voltaOnThisStaff property in the master file's \layout block

2007-07-26 Thread Romel Anthony S. Bismonte
I found the following fix in the LSR, which puts volta brackets above the chord names: \version "2.10.0" \score { << \new ChordNames \with { voltaOnThisStaff = ##t } \chordmode { c1 c } \new Staff \with { voltaOnThisStaff = ##f } { \repeat volta 2 { c'1 } \alternative { c' } }

all sharps ?

2007-07-26 Thread Vasil Kadifeli
I am a new guitar class student and I don't know much of notes and the music terminolgy in English... I'd like to to engrave the following sharp signs to the beginning of the staff so that all following C, F ang G notes will be half note sharper... I thought I can use the \transpose command but it

Re: all sharps ?

2007-07-26 Thread Vasil Kadifeli
Many thanks Tao, it works ;) but then I will have to encode all c, f, and g notes as cis, fis, and gis respectively, because lilypond puts a natural sign in front of the first c, f, g note. am I correct ? I was expecting *some kind* of automatic mechanism for that, though I am not sure how that

Re: all sharps ?

2007-07-26 Thread Tao Cumplido
hi Vasil, what you want to use is called 'key signature' in english. in this case you have the key of a major or f-sharp minor, so your code needs the following at the beginning of your piece: \key a \major or \key fis \minor the transpose command will only transpose the key signature if it is

Re: all sharps ?

2007-07-26 Thread Rune Zedeler
Quoting Tao Cumplido <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > \key c \major > \transpose c a { music } Should have been \transpose c a { \key c \major ... music ... } -otherwise the key signature would not be transposed. -Rune ___ lilypond-user mailing list lil

Re: all sharps ?

2007-07-26 Thread Vasil Kadifeli
Many thanks for the reminder Rune, This I will take into account and do some tests... But I'am done with what I was struggling for the moment... And by the way, is there a way to play the tunes from a *.ly* file ? On 7/26/07, Rune Zedeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Quoting Tao Cumplido <[EMAIL

Re: all sharps ?

2007-07-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/7/26, Vasil Kadifeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: And by the way, is there a way to play the tunes from a .ly file ? Sure: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Creating-MIDI-files Regards, V.Villenave ___ lilypond-user mailing li

Re: Microtone accidentals

2007-07-26 Thread Siska Ádám
Hello, after lot of people suggested to me to upgrade to version 2.11, I did it. I have to admit that the result is much better than in 2.10, specially with a lot of smart automation on text positioning, which up to now was done by myself. But I have some serious problems which I don't know

Re: all sharps ?

2007-07-26 Thread Christ van Willegen
Hi, On 7/26/07, Vasil Kadifeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Many thanks Tao, it works ;) but then I will have to encode all c, f, and g notes as cis, fis, and gis respectively, because lilypond puts a natural sign in front of the first c, f, g note. am I correct ? I was expecting some kind o

Re: voltaOnThisStaff property in the master file's \layout block

2007-07-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, Is there a way to set the voltaOnThisStaff property in the layout block in the master file? I think you're looking for \layout { \context { \ChordNames voltaOnThisStaff = ##t } } Hope this helps! Kieren. _

instrumentName and polyphony

2007-07-26 Thread Charlotte
Hi, I'm having problems with getting instrument (or technically voice-part) names to appear on a polyphonic score. Where in the syntax, or even in the .ly file do I put the \set instrumentName? I'm writing some simple 4-part choral stuff on 2 staves, using the template from http://lilypond.org/d

Re: Can I have my own custom LilyPond?

2007-07-26 Thread Tao Cumplido
Hi, I tried your suggestion and works really good so far, thanks. The only problem is that I can't find a way to place the chords above the staff now. Any solutions? regards, Tao Original-Nachricht Datum: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:54:10 +0200 Von: Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: all sharps ?

