Re: How to increase the "gap" between SATB group of staves and basso continuo staff ?

2020-02-17 Thread David Kastrup
report back problems, 2.20.0 will not be one iota more stable than 2.19.84. There is no magic process by which untested software becomes more stable, given enough time. -- David Kastrup My replies have a tendency to cause friction. To help mitigating damage, feel free to forward problematic posts

Re: \fixed

2020-02-16 Thread David Kastrup
2:51:48 2015 -0700 absolute pitch entry: accept an offset octave -- David Kastrup

Re: Frescobaldi from git broken?

2020-02-16 Thread David Kastrup
" > Exited with return code 1. > > > > Hints? Which Guile version was compiled into LilyPond? Maybe it's some locale issue? -- David Kastrup

Re: ly:make-pitch​

2020-02-15 Thread David Kastrup
Freeman Gilmore writes: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 11:08 AM David Kastrup wrote: > >> Freeman Gilmore writes: >> >> > Were can I find the procedure for ly:make-pitch ? >> >> Beneath >> >> lily/pitch-scheme.cc:LY_DEFINE (ly_m

Re: ly:make-pitch​

2020-02-15 Thread David Kastrup
Freeman Gilmore writes: > Were can I find the procedure for ly:make-pitch ? Beneath lily/pitch-scheme.cc:LY_DEFINE (ly_make_pitch, "ly:make-pitch", And the docs (for what they are worth) are likely more or less in the Internals Reference. -- David Kastrup

Re: Stop Tablature from moving up an octave

2020-02-15 Thread David Kastrup
es written in treble clef sound an octave lower than written? "Correct" guitar notes are written using \clef "treble_8" though a lot of notes abound not bothering spelling out the octavation. But LilyPond does care about the actual pitch. Check the Midi and compare with your ins

Re: Bug in \chords in latest developer version?

2020-02-14 Thread David Kastrup
times I > got an extra staff with just the timeSignature - I think the place > where I have it should work. Are there any changes in the unstable > version to this part, or is it simply a bug? If you want a Staff, write \new Staff . It is as simple as that. Like \new Staff \relative

Re: Help: can't invoke lilypond-book (python exception)

2020-02-12 Thread David Kastrup
ml files. > > I have lilypond version 2.18.2 and python version 3.8.1 LilyPond 2.18 uses Python 2. So will LilyPond 2.20 (to appear really soon now). LilyPond 2.21 will be working with Python 3. -- David Kastrup My replies have a tendency to cause friction. To help mitigating damage, feel

Re: misuse of chords

2020-02-12 Thread David Kastrup
Joe McCool writes: > OnTue, Feb 11, 2020 at 10:17 PM David Kastrup wrote: > > >> You need to place the volta/repeat structure in every Staff/Voice to >> have \unfoldRepeats do its work successfully. >> > > Sigh! > > Yes David, I had only jus

Re: misuse of chords

2020-02-11 Thread David Kastrup
at the music "iteration" stage but changes the music expression directly. So its effect does not extend to \harmonies . You need to place the volta/repeat structure in every Staff/Voice to have \unfoldRepeats do its work successfully. -- David Kastrup My replies have a tendency to cause friction. To help mitigating damage, feel free to forward problematic posts to me adding a subject like "timeout 1d" (for a suggested timeout of 1 day) or "offensive".

Re: Cheat sheets and LilyPond documentation [was Re: Clef "treble_8"]

2020-02-11 Thread David Kastrup
appears to work for becoming president. At any rate, it seems I apparently need to add some redundancy or I'll never get anywhere without losing all company on the way. -- David Kastrup My replies have a tendency to cause friction. To help mitigating damage, feel free to forward problematic posts to me adding a subject like "timeout 1d" (for a suggested timeout of 1 day) or "offensive".

