Re: Need volta repeat brackets for a Trumpet+Piano "great big staff?"

2022-12-21 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Thank you, Abraham, for the feedback. I feel comfortable now with the volta brackets as they are. Secondly, I agree that it is overkill to to have the Voice specified for the left hand when there is only one voice. I'm fine-tuning as I go... Thanks, Ken On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 10:51 PM

Re: Need volta repeat brackets for a Trumpet+Piano "great big staff?"

2022-12-21 Thread Abraham Lee
Hey, Ken! On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 11:11 PM Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > Hi; > > I need volta repeat brackets for a Trumpet+Piano "great big staff?". > > I see the section in the Notation Reference and a section in the > Snippet Reference regarding volte multi-staff, but I'm confused when I >

Re: Ross’s rules

2022-12-21 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Eef, See : https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/essay/short-literature-list.html Cheers, Pierre Le jeu. 22 déc. 2022 à 07:29, Eef Weenink a écrit : > Always interested in new (for me new) sources of knowledge: > "What are the Ross’s rules?" > > Regards, Eef > > Op 21 dec. 2022, om

RE: Ross’s rules

2022-12-21 Thread Eef Weenink
Always interested in new (for me new) sources of knowledge: "What are the Ross’s rules?" Regards, Eef Op 21 dec. 2022, om 22:21 heeft Abraham Lee mailto:tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com>> het volgende geschreven: Ross’s rules

Re: Reduce extra space at end of stave

2022-12-21 Thread NickS
Thank you Xavier, your solution worked perfectly!I know it seems strange for me to specify proportional notation and then override it, but I'm embedding many such lilypond snippets within a document (using LaTeX and lilypond-book) where I need the proportional, uniform and strict positioning of

Re: Whiteout staff lines behind beams

2022-12-21 Thread Abraham Lee
On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 1:56 PM Kieren MacMillan < kie...@kierenmacmillan.info> wrote: > Hi Abraham, > > > What solution did Matthew propose for his criticisms? Just curious how > it turned out to satisfy him. > > He basically said “follow Ross’s guidelines”. :) > I haven’t had time to compare

Re: Whiteout staff lines behind beams

2022-12-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Abraham, > What solution did Matthew propose for his criticisms? Just curious how it > turned out to satisfy him. He basically said “follow Ross’s guidelines”. :) I haven’t had time to compare how Lilypond’s defaults compare to Ross’s rules… Cheers, Kieren.

Re: Reduce extra space at end of stave

2022-12-21 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 at 20:13, NickS wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion Mark... adding ragged-right = ##t stretches out the stave across the page width (175mm), ragged-right = ##f reverts to the default behaviour (stave 78mm wide), with still too much clear space at the end (18.75mm, the same as

Re: Whiteout staff lines behind beams

2022-12-21 Thread Abraham Lee
On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 12:47 PM Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le 21/12/2022 à 17:16, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : > >> According to Wikipedia, David Maslanka is a composer who died in > 2017... ? > > Oops! I meant Matthew, his son (who is still very much alive, and who > was at the Salzburg

Re: Whiteout staff lines behind beams

2022-12-21 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 21/12/2022 à 17:16, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : According to Wikipedia, David Maslanka is a composer who died in 2017... ? Oops! I meant Matthew, his son (who is still very much alive, and who was at the Salzburg conference with us). His father — whom I met several times — was a wonderful

Re: Reduce extra space at end of stave

2022-12-21 Thread NickS
Thanks for the suggestion Mark... adding ragged-right = ##t stretches out the stave across the page width (175mm), ragged-right = ##f reverts to the default behaviour (stave 78mm wide), with still too much clear space at the end (18.75mm, the same as the clear space between the chords). It's

RE: Reduce extra space at end of stave

2022-12-21 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Nick, Include \ragged-right = ##f In the layout block. Mark From: lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org] On Behalf Of NickS Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2022 6:09 AM To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Reduce

Re: Mimicking `\chords` mode within `\markup`

2022-12-21 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 21/12/2022 à 17:56, Joel C. Salomon a écrit : \version "2.24.0" \markup { Compare \sans\concat{F\char ##x266F °/C} to \sans\concat{F\sharp °/C} to \score{\chords{\chordmode{ fis:dim/c }}} } Looks like `\chords` is aligning the sharp symbol differently (and probably using SMUFL U+E870

Mimicking `\chords` mode within `\markup`

2022-12-21 Thread Joel C. Salomon
\version "2.24.0" \markup { Compare \sans\concat{F\char ##x266F °/C} to \sans\concat{F\sharp °/C} to \score{\chords{\chordmode{ fis:dim/c }}} } Looks like `\chords` is aligning the sharp symbol differently (and probably using SMUFL U+E870 rather than U+B0 (°), but that matters less). How

Re: Whiteout staff lines behind beams

2022-12-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
> According to Wikipedia, David Maslanka is a composer who died in 2017... ? Oops! I meant Matthew, his son (who is still very much alive, and who was at the Salzburg conference with us). His father — whom I met several times — was a wonderful man, and a composer of lovely music. Kieren.

Re: Whiteout staff lines behind beams

2022-12-21 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 21/12/2022 à 16:16, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : Agreed. I recently hired David Maslanka to critique my engravings and help me finalize a housestyle — the first thing he noticed and criticized were the beams, especially all the intersections and wedges. According to Wikipedia, David

Re: Whiteout staff lines behind beams

2022-12-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Werner, > What's needed IMHO is an improved algorithm to better quantize > vertical start and end positions of beams so that the number of > grazing intersections is reduced and/or optimized. Agreed. I recently hired David Maslanka to critique my engravings and help me finalize a housestyle

Re: Whiteout staff lines behind beams

2022-12-21 Thread Abraham Lee
On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 3:09 AM Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le 21/12/2022 à 01:26, Abraham Lee a écrit : > > Is there a way to turn the stencil into a composite of the original > > with a big block of whiteout that follows the entire group's outer > > skyline so it hides the staff lines? Would be a

Re: Whiteout staff lines behind beams

2022-12-21 Thread Abraham Lee
On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 11:46 PM Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > When a beam group (especially 1/16 or shorter) crosses a staff line, it > can > > create some annoying skinny triangles that can be visually > > distracting. [...] > > > > Is there a way to turn the stencil into a composite of the

Reduce extra space at end of stave

2022-12-21 Thread NickS
In the below minimal example, please how do I reduce the extra space at the end of the stave (between the last chord and the barline)? I'm happy with the proportional, uniform and strict spacing between the chords, and the space between the clef and first chord - these all match up with

Re: acciaccatura slur direction

2022-12-21 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 1:40 PM David Kastrup wrote: > Acciaccature have their own built-in slur direction, so if you want to > override it, you need to do it within the acciaccatura: > > \version "2.24.0" > down = { > \clef bass > \acciaccatura { \slurUp g,8 } d'2 % works > \acciaccatura {

Re: Problems with musicxml2ly

2022-12-21 Thread mark damerell
Thank you very much all who replied. Paul Hodges said (in part): ... Music XML files always require a lot of processing to get acceptable > output ... > This is certainly true in this instance!! Thank you all.

Re: Whiteout staff lines behind beams

2022-12-21 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 21/12/2022 à 01:26, Abraham Lee a écrit : Is there a way to turn the stencil into a composite of the original with a big block of whiteout that follows the entire group's outer skyline so it hides the staff lines? Would be a nice feature, IMO. I know the stems can be "frenched", but would

Re: spacing before acciaccatura

2022-12-21 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 21/12/2022 à 10:33, Owen Le Blanc a écrit : I found a number of improvements using 2.24.0, but one irritant is still there: before acciaccatura marks such as caesura and key changes are spaced differently, and so don't align with those in other staffs. Here are two simple examples. This is

spacing before acciaccatura

2022-12-21 Thread Owen Le Blanc
I found a number of improvements using 2.24.0, but one irritant is still there: before acciaccatura marks such as caesura and key changes are spaced differently, and so don't align with those in other staffs. Here are two simple examples. -- Owen Dr O V Le Blanc \version "2.24.0" \score {

Re: extension fingerings, key sigs

2022-12-21 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi Matthew, How do I keep the new key signature from also appearing at the end of the previous line? Also, how can I write { 1 x 2 4 } in the fingering font, adding an "x" between the notes to signify the extension between "1" and "2"? One possibility would be \version "2.24.0" \relative