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2014-01-15 Thread jensgc
Simon Bailey-5 wrote > have you seen: > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/skipping-corrected-music > ? Excellent! Highly useful - although it is a bit annoying to see a large bunch of warnings when the showLastLength is set. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.

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2014-01-15 Thread jensgc
Kieren MacMillan wrote > Having just engraved 25 minutes of large forces music for voices and > instruments (57 staves, for ~330 performers!), I **HIGHLY** recommend you > avoid doing things like that in future scores. Thanks for the advice. I'm only on my 4th "real" score in Lilypond so I'll take

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2014-01-15 Thread jensgc
Kieren MacMillan wrote >> In regards to tempo markings, it is a different matter, since any change >> in >> tempo needs to apply to each and every voice in the system. It makes >> perfect >> sense that the \tempo marking always goes to the System - I just don't >> understand why it is much more dif

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2014-01-15 Thread jensgc
Trevor Daniels wrote > ? > \tempo "ritardando" Not a bad idea - but I would then have to abandon the idea of the normal "rit. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ al" construct where the text spans the entire duration of the ritardando. Think I'll try a feature request for a SystemSpanner - and perhaps a \startTe

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2014-01-15 Thread jensgc
jensgc wrote > The reason I don't like the idea of a global "structure" definition is > that I have the individual parts (e.g. the quartet and the choir parts) > defined in seperate files to be able to test and work with them > independently. Having the \time and \key de

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2014-01-15 Thread jensgc
Simon Bailey-5 wrote >> If I add the music from the topmost staff to a separate dynamics context >> (placed above that staff), will dynamics context then be printed twice? > > yes, that's correct. the music is suppressed, but the dynamics will be > shown. this is why i suggested using a global str

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2014-01-15 Thread jensgc
Simon Bailey-5 wrote > this is untested, but what might work would be to set up your score > with a Dynamics context at the top. Don't be mislead by it being > called Dynamics, you can put ANYTHING in there, doesn't have to be > Dynamics (I use one for putting pedal markings in piano staves for > i

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2014-01-15 Thread jensgc
Eluze wrote > you can define the spanner in its own (dynamic) context and move it > wherever you want: thanks for the answer. I am aware of the possibility to have the dynamics in a separate voice - and it might be the solution here. I am however not fond of having to enter dynamics in a voice "wi