Re: Cheat sheets and LilyPond documentation [was Re: Clef "treble_8"]

2020-02-11 Thread David Kastrup
ow the Texinfo stuff enough to > tell if there is a way. For the ly code of the visual index perhaps. > > Btw, I appreciate your friendly reaction very much. At some point of time I have to reread the collected devastating dissings of dreadlord David. This is not the first helpful project t

Re: Clef "treble_8"

2020-02-11 Thread David Kastrup
ner. Of course something fitting well into the Texinfo creation process would be nice since we have a lot of output formats for our documentation. -- David Kastrup

Re: Lily 2.19.83 crashed

2020-02-10 Thread David Kastrup
gt; \with { > } > << > >> > > My wrong, I confess… The given example does not generate Midi. An example showing probably the same kind of crash would be \score { \new Staff {} \midi {} } Might be worth reporting to the bug list so that it gets

Re: Clef "treble_8"

2020-02-10 Thread David Kastrup
.png] > > > I guess it can be done with a ClefModifier but I don't know how to use it. You mean, without a ClefModifier. \new Staff \with { \omit ClefModifier } { \clef "treble_8" 1 } -- David Kastrup

Re: Double Parenthesis

2020-02-09 Thread David Kastrup
L to the value of VALUEFORM). All the VALUEFORMs are evalled before any symbols are bound. [back] So adding one layer of parens around variable and value (if there are to be both) seems called for. And that's what you get. > Here is another example from the book, why double parenthesis ((assq > 'col-

Re: can a Scheme engraver "solve" Issue #34 (grace note bug)? [cross-posted]

2020-02-09 Thread David Kastrup
tating about grace time is what it does graphically and in midi to an appoggiatura. Those are usually supposed to come on-time, have at _least_ the nominal duration and steal time from the _next_ rather than the previous note. -- David Kastrup My replies have a tendency to cause friction. To help mitigat

Re: can a Scheme engraver "solve" Issue #34 (grace note bug)? [cross-posted]

2020-02-08 Thread David Kastrup
a synchronized way. I don't if that exists in practice, but it is one of > the reasons for the current approach. I don't think grace notes are usually synchronized optically. I may be wrong. -- David Kastrup

Re: "Quote" Chord Track in another Staff

2020-02-08 Thread David Kastrup
e here, I'm used to be a paranoiac ... > >> \context Staff = "2" { #music } >> } >> #} >> ) # is pass-through, $ creates a copy. Music that is used exactly once is fine to pass through. -- David Kastrup My replies have a tendency to cause friction. To help mit

Re: Positioning of a tiny voice

2020-02-07 Thread David Kastrup
creation of a Voice context, but those sequences trigger their own, separate Voices. If we had \new Voice << ... >> your description would have been correct. Actually, I'd have used something like \new Voice = "main" { \voices 1,"main" << \upper \\ \music >> } myself here (that keeps \music in the main voice) but that's not really sufficient since you'd want to switch off NoteColumn.ignore-collision also. So see my separate proposal. -- David Kastrup

Re: Positioning of a tiny voice

2020-02-07 Thread David Kastrup
b' You could try \version "2.19.84" upper = \relative { \tiny \stemUp s4 b'' } music = \relative { \key e \minor \time 2/4 b'8 16 c' 8 16 b' } \new Staff << \new Voice \with { \override NoteColumn.ignore-collision = ##t } \upper \new Voice \music >> -- David Kastrup

Re: can a Scheme engraver "solve" Issue #34 (grace note bug)? [cross-posted]

2020-02-07 Thread David Kastrup
w if I’m just talking nonsense. > If not, let me know how I can help make this "fix" a reality. Well, the problem is that there is no "grace event" but a grace iterator. Now this this characterization is not entirely true any more since commit 99a85ca39f3a7a6f717ba06a48ef0b

Re: Typing error in the 2.19.84 documentation

2020-02-07 Thread David Kastrup
Fixed in master already. Looks like I need to do one last scan of recent cherry-pickable trivial material before releasing 2.20. -- David Kastrup

Re: New release

2020-02-06 Thread David Kastrup
Peter Toye writes: >> Message: 3 >> Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 17:57:20 +0100 >> From: David Kastrup >> To: Gianmaria Lari >> Cc: Phil Holmes , LilyPond User Group >> >> Subject: Re: New release >> Message-ID: <87mu9vejrj@fencepost.

