Re: On-screen (low-resolution) image quality

2009-02-18 Thread Johan Vromans
Arnout Engelen arnou...@bzzt.net writes: Do you have any ideas for improving low-resolution output? My script is of course just a proof of concept - what would be the 'right' way and place to tackle this? I'm afraid there's no right way unless you're going to pixelize all lily objects and

Re: Fwd: emacs lilypond-mode and the midi command

2009-03-08 Thread Johan Vromans
Anthony W. Youngman lilyp...@thewolery.demon.co.uk writes: space has been an illegal character in most filenames in most OSs since the dawn of computing This is very much not true. Not being able to deal with spaces (and therefore banning spaces as much as possible) is typical for command

Re: Sibelius conversion - sib2ly

2009-03-25 Thread Johan Vromans
Domain Admin m...@mjs-svc.com writes: If anyone's interested, I've started work on a Sibelius plug-in to export Lilypond data. I'm one of the people that have to convert Sibelius scores to Lilypond on a regular basis. I use MIDI export from Sibelius, and the MIDI import / Lilypond export

Re: Sibelius conversion - sib2ly

2009-03-25 Thread Johan Vromans
Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com writes: Did you try to import midi in NtEd? and export it to lily. I thought the midi import is pretty good of nted, don't know how well the lilypond export functions works.. NtEd has problems importing the MIDI. It seems to insist on putting the

Re: Sibelius conversion - sib2ly

2009-03-26 Thread Johan Vromans
Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl writes: Either approach (plugin and Rosegarden) requires quite some manual editing. I tried it on a project I was just about to start with. It turns out that (for this project at least) it was way much easier to manually add the ties and slurs, than to fix

Stopping a melismata extender

2009-03-29 Thread Johan Vromans
The following snippet: \score { \new Voice = HighVoice { \relative c' { c1 ~ | c1 | c1 | c1 | } } \lyricsto HighVoice \lyrics { aah __ _ _ } } This renders as: o o oo aah___ I would like the

Re: Stopping a melismata extender

2009-03-30 Thread Johan Vromans
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes: I found one hack to accomplish this: give the third note a 'lyric' syllable consisting of a single hard space. But I'm sure there are better ways. I don't know if it's better, but I've defined nullLyric = \markup \null Yes

Re: Sibelius conversion - sib2ly (from NtEd author)

2009-03-30 Thread Johan Vromans
Joerg Anders j.and...@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de writes: Therefore, I first separate the notes according to the instrument which shall play them. Unfortunately, this algorithm sorts 4 flutes which appear in 4 tracks into one staff :-(( Aha! But then the workaround is simple: just assign each

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera)

2009-04-03 Thread Johan Vromans
Andrew Hawryluk ahawry...@gmail.com writes: http://www.musicbyandrew.ca/finale-lilypond-4.html How did you make the image of the LilyPond Händel score? It suffers from very thick vertical lines, similar to the Evince/PDF bug that has been discussed here several times. It may turn readers away

OT: String diagrams

2009-12-06 Thread Johan Vromans
Dear all, I marked this message 'off topic' since it does not have anything to do with LilyPond -- it is intended for the musical community in general. As some of you may know, I'm a happy LilyPond user but I also use and maintain a simple tool called 'chord'. It prints song texts with chords,

Re: modern, simple chord charts desired

2007-03-30 Thread Johan Vromans
Adam Monsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible to create modern, simple chord charts with LilyPond? I'm thinking of the kind that are commonly used for sing-alongs that have simply lyrics and chord names above the words. Something like this: DGD

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-12 Thread Johan Vromans
Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/music_expression.png http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/polyphony_eng.png Seriously, this is GREAT! More! More! -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Metronome ticks

2007-09-18 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi, I'd like to provide metronome ticks to a Lilypond generated MIDI. I could add an additional, non-printing (percussion) voice, but maybe there's a simpler solution? -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Partcombine and Lyrics

2007-09-19 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi, Basically, I've got something like this \new Staff = smed \new Voice = med { \medMusic } \new Lyrics = med { s1 } \context Lyrics = med \lyricsto med \medWords Now I want to add a second melody. It's identical to the first, with a few exceptions.

Strange effects with lilypond-book

2007-09-22 Thread Johan Vromans
I'm trying to use lilypond-book. I have a piece of music that contains two scores. When I process it normally, I get: TITLE1 subtitle1 line1 line2 line3 TITLE2 line4 However, when processed via lilypond-book, I get: TITLE2 TITLE2 line4 TITLE1

Any suggestions on unfolding D.S. al Coda repeats

2007-09-24 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi, To generate a complete midi from a score, I need to unfold D.S. al Coda repeats. Any suggestions how to do this? -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Placing ornaments, logo's

2007-09-28 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi, I produce my music sheets with the PostScript/PDF backends. Now I'd want to include a logo and some other mainly fixed texts on the sheets. Can this be done with Lilypond? I tried lilypond-book but that doesn't work (it screws up the output). OOoLilyPond doesn't seem to be able to handle

Re: chordmode chord question

2007-11-12 Thread Johan Vromans
Henk van Voorthuijsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: \version 2.10.25 In chordmode I am trying to get g bes es in some kind of spelling (I'm assuming that one can't put a chord like I just did in chordmode). On Nov 11, 2007, at 8:13 PM, Jay Hamilton wrote: \chordmode { g:m6-^5 } Have you

Re: Creating a nice formatted Chords + Lyrics layout for guitar players

2007-11-19 Thread Johan Vromans
Thomas Bonte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You may see my current result on this pdf file: http://www.nabble.com/file/p13829430/CL-v2.pdf If this is what you want to achieve, I'd suggest to take a look at the 'chords' program. (It is currently hard to find, but we're working on a new release and

Re: Creating a nice formatted Chords + Lyrics layout for guitar players

2007-11-19 Thread Johan Vromans
Thomas Bonte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did find you personal website, which has a lot of references to several programs dealing with music (impressive list I must say), but can you point me to the 'chords' program? An url perhaps? I've put a new project page for it:

Re: MIDI to sheet music?

