Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 133, Issue 102

2013-12-12 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 20:28 -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hello all, So interesting that this came up on the list this week… I was brainstorming an orchestration teaching tool, In case it is not widely appreciated ... All sorts of tools and teaching aids become quite trivial if the music

Re: How to count the number of notes in a .ly file? (David Kastrup)

2013-12-12 Thread Urs Liska
Am 11.12.2013 19:47, schrieb Jan Rosseel: From: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org I repeat my (corrected) suggestion which could be a workaround at least. If you can use Frescobaldi from Git you can pull and checkout the accounting branch (not statistics) of my Frescobaldi fork on

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 133, Issue 102

2013-12-12 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes: Hello all, So interesting that this came up on the list this week… I was brainstorming an orchestration teaching tool, where one could find the distribution of notes in an instrument across an entire score, to show students where [good]

Re: A thought on Windows Experience

2013-12-12 Thread Peter Gentry
Actually I always thought WordStar was better than WordPerfect and still yearn for Dos and Basic. Progress is a wonderful thing, things just get more complex regards Peter Gentry ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: A thought on Windows Experience

2013-12-12 Thread David Kastrup
Peter Gentry peter.gen...@sunscales.co.uk writes: Actually I always thought WordStar was better than WordPerfect and still yearn for Dos and Basic. Dos? How newfangled. I had to use the debugger to patch the terminal control sequences for my (text) terminal emulator under CP/M into WordStar.

Re: A thought on Windows Experience

2013-12-12 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:25 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Dos? How newfangled. I had to use the debugger to patch the terminal control sequences for my (text) terminal emulator under CP/M into WordStar. Yes, the manual contained the patch locations and descriptions for the terminal

Re: Turns

2013-12-12 Thread David Kastrup
Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonm...@ca.rr.com writes: Shane Brandes, Please allow me to tap your expertise once again. In most cases the command you gave worked. Two identical ( as far as I can see ) codes are not producing identical engravings. My error? extra-offset tells

RE: Turns

2013-12-12 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Mr. Kastrup, Thank you for your input and providing another learning experience. Mark -Original Message- From: David Kastrup [mailto:d...@gnu.org] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 6:57 AM To: Mark Stephen Mrotek Cc: 'Shane Brandes'; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Turns Mark

Re: Turns

2013-12-12 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Thursday, December 12, 2013 2:57 PM It does not really work well as a general mechanism. For rearranging stacking orders and similar automatically, the manual offers a number of recipes in

RE: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 133, Issue 102

2013-12-12 Thread Eduardo Silva
Subject: Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 133, Issue 102 From: kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 20:28:03 -0500 To: j...@rosseel.com CC: lilypond-user@gnu.org Hello all, So interesting that this came up on the list this week… I was brainstorming an orchestration

tranpose relative to the last pitch

2013-12-12 Thread Tom van der Hoeven
Suppose I have music = \relative c'{c b a g f e e f g a b c} my instrument is limited so it cannot play the pitch f end below I have to raise f e e f by a terts of an octave Is there a function shift or can it be made such that music = \relative c'{c b a g \terts{f e e f} g a b

Re: tranpose relative to the last pitch

2013-12-12 Thread Carl Peterson
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Tom van der Hoeven t...@vanderhoeven.bizwrote: Suppose I have music = \relative c'{c b a g f e e f g a b c} my instrument is limited so it cannot play the pitch f end below I have to raise f e e f by a terts of an octave Is there a function shift or

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 133, Issue 102

2013-12-12 Thread Shane Brandes
Music21, does not really work to terribly well with Lilypond. apparently there is a method of using Lilypond to generate output, but it only reads musicxml and Lilypond currently cannot export to musicxml. You can sidestep the issue partially and run midi files through music21 but it reduces the

include within include

2013-12-12 Thread Noeck
Hi, I can include a file within an included file. But I would like main.ly: \include folder/first.ly first.ly: \inlcude second.ly but second.ly is in the same folder as first.ly Is there a way to do that? Or do I always have to specify the path (relative to the lilypond include path)? Thanks,

Re: include within include

2013-12-12 Thread Urs Liska
Am 12.12.2013 20:47, schrieb Noeck: Hi, I can include a file within an included file. But I would like main.ly: \include folder/first.ly first.ly: \inlcude second.ly but second.ly is in the same folder as first.ly Is there a way to do that? Or do I always have to specify the path (relative to

Re: include within include

2013-12-12 Thread Urs Liska
Am 12.12.2013 23:37, schrieb Urs Liska: This is described in http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/including-lilypond-files ah, and http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/including-lilypond-files ___

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 133, Issue 102

2013-12-12 Thread Jim Long
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 07:24:51AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes: I was brainstorming an orchestration teaching tool, where one could find the distribution of notes in an instrument across an entire score, to show students where [good]

Re: include within include

2013-12-12 Thread Noeck
Thanks Urs, I should have found this myself. Just to confirm: #(ly:set-option 'relative-includes #t) does what I want, it is announced as default for 'future versions' but it is not yet the default in 2.16 or 2.17.96 Cheers, Joram ___

Re: tranpose relative to the last pitch

2013-12-12 Thread David Kastrup
Tom van der Hoeven t...@vanderhoeven.biz writes: Suppose I have music = \relative c'{c b a g f e e f g a b c} my instrument is limited so it cannot play the pitch f end below I have to raise f e e f by a terts of an octave Is there a function shift or can it be made such that