Re: Music font switching question

2014-07-10 Thread tisimst
Christopher R. Maden wrote Add the new different things at the *end* of the list, not the beginning, so that code that used to work continues to work. Otherwise, it seems good to me... Well, it's not really new because it already happens first under the covers. It's just hard-coded to the

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-10 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 09.07.2014 07:43, schrieb tisimst: Greetings, All! I have worked out a very nice way to switch between notation fonts in LilyPond, both on a global document level and a local usage level. Up until now, there were only a couple of music fonts available that were really usable on a

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-10 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
2014-07-09 22:40 GMT+02:00 tisimst tisi...@gmail.com: Recently, a user (I forget the name...) made some updates to the LilyJAZZ ensemble by introducing a font specifically designed for chords, which includes both lower and uppercase letters and shortcuts to the sharp, flat, etc. symbols.

Re: Music font switching question

2014-07-10 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, 2014-07-09 0:16 GMT+02:00 tisimst tisi...@gmail.com: Let me explain. When one wants to change the text fonts _globally_, there is the very useful Scheme function make-pango-font-tree, which looks something like this when used: \paper { #(define fonts (make-pango-font-tree

Re: Beam subdivided at non-periodic intervals

2014-07-10 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Javier, 2014-07-09 8:11 GMT+02:00 Javier Ruiz-Alma jav...@ruiz-alma.com: The \subdivideBeams statement adds the unwanted subdivisions at the time signature beats. Hum, strange... You've written that before my mail and I just recieved it this morning!? I'm not sure to understand how this

Re: Proportional-Notation Durations

2014-07-10 Thread PMA
Thomas Morley wrote: 2014-07-09 0:24 GMT+02:00 PMApeterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu: Hi List. I'm looking for a LilyPond way to specify note duration in a Proportional Notation context using exactly _one_ stemless notehead type. Perhaps the first option is a mid-level horizontal line extending

Re: Chord Symbols with inversions

2014-07-10 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2014-07-09 at 17:53 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com writes: Thank you for this. With that I have now got as far as the attached [...] Sigh. No minimal working example. I've created a minimal example now, the numeric time signature has appeared, but

Re: Integrating a markup in a music-function

2014-07-10 Thread Thomas Morley-2
Schneidy wrote Hi List, On the French forum Remy and I (see: http://lilypond-french-users.1298960.n2.nabble.com/instrumentName-sur-plusieurs-lignes-dans-une-fonction-tt7581499.html) are stucked with a markup function. Here we are so far : \version 2.18.2 #(define (general-column

Re: Integrating a markup in a music-function

2014-07-10 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 10.07.2014 10:54, schrieb Thomas Morley-2: [...] OT: I'm replying via the nabble-interface, because your post didn't appear in my mails til now. Currently it seems I miss several mails. Some of them I notice, when they are quoted. Others with the same experience? Yes, some messages are

Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-10 Thread James Harkins
Something I've been wondering about for awhile... lilypond.org boasts of optical spacing for notes with alternating up and down stems, but it seems this feature has been lost somewhere (or disabled by default). In this example, it's quite plain to my eyes that the stems are not equally spaced

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-10 Thread Urs Liska
Am 10.07.2014 11:39, schrieb James Harkins: \version 2.18.2 \relative c'' { e4 c, f' d, g' e, a' f, } Hm, there have been quite significant improvements in the horizontal spacing engine recently. Can it be that this is a side-effect of this? --

RE: Beam subdivided at non-periodic intervals

2014-07-10 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Javier, Certainly more elegant and efficient than mine. Thank you for the instructions. Mark From: Javier Ruiz-Alma [mailto:jav...@ruiz-alma.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2014 11:11 PM To: Mark Stephen Mrotek; 'LilyPond User Group' Subject: Re: Beam subdivided at non-periodic intervals

Re: Header markup question

2014-07-10 Thread Noeck
Hi Abraham, this was the next point on my LilyPond todo list, doing such a spacing cheat sheet. Thanks a lot for sharing. Can you provide a link such that other users can be pointed to it? Thanks, Joram Am 08.07.2014 16:48, schrieb Abraham Lee: On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Larry Kent

Re: Chord Symbols with inversions

2014-07-10 Thread Thomas Morley
2014-07-09 13:52 GMT+02:00 Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com: Hi list, With notation like \version 2.18.0 \chordmode { c/g } I can get chord names with /G at the end to indicate a G added below the root of the chord. With the notation \new ChordNames { c' e' g'1 }

