Re: can \markup locate an embedded graphics file using include path?

2015-01-27 Thread Graham King
On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 11:57 +, Graham King wrote: Many of my scores embed a small EPS file using (somewhat simplified): \markup { \epsfile #X #10 #path/to/file.eps } This is proving a bit of an obstacle to portability as path/to (relative or absolute) is installation-specific.

Re: Transposition of instruments

2015-01-27 Thread Helge Kruse
Am 27.01.2015 um 17:25 schrieb Marco Oros: I would like to write something for trumpet and clarinet and I know, that this musical instruments are tunned in various pitches, they can't use C-key, as for example notation for piano. So, It means, that I must write c-major song in as-major for

Re: strange behaviour with dotted note before gregorian music

2015-01-27 Thread Ali Cuota
Here it is. Franck 2015-01-27 12:46 GMT-05:00, James Lowe p...@gnu.org: Hello On 27/01/15 16:05, Ali Cuota wrote: Hello again, version 2.18.0 I have a western-notation piece that finishes with a dotted-note a4. (very last note) then a gregorian piece. both comes in a book.ly with

Re: sus7 chords in \chordmode

2015-01-27 Thread Richard Shann
On Mon, 2015-01-26 at 18:48 -0600, Tim McNamara wrote: The main problem for me with “x7sus4” as a chord name is its length; when there are four chord names in a bar, every character counts in terms of legibility. There is a patch LilyPond that typesets chord symbols in a compact way.

Re: Ritardando and accelerando

2015-01-27 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Peter, Hi Joram, How about: \version 2.18.2 \layout { ragged-last = ##t } #(define (text-spanner-start-stop mus) (let ((elts (ly:music-property mus 'elements))) (make-music 'SequentialMusic 'elements (append (list (make-music 'TextSpanEvent 'span-direction -1))

Re: Ritardando and accelerando

2015-01-27 Thread Peter Danemo
Hi Pierre! Wow, Looks perfect! I’ll study how you did that and try to understand. /P Peter Danemo +46-70-653 21 91 E-post: petedom...@gmail.com Web: danemo.com 27 jan 2015 kl. 09:56 skrev Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com:

Re: CHanging key.size, accidental.size and stem.size in gregorianMusic

2015-01-27 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Thank you Franck, For some reason, I did not find any way to change the flexa stem length. For more details see gregorian.ly file and: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/internals/vaticana_002dligature_002dinterface Here's where I am so far: \version 2.18.0 \include gregorian.ly

Re: sus7 chords in \chordmode

2015-01-27 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
From: Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net This has perhaps become off-topic and I don?t wish to prolong that; however, I have to take issue with the idea that ?sus? could somehow apply to the 7th. It can?t. Suspensions specifically apply to replacing the 3rd with either the 4th or the 2nd (the

Re: Ritardando and accelerando

2015-01-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-01-27 7:12 GMT+01:00 Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de: [...] PS: Wouldn’t it be nice to have these commands (or similar): b1\startText rit. c e,\stopText Hi, try: \version 2.19.15 % is needed! startMyTextSpan = #(define-event-function (parser location txt mus)((markup? )ly:music?) (if (and

Hungarian Gregorian

2015-01-27 Thread Rita Composer
Dear Listmembers, Could you help me, how can I creat something like this? https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzQDuwMSrodQU19yRTVLM0F3ZHM/view?usp=sharing I found something simmilar in version 2.19.15 here

Re: Ritardando and accelerando

2015-01-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-01-27 9:56 GMT+01:00 Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com: Hi Peter, Hi Joram, How about: \version 2.18.2 \layout { ragged-last = ##t } #(define (text-spanner-start-stop mus) (let ((elts (ly:music-property mus 'elements))) (make-music 'SequentialMusic

Re: strange behaviour with dotted note before gregorian music

2015-01-27 Thread James Lowe
On 27/01/15 18:25, Ali Cuota wrote: Here it is. Hardly a 'tiny' example http://lilypond.org/tiny-examples.html Can you at least get rid of the cruft that isn't anything to do with the problem? I.e. a single file would help to determine if the problem is to do with the 'include' function or

Re: Repeats - Strange behavior??

