Space before barline

2019-01-19 Thread Andrew Bernard
OK. This is the magic to make space after the barline. \override BarLine.space-alist.next-note = #'(semi-fixed-space . 5) But how does one get space between the last note in a bar and the barline? There's a large number of combinations to try and I can't find anything that works - although I

Re: Adjusting space in a lyric tie

2019-01-19 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-01-19 9:15 pm, David F. wrote: On Jan 19, 2019, at 10:06 PM, Aaron Hill wrote: LyricText.word-space is what you want to adjust. Note that it doesn't stretch the size of the tie. Perfect! Thanks! And just for completeness, here is how you can manually construct a tie of

Re: output one bar at a time (midi and png)

2019-01-19 Thread Ted Walther
Thank you Thomas, this is beyond what I'd hoped for. Lilypond is the best. I hope the changes can be incorporated in mainline lilypond. On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 at 04:43, Thomas Morley wrote: > Am Sa., 19. Jan. 2019 um 13:05 Uhr schrieb Ted Walther < > tederi...@gmail.com>: > > > > I'm just

Re: Adjusting space in a lyric tie

2019-01-19 Thread David F.
On Jan 19, 2019, at 10:06 PM, Aaron Hill wrote: > LyricText.word-space is what you want to adjust. Note that it doesn't > stretch the size of the tie. Perfect! Thanks! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Adjusting space in a lyric tie

2019-01-19 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-01-19 8:02 pm, David F. wrote: On Jan 19, 2019, at 8:53 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi David, How do I adjust the space between two syllables/words that are tied? LyricSpace.minimum-distance works for words that are not tied. \override Lyrics.LyricHyphen.minimum-distance = #2

Re: Adjusting space in a lyric tie

2019-01-19 Thread David F.
On Jan 19, 2019, at 8:53 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi David, > >> How do I adjust the space between two syllables/words that are tied? >> LyricSpace.minimum-distance works for words that are not tied. > > \override Lyrics.LyricHyphen.minimum-distance = #2 > > Hope that helps! Thanks

Re: Adjusting space in a lyric tie

2019-01-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, > How do I adjust the space between two syllables/words that are tied? > LyricSpace.minimum-distance works for words that are not tied. \override Lyrics.LyricHyphen.minimum-distance = #2 Hope that helps! Kieren. Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website:

Adjusting space in a lyric tie

2019-01-19 Thread David F.
How do I adjust the space between two syllables/words that are tied? LyricSpace.minimum-distance works for words that are not tied. Thanks! David \version "2.19" { c'4 d'4 e'4 f'4 } \addlyrics { \override Lyrics.LyricSpace.minimum-distance = #2 Ly -- rics with~some~ly -- ric~ties

Re: Overrun of right margin

2019-01-19 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-01-19 4:56 pm, Andrew Bernard wrote: Problem solved after much deconstruction. I am setting a string quartet. In this section almost every note has a glissando, and some become to small to see. So I set this: \override Glissando #'minimum-length = #5 \override Glissando

Re: Ligatures, lyrics, and other arcana

2019-01-19 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-01-19 2:39 pm, Mark Probert wrote: Put in the text you wish. Huh. My assumption was that anything the \lyricmode{ } brackets would be treated as separate strings. A newbie mistake. Thanks! This is an easy mistake to make. When using \addlyrics or \lyricsto, you typically only

Re: Overrun of right margin

2019-01-19 Thread Andrew Bernard
Problem solved after much deconstruction. I am setting a string quartet. In this section almost every note has a glissando, and some become to small to see. So I set this: \override Glissando #'minimum-length = #5 \override Glissando #'springs-and-rods =

Re: Overrun of right margin

2019-01-19 Thread Andrew Bernard
Aye, true enough indeed! Nothing is simple in music. Andrew On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 at 04:31, Karlin High wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 3:15 AM Andrew Bernard > wrote: > >> Sometimes I wish I could just get to set nice Marching Band music >> instead. {No disrespect to Marching Bands!] >> > >

Re: select a note in a chord

2019-01-19 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-01-19 9:32 am, Davide Bonetti wrote: %% rise a note of a chord, in num position from below riseNote = If a little pedantry is permitted, the verb should be "raise" not "rise". The subtlety involves that we are *causing* a note to rise, therefore we are raising the note. Of course,

