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 _

Re: Shapenote Repeats and Breaks

2010-03-22 Thread Robin Bannister
Leland Kusmer wrote: Is there a way to do this? Lilypond does this according to bar-glyph-alist, by calling calc-glyph-name from within the barline print routine. But when you override the BarLine stencil like this, you are bypassing the barline print routine. So try something (which calls

Re: Using the break-alignable-interface (aligning RehearselMark)

2010-03-21 Thread Robin Bannister
Werner wrote: I tried to get a left-aligned (or offset) RehearselMark. This could be above a dashed bar-line Does this do what you wanted? \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'self-alignment-X = #LEFT \bar "dashed" Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-u

Re: cross-staff slur

2010-03-19 Thread Robin Bannister
Helge Kruse wrote: I made some further experiments. Well, I messed around a bit. I certainly wasn't doing experiments; that makes it sound systematic. My slurs often silently ignored the staff change; no idea why. Two offerings, FWIW: A: no cross-staff in right hand. B: cross-staff in bot

Re: text in staff and markup text font=addlyric font

2010-03-11 Thread Robin Bannister
Jay Hamilton wrote: not exactly sure what that means in this case There is an example at http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=258 This sidesteps the question of horizontal space by setting ragged-right. Do you already have enough horizontal space for the text? Or do you expect Lilypond to ma

Re: Vertical dashed line conecting notes

2010-03-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Here is an example of the arpeggio approach (not dashed). Cheers, Robin \version "2.12.3" #(define (thin-line grob) (let* ( (pos (ly:grob-property grob 'positions)) (lo-hi (interval-widen pos -1.2)) (thin 0.05)) (make-line-stencil thin 0 (interval-start lo-hi) 0 (interval-end

Re: Marking cross-staff unisons

2010-02-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Neil Puttock wrote: \override ChoirStaff.Arpeggio #'stencil = #ly:arpeggio::brew-chord-bracket I wanted to do pretty much the same last week and ran into a familiar bug which I haven't reported yet. To get the closing bracket right (sic), try \context { \ChoirStaff \consists "Span

Re: full repeat bracket for 2nd ending

2010-02-22 Thread Robin Bannister
You're welcome. Richard Wattenbarger wrote: If I could [ ... ] , I would! I would prefer your response to It would help in this regard if you could explain why you need the bracket to be closed like this, e.g. does it involve a coda? Cheers, Robin _

Re: full repeat bracket for 2nd ending

2010-02-21 Thread Robin Bannister
Richard Wattenbarger wrote: Is there a way to force LilyPond to draw a standard single bar instead of the ".|" glyph? As I said, this flexibility is not provided. Which bar lines have this side-effect is currently hardcoded in C++. A likely enhancement would make this selection overrideable,

Re: Lilypond localization

2010-02-20 Thread Robin Bannister
Helge Kruse wrote: Why talks Lilypond German and how can I set the language to English? Probably because of your regional settings. Application Usage 3.2.3 tells you about LANG, but not enough. You need to set it to en (an ISO 639-1 code). I don't know about Windows7, but the attachment s

Re: Lyrics that sometimes follow the notes and sometimes don't

2010-02-20 Thread Robin Bannister
Athanasius Pelletier wrote at certain parts where the lyrics are supposed to continue until another note. This is discussed in Notation Reference 2.8.5. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Working-with-ancient-music_002d_002dscenarios-and-solutions#Transcribing-Gregorian-c

Re: full repeat bracket for 2nd ending

2010-02-17 Thread Robin Bannister
Richard Wattenbarger wrote: I would like the bracket for the second ending to conclude with a vertical line That would imply something which your example doesn't have: that the second ending is not always followed by the neigboring measure and/or that the neigboring measure is not always pre

Re: fretted string chord notation

2010-02-10 Thread Robin Bannister
I wrote: \once \set noChordSymbol = "" Sorry, that typo makes it end up like skip. You need at least one blank in the string: \once \set noChordSymbol = " " Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.o

Re: fretted string chord notation

2010-02-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Gerry Prosser wrote: the dreaded N/C. But I can tipex that Or say \once \set noChordSymbol = "" Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: fretted string chord notation

2010-02-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Gerry Prosser wrote: Capo settings really should be with the chords. You could do this with (the simple version of) besideCN: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-03/msg00052.html (mangled by the archives as usual) Cheers, Robin ___

Re: Version renaming on XP SP3 somehow incompatible

2010-01-14 Thread Robin Bannister
Patrick McCarty wrote: The cache is located in $HOME/.lilypond-fonts.cache-2 (or the equivalent on Windows) Well, I didn't understand what "the equivalent" was referring to, but this got me doing the same searches again, and some more, and even more. And then I found the cache in an unrelate

Re: Version renaming on XP SP3 somehow incompatible

2010-01-14 Thread Robin Bannister
Patrick McCarty wrote: Do you think it's worth opening a separate issue, given that fixing #975 might also fix this issue? No, please don't bother. I just thought this info might help #975. I can probably get by with just the 2.12.3 stable. Although I did leave a vertically tight single she

Re: Version renaming on XP SP3 somehow incompatible

2010-01-13 Thread Robin Bannister
I wrote: And now I have also installed 2.12.3. Both it and 2.13.9 run OK, but the others crash. Maybe a long shot, but could my problem be related to issue 975? http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=975 I am wary of doing something which makes _all_ the versions crash. But b

Version renaming on XP SP3 somehow incompatible

2009-12-20 Thread Robin Bannister
Following Trevor's hint http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2008-05/msg00137.html I have had no problems switching between Lilypond versions by renaming, mainly between 2.8.8, 2.10.33 and 2.12.1 (but also 2.13.1). Two days ago I also installed 2.13.9. It runs OK, but now the older

Re: Re:score runs off the page

2009-12-19 Thread Robin Bannister
Hu Haipeng wrote: Why this compilation gets only two pages? Mmm, that's my fault. I commented out the midi generation to save time, and I may have needed global-staff-size 6 in the initial stage while I had done this incorrectly. This size squeezes much more than you need, the second page

Re: score runs off the page

2009-12-18 Thread Robin Bannister
Hu Haipeng wrote: only a few pages [...] and some of these with staves missing I ran this through 2.13.9. The most obvious problems are: A: The first page has music running off the bottom. I suppose so many staves can't be fitted in vertically. One of the following makes things fit on th

Re: I want to *force* spacing

2009-12-18 Thread Robin Bannister
I suppose I'd like a filler that does *not* take up duration You can use a breath mark for this http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Curves#Breath-marks and then make it blank by overriding #'text or #'transparent. gap = { \once \override BreathingSign #'text = "" %

Re: different style of barline in-between staves

2009-12-17 Thread Robin Bannister
David Nalesnik wrote: I want [...] a dashed barline between the staves, while retaining a solid barline within the individual lines. Add the following to your \layout{\context{\Score block: \override SpanBar #'glyph-name = #"dashed" Cheers, Robin

Re: triple stop warnings

2009-12-12 Thread Robin Bannister
<< c4*3 2. >> Mmm, that was where you started. Sorry for the noise. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: triple stop warnings

2009-12-12 Thread Robin Bannister
Jay Anderson wrote: I've attached a picture of the particular chord I was working on (for viola, alto clef, in 3/4). In this case I want to keep it explicitly notated and all in the same voice. I suppose that this is notionally 2. Something which sounds like that but looks like your pic

Re: Pedal at wrong position

2009-12-11 Thread Robin Bannister
Stefan Kaegi wrote: It actually should be under the f (in the left hand) and not before. Then you shouldn't say \sustainOn until the cadenza has been and gone, i.e. s1\sustainOn is all you need - because the s1 starts when the f starts. See the bracket example in NR 2.2.2 - meas

Re: Scheme question regarding hiding accidentals

2009-12-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Aaron Dalton wrote: I want to be able to hide the accidental. There is Mark Polesky's suppress-accidental http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2009-07/msg00384.html but that is probably overkill in your case. You can do it by switching the style in a music function http://lilypo

