Re: dynamics seperatate from the notes entry

2012-12-31 Thread James Bailey
On Dec 31, 2012, at 3:22 PM, Karl Hammar k...@aspodata.se wrote: How do I merge Ds and Ms below so it will behave as if I wrote the dynamics together with the notes? smorz = \markup { \italic smorz } sotto = \markup { \italic { sotto voce } } Ds = { s1*10 | s1^\sotto | s4 s2.\f | s4

Re: lyrics to music

2012-11-20 Thread James Bailey
It used to not done, in order to emphasize each individual word. Now, it's more whatever the composer wants. There are no more hard and fast rules. On Nov 20, 2012, at 4:25 PM, Fr. Michael Gilmary, mma frmichaelgilm...@maronitemonks.org wrote: Hi everybody: Here's a general question that's

Re: Creating cross-staff arpeggios in a piano staff

2012-11-16 Thread James Bailey
On Nov 16, 2012, at 6:10 PM, Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonm...@ca.rr.com wrote: … 1. Which of these lines (discounting change of pitch and duration) should be used? 2. Where in an already started Piano score should they be inserted? Thank you for your kind attention. Good day!

Re: Ledger line visibility issue

2012-08-13 Thread James Bailey
On Aug 12, 2012, at 6:58 PM, Peter Gentry peter.gen...@sunscales.co.uk wrote: I have a score with many repeated beamed quavers and semi-quavers on ledger lines. The default layout is difficult to read as ledger lines and the staff produce an almost hypnotic effect which confuses the

1/2 Pedal marking

2011-02-05 Thread James Bailey
Is it possible to alter the pedal symbols with markup? I'd like to have a 1/2 Ped. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: incorrect displaying of Arabic text

2011-01-29 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 29, 2011, at 7:10 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 1/29/11 7:45 AM, James Samir Ismail j...@tenable.biz wrote: The first thing to do is to run the specified command from a terminal window: lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x You said before that it didn't work. We don't know

Re: engraving rules question - voices with merged heads

2011-01-29 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 29, 2011, at 9:40 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: W dniu 29 stycznia 2011 12:00:50 UTC+1 użytkownik James Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com napisał: On Jan 29, 2011, at 11:25 AM, Janek Warchoł wrote: 2011/1/29 James Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com: On Jan 29, 2011, at 12:17 AM

Re: Extracting only lyrics and chords

2011-01-27 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 27, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Jürgen Ibelgaufts wrote: Hello, thanks for jumping in. Devnull was new to me. I tried, and the notes are invisible, leaving no gap. Very fine so far. But every single syllable leads to a warning lyric syllable does not have note and the lyrics still are out

Re: incorrect displaying of Arabic text

2011-01-27 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 27, 2011, at 5:32 PM, James Samir Ismail wrote: Has anybody experienced a problem with getting Arabic text to display correctly in their scores? Here's a snippet that contains properly formatted UTF-8 Arabic: \score { \relative d' { c^\markup {

Re: Understanding herd of curly braces

2011-01-24 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 24, 2011, at 10:07 PM, Seth Williamson wrote: I have turned out a few simple jobs with LilyPond, mainly simple copying jobs just for practice and -- as a practical matter -- a few pieces that I needed to transpose into another key. However, as I look at LilyPond code generated by

Re: Odd vertical spacing of lyrics

2011-01-24 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 19, 2011, at 7:25 PM, James Bailey wrote: On Jan 19, 2011, at 1:27 AM, Keith OHara wrote: … The old LilyPond collapsed everything in each system to take only the vertical space needed. For lyrics, it seems that did pretty much the right thing. The new LilyPond will spread things

Re: Bug in ties over barlines

2011-01-23 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 23, 2011, at 11:09 PM, Joseph Haig wrote: I have (I believe) found a bug in Lilypond, and I am fairly sure what it is, but I would like to check with people who have better knowledge of music theory than I before I submit it to the bug list. In the following code: { \time 4/4

Re: Several parts to one piece?

2011-01-22 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 22, 2011, at 1:21 PM, Michael Dykes wrote: Sorry to be barraging the list; but I have several pieces) that consist of several parts, and I need to compile them as a whole piece, but have each part end and begin separately. How, can I accomplish this? You can have more than one

Re: How to tie the last note of one variable to the first note of another variable?