Re: Header markup question

2014-07-10 Thread Abraham Lee
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 4:03 AM, Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Abraham, this was the next point on my LilyPond todo list, doing such a spacing cheat sheet. Thanks a lot for sharing. Can you provide a link such that other users can be pointed to it? Thanks, Joram Am 08.07.2014 16:48,

I was unable to import an xml ogan file from Musescore - update

2014-07-10 Thread Son_V
Hi, some days ago I posted a message to say that I couldn't import an xml organ file made with Musescore; yesterday I installed Forte 5 basic took from GAOTD, and at my surprise it read perfectly the xml files I couldn't made Lilypond read . At this point i could think there is a problem in the

Re: I was unable to import an xml ogan file from Musescore - update

2014-07-10 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Son_V vincenzo.a...@gmail.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 11:59 AM Subject: I was unable to import an xml ogan file from Musescore - update What can be done? :-( Please see my reply on bugs to your duplicate message about

Re: Chord Symbols with inversions

2014-07-10 Thread David Kastrup
Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com writes: On Wed, 2014-07-09 at 17:53 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com writes: Thank you for this. With that I have now got as far as the attached [...] Sigh. No minimal working example. I've created a minimal example

Re: Chord Symbols with inversions

2014-07-10 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 11:11 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: \override TimeSignature #'style = #'numeric Do I have something wrong here still? There is no #'numeric time signature style, only #'numbered. But you may invoke it using \numericTimeSignature if you like. Hmm, I guess I

Re: Chord Symbols with inversions

2014-07-10 Thread David Kastrup
Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com writes: On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 11:11 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: \override TimeSignature #'style = #'numeric Do I have something wrong here still? There is no #'numeric time signature style, only #'numbered. But you may invoke it using

Re: I was unable to import an xml ogan file from Musescore - update

2014-07-10 Thread James
On 10/07/14 11:59, Son_V wrote: Hi, some days ago I posted a message to say that I couldn't import an xml organ file made with Musescore; yesterday I installed Forte 5 basic took from GAOTD, and at my surprise it read perfectly the xml files I couldn't made Lilypond read . At this point i could

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-10 Thread Noeck
Am 10.07.2014 11:42, schrieb Urs Liska: Am 10.07.2014 11:39, schrieb James Harkins: \version 2.18.2 \relative c'' { e4 c, f' d, g' e, a' f, } Hm, there have been quite significant improvements in the horizontal spacing engine recently. Can it be that this is a side-effect of this? It

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-10 Thread David Kastrup
Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de writes: Am 10.07.2014 11:42, schrieb Urs Liska: Am 10.07.2014 11:39, schrieb James Harkins: \version 2.18.2 \relative c'' { e4 c, f' d, g' e, a' f, } Hm, there have been quite significant improvements in the horizontal spacing engine recently. Can it be that

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-10 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: If I write \relative c'' { e4 c, f' d, g' e, a' f, } % \addlyrics { ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! } Obviously, remove the % character for that experiment... -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list

List defect?

2014-07-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, now there definitely seems to be something wrong with mail delivery on the list. Some people already reported they were not receiving some posts at all. With me, some posts pop up another time two days or so after they were originally sent (including my own). Do any of you know what

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-10 Thread Noeck
Am 10.07.2014 14:50, schrieb David Kastrup: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: If I write \relative c'' { e4 c, f' d, g' e, a' f, } % \addlyrics { ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! } Obviously, remove the % character for that experiment... That is quite convincing. So I guess the default spacing is

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-10 Thread Mark Knoop
At 15:15 on 10 Jul 2014, Noeck wrote: Am 10.07.2014 14:50, schrieb David Kastrup: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: If I write \relative c'' { e4 c, f' d, g' e, a' f, } % \addlyrics { ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! } Obviously, remove the % character for that experiment... That is quite convincing.

Re: List defect?

2014-07-10 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 14:53 +0200, Simon Albrecht wrote: Hello, now there definitely seems to be something wrong with mail delivery on the list. I too have been receiving the emails on the list in haphazard order over the past few days. What else I've noticed (over a month or so) is

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-10 Thread David Kastrup
Mark Knoop m...@opus11.net writes: At 15:15 on 10 Jul 2014, Noeck wrote: Am 10.07.2014 14:50, schrieb David Kastrup: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: If I write \relative c'' { e4 c, f' d, g' e, a' f, } % \addlyrics { ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! } Obviously, remove the % character for that

Re: I was unable to import an xml ogan file from Musescore - update

2014-07-10 Thread Son_V
Well, the file produced by Musescore: http://www.freefilehosting.net/prova_1 and the same file imported in Forte Premium demo and re-exported in an xml file: http://www.freefilehosting.net/provaii But what messes me is that the first file, the one produced by MuseScore, can be imported in

Re: Integrating a markup in a music-function

2014-07-10 Thread Urs Liska
Am 10.07.2014 10:54, schrieb Thomas Morley-2: OT: I'm replying via the nabble-interface, because your post didn't appear in my mails til now. Currently it seems I miss several mails. Some of them I notice, when they are quoted. Others with the same experience? I have the impression that some

Re: lilypondforum.nl

2014-07-10 Thread Johan Vromans
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: Have you heard about discourse? (http://www.discourse.org/, http://blog.codinghorror.com/civilized-discourse-construction-kit/) It's being developed by creators of Stack Overflow, which means excellent pedigree. On the risk of getting off-topic:

Re: I was unable to import an xml ogan file from Musescore - update

2014-07-10 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 09:45 -0700, Son_V wrote: the one produced by MuseScore, can be imported in Denemo (BUT it sees FIVE voices!) well, it sees 5 voices because, bizarrely MuseScore has numbered the three voices 1, 2 and 5 The two empty ones are harmless (empty) and easily deleted of course.

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-10 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, 2014-07-10 15:15 GMT+02:00 Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de: So I guess the default spacing is now a bit thighter compared to http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/essay/engraving-details#optical-spacing Nope - the difference is because you're comparing different examples. Example in Essay

Re: Header markup question

2014-07-10 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, 2014-07-10 12:18 GMT+02:00 Abraham Lee tisi...@gmail.com: Good idea! I'm not sure how to contribute it to openlilylib properly, but it seems like that might be a nice place to make it permanently available if Janek/Urs might be willing to place it there :) I fully support placing it

Re: I was unable to import an xml ogan file from Musescore - update

2014-07-10 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Son_V vincenzo.a...@gmail.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 5:45 PM Subject: Re: I was unable to import an xml ogan file from Musescore - update Well, the file produced by Musescore: http://www.freefilehosting.net/prova_1 and the

Re: I was unable to import an xml ogan file from Musescore - update

2014-07-10 Thread Son_V
Ok, but how can Denemo load the file that LilyPond can't open, and so makes Forte? -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/I-was-unable-to-import-an-xml-ogan-file-from-Musescore-update-tp164243p164263.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: I was unable to import an xml ogan file from Musescore - update

2014-07-10 Thread Son_V
Sorry but I can understand what a tiny example is, but I'm not able to make one ... and, about the hand edit the XML source to get rid of the error in the PartGroupInfo section ... what could i do??? :-( Thanks. -- View this message in context:

Re: I was unable to import an xml ogan file from Musescore - update

2014-07-10 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Son_V vincenzo.a...@gmail.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 7:04 PM Subject: Re: I was unable to import an xml ogan file from Musescore - update Ok, but how can Denemo load the file that LilyPond can't open, and so makes Forte?

Re: I was unable to import an xml ogan file from Musescore - update

2014-07-10 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Son_V vincenzo.a...@gmail.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 7:08 PM Subject: Re: I was unable to import an xml ogan file from Musescore - update Sorry but I can understand what a tiny example is, but I'm not able to make one ...

Re: Integrating a markup in a music-function

2014-07-10 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Harm, 2014-07-10 10:54 GMT+02:00 Thomas Morley-2 thomasmorle...@gmail.com: try: \version 2.18.2 #(define (general-column align-dir baseline mols) (let* ((aligned-mols (map (lambda (x) (ly:stencil-aligned-to x X align-dir)) mols))) (stack-lines -1 0.0 baseline

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-10 Thread Urs Liska
I had answered this but it seems my mobile had trashed the message ... As we've been discussing earlier I still think this a tremenduous achievement. I don't know whether this reflects the latest state but I very much enjoyed engraving a score with five different fonts. See

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, I still think this a tremenduous achievement. +1 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49478835/lilypond-fonts/lilypond-fonts-haydn-cadenza.tar.gz Amazing! Each font has its compelling points, doesn’t it? In any case, *choice* is a great thing. Thanks [to all], Kieren.

