Re: songbook from Lily scores

2009-02-07 Thread Graham Breed
Zoltan Kota wrote: I have been using Lily for a year now, and I have several music scores as separate lily files. I would like to make a songbook including them, with cover page, table of contents, correct page numbering, etc. How should I start? What sectiones should I learn in documentation? L

Re: Starting lyrics on measure 4

2009-02-07 Thread M Watts
Jonathan Klein wrote: I am engraving a song which starts with three measures of instrumental before going into the first verse. How do I start the lyrics on measure 4? Many ways to skin a cat -- if the vocal part is in a separate voice from the accompaniment, a simple \new Lyrics \lyricsto "v

Re: compiling error at the installation stage

2009-02-07 Thread mehmet nur olcay
On Sunday 08 February 2009 00:04:07 you wrote: > I've never seen this error message before. I'm guessing this might be > a Guile problem. Could you post your ./configure output? > Hi, thanks for the reply. Here is the .configure output: http://dpaste.com/117974/ -- Mehmet Nur Olcay ___

Starting lyrics on measure 4

2009-02-07 Thread Jonathan Klein
I am engraving a song which starts with three measures of instrumental before going into the first verse. How do I start the lyrics on measure 4? Jon___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: piano notation element

2009-02-07 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/2/7 Antanas Budriūnas : > Hello, > > in piano scores when a particular note (chord) in the upper staff > should be played with the left hand, a bracket of inverted "L" shape > is placed before that note. > I believe it is either in LP documentation or in Snippets, but > unfortunately I can't f

Re: chord naming question

2009-02-07 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 07.02.2009 um 23:34 schrieb Carl D. Sorensen: On 2/7/09 1:27 PM, "James E. Bailey" wrote: I'm going to be engraving some more music with chords, and thanks to last time, I have appropriate templates that will work. But, one problem that is inconsistent is the placement of the flat s

Re: multimeasure rest with no number of measures?

2009-02-07 Thread Chip
Robin Bannister wrote: Chipwrote: I want a multi-measure rest with no number on it. This gets rid of the number: mmrNoNum = \once \override MultiMeasureRestNumber #'stencil = ##f as in: \mmrNoNum R1*16 Cheers, Robin Thanks, that's one I haven't seen in the NR or LM or Snippets. I placed

Re: printed page does not match the .pdf file

2009-02-07 Thread Chip
Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message , James E. Bailey writes So how do you get it to print properly if you DON'T want it to "shrink to fit"? (ime, it then prints the page, full size, but offset down and left by the printer margin!) I've found it IMPOSSIBLE to get the pdf to print cleanly

Re: controlling the alignment of FretBoards

2009-02-07 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 2/7/09 12:34 PM, "Robin Bannister" wrote: > Carl D. Sorensen wrote: >> Please file a bug report > > Already started, now done. > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2009-02/msg00014.html ? > > Cheers, > Robin Oops, after asking you to file a bug report I decided to take a quic

Re: chord naming question

2009-02-07 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 2/7/09 1:27 PM, "James E. Bailey" wrote: > I'm going to be engraving some more music with chords, and thanks to > last time, I have appropriate templates that will work. But, one > problem that is inconsistent is the placement of the flat symbol. > > I have to use a modified semi-german ch

Re: compiling error at the installation stage

2009-02-07 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 10:04 AM, mehmet nur olcay wrote: > On Saturday 07 February 2009 15:35:35 Mehmet Nur Olcay wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Trying to compile lilypond 2.12 from source but getting an error nearly at >> the end of compiling, any idea/suggestion pls? >> >> Here is the output: http://pa

Re: printed page does not match the .pdf file

2009-02-07 Thread Brett Duncan
Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message <20090207193803.ga2...@istic.org>, Daniel Hulme writes On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 06:34:35PM +, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: I just don't know where or why Acrobat is finding this American Letter stuff (oh - I've got a Hickey Pouse WinPrinter - a laserjet 1

Re: "ignoring between-system-padding"

2009-02-07 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:11 PM, M Watts wrote: > Tom Hall wrote: >> >> Hello List >> >> I have a generous between-system-padding = #6 for my score, but this gets >> overriden when the pdf is created, with the following message: >> >> warning: Can't fit systems on page -- ignoring between-system-p

