Swung quaver notation

2009-11-27 Thread Philip Potter
Dear all, I'd like to get a direction for swung quavers at the top of my score. What I want is: quaver-beam-quaver = triplet[ crotchet quaver ] if that makes sense. I've had a look through the lilypond-user archives and it seems it wasn't possible 5 years ago:

Re: change Pitch, strange behavior

2009-11-27 Thread Alexander Kobel
Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear Alexander, look at the attached jpg-file. In my opinion the quarter-rests look strange! Ugh. Okay, admitted. But... it's nothing to do with \changePitch. Remove this command, and the result looks the same. Worse, if you add spacer rests in the second voice, no rests

Re: text spanning

2009-11-27 Thread -Eluze
Hugh Myers wrote: the spanning text in bar 14 does not align with the first note of the bar as I had expected. Is there a way to control this? it starts exactly where you defined it (on the gis8) - i guess you want it to start with the rest: r4 \startTextSpan … -- View this message in

Re: Swung quaver notation

2009-11-27 Thread -Eluze
Philip Potter wrote: Dear all, I'd like to get a direction for swung quavers at the top of my score. What I want is: quaver-beam-quaver = triplet[ crotchet quaver ] http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1id=204 lsr helps: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1id=204 -- View this

number of systems on a3 page

2009-11-27 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, it seems I can't fit more than 8 systems of piano music on an a3 page, although at the bottom there is plenty of space. You can see the result here: http://icemserv.folkwang-hochschule.de/~finnendahl/download/lilytest.jpg It seems the layout doesn't produce systems beyond a certain point

Re: number of systems on a3 page

2009-11-27 Thread David Kastrup
Orm Finnendahl o.finnend...@mh-freiburg.de writes: Hi, it seems I can't fit more than 8 systems of piano music on an a3 page, although at the bottom there is plenty of space. You can see the result here: http://icemserv.folkwang-hochschule.de/~finnendahl/download/lilytest.jpg It seems

Compiling times on this file

2009-11-27 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, I'm so grateful for such an active community on this fabulous program! Yesterday, I was dealing with fonts; today I'm wondering just what got into my code. For much of the time I have been working on this file, it's taken 5 - 7 seconds to compile. All of a sudden this morning, it

Re: number of systems on a3 page

2009-11-27 Thread Federico Bruni
David Kastrup wrote: With the current developer version (2.13.9 or so), there are 12 systems per page with your input file. also with the last development version (2.13.8) there are 12 systems per page. there's no need to compile it, you can find it here:

Re: number of systems on a3 page

2009-11-27 Thread Orm Finnendahl
ok, thanks I'll try that. Am Friday, den 27. November 2009 um 14:31:23 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Federico Bruni: David Kastrup wrote: With the current developer version (2.13.9 or so), there are 12 systems per page with your input file. also with the last development version (2.13.8) there are

Re: Compiling times on this file

2009-11-27 Thread Federico Bruni
Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: For much of the time I have been working on this file, it's taken 5 - 7 seconds to compile. All of a sudden this morning, it started taking up to 30 seconds, and I haven't done anything radical. Can someone have a look at my code and see if there is something

Re: Compiling times on this file

2009-11-27 Thread David Kastrup
Federico Bruni brunol...@gmx.com writes: Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: For much of the time I have been working on this file, it's taken 5 - 7 seconds to compile. All of a sudden this morning, it started taking up to 30 seconds, and I haven't done anything radical. Can someone have a look

Re: Swung quaver notation

2009-11-27 Thread Philip Potter
That looks good, thanks! I'll try it out when I get home from work... 2009/11/27 -Eluze elu...@gmail.com: Philip Potter wrote: Dear all, I'd like to get a direction for swung quavers at the top of my score. What I want is: quaver-beam-quaver = triplet[ crotchet quaver ]

Re: Compiling times on this file

2009-11-27 Thread Arjan Bos
On 27 nov 2009, at 13:58, Father Gordon Gilbert fatherg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Yesterday, I was dealing with fonts; today I'm wondering just what got into my code. Perhaps the font cache is getting rebuild every time you compile? You mentioned that you were working on fonts before

Re: number of systems on a3 page

2009-11-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Orm, it seems I can't fit more than 8 systems of piano music on an a3 page, although at the bottom there is plenty of space. Have you tried \paper { systems-per-page = 12 } or similar? Hope this helps, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Font questions

