Re: \markup and gregorian.ly

2014-12-29 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi François, In your layout bloc you can try to add : \override Score.SpacingSpanner.packed-spacing = ##f E.g: \version 2.18.2 \include gregorian.ly \score { \new Voice = cantus { c'^\markup a very very very very long text c' a a g f f } \new Lyrics \lyricsto cantus {

Scale noteheads independent?

2014-12-29 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi, Is there a possibility to change the size of the notepads independent from everything else? I tried for example noytehead-style “altdefault” which looks slightly bigger on my screen, but the composer wants noteheads which really touch the lines. For example when I set the system

Re: Scale noteheads independent?

2014-12-29 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Wim, See: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/inside-the-staff.html#selecting-notation-font-size Cheers, Pierre 2014-12-29 10:35 GMT+01:00 Wim van Dommelen m...@wimvd.nl: Hi, Is there a possibility to change the size of the notepads independent from everything else? I

Typesetting chord symbols

2014-12-29 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi, I was quite surprised to find hardly any information on typesetting of chord symbols. For example, assuming c-sharp, we have the C and the sharp. The sharp follows the C, but should it be aligned? Top or bottom? How big should it be compared to the C? And where to put m (minor) - (minor)? +

Re: Error with glissando and glissando spans

2014-12-29 Thread Gagi Petrovic
Hi Jaimie, i just stumbled on the same issue. For me *\override Glissando.breakable = ##t\override Glissando.after-line-breaking = ##t* together work well and without any error in the log. Cheers! Gagi On 4 December 2014 at 16:35, Jaime E Oliver jaime.oliv...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, I

Re: \markup and gregorian.ly

2014-12-29 Thread Alicuota618
Merci Pierre, this works fine but must be inserted in all subsequent files. A job for sed... Francois 2014-12-29 4:21 GMT-05:00, Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com: Hi François, In your layout bloc you can try to add : \override Score.SpacingSpanner.packed-spacing = ##f

strange phenomenon from guitar bends snippet

2014-12-29 Thread list_lilypond
I'm trying to write out Alvin Lee's (phenomenal) guitar solo from his Woodstock performance of I'm going home with 10 Years After, and for the bends got the guitar-string-bending notation-snippet

Re: strange phenomenon from guitar bends snippet

2014-12-29 Thread Federico Bruni
2014-12-29 14:05 GMT+01:00 list_lilyp...@infopower.nl: I'm trying to write out Alvin Lee's (phenomenal) guitar solo from his Woodstock performance of I'm going home with 10 Years After, and for the bends got the guitar-string-bending notation-snippet

Re: Typesetting chord symbols

2014-12-29 Thread Knute Snortum
Is this what you're looking for? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/displaying-chords#customizing-chord-names Knute Snortum (via Gmail) On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 4:13 AM, Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl wrote: Hi, I was quite surprised to find hardly any information on

Re: strange phenomenon from guitar bends snippet

2014-12-29 Thread Federico Bruni
2014-12-29 16:24 GMT+01:00 Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com: I think that it happens because it assumes that you want to use a TabStaff context. btw, find attached a file which compiles fine do you really want just a staff without tablature? \version 2.19.15 %\include bend.ly \include

Re: strange phenomenon from guitar bends snippet

2014-12-29 Thread list_lilypond
OMG! Did I really use hidemyass.com for that snippet? :) Ok, I put the voice context in place. I don't know whether I did that the way you were aiming at, because the 'TAB' phenomena are still there. See attachments. regards, Joe On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 16:24:31 +0100 Federico Bruni

Tweaking Y-offset of an accent with a slur

2014-12-29 Thread Knute Snortum
I can tweak the Y-offset of an accent if there is no slur, but with a slur, Y-offset doesn't seem to respond. How can I tweak the Y-offset of an accent when the note is slurred? \version 2.19.15 \relative c''' { c4 ^\tweak Y-offset #6 - ( a ) c -\tweak Y-offset #6 - a } Knute Snortum (via

Re: strange phenomenon from guitar bends snippet

2014-12-29 Thread Federico Bruni
My reply was actually: AFAIK you **must** use a TabStaff / TabVoice and I sent a file with this score block: \score { \new StaffGroup \new Voice { \clef treble_8 \melody } \new TabVoice { \clef moderntab \melody } \layout { \omit StringNumber \context { \StaffGroup

Typesetting chord symbols

2014-12-29 Thread Carl Sorensen
Johan, As far as I can see there are no generally-accepted, authoritative standards about formatting of the elements of chord notation. There is an exhaustive book on chord notation, Standardized Chord Symbol Notation: A Uniform System for the Music Profession, by Carl Brandt and Clinton Roemer.

