Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-30 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/12/29 Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk: Neil Puttock wrote Monday, December 29, 2008 1:25 PM 2008/12/29 Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk: OK - have this in hand. Thanks. Trevor, I'm working on some additions to 'bound-details in changing-defaults.itely at the moment. When

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-30 Thread Trevor Daniels
Neil Puttock Tuesday, December 30, 2008 3:45 PM 2008/12/29 Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk: Neil Puttock wrote Monday, December 29, 2008 1:25 PM 2008/12/29 Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk: OK - have this in hand. Thanks. Trevor, I'm working on some additions to

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-29 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 29.12.2008 um 06:26 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: However, there are situations where you don't have access to the mailing list, and then you have to find it in the docs. Can you suggest where improvements shall be added so that your specific problem is covered? Well then I'd have to say that

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-29 Thread Trevor Daniels
James E. Bailey wrote Monday, December 29, 2008 8:23 AM Am 29.12.2008 um 06:26 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: However, there are situations where you don't have access to the mailing list, and then you have to find it in the docs. Can you suggest where improvements shall be added so that your

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-29 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/12/29 Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk: OK - have this in hand. Thanks. Trevor, I'm working on some additions to 'bound-details in changing-defaults.itely at the moment. When I've finished, I'll add some info to the section which discusses 'outside-staff-priority. As for the general

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-29 Thread Trevor Daniels
Neil Puttock wrote Monday, December 29, 2008 1:25 PM 2008/12/29 Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk: OK - have this in hand. Thanks. Trevor, I'm working on some additions to 'bound-details in changing-defaults.itely at the moment. When I've finished, I'll add some info to the section

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-28 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 28.12.2008 um 06:48 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: Oh, perhaps I haven't made this clear. I have read the learning manual. I do not have it memorised. I don't use extra offset all that often. I asked for help because the ways I know of how to move the object, (namely looking in the IR for

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Once I learned about outside staff-priority, everything was good. Which for me is the usual situation: I get unexpected output, and then learn that there's a perfectly acceptable reason for that output. In this case: outside-staff-priority takes precedence over avoid-slur. The learning

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-28 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 29.12.2008 um 00:17 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: Once I learned about outside staff-priority, everything was good. Which for me is the usual situation: I get unexpected output, and then learn that there's a perfectly acceptable reason for that output. In this case: outside-staff-priority takes

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
However, there are situations where you don't have access to the mailing list, and then you have to find it in the docs. Can you suggest where improvements shall be added so that your specific problem is covered? Well then I'd have to say that the easiest, and easiest to find thing

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 06:26:41AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Sounds sensible. Can you cook up a small example which demonstrates the effect you've sought? We can easily add it to the documentation then. Ideally add it directly to LSR; this greatly simplifies the process of getting it into

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-27 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 27.12.2008 um 01:07 schrieb Graham Percival: On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 01:01:19AM +0100, James E. Bailey wrote: he still omitted the easiest part of helping which could have simple been, \override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'( 0.0 . -5.0), instead of the wonderful instruction in how to

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-27 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 10:37:35AM +0100, James E. Bailey wrote: Am 27.12.2008 um 01:07 schrieb Graham Percival: Of course I omitted that. You're assumed to have read the Learning Manual. In particular, LM 4.5.1 and 4.5.2. So wait, the most useful piece of information, the piece of

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-27 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/12/27 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca: On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 10:37:35AM +0100, James E. Bailey wrote: Am 27.12.2008 um 01:07 schrieb Graham Percival: Of course I omitted that. You're assumed to have read the Learning Manual. In particular, LM 4.5.1 and 4.5.2. So wait, the

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-27 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 27.12.2008 um 19:37 schrieb Graham Percival: On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 10:37:35AM +0100, James E. Bailey wrote: Am 27.12.2008 um 01:07 schrieb Graham Percival: Of course I omitted that. You're assumed to have read the Learning Manual. In particular, LM 4.5.1 and 4.5.2. So wait, the

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Oh, perhaps I haven't made this clear. I have read the learning manual. I do not have it memorised. I don't use extra offset all that often. I asked for help because the ways I know of how to move the object, (namely looking in the IR for things that might control positioning the object,

avoid slur help

2008-12-26 Thread james
I'm having some difficulty understanding the 'avoid-slur property. This doesn't work: \version 2.11.65 \relative c'' { \override TextScript #'avoid-slur = #'inside c2*1/2( s4^\markup {\natural} d4.) c8 } In fact, it increases the space between the slur and the notes, but doesn't move

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-26 Thread Jonathan Kulp
james wrote: I'm having some difficulty understanding the 'avoid-slur property. This doesn't work: \version 2.11.65 \relative c'' { \override TextScript #'avoid-slur = #'inside c2*1/2( s4^\markup {\natural} d4.) c8 } In fact, it increases the space between the slur and the notes, but

