Re: Slurs in volta 2 and bend

2014-09-16 Thread guoguocuozuoduo
The slur in Volta 2 can be achieved by adding \repeattie after the note. For the bend, you will need a hidden voice. 在 16/09/2014,7:01 pm,Marco Bagolin bagolin.ma...@gmail.com 写道: Hello, I can't find the way to reproduce the examples attached (the slur in volta 2 and the bend). I tried to

Re: Can NoteNames in higher octaves be changed?

2014-09-16 Thread Jay Vara
I'm not top posting. David, How I wish I could understand how you do what you do! It all looks like magic to me. Is there a place that shows how to use all these functions? I tried to adapt what you showed to my system. So far, all attempts have resulted in syntax error or other error,

Re: Can NoteNames in higher octaves be changed?

2014-09-16 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Jay, On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Jay Vara j...@diljun.com wrote: I'm not top posting. David, How I wish I could understand how you do what you do! It all looks like magic to me. Is there a place that shows how to use all these functions? There is a list of Scheme functions (

Re: Can NoteNames in higher octaves be changed?

2014-09-16 Thread David Nalesnik
Jay, One more thing. For chords, the note name text would be a single string a' cis' e'. Don't know if you need that extra ability, but that would of course require some string manipulation. --David ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Can NoteNames in higher octaves be changed?

2014-09-16 Thread Jay Vara
David, That worked. I have now defined a 2.5 octave range that covers most of my music. I will try to learn the scm slowly - I should say it is a bit confusing with all the different levels of parenthesis. Thanks, Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Can NoteNames in higher octaves be changed?

2014-09-16 Thread David Nalesnik
Jay, On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Jay Vara j...@diljun.com wrote: David, That worked. I have now defined a 2.5 octave range that covers most of my music. Nice to hear! I will try to learn the scm slowly - I should say it is a bit confusing with all the different levels of

How do you tell Lilypond not to jump strings when sliding?

2014-09-16 Thread Jay Vara
I'm not top posting. When you give lilypond a piece of music, it automatically generates the music and guitar tabs for it. When there are glissandos in the music, lilypod does show the slides automatically. However, many times, it shows slides from one string to another, rather than choosing

Re: How do you tell Lilypond not to jump strings when sliding?

2014-09-16 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 16/set/2014 18:12 Jay Vara j...@diljun.com ha scritto: I'm not top posting. When you give lilypond a piece of music, it automatically generates the music and guitar tabs for it. When there are glissandos in the music, lilypod does show the slides automatically. However, many times, it

Re: How do you tell Lilypond not to jump strings when sliding?

2014-09-16 Thread Jay Vara
Frederico, Yay! I added \set TabStaff.minimumFret = #1 and now it works! Who would have thought that minimumFret is related to restrainOpenStrings! Thanks, Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

how to force shortened staff lines?

2014-09-16 Thread Bric
i want to generate a landscape score, but one where the staff lines extend some percentage of the printable area - let's say, 70%. Leaving 30% width blank, on the right, for hand-written annotations (upon printout). I've tried: line-width = 70% , line-width = 7.0\in , and

Re: How do you tell Lilypond not to jump strings when sliding?

2014-09-16 Thread Jay Vara
I'm not top posting. I spoke too soon. Setting the minimumFret does fix the restrainOpenStrings issue, but not the jumping strings during slide issue as seen in the code below. There should be some way to tell lilypond not to jump strings during slides. \version 2.18.2 musica = \relative

Re: Slurs in volta 2 and bend

2014-09-16 Thread Noeck
Am 16.09.2014 um 09:03 schrieb guoguocuozuoduo: The slur in Volta 2 can be achieved by adding \repeattie after the note. For the bend, you will need a hidden voice. I don't know whether it is the best way to achieve this, but the output of this comes pretty close: { b'1\repeatTie {

Re: How do you tell Lilypond not to jump strings when sliding?

2014-09-16 Thread pls
On 16.09.2014, at 20:42, pls p.l.schm...@gmx.de wrote: Jay, there is actually a way to achieve what you want. I am not sure if it’s documented: pretend that your single notes are chords, put them in angled brackets and use the command for string numbers after the closing brackets, like so:

Can not get '\override Score.BarNumber.break-visibility' to work

2014-09-16 Thread Markus Baertschi
I'm trying to get bar numbers on every second bar get syntax error from stuff straight out of the documentation. /tmp/frescobaldi-qhLT9N/tmpOW4D8u/Le_vieux_chalet.ly:27:29: error: syntax error, unexpected '.', expecting SCM_FUNCTION or SCM_IDENTIFIER or SCM_TOKEN \override Score.BarNumber

Re: How do you tell Lilypond not to jump strings when sliding?

2014-09-16 Thread Phil Burfitt
- Original Message - From: Jay Vara j...@diljun.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 6:09 PM Subject: Re: How do you tell Lilypond not to jump strings when sliding? I'm not top posting. I spoke too soon. Setting the minimumFret does fix the

Re: Can not get '\override Score.BarNumber.break-visibility' to work

2014-09-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Markus, I'm trying to get bar numbers on every second bar get syntax error from stuff straight out of the documentation. /tmp/frescobaldi-qhLT9N/tmpOW4D8u/Le_vieux_chalet.ly:27:29: error: syntax error, unexpected '.', expecting SCM_FUNCTION or SCM_IDENTIFIER or SCM_TOKEN \override

Re: Can not get '\override Score.BarNumber.break-visibility' to work

2014-09-16 Thread Urs Liska
Your problem comes from the fact that you use a syntax for a newer version of LilyPond. I suggest that you either update to LilyPond 2.18.2 (preferable) or have a look at the documentation for 2.16 at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/web/manuals The dot-notation was introduced in

Re: Can not get '\override Score.BarNumber.break-visibility' to work

2014-09-16 Thread Markus Baertschi
Thanks Gentlemen, The 'old' version I'm using is probably the culprit. The syntax you guys suggested works fine. I'm using Ubuntu. It looks like the version in the standard Ubuntu repositories is still 2.16. I'm starting with it now and playing with music for my mens choir. Any important things

Re: Can not get '\override Score.BarNumber.break-visibility' to work

2014-09-16 Thread David Bellows
There is a PPA so I could upgrade quite easily, if necessary, Even easier and much better is to just download it from Lilypond directly. It is packaged in such a way as to make installation and upgrading on Ubuntu (and all Linux distros) super duper easy. This way you can have the latest versions

markup on top staff of an orchestra piece

2014-09-16 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, in a piece for large orchestra, I need text markup and tempo markings which only appear on the top staff of the score and each part. I defined an empty (invisible) staff with removed staff symbol, time signature, etc., using skips instead of rests, which works well. Unfortunately as soon as

Re: markup on top staff of an orchestra piece

2014-09-16 Thread Orm Finnendahl
I found it. For someone googling this: You have to put \new Staff \with { \override VerticalAxisGroup.remove-empty = ##f } into your staff definition. Sorry for the noise... -- Orm Am Dienstag, den 16. September 2014 um 22:04:38 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Orm Finnendahl: Hi, in a piece

Re: markup on top staff of an orchestra piece

2014-09-16 Thread Malte Meyn
There’s a much better solution which doesn’t need a piccolo (or whatever is on top) staff that is always present, even if it’s only filled with pauses: Put \tempo and \mark into a global variable and add this to all staffs; see attachment. This also lets you change things like time signature

Re: How do you tell Lilypond not to jump strings when sliding?

2014-09-16 Thread Jay Vara
Phil Burfitt phil.burfitt at talktalk.net writes: Jay, You'll need to indicate string numbers. They can be hidden with \omit StringNumber if you do not want the circled numbers to appear. Btw, guitar music is usually written an octave higher than it sounds. You should use \clef

Re: markup on top staff of an orchestra piece

2014-09-16 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Malte, thanks for the recommendation. This isn't what I'm looking for as the voice defined in the global variable included and repeated for each staff results in the appearance of all markups like tempo and such on all staffs. Defining a dedicated empty staff system (it's not the piccolo)

moving tweaks into markup-definition

2014-09-16 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, here is the next question: Is there a way to move the tweaks in the following code into the markup definition of secs so that they don't clutter up the score? -- Orm % \version 2.19.5 #(define-markup-command (secs layout props

Re: How do you tell Lilypond not to jump strings when sliding?

