Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

2010-10-19 Thread James Wilkinson
On 10/13/10 11:49 AM, James Bailey wrote: 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

Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

2010-10-19 Thread James Wilkinson
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, it's better to write them just once. thus you: 1) save

Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

2010-10-19 Thread James Wilkinson
On 10/11/10 5:22 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 need to waste time

Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

2010-10-12 Thread James Wilkinson
On 10/11/10 6:19 PM, James Bailey wrote: 2) In another measure the upper voice has a quarter rest followed by a half note on the bottom line of the staff. The lower voice has a dotted half rest. The problem here is that the half note in the upper voice is so low on the staff that it prints

Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

2010-10-11 Thread James Wilkinson
On 9/23/10 6:00 PM, Vicente Solsona wrote: 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. [...] Back to my original question: if Lilypond can see that one of these things needs to be moved, how hard

Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

2010-10-11 Thread James Wilkinson
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 that. (How did he know that was going to be my next problem?)

Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

2010-10-11 Thread James Wilkinson
On 10/11/10 5:22 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 need to waste time

Re: minor inconsistency in \paper-settings?

2010-10-05 Thread James Wilkinson
On 10/3/10 3:45 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: It would seem desirable to have a warning message when a non-existent property is set in a \paper{} block. Why not whenever a non-existent property is set anywhere?

notes sharing stems

2010-09-30 Thread James Wilkinson
\version 2.13.34 I've got three percussion voices sharing a staff. When I made the bottom two voices be \voiceTwo and \voiceFour, I got downward stems, but each note had its own stem. Then I tried making them both be \voiceTwo. That gave me the printed output that I wanted: when notes

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

2010-09-28 Thread James Wilkinson
Gets to the point of saying Applying conversion: and just stops Others might understand this, but I haven't a clue what you're saying. Could you be a little more specific about what you're doing and what is happening? (head hanging in shame; must have been getting late) I was using

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

2010-09-28 Thread James Wilkinson
At 4:26 PM -0400 9/28/10, James Wilkinson wrote: I was using Lilytool in jEdit. There's a button there to update versions. When you do that it reports progress in a console window. The last message that it printed was Applying conversion. Nothing after that. It always worked before. The version

duplicate dynamics on same staff

2010-09-23 Thread James Wilkinson
\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 to pull these markings out and attach them to another voice

Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

2010-09-23 Thread James Wilkinson
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:00:07 +0200 From: Vicente Solsona vice...@lavabit.com Subject: Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff To: lilypond-user@gnu.org, James Wilkinson ji...@cs.cofc.edu Message-ID: op.vjh92hshql9...@vsd.localdomain Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp

2.13.34-1 freezes when updating syntax (Mac 10.4)

2010-09-23 Thread James Wilkinson
Gets to the point of saying Applying conversion: and just stops -- - Jimmy Wilkinson| Professor Emeritus of Computer Science ji...@cs.cofc.edu| The College of Charleston (843) 953-8160 | Charleston SC

This works, but I don't understand why

2008-02-12 Thread James Wilkinson
The d flat has both an accent and a staccato mark over it. Lilypond wants to put he accent on top of the staccato. I wanted the staccato on top of the accent. Here are four tries. Two of them work; two of them don't. (no surprise there) Two seem to be according to the manual page 96; two

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 60, Issue 46

2007-11-17 Thread James Wilkinson
the instrument name oboe does not print \version 2.11.27 \include LoHow.ly \context Staff { \set Staff.instrument = oboe \clef treble \alto} If you look at the current docs, you'll see that the relevant properties are now called instrumentName (for the name on the first system) and

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 60, Issue 42

2007-11-16 Thread James Wilkinson
This still works just fine except that the instrument name oboe does not print at the beginning of the first line. That part was working just fine a year ago. Can anybody tell me what happened? I've tried 2.11.27 and 2.10.33, and it doesn't work with either of them. Ii can't remember what

a modest proposal for input syntax

2007-08-09 Thread James Wilkinson
My biggest problem in typing input is getting notes in the correct octave. Relative mode doesn't help me that much because I have to stop and think which direction is within a fourth of the previous note. The thing that's unambiguous is direction. If I'm on the b in the middle of the

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 42, Issue 80

2006-05-30 Thread James Wilkinson
Message: 8 Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 16:46:56 -0400 From: James Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: subdivided beams partially successful I'm working on a piece that has a long run of triplet 16th notes. In the original they are printed in groups of six which are subdivided into subgroups

pageBreak fails

2006-05-26 Thread James Wilkinson
I couldn't get \pageBreak to work consistently in 2.7.27 I was doing something like this example from the web site: title = Konzert Nr. 3 Es dur subtitle = für Horn und Orchester composer = Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) I had three movements, which I put into separate include

subdivided beams partially successful

2006-05-26 Thread James Wilkinson
I'm working on a piece that has a long run of triplet 16th notes. In the original they are printed in groups of six which are subdivided into subgroups of three. I.e. the top beam covers six stems, and there are two bottom beams, one for the first three notes and one for the second three

cues?

2006-05-26 Thread James Wilkinson
My original contains cues: small notes (played by someone else) near the end of an extended rest that are there to help the player come back in at the right time. I suppose that my problem is that I don't know what such notes are called in Europe. I couldn't find cue in the index. thanks --

index glitch?

2006-05-26 Thread James Wilkinson
While scrolling through the index I noticed an entry for The Feta Font alphabetized by The in the T section. There is no corresponding entry alphabetized by Feta in the F section. This seems wrong on both counts. -- - Jimmy Wilkinson

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 39, Issue 32

2006-02-18 Thread James Wilkinson
From: Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: combining files What didn't work? First of all, you can skip the \book command, which is implicitly added around any LilyPond input file if you don't write it yourself. Also, within each \score{...}, the music should come before the

small things in jEdit plugin

2006-02-18 Thread James Wilkinson
I'm reporting this here because I don't know where else to report it. The jEdit plugin gives you an autocompletion list when you type a \. Some things appear to be missing from the list of choices. I've not made an exhaustive search, but came across the following: \ \f \!. What happens

crescendo ruins MIDI file

2006-02-16 Thread James Wilkinson
I have an example in which the insertion of a crescendo in the music causes the generated MIDI file to be bad. Removing the crescendo fixes the problem. Is this a known problem? I'm using version 2.7.17 on Windows. A second thing: \ and \f don't work the same way in jEdit as \p. It looks

Double notes

2001-11-22 Thread James Wilkinson
(ledger) line. How do I get this effect in Lilypond? Thanks in advance, James. -- James Wilkinson Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL