Re: Bar lines are too thick!

2009-12-22 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/12/22 Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com: Are you talking about the printed page or just the .pdf file on the screen? Sometimes the barlines on the screen look awful in different pdf viewers but then they look right when printed. Jon In the evince bug case, barlines are thick both on

Re: which encoding for umlaute

2009-12-22 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear James, unfortunately, this didnt' work for me! I tried it with: \version 2.12.2 \header { title = \markup {\concat {Bourr \char ##x009 e} } } \relative c' { c4 d e f g a b c } I've attached the resulting png-file 2009/12/19 James Lowe james.l...@datacore.com alternatively you can

Re: which encoding for umlaute

2009-12-22 Thread David Kastrup
Stefan Thomas kontrapunktste...@googlemail.com writes: Dear James, unfortunately, this didnt' work for me! I tried it with: \version 2.12.2 \header { title = \markup {\concat {Bourr \char ##x009 e} } } \relative c' {   c4 d e f g a b c } I've attached the resulting png-file

midi with una corda

2009-12-22 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, is it possible to define a \unacorda command that has an effect to the midi-output? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: midi with una corda

2009-12-22 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Yes, the unaCorda command does perform the appropriate midi event. I think the question is: is it possible to include custom MIDI controller commands in the MIDI output? I think it is not yet, though would be very useful. Bert Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear community, is it possible to define a

Re: which encoding for umlaute

2009-12-22 Thread James Lowe
Stefan, Yes as David so eloquently put it, I made a mistake in my example. Sorry for the confusion. Instead of \char ##x009 It should have been \char ##x0e9 However it can also be \char ##x00e9 Which is the actual value in that link I gave you. Here is another example just to prove the

Dynamics above the staff?

2009-12-22 Thread Athanasius Pelletier
How can I get the dynamics (i.e pp fff) above the music instead of below where the lyrics are? Lillypond seems to keep putting them below. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: sustainOff apparantly does not seem to work in bracket style

2009-12-22 Thread stefankaegi
I'm sorry, but it isn't really possible to demonstrate my problem when I make my example shorter. Best wishes, Stefan Am Dienstag, den 22.12.2009, 00:33 + schrieb Graham Percival: Please send a tiny example. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/web/tiny-examples Cheers, - Graham

Re: sustainOff apparantly does not seem to work in bracket style

2009-12-22 Thread Graham Percival
That's complete garbage. If your six-sentence description is correct, then this problem can be reproduced in less than 8 lines of lilypond code. Since you're not willing to even *try* to clarify the issue, I don't see how you can expect anybody else to work on it. - Graham On Tue, Dec 22, 2009

Re: Dynamics above the staff?

2009-12-22 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Athanasius, How can I get the dynamics (i.e pp fff) above the music instead of below where the lyrics are? Lillypond seems to keep putting them below. Use the \dynamicUp macro. Hope this helps! Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Dynamics above the staff?

2009-12-22 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Dienstag, 22. Dezember 2009 18:43:46 schrieb Athanasius Pelletier: How can I get the dynamics (i.e pp fff) above the music instead of below where the lyrics are? Lillypond seems to keep putting them below. How about \dynamicUp ? Cheers, Reinhold --

Re: Dynamics above the staff?

2009-12-22 Thread James Lowe
http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=232 Athanasius Pelletier wrote: How can I get the dynamics (i.e pp fff) above the music instead of below where the lyrics are? Lillypond seems to keep putting them below.

Re: Dynamics above the staff?

2009-12-22 Thread Nick Payne
On 23/12/09 04:43, Athanasius Pelletier wrote: How can I get the dynamics (i.e pp fff) above the music instead of below where the lyrics are? Lillypond seems to keep putting them below. c^\pp Nick ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Dynamics above the staff?

2009-12-22 Thread James Lowe
Nick wins! :) Nick Payne wrote: On 23/12/09 04:43, Athanasius Pelletier wrote: How can I get the dynamics (i.e pp fff) above the music instead of below where the lyrics are? Lillypond seems to keep putting them below. c^\pp Nick ___

Cue with voices

2009-12-22 Thread Jay Anderson
From the docs on quoting other voices: Only the contents of the first Voice occurring in an \addQuote command will be considered for quotation, so music cannot contain \new and \context Voice statements that would switch to a different Voice. Here's a short example: \version 2.13.9 violinsA =

Re: Cue with voices

2009-12-22 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Dienstag, 22. Dezember 2009 20:52:29 schrieb Jay Anderson: From the docs on quoting other voices: Only the contents of the first Voice occurring in an \addQuote command will be considered for quotation, so music cannot contain \new and \context Voice statements that would switch to a

Re: Dynamics above the staff?

2009-12-22 Thread James Bailey
On 22.12.2009, at 19:12, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Athanasius, How can I get the dynamics (i.e pp fff) above the music instead of below where the lyrics are? Lillypond seems to keep putting them below. Use the \dynamicUp macro. Hope this helps! Kieren. There's a \dynamicUp??!! I

Re: Dynamics above the staff?

2009-12-22 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi James, Nick wins! :) A word of warning: Nick's solution mixes content (dynamic) with presentation (dynamic placement). Put another way, if you ever wanted to switch *all* dynamics to go below — say in a second edition, where the lyrics are above the words and the dynamics below —

Re: Dynamics above the staff?

2009-12-22 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi James, There's a \dynamicUp??!! I really gotta start reading the changes to the program. That came in *many* versions ago… ;) Cheers, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Allegro

2009-12-22 Thread Athanasius Pelletier
How do I change the meter (Andante, Allegro) in the middle of a song? Also how do I add ritardando? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Vertical spacing of lyrics

2009-12-22 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary
Hello! I've set a piece of music and the stanzas of the lyrics are too close together for me. I've looked into the documentation ... but my obtuseness prevents me from understanding just how to fix it. I'm including the code for the hymn. TIA. -- United in adoration of Jesus, fr.

Re: Allegro

2009-12-22 Thread Xavier Scheuer
Hi, 2009/12/22 Athanasius Pelletier athp...@gmail.com: How do I change the meter (Andante, Allegro) in the middle of a song? \tempo Andante, \tempo Allegro See the Notation Reference manual, section 1.6.3 Metronome marks.

Re: sustainOff apparantly does not seem to work in bracket style

2009-12-22 Thread Neil Thornock
Try removing the tempoMark at the beginning of that measure and do it again. Rehearsal marks do not cooperate with spanners in my experience. (not tested, just a hunch) Neil On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: Please send a tiny example.

Re: Dynamics above the staff?

2009-12-22 Thread James Bailey
On 22.12.2009, at 21:28, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi James, There's a \dynamicUp??!! I really gotta start reading the changes to the program. That came in *many* versions ago… ;) Cheers, Kieren. Like I said, I really gotta start reading those new features things.

Two simultaneous key-change events

2009-12-22 Thread MJ Moody
Is there a way to force lilypond to include two key changes back to back, separated only by a \bar :|. I get the two simultaneous key-change event error but would like to override or find a work around if possible. The piece goes from begins in b-flat major changes to e-flat major, it repeats

Re: sustainOff apparantly does not seem to work in bracket style

2009-12-22 Thread stefankaegi
Yes, you are right. Thank you. Am Dienstag, den 22.12.2009, 14:49 -0700 schrieb Neil Thornock: Try removing the tempoMark at the beginning of that measure and do it again. Rehearsal marks do not cooperate with spanners in my experience. (not tested, just a hunch) Neil On Mon, Dec 21,