Re: Use of \vspace and \hspace

2019-01-19 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-01-19 8:55 am, Valentin Villenave wrote: You can use a \markup block in any TextScript object (attached to notes with -, ^ or _), any \mark or at the top level, outside of any \score block. \markup may also (obviously) be user in any definition inside the \header block (e.g. title,

Re: setting fretboard diagrams at the top of the page

2019-01-19 Thread Mr Tim
Oops, forgot to include the community. On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 5:51 PM Mr Tim wrote: > This is fantastic. I just changed how I do my chords. I used to have > "invisible" staff, notes, etc to do this. This is very helpful. I > actually put all the "define" stuff in a separate file with

Re: Ligatures, lyrics, and other arcana

2019-01-19 Thread Mark Probert
Hi, Harm. > > Put in the text you wish. > Huh. My assumption was that anything the \lyricmode{ } brackets would be treated as separate strings. A newbie mistake. Thanks! > > In mensural-ligature-engraver.cc there's the comment about "ligature-flexa" > /* > flexa

Re: Maxima...

2019-01-19 Thread Mark Probert
Hi, Harm. You wrote: > > Well, it _is_ documented, imho > ... > Isn't it sufficient for _usage_? > Absolutely. In my haste I missed that last piece. Mea culpa. Thank you for the correction! > > I'll think about how to improve this... > In the end, this is a trivial issue, so I wouldn't

Re: Lilybin troubles

2019-01-19 Thread Ethan Sue
Fixed it! http://lilybin.com/a9h1sh/11 Thanks you. On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 5:07 PM Ben wrote: > On 1/19/2019 4:59 PM, Ethan Sue wrote: > > I hope this email works. > What I meant was where is the extra beat in the text window? > > Hi Ethan, > > Sorry but your threads are a bit scattered now.

Re: Lilybin troubles

2019-01-19 Thread Ben
On 1/19/2019 4:59 PM, Ethan Sue wrote: I hope this email works. What I meant was where is the extra beat in the text window? Hi Ethan, Sorry but your threads are a bit scattered now. I've attached an image showing you what I removed in order to fix your beats issue. It's up to you how you

Lilybin troubles

2019-01-19 Thread Ethan Sue
I hope this email works. What I meant was where is the extra beat in the text window? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Lilybin troubles

2019-01-19 Thread Ben
On 1/19/2019 9:25 AM, Ethan Sue wrote: The score is all bunching up and the left hand time values are wrong. If you delete the "aes8" on line 40 it works. How do I fix this? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: select a note in a chord

2019-01-19 Thread Davide Bonetti
For the sake of the discussion, I copy there the code as it now is: (thanks to Valentin and David) D. %% #(define-public (move-chord-note n direction)    (_i "Transpose a note (numbered as @var{n}) by one octave in @var{direction}." )    (lambda (music) (let*

Re: Overrun of right margin

2019-01-19 Thread Karlin High
On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 3:15 AM Andrew Bernard wrote: > Sometimes I wish I could just get to set nice Marching Band music instead. > {No disrespect to Marching Bands!] > Past posts from Anthony "Wols" Youngman say that marching band music has its own difficulties. -- Karlin High Missouri, USA

Re: select a note in a chord

2019-01-19 Thread Davide Bonetti
Il 19/01/2019 08:36, Valentin Villenave ha scritto: On 1/18/19, David Kastrup wrote: Music functions share the same namespace as all other Scheme functions and variables OK, perhaps a better name would be \dropNote then (much like \hideNotes etc.). Good choice. Anyway, I like these

Re: Use of \vspace and \hspace

2019-01-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 1/19/19, Mr Tim wrote: > I go to the docs at > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/formatting-text > and it tells me about what can go inside, but does not tell me in what > context \markup can be used. That’s the previous subsection:

Re: Use of \vspace and \hspace

2019-01-19 Thread Mr Tim
Yes, but I don't understand where I can use \markup blocks. I go to the docs at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/formatting-text and it tells me about what can go inside, but does not tell me in what context \markup can be used. On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 10:22 AM David Kastrup

Re: Use of \vspace and \hspace

2019-01-19 Thread David Kastrup
Mr Tim writes: > I am really confused on where I can and cannot use the \vspace and > \hspace. They are markup commands. They can only appear inside of markup and markup lists. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Use of \vspace and \hspace

2019-01-19 Thread Mr Tim
I am really confused on where I can and cannot use the \vspace and \hspace. I've seen them inside \column expressions, is that the only place they can be? Reading the documentation does not help me at all. So I see it inside \markup { }. Well, then where can I put \markup? If markup has to be

Re: Lilybin troubles

2019-01-19 Thread Ben
On 1/19/2019 9:25 AM, Ethan Sue wrote: The score is all bunching up and the left hand time values are wrong. If you delete the "aes8" on line 40 it works. How do I fix this? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Lilybin troubles

2019-01-19 Thread Ethan Sue
The score is all bunching up and the left hand time values are wrong. If you delete the "aes8" on line 40 it works. How do I fix this? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: output one bar at a time (midi and png)

2019-01-19 Thread Thomas Morley
Am Sa., 19. Jan. 2019 um 13:05 Uhr schrieb Ted Walther : > > I'm just getting back into lilypond after a ten year absence. Can you > suggest some search terms? Simply looking for video gives several hits: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=video=Search=lilypond-user Cheers,

Re: Ligatures, lyrics, and other arcana

2019-01-19 Thread Thomas Morley
Am Sa., 19. Jan. 2019 um 02:40 Uhr schrieb Mark Probert : > > Hi, again. > > I'm getting out of my depth here but is it possible > to set lyrics to mensural ligatures? I can't seem to > get the following to work. You define verba = \lyricmode { 4 2 4 4 2 4 4 } i.e. naked durations in lyricmode.

Re: output one bar at a time (midi and png)

2019-01-19 Thread Ted Walther
I'm just getting back into lilypond after a ten year absence. Can you suggest some search terms? On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 at 03:43, Thomas Morley wrote: > Am Sa., 19. Jan. 2019 um 08:53 Uhr schrieb Ted Walther < > tederi...@gmail.com>: > > > > Beautiful, thank you. Is there a way to make the MIDI

Re: output one bar at a time (midi and png)

2019-01-19 Thread Thomas Morley
Am Sa., 19. Jan. 2019 um 08:53 Uhr schrieb Ted Walther : > > Beautiful, thank you. Is there a way to make the MIDI output go to a > separate file for each page of output? > > On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 at 10:16, Valentin Villenave > wrote: >> >> On 1/18/19, Ted Walther wrote: >> > Is there some

setting one \book to landscape

2019-01-19 Thread N. Andrew Walsh
Hi List, I have an input file with the following structure: \paper { #(set-default-paper-size "a3" ) } \include "file 1 - content.ly" \include "file 2 - content.ly" \book { \include "file 1 - score.ly" } \book { \include "file 2 - score.ly" } The second file has its own paper block as

Re: Maxima...

2019-01-19 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Mark, Am Sa., 19. Jan. 2019 um 02:32 Uhr schrieb Mark Probert : > However, being a newbie to this package, when I > have a problem, or a perceived problem, I can either ask > on this forum or not. Nothing wrong with asking on this list. Pretty often some weaknesses or eaven bugs become known

Re: How to define some context statements

2019-01-19 Thread Werner Arnhold
Hi Thomas, thank you very much, that was helpful. Werner Am Freitag, den 18.01.2019, 22:25 +0100 schrieb Thomas Morley: > Am Fr., 18. Jan. 2019 um 11:01 Uhr schrieb Werner Arnhold > : > > > > Dear list, > > > > I often need to have Midi output with different volume or instruments in > > some

Re: Overrun of right margin

2019-01-19 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Jean, Thank you. This is difficult New Complexity School music and the rhythms are hugely complicated, and with rapid metric modulation all over I sometimes have to leave out barchecks to get everything going (which is bad practice). So I am fairly certain you are right. I had not thought of

Re: Overrun of right margin

2019-01-19 Thread Jean Bréfort
Looks like a rythm error. Somewhere a duration is wrong and then notes go through the bars. In that case lilypond does not know where the break should be inserted. Hope this helps, Jean Le samedi 19 janvier 2019 à 19:39 +1100, Andrew Bernard a écrit : > I have some fairly dense scoring, but not

Re: Overrun of right margin

2019-01-19 Thread Andrew Bernard
More info: I am using this: \override NonMusicalPaperColumn.line-break-permission = ##f \override NonMusicalPaperColumn.page-break-permission = ##f Which seems to be the cause. This may yet again come down just to my ignorance. I have used the above construct to stop pages breaking

Overrun of right margin

2019-01-19 Thread Andrew Bernard
I have some fairly dense scoring, but not immensely packed. Using A4 landscape, I find one page - only one - keeps running over the right margin. I have not see that before and I am not sure how to construct an MWE, and the score is too large to post. What conditions would cause this behaviour? I