Re: Adjusting space in a lyric tie

2019-01-20 Thread David F.
On Jan 20, 2019, at 7:43 AM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi David, > >> I want to increase the space inside the lyric tie. So if I have >> “some~word”, I’d like to have a little more space between “some” and “word”. >> LyricHyphen.minimum-distance doesn’t do that. > > Ah, yes. Glad you fou

Re: Re[4]: Use of \vspace and \hspace

2019-01-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 1/20/19, Trevor wrote: > You're right; because \markup can be used in so many different places > and ways a new unnumberedsubsection devoted to it is probably the > best way to give an overview. Specific examples can then appear anywhere > else in the manual, like it does in the snippet in "Sep

Re: Appoggiatura before barline

2019-01-20 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Harm, thank you for pointing me to that (and actually now I recall having seen this hack some day). Am 18.01.19 um 21:14 schrieb Thomas Morley: Am Fr., 18. Jan. 2019 um 19:14 Uhr schrieb Urs Liska : Is there any convenient and semantically acceptable way of engraving an appoggiatura (or o

Re[4]: Use of \vspace and \hspace

2019-01-20 Thread Trevor
Valentin, you wrote 20/01/2019 18:12:07 On 1/20/19, Trevor wrote: "Text markup introduction" in Section 1.8.2 looks like the obvious place. Well, not exactly. As the introduction to "Formatting text", it describes what markup mode is, but not _where_ or _why_ markup blocks exist. (Hence

Re: Use of \vspace and \hspace

2019-01-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 1/20/19, Andrew Bernard wrote: > although an experienced user, I just lack something fundamental > understanding lilypond internals that leaves me permanently flummoxed. For > example, when to use extra-spacing-width, which always eludes me until I > post to the list. I can relate. But I’m gen

Re: Re[2]: Use of \vspace and \hspace

2019-01-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 1/20/19, Trevor wrote: > "Text markup introduction" in Section 1.8.2 looks like the obvious > place. Well, not exactly. As the introduction to "Formatting text", it describes what markup mode is, but not _where_ or _why_ markup blocks exist. (Hence the OP’s question.) That separate question sh

Re: Adjusting space in a lyric tie

2019-01-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, > I want to increase the space inside the lyric tie. So if I have “some~word”, > I’d like to have a little more space between “some” and “word”. > LyricHyphen.minimum-distance doesn’t do that. Ah, yes. Glad you found the answer! In your example, I suppose you really need all three

Re: Pedal gradual release

2019-01-20 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-01-20 5:16 am, Andrew Bernard wrote: Hi Aaron, What we really want is a lovely curved bezier spline! I appreciate your suggestion, but I personally would rather code PostScript than hack hairpins to be pedal dynamics. I went through all that when I tried to do this by hijacking text sp

Re: Use of \vspace and \hspace

2019-01-20 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Valentin, I was led to muse just today that almost all the recent questions on lilypond are about spacing and tweaking positions of some sort or other. [Well, I suppose you could argie that engraving is only about spacing objects and nothing else anyway!] With no disrespect to any documentation

Re: Pedal gradual release

2019-01-20 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-01-20 4:28 am, Aaron Hill wrote: One option would be to exploit a Hairpin: sustainGradualRelease = -\tweak shorten-pair #'(0 . 1.35) -\tweak height #1 -\tweak style #'dashed-line -\tweak self-alignment-Y #DOWN -\tweak to-barline ##f -\tweak stencil #(elbowed-hairpin '((0

Re: Pedal gradual release

2019-01-20 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Aaron, What we really want is a lovely curved bezier spline! I appreciate your suggestion, but I personally would rather code PostScript than hack hairpins to be pedal dynamics. I went through all that when I tried to do this by hijacking text spanners, and it was never satisfactory. The desir

Re[2]: Use of \vspace and \hspace

2019-01-20 Thread Trevor
Hi Valentin, you wrote Well put! I’ve added a few additional objects and turned it into a snippet: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=1084 This could be a nice addition to the NR itself (not sure exactly where, but I’ll have to look into it) "Text markup introduction" in Section 1.8.2 looks li

Re: Pedal gradual release

2019-01-20 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-01-20 3:04 am, Andrew Bernard wrote: I use a wedge type symbol to indicate gradual release of a piano pedal. Since this is not built in to lilypond, I developed code like the following to do the job, using PostScript. I don't mind using PostScript as I am fluent in it, but objectively, th

Re: Pedal gradual release

2019-01-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 1/20/19, Andrew Bernard wrote: > generalise this and make it more user friendly I assume you know about this example: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=698 My instinct would be to print the sustainPedal brackets normally, and then hack the Sostenuto pedal stencil (in bracket mode as well so

Re: Use of \vspace and \hspace

2019-01-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 1/20/19, Aaron Hill wrote: > \markup may additionally be used for lyrics, in chord names, and as > dynamics. In fact, it is possible to use \markup to customize the > appearance of virtually any object: Well put! I’ve added a few additional objects and turned it into a snippet: http://lsr.di.

Pedal gradual release

2019-01-20 Thread Andrew Bernard
I use a wedge type symbol to indicate gradual release of a piano pedal. Since this is not built in to lilypond, I developed code like the following to do the job, using PostScript. I don't mind using PostScript as I am fluent in it, but objectively, this is terribly special case code. Is there anyb

Re: Space before barline

2019-01-20 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi Andrew, Am 20.01.19 um 07:52 schrieb 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 combinatio