Re: Diatonic/modal transposition function

2008-12-29 Thread Graham Breed
2008/12/29 John Mandereau : > This work is not synced at all with Graham's work, but it tries not to > naively assume any temperament; in current state it only works with > 7-notes scales, but the arithmetics on alteration works with any kind > alteration, semi-tones or microtonal alterations. Ri

RE: Diatonic/modal transposition function (John Mandereau)

2008-12-29 Thread Nick Payne
When I run your example (2.12 Windows) it produces the expected output but I also get in the log: Parsing...D:/Documents/Lilypond/examples/transpose.ly:18:5: In procedure - in expression (- (ly:pitch-alteration normalized-pitch) (ly:assoc-get notename scale ...)): D:/Documents/Lilypond/examples

Re: beams in a two quarter bar

2008-12-29 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 12/29/08 5:45 PM, "Reinhold Kainhofer" wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am Dienstag, 30. Dezember 2008 01:27:05 schrieb Carl D. Sorensen: >> On 12/29/08 3:56 PM, "Neil Puttock" wrote: >>> #(revert-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 2 4) 1 4) >> >> This reversion is n

problem with hidden notes

2008-12-29 Thread kristof
hi list, i hope you can help me again with a little problem i have.. context: i'm trying to do some complex notation for a piece in contemporary idiom, and as the \laissezVibrer didn't want to behave like i wanted, i tried to simulate one more suitable to my needs, so that i can let it depar

Re: beams in a two quarter bar

2008-12-29 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 30. Dezember 2008 01:27:05 schrieb Carl D. Sorensen: > On 12/29/08 3:56 PM, "Neil Puttock" wrote: > > #(revert-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 2 4) 1 4) > > This reversion is necessary in all cases, and I think we should get rid of > it so it

Re: beams in a two quarter bar

2008-12-29 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 12/29/08 3:56 PM, "Neil Puttock" wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > 2008/12/29 Stefan Thomas : >> Dear lilypond-users, >> I have the following, I guess very simple problem, that I can't solve. >> How can I get the beams in the below quoted example automatically? > > I'm afraid this is more complicat

Re: Diatonic/modal transposition function (John Mandereau)

2008-12-29 Thread John Mandereau
Le lundi 29 décembre 2008 à 12:33 +0100, Tao Cumplido a écrit : > As far as I understand it it works independent from a key signature so > it doesn't matter if the key is in C or not. > > The function says taht you transpose a pattern in a given key for X > steps, so in your example you transpose a

Re: beams in a two quarter bar

2008-12-29 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 12/29/08 3:56 PM, "Neil Puttock" wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > 2008/12/29 Stefan Thomas : >> Dear lilypond-users, >> I have the following, I guess very simple problem, that I can't solve. >> How can I get the beams in the below quoted example automatically? > > I'm afraid this is more complicat

Re: beams in a two quarter bar

2008-12-29 Thread Trevor Daniels
Neil Puttock wrote Monday, December 29, 2008 10:56 PM Carl, it seems that the auto-beam setting default here is redundant, since it matches the default beatLength. Should we remove the default in this case? There are quite a few changes we should make to the auto-beam settings following Carl

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-29 Thread Trevor Daniels
Neil Puttock wrote Monday, December 29, 2008 1:25 PM 2008/12/29 Trevor Daniels : OK - have this in hand. Thanks. Trevor, I'm working on some additions to 'bound-details in changing-defaults.itely at the moment. When I've finished, I'll add some info to the section which discusses 'outsi

Re: Harmonic question

2008-12-29 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 29. Dezember 2008 22:28:13 schrieb Johan Vromans: > Hi, > > I'm trying the TAB \harmonic feature of 2.12. > > Am I right that to get a harmonic, you always need a chord? > > E.g. This works: > > > > but this doesn't: > > e''\harmoni

Re: Harmonic question

2008-12-29 Thread Trevor Daniels
John Mandereau wrote Monday, December 29, 2008 11:01 PM Le lundi 29 décembre 2008 à 22:53 +, Trevor Daniels a écrit : Yes. The warning under Harmonics in 2.3.1 in the Notation Reference says: "Note: Harmonics must be defined inside a chord construct even if there is only a single not

Re: Harmonic question

2008-12-29 Thread John Mandereau
Le lundi 29 décembre 2008 à 22:53 +, Trevor Daniels a écrit : > Yes. The warning under Harmonics in 2.3.1 in the Notation Reference says: > > "Note: Harmonics must be defined inside a chord construct even if there is > only a single note." Should we add copy this warning into "Common notati

