Re: MIDI track names

2015-08-03 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2015-08-03 um 20:28 schrieb David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: The title of my songs, as shown e.g. QuickTime player, is always „control track“, even if I name everything in my source - is there a way to fix this? I.e. what else should I name? From lily/control-track-performer.cc: void

Re: MIDI track names

2015-08-03 Thread David Kastrup
Henning Hraban Ramm te...@fiee.net writes: Am 2015-07-31 um 19:44 schrieb Vaughan McAlley vaug...@mcalley.net.au: On 31 July 2015 at 17:23, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Vaughan McAlley vaug...@mcalley.net.au writes: Is there any way of setting track names from within Lilypond?

lilypond-book (again) and LyricText font problem

2015-08-03 Thread Marc Hohl
Hi list, I use lilypond-book and lualatex for a project. I have a .ily file with \paper { indent = 0 ragged-right = ##f #(define fonts (make-pango-font-tree Mala's Handwriting Mala's Handwriting Mala's Handwriting

Re: multiple staves in a score formatting issue

2015-08-03 Thread Urs Liska
Am 03.08.2015 um 20:14 schrieb annisha: Hello, I have the following lilypond file: ... and I'm attaching the result I'm getting. clearly it has a formatting issue. and I don't know how to solve it. Can you please help me in writing a better lilypond file. Well, yes, it clearly has

Re: showing alternative chordname

2015-08-03 Thread David Kastrup
bart deruyter bart.deruy...@gmail.com writes: Hi all, I got stuck here in a transcription of a folk tune. I'd like to show a possible alternative for a chord e.g.: C(Gm7). It's written like this in the orignal, but I'm not sure if that's the correct way to describe a possible alternative

Re: Rest in Lyrics

2015-08-03 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com writes: 2015-08-02 23:00 GMT+02:00 Alberto Simões al...@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt: Hello I know it is not a common practice, but I would like to put in the middle of the lyrics text, a quarter rest (in parenthesis), in order to make it clear that nothing

Setting systems-per-page just for a single score out of many

2015-08-03 Thread Leszek Wroński
Hi there! I'm setting a Baroque mass. All movements are in separate \score blocks. Everything has been already done 'locally', but now I want to prepare a single big pdf out of the thing and this is where problems start. You see, I want the first movement, and the first movement only, to be set

Re: showing alternative chordname

2015-08-03 Thread bart deruyter
@David : hey, thanks, that was a quick fix :-). @Michael: I tried this but on the chordnames, not on the notes, foolish me... :-) grtz, Bart http://www.bartart3d.be/ On Twitter https://twitter.com/#%21/Bart_Issimo On Identi.ca http://identi.ca/bartart3d On Google+

Re: showing alternative chordname

2015-08-03 Thread Michael Hendry
On 3 Aug 2015, at 10:16, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: bart deruyter bart.deruy...@gmail.com writes: Hi all, I got stuck here in a transcription of a folk tune. I'd like to show a possible alternative for a chord e.g.: C(Gm7). It's written like this in the orignal, but I'm not

Re: Rest in Lyrics

2015-08-03 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-08-03 9:51 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de writes: Am 03.08.2015 um 02:53 schrieb David Kastrup: [...] Alternatively: \new Voice = melody { c''4 d'' e'' f'' } \new Lyrics \with { \consists Rest_engraver \override

Re: Rest in Lyrics

2015-08-03 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com writes: [ \addlyrics \with ] If we allow this general approach for every Lyrics-context (and ofcourse we do so), then it's a strong argument to allow \with for the context created by \addlyrics as well. Every other context-creating command accepts \with

showing alternative chordname

2015-08-03 Thread bart deruyter
Hi all, I got stuck here in a transcription of a folk tune. I'd like to show a possible alternative for a chord e.g.: C(Gm7). It's written like this in the orignal, but I'm not sure if that's the correct way to describe a possible alternative for a chord, or how to achieve it. if anyone has an

Running Lilypond from Debian in a virtual machine via Qemu

2015-08-03 Thread David Topham
Andrew, Thank you very much for the tip! I just installed VirtualBox and Lilypond worked instantly!Qemu is actually a good virtual machine and I have been using it for years with no problems at all, so I never suspected that there was some problem with interaction between Qemu and

Re: Setting systems-per-page just for a single score out of many

2015-08-03 Thread Leszek Wroński
I made a misprint in the previous email; a different thing happens; if the structure is like this: \bookpart{ \score{ (...) \header{title=x} } } \score{ (...) \header{piece=y} } then the title 'x' is not displayed anywhere, but the 'y' is displayed at the beginning of the whole file!

