Re: conditional markup

2014-06-15 Thread James
anything but music. Maybe it would be a good idea to extend the sentence in the manual in the following way: ... The result a music function returns must be music which is compatible with the context in which it is called. http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3955 James

\cadenzaOff resets accidentals too late

2014-06-14 Thread James Harkins
This smells like a bug to me: \version 2.18.2 \language english \relative c' { \cadenzaOn a4 b cs d% accidental is printed \cadenzaOff \bar || % \time 4/4 e d cs b% accidental is NOT printed -- huh?? a b cs d% accidental is printed } I'm aware that \cadenzaOn will remember

Re: \cadenzaOff resets accidentals too late

2014-06-14 Thread James
On 14/06/14 10:20, James Harkins wrote: This smells like a bug to me: \version 2.18.2 \language english \relative c' { \cadenzaOn a4 b cs d% accidental is printed \cadenzaOff \bar || % \time 4/4 e d cs b% accidental is NOT printed -- huh?? a b cs d% accidental

Re: Parenthesize and dot

2014-06-13 Thread James
On 13/06/14 12:07, Johan Vromans wrote: Hi, In a construct like \parenthesize g bes2. how can I get the parens to include the dot? -- Johan For completeness https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3750 and http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=155 James

Slur crossing through accidental

2014-06-12 Thread James Harkins
I am at a complete loss what to do about this slur. It collides with the b-flat's accidental in a way that makes it hard to see what the slur is supposed to be. \version 2.18.2 \language english \relative c { \clef bass \time 6/8 bf8 ( d' ) r8 bf,16 ( bf' ) d ( bf d bf ) } I tried

Re: Slur crossing through accidental

2014-06-12 Thread James Harkins
On Thursday, June 12, 2014 11:16:27 PM HKT, Karol Majewski wrote: Hi, James How about: \override Slur.details.accidental-collision = #1000 ? No difference here: \version 2.18.2 \language english \relative c { \clef bass \time 6/8 bf8 ( d' ) r8 \override Accidental.avoid-slur

Re: Odp: Slur crossing through accidental

2014-06-12 Thread James Harkins
On Thursday, June 12, 2014 11:22:57 PM HKT, Karol Majewski wrote: And of course you have to increase region size. So it should be: \override Slur.details.region-size = #5 \override Slur.details.accidental-collision = #1000 Thanks, all, for the suggestions. Increasing the slur region ended up

Re: More questions about using Lilypond for guitar music

2014-06-11 Thread James
to typeset such notation in Lilypond? It may be useful to provide small example (screenshot or scan) of what this might look like to any non-guitarists that may then be able to give you help. James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https

Re: Lilypond-book and Default Staff Size

2014-06-09 Thread James
/Documentation/usage/music-fragment-options ? James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: SystemStartBracket/Brace

2014-06-09 Thread James Harkins
Matthew Collett m_collett at ihug.co.nz writes: On 10/06/2014, at 4:28 am, David Kastrup dak at gnu.org wrote: Please *never* take the mailing list off the cc without announcement. Please *never* blame ordinary list users for the idiosyncratic behaviour of the lilypond-user mailing

Re: bug triplet line collides with fingering

2014-06-07 Thread James
or not and then they will create a tracker for it. http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/list James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Special Characters in Lyrics

2014-06-06 Thread James
Lord and has rather than attached to has. Is there a way to make that happen? Hello, See http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/special-characters#ascii-aliases and then http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/list-of-special-characters This might help. James

Re: print change of clef after barline

2014-06-01 Thread James
'( ... )), (make-vector 2 '( ... )), (make-vector 3 '( ... )),) Or something - but then again, I am not the target audience for the IR :) James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: chord name

2014-06-01 Thread James
this new information here help or not? James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: bug triplet line collides with fingering

2014-06-01 Thread James
ccing bug list On 02/06/14 02:37, MarcM wrote: I thought this bug had been reported but apparently not. I just recompiled the same file with LilyPond_2.19.7 and the triplet line still collides with either the fingering or with the slur. \version 2.19.7 \language english { \relative d' {

Re: Whiteout attached to NoteHead

2014-05-22 Thread James Worlton
in order for it to mask the tie like I wanted. So basically the code I'm using now is what you provided plus the addition of: \override TextScript.layer = #2 Thanks for this! James W. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https

