Re: Suppressing chords in MIDI output

2010-09-22 Thread Peter Chubb
Christopher == Christopher Meredith chmered...@gmail.com writes: Christopher I use chordmode to print the chords above the piano Christopher music, but when rendering the MIDI file, I would prefer Christopher the chords to not be played. Is there a way to have only Christopher the voices (and

Re: something like scorch for lilypond?

2010-09-22 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Henning, dear community, off course, You are right: the lilypond-web-mailing-list is about lilypond, and not about sibelius, latex, and so on. On the other site it is always interesting and helpful, at least in my opinion, to keep informed, what can be done with other software. After I have

Re: Suppressing chords in MIDI output

2010-09-22 Thread Marc Hohl
Peter Chubb schrieb: Christopher == Christopher Meredith chmered...@gmail.com writes: Christopher I use chordmode to print the chords above the piano Christopher music, but when rendering the MIDI file, I would prefer Christopher the chords to not be played. Is there a way to

Re: something like scorch for lilypond?

2010-09-22 Thread Federico Bruni
2010/9/21 Stefan Thomas kontrapunktste...@googlemail.com Dear Henning, Scorch is a plugin, that allows You to read the music while You can listen to the midi-file at the same time. You can also transpose whole pieces, and You don't have to install sibelius for it. You may try Rosegarden.

Re: printing bar numbers on every odd measure

2010-09-22 Thread -Eluze
Graham Percival-3 wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 01:31:00PM -0700, -Eluze wrote: there is also this (quite hidden undocumented, but working!): \override Score.BarNumber #'break-visibility = #end-of-line-invisible \set Score.barNumberVisibility = #(modulo-bar-number-visible 2 1 )

Re: printing bar numbers on every odd measure

2010-09-22 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2010-09-22 11:47, -Eluze wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 01:31:00PM -0700, -Eluze wrote: there is also this (quite hidden undocumented, but working!): \override Score.BarNumber #'break-visibility = #end-of-line-invisible \set Score.barNumberVisibility = #(modulo-bar-number-visible 2 1

Re: printing bar numbers on every odd measure

2010-09-22 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2010-09-22 12:06, Alexander Kobel wrote: On 2010-09-22 11:47, -Eluze wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 01:31:00PM -0700, -Eluze wrote: there is also this (quite hidden undocumented, but working!): \override Score.BarNumber #'break-visibility = #end-of-line-invisible \set

Re: How to get a property override into a scheme markup function?

2010-09-22 Thread Jeff Epstein
Carl Sorensen c_sorensen at byu.edu writes: [...] \displayMusic function missed a quote that you need in your argument list--note that it should be #:override '(box-padding . 0.5) not #:override (box-padding . 0.5) Excellent. Thank you! Could you please file a simple bug report at

Re: printing bar numbers on every odd measure

2010-09-22 Thread -Eluze
indeed - much nicer! so you can put nearly everything in the layout block and keep the music part clean except for the \bar in the beginning - and to suppress the first bar number, just omit the \bar ! the code then could be: \layout { \context { \Score barNumberVisibility =

drawing an arrow

2010-09-22 Thread 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng
Hello, I'm writing an indication for bell tree to gliss upwards. So I need an arrow pointing right-up. However, the following markup only produces an rotated triangle. Must I add a line before the arrow? Could you help me visually to create one? Regards Haipeng \relative c, { r2

Re: best practices

2010-09-22 Thread aliteralmind
For what it's worth, my misunderstanding--beyond the um--had nothing to do with abbreviations. It was only in expecting to see the words best practices in the documentation, as it was the original post's subject. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: printing bar numbers on every odd measure

2010-09-22 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2010-09-22 12:45, -Eluze wrote: indeed - much nicer! so you can put nearly everything in the layout block and keep the music part clean except for the \bar in the beginning - and to suppress the first bar number, just omit the \bar ! [...] Ah, clever - shame on me, I didn't know right

Instrument Names for Staff Groups?

2010-09-22 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hello, I'm trying to typeset a piece for 4 Percussionists. Each of them will use 4 \Staffs combined into a \StaffGroup: 2 percussion staffs and a combined bass/treble \PianoStaff for Mallets. I would like to have the name Percussion 1 printed in front of the whole group, vertically centered and

printing bar numbers on every odd measure

2010-09-22 Thread Lia Zito
Hello, I'm trying to get bar numbers to print on every odd measure: 1,3,5 etc. The \set Score.barNumberVisibility = #(first-and-every-nth-bar-number-visible 2) command puts out even numbered bar numbers every time. I even used the directions on how to print the 1st and every nth bar number

Re: printing bar numbers on every odd measure

2010-09-22 Thread -Eluze
Alexander Kobel wrote: now - will you modify the snippet or shall i try to do that? Well, I don't think I actually found your snippet; IIRC, the two I quoted have been there for a longer time now. (I think LSR needs a while to update the search index.) So, if you've already written a

Metronome mark style

2010-09-22 Thread Alonso Silva
Hi: Is posible tweak the metronome mark style? Many scores I have looked didn't have parentheses between the tempo. Also I want to make something like this: Allegro, M.M. = (quarter) 108 - 110 Thanks. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: drawing an arrow

2010-09-22 Thread James Worlton
2010/9/22 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng hhpmu...@163.com Hello, I'm writing an indication for bell tree to gliss upwards. So I need an arrow pointing right-up. However, the following markup only produces an rotated triangle. Must I add a line before the arrow? Could you help me visually to create one?

