Re: Two-Syllable Beam with Sharp and Slur

2015-07-21 Thread tisimst
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 10:04 AM, BGM [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n178891...@n5.nabble.com wrote: My hymn has a key signature of B Major, so I have to manually sharp all the naturals in the code. On this one syllable - the cha- in Eucharist, I need to have the beamed 8th notes span for

Re: Two-Syllable Beam with Sharp and Slur

2015-07-21 Thread BGM
Thanks, Abraham - that's just what I wanted to do. I am transcribing a handwritten piece and it was written with the slur there. I changed it from this We Cru- sa- ders of the Eu- cha-_ rist, to this: We Cru- sa- ders of the Eu- cha- _ rist, And with your fix it now shows correctly. I am a

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 152, Issue 74

2015-07-21 Thread David Kastrup
Malte Meyn lilyp...@maltemeyn.de writes: Spacer rests can be made of arbitrary length, so s8 instead of s1 would do the trick too ;) But your solution is easier, why didn’t I think of that? Am 21.07.2015 um 22:22 schrieb Brother Gabriel-Marie: Malte, Okay, that does work for suppressing

Re: Two-Syllable Beam with Sharp and Slur

2015-07-21 Thread tisimst
By the way, and you can ignore this if you want, LilyPond can put in a properly placed lyric hyphen if you set the lyrics like this: We Cru -- sa -- ders of the Eu -- cha -- _ rist, With joy we _ con -- se -- crate to Your Heart Also, if you use slurs in the notes then you shouldn't need to put

Key Signature only on first staff

2015-07-21 Thread BGM
My piece is in B Major and the repition of the key signature takes up a lot of room on the page. I would like to show it on the first staff only and suppress the rest. What do I do? My script is set up like this: global = { \time 4/4 \tempo 4=90 \key b \major } melody = \relative

Re: CueVoice related display problem

2015-07-21 Thread David Kastrup
Menu Jacques imj-...@bluewin.ch writes: Hello folks, How can I get the rests parallel to the CueVoice to be as in the attached PNG image, i.e right below the staff? Well, there is a bit more manual work involved than I like (if your quoted Voice is placed in a music quote, \cueDuring will

Re: Key Signature only on first staff

2015-07-21 Thread Wols Lists
On 21/07/15 18:43, Simon Albrecht wrote: Hello Brother Gabriel, Am 21.07.2015 um 19:11 schrieb BGM: My piece is in B Major and the repetition of the key signature takes up a lot of room on the page. I would like to show it on the first staff only and suppress the rest. That is unusual,

Re: Two-Syllable Beam with Sharp and Slur

2015-07-21 Thread Trevor Daniels
BGM brgabr...@sspx.org wrote Tuesday, July 21, 2015 5:37 PM I am a programmer, and never in the world would I have used brackets and parenthesis like that! It's better not to think of them as brackets and parentheses, because they are not, they are symbols indicating the start and end points

Re: Two-Syllable Beam with Sharp and Slur

2015-07-21 Thread Brother Gabriel-Marie
Say, you all are very friendly! I didn't expect such enthusiastic help! I started asking questions on Music Stack Exchange and they were giving me such a hard time that I was getting a bit discouraged.

Align instrumentName baseline (?) to Lyrics baseline

2015-07-21 Thread RomanticStrings
How might I ensure that the bottom of a columned instrumentName aligns to the bottom of the Lyrics in a score? I am trying to imitate chant notation with the initial capital and mode in a centered column, but I don't know how to make sure that the bottom of the A lines up with the bottom of the L

Two-Syllable Beam with Sharp and Slur

2015-07-21 Thread BGM
My hymn has a key signature of B Major, so I have to manually sharp all the naturals in the code. On this one syllable - the cha- in Eucharist, I need to have the beamed 8th notes span for one syllable, and both be sharped AND still keep the slur line. How do I do that? melody = \relative c' {

CueVoice related display problem

2015-07-21 Thread Menu Jacques
Hello folks, How can I get the rests parallel to the CueVoice to be as in the attached PNG image, i.e right below the staff? Also, the flute stems are too short. Thanks a lot! JM %%% \version 2.19.22 \relative { \clef alto \key d \major \time 2/4 a16 ( [ cis16 a16 cis16 ) ]

