Re: Time signature ID and implementation

2020-10-08 Thread Brett Duncan
It could well be a 2, looking at this: https://artscimedia.case.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/135/2020/04/20164113/NotationManual.pdf. On 8/10/20 5:24 pm, Aaron Hill wrote: On 2020-10-07 11:07 pm, Andrew Bernard wrote: I dont think it's a 2. Looks more like some kind of symbol. I am not a

Re: Compressed rests not engraving as expected

2019-04-01 Thread Brett Duncan
I think you want \override MultiMeasureRest #'expand-limit = #7  (or whatever value you decide - the default is 10). Brett On 2/4/19 8:09 am, Guy Stalnaker wrote: \version "2.19" \language "english" \score {   \new Staff {   \clef bass   \compressFullBarRests   \key bf \major   \time

Re: hide entire tuplet entity

2018-08-26 Thread Brett Duncan
One option would be to scale the durations instead of using tuplets, e.g. you could change     \hideNotes b2. b4\sustainOn b2 \tuplet 3/2{ b8 b4\sustainOff} b4\sustainOn \tuplet 3/2{ b8 b8\sustainOff b8 } to    \hideNotes b2. b4\sustainOn b2  b8*2/3 b4*2/3\sustainOff b4\sustainOn

Re: Added ninth chord (symbol)

2016-04-30 Thread Brett Duncan
On 30/04/2016 9:36 pm, Thomas Morley wrote: g2:5.9 is not correct. See the putput from the following code listing some (all?) possibilities to _input_ the correct chord. tst = { \chordmode { \set additionalPitchPrefix = "add" c:1.3.5.9 c:3.5.9 c:5.9 %% not correct ! c:9^7

Re: Added ninth chord (symbol)

2016-04-30 Thread Brett Duncan
On 30/04/2016 6:30 pm, Malte Meyn wrote: Am 30.04.2016 um 08:56 schrieb Brett Duncan: Henry, have you had any success with the pop-chords.ly file? (If not, I have some files I could send to you.) You don�t need this or chord exceptions in general if you follow my much simpler answer

Re: Added ninth chord (symbol)

2016-04-30 Thread Brett Duncan
On 30/04/2016 3:24 pm, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: On Sat, 30 Apr 2016, Brett Duncan wrote: I coded g2:5.9 in chordmode and got G9, which isn't the right chord. I'm pursuing pop-chords.ly. As Matthew said, you will need to override how the chord name is displayed

Re: Added ninth chord (symbol)

2016-04-29 Thread Brett Duncan
On 30/04/2016 8:24 am, Henry Law wrote: On 29/04/16 22:20, Brett Duncan wrote: You can also use "c1:5.9", which just adds the 9th over the basic triad. I coded g2:5.9 in chordmode and got G9, which isn't the right chord. I'm pursuing pop-chords.ly. As Matthew said, you

Re: Added ninth chord (symbol)

2016-04-29 Thread Brett Duncan
On 30/04/2016 3:58 am, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: On Fri, 29 Apr 2016, Henry Law wrote: In a lead sheet I want to use the chord which I call an "added ninth". Using the key of C as an example, I want the chord C-E-G-D: a plain major triad with the ninth added on top. Try "c1:9^7" That is:

Re: Chords and what they mean

2015-09-21 Thread Brett Duncan
On 21/09/15 4:44 PM, David Kastrup wrote: It's really a case of diminuishing returns. The change for x:5 is definitely affecting the logic of LilyPond, but arguably that can of worms has been opened with x:13 already. x:5 is more important, but it's also a lot more likely to be used as basic

Re: Chords and what they mean

2015-09-20 Thread Brett Duncan
On 21/09/15 7:48 AM, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > Well, in his explanation of sus chords, Levine indicates that that > he does not interpret "sus" to be exactly synonymous with "sus4". At > one point, he wrote "A persistent myth about sus chords is that 'the > fouth takes the place of the

Re: Chords and what they mean

2015-09-20 Thread Brett Duncan
On 21/09/15 7:48 AM, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: Modifying the input syntax such that c:5 means seems ill-advised. I was thinking much the same, until I read something that David Kastrup wrote: I think it is not an outlandish expectation, once you see how a:maj and a:dim and a:min work,

