Re: \change staff

2014-12-19 Thread tisimst
Try this. I know there are multiple ways for doing this (like changing beam-knee-length, or whatever), but it's a quick hack that works (sorry it's for 2.18.2, but I think you can convert it back): %-- SNIP - \version 2.18.2 \language english right = { \time 4/4

Re: chordmode variables

2014-12-13 Thread tisimst
Mike, Yes! That can be an excellent way to organize the different parts of your score. Glad you like LilyPond! Regards, Abraham On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Mike Kilmer [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n169405...@n5.nabble.com wrote: Hi all. Loving lilypond! Does this look like a

Re: Dissapearing lyrics

2014-12-11 Thread tisimst
Tim, They actually aren't equivalent, but that becomes most apparent when associating lyrics to the voices. When using the \\ syntax to designate voices, this implicitly creates totally new voices wherever used, even though it puts them correctly in the voiceOne/voiceTwo directions, which may

Re: Intra-part vertical spacing

2014-12-10 Thread tisimst
, but to no avail. I’d neved thought of this solution by myself, it’s worth including in the notation manual IMHO. A nice day! JM Le 10 déc. 2014 à 08:23:21, tisimst [hidden email] a écrit : Jacques, I assume you are referring to vertical spacing between the staff above and the marks you

Re: Intra-part vertical spacing

2014-12-09 Thread tisimst
Jacques, I assume you are referring to vertical spacing between the staff above and the marks you noted? An easy way to add more space is to do something like this in the same \markup block: \tempo \markup{ \column{ \vspace #1 \box\smaller{3. America} {Moderately bright} }

Re: Spacing question.

2014-12-08 Thread tisimst
Hwaen, Unfortunately, the double-flat is not a composite of two single flats, at least not in LilyPond. It is a single character and, thus, there is no spacing to adjust. I suppose you could re-code the accidental engine to use two single flats, but that's probably more than you wanted deal

Re: Multimeasure rest log errors

2014-12-03 Thread tisimst
Did you include: \language english I feel like I see errors like that when I forget to set the language. HTH, Abraham Sent from my iPhone On Dec 3, 2014, at 2:56 PM, Guy Stalnaker-2 [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n169173...@n5.nabble.com wrote: All, I'm seeing this in the lilypond

Re: Text fonts

2014-11-20 Thread tisimst
Urs, Not sure if this would be of any help to you, but here's a condensed variant of the full Vollkorn family. Regards, Abraham On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Urs Liska [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n16874...@n5.nabble.com wrote: Am 16.11.2014 01:10, schrieb Noeck: Hi Urs, you

Re: Text fonts

2014-11-20 Thread tisimst
style. Did you do that? If yes, how is the relation between automated scaling and manual decisions? Best Urs Am 20.11.2014 14:19, schrieb tisimst: Urs, Not sure if this would be of any help to you, but here's a condensed variant of the full Vollkorn family. Regards, Abraham

Re: Text fonts

2014-11-20 Thread tisimst
,” which is the same as the full name for Vollkorn Regular. How does the style sheet distinguish between the two versions? Stan On Nov 20, 2014, at 8:24 AM, tisimst [hidden email] wrote: I'm afraid I don't entirely understand your question... -Abraham Sent from my iPhone On Nov

Re: Text fonts

2014-11-20 Thread tisimst
Urs, On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Urs Liska [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n16884...@n5.nabble.com wrote: Am 20.11.2014 15:24, schrieb tisimst: I'm afraid I don't entirely understand your question... 1) Did you produce the condensed set? Yes. 2) If so, did you design the glyph

Re: Text fonts

2014-11-20 Thread tisimst
On Nov 20, 2014, at 9:32 AM, Urs Liska [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n168848...@n5.nabble.com wrote: Am 20.11.2014 17:27, schrieb tisimst: Urs, On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Urs Liska [via Lilypond] [hidden email] wrote: Am 20.11.2014 15:24, schrieb tisimst: I'm afraid I don't

Re: Text fonts

2014-11-20 Thread tisimst
Looks good, tyronicus! Thanks for sharing that. What settings did you use? -Abraham Sent from my iPhone On Nov 20, 2014, at 10:46 AM, tyronicus [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n168851...@n5.nabble.com wrote: I have no idea what I'm doing (just downloaded FontForge for the first time),

Re: Markup : convert to v2.18/v2.19 generate error

2014-11-18 Thread tisimst
How about using define-scheme-function instead? -Abraham Sent from my iPhone On Nov 18, 2014, at 3:15 AM, Schneidy [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n16878...@n5.nabble.com wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to convert this v2.16 file :

Re: Partitura orquestal

2014-11-14 Thread tisimst
Luis, No problem! I think Google Translate was able to help me understand what you needed help with. Read the attached file carefully. It should answer all your questions so far. Regards, Abraham On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Luis F. Gordillo Navarro [via Lilypond]

Re: Lyric Spacing With Slurs - Help Requested

2014-11-12 Thread tisimst
Br. Jorgensen, I used your snippet (with slight corrections) and I don't get any spacing errors (see attached). Here's my code: %- SNIP -- \score { \new Staff \relative c' { \time 3/4 \key g \major e4( f) g | f( d) fis | }

Re: Piano crossings and ottava indications don't get along?

2014-11-09 Thread tisimst
Ryan, Here's what I've got for you (in bold). Firstly, using explicit voices fixes the stem directions. The OttavaBracket's seem to be mis-behaving (and not showing up at all in the second measure, left hand--probably a bug), so you'll need some temporary overrides, but this should give you

Re: Vertical brackets with text around chords

2014-11-09 Thread tisimst
Ryan, My workaround behaves a little differently when there's a single bracket and when there are two. When there's one, the examples that Mark posted have good numbers for the half-brackets, you just might need to re-arrange them if you want to put them on the right side of the note. You

Re: Piano crossings and ottava indications don't get along?

2014-11-09 Thread tisimst
Ryan, I figured out what was going on with the other OttavaBracket. It turns out that if you change staff AND change the ottavation at the same musical moment, then you must \change Staff FIRST for the OttavaBracket to appear in the lower voice. So, here's the updated (correct) code:

Re: midi tempo

2014-11-09 Thread tisimst
Joram, Sorry for being so late to chime in on this. Fortunately, it's easier than you think: % SNIP -- \version 2.18.2 { \once \set Score.tempoHideNote = ##t \tempo Allegro 4 = 100 a } % SNIP -- The override just hides the

Re: manual 5.4.2 Direction and placement

2014-11-07 Thread tisimst
The reason it doesn't work is that you cannot put the duration within the chord brackets: g g'4 and not g g'4 Regards, Abraham On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 2:19 AM, Dr. Bernhard Kleine [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n168483...@n5.nabble.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

Re: Vertically centering refrain lyrics?

2014-11-05 Thread tisimst
Greg, AFAIK, there isn't an automatic way to vertically center-align the lyrics. However, here's a little function (\dropLyrics) that makes it easier that I created based on an entry in the LSR. It works best when the refrain is found within the verse that is closest (ABOVE) to the center

Re: Changing thickness of ParenthesesItem

2014-11-04 Thread tisimst
Harm, The parentheses are static glyphs from the music font, so there's no way that I know of to simply make it bolder (i.e., there's no bold version of emmentaler). You might be able to change this by setting the font-encoding to latin1 and using another font for the parentheses that has a

Re: Where to Download the New Music Fonts?

2014-11-04 Thread tisimst
Nope. By majority vote, the name changed from Amadeus to Scorlatti, in honor of the SCORE notation system, the inspiration of the font. Did you see somewhere on the website that said Scarlatti instead? -Abraham Sent from my iPhone On Nov 4, 2014, at 6:09 AM, Son_V [via Lilypond]

Re: ties over voices, again

2014-11-03 Thread tisimst
Mark, This should do it: \new Staff \with { \consists Tie_engraver } { ... } HTH, Abraham On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Mark Stephen Mrotek [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n168354...@n5.nabble.com wrote: Hello, In a response to my query about creating ties over explicit voices,

Re: Where to Download the New Music Fonts?

2014-11-02 Thread tisimst
No, I haven't attempted anything related to ancient notation. What kind of improvements are you thinking of? -Abraham Sent from my iPhone On Nov 2, 2014, at 4:31 AM, Jayaratna [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n168293...@n5.nabble.com wrote: Very interesting developements here. I love

Re: Melismata and slur with a new syllable at the end

2014-10-31 Thread tisimst
Jacques, The problem is that the melisma you are copying continues through the last note where you want to put the o. If it MUST be that way, there are actually a couple of ways to do it. Here's one (use a phrasingSlur): % SNIP \version 2.18.2 Alto =

Re: In 3/4 measures how to code pauses which last one measure

2014-10-31 Thread tisimst
Bernhard, Full measure rests are controlled via the MultiMeasureRest context. Here's how you would do what you want (don't forget the R syntax): %-- START SNIP - \version 2.19.15 \language deutsch global = { \key c \major \time 3/4 } soprano =

Re: inputting with explicit voices

2014-10-31 Thread tisimst
Mark, If I understand you correctly, this is because of a single \relative a the beginning of the polyphony. Yes? Like, \relative c' { \new Voice { \voiceOne ... } \new Voice { \voiceTwo ... } } Then, yes, whatever pitch is used last in the \voiceOne section will determine the

Re: Big Music Font Update

2014-10-29 Thread tisimst
] wrote: Am 29. Oktober 2014 07:56:30 MEZ, schrieb Federico Bruni [hidden email]: Il giorno mer 29 ott 2014 alle 0:50, tisimst [hidden email] ha scritto: Sorry for the confusion, but I'm pretty sure I said, look on the MAIN page (emphasis added). There are definitely

Re: Clef change at the beginning of a staff

2014-10-29 Thread tisimst
Joram, On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Joram [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n168094...@n5.nabble.com wrote: Answering my own question, I find this easier/shorter and more compatible with simultaneous staves: \relative c' { %% Start with a bass clef \clef bass

RE:Slur and acciaccatura in chords

2014-10-29 Thread tisimst
Stephen, On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Stephen MacNeil [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n168097...@n5.nabble.com wrote: Hi Abraham, Thanks for all the help. I do like your code it works really nice. As for the voices And just so you know, the { ... }\\{ ... } implicitly applies

Re: customizing music fonts

2014-10-29 Thread tisimst
, Abraham Sent from my iPhone On Oct 29, 2014, at 5:48 PM, Flaming Hakama by Elaine [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n16810...@n5.nabble.com wrote: On Abraham Lee's page https://sites.google.com/site/tisimst/Home/custom-font-how-to#localized-font-changes there is an example of mix

Re:tie and slur problem

2014-10-28 Thread tisimst
Stephen, You should realize that there are two ways to add grace-style notes to your music (sorry, this also relates to the other thread Slur and acciaccatura in chords): 1. \grace (no slur) \appogiatura (automatic slur) 2. \slashedGrace (no slur) \acciaccatura (automatic slur) If you need

Re: (no subject)

2014-10-28 Thread tisimst
Stephen, On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Stephen MacNeil [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n168040...@n5.nabble.com wrote: I understand that however you still can not control what note it goes to. \slashedGrace b8_( e, a c4 ) How would I indicate to have the slur attach to the 'a' note?

Re: Big Music Font Update

2014-10-28 Thread tisimst
Federico, On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Federico Bruni [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n168044...@n5.nabble.com wrote: Hey Abraham, wonderful work! I didn't have the time to try your fonts so far. I'm trying now but I can't find any minimal example in the website. All I have to do is

Re: Big Music Font Update

2014-10-28 Thread tisimst
, but maybe I do. -Abraham Sent from my iPhone On Oct 28, 2014, at 4:51 PM, Federico Bruni [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n168049...@n5.nabble.com wrote: Il giorno mar 28 ott 2014 alle 23:29, tisimst [hidden email] ha scritto: You need to do two things: 1. Install the fonts in the correct

Re: Updated to LilyPond 2.18.02

2014-10-28 Thread tisimst
Keith, Sounds awesome! When you've got something done, please let me know so I can showcase it on the website! Happy Engraving, Abraham Sent from my iPhone On Oct 28, 2014, at 6:21 PM, keith Luke [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n168052...@n5.nabble.com wrote: I just updated to LilyPond

RE:Slur and acciaccatura in chords

2014-10-27 Thread tisimst
This is an interesting problem... It begs the question, Can slurs be made to start/end on arbitrary chord notes? It appears that they cannot, but can they be made to do so? I don't think I'd personally have too much use for the functionality, but it appears that it might be useful. Regards,

Big Music Font Update

2014-10-27 Thread tisimst
Hey, Everyone! I just thought I'd let you know that I've been busy with some more font work. Head on over to fonts.openlilylib.org http://fonts.openlilylib.org to see what's new! Here are the *highlights*: - All fonts now have *WOFF font file support* in addition to OTF and SVG (though, I

Re: Tempo mark of eighth note = eighth note

2014-10-24 Thread tisimst
Knute, \markup { \general-align #Y #DOWN \note #8 #1 = \general-align #Y #DOWN \note #8 #1 } Regards, Abraham P.S. I don't fully understand the syntax, but that does what you asked for. On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Knute Snortum [via Lilypond]

Re: Setting entire document fonts

2014-10-24 Thread tisimst
Richard, Internally, when you call set-global-staff-size, it resets the text fonts. Thus, if you want to use a different staff size, that must go PRIOR to where you define the fonts. Kinda weird, I know, but that's how it works. HTH, Abraham Sent from my iPhone On Oct 24, 2014, at 10:29

Re: Overriding header fonts in a template

2014-10-02 Thread tisimst
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Jeff Harris [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n167073...@n5.nabble.com wrote: I am trying to modify header fonts for the requirement of a publisher. I would rather not use text markup commands in the header, as it's not simple to change multiple works at

Re: Strange happenings with alternate music fonts 2.19.14

2014-09-26 Thread tisimst
Thanks! I'm glad to hear that you find them useful. Donations are not required, but certainly appreciated :) Regards, Abraham Sent from my iPhone On Sep 26, 2014, at 1:51 PM, Joshua Nichols [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n166837...@n5.nabble.com wrote: Thanks Abraham. See attached.

Re: Strange happenings with alternate music fonts 2.19.14

2014-09-26 Thread tisimst
That's the one I was referring to :) Thank you for referencing the issue's link. Regards, Abraham Sent from my iPhone On Sep 26, 2014, at 1:54 PM, TaoCG [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n166838...@n5.nabble.com wrote: My guess is that it has nothing to do with the new fonts. See this

Re: Henle Music font

2014-09-25 Thread tisimst
+s1069038n166783...@n5.nabble.com wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, tisimst wrote: Here it is! The new Henle look-a-like music font. I call it Beethoven after the score from which many of the glyphs were based off of. Check it out at and download it from fonts.openlilylib.org http

Re: Mapping custom drum notes to MIDI notes?

2014-09-24 Thread tisimst
I'm not at a computer to see if this works, but could you, if there aren't too many instruments, do simultaneous voices with a midiInstrument set for each percussion instrument? It's certainly not an elegant nor robust of a solution, but it may get you what you want for now. Regards, Abraham

Re: Mapping custom drum notes to MIDI notes?

2014-09-24 Thread tisimst
:11 GMT+02:00 tisimst [hidden email]: I'm not at a computer to see if this works, but could you, if there aren't too many instruments, do simultaneous voices with a midiInstrument set for each percussion instrument? It's certainly not an elegant nor robust of a solution, but it may get you what

Re: Henle Music font

2014-09-24 Thread tisimst
Kieren MacMillan wrote Hi all, I would really like to see [a font like the 1953/6 versions] being combined with Kieren's Henle stylesheets. I would really like to put that example together! =) Cheers, Kieren. ___ Kieren MacMillan, composer www:

Re: \override #'(font-series . medium) doesn't work anymore?

2014-09-19 Thread tisimst
Schneidy wrote Hi Malte, 2014-09-19 10:35 GMT+02:00 Malte Meyn lt; lilypond@ gt;: Did you and Karol expect “medium” to be something other than “normal”? Yes and no: Yes because I've never used \medium before so I was expecting a font look between Normal and Bold And no because

Re: fonts.openlilylib.org is live!

2014-09-12 Thread tisimst
Guy Stalnaker-2 wrote Abraham, Simply wonderful! LOVE Haydn. Seriously, it makes me happy (I know, I'm a font geek) to see a score with that font. Only quibble are the stylesheets. On a kubuntu Linux install, I cannot get them working in Frescobaldi. I added the the path to the

Re: Henle Music font

2014-09-12 Thread tisimst
Janek Warchoł wrote Hi, I like the middle two samples better than remaining ones. But i don't know whether they would be the most representative ones for Henle, so count my vote with reduced weight :) cheers, Janek Janek, Thanks for your input. Do you have access to any scores,

Re: fonts.openlilylib.org is live!

2014-09-10 Thread tisimst
tisimst wrote Thanks, Peter! I realized shortly after posting this that there are a bunch of other things that I forgot to update a bunch of other things, so I'm taking the page off for a day or so until I've had a chance to go through everything. Sorry! Stay tuned! Ok, I think I've got all

Re: Henle Music font

2014-09-10 Thread tisimst
Henning Hraban Ramm-3 wrote At least in most of Europe and the USA there’s no copyright on the look of fonts at all, just sometimes a trademark on the name. That’s why there exist so much clones under different names. The rationale behind the „missing“ copyright is somewhat complicated (I

Re: fonts.openlilylib.org is live!

2014-09-10 Thread tisimst
Paul Morris wrote Looks good Abraham! Nice work. Here's a little feature request for the website: it would be nice to be able to see a visual overview of all the different fonts -- where you can see the example images from each font all on the same page, back-to-back for easy visual

Re: fonts.openlilylib.org is live!

2014-09-09 Thread tisimst
Peter Crighton-4 wrote This is fantastic, many thanks, Abraham and everybody else involved! By the way, the link to the Gutenberg1939 font sampler contains a small typo, it should be: http://fonts.openlilylib.org/gutenberg1939/font-sampler-Gutenberg1939.pdf -- Peter Crighton | Musician

Which Henle style?

2014-09-05 Thread tisimst
All, When I posted earlier this year about the availability of some new music fonts, some of you indicated the desire to have a Henle look-a-like music font (there were others, too, but let's stick with this for now). I've gone through some Urtext editions from Henle, but they all use different

Re: Many staff contexts do not nest

2014-08-04 Thread tisimst
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:26 AM, David Kastrup [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n165304...@n5.nabble.com wrote: Richard Shann [hidden email] writes: The documentation says that staff groups can be nested, but many don't appear to work, e.g. this \version 2.18.0 \score {

Re: See the new music fonts in action

2014-08-03 Thread tisimst
tisimst wrote tisimst wrote On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Urs Liska [via Lilypond] lt; ml-node+s1069038n165017h36@.nabble gt; wrote: Good idea. Would you just collect votes in this thread or should we do something more formal? Urs Alright everyone, Here's something

Re: See the new music fonts in action

2014-07-31 Thread tisimst
tisimst wrote On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Urs Liska [via Lilypond] lt; ml-node+s1069038n165017h36@.nabble gt; wrote: Good idea. Would you just collect votes in this thread or should we do something more formal? Urs Alright everyone, Here's something more formal. It's my

Re: Multiple stanzas to selection of melody

2014-07-31 Thread tisimst
Simon Albrecht-2 wrote Am 29.07.2014 01:28, schrieb Marten: Hello Abraham, Simon, Thanks for your solutions and quick replies :) I decided to try to implement Simon's third solution, as it explicitly keeps the melody of the stanzas together with their texts. Ingenious - hadn't thought

Re: Where to Download the New Music Fonts?

2014-07-29 Thread tisimst
Gilberto Agostinho wrote Hi tisimst, In this link you gave us, there is a small problem with the second picture (the one showing how to set up the Gonville font). You can see that there is no key signature in that picture, but the score has some empty space where the key signature should

Music notation in our lives survey (all please read)

2014-07-29 Thread tisimst
Everyone, I wanted to put this out there before I had made any announcement about all the new fonts, but I thought I might as well send it out now anyway because I'm still curious... The link below goes to another survey that I created a short time ago during the development of these fonts to

Re: Music notation in our lives survey (all please read)

2014-07-29 Thread tisimst
Guy Stalnaker-2 wrote Abraham, There is an omission in your survey relation to music -- composer! I use LP/Frescobaldi because I write choral music (and occasionally organ music). They in combo are by far, IMO, the best products for my purposes. I suppose 'publisher' might fit, but as

Re: See the new music fonts in action

2014-07-28 Thread tisimst
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Urs Liska [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n165017...@n5.nabble.com wrote: Good idea. Would you just collect votes in this thread or should we do something more formal? Urs Alright everyone, Here's something more formal. It's my first time using this

See the new music fonts in action

2014-07-25 Thread tisimst
All, I couldn't wait any longer, so here's a formal announcement about the new music fonts that I've been working on, by way of example. They are all 100% LilyPond compatible for both PDF and SVG output. They all (except Gonville) support the full LilyPond glyph set (up to LilyPond version

Re: See the new music fonts in action

2014-07-25 Thread tisimst
Oh and here's a single sheet showcasing some other elements of each font for closer comparison: Sampler of all current music fonts https://db.tt/vV9MuRWR Cheers! -Abraham -- View this message in context:

Re: Aw: Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2014-07-23 Thread tisimst
Keith OHara wrote Torsten Hämmerle torsten.haemmerle at web.de writes: I've attached a zip file containing the current (albeit unfinished) versions of the LilyJAZZ music and LilyJAZZ Text font plus the corresponding LilyJAZZ.ily include. The main obstacle is the rigid way Lilypond

Re: something's wrong with \unset Score.proportionalNotationDuration

2014-07-22 Thread tisimst
karol wrote \version 2.19.10 { \set Score.proportionalNotationDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1/32) \repeat unfold 32 { f'32 } \newSpacingSection \unset Score.proportionalNotationDuration f'4 f'4 f'4 f'4 } Look at the huge gap between first two quarter notes. Bug? --Karol

Re: .ly to .svg - can't manage to get anything working

2014-07-21 Thread tisimst
Stefaan Himpe wrote Pieter-Jan Van Damme wrote: Would you guys have any suggestions for a novice like myself? When I needed SVG in the past, I found it straightforward to generate it from Frescobaldi (http://frescobaldi.org ). In the Lilypond menu, use Engrave (Custom) and choose svg

Re: shiftOn shifts to the left

2014-07-20 Thread tisimst
Alberto Simões-2 wrote Dear Mark Thank you for pointing me yet again to that page. This is the third time I read it, and only now I noticed this sentence: When a shift is applied, voices with upstems (odd-numbered voices) are shifted to the right, and voices with downstems

Re: .ly to .svg - can't manage to get anything working

2014-07-20 Thread tisimst
Pieter-Jan Van Damme wrote Hello guys, I've been looking for a method to get Lilypond to output to .svg but none of the methods described online worked for me (I'm using Windows 7). I tried: 1) using the command line... well, the documentation has left me even more confused than before

Re: Follow-up question to alternate music fonts

2014-07-13 Thread tisimst
Urs Liska wrote Actually that's what I mean. I suggest to add the _ability_ to easily change the notation font through the make-pango-tree approach and let the user install additional fonts at will. As said this is the same as with any other (notation or any other) program. Of course you

Re: Shorten ledger lines

2014-07-12 Thread tisimst
Javier Ruiz-Alma wrote Am 04.04.2014 12:35, schrieb Fredrik Wallberg: I'm trying to slightly reduce the extension of ledger lines with length-fraction and minimum-length-fraction in a dense passage, to increase available spacing in adjacent bars. What is the proper usage for this

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-11 Thread tisimst
Noeck wrote Hi Urs, it seems like I missed something. How did you create those scores? Using Abrahams proposed tools? Are they public? Or did you do that with your own magic? I would also be interested to test these features. I have clear preferences when I look at the fonts you compared

Re: Music font switching question

2014-07-10 Thread tisimst
Christopher R. Maden wrote Add the new different things at the *end* of the list, not the beginning, so that code that used to work continues to work. Otherwise, it seems good to me... Well, it's not really new because it already happens first under the covers. It's just hard-coded to the

Follow-up question to alternate music fonts

2014-07-10 Thread tisimst
All, Is there anyone who is VERY against distributing music fonts in binary form (i.e., as otf, svg, etc.files)? I just don't see how we can make other music fonts available by forcing them to have a metafont source file. I guess that could be nice, but it seems like so much work to do that. I

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-10 Thread tisimst
Schneidy wrote I did that, but I let it unfinished for a couple of weeks now... see = http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/LilyJAZZ-in-v2-18-td162423.html#a162444 Pierre Yes! Thank you, Pierre, for your good work! I had fun making some updates to it. I think there are enough people

Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-09 Thread tisimst
Greetings, All! I have worked out a very nice way to switch between notation fonts in LilyPond, both on a global document level and a local usage level. Up until now, there were only a couple of music fonts available that were really usable on a professional level: /Emmentaler/ (the default,

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-09 Thread tisimst
Hi, All! I just wanted to thank those who have responded so far. Keep 'em comin'! I also wanted to remind everyone responding via email to Reply to All so the responses make it back to this forum thread. Thanks! - Abraham -- View this message in context:

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-09 Thread tisimst
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 11:26 AM, tisimst [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n164192...@n5.nabble.com wrote: Hi, All! I just wanted to thank those who have responded so far. Keep 'em comin'! I also wanted to remind everyone responding via email to Reply to All so the responses make

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-09 Thread tisimst
Jim Long wrote LilyJAZZ might be more useful if it included lowercase characters. While an all-caps font might be okay for tempo markings, and other text annotations, it isn't really suitable for chordnames. Does anyone know what font is used for the chordnames in Pat Metheny's anthology

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-09 Thread tisimst
tisimst tisi...@gmail.com: I am pleased to announce that I have several new music fonts, both in OTF and SVG formats, that I'd like people to be able to use, but this requires a patch to a single file, so anyone wanting to patch the file can do it with little effort. It makes using other fonts

Music font switching question

2014-07-09 Thread tisimst
I just thought I'd ask the question... If more music fonts were available, would we, the LilyPond community (I realize this doesn't reach everyone using LP), be willing to sacrifice a _very tiny_ amount of extra typing to support the ability to switch music fonts more easily? Let me explain.

Re: Music font switching question

2014-07-08 Thread tisimst
tisimst wrote I just thought I'd ask the question... BTW, if it wasn't clear, this question is for everyone who receives it :) -Abraham -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Music-font-switching-question-tp164171p164172.html Sent from the User mailing list

Re: legato lyrics

2014-07-06 Thread tisimst
Phil Holmes-2 wrote - Original Message - From: tisimst lt; tisimst@ gt; To: lt; lilypond-user@ gt; Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2014 4:27 PM Subject: Re: legato lyrics 2. If you really want to have that slur (it is appropriate at times), I would say that there is almost

Re: legato lyrics

2014-07-05 Thread tisimst
Martin Tarenskeen wrote On Fri, 4 Jul 2014, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: Martin Tarenskeen lt; m.tarenskeen@ gt; To: lilypond-user mailinglist lt; lilypond-user@ gt; Sent: Friday, July 04, 2014 9:59 AM Subject: legato lyrics Hi, In the following

Re: Problem ordering staves

2014-07-05 Thread tisimst
Patrick or Cynthia Karl-2 wrote I'm trying to do a score where one group of instruments splits and plays different music for a while. I guess that this might be an instance of ostia, but I am required to place the new music on two staves in their own staff group. What I came up with is the

Re: Nifty trick with tags and \shape

2014-06-24 Thread tisimst
Very cool! Thanks for sharing! I didn't realize you could do such a thing. I can see this coming in handy. -Abraham -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Nifty-trick-with-tags-and-shape-tp163576p163599.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at

Re: Change TupletBracket slope?

2014-06-23 Thread tisimst
David, You can manually place the left and right ends of the bracket like this (and adjusting to taste): \version 2.19.8 { \clef bass { a, a4 } \\ { /*\once \override TupletBracket.positions = #'(-7 . -7)*/ \tuplet 6/4 { r16 g e d b, a, } } }

Re: Treble clef

2014-06-23 Thread tisimst
Yes it can! This clef is available in the current dev build (2.19.*). Any version prior to this and you'd have to modify it manually, otherwise, which isn't a simple task--but can be done. So, either try out the current dev build of LP or just wait patiently for the next stable build. Here

Re: partial in the middle of piece

2014-06-16 Thread tisimst
This probably isn't a permanent solution, but it seems to get the job done and it's simple: midpartial = #(define-music-function (parser location music) (ly:music?) #{ \cadenzaOn #music \cadenzaOff #}) upper = { \time 4/4 \partial 4 c'4 c'1 c'1 \midpartial

Re: Ignoring note clash

2014-06-11 Thread tisimst
Knute Snortum wrote This post is mostly for me to discover whether there's a better way to do what I'm doing. ... My questions are these: 1) is there a better way to do this other than suppressing a warning, and 2) since it doesn't look like there are clashing note columns, what is the

Re: Changing default font size

2014-06-09 Thread tisimst
Yeah! Didn't you hear?... next week?... Oh bother. Just kidding. Sorry. Confession: I don't really have ANY idea when 2.20 will be released. I did hear some talk about it, which is why I intentionally used the word relatively. In any case, I do think this feature should be included in the next

Re: How to separate these voices??

2014-06-09 Thread tisimst
Steve, Ok, here's what I got your snippet to do: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n163143/polyphonic-notehead-collision-original.png I'm not sure how my solution plays into the rest of the piece you are working on, but this works pretty well for me: guitar = \relative c' { {

Re: Notes engraved in weird order

2014-06-09 Thread tisimst
Mark, Not sure if it's an artifact of using an older version, but using the current 2.18.2 gives me consistent ordering regardless of the number of times: Drawing systems... Notes: (-10 9 -12 11 -3 -5 -7 2 4 0 7 5) Notes: (-10 9 -12 11 -3 -5 -7 2 4 0 7 5) This doesn't mean that it's the

Re: Changing default font size

2014-06-08 Thread tisimst
Jan-Peter Voigt wrote ... it didn't make its way into the lilypond-codebase ... Jan-Peter, Thank you for sharing this. In some ways I can see why the default behavior is to scale the default text size with the staff size (since the focus is more on the music than on any accompanying text), but

Re: Missing font for IPA character

2014-06-08 Thread tisimst
Oliver, Normally, you can also try using an explicit call to grab the unicode character, as outlined here: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/special-characters#unicode http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/special-characters#unicode However, the

Re: Widening ledger lines by overriding LedgerLineSpanner

2014-05-28 Thread tisimst
Paul Morris wrote Hi all, I'm trying to widen ledger lines: ... So I'm able to widen the ledger lines with length-fraction, but I'm wondering whether that will affect stem lengths? And it seems that minimum-length-fraction is not working as described? Paul, It appears that what you are

Re: midi

2014-05-20 Thread tisimst
This sometimes happens to me, too. As nice as it is to just be able to have bug-free immediate playback in Frescobaldi, I have grown accustomed to simply calling timidity in a console with something like: timidity mysong.midi and that has never NOT worked for me. I've also found that once I do

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