Re: an easier way to create the midi block

2013-05-02 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Sarah, The closing bracket } on line 34 is one too much. And in line 156 there is some strange - not lilypond - text. When I compiled this I noticed one important thing: the flute and trumpet (in C) melodies show one sharp for \key g \major, but the line you indicate with Clarinet in

Re: Two questions

2013-05-02 Thread David Kastrup
g...@sdf.org writes: In 2.16, you just put the accidental style definition into the layout block and that's it. Alas, 2.16 is not in Debian as far as I know... I can live with a global = { #(set-accidental-style 'forget) ... } definition at the moment.

Re: Two questions

2013-05-02 Thread ghe
In 2.16, you just put the accidental style definition into the layout block and that's it. Alas, 2.16 is not in Debian as far as I know... I can live with a global = { #(set-accidental-style 'forget) ... } definition at the moment.

Re: Breathes placement

2013-05-02 Thread ghe
I have a question about the placements of breathe symbols. When measure bars are placed automatically, and when a \breathe is placed at the end of a measure, it seems that it is placed *after* the bar, before the first note of the next measure. Can you post a minimal example for this? And

Re: Breathes placement

2013-05-02 Thread Trevor Daniels
g...@sdf.org wrote Thursday, May 02, 2013 10:04 AM Indeed, my question was not precise enough. Here is a minimal example: \relative c' { c d e f2 \breathe g4 a b c } For the printed score it can be done like this: \relative c' { c d e f2*1/2 \breathe s4 g a b c } Trevor

Re: Breathes placement

2013-05-02 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/5/2 g...@sdf.org: I have a question about the placements of breathe symbols. When measure bars are placed automatically, and when a \breathe is placed at the end of a measure, it seems that it is placed *after* the bar, before the first note of the next measure. Can you post a

Problem with transposition

2013-05-02 Thread fazer666
Hi, I'm trying to write some music for Tenor Sax (Bb). I have melody and chords above the staff. When I put \transposition bes directive, melody is correct in midi file, but not chords. Here is a snippet of my code : \score { double_opening_chevrons \chords { \transpo

Re: Problem with transposition

2013-05-02 Thread David Kastrup
fazer666 fazer...@free.fr writes: I'm trying to write some music for Tenor Sax (Bb). I have melody and chords above the staff. When I put \transposition bes directive, melody is correct in midi file, but not chords. Here is a snippet of my code : \score { double_opening_chevrons

Re: Problem with transposition

2013-05-02 Thread fazer666
David Kastrup dak at gnu.org writes: URL:http://lilypond.org/tiny-examples I can't really guess what kind of constructs you are trying to use here. Sorry, a bad copy paste... : \transpo - wrong typo, correct is : \transposition bes And I put the same line just after bracket in Staff

lilypond scheme-sandbox

2013-05-02 Thread MING TSANG
Hi lily user: I try lilypond scheme-sandbox.  The highlight did not correspond to what chapter 1 - scheme tutorial (extending.pdf) said: 2 is suppose displays on a line, but it is not.  Please refer to the copy of the run. Thanks for the help, Ming Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]

Re: Breathes placement

2013-05-02 Thread ghe
Trevor Daniels wrote: Indeed, my question was not precise enough. Here is a minimal example: \relative c' { c d e f2 \breathe g4 a b c } For the printed score it can be done like this: \relative c' { c d e f2*1/2 \breathe s4 g a b c } Thomas Morley wrote: You could try to scale

Re: Breathes placement

2013-05-02 Thread Noeck
Thanks, this seems to fix the problem indeed. But is there a more systematic way of doing this, instead of typing *1/2 ... s4 each time? --ghe Hi, the main problem with your input is, that you have overfull measures. { c d e f2 } are 5/4 in a 4/4 measure. That means, Lilypond draws and

Re: Problem with transposition

2013-05-02 Thread fazer666
fazer666 fazer666 at free.fr writes: David Kastrup dak at gnu.org writes: URL:http://lilypond.org/tiny-examples I can't really guess what kind of constructs you are trying to use here. Sorry, a bad copy paste... : \transpo - wrong typo, correct is : \transposition bes And I

