Re: website draft 4, help wanted

2009-07-08 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 7/8/09 6:27 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: Now for *my* rant. As I've said before, I stopped using lilypond 4-5 years ago. Last Fall, I briefly got back into improving the engraving of my old compositions, but that stopped when I went to Singapore. So why am

Re: Chordnames and added Bassnotes

2009-07-07 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 7/7/09 5:38 AM, Werner mey@web.de wrote: Hello, is there a possibility to print e.g. F _ C instead of F/C ??? As far as I know, this is not easily done right now. The chord naming code is currently under revision; I think that it will be more easily done in the

Re: chordChanges true, but certain cautionary chordnames wanted

2009-07-07 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 7/7/09 6:44 AM, Werner mey@web.de wrote: Hello. For accidentals there is the possibility to obtain them also if not needed by adding an exclamation mark ! How to get a chordsymbol if \set chordChanges = ##t ? Is there a hint? (Would be nice with the exclamation mark too.)

Re: Bass clarinet fingering chart

2009-07-07 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Mike, great work! I have some comments below On 7/7/09 2:46 PM, Mike Solomon mike...@ufl.edu wrote: Hey lilypond-users, Before I put this on the LSR, please play around with this. Specifically, please 1) Make it less sprawling. Decrease your tab settings. Follow the indentation

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-07-02 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 7/2/09 1:41 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 03:50:14PM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Graham Percival wrote: where is the gui is unfortunately still common, but the new website and the 10.5 GUI work should fix that. Actually, I beg to

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 79, Issue 104

2009-06-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/25/09 8:37 AM, Hajo Dezelski dl1...@googlemail.com wrote: Possibly we should also think of - a better slogan? it seems to me that Sibelius 6 - Perfect scores is more attractive than music notation for everyone. possibly something vaguely like: ... Jan. Lilypond -

Re: Header title problem or convert-ly problem

2009-06-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/25/09 2:37 PM, Jay Hamilton jay...@linuxquestions.net wrote: A: I have tried over and over to follow the docs. AND I have copy and pasted both Mats suggestions and now Simon's . Mats has never worked. Yes the version info is in the file. No it did not work. Simon's suggestion, I

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/23/09 9:16 AM, Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: On Jun 15, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Wol et al: Would it be reasonable to separate the functions of putting notes on the staff and chord names above the staff, and let the

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/23/09 5:19 PM, Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net wrote: On Jun 23, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 6/23/09 9:16 AM, Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: On Jun 15, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Wol et al

Re: subdivideBeams broken?

2009-06-21 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/21/09 9:49 AM, Hans Aberg hab...@math.su.se wrote: On 21 Jun 2009, at 16:47, Trevor Daniels wrote: SubdivideBeams will break beams at intervals defined by beatLength, which by default is set to 1 over the denominator of the time signature. Yes, but this is what goes wrong, as my

FW: [frogs] Re: Patching the output file naming code (Was: thanks to whomever put this in the LSR...)

2009-06-21 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
I've forwarded Ian's message from the Frogs mailing list, because I don't know how to answer his question. I'm sure somebody on -devel will. Thanks, Carl -- Forwarded Message From: Ian Hulin i...@hulin.org.uk Reply-To: fr...@lilynet.net Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:25:42 -0600 To: Reinhold

Re: subdivideBeams broken?

2009-06-21 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/21/09 3:27 PM, Hans Aberg hab...@math.su.se wrote: Yes, beatLength will do a (2+2)+(2+1) beaming. Though this is one possible beaming for what I am writing now, my problem is that I have bunch of different meters. For example, I may want (2+2)+3, (2+2)+3+(2+2) and so on. I have

Re: subdivideBeams broken?

2009-06-21 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/21/09 4:25 PM, Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com wrote: Carl D. Sorensen wrote: By default, beatLength is the numerator of the time signature. Don't you mean denominator? I would call the numerator beatCount or something. Haven't followed this thread, just wanted to make

Re: Petrucci-like spacing?

2009-06-19 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/18/09 8:45 AM, Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org wrote: Carl == Carl D Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu writes: Carl Does this seem at all promising? Yes, but there's still the problem of extra space at the barline. I tried Michael's solutions and doing nothing at all and there's

Re: RFC: new vertical layout engine

2009-06-15 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/15/09 2:37 PM, Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com wrote: Joe Neeman wrote: I've started working on a new system for doing vertical layout in one pass (ie. positioning and stretching the systems simultaneously). This should give better default behaviour than the current code and it

Re: Problems regarding figured bass

2009-06-14 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/14/09 3:38 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I'm running into several problems with figured bass while writing another large orchestral piece. Attached is a sample file highlighting these issues: 1) How

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-13 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/12/09 9:10 AM, Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net wrote: On Jun 12, 2009, at 1:28 AM, Tao Cumplido wrote: I think it's great that you did this. Have you put this on LSR? Thanks. I haven't put this on LSR yet because the function hasn't been much tested yet. Maybe I should have

Re: Petrucci-like spacing?

2009-06-13 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/8/09 6:15 PM, Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org wrote: Carl == Carl D Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu writes: Carl Here's my attempt to get the spacing you're looking for. I've Carl done it manually, but if you like it, I think that I can write Carl a music function

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-12 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/12/09 12:28 AM, Tao Cumplido tao_lilypondu...@gmx.net wrote: I think it's great that you did this. Have you put this on LSR? Thanks. I haven't put this on LSR yet because the function hasn't been much tested yet. Maybe I should have done anyway. When the function is updated I will

Re: Trouble with convert-ly

2009-06-11 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/11/09 4:36 PM, Father Gordon Gilbert fatherg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bertalan, Looking in jEdit plugin options, the line which shows were the program and convert-ly are shows /usr/bin .  And Lily fires up just fine, so you'd think convert-ly should work as well.  I did 'which

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-10 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/10/09 2:03 AM, Tao Cumplido tao_lilypondu...@gmx.net wrote: But as I said before, if anybody wants to create a chordname input mode that takes a root, and arbitrary name string, and an optional added bass, they're welcome to do so.

Re: Issues compiling multiple voice drum midi

2009-06-10 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/10/09 8:16 PM, hendr...@umn.edu hendr...@umn.edu wrote: This issue may be too elementary for this mailing list or may have already been addressed, however I cannot find answers in digging through the archives and am not sure where to ask more basic questions. If I need to be

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-09 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/9/09 9:16 AM, Jean-Alexis Montignies j...@sente.ch wrote: You can find an example of a chord notated as 'phrygian' (well it's more a modal indication, but that's what the composer Gary Peacock intended) in the lead sheet for Vignette. More arguments for using names: Alt is much

Missing jazz chord modifiers

2009-06-09 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
In our discussion about chord names, Jean-Alexis pointed out that we are probably missing some modifiers in our chord mode input. He pointed out one example: alt: 7.3-.5-.9-.11-.13- What are some other modifiers that should be added, in your opinion? Remember that m7b5 doesn't qualify as a

Re: Missing jazz chord modifiers

2009-06-09 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/9/09 11:16 AM, lasconic lasco...@gmail.com wrote: maybe bass ? for removing third and fifth and keeping the root only? Does this mean that you'd like to have a one-note chord? I've never seen this before in notation (but that doesn't mean too much). If you do want a one-note

Re: translation of the doc into italian

2009-06-09 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/9/09 10:39 AM, Federico Bruni brunol...@gmx.com wrote: Hi all, as far as I can see there is not an italian documentation for lilypond. I'd like to help with that, could you please tell me how can I contribute? If other italians want to join, either for just proofreading or

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-02 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/2/09 3:55 AM, Jean-Alexis Montignies j...@sente.ch wrote: Hi there, as a jazz player I would like to share my input. Thanks for sharing, Jean-Alexis. What I need in scores is really chord names. The chord name denotes the intent of the composer and is much subject to

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-01 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/1/09 12:50 PM, Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: On Jun 1, 2009, at 4:13 AM, Tim Rowe wrote: 2009/6/1 Carl D. Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu: You are welcome to pursue this, if you are interested in it. It is not my interest. I think

