Re: short Musikmesse minutes

2014-03-20 Thread Urs Liska
Am 20.03.2014 01:56, schrieb SoundsFromSound: Are there any style sheets floating around that people can take a look at? The sheet Urs co. used looked great to my eyes, on that collection. Which ones are you referring to? Maybe that could help users and also inspire them to create their

Re: short Musikmesse minutes

2014-03-20 Thread Johan Vromans
SoundsFromSound soundsfromso...@gmail.com writes: Urs Liska wrote Am 20.03.2014 00:18, schrieb Kieren MacMillan: 1. Flawless MusicXML import and export. #1 is the next largest hurdle. Yes, and a crucial one. But I think current development is very promising. For the first time someone

Re: short Musikmesse minutes

2014-03-20 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Johan and all, this reminds me of an idea I had quite some time ago: A program like MuseScore might import lilypond either by a stream, created by lilypond, or via module calls made by a scheme-module which makes use of the musescores API. Now this is just an idea for the archives (who knows,

Re: short Musikmesse minutes

2014-03-20 Thread Urs Liska
Am 20.03.2014 08:35, schrieb Johan Vromans: SoundsFromSound soundsfromso...@gmail.com writes: Urs Liska wrote Am 20.03.2014 00:18, schrieb Kieren MacMillan: 1. Flawless MusicXML import and export. #1 is the next largest hurdle. Yes, and a crucial one. But I think current development is

Re: short Musikmesse minutes

2014-03-20 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Am 20.03.2014 00:18, schrieb Kieren MacMillan: In my opinion, here — in order of importance — are the things we need to make established houses sit up and take notice: 1. Flawless MusicXML import and export. 2. Better “pixel-level” control of objects. 3. A finely-tuned stylesheet system.

Re: short Musikmesse minutes

2014-03-20 Thread pls
On 20.03.2014, at 08:35, Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl wrote: I use musescore for MusicXML - LilyPond conversion. It does a much better job than any other tool I know (including musicxml2ly). Hm, my experience has been quite different! 7 months ago I tested MuseScore v1.3 with 10

Re: short Musikmesse minutes

2014-03-20 Thread Francisco Vila
2014-03-20 10:01 GMT+01:00 pls p.l.schm...@gmx.de: On 20.03.2014, at 08:35, Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl wrote: Musescore is open source software, why not [try to] use their importer? MuseScore will drop their support for LilyPond in version 2.0 (see

Re: short Musikmesse minutes

2014-03-20 Thread David Kastrup
Francois Planiol alicuota...@gmail.com writes: Lily is free and that is a bg problem, for salesmen. Remember the incandescent lamp? It was not expensive enough and forcedly replaced by a dangerous CFL with a higher margin for everybody except the end-customer. So forget it, when it is

Re: Glissando function

2014-03-20 Thread David Kastrup
Benjamin Fluehr bflu...@gmail.com writes: I'm afraid my relative ignorance of Scheme is hindering me here. The examples in the manual don't really require Scheme knowledge. The LilyPond

Re: short Musikmesse minutes

2014-03-20 Thread Urs Liska
Am 20.03.2014 10:25, schrieb David Kastrup: Francois Planiol alicuota...@gmail.com writes: Lily is free and that is a bg problem, for salesmen. Remember the incandescent lamp? It was not expensive enough and forcedly replaced by a dangerous CFL with a higher margin for everybody except

Re: Glissando function

2014-03-20 Thread Benjamin Fluehr
The examples in the manual don't really require Scheme knowledge. Mostly true, but my lack of Scheme knowledge prevents me from fully understanding the error messages when things go wrong. Here is my attempt: \version 2.18.0 crossGlissando = #(define-music-function (parser location noteA

LilyPonders in England?

2014-03-20 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, at the end of april I'll be in England for more than a week. I had to cancel a family trip to Paris for that where I now can't meet Mike Solomon, so I'd be happy to meet other people instead. I'll be based in London from April 22 to May 1, and will have trips to Coventry,

Re: Glissando function

2014-03-20 Thread David Kastrup
Benjamin Fluehr bflu...@gmail.com writes: The examples in the manual don't really require Scheme knowledge. Mostly true, but my lack of Scheme knowledge prevents me from fully understanding the error messages when things go wrong. Here is my attempt: \version 2.18.0 crossGlissando =

Re: short Musikmesse minutes

2014-03-20 Thread Francois Planiol
Price could be an argument to introduce in GNU and free world. This was mis case. After deceptions with a disapeared GUI (HB-Engraver) and even worse with the hotline of Finale, I switched to MusixTeX, but this was also annoying... At this point, I knew only that paper is the better way. If

Re: short Musikmesse minutes

2014-03-20 Thread Johan Vromans
Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com writes: This is true but he is talking about using their MusicXML importer I think. Without knowing all the internal details, I can say this sounds easy but it is Not. Because, it imports, and converts to what exactly? Certainly not to a LilyPond-usable

Re: short Musikmesse minutes

2014-03-20 Thread Urs Liska
Another interesting option might be the new library from Frescobaldi. Peter is using it for the export side of things, and it might be useful for import too. IIUC Frescobaldi can write a .ly file from its internal DOM representation. I think there is much in common between translating that DOM

Re: lyrics hyphens question

2014-03-20 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.dewrote: You might be interested in the following thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2013-12/msg00425.html This thread went private after a time, and I proposed the attached solution. Mike S.

Palestrina: Missa Brevis

2014-03-20 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, just a little announcement: I have completed my re-engraving of the Missa Brevis by Palestrina and posted it http://imslp.org/wiki/Missa_Brevis_%28Palestrina,_Giovanni_Pierluigi_da%29#IMSLP318571 on imslp.org. The text is derived from the 19th century scientific edition on the same

changing top margin

2014-03-20 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Hello, The first page of a collection of piano pieces has only the header (title, subtitle ) on the first page. It is placed lower on the page with: \paper { top-margin = 3\in }. How do I return the top margin to the default size for the second and subsequent pages (that contain the

chord A(add2) D(add2)/A

2014-03-20 Thread MING TSANG
I encounter the caption subject chords when I am transcripting a score sheet.   I don't know how to code this in lilypond. I use lily v2.19.3.  Any help is appreciated.  Where can I find all the chords used by guitar score sheet? Emmanuel, Ming.___

Re: changing top margin

2014-03-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mark, The first page of a collection of piano pieces has only the header (title, subtitle ) on the first page. It is placed lower on the page with: \paper { top-margin = 3\in }. How do I return the top margin to the default size for the second and subsequent pages (that contain the

Re: lyrics hyphens question

2014-03-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David (et al.), Of course, I love this engraver! :) However, I ran into a few difficulties/bugs during my last big engraving effort — which, unfortunately, I can’t remember right now. I’ll go back and figure out what they are and get back to you. Best, Kieren.

more leadsheet questions

2014-03-20 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
Hi, Trying to (re-)typeset some Real Book leadsheets is a good learning experience for me :-) I have another question now: How can I make something like: \chords { c1:m | c:m | c:m | cm } look like: Cm % % % where the % is not really a percentage sign,

Re: lyrics hyphens question

2014-03-20 Thread David Nalesnik
Kieren. On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi David (et al.), Of course, I love this engraver! :) Nice to hear! However, I ran into a few difficulties/bugs during my last big engraving effort — which, unfortunately, I can’t remember

Re: Palestrina: Missa Brevis

2014-03-20 Thread Michael Rivers
Wonderful! Downloaded and printing now. I'm going to play through it on the piano and follow along with a recording. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Palestrina-Missa-Brevis-tp160656p160664.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: lyrics hyphens question

2014-03-20 Thread David Nalesnik
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 6:18 PM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: However, I ran into a few difficulties/bugs during my last big engraving effort — which, unfortunately, I can’t remember

RE: changing top margin

2014-03-20 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Kieren, Thank you for your reply and the instruction. I did it (I think) and the first page disappeared. I suspect that I did not place the command in the proper location. Your assistance is appreciated. Mark -Original Message- From: Kieren MacMillan

Re: changing top margin

2014-03-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mark, Thank you for your reply and the instruction. I did it (I think) and the first page disappeared. I suspect that I did not place the command in the proper location. Your assistance is appreciated. Here’s one possible structure to accomplish what you want. Hope this helps! Kieren.

Re: more leadsheet questions

2014-03-20 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 20, 2014, at 5:31 PM, Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl wrote: Hi, Trying to (re-)typeset some Real Book leadsheets is a good learning experience for me :-) I have another question now: How can I make something like: \chords { c1:m | c:m | c:m | cm } look

Re: Glissando function

2014-03-20 Thread Thomas Morley
2014-03-20 13:41 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Benjamin Fluehr bflu...@gmail.com writes: The examples in the manual don't really require Scheme knowledge. Mostly true, but my lack of Scheme knowledge prevents me from fully understanding the error messages when things go wrong. Here

RE: changing top margin

2014-03-20 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Kieren, Thank you for the example, and the time and effort taken to produce it. I shall study it tomorrow to learn the command structure. Mark -Original Message- From: Kieren MacMillan [mailto:kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 4:48 PM To: Mark Stephen Mrotek