Re: Alignment problem with RehearsalMark

2007-08-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Neil Puttock wrote: Just to clarify this, are you saying that this happens as a result of the default setting of break-align-symbols combined with moving the mark engraver to the staff context? No, I was just speculating, without having really tested my hypothesis. Sorry about that. Now

Re: question of repeat again

2007-08-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You can of course use it with \repeat unfold, but that's mostly useful if you want to write out a full version of some music that originally was notated using \repeat volta (and in that case, I would rather recommend the \unfoldRepeats command described in Repeats and MIDI). /Mats Shelagh

Re: Time signature of 4/3 over 2?

2007-08-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
How about \markup{ \override #'(baseline-skip . 0) \number { \center-align { \concat { 4 \fontsize #2 \normal-text / 3 } 2 } } } /Mats Trevor Bača wrote: Hi, Anyone know how to set a time signature of 4/3 over 2? (That's a measure that last 1 complete half note and also

Re: Removing whitespace before lilypond-books examples?

2007-08-28 Thread Trevor Bača
Hi Mats, Using \hspace{-3mm} right before the included lilypond example works beautifully. Great idea. Trevor. On 8/28/07, Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can stand having the note without a ledger line, then it's easier to use ... sixteenth note

Re: Time signature of 4/3 over 2?

2007-08-28 Thread Trevor Bača
Perfect! Thanks again. On 8/28/07, Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about \markup{ \override #'(baseline-skip . 0) \number { \center-align { \concat { 4 \fontsize #2 \normal-text / 3 } 2 } } } /Mats Trevor Bača wrote: Hi, Anyone know how to set a

Re: lilypond-book option --padding no longer exists?

2007-08-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
As far as I can understand, the option is called --left-padding and has never been called anything else. Probably, Han-Wen hesitated between the two alternatives and happened to add the wrong one in the documentation, when implementing this feature in

vocal score problem(s)

2007-08-28 Thread Jay Hamilton
I'm trying to find my mistake here, the error message keeps on saying no music found. If I don't add lyrics everything can be fine. I tried to copy the formate of 3.1 in the manual and adjust it to my needs. So I'm asuming that I have made an error somewhere in there. \version 2.10.25

Re: vocal score problem(s)

2007-08-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/28, Jay Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm trying to find my mistake here, the error message keeps on saying no music found. If I don't add lyrics everything can be fine. I tried to copy the formate of 3.1 in the manual and adjust it to my needs. So I'm asuming that I have made an error

Re: lilypond-book option --padding no longer exists?

2007-08-28 Thread Trevor Bača
Yup: this is it precisely. So your trick this morning with \hspace{-3mm} definitely did work for me. However, now knowing that I can set --left-padding=0, the need for the negative \hspace trick goes away. Here's the same sample inline example I was rendering before, with --left-padding=0 passed

lilypond-book macros/variables

2007-08-28 Thread v!ictor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hello lilyponders, I've been using lilypond-book for the first time. love it! There's one thing that I'd like to have though. I'd love to be able to define macros in a similar way as in latex. Is this possible? From what I've read in the documentation, lilypond-book only knows to look for

Re: Hara_kiri_engraver shouldn't handle both staves of a PianoStaff as separate single staves

2007-08-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/27, Tao Cumplido [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I guess in classical music it's typical not to reduce the piano part to a single staff, but in modern music it is. It depends: do you mean in *well-engraved* modern music? :) (no, I'm just joking) For example in Jazz scores if you have only a chord

Re: remaining Unset question

2007-08-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/19, emily atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In hopes of finding an answer to an 'unset question' Hello Emily, I'm amazed that nobody has answered you yet; the list can get very busy some weeks and if you don't get any answer, it might sometimes be appropriate to ask again another week.

Re: Invisible sync part - is this possible?

2007-08-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/18, Jonas Nyström [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi! (Sorry for posting this earlier with wrong subject header..!) Being a Lilypond newbee, I want to check with you if this is possible: I want to create an inivisble sync part with sync noteheads drawn in white. If your notes are drawn in

Re: remaining Unset question

2007-08-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/28, emily atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I knew it had to be easy, I just kept trying the wrong combination of terms Not so easy, so to say: I had to browse the source files (ly/property-init.ly) to find the correct answer. You're right, there is an obvious lack in the Documentation; I'll

re:re: Score Problems

2007-08-28 Thread Jay Hamilton
It didn't now I get error logs telling me that example; C:/Documents and Settings/Frybyte/Desktop/Hamilton/Tunnel/Tunnel.ly:25:43: warning: Brace found at end of lyric. Did you forget a space? fluteLyrics = \lyricmode {bum bum bum bum bump}

