Re: optional transposition triggered by an external file?

2013-07-29 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 30.07.2013 02:30, schrieb David Rogers: Marc Hohl writes: [...] I need a way to define an optional variable that controls (if defined) the transposition so I can say, for example: \begin{appendix} \chapter{For Bb instruments} \begin{lilypond} #(define transposeTo d) \include{A.ly} \end{lil

Re: feature request: abs-fontsize available for all text grobs

2013-07-29 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi David, you gave at least two essential clues/hints and the result wouldn't be there now without them - so I would not call it a wrong direction. Cheers, Jan-Peter Am 29.07.2013 um 17:14 schrieb David Kastrup : > Kieren MacMillan writes: > >> Hi Jan-Peter and David, >> >> From what I can te

Re: A spacing issue

2013-07-29 Thread Rachael Thomas Carlson
On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 10:28 +1000, Nick Payne wrote: > This works with 2.17.23. I think the syntax is ok for 2.16.2. > > \version "2.16.2" > \layout { >indent=0\mm >ragged-right = ##t >\context { > \Score >\override StaffGrouper #'staffgroup-staff-spacing = >#'((b

Re: Henle piano template

2013-07-29 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Kieren, unfortunately I don't understand everything completely: Am 29.07.2013 16:07, schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Urs, No, these don't, but I think that fingerings in itself _do_ belong in there, and if the original ones from Henle are copyrighted ... This is my vision. 1. Each of the

Re: optional transposition triggered by an external file?

2013-07-29 Thread David Rogers
Marc Hohl writes: > Hello list, > > for my current project I have some scores located in > individual files: > > A.ly > B.ly > C.ly > > which can be compiled independently, and a latex file > containing calls like this > > \lilypondfile{A.ly} > > [... some text ...] > > \lilypondfile{B.ly} > > [.

Re: A spacing issue

2013-07-29 Thread Nick Payne
On 30/07/13 07:44, Rachael Thomas Carlson wrote: Hello: I am having an issue with spacing. I sent an email out a couple days ago without any responses (except my own responses). I thought that I had solved my \markup spacing issue but I was wrong. I am days away from finishing this score and

Re: Slurs end point need to be different when going up & down

2013-07-29 Thread MarcM
Yes there are some cases where the anchor is not consistent. There is an effort though to connect the notes together. With lilypond the slur seems to miss the notes when going down. -- View this message in context: h

Re: Slurs end point need to be different when going up & down

2013-07-29 Thread Eluze
My example comes from the transcription for Violin of the piece "La plus que lente" from Debussy http://javanese.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/3/3a/IMSLP212816-SIBLEY1802.20456.9d77-39087017285851violin.pdf take a look at the attached exerpts from your file below - is this consistent behavior?

Re: Slurs end point need to be different when going up & down

2013-07-29 Thread MarcM
My example comes from the transcription for Violin of the piece "La plus que lente" from Debussy http://javanese.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/3/3a/IMSLP212816-SIBLEY1802.20456.9d77-39087017285851violin.pdf -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Slurs-end-point

A spacing issue

2013-07-29 Thread Rachael Thomas Carlson
Hello: I am having an issue with spacing. I sent an email out a couple days ago without any responses (except my own responses). I thought that I had solved my \markup spacing issue but I was wrong. I am days away from finishing this score and I am at a bottleneck with this spacing issue. At t

Re: Henle piano template

2013-07-29 Thread PMA
Urs Liska wrote: "Urtext" is a fiction anyway in 95% of the cases. What would you consider "Urtext" when you have a manuscript, a fair copy, an original edition controlled by the composer, a personal copy of the OE with corrections, and another, later manuscript with other readings than the OE or

Re: Henle piano template

2013-07-29 Thread Urs Liska
Am 29.07.2013 20:53, schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Urs, What exactly do you mean by 'manuscript' and 'editorials'? 'Manuscript' is what Beethoven himself wrote, or (by huge consensus of multiple editors across multiple engraving houses) is generally understood to have meant. 'Editorials' is wh

