Fwd: Strange effect of set-global-staff-size

2017-01-06 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 7 January 2017 at 08:12, David Sumbler wrote: > I am having a weird problem with the title page of a score, and I am > hoping somebody can point me in the direction of understanding what > might be going on. > > I am using the same basic layout for score and parts as I have

RE: undesired bar line

2017-01-06 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Mogens, This type of ossia is presented at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/modifying-single-staves#ossia-staves I have done a revision (attached) accordingly. Mark From: lilypond-user [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org] On Behalf Of

Re: Which Linux distro for Lilypond

2017-01-06 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 10:36:02AM +, Dr Nicholas Bailey wrote: > Watch out for Debian. There isn't a Lilypond in Testing (Stretch) > AFAIK. It's because they've removed the old scheme version. I develop > in Testing in the hope that by the time I get around to releasing > anything, it will be

Re: Replicating chord slurs

2017-01-06 Thread Thomas Morley
2017-01-06 19:00 GMT+01:00 Joel C. Salomon : > On 2017-01-05 1:04 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: >> setting spanner-id via \=... has still some shortcomings. >> >> In _this_ and only this case I'd go for a complete stencil-rewrite, >> tailored at mass (every bow starts/ends at

Re: Tips on quick entry

2017-01-06 Thread Glen Larsen
Try the hints on this page, especially frescobaldi , if you haven't checked it out already. Since I think you will get many suggestions, here is a short description of my working process for transcribing sheet music for the Mutopia Project. You may not

Re: Strange effect of set-global-staff-size

2017-01-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 06.01.2017 22:12, David Sumbler wrote: But can anyone explain what is happening here? I’m afraid I have to say this: it seems weird, and there’s no way to tell more without a code example. I assume you didn’t do that, because it’s very cumbersome and you don’t want to share the whole

Re: Tips on quick entry

2017-01-06 Thread SoundsFromSound
tyronicus wrote > Hello list, > > It takes me ages to enter the note data into LilyPond. Last night I spent > almost an hour a page just getting notes and lyrics in. Does anyone have > any tips for quick entry? I do have a midi keyboard but haven't tried it > much. It seems slow because I have to

Tips on quick entry

2017-01-06 Thread Samuel Speer
Hello list, It takes me ages to enter the note data into LilyPond. Last night I spent almost an hour a page just getting notes and lyrics in. Does anyone have any tips for quick entry? I do have a midi keyboard but haven't tried it much. It seems slow because I have to switch back and forth with

Re: undesired bar line

2017-01-06 Thread SoundsFromSound
Mogens Lemvig Hansen wrote > Hi List, > > How do I get rid of the bar line in the bottom staff (only) at the end of > the first system; see the attached picture. Lilypond code both inline > below and attached. > > \version "2.18.2" > > << > \new Staff { > c'4 c' c' c' > d' d' d' d' >

undesired bar line

2017-01-06 Thread mogens
Hi List, How do I get rid of the bar line in the bottom staff (only) at the end of the first system; see the attached picture. Lilypond code both inline below and attached. \version "2.18.2" << \new Staff { c'4 c' c' c' d' d' d' d' e' e' e' e' \break f' f' f' f' g'

Strange effect of set-global-staff-size

2017-01-06 Thread David Sumbler
I am having a weird problem with the title page of a score, and I am hoping somebody can point me in the direction of understanding what might be going on. I am using the same basic layout for score and parts as I have always used.  But having organized things rather better than in my earlier

Re: Scheme / Lilypond question

2017-01-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 06.01.2017 21:26, Jay Vara wrote: 1) Is it possible to define a variable as a piece of music: jj = g16 \3 ( f e f) Of course it’s possible – there’s no way engraving reasonably large scores without that! The only thing you need to change from your example is wrap the notes in {} to

strange ragged-bottom system layout behavior with explicit \pageBreak

2017-01-06 Thread Martin Straeten
When forcing a pagebreak the layout behavior of ragged-bottom changes, see sample: %--- \version "2.19" \paper{ paper-height = 125 ragged-bottom = ##t annotate-spacing = ##t } \repeat unfold 60 \relative { c'4 d4 e4 f4 } \pageBreak \repeat unfold 60 \relative {c'4 d4 e4 f4} %--- The first

Scheme / Lilypond question

2017-01-06 Thread Jay Vara
1) Is it possible to define a variable as a piece of music: jj = g16 \3 ( f e f) The idea is, in the music I am working on the note F is sometimes replaced by the above [and similarly other notes]. Perhaps a scheme function may be needed for this? 2) When I am specifying the guitar string the

Re: Replicating chord slurs

2017-01-06 Thread David Wright
On Fri 06 Jan 2017 at 13:00:32 (-0500), Joel C. Salomon wrote: > On 2017-01-05 1:04 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: > > setting spanner-id via \=... has still some shortcomings. > > > > In _this_ and only this case I'd go for a complete stencil-rewrite, > > tailored at mass (every bow starts/ends at

Re: Replicating chord slurs

2017-01-06 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On 2017-01-05 1:04 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: > setting spanner-id via \=... has still some shortcomings. > > In _this_ and only this case I'd go for a complete stencil-rewrite, > tailored at mass (every bow starts/ends at same height. Nice! I can see where this has its weaknesses too: it

Re: Changing Page Size in the middle of bookpart?

2017-01-06 Thread Ralph Palmer
On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Joshua Nichols wrote: > Can it be done? I've tried it in a straight forward manner, but the music > always runs off the page. > > ​Sincerely, > > Josh > > Greetings, Josh - I am not sure LilyPond can do what you'd like. If you can,

Fwd: [Invitation] - FOSSASIA Summit 2017, Mar from 17-19, Singapore

2017-01-06 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, just got this invitation (addressed to me on behalf of our "organization"), and I have the impression they are still looking for speaker submissions although the conference will already be in March. Maybe someone is close enough to Singapore to consider it interesting. Best Urs