Re: Idle curiousity about ancient Lily-lore

2013-03-11 Thread Johan Vromans
Wols Lists antli...@youngman.org.uk writes: .. not only in the fact that concert pitch has a single-digit ISO standard to its credit! Hexadecimal? -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Align whole-note chord over whole-measure rest

2013-03-11 Thread Eluze
Jim Long wrote What is the recommended way to align a whole-note chord over a whole-measure rest? The rest gets centered in the bar, whereas the chord gets placed above where beat 1 of the measure would be. would be? - it is! imo this is correct! if you still want to shift it around you can

Re: Align whole-note chord over whole-measure rest

2013-03-11 Thread David Kastrup
Eluze elu...@gmail.com writes: Jim Long wrote What is the recommended way to align a whole-note chord over a whole-measure rest? The rest gets centered in the bar, whereas the chord gets placed above where beat 1 of the measure would be. would be? - it is! imo this is correct! if you

Re: \relative is not the best way of entering complicated music

2013-03-11 Thread David G
In relative, a note with no ' or , indicates the closest octave, e.g. for adjacent notes a b means the B one note above whatever A it was, d c means the C one note below whatever D it was, Effectively this means that using no ' or , will always produce a note within a fourth of the previous

Re: change barline type with time signature change

2013-03-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jan-Peter (and anyone else still interested in this thread): In the end, the conductor of my chamber opera asked to have the bar lines solid for all measures, but 50% grey and slightly thicker than default as the baseline, and black and slightly thicker still for bar lines concurrent with a

Re: change barline type with time signature change

2013-03-11 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes: Hi Jan-Peter (and anyone else still interested in this thread): In the end, the conductor of my chamber opera asked to have the bar lines solid for all measures, but 50% grey and slightly thicker than default as the baseline, and black

Re: override stencil question

2013-03-11 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Rama, On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Rama Gottfried rama.gottfr...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks David -- This is great, I can almost start with the score now. Glad to hear it! I was (am still a bit) unclear about how the grob gets passed to the callback function. interesting that the

Re: change barline type with time signature change

2013-03-11 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Jan-Peter (and anyone else still interested in this thread): In the end, the conductor of my chamber opera asked to have the bar lines solid for all measures, but 50% grey and slightly thicker than

Re: change barline type with time signature change

2013-03-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Janek, This reminds me of an idea i had: make stafflines under rests grey, to make it immediately obvious where an instrument is resting (see attached - obviously a bigger example would demonstrate this idea better, but i don' have one). How do you like it? I was considering trying the

Re: override stencil question

2013-03-11 Thread David Nalesnik
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 8:56 AM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.comwrote: [...] In any case, I still am passing the grob to the callback function: #(define (path-gliss handle) (lambda (grob) [...] BTW, I could also have written the above as follows: #(define ((path-gliss

documentation system

2013-03-11 Thread Karim Haddad
Hi, Can somebody tell me what is the documentation system lilypond uses for it's HTML and pdf generation? Is it Texinfo, docbook or Latex ? THanx K ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: documentation system

2013-03-11 Thread David Kastrup
Karim Haddad karim.had...@ircam.fr writes: Hi, Can somebody tell me what is the documentation system lilypond uses for it's HTML and pdf generation? Is it Texinfo, docbook or Latex ? Texinfo. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: documentation system

2013-03-11 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Karim Haddad karim.had...@ircam.fr To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 3:32 PM Subject: documentation system Hi, Can somebody tell me what is the documentation system lilypond uses for it's HTML and pdf generation? Is it Texinfo,

Re: lecker lek-ker in old German lyrics

2013-03-11 Thread Klaus Föhl
Alexander Kobel wrote: I think Klaus did not ask for forcing the hyphen to be visible, or forcing it to be hidden, but instead choose the letters depending on whether the hyphen appears or not in that place (with automatic deduction how cramped the space is). Correct. Nevertheless if a forced

Re: lecker lek-ker in old German lyrics

2013-03-11 Thread Klaus Föhl
Olivier Biot wrote: If no hyphen is needed, then write lecker. Otherwise write lek-ker. A manually written hyphen as in lek-ker looks different to lek -- ker, and then there is the alignment difference when writing lecker _ On a side note, I didn't know this German hyphenation variant. This

Re: lecker lek-ker in old German lyrics

2013-03-11 Thread David Kastrup
Klaus Föhl klaus.fo...@uni-giessen.de writes: Olivier Biot wrote: If no hyphen is needed, then write lecker. Otherwise write lek-ker. A manually written hyphen as in lek-ker looks different to lek -- ker, and then there is the alignment difference when writing lecker _ On a side note, I

Re: change barline type with time signature change

2013-03-11 Thread Werner LEMBERG
This reminds me of an idea i had: make stafflines under rests grey, to make it immediately obvious where an instrument is resting (see attached - obviously a bigger example would demonstrate this idea better, but i don' have one). How do you like it? Well, I don't like it. The contrast is

Re: change barline type with time signature change

2013-03-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Werner, The contrast is not strong enough if you are viewing the image from a greater distance. As it is, it looks irritating to my eye. Agreed — the lighter chosen here is insufficiently light. However, the concept is one I'm interested in exploring. Cheers, Kieren.

