Re: Single notes among chord names

2012-04-16 Thread James
' entry midway down. I think this would be what you wanted. james ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Footnote documentation error

2012-04-19 Thread James
document in earlier versions of 2.15. We did re-write much of the examples and obviously missed this. Before I create a tracker, I'll wait for a confirmation from David/Mike that this is technically correct. James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond

Re: Flatten a tie without hardcoding control points?

2012-04-21 Thread James
James, On 21 April 2012 07:51, James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com wrote: At Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:31:20 -0500, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi James, On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 3:32 AM, James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com wrote:     Maybe a simple question: Is there a way to flatten the curve of a tie

Re: Footnote documentation error

2012-04-21 Thread James
a confirmation that this is a documentation error or an unexpected/inconsistent behaviour in the code. I haven't seen a case for either yet. james ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Flatten a tie without hardcoding control points?

2012-04-22 Thread James
James On 22 April 2012 04:50, James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com wrote: At Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:24:50 +0100, James wrote: If you can come up with a simple example, we (or you even) could add it to the LilyPond snippet repository Like this, perhaps? I can add it if this looks OK. I guess - I

how to post

2012-04-22 Thread James
I have a question, but every time I try to post it, gmane complains that I'm top-posting. How do I not top-post? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

multiple tags

2012-04-22 Thread James
Is is possible to have simultaneous multiple tags? I'm trying: \version 2.14.2 control = { s1*2 \tag #'threes { \time 3/4 s2. } \tag #'twos { \time 2/4 s2 } } tset = \relative c' { c4 d e f \tag #'up {g4 a b c } \tag #'down { g4 f e d } \tag

Re: ChordNames with bar lines + 1 staff line

2012-04-24 Thread James
/tullguitarpage/songs/serenadetoacucko.JPG )..or something to put a horizontal line between each new line. Did somebody play with this kind of staff.. Thank you guys..stef. I *think* you want this thread http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2011-08/msg00100.html James PS I would

Re: Access font-name in markup functions

2012-04-26 Thread James
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Re: Problem with articulate.ly

2012-04-27 Thread James
: cannot end slur warning: unterminated slur Preprocessing graphical objects... Finding the ideal number of pages... Fitting music on 1 page... Drawing systems... Layout output to `test.ps'... Converting to `./test.pdf'... success: Compilation successfully completed --snip-- James

Re: \tempo sticks out to the right

2012-04-29 Thread James
c c c |    c4 c c c |    c4 c c c |    c4 c c c |    c4 c c c |    c4 c c c |    c4 c c c |  } Attached is its output.  How can I avoid that the \tempo string sticks out to the right? I think this is http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1133 James

Re: Lilypond 2.16 fedora 17

2012-04-29 Thread James
. I'm not that technically savvy on this topic, but I seem to recall that because of LP's use of Guile 1.8 and not Guile 2.0 that it caused some headaches (they are not (very/at all) backward compatible) for another distribution package maintainer. James

Re: Lilypond 2.16 fedora 17

2012-04-30 Thread James
Hello, On 30 April 2012 10:16, Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com wrote: 2012/4/30 James pkx1...@gmail.com: Martin, On 29 April 2012 17:28, Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl wrote: Hi, Any chance Lilypond 2.16 will be accepted in Fedora 17 ? You need to talk to the/a Fedora

Re: tuplet number placement and ornament

2012-05-01 Thread James
comment on that, Mike Solomon made the patch for this, maybe he can. James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: tuplet number placement and ornament

2012-05-01 Thread James
Hello, On 1 May 2012 08:31, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: On 01/05/12 17:06, James wrote: Hello, On 1 May 2012 06:12, Nick Paynenick.pa...@internode.on.net  wrote: On 01/05/12 14:32, Werner LEMBERG wrote: In the following, even though I've turned off the tuplet bracket

Re: Adding Bar Line types

2012-05-01 Thread James
in the base code? James attachment: Screenshot.png___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: tuplet number placement and ornament

2012-05-01 Thread James
Hello, On 1 May 2012 08:52, James pkx1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, On 1 May 2012 08:31, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: On 01/05/12 17:06, James wrote: Hello, On 1 May 2012 06:12, Nick Paynenick.pa...@internode.on.net  wrote: On 01/05/12 14:32, Werner LEMBERG wrote

Re: Tremolo + non-tremolo in same beamed group

2012-05-01 Thread James
Hello On 2 May 2012 01:25, James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com wrote: Bug or feature? No idea. \relative c' { e8.:32 e16 } I'd expect the beam to be flat horizontal here. Instead, the tremolo pushes the left endpoint upward. 2.15.36 here. Same in 2.14.2. Not a regression whatever

Re: uniform-stretching results in too much space after barline

2012-05-02 Thread James
different in this regard. To be perfectly honest I like the space, and when you cram the notes in the space does seem to be even - try repeat unfold 32 for instance. I cannot see any difference - if that matters. james ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Hide time signature numerator?

2012-05-03 Thread James
://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=609 instead? looks quite straightforward james ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: seeking tips for transcribing a modernist score

2012-05-05 Thread James
a second voice, have a triplet in both voices and merge notes? I'm just thinking off the top of my head, I haven't tried it. James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: beginner

2012-05-05 Thread James
/page-layout I hope this helps. James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Overrides galore for contemporary-minded folk

2012-05-12 Thread James
age[1]). James [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Howerd ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: \partial and \unfoldRepeats

2012-05-17 Thread James
and warnings. James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: \partial and \unfoldRepeats

2012-05-17 Thread James
Hello again.. On 17 May 2012 18:57, James pkx1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, On 17 May 2012 11:50, Christopher Webster christop...@claytonwebster.net wrote: The intention of the input below was to produce a PDF with normal repeat notation plus a MIDI file in which the repeat was expanded

Re: Problem with voices

2012-06-08 Thread james
On Jun 5, 2012, at 9:48 PM, Sami Amiris wrote: I am sorry for any inconvenience to the group. I am a relative newbie, and I need help. When I type this: \version 2.14.2 \score { \new PianoStaff \new Staff = up{ \clef treble

Re: transcribe notes

2012-06-12 Thread James
On 12 Jun 2012, at 20:46, Philip Thomas philip.tho...@bluewin.ch wrote: -- -- I remember finding some gaps in the Cheat Sheet as a new user. Might it be worth reviewing to see whether it could be expanded and improved without over-burdening it with detail?

using marks

2012-06-15 Thread james
*2 } \relative c' { \repeat volta 2 { \repeat unfold 5 { c2 } } \alternative { { d2 | d2 } { d2 } } e2 | e2 } } Have I misunderstood something? How can I avoid this? Thanks, James

Re: using marks

2012-06-15 Thread james
On Jun 15, 2012, at 11:43 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:57 PM, james james.lilyp...@googlemail.com wrote: The measures before the 1st repeat affect where the mark after the repeat is placed: \version 2.14.2 \score { \new Staff { \time 2/4

Re: Installing LilyPond man pages

2012-07-24 Thread james
On Jul 15, 2012, at 7:58 PM, macula wrote: Dear collective wisdom, For the life of me, I have been trying to make the LilyPond man pages accessible on MacOS. I am a reasonably experienced user of the Mac terminal (Bash shell) but this seemingly simple challenge has defeated me. I have

Re: LilyPond and Mac OS Mountain Lion

2012-08-03 Thread james
On Aug 3, 2012, at 4:40 PM, flup2 wrote: Hello, Sorry for not replying on the French list (I'm just back from holidays). Version 2.14.2 doesn't work (didn't under previous OS X version either), but last 2.15.42 works without problem on a iMac Core i3 with Mountain Lion. But you have

