Re: LilyPond-Book on Windows

2014-04-05 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
David Kastrup writes: So my first impulse would be to throw out the workaround for 2.4.2 that Let's do that. Jan -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen jann...@gnu.org | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar® http://AvatarAcademy.nl

Re: LilyPond-Book on Windows

2014-04-05 Thread David Kastrup
Jan Nieuwenhuizen jann...@gnu.org writes: David Kastrup writes: So my first impulse would be to throw out the workaround for 2.4.2 that Let's do that. Well, issue 1933 URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1933 would suggest that this is a bad idea. Nothing substantially

Re: the next step?

2014-04-05 Thread Mike Solomon
On Apr 4, 2014, at 10:33 PM, b...@wolfcomposer.com wrote: Dear All, A friend of mine asked a few questions about a pipe-organ piece i'd written that was performed recently. i ended up making two sheets of examples for him, one with a table of canons in two voices, the other in four.

Re: the next step?

2014-04-05 Thread Rutger Hofman
On 04/05/2014 10:28 AM, Mike Solomon wrote: On Apr 4, 2014, at 10:33 PM, b...@wolfcomposer.com mailto:b...@wolfcomposer.com wrote: Dear All, A friend of mine asked a few questions about a pipe-organ piece i'd written that was performed recently. i ended up making two sheets of examples for

Re: the next step?

2014-04-05 Thread Urs Liska
Should be easily doable in a two-column LaTeX document? Rutger Hofman rut...@cs.vu.nl schrieb am 05.04.2014: On 04/05/2014 10:28 AM, Mike Solomon wrote: On Apr 4, 2014, at 10:33 PM, b...@wolfcomposer.com mailto:b...@wolfcomposer.com wrote: Dear All, A friend of mine asked a few questions

Re: the next step?

2014-04-05 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: Should be easily doable in a two-column LaTeX document? I think there are a few scripts around using pdftex for arranging PDF files. But it is pretty much a shame that we a) have our page builder hardwired b) cannot nest page builders. -- David Kastrup

q?

2014-04-05 Thread Peter Toye
In some snippets I've seen a note q which appears to repeat the previous note or chord. But I can't see it anywhere in the documentation (and doing a search for q isn't likely to be much help!). Is it there, or should it be? Regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com

Re: q?

2014-04-05 Thread David Kastrup
Peter Toye lilyp...@ptoye.com writes: In some snippets I've seen a note q which appears to repeat the previous note or chord. But I can't see it anywhere in the documentation (and doing a search for q isn't likely to be much help!). Is it there, or should it be? You could always look in the

Re: q?

2014-04-05 Thread Federico Bruni
2014-04-05 12:45 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Peter Toye lilyp...@ptoye.com writes: In some snippets I've seen a note q which appears to repeat the previous note or chord. But I can't see it anywhere in the documentation (and doing a search for q isn't likely to be much help!).

Problems with tremolo signs

2014-04-05 Thread Peter Toye
I'm having problems with a tremolo sign (see snippet): 1) It's too short - surely there should be a minimum size for it and it should be shunted to the next line? 2) It's in rather an odd place vertically: surely it should be either between the notes if they're well-separated as here or below

Re: q?

2014-04-05 Thread Federico Bruni
2014-04-05 12:40 GMT+02:00 Peter Toye lilyp...@ptoye.com: In some snippets I've seen a note q which appears to repeat the previous note or chord. But I can't see it anywhere in the documentation (and doing a search for q isn't likely to be much help!). Is it there, or should it be? If you

Re: Problems with tremolo signs

2014-04-05 Thread Phil Holmes
Problems with tremolo signsWhole note tremolos are not pretty. See http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1444 -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Peter Toye To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 11:55 AM Subject: Problems with tremolo

Re: q?

2014-04-05 Thread Peter Toye
Federico, If I had known what it was, it would have been very easy! It's not just for fretted strings - I'm a pianist and repeated chords happen quite a lot, especially in orchestral reductions. It would have saved me a LOT of time recently. Also, shouldn't it be just q rather than \q? That's

Re: q?

2014-04-05 Thread Peter Toye
Thanks David, I know it's not easy to write technical documentation and some things always slip through. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Saturday, April 5, 2014, 11:45:44 AM, you wrote: Peter Toye lilyp...@ptoye.com writes: In some

Re: q?

2014-04-05 Thread Federico Bruni
2014-04-05 13:09 GMT+02:00 Peter Toye lilyp...@ptoye.com: Federico, If I had known what it was, it would have been very easy! It's not just for fretted strings - I'm a pianist and repeated chords happen quite a lot, especially in orchestral reductions. It would have saved me a LOT of time

Re: Problems with tremolo signs

2014-04-05 Thread Peter Toye
Thanks Phil, I'd not realised it was already in the issue list. As I'm only a casual user (a performer, not usually an arranger or composer) I'm never sure whether to raise an issue or mention a problem on the mailing list. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com

Re: Problems with tremolo signs

2014-04-05 Thread Urs Liska
It wasn't but has been added today :-) Peter Toye lilyp...@ptoye.com schrieb am 05.04.2014: Thanks Phil, I'd not realised it was already in the issue list. As I'm only a casual user (a performer, not usually an arranger or composer) I'm never sure whether to raise an issue or mention a problem

Re: Problems with tremolo signs

2014-04-05 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Urs Liska To: Peter Toye ; Phil Holmes Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 12:43 PM Subject: Re: Problems with tremolo signs It wasn't but has been added today :-) The tremolo problem has been in the list since 2010! -- Phil Holmes

Re: Problems with tremolo signs

2014-04-05 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 05.04.2014 13:43, schrieb Urs Liska: It wasn't but has been added today :-) Huh? Issue 1444 is dated Dec 10, 2010 ... or am I missing something? Marc Peter Toye lilyp...@ptoye.com schrieb am 05.04.2014: Thanks Phil, I'd not realised it was already in the issue list. As I'm

MetronomeMark aligned to accidentals

2014-04-05 Thread Daniel Rosen
Consider the following example: \version 2.19.3 { R1 | \tempo Tempo as' bes' } I would like the MetronomeMark to be aligned with the left edge of the leftmost Accidental (almost with the BarLine, but not quite). I've been trying to manipulate the

Re: command line option that prevents generation of midi?

2014-04-05 Thread Federico Bruni
2014-04-04 22:06 GMT+02:00 Paul Morris p...@paulwmorris.com: SoundsFromSound wrote I'm 99.999% sure that it's not possible to do what you're after, / unless / you comment out/delete the MIDI block. I think? Are you able to comment it out or does that interfere somehow? Yes, I can

Re: MetronomeMark aligned to accidentals

2014-04-05 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
2014-04-05 14:44 GMT+02:00 Daniel Rosen drose...@gmail.com: Consider the following example: \version 2.19.3 { R1 | \tempo Tempo as' bes' } I would like the MetronomeMark to be aligned with the left edge of the leftmost Accidental (almost with the BarLine, but not quite). I've

RE: MetronomeMark aligned to accidentals

2014-04-05 Thread Daniel Rosen
Well, yes, that is one option, but it’s not one I love for two reasons: 1) it’s kludgy, and 2) I think that maybe LilyPond should do what I’m describing by default. The current default output looks very odd to me (although it could be just me). DR From: Pierre Perol-Schneider

Re: command line option that prevents generation of midi?

2014-04-05 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Sat, 5 Apr 2014, Federico Bruni wrote: the following command _seems_ to work: lilypond -e (set! write-performances-midis (lambda (performances basename . rest) 0)) piece.ly  even if I don't know what it's really doing: it just deletes the midi file? or it really avoids the creation of

Hyphen in a lyrics word

2014-04-05 Thread Noeck
Hi, I have to write this word in the lyrics “seen-a”. This is how it’s written as text. It should be sung on two notes (like seen -- a). But in case the notes are close, it should remain “seen-a” and not “seena”. Is this issue [2463][] (which is a different usecase but might be used for this,

RE: Ties across voices

2014-04-05 Thread Daniel Rosen
-Original Message- From: Nick Payne [mailto:nick.pa...@internode.on.net] Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2014 11:54 PM To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Ties across voices On 31/03/14 10:56, Daniel Rosen wrote: Consider the example below: \version 2.19.3 \new Staff

Re: Hyphen in a lyrics word

2014-04-05 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de To: lilypond-user lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 3:36 PM Subject: Hyphen in a lyrics word Hi, I have to write this word in the lyrics “seen-a”. This is how it’s written as text. It should be sung on two notes

Automatically realize figured bass

2014-04-05 Thread Malte Meyn
Hi everybody, a few weeks ago my father asked me whether there is a tool that automatically realizes figured bass (I think you say “realize” for the act of composing the right hand accompaniment, don’t you?). I didn’t know such a tool, so I wrote a simple one in Haskell but this wasn’t