Re: Chords and what they mean

2015-09-19 Thread Brett Duncan
On 20/09/15 11:30 AM, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > Just to be clear, in Hancock's piece and other jazz standards, D7sus is > not simply a 7th chord with the third omitted. As Mark Levine explained > in the "The Jazz Piano Book" (Sher Music Co. 1989), for D7sus (or simply > "Dsus" as it

Re: Chords and what they mean

2015-09-19 Thread Brett Duncan
On 19/09/15 7:52 PM, Blöchl Bernhard wrote: A bit OT: For anybody having doubts if sus chords are of any use, I found a nice example in jazz. In Herbie Hancock’s jazz piece Maiden Voyage one can recognize examples of sus chords covering D7sus, F7sus, Eb7sus, and F#7sus (C#-13). Lilipond

Re: Chords and what they mean

2015-09-18 Thread Brett Duncan
On 19/09/15 8:49 AM, Kaj Persson wrote: As you wrote Csus ought to mean that the first third is removed, and nothing else. Among professional musicians, which I am not, but I have friends who are, this is not the whole truth, there exists a de facto standard which does not exactly coincide

Re: Chords and what they mean

2015-09-17 Thread Brett Duncan
On 17/09/15 7:56 PM, BB wrote: A bug? My reading of the OP is that Kaj is expecting LP's chordmode to be equivalent to the chord notations that he is used to seeing, which it is not. @Kaj, Lilypond's format for /inputting/ chords is described at

Re: Chords and what they mean

2015-09-17 Thread Brett Duncan
On 17/09/15 9:40 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 17.09.2015 13:30, lilyp...@andis59.se wrote: On 2015-09-17 13:14, Brett Duncan wrote: @Kaj, Lilypond's format for /inputting/ chords is described at �http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/chord-mode/ and I would suggest reading

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-11 Thread Brett Duncan
I'm a 48 year old school teacher (Mathematics and Computing). I'm also the pianist in a jazz ensemble, which is what keeps me using Lilypond - re-scoring pieces for which we have mainly hand-written scores (some of them atrociously scribbled down). I used to mainly use jEdit/LilyPondTool,

Re: Problem with r2. in two voices

2015-02-07 Thread Brett Duncan
On 8/02/15 12:46 PM, Cynthia Karl wrote: I don’t understand two things about the following snippet: \version 2.19.15 Aa = \relative c'' {\oneVoice r2. } Ab = \relative c'' {\oneVoice r2. } \score { \new Staff \time 3/4 \new Voice \Aa

Re: sus7 chords in \chordmode

2015-01-26 Thread Brett Duncan
On 27/01/15 6:15 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: On Jan 26, 2015, at 1:32 AM, Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl mailto:jvrom...@squirrel.nl wrote: On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 19:18:52 -0600 Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net mailto:tim...@bitstream.net wrote: I have repeatedly run into difficulties

Re: sus7 chords in \chordmode

2015-01-26 Thread Brett Duncan
On 27/01/15 11:48 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: The main problem for me with “x7sus4” as a chord name is its length; when there are four chord names in a bar, every character counts in terms of legibility. Things can get crowded fast. (This came up in preparing a chart for the Vince Guaraldi song

Re: sus7 chords in \chordmode

2015-01-25 Thread Brett Duncan
On 26/01/15 1:16 PM, Tim McNamara wrote: On Jan 25, 2015, at 7:44 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-01-26 2:18 GMT+01:00 Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net: I have repeatedly run into difficulties getting Lilypond to properly render sus7 chord names in \chordmode. It

Re: How can I write simultaneous music in \chordmode?

