Greetings
You wrote...
+++
I'm trying to put multiple notes *over* the same lyric. What I mean can
be seen in this PDF: http://www.npm.org/Chants/assets/Gloria.pdf
The word earth for example has two notes over the text itself. A few
more melismatic examples on page 2 also.
Hi Matthew,
You wrote:-
+++
But this seems to work as expected:
\new Staff {
\new Voice = unsung \relative {
a'1
\new Voice = sung {
b4. b8 b4. b8
}
e1 f1
}
}
\new Lyrics
On 07/11/11 10:32, eluze wrote:
see
http://old.nabble.com/wrong-alignment-when-repeating-music-with-different-text-on-one-line-ts32622828.html#a32622828
for a related problem. this has not been treated as a bug report.
at least there seems to be a solution to this: use explicitly named
On 07/11/11 17:14, eluze wrote:
hi Bill
I will have to do more to get the idea of 'contexts' firmly placed in
my head! :)
don't try to hard with this 'buggy' context!
Still no obvious reason why barcheck numbers are so unusual...
can't see what you mean - example!?
Eluze
Hello again,
On 07/11/11 16:57, Matthew Collett wrote:
On 7/11/2011, at 9:50 am, Bill Mooney wrote:
In this file (below) I have tried to follow your example using predefined
expressions - not having the music etc explicitly in the score statement.
Everything works as expected until I started adding more
Greetings Ivan,
I hope the attached file is of some use...
By using two 'Score' statements I think your requirement is met, EXCEPT
that it works only if the example is only one system. By choosing a
wider page eg 'landscape' mode one might be able to obtain a fairly
large example (more
Greetings Christian,
After reading your post and the replies from Matthew Collett, David
Kastrup, and Peekay Ex, I thought I would try to simplify what I think
you're trying to do.
The following gives two lines of music, one showing a trivial example,
and the other showing my attempt to do the
Hi Marc,
You wrote:-
+++
Hello list,
how can I switch off the font ligature mechanism for
\markups?
I have \markup { \wordwrap { ... Aufführung ... } }
and lilypond replaces the consecutive f's with a ff ligature,
which I want to avoid, because ligatures
GReetings,
You wrote:-
+
I'm currently working on a bit of music with a key signature in the
ossia that is not in the main voice. The typesetting is meh due to the
large gap to accommodate the key signature. Is there any way
Greetings Trevor,
Thank you for the clarification regarding episema usage in LP.
There was a bit of confusion here with some things working at
cross-purposes, as well as a bit of confusion within my personal CPU! :)
It's nicely sorted now, and is working well.
If you feel able, could you point
You wrote...
++
I just built a hymn under 2.14.2 using the Hymn structure from Learning
Lilypond 2.12.3 secn 3.2.3 Voices Vocals. The structure is
unaltered, except that I have added a \version and a \header (and there
are
Hi Nick,
After a bit of tinkering, and using the Character Map application
(Ubuntu10.04)(but I would think it would also work in Windows) to '
Copy' the character 'music flat sign' (which has the same code as you
used - funnily enough! :) ) I think the following provide what I think
is a
Greetings,
It would appear that the gregorian.ly file included in version 2.15.14
/Windows/ of LP has some elements omitted - namely episema : I haven't
checked any others, I found this more or less by accident when seeking
to include the episema in a bit of gregorian I was trying to
Greetings,
I think this works! :)
The ledger lines appear to be thicker than the lines in the Staff :(
Regards
Bill
\version 2.14.2
\score
{ \new Staff \with {
\remove Bar_engraver
firstClef = ##f
}
{
%% I'm looking for a way to hide the noteheads, but
Greetings!
Having read the posts about this, and assuming you have upgraded to
v14., I can offer the paper-block below, which can be pasted into your
.ly file.
I think the values chosen give a reasonable on-page appearance...
Thanks to Reinhold Kainhofer for allowing us use of his code from
You wrote:-
Thanks! Here's the basic code in the score section. (Of course, it
continues afterwards, but this seems to be the section where the problems
are.) THANKS for your insights!
\score
{
\new Staff
\new Voice = sopranos
Hi Sarah,
Glad you found it of use... ! :)
Further to other respondents' comments...
I use jedit. which is a multi-platform editor with plugin support for
lilypond (and a whole lot of other stuff as well), and which has syntax
highlighting and a pdf viewer which updates whenever you run the lp
Hi Sarah,
There appears to be a mismatched immediately after the \score { at
line 136.
Commenting it out lets your file compile - whether the result is what
you want, I don't know! :)
Regards
Bill
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You wrote
++
I’m trying to put together a book of Irish tunes. I don’t need a lot of
text, so lilypond-book is overkill. I’m trying instead to use the \book
markup as described in the File Structure section of the manual.
You wrote...
+++
Dear Lilyponders,
I'm working on a score and having trouble with the following (probably
not very difficult) issue, which I cannot solve despite having RTFM:
The problem is the height of the full score which contains all
instruments, and which I'd
Hi!
You wrote:-
+++
\version 2.14.1
\include english.ly
\score {
\new Staff {
\key d \major
\numericTimeSignature
\time 4/4
r4
\times 4/5 { cs' d'' b''16\ cs' d'' b''cs' d'' b''cs' d''
b''cs'
d'' b''~ }
cs' d'' b''16 cs' d'' b''8.
%% Here: the tie
Hi,
You wrote...
++
Hello-
I am forcing accidentals in a modal piece. Time signature is 21/8 so
the measures are long.
I wanted to do a multi-measure hairpin (decrescendo) but the hairpin
stopped at the end of the first measure at the forced accidental (!).
1] is
Hi Kieren,
You wrote...
++
Hello all,
Since \with blocks can now contain variables, maybe someone should put
together
all of the options and submit a patch?
Then it wouldn't involve more typing.
;)
Cheers,
Kieren.
++
Unfortunately such an exercise
Original Message
Subject: Re: Set accidental style in the layout block
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:16:44 +1200
From: Bill Mooney mooney...@aim.com
To: horndud...@gmail.com
You wrote...
It should do about the same thing. The main advantage is that it
avoids littering files
You wote...
On 1 July 2011 07:47, Jay Anderson address@hidden wrote:
\layout
{
\context
{
\Score
...
autoAccidentals = #`(Staff ,(make-accidental-rule 'same-octave 0)
You wrote...
++
Hi,
Is there a way to set accidental style in the \layout block?
\layout {
\context {
\Voice
#(set-accidental-style 'piano)
}
}
gives me an error: syntax error, unexpected
As you can see in the attached example I have expanded the 'override'
completely - but, to achieve a satisfactory result both the
(basic-distance .
..) and (minimum-distance . ..) values have to be made equal
otherwise one
overrides the other in the staff-lyrics spacing (see the second
On 17/06/11 18:53, Matthew Collett wrote:
On 17/06/2011, at 1:52 pm, Bill Mooney wrote:
I want to move the lyrics down about half their height.
I'd start from
\context {
\Lyrics
\override VerticalAxisGroup #'nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing
#'basic-distance = 6.5
Greetings All,
I have been trying to adjust the vertical position of lyrics in a simple
song.
The default position places the lyrics just a little too close to
descending stems, in my opnion.
I want to move the lyrics down about half their height.
Hopefully, the attached .ly file with its
Hi Phil,
The following, from the notation manual, might help...
+
Using the \Staff \RemoveEmptyStaves command to create ossia staves may
be used as an alternative. This method is most convenient when ossia
staves occur immediately following a line break. For more information
about \Staff
Greetings James, et al...
I have been trying to sort out just what can be achieved using
'breakbefore' in a file with several Score blocks, and what each line in
the headers actually produces in the final printout.
