Re: page margins

2014-01-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
Janek Warchoł wrote Monday, January 13, 2014 7:13 AM 2014/1/13 Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de: what is the reason that the default margins are so small? Could this be added to the issue tracker? Let's first have an agreed-upon proposal. No, that's not the way it works. The issue tracker

Re: fingering treatment

2014-01-13 Thread Urs Liska
Am Sonntag, den 12.01.2014, 23:29 -0500 schrieb Shane Brandes: Hi all I came up with the following as way of indicating the indecisive fingering in Godowsky's score from Urs's challenge. This is definitely not the best since it involves 3 tweaks and additional would mess up an analysis count

Re: RehearsalMark

2014-01-13 Thread Simon Bailey
hi, On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 2:51 AM, pabuhr pab...@fastmail.fm wrote: I'm sorry, I can't make this example smaller and generate the problem. I want line 2 to end with the mark Fine, but the mark Fine appears at the start of line 3. How do I get Fine to appear at the end of line 2? this is

Re: midiInstrument not rendered for some values

2014-01-13 Thread Bric
On 01/11/2014 09:51 AM, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: On Sat, 11 Jan 2014, Noeck wrote: But you can do better than default timidity: timidity/timidity++ has no default soundfont. In fact it doesn't have a soundfont at all. It's the distributions that provide a soundfont or patchset and use

Re: shapeII strange behaviour

2014-01-13 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, 2014/1/9 Simon Bailey si...@bailey.at: hi all, when running the following file (sorry, this is as minimal as i can get it): \version 2.18.0 \language deutsch \include openlilylib/notation-snippets/shaping-bezier-curves/shapeII.ily \relative c' { \time 4/4 e1 | \break a8 h ~ h8

Re: Experiment with an Alternative Notation for learning Guitar music

2014-01-13 Thread Philip Rhoades
Paul, On 2014-01-12 02:21, Paul Morris wrote: Hi Phil, I'm replying to the whole list so others can also benefit from our exchange. snip . . And if you want to take this a step further... the way I do it with Clairnote[1] is to define a custom staff context called StaffClairnote that

Re: page margins

2014-01-13 Thread Janek Warchoł
2014/1/13 Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk: Janek Warchoł wrote Monday, January 13, 2014 7:13 AM 2014/1/13 Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de: what is the reason that the default margins are so small? Could this be added to the issue tracker? Let's first have an agreed-upon proposal. No,

Re: Experiment with an Alternative Notation for learning Guitar music

2014-01-13 Thread David Kastrup
Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: Yes, in the great tradition of include files - now to get to grips more with Scheme itself . . It's a more rewarding enterprise these days than it has been a few years ago: while the limits of what you can achieve with Scheme have remained rather

Re: page margins

2014-01-13 Thread Noeck
Hi Kieren, thanks for your reply. It’s nice to see that my aesthetic feeling is not completely wrong. I’m hoping to submit a more attractive set of defaults for consideration, the moment I get my current engraving project done. That would be very much appreciated. (That being said, I’ve

Re: midiInstrument not rendered for some values

2014-01-13 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 13.01.2014 09:34, schrieb Bric: [...] Not to digress from lilypond /too/ much, but FWIW, some default patches for the timidity(++) on my Ubuntu sound significantly better than the ones in the FluidR3 soundfont (strings, for instance). I am talking about the quality (verisimilitude) and beauty

Re: Experiment with an Alternative Notation for learning Guitar music

2014-01-13 Thread Philip Rhoades
David, On 2014-01-13 20:07, David Kastrup wrote: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: Yes, in the great tradition of include files - now to get to grips more with Scheme itself . . It's a more rewarding enterprise these days than it has been a few years ago: while the limits of what

Generating random notes

2014-01-13 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, I am doing my own Alternative Notation for Classical Guitar and with a lot of help from Paul Morris am making good progress. I was about to write a little Ruby script to generate random notes (400 == 100 bars) within different ranges to practise jumping around the fretboard but it

Re: Generating random notes

2014-01-13 Thread Mike Solomon
On Jan 13, 2014, at 12:38 PM, Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au wrote: People, I am doing my own Alternative Notation for Classical Guitar and with a lot of help from Paul Morris am making good progress. I was about to write a little Ruby script to generate random notes (400 == 100 bars)

