Re: Transposing instruments in orchestra score

2014-05-09 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes: Hello all, Sorry I’m late to the party… A critical feature of a proper and useable multi-instrumentalist framework would be the ability to put in global variables which include the key signature(s) for the work, and the part would

Re: Transposing instruments in orchestra score

2014-05-09 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi all, as I understand the situation, the most convenient situation for all would be the possibility of a context switch in mid-score affecting the way lilypond is interpreting (seeing) the pitches, which could get changed globally by including different files with redefinitions of the

Re: Transposing instruments in orchestra score

2014-05-09 Thread David Kastrup
Orm Finnendahl orm.finnend...@hfmdk-frankfurt.de writes: Hi all, as I understand the situation, the most convenient situation for all would be the possibility of a context switch in mid-score affecting the way lilypond is interpreting (seeing) the pitches, which could get changed globally

Re: Trill span problem

2014-05-09 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 09.05.2014 00:06, schrieb Peter Bjuhr: On 2014-05-08 16:22, Knute Snortum wrote: I have a problem with sequential trill spans. they seems to be just a little too long and therefore they stagger vertically. I would think the solution is to shorten the trill span but I'm not sure how to

Transcribing individual score pages from scans

2014-05-09 Thread David Cuenca
Hi, I'm a contributor from Wikisource, an online digital library part of the Wikimedia Foundation, where we transcribe works in the public domain. Since last year we have enabled a mediawiki extension to render scores [1], which now enables our users to transcribe pages with music like these [2]

Re: Transcribing individual score pages from scans

2014-05-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am 09.05.2014 12:16, schrieb David Cuenca: Hi, I'm a contributor from Wikisource, an online digital library part of the Wikimedia Foundation, where we transcribe works in the public domain. Since last year we have enabled a mediawiki extension to render scores [1], which now enables our users

Re: Transcribing individual score pages from scans

2014-05-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am 09.05.2014 12:26, schrieb Urs Liska: Am 09.05.2014 12:16, schrieb David Cuenca: Hi, I'm a contributor from Wikisource, an online digital library part of the Wikimedia Foundation, where we transcribe works in the public domain. Since last year we have enabled a mediawiki extension to render

Re: Transcribing individual score pages from scans

2014-05-09 Thread David Cuenca
Hi Urs, unfortunately we cannot work with files, nor variables. The only thing we can do is to join text inputs. What we are after is a way to append the source texts that generate individual pages and generate a valid lilypond input just by adding a header/footer. Is that possible? Thanks

Slur that spans staves

2014-05-09 Thread Knute Snortum
I am trying to typeset a slur that spans staves (see photo). https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_aEseOV9KTXQ3pDVjJaZ05ZX2c/edit?usp=sharing ​ I can use \shape, but this can't span the upper staff. Any ideas? Knute Snortum (via Gmail) ___ lilypond-user

Re: Slur that spans staves

2014-05-09 Thread Phil Holmes
You make the music cross the staves, and the slur follows: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-keyboards -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Knute Snortum To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, May 09, 2014 3:22 PM Subject: Slur

Re: Slur that spans staves

2014-05-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am 09.05.2014 16:22, schrieb Knute Snortum: I am trying to typeset a slur that spans staves (see photo). https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_aEseOV9KTXQ3pDVjJaZ05ZX2c/edit?usp=sharing ​ I can use \shape, but this can't span the upper staff. Any ideas? Knute Snortum (via Gmail) Please send

Re: Trill span problem

2014-05-09 Thread Knute Snortum
Thanks, that did it. I knew there had to be some variable or setting I could change. I looked in TrillSpanner but I couldn't figure out which variable to change. Knute Snortum (via Gmail) On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 1:43 AM, Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.dewrote: Am 09.05.2014 00:06,

Fwd: [SPAM] Re: Slur that spans staves

2014-05-09 Thread Urs Liska
I assume you intended to write this to the list... Original-Nachricht Betreff: [SPAM] Re: Slur that spans staves Datum: Fri, 9 May 2014 08:23:56 -0700 Von: Knute Snortum ksnor...@gmail.com An: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org Phil, that did it, thanks. I had to stand on my

