Re: Letters as Left hand fingering

2012-05-16 Thread Nick Payne
2012/5/15 Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com: Hi Group, Sometimes I need to put a letter in front of a number as a fingering. Is there any possibility to declare m (for ex;) as a number so that I could codea-m1 as a fingering ? Do you mean for right hand (stroke)

Notating same part in two different mixtures of clefs

2012-05-16 Thread Christopher Webster
Suppose I have a solo part which can be played either on cello or on viola da gamba. Cello solo parts are normally written in a mixture of bass and tenor clefs; gamba parts in a mixture of bass and alto clefs. In either case it's quite possible to encounter a change of clef every few bars.

Re: Notating same part in two different mixtures of clefs

2012-05-16 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Christopher Webster christop...@claytonwebster.net wrote: What's the most elegant way in which I can enter the notes just once, but generate two output scores - one with bass and tenor clefs, the other with bass and alto clefs? what about separate voices for

Re: Notating same part in two different mixtures of clefs

2012-05-16 Thread Christopher Webster
Thank you! Of your three proposed solutions, the one with tags looks like the winner. I didn't know about tags - they look ideally suited. A feature of your first solution which I would have hoped to avoid is that you do seem to have duplicated notation - the s1*3 and the s1*2 - in the

Re: musicxml2ly

2012-05-16 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Sun, 8 Apr 2012, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: The good news is that in many cases only a little editing of the .ly file is required to turn a bad conversion into a good one. For example, all lead sheets from Wikifonia that I have tried have the Chords printed below instead of above the

Re: Letters as Left hand fingering

2012-05-16 Thread David Kastrup
Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net writes: 2012/5/15 Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com: Hi Group, Sometimes I need to put a letter in front of a number as a fingering. Is there any possibility to declare m (for ex;) as a number so that I could codea-m1 as a

Re: musicxml2ly

2012-05-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 09:33:09AM +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: I did not see a reaction to this question, so I try again. What happened with this musicxml2ly bug ? First chords were printed below the staff, then I think it was fixed, and now the chords are below the staff again.

Re: musicxml2ly

2012-05-16 Thread Colin Hall
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 09:33:09AM +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: The good news is that in many cases only a little editing of the .ly file is required to turn a bad conversion into a good one. For example, all lead sheets from Wikifonia that I have tried have the Chords printed below instead

Re: Notating same part in two different mixtures of clefs

2012-05-16 Thread Urs Liska
Am 16.05.2012 09:30, schrieb Christopher Webster: Thank you! Of your three proposed solutions, the one with tags looks like the winner. I didn't know about tags - they look ideally suited. Yes, that's exactly what they are for. A feature of your first solution which I would have hoped to

Re: Notating same part in two different mixtures of clefs

2012-05-16 Thread Christopher Webster
Yes - just to confirm that the tags were exactly what I needed. Here's the sort of thing I wanted to do: highClef = { \tag #'cello { \clef tenor } \tag #'gamba { \clef alto } } dots = \relative c { \clef bass g'4 a b r \highClef d4

Re: Notating same part in two different mixtures of clefs

2012-05-16 Thread Urs Liska
Am 16.05.2012 10:30, schrieb Christopher Webster: Yes - just to confirm that the tags were exactly what I needed. Here's the sort of thing I wanted to do: highClef = { \tag #'cello { \clef tenor } \tag #'gamba { \clef alto } } dots = \relative c { \clef

Re: Defining a new markup command (e.g. \lower by a specified amount)

2012-05-16 Thread David Kastrup
Philip Thomas philip.tho...@bluewin.ch writes: I am having great difficulty getting the hang of defining new markup commands. The examples given in the Extending manual in section 2.2.3 New markup command definition are comprehensible to me in their own right, but they aren't exactly

Re: musicxml2ly

2012-05-16 Thread pls
It's not a regression. It has never been officially fixed. A while ago I posted a bug report and a minimal example: http://old.nabble.com/musicxml2ly%3A-chordnames-placement-bug-td33309393.html. Here is a solution for the chord symbol bug: http://codereview.appspot.com/5697059/. I still

