Re: test spanner with controlled gradient / dynamic volume curve indicated by grey level

2018-01-30 Thread Michael Winter
On first glance. This looks ideal. THANK YOU I am a bit brain dead at the moment, so will dig in tomorrow and let you know if I have any further questions / thoughts / ideas. Very kind indeed. Best, Michael On 01/30/2018 07:35 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: 2018-01-31 0:00 GMT+01:00 Michael

Re: test spanner with controlled gradient / dynamic volume curve indicated by grey level

2018-01-30 Thread Thomas Morley
2018-01-31 0:00 GMT+01:00 Michael Winter : > That is really beautiful. Thank you. I have been giving myself a crash > course in scheme and was also getting somewhat closer to a solution using a > glissando event. Then the internet went down. And low and behold it woke

Custom Dynamics using Edition Engraver

2018-01-30 Thread Craig Dabelstein
Hi all, Would anyone know if it's possible to create custom dynamics using the Edition Engraver? Instead of the default dynamics I need to be able to reproduce them just using plain text; e.g. for *fortissimo* just FF. Thanks in advance, Craig -- *Craig Dabelstein* Maxime's Music

Re: test spanner with controlled gradient / dynamic volume curve indicated by grey level

2018-01-30 Thread Karlin High
On 1/30/2018 5:00 PM, Michael Winter wrote: I will study your code. Like I said, it is almost exactly what I want except I want the gradient within the note length. Of course, any help in that direction will be much appreciated. Only brainstorming here: How about writing a loop that moves

Re: test spanner with controlled gradient / dynamic volume curve indicated by grey level

2018-01-30 Thread David Kastrup
Michael Winter writes: > That is really beautiful. Thank you. I have been giving myself a crash > course in scheme and was also getting somewhat closer to a solution > using a glissando event. Then the internet went down. Now _that's_ what a I call a crash course.

Re: test spanner with controlled gradient / dynamic volume curve indicated by grey level

2018-01-30 Thread Michael Winter
That is really beautiful. Thank you. I have been giving myself a crash course in scheme and was also getting somewhat closer to a solution using a glissando event. Then the internet went down. And low and behold it woke up to your response. So this is almost what I want. And I need to dissect

Re: test spanner with controlled gradient / dynamic volume curve indicated by grey level

2018-01-30 Thread Thomas Morley
2018-01-30 6:19 GMT+01:00 Michael Winter : > A bit more here. I think I can fake this in a markup... See example pasted > below. My scheme skilz are minimal. I would like yo do this interpolating > between the x position of adjacent notes. So maybe I can do this as a

Re: coding question about include-d tweak/function files

2018-01-30 Thread Urs Liska
Am 30.01.2018 um 22:14 schrieb Simon Albrecht: On 30.01.2018 17:22, Urs Liska wrote: Thinking about it, that would be a path to writing an \includeOnce or \require command in oll-core. The downside with that idea is that coding tools (i.e. Frescobaldi) will be able to help much less than

Re: coding question about include-d tweak/function files

2018-01-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 30.01.2018 17:22, Urs Liska wrote: Thinking about it, that would be a path to writing an \includeOnce or \require command in oll-core. The downside with that idea is that coding tools (i.e. Frescobaldi) will be able to help much less than with regular includes: no auto-completion, neither

Re: quetion about slur in the "<< .... \\ .....>>"

2018-01-30 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Harm, There are many roads to Lilypond as you know. My main road has been through Frescobaldi. Wilbert has an exceptional application that includes a ScoreWizard which creates the LP structure. One hardly needs to know more than how to type notes and durations to use it. I've almost always found

Re: quetion about slur in the "<< .... \\ .....>>"

2018-01-30 Thread Thomas Morley
2018-01-30 16:19 GMT+01:00 Guy Stalnaker : > Harm, > > MUCH thanks for that snippet, now saved to my snippet folder, that so > clearly explains what's going on with the << \\ >> polyphonic context > syntax. I get it now. > > Guy > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 3:56 AM, Thomas

Re: Problems in vertical spacing on header

2018-01-30 Thread Ben
On 1/30/2018 2:56 PM, Son_V wrote: Hi, thisis if I correctly have inserted it, how the header of my score appear: too much space between the first and the second line in the title, and a too small spacing before the subsubtitle. How can I fix them? Thanks. Hi, What version of LP are you

Problems in vertical spacing on header

2018-01-30 Thread Son_V
Hi, thisis if I correctly have inserted it, how the header of my score appear: too much space between the first and the second line in the title, and a too small spacing before the subsubtitle. How can I fix them? Thanks. -- Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/User-f3.html

Re: MIDI player in Frescobaldi wiki page

2018-01-30 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Federico, You wiki document makes no mention of Qsynth. I use it in conjunction with FluidSynth and Frescobaldi on LinuxMint and MacOS (I use CoolSoft Virtual Midi Synth on Windows): https://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth/files/qsynth/0.5.0/ I personally find using Qsynth the best way to

Re: My quick rundown of how to use OpenLilyLib's Edition Engraver

2018-01-30 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs (et al.), >> Would anyone care to comment about the relative advantages (and most >> appropriate use cases) of: >> - Edition Engraver > > * separate tweaks (or optional contents (like marks, dynamics, but no notes)) > from the content > => keep the content file simple > * store *sets

Re: coding question about include-d tweak/function files

2018-01-30 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Stefano, > Is it not viable to load them once one your "main" file instead of on every > score that requires one of their functions? Or is it the case that you want > to be able to compile each song in the songbook independently, meaning you > need to include the "tweaks" in each score,

MIDI player in Frescobaldi wiki page

2018-01-30 Thread Federico Bruni
Hi folks A quick email, as I have few time. While looking at this bug: https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/issues/463 I found the link to this wiki page I wrote almost two years ago: https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/wiki/MIDI-playback-on-Linux There are a couple of edits I'd like to

Re: My quick rundown of how to use OpenLilyLib's Edition Engraver

2018-01-30 Thread Urs Liska
Am 30.01.2018 um 18:19 schrieb Graham King: On 29 Jan 2018, at 20:36, Stefano Troncaro wrote: Hello again everyone! In a recent thread I was asked to write a little bit depicting how I would have liked to learn about using the Edition Engraver. I share it here so that others can give their

Re: My quick rundown of how to use OpenLilyLib's Edition Engraver

2018-01-30 Thread Graham King
On 29 Jan 2018, at 20:36, Stefano Troncaro wrote: > Hello again everyone! > > In a recent thread I was asked to write a little bit depicting how I would > have liked to learn about using the Edition Engraver. I share it here so that > others can give their insights. Hopefully we can make a

Re: coding question about include-d tweak/function files

2018-01-30 Thread Stefano Troncaro
Hello Kieren, Is it not viable to load them once one your "main" file instead of on every score that requires one of their functions? Or is it the case that you want to be able to compile each song in the songbook independently, meaning you need to include the "tweaks" in each score, which then

Re: My quick rundown of how to use OpenLilyLib's Edition Engraver

2018-01-30 Thread Stefano Troncaro
I'm glad you found it useful! There are other powerful aspects of the EE that got left out because I don't understand them well enough yet, but I plan to write about them when I am confident with their use. Since I have only used git on personal private repos, I'm not sure about the workflow of

Re: coding question about include-d tweak/function files

2018-01-30 Thread Urs Liska
Am 30.01.2018 um 17:02 schrieb Urs Liska: ... If this is a regular case I would look for a way to include them only once. Including them multiple times definitely doesn't make sense as the file will be completely parsed again and all the definitions just overwritten. The approach I would

Re: coding question about include-d tweak/function files

2018-01-30 Thread Urs Liska
Am 30.01.2018 um 16:28 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hello all, For those who make heavy use of stylesheets and/or overrides and tweaks: Do you have one large file? Several smaller files? One file per override? Currently, I use "several smaller files", e.g., /tweaks/dynamics.ily

Re: Pitch inflection

2018-01-30 Thread Hans Åberg
> On 29 Jan 2018, at 22:39, Michael Taylor wrote: > > I am transcribing sketches in which small pitch adjustments are notated using > up & down arrows. As my aim is to reproduce the composer's notation as > closely as possible I don't want to substitute quarter-tone

Re: coding question about include-d tweak/function files

2018-01-30 Thread Urs Liska
Am 30.01.2018 um 16:28 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hello all, For those who make heavy use of stylesheets and/or overrides and tweaks: Do you have one large file? Several smaller files? One file per override? Currently, I use "several smaller files", e.g., /tweaks/dynamics.ily

coding question about include-d tweak/function files

2018-01-30 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, For those who make heavy use of stylesheets and/or overrides and tweaks: Do you have one large file? Several smaller files? One file per override? Currently, I use "several smaller files", e.g., /tweaks/dynamics.ily /tweaks/lyrics.ily /tweaks/spacing.ily and so on. But

Re: quetion about slur in the "<< .... \\ .....>>"

2018-01-30 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Harm, MUCH thanks for that snippet, now saved to my snippet folder, that so clearly explains what's going on with the << \\ >> polyphonic context syntax. I get it now. Guy Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 3:56 AM, Thomas Morley wrote: >

Re: quetion about slur in the "<< .... \\ .....>>"

2018-01-30 Thread David Wright
On Tue 30 Jan 2018 at 15:04:25 (+0100), Mats Bengtsson wrote: > > > On 2018-01-30 11:45, Thomas Morley wrote: > >2018-01-30 11:40 GMT+01:00 Robert Blackstone : > >>Hi Harm. > >>Your example did not work on my system. No idea why not. > >>The error message mentions an

Re: Pitch inflection

2018-01-30 Thread Hans Åberg
> On 29 Jan 2018, at 22:39, Michael Taylor wrote: > > I am transcribing sketches in which small pitch adjustments are notated using > up & down arrows. As my aim is to reproduce the composer's notation as > closely as possible I don't want to substitute quarter-tone

Re: Re: quetion about slur in the "<< .... \\ .....>>"

2018-01-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
On 2018-01-30 11:45, Thomas Morley wrote: 2018-01-30 11:40 GMT+01:00 Robert Blackstone : Hi Harm. Your example did not work on my system. No idea why not. The error message mentions an unexpected } at the end. What is bothering LilyPond here? I've retested my

Re: Release tarball URL

2018-01-30 Thread Gwyn Ciesla
Ah, I missed that, thank you! On 01/30/2018 07:48 AM, Karlin High wrote: > On 1/30/2018 7:43 AM, Gwyn Ciesla wrote: >> Additionally, this morning >> http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/sources/v2.19/ doesn't load. >> >> -G > > A response to another thread said something about changes to

Re: Release tarball URL

2018-01-30 Thread Karlin High
On 1/30/2018 7:43 AM, Gwyn Ciesla wrote: Additionally, this morning http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/sources/v2.19/ doesn't load. -G A response to another thread said something about changes to servers. Might take a little for everything to settle. The link given for use in the

Re: Release tarball URL

2018-01-30 Thread Gwyn Ciesla
Additionally, this morning http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/sources/v2.19/ doesn't load. -G On 01/29/2018 10:14 AM, Gwyn Ciesla wrote: > Hi! FYI, the release tarball for 2.19.81 is 404. > > http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/sources/v2.19/lilypond-2.19.81.tar.gz > > Thank you! > >

test spanner with controlled gradient / dynamic volume curve indicated by grey level

2018-01-30 Thread Michael Winter
Hello... I have tried quite a few hacks, but nothing really suitable. What I really want is to simple draw a line beneath the staff that has a grey scale gradient such that for each note, I give a target value. Most of what I have tried involves doing this in increments with overlapping

Re: test spanner with controlled gradient / dynamic volume curve indicated by grey level

2018-01-30 Thread Michael Winter
A bit more here. I think I can fake this in a markup... See example pasted below. My scheme skilz are minimal. I would like yo do this interpolating between the x position of adjacent notes. So maybe I can do this as a custom beam stencil. or some kind of spanner. Basically I want a scheme

Re: quetion about slur in the "<< .... \\ .....>>"

2018-01-30 Thread Thomas Morley
2018-01-30 11:45 GMT+01:00 Thomas Morley : > 2018-01-30 11:40 GMT+01:00 Robert Blackstone : >> Hi Harm. >> Your example did not work on my system. No idea why not. >> The error message mentions an unexpected } at the end. What is bothering >>

Re: quetion about slur in the "<< .... \\ .....>>"

2018-01-30 Thread Thomas Morley
2018-01-30 11:40 GMT+01:00 Robert Blackstone : > Hi Harm. > Your example did not work on my system. No idea why not. > The error message mentions an unexpected } at the end. What is bothering > LilyPond here? > > I would very much like to see and try your solution

Re: quetion about slur in the "<< .... \\ .....>>"

2018-01-30 Thread Robert Blackstone
Hi Harm. Your example did not work on my system. No idea why not. The error message mentions an unexpected } at the end. What is bothering LilyPond here? I would very much like to see and try your solution because I recently have struggled endlessly with slurs in passages with up to six voices

Re: quetion about slur in the "<< .... \\ .....>>"

2018-01-30 Thread Robert Blackstone
On 30 Jan 2018, at 09:49 , mosea chen wrote: > Thank you. Well done. It would take some time to understand the grammer. Hi, It is not all that difficult. The main point is that you have to recognize that on this singe staff in these three bars of your example there

Setting staff size for a single book

2018-01-30 Thread Sandro Santilli
According to the manual [1] you can use #(set-global-staff-size 14) in a book block, but when I try (using lilypond 2.18.2) the output does not change. Example: \version "2.18.2" \book { #(set-global-staff-size 48) \header { instrument = "Bass" } \score { \new Staff {

Re: quetion about slur in the "<< .... \\ .....>>"

2018-01-30 Thread Thomas Morley
2018-01-30 9:01 GMT+01:00 mosea chen : > > Hi, > I found it difficult to engrave the staff as the fingure: > > > the "slur" just does not work. > The source is as follows: > > \version "2.19.80" > { > \clef bass > \time 3/4 > > fis-2 ( e-1 d-2 | > << >

Re: Pitch inflection

2018-01-30 Thread David Kastrup
msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca writes: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2018, David Kastrup wrote: >> > as closely as possible I don't want to substitute quarter-tone symbols. Is >> > there a simple way to insert arrows in place of accidentals? Playback is >> > not an issue. >> >> Quarter notes wouldn't work anyway

Re: quetion about slur in the "<< .... \\ .....>>"

2018-01-30 Thread mosea chen
Thank you. Well done. It would take some time to understand the grammer. 2018-01-30 16:38 GMT+08:00 Robert Blackstone : > Hi, > > In the improved version the first slur is still missing. > I would do it in the following way, ugly perhaps, but it works for me: > >

Re: quetion about slur in the "<< .... \\ .....>>"

2018-01-30 Thread Robert Blackstone
Hi, In the improved version the first slur is still missing. I would do it in the following way, ugly perhaps, but it works for me: %% \version "2.19.80" { \clef bass \time 3/4 << {\stemDown fis-2 ( e-1 d-2 } \\ { s2. } >> | % V1-1 << {\stemDown a,2. ) } \\

Re: quetion about slur in the "<< .... \\ .....>>"

2018-01-30 Thread mosea chen
Thank you. I get the fingure. But not work,getting the warning:" cannot end slur" [image: 内嵌图片 1] 2018-01-30 16:03 GMT+08:00 Malte Meyn : > > > Am 30.01.2018 um 09:01 schrieb mosea chen: > >> Hi, >> I found it difficult to engrave the staff as the fingure: >> 内嵌图片 1

Re: quetion about slur in the "<< .... \\ .....>>"

2018-01-30 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 30.01.2018 um 09:01 schrieb mosea chen: Hi,     I found it difficult to engrave the staff as the fingure: 内嵌图片 1 the "slur" just does not work. The source is as follows: \version "2.19.80" {     \clef bass     \time 3/4     fis-2 ( e-1 d-2|     <<         { r4 ) e4 a8 ( g8  |}      

quetion about slur in the "<< .... \\ .....>>"

2018-01-30 Thread mosea chen
Hi, I found it difficult to engrave the staff as the fingure: [image: 内嵌图片 1] the "slur" just does not work. The source is as follows: \version "2.19.80" { \clef bass \time 3/4 fis-2 ( e-1 d-2 | << { r4 ) e4 a8 ( g8 | } \\ { a,2. | } >> fis4