Re: Strange LilyPond crash

I don't know if I'm stumbling on something similar, but I can't believe that it's a large file issue - the piece is about 50 bars of mostly slow 7 with a repeat unfolded, two voices and a 2 part drum staff, no lyrics, and done entirely with 2.18.2 I got to the final dozen bars, and was compiling

Re: Why does \fromproperty fail in instrumentName?

On 24.11.2015 23:44, Thomas Morley wrote: Reinhold’s final code is http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=467 Thanks, I’ll try that. Yours, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: [Best Practices] splitting and combining choral parts

Hello Kieren, first of all: Looks like a nice piece! Second: offtopic nitpicks. There are some superfluous LyricExtenders there – I’d rather leave them out if they are very short. ( …) And note the mid-air bar-numbers, where they are

Re: Why does \fromproperty fail in instrumentName?

2015-11-24 15:41 GMT+01:00 Robin Bannister : > David Kastrup wrote: > >> In general, those variables seem to be defined only within titling >> material. > > > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-05/msg00426.html > > > Cheers, > Robin Reinholds final code is

Re: [Best Practices] splitting and combining choral parts

Hi Simon, > I’d vote to keep with four staves, at least in this example. For the record, I sometimes do that. One good example is “Go Thy Way”, a score of which you can see at . But that’s a short a

Re: [Best Practices] splitting and combining choral parts

On 25.11.2015 00:03, Michael Gerdau wrote: Last not least for vocal lines I always turn off autoBeam and manually put beams to groups that are sung on a single syllable. For my singers eyes that strongly helps to keep words and music in a proper flow. It’s rather a question of rhythmic

Re: Layout of a (piano) hand indicator

Am 24.11.2015 um 22:39 schrieb Simon Albrecht: > On 24.11.2015 18:49, Urs Liska wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> please consider the attached image, especially the "half-bracket" at the >> center. This is to indicate that this d' is to be played with the >> left hand. >> >> Is there anything I could

Re: Strange LilyPond crash

2015-11-24 17:11 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup : [...] > > Ticket created at: https://sourceforge.net/rest/p/testlilyissues/issues/4670/ > > -- > David Kastrup You already pushed it, so I tested Marc's files with a build including your patch. As far as I can tell, all works fine now.

Re: [Best Practices] splitting and combining choral parts

On 24.11.2015 23:36, Kieren MacMillan wrote: And I like for long syllables to be increasingly left-aligned This is one of the many, many lyric-related problems in Lilypond. (See my numerous other posts and sponsorship offers on that topic.) I solve almost all of them post-hoc, using the

Re: Layout of a (piano) hand indicator

Hi Urs, to me it looks pretty much optimal. To be more precise: I like: + the top edge is at a defined position between the staff lines + it has round edges (as far as I can tell) + the distance from the note head/stem is good (positioning in general) I find acceptable but other choices could

Re: Layout of a (piano) hand indicator

On 24.11.2015 18:49, Urs Liska wrote: Hi all, please consider the attached image, especially the "half-bracket" at the center. This is to indicate that this d' is to be played with the left hand. Is there anything I could improve to the proportions and placement of that sign? Any suggestions

Re: cross-staff stems for only two of three staves

Hi Stephen, thank you for your reply. (Please always reply to the list.) I should have been clearer: I want three notes in three staves, all with stem up, and a stem only from the lower to the middle staff but not to the upper. (You suggested to omit the flag from the middle staff; that

Confused about output

After fiddling with this for hours i cannot figure out why the added lyrics e and i drop below the bass as opposed to the voices they ought to be associated with which is here "melody" and "mel" that live on the soprano staff. What am I missing? \version "2.18.2" sopranoVoice = { a2 <<

Re: Suggestion for spacing pagenumber and barnumber

Hi All, How do you get the extra spacing under the page number? This has been eluding me. Andrew On 25/11/2015, 02:27, "Urs Liska" wrote: I think it looks much better now. Somehow imagination evaded

Re: Suggestion for spacing pagenumber and barnumber

Hi Andrew, > How do you get the extra spacing under the page number? This has been eluding > me. top-system-spacing Hope this helps! Kieren. Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info

Re: Strange LilyPond crash

Edward Ardzinski writes: > I don't know if I'm stumbling on something similar, but I can't believe that > it's a large file issue - the piece is about 50 bars of mostly slow 7 with a > repeat unfolded, two voices and a 2 part drum staff, no lyrics, and done >

Re: Confused about output

Am 25.11.2015 um 02:19 schrieb Shane Brandes: After fiddling with this for hours i cannot figure out why the added lyrics e and i drop below the bass as opposed to the voices they ought to be associated with which is here "melody" and "mel" that live on the soprano staff. What am I missing?

