Re: automatic vertical rests centering in single-staff polyphony

2014-12-31 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 31.12.2014 um 02:45 schrieb Alicuota618: Hello, I found long ago a way to center rests in single-staff polyphony. But I dont find it anymore, neither in doc or google (or did I use wrong words for searching). To be more explicit, lilypond gives naturally the first rests of the attachment

Autobeam constraints

2014-12-31 Thread Helge Kruse
The documentation about beams ( http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/beams) suggests that you can enabel and disable automatic beaming in the measure. In the following example I expected the last three notes to have the stem up like in a voiceOne context:

Re: Autobeam constraints

2014-12-31 Thread Helge Kruse
Sorry, hit the send key too early. The documentation about beams ( http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/beams) suggests that you can enabel and disable automatic beaming in the measure. In the following example I expected the last three notes to have the stem up like in a voiceOne

Re: Rallentando and accelerando in MIDI

2014-12-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 31.12.2014 00:32, schrieb David Sumbler: On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 22:04 +0100, Simon Albrecht wrote: Am 30.12.2014 13:16, schrieb David Sumbler: Further to my query (below) yesterday about varying ralls and accels in midi, how do I actually get these to work at all? At the moment the

Re: Autobeam constraints

2014-12-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Helge, \noBeam after the third and fourth notes should do what you want. %% \version 2.18 \relative c'' { \time 3/4 \key es \major \voiceTwo as8\ c f\noBeam \voiceOne as\noBeam c f\! | } %% HTH, Simon Am 31.12.2014 10:11, schrieb Helge Kruse:

Re: automatic vertical rests centering in single-staff polyphony

2014-12-31 Thread Alicuota618
It does perfectly the trick. Many thanks und vielen Dank! Francois 2014-12-31 3:16 GMT-05:00, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de: Am 31.12.2014 um 02:45 schrieb Alicuota618: Hello, I found long ago a way to center rests in single-staff polyphony. But I dont find it anymore, neither in doc or google

Re: Autobeam constraints

2014-12-31 Thread Helge Kruse
2014-12-31 12:00 GMT+01:00 Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de: \noBeam after the third and fourth notes should do what you want. Ah, yes. And it is documented on the cited page of the manual. I should have read more carefully. Adding \noBeam to each individual note might be a bit

Re: Lilypond generates a chord from nowhere

2014-12-31 Thread Thomas Morley
2014-12-30 20:33 GMT+01:00 Stan Mulder st4588...@earthlink.net: I have a fretboard problem. I have defined a new fretboard for a plectrum banjo. Everything is working properly when I specify a chord, except when I specify a SLASH chord, i.e., a chord with a designation for the bass player. So

making a Tie more parabolic

2014-12-31 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, I’m putting together a stylesheet based on mid-20th-Century Warner-Chappell musical theatre vocal books, and would like to mimic more closely their tie shape: As you can see, it’s nearly “parabolic (i.e., the curve doesn’t really increase dramatically near the noteheads) and

Re: makefile problems

2014-12-31 Thread Jacques Menu
Hello Craig, Tabs play an important role in makefiles, and the bullets on the first two lines are suspect to me. Maybe an effect of copying into your E-Mail message. Can you supply as attachments the original and modified makefiles? The result of « diff originalOne yours » will be instructive.

Re: makefile problems

2014-12-31 Thread Craig Dabelstein
Hi Jacques, I've attached my makefile. You can compare it to pp. 50-52 of the Lilypond Usage manual, which is what I adapted it from. Any advice would be much appreciated. Craig On Thu Jan 01 2015 at 12:29:28 AM Jacques Menu imj-muz...@bluewin.ch wrote: Hello Craig, Tabs play an important

Re: making a Tie more parabolic

2014-12-31 Thread Knute Snortum
Have you trying the \shape command? \version 2.19.15 \relative c'' { \shape #'((0 . 0.2) (1.5 . 1) (0 . 0) (0 . 0.2)) Tie a1 ^~ | a1 } Knute Snortum (via Gmail) On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 6:26 AM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hello all, I’m putting together a

Re: making a Tie more parabolic

2014-12-31 Thread Urs Liska
Am 31.12.2014 um 15:26 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hello all, I’m putting together a stylesheet based on mid-20th-Century Warner-Chappell musical theatre vocal books, and would like to mimic more closely their tie shape: As you can see, it’s nearly “parabolic (i.e., the curve doesn’t really

Re: making a Tie more parabolic

2014-12-31 Thread David Nalesnik
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Am 31.12.2014 um 15:26 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hello all, I’m putting together a stylesheet based on mid-20th-Century Warner-Chappell musical theatre vocal books, and would like to mimic more closely their tie shape:

Re: making a Tie more parabolic

2014-12-31 Thread David Nalesnik
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 9:20 AM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Without trying it out I'd expect Janek's \shapeII (in openlilylib) and using it with polar coordinates should help you. But then you'd

Re: making a Tie more parabolic

2014-12-31 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, I think that you should investigate the numerous properties listed under details (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/internals/tie) for finding the basic shape. I tried that… Unfortunately, it says “More information on the allowed parameters for a grob can be found by

Re: making a Tie more parabolic

2014-12-31 Thread David Nalesnik
Kieren, On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi David, I think that you should investigate the numerous properties listed under details (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/internals/tie) for finding the basic shape. I tried

Re: making a Tie more parabolic

2014-12-31 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Kieren, Here's a bad one : \version 2.19.15 \paper { paper-width = 100 paper-height = 30 ragged-right = ##f indent = 0 tagline = ##f } { a'1 -\tweak thickness #.5 ^(-\tweak stencil ##f ^~ a') } happy new year !! Pierre 2014-12-31 16:35 GMT+01:00 David Nalesnik

Re: making a Tie more parabolic

2014-12-31 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Pierre, On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Kieren, Here's a bad one : \version 2.19.15 \paper { paper-width = 100 paper-height = 30 ragged-right = ##f indent = 0 tagline = ##f } { a'1 -\tweak thickness

Re: making a Tie more parabolic

2014-12-31 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi David, See the following : \version 2.19.15 \paper { paper-width = 100 paper-height = 50 ragged-right = ##f indent = 0 tagline = ##f } { a'1 -\tweak thickness #.5 ^(-\tweak stencil ##f ^~ a') } { \tieUp a'1 -\tweak thickness #.5 ~ a' } Slur is naturally slightly mor parapolic

Re: making a Tie more parabolic

2014-12-31 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Pierre, On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi David, See the following : \version 2.19.15 \paper { paper-width = 100 paper-height = 50 ragged-right = ##f indent = 0 tagline = ##f } { a'1 -\tweak thickness

Re: making a Tie more parabolic

2014-12-31 Thread tisimst
Kieren MacMillan wrote I tried that… Unfortunately, it says “More information on the allowed parameters for a grob can be found by looking at the top of the Internals Reference page for each interface having a details property.” and I haven’t been able to find the “more information” they’re

Re: Staff error

2014-12-31 Thread Phil Holmes
Chris, I think this would work better if you gave each musician their full measure rests when they are not singing/playing and then let Lily remove them when they are not needed. Something like: \score { \new Staff { \relative c'' { R1 R1 c4 d e f f e d c R1 R1 } } \new ChoirStaff \new

Re: Rallentando and accelerando in MIDI

2014-12-31 Thread David Sumbler
On Wed, 2014-12-31 at 11:52 +0100, Simon Albrecht wrote: Am 31.12.2014 00:32, schrieb David Sumbler: On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 22:04 +0100, Simon Albrecht wrote: Am 30.12.2014 13:16, schrieb David Sumbler: Further to my query (below) yesterday about varying ralls and accels in midi, how do I

Re: Staff error

2014-12-31 Thread Chris Trahan
Hey Phil, That's what I did. l had tried that once before but without any luck. The score is a bit complex. Starts off with 4 part SATB then interlude then S S1 A then T T1 B then interlude then finishes in SATB. I had to work with each part to get it all lined up properly but finally got it

Re: making a Tie more parabolic

2014-12-31 Thread tisimst
tisimst wrote I took a look into the source code and here's what it says about each of the details properties (found in 2.19.15 lily/tie.cc with the default values found on IR web page and in define-grobs.scm): Hmmm... Looking at tie-details.cc, I see different numbers (v. 2.19.15) than in

Re: making a Tie more parabolic

2014-12-31 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Abraham, On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 11:09 AM, tisimst tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: It certainly does say that these are supposed to be visible in the IR, but why aren't they? What can we do to get things like this there? I'm happy to assist if I can be given some direction... I'm a

Re: making a Tie more parabolic

2014-12-31 Thread David Nalesnik
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 11:59 AM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Abraham, Is the documentation in the NR not being derived from the doc string of the interface? Sorry, I mean IR. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Rallentando and accelerando in MIDI