Re: strange phenomenon from guitar bends snippet

2014-12-29 Thread list_lilypond
On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 17:22:40 +0100 Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com wrote: My reply was actually: AFAIK you **must** use a TabStaff / TabVoice I understood your reply as a possible explanation for the unwanted behaviour of the snippet, sorry for the misunderstanding. Actually you did write: I

fastest, easiest way of including fret diagram markups above music?

2014-12-29 Thread Ryan Clarin
I am a music teacher who has just converted to lilypond after years of frustrating finale and sibelius usage. I transcribed a little piece on ukulele with tab and included chord fret diagram markups above the music, but it took me quite a while. The fret diagram markups was probably the hardest

Re: strange phenomenon from guitar bends snippet

2014-12-29 Thread Thomas Morley
2014-12-29 16:24 GMT+01:00 Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com: 2014-12-29 14:05 GMT+01:00 list_lilyp...@infopower.nl: I'm trying to write out Alvin Lee's (phenomenal) guitar solo from his Woodstock performance of I'm going home with 10 Years After, and for the bends got the

display flat symbol in ees major

2014-12-29 Thread Jinsong Zhao
Hi there, I am try to learn LilyPond by doing. I have a score, which display a flat symbol in ees major. However, I can't get that in LilyPond. \version 2.19.15 \relative c, { \clef bass \key ees \major c8 g' ees' g, c,4 g'' bes, |%m69 } The last note in that score has a flat

Music line in a Latex table

2014-12-29 Thread Jayaratna
Dear Lilypondians, I need to place a music line in a Latex table so that any measure in the music has the same width of the correspondent cell in the table. I tried placing single lilypond files in the table, but because they contain different objects (minims, different clefs, whole notes etc.)

Re: display flat symbol in ees major

2014-12-29 Thread Brian Barker
At 10:16 29/12/2014 -0800, Jinsong Zhao wrote: I am try to learn LilyPond by doing. I have a score, which display a flat symbol in ees major. However, I can't get that in LilyPond. Easy: append an exclamation mark to the note name. Even better, append a question mark, which helpfully

Re: display flat symbol in ees major

2014-12-29 Thread Malte Meyn
To force an accidental, simply write an exclamation mark behind the pitch: bes! Am 29.12.2014 um 19:16 schrieb Jinsong Zhao: Hi there, I am try to learn LilyPond by doing. I have a score, which display a flat symbol in ees major. However, I can't get that in LilyPond. \version 2.19.15

Re: display flat symbol in ees major

2014-12-29 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, and welcome to the community! On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Jinsong Zhao jsz...@yeah.net wrote: Hi there, I am try to learn LilyPond by doing. I have a score, which display a flat symbol in ees major. However, I can't get that in LilyPond. \version 2.19.15 \relative c, { \clef

Re: Tweaking Y-offset of an accent with a slur

2014-12-29 Thread Thomas Morley
2014-12-29 17:05 GMT+01:00 Knute Snortum ksnor...@gmail.com: I can tweak the Y-offset of an accent if there is no slur, but with a slur, Y-offset doesn't seem to respond. How can I tweak the Y-offset of an accent when the note is slurred? \version 2.19.15 \relative c''' { c4 ^\tweak

warning of unterminated tie

2014-12-29 Thread Jinsong Zhao
Hi there, The LilyPond can't determinate the tie in the following snippet. Why? and how to get a tie between the bes and bes2? Thanks! \version 2.19.15 \relative c'' { \clef treble \key ees \major g'4 f8 ees ees4 g,8 bes ~ |%m70 { bes2 g4 g8 bes } \\ { g ees 4 f d ees2 } } Best

Re: display flat symbol in ees major

2014-12-29 Thread Tim Roberts
Jinsong Zhao wrote: I am try to learn LilyPond by doing. I have a score, which display a flat symbol in ees major. However, I can't get that in LilyPond. \version 2.19.15 \relative c, { \clef bass \key ees \major c8 g' ees' g, c,4 g'' bes, |%m69 } What you want is called a

Re: Music line in a Latex table

2014-12-29 Thread Brian Barker
At 11:21 29/12/2014 -0700, Andrea Noname wrote: I need to place a music line in a Latex table so that any measure in the music has the same width of the correspondent cell in the table. Do you need proportional notation? See

