Re: Exact stem length?

2014-03-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 25.03.2014 13:25, schrieb Fredrik Wallberg: - 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? Thanks, this seems to work perfectly. But it has the side

Re: Exact stem length?

2014-03-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 25.03.2014 13:25, schrieb Fredrik Wallberg: As for the beam lengths, I'm not sure what the best solution would be -- \override Stem.details.beamed-lengths = #'(10 20 3) works fine for controlling the_length_ of beams, of course (which I'm sure you aware of), But unfortunately it doesn't

Re: Exact stem length?

2014-03-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 25.03.2014 13:45, schrieb 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.) This works basically. The attached image is

Re: Discussing typographical standards

2014-03-26 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 09:14 +, Richard Shann wrote: 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

Help with music-function generating music

2014-03-26 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, I'm completely at a loss and need to get some help and pushes in the right direction. I'm for the first time trying to write a music function that actually gerenates music events on its own, i.e. that doesn't use #{ #} to output music. The sections in the Scheme tutorial in the

Re: Discussing typographical standards

2014-03-26 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com To: Alexander Kobel n...@a-kobel.de Cc: lilypond user list lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 9:25 AM Subject: Re: Discussing typographical standards On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 09:14 +, Richard Shann

Re: Discussing typographical standards

2014-03-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 25.03.2014 01:10, schrieb Simon Albrecht: 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 doubled time signatures

Strange font in \markup {} with \Dynamics ?

2014-03-26 Thread steve
Howdy! I am fixing up one of my transcriptions for 2 guitars by centering some dynamics between the staves. Seems to work fine except when I want to combine \dynamic with text.. I can't the font to work correctly http://www.gooeytar.com/projects/test/berceuse.pdf

Re: Discussing typographical standards

2014-03-26 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 10:11 AM Subject: Re: Discussing typographical standards What I would find useful is an option with that you can allow LilyPond to break mid-measure at certain points.

Re: [SPAM] Re: Discussing typographical standards

2014-03-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 26.03.2014 11:36, schrieb Phil Holmes: - Original Message - From: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 10:11 AM Subject: Re: Discussing typographical standards What I would find useful is an option with that you can allow LilyPond

Re: Strange font in \markup {} with \Dynamics ?

2014-03-26 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: st...@linuxsuite.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 3:59 PM Subject: Strange font in \markup {} with \Dynamics ? Howdy! I am fixing up one of my transcriptions for 2 guitars by centering some dynamics between the staves.

Re: Discussing typographical standards

2014-03-26 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 10:39 AM Subject: Re: [SPAM] Re: Discussing typographical standards Am 26.03.2014 11:36, schrieb Phil Holmes: - Original Message - From: Urs Liska

Re: Discussing typographical standards

2014-03-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 26.03.2014 11:51, schrieb Phil Holmes: - Original Message - From: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 10:39 AM Subject: Re: [SPAM] Re: Discussing typographical standards Am 26.03.2014 11:36, schrieb Phil Holmes: - Original

Re: Exact stem length?

2014-03-26 Thread Piaras Hoban
Hi Urs, (sent this last night but I seem to have issues getting my messages to the list...) It should do what you want in terms of generating stems. It's a work in progress and still needs to be able to handle slurs, dynamics, articulations, different stem patterns etc... best wishes, piaras

Re: [SPAM] Re: Exact stem length?

2014-03-26 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Piaras, I'm sorry, this has somehow slipped me. Your message had been posted last night. This is already _very_ close to what I had in mind, thank you very much. I'll definitely have a closer look and study it. There are two things I'd like to add: a) being able to explicitly define

Re: Exact stem length?

2014-03-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 26.03.2014 13:21, schrieb David Nalesnik: Hi, On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: b) Optionally add a slash because that gesture is often used with a slash. No idea yet, but I recall that Gilberto recently worked on that. For slashed grace-note

Re: Exact stem length?

2014-03-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 26.03.2014 12:25, schrieb Urs Liska: BTW: Does anybody have a good name for that notation? pitchedGlissando pitchedStems fastScale fuzzyScale ??? I think the last one matches the intention quite well. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Exact stem length?

2014-03-26 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Urs, On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Am 26.03.2014 12:25, schrieb Urs Liska: BTW: Does anybody have a good name for that notation? pitchedGlissando pitchedStems fastScale fuzzyScale ??? I think the last one matches the intention quite

Re: [SPAM] Re: Exact stem length?

2014-03-26 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: b) Optionally add a slash because that gesture is often used with a slash. No idea yet, but I recall that Gilberto recently worked on that. For slashed grace-note groups, see

Re: Exact stem length?

2014-03-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 26.03.2014 13:46, schrieb David Nalesnik: Hi Urs, On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org mailto:u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Am 26.03.2014 12 tel:26.03.2014%2012:25, schrieb Urs Liska: BTW: Does anybody have a good name for that notation?

Re: [SPAM] Re: Exact stem length?

2014-03-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 26.03.2014 14:38, schrieb Piaras Hoban: So a little more work this morning... I copied in David's slashStem code and it seems perfectly compatible which is great (though it would be nice to have to option of putting the slash at the end of the group). Also dynamic markings and spanners are

Re: Strange font in \markup {} with \Dynamics ?