Re:midi problem on tied notes

2009-12-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Hu Haipeng wrote: This unterminated tie may sound odd, and will therefore give warning to the user Maybe, but in my case it was masked by another voice. What brought it to my attention was the subsequent note not sounding. See my original report (before it got garbled in 676). http://l

Re: small blank space just after clef/time signs for example

2009-11-18 Thread Robin Bannister
MonAmiPierrot wrote: But for \stopStaff and \startStaff it won't work at the beginning with a "s" invisible pause. It seems OK to me (with 2.12.1) but maybe you want it effective even earlier. For that (and the \partial question) you could try using | \grace s1 to get the music st

Re: small blank space just after clef/time signs for example

2009-11-18 Thread Robin Bannister
MonAmiPierrot wrote: I also would like to be given the possibility to put the blank space between different examples from the same musical context For big gaps you can use \stopStaff and \startStaff and put suitable spacer rests in between. For small gaps you could try misusing the Breathing

Re: A barline half length long

2009-11-11 Thread Robin Bannister
Jiri Zurek wrote: What is wrong with my syntax, please? ly:bar-line::calc-bar-size needs a parameter. If you get used to writing things like \override Staff.BarLine #'bar-size = #ly:bar-line::calc-bar-size you think that is all you ever need to say. But the functions for grob propertie

Re: chordSymbols, arbitrary chord markup

2009-11-11 Thread Robin Bannister
Václav Šmilauer wrote: other than using \markup{...} in lyrics context for every single chord If your needs are met by (a possibly modifed) ChordNames most of the time, you can use replaceCN to deal with the impossible cases. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-04/msg00558.html

Re: slashSeparator - usage

2009-11-10 Thread Robin Bannister
David Sumbler wrote: I thought that using the slashSeparator between items would make things clearer, but I only want it after each complete item, not after every line. It sounds as though each of your exercises is a \score block. You can put (stand-alone) markup between these blocks; see

Re: scheme function to write timesigs with notes

2009-10-28 Thread Robin Bannister
ze patavinas wrote: I don't understand why it does not print the stem and the notehead It as if it doesn't like the notehead style being undefined. Just add #:override '(style . 'default) Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mai

Re: Harmonica tablature notation

2009-10-28 Thread Robin Bannister
bradford powell wrote: When I try that (with something like (draw "4" 1)), I still get: error [...] (#:flat) Sorry. This must be related to the restriction I referenced. It seems that instead of (make-list bends #:flat) you have to say (make-list bends (make-flat-marku

Re: Harmonica tablature notation

2009-10-26 Thread Robin Bannister
bradford powell wrote: This doesn't work, any suggestions? #(define* (draw hole #:optional (bends 0)) (markup (make-line-markup (make-list bends #:flat )) #:circle hole)) The make-list result is not itself a markup; for that, it must be passed to something like #:line. And then t

Re: placing text next to a note head

2009-10-24 Thread Robin Bannister
Kim Shrier wrote: I am trying to place a right comma just to the right and a little above a note. This alternative may do the spacing better: c4 \once \override BreathingSign #'Y-offset = #0 \breathe Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user maili

Re: placing text next to a note head

2009-10-24 Thread Robin Bannister
Kim Shrier wrote: there is something I need #'outside-staff-priority ##f Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Using IPA lyrics

2009-10-21 Thread Robin Bannister
It looks fine here too, with 2.12.1. But I noticed my editor was garbling some IPA. It is set to use DejaVu Sans Mono. If I change your lyrics font override to DejaVu Sans Mono, then Lilpond garbles my output too. Cheers, Robin ___ lilyp

Re: two problems: vertical brackets and simultaneous voices

2009-10-19 Thread Robin Bannister
And this is my attempt (see droeyende.ly). For the alignment I used 2 force-hshift overrides (in voices 3 and 4). You can certainly use arpeggioBracket here, but it is so inconvenient: - put the Span_arpeggio_engraver in the right place - turn on connectArpeg

Re: how to shorten a bit the last volta bracket

2009-10-18 Thread Robin Bannister
Frédéric Bron wrote: Any idea? Well, there is LSR 428. http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=428 From this you would expect \set Score.voltaSpannerDuration = #(ly:make-moment 7 8) to work, but it doesn't. It seems the bracket is hung between barlines (something this snippet doesn't ment

Re: doc rearrangement

2009-10-13 Thread Robin Bannister
Graham Percival wrote: in addition to the webpage, the documentation has been slightly reorganized As regards inurl searching, I assume - the Kainhofer demo doesn't show me what the urls will be like; specifically - the breadcrumb .../Documentation/... will not be right at the top

Re: Snippets: Repeated bars

2009-10-12 Thread Robin Bannister
Valerio Pelliccioni wrote: highlighted with a line with square ends lying above the bar and the word "Bis" in the middle of the line. You could use an analysis bracket (see NR 1.7.2) with added text. Combine http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/20

Re: rest collision

2009-10-10 Thread Robin Bannister
fiëé visuëlle wrote: I need the alternate voice only in some places. This may be implying that you don't want to set the main voice as \voiceOne, but rather keep it as (the implicit) \oneVoice. If this rest collision behaviour is the only thing that is bothering you, try the following slight

Re: Fermata in brackets

2009-10-09 Thread Robin Bannister
fiëé visuëlle wrote: The parentheses are a bit too small in comparison to the fermata You can apply an override for this. See http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=421 Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://list

Re: Fermata in brackets

2009-10-09 Thread Robin Bannister
fiëé visuëlle wrote: and since fermata is a TextScript element, I thought this would work It is a Script element and doesn't use #'text. You would have to do something like fermataLong in the code for the initial example (the headword) in NR 2.2 http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/us

Re: How to increase the length of an arpeggio

2009-10-08 Thread Robin Bannister
Nick Payne wrote: How can I increase the length of the arpeggio bracket on seconds and thirds, which at their default lengths are ridiculously short. You can lengthen an arpeggio using the workaround given in http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=794&q=arrow which i

Re: More arpeggio strangeness

2009-10-08 Thread Robin Bannister
Nick Payne wrote: I have no idea why a different override is required just for that one Oh dear!. More queer things going on. The picture may give you an idea why (to a certain extent). I have the impression you missed my suggestion in the last thread. http://

Re: Problem spacing arpeggio

2009-09-29 Thread Robin Bannister
Kieren MacMillan wrote: in the second bar, using the same override does nothing to increase the spacing between the arpeggio and the preceding note. Hmmm... that's probably because of the multiple-voices... but seems like maybe a bug? It is as if Lilypond thinks the span arpeggio

Re: Again: Questions about Stem #'length

2009-09-27 Thread Robin Bannister
Marc Hohl asked: why lilypond still (at least sometimes) displays stems You probably haven't enabled no-stem-extend Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-us

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Stefan Thomas wrote: cis cis cis cis | % the sharp sign is too much left! gis' gis gis gis | % the note and the sharp sign are too much right! Well, erm, how far do we want to get into fine-tuning? OK, it looks like you only want one glyph at a time. Torste

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Stefan Thomas wrote: I don't understand why the distance between the barline and the cis is better if it is a whole note but not, if it is a quarter note. Well, the whole note has more room because it isn't sharing the measure with any other notes. But the barline col

Re: Fixing Collisions

2009-09-19 Thread Robin Bannister
fiëé visuëlle wrote: Would you move the eights in the second measure to the right or combine the different note heads or what else? Would you change the stem direction? I think your specific readability criteria should determine whether you combine noteheads or change the stem direction i.e.

Re: Fine-tuning of markup positions

2009-09-18 Thread Robin Bannister
MarcHohl wrote: Is there a different approach I can use? If the three-part \fill-line is so dominant, I suppose you have to cope using ordinary lines. But \concat and \with-dimensions might make this easier to twiddle: maintain total \hspace by hand. matrix = \markup { \overrid

Re: Help with positioning coda glyph

2009-09-16 Thread Robin Bannister
Tim McNamara wrote: The first coda glyph should be at the end of bar 28 See LSR 432.Before the \break, add \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'break-visibility = #begin-of-line-invisible LilyPond won't put the coda glyph at the beginning of bar 31. At leas

Re: Joining barlines at the ends of lines?

2009-09-16 Thread Robin Bannister
Andrew Giddings wrote: I've searched the manual, the mailing list archive, and the web, but I couldn't see anything directly relevant. Did you see these? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-07/msg00127.html http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=semichoirstaff Cheers

Re: Trillspanner line thickness

2009-09-15 Thread Robin Bannister
Jonathan Wilkes wrote: I've tried zigzag-width, thickness [...] but with no results. These work if you use the zigzag style (which is not built from glyphs). \override TrillSpanner #'style = #'zigzag Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mail

Re: text in horizontal space between staves

2009-09-13 Thread Robin Bannister
Patrick Schmidt wrote: is it possible to align the coda signs underneath "D.S. al"? Well, this makes the markup narrower and then you start to see that we had no horizontal centering. Using a breathing sign instead of a note head makes it easy to anchor the markup in the middle of the

Re: Marching sheetmusic

2009-09-13 Thread Robin Bannister
Jeroen Heijmans wrote: But I'm not content with the results. It fills the page better if you don't zero between-system-space. Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lily

Re: text in horizontal space between staves

2009-09-13 Thread Robin Bannister
Patrick Schmidt wrote: How can I center the text vertically Texts added as in NR 1.8.1 are kept above (or below) the staff. You will find it difficult to persuade Lilypond to move these inside. [And as regards c' c' c' c' c' c' c' see \textLengthOn] [And afterstencil = ##fsay

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-11 Thread Robin Bannister
Trevor Daniels wrote: it seems like you're suggesting NR 5.3.4 is not correct. I was talking about the 2.12 NR. I understood its unqualified "cannot" to be the well-meaning advice: - don't waste your time trying. So I didn't. But Mark questioned this in July, and you updated the

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-11 Thread Robin Bannister
Torsten Anders wrote: I really owe you something :) Well, it's Mark Polesky we both owe. Without him, all small-time Schemers like me would still be believing the very plausible explanation in (the 2.12) NR 5.3.4 of why \tweak cannot be used to modify accidentals. Cheers, Robin

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Torsten Anders wrote: Now, there is only a minor flaw now: the distance between a note and the related accidentals is rather big. In fact, accidentals are more close to the preceding note than the note they belong to. I'm way out of my depth here, but it looks like markup is appending spa

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-08 Thread Robin Bannister
Torsten Anders wrote: Lilypond does not know about multiple-sign accidentals, so I somehow have to create more horizontal space for these manually. The following code tries to adjust this spacing automatically. But I haven't tested it with your font. %

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-07 Thread Robin Bannister
Torsten Anders wrote: However, I failed to do the same for chord tones. Something like this? %% tweakAccidental = #(define-music-function (parser location mkup mus) (markup? ly:music?) (set! (ly:music-property mus 'tweaks) (acons 'before-line-breaking (accidenta

Re: quadratic noteheads

2009-09-07 Thread Robin Bannister
Have a look at filled: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-10/msg00516.html hollow: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-05/msg00593.html Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://l

Re: tieWaitForNote across staves

2009-09-06 Thread Robin Bannister
Jonathan Wilkes wrote: I see a "cross-staff" property for grobs But this doesn't mean that every sort of grob has it, or uses it. The file define-grob-properties.scm lists about a dozen grobs which do: Beam, Stem, Slur, TupletBracket, among others, but not TieColumn. So your TieColumn

Re: tieWaitForNote across staves

2009-09-06 Thread Robin Bannister
Jonathan Wilkes wrote: I tried fooling around with tieWaitForNote You didn't show your code, so it's not easy to guess what you tried. I have no cross-staff experience, but it looks to me like the cross-staff run is a lot better supported than the cross-staff chord (where you have to cho

Re: partial chord ties in second alternative

2009-09-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Patrick Schmidt wrote: is there a way to achieve repeated ties of selected notes of a chord ... ? This is rather like Nick Payne's LaisserVibrer question in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-04/msg00313.html because both are what Lilypond calls semi-ties. Maybe you

Re: reflect a character

2009-08-29 Thread Robin Bannister
James E. Baileywrote: for example ə? Here is a rather inconvenient way: \markup { "X: " \postscript #" -1 1 scale (_e) show" } \markup { "Y: " \postscript #" 1 -1 scale (_e) show" } Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@

Re: arpeggio placement

2009-08-25 Thread Robin Bannister
David Stocker wrote: Any hints on forcing the arpeggio line to the right to make the placement more natural would be appreciated. For the first case, fiddle with the padding. Negative works too, e.g. \override Staff.Arpeggio #'padding = #-0.4 For situations where this doesn't work, see htt

Re: Scheme function for ossia

2009-08-24 Thread Robin Bannister
And staffName wants symbol? notstring? Sorry; forget that. The parameter given to \ossia should be #"main" not #'main Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypon

Re: Scheme function for ossia

2009-08-24 Thread Robin Bannister
Trevor Daniels wrote: like this: And staffName wants symbol? notstring? Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: centering some markup under a bracket

2009-08-22 Thread Robin Bannister
Denis Roegel wrote: I am trying to center a markup under a bracket This was discussed recently here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-03/msg00426.html But, instead of OUHM, you could perhaps do it like the "Expressive marks" snippet "Center text below hairpin dynamics"

Re: Strumming rhythm for chord progression

2009-08-14 Thread Robin Bannister
Christian Henning wrote: I'm struggling with sus4 chords. ... unexpected STRINGsus4 This is notemode complaining. It is the default input mode: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Input-modes sus4 is meant only for chord mode. But note mode is digesting your mu

Re: scheme tweak doesn't work anymore

2009-08-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Maybe it used to read -\tweak #'extra-offset #'(6.2 . -5.6) Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: roman numeral chord notation below staff with pivot chord brackets?

2009-08-09 Thread Robin Bannister
lelangir wrote: Running a search for "roman numeral" on the one big page If you don't find things in the documentation, try searching this mailing list and the snippet repository too. Have a look at this (the example from Matthew Durell): http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008

Re: Option to not collapse lyrics & chords?

2009-08-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Tim Walters wrote: Is there any way to [...] leave the same amount of white space as would be used if lyrics/chords were present? This amount can vary. The vertical space allotted depends on what is being typeset; e.g. Cm needs less height than Cm7 Based on a discussion last September

Re: "triplet feel" symbol

2009-08-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Look for "swing" in the LSR. http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=swing Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: cannot end slur

2009-08-03 Thread Robin Bannister
A phrasing slur goes all the way. (Don't ask me why!) Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: manual volta help

2009-07-28 Thread Robin Bannister
David Bobroff wrote: for some reason the "rs" of "GFirst" is coming out italicized as is. This is because the voltas use the music font and it has special letters for doing dynamics like sfz and rfz. The way described in NR.1.4.1. at "Text can be included ..." would in your case define mar

Re: Manipulating grob properties doesn't work

2009-07-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Marc Hohl wrote: This worked fine with ties, but when I try the same with slurs, it simply shows no difference. (display right-bound) says - Tie: # - Slur: # Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.

Re: Staff change in a chord

2009-07-23 Thread Robin Bannister
Mark Polesky wrote: Does anyone have a suggestion? Some time back I chose this missing bracket as a theme for a Scheme exercise. Nothing revolutionary, just to get some practice in Scheme. It has the limitations arising from misusing Arpeggio. I found it needed a lot of different tweaks to

Re: midi output without harmonies from ChordNames

2009-07-19 Thread Robin Bannister
Werner wrote: % innerhalb des score-Blockes („neben“ dem layout-Block) % Ausgabe einer Mididatei (zum Anhören/Abspielen) This bit of comment describes how to get Midi and PDF coming out the same. When you want them coming out differently, you use _two_ score blocks: - one score block has \m

Re: Note names above pitches

2009-07-17 Thread Robin Bannister
Adam Good wrote: I vaguely remember an example That would be the 'easy play' noteheads mentioned in NR 1.1.4. But you probably want something more like this: cabbage = { c a b b a g e } \score { << \new NoteNames \cabbage \new Staff { \clef bass \cabbage } >> } Cheers, Robin

Re: \mark vertical alignment with Chord symbols.

2009-07-16 Thread Robin Bannister
Jesús Guillermo Andrade wrote: How can I put it below the chord symbol? These marks, i.e. RehearsalMark, are normally put above everything else. This is done by having the corresponding engraver in the Score context. You can move the engraver down to where your melody is by doing \layout { \

Re: Help - trouble with tuplets

2009-07-09 Thread Robin Bannister
Karenee Herman wrote: Somehow, the bass line ends up offset from the treble The second bar of "lower" should beR2. (for a 3/4 bar). So it's not really the triplets giving trouble. please forgive me if this seems simple! Forgiven. Cheers, Robin _

Re: \mark beneath instead of above

2009-07-06 Thread Robin Bannister
Have a look at LSR 402: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=402 (The \mark command makes a RehearsalMark.) Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: [dal segno / da capo] -> "Kopf" "Kopf"

2009-07-06 Thread Robin Bannister
For starters, have a look at these snippets in the LSR: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=coda+segno Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Laissez-vibrer tie of non-zero duration?

2009-06-13 Thread Robin Bannister
Kalirren wrote: In general, is it possible to create a laissez-vibrer tie that lasts a certain length of time, or until a certain note? Probably not, because IR 3.2.85 [1] says it is A tie which is only on one side connected to a note head. You could however make it _look_ longer, but then -

Re: Laissez-vibrer tie of non-zero duration?

2009-06-11 Thread Robin Bannister
Kalirren wrote: Does anyone know of some other workaround? It's rather crude, but the following override makes your slur horizontal: \relative c' { \once \override Slur #'positions = #'(-3 . -3) \slurDown e8 ( r16 r8.) } Cheers, Robin ___

Re: scoop before note

2009-06-08 Thread Robin Bannister
Chip wrote: but no matter what numbers I put in the positions parameters the slur does not move. The \once makes this override act only on the c'2 and the c'2 has no slur. The override acts on the slur if it comes after the c'2, but it moves the slur vertically; not what you wanted. Ho

Re: scoop before note

2009-06-08 Thread Robin Bannister
Lewis Overton wrote: I'm curious about what others are doing to print a "scoop" I have an occasional need for this when transposing saxophone parts, and then I use brackettips as you do/did [1]. I first did such bends in a clumsy beginners way and had to put the brackettips in a dedicated a

Re: Bracketed notes

2009-05-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Mark Austin wrote: Is it possible to enclose a note in brackets? Use \parenthesize http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Inside-the-staff#Parentheses Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://li

Re: Page breaking and squeezing as many systems on a page as possible?

2009-05-02 Thread Robin Bannister
Does anyone have an idea why the fourth system is put on the second page I'm out of my depth here, but if your title is done the normal Lilypond way, with bookTitleMarkup, it counts as a system too. So might the pagebreaker be putting 4 systems on all pages? And have you tried

Re: Head of merged half note getting filled

2009-05-01 Thread Robin Bannister
Nick Payne wrote: If I have one note each bar that requires a direction change, then it's actually simpler to use the \once command,as \stemUp requires the corresponding \stemDown or \stemNeutral after the note. I found it quite a disappoinment to discover that apparently similar things lik

Re: Bar lines at beginning of a line

2009-04-28 Thread Robin Bannister
Boris Lau wrote: I thought it would be quite natural if this would do the job: \override Staff.BarLine #'break-visibility = #'#(#t #t #t) but it doesn't. Certainly a reasonable expectation. This is normally #'#(#t #t #f), but there are cases when Lilypond switches over to #'#(#t #t #t) auto

Re: Centered footnotes and spacing

2009-04-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Mark Austin wrote: I'm putting the finishing touches on a book of English folk tunes, but have a few problems. I suppose it's rather crude, but I like using \null for things like this. So, for the footer: \markup { Engraved ... } becomes \markup \fill-line { \null \line

Re: Fingerings with Flat Symbol

2009-04-21 Thread Robin Bannister
Jonathan Townes wrote: the use of fingerings would be much faster and require less typing This nice aspect of fingerings is due to the parser knowing what a fingering looks like. But this is defined as being a single digit, so you only have ten things you can ask for (corresponding to 0 .. 9)

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