Aleatoric / modern notation

2012-03-10 Thread James Harkins
time ago, somebody posted a link to Mike Solomon's granini di luce beccucciati da uccelli di silenzio as an example of contemporary notation. The attached pic from it illustrates more-or-less what I'm after (though I wouldn't need the slash). Thanks! James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world

Re: Aleatoric / modern notation

2012-03-10 Thread James Harkins
under serious time pressure and if this is going to take, oh, more than a couple of hours, it's more than I can afford right now. (I'm estimating 10-15 hours.) I'd really appreciate it -- otherwise, I'll find another way to notate the idea. James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar

Feathered beams: More than one beam at the end?

2012-03-11 Thread James Harkins
around it with some explanatory text. Maybe a viable feature request? Thanks, James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal. -- Whitman blog: http

Re: Aleatoric / modern notation

2012-03-11 Thread James Harkins
already know how to make a zigzag using a glissando following it. http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=377 hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal. -- Whitman

Re: Feathered beams: More than one beam at the end?

2012-03-11 Thread James Harkins
replaced my eyeballs back in their sockets, I can say -- thanks for this! Your update of my example looks clean and conveys the intent. Thank you James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has

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

2012-03-12 Thread James Harkins
. That slows me down. But I'm spending only a tiny fraction of the time adjusting things that didn't render right: that's - just a few things in Lilypond; - a LOT in Finale; - probably somewhat better in Sibelius but not as clean as Lilypond out-of-the-box. hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world

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

2012-03-14 Thread James Harkins
, but it helps if the layout clarifies this.) I agree that the examples shown in the original report (especially the ones that look like they come from Bach solo violin pieces) are much improved, but this case would have to be a regression, I think. James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar

Variables: structure vs layout

2012-03-15 Thread James Harkins
users -- what level of atomization seems to work the best for variables? Can you estimate a rough guideline where breaking the variables down further becomes more cumbersome than it's worth? Thanks, James * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_%28instrument%29 -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world

Re: Variables: structure vs layout

2012-03-17 Thread James Harkins
At Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:57:35 +0100, Janek Warchoł wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 4:35 PM, James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting a bit confused about the use of variables to reflect the structure of the music, or the distribution of notes between different voices etc

Re: Aleatoric / modern notation

2012-03-17 Thread James Harkins
David's work. So David -- I guess I owe you a beer or three, or something. Thanks! James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal. -- Whitman blog: http

Re: v 2.15.36 on Mac OS

2012-04-07 Thread James Worlton
On Apr 7, 2012, at 4:18 PM, Stan Sanderson wrote: I can confirm that LilyPond v. 2.15.36 on both x86 and PPC platforms running OS X 10.5.8 correctly compiles previously coded files. Stan LilyPond 2.15.36 ran and compiled with no problems that I could see on Mac PPC OSX 10.4.11. James

Multimeasure rests over a cadenza

2012-04-08 Thread James Harkins
also tried #(ly:export (mmrest-of-length aVariableHoldingMyCadenza)) but I get barcheck problems with this too. Any hacks much appreciated. Thanks. James \version 2.14.2 \include english.ly \score { \new Staff \relative c' { c2 r2 %% alternatives (all failed): %% #1

Re: Multimeasure rests over a cadenza

2012-04-08 Thread James Harkins
At Sun, 8 Apr 2012 09:39:13 -0500, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi James, Possibly the following thread will be useful to you:  http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg68492.html Thanks, this is a lot closer. (By the way, it seems that mail-archive is on the wrong side of the Great

Re: Multimeasure rests over a cadenza

2012-04-09 Thread James Harkins
At Mon, 9 Apr 2012 12:03:05 +0200, Thomas Morley wrote: Am 9. April 2012 04:26 schrieb James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com: It's closer -- I'm now getting bar check failures only at the ends of the two cadenzas, where I think I was getting more of them before. But, it's still failing

Re: Multimeasure rests over a cadenza

2012-04-10 Thread James Harkins
At Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:31:08 +0800, James Harkins wrote: the cadenzaToMusic-function _replaces_ \cadenzaOn and \cadenzaOff. If you delete these commands it works and there is no need for manual bars: Ah, OK, I didn't get the replacing part. Thanks for clarifying. I have a deadline

Suggestion for documentation: Easy path to datatype reference

2012-04-12 Thread James Harkins
:) FWIW, I'm throwing some quite complex multi-voice notation at Lilypond and most of it is coming out beautifully, without manual intervention. So let me balance the complaint with kudos for the excellent work of the developer team! James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop

Re: Suggestion for documentation: Easy path to datatype reference

2012-04-12 Thread James Harkins
datatype. Consult section 4.2.3, Types of properties {with link} for details.] ~~~ I haven't had so much free time lately to do it in the SuperCollider documentation, but I've added more than a few See references like this. I think it helps. James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar

Dynamic context that can follow system breaks?

2012-04-12 Thread James Harkins
see a property to set this behavior. I wanted to check LSR but it's inaccessible to me tonight from mainland China (The connection has timed out... The server at lsr.dsi.unimi.it is taking too long to respond). Sorry if it's a basic question, and thanks in advance for the help. James -- James

Re: Dynamic context that can follow system breaks?

2012-04-12 Thread James Harkins
At Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:29:14 +0800, James Harkins wrote: I'm sure somebody has had to do this before: place dynamics under a staff so that all the dynamics in one system are the same distance below the staff, but that distance can be different from one system to the next. At first, I

Flying ties

2012-04-13 Thread James Worlton
. This happens probably because of the accidentals on the new line--if you take the \key out, removing the accidentals, the ties stay close to the notes: \version 2.15.36 \score { \new Staff { \relative a' { \key des \major a d f1~ \break q1 } } } James Worlton

Re: Flying ties

2012-04-13 Thread James Worlton
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:59 AM, James pkx1...@gmail.com wrote: James On 13 April 2012 16:30, James Worlton jworl...@gmail.com wrote: I've found some odd tie behavior--not sure if it's known currently. Sorry, currently I can't test whether it also happens in earlier versions

Re:Dynamic context that can follow system breaks?

2012-04-13 Thread James Harkins
At Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:29:14 +0800, James Harkins wrote: I'm sure somebody has had to do this before: place dynamics under a staff so that all the dynamics in one system are the same distance below the staff, but that distance can be different from one system to the next

Re:Dynamic context that can follow system breaks?

2012-04-14 Thread James Harkins
positioning is really massively improved in 2.15.36. In the newer version, it's doing it just the way I thought it should, without any extra fussing. Okay then! Stable version, bye-bye :) Thanks for the tip. James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop

Flatten a tie without hardcoding control points?

2012-04-20 Thread James Harkins
from being able to attempt something like that on my own. Thanks in advance -- James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal. -- Whitman blog: http

Re: Flatten a tie without hardcoding control points?

2012-04-21 Thread James Harkins
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 that is as easy as overriding ratio for slurs? You can override

Re: Flatten a tie without hardcoding control points?

2012-04-21 Thread James Harkins
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. \version 2.15.36 \include english.ly \relative c'' { % normal tie d4 ~ % Longer

Tremolo + non-tremolo in same beamed group

2012-05-01 Thread James Harkins
Bug or feature? \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. (I know I can tweak the beam, just think I shouldn't have to.) hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net

Re: Tremolo + non-tremolo in same beamed group

2012-05-03 Thread James Harkins
the parameters that penalize this or that depends on a lot of background information on the beaming algorithms... I guess. Would appreciate some pointers to make sense of those properties -- thanks in advance, James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http

Re: Tremolo + non-tremolo in same beamed group

2012-05-03 Thread James Harkins
At Thu, 03 May 2012 23:15:26 +0800, James Harkins wrote: I had a look at the internals reference, but couldn't make heads or tails of it. Tweaking the parameters that penalize this or that depends on a lot of background information on the beaming algorithms... I guess. Would appreciate