Re: long text in "composer" / invisible TimeSignature

2009-02-07 Thread Marek Klein
Hi, Concerning time signatur I have found two possibilities: %% \version "2.12.1" \score { \new Staff { \clef treble \key c \major \override Staff.TimeSignature #'break-visibility = #all-invisible \relative g'{ \cadenzaOn g4 g g g g g g g g g \bar "|." } } }

piano notation element

2009-02-07 Thread Antanas Budriūnas
Hello, in piano scores when a particular note (chord) in the upper staff should be played with the left hand, a bracket of inverted "L" shape is placed before that note. I believe it is either in LP documentation or in Snippets, but unfortunately I can't find it. Could you point me please... Anta

Re: printed page does not match the .pdf file

2009-02-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <20090207193803.ga2...@istic.org>, Daniel Hulme writes On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 06:34:35PM +, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: I just don't know where or why Acrobat is finding this American Letter stuff (oh - I've got a Hickey Pouse WinPrinter - a laserjet 1000 series. Maybe that's why

chord naming question

2009-02-07 Thread James E. Bailey
I'm going to be engraving some more music with chords, and thanks to last time, I have appropriate templates that will work. But, one problem that is inconsistent is the placement of the flat symbol. I have to use a modified semi-german chord naming method because the person I'm engraving f

Re: printed page does not match the .pdf file

2009-02-07 Thread Daniel Hulme
On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 06:34:35PM +, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: > I just don't know where or why Acrobat is finding this American Letter > stuff (oh - I've got a Hickey Pouse WinPrinter - a laserjet 1000 series. > Maybe that's why :-( Maybe, but I've heard of other people having the same

Re: controlling the alignment of FretBoards

2009-02-07 Thread Robin Bannister
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Please file a bug report Already started, now done. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2009-02/msg00014.html ? Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/l

long text in "composer" / invisible TimeSignature

2009-02-07 Thread Zbyněk Burget
Hi, I've two new problems. 1. How I can write long text to composer to header? 2. Why don't hide TimeSignature? Zbynek \version "2.12.2" \header{ composer = "Some long text. Long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long." } \score { \new Staff { \clef treble \key c \maj

Re: controlling the alignment of FretBoards

2009-02-07 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 2/6/09 4:31 PM, "-Eluze" wrote: > > > > Robin Bannister wrote: >> >> >> The current (2.12.2) online NR 2.4.1 at line 782 has >> neither the first fret nor the fingering aligned. >> It looks prrety much like your align_chordmode.png. >> >> If I run the 782 snippet with my 2.12.1, it is

Re: printed page does not match the .pdf file

2009-02-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <50b55f67-a1ed-4f05-96bd-82b00b260...@googlemail.com>, James E. Bailey writes Am 07.02.2009 um 18:53 schrieb Anthony W. Youngman: It's probably not helped by the fact that I have an A4 document, printing on an A4 printer, and Acrobat (the ONLY application to do it) insists the pr

Re: printed page does not match the .pdf file

2009-02-07 Thread Jonathan Kulp
James E. Bailey wrote: Am 07.02.2009 um 18:53 schrieb Anthony W. Youngman: It's probably not helped by the fact that I have an A4 document, printing on an A4 printer, and Acrobat (the ONLY application to do it) insists the printer has American Letter paper. Ah, that's the problem. You need

Re: compiling error at the installation stage

2009-02-07 Thread mehmet nur olcay
On Saturday 07 February 2009 15:35:35 Mehmet Nur Olcay wrote: > Hi all, > > Trying to compile lilypond 2.12 from source but getting an error nearly at > the end of compiling, any idea/suggestion pls? > > Here is the output: http://pastebin.com/m3e8e359c > Ping ? Any idea about this error or any in

Re: printed page does not match the .pdf file

2009-02-07 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 07.02.2009 um 18:53 schrieb Anthony W. Youngman: It's probably not helped by the fact that I have an A4 document, printing on an A4 printer, and Acrobat (the ONLY application to do it) insists the printer has American Letter paper. Ah, that's the problem. You need to make sure that acr

Re: How to tie a note in a chord to a note outside a chord

2009-02-07 Thread James E. Bailey
In fact, looking at the picture, I would probably notate that thus: \version "2.12.2" RH = \relative c'' { << { \voiceOne c4 g c2~ | 4 8 4 }\new Voice { \voiceTwo g8 f e f g4 s4 | d2. e4 }\new Voice { \voiceOne

Re: printed page does not match the .pdf file

2009-02-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message , James E. Bailey writes So how do you get it to print properly if you DON'T want it to "shrink to fit"? (ime, it then prints the page, full size, but offset down and left by the printer margin!) I've found it IMPOSSIBLE to get the pdf to print cleanly on a sheet of paper, full

