Re: Dividing a measure with a dotted bar line

2015-01-17 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-01-17 18:32 GMT+01:00 Knute Snortum ksnor...@gmail.com: Thanks to everyone. I think I have all the pieces now. Knute Snortum (via Gmail) Hi, I'm a little late to the party, though, below you'll find a more generic suggestion to set intermediate BarLines. Line-breaks are forbidden

Re: Enlarging tenuto marks

2015-01-17 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-01-17 14:11 GMT+01:00 David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk: I find that tenuto lines in Lilypond are rather too thin and short. Hi David, you know http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=858 ? Cheers, Harm ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Dividing a measure with a dotted bar line

2015-01-17 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-01-17 20:41 GMT+01:00 David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com: Kieren, On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Harm, As always, an awesome answer! =) One thing: when I compile it (2.19.15), I get a ton of warning: forced break

Re: Dividing a measure with a dotted bar line

2015-01-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Harm, As always, an awesome answer! =) One thing: when I compile it (2.19.15), I get a ton of warning: forced break was overridden by some other event, should you be using bar checks? Is that expected? Thanks, Kieren. ___ Kieren MacMillan, composer www:

Re: Getting pitch out of a pair

2015-01-17 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-01-17 11:15 GMT+01:00 and...@andis59.se and...@andis59.se: On 2015-01-17 00:02, and...@andis59.se wrote: I store two pitches in a pair variable x = #'(b . cis') I woke up this morning I have figured out that I don't want to store the pitches in a pair but in a list. Did you

Re: Re: small caps

2015-01-17 Thread Craig Dabelstein
Thanks for the advice everyone. I've managed to bend it to my will! Craig On Sat Jan 17 2015 at 5:14:19 AM Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: Accidentally sent this only to the OP rather than to the list... Forwarded Message Subject: Re: small caps Date: Fri,

Re: Dividing a measure with a dotted bar line

2015-01-17 Thread David Nalesnik
Kieren, On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Harm, As always, an awesome answer! =) One thing: when I compile it (2.19.15), I get a ton of warning: forced break was overridden by some other event, should you be using bar checks?

Re: Command Line call to LilyPond with PDF auto open

2015-01-17 Thread Matthew James Briggs
Oops this is actually superfluous because the preview app on Mac OS X updates with any changes as soon as I click on it, so just leaving the pdf open when compiling works no problem. (I'm a newb) .mjb On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 10:54 PM, Matthew James Briggs matthew.james.bri...@gmail.com

Command Line call to LilyPond with PDF auto open

2015-01-17 Thread Matthew James Briggs
When calling LilyPond from the command line (I'm on Mac OS X) like this exec /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond pathtomy.ly is there a flag to tell the program to open the compiled PDF when it's finished like the GUI program does? .mjb

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 146, Issue 81

2015-01-17 Thread Noeck
Dear David, it was not my intention to imply that you don’t know that. I just wanted to mention in this thread that non-trivial rules in music notation lead to non-trivial implementations in music notation software. For sure, this does not mean that the documentation could not be improved or the

Re: Getting pitch out of a pair

2015-01-17 Thread and...@andis59.se
On 2015-01-17 00:02, and...@andis59.se wrote: I store two pitches in a pair variable x = #'(b . cis') I woke up this morning I have figured out that I don't want to store the pitches in a pair but in a list. Thanks to all that have answered how to use pair in a music-function. I'm

RE: Understanding Lilypond

2015-01-17 Thread Peter Gentry
Thanks for your reply Kieran - I'm not sure that my response is suitable for the list but will post it there anyway. Please feel free to critisize scorn or otherwise flame. 1. This is difficult. My background is chiefly in Fortran and Visual Basic although I have dabbled with machine code.

Re: Adjusting the position of tempo indications

2015-01-17 Thread David Sumbler
On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 14:11 +, Kevin Barry wrote: Dear David, \score { \new StaffGroup \override Score.MetronomeMark.padding = #2 \topLine \bottomLine } Here if you replace the

Re: Understanding Lilypond

2015-01-17 Thread Urs Liska
Am 17.01.2015 um 13:09 schrieb Peter Gentry: Thanks for your reply Kieran - I'm not sure that my response is suitable for the list but will post it there anyway. Please feel free to critisize scorn or otherwise flame. Yes, this is suitable for the list. 1. This is difficult. My background

Enlarging tenuto marks

2015-01-17 Thread David Sumbler
I find that tenuto lines in Lilypond are rather too thin and short. With the help of this list, as well as the Lilypond documentation, I am gradually starting to understand more about how Lilypond functions. So I was reasonably confident that I could at least increase the font size of tenuto

Re: Understanding Lilypond

2015-01-17 Thread Richard Shann
On Sat, 2015-01-17 at 13:37 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: Concretely I see the problem in a sequence of related issues: - Scheme itself *is* difficult to get into actually, Scheme syntax is incredibly simple - Scheme expressions are lists (a b c) with the first element being the procedure and the