Re: Henle piano template

2013-07-29 Thread Urs Liska
Am 29.07.2013 22:20, schrieb PMA: Urs Liska wrote: Am 29.07.2013 20:04, schrieb PMA: Urs Liska wrote: No, these don't, but I think that fingerings in itself _do_ belong in there, and if the original ones from Henle are copyrighted ... It seems to me that the only fingerings properly belonging

Re: Slurs end point need to be different when going up & down

2013-07-29 Thread Eluze
MarcM wrote > If we compare slurs in original scores. We can see that when the second > note included in the slur is going up, the end point of the slur ends on a > south west point. > > When the interval goes

Re: Henle piano template

2013-07-29 Thread PMA
Urs Liska wrote: Am 29.07.2013 20:04, schrieb PMA: Urs Liska wrote: No, these don't, but I think that fingerings in itself _do_ belong in there, and if the original ones from Henle are copyrighted ... It seems to me that the only fingerings properly belonging in an Urtext ed are those of the c

Re: Henle piano template

2013-07-29 Thread Urs Liska
Am 29.07.2013 20:04, schrieb PMA: Urs Liska wrote: No, these don't, but I think that fingerings in itself _do_ belong in there, and if the original ones from Henle are copyrighted ... It seems to me that the only fingerings properly belonging in an Urtext edition are those of the composer. If

Re: Henle piano template

2013-07-29 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs, > What exactly do you mean by 'manuscript' and 'editorials'? 'Manuscript' is what Beethoven himself wrote, or (by huge consensus of multiple editors across multiple engraving houses) is generally understood to have meant. 'Editorials' is what some specific editor (e.g., the Henle editor)

Re: Henle piano template

2013-07-29 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Kieren, unfortunately I don't understand everything completely: Am 29.07.2013 16:07, schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Urs, No, these don't, but I think that fingerings in itself _do_ belong in there, and if the original ones from Henle are copyrighted ... This is my vision. 1. Each of the

Re: Henle piano template

2013-07-29 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Peter, > It seems to me that the only fingerings properly belonging in an Urtext > edition > are those of the composer. If he / she supplied none, then _none_. Agreed. The Henle Preface states that Beethoven's fingering is indicated in italics — I can (and will) include those in the Beethov

Re: Henle piano template

2013-07-29 Thread PMA
Urs Liska wrote: No, these don't, but I think that fingerings in itself _do_ belong in there, and if the original ones from Henle are copyrighted ... It seems to me that the only fingerings properly belonging in an Urtext edition are those of the composer. If he / she supplied none, then _none

Re: letterspacing control

2013-07-29 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Kieren, On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hello all, > > Is there a letterspacing parameter I can adjust? > A search of the archives turned up only questions (and old ones at that). > > In my Beethoven template, for example, I'm hacki

Re: aleatoric box / frameEngraver

2013-07-29 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Karol, On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 6:57 AM, Karol Majewski wrote: > > OK, so have repeat signs in \markup \Score. Now I need the extender. How > can I modify David's function to start the extender without frame? For > example: > > > > c'4 \extenderStart s4*2 \extenderStop > Again, I think the be

letterspacing control

2013-07-29 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, Is there a letterspacing parameter I can adjust? A search of the archives turned up only questions (and old ones at that). In my Beethoven template, for example, I'm hacking it like this: title = \markup \override #'(word-space . 1) \line { S O N A T E } But I'd much rather have

Re: shiftDuration and partial

2013-07-29 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Am 29.07.2013 17:26, schrieb Stjepan Horvat: >> hi guys..di you realize that shiftDuration doesn't convert the partial >> part..?! >> is this a bug? >> >> for example: >> >> \shiftDuration #1 #0 { c4 d e f } -> c8 d e f >> but \shiftDuration #1 #0 { \partial 4 c4 d e f } -> c8