Re: Strange LilyPond crash

Am 24.11.2015 um 17:11 schrieb David Kastrup: Marc Hohl writes: Am 24.11.2015 um 00:12 schrieb Thomas Morley: [...] So, commit b416f10429d8d3881445d9000ff422dc67176df1 Author: David Kastrup Date: Wed Jul 15 23:30:30 2015 +0200 Issue 3693: Let

Layout of a (piano) hand indicator

Hi all, please consider the attached image, especially the "half-bracket" at the center. This is to indicate that this d' is to be played with the left hand. Is there anything I could improve to the proportions and placement of that sign? Any suggestions for improvement welcome. Suggestions for

Re: Layout of a (piano) hand indicator

Urs, On Tuesday, November 24, 2015, Urs Liska [via Lilypond] < ml-node+s1069038n18406...@n5.nabble.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > please consider the attached image, especially the "half-bracket" at the > center. This is to indicate that this d' is to be played with the left > hand. > > Is there

Re: Layout of a (piano) hand indicator

Hi all, > I did a blog post about this very thing! Hope this helps! Kieren. Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info

Re: Table of Contents: 2 problems

On 24.11.2015 14:30, David Sumbler wrote: the snippet does not have a "version" statement. The LSR currently supports 2.18. Yours, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Strange LilyPond crash

Marc Hohl writes: > Am 24.11.2015 um 00:12 schrieb Thomas Morley: > [...] >> >> So, >> commit b416f10429d8d3881445d9000ff422dc67176df1 >> Author: David Kastrup >> Date: Wed Jul 15 23:30:30 2015 +0200 >> >> Issue 3693: Let Percent_repeat_iterator be unfazed

RE: Layout of a (piano) hand indicator

Urs, V 2.18 has a snippet at: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-keyboards#staff_002dchange-lines Mark -Original Message- From: lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org] On Behalf

Re: [Best Practices] splitting and combining choral parts

Hi Simon, > first of all: Looks like a nice piece! Thanks! You can hear it at , if you’re interested. > Second: offtopic nitpicks. There are some superfluous LyricExtenders there – > I’d rather leave them out if they are very short I include all

Re: [Best Practices] splitting and combining choral parts

Hie Kieren and Simon, > first of all: Looks like a nice piece! Yes :) > Second: offtopic nitpicks. There are some superfluous LyricExtenders > there – I’d rather leave them out if they are very short. I agree on that one. > And I like for long syllables > to be increasingly left-aligned,

Re: [Best Practices] splitting and combining choral parts

> > Last not least for vocal lines I always turn off autoBeam and manually > > put beams to groups that are sung on a single syllable. For my singers > > eyes that strongly helps to keep words and music in a proper flow. > > It’s rather a question of rhythmic complexity; with long and/or >

Re: Automatically transforming a FiguredBass line into a sequence of chords ?

The fundamental problem you will hit here is that a figured bass is ambiguous, it only hints at the harmonic sequence, you have to make judgements about how frequently the chords should be changing, and where "obvious" changes have been omitted. (So an artificial intelligence approach would be

Re: function to replace notes by rests

Marc Hohl writes: > Am 23.11.2015 um 21:41 schrieb Malte Meyn: >> Am 23.11.2015 um 10:46 schrieb Marc Hohl: >>> As the file is a bit lengthy, I think of a way to just redefine >>> \xNotes to change every note to its corresponding rest, instead of >>> rewriting the whole file (or

Re: function to replace notes by rests

Am 24.11.2015 um 09:52 schrieb David Kastrup: [...] Even better, thanks a lot! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: function to replace notes by rests

Marc Hohl wrote: Now I need a midi file that contains the "normal" notes only: Skips would be quiet too. notesToSkips = #(define-music-function (music) (ly:music?) (skip-of-length music)) Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: function to replace notes by rests

Am 24.11.2015 um 10:43 schrieb Marc Hohl: Am 24.11.2015 um 09:52 schrieb David Kastrup: [...] Even better, thanks a lot! Well, nearly there. Is it possible to use this function only within a certain Staff? If I write xNote = #(define-music-function (music) (ly:music?) (make-relative

Re: Suggestion for spacing pagenumber and barnumber

Hi Urs, > how would you suggest to handle this unpleasant situation > between the barnumber and the pagenumber? Bar number italic + page number bold + more spacing, e.g., That seems very clear to me (which is why I do it that way). Hope this helps! Kieren.

