Re: Use custom font's flat (b) and sharp (#) symbols for chords

2011-02-16 Thread Matthias Hüsken
Hi again, thx so far. Sorry for my English, I think I did not make myself clear enough, so I'll try to elaborate a little more. What I have: - I am setting notes and chords. - I changed the font for the chords to a custom one (real book style). - Notes (and related accidentals like flat and

Re: Use custom font's flat (b) and sharp (#) symbols for chords

2011-02-16 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 16.02.2011 10:29, schrieb Matthias Hüsken: Hi again, thx so far. Sorry for my English, I think I did not make myself clear enough, so I'll try to elaborate a little more. What I have: - I am setting notes and chords. - I changed the font for the chords to a custom one (real book style). -

Re: strange output

2011-02-16 Thread Mario Moles
In data martedì 15 febbraio 2011 13:52:32, hai scritto: See Known issues and warnings in the Notation Reference, section 1.2.6, Grace notes. -- Phil Holmes Ok! Solved! But now this is the log: Processing `Impromptu.ly' Analisi... Interpreting music... Preprocessing graphical objects...

Re: engraving question - changing stem direction to avoid levitating slur

2011-02-16 Thread Xavier Scheuer
2011/2/15 Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com: You might try adding the Melody_engraver for this: it changes the neutral-direction based on the stem directions of surrounding notes (but only in the current bar, I think): Wow, I did not know the existence of this engraver! It is not mentioned in

Use custom font's flat (b) and sharp (#) symbols for chords

2011-02-16 Thread Matthias Hüsken
Hi everyone, I'm new to Lilypond and impressed with the ease of writing music and the quality of the output. For writing lead sheets, I changed Lilypond's standard font for printing chord names to a custom font. While this works perfectly, the style difference between the chord symbols and

Re: scheme artificial harmonic (transposition within chord)

2011-02-16 Thread Rob Canning
Neil Puttock wrote: On 15 February 2011 14:25, Rob Canning r...@goto10.org wrote: where lies the error or is there a better way to do this - am slightly suprised there is not a build in function for this... maybe there is? There are several parser limitations you're encountering

Re: Use custom font's flat (b) and sharp (#) symbols for chords

2011-02-16 Thread Matthias Hüsken
So, what I would ideally like to have is a way of making Lilypond use b and # from a custom font, but exclusively in chord mode. I did quite some searching but did not come up with anything useful, so I already feared it might not be easy (or doable at all...). I think you can achieve

Re: alpha test, horizontal spacing

2011-02-16 Thread Ralph Palmer
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Jan Warchoł lemniskata.bernoulli...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/2/12 Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk: Jan Warchoł wrote Saturday, February 12, 2011 9:25 AM I agree too, but in my opinion it's a less important problem than the one marked in red in the

Re: strange output

2011-02-16 Thread Phil Holmes
Yes - this is a known issue: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1412 Just ignore the error message. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Mario Moles To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 11:06 AM Subject: Re: strange output

Re: Use custom font's flat (b) and sharp (#) symbols for chords (solved)

2011-02-16 Thread Matthias Hüsken
Hi again, thanks a lot for the pointers in the right direction, I finally got my problem solved. It is based on the solution found here: http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg02286.html In case someone else stumbles upon this problem, here is my (shortened) solution: %

Re: Use custom font's flat (b) and sharp (#) symbols for chords (solved)

2011-02-16 Thread Xavier Scheuer
2011/2/16 Matthias Hüsken matthias.hues...@math.uni-wuppertal.de: Hi again, thanks a lot for the pointers in the right direction, I finally got my problem solved. It is based on the solution found here: http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg02286.html In case someone

Re: Use custom font's flat (b) and sharp (#) symbols for chords

2011-02-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/16/11 2:29 AM, Matthias Hüsken matthias.hues...@math.uni-wuppertal.de wrote: Hi again, thx so far. Sorry for my English, I think I did not make myself clear enough, so I'll try to elaborate a little more. Your English is great. I just think that none of us knew how to answer you.

Overriding bar-line behaviour

2011-02-16 Thread Matthias Hüsken
Hi again, while trying to change LilyPond's behaviour concerning bar lines, I stumbled upon some strange behaviour. What I'd like to achieve: When ending a bar with e repetition sign :|, I need double lines (||) at the beginning of the next bar. I found bar-glyph-alist in scm/output-lib.scm

Re: engraving question - changing stem direction to avoid levitatingslur

2011-02-16 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Xavier Scheuer x.sche...@gmail.com To: Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com Cc: Janek Warchoł lemniskata.bernoull...@gmail.com; lilypond-user lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 1:23 PM Subject: Re: engraving question - changing stem

Re: Use custom font's flat (b) and sharp (#) symbols for chords(solved)

2011-02-16 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Xavier Scheuer x.sche...@gmail.com To: Matthias Hüsken matthias.hues...@math.uni-wuppertal.de Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 5:32 PM Subject: Re: Use custom font's flat (b) and sharp (#) symbols for chords(solved) 2011/2/16

Re: Overriding bar-line behaviour

2011-02-16 Thread Matthias Hüsken
Sorry for the noise on the mailing list - I knew it was some stupid mistake... I tried to override the wrong value, it should have been \override Score.BarLine #'break-glyph-function = #my-bar-line::calc-glyph-name instead of \override Staff.BarLine #'glyph-name = #my-bar-line::calc-glyph-name

Shorthand notation for multi-measure rests in music with frequent meter changes ?

