Re: a:4 chord

2009-03-19 Thread Luc Saffre
On 15.03.2009 2:04, M Watts wrote: Miklos Vajna wrote: Now I want the same with A^4, so I type: \chords { a:4 } and I get: A^4/sus4/add3. Question: How do I get just an A^4? :) Just use a chord name exception -- it looks like a lot of setting up, but it's well worth it, and

Re: a:4 chord

2009-03-19 Thread David Stocker
Asus4 is a particular kind of chord where the 4 is held over from another harmony (like IV-I). A4 would seem to indicate an 'A' played with a perfect fourth above (in the way 'A5' is understood to mean 'A' played with a perfect fifth above. Luc Saffre wrote: On 15.03.2009 2:04, M Watts

auto-beaming

2009-03-19 Thread David Bobroff
I'm trying to work out some auto-beaming modifications. In 2/4 time I want: 4 8th notes beamed 4 16th notes beamed 8 32nd notes beamed with a subdivision at the 8th note level Is this possible? I understand that I'll need to revert some beaming rules in auto-beam.scm. Frankly, I get a bit

Re: a:4 chord

2009-03-19 Thread Brett Duncan
Luc Saffre wrote: Can somebody explain what's the difference between printing A^sus4 and A^4? I had only basic music education but am helping with publishing a songbook using Lilypond, and I thought that the difference is not important. But now I'm afraid I'm wrong and that I'll have to check

Re: a:4 chord

2009-03-19 Thread Luc Saffre
Thanks, Brett. To summarize for myself, and maybe some documentation maintainer wants to integrate that somewhere: If I'm encoding chords from a previously published score, and there is a C4, then (1) I try to find out what they really meant, and (2) depending on that: If they meant...

Re: default margins

2009-03-19 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
The linewidth is always around 190 mm (+-), so this my be the reason for LilyPonds default margins. I'd prefer letter format, but in Germany (Europe?) letter format paper is not easily available. I even more I like 9x12 inch (Breitkopf Härtel), but even if I found paper in ths format, my printer

Re: a:4 chord

2009-03-19 Thread Luc Saffre
Oops, errata: an added 4th must be coded c:5.4, not c:add4. Luc On 19.03.2009 9:49, Luc Saffre wrote: Thanks, Brett. To summarize for myself, and maybe some documentation maintainer wants to integrate that somewhere: If I'm encoding chords from a previously published score, and there is

Re: cross-staff voice indication

2009-03-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Valentin Villenave wrote: 2009/3/19 Florian Hollerweger f...@mur.at: (sorry, I missed your second mail) It seems that staff-change lines do not work whenever they have to operate in a voice context (version 2.10.33)? Actually, it's the opposite: followVoice or showStaffSwitch only

chords : changing from a:sus4 to a

2009-03-19 Thread Luc Saffre
Hello, in some printed scores I find a chords notation as shown in the attached picture. Is there a way to render this in LP? I didn't find any better than writing a2:sus4 a which is less clear... Luc inline: chords.jpg___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: auto-beaming

2009-03-19 Thread Trevor Daniels
Hi This is almost but not quite possible. You have to use beam-ending rules to obtain different beaming for different note durations (rather than beat-grouping rules, which apply to all note durations). In 2.12 the beam-ending rules are ((end * * 2 4) . ,(ly:make-moment 1 4)) ((end

Re: Can't have Lilypond-book work in Windows XP

2009-03-19 Thread Werner LEMBERG
file was encoded in utf-8 so it couldn't work. ??? Add \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} to the preamble of your document and UTF-8 is supported (well, at least for most languages based on the latin script). Be warned, however, that you probably have to remove the Byte-Order Mark (BOM) manually

re: smaller distance between first Staff and TimeSig

2009-03-19 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Lilypond users, I still have the problem with getting the right distance between first staff and TimeSig. In the below quoted snippet, the first staff is not alwys the same. How can I (if possible, automatically) control the distance between TimeSig and first staff? Here is the snippet:

Trying to figure out a beat grouping

2009-03-19 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Hi folks, I'm having trouble trying to modify the automatic beaming for a piece I'm working on. This piece has many examples of this figure in 4/4 time: a8 a a a16 a I would like the beaming to be: a8[ a] a[ a16 a] ___ ___ | | | |___| | | | | | | | | | | O

Re: Can't have Lilypond-book work in Windows XP

2009-03-19 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Werner LEMBERG wrote: file was encoded in utf-8 so it couldn't work. ??? It seems I'm an idiot... everything is ok right now, without any tweak. Thanks (and sorry) for your time. - Piero Faustini, PhD student Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche Sezione musicologia Università di

