Re: Hidding Staff Lines at the start of a line

2015-09-10 Thread Klaus Blum
Hi Zoran, this is how I would start: % -- \version "2.18.2" \score { << \new RhythmicStaff \with { %\accepts "TextScript" \override StaffSymbol.line-count = #0 \omit TimeSignature } {

Re: Hidding Staff Lines at the start of a line

2015-09-10 Thread zzk
Hi Klaus, Klaus Blum wrote > Hi Zoran, > > this is how I would start: > > % > -- > > \version "2.18.2" > > \score { > << > \new RhythmicStaff > \with { > %\accepts "TextScript" > \override

Re: mixed \time

2015-09-10 Thread David Kastrup
BB writes: > I tried sommething strange. I tried to mix tempo 4/4 and 6/8 in one > score. I had no success as only the last defined tempo will be used. LilyPond comes with a manual, and polymetric notation is dealt with exactly where you'd expect it to be.

Re: Mid-piece NullVoice creating?

2015-09-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 10.09.2015 um 13:30 schrieb David Kastrup: Here is a clue what is really happening. Issue 4579, committed rather recently, tries explaining this phenomenon somewhat more accurately than before and describes a remedy. Sorry, but did I correctly figure out the remedy you describe?

Re: Mid-piece NullVoice creating?

2015-09-10 Thread David Kastrup
Simon Albrecht writes: > Am 10.09.2015 um 13:30 schrieb David Kastrup: >> Here is a clue what is really happening. >> Issue 4579, committed rather recently, tries explaining this phenomenon >> somewhat more accurately than before and describes a remedy. > > Sorry, but did

question about font size

2015-09-10 Thread Haipeng Hu
Hello, I'm preparing two orchestral works for a competition. The music is ok, but I have problem with title page because I can't see the actual words. Could anyone tell me how Lilypond deal with absolute fontsize (\abs-fontsize)? Is the value for pt or px? In Microsoft Word, it deals with pt. So

Re: Mid-piece NullVoice creating?

2015-09-10 Thread David Kastrup
Simon Albrecht writes: > Hello, > > am I doing anything wrong here? > > % > music = { > 1 > } > > \score { > \displayMusic { > \new Staff << > \new NullVoice \music > \new Voice \music > >> > \break > \new GrandStaff << >

Re: Denemo

2015-09-10 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2015-09-10 at 13:37 +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: > Has anyone tried to install Denemo + LilyPond from the Fedora 22 repos? I > am not getting any noteheads in the editorscreen, and I see some error > messages in my terminal about some fonts not being found (when I start > denemo from

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-10 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-08-26 22:10, Urs Liska wrote: This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users >and >developers? Remind me in two weeks and I'll start a poll on Scores of Beauty ... I send in this reminder not because I'm especially interested in ages, but it would be

Re: Denemo

2015-09-10 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Has anyone tried to install Denemo + LilyPond from the Fedora 22 repos? I am not getting any noteheads in the editorscreen, and I see some error messages in my terminal about some fonts not being found (when I start denemo from a terminal

Re: Mid-piece NullVoice creating?

2015-09-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 10.09.2015 um 14:02 schrieb David Kastrup: Simon Albrecht writes: Am 10.09.2015 um 13:30 schrieb David Kastrup: Here is a clue what is really happening. Issue 4579, committed rather recently, tries explaining this phenomenon somewhat more accurately than before and

Mid-piece NullVoice creating?

2015-09-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, am I doing anything wrong here? % music = { 1 } \score { \displayMusic { \new Staff << \new NullVoice \music \new Voice \music >> \break \new GrandStaff << \new Staff << \new NullVoice \music \new Voice \music >>

mixed \time

2015-09-10 Thread BB
I tried sommething strange. I tried to mix tempo 4/4 and 6/8 in one score. I had no success as only the last defined tempo will be used. Regards %%% \version "2.19.0" #(set-global-staff-size 23) first= \relative c' { \time 4/4 \key d \major d4 e f fis a b d r8

Re: mixed \time

2015-09-10 Thread Phil Holmes
I think what you need to look for is "polymetric notation" in the Notation Reference. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: BB To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 2:09 PM Subject: mixed \time I tried sommething strange. I tried to mix tempo

Denemo

2015-09-10 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
Has anyone tried to install Denemo + LilyPond from the Fedora 22 repos? I am not getting any noteheads in the editorscreen, and I see some error messages in my terminal about some fonts not being found (when I start denemo from a terminal command). -- MT

Re: Denemo

2015-09-10 Thread Johan Vromans
On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 13:10:21 +0100 Richard Shann wrote: > The distros only give very out-of-date versions, there is a link on the > denemo.org website to modern ones: Just a nitpick: This gives me 1.2.2 while 1.2.4 has been out for a while. -- Johan

Development or stable version?

