Re: \shape not impacting ties slurs on next line

2014-03-25 Thread David Kastrup
Javier Ruiz-Alma jav...@ruiz-alma.com writes: The tie continued on a next line is not influenced by positioning override. Instead, it's placed per default positioning. How can one move these continued ties or slur? Check the manual for \alterBroken . -- David Kastrup

Re: Generating Interest in LilyPond through Kickstarter

2014-03-25 Thread Urs Liska
When the idea or selling point of a campaign is to provide a free edition it can be argued what that is needed for when there already _are_ good editions freely available. Then one should really find a good surplus over existing editions. This could for example be the possibility to make

Re: Discussing typographical standards

2014-03-25 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 03/25/2014 01:10 AM, Simon Albrecht wrote: The following is completely off-topic, but I’d like to share some observations I often make and thoughts I have and ask for your opinion: Hi Simon, just a few random thoughts to your remarks; I'll try to keep it short. – For what I know of best

Re: Generating Interest in LilyPond through Kickstarter

2014-03-25 Thread David Kastrup
Paul Tannous ptann...@hotmail.com writes: Shane: it would be more sensible to sell the .ly file at a higher cost. It is certainly the more valuable entity, both in terms of work in and future utility. After considering your comments, I and my team believe that we should offer the .ly files

Changing clef for same part?

2014-03-25 Thread Nick Vincent
Hi all, I have recently discovered LilyPond and have been really amazed by how powerful it is. I am using it to transcribe brass parts for a band I have recently joined, so please excuse the possibly dumb question. I have a song where I would like the baritone sax and trombone to play the same

Re: entering chords

2014-03-25 Thread and...@andis59.se
On 2014-03-24 22:04, Thomas Morley wrote: How about below? Also, I added an optional argument, which you can use to specify which chord-note should be colored. Default is 'first'. It's possible to switch to 'last'. Other settings like 'fourth' at own risk: Ofcourse specifying 'fourth' will

Re: Changing clef for same part?

2014-03-25 Thread David Kastrup
Nick Vincent n...@vtype.com writes: Hi all, I have recently discovered LilyPond and have been really amazed by how powerful it is. I am using it to transcribe brass parts for a band I have recently joined, so please excuse the possibly dumb question. I have a song where I would like the

Re: Generating Interest in LilyPond through Kickstarter

2014-03-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
You might check imslp.org, which often is a source for excellent engravings. I have no idea whether there is a scientifically approvable edition there. My thoughts referred in particular to the 19th century complete editions for example of Bach which combine unsurpassed typographical

Re: Generating Interest in LilyPond through Kickstarter

2014-03-25 Thread Urs Liska
That's similar to what we do with the Fried songs: we include the sources in all perks starting from a certain price. Urs David Kastrup d...@gnu.org schrieb am 25.03.2014: Paul Tannous ptann...@hotmail.com writes: Shane: it would be more sensible to sell the .ly file at a higher cost. It is

Re: Discussing typographical standards (was: Tuplet notehead shared...)

2014-03-25 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 01:10 +0100, Simon Albrecht wrote: Am 24.03.2014 13:33, schrieb Richard Shann: An example of this, typeset using LilyPond is posted here: http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/278632 To do this I set tuplet timing around the entire bass part and used

Re: Discussing typographical standards

2014-03-25 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 09:07 +0100, Alexander Kobel wrote: On 03/25/2014 01:10 AM, Simon Albrecht wrote: The following is completely off-topic, but I’d like to share some observations I often make and thoughts I have and ask for your opinion: Hi Simon, just a few random thoughts to your

Re: dodecaphonic-first accidental style

2014-03-25 Thread Urs Liska
Am 24.03.2014 17:52, schrieb Urs Liska: I've just compiled a custom LilyPond with that patch in it and will soon upload it for review. Although dodecaphonic-no-repeat is what _I_ had asked for I do think this also makes sense. https://codereview.appspot.com/79680044/

Exact stem length?

2014-03-25 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, I'm trying to recreate a contemporary notation. Attachments show my results so far, of course I'd want to encapsulate that in a function later to have it accessible. The problems I have (apart from the slash that is still missing): - How could I remove the gap between the first two

Re: Changing clef for same part?