Re: Hyphen in a lyrics word

2014-04-05 Thread David Kastrup
Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de writes: Hi, I have to write this word in the lyrics “seen-a”. This is how it’s written as text. It should be sung on two notes (like seen -- a). But in case the notes are close, it should remain “seen-a” and not “seena”. Is this issue [2463][] (which is a

Re: Hyphen in a lyrics word

2014-04-05 Thread Noeck
Hi Phil, [2463]: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2463 Does http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=680 provide you with what you want? Yes. Thank you! (while it is still a bit sad, that this is not possible out of the box, I mean simpler.) Cheers, Joram

Fermata colliding with Beam

2014-04-05 Thread Daniel Rosen
\version 2.19.3 { \stemUp a''8[ f']\fermata } Is this a bug? DR ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Hyphen in a lyrics word

2014-04-05 Thread Noeck
Something like \\- = \tweak minimum-distance #1 #(make-music 'HyphenEvent) \new Lyrics \lyricmode { seen\-a } That’s already pretty cool! Thanks. Joram ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Automatically realize figured bass

2014-04-05 Thread David Kastrup
Malte Meyn lilyp...@maltemeyn.de writes: Hi everybody, a few weeks ago my father asked me whether there is a tool that automatically realizes figured bass (I think you say “realize” for the act of composing the right hand accompaniment, don’t you?). I didn’t know such a tool, so I wrote a

Issue with downloaded manuals

2014-04-05 Thread Peter Toye
I've downloaded the big file HTML version of some manuals, and the links in the table of contents frame to the left of the window refer to the LilyPond web site, rather than the local copy. The links in the main text refer to the local copy. This is a bit of a pain if the internet's being slow

Re: Issue with downloaded manuals

2014-04-05 Thread Phil Holmes
Issue with downloaded manualsHow did you download them? If you simply Save the html file, you'll be missing the style sheet and all the images. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Peter Toye To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 4:41 PM Subject:

Re: Hyphen in a lyrics word

2014-04-05 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de To: lilypond-user lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 4:01 PM Subject: Re: Hyphen in a lyrics word Hi Phil, [2463]: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2463 Does

RE: MetronomeMark aligned to accidentals

2014-04-05 Thread Daniel Rosen
I should also mention that aligning the MetronomeMark with the BarLine would be fine as a workaround for now, but I can’t figure out how to do that either. DR From: Daniel Rosen Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 10:25 AM To: 'Pierre Perol-Schneider' Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: RE:

RE: Issue with downloaded manuals

2014-04-05 Thread Daniel Rosen
From: Peter Toye [mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 11:42 AM To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Issue with downloaded manuals I've downloaded the big file HTML version of some manuals, and the links in the table of contents frame to the left of the window refer to

Re: Issue with downloaded manuals

2014-04-05 Thread Peter Toye
Thanks Phil. I saved the page (in Firefox). This saves the page and the associated files. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Saturday, April 5, 2014, 5:25:50 PM, you wrote: How did you download them? If you simply Save the html file, you'll

Re: Issue with downloaded manuals

2014-04-05 Thread Phil Holmes
Re: Issue with downloaded manualsSo it's Firefox that will be creating the non-relative links. In the original HTML files, the server is not a part of the links. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Peter Toye To: Phil Holmes Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent:

Re: Automatically realize figured bass

2014-04-05 Thread Richard Shann
Hi Malte, Almost all my music typesetting involves typesetting figured bass, and in addition I have created a way of realizing figured bass by playing on a MIDI keyboard (see the demo at https://vimeo.com/62426412 ). I have used this to create LilyPond engraved scores which a keyboard player

Re: Automatically realize figured bass

2014-04-05 Thread Richard Shann
On Sat, 2014-04-05 at 18:09 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: but on the question of whether a note is to be treated as a passing note or a harmony note it is completely silent. hmm, correction, late-period scores sometimes use the extender line to do that ... Richard

Re: command line option that prevents generation of midi?

