Re: Possibly silly question but…

2020-11-28 Thread David Rogers
particularly dreadful. But I often wonder why tablature even needs it - surely it is obvious that what follows is tab, and it does not indicate relative pitch. Well, I am not a guitarist. Andrew On 28/11/2020 1:27 pm, David Rogers wrote: If those letters were human, they’d each be wearing

Re: Possibly silly question but…

2020-11-28 Thread David Rogers
particularly dreadful. But I often wonder why tablature even needs it - surely it is obvious that what follows is tab, and it does not indicate relative pitch. Well, I am not a guitarist. Andrew On 28/11/2020 1:27 pm, David Rogers wrote: If those letters were human, they’d each be wearing

Re: Possibly silly question but…

2020-11-27 Thread David Rogers
st letters. :) -- David Rogers

Re: Possibly silly question but…

2020-11-27 Thread David Rogers
hen nobody can say you didn’t do your job. But making it look great certainly has its benefits. -- David Rogers

Re: Possibly silly question but…

2020-11-14 Thread David Rogers
eople have come to expect. If I had my own choice to make it look better, I’d pick a very boring bold sans-serif like bold Helvetica or whatever, but that’s not what people are used to. -- David Rogers

Re: \unfoldRepeats

2020-11-01 Thread David Rogers
of a score that involve extra Scheme code or tweaks, it will build from papier-mâché. Consider it an alternative definition of “object-oriented”. :) -- David Rogers

Re: \unfoldRepeats

2020-10-28 Thread David Rogers
of Lilypond, and to me it makes more sense for them to intentionally neglect a secondary function than to hold back or limit a primary one. -- David Rogers

Re: \unfoldRepeats

2020-10-28 Thread David Rogers
that time and effort had been spent on other Lilypond issues instead. And if working on MIDI would turn into a distraction, or would “open a can of worms”, then IMO it wouldn’t be worth it. There certainly is software out there for creating artistically-orchestrated MIDI. -- David Rogers

Re: architecture document?

2020-10-26 Thread David Rogers
Tom Sgouros writes: Hello all: I've recently started using Lilypond and so far it's great. I don't think I'm saying anything surprising by observing what seems to be a close family resemblance to TeX. Did it start out as TeX macros and diverge?  I wonder if there is a document out there

Re: How to insert a simple "rit."?

2020-09-28 Thread David Rogers
Hello all I certainly remember having this same question or confusion. The fact that there is a specific \cresc led me to believe that there ought to be a specific \rit as well. May I suggest that a new Subsection 1.3.4 "Other expressive marks" be added to the Notation manual, simply

Re: Pedal cautionary after a line break (current status and improvements)

2020-06-27 Thread David Rogers
I should point out my own mistake: Breitkopf & Härtel did a great deal of very good work, and (from a pianist's point of view anyway) they don't belong in the same paragraph as PWM or Kalmus. -- David Rogers

Re: Pedal cautionary after a line break (current status and improvements)

2020-06-27 Thread David Rogers
n for claiming that Lilypond's sloppy and inconsistent handling of piano pedalling is acceptable. (There's also no social/political justification for claiming that that fact obliges any particular person or group to fix it at any particular time.) -- David Rogers

Re: Pedal cautionary after a line break (current status and improvements)

2020-06-26 Thread David Rogers
u!) There's an old joke: When free software is defective, the users are entitled to a full refund. :) -- David Rogers

Re: command request

2020-06-11 Thread David Rogers
eaner ways of declaring to Lilypond that the cadenza is unmetered, and/or clarifying the structure of what's before and after it, in the hope of preventing the problem in the first place. -- David Rogers

Re: mea máxima culpa

2013-09-12 Thread David Rogers
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: As I said, replies from a digest rarely make sense because of breaking the message threading. This is true, or at least I'm willing to take it as true - but if a digest exists, then it would be very strange and frustrating to try to disallow replying to it.

Re: LilyPond and ConTeXt

2013-09-08 Thread David Rogers
Henning Hraban Ramm lilypon...@fiee.net writes: Am 2013-09-06 um 23:12 schrieb David Rogers davidandrewrog...@gmail.com: Hello There have been several methods in the history of LilyPond for integrating LilyPond scores with ConTeXt documents (ConTeXt is a newer more-flexible system somewhat

Re: Double slurs on automatic part combining

2013-09-06 Thread David Rogers
Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote: I have to my right hand Hymns and Modern, New Standard and behind me Songs of Praise, New Standard. Both of these use separate voices for Sop

LilyPond and ConTeXt

2013-09-06 Thread David Rogers
Hello There have been several methods in the history of LilyPond for integrating LilyPond scores with ConTeXt documents (ConTeXt is a newer more-flexible system somewhat analogous to LaTeX). Right now, which is the best choice for putting ConTeXt and LilyPond together? (Your answer might be

Re: Feta font modifications by Janek

2013-09-05 Thread David Rogers
Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org writes: [wearing the FreeType maintainer hat] Howver, my opinion is that we don't *need* Multiple Masters in general. What we really need is an option to select a stylistic variant which contains a set of finely tuned glyphs representing a certain style, and

Re: Double slurs on automatic part combining

2013-09-05 Thread David Rogers
Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:44 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Why would you use the part combiner? I know SATB as basically \new ChoirStaff \new Staff { \clef treble { \soprano } \\ { \alto } } \new Staff { \clef

Re: [slightly OT] polymeter (was Re: chopin example)

2013-08-30 Thread David Rogers
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes: This thread reminded me that I wanted to let you all see the first few pages of a recent commission, which ended up requiring polymetrics across line breaks, etc. I love the way it turned out, and I can't imagine how difficult it would

Re: explicit 7 on a half diminished 7

2013-08-21 Thread David Rogers
Derek Klinge schilke...@gmail.com writes: For the life of me I cannot figure this out. I would like the following example to explicitly include the 7. Is there a way to change the way it handles half diminished 7ths? EXAMPLE \chords { c4:7.9- c:7.9-/g \set slashChordSeparator =

Re:

2013-08-19 Thread David Rogers
Robert Schmaus robert.schm...@web.de writes: Or do you mean bends? Glissandi? Key change, even? Could you maybe send (or point to) an example? It seems unclear what you mean with crescente/calante in harmonics (as opposed to dynamics) ... I believe that the intended meaning is Here are the

Re: frescobaldi on mac

2013-08-16 Thread David Rogers
Robert Schmaus robert.schm...@web.de writes: That brings me to my question: I've worked through Phillippe's recipe faithfully (I think). Now, when I try to launch frescobaldi on the Terminal, I get an error message ImportError: No module named sip Does anyone know what's the problem there?

Re: (fwd)

2013-08-13 Thread David Rogers
Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl writes: ... writing LilyPond code directly is in fact easier and much faster than ... fixing errors. Especially this. Most of the export and import processes end up with some errors, and being forced to find and solve machine-made errors (maybe obscure

Re: tuplet beams

2013-08-13 Thread David Rogers
Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonm...@ca.rr.com writes: Andrew, Thank you for your reply. I know that I could manually beam and that would suitably work for a few measures. The piece, Chopin Black Key Etude, has 83 measures like this. Some “set it and forget it” global command would be most

Re: MIDI keyboard

2013-08-13 Thread David Rogers
Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net writes: You could have played the entire piece in by the time you have set about looking for mistakes in the automatic entry systems. Richard: I think playing the piece in is what Johan is asking for, and is exactly what you're saying is a bad idea. I

Re: Text in front of Staves

2013-08-13 Thread David Rogers
k...@kalegood.com writes: I see that lilypond supports a cool-looking No. glyph, which is great. Unless I'm mistaken, it's not Lilypond giving that cool-looking glyph, it's the font they were using. The Unicode designation for that glyph is U+2116 Numero Sign Some fonts have it, others don't.

Re: SMuFL

2013-08-12 Thread David Rogers
Klaus Föhl klaus.fo...@uni-giessen.de writes: Hello, When changing font in text processing, you switch to a different font, and most time that's it. Relative placement is taken care of by the provided font metrics. In music notation there is a font, but at least within Lilipond objects

Re: SMuFL

2013-08-10 Thread David Rogers
Andrew Bernard andrew.bern...@gmail.com writes: Emmentaler is, in effect, proprietary, although free. I disagree. I think so poorly documented that in practice almost no one can understand how it works still can't qualify as in effect proprietary. It just qualifies as needing a huge amount of

Re: Henle piano template

2013-08-06 Thread David Rogers
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes: Hi Urs (et al.), I'm probably biased but I find the appearance of the 'old' score infinitely superior. Immediately, one notices [in the newer version] what a poor choice it is to have the triplet

Re: Henle piano template

2013-08-06 Thread David Rogers
Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: Am 06.08.2013 19:46, schrieb David Rogers: Some very significant reasons IMO that the old Henle score looks Henle: - the notehead shapes - the stem thickness (to my eyes, thinner relative to noteheads than LP) - the notehead size relative to staff

Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system

2013-08-05 Thread David Rogers
It seems to me that when scores are set with lots of white space, the rules are followed meticulously (and that this is why computer-generated scores began by being set much too loosely on the page - it's easier to follow spacing rules when you have lots of room to do so). As scores are set

Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system

2013-08-05 Thread David Rogers
James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com writes: On Aug 5, 2013 2:59 PM, James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com wrote: I appreciate the thought, but I'm not quite interested in that particular flavor of Kool-aid. I'll go with my eye on this. I don't like how it looks, and I get something that is easier

Re: Henle piano template

2013-08-05 Thread David Rogers
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes: Hello all, I have found some images of Henle's Moonlight Sonata. Old edition: http://www.ackermanmusic.co.uk/img/P/412339_1.jpg And the new one (from 2013):

Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system

2013-08-05 Thread David Rogers
Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com writes: I'm curious...did you happen to notice any examples where the engraver chose to split the measure that might be indicative of an approach? If I were to have done something like this for a hymnal/songbook, I would have split the measure and would

Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system

2013-08-04 Thread David Rogers
James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com writes: I ran into the attached spacing problem while typesetting a lead sheet. I can't make a minimal example right this second; will try in the next couple of days. When a tied note has a lyric syllable, LP (2.16.1) left aligns the syllable to the note,

Re: anyone got lilypond 2.16.2 to work on Windows Vista?

2013-08-02 Thread David Rogers
Robert Honoré robert.hon...@gmail.com writes: It usually does once I change the version string. I had sent the one that worked with my previous installation of lilypond (2.12.3). Usually, when I do an upgrade, I would change the version string once I get the error message when I attempt to

Re: optional transposition triggered by an external file?

2013-07-29 Thread David Rogers
Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de writes: Hello list, for my current project I have some scores located in individual files: A.ly B.ly C.ly which can be compiled independently, and a latex file containing calls like this \lilypondfile{A.ly} [... some text ...] \lilypondfile{B.ly} [...

Re: change the key signature

2013-07-27 Thread David Rogers
Givaldo de Cidra givaldodeci...@gmail.com writes: Could you help me with a code in lilypond? I have a musical example it was necessary to change the key signature. I made the change with the code below: \ set Staff.keySignature '= # (((1. 0.), SHARP) ((1. 3.), natural)) Placing a hash in

Re: stylesheets, defaults, and other in-Pond-erables

2013-07-19 Thread David Rogers
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes: Hello all, I'm hoping to break out a series of stylesheets (or stylesheet sets): instrument (e.g., violin) solo piano solo piano + vocal piano + solo instrument organ solo instrumental ensemble (e.g., piano

Re: stylesheets, defaults, and other in-Pond-erables

2013-07-19 Thread David Rogers
I've found a piano score that seems, to my eyes, both more friendly and more beautiful than Henle's Beethoven sonatas: the Chopin Nocturnes from Wiener Urtext, catalogue UT 50065 from 1980. If this turns out to have been computer-generated, then I'll just have to hang my head in shame. :) --

Re: stylesheets, defaults, and other in-Pond-erables

2013-07-18 Thread David Rogers
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes: Hello all, I'm going full-bore on getting some of my scores re-engraved in the next month or so. (They tend to be cram-engraved under pressure for the premiere, and then never returned to due to the next commission on the docket…) As

Re: Appoggiatura or not appoggiatura?

2013-07-15 Thread David Rogers
John Kliewe kli...@yahoo.com writes: Many thanks to the lilypond-user group for their advice on measure #47 of the Chopin Nocturne #3 (Op 9 No 3). Urs' article on voices was particularly helpful. My next challenge appeared in measure #69. This is working for me : \version 2.16.0 \relative

Re: Running Lilypond from Fraise

2013-06-28 Thread David Rogers
Jacques Menu jacques.m...@tvtmail.ch writes: Hello, Don't know Fraise, but if that may help : you menu entry should run: /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond be that textually placed there or in shell script of yours. I neglected this point in my hasty

Re: Running Lilypond from Fraise

2013-06-27 Thread David Rogers
Philippe de Rochambeau phi...@free.fr writes: Hello, could someone please explain how to run Lilypond from Fraise? I haven't used Fraise. I did use Smultron a little bit a long time ago. There may be an elegant way, eliminating the use of the terminal emulator and making steps 2 through 4 of

Re: Running Lilypond from Fraise

2013-06-27 Thread David Rogers
Hi again Philippe... If (when) Frescobaldi becomes easy to install on a Mac, definitely use it instead of Fraise - because Frescobaldi is made for Lilypond, it provides a lot of nice functions that Fraise will never have. -- David R ___ lilypond-user

Re: Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

2013-04-26 Thread David Rogers
Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: ... for some reason XeLaTeX/fontspec isn't willing to use the bold version of my chosen tt font (Inconsolata) - so the listings were without syntax highlighting. I have already done a workaround (by using the default tt font). Inconsolata originally

Re: Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

2013-04-21 Thread David Rogers
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: Peter Wannemacher pe...@scriptureoftheweek.com writes: == You wrote on page 4: Editor independent There isn’t a inseparable unit between editing and processing a docu- It is common to write: There isn't an inseparable unit And not

Re: Newbie problems

2013-04-15 Thread David Rogers
Peter Toye lilyp...@ptoye.com writes: Thank you all very much for your help. It's not the most intuitive user interface (or should that be language?), and I've only been trying it out for a few hours, so I'm coming up with all sorts of silly issues. One problem I'm having is that it's not

Re: Newbie problems

2013-04-15 Thread David Rogers
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: When using Emacs, C-h i is just two keystrokes away. No need to reserve additional space for the info manual. You're right - I didn't think of that, because I didn't have Emacs when I started using Lilypond. I still haven't made the switch, though I would

Re: Newbie problems

2013-04-15 Thread David Rogers
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: It would likely be worth it to have an Emacs window open just for reading the documentation... (... Good point; I'll reserve a space for it on my desktop...) :) -- David R ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Question about left-aligning syllables at beginning of lines

2013-04-11 Thread David Rogers
Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com writes: As I mentioned in another thread, I'm working on a hymnal/psalter project and ideally would like to justify both the left and right edges of each line of lyrics. I'm willing to settle for the left edge, if the right edge is too cumbersome to do. I

Re: call for italian users: translation of feathered beams and other terms

2013-04-11 Thread David Rogers
Davide Liessi dal...@gmail.com writes: direct I can't understand this glossary entry, since there isn't enough context. I don't think it is specifically a musical term, and I couldn't find occurrences of direct in NR with a different meaning from the usual, literal, common one. Why is

Re: Problem with lilypond-mode in emacs

2013-03-29 Thread David Rogers
Ralph Palmer palmer.r.vio...@gmail.com writes: Greetings - I'm running LilyPond 2.16.2 under Windows 7, SP1. I've copied the *.el files from lilypond\..\site-lisp to \emacs\emacs-24.3\site-lisp and I've set the PATH and HOME variables so that I think emacs is finding lilypond-mode.el, but

Re: default margins and lilypond-book

2013-03-25 Thread David Rogers
Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de writes: And is your intention to keep the lilypond source inside the LaTeX document? If that's not explicitely wanted you may have a look at my musicexamples' package. Overview: http://www.openlilylib.org/?/musicexamples/ The links to the project page and download

Re: conversion factor for \pt

2013-03-21 Thread David Rogers
Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com writes: Best I can say: It works. Though, in german I'd call this Fischertechnik (don't know if it's understandable outside Germany, otoh, there's an english wikipedia-article about it ...) North American writers use Tinkertoy to mean the same

Re: \relative is not the best way of entering complicated music

2013-03-12 Thread David Rogers
Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com writes: Is there a way to memorize or through pattern recognition how many ' and , symbols it takes to jump octaves? besides writing down a few notes and going to the tuneful site to listen to see if I messed up? as that's what I've been doing and it yeps

Re: Tying rest notes incorrectly ties succeeding normal notes?

2012-12-18 Thread David Rogers
Parham Fazelzadeh par...@hil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp writes: Yeah, it doesn't make sense to tie rests, you are right about that. But the behaviour was still unexpected, and unwanted, I would say. In general, with LilyPond, unexpected input creates unexpected output. Often, if you input something that

Re: 4-Drum Conga Notation in LilyPond

2012-12-18 Thread David Rogers
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: Eric Pancer epan...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: Is C6 considered 0? Well, here I'm the one who is confused. I never heard C6 and the others you mention below. Apologies. C5 is

Re: looking for a style guide

2012-12-17 Thread David Rogers
always the best how-to that you can get. -- David Rogers ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Lilypond cheat sheat

2012-11-07 Thread David Rogers
Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de writes: ... I added an *English version*, which should make it readable for a wider community. Most of the text consists of Lilypond commands, though. There are some places where I am not sure if I found the correct translation.

Re: Adding a clef mid-measure

2012-11-07 Thread David Rogers
soundsfromsound soundsfromso...@gmail.com writes: On a side note, is there any one way that everyone agrees is the best way to import MusicXML into Lilypond with the cleanest, most accurate conversion results? Yes, absolutely there is. 1. Print the score (not the file, print the musical

Re: how to call these notes?

2012-10-17 Thread David Rogers
Stefan Thomas kontrapunktste...@gmail.com writes: Are You sure that is an Urtext and not a kind of later arrangement of this piece? 2012/10/17 Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonm...@ca.rr.com The Harvard Concise is not in my possession. I do have a copy of Haydn's Keyboard Concerto No. 11 in D.

Re: how to call these notes?

2012-10-16 Thread David Rogers
Appoggiatura is a term in composition for a particular kind of note that doesn't belong to the harmony. Acciaccatura (crushed) is a playing technique that composers can request. Neither one is really the name of this little note. The little note isn't stroked OUT, because stroked out would mean

Re: how to call these notes?

2012-10-16 Thread David Rogers
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Owain Sutton ow...@owainsutton.co.uk wrote: I've always taken 'acciaccatura' and 'grace note' to be synonyms. I think that's probably correct. Which means that grace note would not be the best name for this notation either. I jokingly propose Lnwl. (Little

Re: how to call these notes?

2012-10-16 Thread David Rogers
I don't have any of the engraving manuals - what is this note called in those books? It would probably be better to go along with the industry standard name, even if that name turns out not to be perfect. -- David ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: slur to 2 alternatives

2012-09-25 Thread David Rogers
ole m...@oleschmidt.info writes: thanks, but than my example look like this (see attached .jpg) That jpg is interesting. I would never have chosen to print it the way they did, and I think it can and should be done differently. (But still interesting to try for that result if you want.) --

Re: F-flat Key Signature

2012-09-19 Thread David Rogers
keith Luke kkll...@gmail.com writes: Does anyone know why the flats appear our of order when the key signature is F-flat? I'm really only summarizing what's been said: that it's probably already correct, that it's probably a bad idea to use it, and that the score is truly unreadable with the

Re: F-flat Key Signature

2012-09-19 Thread David Rogers
Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de writes: But F flat _is_ different from E, especially in its relationship to other, 'normal' keys. F flat has a quite simple relation to G flat that might happen in real music. So I'm happy that LilyPond offers to explicitely write it down instead of refusing to do

Re: mac lion

2012-09-10 Thread David Rogers
fabio gabbianelli fabiogabbiane...@hotmail.it writes: anyone knows if lilypond 2.16 or 2.17 works with osx 10.7? it could work through jEdit ? I don't see any news about a version of LilyPondTool for 2.16 or later. But maybe I just wasn't paying attention. (LilyPondTool is the best way to

Re: mac lion

2012-09-10 Thread David Rogers
flup2 phili...@philmassart.net writes: Hello, No problem with 2.16 or 2.17 on a Mac with Lion or Mountain Lion, either with its own interface, or through command line, JEdit, Frescobaldi etc. (knowing that JEdit simply calls the command line of LilyPond). The previous problem of LilyPond

Re: mixed piano bracket style

2012-09-10 Thread David Rogers
james james.lilyp...@googlemail.com writes: I have been looking at this documentation for so long, that I just don't understand it anymore. Is it possible to get a line on the text pedal notation? There are so many contexts and engravers for the piano pedals, that I just don't see how to add

Re: exact placement rules for volta brackets?

2012-09-01 Thread David Rogers
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:55:09 +0200 Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Hello all, I am just about rewriting the bar line user interface and stumbled across a serious problem: with my new approach, the valta brackets are displaced. For developing a fix, I need to know how this is properly

Re: Attaca markup

2012-08-29 Thread David Rogers
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:50:12 -0700 Daniel E. Moctezuma democtez...@gmail.com wrote: Also, after an attaca indication should the bar numbers reset or continue counting? I take attacca to mean Go straight on, even though it's a new piece. Having the bar numbers continue would mean to me This

Re: [for Italian users] how to translate spanner?

2012-08-24 Thread David Rogers
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:56:03 -0400 John Link johnl...@nyc.rr.com wrote: Well, male water sheep is not Italian. Don't mind me. I had a rough rehearsal today and I'm in a weird mood, trying to make a joke with the Italian translation (via google translate) of the British meaning of spanner.

Re: [for Italian users] how to translate spanner?

2012-08-24 Thread David Rogers
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:03:24 +0100 Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk wrote: A spanner implies bridging between two equivalent end points. An extender would imply something already exists and is just made longer. A direction is often implied - the road was extended from A to B. Therefore,

Re: [for Italian users] how to translate spanner?

2012-08-24 Thread David Rogers
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:19:28 -0300 Felipe Castro fef...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/8/24, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net: Han-Wen, instead of spanner, in English, would you use extender? I'm not asking to change, just wondering if both words are equivalent in this case. Replying as a

Re: subito dynamic after hairpin

2012-08-22 Thread David Rogers
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:50:29 +1200 wjm mooney...@aim.com wrote: You wrote:- + Hi, I am trying to make a decrescendo end in a subito dynamic for the next note. . +++ Given that sfz is equal to subito-forzando (see

Can I modify sizes in pango-font-tree?

2012-08-14 Thread David Rogers
Hi all I'm using the following recommended code, which works properly with any font I've tried: \version 2.14.2 \paper { myStaffSize = #20 #(define fonts (make-pango-font-tree fontname-1 fontname-2

Re: clef change confuses manual key signature

2012-08-14 Thread David Rogers
On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:58:57 +0200 james james.lilyp...@googlemail.com wrote: Honestly, what's most important to me is where the sharps/flats in the key signature are placed. Looking at the PDF example, I can't understand which line is supposed to be the good one. They both look wrong to me.

Re: clef change confuses manual key signature

2012-08-14 Thread David Rogers
On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 23:47:52 +0200 Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@fam.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Some old handwritings have e.g. the f sharp in the keysignature not at the top line, but between the lowest and second-lowest line. If you want to create an authentic reprint of the autograph, you might

Re: Ledger line visibility issue

2012-08-12 Thread David Rogers
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:58:41 +0100 Peter Gentry peter.gen...@sunscales.co.uk wrote: I have a score with many repeated beamed quavers and semi-quavers on ledger lines. The default layout is difficult to read as ledger lines and the staff produce an almost hypnotic effect which confuses the

Re: Ledger line visibility issue

2012-08-12 Thread David Rogers
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:58:41 +0100 Peter Gentry peter.gen...@sunscales.co.uk wrote: ... all my attempts to make changes (apart from set-global-staff-size) have failed even when the syntax is accepted I missed this part of your post the first time. Lilypond's silence does not always indicate

Re: What’s wrong with this snippet?

2012-08-12 Thread David Rogers
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:05:41 +1000 Vaughan McAlley vaug...@mcalley.net.au wrote: This is a slight variation on: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/snippets/vocal-music#single-staff-template-with-notes-and-lyrics I’m trying to apply the idea from Skips in lyric mode[1], so that the

Re: NR 4.1.6: blank-last-page-force and penalty values

2012-08-11 Thread David Rogers
On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 15:28:30 +1000 Joe Neeman joenee...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com wrote: NR 4.1.6, \paper variable for page breaking http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/**Documentation/notation/other-_**

Re: bracket notehead

2012-08-04 Thread David Rogers
On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:59:32 +0200 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: That's because parentheses aren't brackets. () parentheses [] brackets {} curly brackets, occasionally braces angle brackets Absolutely true, from a specialist point of view - but in common usage (imprecise, yes,

Re: Brazen feature request

2012-08-02 Thread David Rogers
On Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:30:19 +0200 Gilles gilles.thiba...@free.fr wrote: The request is for six commands (NOT markups, but actual music commands that affect the MIDI output and so on): \segno \fine \tocoda \coda \dacapo \dalsegno Using the functions described here :

Brazen feature request

2012-08-01 Thread David Rogers
Hi all I don't have any money to contribute, nor any coding capability, so this is not a serious request in anything but tone of voice. :( It's extremely likely that this request is an obvious one, and that it's been requested in exactly this way many times, and has never been done because of

Re: Lilypond syntax

2012-07-29 Thread David Rogers
Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net writes: Some weeks back there was some discussion of the Lilypond syntax, I made some suggestions and was asked to write up a sample .ly file with the ideas I had in mind. Basically my notion was to separate content (notes and chords) from form (number of

Re: tunefl and other web services

2012-07-11 Thread David Rogers
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: PS concerning the girl, she's pretty indeed, but some of the /priests/ using Lily might have a problem with that :) I'm not a priest. However, I still don't like the picture. I don't mean that I disapprove, I mean that I don't think it looks

Re: playing instructions cause page numbers on wrong places

2012-07-09 Thread David Rogers
On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 16:15:02 +0200 Stefan Thomas kontrapunktste...@gmail.com wrote: Dear community, the very nice code, I've copied in the attached file anweisungen.ly does some things I don't like but I don't know how to change it: the page-numbers are at the bottom, not at the head off the

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-11 Thread David Rogers
Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net writes: Why is it like this? Because the focus of Lilypond has been, to a great degree, to create something that enables users to produce beautiful sheet music. That is the raison d'être of Lilypond. The main focus has not been on user friendliness and

Re: Scheme syntax vs. other languages

2012-06-09 Thread David Rogers
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: People use more Scheme than they probably realize, and getting Scheme help by devs tends to work mostly unspectacularly. [unspectacular often means not very good. I think you must be using unspectacular to mean it just happens, without too much trouble.]

Re: Possible multiple bugs, any way around?

2012-06-07 Thread David Rogers
Sami sami.ami...@gmail.com writes: ... however the \bar at the beginning of the music seems to be a problematic issue also. Normally, \bar |: at the very beginning is redundant and should be left out. Music with no \bar |: anywhere is always understood to go back to the beginning. [but

Re: Spacing

2011-10-26 Thread David Rogers
GRAEME F ST CLAIR graeme_st_cl...@atlanticbb.net writes: What directives, commands, instructions etc should I be looking at to put a little more air into its appearance? This may sound mean, but read the manual - it's all in there. When you get to know the manual you know not only the

Re: slightly offtopic,

2011-10-25 Thread David Rogers
Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com writes: 2011/10/25 ole m...@oleschmidt.info: Option+a did the trick (I'am on Mac OS X using Jedit with LilypondTool), very easy... If you newly discovered that, how could you have written it in your email in the first place? (If the mail client is set

Re: slightly offtopic

2011-10-24 Thread David Rogers
Ole Schmidt m...@oleschmidt.info writes: Hi, Can anyone point me in the right direction, I need a little circle above the letter (norwegian...) like this: å (see also attached screenshot if it is not displayed correctly) Whats do I have to enter, I can not found the utf-code that fits

Re: Disappearing hyphens (endashes) in lyrics

2011-10-20 Thread David Rogers
Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se writes: Christ van Willegen cvwillegen at gmail.com writes: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 03:26, David Rogers davidandrewrogers at gmail.com wrote: This will alert the singer, at the time they need to know, this is only half of the word. In your

Re: Vowel with Umlaut

2011-10-19 Thread David Rogers
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: GRAEME F ST CLAIR graeme_st_cl...@atlanticbb.net writes: Well, I plowtered (Scottish word) around with jEdit, but didn't get much where, so I recovered a Windows Emacs from backup, that I'd never got round to trying, installed it and got exactly nowhere

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