parallel lyrics and alternate chords

2011-10-15 Thread Peter Buhr
I need help on two items. Bar 4 (below) is the end of the verse and the start of the chorus. The fs,g,a notes are the end of the verse and I want to have the lyrics aah aah aah for these notes. The pickup for the chorus is the d,d notes and I want to have the lyrics I could for these notes. I

music glyphs inline

2011-06-11 Thread Peter Buhr
I'm using lilypond book with latex and I want to write a sentence like this: Guitar music is written with a treble clef \musicglyph #clefs.G rather than a bass clef \musicglyph #clefs.F, which is correctly indicated by a small 8 under the treble clef \musicglyph #treble_8. and get music

Short TextSpanner

2011-03-05 Thread Peter Buhr
I want to have a TextSpanner that spans a single chord WITHOUT any spanner line after the spanner text. In the example below, I want the 3 barre indications to all line up vertically across the chords at the TextSpanner height. If the spanner puts a line for the single chord, it forces the text

Re: Short TextSpanner

2011-03-05 Thread Peter Buhr
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/writing-text#index-text-spanners_002c-formatting See the two snippets, they might help. Well, not that helpful. What kind of Event should I specify? And my guess is that span will still try to put a line of some form after the text.

function argument computation

2011-02-25 Thread Peter Buhr
I'm trying to factor out common code in some music functions. Below is a fragment of the code illustrating my problem. It's been years since I've used Lisp so please appreciate the naivety in this question. I want to do a computation at the call and pass the result as an argument to a function

remove system_start_delimiter

2011-02-24 Thread Peter Buhr
I'm creating a glyph to include in a picture showing the range of notes on a classical guitar (see below). 1. How do I remove the system_start_delimiter (large opening brace) at the start of the score? I've tried a number of things to remove the brace but none were successful. 2. How do I

Re: lilypond-book

2011-02-20 Thread Peter Buhr
Le 19/02/2011 20:21, Peter Buhr a écrit : I'm attempting to use lilypond-book but have run into the following anomaly. ... I think you have to put the whole path for test.ind if your test.ind is one directory upstairs of out2 you could also write: \input{../test.ind} So I

lilypond-book

2011-02-19 Thread Peter Buhr
I'm attempting to use lilypond-book but have run into the following anomaly. The latex file below demonstrates the problem. There is a line \input{test.ind} to include the index file generated by the makeindex command. Normal procedure is to start with an empty (0 byte) xxx.ind file, do several

polyphonic startTextSpan

2011-02-08 Thread Peter Buhr
I want rit. to be under the fs/e, and the span line to go all the way to the final gs *below* the markup XII harmonics. However, I can't find a place to start the textspan. Help!! \version 2.13.40 \include english.ly #(set-default-paper-size letter) #(set-global-staff-size 24) #(define RH

fingeringOrientations

2011-01-30 Thread Peter Buhr
G'day. Sorry, if I don't use the correct lilypond nomenclature. Below are two bars of notes. The first bar is done with 2 voices inline and the second bar is done with 2 voices out-of-line. In the first bar, the string positions are not on the left of the notes, while they are in the second bar.

arpeggio symbol placement

2010-12-21 Thread Peter Buhr
In the following example, the arpeggio symbol appears over the time signature, about 1cm from the chord, and the finger number is to the left of the arpeggio symbol, while I want the finger number to be on the right of the arpeggio symbol. Suggestions? \version 2.13.40 \include english.ly

Re: laissezVibrer

2010-09-14 Thread Peter Buhr
Nick Payne wrote: See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-05/msg00176.html Thanks. Works well. Mark Polesky and David Rogers wrote: Why not just write a whole note? My experience is that a whole note is inappropriate. Assume a guitar and a bar with 4 notes. The first

laissezVibrer

2010-09-13 Thread Peter Buhr
I want to specify a duration (tie length) for \laissezVibrer as in: a4\laissezVibrer{1} meaning put a tie of duration whole-note on the 1/4 note a. Knowing how long to let a note ring seems essential to describe the music for a player. I searched the web and found others asking a similar

repeats

2010-09-04 Thread Peter Buhr
-title-spacing = #'((space . 0) (padding . 3) (stretchability . 0) (minimum-distance . 0)) tagline = } \layout { indent = 0.0 } \header { title = Street Spirit (Fadeout) composer = Radio Head enteredby = Peter Buhr } melody = \relative c' { \set

after-title-space

2009-12-27 Thread Peter Buhr
\in bottom-margin = 5\in ragged-last-bottom=##f tagline = } \layout { indent = 0.0 } \header { title = I Saw Three Ships composer = Traditional enteredby = Peter Buhr } harmonies = \chordmode { s8 | f4. c/f | f c/f | f2. | c/f | f4. c/f | f4. c/f

stretched note stem

2009-08-09 Thread Peter Buhr
Below is a simple E major scale. I don't want lilypond to stretch the stems of the lower notes up to the B staff line. I want all the note-stems to be the same length for both stemUp and stemDown notes. Is there an option to turn off the stem stretching? \version 2.13.3 \include english.ly

Re: stretched note stem

2009-08-09 Thread Peter Buhr
I don't want lilypond to stretch the stems of the lower notes up to the B staff line. ... I think it looks very odd to do this, but here you go: \override Stem #'no-stem-extend = ##t Thanks, that's doing what I want. In general, I agree it looks very odd. However, I'm decorating

guitar guide-mark

2009-07-15 Thread Peter Buhr
When writing the fingering for guitar, there is a notation used to indicate a guide finger in left-hand shifting. The fingering mark looks like -3, but the - is rotated up about 30 degrees, which means to silently slide the 3rd finger from its previous position to this marked note on the same

Re: guitar guide-mark

2009-07-15 Thread Peter Buhr
You can rotate objects and markups. I've done a little experiment here that doesn't look very good yet but may put you on the right track. Search the Notation Reference manual for rotation, formatting text, positioning objects, and the like. \version 2.13.4 \relative c'' {

Re: guitar guide-mark

2009-07-15 Thread Peter Buhr
In 30 years of playing guitar (jazz and rock), I have never seen this notation. Is there an example on the Web you can point to? I'd be interested in seeing how it's used. Ummm, I'll look on the web to see if I can fine something. However, what I'm reading from is the Guitar Repertoire

basic questions

2009-07-10 Thread Peter Buhr
Below is a open guitar-scale without tempo. I have 2 problems. And I have tried to do due-diligence before posting to see if the information is available in either the LSR or LilyPond Notation Reference, but I found nothing using my search parameters. 1. The low E in the scale is too close to the

removing naturals

2009-07-06 Thread Peter Buhr
The following is a left-hand octave-exercise for guitar. It has no tempo. I do not want the natural symbols to appear in the exercise. I used Staff.extraNatural = ##f is an attempt to eliminate the naturals as per the instructions on page 6 of the Notation Reference manual, but that did not help.