Re: beams in a two quarter bar

2008-12-29 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Stefan, 2008/12/29 Stefan Thomas : > Dear lilypond-users, > I have the following, I guess very simple problem, that I can't solve. > How can I get the beams in the below quoted example automatically? I'm afraid this is more complicated than it used to be, since you need to do two things: - re

Re: Harmonic question

2008-12-29 Thread Trevor Daniels
Yes. The warning under Harmonics in 2.3.1 in the Notation Reference says: "Note: Harmonics must be defined inside a chord construct even if there is only a single note." Trevor - Original Message - From: "Johan Vromans" To: Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 9:28 PM Subject: Harmon

Harmonic question

2008-12-29 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi, I'm trying the TAB \harmonic feature of 2.12. Am I right that to get a harmonic, you always need a chord? E.g. This works: but this doesn't: e''\harmonic Modified from the docs: \relative c' { \new TabStaff { \new TabVoice { d\2\glissando e\2 e\har

Re: Compiling on Mac OS X - succes!

2008-12-29 Thread Arjan Bos
On 28 dec 2008, at 22:03, Kim Shrier wrote: The problem you are seeing: Assertion failed: (pt->read_pos == pt->read_end), function scm_fill_input, file ports.c, line 978. has to do with a bug in the scheme code that was fixed yesterday afternoon. If you update your source from the git r

Re: Diatonic/modal transposition function (John Mandereau)

2008-12-29 Thread John Mandereau
Le lundi 29 décembre 2008 à 10:16 +0100, Stefan Thomas a écrit : > Dear John, > I understood now. You have a note 0 in c major and in a minor, which > is a c. The most meaningful I think is that c major and a minor define the same major scale in LilyPond, only the tonic (c or a, respectively) diff

Re: [ANN] Frescobaldi 0.7 released, a new LilyPond music editor

2008-12-29 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Send me a file like that. I'll check where the memory leak is. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

instrumentSwitch/addInstrumentDefinition?

2008-12-29 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, You may recall the problem(s) we were discussing earlier this year: In the docs, I found the \instrumentSwitch feature:

Re: GPF with 2.12

2008-12-29 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/12/29 Stefan Waler : > What I did is copying more or less the content of the incipit snippet (which > has always been regarded as "best practice" since some - me included - have > elaborated and documented this approach about one year ago). > Here is what I found there, if there is room for i

beams in a two quarter bar

2008-12-29 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear lilypond-users, I have the following, I guess very simple problem, that I can't solve. How can I get the beams in the below quoted example automatically? Thanks for Your help Stefan \new Staff \relative { \time 2/4 c8 [ d e f ] g2 %this works, but it isn't automatic #(override-auto-beam-set

Re: GPF with 2.12

2008-12-29 Thread Stefan Waler
Neil Puttock wrote: May I ask why you've \consist-ed the Separating_line_group_engraver in the StaffGroup context? While LilyPond shouldn't crash like this, I think you're better off adding it to the Lyrics context. What I did is copying more or less the content of the incipit snippet (whic

Re: [ANN] Frescobaldi 0.7 released, a new LilyPond music editor

2008-12-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/12/29 Ralph Palmer : > I'm just about to take the plunge into Linux. I have an older Dell Latitude > that I want to use. I was planning to use Ubuntu, with the default Gnome > desktop. Frescobaldi looks interesting, especially after my lack of > happiness with some other packages (esp. LilyPon

Re: [ANN] Frescobaldi 0.7 released, a new LilyPond music editor

2008-12-29 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Ralph" == Ralph Palmer writes: Ralph> Does anyone have a recommendation or advice or reason(s) Ralph> for going with Ralph> 1) Ubuntu with Gnome; 2) Ubuntu and installing KDE; or 3) Ralph> Kubuntu with KDE? I think you should decide whether you want to use KDE or Gnome o

Re: 4

2008-12-29 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 12/29/08 8:48 AM, "James E. Bailey" wrote: > > > Am 29.12.2008 um 16:11 schrieb Carl D. Sorensen: > >> BTW, James, do you want german note names for your chords (h >> instead of bes, >> IIRC)? Your init file includes a line that sets german note >> names. You may >> want to eliminate t

Re: 4

2008-12-29 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 29.12.2008 um 16:11 schrieb Carl D. Sorensen: BTW, James, do you want german note names for your chords (h instead of bes, IIRC)? Your init file includes a line that sets german note names. You may want to eliminate that line. Yes, and like the other german speaking people, I lament

