Re: Installing 2.24

2022-12-16 Thread JxStarks
No, I haven't. Thank you for the direction. Jerry On Thu, Dec 15, 2022, 8:33 PM Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le 16/12/2022 à 02:25, JxStarks a écrit : > > Greetings, > > > > I'm feeling rather foolish. I'm running under Windows 10 and use > > Frescobaldi

Installing 2.24

2022-12-15 Thread JxStarks
Greetings, I'm feeling rather foolish. I'm running under Windows 10 and use Frescobaldi (3.1.2) as my main interface with LilyPond. I have downloaded LilyPond 2.24 and un-zipped the files. Where is the Go button? How do I install 2.24? I haven't found anything like an install.exe. Am I missing th

Re: Horizontal spacing for a few measures

2022-06-12 Thread JxStarks
Thanks David! I'll put these all in my 'toolbox'. Jerry On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 5:41 PM David Wright wrote: > On Sun 12 Jun 2022 at 07:39:10 (-0700), Knute Snortum wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 3:27 PM JxStarks wrote: > > > > > > Thank you! Th

Re: Horizontal spacing for a few measures

2022-06-12 Thread JxStarks
Got it. Thanks! Jerry On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 10:39 AM Knute Snortum wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 3:27 PM JxStarks wrote: > > > > Thank you! The "page-count = 1" worked for this example, so I'll keep it > in my toolbox. > > If I wanted to use the #(s

Re: Horizontal spacing for a few measures

2022-06-11 Thread JxStarks
help. Jerry On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 2:17 PM David Wright wrote: > On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 11:24:26 (-0400), JxStarks wrote: > > I'm transcribing some hymns for use in my church (because I can make the > > text larger), and I've noticed a problem. I like to make the in

Re: Concert pitch question (confused ex-tuba player)

2021-09-18 Thread JxStarks
I frequently speak in generalities, trying to show a pattern rather than an exact example. Thank you for your clarification. I apologize for any confusion I caused. Jerry On Sat, Sep 18, 2021, 1:47 AM Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: > Hi Jerry, > > Am 18.09.21 um 00:22 schrieb JxStark

Re: Concert pitch question (confused ex-tuba player)

2021-09-17 Thread JxStarks
Hi Kenneth, I use LilyPond v 2.22.1 through Frescobaldi. When I'm dealing with transposing instruments I arrange everything in C, then transpose the parts. I would write a trumpet part like this: trumpet = \transpose c bes { \global notes, etc, } } This way I can insert a % to comment ou

Re: Midi Instrument: change?

2021-09-04 Thread JxStarks
Thanks, David. This works a lot easier. Jerry On Sat, Sep 4, 2021 at 4:51 PM David Kastrup wrote: > Guy Stalnaker writes: > > > See > > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/midi-channel-mapping > > > > Where the method is shown. Basically, you put the instrument into the > > V

Re: Midi Instrument: change?

2021-09-04 Thread JxStarks
%%% Code > > \midi { > \context { > \Staff > \remove "Staff_performer" > } > \context { > \Voice > \consists "Staff_performer" > } > > %%% Code > > You'll see how it works. I do this all

Midi Instrument: change?

2021-09-03 Thread JxStarks
Hi all, Is it possible to change the midi-instrument in the middle of a part? This is particularly useful for strings voices which do occasional pizzicato sections. It seems awfully cumbersome to write a whole part just for 5 or 6 measures of pizzicato. How would the change (and the change back) be

Re: Stanzas and refrain

2021-08-26 Thread JxStarks
Hi Carlos, I do a lot of this sort of thing for my church. I usually use the following format: \header { } global { } chordNames \ chordmode { \global chord, chord, chord, etc.} melody = \relative c '' { \global music, music, music, etc } verse = \lyricmode { \set stanza = "1. " words, words, w

Re: convert-ly

2021-06-03 Thread JxStarks
Thanks Hans: that did the trick. I guess I need to practice reading to the end of the section before launching into trial-and-error. :-) Jerry On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 1:22 AM Hans Aikema wrote: > > On 3 Jun 2021, at 02:34, JxStarks wrote: > >  > Some progress (cheers!): >

Re: convert-ly

2021-06-02 Thread JxStarks
Some progress (cheers!): Re-naming the file to convert-ly.py enabled my system to treat it like an executable file. However, now it says it can't open the files: === C:\Users\Jerry\Documents\RPC\Music\Christmas>convert-ly.py -e *.ly convert-ly.py (GNU LilyPond) 2.22.1 convert-ly.py: error: *.ly: U