Re: [SPAM] Re: Slur that spans staves

2014-05-09 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org To: lilypond-user lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, May 09, 2014 4:24 PM Subject: Fwd: [SPAM] Re: Slur that spans staves I assume you intended to write this to the list... Original-Nachricht Betreff:

Re: [SPAM] Re: Slur that spans staves

2014-05-09 Thread Knute Snortum
I used a \change Staff = up to get the D flat on the RH staff, but because I needed to have a rest in the LH, I put both in separate voices. Begin snippet staffUp = \change Staff = up ... { | af [ b bf ( c ] \oneVoice | \staffUp df'2 ) ~ \f \fermata | df8 r \acciaccatura {

MIDI error compiling source

2014-05-09 Thread Knute Snortum
The attached LilyPond file producing programming errors below. I've pared down the source so that it's smaller but still emits a warning. Anyone know why the warnings are produced? The PDF and MIDI files seem fine. It's just that I don't like producing error messages. Starting

Re: MIDI error compiling source

2014-05-09 Thread Phil Holmes
I think it's to do with the grace notes. There's no error in 2.19.2, so you may want to adopt the development version if you want to avoid the issue being flagged. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Knute Snortum To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, May 09, 2014

Re: MIDI error compiling source

2014-05-09 Thread Knute Snortum
Thanks, that's the info I need. I'm typesetting for Mutopia and they use 2.18.2 and they don't want errors, but if there's no way to exclude the errors without moving to 2.19.2, I think they'll understand. Knute Snortum (via Gmail) On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Phil Holmes

Any advice for getting emacs working with lilypond on MacOsX?

2014-05-09 Thread rif
The documentation seems spotty and inadequate compared to when I tried this a few years ago. I feel hopelessly lost. I found http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/usage/text-editor-support. This tells me I need to do a make install. This implies I need the source to do anything at all

Re: Any advice for getting emacs working with lilypond on MacOsX?

2014-05-09 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 9, 2014, at 12:43 PM, rif r...@mit.edu wrote: The documentation seems spotty and inadequate compared to when I tried this a few years ago. I feel hopelessly lost. I found http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/usage/text-editor-support. This tells me I need to do a

Re: Mensural ligature

2014-05-09 Thread R. Mattes
On Fri, 09 May 2014 20:17:05 +0200, Jean-Charles Malahieude wrote Le 09/05/2014 01:04, k...@aspodata.se disait : Jean-Charles Malahieude: On my way to typeset a mass by Monteverdi, I'm blocked with some ligatures (see

Re: Any advice for getting emacs working with lilypond on MacOsX?

2014-05-09 Thread R. Mattes
On Fri, 9 May 2014 13:44:31 -0500, Tim McNamara wrote [...snip...] (setq path /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/Users/tim/bin:/Users/YOUR_USER_NAME/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin) (setenv PATH path) (setq load-path (append (list

Re: Transposing instruments in orchestra score

2014-05-09 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
new 2.18 syntax. before all the trills. Best Peter Best, Simon -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/attachments/20140509/f1f95f42/attachment.html

Re: Transposing instruments in orchestra score

2014-05-09 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, I am curious as to what are the killer use cases? I compose and arrange music theatre works (amongst other things). In the pit, we almost always have a multi-wind player. A very normal part would see that one person playing: mm 1-10 on Bb clarinet mm. 20-42 on [C+8] piccolo

Re: scheme function for staccato

2014-05-09 Thread MarcM
FYI, the addStaccato function has been updated and works in 2.19. http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=82 -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Re-scheme-function-for-staccato-tp5429p162238.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Any advice for getting emacs working with lilypond on MacOsX?

2014-05-09 Thread rif
Cool. Maybe it makes sense to update the documentation to indicate the elisp files are in the precompiled tarball and just to point at them? That make install is a red herring. On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 12:15 PM, R. Mattes r...@mh-freiburg.de wrote: On Fri, 9 May 2014 13:44:31 -0500, Tim

Re: Any advice for getting emacs working with lilypond on MacOsX?

2014-05-09 Thread rif
And just to be clear, when you see Frescobaldi is easy to install, it looks to me like I have to first install Homebrew, then I have to manually install XQuartz and and MacTeX [neither of which is packaged with Homebrew], and *then* I can just do a brew install frescobaldi? On Fri, May 9, 2014