Re: Control of spacing between left edge and first note

2017-03-10 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Thomas, Try this perhaps. [You have to retain clefs and barlines and render them transparent, so that they exist to reference off. One ought to be able to just set the value (key-signature extra-space . 8) say, but I am not sure why we need the whole shebang alist.] Andrew == snip

Control of spacing between left edge and first note

2017-03-10 Thread Thomas Liggett
Hi all, I have a staff without any initial clef, time signature or key signature, and want to increase the space between the left edge of the stave and the first note. The method below works for the first system, but then reverts to the default (closer) spacing for the second system. I’ve

Re: CMYK colours

2017-03-10 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Urs, Not directly the answer to your question, but. Adobe Acrobat DC allows one to convert the colour model in a PDF to large set of choices, including CMYK. Therefore it is possible to post process lilypond colour output to CMYK. Granted, not an open source solution, but the pre-press

Re: CMYK colours

2017-03-10 Thread David Kastrup
u...@openlilylib.org writes: > Hi all, > > I just came across the issue of printing coloured scores and wondered > if it's possible to use CMYK colours in LilyPond. From what the NR > says this seems impossible but I wanted to ask anyway. > > If it is *not* possible, what would be - theoretically

Re: Differing header position depending on tallest letter

2017-03-10 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi David, > >> A markup's reference point _is_ the baseline. > > Really?? > >> It's more a question of what to do with _stacks_ of markups > > These aren’t stacked: > > \version "2.19.54" > > { > \override

Re: Differing header position depending on tallest letter

2017-03-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, > A markup's reference point _is_ the baseline. Really?? > It's more a question of what to do with _stacks_ of markups These aren’t stacked: \version "2.19.54" { \override Score.RehearsalMark.extra-spacing-width = #'(-0.5 . 1) \override Score.RehearsalMark.self-alignment-X

Re: Differing header position depending on tallest letter

2017-03-10 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi Peter, > >> this would indeed work, but the approach is quite ugly: > > You should really handle the presentation manipulation in the presentation > layer, not the content layer: > > \version "2.19.54" > > \paper { >

Re: Differing header position depending on tallest letter

2017-03-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Peter, > this would indeed work, but the approach is quite ugly: You should really handle the presentation manipulation in the presentation layer, not the content layer: \version "2.19.54" \paper { scoreTitleMarkup = \markup { \combine \fromproperty #'header:title \transparent "Tj"

Re: Differing header position depending on tallest letter

2017-03-10 Thread Peter Crighton
2017-03-10 20:01 GMT+01:00 Robin Bannister : > I once solved a lyrics spacing problem using a strut of my own making. > Something like: > \markup \transparent \huge "|" Yes, this would indeed work, but the approach is quite ugly: \header { title = \markup \overlay {

Re: Differing header position depending on tallest letter

2017-03-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Peter Crighton wrote: Hmm, that doesn’t seem to work. I didn’t know about \strut before, and I’m not sure if I correctly understand how it works, but doesn’t the size of the box depend on the whitespace character and not on the tallest character? I once solved a lyrics spacing problem using a

Push note column to the right when it has a broken tie/slur attached

2017-03-10 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, Is it possible to push the first note column of a system to the right when it ends a tie or slur? I'm working on a custom stencil for ties and slurs and in this situation it needs much space between the Time/key/clef and the first note. I assume that when overriding the stencil I can't

Re: Differing header position depending on tallest letter

2017-03-10 Thread Peter Crighton
Hmm, that doesn’t seem to work. I didn’t know about \strut before, and I’m not sure if I correctly understand how it works, but doesn’t the size of the box depend on the whitespace character and not on the tallest character? I don’t know which height, if any, a whitespace character in a font

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.20.0, Frescobaldi 3.0.0, python-ly 0.9.5

2017-03-10 Thread Klaus Blum
Hi Jones, Am 09.03.2017 um 08:58 schrieb 19joh...@gmail.com: Please install the Visual Studio 2015 Redistribution pack which you can download here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=48145 Make sure you download the x86 Version. This should fix the problem. I will

Re: Differing header position depending on tallest letter

2017-03-10 Thread Alexander Kobel
Hi Peter, On 2017-03-09 17:32, Peter Crighton wrote: > Hello all, > > I noticed that the title (and other header types) doesn’t get vertically > positioned according to its baseline (which would make sense to me), but to > its cap height or ascender height. According to NR 4.1.4