Re: [ANN] lilypond-kde4, base lilypond package

2008-11-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/11/9 Wilbert Berendsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes! I used the same approach. Your oxygen variant is even better, with the shadowed note! :-) Feel free to use it :) Well, I have compiled and installed it, it runs fine (though it currently doesn't do much, I can't wait to see the full lilykde

Re: Lyrics font problem

2008-11-09 Thread Bailey James E.
I don't know how you're trying to change the font, but LyricText supports font-interface, which has font-name as a user-settable property. Remember that for lyrics, you have to have a space on both sides of the period, i.e.: \override LyricText . font-name On 09.11.2008, at 03:24, 胡海鹏 Hu

Compound time sig with parentheses (Was: How to prevent \center-column)

2008-11-09 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
On 08/11/2008, Neil Puttock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The second column needs to be aligned in relation to the first using \left-align: Thanks a lot, Neil. Anyway... I made yet another type of time compound signature. This time the descriptive part is wrapped in parentheses. Since I couldn't

Re: Compound time sig with parentheses (Was: How to prevent \center-column)

2008-11-09 Thread Ralph Palmer
What a beautiful job! Can these be added to the LSR? Ralph Anyway... I made yet another type of time compound signature. This time the descriptive part is wrapped in parentheses. Since I couldn't find a way to add the parentheses with LP commands I used PostScript instead. -Risto --

Re: Compound time sig with parentheses (Was: How to prevent \center-column)

2008-11-09 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Those are beautiful, Risto! I'm saving for future use. :) Jon Risto Vääräniemi wrote: On 08/11/2008, Neil Puttock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The second column needs to be aligned in relation to the first using \left-align: Thanks a lot, Neil. Anyway... I made yet another type of time

Re: Compound time sig with parentheses (Was: How to prevent \center-column)

2008-11-09 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 01:00:04PM +0200, Risto V??r?niemi wrote: Anyway... I made yet another type of time compound signature. This time the descriptive part is wrapped in parentheses. Since I couldn't find a way to add the parentheses with LP commands I used PostScript instead. You could

Re: Compound time sig with parentheses (Was: How to prevent \center-column)

2008-11-09 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/11/9 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You could use \bracket, although I would just recommend (. I tried ( but they looked too wide if I just scaled them. I searched for a function that would allow markup stretching but couldn't find one (I did find an old message where someone else was

Re: Compound time sig with parentheses (Was: How to prevent \center-column)

2008-11-09 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/11/9 Ralph Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What a beautiful job! Can these be added to the LSR? OK by me. -Risto ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Vertical spacing between different verses

2008-11-09 Thread Simon Art
Hi all, I am musician, conductor. I just started with lilypond, and I like it very much. I adapted the SATB vocal score template of the manual (Appendix D.4.1, p. 292). I want to change two things: 1. Increase vertical spaces between the verses, i.e. the spaces between verse one and two and

Re: Compound time sig with parentheses (Was: How to prevent \center-column)

2008-11-09 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 04:46:53PM +0200, Risto V??r?niemi wrote: 2008/11/9 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Also note that this method only displays the compound time; it doesn't change the beaming. That's true. I didn't know how to implement such a feature and I wanted to use this

beginner questions

2008-11-09 Thread Glen Hein
Hello, I'm working on an assignment from my guitar instructor, and I'd like to write it up with Lilypond. I've got it to work, but there are some tweaks needed. 1) How do I factor out the common code? I'd like to make the chords a function/macro, but when I do, I get an error for the fret

Has anyone had success including lilypond generated EPS files into groff?

2008-11-09 Thread Kim Shrier
I am using lilypond 2.11.59 on a FreeBSD 6.3 system. As an experiment, I wanted to create a simple troff document that would include the EPS output from lilypond. The lilypond source file is: \version 2.11.59 \paper{ indent=0\mm oddFooterMarkup=##f oddHeaderMarkup=##f

Re: Compound time sig with parentheses (Was: How to prevent \center-column)

2008-11-09 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/11/9 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 04:46:53PM +0200, Risto V??r?niemi wrote: 2008/11/9 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Also note that this method only displays the compound time; it doesn't change the beaming. That's true. I didn't know how to

Re: horizontal shift of notes not working

2008-11-09 Thread Trevor Daniels
Tom When you introduce these temporary \\ constructs you need to consider in what voices the notes are going to placed. By default the notes are placed in \voiceOne and \voiceTwo, which may not be what you want, as you already have other notes in those voices at this musical moment. Try

Re: Vertical spacing between different verses

2008-11-09 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi Simon, welcome to LilyPond! 1. Increase vertical spaces between the verses, i.e. the spaces between verse one and two and between verse two and three. I want to do that for both the soprano lyrics and the lyrics of the accompanying men's choir. You should you the following layout block.

Re: horizontal shift of notes not working

2008-11-09 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Trevor Daniels wrote: ... For bar 15, simply replacing \stemDown with \voiceFour, giving \voiceFour { e-1 2 a-1 4 g |} \\ { c,-2 a-4\6 2 d g,-2 } | The syntax is perhaps clearer if you write this as {\voiceFour e-1 2 a-1 4 g |} \\ { c,-2 a-4\6 2 d g,-2 } | It's not

Re: THANK YOU for Lilypond-Book

2008-11-09 Thread Hugo Ribeiro
I am using it to translate end edit an independent portuguese version of Counterpoint by Kent Kennan and Tonal Harmony by Kostka and Payne. It is really wonderful. I could send to you one chapter. It is in portuguese, but it is understandable with the original to compare. Hugo Ribeiro Em Sáb,

Re: Compound time sig with parentheses (Was: How to prevent \center-column)

2008-11-09 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 11:38:26PM +0100, Francisco Vila wrote: 2008/11/9 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 04:46:53PM +0200, Risto V??r?niemi wrote: 2008/11/9 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Also note that this method only displays the compound time; it

Re: point and click brings up two emacs instances

2008-11-09 Thread Mats Bengtsson
lilypond-invoke-editor first tries to run emacs-client, which will open the file in an existing emacs if 1. emacs was already started (otherwise lilypond-invoke-editor will start it using the emacs command). 2. The corresponding server is running in Emacs, i.e. you have a line like

Re: Compound time sig with parentheses (Was: How to prevent\center-column)

2008-11-09 Thread Trevor Daniels
Hi Risto I recently revised the section on beaming in the Notation Reference. If you've not looked at it recently the answer might be there. See NR 1.2.4 Beams. The precise method for changing the beaming depends on the time signature and the beam duration, so a simple answer can't be given.

Re: beginner questions

2008-11-09 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 11/9/08 1:37 PM, Glen Hein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glen, You should get the current development version of LilyPond (2.11.6x). It has the following features that you should be aware of: 1. Predefined fret diagrams are available 2. It is easy to get the fret diagrams all at the same