Re: How to tie a note in a chord to a note outside a chord

2009-02-07 Thread James E. Bailey
That's true, it's because you're notating notes of different values at the same time. It happens without the third voice. You can turn the warning off. Am 07.02.2009 um 17:53 schrieb Jayaratna: Hi James, what you suggests works very well, but if you add the d2. at the bottom Lilypond s

Re: Problem with lyrics

2009-02-07 Thread Lorenzo Bicci
Thanks a lot! It was just a little stupid error, but after hours working on a lilypond file it can get hard to see it. :) As always, the community shows a great support (and patience :P ). Thanks a lot! L. Il giorno sab, 07/02/2009 alle 17.50 +0100, James E. Bailey ha scritto: > in mm 123 of wha

Re: songbook from Lily scores

2009-02-07 Thread Jack Cooper
For a songbook project I just completed, I've been using Scribus and Gimp to manage my songbook layout and import the individual song pages as 300 dpi png files. This worked reasonably well, although Scribus takes a bit of playing around with to figure out how to configure a table of contents and o

Re: How to tie a note in a chord to a note outside a chord

2009-02-07 Thread Jayaratna
Hi James, what you suggests works very well, but if you add the d2. at the bottom Lilypond says: warning: ignoring too many clashing note columns { << { \voiceOne c'2~ c4 } \new Voice { \voiceTwo g4 \voiceOne a_~ a } \\{s2 d,2.}>> } %

Re: Problem with lyrics

2009-02-07 Thread James E. Bailey
in mm 123 of what I'm assuming is the second voice, there's a tie. That's probably preventing the lyric from appearing. a 8 d' _~ d' 2 _~ r4 Am 07.02.2009 um 17:39 schrieb Lorenzo Bicci: Hi everybody! Here's the problem: when compiling the file below, no syllable gets assigned to the firs

Re: How to tie a note in a chord to a note outside a chord

2009-02-07 Thread Jayaratna
Robin Bannister wrote: > > c2*1/2^~ > It works! But does this affect midi output? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-tie-a-note-in-a-chord-to-a-note-outside-a-chord-tp21889121p21890270.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: How to tie a note in a chord to a note outside a chord

2009-02-07 Thread James E. Bailey
Aside from the tie/stem collision, is this not what you wanted? \version "2.12.2" \new Staff \relative c'' { << { \voiceOne c2~ c4 } \new Voice { \voiceTwo g4 \voiceOne a_~ a } >> } <> Am 07.02.2009 um 17:21 schrieb Jayaratna: Hi Robin, in fact I just came back to the list because I still

Problem with lyrics

2009-02-07 Thread Lorenzo Bicci
Hi everybody! Here's the problem: when compiling the file below, no syllable gets assigned to the first note of the 5th bar of the second voice (see the PDF here: http://www.ntontopupu.com/prova.pdf). I tried with both versions 2.10 (on Linux) and 2.12 (on Windows). Did i make any error in the .

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009-02-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/2/5 Francisco Vila : > In another concession to windows users like my students, I'd like to > have a windows built-in version of main.ly (say winmain.ly) with the > foo/ path style in the includes, and which they could process directly > on their systems. Johannes: thank you very much, FOSS

Re: How to tie a note in a chord to a note outside a chord

2009-02-07 Thread Jayaratna
Hi Robin, in fact I just came back to the list because I still didn't know how to tie that a: I'm trying your tieWaitForNote, which sounds like should work... Thanks!!! A Robin Bannister wrote: > > Jayaratna wrote: >> This does not seem to work: >> <<{\stemUp c2^~ c4}\\{\stemDown g4 \stemUp

Re: How to tie a note in a chord to a note outside a chord

2009-02-07 Thread Robin Bannister
Jayaratna wrote: This does not seem to work: <<{\stemUp c2^~ c4}\\{\stemDown g4 \stemUp a4_~ a}>> Well, this looks like (part of) what you want! Or is it that you then don't see how to cope with the d2.? The manual mentions connecting ties across voices ( Snippets / Rhythms / Making an obj

Re: How to tie a note in a chord to a note outside a chord

2009-02-07 Thread Jayaratna
Thank you, I think it's exactly what I needed! A James E. Bailey-3 wrote: > > > Am 07.02.2009 um 15:50 schrieb Jayaratna: > >> >> Dear subscribers, >> >> I am inputting some very complicated polyphonic music for keyboard. >> Maybe >> this is a newbie idiotic question, but I cannot understan

