Re: fingering

2009-03-14 Thread James E. Bailey
On 14.03.2009, at 04:48, Mark Polesky wrote: James, You're funneling two different music expressions into one context, but you've not explicitly instantiated a voice context. … Note that when you add \new Voice = A you no longer need the #'add-stem-support command. That's rather

Parametric variables?

2009-03-14 Thread Tomas Valusek
Hello, in the Snippet repository, I found the following: c^\markup { \finger 2 - 3 } I'd like to use it as a solution for my chord fingering problems like this: c d^\markup { \finger 2\n1 } but I would prefer to say c d\fng(2\n1) or similar. Is it possible without diving into Scheme? That

Re: Parametric variables?

2009-03-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 03:59:13PM +0100, Tomas Valusek wrote: Is it possible without diving into Scheme? No. That is - is it possible to have parametrized variables, which could take an expression as a parameter? This is possible with Scheme. Depending on what exactly you want to do, it

Re: Parametric variables?

2009-03-14 Thread Tomas Valusek
Hello, thanks for answer. I tried my best, but I don't understand what's wrong. I have slightly modified last example in NR 6.1.2 like this: fng = #(define-music-function (parser location marktext) (string?) #\markup {\finger $marktext} #) {c' d'1^\fng #2\n1} And a resulting log looks like

Re: Looking for proper beam grouping

2009-03-14 Thread Trevor Daniels
Hi Maarten I've made some changes which should produce the correct beaming by default in this situation (along with quite a few more). They should take effect in the first 2.13 version to be released. Trevor - Original Message - From: Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl To: Lilypond

a:4 chord

2009-03-14 Thread Miklos Vajna
Hi, First, sorry if this was already discussed, I did not found anything regarding this in the documentation. So I have the following block in my .ly file: \chords { a:7 } and this is properly rendered to something similar to A^7. Now I want the same with A^4, so I type: \chords {

Re: There have been a bunch of discussions lately about lillypond-book

2009-03-14 Thread Timothy C Litwiller
ok, here are a couple of the files that I am working with I've already commented out some parts hopeing they won't cause problems. but I get C:/Program Files/Easy LilyPond/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/ly/english.ly:15:0: error: syntax error, unexpected STRING pitchnamesEnglish = #`(

Re: Parametric variables?

2009-03-14 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Tomas, You were very close. You were just missing a pair of brackets, which I've indicated below. On 3/14/09 10:10 AM, Tomas Valusek tvalu...@seznam.cz wrote: Hello, thanks for answer. I tried my best, but I don't understand what's wrong. I have slightly modified last example in NR

Re: Parametric variables?

2009-03-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 06:56:28PM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: fng = #(define-music-function (parser location marktext) (string?) #{ \markup {\finger $marktext} ^ The lilypond music expression needs to start with a #{ #}) ^ and end with a #}. You were missing the { and }, you

Persian fonts

2009-03-14 Thread patrick duka
Hi, I'm new to Lilypond and Opensource. Kees Van den doel worked on creating the persian.ly file recently, and he explained how to install the Init file for persian music fonts: To use download the PostScript Type 1 Microtonal Font from Andrián Pertout (