Re: warning of unterminated tie

2014-12-29 Thread Thomas Morley
2014-12-29 19:27 GMT+01:00 Jinsong Zhao jsz...@yeah.net: Hi there, The LilyPond can't determinate the tie in the following snippet. Why? and how to get a tie between the bes and bes2? Thanks! \version 2.19.15 \relative c'' { \clef treble \key ees \major g'4 f8 ees ees4 g,8 bes ~

Re: Music line in a Latex table

2014-12-29 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Andrea, Here's 3 different snippets with exactly the same width : \version 2.18.2 \paper { paper-height = 30 paper-width = 60 indent = 0 ragged-right = ##f tagline = ##f print-page-number = ##f } \transpose c c'' { c4 c c c } \pageBreak % = just for this example \transpose c

Re: \markup and gregorian.ly

2014-12-29 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 29.12.2014 13:53, schrieb Alicuota618: Merci Pierre, this works fine but must be inserted in all subsequent files. A job for sed... Francois 2014-12-29 4:21 GMT-05:00, Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com: Hi François, In your layout bloc you can try to add : \override

Re: display flat symbol in ees major

2014-12-29 Thread Jinsong Zhao
Many thanks to Malte, Brian, David and Tim. You help me a lot. Best regards, Jinsong On 2014/12/29 10:16, Jinsong Zhao wrote: Hi there, I am try to learn LilyPond by doing. I have a score, which display a flat symbol in ees major. However, I can't get that in LilyPond. \version 2.19.15

Re: warning of unterminated tie

2014-12-29 Thread Jinsong Zhao
On 2014/12/29 10:35, Thomas Morley wrote: snip Try: \relative c'' { \clef treble \key ees \major g'4 f8 ees ees4 g,8 \once \tieUp bes~ |%m70 { \voiceOne bes2 g4 g8 bes } \new Voice { \voiceTwo g ees 4 f d ees2 } } The \\ returns far to often problems. I use it

Re: Music line in a Latex table

2014-12-29 Thread Jayaratna
Dear Brian, thanks for your suggestion. Actually for mixing music and text I would prefer equally spaced notes whatever their value, which is the opposite of proportional spacing. I usually do a trick by setting all note figures to an octave. Thank you, Andrea -- View this message in

Re: Music line in a Latex table

2014-12-29 Thread Jayaratna
Hi Pierre, yes, this is helpful. I will still have to adjust the page dimensions. But the real problem is that in any case these examples will not be vertically centered (lilypond makes adjustments according to flags, clefs and anything falling above or below the stafflines), so I will have to

Re: Typesetting chord symbols

2014-12-29 Thread Thomas Morley
2014-12-29 18:11 GMT+01:00 Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu: Johan, As far as I can see there are no generally-accepted, authoritative standards about formatting of the elements of chord notation. There is an exhaustive book on chord notation, Standardized Chord Symbol Notation: A Uniform

Re: Tweaking Y-offset of an accent with a slur

2014-12-29 Thread Knute Snortum
Tweaking padding works great for the accent, but in a more complete example of my problem, I now can't get the ottova bracket to move up. (In the example, the bracket doesn't need to move, but in the full piece it does.) \version 2.19.15 \relative c''' { \tweak Y-offset #2 \ottava #1 \shape

Re: Tweaking Y-offset of an accent with a slur

2014-12-29 Thread Knute Snortum
That's perfect, thanks so much. Knute Snortum (via Gmail) On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-12-29 20:46 GMT+01:00 Knute Snortum ksnor...@gmail.com: Tweaking padding works great for the accent, but in a more complete example of my

Re: fastest, easiest way of including fret diagram markups above music?

2014-12-29 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno lun 29 dic 2014 alle 19:03, Ryan Clarin ryancla...@gmail.com ha scritto: I am a music teacher who has just converted to lilypond after years of frustrating finale and sibelius usage. I transcribed a little piece on ukulele with tab and included chord fret diagram markups above the

Rallentando and accelerando in MIDI

2014-12-29 Thread David Sumbler
Rallentando and accelerando are supported in MIDI output if the articulate.ly script is used. Looking at the script, I can see how I can additional synonyms for rall., rit. etc. that the script would then recognize. I can also begin to see how to change the amount of rall, or accel. by modifying

Re: strange phenomenon from guitar bends snippet

2014-12-29 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno lun 29 dic 2014 alle 19:11, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com ha scritto: Look at the output from: m = c e g4\arpeggio mus = { \override Voice.Arpeggio.color = #red \override TabVoice.Arpeggio.color = #red \m } \new TabStaff \new TabVoice \mus \new Staff \new Voice {

