triplets across staves in piano scores

2015-09-16 Thread Erich Neuwirth
%% How can I put the last note of each triplet on the lower stave %% on the upper stave of the piano staff? \header{ title = "Triplets across staves" } upper = \relative c' { \clef treble \key c \major \time 2/4 c'2 } lower = \relative c' { \clef bass \key c \major \time

Re: Time signature denominator as a note rather than number?

2015-09-16 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 16.09.2015 um 11:07 schrieb Malte Meyn: Am 16.09.2015 um 05:02 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Have a look at this LSR snippet: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=642 (let* ((frac (ly:grob-property grob 'fraction)) (num (if (pair? frac) (car frac) 4)) (den (if (pair?

Re: triplet beam between staves

2015-09-16 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 16.09.2015 um 11:33 schrieb Erich Neuwirth: %% Can I get the beams of the triplets between the staves %% such that the stems are up up down? Stem directions can be manually changed by the commands \stemDown, \stemUp, \stemNeutral and by \voiceOne, \voiceTwo, \voiceThree, \voiceFour,

lilypond teaching material

2015-09-16 Thread BB
Obviously the Lilypond users are overaged? Is there a kind of "curriculum", eventually with Open Office overhead slides ready to use for an introductory training on an adult education center (in Germany Volkshochschule (VHS)) available. May be some skilled users ma offer such an itroduction

Re: lilypond teaching material

2015-09-16 Thread Urs Liska
Am 16.09.2015 um 11:49 schrieb BB: > I just read > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/learning/entering-input.html > (again). I find that is a good basis for such an introduction, but I > think it needs some beef up to become more entertaining than lecturing. > But I actually do not

Re: FreeBSD issues

2015-09-16 Thread David Kastrup
Lev writes: > Hello all, > > > I'm hacking lilypond to my FreeBSD system. > > Currently I have to following issues. > > 1. Guile2.x okay... I think it was asked several time. I use Guile2.x for > other software (gEDA) and on FreeBSD v1.x and v2.x is mutually > exclusive.

Re: FreeBSD issues

2015-09-16 Thread Levente
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 9:35 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Lev writes: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I'm hacking lilypond to my FreeBSD system. > > > > Currently I have to following issues. > > > > 1. Guile2.x okay... I think it was asked several time. I use

Re: Time signature denominator as a note rather than number?

2015-09-16 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 16.09.2015 um 05:02 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Have a look at this LSR snippet: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=642 Yes! That one suffices — and is more elegant — if you don’t need “strange note values” (like dotted notes) in your denominator(s). And if you do, you can change the

Misplaced rests

2015-09-16 Thread Erich Neuwirth
%% The rests in the third voice in the middle phrase{b,8 r8 c r} %% are placed way too high, close to the triplet beam %% Can I correct this? \header{ title = "Problem with parallele voices" subtitle = "Some rests vertically misplaced" } lower = \relative c' { \clef bass

triplet beam between staves

2015-09-16 Thread Erich Neuwirth
%% Can I get the beams of the triplets between the staves %% such that the stems are up up down? %% The second triplet wrongli incorporates the quarternote d,4 %% and the beam also shuld be above the first two notes,] %% like in the first triplet \header{ title = "Triplets across staves,

Re: Misplaced rests

2015-09-16 Thread Phil Holmes
Your example is too complex for me to understand quickly, but you might experiment with \override Staff.Rest.voiced-position = 0 changing zero for something else. Otherwise you can place rests explicitly with, for example, c''8 \rest. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From:

Re: lilypond teaching material

2015-09-16 Thread Urs Liska
Am 16.09.2015 um 11:14 schrieb BB: > Obviously the Lilypond users are overaged? I very much hope that our recent "inofficial survey" is biased for whatever reasons. But I admit this impression is very strong. > > Is there a kind of "curriculum", eventually with Open Office overhead > slides

Re: lilypond teaching material

2015-09-16 Thread BB
I just read http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/learning/entering-input.html (again). I find that is a good basis for such an introduction, but I think it needs some beef up to become more entertaining than lecturing. But I actually do not have an idea how to manage that? In my opinion

Re: FreeBSD issues

2015-09-16 Thread David Kastrup
Levente writes: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 9:35 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Lev writes: >> >> > Hello all, >> > >> > >> > I'm hacking lilypond to my FreeBSD system. >> > >> > Currently I have to following issues. >> > >> > 1.

