jazz chords fretboards

2011-07-10 Thread bart deruyter
Hi all, I'm starting to learn Jazz guitar on my own, well, with a friend of mine who'd be singing. I have no teacher, but I've noticed there are many, many resources on the net. I've found this

Re: font survey: which clef do you prefer?

2011-07-10 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011, Werner LEMBERG wrote: I really like the new clef in your recompiled examples. I vote for at least including both options if not replacing the existing one altogether. Thanks for your work on this, Janek, the treble clef has been one of Lily's weakest visual aspects IMO.

Re: font survey: which clef do you prefer?

2011-07-10 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Werner LEMBERG writes: I really like the new clef in your recompiled examples. I vote for at least including both options if not replacing the existing one Please take care that if you start to suggest voting for what you like best, you do that based not so much on personal taste... Please

Tremolo dots, and old-documentation help

2011-07-10 Thread James Harkins
Two questions: 1. I'm looking for the tremolo notation, common in string parts, where the tremolo's rhythmic value is given by the slashes (easy to do with \repeat tremolo) AND there are as many staccato dots attached to the note as there are notes that would be played by the tremolo, e.g. {

Re: Best Practices for Multiple Part Scores

2011-07-10 Thread James Harkins
At Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:32:15 +0800, James Harkins wrote: - Short lived divisi - is there a better method than using on every note? What about a passage with rhythmic differences? Must this be separated into yet another part? This is one area where I think lilypond beats finale, hands

Re: Tremolo dots, and old-documentation help

2011-07-10 Thread Phil Holmes
2. After downloading and installing lilypond-2.14.1-1.linux-64.sh, I can only find locally-installed documentation under /usr/share/doc/lilypond -- but these are version 2.12.3. Where should I find the 2.14.1 documentation on my hard drive? James On the web. All the documentation is a

Re: Tremolo dots, and old-documentation help

2011-07-10 Thread Nick Payne
On 10/07/11 18:58, James Harkins wrote: Two questions: 1. I'm looking for the tremolo notation, common in string parts, where the tremolo's rhythmic value is given by the slashes (easy to do with \repeat tremolo) AND there are as many staccato dots attached to the note as there are notes

Re: font survey: which clef do you prefer?

2011-07-10 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
On Sat 09 Jul 2011, 01:58 Janek Warchoł wrote: Hi all, currently it is: right: [...] Dmytro Actually, I would like the third (right one) to be a bit higher (and deeper, probably). I would definitely like to try it myself... So, for now it's oh well..., not more. therefore i'm opening

Re: how to create baroque ornaments

2011-07-10 Thread Phil Holmes
Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu wrote in message news:ca2e46fc.1ee99%c_soren...@byu.edu... -- Forwarded Message From: Giso Grimm gg3...@vegri.net Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:23:54 -0600 To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Conversation: how to create baroque ornaments Subject: how to create baroque

Re: font survey: which clef do you prefer?

2011-07-10 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Sonntag, 10. Juli 2011, 12:17:28 schrieb Dmytro O. Redchuk: On Sat 09 Jul 2011, 01:58 Janek Warchoł wrote: Hi all, currently it is: right: [...] Dmytro Actually, I would like the third (right one) to be a bit higher (and deeper, probably). Me too. When I originally

Re: font survey: which clef do you prefer?

2011-07-10 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
On Sun 10 Jul 2011, 12:48 Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: So, I prefer the upper loop of the original clef, but the vertical line of the third one... Most probably, I would say that -- if the upper loop was as in the original clef -- lower part sholud be deeper, too. So, if I could (sorry, again)

Re: Tremolo dots, and old-documentation help

2011-07-10 Thread harm6
James Harkins-2 wrote: 1. I'm looking for the tremolo notation, common in string parts, where the tremolo's rhythmic value is given by the slashes (easy to do with \repeat tremolo) AND there are as many staccato dots attached to the note as there are notes that would be played by the

RE: jazz chords fretboards

2011-07-10 Thread James Lowe
Bart )-Original Message- )From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org )[mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org] On )Behalf Of bart deruyter )Sent: 10 July 2011 09:25 )To: lilypond-user@gnu.org )Subject: jazz chords fretboards ) )Hi all, ) )I'm

Re: How do you add more space between notes?

2011-07-10 Thread harm6
Scott Rippon wrote: Just want to be able to add some more space between notes so that the fingering notation is visible. Also possible: c f-\tweak #'X-extent #'(-0.5 . 1.6) -1 f-2 a-F Then you are able to tune both, left- and right-padding. Harm -- View this message in context:

RE: Online notation reference index broken?