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-26 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 26.12.2008 um 13:15 schrieb Jonathan Kulp: james wrote: I'm having some difficulty understanding the 'avoid-slur property. This doesn't work: \version 2.11.65 \relative c'' { \override TextScript #'avoid-slur = #'inside c2*1/2( s4^\markup {\natural} d4.) c8 } In fact, it increases

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-26 Thread Jonathan Kulp
James E. Bailey wrote: Am 26.12.2008 um 13:15 schrieb Jonathan Kulp: james wrote: I'm having some difficulty understanding the 'avoid-slur property. This doesn't work: \version 2.11.65 \relative c'' { \override TextScript #'avoid-slur = #'inside c2*1/2( s4^\markup {\natural} d4.) c8 }

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-26 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 26. Dezember 2008 14:33:11 schrieb Jonathan Kulp: James E. Bailey wrote: Am 26.12.2008 um 13:15 schrieb Jonathan Kulp: james wrote: I'm having some difficulty understanding the 'avoid-slur property. This doesn't work: \version

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-26 Thread Eyolf Ă˜strem
On 26.12.2008 (15:06), Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: If so then I'd just use d!4. instead. No, it was common practice to put accidentals above notes in older times. Sometimes these were meant to be optional, sometimes they were cautinary accidentals. In any case, if you try to be close to the

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-26 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi James, 2008/12/26 James E. Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com: No, I want the natural under the slur. Which I what I thought inside did. You'll have to turn off 'outside-staff-priority for TextScript, since it takes precendence over 'avoid-slur. \override TextScript

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-26 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/12/26 james derhindem...@googlemail.com: I'm having some difficulty understanding the 'avoid-slur property. This doesn't work: \version 2.11.65 \relative c'' { \override TextScript #'avoid-slur = #'inside c2*1/2( s4^\markup {\natural} d4.) c8 } What's the musical sense of this?

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-26 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 03:50:46PM +0100, Eyolf ?strem wrote: On 26.12.2008 (15:06), Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: If so then I'd just use d!4. instead. No, it was common practice to put accidentals above notes in older times. Sometimes these were meant to be optional, sometimes they were

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-26 Thread James E. Bailey
Neil, thanks for the help, now I guess I move on to the next part of this problem: \version 2.11.65 \relative c'' { \override TextScript #'avoid-slur = #'inside \override Script #'avoid-slur = #'inside \override TextScript #'script-priority = #-100 \override TextScript

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-26 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 09:46:07PM +0100, James E. Bailey wrote: Neil, thanks for the help, now I guess I move on to the next part of this problem: What's the problem? By that question, I mean what's the musical intent of that lilypond code?. Because to me, it looks like you're trying to

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-26 Thread james
In the meantime, I figured out another solution: I can just do everything in markup, and set the baseline skip myself. \version 2.11.65 \relative c'' { \override TextScript #'avoid-slur = #'inside \override TextScript #'outside-staff-priority = ##f c2*1/2( s4^\markup \tiny \override

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-26 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 26. Dezember 2008 21:46:07 schrieb James E. Bailey: Neil, thanks for the help, now I guess I move on to the next part of this problem: \version 2.11.65 \relative c'' { \override TextScript #'avoid-slur = #'inside \override

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-26 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 26.12.2008 um 17:57 schrieb Graham Percival: On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 03:50:46PM +0100, Eyolf ?strem wrote: On 26.12.2008 (15:06), Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: If so then I'd just use d!4. instead. No, it was common practice to put accidentals above notes in older times. Sometimes these

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-26 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:40:12PM +0100, James E. Bailey wrote: Am 26.12.2008 um 17:57 schrieb Graham Percival: To everybody apart from Eyolf who posted in this thread: musica ficta can be found through a see also link under NR 1.1 Accidentals, Perhaps you have a different version of the

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-26 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 26. Dezember 2008 23:40:12 schrieb James E. Bailey: Am 26.12.2008 um 17:57 schrieb Graham Percival: To everybody apart from Eyolf who posted in this thread: musica ficta can be found through a see also link under NR 1.1 Accidentals,

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-26 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 26.12.2008 um 23:59 schrieb Graham Percival: Well, first start off with a simple example: \version 2.11.65 \relative c'' { c4( \once \set suggestAccidentals = ##t cis d4.) c8 } Hmm, it prints an error message. It would be helpful to report this to the bug list. You know, I

Re: avoid slur help

2008-12-26 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 01:01:19AM +0100, James E. Bailey wrote: he still omitted the easiest part of helping which could have simple been, \override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'( 0.0 . -5.0), instead of the wonderful instruction in how to properly use lilypond. Of course I omitted that.