The attached .ly file is the result. It has some embedded comments. It
also
- Original Message - From: Bill Mooney address@hidden
Aaaah - the subtleties of LP and its grammar/syntax! :)
Should the spacing thing be submitted as a bug?
I have enough trouble getting to grips with the simple things that
submitting a bug report is quite beyond me
Greetings again...
On 08/05/11 22:15, Phil Holmes wrote:
- Original Message - From: Bill Mooney mooney...@aim.com
To: Lilypond-User List lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 4:43 AM
Subject: header anomalies LP2.13.60
Greetings!
Can someone please explain what
Greetings,
...from the Notation Manual
An arpeggio on a chord (also known as a broken chord) is denoted by
appending \arpeggio to the chord construct:
c e g c1\arpeggio
I guess you 'do' need to define a chord for it to work - which you don't
seem to have done in your example
{ \clef
Dear Graham et al,
After searching the inter-web thingie with Google I found a piece on the
CPDL site which, although old, showed the use of 'breakbefore', in a
setting authored by Anders Stenberg of some pieces by Purcell.
Here is my take on the use of breakbefore using info from his .ly file
Greetings!
Can someone please explain what is happening with the header block in
this code?
+++
\version 2.13.60
\header {
title = \markup \center-column { \huge XXX X
-X- }
subtitle =\markup \center-column { -N- }
subsubtitle = \markup
Greetings Michael,
I find this worked in one of my transcriptions - v2.13.?? - adjust
bracketted values as necessary...
\once\override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'(-5 . 2) g'2^\markup {
\bold All }
hope this helps
Bill
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Dear Marc,
Sorry, I can't help with LP-Book.
I've never used it. :)
Regards
Bill
On 02/12/10 06:04, Marc Mouries wrote:
On 11/19/2010 4:54 AM, Bill Mooney wrote:
Hi,
you might try :-
lilypond -f png -dresolution=600 filename
where the 600 is an example - whatever you find is appropriate
Hope
Hi Francois,
You should really reply to the list so that you get info from all the
people there... I'm a complete novice at this.
However, if you are making stuff for Powerpoint presentations or similar
then you would probably have to get the images with transparent
backgrounds - which
Hi,
you might try :-
lilypond -f png -dresolution=600 filename
where the 600 is an example - whatever you find is appropriate
Hope this helps
Regards
Bill
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Greetings All,
The attached .ly file compiles and gives an error
Drawing systems...
warning: couldn't fit music on page: overflow is -0.00
but the resulting pdf file has everything as it should be.
Is there an error in the code, or is LP's layout process at fault?
This file actually
Hi Keith,
Thanks for the 'override'. I achieved a satisfactory result by using
'hspace' to move a markup - the 'Or' didn't actually have to be in line
with the staff.
I am a rank amateur with regard to dealing with LP, and with music
setting generally, and am very grateful for the help
Hi Garrett ,
You could try this :-
c4^( s) \once \override Slur #'control-points = #'( ( -10 . -2) ( -7 .
0) ( -2 . 0) ( 1 . -2) )
s^( d)
the ^s force the slur up'ards ( use _ if you want it down)
the numbers in the 'control pints part are found by trial and error :)
they're x,y pairs for
Hi Javier,
... also
\override Staff.TimeSignature #'style = #'()
Cheers
Bill
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Greetings Carlo,
While seeking enlightenment on another matter I found this in the
Notation manual
Does it solve the tie/slur lyric problem you were having?
Hope this helps
Regards
Bill
Ignoring melismata
One possibility is that the text has a melisma in one stanza, but
multiple
Dear Keith,
Many thanks for the solution you provided...
Never in a month of Sundays would I have found that!
However, there's no such thing as a free lunch - further difficulties
have manifested themselves.
I have made some comments in the attached file which should show where
there are
Greetings Carlo,
I think you have to remove the tie ~ from line ?95 between the
b-flat b-flat.
This brings the word 'est' back into the bar with 'La terre'
Is this what you required?
Hope this helps
Regards
Bill
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Greetings,
The accompanying .ly file produces the result in image 'extra-staves-1.png'.
Can someone explain how I can modify the .ly file to obtain the result
in image 'extra-staves-2.png', please?
The .ly file was made using aspects of the 'Adding an extra staff (2)'
snippet in the Snippet
Greetings Keith,
Thanks for the comment. Do you have a special crystal ball there?
Do you know if there is any particular reason why inter-system spacings
are done in the \paper block but spacing between staves is dealt with
using commands in the \Staff context (Have I got the terminology
Greetings Keith, and others...
Keith wrote...
Actually, I'm trying to help clean up bugs in the spacing system, so I
investigated this:
I've tried your sample file and still there is no
change whatsoever with the score-system-spacing values. I don't know
why ---
The
Greetings Fr. Michael Gilmary
The attached file untitled.ly might be of help.
Regards
Bill
\header {
title = Title
piece = score-system-spacing affects spacing between 'scores' - but not between Title and 1st score
}
\paper {
%Uncomment either or both of the next two lines and adjust
fr. michael gilmary wrote...
I'm working with Lilypond v. 2.11.62 and I just can't figure out how
to get extra vertical space between staves.
Xavier Scheuer replied
%%%
My advise is to upgrade your version (you are running an old
development version).
Latest
Hi Peter,
I cut and pasted your code into jEdit and ran it with lptool and got the
attached... ! :)
Hope this helps - I know it isn't a solution, but...
Cheers
Bill
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... on the other hand, if I swap the order of \voice \accomp to
\accomp \voice I get your result !?!
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Hi,
I don't know why and wherefore - but removing the acciaccatura seems
to allow the slur to fulfill itself - whether it is a matter of the
acciaccatura making the staff too high, or a bug, or something more
subtle I don't know enough about Lilypond to say, but I hope this helps.
Regards
Greetings Graham,
I've come to this thread probably too late in the general scheme of
things..., but I offer the following links which might provide solutions
to some of the new website problems. :-
http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/
http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspiral/demo.html
Dear Peter, and Chip and Jonathan,
Your comments have provided great guidance for this occasional user! :)
My question about transposing did indeed relate to the usage of
transposing an entire piece, after it had been encoded earlier - perhaps
obtained from another source altogether. The
Greetings,
Having spent some considerable time reading the various manuals, and
applying the information gleaned therefrom to the choir ensemble
template in order to enable transposing to suit the wants of a 'client',
I would like feedback on the way I have achieved the required result.
The
Greetings,
The links on the LP site for downloading the latest version seem to be
incorrect... ?!?
Can anyone clarify / correct this?
Regards
Bill
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Dear Francisco,
Many thanks!
Regards
Bill
Francisco Vila wrote:
2008/12/28 Bill Mooney mooney...@aim.com:
Greetings,
The links on the LP site for downloading the latest version seem to be
incorrect... ?!?
Can anyone clarify / correct this?
I reported this to the -devel list yesterday. Use
Hi Kenny,
I'm not sufficiently au faix with all the aspects of Lilypond to say why
the text gets garbled... I suspect it is to do with the use of 'melisma'
in the music parts, and possibly with the way the 'score' is set up to
deal with the text entry.
I have attached a re-worked version using
Greetings All,
I am a newcomer to the list, and to Lilypond. Notwithstanding this I am
finding LP very satisfying to use and am currently setting some
hand-notation music for a friend - from which activity rises my query.
Would it be worthwhile to consider changing the way LP 'reads' its input
Hi Frederick,
Placing a separate bit of music in a \markup is possible - do a search
on the doc file at the LP site --- but could I suggest that a possibly
'better' way is to have two separate \score statements in your file?
chant music bits = whatever
da-da-da-da
response music bits =
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