Re: triplets across staves in piano scores

2015-09-16 Thread tisimst
Erich, On Wednesday, September 16, 2015, Erich Neuwirth [via Lilypond] < ml-node+s1069038n181182...@n5.nabble.com> wrote: > %% How can I put the last note of each triplet on the lower stave > %% on the upper stave of the piano staff? > > Like this: > \tuplet 3/2 { g8 c \change Staff =

Re: Misplaced rests

2015-09-16 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 16.09.2015 um 11:17 schrieb Erich Neuwirth: %% The rests in the third voice in the middle phrase{b,8 r8 c r} %% are placed way too high, close to the triplet beam %% Can I correct this? Yes, this is possible. Have a look at the Notation Reference or Learning Manual about polyphony.

Ties and repeats

2015-09-16 Thread Frank Wuest
Hi everyone, I'm currently transforming the bass part of a big band arrangement (8 pages, boo!) into a more usable form. That means using a bunch of repeats with alternatives, plus ties across these alternatives. Now I know that regular ties don't work from the end of an alternative to the

Re: superimposing different lengths and ties across triplets

2015-09-16 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 16.09.2015 um 12:43 schrieb Erich Neuwirth: %% I need a tie between the second note of the first triplet and the first note of the second triplet, \set tieWaitForNote = ##t or (if outside of the polyphonic construction) \set Staff.tieWaitForNote ##t should help. %% and I need the

Re: Suppressing numbers on tupelos

2015-09-16 Thread David Kastrup
Erich Neuwirth writes: > I am using only triplets in a score, and I would like to suppress all the 3s > next to the beams. > I probably should do somrething like > > \once \override TupletNumber.text = #() > > but that does not work. > What will work? Well, the

Re: Ties and repeats

2015-09-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 16.09.2015 12:03, Frank Wuest wrote: I'd like to get something like \repeatTie with parentheses akin to cautionary accidentals. Is there a way to accomplish this? Have a look at . HTH, Simon

Re: lilypond teaching material

2015-09-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Gilles harfang.homelinux.org> writes: > > On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:04:24 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > > Gilles harfang.homelinux.org> writes: > > > >> Hello. > >> > >> On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:49:04 +0200, BB wrote: > >>> I just read > >>> > >>> > >>>

Suppressing numbers on tupelos

2015-09-16 Thread Erich Neuwirth
I am using only triplets in a score, and I would like to suppress all the 3s next to the beams. I probably should do somrething like \once \override TupletNumber.text = #() but that does not work. What will work? signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Re: lilypond teaching material

2015-09-16 Thread Gilles
Hello. On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:49:04 +0200, BB wrote: I just read http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/learning/entering-input.html (again). I find that is a good basis for such an introduction, IIRC, someone (among the most prominent current or past developers) once stated that this

superimposing different lengths and ties across triplets

2015-09-16 Thread Erich Neuwirth
%% I need a tie between the second note of the first triplet and the first note of the second triplet, %% and I need the notehead of the d (upper note at first position) to be a half note. %% superimposing the half note and the triplet note gives the full head, not the hollow head. %% Can this

Re: lilypond teaching material

2015-09-16 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:04:24 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Gilles writes: Hello. On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:49:04 +0200, BB wrote: I just read http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/learning/entering-input.html (again). I find that is a good basis for such an

Extract notes from chords, with silence when there are none

2015-09-16 Thread mskala
I'd like to take a passage of music that contains chords with differing numbers of notes, and some single notes, and extract it into separate monophonic streams such that their union is the original passage. The application is to generate microtonal MIDI using pitch bend, which can only

Re: Suppressing numbers on tupelos

2015-09-16 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 16.09.2015 um 13:42 schrieb Erich Neuwirth: I am using only triplets in a score, and I would like to suppress all the 3s next to the beams. An alternative to Kieren’s solution: Don’t use the \tuplet command but scaled eights. c8*2/3 d e % or \scaleDurations 2/3 { c8 d e } % Kieren’s

Re: Ties and repeats

2015-09-16 Thread David Kastrup
Frank Wuest writes: > Hi everyone, > > I'm currently transforming the bass part of a big band arrangement (8 > pages, boo!) > into a more usable form. That means using a bunch of repeats with > alternatives, plus > ties across these alternatives. > > Now I know that

