Re: Time signature change in first alternative causes different behavior depending on number of staves

2019-07-26 Thread Palmer Ralph
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 3:12 PM Jörn Eichler wrote: > > Hi to everybody, > > this is my first post to this list. I experienced a problem in v2.19.83 > when I tried to produce orchestral parts from a score. Since I couldn't > find it on the issue tracker, I hope it's OK to post here: > > \score {

Re: Proportional spacing bug: chained \noBreaks + \newSpacingSection

2019-03-01 Thread Palmer Ralph
On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 4:30 PM Trevor Bača wrote: > > Hi, > > LilyPond incorrectly compresses consecutive, proportionally spaced measures > when the following conditions hold: > > 1. first measure in the sequence sets \proportionalNotationDuration; and > 2. last measure in sequence is followed

Re: Footnote separator line

2017-10-20 Thread Palmer Ralph
On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 8:58 AM, Malte Meyn wrote: > > > Am 11.10.2017 um 14:55 schrieb Malte Meyn: > >> >> >> Am 11.10.2017 um 14:42 schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt: >> >>> Hi fellows, >>> >>> I have a footnote in a score. This footnote is separated by a centered >>> horizontal

Re: Use "#f" instead of "false" in manuals (was: OT: pagenumber)

2016-03-11 Thread Palmer Ralph
On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 4:11 AM, Urs Liska wrote: > > > Am 05.03.2016 um 09:51 schrieb Blöchl Bernhard: > > I would recommend to add the options a user has to any item in the > > chapter (maybe in other chapters as well) > > 4.1.6 Other \paper variables > > in the actual

Repeat problem

2008-08-09 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings, All - I'm running LilyPond 2.11.53 under Windows XP SP3. I feel more than slightly embarrassed: I just finished the GDP rewrite of repeats, and I cannot figure out what the problem is with this snippet. I keep getting a more alternatives than repeats error. It prints to pdf, but no

Test

2008-08-05 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I apologize for the trash, but I've stopped receiving the user list mailings. I changed my subscription, and this is a test. Ralph ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Indexing function codes

2008-08-04 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Hi - I'm working on indexing, and I have a question for those of us who use the function index. When looking for a command such as \repeat or \alternative, which would you find more helpful: having duplicate index entries (i.e., one with the backslash and one without) or having an entry only for

RE: Indexing function codes

2008-08-04 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Thanks, Francisco, Reinhold, and Trevor - Trevor, I've already included _lots_ of @cindex entries. The question for me was whether to include the function itself both with and without the backslash, or just with the backslash. Since I sometimes can remember the name of the function, but not

RE: GDP Repeats, Scheme code extra braces

2008-07-30 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - -- Message: 6 Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:03:10 -0700 From: Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GDP: first public draft, NR 1.4 Repeats To: Francisco Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lilypond-user Mailinglist lilypond-user@gnu.org Message-ID:

RE: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 68, Issue 102

2008-07-30 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:45:29 +1000 From: Joe Neeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GDP: first public draft, NR 1.4 Repeats To: Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lilypond-user Mailinglist lilypond-user@gnu.org I was referring to the fact that the \partial 4*3 in the

RE: GDP Repeats, Scheme code extra braces

2008-07-30 Thread Palmer, Ralph
-Original Message- From: Francisco Vila [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 10:14 AM To: Palmer, Ralph Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: GDP Repeats, Scheme code extra braces where @var{musicexpr} is a music expression. Alternate endings can

Re: GDP: Repeats

2008-07-28 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Hi, Joe - The first comments! I'm out straight today and have a rehearsal tonight, so I won't get to these until tomorrow, but I appreciate the response. Take care, Ralph + Ralph Palmer, CEM Energy/Administrative Coordinator Keene State College Keene, NH 03435-2502

Re: nopc -- Proposed Predefines

2008-07-15 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Hi - I'd like to chime in with my two cents on the JEdit / no JEdit topic. Perhaps I should try again, but when I tried using JEdit about a year ago (with LilyPondTool, I think - is JEdit normally used without LilyPondTool?), it took so long to load JEdit, that I said, Forget it - I'm going

RE: 2nd alternative Volta bracket isn't printed after a line break

2008-07-06 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Valentin wrote: I've been discussing with Michael Pozhidaev about the way volta brackets are printed when a line break occurs in an alternative situation. In the following snippet, the 2nd bracket is not printed after the line break: \relative c'' { \time 2/4 \repeat volta 2 {