Re: Rest in Lyrics

2015-08-03 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 03.08.2015 um 02:53 schrieb David Kastrup: [...] Alternatively: \new Voice = melody { c''4 d'' e'' f'' } \new Lyrics \with { \consists Rest_engraver \override Rest.Y-offset = 0.5 } \lyricsto melody { c d \notemode { \parenthesize r4 }

Re: Setting systems-per-page just for a single score out of many

2015-08-03 Thread Leszek Wroński
Guys, I'm terribly sorry for spamming the group, but it turns out writing the problem down was enough for me to find a solution. If anyone ever searches the group for an answer to a similar question, here is my idea (which works for me, but certainly there should be more elegant ones): divide the

Re: Rest in Lyrics

2015-08-03 Thread David Kastrup
Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de writes: Am 03.08.2015 um 02:53 schrieb David Kastrup: [...] Alternatively: \new Voice = melody { c''4 d'' e'' f'' } \new Lyrics \with { \consists Rest_engraver \override Rest.Y-offset = 0.5 } \lyricsto melody {

Re: lilypond-book (again) and LyricText font problem

2015-08-03 Thread Marc Hohl
Addendum: I tried to force lilypond to use this font by adding \context { \Score \override LyricText.font-name = Mala's Handwriting } to the .ily file, but there's no difference. Properly included in a \layout { ... } environment, of course. Marc

Re: lilypond-book (again) and LyricText font problem

2015-08-03 Thread Marc Hohl
Sorry for the noise, I fould the culprit: the standalone snippets were (erroneously) built with the latest self-compiled lilypond, whereas lilypond-book is an older version that did not find the font. Marc Am 03.08.2015 um 18:36 schrieb Marc Hohl: Addendum: I tried to force lilypond to

Re: Changing staff size

2015-08-03 Thread David Kastrup
Jérôme Plût plut.jer...@gmail.com writes: Quinto Kalendas Augustas MMXV scripsit Kevin Barry : Hi Jerome, The most relevant part of the manuals for your question is probably here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/ changing-context-default-settings It should answer

Re: Setting systems-per-page just for a single score out of many

2015-08-03 Thread Colin Campbell
On 2015-08-03 02:58 AM, Leszek Wroński wrote: Guys, I'm terribly sorry for spamming the group, but it turns out writing the problem down was enough for me to find a solution. If anyone ever searches the group for an answer to a similar question, here is my idea (which works for me, but

Re: Changing staff size

2015-08-03 Thread Jérôme Plût
Quinto Kalendas Augustas MMXV scripsit Kevin Barry : Hi Jerome, The most relevant part of the manuals for your question is probably here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/ changing-context-default-settings It should answer all of your questions (and there is even an

Re: MIDI track names

2015-08-03 Thread David Kastrup
Henning Hraban Ramm te...@fiee.net writes: Am 2015-08-03 um 20:28 schrieb David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: The title of my songs, as shown e.g. QuickTime player, is always „control track“, even if I name everything in my source - is there a way to fix this? I.e. what else should I name? From

Re: MIDI track names

2015-08-03 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2015-07-31 um 19:44 schrieb Vaughan McAlley vaug...@mcalley.net.au: On 31 July 2015 at 17:23, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Vaughan McAlley vaug...@mcalley.net.au writes: Is there any way of setting track names from within Lilypond? (A MIDI track name is a meta-event FF 03

multiple staves in a score formatting issue

2015-08-03 Thread annisha
Hello, I have the following lilypond file: \score {{ \new Staff { \easyHeadsOn \clef treble a'4 b'4 c'4 c'4 b'4 a'4 g'4 f'4 f'4 g'4 a'4 a'4 g'8 g'2 b'4 |} \new Staff { \easyHeadsOn \clef treble c'2 c'4 b'4 a'4 g'4 f'4 f'4 g'4 a'4 g'4 f'8 f'2 g'4 g'4 a'4 f'4 g'4 a'4 |} \new Staff {

Re: multiple staves in a score formatting issue

2015-08-03 Thread tyronicus
Anna, The answer to your question depends a lot on your desired output. For example, if I remove the \score block, Lily treats each staff as a separate score and gives me output that I like. But I'm not really sure what you're trying to accomplish: \new Staff { \easyHeadsOn \clef treble a'4