2015-01-07 Thread Brett Duncan
On 7/01/15 1:14 PM, Jim Long wrote: This works great. But I often have the same problem in chordmode music, the same problem meaning that I need to use tagged alternative bits of enharmonic music where the tagged alternatives are simultaneous so that they don't artificially lengthen the number

Re: RUMOR Midi utility Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

2013-01-07 Thread Brett Duncan
On 7/01/13 6:11 PM, SoundsFromSound wrote: Thank you so much for the reply. I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed, very few apps other than the usual: Synaptic, Inkscape, LilyPond/Frescobaldi, etc. All I did was install Rumor and poof - these appeared, no other items I can think of that could be the

Re: question on a bach's canon: mordent repeat

2011-06-15 Thread Brett Duncan
On 15/06/11 6:28 PM, Rutger Hofman wrote: On 06/15/2011 04:41 AM, Marc Mouries wrote: I don't mean the sign on the last bar of each staff but the sign in the final bar of the music, right after g8 a8 b4 that looks like a mordant. I'd say it is just a rest (r4). The last note has something

Re: Error #20

2011-04-18 Thread Brett Duncan
On 19/04/11 2:08 AM, Michael Dykes wrote: Hullo Nick. Now, I get the following error: java.io IOException:error=20, not a directory. Any ideas? Thanks for your time and patience, since I am new to this program. I really appreciated it. The error suggests that there is still something wrong

Re: bar numbering

2009-12-01 Thread Brett Duncan
Hugh Myers wrote: Clearly this doesn't work: \version 2.13.7 upper = { b c d } lower = { gis, d e, 2. } { \time 3/4 \new Staff \relative c'' { \set Score.barAlways = ##t \set Score.defaultBarType = | \new Voice = 1 { \voiceOne \upper } \new Voice = 2 {

Re: bar line

2009-11-22 Thread Brett Duncan
Hugh Myers wrote: I'm looking for a symmetrical version of \bar |: which roughly speaking should produce colon, thin line, thick line, thin line, colon. Is there a way? --hsm Take a look at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/Bars#Bar-lines Brett

Re: bar line

2009-11-22 Thread Brett Duncan
Hugh Myers wrote: Brett, Much thanks, missed that combination. Now how do I get that to spit out at the start of a second \alternative? code: \repeat volta 2 { \firstPoly } \alternative { { \firstPolyRepeat } { \secondMono } } which doesn't seem to produce

Re: bar line

2009-11-22 Thread Brett Duncan
Hugh Myers wrote: Brett, Thanks for the hint. The URL is where I got the notion for what I wrote in the first place. In the source, firstPoly repeats, once with firstPolyRepeat as an ending and once with secondMono as an ending. That is what I want, but as you say not what I asked for. None of

Re: bar line

2009-11-22 Thread Brett Duncan
Hugh Myers wrote: Here is the 'close--- but not quite ready for cigar time' code that I've cobbled together: \version 2.13.7 % % malaguena.ly -- qd testbed for mixed notation score and tab. % \header { title = Malaguena subtitle = none composer = Music by Unknown } eMinor = e b gis

Re: bar line

2009-11-22 Thread Brett Duncan
Hugh Myers wrote: Let's say that it is--- what would the different structure look like? Try this: \version 2.13.7 % % malaguena.ly -- qd testbed for mixed notation score and tab. % \header { title = Malaguena subtitle = none composer = Music by Unknown } eMinor = e b gis e b e,

Re: NR typo: Minor-major seventh chord

2009-09-07 Thread Brett Duncan
Andrew Tucker wrote: m7.7+ does provide the desired results, though I believe it's because lilypond uses only the last alteration of a particular note (ie. 7.9+.9- will end up 7/b9 and lose the sharp nine). This behavior might change (?), if I remember the tenor of that discussion, so we

Re: texts created using \mark don't display

2009-06-12 Thread Brett Duncan
hhpmu...@163.com wrote: Hello, I finally finished the orchestration. But the teacher came with two problems: one is double bar, which I can solve after asking him which bar I made wrong; the second is about Fine and D.C. al Fine. I included the mark engraver in the markline context, but the

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-01 Thread Brett Duncan
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: As far as I can see, there is very little hope for LilyPond making the right decision about this chord entered in note mode. The first note is not the root of the chord, so it would require substantial computation time to try to identify the chord properly (and there's

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-30 Thread Brett Duncan
Grammostola Rosea wrote: Maybe it's an idea to brainstorm a bit about how we want Jazz chords to be displayed? Maybe some interested people can form a group like the 'tablature group' does? I'd welcome people creating documents that describe how chord naming should work. I think that