Re: shiftDuration and partial

2013-07-29 Thread Urs Liska
Am 29.07.2013 17:26, schrieb Stjepan Horvat: hi guys..di you realize that shiftDuration doesn't convert the partial part..?! is this a bug? for example: \shiftDuration #1 #0 { c4 d e f } -> c8 d e f but \shiftDuration #1 #0 { \partial 4 c4 d e f } -> c8 d | f g I'm not sure, but I think that \

shiftDuration and partial

2013-07-29 Thread Stjepan Horvat
hi guys..di you realize that shiftDuration doesn't convert the partial part..?! is this a bug? for example: \shiftDuration #1 #0 { c4 d e f } -> c8 d e f but \shiftDuration #1 #0 { \partial 4 c4 d e f } -> c8 d | f g -- *Nesmotren govori kao da mačem probada, a jezik je mudrih iscjeljenje. Izre

Re: feature request: abs-fontsize available for all text grobs

2013-07-29 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi Jan-Peter and David, > > From what I can tell, this is a complete and wonderfully elegant > solution to my request — thank you. > I will be sending funds to both of you soon. Before you do any such step, you'd better check that you are not sending funds the wrong wa

Re: stylesheets, defaults, and other in-Pond-erables

2013-07-29 Thread Urs Liska
Am 29.07.2013 15:50, schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Urs (et al.), a) Do you want LilyPond to achieve the results of the benchmark tests by 'automatic engraving', i.e. only with general overrides and settings? Or will you accept local tweaks too? I envision an ongoing iteration of two styleshee

Re: feature request: abs-fontsize available for all text grobs

2013-07-29 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jan-Peter and David, >From what I can tell, this is a complete and wonderfully elegant solution to >my request — thank you. I will be sending funds to both of you soon. Best, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists

Re: aleatoric / frame engraver revisited

2013-07-29 Thread David Nalesnik
One more thing-- On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:36 AM, David Nalesnik wrote: > > [...] > The arrow on the extender line can be removed, and the bracket can be drawn > beneath the staff. Don't know why you'd want to, but there it is. > [...] > The bracket also can be removed. --David __

Re: aleatoric / frame engraver revisited

2013-07-29 Thread David Nalesnik
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 3:29 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: > Hi, > > I recently replied to an old thread with an updated version of an engraver > for frames. Only, the message doesn't show up in the archived thread here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg70166.html I'm not > sur

optional transposition triggered by an external file?

2013-07-29 Thread Marc Hohl
Hello list, for my current project I have some scores located in individual files: A.ly B.ly C.ly which can be compiled independently, and a latex file containing calls like this \lilypondfile{A.ly} [... some text ...] \lilypondfile{B.ly} [... even more text ...] \lilypondfile{C.ly} This

Re: Henle piano template

2013-07-29 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs, > No, these don't, but I think that fingerings in itself _do_ belong in there, > and if the original ones from Henle are copyrighted ... This is my vision. 1. Each of the following hierarchically inherits from (i.e., includes) the one above: Lilypond.ily Score.ily PianoSta

Re: Henle piano template

2013-07-29 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs, Amazing — thanks for this. Once I've recompressed from my (incredible) week in the wilderness, I'll give these some serious consideration and adapt/enhance the stylesheet appropriately. Thanks! Kieren. On 2013-Jul-23, at 04:59, Urs Liska wrote: > Am 16.07.2013 20:23, schrieb Kieren Ma

Re: Henle piano template

2013-07-29 Thread Urs Liska
No, these don't, but I think that fingerings in itself _do_ belong in there, and if the original ones from Henle are copyrighted ... Kieren MacMillan schrieb: >Hi Urs (et al.), > >> But I think fingerings would be good to have for this kind of >benchmark. >> So Kieren, you wrote that this is

Re: stylesheets, defaults, and other in-Pond-erables

2013-07-29 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs (et al.), > a) > Do you want LilyPond to achieve the results of the benchmark tests by > 'automatic engraving', i.e. only with general overrides and settings? Or will > you accept local tweaks too? I envision an ongoing iteration of two stylesheet sets and a tweaks file: 1. Lilypond "Ho

Re: Henle piano template

2013-07-29 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs (et al.), > But I think fingerings would be good to have for this kind of benchmark. > So Kieren, you wrote that this is 'the' Beethoven sonata you actually played, > so do you have some fingerings around to insert? I have a huge number of "editorial markings", mostly entered by my teache