2011-07-10 Thread James Lowe
hello, )-Original Message- )From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org )[mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org] On )Behalf Of Nick Payne )Sent: 10 July 2011 04:33 )To: lilypond-user@gnu.org )Subject: Re: Online notation reference index broken? )

Typesetting bug(?) - polyphony + lyrics + \times 2/3 + \oneVoice = breakage

2011-07-10 Thread Peter Wright
Hi all, I've run into a problem typesetting a choral piece, and was wondering if anyone could either confirm whether this is (or isn't) a bug in Lilypond. I'd also very much appreciate it if anyone could suggest a better workaround than the one I'm currently using. :-) I've generated a minimal

Re: Typesetting bug(?) - polyphony + lyrics + \times 2/3 + \oneVoice = breakage

2011-07-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Peter, Don't know what's causing the issue here, but I believe this version of your snippet does what you want: \version 2.14.1 global = { \key c \major \time 2/4 } sopranoNotes = \relative c'' { { \voiceTwo \times 2/3 { a4 a a } } \new Voice = sopranoOneVoice { \voiceOne

Re: jazz chords fretboards

2011-07-10 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/10/11 2:25 AM, bart deruyter bart.deruy...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm starting to learn Jazz guitar on my own, well, with a friend of mine who'd be singing. I have no teacher, but I've noticed there are many, many resources on the net. I've found this pdf

Re: Typesetting bug(?) - polyphony + lyrics + \times 2/3 + \oneVoice = breakage

2011-07-10 Thread Peter Wright
Hi Kieren, On 10/07 08:45:34, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Peter, Don't know what's causing the issue here, but I believe this version of your snippet does what you want: [ snip ] Ha! Well, I can't deny it does seem to avoid the problem demonstrated by my original example, though I must

Suggestions for a Contemporary Music Font

2011-07-10 Thread Bernardo Barros
I'm thinking of creating a font for contemporary music with the most commonly used symbols. I miss a lot of specific symbols and I'm sure a lot of LilyPond users do too. I know that there are some sources for this purpose, and find them very useful. But most are bloated with not very useful

Re: Typesetting bug(?) - polyphony + lyrics + \times 2/3 + \oneVoice =breakage

2011-07-10 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Peter Wright p...@flooble.net To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 1:15 PM Subject: Typesetting bug(?) - polyphony + lyrics + \times 2/3 + \oneVoice =breakage Hi all, I've run into a problem typesetting a choral piece, and was wondering

Re: Tremolo dots, and old-documentation help

2011-07-10 Thread James Harkins
At Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:55:23 -0300, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt wrote: 2011/7/10 James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com 2. After downloading and installing lilypond-2.14.1-1.linux-64.sh, I can only find locally-installed documentation under /usr/share/doc/lilypond -- but these are version

Re: Tremolo dots, and old-documentation help

2011-07-10 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com To: lily-users lilypond-user@gnu.org; Ricardo Gabriel Herdt ricard...@esdebian.org Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 4:08 PM Subject: Re: Tremolo dots, and old-documentation help At Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:55:23 -0300, Ricardo

Re: Suggestions for a Contemporary Music Font

2011-07-10 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Jul 10, 2011, at 4:34 PM, Bernardo Barros wrote: I'm thinking of creating a font for contemporary music with the most commonly used symbols. I miss a lot of specific symbols and I'm sure a lot of LilyPond users do too. This is a fantastic idea. I know that there are some sources for

Re: Issue 1482 in lilypond: \caps and \smallCaps don't work with \fromproperty

2011-07-10 Thread Colin Campbell
On 11-07-09 05:27 PM, lilyp...@googlecode.com wrote: Comment #1 on issue 1482 by elliot.w...@gmail.com: \caps and \smallCaps don't work with \fromproperty http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1482 I just ran into this bug. Until it gets fixed, is there a workaround (other than

Re: Suggestions for a Contemporary Music Font

2011-07-10 Thread Janek Warchoł
2011/7/10 Bernardo Barros bernardobarr...@gmail.com: I'm thinking of creating a font for contemporary music with the most commonly used symbols. I miss a lot of specific symbols and I'm sure a lot of LilyPond users do too. I know that there are some sources for this purpose, and find them

User fonts not recognised on OS X

2011-07-10 Thread Matthew Collett
While experimenting with fancy fonts for headings and initials, I found that Lilypond (2.14.1) was not aware of the fonts in my user library (Mac OS X 10.6.8). It seems to be a simple omission from fonts.conf, which has entries for the shared library fonts (dir/Library/Fonts/dir) and the

Re: Suggestions for a Contemporary Music Font

2011-07-10 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/10/11 8:34 AM, Bernardo Barros bernardobarr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a fan of the SVG backend, because it allows an absolute final touch in the score, and realized that PostScript can not be very compatible with svg. So, also in this case, a Font is a better options then PostScript

Re: Ragged right for contents but not staff?

2011-07-10 Thread David Nalesnik
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Matthew Collett m_coll...@ihug.co.nzwrote: With ragged-right (or ragged-last) turned on, music and the staff stop wherever is natural. With it off, both stretch to the end of the line. Is there any straightforward way to stop the music at its natural length,

Re: Ragged right for contents but not staff?

2011-07-10 Thread Matthew Collett
On 11/07/2011, at 2:51 pm, David Nalesnik wrote: Is there any straightforward way to stop the music at its natural length, but have empty staff lines stretch the full width? You could override the width of the staff. Thank you, that does work, and is certainly an improvement on my

Re: Ragged right for contents but not staff?

2011-07-10 Thread David Nalesnik
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Matthew Collett m_coll...@ihug.co.nzwrote: On 11/07/2011, at 2:51 pm, David Nalesnik wrote: Is there any straightforward way to stop the music at its natural length, but have empty staff lines stretch the full width? You could override the width of the

Re: Ragged right for contents but not staff?

2011-07-10 Thread Matthew Collett
On 11/07/2011, at 3:47 pm, David Nalesnik wrote: Now I just need to figure out how to calculate the desired width, given the paper size and the staff size. (I think I know what calculation needs to be done; the question is just whether my Scheme is up to automating it.) This seems to