Re: cantor and choir

2012-05-15 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/5/15 Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger kai.lautenschlae...@me.com: Hi Francisco, thanks for your reply. I tried it and had to change a small details. Then it worked. (The expression /Staff is causing an error message in my version of lilypond 2.15.38) Nevertheless I have the problem, that

Re: Fwd: Middle voices and rests

2012-05-15 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 17:31 -0400, David B. Stocker wrote: Hi group, Any guess on how to make LilyPond automatically shift rests the way it shifts notes in middle voices to avoid collisions with other notes? The rule makes it simple, but it is a very obscure rule to say the least. An inside

chord names position

2012-05-15 Thread corallina
I have looked through the manual using various search terms but have not found an example as yet. I have this example with chord names over the treble clef. I would like to move the chord names further away from the staff as a group if possible. \version 2.15.0 #(set-default-paper-size

Re: chord names position

2012-05-15 Thread Eluze
you can add \override VerticalAxisGroup #'nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing #'padding = #5.5 also, be sure to spell \new_ChordNames_ { { \leadsheet } } correctly (you had Chordnames there) Eluze Am 15.05.2012 17:16, schrieb corallina: I have looked through the manual using various

Re: Fwd: Middle voices and rests

2012-05-15 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 03:39 -0400, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 17:31 -0400, David B. Stocker wrote: Hi group, Any guess on how to make LilyPond automatically shift rests the way it shifts notes in middle voices to avoid collisions with other notes? The rule makes

Defining a new markup command (e.g. \lower by a specified amount)

2012-05-15 Thread Philip Thomas
I am having great difficulty getting the hang of defining new markup commands. The examples given in the Extending manual in section 2.2.3 New markup command definition are comprehensible to me in their own right, but they aren't exactly simple examples, and I have so far failed to adapt

Letters as Left hand fingering

2012-05-15 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Group, Sometimes I need to put a letter in front of a number as a fingering. Is there any possibility to declare m (for ex;) as a number so that I could code a-m1 as a fingering ? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Fwd: Middle voices and rests

2012-05-15 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi to All, As a guitar player I often meet this problem. I simply tweeak the rests to solve it : ex : \clef G_8 { a'8\rest g' g' g' g' f'16 ees' f'8 d' } \\ { ees8 r ees r d r d r } \\ { d'8 s c' s bes s a s } \clef G_8 { \tweak #'extra-offset #'(-1.0 . 0.0) a'8\rest g' g' g' g'

Set absolute vertical position of staff?

2012-05-15 Thread wjm
Greetings Ahley, You wrote + I teach drum kit, and I've started using Lilypond to produce short examples of various beats. I'm attaching my first attempt: a single sheet, in PDF format. . snip + Perhaps the following might be of help? Regards Bill

Re: Letters as Left hand fingering

2012-05-15 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/15 Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com: Hi Group, Sometimes I need to put a letter in front of a number as a fingering. Is there any possibility to declare m (for ex;) as a number so that I could code a-m1 as a fingering ? Hi Pierre, I'm not aware of any method to

Re: Defining a new markup command (e.g. \lower by a specified amount)

2012-05-15 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/15 Philip Thomas philip.tho...@bluewin.ch: I am having great difficulty getting the hang of defining new markup commands. The examples given in the Extending manual in section 2.2.3 New markup command definition are comprehensible to me in their own right, but they aren't exactly

Page breaking question

2012-05-15 Thread Jay Anderson
I'm setting a group of hymns and I'm using the page turn breaker. Often two hymns are set on facing pages with the second hymn being broken over the page. If the second would fit on a page by itself I'd prefer it to not be broken up and just leave some empty space at the bottom of each page. Is

Re: Defining a new markup command (e.g. \lower by a specified amount)

2012-05-15 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com writes: If you found define-music-function code much easier to handle you may want to express your thankfulness to David Kastrup and his great parser-work. http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-24 Well, let's be fair: I've not really changed