Multi-measure rests and counter in piano staff

2012-10-16 Thread Helge Kruse
When playing in an orchestra it's important to count rests. To make this tasks easier you can write numbers into rest measures. Especially for a piano staff it gives a calm picture when the empty space between the staves is used. The attached picture shows this starting at Allegretto. Further

Re: Score/Part creating tool

2012-10-16 Thread Mark Witmer
Sorry, quick follow-up... the link should be https://github.com/mwitmer/LyUtil On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Mark Witmer wrote: > > Hi all, > > After going through the work of specifying parts and score for a whole > lot of pieces, I decided to put together a script that would do it for > me.

Score/Part creating tool

2012-10-16 Thread Mark Witmer
Hi all, After going through the work of specifying parts and score for a whole lot of pieces, I decided to put together a script that would do it for me. The result has been pretty useful so I thought I'd share it with everyone else. Basically, it gives you a scheme function you can call with a l

Re: Manual search returns results from wrong version

2012-10-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 09:02:18AM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: > It's a common header, used on all the web pages, and therefore uses the same > version number throughout. Non-trivial to change. Shouldn't it be v2.16, though? It's safer to point to v2.16 rather than v2.17. - Graham _

Re: Manual search returns results from wrong version

2012-10-16 Thread Marek Klein
Hello, 2012/10/16 Nick Payne > Going to the manual page for 2.16 ( http://lilypond.org/manuals.html) > and entering a search term (eg I tried "footnote") in the search box at > upper right returns hits in the 2.17 manuals. The search presented to > Google is: > > site:lilypond.org/doc/v2.17 foot

Re: tuplet numbers on kneed beams - David's function stopped working

2012-10-16 Thread m...@mikesolomon.org
On 16 oct. 2012, at 18:49, Janek Warchoł wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:20 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> commit d8dfa746ead381a80901106b9c9b079dc9b5d004 >> Author: Mike Solomon >> Date: Fri Aug 31 09:27:17 2012 +0200 >> >>Uses a heuristic to determine if chord tremolos collide with acc

Re: how to call these notes?

2012-10-16 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear all, thanks for Your help and for Your explanations! 2012/10/16 Phil Holmes > - Original Message - From: "David Rogers" < > davidandrewrog...@gmail.com> > To: "Owain Sutton" ; "Stefan Thomas" < > kontrapunktste...@gmail.com>; ; "Mark Stephen > Mrotek" > Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2

Re: how to call these notes?

2012-10-16 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "David Rogers" To: "Owain Sutton" ; "Stefan Thomas" ; ; "Mark Stephen Mrotek" Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 6:20 PM Subject: Re: how to call these notes? I don't have any of the engraving manuals - what is this note called in those books? It would proba

RE: how to call these notes?

2012-10-16 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Mr. Thomas: What I presented was the technical term used by classical musicians. In the modern world you could call them anything that communicates. A more detailed explanation, in various languages, is available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornament_(music). Mark From: Stefan

Re: how to call these notes?

2012-10-16 Thread David Rogers
I don't have any of the engraving manuals - what is this note called in those books? It would probably be better to go along with the "industry standard name", even if that name turns out not to be perfect. -- David ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilyp

Re: how to call these notes?

2012-10-16 Thread David Rogers
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Owain Sutton wrote: > I've always taken 'acciaccatura' and 'grace note' to be synonyms. I think that's probably correct. Which means that "grace note" would not be the best name for this notation either. I jokingly propose Lnwl. (Little note with line) -- Da

Re: how to call these notes?

2012-10-16 Thread Owain Sutton
I've never heard 'stroke out notes' before. I've always taken 'acciaccatura' and 'grace note' to be synonyms. Regarding whether the notes have a slash/stroke: if they do, then they're certainly grace notes. If they don't, however, the context sometimes will suggest that they are still this rath

Re: how to call these notes?

2012-10-16 Thread David Rogers
Appoggiatura is a term in composition for a particular kind of note that doesn't belong to the harmony. Acciaccatura ("crushed") is a playing technique that composers can request. Neither one is really the name of this little note. The little note isn't stroked OUT, because "stroked out" would me

Re: how to call these notes?

2012-10-16 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Steven, no, those notes are not (at least not exactly) simultaneous to the following. Can't they be called "stroked out notes?" 2012/10/15 Mark Stephen Mrotek > Mr. Thomas: > > ** ** > > Well the little note, the acciaccatura (with the stroke) is play > simultaneously as the note to whi

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 119, Issue 54

2012-10-16 Thread Kevin Patrick Barry
> Dear LilyPond Users, > > How should I go about producing a paper which includes musical examples? In > the past I've exported to a high quality PNG and scaled the image down to > the appropriate size but that inevitably ended up with musical examples > that had different sized staff (even though

