Re: Dot-separated list as music function argument

2014-07-08 Thread Abraham Lee
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:39 AM, Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de wrote: Hello everybody, I just wrote a music function to mark grobs as editorial addition by colouring them grey. See the code and an example: \version 2.19.8 ed = #(let ((string-or-list? (lambda (grob) (or (string? grob)

Re: Header markup question

2014-07-08 Thread Abraham Lee
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Larry Kent kentla...@gmail.com wrote: I'm editing a file that was created in 2.16. Within the \paper settings, I have the following two lines that put headers on pages after the first, and they print too close to the top edge of the paper. What markup should

Re: Dot-separated list as music function argument

2014-07-08 Thread Abraham Lee
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:48 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de writes: Hello everybody, I just wrote a music function to mark grobs as editorial addition by colouring them grey. See the code and an example: \version 2.19.8 ed = #(let

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-09 Thread Abraham Lee
Xavier, That issue is a perfect example of what can be changed easily (i.e., no symbolic linking, no fancy naming-renaming, copying-recopying, etc.) All the fonts can co-exist, just as we are already used to with text fonts, in what I've developed. Regards, Abraham Xavier Scheuer

Re: Header markup question

2014-07-10 Thread Abraham Lee
, schrieb Abraham Lee: On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Larry Kent kentla...@gmail.com wrote: I'm editing a file that was created in 2.16. Within the *\paper* settings, I have the following two lines that put headers on pages after the first, and they print too close to the top edge

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-10 Thread Abraham Lee
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 3:39 AM, James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com wrote: Something I've been wondering about for awhile... lilypond.org boasts of optical spacing for notes with alternating up and down stems, but it seems this feature has been lost somewhere (or disabled by default). In this

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-11 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 7:09 AM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Abraham Lee tisi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 3:39 AM, James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com wrote: Something I've been wondering about for awhile... lilypond.org

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-11 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:00 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Abraham Lee tisi...@gmail.com writes: Equally spaced stems do look nice with groupings that change staff constantly, however. I remember that SCORE had a feature that enabled this. I've often thought that LilyPond should

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-15 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Urs, it seems like I missed something. How did you create those scores? ... What is the Cadence font? Joram, I can answer for Urs. ... The Cadence font was the first result of that effort. Hi Abraham,

Re: See the new music fonts in action

2014-07-26 Thread Abraham Lee
Janek, You are right about Ross. I updated the Ross example PDF (same link as before, so see the original message). See what you think with the thicker lines now. Regards, Abraham P.S. Anyone interested in using these should wait a little until we get the distribution website up and running. It

Re: [SPAM] Re: See the new music fonts in action

2014-07-26 Thread Abraham Lee
wrote: Am 26.07.2014 19:52, schrieb Abraham Lee: P.P.S. You don't like Amadeus? I feel rejected :) Well, it's not that I don't like it, it feels like a good name for a notation font. But it's similarly unappropriate as would be Finale or Sibelius (you know that Amadeus is an out

Re: See the new music fonts in action

2014-07-27 Thread Abraham Lee
You may be joking, but that's not a bad idea. Scorlatti... Maybe so. -Abraham On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 8:30 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Abraham Lee tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: P.P.S. You don't like Amadeus? I feel rejected :) I guess I'm okay with that... What shall we

Re: Better sound file then MIDI

2014-07-28 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:39 AM, dirk van damme dirk.van.da...@hotmail.be wrote: Hi, Is there a possibility/approach to produce with Lilypond a music file that comes much closer to the natural sound of the music instruments used in the score - then through MIDI output as documented in the

Re: See the new music fonts in action

2014-07-28 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Mark Polesky markpole...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Mark Polesky markpole...@gmail.com wrote: Or Scordato, which means out of tune but also forgotten. The word scordatura is a derivative of this. Also scordare means detune and also

Re: See the new music fonts in action

2014-07-28 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Hans Aberg haber...@telia.com wrote: On 26 Jul 2014, at 01:14, tisimst tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: I couldn't wait any longer, so here's a formal announcement about the new music fonts that I've been working on, by way of example. They are all 100%

Re: Multiple stanzas to selection of melody

2014-07-28 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Marten msvis...@planet.nl wrote: Dear all, Trying to typeset a song I am faced with the following problem for which I can;t find a solution in the manual or snippet repository. I kindly request your help. I'm typesetting a song with one staff, where the

Re: Where to Download the New Music Fonts?

2014-07-28 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Steve Noland st...@thenolands.us wrote: Dear all, Can you post a link where the new music fonts can be found for downloading? I am unable to get to them on openlillylib.org. Thanks, Steve ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Multiple stanzas to selection of melody

2014-07-28 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Marten msvis...@planet.nl wrote: Hello Abraham, Simon, Thanks for your solutions and quick replies :) I decided to try to implement Simon's third solution, as it explicitly keeps the melody of the stanzas together with their texts. Ingenious - hadn't

Re: Where to Download the New Music Fonts?

2014-07-28 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-07-29 0:58 GMT+02:00 Abraham Lee tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com: 2. LilyPond needs to be patched in order actually use the fonts. I'd be interested in that file, too. Can't find it on the list ... Although we

Re: Where to Download the New Music Fonts?

2014-07-29 Thread Abraham Lee
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Am 29.07.2014 14:58, schrieb Hans Aberg: On 29 Jul 2014, at 14:53, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: On 29. Juli 2014 14:47:57 MESZ, Hans Aberg haber...@telia.com wrote: On 29 Jul 2014, at 00:58, Abraham Lee

Re: How split SA staff into two staff - each now has two voices?

2014-08-01 Thread Abraham Lee
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 2:44 PM, MING TSANG tsan...@rogers.com wrote: Hi, lilyponders: I try to engrave a hymn which has two staff - one for SA and one for TB. At measure 70 to the end (measure 91) SA staff split into two S A and each contains two voices. TB stays on one staff till the end.

Re: See the new music fonts in action

2014-08-01 Thread Abraham Lee
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Or send me the latest version of the file. Urs Urs, Here's the newest version of font.scm. I decided to create my own function after all so that make-pango-font-tree (at least from the user's perspective) follows the

Re: See the new music fonts in action

2014-08-01 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Larry Kent kentla...@gmail.com wrote: This looks great! It compiled correctly for me in LilyPond, but Frescobaldi 2.0.16 returns an error message on this line: #(define fonts (although it also compiled a lovely bit of score). This latest version of

Re: [SPAM] Re: See the new music fonts in action

2014-08-02 Thread Abraham Lee
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Just one question before I can make a patch from this: which Lilypond version is this file derived from? (I need to know that in order not to discard any work others may have done in that file). Urs I'm using 2.18.2.

Re: Many staff contexts do not nest

2014-08-04 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com wrote: Perhaps the following could be added to the Nested Staff Groups section of the page http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-staves By default Piano Staff, Grand Staff and Staff Group can

Re: Many staff contexts do not nest

2014-08-04 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:41 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Abraham Lee tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com wrote: Perhaps the following could be added to the Nested Staff Groups section of the page http

Re: See the new music fonts in action

2014-08-04 Thread Abraham Lee
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 8:49 PM, tisimst tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, this is the last call for anyone to vote on the new name for the Amadeus (SCORE look-a-like) music font. I'll announce the new name tomorrow. In case you forgot, here's the survey link:

RE: piano pedal

2014-08-05 Thread Abraham Lee
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonm...@ca.rr.com wrote: David, Thank you for your reply and the commands. Where in the documentation can I find more on the method (the why and how it works) you presented? Thank you for your kind attention. Mark -Original

Re: See the new music fonts in action

2014-08-05 Thread Abraham Lee
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 8:49 PM, tisimst tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, this is the last call for anyone to vote on the new name for the Amadeus (SCORE look-a-like) music font. I'll announce the new name tomorrow. In case you forgot, here's the survey link:

RE: Better sound file then MIDI

2014-08-06 Thread Abraham Lee
Dirk, I've collected all my soundfonts into a MASSIVE compressed file (~2.5 GB). Here's the link where you can download it from my Google Drive account: https://docs.google.com/uc?export=downloadconfirm=6Ccwid=0B48p48kXy91YRUVqUGMzbl9PdGs Enjoy! Regards, Abraham On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at

Re: Better sound file then MIDI

2014-08-06 Thread Abraham Lee
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Nathan Ho when.possi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Abraham Lee tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: Dirk, I've collected all my soundfonts into a MASSIVE compressed file (~2.5 GB). Here's the link where you can download it from my

Re: Where to Download the New Music Fonts?

2014-08-06 Thread Abraham Lee
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Gilberto Agostinho gilbertohasn...@gmail.com wrote: PS: if you want some excerpts of those scores, just let me know! That would be great! Send them my way! Regards, Abraham ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Issue 1129: Font styles return to default when font size changed

2014-08-08 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Hilary Snaden h...@newearth.demon.co.uk wrote: On 2014-08-08 09:35, tisimst wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Hilary Snaden [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n165395...@n5.nabble.com wrote: Is this likely to be resolved? Perhaps a more fully-functioning

Re: Reduce vertical space between \score's?

2014-08-08 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 11:44 AM, PMA peterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu wrote: P.S. I should ask alternatively: Is there a way that proportionalNotationDuration...make-moment... can be reset _per system_ (assuming now a multi- system \score)? PMA wrote: Hi List. An *.ly of mine has four 1-system

Re: Reduce vertical space between \score's?

2014-08-08 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Pete, Trouble is, the vertical space between \score's is too big. This was not so in the original version (2.12.3), but is now after my upgrade to version 2.18.2. Is it possible to reduce

Re: Problem with line breaks and guitar chords

2014-08-15 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 2:24 PM, David Bellows davebell...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I'm developing a program that does various things to sounds including various ways of creating scores. One of the things intends to produce simple guitar chords with fret diagrams, chord names, and strumming

Re: Crowd engraving project

2014-08-21 Thread Abraham Lee
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Hi all, this has been discussed before, but now's the time to repeat the call for participation for our crowd engraving project with Das trunkne Lied, a large scale orchestral work by Oskar Fried. We are looking for

Re: problems with proportional spaced bar alignment

2014-09-01 Thread Abraham Lee
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Adam Spiers lilypond-u...@adamspiers.org wrote: Please could someone tell me why the bar lines aren't aligned correctly in this? https://gist.github.com/aspiers/3a9fa8fc4422742cab82 I've tried all the obvious stuff from:

Re: How can we obtain ties across voices in parallel music?

2014-09-04 Thread Abraham Lee
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Jacques Menu imj-...@bluewin.ch wrote: Hello folks, I’d like to obtain the tie between the cis’s in beat 1 and 2 in the attached, from a version of BWV 508 (3/4). The best I could find is: % \version 2.18.2 { \clef treble \key b \major \time 3/4

Re: Henle Music font

2014-09-06 Thread Abraham Lee
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Nicolai Pfeffer nicolai.pfef...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Abraham! I’m a clarinetist and music editor from Cologne, Germany and I’ve worked as an engraver for some of the major German publishing houses. I highly appreciate your effort of creating a Henle-like music

fonts.openlilylib.org is live!

2014-09-09 Thread Abraham Lee
Dear LilyPond Community, The new website where you can download alternative music fonts is now live! Head on over to fonts.openlilylib.org and try them out! If there are any broken links, please let me know so I can fix them. If any instructions are unclear, please let me know so I can

Re: beginner stanza help

2014-09-09 Thread Abraham Lee
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Steven Arntson ste...@stevenarntson.com wrote: Thanks for this, it helps. I'm struggling to understand this program with very little background, and it is like spelunking without a headlamp. Consequently, I fear asking questions that are not worth answering. I

Re: fonts.openlilylib.org is live!

2014-09-10 Thread Abraham Lee
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Shane Brandes sh...@grayskies.net wrote: I fiddled around with making one a while back but thought the system was to oddball to be handily useful at the time and that was several releases ago. I may work on one when the snows come again, probably for an earlier

Re: fonts.openlilylib.org is live!

2014-09-11 Thread Abraham Lee
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:39 AM, Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Once I have more time I will definitely try the new fonts. It's an interesting project and addition to the power of LilyPond. But I hope this will not change the goal of LilyPond development in the future

Re: fonts.openlilylib.org is live!

2014-09-11 Thread Abraham Lee
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 3:29 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Hi Abraham, great that it has come to that point, congratulations. At a time we'll surely try out the effect on our new _big_ Oskar Fried score :-) I'm at least very interested how it will come out with Cadence, but for a

Re: Creating new fonts with FontForgeErreur

2014-09-12 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Since Abraham has done a wonderful job with his new fonts, I wanted to come back to some font works i started years ago without success (I'm a total newbee with FontForge). And still, I'm

Re: Henle Music font

2014-09-12 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Hi, Abraham, I invite you to visit me and investigate my engraving plate from Chopin's f minor concerto :-) Urs, You have an actual engraving plate in your possession?! Lucky! I really wish I could come and visit to see

Re: Henle Music font

2014-09-12 Thread Abraham Lee
-- Forwarded message -- From: Conor Cook conor.p.c...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Henle Music font Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:49:57 -0500 To: Abraham Lee tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com Oops, I didn't mean to make it private. I get the emails as a digest, which makes responding hard

Re: \override #'(font-series . medium) doesn't work anymore?

2014-09-19 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Karol Majewski karo...@wp.pl wrote: OK, so having read what Abraham wrote, I'll put my question in other way: Is there any typeface that works in LilyPond with \medium command? I haven't found any... -- Karol Karol, Do you mean that you want a slightly

Re: \override #'(font-series . medium) doesn't work anymore?

2014-09-19 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 September 2014 18:18, TaoCG tao_lilypondu...@gmx.net wrote: There must be something wrong on your side. I can see a clear difference between Regular and Medium in both normal and italic shape. Same here.

Re: Automatic fit-to page staff spacing help

2014-09-19 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Scott Miller scottli...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote \paper { ragged-bottom = ##f } Thanks! Yeah I have tried various ragged-xxx options, but it doesn't seem to space evenly over the whole page. Ex:

Re: Henle Music font

2014-09-25 Thread Abraham Lee
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 5:36 AM, tisimst tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks so much for your kind words! I think you are right about how much easier it is now, but in all fairness to Han-wen, et al, who created Emmentaler, I didn't have to parametrically define the glyphs. I understand

Re: overriding articulate.ly

2014-09-25 Thread Abraham Lee
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl wrote: Hi, I often \include articulate.ly to generate midifiles from my LilyPond scores. Looking at the content of the articulate.ly file I see for example: #(define ac:staccatoFactor '(1 . 2)) Is there a way to

Re: Strange happenings with alternate music fonts 2.19.14

2014-09-26 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Joshua Nichols josh.d.nich...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if this problem has occurred with 2.18.2, but I have not tried it. Anyone understand why the composer is coming out all the way to the right of the margin? see attached. Sincerely, Josh Josh, I,

Re: Strange happenings with alternate music fonts 2.19.14

2014-09-26 Thread Abraham Lee
PM, Abraham Lee tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Joshua Nichols josh.d.nich...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if this problem has occurred with 2.18.2, but I have not tried it. Anyone understand why the composer is coming out all the way to the right of the margin

Re: Strange happenings with alternate music fonts 2.19.14

2014-09-26 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Joshua Nichols josh.d.nich...@gmail.com wrote: (or rather, the empty markup)... What do you mean? I don't see an empty markup. So it must be the current composer... Is it too long? IC, Josh Josh, It's not that YOU put empty markup in it, but that the

Re: LilyPond Enhancement Proposal (with Bounty)

2014-09-28 Thread Abraham Lee
Paul, This sounds intriguing! First of all, my best wishes to you and your startup company. May you have great success! Secondly, I'm not entirely sure I understand what you are trying to avoid with the text above measure bars. Can you give us an example or two showing us exactly what you

Re: LilyPond Enhancement Proposal (with Bounty)

2014-09-28 Thread Abraham Lee
That's what I thought. I just wanted to make sure that that's what was really the issue that needed to be addressed. Regards, Abraham Sent from my iPhone On Sep 28, 2014, at 9:34 PM, Chris Crossen elaparic...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 28, 2014, at 8:08 PM, Abraham Lee tisimst.lilyp

Re: Long stretch in one voice, then two

2014-09-29 Thread Abraham Lee
+1! I think that makes perfect sense and feels very coherent with the other functions. Regards, Abraham Sent from my iPhone On Sep 29, 2014, at 1:18 AM, Knute Snortum ksnor...@gmail.com wrote: Well, mine would be \voiceNeutral, but I'm not demanding that! It would fit with \tieUp -

Re: Unexpected TabStaff creation

2014-09-29 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Peter Crighton petecrigh...@gmail.com wrote: I see, thanks. I have several files I include in every project, in one of which I make some overrides to TabStaff. How can I avoid this problem in scores I’m not using any TabStaffs in, other than removing the

Re: Unexpected TabStaff creation

2014-09-29 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Peter Crighton petecrigh...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-09-29 21:18 GMT+02:00 Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com: 2014-09-29 21:12 GMT+02:00 Abraham Lee tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com: Put the overrides in a \layout block, like: \layout { \override TabStaff.Stemstencil

Re: Unexpected TabStaff creation

2014-09-29 Thread Abraham Lee
as the original code. I'm not sure if this will buy you anything new, but who knows. Good luck! Regards, Abraham Sent from my iPhone On Sep 29, 2014, at 5:18 PM, Peter Crighton petecrigh...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-09-30 0:49 GMT+02:00 Abraham Lee tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com: If it's something you need

Re: LilyPond Enhancement Proposal (with Bounty)

2014-10-02 Thread Abraham Lee
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Chris Crossen elaparic...@gmail.com wrote: Due to the lack of response, I’m wondering if this question is posted on the right list. Is there another list where this question is more likely to be seen by developers? Thanks, Chris Chris, I looked into this a

Re: Overriding header fonts in a template

2014-10-02 Thread Abraham Lee
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Harris, Jeff j...@jeffharris.us wrote: Abraham, Thanks for the help. Creating a new header block is working, it does seem to work better when the variables are defined before they are used. The issue with this is that I don't know what header elements will be

Re: Bounty for Fixing Ligature Bug?

2014-10-06 Thread Abraham Lee
Josh, It's not the hints. Font hints are instructions for the computer to render the glyphs more accurately at small sizes. Unfortunately, it's a different issue. -Abraham Sent from my iPhone On Oct 6, 2014, at 8:25 PM, Joshua Nichols josh.d.nich...@gmail.com wrote: I apologize for not

Re: Overlapping ties in different voices

2014-10-07 Thread Abraham Lee
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Frederick Bartlett frederick.bartl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I'm trying to set selection from Saint-Saën's Oratorio de Noël for my choir. In the Gloria in altissimis (p9 in the IMSLP PDFs), I found an odd combination of ties: \relative c''' { { s1

Feedback Request for Music Fonts

2014-10-09 Thread Abraham Lee
Greetings, fellow users! With the advent of the new music fonts and the accompanying website, I just thought I'd open up this thread to any feedback anyone has about the fonts and ANYTHING related to them. I think it would also be neat for users to also share success stories from using them.

Re: Feedback Request for Music Fonts

2014-10-10 Thread Abraham Lee
? 2014-10-10 9:05 GMT+02:00 Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com: Hi Abraham, 2014-10-09 15:39 GMT+02:00 Abraham Lee tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com: I just thought I'd open up this thread to any feedback anyone has about the fonts and ANYTHING related to them. Just one

Re: Feedback Request for Music Fonts

2014-10-10 Thread Abraham Lee
Guy, Thank you for using it! That's a wonderful story! Keep it up :) Regards, Abraham Sent from my iPhone On Oct 9, 2014, at 2:56 PM, Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com wrote: I LOVE what you've done. I them installed on all of my lilypond/Frescobaldi intallations (five in total). And you

Re: Feedback Request for Music Fonts

2014-10-10 Thread Abraham Lee
Scott, Very interesting... If they're used to Finale's output, then this isn't too surprising, since Finale's Maestro font and Profondo are based on the same glyph set, only Profondo is a heavier version. And I'm glad you like Scorlatti! Care to share any of your recent works with it?

Re: Feedback Request for Music Fonts

2014-10-10 Thread Abraham Lee
...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 9, 2014, at 8:39 AM, Abraham Lee tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, fellow users! With the advent of the new music fonts and the accompanying website, I just thought I'd open up this thread to any feedback anyone has about the fonts and ANYTHING

Re: Feedback Request for Music Fonts

2014-10-11 Thread Abraham Lee
Noeck, On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de wrote: - Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyc music font As you are often asking for scores with a nice font, I recently found scores printed by the Polish publisher Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyc (PWM). This is the only scan, I found in the

Re: Tilde causes error message: unrecognized string, not in text script or \lyricmode

2014-10-12 Thread Abraham Lee
Eyolf, Your snippet compiles perfectly for me on Ubuntu using LilyPond 2.18.2, so it probably is something with your installation? Sorry I can't help more than that. Regards, Abraham Sent from my iPhone On Oct 12, 2014, at 6:23 PM, Eyolf Østrem ey...@oestrem.com wrote: On 13-10-2014

Re: Feedback Request for Music Fonts

2014-10-12 Thread Abraham Lee
Joram, On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Abraham, thanks for your reply. \version 2.19.14 \transpose c c' { % default (Century Schoolbook) \tuplet 3/2 { a8 a a } % bold (Century Schoolbook) - closer to Bravura \override TupletNumber.font-series =

Re: Feedback Request for Music Fonts

2014-10-13 Thread Abraham Lee
/2 { a a a } } Regards, Abraham On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Abraham Lee tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: Joram, On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Abraham, thanks for your reply. \version 2.19.14 \transpose c c' { % default (Century Schoolbook

Re: Feedback Request for Music Fonts

2014-10-13 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 2:01 AM, Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl wrote: Hi, When I use the LilyJAZZ fonts and style, the ' is missing in titles and texts. I don't mind if not every exotic unicode character in the world is supported in every font, but in this case it's difficult to

Re: Tuplet Number Down

2014-10-13 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: The point of this is you don't want the tuplet *number* down but the whole thing. Knute, In other words, instead of TupletNumber, use TupletBracket. You can also use the shortcut \tupletDown :) Regards, Abraham P.S.

Re: Feedback Request for Music Fonts

2014-10-13 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Abraham Lee tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 2:01 AM, Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl wrote: Hi, When I use the LilyJAZZ fonts and style, the ' is missing in titles and texts. I don't mind if not every exotic unicode

Re: Feedback Request for Music Fonts

2014-10-13 Thread Abraham Lee
Joram, On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de wrote: Is it possible to switch the music font for a staff or even a measure with your approach? Or does it only work in the \paper environment. It would be cool for comparisons of fonts in the same file like here (using oll):

Re: Trouble with fonts on Linux

2014-10-14 Thread Abraham Lee
Jon, On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Jon Arnold jonarnoldsem...@gmail.com wrote: Hi- I'm working on a piece for handbells and needed to borrow some articulation marks from (gasp) a Finale font. That's nothing to be (too) ashamed of :) I have the font in my ~/.fonts directory, have

Re: Anyone have experience with PDF/A-1b?

2014-10-15 Thread Abraham Lee
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm lilypon...@fiee.net wrote: Hi James, of course not every printshop is incompetent. But I’m a printing engineer who knows the PDF specs as well as their application in prepress. I used to work in printshops and prepress agencies most of my

Re: fatal error

2014-10-15 Thread Abraham Lee
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Can it be that you have the PDF file open in a viewer? On Windows it isn't possible to automatically reload the PDF, it runs into an error at the stage where your run seems to fail. HTH Urs That was my suspicion as

Opposite hand indicator

2014-10-17 Thread Abraham Lee
Greetings, All! I just though I'd share a little solution I made up for piano notation when you want to indicate that a note or chord or whatever should be played by the opposite hand. It uses the \finger function and \set fingerOrientations override to place them in the right spot. There are

Re: Using \partcombine with explicit voices

2014-10-20 Thread Abraham Lee
Urs, On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Yes, that's (unfortunately) correct. I have (say) two flute parts that will be printed individually in parts. But in the score they should be combined (which is what \partcombine should be good for ...). But for

Re: Feedback Request for Music Fonts

2014-10-20 Thread Abraham Lee
lilypon...@fiee.net wrote: Am 2014-10-20 um 23:02 schrieb Abraham Lee tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com: Personally, I agree with your comment about LilyJAZZ. While there is a certain personality behind it, I don't think I'd use it for a large score. However, I think there are lots of people who

Re: Feedback Request for Music Fonts

2014-10-20 Thread Abraham Lee
Well, I can't say that it was intended for any particular purpose, other than to look like a hand copyist's writing, but that was clever! Regards, Abraham Sent from my iPhone On Oct 20, 2014, at 9:58 PM, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: The snippet portrayed in the image is from a

Re: Feedback Request for Music Fonts

2014-10-22 Thread Abraham Lee
All, It was brought to my attention that there were some printing issues with the Beethoven font (white spots would appear at certain overlapping lines). These are now fixed and updated on fonts.openlilylib.org. I have also added .WOFF font files, though I'm not really sure how to use them,

