Re: musical logic: what dynamic after the repeat (picture attached)?

2012-03-18 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 17 March 2012 22:37, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote: - Original Message - From: Nils l...@nilsgey.de To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 11:30 AM Subject: musical logic: what dynamic after the repeat (picture attached)? Hello list, What dynamic is

Re: musical logic: what dynamic after the repeat (picture attached)?

2012-03-18 Thread -Eluze
What dynamic is in measure 3 after the repeat? p or f? And yes, I know it is better to write something explicit than implicit. I personally would write a new dynamic sign after ||: but how to interpret it if somebody did it like in the picture? 3rd measure after the begin of the

Re: Manual bars: PDF and MIDI have different opinion on melismas

2012-03-18 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 5:24 PM Subject: Manual bars: PDF and MIDI have different opinion on melismas Dear list I just discovered that 2.14 produces different lyrics for PDF and MIDI output,

Re: LilyPond in/not in Windows PATH (Re: Point-and-click on Frescobaldi?)

2012-03-18 Thread Helge Kruse
- Original Message - From: Wilbert Berendsen wbs...@xs4all.nl To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 9:40 PM Subject: LilyPond in/not in Windows PATH (Re: Point-and-click on Frescobaldi?) Currently C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin is searched, and I can add more

Re: Combining lyrics lines

2012-03-18 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 18/03/2012 12:38, James disait : Hello, On 18 March 2012 11:33, Jean-Charles Malahieude wrote: Le 17/03/2012 11:14, Reedmace Star disait : In the first line, Alice and Eve alternate strictly in singing, so their lyrics get collapsed: ALICE EVE ALICE EVE maybe that the

Re: Combining lyrics lines

2012-03-18 Thread James
Jean-Charles, On 18 March 2012 12:49, Jean-Charles Malahieude lily...@orange.fr wrote: Le 18/03/2012 12:38, James disait : Hello, On 18 March 2012 11:33, Jean-Charles Malahieude wrote: Le 17/03/2012 11:14, Reedmace Star disait : In the first line, Alice and Eve alternate strictly in

Re: Combining lyrics lines

2012-03-18 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 18/03/2012 14:53, James disait : Jean-Charles, I don't understand how Lyrics work in LilyPond or what your last paragraph means (it is meaningless to me, sorry - I play trumpet, I don't sing, so never need to read or use lyrics in a score) I was hoping that you could give me a texidoc string

Re: Combining lyrics lines

2012-03-18 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 18/03/2012 14:53, James disait : Jean-Charles, I don't understand how Lyrics work in LilyPond or what your last paragraph means (it is meaningless to me, sorry - I play trumpet, I don't sing, so never need to read or use lyrics in a score) I was hoping that you could give me a texidoc string

Re: Two questions about vertical layout and lyrics spacing

2012-03-18 Thread Joe Neeman
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: Example #2, padding.png, shows a piece which has a large variation in staff height, because there are either two lines of lyrics to a staff or none at all. As lilypond tries to keep an even system-system-distance, the

Message Window

2012-03-18 Thread Adrian Oehm
Hi I was wondering if there was a way of setting the message window (the one that display compiling progress etc - sorry if I've not got the right name) to clear itself each time a file is typeset. Given my lack of proficiency, I tend to make lots or errors and so end up with a long list of

Re: Message Window

2012-03-18 Thread Nick Payne
On 18/03/12 21:15, Adrian Oehm wrote: Hi I was wondering if there was a way of setting the message window (the one that display compiling progress etc - sorry if I've not got the right name) to clear itself each time a file is typeset. Given my lack of proficiency, I tend to make lots or

Re: Setting the width of system-starter curly braces

2012-03-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Siska, Unfortunately the curly brace created for these four instruments is way too wide. Is there a way to shrink the vertical size of the curly brace for the GrandStaff (so that it would have the same width as the curly brace of a GrandStaff consisting of only two instruments)? You

Automatic beaming in melismas

2012-03-18 Thread Ben Rudiak-Gould
\version 2.15.32 I'd like to easily make choral scores with automatic beaming inside melismas and none outside. Inspired by https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1308, I wrote a Lilypond Guile function to do the same thing as the reporter's Perl script. Unfortunately, I can't get it

Re: Setting the width of system-starter curly braces

2012-03-18 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Ádám, Unfortunately the curly brace created for these four instruments is way too wide. Is there a way to shrink the vertical size of the curly brace for the GrandStaff (so that it would have the same width as the curly brace of a GrandStaff consisting of only two instruments)? Another

bend and release (blues transcription)

2012-03-18 Thread luis jure
hello list, i'm transcribing a fragment of a blues recording, and i'm trying to solve how to notate all the pitch deviations present in the voice and guitar. i'm combining the use of plain glissandi, bendAfter, and grace notes with \hideNotes and glissando for a prebend (BTW, how useful it

Re: Setting the width of system-starter curly braces

2012-03-18 Thread Siska Ádám
Hi David, thank you indeed for the reply. Unfortunately I can't get this code to work; I'm getting the following error during compiling: Drawing systems...ERROR: In procedure ly:stencil-scale: ERROR: Wrong type argument in position 1 (expecting Stencil): #unspecified Unfortunately I don't

Re: Setting the width of system-starter curly braces

2012-03-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Siska, thank you indeed for the reply. Unfortunately I can't get this code to work Here's a snippet, using David's lovely mod — hope it helps. Kieren. _ \version 2.15.32 theMusic = \relative c' { \repeat unfold 16 c4 } \new GrandStaff \set

Re: Setting the width of system-starter curly braces

2012-03-18 Thread Siska Ádám
Hi MacMillan, On 2012.03.19., at 1:09, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Siska, thank you indeed for the reply. Unfortunately I can't get this code to work Here's a snippet, using David's lovely mod — hope it helps. Kieren. _ \version 2.15.32 theMusic = \relative

Re: Setting the width of system-starter curly braces

2012-03-18 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Ádám, this is quite weird. This code compiles fine. However, in my original score it doesn't work. After some more experimenting, I figured out that the problem is, that I have the \RemoveEmptyStaves in the \Staff context. After removing that, it compiled just fine. Maybe it's some bug.

Re: Setting the width of system-starter curly braces

2012-03-18 Thread Siska Ádám
Hi David, On 2012.03.19., at 1:34, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi Ádám, this is quite weird. This code compiles fine. However, in my original score it doesn't work. After some more experimenting, I figured out that the problem is, that I have the \RemoveEmptyStaves in the \Staff context. After

Where in the mauals ...

2012-03-18 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, I've been scouring the manuals for how to make some notes within a piece smaller than the surrounding ones. Where on earth do I find that reference? In the following construction, the three chords should be smaller than the previous notes: c4. e8 d4 d s4 a c f4 f a d g b e Thanks

Re: Where in the mauals ...

2012-03-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 09:38:52PM -0400, Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: I've been scouring the manuals for how to make some notes within a piece smaller than the surrounding ones. Where on earth do I find that reference? Learning manual, Size of objects ?

Fingering avoidance of accidentals depends on Fingering #'script-priority

2012-03-18 Thread Nick Payne
In a chord with two accidentals, if I set the fingering script-priority to -99, the fingerings still avoid both accidentals, but if I set it to -100, each fingering indication is positioned without regard to the accidental on the other note. Is this related to