Re: Snippet 888 string, was Re: Lyric centre-on-word / ignore-punctuation bug

On Sat 24 Feb 2018 at 20:27:58 (-0700), madMuze wrote: > >> What I haven't figured out is why there are two long dashes > > As davidK pointed out, three dash forms are probably desired: the hyphen, > the N-dash, and the M-dash. I didn't see him mention the hyphen, but it's all present and

Re: Snippet 888 string, was Re: Lyric centre-on-word / ignore-punctuation bug

On Sat 24 Feb 2018 at 16:59:37 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright writes: > > > On Sat 24 Feb 2018 at 11:06:20 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > >> Thomas Morley writes: > >> > >> > 2018-02-24 3:45 GMT+01:00 Kieren MacMillan > >> >

Re: Snippet 888 string, was Re: Lyric centre-on-word / ignore-punctuation bug

>> What I haven't figured out is why there are two long dashes As davidK pointed out, three dash forms are probably desired: the hyphen, the N-dash, and the M-dash. It does look like an extra M-dash at the beginning of your string (or is that some character code masquerading as a dash?). The

Re: LilyPond/LaTeX template for Anglican chant

On 2/24/2018 5:27 PM, Michael Gerdau wrote: I have yet to convince myself that I want to use LaTeX though. I've never yet done a major project with any sort of TeX. But I am considering it. Here's the biggest selling point for me: Donald Knuth, "The Future of TeX and METAFONT"

Re: LilyPond/LaTeX template for Anglican chant

Hi David, > One of the differences with the way I do psalms is that I make more of> the > pointing characters into mnemonic "active" characters:> % * for a breath.> % | for a barline.> % ¬ for a double barline.> % _ for a dot.> % † for a (posh) dagger.> % ¶ for a paragraph mark (looks after the

Re: Multiple staffs

On 2/24/2018 5:05 PM, J Martin Rushton wrote: I'm trying to set a composition which starts with a single instrument before bringing in the whole ensemble. I don't want to break it up into multiple scores because I want the midi to play through as a single performance. Does each instrument get

Re: Multiple staffs

J Martin Rushton writes: > I'm trying to set a composition which starts with a single instrument > before bringing in the whole ensemble. I don't want to break it up into > multiple scores because I want the midi to play through as a single > performance. > >

Multiple staffs

I'm trying to set a composition which starts with a single instrument before bringing in the whole ensemble. I don't want to break it up into multiple scores because I want the midi to play through as a single performance. I've tried many ways to do this with little success. The latest attempt

extract and print all the items after duration from ly:music

Hello, how can I extract and print all the items ( \mp and slur)  after the duration parameter in the function below?Thanks. %%% identityFunction = #(define-music-function (parser location note) (ly:music?)  (let    ((mypitch (ly:music-property note 'pitch '()))     (myduration

Re: LilyPond/LaTeX template for Anglican chant

Hi David, On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 08:17:38PM -0600, David Wright wrote: One of the differences with the way I do psalms is that I make more of the pointing characters into mnemonic "active" characters Thanks. I didn't know about active characters but they seem like a good way to make the

Re: Snippet 888 string, was Re: Lyric centre-on-word / ignore-punctuation bug

Hi David(s), >>> Doesn't really look like dealing sensibly with utf-8. > I was talking about the code, not the string There's no question it doesn’t handle UTF-8 sensibly: I had to avoid using it for a score a few weeks ago in which I was using a Ukrainian glyph ("backwards R"). I would very

Re: Snippet 888 string, was Re: Lyric centre-on-word / ignore-punctuation bug

David Wright writes: > On Sat 24 Feb 2018 at 11:06:20 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: >> Thomas Morley writes: >> >> > 2018-02-24 3:45 GMT+01:00 Kieren MacMillan : >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> When a lyric syllable

Snippet 888 string, was Re: Lyric centre-on-word / ignore-punctuation bug

On Sat 24 Feb 2018 at 11:06:20 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > Thomas Morley writes: > > > 2018-02-24 3:45 GMT+01:00 Kieren MacMillan : > >> Hi all, > >> > >> When a lyric syllable begins with a typographer’s single quote > >> (e.g.,

Re: Breath or articulation mark between two beamed eighth or sixteenth notes

Thanks. This works. I apologize. I was putting the breathe command outside the brackets for the beam, which caused an error. If I follow your example, the result is perfect. Thanks again > On Feb 23, 2018, at 10:34 PM, Kieren MacMillan > wrote: > > Hi Joe, >

Re: Lyric centre-on-word / ignore-punctuation bug

Thomas Morley writes: > 2018-02-24 3:45 GMT+01:00 Kieren MacMillan : >> Hi all, >> >> When a lyric syllable begins with a typographer’s single quote >> (e.g., ’cause, ’ll, etc.), the "ignore-punctuation" hack doesn't >> work. Any hints on

Re: Lyric centre-on-word / ignore-punctuation bug

2018-02-24 3:45 GMT+01:00 Kieren MacMillan : > Hi all, > > When a lyric syllable begins with a typographer’s single quote (e.g., ’cause, > ’ll, etc.), the "ignore-punctuation" hack doesn't work. Any hints on how to > fix this would be appreciated. > > Thanks, >

scheme function returning two scores

The following very simple code generate 4 scores: two layout scores and two midi scores. \version "2.19.81" music = {\repeat percent 2 {c' d' e' f'}} \score { \music \layout{}} \score { \unfoldRepeats \music \midi{}} music = {\repeat percent 2 {g c' c' c'}} \score { \music \layout{}} \score {