Re: musescore

2010-12-10 Thread Phil Burfitt
From: Marc Mouries m...@mouries.net I like however the page that allows to sync scores with youtube videos. Check it out it's really nice. http://musescore.com/node/855 -- Marc Any idea how they do that ? Phil.

Re: Odd output

2010-12-10 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Marco Correia marco.v.corr...@gmail.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 12:35 AM Subject: Odd output Hi, I just started using lilypond, so it is very possible that I'm making some mistake. When compiling this example: \include

Re: Tremolo beams between more than two notes

2010-12-10 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 1:26 AM Subject: Re: Tremolo beams between more than two notes Am Mittwoch, 8. Dezember 2010, um 15:22:57 schrieb Phil Holmes: Yes - the code gets confused

Re: problem with compillation of a large file

2010-12-10 Thread Jonathan Kulp
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Stefan Thomas kontrapunktste...@googlemail.com wrote: Dear community, I have a proplem with a large score. When I run lilypond, I get at the end the error message Preprocessing graphical objects...string:9:110: In procedure procedure-name in expression

Re: musescore

2010-12-10 Thread Marc Mouries
it's explained here: http://screenr.com/3L0 On Dec 10, 2010, at 3:32 AM, Phil Burfitt wrote: From: Marc Mouries m...@mouries.net I like however the page that allows to sync scores with youtube videos. Check it out it's really nice. http://musescore.com/node/855 -- Marc Any idea

music fit on page, new item found in 2.13.42

2010-12-10 Thread 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng
Hello, I just downloaded 2.13.42. When making parts, I see the log file has a new thing. There are still many couldn't fit music on page if I use normal staff size, but after that, a compressing music to fit message is added. Does it mean I will be no longer worried about music fitting

Re: musescore

2010-12-10 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Christopher Meredith schreef op do 09-12-2010 om 14:36 [-0600]: Hi Christopher, I'm not sure that's the link you intended to include. It just goes to the MuseScore website. Yes, I was a bit quick with this message. What I meant was the share yours aspect of it -- although I imagined that it

Re: musescore

2010-12-10 Thread Mike Blackstock
I have around 2800 FB friends, nearly all of them musicians, and I plan to do some Lilypond advocacy - hence my friend request. I'll need some 'backup' debaters/advisors etc. and so if anybody would like to send me a friend request, well the more the merrier. I think we can get quite a few

Re: Odd output

2010-12-10 Thread Tim McNamara
Isn't there a missing to pair with the ? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Odd output

2010-12-10 Thread Marc Mouries
You get 2 stems because you created 2 voices with the signs and \\ see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Multiple-voices.html What are you trying to compose? On Dec 9, 2010, at 7:35 PM, Marco Correia wrote: Hi, I just started using lilypond, so it is very

Re: musescore

2010-12-10 Thread Christopher Meredith
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen jann...@gnu.org wrote: This is smart pr http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmusescore.org%2Fen%2Fabout%2Ftestimonialsh=cd3b2 also note they have 1500 fans on #fb today! Greetings, Jan I'm not sure that's the link you intended to

Re: How to parenthesize a time signature

2010-12-10 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Thanks Carl, that's exactly what I was looking for. Something I tried naively at first: \parenthesize \time 4/4 But \parenthesize seems only to work for notes, rests, and chords. -Jonathan --- On Fri, 12/10/10, Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu wrote: From: Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu

Re: musescore

2010-12-10 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Mike Blackstock schreef op do 09-12-2010 om 17:06 [-0800]: Hi Mike, I have around 2800 FB friends, nearly all of them musicians, and I plan to do some Lilypond advocacy - hence my friend request. I'll need some 'backup' debaters/advisors etc. and so if anybody would like to send me a friend

Re: Odd output

2010-12-10 Thread Marco Correia
Thanks! I can't believe that this is seen as a low priority enhancement...! This completely renders lilypond unusable for the task I need it, which is to serve as a printer for computer generated music. The output is not ugly - it is plain wrong! Why doesn't the accidental_engraver looks into

Re: musescore

2010-12-10 Thread Paul Thompson
I prepared a simple lilypond example which shows some simple things. I can send that to you or others if you were interested. It uses lilypond within LaTeX to show the simple stuff using a famous tune, plus it gets a little more elaborate. I only include attachments if people request them,

Re: Odd output

2010-12-10 Thread Phil Holmes
Please reply to the user group as well. As is often pointed out, it's free software and the fixes depend on who is working for nothing on the code. I wouldn't think it would crop up frequently. I made a workaround with a combination of forcing the accidentals to be displayed, and then using