Re: change barline type with time signature change

2013-03-11 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: This reminds me of an idea i had: make stafflines under rests grey, to make it immediately obvious where an instrument is resting (see attached - obviously a bigger example would demonstrate this idea better, but i don' have

Re: \relative is not the best way of entering complicated music

2013-03-11 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Ok. I suck at reading staff lines. I come from braille music where th eoctive signs are given to me and I sing or play badly the correct pitches based on the octave mark. I'll try and give this mental thing a go since I bass in treble anyways around middle c so that might or might not help.

one bar check failing

2013-03-11 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Hello. I have 1 bar check failing at what it says is at 1/2 I looked at the second beat of the first measure and the cord is still a half note. the time is 3/2 Here is my .li file piano reduction 03-11-2013.ly Description: Binary data Note that I did not even attempt to put it in a piano

Re: one bar check failing

2013-03-11 Thread Nick Payne
On 12/03/13 12:13, Sarah k Alawami wrote: Hello. I have 1 bar check failing at what it says is at 1/2 I looked at the second beat of the first measure and the cord is still a half note. the time is 3/2 Here is my .li file Note that I did not even attempt to put it in a piano staff first.

Re: one bar check failing

2013-03-11 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Yeah. Here is the log. I already know I don't have a version statement in lol! This is starting after the version statement error which I already know about. warning: no music found in score warning: no music found in score Interpreting music... /Users/SA/Desktop/piano reduction

one bar check failing

2013-03-11 Thread wjm
Hi, If you move the opening curly brace to below the \relative line and remove the \new Staff line altogether the result should compile with no bar-check errors and no, possibly unwanted, empty staff lines. The altered result is below. I hope this helps. Regards Bill \relative c' { \key

Re: one bar check failing

2013-03-11 Thread Graeme Lee
Hi Sarah. notes and key/time signature should follow the \relative c' in a block. Everything is being reset with the new staff block. Hope this helps! Graeme On 12/03/2013 12:13 PM, Sarah k Alawami wrote: Hello. I have 1 bar check failing at what it says is at 1/2 I looked at the second

Re: one bar check failing

2013-03-11 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Oh crap! Ok! Why oh why did I not think of that! Ok. I could kick myself. but I'll do that later lol! Now back to work, I hope. On Mar 11, 2013, at 7:55 PM, Graeme Lee gra...@omni.net.au wrote: Hi Sarah. notes and key/time signature should follow the \relative c' in a block. Everything

Re: change barline type with time signature change

2013-03-11 Thread Werner LEMBERG
The contrast is not strong enough if you are viewing the image from a greater distance. As it is, it looks irritating to my eye. Agreed ― the lighter chosen here is insufficiently light. However, the concept is one I'm interested in exploring. Mhmm. Your suggestion of handling only

Re: one bar check failing

2013-03-11 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Cool. it worked! Now why did the midi file not create? only the pdf. I don't' want to move on unless I know my octaves are correct. in the right hand anyways. lol! Thanks and be blessed. On Mar 11, 2013, at 8:09 PM, wjm mooney...@aim.com wrote: Hi, If you move the opening curly brace to

midi output

2013-03-11 Thread Sarah k Alawami
I decided to change threads to make the list archives more clean *smiles* Ok. now that I have the bar checks sorted at least for these 4 measures and Ill stop there for tonight, how do I render it as a midi so I can hear if Im right int he octaves or not. I want to do this until I'm comfortable

Re: one bar check failing

2013-03-11 Thread Graeme Lee
Hi Sarah. You need a midi block which then needs to be in a score block. \version 2.16.2 \score { \new Staff \relative c' { \key d\minor \time 3/2 \set Staff.midiInstrument = #Acoustic Grand f, a d2 a d f d f a | f bes d4 g e'8 a f' bes g' a f' g e' f d' e cis'2 | } \midi {} \layout

How to calculate full-measure rests? Stumped. (triple meter?)

2013-03-11 Thread SoundsFromSound
Hi all, I'm stumped. I've read the documentation (back when I was using 2.14 I remember I wondered this same thing) http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/writing-rests#full-measure-rests But, how do you get full measure rests to show up? I seem to only get them to work using R1

Re: How to calculate full-measure rests? Stumped. (triple meter?)

2013-03-11 Thread Jay Anderson
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:09 PM, SoundsFromSound soundsfromso...@gmail.com wrote: But, how do you get full measure rests to show up? I seem to only get them to work using R1 if the meter is 4/4, etc. But 3/4 time and other variants show incorrectly when I render/engrave. Please see the GIF

Re: \relative is not the best way of entering complicated music

2013-03-11 Thread David Kastrup
Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com writes: Ok. I suck at reading staff lines. I come from braille music where th eoctive signs are given to me and I sing or play badly the correct pitches based on the octave mark. You don't need to use \relative if you are more comfortable with absolute

Re: How to calculate full-measure rests? Stumped. (triple meter?)

2013-03-11 Thread David Kastrup
Jay Anderson horndud...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:09 PM, SoundsFromSound soundsfromso...@gmail.com wrote: But, how do you get full measure rests to show up? I seem to only get them to work using R1 if the meter is 4/4, etc. But 3/4 time and other variants show