Re: Understanding Lilypond

2015-01-17 Thread Urs Liska
Am 17.01.2015 um 14:13 schrieb Richard Shann: On Sat, 2015-01-17 at 13:37 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: Concretely I see the problem in a sequence of related issues: - Scheme itself *is* difficult to get into actually, Scheme syntax is incredibly simple - Scheme expressions are lists (a b c) with

Re: Enlarging tenuto marks

2015-01-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, But why doesn't '\tweak Script.font-size' work? It must be how \tweak behaves, since music = { \once \override Script.font-size = #16 g-- } \score { \music } works “as expected”, yes? Cheers, Kieren. ___ Kieren MacMillan, composer www:

Re: Enlarging tenuto marks

2015-01-17 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi David, Hi Kieren, David, you should try : { g-\tweak Script.font-size #6 -- } BTW, how about : \version 2.18.2 myTenuto = -\tweak stencil #(lambda (grob) ly:clef::print (grob-interpret-markup grob #{ \markup\magnify #3 \musicglyph

Re: arpeggioArrowUp

2015-01-17 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Thank you Harm. Cheers, Pierre ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Enlarging tenuto marks

2015-01-17 Thread Robin Bannister
David Sumbler wrote: But why doesn't '\tweak Script.font-size' work? The note g and the tenuto belong together musicwise, but in the input stream they are two separate items. Your tweak command is applied to the note g. { \tweak font-size #6 g-- } will change the notehead's font size. But

Re: Understanding Lilypond

2015-01-17 Thread Mattes
Am Samstag, 17. Januar 2015 14:13 CET, Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com schrieb: actually, Scheme syntax is incredibly simple - Scheme expressions are lists (a b c) with the first element being the procedure and the subsequent ones the parameters. So if you come across (if a b) you

Re: box around notes

2015-01-17 Thread Klaus Blum
Hi David, one more big THANK YOU for your fast reply. Yes, it was very helpful. I have updated music-boxer-stencil so that it works again with the boxEngraver. Finally I did some cleanup to my messy code in make-box. Greetings from Germany, Klaus Am 16.01.2015 um 20:30 schrieb David

Manual tuplet breaks and e-reader

2015-01-17 Thread Пронин Илья Сергеевич
I'm writing document generator for using with e-book readers. I've a large database with score data and template for a document. So it's intended for creating PDF without manual editing score data. Generated pdf fits 6in x 4.5in page nicely, but lilypond can't auto wrap tuplets. Documentation

Dividing a measure with a dotted bar line

2015-01-17 Thread Knute Snortum
I have a prelude I'm transcribing that's got a lot of challenges right in the first bar. I looks like this: ​So far what I have is this: ​(The minimal lilypond file is at the end.) What I don't have is the barline between the third and fourth beat, the parenthesized time signature lowered,

Re: Understanding Lilypond

2015-01-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Peter, I'm not sure that my response is suitable for the list It *definitely* is! Please feel free to critisize scorn or otherwise flame. I’m sorry your default expectation is to be critisized, scorned, or flamed — that hasn’t been my primary experience on this list (as a newbie more

Re: Understanding Lilypond

2015-01-17 Thread Paul Morris
Urs Liska wrote Of course, but when you are searching for solutions, approaches or even tutorials on Scheme you'll get a bunch of different resources, some for Racket, some for MIT Scheme, some for guile-1.8, some for guile-2.0 and so on. While often there is something to the solution that you

Re: Dividing a measure with a dotted bar line

2015-01-17 Thread Knute Snortum
Thanks Kevin, that solves the bar line problem. Any ideas for the time signatures? Knute Snortum (via Gmail) On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Kevin Barry barr...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Knute, If I understand what you want correctly, you can simply insert the barline by adding: \bar ; at

Re: Understanding Lilypond

2015-01-17 Thread Urs Liska
Am 17.01.2015 um 17:22 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Peter, I'm not sure that my response is suitable for the list It *definitely* is! Please feel free to critisize scorn or otherwise flame. I’m sorry your default expectation is to be critisized, scorned, or flamed — that hasn’t been my

Re: Dividing a measure with a dotted bar line

2015-01-17 Thread Urs Liska
What about adding a Dynamics context and change that to print the time signature? Then parenthesize that and display the time sigs in the visible staves as 3/4. Can't try this out currently so I don't know if it works. But in any case I think you should use a real 5/4 time signature and add

Re: Dividing a measure with a dotted bar line

2015-01-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Knute, What I don't have is the barline between the third and fourth beat, the parenthesized time signature lowered, and a (fake?) time signature of 3/4 (or do use 3/4 and 2/4 measures and fake the 5/4?) The time signature is just at the beginning of the piece; the dotted barline will

Re: Dividing a measure with a dotted bar line

2015-01-17 Thread Kevin Barry
Any ideas for the time signatures? As others have suggested you can place it in markup in its own dynamics context between the staves like this (it's not an elegant solution, but you only need to do it once): \version 2.18.2 fakeThreeFour = { \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil =

Re: Dividing a measure with a dotted bar line

2015-01-17 Thread Knute Snortum
Thanks to everyone. I think I have all the pieces now. Knute Snortum (via Gmail) On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Kevin Barry barr...@gmail.com wrote: Any ideas for the time signatures? As others have suggested you can place it in markup in its own dynamics context between the staves