Re: lilypond scheme-sandbox

2013-05-02 Thread Madoka Machitani
Maybe this is a documentation error. I tried the sequence in another scheme implementation (racket) and resulted in a similar output, implying separate functions are processed one by one, whose outputs intersperesed each time with command prompts. So, you need to enclose multiple functions

Re: Breathes placement

2013-05-02 Thread ghe
the main problem with your input is, that you have overfull measures. { c d e f2 } are 5/4 in a 4/4 measure. That means, Lilypond draws and starts this f2 in the first measure, but it is still played in the second. Therefore, the breathing mark is placed where the f2 is over. How can you

Re: Breathes placement

2013-05-02 Thread Marek Klein
Hello, 2013/5/2 g...@sdf.org Yes, I know that these are overfull measures; actually most measure bars are not even drawn (I have \context { \Score defaultBarType = empty }, with a few \bar | here and there). These are indeed the intended durations; in the kind of (liturgical) music I want to

Re: Problem with transposition

2013-05-02 Thread David Kastrup
fazer666 fazer...@free.fr writes: fazer666 fazer666 at free.fr writes: OK, let's write it shorter (just as example, it's only a excerpt of my whole code) : \score { \chords { \transposition bes gis,1:m7.5- cis:7 } \new Staff \relative g' {

Re: Problem with transposition

2013-05-02 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: ChordNames and keeps its transposition in there. Two ways out: the one that likely should get into LilyPond proper would be \layout { \ChordNames \alias Staff } and then overrides for Staff should arrive in ChordNames. Of course, this would be more

Re: lilypond scheme-sandbox

2013-05-02 Thread Andrew Bernard
The lilypond scheme-sandbox documentation assumes you have the readline library enabled for guile, although it does not state this explicitly. Turning on readline makes the behaviour as stated in the manual. I tried this with racket 5.3.3 also - same thing. Readline is not enabled by default,

Re: Breathes placement

2013-05-02 Thread Patrick or Cynthia Karl
On May 1, 2013, at 5:49 PM, g...@sdf.org wrote: Message: 6 Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 00:49:32 +0200 (CEST) From: g...@sdf.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Breathes placement Message-ID: alpine.deb.2.02.1305020034200.19...@svobanppv.bet Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed;

Re: lilypond scheme-sandbox

2013-05-02 Thread David Kastrup
Andrew Bernard andrew.bern...@gmail.com writes: The lilypond scheme-sandbox documentation assumes you have the readline library enabled for guile, although it does not state this explicitly. URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/extending/scheme-sandbox states: You can enter

Strange return code and compilation fail

2013-05-02 Thread James Worlton
I'm getting a strange result when I try to compile a score. It includes 8 staff contexts plus a Dynamics context. All of the Staves compile fine individually--no errors or warnings. All combinations of Total_Staves - 1 compile fine--no errors or warnings (I comment out each individual staff in

Re: an easier way to create the midi block

2013-05-02 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Hello. thanks for your reply. Unfortunitally it is impossible to show line numbers in the mac version of lily pond. and having to count that many manually is going to be a chore lol! I have made the suggestion that there be an option to show line numbers and I tried the control e command for

Re: Problem with transposition

2013-05-02 Thread fazer666
David Kastrup dak at gnu.org writes: David Kastrup dak at gnu.org writes: ChordNames and keeps its transposition in there. Two ways out: the one that likely should get into LilyPond proper would be \layout { \ChordNames \alias Staff } and then overrides for Staff should

Re: Problem with transposition

2013-05-02 Thread Paul Scott
On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 10:52:23AM +, fazer666 wrote: Hi, I'm trying to write some music for Tenor Sax (Bb). I have melody and chords above the staff. When I put \transposition bes directive, melody is correct in midi file, but not chords. As a side point here tenor sax sounds an

Re: Problem with transposition

2013-05-02 Thread David Kastrup
fazer666 fazer...@free.fr writes: David Kastrup dak at gnu.org writes: David Kastrup dak at gnu.org writes: ChordNames and keeps its transposition in there. Two ways out: the one that likely should get into LilyPond proper would be \layout { \ChordNames \alias Staff }

Re: Strange return code and compilation fail

2013-05-02 Thread Nathan
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:42 AM, James Worlton jworl...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting a strange result when I try to compile a score. It includes 8 staff contexts plus a Dynamics context. [...] -1073741819 is an access violation error; that's all I know. Can you provide a minimal example?

is MultiMeasureRest breakable?

2013-05-02 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, I have a piece I'm writing where the piano part is in various time signatures (e.g., 7/8 for a while, then 4/4 then 7/8 then 3/4 then 7/8 for a while, etc.), whereas the voice is in 4/4 throughout. Is there a way to break MultiMeasureRests in the voice, so that the piano part is

Re: an easier way to create the midi block

2013-05-02 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Oeps, I'm sorry, I simply assumed that mentioning line numbers would be easy for you. Lots of editors use these, on my Mac I often use TeXShop for Lilypond and LaTeX. Basic functionality but with(!) line numbers. In what way do you prefer a response? I could do the edits and send back

Re: Lyrics and Punctuations Alignment Issue‏

2013-05-02 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Jun, On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Jun Wang wj1...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi I have a lyrics alignment issue when lyrics contains punctuations. First Let me take the example from the reference manual, see the I am so lonely... piece below.

Re: Lyrics and Punctuations Alignment Issue‏

2013-05-02 Thread David Nalesnik
Oops, Attached wrong version. \version 2.16 #(define (align grob) (let* ((stil (ly:grob-property grob 'stencil)) (stil-X (ly:stencil-extent stil X)) (text (ly:grob-property grob 'text)) (punct-R (char-set #\, #\ #\; #\! #\. #\space)) (punct-L (char-set #\))

context inheritance?

2013-05-02 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, I want to define a tree of contexts like \Staff \PianoSingleStaff \PianoSingleStaffRH \PianoSingleStaffLH \ReductionSingleStaff \ReductionSingleStaffRH \ReductionSingleStaffLH and then, in my music (e.g., in a reusable variable), I'd like to say

Re: Strange return code and compilation fail

2013-05-02 Thread James Worlton
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Nathan when.possi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:42 AM, James Worlton jworl...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting a strange result when I try to compile a score. It includes 8 staff contexts plus a Dynamics context. [...] -1073741819 is an access

Re: Lyrics and Punctuations Alignment Issue?

2013-05-02 Thread MING TSANG
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Re: Lyrics and Punctuations Alignment Issue?

2013-05-02 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Ming, On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:04 PM, MING TSANG tsan...@rogers.com wrote: Hi David: Thank you for the align grob. The chinese character is double byte. Please refer to lyric d f : correspondent Chinese character to d is ok but the Chinese character at f is off a bit. Is it

Re: Lyrics and Punctuations Alignment Issue?

2013-05-02 Thread MING TSANG
Hi David, Here is the .ly file that generates the png file in previous email.  This file is UTF-8 encoded. Thank for looking the solution, Ming.  From: David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com To: MING TSANG tsan...@rogers.com Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org

RE: Lyrics and Punctuations Alignment Issue?

2013-05-02 Thread Jun Wang
Thanks David and Ming. The unicode value of the special punctuation is \u3002 ( http://www.unicodemap.org/details/0x3002 ) Jun Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 17:06:40 -0700 From: tsan...@rogers.com Subject: Re: Lyrics and Punctuations Alignment Issue? To: david.nales...@gmail.com CC:

Re: an easier way to create the midi block

2013-05-02 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Hey don't worry about it. I'm still a new beginner of lily pond and am trying my hardest to get this assignment done in 2 weeks, Ok a week and a few days. I'll take a look at the editor you mensioned and if I don't make any progress soon someone can help me in correcting the mistakes until I