Re: minor chords

2014-03-17 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes: Hi Simon (et al.), I think this is one of the few questions where it’s really difficult to establish a standard. Agreed. It’s the one big disappointment that I have in Gould’s engraving book: she doesn’t even address the subject at

Re: minor chords

2014-03-17 Thread David Kastrup
Jim Long lilyp...@umpquanet.com writes: Beware of shortcuts which are for the benefit of the writer. IMO, engraving decisions should be made for the benefit of the reader. To some degree, we can separate those with LilyPond, but there is something to be said for human-readable source code as

Re: Temporary polyphony with lyrics

2014-03-17 Thread David Stephen Grant
Hello, A suggestion using spacer notes in the second voice. Best, David \version 2.18.0 \new Staff { \new Voice = first \relative c' { \voiceOne c1 c'1 c,1 } \new Voice = second \relative c' { \voiceTwo

Re: Temporary polyphony with lyrics

2014-03-17 Thread David Stephen Grant
...or even: \version 2.18.0 \new Voice = first { a'4 { \voiceOne g' f' } \new Voice = second { \voiceTwo d'2 } \oneVoice e'4 } \new Lyrics \lyricsto first { One One One } \new Lyrics \lyricsto second {

Re: Fwd: Replace dot symbol?

2014-03-17 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 17.03.2014 04:59, schrieb Paul Morris: Simon Albrecht-2 wrote Interesting question: the Internals Reference says the stencil for Dots is ly:dots::print. But where is this defined? Where can I look it up? I think at this point the next step is to try to find this callback function in the

Re: minor chords

2014-03-17 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 17.03.2014 01:45, schrieb Jim Long: I understand the Cmi7, too, but when sketching some chords on paper during a Jazz session, a simple - is way faster to write than mi all the way. So it's rather a matter of personal taste IMHO. Just my 2 cents Marc With great respect, I beg to add,

Re: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic)

2014-03-17 Thread Robert Schmaus
So, again, it boils down to whatever works. There's no standard to this, and frankly, I've never experienced that as a problem. Jazz music is improvised music, and I don't know a jazz musician who has problems improvising here as well. Everyone has different preferences, sure, but problems

Re: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic)

2014-03-17 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Schmaus robert.schm...@web.de writes: So, again, it boils down to whatever works. There's no standard to this, and frankly, I've never experienced that as a problem. Jazz music is improvised music, and I don't know a jazz musician who has problems improvising here as well. Everyone has

Re: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic)

2014-03-17 Thread Robert Schmaus
- Von meinem Fliewatüüt gesendet. On 17 Mar 2014, at 11:57, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Robert Schmaus robert.schm...@web.de writes: So, again, it boils down to whatever works. There's no standard to this, and frankly, I've never experienced that as a problem. Jazz music is

Re: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic)

2014-03-17 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Schmaus robert.schm...@web.de writes: - Von meinem Fliewatüüt gesendet. [full-quote without content elided] I think Jazz musicians really should get off the habit of only writing - when it would be so much easier to get their meaning if they were just a bit more verbose. -- David

Re: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic)

2014-03-17 Thread Robert Schmaus
Oh, I'm sorry. I was looking into the problem some months ago and found a email correspondence between David kastrup and others about the removal of the accepts technique. I have never seen that it was later replaced by this new command. My apologies! Also for sending an accidental reply

using a scheme function, but with a different name

2014-03-17 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, I would like to use a scheme-function, but with a different name: fourquarterRests = #(define-music-function (parser location ANFANG ENDE ) (number? number? ) #{ \scaleDurations #(cons (+ 1(- ENDE ANFANG)) 1) {R1 } #}) I want to use the function with the name IVvR but, for

Re: using a scheme function, but with a different name

2014-03-17 Thread Urs Liska
Am 17.03.2014 12:21, schrieb Stefan Thomas: Dear community, I would like to use a scheme-function, but with a different name: fourquarterRests = #(define-music-function (parser location ANFANG ENDE ) (number? number? ) #{ \scaleDurations #(cons (+ 1(- ENDE ANFANG)) 1) {R1 } #}) I want to use

Re: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic)

2014-03-17 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Schmaus robert.schm...@web.de writes: Oh, I'm sorry. I was looking into the problem some months ago and found a email correspondence between David kastrup and others about the removal of the accepts technique. I have never seen that it was later replaced by this new command. There is

