Re: timing, lyrics, chords, melody

2008-08-07 Thread Morten Lemvigh
Grammostola Rosea wrote: Hi, Trying to make my first lilypond song and put let it be on score but I can't make the timing of the lyrics fit with the melody... : \version 2.11.53 melody = \relative c' { \clef treble \key c \major \time 4/4 \partial 4 g8 a c4 c d a c c d

Re: timing, lyrics, chords, melody

2008-08-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Morten Lemvigh wrote: Try to have a look at the documentation concerning lyrics and vocal music: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Vocal-music I would rather recommend to read in the Learning Manual for the latest development version of LilyPond. Almost all the

Re: timing, lyrics, chords, melody

2008-08-07 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Morten Lemvigh wrote: Try to have a look at the documentation concerning lyrics and vocal music: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Vocal-music I would rather recommend to read in the Learning Manual for the latest development version of

Re: Downloading

2008-08-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/6 Dolores Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am using a Mac computer OS 10 version 8. Can I download lilypond? Greetings, There are several versions of MacOS 10; if you're running 10.3 (Panther) or 10.4 (Tiger), LilyPond should work without any problems. If you're running the latest 10.5

Re: strange tempo

2008-08-07 Thread David Bobroff
Yeah, good idea. After studying it a number of times I got it to do exactly what I needed. Thank you. -David Mats Bengtsson wrote: Why not follow the approach used in http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=204 ? /Mats David Bobroff wrote: I need to create a tempo marking that would look

Re: GDP: NR 2.4 Fretted string instruments, first draft

2008-08-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/4 Andrew Hawryluk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Valentin, in the snippet Stem and beam behavior in tablature (#494) can you replace \override Beam #'damping = #10 with \override Beam #'damping = #+inf.0 It's updated now (I guess Neil was faster than me) :-) Cheers, Valentin

Re: Better Midi!

2008-08-07 Thread Trevor Daniels
Hi Peter Just tried your articulate.ly. Looks really promising! A couple of early comments. It may be obvious, but \articulate should only be used in a \score block with just \midi {} - it mucks up the printed output if used with \layout { }. And dynamics in the midi score block must be

Adjusting to top margin on page 2

2008-08-07 Thread Thermo
Please point me to the page in the manual if possible I would like to adjust the top-margin on page two. \paper { between-system-space = 1.5\cm between-system-padding = #1 ragged-bottom=##f ragged-last-bottom=##f #(set-default-paper-size a4) head-separation = 0\mm top-margin = 3\mm } This

SLopUF = sporadic low-powered user feedback

2008-08-07 Thread Robin Bannister
Graham Percival wrote on -dev Well, the fact is that most users don't seem interested in helping with the docs, even to the extent of reading them. :| I had my first contact with Lilypond over two years ago (2.6.5 on win98). I was extremely confused before I could get it to compile

SLopUF: linear LM

2008-08-07 Thread Robin Bannister
I've already had a look at the first few pages of the LM and this time I'm going to start on it properly. So I'm back at the web page for the docs. [see webdoc.png] I click on it's Learning Manual (LM) link - the one saying (start here) - and then again on Tutorial: A tutorial

Re: SLopUF: linear LM

2008-08-07 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
The very bad user experience of the LilyPond manual, ie. very-very bad navigation was the very cause I started LilyPondTool 5 years ago (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2003-09/msg00561.html). Because I was as confused as you. Then the quite hard content of the documentation

Re: SLopUF: linear LM

2008-08-07 Thread Hugo Ribeiro
For me, that is a portuguese native speaker, is harder to understand some aspects os the documentation. I still don't have a clue what is a grob, or what this word means, for example... Hugo Ribeiro Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) escreveu: The very bad user experience of the LilyPond manual,

Re: SLopUF: linear LM

2008-08-07 Thread Trevor Daniels
At least that one can be easily defended :) The term grob is explained in the Learning Manual, and grob is in the index there, although I don't know if this section has yet made it to the Portuguese translation. See LM 4.1.2 Objects and interfaces. Trevor - Original Message -

midi2ly

2008-08-07 Thread Rafael González
I have a Mac 10.4. I downloaded lilypond and I am able to typeset files and turn them into MIDI files. I have come to a dead stop in trying to produce lilypond files from MIDI files. I tried to invoke midi2ly as instructed in the manual: *midi2ly translates a Type 1 MIDI file to a LilyPond

strange tempo 2

2008-08-07 Thread David Bobroff
Following Mats' suggestion I went to: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=204 ..to find a solution for an odd tempo marking. I succeeded in displaying the desired result but ran into a snag. The tempo I want to display occurs at a rehearsal mark. The tempo marking also uses a modified

Re: strange tempo 2

2008-08-07 Thread Alexander Kobel
David Bobroff wrote: Following Mats' suggestion I went to: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=204 ..to find a solution for an odd tempo marking. I succeeded in displaying the desired result but ran into a snag. The tempo I want to display occurs at a rehearsal mark. The tempo marking

Re: SLopUF: linear LM

2008-08-07 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:42:58 +0200 Robin Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. read .. read .. read, and then at the bottom click on Huh? - there is no Next to click on! So what am I supposed to do? It would be silly to click on Previous Working on input files If you look at the

Re: timing, lyrics, chords, melody

2008-08-07 Thread Patrick Horgan
Grammostola Rosea wrote: Hi, Trying to make my first lilypond song and put let it be on score but I can't make the timing of the lyrics fit with the melody... : Try this: \version 2.11.53 melody = \relative c' { \clef treble \key c \major \time 4/4 \partial 4 g8 a c4 c d a c c d e