Re: Source management tools for lilypond projects

2012-05-20 Thread James Harkins
with a script to do this: git stash save git pull --rebase git stash pop hjh [1] https://github.com/jamshark70/hadron [2] https://github.com/jamshark70/workshop2012 -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet

Re: Source management tools for lilypond projects

2012-05-23 Thread James Harkins
Not sure if this was already discussed (I've been following the thread somewhat loosely), but it seems to me that git makes it a whole lot easier to handle a build token by virtue of the repositories being decentralized. I admit, I'm not an svn expert and it's quite likely there are some svn

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 114, Issue 130

2012-05-28 Thread James Harkins
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:46 AM, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com writes: I'm attaching a couple of samples of today's typesetting work. The first is pretty well marked up. The second is mostly just the notes for now (needs articulation, dynamics

Re: Scheme syntax vs. other languages

2012-06-07 Thread James Harkins
). hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal.  -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio more audio: http

Re: Possible multiple bugs, any way around?

2012-06-07 Thread James Harkins
the messages from nabble, but that does not un-send the many emails that were already sent. hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal. -- Whitman blog: http

Re: Scheme syntax vs. other languages

2012-06-08 Thread James Harkins
If for No Reason Other Than Building Character. I may yet do that for LP and/or Emacs, but it's intimidating -- and if it's intimidating for me, I expect it's more so for other LP users. But yes, scheme has a lot going for it here. James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net

-dshow-available-fonts vs. UNIX stdout?

2012-06-20 Thread James Harkins
-available-fonts x | cat /home/dlm/Documents/ly/show-available-fonts.txt Is there a reason why I can't use the usual UNIXy tricks to capture stdout here? hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has

Re: -dshow-available-fonts vs. UNIX stdout?

2012-06-20 Thread James Harkins
On 6/20/12, Ramana Kumar ramana.ku...@gmail.com wrote: probably lilypond isn't writing to stdout. maybe stderr? OK, let me refine the question. If it isn't using stdout, is there a good reason why is it using something else? Or is it just a bug? hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar

Re: -dshow-available-fonts vs. UNIX stdout?

2012-06-20 Thread James Harkins
to send the list to stderr (and it might actually be better that way), then the documentation should advise the unsuspecting user of this. There is no mention of it here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/fonts#single-entry-fonts hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world

Re: tunefl and other web services

2012-07-12 Thread James Harkins
a beautiful woman. It could have been a beautiful sunset and why am I even writing this? Continuing to beat the dead horse: A handsome man would have made more of an impact on me. :-p hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse

Automatic octaves snippet is broken in 2.15(.36)

2012-07-17 Thread James Harkins
file, and I also tried rendering the exact code from the snippet (which includes an example). In both, the octaves were missing. How should the code be updated for a newer lilypond? hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said

Re: Automatic octaves snippet is broken in 2.15(.36)

2012-07-17 Thread James Harkins
At Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:30:35 +0200, Thomas Morley wrote: See, http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-03/msg00114.html code by David Kastrup (typo corrected) Perfect, thanks. (I'm a bit googled out, after a less-than-smooth upgrade to Ubuntu Precise...) hjh -- James Harkins

Need to force reinstall of LP when just adding doc?

2012-08-10 Thread James Harkins
on an lp score in a place without internet access. -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal. -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http

Re: Ledger line visibility issue

2012-08-13 Thread James Bailey
On Aug 12, 2012, at 6:58 PM, Peter Gentry peter.gen...@sunscales.co.uk wrote: I have a score with many repeated beamed quavers and semi-quavers on ledger lines. The default layout is difficult to read as ledger lines and the staff produce an almost hypnotic effect which confuses the

Padding Between Upper and Lower Beams?