2014-12-31 Thread Phil Holmes
Original Message - From: David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk Clearly I am doing something wrong - perhaps it is to do with the way I have entered my tempo markings. Just to make things clearer, I am setting a saxophone quartet (that I wrote in 1978!); I want tempo markings to appear once

Re: making a Tie more parabolic

2014-12-31 Thread David Nalesnik
Abraham, On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 11:47 AM, tisimst tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: tisimst wrote I took a look into the source code and here's what it says about each of the details properties (found in 2.19.15 lily/tie.cc with the default values found on IR web page and in

Re: making a Tie more parabolic

2014-12-31 Thread Trevor Daniels
tisimst wrote Wednesday, December 31, 2014 5:09 PM I took a look into the source code and here's what it says about each of the details properties (found in 2.19.15 lily/tie.cc with the default values found on IR web page and in define-grobs.scm): [snip] It certainly does say that these

Re: making a Tie more parabolic

2014-12-31 Thread David Nalesnik
Trevor, On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk wrote: tisimst wrote Wednesday, December 31, 2014 5:09 PM I took a look into the source code and here's what it says about each of the details properties (found in 2.19.15 lily/tie.cc with the default values

Re: Rallentando and accelerando in MIDI

2014-12-31 Thread David Sumbler
On Wed, 2014-12-31 at 18:11 +, Phil Holmes wrote: Original Message - From: David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk Clearly I am doing something wrong - perhaps it is to do with the way I have entered my tempo markings. Just to make things clearer, I am setting a saxophone

what does english.ly define?

2014-12-31 Thread dl . mcnamara
I've been including english.ly in my files, but I'm considering dropping that and just using the default (Dutch), which as far as I can tell will just require me to remember the es/is alterations, since the English note names are the same as the Dutch. Is there anything besides the note-names

Re: what does english.ly define?

2014-12-31 Thread SoundsFromSound
Dave wrote I've been including english.ly in my files, but I'm considering dropping that and just using the default (Dutch), which as far as I can tell will just require me to remember the es/is alterations, since the English note names are the same as the Dutch. Is there anything besides

Re: making a Tie more parabolic

2014-12-31 Thread Keith OHara
tisimst tisimst.lilypond at gmail.com writes: Kieren MacMillan wrote Any hints, for example, on what ‘ratio' actually does, or [..] effect of ratio. Seems like a bug to me that increasing ratio doesn't change the shape of the tie curve very much if the tie is at its height-limit, but

Alternative fonts glyph support

2014-12-31 Thread tisimst
All, I've been thinking about what has been done on the alternative music fonts and I thought I'd pose a question, welcoming any feedback. Here we go... With the workflow I use to create the font files, if there's a glyph that I don't replace, I just keep it the way it is found in Emmentaler

where is the star for gregorian.ly?

2014-12-31 Thread Alicuota618
Hello, I am searching the star for gregorian typesetting. Like the one between Rorate, * coeli in http://www.cantoeprego.it/canto/png/1054.111.rorate.caeli.png Thanks in advance and happy new year to all! Francois ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Ego autem non intellego gregorian.ly (translatum googlum)

2014-12-31 Thread Alicuota618
Hello, This is my code (after the sanctus example in http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/typesetting-gregorian-chant with \version 2.18.0) : \paper { ragged-right = ##t } \include gregorian.ly \score { \new VaticanaVoice = cantus { \clef vaticana-do3 f \[ g \pes a

Re: where is the star for gregorian.ly?

2014-12-31 Thread Noeck
Happy new year François, I guess you would have to use a normal star like so: * The double quotes are needed. Ora -- te, * cae -- li You can tweak the lyrics font if you want another font for this symbol: \tweak font-name #Century Schoolbook L * Cheers, Joram

Re: Ego autem non intellego gregorian.ly (translatum googlum)

2014-12-31 Thread Noeck
Hi again François, there two limiting factors to my answer: 1) I did not write many gregorian chants and 2) Lilypond has some limitations in this area. But there are a few things I know how to improve and I have a few questions for you: Is it a convention in gregorian chants to have the hyphens

Re: Ego autem non intellego gregorian.ly (translatum googlum)

2014-12-31 Thread Alicuota618
Dear Joram, thanks first, this look much better this way. About your question about hyphening, I just took it from the example given in the manual and tried and failed... Best thanks and happy new year! F 2014-12-31 20:11 GMT-05:00, Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de: Hi again François, there two