Re: Guitars with capos

2014-02-02 Thread Wols Lists
On 01/02/14 08:05, Federico Bruni wrote: 2014/2/1 Rachael Thomas Carlson r...@sleeplimited.org mailto:r...@sleeplimited.org Sometimes the standard notation is at sounding pitch and sometimes it is at pitch as if there were no capo. In all books I know (staff + tabstaff) I always

Re: Guitars with capos

2014-02-02 Thread Tom Cloyd
On 01/31/2014 09:53 PM, Rachael Thomas Carlson wrote: In standard notation (without tabulature) you will often find that the music is written with the pitch notated as if there wasn't a capo. Very rarely will you find music that is written at sounding pitch with a capo. I'm a classic

Re: lowering an upper markup on the staff

2014-02-02 Thread olicha
Thanks, that override works the way I want. Is there any way to put it in the variable itself so I won't have to repeat it all along the tune? I tried a lot of variation around tic = \once \override TextScript.outside-staff-priority = ##f \once \override TextScript.Y-offset = #-0.5 \markup {

Re: lowering an upper markup on the staff

2014-02-02 Thread David Kastrup
olicha char...@dt.insu.cnrs.fr writes: Thanks, that override works the way I want. Is there any way to put it in the variable itself so I won't have to repeat it all along the tune? I tried a lot of variation around tic = \once \override TextScript.outside-staff-priority = ##f \once

Re: \partcombine with chordal instruments

2014-02-02 Thread Ed Gordijn
Hi, I've been asked to typeset two guitar parts in an orchestral score. For the full score the parts could be combined on one staff for which \partcombine is good except where there are chords involved: You could do something like: \version 2.18.0 guitarI = { \partcombineUnisono e' a'

Re: \partcombine with chordal instruments

2014-02-02 Thread Richard Shann
Thank you for steering me in the right direction - somehow I must have glazed over at that point in the documentation. It looks like there is enough in those commands to do the job at hand. Richard On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 12:37 +0100, Ed Gordijn wrote: Hi, I've been asked to typeset two guitar

Re: New Progressive Rock songbook created with LilyPond

2014-02-02 Thread David Kastrup
Peter Crighton petecrigh...@googlemail.com writes: 2014-01-29 Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org: Am 29.01.2014 01:52, schrieb Peter Crighton: Hello all, maybe this is of interest for some of you. Over the last months I created the accompanying songbook for Progressive Rock band

Re: Scheme: default values?

2014-02-02 Thread Graham King
On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 08:51 +0100, Marc Hohl wrote: Am 29.01.2014 06:41, schrieb Graham King: To generate MIDI output, I use a piece of boilerplate lilypond code, containing: \midi { \context { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #currentTempo }} where it is expected that:

Re: how close are we to having an addAt or insertAt feature?

2014-02-02 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: Bah. Got only 50% off, and a third of the rest is system time. At least an artificial test case went from 40 seconds to 2, but that is only a 95% reduction, so still a far cry from what I fantasized. And the wortliste

Re: Layout issue when parsing line

2014-02-02 Thread Noeck
well - the collision avoidance behavior of LilyPond may not be optimal here but you can simply -\tweak Glissando.Y-offset #-.5 there might be other solutions (just ask if you're not happy with this) Eluze Maybe he is happy with it. I am not quite, because it shifts the endpoint down,

Dynamics over-lapping with bar-lines

2014-02-02 Thread David Sumbler
Following the problem I was having with dynamics in a flute part and a piano part not lining up, on the advice of the list I upgraded my LilyPond from v2.14.2 to 2.18.0. Problem of non-alignment solved. But I still find that dynamics often contact or even cross a bar-line. In the flute part of

Re: Layout issue when parsing line

2014-02-02 Thread Eluze
Noeck wrote well - the collision avoidance behavior of LilyPond may not be optimal here but you can simply -\tweak Glissando.Y-offset #-.5 there might be other solutions (just ask if you're not happy with this) Eluze Maybe he is happy with it. I am not quite, because it shifts the

Re: Layout issue when parsing line

2014-02-02 Thread Noeck
Hi Eluze, thanks a lot! so here are some tweaks/overrides: % move the glissando horizontally away from the starting note \override Glissando.bound-details.left.padding = #3 % move the glissando horizontally towards the landing note \override

Re: Layout issue when parsing line

2014-02-02 Thread Eluze
Noeck wrote That helps to make the Glissando longer but not shorter (or like I put it: more space between the objects (dot and glissando)). But the padding above is fine. do you mean the gap as described in http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/internals-big-page.html#glissando ?

Re: Tempo placement

2014-02-02 Thread Eluze
Marc Hohl wrote Hi list, I want the tempo indication to appear at the leftmost edge of the piece (I know that Gould has a different opinion about this, but I am using LilyJAZZ, and the Realbook style does not care about these typographic conventions). However, changing the

Re: Layout issue when parsing line

2014-02-02 Thread Trevor Daniels
Eluze wrote Sunday, February 02, 2014 10:37 PM \override Glissando.minimum-length=15 which only works if you also override springs-and-rods: \override Glissando.springs-and-rods = #ly:spanner::set-spacing-rods I don't know where all these properties are listed systematically, but I

Adding markup to percent repeat sign

2014-02-02 Thread David Bellows
Hello all, I'm writing a kind of minimalist piece that has a lot of repeated measures that I would like to notate using the percent repeat symbol with text above it like 8x or any other arbitrary text. The built-in functionality does not seem to allow for this unless I'm missing something. I

Set LilyPond to begin page numbering several pages into a book

2014-02-02 Thread Javier Ruiz-Alma
I wish to have the initial pages of a score book not show page numbers, with page numbers beginning on the first page of content.  As so: ___ [no page #] COVER ___ [no page #] INNER COVER ___ [no page #] TABLE OF CONTENTS ___ [no page #] TABLE OF CONTENTS (cont...) ___

Re: Adding markup to percent repeat sign

2014-02-02 Thread TaoCG
David Bellows wrote Hello all, I'm writing a kind of minimalist piece that has a lot of repeated measures that I would like to notate using the percent repeat symbol with text above it like 8x or any other arbitrary text. The built-in functionality does not seem to allow for this unless