Re: Table of Contents: 2 problems

On Tue, 2015-11-24 at 14:47 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > David Sumbler writes: > > > I have experimented with elements from the all the suggestions made - > > thanks to all. One thing that has been confirmed is that my > > understanding of how to use markup commands is

Re: Why does \fromproperty fail in instrumentName?

David Kastrup wrote: In general, those variables seem to be defined only within titling material. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-05/msg00426.html Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: ‘Kerning’ a clef

Hi Simon, > Thanks, that’s good. Glad to hear it. > There are two issues, though: > – the \tweak version spills over to the next clef That seems like a straight-up bug… > and > – the vertical position of the beam changes: Hmmm… I’ll be interested to hear if that’s considered a bug. Once a

[Best Practices] splitting and combining choral parts

Hello list, I’ve posted this question several times before, but the discussion always got truncated or derailed… I’m hoping this time we can work this through to a solution. Choral pieces tend to have both sections of polyphony (requiring 4 or more staves) and sections of homophony (requiring

Why does \fromproperty fail in instrumentName?

Hello everybody, help is appreciated with the following minimal example: \version "2.19.31" \header { test = "test" } \new Staff \with { instrumentName = \markup\fromproperty #'header:test } { 4 } TIA, Simon ___

Re: Why does \fromproperty fail in instrumentName?

On 24.11.2015 13:16, Jacques Menu wrote: Hello Simon, Succeeds with 2.19.32. Huh. Not for me (Ubuntu 14.04, 64bit). ~ Simon JM Le 24 nov. 2015 à 13:10, Simon Albrecht a écrit : Hello everybody, help is appreciated with the following minimal example:

Re: Why does \fromproperty fail in instrumentName?

Hello Simon, Succeeds with 2.19.32. JM > Le 24 nov. 2015 à 13:10, Simon Albrecht a écrit : > > Hello everybody, > > help is appreciated with the following minimal example: > > \version "2.19.31" > \header { > test = "test" > } > \new Staff \with { >

Re: Table of Contents: 2 problems

I have experimented with elements from the all the suggestions made - thanks to all. One thing that has been confirmed is that my understanding of how to use markup commands is pretty poor. I still have not managed to solve all of the problems. I tried to test Graham's suggestion of a

Re: Table of Contents: 2 problems

David Sumbler writes: > I have experimented with elements from the all the suggestions made - > thanks to all. One thing that has been confirmed is that my > understanding of how to use markup commands is pretty poor. > > I still have not managed to solve all of the

Re: Why does \fromproperty fail in instrumentName?

I’m on Mac OS X 10.11.1, 64 bit too. JM > Le 24 nov. 2015 à 13:35, Simon Albrecht a écrit : > > On 24.11.2015 13:16, Jacques Menu wrote: >> Hello Simon, >> >> Succeeds with 2.19.32. > > Huh. Not for me (Ubuntu 14.04, 64bit). > ~ Simon > >> >> JM >> >>> Le 24 nov.

Suggestion for spacing pagenumber and barnumber

Hi list, how would you suggest to handle this unpleasant situation between the barnumber and the pagenumber? Thanks Urs ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Why does \fromproperty fail in instrumentName?

Simon Albrecht writes: > On 24.11.2015 13:16, Jacques Menu wrote: >> Hello Simon, >> >> Succeeds with 2.19.32. > > Huh. Not for me (Ubuntu 14.04, 64bit). In general, those variables seem to be defined only within titling material. -- David Kastrup

Re: Suggestion for spacing pagenumber and barnumber

Thanks, I think it looks much better now. Somehow imagination evaded me ... Best Urs Am 24.11.2015 um 15:26 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: > Hi Urs, > >> how would you suggest to handle this unpleasant situation >> between the barnumber and the pagenumber? > > Bar number italic + page number bold +