Starting a repeat at the beginning, II

2008-06-27 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - Thanks for all your help so far. I've run into two other matters in Manual repeats for the GDP that I don't understand. I'll address one in this email, and send another for the other problem. I'm running LilyPond 2.11.49 under Windows XP SP3. I'm working on starting a piece with a

RE: Starting a repeat at the beginning, II

2008-06-27 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Thanks for your reply, Neil. -Original Message- From: Neil Puttock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 2:07 PM To: Palmer, Ralph Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Starting a repeat at the beginning, II Hi Ralph, 2008/6/27 Palmer, Ralph [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Starting a repeat at the beginning, II

2008-06-27 Thread Palmer, Ralph
This, however, doesn't seem to be true. I cannot get \bar |: to print without either using Score.BreakAlignment or else using a skip before the \bar |: (to attach the \bar |: to, if I had to guess), and using the skip moves the repeat sign even further than Score.BreakAlignment does, if

RE: Starting a repeat at the beginning, II

2008-06-27 Thread Palmer, Ralph
This, however, doesn't seem to be true. I cannot get \bar |: to print without either using Score.BreakAlignment or else using a skip before the \bar |: (to attach the \bar |: to, if I had to guess), and using the skip moves the repeat sign even further than Score.BreakAlignment does,

Repeats GDP Break_Align_Order

2008-06-25 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I'm running LilyPond 2.11.49 under Windows XP SP2. I'm working (still) on Repeats for the GDP. I'm trying to get a begin (open) repeat sign at the start of a piece. The only way I've been able to do it so far is with a \bar |: attached to a skip. It was suggested that I use the

Manual start-repeat (GDP)

2008-06-18 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I'm running LilyPond 2.11.49 under WinXP SP2. I've been working on Repeats for the GDP, and found that \set Score.repeatCommands = #'( start-repeat ) doesn't work if it's at the beginning of a score. It looks like it has to follow a note or a skip. Here are three snippets: Test

Version number from convert-ly

2008-06-17 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Hi - I'm running LP 2.11.49 under WinXP SP2. I was running 2.11.48, and submitted an updated file to Graham for the GDP. Graham said one of my snippets was broken and could I check it under 2.11.49? So, I downloaded and installed 2.11.49 and my file looked fine to me. Then I said to myself,

RE: Version number from convert-ly

2008-06-17 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Thanks Mats. I read 3.4, but didn't make it to 3.4.1 because I didn't think it had to do with a command line option. Ralph -Original Message- From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 9:57 AM To: Palmer, Ralph Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re

Font difference between 2.11.23 and GDP

2008-06-06 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I'm running LilyPond 2.11.23 under Windows XP SP2. I've been working on Repeats in the GDP. To demonstrate the behavior of manually setting repeat signs and brackets, I borrowed from LSR snippet 316, modified it, and included it in Repeats. I tested my modified version before

RE: Font difference between 2.11.23 and GDP

2008-06-06 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Thanks, Risto. Looks like I need to do some more work/checking/downloading. Ralph -Original Message- From: Risto Vääräniemi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 7:54 AM To: Palmer, Ralph Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Font difference between 2.11.23 and GDP

RE: Expecting '='

2008-05-27 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Duh. Thanks, Mats. Ralph -Original Message- From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 8:01 AM To: Palmer, Ralph Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Expecting '=' The first error message tells you that the \Score is wrong and as you certainly know

Percent repeats

2008-05-08 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I'm working on Repeats for the GDP (yep, still). Currently, Short Repeats includes percent repeats and tremolos (for strings, tremolos include both fingered and bowed tremolos). Percent repeats is not a term I have heard outside of LilyPond, and if I were looking for those repeats,

RE: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 65, Issue 80

2008-04-18 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Graham wrote: OK, silly question, but I simply cannot make up my mind. If we have a single entry in a list in the @seealso section, should it end with a period or not? For example, in this: --- See also Music Glossary: chord. Snippets: Simultaneous --- +++ I like consistency,

Running LilyPond from a memory stick

2008-04-11 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - Has anyone been able to run LilyPond from/on a memory stick? I have a 16 Gb stick, and I'd like to run LilyPond from it, but I don't know what problems I'm likely to encounter. The computers I plan to use both run Windows XP SP2. The stick is set up to run programs, but it looks for

