Re: How to shift music up/down a semi tone without changing key signature

2011-11-27 Thread James
the notes, great! But then I cannot (seem to) use \relative and this becomes absolute octave entry exercise. Unless I have misread the NR? James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: How to shift music up/down a semi tone without changing key signature

2011-11-27 Thread James
signature too, but I still 'lose' relative mode. -- -- James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: How to shift music up/down a semi tone without changing key signature

2011-11-27 Thread James
David, On 27 November 2011 11:17, David Bobroff bobr...@centrum.is wrote: On 11/27/2011 12:40 AM, James wrote: Hello, This seems to be a very basic question but I can't work out how to do it. Take a piece of music; for example: { a b c d | a b c d } Then shift it down half

Re: 2 pages on only one sheet

2011-11-27 Thread James
appropriate on the 'user' email list, not 'bug' list. I have cc'd that list instead in case someone can answer there - it's a bigger 'audience' on 'user'. -- -- James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: copyright symbol

2011-11-27 Thread James
use UTF composer = \markup \concat { \char ##x00A9 Joe Composer } I find this much more 'portable' between my computer operating systems. You can get a list of the different chars here: http://www.utf8-chartable.de/ -- -- James ___ lilypond-user

Re: copyright symbol

2011-11-27 Thread James
viewer are you using for all this? I just use a regular text editor like gedit or leafpad, (sometimes geany) and evince as my PDF viewer/printer on Linux. Either your PDF viewer is not displaying correctly or maybe there is something wrong with your syntax/editor? -- -- James

How to shift music up/down a semi tone without changing key signature

2011-11-26 Thread James
Hello, This seems to be a very basic question but I can't work out how to do it. Take a piece of music; for example: { a b c d | a b c d } Then shift it down half a tone without altering the key signature. -- -- James ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Non-standard MIDI instruments

2011-11-25 Thread James
a diff file. regards -- -- James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: New User Questions

2011-11-22 Thread James
Timing.measureLength = #(ly:make-moment 4 4) d2~ d } { \set Timing.measureLength = #(ly:make-moment 6 4) d1. } } } And just in case you are wondering http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/displaying-rhythms#index-partial Regards -- -- James

Re: Non-standard MIDI instruments

2011-11-22 Thread James
, giving warning: no such MIDI instrument: `aah choir' and defaulting to voice 0. Does LilyPond have an additional, less obvious master list of acceptable MIDI names somewhere? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/midi-instruments regards -- -- James

Re: Non-standard MIDI instruments

2011-11-22 Thread James
Hello, On 23 November 2011 06:46, Hilary Snaden h...@newearth.demon.co.uk wrote: I've tried adding lines like this (ahh choir . ,(- 53 1)) Sorry, in case it wasn't obvious (I meant to add this in my last email) the instrument name is 'choir ahhs'. Regards -- -- James

Re: beginners question Lilypond

2011-11-20 Thread James
the character is not a back slash but a | character - a vertical bar. James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Scheme for rhythmic transposition

2011-11-18 Thread James
? -- -- James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

staff-staff-spacing override warning

2011-11-10 Thread James Harkins
\with { \override VerticalAxisGroup #'default-staff-staff-spacing #'basic-distance = #10 } { … } ... from the reference page, removed default- and changed basic-distance to minimum-distance, no other changes, and it failed. James [1] http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/flexible

Broken attachment links in the digest

2011-10-31 Thread James Harkins
-10/jpghRv4GFnVyL.jpg In the digest delivered to my inbox, it's: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/attachments/20111031/11ae4f1e/attachment.jpg And the latter is not found on the server. TIA for looking into it. James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop

Three voices plus tie in RH - notation best practice?

2011-10-19 Thread James Harkins
wonder if there's a better way? The collision at the beginning of bar 2, between the a4~ a2 tie and the c# in voice 1, seems inevitable but it isn't pretty. (\tieDown looks even worse.) So, those of you with a notation reference or two in your library, how would you handle this? Thanks! James PS

Re: Three voices plus tie in RH - notation best practice?

2011-10-19 Thread James Harkins
that's being answered. Thanks, James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal. -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http

Re: transposing octaves for a piano part

2011-10-05 Thread James Harkins
packages. (I could cite a remarkable blooper from Max/MSP's buffer~ help, where the description of the read message leads you to expect a different argument order from the real one.) Nice work, all! James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop

Re: scaling both durations and displayed note values?

2011-09-28 Thread James Harkins
From: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com writes: Is there a way to scale the durations of a passage of music, say, by a factor of 2, so that not only do the notes take twice as much time, but the displayed note values are also doubled? \scaleDurations does

Re: maxosx support for 10.4 to 10.7, test binaries

2011-09-26 Thread James Worlton
as with jEdit / Lilypond tool. James Worlton ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

scaling both durations and displayed note values?

2011-09-23 Thread James Harkins
/paste and find/replace the note values? Thanks, James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal. -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips

Re: Manual page breaks

2011-09-12 Thread James Worlton
. That is allowed and should also work. James Worlton ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Misleading autobeaming in 3/4

2011-08-15 Thread James Harkins
any reason to consider bug reports etc. hjh [1] http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/beams#setting-automatic-beam-behavior -- the section about beam exceptions -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse

Re: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext (?)

2011-08-15 Thread James Harkins
yields the same result. I can confirm that GrandStaff handles \RemoveEmptyStaffContext in the way that you expect, in lilypond 2.14.1. PianoStaff didn't do it for me, but when I switched it to GrandStaff, empty staves vanished and it put a brace at the left margin too. hjh -- James Harkins

RE: creating images for web pages

2011-08-09 Thread James Lowe
no experience of this but have you looked at the 'Usage Manual' section 3.2.3 on HTML? http://lilypond.org/usage.html James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: New Binary for LilyPond on MacOSX 10.7 available

2011-08-09 Thread James Lowe
Hello, )-Original Message- )From: Hans Aberg [mailto:haber...@telia.com] )Sent: 08 August 2011 23:12 )To: James Lowe )Cc: lilypond-devel (lilypond-de...@gnu.org); LilyPond User (lilypond- )u...@gnu.org) )Subject: Re: New Binary for LilyPond on MacOSX 10.7 available )Importance: Low

New Binary for LilyPond on MacOSX 10.7 available

2011-08-08 Thread James Lowe
Hans, Floris et al We have built a new binary for use on 10.7 that we wondered if you can try. http://lilypond.org/~graham/ You can get them from the this link. Could you let the User and/or Dev list know if it does or doesn't resolve your issue? Thanks James )-Original Message

FW: New Binary for LilyPond on MacOSX 10.7 available

2011-08-08 Thread James Lowe
For some reason Hans won't email the group ;) From: Hans Aberg [haber...@telia.com] Sent: 08 August 2011 21:54 To: James Lowe Cc: Floris van Manen Subject: Re: New Binary for LilyPond on MacOSX 10.7 available On 8 Aug 2011, at 20:39, James Lowe wrote

RE: Staff names in lilypond-book

2011-08-07 Thread James Lowe
take another look today and see if I can come up with something suitable for a patch. James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: 2.15.8 8/8 autobeam 3 3 2 ??

2011-08-07 Thread James Lowe
#setting-automatic-beam-behavior James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: Nice workaround for simultaneous rehearsal marks – thanks Neil!

2011-08-07 Thread James Lowe
behind and without a solution for simultaneous Rehearsal Marks It is an annoyance I grant you, but it's less of an annoyance than having to upgrade all your scores *just* to use this when the workarounds are not 'that' bad. James ___ lilypond-user mailing

RE: Mix of Chordnames and Notes

2011-08-06 Thread James Lowe
Janek, From: Janek Warchoł [lemniskata.bernoull...@gmail.com] Sent: 06 August 2011 08:48 To: James Lowe Cc: Phil Holmes; robert.schm...@web.de; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Mix of Chordnames and Notes Hi, 2011/8/5 James Lowe james.l...@datacore.com

RE: Overriding shifting of coda when \break is used?

2011-08-06 Thread James Lowe
misunderstood you). What LilyPond does with rehearsal marks is exactly what I want and I don't want to have to move them manually when she decides to break a line at the point the section starts. Please let me know if I have misunderstood. James

RE: Different Font for different stave

2011-08-06 Thread James Lowe
in it, but 2.12.x did. James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: Mix of Chordnames and Notes

2011-08-05 Thread James Lowe
Phil, )-Original Message- )From: Phil Holmes [mailto:m...@philholmes.net] )Sent: 05 August 2011 09:25 )To: James Lowe; robert.schm...@web.de; lilypond-user@gnu.org )Subject: Re: Mix of Chordnames and Notes ) )- Original Message - )From: James Lowe james.l...@datacore.com ) ) @Phil

RE: Mix of Chordnames and Notes

2011-08-04 Thread James Lowe
)} ) } ) ) Cheers, ) Neil ) So why does { g4 g g g \chords { d1:m7 b1:min7.5- } } \layout { \context { \Staff \accepts ChordNames } } Give me a GS error? What am I missing here? James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https

RE: \repeat unfold behavior

2011-08-04 Thread James Lowe
the musical expression in a more 'musical' sense. )Well - this is put really bad, but that's what I meant ... ) Are you able to open a tracker for this request? James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

RE: Mix of Chordnames and Notes

2011-08-04 Thread James Lowe
Robert, From: Robert Schmaus [robert.schm...@web.de] Sent: 04 August 2011 19:57 To: James Lowe Subject: Re: Mix of Chordnames and Notes So why does { g4 g g g \chords { d1:m7 b1:min7.5- } } \layout { \context { \Staff \accepts

RE: \repeat unfold behavior

2011-08-04 Thread James Lowe
Urs, From: Urs Liska [lilyp...@ursliska.de] Sent: 04 August 2011 20:09 To: James Lowe Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: \repeat unfold behavior OK, I'll do this. Although in this case the 'preferred action' would be to submit a 'documentation

RE: Inserting Numbers into Noteheads

2011-08-04 Thread James Lowe
string' \consists ez_twelve_engraver etc. Is this a 2.12.2 snippet (or am I missing something on the LSR?) James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: Lilypond crashes when compiling snippet

2011-08-03 Thread James Lowe
) ) )That change avoids the bug, but I get three staves with newer LilyPond )versions, so there is something else strange in the \score block. Oh yes, sorry I also got this with 2.14.1 and forgot to mention it. James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond

Re: ossia with signatures where needed

2011-08-03 Thread James Harkins
to notate this sort of thing? Maybe the standard engravers' reference texts have another, better idea? I'm not attached to this specific notation strategy -- just looking for something that will be clear and not obscure the meter changes. James \version 2.14.1 \include english.ly outline

Re: ossia with signatures where needed

2011-08-03 Thread James Harkins
Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil ... snip Ah... excellent. Revised code snippet is below -- it works beautifully for my purpose! Worthy of inclusion in the snippet repository? I had searched it for ossia and found only two snippets, and neither of them illustrated what I wanted. Thanks -- James \version

Re: ossia with signatures where needed

2011-08-03 Thread James Harkins
interface. (BTW, the instruction page recommends leaving out \version altogether.) Done! James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal. -- Whitman blog: http

RE: Roman numeral analysis

2011-08-03 Thread James Lowe
on any of your pieces. See: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/including-lilypond-files No need for anything too complicated. James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond

RE: ossia with signatures where needed

2011-08-03 Thread James Lowe
Hello, )-Original Message- )From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org )[mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org] On )Behalf Of James Harkins )Sent: 03 August 2011 19:28 )To: Phil Holmes )Cc: lily-users )Subject: Re: ossia with signatures where needed

RE: Changing to Gonville font

2011-08-02 Thread James Lowe
this as a LilyPond problem as such. I'm happy to look at the instructions we give in the documentation about changing the font in general, but it wasn't clear (to me) what you thought we should change. James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

RE: Changing to Gonville font

2011-08-02 Thread James Lowe
Albert, )-Original Message- )From: Albert Frantz [mailto:alb...@key-notes.com] )Sent: 02 August 2011 12:37 )To: James Lowe )Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org )Subject: Re: Changing to Gonville font )Importance: Low ) ) I'm happy to look at the instructions we give in the documentation )about

RE: Changing to Gonville font

2011-08-02 Thread James Lowe
/02/2011 10:36 AM, James Lowe wrote: ) So this is the reason we say 'move'. ) )I agree... however, I think Albert has a good point about saying “rename” )instead. ) )The UNIX-y nerds (including those comfortable with Linux and MacOS )command lines) will understand that the mv command is used

RE: Changing to Gonville font

2011-08-02 Thread James Lowe
is to store the new fonts in a stable )place and include them with a -d-option e.g. font-dir = blabla…. ) http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1204 James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

RE: Lilypond crashes when compiling snippet

2011-08-02 Thread James Lowe
a seg fault while compiling. James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: Changing to Gonville font

2011-08-02 Thread James Lowe
Hello, From: Matthew Collett [m_coll...@ihug.co.nz] Sent: 02 August 2011 20:32 To: Graham Percival Cc: James Lowe; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Changing to Gonville font On 3/08/2011, at 5:16 am, Graham Percival wrote: On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 02:59

RE: how to color a repeat bar line?

2011-08-02 Thread James Lowe
is correct. The volta is a single 'entity' comprising of *both* repeat bars. So \once refers to the volta 'set' not just the single bar instance. I could be wrong though :) James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman

ossia with signatures where needed

2011-08-02 Thread James Harkins
in the documentation tonight. Thanks, James %%% For reference, the file layout goes something like this (omitting some fine print): \outline { ... meter changes and spacer rests... } \score { \new StaffGroup \with { \override SpanBar #'glyph-name = #: } \set

RE: lyrics between staves repeats

2011-07-31 Thread James Lowe
in the documentation as a snippet? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/contributor/adding-and-editing-snippets.html James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: lyrics between staves repeats

2011-07-31 Thread James Lowe
in the documentation as a snippet? Or more generally if you are not inclined to dive into the development ;) http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/html/whatsthis.html James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman

RE: Basic function question

2011-07-26 Thread James Lowe
\huge \bold VI} {a b c^\VMarkI d} Without having to get too complicated. Just remember that you cannot use numerals in the name of the function (i.e. in my example VMark1). Regards james ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https

RE: Last staff -coda staff- position

2011-07-26 Thread James Lowe
\layout { etc } } \score { \coda \layout { etc.} } of course that is a very simplistic style above, but I simply treat my 'coda' staff as a 'new' staff rather than use \break. James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

RE: Lilypond errors in log file

2011-07-24 Thread James Lowe
-to-setup tool, let me know, thanks! (I'm on windows 7) --- http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ works for me. James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: rendering png without page

2011-07-20 Thread James Lowe
so that I can (if we do) prepare something appropriate or if there is another way we do this (LSR for instance - but again I am not sure that seems appropriate). james ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman

RE: rendering png without page

2011-07-20 Thread James Lowe
Hello, From: Graham Percival [gra...@percival-music.ca] Sent: 20 July 2011 21:59 To: James Lowe Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org; Carl Sorensen Subject: Re: rendering png without page On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:57:41AM +, James Lowe wrote: )OK

RE: rendering png without page

2011-07-20 Thread James Lowe
Hello, From: Graham Percival [gra...@percival-music.ca] Sent: 20 July 2011 23:12 To: James Lowe Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org; Carl Sorensen Subject: Re: rendering png without page On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:08:14PM +, James Lowe wrote: Pushed

RE: Note names in output?

2011-07-17 Thread James Lowe
Heads' in the Notation Reference. Also see http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=672 For another option. James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: printed bars thickness inconsistencies

2011-07-17 Thread James Lowe
screenshots and the PS file that is generated. James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: instrument names and abbreviations in italian

2011-07-16 Thread James Lowe
http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/instname.htm James From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org [lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org] on behalf of Stefan Thomas [kontrapunktste...@googlemail.com] Sent: 16

Tremolo dots, and old-documentation help

2011-07-10 Thread James Harkins
... 2. After downloading and installing lilypond-2.14.1-1.linux-64.sh, I can only find locally-installed documentation under /usr/share/doc/lilypond -- but these are version 2.12.3. Where should I find the 2.14.1 documentation on my hard drive? James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar

Re: Best Practices for Multiple Part Scores

2011-07-10 Thread James Harkins
At Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:32:15 +0800, James Harkins wrote: - Short lived divisi - is there a better method than using on every note? What about a passage with rhythmic differences? Must this be separated into yet another part? This is one area where I think lilypond beats finale, hands

RE: jazz chords fretboards

2011-07-10 Thread James Lowe
for you (I don't play a fretted instrument). James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: Online notation reference index broken?

2011-07-10 Thread James Lowe
? ) )That page displays no problem for me with both Firefox 5 and Chrome 12 )on Ubuntu 10.04 ) )Nick ) )On 10/07/11 13:12, James Harkins wrote: ) I'm wondering if this is only me? ) ) http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/index.html ) ) -- ) ) Content Encoding Error ) The page you are trying

Re: Tremolo dots, and old-documentation help

2011-07-10 Thread James Harkins
At Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:55:23 -0300, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt wrote: 2011/7/10 James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com 2. After downloading and installing lilypond-2.14.1-1.linux-64.sh, I can only find locally-installed documentation under /usr/share/doc/lilypond -- but these are version

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 104, Issue 33

2011-07-09 Thread James Harkins
for posting! James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal. -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio more

Re: font survey: which clef do you prefer?

2011-07-09 Thread James Worlton
On Jul 9, 2011, at 16:58, Janek Warchoł lemniskata.bernoull...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/7/9 Janek Warchoł lemniskata.bernoull...@gmail.com: W dniu 8 lipca 2011 00:14 użytkownik James Lowe james.l...@datacore.com napisał: until you really print out a score and plop it on your music stand

Re: Cues + ties/LV

2011-07-09 Thread James Harkins
At Thu, 7 Jul 2011 10:43:11 +, James Lowe wrote: You can explicitly state which 'events' (slurs, ties etc) you want in the cue part \set Score.quotedCueEventTypes = #'(your event here ...) I know (as I revamped this entire section very recently) that there are potentially more

Online notation reference index broken?

2011-07-09 Thread James Harkins
I'm wondering if this is only me? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/index.html -- Content Encoding Error The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression. Ubuntu 10.04, Firefox 3.6.18. James -- James Harkins

aleatoric squiggles

2011-07-07 Thread James Harkins
, but I'm not clever enough to figure out how to use it without an example. Thanks, James PS (Yes, I'm aware of relative mode for pitch entry... it just didn't seem worth it to me for this example.) -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net

RE: Cues + ties/LV

2011-07-07 Thread James Lowe
Hello, )-Original Message- )From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org )[mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org] On )Behalf Of James Harkins )Sent: 07 July 2011 04:43 )To: lily-users )Subject: Cues + ties/LV ) )Was just playing around with cues

RE: Lilypond making my Macbook Pro run slow

2011-07-07 Thread James Lowe
with plug ins for things like Smultron which just got in the way). You leave LilyPad alone! :P She's done me proud and I wouldn't use anything else on a Mac (thanks to whoever came up with that BTW). :) James   Very much like lilyPad I built a simple lilypond editor and added syntax coloring. You may

Re: aleatoric squiggles

2011-07-07 Thread James Harkins
this -- without it, ly tried to squeeze 8-9 measures into one system, totally unreadable :) \override Glissando #'breakable = ##t Not bad, though the glisses don't always join exactly. I won't be too fussy at this stage. Thanks again! James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar

RE: font survey: which clef do you prefer?

2011-07-07 Thread James Lowe
, I don't really think one can make a definite case for either. It could be that sat in my chair reading in poor light, the clef on the right would be too crowded with the key sig and the left clef would be 'just right' small and 'at distance'. Anyway, that's just my thoughts. James

Re: Best Practices for Multiple Part Scores

2011-07-07 Thread James Harkins
finale's un-tweaked output would be. (The only thing that looks funny to me is the placement of the dots in the upper part. But if I remember right, finale wouldn't even try to avoid collisions between stems and dots...) James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net

Re: aleatoric squiggles

2011-07-07 Thread James Harkins
Glissando #'style = #'trill But, on a lark, I just tried #'zigzag and the alignment looks much better. Pity about #'trill, though. I prefer the visual effect of the thick strokes going down (left to right) and thinner strokes going back up. James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar

RE: font survey: which clef do you prefer?

2011-07-06 Thread James Lowe
to more realistic size I think I prefer the one one on the right - but it might depend if I had sharps and flats around it. James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: font survey: which clef do you prefer?

2011-07-06 Thread James Lowe
Hello From: Janek Warchoł [lemniskata.bernoull...@gmail.com] Sent: 06 July 2011 21:53 To: James Lowe Cc: lilypond-user Subject: Re: font survey: which clef do you prefer? W dniu 6 lipca 2011 22:21 użytkownik James Lowe james.l...@datacore.com napisał: Can

Re: font survey: which clef do you prefer?

2011-07-06 Thread James Worlton
On Jul 6, 2011, at 15:53, Janek Warchoł lemniskata.bernoull...@gmail.com wrote: W dniu 6 lipca 2011 22:21 użytkownik James Lowe james.l...@datacore.com napisał: Can we have some sharps and flats and perhaps some numeric signatures? There is no context for the clef otherwise (if you see what

Re: bits from twitter #lilypond

2011-07-06 Thread James Harkins
googled lilypond editing in org-mode but I can't find any references, apart from list archives containing this message :) so at the moment, I have no way to learn more about this. Thanks, James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come

Cues + ties/LV

2011-07-06 Thread James Harkins
a d e a~ } a1 } -- the elec part in the score looks good, but no LV in the cue part. Maybe a bug? If so, maybe this will serve as a tiny example...? \addQuote q { \relative c'' { c4 \laissezVibrer } } \relative c'' { \cueDuring #q #UP { s4 } a4 \laissezVibrer } James -- James Harkins

RE: Lilypond making my Macbook Pro run slow

2011-07-05 Thread James Lowe
. etc. without )slowing down at all, so I'm wondering what Lilypond is doing that's so )memory intensive and how I can fix it. The Lilypond I downloaded is )2.15.4. Any ideas? ) --- [James' reply:] I assume you are using the inbuilt editor (LilyPad) that comes with the software (as opposed

RE: Lilypond making my Macbook Pro run slow

2011-07-05 Thread James Lowe
in the way). You leave LilyPad alone! :P She's done me proud and I wouldn't use anything else on a Mac (thanks to whoever came up with that BTW). :) James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond

Odd-looking tie on a chord

2011-07-04 Thread James Harkins
question -- I had asked a week or two ago if there is any more-convenient way to write repeated chords without copying and pasting the ... expressions. I don't recall seeing an answer on the list. If the answer is no, it would help me to know that for sure so that I can quit wondering. Thanks, James

Re: Odd-looking tie on a chord

2011-07-04 Thread James Harkins
'' b''8. %% Here: the tie on the D's looks funny %% Too tall? Left-hand endpoint is not aligned with the B tie? ~ cs' d'' b''8 [ b d'' a'' ] } } James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me

Re: Odd-looking tie on a chord

2011-07-04 Thread James Harkins
it. :) James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal. -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio more audio: http

Re: Odd-looking tie on a chord

2011-07-04 Thread James Harkins
#'details #'outer-tie-length-symmetry-penalty-factor = #0 Seems quite useful, will play around with it later. Thank you! hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal

RE: ERROR: Unable to find file ice-9/boot-9.scm in load path

2011-07-04 Thread James Lowe
against a file in a 'relative dir' (rather than in the same dir) I get the same problem --snip-- james@james-OptiPlex-990:~$ pwd /home/james james@james-OptiPlex-990:~$ lilypond --pdf ./Desktop/test.ly GNU LilyPond 2.14.1 ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path: ERROR: Unable to find file ice-9/boot-9

Re: fret diagrams for scales and arpeggios - using finger numbers as intervals

2011-06-30 Thread James Lowe
Carl James. On 30 Jun 2011, at 05:24, Jay Lee jkl...@mac.com wrote: I guess we need to add something to the documentation indicating that the fingering in the verbose syntax can be a number, a string, or a lilypond markup. Let me know what/where as I have a tidy-up patch that I've been

Re: beams over rests

2011-06-30 Thread James Lowe
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1723 James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: system-system-spacing in lilypond-book-file

2011-06-29 Thread James Lowe
adding - it was not clear to me. I can do that if it is appropriate. See: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/contributor/documentation-suggestions.html Regards James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org

RE: system-system-spacing in lilypond-book-file

2011-06-29 Thread James Lowe
Stefan, From: Stefan Thomas [kontrapunktste...@googlemail.com] Sent: 29 June 2011 20:55 To: James Lowe Cc: phili...@philmassart.net; lilypond-user Subject: Re: system-system-spacing in lilypond-book-file Dear Philippe, dear james, dear community, I had

RE: help with pitchedtrill

2011-06-29 Thread James Lowe
} -- Kieren beat me to it. Actually there is a snippet here http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=304 That is pretty much this same example. So i wonder if you were aware of the LilyPond Snippet Repository (LSR)? James ___ lilypond-user

RE: [Best Practices] instrument changes

2011-06-28 Thread James Lowe
and check or tweak. As I say, nothing earth shattering but it works for me. James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: Texinfo manual.

2011-06-28 Thread James Lowe
Hello, From: Graham Percival [gra...@percival-music.ca] Sent: 28 June 2011 19:42 To: Michel Villeneuve; James Lowe Cc: Hwaen Ch'uqi; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Texinfo manual. On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:34:45PM +0200, Michel Villeneuve wrote: Did

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