2015-01-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-01-27 23:35 GMT+01:00 Chris Trahan trahan.ch...@gmail.com: I have two examples in the following code. The fist one shows a repeated section starting at measure 4. The second shows the same code, except that a double bar ends measure 3. In this case, the repeated section is not correct.

Re: 1. Refrain before verses 2. words for descant

2015-01-27 Thread tisimst
James, James E. Bradley wrote 1. What do I need to do to have a refrain before the verses, so that the stanza numbering is with the verses and not the refrain? For refrains in the middle or end, I just lengthen one of the verses, and it works out ok. Two things: 1. The stanza number shows

Re: strange behaviour with dotted note before gregorian music

2015-01-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-01-27 23:07 GMT+01:00 James Lowe p...@gnu.org: On 27/01/15 18:25, Ali Cuota wrote: Here it is. Hardly a 'tiny' example http://lilypond.org/tiny-examples.html Can you at least get rid of the cruft that isn't anything to do with the problem? I.e. a single file would help to determine

isolated repeats or other signs

2015-01-27 Thread Mike Dean
Hi: I am looking for a way to use isolated repeat symbols to bracket an except of music I am setting (specifically, using three such symbols, the excerpt, and three such symbols) Alternatively, could use one double-percent symbol at each end, without the dots... Mike Dean

Re: When does a grob gets its paper-column?

2015-01-27 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Urs, On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 6:19 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Hi, in an engraver I have a reference to the current grob. It seems that while in the acknowledgers routing this grob doesn't have a paper column set while in the finalze routine it has. Is that correct, and I

Re: Key signature and key cancellation need to be aligned

2015-01-27 Thread David Sumbler
On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 20:26 +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: 2015-01-27 12:56 GMT+01:00 David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk: I use Staff.printKeyCancellation = ##f in my score. At one point the key changes from C major (concert) to C minor. As the piece is for a standard saxophone quartet, this

Re: ScholarLY - introduction and call for collaboration

2015-01-27 Thread tyronicus
I must immediately excuse myself for not reading the blog post first and seeing that ScholarLY is a part of openlilylib. But I still wonder about the rest. -- View this message in context:

ScholarLY - introduction and call for collaboration

2015-01-27 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, usually I don't advertise Scores of Beauty posts here, but every now and then there's an exception to the rule. I have just published a post introducing my new LilyPond library ScholarLY, which intends to become a powerful toolkit for scholarly edition workflows. The first building

Repeats - Strange behavior??

2015-01-27 Thread Chris Trahan
I have two examples in the following code. The fist one shows a repeated section starting at measure 4. The second shows the same code, except that a double bar ends measure 3. In this case, the repeated section is not correct. Is this a bug or by design? \version 2.18.2 \language english

Re: Key signature and key cancellation need to be aligned

2015-01-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-01-27 12:56 GMT+01:00 David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk: I use Staff.printKeyCancellation = ##f in my score. At one point the key changes from C major (concert) to C minor. As the piece is for a standard saxophone quartet, this means that 2 of the instruments change from D major

Re: Rehearsal marks and grace notes at the beginning of bars

2015-01-27 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
From: Cynthia Karl pck...@mac.com Subject: Re: Rehearsal marks and grace notes at the beginning of bars I am wondering if I am missing something about the character of the problem and the solution that makes you recommend the grace note rest approach, rather than tweaking the order of the

Re: strange behaviour with dotted note before gregorian music

2015-01-27 Thread Ali Cuota
James, you are right, I just wanted to answer fast between 2 appointments. Here it is Franck 2015-01-27 17:07 GMT-05:00, James Lowe p...@gnu.org: On 27/01/15 18:25, Ali Cuota wrote: Here it is. Hardly a 'tiny' example http://lilypond.org/tiny-examples.html Can you at least get rid of the

Re: ScholarLY - introduction and call for collaboration

2015-01-27 Thread tyronicus
I am all in favor of the collaboration, but I wonder if I might pessimistically ask why we use so many discrete projects and repositories. It seems to me that we could accomplish much more by using one git project instead of having openlilylib, the LSR, and our newest projects, ScholarLY and

Re: Key signature and key cancellation need to be aligned

2015-01-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-01-28 0:16 GMT+01:00 David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk: On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 20:26 +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: 2015-01-27 12:56 GMT+01:00 David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk: I use Staff.printKeyCancellation = ##f in my score. At one point the key changes from C major (concert) to C