Re: convert-ly

2021-05-31 Thread JxStarks
or do I need to have some reference to Python in my PATH command? If so, what should it look like? Jerry On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 3:19 PM JxStarks wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks for your many and informative responses. M.Tarenskeen correctly > identified a typo in my PATH command (&qu

Re: convert-ly

2021-05-31 Thread JxStarks
Hi all, Thanks for your many and informative responses. M.Tarenskeen correctly identified a typo in my PATH command ("C;" instead of "C:"). I corrected that, but the problem still persists. Here's my latest info from the Command Prompt: === C:\Users\Jerry\Documents\RPC\Music\FILE>echo %PATH% C:\WI

Re: convert-ly

2021-05-30 Thread JxStarks
gt; > most likely it's missing your lilypond binaries location > > On 31 May 2021, at 00:44, JxStarks wrote: > >  > Here's a screenshot: > > > > > On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 5:50 PM JxStarks wrote: > >> >> Hi Ralph, >> >> I read

Re: convert-ly

2021-05-30 Thread JxStarks
Here's a screenshot: [image: image.png] On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 5:50 PM JxStarks wrote: > > Hi Ralph, > > I read that documentation and tried it. I'm running Windows 10 Pro, > 10.0.19041 and I still get the same response: " 'convert-ly is not > recogniz

Re: convert-ly

2021-05-30 Thread JxStarks
Sun, May 30, 2021 at 1:24 PM JxStarks wrote: > >> What's the trick for using convert-ly in a Windows Command Prompt window? >> I copied the convert-ly file into the directory where I want to convert >> everything in it, and entered convert-ly *.ly. This produced the error >

convert-ly

2021-05-30 Thread JxStarks
What's the trick for using convert-ly in a Windows Command Prompt window? I copied the convert-ly file into the directory where I want to convert everything in it, and entered convert-ly *.ly. This produced the error message " 'convert-ly' is not recognized as an internal or external command, opera

Re: Change color of Lyrics?

2021-01-29 Thread JxStarks
Thank you! I thought I had tried that, but my syntax was incorrect. Jerry On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 11:33 AM Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: > Hi Jerry, > > > Is there a way to change the color of Lyrics? The documentation tells > how to change the color of almost everything except Lyrics. I have a >

Re: Lyrics for ossia staff

2021-01-03 Thread JxStarks
have the "ossia" staff above the top (soprano) staff, and the ossia lyrics associated with the ossia staff. Jerry On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 2:58 PM JxStarks wrote: > Got it, thanks! I'll try it out now. > > On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 1:31 PM Remy CLAVERIE > wrote: > >

Re: Lyrics for ossia staff

2021-01-03 Thread JxStarks
new Staff > << > \new Voice \relative c { > c''4 b d c > << > { c4 b d c } > \new Staff > << > \new Voice = "V" \relative c'' { e4 d f e } > >> > >> &g

Lyrics for ossia staff

2021-01-03 Thread JxStarks
Hi all, I expect this has been solved somewhere, but I can't find it. The documentation is good at explaining how to do something in isolation, but not so good at explaining how to do something in the middle of a different structure, such as a choir staff. Anyway, I have a choir staff to which I

Re: compiling sonata with \include

2020-10-16 Thread JxStarks
I bypassed this problem by commenting out the Header information in each file, then including the header information in the \include file like this: \markup { \fill-line { \line { } \center-column { \abs-fontsize #18 { \bold "We Three Kings of Orient Are"} } \line { } } } \markup { \fill-

Re: Combining roughly 70 separate files into a single book

2020-04-28 Thread JxStarks .
When I used this structure I did not use \book or \bookpart. I just used the \include and \markup. I'll post an example when I get home from work. -Jerry On Tue, Apr 28, 2020, 12:51 PM Brent Annable wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Does that do page numbers as well? I'd really like to eliminate any ex

How can I link lyrics with a temporary counter-melody?

2020-02-24 Thread JxStarks .
This is probably documented somewhere, but I am miserably inept at searching archives. I'm writing up a Lead Sheet and the Bridge section has a counter-melody with its own lyrics. I hacked it together using the _"" function, but I hope there's a better way to do it. Please enlighten me or direct me

Book Structure and Frescobaldi

2019-12-23 Thread JxStarks .
Hi, I'm using LilyPond 2.18.2 and Frescobaldi 2.20.0. When I create music with Frescobaldi, it generates this structure: \version “2.18.2” \header { … } global = { \key f \major \time 4/4 … } violin = \relative c’’ { \global … } clarinet = \relative c’ { \global … } cello = \rel