RE: GDP: Time to plan the revision of NR 2 Specialist

2008-04-07 Thread Palmer, Ralph
be referenced under strings in NR 2. Ralph -Original Message- From: Graham Percival [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 7:04 PM To: Trevor Daniels Cc: Palmer, Ralph; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: GDP: Time to plan the revision of NR 2 Specialist On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 23:18:18

Re: GDP: Time to plan the revision of NR 2 Specialist

2008-04-03 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Grand Documentation Project The next step is to revise the second chapter in the Notation Reference - NR 2 Specialist notation. To kick off this process the new suggested section headings can be found at http://web.uvic.ca/~gperciva/NR2-draft.txt , and we now need your comments on these

RE:GDP: What term do you use?

2008-02-27 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Head tucked in, I venture into the battlefield. + Anh Hai Trinh wrote: I think you are mistaken here, a concert A written in any clef would sound with f = 440Hz, whereas a written concert A with a 8va bracket would sound with f = 880Hz. Anything sounding at a

Re: GDP: Repeats

2008-02-26 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - Thanks to all of you who responded to my call for help. I've been busy and mulling over your comments. Unless overridden by popular acclaim, I would like to keep the syntax in the section, even if we decide to call it something less intimidating to novices than syntax. There is at

RE: GDP glossary question: complex meters

2008-02-26 Thread Palmer, Ralph
helped create a confusing set of terminologies whose definitions haven't settled down yet. Ralph -Original Message- From: Kurt Kroon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 1:40 AM To: Mats Bengtsson; Palmer, Ralph; Graham Percival; Till Rettig; Ole Schmidt; Valentin

GDP: Repeats

2008-02-21 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Hi, All - I'm currently working on rewriting Repeats in the Notation Reference, and I don't care for the existing structure. Currently, it looks like this: 1.4 Repeats 1.4.1 Writing repeats 1.4.1.1 Repeat syntax

Re:GDP: What term do you use?

2008-02-18 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Kurt - If I were actually speaking with another violinist about an actual piece of music, I'd most likely say something like, It's an ottava passage. If I got a blank stare, I'd probably add something like, You play the music an octave higher (lower) than it's written. If I were looking up how to

Call for help : pitches.itely 1.1.4.3 - shape notes

2008-02-14 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Hi - I'm rewriting pitches.itely, and I've run into a snag. I'm only marginally familiar with shape notes, and I'd like some help with that section : 1.1.4.3 Shape note heads. 1. It's not clear to me why the solmization name sol is replaced by #f. Can anyone give me an explanation I can include

Re: GDP: index entries for snippets

2008-02-11 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Back when I had time to actually do reasonably complex projects (i.e., transcribe music), I did use the index. In fact, I think I would have been lost without it a few cases. Ralph -- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 12:25:08

Re: Part 2 of 2 -- Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches 2008-01-26

2008-02-04 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - Kurt wrote: -- Generally -- which and that have specific uses that we aren't observing very well. That introduces a restrictive subclause and should not be preceded by a comma. Removing this clause changes the meaning of the sentence, usually by making

spacing

2008-01-24 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I'm running LilyPond V 2.11.27 under Win XP SP2. I've been typesetting scales and arpeggios, and I noticed that the spacing of the eighth note triplets is not constant in the following. It's not huge, but the triplets in the first half of the first measure clearly have a wider

Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought

2008-01-22 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Hi, Graham - I noticed an issue regarding the See also on the TODO list: - all the commands like @seealso use a @subsubheading, but they appear as the same size as the @unnumberedsubsubsec headings (as you would expect). Fix somehow. I had noticed that, and wondered if adding a blank line

Re: Lilypond language definition for Notepad++

2008-01-22 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I've been using ConText for editing my LilyPond files. I'm running LilyPond 2.11.23 under Windows XP SP2. I tried using jEdit with LPTool for awhile, but the load time was so long, that I gave up. I didn't see any great advantage to jEdit at that time (about a year ago?), and ConText

Re: GDP: addition for Rhythms?

