Re: Please test new lilypond installers

2019-02-04 Thread Knut Petersen
On 05.02.19 00:36, Karlin High wrote: On 1/29/2019 3:19 AM, Knut Petersen wrote: lilypond-2.21.0-1.freebsd-x86.sh Intel Core i5-3450 3.10 GHz Windows 7 Pro 64-bit SP1 VirtualBox 5.2.22r126460 VM with 2 cores and 4 GB RAM $ uname -a FreeBSD freebsd32-vbox 12.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE

Re: Change staff clef immediately after time signature

2019-02-04 Thread Christopher R. Maden
On 2/4/19 10:18 AM, Aaron Hill wrote: I overlooked \cueClefUnset so that's the better option. For the grob, the Internals reference is your friend: CueEndClef Thanks! I really need to get more familiar with the internals reference. One of these days in my copious free time. David, thanks

Re: Slur connecting fingering numbers

2019-02-04 Thread Rachel Knight
Hi, The slur looks great and I was able to implement it for regular notes (the E and D in the example below). In my example though, I need the slur to be between the two notes labeled with fingering “1.” The small notes are added as an acciaccatura, and when I added \glissando, nothing

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-04 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi David, Thanks. Pretty much the same situation here. I was hoping I could change a margin on the fly - I believe this can be done in TeX. But I iwll ahve to have a separate book/bookpart/whatever and stitch the score together. This is simple to do but very inconvenient when I am making lots of

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-04 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Urs, Thanks. I have tried this in the past but it's a hack and never looks right, and this time I have cross page glissandi to deal with as well. Not an optimal solution. Andrew On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 06:55, Urs Liska wrote: > > Am 04.02.19 um 13:06 schrieb Andrew Bernard: > > the problem

Re: Slur connecting fingering numbers

2019-02-04 Thread Thomas Morley
Am Mo., 4. Feb. 2019 um 19:27 Uhr schrieb David Nalesnik : > > Hi, > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 11:53 AM Federico Bruni wrote: > > > > Hi Rachel > > > > This snippet can draw straight lines and dash lines between fingerings: > > > > > > Perhaps someone can

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-04 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Saul, I am trying to avoid shrinking the page. It's already hard enough to read at the normal size for the rest of the score. Thanks anyway! Andrew On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 06:29, Saul Tobin wrote: > The size reduction for a single system strategy is simple to do within a > single Lilypond

Re: Please test new lilypond installers

2019-02-04 Thread Karlin High
On 1/29/2019 3:19 AM, Knut Petersen wrote: > lilypond-2.21.0-1.freebsd-x86.sh Intel Core i5-3450 3.10 GHz Windows 7 Pro 64-bit SP1 VirtualBox 5.2.22r126460 VM with 2 cores and 4 GB RAM $ uname -a FreeBSD freebsd32-vbox 12.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE r341666 GENERIC i386 # pkg install

Re: Another question about two voices

2019-02-04 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Mo den 4. Feb 2019 um 2:50 schrieb Ivan Kuznetsov: > Would you post an example that compiles successfully ? Sure, why not. I had to tweak a few thinks. The most remarkable is, that I had to note the same different for the guitar tab and for

Re: A strange behaivor of autobeaming

2019-02-04 Thread David Kastrup
Павел Буданов writes: > Hello everybody! You can see on the next image, that autobeaming is not always > correct: > * > For the sake of experiment, I tried to put this snippet to separate file: > \scaleDurations 2/3 \relative f, > { >\clef bass >\set subdivideBeams = ##t >\set

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-04 Thread Urs Liska
Am 04.02.19 um 13:06 schrieb Andrew Bernard: the problem here is that everything in this score ties across bars and pages, and I don't see how to carry ties across voices between bookparts. Wouldn't \repeatTie and \laissezVibrerTie do that? (of course a semantically pretty hackish solution

