Re: Any possibility to define a new accidental-style ?

2007-06-14 Thread Rune Zedeler
Valentin Villenave wrote: Rune had kindly answered me, but I guess he hadn't got the time to figure out how to do it; this is why I ask again today, in case someone couls help me. I am really sorry, I totally forgot. :+/ I am very busy the next couple of weeks - but I won't forget it again.

Re: diatonic transposition

2007-06-11 Thread Rune Zedeler
Graham Percival wrote: Yes, http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/input/lsr/scheme/collated-files (final example) The example seems to be broken, though. It outputs the same scales twice, not reducing the amount of accidentals. -Rune ___ lilypond-user

Re: diatonic transposition

2007-06-11 Thread Rune Zedeler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it possible to transpose a musical expressions diatonically? What do you mean by diatonically. Do you mean that c e f g transposed one note upwards should become d f g a? It is quite easy to do this so that it works in c major, but also handling other key

Re: need to generate mass quantities of random notes for practice

2007-06-05 Thread Rune Zedeler
Stan Sanderson wrote: Does this latest incarnation break the current-time seed? Successive compiles produce the same output for me. The previous version worked as described. That is weird. Over here it works fine. (2.10.25 amd 2.11.25) -Rune ___

Re: lyrics free from notes

2007-06-04 Thread Rune Zedeler
Alan Jones wrote: I need a way to specify which beats the words of my lyrics fall on independent of the voice that they are associated with. I think your problem are somehow related to a weird bug in latest lilypond versions. I have posted a bug-report on the bug-list. -Rune

Re: need to generate mass quantities of random notes for practice

2007-06-04 Thread Rune Zedeler
Valentin Villenave wrote: this is simply awesome! I just added it to the LSR, as other users might be interested. Okie. Though, I would like somebody with rights to change the LSR (cc Graham) to replace the randomish number with (current-time) - so that the snippet reads \version 2.10.0

Re: need to generate mass quantities of random notes for practice

2007-06-04 Thread Rune Zedeler
Valentin Villenave wrote: If I might add: this is really one of the best snippets I've ever seen in the LSR! :) Thanks :-) Well, I think the example is rather clumsy, creating the entire thing in a scheme-expression. I had hoped to be able to use \repeat unfold 256 to do the iteration, but

Re: need to generate mass quantities of random notes for practice

2007-06-04 Thread Rune Zedeler
Adam Good wrote: This is just too cool! Really thank you for sharing it. :-) One thing, for me I'm only getting the pitches of C major, how can I do all 12 notes of the chromatic scale? Okay, in this one you can freely select which notes to choose from by changing the list in the top of

Re: need to generate mass quantities of random notes for practice

2007-06-03 Thread Rune Zedeler
plasmacarwash wrote: I'm a newbie and I'd like to create a blithe score of quarter notes purely for practice from middle c up an octave and half to g. This .ly outputs 256 random notes. It will produce the same 256 random notes each time you run it, but you can create 256 new random notes by

Re: sub-beaming

2007-05-19 Thread Rune Zedeler
Ole Schmidt wrote: Is there a way to define the sub-beaming like in the first 2 eight notes in the example I Remember I wrote it in the manual some time ago, but it aparently fell out. \version 2.10.15 \new Staff { \relative c'' { \set Score.beatLength = #(ly:make-moment 1 8)

Re: sub-beaming

2007-05-19 Thread Rune Zedeler
Ole Schmidt wrote: thank you, but this works inside my score only in the 3/8 and 5/8 measures but not in 4/4, 3/4 and 2/4, any idea? Weird. Can you give an example where it fails? -Rune ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: sub-beaming

2007-05-19 Thread Rune Zedeler
Ole Schmidt wrote: \set Score.beatLength = #(ly:make-moment 1 8) ... \time 3/4 c8)[ a16.( fis32] b16.[ fis32 c'16. fis,32] b16.[ d32 c8]) | Ah. It is because the \time-statements reset the beatLength-value to the denominator of the time signature. So you need to set the beatLength

