Re: simple editor for windows

2010-01-02 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 8c1eed9b0912160008v6b676a9fida41a99a8f72f...@mail.gmail.com, Stefan Thomas kontrapunktste...@googlemail.com writes Responding very late ... Dear community, I'm searching for a simple text-editor for windows. It is for the computer in my music-school. It is an old machine and

header in score block not working

2010-01-02 Thread Federico Bruni
I need to put the \header block inside the \score block. Could you please tell me what's wrong in this example (it prints nothing in the header)? Thanks! Federico \version 2.13 \include english.ly firstpiece = \relative c' { c d e fs } \score { \new Staff { \firstpiece }

Re: header in score block not working

2010-01-02 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Put the \header block in front of /new Staff: \score { \header { title= First Piece composer = John Doe } \new Staff { \firstpiece } } Hope this helps! patrick Original-Nachricht Datum: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:40:50 +0100 Von: Federico Bruni

Re: header in score block not working

2010-01-02 Thread mike99
There's nothing wrong with your example, it's just not doing as you intended: see the Notation Reference, 3.2.1, Creating titles. Lilypond documentation wrote: If you define the \header inside the \score block, then normally only the piece and opus headers will be printed. Note that the music

Re: header in score block not working

2010-01-02 Thread Patrick Schmidt
sorry, I was wrong. The error message escaped my notice. (And I didn't consult the Notation Reference.) thanks Mike Original-Nachricht Datum: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:28:37 +0100 Von: Patrick Schmidt p.l.schm...@gmx.de An: Federico Bruni brunol...@gmx.com, lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: header in score block not working

2010-01-02 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 02/01/2010 13:28, mike99 ha scritto: There's nothing wrong with your example, it's just not doing as you intended: see the Notation Reference, 3.2.1, Creating titles. Lilypond documentation wrote: If you define the \header inside the \score block, then normally only the piece and opus

Re: Editing notes in a separate file

2010-01-02 Thread Xavier Scheuer
Le Sat, 2 Jan 2010 00:32:08 -0500, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca a écrit : Hi Michael, I am experimenting with methods to enter notes from a manuscript and produce several typeset scores, including at least • one that looks very much like the manuscript, for proof

Re: hymns: chords vs. voices

2010-01-02 Thread Xavier Scheuer
Le Fri, 1 Jan 2010 17:30:19 -0800 (PST), mike99 mike.br...@gmail.com a écrit : Fair enough, but there are the lyrics, set here to the soprano voice, which, unintended by myself, skips the fourth beat in the second measure. In the documentation's first example on divisi lyrics (Notation

Re: hymns: chords vs. voices

2010-01-02 Thread James Bailey
On 02.01.2010, at 16:20, Xavier Scheuer wrote: If such a technique is required for all exceptions to the chord structure, it seems as if the chord method could become patchwork if many exceptions are needed in a piece. Ten exceptions might be common on a one-page hymn, requiring the creation of

Re: Editing notes in a separate file

2010-01-02 Thread Michael J. O'Donnell
Thanks for pointing out \tag. I've already read up, and experimented with it. It doesn't solve the problem, because it requires that I anticipate every possible correction when entering the data from the MS. The only way to get useful coverage is to tag every note with a different tag, which is

Re: Additional notes or ossia

2010-01-02 Thread Helge Kruse
Am 29.12.2009 20:04, schrieb James Bailey: I thought I could help, but apparently my scheme-fu isn't good enough for this. I first thought I could beat \Balloon_engraver into doing what you need, but there's scant information on it, and I don't know how to change the size of the box it creates.

Re: hymns: chords vs. voices

2010-01-02 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/1/10 6:30 PM, mike99 mike.br...@gmail.com wrote: Enter my question: What is your opinion to the two methods, given the direction of the project and in terms of readability and complications that it would cause in the score? It would not be a simple thing to switch between the two

Re: Editing notes in a separate file

2010-01-02 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Michael, Thanks for pointing out \tag. I've already read up, and experimented with it. It doesn't solve the problem, because it requires that I anticipate every possible correction when entering the data from the MS. The only way to get useful coverage is to tag every note with a

Re: Editing notes in a separate file

2010-01-02 Thread Michael J. O'Donnell
You are proposing very good solutions for the short term production of scores. I am more concerned with the very long term management of the information. The object is to 1. have a file containing data entry from the MS which represents the uncorrected manuscript, and which (almost) never needs

Re: Editing notes in a separate file

2010-01-02 Thread Michael J. O'Donnell
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Clearly, this doesn't require tagging every note with a different tag — you simply tag the notes for different editions as you need them. Perhaps I should have just answered this point directly. The problem is that I don't know what the different editions will be. They

Re: Editing notes in a separate file

2010-01-02 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Michael, Clearly, this doesn't require tagging every note with a different tag — you simply tag the notes for different editions as you need them. Perhaps I should have just answered this point directly. The problem is that I don't know what the different editions will be. They are to be

Re: simple editor for windows

2010-01-02 Thread Tim Slattery
Anthony W. Youngman lilyp...@thewolery.demon.co.uk wrote: My favourite editor is PFE (programmers file editor). Unfortunately, last I know, it was abandonware, but it's still a simple nice editor. Written by somebody at Lancaster Uni iirc. Yes, good stuff, and I used it for a long time.