Re: using a scheme function, but with a different name

2014-03-17 Thread David Kastrup
Stefan Thomas kontrapunktste...@gmail.com writes: Dear community, I would like to use a scheme-function, but with a different name: fourquarterRests = #(define-music-function (parser location ANFANG ENDE ) (number? number? ) #{ \scaleDurations #(cons (+ 1(- ENDE ANFANG)) 1) {R1 } #}) I

Re: using a scheme function, but with a different name

2014-03-17 Thread Paul Morris
Urs Liska wrote Can't try out a solution right now, but generally you'd have to write a IVvR function that internally calls the old implementation, as an alias frontend, so to say. Something like this should work: \version 2.18.0 IVvR = #(define-music-function (parser location ANFANG

Re: using a scheme function, but with a different name

2014-03-17 Thread Paul Morris
David Kastrup wrote IVvR = #fourquarterRests Ah, of course, that's even better! -Paul -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/using-a-scheme-function-but-with-a-different-name-tp160506p160511.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Using LilyPond with Arabic music

2014-03-17 Thread mov0021
Check, it works. You cannot handle to do it with regular Arabic keyboard, I played a little with the Character map and I got the text. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Using-LilyPond-with-Arabic-music-tp32053p160512.html Sent from the User mailing list

Re: Staff/chords spacing.

2014-03-17 Thread Matthias Hüsken
On 15.03.2014 09:09, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: Mini example please ~Pierre Sorry, forgot to post one. During shortening some code into a mini example, I was actually able to solve my problem. I'm posting it anyway because I'm not sure it's the most elegant or clever was of doing.

Re: Staff/chords spacing.

2014-03-17 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 17.03.2014 19:00, schrieb Matthias Hüsken: On 15.03.2014 09:09, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: Mini example please ~Pierre Sorry, forgot to post one. During shortening some code into a mini example, I was actually able to solve my problem. I'm posting it anyway because I'm not sure it's

Re: Staff/chords spacing.

2014-03-17 Thread David Kastrup
Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de writes: Am 17.03.2014 19:00, schrieb Matthias Hüsken: On 15.03.2014 09:09, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: Mini example please ~Pierre Sorry, forgot to post one. During shortening some code into a mini example, I was actually able to solve my problem.

Re: Staff/chords spacing.

2014-03-17 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 17.03.2014 20:22, schrieb David Kastrup: Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de writes: Am 17.03.2014 19:00, schrieb Matthias Hüsken: On 15.03.2014 09:09, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: Mini example please ~Pierre Sorry, forgot to post one. During shortening some code into a mini

Re: Staff/chords spacing.

2014-03-17 Thread David Kastrup
Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de writes: In more complex situations with \include and several scores in one file it _is_ useful or even necessary, if you want to have one \layout definition for all scores in common, but for example remove the Mark_engraver (from Score) only for one of

chord symbol typography

2014-03-17 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
Based on the discussion about minor chords, I had some more general comments about how lilypond does (or does not) handle chord symbol notation. Regardless of which symbol choice you make for how to identify chord types, there are many details of readable chord notation typography that lilypond

Re: [Frescobaldi] Frescobaldi on MacPorts?

2014-03-17 Thread Davide Liessi
2014-03-14 10:45 GMT+01:00 Davide Liessi davide.lie...@gmail.com: I submitted the update. I hope that it will be merged in a couple of days, as usual. The update has been merged and is now available in MacPorts. Best wishes. Davide ___ lilypond-user

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.15

2014-03-17 Thread Davide Liessi
2014-03-11 17:19 GMT+01:00 Wilbert Berendsen i...@wilbertberendsen.nl: Frescobaldi 2.0.15 is out. ... and is now available in MacPorts. Best wishes. Davide ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: new Bach fugue visualization with ly2video!

2014-03-17 Thread Stefaan Himpe
The demos look really nice! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Staff/chords spacing.

2014-03-17 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 17.03.2014 20:42, schrieb David Kastrup: Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de writes: In more complex situations with \include and several scores in one file it _is_ useful or even necessary, if you want to have one \layout definition for all scores in common, but for example remove the

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.15

2014-03-17 Thread Stan Sanderson
Thank You All! On Mar 17, 2014, at 3:43 PM, Davide Liessi davide.lie...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-03-11 17:19 GMT+01:00 Wilbert Berendsen i...@wilbertberendsen.nl: Frescobaldi 2.0.15 is out. ... and is now available in MacPorts. Best wishes. Davide

Re: updated margins-a4-letter.ly

2014-03-17 Thread Paul Morris
Graham Percival-2 wrote Here's a slightly updated version of my produce the same score on A4 and letter paper. Should be easier to understand. Valentin, could you add a wishlist for LSR: snippets that don't produce any output. I'd like to check a box and have LSR not even attempt to