Hi Everyone,
I don't know if anyone else has similar problems but 2.11.16 and 2.11.17
with the automatic staff stretching I'm getting strange results... most of
my scores end up compiling with...
warning: Can't fit systems on page -- ignoring between-system-padding
my between-system-padding
Hi Trevor and all,
I've been watching your thread on controlling vertical space as I'm very
interested in this area.
Joe Neeman gave me the following advice early in January of putting the
strict control into the layout blook as follows:
\layout {
\context { \Score \override
.
I've included an example below.
Regards,
Trent Johnston
\version 2.11.0
#(set-global-staff-size 16)
\header {
}
\include english.ly
staffViolin = \new Staff {
\time 4/4
\set Staff.midiInstrument=violin
\key c \major
\clef treble
\relative c'' {
%bar 1
c4 d8. c32 d e8 f g4~
%bar 2
g8
Hi Gilles,
Just put a space (s) between the figures.
ie.
68 s 6 5/4 _- |
6 _-4 6 5/8 s 5 |
It only needs to be done when like figures occur in different positions.
i.e. 6 6 5 The first 6 is in second position when compare with the
following 6 in first position followed by 5. Putting the
Hi Everyone,
The latest Lilypond 2.11.1 on my work laptop and home computer is extremely
slow.. to the point of going in what seems to be an infinite loop.
I've monitored the process with task manager and noticed that Lilypond
(gauging from the memory usage of this version and the previous
Thanks Mats, Bertalan.
I'll give it a try.
Trent
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Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: \afterGrace - afterGraceFraction [Lilypond 2.10.0 Windows]
|
Hi Graham,
I don't think these are bugs as such. It's got to do aligning the extender
line. If you place a spacer (s8 etc) between the figures the figures are
printed the right way.
as in the example below taken from Issue 103: if you reduce the length of
the figure to 8 and put a 's'
Hello Everyone,
After a couple of days of trial and error I've come up with an alternative
way of placing incipits in a score. Rather than have every system in your
score have an incipit as in the Transcription of mensural music example.
The attached code (also below) lets the user create an
Hi Everyone,
I've come across problem in moving the dot on a dotted note. I'm trying to
move the dot to the right so as a note in voice 2 doesn't clash with the
dot.
Is there a way to do this?
I've looked in the manual and I think this is the property I should be
changing:
DotColumn
Thanks!!!
Trent
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Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: Moving Dot on Dotted Note - Lilypond 2.9.17 Windows.
| How about
| \once \override Dots
Thanks!!1
hehe forgot to click onto the next link.
Trent
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Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: Moving Dot on Dotted Note - Lilypond 2.9.17 Windows.
| Hi Trent,
|
| DotColumn
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Daniel
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Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 12:55
PM
Subject: hyphens and spacing lyrics
I
don't like hyphens disappearing in the lyrics. How can I force them to stay in
the lyrics. Also the lyrics
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Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 6:24 AM
Subject: forcing even eighth notes in a single bar
[ v. 2.9.15 ]
Hello, all --
I've got a bar of vocal (choral) text which ends up
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Subject: How to typeset this?
| I'm trying to typeset the attached measure (from brahms horn trio
| piano part, let me know if it works) in lilypond. Here's the best
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Subject: Re: figured bass : flat over figure
Jean-marc LEGRAND wrote:
hi list !
using XP lily 2.8.3
I've
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Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 2:42 AM
Subject: Re: Python scripts on WindowsXP, was: abc2ly on Windows XP
Trent,
When I first installed 2.9.9 I had this problem a lot too. I found that
if
I ran the
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| With version
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Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: Problem with Last Syllable of a Lyrics
| Hello,
|
| It looks like both last syllables only have a single hyphen instead of
the
| usual
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From: Alexander Brock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 8:50 AM
Subject: Problem with Last Syllable of a Lyrics
Hello,
When I write \lyrics { } Lilypond forgets the last syllable of it.
The log doesn't contain errors:
#
Hi Martin,
Mats gave me this help awhile ago which still works.
normalRests = {
\revert Rest #'direction
\revert MultiMeasureRest #'staff-position
}
place this at the start of a file and use \normalRests before the rest you
want to change.
Trent
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From:
Hi,
I'm trying to remove the starting trill symbol from the TrillSpanner so I
end up with just a wavey line.
I've followed the TrillSpanner description but
\override TrillSpanner #'edge-text = #'( . )
Doesn't work.
Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks in advance.
Trent
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Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: remove Trill from TrillSpanner.
| The following example works excellently here:
|
| \version 2.8.0
| \relative c'{
| \override TrillSpanner #'edge-text = #'( . )
| c
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From: Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Trent Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 3:30 AM
Subject: Re: More Figured Bass Improvements... (potential sponsorship)
| Trent Johnston schreef:
| Hi Han-Wen
the Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher
Werke: Bärenreiter illustrating this.
Also I was looking at making the numbers 10 / 11 / 12 as one symbol. This
would make the numbers as in:
10
5
3
centred in the group rather than left aligned.
Thanks
Trent Johnston
BWV74M2.PNG
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Thanks!!
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Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: Beam Positions
| This clearly looks like a bug, so I forward it to bug-lilypond
especially when using
pairs of numbers as there are other overrides that require to pairs. e.g.
extra-offset.
Thanks again,
Trent
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Cc: Trent Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Paul Scott
[EMAIL
Hello again,
I'm having trouble with changing the lengths of beams. When I use:
\once \override Beam #'positions = #'(1 . 1.5)
in the below example I get a strange beamed group. The 32nd beamed notes
stick out. No matter how I adjust the numbers the 32nd notes stick out. I've
added a
Hello,
I was wondering if someone could help me in using
scheme to make a short cut.
I'm trying to simplify:
\once \override Beam #'positions = #'( number .
number )
using a shortcut say \manBeam and specify the
numbers beginning and ending beam height. I want to use this to alter the
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Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: Using Scheme
| Paul Scott wrote:
| Trent Johnston wrote:
| Hello,
|
| I was wondering if someone could help me in using scheme to make a
| short cut.
|
| I'm trying
combinations
ERROR: Wrong type (expecting real number): lilyvartmpb
From what I can piece together from the documentation and the user-list I
think there is something more I need to do.. but can't figure that out.
Trent
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To: Trent Johnston
thanx for all your help..
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Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: Using Scheme
| Trent Johnston wrote:
| Sorry I should have been a bit more specific before
.
Is there something I can do to stop the error from happening?
Regards,
Trent Johnston
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I am at and hopefully
provide me with some clues as to put what where?
Thanks
Trent
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From: Nicolas Sceaux [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Trent Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 7:05 AM
Subject: Re: Example of two-pass vertical
Hello,
Just a quick question.
I'm currently entering a score with a bass figure line and sometimes on the
line there are dynamics. Is there a way to make the dymanic line transparent
to the figured bass line so that the figured bass isn't placed underneath
the dynamic marks.
Trent
better at keeping lyrics within a barline..
Again thanks to Han-Wen and Thies for their advice.
Trent
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From: Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Cc: Thies Albrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006
Thanks Thies,
That worked perfectly.
May this should be added to the documentation??
Trent
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From: Thies Albrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: Putting Lyrics between barlines / Lyrics and
if there is an
associated lyric.
Now for that \appogiatura problem... and why lyrics alignment to the
appogiatura note and not the main note.
Trent
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From: Thies Albrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Trent Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lilypond
lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Friday, February 10
Hello Everyone,
I posted this message a while ago and got no response so I'll try again in
hope that someone might know what is going on.
In the posted example I've put both
\context { \Lyrics \consists "Bar_engraver" }\context {
\Lyrics \consists "Separating_line_group_engraver" }
In
Hello All,
I'm not sure if this is a bug or but I'll try here
first. The length of the beamed grace notes in this bar appear to be very
elongated is this how they are supposed to appear? Is there a way to shorten the
stem length of the beamed grace notes?
I've tried \override Beam
I've had another look at this and noticed that the
artificats are actually bits of barlines below the lyric line. I'm not sure
whether this is a bug or I've done something wrong.
Again any help appreciated.
Trent
I've attached a proper example showing
Hello,
I've also found that
using Word or Open Office Word is good for entering lyrics. I enter the lyrics
in whole words in to the word processor which allows easy entry of accented
characters and also gives the better typographical apostrophes and quotes
automatically. This can all be
I've attached a proper example showing this
problem. The .ps/.pdf file produce there shows dots and other artifacts mixed
with the lyrics.
I've tried both Windows and Linux versions of
2.7.27 both outputs display this problem.
Any help appreciated.
Trent
Good Afternnon
again,
Good Afternnon again,
I'm currently playing around with lyrics trying to
get them stay within the barline. I am doing this because sometimes a word or
syllable will end up hanging outside the right hand side of a score (still under
a note but because the length of the syllable it can
Good Afternoon All,
I just have a couple ofquestions
regarding layout.
I know that Lilypond does it best to layout a
score. This is well and fine when a score contains enough staff so one staff
group fits on each page e.g. a large orchestral score there's no problem the
score is laid out
Hello everyone,
I'm trying to pull all the various parts of a score
and place them into one score. I've been experimenting with many different ways
of putting a file together. The one thing I can't seem to do is make a page
break. I've followed (I think -- well it looks right) the manual on
Thanks Graham.
I'm looking at the 2.7 documentation online and under 10.1.11 Page breaking
the reference to adding piece is not there..
Regards,
Trent
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From: Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent
As a regular user of Sibelius and Lilypond I can safely say that Lilypond
tends to come out on top.
Sibelius while a very beautiful and attractive program GUI wise, it is let
down by this very fact! (same as Finale). Sibelius cannot make adjustments
on the fly as each note or lyric is inputted.
Hi All,
I've recently installed 2.7.26 in both Windows and
Fedora formats. Both versions seem to use the Feta font for lyrics and titles so
I end up with music symbols rather than words.
Anyone else have similar problems? It seems the the
problem affects both versions.
Trent
Hi Again,
Am I right in assuming now that when I use the \new
StaffGroup that this will only work when there are multiple staves within
it.
So in the example below I get the bracket around
the two violin staves. But the \new StaffGroup just around the the bass
instrument partthe command
No problem...
Just hadn't seen anyone mention it..
Thanks
Trent
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Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 1:38 AM
Subject: Re: Fonts - 2.7.26 / Windows and Fedora
That did the trick...
Thanks..
Trent
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From: Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Trent Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 1:38 AM
Subject: Re: \new StaffGroup difficulties...
I considered the previous
Thanks... I gave it a try... it kinda works.. but works better when I make
the lyrics a little smaller.
Trent
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To: Trent Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 2:01 AM
Subject
\with {
% \remove Bar_engraver
} { b1 b1 }
%
% end ly snippet
%
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From: Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Trent Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED
.
My third question is when using Opus in a header. When I use this command
it seems to be repeated at the beginning of each new section when a piece
made up of smaller pieces is joined together.
Currently I'm using 2.7.25 - Fedora RPM.
Any help appreciated.
Regards,
Trent Johnston
Good evening all,
I suppose this email is directed
at Han-Wen since I am
looking a possibly sponsoring a new feature.
I was wondering whether slurs could be made to encase
tuplet numbers. i.e. the slur would go over the number and not through
thenumber as it does now...
Could the tuplet
Hello again,
I am having trouble with figured bass extender
lines for some reason in bar 3 the second 5 will not produce an extender
line.
Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong... it
works in the second bar but for some strange reason it stops work in the third
bar.
BTW: Windows XP
Thanks!!
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Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: FiguredBass Bug??
Trent Johnston wrote:
Hello again,
I am having trouble with figured bass
Sounds good to me...!!
Thanks
Trent
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From: Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Trent Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: Slurs around tuplets / tuplets inside staff - Could this be a
sponsored
but unfortunately this doesn't
seem to work as I get a whole new staff above the violin either with staff lines
or no staff lines but with a clef.
I've attached a snippet of the code so you can see
where I might have gone wrong.
Any help appreciated..
Regards,
Trent Johnston
% Created on Fri Oct 21 12:49
Was only meaning old fashioned from a editoral mark point of view... and
that Lilypond can render similar now.
Parenthesis were easier around slurs and ties for the engraver than to try
and keep dashes or dots evenly spaced throughout the slur or tie.
As I said previously most editoral (meaning
Hi Gianluca,
The method of putting parenthesis around slurs and ties.. is old
fashioned...
The most acceptable way is to either used a dotted slur or tie or dashed
slur or tie..
Lilypond can do these already...
\tieDotted \tieDashed and don't forget to use \tieSolid to go back to normal
ties.
applies to
the music expression after the first argument. In other words, you have to
enclose all the music into curly braces.
Thanks again,
Trent
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Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent
Thank you once again Mats...
Does this ever come up enough to be documented somwhere??
Trent
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Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: \compressMusic
Message -
From: Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Trent Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: Beginning a piece with tuplets with a grace note or
appoggiatura
If you read the manual a bit more carefully, you will notice
note that it's the position of
the staccatissimo's that always the slur to be wrapped with the slur ).
Regards,
Trent Johnston
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Hi all me yet again,
Can any one enlighten me on how point and click is supposed to work.
I'm trying to get jEdit up and running with point and click.. but all that I
get is a redirection to an old installation of jEdit (well it actually
involves the old version of Java).
My question is how
Hello again,
I'm currently typesetting a trio sonata by
Locatelli...
In one movement the the two flutes are in 12/8 time
while the Continuo part is in Common time.
This is ok I thought I can set the flute parts
intuplets and fake12/8 time-signature at the beginning... since
essentially
please note that it's the position of
the staccatissimo's that always the slur to be wrapped with the slur ).
Regards,
Trent Johnston
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e8 c4 bf'8 af( g) f r4 r8
%bar 7
d4. f4. bf, r4 r8
\bar |.
}
}
\score {
\staffFlute
\midi {
}
\layout {
}
}
\paper {
}
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From: Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent
Hi All,
A quick update on viewing postscript files in
windows... especially gsview...
Thanks to the response by Peter Mongensen I was
able to view the postscript file he created... this was created
with
Linux.Debian Sarge+DeMuDiLilypond
2.4.5tetex-bin
2.0.2-30gs
8.01-5
This means
Thanks for that Peter...
It's been on the list for a while... the windows native version produces a
postscript file that can't be viewed for some reason...
The postscript files produced with the linux version of Lilypond can be
viewed...
Obviously it's bug with Lilypond and not with the windows
Hi Peter,
The postscript file you have with your ly file on the website.. was that
produced with a linux or windows native or windows cgwin version of
lilypond??
This is quite off topic to what you originally sent the email for... but
windows users have had trouble opening postscript files
Thanks Mats,
For testing this also.. thought I was going a bit mad... I use Musixtex as
well (although working hard to migrate over to lilypond) and I have no
trouble with using gsview to look at the postscript files produced.
As I've said before there doesn't seem to be any other postcript
Hello all again,
I've been using lilypond on and off for a couple of years
now. Usually I get turned off when trying to tweak a score to make the output
better.
I've read the manual dozens of times for each version..
but always get tripped up with the \overrides \contexts etc... I'm a
Thanks Henry..
Obvisously that gsview has some problems...
Has anyone else gotten gsview to work with the lilypond .ps output?
Or does any one else use another postscript viewer in windows??
Trent
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From: Henrik Frisk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Trent Johnston [EMAIL
Hello everyone,
Firstly the required out the way:
Platform: Windows XP
Lilypond Version: 2.7.8
I have been using the new version(s) of Lilypond for a while and
I find the us of PDF file a little annoying especially when fine tuning a score.
You have to remember to close out of the
Hi All,
I finally figured how to use markup's to overwrite an exisiting time
signature.. I realised I asked this question a while ago and found the code
again.
\time 8/4\override Staff.TimeSignature
#'print-function = #Text_item::print\override Staff.TimeSignature #'text =
\markup {\number
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