N'th time bar markup

2014-07-10 Thread Richard Shann
Dear List, The example given in the docs http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/long-repeats#index-volta-bracket-with-text for n'th time bar with arbitrary text uses a separate definition for the markup to be placed in the n'th time marker. This is a bit awkward to output from

Re: I was unable to import an xml ogan file from Musescore - update

2014-07-10 Thread Federico Bruni
2014-07-10 21:52 GMT+02:00 Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com: See my file attached, all the measures are commented except the first and the problem is still present. This is not yet a minimal example. You should dig more. Try commenting staff 2 and leave only staff one. Be careful to comment

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-10 Thread Abraham Lee
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 3:39 AM, James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com wrote: Something I've been wondering about for awhile... lilypond.org boasts of optical spacing for notes with alternating up and down stems, but it seems this feature has been lost somewhere (or disabled by default). In this

Re: Beam subdivided at non-periodic intervals

2014-07-10 Thread Javier Ruiz-Alma
I was equally surprised to see my mail get logged so long after I sent it. It either went to a moderation queue, or perhaps stuck with the email gremlings. Sorry for your double-effort on this one...if there's any positive, I was glad to read your concurrence. On Jul 10, 2014, at 12:03 AM,

Re: List defect?

2014-07-10 Thread PMA
I've no idea, and don't see it as clearly a defect _of the list_. Over the past few days I've had emails straggling in a day- or-so late from _several_ forums. Richard Shann wrote: On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 14:53 +0200, Simon Albrecht wrote: Hello, now there definitely seems to be something wrong

Re: List defect?

2014-07-10 Thread Trevor Daniels
Simon Albrecht wrote Thursday, July 10, 2014 1:53 PM now there definitely seems to be something wrong with mail delivery on the list. Some people already reported they were not receiving some posts at all. With me, some posts pop up another time two days or so after they were originally

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-10 Thread Urs Liska
We'd already started to discuss this, and I'd be happy to continue on that track (for all: it was awesome to engrave a score with five different fonts). If you haven't worked in a different direction in the meantime I'd still say that openlilylib is the suitable place for that. Even more after

Re: Dot-separated list as music function argument

2014-07-10 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Am 09.07.14 15:15, schrieb David Kastrup: No. If we have some Word in the place of a function argument, LilyPond tries interpreting it as a string first. If the predicate refuses to accept that, the next try is as a one-element symbol list. If that gets accepted, the parser checks whether

Re: Chord Symbols with inversions

2014-07-10 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2014-07-09 at 17:53 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: {... the actual chords } Sigh. No minimal working example. At any rate, you probably would just want \override TimeSignature ... in the context mod since there is no grob called ChordNames. sorry - and you are quite right, of

Re: Chord Symbols with inversions

2014-07-10 Thread David Kastrup
Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com writes: Hi list, With notation like \version 2.18.0 \chordmode { c/g } I can get chord names with /G at the end to indicate a G added below the root of the chord. With the notation \new ChordNames { c' e' g'1 } I can get the

Re: Proportional-Notation Durations

2014-07-10 Thread Thomas Morley
2014-07-09 0:24 GMT+02:00 PMA peterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu: Hi List. I'm looking for a LilyPond way to specify note duration in a Proportional Notation context using exactly _one_ stemless notehead type. Perhaps the first option is a mid-level horizontal line extending distance-X from the

Follow-up question to alternate music fonts

2014-07-10 Thread tisimst
All, Is there anyone who is VERY against distributing music fonts in binary form (i.e., as otf, svg, etc.files)? I just don't see how we can make other music fonts available by forcing them to have a metafont source file. I guess that could be nice, but it seems like so much work to do that. I

Re: minor chords

2014-07-10 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 22:03:49 -0400 Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Simon (et al.), I think this is one of the few questions where it’s really difficult to establish a standard. Agreed. It’s the one big disappointment that I have in Gould’s engraving book: she

Re: Chord Symbols with inversions

2014-07-10 Thread David Kastrup
Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com writes: Thank you for this. With that I have now got as far as the attached sample in trying to typeset a jazz chord sheet (the chords are just nonsense but most of the needed elements are there now). Attached is the sort of sheet I'm trying to use

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-10 Thread tisimst
Schneidy wrote I did that, but I let it unfinished for a couple of weeks now... see = http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/LilyJAZZ-in-v2-18-td162423.html#a162444 Pierre Yes! Thank you, Pierre, for your good work! I had fun making some updates to it. I think there are enough people