Re: remove first empty staff and ambitus

2014-10-09 Thread Kai Lautenschläger
Kai Lautenschläger kai.lautenschlae...@me.com: Dear list, a few weeks ago I asked about removing the first empty staff in choir music and inserting the ambitus in the n-th system for selected voices. From the answers you gave, I could built the following example, which solved a whole set

empty left space in measures

2014-10-09 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Hi List, In many of my scores for choral pieces I see an effect, that I could not make a minimal example for. So my question is, if anyone has seen this and could point me towards the usual suspects of reasons for this behaviour. Often I see a expanded empty space at the beginning of measures.

Re: empty left space in measures

2014-10-09 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Thanks Trevor, Am 9.10.2014 um 15:44 schrieb Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk: Kai, you wrote Thursday, October 09, 2014 2:27 PM In many of my scores for choral pieces I see an effect, that I could not make a minimal example for. So my question is, if anyone has seen this and could

Re: remove first empty staff and ambitus

2014-10-04 Thread Kai Lautenschläger
voice not printed. Am I missing something simple? Is there a way? Thanks to much. Kai On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Kai Lautenschläger kai.lautenschlae...@me.com wrote: Dear list, a few weeks ago I asked about removing the first empty staff in choir music and inserting the ambitus

remove first empty staff and ambitus

2014-10-02 Thread Kai Lautenschläger
Dear list, a few weeks ago I asked about removing the first empty staff in choir music and inserting the ambitus in the n-th system for selected voices. From the answers you gave, I could built the following example, which solved a whole set of problems. Now, can anyone come up with an idea

constructing variables

2014-06-19 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
\version 2.19.7 Hi everyone! is it possible to construct variables from others? I want to construct \tempo Text 4=80 from the variables tempoText = Text and tempoNumber = 4=80 that are defined at two different places in a complicated file structure (\include) I tried: \version 2.19.7

Re: constructing variables

2014-06-19 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Hi David and Urs, thanks for your fast replies. David’s suggestion does just very fine. But this begs the question why you don't just assign the whole tempo specification to a single variable. Of course, you are right! But I was using this request as an example for some other questions I

Re: Ambitus not in the beginning

2013-11-28 Thread Kai Lautenschläger
of a staff deliberately without having LP also write one (visible or not) at the end of the staff before. But that idea exceeds my knowledge of LP code or scheme by lightyears. :( best regards, Kai Am 28.11.2013 um 22:07 schrieb pls p.l.schm...@gmx.de: On 25.11.2013, at 14:34, Kai Lautenschläger

Re: Ambitus not in the beginning

2013-11-25 Thread Kai Lautenschläger
-- Am 24.11.2013 um 13:02 schrieb David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Kai Lautenschläger kai.lautenschlae...@me.com writes: Hi David, thanks for your reply. Am 24.11.2013 um 12:26 schrieb David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger dr.lautenschlae...@gmx.net writes: Dear list

shape ties/slurs after line break

2013-11-24 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Hi everyone! just having finished my largest project so far I have been diving into tweaks and overrides quite extensively for the first time. I keep being amazed by LP’s capabilities Some questions have popped up, for which I couldn’t find any answer in the Manual. Could anyone give me a

Re: shape ties/slurs after line break

2013-11-24 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
, that the „known problem“ can be worked around partly with \shape. … I take that back!!! I originally read the german translation and the above is my replay for that (I was automatically referred there?!?!). The english version has it all. Thanks a lot. Kai Hi, 2013/11/24 Dr. med. Kai

Ambitus not in the beginning

2013-11-24 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Dear list, sorry to ask again and I hope this time it will not be something obviously explained in the manual. Is there a way to insert ambitus at the beginning of a staff, that is not the first staff of the score? A piece I am doing starts of with solo voice and organ and later the choir sets

Re: Ambitus not in the beginning

2013-11-24 Thread Kai Lautenschläger
Hi David, thanks for your reply. Am 24.11.2013 um 12:26 schrieb David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger dr.lautenschlae...@gmx.net writes: Dear list, sorry to ask again and I hope this time it will not be something obviously explained in the manual. Is there a way

Re: Ambitus not in the beginning

2013-11-24 Thread Kai Lautenschläger
\voice-context. I will tell you, when it worked out. best regards Kai Am 24.11.2013 um 13:02 schrieb David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Kai Lautenschläger kai.lautenschlae...@me.com writes: Hi David, thanks for your reply. Am 24.11.2013 um 12:26 schrieb David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Dr. med

snippet does not work anymore

2013-05-27 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Hi List, I've been seeing a lot snippets being identified by numbers, but I can't find out, where to search for that number. Reading the manual I stumbled upon a snippet that hast stopped working somewhere between versions 2.16 and 2.17.15. It is in the snippet department in Rhythms under the

Re: Question about score count

2013-04-09 Thread Kai Lautenschläger
Hi Jay, that is a great function. Unfortunately I have no knowledge of scheme whatsoever. So I'd like to ask, if there is a simple solution for the following question. I use the described counter and would like to use titles which are defined in a variable instead of the actual text. Let's

Re: Question about score count

2013-04-09 Thread Kai Lautenschläger
Hello Carl, that works perfect! Thanks a lot. best regards Kai I seem to remember looking in the documentation that you would refer to the variable in Scheme as #(numbered-title t). Could be wrong. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Thank you

2013-03-22 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Hello List, I just want to let you know, that I continue to be _very_ thankful for all the great ideas, patient explanations and profound help I draw from this list! The amount of time most of you invest in this is truly heroic! I have been telling this to many music-friends of mine and

silence single notes in MIDI

2013-03-12 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Dear List, In a choral piece I used cross-noteheads for places, where the singers are requested to make a noise (in this case a kissing-noise). I used d2 \once \override NoteHead.stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \once \override NoteHead.text = \markup { \musicglyph

Re: silence single notes in MIDI

2013-03-12 Thread Kai Lautenschläger
Dear Pierre, thanks very much. That works perfectly. I wasn't aware of that tag-function. This opens up the solution to some other tasks, that I was facing! Great! Thanks again! Best regards Kai --- kai.lautenschlae...@me.com Am 12.03.2013 um 12:50 schrieb Pierre Perol-Schneider

Re: PDF-filename and place

2012-12-18 Thread Kai Lautenschläger
is it possible to define the name and directory of the PDF output file with the help of some command within the .ly-file? I mean: not via the command line when executing lilypond but within the lilypond code itself. Try \bookOutputName Thanks very much. I wasn't aware, that you can enter

PDF-filename and place

2012-12-17 Thread Kai Lautenschläger
Dear List, is it possible to define the name and directory of the PDF output file with the help of some command within the .ly-file? I mean: not via the command line when executing lilypond but within the lilypond code itself. I couldn't find anything in the manual (but I have to admit, that I

Re: Warning with voltaSpannerDuration

2012-10-17 Thread Kai Lautenschläger
Thanks, Eluze! Yes, the output is correct. I was just fighting my way through a long list of errors and warnings, trying to understand. Best regards Kai ... von unterwegs gesendet! Am 09.10.2012 um 23:21 schrieb Eluze elu...@gmail.com: quot;Dr. med. Kai Lautenschlägerquot; wrote The

Warning with voltaSpannerDuration

2012-10-09 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Dear list, when using repeats with alternatives and restricting the volta spanner to one or two bar I get warnings when compiling. If you uncomment the line \set Score.voltaSpannerDuration = #(ly:make-moment 2 1 ) in the below example, I hope you will be able to reproduce the warning. The

Warning with voltaSpannerDuration

2012-10-09 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
sorry, I forgot the example: \version 2.17.4 music = { \relative c'' { \repeat unfold 2 { g4 f a b } } } \score { \new Staff \set Score.voltaSpannerDuration = #(ly:make-moment 2 1 ) \repeat volta 2 { \music \music \music }

rhythm fragments in different pitches

2012-09-22 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Hi Everyone, Although I am positive, that I read about this in the list, I cannot find it anymore. So I kindly ask for a pointer in the right direction. I am trying to code a piece with voices that use the same rhythmical fragment over and over again. I would like to write something like:

Re: rhythm fragments in different pitches

2012-09-22 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Hi, I am seriously sorry, I annoyed you with bugs in the code and lengthy files. It was not meant like that and I apologize. Especially since I really continue to be amazed by the efficiency of this list and the speed, with which help is offered. So I hope you will forgive my obviously

Re: rhythm fragments in different pitches

2012-09-22 Thread Kai Lautenschläger
Hi David, Thanks for explaining. As for your idea below I would like that feature very much, though I do not understand the code because I am illiterate to programming languages. Best regards, Kai ... von unterwegs gesendet! Am 22.09.2012 um 12:42 schrieb David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: At

slashSeparator-question

2012-09-13 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Hi Everyone, in my scores I usually use the command: system-separator-markup = \slashSeparator within the /paper-block. Sometimes at the same time I want very narrow distances between staves (system-system-spacing). After searching the manuals I couldn't find an answer to two questions

Re: slashSeparator-question

2012-09-13 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
the separator and a collision avoidance for it be a feature worthwhile including in a future version of Lilypond? Best regards, Kai Am 14.9.2012 um 04:50 schrieb eluze: Phil Holmes-2 wrote - Original Message - From: Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger lt;dr.lautenschlaeger@gt; To: lilypond-user

Re: mac lion

2012-09-07 Thread Kai Lautenschläger
Hi Fabio, Works perfect for me regardless of Lilypond-version up to 2.17.1 Best regards, Kai ... von unterwegs gesendet! Am 07.09.2012 um 12:55 schrieb fabio gabbianelli fabiogabbiane...@hotmail.it: anyone knows if lilypond 2.16 or 2.17 works with osx 10.7? it could work through jEdit ?

Re: german note spelling

2012-08-23 Thread Kai Lautenschläger
Dear community, I would like to know the note-spelling of the dutch note-name beses in german lilypond syntax. Frescobaldi translates it to bes but this causes an error message. In german this note is called doppel b but this causes (no wonder) an error message too. I think it could

Re: [Frescobaldi] Music view sometimes doesn't open

2012-08-20 Thread Kai Lautenschläger
Hi, Unfortunately my skills are not enough to install Frescobaldi on a Mac but I observed exactly the same behavior using Lilypond via jEdit. IMHO this points towards some cause within the software that Frescobaldi AND JEdit are dependent on. Though I don't have any idea which one. I

Re: [Frescobaldi] Music view sometimes doesn't open

2012-08-20 Thread Kai Lautenschläger
Am 20.08.2012 um 16:34 schrieb Gerard McConnell gerine...@gmail.com: On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Kai Lautenschläger kai.lautenschlae...@me.com wrote: Hi, Unfortunately my skills are not enough to install Frescobaldi on a Mac but I observed exactly the same behavior using Lilypond

vertical spacing of text-paragraphs

2012-07-26 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Dear List, When I write text with several paragraphs, I noticed a different vertical spacing after the paragraphs, when they include semicolon (;) or \ (quotation marks). This does not change when I try to control the spacing with \vspace. Am I missing something or is this expected behavior?

Re: vertical spacing of text-paragraphs

2012-07-26 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
July 2012 19:47, Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger kai.lautenschlae...@me.com wrote: When I write text with several paragraphs, I noticed a different vertical spacing after the paragraphs, when they include semicolon (;) or \ (quotation marks). This does not change when I try to control the spacing

position of markup and eps

2012-07-14 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Hi List, I want to add some information on the composer under the score. it should have picture (xxx.eps) at the left and a justified text on the right with a small white space between. Picture and text should be aligned at the top and the the text should run along the picture. The following

Re: position of markup and eps

2012-07-14 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
noticed, that the upper edge of the picture is positioned slightly below the upper edge of the letters in the text's first line. Is there a tweak for that? best regards, Kai Am 14.07.2012 um 09:32 schrieb Thomas Morley: 2012/7/14 Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger kai.lautenschlae...@me.com: Hi List

Re: position of markup and eps

2012-07-14 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
\line did it. once again I ask myself, why I didn't think of that myself. Thanks a lot for pointing me there. best regards, Kai Am 14.07.2012 um 11:39 schrieb Thomas Morley: 2012/7/14 Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger kai.lautenschlae...@me.com: Hi Thomas, thanks, that solves the first problem

error with lilypond-book

2012-07-07 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Hi all, I am trying to get my way into lilypond-book. After reading the manual, I started and got the following error (using \version 2.15.40 with jEdit5.0pre1 on a Mac with OS 10.7.4) when I invoke lilypond-book: (command: lilypond-book.py --format=latex %buffer) Error running external

horizontal shift

2012-07-07 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Hi List, is there any way to make lilypond shift the visible contents on a page to the _outer_ edge? It would be something like horizontal-shift, while that command within the \paper-block seems to shift the content to the right on _all_ pages (meaning even and odd ones). Did I miss

Re: horizontal shift

2012-07-07 Thread Kai Lautenschläger
That's it. I definately have to work on my skills to search the manual. I usually use the search mask, that comes integrated in Lilypondtools for jEdit. Maybe I'll just switch to Google... Thanks, Eluze Kai ... von unterwegs gesendet! Am 07.07.2012 um 17:48 schrieb -Eluze elu...@gmail.com:

Re: combining pieces in one book

2012-06-25 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Am 23.06.2012 um 22:23 schrieb David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger kai.lautenschlae...@me.com writes: and got the following errors (this is just the first few of many many errors: ---8---SNIP--- »/Users/kailautenschlager/Documents

Re: combining pieces in one book

2012-06-25 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Hi Jan-Peter, thanks for the explanation. Right now I am fiddling around with Christophers idea of splitting up the files in content-files and layout-files. I had this before and just changed… Oh, well. It sounds logical to me though. and working with functions is just copy and paste for me,

combining pieces in one book

2012-06-23 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Hi to all, If this has been answered before, please point me there. I searched the manual several times, but couldn't find an answer, that helped me. I have many pieces for male choir, that are stored as .ly-files in a directory with a subdirectory for every piece. All of them use some files

Re: combining pieces in one book

2012-06-23 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Am 23.06.2012 um 16:37 schrieb Phil Holmes: - Original Message - From: Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger kai.lautenschlae...@me.com To: lilypond-user User lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 2:53 PM Subject: combining pieces in one book I have many pieces for male

Re: position of footer

2012-06-01 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Am 31.5.2012 um 17:26 schrieb -Eluze: I think you are filling the columns with empty lines - better (and easier) would be to define a markup item for each case you have (middle pages and last page): oddFooterMarkup = \markup \fill-line { %% Fuß alle Seiten außer erste und letzte

position of footer

2012-05-31 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Dear list, being on the list for only a few days has given me so many new ideas and input for improving my scores, that I like to send out my thanks for that first!!! Now to my latest question: I tweaked the footers in my files with: %% Einführung der Variable not-last-page #(define

Re: add not-last-page in titling-init.ly

2012-05-30 Thread Kai Lautenschläger
... von unterwegs gesendet! Am 30.05.2012 um 15:11 schrieb -Eluze elu...@gmail.com: is it feasible to add not-last-page in titling-init.ly [...] this gives more flexibility in defining header-/ yes! I would appriciate that very much. Kai ___

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-28 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Hi, \mark \markup { \musicglyph #scripts.segno } is just printing a nice graphic. and imho it does that better than any other program I used. best regards Kai ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

cantor and choir

2012-05-14 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Hi Everyone, typesetting liturgical music I need a solution for the following problem: I have a solo system in change with a choir staff. solo staff should go on in highest choirstaff system (first tenor) when solo changes to choir. choirstaff (complete) should vanish completely, when choir

changing lyric font

2012-05-10 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Hi Everybody, is there a possibility to change the lyric font? I would like to add lyrics in hebrew and found out, how to include utf-8 in the lyrics. For better readability I need a hebrew font other then the standard. For \markup texts that works just fine. But in the \lyricmode it doesn't.