Re: Change page number during score

2013-10-27 Thread EdBeesley
Hwaen Ch'uqi wrote Greetings Ed, I realize this is quite the crude solution, and perhaps you have already considered it, but could you not simply include unneeded measures at that particular area, inserting a \pageBreak between each? At the page with the correct page number, you could

Re: Change page number during score

2013-10-26 Thread EdBeesley
Trevor Daniels wrote EdBeesley wrote Saturday, October 26, 2013 12:25 AM I was just wondering is there an easier way to get around this, for example a bit of code that will 'reset' the page count to the number I want, e.g: set current page number to 7 There is. See http

Change page number during score

2013-10-25 Thread EdBeesley
I've got a score which I've had to add a section of graphic notation to. I modelled this up in a separate file but now on trying to insert it into the score/parts it's just an unworkable nightmare. So I've decided to make it into a separate pdf and insert it into the right place with Acrobat. This

So, slashed beamed grace notes...

2013-10-22 Thread EdBeesley
Digging up an old chestnut here... I've gone through the archives and it seems that there was interest from several users for a reliable solution to a slash through the first of a beamed group of grace notes. The oft-quoted solution is the snippet at http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=721

Re: Floating markup

2013-10-16 Thread EdBeesley
Thanks for your suggestions guys - I love the use of instrument name, much less hacky than my original solution! Thomas I tried your code in 2.16.2 but still ended up with a big gap between the clef and first note? I used NoteHead.extra-spacing-width because it was the first thing I tried that

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.11 released

2013-10-16 Thread EdBeesley
Wilbert Berendsen-4 wrote Dear friends, Frescobaldi 2.0.11 has been released, incorporating many improvements and functionality contributed by other developers. Highlights are musicxml import and configurable debug modes for building PDF previews. See

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.11 released

2013-10-16 Thread EdBeesley
EdBeesley wrote Wilbert Berendsen-4 wrote Dear friends, Frescobaldi 2.0.11 has been released, incorporating many improvements and functionality contributed by other developers. Highlights are musicxml import and configurable debug modes for building PDF previews. See http

RE: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.11 released

2013-10-16 Thread EdBeesley
Daniel Rosen wrote -Original Message- From: EdBeesley [mailto: edplaysdrums@ ] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 10:30 AM To: lilypond-user@ Subject: Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.11 released EdBeesley wrote Thank you for this release and in general for this amazing program

Re: improving whiteout

2013-10-16 Thread EdBeesley
karol wrote Here's another example of an ugly output (whiteout.png) \override DynamicText.whiteout = ##t Something has to be done to prevent situations like this. As a workaround I use this solution: --begin-- #(define-public (stencil-with-color stencil color)

Floating markup

2013-10-15 Thread EdBeesley
I'm trying to make some easy to read exercises for the little kiddies I teach. As you can see in the example below I've labelled which line is for sticking and which is for counting - the only way I could figure out of getting the markup before any notes was to add it to a spacer grace note (so as

Re: ugly bar line when changing line-count

2013-10-13 Thread EdBeesley
I'm a percussionist and I've played from parts that behave like the examples Gilberto has given. I agree that the default behaviour of LP is a bit ugly, and when shrunk down onto a part I imagine it would cause a few raised eyebrows from my percussion colleagues! His proposed suggestions would be

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-12 Thread EdBeesley
Thomas Morley-2 wrote Also possible: \version 2.16.2 moreVerticalDynamicTextSpannerWhiteoutII = #(define-music-function (parser location adds)(pair?) (define (flexible-stencil-whiteout add stencil) (let* ((x-ext (ly:stencil-extent stencil X)) (y-ext

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-12 Thread EdBeesley
David Kastrup wrote EdBeesley lt; edplaysdrums@ gt; writes: Damnit David, I'm a musician not a programmer! In all seriousness though I always do my best to figure out the answer myself via the documentation. Good. Then you can tell us where the documentation falls short

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-12 Thread EdBeesley
I don't think it was intended. The problem is that the documentation for Lilypond is generally excellent and occasionally useless. Regular contributors get a little tired of users who can't be bothered to read the bits that are excellent, and instead ask here (often repeatedly asking

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-12 Thread EdBeesley
David Kastrup wrote EdBeesley lt; edplaysdrums@ gt; writes: I think my main problem last night was that I couldn't figure out how to turn the x-ext and y-ext into variables that could be passed to the function. But looking at it now it almost seems obvious. Perhaps if you could include

cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-11 Thread EdBeesley
I'm trying to add a bit of padding to the whiteout function when used on a \cresc. My results are best explained with code... \version 2.16.2 exampleone = \markup {how it looks with whiteout} exampletwo = \markup {how I want it to look} examplethree = \markup {trying to use scheme} \score {

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-11 Thread EdBeesley
Thomas Morley-2 wrote Hi, how about: \version 2.16.2 moreVerticalDynamicTextSpannerWhiteout = \once \override DynamicTextSpanner #'stencil = #(lambda (grob) (let* ((stil (ly:line-spanner::print grob)) (x-ext (ly:stencil-extent stil X)) (y-ext

Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread EdBeesley
Hi again everyone, I'm making a title page and I'd like one line of text to overlap another line (see attached png). However nothing I've tried (\raise or \translate) will force the text above the previous line. This is the code I'm using at the moment: \bookpart { \markup {

Re: Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread EdBeesley
Hi Ben yes sorry I should have attached that font to my message, if you've not found it yet then I've attached it to this one... anirb___.ttf http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n152077/anirb___.ttf anirm___.ttf http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n152077/anirm___.ttf

Re: Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread EdBeesley
Apologies...forgot to attach png http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n152074/text.png -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Overlap-markup-tp152073p152074.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread EdBeesley
Jim, I'm afraid your example doesn't overlap on my 2.16, is this a change in 2.17? Ben...that is /exactly/ what I was looking for! How did you do it?! -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Overlap-markup-tp152073p152083.html Sent from the User mailing list

Re: Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread EdBeesley
Version? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@ https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user Sorry David, one of these days I'll remember to include that in my first post! 2.16.2 -- View this message in context:

Re: Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread EdBeesley
David Kastrup wrote Backspacing was not really convincingly supported before 2.17.19. It's likely possible to get the desired result in 2.16 using \combine and \translate or other constructs, but it's not necessarily pretty. -- David Kastrup Would you recommend exporting it as a graphic

Re: Overlap markup

2013-10-10 Thread EdBeesley
Actually I managed to get it working with \combine and \lower. It's a bit 'hacky' though as you can see from the random spaces I had to put in: \bookpart { \markup { \fill-line { \column { \raise #-8

Re: Page number changes forcing headers to appear on second page

2013-10-08 Thread EdBeesley
Please forgive me bumping this thread but I quite urgently need to find the answer to this and despite my best attempts I can't figure it out. To recap in brief: I have a title page which Lilypond is counting as the 'first' page of the score, so that means that the copyright info isn't being

Re: Page number changes forcing headers to appear on second page

2013-10-08 Thread EdBeesley
Thank you guys for your replies and advice. SoundsfromSounds: I wish I could have got away with that but I didn't want to add headache for the printer', as their quote was already so competitive I'd have felt guilty for adding extra work at their end! Eluze: I copied and pasted your code into

Re: Page number changes forcing headers to appear on second page

2013-10-07 Thread EdBeesley
Thanks for your suggestions so far. Sorry for the example, I missed a \ in front of the first paper and I should have commented out my blah blah blahs, but anyway I've solved the problem with the page-number-first: it has to go in the \paper block at the start, before you open any \bookpart

Reverting strict-grace-spacing

2013-10-06 Thread EdBeesley
(2.16.2) I have \override Score.SpacingSpanner #'strict-grace-spacing = ##t set earlier in my score, but need to unset this for one specific bar. I've tried both \revert Score.SpacingSpanner #'strict-grace-spacing and \override Score.SpacingSpanner #'strict-grace-spacing = ##f but neither

