Re: hymns: chords vs. voices

2010-01-18 Thread mike99
Thanks to all for the replies. An approach using chord structure would seem difficult, since the voices are not kept separate. The \\ and { } \\ {} structures should work, but don't seem very elegant compared to writing separate voices. After some initial discussion with someone in the

Re: exotic chord

2010-01-18 Thread mike99
Wafaic wrote: Hey, I try to write a chord, but without success. It is a Am7b5. I'd like to have Am on the same level, and 7b5 a little up the rest of the name. Is there a solution? Thanks, Éric Do you mean to typeset it as a superscript? See the Notation Reference, 1.8.2 Formatting

Re: hymns: chords vs. voices

2010-01-18 Thread mike99
Carl Sorensen-3 wrote: I set printPartCombineTexts to #f. I have just lived with it. But given your experience with chords, I decided to try putting a chord with a transparent note in the voice that needed the extra stem: soprano = \relative c'' { a f e d | e g c b } alto

Re: Change fonts for lyrics

2010-01-18 Thread mike99
Robert Clausecker wrote: I want to know how to change the font for text inside a \lyricmode tag. I were able to solve this by simply redefine all fonts, but that wasn't is not that I wanted to get. Newbie though I may be, you'll find a

Re: Adding Rehearsal Marks, v2.12.2

2010-01-18 Thread mike99
rasAK wrote: Apologies...I'm sure this is addressed somewhere (but I did search the documentation and this forum!). How do I add rehearsal letters to an existing score without going through and adding a \mark for every letter in every part? Thanks so much! Randy -- View this

Re: vertical spacing issue

2010-01-18 Thread mike99
Helge Kruse-2 wrote: Hello, I think, vertical spacing issues have been discussed often here. But even playing around with VerticalAxisGroup doesn't get my score in an acceptible design. The demerit is that the staves are pinned together while the dynamics line gets huge space.

Re: vertical spacing issue

2010-01-18 Thread mike99
Sorry, I didn't notice that this is double posted. Post that got responses: http://old.nabble.com/Adding-Rehearsal-Marks%2C-v2.12.2-ts27204042.html -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/vertical-spacing-issue-tp27197518p27217782.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing

Re: Header and page number

2010-01-18 Thread mike99
Thomas Scharkowski wrote: Hi, I use the following to get a centered header on all pages and page numbers. How can I avoid the page number on the first page? Thank you, Thomas -- \paper { oddHeaderMarkup = \markup \fill-line { A /Z \fromproperty

Re: header in score block not working

2010-01-02 Thread mike99
There's nothing wrong with your example, it's just not doing as you intended: see the Notation Reference, 3.2.1, Creating titles. Lilypond documentation wrote: If you define the \header inside the \score block, then normally only the piece and opus headers will be printed. Note that the music

hymns: chords vs. voices

2010-01-01 Thread mike99
Greetings, After a few days of reading and coding, I'm entering the steep part of the learning curve as a new user. Years ago I used MusiXTeX with pmx and M-tx, and the different is appreciable. I'm gearing up for a song-book project, and it looks like LP will win out over MuseScore and any