Re: transpose leadsheet (chords + melody)

2009-03-02 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/3/1 Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net: To transpose a song down a whole step, say from F major to Eb major, the syntax would be:     \transpose c bes  (or however the language you are using signifies a Bb) Be careful here, because both pitches are taken absolute, so being bes in the same

Re: horizontal spacing

2009-03-02 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/3/1 Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com: Hi, Imho Lilypond uses to many bars on one 'row' in a-4 format. I got about 8 bars (4/4), I prefer to have 4. Adding \paper { system-count=8 } works as another solution. -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) The incredible carnival

Re: A chordChanges toggle for the Fretboard_engraver?

2009-03-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/2 Carl D. Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu: Yes, we should have this for fretBoards.  Please post a feature request to bug-lilyp...@gnu.org. It's okay, I've added it as http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=756 Regards, Valentin ___

Re: [frogs] Re: Naming output files

2009-03-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/2/26 Marek Klein ma...@gregoriana.sk: now it works as expected: (define counter-alist '()) (define (print-book-with parser book process-procedure)   (let*   ((paper (ly:parser-lookup parser '$defaultpaper))    (layout (ly:parser-lookup parser '$defaultlayout))   

Re: [frogs] Re: Naming output files

2009-03-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/2 Valentin Villenave v.villen...@gmail.com: Carl, Reinhold, should I open a tracker issue or will this fix get merged soon? Oops -- just seen the new thread on -devel. My bad, forget it. Regards, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Parenthesizing chord names

2009-03-02 Thread lasconic
That's great! Thanks a lot! Just a question, do you think it's possible to have left/right as a param instead of defining a scheme function for each one ? For example, you might want to have more option like use [ instead of ( and then you need to create two others functions and new LBC/RBC and

KDE 4.1.2. KDE 4.2 Frescobaldi problem

2009-03-02 Thread t.scharkow...@t-online.de
Hello, I had installed Frescobaldi on my Kubuntu 8.04 KDE 4.1.2 system. Now I have upgraded to 8.10 KDE 4.2 and get the following error: Any hints? Thank you Thomas -- Traceback (most recent call last):    File /usr/bin/frescobaldi, line 61, in module    app = not args.isSet(new) and

Re: KDE 4.1.2. KDE 4.2 Frescobaldi problem

2009-03-02 Thread Grammostola Rosea
t.scharkow...@t-online.de wrote: Hello, I had installed Frescobaldi on my Kubuntu 8.04 KDE 4.1.2 system. Now I have upgraded to 8.10 KDE 4.2 and get the following error: Any hints? Thank you IFAIK in kde 4.2 you don't need lilypond-kde4. I suggest to remove it and reinstall frescobaldi.

Re: KDE 4.1.2. KDE 4.2 Frescobaldi problem

2009-03-02 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Grammostola Rosea wrote: t.scharkow...@t-online.de wrote: Hello, I had installed Frescobaldi on my Kubuntu 8.04 KDE 4.1.2 system. Now I have upgraded to 8.10 KDE 4.2 and get the following error: Any hints? Thank you IFAIK in kde 4.2 you don't need lilypond-kde4. I suggest to remove it and

Re: transpose leadsheet (chords + melody)

2009-03-02 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 2, 2009, at 2:38 AM, Francisco Vila wrote: 2009/3/1 Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net: To transpose a song down a whole step, say from F major to Eb major, the syntax would be: \transpose c bes (or however the language you are using signifies a Bb) Be careful here, because

Re: stem shortening

2009-03-02 Thread David Stocker
Yes, but is there a way to tweak this behavior to suit different situations? something like \override Voice.shortStemLength = #3.5 (if it beamed notes would respect it) would make it simpler to avoid accidentals colliding with beams in upper and lower voices in polyphony. Currently, we're

substitution in layout-block

2009-03-02 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear lilypond-users, I tried to make a substitution in the layout-block, but without success. I don't know what could be wrong. Here is the short snippet: \version 2.12.0 keineTaktart = \layout { \context { \Staff \remove Time_signature_engraver} } keineTaktzahl = \layout{ \context { \Score

Movement numbers

2009-03-02 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Hello all, What are people's thoughts on how to place movement numbers in a piece? Each movement will of course have its own score{} context. The obvious choice is to use piece=I in the associated header{}, but this prints in the wrong place -- on the left-hand-side -- and is clearly intended