Re: Generating random notes

2014-01-13 Thread David Kastrup
Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: People, I am doing my own Alternative Notation for Classical Guitar and with a lot of help from Paul Morris am making good progress. I was about to write a little Ruby script to generate random notes (400 == 100 bars) within different ranges to

Re: Generating random notes

2014-01-13 Thread Philip Rhoades
David, On 2014-01-13 22:06, David Kastrup wrote: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: People, I am doing my own Alternative Notation for Classical Guitar and with a lot of help from Paul Morris am making good progress. I was about to write a little Ruby script to generate random notes

Re: page margins

2014-01-13 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Janek (et al.), I agree with left/right margins, but not top/bottom. Top/bottom are more tricky because you *want* to allow the page to compress when there's really a lot of content; so the adjustment should be done using compressible top-markup-spacing and the like. Agreed. I suggest

Re: page margins

2014-01-13 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Joram, Not sure if I understand that. You have a lot to do? This month, I have to engrave a complete stage musical, arrange two one-hour stage shows, and compose an eight-minute piece for violin and harp. And that’s not even my day job! =) As a first step you could just post one or

Where is the former manual page ? (2.16.2)

2014-01-13 Thread Server Acim
Hello, I am using LilyPond 2.16.2 in my Linux Mint 16 - Cinnamon Edition. And I am not able to find Manual web page for 2.16.2. Where can I rich them from? Thank you for your answers from now. -- Server ACİM - Besteci (Composer) - İnönü Üniversitesi Öğretim Üyesi (Full Professor of Music

Re: Where is the former manual page ? (2.16.2)

2014-01-13 Thread James Worlton
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Server Acim ser...@acim.name.tr wrote: Hello, I am using LilyPond 2.16.2 in my Linux Mint 16 - Cinnamon Edition. And I am not able to find Manual web page for 2.16.2. Where can I rich them from? There doesn't seem to be a link to it on the Lilypond website,

partcombine and quoteDuring

2014-01-13 Thread Mogens Lemvig Hansen
Hi, With the first version of voiceB below I get “ warning: ignoring too many clashing note columns” The second version works as expected. The difference seems to be whether the quoted music begins with a rest. Bug? \version 2.18.0 voiceA = \relative c'' { e4 d r b a b } \addQuote A {

Re: page margins

2014-01-13 Thread Janek Warchoł
2014/1/13 Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca: This month, I have to engrave a complete stage musical, arrange two one-hour stage shows, and compose an eight-minute piece for violin and harp. And that’s not even my day job! =) Ah, so you must be nocturnal! I.e. you have night

grace notes and ledger lines

2014-01-13 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hello all, I would like to ask you some opinion on how to improve the look of grace notes against the ledger lines, when the notes are very low. What looks ugly in my opinion is how the beams of the grace notes are not coinciding with the ledger lines, thus making them all quite hard to read. So

RE: grace notes and ledger lines

2014-01-13 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Gilberto, Perhaps writing the pitches one octave higher and using ottava -1. Mark -Original Message- From: lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Gilberto Agostinho Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 11:09

RE: Where is the former manual page ? (2.16.2)

2014-01-13 Thread Daniel Rosen
From: James Worlton [mailto:jworl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 10:08 AM To: Server Acim Cc: lilypond-user Subject: Re: Where is the former manual page ? (2.16.2) On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Server Acim ser...@acim.name.tr wrote: Hello, I am using LilyPond 2.16.2

RE: grace notes and ledger lines

2014-01-13 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi Mark, Thanks for your reply. That would certainly solve the ugly issue, but unfortunately an octave under markings are not standard for neither the Clarinet nor the Bass Clarinet, which are the instruments I am writing for now. Actually, I learned that it is considered wrong to use 8va bassa

RE: grace notes and ledger lines

2014-01-13 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Gilberto, Would reducing the duration of the graces, e.g., from 32 down to 16 (or even 8) look more to your liking? Mark -Original Message- From: lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Gilberto

