Re: Required font for simplified Chinese characters?

2017-12-07 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi James, What platform are you on? Do you want simplified or traditional characters? Andrew On 7 December 2017 at 00:34, James Harkins wrote: > > I have used Chinese characters in LilyPond before, but this is a new > machine. I must have missed something while setting

Required font for simplified Chinese characters?

2017-12-07 Thread James Harkins
I have: \header { dedication = "为星海音乐学院的电脑乐团，2017年秋天" . } (Roughly, "For the Xinghai Conservatory Fall 2017 Laptop Orchestra" with no assurance of absolute correctness in the Chinese.) I get: Converting to `./test.pdf'... warning: `(gs -q -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28

Re: Fwd: cjns1...@gmail.com Re: Setting default text font

2017-12-07 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 05:42:00PM EST, Noeck wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Am 06.12.2017 um 23:33 schrieb Chris Jones: > > A closer inspection of the glyphs makes me think it is using some form > > of Century Schoolbook. The upper-case letter "Q" for instance is quite > > recognizable. > > Could it be

Re:Question about the horizontal spacing

2017-12-07 Thread Rus
>>  - How can I control (I need to increase) the space between the bar line and >> the following note (or lyrics syllable)? > > \layout { >   \context { > \Score > \override BarLine.space-alist.next-note = #'(semi-fixed-space . 5) >   } > } Thank you, Kieren! How about controlling the

Re: Fwd: cjns1...@gmail.com Re: Setting default text font

2017-12-07 Thread Karlin High
On 12/7/2017 4:42 PM, Noeck wrote: I would suggest that you use some other installed font instead (which looks different) and see whether that has a visible effect. Wingdings! Jokerman! Blackadder! -- Karlin High Missouri, USA ___ lilypond-user

Re: Fwd: cjns1...@gmail.com Re: Setting default text font

2017-12-07 Thread Noeck
Hi Chris, Am 06.12.2017 um 23:33 schrieb Chris Jones: > A closer inspection of the glyphs makes me think it is using some form > of Century Schoolbook. The upper-case letter "Q" for instance is quite > recognizable. Could it be that it just works like expected? You are setting the serif

Re: Fontsize ornaments

2017-12-07 Thread Pieter Terpstra
Ben wrote: > Can you show us your code as an example? Thank you kindly, have found what i was looking for in David's and Malte's response. Peter ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Fontsize ornaments

2017-12-07 Thread Pieter Terpstra
David Kastrup wrote: > If some of those settings are useless/illegible, we'd need to adjust > them generally. Thank you kindly, that works perfect! Peter ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Fontsize ornaments

2017-12-07 Thread Pieter Terpstra
Malte Meyn wrote: > You can change this by copying the definition of > general-grace-settings/score-grace-settings and commenting out the > Fingering.font-size. This has the advantage that you don’t need to > change this for every type of grace notes (grace, slashedGrace, > acciaccatura,

\unfoldRepeats for midi file

2017-12-07 Thread Ming Tsang
Hi lilyponders, I try to produce file file that unfoldRepeats. The following code did not produce repeats volta. I need help. Thanks, Ming \version "2.19.80" \language "english" \header { subtitle = "Joy to the World / Angels We Have Heard on High" } global = { \key d \major

Re: optional measure

2017-12-07 Thread Robin Bannister
Gianmaria Lari wrote: I'm a bit OT. I have a piece where I would like to add an "additional" measure. The notation used to write this measure should make clear that: - the measure is optional to play - the measure is not existing in the original score I know nothing about a standard way.

Re: Question about the horizontal spacing

2017-12-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Rus, > I have some questions about horizontal spacing: > — How to reduce the proportional notation? Not sure exactly what you mean here… but have you read the manual? Specifically and the sections around

Re: Question about the horizontal spacing

2017-12-07 Thread David Wright
On Thu 07 Dec 2017 at 02:53:51 (+0300), Rus wrote: > Hello! > I have some questions about horizontal spacing: > — How to reduce the proportional notation? No idea. > — How can I control (I need to increase) the space between the bar line and > the following note (or lyrics syllable)?

Re: optional measure

2017-12-07 Thread Karlin High
On 12/7/2017 8:46 AM, Gianmaria Lari wrote: The notation used to write this measure should make clear that: - the measure is optional to play - the measure is not existing in the original score How about an Ossia stave? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/music-glossary/ossia

optional measure

2017-12-07 Thread Gianmaria Lari
Hello, I'm a bit OT. I have a piece where I would like to add an "additional" measure. The notation used to write this measure should make clear that: - the measure is optional to play - the measure is not existing in the original score Does exist a standard way to indicate the two situations?

Re: Question for a new LilyPond user (parts-only editing)

2017-12-07 Thread David Kastrup
Flaming Hakama by Elaine writes: > On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 8:33 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Flaming Hakama by Elaine writes: >> >> > Here is an illustration of using tags for this purpose. >> > >> > Note that there are other