Re: Parenthesizing chord names

2009-03-02 Thread Robin Bannister
Robin Bannister wrote: As addBrackets it wrapped only a single chord, but you could derive a left_only and a right_only version easily enough. I wanted to see if I could make such a pair deliver something close to what the OP illustrated, and managed this using \put-adjacent. This itself

Re: Multiple repeats

2009-03-02 Thread Kees van den Doel
OK, let me rephrase (and this time in the right list, sorry): is the way to indicate a 4 times repeated set of bars \repeat volta 4 {notes}, followed by a manual annotation indicating repeat 4 times or is there a better method? Kees - Original Message - From: Francisco Vila

Re: substitution in layout-block

2009-03-02 Thread -Eluze
Stefan Thomas-3 wrote: keineTaktart = \layout { \context { \Staff \remove Time_signature_engraver} } i don't think there is a way to put context properties in a variable. but defining these properties in a \layout { … } block will do the thing: \layout { \context {

Re: Multiple repeats

2009-03-02 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Kees, OK, let me rephrase (and this time in the right list, sorry): is the way to indicate a 4 times repeated set of bars \repeat volta 4 {notes}, followed by a manual annotation indicating repeat 4 times or is there a better method? As far as I know, that's the best Lily-method. On a

Re: substitution in layout-block

2009-03-02 Thread Tao Cumplido
Actually your snippet works for me. The only thing that I noticed is that you specified two layout-blocks and only the second of the two is used. You need to put both your variables into the same layoutblock to make them both apply for the same score, but beware, if you put both variables on the

Re: Multiple repeats

2009-03-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Kees van den Doel wrote: OK, let me rephrase (and this time in the right list, sorry): is the way to indicate a 4 times repeated set of bars \repeat volta 4 {notes}, followed by a manual annotation indicating repeat 4 times or is there a better method? As far as I know, there's no

Re: Movement numbers

2009-03-02 Thread Marek Klein
Hello, would this snippet help you? http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=310 -- Marek Klein http://gregoriana.sk 2009/3/2 Joseph Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net Hello all, What are people's thoughts on how to place movement numbers in a piece? Each movement will of course have its

Re: KDE 4.1.2. KDE 4.2 Frescobaldi problem

2009-03-02 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
t.scharkow...@t-online.de wrote: Hello, I had installed Frescobaldi on my Kubuntu 8.04 KDE 4.1.2 system. Now I have upgraded to 8.10 KDE 4.2 and get the following error: Any hints? Thank you IFAIK in kde 4.2 you don't need lilypond-kde4. I suggest to remove it and reinstall

Re: guitar tab feature request

2009-03-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/2/24 David Stocker dstoc...@thenotesetter.com: I'm working on the first group of missing LilyPond Tab features and it pertains to finger bends. I expect this to be a slow process. We have two (or maybe three) individuals who have expressed interest in joining the discussion, so when I

Re: \repeat with upbeat (partial) and alternatives

2009-03-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Why not simply include the following setting at the top of your score \set Timing.barCheckSynchronize = ##t and insert a bar check | at the end of the measure you want to end prematurely? OK, you will still get a warning printout, but otherwise it solves all the problems. /Mats Dan Eble

Re: Multiple repeats

2009-03-02 Thread M Watts
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Kees, OK, let me rephrase (and this time in the right list, sorry): is the way to indicate a 4 times repeated set of bars \repeat volta 4 {notes}, followed by a manual annotation indicating repeat 4 times or is there a better method? As far as I know, that's the

Re: stem shortening

2009-03-02 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/3/2 David Stocker dstoc...@thenotesetter.com: Yes, but is there a way to tweak this behavior to suit different situations? For stems: \override Stem #'(details stem-shorten) = #'(1.0 0.5) The numbers in the list signify unflagged flagged stems respectively; negative values will lengthen

Re: stem shortening

2009-03-02 Thread David Stocker
Thanks Neil, My life just got a lot easier. I'm going to go read the entire define-grobs.scm file and find ways I may simplify my life further ;-) . Dave Neil Puttock wrote: 2009/3/2 David Stocker dstoc...@thenotesetter.com: Yes, but is there a way to tweak this behavior to suit

Re: KDE 4.1.2. KDE 4.2 Frescobaldi problem

2009-03-02 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op maandag 02 maart 2009, schreef t.scharkow...@t-online.de: I had installed Frescobaldi on my Kubuntu 8.04 KDE 4.1.2 system. Now I have upgraded to 8.10 KDE 4.2 and get the following error: File /home/thomas/frescobaldi-0.7.6/python/kateshell/mainwindow.py, line 220, in setupGeneratedMenus