Re: lilypond teaching material

2015-09-16 Thread David Kastrup
Gilles writes: > Hello. > > On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:49:04 +0200, BB wrote: >> I just read >> >> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/learning/entering-input.html >> (again). I find that is a good basis for such an introduction, > > IIRC, someone (among the

Re: Suppressing numbers on tupelos

2015-09-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Erich, > \once \override TupletNumber.text = #() Since you used \once, that definitely wouldn’t suppress all the numbers. In any case, the correct code is \omit TupletNumber or \hide TupletNumber if you want it to still take up space. Hope that helps, Kieren.

Re: FreeBSD issues

2015-09-16 Thread Levente
Okay. I really don't want to offend, and be smart. I don't really know lilypond internals either, but a question is in my head. How does Lua compares to Guile? I used Lua a as extension language, and I find it pretty straight forward. This is really just a theoretical question. I know how

Re: FreeBSD issues

2015-09-16 Thread David Kastrup
Levente writes: > Okay. > > > I really don't want to offend, and be smart. I don't really know lilypond > internals either, but a question is in my head. > > How does Lua compares to Guile? > > I used Lua a as extension language, and I find it pretty straight forward. Its

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

2015-09-16 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Simon, On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Simon Albrecht wrote: > David, > > This is tremendous! Thank you very much. > You're very welcome! I was inspired to fix some of the issues with this last version. Texts are better distributed among the pieces of broken

Re: Extract notes from chords, with silence when there are none

2015-09-16 Thread Chris Yate
Just to clarify, in the case of 3-voice music, how would you expect it to deal with a 2 note chord? One note to Treble, one to Bass, or one in Treble, one in Alto, or... what? Chris On 16 September 2015 at 13:07, wrote: > I'd like to take a passage of music that

Re: Suppressing numbers on tupelos

2015-09-16 Thread Erich Neuwirth
I finally managed rot get everything the way I need ot. Thanks. > On 16 Sep 2015, at 14:13, David Kastrup wrote: > > Erich Neuwirth writes: > >> I am using only triplets in a score, and I would like to suppress all the 3s >> next to the beams. >> I

Re: Extract notes from chords, with silence when there are none

2015-09-16 Thread David Kastrup
Chris Yate writes: > Just to clarify, in the case of 3-voice music, how would you expect it to > deal with a 2 note chord? > > One note to Treble, one to Bass, or one in Treble, one in Alto, or... what? As I read him, he does not care. First note anywhere, second note

Re: Extract notes from chords, with silence when there are none

2015-09-16 Thread mskala
On Wed, 16 Sep 2015, David Kastrup wrote: > > Just to clarify, in the case of 3-voice music, how would you expect it to > > deal with a 2 note chord? > > > > One note to Treble, one to Bass, or one in Treble, one in Alto, or... what? > > As I read him, he does not care. First note anywhere,

rest in two voices

2015-09-16 Thread Juergen Goebbels
Example: \version "2.18.0" \new Staff << \clef bass \new Voice = "first" { \voiceOne b8 r8 b r } \new Voice = "second" { \voiceTwo a8 r g r } >> I have two questions: - How can the rest in the two voices reduced to one rest in the middle of the

Line numbers in editor window

2015-09-16 Thread Erich Neuwirth
When compiling, error messages come with line numbers. Is there a way of displaying the line numbers in the editor window? The, debugging would be easier. signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Line numbers in editor window

2015-09-16 Thread Urs Liska
Am 16.09.2015 um 17:39 schrieb Erich Neuwirth: > When compiling, error messages come with line numbers. > Is there a way of displaying the line numbers in the editor window? of which editor? > The, debugging would be easier. Indeed. But still easier is having the editor configured to make use

Re: rest in two voices

2015-09-16 Thread Michael Gerdau
> \version "2.18.0" > \new Staff << > \clef bass > \new Voice = "first" { > \voiceOne > b8 r8 b r > } > \new Voice = "second" { > \voiceTwo > a8 r g r > } > > I have two questions: > - How can the rest in the two voices reduced to one rest in the > middle of the staff?