Re: Error with glissando and glissando spans

2014-12-29 Thread Jaime E Oliver
yes, that's perfect thanks! J On Dec 29, 2014, at 7:21 AM, Gagi Petrovic gagig...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jaimie, i just stumbled on the same issue. For me \override Glissando.breakable = ##t \override Glissando.after-line-breaking = ##t together work well and without any error in the

Re: strange phenomenon from guitar bends snippet

2014-12-29 Thread list_lilypond
True. Me too, I started from 2.16 and got that output. Which made me upgrade to 2.18 and then to 2.19.15, where it still appears. regards, Joe On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 23:20:49 +0100 Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com wrote: Il giorno lun 29 dic 2014 alle 19:11, Thomas Morley

Re: strange phenomenon from guitar bends snippet

2014-12-29 Thread Federico Bruni
2014-12-29 23:20 GMT+01:00 Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com: But I get the same output on 2.18.2 and 2.16.2. I've reworked your example to make it more clear and backward compatible with 2.16: \version 2.16.0 mus = { \override Voice.NoteHead #'color = #red \override

adding stems to clusters

2014-12-29 Thread Jaime E Oliver
Hi all, Is there a way to add stems to cluster events made with something like \makeClusters { c e8 c e8 c e8 c e8 c e8 } so that there is a sense of the underlying rhythmic structure? best, J ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: strange phenomenon from guitar bends snippet

2014-12-29 Thread Federico Bruni
2014-12-29 16:24 GMT+01:00 Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com: I think that it happens because it assumes that you want to use a TabStaff context. Also, Marc Hohl recommended me (in a private email) to use voice contexts or you may have some problems. I'll add it to the README on github.

Re: adding stems to clusters

2014-12-29 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Jaime, On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Jaime E Oliver jaime.oliv...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Is there a way to add stems to cluster events made with something like \makeClusters { c e8 c e8 c e8 c e8 c e8 } so that there is a sense of the underlying rhythmic structure? The Notation

Re: strange phenomenon from guitar bends snippet

2014-12-29 Thread list_lilypond
On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 00:19:02 +0100 Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-12-29 16:24 GMT+01:00 Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com: I think that it happens because it assumes that you want to use a TabStaff context. Also, Marc Hohl recommended me (in a private email) to use voice

Re: adding stems to clusters

2014-12-29 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi again, On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 6:06 PM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jaime, I'll look into lengthening it to reach the stem. Not at all easy, I'm afraid. Are you looking for the cluster-band sort of notation, or would individual clusters per stem suffice (like

Re: adding stems to clusters

2014-12-29 Thread David Nalesnik
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 6:43 PM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: Hi again, On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 6:06 PM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jaime, I'll look into lengthening it to reach the stem. Not at all easy, I'm afraid. Are you looking for the

Two scores in one LSR snip

2014-12-29 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, I added a new LSR snippet for review: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1id=968 and although there are two \scores in the snippet, only the first is shown in the preview. Is this as expected? Best regards, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Two scores in one LSR snip

2014-12-29 Thread Thomas Morley
2014-12-30 2:30 GMT+01:00 Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de: Hello, I added a new LSR snippet for review: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1id=968 and although there are two \scores in the snippet, only the first is shown in the preview. Is this as expected? Yes, it's the default to

Re: Two scores in one LSR snip

2014-12-29 Thread Thomas Morley
2014-12-30 2:51 GMT+01:00 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com: 2014-12-30 2:30 GMT+01:00 Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de: Hello, I added a new LSR snippet for review: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1id=968 and although there are two \scores in the snippet, only the first is shown

Re: adding stems to clusters

2014-12-29 Thread Jaime E Oliver
Dear David, all, Thanks for your responses. Ideally I want to make a graphic notation for overpressure bowing similar to the xenakis excerpt attached. I was thinking of adding stems to a cluster-band as a hopefully day solution, but I see it is not so easy. I did try the new voice hack, but

Re: fastest, easiest way of including fret diagram markups above music?

2014-12-29 Thread Ryan Clarin
Thank you for the welcome and reply. I want to include every fret diagram at every chord change, the kids simply do better reading a long when they can see the actual Fret diagram marked up above the music at every change vs having to look above on their sheet for the predefined diagram on top of

Just a thank you

2014-12-29 Thread Güntzel Schmidt
Hi everyone, I'm new to Lilypond, that's why I haven't contributed to this list, yet. I just wanted to say thank you to all those who do. By reading (and trying to understand) your posts I learn a lot, esp what Lilypond can do. Thanks for letting me participate! Cheers, Guentzel