Re: bmc2ly: Braille music to LilyPond conversion

2012-11-13 Thread m...@mikesolomon.org
On 12 nov. 2012, at 14:47, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Mario Lang ml...@delysid.org writes: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: Would it be useful if LilyPond could export BMC? Of course! Actually, thats something that blind people are wishing for for a long time so that they

Re: bmc2ly: Braille music to LilyPond conversion

2012-11-13 Thread David Kastrup
m...@mikesolomon.org m...@mikesolomon.org writes: It would probably raise more interest to first tackle MusicXML export and then use the code as a starting base for doing Braille as well. I could agree more with this statement. Please consider doing this. In my topical sort order of

Re: Guitar tab with only numbers

2012-11-13 Thread Mate Szalay
Hi, On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Am 12.11.2012 21:37, schrieb Mate: Hi, I am trying to have standard notation + guitar tab where the tab only contains (fret) numbers. No stems, no bars, no rests, no dots, no circles, nothing. [...] Do I have to

combining MetronomeMark and TextSpanner - creating new interfaces

2012-11-13 Thread andersvi
Hello ponders. Id like to set up a TempoSpanner, using all current settings for MetronomeMark (offsets, paddings, fonts etc) and placing the MetronomeMark in the usual manner, but also including a spanner-interface to get stipled lines etc. towards the next \tempo mark (or an explicit

Re: Braille export

2012-11-13 Thread Mario Lang
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: Mario Lang ml...@delysid.org writes: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: [...] Computers are fast enough nowadays that the choice of implementation language is almost irrelevant compared to the choice of algorithm and consequently the algorithmic

Re: Braille export

2012-11-13 Thread David Kastrup
Mario Lang ml...@delysid.org writes: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: Taught me a lesson about optimization and computer scientists. Yes, I know about the pitfalls that premature optimisation can open. In the case I was talking about, I actually went from roughly 70 seconds runtime of my

Re: Accidental style like dodecaphonic, but not quite the same

2012-11-13 Thread Urs Liska
Am 12.11.2012 19:16, schrieb Rutger Hofman: Hello list, I am typesetting a piece by Alban Berg. Its accidental style is like Lilypond's dodecaphonic (explicit accidental for each note), but it differs in that immediately repeated notes within a bar don't get an accidental. How can I make an

Re: unmetered time signature

2012-11-13 Thread Eluze
Peter O'Doherty-2 wrote In unmetered/ cadenza-style passages one often finds a time signature in the form of an 'X'. could you give a (scanned) example, I don't really see what you mean thanks Eluze -- View this message in context:

Re: Custom key signature stencils, differentiating major and minor keys

2012-11-13 Thread Paul Morris
On Nov 13, 2012, at 7:26 AM, MING TSANG tsan...@rogers.com wrote: Hi, Paul: I apply the change, it pushes the display above the staff. However I notice (1) that the distance is not constant from system to system - it diminishes; That is expected. It sets the padding (distance) between the

Center barline on first note of measure

2012-11-13 Thread TaoCG
So, is this possible? I tried to set the #'first-note property of the BarLine's #'space-alist to 0 but no effect. What I'm basically trying to achieve is a lot of RhythmicStaff in a StaffGroup so that the span bars mark the first beat in a measure rather than separating two measures. Maybe using

Re: Center barline on first note of measure

2012-11-13 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:29 PM, TaoCG tao_lilypondu...@gmx.net wrote: So, is this possible? I tried to set the #'first-note property of the BarLine's #'space-alist to 0 but no effect. What I'm basically trying to achieve is a lot of RhythmicStaff in a StaffGroup so that the span bars

Re: Guitar tab with only numbers

2012-11-13 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 13.11.2012 10:00, schrieb Mate Szalay: [...] This is to confirm, that the default behavior of 2.16.1-1 is indeed exactly what I wanted. And I'm quite amazed that I got the first response to my question in 5 minutes and even a pointer the git commit(!) in 3 hours. That's when I learned

Re: Custom key signature stencils, differentiating major and minor keys

2012-11-13 Thread MING TSANG
Hi, Paul: For now I just do alternate key signature on the top staff only or use manually by hand . Hope you have time to re-work to use rehearsal approach.   Blessing in+, Ming From: Paul Morris p...@paulwmorris.com To: MING TSANG tsan...@rogers.com Cc:

Re: Center barline on first note of measure

2012-11-13 Thread Eluze
TaoCG wrote What I'm basically trying to achieve is a lot of RhythmicStaff in a StaffGroup so that the span bars mark the first beat in a measure rather than separating two measures. Maybe using bar lines isn't even the right approach but I wouldn't know how to mimic the span bars. what

Re: Center barline on first note of measure

2012-11-13 Thread TaoCG
David Nalesnik-2 wrote Hi, On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:29 PM, TaoCG lt; tao_lilyponduser@ gt; wrote: So, is this possible? I tried to set the #'first-note property of the BarLine's #'space-alist to 0 but no effect. What I'm basically trying to achieve is a lot of RhythmicStaff in a

Re: Aleatoric / modern notation

2012-11-13 Thread Jeffrey Trevino
Whoa -- It's marvelous to see such a detailed response to my question. Most importantly, frameEngraver4 works! I will study the differences between 3 and 4 to see what changed. As mentioned, it seems to me that the best course of action would be to make dynamic spanner creation a high

trill spanner and bass clef mark interfering; parenthesized noteheads on every notehead of tie; full width trill spanners

2012-11-13 Thread Jeffrey Trevino
Hi there, Three trill questions for you experts: 1) I'm having trouble spanning some notes with a trill spanner when the first spanned note has a bass clef mark attached and the trill spanner has a specified pitch in parentheses -- When my staff looks like, \new Staff { \pitchedTrill

RE: TupletNumber direction

2012-11-13 Thread Daniel Rosen
Yup. http://erato.uvt.nl/files/imglnks/usimg/5/57/IMSLP01776-Mozart_EineKleineNachtmusik_Score.pdf from IMSLP; cf. pp. 2 and 4 in the violin parts. DR -Original Message- From: David Kastrup [mailto:d...@gnu.org] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 12:59 AM To: Daniel Rosen Cc: Thomas

Re: Aleatoric / modern notation

2012-11-13 Thread SoundsFromSound
I'm trying to wrap my head around the frameEngraver4 and can't quite grasp the syntax and how to customize the code to suit my needs. Is there a guide or cheat-sheet that explains how to use frameEngraver to it's fullest potential? I feel like it's a bit over my head and I feel lost when

Re: Aleatoric / modern notation

2012-11-13 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Ben, On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:46 PM, SoundsFromSound soundsfromso...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to wrap my head around the frameEngraver4 and can't quite grasp the syntax and how to customize the code to suit my needs. Is there a guide or cheat-sheet that explains how to use

Re: Custom key signature stencils, differentiating major and minor keys

2012-11-13 Thread Paul Morris
Hi Ming, I took another look at this and since there's only one key signature where the accidentals do not extend above the staff (F major / D minor) I just added extra padding for those keys. Now the key names always appear above the staff, regardless of the clef. The sizing of the

Re: Aleatoric / modern notation

2012-11-13 Thread Jeffrey Trevino
Hi David, This is a very help description. Maybe you could describe for me: I see both the box duration as a spacer duration and the line duration as extender length, in what seem to be unitless units. Here is an addition -- although I'm not sure if it's an improvement -- that might be important