Re: What’s wrong with this snippet?

2012-08-12 Thread David Kastrup
Vaughan McAlley writes: > This is a slight variation on: > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/snippets/vocal-music#single-staff-template-with-notes-and-lyrics > > I’m trying to apply the idea from Skips in lyric mode[1], so that the > lyrics start in the second bar, but the \skip only sk

Re: What’s wrong with this snippet?

2012-08-12 Thread Robert Schmaus
Hi Vaughan, Actually that has always been my understanding and experience of how the \skip command works - it skips single notes. In your case you'd need \skip 4 for the full bar. Best, Robert On 13 Aug 2012, at 07:05, Vaughan McAlley wrote: > This is a slight variation on: > http://lily

Re: What’s wrong with this snippet?

2012-08-12 Thread David Rogers
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:05:41 +1000 Vaughan McAlley wrote: > This is a slight variation on: > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/snippets/vocal-music#single-staff-template-with-notes-and-lyrics > > I’m trying to apply the idea from Skips in lyric mode[1], so that the > lyrics start in th

What’s wrong with this snippet?

2012-08-12 Thread Vaughan McAlley
This is a slight variation on: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/snippets/vocal-music#single-staff-template-with-notes-and-lyrics I’m trying to apply the idea from Skips in lyric mode[1], so that the lyrics start in the second bar, but the \skip only skips to the next note. Vaughan \ve

Re: Ledger line visibility issue

2012-08-12 Thread David Rogers
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:58:41 +0100 "Peter Gentry" wrote: > ... all my attempts to make changes (apart > from set-global-staff-size) have failed even when the syntax is > accepted I missed this part of your post the first time. Lilypond's silence does not always indicate that your syntax was ac

Re: Ledger line visibility issue

2012-08-12 Thread Keith OHara
Peter Gentry sunscales.co.uk> writes: > I have a score with many > repeated beamed quavers and semi-quavers on ledger lines. The default > layout is difficult to read as ledger lines and the staff produce an almost > hypnotic effect which confuses the reader. This results in loss of > concent

Re: Ledger line visibility issue

2012-08-12 Thread David Rogers
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:58:41 +0100 "Peter Gentry" wrote: > I have a score with many repeated beamed quavers and semi-quavers on > ledger lines. The default layout is difficult to read as ledger lines > and the staff produce an almost hypnotic effect which confuses the > reader. This resuluts in l

Re: Ledger line visibility issue (Peter Gentry)

2012-08-12 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Peter, I don't know what You want exactly, but maybee this can lead You to rhe right idea: \version "2.14.2" music = { \repeat "unfold" 4 { 4 } } ledgers = { s4 \override NoteHead #'no-ledgers = ##t \override NoteHead #'transparent = ##t } \new Staff { \context Voice <<

Re: etf2ly

2012-08-12 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012, Johan Vromans wrote: Martin Tarenskeen writes: So if you have been using Finale for many years, and you have payed money to upgrade to the newest Finale version year after Year, you now suddenly can't read your old .etf files anymore! Let's welcome those disappointed a

Re: etf2ly

2012-08-12 Thread David Kastrup
Johan Vromans writes: > Martin Tarenskeen writes: > >> So if you have been using Finale for many years, and you have payed >> money to upgrade to the newest Finale version year after Year, you now >> suddenly can't read your old .etf files anymore! >> >> Let's welcome those disappointed and angr

Re: etf2ly

2012-08-12 Thread Johan Vromans
Martin Tarenskeen writes: > So if you have been using Finale for many years, and you have payed > money to upgrade to the newest Finale version year after Year, you now > suddenly can't read your old .etf files anymore! > > Let's welcome those disappointed and angry Sibelius and Finale users > to

Re: etf2ly

2012-08-12 Thread David Kastrup
Martin Tarenskeen writes: > I just saw this thread: > > http://www.finaleforum.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7538 > > After the thread about Sibelius this discussion is yet another good > reason not to rely (too much) on commercial software: > > It seems that Finale 2012 is not able to read Finale e

Re: Import - convert

2012-08-12 Thread Jakub Pavlík
I confess having no experience with this, as LilyPond is the single application I use for musical notation. I just shared what I found in the documentation regarding this subject. Jakub 2012/8/12 Laura Conrad > > "Jakub" == Jakub Pavlík writes: > > Jakub> Oh, blind me. Using etf2ly you

Re: Import - convert

2012-08-12 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Jakub" == Jakub Pavlík writes: Jakub> Oh, blind me. Using etf2ly you can import from Finale Jakub> directly... You used to be able to. Have you done it with a recent lilypond version? I think the method that's encouraged for people with recent finale and recent lilypond is to

etf2ly

2012-08-12 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
I just saw this thread: http://www.finaleforum.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7538 After the thread about Sibelius this discussion is yet another good reason not to rely (too much) on commercial software: It seems that Finale 2012 is not able to read Finale etf files anymore. (Finale 2011 can).

Re: In-C style Typesetting?

2012-08-12 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 12.08.2012 16:54, schrieb Gabriel Taubman: Thanks Marc! I've found that if I make the measures look like this: \stopStaff s4 \startStaff \bar ":" \noBreak g'4 a'16 g'16 g'8 g'4 f'8 g'4 \bar ":" (note the \noBreak) Oh, sorry – in my test file, the \noBreak was included, but appa

Re: Import - convert

2012-08-12 Thread Jakub Pavlík
Oh, blind me. Using etf2ly you can import from Finale directly... Jakub 2012/8/12 Jakub Pavlík > Not directly. > But you can export your music e.g. from Finale to one of the formats > supported by the standard LilyPond converters and then convert the music > from this format to LilyPond. > > >

Re: Import - convert

2012-08-12 Thread Jakub Pavlík
Not directly. But you can export your music e.g. from Finale to one of the formats supported by the standard LilyPond converters and then convert the music from this format to LilyPond. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/usage/converting-from-other-formats Jakub 2012/8/9 Jeff Mau > Wi

Ledger line visibility issue

2012-08-12 Thread Peter Gentry
I have a score with many repeated beamed quavers and semi-quavers on ledger lines. The default layout is difficult to read as ledger lines and the staff produce an almost hypnotic effect which confuses the reader. This resuluts in loss of concentration and rythmic stumbles. I would like to space

Re: Old Style Numbers in Title

2012-08-12 Thread Martin Straeten
Have a look at http://www.mrlauer.org/music/ The file http://www.mrlauer.org/static/etc/mrlutil.ly (utf8 section) provides some commands to use oldstyle numbers and real smallcaps Am 11.08.2012 um 14:31 schrieb Loïc Chahine : > Dear all, > In my scores, I use Adobe Caslon Pro for titles and oth

optical sizing

2012-08-12 Thread luis jure
hello list, in the essay, under "Optical sizing", we can read: "At smaller sizes, LilyPond uses proportionally heavier lines so the music will still read well." is there a way to control this globally? i'm using #(set-global-staff-size 13), and i find this compensation a little bit excessive

Re: Espacio entre la última nota y la barra de compás.

2012-08-12 Thread Vicente Solsona
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 02:00:49 +0200, Antonio Soler wrote: Saludos. Estoy en este momento trabajando en una partitura que incluye una línea de texto como indicador de repeticiones. Me gustaría obtener mayor espacio entre la última nota de cada compás y la barra de compás que sigue para pode

Re: Having trouble with chord symbols above notes

2012-08-12 Thread eluze
BrAthanasius wrote > > I would like the F to be above the first f\breve, B-flat above the second > f\breve and the D-min above the D for the last note. Here is the code > below: > please reduce your code to the part necessary to reproduce the problem! to solve your problem you need to add cor