Re: is MultiMeasureRest breakable?

2013-05-05 Thread David Kastrup
Keith OHara k-ohara5...@oco.net writes: On Sat, 04 May 2013 19:21:23 -0700, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: What I mean is, if the barline in another [polymetric] staff falls in the middle of a MultiMeasureRest, could Lilypond [automatically] split the measure, perhaps

Re: mdash in markup?

2013-05-05 Thread David Kastrup
James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com writes: David Kastrup dak at gnu.org writes: I see it now. It wasn't obvious to me that the special character aliases wouldn't work without enabling them in the paper block. A list of ASCII aliases for special characters can be included:

Chord name exceptions

2013-05-05 Thread Nandi
I would like to have a predefined \hungarianChords command, which is based on the \germanChords (H instead of B, uppercase sharp and flat symbols), but which keeps the default setting E/D instead of E/d. Also, I'd need altered chords (es, fis etc.) to end in Hungarian sz like this: esz, fisz

Re: mdash in markup?

2013-05-05 Thread James Harkins
David Kastrup dak at gnu.org writes: This bugs me because a/ I tend to read text and skim examples You stop reading text in mid-sentence because it contains code? Nice try, but I won't take that bait. and (more importantly) b/ it's imprecise. Here, I was left to guess about the

Remove flag

2013-05-05 Thread Peter O'Doherty
Hi list, At certain points in a score I want to remove stem, beam and flags from notes, leaving only the note heads. Two questions: is there an easier way to do it than using these three \overides and why does the third override on the flags throw an error on version 2.16.0: warning: cannot

Re: Remove flag

2013-05-05 Thread Federico Bruni
2013/5/5 Peter O'Doherty m...@peterodoherty.net Hi list, At certain points in a score I want to remove stem, beam and flags from notes, leaving only the note heads. Two questions: is there an easier way to do it than using these three \overides and why does the third override on the flags

Re: Remove flag

2013-05-05 Thread Robert Schmaus
Hi Peter, Something *yet* easier than three overrides? Wow ... I guess, you could pack them into a variable, like AllOff = { \override ... } and use the variable instead. For yet easier solutions known to me, you'd have to use a computer-brain-interface ... but maybe, someone else has a

mcat: join midi files

2013-05-05 Thread Mike Blackstock
Here's a nice little utility that joins (concatenates) multiple midi files into one file: http://www.cap-lore.com/EnglishSuites/code/Transmog/mcat.html ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

scheme function help

2013-05-05 Thread Stjepan Horvat
I'm trying to figure out how and learn to create a function based on a \displayMusic function. for example: \displayMusic { \mark A c'4 } gives me (make-music 'SequentialMusic 'elements (list (make-music (quote MarkEvent) (quote label) A) (make-music 'NoteEvent

Re: Remove flag

2013-05-05 Thread Peter O'Doherty
Thanks a lot, Federico and Robert. On 05/05/2013 12:49 PM, Robert Schmaus wrote: Hi Peter, Something *yet* easier than three overrides? Wow ... I guess, you could pack them into a variable, like AllOff = { \override ... } and use the variable instead. For yet easier solutions known to me,

Re: mdash in markup?

2013-05-05 Thread Urs Liska
I don't see any point in arguing if a given documentation is technically correct or complete. Sometimes even correct documentation can be misleading or at least miss to draw attention to important points. I feel that this is the case here too. An improvement of the documentation will

Problem with encoding unicode

2013-05-05 Thread Peter O'Doherty
Hi, Not all unicode characters are being correctly realised in my score. Something like \mark \markup { \char ##x03EE } will work but this throws an error: \mark \markup { \char ##x1080B } error: programming error: FT_Get_Glyph_Name () error: invalid argument continuing, cross fingers

Re: is MultiMeasureRest breakable?

2013-05-05 Thread Keith OHara
David Kastrup dak at gnu.org writes: Keith OHara k-ohara5a5a at oco.net writes: The Bar_line_engraver does two jobs, printing barlines at the right places, and forbidding line-breaks at all other places. Not really. That is the job of the Forbid_line_break_engraver. The manual, and

RE: scheme function help

2013-05-05 Thread Peter Gentry
I don't have any answers for you but only sympathy for a fellow struggler. I have many years of experience with several languages but Scheme seems so idiosyncratic that it is difficult to learn. Each particle of knowledge seems to be standalone and not transferable to a new situation nothing is

Re: mcat: join midi files

2013-05-05 Thread Stjepan Horvat
Cool.. On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Mike Blackstock blackstock.m...@gmail.comwrote: Here's a nice little utility that joins (concatenates) multiple midi files into one file: http://www.cap-lore.com/EnglishSuites/code/Transmog/mcat.html ___

Re: scheme function help

2013-05-05 Thread Madoka Machitani
Hi, Let me first point out that you have to remember object type matters. ly:music-property expects music object, not pitch object or anything else, so you have to give a music object to it, like this: (display-scheme-music (car (ly:music-property #{ \mark A c'4 #}

Re: Glissando to a rest

2013-05-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
On 05/05/2013 12:01 AM, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: This should work. You just have to make sure the space between the two notes isn't too tight or the glissando won't print. In this case it happens if you omit the \break. \relative c'' { es4*1/2-\glissando \hideNotes es,

Re: Problem with encoding unicode

2013-05-05 Thread Nick Payne
On 06/05/13 00:46, Peter O'Doherty wrote: \mark \markup { \char ##x1080B } error: programming error: FT_Get_Glyph_Name () error: invalid argument continuing, cross fingers programming error: Glyph has no name, but font supports glyph naming. Skipping glyph U+1001080B, file

Re: Chord name exceptions

2013-05-05 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/5/5 Nandi nandi.pri...@gmail.com: I would like to have a predefined \hungarianChords command, which is based on the \germanChords (H instead of B, uppercase sharp and flat symbols), but which keeps the default setting E/D instead of E/d. Also, I'd need altered chords (es, fis etc.) to

RE: Lyrics and Punctuations Alignment Issue?

2013-05-05 Thread Jun Wang
Since this issue is so common, I wonder if we could add this feature to the lilypond code base? I thought the requirement is following: 1. The feature should be turned on by default with list of ascii punctuations, like ,.?{}()! :2. The list of punctuation can be override/customized with any

Change Lyrics fontsize globaly

2013-05-05 Thread Andreas Stenberg
Hi! Is there a easy way to change the fontsize of lyrics globaly. I'm working on projects with several files which are included in the final master file/ document and fidling around with fontsize comads for every single lyrics in every single file is starting to get bothersome. I dont know