use the \tweak command (was Re: Coloring ornaments)

2008-03-11 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op dinsdag 11 maart 2008, schreef David Fedoruk: Hello: I am trying to color ornaments based on which of the composer or editors suggested them. Setting a variable for each color and articulation seems like it should be almost the same as for a simple NoteHead. Since the articulation is a

Re: absolute relative together

2008-03-11 Thread David Bobroff
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 11. März 2008 schrieb David Bobroff: Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: If you could describe in a little more detail what you are trying to do (i.e. what are your cue voices, clefs, transposing instruments, etc.), we

Re: markup in one line

2008-03-11 Thread Wolfgang Mechsner
Hi Wilbert, thanks a lot, I take the addlyrics solution. It looks fine. Wolfgang * Wilbert Berendsen [10.03.08 21:37]: Op maandag 10 maart 2008, schreef Wolfgang Mechsner: \new Score \with {        \override TimeSignature #'transparent = ##t    defaultBarType = #    

chords names between round brackets

2008-03-11 Thread Hendrik Wouters
Hi, It seems to be usual in jazz music that Chord Names are sometimes placed between round brackets. ex. (c:7) f:maj7 or (g:m7 c:7) f:maj7 Is there a way to put these brackets on the music sheet? thx in advance! ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: use the \tweak command (was Re: Coloring ornaments)

2008-03-11 Thread David Fedoruk
Yes, I've seen that page and it works for indvidual NoteHeads. I do not want to colour the note heads, I want to color the ornament (articulation) over it. I just do not know how to specify the ornament specifically. I Know that it is linked to or is a property of the NoteHead, i jut don't know

RE: use the \tweak command (was Re: Coloring ornaments)

2008-03-11 Thread Trevor Daniels
Hi David You almost have it right, but to color articulations you need to place a - before the tweak, as it the \tweak were an articulation itself, like this: \relative c'' { c8 % B with red mordent b -\tweak #'color #red \mordent c } I don't think this was documented in the old

Re: Different distance line - chordnames within one score

2008-03-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
This is very natural. There is a minimum distance specified by default, but if you have notes that stick out far outside the staff, or if you have articulations or text scripts or whatever else that belongs to the staff and would end up getting too close to the chord names, then they are moved

Re: Coloring ornaments

2008-03-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
David Fedoruk wrote: Hello: I am trying to color ornaments based on which of the composer or editors suggested them. Setting a variable for each color and articulation seems like it should be almost the same as for a simple NoteHead. Since the articulation is a property of the note, the

Re: Text crescendi with hidden line and their position

2008-03-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
How about: \version 2.10.0 \relative { \setTextCresc \once \override DynamicTextSpanner #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print c \ d e f \! } /Mats Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 11. März 2008 schrieb Neil Puttock: Hi Reinhold,

Re: The LilyPond Report: a new weekly opinion column about Lily's world

2008-03-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/3/10, Reinhold Kainhofer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wow, awesome! Thanks for that great promo source. You're welcome :) (I just wish the lilypond.org start page would look a polished/graphically designed as that one!) As a matter of fact, I once wrote a cascading stylesheet for the LilyPond

Re: The LilyPond Report: a new weekly opinion column about Lily's world

2008-03-11 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
IMHO the LilyPond documentation lacks mostly a tree view. Bert Valentin Villenave wrote: 2008/3/10, Reinhold Kainhofer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wow, awesome! Thanks for that great promo source. You're welcome :) (I just wish the lilypond.org start page would look a

Re: The LilyPond Report: a new weekly opinion column about Lily's world

2008-03-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/3/11, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: IMHO the LilyPond documentation lacks mostly a tree view. Yes, but this is not CSS :) IIRC, John had an ambitious project for making the documentation (at least the Snippets pages) look much better, involving JavaScipt etc. See

Re: Text crescendi with hidden line and their position

2008-03-11 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 11. März 2008 schrieb Mats Bengtsson: How about: \version 2.10.0 \relative { \setTextCresc \once \override DynamicTextSpanner #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print c \ d e f \! } Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately, there is

Re: The LilyPond Report: a new weekly opinion column about Lily's world

2008-03-11 Thread Graham Percival
To do that, we need to use texi2html, and to do that, we need about 10 hours of work from a perl programmer. Cheers, - Graham On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:44:33 +0100 Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMHO the LilyPond documentation lacks mostly a tree view. Bert Valentin

Re: The LilyPond Report: a new weekly opinion column about Lily's world

2008-03-11 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Valentin Villenave: Here's my last one (i don't know if I'll be able to maintain it, but it's just fun to launch it anyway): a short informal, weekly opinion column about the LilyPond project; its team, its world, its community. It is not meant to be an exhaustive documentation resource.