2011-02-16 Thread Michael Ellis
I'm currently transcribing parts from music with frequently changing meters and segments where a part is resting. The sequence below is typical.     \time 3/4 R1*3/4 |     \time 3/8 R1*3/8 |     \time 4/4 R1*8/4 |  % 2 bars     \time 3/8 R1*3/8 | Does anyone know how to write a music function

Re: Overriding bar-line behaviour

2011-02-16 Thread Matthias Hüsken
Ok, I give up for tonight - obviously, before writing my last mail I tested while having the new barline definitions in scm/output-lib.scm (instead of reverting that file). Which means I cannot get things to work without modifying scm/output-lib.scm. Any ideas how to put this into a .ly file

Right hand notes have too many ledger lines.

2011-02-16 Thread Disc Magnet
This is the code: \version 2.12.3 \score { \new PianoStaff \set PianoStaff.midiInstrument = acoustic grand \tempo 4 = 120 \new Staff { \relative c' { c d c b a c d c c d c b g c d c

Re: Shorthand notation for multi-measure rests in music with frequent meter changes ?

2011-02-16 Thread Neil Thornock
I can't answer your question, but I have two responses to the dilemma. First, R2. is more compact than R1*3/4, and R1*2 is better than R1*8/4. Same with R4*5 vs R1*5/4. Also, if you happen to use Vim -- I keep all my time signatures in a separate file from the notes. It's then simple to map

Re: Right hand notes have too many ledger lines.

2011-02-16 Thread Jan Warchoł
2011/2/16 Disc Magnet discmag...@gmail.com: This is the code: \version 2.12.3 \score {    \new PianoStaff        \set PianoStaff.midiInstrument = acoustic grand        \tempo 4 = 120        \new Staff {            \relative c' {                c d c b                a c d c            

Re: Shorthand notation for multi-measure rests in music with frequent meter changes ?

2011-02-16 Thread Michael Ellis
Thanks Neil, those are good tips. I'm a long time vim user so shortcuts are certainly a possibility. OTOH, I've recently found that JEdit + LilyPondTool makes a real difference in my productivity compared to vim + some helper scripts I had put together. I know JEdit has its own Java-based macro

Lilypond-book: Adjust left page margin

2011-02-16 Thread Daniel Dieterle
Hi, currently I'm working on a song book with lilypond-book. I would like to have equal page margins on the left and right of 1 cm. So I configured the page layout with the LaTex geometry package. Lilypond-book adopts the staff length accordingly: The right space from the end of a staff line to

Re: Overriding bar-line behaviour

2011-02-16 Thread Robin Bannister
Matthias Hüsken wrote: What I'd like to achieve: When ending a bar with the repetition sign :|, I need double lines (||) at the beginning of the next bar. It looks as though you actually mean ending/beginning lines, not bars. [...] (:|| . (:| . ||)) [...] Unfortunately, this does not work:

Re: Right hand notes have too many ledger lines.

2011-02-16 Thread James Lowe
Disc Magnet, -Original Message- From: Disc Magnet discmag...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:37:04 +0530 To: lilypond-user lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Right hand notes have too many ledger lines. This is the code: \version 2.12.3 \score { \new PianoStaff \set

Re: Right hand notes have too many ledger lines.

2011-02-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/16/11 12:07 PM, Disc Magnet discmag...@gmail.com wrote: I have attached the PDF output with this email. In his score, the treble clef is supposed to be played with right hand and the bass clef with left hand. However, in the treble clef (right hand), we have two notes ('a' and 'g')

Barline at the beginning of a piece

2011-02-16 Thread Michael Dykes
Hullo all. I am creating chant templates for the 8 tones, and need repeat barlines at the beginning of each section. I know how to acheive that in the gregorian.ly style, but how do I do this if I do not have that feature on? i.e. no gregorian.sty and cadenzaOn? Before, I would type: \repeat

Re: Right hand notes have too many ledger lines.

2011-02-16 Thread David Kastrup
Disc Magnet discmag...@gmail.com writes: I have attached the PDF output with this email. In his score, the treble clef is supposed to be played with right hand and the bass clef with left hand. However, in the treble clef (right hand), we have two notes ('a' and 'g') which are below the

Re: Right hand notes have too many ledger lines.

2011-02-16 Thread Francisco Vila
2011/2/16 Disc Magnet discmag...@gmail.com: I have attached the PDF output with this email. In his score, the treble clef is supposed to be played with right hand and the bass clef with left hand. However, in the treble clef (right hand), we have two notes ('a' and 'g') which are below the