Re: Moving a hairpin horizontally

2008-05-13 Thread Peter Chubb
kieren == kieren macmillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: kieren Mats, I would have though that \override Hairpin #'bound-padding = #2.0 should do the job, but it seems that it only affect the right end, not the left end. Of course, you could then use a combination of X-offset and bound-padding

sliding chords

2008-05-13 Thread Olivier BERTEN
Hi! Is it possible with LilyPond to display chord changes like D4 -3 instead of D4 D3 or G -7 instead of G G7? Yours, Olivier Berten ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Moving a hairpin horizontally

2008-05-13 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Peter, You make this look right now, e.g., by c1 \\ {s2\ s4. \! s8} ... which is both musically incorrect AND unnecessarily awkward to code. ;-) This is really something that Lilypond SHOULD handle more gracefully. Even my suggested fix -- which would be superior to the

Lilypond Ubuntu

2008-05-13 Thread Peter Gifford
I am struggling to get Lilypond even running in the latest Ubuntu. It seems to have downloaded and extracted in a Lilypond folder but I cannot find a way to run it - even in terminal by typing Lilypond. Any help you can give me would be very much appreciated. I have used this some months ago on

Re: Dynamics and kerning

2008-05-13 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/5/13 Kim Bastin : I find the kerning of dynamics unsatisfactory, indeed I'm not sure that it's happening at all. ff is spaced too wide, with visible daylight between the f's; mp is squashed too close together. These pairs are the worst; pp, sf, fz look okay. Have you tried sp? I think

Dynamics and kerning

2008-05-13 Thread Kim Bastin
I find the kerning of dynamics unsatisfactory, indeed I'm not sure that it's happening at all. ff is spaced too wide, with visible daylight between the f's; mp is squashed too close together. These pairs are the worst; pp, sf, fz look okay. Is this a characteristic of the font? If so, is

lilypond-book and lilypondtool

2008-05-13 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Lilypondusers, is it possible to run the lilypondbook command within in jedit, Lilypondtool? If so, how can it be done? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Dynamics and kerning

2008-05-13 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2008/5/13 Risto Vääräniemi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/5/13 Kim Bastin : I find the kerning of dynamics unsatisfactory, indeed I'm not sure that it's happening at all. ff is spaced too wide, with visible daylight between the f's; mp is squashed too close together. These pairs are the worst;

Re: Lilypond Ubuntu

2008-05-13 Thread Joseph Haig
How exactly did you extract Lilypond? If you have downloaded the shell script (lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-x86.sh) and run it as root, it should now be installed in /usr/local/. It is possible that /usr/local/bin is not in your path. What happens when you try: $ /usr/local/bin/lilypond I am

Re: Lilypond Ubuntu

2008-05-13 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Lilypond was one of the first things I installed when I did a fresh Ubuntu 8.04 upgrade. It worked fine immediately for me, and I think all I did was run the script (not as sudo--probably should have) by double-clicking the script's icon and choosing run when asked what it wanted me to do

Lyric braces?

2008-05-13 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi, how do I create braces within lyrics to clarify that two lines of text belong to the same verse (see textbrace1.jpg) or when there´s a part of lyrics which belongs to all verses (see textbrace2.jpg)? Dominic attachment: textbrace1.jpgattachment:

Re: Dynamics and kerning

2008-05-13 Thread Kim Bastin
Risto Vääräniemi risvaara at gmail.com writes: Have you tried sp? I think that wins the game. The s collides with the p quite hard. I had to override it with: sp = #( make-dynamic-script ( markup #:line ( #:dynamic s #:hspace -1 #:dynamic p ))) No, I didn't try sp,