2015-09-10 Thread David Sumbler
After recently asking about the use of \repeat inside \parallelMusic I was recommended to download to the latest "development" version of Lilypond. At the time I said I wouldn't do this, but would wait for the next "stable" version. But shortly afterwards, I realised that I needed to use

Re: question about font size

2015-09-10 Thread tisimst
Haipeng, All font sizes are in pt units. Normally, they are scaled with the staff-height, but \abs-fontsize does allow you to bypass that effect. HTH, Abraham On Thursday, September 10, 2015, Haipeng Hu [via Lilypond] < ml-node+s1069038n180950...@n5.nabble.com> wrote: > Hello, > I'm

Re: Development or stable version?

2015-09-10 Thread Urs Liska
Am 10.09.2015 um 16:16 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: > Hi David, > > Welcome to the bleeding edge! =) > > As someone who only uses the “latest” development version(s), and that for > mission-critical daily composition and engraving (i.e., my career), I can say > that the latest “unstable” version

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, Just in case this doesn’t make it to the poll stage… >>> This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users and >>> developers? >> Remind me in two weeks and I'll start a poll on Scores of Beauty ... > I send in this reminder not because I'm especially interested

Re: Development or stable version?

2015-09-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, Welcome to the bleeding edge! =) As someone who only uses the “latest” development version(s), and that for mission-critical daily composition and engraving (i.e., my career), I can say that the latest “unstable” version is almost always good to go. That being said, I do recommend

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-10 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-09-10 15:57, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Just in case this doesn’t make it to the poll stage… >>>This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users and developers? >>Remind me in two weeks and I'll start a poll on Scores of Beauty ... >I send in this reminder not

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 10.09.2015 um 15:00 schrieb Peter Bjuhr: On 2015-08-26 22:10, Urs Liska wrote: This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users >and >developers? Remind me in two weeks and I'll start a poll on Scores of Beauty ... I send in this reminder not because I'm especially

Re: Part of Key signature in bracket

2015-09-10 Thread David Kastrup
Andreas Stenberg writes: > Hi! > > I'm editing an 18-th century piece with several voices and "movements" > where the source; an early print, has a printing error for the first > movement of the pice. In all the Voices for that movement the key is > given as G-major

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-10 Thread Tim Reeves
Age: 49 Amateur hornist. Typesetting of existing parts, occasionally creating simple exercises, fingering charts, etc. Not a regular user, but like to keep up on development. I use Frescobaldi every time for some time now, and I've been using LP for roughly eight years. Tim > Message: 1 >

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-10 Thread PMA
PMA wrote: PMA wrote: Martin Tarenskeen wrote: This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users and developers? My average age is 75. Better answer -- My age is 75. I've been using Lilypond for ca 5 years, without an editor (other than VI), and entirely for original

OT: Barenreiter Plate Engraving Pictures

2015-09-10 Thread tisimst
Not sure how many of you follow Barenreiter-Verlag on Facebook, but if you don't you will have missed an awesome post today (English and German) showing a handful of beautiful hand-engraved plates and the tools they used. I always love to see this kind of thing and hate losing them, so I created a

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-10 Thread Nathan Ho
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Nathan, > >> Most music I work with now is not conventionally notated, >> so I haven't found much use for LilyPond recently. > > What kinds of things do you do? > How *is* it notated? > > You may be the

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-10 Thread Karen S. Billings
I'm still a LilyPond newbie... As a retired Bell Labs engineer, I can honestly say that I have found LilyPond to be harder than learning vi, troff/nroff, and shell scripts. (Maybe it's age, maybe it's having been out of the field for 7+ years, or maybe it's just that I was never an actual

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-10 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hi, I’m now 42, singer/songwriter and collector of German and international folk music. Former scout and LARP bard. Otherwise media designer and programmer. I’m using LilyPond on OSX since summer 2005, previously with different editors (Smultron, TextWrangler, Eclipse), since maybe two years

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-10 Thread H. S. Teoh
[...] > > On Sep 10, 2015, at 7:00 AM, Peter Bjuhr wrote: > > > > On 2015-08-26 22:10, Urs Liska wrote: > >>> This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond > >>> users and developers? > >> Remind me in two weeks and I'll start a poll on Scores of Beauty

Re: OT: Barenreiter Plate Engraving Pictures

2015-09-10 Thread tisimst
On 9/10/2015 1:01 PM, Johan Vromans [via Lilypond] wrote: > On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:02:36 -0700 (MST) > tisimst <[hidden email] > > wrote: > > > > http://leighverlag.blogspot.com/2015/09/gorgeous-plate-engraving-pics.html > > Isn't this from the video? Possibly. Which video are you referring to?