2011-01-22 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 22, 2011, at 7:24 PM, Disc Magnet wrote: partOne = \relative c' { c4 e g e~ } partTwo = \relative c' { e1 c4 e g e~ e1 } \score { \new PianoStaff \set PianoStaff.midiInstrument = acoustic grand \new Staff { \tempo 4 = 120

Re: Odd vertical spacing of lyrics

2011-01-19 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 19, 2011, at 1:27 AM, Keith OHara wrote: That was quite topical, for an 'off-topic' rant. You have to tell us how you prefer to enter the lyrics when they are sometimes shared. Is there one Lyrics for alto, one for alto-tenor-together, and one for tenor? or do you just have alto and

Re: Odd vertical spacing of lyrics

2011-01-19 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:53 PM, Graham Percival wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:28:38PM +0100, Jan Warchoł wrote: 2011/1/19 Mike Solomon mike...@ufl.edu: It may be worth it to add this to the issue tracker and get this fixed in one of the first 2.14 bug fixes (if not 2.14 itself) -

Re: Suppress chord names from MIDI output

2011-01-18 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 18, 2011, at 7:00 PM, Brett McCoy wrote: Is there a way to suppress MIDI output for \ChordName context? When I create a staff with other parts and have chord names at the top, the output always has a piano playing those chords and it's interfering with the rest of the piece, plus I

Re: ties through parallel construction

2011-01-11 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 11, 2011, at 1:51 PM, Xavier Scheuer wrote: … This is a really annoying problem, especially for new users. I'm currently trying to convince developers to change this behaviour. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2010-11/msg00199.html … Cheers, Xavier -- Xavier

Re: vertical alignment - how to bottom-align something?

2011-01-11 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 11, 2011, at 11:01 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: 2011/1/11 Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Align#index-_005cdir_002dcolumn-1 Cheers, Neil Hi Neil, unfortunately i cannot see how dir-column can help me :( Look at this:

Re: Bug in 2.13.x?

2011-01-08 Thread James Bailey
I can reproduce this error by including the pop-chords.ly file. Perhaps the problem is that, as neil says, pop-chords.ly is being included somewhere? On Jan 8, 2011, at 1:53 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: I had posted previously about having .ly file fail to compile in 2.13.44-1 which worked in

Re: Fingering Markup Override

2011-01-07 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 7, 2011, at 10:49 AM, lunar7 wrote: Hello, My Max/MSP Lilypond input patch is going well but I'm stuck on one feature I wanted to include. I have a set of three tables per key signature I am referring to in the event a user wants to use the less likely options for how to notate

Re: Bug in 2.13.44-1?

2011-01-03 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 3, 2011, at 4:15 PM, Tim McNamara wrote: On Jan 3, 2011, at 1:09 AM, -Eluze wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: #(ly:set-option 'delete-intermediate-files #t) \paper { indent = 0.0 ragged-last = ##f \header { title = Lilypond Test composer = McNamara meter = Swing

Re: Accidental and clef change issue

2011-01-03 Thread James Bailey
On Dec 28, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Xavier Scheuer wrote: Hi! This has been reported on the French user mailing list. In the following code the c-natural is not printed if there is a clef change in the middle of the measure. \relative c' { \clef bass cis2 c \clef tenor cis2 \clef bass c

Re: Bug in 2.13.44-1?

2011-01-03 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 4, 2011, at 1:23 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: On Jan 3, 2011, at 12:25 PM, James Bailey wrote: I don't know if this is what you were looking for, but this compiled just fine for me on my osx 10.6.5 on an intel iMac: Hmm, well doesn't seem to be a bug. That was my main question

Re: Bug in 2.13.44-1?

2011-01-03 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 4, 2011, at 6:52 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: On Jan 3, 2011, at 11:44 PM, James Bailey wrote: On Jan 4, 2011, at 1:23 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: On Jan 3, 2011, at 12:25 PM, James Bailey wrote: I don't know if this is what you were looking for, but this compiled just fine for me

Re: Bug in 2.13.44-1?

