Re: Question re: CadenzaOn

2010-09-18 Thread Paul Scott
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 02:11:32AM -0400, Joshua Armenta wrote: > Hello, > > I have a score with multiple staves. One instrument enter into unmetered > timing and performs a cadenza, the other five instruments rest. The problem > is that when the file is compiled, the barlines in the output is com

Question re: CadenzaOn

2010-09-18 Thread Joshua Armenta
Hello, I have a score with multiple staves. One instrument enter into unmetered timing and performs a cadenza, the other five instruments rest. The problem is that when the file is compiled, the barlines in the output is completely thrown off, even when the same measure is put into a Cadenza on st

Re: push beginning of second verse 8 measures into the song

2010-09-18 Thread Trevor Daniels
Chip Wiegand wrote Saturday, September 18, 2010 10:55 PM I am working on a song that has the second verse starting midway thru the first verse, on a DS al Fine. I tried to place a \skip xx where xx is the number of notes to skip but only skipped a couple notes. Yes. In lyrics the number

push beginning of second verse 8 measures into the song

2010-09-18 Thread Chip Wiegand
I am working on a song that has the second verse starting midway thru the first verse, on a DS al Fine. I tried to place a \skip xx where xx is the number of notes to skip but only skipped a couple notes. What is the correct way to push the lyrics further into the melody skipping the first 8 b

Re: Too difficult to find how-to-create-a-snippet docs

2010-09-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 6:55 PM, aliteralmind wrote: > I believe it should be easier to find for a relative > newcomer such as myself. Much of the documentation navigation was revamped almost a year ago and is present in the 2.13 devel version. This should be much better once 2.14 is out in a fe

Too difficult to find how-to-create-a-snippet docs

2010-09-18 Thread aliteralmind
I am interested in making my first snippet for my own personal html documentation. Maybe eventually the LSR. It took me a half-hour of deliberate searching, in the documentation, including the LSR, and in this forum, to finally come across the liliypond-book section in the Program Usage docum

Re: 2 pages on 1 ?

2010-09-18 Thread PMA
And thank you all -- Nick, Ananth, David, Dmytro ! Clearly I've got some homework to do Pete ananth p wrote: Thanks for the suggestions, David & Dmytro. Have never worked with postscript. Will try that and pdflatex too. Agreed, scripting will be useful for repeated jobs. Perhaps we could

Re: lyrics insists on starting on second note, not the first note of the piece

2010-09-18 Thread Chip Wiegand
On 9/18/2010 10:07 AM, -Eluze wrote: i think the \global has nothing to do in the Lyrics context - try to remove it! Thanks, that took care of it. I hadn't noticed that, it hasn't caused any problems in the other pieces I have written. -- Chip ___

Re: lyrics insists on starting on second note, not the first note of the piece

2010-09-18 Thread -Eluze
i think the \global has nothing to do in the Lyrics context - try to remove it! -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/lyrics-insists-on-starting-on-second-note%2C-not-the-first-note-of-the-piece-tp29747159p29747355.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive

Re: lyrics insists on starting on second note, not the first note of the piece

2010-09-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Chip, > Oh, one more question - are A9 and A add9 both the same chord on the guitar? No: "A9" generally means "A7 with a 9th on top", i.e., A C# E G B "A add9" (equ. "A add2") generally means "A major triad with a 9th on top", i.e., A C# E B. Cheers, Kieren. _

Re: To improve lilypond score sheet output

2010-09-18 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/18/10 8:58 AM, "MING TSANG" wrote: > I like to improve the output. The questions or tip to improve: > 1.. How to make the stem thickness constant? Right now some is heave and some > is thin. Actually, all the stems should have the same thickness. I think this is a problem with your pdf pre

Re: 2 pages on 1 ?