2008-01-18 Thread Palmer, Ralph
It may not be pertinent to this particular discussion, but there's another kind of real polymetric music : where there is a regular alternation between different times (e.g., 3/8 - 7/8, or maybe even 5/8 - 3/4 ; in Hindustani classical music, there's an 11 beat tal that's counted 2 2 2 2 1.5

Graham leaving

2008-01-03 Thread Palmer, Ralph
I am going to miss Graham, too. The effort he has put into LilyPond has been substantial and the results have been both extensive and excellent. Thank you, Graham. I'm currently doing some work on the documents, and will continue to do so. It's possible I may be able to shift my emphasis

Emacs lilypond mode on XP

2007-12-14 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Hi - I'm running LilyPond 2.11.23 under WinXP SP2. I've been using ConTEXT for editing, but I'm starting to get familiar with Emacs (22.1.1, i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) from using it to work on the GDP. I'm not a programmer, but not a complete tyro, either. Can anyone please explain to me how I can

Re:Your Friendly Neighborhood LSR

2007-11-27 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - Does code ever work in one version, then not work in a subsequent version, then work again in an even later version? I can see where it might, at least at the x.x.xx level. If that's the case, snippets could end up with multiple version lines. Ralph + Ralph

Re: GDP: preferred terms

2007-11-15 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - *** Graham wrote: - bar vs. measure. Whenever possible, we use the same term as the internal lilypond syntax uses... but I've seen both bars and measures in those docs. Should we just leave this up to individual doc writers, or pick one word? - barline vs. bar

Barcheck and TrillSpan

2007-09-05 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I'm getting there, and I'd like to thank all of you for the wonderful program and all the help! I'm running LilyPond 2.11.23 under Windows XP SP2. I'm including a snippet and the log from running the snippet. I'm using a silent note (space holder?) to allow a different clef cue at

RE: Barcheck and TrillSpan

2007-09-05 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Thanks, Kieren - That works perfectly for the clef change at the beginning of the piece. Anyone have any ideas about the TrillSpan problem? Ralph -Original Message- From: Kieren MacMillan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 9:01 AM To: Palmer, Ralph Cc

RE: Barcheck and TrillSpan

2007-09-05 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Thanks again, Kieren! That worked. Ralph -Original Message- From: Kieren MacMillan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 1:19 PM To: Palmer, Ralph Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Barcheck and TrillSpan Hi Ralph... That works perfectly for the clef

Re: repeat syntax

2007-08-27 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Aha! I have been unable to reference an external file in a \score block if the external file had a space or a digit in it. (Running LilyPond 2.11.13 under Windows XP Pro, SP 2.) For example: Test1 music.ly is: % \version 2.11.23 \include english.ly Test1 = { \key d \minor

Re: repeat syntax

2007-08-27 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Aha! I have been unable to reference an external file in a \score block if the external file had a space or a digit in it. (Running LilyPond 2.11.13 under Windows XP Pro, SP 2.) For example: Test1 music.ly is: % \version 2.11.23 \include english.ly Test1 = { \key d \minor

Longer tie

2007-08-09 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I'm running LilyPond 2.11.23 under Windows XP2002 SP2. I'm trying to get a tie to a phantom note at the beginning of a cue. There's a multi-measure rest before the cue, and I don't want the tie to be generated within the multi-measure rest. I think I'm coming close, but I can't

Re: Substitution

2007-07-26 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Thank you, Martial. I didn't think of the brackets because I had done other substitutions / definitions without the brackets. It works perfectly, now. Cheers and thanks, Ralph ... Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:26:38 +0200

Substitution

2007-07-26 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I'm running LilyPond 2.11.27 (although the files, after running convert-ly, say 2.11.23) under Windows XP2000, SP2. Great program! I just wish I knew everything about it. I'm gaining on it, though. In the following code, why doesn't my substition work? Thank you for your help and

RE: Space in markup using \char

2007-07-03 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Thank you Steven, but no luck. I get error: unknown escaped string: `\concat' , and the .pdf has concat pi ù f (in the proper fonts). Ralph -Original Message- From: Steven Weber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 4:41 PM To: Palmer, Ralph; lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re:Space in markup using \char

2007-07-03 Thread Palmer, Ralph
this: Since I had never seen it documented in the manual, I've just added it to the LSR. 2007/7/2, Palmer, Ralph [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've checked the manual, the program reference, and the user list archives, with no success. Please remember to add the LSR in your list of useful locations :) Regards

RE: Space in markup using \char

2007-07-03 Thread Palmer, Ralph
recent stable version? Ralph -Original Message- From: Valentin Villenave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:13 AM To: Palmer, Ralph Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Space in markup using \char 007/7/3, Palmer, Ralph [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Searching the LSR

Space in markup using \char

2007-07-02 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - Lilypond is a great program, and I appreciate all the help I've gotten from the members of this list. I had this problem once before, and just gave up, but perhaps things have changed. I've checked the manual, the program reference, and the user list archives, with no success.