2007-07-26 Thread Vasil Kadifeli
...and I was wandering why a two character notation for sharps ;) thank you all once again... On 7/26/07, Christ van Willegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, On 7/26/07, Vasil Kadifeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Many thanks Tao, > > it works ;) > > but then I will have to encode all c, f,

Re: Indenting Coda System

2007-07-26 Thread Charlotte
Following on from what Bertalan said, if you put the coda in a separate score block I think you can then use \markup { \translate #(cons X Y) { \score{yourscoreblock} } } } to shift it around, where X is the horizontal movement (+ve for right, -ve for left) and Y is the vertical movement (+ve for

Beams across barlines and line breaking

2007-07-26 Thread Siska Ádám
Hello, after upgrading to 2.11, the beams going accross barlines block the engine from making line breaks. The problem is that I have a polyphonic place in the score I'm engraving where there are 9 bars one after the other that have barline-crossing beams in some of the voices, and 9 bars ar

Re: Can I have my own custom LilyPond?

2007-07-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/7/26, Tao Cumplido <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The only problem is that I can't find a way to place the chords above the staff now. Any solutions? If I remember correctly, this is something like: \new Staff = mystaff { \new Voice = music {%add notes here... }} \new Lyrics \with {alignAboveCon

Spacing problem

2007-07-26 Thread Siska Ádám
Hello, I'm now getting some spacing errors with noteheads. I attach an image. Is this some positioning bug in 2.11? (In 2.10 I didn't notice it.) If not, is there some possible workaround for cases like these? (Both are produced at beam endings, so maybe if there is some method for increasing

some questions

2007-07-26 Thread M.v.Strien
Hi list, Sorry if the following has been asked oodles o' times before. :) 1) I can't get that open office lilypond thing to work. The setup of the macros etc. went well (had to install some Java stuff tho), and ctrl-m brings that lilypond popup. But when I type some lilypond script -such as t

Re: some questions

2007-07-26 Thread Dominic Neumann
'C:\Program' is not recognized as internal or external command, operable program or batch file. [...] lilypond executable: C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond.exe It looks as if it treats everything after the space as an argument. Maybe you have to put the path to lilypond into quot

Re: Substitution

2007-07-26 Thread Martial
Hi ! In the following code, why doesn't my substition work? just put in bracket "{ blabla }" breath = { \once\override BreathingSign #'extra-offset = #'(0.0 . 1.0)\breathe } %%+++ begin snippet \version "2.11.23" \include "english.ly" breath = \once\override Breathi

Re: Standalone bar lines in StaffGroup

2007-07-26 Thread Trevor Bača
On 7/26/07, Siska Ádám <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'm engraving a string quartet, and I have the four staffs inside a StaffGroup. This is normally good for bar lines, as normally I need single barlines that display through the four staves. But there's a point where the time signatures di

LilyPond extension/plugin for MediaWiki software

2007-07-26 Thread Mark Dewey
Hello, I've heard tell that there is a LilyPond extension or plugin for MediaWiki (that's the software they use with Wikipedia). I have a wiki (HymnWiki.org) that uses LilyPond files quite a bit . . . so, I'm interested in finding out what the plugin is for, what it is called, and where I can

Parentheses

2007-07-26 Thread Mark Dewey
How do you input parentheses in lyrics? Just adding them in makes it so it won't compile, due to a syntax error. I have several scores that use parentheses in their lyrics (most of them are rather old, however). It would be nice to be able to do them how they were then, in this regard, I thi

Re: grace note leading to chord [solved]

2007-07-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/7/27, Gilles THIBAULT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Yes, perfect solution Maybe this could be added to the LSR; or do you prefer to wait until someone writes a Scheme function? By the way, I would be interested in that too; I wonder how one can extract a note from a chord using Scheme... Or maybe

Re: grace note leading to chord [solved]

2007-07-26 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
Yes, perfect solution I tested an acciaccatura with a chord and with a single note : it's absolutly the same : % \version "2.10.25" \new Staff { << { \slurDown \acciaccatura b'8 \once \override NoteH

Re: Tweaking arpeggios

2007-07-26 Thread Diosnel Herrnsdorf
You may have to work out your own tweak for this one... Check http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/input/regression/lily-db2f26903c.ly for an example of a bracket and see if you can combine it with arrow heads. Regards, - Original Message - From: "Daniel Tonda Castillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Tweaking arpeggios

2007-07-26 Thread Daniel Tonda Castillo
Diosnel Herrnsdorf escribió: Daniel, Off the top of my head, I can't remember the syntax, but look for something like \DownArpeggio or \ArpeggioDown. The line would still be squiggly, though, and I think that's fine as far as I know, because a straight line usually means "plaqué" (i.e. non ar

Bug concerning lilypond-book

2007-07-26 Thread Daniel Tonda Castillo
Greetings: Sorry for the cross-posting but I think I've found a bug. When I put a section like this in a lilypond file and compile it the spacing is fine. \paper{ line-width = 170.000 \mm textheight = 250.000 \mm between-system-space = 1.5\cm between-system-padding = #1 ragged-bottom=##f

Re: Tweaking arpeggios

2007-07-26 Thread Diosnel Herrnsdorf
Daniel, Off the top of my head, I can't remember the syntax, but look for something like \DownArpeggio or \ArpeggioDown. The line would still be squiggly, though, and I think that's fine as far as I know, because a straight line usually means "plaqué" (i.e. non arpeggiated), so the arrow would

Tweaking arpeggios

2007-07-26 Thread Daniel Tonda Castillo
Hello: Is there a way to set the squiggly line of the arpeggio to a straight line with the arrow included? This is because in guitar music, sometimes the direction of the strum is indicated with an arrow pointing upwards in case the strum s from the low strings to the high strings, and vicev

ConTeXt table of contents tweak

2007-07-26 Thread Adam Good
Hi everyone, This may be a bit off-topic but I figure others here may be using ConTeXt to make books out of Lilypond files. I signed up for the ConTeXt mailing list a couple days ago but still need to get approved, impatient as always me. I believe I asked the same question about LaTeX a

Re: metric modulation?

2007-07-26 Thread Arvid Grøtting
"Trevor Bača" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 7/26/07, Adam Good <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is there any handy dandy method to do the following: > > > > let's say I wrote out a piece in 7/8. What if I wanted to see what it > > looked like in 7/16 without having to change every

Re: Substitution

2007-07-26 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Thank you, Martial. I didn't think of the brackets because I had done other substitutions / definitions without the brackets. It works perfectly, now. Cheers and thanks, Ralph ... Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:26:38 +0200 From

Re: override-auto-beam-setting bug?

2007-07-26 Thread Martial
Hi, you must write that it is for all the Staff \relative c'' { \time 8/8 #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * * *) 3 8 'Staff) #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * * *) 6 8 'Staff) #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * * *) 8 8 'Staff) c8 c c c c c

Re: Spacing problem

2007-07-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/7/26, Siska Ádám <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I've sent the score to the list a few time ago, but it didn't arrive for me, although normally I get a copy of my own messages posted to the list. Did it arrive, or is there some restrictions for attachment type and/or size on this list? AFAIK, the ma

Re: Spacing problem

2007-07-26 Thread Trevor Bača
On 7/26/07, Siska Ádám <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'm now getting some spacing errors with noteheads. I attach an image. Is this some positioning bug in 2.11? (In 2.10 I didn't notice it.) If not, is there some possible workaround for cases like these? (Both are produced at beam endings,

Re: metric modulation?

2007-07-26 Thread Trevor Bača
On 7/26/07, Adam Good <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Is there any handy dandy method to do the following: let's say I wrote out a piece in 7/8. What if I wanted to see what it looked like in 7/16 without having to change every note value of what I already wrote say: a4. b4 c b8 a g a4 b8 a

Re: set-global-staff-size causes weird printing

2007-07-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/7/26, Dominic Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: strange ... on my 2.10.25 system i get output in both variants (13 or 14). there are some errors but this could also come from using a 2.10 version instead of 2.11. OK, I made some tests It works with 2.10.25 It works with 2.11.28 It *doesn't* wo

Standalone bar lines in StaffGroup

2007-07-26 Thread Siska Ádám
Hello, I'm engraving a string quartet, and I have the four staffs inside a StaffGroup. This is normally good for bar lines, as normally I need single barlines that display through the four staves. But there's a point where the time signatures differ for every stave, but just for a few bars.

Re: some questions

2007-07-26 Thread M.v.Strien
Although I'm on OS X (so, I can't try if it would be a solution for you), can't it be the problem that you have spaces in your path? Give a try replacing C:\Program Files\OOoLilyPond\templates\2.10\ to "C:\Program Files\OOoLilyPond\templates\2.10\" and C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond

Substitution

2007-07-26 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I'm running LilyPond 2.11.27 (although the files, after running convert-ly, say 2.11.23) under Windows XP2000, SP2. Great program! I just wish I knew everything about it. I'm gaining on it, though. In the following code, why doesn't my substition work? Thank you for your help and fo

Re: Beams across barlines and line breaking

2007-07-26 Thread Trevor Bača
On 7/26/07, Siska Ádám <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, after upgrading to 2.11, the beams going accross barlines block the engine from making line breaks. The problem is that I have a polyphonic place in the score I'm engraving where there are 9 bars one after the other that have barline-cros

set-global-staff-size causes weird printing

2007-07-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hello everybody, I'm typesetting a large, large orchestral score; I've always used a small global-staff-size and it worked very well. However, I've just discovered that when I specify a different global-staff-size, the compilation goes fine, no error messages... but the .pdf (as well as the .ps)

Re: Microtone accidentals

2007-07-26 Thread Trevor Bača
On 7/26/07, Siska Ádám <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, after lot of people suggested to me to upgrade to version 2.11, I did it. I have to admit that the result is much better than in 2.10, specially with a lot of smart automation on text positioning, which up to now was done by myself. But I

Re: Help with spacing spanner, i.e., horizontal spacing between notes

2007-07-26 Thread Trevor Bača
On 7/25/07, peterwinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have read the horizontal spacing section in the manual and have tried to replicated the code in my own ly file but \override SpacingSpanner #'base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1 4) doesn't seem to work. Here is what I want to do. The

Re: all sharps ?

2007-07-26 Thread Vasil Kadifeli
I knew I saw it at some place ;) many thanks... On 7/26/07, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2007/7/26, Vasil Kadifeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > And by the way, is there a way to play the tunes from a .ly file ? Sure: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Creati

Re: all sharps ?

2007-07-26 Thread Rune Zedeler
Quoting Vasil Kadifeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > And by the way, is there a way to play the tunes from a *.ly* file ? Yep, if you add a midi-block to the score, lilypond will create a midi-file that you can play. Read section 10.3 in the manual. -Rune

Re: instrumentName and polyphony

2007-07-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Charlotte, Where in the syntax, or even in the .ly file do I put the \set instrumentName? The good news is, there's no one answer for that. The bad news is, there's no one answer for that. =) I need to label each vocal line because some scores are SATB whilst others are SSTT or other co

Re: Microtone accidentals

2007-07-26 Thread Siska Ádám
Hello, wow, this is very nice! I also tried it with flat sign (just to try it out), and also works fine. Thank you! BTW, could you explain a bit (maybe in a private mail) how actually it works? I would like to adopt the sign to be able to create the down-arrowed accidentals too, and to be abl

Re: How to screen-optimize stems

2007-07-26 Thread Rune Zedeler
Quoting Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> \paper { >>blot-diameter = 2 \pt >> } >> Unfortunately it does not work with bar-lines, though. > Oh, but you could simply add > > \override Score.BarLine #'thickness = #100 > > problem solved :-) I am not really sure whether this was a joke,

Re: LilyPond extension/plugin for MediaWiki software

2007-07-26 Thread Benjamin Esham
Mark Dewey wrote: > I've heard tell that there is a LilyPond extension or plugin for MediaWiki > (that's the software they use with Wikipedia). I have a wiki > (HymnWiki.org) that uses LilyPond files quite a bit . . . so, I'm > interested in finding out what the plugin is for, what it is called,

Re: metric modulation?

2007-07-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
26 Jul 2007 21:00:59 +0200, Arvid Grøtting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: \version "2.11.28" % should work on versions all the way back to 2.8 looksFaster = #(define-music-function (parser location music) (ly:music?) (let ((new-music (ly:music-deep-copy mu

[solved]Re: override-auto-beam-setting bug?

