more space between systems?

2012-04-11 Thread eriksbike
I'm having some trouble creating more space between systems. I have tried increasing the system-system-spacing #'minimum-distance and system-system-spacing #'padding variables. But when I compile I receive the message warning: cannot fit music on page: ragged-spacing was requested, but page was

Re: Avoiding tie/prall collision

2012-04-11 Thread Helge Kruse
Am 10.04.2012 08:37, schrieb Janek Warchoł: On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Helge Krusehelge.kruse-nos...@gmx.net wrote: What is the benefit of the two voices approach and when should I avoid the stem up/down? It's not a matter of benefits - using stemUp/Down instead of voiceOne/Two/..

musicxml2ly lilypond output formatting

2012-04-11 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
Hi, As I posted earlier, I often get better results with lilypond files generated by musicxml2ly after a little bit of extra editing. As musicxml2ly gets better and bugs are found and fixed, this post-editing will be required less and less, I guess/hope. When editing the files I noticed

Re: musicxml2ly from sibelius

2012-04-11 Thread Nils
On Mon, 9 Apr 2012 21:34:18 -0700 Josiah Boothby josi...@gmail.com wrote: A composer recently gave me a messy part he'd prepared with Sibelius, and I asked him for a musicxml file on the off chance that it might work in Lilypond and I could clean it up. With Lilypond 2.15.36 (Slackware 13.37,

Re: Avoiding tie/prall collision

2012-04-11 Thread James
Hello, 2012/4/11 Helge Kruse helge.kruse-nos...@gmx.net: Am 10.04.2012 08:37, schrieb Janek Warchoł: On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Helge Krusehelge.kruse-nos...@gmx.net ... Honestly, I used the 2.13 documentation. Now I downloaded the 2.14 documentation. Searching for

Re: more space between systems?

2012-04-11 Thread James
Erik, On 11 April 2012 07:19, eriksbike eriksb...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm having some trouble creating more space between systems. I have tried increasing the system-system-spacing #'minimum-distance and system-system-spacing #'padding variables. But when I compile I receive the message

Re: musicxml2ly from sibelius

2012-04-11 Thread Josiah Boothby
That is a python error, a bug in the musicxml2ly script. children is a list and index is a number but the number is higher than the list has items. Can't tell more from just that exception. Nils Nils, would you like to see the file? I shouldn't put it out on the internet where all can see

Re: musicxml2ly lilypond output formatting

2012-04-11 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl To: lilypond-user mailinglist lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 7:55 AM Subject: musicxml2ly lilypond output formatting BTW: Are there any written rules/conventions about how a nicely formatted

Re: node head positions

2012-04-11 Thread Urs Liska
Am 11.04.2012 00:28, schrieb Tim Roberts: Huang wrote: Yes, I am looking for a way to highlight notes while playing MIDI. I will definitely check Frescobaldi to see how it works. I need to understand how Lily generates these notes and find out their positions. I just want to caution you about

Re: node head positions

2012-04-11 Thread James
Hello, On 11 April 2012 09:43, Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de wrote: Am 11.04.2012 00:28, schrieb Tim Roberts: Huang wrote: Yes, I am looking for a way to highlight notes while playing MIDI. I will definitely check Frescobaldi to see how it works. I need to understand how Lily generates these

Re: musicxml2ly from sibelius

2012-04-11 Thread pls
From what you told us it's impossible to say that the python error results from a bug in the musicxml2ly script. You could/should to several things: -) comment out all parts and measures in the .xml-file except the first measure in the first part. -) Test the file with musicxml2ly. -) If

Re: System in different colors

2012-04-11 Thread uunail
I tried \once \override but it didn't work. As far as I understand the BarLine is a part of the staff context which cannot be changed from one occurence to the other (that is why you have to use the /startStaff and /stopStaff). And in my example it is changed for the whole staff (or the three

Re: node head positions

2012-04-11 Thread Colin Campbell
On 12-04-10 03:00 PM, Huang wrote: Yes, I am looking for a way to highlight notes while playing MIDI. I will definitely check Frescobaldi to see how it works. I need to understand how Lily generates these notes and find out their positions. Thanks, Herbert In addition to Frescobaldi,

Re: musicxml2ly from sibelius

2012-04-11 Thread Andrew Black
On Apr 10, 2012 5:26 PM, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote: I'm a bit surprised you have musicxml from Sibelius. As far as I was aware, it doesn't export into _any_ useful interchange format, including musicxml. Googling suggests there is an expensive 3rd party program.

Re: v 2.15.36 on Mac OS

2012-04-11 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, Still the same error with Mac x86 OSX 10.4.11 as in the previous 2.15.35 package. Klaus ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: musicxml2ly from sibelius

2012-04-11 Thread Matthias Böhringer
Am 11.04.2012 00:20, schrieb Josiah Boothby: I'm a bit surprised you have musicxml from Sibelius. As far as I was aware, it doesn't export into _any_ useful interchange format, including musicxml. Googling suggests there is an expensive 3rd party program. Googling also suggests that

Re: musicxml2ly from sibelius

2012-04-11 Thread Johan Vromans
Josiah Boothby josi...@gmail.com writes: A composer recently gave me a messy part he'd prepared with Sibelius, and I asked him for a musicxml file on the off chance that it might work in Lilypond and I could clean it up. With Lilypond 2.15.36 (Slackware 13.37, x86), I get the error below

output to .png file

2012-04-11 Thread christian
How can I make a .png file of mij lilypond score? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: output to .png file

2012-04-11 Thread ole
Am 11.04.2012 um 13:01 schrieb christian: How can I make a .png file of mij lilypond score? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user lilypond -dbackend=eps -dno-gs-load-fonts

Re: output to .png file

2012-04-11 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 11. April 2012 13:01 schrieb christian christian@gmail.com: How can I make a .png file of mij lilypond score? RTFM: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/usage/command-line-options-for-lilypond Greetlings, Hraban ___ lilypond-user

Re: more space between systems?

2012-04-11 Thread eriksbike
I am using 2.14. Here is my basic code. Hopefully my problem will be immediately obvious... ? \book { \paper { system-system-spacing #'minimum-distance = #12 system-system-spacing #'padding = #8 } #(set-global-staff-size 15) \header { } \score { \new StaffGroup \new Staff

Re: System in different colors

2012-04-11 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, I tried \once \override but it didn't work. It should. You can also move the override of BarLine later as I do below. My problem however is, that the barline between my part 2 and three is already shown in the color of the part 3 where I think it is defined and belongs to part 2. I

Re: more space between systems?

2012-04-11 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 11 April 2012 16:05, eriksbike eriksb...@yahoo.com wrote: I am using 2.14. Here is my basic code. Hopefully my problem will be immediately obvious... ? Hi, Move #(set-global-staff-size 15) outside (before) the \book block. When I compile your code as it with 2.14.2 I got the following

Re: node head positions

2012-04-11 Thread Huang
Thanks a lot for everyone's reply! I now have some clues to explore, and understand it seems non-trivial. I will let you know if I made any progress. Best, Herbert On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Colin Campbell c...@shaw.ca wrote: On 12-04-10 03:00 PM, Huang wrote: Yes, I am looking for a

Re: System in different colors

2012-04-11 Thread Thomas Morley
Am 11. April 2012 16:16 schrieb David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com: I believe the issue here is that the barline is considered to _begin_ the new measure rather than end the old one.  I can't think of a way around this except what James suggests.  (Then there's the issue of the staff

Re: System in different colors

2012-04-11 Thread -Eluze
David Nalesnik-2 wrote: Hi, I tried \once \override but it didn't work. It should. You can also move the override of BarLine later as I do below. My problem however is, that the barline between my part 2 and three is already shown in the color of the part 3 where I think it is

Re: Avoiding tie/prall collision

2012-04-11 Thread Helge Kruse
Am 11.04.2012 09:36, schrieb James: 2012/4/11 Helge Krusehelge.kruse-nos...@gmx.net: Honestly, I used the 2.13 documentation. Now I downloaded the 2.14 documentation. Searching for stemDown\Up\Neutral I didn't find any hint to favor voiceOne/Two/Three. But I did not read thorough 763 pages.

Re: Avoiding tie/prall collision

2012-04-11 Thread James
Hello, On 11 April 2012 17:53, Helge Kruse helge.kruse-nos...@gmx.net wrote: Am 11.04.2012 09:36, schrieb James: 2012/4/11 Helge Krusehelge.kruse-nos...@gmx.net: Honestly, I used the 2.13 documentation. Now I downloaded the 2.14 documentation. Searching for stemDown\Up\Neutral I didn't find

Re: Avoiding tie/prall collision

2012-04-11 Thread James
Hello, On 11 April 2012 17:53, Helge Kruse helge.kruse-nos...@gmx.net wrote: Am 11.04.2012 09:36, schrieb James: 2012/4/11 Helge Krusehelge.kruse-nos...@gmx.net: Honestly, I used the 2.13 documentation. Now I downloaded the 2.14 documentation. Searching for stemDown\Up\Neutral I didn't find

Re: System in different colors

2012-04-11 Thread uunail
Thanks to everybody who replied. I now learned that you can really change the color of each barline in the score. As I was defining the colors of the following part at the beginning, the definition was taken directly from there on with the consequence of the timing issue eluze described. By

Re: Avoiding tie/prall collision

2012-04-11 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Helge Kruse helge.kruse-nos...@gmx.net wrote: Am 10.04.2012 08:37, schrieb Janek Warchoł: On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Helge Krusehelge.kruse-nos...@gmx.net  wrote: It's not a matter of benefits - using stemUp/Down instead of voiceOne/Two/.. simply

Re: Avoiding tie/prall collision

2012-04-11 Thread James
Helge, On 11 April 2012 13:02, Helge Kruse helge.kruse-nos...@gmx.net wrote: Am 11.04.2012 19:24, schrieb James: Well it requires that any changes I do in the English document are picked up and translated by the trasnaltors. The assumption is that those that do the German Translating see my

Re: System in different colors

2012-04-11 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Harm, how about inserting: \override Staff.BarLine #'layer = #10 in the \layout and \once \override Staff.BarLine #'X-extent = #'(-0 . 0.5) for the problematic BarLine. Think it should do the trick: Aha! Works beautifully. --David ___

Re: System in different colors

2012-04-11 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Eluze, I believe the issue here is that the barline is considered to _begin_ the new measure rather than end the old one. I can't think of a way around this except what James suggests. (Then there's the issue of the staff lines underneath the bar line, to which I don't have a ready