Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-07 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Graham Percival writes: Getting an actual LilyPond score requires calculating line breaks and there's no way to get rid of the overhead. Sure there is. Compile each bar individually with the default spacing (i.e. whatever you get if your entire score is one bar and you use

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-07 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: Architecturally it is very difficult. Rather than making lilypond much more complicated to do incremental rendering, why not invert the problem: have your editor control line breaks, and use lilypond to render just one line of music at a time. This is exactly what

Re: How to use clef moderntab

2012-08-07 Thread Ben Eichler
Thanks Shane, this did the trick. The syntax makes a lot more sense, don't know what I was thinking... -Ben On 7 August 2012 13:24, Shane Frasier sfras...@mac.com wrote: Ben, I am still a bit of a novice myself, but I think you want to do something like: \new StaffGroup \new Staff {

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-07 Thread David Kastrup
Jan Nieuwenhuizen jann...@gnu.org writes: Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: Architecturally it is very difficult. Rather than making lilypond much more complicated to do incremental rendering, why not invert the problem: have your editor control line breaks, and use lilypond to render just one line

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-07 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:52 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Since the main problem in that article is to deal with the I can't read this, even though I (probably) can write it aspect of LaTeX which is pretty much the same problem space for LilyPond, it might be useful to go idea-fishing.

Positioning a fermata - IGotMeFlowers.pdf (0/1)

2012-08-07 Thread Tim Slattery
The fermata in the bass clef in the attached pdf is too low, it's right on top of the upper note in the chord. The source follows. If I put the \fermata command in the leftSecond line, the fermata appears below the music. Is there a way that I can put the fermata above the notes, not clashing with

Re: Positioning a fermata - IGotMeFlowers.pdf (0/1)

2012-08-07 Thread David Kastrup
Tim Slattery slatter...@bls.gov writes: The fermata in the bass clef in the attached pdf is too low, it's right on top of the upper note in the chord. Well, you placed the fermata on a _spacer_ rest rather than on a note. The source follows. If I put the \fermata command in the leftSecond

How to get a (rhythmic) dot to follow a barline

2012-08-07 Thread David G
I would like to put a dot after the barline to show (something like) a crotchet tied to a quaver - or according to http://ranumspanat.com/jacquet_dots.htm subtly different(!) It's more clear in this Beethoven string quartet:

Re: Positioning a fermata - IGotMeFlowers.pdf (0/1)

2012-08-07 Thread Tim Slattery
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Tim Slattery slatter...@bls.gov writes: The fermata in the bass clef in the attached pdf is too low, it's right on top of the upper note in the chord. Well, you placed the fermata on a _spacer_ rest rather than on a note. I know. But when I put it with the

Re: Can anyone help to code what is in png.

2012-08-07 Thread Tim Roberts
MING TSANG wrote: I try to code per the png. I don't know what it is call, therefore I cannot search LSR. That note is a breve -- the length of two whole notes. You can use \breve for the length, as in fis\breve ~ fis1 However, the boxy notehead in your png is not the current style of

Re: Can anyone help to code what is in png.

2012-08-07 Thread Matthew Collett
On 8/08/2012, at 5:12 am, Tim Roberts wrote: However, the boxy notehead in your png is not the current style of writing that note (which is as a whole note with bars left and right). What you have there is the Petrucci style. You can still achieve the boxy notehead by overriding the

Re: How to get a (rhythmic) dot to follow a barline

2012-08-07 Thread james
On Aug 6, 2012, at 12:20 PM, David G wrote: I would like to put a dot after the barline to show (something like) a crotchet tied to a quaver - or according to http://ranumspanat.com/jacquet_dots.htm subtly different(!) It's more clear in this Beethoven string quartet:

Re: How to get a (rhythmic) dot to follow a barline

2012-08-07 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/8/8 james james.lilyp...@googlemail.com: On Aug 6, 2012, at 12:20 PM, David G wrote: I would like to put a dot after the barline to show (something like) a crotchet tied to a quaver - or according to http://ranumspanat.com/jacquet_dots.htm subtly different(!) It's more clear in this

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2012-08-07 Thread MING TSANG
LP users, I encounter compile error from init.ly. Can anyone experience this before? Detail of the error . Starting lilypond-windows.exe 2.14.2 [definities-1159.ly]... Processing `D:/mingtsang-2/lied-1159/definities-1159.ly' Parsing...

Re: (unknown)

2012-08-07 Thread David Kastrup
MING TSANG tsan...@rogers.com writes: LP users, I encounter compile error from init.ly. Can anyone experience this before? Detail of the error . Starting lilypond-windows.exe 2.14.2 [definities-1159.ly]... Processing

Re: Can anyone help to code what is in png.

2012-08-07 Thread MING TSANG
David Kastrup, Tim Roberts Matthew Collett: Thank you for all your help.  I added \once to your suggestion and it works perfectly (very similar to the original). \once\override NoteHead #'style = #'baroque fis\breve(s2*2 s4 fis1)   Blessing in+, Ming

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2012-08-07 Thread Eluze
Am 08.08.2012 02:18, schrieb MING TSANG: I encounter compile error from init.ly. Can anyone experience this before? Detail of the error . Starting lilypond-windows.exe 2.14.2 [definities-1159.ly]... Processing