Re: Need someone testing XML file in Finale and Sibelius (and Dorico)

On 07.05.2018 18:51, Jacques Menu Muzhic wrote: Would it be a reasonable approach to have LilyPond first produce data in memory, i.e. Scheme data representing the whole score, and then either to produce the score or a MIDI file or supply this data to other applications, such as a MusicXML expo

Re: \RemoveEmptyStaves removes Dynamics context

On 06.05.2018 23:03, Malte Meyn wrote: Am 06.05.2018 um 22:35 schrieb Thomas Weber: Can anybody help me with keeping the dynamics alive?  Many thanks! […] \layout {    \context { \Score Replace \Score by \Staff here. \RemoveEmptyStaves \override VerticalAxisGroup.remove-first

Re: Layout of a (piano) hand indicator

On 06.05.2018 11:43, foxfanfare wrote: …… (define-event-function (direction on-line lenght offset) (direction? boolean? number? pair?) (let* ((self-al (if on-line 0 0.31)) (self-al (if (= direction 1) (- self-al) self-al)) (hook-markup #{

Re: {SPAM 01.9} Re: Tie across voices

On 04.05.2018 19:23, David Sumbler wrote: It seems that if, in a <<{\musicA} {\musicB}>> passage, \musicA does not specify a new Voice, then the music before the << >> passage and, importantly, also the music afterwards will all be treated as belonging to the same voice.  Is that correct? Have

Re: Tuplet bracket spacing with multiple voices

On 04.05.2018 16:18, Aaron Hill wrote: On 2018-05-04 13:47, Chris Yate wrote: The following might be the tidiest solution (i.e. just remove the number and brace). Other opinions welcome! If you wanted the keep the lower tuplet bracket, you could write two explicit eighth rests to line up with

Re: tuplet bracket spanner?

On 02.05.2018 18:24, Reilly Farrell wrote: Hi All, I'm editing a short score with tuplets and I could use a spacing solution that would keep all tuplet brackets at a fixed minimum distance above the staff.  (Feedback I've received so far is that the tuplet indications look messy when printed

Re: slur and percent

On 02.05.2018 08:19, Gianmaria Lari wrote: Is there any way to write this \version "2.19.81" {a( b c' a a b c' a)} with a repeat percent? Something similar to this: \version "2.19.81" {\repeat percent 2 {a( b c' a} ) } Probably no sensible/reasonably easy way. How is that e

Re: Large set of parts

On 27.04.2018 06:52, Nathan Sprangers wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions on how to produce a large set of parts from an existing score? Each instrument's music is saved as a variable separate from the score staves. So I need to create a \score and \staff for 31 parts. Do I create 31 sepa

Re: Schenkerian analysis diagram

On 26.04.2018 23:48, Jérôme Plût wrote: I don’t think you need to patch LilyPond. Have a look at and

Re: spacer rest *

On 27.04.2018 10:53, Gianmaria Lari wrote: To fix it I found two different ways. First one: \version "2.19.81" \score { \new Voice <<   {f4 g a b}   {s4\< s4 s4 s4\!} Other possibilities: { s4*3\< s4\! } { s2.\< s4\! } { s4\< s s s\! } By the way: It is customary to always

Re: Spacer Rests Global Confusion

On 26.04.2018 18:02, R wrote: When the duration of the called variable is explicitly given, everything is correct. However, if you remove the duration and have it default to the normal quarter note, this causes a problem. If you don’t give an explicit duration to a note, its duration is going

Re: Spacer Rests Global Confusion

On 26.04.2018 17:49, R wrote: Just one last question to pick your brain. Assuming I build an entire symphonic piece using global block as holder of tempo and markings. For a full score when I want to only show tempo markings above certain staves, how is this easiest done? I understand they must

Re: Spacer Rests Global Confusion

On 26.04.2018 17:21, R wrote: Thank you but I have difficult understanding why Frescobaldi configured the score like that if it's not prone to using the global block easily. There are different ways of using a \global variable. One is to use it just for something like: global = {   \key as \

Re: Schenkerian analysis diagram

On 25.04.2018 23:48, Jérôme Plût wrote: instead of \white, \black, \beam, \beamR, \slurAL I would prefer (for example) -o, -*, -|, -[, -( . Would a patch to the C code enabling such shortcuts be envisageable? I don’t think you need to patch LilyPond. Have a look at

Re: Slurs do not work with Larsen articulations

On 25.04.2018 23:29, Noeck wrote: c'8-1--(~\markup "what-ever-remark" c') The markup needs a hyphen. I'd suggest to drop the \markup here to make it simpler. In my personal rule set, the ~ goes last – but there is probably no reason for that … One thing does have to go last, and that is \me

Re: Slurs do not work with Larsen articulations

On 25.04.2018 12:48, foxfanfare wrote: But for instance in the Available Music Functions section, sometimes there is a small code exemple, sometime there isn't (almost evry time). I found personnaly clearer when

Re: Slurs do not work with Larsen articulations

On 24.04.2018 22:02, foxfanfare wrote: I missed more exemples in the huge "Internal Manual"! I don’t think any will be added, for two reasons: The technical reason is that the Internals Reference is auto-generated from the program code, so possibilities to manually add stuff are very limited.

Re: Off topic - SITT 20 Studies in Double Stops

On 24.04.2018 09:06, Gianmaria Lari wrote: The following is one excerpt from the Sitt book, 20 studies in Double Stops. Why in the first three measures the G, D and A are written as g4~4~4~4  d4~4~4~4  a4~4~4~4 instead of g1 d1 a1? Any idea? That’s clearly due to the pedagogical purpose; si

Re: Replacing a certain character sequence in lyrics

On 20.04.2018 22:52, Thomas Morley wrote: make-replace-markup Nice, thanks! I’d not have had any memory of there being such a markup function. For the record, I attach what I’ll be working with. Best, Simon \version "2.19.80" \include "ly-utility.ily" #(define modernise-apostrophes? #f) re

Replacing a certain character sequence in lyrics

Hello everybody, I have a favour to ask from any LilyPond-Guile crack on the list, because I couldn’t quite figure it out myself: (technical requirement here, rationale in PS.) For a scholarly edition project, I’d like to have a global boolean variable and a toplevel music function that goes

Re: Stanzas over staves

On 18.04.2018 23:20, Partitura Organum wrote: My scheme knowledge is very very limited. I just found out one can construct a pair in a scheme function like this:    #(cons a b) where a and b are the values. So for your function "narrator", this would become:    \with-dimensions #(cons 0 dim

Re: Moving just text, leaving articulations in place?

On 18.04.2018 18:38, Robert Hickman wrote: Tried using "\override TextScript.staff-padding" to move the text annotations in the attached image up but it also moves the Larson articulation symbols up as well. I want these to stay in the same place and the text to move up a bit away from them. Is l

Re: Stanzas over staves

On 18.04.2018 20:26, Helge Kruse wrote: It looks like the parameter 'dim' can't be used in this way to build a valid parameter to with-dimension. Is this true? How to do it correctly? You need quasi-quotation: \with-dimensions #`(0 . ,dim) #'(0 . 0) For more on this, consult the Extending Guide

Re: Consistent vertical alignment of annotations, disable time signiture

On 16.04.2018 20:50, Robert Hickman wrote: \omit Staff.TimeSignature Works correctly, I found variations on the following with google, which was giving a syntax error: \context { \Staff \omit TimeSignature } I'm finding it quite difficult to find out how to do what I want to do with lilypon

Re: Consistent vertical alignment of annotations, disable time signiture

On 16.04.2018 20:05, Robert Hickman wrote: So far I have the result attached, which is close to what I want, but I haven't found a clear example of how to get the two text annotations to align vertically. Try overriding TextScript.staff-padding – which will also move them up at appropriate va

Re: LilyPond in a CMS [was: Re: Defining custom symbols]

On 15.04.2018 13:25, Robert Hickman wrote: |Is it sufficient to concatenate the symbol file at the beginning of the user code?| \include does exactly that: read the contents of the included file verbatim. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list l

Re: Cadenza problem

Hi David, it seems you have to add a manual barline at \cadenzaOff, but otherwise I don’t see any problem with % \version "2.19.80" <<   {     \time 6/8     2.     \cadenzaOn     \repeat unfold 14 { 4 }     \cadenzaOff     \bar "|"     2.   }   {     2.     2.*14/3\fermata     2.

Re: Tremolo repeats and groups of notes

On 12.04.2018 11:24, Marco Bagolin wrote: But final output is not the same of the image. Often what LilyPond does is better than what other computer-engraved editions (even by major publishers) do. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypo

Re: Merging half-note chord into a quarter-note chord

On 12.04.2018 16:09, ptoye wrote: the different editions can be a nightmare. It's interesting that yours and mine both claim to be "first". One of the reasons textual critique is so complicated in Chopin is that generally two or three first editions were issued at roughly the same time: one i

Re: First steps in Lilypond

On 12.04.2018 11:13, foxfanfare wrote: I have a new question. Then please start a new thread with appropriate subject line. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Is it right how oneVoice reverts direction settings?

On 11.04.2018 09:14, David Kastrup wrote: Why would you use a \Voice context if you want to "globally override"? Do it in Score context. Then you'll get no interference from Voice-level reverts. Astounding subtlety. Thanks very much! Best, Simon ___

Re: Is it right how oneVoice reverts direction settings?

On 11.04.2018 00:20, Thomas Morley wrote: All other settings are overrides, so probably below may work. Please be aware it's not tested beyond the given example! Thanks for that! I might prefer David’s solution, because it doesn’t require redefining commands, but it’s good to have that up the

Re: First steps in Lilypond

On 09.04.2018 20:24, foxfanfare wrote: \scaleDurations 2/3 { c16( f' aes \clef treble f'[ d f~] } By the way, I use c16*2/3 in such cases. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypo

Is it right how oneVoice reverts direction settings?

Hello everybody, suppose I want to globally override the direction of slurs, as far as neutral voices go. If I do this: %%% \version "2.19.80" \layout {   \context {     \Voice     \override Slur.direction = #UP   } } music = { c'( d' e' f') } {   \music   \voiceTwo   \music   \o

Re: Cross-staff chords question

On 07.04.2018 11:39, Jacques Menu Muzhic wrote: When a hand doesn’t play, is it best for the keyboard player to read rests or should skips be used instead? Definitely rests. Using skips is the convention if that hand only switched to the other staff. There may be exceptions depending on cont

Re: Corrected: Beaming in LilyPond

On 06.04.2018 01:46, Andrew Bernard wrote: Hi Simon and Filip, The Bach MS in question is a handwritten autograph - not an engraving. I’m certainly aware of that – it was just for brevity that I didn’t make it explicit. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-u

Re: Problem with a font

On 06.04.2018 07:21, Walter Garcia-Fontes wrote: I already showed her different alternatives, that we found around for hand writing fonts, both free and commercial, but her bosses are stubborn to use that one, which is used in schools here in Spain, and so they are used to it. Why not use a sim

Re: Corrected: Beaming in LilyPond

On 05.04.2018 17:10, Filip May'r wrote: I understand it may seem unusual to copy the stem direction according to the manuscript, but I'm not sure why you think it is ugly. It's for my personal use, and it worked beautifully for me. Details matter a lot in typography. If you mimick the ste

Re: Articulation sign in Haydn

On 05.04.2018 10:58, Malte Meyn wrote: I see another option: 4. Add this ornament to Feta. SMuFL is a good argument for that, if we want to support it some day. Would you, Lukas, be willing to wait for 2.21.0 and use that or compile your own LilyPond? Then I’d try to add such a glyph to Feta i

Re: Articulation sign in Haydn

On 05.04.2018 07:17, Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: Mark, this is from Haydn's 13th symphony (D major), 1st movement, for instance bar 12 (Haydn complete works edition, Henle 1990). Frequent in other Haydn works as well. Lukas Am 04.04.2018 um 23:59 schrieb Mark Stephen Mrotek: Lukas, In

Re: Articulation sign in Haydn

On 04.04.2018 23:44, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: Does this work? \version "2.19.80" \relative c'' {   \grace {a'4} g2\mordent } Of course it works, but it’s a different ornament. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Problem with a font

On 03.04.2018 17:30, Walter Garcia-Fontes wrote: Just a question, sorry if it is obvious, what do you mean by "typographic apostrophes/quotation marks"? Wikipedia is very good on that topic: Best, Simon

[INSPIRATIONAL] Transposing switch on toplevel

Hello everybody, personally I increasingly feel like I kind of need these inspirational posts about the power of LilyPond, so here’s one of my own: I love how with the attached library file [ly-utility.ily], \include-d in [standard-include.ily], I can just add the following short lines at the

Re: Movement title to the left of the system

On 31.03.2018 11:53, andrew.bern...@gmail.com wrote: It’s not very _/semantic/_ hijacking the instrument name If you want it more semantic, use a normal \header {} block, change bookTitleMarkup and scoreTitleMarkup to no longer use the fields and instead use \markup \fromproperty #'header:tit

Re: Movement title to the left of the system

On 31.03.2018 03:34, Andrew Bernard wrote: What is the preferred way of putting a title for a movement to the left of the start of the first system for a keyboard piece, that is, in the space normally used for the indent? Just in case: Of course you can use the instrumentName of a StaffGroup

Tweaking individual BassFigures

Hello everybody, it is currently not possible to tweak individual BassFigures – this: \version "2.19.80" \figures {   <\single \hide BassFigure 6 3> } gives a syntax error, unexpected MUSIC_FUNCTION. How fundamental are the reasons for this? Best, Simon

Re: Bruhns "big" e-minor prelude

On 30.03.2018 01:21, Karlin High wrote: On 3/29/2018 3:16 PM, Ali Cuota wrote: in IMSLP the big e-minor prelude from Nikolaus Bruhns exists in pdf, with a reference to Mutopiaproject. In Mutopia, Bruhns ist not (anymore) in the composers list. I would be happy to have the source file if poss

Re: Bruhns "big" e-minor prelude

On 29.03.2018 22:16, Ali Cuota wrote: Hello to everybody with a question: in IMSLP the big e-minor prelude from Nikolaus Bruhns exists in pdf, with a reference to Mutopiaproject. In Mutopia, Bruhns ist not (anymore) in the composers list. Does the maintainer of this file read here? I would be

Re: Tie/Accidental Collision

On 23.03.2018 17:58, Stefano Troncaro wrote: I understand. Let me ask you then, where should this behavior be documented? Perhaps in the section about modifying shapes in the Notation Reference? Currently it states:

Re: Tie/Accidental Collision

On 23.03.2018 02:40, Stefano Troncaro wrote: I really think that information should be available in the tie-column-interface section of the Internals Reference. The explanation could ma

Re: Triple flat/sharp glyphs...

On 13.03.2018 15:52, Torsten Hämmerle wrote: What do you think? Even if I seem to be in a minority here, take my vote in favour of the traditional Feta design. It’s certainly contentious in much the same way as its treble clef, but I like it. Best, Simon ___

Re: Frescobaldi’s use of the version statement

On 09.03.2018 17:13, David Wright wrote: You can even use Frescobaldi's option "Automatically choose LilyPond version from document". Ouch. I hadn't come across that one. Sounds really bad to me. a) you're not really in control of what's running, Huh? You can choose which of the LilyPond versi

Re: Break measure

Hi Jacques, I don’t know what’s special about it, but I can’t see the code example you gave below without clicking ‘View source’ in Thunderbird. It’s very welcome to send e-mail to this kind of lists as the most simple form of plain text, so everybody gets to partake equally. (Though I have to

Re: How instruments are set by composer?

trument in MusicXML? This question is off-topic here, since it has nothing to do with LilyPond. Maybe there is a comparable MusicXML mailing list? Best regards, Simon Albrecht ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: How to write this note from chaconne?

On 08.03.2018 02:17, Edmundo Carmona Antoranz wrote: it's written in a way that would break the "normal" rules about how to use it (it wouldn't fit on the previous bar so a tie to a 8th note starting the bar is what I would have written) Rules that have evolved in the course of the 19th and 20t

Re: How to write this note from chaconne?

On 08.03.2018 01:39, Edmundo Carmona Antoranz wrote: So I asked around[1] and apparently it's a "harmonic delay" or a prolongation... There is no reason whatsoever for any fancy words. It’s just a dotted note with the dot written at the rhythmic position where it actually happens. I’ve never

Re: error: unknown escaped string: `\overlay

On 08.03.2018 01:08, Simon Albrecht wrote: alternative link. <http://lilypond.org/downloads/binaries/> ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: error: unknown escaped string: `\overlay

On 03.03.2018 18:37, pedroproenÇa wrote: I'm trying to install the unstable version (my OS is Lubuntu), but I'm unable to. What instructions did you follow? It’s pretty simple, if you follow and replace the 2.18 binary with the 2.19 one. The download links on th

Re: Centered full-measure rest in 3/4?

On 06.03.2018 23:07, Karen Billings wrote: I am setting an interlude for a colleague. She has specified a full-measure centered rest, notated as a dotted half-rest. The answer is very simple: Don’t do it. Tell your client it’s wrong notation. One has to do that as an engraver. Exception: your

Re: A lovely segno sign

> The text font in this edition is also lovely - I wonder if they were letter > punch forms? Certainly so. I don't think engraving text without punch forms was widely done in the 19th century -- except of course for title pages. Best, Simon ___ lilyp

Re: Including tweaks in a variable

On 01.03.2018 17:51, Michael Stickles wrote: It was driving me crazy at first because it still wouldn't work, until I dug through the documentation a bit more and found that 2.18 and 2.19 have a slightly different syntax for the function arguments: Truly the fact that it’s difficult for power

Re: Having trouble understanding optional and variable amount of arguments

On 28.02.2018 23:54, Stefano Troncaro wrote: I need a little help again. I'm struggling to understand how one would make a music function like \tempo, that accepts a variable number of arguments. I couldn't find its definition so I couldn't look for myself. So far I know about making lambdas t

Re: scheme function returning two scores

On 26.02.2018 08:05, Gianmaria Lari wrote: On 26 February 2018 at 00:07, Simon Albrecht <mailto:simon.albre...@mail.de>> wrote: On 25.02.2018 22:55, Gianmaria Lari wrote: (I have never reported a bug before. Please let me know if this is not  the correct

Re: scheme function returning two scores

On 25.02.2018 22:55, Gianmaria Lari wrote: (I have never reported a bug before. Please let me know if this is not  the correct procedure). Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https:

Re: List of articulations into a scheme variable

Hi Paolo, as more questions like these pour in, it would indeed be interesting to know what you are trying to achieve/why you need this function. :-) Best, Simon On 25.02.2018 18:44, Paolo Prete wrote: I'm sorry if I re-post a previous question, but I try to be more precise. How can I extra

Re: Slur after a function

On 23.02.2018 19:02, Paolo Prete wrote: The following code doesn't compile and I wonder if I can solve that by using another syntax... This works: \version "2.19.80" fun = #(define-music-function   (num note post)   (number? ly:duration? ly:music?)   #{ c'4 $post #}) \score {  

Re: Another code AbMaj7(#11)/Eb

Hi Ming, first: your message came detached from the thread, which is not helpful for readers. Please try configuring your mail client so that replies are sent with the proper metadata. On 21.02.2018 20:25, Ming Tsang wrote: Elaine: Thank you.  I has been a great help. Is there any resourc

Re: Very small rhythmic values

On 20.02.2018 22:05, Thomas Morley wrote: If my math is correct it prints a 10907481356194159294629842447337828624482641619962326924318327861897213318491192952162642345252019872239572917961570252731098708201771840636109797650775547990789062988421929895386098252280482051596968516135916381967718865

Re: About assigning a function to Tie.direction, and "warning: type check for 'direction' failed"

On 20.02.2018 18:55, Stefano Troncaro wrote: \tieDirectionFromList #'(-1 1 -1) %The following gives warning: type check for `direction' failed; value `DOWN' must be of type `direction' %\tieDirectionFromList #'(DOWN UP DOWN) That’s a problem with quoting: try \tieDirectionFromList #(list

Re: Very small rhythmic values

> Hello, > > is a 128 the smallest possible rhythmic value one can write in Lilypond or > is there a way to write even shorter values (e.g. 256 or even smaller)? Why didn't you just try? ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_hundred_fifty-sixth_note#cite_ref-LilyPond_10-0 Best, Simon _

Re: Fermatas with tremolos

Hi Harm, thanks for the help. On 19.02.2018 23:47, Thomas Morley wrote: Also, following links may be of interest. They provide excerpts of an old and new edition of Janacek, Glagolitic Mass. http://notovodstvo.ru/forum/fermata/tremolo_fermata_old.gif http://notovodstvo.ru/forum/fermata/tremolo

Re: Fermatas with tremolos

I think the best way to do it would be essentially an override to the beam, adding the fermata to its stencils. However I have to call on the expect Schemers around here (Harm, David N.?) for finishing it, since I haven’t been able to align the fermata to the horizontal center of the beam. This

Re: pre-processors for change note_language

On 18.02.2018 22:28, Ali Cuota wrote: Hi again, Do we have some preprocessors to translate noteNames from one language to other? I never read about it, but maybe I missed the point in the doc. LilyPond doesn’t, but python-ly does. You can either open the code in Frescobaldi, highlight it, and

Re: typesetting: doing it twice

On 18.02.2018 21:40, Ali Cuota wrote: Hello Lilyponders, I have a question about planning typesetting: Do we have any possibility to say which piece we will typeset, by date. To avoid 2 persons typesetting the same at the same moment? Hi Francois, what are you referring to? LilyPond users in

Re: Force Lilypond to preserve vertical order of TextScripts?

On 18.02.2018 01:19, Saul Tobin wrote: Is there a way to force Lilypond to respect the specified vertical order of TextScripts? Ideally, not as a one time override or tweak but throughout an entire score. The solution that comes to mind is assigning different values of outside-staff-priority,

Re: Better way to get correct slur shapes?

     $mus      \revert NoteColumn.ignore-collision      \voiceOne    #}) --- Knute Snortum (via Gmail) On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 9:35 AM, Simon Albrecht mailto:simon.albre...@mail.de>> wrote: Hi Knute, how about this? %%%

Re: Two suggestions for documentation

On 16.02.2018 12:51, Peter Toye wrote: 2) In at least the Learning and Notation manuals, add an alphabet with links at the head of each index. The indexes are (of necessity) very long, and scrolling down them is a bit of a pain. In the HTML versions, all the indices have this at the top and bo

Re: Better way to get correct slur shapes?

Hi Knute, how about this? \version "2.19.80" \language "english" dummy = #(define-music-function (mus) (ly:music?)    #{ \hideNotes \override NoteColumn.ignore-collision = ##t \voiceTwo $mus \unHideNotes \revert NoteColumn.ignore-collision

Re: MetronomeMark.break-align-symbols not heeded in custom context

On 14.02.2018 17:17, Kieren MacMillan wrote: \consists "Time_signature_engraver" \omit TimeSignature Of course. Sorry for going to the bug list too soon. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mai

MetronomeMark.break-align-symbols not heeded in custom context

Hi Peter, hello bug-list, I distilled the example some more: % \version "2.19.80" \layout {   \context {     \name "MarkLine"     \type "Engraver_group"     \consists Output_property_engraver     \consists Axis_group_engraver     \consists Metronome_mark_engraver     \override M

Re: More than one tempo mark in a score

On 14.02.2018 13:34, ptoye wrote: the Largo metronome mark is too far to the right as it seems to be aligned to the first silent note rather than the clef or time signature. That seems like a bug to me – I think the MetronomeMark should be aligned the same no matter whether it’s in a context o

Re: More than one tempo mark in a score

On 11.02.2018 19:00, Peter Toye wrote: More than one tempo mark in a score Is it possible to force a score to put tempo markings above more than the top line? I'd like to put the tempo changes above both of the piano parts in a duet, so the secondo player changes tempo at the same time as the p

Re: make all sharp signs and flat signs visible within one measure

Hi Gert, maybe you’d like to use \cadenzaOn \set Score.barAlways = ##t \set Score.defaultBarType = #"" That way, time will stop being measured, and line breaks be allowed between every two notes. Use \bar "|" where you want. And while “cadenza mode” is active, all accidentals will be marked a

Re: LilyPond/LaTeX template for Anglican chant

On 10.02.2018 15:09, Gregrs wrote: Dear all, In case it's useful to anyone, I've just created a template for typesetting psalms with Anglican chant using LilyPond, LaTeX and GNU Make. Looks nice, thanks for sharing! Did you consider using Urs’ lilyglyphs package for the dynamics? Of course t

Re: Change the shape of treble clef

On 08.02.2018 05:40, Shane Brandes wrote: What is it you don't like about that glyph? Your not the only person who has said as much and I have yet to hear a decent explanation. I think it’s simply a very characteristic glyph, one that sticks out and goes beyond the ordinary, and as such it’s g

Re: Interesting glitch when using tags ...

On 04.02.2018 21:27, Wols Lists wrote: The problem here is that your two melody passages are all in the same voice, and that means that f4 is_not_ the next note after f4. ~ but rather the d8 in the previous line of entry is. Oh ... so lily is being its usual rather non-intuitive self :-) That

Re: endless tab?

On 04.02.2018 14:19, bb wrote: It is not really endless but the tab does not have any line break. If I try to insert \break this will be ignored? There must be something wrong with my code I cannot figure out? Thanks for help \version "2.19.80"     \new TabStaff {     \set TabStaff.ta

Re: duration longer than meter?

On 03.02.2018 22:27, Blöchl Bernhard wrote: Thomas Hämmerle He’s called Torsten. It would help if you at least paid people the most basic courtesy. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/list

Re: duration longer than meter?

On 03.02.2018 21:22, Noeck wrote: - two voices at the same time may look like more notes than fit the measure (as in the case of this thread). - If it is unmetered music, you can use \cadenzaOn … \cadenzaOff - If the meter changes without indication, you can \omit the TimeSignature and stil

Re: duration longer than meter?

On 03.02.2018 20:56, Blöchl Bernhard wrote: Please check http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices.html If you are new to lilypond, on the bottom you can change the language of the manual. If he were new to LilyPond, he’d be better off reading

Re: duration longer than meter?

On 03.02.2018 20:14, Vivyan wrote: This excerpt is from Gymnopedie which is in 3/4 but still, this notation is involved. I'm just trying to write it into lilypond. Perhaps you should learn how to read music before copying it. Best, Simon ___ lilypon

Re: duration longer than meter?

Hi Joel, first: that’s not a minimal example. As you gave it, it only defines a variable and doesn’t print anything. On 03.02.2018 19:08, Vivyan wrote: I need these notes to fit within the same meter? Sorry, but that doesn’t make sense. A dotted half note and a quarter note are more than

Re: coding question about include-d tweak/function files

On 30.01.2018 17:22, Urs Liska wrote: Thinking about it, that would be a path to writing an \includeOnce or \require command in oll-core. The downside with that idea is that coding tools (i.e. Frescobaldi) will be able to help much less than with regular includes: no auto-completion, neither fo

Re: turning a blind eye to dotted note

On 29.01.2018 18:13, bb wrote: I already understand THAT lilypond is checking the bar lines I set myself and give me a message if wrong/critical. But I do not understand why lilypond is setting the same wrong/critical bar line WITHOUT giving me a message. As lilypond obviously checks bar length

Re: turning a blind eye to dotted note

On 29.01.2018 17:00, bb wrote: Sorry, needed some time to realize that I expect too much from lilypond to check automatically set bar lines and such "impossible cases" of 17/16 itself. There are situations where one might want notes crossing a bar line, e.g. mensural layout solutions. LilyPon

Re: where to download the "2.19.81" binary for windows

On 29.01.2018 01:11, mosea chen wrote: As the "The requested URL /lilypond/binaries/mingw/lilypond-2.19.81-1.mingw.exe was not found on this server.", where else can i get it? Do you mean the link on ? From there I have no problem downloading the file, al

Re: Verical spacings in the "header"

On 26.01.2018 22:20, Son_V wrote: Hi all I have, and thanks for you, wrote a score but there is still something to adjust; all the problems are maybe in the "header" side. here is my header: \header { composer = \markup\italic "D. Lorenzo Perosi (1872-1956)" title = "Ave Maria" subti

Re: Openlilylib edition-engraver. I need help understanding how to reference contexts.

On 26.01.2018 17:40, Blöchl Bernhard wrote: I tried your code with my standard lilypond without success. Obviously you use a package oll-core https://github.com/openlilylib/oll-core that is not part of standard install of lilypond and seems to be the central problem of your code. May be you get

Fwd: Re: how to write a single note that covers two sounds

, 25 Jan 2018 16:50:31 -0600 From: Edmundo Carmona Antoranz To: Simon Albrecht On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 12:13 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote: I’d suggest overriding extra-offset of NoteHead and Stem – seems appropriate to depart from semantically appropriate notation in such a case. If it’s a

Re: how to write a single note that covers two sounds

I’d suggest overriding extra-offset of NoteHead and Stem – seems appropriate to depart from semantically appropriate notation in such a case. If it’s a beamed note – well, then it’s more difficult… Best, Simon On 25.01.2018 15:59, Edmundo Carmona Antoranz wrote: Hi! Suppose you were transcr

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