Re: Problems with LilyJAZZ.ily

2013-10-10 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Wed, 9 Oct 2013, Tim McNamara wrote: Thanks for having a bash at that. As a matter of taste, I think I prefer not having the font's sharps and flats used in the chord names because they look disproportionately large compared to the text, whereas the default accidentals look fine to my

Re: Problems with LilyJAZZ.ily

2013-10-10 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Maybe it could even be possible to design a music font that improves the reading skills for people who have always had trouble to read music. Something comparable to that special text font that was designed for people with dyslexia:

Re: Automatic generation of scores skeletons

2013-10-10 Thread Johan Vromans
Jacques Menu jacques.m...@epfl.ch writes: After struggling with irregular bars, I've been working on a Python3 tool that transforms a spec such as: [...] into a ready-to-compile Lilypond source file. Very interesting. It reminds me of something I considered a while ago: a kind of meta-staff

Re: Help ~ LilyPond Tablature

2013-10-10 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 09.10.2013 23:36, schrieb Pierre Perol-Schneider: 2013/10/9 Раул Апонт raulapo...@bk.ru mailto:raulapo...@bk.ru Hello. Hi Раул If you could send me an example, it would be great. Here it is : [...] stringTunings = #bass-tuning stringTunings = #bass-five-string-tuning if

Re: Problems with LilyJAZZ.ily

2013-10-10 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 10.10.2013 01:56, schrieb Thomas Morley: 2013/10/9 Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org: [...] One more thing which might be useful for the technical issues you are talking about: I started a snippet to switch program execution based on the used LilyPond version

Re: Problems with LilyJAZZ.ily

2013-10-10 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 10.10.2013 08:10, schrieb Martin Tarenskeen: On Wed, 9 Oct 2013, Tim McNamara wrote: Thanks for having a bash at that. As a matter of taste, I think I prefer not having the font's sharps and flats used in the chord names because they look disproportionately large compared to the text,

Re: Problems with LilyJAZZ.ily

2013-10-10 Thread Jim Long
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 01:40:06AM +0200, Thomas Morley wrote: Hi, this is another font and simply installing the font doesn't changes accidentals in chords with alterations. True, I intentionally showed LilyPond's standard chordname formatting. I customize the look of my chord symbols

Re: Automatic generation of scores skeletons

2013-10-10 Thread Simon Bailey
hi, this sounds similar to reinhold kainhofer's orchestralily package: http://kainhofer.com/orchestrallily/ i'm not sure if reinhold is still actively maintaining it, but it might also be worth a look. regards, sb On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl wrote:

Re: Automatic generation of scores skeletons

2013-10-10 Thread Jacques Menu
Hello Johan, Leave me a week or two to have a version I can make available. Will keep you informed! JM Le 10 oct. 2013 à 08:22:32, Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl a écrit : Jacques Menu jacques.m...@epfl.ch writes: After struggling with irregular bars, I've been working on a Python3

Re: New User Frescobaldi Setup for Mac

2013-10-10 Thread Davide Liessi
2013/10/10 Paul Morris p...@paulwmorris.com: This is a familiar problem that tripped me up at first as well. It's an easy fix. Instead of pointing it to the LilyPond app: /Applications/LilyPond.app You need to point it here: /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond This

LilyPond version predictaes [was: Problems with LilyJAZZ.ily]

2013-10-10 Thread Urs Liska
Thanks Harm for the report and Marc for the suggestion. Actually when reading your first email I had already noticed and fixed the issue. I'm somewhat frustrated how this could have happened. Originally I typed that function correctly and I would have sworn someone has modified it afterwards.

