Proposed tweak to bagpipe.ly

2014-03-02 Thread Ben Beeson
Hi all, Today I decided to transcribe the Kilberry setting for "The Desparate Battle". While I was working on that I created a small piece of code that you may consider useful enough to include in the next version of bagpipe.ly for the LilyPond world.

eps picture embedding into score

2014-03-02 Thread Mátyás Seress
Hi all, I have a line of music in *.eps format. And I have a properly working lilypond source code of a choir piece. The piece has a title, composer name etc. as well. I'd like to do the following: the eps picture should be the first line of the music - coming right after the header - aligned in

Re: eps picture embedding into score

2014-03-02 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
2014-03-02 11:51 GMT+01:00 Mátyás Seress serima...@gmail.com: Hi all, Hi Mat, I tried to use \eps-file, but it didn't work. :( Can anyone help me? not \eps-file but \epsfile : \epsfile axis (number) size (number) file-name(string) see :

Hiding specific staves/removing delimiters

2014-03-02 Thread Bridge
Hello, I have a slight problem with writing divisi strings on two staves. If I write the parts on two independent staves and connect them with a square delimiter, later on in the score when the strings are to play in unison, the delimiter persists and I haven't found a way to remove it. I came

Re: Hiding specific staves/removing delimiters

2014-03-02 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Bridge gy...@stebbi.is To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2014 12:30 PM Subject: Hiding specific staves/removing delimiters Hello, I have a slight problem with writing divisi strings on two staves. If I write the parts on two independent

Re: Hiding specific staves/removing delimiters

2014-03-02 Thread Bridge
Phil Holmes-2 wrote Is: \layout { \context { \Staff \RemoveEmptyStaves \override VerticalAxisGroup.remove-first = ##t } } what you're looking for? -- Phil Holmes ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@

Re: Hiding specific staves/removing delimiters

2014-03-02 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Bridge gy...@stebbi.is To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2014 1:49 PM Subject: Re: Hiding specific staves/removing delimiters Phil Holmes-2 wrote Is: \layout { \context { \Staff \RemoveEmptyStaves \override VerticalAxisGroup.remove-first =

coloring a complete score

2014-03-02 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, is there a way to color a complete score with one color? That is, is there any generic or base object whose color property could be overridden to apply to _everything_ in a score? Or is there a way to color the resulting score output, be it svg or pdf? TIA Urs

Re: eps picture embedding into score

2014-03-02 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
2014-03-02 15:05 GMT+01:00 Mátyás Seress serima...@gmail.com: Hi Pierre, unfortunately it still doesn't work. I attached a dummy code and a picture, to explain how I want it: the picture should be inserted before all the other vectorgraphical scores. But in the documentation it says for

Re: LilyPond benchmarks - request for proposals

2014-03-02 Thread Jan Warchoł
Hi, i was cc'ed, so despite my official absence i'll reply :-) 2014-03-01 12:01 GMT+01:00 Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org: Hello LilyPond users, LilyPond's declared claim is automated engraving, and we're often talking about how exceptionally good its default results are. But we're also

composing Scheme identifiers?

2014-03-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, I currently work on a mass setting by Palestrina. The music is stored in variables sopranoK, altoK, tenorK, bassK, sopranoVerseK, …, sopranoG, altoG, etc. etc. for the different parts and movements. Now since I need a separate \score block for each movement, but these score blocks will

Re: coloring a complete score

2014-03-02 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
2014-03-02 15:13 GMT+01:00 Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org: Hi all, Hi Urs, is there a way to color a complete score with one color? = http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=443 HTH Pierre ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: coloring a complete score

2014-03-02 Thread Urs Liska
Am 02.03.2014 15:20, schrieb Pierre Perol-Schneider: 2014-03-02 15:13 GMT+01:00 Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org: Hi all, Hi Urs, is there a way to color a complete score with one color? = http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=443 HTH Pierre Thanks, works perfectly. I could simply put

Re: composing Scheme identifiers?

2014-03-02 Thread David Kastrup
Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de writes: Hello, I currently work on a mass setting by Palestrina. The music is stored in variables sopranoK, altoK, tenorK, bassK, sopranoVerseK, …, sopranoG, altoG, etc. etc. for the different parts and movements. Now since I need a separate \score

Ancient tablature template

2014-03-02 Thread Schneidy
Hi LilyPonders, I'm working on an ancient tablature form. The idea is to get an simple tool that helps people to rewrite ancient tab together with a standard modern score. Herewith is a first attempt including 3 outputs : 1. a worksheet including three staves, to help dispaching voices, a rhythm

Re: Hiding specific staves/removing delimiters

2014-03-02 Thread Bridge
That works thanks. Do you by any chance know how to remove delimiters though? I created a StaffGroup for the clarinets and even when only the bass clarinet is playing the delimiter is still drawn. I have tried everything, but the documentation is so unclear in this regard that I do not have any

Breathe mark problem

2014-03-02 Thread Peter Gentry
Lilypond 2.18.0 - Windows Vista Home Premium (fully patched)- Frescobaldi 2.0.13 When \breathe is used with beams the score fails to compile with unexpected EVENT_IDENTIFIER { \clef treble \time 4/4 g''8 [ g'8 ( ] a'8 [ f'8 ] bes'8 \breathe ) [ bes'8 ( ] c''8 [ f'8 ] ) | % 37 }

Re: Breathe mark problem

2014-03-02 Thread David Kastrup
Peter Gentry peter.gen...@sunscales.co.uk writes: Lilypond 2.18.0 - Windows Vista Home Premium (fully patched)- Frescobaldi 2.0.13 When \breathe is used with beams the score fails to compile with unexpected EVENT_IDENTIFIER { \clef treble \time 4/4 g''8 [ g'8 ( ] a'8 [ f'8 ] bes'8

RE: Breathe mark problem

2014-03-02 Thread Peter Gentry
-Original Message- From: David Kastrup [mailto:d...@gnu.org] Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2014 4:28 PM To: Peter Gentry Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Breathe mark problem Peter Gentry peter.gen...@sunscales.co.uk writes: Lilypond 2.18.0 - Windows Vista Home Premium (fully

Re: composing Scheme identifiers?

2014-03-02 Thread Paul Morris
Simon Albrecht-2 wrote scoreSetup = #(define-music-function (parser location letter) (string?) #{ \score { \new Staff = bassus \with { instrumentName = bassus } % this is supposed to give the same result as @code{\bassK} for example… #(string-identifier (string-append bass $letter)) }

Re: Hiding specific staves/removing delimiters

2014-03-02 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, Do you by any chance know how to remove delimiters though? Did you look at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-staves#grouping-staves, in particular the collapse-height property? The documentation should really include a more straightforward tutorial of

Re: composing Scheme identifiers?

2014-03-02 Thread David Kastrup
Paul Morris p...@paulwmorris.com writes: Simon Albrecht-2 wrote scoreSetup = #(define-music-function (parser location letter) (string?) #{ \score { \new Staff = bassus \with { instrumentName = bassus } % this is supposed to give the same result as @code{\bassK} for example…

Re: Hiding specific staves/removing delimiters

2014-03-02 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes: Hi, Do you by any chance know how to remove delimiters though? Did you look at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-staves#grouping-staves, in particular the collapse-height property? The documentation

Re: storing and manipulating multi-chunk texts

2014-03-02 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Harm, Didn’t want to let this slip by without a “thank you” — I appreciate the effort and result. below some hackery. Though, I'm not convinced about it! […] Not very attractive. I think it's the wrong way. At least it works for now: In that light, I’m going to hold off using it for a

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

2014-03-02 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jan-Peter, I added a function editionMMod, which takes a list of positions. Spectacular! Thanks. I’ll continue applying your edition engraver to my real-world files, and see what else comes up. Hopefully, we’ll soon be able to give this to the rest of the community at large, in a truly

Re: Hiding specific staves/removing delimiters

2014-03-02 Thread Bridge
Much obliged, Kieren, I haven't seen that entry before though I knew what collapse-height was but frustratingly not how to access it. @David: I meant nothing in particular by my comment, and am always grateful for the software which is one of the best out there, especially if you consider the

Re: Hiding specific staves/removing delimiters

2014-03-02 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, It's helpful to be able to see exactly what properties and subproperties each grob allows the user to access and what parameters those properties accept I’ve often thought it would be relatively easy for someone with a [fairly limited] knowledge of Scheme and C++ (or maybe even just

Interplay between keepWithTag and relative music

2014-03-02 Thread Patrick or Cynthia Karl
So I guess I don't understand the subject interplay. Consider the following minimal example: \version 2.18.0 A = \relative g' { c c c c \tag #'up { c' c c c } \tag #'down { c, c c c } c c c c } \score { \keepWithTag #'up \A } Based on the description on p477 of the 2.18.0

using manually installed fonts on OSX

2014-03-02 Thread Kevin Patrick Barry
Dear LilyPond users, I have installed a font on my system (Cardo) and would like my musical examples to use the same font as the document they will appear in. LilyPond, however, doesn't seem to recognise that the font exists on my system. I can use it fine in LibreOffice, and XeTeX, and it

Right-to-Left

2014-03-02 Thread Hosam Adeeb Nashed
Hi there, I know Lilypond does have all what most musicians from my region (Egypt) would dream of, especially customised key signatures. Still, I dream of the day I can write music from Right to Left. You see, there used to be a time when all Christian hymns in Arabic were written (=off-set) in

Re: composing Scheme identifiers?

2014-03-02 Thread Paul Morris
David Kastrup wrote I wonder whether music functions can return a score at all, No, use define-scheme-function for that. With regard to using that scheme function as a score replacement then, it may conceivably work only with recent versions of 2.19. I think that I pulled some commits for

Re: using manually installed fonts on OSX

2014-03-02 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2014-03-03 um 04:27 schrieb Kevin Patrick Barry barr...@tcd.ie: I have installed a font on my system (Cardo) and would like my musical examples to use the same font as the document they will appear in. LilyPond, however, doesn't seem to recognise that the font exists on my system. I can

Re: Interplay between keepWithTag and relative music

2014-03-02 Thread David Kastrup
Patrick or Cynthia Karl pck...@mac.com writes: So I guess I don't understand the subject interplay. Consider the following minimal example: \version 2.18.0 A = \relative g' { c c c c \tag #'up { c' c c c } \tag #'down { c, c c c } c c c c } \score { \keepWithTag #'up \A

Re: using manually installed fonts on OSX

2014-03-02 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2014-03-03 um 04:27 schrieb Kevin Patrick Barry barr...@tcd.ie: \relative { c_\markup { \override #'(font-name . Cardo) text } } Do you find an entry for Cardo in the list from lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x ? Maybe it’s called