Re: Beginner question about writing for drums

2023-04-27 Thread mail-login+lilypond--- via LilyPond user discussion
--- Original Message ---On Thursday, April 27th, 2023 at 05:03, Stu McKenzie wrote: > > > On 2023-04-26 16:24, mail-login+lilyp...@protonmail.com wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm just getting started with lilypond so I hope this issue is not obvious. > > As I'm playing the drums,

Re: Beginner question about writing for drums

2023-04-27 Thread mail-login+lilypond
Hi, > Quasi all I write for drum is in multiple small chunks of this format : > << > { hh4 hh q } > \\ > { bd4 r bd r } > >> > > > Using lots of variables of reused patterns for hh and whatnot. Oh I like this notation. Just being curios, are the voices somehow linked if I create another

Re: Glissando intervoices

2023-04-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mario, > No idea? From no one? Ok! Thank you! Lots of ideas… One is that you’re likely to get more responses if you give a *minimal* working example — yours is far larger than is necessary to demonstrate the problem and work on a solution. Anyway… Did you try manually drawing the lines?

Re: Glissando intervoices

2023-04-27 Thread Mario Moles
No idea? From no one? Ok! Thank you! Il 26/04/23 01:13, Mario Moles ha scritto: I apologize because I explained myself badly. I use the glissando to indicate the sliding of the same finger of the left hand on the same string of the guitar. The blue lines I drew with Gwenview. The score

Re: Vertical positioning of different texts

2023-04-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le jeudi 27 avril 2023 à 21:39 +0200, Immanuel Asmus a écrit : > Hi all, > I am engraving a leadsheet for a song. It includes section labels (verse, > chorus etc.), chords, and text annotations (as "clap") – all above the staff. > Unfortunately, the position of the different text seems

Vertical positioning of different texts

2023-04-27 Thread Immanuel Asmus
Hi all, I am engraving a leadsheet for a song. It includes section labels (verse, chorus etc.), chords, and text annotations (as "clap") – all above the staff. Unfortunately, the position of the different text seems arbitrary. Here is a snippet: \version "2.24.1" chordNames = \chordmode {

Re: Separate dynamics from notes

2023-04-27 Thread Gianmaria Lari
Thank you Jean, Kieren and Robin. I had a look at the edition engraver but it was not trivial to understand how to install it. Maybe I will try it again in the future. I had a look at the SendTo thread, thanks! And finally I tried the Robin code. Well, it looks like it's doing the job

Re: Separate dynamics from notes

2023-04-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le jeudi 27 avril 2023 à 10:14 -0400, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : > Hi all, > > > This sounds like it might be a use case for Jan-Peter Voigt's "Edition > > engraver" tool. > > https://github.com/openlilylib/edition-engraver > > Ehhh… sounds to me more like a case for that “sendTo“ code we were

Re: Separate dynamics from notes

2023-04-27 Thread Robin Bannister
Gianmaria Lari wrote: This thing always seemed so inconvenient to me that I thought it was practically unusable. Or that there was some trick to maybe have Frescobaldi tell me the "position" of the note (meant as numbers of quarter or eight notes from the beginning). Here is a primitive

Re: Separate dynamics from notes

2023-04-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, > This sounds like it might be a use case for Jan-Peter Voigt's "Edition > engraver" tool. > https://github.com/openlilylib/edition-engraver Ehhh… sounds to me more like a case for that “sendTo“ code we were brainstorming last year:

Re: rests in chord symbols with volta endings

2023-04-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le mercredi 26 avril 2023 à 20:27 -0700, Flaming Hakama by Elaine a écrit : > Thanks for the help. > I forgot to mention that am still on 2.22, so I am still using the > traditional syntax of \repeat and \alternative > > It appears that this is actually the MWE, at least for 2.22 > all the other

Re: Separate dynamics from notes

2023-04-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le jeudi 27 avril 2023 à 14:57 +0200, Gianmaria Lari a écrit : > Regarding my second question, let me try to be more clear > > I have a score. > I want to write the dynamics using a separate variable. > Suppose that on the first quarter of the tenth measure there is a "forte" and > then on the

Re: Separate dynamics from notes

2023-04-27 Thread Gianmaria Lari
Thank you Leo for your answers and help. > you’ll probably need to be a little more specific about the use case, > perhaps also supply example code. > Regarding my second question, let me try to be more clear I have a score. I want to write the dynamics using a separate variable. Suppose that

Re: Global fonts

2023-04-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le jeudi 27 avril 2023 à 08:32 +, Werner LEMBERG a écrit : > Hmm, maybe using alists that override this global setting?  Something > like > > ``` > \paper {   text-font-size = 16   fonts.sans = "Foo"   fonts.sans.size = 18 > } > ``` Yes, but the interactions with my plans for simplifying

Re: Global fonts

2023-04-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> \paper { >>   text-font-size = 16 >> } > > I would want to create a better interface for it before documenting > it. For example, right now, it must be put after > set-global-staff-size, and it also can't be different for the sans > or typewriter font. Hmm, maybe using alists that override

Re: Global fonts

2023-04-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le jeudi 27 avril 2023 à 07:58 +, Werner LEMBERG a écrit : > If you use version 2.25.4, then it's possible to set the size for > text fonts [...] > > \paper { >   text-font-size = 16 > } > > This is great!  And completely undocumented.  There isn't even a > regtest... I would want to create

Re: Global fonts

2023-04-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> If you use version 2.25.4, then it's possible to set the size for > text fonts [...] > > \paper { > text-font-size = 16 > } This is great! And completely undocumented. There isn't even a regtest... Werner

Re: Global fonts

2023-04-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
(Adding back the list in CC) Le mercredi 26 avril 2023 à 15:07 +0200, Jakob Pedersen a écrit : > Thank you very much, Jean > > I fiddled with the #:factor in an attempt to adjust the global size of the > Libertinus text which looks "smaller" than C059 text, and forgot to change it >

Re: ragged-bottom

2023-04-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le jeudi 27 avril 2023 à 01:54 +0300, Dimitri Sykias a écrit : > I’ve set in paper block “ragged-bottom = ##t”. Can I change it for a couple > of pages to ##f ? Thanks! If those pages are for a specific score / set of scores, you could create a \bookpart enclosing them and add `\paper {

Re: Beginner question about writing for drums

2023-04-27 Thread Stu McKenzie
On 2023-04-26 16:24, mail-login+lilyp...@protonmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm just getting started with lilypond so I hope this issue is not obvious. As I'm playing the drums, many tutorials I found regarding lilypond do not quite apply in the details. So far the two things I've found