Re: Reverting strict-grace-spacing

2013-10-06 Thread EdBeesley
dak wrote They should if done correctly. Example? -- David Kastrup \score { \new Staff \relative c' { \key des \major \override Score.SpacingSpanner #'strict-grace-spacing = ##t r8 \grace{\stemUp f' [ c ges ] } \stemNeutral bes,16 \f f'- a, des'- a, c'- aes, ees'- aes,

Re: Reverting strict-grace-spacing

2013-10-06 Thread EdBeesley
dak wrote I get the desired result with \newSpacingSection: \score { \new Staff \relative c' { \key des \major \override Score.SpacingSpanner #'strict-grace-spacing = ##t r8 \grace{\stemUp f' [ c ges ] } \stemNeutral bes,16 \f f'- a, des'- a, c'- aes, ees'- aes, des-

Page number changes forcing headers to appear on second page

2013-10-06 Thread EdBeesley
2.16.2 I've added a title page to my score, the best way I could think of doing it was to wrap the title page and score in separate \bookpart's . The structure is like below: \bookpart { paper { first-page-number = #0 print-first-page-number = ##f } \markup {blah blah blah title

Force slurs over accents

2013-10-04 Thread EdBeesley
Is there any way to make lilypond automatically slur over accents as in the example below? I've been struggling with manually changing the control positions for about an hour and can't get a satisfactory output, and I've got another 8 similar occurrences to sort out too!

Re: Force slurs over accents

2013-10-04 Thread EdBeesley
Apologies, I thought there would be just a general command for it. Code for the example is: a16( \ d cis a' | fis d' g, fis' b, e cis a'- \! g \ fis d a g d'- cis a e d cis g~) \! I also forgot to add, I'm using 2.16.2 -- View this message in context:

Re: Force slurs over accents

2013-10-04 Thread EdBeesley
Thanks David, That was indeed the piece of the puzzle I've spent an hour searching the documentation for. For anyone with the same problem in future, I added \once \override Script #'avoid-slur = #'insidebefore the offending note. -- View this message in context:

Hairpin with pro/preceeding text

2013-10-02 Thread EdBeesley
See example below from Sibelius (just look at those horrible default slurs, e!) I've tried just ending a hairpin early and adding markup but the result is sloppy and needs lots of tweaking. If possible I don't want to use the snippet that adds text under the hairpins as the frequency of

Re: Hairpin with pro/preceeding text

2013-10-02 Thread EdBeesley
Very nice, thankyou! I think the 'poco' could do with going down a couple of pixels to be totally in line with the hairpins. I tried adding a tweak: pocoMarkup = \tweak #'Y-offset #-0.5 \markup {\normal-text \italic poco } but Lilypond sneered at my efforts and it didn't work -- View

Tremolo/Ledger/Slur Collision

2013-10-02 Thread EdBeesley
See example: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n151753/example.png Gould states that tremolo lines should sit within the stave so as to not be confused with ledger lines. Code used to generate this was f ges1:32 ~ | f ges:32 Should I repost this as a bug? Also,

Name of default notehead for #'style tweak?

2013-09-13 Thread EdBeesley
Easy one this time! I'm using crosshead notes but I want to tweak one back to the default blob, this is what I'm using: \tweak #'style #'default c a' Obviously default is the wrong name because I get no notehead, so what is it? -- View this message in context:

Re: Name of default notehead for #'style tweak?

2013-09-13 Thread EdBeesley
Sorry should have mentioned, I'm using version 2.16.2 (although documentation for that gives the same name) See example below... http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n150751/example.png -- View this message in context:

Re: Name of default notehead for #'style tweak?

2013-09-13 Thread EdBeesley
Ack well spotted, I could have stared at that all day without seeing the superfluous bracket! Thanks -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Name-of-default-notehead-for-style-tweak-tp150746p150753.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Skip to Specific Bar

2013-09-13 Thread EdBeesley
Ahh it's so simple when you know the answer! Thanks guys :) -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Skip-to-Specific-Bar-tp150577p150764.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user

Re: Skip to Specific Bar

2013-09-13 Thread EdBeesley
Figured I'd post this to this thread because it's a follow on from what we've discussed. I've extracted the time changes from the parts and put them in their own 'global' variable. Amazingly enough I managed to get it work as you've suggested after only a couple of tries, so well done me ;)

Re: Skip to Specific Bar

2013-09-11 Thread EdBeesley
Kieren I tried testing out your suggestions: toptreb = { c } topfoot = { \clef percussion \stemUp \autoBeamOn \override NoteHead #'style = #'triangle a16 [a ]r8. . \time 5/16 \set Timing.beatStructure = #'(5) \tag #'test {}

Re: Skip to Specific Bar

2013-09-11 Thread EdBeesley
Sorry Kieren I was trying to condense a lot of code. Hopefully this shows what I'm trying to do... http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n150633/example.jpg -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Skip-to-Specific-Bar-tp150577p150633.html Sent from the

Re: Skip to Specific Bar

2013-09-11 Thread EdBeesley
Ahhh I see how it works now. Once I send the part back for proofing I'll have time to rewrite the structure a bit more sensibly. Thanks again for all your help :) -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Skip-to-Specific-Bar-tp150577p150638.html Sent from the

Hide one staff of a PianoStaff

2013-09-11 Thread EdBeesley
Hello again, Am I correct in thinking that \RemoveEmptyStaves does not affect staves that are part of a PianoStaff? If so is there any way to get round this? OR is there a way to a do the curly piano bracket thing for two staves but not make them part of a PianoStaff? -- View this message

Re: Hide one staff of a PianoStaff

2013-09-11 Thread EdBeesley
Perfect, thank you! The code I used (for anyone that needs to do the same thing) was to add a \with \remove tag in the staff declaration: \new PianoStaff \with { \remove Keep_alive_together_engraver} -- View this message in context:

Skip to Specific Bar

2013-09-10 Thread EdBeesley
\version 2.16.2 I'm writing a frenched score which has large gaps between the reappearance of some staves. The piece is stuffed full of time signature changes, so I'm hoping to find a way to skip input by a specified number of bars, or to a specific bar. The only method I know is by inserting

Re: Skip to Specific Bar

2013-09-10 Thread EdBeesley
Thanks for your answers thus far. Kieren I think I understand the concept but I can't see a way of making that work for what I'm doing. Stefan likewise I think I understand but does that mean that I would need to type out the full time signature sequence which I could then reuse for other

Re: Skip to Specific Bar

2013-09-10 Thread EdBeesley
I've tried it and not succeeded with it so far, but before I copy and paste code here, can I ask what the \global tag is doing in your snippet? It seems to me like it's laying out a map of the time signature change in a piece. Is this the recommended way to go about this? Up till now I've just

Re: Skip to Specific Bar

2013-09-10 Thread EdBeesley
Thanks yes it does help, although I can't see why you'd add the \global section after the \codaMusic ? -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Skip-to-Specific-Bar-tp150577p150614.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Beam groupings

2013-09-08 Thread EdBeesley
Rachael the version is 2.16.2. I've now got the code to work, but the fix for this seems rather strange. If I put the code before any declared notes in a part it doesn't work, e.g: vibestopstaff = \relative c'' { \time 2/4 \set Timing.baseMoment = #(ly:make-moment 2 4) \set

Beam groupings

2013-09-07 Thread EdBeesley
Hi everyone please excuse this extremely dumb question but I can't for the life of me figure out how to change the default beam settings for one staff such that in a time signature of 2/4 all 4 quavers will be beamed together. I've read the manual entries and tried a bunch of different variations

Re: Beam groupings

2013-09-07 Thread EdBeesley
Thanks Andrew I was going to do that but the whole part I'm writing has the same beaming pattern throughout, so to keep it tidy I was hoping to avoid doing it manually for every bar. And I figured I might as well try and understand how it works now rather than later! On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 1:27

Re: Beam groupings

2013-09-07 Thread EdBeesley
Thanks everyone for your continued help. Rachael I'm afraid your example didn't work. I did actually study the relevant section of the manual for a good half hour, and I can see why your example should work, but unfortunately it doesn't :( -- View this message in context: