Bundling Lilypond with project

2022-08-19 Thread DoubleFelix
Hello, I'm making a python application that uses LilyPond, but in order to make it completely portable, I need to bundle LilyPond with my application. It's licensed under GPL, so if I'm reading this right I should be able to do that as long as I make my own project GPL (already done). I just want

Re: Pointing Aiken Fa up in partCombine

2022-08-19 Thread Karlin High
On 8/19/2022 3:35 PM, Benjamin Bruce wrote: Thank you, David, for finding "Hallelujah, Praise Jehovah." Yes, finding a song that is a reliable source of the condition is ideal. Here is what I found for it on hymnary.org: Page scans:

Re: Pointing Aiken Fa up in partCombine

2022-08-19 Thread Benjamin Bruce
> “Hallelujah, Praise Jehovah” (1899) has doubled Fa's in the treble and bass > clefs at the beginning of bar 9. Here’s a scan from a hymnal printed in > 1911. The Fa is reversed in the treble clef. Thank you, David, for finding "Hallelujah, Praise Jehovah." I looked that hymn up in the

Re: Pointing Aiken Fa up in partCombine

2022-08-19 Thread David F.
> On Aug 19, 2022, at 11:23 AM, Benjamin Bruce wrote: > > There may be examples in my older hymnals too, but I wasn't able to find any > (this seems to be something that shows up more in modern music). “Hallelujah, Praise Jehovah” (1899) has doubled Fa's in the treble and bass clefs at the

Re: completely filling a page, but not too compact, how?

2022-08-19 Thread Knute Snortum
On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 8:16 AM Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > > Hi Ralph, Lukas and David; > > Thank you all for your responses. > > I had no clue where to start on modifying the layout since there are > so many things to examine in the documentation regarding the layout. > > Now I can guess

Re: completely filling a page, but not too compact, how?

2022-08-19 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Hi Ralph, Lukas and David; Thank you all for your responses. I had no clue where to start on modifying the layout since there are so many things to examine in the documentation regarding the layout. Now I can guess more effectively for the next one that needs to be expanded/contracted.

Re: completely filling a page, but not too compact, how?

2022-08-19 Thread David Wright
On Fri 19 Aug 2022 at 09:32:45 (+0200), Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: > What I didn't change: Classical convention would probably give the > final bar a length of only 4 (with fermata), not 1. But I wouldn't put > too much stock in this, I know that a crotchet final chord would > probably look

Re: Pointing Aiken Fa up in partCombine

2022-08-19 Thread Karlin High
On 8/18/2022 11:43 PM, David F. wrote: Now I’m wondering how representative those two hymnals are. The shape-note community, optimized for participation rather than professional excellence, does not appear to have an authority equivalent to Elaine Gould for its proprieties. I'm asking groups

Re: completely filling a page, but not too compact, how?

2022-08-19 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi Ken, So I disabled all the forced line breaks. Now it consumes less than 3/4 of one page and is a little too dense to read on an iPad. I'd like to fill the first and only page. How to do this? For filling the page, you can do \paper {   ragged-last-bottom = ##f } In your case, this