Re: GPF with 2.12

2008-12-29 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Stefan, 2008/12/28 Stefan Waler : > Hi, > > the attached example produces a GPF in lilypond 2.12. > > Once again there seems to be something wrong with Bar_engraver in the lyrics > context. May I ask why you've \consist-ed the Separating_line_group_engraver in the StaffGroup context? While Li

Re: [ANN] Frescobaldi 0.7 released, a new LilyPond music editor

2008-12-29 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Dont say lilypond tool made you particularly unhappy :) it is not so bad just has a much richer feature set so it is harder to maintain. Original message From: Ralph Palmer Sent: 29 Dec 2008 07:21 -08:00 To: Wilbert Berendsen Cc: , Subject: Re: [ANN] Frescobaldi 0.7 released, a

Re: [ANN] Frescobaldi 0.7 released, a new LilyPond music editor

2008-12-29 Thread Ralph Palmer
Hi, all - I'm just about to take the plunge into Linux. I have an older Dell Latitude that I want to use. I was planning to use Ubuntu, with the default Gnome desktop. Frescobaldi looks interesting, especially after my lack of happiness with some other packages (esp. LilyPondTool). Does anyone hav

Re: Diatonic/modal transposition function

2008-12-29 Thread John Mandereau
Le lundi 29 décembre 2008 à 15:44 +0100, Hans Aberg a écrit : > Is this synced with the work by Graham Breed, who has worked on > microtonal extensions? - See the developers list. I assume you refer to "Mictrotonal support" thread, which is kind-of a follow-up of "Diatonic notation system" (traf

Re: 4

2008-12-29 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 12/29/08 6:04 AM, "James E. Bailey" wrote: > > > Am 29.12.2008 um 12:23 schrieb sdfgsdhdshd: > >> >> >> >> James E. Bailey-3 wrote: >>> >>> Am 29.12.2008 um 11:58 schrieb sdfgsdhdshd: Is there a way to get in the pdf only the simple 4? >>> >> >> The syntax g:4 is very logic. I

Re: about custom percussion staves?

2008-12-29 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Coralline, 2008/12/29 coralline algae : > In the Notation manual 2.5 custom percussion staves, I have used > the example shown. But havent been able to find out what the third > column is supposed to do. ie. #f or #t doesn't seem to do much? > Although the pedalhihat line seems to code f

Re: Diatonic/modal transposition function

2008-12-29 Thread Hans Aberg
On 29 Dec 2008, at 00:56, John Mandereau wrote: I finally managed to write, debug, clean up and document diatonic transposition functions. Here is the full code with some examples below. There are two end-user functions, the generic modeTranspose and a shortcut diatonicTranspose. Is this

Re: Lylipond and space-time notation

2008-12-29 Thread Neil Thornock
I'm no expert, but you should start with the docs on proportional notation: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Proportional-notation#Proportional-notation Read the entire Horizontal Spacing chapter. Better yet, read all the docs! neil On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Ha

Re: [LilyKDE] Re: [ANN] Frescobaldi 0.7 released, a new LilyPond music editor

2008-12-29 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Grammostola Rosea wrote: Wilbert Berendsen wrote: Op zondag 28 december 2008, schreef Grammostola Rosea: What am I missing? :( Please look at the versions of the packages (e.g. using aptitude). python-sip4 and python-sip4-dev: 4,7,7 python-qt4 and python-qt4-dev: 4.4.3 libqt4-core/gui

about custom percussion staves?

2008-12-29 Thread coralline algae
In the Notation manual 2.5 custom percussion staves, I have used the example shown. But havent been able to find out what the third column is supposed to do. ie. #f or #t doesn't seem to do much? Although the pedalhihat line seems to code for the + above. I would like to know where to look

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-29 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/12/29 Trevor Daniels : > > OK - have this in hand. Thanks. Trevor, I'm working on some additions to 'bound-details in changing-defaults.itely at the moment. When I've finished, I'll add some info to the section which discusses 'outside-staff-priority. As for the general issue with accident

Re: 4

2008-12-29 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 29.12.2008 um 12:23 schrieb sdfgsdhdshd: James E. Bailey-3 wrote: Am 29.12.2008 um 11:58 schrieb sdfgsdhdshd: Is there a way to get in the pdf only the simple 4? I don't understand how it works, but I got this from Mark Polesky (I think) and it worked for me. \version "2.11.64" myCh