Re: SLopUF: linear LM

2008-08-07 Thread Patrick Horgan
Graham Percival wrote: If you look at the latest docs using texi2html, this has already been dealt with: http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/texi2html-out/Documentation/index.html Cheers, - Graham And quite nicely too. Is that default output totexi2html or did you have to tweak options or

Re: markup dynamics wrong size

2008-08-07 Thread Eric Flesher
Mats Bengtsson mats.bengtsson at ee.kth.se writes: The best solution for you is probably to use #(make-dynamic-script ... ) to define all your dynamic commands, see subsection New dynamics. Then, they will behave exactly as all the other dynamics. I haven't investigated how much tweaks

Re: color notehead according to absolute pitch

2008-08-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/4 Kenny Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there a means by which I can color the notes based on its absolute pitch --- not its pitch class? If anyone can come up with a nice solution, this should definitely be added to the LSR... Cheers, Valentin

Re: Expert question on named contexts

2008-08-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/6 Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Since I have only used LilyPond for 11 years, I have some remaining questions on how it works. Greetings Mats, Hehehe... As soon as I can find a couple minutes to work on the LilyPond Report again, I guess this will make the Quote of the Week :-)

Re: SLopUF: linear LM

2008-08-07 Thread Robin Bannister
Graham Percival wrote: If you look at the latest docs using texi2html, this has already been dealt with: http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/texi2html-out/Documentation/index.html Well, well, thank you very much. Robin Bannister had written: Two further points: - The tree version will benefit

Re: midi2ly

2008-08-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Did you read the section on MacOS X in the manual: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Notes-for-the-MacOS-X-app#Notes-for-the-MacOS-X-app /Mats Rafael González wrote: I have a Mac 10.4. I downloaded lilypond and I am able to typeset files and turn them into MIDI files.

duplets

2008-08-07 Thread Eric Flesher
Greetings, Is it possible to suppress/alter the tuplet number in the case of the duplet shown below? (m. 91, bass staff) According to Stone, this should be engraved as a duplet with the numeral 2 in the bracket. This could of course be represented instead by dotted eighths, but these

Re: duplets

2008-08-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Eric Flesher wrote: Greetings, Is it possible to suppress/alter the tuplet number in the case of the duplet shown below? (m. 91, bass staff) According to Stone, this should be engraved as a duplet with the numeral 2 in the bracket. This could of course be represented instead by dotted

Re: Better Midi!

2008-08-07 Thread Peter Chubb
Trevor == Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trevor Hi Peter Trevor Just tried your articulate.ly. Looks really promising! A Trevor couple of early comments. It may be obvious, but \articulate Trevor should only be used in a \score block with just \midi {} - it Trevor mucks up the

Re: strange tempo 2

2008-08-07 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/8/7 Alexander Kobel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Some months ago a few of us stumbled in a similar problem. Neil put our results in http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=444 - basically, we modify the actual metronome mark formatter, which is independent of other marks (and the right place to put

Re: markup dynamics wrong size

2008-08-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Eric Flesher wrote: Longer dynamic strings (e.g. p delicato, crescendo, etc.) that are engraved as dynamic scripts in this fashion end up getting centered, as a text string, horizontally under the notehead. This necessitates offsetting them somehow; my immediate workaround is to apply \once

Re: markup dynamics wrong size

2008-08-07 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 7. August 2008 schrieb Eric Flesher: Mats Bengtsson mats.bengtsson at ee.kth.se writes: The best solution for you is probably to use #(make-dynamic-script ... ) to define all your dynamic commands, see subsection New dynamics.

Re: markup dynamics wrong size

2008-08-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Yes, it would be very nice to be able to specify the alignment point of a markup in a more convenient way. I just realized that it indeed is possible to specify the horizontal alignment point to be between two parts of a markup: beforeaftermarkup = \markup

Re: strange tempo 2

2008-08-07 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 7. August 2008 schrieb Neil Puttock: 2008/8/7 Alexander Kobel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Some months ago a few of us stumbled in a similar problem. Neil put our results in http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=444 - basically, we modify

Re: strange tempo 2

2008-08-07 Thread David Bobroff
Does Rheinhold's work allow for the kind of thing I want; a quarter tied to a dotted quarter = number? Neil Puttock wrote: 2008/8/7 Alexander Kobel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Some months ago a few of us stumbled in a similar problem. Neil put our results in http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=444 -

Re: strange tempo 2

2008-08-07 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/8/7 David Bobroff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does Rheinhold's work allow for the kind of thing I want; a quarter tied to a dotted quarter = number? Yes, since tempoText can take any \markup commands. So in your snippet, all you need to do is change your rhythmMark function so that the \score

Re: markup dynamics wrong size

2008-08-07 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 8. August 2008 schrieb Mats Bengtsson: Mats Bengtsson wrote: Yes, it would be very nice to be able to specify the alignment point of a markup in a more convenient way. I just realized that it indeed is possible to specify the

\char arg not working properly

2008-08-07 Thread Steven Padalino
Hi, Brand new LilyPond user here. I installed it yesterday on my XP machine. I'm having trouble getting the subtitle to display properly. I've done a search of the archives and none of the solutions offered are working for me. The command: subsubtitle = \markup { from \Instruccion de