Re: Notating same part in two different mixtures of clefs

2012-05-16 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de writes: No you don't have to edit the ly-file. You can write sth like: music = { ... } myClefI = { \clef tenor } myClefII = { \clef bass \score ... % references \music % and then redefine the variables myClefI = { \clef treble } myClefII = { \clef bass

Re:Page breaking question

2012-05-16 Thread wjm
Greetings Jay, You wrote:- +++ I'm setting a group of hymns and I'm using the page turn breaker. Often two hymns are set on facing pages with the second hymn being broken over the page. If the second would fit on a page by itself I'd prefer it to not be broken up

Re: Letters as Left hand fingering

2012-05-16 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Thanks very much Thomas, I like your solution. 2012/5/16 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com 2012/5/15 Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com: Hi Group, Sometimes I need to put a letter in front of a number as a fingering. Is there any possibility to declare m

Re: Letters as Left hand fingering

2012-05-16 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
No Nick, sorry for the missundersanding, that's for left hand fingering. But I'll keep your ideas in mind. Thanks anyway 2012/5/16 Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net 2012/5/15 Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.paris@gmail.**compierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com : Hi Group,

Re: Letters as Left hand fingering

2012-05-16 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Lol ! 2012/5/16 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net writes: 2012/5/15 Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com: Hi Group, Sometimes I need to put a letter in front of a number as a fingering. Is there any possibility to declare m (for ex;)

Re: Letters as Left hand fingering

2012-05-16 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com writes: 2012/5/15 Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com: Hi Group, Sometimes I need to put a letter in front of a number as a fingering. Is there any possibility to declare m (for ex;) as a number so that I could code a-m1 as a

Re: Notating same part in two different mixtures of clefs

2012-05-16 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Christopher Webster christop...@claytonwebster.net wrote: It works like a charm.  Big thank-you from me. Glad i helped :) I see that Urs already answered your questions about paralell voices. cheers, Janek ___

Re: (Small) error in Notation Reference

2012-05-16 Thread Trevor Daniels
Philip, you wrote Wednesday, May 16, 2012 9:01 AM I think you should remove this comment too: % if they are still too close, add more pairs % until the result looks good It doesn't make any sense - I guess it is left over from an earlier version. Blast! I had noticed

Re: Letters as Left hand fingering

2012-05-16 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: creates a post-event rather than a full music event. So here is quite a bit of potential for creating a smoother experience. Now of course one can streamline the user interface a bit by making individual commands for individual letters: \version 2.15.36

Re: Page breaking question

2012-05-16 Thread Jay Anderson
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:01 AM, wjm mooney...@aim.com wrote: Taking on board your last statement I'd like each score to be on a page of its own. Try \score { \staves }\pageTurn \score { \staves }\pageTurn \score { \staves } and remove page-breaking = #ly:page-turn-breaking from the paper

Re: musicxml2ly

2012-05-16 Thread Colin Hall
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:42:09AM +0200, pls wrote: It's not a regression. It has never been officially fixed. A while ago I posted a bug report and a minimal example: http://old.nabble.com/musicxml2ly%3A-chordnames-placement-bug-td33309393.html. Here is a solution for the chord symbol bug:

Testimonial

2012-05-16 Thread Tim Roberts
It's interesting how much a few little clues can help simplify things. I'm arranging a number of pieces for clarinet quartet. I had been using relative brute force, using separate blocks for the parts, using external scripts to generate separate PDF files, etc. The code was ugly and, as a

Re: Testimonial

2012-05-16 Thread David Kastrup
Tim Roberts t...@probo.com writes: It's interesting how much a few little clues can help simplify things.  I'm arranging a number of pieces for clarinet quartet.  I had been using relative brute force, using separate blocks for the parts, using external scripts to generate separate PDF files,

Re: Testimonial

2012-05-16 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:22 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Tim Roberts t...@probo.com writes: I can actually find the notes I need to change, instead of wading through a big, complicated block. As long as you are not using external scripts for creating your actual source file,

PDF with no page breaks

2012-05-16 Thread Nils
Hello, I want a PDF with no pagebreaks and no linebreaks. The result would be one single, big page. Naturally in landscape format. Can this be done automatically, without caculating the page size by hand? Nils ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Testimonial

2012-05-16 Thread Tim Roberts
David Kastrup wrote: As long as you are not using external scripts for creating your actual source file, configuring your PDF viewer for point-and-click URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/usage/point-and-click should do wonders for that. That's somewhat problematic on Windows.

