Need the MusicXML test cases (link broken)

2009-03-18 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Hello, I have some spare time and would like to do some work in testing the MusicXML converter. I tried to download the test cases zip file at the link below (as found on this site) but the link is broken: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/input/regression/musicxml/MusicXML-TestSuite-0.1.zip Can

OCR to lilypond

2008-04-14 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
I've used just about every notaion program that exists, but I still like to just write out my sheets on staff paper with a pencil prior to entering the data into a formal notaion software like lilypond or whatever. It would be wonderful if I could generate lilypond source code from a

Re: new LilyPond based project

2008-01-13 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
BopLand.org wrote: This is an announcement about new LilyPond based project. http://bopland.org The BopLand.org project is FREE knowledge database for improvising musician. The database contains hundreds of beautiful melodic patterns played by outstanding jazz musicians like Bill

Re: How to put chords on a score automatically

2007-11-13 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote: Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: Such a program could not make the assumption that the root of the chord is always being sung by the bass or any other voice, or being sung at all. But if the lp syntax allowed marking what note is the current chord root

Re: How to put chords on a score automatically

2007-11-12 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: Rune - Your example works on its own, and is roughly what I'm looking for, but when I try to incorporate that syntax into my own (2.11.32) score, it doesn't work. I'd like to see the chordnames at the top of the choirstaff so I can check my work. My

Re: Roman numeral chord notation in lilypond

2007-11-12 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Patrick Taylor Ramsey-2 wrote: Hello, all. I'm a bit flummoxed; I've been searching for the last hour and a half for a way to typeset roman numeral chord notation (ii, V65/V, N6) under a staff in lilypond and found nothing, except for a lone message dating from 2003 stating that

Re: lilypond imbedded in text

2007-09-30 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Kieran Coulter wrote: Hi, I am planning on starting a method book series for lilypond. I am curious what the general format is for mixing various fonts and styles, pictures, and lilypond exercises and pieces to play. I'll have a look at what is in the documentation in the meantime, but I

Re: Fwd: Users' Manual

2007-09-29 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
I would buy the manual in a nice spiral book, perhaps the sales could be used to pay developers. The cost of printing and binding the PDF at my local office store is not cheap, and I'd much rather have the money go to the devs. and to the doc writers. If you guys could work something out and

Re: Guitar tabs and fret diagram

2007-09-12 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Helge Kruse wrote: Hello, writing a piece for guitar I include tabs. At some difficult I want additionally write a fret diagram to show, how to set the fingers. Maybe most guitar players think that's overkill, but the player should see as fast as possible how to set the left hand

Re: Lilypond Odd Jobs (mostly documentation)

2007-08-29 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
The FretBoards context that I sponsored some time back, still needs to be added to the instrument specific section of the manual. Graham Percival-2 wrote: Are you interested in helping LilyPond? There are many tasks that are available which do not have time to do ourselves. Some of

Re: [fr: barres de notes dans un triolet] The best way to create a songbook?

2007-02-14 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
FWIW, I assemble my song books using ghostscript. I create batch jobs that compile all the songs into separate PDF's, I make table of contents, index, texts, etc. in the word processor of my choice and print those pages to PDF file(s). Certain educational pages I also make in my word processor

Re: [fr: barres de notes dans un triolet] The best way to create a songbook?

2007-02-14 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
for the starting point of the next song compile. Also all songs are based on a common shared template that keeps the overall style strictly enforced. Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: FWIW, I assemble my song books using ghostscript. I create batch jobs that compile all the songs into separate PDF's, I

Rhythmic slashes, are just too [EMAIL PROTECTED] hard to do

2007-02-13 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Currently entering rhythmic slashes are a pain in the butt and have numerous kludge solutions. For example, if you simply change the noteheads to slash and set the notes to middle-line b the visual result and spacing is perfect. However the day you need to transpose, the slashes are all over

'gs' is not recognized as a... v2.11.15

2007-02-02 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Ijust installed 2.11.15 on Windows XP. I get the following right at the point that LP is converting the ps file to pdf. In the end I get a ps file but no pdf. Is there some setup of the system PATH statement that needs to be made so that gs is recognized? The path to the lilypond bin is in my

Isn't gs supposed to have an extention like .exe?

2007-02-02 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
v2.11.15 Looking at the folder C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin where lilypond is installed, it appears that the executeable called gs does not have a .exe extension. How is the operating system suppoed to know that this is an executeable file (I presume its ghostsscript)? When compilinmg

Re: how to remove unwanted clef before line break?

2007-01-11 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Bodo Maass wrote: Hi, I want a new line to start with a different clef. However, I always get a second copy of the new clef on the old line, just before the line break. I have simplified it to this example: start test.ly \version 2.11.10 { \time 2/4 { \clef

Re: Open Chord Not Reflected in Chord Symbol

2007-01-08 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
There is a way around it, scan the archive for jazzychord, there are some posts on using a chord names exceptions list, it should be in the manual too. Bryan Murdaugh wrote: If I try to display a chord symbol (in the ChordNames context), using g1:5^3 (which looks like it should work from

Re: User Experience Engineering

2007-01-06 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Linda Seltzer wrote: Dear Friends, Having previously worked at ATT Labs, where I was a member of the User Experience Forum, I would like to make a few comments as a relative outsider seeing the Lilypond project for the first time. This is a great endeavor and the software output is

Re: Generating small fragments to be embedded into latex

2007-01-05 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
See chapter 10.1.3 about the function I sponsored using the -dclip-systems command line option. If thats not the right chapter just search the manual for -dclip-systems. You can output snippets to pdf and eps (eps is better quality). I'm outputting musical fragments into word processors and

Re: Problem with pdf.

2007-01-05 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Use task manager to see if some other process or possible spyware is hogging CPU resources. I have had excellent performance on even my older XP and Win2K machine. The first time you run LP after a fresh install might take a little longer but not that long, as I think it registers the fonts on

Re: Lyrics, multiple endings, and codas

2007-01-03 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Ander D wrote: I have a solo voice score. It has two sections. The first section has two verses. The first verse has its own ending and the second verse also has its own ending, which comprises the rest of the song. The second section has a DS al coda. I need help with organizing

Re: Lyrics, multiple endings, and codas

2007-01-03 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
= #3.0 \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'break-align-symbol = #'key-signature \mark \markup { \musicglyph #scripts.coda \super \smaller \column { To Coda } } Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: Ander D wrote: I have a solo voice score. It has two sections. The first section has two

RE: Transposable Fret Diagrams for Guitar

2006-12-31 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Rick H wrote: A user-maintained table of chord shapes wouldn't be transposable. It's using the Lilypond chord naming structure that makes the transposing work, IMO. This functionality wouldn't work for you, because you're an excellent guitar player. It

Re: thoughts

2006-12-28 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Orm Finnendahl wrote: Hi, I just wanted to add to my recent comments. It might seem that my posts are unadequately critical. Although they are fueled by my frustration using the program I want to make clear that I really appreciate the tremendous and excellent work which has been done

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-28 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Brett Duncan-2 wrote: Here's a different idea: instead of specifying the ratio for a tuplet or set of tuplets, what about specifying the duration of a tuplet, and letting LP determine what number appears over the beam? For example, where we now use \times 2/3 { a8 b c } to get a

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-28 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
David Rogers wrote: Orm Finnendahl wrote: Am 28. Dezember 2006, 11:30 Uhr (-0800) schrieb David Rogers: bf16[d, f ef] \tuplet 4 { { { d16 ef f } { g a } } { bf32a c bf d c bf a g f g ef } } The above would generate a parent tuplet with the number 5 and two sub-tuplets with 3 and

Re: segfault on \acciaccatura

2006-12-28 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Orm Finnendahl wrote: Hi, don't know if that's the one you already caught. This segfaults on my machine: \version 2.11.2 \score { \new Staff { \relative c' { \acciaccatura d16 s16 } } } It doesn't segfault if the

Re: Has anyone extended \include?

2006-12-27 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Eduardo Vieira-3 wrote: Citando Rick Hansen (aka RickH) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you have done this can you share it or sell it to me? (please dont suggest m4, I gave up on that monster) Thanks Hi, Rick! Yes, this preprocessor looks scary, as well as some advanced programming

Re: How to make a grace rest?

2006-12-23 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
installation alone, and just putting a helper application in front of it. Han-Wen Nienhuys-2 wrote: Rick Hansen (aka RickH) escreveu: How can I code a grace note (actually that is really a grace rest) but also make it completly invisible and take up no space, on a one-time/as-needed basis

Re: date insertion

2006-12-22 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Matevž Jekovec-2 wrote: Is there a predefined constant in Lily which shows the current date and/or system time. This would be useful for the footer tag for example, when was the document generated - this would mark the version of the score then, if you made any newer versions of your

Re: My first define-music-function, I'm trying, need help

2006-12-22 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Anybody? Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: The simple substitution example below should be pretty easy, but I'm in a pickle, can someone show me how to replace the note name in the transpose statement with the note specified on the function call (parameter called root)? But it gets

Has anyone extended \include?

2006-12-22 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Has anyone on this list extended the \include lilypond command to also do simple token replacement as it is including the text? IOW like this: \include myFile.ly @myToken1=a; @myToken2=25; @myToken3=replace with this Whereby @myToken1, 2 and 3 above will be whole word searched and replaced

Re: My first define-music-function, I'm trying, need help

2006-12-22 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
seb-g wrote: On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 02:48:24PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The simple substitution example below should be pretty easy, but I'm in a pickle, can someone show me how to replace the note name in the transpose statement with the note specified on the function call

How to make a grace rest?

2006-12-22 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
How can I code a grace note (actually that is really a grace rest) but also make it completly invisible and take up no space, on a one-time/as-needed basis? I'd like to be able to change the current duration that lilypond has set without actually having to introduce any music to the score that

Re: Has anyone extended \include?

2006-12-22 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Eduardo Vieira-3 wrote: Citando Rick Hansen (aka RickH) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you have done this can you share it or sell it to me? (please dont suggest m4, I gave up on that monster) Thanks Hi, Rick! Yes, this preprocessor looks scary, as well as some advanced programming

Re: Has anyone extended \include?

2006-12-22 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Thanks, Browsing the manual GEMA looks like it could work to do both substitution and conditional outputting, I'll try it. Rick Eduardo Vieira-3 wrote: Citando Rick Hansen (aka RickH) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you have done this can you share it or sell it to me? (please dont suggest

Re: Chord library

2006-12-21 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
seb-g wrote: Hi there, I am working on a guitar chord library for lily [1] based on the \fret-diagram command. The generator is written in python. The chord configuration file is quite simple: -- Sebastien Gross ___

Re: Chord library

2006-12-21 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: seb-g wrote: Hi there, I am working on a guitar chord library for lily [1] based on the \fret-diagram command. The generator is written in python. The chord configuration file is quite simple: -- Sebastien Gross

How to silently change the current duration in music?

2006-12-21 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
How can I change the current duration in my music without actually entering something that will take up any beats? IOW we all know that duration is sticky, it remains at whatever you last set it to so that you do not have to continually type in duration numbers. What command can I enter to set

Re: Chord library

2006-12-21 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
seb-g wrote: Hi there, I am working on a guitar chord library for lily [1] based on the \fret-diagram command. The generator is written in python. -- Sebastien Gross ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: How to silently change the current duration in music?

2006-12-21 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
in the input file. You may want to use a pure preprocessor like m4 to handle this situation. /Mats Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: How can I change the current duration in my music without actually entering something that will take up any beats? IOW we all know that duration is sticky

Re: Chord library

2006-12-21 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
seb-g wrote: On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 09:05:20AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, as Mats said please check out the FretBoards context, I sponsored it! It will allow you to transpose fret diagrams and enter fret diagrams using standard lilypond notes, it will auto detect the

Re: Chord library

2006-12-21 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
seb-g wrote: On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:45:52PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is an example of my non-programmers approach to forming a chord library: (note this example can only be run in version 2.11.4 or better due to a crash issue) Ok I will install 2.11.4. I am still

