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

2014-03-29 Thread Richard Shann
No one has mentioned Nicholas Sceaux's book titling include file in this thread, can it be that it is not well-known? I built it in to Denemo a while back, with some modifications of my own (mainly to provide a border around the page).

Arabic Template

2014-03-29 Thread Dirk Cushenbery
Hi I am a new user. Does anyone have a template for Arabic music? I have watched several tutorials and read parts of the manual. I am not sure how/where the scripts pertaining to Arabic music fit into the overall file. Any help is appreciated. I can't seem to get a 10/8 time signature. I

Frescobaldi 2.0.15 Won't open

2014-03-29 Thread santgil .
Hello. I'm new to Linux and Lilypond. I need to downgrade to Frescobaldi 2.0.14, because the installation made through this link does not work here. https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/releases I would like to downgrade or to make the .0.15 version wirk properly. I am running Manjaro Linux.

Spacing between author's name and first staff

2014-03-29 Thread Son_V
Hi, I've fought to find in the documentation how to add more space after the \header and the first staff, but I wasn't successful; can anyone tell me how to do it? Thanks. -- View this message in context:

Re: Spacing between author's name and first staff

2014-03-29 Thread Federico Bruni
2014-03-29 14:25 GMT+01:00 Son_V vincenzo.a...@gmail.com: Hi, I've fought to find in the documentation how to add more space after the \header and the first staff, but I wasn't successful; can anyone tell me how to do it? Thanks. between the header and the first system? it's

warning: decrescendo too little

2014-03-29 Thread Son_V
The exact expression in Italian is: attenzione: decrescendo troppo piccolo r2 a2 \ \mp | % 7 The code: r2 a2 \ \mp | % 7 a2 \! b4 c4 | % 8 If I delete the \mp command, the correct symbol is inserted (thougt I would preferred it ending on the a2 note. What can be done? Thanks.

Re: Spacing between author's name and first staff

2014-03-29 Thread Son_V
Thanks for the fast answer, but I wasn't able to use your information. It seems to me that I should use the command markup-system-spacing, but where have I tu put it in \paper { system-system-spacing #'basic-distance = #20 score-system-spacing = #'((basic-distance . 13)

Re: Spacing between author's name and first staff

2014-03-29 Thread Schneidy
Federico Bruni-5 wrote 2014-03-29 14:25 GMT+01:00 Son_V lt; vincenzo.auer@ gt;: Hi, I've fought to find in the documentation how to add more space after the \header and the first staff, but I wasn't successful; can anyone tell me how to do it? Thanks. between the header and the

Ambitus on certain section only

2014-03-29 Thread ayutheos
I have a piece of hymn music with an intro and melody parts. I'd like to have the ambitus shown for the melody part only. The following snippet almost does what I want but it shows the ambitus at the end of my intro part. %-8-snip-start- \version 3.16.2 melodyIntro = \relative

Re: warning: decrescendo too little

2014-03-29 Thread Schneidy
Son_V wrote The exact expression in Italian is: attenzione: decrescendo troppo piccolo r2 a2 \ \mp | % 7 The code: r2 a2 \ \mp | % 7 a2 \! b4 c4 | % 8 Please provide compilable example. See also here :

Re: Ambitus on certain section only

2014-03-29 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Please provide compilable example. See also : http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=ambitus HTH ~Pierre ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: warning: decrescendo too little

2014-03-29 Thread Son_V
THANKS! That solved. :-) -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/warning-decrescendo-too-little-tp160938p160943.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Ambitus on certain section only

2014-03-29 Thread Phil Holmes
Not tested, but my suggestion would be to set is as a true polypohonic piece, using spacer rests in the melody during the introduction. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: ayutheos To: lilypond-user Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 3:05 AM Subject: Ambitus on certain

Re: Spacing between author's name and first staff

2014-03-29 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Son_V vincenzo.a...@gmail.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 2:00 PM Subject: Re: Spacing between author's name and first staff Thanks for the fast answer, but I wasn't able to use your information. It seems to me that I should use

Re: Spacing between author's name and first staff

2014-03-29 Thread Son_V
Many thanks to you and to Federico (ciao). At last (at last, at last ...) I figured how to obtain what I asked for. Have a nice Sunday. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Spacing-between-author-s-name-and-first-staff-tp160936p160948.html Sent from the User

unspecified starting volume for decrescendo

2014-03-29 Thread Alberto Simões
Hi. I have a music that starts with fis4.^\ d\! But lilypond complains when generating the MIDI file: piano+voz.ly:28:14: warning: (De)crescendo with unspecified starting volume in MIDI. Some way to shut him? :-) Cheers ambs ___

Re: unspecified starting volume for decrescendo

2014-03-29 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Alberto Simões al...@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt To: lilypond lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 2:45 PM Subject: unspecified starting volume for decrescendo Hi. I have a music that starts with fis4.^\ d\! But lilypond complains when

Re: unspecified starting volume for decrescendo

2014-03-29 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 29.03.2014 15:45, schrieb Alberto Simões: Hi. I have a music that starts with fis4.^\ d\! But lilypond complains when generating the MIDI file: piano+voz.ly:28:14: warning: (De)crescendo with unspecified starting volume in MIDI. Some way to shut him? :-) You may use tags to

Re: unspecified starting volume for decrescendo

2014-03-29 Thread Alberto Simões
On 29/03/14, 14:50, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: Alberto Simões al...@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt To: lilypond lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 2:45 PM Subject: unspecified starting volume for decrescendo Hi. I have a music that starts with

Re: Arabic Template

2014-03-29 Thread Son_V
Hi you can get a 10/8 just by using PartPOneVoiceOne = \relative f' { \clef treble \key f \major \time 10/8 f2 g2 c4 ~ | % 2 (it's just an example) I usually use MuseScore to insert all the music and dynamisc, text etc. and at the end I export the file in .xml format, that I can open on

Re: unspecified starting volume for decrescendo

2014-03-29 Thread Alberto Simões
On 29/03/14, 14:50, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: Alberto Simões al...@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt To: lilypond lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 2:45 PM Subject: unspecified starting volume for decrescendo Hi. I have a music that starts with

Re: Frescobaldi 2.0.15 Won't open

2014-03-29 Thread SoundsFromSound
santgil . wrote Hello. I'm new to Linux and Lilypond. I need to downgrade to Frescobaldi 2.0.14, because the installation made through this link does not work here. https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/releases I would like to downgrade or to make the .0.15 version wirk properly. I am

Systems Centred Per Page

2014-03-29 Thread Piaras Hoban
Hi all, There seems to have been some discussion of issues related to page margins on the list lately so perhaps it is timely to see if someone can help me with a current headscratcher. I'm trying to find a way to automatically centre each system in a score, assuming ragged-right is true and one

Re: Ambitus on certain section only

2014-03-29 Thread Thomas Morley
2014-03-29 4:05 GMT+01:00 ayutheos ayuth...@gmail.com: I have a piece of hymn music with an intro and melody parts. I'd like to have the ambitus shown for the melody part only. The following snippet almost does what I want but it shows the ambitus at the end of my intro part.

Re: Systems Centred Per Page

2014-03-29 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
2014-03-29 18:15 GMT+01:00 Piaras Hoban phoba...@googlemail.com: Hi all, Hi Piaras, There seems to have been some discussion of issues related to page margins on the list lately so perhaps it is timely to see if someone can help me with a current headscratcher. I'm trying to find a way

Re: Systems Centred Per Page

2014-03-29 Thread Piaras Hoban
Hi Pierre, Thanks for your link but this amounts to what I can do already. I'm trying to find a way to do this automatically without resorting to markup -but I'm not sure if this is possible. thanks, piaras On 29 March 2014 18:19, Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com

Column shift for 2nd interval

2014-03-29 Thread Benjamin Fluehr
I have a score with four voices, setup in a similar way to the SATB vocal score templatehttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/source/Documentation/learning/satb-vocal-score. The tenor voice is \voiceOne; the bass voice is \voiceTwo. Is there a handy way to tighten the horizontal spacing

Re: unspecified starting volume for decrescendo

2014-03-29 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 29.03.2014 15:50, schrieb Phil Holmes: - Original Message - From: Alberto Simões al...@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt To: lilypond lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 2:45 PM Subject: unspecified starting volume for decrescendo Hi. I have a music that starts with

Difference between # and $

2014-03-29 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, I have a hard time to understand the difference between # and $ in LilyPond code blocks within Scheme functions. 2.2.1 of the Extending manual says: Within LilyPond code blocks, use # to reference function arguments (eg., ‘#arg1’) or to start an inline Scheme expression containing

Does 'strut' command work in LilyPond?