2014-09-16 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 16/set/2014 23:10 Jay Vara j...@diljun.com ha scritto: I was hoping that there was a way to tell lilypond not to jump between strings when sliding - that is logical and makes sense. You are saying that I have to specify the StringNumber, which is what I wanted to avoid. I think this

Re: markup on top staff of an orchestra piece

2014-09-16 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am Dienstag, den 16. September 2014 um 23:29:14 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Orm Finnendahl: The only thing I haven't figured out yet is, how I can make these invisible staves disappear in case no staff of a certain staffgroup is present at all. E.g. in large scores bar numbers normally get displayed

Re: markup on top staff of an orchestra piece

2014-09-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Orm, The only thing I haven't figured out yet is, how I can make these invisible staves disappear in case no staff of a certain staffgroup is present at all. Malte’s idea is the correct way to go, with a custom context (search for ScoreMarks or MarksLine in the list archives). To get it

wrong page-number position in 2.19.14

2014-09-16 Thread Karol Majewski
I noticed that in 2.19.14, page numbers in oddHeaderMarkup are center-aligned, while in evenHeaderMarkup - left-aligned. This looks strange. Bug? { c'1 \pageBreak c'1 \pageBreak c'1 \pageBreak c'1 \pageBreak c'1 \pageBreak } -- Karol ___

Re: moving tweaks into markup-definition

2014-09-16 Thread David Nalesnik
Hello, On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Orm Finnendahl orm.finnend...@selma.hfmdk-frankfurt.de wrote: Hi, here is the next question: Is there a way to move the tweaks in the following code into the markup definition of secs so that they don't clutter up the score? The only way I can

Re: markup on top staff of an orchestra piece

2014-09-16 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Kieren, thanks for the note, I'll try to find that. Not sure whether it makes sense at this moment to change in the current score (although it's quite well modularized, the whole thing consists of about 600 files), especially since I seem to be able to get everything worked out quite well,

Re: moving tweaks into markup-definition

2014-09-16 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi David, thanks a lot, that definitely helps! I tried to manipulate the assoc list of props by consing to it but lacking the knowledge of the structure of the prop variable didn't get me anywhere. I wonder whether I could find that information without having to read through and understand all

Re: moving tweaks into markup-definition

2014-09-16 Thread David Nalesnik
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Orm Finnendahl orm.finnend...@selma.hfmdk-frankfurt.de wrote: Hi David, thanks a lot, that definitely helps! I tried to manipulate the assoc list of props by consing to it but lacking the knowledge of the structure of the prop variable didn't get me

Re: how to force shortened staff lines?

2014-09-16 Thread Knute Snortum
This seems to work fine for me: %% --- Begin \version 2.18.2 \paper { right-margin = 3.0\in } \score { \relative c' { \repeat unfold 32 { c4 d e f } } \layout { } } %%--- End Can you post a short example that shows us the problem? Knute Snortum (via Gmail) On Tue, Sep

Re: how to force shortened staff lines?

2014-09-16 Thread Bric
On 09/16/2014 08:44 PM, Knute Snortum wrote: This seems to work fine for me: %% --- Begin \version 2.18.2 \paper { right-margin = 3.0\in } \score { \relative c' { \repeat unfold 32 { c4 d e f } } \layout { } } %%--- End My profuse apologiesto the list. I had overlooked the

a column of text to the right of the score

2014-09-16 Thread Bric
earlier today I asked about creating blank margins for HAND-WRITTEN annotations (and got help - thanks). I would also like to know how one can include typed text in the same space, as a column of text to the right of the score, spanning the full height of the printable area - for comments,