A strange behaivor of autobeaming

2019-02-04 Thread Павел Буданов
Hello everybody! You can see on the next image, that autobeaming is not always correct:For the sake of experiment, I tried to put this snippet to separate file:\scaleDurations 2/3 \relative f,{   \clef bass   \set subdivideBeams = ##t   \set baseMoment = #(ly:make-moment 3/16)   \tuplet 6/6 { b,8

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-04 Thread Saul Tobin
The size reduction for a single system strategy is simple to do within a single Lilypond score using \magnifyStaff and maybe a couple additional overrides. On Mon, Feb 4, 2019, 8:04 AM David Wright On Mon 04 Feb 2019 at 16:40:57 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > > I am doing a long string

Re: Configuration Point & Click

2019-02-04 Thread foxfanfare
Hey David, David Wright wrote > I'd be interested to know what configuration command you're using in > zathura to handle the clicks. Actually I didn't change anything in my zathura config file yet. I use Zathura + zathura-pdf-poppler as it allows me to update the pdf automatically when it is

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-04 Thread foxfanfare
Andrew Bernard wrote > I am doing a long string quartet. The full score sits nicely in the middle > of an A4 landscape page with a generous top margin. But there's a solo > viola part that's very dense and the staves fill out the whole page very > tightly right to the bottom, and it looks clumsy

Re: Slur connecting fingering numbers

2019-02-04 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 11:53 AM Federico Bruni wrote: > > Hi Rachel > > This snippet can draw straight lines and dash lines between fingerings: > > > Perhaps someone can adapt it to draw curved lines... > > > Il giorno lun 4 feb 2019 alle 18:18,

Re: Selectively remove some staves consisting only of rests

2019-02-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 2/4/19, Andrew Bernard wrote: > OK. But am I on the right track in general? Seems very complex for a > conceptually simple thing to want to do, so I am concerned I am way out > here. A more basic solution would be to add an invisible voice in these specific bars: << s1*4 \\ hide c >> But no

Re: Slur connecting fingering numbers

2019-02-04 Thread Federico Bruni
Hi Rachel This snippet can draw straight lines and dash lines between fingerings: Perhaps someone can adapt it to draw curved lines... Il giorno lun 4 feb 2019 alle 18:18, Rachel Knight ha scritto: Is there a command to connect fingerings with a

Re: Horizontal shifting of chords

2019-02-04 Thread Robert Blackstone
Thanks Lukas, This also works nicely. I have added this override to my list of overrides which still is, as I realize now, very incomplete. Also I had not, up till now, realized that when looking for a solution of a problem in "learning.pdf" or" notation.pdf", or on the LilyPond website, one

Re: Selectively remove some staves consisting only of rests

2019-02-04 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 04/02/2019 à 10:17, Andrew Bernard a écrit : I want to remove some staves containing only rests and yet retain others in my quartet score. [When there is a long solo I want the other parts suppressed, but when just one instrument is at rest I want the empty staff to show in the set of four].

Slur connecting fingering numbers

2019-02-04 Thread Rachel Knight
Is there a command to connect fingerings with a slur? The slur should not connect the notes, but the actual fingering numbers. (This indicates a thumb slide in harp music.) Best, Rachel ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-04 Thread David Wright
On Mon 04 Feb 2019 at 16:40:57 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > I am doing a long string quartet. The full score sits nicely in the middle > of an A4 landscape page with a generous top margin. But there's a solo > viola part that's very dense and the staves fill out the whole page very > tightly

Re: creating a function to automate slides in guitar music

2019-02-04 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 4 Feb 2019, at 04:54, John Doe wrote: > > Hi, LilyPond users, > > First post, here. I'm trying to create a function that adds falling > gliss lines to a note or chord, as commonly seen in modern guitar > transcriptions. (N.B. I'm talking notation, not tablature.) I posted a > a question on

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-04 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Andrew, > Is it possible to alter the top margin for just a single page in the midst of > a score where it is otherwise OK? Not that I know of… But couldn’t you just let the viola page be squishy, and then use explicit system positioning to move the systems where you want? It’s a little

Re: Align bracket not to notes but to enclosing bars

2019-02-04 Thread Urs Liska
Hi David, Am 04.02.19 um 14:20 schrieb David Nalesnik: Hi Urs, On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 6:12 AM Urs Liska wrote: I have created a command that uses \startGroup and \stopGroup to print annotated horizontal brackets: % Create a horizontal bracket with included text. % If no text is desired an

Re: Change staff clef immediately after time signature

2019-02-04 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-02-04 6:47 am, Christopher R. Maden wrote: On 2/4/19 6:03 AM, Aaron Hill wrote: Note in this case I changed the CueClef font-size to match the reduced size of a non-cue clef when it appears within a line. That looks great, thanks! The \cueClefUnset bass clef still looks tiny, and if

Re: Change staff clef immediately after time signature

2019-02-04 Thread Christopher R. Maden
On 2/4/19 6:03 AM, Aaron Hill wrote: Note in this case I changed the CueClef font-size to match the reduced size of a non-cue clef when it appears within a line. That looks great, thanks! The \cueClefUnset bass clef still looks tiny, and if I use \cueClef to switch back to bass, it shows up

creating a function to automate slides in guitar music

2019-02-04 Thread John Doe
Hi, LilyPond users, First post, here. I'm trying to create a function that adds falling gliss lines to a note or chord, as commonly seen in modern guitar transcriptions. (N.B. I'm talking notation, not tablature.) I posted a a question on [StackOverflow][so] which led to a rough working version,

Re: text block as spanner

2019-02-04 Thread David Nalesnik
Hello Harm! On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 1:47 PM Thomas Morley wrote: > > Hi David, > > Am Sa., 2. Feb. 2019 um 21:35 Uhr schrieb David Nalesnik > : > > > > Hi, > > > > On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 2:13 PM Thomas Morley > > wrote: > > > > > > Am Sa., 2. Feb. 2019 um 21:09 Uhr schrieb Thomas Morley > > > :

Re: Align bracket not to notes but to enclosing bars

2019-02-04 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Urs, On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 6:12 AM Urs Liska wrote: > > I have created a command that uses \startGroup and \stopGroup to print > annotated horizontal brackets: > > % Create a horizontal bracket with included text. > % If no text is desired an empty string has to be given. > % By default the

Re: Change staff clef immediately after time signature

2019-02-04 Thread David Kastrup
"Christopher R. Maden" writes: > This is probably a FAQ, but I can’t find the right combination of > search terms to tease it from the ether... > > I want a piano staff, with the left hand to start with bass clef, but > then immediately switch to treble clef after the time signature. > > Mnon-WE

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-04 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-02-04 4:06 am, Andrew Bernard wrote: Hi Aaron, Thanks for taking so much care with this answer. But there's a problem. The viola solo in this (New Complexity) score for a quartet is incredibly dense and fills the whole page to the point that I have to have zero bottom margin. There's

Align bracket not to notes but to enclosing bars

2019-02-04 Thread Urs Liska
I have created a command that uses \startGroup and \stopGroup to print annotated horizontal brackets: % Create a horizontal bracket with included text. % If no text is desired an empty string has to be given. % By default the bracket is above the staff, otherwise % #DOWN has to be given as

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-04 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Aaron, Thanks for taking so much care with this answer. But there's a problem. The viola solo in this (New Complexity) score for a quartet is incredibly dense and fills the whole page to the point that I have to have zero bottom margin. There's very high ledger notes and very low ones, so that

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-04 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-02-03 9:40 pm, Andrew Bernard wrote: I am doing a long string quartet. The full score sits nicely in the middle of an A4 landscape page with a generous top margin. But there's a solo viola part that's very dense and the staves fill out the whole page very tightly right to the bottom,

Re: Selectively remove some staves consisting only of rests

2019-02-04 Thread Andrew Bernard
HI Valentin, OK. But am I on the right track in general? Seems very complex for a conceptually simple thing to want to do, so I am concerned I am way out here. Andrew On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 at 22:15, Valentin Villenave wrote: > On 2/4/19, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > So now I can selectively show

Re: Selectively remove some staves consisting only of rests

2019-02-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 2/4/19, Andrew Bernard wrote: > So now I can selectively show a stave containing only rests, but what about > one containing only spacers? I am unable to find what interface that is. Huh. http://lilypond.org/doc/latest/Documentation/internals/skip_002devent "Not accepted by any engraver or

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 2/4/19, Andrew Bernard wrote: > Is it possible to alter the top margin for just a single page in the midst > of a score where it is otherwise OK? The only (hackish) way I could imagine would be to disable top-margin entirely and instead put your "comfortable" top-margin as a \vspace in a

Re: Change staff clef immediately after time signature

2019-02-04 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-02-03 8:44 pm, Christopher R. Maden wrote: On 2/3/19 9:43 PM, Aaron Hill wrote: Does \cueClef help? It does... though then when I \clef bass back again it’s ignored. I can use \cueClefUnset... Thanks, this is a great workaround. I suspect there is a better (more properly

Re: Horizontal shifting of chords

2019-02-04 Thread Thomas Morley
Am Mo., 4. Feb. 2019 um 10:35 Uhr schrieb Andrew Bernard : > > Hi Robert, > > You asked to centre the chord, but then if you add barline offset it's not > centred, so I am a bit confused what you mean. although the picture makes it > clear. > > I just wanted to say that there are often times

Re: Selectively remove some staves consisting only of rests

2019-02-04 Thread Andrew Bernard
Partially answering my own question, I now see that the \unset idea does not work, and you have to reset the keep alive interfaces list to the initial list. [I got the unset idea from some archive posts.] So now I can selectively show a stave containing only rests, but what about one containing

Selectively remove some staves consisting only of rests

2019-02-04 Thread Andrew Bernard
I want to remove some staves containing only rests and yet retain others in my quartet score. [When there is a long solo I want the other parts suppressed, but when just one instrument is at rest I want the empty staff to show in the set of four]. The keepAliveInterface must have something to do

Re: Horizontal shifting of chords

2019-02-04 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Robert, You asked to centre the chord, but then if you add barline offset it's not centred, so I am a bit confused what you mean. although the picture makes it clear. I just wanted to say that there are often times when you really do want to centre a chord or a rest in a single, especially

Re: Horizontal shifting of chords

2019-02-04 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
I have not been able to get what I want.  \override NoteColumn.force-hshift = #x (some value) does nothing. I have tried to cheat a bit by surreptitiously changing the "time" of the last 2 bars from 4/2  to 6/2 and add a hidden  whole note to the end of the penultimate bar and  to the

Re: Horizontal shifting of chords

2019-02-04 Thread Robert Blackstone
Hi Malte, Many thanks for your reaction. Did it help? Sure, or rather, you gave me the solution for my problem with "\once \override Staff.BarLine.extra-spacing-width = #'(-10 . 10)". I had never seen this anywhere up till now. So I didn't even have to use your testexample. But I will

Re: Horizontal shifting of chords

2019-02-04 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 04.02.19 um 08:59 schrieb Robert Blackstone: Hi All, I have been transcribing a  piano piece in \time 4/2, that ends with a chord \breve. The penultimate bar ends with the same chord half note. What LilyPond does here I find rather ugly : both chords need more space, and I would like to

Horizontal shifting of chords

2019-02-04 Thread Robert Blackstone
Hi All, I have been transcribing a piano piece in \time 4/2, that ends with a chord \breve. The penultimate bar ends with the same chord half note. What LilyPond does here I find rather ugly : both chords need more space, and I would like to center the breve and increase the distance between