2011-01-03 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 4, 2011, at 6:52 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: On Jan 3, 2011, at 11:44 PM, James Bailey wrote: On Jan 4, 2011, at 1:23 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: On Jan 3, 2011, at 12:25 PM, James Bailey wrote: I don't know if this is what you were looking for, but this compiled just fine for me

Re: unmetered music - page breaks and empty bar lines

2011-01-02 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 2, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Peter Van Kranenburg wrote: Dear list, I'm typesetting unmetered music. My question is: what is the right (or best) approach to do so? If I set Score.timing to false, I have to insert \bar everywhere in order to let lilypond figure out a nice layout.

Re: unmetered music - page breaks and empty bar lines

2011-01-02 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 2, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Peter Van Kranenburg wrote: On 1/2/11 3:03 PM, Sven Axelsson wrote: On 2 January 2011 14:33, Peter Van Kranenburg peter.van.kranenb...@meertens.knaw.nl wrote: Dear list, I'm typesetting unmetered music. My question is: what is the right (or best) approach to

Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2010-12-30 Thread James Bailey
On Dec 30, 2010, at 8:59 AM, David Kastrup wrote: What's up with the recent bout of social networking address harvesters? Are there real persons stupid enough to send invitations to all their contacts including mailing lists? If so, one really should pull their internet licenses. --

Re: Grace notes with fixed spacing

2010-12-29 Thread James Bailey
On Dec 29, 2010, at 6:10 PM, Sven Axelsson wrote: OK, rtfm:ing and testing a bit further. I created a music function like this: pgrace = #(define-music-function (parser location notes) (ly:music?) #{ \newSpacingSection \override Score.SpacingSpanner #'spacing-increment = #0.9

Re: Bug in 2.13.44-1?

2010-12-29 Thread James Bailey
On Dec 30, 2010, at 3:52 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: Is this a bug? Interpreting music... /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/share/lilypond/current/scm/chord-ignatzek-names.scm:208:9: In procedure chord-name-pop-markup in expression (name-root root lowercase-root?):

Re: centering the new Lyrics

2010-12-28 Thread James Bailey
On Dec 28, 2010, at 8:08 AM, Keith OHara wrote: Dear engravers of lyrics, The next version of LilyPond will handle empty spaces within lyrics differently. If we have some adjacent lines of lyrics, version 2.12 collapses any empty sections, so the set of lines collapses to the minimum

Re: Accidental and clef change issue

2010-12-28 Thread James Bailey
I don't know about this one. Certainly, the accidental should be (and is) printed. It's the naturals that aren't printed. Not even when changing octaves: \new Staff \relative c' { \time 6/4 \clef treble cis dis fis \clef tenor c d f \clef bass cis dis fis \clef

Re: Not enough space between certain words

2010-12-26 Thread James Bailey
On Dec 26, 2010, at 9:36 PM, Michael Dykes wrote: I am working on another liturgical piece of music, and it has a refrain that ends with the word: Alleluia! In most cases, that word is getting scrunched up, and the dashes are not visible. The rest of the piece is fine, except for that

Re: When right hand notes spill over to the bass clef?

2010-12-25 Thread James Bailey
On Dec 25, 2010, at 12:32 AM, Disc Magnet wrote: I have a 4/4 bar containing the following notes with left hand and right hand. Left hand = f1 (The f key to the left of middle C, i.e. the second line in bass clef. Occupies the whole bar.) Right hand = d4 c a b (The D key to the right of

Re: ways of using Lilypond?

2010-12-19 Thread James Bailey
If you haven't already, I would suggest reading the learning manual through, so you have a basic understanding of how lilypond works. You may want to try and get one of the integrated environments (frescobaldi, denemo, jEdit +lilypondtool). You should, at that point, have enough knowledge to be

Re: ways of using Lilypond?