Re: New release

2020-02-06 Thread David Kastrup
staller is not generic to LilyPond but a Windows-specific GUB component, that change would likely require some knowledgable surgery. Alternatively I am not sure whether Frescobaldi does not offer a means to download and install LilyPond versions. -- David Kastrup

Re: Y - offset problem on TupletBracket

2020-02-05 Thread David Kastrup
Paolo Prete writes: > On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 11:07 PM David Kastrup wrote: > >> Paolo Prete writes: >> >> >> >> >> >> Possibly >> >> >> >> \once \override TupletBracket.Y-offset =

Re: Y - offset problem on TupletBracket

2020-02-05 Thread David Kastrup
Paolo Prete writes: > On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 10:32 PM David Kastrup wrote: > >> Paolo Prete writes: >> >> > Hello, >> > >> > as you can test with the following snippet, TupletBracket doesn't take >> into >> > account its direction w

Re: Y - offset problem on TupletBracket

2020-02-05 Thread David Kastrup
(ly:grob-property grob 'direction))) -- David Kastrup

Re: hiding chord symbols while keeping them in midi

2020-02-05 Thread David Kastrup
o show only changes in chord names. The same holds for the FretBoards type of context. -- David Kastrup

Re: Grace notes in the first measure mess up the layout

2020-02-04 Thread David Kastrup
Arle Lommel writes: > Thanks much. I *hunted* all over for something like this, but clearly > didn’t have the right search string as I thought this was a problem > with the *first* measure in a piece. Issue 34 in the bug tracker. -- David Kastrup

Re: TrillPitchHead doesn’t implement note-head-interface (?)

2020-02-03 Thread David Kastrup
nly debatable. What you do is really correct, it's just not a complete match to how LilyPond's commands implement On/Off property commands. And I'd use just \markup \musicglyph "noteheads.s0harmonic" (omitting # may require 2.19.84 though): the braces you use turn this into a somewhat spurious \markup \line { \musicglyph ... } . -- David Kastrup

Re: \override multiple properties?

2020-02-02 Thread David Kastrup
Aaron Hill writes: > On 2020-02-02 2:26 am, David Kastrup wrote: >> Aaron Hill writes: >> >>> Music functions certainly give you the most flexibility, although >>> there are simple cases where you can use 2.19's \etc keyword as a >>> s

Re: \override multiple properties?

2020-02-02 Thread David Kastrup
.color = \etc > > { d'8 \stemColor #red e' f' \undo \stemColor ##f g' } > > > Note the \undo command above is less ideal as one needs to provide a > dummy argument to the function. Why not \undo \stemColor #red here ? ##f makes no sense. -- David Kastrup

Re: \override multiple properties?

2020-02-01 Thread David Kastrup
verride { Voice.Stem.thickness = #3.0 > Voice.Stem.color = #(rgb-color 0.3 0.1 0.1) > } > > > to reduce redundant syntax, if one had to override many at once. No. It's not like the savings in this case would be overwhelming. -- David Kastrup

Re: Viewing PDF output

2020-01-31 Thread David Kastrup
orizontal spacing and > the many options available to influence that? There is also the option to write \layout { \context { \Voice \remove Forbid_line_break_engraver } } to allow line breaks anywhere. -- David Kastrup

Re: Scheme: get current beam-thickness

2020-01-26 Thread David Kastrup
the final goal. > > Even at the risk being regarded as a nitpicker and also being aware we > have similar codings (wrt to juggling grob-properties) in our docs, > the code will return several programming errors if compiled with > -dcheck-internal-types. I have some incomplete work in branches that would significantly speed up property accesses but would not support undeclared properties. Not that we have a good interface for adding them yet... > To cure, one could add: > #(ly:add-interface > 'flag-interface > "A flag" > '(beam-thickness)) -- David Kastrup

Re: Scheme: get current beam-thickness

2020-01-25 Thread David Kastrup
Aaron Hill writes: > On 2020-01-25 12:05 pm, David Kastrup wrote: >> Aaron Hill writes: >> >>> On 2020-01-25 11:40 am, David Kastrup wrote: >>>> Aaron Hill writes: >>>>> I am unaware of any simpler approach, as it is my understanding that &