Re: MetronomeMark alignment

2008-12-29 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
2008/12/29 Simon Bailey : > i ran into something similar last month, and got the following answer from > graham: > >> See: >> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=684 >> >> Cheers, >> - Graham > my solution which works for me is to manually shift the metronome-mark: > > \override Scor

Re: MetronomeMark alignment

2008-12-29 Thread Simon Bailey
hi zoltan, On Dec 29, 2008, at 12:17 PM, Zoltan Selyem wrote: I like the new textual description feature of metronome marks. Is there a way to position (align) metronome marks the way it is possible with rehearsal marks? As far as I can see, MetronomeMark doesn't have a self-alignment-X propert

Contributing with Windows Was: Re: Issue 714 in lilypond: let the .ly file specify the output filename

2008-12-29 Thread Trevor Daniels
Ian Hulin wrote Sunday, December 28, 2008 6:02 PM P.S. is there any way I could contribute to Lily if I only have a Windows only system, or do you have to run Linux to be a grown-up Lily developer? There certainly is! The only thing you can't do (at least not so far) under Windows is to co

Re: MetronomeMark alignment

2008-12-29 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
2008/12/29 Zoltan Selyem : > Is there a way to position (align) metronome marks the way it is > possible with rehearsal marks? As far as I can see, MetronomeMark > doesn't have a self-alignment-X property, nor a break-align-symbols > property. I would like to have these... You can put (and align) \

Re: Diatonic/modal transposition function (John Mandereau)

2008-12-29 Thread Tao Cumplido
As far as I understand it it works independent from a key signature so it doesn't matter if the key is in C or not. The function says taht you transpose a pattern in a given key for X steps, so in your example you transpose a pattern in a-minor one step up, and from C one step is D. Now to you

Re: 4

2008-12-29 Thread sdfgsdhdshd
James E. Bailey-3 wrote: > > Am 29.12.2008 um 11:58 schrieb sdfgsdhdshd: >> Is there a way to get in the pdf only the simple 4? > > I don't understand how it works, but I got this from Mark Polesky (I > think) and it worked for me. > \version "2.11.64" > > myChordDefinitions = { >

MetronomeMark alignment

2008-12-29 Thread Zoltan Selyem
Hi all, I like the new textual description feature of metronome marks. Is there a way to position (align) metronome marks the way it is possible with rehearsal marks? As far as I can see, MetronomeMark doesn't have a self-alignment-X property, nor a break-align-symbols property. I would like t

Re: 4

2008-12-29 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 29.12.2008 um 11:58 schrieb sdfgsdhdshd: Is there a way to get in the pdf only the simple 4? I don't understand how it works, but I got this from Mark Polesky (I think) and it worked for me. \version "2.11.64" myChordDefinitions = { -\markup \super{–9} -\markup \super{4

4

2008-12-29 Thread sdfgsdhdshd
For displaying the G standard chord with a fourth, i wrote the following code: \new ChordNames { \chordmode { g:4 } } the result is G 4/sus4/add3 1) 4 is probably for adding the fourth => OK 2) sus suspends the 3th 4 adds the 4th add3 adds again the 3th (or un-suspends the 3th) So the 3th is su

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-29 Thread Trevor Daniels
James E. Bailey wrote Monday, December 29, 2008 8:23 AM Am 29.12.2008 um 06:26 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: However, there are situations where you don't have access to the mailing list, and then you have to find it in the docs. Can you suggest where improvements shall be added so that your speci

Re: Diatonic/modal transposition function (John Mandereau)

2008-12-29 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear John, I understood now. You have a note 0 in c major and in a minor, which is a c. In my opinion it would be better to understand for a musician, if You could use the intervall-names. I suggest something like: diatonicfourthup= #(define-music-function (parser location x) (ly:music?) #{ $x \d

Thank you for LP 2.12 :-)

2008-12-29 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
Thank you a lot. I (being not a programmer) will never stop wondering how people can make excellent software and share it to everybody. Thank you. -- Dmytro O. Redchuk ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: Diatonic/modal transposition function (John Mandereau)

2008-12-29 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear John, many thanks for Your fantastic macro! There is only one thing, I don't understand. I tried to transpose to a minor. Why does it, in the below quoted example, start with d? The first note should be a, I assume. pattern = \relative c' { c2~ c8 d16 e f g a b c4 g e c } \new Staff { \pat

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-29 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 29.12.2008 um 06:26 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: However, there are situations where you don't have access to the mailing list, and then you have to find it in the docs. Can you suggest where improvements shall be added so that your specific problem is covered? Well then I'd have to say that t