My first define-music-function, I'm trying, need help

2006-12-21 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
The simple substitution example below should be pretty easy, but I'm in a pickle, can someone show me how to replace the note name in the transpose statement with the note specified on the function call (parameter called root)? But it gets the following error: string:2:13: error: syntax error,

Re: Chord library

2006-12-21 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
seb-g wrote: On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:05:25PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A define-music-function would be better than tags, then the whole library would be inside a function where you just specify the chord name as a string parameter then have a giant IF statement to generate the

Re: Lilypond API

2006-12-14 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Luc wrote: Hi I am using Notepad++ (on Windows XP home) to write LilypPond scores. Besides many other comforts, this editor allows to add own languages as plugins for highlighting and colouring different kinds of keywords (actually there are 4 types that can be defined) and automatic

RE: lilypond and editors

2006-12-13 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Kress, Stephen-2 wrote: It is true that Java is, by default, a p-code style language. However, what Bertalan Fodor was referring to is what's called the Just in Time compiler. The JIT must not be confused with Java's command line compiler. The command line compiler (or those built

Possible \keepWithTag bug found (please help verify)

2006-12-13 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
v2.11.2 Windows... In the following example one tag filter works but the other fails. If you use the chordfret filter name to generate the chord inversions it fails, but if you use the chordname tag filter to generate those chord inversions it works. Conversely I also tried \removeWithTag but

Re: lilypond and editors

2006-12-13 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rick Hansen (aka RickH) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I've never seen a Java application run fast on Windows, ever, in fact they are so slow that they are unbearable to use. Is that Microsoft's JVM, or Sun's? And it wouldn't

Re: lilypond and editors

2006-12-08 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Geoff Horton wrote: Often one can gain productivity by fitting his way of work to the editor :-) Bert Sometimes, yes. Often ... I don't know about that, and I'm not really a fan of the idea. Tools exist for me; I don't exist for tools. I don't mean to discourage anyone from trying

\keepWithTag is causing a hard crash in this example

2006-12-08 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
v2.11.0 Windows2000. In the code that follows, I'm trying to combine the variables \varNames and \varFrets into single tagged variables since these note streams always used in pairs under different contexts. In this example the proper output occurs using \varNames and \varFrets in the Staff and

Globally removing string number engraver

2006-12-07 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Notice in the following example (which will run as-is) that I am explicitely removing the string number engraver. Yet, alas, the string numbers remain on the staff portion. How can I globally remove the string numbers from the standard notation staff, and still reuse the same music on the

Re: Globally removing string number engraver

2006-12-07 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
lives by default, you'll find out that it's in the Voice context. I think that's all information you need. Don't ask me what the String_number_engraver does, though. /Mats Quoting Rick Hansen (aka RickH) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Notice in the following example (which will run as-is) that I

Re: convert-ly, musicxml2ly, etc. problems

2006-12-01 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Han-Wen Nienhuys-2 wrote: Bertalan Fodor escreveu: Install the 2.10.0-1 version of LilyPond (and not the bad, 2.10.0-2) Then you will be able to run convert-ly by: - running 'python convert-ly' from C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin - or by clicking the convert-ly button in LilyPondTool

Re: lilypond and editors

2006-12-01 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
confrey wrote: Hi everybody, I know some text editors have a support for lilypond; I'd like to know what's a fine editor for lilypond, and if it is possible to customize gedit (sintax highlighting and statement recognition adn completation). bye confrey -- confrey

Re: paper sizes

2006-11-30 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
James E. Bailey-2 wrote: I was reading the archives on how to define a custom page size, and I'm a little confused as to whether the issue was resolved, meaning, I've read the archives, and tried the suggestions there, but still cannot output my page size. I've added to the file

convert-ly, musicxml2ly, etc. problems

2006-11-30 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Ok... I must be missing something very simple, but I've been beating a dead horse for the past few weeks trying to get convert-ly and other utilities to run on Windows XP. From te command prompt I change directory to C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin which is where lilyponfd is installed, but

Re: convert-ly, musicxml2ly, etc. problems

2006-11-30 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Bertalan Fodor-2 wrote: Install the 2.10.0-1 version of LilyPond (and not the bad, 2.10.0-2) Then you will be able to run convert-ly by: - running 'python convert-ly' from C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin - or by clicking the convert-ly button in LilyPondTool (if you use that) Bert

Re: convert-ly, musicxml2ly, etc. problems

2006-11-30 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Bertalan Fodor-2 wrote: Install the 2.10.0-1 version of LilyPond (and not the bad, 2.10.0-2) Then you will be able to run convert-ly by: - running 'python convert-ly' from C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin - or by clicking the convert-ly button in LilyPondTool (if you use that) Bert

Re: convert-ly, musicxml2ly, etc. problems

2006-11-30 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
and Settings\HP_Administrator\Desktop\musicfiles\gibbons C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator\Desktop\musicfiles\gibbonsconvert-ly cantus.ly convert-ly.py (GNU LilyPond) 2.8.5 Processing `cantus.ly'... Applying conversion: Good luck! Bonnie Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote

Re: convert-ly, musicxml2ly, etc. problems

2006-11-30 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Bonnie Rogers wrote: Just as I thought - you are trying too hard! I'm not a programmer either. What on earth is all that import stuff? If you have the music in a desktop folder and cd to that folder you won't have to bother with any of that. Just type convert-ly and the file name.

Stupid resolution questions

2006-11-15 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
I am under the impression that the dresolution option flag setting only applies to PNG generation. Is this true? And that the PDF that lily generates really has no resolution of it's own to worry about? IOW can I assume that the PDF file is already at pre-press quality if it is being printed

Re: Stupid resolution questions

2006-11-15 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote: All fonts should be Type1 fonts, i.e. they are described by vector graphics, not bitmaps. The same goes for slurs, beams and other objects that are output directly as graphics. So, there should be no need to worry about resolution as far as I know. /Mats

Re: Pitch/ octave notation

2006-11-15 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Erik Sandberg-2 wrote: On Tuesday 14 November 2006 16:50, Peter O'Doherty wrote: Hello, Is it possible to indicate pitches in the format c4 instead of c'? And if not, does anybody know of any plans to create this possibility? If you really need this, I'd recommend you to use sed or

Re: Selling music engraved by Lilypond

2006-11-15 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Frédéric Chiasson wrote: Hi, I just saw a message about the tagline Engraved by Lilypond and I was wondering if it is legal to sell our own partitions of our own compositions engraved with Lilypond? Is there any limitation you put against a «commercial» use (for now, it is really «on

String concatenation in sheme?

2006-11-15 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
I'm not a Scheme programmer, but how does one concatenate more data onto the end of an existing variable? Is there a string concatenation expression in scheme that will let someone add onto the end of a string using subsequent commands. For example (below is in a java pseudocode where += means

Re: Pitch/ octave notation

2006-11-15 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Nicolas Sceaux wrote: Rick Hansen (aka RickH) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to begin compartmentalizing my rather long lilypond templates to something beyond numerous \include files to make it easier to manage. I wish there were a lilypond dedicated text editor with plug-ins

Re: Selling music engraved by Lilypond

2006-11-15 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Frédéric Chiasson wrote: Thanks for the quick answers! And yes, I will keep the tag, it is least I can do to encourage such a wonderful project! However is it possible to change the alignment, the size, the font or any other characteristic of the tagline (while keeping it noticeable!) ?

Re: String concatenation in sheme?

2006-11-15 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Nicolas Sceaux wrote: What you want is not string concatenation. { a4 b c d } is a music expression, not a string, so look how it is stored internally: \displayMusic { a b c d | } \displayMusic { e f g a | } \displayMusic { a b c d | e f g a | } You'll see a SequenceMusic

Re: Chord, variables and comments [beginner]

2006-11-14 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote: It seems that a standard preprocessor like m4 should be the best solution to your problems. If you search the mailing list archives, you will find a number of discussions related to preprocessors for purely textual replacement in LilyPond input files. LilyPond

Re: Rhythmic slashes

2006-11-10 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Mats, This is sort of working, but how would I set the thickness property so that the slash looks more like the slash notehead? Better yet, is there a way to actually use the slashed note head character instead? (the slashed note head looks like most fakebooks, but this beat-slash is too thick

Re: Rhythmic slashes

2006-11-09 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Brett Duncan-2 wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Paul Scott escreveu: Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: (snip) Here is a solution, just change the notehead! (thanks to Brett who sent me the idea) \paper { ragged-right = ##t } \new Staff \relative c' { \bar |: \override

RE: Rhythmic slashes

2006-11-08 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Trevor Daniels wrote: I've never tried it, but could you use a drum voice to avoid transposition problems? In my case I cant just change to a drum voice because these measures are in the midst of a voice that does play standard notation for most of the piece, but in places I just

Re: Identifiers

2006-11-08 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Kamal-4 wrote: How do you attach a duration (or other notation) to an identifier? Example: I have: 8 16[ ] I want to use as an identifier so I tried the following but it didn't work: var = { a c e } \score { { \var \var16[ \var16] } } I am using lilypond 2.8.6

Rhythmic slashes

2006-11-07 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
How can I get 4 slashes in a measure (in 4/4 time)? The following is the closest I've come but only gives me 3 slashes. (In pop music this is a common notation method when you just want the player to comp the changes in time.) The example below will run as is: \paper { ragged-right = ##t }

Re: Rhythmic slashes

2006-11-07 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: How can I get 4 slashes in a measure (in 4/4 time)? The following is the closest I've come but only gives me 3 slashes. (In pop music this is a common notation method when you just want the player to comp the changes in time.) The example below will run

Re: Slur usage

2006-11-06 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Eduardo Vieira-3 wrote: Hello list, is there a musical difference between these two styles of slurring? { e( f() g) } and { e( f g) } I have seen songs using either style. Which is more proper? Personally I prefer the latter. But I'm not a musician. Eduardo

Ghostscript question

2006-11-03 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
I have a very old version of ghostscript that I use outside my lilypond work... I want to upgrade ghostscript on my Windows machine for the work I do in concatenating lily outputs into books, printing to PDF, etc. But I am unsure as to what ghostscript to get the GPL or the AFPL? I just want

Re: Ghostscript question

2006-11-03 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
so far. fiëé visuëlle wrote: Am 2006-11-03 um 19:03 schrieb Rick Hansen (aka RickH): But I am unsure as to what ghostscript to get the GPL or the AFPL? Since a while also the latest version of GS is available unter the GPL, see http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ For private use

Re: chord :dim7

2006-11-01 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Frédéric Bron wrote: Using lily 2.8.7 on Windows. Why \chords { gs:dim7 } gives G#07 in the output and not G#dim (\include english.ly)? I want gs b d f . Regards, Fred ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: chord :dim7

2006-11-01 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Frédéric Bron wrote: Does this mean that if I want all dim7 chords be written dim, I need to code 12 exceptions, one for each note? No, the exceptions list would only need one exception coded with a root of C, in your case c ef gf to override dim and c ef gf bff to override dim7. I've

Re: chord :dim7

2006-11-01 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Frédéric Bron wrote: I have tried to make a chord exception as indicated in the documentation and in chord-name-exceptions.lyhttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.8/Documentation/user/lilypond/source/input/regression/lily-496021814.lyto replace 07 by dim but it did not work. Here is what I tried:

Re: chord :dim7

2006-11-01 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Frédéric Bron wrote: I have tried to make a chord exception as indicated in the documentation and in chord-name-exceptions.lyhttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.8/Documentation/user/lilypond/source/input/regression/lily-496021814.lyto replace 07 by dim but it did not work. Here is what I tried:

Re: The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-31 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
César Penagos wrote: Dears Lilyponders: I'm a very in-love user of Lilypond, actually I have installed the 2.9.26 version. I'm attend to update my preferred music score program. For many times i sow in the user archives, people asking for a graphical interface. I thing there is a

Re: convert relative to absolute...

2006-10-31 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Julian Peterson wrote: I have a project in which I am training a computer to improvise in the same style as an example piece of music. I wrote a little program in supercollider to take a sequence of lilypond notes, learn patterns from them and then generate output for lilypond to

arabic instead of roman

2006-10-30 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Is there a global way to change the neck position indication on fret board markup to be arabic instead of roman? Without having to change the file called \LilyPond\usr\share\lilypond\current\scm\fret-diagrams.scm ? I'm trying to avoid making my own changes to the installed code base, so that I

Re: Wishlist for Guitar (or string) features (newbie!)

2006-10-26 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
I have just sponsored some new guitar related items, and inadvertantly some tab clean-up items that will be in future release. I understand your idea, but I would also argue that using notes instead of hard-coded fret and string numbers is the way to go. This way your output can participate

Re: chord name size

2006-10-25 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Depends on your age, eyesight and the type of score too. For a simple fake book lead sheet I like things big so that I can read it better in a dark room at a distance, or at times when I'll have a cheat sheet on the floor at my feet while performing something I have not fully memorized. As for

Re: slurs at breaks are wrongly influenced by rehearsal marks

2006-10-25 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
FYI, this bug also happens on volta brackets that continue or start at a new system. The beginning of the volta bracket is pushed to the right by the mark. This is exasperated by the fact that very often it is necessary to put a To CODA mark at the beginning of first endings. In this very

Re: OK, I am not a happy camper!

2006-10-22 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
If all you want to do is link and imbed musical snippets into a word processor document then check out the new clip-regions capability in the latest LiyPond. It will let you define an array of clip regions in the \paper block then when you compile your main score all those clippings will be

Re: Polyphonic Tablature

2006-10-22 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
and ran it through a recent 2.9.x version, and it certainly gives me a single tab staff here. Daniel's follow-up does exactly the same thing, but using more key strokes (the \simultaneous are redundant, for example). /Mats Quoting Rick Hansen (aka RickH) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks Mats

Re: Polyphonic Tablature

2006-10-21 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Thanks Mats, but this example is still producing 2 separate tab staffs, not a single polyphonic one. Rick Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote: See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-10/msg00285.html /Mats Quoting Rick Hansen (aka RickH) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes this has been

Re: chord name size

2006-10-20 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
I prefer to set something like this in a \layout context, but you can also do it where you declare your ChordNames staff or even in the middle of the score amongst your notes (size exaggerated here): \layout { \context { \ChordNames \override ChordName #'font-size = #10.5 } }

Re: parenthesize

2006-10-19 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
If I'm not mistaken I belive parenthesis only applies to notes in chords so to parenthesize a single note make a chord with just one note in it, also it applies to the note after the \parenthesize: \version 2.9.17 \include english.ly \layout { line-width = 80\mm } theMusic = \relative

RE: Vertical adjustment of \markup

2006-10-17 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
If you put that override in the \layout block on whatever context(s) you want it applied to, then it will and you wont have to see it amongst your music code. Palmer, Ralph wrote: Thanks, Trevor. Will \override (as opposed to \once \override) give all subsequent TextSpanner entries the

Another sponsorship, hopefully can be done cheaply?

2006-10-17 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
How much would this cost to sponsor? I've tried to describe it as best I could below, and provided a sample of what the proposed source code might look like and a description of what the output would be, please let me know if there is any confusion about what I'm describing: Begin: % PROPOSED

Re: oddHeaderMarkup

2006-10-16 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
You can take over all the titling yourself with the following \paper block and by not setting any of the built in \header properties like title, copyright, etc. (with the exception of tagline = to regain the bottom space). Also use the \fill-line function to spread items left/right. Rick

Re: I would like to buy this enhancement (highly motivated buyer)

2006-10-16 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
]: On Thursday 12 October 2006 18:22, Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: Thanks for the suggestion Mats. My motivation for this is that I am currently writing some lesson material that reference full scores and would like to make a nice word processor document that flows, with illustrations

-d option for first-page-number?

2006-10-16 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
A -d option to set the \paper first-page-number property from the command line job would be a real handy thing to have. Many people I assume, like me, often print a score for inclusion into another separate book, or concatenation with a bunch of other PDF files. It would be nice to not have to

Scheme question

2006-10-16 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
I would like to dynamically generate values for the following 3 hard-coded properties based on a rule, and the current default paper size, but I dont know scheme: paper-height = 11.0\in paper-width = 8.5\in line-width = 7.7\in So basically how would I code the above hard

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