Re: Better Midi, anyone? - dynamics

2008-03-11 Thread luis jure
El Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:30:07 +1100 Peter Chubb [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: The artemis orchestra competition has specified Lilypond as its input format since the subject of better midi on lilypond has surfaced, i'd like to take the opportunity to express a wish|request|suggestion that, being

Re: Better Midi, anyone? - dynamics

2008-03-11 Thread Darius Blasband
I faced the same problem four or five years ago, and I ended up writing a perl script that converted the volume changes into velocities in the midi file. If necessary, I can dig up and try to find it in my archives... Darius. luis jure wrote: El Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:30:07 +1100 Peter Chubb

New ancient time signature?

2008-03-11 Thread Laura Conrad
The documentation for ancient time signatures http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Ancient-time-signatures (it doesn't seem to have changed noticeably since 2.10, which is what I'm actually using) has a circle with a dot inside and a left half circle with a dot inside, but no

coloring dots (and ledger lines)

2008-03-11 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, I'd like to color some notes in a piece but the dots aren't colored as well (see example below). I found an option called dot-color but can't get it to work. In addition I think it might be better to color the ledger lines as well, but don't know how to accomplish that either.. Can somebody

Re: The LilyPond Report: a new weekly opinion column about Lily's world

2008-03-11 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Dienstag, 11. März 2008 schrieb Graham Percival: To do that, we need to use texi2html, and to do that, we need about 10 hours of work from a perl programmer. If I understood it correctly, your main problem with texi2html is that you want to split only at numbered sections, right? How about

Re: coloring dots (and ledger lines)

2008-03-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Orm, I'd like to color some notes in a piece but the dots aren't colored as well (see example below). I found an option called dot-color but can't get it to work. \override Dots #'color = #(x11-color 'red) In addition I think it might be better to color the ledger lines as well, but

Re: New ancient time signature?

2008-03-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you look at the Appendix The Feta font in the manual, you will find symbols called timesig.mensural68alt and timesig.neomensural68alt that look like what you describe (if I get you right). I couldn't find any easier way of using these symbols than \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil =

Re: coloring dots (and ledger lines)

2008-03-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Orm, I'd like to color some notes in a piece but the dots aren't colored as well (see example below). I found an option called dot-color but can't get it to work. As far as I can see, the dot-color is only used for fret diagrams. \override Dots #'color =

Re: New ancient time signature?

2008-03-11 Thread Michael Lauer
Laura Conrad lconrad at laymusic.org writes: The documentation for ancient time signatures http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Ancient-time-signatures (it doesn't seem to have changed noticeably since 2.10, which is what I'm actually using) has a circle with a dot

Re: The LilyPond Report: a new weekly opinion column about Lily's world

2008-03-11 Thread Graham Percival
Looks good! Are you seriously interested in this? Because there's a bunch of other things that need fixing before we can change over to texi2html -- and after that minimal not worse than before, we'll probably have a bunch of feature requests to add. I estimate another 8 hours of work on

RE: chords names between round brackets

2008-03-11 Thread Trevor Daniels
The following Scheme procedure works for chord names. It might work for other objects which are printed with markup, but I haven't tried. Paster the procedure at the head of your .ly file and use the override before any chord to place brackets round the name. Trevor D #(define (addBrackets

Re: Better Midi, anyone?

2008-03-11 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2008-03-11 um 03:10 schrieb Graham Percival: Well, I thought the original poster was offering to improve lilypond's midi export. So this _would_ work on any lilypond file... after a certain version number. :) Besides robotics I'm very much interested in enhanced MIDI output, but can't

Re: The LilyPond Report: a new weekly opinion column about Lily's world

2008-03-11 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 9 mars 08 à 23:35, Valentin Villenave a écrit : Here's my last one (i don't know if I'll be able to maintain it, but it's just fun to launch it anyway): a short informal, weekly opinion column about the LilyPond project; its team, its world, its community. It is not meant to be an exhaustive

Re: The LilyPond Report: a new weekly opinion column about Lily's world

2008-03-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/3/11, Nicolas Sceaux [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Added to my RSS list! It was lacking a LilyPond related one. Not meaning to put pressure on you, you're between http://www.maitre-eolas.fr and http://www.xkcd.com Excellent! I didn't know the last one (the first has been in my bookmarks for ages,

For your edification: meters

2008-03-11 Thread Kurt Kroon
Here's what I've come up with from the discussion about meter, poly and otherwise. Let me know what you think. K [Sending the SVG source: the listdad bounced my first message because it was too big.] Meter - Venn diagram (plain).svg Description: Binary data

Re: For your edification: meters

2008-03-11 Thread Anh Hai Trinh
It looks really complicated. I think the diagram try to classify concepts that apply to different idea. For example, * simple(2/4, 3/8 etc.) vs. compound (6/8, 7/8 etc.) applies when talking about just the meter itself, i.e. one measure of music * consistent vs. changing applies when talking