2010-12-18 Thread James Bailey
On Dec 18, 2010, at 11:19 PM, Ludo Beckers wrote: Just wondering, has there ever been a poll about how many Lilypond users work with a certain specific tool. Is the majority in this group using denemo, frescobaldi, lilypondtool or other tools? I usually use nano.

an emacs question

2010-12-12 Thread James Bailey
How can I pass an argument to the emacs compile command? Usually, when I compile something on the command line, I include a directory with tons of style sheets with the -I argument. Is it possible to add this to emacs, or can I only do it on the command line? Thanks in advance, James

Re: an emacs question

2010-12-12 Thread James Bailey
On Dec 12, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Alexander Kobel wrote: On 2010-12-12 09:48, James Bailey wrote: How can I pass an argument to the emacs compile command? Usually, when I compile something on the command line, I include a directory with tons of style sheets with the -I argument

Re: double time signatures

2010-12-11 Thread James Bailey
On Dec 11, 2010, at 8:33 PM, Martin Kemp wrote: Dear All I have nearly got what I want with the following snippet but can't currently centrally align 12 over 8 (12/8). Any help gratefully apprecitated. You may be re-inventing the whell. Perhaps

Re: Odd output

2010-12-10 Thread James Bailey
Because spelling counts! D# and E♭may sound the same (on a tempered instrument) but they are two very different notes. And an performer playing an instrument that can distinguish between the two, should. On Dec 10, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Michael Ellis wrote: Why not set one of the notes to a

Re: Odd output

2010-12-10 Thread James Bailey
, here's a link to the best article I've seen on the subject. It's by Bert Ligon, head of the Jazz Studies department at the University of South CarolinaCollege of Music. MUSIC SPELL CHECK? PURPOSEFUL ACCIDENTALS Cheers, Mike On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:55 PM, James Bailey derhindem

Re: virtualization software for OSX

2010-12-07 Thread James Bailey
On Dec 7, 2010, at 5:35 PM, Valentin Villenave wrote: On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Valentin Villenave valen...@villenave.net wrote: In my opinion, the absolute ideal alternative is to use Wubi (it would

Re: Adding Staves

2010-12-06 Thread James Bailey
On Dec 6, 2010, at 7:31 PM, Br. Athanasius Pelletier wrote: I fixed up the input, there were alot of errors before.I am not sure about the use of and in the \score section. Verses one and two have the same music but three and four each have different music. What exactly is

repeats and alternatives

2010-12-04 Thread James Bailey
I don't understand alternatives. Can someone explain to me what I'm doing wrong. Why does the first example not compile properly with the excuse, more alternatives than repeats but the second example compiles just fine? \version 2.12.3 \book { \relative c'' { \time 3/4 \repeat volta 2 {

Re: repeats and alternatives

2010-12-04 Thread James Bailey
On Dec 4, 2010, at 11:19 PM, Neil Puttock wrote: On 4 December 2010 22:05, James Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com wrote: I don't understand alternatives. Can someone explain to me what I'm doing wrong. Why does the first example not compile properly with the excuse, more alternatives

Re: vimLilypond learning curve_jazzchord font_bars per line? 3 questions

2010-12-02 Thread James Bailey
On Dec 2, 2010, at 5:06 PM, LazyLew wrote: I have some simple questions - can't find it in the manuals so far, because there's so much there. - is it easy to adapt fonts for chords? I like 'em bold, the way you often see in jazz sheets. - is it easy to control the amount of measures

Re: How to print 2 rehearsal marks above and below same bar line

2010-11-29 Thread James Bailey
Hello, I asked this exact same question almost exactly two years ago! Here is the response I got from Mats. It worked for me, even if it was a bit fiddly: From: Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se Date: December 11, 2008 5:36:04 PM GMT+01:00 To: james derhindem...@googlemail.com Cc:

Re: lilypond output to pdf

2010-11-25 Thread James Bailey
All of the changes between 2.13.4 and 2.13.5 should be here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/tags/release/2.13.5-0 However, since this is an unstable branch, it's highly recommended that you update to the latest unstable version, 2.13.40. On Nov 25, 2010, at

Re: lyrics notgoing with triplet

2010-11-25 Thread James Bailey
The triplets are beamed together. See section 2.1.3 in the 2.12 documentation. On Nov 25, 2010, at 8:17 PM, i...@soundand.com wrote: Hello-, I expect the lyrics syllables to go with each note in the triplet figure but it won't in the following example- what has changed since I last did