Moving breathe sign

2007-05-24 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - Just when I think I get the hang of it, bam. I'm running LilyPond 2.10.16 under Windows XP Pro SP2. Thanks to Mats Bengtsson and Bertalan Fodor for their help with two notehead sizes in one chord. Now, in the same measure, actually, I'm trying to move a breathe sign, and having no

RE: Moving breathe sign

2007-05-24 Thread Palmer, Ralph
To: Palmer, Ralph Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Moving breathe sign I always first try a property setting without the \once keyword to see that it works. If you do that in your example below, you will notice that your property setting indeed works as it should. The only problem

\stemUp problem

2007-05-01 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I'm running LilyPond 2.10.16 under Windows XP SP2. I'm trying to write out a cue, and I want the instrument name below the lower voice, but I can't get the right combination. First, I can't get the stem on the first note to go up. In the following code, I don't understand why the two

Beginning with Cue in different clef

2007-04-26 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - Things are moving along for me in LilyPond. Thank you to everyone who works directly on LilyPond and to everyone who posts and/or helps us solve problems. I'm running 2.10.16 under Windows XP SP2. I'm working on a transcription that involves cueing from another instrument. I tried

RE: Crescendo past the barline

2007-04-13 Thread Palmer, Ralph
: Friday, April 13, 2007 2:39 PM To: Palmer, Ralph Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Crescendo past the barline Palmer, Ralph wrote: The default for a hairpin set to end at the first note after a bar line is to end the hairpin at the barline. I'd like the hairpin to extend past the barline

Crescendo past the barline

2007-04-12 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I'm running LilyPond 2.10.16 under WinXP SP2. The default for a hairpin set to end at the first note after a bar line is to end the hairpin at the barline. I'd like the hairpin to extend past the barline, to the note where the \! is. I've been able to change this by using a skip

Tempo mark (MM) range

2007-03-22 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I keep thinking I can survive on my own, but I keep having to come back to you generous folks. I'm running LilyPond 2.10.16 on Windows XP Pro SP2, and using ConTEXT as my editor. I'm trying to figure out how to specify a range of tempi, using something that looks like the normal MM

markup in header

2007-03-15 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I'm running: LilyPond 2.10.16 Windows XP Pro 2002 SP2 ConTEXT 0.98.5 with LilyPond Highlighter I'm trying to get é into Séan in the title and composer headers. I haven't been successful. I've looked in the manual and in the list archives, but can't find what I need. ConTEXT will

Recall: Voice / slur problem

2007-01-19 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Palmer, Ralph would like to recall the message, Voice / slur problem. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: Convert-ly problem

2007-01-03 Thread Palmer, Ralph
you mentioned logging off after installation. Ralph -Original Message- From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 8:11 AM To: Palmer, Ralph Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Convert-ly problem I hope you have logged off and on again since you

Convert-ly problem

2007-01-02 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I guess I have a couple of questions and maybe a problem. I'm running Windows XP Pro V.2002 SP2. I downloaded lilypond-2.10.6-1.mingw.exe. I tried to run it and got a message saying I needed to uninstall the old version. I uninstalled the old version (2.10.0), rebooted, and ran

RE: \parallelMusic and PianoStaff, again

2006-12-14 Thread Palmer, Ralph
To: Palmer, Ralph Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: \parallelMusic and PianoStaff, again Just keep repeating bar after bar, without any extra curly braces. Also, I had forgot to include \voiceOne / \voiceTwo and so on (below, I did this implicitly using the {...} \\ {...} feature). Here comes

\parallelMusic and PianoStaff, again

2006-12-13 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Hi - I'm running LilyPond 2.10.0 under Windows XP Pro SP2. With Mats' help, I've come closer, but still no joy. To clarify, I'm looking for a way to combine \parallelMusic with PianoStaff, so that I get a way to write polyphony on a piano staff, and write the polyphony one measure at a time.

\parallelMusic and PianoStaff

2006-12-11 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I'm running LilyPond 2.10.0 under Windows XP Pro SP2. I'm struggling with using \parallelMusic with PianoStaff. (Is there a functional difference between pianoStaff and PianoStaff? Is one obsolete?) In the following snippet, I'm trying to get : four voices in one measure on two

Complex piano score

2006-12-04 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - This is not about a bug or a specific problem; rather, it's a request for advice. I'm running LilyPond 2.10 under WinXP SP2. I'm transcribing a complex piano score with a lot of markup and one to four voices. Each voice is silent for up to many measures at times. I would like to be

TrillSpanner problem in 2.10

2006-11-21 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I'm running LilyPond 2.10.0.1, according to the Properties of lilypond.exe, under Windows XP Pro V2002, SP2. When I upgraded from 2.8.4.1, and ran convert.ly on my files, I got an error on the following: Begin snippet %\version 2.8.4.1 \version 2.10.0 \include english.ly

RE: Tenuto w/ staccato

2006-10-19 Thread Palmer, Ralph
: Tenuto w/ staccato do you mean a-- instead of a-_http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.8/Documentation/user/lilypond/Articulations.html#Articulations On 10/17/06, Palmer, Ralph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings -I'm running Lilypond 2.8.4.1 on WinXP Pro SP2.In the following snippet, I'm getting

Tenuto w/ staccato

2006-10-17 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I'm running Lilypond 2.8.4.1 on WinXP Pro SP2. In the following snippet, I'm getting a staccato mark that I don't want, and that seems extraneous. Is this a bug? Is there a way to keep the tenuto, without keeping the staccato mark? snippet: % \version 2.8.4.1

Vertical adjustment of \markup

2006-10-17 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings, I'm running Lilypond 2.8.4.1 on WinXP SP2. In the following snippet, I'd like to move rit upward. In the score the snippet comes from, the rit almost collides with a c''' notehead. I've tried \pad-markup, but Lilypond choked - tried to compile forever. I suspect I'm formating the

RE: Vertical adjustment of \markup

2006-10-17 Thread Palmer, Ralph
AM To: Palmer, Ralph; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: RE: Vertical adjustment of \markup Hi Ralph This should do what you want: Insert \override TextSpanner #'staff-padding = #9 Change the '9' to give the height you want Trevor -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

RE: Literature?

2006-10-02 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings, Stewart - I have a book on notation which covers a lot of ground, and which I can highly recommend: Music notation, a manual of modern practice. Read, Gardner. Boston, Crescendo Publishers, 1972. ISBN : 087597080X. The book is the most thorough I've seen, goes deeply into various

M.M.

2006-09-28 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - Is there any simple way to indicate approximate with the M.M. (Maelzel or metronome Mark)? For example, using a tilde (~) instead of an equal sign (=), or inserting c. (circa) before the per-minute number? Thanks for your help, and for all your work on LilyPond. I'm starting to get

RE: M.M.

2006-09-28 Thread Palmer, Ralph
. I need to go back to the manual. Ralph -Original Message- From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 8:49 AM To: Palmer, Ralph Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: M.M. You could always typeset the metronome mark manually using text markup (see

Tremolo controls

2006-09-22 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - In the following construction, I can't figure out what controls what. Can someone please try to explain to me how the calculations are made? The construction, as written, (in 4/4 time) produces a tremolo between c-sharp and e, with the c-sharp and e appearing as half-notes. It seems

RE: Tremolo again, but different

2006-08-02 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Oops. Thank you, Mats. I often find it hard to find my own mistakes. Ralph -Original Message- From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 3:34 AM To: Palmer, Ralph Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Tremolo again, but different This time, I'm

Tremolo again, but different

2006-08-01 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Hi - I'm running LilyPond 2.8.4.1 under Windows XP SP2. I asked the list recently about a problem with beaming on an acciaccatura following a tremolo. Apparently that's a bug that's been fixed in 2.9. Now I have a problem with a note following another set of tremolos. In my music, I have a

Acciaccatura beaming

2006-07-31 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Hi - I'm running 2.8.4.1 under Windows XP SP 2. I'm having trouble getting the beaming to work correctly on an acciaccatura. I have a preceding measure with tremolos, then a time change. In the log, I get the following message: Interpreting music... programming error: Stem already has beam

