Re: why chords with notes of different duration is not supported?

2011-01-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:04:50AM -0500, Marc Mouries wrote: i'd like to know about the rationale behind not supporting chords with notes of different duration. Because there's no such thing as a chord with notes of different duration. In the case typesetting violin music it would be much

Re: why chords with notes of different duration is not supported?

2011-01-12 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Mittwoch, 12. Januar 2011, um 09:02:19 schrieb Graham Percival: On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:04:50AM -0500, Marc Mouries wrote: i'd like to know about the rationale behind not supporting chords with notes of different duration. Because there's no such thing as a chord with notes of

Re: why chords with notes of different duration is not supported?

2011-01-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 09:15:41AM +0100, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: Am Mittwoch, 12. Januar 2011, um 09:02:19 schrieb Graham Percival: On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:04:50AM -0500, Marc Mouries wrote: i'd like to know about the rationale behind not supporting chords with notes of different

Re: ottava bassa

2011-01-12 Thread ljc
Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com escribió: You can force a manual ottava bracket by setting ottavation. thank you, neil! your code works very well using the correct pitches. still so much to learn about lilypond... ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: why chords with notes of different duration is not supported?

2011-01-12 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 09:15:41AM +0100, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: But there is a notation for multiple stops that looks like a chord with notes of different duration. Before moving to computer science, I was a cello teacher. And I'm now

Release candiate 1 of 2.14 - LilyPond 2.13.46 released!

2011-01-12 Thread Graham Percival
LilyPond 2.13.46 is out; this is the first release candidate of the upcoming 2.14 stable release. All 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. http://lilypond.org/development.html

Re: ottava bassa

2011-01-12 Thread ljc
Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com escribió: No, not easily. Currently, the callback function make-ottava-set for OttavaMusic has it hardcoded to assign the ottavation properties to the staff: thank you for the clarification, i'm not familiar with the source code (i'm not a

Re: why chords with notes of different duration is not supported?

2011-01-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 01:17:46PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: Before moving to computer science, I was a cello teacher. And I'm now playing first violin in an orchestra doing, amongst other things, Tchaik's Romeo and Juliet. I also

Re: why chords with notes of different duration is not supported?

2011-01-12 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: For the record, I append the patch. I tested it just slightly. One area that could be problematic is what happens in Midi, and what total time is assigned to the construct when typesetting (should likely be the shortest, and probably is just undefined in

Re: ottava bassa

2011-01-12 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: l...@internet.com.uy If you modify that function in scm/define-music-callbacks.scm to 'Voice instead of 'Staff, then \ottava only applies to the current voice (which is, however, probably now what we want by default). i guess you meant that this is

Re:why chords with notes of different duration is not, supported?

2011-01-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I resend my patch that will do the right thing when just writing g,4 d'4 b'4 g'2 A couple of comments: If I were to typeset this chord, my first choice would be to tweak the duration-log of some of the note-heads within a normal chord, see for example

feedback on 2.13.46

2011-01-12 Thread 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng
Hello, Using 2.13.46 still can't automatically spread staves/systems into fittable layout, thus there are still couldn't fit music on page. Haipeng ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: function looksSlower from LSR produces many warnings

2011-01-12 Thread Marc Mouries
On 1/12/2011 2:00 AM, Nick Payne wrote: On 12/01/11 16:08, Marc Mouries wrote: On Jan 11, 2011, at 6:34 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 1/11/11 11:30 AM, Marc Mm...@mouries.net wrote: As a matter of fact, I get the same warnings without the function but with \stemUp with the code: \version

Re: why chords with notes of different duration is not supported?

2011-01-12 Thread Marc Mouries
On 1/12/2011 4:40 AM, Graham Percival wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 09:15:41AM +0100, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: Am Mittwoch, 12. Januar 2011, um 09:02:19 schrieb Graham Percival: On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:04:50AM -0500, Marc Mouries wrote: i'd like to know about the rationale behind not

Re: why chords with notes of different duration is not supported?

2011-01-12 Thread Werner LEMBERG
[About chords which contain notes of different durations, sometimes seen in string music.] If the notes are all attached to the same voice why not allowing: g,4 d'4 b'4 ? If at all, the syntax would be e.g. g,8 d'4 b'2 and the chord's duration would be the maximum of the single note's