Re: Whiteout attached to NoteHead

2014-05-22 Thread James Worlton
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.comwrote: 2014-05-22 4:59 GMT+02:00 James Worlton jworl...@gmail.com: Hello, I'm trying to get the whiteout that is attached to the NoteHead to not cover the ledger line. Use \override Staff.LedgerLineSpanner.layer

Re: Adjusting the shape of the second part of the slur after a break

2014-05-22 Thread James Worlton
- and after-break portions of the slur. James Worlton ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Whiteout attached to NoteHead

2014-05-21 Thread James Worlton
\override NoteHead.layer = #2 \once \override NoteHead.whiteout = ##t f'''8 d'''4 } \oneVoice c'''2. } } Thanks, James Worlton ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman

[bug?] Unnecessary avoid-slur warning

2014-05-19 Thread James Harkins
It appears that LilyPond 2.18.2 prints a warning if a trill pitch occurs under a slur, regardless of the chance of collision. \relative c' { % OK \pitchedTrill d2\startTrillSpan ~ e d4. r8\stopTrillSpan % warning: Ignoring grob for slur: TrillPitchAccidental. avoid-slur not set? % But

\mark and text spanners?

2014-05-18 Thread James Harkins
Is it possible to use a text spanner in a \mark? That is, accel... is about tempo, so it makes sense -- as with other tempo marks -- to print it just once in the score (especially this score: 3 players, 3 staves). But it seems this is not possible with a text spanner. hjh Sent with

articulate.ly: command to start trills on the lower note?

2014-05-18 Thread James Harkins
I was just toying with articulate.ly, to hear some trills, when I noticed that it's starting the trill on the upper note. This is appropriate for older music but dead wrong for contemporary music. (If not dead wrong, then certainly generally wrong.) How to configure this? \include

Re: articulate.ly: command to start trills on the lower note?

2014-05-18 Thread James Harkins
On Sunday, May 18, 2014 3:38:43 PM HKT, James Harkins wrote: I was just toying with articulate.ly, to hear some trills, when I noticed that it's starting the trill on the upper note. This is appropriate for older music but dead wrong for contemporary music. (If not dead wrong, then certainly

Beams not drawn after \unHideNotes

2014-05-15 Thread James Harkins
I'm making that exercise for my students now** and found... the first group of eighths after \unHideNotes is missing its beam. It omits 8th-note flags, and it draws the stems as if it's going to beam them, but... no beam. ** Thanks, Pierre, for reminding me about \hideNotes! \version 2.18.2

Re: Beams not drawn after \unHideNotes

2014-05-15 Thread James Harkins
On Thursday, May 15, 2014 8:42:56 PM HKT, James Harkins wrote: I think I see why... it's trying to beam a group of four 8ths, where the first two are hidden. It'd be nicer if LilyPond could detect the situation and just Do The Right Thing. Just occurred to me -- a simple solution would

Typesetting exercises with blank space

2014-05-10 Thread James Harkins
I want to create an exercise for some beginning composition students, where I will provide some short melody fragments sprinkled through a longer score. Most measures will be empty, but I want LilyPond to leave enough space for the students to write in their own notes. I looked in the notation

Re: frescobaldi vs. org-babel-lilypond

2014-04-28 Thread James Harkins
Steven Arntson steven at stevenarntson.com writes: I may be getting in over my head with this question. I'm a new user of Lilypond, transitioning away from Musescore. I've been using Frescobaldi a bit, and am impressed with it so far. However, I see there's an Emacs mode available through

Re: Collision between tuplet bracket and accidental

2014-04-27 Thread James Harkins
On Friday, 25 April 2014 15:59:16 HKT, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: 2014-04-25 7:29 GMT+02:00 James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com: I have a case (attached) where LilyPond doesn't leave enough space for an accidental. Try : \once\override NoteColumn.X-offset = #1 Perfect, thanks! hjh

Collision between tuplet bracket and accidental

2014-04-24 Thread James Harkins
I have a case (attached) where LilyPond doesn't leave enough space for an accidental. This minimal example *almost* reproduces it. There's not an actual collision here, but the space is uncomfortably small. If anything forces narrower spacing (as in my full piece), they will crash into each

Re: Bach Cello Suite for Bassoon...Typed in LilyPond!!!

2014-04-18 Thread James Harkins
Mark Mathias d8valily at gmail.com writes:  I also used to be managing editor of a music publisher in the days when engraving was done with a re-built Olympia typewriter and hand-drawn slurs. I would like to nominate this as the single most insane sentence to be posted on this mailing list all

Symbol to indicate an unmetered (cadenza) bar

2014-04-17 Thread James Harkins
I'm writing a piece that will have a few cadenzas. In the cadenza pseudo-bars, I want to print some kind of glyph where the time signature would normally go, to indicate that this bar is unmetered. My first thought was a 0, and I found in the manual that I can actually get the 0 to appear in

Re: Symbol to indicate an unmetered (cadenza) bar

2014-04-17 Thread James Harkins
On Apr 17, 2014 6:11 PM, David Stephen Grant da...@davidgrant.no wrote: Gould recommends a cross together with a tempo marking senza misura. Kurt Stone however recommends a zero. Thanks. I had used a zero with a vertical bar through it back in school. Hm, a choice then: - Zero: Use a (perhaps

Re: non italics in dynamic context

2014-02-17 Thread James Worlton
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Re: non italics in dynamic context

2014-02-17 Thread James Worlton
Sorry, copy/paste/edit error: that should be: \override TextScript.font-shape ... James W. On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:42 PM, James Worlton jworl...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Shane Brandes sh...@grayskies.netwrote: Is there a way to override the italicness

Re: Shape of individual ties in chords

2014-01-24 Thread James
in the Notation Reference. As to the quote: there's a few things which are only documented in the learning manual. :) That implies that we're missing things in the NR that shoudl be in there. If so then let the list know (lilypond-...@gnu.org) and that can be fixed. Thanks James

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-17 Thread James Harkins
Philip Rhoades phil at pricom.com.au writes: People, David took this discussion off-list and then accused me of not having the guts to respond on-list . . In an ideal world, I'd suppose that if one needs to preface an email with grade-school playground ethics, one *might* take that as a

Re: Where is the former manual page ? (2.16.2)

2014-01-13 Thread James Worlton
, but it still exists here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/index.html James Worlton ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Survey: Git (G)UIs

2014-01-06 Thread James Harkins
Urs Liska ul at openlilylib.org writes: Hi all Git users, I'd like to make a survey on how you are working with Git. Do you use the command line exclusively, or a GUI (which one(s))? Or a GUI for certain tasks and the command line for others? I don't have an opinion on git pedagogy. In

Re: Weirdness With Fonts and Font Tree Snippet

2014-01-02 Thread James Harkins
Joshua Nichols josh.d.nichols at gmail.com writes: see attached. It was lengthy. For future reference, probably you needed this, for case-insensitive searching. fc-list | grep -i libertine hjh ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: lilypond --warranty

2014-01-01 Thread James
://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3765 Thanks James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: LilyPond 2.18.0 released

2013-12-30 Thread James
good fellow; and so say all of us! \o/ James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: [Feature Request] \compressFullBarRests improvement(s)

2013-12-22 Thread James Harkins
On Sunday, December 22, 2013 5:07:11 PM HKT, Simon Bailey wrote: I also support this request. Another reason is that in many parts of percussion instruments, say, there is `tacet' for a very long time, e.g. from rehearsal number 20 to 76. A potential new implementation of \compressFullBarRests

Re: [Feature Request] \compressFullBarRests improvement(s)

2013-12-22 Thread James Harkins
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmillan at sympatico.ca writes: I don't understand why, if you want a four measure rest you would write 2+2. For the vast majority of cases, if there are 48 bars between two rehearsal marks I'm happy to see |=48=| between them. So, why write anything but R1*48 in

musicxml2ly bug: Fails on empty work-title / node

2013-12-21 Thread James Harkins
In case anybody is working on musicxml2ly: I just found that it doesn't handle the case of an XML document where the title node exists, but is empty. I've uploaded a zip archive of two musicxml documents. http://ubuntuone.com/0iNRBh17UxPJWlVJikFYVD ** 13-1220-li-xuanyi.xml -- The original

Re: musicxml2ly bug: Fails on empty work-title / node

2013-12-21 Thread James Harkins
On Dec 21, 2013 5:56 PM, pls p.l.schm...@gmx.de wrote: On 21.12.2013, at 09:14, James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com wrote: I just found that it doesn't handle the case of an XML document where the title node exists, but is empty. I've uploaded a zip archive of two musicxml documents. we fixed

Re: [Feature Request] \compressFullBarRests improvement(s)

2013-12-21 Thread James Harkins
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmillan at sympatico.ca writes: Hello all, Consider this snippet: \version 2.17.97 theMusic = { \compressFullBarRests R1*2 R1*2 } \score { \theMusic } Here’s my request: I would love it if \compressFullBarRests actually did what it says it

Re: [Feature Request] \compressFullBarRests improvement(s)

2013-12-21 Thread James Harkins
James Harkins jamshark70 at gmail.com writes: FWIW, I agree with Kieren. If I saw a part with some multimeasure rests broken for no obvious reason, e.g. { \compressFullBarRests \mark \default R1*2 R1*2 \mark \default R1*2 } I would think the publisher was insane or incompetent. I'm

MIDI output: Possible to change PPQ?

2013-12-21 Thread James Harkins
I was just searching, without success, for a way to change the number of pulses-per-quarter in MIDI output. The default, 384, handles double divisions and triplets, but quintuplets are inexact. I would rather use 480 for this particular file. The section in the notation reference on the \midi

Cannot Find Voice?

2013-12-20 Thread James Dorfer
Hello All, I am getting a very persistent Cannot Find Voice: Tenor error when compiling my code. I attempted to construct my code almost identically to the second example in the Learning Manual 3.2.3 Voices and Vocals (here:

Invisible Measures?

2013-12-17 Thread James Dorfer
Hello all! Is is possible in LilyPond to create a score where empty measures are invisible? I'm looking for something similar to Crumb's score for Vox Balaenae (seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=D8zxHNG1dWo). Any help is greatly appreciated! Cheers, J.D.

Re: Short alternate ending breaks staff length

2013-12-16 Thread James Worlton
space for the invisible extra bit of the duration. James Worlton ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Short alternate ending breaks staff length

2013-12-16 Thread James Worlton
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Sam Whited s...@samwhited.com wrote: On 12/16/2013 12:38 PM, James Worlton wrote: Your last chord in the \harmonies variable is still set at duration '2'. Wow, that's almost embarrasing. Thanks for that; just one of those things I should have noticed

Re: A thought on Windows Experience

2013-12-09 Thread James Harkins
On Monday, December 9, 2013 4:52:08 PM HKT, David Kastrup wrote: James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com writes: Carl's two-column approach is pretty much what I had in mind. Although, he suggests this would be only a slight improvement. I think it could be more than that. Suppose we introduce

Re: A thought on Windows Experience

2013-12-08 Thread James Harkins
Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonmark at ca.rr.com writes: The Lilypond website presents “Manuals” that when clicked displays a page that starts with “Text Input … Read this first.” That hot link goes to a page that has a section titled “Easier editing environments.” A hot link takes one to a list

RE: A thought on Windows Experience

2013-12-08 Thread James Harkins
On Dec 9, 2013 11:52 AM, Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonm...@ca.rr.com wrote: Mr. Harkins, Two or three hops are not too much for anyone that reads and follows directions. Then you have more faith than I in general usage patterns on the internet. (As in, you still think people read and follow

Re: A thought on Windows Experience

2013-12-08 Thread James Harkins
On Monday, December 9, 2013 12:02:31 PM HKT, James Harkins wrote: On Dec 9, 2013 11:52 AM, Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonm...@ca.rr.com wrote: Mr. Harkins, Two or three hops are not too much for anyone that reads and follows directions. Then you have more faith than I in general usage patterns

Re: LilyPond Website Work (was: A thought on Windows Experience)

2013-12-06 Thread James Harkins
A side comment, picking up on a comment in the Windows experience thread: I hope the new site will avoid any hooks to Google analytics or other APIs. I'm behind the Great Firewall of China, and I see frequently how Google dependencies cause page loading times to balloon, while the browser waits

Re: A thought on Windows Experience (was: useability, promoting, etc)

2013-12-04 Thread James
' but for Windows? James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Another time model (related to the usability thread)

2013-12-02 Thread James Harkins
Picking up on a comment of Kieren's, which I think doesn't need to hijack David's financial support thread... I find LilyPond's model of time to be the most inconvenient aspect of the input format -- so inconvenient that it alone may be enough to drive people away. Time is represented

Re: promoting LilyPond

2013-12-02 Thread James Harkins
David Kastrup dak at gnu.org writes: LilyPond's strengths are what it is able to do automatically: transpositions, partial partitures, catering to different page formats, fast adaption to different orchestras... Your score is _malleable_. LilyPond excels at *vertical* malleability, but it's

Re: Another time model (related to the usability thread)

2013-12-02 Thread James Harkins
Keith OHara k-ohara5a5a at oco.net writes: Of course specifying time in terms of durations is more convenient than specifying absolute time, or we would need to change every following note when we insert a few measures. Assuming that durations and absolute time are the only two options. I'm

Re: Scheme function question

2013-11-22 Thread James Worlton
(using $note) from earlier in the thread. Could you point me to the proper location? I want to understand this. Thanks, James W ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Scheme function question

2013-11-21 Thread James Worlton
#note with $note in both cases in the function and it works properly. Thanks! I need to go back and re-read the part about the difference between # and $ in Scheme variables... James Worlton ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https

Scheme function question

2013-11-21 Thread James Worlton
(and remembering to use absolute mode in the input), but it would be nice if the function would produce the correct output. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, James Worlton attachment: doubleStem.png___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https

Gmail and quotes

2013-11-13 Thread James Harkins
From David K.: Gmail's default setting is _not_ to secretly append all of an old posting to your new mail. Actually, the default behavior in gmail's web interface is very close to appending the quote secretly. It used to show the quote, but now reply gives you an almost completely empty frame

Re: org-babel-lilypond export,automatic image trimming?

2013-11-05 Thread James Harkins
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote: tagline = ##f will get rid of the tagline. Using -dpreview on the command line will provide trimmed images. Be a little careful with this, since it sometimes trims a little too much. Thanks. For future reference, it's

org-babel-lilypond export, automatic image trimming?

2013-11-03 Thread James Harkins
Any org-babel-lilypond users out there? I've just managed successfully to get lilypond to compile a png from an org source block and include it in a beamer frame. However, lilypond is generating a full-size A4 page, but these are very short examples and I'd like them to be trimmed

Re: On creating title pages and the like

2013-10-27 Thread James
the use of markups, etc Or, perhaps a compromise is available? Thanks for your thoughts! Sincerely, Josh I've heavily adapted this snippet for my own use. It should be a starting place at least to develop your own. http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=368 James Worlton

Re: Floating markup

2013-10-15 Thread James Worlton
} } \new Lyrics {\lyricsto one {R L R L R L R L }} \new Lyrics {\lyricsto one { L R L R L R L R }} } James Worlton ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Floating markup

2013-10-15 Thread James Worlton
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Jim Long lilyp...@umpquanet.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 09:04:13AM -0500, James Worlton wrote: This solution is also kind of hacky, but it looks like it may do more or less what you want. It also scales pretty well to other staff sizes. I'm

Re: partcombine texts

2013-10-11 Thread James Worlton
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices#index-part-combiner This part of the manual shows how you can change the part combine text. James Worlton On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Mark Knoop m...@opus11.net wrote: Hi all, I'm using partcombine and am looking

Re: partcombine texts

2013-10-11 Thread James Worlton
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Mark Knoop m...@opus11.net wrote: At 08:50 on 11 Oct 2013, James Worlton wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Mark Knoop m...@opus11.net wrote: Hi all, I'm using partcombine and am looking for a way to add a text marking when automatic combining

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-27 Thread James Harkins
On Friday, September 27, 2013 4:04:36 PM HKT, Richard Shann wrote: My music only seldom follows common practice tonality, The built-in support is for any range (e.g. E-flat to G-sharp, or D to F-double-sharp), with the modulation controller on the MIDI keyboard changing the range sharper or

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-26 Thread James Harkins
David Kastrup dak at gnu.org writes: It's been some time since I last tried, but the basic answer I arrived at for myself was don't bother. The tools are not good enough right now to save time. I have to agree with David here. When I first started looking at LilyPond, one of my first

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-26 Thread James Harkins
On Sep 27, 2013 12:10 AM, Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net wrote: Since introducing this I have had zero enharmonic misspellings in my transcriptions. But this might not be suitable for some sorts of music, I confess. My music only seldom follows common practice tonality, so I'd have to

Re: lilyglyphs package released!

