Re: Fit-to-single-page for lead sheets

2015-07-17 Thread Robin Bannister
Robert Schmaus wrote: Maybe that's what you're looking for ... Or, more directly: page-count to be found further down in the same section. Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Polyphonic notes slur solution

2015-06-20 Thread Robin Bannister
Nathan Ho wrote: % And, of course, the slur's too short vertically Adjust 0.3 to taste: \override Staff.Arpeggio #'positions = #(lambda (grob) (interval-widen (ly:arpeggio::calc-positions grob) 0.3)) Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Polyphonic notes slur solution

2015-06-20 Thread Robin Bannister
rsfjr wrote: It keeps throwing an error message Well, tell us some more ... - what message - with what lilypond version But preferably, send a small .ly file which has this problem. Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Global Color Changes

2015-05-09 Thread Robin Bannister
Peter Heisen wrote: Is there a way to globally change the color of an entire printed score without having to change every color property of every possible grob? Start here http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=443 Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user

Re: Precise markup position

2015-05-07 Thread Robin Bannister
Stephen MacNeil wrote: the overlay on the lsr will do this That would be Absolute positioning of markup elements http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=628 Then to position millimetre-wise, you need something like %%

Re: Precise markup position

2015-05-06 Thread Robin Bannister
Pierre G. wrote: I wonder if there is a way to position precisely a text markup One way to insert vertical millimetres is http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-04/msg00035.html This may not be the current method, but it still works e.g. \markup \mm-feed #27 in order to

Re: Line Length

2015-02-15 Thread Robin Bannister
William Marchant wrote: How can I control the length of the [bottom] line Have a look at answers in a similar thread last July: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-07/msg00341.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-07/msg00371.html Cheers, Robin

Re: Pianostaff 4-part writing and rests

2015-02-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Michael Rivers wrote: I just engraved a piece for which the standard solutions given in this thread worked especially badly. There were many 8th notes alternating with 8th rests (which should be merged by Lilypond, but can't be automatically), so switching back and forth between a polyphonic

Re: arpeggio on single note

2015-01-29 Thread Robin Bannister
MING TSANG wrote: The arpeggio did not show on the score. If you insist on it showing (for this _single_ note), try applying the workaround given for issue 794 https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=794 Result shown for 2.18.2. Cheers, Robin

Re: tie to {} \\ {}

2015-01-25 Thread Robin Bannister
My contribution of two days ago hasn't turned up on the list (yet), so here goes again: Here is a variant of Pierre's proposal: \transpose c c' { %d ees16 ~ { \once \override NoteColumn #'ignore-collision = ##t \once \hideNotes d ees ~ 16 \once \override

Re: Enlarging tenuto marks

2015-01-17 Thread Robin Bannister
David Sumbler wrote: But why doesn't '\tweak Script.font-size' work? The note g and the tenuto belong together musicwise, but in the input stream they are two separate items. Your tweak command is applied to the note g. { \tweak font-size #6 g-- } will change the notehead's font size. But

Re: Scheme function to affect a compound music expression?

2014-10-24 Thread Robin Bannister
Peter Crighton wrote: But I would like to be able to use the function [...] so it doesn’t only affect the next note, but a sequence of notes enclosed in { … }: The source file music-functions.scm defines music-map which you can use for this: bgr = #(define-music-function (parser

Re: Scheme function to affect a compound music expression?

2014-10-24 Thread Robin Bannister
Peter Crighton wrote: I don’t know why the \bgr function causes it. Any ideas? ... Are there other places to learn about Scheme in LilyPond than the Scheme tutorial? Welcome to Scheme in LilyPond. This example shows that knowing Scheme isn't enough. You have to cooperate with Lilypond,

Re: A solution I've invented for a SATB choir

2014-10-18 Thread Robin Bannister
Son_V wrote: I had two choices: to make it in a single page but really crowded or to make it in two pages. I choose another way; I divided it in SA and TB voices. I don't quite understand, unless your first choice would have been to use one staff for each voice, i.e. 4 staves in total. But

Re: String as a command?

2014-10-03 Thread Robin Bannister
Jay Vara wrote: If I define lilyA, lilyB, lilyC to be strings containing lilypond commands, and I have set xyz = lilyA, is there a way to execute xyz? Does this work? #(ly:parser-include-string parser #'xyz) Maybe this thread is relevant:

Re: Generating symbols from strings

2014-09-27 Thread Robin Bannister
Jay Vara wrote: Wow, that works! This also seems to do what you want: xyz = #(eval-string abc) Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Generating symbols from strings

2014-09-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Jay Vara wrote: In the following program, I set xyz to the variable abc using scheme string-symbol as well as the usual \abc. Instead of giving the same value for xyz, the first one sets it to string abc and the second sets it to value of abc. Maybe you are reading out the symbol name (which

Re: Bracketed passages

2014-09-23 Thread Robin Bannister
Phil Holmes wrote: The difficulty would be allowing for varying staff spacing Cross-staff arpeggios will do this for you. See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-02/msg00659.html That was for version 2.12. With 2.18 you still need to cater for the closing bracket

Re: Breathing marks

2014-08-23 Thread Robin Bannister
Phil Holmes wrote: we only get two threes: the initial one is missing. Is there a better way of providing the 3 mark, or an override I'm missing? This is like http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-02/msg00059.html Cheers, Robin

Re: Breathing marks

2014-08-23 Thread Robin Bannister
Phil Holmes wrote: I don't _think_ it's the same. I meant just the break-visibility aspect: adding only \once \override BreathingSign.break-visibility = #all-visible gets you the initial 3 showing. But then the placement will probably not satisfy you; you have to start wrestling with -

Re: Breathing marks

2014-08-23 Thread Robin Bannister
On 23.08.2014 18:34, Robin Bannister wrote: you have to start wrestling with - breathing sign placement in break-align-orders This can get very unwieldly, which always makes the deprecated custos trick very tempting. See the (by now unfamiliar) http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond

Re: Default margins in Letter truncated

2014-07-20 Thread Robin Bannister
MarcM wrote: I am wondering if this is an expected behavior or something is wrong my computer and/or printer (HP Officejet Pro). . . . When i print with the default settings the margins are truncated and the only half of the title of the piece is printed. Does your printer maybe have an

Re: line width

2014-07-13 Thread Robin Bannister
Charles Marshall wrote: How can the length of a ragged last line be adjusted? With ragged-last-line = ##t , the line is too short to look good; with = ##f , it's right-justified and too long. Quick and nasty: at the end, append (in any voice) \stopStaff s16*40 and adjust the 40 to suit.

Re: Odp: Left hand/right hand editorial annotation

2014-05-01 Thread Robin Bannister
Thomas Ruedas wrote: [...] the second a fatal error, [...] I guess that is due to compatibility issues, because the hacks seem to be several years old But the thumbBracket code still works; see the recent http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-04/msg00520.html Just one of

Re: Organ Fingering Notation

2014-04-22 Thread Robin Bannister
Zack wrote: I'm hoping [...] someone in the musical typesetting world will know its name and can point me to how to recreate it Well, I don't know its name but I chose a private one once, slightly unlikely so as to avoid conflict with the real name. Search the user archives for my

Re: more leadsheet questions

2014-03-21 Thread Robin Bannister
Martin Tarenskeen wrote: look like Cm % % % where the % is not really a percentage sign How about the following? \version 2.18.0 simile = \markup { \bold \fontsize #1 \char ##x066A } % arabic simileCN = \once \override ChordNames.ChordName #'text

Re: Tempo placement

2014-02-03 Thread Robin Bannister
Marc Hohl wrote: But why does LilyPond seem to ignore '(left-edge)? It seems it is not visible. The first left edge doesn't arise via a line break, so for pedantic Lilypond the _unbroken_ case applies. Try \once \override Score.LeftEdge.break-visibility = #all-visible Cheers, Robin

Re: Tempo placement

2014-02-03 Thread Robin Bannister
Marc Hohl wrote: Try \once \override Score.LeftEdge.break-visibility = #all-visible Thanks, sounds plausible, but it doesn't work either: Umm ... and with MetronomeMark ? Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Off-topic: Automatically create rehearsal files from SATB midi file

2014-01-19 Thread Robin Bannister
On 19.01.2014 13:51, Speldosa wrote: I want a file that is mixed so that the soprano part isthe loudest, for the altos I want the alto part to be the loudest, and so on. I don't understand your problem, but I do this without volume adjustments, based on several midi scores along the lines of:

Re: voice two but yet stems up towards end of piece with addlyrics

2013-10-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Annette Kusma wrote: Is this a bug or am I missing something? The example you supplied did not run without errors. You didn't mention these errors, so my impression is that you are missing the error reports contained in the log file. Lilypond specifically mentions having trouble with

Re: Is there a way to split a score across two sheets?

2013-10-17 Thread Robin Bannister
Ben Beeson wrote: I'd like to do this without splitting the notes into a left and right score in a ly file if possible. That's probably the best way (easiest to maintain), provided you can force them to stay in sync vertically. For a cheap hack, have a look at LSR502

Re: Descant

2013-10-15 Thread Robin Bannister
Emil Salim wrote: How do I add the descant line on top of the SATB The score block currently contains just a ChoirStaff context. You need to add a new Staff context which runs simultaneously. So wrap the ChoirStaff block in a pair of double angle brackets and insert the new Staff at the

Re: Tremolo/Ledger/Slur Collision

2013-10-02 Thread Robin Bannister
EdBeesleywrote: temporary fix very welcome You can move force the vertical position like this: \override StemTremolo #'Y-offset = #-2 Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Help with Chordname

2013-09-28 Thread Robin Bannister
Steve Noland wrote: I am having problems with some of the jazz chordnames engraving correctly. Specifically, a Dm7(b5) chord (D minor 7, flat 5) ... Check out this recent thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-08/msg00568.html Cheers, Robin

Re: \path command

2013-09-24 Thread Robin Bannister
MING TSANG wrote: works fine except I have undesired background image Here is a black white version. Cheers, Robin black.eps Description: PostScript document ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: fixed vertical space

2013-09-20 Thread Robin Bannister
Werner LEMBERG wrote: However, I want a fixed space between \markup and \score that doesn't get stretched. How about mm-feed? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-04/msg00057.html Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: fixed vertical space

2013-09-20 Thread Robin Bannister
Werner LEMBERG wrote: \markup \mm-feed #10 % -- here I want a fixed space of, say, 10mm Ok, maybe I get it; mm-feed gives you a fixed space (which you could use) but is followed by flexible space (which you don't want). Would it be acceptable to clobber the flexible space by adding

Re: Strummed chord as straight line arpeggio

2013-08-30 Thread Robin Bannister
Peter Bjuhr wrote: My starting point was that this could be achieved by using some kind of alternative arpeggio, but so far this has not been a successful approach. Here is a rough sketch of such an approach, without considering collisions and other subtleties. It has its own arrowdir

Re: explicit 7 on a half diminished 7

2013-08-22 Thread Robin Bannister
Derek Klinge wrote: Exactly, how do I write a chordname exception for a Half Diminished 7th? Here's one way (2.16): %% flatadj = \markup { \translate #'(0.2 . 0.2) \fontsize #-1 \flat } chExceptionMusic = { c ees ges bes1-\markup { m \super \concat {7 \hspace #0.3 \flatadj

Re: text to the *right* of staves?

2013-08-14 Thread Robin Bannister
Adam Spiers-5 wrote How can I put text *after* a staff? I.e. directly to the right of the final barline? And here is another way: \version 2.16.2 { \repeat unfold 44 R1 \bar |. % after final barline: \stopStaff \once \override TextScript #'Y-offset = #-0.5 s1^text at the right

Re: anyone got lilypond 2.16.2 to work on Windows Vista?

2013-08-02 Thread Robin Bannister
Robert Honoré wrote: I am attempting a complete cleanup ... This would include deleting the font cache, or rather: _all_ lilypond font caches. I had a mix-up with these caches (on XP) with somewhat similar symptoms. Check out the thread ending in

Re: Figured bass brackets (bug?)

2013-07-23 Thread Robin Bannister
Jean-Charles Malahieude wrote: Could anyone help me finish this BWV246 project? Well, I don't know anything about figured bass but it seems that Lilypond's square brackets are not intended to be spread apart. add_brackets is called eventwise, and at each call initialises its local

Re: volta bracket right-edges; also RehearsalMark conflicts

2013-06-24 Thread Robin Bannister
Mark Polesky wrote: 1) How do I get the right vertical edges of the volta spanners to print when I've overridden the bar type at those moments? They only seem to print when there's a repeat bar in the staff. Welcome back! I have an amusing workaround for this particular case, but this

Re: Notating bends

2013-05-12 Thread Robin Bannister
Jim Long wrote: I was looking for the counterpart to bendAfter This might do what you want: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-06/msg00137.html Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Whole note bracket

2013-04-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Rustik wrote: Tell me please only how can I make right-aligned bracket «]» by \arpeggio command. Have a look at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-03/msg00725.html Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: chords as markups?

2012-09-06 Thread Robin Bannister
luis jure wrote: ... chords with some non-standard notation ... i'd be very grateful for any pointers. This an old annoyance [1]. You could try using my besideCN and replaceCN. See stencilCN.ly for recent code and a demo. Make sure you update it to your lilypond version. [2] Two

Re: Vertical spacing within header blocks

2012-08-18 Thread Robin Bannister
Is there a way of adjusting the vertical spacing within a header block? See also http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-04/msg00035.html Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: volta repeat and grace notes

2012-06-18 Thread Robin Bannister
Mike wrote: Is it known, with or without a workaround? This is a well-known bug. See http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/special-rhythmic-concerns#Known-issues-and-warnings-50 Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: besideCN seems to have stopped working

2012-06-01 Thread Robin Bannister
Gerry Prosser wrote: Removing the dollars certainly seems to work - thank you! Hopefully someone cleverer than us will be along shortly to explain why ... It was David Kastrup's work which makes it possible to remove the dollars. And please note that any dollars you remove should of course

Re: switch in/out of mensurstriche layout?

2012-04-26 Thread Robin Bannister
diekunstderfuge wrote: this has only worked for the final bar line at the end of the second system. You have modifed the mensurstrich global to do dashed, and it has done its final barline at the end of bar 3 and bar7. Is this something you want? The spacers in the mensurstrich global

Re: advanced (?) instrumentname setting

2012-04-17 Thread Robin Bannister
Gagi Petrovic wrote: somehow the \hspace command gets ignored It looks to me more like a baseline-skip problem e.g. its override is corrupted or ineffective. Note that commands like \fontsize reset baseline-skip. Cheers, Robin ___

Re: How to group whole notes/semibreves in one system?

2012-03-29 Thread Robin Bannister
Klaus Föhl worte: the bracket should be after the notes and not in front of them. When you want that to happen you should precede the chord with \once \override Arpeggio #'direction = #RIGHT When you have got it on the other side you will see that it is still looking to the right and so

Re: How to get Glissando in front of a note

2012-03-28 Thread Robin Bannister
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Could you give me a nudge, please? Have a look at this old thread : http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-03/msg00176.html Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: inner-outer margin two-sided print

2012-03-27 Thread Robin Bannister
MING TSANG wrote: In both cases the output is the same. Did you see the warning produced by this snippet? margins do not fit with line-width, setting default values There may be other problems, but I think yout current problem is that you haven't foreseen any width for the binding-offset.

Re: Fine with dashed double barline occurring in middle of bar

2012-03-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Nick Payne: Is it possible to get a dashed double barline? I don't think that there is anything set up for this. One way to do it is to ask for a double portion. You can test barDoubled.ly for authenticity by comparing \barDoubled | with \bar ||. Cheers, Robin\version 2.15.25

Re: Slashes in leadsheets

2012-02-11 Thread Robin Bannister
Thomas Morley wrote: how about the code below? Is there something wrong with it? (Tested with 2.14.2 and 2.15.24) I thought Neil was implying it would stop working. I see it works with 2.15.29 too. But the result seems pretty halfbaked to me; what additional information is the player

Re: Slashes in leadsheets

2012-02-11 Thread Robin Bannister
what Francisco wanted [?] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-es/2012-02/jpgGbKXsMUjKS.jpg Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Slashes in leadsheets

2012-02-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Francisco Vila wrote: Perhaps http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-03/msg00705.html is of some use here? Thanks, I think yes, but I obtain Scheme errors. Maybe you can make do with the (cheap imitation) slash provided towards the end of the same thread? See simile.ly

Re: Breathing sign at a specified staff position

2012-01-13 Thread Robin Bannister
Paolo Prete wrote: is it possible to place a breathing sign at a specified position? I can do that for a rest, in this way: \override Rest #'staff-position = #-12 In your example - replace Rest #'staff-position with BreathingSign #'Y-offset - use only half the value Cheers, Robin

Re: Scalable \markup sequence

2012-01-12 Thread Robin Bannister
Zbyněk Burget wrote: How do I make a definition that increase size of both characters? Instead of \magnify #2 use \scale #'(2 . 2). The scale command was introduced between 2.12 and 2.14. See http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/graphic Cheers, Robin

Re: Square brackets around multiple optional notes

2012-01-11 Thread Robin Bannister
Svetlana wrote: It works like a charm. But please note that in LSR377 the line after % Trick to print it after barlines and signatures: should read [ ... ] #'break-align-symbol = #'custos as in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-01/msg00580.html Cheers, Robin

Re: Lilypond hangs on a script after adding fingering

2011-12-31 Thread Robin Bannister
gajatko wrote: in future I will also need numbers like 9,11,13 etc. Check out LSR 756 http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=756 and some context http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2011-03/msg00138.html Cheers, Robin ___

Re: Special layout for a score : four hands

2011-06-02 Thread Robin Bannister
Frederic Dannen wrote: Is there also a way to supress the first page number, and move the numbers to the outer edge? For that you have to get involved with http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Custom-titles and how the source code in titling-init.ly does these things.

Re: Special layout for a score : four hands

2011-06-01 Thread Robin Bannister
Frederic Dannen wrote: It works, but as I said, not very elegant. Would it be more elegant without the blank pages? You could make lily *seem* to count pages twice as fast by doubling what \fromproperty #'page:page-number-string delivers.

Re: rotated text attached to (i.e., after) final BarLine

2011-05-28 Thread Robin Bannister
Kieren MacMillan wrote: I've also tried to override the BarLine #'stencil, to no avail. Maybe you weren't using ly:stencil-combine-at-edge as demonstrated in http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=650 Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Alternate, as in separate, chords

2011-05-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Stan Mulder wrote: Is it possible to put a different set of chords above the main line of chords ... And what about the parenthesis around the chord name. For parenthesizing see the thread with http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-03/msg00016.html which also links to

Re: Arpeggio collision bug

2011-04-08 Thread Robin Bannister
Hu Haipeng wrote: this doesn't work at all. The hidden breathe sign strangely leaves an apostrophe like sign This apostrophe is the breathe glyph; so I suppose the #'transparent override wasn't being effective. My workaround did work for your snippet (as my attachment for sighted

Re: Arpeggio collision bug

2011-04-07 Thread Robin Bannister
Hu Haipeng wrote: the arpeggio sign collides with the a'4 natural of the treble It is as if the arpeggio code doesn't notice the staff change. Here is a workaround which doesn't prevent a collision but disguises it. Insert a transparent breathing sign after s2 in the right hand:

Re: Resetting bar count and showing alternate fingering

2011-03-19 Thread Robin Bannister
Javier Ruiz wrote: just adding [\bar |.] doesn't reset lilypond's automatic bar generator. You can use \cadenzaOn to turn off the bar generator. a set of alternate fingering digits stacked vertically. Lilypond doen't object to you asking for two fingers on one note. If that is too

Re: scores in columns - vertical alignment

2011-03-17 Thread Robin Bannister
Marek Klein wrote: how can I get the staff-lines vertically aligned? Here's another padding hack: \layout { line-width = 6.2\cm ragged-right = ##f } centeredVAG = \with { \override VerticalAxisGroup #'Y-extent = #'(-8 . 8) } \markup \fill-line \vcenter { \column{ \score

Re: scale notehead X and Y independently

2011-03-16 Thread Robin Bannister
Tim Sheasby wrote: how do I apply it to a specific note in a \set shapeNoteStyles context Well, I'm not sure what you're aiming for, but try this: miNarrow = #(lambda (grob) (if (eqv? (ly:grob-property grob 'style) 'miMirror) (ly:stencil-scale (ly:note-head::print grob)

Re: ly file giving error when trying to generate PDF

2011-03-14 Thread Robin Bannister
Gabriel Espelleta wrote: I have tried to generate a PDF out of this here below file, but it does not work. The Lilypond code you supplied says what the lead violin should play. This, by itself, is not enough for what you are expecting. You must also have code which asks Lilypond to

Re: tweaking markup

2011-03-12 Thread Robin Bannister
Helga Kruse wrote: ... avoiding the clash with the last e note? A fairly reliable method would be to reference the whole markup to this last note instead of the rest following it. ... so that they have the same base line ... ? There is a \vcenter but there seem to be no \vbottom; but

Re: Preventing Custom Stencil Collisions

2011-03-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Carl Testa wrote: Is there a way to define how big a stencil is In your case, using ly:make-stencil, the parameters xext and yext are for saying how big, and you have done this OK. The problem is that these values don't get to affect the layout, because the overridden rest is still

Re: Double Digit Fingering ie 10 11 12

2011-03-09 Thread Robin Bannister
This is hardcoded. See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-04/msg00691.html ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: How to do jazz-style bar repeats

2011-03-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Tim McNamara wrote: I am not sure how to actually use this in a file. The multimeasure.ly has four sections; the first two are needed to define inlineMMRN, the last two give an example of using \inlineMMRN. The example I used is a rough skeleton of Blessed Relief, whose last part

Re: How to remove all empty staves?

2011-03-03 Thread Robin Bannister
Tao wrote: I have a global frame with rehearsal marks etc., which I wanted to use for all parts but I guess I'll just have to make an alternative one for the rhythm section in this case. The next time try doing it like this: \set Score.skipTypesetting = ##t [ ... empty section ...

Re: How to do jazz-style bar repeats

2011-03-03 Thread Robin Bannister
Tim McNamara wrote: There is a number in the middle of the bar which indicates how many bars to repeat, with a heavy horizontal bar on either side of the number. Would this do the sort of thing you're looking for? You ask for a multi-measure rest (big R) and let \inlineMMRN move its

Re: How to use Markup for Barnumbers?

2011-02-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Tao wrote: I tried overriding the #'text property of BarNumber but nothing happens. Maybe this is because the bar counter sets up the #'text property at a late stage and so overwrites what you had put there; ChordName does that too. You can bypass the #'text property with

Re: How to remove all empty staves?

2011-02-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Tao wrote: maybe this is a bug? It is an issue: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2009-03/msg00019.html Try turning skipTypesetting on and off: \set Score.skipTypesetting = ##t [ ... empty section ... ] \set Score.skipTypesetting = ##f Cheers, Robin

Re: How to remove all empty staves?

2011-02-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Tao wrote: Unfortunately this seems to neutralize all \break commands. This is probably due to the new vertical spacing. Something relevant must have changed between 2.13.40 and 2.13.46. Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: How to remove all empty staves?

2011-02-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Robin Bannister wrote: Something relevant must have changed between 2.13.40 and 2.13.46. I've narrowed this down to between 2.13.42 and 2.13.43, so it's probably the commit to fix issue 1336 http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1336 Don't make paper columns

Re: scale notehead X and Y independently

2011-02-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Tim Sheasby wrote: Can a notehead be scaled by different factors in the x and y directions? In the recent development versions (starting with 2.13.38) you can. The following snippet uses an X-factor of 2: wideNH = #(lambda (grob) (ly:stencil-scale (ly:note-head::print grob) 2 1))

Re: Special symbols for Blues harp (german: Mundharmonika)

2011-02-19 Thread Robin Bannister
Frank Weichert wrote: I'm looking for special symbols used for harp-notation You could try following up Mario's TabSymbols font http://www.lilypondforum.de/index.php?topic=252.0 And for a possible markup approach and some discussion, see

Re: Overriding bar-line behaviour

2011-02-16 Thread Robin Bannister
Matthias Hüsken wrote: What I'd like to achieve: When ending a bar with the repetition sign :|, I need double lines (||) at the beginning of the next bar. It looks as though you actually mean ending/beginning lines, not bars. [...] (:|| . (:| . ||)) [...] Unfortunately, this does not work:

Re: Bar line at beginning of piece

2011-01-28 Thread Robin Bannister
ornello wrote: My solution is not working because it affects all line breaks (not just the beginning of the piece Having to affect all line breaks was what made was-empty.ly so cumbersome. You can make LSR 500 work by adding: \once \override Staff.BarLine #'glyph-name = ||

Re: How to tie the last note of one variable to the first note ofanother variable?

2011-01-24 Thread Robin Bannister
Xavier Scheuer wrote: [...] James Bailey wrote: I haven't checked it, but they're probably in different voice contexts. Possible explicity doing a \new Voice = first and \context Voice = first where appropriate may solve the problem. Yes, or simply putting all in a \new Voice works:

Re: Invalid tie in a repeat causes missed notes in MIDI

2011-01-22 Thread Robin Bannister
Disc Magnet wrote: the MIDI output misses the second note in the last bar This looks like issue 676, so you are probably using a 2.12 version. See http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=676 The MIDI behaviour was corrected in version 2.13.8. Warnings for this situation

Re: How do I stop circles from wobbling?

2010-12-31 Thread Robin Bannister
David Kastrup wrote: the vertical extent should fit in the circles necessitated by the horizontal extent. The 4 is big enough to ensure that all the vertical extents do fit, but (because of this) they all fit loosely. This looseness means that to decide where to position a circle

Re: arpeggio symbol placement

2010-12-21 Thread Robin Bannister
Peter Buhr wrote: the arpeggio symbol appears [...] 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? Check out my hack at

Re: How to create a coda with a gap?

2010-11-25 Thread Robin Bannister
Dominic Neumann wrote: [...] Gilles, said that using a |. bar the bracket has an end line. You can make the |. merely look like || by saying \once \override Score.BarLine #'thick-thickness = #1.9 That way you don't need the s4 and the extra-(X-)offsets: \set Score.repeatCommands =

Re: Resizing accidental in a chord

2010-11-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Rodolfo Zitellini wrote: and I can't use \tweak (the notation manual states quite clearly that accidentals can not be modified with \tweak) You mean at the end of Notation Reference 5.3.4. Well, it used to be quite categorical on this, e.g in the 2.12.1 docs. Last year Mark Polesky found

Re: cautionary Key cancellation in brackets

2010-10-08 Thread Robin Bannister
Jiri Zurek wrote: put into the brackets not the normal key signature but only the cautionary cancellation key signature? Say 'Staff.KeyCancellation' instead of 'Staff.KeySignature'. Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: dashed span bar for ossia

2010-10-07 Thread Robin Bannister
carbon14 wrote: Is there a way to make the bar span a dashed or dotted line, but leave the bar lines themselves solid? This works with 2.12.3 (I can't test it with 2.12.4!) : \override Score.SpanBar #'glyph-name = #dashed Cheers, Robin

Re: bar lines followed by barlines on a new line

2010-10-01 Thread Robin Bannister
Sam Domonkos wrote: I would like to explicitly separate parts of music by having these bar lines always at the beginning and end of parts ... \bar .| a4 b c d \bar |. \break \bar .| a b c d \bar |. I'm not sure what you mean by a part.

Re: hspace in cm?

2010-09-27 Thread Robin Bannister
Xavier Scheuer wrote: Robin (or somebody else), could you provide me a version of your put-mm but using \hspace instead of \vspace ? ... in order to make a _horizontal_ space with a value in millimeters Well, I've had Lilypond on the back burner for a while, so I'm a bit rusty. By swapping

Re: wanted: title inter-item spacing tips/suggestions

2010-04-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Any tips/suggestions on best practice(s) would be appreciated. I don't presume to know about best practice, but I suspect it doesn't include negative spacing. It's too easy to ask for nonsensical intervals and then Lilypond quietly discards the whole markup,

Re: horizontal shift of note column not working

2010-04-02 Thread Robin Bannister
Tom Cloyd wrote: One more small problem: the measure 20 arpeggio across all three voices (line 174) is wiping out the bar line. Ouch! Is that fixable? This is issue 880, fixed in 2.13.12. But my constrain-hidden-positions workaround fixes it on 2.12.3

Re: Tempo markings and tempo dynamics

2010-03-31 Thread Robin Bannister
Paul Scott wrote: If anyone has an acceptable solution for this I would appreciate hearing about it. Inserting a grace spacer is fairly painless (unless it triggers issue 34). Cheers, Robin { \compressFullBarRests R1 \tempo rall \grace s1 R1*20 R1 \tempo a tempo

Re: Chords

2010-03-27 Thread Robin Bannister
David Stocker wrote: center the entire chord symbol (root and suffix) on its rhythmic axis? #(define (centerCN grob) (ly:stencil-aligned-to (ly:text-interface::print grob) X CENTER )) and then apply as \override ChordNames.ChordName #'stencil = #centerCN Cheers, Robin

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