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-30 Thread Brett Duncan
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: My currently-planned starting point for chord naming is http://www.dolmetsch.com/musictheory17.htm#namechords If you have any disagreement with this reference, please let me know. It looks like a good starting point to me - there are a couple of things that don't

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-30 Thread Brett Duncan
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: I assume that there would still have to be some means of creating exceptions. If someone wants chords named mainly in the Real Book style, but with minors notated slightly differently ( Cm / Cmi / C- ) for example, would they find themselves having to put together a large

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-25 Thread Brett Duncan
Chip wrote: What's a PEBKAC? I've never seen that before. Anyway, I still find it hard to relate the footer to titles and headers, it just doesn't make sense to me to include it with those. In my way of thinking the footer is a separate entity and should be treated as such. Hi Chip, I

Re: Real World Usage

2009-04-14 Thread Brett Duncan
sdfgsdhdshd wrote: craigbakalian wrote lilypond can't compete with Finale; i disagree and explained why. Not so - Craig asked a question about whether the topic was about Lilypond needing a GUI - you didn't actually answer that. You did, however, say that Lilypond is missing features

Re: a:4 chord

2009-03-19 Thread Brett Duncan
Luc Saffre wrote: Can somebody explain what's the difference between printing A^sus4 and A^4? I had only basic music education but am helping with publishing a songbook using Lilypond, and I thought that the difference is not important. But now I'm afraid I'm wrong and that I'll have to check

Re: chords : changing from a:sus4 to a

2009-03-19 Thread Brett Duncan
Luc Saffre wrote: Hello, in some printed scores I find a chords notation as shown in the attached picture. Is there a way to render this in LP? I didn't find any better than writing a2:sus4 a which is less clear... In a lot of music, Asus4 A is exactly how it appears. I've certainly seen

Re: whole rest in 5/4 bar?

2009-03-12 Thread Brett Duncan
Chip wrote: How do I designate a whole rest in a 5/4 measure? I am getting barcheck failures with R1 and also with R1 r4 I'm sure it's something simple I'm missing here. Thanks, Chip Why not just R1*5/4 ? ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: glissando up from no note to a note

2009-03-09 Thread Brett Duncan
Chip wrote: Robin Bannister wrote: Chip wrote: it just resulted in messed up measures A judicious use of time distortion may help you here. \transpose c c'{ \hideNotes g,32\glissando \unHideNotes c'4*7/8 c'4 c'4 r4 | \hideNotes c''32\glissando \unHideNotes c'4*7/8 c'4 c'4 r4 |

Re: why does this simple notation fail a barcheck?

2009-02-24 Thread Brett Duncan
Chip wrote: \times 2/3 {f4 fs b} looks like 3 quarter notes to me. You've got TWO THIRDS of three quarter notes (timewise). What is it you're trying to achieve with the triplet? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Cannot correctly code this rhythm...

2009-02-21 Thread Brett Duncan
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: I looked into your project, but the project was complex enough that I didn't want to spend the time to figure it all out. I did get far enough to think that perhaps strict spacing only applies to music notes. Grace notes and bar lines appear to be spaced around the

Re: Cannot correctly code this rhythm...

2009-02-20 Thread Brett Duncan
RandomLilyPondUser wrote: After many an hour reading through the manual, snippets, and forum, I've finally figured out how to do most of what I need, except this one thing: I have six measures per line, how do I get the measures to line up perfectly with each other on all the lines? I don't

Re: yet another chord question

2009-02-09 Thread Brett Duncan
James E. Bailey wrote: I'd like to have a chord that is C-10. I have myChordDefinitions = { c e g b dis-\markup \super {-10} } And then, of course the requisite myChordExceptions = #(append (sequential-music-to-chord-exceptions myChordDefinitions #t) ignatzekExceptions) myChordInit

Re: text in staves

2009-02-09 Thread Brett Duncan
Nikolay Kirov wrote: Hello! Is there a way to insert a character or a string into staves? I would like to write big parenthesis centered at vertical center of staves. I hope this is possible but I cannot find any advice in the documentation. Nikolay I've done this by using: \once