Re: Essays with Musical Examples

2012-10-16 Thread Keehun Nam
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:48 AM, james wrote: > > On Oct 16, 2012, at 5:21 PM, Keehun Nam wrote: > > > Dear LilyPond Users, > > > > How should I go about producing a paper which includes musical examples? > In the past I've exported to a high quality PNG

Re: tuplet numbers on kneed beams - David's function stopped working

2012-10-16 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:20 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > commit d8dfa746ead381a80901106b9c9b079dc9b5d004 > Author: Mike Solomon > Date: Fri Aug 31 09:27:17 2012 +0200 > > Uses a heuristic to determine if chord tremolos collide with accidentals. > > This heuristic makes several assumption

Re: Essays with Musical Examples

2012-10-16 Thread james
On Oct 16, 2012, at 5:21 PM, Keehun Nam wrote: > Dear LilyPond Users, > > How should I go about producing a paper which includes musical examples? In > the past I've exported to a high quality PNG and scaled the image down to the > appropriate size but that inevitably ended up with musical exa

Re: Essays with Musical Examples

2012-10-16 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/10/16 Keehun Nam : > Dear LilyPond Users, > > How should I go about producing a paper which includes musical examples? Start here: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/usage/lilypond_002dbook -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com _

Re: Cross-staff stems

2012-10-16 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Peter O'Doherty" To: "lilypond-user" Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 4:13 PM Subject: Cross-staff stems Hi list, Is there an effective (and relatively straightforward) way (is there perhaps a template?) to notate percussion scores where each instrument h

Essays with Musical Examples

2012-10-16 Thread Keehun Nam
Dear LilyPond Users, How should I go about producing a paper which includes musical examples? In the past I've exported to a high quality PNG and scaled the image down to the appropriate size but that inevitably ended up with musical examples that had different sized staff (even though I tried my

Cross-staff stems

2012-10-16 Thread Peter O'Doherty
Hi list, Is there an effective (and relatively straightforward) way (is there perhaps a template?) to notate percussion scores where each instrument has its own staff and the stems cross the staffs where necessary to link notes on different instruments in one rhythmic group? Many thanks, Pet

Re: tuplet numbers on kneed beams - David's function stopped working

2012-10-16 Thread David Nalesnik
David, On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 7:20 AM, David Kastrup wrote: [...] > Of course, the change of the beam API is mentioned nowhere. Not even in > the commit message. Unfortunately I missed it, since I searched at the savannah site by commit. -David _

Re: tuplet numbers on kneed beams - David's function stopped working

2012-10-16 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Harm, > 'beam-gap is now a pair. > So I'm not sure if it should be > (car (ly:grob-property grob 'beam-gap)) > or > (interval-length (ly:grob-property grob 'beam-gap)) > > Currently I haven't found a proper documentation: > > git grep beam-gap > Thank you for pointing this out! Here, your fir

Re: tuplet numbers on kneed beams - David's function stopped working

2012-10-16 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > 2012/10/16 David Nalesnik : >> Hi Janek, >> David Nalesnik's function correcting tuplet number placement on kneed beams throws an error with Lilypond 2.17.5 (it works with 2.16.0): Drawing systems.../home/janek/desk/tuplet_numers_on_kneed_beams.ily:44:2

Re: tuplet numbers on kneed beams - David's function stopped working

2012-10-16 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/10/16 David Nalesnik : > Hi Janek, > >>> David Nalesnik's function correcting tuplet number placement on kneed >>> beams throws an error with Lilypond 2.17.5 (it works with 2.16.0): >>> >>> Drawing systems.../home/janek/desk/tuplet_numers_on_kneed_beams.ily:44:26: >>> In procedure * in express

Re: tuplet numbers on kneed beams - David's function stopped working

2012-10-16 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Janek, >> David Nalesnik's function correcting tuplet number placement on kneed >> beams throws an error with Lilypond 2.17.5 (it works with 2.16.0): >> >> Drawing systems.../home/janek/desk/tuplet_numers_on_kneed_beams.ily:44:26: >> In procedure * in expression (* 0.5 (ly:grob-property beam #)

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 119, Issue 52

2012-10-16 Thread Kevin Patrick Barry
> Have you had a look at either balloon help or footnotes: > > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/outside-the-staff#balloon-help > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/creating-footnotes > > Nick > Yes I use the balloons all the time (they're great). If I could

Re: tuplet numbers on kneed beams - David's function stopped working

2012-10-16 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Janek Warchoł" To: "David Nalesnik" ; "Thomas Morley" ; "David Kastrup" ; "LilyPond Users" Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 6:53 AM Subject: tuplet numbers on kneed beams - David's function stopped working Hi, David Nalesnik's function correcting tuplet

Re: Manual search returns results from wrong version

2012-10-16 Thread Phil Holmes
It's a common header, used on all the web pages, and therefore uses the same version number throughout. Non-trivial to change. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Nick Payne To: lilypond-user@gnu.org ; bug-lilyp...@gnu.org Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 11:50 PM Subj