2014-03-25 Thread Nick Vincent
Hi David, Thanks for your help, your assistance is much appreciated. I was simply not looking for the right terms in the manual, and am still getting my head round some of the concepts! Cheers, Nick On 25 March 2014 08:47, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Nick Vincent n...@vtype.com

Re: \shape not impacting ties slurs on next line

2014-03-25 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Javier, Javier Ruiz-Alma jav...@ruiz-alma.com writes: The tie continued on a next line is not influenced by positioning override. Instead, it's placed per default positioning. How can one move these continued ties or slur? You need to specify another number-pair-list for the

Re: Exact stem length?

2014-03-25 Thread Fredrik Wallberg
Hi Urs, - How could I remove the gap between the first two stems? Maybe try with a temporary \set Score.proportionalNotationDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 8) for that particular group of notes? As for the beam lengths, I'm not sure what the best solution would be -- \override

Re: Exact stem length?

2014-03-25 Thread Urs Liska
I'll try your suggestions later today. Regarding the length of stems there are two different approaches that might well go into different functions: A) Have a group that is defined by the beam's slope (or its start and end pitches). For this I'd need stems of equal length. B) Shaping the

Re: Exact stem length?

2014-03-25 Thread Fredrik Wallberg
...a way to override the distance between notehead and stem... \override Stem.Y-offset = 2 (Sorry about the typos in my last message -- I wrote beam lenghts; I meant stem lengths of beamed notes.) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: entering chords

2014-03-25 Thread Gilles
Le dimanche 23 mars 2014, 03:59:21 MING TSANG a écrit : c: the sample .ly has several functions -\extractNotes ; \ePU ; ePL etc. and I find several things I don't understand. please refer to .pdf file. Dear Ming. As it seems that some points are not enough clear about chord.ly, I tried to

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 136, Issue 121

2014-03-25 Thread MING TSANG
Gilles, Thank you very much for the updated version.  It works wonder for my lilypond score transcribe need. It saves me time and efforts. Just super.  The chord-doc.pdf helps a lot. Thanks again. Emmanuel, Ming On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 12:02:52 PM, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org

Re: chordname questions

2014-03-25 Thread Gerry Prosser
Thanks for the swift and helpful response ... 1. you are right that '6 add9' and 'add6 add 9' are indeed equivalent - I was looking at the wrong entry in the table in the Notation Reference. 2. Having looked further, I do think that some chords are generating incorrect chord names (but correct

Re: Exact stem length?

2014-03-25 Thread Piaras Hoban
The attached might be of help. It's still work in progress as it needs to allow for slurs and staccato dots. Would be great if some others can help improve it. all the best, piaras On 25 March 2014 12:45, Fredrik Wallberg fredrik.wallb...@gmail.com wrote: ...a way to override the

Re: chordname questions

2014-03-25 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Gerry Prosser ge...@chalkblue.co.ukwrote: 2. Having looked further, I do think that some chords are generating incorrect chord names (but correct notes): C:sus prints as C, C:2 as Csus2, C:3 as C and C:4 as C4sus4add3 Could I ask you to please run the

Fwd: Lilypond-book

2014-03-25 Thread Conor Cook
From: Conor Cook conor.p.c...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Lilypond-book Date: March 23, 2014 at 8:49:17 PM CDT To: Br. Samuel Springuel rpspring...@gmail.com Dear Br. Samuel, Thank you. I successfully installed the engine and will explore its use in TeXworks. I suppose I no longer need to try

Fwd: Lilypond-book

2014-03-25 Thread Conor Cook
From: Br. Samuel Springuel rpspring...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Lilypond-book Date: March 23, 2014 at 9:20:21 PM CDT To: Conor Cook conor.p.c...@gmail.com Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org On 2014-03-23 9:49 PM, Conor Cook wrote: I suppose I no longer need to try using the command line method, but I did

Fwd: Lilypond-book

2014-03-25 Thread Conor Cook
Begin forwarded message: From: Conor Cook conor.p.c...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Lilypond-book Date: March 23, 2014 at 9:35:35 PM CDT To: Br. Samuel Springuel rpspring...@gmail.com Well, I do have Xcode, but I’ll look into that more later. I’m starting to see what kind of .ly file the various

Re: Lilypond-book

2014-03-25 Thread Conor Cook
My apologies for the influx. I wanted to make sure that the information I stupidly left off the list by not replaying all was made available. Begin forwarded message: From: Br. Samuel Springuel rpspring...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Lilypond-book Date: March 24, 2014 at 10:01:33 AM CDT To: Conor