Re: Changing notehead sizes within chords

2015-06-29 Thread David B. Stocker
Klaus and Thomas, Thank you. These are exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. I've been starting to fool around with scheme and it's going very slowly. Maybe examining these and learning how/why they work will help me with the lilypond-specific scheme knowledge required to start solving

Changing notehead sizes within chords

2015-06-29 Thread David B. Stocker
Hello group, Is there a way to apply a NoteHead font-size once to a single music expression and then combine it with one or more other music expressions to get different notehead sizes on a single set of stems (i.e., one Voice context)? This is a common notation for pop music where there is

q shortcut and voicings in TAB

2015-06-17 Thread David B. Stocker
Question: Using the q shorthand for chords doesn't result in exact duplicates with regard to fret positions. In my minimal example, pasted below, I would intend for repeated chords to have the same fret position as the initial iteration. I would think this would be the desired behavior to sa

Re: Upper and Lower slurs in \partCombine

2015-05-04 Thread David B. Stocker
27;s in that general area if you scroll up on the resulting page, which I hadn't noticed before. Best regards, David On 05/04/2015 12:52 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote: You might check out doubleSlurs in the docs. HTH, Simon Am 04.05.2015 um 17:49 schrieb David B. Stocker: Hello, The 2.18 man

Upper and Lower slurs in \partCombine

2015-05-04 Thread David B. Stocker
Hello, The 2.18 manuals seem to indicate that simultaneous slurs are a no-no, but I thought I'd check here to see if anyone knows of a trick I haven't thought of. In my example, I would like to have a slur below the staff starting and ending in the same place as the slur above the staff. Prh

Re:Hymns and justified lyrics

2015-04-12 Thread David B. Stocker
David, Thank you for this. This is exactly what I'm after. It seems like you're a Scheme guy. Is there a learning resource you would recommend to a very green beginner? Thanks again, David On 04/09/2015 01:22 PM, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: You can find a function here which I bel

Hymns and justified lyrics

2015-04-09 Thread David B. Stocker
Hello LilyPonders, I have a client who is working on a hymnal, and they would like for the beginning of the lines of verses to be left justified. The best way I can see to do this, from a visual standpoint, is to make the longest syllable on the first note of each line centered like it normall

Re: Coloring Ledger Lines

2015-03-08 Thread David B. Stocker
gards, David On 03/08/2015 03:19 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: David, On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 2:00 PM, David B. Stocker mailto:notesetters...@gmail.com>> wrote: Okay, David provided the answer to my last question about the spacing, I just had to figure it out. It seems like a hack

Re: Coloring Ledger Lines

2015-03-08 Thread David B. Stocker
Okay, David provided the answer to my last question about the spacing, I just had to figure it out. It seems like a hack to my, but it achieves the result I'm after, so if no one has a more elegant suggestion, this is what I'm going with: \version "2.18.2" \paper { indent = 0\in ragged-ri

Re: Coloring Ledger Lines

2015-03-08 Thread David B. Stocker
I see. Thanks for the explanation. David On 03/08/2015 02:42 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 1:35 PM, David B. Stocker mailto:notesetters...@gmail.com>> wrote: I'm not sure what I'm looking at with the Scheme code, but I'll spend some time w

Re: Coloring Ledger Lines

2015-03-08 Thread David B. Stocker
I'm not sure what I'm looking at with the Scheme code, but I'll spend some time with it and see how it fits together. Any clues as to how to fix the ugly spacing issue that results from using \stopStaff and \startStaff? \version "2.18.2" \paper { indent = 0\in ragged-right = ##f } \sco

Re: Coloring Ledger Lines

2015-03-08 Thread David B. Stocker
rey \override Staff.LedgerLineSpanner.color = #grey a4 a a a \stopStaff \revert Staff.NoteHead.color \revert Staff.Stem.color \revert Staff.LedgerLineSpanner.color \startStaff a a a a } Cheers, Pierre 2015-03-08 5:21 GMT+01:00 David B. Stocker <mailto:notesetters...@gmail.com>>: H

Coloring Ledger Lines

2015-03-07 Thread David B. Stocker
Hello everyone, Does anyone know why the ledger line color in this example isn't reverted like the other grob colors? \relative c' { \override Staff.NoteHead.color = #grey \override Staff.Stem.color = #grey \override Staff.LedgerLineSpanner.color = #grey a4 a a a \revert Staff.NoteHead.co

Re: positioning dynamics vertically

2014-11-19 Thread David B. Stocker
icalAxisGroup.staff-staff-spacing = #'((basic-distance . 2)) } } %} } On 11/18/2014 02:41 PM, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: Hi David, 2014-11-18 18:30 GMT+01:00 David B. Stocker <mailto:notesetters...@gmail.com>>: I need that baseline to 'hug ' the botto

positioning dynamics vertically

2014-11-18 Thread David B. Stocker
Hello all, I'm typesetting pieces for piano and melody instrument and I have a question about dynamic placement. I'm adding dynamics to the melody part in a separate Dynamics context because I like for each line of markings to have its own static baseline. But I need that baseline to 'hug' t

Fwd: positioning dynamics vertically

2014-11-18 Thread David B. Stocker
Hello all, I'm typesetting pieces for piano and melody instrument and I have a question about dynamic placement. I'm adding dynamics to the melody part in a separate Dynamics context because I like for each line of markings to have its own static baseline. But I need that baseline to 'hug' the

Re: precisely controlling with width of an example

2014-04-17 Thread David B. Stocker
I haven't tried this, but might setting a custom page size of 4\in width and then setting margins to 0\cm in the paper block do the trick? Best regards, David ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

ly2video on Ubuntu

2014-04-06 Thread David B. Stocker
Hi all, Has anyone had success getting ly2video to work on recent versions of Ubuntu or Debian? I'm using ly2video 0.4.1 on UbuntuStudio 13.10 and seem to be running into issue #32: https://github.com/aspiers/ly2video/issues/32 I'm messing around with changing the ly2video.py script accord

Re: Overriding bound details of VoiceFollower line

2014-01-20 Thread David B. Stocker
gs fs16 e On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:55 AM, David B. Stocker mailto:notesetters...@gmail.com>> wrote: I've followed the directions in "Using the line-spanner-interface" <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/spanners> in the manuals, tryin

Overriding bound details of VoiceFollower line

2014-01-20 Thread David B. Stocker
Voice { \relative c' { \voiceOne \showStaffSwitch cs8 a r a e' \once \override VoiceFollower #'(bound-details right Y) = #-2 e \change Staff = "Right" \voiceTwo gs fs16 e } } \new Voice { \relative c' { \voiceTwo a8 a a a a gs16 d e8 d } } >> >

Free online courses

2012-09-30 Thread David B. Stocker
I'm posting this link in hopes that some may be interested or find it useful. Coursera is offering free, online courses hosted by various University departments in a variety of disciplines and subjects. There are about 20 relating to Computer Programming. I'm currently taking the course "Lea

Re: Even page numbers on right?

2012-06-18 Thread David B. Stocker
} \line { } } } } } Janek WarchoĊ‚ wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:30 AM, David B. Stocker wrote: Is there a way to have LilyPond print even page numbers in the top right corner and odd page numbers in the top left? This seems like it should be possible

Even page numbers on right?

2012-06-17 Thread David B. Stocker
Is there a way to have LilyPond print even page numbers in the top right corner and odd page numbers in the top left? This seems like it should be possible but I can't find any way to do it either in the manuals or the LSR or on the lilypond-user list. Thanks, David

Fwd: Middle voices and rests

2012-05-14 Thread David B. Stocker
Hi group, Any guess on how to make LilyPond automatically shift rests the way it shifts notes in middle voices to avoid collisions with other notes? Here's a minimal example. Thanks, David %% Example %% \version "2.14" upstems = { \relative c' { c2 } } middle = { \relative c' { g4