Re: multiple input files

2010-11-23 Thread James Bailey
I think section 5.1.5, on style sheets in the learning manual for version 2.12 might have tips on how to do what you're trying to do. On Nov 23, 2010, at 7:59 AM, lunar7 wrote: Hello everyone, I am prototyping a lilypond MIDI input tool in Max/MSP (to be later implemented in C++) and am

Re: Inserting comments into the log file

2010-11-17 Thread James Bailey
Perhaps you will find some tips in section 5 of the learning manual. On Nov 17, 2010, at 7:40 PM, Paul Thompson wrote: I have not found a command to insert a comment placed in the .ly file into the .log file. This is a useful tool for debugging. I am trying to find which of my \break

Re: Inserting comments into the log file

2010-11-17 Thread James Bailey
Perhaps you will find some tips in section 5 of the learning manual. Oh, I've just started reading the 2.13 documentation, and this section has been moved to the usage manual. On Nov 17, 2010, at 7:40 PM, Paul Thompson wrote: I have not found a command to insert a comment placed in the .ly

Re: acciaccatura placement

2010-11-07 Thread James Bailey
On Nov 7, 2010, at 4:07 AM, Richard Konzen wrote: Lilyponders, I'm working on a score which includes the snippet below from the harp part. I'm finding that the acciaccatura wants to create a second double bar giving an extra measure with an 8th note value. The new key signature also

Re: Question on creating an ossia with different times?

2010-11-01 Thread James Bailey
I'm glad to see you've made some progress, considering how often you have ossia measures, you may want to consider just starting and stopping the staff whenever you need it: \version 2.12.3 \paper { indent = 0\mm } music = { \override Staff.TimeSignature #'style = #'() \override

Re: rests in polyphonic music - 'stems down, rests up'

2010-11-01 Thread James Bailey
On Nov 1, 2010, at 4:14 PM, ander...@notam02.no wrote: Hello. Im doing some testing on Rachmaninovs C-minor praeludium. Q: How Can i separate handling of rests from stem-directions in polyphonic voice-handling? Id actually want the default behavior of \voiceOne, except for pointing the

Re: Question on creating an ossia with different times?

2010-10-29 Thread James Bailey
Hi, first of all, let me recommend you to upgrade to version 2.12. It's the current stable version, and includes numerous bug fixes over 2.10. Secondly, let me recommend you to read the Learning Manual included in the new documentation. Even if you've been using LilyPond for quite a while, it

Re: Voice solely for formatting?

2010-10-27 Thread James Bailey
On Oct 27, 2010, at 8:57 PM, Christopher Meredith wrote: Somewhere in my travels, I saw a LilyPond source file in which the author had created a voice that contained only formatting directives and no notes, so that the other voices would contain only notes and no formatting directives.

Re: Help shifting entire tuplet horizontally within a measure

2010-10-24 Thread James Bailey
On Oct 24, 2010, at 10:08 PM, James Lowe wrote: What I don't understand is what the *1/4 and *4 are doing in this context. Is this documented? James See 1.2.1 in the Notation Reference, Scaling Durations. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: \chordmode chords jumping about on PDF using Mac OSX

2010-10-23 Thread James Bailey
On Oct 21, 2010, at 12:39 PM, James wrote: Hello, On 21/10/2010 10:18, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2010-10-20 um 22:06 schrieb Valentin Villenave: That is an awesome bug. I don't get the complaint about insane min spring distance, but I do get the jumping around. I wouldn't even know

Re: \chordmode chords jumping about on PDF using Mac OSX

2010-10-23 Thread James Bailey
On Oct 21, 2010, at 12:39 PM, James wrote: Hello, On 21/10/2010 10:18, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2010-10-20 um 22:06 schrieb Valentin Villenave: That is an awesome bug. I don't get the complaint about insane min spring distance, but I do get the jumping around. I wouldn't even

Re: \chordmode chords jumping about on PDF using Mac OSX

2010-10-23 Thread James Bailey
On Oct 21, 2010, at 6:18 PM, James Bailey wrote: On Oct 21, 2010, at 12:39 PM, James wrote: Hello, On 21/10/2010 10:18, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2010-10-20 um 22:06 schrieb Valentin Villenave: That is an awesome bug. I don't get the complaint about insane min spring distance

Re: Parallel dynamics, markup, sponsor, etc.

