Re: double time signature problem

2017-11-14 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 14.11.2017 20:36, Blöchl Bernhard wrote: (neuter). "Die Mad", "Das Madchen" likewise. Again, here English is very unusual ... I argue there is meant "Die Magd" The diminutive of „Magd“ is „Mägdelein“ or maybe „Mägdchen“ (nobody would use the latter), but not „Mädchen“. Best, Simon

Re: A problem with "placing grace notes between arpeggios and chords"

2017-11-14 Thread Thomas Morley
2017-11-14 20:08 GMT+01:00 Robert Blackstone : > Thank you very much, Harm. > Two solutions. No way that I would ever have been able to figure this out. > I'm very impressed. > > The "bad news" is that only the first part of my problem is solved. What I > would need

Re: Tuplets curved brackets?

2017-11-14 Thread Jacques Menu Muzhic
Hello David, \single it not the solution, but \temporary…\undo is. Thanks for your help! JM > Le 14 nov. 2017 à 13:42, David Kastrup a écrit : > > Jacques Menu Muzhic writes: > >> Hello Ben, >> >> How can one undo the effect of tupletBracketToSlur to

Re: How do I apply patch files to my LilyPond binary on Windows?

2017-11-14 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 14.11.2017 09:40, Robert Murdoch wrote: Now I'm wondering if I can apply the patch at https://codereview.appspot.com/332990043 to my Windows binary file. No you can’t, since the patch changes the C++ part which is compiled to form the binary. So you’d have to build LilyPond yourself – or

[OT] Grammatic gender

2017-11-14 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 14.11.2017 18:54, Wols Lists wrote: It's the same with gender - and that can also be confusing especially when making a diminutive. "Die Frau" (feminine), "Das Fraulein" (neuter). "Die Mad", "Das Madchen" likewise. Actually, the base word is „Die Maid“. Mark Twain has famously and

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

2017-11-14 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Simon, As a native English speaker, allow me to say that the examples you have given are not grammatical gender but literary. English does not have such a thing. Since there are no gendered definite or indefinite articles ('the', 'a') there is just no such concept in English grammar. Often

Re: double time signature problem

2017-11-14 Thread Noeck
> The diminutive of „Magd“ is „Mägdelein“ or maybe „Mägdchen“ (nobody > would use the latter), but not „Mädchen“. But still "Mädchen" seems to be derived from "Magd": http://www.wissen.de/wortherkunft/maedchen Cheers, Joram ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: macro variable doesn't behave same as original?

2017-11-14 Thread Caagr98
In the first version, you're applying the \fermata post-event to the c2, which is perfectly valid. In the second one, you're applying it to the {...}, which doesn't make sense. I'm afraid I don't know any good solution, though. On 11/14/17 13:21, Patrick Smith wrote: > This works: > > \version

Re: midi volume single note

2017-11-14 Thread Gianmaria Lari
On 14 November 2017 at 11:30, David Kastrup wrote: > Gianmaria Lari writes: > > > On 13 November 2017 at 13:31, Caagr98 wrote: > > > >> I was thinking of something like this: > >> > >> << > >> { c'1 } > >> { s8 \set

Re: Tuplets curved brackets?

2017-11-14 Thread Jacques Menu Muzhic
Hello Ben, Yes, that’s the solution I was looking for, thanks so much! JM > Le 14 nov. 2017 à 12:25, Ben a écrit : > > On 11/14/2017 5:02 AM, Menu Jacques wrote: >> Hello folks, >> >> MusicXML has the notion of curved tuplets brackets: >> >> > start"/>

Re: macro variable doesn't behave same as original?

2017-11-14 Thread David Kastrup
Caagr98 writes: >> On 11/14/17 13:21, Patrick Smith wrote: >>> This works: >>> >>> \version "2.18.2" >>> \relative c' { >>>   \time 2/4 >>>   c4 c( d) d( e) e( f) f( g) g( a) a( b) b( c) c( b) b( a) a( g) g( >>> f) f( e) e( d) d( c2)~ c2 \fermata  \bar "|." >>>   layout{} >>>

Re: Tuplets curved brackets?

2017-11-14 Thread SoundsFromSound
Andrew Bernard wrote > Hi Ben, > > Would you consider adding this to openlilylib? I am happy to help out with > that if needed. This is too excellent to be lost in the mailing list > archives forever. > > Andrew > > ___ > lilypond-user mailing list >

Re: Tuplets curved brackets?

