Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-26 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, Richard Shann wrote: You may need to know about Denemo and Frescobaldi which both allow MIDI input and generate LilyPond output. Richard MIDI input (using rumor) in Frescobaldi was dumped in version 2.x -- MT ___

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond? (fwd)

2013-09-26 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:12:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl To: searchfgold6789 searchfgold67...@live.com Subject: Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond? On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, searchfgold6789 wrote: However, I am

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-26 Thread Johan Vromans
Regardless whether using a MIDI keyboard for LilyPond really helps: `rumor` reports: ALSA port connection error; do it manually using `aconnect'. `aconnect -i` says: $ aconnect -i client 0: 'System' [type=kernel] 0 'Timer ' 1 'Announce' client 14: 'Midi

RE: lilypond slowdown in CGI web program

2013-09-26 Thread Curt McDowell
I agree, benchmark just the lilypond invocation and you're likely to find it still takes just a second. More likely, in some following step the server CGI script writes the HTTP response data but never closes the TCP connection. If the script exits, perhaps a child process has been forked that

Lilypond web apps (was: RE: lilypond slowdown in CGI web program)

2013-09-26 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
Also, what are you building? I take it that you have seen http://weblily.net http://lilybin.com http://lilypond.org/schikkers I have tried weblily.net, lilybin.com, and omet.ca. These are all nice web-based LilyPond applications. But what I am missing is something like that, but

RE: \path command

2013-09-26 Thread Curt McDowell
Here's something like that, but using \postscript instead of \path. I can't get \path at the right origin. It seems to ignore an initial moveto. Even \postscript seems to set the origin differently depending on which note the markup goes on (hence two versions of the markup below). Cheers,

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-26 Thread James Harkins
David Kastrup dak at gnu.org writes: It's been some time since I last tried, but the basic answer I arrived at for myself was don't bother. The tools are not good enough right now to save time. I have to agree with David here. When I first started looking at LilyPond, one of my first

OT: Lilypond font missing when opening pdf in inkscape

2013-09-26 Thread Marc Hohl
Hello list, I want to create some sophisticated graphical elements with lilypond-book and latex and postprocess them with inkscape. The workflow: lilypond-book --output=out myfile.tex cd out latex myfile.tex; dvips myfile.dvi; ps2pdf myfile.ps cd .. The tex file contains some pstricks macros,

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-26 Thread David Kastrup
James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com writes: David Kastrup dak at gnu.org writes: It's been some time since I last tried, but the basic answer I arrived at for myself was don't bother. The tools are not good enough right now to save time. I have to agree with David here. When I first

Re: OT: Lilypond font missing when opening pdf in inkscape

2013-09-26 Thread Marc Hohl
To answer my own qestion: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-02/msg00370.html I opened the .ps in scribus, exported as .svg and reopened in inkscape. Am 26.09.2013 11:40, schrieb Marc Hohl: Hello list, I want to create some sophisticated graphical elements with

Re: \path command

2013-09-26 Thread MING TSANG
Curt, Thank you for postscript code. Wow, wonderful. My plan is not to use it with score pitch (note). It was intended as sort of a logo to put it onto the \header. I can use fishA or fishB for that purpose.  If an eye present in the fish (use eight-note) will be perfect. Emanuel, Ming. 

Re: programming error

2013-09-26 Thread Eluze
MING TSANG wrote Sorry, I attached a .ly file with \include private files.  I remove those and the following can compile.   great - it's compiling mow! but I wouldn't say this is minimal - the next step now is to reduce your code to get near the offending code. but - which of the 2 problems

Violin tab for fiddle tunes

2013-09-26 Thread R.D. Latimer
I'd like help getting started with transcribing fiddle tunes with music and tab. Here's my initial try (first two measures) The fingering for the violin is not correct in the tab. Fingering should be: 2 0 0 2 0 0 | 3 1 1 3 0 1 | I'll attach a jpeg image. Thanks for any help. Here's my source

Re: Violin tab for fiddle tunes

2013-09-26 Thread David Kastrup
R.D. Latimer rdlati...@gmail.com writes: I'd like help getting started with transcribing fiddle tunes with music and tab. Here's my initial try (first two measures) The fingering for the violin is not correct in the tab. Fingering should be: 2 0 0 2 0 0 | 3 1 1 3 0 1 | That's a

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-26 Thread Gabriel Striewe
Anway, my point is: the currently available tools are not good enough right now to save time. I'm not saying that this means the idea is doomed. I think that would be a sour grapes stance. But at the current point of time, the only convincing reason I see for working with Midi input is if

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-26 Thread Johan Vromans
James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com writes: I have to agree with David here. When I first started looking at LilyPond, one of my first questions was about MIDI input. But then I realized: ... this is all based on using a MIDI keyboard as the only means of input. Personally I'd like to use

Re: Violin tab for fiddle tunes

2013-09-26 Thread R.D. Latimer
Thanks, yes that makes sense from a fret number point of view. Unfortunately from a violinist/fiddler point of view, the semitone notation does no good. For example, on a violin, in the simplest 1st position: (2nd string) A string: A open, Bb/B 1st finger, C/C# 2nd finger, D 3rd finger, E 4th