Re: printed page does not match the .pdf file

2009-02-07 Thread Brett Duncan
Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message 20090207193803.ga2...@istic.org, Daniel Hulme s...@istic.org writes On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 06:34:35PM +, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: I just don't know where or why Acrobat is finding this American Letter stuff (oh - I've got a Hickey Pouse WinPrinter -

Re: Compilation Errors on MAC OS X 10.4.11

2009-01-28 Thread Brett Duncan
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: This is an error that exists in 2.12.1. See the list bug-lilyp...@gnu.org for the fix that is needed. 2.12.2 has the fix, and is available for download. Please try 2.12.2. Thanks, Carl 2.12.2 fixes the problem with font-file-as-ps-string, but the Pango warnings

Re: Chord notation in files output by Rosegarden

2009-01-22 Thread Brett Duncan
Lorenzo Bicci wrote: There is no No Chords symbol or function in Rosegarden. I'm referring to the use of N.C. or NC to mean that instruments that are playing chords must stop playing chords, which i've seen especially in pop music. Of course a N.C. markup could be put in as text, but it would

Re: Arpeggio next to a chord

2009-01-14 Thread Brett Duncan
Miklos Vajna wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:11:52PM +1100, Brett Duncan bdd1...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Rather than subverting your major 7th symbol, you could also set up a chord exception that adds the arpeggio when you add the 15th to the chord (which of course you would normally never do

Re: Copyright symbol SOLVED

2009-01-12 Thread Brett Duncan
David Raleigh Arnold wrote: This could never have happened if the symbol were present in any header example or template. Every copyright notice should have the symbol, because without it it's not a copyright notice. Not true - if it has the word Copyright followed by the year of publication

Re: Arpeggio next to a chord

2009-01-11 Thread Brett Duncan
James E. Bailey wrote: Great, that worked. This is still a workaround, but given that I don't want to use the major 7 (at least for now) for its original purpose, I can just say to overwrite it with arpeggioGuitar then I get what I wished. Rather than subverting your major 7th symbol, you

Re: Copyright symbol

2009-01-11 Thread Brett Duncan
David Raleigh Arnold wrote: There appears to be no way of inserting a copyright © symbol in lilypond 1.12.1. U+xxx, copy;, #169; and © don't work. I notice that the manual's copyright may not be valid because the symbol is omitted. (c) is ugly, amateurish and not valid. In previous versions,

Re: flatten ties ~ proportional notation.

2008-12-21 Thread Brett Duncan
Rob Canning wrote: i was trying to do it with sed with a line like this: sed 's/~/\\glissando/' header-inserted ties-fixed; but ran into trouble with all the ^ sybols and so on - I tried this myself and it seems to work fine once add the 'g' flag: 's/~/\\glissando/g' However, horizontal

Re: Just chords and lyrics.

2008-11-27 Thread Brett Duncan
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: I got exactly the same output with the Devnull approach as with the durations added to the lyrics. I can't see any difference at all in the output of the two approaches. Are you doing something different? If so, I'd really like to see it. Thanks, Carl The

Re: Just chords and lyrics.

2008-11-26 Thread Brett Duncan
Jonathan Kulp wrote: Yes, this works, but it only confirms my belief that someone who wants this really would be better off with a word processor or GuitarTeX. The spacing looks awful without a staff, not at all the sort of thing you normally see in a songbook of this type. (If the staff is

Re: Just chords and lyrics.

2008-11-25 Thread Brett Duncan
Francisco Vila wrote: 2008/11/25 Keith Weintraub [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Folks, Anyone have an example (forgive me if I missed it in the docs) of just chords and lyrics? I don't want to worry about the notes and just want to put word phrases more-or-less aligned with the correct measures. You do

Re: Just chords and lyrics.

2008-11-25 Thread Brett Duncan
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Here's one possible solution: \version 2.11.64 myChords = \chordmode { c1 g f c } myMelody = { c2 c4 c4 | c4 c c c | c4 c c c | c2 c } myLyrics = \lyricmode { Hi there let's | have fun with this | Here we have fun | don't we } \new ChordNames {

Re: Lilypond Tool on Mac 10.4.3

2008-11-16 Thread Brett Duncan
Craig Bakalian wrote: Hi, Has anyone out there downloaded the LilypondTool jEdit and have got it to work? I am just so cautious these days with java on Mac OS 10. I used to program heavily in java, but have not in 7 years. So, I am not even up to date on the different names for the

Re: What to do when \ and \ produce text

2008-10-29 Thread Brett Duncan
Francisco Vila wrote: 2008/10/28 George_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I did some tests and they came out perfectly fine, so it has to be something wrong with my ly file, right? Except I can't find anything in there that I did differently between the crescendo that came out right and the ones that started

Re: What to do when \ and \ produce text

2008-10-29 Thread Brett Duncan
Valentin Villenave wrote: Use the Source, Luke... ly/spanners-init.ly, line 21: cresc = { #(ly:export (make-event-chord (list cr))) \set crescendoText = \markup { \italic cresc. } \set crescendoSpanner = #'text } Okay, that makes things clearer (for me, at least). I don't know

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-09 Thread Brett Duncan
Patrick McCarty wrote: I'm still experimenting with this. :-) I've created another design with a color palette that passes the W3C Web Content Accessibility guidelines for color contrast: http://uoregon.edu/~pmccarty/texi2html/start-alt-alt.html

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-08 Thread Brett Duncan
Alexander Kobel wrote: A List Apart explains how to implement this with cookies, but we would rather not use JavaScript: And yes, I'm against JavaScript, too. This doesn't count as a real client-side solution from my point of view. ?? What is the objection to JavaScript? And why do you not

Re: Beginner problem with PianoStaff

2008-08-23 Thread Brett Duncan
Don Ravey wrote: I've just begun to learn LilyPond and already have this problem: when I try to use PianoStaff, LilyPond crashes without even writing a log entry. I uninstalled and reinstalled LP with no effect. If I remove the PianoStaff reference, it behaves as expected (although I can't

Re: I know you've heard this before

2008-07-26 Thread Brett Duncan
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: LilyPondTool is Java based, and works on Windows and Unix. It should work on OSX, but I haven't been able to get it to do so. You can use textedit to edit your lilypond files on OSX. Carl On 7/26/08 3:36 PM, James E. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like I was

Re: mac os x, lilypondtool, jedit, a puzzle

2008-05-04 Thread Brett Duncan
Stan Sanderson wrote: In the interest of improving a great tool, I ask... I'm sure I'm not the only one using jEdit with LilyPondTool on Mac OS 10 (10.4.11, PPC). I've had a dialogue with Bertalan Fodor (author of LilyPondTool) concerning its use on the Mac OS. He doesn't have access to a

Re: Extracting only lyrics and chords

2008-04-12 Thread Brett Duncan
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Why not read the section called Lyrics independent of notes in the manual? /Mats This came tantalisingly close to giving me a solution; the catch was that the ties and slurs in the melody were ignored or lost and the alignment of the lyrics against the chords went

Re: GDP: What term do you use?

2008-02-27 Thread Brett Duncan
Trevor Bača wrote: None of which has anything to do with ottava spanners. Or with octavated (caveat: not an English word) clefs. So while both an ottava spanners and an octavated clefs most certainly do effect octave transposition (which is absolutely the right phrase here), I would never

Re: GDP: What term do you use?

2008-02-27 Thread Brett Duncan
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 27. Februar 2008 schrieb Brett Duncan: The term octave clefs crops up in many places on the 'Net, An octave clef is something different than an ottava bracket. Botch indicate octavation, but while an ottava

Re: Second attempt - Chord gis ais b dis - getting its proper name

2008-02-15 Thread Brett Duncan
Hi Thies, Thies Albrecht wrote: Hi list! Brett Duncan schrieb: As far as I know this is called a G#-minor-add9, not add2. Perhaps this can give the clue. (I'm not sure whether this nomenclatur is still right for minor chords, but at least I makes sense to me.) Well, if the chord

Re: Second attempt - Chord gis ais b dis - getting its proper name

2008-02-14 Thread Brett Duncan
Thies Albrecht wrote: Tomas Valusek schrieb: Hello, I'm transcribing a piece where a chord mentioned in subject occurs. It's minor chord with added second. I can't get the proper chord name in Lilypond 2.10.33 on Windows. The best I can get is dis:6-:sus4 - but I want something like gis:m:2.

