Puzzled about r1 issue in 3/4 time

2019-10-23 Thread Michael Wagner
I am seeing some behavior I don’t understand. I have ended the music for “Silver Bells” into lilypond, and I am seeing a puzzling error. The song is in 3/4 time, but the rest in measure 33 seems to betaking 4 beats - I get a bar check failed and there are one two rests in measure 34, and an

Manually set stanza numbers for repeat alternatives

2019-09-11 Thread Michael Wagner
I am entering a song - the Beatle’s “Let It Be - into lilypond where there there is a long repeat - “\repeat volta 4 {}”, but there are only 2 alternatives. Lillypond labels the first alternative “1-3”, and the second alternative “4”” But in the song the first alternative is for stanzas 1 and

Re: Change position of first bar of melody

2019-08-28 Thread Michael Wagner
How is this different from a partial (ie, a pickup) note. Will “\partial 8 {c8}” do what you want? Mike Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 28, 2019, at 16:19, Frederik Hanghøj Iversen > wrote: > > I'd like to change it so that the first bar on my sheet is after the first > note in my melody.