Re: Scheme: get current beam-thickness

2020-01-25 Thread David Kastrup
Aaron Hill writes: > On 2020-01-25 11:40 am, David Kastrup wrote: >> Aaron Hill writes: >>> I am unaware of any simpler approach, as it is my understanding that >>> grobs do not persist the entire context within which they were >>> created. >> How woul

Re: Scheme: get current beam-thickness

2020-01-25 Thread David Kastrup
hey were > created. How would they then make it to the page? Suicided grobs have their properties deleted prematurely, but those are not the rule. > Mind you, I would love to be shown that I am incorrect. This is Scheme anyway. In general, objects persist as long as you are able to reference them. -- David Kastrup

Re: building v2.19.83 - can't find libguile.so.17

2020-01-25 Thread David Kastrup
Jonas Hahnfeld writes: > Am Samstag, den 25.01.2020, 10:37 +0100 schrieb David Kastrup: >> Jonas Hahnfeld < >> hah...@hahnjo.de >> > writes: >> >> > Am Samstag, den 25.01.2020, 10:21 +0100 schrieb David Kastrup: >> > > Jonas Hahn

Re: building v2.19.83 - can't find libguile.so.17

2020-01-25 Thread David Kastrup
Jonas Hahnfeld writes: > Am Samstag, den 25.01.2020, 10:21 +0100 schrieb David Kastrup: >> Jonas Hahnfeld < >> hah...@hahnjo.de >> > writes: >> >> > Am Freitag, den 24.01.2020, 16:45 -0500 schrieb Bric: >> > > i am building lilypond-2.19.83

Re: building v2.19.83 - can't find libguile.so.17

2020-01-25 Thread David Kastrup
of guile from your > system. I have my version of Guile-1.8 installed in a place where Ubuntu will most certainly not bother looking unless told otherwise guile-config is supposed to be supplying the required options for compiling and linking to make it look in the installation place relevant when guile-config was being installed. -- David Kastrup

Re: key change at end of snippet

2020-01-25 Thread David Kastrup
e, see attached > image. What can I do to avoid that? > > > Werner \relative c' { \key d \major d1 \key c \major \grace s256 } -- David Kastrup

Re: building v2.19.83 - can't find libguile.so.17

2020-01-25 Thread David Kastrup
Bric writes: > On January 24, 2020 at 4:50 PM David Kastrup < d...@gnu.org> wrote: > > Bric < b...@flight.us> writes: > > i am building lilypond-2.19.83 on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS > > had to build guile-1.8.8, after which lilypond ./configure was happy, and &

Re: repeated accidental after tie crossing bar

2020-01-24 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > Werner LEMBERG writes: > >>>> some publishers repeat accidentals not only if a tie gets broken >>>> between staves but also if it crosses a bar line: >>>> >>>> ||| >>>>#o|

Re: repeated accidental after tie crossing bar

2020-01-24 Thread David Kastrup
printed, but the note after > it gets another accidental. It works just as well as when breaking across a line. { cis'1~ \break | cis'2 cis' } also has three accidentals. Yes, this is a bug (and has been assigned some issue a long time ago) but this kind of ripple effect is very hard to avoid. -- David Kastrup

Re: repeated accidental after tie crossing bar

2020-01-24 Thread David Kastrup
ine: >> >> ||| >>#o| #o >> \/ >> >> Is there a property in LilyPond to automatically activate this? >> >> >> Werner >> > > Hi Werner, > > probably: > > { > \override Accidental.after-line-breaking = #'() > cis'1~ cis' > } That is chutzpah. -- David Kastrup

Re: building v2.19.83 - can't find libguile.so.17

2020-01-24 Thread David Kastrup
> > -pthread -L/usr/local/lib -lguile -lltdl -lgmp -lcrypt -lm -lltdl > > how can i make lilypond find the shared object? I use ./configure GUILE=/usr/bin/guile GUILE_CONFIG=/usr/local/tmp/guile-1.8/bin/guile-config and that's basically all. GUILE can be a 2.x Guile version (it is used for scripting), but GUILE_CONFIG needs to be the 1.8 build. -- David Kastrup

Re: partcombine & killCues

2020-01-24 Thread David Kastrup
and in those versions you can at least leave off the "parser location" things. > \cueDuring #"bassoon" #DOWN { \cueName "Bsn." R1 } > -- David Kastrup