Re: position whole measure rest

2008-01-08 Thread Brett Duncan
Wilbert Berendsen wrote: Hello, I know that I can position a rest vertically using e.g. d'1\rest . But how can I alter the vertical position of a whole-measure rest (R1)? I want it to move outside the staff, so it should also get a ledger line. \relative c' { e2 e4 a } \\ {

Re: GDP: church rests

2007-11-14 Thread Brett Duncan
Graham Percival wrote: GDP: http://web.uvic.ca/~gperciva/ Take a look at NR 1.2.2 Writing rests: Multi measure rests is church rests a real musical term? There's some question over whether we should use church rests or Kirchenpausen. Cheers, - Graham I've never seen reference to church

Re: educational first draft

2007-11-05 Thread Brett Duncan
Graham Percival wrote: Was Educational use; name change? No particular good reason. That said, I'm quite open to a real name change. It seems to me that much of what's in this section could be classed as editorial rather than simply educational. So what about Editorial Notation or

Re: tuplets

2007-09-26 Thread Brett Duncan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard/used tuplets since the mid 1980s when I first started learning music. However, I've always understood it to specifically mean 'two in the time of x', probably as a mispronounciation of 'duplets' by confusing it with 'two' (two-plets - I grew up in Norfolk!).

Re: Slide to/from nowhere

2007-06-27 Thread Brett Duncan
c'64 \unHideNotes HTH, Brett Duncan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Usability Question

2007-01-19 Thread Brett Duncan
Bertalan Fodor wrote: A visual slur tweaking tool exists (see in the archives.) Have you tried that? I have now - and it's great! Bertalan, have you considered including this in/with LilyPondTool? ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Usability Question

2007-01-18 Thread Brett Duncan
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Brett Duncan wrote: snip \new Voice=3 { \voiceThree b'4} There's no point in naming the contexts here. You could save some typing by simply saying \new Voice { \voiceThree b'4} Thanks Mats - I'd followed what Rutger had posted, and assumed

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2007-01-06 Thread Brett Duncan
Frédéric Chiasson wrote: My point when I started this topic was not to change the whole definition of the \times function. In fact, I think the function works quite well as it is. I was mostly talking about improving the interface - i.e . the words and the syntax we use to call the functions

Scheme Problem

2006-12-30 Thread Brett Duncan
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Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-29 Thread Brett Duncan
Erik Sandberg wrote: On Thursday 28 December 2006 11:13, Brett Duncan wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote: On Monday 25 December 2006 06:32, David Fedoruk wrote: Hello: I've been watching this discussion or debate. There are two ways to look at this problem. The first is from

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-28 Thread Brett Duncan
that for the Beethoven snippet in David Fedoruk's post, instead of bf16[d, f ef] \times 4/5 {d16[ ef f g a]} \times 8/12 {bf32[a c bf d c bf a g f g ef]} you would put bf16[d, f ef] \tuplet 4 { d16 ef f g a ! bf32a c bf d c bf a g f g ef } Just a thought! Brett -- Brett Duncan [EMAIL

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-28 Thread Brett Duncan
Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: David Rogers wrote: Orm Finnendahl wrote: Am 28. Dezember 2006, 11:30 Uhr (-0800) schrieb David Rogers: bf16[d, f ef] \tuplet 4 { { { d16 ef f } { g a } } { bf32a c bf d c bf a g f g ef } } The above would generate a parent

Re: Absolute Beginners

2006-12-25 Thread Brett Duncan
Hi Manuel, Here's a couple of things I spotted: You specify these values with a number after the name of the note: c1 will make a whole note (also called a minim); d8 an eighth note (or quaver), etc. A minim is a half-note; a whole note is a semi-breve. (Please note that this is not

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-22 Thread Brett Duncan
of the function. Otherwise, we're simply turning \times into \tuplet without really changing anything about its functionality. My $0.02 Brett -- Brett Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] opinio tam stulta non est quam philosophus quidam exprimere non possit (there is no opinion so absurd that some philosopher