Re: Suppressing chords in MIDI output

2010-09-22 Thread Christopher Meredith
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Peter Chubb lily.u...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: Christopher == Christopher Meredith chmered...@gmail.com writes: Christopher I use chordmode to print the chords above the piano Christopher music, but when rendering the MIDI file, I would prefer Christopher

Re: Suppressing chords in MIDI output

2010-09-22 Thread James
Hello On 22/09/2010 14:38, Christopher Meredith wrote: This is an interesting suggestion, as is the other one. If you'll forgive my ignorance, what do you mean by unroll repeats? Here is an explanation: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation-big-page#repeats-in-midi James

Re: Metronome mark style

2010-09-22 Thread Vicente Solsona
Is posible tweak the metronome mark style? using markups in the tempo definition allows you to put virtually anything you want in the metronome mark. the Notation Reference is your biggest friend. see 1.6.3 Writing parts and 1.8.2 Formatting text. greetings, Vicente

Line spacing inconsistency

2010-09-22 Thread Phil Holmes
Originally posted to .devel in error: Is it a known feature that using the font sizing commands \teeny, \huge, etc., leads to inconsistent line spacing when compared with using fontsize? \markup { \teeny \column { Teeny Teeny Teeny } } \markup { \fontsize #-3 \column { fontsize #-3

scaling a markup?

2010-09-22 Thread Vicente Solsona
hello, a markup can be rotaded. I can't find information about how to scale it. is that possible at all? (this can be useful for instance when you put a \score inside a markup) greetings, Vicente ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: printing bar numbers on every odd measure

2010-09-22 Thread Lia Zito
Whoops! Sorry for the double post. I hit the wrong button - Lia On Sep 21, 2010, at 10:08 AM, Lia Zito wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get bar numbers to print on every odd measure: 1,3,5 etc. The \set Score.barNumberVisibility = #(first-and-every-nth-bar-number-visible 2) command

Alpha test of 2.14 – LilyP ond 2.13.34 released!

2010-09-22 Thread Graham Percival
LilyPond 2.13.34 is out; this is the first alpha test of the upcoming 2.14 stable release. Users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are listed in the “Changes” manual on the website section about Development [1] [1] http://lilypond.org/development.html One

Compressing lyric lines

2010-09-22 Thread Phil Holmes
I want to be able to push lyrics lines more closely together vertically - if I scale the font size, it doesn't reduce the vertical spacing between the lines proportionally. Can anyone point me at how to do this? - version 2.13 preferred. -- Phil Holmes Bug Squad

Re: Jedit with lilypond tools

2010-09-22 Thread Phil Holmes
In answer to your question about .ps files, the document entitled New features in 2.13 since 2.12 says: Intermediate .ps files which are created by LilyPond during compilation are now deleted by default. To keep them, add the following line to your input files: #(ly:set-option

Column line spacing with individual markup-lines, via a scheme function

2010-09-22 Thread Jeff Epstein
Phil Holmes mail at philholmes.net writes: Is it a known feature that using the font sizing commands \teeny, \huge, etc., leads to inconsistent line spacing when compared with using fontsize? %{ As this was posted, I happened to be researching just this topic. I'm trying to use the

Re: Column line spacing with individual markup-lines, via a scheme function

2010-09-22 Thread aliteralmind
One more question: Can a \column be configured to give each \line a proper-and-potentially-different line height, dynamically, based on their fontsizes? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Jedit with lilypond tools

2010-09-22 Thread MING TSANG
Thank you Phil. I put the line in to .ly Now .PS file is created but there is still no .PDF file generated. From: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net To: MING TSANG tsan...@rogers.com; lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wed, September 22, 2010 12:38:34 PM Subject:

Re: something like scorch for lilypond?

2010-09-22 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2010-09-22 um 00:01 schrieb Marc E. Schonbrun: It was a feature request. What's wrong with that? Nothing, if it would have been one. See the post by D’Arcy J.M. Cain. I'll keep quiet now and leave the role I tried to Grumpy Graham - as someone who can't help a lot here, I'm not in the

Re: Suppressing chords in MIDI output

2010-09-22 Thread Christopher Meredith
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:27 AM, James james.l...@datacore.com wrote: Hello On 22/09/2010 14:38, Christopher Meredith wrote: This is an interesting suggestion, as is the other one. If you'll forgive my ignorance, what do you mean by unroll repeats? Here is an explanation: