Two time signature at start of system

2014-10-02 Thread MING TSANG
Dear lilyponders, I didn't realize until I have coded a hymn with 92 measures that two time signature at bar #78. So I code a test version just bar 76-79 to show the problen system. I have been playing with code and still couldn't remove one of them. What should I do? Also, I run just

Re: Two time signature at start of system

2014-10-02 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Ming, This is a known issue: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/special-rhythmic-concerns#grace-notes You need to add a grace note skip to the other staff context(s) in order to synchronize. Hope this helps! Kieren. ___ Kieren MacMillan, composer

Re: Two time signature at start of system

2014-10-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 02.10.2014 um 14:50 schrieb MING TSANG: Dear lilyponders, I didn't realize until I have coded a hymn with 92 measures that two time signature at bar #78. So I code a test version just bar 76-79 to show the problen system. I have been playing with code and still couldn't remove one of them

Re: Two time signature at start of system

2014-10-02 Thread pls
It’s the “grace note bug”. Workaround: insert \acciacatura s8 after \time 6/8 in your right-variable. hth patrick On 02.10.2014, at 14:50, MING TSANG tsan...@rogers.com wrote: Dear lilyponders, I didn't realize until I have coded a hymn with 92 measures that two time signature at bar #78

Re: Two time signature at start of system

2014-10-02 Thread MING TSANG
: Dear lilyponders, I didn't realize until I have coded a hymn with 92 measures that two time signature at bar #78. So I code a test version just bar 76-79 to show the problen system. I have been playing with code and still couldn't remove one of them. What should I do? Also, I run just the right

Re: Two time signature at start of system

2014-10-02 Thread MING TSANG
”. Workaround: insert \acciacatura s8 after \time 6/8 in your right-variable. hth patrick On 02.10.2014, at 14:50, MING TSANG tsan...@rogers.com wrote: Dear lilyponders, I didn't realize until I have coded a hymn with 92 measures that two time signature at bar #78. So I code a test version just

RE: Two time signature at start of system

2014-10-02 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Subject: Two time signature at start of system Dear lilyponders, I didn't realize until I have coded a hymn with 92 measures that two time signature at bar #78. So I code a test version just bar 76-79 to show the problen system. I have been playing with code and still couldn't remove one

Re: Two time signature at start of system

2014-10-02 Thread MING TSANG
=ca.rr@gnu.org] On Behalf Of MING TSANG Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 5:50 AM To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Two time signature at start of system Dear lilyponders, I didn't realize until I have coded a hymn with 92 measures that two time signature at bar #78. So I code a test version just

Re: Use my roman font digits for time signature

2014-09-05 Thread Simon Albrecht
: Dear members, I'd like to use my roman font digits for proportional symbols in a Renaissance score. Ho do I replace the Feta font digits with my Roman Garamond ones? I've looked at this post, but it does not work with replacing my font: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Change-time-signature

Re: Use my roman font digits for time signature

2014-09-05 Thread Jayaratna
Dear Simon, thank you for your answer. Your suggestion works, but I need to insert the change in the middle of a part. If I put your override code in the \with part, it overrides also my neomensural initial time signature. \version 2.18.2 \new Staff { \relative c' { %Tenor

Re: Use my roman font digits for time signature

2014-09-05 Thread Phil Holmes
\once \override Staff.TimeSignature.font-name = #FontName -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Jayaratna jayara...@gmail.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 12:15 PM Subject: Re: Use my roman font digits for time signature Dear Simon, thank you

Re: Use my roman font digits for time signature

2014-09-05 Thread Jayaratna
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Use my roman font digits for time signature

2014-09-04 Thread Jayaratna
-signature-font-td146251.html Thank you, A -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Use-my-roman-font-digits-for-time-signature-tp166073.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Custom time signature symbols

2014-09-02 Thread Jayaratna
bass g1 c e2.d4 c2 b c g c b } }} } } -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Custom-time-signature-symbols-tp166005.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: Custom time signature symbols

2014-09-02 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Andrea, 2014-09-02 13:58 GMT+02:00 Jayaratna jayara...@gmail.com: I am notating it using 3/1 and 6/1 fractions, but I would like to use timesig.neomensural98 (stroked O) and timesig.neomensural32 plus number 2 (O2) instead. How would you do it? Try : \version 2.18.2 %\include

Re: Custom time signature symbols

2014-09-02 Thread Jayaratna
\lower #.8 \magnify #1 2 } #})) } { \relative For mensural proportions I prefer to have a normal text font number. Thank you very much! A -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Custom-time

Re: Custom time signature symbols

2014-09-02 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
2014-09-02 15:34 GMT+02:00 Jayaratna jayara...@gmail.com: thank you, it works wonderfully. You're welcome. I just modified the tenor like this: \new Staff \with { \override TimeSignature.stencil = #(lambda (grob) (grob-interpret-markup grob #{

Re: Custom time signature symbols

2014-09-02 Thread Jayaratna
Schneidy wrote Forget \magnify #1, you do not neet it. Cheers, Pierre Of course! -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Custom-time-signature-symbols-tp166005p166013.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: Time signature fonts

2014-07-31 Thread Phil Holmes
Thanks, Mark. PostAntiqua does a pretty good job, IMHO. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Mark Polesky To: Phil Holmes Cc: LilyPond User Group Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 8:31 PM Subject: Re: Time signature fonts On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Phil

Re: Time signature fonts

2014-07-30 Thread Mark Polesky
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Phil Holmes em...@philholmes.net wrote: I'm typesetting some madrigals from book 2 of the Musica Transalpina. Part of one of them has the passage attached. This looks like a brief 3/2 passage that reverts to 4/4 (or their perfect/imperfect mensural

Re: Irrational time signature and tuplets

2014-06-13 Thread Hans Aberg
On 13 Jun 2014, at 01:26, Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonm...@ca.rr.com wrote: Thank you for your detailed and informative response. I shall take time to study it and the references that you provide. You are welcome. In short, one can use any mathematically irrational number and work it back to

Re: acciaccatura leading to duplicated changed time signature

2014-06-12 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Dirk Cushenbery dirkc...@yahoo.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 9:38 AM Subject: acciaccatura leading to duplicated changed time signature When I delete the acciaccatura the time signature problem goes away. Any thoughts? See

Irrational time signature and tuplets

2014-06-12 Thread Hans Aberg
How might one display the time signature 8 + 2 sqrt(5) over 8, and the tuplet 1:1 + sqrt(5), where “sqrt is the square root sign? - It is for experimenting with a popular meter in 12 [1-2]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leventikos 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYR_pvRWO_g

Re: Irrational time signature and tuplets

2014-06-12 Thread David Kastrup
Hans Aberg haber...@telia.com writes: How might one display the time signature 8 + 2 sqrt(5) over 8, and the tuplet 1:1 + sqrt(5), where “sqrt is the square root sign? - It is for experimenting with a popular meter in 12 [1-2]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leventikos 2. https

Re: Irrational time signature and tuplets

2014-06-12 Thread Malte Meyn
} \tuplet 1/1 { c'4 4 4 4 } } Malte On 12.06.2014 11:11, Hans Aberg wrote: How might one display the time signature 8 + 2 sqrt(5) over 8, and the tuplet 1:1 + sqrt(5), where “sqrt is the square root sign? - It is for experimenting with a popular meter in 12 [1-2]. 1. https

Re: Irrational time signature and tuplets

2014-06-12 Thread Hans Aberg
On 12 Jun 2014, at 13:21, Malte Meyn lilyp...@maltemeyn.de wrote: This can be done in LilyPond without using LaTeX: I have made an example incorporating your code; it looks pretty neat. For the midi, I wrote out the ornaments in a separate version using the 5/3 ratio, so as to be closer to

Re: Irrational time signature and tuplets

2014-06-12 Thread Hans Aberg
On 12 Jun 2014, at 11:54, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Hans Aberg haber...@telia.com writes: How might one display the time signature 8 + 2 sqrt(5) over 8, and the tuplet 1:1 + sqrt(5), where “sqrt is the square root sign? - It is for experimenting with a popular meter in 12 [1-2

Re: Irrational time signature and tuplets

2014-06-12 Thread Hans Aberg
On 12 Jun 2014, at 13:21, Malte Meyn lilyp...@maltemeyn.de wrote: This can be done in LilyPond without using LaTeX: Oops, a typo in the code: the tuplets should be 2:(1+sqrt 5) - I forgot to change in your code. So hope it’s OK now. IrrationalMeter.ly \version 2.19.6 \header{

Re: Irrational time signature and tuplets

2014-06-12 Thread Malte Meyn
On 12.06.2014 22:25, Hans Aberg wrote: Tying this back to LilyPond, the graphical representation will look the same, only that the meter and the tuplet numbers are changed. There is another problem in the MIDI file: how to make a better approximation than 3:2. The next is 5:3, but then one

RE: Irrational time signature and tuplets

2014-06-12 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Hans Aberg Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 12:33 PM To: Malte Meyn Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Irrational time signature and tuplets On 12 Jun 2014, at 13:21, Malte Meyn lilyp...@maltemeyn.de wrote: This can be done in LilyPond without using LaTeX: I have made

Re: Irrational time signature and tuplets

2014-06-12 Thread Hans Aberg
On 12 Jun 2014, at 22:30, Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonm...@ca.rr.com wrote: (1+sqrt 5)/2 = 1.618... is the golden ratio, phi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio Do you know of other instances of this ratio in music? The WP [1] mentions one other case where irrational in music is

Re: Irrational time signature and tuplets

2014-06-12 Thread Hans Aberg
On 12 Jun 2014, at 22:28, Malte Meyn lilyp...@maltemeyn.de wrote: I’m not sure whether I understood correctly, but instead of writing something like \tuplet 3/2 { c8 d e } and hiding the tuplet number (and bracket), you can simply write c8*2/3 d e I haven’t used that latter notation,

RE: Irrational time signature and tuplets

2014-06-12 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Irrational time signature and tuplets On 12 Jun 2014, at 22:30, Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonm...@ca.rr.com wrote: (1+sqrt 5)/2 = 1.618... is the golden ratio, phi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio Do you know of other instances of this ratio in music? The WP

acciaccatura leading to duplicated changed time signature

2014-06-11 Thread Dirk Cushenbery
When I delete the acciaccatura the time signature problem goes away. Any thoughts? mib4 r8 mib4 r8 mib4 r8 mib4 r8 mib [mib mib] mib [mib mib] sol ([fad mib]) \acciaccatura fad mib ([re do]) %adding the acciaccatura resulted in having 2 cut time signatures% r4 sol'8 ([mib]) re ([mib]) fad

Re: omit time signature when time doesn't change

2014-05-21 Thread Urs Liska
Am 21.05.2014 07:41, schrieb Carlo Vanoni: @Urs Liska Your code did the trick, thanks. Glad it helped. I just want to stress that it's not my code. See %{ Engraver that suppresses the printing of a time signature if it is the same that is currently in effect. Author: David

Re: omit time signature when time doesn't change

2014-05-21 Thread Knute Snortum
I can see your point. I recently was transcribing a piece where the time signature changed regularly. If I were breaking that piece into different parts, then putting them together in a song section, I would want adjacent time signatures that were the same to not reprint. Thanks for bringing up

omit time signature when time doesn't change

2014-05-20 Thread Carlo Vanoni
Hi everyone! I have a score with some time changes. I'm using variables for the various song section. Each section has it's own time (more useful than declaring it each time there is a time change). What happens is that the time signature will be printed any time it is declared, even when

Re: omit time signature when time doesn't change

2014-05-20 Thread Urs Liska
everyone! I have a score with some time changes. I'm using variables for the various song section. Each section has it's own time (more useful than declaring it each time there is a time change). What happens is that the time signature will be printed any time it is declared, even when no time changes

Re: omit time signature when time doesn't change

2014-05-20 Thread Knute Snortum
declaring it each time there is a time change). What happens is that the time signature will be printed any time it is declared, even when no time changes occurs. Here is a simple example: % \version 2.18.0 verse = { \time 4/4 c2 c2 | c2 c2 | } verseFirstEnd = { \time 4/4 d2 d2

Re: omit time signature when time doesn't change

2014-05-20 Thread Carlo Vanoni
is that the time signature will be printed any time it is declared, even when no time changes occurs. Here is a simple example: % \version 2.18.0 verse = { \time 4/4 c2 c2 | c2 c2 | } verseFirstEnd = { \time 4/4 d2 d2 | } verseSecondEnd = { \time 2/4 c2 | } song = {     \new Staff

Re: decimal numerator in time signature

2014-05-07 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
2014-05-07 0:01 GMT+02:00 Kate Sekula ksek...@usao.edu: Is there a way to have a decimal, such as 3.5, as the numerator in a time signature? Try : %%% \version 2.18.2 decimalTS = \markup { \override #'(baseline-skip . 0.5) \column { \concat { \hspace #1 \number

Re: decimal numerator in time signature

2014-05-07 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 3:13 AM, Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-05-07 0:01 GMT+02:00 Kate Sekula ksek...@usao.edu: Is there a way to have a decimal, such as 3.5, as the numerator in a time signature? Try : %%% \version 2.18.2

Re: decimal numerator in time signature

2014-05-07 Thread Kate Sekula
Thank you both so much. The help I've received on this list has been invaluable. I just had to add a \once to the \override or else every time signature change was the decimal. ~Kate ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https

decimal numerator in time signature

2014-05-06 Thread Kate Sekula
Is there a way to have a decimal, such as 3.5, as the numerator in a time signature? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

How to hide time signature

2013-11-29 Thread Mr. Server Acim
Hello, We are writing a book about Harmony with my friend. At the begining chapter we will give basic music theory knowledges. I am trying to write a C Major Scale. The letters between the notes are the step extentions. I want to hide the Time Signature (8/1). But I can not. You will see

Re: How to hide time signature

2013-11-29 Thread Marcos Press
Major Scale. The letters between the notes are the step extentions. I want to hide the Time Signature (8/1). But I can not. You will see the code in the attached files. Thank you. -- Server ACİM - Besteci (Composer) - İnönü Üniversitesi Öğretim Üyesi (Full Professor of Music Composition

Re: How to hide time signature

2013-11-29 Thread magohq
\version 2.16.2 global = { \set Score.timing = ##f \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f } \new Staff \relative c' {\global c4 d e f g c d f g \bar || } -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/How-to-hide-time-signature-tp154629p154633

Re: How to hide time signature

2013-11-29 Thread magohq
\version 2.16.2 global = { \set Score.timing = ##f \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f } \new Staff \relative c' {\global c4 d e f g c d f g \bar || } -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/How-to-hide-time-signature-tp154629p154634

Re: How to hide time signature

2013-11-29 Thread Robert Schmaus
mailto:servera...@ttmail.com Hello, We are writing a book about Harmony with my friend. At the begining chapter we will give basic music theory knowledges. I am trying to write a C Major Scale. The letters between the notes are the step extentions. I want to hide the Time Signature

Re: How to hide time signature

2013-11-29 Thread Mr. Server Acim
-to-hide-time-signature-tp154629p154634.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user Thank you for your answer. But, I want to add

Re: How to hide time signature

2013-11-29 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Schmaus robert.schm...@web.de writes: Watch out for the correct version - your code is 2.16 but the manual is 2.17, and a lot has changed between those versions. I'm not even sure if the \omit command actually existed in 2.16. I also think, the C-style dot-notation didn't existin 2.16.

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-12 Thread Noeck
Hi, I didn’t follow all of the discussion. But how about a summary at place where it can be found and used later? It seems like this won’t go into the lilypond code right now. From what I read, there are spacings that are good, some are debatable and some are agreed that they are not good

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 11/10/2013 12:36 PM, David Kastrup wrote: One should never _discard_ what an authority has to say and should try tracking its reasoning, but if the results from following instructions don't actually lead to convincing results (in particular when comparing them with the printed results),

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
posted also seems to me to be rather close to the key signature. Best regards! Gilberto -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Beam-positions-and-time-signature-spacing-tp153538p153705.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread David Kastrup
Gilberto Agostinho gilbertohasn...@gmail.com writes: Although I agree with you that these things are important, there are certain things that could make problems clearer and are not used. Ex: it is not standard to write a little 8 under the bass clef when dealing with Contrabass in a

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/11/11 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Gilberto Agostinho gilbertohasn...@gmail.com writes: Although I agree with you that these things are important, there are certain things that could make problems clearer and are not used. Ex: it is not standard to write a little 8 under the bass clef

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: So, standards change. If that's the case, we can be a forefront of such changes. In the case of the measure numbers, this change causes less effective use of a rectangular printing area. In the age of digital print, the role of a bounding box

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Urs Liska
Am 11.11.2013 14:12, schrieb Janek Warcho?: Another example: for centuries, it was the standard in vocal music to only beam together notes that are part of a melisma. Now, there was some reason behind it - to make clear what was a melisma and what wasn't - but that practice was nevertheless a

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
In 19th century song notation (e.g. look at all old Peters editions of Schubert/Schumann etc. songs) slurs were used to indicate melismas - but they were usually used _in combination_ with beams. It’s not just 19th century notation: it persisted as the standard in operas and musicals

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
/Beam-positions-and-time-signature-spacing-tp153538p153719.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
*with* the code change are much different than discussions without the code. I will check that, thanks for the tip. Take care, Gilberto -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Beam-positions-and-time-signature-spacing-tp153538p153721.html Sent from the User

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Not sure which practice you hate: slurs or beams? For myself, a singer who sings for 10s of hours a week, I like slurs to indicate melisma and think beaming for the same purpose is irritating in the extreme. Sorry, I was definitely unclear: I, like you, intensely dislike the practice of

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Urs Liska
Am 11.11.2013 15:34, schrieb Phil Holmes: - Original Message - From: Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca To: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 2:12 PM Subject: Re: Beam positions and time

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/11/11 Gilberto Agostinho gilbertohasn...@gmail.com: David Kastrup wrote It also sends out a more serious variant of the message this is important to me without the accompanying so this should make you want to do the work. It's in general much easier to get something done by doing it

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca To: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net Cc: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org; Lilypond-User Mailing List lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 2:41 PM Subject: Re: Beam positions and time signature

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Phil, Properly entered, Sibelius does automatically provide lyric extensions. 1. Then the vast majority of the Sibelius scores I’ve seen in the last five years have been improperly entered. 2. Improperly entered, Lilypond doesn’t automatically provide lyric extensions either. ;) Cheers,

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi Gilberto, 2013/11/11 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com: 2013/11/11 Gilberto Agostinho gilbertohasn...@gmail.com: David Kastrup wrote It also sends out a more serious variant of the message this is important to me without the accompanying so this should make you want to do the work.

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 2:45 PM Subject: Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing Am 11.11.2013 15:34, schrieb Phil Holmes: === Not sure which

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Phil: [if] you don't use slurs to indicate melisma, how do you indicate it - especially with crochets, minims and semi-breves? Lyric extenders are necessary and (to some eyes) sufficient. Slurs are simply “suspenders and a belt”… and I happen to be one of those who vigorously ensure that my

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca To: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net Cc: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org; Lilypond-User Mailing List lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 3:10 PM Subject: Re: Beam positions and time signature

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Phil, Early music tends to work like that Really? What editions are you using? I’ve spent a great deal of my life singing and conducting music composed and/or engraved before ca. 1920, and have found it almost invariably uses *beaming* (as well as slurs and extensions, sometimes) to

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca To: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net Cc: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org; Lilypond-User Mailing List lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 3:33 PM Subject: Re: Beam positions and time signature

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 11/11/2013 12:53 PM, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: Here the accidental could be mistakenly taken for a part of the key signature if it's too close. (The example appears fine to me when I compile it, but I would like to mention it anyway.) I think the worst case on my .PNG image was the one with

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Beam-positions-and-time-signature-spacing-tp153538p153739.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 11/11/2013 05:35 PM, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: Here we go: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n153739/image.png As you can see, the distances here are roughly 1 and 1.5 units, while the example I posted before (with clef and with more accidentals) has a distance of merely 0.5

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 11/11/2013 12:53 PM, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: Although I agree with you that these things are important, there are certain things that could make problems clearer and are not used. Ex: it is not standard to write a little 8 under the bass clef when dealing with Contrabass in a

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
that I found certain behaviors from LilyPond that seem to: a) go against what at least one source states, b) go against most (or all) of my other scores, c) I subjectively find a bit ugly. This is true to my discussion here concerning the spacing between clef/time signature and the first note, and also

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread David Kastrup
Gilberto Agostinho gilbertohasn...@gmail.com writes: Regardless of that, I really hope I didn't gave the impression I want to force people to change certain things on LilyPond only because of what I think. Why would you want them to do anything other than what you think? I already exposed

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
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Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread David Kastrup
I don't see a point in continuing this. It is obvious that I am wildly unsuccessful providing any help for understanding how the dynamics in this mailing list and LilyPond development work: it would appear that it would have been much easier for you and less discouraging to learn this by

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/11/11 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: I don't see a point in continuing this. It is obvious that I am wildly unsuccessful providing any help for understanding how the dynamics in this mailing list and LilyPond development work: it would appear that it would have been much easier for you and

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 11/11/2013 07:21 PM, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: Peter Bjuhr wrote Based on these two examples, it would indeed seem that LilyPond is intelligent enough to adjust for this potential problem; in the first example where there were no risk of mistakenly take the accidental for a part of the key

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-10 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 11/10/2013 01:39 AM, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: And Peter, if I may bother you a bit more, could you also have a look on this message I posted some days ago if you have the time? http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Bar-numbers-position-td153274.html It also concerns notation standards,

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-10 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
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Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-10 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Thanks a lot Peter, I will keep an eye on it. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Beam-positions-and-time-signature-spacing-tp153538p153630.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-10 Thread David Kastrup
Gilberto Agostinho gilbertohasn...@gmail.com writes: Hi David, I am sorry if I expressed myself badly, I never wanted to say that you are proposing to judge things solely by the eye, while I propose to only use strict rules. What I wrote before was just a comment that came to my head while

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-10 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
very wrongly. I am not going to measure the distance between a clef and the time signature and say look, authority A says we should have 2.5 units here, but LilyPond outputs only 2.47, what an absurd! -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Beam-positions-and-time

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-10 Thread Patrick or Cynthia Karl
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Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-10 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Patrick or Cynthia Karl-2 wrote Message: 7 Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 16:29:26 -0800 (PST) From: Gilberto Agostinho lt; gilbertohasnofb@ gt; To: lilypond-user@ Subject: Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing Message-ID: 1384043366945-153614.post@.nabble Content-Type: text

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-10 Thread David Kastrup
Gilberto Agostinho gilbertohasn...@gmail.com writes: Sorry for the confusion, I am used to simply go to nabble.com to post, answer or simply check what is going on with LilyPond, and I realize now that by merely clicking reply to someone's message is not enough to find out where the reply was

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-10 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
dak wrote So obviously one quotes _only_ what is immediately relevant to the reply. Sorry, I will be more careful from now on. Thanks for pointing it out. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Beam-positions-and-time-signature-spacing-tp153538p153662.html

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-09 Thread Peter Bjuhr
clef, key signature, time signature and the first note of a system? This was the second discussion I had with this friend of mine about LilyPond. Take care, Gilberto No problem, I'm enjoying every opportunity to explore this excellent book! I looked before on your first posting, but didn't find

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-09 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
on all these examples, to be honest. I think that we should balance these distances, her examples are looking much better than the current output of LilyPond IMO. What do you think? Best, Gilberto -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Beam-positions-and-time

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-09 Thread Peter Bjuhr
I'm sorry, I should have been clearer what she actually measures and not just posted the image! I hope you figured it out anyway! What she measures is the stave-space. So, you can see her scale as a staff turned forward 90°. It's a direct relational measure it doesn't depend on fontsize or

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-09 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
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Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-09 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 11/09/2013 05:09 PM, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: But that is exactly what I did, I turned the staff 90 degrees to create that ruler. Yes, I thought so too (good job interpreting Gould just from the image!). But it wasn't completely clear and I wanted to clarify anyway! Best Peter

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-09 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
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Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-09 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Gilberto, On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Gilberto Agostinho gilbertohasn...@gmail.com wrote: Great! So now it would also be nice to hear what others have to say on this issue of spacing. As you said, Gould book is highly regarded and I think we should follow it whenever we find

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-09 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
with and without accidental(s) so a fix could be easier to implement. Thanks for you reply, take care! Gilberto -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Beam-positions-and-time-signature-spacing-tp153538p153614.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-09 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
be very glad to hear what you and Ms. Gould think about it (I really need to buy this book as soon as possible!). Thanks and take care! Gilberto -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Beam-positions-and-time-signature-spacing-tp153538p153615.html Sent from the User

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