2010-09-18 Thread ananth p
Thanks for the suggestions, David & Dmytro. Have never worked with postscript. Will try that and pdflatex too. Agreed, scripting will be useful for repeated jobs. Perhaps we could create a latex document with an appropriate layout, and embed lilypond within the columns. Anyways, still something l

lyrics insists on starting on second note, not the first note of the piece

2010-09-18 Thread Chip Wiegand
I am working on a lead sheet - lyrics, notes, chordnames - but the lyrics insist on starting on the second note of the piece. I have done 4 other lead sheets like this, using the same template, and they all work fine. The only difference I can see is this piece has the lyrics starting on the fi

RE: How do I Invoke midi2ly in windows?

2010-09-18 Thread philippe sicabaig
Probably there was some problem with my midi file. I created a very simple midi file especially to test and it worked. Still the ly file created is quite unusuable, (old ly version, I had to convert it...). As a result I wasnt able to export a pdf so easily. Is there an update of the

Re: Help, please --- can not mode dot down .(

2010-09-18 Thread Vicente Solsona
Hi! Here lilypond puts dots "in betweens noteheads", i need both of them (all of them) would be in spaces below noteheads: \version "2.13.33" % 2.12 does the same [...] It looks to me as if this strange behaviour is caused by the \voiceTwo-command. It also happens with \voiceFour. For now

Re: Help, please --- can not mode dot down .(

2010-09-18 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 18.09.2010 um 16:05 schrieb Dmytro O. Redchuk: Hi! Here lilypond puts dots "in betweens noteheads", i need both of them (all of them) would be in spaces below noteheads: \version "2.13.33" % 2.12 does the same \relative c'' { \time 3/4 \voiceTwo % neither of two works: \overri

Help, please --- can not mode dot down .(

2010-09-18 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
Hi! Here lilypond puts dots "in betweens noteheads", i need both of them (all of them) would be in spaces below noteheads: \version "2.13.33" % 2.12 does the same \relative c'' { \time 3/4 \voiceTwo % neither of two works: \override Dots #'direction = #DOWN \override Staff.DotColumn #

Re: advanced \tag -ing

2010-09-18 Thread aliteralmind
URL above is broken onto two lines, so doesn't work. Here it is again: http://tinyurl.com/2ata7aq ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: advanced \tag -ing

2010-09-18 Thread aliteralmind
> Let's say I have 4 different tags: one, two, three and > four. [...] I do need to combine them (4 scores with tags: one and three, one and four, two and three, two and four) How about this? - music = { \tag #'onethree \tag #'one { ... } \tag #'onethree \tag #'three { ... } }

Re: piano staves and lyrics

2010-09-18 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Gerald, \addlyrics can't handle polyphony. See NR v.2.13. You should use \lyricsto. You just forgot to add \new Lyrics: \new Lyrics \lyricsto "soprano" { please help } If you'd like to have the lyrics in between the two staves you have to add: \layout { \context { \PianoStaff \accepts

piano staves and lyrics

2010-09-18 Thread Gerard McConnell
Hello, I've included a minimal example below; why doesn't it work and how do I correct it? (It works fine without the alto and tenor parts.) Many thanks yet again, Gerard \version "2.12.2" \score { \new PianoStaff { << \new Staff { << \new Voice="soprano" { \voiceOne

Re:Can anybody help me with fret diagrams?

2010-09-18 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Wow! You're absolutely right! Thanks so much! Wonder why that error doesn't bork the diagram completely? Gordon+ Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:31:03 -0700 (PDT) > From: -Eluze > Subject: Re: Can anybody help me with fret diagrams? > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Message-ID: <29743400.

Re: 2 pages on 1 ?

2010-09-18 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
On Sat 18 Sep 2010, 09:01 David Kastrup wrote: > ananth p writes: > > > Multi-Column layout! I need that too. > > > > This is how I did this score (3 Columns)- http://www.twitpic.com/ > > 2pie84 > > > > 1. Calculate the width (and height?) of each column; set the page > > size accordingly. (

Re: 2 pages on 1 ?

2010-09-18 Thread David Kastrup
ananth p writes: > Multi-Column layout! I need that too. > > This is how I did this score (3 Columns)- http://www.twitpic.com/ > 2pie84 > > 1. Calculate the width (and height?) of each column; set the page > size accordingly. (page width = column width) > 2. Run LilyPond, output the score a