Re: sub-beaming

2007-05-19 Thread Rune Zedeler
Rune Zedeler wrote: So you need to set the beatLength again after each \time-statement (that has a denominator that is not 8) ... Or alternatively, you can make a little scheme function that sets the time signature and measure-length without touching beat-length. \version 2.10.15 % timenb

Re: percussion clef notes: transposing

2007-03-02 Thread Rune Zedeler
Scott Miller wrote: OK I see. Thank you. I was expecting a default perc clef to act as a treble clef. A very important reason for the percussion vlef not to behave like the trebble clef is that the percussion clef is often used on staves with another number of stafflines than five. The

Re: Any possibility to define a new accidental-style ?

2007-02-28 Thread Rune Zedeler
Valentin Villenave wrote: [Was: An extra accidental-style might be needed] If I understand you request correctly, the only new feature needed is the ability to distinguish between a note that has just ended, and a note that ended somewhat earlier in the same measure. I will take a look at

Re: Switching between two- and three-staves piano score

2007-02-26 Thread Rune Zedeler
Thomas Ruedas wrote: I'm trying to typeset a piece for solo piano where temporarily a third staff is needed. http://mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=314 -Rune ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Immediate Need For Midi Output

2007-02-04 Thread Rune Zedeler
Hi Jared! I am surprised that the manual has no information written specificly for blind people. I am pretty sure that we have had other blind users (for the obvious reasons that you specify). Not able to find it in the archives though. If you would help writing a section for blind people I

Re: Immediate Need For Midi Output

2007-02-04 Thread Rune Zedeler
Rune Zedeler wrote: I have attached a small example that produces midi output. Whoops, I forgot to attach. Here goes. -Rune \version 2.10.0 melody = { \time 3/4 \key d \major \set Staff.midiInstrument = flute d''4 d''8 e''8 fis''4 | g''4. fis''8 e''4 | d''2 cis''4 | d''2

Re: Searchable Lilypond manual [Was: Re: Downloading documentation]

2007-01-20 Thread Rune Zedeler
I don't really get... What is the problem with just serching on the one big page docu? -Rune ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Voice / slur problem

2007-01-19 Thread Rune Zedeler
Palmer, Ralph wrote: I'm trying (right now) to reproduce only the piano part (i.e., the bottom two staves) in the measure in the attached .jpg. Because the two arpeggia overlap you actually have two voices, and therefore need to typeset them in two voices. In the following i use the

Re: Voice / slur problem

2007-01-19 Thread Rune Zedeler
Mats Bengtsson wrote: The easiest solution is to exploit the clever trick provided in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-01/msg00359.html Really no need to use any tricks. The composer clearly sees the two arpeggii as separate voices and you therefore should represent them

Re: How to tell how much of the page has been printed on?

2007-01-14 Thread Rune Zedeler
Turn off the tagline with \paper { tagline = } and run $ convert -trim music.png music_trimmed.png -Rune ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Beamed eighth notes and tuplets as tempo indication

2007-01-14 Thread Rune Zedeler
Frédéric Chiasson wrote: I would like to know if it is possible to write beamed eighth notes and tuplets as tempo indications. I would like to write the following If you don't care that the code is ugly: \version 2.10.10 shuffled = \markup \score { \new RhythmicStaff \with { \remove

Re: Strange...

2007-01-09 Thread Rune Zedeler
Stewart Holmes wrote: 2.10.9. Okay. I can reproduce in latest stable (2.10.10) but not in latest dev (2.11.10). If it is important for you you could try to update to 2.11.10. Otherwise wait for 2.12. -Rune ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Generating small fragments to be embedded into latex

2007-01-04 Thread Rune Zedeler
Graham Percival wrote: 1) I'd like to generate a 'small' pdf, to be embedded in a text, rather than a regular page Read (in the 2.11 docs) chapter 14, especially 14.11. I would even say especially 14.2 :+) 3) Possibly, I'd like to make the rhythmic staff and the key transparent It's

Re: no cautionary clef

2006-12-22 Thread Rune Zedeler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But to get no cautionary key signature at the end of a line (when the key signature changes on the following line), I wasn't able to figure out how to accomplish that at the point (some time ago) when I would have preferred to do without the cautionary key-change

Re: accidental-style modern

2006-12-18 Thread Rune Zedeler
Michael Kiermaier wrote: I would like to extend that behaviour to the next two or maybe three or four measures, since the measures are relative short in my case (3/8 time signature). Is that possible? If you want the modern accidentals to be remembered over 3 bar-lines (instead of the

Re: marche unitonale

2006-12-18 Thread Rune Zedeler
yota moteuchi wrote: How do I do with lilypond what it's called in french : marche unitonale (that I can not translate in english) I did that long time ago: http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg00067.html Here the file is converted to 2.10 (only tested on 2.11 but guess it

Re: Relative mode

2003-10-24 Thread Rune Zedeler
David Raleigh Arnold wrote: The proposed new relative mode has more typing than the present relative mode, yet it is no more readable, so it seems to me to have the disadvantages of both and the advantages of neither. If you are referring to my proposal then it is not true for intervals less

Re: Relative mode

2003-10-24 Thread Rune Zedeler
David Raleigh Arnold wrote: I guess I didn't understand your proposal then, or you changed it and I missed it. Sorry. I'm happy to withdraw my characterization of it having the disadvantages of both, etc.. To quote: So »c d e d c« and »c d' e' d, c,« would mean the same thing. I don't

Re: Relative mode

2003-10-22 Thread Rune Zedeler
I have an alternative suggestion for a relative mode. f gives the f closest to the previous note - just like in relative mode. f' gives the first f above the previous note. f'' gives the second f above the prevous note. f, gives the first f below the previous note. So »c d e d c« and »c d' e' d,

Re: Two Lilies on one box?

2003-10-02 Thread Rune Zedeler
Amelie Zapf wrote: Is there a way to install two versions of Lilypond on one computer (Linux, preferably system-wide), without running into problems? I tend to think that fonts, and generally the whole LaTeX interaction could be a problem. Is that so? I think that the easiest way (the one I

Re: question about accidentals

2003-09-14 Thread Rune Zedeler
David Raleigh Arnold wrote: It really wouldn't be that difficult to make a setting to make-key-signature-chromatics true which would do what it says and leave notes which have accidentals alone. Yes it would. This way the music definitions would be context dependent, meaning that the same piece

Re: question about accidentals

2003-09-13 Thread Rune Zedeler
Lucas Gonze wrote: Given the following score, the 2nd note should come out in the DVI as an F sharp, but is instead an F natural. Any suggestions? Have mercy -- I am still struggling through the hello world stage. \score { \notes { \clef treble \time

Re: more stupid questions

2003-06-10 Thread Rune Zedeler
Atte André Jensen wrote: 2) I'd like to be able to have the bassnote printed in lowercase instead of uppercase. Possible? If so is it a question of hacking chord-name.scm? 3) I'm Danish. In this strange country we write H when everybody else writes B. So how do I get B in chordnames? Take a look

Re: beam breaking

2003-06-04 Thread Rune Zedeler
David Bobroff wrote: In the following example I want to reduce the beams between the first and second notes. According to the docs: \property Voice.subdivideBeams = ##t ..is what I need to use. It is having no effect. What am I doing wrong? The docs say tgat subdivideBeams subdivides the beams

Re: drum notes

2003-03-26 Thread Rune Zedeler
Joerg Anders wrote: I'm about to improve the NoteEdit drum notes export. The lilypond drum notation is currently not working properly in 1.7. When I get time and energy ( :-( ) I will make some better drum support. I don't think that you should spend much energy in supporting the current (1.6)

Re: multiple \translator blocks?

2003-02-03 Thread Rune Zedeler
Quoting Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quick question -- how can I have multiple translations on the same context? \translator { \VoiceContext Fingering \override #'padding = #2.0 Fingering \override #'font-relative-size = #1 } The following snippet only applies the second

Re: chord names (no 3)

2003-01-25 Thread Rune Zedeler
Quoting David Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I need to see the following above my staff: G/B C/E You don´t mention what you tried - but you probably did g/b instead of g/+b :-) -Rune ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ties between enharmonic pitches?

2002-12-22 Thread Rune Zedeler
Jonas Lindström wrote: I would like to create a tie between two notes with enharmonic pitches, We have had this discussion before. The conclusion was that a construct like that made no sence and hence should not be supported by lilypond. I realize that we often see tied enharmonic notes in

relative prefix

2002-12-11 Thread Rune Zedeler
Is it possible to build lilypond relocatably so that you can move the files around and it will still work? I need to build with different prefix and exec-prefix - ofcourse the two should be defined relatively to each other. -Rune ___ Lilypond-user

Re: How to cause chords to span?

2002-12-11 Thread Rune Zedeler
Jeremy Cowgar wrote: How can I made a chord reference (name on top of staff) span say 4 or 5 measures? I do not want to repeat C C C C C C C C C C G G G C C C ... c1*5:m7 -Rune ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fis or not fis, that is the question.

2002-12-10 Thread Rune Zedeler
Ralph Little wrote: Can anybody explain why, despite having a fs specified by the current key (for G Major), fs or fis needs to be specified, rather than just assuming that the key fills in the gaps? I don't really understnad what you expect/request. Would you like to be able to simply

Re: Special Accidental Macro needed.

2002-12-10 Thread Rune Zedeler
Matthias Geier wrote: I don't understand anything of your code, but it works exactly as I wanted it. It's great. Well, yeah, it is an ugly hack. In january I will try and finish the accidental-engraver, so that the new version can make it into 1.8. I shall remember your request, and try and

Re: Fis or not fis, that is the question.

2002-12-10 Thread Rune Zedeler
Ralph Little wrote: HEEEYYY! COOL DOWN Mister! Uh, oh, sorry. My bad. No, that is incorrect. It would be correct it you had to handle accidental policy in the notation specified, but you don't. All I am suggesting is that where the key signature gives a default, that default should be

Re: simple transpose question

2002-12-07 Thread Rune Zedeler
Art Moore wrote: I'm new to lilypond and so here's my question: how do I transpose a complete piece? I want to print out several transposition of the same song, but I can't figure outthe syntax. Did you read

Re: Special Accidental Macro needed.

2002-12-06 Thread Rune Zedeler
Matthias Geier wrote: What I need: There should be accidentials before every note, even if it's just a natural sign. On note repetitions there should be an accidental only before the first note and nothing before the following. It's the way Schoenberg used to typeset his works. Uh, I am

Re: Key and accidentals in Lilypond

2002-12-06 Thread Rune Zedeler
s.abeccara wrote: When I state a key for a piece in Lilypond I expect it to follow common rules for writing music, Lilypond DOES follow common notational behaviour. You specify which notes the music should contain, and then lilypond decides how to typeset the accidentals on basis of the

Re: Key and accidentals in Lilypond

2002-12-06 Thread Rune Zedeler
(sorry sending reply to the wrong posting - for some reason I didn't receive the posting from s.abeccara) Simon Bailey wrote: | if i'm reading a piece in g major, then i | will read any note in the bottom space of the treble staff as an | f-sharp, not as an f. so i write fis for this

Re: Special Accidental Macro needed.

2002-12-06 Thread Rune Zedeler
After a small bugfix in the accidental engraver (1.7 cvs), this hack does more or less what you request. The last measure shows an example where it goes wrong. Problem is that the music is parsed in input order - so the 2nd e gets an accidental because the 1st was not entered yet, whereas the

Re: Articulation clashes with slurs

2002-11-06 Thread Rune Zedeler
Andreas Loosen wrote: \property Voice.Script \override #'padding = #2 This is easier to read, I think, since the upbow sign is above the slur. Will the padding be global from this point onwards? Yes, for scripts in that voice. How can I reset it? \property Voice.Script \revert #'padding

Re: PS failure with 1.6.6

2002-11-01 Thread Rune Zedeler
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Set the environment variable KPATHSEA_DEBUG to '-1' Run dvips on the .dvi file and pipe the standard error output through 'grep music-drawing'. This should tell you where the programs searches for the file. I tried that. It searches in $DATADIR/dvips whereas we only have

More 1.6 install problems (uni)

2002-10-31 Thread Rune Zedeler
I solved the guile problems, and managed to build and install lily 1.6 at the uni. Lilypond also compiles files with no problems (apart from problem with determining size of tex-fonts. Perhaps more on that later). Problem is that dvips and xdvi cannot find the music-drawing-routines.ps even

Re: HaraKiriStaffContext question

2002-10-25 Thread Rune Zedeler
Graham Percival wrote: One of these days I'll add a note to HaraKiri refman that empty lyrics don't count as empty bars. A Much Better (tm) solution would be to add a property telling whether to look at lyrics when determining if a measure is empty. This would also solve the lyrics as

Re: building problems (1.6)

2002-10-24 Thread Rune Zedeler
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: --with-kpathsea-inc=/users/kaja/texlive/Master/lib --with-kpathsea-include=/users/kaja/texlive/Master/include ? Whoops. Unfortunately it didn't help spelling the option right. Master/include does not exist, but Master/lib contains a kpathsea.h and no other .h-files.

building problems (1.6)

2002-10-24 Thread Rune Zedeler
Once again I tried to install lilypond at the university. Old readers will remember that I had problems with kpathsea because of the texlive-distribution runned here didn't by default ship with kpathsea. Our tex-administrator now has directed me to a local installation of kpathsea. If I add

Re: jazz articulations

2002-10-14 Thread Rune Zedeler
Jens Haug wrote: I'd like to add some symbols for jazz articulations to my notes. The most important ones are the fall (like a slow glissando from the note down to nowhere), the opposite of this (kind of a glissando from nowhere up to the note), and the bend (dropping the the tone by

Re: jazz articulations

2002-10-14 Thread Rune Zedeler
Jens Haug wrote: It's a line that looks like a slur (open side up, like a slur under two notes) that is placed before the note like a glissando or above a note like a legato. bend = #\\embeddedps{0.2 setlinewidth -0.5 0.3 moveto 0.8 -0.5 1.6 -0.5 2.4 0 rcurveto stroke} ... a^\bend

Re: jazz articulations

2002-10-14 Thread Rune Zedeler
Jens Haug wrote: What can I be doing wrong? Nothing. I just forgot to test my klkudge against 1.6 :-) Try this instead. Notice that this is temporary. What we really need is to get script-horizontal working! -Rune \score { \context Voice \notes \transpose c''' { c4*1/2

Re: jazz articulations

2002-10-14 Thread Rune Zedeler
Rune Zedeler wrote: Try this instead. Sorry, wrong attachment. THIS one! -Rune raise = #\\embeddedps{0.2 setlinewidth 0.2 -0.2 moveto 0 -1 -0.7 -1.8 -1.2 -2 rcurveto stroke} fall = #\\embeddedps{0.2 setlinewidth -0.2 -0.2 moveto 0.5 -0.2 1.2 -1 1.2 -2 rcurveto stroke} bend

Re: jazz articulations

2002-10-14 Thread Rune Zedeler
Jens Haug wrote: That's why I'm so keen on having zigzag lines for this purpose. Hov about this? -Rune raise = #\\embeddedps{0.2 setlinewidth 0.2 -0.2 moveto 0 -1 -0.7 -1.8 -1.2 -2 rcurveto stroke} fall = #\\embeddedps{0.2 setlinewidth -0.2 -0.2 moveto 0.5 -0.2 1.2 -1 1.2 -2 rcurveto

Re: barcheck

2002-10-10 Thread Rune Zedeler
David Bobroff wrote: \time 3/4 ... \cadenzaOff \property Staff.fontSize = #0 f8.-\trill( es32 )f | es4 r r | The 1st measure after cadenzaOff is only 1/2 (1.5/8+1/32+1/32) and not 3/4 - and hence you DO have a bar check failure. What did you expect? -Rune

Re: dynamics in between a PianoStaff

2002-10-08 Thread Rune Zedeler
Simon Bailey wrote: \context Staff = rh \dynamics \rightHand \context Staff = lh \dynamics \leftHand Usually I just do \context Staff=pia \dynamics \rightHand \leftHand No need to use two midi channels for the piano (unless you have the

Re: Da Capo

2002-10-07 Thread Rune Zedeler
Erik Sandberg wrote: I can not find anywhere in the documentation how to make good-looking da capo texts properly. Most D.C.:s I see in Real Notes use to be placed below the staff, with its text right-aligned to the left of the last \bar (and it use to be written out in all staves, too).

Re: transposed part

2002-10-06 Thread Rune Zedeler
David Bobroff wrote: want some of the parts transposed. The problem I run into is that \transpose has to come after \notes and \notes is contained in the music file. You can just add a notes statement in the score-file (before \transpose). It is no problem that the music definition

Re: stem fix 2

2002-09-29 Thread Rune Zedeler
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Why not use the official solution: \property Staff.NoteCollision \set #'merge-differently-dotted = ##t ?!?!?! What do you mean? #'merge-differently-dotted does the opposite of what we need - effectively ruining my hack. Please post full example if you have some smart

Re: stem fix 2

2002-09-28 Thread Rune Zedeler
David Bobroff wrote: How would I get the two noteheads with stems? Sorry but I can only come up with this very ugly hack: a4 \\ \once \property Voice.Dots \override #'transparent = ##t a4.*2/3 It probably even ruins the spacing because it adds space for an invisible dot. -Rune

Re: stem fix 2

2002-09-28 Thread Rune Zedeler
Rune Zedeler wrote: a4 \\ \once \property Voice.Dots \override #'transparent = ##t a4.*2/3 It probably even ruins the spacing because it adds space for an invisible dot. Ofcourse the solution to this is to replace the property-setting with \once \property Voice.Dots \override

Re: Flat symbol

2002-09-27 Thread Rune Zedeler
Antonio PALAMA' wrote: Is this intentional or is it a bug? It is intentional. -Rune ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Different time signatures

2002-09-25 Thread Rune Zedeler
Dmitry Rutsky wrote: OK, how to syncronize them properly? Look at the example... What is the problem? The upper staff contains one quarter per two eights in the lower staff - as it should. If you wan't triplets instead of eights then you should use the triplet features of lilypond (\times

Re: flats and double flats on a RhythmicStaff

2002-09-21 Thread Rune Zedeler
David Raleigh Arnold wrote: How do I get a flat on a rhythmic staff? \translator { \RhythmicStaffContext \consists Accidental_engraver } -Rune ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: transposition, incipit and key signature

2002-09-17 Thread Rune Zedeler
Quoting David Raleigh Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Rune \version 1.6.3 Rune \score { Rune \notes \transpose c'' { Rune \key f \major c4*1/2 Rune \once \property Staff.KeySignature = \turnOff \key c \major s8 Rune \transpose d' { \key f \major c4

Re: partials and accidentals

2002-09-17 Thread Rune Zedeler
Simon Bailey wrote: when i run lilypond over this fragment, i get a natural sign in front of the c in the second (first full) measure. this doesnt seem logical to me (even though some players may find it helpful). Congratulations, you have found a bug! I have fixed it in cvs (stable branch),

Re: \unfold repeat question

2002-09-17 Thread Rune Zedeler
Jule Slootbeek wrote: warning: Too many clashing notecolumns. Ignoring them. see http://lilypond.org/stable/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/More-basics.html#More%20basics at the bottom - just above the summary. -Rune ___ Lilypond-user

Re: partials and accidentals

2002-09-17 Thread Rune Zedeler
Rune Zedeler wrote: I have fixed it in cvs (stable branch), so you will either have to wait for 1.6.4 or download the cvs version - or do without partial measures to get the accidentals correct. While you are waiting you can ofcourse make a kludge: Replace \partial 4 with \property

Re: accidentals above the staff?

2002-09-12 Thread Rune Zedeler
Mats Bengtsson wrote: The trick is to typeset them scripts. Try c^#'(music accidentals--1) Problem is that theese accidentals don't transpose - and hence the above should be considered a hack. When 1.7 (the new development branch) pops out I will have a look at the accidentals code and

Re: Percent in lyrics

2002-09-07 Thread Rune Zedeler
Moray Allan wrote: In lyrics mode, how can I enter a literal % without Lilypond interpreting it as a comment? - Escaping with backslash doesn't help. Yes, escaping with backslash DOES help. I could not in any way force an error as long as I escaped the percent mark. Perhaps your problem is

Re: Timing_engraver and \remove - \consists in general

2002-09-06 Thread Rune Zedeler
William R Brohinsky wrote: I can't get a final barline to appear. The manual says (under Bar Lines): The command \bar bartype is a short cut for doing \property Score.whichBar = bartype The property is used by the timing engraver which you have moved to staff level, and hence you need to

Re: Timing_engraver and \remove - \consists in general

2002-09-06 Thread Rune Zedeler
Rune Zedeler wrote: the same as Laura an Han-Wen. Sorry, but it seems like there is some problems with the sending of mails - at least I haven't received anu mails the last 16 hours, and hence I did not see the two other replies before i browsed the online mail archive. -Rune

Re: tab

2002-09-06 Thread Rune Zedeler
David Raleigh Arnold wrote: So how do I set up a banjo 5th string now? g'/1 = 5 -- --- g'/5 = ---0- gis'/1 = 6- --- -

Re: lilypond bar numbers, string choosing?

2002-09-03 Thread Rune Zedeler
Karl Berry wrote: I tried: \property Score.BarNumber \override #'break-visibility = #procedure all-visible (d) but (not surprisingly), this just gets `Unbound variable: procedure'. It would be nice to have this as an example in the manual, whatever the answer is ... Yes, I agree.

Re: lilypond mandolin tablature?

2002-09-01 Thread Rune Zedeler
Karl Berry wrote: 1) Everything is shifted down by one line -- the first note is printed a line space below the real bottom line, the second note is printed on the bottom line instead of the second-to-bottom line, and so on. Yes, this is a bug. I have fixed it in cvs - it should appear

Re: neophyte question: banjo tab

2002-08-31 Thread Rune Zedeler
KevinKnaus wrote: I have read from a number of sources that to change the number of strings from the default six I need to put in the line: StaffSymbol \override #'line-count = #5 Congratulations, you have found a bug. It has been fixed in CVS. Unfortunately it didn't make it into 1.6.1,

Re: lily 1.6.0 small bugs

2002-08-27 Thread Rune Zedeler
Minh A. Hoang wrote: 1. can't start a staff with a grace note. e.g c4 c \break \grace d4 c2 The problem is not the grace but the fact that you try to break the line in the middle of a measure. Try c4 c c c \break \grace d4 c2 c instead. 2. new time signature in new line leaves an extra

Re: tab

2002-08-21 Thread Rune Zedeler
Anna Langley wrote: snip very interresting letter I am also alive and read most of the music I play from these upside down systems (i.e. Italian Tablature)! Yes. But currently the notational stuff is not what we are discussing. Ofcourse we should add properties to turn the Tab upside down -

Re: tab

2002-08-21 Thread Rune Zedeler
David Raleigh Arnold wrote: Thanks much. The scholarly poster is right that there are historical instances of putting the first string at the bottom, but English renaissance lute tablature and all modern tabs have the first string at the top so the low notes will be on the bottom. *No one

Re: tab

2002-08-20 Thread Rune Zedeler
David Raleigh Arnold wrote: The syntax for tab is clever, but still unacceptable. Entering tab by using a 1 for the 6th string, 5 for the 2nd string, etc., simply won't do. [...] Please fix this *now*. String number 1 *must* be the first string which belongs at the top line of the

Re: tab

2002-08-20 Thread Rune Zedeler
David Raleigh Arnold wrote: 2. How does one get rid of the stems in the tab? \property TabStaff.Stem \override #'transparent = ##t I must agree that this is a bit tricky - and badly documented - though... Setting the property on a higher level does not work because the TabStaff then reverts

Re: How to move from one grandparent to another

2002-08-08 Thread Rune Zedeler
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: I think it should be possible with \translator StaffGroup = up \translator Staff = stwo No, this was also my 1st thought. Problem is that the child of StaffGroup is Staff, and hence \translator StaffGroup = up tries to move the STAFF (and not the VOICE) to the

Re: transposing from treble to tenor clef

2002-07-16 Thread Rune Zedeler
Keith and Margaret Stanley wrote: I do not want to publish music as a whole but a often would like to rewrite music presented in treble clef one octave lower in either bass clef or (probably better) in tenor clef. Can your program help with this or can you point me to a suitable program.

Re: point and click

2002-07-16 Thread Rune Zedeler
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: addendum: it seems to work over here, but only for on the first invocation of emacs-client. Weird. Ditto here. But can you use point-and-click (more than once) ? -Rune ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LilyPond 1.5.67 -- almost 1.6!

2002-07-14 Thread Rune Zedeler
Han-Wen wrote: input/regression/beams-funky.ly This is about to be the coolest thing I have ever seen! :-))) Shame that the sloping of knees is still not correct - so that I cannot really check out the new beaming in action, but #¤%/()#¤% it looks AWESOME! -Rune

Re: small print

2002-07-05 Thread Rune Zedeler
Citat Maurizio Tomasi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I do not know if there exists some italian word that translates cue note. From the glossary on the lilypond website: Notine :-) -Rune ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recursive percent repeats

2002-07-04 Thread Rune Zedeler
Citat Erik Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How should I do to get the desired result? If you are desperate then you could try with (untested) \repeat percent 3 { [music] \property Staff.NoteHead \override #'style = #'slash \property Staff.Stem \override #'thickness = #0 b'2

Re: multiple pieces in one score.

2002-06-24 Thread Rune Zedeler
Simon Bailey wrote: this worked a treat, but i'm using piece instead of title. is there any way to format the piece header in a different font (making it a bit larger and centered)? No, but it's on the todo-list. Currently you have to stick with subtitle or subsubtitle. -Rune

Re: forcing hshift

2002-06-22 Thread Rune Zedeler
David Raleigh Arnold wrote: {a2 a4} + {a4 a2} = {a4 a4 a4} This spacing has been bad for years. I hope it's fixed now. I don't agree with you. You seem to think that spacing should be calculated globally on score level without thinking about individual voices. I.e. this would mean that

Re: Chords and slurs

2002-06-21 Thread Rune Zedeler
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Automatic slurring for grace notes; that sounds like a good idea, I can't remember seeing them without slurs. They also exists with ties. I.e. you see (absolute notation) \grace { c8 g e c'} ~ c2 g e c' producing 4 ties. Apart from that I also has never seen graces

Re: global dynamics

2002-06-20 Thread Rune Zedeler
Simon Bailey wrote: s4\pp I haven't checked your idea through, but this is wrong syntax. Should be s4-\pp. -Rune ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

SkipBars

2002-06-15 Thread Rune Zedeler
This example should illustrate my problem: akk = \chords { c1 f g c c f g c } mus = \notes \transpose c''' { c4 e g e c2 r2 R1*4 r4 d f d c1 } \score { \property Score.skipBars = ##t \context ChordNames \akk \context Staff \mus \paper {} } Ofcourse one

Re: splitting .ly files into chunks

2002-06-13 Thread Rune Zedeler
Felipe Massia Pereira wrote: I think he could comment out the \includes he does not want to hear. A better way to do it would be pre-process the file someway. I don't see why this is better than \include part1.ly \include part2.ly \include part3.ly What is the propblem in inserting comments

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