\offset and mutable properties

2015-07-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, while developing a workaround (or solution?) for issue 4316 https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4316, I encountered the following problem: \offset cannot be used on X and Y offset properties, apparently because these are mutable, and as the doc string for (offsetter)

Re: Key Signature only on first staff

2015-07-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 21.07.2015 um 19:43 schrieb Simon Albrecht: Hello Brother Gabriel, Am 21.07.2015 um 19:11 schrieb BGM: My piece is in B Major and the repetition of the key signature takes up a lot of room on the page. I would like to show it on the first staff only and suppress the rest. That is

Re: Key Signature only on first staff

2015-07-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Brother Gabriel, Am 21.07.2015 um 19:11 schrieb BGM: My piece is in B Major and the repetition of the key signature takes up a lot of room on the page. I would like to show it on the first staff only and suppress the rest. That is unusual, but I’ve seen it done in hymn books on small

Re: \offset and mutable properties

2015-07-21 Thread David Nalesnik
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 7:43 PM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de wrote: So a ‘mutable property’ would be one that is unset by default? My understanding is that immutable properties store default

Re: \offset and mutable properties

2015-07-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 22.07.2015 um 02:43 schrieb David Nalesnik: On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de mailto:simon.albre...@mail.de wrote: So a ‘mutable property’ would be one that is unset by default? My understanding is that immutable properties store default

Re: Attachment size

2015-07-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 21.07.2015 um 20:55 schrieb Ralph Palmer: Hello again - While we're at it, does anyone have any suggestions for reducing image size? I started with a .jpg with fairly high resolution, I guess. I have Gimp2 installed, but I could not figure out how to get the file size down below 2 Mb. I

Problem with merging notes and accidental placement in two voices

2015-07-21 Thread Ralph Palmer
Greetings - (This is the second time - my original .png was too large.) I'm running LilyPond 18.2 under Win7. I'm attaching 3 files: 1) NoteMergeAndAccidentals.ly : LilyPond source file with no tweaks 2) NoteMergeAndAccidentals.pdf : a PDF of NoteMergeAndAccidentals.ly

Re: Key Signature only on first staff

2015-07-21 Thread Brother Gabriel-Marie
Mr. Albrecht, Where do I add the \omit Staff.KeySignature in my composition? You are using a different setup. Or do I have to change the way I'm laying it out? global = { \time 4/4 \tempo 4=90 \key b \major } melody = \relative c' { \global ...the music... } wordsOne =

Re: Key Signature only on first staff

2015-07-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 21.07.2015 um 20:29 schrieb Brother Gabriel-Marie: Mr. Albrecht, Where do I add the \omit Staff.KeySignature in my composition? After the first note or measure, so it affects all but the first key signatures. You are using a different setup. Or do I have to change the way I'm laying it

Re: CueVoice related display problem

2015-07-21 Thread Menu Jacques
Hello David, Thanks for your help! I’ll look more into \cueDuring, but this solution is already fine. JM Le 21 juil. 2015 à 19:19, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org a écrit : Menu Jacques imj-...@bluewin.ch writes: Hello folks, How can I get the rests parallel to the CueVoice to be as in

Re: Problem with merging notes and accidental placement in two voices

2015-07-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Ralph, this is issue 1134 https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1134. There are workarounds tracked there. HTH, Simon Am 21.07.2015 um 21:13 schrieb Ralph Palmer: Greetings - (This is the second time - my original .png was too large.) I'm running LilyPond 18.2 under

Re: Attachment size

2015-07-21 Thread Malte Meyn
The GIMP can export to jpg and png; in the export window you can change the compression level or quality – higher compression means lower quality but also smaller files. How much the file size changes and which image format is better (in quality, file size, …) depends on the image content.