Re: Minimum possible duration

2015-09-10 Thread David Kastrup
Simon Albrecht writes: > Hello, > > states > (in the last sentence) that ‘the shortest notated duration supported > by any scorewriter program is the 4096th note’ in Finale. Which, > obviously, is not the truth.

Re: OT: Barenreiter Plate Engraving Pictures

2015-09-10 Thread Urs Liska
Am 10.09.2015 um 21:08 schrieb Marc Hohl: > Am 10.09.2015 um 20:02 schrieb tisimst: >> Not sure how many of you follow Barenreiter-Verlag on Facebook, but >> if you don't you will have missed an awesome post today (English and >> German) showing a handful of beautiful hand-engraved plates and

Re: Part of Key signature in bracket

2015-09-10 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-09-10 20:32 GMT+02:00 Simon Albrecht : > Hello Andreas, > > Am 10.09.2015 um 19:38 schrieb Andreas Stenberg: >> >> Hi! >> >> I'm editing an 18-th century piece with several voices and "movements" >> where the source; an early print, has a printing error for the first

Re: Minimum possible duration

2015-09-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 10.09.2015 um 21:22 schrieb David Kastrup: Simon Albrecht writes: Hello, states (in the last sentence) that ‘the shortest notated duration supported by any scorewriter program is the 4096th note’ in

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Nathan, > Most music I work with now is not conventionally notated, > so I haven't found much use for LilyPond recently. What kinds of things do you do? How *is* it notated? You may be the perfect [kind of] person to help make her the best notation application ever. =) Cheers, Kieren.

Re: OT: Barenreiter Plate Engraving Pictures

2015-09-10 Thread tisimst
On 9/10/2015 2:05 PM, bobr...@centrum.is [via Lilypond] wrote: > - tisimst <[hidden email] > > wrote: > > > On 9/10/2015 1:01 PM, Johan Vromans [via Lilypond] wrote: > > > On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:02:36 -0700 (MST) > > > tisimst <[hidden email] > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >

Can someone point me to an example?

2015-09-10 Thread Karen Billings
Hi all, I'm setting this Sunday's psalm to a different accompaniment but, since I'm still a beginner, I'm trying to find a sample to work from I need to have a separate melody line with a piano accompaniment.  The accompaniment is a mix of chords and multiple independent lines (like most "pop"

Re: OT: Barenreiter Plate Engraving Pictures

2015-09-10 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 10.09.2015 um 20:02 schrieb tisimst: Not sure how many of you follow Barenreiter-Verlag on Facebook, but if you don't you will have missed an awesome post today (English and German) showing a handful of beautiful hand-engraved plates and the tools they used. Thanks for sharing! Henle

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-10 Thread Nathan Ho
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Tim Reeves wrote: > Age: 49 > Amateur hornist. > Typesetting of existing parts, occasionally creating simple exercises, > fingering charts, etc. Not a regular user, but like to keep up on > development. > I use Frescobaldi every time

Re: OT: Barenreiter Plate Engraving Pictures

2015-09-10 Thread Urs Liska
Am 10.09.2015 um 21:20 schrieb tisimst: > On 9/10/2015 1:01 PM, Johan Vromans [via Lilypond] wrote: >> On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:02:36 -0700 (MST) >> tisimst <[hidden email] >> > wrote: >> >> > >> http://leighverlag.blogspot.com/2015/09/gorgeous-plate-engraving-pics.html >> >> Isn't this from the

Re: OT: Barenreiter Plate Engraving Pictures

2015-09-10 Thread bobr...@centrum.is
- tisimst wrote: > On 9/10/2015 1:01 PM, Johan Vromans [via Lilypond] wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:02:36 -0700 (MST) > > tisimst <[hidden email] > > > wrote: > > > > > > > http://leighverlag.blogspot.com/2015/09/gorgeous-plate-engraving-pics.html > > > >

RE: Can someone point me to an example?

2015-09-10 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Karen, This might be of use: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/snippets/vocal-music#vocal-music-piano-template-with-melody-and-lyrics Mark From: lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org] On Behalf

Part of Key signature in bracket

2015-09-10 Thread Andreas Stenberg
Hi! I'm editing an 18-th century piece with several voices and "movements" where the source; an early print, has a printing error for the first movement of the pice. In all the Voices for that movement the key is given as G-major when it obviously should be D- major as in the rest of the

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-10 Thread PMA
PMA wrote: Martin Tarenskeen wrote: This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users and developers? My average age is 75. Better answer -- My age is 75. I've been using Lilypond for ca 5 years, without an editor (other than VI), and entirely for original compositions.

Re: Part of Key signature in bracket

2015-09-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Andreas, Am 10.09.2015 um 19:38 schrieb Andreas Stenberg: Hi! I'm editing an 18-th century piece with several voices and "movements" where the source; an early print, has a printing error for the first movement of the piece. In all the Voices for that movement the key is given as