Re: superimposing different lengths and ties across triplets

2015-09-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 16.09.2015 12:43, Erich Neuwirth wrote: %% I need a tie between the second note of the first triplet and the first note of the second triplet, %% and I need the notehead of the d (upper note at first position) to be a half note. %% superimposing the half note and the triplet note gives the

Re: Line numbers in editor window

2015-09-16 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Am 16.09.2015 um 17:39 schrieb Erich Neuwirth: >> When compiling, error messages come with line numbers. >> Is there a way of displaying the line numbers in the editor window? > > of which editor? > >> The, debugging would be easier. > > Indeed. > But

non-text attachment, was Re: Ties and repeats

2015-09-16 Thread Cynthia Karl
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Re: lilypond teaching material

2015-09-16 Thread Michael Rivers
Yes, that was my first thought too. Those video tutorials are quite nice. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/lilypond-teaching-material-tp181185p181226.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Extract notes from chords, with silence when there are none

2015-09-16 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-09-16 17:20 GMT+02:00 : > On Wed, 16 Sep 2015, David Kastrup wrote: >> > Just to clarify, in the case of 3-voice music, how would you expect it to >> > deal with a 2 note chord? >> > >> > One note to Treble, one to Bass, or one in Treble, one in Alto, or... what? >>

RE : Extract notes from chords, with silence when there are none

2015-09-16 Thread Gilles Thibault
Provenance : Courrier pour Windows 10 > That's right. I just want any two notes that play simultaneously to be > returned by separate index values into the extraction function, and any > other index values to return something that will be silent (either a skip > or a rest). I don't want

Re: Rendering cropped SVG

2015-09-16 Thread David Wright
I wrote earlier: > > > After all, in your script you have: > > > pdfcrop --margins 1 '$file_base_name.pdf' '$file_base_name.pdf' > > > where the output filename is the same as the input filename. Quoting poto...@posteo.de (poto...@posteo.de): > I'm not using any version control here. Notice that

Re: lilypond teaching material

2015-09-16 Thread Karen S. Billings
I definitely agree - the videos are extremely helpful! Karen > On Sep 16, 2015, at 10:24 AM, Michael Rivers wrote: > > Yes, that was my first thought too. Those video tutorials are quite nice. > > > > -- > View this message in context: >

Re: Extract notes from chords, with silence when there are none

2015-09-16 Thread mskala
On Thu, 17 Sep 2015, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: > On my first few attempt to load this page the server didn't respond, but > it seems to work now, and yes, that looks like it does what I want. I spoke too soon: the code doesn't handle single notes (non-chords), so it's not a complete

Re: lilypond teaching material

2015-09-16 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Gilles, It’s in the line of what is called a ‘Hello World’ program in computing. It’s the bare minimum that compiles and runs and outputs something absolutely minimal, and establishes that all your machinery is up and running and that you can go on from there. In this respect, it’s a

Re: Extract notes from chords, with silence when there are none

2015-09-16 Thread mskala
On Wed, 16 Sep 2015, Thomas Morley wrote: > Is my recent coding here: > http://www.lilypondforum.de/index.php?topic=2080.msg11479#msg11479 > of any help? On my first few attempt to load this page the server didn't respond, but it seems to work now, and yes, that looks like it does what I want.

Re: Extract notes from chords, with silence when there are none

2015-09-16 Thread David Kastrup
msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca writes: > On Thu, 17 Sep 2015, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: >> On my first few attempt to load this page the server didn't respond, but >> it seems to work now, and yes, that looks like it does what I want. > > I spoke too soon: the code doesn't handle single notes

Re: Suppressing numbers on tupelos

2015-09-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 16.09.2015 14:13, David Kastrup wrote: Erich Neuwirth writes: I am using only triplets in a score, and I would like to suppress all the 3s next to the beams. I probably should do somrething like \once \override TupletNumber.text = #() but that does not

Re: Line numbers in editor window

2015-09-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 16.09.2015 18:05, David Kastrup wrote: Urs Liska writes: Am 16.09.2015 um 17:39 schrieb Erich Neuwirth: When compiling, error messages come with line numbers. Is there a way of displaying the line numbers in the editor window? of which editor? The, debugging would

Re: Ties and repeats

2015-09-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 16.09.2015 12:45, David Kastrup wrote: Frank Wuest writes: Hi everyone, I'm currently transforming the bass part of a big band arrangement (8 pages, boo!) into a more usable form. That means using a bunch of repeats with alternatives, plus ties across these