How to repair volta bracket ending?

2012-06-13 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hello, I have a song with three different repeat endings and special volta bracket text. Everything works fine except the middle volta bracket has no vertical line at the right end. Can you please help me with this? Thanks Dominic \version 2.14.2 voltaI = \markup { 1. 3. 5. } voltaII =

LaTeX font as Lyric font in LilyPond?

2011-04-17 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi folks, is it possible to use the LaTeX font Computer Modern SansSerif (selected by \sffamily in LaTeX) as Lyrics font in LilyPond? Probably it is possible, but how (under Debian Linux). I already know the commands to set the font because I already use it under Windows sometimes. I use:

Re: How to create a coda with a gap?

2010-11-25 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi Gilles, hi Vincente and all, thank you both for your answers. They helped me very much. The only problem that I still have is that the first volta bracket has no end. I played around with this as you, Gilles, said that using a |. bar the bracket has an end line. So I wrote this: \override

Re: How to create a coda with a gap?

2010-11-25 Thread Dominic Neumann
this works great! Thanks Dominic - Ursprüngliche Mail - Von: Robin Bannister r...@dataway.ch An: Dominic Neumann m...@dominicneumann.de, lilypond-user@gnu.org Gesendet: Donnerstag, 25. November 2010 10:32:52 Betreff: Re: How to create a coda with a gap? Dominic Neumann wrote

How to create a coda with a gap?

2010-11-24 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi, I want to produce a special Coda which does not reside on a new line but is separated by a gap. You can find the original in the attached file examplecoda.jpg. I already tried for a long time but the result isn´t exactly what I want. Below you can find a minimal example code which I used

simple page break command in lilypond-book?

2009-04-23 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi, is there a simple way to create a page break in a song that is build with lilypond-book? \pageBreak doesn´t work there. Dominic ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Centering chorus between even verses

2008-11-18 Thread Dominic Neumann
There is only the definition of leftbrace and rightbrace but these are not used in any place. So they don´t show up. I´ve tried to add \rightbrace after \dropLyrics which works quite good, but has one fundamental problem: The brace uses one note as a syllable would. Maybe someon else has a helping

Re: pdf file

2008-11-14 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi Naomy, please explain what you did to produce a pdf file. If you don´t know what to do, the Learning Manual is a good starting point: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/index Dominic 2008/11/12 Naomy Gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i just installed lilypond and i

Re: Vertical spacing between different verses

2008-11-09 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi Simon, welcome to LilyPond! 1. Increase vertical spaces between the verses, i.e. the spaces between verse one and two and between verse two and three. I want to do that for both the soprano lyrics and the lyrics of the accompanying men's choir. You should you the following layout block.

Re: Three newbie questions

2008-11-06 Thread Dominic Neumann
Welcome to LilyPond, André! 1) I don´t know, but I´m interested, too! 2) You should set \germanChords or \semiGermanChords to meet your needs. 3) I don´t think, it´s possible to let LilyPond decide how to print stanzas at the end. Dominic 2008/11/6 Atte André Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi I

Re: Formatting of lyric syllables

2008-11-06 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi Till, to let the stanza number appear bold, just write \set stanza = 4. before syllable. The issue is, that when having 4 repeats with 2 voltas, the fourth stanza Do you mean 4 verses in a repeat with two voltas? Please provide us a little example. Dominic

Re: Formatting of lyric syllables

2008-11-06 Thread Dominic Neumann
I updated your file a bit and hope that it is what you wanted. I added at the end of the lyrics of stanza 3. This shifts the fourth verse to the place you wanted. Additionally I replaced the first underline in the fourth verse by for layout reasons. If you keep the underline, the syllable

Re: Why do so many newcomers post to bug-lilypond?

2008-11-04 Thread Dominic Neumann
2008/11/4 fiëé visuëlle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am 2008-11-04 um 21:10 schrieb Mats Bengtsson: fiëé visuëlle wrote: Regarding those newbies who are looking for a GUI: Why don't we publish a screenshot or two? Users are looking for screenshots if they evaluate a new application (at least I

Re: urgent: people for a fair-copy needed

2008-10-26 Thread Dominic Neumann
I could help, too. But I also wouldn´t do it for such a low price if it wasn´t published under such a license Valentin mentioned. If it was to be published as a book where they earn money with, there should be more money to get ... Dominic 2008/10/25 Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: How to stop melisma line?

2008-09-29 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi Dmytro, replace uplyr by the following: uplyr = \lyricmode { la -- la -- la -- la __ _ _ la -- la -- la } You should know, that _ does the same as \skip 1, but is easier to write. Hope this helps! Dominic 2008/9/29 Dmytro O. Redchuk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, all. In vocal scores i

Re: Hidden rests without visible space

2008-09-04 Thread Dominic Neumann
I´m not sure what you exactly want, but maybe you can give us a short .ly example? You could try to use s followed by the value of the invisible rest. Dominic 2008/9/4 Aaron Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is it possible to create hidden rests that do not create visible space? I have used skips to

Re: lyrics and repeat

2008-09-01 Thread Dominic Neumann
There was a similar question some days ago. Do the answers help you? http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg39370.html Dominic 2008/9/1 Grammostola Rosea [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Grammostola Rosea wrote: Joseph Haig wrote: You want to add: versetwo = \lyricmode { % Second line

Re: lyrics and repeat

2008-08-31 Thread Dominic Neumann
To add more lines of lyrics easily add another \addlyrics { ... } after the first. It doesn´t matter if there´s a repeat in the notes - LilyPond typesets the lyrics as you see them on the paper. Hope this helps Dominic 2008/8/31 Grammostola Rosea [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I want to add lyrics

Re: lilypond as an web-based application?

2008-08-30 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi Stefan, Valentin has already started such a project. I don´t know how good it works. Probably it´s only a starting point: http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/ Dominic 2008/8/30 Stefan Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear lilypond-users, I have had an (maybee studpid) idea in the last days.

Re: Converting lilypond to music xml

2008-08-25 Thread Dominic Neumann
I´m not a MIDI expert, but why use the MIDI way if you could import MIDI also directly into Finale? [This is probably possible.] As MIDI does not contain any layout information it is not well suited for producing MusicXML output. Additionally, I don´t know the current features of MIDI files, but

Re: Time signatures (Common, Cut Common)

2008-08-24 Thread Dominic Neumann
As you can see at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals/TimeSignature#TimeSignatureyou can say \override Staff.TimeSignature #'style = #'C to reset the TimeSignature behaviour to the default. Here (

Re: lyrics

2008-08-23 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi Lara, PLEASE give us some source code. Then we can probably help you! It´s much easier for us if we do not have to create a sample for ourselves. Thanks, Dominic 2008/8/23 Lara Diamand [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks everyone for the help with the skipping of text! It worked well with the _

Re: Beginner problem with PianoStaff

2008-08-23 Thread Dominic Neumann
Welcome to LilyPond, Don! Here on version 2.11.51 your source code compiles without any problem. Maybe you should try the current development version? And a little hint: If you replace r1 by R1 you get a rest that is centered in the bar. That´s what´s looking better for fullbar-rests most time.

Re: lyrics

2008-08-20 Thread Dominic Neumann
It can be, but this only works in \lyricmode: OKAY: \repeat unfold 4 \skip 1 NOT OKAY: \repeat unfold 4 _ OKAY: \lyricmode { \repeat unfold 4 _ } ALSO OKAY: \repeat unfold 4 \lyricmode { _ } Instead of what Kieren said \repeat unfold 42 \skip doesn´t work, because \skip needs to be

Re: lyrics

2008-08-20 Thread Dominic Neumann
{ \refrSkip \verseTwo } \addlyrics { \refrSkip \verseThree } Dominic 2008/8/20 Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dominic Neumann wrote: It can be, but this only works in \lyricmode: Which is the only way I do lyrics. :) Paul OKAY: \repeat unfold 4 \skip 1 NOT OKAY: \repeat unfold 4 _ OKAY

Re: lyrics

2008-08-19 Thread Dominic Neumann
: The text in the verses do not tek notice of the volta, so the text in verse two runs through under volta 1. It should skip volta1 and go straight to volta 2. Thanks! Lara On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Dominic Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Lara, the quick'n'dirty solution (I still

Re: ChordNames prints small characters for added bassnotes, I'd prefer capital like C/E or Cm/Es ...

2008-08-19 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi Werner, the bass notes being printed as capital letters is the standard option, if I´m right. You should take a look at the Manual, section 2.7.2 Displaying chords. There are some predefined commands for selected a special style. But I don´t know if it´s possible to print minor chords with

Re: Newbie chord alignment question

2008-08-19 Thread Dominic Neumann
I think, your problem is that you use \partial 4 but don´t remember that when setting the harmonies. Please add s4 to the beginning of your harmonies: harmonies ={ \key e \major \chordmode { s4 e1

Re: Registration Problem and Encoding Problem

2008-08-19 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi Joseph, welcome to LilyPond! You have to set the encoding in jEdit. Menu Entry: Utilities - Global Options - jEdit - Encodings. As Default character encoding you set UTF-8. To change the encoding of existing files opened with jEdit, you double-click onto the encoding on the right side of the

Re: lyrics

2008-08-18 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi Lara, the quick'n'dirty solution (I still use) is the following: \version 2.11.55 refrain = \lyricmode { \set stanza = Refr. bla blu blubb blubb } verseOne = \lyricmode { \set stanza = 1. one two three four five } verseTwo = \lyricmode { \set stanza = 2. six se

Re: Score with large empty section at the top

2008-08-14 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi Maarten, I think it is standard behaviour. I remember there was a command to let LilyPond display all the spaces it uses and its names. But I don´t remember the command and couldn´t find it by searching ... Dominic 2008/8/13 SPAM [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm transcribing a piece for six brass

Re: Score with large empty section at the top

2008-08-14 Thread Dominic Neumann
If you don´t want the wide gap, add ragged-bottom = ##t to your paper section. Dominic 2008/8/14 Dominic Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Maarten, I think it is standard behaviour. I remember there was a command to let LilyPond display all the spaces it uses and its names. But I don´t

Re: How to add double barlines to a gregorian chant?

2008-08-12 Thread Dominic Neumann
]: On 2008/08/11 11:13 AM, Dominic Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Kurt! I already solved some problems, for example by using \finalis, \divisioMinima and so on. The main remaining problem is the bad positioning of notes and lyrics when two or more noteheads are nearly in one place. After

Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU

2008-08-12 Thread Dominic Neumann
2008/8/12 Ralph Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyone else remember Booker T. and the . . . ? In any case, it might make sense to use at least some of the acronyms judiciously. There is a wide variety of users on this list, and many of the discussions are, while not exclusive, at least aimed at a

Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU

2008-08-12 Thread Dominic Neumann
to, make the discussion intelligible to a newbie. Ralph On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Dominic Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/8/12 Ralph Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyone else remember Booker T. and the . . . ? In any case, it might make sense to use at least some of the acronyms

Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU

2008-08-11 Thread Dominic Neumann
I understand your position very well, Graham. But we should also try to improve the way of helping via the mailing list to convince newcomers of the power of LilyPond. What about providing a signature to the mailing list explaining these abbreviations? I don´t know if this is possible, but it

Re: How to add double barlines to a gregorian chant?

2008-08-11 Thread Dominic Neumann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks! I've been looking for a copy of this chant without success, although you appear to have missed the second line. Possibly, this is deliberate as the music is the same as the first line. I hope someone can solve the problem of the spacing. 2008/8/11 Dominic Neumann

Re: How to move noteheads to the left? (was: Re: How to add double barlines to a gregorian chant?)

2008-08-03 Thread Dominic Neumann
solve this? Dominic 2008/8/1 Dominic Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/7/31 Dominic Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/7/30 Joseph Haig [EMAIL PROTECTED]: An even more unfortunate side effect of this is that if you have long melimata the spacing gets messed up, because lilypond allocates a certain

How to move noteheads to the left? (was: Re: How to add double barlines to a gregorian chant?)

2008-08-01 Thread Dominic Neumann
2008/7/31 Dominic Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/7/30 Joseph Haig [EMAIL PROTECTED]: An even more unfortunate side effect of this is that if you have long melimata the spacing gets messed up, because lilypond allocates a certain amount of space for each neume even though they are clustered

Re: How to add double barlines to a gregorian chant?

2008-07-31 Thread Dominic Neumann
2008/7/30 Joseph Haig [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/7/29 Dominic Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Okay, then it breaks already after the fourth note ... this doesn´t help much. Now I added some more \noBreak commands after other notes and now it fits into one line. That´s not what I would call a clean

Re: How to add double barlines to a gregorian chant?

2008-07-29 Thread Dominic Neumann
. Specifically, the double bar line is \finalis. See section 7.7.9 (Divisiones) for the whole list. I think you will still need to use \bar to indicate places where the line can be split. Regards, Joe 2008/7/29 Dominic Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I´m new to gregorian typesetting but I´ve seen

Re: adding graphics with external program

2008-07-29 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi Matth, Isn´t scribus capable of including pdf files directly? In my opinion this would be the better way - if it´s possible. Dominic 2008/7/29 Matthieu Jacquot [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I use scribus to write an essay containing a lot of little music examples (made with lily of course), the

How to add double barlines to a gregorian chant?

2008-07-29 Thread Dominic Neumann
, Joe 2008/7/29 Dominic Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I´m new to gregorian typesetting but I´ve seen that there´s already support for it in LilyPond. Can you tell me how I can add a double bar at the end? And there is a wrong note at the end? How can I delete it? Is it at all

Re: Is this possible

2008-07-29 Thread Dominic Neumann
]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 29. Juli 2008 schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer: Am Dienstag, 29. Juli 2008 schrieb Dominic Neumann: is it possible to typeset the attached gregorian piece in LilyPond? I could find something similar in the documentation. I need to know what

Re: broken octaves

2008-07-26 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi Jay, nice example! But I think it would be even better if I could write \brokenoctaves #1 { c4 d e f g8 a b c } meaning that the function also recognizes the durations of the notes. Maybe you could be so kind to explain how your functions work. Then we could also learn from it and possibly

Re: broken octaves

2008-07-25 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi Stefan, are you sure you want c c' d d' ... instead of c c' d, d' e, e'? You could write a scheme function for that. I´ll try it, but I´m not too experienced in such things. Dominic 2008/7/25 Stefan Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear Lilypond-users, I have in mind an input like: \relative {

Re: nopc -- Proposed Predefines

2008-07-13 Thread Dominic Neumann
2008/7/14 Carl Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OK, I'll bite. I propose some new predefined functions: \pointAndClickOn pointAndClickOn = #(ly:set-option 'point-and-click #t) and \pointAndClickOff pointAndClickOff = #(ly:set-option 'point-and-click #f) If I get approval, I'll add

Lyric braces?

2008-05-13 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi, how do I create braces within lyrics to clarify that two lines of text belong to the same verse (see textbrace1.jpg) or when there´s a part of lyrics which belongs to all verses (see textbrace2.jpg)? Dominic attachment: textbrace1.jpgattachment:

Re: Forcing a chord output

2008-04-11 Thread Dominic Neumann
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Different distance line - chordnames within one score

2008-03-09 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi, I´ve determined a strange problem. In some of my scores the distance between note line and chord names differs from line to line. I´ve got a song with 3 lines. In line 2 the chord names are around 1mm farther away from the line. I will try to build a minimal example, because the songs I

Re: lilypond-book with multi-dir projects

2008-03-03 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi Laura, 2008/3/2, Laura Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A hack to get the included files to cause recompilation I´m interested in that hack because I´ve got always problems when I change my central include files. The only solution I use then is to remove the complete out-directory and

LaTeX sans font for LilyPond lyrics?

2008-02-12 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi, is there an easy way to use the LaTeX sans font for LilyPond lyrics? I already search the mailinglist but I couldn´t find a solution for it. Dominic ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Not enough memory??

2008-02-12 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi, some days ago I moved my LilyPond production system from an older computer (733MHz, 128 MB RAM) to a VMWare image on a notebook. Since that time I very often get the error /usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/scm/backend-library.scm:24:15: Nicht genügend Hauptspeicher verfügbar

Re: Difficult layout questions

2008-02-12 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi Kieren, Risto and Joe, thanks for your answers. They were all very helpful for me. In detail: 1. I added the following to my \layout { } block: \context { \Lyrics \override VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-0.5 . 2.5) } which works very good.

Difficult layout questions

2008-02-11 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi LilyPond freaks, at the moment I´m creating a songbook with 200 modern church songs in it. As you can imagine I use LilyPond for this task (together with LaTeX, but that´s not that interesting now). Now I´ve got some layout issues I don´t know how to fix them. I post this all in one thread,

How do I parenthesize a rest?

2008-02-10 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi, I could´t find a way to create a bracket around a rest. According to the way we parenthesize notes I tried it that way: \parenthesize r8 but I got the error syntax error, unexpected RESTNAME, expecting DRUM_PITCH or MUSIC_FUNCTION or NOTENAME_PITCH. I also search the docs for it, but could

Shortcuts for LilyPondTool in jEdit?

2008-01-27 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi, I´m using jEdit together with LilyPondTool för typesetting music. As I´m very keyboard-addicted I´d like to have some shortcuts for the typical LilyPondTool-Buttons Run Lilypond and Preview output (PDF). I don´t want to take the mouse every time I want to compile the music. Can you help me?

invisible barlines at breaks

2008-01-16 Thread Dominic Neumann
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Re: a Lilypond-LaTeX font question

2008-01-14 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi, did you try to set the encoding in the TeX-file also to utf8? You can do this by adding the following line to you LaTeX preamble. \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} Does this help? Dominic 2008/1/14, James E. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm new to LaTeX, but not lilypond. I'm using TeXShop, and

Re: a Lilypond-LaTeX font question

2008-01-14 Thread Dominic Neumann
When I use Lilypond+LaTeX, both my TeX and ly files are written in UTF-8 encoding. Therefore you should add the line \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} into your LaTeX preamble. This works quite fine. 2008/1/14, Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The main issue here is that LilyPond wants UTF-8

Re: a Lilypond-LaTeX font question

2008-01-14 Thread Dominic Neumann
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Re: Lilypond in MikTeX

2007-11-15 Thread Dominic Neumann
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Re: Professional LilyPond users?

2007-10-31 Thread Dominic Neumann
I use LilyPond for commercial projects. I typeset songbooks and song sheets primarily for church use. Dominic 2007/11/1, notesetter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm just wondering (out of simple curiosity) if there are individuals in this forum or elsewhere who are using LilyPond to engrave commercial

Re: No lyrics for first 8 bars

2007-10-28 Thread Dominic Neumann
There are - at least - two ways. The quick and dirty one is to substitute the _ _ _ by \repeat unfold 20 { \skip 1 } (where 20 should be the number of notes). The more elegant way can be found here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-03/msg00190.html (I myself always use the

Re: How to stop LyricExtender-lines?

2007-10-27 Thread Dominic Neumann
} \addlyrics { \verseTwo } \addlyrics { \verseThree } } } % END % 2007/8/2, Reinhold Kainhofer: Am Donnerstag, 2. August 2007 schrieb Dominic Neumann: i´ve got the following snippet producing the output you can see in the attached image file. How can I set

Problem with lilypond-book and \markup blocks

2007-10-26 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi, look at the following lilypond-file: %% START %% \version 2.10.33 \score { { \relative c' { \key c \major \time 4/4 f4 f f f | g g g g | a e cis e | \break d d fis d | e e e e | gis e gis e | }

Stanza collision

2007-10-26 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi, I still have problems with collisions. Sometimes the stanza numbers collide with the text before it. I´ve created a minimal example: %% START \version 2.10.33 refrain = \lyricmode { Test test test test. } verseOne = \lyricmode { \set stanza = 1. Testi tes --

Sans Font for Lilypond texts?

2007-09-14 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi, I want to try to have all my lyrics typeset in a Sans font. Therefor I´ve used a snippet from LSR (http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=221): %%% BEGIN OF SNIPPET %%% \paper { myStaffSize = #20 #(define fonts (make-pango-font-tree Bitstream Vera Sans

Re: Sans Font for Lilypond texts?

2007-09-14 Thread Dominic Neumann
} If you also want to be able to run the same .ly file standalone, then you could make a separate wrapper .ly file that just contains \paper{ myStaffSize = #20 } \include test.ly /Mats Dominic Neumann wrote: Hi, I want to try to have all my lyrics typeset in a Sans font. Therefor I

Re: Sans Font for Lilypond texts?

2007-09-14 Thread Dominic Neumann
with \markups? Dominic 2007/9/14, Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dominic Neumann wrote: Okay, that works good. I also added \override StanzaNumber #'font-family = #'sans for the stanza numbers to be in the same style. But for consictency I´d like to have some other fonts also being Sans

Re: Sans Font for Lilypond texts?

2007-09-14 Thread Dominic Neumann
2007/9/14, Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dominic Neumann wrote: Thank you for you hint. I´ve read section 9.3 and also found the program-reference. But in VoltaBracket I couln´t find a property to set to font(-family). I only found the font-encoding property, but this doesn´t help

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-12 Thread Dominic Neumann
Wow!!! I want to have more of this!!! Good work! 2007/9/12, Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello everybody, hello Graham, hello John; Forget about GDP. Now. Here's *my* latest greatest Documentation project: the SDPE! (Smallest Documentation Project Ever -- it works with Silly

Re: Full measure rests in 3/4 time

2007-09-04 Thread Dominic Neumann
2007/9/4, Tomas Valusek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, There really is no mysetery here. r2. gives you a dotted half-note rest. In 3/4 time, R2. gives you a full-measure rest. Use whichever type of rest you want to see in your score. Please note that there is a difference between 4

Re: pictures in score

2007-08-22 Thread Dominic Neumann
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Re: a modest proposal for input syntax

2007-08-10 Thread Dominic Neumann
2007/8/10, Bertalan Fodor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You can achieve almost the same using b f'='' Perhaps if you could turn off the warning written when the octave check fails, you could use this as the feature you are talking about, just writing b f='', and it automatically puts the f to the

Re: Problem(s) with lilypond-book or lilypond itself

2007-08-06 Thread Dominic Neumann
have tried to add the flag --verbose when you call lilypond-book. It might give some more relevant information to track what the problem is. /Mats Quoting Dominic Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I惴 developing a software for managing songbooks. As you can imaginge, my typesetting

Problem(s) with lilypond-book or lilypond itself

2007-08-05 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi, I´m developing a software for managing songbooks. As you can imaginge, my typesetting engine is ... LilyPond. To produce a songbook I use lilypond-book together with LaTeX and this worked quite good until now. I worked with a volume of about 10 to 15 songs. But now I tried to compile a

Re: Problem(s) with lilypond-book or lilypond itself

2007-08-05 Thread Dominic Neumann
2007/8/6, Laura Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dominic == Dominic Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dominic But now I tried to compile a bigger songbook with nearly Dominic 100 lilypond songs in it. I have books that size that compile with no problem. Dominic The lilypondfiles

Slur of voiceTwo colliding with notehead of voiceOne

2007-08-02 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi out there, the following code produces the collision you can see in the attached image. How can I move the voiceTwo-note to the right of the voiceOne-note to avoid this collision? And how can I tell LilyPond to typeset the last notes (both d2) side-by-side and not both at the same place?

Re: Slur of voiceTwo colliding with notehead of voiceOne

2007-08-02 Thread Dominic Neumann
2007/8/2, Gilles THIBAULT [EMAIL PROTECTED]: And how can I tell LilyPond to typeset the last notes (both d2) side-by-side and not both at the same place? The only way i know is by using \once \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #aNumber (see doc 6.3.5 Collision Resolution )

Re: Four Single Semiquavers In A Row

2007-08-02 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi Tim, try the switch \autoBeamOff: \autoBeamOff e16 e e e Dominic 2007/8/2, Tim Sawyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I've just migrated to 2.10 under Ubuntu. With 2.6, this used to produce a line of four single quavers, with tails - not joined together. e16[] e[] e[] e[] How do I achieve

How to stop LyricExtender-lines?

2007-08-02 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi, i´ve got the following snippet producing the output you can see in the attached image file. How can I set that the lyric extender line of the 2nd vers stops where the one of the 1st verse stopped? Dominic %% START %% \version 2.10.25 refrain = \lyricmode { tes -- ti yeah. }

Re: How to stop LyricExtender-lines?

2007-08-02 Thread Dominic Neumann
2007/8/2, Reinhold Kainhofer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Donnerstag, 2. August 2007 schrieb Dominic Neumann: i´ve got the following snippet producing the output you can see in the attached image file. How can I set that the lyric extender line of the 2nd vers stops where the one of the 1st

Re: Can I make this chord?

2007-08-01 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi, type c:6.9/d i attached how it look likes in an PNG image. I don´t know, if there´s a way to remove this add let it only say 6/9 or sth like this. Dominic 2007/8/1, Eric Knapp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, all. Is it possible to create this chord name? I have attached an image of what I

Re: Can I make this chord?

2007-08-01 Thread Dominic Neumann
2007/8/1, Eric Knapp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 8/1/07, Dominic Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, type c:6.9/d Thanks, Dominic. That works fine. Does anyone know where this syntax is documented? I would love to have a cheat sheet of all the chords. This is documented in the manual

Chords with cue notes inside

2007-08-01 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi, how do I typeset a chord of notes with one of them being a smaller sized notehead? See the attachment for an example. Dominic attachment: chordscue.png___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Chords with cue notes inside

2007-08-01 Thread Dominic Neumann
, On 8/1/07, Dominic Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, how do I typeset a chord of notes with one of them being a smaller sized notehead? You can use the \tweak function for this: d \tweak #'font-size #-3 f4 Regards, Neil ___ lilypond-user

Re: Proposed chord name font (PDF included)

2007-07-30 Thread Dominic Neumann
Maybe it would be a good idea to make all the chordname things more flexible for the users. For example, it would be nice to rename some chord names like one can already do with \set majorSevenSymbol = \markup { ... }. I´d like to have this for the sus4 chords, because i like it more to have G4

Dashed slur colliding with lyrics

2007-07-28 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi, a dashed slur collides with the lyrics below. I reduced it to a small LilyPond source you can see here: %% BEGIN %% \version 2.10.25 \score { { \relative c' { %\slurDashed b4( b) e g } \addlyrics { testtesttest test

Re: some questions

2007-07-26 Thread Dominic Neumann
'C:\Program' is not recognized as internal or external command, operable program or batch file. [...] lilypond executable: C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond.exe It looks as if it treats everything after the space as an argument. Maybe you have to put the path to lilypond into

Re: Can I have my own custom LilyPond?

2007-07-24 Thread Dominic Neumann
This is possible, because LilyPond is completely open source. But before trying to do this, please describe what you want to do. Maybe others are interested in that way of printing chordnames, too. Maybe there´s a way to provide a patch for LilyPond that your ideas can become part of the official

Re: Can I have my own custom LilyPond?

2007-07-24 Thread Dominic Neumann
Send it to the lilypond-user list and also to the devel-list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Maybe we should at first discuss on the users list if this is a special way of setting chordnames and only you need it or if its needed by (maybe many) other users too ... 2007/7/24, PabloZum [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: Need help with this simple lyric

2007-07-19 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi Peter, to let LilyPond treat more syllables as one, easily encloses these in ... On my (2.10.20) system the file compiles, but doesn´t show the cross character. I would copy the character itself into the source code and enclose it in ... together with the O like + O. I don´t see what the

Re: Polyphony and (disappearing) lyrics

2007-07-19 Thread Dominic Neumann
which works perfectly as you wanted. No, it´s not the same, because in your version all stems face upwards whereas the original poster wanted to have TWO voices and then the stems should face into different directions. ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Ugly volta brackets

2007-07-12 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi again, I´m still searching for a way to solve this problem. Is there anyone who has an idea how to tweak lilypond? Dominic 2007/3/15, Dominic Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: okay, sorry for not posting an example. It´s not that easy to find a simple one, because in the simple situations there´s

Re: lilypond book makefile

2007-07-05 Thread Dominic Neumann
I wrote a perl script for these things, because i often have to fetch the song data (title, authors, staffsize, ...) from a database. If you´re interested I can mail it here ... Dominic 2007/7/5, Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Jesse, Do any of you have a makefile for this type of

Lilypond lyrics extraction

2007-07-04 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi, I´m currently developing a system for the management of songbooks. It allows me to compose different songbook collections which then are created with lilypond-book and LaTeX. Now I want the lyrics of the songs to be included in the database. Then I could search for songtext snippets to find

Re: indent of eps files with lilypond-book

2007-06-13 Thread Dominic Neumann
hi seb, have a look at marcus brinkmanns project he published recently. He creates an environment called song which does the job for you. \newenvironment{song} { % The -13pt is the first X coordinate of the bounding box in the EPS % files generated by lilypond. The effect is to align the

Re: indent of eps files with lilypond-book

2007-06-13 Thread Dominic Neumann
Do you have a reference to that project? It was presented on this mailinglist yesterday. The subject was Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States. Here you can find the thread in the mailinglist archive: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-06/msg00178.html /Dominic

Re: Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States

2007-06-12 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi, in song No. 27 the markup text Variation second. is placed too low, so it´s directly printed onto the notes. And why are there bar numbers on some systems and on others not. For example, in song 39 only system two and four are printed WITH bar numbers, the others not. In other songs (e.g.

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