2013-09-19 Thread James
at it too: http://lilypondblog.org/2013/09/using-musical-symbols-in-text-documents/ Maybe this could be a trigger to consider switching to LaTeX? Best Urs I'll give my support to this! I installed an earlier version and have been using it in a text project and it's great. Thanks, Urs! James

Re: mea máxima culpa

2013-09-12 Thread James Harkins
David Kastrup dak at gnu.org writes: Well yes, a thread is logically a _tree_. A chronological sort only renders a list, and that's just not useful for tracking a particular conversation to its start. FWIW, I receive the digest and when I want to reply to a message, I use gmane. It's

Re: Overall (global) resizing difficulties

2013-09-10 Thread James Harkins
Patrick or Cynthia Karl pckarl at mac.com writes: Message: 1 Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:56:09 +0200 From: Eluze eluzew at gmail.com To: lilypond-user at gnu.org Subject: Re: Overall (global) resizing difficulties Message-ID: 522F4F29.9010607 at gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain;

Re: Skip to Specific Bar

2013-09-10 Thread James Harkins
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmillan at sympatico.ca writes: can I ask what the \global tag is doing in your snippet? It seems to me like it's laying out a map of the time signature change in a piece. Is this the recommended way to go about this? Up till now I've just written all the time

Re: new to lilypond

2013-08-19 Thread James Harkins
Phil Holmes mail at philholmes.net writes: I think a lot of us simply use the Dutch standard of es for a flat and is for a sharp - I certainly do. I'll be bold and disagree. G-flat is ges in Dutch (3 characters) and gf in English (2 characters). If you're typesetting a piece in D-flat major,

Re: new to lilypond

2013-08-19 Thread James Harkins
On Aug 19, 2013 11:36 PM, Andrew Bernard andrew.bern...@gmail.com wrote: They take up space but don't /do/ anything in return for the extra finger effort. But they _do_ do something in Nederlands for people whose language it is. Sure, but I was responding to a comment from a native English

Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system

2013-08-05 Thread James Harkins
On Aug 4, 2013 5:30 PM, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk wrote: Me too. As a singer it looks exactly what I would expect. That's the way all vocal music is laid out - with syllables left-aligned on tied and slurred notes, wherever they appear. How is it done in jazz lead sheets? My

Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system

2013-08-05 Thread James Harkins
On Aug 5, 2013 11:07 AM, Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com wrote: Seeing a column of flush-left syllables in the middle of a line of lyrics when there are 3-5 verses just looks *bad*, even if it is technically correct. :-D Anyway, I'll take the vocalists' word for it. I still believe any

Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system

2013-08-05 Thread James Harkins
On Aug 5, 2013 1:39 PM, David Rogers davidandrewrog...@gmail.com wrote: Isolated, your example looks perfect to me. I think what's making it look ugly to you is probably that it makes the spacing suddenly wider in an otherwise fairly-tight score. Sure, that sounds right. I don't think I will

Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system

2013-08-04 Thread James Harkins
Eluze eluzew at gmail.com writes: However, the same thing happens at the end of a system, forcing the note column far to the left of where I would expect it to appear. see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/snippets-big-page#text-aligning- syllables-with-melisma By default,

Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system

2013-08-03 Thread James Harkins
I ran into the attached spacing problem while typesetting a lead sheet. I can't make a minimal example right this second; will try in the next couple of days. When a tied note has a lyric syllable, LP (2.16.1) left aligns the syllable to the note, on the assumption that tied-to note column will

Strange warning during partcombine

2013-07-31 Thread James Worlton
\tuplet 3/2 { c8 c c } c2 This error does not appear if both parts are on the same pitch. The file compiles correctly in both cases. Is this a known issue? James Worlton ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: Strange warning during partcombine