2010-10-21 Thread James Bailey
On Oct 21, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Jan Warchoł wrote: Hi, 2010/10/19 Valentin Villenave valen...@villenave.net On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Jan Warchoł lemniskata.bernoulli...@gmail.com wrote: (...) Lily places all related dynamics at the same vertical position level Er, it seems that

Re: \chordmode chords jumping about on PDF using Mac OSX

2010-10-20 Thread James Bailey
On Oct 20, 2010, at 6:20 PM, James wrote: Hello I am using Mac OSX Snow Leopard (10.6.x) with LilyPond 2.13.35 Here is the smallest example I could get down to -- \version 2.13.35 RH = \relative c'' { \repeat unfold 30 { a8 a a a } } LH = { \clef bass \repeat

Re: Parallel dynamics, markup, sponsor, etc.

2010-10-19 Thread James Bailey
If I understand correctly, is this similar to the (rather hackish, imo) lsr snippet? http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=450 On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:46 AM, Cordilow wrote: In most music I see out there, I've noticed that related dynamics (and often markup) are usually parallel (such that if

Re: Parallel dynamics, markup, sponsor, etc.

2010-10-19 Thread James Bailey
On Oct 19, 2010, at 7:59 PM, Cordilow wrote: If I understand correctly, is this similar to the (rather hackish, imo) lsr snippet? http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=450 I don't think so. What I mean is with multiple notes so that the dynamics above each note (not the same note) are the

Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

2010-10-19 Thread James Bailey
On Oct 20, 2010, at 12:21 AM, James Wilkinson wrote: On 10/11/10 6:22 PM, James Bailey wrote: On Oct 11, 2010, at 11:22 PM, Graham Percival wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 04:32:48PM -0400, James Wilkinson wrote: On 9/23/10 6:00 PM, Vicente Solsona wrote: if the dynamics are the same

Re: \acciaccatura

2010-10-18 Thread James Bailey
As mentioned frequently on this mailing list, this is a known limitation of lilypond. See the message at: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-04/msg00422.html On Oct 18, 2010, at 1:45 PM, Mario Moles wrote: In data lunedì 18 ottobre 2010 13:39:12, hai scritto: What does this

Re: Crescendo or decrescendo on one note

2010-10-18 Thread James Bailey
On Oct 19, 2010, at 7:06 AM, Cordilow wrote: I have a situation where there are only two notes considered, side by side. One has a crescendo and the next has a decrescendo. Any ideas on how to do this? I looked at the documentation and could only find something doable with a three note

Re: how to change indent in only one (non-first) system?

2010-10-14 Thread James Bailey
On Oct 15, 2010, at 12:09 AM, Janek Warchoł wrote: Hi! In the following example, how can i make an indent in the third system (the one in which both staffs appear) so that the staff name Contralto fits on the page, while leaving indentation in other systems intact? I would do it as two

Re: Chords below staff

2010-10-14 Thread James Bailey
On Oct 15, 2010, at 6:04 AM, Colin Campbell wrote: I got the attached .PDF Seems to me that four times a whole note should take up more bars than one, or at least look a whole (!) lot different than the note to the left, IIUC it should be a longa, as in the second staff. You may want to

Re: job-count

2010-10-13 Thread James Bailey
On Oct 13, 2010, at 2:58 AM, Valentin Villenave wrote: On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 6:13 PM, James Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm not so good with the advanced options, can anyone help with how I use the job-count option? Hi James, I think it's mostly used when building

Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

2010-10-13 Thread James Bailey
On Oct 13, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: Any chance the full-measure/multi-measure problem will get fixed? How can we merge a multi-measure rest with a part-measure rest? Unless things have changed, even trying to merge multi-measure rests with other multi-measure rests doesn't

Re: tuplet number

2010-10-13 Thread James Bailey
On Oct 13, 2010, at 8:49 PM, Alex Jones wrote: I am using the expression to not display the tuplet number \override TupletNumber #'stencil = ##f but at some point later in the score I want that number to be displayed again and when I use what I figured was the appropriate reactivation