2014-03-26 Thread steve
Thats it!! thanx - steve - Original Message - From the NR where make-dynamic-script is introduced: In general, make-dynamic-script takes any markup object as its argument. The dynamic font only contains the characters f,m,p,r,s and z, so if a dynamic mark

Re: [SPAM] Re: Exact stem length?

2014-03-26 Thread Fredrik Wallberg
Piaras: looks wonderful, thanks for sharing. haven't added it (it shouldn't be too difficult) as I tend to prefer functions that don't have long lists of arguments which I can never remember :) It is *possible* to have optional arguments with default values:

Re: Help with music-function generating music

2014-03-26 Thread Paul Morris
Urs Liska wrote I'm completely at a loss and need to get some help and pushes in the right direction. I would start here with \displayMusic http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/extending/displaying-music-expressions HTH, -Paul -- View this message in context:

Re: Help with music-function generating music

2014-03-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 26.03.2014 16:08, schrieb Paul Morris: Urs Liska wrote I'm completely at a loss and need to get some help and pushes in the right direction. I would start here with \displayMusic http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/extending/displaying-music-expressions HTH, not too much, I'm

Re: Discussing typographical standards

2014-03-26 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 26.03.2014 11:11, schrieb Urs Liska: Am 25.03.2014 01:10, schrieb Simon Albrecht: 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: Looking at this score confirms me in my opinion that LilyPond default

Re: Discussing typographical standards

2014-03-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 26.03.2014 16:32, schrieb Simon Albrecht: But in situations where one can afford it: why not allow oneself some luxury there ;-) At least I sometimes do. (bearing also in mind that paper costs are not a real argument nowadays, once you look at it…) I fully agree with you, but OTOH I find A4

Re: Help with music-function generating music

2014-03-26 Thread Paul Morris
Ok, here are some next steps. Only dealing with specifying pitch so far. The number of notes and their duration are both still hard-coded... -Paul \version 2.18.0 % use this to see what the end result should look like: % \displayMusic { c'4 d e f } % === % Here it is: { #(make-music

Re: Discussing typographical standards

2014-03-26 Thread Shane Brandes
Richard, Is the bracing correct? I would have expected something like: flute | | [violin 1 | [ 2 | | [ soprano| [ bass | Where the [ is a single bracket. [ regards, Shane On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 5:25

Re: Discussing typographical standards

2014-03-26 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2014-03-26 at 12:41 -0400, Shane Brandes wrote: Richard, Is the bracing correct? I just took that from the original print. Except that I should really have chosen PianoStaff not GrandStaff to be just like the original print. The GrandStaff gives more for LilyPond to do, avoiding

Re: [SPAM] Re: Exact stem length?

2014-03-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 26.03.2014 21:38, schrieb Piaras Hoban: Urs and Fredrik, thanks for input on this -much appreciated. I'm going to think about stem-distribution for a few days and see if a good solution comes to mind. Urs you raised the issue of horizontal spacing in the snippet... perhaps just using a very

Re: Help with music-function generating music

2014-03-26 Thread TaoCG
Urs Liska wrote Hi all, I'm completely at a loss and need to get some help and pushes in the right direction. I'm for the first time trying to write a music function that actually gerenates music events on its own, i.e. that doesn't use #{ #} to output music. The sections in the

Re: Help with music-function generating music

2014-03-26 Thread Paul Morris
Hi Urs, I had a chance to work on the iteration part. This one accepts a note as an argument which is a better approach, following the examples here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/extending/doubling-a-note-with-slurs-_0028example_0029

Printing Title Pages; has it been a thought?

2014-03-26 Thread Joshua Nichols
I am curious overall on what might be a useful enhancement: Has anyone thought about writing a permanent title page feature for lilypond? You know, something that I could invoke through the paper block? I perused a very light search for this kind of thing, and I didn't find anything. I'm

Re: Printing Title Pages; has it been a thought?

2014-03-26 Thread Ryan McClure
I think that this would be an interesting feature, but the issue with this is giving a default title page. It would require a user to adjust the title page to fit the needs of the user. I have created a personal title page template, if you will. I'll attach it in the email to see what you think.

Re: Printing Title Pages; has it been a thought?

2014-03-26 Thread Ryan McClure
Here's the EPS file...oopsie - Ryan McClure Music Education Major, Shepherd University Luna Music Engraving www.lunamusicengraving.com -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Printing-Title-Pages-has-it-been-a-thought-tp160868p160870.html Sent from the User

Re: Printing Title Pages; has it been a thought?

2014-03-26 Thread brentboylan
This is something I would love to see implemented. I was trying to create a file a few days ago with a title page using suggestions in the documentation. It was convoluted and the results less than desirable. I finally scrapped the idea and decided it would be easier to create the page in a

Re: Printing Title Pages; has it been a thought?

2014-03-26 Thread Nick Payne
I create a separate title page like this, for example: \version 2.19.3 \paper { first-page-number = 0 print-first-page-number = ##f } \header { title = \markup { \lower #50 \left-align \center-column { \fontsize #6 \bold Gigue \lower #1 \fontsize #1 \bold Suite 6, Dresden manuscript