Re: Trying to figure out a beat grouping

2009-03-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I guess you still want | | | | | | | | | | | | O O O O to stay beamed, right? Otherwise, it would be simple to break all the beams after 2 eight notes. /Mats Cameron Horsburgh wrote: Hi folks, I'm having trouble trying to modify the

Re: auto-beaming

2009-03-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Trevor Daniels wrote: Unfortunately, this will also subdivide 16th beams too. This is what I meant by not quite possible. You would need to turn subdivideBeams on and off as required. Should we turn this into feature request to make the automatic subdivision of beams even more flexible, with

Re: guitar tab feature request

2009-03-19 Thread Grammostola Rosea
David Stocker wrote: 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 have something, I'll send it out

Re: cross-staff voice indication

2009-03-19 Thread Florian Hollerweger
Hi, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Florian, why not use a glissando for the latter case? Because I couldn't see the obvious any more after an evening of lilyponding? Thanks for that hint, Mats and Valentin! best, flo.H ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Trying to figure out a beat grouping

2009-03-19 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:13:06PM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: I guess you still want | | | | | | | | | | | | O O O O to stay beamed, right? Otherwise, it would be simple to break all the beams after 2 eight notes. /Mats Sorry, yes. Group

Re: chords : changing from a:sus4 to a

2009-03-19 Thread Luc Saffre
On 19.03.2009 11:59, Brett Duncan wrote: Luc Saffre wrote: in some printed scores I find a chords notation as shown in the attached picture. Is there a way to render this in LP? I didn't find any better than writing a2:sus4 a which is less clear... In a lot of music, Asus4 A is exactly

a minor doc error

2009-03-19 Thread James E. Bailey
In AU 1.2.2, the link for Bison points to Flex. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: chords : changing from a:sus4 to a

2009-03-19 Thread Brett Duncan
Luc Saffre wrote: Hello, in some printed scores I find a chords notation as shown in the attached picture. Is there a way to render this in LP? I didn't find any better than writing a2:sus4 a which is less clear... In a lot of music, Asus4 A is exactly how it appears. I've certainly seen

Re: Need the MusicXML test cases (link broken)

2009-03-19 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 19. März 2009 schrieb Rick Hansen (aka RickH): Hello, I have some spare time and would like to do some work in testing the MusicXML converter. I tried to download the test cases zip file at the link below (as found on this site)

Re: a minor doc error

2009-03-19 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Patch attached. Thanks for the heads-up, James. Jonathan On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:11 AM, James E. Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com wrote: In AU 1.2.2, the link for Bison points to Flex. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: default margins

2009-03-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:03:42PM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: I have! At one point I was frustrated by this very issue and went through my score library with a ruler. Valentin mentioned precise measurements, but to my surprise, measured values from any one publisher deviated quite a lot

Re: auto-beaming

2009-03-19 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/19/09 5:13 AM, Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se wrote: Trevor Daniels wrote: Unfortunately, this will also subdivide 16th beams too. This is what I meant by not quite possible. You would need to turn subdivideBeams on and off as required. Should we turn this into feature

Re: auto-beaming

2009-03-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 3/19/09 5:13 AM, Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se wrote: Should we turn this into feature request to make the automatic subdivision of beams even more flexible, with separate rules for different note lengths, or would the resulting scheme get too messy

Re: auto-beaming

2009-03-19 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/19/09 8:34 AM, Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se wrote: Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 3/19/09 5:13 AM, Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se wrote: Should we turn this into feature request to make the automatic subdivision of beams even more flexible, with separate rules

Re: default margins

2009-03-19 Thread Mark Polesky
From: Graham Percival A priori, I would say that changing margins are **not** a good idea... but since professional typesetters do it, and I never noticed myself in 25 years of music-playing, I have to admit that maybe it's a good idea. Graham, I don't get the sense that professional

Re: default margins

2009-03-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:04:29AM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: From: Graham Percival A priori, I would say that changing margins are **not** a good idea... but since professional typesetters do it, and I never noticed myself in 25 years of music-playing, I have to admit that maybe it's

Re: default margins

2009-03-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/19 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca: This would require the ability to change margins in lilypond on-the-fly, of course.  I doubt that's possible in current page settings... and in any case, it would mix up content and presentation a fair amount.  Unless we defined something

Re: default margins

2009-03-19 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/19/09 7:53 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:03:42PM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: I have! At one point I was frustrated by this very issue and went through my score library with a ruler. Valentin mentioned precise measurements, but to my

Stem not quite correctly positioned on merged noteheads

2009-03-19 Thread Nick Payne
\version 2.12.2 \relative c'' { { \mergeDifferentlyHeadedOn c8 d e d } \\ { c2 } } If you look closely at the output produced by the above, the right-hand stem on the merged note is not exactly positioned in line with the right-hand side of the notehead. This is the example from section 1.5.2