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-21 Thread Brett Duncan
people would like. (unless maybe the duration value is optional and can be omitted?) Just a thought. Brett -- Brett Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] opinio tam stulta non est quam philosophus quidam exprimere non possit (there is no opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not express it) Marcus

Re: Rhythmic slashes

2006-11-08 Thread Brett Duncan
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Paul Scott escreveu: Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: (snip) Here is a solution, just change the notehead! (thanks to Brett who sent me the idea) \paper { ragged-right = ##t } \new Staff \relative c' { \bar |: \override NoteHead #'style = #'slash b'4 b b b | b4

Re: 2.9.22 eps backend on Windows

2006-10-11 Thread Brett Duncan
Bertalan Fodor wrote: Hello I'm trying to use the eps backend (also by lilypond-book) and it doesn't work. I get the following error Please Help! I'm very frustrated. Bert Interpreting music... [1] Preprocessing graphical objects... Writing proba1-systems.tex... Writing

Re: Fragments; quality of png, and unuseable eps, when using --preview

2006-10-09 Thread Brett Duncan
Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: v2.9.22 (Win XP) I'm using the following command lines to create small musical fragments that I can later reference in a word processor document that has text and various musical excerpts: EXAMPLE BEGIN To make a small useseable PNG snippet: C:\Program

Re: 1/4 notes stems don't merge

2006-09-07 Thread Brett Duncan
Jean-marc LEGRAND wrote: Hi list. Using Lily 2.8 on XP. When I run this : {a8 [a16 s a16 a8] } I get the a16 stems unlinked. How can I get the same thing as {a8 [a16 a16 a8] } ? I get the same pb using \hiddenNotes Best regards JMarc I think you mean \hideNotes rather than

Re: stemUp stemDown with chords

2006-06-02 Thread Brett Duncan
Mark Dewey wrote: However, the need to do this is not always desirable. For example, when I type the following: d'2. \\ {c'2 (b4)} I run into the bug where the dot of d'2. is slightly blocked by the note head of c'2. If I get rid of the \\ then all the stems face the same direction and

Re: coda placement problem

2005-12-12 Thread Brett Duncan
Kenneth Teh wrote: I'm having trouble placing the coda symbol. ... The problem is that the \raise does not produce an effect. Text markup commands like \raise and \translate shift objects in relation to their surrounding markups. So r8^\markup { \raise #3.0 {... doesn't work because you

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-24 Thread Brett Duncan
On 24/8/05, Trevor Baca wrote: On 8/20/05, Bec and John Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brett, A more GUI-based solution is to output to PDF as normal, then just Save as... from Preview.app as a PNG. An even more Mac-ish GUI-ish solution is to output to pdf as normal, open the pdf in

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-21 Thread Brett Duncan
Many thanks to those who responded. It turns out that I had a case of brainfade - I had put the shell script that came with Lilypond where it could be triggered by LilyTool in jEdit, but not in a directory that was in $PATH. Hence a call to lilypond from the command line did nothing. FWIW,

Output other than PDF

2005-08-20 Thread Brett Duncan
the command line in Terminal that will let me specify the output format I want. Can anyone clear this up for me? TIA, Brett Duncan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-20 Thread Brett Duncan
Erik Sandberg wrote: On Saturday 20 August 2005 09.24, Brett Duncan wrote: I'm using the Mac OS X binary of Lilypond (2.6.1) and loving it. But how do I get the output as something other than PDF? Specifically, I want PNG, but PS would also be useful. Obviously I can't use the GUI to achieve

Adding extra stanzas after a score

2005-04-24 Thread Brett Duncan
I'm re-scoring an old hymn (Rock of Ages) that's been set to new music. I've scored the vocal line and piano and have the first stanza's lyrics in place. No problems there. The hymn has another three stanzas, but I would like to follow the hymn-book convention of having the additional stanzas

Re: [Fwd: Re: Powerchords (edited..]

2005-04-22 Thread Brett Duncan
Jennifer Clark wrote: Brett Duncan wrote: You can overrider Lilypond's chord naming mechanism by adding the following... Thanks for your help Brett, much appreciated. I've tried the example you gave, but am getting the following error:- /home/jen/scores/RockFord/notes.ly:7:3: error: syntax

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