notes in the meter line of the header

2004-07-18 Thread Carl Sorensen
/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Metronome-marks.html#Metronome%20marks This piece of documentation shows how to get a mark like quarter note = 105. Hope this helps. Carl Sorensen ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

re:Creating Lead Sheets

2004-08-09 Thread Carl Sorensen
listed above, you'll get the fancy chord names. And then you can put whatever music you'd like to show up on the staff in the Voice context. I think that will give you what you're looking for. HTH, Carl Sorensen ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL

Re: help

2004-08-09 Thread Carl Sorensen
it as very hard to get it into the Windows mainline. However, things are _much_ better on the Windows front in 2.2.x than they were in 1.8.x. Just my two cents, Carl Sorensen ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: help

2004-08-10 Thread Carl Sorensen
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 04:32, Mats Bengtsson wrote: The only problems related to TeX setup I have seen during the last years are: - That setup.exe doesn't always get the dependencies right, so the tetex-* packages are not installed. = Cygwin problem! I had this problem, but worked my way

Re: easy insert fret diagrams (with Frescobaldi)

2009-03-21 Thread Carl Sorensen
Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammostola at gmail.com writes: Hi, I was wondering if there's an easy way to insert Fret Diagrams for guitar in Lilypond. Most of the time I use templates from Frescobaldi, but I don't see an Fret Diagram option there. I like to display the fret diagram and

Re: lilypond-book setup for windows

2009-03-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
Hajo Dezelski dl1sdz at googlemail.com writes: Hello, Are there recommondations for an integrated editorial environment using lilypond-book on a windows machine which is easy to use ? I know I have to learn some coding but I dont want to dig the next year into the internals of TEX to

Re: Strange Change Staff behavior

2009-03-28 Thread Carl Sorensen
Alberto Simões albie at alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt writes: Hello. I am having a strange behavior with Change Staff. It is not easy to explain as it is quite strange. Basically, I am having a voice defined to be drawn on the lower staff, and it is appearing in the upper staff. As it is not

Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

2009-04-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
Simon Bailey binabik at gmail.com writes: - how do you find out which contexts and engravers are involved? You use the Internals Reference. You find the object you want engraved under 3.1 All layout objects: 3.1.111 TextSpanner. The IR tells you that TextSpanners are created by

Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

2009-04-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
Carl Sorensen c_sorensen at byu.edu writes: Please ignore this explanation. It is wrong. Carl I believe the reason LilyPond can't do this automagically is because [snip,,,] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http

Re: minor chord names

2009-07-10 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/10/09 11:17 AM, fiëé visuëlle fiee.visue...@gmx.net wrote: Hello pond comrades, some time ago I asked about displaying minor chord names as lowercase letters without the m modifier, as it is common (at least) in German folk songbooks. I.e. \context ChordNames {

Re: minor chord names

2009-07-10 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/10/09 4:17 PM, fiëé visuëlle fiee.visue...@gmx.net wrote: Am 2009-07-10 um 22:06 schrieb Carl Sorensen: Is this possible nowadays, and how? As far as I know, it is not yet possible. It is on a feature request list for Thomas's rewrite of the chord naming functions. Thank you

Re: installing lilypond

2009-07-15 Thread Carl Sorensen
--moved to user from bug -- On 7/15/09 5:40 AM, Graham Norton graha...@iprimus.com.au wrote: Hello. I tried installing lilypond tonight on my iMac, OS v. 10.5.7. I am an experienced TexShop user. I created the lilypond.engine file for bash in TeXShop (you should say this text file needs a

Re: guitar guide-mark

2009-07-15 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/15/09 8:18 PM, Peter Buhr pab...@sympatico.ca wrote: You can rotate objects and markups. I've done a little experiment here that doesn't look very good yet but may put you on the right track. Search the Notation Reference manual for rotation, formatting text, positioning

Re: dragon boat Tune collision

2009-07-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/16/09 6:14 PM, hhpmu...@163.com hhpmu...@163.com wrote: Hello, I published this score (not this file, since I merge my settings into it now)) to WIMA as its first Chinese music. But the editor gave me some points on collision: - avoiding slurs overwriting note shapes or

Re: Score staff order

2009-07-17 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/16/09 8:37 PM, Kalen Mercer merce...@gmail.com wrote: I am working on typesetting Pavane pour une infante Defunte by Ravel but am having trouble with the score layout. It is as follows: \score { \new StaffGroup \new Staff { \global \flutes } \new Staff { \global \hautbois }

Re: midi output without harmonies from ChordNames

2009-07-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/19/09 12:07 PM, Werner mey@web.de wrote: Hello. I want to create a score (pdf) containing chord-names above the notes and a midi-file, which containes all the notes but NOT the chords (harmonies). Is this somehow EASY to achieve? Yes. You just need to have two different

Best name for function to create cross-style noteheads

2009-07-21 Thread Carl Sorensen
Dear LilyPond users, Marc Hohl has done a good job of improving tablature notation. We're just ready to add it to LilyPond 2.13.4. In the process of adding it, a question come up about the name for some notation. In rock (and maybe jazz) guitar, there is a note described as a dead note that is

Re: Best name for function to create cross-style noteheads

2009-07-21 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/21/09 3:00 PM, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk wrote: Given the wide variation in the use of the x-shaped note head I think the only possible name to use is one that reflects the shape of the note head - crossNote, crossNoteHead or similar - rather than trying to find a

Re: Line-width in Lilypond-book

2009-07-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/22/09 8:11 AM, Hugo Leonardo Ribeiro hugole...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I am trying to adjust the line width in a lilypond-book example, but whatever I try, it always look like a ragged right style. What I want is to stretch the line, in order to the chords places more distant

Re: Best name for function to create cross-style noteheads

2009-07-23 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/22/09 8:29 AM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi all, Just adding my 2¢... I might disagree. I'm big on semantics, and I would rather have a lot of commands that create the same look but mean different things, than have one command that creates a look which

Re: Best name for function to create cross-style noteheads

2009-07-23 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/23/09 12:28 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Mark, is there a clear advantage to having a smaller namespace? No need to maintain crossrefs and aliases in the documentation. [Might not be a huge thing, but it's a clear advantage.] I don't think it's

Re: Best name for function to create cross-style noteheads

2009-07-24 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/24/09 3:06 AM, Hans Aberg hab...@math.su.se wrote: On 24 Jul 2009, at 07:58, Marc Hohl wrote: I think it would be the easiest way to define a neutral name first. Personally, I like the idea of \xHead, \xHeadOn and \xHeadOff. I think so, too. In computer lingo terms, you want

Re: Best name for function to create cross-style noteheads

2009-07-24 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/24/09 6:16 AM, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk wrote: The structure of the Notation Reference is designed to accommodate documenting this. The specialist sections in NR 2 would contain an indexed description of all the uses of crossed note heads. For example, under Common

Re: new spacing test/example

2009-07-25 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/25/09 3:01 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Valentin, I'm trying (Mac OS X), but I'm apparently missing some programs: bison, texi2html, libguile: was able to install using 'port install PROG' guile-config 1.8.0 (installed: 1.6.8), makeinfo 4.11

Re: cannot end slur

2009-08-04 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/4/09 5:35 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 4. August 2009 01:29:56 schrieb Trevor Daniels: Jonathan Stupid of me! I gave the correct analysis of your problem but the wrong solution! You should use

Re: how to define a boolean?

2009-08-08 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/8/09 11:59 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Mark Polesky schrieb: Marc Hohl wrote: Sorry if this is a stupid question, but here im totally stuck: Not a stupid question. This involves parser variables which are giving us developers troubles, too! If you're curious, you

Re: how to define a boolean?

2009-08-08 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/8/09 2:20 PM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Carl Sorensen schrieb: [...] For the music-function you can do this: % you can also do: % mybool = ##f #(define mybool #f) Why not just change this to #(define-public mybool #f) then use mybool everywhere else? I

Re: how to define a boolean?

2009-08-09 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/9/09 5:21 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Trevor Daniels schrieb: [...] From what I see on the console output, the calls of \myMusicFunc are evaluated first, so myBool is #t and the callbacks come in action afterwards (the first slur claims #t, every other slur reads #f),

Re: how to define a boolean?

2009-08-09 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/9/09 9:12 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Carl Sorensen schrieb: So that is why the first value in the callback was #t -- it was left over from the last call of \myMusicFunc. Then the remaining values were #f, because all of the calls to \myMusicFunc had already been evaluated

Re: how to define a boolean?

2009-08-10 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/10/09 1:54 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Carl Sorensen schrieb: [...] The *specific* behavior you have requested can be achieved by the following: #(define myBool #f) myMusicFunc = #(define-music-function (parser location) () #{ \once \override Slur

Re: polyphony in tablature

2009-08-11 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/10/09 2:25 PM, Patrick Schmidt p.l.schm...@gmx.de wrote: Where did I go wrong? You forgot that tabStaff needs tabVoice, and both of your constructs used Voice contexts, instead of tabVoice contexts. The first, ... \\ ... , implicitly creates Voice contexts. The second explicitly

Re: setting notes alone

2009-08-11 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/11/09 1:49 PM, MonAmiPierrot pierofaust...@hotmail.com wrote: then I entered the \clef bass and used only the note a, to produce a perfectly middle-positioned rhythmical examples, then I tried to put the output in the LaTeX environment of my dissertation. Is there a reason why you

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2009-08-12 Thread Carl Sorensen
to the developers. In my opinion, the drastic changes in Jazz chords and lead sheets is due to people who wanted to improve things getting involved in making them happen: 1) Improved FretBoards context: Carl Sorensen wanted it and went after it, including transposable fret diagrams and N.C. symbol 2

Re: Defining new chord modifier

2009-08-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/13/09 1:13 AM, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) lilypondt...@organum.hu wrote: Hi, I want to use quint-chords, that is, containing only root and fifth, like c g' I want to define a chord name for this, to let me use c:5 or c:five c:5 won't work; c:5 gives a C major triad. I don't

Re: Defining new chord modifier

2009-08-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
Would you consider turning it into a snippet for the LSR, and labeling it with the docs tag? Thanks, Carl On 8/13/09 7:43 AM, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) lilypondt...@organum.hu wrote: Thank you much, I could not find in the doc about this possibility. Carl Sorensen wrote: On 8

Re: Defining new chord modifier

2009-08-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
not find in the doc about this possibility. Carl Sorensen wrote: On 8/13/09 1:13 AM, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) lilypondt...@organum.hu mailto:lilypondt...@organum.hu wrote: Hi, I want to use quint-chords, that is, containing only root and fifth, like c g' I want

Re: polyphony in tablature

2009-08-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/13/09 10:12 AM, Patrick Schmidt p.l.schm...@gmx.de wrote: Dear Carl, thank you for your reply! You're welcome. I think you've found a good enhancement request -- make \\ apply to tabVoice if it's in a tabStaff context. What do I have to do to make an enhancement request?

Re: hash/backslash confusion

2009-08-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/13/09 10:37 AM, Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com wrote: Carl Sorensen wrote: Hope this helps. It was instructional to me to write it. Wow, thanks - that was a lot of info. I'm still trying to wrap my brain around it. But in the meantime, I've noticed something else confusing

Re: markup help

2009-08-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/14/09 9:54 AM, James E. Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com wrote: Though I reorganized them for 2.13. Hopefully you'll find this version easier to read: http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/notation/index_54.html - Mark Thank you, incidentally, after some trial and

Re: markup help

2009-08-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/14/09 12:27 PM, James E. Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com wrote: On 14.08.2009, at 19:11, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 8/14/09 9:54 AM, James E. Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com wrote: Though I reorganized them for 2.13. Hopefully you'll find this version easier

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/14/09 4:12 PM, James E. Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com wrote: On 14.08.2009, at 23:59, Mark Polesky wrote: Umm, that's probably not the best way of asking for help... We usually prefer can someone point me in the right direction or something like that... Usually I do,

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/14/09 4:46 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com wrote: Attached is my current code for general complex time signatures (arbitrary # of fractions, arbitrary # of numerators). I have not yet tried to get it into master, because the auto-beaming does not yet follow the

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/14/09 5:57 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 15. August 2009 01:06:40 schrieb Carl Sorensen: On 8/14/09 4:46 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com wrote: Attached is my current code for general

Re: polyphony in tablature

2009-08-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/19/09 9:46 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Carl Sorensen schrieb: [...] Make a simple snippet that shows the problem (you don't need to include the Staff, just the TabStaff) and send it to bug-lilyp...@gnu.org with a subject like Enhancement request: automatic polyphony

Re: polyphony in tablature

2009-08-20 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/20/09 12:58 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Neil Puttock schrieb: Neil, thanks for your hint! I searched and found the following definition in scm/music-functions.scm: (define (voicify-list lst number) Make a list of Musics. voicify-list :: [ [Music ] ] - number -

Re: automatic beams: is it possible to achieve this automatically?

2009-09-03 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/3/09 6:15 AM, Frédéric Bron frederic.b...@m4x.org wrote: Hi, I would like the default behaviour of 2/4 time, i.e. beams end at the end of each beat. However, if there are only 8th notes in the measure, I would like the beam not to stop half measure as shown below. Is it possible

Re: chord durations

2009-09-03 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/3/09 9:21 AM, Christian Henning chhenn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, I'm at work and don't really have much time.I just wanna state that I presented my problem with a reduced sheet. The problem was regarding the chord durations and not with the melody. I'm a software engineer and this

Re: mixed notehead styles in tablature chords

2009-09-03 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/3/09 1:53 PM, Patrick Schmidt p.l.schm...@gmx.de wrote: Unfortunately the cross-style notehead does not appear in tablature. Is it possible to mix notehead styles in tablature chords? Yes, thanks to the excellent work of Marc Hohl. Improved tablature has been implemented in

Re: Contemporary music documentation

2009-09-04 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/4/09 3:36 AM, Joseph Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net wrote: Graham Percival wrote: Those actual contemporary scores must be placed in the public domain, licensed under Creative Commons, or licensed under the GNU FDL. If you're thinking about an exerpt of Shostakovich or Glass,

Re: Contemporary music documentation

2009-09-04 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/4/09 10:27 AM, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk wrote: Carl Sorensen wrote c_soren...@byu.edu Friday, September 04, 2009 3:06 PM Also, as you plan sections, remember that anything using \set or \override belongs in a snippet, not in the main text body. This certainly

Re: Contemporary music documentation

2009-09-05 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/4/09 10:37 AM, Joseph Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net wrote: Trevor Daniels wrote: In order to have a meaningful manual, this may require the addition of some new LilyPond commands, which is *not* a problem. And is to be recommended if it results in an easier user interface.

Re: Disconnected and oddly placed stems

2009-09-05 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/5/09 9:37 AM, Dan Florio dflo...@yahoo.com wrote: Here are the first few measures of a guitar part in a tune I'm working on: (Each line represents a measure) \version 2.12.2 \header { title = Percussion Song composer = Dan Florio } Guitar = \relative c' {

Re: website draft 9

2009-09-07 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/7/09 3:37 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 11:30:14PM +0200, Joseph Wakeling wrote: Graham Percival wrote: On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 04:25:28PM +0200, Joseph Wakeling wrote: GPL page: should the page mention that Lilypond is released under

Re: NR typo: Minor-major seventh chord

2009-09-08 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/7/09 10:24 PM, Brett Duncan bdd1...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Andrew Tucker wrote: m7.7+ does provide the desired results, though I believe it's because lilypond uses only the last alteration of a particular note (ie. 7.9+.9- will end up 7/b9 and lose the sharp nine). This behavior might

Re: accidental spacing (multiple signs): X-extent and ly:accidental-interface::width

2009-09-09 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/8/09 3:21 PM, Torsten Anders torsten.and...@plymouth.ac.uk wrote: Hello Lilyponders, I am still looking for a way to avoid collisions of accidentals consisting of multiple signs. I searched various sources including the Internals Reference and finally came across the accidental

Re: appoggiatura

2009-09-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/19/09 1:39 PM, Nick Didkovsky didk...@mail.rockefeller.edu wrote: Hello James Thanks for your prompt reply. No, I assume the contents of staff 2 does not need to be altered depending on the contents of staff 1. Staff 2 simply contains: \time 4/4 \clef treble R4*4 How are

Re: Contemporary music required feature #1: chromatic transposition

2009-09-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/21/09 5:09 PM, Joseph Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net wrote: As I mentioned a little while back, I'm working on a specialist notation section on contemporary music for the Notation Reference. And, as I also mentioned, I'm going to be trying to implement and/or motivate some

Re: What's up with fill-line?

2009-09-24 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/24/09 7:40 AM, Alexander Kobel n...@a-kobel.de wrote: Hi all, I think I have to bother you a bit more about fill-line; I don't understand docs and/or code of it. First of all, nested fill-lines don't seem to be a good thing, which may or may not be a Bad Thing (tm). In

Re: Contemporary music required feature #1: chromatic transposition

2009-09-24 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/24/09 1:29 PM, Valentin Villenave v.villen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu wrote: If you get the chromatic transposition working properly, I'll commit to helping you get it embedded in LilyPond. Carl, please consider yourself my

Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

2009-09-25 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/25/09 6:31 AM, fiëé visuëlle fiee.visue...@gmx.net wrote: Hi again, my editor tells me, in vocal music eights (everything smaller than a quarter) have to be normally unbarred and I should use barred eights instead of slurs. Is there a global setting for that? To change the

Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

2009-09-25 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/25/09 8:39 AM, fiëé visuëlle fiee.visue...@gmx.net wrote: If I switched off slurs using \override Slur #'stencil = ##f how do I enable it again without warnings? \override Slur #'stencil = ##t does work, but issues an error (#t is no stencil) If you read the Internals Reference,

Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

2009-09-25 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/25/09 9:44 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 25. September 2009 17:41:00 schrieb Carl Sorensen: On 9/25/09 8:39 AM, fiëé visuëlle fiee.visue...@gmx.net wrote: If I switched off slurs using \override Slur

Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

2009-09-25 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/25/09 10:15 AM, fiëé visuëlle fiee.visue...@gmx.net wrote: The reason why I didn't just use [] instead of () is that I didn't want to check and change the lyrics of all the songs that were already typeset. I guess I'll use that approach for the rest of the songbook. But the

Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

2009-09-25 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/25/09 2:17 PM, fiëé visuëlle fiee.visue...@gmx.net wrote: Just, pretty please: Could someone tell me how to get chord names with -is and -es (saying fis and not f#)? Or of course point me to the appropriate chapter of the docs. Here's a set of scheme routines that will allow you to

Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

2009-09-25 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/25/09 5:36 PM, fiëé visuëlle fiee.visue...@gmx.net wrote: Am 2009-09-25 um 22:54 schrieb James E. Bailey: Just, pretty please: Could someone tell me how to get chord names with -is and -es (saying fis and not f#)? Or of course point me to the appropriate chapter of the docs.

Re: automatic beams: is it possible to achieve this automatically?

2009-09-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/26/09 6:45 AM, Frédéric Bron frederic.b...@m4x.org wrote: I would like the default behaviour of 2/4 time, i.e. beams end at the end of each beat. However, if there are only 8th notes in the measure, I would like the beam not to stop half measure as shown below. Is it possible to

Re: BeatLength and BeatGrouping

2009-09-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/26/09 10:59 PM, Nick Payne njpa...@internode.on.net wrote: I'm looking at the 2.13.3 documentation on this in the NR (starts on p.47 of the PDF manual), and the comments against the the second example don't seem to match the output. The comment says No auto-beaming is defined for

Re: BeatLength and BeatGrouping

2009-09-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/27/09 6:08 AM, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: Nick Payne wrote: I'm looking at the 2.13.3 documentation on this in the NR (starts on p.47 of the PDF manual), and the comments against the the second example don't seem to match the output. The comment says No

Re: regression? [was Re: BeatLength and BeatGrouping]

2009-09-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/27/09 10:23 AM, luis jure l...@internet.com.uy wrote: on 2009-09-27 at 08:02 Carl Sorensen wrote: The autobeaming behavior (and the documentation) have been fixed in 2.13.4. i find a regression in 2.13.4 with respect to 2.13.3. i recently updated to 2.13.3 and i was very

Re: Beaming rules in 2.13.4

2009-09-29 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/28/09 1:32 PM, Nicolas Sceaux nicolas.sce...@free.fr wrote: Le 28 sept. 09 à 10:34, Nick Payne a écrit : \overrideBeamSettings #'Voice #'(3 . 4) #'end #'(((1 . 32) . (4 4 4 4 4 4))) \overrideBeamSettings #'Voice #'(3 . 4) #'end #'(((1 . 8) . (2 2 2))) These are

Re: Beaming rules in 2.13.4

2009-09-29 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/29/09 9:09 AM, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/29 Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu: But even better, you point out a problem in autobeaming, and the default rules get fixed. This isn't a autobeaming problem though; if you recall, we discussed the behaviour

Re: regression? [was Re: BeatLength and BeatGrouping]

2009-09-30 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/29/09 7:25 PM, luis jure l...@internet.com.uy wrote: thank you carl for your answer. i still think that 2.13.4 has some beaming issues. We've had a serious discussion about whether eighth note beams should end on every beat or only on beats 2 and 4. We came down on the side

Re: Chinese cadenza

2009-09-30 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/30/09 5:29 PM, hhpmu...@163.com hhpmu...@163.com wrote: Hello, The attached picture is a Chinese character san, having many meanings, e.g., distribute/discard, disseminate, come loose, dispel, dispersal, scattered, etc. The top grass head (a horizontal line interrupted with two

Re: title on a separate page (Susan Dittmar)

2009-10-06 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 10/5/09 8:40 PM, Frederick Dennis frederickden...@googlemail.com wrote: Dear All, I was very interested in the correspondence about a title-page. I noticed that Kieren's solution seemed to ignore the original header information and insert another markup for it while Valentin's solution

Re: [tablatures] Re: Ancient tablatures

2009-10-06 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 10/6/09 12:22 PM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Laura Conrad schrieb: Marc == Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de writes: Marc I am not at all familiar with these old tablatures, but they Marc look just amazing, so simply for typographic and aesthetical Marc

Re: Error not indicated

2009-10-07 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 10/6/09 3:30 PM, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: If I accidentally omit the spaces in the scheme pair for the tweak offset, no error is indicated in the console output but the tweak doesn't take effect. If either (or both) of the spaces surrounding the . in the pair are

Re: chordnames tweaking again

2009-10-21 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 10/20/09 1:27 PM, fiëé visuëlle fiee.visue...@gmx.net wrote: Hello again, still fiddling with chord names... (1) I use this nice Scheme function by Carl Sorensen to get fis and des names instead of f# and db. I don't understand enough Scheme to avoid ees - do you? I assume you want

Re: chordnames tweaking again

2009-10-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 10/22/09 7:30 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm fiee.visue...@gmx.net wrote: 2009/10/21 Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu: (2) Different, probably easier problem: I must display some alterations as follows: f:dim = f- f:aug = f5+ f:maj7 = f7+ Probably the easiest way to do these is to use

Re: chordnames tweaking again

2009-10-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 10/22/09 7:50 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm fiee.visue...@gmx.net wrote: 2009/10/22 Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Displaying-chord s #Customizing-chord-names Of course I found this in the docs, but it looks like the exceptions

Re: Just a quick TAB question

2009-10-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 10/27/09 12:53 PM, Patrick Horgan phorg...@yahoo.com wrote: Soon to do my first guitar tab piece in lily and was wondering if there's any way to automagically print out the TAB key, i.e. the thing that explains to the reader/player what all the TAB symbols mean? Nope. But you could

Re: Harmonica tablature notation

2009-10-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
bradford powell bradford.powell at gmail.com writes: My first thought was to write an engraver (since that is what guitar tablature seems to do). Writing an engraver is not as difficult as it seems, as long as you have good models to follow. But it *is* an involved process, and isn't the

Re: automatic note-as-denominator time signatures?

2009-10-28 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 10/28/09 12:33 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi all, Can the snippet http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=554 be made into an automatic callback, instead of requiring the creation of a markup each time? i.e., I would love to be able to say

Re: [tablatures] predefined-guitar-fretboards

2009-11-09 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/9/09 2:38 PM, Patrick Schmidt p.l.schm...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Carl, I found a mistake in a predefined fret diagram (Fmaj7) and fixed it. Here is the patch. Thanks for your review. I appreciate your looking at it. Why do you consider the Fmaj7 chord in the file to be a mistake? The

Re: modern accidentals rule (was: Re: Bad spacing (gap) when large interval and accidental)

2009-11-09 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/9/09 5:58 PM, Hudson Flávio Meneses Lacerda hfmlace...@yahoo.com.br wrote: Carl Sorensen wrote: While this may be syntactically valid LilyPond code, it seems to me to be improper (i.e. to not match the intent of the input construction}. Hi Carl, Thanks for the correction. I have

Re: modern accidentals rule (was: Re: Bad spacing (gap) when large interval and accidental)

2009-11-10 Thread Carl Sorensen
Frederic, Thanks for the info. On 11/10/09 11:55 AM, Frédéric Bron frederic.b...@m4x.org wrote: BTW, I have found a strange behaviour of modern accidentals rule: LilyPond considers volta alternatives as previous measure. Is this correct? (Note the natural sign at the 2nd and 3rd

Re: cadenza causes barcheck failure?

2009-11-10 Thread Carl Sorensen
Dear Frogs (or anybody else interested), Could someone volunteer to create a patch to the documentation by adding this to the Known issues and warnings section of Unmetered music in rhythms.itely? Thanks, Carl On 11/10/09 7:46 AM, Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se wrote: It seems

Re: chordSymbols, arbitrary chord markup

2009-11-11 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/11/09 4:51 AM, VáclavŠmilauer eudo...@arcig.cz wrote: Hi, I use \chordSymbols hack (http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=608) in my jazz charts and although, it works quite well in normal cases, it has some limitations: you can't write C phryg or combination of 6,7,9,11,13 not in

Re: Quit [now definitely O/T]

2009-11-11 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/11/09 12:12 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 06:11:26PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: But if there is roadmap, design and vision, I have not yet been able to find it in the obvious places I have been looking for. The information for

Re: Quit [now definitely O/T]

2009-11-11 Thread Carl Sorensen
David, Thanks for your willingness to articulate some concerns. I think that your careful thinking can be of real help to the LilyPond community, expecially if you can help us make things better. On 11/11/09 7:21 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Kieren MacMillan

Re: Quit [now definitely O/T]

2009-11-11 Thread Carl Sorensen
David, I appreciate your persistence in this. I think that you are having part of the difficulty in this conversation because it's on -user, not on -devel. The modifications to anything except input files (which use lilypond code and embedded scheme) really involve knowledge that's primarily

Re: Quit [now definitely O/T]

2009-11-12 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/11/09 4:23 PM, Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote: spannerText = #(define-music-function (parser location span-text) (string?)   #{       \override TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = #$span-text   #) which would allow above example to be coded much more easily

Re: Chord symbol placement from \layout

2009-11-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
will have this problem. Thanks, Carl Sorensen ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: [frogs] Changing Chord Name Font Size

2009-11-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
Dear KKLL00B, Thanks for your question. This is a question that is best asked on the lilypond-user list, which is where questions by new *users* are handled. The frogs list is for new *developers*, that is, for people who are trying to eliminate bugs from LilyPond. Anyway, to answer your

Re: No string for pitch #Pitch

2009-11-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/19/09 5:59 AM, Jesús Guillermo Andrade gandr...@usermail.com wrote: David: El 18/11/2009, a las 02:51 a.m., David Kastrup escribió: Sounds like Lilypond is running out of strings for the given chords. Just a wild guess. Yes.. it is kind of shocking right?. But fact is that the

Re: Frets without string information

2009-11-21 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/20/09 9:51 PM, Jesús Guillermo Andrade gandr...@usermail.com wrote: Dear fellows: I've read in several places that it is impossible to transpose frets with string information. How can one create a fret without it? I'd like to make lilypond able to transpose the basic frets I am

Re: [frogs] Re: cadenza causes barcheck failure?

2009-11-21 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/20/09 12:15 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Valentin Villenave schrieb: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu wrote: Could someone volunteer to create a patch to the documentation by adding this to the Known issues and warnings section of Unmetered

Re: No string for pitch #Pitch (SOLVED)

2009-11-23 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/20/09 8:58 PM, Jesús Guillermo Andrade gandr...@usermail.com wrote: Got the prick little b... It was as Carl initially suggested. I made a minimal example and found that there was a problem with the model for the string tuning function. Thanks a lot... There was also a bug in the code

Re: \set vs \override

2009-11-24 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/24/09 2:57 AM, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: James Worlton wrote: Hi! In 2.13.6 I did a project and used: \set Score.markFormatter = #format-mark-box-alphabet and I got the boxes and the letter I (all in one command!) Thanks for that. That particular value for

Re: \set vs \override

2009-11-24 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/24/09 4:56 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net writes: Carl Sorensen wrote: On 11/24/09 2:57 AM, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: James Worlton wrote: Hi! In 2.13.6 I did a project and used: \set

Re: [frogs] Re: format-mark-* Was: \set vs \override

2009-12-02 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/2/09 2:47 AM, Valentin Villenave v.villen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se wrote: Running the command grep format-mark- scm/translation-functions.scm in Linux gives the following list of functions: (define-public

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