Re: LilyPond version predictaes [was: Problems with LilyJAZZ.ily]

2013-10-10 Thread Urs Liska
Am 10.10.2013 11:34, schrieb Urs Liska: ... OK, it's fixed now and extended by the other predicates: https://github.com/openlilylib/snippets/blob/master/general-tools/lilypond-version-predicates.ily Sorry, wrong link. ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Problem with temporary polyphony

2013-10-10 Thread Peter Toye
Thanks Michael - I should investigate the blog more. Regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Automatic generation of scores skeletons

2013-10-10 Thread Johan Vromans
Simon Bailey si...@bailey.at writes: this sounds similar to reinhold kainhofer's orchestralily package: http://kainhofer.com/orchestrallily/ A quick glance on this impressive(!) project learns that it is about maintaining scores and (horizontal) parts ( = voices ). What I have in mind is

ugly bar line when changing line-count

2013-10-10 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hello all, I found what can possible be an ugly issue regarding the bar lines when changing the staff line-count. I might be wrong on this one, but shouldn't the first bar line in the example below cover the whole 5 lines? \version 2.17.28 \relative c'' { f4 d g, e | \stopStaff

Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread EdBeesley
Hi again everyone, I'm making a title page and I'd like one line of text to overlap another line (see attached png). However nothing I've tried (\raise or \translate) will force the text above the previous line. This is the code I'm using at the moment: \bookpart { \markup {

Re: Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread SoundsFromSound
Hi Ed, FYI: the font in your PNG is nothing like that which I am seeing here on my end with your code. When I input your code, I see no place for the line of text to overlap /to /- the Y is inline with other letters of the word and so I'm confused how you want to tuck the other line of text up

Re: Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread SoundsFromSound
I see you included \fontsize #16 \override #'*(font-name . Aniron)* Ýkjur in your code, but I haven't downloaded that font on my machine. It's probably on dafont.com somewhere...I'll see if I can track it down so I can visualize what you're after a bit more clearly. I'll try to come up with

Re: Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread EdBeesley
Hi Ben yes sorry I should have attached that font to my message, if you've not found it yet then I've attached it to this one... anirb___.ttf http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n152077/anirb___.ttf anirm___.ttf http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n152077/anirm___.ttf

Re: Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread SoundsFromSound
Ed: Did you want something like this? http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n152078/LikeThis.jpg EdBeesley wrote Hi Ben yes sorry I should have attached that font to my message, if you've not found it yet then I've attached it to this one... anirb___.ttf

Re: Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread Jim Long
I've got a longer answer for later when I have lilypond at hand, but have you tried \override #'(baseline-skip . 0) ? Jim ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Ossia - Documentation Recommendation

2013-10-10 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Hello: When the instructions for Ossia (http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/modifying-single-s taves#ossia-staves) are followed, a key signature is not included. This may be because all of the examples are in c major. Perhaps the documentation could include a notation

Re: Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread SoundsFromSound
That may help do the trick Jim! Also Ed, I wasn't able to view that PNG you tried sending earlier (it was over 1400px wide and I couldn't see what you were wanting). Does my image look close to what you want? Ben Jim Long wrote I've got a longer answer for later when I have lilypond at

Re: Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread EdBeesley
Apologies...forgot to attach png http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n152074/text.png -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Overlap-markup-tp152073p152074.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread Jim Long
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:04:06PM -0700, EdBeesley wrote: Hi again everyone, I'm making a title page and I'd like one line of text to overlap another line (see attached png). However nothing I've tried (\raise or \translate) will force the text above the previous line. This is the code I'm

Re: Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread EdBeesley
Jim, I'm afraid your example doesn't overlap on my 2.16, is this a change in 2.17? Ben...that is /exactly/ what I was looking for! How did you do it?! -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Overlap-markup-tp152073p152083.html Sent from the User mailing list

Re: Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread David Kastrup
EdBeesley edplaysdr...@gmail.com writes: Hi again everyone, I'm making a title page and I'd like one line of text to overlap another line (see attached png). However nothing I've tried (\raise or \translate) will force the text above the previous line. This is the code I'm using at the

Re: Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread David Kastrup
EdBeesley edplaysdr...@gmail.com writes: Jim, I'm afraid your example doesn't overlap on my 2.16, is this a change in 2.17? Ben...that is /exactly/ what I was looking for! How did you do it?! Probably use 2.17.19 or later. URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3330 --

Re: Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread EdBeesley
Version? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@ https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user Sorry David, one of these days I'll remember to include that in my first post! 2.16.2 -- View this message in context:

Re: Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread David Kastrup
EdBeesley edplaysdr...@gmail.com writes: Sorry David, one of these days I'll remember to include that in my first post! 2.16.2 Backspacing was not really convincingly supported before 2.17.19. It's likely possible to get the desired result in 2.16 using \combine and \translate or other

Re: Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread EdBeesley
David Kastrup wrote Backspacing was not really convincingly supported before 2.17.19. It's likely possible to get the desired result in 2.16 using \combine and \translate or other constructs, but it's not necessarily pretty. -- David Kastrup Would you recommend exporting it as a graphic

Re: Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, EdBeesley wrote: Or alternatively I could just start using 2.17, I'm assuming code written in 2.16 won't compile in 2.17 without a bunch of changes? convert-ly -- MT ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread David Kastrup
Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl writes: On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, EdBeesley wrote: Or alternatively I could just start using 2.17, I'm assuming code written in 2.16 won't compile in 2.17 without a bunch of changes? convert-ly Most changes are backward-compatible. As long as you are

Re: Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread EdBeesley
Actually I managed to get it working with \combine and \lower. It's a bit 'hacky' though as you can see from the random spaces I had to put in: \bookpart { \markup { \fill-line { \column { \raise #-8

Re: ugly bar line when changing line-count

2013-10-10 Thread Eluze
Gilberto Agostinho-3 wrote I found what can possible be an ugly issue regarding the bar lines when changing the staff line-count. I might be wrong on this one, but shouldn't the first bar line in the example below cover the whole 5 lines? Any thoughts on this? that's probably arbitrary -

Re: Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread SoundsFromSound
EdBeesley wrote Would you recommend exporting it as a graphic from Photoshop and putting it in that way? Ed: You don't need Photoshop, I'd say if you want to export something out of LilyPond make it an SVG file. That way you can just use a free program like Inkscape and take 3 seconds to drag

Re: Ossia - Documentation Recommendation

2013-10-10 Thread Eluze
Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote When the instructions for Ossia (http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/modifying-single-s taves#ossia-staves) are followed, a key signature is not included. This may be because all of the examples are in c major. or because it's a new staff and

Re: Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread Keith OHara
EdBeesley edplaysdrums at gmail.com writes: Actually I managed to get it working with \combine and \lower. It's a bit 'hacky' though as you can see from the random spaces I had to put in: Out of curiosity I'd love to hear if there are 'cleaner' ways of doing it Using \combine seems the

RE: Ossia - Documentation Recommendation

2013-10-10 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Eluze, Thank you for your interest in this matter. An ossia is an alternative passage which may be played instead of the original passage. As such it should (must?) have the same key signature. Attached are two files. One does not have the key signature in the ossia (without.ly) and the other has

Re: Ossia - Documentation Recommendation

2013-10-10 Thread Ralph Palmer
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonm...@ca.rr.comwrote: Eluze, An ossia is an alternative passage which may be played instead of the original passage. As such it should (must?) have the same key signature. Certainly not must. There are pieces (e.g., in the Bartok

RE: Ossia - Documentation Recommendation

2013-10-10 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Mr. Palmer, Thank you for your response. Yes, compositions with various instruments involved in polytonality would have different key signatures. These cases would not be considered an example of an “ossia.” As I stated below an ossia is an alternative to an original passage. Both the

laying out plainsong chant

2013-10-10 Thread Gabe Moothart
Hello! I am new to lilypond, and I'm trying to layout a psalm chanted in plainsong, so that the output should look something like this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/84432/psalm_example.png So far I have this: https://gist.github.com/gmoothart/6929479 which renders like so:

Re: laying out plainsong chant

2013-10-10 Thread SoundsFromSound
Hi Gabe, Welcome to LilyPond! If you'd like to put a note in parenthesis, simply add this command: \parenthesize ...to whichever pitches you which to enclose. http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/inside-the-staff#parentheses If you want to put simple text/characters below

NR 1.7.1: can't understand a sentence about scaling font size

2013-10-10 Thread Federico Bruni
In NR 1.7.1, Selecting notation font size, I have: Font size changes are achieved by scaling the design size that is closest to the desired size. What is design here? All the pararagraph is well explained, except for this sentence. Can you help me? Thanks Federico