Re: markup placement

2010-10-12 Thread James Bailey
my personal experience is that the most productive thing I've done in Lilypond is learning to search in the documentation :) I actually think reading the learning manual is more important than searching the documentation. The learning manual explains how lilypond works, how to find the

Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

2010-10-11 Thread James Bailey
On Oct 11, 2010, at 11:58 PM, James Wilkinson wrote: So I finally separated the dynamics from the notes, and it works! But I had a couple of problems: 1) Whenever both instruments have a rest, Lilypond stacks them vertically. James Bailey sent me a link to a snippet that fixes

Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

2010-10-11 Thread James Bailey
On Oct 11, 2010, at 11:22 PM, Graham Percival wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 04:32:48PM -0400, James Wilkinson wrote: On 9/23/10 6:00 PM, Vicente Solsona wrote: if the dynamics are the same, it's better to write them just once. thus you: 1) save typing 2) help lilypond so it does't

job-count

2010-10-10 Thread James Bailey
I'm not so good with the advanced options, can anyone help with how I use the job-count option? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

2.13.35 tagline links

2010-10-09 Thread James Bailey
Is there a reason that the link in the footer goes to the old website, http://lilypond.org/web/ and not the new website, http://lilypond.org/ ? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Text aligned on dynamic

2010-10-09 Thread James Bailey
For What Its Worth, I have a document that gets included with all of my files that has things like: pdolce = #( make-dynamic-script ( markup #:line ( #:left-align #:dynamic p #:hspace -1

Re: Making split systems

2010-10-08 Thread James Bailey
On Oct 8, 2010, at 2:26 PM, Richie Gress wrote: Hi. I am wondering if it is possible to have measures that start in one system and continue on in another. Thank you in advance for any suggestions! Technically, no. But you can get the visual output of bars that span different systems via

Re: Subscripted text and centering of TextSpanner line

2010-10-08 Thread James Bailey
On Oct 8, 2010, at 7:25 AM, Nick Payne wrote: If I have text characters at the left end of a TextSpanner, and some of those characters are subscripted, then the centering of the TextSpanner line seems to be calculated using the total height of both the main and subscripted text, which

Re: lyricsto and rest position, etc

2010-10-07 Thread James Bailey
On Oct 7, 2010, at 7:56 PM, Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote: Hi: I'm using lilypond v. 2.11.62 with \lyricsto as in: TimeKey= {\key f \major} MusicOne = \relative c' { \set autoBeaming = ##f \partial 8 f8 \bar| a4 f8 g \bar| a([ bes a]) g \bar| f2 \bar| a4 f8 g a([

Re: conditional formatting

2010-10-05 Thread James Bailey
I can't really use Scheme (other than find and replace), so maybe this doesn't solve what you need, but what about creating separate variables with the staves that you want and simply commenting an appropriate \score ? i.e., \version 2.12.3 piccolo = \relative a' { a c' a e' e c a e }

Re: nested crescendos?

2010-10-03 Thread James Bailey
On Oct 3, 2010, at 11:34 PM, Alex Jones wrote: I need to include nested crescendos and decrescendos within a document (e.g. an overarching crescendo with phrasing decrescendos). Is this possible? For example the idea would be something like the following: fis, \ \ (ees') \! f,! \ (d')

Re: Problem with greek letter mu (μ)

2010-10-01 Thread James Bailey
On Oct 1, 2010, at 8:04 PM, alexandros wrote: Hello! In the result of the following code, the greek letter mu (μ) appears in another font, smaller and thiner than the other letters. I would be grateful for any idea that could correct this.

Re: fonts on OSX and 2.13.34

2010-09-28 Thread James Bailey
On Sep 28, 2010, at 9:18 PM, Stan Sanderson wrote: On Sep 28, 2010, at 12:11 AM, James Bailey wrote: Has something changed with the way fonts in 2.13 work, custom fonts aren't loaded. \version 2.12.2 \markup \left-column { \line { How razorback jumping frogs level six piqued gymnasts

skip 2 page numbers

2010-09-27 Thread James Bailey
I got from someone (probably kieran) a while back a simple scheme function to skip the first two page numbers. It works fine, but I'd like to move the page numbers to the footer. This, is what I got: \version 2.11.65-1 \include titling-init.ly #(define (skip-two-page-numbers layout props arg)

fonts on OSX and 2.13.34

2010-09-27 Thread James Bailey
Has something changed with the way fonts in 2.13 work, custom fonts aren't loaded. \version 2.12.2 \markup \left-column { \line { How razorback jumping frogs level six piqued gymnasts. } \line { \override #'(font-name . Times Italic) { How razorback jumping frogs level six piqued gymnasts. } }