2017-11-14 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> How can one undo the effect of tupletBracketToSlur to use it on a > per-tuplet basis? Prefixing it with \once is not a solution I’ve > seen. Try `\single'. Werner ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Tuplets curved brackets?

2017-11-14 Thread David Kastrup
Jacques Menu Muzhic writes: > Hello Ben, > > How can one undo the effect of tupletBracketToSlur to use it on a > per-tuplet basis? > Prefixing it with \once is not a solution I’ve seen. > > Below, I’d like the third triplet to use square brackets again: > > { > a a

Re: macro variable doesn't behave same as original?

2017-11-14 Thread Patrick Smith
I can wait for 2.21.0. I'll continuing coding with the assumption that the macrovariable will indeed be a one-for-one, text in-place, copy of the original. On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 7:44 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Caagr98 writes: > > >> On 11/14/17 13:21,

Re: Tuplets curved brackets?

2017-11-14 Thread Jacques Menu Muzhic
Hello Ben, How can one undo the effect of tupletBracketToSlur to use it on a per-tuplet basis? Prefixing it with \once is not a solution I’ve seen. Below, I’d like the third triplet to use square brackets again: { a a \tuplet 3/2 { a8 a a } a4 | %! \tupletBracketToSlur % HERE OK a a

macro variable doesn't behave same as original?

2017-11-14 Thread Patrick Smith
This works: \version "2.18.2" \relative c' { \time 2/4 c4 c( d) d( e) e( f) f( g) g( a) a( b) b( c) c( b) b( a) a( g) g( f) f( e) e( d) d( c2)~ c2 \fermata \bar "|." layout{} } This doesn't work: \version "2.18.2" macrovariable = {c4 c( d) d( e) e( f) f( g) g( a) a( b) b( c) c( b) b( a)

Re: Tuplets curved brackets?

2017-11-14 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Ben, Would you consider adding this to openlilylib? I am happy to help out with that if needed. This is too excellent to be lost in the mailing list archives forever. Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: macro variable doesn't behave same as original?

2017-11-14 Thread David Kastrup
Patrick Smith writes: > I can wait for 2.21.0. > > I'll continuing coding with the assumption that the macrovariable will > indeed be a one-for-one, text in-place, copy of the original. > > On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 7:44 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Caagr98

How do I apply patch files to my LilyPond binary on Windows?

2017-11-14 Thread Robert Murdoch
Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to apply patch files to binaries on Windows, and if so how to do it. I have been waiting for about a month for LilyPond 2.19.81 where hopefully the problem with the repeat ties in chords will be fixed (in case any reader doesn't know, as of 2.19.80

Re: double time signature problem

2017-11-14 Thread Werner Arnhold
Thanks to all list members who answered. I decided to use the solution from the blog of Urs in the file "alternating-time-signatures.ly". It works very fine. It seems to me to be a more general approach than the similar solution from Joshua (thanks to him too). The question of a good-looking

Re: double time signature problem

2017-11-14 Thread David Kastrup
David Wright writes: > Fair enough; I didn't know that. So how far back do you have to go in > German to hear things that would sound archaic or stilted to modern > ears? I sound archaic or stilted to modern ears. It's a bit of a moving target, but Luther was a

Re: midi volume single note

2017-11-14 Thread Gianmaria Lari
On 13 November 2017 at 13:31, Caagr98 wrote: > I was thinking of something like this: > > << > { c'1 } > { s8 \set Voice.midiExpression=#0.5 s2.. Voice.midiExpression=#1 } > >> c'1 > > That is, simultaneously: a) play a note, b) wait a short while, reduce > volume, wait

Re: Tuplets curved brackets?

2017-11-14 Thread Ben
On 11/14/2017 5:02 AM, Menu Jacques wrote: Hello folks, MusicXML has the notion of curved tuplets brackets: Didn’t find anything in the doc nor snippets. How can that be achieved with LilyPond? Thanks for your help! JM Hi, Is this what you mean? (see attached) Also, what

Re: midi volume single note

2017-11-14 Thread David Kastrup
Gianmaria Lari writes: > On 13 November 2017 at 13:31, Caagr98 wrote: > >> I was thinking of something like this: >> >> << >> { c'1 } >> { s8 \set Voice.midiExpression=#0.5 s2.. Voice.midiExpression=#1 } >> >> c'1 >> >> That is, simultaneously: a)

Tuplets curved brackets?