Re: simple editor for windows

2010-01-02 Thread James Lowe
I'll take a slight issue with this. Tim Slattery wrote: Anthony W. Youngman lilyp...@thewolery.demon.co.uk wrote: My favourite editor is PFE (programmers file editor). Unfortunately, last I know, it was abandonware, but it's still a simple nice editor. Written by somebody at Lancaster Uni

Re: simple editor for windows

2010-01-02 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message gg0vj5huatb821fles7lijktsbl8adv...@4ax.com, Tim Slattery slatter...@bls.gov writes Anthony W. Youngman lilyp...@thewolery.demon.co.uk wrote: My favourite editor is PFE (programmers file editor). Unfortunately, last I know, it was abandonware, but it's still a simple nice editor.

Re: Additional notes or ossia

2010-01-02 Thread James Bailey
On 02.01.2010, at 17:16, Helge Kruse wrote: Am 29.12.2009 20:04, schrieb James Bailey: I thought I could help, but apparently my scheme-fu isn't good enough for this. I first thought I could beat \Balloon_engraver into doing what you need, but there's scant information on it, and I don't

Re: ANN BETA: LilyPondTool 2.12.890 available for testing

2010-01-02 Thread Nick Payne
One bug I have come across is that with \pointAndClickOn, point and click from PDF preview into the source doesn't work if the source filename contains an accented character. For example, if I'm working on a score in file named Bésard_preludio.ly, then point and click doesn't work, but if I

Re: ANN BETA: LilyPondTool 2.12.890 available for testing

2010-01-02 Thread Nick Payne
On 03/01/10 06:13, Nick Payne wrote: One bug I have come across is that with \pointAndClickOn, point and click from PDF preview into the source doesn't work if the source filename contains an accented character. For example, if I'm working on a score in file named Bésard_preludio.ly, then

Re: simple editor for windows

2010-01-02 Thread Nick Payne
On 03/01/10 04:43, James Lowe wrote: I'll take a slight issue with this. Tim Slattery wrote: Anthony W. Youngman lilyp...@thewolery.demon.co.uk wrote: My favourite editor is PFE (programmers file editor). Unfortunately, last I know, it was abandonware, but it's still a simple nice editor.

Re: Editing notes in a separate file

2010-01-02 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/2/10 10:06 AM, Michael J. O'Donnell michael_odonn...@acm.org wrote: You are proposing very good solutions for the short term production of scores. I am more concerned with the very long term management of the information. The object is to 1. have a file containing data entry from

Titles and localtitle

2010-01-02 Thread Ralph Palmer
Greetings and Happy New Year! I'm running LilyPond 2.12.2 under Ubuntu 9.10. I'm transposing a bunch of violin etudes to make them viola etudes, and I've hit a snag. I'm making each etude a separate score. I've been using \score { { -- Ralph Palmer Montague City, MA USA

Titles and localtitle

2010-01-02 Thread Ralph Palmer
Sorry about that - hit a wrong combination of keys. Greetings and Happy New Year! I'm running LilyPond 2.12.2 under Ubuntu 9.10. I'm transposing a bunch of violin etudes to make them viola etudes, and I've hit a snag. I'm making each etude a separate score. I've been using \score { { \music

Re: voices problem: notes positioning

2010-01-02 Thread -Eluze
user28 wrote: i need to place rests from voice three between notes from first and second voices, you can position the rests of a voice using \once \override Voice.Rest #'staff-position = #-2 changing the number to what you need! -- View this message in context:

Re: Titles and localtitle

2010-01-02 Thread Trevor Daniels
Hi Ralph This is working as designed. It's explained towards the bottom of section 3.2.1 in the Notation Reference. By default only the piece and opus are printed when \header is included in the \score block. Setting print-all-headers true in a paper block is what you're looking for. Trevor

Re: voices problem: notes positioning

2010-01-02 Thread James Bailey
On 03.01.2010, at 00:28, -Eluze wrote: user28 wrote: i need to place rests from voice three between notes from first and second voices, you can position the rests of a voice using \once \override Voice.Rest #'staff-position = #-2 changing the number to what you need! You can

Re: voices problem: notes positioning

2010-01-02 Thread James Bailey
On 03.01.2010, at 00:28, -Eluze wrote: user28 wrote: i need to place rests from voice three between notes from first and second voices, you can position the rests of a voice using \once \override Voice.Rest #'staff-position = #-2 changing the number to what you need! You can

Re: Editing notes in a separate file

2010-01-02 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 12:22:27PM -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote: If someone with real Scheme-fu could build a function that took a series of moments and tweaks, you might be able to do something like ms = \relative e'' { e4 e c d | } correctionsEditionA = { \coolSchemeFunction

Re: Editing notes in a separate file

2010-01-02 Thread Graham Breed
Xavier Scheuer x.sche...@gmail.com wrote: Look into \tag. Which is documented there: Notation Reference (NR) 3.2.2 Different editions from one source http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Different-editions-from-one-source ;-) That's 3.3.2, not 3.2.2

Re: Editing notes in a separate file

2010-01-02 Thread Michael J. O'Donnell
I might attack this myself some day, if it can really be accomplished at the Scheme interface. I doubt that I will ever penetrate the C++ substrate. At present, I don't understand the data structures quite well enough, and I think a few more iterations of the documentation are probably

Scoping of variables - converting scores to songbook

2010-01-02 Thread Colin Campbell
I'm working on converting a collection of single scores into a song-book, by \including the .ly files, and seem to have run across a problem with scoping of variables: in some of my scores, I use no variables, neither for notes nor lyrics. Other scores, using variables defined outside a \score

Re: Editing notes in a separate file

2010-01-02 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Michael, Unfortunately, editorial changes to note durations are particularly problematic, since they change all of the time values downstream. Agreed. adjustments that went above the level of a single tweak-voice would hit the full staff context. If the Scheme function took a context