Re: re: Score Problems

2007-08-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/28, Jay Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It didn't now I get error logs telling me that example; C:/Documents and Settings/Frybyte/Desktop/Hamilton/Tunnel/Tunnel.ly:25:43: warning: Brace found at end of lyric. Did you forget a space? This is weird. I didn't get such a message when

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 57, Issue 76

2007-08-28 Thread Michael Sperone
Hi Michael, On 8/27/07, Michael Sperone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been successful at entering my entire score into lilypond and it looks great! But there are some things I need to change (such as the 4/4 instead of "C", accidentals, and stem settings etc..) I haven't, for the

Re: remaining Unset question

2007-08-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2007/8/28, emily atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I knew it had to be easy, I just kept trying the wrong combination of terms Not so easy, so to say: I had to browse the source files (ly/property-init.ly) to find the correct answer. You're right, there

horizontal spacing

2007-08-28 Thread plasmacarwash
Hello everybody. I have a problem where when I copy the simple examples in the tutorial my notes come out spread from one side of the pdf view to the next. It's all accurate otherwise, but it's s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d out. And not exactly as shown in the tutorial. I've read much of the horizontal

strange barbehavior

2007-08-28 Thread Peter Terpstra
Dear Readers, In the Alto voice i only needed a g1 note and further only silent rest. Why does this give a lot of empty bars after the closing bar and how do i get rid if them? TIA %Snippet staffClassicalGuitar = \new Staff { \override Score.MetronomeMark #'padding = #7 %

Re: strange barbehavior

2007-08-28 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Mittwoch, 29. August 2007 schrieb Peter Terpstra: \\      { s1*20 | g= | s1*3 | the *20 is repeated together with the 1 length indication... in particular, your snippet above means s1*20 | g=1*20 | s1*3 Your g is 20 measures long... Cheers, Reinhold --

RE: horizontal spacing

2007-08-28 Thread Ed Ardzinski
I'm sure there is a lot ways to get things stretched out. If you are using chord mode to get chord symbols to print, and the chord has a long name something like this can cause problems: c4:11+^7 c:11+^7 c:11+^7 c:11+^7 four quarter notes of a C add9/add#11... The engraver apparently

Re: band leaders and transcribing

2007-08-28 Thread David Rogers
On Aug 20 2007, at 16:35, plasmacarwash wrote: David, -If we were to take the foremost thrust of my appeal to you and this kind forum, yes.:-) I need to know there are others out there doing it. May I talk to you? Unfortunately, I'm not one of the people who has that skill, nor do I

Re: Source Codes...

2007-08-28 Thread Carl Sorensen
Mike Salmon mikelsalmon at googlemail.com writes: Hi all, Can anyone tell me what the source codes are for staff lines and time signatures or where to find them? Mike, I can't tell you specifically which files do those jobs. Typically, the advice we get on the devel list is to grep

Re: horizontal spacing

2007-08-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jay, Without sample code, it's very hard to diagnose your problem... But my first suggestion is to add the following line to your score file, right near the top (e.g., after the \version string): \paper { ragged-right = ##t } If that doesn't solve your problem, please post again,

Re: horizontal spacing

2007-08-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jay, Here is the exact code I entered (in Notepad): { \time 2/4 \clef bass c4 c g g a a g2 } Here is what I got: Considering that the picture shows a scale { c d e f g a b c }, something is definitely wrong! ;-) Try cutting and pasting this into Notepad and compiling:

RE: horizontal spacing

2007-08-28 Thread plasmacarwash
Ed, I haven't got to this point with the guitar yet but it looks delicious. Still this is one for an August Ed Ardzinski search in the near future here at Nabble/Lilypond. Thank-you very very much... Jay Peek Ed Ardzinski wrote: I'm sure there is a lot ways to get things stretched out.

Re: horizontal spacing

2007-08-28 Thread plasmacarwash
Kieren, Without replacing my current version (version 2.10.0), I got a pretty happy result.:handshake: (This image is shrunk again, intentionally). http://www.nabble.com/file/p12379280/lilypondex3.jpg I will have to get familiar with ragged and it's manifestations. Thank-you very kindly,

Re; Unset prefer \revert

2007-08-28 Thread Jay Hamilton
I would hope that Mats' suggestion of \revert be instituted as that would make it follow some other \revert commands in consistency. Our problem (Emily's and mine) was we were trying to find something that unset the set but there was nothing in the Docs. However I did see (today finally)

MIDI output trick

2007-08-28 Thread Charles E. Kinney
Lilyponders, While trying to get the music from all staves in a piece to combine for MIDI output, I found a tip in the archives to create a staff group to combine the music parts, then a score section for print output, then a separate score section for the MIDI, more or less as follows: