Re: pitched trill spanner always displays accidental?

2012-11-20 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/11/20 Jeffrey Trevino jeffrey.trevi...@gmail.com: Hi there, Is it normal for the pitched trill spanner to always display an accidental for its parenthesized pitch, even if the parenthesized pitch is natural and doesn't need one? Is there a way to override this? I'm finding it immensely

tupletNumber placement

2012-11-20 Thread Gagi Petrovic
Dear Ponders, i can't find how to change the placement of the tupletNumber so that the text sim. is placed under the *6* of my tuplet. See attachment. When using *\override TupletNumber #'X-offset = #10* the text stays on top of the number. Any other ways to tweak this? Thank you and all the

Re: tupletNumber placement

2012-11-20 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/11/20 Gagi Petrovic m...@gagipetrovic.nl: Dear Ponders, i can't find how to change the placement of the tupletNumber so that the text sim. is placed under the 6 of my tuplet. See attachment. When using \override TupletNumber #'X-offset = #10 the text stays on top of the number. Any

Re: tupletNumber placement

2012-11-20 Thread Gagi Petrovic
Yes, that works perfectly. Thank you! On 20 November 2012 12:08, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.comwrote: 2012/11/20 Gagi Petrovic m...@gagipetrovic.nl: Dear Ponders, i can't find how to change the placement of the tupletNumber so that the text sim. is placed under the 6 of my

Re: inline \prall

2012-11-20 Thread james
On Nov 19, 2012, at 4:41 AM, Nick Payne wrote: On 19/11/12 12:47, Paul wrote: I would like to set my prall on the right-hand side of my note, rather than above it. (Per Baroque organ scores.) Any ideas how to achieve this? Adaptation of http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=690

Re: pitched trill spanner always displays accidental?

2012-11-20 Thread Jeffrey Trevino
Hi Harm, I should have used the word default instead of just asking about what is normal. I meant to ask how to change the default behavior of TrillPitchAccidental: With the code you have written, and the attributes I find in the IR pages, I can suppress a natural sign if the pitch is natural but

arrow notehead and articulation

2012-11-20 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, I'm trying to replace a notehead above the staff by an arrow indicating a very high pitch. Here is my code, resulting in the attached example png: pfeileins = { \once \override NoteHead #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \once \override NoteHead #'stem-attachment = #'( 0.1 . 1 )

Re: arrow notehead and articulation

2012-11-20 Thread Jeffrey Trevino
Hi Orm, It might not be the best way to go, but one solution is to override the Y-offset of the Script object. I added this override into pfeilzwei in the code below, and it works just fine on my machine: pfeileins = { \once \override NoteHead #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \once

lyrics to music

2012-11-20 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary, mma
Hi everybody:Here's a general question that's bothered me for some time ... because I'm not a musician or composer ---when setting lyrics to music, is it ever acceptable to join eighth notes across syllables or even across words? Here are a couple examples:I have been told by a reliable expert (hi

Re: lyrics to music

2012-11-20 Thread James Bailey
It used to not done, in order to emphasize each individual word. Now, it's more whatever the composer wants. There are no more hard and fast rules. On Nov 20, 2012, at 4:25 PM, Fr. Michael Gilmary, mma frmichaelgilm...@maronitemonks.org wrote: Hi everybody: Here's a general question that's

Re: lyrics to music

2012-11-20 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
On 20/11/2012 16:25, Fr. Michael Gilmary, mma wrote: Hi everybody: Here's a general question that's bothered me for some time ... because I'm not a musician or composer --- when setting lyrics to music, is it ever acceptable to join eighth notes across syllables or even across words? I

Re: lyrics to music

2012-11-20 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Reinhold Kainhofer To: Fr. Michael Gilmary, mma Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 3:41 PM Subject: Re: lyrics to music On 20/11/2012 16:25, Fr. Michael Gilmary, mma wrote: Hi everybody: Here's a general question that's bothered me

Re: lyrics to music

2012-11-20 Thread David Kastrup
Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net writes: Even that's not the whole story. My edition of Handel's Messiah (Watkins Shaw) - music of the 18th century - has lots of beamed notes, where each note (despite the bean) has its own syllable. Well, that is the style of the edition. Unless it is an

Re: arrow notehead and articulation

2012-11-20 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Jeffrey, thanks, that kind of works, but the position of the articulation is wrong for other pitches and doesn't seem to be relative to the notehead's Y-position. Does anybody know how to fix that? -- Orm Am Dienstag, den 20. November 2012 um 16:13:39 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Jeffrey Trevino:

Re: arrow notehead and articulation

2012-11-20 Thread Nathan
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Orm Finnendahl o.finnend...@inm.mh-freiburg.de wrote: Hi, I'm trying to replace a notehead above the staff by an arrow indicating a very high pitch. Here is my code, resulting in the attached example png: [...] Here are two solutions. The first one kills

Re: arrow notehead and articulation

2012-11-20 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Nathan, great, thanks a lot! -- Orm Am Dienstag, den 20. November 2012 um 08:40:03 Uhr (-0800) schrieb Nathan: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Orm Finnendahl [1]o.finnend...@inm.mh-freiburg.de wrote: Hi,  I'm trying to replace a notehead above the staff by an arrow

Re: lyrics to music

2012-11-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi! when setting lyrics to music, is it ever acceptable to join eighth notes across syllables or even across words? As both singer and conductor, I can say without qualification that it is better to join the beams (i.e., beam according to the beat structure, like every other instrument).

Re: lyrics to music

2012-11-20 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca To: Fr. Michael Gilmary, mma frmichaelgilm...@maronitemonks.org Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 5:12 PM Subject: Re: lyrics to music Hi! when setting lyrics to music, is it ever

hspace behaviour

2012-11-20 Thread Phil Burfitt
Hi, I have just upgraded from version 2.13.17 to 2.17.7. Has the behaviour of \hspace changed in any way? It does not seem to act upon negative values anymore. example: \markup { \override #'(circle-padding . 0.55) \fontsize #-2.5 { tune \circle 3 \hspace #-2 to f # } } now leaves a

Re: lyrics to music

2012-11-20 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary, mma
On Nov 20 AD 2012, at 12:54 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: I only sing, but I find beamed notes more difficult to sing from - the rhythm of the bars is less important to me than aligning the syllable to the correct note. I'm grateful for all the input from everyone. So now I can add my 2

Re: hspace behaviour

2012-11-20 Thread Eluze
Phil Burfitt wrote Hi, I have just upgraded from version 2.13.17 to 2.17.7. Has the behaviour of \hspace changed in any way? It does not seem to act upon negative values anymore. example: \markup { \override #'(circle-padding . 0.55) \fontsize #-2.5 { tune \circle 3

Re: roman numerals

2012-11-20 Thread Eluze
Curt Siffert wrote Hi, what is the easiest way to notate a V/V (probably looks just like that) viidim7/ii (a vii followed by a dim circle superscript and a 7 superscript, then a slash then a ii) iim7b5/vi? (either m7b5 superscript, or a half-dim circle superscript, then a

Re: hspace behaviour

2012-11-20 Thread james
On Nov 20, 2012, at 10:22 PM, Eluze wrote: Phil Burfitt wrote Hi, I have just upgraded from version 2.13.17 to 2.17.7. Has the behaviour of \hspace changed in any way? It does not seem to act upon negative values anymore. example: \markup { \override #'(circle-padding . 0.55)

Re: hspace behaviour

2012-11-20 Thread Keith OHara
Eluze eluzew at gmail.com writes: Phil Burfitt wrote Has the behaviour of \hspace changed in any way? It does not seem to act upon negative values anymore. It changed as part of the fix for this bug http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=732

Re: roman numerals

2012-11-20 Thread Michael Rivers
As far as I know, Lilypond doesn't support Roman numeral analysis. I can't find it anywhere in the documentation, at least. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, because I would love to be able to do it. The snippet posted in the original post doesn't work for me. I don't think \rN is a real

Re: roman numerals

2012-11-20 Thread m...@mikesolomon.org
On 21 nov. 2012, at 08:43, Michael Rivers michaeljriv...@gmail.com wrote: As far as I know, Lilypond doesn't support Roman numeral analysis. I can't find it anywhere in the documentation, at least. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, because I would love to be able to do it. The