2009-11-27 Thread Ian Hulin
Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: Ah-ha! I solved the e-acute problem! I had used an accented e from my chat program (XChat2 for Windoze), and that was what was strange. I took a letter from OpenOffice for that and now it's correct. On Windows you should be able to use a Ctrl+Alt+e shortcut in

Re: text spanning

2009-11-27 Thread Hugh Myers
Perhaps I misunderstand your reply, but bar 14(where the problem is) has nothing to do with a rest. The text starts where (as you say) I wanted it to. That is not the problem. What is the problem is the continuation of the spanning text at bar 14--- here it starts outside in the margin instead of

Re: text spanning

2009-11-27 Thread -Eluze
Hugh Myers wrote: Perhaps I misunderstand your reply, but bar 14(where the problem is) has nothing to do with a rest. The text starts where (as you say) I wanted it to. That is not the problem. What is the problem is the continuation of the spanning text at bar 14--- here it starts outside

Re: text spanning

2009-11-27 Thread Nick Payne
Hugh Myers wrote: Perhaps I misunderstand your reply, but bar 14(where the problem is) has nothing to do with a rest. The text starts where (as you say) I wanted it to. That is not the problem. What is the problem is the continuation of the spanning text at bar 14--- here it starts outside in

Re: text spanning

2009-11-27 Thread Hugh Myers
Lovely! Much thanks Nick--- also nice to have code to examine prior to the point I need to roll my own :) --hsm On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: Hugh Myers wrote: Perhaps I misunderstand your reply, but bar 14(where the problem is) has nothing

Change ChordName temporarily

2009-11-27 Thread Jesús Guillermo Andrade
Dear Friends: The use of the cuatro instrument in Venezuela is traditional for tha last three centuries. One of the ingrained customs here is to name certain chords as another, based on their sonority. For example, a C dominant 7 is never regarded as a true Eb-Dominant Seventh. So... how

Re: text spanning

2009-11-27 Thread Hugh Myers
Is there a way to repeat the text automagically with each wrap? --hsm On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Hugh Myers hsmy...@gmail.com wrote: Lovely! Much thanks Nick--- also nice to have code to examine prior to the point I need to roll my own :) --hsm On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:20 PM,

Re: Change ChordName temporarily

2009-11-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hola, Jesús: how complicated would be to change the name of the chord, despite the notes included in it? There are lots of examples/functions on the LSR to learn from: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=chord Hope this helps! Kieren. ___

Crescendo/Decrescendo height

2009-11-27 Thread DreamOfTheShoreOfAnotherWorld
Greetings, I want to be able to produce hairpins of varying vertical size. Does anyone know a command that enables this? Thanks in advance. -Stephan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Crescendo/Decrescendo height

2009-11-27 Thread Alexander Kobel
dreamoftheshoreofanotherwo...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I want to be able to produce hairpins of varying vertical size. Does anyone know a command that enables this? Thanks in advance. Hi, Stephan, try this: \relative c' { f1\p\ f f f\ff \once \override Voice . Hairpin #'height

Re: text spanning

2009-11-27 Thread Nick Payne
To get the text repeated on each line, you either comment out last two lines in the function or change the override value to ##t, I can't remember which. Nick Hugh Myers wrote: Is there a way to repeat the text automagically with each wrap? --hsm On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Hugh

Comparison of build times

2009-11-27 Thread Nick Payne
I just built up a new PC to replace my ~four year old HP machine. I compared the lilypond build times on the old and new machines for the Reubke sonata on the 94th psalm. The old machine has 4Gb RAM and some sort of AMD dual core processor, the new machine has 6Gb RAM and an Intel i7 920

Re: text spanning

2009-11-27 Thread Hugh Myers
I'll try both as needed... and let you know. --hsm On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: To get the text repeated on each line, you either comment out last two lines in the function or change the override value to ##t, I can't remember which. Nick

Re: text spanning

2009-11-27 Thread Hugh Myers
Worked fine on supplied example. Does not work at all well on the piece I'm working on. This: \version 2.13.7 tspan = #(define-music-function (parser location text osp dirn shorten adjBreak adjEnd) (string? number? number? pair? number? number?) #{ % set osp to 999 if spanner is colliding with

Re: text spanning

2009-11-27 Thread Nick Payne
Hugh Myers wrote: Worked fine on supplied example. Does not work at all well on the piece I'm working on. Function has to be called immediately before the note where the text spanner starts. If you want a solid rather than dashed line, comment the overrides that setup the dashed line.