Re: Problems with Piano Staff Template

2009-06-01 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/1/09 1:38 PM, Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com wrote: Mats Bengtsson wrote: Mark Austin wrote: Thanks James. Works a treat now. However, this means the error is in the template in the Learning Manual, since I copied it straight over. The first few lines of the first \score

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-01 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/1/09 8:56 PM, Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net wrote: On Jun 1, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: A chordnamemode *input* mode has been proposed a couple of times. This mode would take only a root (and optionally, a slash or alternate bass note), and everything else

Re: Better MIDI

2009-06-01 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/1/09 5:29 PM, Peter Chubb lily.u...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: Hi, I've put up a page on how to get more realistic sounding MIDI output from current LilyPond, along with the scripts and scheme code used, at http://www.nicta.com.au/people/chubbp/articulate Peter, I haven't

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-01 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/1/09 1:45 PM, lasconic lasco...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Just in case it can be helpful, someone (Karl) post a pdf he wrote on MuseScore (http://www.musescore.org) mailing list about chord name display. Musescore is a free GPL WYSIWYG scorewriter (with lilypond export capabilities)

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-31 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/30/09 10:55 PM, Brett Duncan bdd1...@bigpond.net.au wrote: 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

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-31 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/31/09 7:34 AM, Johannes Schöpfer j...@schoepfer.info wrote: Hi, As I already said some time ago when I made my own chordnames functions, I still believe chordnames should be seperated from chords, or at least chords shouldn't produce chordnames since it'll never be clear. And the

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-30 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/30/09 3:21 AM, Brett Duncan bdd1...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Grammostola Rosea wrote: Do we have an Jazz/pop chord expert on the list (I'm sure he/she exist)? And who wants to help with this? I don't consider myself an expert, but after 20 years of playing with various pop, rock and

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-30 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/30/09 9:53 AM, Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: On May 30, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 5/30/09 3:21 AM, Brett Duncan bdd1...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Grammostola Rosea wrote: Do we have an Jazz/pop chord expert on the list

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-30 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/30/09 5:15 PM, Brett Duncan bdd1...@bigpond.net.au wrote: 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

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-30 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/30/09 7:16 PM, Carl D. Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu wrote: Right now we have a naming problem, separate from the display problem. If we can get the code to recognize that we have a Ebmaj7b5, then we can figure out how to display it in a way that the users will like. Right now, we

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-05-29 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/29/09 2:05 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Carl D. Sorensen schrieb: [...] Here's one way to do it: deadNote = #(define-music-function (parser location note) (ly:music?) (set! (ly:music-property note 'tweaks) (acons 'stencil ly:note-head::print

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-29 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/29/09 6:10 AM, Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, In the last months there where some questions about Jazz/pop chords. About the notation of the default chords but also about chords with an E in the bass, A/E, sus4 etc. Some people even posted ways to do it

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-05-29 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/29/09 1:56 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: David Stocker schrieb: If I may chime in... This may just be a matter of editorial taste, but would it be possible to make it so the 'X' on in the Tab staff is not the musical glyph from Feta, but rather the character 'capital X' from

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-05-29 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/29/09 9:20 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Carl D. Sorensen schrieb: On 5/29/09 2:05 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Carl D. Sorensen schrieb: [...] There is some drawback/difference: the crosses are drawn without whiteout, so they look different

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-05-28 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/28/09 1:21 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Carl D. Sorensen schrieb: [...] I think it's better to have the duplication and the ability to switch between \tabNumbersOnly and \tabFullNotation, than to avoid the duplication, and have \tabFullNotation be a non-undoable setting

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-05-28 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/28/09 7:22 AM, Julian jul...@casadesus.com.ar wrote: But still not within the tablature staff At the moment, I don't know how to manage this. I found it, % Dead Note \tweak #'stencil #ly:note-head::print \tweak #'glyph-name #2cross \tweak #'style #'special

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-05-28 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/28/09 6:28 PM, David Stocker dstoc...@thenotesetter.com wrote: If I may chime in... This may just be a matter of editorial taste, but would it be possible to make it so the 'X' on in the Tab staff is not the musical glyph from Feta, but rather the character 'capital X' from the same

Re: Tweaking end-of-line time signature?

