Re: Condensing single-bar rests into a multi-measure rest

2015-01-03 Thread David Sumbler
From: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Condensing single-bar rests into a multi-measure rest Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 16:45:27 +0100 Am 03.01.2015 um 16:36 schrieb David Sumbler: I have now finished setting the saxophone quartet, which is the first

Re: Condensing single-bar rests into a multi-measure rest

2015-01-03 Thread Urs Liska
Am 03.01.2015 um 16:36 schrieb David Sumbler: I have now finished setting the saxophone quartet, which is the first substantial multi-instrument piece I have attempted with Lilypond. I am very pleased with the result, and I am now at the stage of tweaking the appearance of the output.

Condensing single-bar rests into a multi-measure rest

2015-01-03 Thread David Sumbler
I have now finished setting the saxophone quartet, which is the first substantial multi-instrument piece I have attempted with Lilypond. I am very pleased with the result, and I am now at the stage of tweaking the appearance of the output. Searching in the Lilypond documentation, one problem I

Re: Alternative fonts glyph support

2015-01-03 Thread Davide Liessi
Dear Abraham, I think that a font should not contain glyphs from another font. I also think that Emmentaler should be the fallback font in LilyPond, no matter which font you choose in your document. So the best solution in my opinion is: 1. For the time being, you should keep including

Re: Piano scoring with centered dynamics

2015-01-03 Thread Arno Waschk
Obviously the piano dynamics template did not make it from 2.12 to 2.18 docs, which is a pity. Even although the example given in 2.12 seems overloaded by other tweakings (which may or may not be helpful for users) for my taste. Arno ___

Re: Condensing single-bar rests into a multi-measure rest

2015-01-03 Thread Urs Liska
Am 03.01.2015 um 18:45 schrieb David Sumbler: From: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Condensing single-bar rests into a multi-measure rest Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 16:45:27 +0100 Am 03.01.2015 um 16:36 schrieb David Sumbler: I have now finished setting the

Re: Piano scoring with centered dynamics

2015-01-03 Thread Colin Campbell
On 2015-01-03 11:47 AM, Arno Waschk wrote: Obviously the piano dynamics template did not make it from 2.12 to 2.18 docs, which is a pity. Even although the example given in 2.12 seems overloaded by other tweakings (which may or may not be helpful for users) for my taste. Arno I see

Re: Piano scoring with centered dynamics

2015-01-03 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Arno, On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Arno Waschk hamama...@gmx.de wrote: Obviously the piano dynamics template did not make it from 2.12 to 2.18 docs, which is a pity. Even although the example given in 2.12 seems overloaded by other tweakings (which may or may not be helpful for users)

Fixed distance between staves in all systems

2015-01-03 Thread Javier Ruiz-Alma
I'm in the process of upgrading LP code from version 2.2.0 to 2.18. In the following section: %%%- start snipp, li { white-space: pre-wra\layout{ \context { \PianoStaff \accepts Dynamics \override VerticalAlignment.forced-distance = #6 } }%%%- end snip Not being

Re: Condensing single-bar rests into a multi-measure rest

2015-01-03 Thread David Sumbler
From: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Condensing single-bar rests into a multi-measure rest Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 18:59:17 +0100 Am 03.01.2015 um 18:45 schrieb David Sumbler: From: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re:

Re: Condensing single-bar rests into a multi-measure rest

2015-01-03 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs, On Jan 3, 2015, at 10:45 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: I recently had the same problem and got a file from the list which I tweaked to work well in a quite similar case. You can find the file at

Re: Condensing single-bar rests into a multi-measure rest

2015-01-03 Thread Urs Liska
Am 04.01.2015 um 01:16 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Urs, On Jan 3, 2015, at 10:45 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: I recently had the same problem and got a file from the list which I tweaked to work well in a quite similar case. You can find the file at

Re: Condensing single-bar rests into a multi-measure rest

2015-01-03 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs, I'm not sure about that because that wasn't the problem at hand. My problem was that I have to merge multimeasure rests that were written as e.g. R1*4 {} R1*6 The empty expression is a music function that can return a \break (- no rest merging) or an empty expression. The