2013-07-31 Thread James Worlton
I should add that the error also appears when using \times 2/3 in place of \tuplet 3/2 James Worlton On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:58 PM, James Worlton jworl...@gmail.com wrote: This simple example shows an error in the console: \version 2.17.22 notesA = \relative c' { e4 \tuplet 3/2 { e8

Re: Strange warning during partcombine

2013-07-31 Thread James Worlton
Answered my own question. It's issue 245, so it's been around for quite a while. Sorry for the noise. James W On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:01 PM, James Worlton jworl...@gmail.com wrote: I should add that the error also appears when using \times 2/3 in place of \tuplet 3/2 James Worlton

Re: function for Glissando with length stopped working

2013-07-25 Thread James Harkins
MarcM marc at mouries.net writes: I'm using nabble to post to lilypond and i had added the lilypond code. Are you not seeing it? Nabble has a really horrible, careless, stupid bug where it omits everything inside CODE tags from the mails it sends to the list. I've seen this on the

PDFs at the LP blog

2013-07-09 Thread James Harkins
I don't know if this has been reported (I don't recall seeing mention of it on the list) -- links to PDF examples in older blog posts still point to the WordPress site. This makes them inaccessible to readers in mainland China (such as myself). I have a proxy on my laptop but not on my tablet;

Re: Accidental placement in voiceTwo vs. another staff

2013-06-28 Thread James Harkins
the accidental is repeated because we are in a new measure and the natural sign avoids the accidental of the top voice. when the notes are tied the accidental is not repeated but it seems like LilyPond still reserves some space for it. I tried to set the Accidental stencil to false but

Accidental placement in voiceTwo vs. another staff

2013-06-27 Thread James Harkins
Is this a known bug? It looks like LP is trying to avoid a collision between the natural sign in the top staff's voiceTwo and the sharp sign in the bottom staff. But of course they are nowhere near touching, so there should be no need for collision avoidance. (Sorry I'm on a slightly older

Re: Images from Liedboek with attribution

2013-06-12 Thread James
Nice. But where are the images of the score? ;) On 12 Jun 2013, at 19:09, Jan Nieuwenhuizen jann...@gnu.org wrote: Hi, I put some images up at the public url https://plus.google.com/b/109917054452640897824/109917054452640897824/posts/jPRaUgF34ma and I hope to get more publicity

Re: Images from Liedboek with attribution

2013-06-12 Thread James
Hello On 12 Jun 2013, at 20:50, Julien Rioux jri...@lyx.org wrote: On 12/06/2013 2:27 PM, James wrote: Nice. But where are the images of the score? ;) http://www.liedboek.nl/voorbeelden/proefbundel It looks really nice :) -- Julien Correct me if I am wrong

Re: LilyPond blog! who wants to join?

2013-06-01 Thread James Harkins
Janek Warchoł janek.lilypond at gmail.com writes: 2013/5/31 Janek Warchoł janek.lilypond at gmail.com: this cannot wait any longer: there has to be a LilyPond blog. Unless someone has a better idea, i'm going to create a blog on WordPress.com tomorrow morning. and it's time for a

Re: \grace in repeat breaks volta spanner?

2013-05-15 Thread James Worlton
{ } } Ideas? thanx - steve \grace has issues when it is the first thing in a measure (it's in the docs). If you add: \grace s16 in the guitarthree part at the same musical moment it should compile correctly. James Worlton ___ lilypond-user

Re: mdash in markup?

2013-05-05 Thread James Harkins
David Kastrup dak at gnu.org writes: This bugs me because a/ I tend to read text and skim examples You stop reading text in mid-sentence because it contains code? Nice try, but I won't take that bait. and (more importantly) b/ it's imprecise. Here, I was left to guess about the

Re: mdash in markup?

2013-05-04 Thread James Harkins
Urs Liska ul at openlilylib.org writes: In the first line of that page you're directed tohttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/ Documentation/notation/special-characters#ascii-aliases where the first example uses\paper { #(include-special-characters) } I see it now. It wasn't obvious to

Re: mdash in markup?

2013-05-04 Thread James Harkins
David Kastrup dak at gnu.org writes: I see it now. It wasn't obvious to me that the special character aliases wouldn't work without enabling them in the paper block. A list of ASCII aliases for special characters can be included: \paper {

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