2014-04-05 Thread Paul Morris
fedelogy wrote the following command _seems_ to work: lilypond -e (set! write-performances-midis (lambda (performances basename . rest) 0)) piece.ly even if I don't know what it's really doing: it just deletes the midi file? or it really avoids the creation of the midi file? That works

RE: MetronomeMark aligned to accidentals

2014-04-05 Thread Brian Barker
At 12:44 05/04/2014 +, Daniel Rosen wrote: I would like the MetronomeMark to be aligned with the left edge of the leftmost Accidental (almost with the BarLine, but not quite). At 14:25 05/04/2014 +, Daniel Rosen wrote: ... I think that maybe LilyPond should do what I'm describing by

Question about FretBoards context

2014-04-05 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Dear All, I'd like to understand why FretBoards context does not apply here : \version 2.18.2 \include predefined-guitar-fretboards.ly \score { \new FretBoards \chordmode { \override FretBoard.fret-diagram-details.finger-code = #'in-dot d'2 g' } \layout { } } \score { \new

temporary polyphonic passage in Staff + TabStaff

2014-04-05 Thread Federico Bruni
I'm typesetting a two voice piece which needs a temporary third voice in one bar only. The problem is that I'm using Staff + TabStaff, so the following minimal example creates an extra staff. Comment the TabStaff block and the problem doesn't exist. \version 2.18.2 upper = \relative c' { c1

Re: Question about FretBoards context

2014-04-05 Thread Federico Bruni
2014-04-05 21:51 GMT+02:00 Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com: Dear All, I'd like to understand why FretBoards context does not apply here : \version 2.18.2 \include predefined-guitar-fretboards.ly \score { \new FretBoards \chordmode { \override

Re: temporary polyphonic passage in Staff + TabStaff

2014-04-05 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Federico, 2014-04-05 21:56 GMT+02:00 Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com: I'm typesetting a two voice piece which needs a temporary third voice in one bar only. The problem is that I'm using Staff + TabStaff, so the following minimal example creates an extra staff. Comment the TabStaff

Re: temporary polyphonic passage in Staff + TabStaff

2014-04-05 Thread Federico Bruni
2014-04-05 22:09 GMT+02:00 Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com: Hi Federico, 2014-04-05 21:56 GMT+02:00 Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com: I'm typesetting a two voice piece which needs a temporary third voice in one bar only. The problem is that I'm using Staff +

RE: MetronomeMark aligned to accidentals

2014-04-05 Thread Daniel Rosen
-Original Message- From: Brian Barker [mailto:b.m.bar...@btinternet.com] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 1:47 PM To: Daniel Rosen Subject: RE: MetronomeMark aligned to accidentals At 14:25 05/04/2014 +, you wrote: ... I think that maybe LilyPond should do what I'm describing by

Re: the next step?

2014-04-05 Thread Nick Payne
On 05/04/14 19:56, David Kastrup wrote: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: Should be easily doable in a two-column LaTeX document? I think there are a few scripts around using pdftex for arranging PDF files. But it is pretty much a shame that we a) have our page builder hardwired b)

Whiteout box function by Thomas Morley / need help

2014-04-05 Thread Karol Majewski
This is a function written by Thomas Morley. It allows to control width and height of whiteout box. Now I want to modify this function to make it work like: \dynamicTextWhiteout #'(1 . 2) where: - first number is LEFT X-extent - second number is RIGHT X-extent I don't need Y-extent at all.

Re: Issue with downloaded manuals

2014-04-05 Thread Nick Payne
On 06/04/14 02:41, Peter Toye wrote: Issue with downloaded manuals I've downloaded the big file HTML version of some manuals, and the links in the table of contents frame to the left of the window refer to the LilyPond web site, rather than the local copy. The links in the main text refer to

Re: MetronomeMark aligned to accidentals

2014-04-05 Thread Trevor Daniels
Daniel, you wrote Saturday, April 05, 2014 1:44 PM I would like the MetronomeMark to be aligned with the left edge of the leftmost Accidental (almost with the BarLine, but not quite). I've been trying to manipulate the Score.MetronomeMark.non-break-align-symbols property, but to no avail

Re: Whiteout box function by Thomas Morley / need help

2014-04-05 Thread Thomas Morley
2014-04-06 0:09 GMT+02:00 Karol Majewski karo...@wp.pl: This is a function written by Thomas Morley. It allows to control width and height of whiteout box. Now I want to modify this function to make it work like: \dynamicTextWhiteout #'(1 . 2) where: - first number is LEFT X-extent

python 2.6 in GUB Re: LilyPond-Book on Windows

2014-04-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 08:53:04AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Jan Nieuwenhuizen jann...@gnu.org writes: David Kastrup writes: So my first impulse would be to throw out the workaround for 2.4.2 that Let's do that. Well, issue 1933