2014-03-29 Thread Karol Majewski
According to: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/other \strut Create a box of the same height as the space in the current font. So \markup { \strut \box . } \markup { \strut \box bp } should draw a box with constant height. But it doesn't. Maybe I'm doing something

Re: Difference between # and $

2014-03-29 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: Hi, I have a hard time to understand the difference between # and $ in LilyPond code blocks within Scheme functions. Same as elsewhere. Please read URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/extending/lilypond-scheme-syntax 2.2.1 of the

Re: Does 'strut' command work in LilyPond?

2014-03-29 Thread Conor Cook
In what order should \strut come? Does it require curly braces? ~Conor Cook On Mar 29, 2014, at 6:35 PM, Karol Majewski karo...@wp.pl wrote: According to: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/other \strut Create a box of the same height as the space in the current

Re: Does 'strut' command work in LilyPond?

2014-03-29 Thread David Kastrup
Karol Majewski karo...@wp.pl writes: According to: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/other \strut Create a box of the same height as the space in the current font. So \markup { \strut \box . } \markup { \strut \box bp } should draw a box with constant height.

Re: Does 'strut' command work in LilyPond?

2014-03-29 Thread Karol Majewski
I tried different order, but it didn't work. Could you please give an example of how to use 'strut' properly? Dnia 30-03-2014 o godz. 0:57 David Kastrup napisał(a): Karol Majewski karo...@wp.pl writes: According to: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/other

Re: Does 'strut' command work in LilyPond?

2014-03-29 Thread Conor Cook
Would it be: \markup { \box { \strut “.” } } or \markup { \strut { \box “.” } } ? I’m just taking a shot in the dark. I’ve not seen \strut before. ~Conor Cook On Mar 29, 2014, at 7:04 PM, Karol Majewski karo...@wp.pl wrote: I tried different order, but it didn't work. Could you please

Re: Does 'strut' command work in LilyPond?

2014-03-29 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, Huh? You are not placing the \strut inside of the box, so why should the box' height be affected? It appears that putting \strut inside the box doesn’t actually change the box’s height: \version 2.19 \include english.ly \markup \box { \strut . } \markup \box { \strut bp }

Re: Does 'strut' command work in LilyPond?

2014-03-29 Thread Kieren MacMillan
p.s. \line and \concat have no effect. On Mar 29, 2014, at 8:26 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi David, Huh? You are not placing the \strut inside of the box, so why should the box' height be affected? It appears that putting \strut inside the box doesn’t

Re: Does 'strut' command work in LilyPond?

2014-03-29 Thread Conor Cook
Does \strut simply produce a font-sized box, meant to have nothing in it? ~Conor Cook On Mar 29, 2014, at 7:29 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: p.s. \line and \concat have no effect. On Mar 29, 2014, at 8:26 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca

Re: Does 'strut' command work in LilyPond?

2014-03-29 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes: Hi David, Huh? You are not placing the \strut inside of the box, so why should the box' height be affected? It appears that putting \strut inside the box doesn’t actually change the box’s height: \version 2.19 \include english.ly

Re: Does 'strut' command work in LilyPond?

2014-03-29 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, So we need to use \concat instead of \line. \version 2.19 \include english.ly \markup \box \concat { \strut . } \markup \box \concat { \strut bp } \markup \box “. That also doesn’t work as expected — the first box should be taller, right? Cheers, Kieren.

Re: Does 'strut' command work in LilyPond?

2014-03-29 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes: Hi David, So we need to use \concat instead of \line. \version 2.19 \include english.ly \markup \box \concat { \strut . } \markup \box \concat { \strut bp } \markup \box “. That also doesn’t work as expected — the first box