Re: Violin tab for fiddle tunes

2013-09-26 Thread R.D. Latimer
I'm searching for decent examples of violin tab, I don't see many out there on the web. Here's one http://www.jaybuckey.com/pdf/Free%20Tablature/amazing_grace_fiddle_tablature.pdf It'd be great if Lilypond has this feature, Thanks again On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 9:45 AM, R.D. Latimer

Re: Violin tab for fiddle tunes

2013-09-26 Thread David Kastrup
R.D. Latimer rdlati...@gmail.com writes: Thanks, yes that makes sense from a fret number point of view. Unfortunately from a violinist/fiddler point of view, the semitone notation does no good. For example, on a violin, in the simplest 1st position: (2nd string) A string: A open, Bb/B 1st

Re: Violin tab for fiddle tunes

2013-09-26 Thread David Kastrup
R.D. Latimer rdlati...@gmail.com writes: I'm searching for decent examples of violin tab, I don't see many out there on the web. Here's one http://www.jaybuckey.com/pdf/Free%20Tablature/amazing_grace_fiddle_tablature.pdf It'd be great if Lilypond has this feature, Thanks again The problem

Re: Violin tab for fiddle tunes

2013-09-26 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: R.D. Latimer rdlati...@gmail.com writes: I'm searching for decent examples of violin tab, I don't see many out there on the web. Here's one http://www.jaybuckey.com/pdf/Free%20Tablature/amazing_grace_fiddle_tablature.pdf It'd be great if Lilypond has

Re: Violin tab for fiddle tunes

2013-09-26 Thread R.D. Latimer
HI David, Yes I agree with all you're saying. My motivation right now is I'm teaching some Fiddle classes to beginner types of students. I can read music fine. In this folk tradition many/most of the players play by ear, not by reading sheet music. I was thinking that a violin tab in 1st

Re: Violin tab for fiddle tunes

2013-09-26 Thread David Kastrup
R.D. Latimer rdlati...@gmail.com writes: HI David, Yes I agree with all you're saying. My motivation right now is I'm teaching some Fiddle classes to beginner types of students. I can read music fine. In this folk tradition many/most of the players play by ear, not by reading sheet

Re: Acciaccaturas and slashed stems

2013-09-26 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hello Peter, I am sorry for my late reply, I have been away for the past days. About Frescobaldi, though I am very thankful for you to have implemented the automatic beams for the grace notes, I have to say I am not very fond of the idea of installing still two other files before (maybe) being

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-26 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 09:32 +, James Harkins wrote: - With a MIDI keyboard, I would be back to the Finale hell of correcting enharmonic misspellings. Enharmonic misspellings are a thing of the past if you use Denemo to play in the pitches from a MIDI keyboard. Firstly, because the set of

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-26 Thread Laura Conrad
David == David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: David It's been some time since I last tried, but the basic answer David I arrived at for myself was don't bother. The tools are David not good enough right now to save time. For me, MIDI input does save time. I cheat and use the numeric

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-26 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 11:52 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com writes: David Kastrup dak at gnu.org writes: It's been some time since I last tried, but the basic answer I arrived at for myself was don't bother. The tools are not good enough right now to

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-26 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 15:41 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com writes: I have to agree with David here. When I first started looking at LilyPond, one of my first questions was about MIDI input. But then I realized: ... this is all based on using a MIDI

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-26 Thread David Kastrup
Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net writes: On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 11:52 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Anway, my point is: the currently available tools are not good enough right now to save time. This very much depends on the sort of music you are working with. Try typing in the LilyPond

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-26 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 19:16 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net writes: On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 11:52 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Anway, my point is: the currently available tools are not good enough right now to save time. This very much depends on the

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-26 Thread David Kastrup
Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net writes: Denemo completely ignores the time-stamps on the midi input stream. The midi events are serialized into a buffer by a separate thread, and Denemo just picks them up in the order they appear in the queue. If you want to generate a LilyPond chord

Re: Acciaccaturas and slashed stems

2013-09-26 Thread Peter Bjuhr
Hello Gilberto, No problem, I understand completely. I would also hesitate to go through that process. It's easier on Ubuntu. I just wanted to mention it because it was you and this thread who gave me the idea to add this quick insert. Best Peter On 09/26/2013 05:37 PM, Gilberto

variables tied with slurs

2013-09-26 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hi all, For study purposes, i want to do 128 rithmic patterns composed of 7 basic rithmic patterns combined via a tie. Rather than writing the 128 patterns separately I'd love to write the basic 7 as variables and then just reuse them. Say that I write: A = \drums { sn8 sn8 } How could I

Re: variables tied with slurs

2013-09-26 Thread Urs Liska
Does A = \drums { sn8 sn8~ } { \A \A } Do what you want? Alexander Wallace a...@rwmotloc.com schrieb: Hi all, For study purposes, i want to do 128 rithmic patterns composed of 7 basic rithmic patterns combined via a tie. Rather than writing the 128 patterns separately I'd love to write

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-26 Thread James Harkins
On Sep 27, 2013 12:10 AM, Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net wrote: Since introducing this I have had zero enharmonic misspellings in my transcriptions. But this might not be suitable for some sorts of music, I confess. My music only seldom follows common practice tonality, so I'd have to