Re: Experiment with an Alternative Notation for learning Guitar music

2014-01-13 Thread Paul Morris
Philip Rhoades wrote OK, got that working - the actual music .ly data file is slimming down now - but I still need to investigate why some notes needed manual editing so they were in the right place when I converted a Mutopia file. Hi Phil, If it was just changing the octave of certain

Re: Where is the former manual page ? (2.16.2)

2014-01-13 Thread Federico Bruni
2014/1/13 Daniel Rosen drose...@gmail.com Seems like there should be a link to it at http://www.lilypond.org/all.html. (Whoever looks at this may also want to check out the link on that page to the 2.14 documentation---right now it redirects me to the home page.) thanks Daniel, I've added a

RE: grace notes and ledger lines

2014-01-13 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi Mark, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote Would reducing the duration of the graces, e.g., from 32 down to 16 (or even 8) look more to your liking? Hmm, that is something that I am not willing to do either, I really think that for the kind of notation I am using, the 32nd notes are the best choice.

Re: grace notes and ledger lines

2014-01-13 Thread Noeck
Hi Gilberto, here are some tweaks that I consider to look better than the default (one for the 16th and two options for the 32th notes): \version 2.17.95 { \override Beam.length-fraction = #0.69 \override Beam.positions = #'( -3.91 . -3.91) \slashedGrace {c32 c c c} \revert

Re: page margins

2014-01-13 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Janek, Ah, so you must be nocturnal! I.e. you have night jobs, and sleep during the day - no day job at all? ;-) Actually, I have a full day job, and then tackle all my music projects at night. Sleep is, currently, optional at best. =\ Cheers, Kieren.

Re: grace notes and ledger lines

2014-01-13 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi Noeck, Thanks a lot for your code. Indeed it looks better than the default (particularly the 2nd option for the 32nd notes), but on my case this won't help since I am composing music algorithmicaly, which means I can't afford to tweak things individually, such as using \override Beam.positions

Re: page margins

2014-01-13 Thread Janek Warchoł
2014/1/13 Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca: Hi Janek, Ah, so you must be nocturnal! I.e. you have night jobs, and sleep during the day - no day job at all? ;-) Actually, I have a full day job, and then tackle all my music projects at night. Sleep is, currently, optional

Re: page margins

2014-01-13 Thread Federico Bruni
2014/1/13 Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk Let's first have an agreed-upon proposal. No, that's not the way it works. The issue tracker should be used to record problems and discussions about them, not final proposals. So first create a tracker, or two if you wish, and use that to

RE: grace notes and ledger lines

2014-01-13 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Gilberto Agostinho wrote after some other tweaks, I came up with the following solution This solution is actually not working properly. It works perfectly if grace notes are below the pitch B in the middle line. If the grace notes are above (thus having their stem down), I get the following

how close are we to having an addAt or insertAt feature?

2014-01-13 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, What would be involved in developing a feature to add notes or tweaks at an arbitrary moment within a music expression? e.g. global = \repeat unfold 100 s1 music = \addAt (4 3/8) \global \once \override RehearsalMark.extra-offset #’(-1 . 0) where (4 3/8) means “in the

Re: how close are we to having an addAt or insertAt feature?

2014-01-13 Thread Mike Solomon
On Jan 14, 2014, at 1:03 AM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hello all, What would be involved in developing a feature to add notes or tweaks at an arbitrary moment within a music expression? e.g. global = \repeat unfold 100 s1 music = \addAt (4 3/8)

convert-ly: why \combine \null ?

2014-01-13 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hi, if I update my scores with convert-ly to 2.18, it changes every \vspace to \combine \null \vspace (within \markup{ \column {} }). Why? Does that make sense? Greetlings, Hraban --- fiëé visuëlle Henning Hraban Ramm http://www.fiee.net http://angerweit.tikon.ch/lieder/ https://www.cacert.org

Re: how close are we to having an addAt or insertAt feature?

2014-01-13 Thread Werner LEMBERG
global = \repeat unfold 100 s1 music = \addAt (4 3/8) \global \once \override RehearsalMark.extra-offset #’(-1 . 0) where (4 3/8) means “in the fourth measure, at the moment of the 3rd eighth note” I suggest that such a command allows for a third, optional parameter, which makes