Re: auto cross stave piano notes

2009-02-07 Thread Trevor Daniels
Rob Have a look at "Changing staff automatically" in section 2.2.1 of the Notation Reference. It describes the \autochange command. This has limitations (like the staff names are fixed and the switch point is always middle C), but it might help. Trevor - Original Message - From:

Re: How to tie a note in a chord to a note outside a chord

2009-02-07 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 07.02.2009 um 15:50 schrieb Jayaratna: Dear subscribers, I am inputting some very complicated polyphonic music for keyboard. Maybe this is a newbie idiotic question, but I cannot understand how to input these two bars: the problem is printing the tied A across the measures while keep

How to tie a note in a chord to a note outside a chord

2009-02-07 Thread Jayaratna
Dear subscribers, I am inputting some very complicated polyphonic music for keyboard. Maybe this is a newbie idiotic question, but I cannot understand how to input these two bars: the problem is printing the tied A across the measures while keeping the second one in the same chord with the upper

auto cross stave piano notes

2009-02-07 Thread Rob Canning
hello, i have a string of notes for piano (one voice) spanning 5octaves that needs dividing between the two staves is there a way to set a threshold pitch and say any pitch below that threshold will go to the bottom piano stave and anything above it will go to the top piano stave? i can se

compiling error at the installation stage

2009-02-07 Thread Mehmet Nur Olcay
Hi all, Trying to compile lilypond 2.12 from source but getting an error nearly at the end of compiling, any idea/suggestion pls? Here is the output: http://pastebin.com/m3e8e359c ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.

Re: two rehearsal mark on one barline

2009-02-07 Thread Zbyněk Burget
Kieren MacMillan napsal(a): Hi Zbyněk, Hmmm... Is some way to create following?: on one barline fermata and default rehearsal mark in case that this barline is at the end of line, fermata is printed at the end of line and default rehearsal mark is printed at begining of new line. I impose piec

Re: My solution to rhythmic slashes and midi playback

2009-02-07 Thread M Watts
Brian wrote: Hope this helps somebody, I've been trying to get a system going for my slashes and finally found something that works! Good candidate for the LSR. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listin

Re: strange error message with tuplet

2009-02-07 Thread M Watts
Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear lilypond-users, when compiling one of my scores I get the following error message, which I don't understand: musik/musik_ab115.ly:63:16: warning: No tuplet to end s8\fp\< s\f\> \times 4/6 { s32*5\p\< s 32\!} \pedtrem s4...\ff \startTextSpan s32 \stop

Re: Tremolo / tuplet

2009-02-07 Thread M Watts
Zbyněk Burget wrote: Solved by upgrade to lily 2.*13*.2 Thanks all We'll expect some great bugfixes and cool new features from you then! ;) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: two rehearsal mark on one barline

2009-02-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Zbyněk, Hmmm... Is some way to create following?: on one barline fermata and default rehearsal mark in case that this barline is at the end of line, fermata is printed at the end of line and default rehearsal mark is printed at begining of new line. I impose piece for orchestra, and I gen

Re: two rehearsal mark on one barline

2009-02-07 Thread Zbyněk Burget
Mats Bengtsson napsal(a): James E. Bailey wrote: Also, you can have a separate context for each mark, since only one mark can be in a voice at a time. If you try your suggestion, I'm afraid you'll get disappointed. Since rehearsal marks are created at the score level, it doesn't matte

Re: Tremolo / tuplet

2009-02-07 Thread Zbyněk Burget
Solved by upgrade to lily 2.13.2 Thanks all Zbyněk Burget napsal(a): Hi, I've small problem I've following bar: c4-. \times 2/3 { \repeat "tremolo" 3 c8 } c4-. \times 2/3 { \repeat "tremolo" 3 c8 } so-called tremolo is "in tuplet". But tuplet numbers are not printed. Is any way to "visible

Re: printed page does not match the .pdf file

2009-02-07 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 07.02.2009 um 01:55 schrieb Anthony W. Youngman: In message <5c547d22-490a-4ec7-a6d5-e5d8e8ec4...@gmail.com>, Simon Bailey writes chip, On Feb 6, 2009, at 12:08 AM, Chip wrote: When I view my file as .pdf it shows the very small margins all the way around the page. When I print the .pd