2017-11-14 Thread Menu Jacques
Hello folks, MusicXML has the notion of curved tuplets brackets: Didn’t find anything in the doc nor snippets. How can that be achieved with LilyPond? Thanks for your help! JM ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: A problem with "placing grace notes between arpeggios and chords"

2017-11-14 Thread Thomas Morley
2017-11-14 13:23 GMT+01:00 Robert Blackstone : > Hello, > > Snippet http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=410 shows an excellent way to > insert a grace note between an arpeggio and the arpeggiated chord Looking at the snippet, I thought what a mess. All those added

Re: double time signature problem

2017-11-14 Thread Karlin High
On 11/14/2017 2:39 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Luther basically has been the last major such moment in German, with the shift from Mittelhochdeutsch already being behind. Here's a "very short introduction" to the German language. It's aimed at English speakers, and has a few paragraphs of

Re: How do I apply patch files to my LilyPond binary on Windows?

2017-11-14 Thread Karlin High
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 2:40 AM, Robert Murdoch wrote: Now I'm wondering if I can apply the patch at https://codereview.appspot.com/332990043 to my Windows binary file. The patch is for .cc and .hh files, which to me says "C++ source code." I think it would take a

Re: midi volume single note

2017-11-14 Thread Caagr98
You could also generate it dynamically at runtime, with something like this (please note that I haven't tested it): gradual = #(define-music-function (f mus) (procedure? ly:music?) (make-simulaneous-music (list mus (make-sequential-music (let ((len (lambda (l)

Re: How do I apply patch files to my LilyPond binary on Windows?

2017-11-14 Thread Robert Murdoch
Understood. Sorry to hear it, though. Well, I'll try waiting out a bit more. Seems the devs are hard at work squashing bugs. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

A problem with "placing grace notes between arpeggios and chords"

2017-11-14 Thread Robert Blackstone
Hello, Snippet http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=410 shows an excellent way to insert a grace note between an arpeggio and the arpeggiated chord (BTW, the example is from Chopin's Nocturne No. 11 Op. 37, No. 1, not Op.37 No. 2 ) Anyway, in this form it compiles on my system. But since I

Re: A problem with "placing grace notes between arpeggios and chords"

2017-11-14 Thread Ben
On 11/14/2017 7:23 AM, Robert Blackstone wrote: Hello, Snippet http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=410 shows an excellent way to insert a grace note between an arpeggio and the arpeggiated chord (BTW, the example is from Chopin's Nocturne No. 11 Op. 37, No. 1, not Op.37 No. 2 ) Anyway, in

Re: A problem with "placing grace notes between arpeggios and chords"

2017-11-14 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Blackstone writes: > Hello, > > Snippet http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=410 shows an excellent way > to insert a grace note between an arpeggio and the arpeggiated chord > (BTW, the example is from Chopin's Nocturne No. 11 Op. 37, No. 1, not > Op.37 No. 2 )

Re: A problem with "placing grace notes between arpeggios and chords"

2017-11-14 Thread Robert Blackstone
Hi Ben (I assume that is your name), Thank you very much. I recognized my stupid mistakes, one a typo, the other an oversight when I converted the relative pitches into the absolute pitches. I simply did not notice that the same grace-note is bes'8 on its first occurrence and bes8 on the

Re: double time signature problem

2017-11-14 Thread Blöchl Bernhard
... (neuter). "Die Mad", "Das Madchen" likewise. Again, here English is very unusual ... I argue there is meant "Die Magd", "das Mädchen" for maid/maiden in the job sensefarmgirl or maidservant. I argue Magd instead of Mad. (My talent for languages is absolutely nought.) Regards

Re: double time signature problem

2017-11-14 Thread Wols Lists
On 14/11/17 16:50, Karlin High wrote: > And I just learned something there: > > "Der Hund hat den Mann gebissen" and > "Den Mann hat der Hund gebissen" > both mean "The dog has bitten the man". > > I knew the Russian language had that word-order feature/bug, but didn't > realize German did too.

Re: A problem with "placing grace notes between arpeggios and chords"

2017-11-14 Thread Thomas Morley
2017-11-14 17:39 GMT+01:00 Thomas Morley : > 2017-11-14 13:23 GMT+01:00 Robert Blackstone : >> Hello, >> >> Snippet http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=410 shows an excellent way to >> insert a grace note between an arpeggio and the

Re: A problem with "placing grace notes between arpeggios and chords"

2017-11-14 Thread Robert Blackstone
Thank you very much, Harm. Two solutions. No way that I would ever have been able to figure this out. I'm very impressed. The "bad news" is that only the first part of my problem is solved. What I would need is a cross-staff arpeggio that includes the bass notes (in this testfile; the, or a,