Re: High-level users?

2011-09-23 Thread Brent Annable
I'd like to add that I think that Lilypond's main strength is as a typesetting/publishing programme. For composing and arranging, I find it's better to have a page of blank manuscript in front of you that you can 'fill in', something that Lilypond's text-input paradigm doesn't really allow for.

placement sostenuto

2011-09-23 Thread eluze
hello i think it's called tenuto in lilypond and it belongs to the Script objects. you could change the distance to the notehead with \once \override Script #'padding = #.75 and/or define a function which you can apply before you insert a tenuto: myTenuto = { \once \override Script

Re: placement sostenuto

2011-09-23 Thread David Kastrup
eluze elu...@gmail.com writes: hello i think it's called tenuto in lilypond and it belongs to the Script objects. you could change the distance to the notehead with \once \override Script #'padding = #.75 and/or define a function which you can apply before you insert a tenuto: myTenuto

Re: placement sostenuto

2011-09-23 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
On Fri 23 Sep 2011, 13:48 David Kastrup wrote: ten = -\tweak #'padding #.75 -- { c''1\ten } Great, even { c''1^\ten } and { c''1_\ten } do work, thanks .) -- Dmytro O. RedchukEasy to use is easy to say. Bug Squad -- Jeff

Re: High-level users?

2011-09-23 Thread Urs Liska
Am 23.09.2011 01:53, schrieb Tim Roberts: Janek Warchoł wrote: If your friend would like to see what Lily can do, i'd show him this: http://www.apollinemike.com/scores/granini.pdf From a publishing perspective, that's impressive on a nearly magical scale. As a musician, please forgive my

Re: High-level users?

2011-09-23 Thread Edward Neeman
Pretty amazing stuff, both musically and visually! Mike, any chance of seeing the original ly files? On 9/23/11 10:22 PM, Urs Liska wrote: Am 23.09.2011 01:53, schrieb Tim Roberts: Janek Warchoł wrote: If your friend would like to see what Lily can do, i'd show him this:

Re: High-level users?

2011-09-23 Thread Peekay Ex
Mike On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de wrote: Am 23.09.2011 01:53, schrieb Tim Roberts: Janek Warchoł wrote: If your friend would like to see what Lily can do, i'd show him this: http://www.apollinemike.com/scores/granini.pdf  From a publishing perspective,

Re: placement sostenuto

2011-09-23 Thread luis jure
on 2011-09-23 at 13:40 eluze wrote: i think it's called tenuto in lilypond of course! [in lilypond and elsewhere :-), i just had a lapsus...] and it belongs to the Script objects. you could change the distance to the notehead with \once \override Script #'padding = #.75 this works! as

Re: placement sostenuto

2011-09-23 Thread eluze
nice abbreviation, thanks! i wonder however if - and how - one could override the default padding (.20) defined in \script.scm, as to continue to use the normal liylpond syntax! Eluze ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: High-level users?

2011-09-23 Thread Janek Warchoł
2011/9/23 Brent Annable brentanna...@gmail.com: I'd like to add that I think that Lilypond's main strength is as a typesetting/publishing programme. For composing and arranging, I find it's better to have a page of blank manuscript in front of you that you can 'fill in', something that

Re: High-level users?

2011-09-23 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Sep 23, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Peekay Ex wrote: Mike On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de wrote: Am 23.09.2011 01:53, schrieb Tim Roberts: Janek Warchoł wrote: If your friend would like to see what Lily can do, i'd show him this:

Re: placement sostenuto

2011-09-23 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
On Fri 23 Sep 2011, 10:30 luis jure wrote: i see that this override changes the placement of all the objects belonging to Script, including articulation marks like accent and the rest. anyway, i prefer to use a global \override in my template, instead of individual tweaks. i understand one

Re: placement sostenuto

2011-09-23 Thread David Nalesnik
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Dmytro O. Redchuk brownian@gmail.comwrote: On Fri 23 Sep 2011, 10:30 luis jure wrote: i see that this override changes the placement of all the objects belonging to Script, including articulation marks like accent and the rest. anyway, i prefer to use a

Re: High-level users?

2011-09-23 Thread Bernardo Barros
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Brent Annable brentanna...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to add that I think that Lilypond's main strength is as a typesetting/publishing programme. For composing and arranging, I find it's better to have a page of blank manuscript in front of you that you can 'fill

Re: High-level users?

2011-09-23 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Bernardo Barros bernardobarr...@gmail.com To: Brent Annable brentanna...@gmail.com Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 5:08 PM Subject: Re: High-level users? On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Brent Annable brentanna...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: High-level users?

2011-09-23 Thread Bernardo Barros
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote: (It means my music production route is Capella download - Musescore - MusicXML - mxml2nwcc - Noteworthy - nwctxt - nwctxt2ly - lilypond - pdf) But you know you can export from musescore to lilypond directly, don't you?

Re:High-level users?

2011-09-23 Thread Tim Reeves
3. Re:High-level users? (m...@apollinemike.com) Just got back home from transcribing chipmunk noises for my most recent choral work. I'll just say that being called nuts is the single greatest compliment I could possibly receive. . Cheers, MS Very funny. Love it. I'd

Re: High-level users?

2011-09-23 Thread Tim Roberts
Urs Liska wrote: Am 23.09.2011 01:53, schrieb Tim Roberts: From a publishing perspective, that's impressive on a nearly magical scale. As a musician, please forgive my parochial and archaic attitude, but that's nuts. Did you take the time to explore the pieces? I don't think one is able to

Re: High-level users?

