\markup beneath a fermata?

2012-04-06 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, In the following (last note in my bass clef), I'd like the \markup to appear *below* the \fermata, for obvious reasons. What's the best way to accomplish this? \clef F c,2._\fermata _\markup \small \italic {(Blue Bk 139)} Thanks so much. Gordon+ -- Fr. Gordon Gilbert

Re: \markup beneath a fermata?

2012-04-06 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Thanks so much, Phil. I'll try that as soon as I get home from Good Friday services. Gordon+ On 06/04/2012, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote: - Original Message - From: Father Gordon Gilbert fatherg...@gmail.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 11:47 AM

Where in the mauals ...

2012-03-18 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, I've been scouring the manuals for how to make some notes within a piece smaller than the surrounding ones. Where on earth do I find that reference? In the following construction, the three chords should be smaller than the previous notes: c4. e8 d4 d s4 a c f4 f a d g b e Thanks

Re: Point-and-click on Frescobaldi?

2012-03-15 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi guys, For whatever reason, Fresco was not showing the full path to LilyPond. Never had this problem before, but when I put it in there, all worked! Thanks! Gordon+ On 15/03/2012, James pkx1...@gmail.com wrote: Father Gilbert On 14 March 2012 23:35, Father Gordon Gilbert fatherg

Re: Point-and-click on Frescobaldi?

2012-03-15 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Yes it should. Especially for us non-geeks who understand a bit of this kind of thing. We need to know where to click and exactly what to type. Blessings, Gordon+ On 15/03/2012, Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu wrote: On 3/15/12 5:36 AM, Father Gordon Gilbert fatherg...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Point-and-click on Frescobaldi?

2012-03-14 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
/2012, Wilbert Berendsen wbs...@xs4all.nl wrote: Op Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:13:05 -0500 Father Gordon Gilbert fatherg...@gmail.com schreef: Yes, changing a note and recompiling did the trick, thanks! I had done a convert-ly and recompiled, and I suppose that's why it pointed down to where

Point-and-click on Frescobaldi?

2012-03-10 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, I recently installed the most recent Frescobaldi 2.0.4 on my Windoze box (XP Pro), and last night got the latest Lily 2.15.33. Now when I try to work on a file, the point-and-click seems to be broken. When I mouse over a note in the pdf, it puts the cursor in the editor on a spot right

Re: \acciaccatura before barline?

2012-01-03 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Thanks guys, That does indeed do what I want -- mostly. From the NR I tried #(define afterGraceFraction (cons 15 16)) and it seems to have no effect on the placement of the grace notes, which I would like to slide over as close as possible to the barline. Any ideas? Gordon+ On 01/01/2012,

Re: \acciaccatura before barline?

2012-01-03 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
slurs from both upper note to upper note, and lower note to lower note. Lily seems to want to put only one slur on there, on the lower notes. Any ideas? Gordon+ On 03/01/2012, Father Gordon Gilbert fatherg...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks guys, That does indeed do what I want -- mostly. From the NR

Re: \acciaccatura before barline?

2012-01-03 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Thanks guys. That did the trick. Rather than set to ##t and ##f all the time, I did dsl = \set doubleSlurs = ##t dso = \set doubleSlurs = ##f and then used \dsl and \dso as needed. Lily is truly amazing! On 03/01/2012, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk wrote: Father Gordon Gilbert

\acciaccatura before barline?

2012-01-01 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Does anyone know how to place an \acciaccatura *before* the barline? I'm using the following in copying a score, and where the original shows it before the bar, Lily wants to place it after the barline. I'm thinking that the original is perhaps musicologically wrong, but accurate in its intent

An easy way to convert from absolute to \relative?

2011-12-21 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, I have a number of pieces I entered quite a while ago (2.5.x, etc) in absolute pitch -- being the easiest for me at the time. But now I'd like to update them (2.15.x), and while convert-ly does a good job of changing up the basic syntax, I'd like to know if there's an easy way of getting

carol booklet

2011-12-21 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, I don't know if it's useful to anyone, but a collection of the most common Public Domain Christmas carols in a booklet form is at http://blog.daveg.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Christmas_Carol_Booklet.pdf It's printed on legal-size paper, and if you put adjacent pages (1 2, 3 4, etc)

Re: An easy way to convert from absolute to \relative?

2011-12-21 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
On 21/12/2011, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: -- Message: 7 Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:32:08 +0100 From: Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: An easy way to convert from absolute to

Re: how to make a songbook

2011-12-12 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
-- Message: 6 Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:49:46 +0100 From: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: how to make a songbook Message-ID: 87iplmcmid@fencepost.gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain Father Gordon Gilbert fatherg...@gmail.com

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 109, Issue 44

2011-12-12 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
-- Message: 6 Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:49:46 +0100 From: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: how to make a songbook Message-ID: 87iplmcmid@fencepost.gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain Father Gordon Gilbert fatherg...@gmail.com

Re: how to make a songbook

2011-12-12 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
On 12 December 2011 06:49, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 06:20:30AM -0500, Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: OOoh!  What should I be looking for?  So far in the OOo document the display looks fine.  Even at fairly high magnitude.  My son also made

Re: how to make a songbook

2011-12-12 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Message: 2 Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:21:30 +1100 From: Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: how to make a songbook Message-ID: 4ee6705a.5050...@internode.on.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; Format=flowed On 13/12/11 03:10,

how to make a songbook

2011-12-11 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, I've been using LilyPond for some time now, always to make lead sheets, or single- and multiple-page individual songs, mostly for church use. I now have quite a store of Christmas carols and similar which I'd like to do up into a booklet, perhaps printed ;landscape on letter or legal

Re: how to make a songbook

2011-12-11 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Good news! Right after I posted that request, I finally found the entry I wanted to make PNG files, and have been merrily compiling my various songs and doing the png command in LilyPondTool (the Console is handy for this), and pasting the PNGs in a OOo document, with the apparent ability to

Making landscape booklets on letter or legal paper

2011-12-04 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, I'm trying to put together a Christmas carol booklet with some of the many files I already have of the songs. I tried on one of them to #(set-default-paper-size letter 'landscape) , but it appeared to have no effect. My purpose would then have been to adjust my staff-size, and put

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 104, Issue 64

2011-07-19 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
On 18/07/2011, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: Send lilypond-user mailing list submissions to lilypond-user@gnu.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user or, via email,

Re: Is this some sort of glissando?

2011-05-09 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Phil, What you have there is not a glissando, but rather a bar where alternating notes are to be played as sixteenths (the two beams) for the entire bar (the dotted half). I'm not sure how to render this particular thing in Lilypond, but you could simply write out all the sixteenths. But

RE: Subject: Any LilyPond users on OpenBSD?

2011-04-17 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi Matthew, I don't know how close they are, but I am using PC-BSD. Currently I am running 2.13.26 with no problems for what I need it for. Blessings, Gordon+ -- Fr. Gordon Gilbert Penetanguishene, ON ___ lilypond-user mailing list

RE: Subject: bar line placing question

2011-04-16 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Mark, Your problem is in your first full bar. There are too many 16ths in *that* bar. When you change the g2 to a g4. , everything appears to line up as you have intended. Lily has trouble when a note of greater value than the remainder of the measure is placed there -- so she does the best

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 101, Issue 71

2011-04-15 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
On 15/04/2011, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: Send lilypond-user mailing list submissions to lilypond-user@gnu.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user or, via email, send

Re: intro; art song example or template?

2011-04-08 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi Ivan, Aside from reading the manuals -- especially the one called 'getting started', there is something else I think you'll find handy. I started with Lilypond way back in 2002 or '03 when the only way to use it was with the command line. Nowadays there are a number of editors and interfaces

Re: Last line doesn't wrap

2011-04-03 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
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Re: Last line doesn't wrap

2011-04-03 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
You may find the error is in bar 24. I changed the d8 to a d16 as follows: a,8 b8. d16 d4 e4 d4~ And everything wraps correctly -- although I'm not familiar with the tune, it at least *looks* correct. I've had this same problem over and over -- not checking bars and getting one little

Re: Last line doesn't wrap

2011-04-03 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
\melody \new Lyrics \lyricsto one \text } Let me know if this solves your problems (or creates more) Blessings, Gordon+ On 03/04/2011, Father Gordon Gilbert fatherg...@gmail.com wrote: You may find the error is in bar 24. I changed the d8 to a d16 as follows: a,8 b8. d16 d4 e4 d4

Re: Last line doesn't wrap

2011-04-03 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Paul, A good scan through the manuals would be the best place to start in order to figure out how to place a second verse in there. My quick thought (I've never actually done this before) would be to have the second verse in its own section as follows: texttwo = \lyricmode { Here are

Re: Notes lining up, and warnings

2011-03-26 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
effect. Can you suggest how to do this? Thanks, Gordon+ On 25/03/2011, Peter Chubb lily.u...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: Father == Father Gordon Gilbert fatherg...@gmail.com writes: Father Can someone help me here? On this Anglican chant , in the Father tenth measure (end of the first section

Re: Error in running Lilypond

2011-02-14 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
On 14/02/2011, Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com wrote: 2011/2/14 Father Gordon Gilbert fatherg...@gmail.com: On 13/02/2011, Michael Ellis michael.f.el...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Father Gordon Gilbert fatherg...@gmail.com wrote: /usr/local/bin/python: can't open

Re:Error in running Lilypond

2011-02-14 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Thanks, Colin for your help. That turned the tide. Took out the .py and everything worked! (Well, one convert didn't quite complete because of the age, but I can work with that ...) Thanks again. Gordon+ -- Fr. Gordon Gilbert Penetanguishene, ON

Re: Error in running Lilypond

2011-02-14 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
On 14/02/2011, Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com wrote: 2011/2/14 Father Gordon Gilbert fatherg...@gmail.com: Thank you -- so I did which for both, and with the .py nothing comes up, and without, it shows /usr/local/bin. So how do I get these things working? On this machine, I'll have

Re:

2011-02-13 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
On 12/02/2011, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: Send lilypond-user mailing list submissions to lilypond-user@gnu.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user or, via email, send

Error in running Lilypond

2011-02-13 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi List, I just finally installed Lilypond and jEdit with LilyPondTool on my PC-BSD box, and I'm having a bit of trouble. I downloaded a piece from Mutopia, and when I tried to convert-ly, got the following message: Error running external command. See the activity log about the problem. Cannot

Re: Error in running Lilypond

2011-02-13 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
for python. If it says /python as shown in your error message, try removing the /. Also check to see if any of the other paths look suspicious. Hope this helps. Cheers, Mike On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Father Gordon Gilbert fatherg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi List, I just finally

Re: Error in running Lilypond

2011-02-13 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
On 13/02/2011, Michael Ellis michael.f.el...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Father Gordon Gilbert fatherg...@gmail.com wrote: /usr/local/bin/python: can't open file '/usr/local/bin/convert-ly.py' Is convert.ly present in /usr/local/bin? The error is claiming otherwise

Re: ANN: New LilyPondTool version available for testing

2011-01-16 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Message: 3 Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:24:39 +0100 From: Valentin Villenave valen...@villenave.net Hi Bert, Very nice! there are some features I've been waiting for for quite some time :-) I'l gonna give it a try right now, and I'll let you know how it goes! Cheers, Valentin. Yes, hi

ties through parallel construction

2011-01-11 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, In the following construction: d a'2 ~ cis a' ~ { \stemDown d a' \\ \stemUp {d'4 cis} } the second tilde seems to have no effect. I want to tie the 'a' in the second chord to the 'a' in the third chord in the parallel bar. Am I missing something? How do I tie such a thing

Re: ties through parallel construction

2011-01-11 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
On 11/01/2011, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote: - Original Message - From: Father Gordon Gilbert fatherg...@gmail.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 11:11 AM Subject: ties through parallel construction Hi all, In the following construction

Re: Lily Dances -- lilypond-user Digest, Vol 97, Issue 111

2010-12-22 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, Maybe it's my andediluvian dialup connection, but when I click on the links in this posting, or on similar ones lately, I get a 404 -- not found error. Is there something *I* and doing wrong, or what do I need to do to go where these links are suggesting? Gordon+ On 22/12/2010,

Re: Adding staves (I think)

2010-12-06 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi! What I have done with similar songs is to write the third verse as part of the second and then put a repeat for the first part, and continue the melody on to the end of that (longer) verse, and put a DC at the end, and a Fine at the end of the regular verse. If I get a chance, I'll try to do

Prayer of St Francis

2010-12-06 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Brother, Here is my revised version of that song. I've done some not-so-pretty things with the syllables to fit them with the notes, and I know there are lots more elegant things you can do with that, but essentially the song is now mostly correct (at least the way I've sung it lo these many,

What's with WebLily?

2010-10-05 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Someone on this list pointed out that there was WebLily available, so I thought I'd check it out. But when I've tried to create an account to use it, I keep getting Sign In is temporarily unavailable. Can someone help? Thanks, Gordon+ -- Fr. Gordon Gilbert Penetanguishene, ON

Re:Help needed - missing .pdf file after running lilypond sucessfully. (MING TSANG)

2010-09-24 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi! I have used Lilypondtool both on Windoze, and on Ubuntu, and the toolbar immediately above the open file has little icons for everything you need. One of them is a tiny sheet of paper representing the PDF option. Do you have that on your version? If so, simply click that (once not twice)

Re:Can anybody help me with fret diagrams?

2010-09-18 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
: 29743400.p...@talk.nabble.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii the colon in the end makes it! (should be semicolon) Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: I tried out my first fret diagrams just recently and I ran into a puzzling situation. Whereas in standard guitar tuning

Can anybody help me with fret diagrams?

2010-09-17 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
I tried out my first fret diagrams just recently and I ran into a puzzling situation. Whereas in standard guitar tuning, the A major chord diagram would look like this: aFretDiagram = \markup \fret-diagram #6-o;5-o;4-2;3-2;2-2;1-o: And the standard A7 diagram would look like this:

Re: 2.13.32 not honouring margins and staves going off page

2010-09-04 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi! You might try *very carefully* checking each of your measures to make sure they have exactly the correct value of notes/rests. I have found this same kind of situation when I inadvertently had too many sixteenths, or some such. Gordon+ -- Fr. Gordon Gilbert Penetanguishene, ON

Re: Compiling times on this file

2009-11-28 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
wrote: On 27 nov 2009, at 13:58, Father Gordon Gilbert fatherg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Yesterday, I was dealing with fonts; today I'm wondering just what got into my code. Perhaps the font cache is getting rebuild every time you compile? You mentioned that you were working on fonts

Compiling times on this file

2009-11-27 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, I'm so grateful for such an active community on this fabulous program! Yesterday, I was dealing with fonts; today I'm wondering just what got into my code. For much of the time I have been working on this file, it's taken 5 - 7 seconds to compile. All of a sudden this morning, it

Font questions

2009-11-26 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, Perhaps someone can help me here. I'm trying to set the Huron Carol (old hymn written by St Jean de Brebeuf in the 1640s). I'm having trouble with his name, which requires an e (accent aigu), and I'm getting a couple of strange characters in the output. Also, in the vers in the

Re: Font questions

2009-11-26 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) lilypondt...@organum.hu wrote: Use quotes: \addlyrics { 8 } Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: Hi all, Perhaps someone can help me here. I'm trying to set the Huron Carol (old hymn written by St Jean de Brebeuf in the 1640s). I'm having trouble with his name, which

Re: Font questions

2009-11-26 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Thanks Alexander, But now how about my e-acute in Brebeuf? I'm in UTF-8, and it's not showing up. Also, how do you put those U+0222 type characters into the .ly file? Gordon+ On 26/11/2009, Alexander Kobel n...@a-kobel.de wrote: Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: Thanks so far, Bertalan

Re: Font questions

2009-11-26 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Ah-ha! I solved the e-acute problem! I had used an accented e from my chat program (XChat2 for Windoze), and that was what was strange. I took a letter from OpenOffice for that and now it's correct. And I just solved the '8' character problem. I looked all over in my OpenOffice characters, and

Re: getting rid of ' and , in older scores

2009-06-19 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Bobroff Sent: Friday, 19 June 2009 3:58 PM To: Father Gordon Gilbert Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: getting rid of ' and , in older scores jEdit, or any decent editor for that matter, has a 'search/replace' function. Can't you simply search for ' and , and replace with nothing

Re: getting rid of ' and , in older scores

2009-06-19 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
/2009, Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com wrote: Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: Yes, but having removed all the ticks, I can then compile and reinsert ticks where necessary -- probably not an odious task. I'll try it ... What language are you notes inputted with? The default (ees fis etc

getting rid of ' and , in older scores

2009-06-18 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, I've quite a number of older scores I've worked on over the years, starting with version 2.2.0 (and some from Mutopia even older than that. I have successfully used convert-ly on them to bring syntax up-to-date. But I did many of them before \relative was as easy-to-use as it is now --

Re: Point-and-click in jEdit LilyPondTool

2009-06-15 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
/06/2009, Bertalan Fodor lilypondt...@organum.hu wrote: In a few days, I will release a new version of LilyPondTool having the PDF viewer as a dockable window. That will make much better point-and-click experience. 2009/6/14 Father Gordon Gilbert fatherg...@gmail.com: When I look

Re: Point-and-click in jEdit LilyPondTool

2009-06-14 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, You've been most helpful over the past few weeks helping me to straighten out a problem. Now here's another little one to look at: When I look at the PDF display of my pieces, I can't point-and-click from that to my file. I'm using jEdit 4.3pre16 with LilyPondTool, and LilyPond 2.12.1

Trouble with convert-ly

2009-06-11 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, I've recently installed jEdit 4.3 pre16 on my Ubuntu Jaunty, after a lot of trouble and most ably helped by Bertalan. When I first tried, I had to change the location of the program from a Windoze-type location with '\', but it now works. But now I find that while I can compile a file

Re: Trouble with convert-ly

2009-06-11 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi Bertalan, Looking in jEdit plugin options, the line which shows were the program and convert-ly are shows /usr/bin . And Lily fires up just fine, so you'd think convert-ly should work as well. I did 'which convert-ly' and it showed /usr/bin as well. But the console shows the following when

Re: Trouble with convert-ly

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

Strange error in compiling 2.13.0

2009-04-02 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, I am coming across a strange error when I compile a file on my Windoze box with 2.13.0, using jEdit 4.3pre16. My compile looks like this: LilyPond ready. %lilypond %args C:\Documents and Settings\Fr Gorden Gilbert\Desktop\LilyPond Files\TurnYourEyesUponJesusChords.ly Processing

How do I fix the path?

2009-03-31 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi! I've got LilyPondTool installed in jEdit 4.3pre16 on my Ubuntu box, and I'm trying to make it work. Only trouble is, when I go to compile an .ly file it comes up a dialog with the following: Error running external command. See the activity log about the problem. Cannot run program

Help with jEdit

2009-03-28 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, I've recently obtained a Compaq laptop with Windoze XP Home on one partition, and Ubuntu 8.10 on the other. I've successfully configured jEdit with the LilyPondTool plugin on the Windoze side, but I've just installed jEdit 4.3pre13 (from the distro) on the Ubuntu side. Now I've

Re: Help with jEdit

2009-03-28 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
on Ubuntu? Gordon+ On 28/03/2009, Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com wrote: Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: Hi all, I've recently obtained a Compaq laptop with Windoze XP Home on one partition, and Ubuntu 8.10 on the other. I've successfully configured jEdit with the LilyPondTool plugin

how to install LilyPond Mode plugin in jEdit?

2008-10-30 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi folks, I'm trying to help a friend of mine get started with LilyPond, and the easiest way I've found to do my .ly editing is via jEdit. So I had her install that, as well as LilyPond. But I can't seem to find out how to install the LilyPond Mode plugin. Can anyone help here? It's been

Re: All Ye People Clap your hands (was Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 66, Issue 13)

2008-05-06 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, I snaffed that music off the lilypond list because I had wanted to have a template exactly like that. It works great on my Windoze XP Pro with lily 2.11.45 using jEdit with lilypond mode. But I get several warnings when it tries to compile. I get the pdf just fine, but the midi is

Lilypond Ancient notation

2008-01-28 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Essayez ceci: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Ancient-notation#Ancient-notation Gordon+ -- Fr. Gordon Gilbert Penetanguishene, ON ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

How do I do these chord symbols?

2008-01-21 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, I'm working on a piece for a friend of mine, and he has put a couple of chords in it that don't reproduce in a nice fashion. I've looked through the help resources, and wasn't able to find how to make these chords appear as I wish. Can anybody suggest some code that will make the

Re: How do I do these chord symbols?

2008-01-21 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Gee thanks, Kieren! I compiled the two snippets you gave me and they worked just fine. I presume I can incorporate that code into the top of my \chordmode section -- I'll let you know how that works presently. Thanks again! Fr. Gordon+ On 21/01/2008, Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

How do I ...

2008-01-19 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
I'm transcribing a piece that has some weird chords in it. There are two in particular I would like to know how to code so they appear exactly as: G6(add 9) -- with the 6 as a superscript of course Fmaj7/add9 I've looked through the documentation, and can't seem to find the necessary coding --

Re: Copyright symbol

2008-01-16 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
to know here (and it's not a big deal -- I have a workaround) is *if* I am in UTF-8 -- how to tell in jEdit, and *how* to put it into that mode if I am not. Any help available? Gordon+ On 16/01/2008, Risto Vääräniemi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 16, 2008 12:24 AM, Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: I

Re: Copyright symbol

2008-01-16 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
options Encoding Bert Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: Risto, Thanks for the help, but I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT! I'm not a geek, and although I understand UTF-8, I have never worked in hex, or even Latex. (I did a bit of document editing in TeX about 20 years ago with my son's

Re: Copyright symbol

2008-01-16 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Bonjour, Valentin, Yes, here is my file. I don't mind people seeing it (not my composition, and the composer is personally to me -- I simply Lilyponded his melody; words are public domain). Melody *is* copyright, and for use, you need to contact me. Copyright symbol goes in the \header

Copyright symbol

2008-01-15 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi! I tried putting a copyright symbol in one of my pieces, and it wouldn't put it there. The only thing I was able to use was the parentheses with a 'c'. Any time I tried to use '(c)', it wouldn't show it, and the compile was full of errors. Any ideas (not too geeky ones, that is ...)?

Re: Copyright symbol

2008-01-15 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Mats, I thought by virtue of the fact that I was using jEdit with LilyPondTool, it was already in UTF-8 encoding. I looked throught the jEdit menus, and couldn't find anything to find out which characters I had, or how to change it. How do I do that? Also, should I upgrade to the latest Lily?

Re: How do I put parentheses around some notes?

2007-12-22 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
greyed-out. jEdit with the built-in PDF display. If I print it, should it be OK? Gordon+ On 21/12/2007, Reinhold Kainhofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Friday, 21. December 2007 schrieb Father Gordon Gilbert: But how do I put parentheses around these (only sometimes-used) notes? See

Anybody got Away in a Manger?

2007-12-22 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
I'm looking for Away in a Manger -- the *other* tune with a first line that goes like this: \time 3/4 \partial 4 c''4 c''4. bes'8 a'4 a' g' f' f' e' d' d'2 anyone have a copy of that I can use? Doesn't matter much if all you have is melody and chords, or whatever -- mostly looking for that

How do I put parentheses around some notes?

2007-12-21 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, I'm reproducing a Christmas carol from a book I have, mostly in order to transpose it. The composer and poet are both long dead, though, so the piece is public domain afaik. Some of the lines of lyrics have a leading note (a \partial 4), but some of them have no leading note. In the

Why can't I get a barline at the end of this

2007-12-08 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, I'm running 2.11.32 on Windoze, and using jEdit to enter the material. In the following, why can't I get a \bar :|| to appear at the end? At least something should be there afaik, but I'd like to close the repeat the way my (very poor fax of a photocopy of a photocopy) shows it. This

How to put chords on a score automatically

2007-11-10 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi list, I'm working on a four-part score for barbershop chorus. It has four separate voices of course, and words to the lead line, as well as words to various parts of other voices. My question is this: As I arrange this, I want to have the chords I am creating displayed so I can see where

Re: How to put chords on a score automatically

2007-11-10 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
60 2) } }} On 10/11/2007, Rune Zedeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Father Gordon Gilbert skrev: My question is this: As I arrange this, I want to have the chords I am creating displayed I am not sure I understand. Something like this? %%% BEGIN %%% \version 2.10.0 sop = { g

Re: Occasional lyrics attached to another voice

2007-02-08 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
this section will end up in a separate Voice context. /Mats Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: Hey, list, I have a question about fitting lyrics. In the file I've pasted below this message is the hymn I am arranging for Barbershop chorus. The final stanza has all the four parts singing separately

Occasional lyrics attached to another voice

2007-02-07 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
spots. Windoze XP Pro, LilyPond 2.11.14, jEdit 4.4pre9 with LilyPondTool Blessings, Father Gordon Gilbert+ -- Fr. Gordon Gilbert Penetanguishene, ON \header { filename = AmazingGrace-Sweet-Ads.ly enteredby = Gordon Gilbert composer = Traditional American Melody poet = words: Rev'd

Problems with Midi

2007-02-06 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
OK, I'm gonna try this again ... A few days ago, I wrote the list asking a question about midi, and saw that my message came out in the digest, but I've got no help about it, so here's my question again: I'm arranging a hymn for barbershop chorus, and frequently want to check my work to make

Re: Problems with Midi

2007-02-06 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Fred, Thanks so much for such a simple solution. Funny thing is, I didn't change the \score section *or* the \layout or the \midi section. I simply introduced some new notes and parts, when the midi quit working. But it works fine now, thank you very much. BTW, what errors were you getting

Re: Problems with Midi

2007-02-06 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Trevor, Thanks for your help. Actually, Fred gave me a very simple fix -- move the curly brace for the end of the \score section to the very end of the piece -- and it worked -- now I'm on my way. Blessings, Fr. Gordon+ -- Fr. Gordon Gilbert Penetanguishene, ON

Midi -- What am I doing wrong?

2007-02-04 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi List, I've been working on this piece for Barbershop chorus, and because of the features of close harmony, I frequently review the midi file (simple piano is fine for now). When I introduced the extra divisi voices in stanza 4, I all of a sudden found that the midi was playing only the bass

Re: How do I fit lyrics?

2007-02-01 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi Mats, Thanks for the advice. I tried doing what you advised, consulting also the Manual, and here's what I came up with. It compiles, but it only has the music and no words, and the music is only part of the whole song (the last verse). What did I do wrong? Thanks again for a wonderful

Re: How do I fit lyrics?

2007-02-01 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Thanks, Mats, I'm looking at this briefly on my lunch hour, so I can't experiment with it now, but it looks very clear, and should do the job. I'll let you know tonight when I resume futzing around with it. Thanks again, Blessings, Fr. Gordon Gilbert+ -- Fr. Gordon Gilbert Penetanguishene,

How do I fit lyrics?

2007-01-31 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi list! Can someone tell me where in the manual I can find how to fit lyrics to other voices? What I'm doing is arranging a hymn for Barbershop chorus, and in the last stanza, I want to do a call-and-response thing, changing the rhythm from 3 to 4 (I've managed that part) and using the extra

Re: Lilypond Tool

2007-01-29 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Graham, Thanks for the advice. Yes I did indeed install the latest bleeding-edge version of Lily. Love it!! My compile times are now in the neighbourhood of five to 40 seconds. (I think the longer times are when my machine gets itself bogged down somehow, and I simply reboot.) On other

Re: Lilypond Tool

2007-01-28 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
4.3 pre-9, Lilypond Tool 2.10.3 Blessings, Father Gordon Gilbert ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user