2009-05-27 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/26/09 4:03 PM, Trevor Bača trevorb...@gmail.com wrote: Snip some good comments about this code %%% BEGIN #3 PROPORTIONAL SPACING WITHOUT STRICT NOTE SPACING AND WITH  EOL ADJUSTMENT %%% adjustEOLMeterBarlineExtraOffset = #(define-music-function (parser location) ()    #{  

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-05-27 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/27/09 2:50 PM, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/5/23 Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de: Neil Puttock schrieb: Since none of this works properly (I suspect it will require more than Scheme hacking to get everything working), I don't think it's suitable for inclusion. Hm,

Re: Confused about asterisk notation

2009-05-26 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/26/09 7:33 AM, David Bobroff bobr...@centrum.is wrote: Brandon Olivares wrote: Hi, One of the tracks starts with this: s16*259 a' b 16 e' d 16 a, b 16 s16 a b 16 e' d 16 The * is a multiplication sign. s16*259 means skip (i.e. invisible rest) a 16th note 259 times. I'd

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-05-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/25/09 12:13 PM, Julian jul...@casadesus.com.ar wrote: Hello Marc, Well at first, english is no my native lang, so sorry for don't speak it well. I'm the admin of tuxguitar (a tablature editor) project and now i'm trying to implement some of these features to the lilypond

Re: Petrucci-like spacing?

2009-05-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/25/09 10:57 AM, Henning Plumeyer h.plume...@web.de wrote: Am 25.05.2009, 02:13 Uhr, schrieb Carl D. Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu: There are some issues though - not with Laura's example where no bar lines are needed. But when you want bar lines the bars are too full. You can

Re: Line lengths in NR [was Petrucci-like spacing?]

2009-05-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/25/09 4:43 PM, Patrick McCarty pnor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 03:26:42PM -0700, Patrick McCarty wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk wrote: It looks like a whole note but has the duration of a quarter note, when LilyPond

Re: Petrucci-like spacing?

2009-05-24 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/24/09 8:56 AM, Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org wrote: I think so. There's a lot of stuff where modern transcribers typically halve or even quarter the note values, and I'd prefer not to but it's problematic with the normal lilypond spacing. (One reason it probably became common

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-05-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/23/09 1:09 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Neil Puttock schrieb: 2009/5/22 Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de: % for ties in tablature, fret numbers that are tied to should be invisible % or -after a line break - put in parentheses. Since this is not (easily?) % possible in lilypond, we

Re: \partial at start, but want whole bar at end

2009-05-22 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/22/09 7:27 AM, Paul Hodges p...@cassland.org wrote: Hi all, I have looked around, but I can't find anything about this in the pdf documentation or snippets (v2.12.2): At the start of my piece, I have \partial for an upbeat. However, I wish to have a full bar (a semibreve in 2/2)

Re: Should sample code in NR build correctly?

2009-05-22 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/22/09 4:25 PM, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: -Original Message- From: Patrick McCarty [mailto:pnor...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, 23 May 2009 8:15 AM To: Nick Payne Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Should sample code in NR build correctly? On Sat, May

Re: How to achieve chord stop with ¬

2009-05-21 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/21/09 1:08 AM, Stjepan Brbot stjepan.br...@zg.t-com.hr wrote: M Watts wrote: There are at least 2 versions in UTF-8; a normal one U+00AC, and a full-width one U+FFE2. To use these within lilypond, do \markup { \char ##x00AC } or \markup { \char ##xFFE2 }. Or, if your

Re: Complex chords

2009-05-21 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/21/09 12:41 AM, Stjepan Brbot stjepan.br...@zg.t-com.hr wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: You need to define exceptions to the way that LilyPond writes chords. One way is to use one of the alternative chord rendering methods that you can find in the snippet repository. You can put

Re: Complex chords

2009-05-21 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/21/09 2:54 PM, Stjepan Brbot stjepan.br...@zg.t-com.hr wrote: But this should be the whole snippet code form snippets guide, look at: Yes, but in your file there are apparently 16 lines that come before the lines you showed in your email. The line that caused the error is line 2

Re: How to achieve chord stop with ¬

2009-05-21 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/21/09 2:07 PM, Stjepan Brbot stjepan.br...@zg.t-com.hr wrote: Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Stjepan, First, you should know that this has been fixed in the git sources and will be available in the next development release. You can read the documentation about it here: http

Re: missing glissando features (bugs?)

2009-05-20 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/20/09 9:20 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:04:30AM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote: I've played several orchestral pieces where the violin parts include glissandi ranging over several strings. Mahler Symphony no. 4 comes to my mind, for

Re: missing glissando features (bugs?)

2009-05-20 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/20/09 10:41 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:19:47AM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Nonsense. You can push down a string without a fingerboard... ok, granted this *really* makes the ideal string calculations questionable, since you're

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-18 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/18/09 6:04 PM, Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com wrote: Carl, I'm working on your suggestions and have come across a problem. \relative c' { \chordmode { c \relative c'' { c }} This last example won't compile. (It was missing the last curly brace but I added it.) Here's

Re: Special markups

2009-05-18 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/18/09 4:09 PM, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/5/18 Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com: Helge Kruse wrote: I want to add markups... circled T and the half-moon... How do I add such special markups? See the 2 attached files. Nice curve. :) Here's a slightly

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-15 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/15/09 5:05 AM, Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com wrote: Chip wrote: Patrick McCarty wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Chip c...@wiegand.org wrote: I think this is the issue mentioned in the Known Issues for Chapter 1.1.2 Transpose in the Notation Reference. However, the

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-15 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/15/09 8:43 AM, Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se wrote: Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Music inside a \transpose or \chordmode block is absolute, unless a \relative is included inside the the \transpose or \chordmode block. When \relative blocks are nested, the innermost

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-15 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/15/09 3:06 PM, Anthony W. Youngman lilyp...@thewolery.demon.co.uk wrote: In message 200905151909580...@1654122929, David Pounder pound...@lineone.net writes I don't know if it's worth mentioning, but you can also run into problems using \repeat inside a \relative block if an

Re: Quoting everything from another voice

2009-05-15 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/15/09 4:13 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The notation reference states in section 1.6.3 that \quoteDuring is typically used for two instruments that play the same notes during a passage of music. Unfortunately,

Re: printing rest in ChordNames context

2009-05-14 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/14/09 8:07 AM, Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net wrote: into the \chords feels clunky and intrusive to me. I'd prefer to minimize putting formatting code in the music content as much as possible. Being able to write something like nc1 (or r1) and have it interpreted by LilyPond as

Re: printing rest in ChordNames context

2009-05-14 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/14/09 9:03 AM, Gilles Sadowski gil...@harfang.homelinux.org wrote: Hi. This solution to the N.C. problem (use r to indicate N.C.) ^^^ Will R also work? Not right now. I will investigate to see if it is

Re: Need help with this trill

2009-05-14 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/14/09 3:24 PM, Holger Hellebro hol...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'm a new Lilypond user and I'm really enjoying the program so far. However I am having difficulties typesetting a certain trill. You can see in the attached picture what I want to achieve. I run into two difficulties: 1.

Re: Newbie Question -- verse and chorus

2009-05-12 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/12/09 4:44 AM, Tim Rowe digi...@gmail.com wrote: Now on to my next exercise -- working out how to print capo chords in parentheses after the regular chord, so I get: (capo 3) C (A) G7 (E7) The nearest I can find is at

Re: Bass in Chord Name

2009-05-12 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/12/09 10:35 AM, Stjepan Brbot stjepan.br...@zg.t-com.hr wrote: Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Stjepan, I'd like to get the following chord D7/F#. How to define this F# as bass in chord? I can use d:7/fis but I get fis, not wanted F# as bass. If you're using english.ly, you

Re: writing chords

2009-05-12 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/12/09 12:41 PM, James E. Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com wrote: I will be the first one to admit that I don't work with chords frequently. I'm also trying to understand them. I understand that I can enter c:7 and lilypond will recognise that I want to display c7, and display it

Re: writing chords

2009-05-12 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/12/09 1:51 PM, Tim Rowe digi...@gmail.com wrote: I can get them all except for the last; when I try to remove the 9th (c:m11^7^9) lilypond gets stuck :-( If you read the notation reference carefully, you'll see that only the *first* pitch to be removed is preceded by ^. (6 examples

Re: bad spacing

2009-05-06 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/5/09 9:03 PM, Victor Eijkhout vic...@eijkhout.net wrote: This looks really bad: harpchords = \relative c' { \time 15/8 s2^C s2^G/B s2^Am s4. | s2^Cmaj7/B s2^Em/G s2^F s4. | s2^G s2^F/A s2^G/B s4. | s2^Dm/A s2^Dm/F s2 s4. | \repeat volta 2 { s2^C s2^G/B s2^Am

Re: Chord Names Tweak

2009-05-03 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Jonathan, On 5/2/09 2:23 PM, Jonathan Townes edmundtow...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, Does anyone have suggestions for tweaking the position of accidental in chord names. For example, the flat sign in in the chord name Ab? I find in the default Lilypond setting the flat symbol is too big

Re: adding to the LSR

2009-05-02 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/2/09 5:50 AM, Daniel Hulme s...@istic.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 09:54:09PM +0800, Graham Percival wrote: Is it worth defining our own function replaceOnly(\\octave, ...) which does re.sub(\\octave[?a-z,A-Z], ...) or whatever the regex was? \\octave\b would work fine.

Re: auto-beam in pickup-bars with grace note

2009-05-01 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Christian, This kind of question is better asked on lilypond-user. Thanks, Carel On 4/30/09 12:57 PM, grisu_76 christian.hum...@univie.ac.at wrote: As for I get some helpful hints for solving the spacing-problem in pickup-bars starting with a grace note, now I struggle with the

Re: tablature.ly

2009-04-30 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/30/09 1:36 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: [snip] I have reworked my tablature.ly according to all suggestions and improvements by Neil and Carl. The modern tab clef seems to be scaling properly, I played a bit with some values for staff-space, and it looks now as it should

Re: tablature.ly

2009-04-29 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/29/09 3:12 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Neil Puttock schrieb: 2009/4/27 Carl D. Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu: Neil, Thanks for your input. I think it's all really good. On 4/26/09 1:49 PM, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/25 Marc Hohl m

Re: adding to the LSR

2009-04-28 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/28/09 4:42 PM, Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com wrote: Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Thanks for the offer, Chip. I've just finished a preliminary run through all of the snippets. I downloaded the tarball of the entire repo and ran them through the convert-ly script, then did

Re: tablature.ly

2009-04-27 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/27/09 3:38 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Neil Puttock schrieb: 2009/4/25 Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de: (font-size (- (* num-strings 1.5) 7)) (base-skip (cond ((= 4 num-strings) 1.55) ((= 5 num-strings) 1.84)

Re: tablature.ly

2009-04-27 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/27/09 12:47 PM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Carl D. Sorensen schrieb: On 4/27/09 3:38 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: No, I didn't get this mail. I played around with your suggestions and the improvements given by Neil and have now: #(define-markup-command

Re: tablature.ly

2009-04-26 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Neil, Thanks for your input. I think it's all really good. On 4/26/09 1:49 PM, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/25 Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de: Hello tablature users*, Like Carl, I'm not a tablature user, so I can only comment on matters of coding. Some suggestions and

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 9:37 AM, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/23 Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com: Graham Percival wrote: 1.  Log in to LSR as an editor.  (I remember the discussion now; this isn't your fault) 2.  Find the tags section for each snippet. 3.  Click on the

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 1:31 PM, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps the point I was trying to make got lost in my slightly facetious reply: if we're talking about LSR snippets which are in the docs, the LSR editor must be mindful of the fact that editing such examples in LSR may have no

Re: New fonts for chords

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 12:52 PM, Pekka Siponen pekka.sipo...@bastu.net wrote: Here are some thoughts about the default chords in LilyPond: 1. The suffixes should not be scaled (see attachment). The weight of the smaller character gets too light if it is simply scaled down from the original font.

Re: tablature.ly

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Looks great, Marc! *Very* nicely done. On 4/25/09 4:06 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Hello tablature users*, SNIP 3) some more tunings are defined: guitar-seven-string-tuning guitar-drop-d-tuning bass-four-string-tuning bass-drop-d-tuning

Re: New fonts for chords

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 2:36 PM, Pekka Siponen pekka.sipo...@bastu.net wrote: Indeed it (suffix position) is a personal preference, and not correct most likely. I find that there is no standard for chord names, they have been around only for a short time historically, and mostly everything is based on

Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 3:38 PM, -Eluze elu...@gmail.com wrote: Carl D. Sorensen wrote: You use the Internals Reference. You find the object you want engraved under 3.1 All layout objects: 3.1.111 TextSpanner. The IR tells you that TextSpanners are created by Dynamic_engraver

Re: Changing font of Table of Contents

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 5:38 PM, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: I'm putting together a book of pieces, and using a particular font for headers, footers, titles, subtitles, etc. The one place where I haven't figured out how to get that font used is for the header text for the table of

Re: Changing font of Table of Contents

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 5:38 PM, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: I'm putting together a book of pieces, and using a particular font for headers, footers, titles, subtitles, etc. The one place where I haven't figured out how to get that font used is for the header text for the table of

Re: Removing empty (drum) staff in a score, instrument name placement

2009-04-24 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/24/09 1:51 PM, Toine Schreurs a.m.m.schre...@chem.uu.nl wrote: 1. You would need (the nonexisting) RemoveEmptyDrumStaffContext. But inspection of engraver-init.ly points to the solution: SNIP Toine, Thanks for a great, clear answer. You're making a great contribution to LilyPond by

Re: music expression explanation

2009-04-24 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/24/09 4:22 PM, Peter Chubb lily.u...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: I'd really appreciate an appendix or something that gives Lily syntax as BNF, or as a syntax diagram. The syntax is very complex, and I've been caught out a number of times by things not being as I expected them to be

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/23/09 9:31 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 09:56:05AM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: Graham Percival wrote: I will admit that outputting the version number appears in the Text list, rather than the titles. In fact, both snippets should

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/23/09 12:04 PM, Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com wrote: Graham Percival wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:31:22AM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: And we really (IMO) need to be doing it as part of moving to a 2.12 LSR. We should also be evaluating: A) Does it run in 2.12? B

Re: Playing a file in midi

2009-04-22 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/22/09 5:09 AM, Shayne Picard shay...@gmail.com wrote: How can I play a file in midi? See Notation Reference Section 3.5 in the LilyPond documentation. Thanks, Carl ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Vertical Spacing question

2009-04-22 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/22/09 9:13 AM, Mischa Falkenburg because_producti...@myfairpoint.net wrote: Hello All, I'm using version 2.12.1, and my piece utilizes a GrandStaff with 6 Staffs. The .pdf file generated shows all the pages, except for the final page, with a big space between two GrandStaffs. I

Re: Moving dynamics to a fixed vertical position (inside the staff)

2009-04-20 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/20/09 3:11 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com wrote: Is there any way to position a dynamic sign at an explicit staff-relative (not note-relative) vertical position? Here's a hack that uses staff-padding together with a change in the Y-extent that makes it work. However,

Re: Moving dynamics to a fixed vertical position (inside the staff)

2009-04-20 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/20/09 4:32 PM, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/20 Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com: Is there any way to position a dynamic sign at an explicit staff-relative (not note-relative) vertical position? Since the dynamic's X-parent is the notehead, you can

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