Re: Hiding empty pentagrams (first message)

2013-11-05 Thread Son_V
Hy Elge, I see your latest message on my mail but not here, so I replay to your former one; I think it has been made by MuseScore writing the xml file o by musicxml2ly, the multiple rests are written this way: R1 | % 14 R1*7 \break | % 21 R1*5 | % 26 r2 r4 es4 | % 27 there are

Note spacing

2013-11-05 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi all, I am looking for some advice related to note spacing. I am currently typesetting a score that looks very good with uniform-stretching in some places but in others it doesn't. Is it possible to use uniform-stretching for, let's say, one single system, and then deactivate it in the next? If

Re: Note spacing

2013-11-05 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Gilberto, On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Gilberto Agostinho gilbertohasn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am looking for some advice related to note spacing. I am currently typesetting a score that looks very good with uniform-stretching in some places but in others it doesn't. Is it

Re: Note spacing

2013-11-05 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Brilliant, thanks a lot! -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Note-spacing-tp153415p153417.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: org-babel-lilypond export,automatic image trimming?

2013-11-05 Thread James Harkins
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote: tagline = ##f will get rid of the tagline. Using -dpreview on the command line will provide trimmed images. Be a little careful with this, since it sometimes trims a little too much. Thanks. For future reference, it's

modular markup and arguments

2013-11-05 Thread Bric
Hi, all I was pleasantly astounded that lilypond allows for things like boo = { \once { \override NoteHead.color = #red } } and then mark up notes sporadically, with \boo cis' \boo d But here's what I want (give me an inch, I'll want a lightyear!) I want the ability to

Re: modular markup and arguments

2013-11-05 Thread Urs Liska
The key to what you want to achieve is called music function Bric b...@flight.us schrieb: Hi, all I was pleasantly astounded that lilypond allows for things like boo = { \once { \override NoteHead.color = #red } } and then mark up notes sporadically, with \boo cis' \boo d But

Re: modular markup and arguments

2013-11-05 Thread Paul Morris
Bric wrote I want the ability to distribute the effect of \boo to a SET of notes. Such as \boo { dis' e' fis' g' } where all the four notes are affected by boo. I tried using boo = { \override NoteHead.color = #red } and then \boo dis' e' fis' g \revert but that, of course,

Re: modular markup and arguments

2013-11-05 Thread Paul Morris
Paul Morris wrote \version 2.17.29 boo = { \override NoteHead.color = #red } revertboo = { \revert NoteHead.color } { a' \boo dis' e' fis' g \revertboo b } And this can even be simplified to this: \version 2.17.29 boo = \override NoteHead.color = #red revertboo = \revert NoteHead.color

Re: modular markup and arguments

2013-11-05 Thread David Kastrup
Paul Morris p...@paulwmorris.com writes: But I think what you really want is a music function: \version 2.17.29 boo = #(define-music-function (parser location the-music) (ly:music?) #{ \override NoteHead.color = #red #the-music \revert NoteHead.color

Re: modular markup and arguments

2013-11-05 Thread David Kastrup
Paul Morris p...@paulwmorris.com writes: Paul Morris wrote \version 2.17.29 boo = { \override NoteHead.color = #red } revertboo = { \revert NoteHead.color } { a' \boo dis' e' fis' g \revertboo b } And this can even be simplified to this: \version 2.17.29 boo = \override

Re: modular markup and arguments

2013-11-05 Thread Paul Morris
David Kastrup wrote Minimally simpler: revertboo = \undo \boo Thanks David! Those are nice improvements to know. I looked up \undo and \temporary to better familiarize myself with them. Here they are in the docs for anyone interested:

Re: Hiding empty pentagrams (first message)

2013-11-05 Thread Son_V
Hi Helge (and all), I've solved the problem. Maybe it's not the better or more elegant way ... I've noticed that you put your \layout AFTER the \score. In the file (obtained from an xml file as I said) I had a \layout near the beginning of the file (after \paper), but I had another one empty (

Re: Hiding empty pentagrams (first message)

2013-11-05 Thread Eluze
Son_V wrote Hi Helge (and all), I've solved the problem. Maybe it's not the better or more elegant way ... I've noticed that you put your \layout AFTER the \score. In the file (obtained from an xml file as I said) I had a \layout near the beginning of the file (after \paper), but I had

Re: modular markup and arguments

2013-11-05 Thread Johan Vromans
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: For such fixed override/revert pairings you should write \temporary\override in the music function instead of just \override: otherwise any previous \override NoteHead.color = #blue will get overwritten and not get restored afterwards. You mean this will

Re: modular markup and arguments

2013-11-05 Thread David Kastrup
Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl writes: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: For such fixed override/revert pairings you should write \temporary\override in the music function instead of just \override: otherwise any previous \override NoteHead.color = #blue will get overwritten and not

Re: modular markup and arguments

2013-11-05 Thread Bric
On 11/05/2013 03:08 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Paul Morris p...@paulwmorris.com writes: But I think what you really want is a music function: \version 2.17.29 boo = #(define-music-function (parser location the-music) (ly:music?) #{ \override NoteHead.color = #red

Re: modular markup and arguments

2013-11-05 Thread David Kastrup
Bric b...@flight.us writes: On 11/05/2013 03:08 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Paul Morris p...@paulwmorris.com writes: But I think what you really want is a music function: \version 2.17.29 boo = #(define-music-function (parser location the-music) (ly:music?) #{

lilypond - bitcoin donations?

2013-11-05 Thread Scott Miller
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Re: On creating title pages and the like

2013-11-05 Thread Joshua Nichols
I want to apologize for inciting any frustration... I guess in my small mind (with limited understanding of TeX systems and the like) I thought when a particular documentation supported using a command that I associate with LaTeX, (such as the preverbal \begin and \end commands) I assumed someone