Re: Scheme function evluates only once

2020-01-23 Thread David Kastrup
people writing that section. -- David Kastrup

Re: Scheme function evluates only once

2020-01-23 Thread David Kastrup
source code has changed, ‘(map random (cdr (iota 30)))’, if the first use of random numbers since Guile started up, will always give: (map random (cdr (iota 19))) ⇒ (0 1 1 2 2 2 1 2 6 7 10 0 5 3 12 5 5 12) To seed the random state in a sensible way for non-security-critical applications, do this during initialization of your program: (set! *random-state* (random-state-from-platform)) -- David Kastrup

Re: turning a markuplist into a chain of [individual] markups or strings

2020-01-22 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > Kieren MacMillan writes: > >> Hi David, >> >>> Uh, a markuplist typically _is_ a list of markups. Except when it isn't >>> (like when it is the result of calling a markup list command). But when >>> it isn't, you can only tu

Re: turning a markuplist into a chain of [individual] markups or strings

2020-01-22 Thread David Kastrup
t to do with things like hyphens at the end. Probably attach them to the last element. And the duration would likely be for all of the syllables? Or just the last? Not that it would be important since one would usually just use this in \lyricsto stuff where the syllable length gets overridden. -- David Kastrup

Re: [Scheme coding] turning a list into a markup/string

2020-01-22 Thread David Kastrup
ng-append, one can go >> (lambda (d) (let ((s number->string d)) >> (if (positive? s) (string-append "+" s) s))) > > I assume you’re missing a set of parentheses? Shouldn’t it rather be > > (lambda (d) (let ((s (number->string d))) > > ? Oops. Yes. -- David Kastrup

Re: turning a markuplist into a chain of [individual] markups or strings

2020-01-22 Thread David Kastrup
rkup b \markup c } > > or strings > > \lyricmode { "a" "b" "c" } > > What function do I use? Uh, a markuplist typically _is_ a list of markups. Except when it isn't (like when it is the result of calling a markup list command). But when it isn't, you can only turn it into a list of stencils. -- David Kastrup

Re: [Scheme coding] turning a list into a markup/string

2020-01-22 Thread David Kastrup
ired). If one wants to avoid an unnecessary string-append, one can go (lambda (d) (let ((s number->string d)) (if (positive? s) (string-append "+" s) s))) but of course that is not exactly saving space. -- David Kastrup

Re: [Scheme coding] turning a list into a markup/string

2020-01-21 Thread David Kastrup
ad much of a wrestling match with markup and their >> commands yet. > > Perhaps once I’m more comfortable with Scheme I can start to wrestle > with them, and you can "tag in" when I’m pinned. Let's see where we get when. -- David Kastrup

Re: [Scheme coding] turning a list into a markup/string

2020-01-21 Thread David Kastrup
same as simple even though it helps, and I've not really had much of a wrestling match with markup and their commands yet. -- David Kastrup

Re: [Scheme coding] turning a list into a markup/string

2020-01-21 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > Am Di., 21. Jan. 2020 um 23:13 Uhr schrieb David Kastrup : >> >> Thomas Morley writes: > >> > David, you remember my suggestion to generate that "General Code >> > Reference" with an Index ... ? >> >> Yes, that m

Re: [Scheme coding] turning a list into a markup/string

2020-01-21 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > Am Di., 21. Jan. 2020 um 23:13 Uhr schrieb David Kastrup : >> >> Thomas Morley writes: > >> > David, you remember my suggestion to generate that "General Code >> > Reference" with an Index ... ? >> >> Yes, that m

Re: [Scheme coding] turning a list into a markup/string

2020-01-21 Thread David Kastrup
hus would be tricky to implement once markup commands get more intelligent predicate interpretation, like music functions do now. It's conceivable when { gets read to check whether the predicate would accept '() (the simplest markup list) and only get into music mode when it doesn't. Markups are icky things. -- David Kastrup

Re: [Scheme coding] turning a list into a markup/string

2020-01-21 Thread David Kastrup
verge to a reasonably smooth state. Which does not mean that all of that is well-documented. -- David Kastrup

Re: [Scheme coding] turning a list into a markup/string

2020-01-21 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > Hi Kieren, hi David, > > Am Di., 21. Jan. 2020 um 22:45 Uhr schrieb David Kastrup : > >> And music-pitches is also convenient to know. > > David, you remember my suggestion to generate that "General Code > Reference" with an I

Re: [Scheme coding] turning a list into a markup/string

2020-01-21 Thread David Kastrup
\some-music \vspace #3 } > … > > Am I missing something? I cut-and-paste your code [from email into > Frescobaldi] several times… The line below it is a 2.21.0 feature that cannot be used from a LilyPond for which we have an installer. I wasn't aware that the line above is problematic but I see how it could. Maybe write #some-music instead. -- David Kastrup

Re: [Scheme coding] turning a list into a markup/string

2020-01-21 Thread David Kastrup
; it is seminal for me to tackle problems with the simplest means I can >> manage. > > I live (and die?) by the belief that "Every elegant question has an > elegant answer". =) I guess in this case the answer is more blunt than elegant. It refuses to acknowledge the refinement of the problem. -- David Kastrup

Re: [Scheme coding] turning a list into a markup/string

2020-01-21 Thread David Kastrup
A few annotations: David Kastrup writes: > Kieren MacMillan writes: > >> As the next step, I want to turn this into a function and display the >> result in a markup. Result: I spend several hours searching >> documentation, trying different functions, and getting one

Re: Detecting double accidentals

2020-01-21 Thread David Kastrup
itch-alteration p) 1))) (music-pitches mus))) #(display (map has-doubles (list #{ c'4 d' e' fis' g' a' b' #} #{ cisis'4 d' e' #}))) -- David Kastrup

Re: [Scheme coding] turning a list into a markup/string

2020-01-21 Thread David Kastrup
ead-made tools I use. At my advanced age, I tend to run into "eyes glaze over" territory pretty fast, so it is seminal for me to tackle problems with the simplest means I can manage. -- David Kastrup

Re: license question

2020-01-21 Thread David Kastrup
(as it is being used) on request or by default. But running it as a server is unproblematic. But if you don't even include LilyPond but produce LilyPond output, no license comes into play. I mean, unless your output contains copyrightable code taken from somewhere else. -- David Kastrup

Re: metronome-mark-alignment

2020-01-20 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > Am Mi., 15. Jan. 2020 um 01:23 Uhr schrieb David Kastrup : > >> We need to put out the difference between # and $ even for beginners. >> Basically # can only be used for stuff where you can figure out the >> meaning in context without even looking

Re: Returns from Salzburg by train

2020-01-20 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > Urs Liska writes: > >> And 5 more minutes, approaching Stuttgart station, we had an emergency break. >> Explanation: someone put us on a wrong track :-O Means the driver gad >> to wslk to the other end, set back the train and do the same in

Re: Returns from Salzburg by train

2020-01-20 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Am 20. Januar 2020 21:30:19 MEZ schrieb David Kastrup : >>Thomas Morley writes: >> >>> Am Mo., 20. Jan. 2020 um 16:38 Uhr schrieb bkal...@gmail.com >>> : >>>> >>>> Is there a way to input fingerings separate from

Returns from Salzburg by train (was: Inputting fingerings separate from melody?)

2020-01-20 Thread David Kastrup
SR/Item?id=768 > be of some help? > > Cheers, > Harm > > Back at home now. > My trail broke at Plochingen, which is close to the middle of nowhere ... s/trail/train/ ? I got home on schedule eventless. Well, broken WLAN, but I had booked a day of WAN at the first leg of the trip anyway. -- David Kastrup

Re: Fundamental Difference Between Lyricsto and Addlyrics

2020-01-20 Thread David Kastrup
reliable and can be used in more circumstances. As a handwavy rule, for simple stuff with lyrics, \addlyrics may be fine. If you have more complicated settings, \lyricsto may be the safer choice. -- David Kastrup

Re: compiling 2.19.83 needs guile-config < 1.9.0

2020-01-18 Thread David Kastrup
Michael Käppler writes: > Am 18.01.2020 um 09:36 schrieb David Kastrup: >> Bric writes: >> >>> I was asking about the latter: the older versions of guile are not >>> compiling. >>> >>> Has anyone run into this? and solved it? >> T

Re: compiling 2.19.83 needs guile-config < 1.9.0

2020-01-18 Thread David Kastrup
t's workable. If that alone does not work, you may need to call configure with --disable-error-on-warning to get it through. -- David Kastrup

Re: compiling 2.19.83 needs guile-config < 1.9.0

2020-01-18 Thread David Kastrup
cial release is. -- David Kastrup

Re: # and $ (was Re: metronome-mark-alignment)

2020-01-14 Thread David Kastrup
Aaron Hill writes: > On 2020-01-14 5:18 pm, David Kastrup wrote: >> No, it's that \notes is identical to $notes (apart from the syntax) in >> that it creates a copy. So whenever you write \something and do >> something with it, whatever you do with it will not affect

Re: # and $ (was Re: metronome-mark-alignment)

2020-01-14 Thread David Kastrup
Aaron Hill writes: > On 2020-01-14 2:39 pm, David Kastrup wrote: >> Ok, let me try again. >> # and $ differ in several respects. # inserts Scheme constructs in >> places where LilyPond can decide how they fit into its syntax without >> looking at their value first

Re: metronome-mark-alignment

2020-01-14 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > Am Di., 14. Jan. 2020 um 23:39 Uhr schrieb David Kastrup : >> >> Thomas Morley writes: >> >> > Am Mo., 13. Jan. 2020 um 07:14 Uhr schrieb Daniel Rosen >> > : >> >> >> >> > The hash mark # method of embedd

Re: metronome-mark-alignment

2020-01-14 Thread David Kastrup
yntactic flexibility may lead to the expression getting evaluated at an unexpectedly early point of time, namely when LilyPond needs to know its type in order to decide that it does not actually combine with the preceding expression. -- So no talk about lexer and parser and lookahead and tokens. -- David Kastrup

Re: Unusual cross-staff stem in Bartók

2020-01-14 Thread David Kastrup
xpected ways" excuse more than necessary. I don't have enough of an overview of the problem discussed here to figure out whether this is the case here. -- David Kastrup

Re: How to increase shift dynamic and end of hairpin

2020-01-14 Thread David Kastrup
fGroup or so). I don't think you'd see it outside of definitions. >> We probably should include it in LilyPond > > I think that’s a great idea. Noted. -- David Kastrup

Re: Lyric misalignment solved. Was Re: Lyric misalignment and beaming?

2020-01-14 Thread David Kastrup
. If there is a single sentence summarising the behavior with a link to the extensive explanation in most locations where one would expect to see it, that should help a lot. Particularly when there already is a handwaving statement of the "it was customary for syllables to match manually placed beams" kind. -- David Kastrup

Re: Lyric misalignment solved. Was Re: Lyric misalignment and beaming?

2020-01-14 Thread David Kastrup
rics where slurs are > discussed so that both options are evident to people like me, who dip > in and out of Lilypond on a semi-regular basis but aren’t quite up on > all the details. As a handwaving guess, where git grep autoBeamOff Documentation spits out material outside of the translations. It's in both the Learning and Notation manual in several places. -- David Kastrup

Re: Lyric misalignment solved. Was Re: Lyric misalignment and beaming?

2020-01-14 Thread David Kastrup
here syllables are put into the music as well, so changes made to autobeaming should be done identically in MIDI. So if you want to have beaming be independent from lyric syllables, you need to keep \autoBeamOn but override the default beaming with your own beams. -- David Kastrup

Re: How to increase shift dynamic and end of hairpin

2020-01-14 Thread David Kastrup
her >> either did not work at all, or only worked for some of the areas >> that needed the extended hairpin decrescendo. This function, >> however, worked perfectly in all the places I used it. > > All the credit belongs to the brilliant and always-helpful Davi

Re: Mailing list duplicates

2020-01-13 Thread David Kastrup
Aaron Hill writes: > On 2020-01-13 12:58 pm, David Kastrup wrote: >> Uh, you are aware that you can easily configure your mailing list >> options to _not_ include you in mail you are already receiving via >> other >> headers? >> And lo and behold: no need to