Re: lilypond cameo

2010-12-10 Thread James
Hello On 10/12/2010 07:43, Jan Warchoł wrote: Seriously though, have you considered changing the default font for chords? Oh yes, but only to make it smaller, I prefer mine '12% smaller' than default, but the 'sans' font I think, is how chord names should be displayed. I know it's a

Re: How to parenthesize a time signature

2010-12-10 Thread James
Jonathan, On 10/12/2010 03:41, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: But \parenthesize seems only to work for notes, rests, and chords. Yes this feature was introduced in 2.13.x. You are using 2.12.x I see? So you have the option of using what is in the LSR or using the 'unstable' to 2.13.41 or 42 and

Re: Odd output

2010-12-10 Thread Michael Ellis
Why not set one of the notes to a different enharmonic pitch? It's certainly much kinder to the musician who's trying to play the composition. \include english.ly { \clef treble \time 4/4 { fs'4 } \\ { es'4 } } Cheers, Mike On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net

Re: How to parenthesize a time signature

2010-12-10 Thread Éditions IN NOMINE
Hi ! This coould be seen as a special time signature. I've been recently told (forgive me, you who told me : I can't remmeber who you were, anyway some great person :-D ) how to mix a glyph and a time,signature : you could probably adapt this trick (I couldn't ! :'( ). \version 2.13 %%

Re: Odd output

2010-12-10 Thread Phil Holmes
If you check, you'll see that there's an F# and an Fnat in different voices, but they're not shown as separate notes. It's a bug I reported earlier this year. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Marc Mouries m...@mouries.net To: Marco Correia marco.v.corr...@gmail.com Cc:

Re: Odd output

2010-12-10 Thread Phil Holmes
As I replied in my direct reply - because it's not right. I asked a friend who teaches music about the Mikado problem I had and he said: Key- C major Bass note pedals - C-G C-G etc. Chord in Bar 1 G7 (G B D Fnat = dominant 7th); Chord in Bar 2 C major (CEG) Each bar has a melody which uses

Re: Odd output

2010-12-10 Thread James Bailey
Because spelling counts! D# and E♭may sound the same (on a tempered instrument) but they are two very different notes. And an performer playing an instrument that can distinguish between the two, should. On Dec 10, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Michael Ellis wrote: Why not set one of the notes to a

Re: Odd output

2010-12-10 Thread Michael Ellis
Your friend is absolutely correct for that particular case. Sullivan chose the lesser of two evils. Misspelling the dominant chord would have been confusing to the pianist and spelling the vocal line as A G Gb G would have looked weird to the singer. My response was directed to the original

Request to mailing list lilypond-user rejected

2010-12-10 Thread Ludo Beckers
I managed to post in the list as a new subscribed user, but couldn't reply. I received this: Your request to the lilypond-user mailing list Posting of your message titled vimLilypond learning curve_jazzchord font_bars per line? 3 questions has been rejected by the list moderator. The

Re: Odd output

2010-12-10 Thread Michael Ellis
Yes! Spelling does count because poorly spelled music is much harder to read. I'm somewhat less convinced regarding sonic differences on untempered instruments because the matter is more complicated than that, e.g G# as the leading tone to A is different from G# as the third of E. In practice, it

Re: Odd output

2010-12-10 Thread James Bailey
I'd say it's up to more than just the performer's ear to make the distinction. If you spend much time listening to music where enharmonic notes are rounded to a median, the ability of the listener/performer to distinguish the difference diminishes. So the audience is just as at fault at not

Troubles with LilypondTool

2010-12-10 Thread George_
I'm not sure whether this is the right place to post this. I've got an issue with the pdf previewer that comes with LilypondTool. When I open jEdit and start typing, it looks fine. However, as soon as I use jEdit to compile the text, the viewer starts doing weird things:

problem with complicated tuplets (xenakis)

2010-12-10 Thread Sepand Shahab
Dear list members, I'm having a problem with tuplets displaying correctly in certain situations but not in others. for example, the following works fine on its own: \time 4/4 c32 c c16 \times 8/7 {c16 c c c c c32 c c16} \times 7/6 {c c c c c c } \times 5/4 { c16 c c c32 c } \times 4/3

Unknown final note shape / object. What it is?

2010-12-10 Thread Nils Gey
I stumbled upon this picture of notation and I've never seen the final note (in each voice, the right page voices have a slightly different version) http://anaigeon.free.fr/mes_facs/fsjosq.jpg From the position it must be a longa, the fermata over it indictates the same. Best visible on the top

Re: Odd output

2010-12-10 Thread David Kastrup
Michael Ellis michael.f.el...@gmail.com writes: Yes! Spelling does count because poorly spelled music is much harder to read. I'm somewhat less convinced regarding sonic differences on untempered instruments because the matter is more complicated than that, e.g G# as the leading tone to A is

Re: Unknown final note shape / object. What it is?

2010-12-10 Thread Owain Sutton
On 21:32, Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Nils Gey wrote: I stumbled upon this picture of notation and I've never seen the final note (in each voice, the right page voices have a slightly different version) http://anaigeon.free.fr/mes_facs/fsjosq.jpg From the position it must be a longa, the fermata over

a basic tuplet question

2010-12-10 Thread Sepand Shahab
dear list, how would I code a tuplet group whose first notes are a subdivision of the tuplet note? for example: 16th note triplets that begin with 2 32nd notes. thanks! Sepand ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Unknown final note shape / object. What it is?

2010-12-10 Thread Nils Gey
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:40:15 + Owain Sutton m...@owainsutton.co.uk wrote: On 21:32, Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Nils Gey wrote: I stumbled upon this picture of notation and I've never seen the final note (in each voice, the right page voices have a slightly different version)

Re: Unknown final note shape / object. What it is?

2010-12-10 Thread Michael Ellis
It appears to be the opening Kyrie of the Josquin's Missa Beata Virgine, ca 1510. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Josquin_Missa_BV_Kyrie.jpg I believe music printing was a thriving enterprise by then, so it's unlikely to be (completely) hand scribed. Cheers, Mike On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at

Re: a basic tuplet question

2010-12-10 Thread Nick Baskin
Sepand, Durations in tuplets work just like those outside of tuplets. Sixteenth note tuplets that begin with 32nd notes would look like this: \times 2/3 { c32 c c16 c } Cheers, Nick On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Sepand Shahab sepandsha...@alum.calarts.edu wrote: dear list, how would I

Re:Re: music fit on page, new item found in 2.13.42

2010-12-10 Thread 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng
Thanks. Then, is anyone able to let Lilypond break the non-fittable line into the next page? Why it insists in putting such line on the current page? This issue of ten jars with nine lids (a Chinese idiom) must be solved, otherwise 1. every part must use different staff size; and 2. I must

RE: Unknown final note shape / object. What it is?

2010-12-10 Thread James Lowe
Hello, I am not sure if you are aware of this website http://www.diamm.ac.uk/index.html It contains very high resolution digital images of mensural music. You do need to register (free) but some of the images there are beautiful. James -Original Message- From:

Re: Request to mailing list lilypond-user rejected

2010-12-10 Thread Francisco Vila
2010/12/10 Ludo Beckers lazy...@gmail.com: I never got a reply though. Any idea why my subscription was first accepted and then rejected on the same day? Do you have several From: lines to choose from in Gmail? This could be the cause, you shoud always write to the list with the same From:

Re: Troubles with LilypondTool

2010-12-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:49 PM, George_ georgexu...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure whether this is the right place to post this. The LilyPondTool mailing may be more appropriate. I've got an issue with the pdf previewer that comes with LilypondTool. When I open jEdit and start typing, it

Re: problem with complicated tuplets (xenakis)

2010-12-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Sepand Shahab sepandsha...@alum.calarts.edu wrote: For example if you take what's above and put it in the left hand of a piano part, then take the exact same music, shift it over by one measure and place it in the right hand, something goes wrong.  why? It

notehead collisions in cluster

2010-12-10 Thread Jon W
Hi. I wrote a program in C that finds the solutions, if any exist, to a compositional problem specified in the command line. One of the output formats is lilypond. Some of the solutions involve clusters that lilypond does not display very well--noteheads overlap vertically, making them illegible,

Re: My Lilypond Chart Template

2010-12-10 Thread hsweet
Thanks for the tip. I was wondering how to do multiple columns of lyrics. harry Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2010-11-29 um 22:15 schrieb hsweet: This is a template I've been slowly evolving to use for charts for my band. http://old.nabble.com/file/p30334633/lead_sheet_template.ly

Re: Odd output

2010-12-10 Thread Marco Correia
Hi, I didn't want to sound rude or anything. I just want to make a point that I do not consider this as a minor improvement since: 1. The output is not aestetically wrong, it is definitely readable differently from what is specified in the lilypond source. 2. I think you should not assume the

Re: Odd output

2010-12-10 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/10/10 8:27 PM, Marco Correia marco.v.corr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I didn't want to sound rude or anything. I just want to make a point that I do not consider this as a minor improvement since: 1. The output is not aestetically wrong, it is definitely readable differently from