No time signature?

I'm new to Lilypond. I've been looking for a way to typeset music without time signatures. This is because I'm transcribing chants that often use _recitativ_ and rarely follow any strict meter--the rhythm of the chant is completely text-driven. Hello Alyozhik, When I'm doing metreless

lyric extenders in 2.11

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Re: lyric extenders in 2.11

Voice contexts (even if there's only one per staff) and use \lyricsto or - Use \lyricmode with \set associatedVoice = something -- Monk Panteleimon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http

rgb?

) docs. Can someone kindly point me to the appropriate page, or else give me an example of coloring something according to rgb in LP 2.11? Thank you very much. -- Monk Panteleimon Hermitage of the Holy Cross Wayne, WV, USA www.holycrosskliros.org

Overlapping Horizontal Brackets

f\stopGroup } \layout{ ragged-last = ##t \context { \Staff \consists Horizontal_bracket_engraver } } } I also couldn't find a way to get the \mark inside the bracket instead of outside, but that's secondary. Thank you. -- Monk Panteleimon Hermitage of the Holy Cross

line-width in \markuplines

Hello. According to the 2.11 docs (8.1.9), I should be able to change the line width in \markuplines using \override #'(line-width . X) but it doesn't seem to work. example: http://www.tcgalaska.com/kliros/ly/esauWood.ly Is it a bug? -- Monk Panteleimon Hermitage of the Holy Cross Wayne

Re: minimum after-BarLine space in 2.11

Score.Barline #'space-alist #'next-note = #'(semi-fixed-space . 1.2) I suppose that it would work with just BarLine if it were placed inside the \layout block after \context { \Score ... Right? -- Monk Panteleimon Hermitage of the Holy Cross Wayne, WV, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] + IC + XC

minimum after-BarLine space in 2.11

to the program reference and have been unable to find a property that controls the minimum amount of space after a barline. I tried kern, thin-kern and space-alist (all of it, changing only first-note fixed-space), but to no avail. Any suggestions? Thanks. -- Monk Panteleimon Hermitage of the Holy

Re: Horizontal (I mean vertical) Lyric spacing in 2.11

differently above. It also doesn't have a big funky white space like in untweaked LP 2.11 with stretched systems: http://www.tcgalaska.com/kliros/images/funkyWhite.png [8^) -- Monk Panteleimon Hermitage of the Holy Cross Wayne, WV, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] + IC + XC + + + + + NI + KA

Horizontal Lyric spacing in 2.11

Am Mittwoch, 31. Oktober 2007 schrieb Till Rettig: I actually LIKE the 2.11 system! I have no problem with it insofar as it redistributes the systems over a different number of pages and solves some problems with the header. But it doesn't really take lyrics into account (yet). And

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Speaking of poor thinking, I meant to say Vertical* spacing in 2.11 ga-hernk. Fr.P ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

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in 2.11 to match 2.10's, since some of the systems wound up too heavy on the bottom. -- Monk Panteleimon Hermitage of the Holy Cross Wayne, WV, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] + IC + XC + + + + + NI + KA + ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Better vertical spacing in 2.11 adversely affects lyric spacing]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 12:25:45PM +1100, Joe Neeman wrote: On 10/30/07, Monk Panteleimon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lyrics should be equidistant from higher and lower staves, right? I'm not sure -- I wrote the code but I don't usually use lyrics. It was suggested to me (I can't find

\set associatedVoice = #ALL (???)

) ? Muchas Gracias. -- Monk Panteleimon Hermitage of the Holy Cross Wayne, WV, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] + IC + XC + + + + + NI + KA + ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Better vertical spacing in 2.11 adversely affects lyric spacing

space above the staff below. -- Monk Panteleimon Hermitage of the Holy Cross Wayne, WV, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] + IC + XC + + + + + NI + KA + ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond

Lyrics in stretched systems, 2.11 (was:Better vertical ... )

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Better vertical spacing in 2.11 adversely affects lyric spacing

between the two, even if you put a \pageBreak before the penultimate staff. I do hope that this will be fixed by the next stable release so that I can use nifty top-level \pageBreak that is the boast of lilypond 2.ll. [8^) -- Monk Panteleimon Hermitage of the Holy Cross Wayne, WV, USA [EMAIL

lyric-ties within a word (spacing/hyphenation issue)

} } %%% My intention, btw, is that these syllables should be less articulated than if they had each an 8th note, but slightly more than if we simply pronounced them tyus. Thank you very much for lilypond and all of the assistance I have received from this list. -- Monk Panteleimon Hermitage

RE: definition for metrelessness (help?)

than beams -- melismata and certain note sequences for example? Could we adapt whatever-gets-overriden-by-allowBeamBreak to work on non-beam scenarios? -- Monk Panteleimon Hermitage of the Holy Cross Wayne, WV, USA ___ lilypond-user mailing

defintion for metrelessness (help?)

. I'll leave the second problem for another message. Many many thanks. -- Monk Panteleimon Hermitage of the Holy Cross Wayne, WV, USA http://www.holycross-hermitage.com http://www.holycrosskliros.org ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user

tuplet brackets attached to lyrics

Hello. I wonder if anyone has a better way to do what I've done in snippet below, i.e. to attach tuplet brackets to lyrics in sections where notes are hidden. I had hoped to do this in \layout like this: \layout { \context { \Lyrics \consists Tuplet_engraver } } But it didn't work, so I tried

Re: Lyrics Questions

Нашему Слава, %%% и благословение его со всеми лилипондникими Monk Panteleimon Hermitage of the Holy Cross Wayne, WV, USA www.holycross-hermitage.com www.holycrosskliros.org ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman

markup height measured from staff?