Re: sus7 chords in \chordmode

2015-01-27 Thread Jim Long
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 07:18:52PM -0600, Tim McNamara wrote: I have repeatedly run into difficulties getting Lilypond to properly render sus7 chord names in \chordmode. It comes up with silly things like G7sus4 3??? and the like. What is the correct syntax to get a simple ???Gsus7??? to

Key signature and key cancellation need to be aligned

2015-01-27 Thread David Sumbler
I use Staff.printKeyCancellation = ##f in my score. At one point the key changes from C major (concert) to C minor. As the piece is for a standard saxophone quartet, this means that 2 of the instruments change from D major (notated) to D minor, and the other 2 change from A major to A minor. A

can \markup locate an embedded graphics file using include path?

2015-01-27 Thread Graham King
Many of my scores embed a small EPS file using (somewhat simplified): \markup { \epsfile #X #10 #path/to/file.eps } This is proving a bit of an obstacle to portability as path/to (relative or absolute) is installation-specific. Is it possible to put file.eps (or the equivalent graphic

Re: Repeats - Strange behavior??

2015-01-27 Thread Cynthia Karl
Message: 6 Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:02:13 +0100 From: Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com To: Chris Trahan trahan.ch...@gmail.com Cc: LilyPond User Group lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Repeats - Strange behavior?? Message-ID:

When does a grob gets its paper-column?

2015-01-27 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, in an engraver I have a reference to the current grob. It seems that while in the acknowledgers routing this grob doesn't have a paper column set while in the finalze routine it has. Is that correct, and I have to wait until the finalize stage until I can retrieve the rhythmic location

Re: CHanging key.size, accidental.size and stem.size in gregorianMusic

2015-01-27 Thread Ali Cuota
Hello Pierre, Merci, many thanks. The plica is ok this way, so I will use these settings for the remaining of the project. Its a choir-book with modern and polyphonic music, and essentials of gregorian, for Colombia (hopefully then for the whole latin-America). Franck 2015-01-27 3:31 GMT-05:00,

strange behaviour with dotted note before gregorian music

2015-01-27 Thread Ali Cuota
Hello again, version 2.18.0 I have a western-notation piece that finishes with a dotted-note a4. (very last note) then a gregorian piece. both comes in a book.ly with include ... Compiling the sole gregorian is ok Compiling the book makes the gregorian have dotted (augmentum) at every notes

Re: Rehearsal marks and grace notes at the beginning of bars

2015-01-27 Thread Cynthia Karl
On Jan 26, 2015, at 6:08 PM, Flaming Hakama by Elaine ela...@flaminghakama.com wrote: Patrick, Thanks for your explanation and advice. The only question I have is in terms of what you consider to be the appropriate fix, which amounts to adding grace note rests to every other

Transposition of instruments

2015-01-27 Thread Marco Oros
Hi! I have one question. I would like to write something for trumpet and clarinet and I know, that this musical instruments are tunned in various pitches, they can't use C-key, as for example notation for piano. So, It means, that I must write c-major song in as-major for clarinet, or it is

Re: strange behaviour with dotted note before gregorian music

2015-01-27 Thread James Lowe
Hello On 27/01/15 16:05, Ali Cuota wrote: Hello again, version 2.18.0 I have a western-notation piece that finishes with a dotted-note a4. (very last note) then a gregorian piece. both comes in a book.ly with include ... Compiling the sole gregorian is ok Compiling the book makes the gregorian

Re: Hungarian Gregorian

2015-01-27 Thread Ali Cuota
Dear S. Judit, I read already your first post, and I fear I cannot help with this. But I would like to know what/who is this notation good for. Thanks in advance, Franck 2015-01-27 14:49 GMT-05:00, Rita Composer ritacompo...@gmail.com: Dear Listmembers, Could you help me, how can I creat

Re: Key signature and key cancellation need to be aligned

2015-01-27 Thread Keith OHara
Thomas Morley thomasmorley65 at gmail.com writes: 2015-01-28 0:16 GMT+01:00 David Sumbler david at aeolia.co.uk: On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 20:26 +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: 2015-01-27 12:56 GMT+01:00 David Sumbler david at aeolia.co.uk: The problem is that the actual key signatures on the 2