Re: workflow advice: avoiding wrong octave errors?

2019-08-23 Thread mason
On 08/23, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > You can always use \fixed. =) I didn't know about \fixed until just now. My first thought was to use this to make the "default" pitches begin on the bottom space of the staff, i.e., for treble clef \fixed f' {f g a b c d e} is equivalent to {f' g' a' b'

Re: workflow advice: avoiding wrong octave errors?

2019-08-23 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mason, > I thought of that, but my worry is that I'll still make octave errors, > but each will result in one transposed note instead of a transposed > phrase, which might be even less apparent than proofreading. That is a concern… > I also find relative note entry to be more intuitive and

Re: workflow advice: avoiding wrong octave errors?

2019-08-23 Thread mason
Thanks Kieren, On 08/23, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > My primary suggestion: use absolute instead of relative note entry, and you > will never have incorrect octavation again. :) I thought of that, but my worry is that I'll still make octave errors, but each will result in one transposed note

Re: Noting temporarely 2 melodies (different lyrics) on same staff

2019-08-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 23.08.19 22:17, Guy Stalnaker wrote: Simon, A question about your example if I may. I have used this construct << { \voiceOne } \new Voice { { \voiceTwo } } >> \oneVoice You put the \oneVoice before the \new Voice inside the << >> and not after/outside the << >> ... wondering why :-)

Re: workflow advice: avoiding wrong octave errors?

2019-08-23 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mason, > placing a note in the wrong octave My primary suggestion: use absolute instead of relative note entry, and you will never have incorrect octavation again. :) My secondary suggestion: to make entry fast and super-accurate, use MIDI entry if possible. If you stick with relative

RE: workflow advice: avoiding wrong octave errors?

2019-08-23 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Mason, My use is for transcribing 17th and 18th C piano music. After a line or two I compile using Frescobaldi. My errors, frequent, become apparent. Mark -Original Message- From: lilypond-user [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org] On Behalf Of ma...@masonhock.com

Re: workflow advice: avoiding wrong octave errors?

2019-08-23 Thread mason
"Octave checks" occurred to me while I was writing. I should have thought to RTFM before sending... http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/changing-multiple-pitches#octave-checks Mason On 08/23, ma...@masonhock.com wrote: > I typically make few errors while inputting music. The

workflow advice: avoiding wrong octave errors?

2019-08-23 Thread mason
I typically make few errors while inputting music. The two most common exceptions are incorrect note durations and placing a note in the wrong octave. The former generally is not a problem, because bar checks catch the error and tell me where to look. However, the latter slips by more easily. If

Re: Noting temporarely 2 melodies (different lyrics) on same staff

2019-08-23 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Simon, A question about your example if I may. I have used this construct << { \voiceOne } \new Voice { { \voiceTwo } } >> \oneVoice You put the \oneVoice before the \new Voice inside the << >> and not after/outside the << >> ... wondering why :-) Thanks btw for your explanation. Now I'm

Re: Frescobaldi: show documentation for lilypond 2.19

2019-08-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Werner, on Linux in the Edit>Preferences dialogue there is a tab for ‘LilyPond documentation’ where you can add URLs to both offline and online docs. HTH, Simon On 23.08.19 21:04, Werner LEMBERG wrote: [Frescobaldi 3 on Windows] If I press the F9 button to open the lilypond

Re: Frescobaldi: show documentation for lilypond 2.19

2019-08-23 Thread Urs Liska
I'm not sure and not at home, but there's a preference for the documentation path. -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Gerät mit K-9 Mail gesendet.___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Frescobaldi: show documentation for lilypond 2.19

2019-08-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
[Frescobaldi 3 on Windows] If I press the F9 button to open the lilypond documentation, I get the pages for version 2.18. However, my installed lilypond version is 2.19.83. What must I do to make Frescobaldi display the 2.19 documentation? Werner

Re: Noting temporarely 2 melodies (different lyrics) on same staff

2019-08-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Ziad, On 23.08.19 17:28, Ziad Gholam wrote: Hello, I am looking for a simple solution to the following subject : while editiong a chorus part, the Soprani voice is temporarely split (i.e. for 4 or 5 measures among 50 or more) into 2 different melodies, with different rythms an

Noting temporarely 2 melodies (different lyrics) on same staff

2019-08-23 Thread Ziad Gholam
Hello, I am looking for a simple solution to the following subject : while editiong a chorus part, the Soprani voice is temporarely split (i.e. for 4 or 5 measures among 50 or more) into 2 different melodies, with different rythms an different lyrics. I found a simple solution for the musical

Re: LilyPond and FontForge

2019-08-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> I would really appreciate someone explaining how to generate these >> tables using FontForge. thanks! I've just updated `mf/README' in the git repository with an even more detailed description of the conversion process. Werner ___

Re: Choral scores conventions question

2019-08-23 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi Jacques, I’ve created this score from a psalms book, both attached, with explicit, sometimes artificial, time signatures and rests for the time being. What is the usual way to setup such a choral, in terms of compound time signatures, partials, measure 13 spanning over a line break,

Re: Changing system-system-distance between scores

2019-08-23 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Ben, See: http://lilypond.org/website/tiny-examples.html Cheers, Pierre Le jeu. 22 août 2019 à 13:20, bkal...@gmail.com a écrit : > This seems like it should be easy, but I can't find a way to do it. How do > I > change the spacing between systems, not for the whole book, but for a > single