re: need to generate mass quantities of random notes for practice

2007-06-04 Thread Rune Zedeler
Adam Good wrote: This is just too cool! Really thank you for sharing it. :-) One thing, for me I'm only getting the pitches of C major, how can I do all 12 notes of the chromatic scale? Okay, in this one you can freely select which notes to choose from by changing the list in the top of

Re: How to make some staff lines thicker than others?

2007-06-04 Thread v!ctor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hello Laura, you can change the number of lines in the Staff so that some of them appear to be thicker. You do this by modifying the *line-positions* property of the Staff's StaffSymbol layout object. For example, if you want to make the middle line appear to be thicker you can make a 7 line