Re: Page break after score header

2013-05-16 Thread Rutger Hofman
On 05/16/2013 07:14 AM, Carl Peterson wrote: How would I go about forcing a page break after a score's header (before the actual music)? In preparing slides for my psalter project, I want to generate title cards before the first slide of each score. So far, everything I'be tried either

Re: Feature Request: Chromatic note names

2013-05-16 Thread ericoschm...@yahoo.com.br
I think i have all i need now, it will just take some time to digest. About the \include, can i just add my chromatic.ly language files and other templates to this directory, instead of having a copy with every musical file I make? /Files which are to be included in many scores may be placed in

Re: Feature Request: Chromatic note names

2013-05-16 Thread Urs Liska
On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 05:42 -0700, ericoschm...@yahoo.com.br wrote: I think i have all i need now, it will just take some time to digest. About the \include, can i just add my chromatic.ly language files and other templates to this directory, instead of having a copy with every musical file

Re: How to get multiple text spanners at the same height?

2013-05-16 Thread David Nalesnik
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 5:05 PM, SoundsFromSound soundsfromso...@gmail.comwrote: David Nalesnik-2 wrote 2013/5/15 SoundsFromSound lt; soundsfromsound@ gt;: TOne question though: what would be the easiest way to center this span (so the dashes line up in the center of the words,

Re: tweaking beam length

2013-05-16 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/5/16 luis jure l...@internet.com.uy: dear list, the output of the following code is shown in the first attached image: \version 2.17.17 \score { \new Voice \with { \remove Forbid_line_break_engraver \override Beam.breakable = ##t } \relative c'' {

Re: tweaking beam length

2013-05-16 Thread luis jure
on 2013-05-17 at 00:40 Thomas Morley wrote: Meanwhile you may want to use the function below. Comments in code, if something isn't clear, shout. brilliant, as always... thank you very much! i can't say i understand the code, but it works flawlessly. it resulted to be a more complicated

Re: tweaking beam length

2013-05-16 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/5/17 luis jure l...@internet.com.uy: on 2013-05-17 at 00:40 Thomas Morley wrote: Meanwhile you may want to use the function below. Comments in code, if something isn't clear, shout. brilliant, as always... Rereading the code I'm not convinced about my brilliance: Please delete

Re: tweaking beam length

2013-05-16 Thread luis jure
on 2013-05-17 at 01:21 Thomas Morley wrote: Rereading the code I'm not convinced about my brilliance: well, i was referring to the results, which seem to be perfect indeed. of course i can't evaluate the coding style... ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Feature Request: Chromatic note names

2013-05-16 Thread Paul Morris
With some help from these snippets: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=784 http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=619 I worked out how to redefine the note names, and make the default scale (the scale that is represented by the staff) a chromatic scale. See the snippet below. This avoids the

Re: Feature Request: Chromatic note names

2013-05-16 Thread Paul Morris
ericoschm...@yahoo.com.br wrote But i really am confused with those different plataforms for the same list: nabble, gnu, and mail-archive which is the one i should actually be browsing? I think it's basically just a matter of personal preference. I'm trying out nabble at the moment. -Paul

Re: How to get multiple text spanners at the same height?

2013-05-16 Thread Jim Long
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:19:25PM +0100, Peter Toye wrote: I found the cres--cen--do conversation - it seems that there's a general need for a new form of text spanner which can spread out the text. At the risk of seeming a curmudgeon, I would refute general. I'm unclear on what the

An idea for a systematic development of a large score.

2013-05-16 Thread wjm
Greetings! After watching Sarah K Alawami's work on a score recently on this user-list, but not having the musical and compositional skills to make constructive remarks, and after reading the thread entitled 'stylesheet structure', it occurred to me that an approach might be found which might

OpenType support in Windows

2013-05-16 Thread Aleksandr Andreev
Hello List, In Ubuntu, LilyPond has support of the default OpenType features (that is, those features that are on by default: ccmp (Glyph Composition), liga (Ligatures), kern (Kerning), mark (Mark to base positioning) and mkmk (Mark to mark positioning)). My understanding is that there is

Re: An idea for a systematic development of a large score.

2013-05-16 Thread Sarah k Alawami
does not sound like a bad idea. I'm gong to be working on an arrangement of oh come equal and hope to get it done by November or so. it's a surprise for a very special friend of mine who is let's say very fragile in health and I want to give it to her choir. I'm thinking of writing all the

Re: Feature Request: Chromatic note names

2013-05-16 Thread ericoschm...@yahoo.com.br
Hi, earlier today i just copied/pasted this to my file, and it worked fine. All tritones go down. I didnt really understand what the hell that code is doing, but worked the way i want. --- /dodecaPitchNames = #(map (lambda (pitchname)

Re: An idea for a systematic development of a large score.

2013-05-16 Thread Carl Peterson
This is somewhat the approach I'm taking with my Psalter project. each selection/hymn/psalm setting has a lyric file and a tune file. Each contains variables such as poet, scripture reference,copyright, etc. that are relevant and unchanging with that file. This allows me to reuse tunes with

Re: Feature Request: Chromatic note names

2013-05-16 Thread ericoschm...@yahoo.com.br
(Rookie scheme tip: a single quote (') is not the same as a backtick (`). This tripped me up!) did i use the wrong one somewhere??? ok, now... For my taste, the way i did for solving the Chromatic/traditional notation compatibility is satisfying. Extra note names could be added so you can

Re: Feature Request: Chromatic note names

2013-05-16 Thread Paul Morris
ericoschm...@yahoo.com.br wrote (Rookie scheme tip: a single quote (') is not the same as a backtick (`). This tripped me up!) did i use the wrong one somewhere??? No you're fine, I just got them confused and it took awhile to figure out what was wrong. So just a cautionary tale for the

Re: Feature Request: Chromatic note names

2013-05-16 Thread David Kastrup
ericoschm...@yahoo.com.br ericoschm...@yahoo.com.br writes: Hi, earlier today i just copied/pasted this to my file, and it worked fine. All tritones go down. Just as a note aside: if you are using a current version of LilyPond, \relative { ... } without explicit reference pitch is defined

Re: An idea for a systematic development of a large score.

2013-05-16 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
wjm writes: After a lot of fiddling around I came up with this schema:- That reads much like http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/lilypond.git/tree/mutopia/Coriolan?id=60fdc53305e8628dad96b4ebea177bc6ee8d95cd what are we missing? Greetings, Jan -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen jann...@gnu.org | GNU

Re: OpenType support in Windows

2013-05-16 Thread David Kastrup
Aleksandr Andreev aleksandr.andr...@gmail.com writes: In Ubuntu, LilyPond has support of the default OpenType features (that is, those features that are on by default: ccmp (Glyph Composition), liga (Ligatures), kern (Kerning), mark (Mark to base positioning) and mkmk (Mark to mark

Re: OpenType support in Windows

2013-05-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I recently tested LilyPond on Windows 8 (Enterprise Development Test version running on VirtualBox). It appears that LilyPond does not support any OpenType features on Windows 8 (at least as of version 2.16.2). We have issues URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2657 and