Re: Twelve-tone notation

2010-09-26 Thread James Bailey
On Sep 25, 2010, at 11:24 PM, Nikolausius wrote: Hi there, does anyone know whether or not lilypond supports the twelve-tone notation system of J.M. Hauer? To point out what I mean, here's a link where the differences between several 12-tone notation systems are shown and the system of

Re: how to invoke self-compiled development versions

2010-09-25 Thread James Bailey
On Sep 25, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Patrick Schmidt wrote: Hi all, I'm using VirtualBox v.3.0.12 (the last release that supports Mac OS 10.4.11) and LilyBuntu. I downloaded the source code of the current development version with git to ~/lilypond-git and compiled it with make all as

Re: 2.13.34-1 freezes when updating syntax (Mac 10.4)

2010-09-24 Thread James Bailey
On Sep 24, 2010, at 1:27 AM, James Wilkinson wrote: Gets to the point of saying Applying conversion: and just stops -- Does the file compile when you try it in 2.13.34? It may be that there are no changes which need to be made. ___ lilypond-user

Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

2010-09-23 Thread James Bailey
On Sep 23, 2010, at 10:19 PM, James Wilkinson wrote: \version 2.13.31 When I put two voices on the same staff that have identical markings for dynamics and tempo, Lilypond prints them both, one above the other. Looking in the archives the other day I saw that the approved solution is

Re: Request for changes in manuals

2010-09-20 Thread James Bailey
On Sep 21, 2010, at 12:17 AM, mark damerell wrote: I am using Version 2.12.3. In a previous post I asked about printing bar numbers in non-standard places. I was told: 1) \once \override Score.BarNumber #'break-visibility = #all-visible I believe that the manual fails to say that

Re: best practices

2010-09-19 Thread James Bailey
On Sep 19, 2010, at 6:09 PM, aliteralmind wrote: Phil Holmes mail at philholmes.net writes: Where exactly are they, please? Um. Learning Manual 5. Entitled Working on LilyPond projects. I read the learning manual. I didn't find the words best practices in it, and thought there was

Re: Advising on writing a one staff centered dynamics template

2010-09-15 Thread James Bailey
On Sep 15, 2010, at 2:24 AM, Alonso Silva wrote: Hello: First, thank you for make this marvelous software. It was very useful to me!!! I'm writting a composition for cello solo for a contest and some days ago I attemped to modify the piano centered dynamics template and kept only a

Re: Legato, Polyphonic Voices and Connected Flags

2010-09-12 Thread James Bailey
On Sep 12, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Emir D. wrote: Hello everyone, I've got a slight problem. In measure #1, I've got the non-polyphonic melody. In measure #2, I've got some polyphonic going on. However, I'm having problem telling Lilypond to put a legato from the last note in measure #1 with

Re: ignoring too many clashing note columns

2010-09-11 Thread James Bailey
On Sep 11, 2010, at 6:39 PM, Helge Kruse wrote: Hello, I try to write a guitar score. In some measures I found small parts of polyphony. I tried to add temporarily a new voice, but I failed. The example below shows the intention. The second (commented) line gives nearly the same result

Re: LilyPondTool users on Mac?

2010-09-09 Thread James Bailey
On Sep 8, 2010, at 8:37 PM, Seth Williamson wrote: Is there anybody on this list who uses LilyPondTool on a MacBook? Please get back with me -- feel free to reply offlist. Seth Williamson I tried to do it once, but it proved to be far too difficult to set up, so I just stick with the

Re: LilyPondTool users on Mac?

2010-09-09 Thread James Bailey
. If anybody on the list can help me with this and help me get the freaking program going, I would be eternally grateful. James Bailey said he uses the command line. James, I assume you can do that in Snow Leopard? The only reason I've been trying to run LilyPond with JEdit and LilyPondTool

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