Re: Lilypond to xml -singing voice festival

2012-05-16 Thread fresco
fresco wrote: Hello! I've just registered and I am a newbie with regard to lilypond. 1. When I export the file with the following text (lily2.ly) to xml Code #(define version-seen? #t) \version 2.12.3-7 #(set! %load-path (cons .. %load-path)) \include festival.ly #(set!

Lilypond to xml -singing voice festival

2012-05-16 Thread fresco
Hello! I've just registered and I am a newbie with regard to lilypond. 1. When I export the file with the following text (lily2.ly) to xml Code #(define version-seen? #t) \version 2.12.3-7 #(set! %load-path (cons .. %load-path)) \include festival.ly #(set! song:*debug* #f) \festival

Re: Lilypond to xml -singing voice festival

2012-05-16 Thread David Kastrup
fresco tuxs...@googlemail.com writes: But when I try to insert: \include festival.ly #(set! song:*debug* #f) \festival #bach-präl.xml { \tempo 4 = 100 } into another file (see text below), I get error messages like: /usr/share/lilypond/2.12.3/ly/festival.ly:25:0: Fehler: syntax error,

Re: Page breaking question

2012-05-16 Thread wjm
On 17/05/12 02:42, Jay Anderson wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:01 AM, wjmmooney...@aim.com wrote: Taking on board your last statement I'd like each score to be on a page of its own. Try \score { \staves }\pageTurn \score { \staves }\pageTurn \score { \staves } and remove page-breaking =

Re: Lilypond to xml -singing voice festival

2012-05-16 Thread fresco
David Kastrup wrote: fresco tuxs...@googlemail.com writes: But when I try to insert: \include festival.ly #(set! song:*debug* #f) \festival #bach-präl.xml { \tempo 4 = 100 } into another file (see text below), I get error messages like:

Re: Lilypond to xml -singing voice festival

2012-05-16 Thread fresco
David Kastrup wrote: fresco tuxs...@googlemail.com writes: But when I try to insert: \include festival.ly #(set! song:*debug* #f) \festival #bach-präl.xml { \tempo 4 = 100 } into another file (see text below), I get error messages like:

Re: Testimonial

2012-05-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/16/12 12:46 PM, Tim Roberts t...@probo.com wrote: I still lose track of the relative octaves while I'm doing data entry, but that problem is unlikely to be solved through technology... When in doubt, count steps going up. c and g (ascending) are in different relative

Re: Letters as Left hand fingering

2012-05-16 Thread Nick Payne
On 16/05/12 17:43, David Kastrup wrote: Nick Paynenick.pa...@internode.on.net writes: 2012/5/15 Pierre Perol-Schneiderpierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com: Hi Group, Sometimes I need to put a letter in front of a number as a fingering. Is there any possibility to declare m (for ex;) as a number

Re: PDF with no page breaks

2012-05-16 Thread Jay Anderson
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Nils l...@nilsgey.de wrote: Hello, I want a PDF with no pagebreaks and no linebreaks. The result would be one single, big page. Naturally in landscape format. Can this be done automatically, without caculating the page size by hand? I'd be interested in

Re: Testimonial

2012-05-16 Thread Colin Campbell
On 12-05-16 02:18 PM, Tim Roberts wrote: David Kastrup wrote: As long as you are not using external scripts for creating your actual source file, configuring your PDF viewer for point-and-click URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/usage/point-and-click should do wonders for that.

Re: Page breaking question

2012-05-16 Thread Jay Anderson
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:42 PM, wjm mooney...@aim.com wrote: I had the impression that you were starting out on a project. You have over 300 hymns in separate Lilypond files already? If that were so then it might be a time to use a document processor like scribus, or something similar.

Re: Page breaking question

2012-05-16 Thread wjm
On 17/05/12 16:41, Jay Anderson wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:42 PM, wjmmooney...@aim.com wrote: I had the impression that you were starting out on a project. You have over 300 hymns in separate Lilypond files already? If that were so then it might be a time to use a document processor