Re: Cadence font and lilypond-book

2014-10-23 Thread Abraham Lee
Marc, I've never done anything with lilypondbook, so I can't say definitively, but it sounds like the fonts need to be put in your system font directory. Only LilyPond uses it's own fonts folder, so if you are using another program for this, it will be looking for them in the system font

Re: Cadence font and lilypond-book

2014-10-23 Thread Abraham Lee
Try putting them in /home/marc/.local/share/fonts instead. I've noticed that things seem to work a little better in there. -Abraham Sent from my iPhone On Oct 23, 2014, at 12:31 PM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Am 23.10.2014 um 16:43 schrieb Abraham Lee: Marc, I've never done

Re: Slur and acciaccatura in chords

2014-10-29 Thread Abraham Lee
Oops, I meant #:roman lilyjazztext #:sans lilyjazzchord Sorry for the confusion! -Abraham Sent from my iPhone On Oct 29, 2014, at 4:44 PM, tisimst tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: Stephen, On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Stephen MacNeil [via Lilypond] [hidden email] wrote: Hi

Re: Slur and acciaccatura in chords

2014-10-31 Thread Abraham Lee
Oh, dear! Disregard the last one. It was a long day. They should be LilyJAZZText and LilyJAZZChord. -Abraham On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Abraham Lee tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: Oops, I meant #:roman lilyjazztext #:sans lilyjazzchord Sorry for the confusion! -Abraham Sent from

Leigh Verlag Blog Launched!

2014-11-07 Thread Abraham Lee
Fellow LilyPonders, I just thought I'd mention that I have started a new blog (not meant to compete in any way with lilypondblog.org, of course, which I follow regularly)! There I plan to share information relating to music engraving in general, LilyPond tips tricks I discover, and

Re: Chord Symbol fonts

2014-11-07 Thread Abraham Lee
The chord text font uses whatever Is set as the sans-serif font. Some of the symbols are created using markup drawing commands, others use symbols from the music font like for the sharp and flat. -Abraham Sent from my iPhone On Nov 7, 2014, at 7:10 AM, Bric b...@flight.us wrote: how does

RE: Vertical brackets with text around chords

2014-11-07 Thread Abraham Lee
Ryan Mark, I am glad that there's a use for this! I posted it originally, but it looks like you want it slightly different. Here's the code to do exactly what you showed in the picture: \version 2.18.2 rhMark = \markup { \concat { \path #0.1 #'((moveto 0 -1.75)(rlineto 0.5 0)(rlineto

RE: Vertical brackets with text around chords

2014-11-07 Thread Abraham Lee
: Abraham, I shall note my records and give credit properly. Mark From: Abraham Lee [mailto:tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2014 10:37 AM To: Mark Stephen Mrotek Cc: Ryan McClure; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: RE: Vertical brackets with text around chords Ryan Mark

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

2014-11-26 Thread Abraham Lee
I realize that Thanksgiving is an American holiday, but I thought I'd just say, Thank you! to everyone that is or has been involved in the development, usage, support, etc. of LilyPond. There are so many talented individuals on this and other related mailing lists that provide help and insight

New Music Font: Sebastiano

2014-12-14 Thread Abraham Lee
Greetings, All! There's a new music font at fonts.openlilylib.org. Go check it out! Regards, Abraham ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

GoldenAge Font

2015-02-13 Thread Abraham Lee
Has anyone heard of the GoldenAge font family? Just curious if anyone has used it before (it's an old Finale font), or wanted to. -Abraham Sent from my iPhone ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Directional NoteHead Stencil Support

2015-03-19 Thread Abraham Lee
I've been collaborating with an Italian design student that created numerous music fonts for a school project, but they aren't actually used in any notation program (yet), but he has agreed to work with me and take the steps necessary to make them usable with LilyPond. Each of his fonts are quite

Re: Creating new context: 3 Questions

2015-03-25 Thread Abraham Lee
Oh, and in case it wasn't clear, this new context definition doesn't inherit ANYTHING. It's a totally new context. You'll notice there are no \remove statements (like for accidentals, clefs, etc.) Since \RhythmicLine doesn't \accept certain engravers, there's no need to \remove them. :-) -

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