2007-07-26 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op donderdag 26 juli 2007, schreef Martial: > you must write that it is for all the Staff Thanks! I was already trying staff-override etc. :-) but this was the solution. best regards, Wilbert Berendsen -- http://www.wilbertberendsen.nl/ "You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

override-auto-beam-setting bug?

2007-07-26 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Hi, Since 2.11.28, override-auto-beam-setting does not work anymore in newly instantiated voices (implicit or not): \version "2.11.28" \paper { ragged-right = ##t } \relative c'' { \time 8/8 #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * * *) 3 8) #(override-auto-beam-setting '(e

Re: Spacing problem

2007-07-26 Thread Siska Ádám
Hello, I've sent the score to the list a few time ago, but it didn't arrive for me, although normally I get a copy of my own messages posted to the list. Did it arrive, or is there some restrictions for attachment type and/or size on this list? Thank you, Adam Siska Ádám

RE: Parentheses

2007-07-26 Thread Paul Harouff
> How do you input parentheses in lyrics? Just adding them in makes it so it won't compile, due to a syntax error. Special characters in lyrics must be enclosed in quotation marks. I've had the same problem with colons. ___ lilypond-user mailing lis

metric modulation?

2007-07-26 Thread Adam Good
Hello, Is there any handy dandy method to do the following: let's say I wrote out a piece in 7/8. What if I wanted to see what it looked like in 7/16 without having to change every note value of what I already wrote say: a4. b4 c b8 a g a4 b8 a etc... but what gets printed is: a8. b8 c b1

Re: Microtone accidentals

2007-07-26 Thread Siska Ádám
Thank you again! As I see, the thing that mostly prevented me from understanding the code was that the parameters come before the commands :-) Bye, Adam Siska Ádám +36 (70) 207-63-85 http://apocalypse.rulez.org/~sadam Valentin Villenave wrote: 2007/7/26, Siska Ádám <[EMA

Re: Microtone accidentals

2007-07-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/7/26, Siska Ádám <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: BTW, could you explain a bit (maybe in a private mail) how actually it works? I would like to adopt the sign to be able to create the down-arrowed accidentals too, and to be able to attach them to natural signs also, but unfortunately I know nothing abo

cruft after introduction to vocal piece

2007-07-26 Thread Ed Ravin
I'm using LilyPond 2.10.14-1 on Mac OS X. I'm typesetting a piece for piano and singer. The first few bars are an introduction, with no words for the singer. In order to save paper, I want a staff without a vocal line for the first few bars, then a regular PianoStaff with melody and lyrics for t

Re: cruft after introduction to vocal piece

2007-07-26 Thread Paul A. Scott
Sorry, I sent this from the wrong address. On Jul 26, 2007, at 10:10 PM, Ed Ravin wrote: I'm using LilyPond 2.10.14-1 on Mac OS X. I'm typesetting a piece for piano and singer. The first few bars are an introduction, with no words for the singer. In order to save paper, I want a staff withou

Re: cruft after introduction to vocal piece

2007-07-26 Thread Paul A. Scott
On Jul 26, 2007, at 11:03 PM, Tao Cumplido wrote: It's all explained in chapter 8.3.2. You have to add \override Score.VerticalAxisGroup #'remove-first = ##t somewhere in your score so that RemoveEmptyStaffContext also removes empty staves frome the first system. From what I can tell he h

Re: cruft after introduction to vocal piece

2007-07-26 Thread Tao Cumplido
It's all explained in chapter 8.3.2. You have to add \override Score.VerticalAxisGroup #'remove-first = ##t somewhere in your score so that RemoveEmptyStaffContext also removes empty staves frome the first system. regards, Tao Original-Nachricht Datum: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:34:

Re: cruft after introduction to vocal piece

2007-07-26 Thread Ed Ravin
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 10:32:45PM -0700, Paul A. Scott wrote: ... > >You can view the problem (at the upper right hand corner of the > >PDF) at: > > > > http://www.panix.com/~eravin/showlilyprob.pdf ... > Without knowing what's in \melody, \upper and \lower it's difficult > to help. OK, I