2011-09-23 Thread Janek Warchoł
2011/9/23 Tim Reeves tim.ree...@tokamerica.com: 3. Re:High-level users? (m...@apollinemike.com) Just got back home from transcribing chipmunk noises for my most recent choral work. I'll just say that being called nuts is the single greatest compliment I could possibly receive. .

Re: centering text on a measure

2011-09-23 Thread David Nalesnik
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi David, Running centerGrobBetween_rev2.ly the log states: Failure to center #Grob TextScript between LeftEdge and BarLine Present in system? LeftEdge #t BarLine #t left bound: #Grob LeftEdge right

Re: High-level users?

2011-09-23 Thread Seth Williamson
This has all been very interesting. But almost nobody addressed my main question. Namely, are there any, or many, pros out there who have chosen LilyPond over Sibelius or Finale? I did appreciate hearing from Kieran MacMillan. Somebody said there have been 2 million downloads of MuseScore.

Re: placement sostenuto

2011-09-23 Thread eluze
i'm neither expert nor knowledgeable with scheme but i would prefer a solution that lets you define your own preferences and include them with -dinclude-settings=….ly afaics in script.scm a list is defined with (sub-)properties of many/all script objects. now it should be possible to

Re: placement sostenuto

2011-09-23 Thread Thomas Morley
2011/9/23 eluze elu...@gmail.com i'm neither expert nor knowledgeable with scheme but i would prefer a solution that lets you define your own preferences and include them with -dinclude-settings=….ly afaics in script.scm a list is defined with (sub-)properties of many/all script objects.

Re: placement sostenuto

2011-09-23 Thread David Nalesnik
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: But I didn't manage to shorten it. Not sure if this is expressed in the best form, but putting this line at the top of the file should change the 'padding value of the tentuo mark only: #(assoc-set!

Re: placement sostenuto

2011-09-23 Thread eluze
Am 23.09.2011, 23:38 Uhr, schrieb Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com: Hi, this does the job: \version 2.14.2 #(define-public my-script-alist `( (accent . ( %- Test \layout {

Re: placement sostenuto

2011-09-23 Thread David Nalesnik
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 5:08 PM, eluze elu...@gmail.com wrote: now we need a way to only override the relevant items - i.e. to replace the padding for tenuto in the original list! (then we even get rid of the \layout part!) anybody has ideas?! Yes, with the line I just posted you don't

Re: placement sostenuto

2011-09-23 Thread eluze
Am 24.09.2011, 00:08 Uhr, schrieb David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com: On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: But I didn't manage to shorten it. Not sure if this is expressed in the best form, but putting this line at the top of the

Re: placement sostenuto

2011-09-23 Thread Thomas Morley
2011/9/24 David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: But I didn't manage to shorten it. Not sure if this is expressed in the best form, but putting this line at the top of the file should change the

Re: placement sostenuto

2011-09-23 Thread David Kastrup
Dmytro O. Redchuk brownian@gmail.com writes: On Fri 23 Sep 2011, 13:48 David Kastrup wrote: ten = -\tweak #'padding #.75 -- { c''1\ten } Great, even { c''1^\ten } and { c''1_\ten } do work, thanks .) I wished the documention made it easier to figure out the kinds of thing that just

Re: placement sostenuto

2011-09-23 Thread Thomas Morley
2011/9/24 David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 5:08 PM, eluze elu...@gmail.com wrote: now we need a way to only override the relevant items - i.e. to replace the padding for tenuto in the original list! (then we even get rid of the \layout part!) anybody has

Re: placement sostenuto

2011-09-23 Thread Thomas Morley
2011/9/24 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com There might be another point of interest: How to reset? I'm aware it could be done with a new #(assoc-set! ... ) using default values. I was wrong: This doesn't work! Sorry! But: Is there another, easier method? Best, Harm

Re: placement sostenuto

2011-09-23 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Harm, On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: 2011/9/24 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com There might be another point of interest: How to reset? I'm aware it could be done with a new #(assoc-set! ... ) using default values. I

Re: placement sostenuto

2011-09-23 Thread Thomas Morley
2011/9/24 David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com Hi Harm, On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: 2011/9/24 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com There might be another point of interest: How to reset? I'm aware it could be done

VerticalAlignment

2011-09-23 Thread Craig
Hi, I used the code below in a String Symphony piece -- to space out the staves -- making it easy for me to read when I am conducting. It appears that 2.14 doesn't like the following anymore - \with { \override VerticalAlignment #'max-stretch = #ly:align-interface::calc-max-stretch } makes the

Re: placement sostenuto

2011-09-23 Thread David Nalesnik
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: 2011/9/24 David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com Hi Harm, On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: 2011/9/24 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com

scaling both durations and displayed note values?

2011-09-23 Thread James Harkins
Is there a way to scale the durations of a passage of music, say, by a factor of 2, so that not only do the notes take twice as much time, but the displayed note values are also doubled? \scaleDurations does only the former, but not the latter. I'm finally sitting down to typeset a couple of

Re: scaling both durations and displayed note values?

2011-09-23 Thread David Kastrup
James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com writes: Is there a way to scale the durations of a passage of music, say, by a factor of 2, so that not only do the notes take twice as much time, but the displayed note values are also doubled? \scaleDurations does only the former, but not the latter.