Re: Multi-rest with automatic bar number before and after it

2016-02-18 Thread Craig Dabelstein
Hi Harm, I discovered a problem. It works perfectly with 4/4 time but it doesn't work with other time signatures. Can you suggest to me how I can make it work for different time signatures? All the best, Craig On 19 February 2016 at 12:43, Craig Dabelstein wrote:

Re: Multi-rest with automatic bar number before and after it

2016-02-18 Thread Craig Dabelstein
Brilliant! Thank you! On 19 February 2016 at 11:06, Thomas Morley wrote: > 2016-02-19 1:31 GMT+01:00 Craig Dabelstein : > > Hi Harm, > > > > Is it possible to have the bar numbers underneath in the usual (small) > font > > rather than the

Re: Multi-rest with automatic bar number before and after it

2016-02-18 Thread Thomas Morley
2016-02-19 1:31 GMT+01:00 Craig Dabelstein : > Hi Harm, > > Is it possible to have the bar numbers underneath in the usual (small) font > rather than the big numbers used for the multi rest? >\markup > \center-column { >#(number->string

Re: Multi-rest with automatic bar number before and after it

2016-02-18 Thread Craig Dabelstein
Hi Harm, Is it possible to have the bar numbers underneath in the usual (small) font rather than the big numbers used for the multi rest? Craig On 19 February 2016 at 09:49, Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi Abraham, > > > It's also seen in film scoring, so I

Re: explicit (temporary) staff-spacing overrides

2016-02-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, > What I would like is to be able to set, explicitly for the section between > \hideNotes and \unHideNotes, for the stave to have much more vertical padding > around it. Is there a way to set that manually without doing it at the Staff > level? What about just putting an transparent box

Re: Multi-rest with automatic bar number before and after it

2016-02-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Abraham, > It's also seen in film scoring, so I believe it's a useful feature. +1 I think it would be great if Lilypond (i.e., the community? openlilylib?) offered suites of tools/extensions/functions fine-tuned for specific purposes: musical theatre (I’m working on those!), critical

Re: Multi-rest with automatic bar number before and after it

2016-02-18 Thread tisimst
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Thomas Morley-2 [via Lilypond] < ml-node+s1069038n187436...@n5.nabble.com> wrote: > 2016-02-18 23:31 GMT+01:00 tisimst <[hidden email] > >: > > > > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Kieren MacMillan [via Lilypond] >

Re: Multi-rest with automatic bar number before and after it

2016-02-18 Thread Craig Dabelstein
Thanks for the help everyone. Craig On 19 February 2016 at 09:35, Thomas Morley wrote: > 2016-02-18 23:31 GMT+01:00 tisimst : > > > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Kieren MacMillan [via Lilypond] <[hidden > > email]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi

Re: Multi-rest with automatic bar number before and after it

2016-02-18 Thread Thomas Morley
2016-02-18 23:31 GMT+01:00 tisimst : > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Kieren MacMillan [via Lilypond] <[hidden > email]> wrote: >> >> Hi Harm, >> >> > A hacky solution for one-time use >> >> This is great! The only thing I could suggest is that the font for the bar

Re: Multi-rest with automatic bar number before and after it

2016-02-18 Thread tisimst
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Kieren MacMillan [via Lilypond] < ml-node+s1069038n187434...@n5.nabble.com> wrote: > Hi Harm, > > > A hacky solution for one-time use > > This is great! The only thing I could suggest is that the font for the bar > numbers shouldn’t be the same as the big MMR

Re: Multi-rest with automatic bar number before and after it

2016-02-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Harm, > A hacky solution for one-time use This is great! The only thing I could suggest is that the font for the bar numbers shouldn’t be the same as the big MMR number font. > A cleaner one would likely need an engraver. I see this kind of numbering a fair bit in musical theatre scores. I

Re: Multi-rest with automatic bar number before and after it

2016-02-18 Thread Thomas Morley
2016-02-18 21:34 GMT+01:00 Craig Dabelstein : > Hi Lilyponders, > > On this same subject, is it possible to put the span of bar numbers below a > multi bar rest e.g. below a 14-bar multi bar rest, have it print (centered) > 1-14? A hacky solution for one-time use:

Re: Multi-rest with automatic bar number before and after it

2016-02-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 18.02.2016 21:34, Craig Dabelstein wrote: On this same subject, is it possible to put the span of bar numbers below a multi bar rest e.g. below a 14-bar multi bar rest, have it print (centered) 1-14? Sounds quite confusing to me: Either you have a MultiMeasureRestText, giving the duration

Re: Multi-rest with automatic bar number before and after it

2016-02-18 Thread Craig Dabelstein
Hi Lilyponders, On this same subject, is it possible to put the span of bar numbers below a multi bar rest e.g. below a 14-bar multi bar rest, have it print (centered) 1-14? Any help would be greatly appreciated. On 19 February 2016 at 04:20, Menu Jacques wrote: > Hello

Re: Multi-rest with automatic bar number before and after it

2016-02-18 Thread Menu Jacques
Hello Simon, Excellent, thanks, that solves my issue! It’s a nice lesson on using Scheme, too. JM > Le 18 févr. 2016 à 18:44, Simon Albrecht a écrit : > > Hello Jacques, > > there are two possible approaches: > > %% > \version "2.18.2" > > multiROne = >

Re: Multi-rest with automatic bar number before and after it

2016-02-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Jacques, there are two possible approaches: %% \version "2.18.2" multiROne = #(define-music-function (parser location bar-count)(rational?) (let ((display-bar-num #{ \once\override Score.BarNumber.break-visibility = ##(#f #t #t) #}) (dur (ly:make-duration 0 0

Multi-rest with automatic bar number before and after it

2016-02-18 Thread Menu Jacques
Hello folks, With the following definitions: myDisplayBarNummber = { \once\override Score.BarNumber.break-visibility = ##(#f #t #t) } multiROne = #(define-music-function (parser location barsNumber)(number?) #{ \myDisplayBarNummber R1*#barsNumber % <—-- not allowed

Re: glissando without start note?

2016-02-18 Thread BB
Thank you for the link. With the definition of "repeatGliss" indeed a glissando without starting note is possible! repeatGliss = #(define-music-function (grace) (ly:pitch?) #{ % the next two lines ensure the glissando is long enough % to be visible \once \override

Re: glissando without start note?

2016-02-18 Thread Federico Bruni
Have you tried to adapt the snippet in the documentation? http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/expressive-marks-as-lines.html#glissando Search the repeatGliss function Il 2016-02-16 13:09 BB ha scritto: With stringed instruments a playing technique (mainly in Rock, Pop,

Re: Tie chord between staves

2016-02-18 Thread John Kinell
Thank you for all your suggestions, it's really wonderful to get this kind of help as a beginner! It also feels good that, for once, the software is to blame and not the user... I will try your solutions and suggestions and see what fits me best. I'm a singer and the goal of setting this music is