Stem not quite correctly positioned on merged noteheads

2009-03-19 Thread Nick Payne
\version 2.12.2 \relative c'' { { \mergeDifferentlyHeadedOn c8 d e d } \\ { c2 } } If you look closely at the output produced by the above, the right-hand stem on the merged note is not exactly positioned in line with the right-hand side of the notehead. This is the example from section 1.5.2

Cross-staff ties

2009-03-19 Thread Alberto Simões
Hello Is there any chance to produce cross-staff ties? I was trying with \change Staff = upper \stemDown a4 ~ \change Staff = lower \stemUp a2 ~ but this is not doing it right :) Thank Alberto -- Alberto Simões - Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho

Re: auto-beaming

2009-03-19 Thread Trevor Daniels
Carl D. Sorensenwrote Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:42 PM On 3/19/09 8:34 AM, Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se wrote: Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 3/19/09 5:13 AM, Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se wrote: Should we turn this into feature request to make the automatic

Re: smaller distance between first Staff and TimeSig

2009-03-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Stefan, Have you considered abandoning the TimeSig context, and simply adjusting the TimeSignature of the topmost Staff directly? Using #'font-size, #'X-extent, and #'X-offset (or #'extra-offset), you can get the same effect, with perfect spacing every time -- the only thing you need

Text/markup attached to bracket

2009-03-19 Thread Stuart Pullinger
Hi, Could anyone point me towards a snippet/documentation which could help me to attach markup to a bracket? I'd like to mark up a score with melodic intervals and potentially add other markup such as drawing commands. A mockup edited in Inkscape is attached. Any suggestions would be gratefully

Re: smaller distance between first Staff and TimeSig

2009-03-19 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Kieren, that sounds good, but I'm not sure if I understood You right. Do You mean a Staff-context without notes, but with Time-Signatures? Could You give me please a very short example? 2009/3/19 Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca: Hi Stefan, Have you considered abandoning the

Re: no glissando between 16th notes

2009-03-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
Le 19 mars 2009 21:21, Frédéric Bron frederic.b...@m4x.org a écrit : The following code produces no glissando between 16th notes (2.12.2): Why? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals/Glissando Default padding is 1.5 staff spaces on the right and on the left. If

Re: Making lilypond ignore some clashes

2009-03-19 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 06:11:09PM +, Alberto Simões wrote: I just would like to make lilypond to shut up about those specific clashes. Is there any way to do that? Try \override NoteColumn #'ignore-collision = ##t -- Cameron Horsburgh Blog: http://spiritcry.wordpress.com/

RE: no glissando between 16th notes

2009-03-19 Thread Nick Payne
I wrote myself a music function a while ago to simplify modifying the glissando end points when indicating slides on the guitar: % modify glissando start and end points to indicate a left-hand finger slide % between notes. Example: % % \slide #3 #4 g4\glissando fis % slide =

Re: Stem not quite correctly positioned on merged noteheads

2009-03-19 Thread Trevor Daniels
Yes, I see the same with 2.12.1 on Vista and viewed with Adobe Reader 8.1.3. See attached. A minor bug, but a definite one for a program in which beautifully typeset music is the main objective. Valentin? Trevor - Original Message - From: Nick Payne njpa...@internode.on.net To:

Re: a minor doc error

2009-03-19 Thread Trevor Daniels
Thanks Jon - pushed to origin/master. Trevor - Original Message - From: Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com To: James E. Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com Cc: Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk; lilypond-user Mailinglist lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:54

Re: Trying to figure out a beat grouping

2009-03-19 Thread Trevor Daniels
Cameron Horsburgh wrote Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:28 AM I'm having trouble trying to modify the automatic beaming for a piece I'm working on. This piece has many examples of this figure in 4/4 time: a8 a a a16 a I would like the beaming to be: a8[ a] a[ a16 a] ___ ___ | |

\fermata problems

2009-03-19 Thread MonAmiPierrot
I'm working on a cadenza. I need a fermata in all staffs, silent ones and the playing one. - But I can't have a \fermata work on a one-bar-long R rest (just a silent staff during the Soprano cadenza). If I put a r rest (by instance, a horrible r4. rest!) it works but it put the note align on the

Re: \fermata problems

2009-03-19 Thread MonAmiPierrot
MonAmiPierrot wrote: - But I can't have a \fermata work on a one-bar-long R rest (just a silent staff during the Soprano cadenza). If I put a r rest (by instance, a horrible r4. rest!) it works but it put the note align on the left... Found this one: ^\fermataMarkup Still no idea for

Re: smaller distance between first Staff and TimeSig

2009-03-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Stefan, that sounds good, but I'm not sure if I understood You right. Do You mean a Staff-context without notes, but with Time-Signatures? Could You give me please a very short example? Hope this helps! Kieren. % \version 2.12.2 filler = \repeat unfold 48 { c'4 } \layout {