Hello. I would like to create a custom \markup command that puts a letter at a specified distance from the staff rather than from a note. It must be horizontally aligned with a note, but take its vertical position from the staff. I've looked through the \markup command overview and nothing

Re: markup height measured from staff?

Hello! I would like to create a custom \markup command that puts a letter at a specified distance from the staff rather than from a note. On 12/09/2005 01:51:26 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: What about putting an invisible note in a separate voice, at a known position (e.g., top line of

Re: 2.10 questions

something like this have to do with Bezier Intersections and crossed fingers? Thanks for all your work. Fr. P On Saturday 02 December 2006 03:26, you wrote: Monk Panteleimon wrote: 1. It looks like hairpinToBarline is set true by default. The changes doc makes it sound like you have

Re: Bezier interserction error (2.10 questions)

Sorry. I didn't get my example right: The bit of notes that go with the lyrics and the lyrics themselves are* inside as they should be: %in a voice that later winds up being \voiceOne in a ChoirStaff: tenor = { a4 b c d e f g { g g  e1~ e e e e e e e e e }

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looking for others who are interested (if that's necessary). Thank you for your wonderful work and kind help. Monk Panteleimon Hermitage of the Holy Cross Wayne, WV USA http://www.holycrosshermitage.com/ http://www.holycrosskliros.org/ ___ lilypond-user

automatic invisible unmetred linebreaks

Hello. I am setting unmetred chant, using \set Score.timing = ##f. Previously I have always inserted \bar \break wherever I wanted a linebreak without a barline. Now I have discovered that I can use barAlways and defaultBarType = to insert invisible barlines between all the notes, which makes

2.10 questions

Many thanks to the all the diligent developers and users for 2.10 and the previous versions. I'm now running 2.10 on xubuntu (ubuntu 6.06) and I have several questions about lilypond 2.10: 1. It looks like hairpinToBarline is set true by default. The changes doc makes it sound like you have

Re: bracketed passages

On Thursday 28 September 2006 18:18, Graham Percival wrote: Hi, Could you add Mats' example to the Linux Snippet Repository? That way it will be easier for other people to find this neat trick. Done! And a neat trick it is indeed. Thanks again to all involved. Fr. P

Re: bracketed passages

Dear Mats, Thank you, thank you, thank you! Your solution is perfect! In fact it looks like the brackets in the Russian quadratic-notation books (see attached). Lilypond keeps getting better and more useful the more I use it, and this list is quite helpful indeed. Fr. P fita Description:

fita-bracket png

Oh... No non-text attachments to email lists, right? Ok. Here's a Russian quadratic fita-bracket if anyone wants to see such a thing: http://www.holycrosskliros.org/public_html/dload/fita.htm Fr. P ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

bracketed passages

Dear Lilypond users, I would like to place brackets around passages of music -- not around arpeggiated chords or notes in chords or anything like that, but a right-pointing bracket at the beginning of a passage, spanning the whole staff or system, and likewise a left-pointing one at the end of

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In trying to use the OOoffice LP macro, I get: Parsing..ERROR: unbound variable: ly:parser-print-score I suppose this is because the templates are designed for LP 2.6 and I'm using 2.8. but I don't know what to change in the templates to make them work. Can someone tell me? Many thanks,

special markup (almost there)

Dear Lilyputians, I've almost got it (see attached) Well, I've got into two commands, so that I can do *** \markup{ \who{someone} \says #What he says } *** I'd like to take it one step further to and combine them both into one command with two args: (markup? string?). It's a small thing, but it

help with custom markup command?

... rather than something added to \markup. I know that there is LaTex lilypond-book, but my attempts with that have been less than encouraging and ultimately harder than just using the \markup commands in lilypond. Thank you very much. Monk Panteleimon

FW: help with custom markup command?

Yes, I've been looking at the 2.9 docs, and I see that they are quite clearly written, but it's still pretty hard for me, being a non-programmer. Maybe I can submit some more specific questions. Let's say in the smallcaps example in section 12.4.3 we wanted to employ the functions represented

header fonts

what's listed as typeface name and use that exactly. Sometimes they have underscores, all caps, strange things like that. Monk Panteleimon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

melismatic left-alignment (and extenders) with \lyricmode

Okay... Having reviewed previous pieces, I see that even lyricmode doesn't get the extenders right for every melisma, but only attaches the lyrics to a single voice and its melismata (just like \lyricsto and \addlyrics). I just didn't have a piece that showed the limitations of this situation so

melismatic left-alignment with \lyricmode

I doing something wrong? I've not noticed this before. I know that I can left-align specific lyrics with a \once \override maneuver, but I'd rather avoid that since it would happen quite often. Monk Panteleimon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond

shape notes

Dear Lilypond users, Somehow the SacredHarpHeads have gotten very small in 2.8. The regular notehead (the one called #f in property-init.ly) is normally sized, of course, so one can't simply globally adjust notehead size or one ends up with big fat sol noteheads. Is there a way to get the shaped

RE: dotted phrasing slurs

Dear Friends, Thanks to all who have helped me to make dotted phrasing slurs, at the same intoducin gme to the Program Reference, which is very useful indeed. XB Fr. P ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

RE: dotted phrasing slurs

I think this would work for dotted phrasing-slurs if I knew what to put in the blanks: \once \override Slur #'(name of property) = #(name of variable) That has worked with #'thickness on phrasing slur. So can anyone fill in the blanks? As for the slurs on lyrics, I read somewhere (by a 3rd

dotted phrasing slurs

Dear friends, How can I make a dotted phrasing slur? I have tried \phrasingSlurDotted and also several wild guesses beginning with \once \override Slur... Using \slurDotted before a phrasing slur makes the next non-phrasing slur to be dotted. I looked in the user archive, but encountered only