Re: Shift up OttavaBracket

2020-01-13 Thread David Kastrup
Here is a handy link to click for that: <mailto:lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org?subject=set%20duplicates%20off> And lo and behold: no need to lecture anybody anymore. -- David Kastrup

Re: Shift up OttavaBracket

2020-01-13 Thread David Kastrup
in some circumstances. If there are inconsistencies in the effects of \offset that make no sense to users, then one probably needs to see whether the positioning can be changed in a manner where meddling with it delivers the expected results. -- David Kastrup

Re: Shift up OttavaBracket

2020-01-13 Thread David Kastrup
be a useful addition to the Lilypond codebase. What's wrong with \offset itself? -- David Kastrup

Re: metronome-mark-alignment

2020-01-13 Thread David Kastrup
. This one hasn't. I'll readily admit that it is bad. It not being there, however, will likely be worse at least for some readers. > Of course, it may be that the manual isn't meant to be aimed at a > complete novice like myself; but if it is, then it definitely needs an > overhaul. Sure, like most of what I write. But there are not many people around for overhauling. -- David Kastrup

Re: Work structure question

2020-01-11 Thread David Kastrup
with alignBelowContext it can be positioned correctly beneath the (named) lyrics context containing the first verse. Examples showing this repositioning of temporary contexts can be found elsewhere — see Nesting music expressions, Modifying single staves and Techniques specific to lyrics. And of course, in "Techniques specific to lyrics" we find <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/techniques-specific-to-lyrics#placing-lyrics-vertically> which goes to some detail. -- David Kastrup

Re: \hideNotes removes dot from 4.

2020-01-07 Thread David Kastrup
note-collision: retain upper voice dot when merging dots is responsible here? Though this particular patch seems only to add some cosmetic decision here. At any rate, the dot merging code likely does not cater for hideNotes. -- David Kastrup

Re: Custom MMR Range engraver problem under 2.19.83

2020-01-05 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > Thomas Morley writes: > >> Am Mo., 6. Jan. 2020 um 00:53 Uhr schrieb Malte Meyn : >>> >>> >>> >>> Am 06.01.20 um 00:02 schrieb Craig Dabelstein: >>> > Hi all, >>> > >>> > I've been using

Re: Custom MMR Range engraver problem under 2.19.83

2020-01-05 Thread David Kastrup
A minimal for the problem: > > \markup > \center-column { >foo >\translate #'(0 . 3) >\with-dimensions #empty-interval #empty-interval >bar > } > > With 2.19.82 "bar" is printed, it completely disappears with 2.19.83 > No clue what happens and why. > Probably a bug, to tired to do further research, thoug. Bisecting. -- David Kastrup

Re: nudging a note

2019-12-31 Thread David Kastrup
"Mark Stephen Mrotek" writes: > David, > > I was not specific in my request. The original (Mozart K 310) has the middle > voice to the right. > > Thank you for your attention. Well, use \voices 1,4,2 instead of \voices 1,2,4 then. -- David Kastrup

Re: nudging a note

2019-12-31 Thread David Kastrup
"Mark Stephen Mrotek" writes: > David, > > Thank you for the suggestion. > In each measure the first note of the middle voice is still colliding. > Hm. In the second measure I have a collision with a dot. But no collision otherwise. Does it look differently with you? -- David Kastrup

Re: nudging a note

2019-12-31 Thread David Kastrup
\relative c' { \voices 1,2,4 <<{c'2~ c8. dis16 e8. c16 | b2~ b8. dis16 e8. b16 | a2~ a8. b16 c8. a16}\\ {e2 fis | dis e | cis dis}\\ { b'8. b16 a8. gis16 a2~ | a8. a16 g8. fis16 g2~ | g8. g16 fis8. e16 fis2}>> } -- David Kastrup

Re: Quoted text in markup line

2019-12-27 Thread David Kastrup
. =) > > > That is, even the ‘programming quotes’ in the code example by Kieren > wouldn’t be necessary. "“like this”" is one word, “like this” are two words. That's important in lyrics mode and in some other respects like line-wrapping. -- David Kastrup

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