Re: How to get a (rhythmic) dot to follow a barline

2012-08-07 Thread james
On Aug 6, 2012, at 12:20 PM, David G wrote: I would like to put a dot after the barline to show (something like) a crotchet tied to a quaver - or according to http://ranumspanat.com/jacquet_dots.htm subtly different(!) It's more clear in this Beethoven string quartet:

clef change confuses manual key signature

2012-08-13 Thread james
In the following: \version 2.14.2 \score { \relative c' { \time 2/4 \set Staff.keySignature = #`(((0 . 4) . ,SHARP) ((0 . 3) . ,SHARP)) \clef treble c8 a c d %%% Commenting out the following line solves the problem %%% \clef bass e fis d c } \layout {}

Re: clef change confuses manual key signature

2012-08-14 Thread james
On Aug 14, 2012, at 5:00 PM, David Kastrup wrote: james james.lilyp...@googlemail.com writes: So I fail to make _any_ sense of your example. If I had to guess, I'd say the octave specifications are there for overriding the default octaves chosen by the key signature engraver, but without

Re: clef change confuses manual key signature

2012-08-15 Thread james
On Aug 15, 2012, at 12:18 PM, james wrote: On Aug 15, 2012, at 9:54 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Keith OHara k-ohara5...@oco.net writes: David Kastrup dak at gnu.org writes: That image does not make sense to me at all. Notes appear in key signature (though in a different octave

Re: issues with change staff

2012-08-19 Thread james
On Aug 19, 2012, at 11:38 AM, cgodefro free wrote: Hello, I'm experimenting some issues with the change staff command. It seems that both staff are linked together. the \stemUp is not taking into account and the \change Staff = up affect as well the down staff. Does anyone can help

Re: Slur between different \score sections?

2012-08-20 Thread james
On Aug 20, 2012, at 5:34 AM, Daniel E. Moctezuma wrote: Hello, I was wondering if it's possible to put slurs between different \score sections (inside a \book). I have 2 movements of a work that are played one after another (attaca) with a slur between them. Thanks. Given the

Learning Manual

2012-08-25 Thread james
Section 1.1.4 of the Learning Manual has version 2.14.2 instead of 2.16.0. It's not a big problem, and it's probably not difficult to fix, but it's there. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Markup Midi output

2012-09-01 Thread james
On Sep 1, 2012, at 1:48 PM, Andreas Pavlogiannis wrote: Hi, I 'm a new lilypond user, pretty excited so far. I 'm having the following difficulties, on the following code. [1] In order to align scores on a line, I use the \markup environment, which seems to suppress the midi output.

custom key signatures

2012-09-02 Thread james
I'm looking at the new options for custom key signatures, and before I begin playing around with this, I don't understand this text at all. Accidentals in the key signature may be printed in octaves other than their traditional positions, or in multiple octaves, by using the flat-positionsand

Re: custom key signatures

2012-09-02 Thread james
On Sep 2, 2012, at 11:46 PM, Keith OHara wrote: james james.lilypond at googlemail.com writes: I'm looking at the new options for custom key signatures, Accidentals in the key signature may be printed in octaves other than their traditional positions, or in multiple octaves, by using

Re: custom key signatures

2012-09-02 Thread james
On Sep 2, 2012, at 11:51 PM, james wrote: On Sep 2, 2012, at 11:46 PM, Keith OHara wrote: james james.lilypond at googlemail.com writes: I'm looking at the new options for custom key signatures, Accidentals in the key signature may be printed in octaves other than their traditional

Re: custom key signatures

2012-09-03 Thread james
On Sep 3, 2012, at 7:10 AM, Keith OHara wrote: james james.lilypond at googlemail.com writes: If you define an unusual key signature with G-flat and A-flat \new Staff { \clef bass \override Staff.KeySignature #'flat-positions = #'(5) \set Staff.keySignature = #`(( 4 . ,FLAT) ( 5 . ,FLAT

automatically left-aligning custom dynamics

2012-09-06 Thread james
to get both of these in one command? TIA, James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: automatically left-aligning custom dynamics

2012-09-09 Thread james
On Sep 7, 2012, at 1:48 AM, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi James, On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 5:00 PM, james james.lilyp...@googlemail.com wrote: I don't really understand it, but I can modify the examples of how to create custom dynamics to get what I want. I have a document with several examples

Re: automatically left-aligning custom dynamics

2012-09-09 Thread james
On Sep 9, 2012, at 9:49 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Note that you can write this as rinforzamf = #(make-dynamic-script #{ \markup \line { \left-align \normal-text \whiteout \italic rinforza \hspace #0 \whiteout

Re: automatically left-aligning custom dynamics

2012-09-09 Thread james
On Sep 9, 2012, at 12:24 PM, David Kastrup wrote: james james.lilyp...@googlemail.com writes: Ok, here is the deal: this is an override, which is something happening at a single timestep to _everything_ in the current context. If you want to combine them, you rather want a tweak

dynamics contexts

2012-09-09 Thread james
Perhaps I don't understand the purpose of the dynamics context. I've been using them to align all dynamic marks on a single line, however, I don't see how to control whether the dynamics are place above or below the staff. For example: \version 2.17.2 \score { \new Staff = tset

Re: dynamics contexts

2012-09-09 Thread james
On Sep 9, 2012, at 5:20 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: james james.lilyp...@googlemail.com To: lilypond-user Mailinglist lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2012 3:57 PM Subject: dynamics contexts Perhaps I don't understand the purpose

mixed piano bracket style

2012-09-10 Thread james
I have been looking at this documentation for so long, that I just don't understand it anymore. Is it possible to get a line on the text pedal notation? There are so many contexts and engravers for the piano pedals, that I just don't see how to add a line to it.

Re: mixed piano bracket style

2012-09-10 Thread james
On Sep 10, 2012, at 11:42 PM, David Rogers wrote: james james.lilyp...@googlemail.com writes: I have been looking at this documentation for so long, that I just don't understand it anymore. Is it possible to get a line on the text pedal notation? There are so many contexts and engravers

Re: consecutive \repeat volta: bug?

2012-09-10 Thread james
On Sep 10, 2012, at 11:52 PM, luis jure wrote: this looks like a bug to me, but i'd like to hear comments from people with a better understanding of lilypond than me. when writing two consecutive \repeat volta, the thin bar lines are omitted, which i think is wrong. in any case, it's

piano pedals

2012-09-13 Thread james
I still haven't figured this out, so I'm putting out another request. Is possible to get piano pedals that have the word Ped. and broken-line spanner, and the asterisk at the end? inline: pedals.png___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Possible feature request for 'q' shorthand or tie syntax

2012-09-20 Thread james
On Sep 20, 2012, at 8:16 PM, Marc Hohl wrote: Am 20.09.2012 20:01, schrieb Graham Percival: On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 07:45:41PM +0200, Nicolas Sceaux wrote: Le 20 sept. 2012 à 19:21, Graham Percival a écrit : A single note name is not that much longer to type than q. If it is really

Re: Possible feature request for 'q' shorthand or tie syntax

2012-09-24 Thread James
4th word is an acronym or abbreviation). I haven't though this through completely as of course I don't use q, I just create a variable at the beginning of my accordion peices and use \repeat unfold x { variable } - my accordion music is quite simplistically rhythmic. James

Re: Possible feature request for 'q' shorthand or tie syntax

2012-09-24 Thread James
Hello, On 23 September 2012 12:34, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Am 23.09.2012 13:01, schrieb James: Hello, On 23 September 2012 09:34, Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:37 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp

Trying to set global staff size on the commandline using -e option

2012-09-30 Thread James
the default size. Perhaps the syntax is incorrect? Thanks for any help. James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Centering lyrics in piano music for children

2012-10-01 Thread james
On Oct 1, 2012, at 4:29 AM, Michael Rivers wrote: Most beginning children's piano music uses a format with a single-line melody broken between the treble and bass clefs and lyrics written in between. I'm assuming LilyPond doesn't have a way to automatically attach some lyrics to the treble

Re: Trying to set global staff size on the commandline using -e option

2012-10-01 Thread James
Gilles On 30 September 2012 22:17, Gilles gilles.thiba...@free.fr wrote: My command I am trying to run is lilypond -e '#(set-global-staff-size 32)' --pdf myfile.ly Hello James I had a similar problem in the past http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2011-08/msg7.html

lilypond 2.16.0 and Windows 8 (enterprise)

2012-10-02 Thread James
/windows.html accordingly Regards James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Change clef glyph

2012-10-02 Thread James
and Feta fonts, in several sizes. Do I have to edit each file? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/contributor/modifying-the-feta-font also if you are interested in someone who has also done this see: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/gonville/ James

Re: Parallel music view - inspiration for LilyPond editors.

2012-10-05 Thread James
% or so lost to the middle men, but it could suffice. I'd be happy to pay straight into developers account, if there is a consensus amongst say 100 people to fund a feature. Zenaan Kickstarter has been discussed before http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-02/msg00358.html James

Re: Essays with Musical Examples

2012-10-16 Thread james
On Oct 16, 2012, at 5:21 PM, Keehun Nam wrote: Dear LilyPond Users, How should I go about producing a paper which includes musical examples? In the past I've exported to a high quality PNG and scaled the image down to the appropriate size but that inevitably ended up with musical

Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-26 Thread james
On Oct 25, 2012, at 11:15 PM, David Kastrup wrote: … What you are witnessing on the user list is the emergence of power users, a class of users narrowing the gap between users and core developers. Yes, they juggle with complex material. But that does not mean that things have actually

Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-26 Thread james
On Oct 26, 2012, at 7:11 PM, David Kastrup wrote: james james.lilyp...@googlemail.com writes: On Oct 25, 2012, at 11:15 PM, David Kastrup wrote: … What you are witnessing on the user list is the emergence of power users, a class of users narrowing the gap between users and core

Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-27 Thread james
above my level of understanding. Granted, the question was a bit above my level of understanding… On Sep 7, 2012, at 1:48 AM, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi James, On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 5:00 PM, james james.lilyp...@googlemail.com wrote: I don't really understand it, but I can modify

A documentation suggestion, was: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-27 Thread james
Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org writes: So I ask again: What exactly are the difficulties you have encountered? What concepts are badly explained, what examples are `greek' to you, and why? Simply skipping the Scheme code and asking for a non-Scheme solution isn't helpful either. Perhaps

Musicology Lectures

2012-11-04 Thread James
. Regards James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: lyric hyphens and repeats

2012-11-04 Thread james
On Nov 4, 2012, at 5:50 PM, TaoCG wrote: Is there something similar to lyric hyphens as is \laissezVibrer and \repeatTie to ties? In this sample http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n135806/sample.png I'd like to have lyric hyphens for Renovemos and Llenemos but I don't know if

Re: Forced down-stem grace notes

2012-11-12 Thread james
On Nov 12, 2012, at 7:58 PM, Keehun Nam wrote: Dear LilyPond community, I've been trying unsuccessfully for about an hour try to force grace notes to have down-ward stems when the pitch placement would dictate upward stems. The code is: a8[ \grace { a16[ a]} a8 ] I've tried

Re: inline \prall

2012-11-20 Thread james
On Nov 19, 2012, at 4:41 AM, Nick Payne wrote: On 19/11/12 12:47, Paul wrote: I would like to set my prall on the right-hand side of my note, rather than above it. (Per Baroque organ scores.) Any ideas how to achieve this? Adaptation of http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=690

Re: hspace behaviour

2012-11-20 Thread james
On Nov 20, 2012, at 10:22 PM, Eluze wrote: Phil Burfitt wrote Hi, I have just upgraded from version 2.13.17 to 2.17.7. Has the behaviour of \hspace changed in any way? It does not seem to act upon negative values anymore. example: \markup { \override #'(circle-padding . 0.55)

Re: simple choral example: warnings/clashes and no midi

2012-11-26 Thread james
On Nov 26, 2012, at 1:42 AM, Thomas Morley wrote: 2012/11/26 ivan.k.kuznet...@gmail.com: I am still relatively new to lilypond. I have a simple four voice choral attached. (1) This example produces numerous warnings about clashing notes which look like:

Re: PS (dynamic alignment)

2012-11-26 Thread james
On Nov 26, 2012, at 3:33 PM, Eluze wrote: Werner-37 wrote to have dynamics for the whole score I would use a Dynamic voice between the 2 staves (as you proposed) „between the 2 staves“ ‒ do you meen as a invisible 1-line-stave ? not exactly - see the attached example where I also

Re: why doesn't this put lyrics where I

2012-12-02 Thread james
On Dec 2, 2012, at 9:16 PM, Christopher Brooks wrote: I just pasted this from the documentation, but it won’t allow me to do this, what do I do? a) If you haven't already, I highly recommend you read the Learning Manual, it explains how lilypond works, how to find out what you want to do,

Re: placement of objects

2012-12-02 Thread james
On Dec 2, 2012, at 9:54 PM, Christopher Brooks wrote: I am having trouble understand which items can be places one after another, and which can’t; This works: \new ChordNames { \chordmode { c1:aug } } { c e gis1 } c d e \new

Re: why doesn't this put lyrics where I

2012-12-02 Thread james
On Dec 2, 2012, at 10:06 PM, Christopher Brooks wrote: James, I have read the Learning Manual. It is not clear what can be placed where. What I am trying to do is write: 1. A chord Learning Manual 2.2.4 with the chord name Notation Reference 2.7 2. A short text (a plus

Re: Begin lyrics only with new section

2012-12-16 Thread james
On Dec 16, 2012, at 8:40 PM, m...@mikesolomon.org wrote: Hey all, Say, for example, I have: mA = { some music } lA = { lyrics to some music } mB = { some more music } lB = { lyrics to some more music } mC = { even more music } lC = { lyrics ot even more music } and all of these

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2013-01-03 Thread james
On Jan 3, 2013, at 2:46 AM, Antonio Gervasoni wrote: John Link johnlink at nyc.rr.com writes: A few years ago I was encouraged to try LilyPond as an alternative to Sibelius because LilyPond produced more beautiful scores. I was also told that it would allow me to do things like

Re: Hiding a voice (or is there a better way?)

2013-01-13 Thread james
On Jan 14, 2013, at 2:22 AM, Tim Rowe wrote: I'm trying to notate a song with piano accompaniment, but I don't want a separate voice line printed -- the singer will be able to work it out from the piano part, and space is at a premium. I do need to align the lyrics to the voice line,

Re: Hiding a voice (or is there a better way?)

2013-01-14 Thread james
On Jan 14, 2013, at 2:22 AM, Tim Rowe wrote: I'm trying to notate a song with piano accompaniment, but I don't want a separate voice line printed -- the singer will be able to work it out from the piano part, and space is at a premium. I do need to align the lyrics to the voice line, though.

Re: Hiding a voice (or is there a better way?)

2013-01-14 Thread james
On Jan 14, 2013, at 4:51 PM, Tim Rowe wrote: On 14 January 2013 06:12, james james.lilyp...@googlemail.com wrote: You could theoretically use \hideNotes and simply enclose both the right hand piano and the voice line in a construct, but lilypond will complain of collision errors (which

Mac MIDI synthesizer (was frescobaldi on mac)

2013-01-14 Thread james
In the interest of not getting too far away from the original topic, what do the mac lion+ users use for midi playback? On my snow leopard machine (my main machine), I use Mighty MIDI, which has been wonderful. It really has only the features for listening to my note entry to make sure I

Re: Removing a time signature only once

2013-01-15 Thread james
On Jan 15, 2013, at 9:47 PM, Christopher R. Maden wrote: On 01/15/2013 03:40 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: tl;dr: How does one remove a time signature completely (not just transparent) without removing the time signature engraver? I believe this will work: \once \override TimeSignature

Re: Removing a time signature only once

2013-01-15 Thread james
On Jan 15, 2013, at 10:18 PM, Christopher R. Maden wrote: On 01/15/2013 04:05 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: You need to specify the context: OK... a more complete example is attached. The time signature is invoked in songGlobalsVerse. That’s used in a Staff: songVocals = \new Staff

Re: General bar setup for score

2013-01-19 Thread james
On Jan 18, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Maarten de Keijzer wrote: Am 16.01.2013 08:51, schrieb Maarten de Keijzer: Hi, Is it possible to create some general setup for the total number of bars within the score, including time changes? In the example I have a score with two voices on the

Re: Override placement

2013-01-26 Thread james
On Jan 26, 2013, at 2:12 PM, Noeck wrote: Is there a difference between: \new Staff \with { \override Clef.color = #red } { a } and \new Staff { \override Staff.Clef.color = #red a } Although David has provided an illustration of the difference (mostly due to the faulty grace note

Re: Problems with download.linuxaudio.org?

2013-02-20 Thread james
On Feb 20, 2013, at 9:22 AM, David Kastrup wrote: James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com writes: What I did to get to this point: 1. Cloned the repository. Checked out the tag release/2.16.2-1, and then git checkout -b hjh2.16.2 (because I don't like staying somewhere earlier than the head

Re: Help for a new lilypond user

2013-02-24 Thread james
On Feb 23, 2013, at 5:29 PM, Noeck wrote: Hi Alex, In general, you won't find much help with that attitude: because I don't have the time to learn this by myself using the manual The LilyPond manuals are helpful and you don't have to read everything to get started. For guitar music, this

Re: can error messages output the measure number being processed?

2013-02-24 Thread James
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Re: Is there an easy solution to across voice slurs

2013-02-25 Thread james
On Feb 25, 2013, at 10:37 AM, Derek wrote: Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll give this a go tomorrow. I guess I didn't really understand what the \\ thing did so I will have to do a bit more reading and perhaps clean up the code I have it is rife with \\. It is starting to make sense

Re: Advocating non-free softwares [WAS: Heads up about Frescobaldi Ubuntu - Insert Menu Glitch]

2013-02-26 Thread james
On Feb 26, 2013, at 10:03 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Francois Planiol writes: No idea... I just begun to use the last realease of frescobaldi under [a freedom-limiting operating system] and this is just fantastic. Thanks for your encouraging words about Frescobaldi. Could you please

Re: Excellent paper on 'Copyfraud'

2013-03-09 Thread james
On Mar 8, 2013, at 6:33 PM, Tim Slattery wrote: Mike Blackstock blackstock.m...@gmail.com wrote: This paper might be of interest to anyone typesetting public domain music from so-called copyrighted scores: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=787244 Excellent article, even

Re: Custom footers

2013-03-17 Thread james
On Mar 15, 2013, at 5:24 PM, Jérôme Plût wrote: I don't understand how to define custom footers. Is there a hook in odd/evenpagefooter where I can plug a Scheme function, or are they limited to the very poor language of \fromproperty and \on-the-fly? What I want to do in my case: I have a

Re: Custom footers

2013-03-18 Thread james
On Mar 18, 2013, at 8:40 PM, Jérôme Plût wrote: Postridie Idus Martias MMXIII scripsit Thomas Morley : Where do you store the values you want have printed? How is the structure of your file(s). Which is your version? etc Please post a compilable example. I have access to lilypond

Re: Fingering not aligned in 2.17, ok in 2.16

2013-03-22 Thread James
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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: 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: 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

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