Re: arpeggio placement

2009-08-25 Thread Robin Bannister
David Stocker wrote: Any hints on forcing the arpeggio line to the right to make the placement more natural would be appreciated. For the first case, fiddle with the padding. Negative works too, e.g. \override Staff.Arpeggio #'padding = #-0.4 For situations where this doesn't work, see

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-08-25 Thread Simon Mackenzie
Hi guys correct me if I am wrong. The g minor chord has two flats Eb Bb which need to be marked as es and bes in Lilypond other wise the Accidental_engraver sees them as naturals in the g minor chord, hence the natural symbol for any unmarked E or B note in your music. Just trying to

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-08-25 Thread David Bobroff
Correct. *ALL* pitches in the input *must* be explicitly given. The key signature assignment tells LilyPond how to display the pitches. For exmaple; 'e' *always* means e-natural no matter what the key signature is. -David Simon Mackenzie wrote: Hi guys correct me if I am wrong. The g

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-08-25 Thread Simon Mackenzie
In response to Graham and others who have expressed frustration about people who have failed to pickup on accidentals. It can be very difficult for fist time novices like myself to understand implicit information about what is a reasonably technical musical concept. I spent four hours last

Re: boxed measures

2009-08-25 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Mats, this sounds quite good, but I have no idea how to use the ly:make-stencil-function for drawing boxes! 2009/8/24 Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se There are already functions available in LilyPond Scheme, to draw boxes, that should be useful here, such as box-stencil. To use

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-08-25 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 25. August 2009 10:09:53 schrieb Simon Mackenzie: The g minor chord has two flats Eb Bb Exactly. This means that a note that is displayed on the middle staff line without any accidental is actually a B-flat, not a B. In Lilypond you

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-08-25 Thread David Bobroff
As a follow-up, have the people with unwanted accidentals seen this: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/Accidentals-and-key-signatures#Key-signatures ...and is it not clear? The last example on that page shouldn't be any less clear than the example I gave.

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-08-25 Thread Simon Mackenzie
Sorry but as a first time user to lilypond and music in general this section in the tutorial was about as clear as mud to me. Not wanting to offend anyone just stating how I felt the fist time I read this section in the learning tutorial. As I said previously when I have time I'll have a

Re: arpeggio placement

2009-08-25 Thread David Stocker
Works perfectly. Thanks Robin! David Robin Bannister wrote: David Stocker wrote: Any hints on forcing the arpeggio line to the right to make the placement more natural would be appreciated. For the first case, fiddle with the padding. Negative works too, e.g. \override Staff.Arpeggio

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-08-25 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:50 AM, Simon Mackenzie wrote: Sorry but as a first time user to lilypond and music in general this section in the tutorial was about as clear as mud to me. Not wanting to offend anyone just stating how I felt the fist time I read this section in the learning tutorial.

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-08-25 Thread Leonardo Herrera
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:34 AM, David Bobroffbobr...@centrum.is wrote: As a follow-up, have the people with unwanted accidentals seen this: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/Accidentals-and-key-signatures#Key-signatures ...and is it not clear?  The last

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-08-25 Thread James E. Bailey
It is actually perfectly reasonable for a person completely new to notating music for this to not make sense. The purpose of the documentation is to provide information about how lilypond prints music. Other resources are necessary to provide information about the difference, both written

how to remove \RemoveEmptyStaffContext up the chain?

2009-08-25 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, I've got a situation where one of my \include files contains a \layout { \context { \RemoveEmptyStaffContext } }. 99% of the time, I want this to happen. However, in a few circumstances — especially when engraving/editing, but also for a few specific pieces in final form — I

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-08-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 08:46:59AM -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: For the developers, I think that something is confusing here for English speakers: the use of -es and -is for flatted and sharped notes as the default. I was initially bewildered by this, not knowing that the default

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-08-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:05:45AM -0400, Leonardo Herrera wrote: I do have a suggestion: I would add two examples to the section that shows this clearly. How is that more clear than: In this example: \key d \major d cis fis No note has a printed accidental, but you must still

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-08-25 Thread Alexander Kobel
Graham Percival wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 08:46:59AM -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: If the user is new to music in general then they have set themselves a daunting task trying to score music with LilyPond. There is no way for the documentation to make up for the user's lack of knowledge

Re: Scheme function for ossia

2009-08-25 Thread Trevor Daniels
Jonathan Wilkes wrote Monday, August 24, 2009 6:34 PM Another thing I noticed is that \type, \alias, \remove, and \name are not in Appendix F of the NR. Index entries added in git. They'll appear in the Notation Reference in the next release. Trevor

Re: Scheme function for ossia

2009-08-25 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mats, No! \alias does something completely different than you seem to beleive. Just to complete this (dangling) thread, and make sure *I* know what it does... =) \context { \name BAR \alias FOO ... } informs lilypond that the newly-defined context called BAR should accept

Rhythm

2009-08-25 Thread Christian Henning
Hi there, I cannot figure out how to encode a 16th note rhythm. When counting by mouth I would say: 1and 2and 3and 4and when all notes are taking part. In lilypond I would write: g16 g g g g16 g g g g16 g g g g16 g g g. But how do I: 1ad 2ad 3ad 4ad? Please notice I leave out the n. Thanks,

Re: Rhythm

2009-08-25 Thread Andrew Hawryluk
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Christian Henningchhenn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, I cannot figure out how to encode a 16th note rhythm. When counting by mouth I would say: 1and 2and 3and 4and when all notes are taking part. In lilypond I would write: g16 g g g g16 g g g g16 g g g g16 g g

Re: Rhythm

2009-08-25 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 25, 2009, at 9:27 PM, Christian Henning wrote: Hi there, I cannot figure out how to encode a 16th note rhythm. When counting by mouth I would say: 1and 2and 3and 4and when all notes are taking part. In lilypond I would write: g16 g g g g16 g g g g16 g g g g16 g g g. But how do I: 1ad