2012-08-15 Thread Champion James
the lower beams closer to the note heads? Thanks in advance for any and all help, Champion James ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Suboptimal slur (easy case)

2012-08-16 Thread James Harkins
Is there an issue logged for this? \version 2.15.36 \relative c'' { b8^Very loopy slur ( a ) r4 r2 \override Slur #'height-limit = #0.5 b8_Cleaner look ( a ) r4 r2 } hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse

Re: Suboptimal slur (easy case)

2012-08-16 Thread James Harkins
From: eluze James Harkins-2 wrote Is there an issue logged for this? what's the issue? The default slur extends too low. if the notes are not that tight (e.g. using ragged-right = ##f in your example) your cleaner look doesn't look so clean anymore (that's my personal opinion) My

makeOctaves bugs: slurs and articulations

2012-08-17 Thread James Harkins
-- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal. -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio more audio: http

[Frescobaldi] Music view sometimes doesn't open

2012-08-19 Thread James Harkins
minutes to render, the annoyance factor would increase. This doesn't change my opinion of Frescobaldi as an [expletive deleted] brilliant editor! Seriously, a real joy to use. hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse

Re: [Frescobaldi] Music view sometimes doesn't open

2012-08-20 Thread James Harkins
timestamp is a few minutes earlier than the PDF. I suppose I should just log this @ github, then. hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal. -- Whitman blog

Tie directions are different when crossing a barline (?)

2012-08-23 Thread James Harkins
-moment 1 16) } } } hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal. -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net

Re:decrescendo and unspecified starting volume [WAS: dynamic in midi]

2012-08-28 Thread James Harkins
As Phil pointed out already, inserting a \p or \mf or any other dynamic sign should do the trick: c\mf c\ c c c\! That takes care of the starting dynamic, but if we assume that a decrescendo in MIDI should be a linear decrease in velocity values, it's impossible to calculate without

Digest quotes

2012-09-03 Thread James Harkins
the digest myself, I then get to scroll through pages content that I had already scrolled through when I read the quoted digest the first time. Sure, occasionally everybody forgets (so do I) but there's no harm in a reminder. Thanks, hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop

Up-slur is ugly in this case (minimal example)

2012-09-10 Thread James Harkins
\relative c'' { a2.^ok ( b4 c1 ) } \new Staff \relative c'' { a2^ugly as sin ~ ( a4 ~ a16 b8. c1 ) } \new Staff \relative c'' { \slurDown a2^better ~ ( a4 ~ a16 b8. c1 ) } hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me

Simultaneous-notes misplacement

2012-09-11 Thread James Harkins
} } } \score { \new Staff \relative c' { \new Voice { \voiceOne b e f1 } \new Voice { \voiceTwo \once \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #2 c16 c r c ~ c8 c16 c c c c r c c r c } } } hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar

Excessive type-strictness?

2012-09-27 Thread James Harkins
. hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal. -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio more audio

[2.15.36] A hidden note blocks beams from drawing

2012-09-28 Thread James Harkins
, but no (visible) note in the first voice, and the phrasing slur needs to end in the first voice. So I hid a note in voice 1 to start the phrasing slur. The 8.-16 rhythm follows immediately after and looked rather strange with no beams :) hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop

Widening excessively tight horizontal spacing

2012-10-02 Thread James Harkins
an hour, thanks to the \cadenzaToMusic function that someone (David?) gave me a few months ago. So efficient... you folks are great, and the tool is too! -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has

Re: Widening excessively tight horizontal spacing

2012-10-02 Thread James Harkins
On Oct 2, 2012 7:10 PM, m...@mikesolomon.org m...@mikesolomon.org wrote: Hey James, Have you put \newSpacingSection before the override? I see -- I missed that in the Notation Reference. (Or, is it mentioned there? I know I saw examples where the spacing was changed in the layout block, as you

Quick comment on usability

2012-10-27 Thread James Harkins
Actually not a complaint! But inspired by the thread on upgrading vs not upgrading, where it was suggested that LP has become inherently more complex and harder to use, even for simple typesetting. As a counterexample: A few days ago, I needed to produce a quick page with some text outlining

Re: Creating cross-staff arpeggios in a piano staff

2012-11-16 Thread James Bailey
On Nov 16, 2012, at 6:10 PM, Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonm...@ca.rr.com wrote: … 1. Which of these lines (discounting change of pitch and duration) should be used? 2. Where in an already started Piano score should they be inserted? Thank you for your kind attention. Good day!

Re: lyrics to music

2012-11-20 Thread James Bailey
It used to not done, in order to emphasize each individual word. Now, it's more whatever the composer wants. There are no more hard and fast rules. On Nov 20, 2012, at 4:25 PM, Fr. Michael Gilmary, mma frmichaelgilm...@maronitemonks.org wrote: Hi everybody: Here's a general question that's

Re: why doesn't this put lyrics where I

2012-12-02 Thread James Harkins
james james.lilypond at googlemail.com writes: 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 I had to chuckle reading

Re: how to reuse common header attributes

2012-12-10 Thread James Worlton
will see the flat sign from the roman font in the PDF file. This produces acceptable (to my eyes) results for the subtitle using 2.16.1: subtitle = \markup { Part for E \concat { \translate #'(-0.3 . 0.6) \abs-fontsize #8 \flat } saxophone } James Worlton

Re: how to reuse common header attributes

2012-12-11 Thread James Worlton
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:25 PM, James Worlton jworl...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Keith OHara k-ohara5...@oco.net wrote: Xavier Noria fxn at hashref.com writes: subtitle = \markup { Part for \concat{E\flat} saxaphone} That would be a nice touch. The flat

Re: Can not get my layout right

2012-12-21 Thread James Worlton
and markups on the page. Start here and see if you can get it to work out. James Worlton ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: dynamics seperatate from the notes entry

2012-12-31 Thread James Bailey
On Dec 31, 2012, at 3:22 PM, Karl Hammar k...@aspodata.se wrote: How do I merge Ds and Ms below so it will behave as if I wrote the dynamics together with the notes? smorz = \markup { \italic smorz } sotto = \markup { \italic { sotto voce } } Ds = { s1*10 | s1^\sotto | s4 s2.\f | s4

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

2013-01-08 Thread James Harkins
Antonio Gervasoni agervasoni at gmail.com writes: There is one reason: software like Sibelius and Finale need even more tweaks than Lilypond! For a concrete example of this (never mind the vacation chatter): http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words/blog5.php/2011/07/11/the-year-s-over-and-done

Digest configuration

2013-01-09 Thread James Harkins
It had occurred to me in the past that lilypond user digests were maybe too small, but I didn't mention it as it hasn't reached the point of becoming an inconvenience. Now... overnight, I got 11 digests in a span of about 6 hours. When I sign up for a list in digest mode, I expect 1-3 messages in

Cygwin install - test.ly not registered

2005-02-27 Thread James Savage
desktop. I was expecting the instal to register files ending in .ly with Win2K. What other options do I have to test the install? Can I do it from the command line in cygwin ? Finally, are there any pre-requisites that I should check? Thanks in advance, James PS I have not subscribed

chords and lyrics, no melody

2005-04-24 Thread James Classen
, but below it are the chords and words, not lining up as I would like them to. 'test2.ly' is the closest I was able to come, but it wouldn't let me put a hyphen between 'le' and 'lu', nor a duration for the hyphen after 'lu'. Any help on this would be appreciated! James Classen

Re: Problems running Lilypond

2005-10-22 Thread James Reynolds
/share/guile/1.6/ice-9/boot-9.scmJames -- J James Reynolds[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

crescendo ruins MIDI file

2006-02-16 Thread James Wilkinson
I have an example in which the insertion of a crescendo in the music causes the generated MIDI file to be bad. Removing the crescendo fixes the problem. Is this a known problem? I'm using version 2.7.17 on Windows. A second thing: \ and \f don't work the same way in jEdit as \p. It looks

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 39, Issue 32

2006-02-18 Thread James Wilkinson
From: Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: combining files What didn't work? First of all, you can skip the \book command, which is implicitly added around any LilyPond input file if you don't write it yourself. Also, within each \score{...}, the music should come before the

small things in jEdit plugin

2006-02-18 Thread James Wilkinson
I'm reporting this here because I don't know where else to report it. The jEdit plugin gives you an autocompletion list when you type a \. Some things appear to be missing from the list of choices. I've not made an exhaustive search, but came across the following: \ \f \!. What happens

Bassoon fingering charts O_o

2013-02-05 Thread James Harkins
I will need to include some bassoon fingering charts in an upcoming project. My bassoonist friend (who will also perform) scanned some pages from a reference book that uses a fairly rectangular style (attached). In Lilypond, I've gotten as far as printing out the list of keys and understanding

Re: Bassoon fingering charts O_o

2013-02-06 Thread James Harkins
On Feb 6, 2013 4:46 PM, Wim van Dommelen m...@wimvd.nl wrote: Hi James, Note that the Lilypond diagrams are different, not such squarisch, see the notation reference manual for details. The notation reference is the first place I went. Those details were helpful to get me started, but didn't

Re: Problems with download.linuxaudio.org?

2013-02-19 Thread James Harkins
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 1:47 PM, James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com wrote: I just tried to download this: http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/linux-64/lilypond-2.16.2-1.linux-64.sh But download.linuxaudio.org is almost totally unresponsive. After a few minutes of watching

Fwd: Problems with download.linuxaudio.org?

2013-02-19 Thread James Harkins
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Helge Kruse helge.kr...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/2/20 James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com: I just tried to download this: http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/linux-64/lilypond-2.16.2-1.linux-64.sh ... Where else can I get it? What about http

Re: Fwd: Problems with download.linuxaudio.org?

2013-02-20 Thread James Harkins
David Kastrup dak at gnu.org writes: First make, then make install. Quite right -- make install did actually compile some of it, though, so I thought it was OK. I'll remember that for next time. make on its own did complete successfully, thanks. 6. ../configure

[bug] \acciaccatura breaks a preceding tie in MIDI

2013-02-20 Thread James Harkins
, 0, 67, 90 ] [ 1, 768, noteOn, 0, 67, 90 ]-- this is the ~g8 -- it shouldn't be here [ 1, 938, noteOn, 0, 71, 90 ] [ 1, 960, noteOn, 0, 69, 90 ] [ 1, 1152, noteOn, 0, 67, 90 ] hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse

\slashedGrace forces a downward slur?

2013-02-20 Thread James Harkins
c'' { \slurUp d4. \slashedGrace e16 ( d8 b4 d4 ) } Hm, I wonder what that would do to a multi-voice example. Probably ugly. hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me

Re: [bug] \acciaccatura breaks a preceding tie in MIDI

2013-02-20 Thread James Harkins
On Feb 20, 2013 10:57 PM, Jay Anderson horndud...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 7:28 AM, James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com wrote: I'm unsure if this is a known issue, or a new one. http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3091 This probably won't be fixed in 2.16

Re: CPU usage and barchecks

2013-02-24 Thread James Harkins
Antonio Gervasoni agervasoni at gmail.com writes: I've been using Lilypond for over a year and I've always noticed it requires a lot of CPU resources to engrave a score. This is especially noticeable when working on big orchestral scores. I use a Macbook Pro and one single engraving of an

Re: Advocating non-free softwares

2013-02-27 Thread James Harkins
Han-Wen Nienhuys hanwenn at gmail.com writes: Our mission has always been to provide excellent music notation in a free software package to as many people as possible, including those using windows and macs. We have no business doing ideological advocacy, and frankly, the original message

Re: Advocating non-free softwares

2013-03-01 Thread James Harkins
Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net writes: David, thank you so, so much! Oh, I thought enough bytes had been spilt on this subject already. IMO, this entire discussion is the result of misreading François's comment. It's working well for me in Windows somehow turned into advocacy, but... to

Re: multiple time signatures

2013-03-06 Thread James Worlton
Staff.timeSignatureFraction = 4/4 \scaleDurations 3/2 { c4 c c c } } \score { \new Staff \melody \new Staff \upper \new Staff \lower } James Worlton On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Katie Ganem klga...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am trying to input

Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative

2013-03-09 Thread James Harkins
I don't really have a good idea how some kind of voting process would look like where we get relevant feedback from a substantial number of non-specialists. FWIW, speaking as a Lilypond user with some programming experience (but who is not a LP developer) -- I was skeptical of the change at

Changing accidental style for one section of a piece

2013-03-15 Thread James Harkins
Hi, I'm working on a piece now where most of it is modal, but one section will be free-chromatic. I would like to use one of the more modern accidental styles, but only in that section. I read the section of the manual about automatic accidentals, and it appears at first glance that the

Multiple simultaneous time signatures vs. staffgroups

2013-03-16 Thread James Harkins
Hi, I'm working on a trio. In one section, one instrument will play metered music and the other two will have aleatoric notation, without barlines. LSR #344 [1] (Printing music with different time signatures) shows how to suppress normal barlines in one or more parts. But, in this case, the staff

User comments on R shorthand

2013-03-20 Thread James Harkins
I apologize for weighing in on the R shorthand thread by sending a new message. I read the digest and normally reply to messages by gmane. However, for some unknown reason, R shorthand seems to be missing entirely from gmane. It exists in the archives on lists.gnu.org. My opinion (as a

Bug in PianoStaff and StaffGroup barlines

2013-03-20 Thread James Worlton
Dynamics { s1\p } \new Staff { c'1 } } \score { \new StaffGroup \new Staff { c'1 } \new Dynamics { s1\p } \new Staff { c'1 } } James Worlton ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: User comments on R shorthand

2013-03-20 Thread James Harkins
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: - Old: R2 == a full measure rest in 2/4 time - New: R2 == *two* full measure rests in any time signature Actually, I like this. This would also help in situations like tacet al rehearsal number 54

Re: Bug in PianoStaff and StaffGroup barlines

2013-03-20 Thread James Worlton
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Xavier Scheuer x.sche...@gmail.comwrote: On 20 March 2013 16:04, James Worlton jworl...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, While the basic output of barlines in grouped staves has improved in 2.17.14, there is still a problem if there is a dynamics staff included

Dynamics: widely varying vertical positions

2013-03-21 Thread James Harkins
Earlier today, I said: ~~ The issue with vertical positioning of dynamics could improve with a setting to constrain the distance between the highest and lowest dynamics for a staff in a system. Do we have such a setting? If not, I'm happy to start another thread for that. ~~ Attached is an image

Ties across variables

2013-03-23 Thread James Harkins
I've run into this limitation a few times -- enough that it's now worth asking about. ~~ notesA = \relative c'' { c d e f ~ } notesB = \relative c'' { f e d c } \new Staff { \notesA \notesB } ~~ This doesn't render the tie. I'm sure there's a good reason why the tie can't carry over from one

Another happy lilypond user

2013-03-24 Thread James Harkins
So, today I adapted a scheme function for my own use (which I had never done before), and it worked. Then I needed slashes for some normal (non-grace) notes and found: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2011-12/msg00579.html Last week, I got a message inviting me to pay my Finale

Re: Another happy lilypond user

2013-03-24 Thread James Harkins
David Kastrup dak at gnu.org writes: James Harkins jamshark70 at gmail.com writes: Last week, I got a message inviting me to pay my Finale tax. I was very happy to delete it, but not before a good larf. Well, I am somewhat unhappy with that focus on the pricing of Finale as my own work

Re: Markups crossing staff lines

2013-03-26 Thread James Worlton
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 2:13 PM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.comwrote: Hi James, [snip] Below, I've set 'outside-staff-priority to #f, meaning that the grob will be treated as a within-staff object. You can then move it around with 'extra-offset. I used 'X-offset and 'Y-offset

Re: Markups crossing staff lines

2013-03-26 Thread James Worlton
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 2:34 PM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.comwrote: James, On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 2:26 PM, James Worlton jworl...@gmail.com wrote: Excellent, David. Thank you! Follow up question: Is there a way to set the outside-staff-priority in the markup definition itself

Use proportional spacing for a section in a score

2013-03-28 Thread James Harkins
What is the magical incantation to turn on proportional spacing in the middle of a score, and then turn it off again? The following is not successful in lp 2.16. Two measures are produced, and they both use classical spacing. I would have expected the spacing to be visibly different after setting

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