LilyPond hangs at parsing

2006-07-28 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Hi - I'm running LilyPond 2.8.4.1 under Window XP SP2. I recently switched from jEdit to ConTEXT (with the new LilyPond highlighter). I had no problem for a few days; then suddenly yesterday LilyPond started to hang. I can't get my files to complete. The only global change I can remember making

RE: LilyPond hangs at parsing

2006-07-28 Thread Palmer, Ralph
. Does that make sense to anyone? Is there something going on here that I don't understand? Ralph -Original Message- From: Palmer, Ralph Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 8:18 AM To: 'Lily-Pond List (lilypond-user@gnu.org)' Subject: LilyPond hangs at parsing Hi - I'm running LilyPond 2.8.4.1

RE: Slide, or glissando with no start point

2006-07-27 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Message- From: Anthony Youngman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 9:43 AM To: Palmer, Ralph Subject: RE: Slide, or glissando with no start point Exactly the problem I've needed to solve. Use \hideNote \unHideNote. (I'm hoping this will be solved along with the doit/fall

Slide, or glissando with no start point

2006-07-26 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Hi - Running LilyPond 2.8.4.1 under Windows XP SP2. I'd like to notate a slide up to a note. The time, in the music, would come out of the note following the slide notation. For those familiar with ABC notation, this would be similar to prefixing the note with a J in .abc. In this particular

RE: Measure problem somewhere

2006-07-21 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Hi, LilyPonders - Thanks, Kieren, for the help and the bar check tip. I got that section to look the way I wanted. However, I went back to the beginning and started entering bar checks and ran into a problem. I'm running 2.8.4.1 under Windows XP Pro, SP2, and using jEdit 4.3 pre5 with LilyPond

RE: Measure problem somewhere

2006-07-21 Thread Palmer, Ralph
MacMillan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 9:13 AM To: Palmer, Ralph Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Measure problem somewhere Hi, Ralph: Can anyone tell me how to locate the bracketed numbers? They don't appear to be line numbers or bar numbers. Are they, perhaps

Accent vs. slur

2006-07-21 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - (LilyPond Version 2.8.4.1 Windows XP SP2) In the following snippet, I'd like to move the accents that are touching the slurs upwards, without moving the slurs, in order to make the score more clear. I figured out how to move both the accent and the slur, but I get errors when I try

Quote within markup

2006-07-12 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I'm grateful for LilyPond, and for all the work a number of you are putting into the program and the documentation. I can find answers to most of my questions, although some take some experimentation. At this stage, my biggest difficulty, I think, is understanding the syntax - some

RE: Quote within markup

2006-07-12 Thread Palmer, Ralph
-Original Message- From: Geoff Horton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 8:23 AM To: Palmer, Ralph Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Quote within markup http://www.geoffhorton.com/lilypond.html#quote On 7/12/06, Palmer, Ralph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings - My

RE: Quote within markup

2006-07-12 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Bingo! Thanks, Geoff. I should have figured out that it was backwards; I think frustration had something to do with it. -Original Message- From: Geoff Horton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 9:42 AM To: Palmer, Ralph Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Quote

RE: Quote within markup

2006-07-12 Thread Palmer, Ralph
jEdit who can point me in the right direction? Thanks, Ralph -Original Message- From: Daniel Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 1:00 PM To: Palmer, Ralph Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Quote within markup Palmer, Ralph wrote: e'''2 r2 ^\markup

Two newbie questions

2006-06-30 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - Nice program! I was using .abc, with abcm2ps (which I still like for its ease of use and speed of entry), but LilyPond seems even more flexible. I think I still prefer .abc for some scores, but there are things I can do in LilyPond that I can't do in .abc. 1) What's LSR? 2) What's

Markup

2006-06-27 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I've tried the User Manual, the Regression Tests, and looked in the archives, but cannot find anything that will help me with this problem: Running Version 2.8.4.1 I have a whole measure rest (in 2/4), with a fermata. I'd like to include 2 pieces text above the staff, one piece of

GSview problems

2006-02-23 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I'm running 2.7.35-2 on Windows XP Professional 2002, SP2 and using GSview 4.7 2005-03-26 When I try to view the PS file using GSview, I get a series of error messages, and the file is not viewable. A bunch of the errors are similar to GSview 4.7 2005-03-26 Unknown in Comments