Re: Key Signature only on first staff

2015-07-21 Thread Brother Gabriel-Marie
Okay, well, I have actually read the learning manual, just so everyone knows. If I place \omit Staff.KeySignature anywhere significant, it removes the key signature, but it removes it also from the first staff too. I want the key signature at the very beginning. On 7/21/2015 2:02 PM,

Attachment size

2015-07-21 Thread Ralph Palmer
Hello again - While we're at it, does anyone have any suggestions for reducing image size? I started with a .jpg with fairly high resolution, I guess. I have Gimp2 installed, but I could not figure out how to get the file size down below 2 Mb. I tried fiddling with the resolution and exporting

Re: Two-Syllable Beam with Sharp and Slur

2015-07-21 Thread Robert Schmaus
Am 21/07/15 um 20:16 schrieb Brother Gabriel-Marie: I started asking questions on Music Stack Exchange and they were giving me such a hard time that I was getting a bit discouraged.

Re: Key Signature only on first staff

2015-07-21 Thread Malte Meyn
You have to insert the \omit commands not in the first bar but later. The following code hopefully does what you want. Explanation: I used a spacer rest (s1) in global. Because this would move not only the \omits but also the beginning of the melody, I moved the \global from the beginning of

RE:Attachment size

2015-07-21 Thread Stephen MacNeil
Not sure if this will help but, I only run LFS so no bells and whistles. So to do this i wrote a few scripts that use ghostscript. modify what you need or use it as it is gsPdf - prints specified pages from a larger pdf gsJpg - creates jpg images from pdf files (all small in size) they assume

Re: Align instrumentName baseline (?) to Lyrics baseline

2015-07-21 Thread Klaus Blum
Hi Conor, not the most beautiful hack, but maybe it helps: Instead of instrumentName, use a stanza object: % - \version 2.19.21 stemOff = { \hide Staff.Stem } \score { \new Staff \relative c' { \stemOff

Re: Align instrumentName baseline (?) to Lyrics baseline

2015-07-21 Thread RomanticStrings
Here is an image of the score: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n178922/InstrName-Lyrics-align.jpg Here is the example of the chant notation score I am trying to imitate: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n178922/InstrName-Lyrics-align-Alleluia-ex.jpg ~Conor -- View

Re: Attachment size

2015-07-21 Thread tisimst
You are probably doing this already, but in GIMP, go to Image Scale Image and change the Width/Height units to Percent and change it to something smaller than 100% and hit Scale. This should reduce the size of the image nicely. For reference, though, when saving to an image format, remember that

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 152, Issue 74

2015-07-21 Thread Brother Gabriel-Marie
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Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 152, Issue 74

2015-07-21 Thread Malte Meyn
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Re: \offset and mutable properties

2015-07-21 Thread David Nalesnik
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Re: Problem with merging notes and accidental placement in two voices

2015-07-21 Thread Ralph Palmer
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de wrote: Hi Ralph, this is issue 1134 https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1134 https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1134. There are workarounds tracked there. HTH, Simon Thanks, Simon,

Re: Attachment size

2015-07-21 Thread Ralph Palmer
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 4:47 PM, tisimst tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: You are probably doing this already, but in GIMP, go to Image Scale Image and change the Width/Height units to Percent and change it to something smaller than 100% and hit Scale. This should reduce the size of the

Re: \offset and mutable properties

2015-07-21 Thread David Nalesnik
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de wrote: So a ‘mutable property’ would be one that is unset by default? My understanding is that immutable properties store default values--such as a procedure to be applied when calculating Stem.thickness or whatever, and

Re: \offset and mutable properties

2015-07-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi David, thanks for the response. Am 21.07.2015 um 22:17 schrieb David Nalesnik: Hi Simon, On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de mailto:simon.albre...@mail.de wrote: Hello, while developing a workaround (or solution?) for issue 4316

Re: \offset and mutable properties

2015-07-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
And I forgot to mention: Unfortunately, your offIIb.ly file doesn’t place the dynamics in the middle of the staff symbol as they should be – probably because of outside-staff-priority? Thanks in advance, Simon Am 21.07.2015 um 22:17 schrieb David Nalesnik: Hi Simon, On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at

Re: \offset and mutable properties

2015-07-21 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Simon, On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de wrote: And I forgot to mention: Unfortunately, your offIIb.ly file doesn’t place the dynamics in the middle of the staff symbol as they should be – probably because of outside-staff-priority? No, the Y-offset