2007-12-03 Thread Johan Vromans
Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, I have to warn you that this utility is fairly primitive and might have problems to get all rhythms right, especially if your MIDI file wasn't produced by some other notation program. I get reasonable (= useful) results when using Rosegarden

Re: Chord Charts - rhythm and chords

2008-07-03 Thread Johan Vromans
Carl Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here is an example. Very nice! Is there a way to avoid the naturals and sharps? They're rather meaningless. -- Johan 'Chord' is alive again -- http://chordii.sourceforge.net ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Chord Charts - rhythm and chords

2008-07-03 Thread Johan Vromans
[Quoting Reinhold Kainhofer, on July 3 2008, 15:07, in Re: Chord Charts - r] You mean the key signature (and its cancellation)? No, the accidentals (In your examples: the # in the 3rd measure). The leading key signature is significant. However, when transposing the chords, the key signature

Re: Chord Charts - rhythm and chords

2008-07-03 Thread Johan Vromans
Carl Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What version of LilyPond are you using? I'm using 2.11.50, and I have no accidentals, just the key signatures. I'm using 2.10.33. Thanks for all the pointers to solutions. -- Johan 'Chord' is alive again -- http://chordii.sourceforge.net

Using one identifier or another

2008-08-16 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi, In a template file I want to check if a particular identifier has been defined, and act accordingly. For example: \score { \allMusic \layout { } } \score { \unfoldRepeats \allMusic \midi { } } In the MIDI block, I would like to use identifier

Re: Using one identifier or another

2008-08-18 Thread Johan Vromans
Dan Eble [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: These two functions should help. Thanks! I can use this. You will either need to define your optional music to be empty when it is not required, as in this example, or provide a function to create empty music if it is not already defined. I would be very

Re: Using one identifier or another

2008-08-19 Thread Johan Vromans
Dan Eble [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a framework for creating collections of many short pieces. [ ... ] A very interesting approach, and very illustrative for the powers of LilyPond programming! I learned a lot from your examples. Meanwhile, I'm still struggling with the easy task of

Metronome ticks

2008-08-19 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi, I have a piece as follows: hiMusic = { ... } loMusic = { ... } \score { \new Voice = high { \hiMusic } \new Voice = low { \loMusic } } For the MIDI part, I want to add metronome ticks, something similar to ticktock = \drummode { \repeat unfold 94 {

Re: Metronome ticks

2008-08-20 Thread Johan Vromans
[Quoting Neil Puttock, on August 19 2008, 23:44, in Re: Metronome ticks] makeUnfold = [...] Exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks! (It is possible to add unfoldRepeats to the function?) -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Using one identifier or another

2008-08-22 Thread Johan Vromans
Johan Vromans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dan Eble [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: aNotes = \relative c' { ... } %%From template: \score { #(if (not (defined? bNotes)) (define bNotes aNotes)) \bNotes } The intention is clear, but LilyPond/Scheme refuses to compile

Re: convert from absolute to relative

2008-08-22 Thread Johan Vromans
Eluze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Talking about utilities: Has anybody ever seen one that transforms a simple voice (pitches and durations) into a ghost voice consisting of spacers and durations only (e.g. c2 d e == s2 s s). This is very useful for writing simultaneous voice parts where one

Re: Using one identifier or another

2008-08-22 Thread Johan Vromans
[Quoting Gilles THIBAULT, on August 22 2008, 18:11, in Re: Using one identi] Sorry i don't really understand this parser behaviour but i only know i have to care with it ... Ah, that's something I understand... The parser compiles the first expression: aNotes = \relative c' { c1 e g } Now,

Re: convert from absolute to relative

2008-08-23 Thread Johan Vromans
Jonathan Kulp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sure, I'd like to try it :) I've attached the program to this message. I use it from my editor: I select the section that I want to transform, and process that section through the program, something like |perl lyabsrel.pl --relative c'' Note that it

Re: convert from absolute to relative

2008-08-23 Thread Johan Vromans
Yota [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, I worked for nothing then :) Your tool is different: it operates on a complete file. Mine just transforms a section of notes. And it only deals with c d e .. b notes, not with do re mi and so on. I've posted it as an attachment to another reply in this

Re: Converting lilypond to music xml

2008-08-25 Thread Johan Vromans
Alastair Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd be very surprised if this hasn't been asked before, but searches of the archives haven't turned up anything useful. Is there any way of converting lilypond files into music xml? If not, are there any plans for such a tool? I use software to

Re: Converting lilypond to music xml

2008-08-25 Thread Johan Vromans
Jonathan Kulp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, you can import MIDI into Finale but as Dominic notes, it doesn't have enough information embedded to get good results. Even very simple pieces are so badly messed up that it would be easier simply to enter all the notes again than try to fix the

Re: Quick Listen when making score

2008-08-26 Thread Johan Vromans
Grammostola Rosea [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to listen to the entered score in Lilypond quickly? For example, listen to the rhythm of the entered drum score? As explained in one of the other replies, lilypond is a language, not a tool. However, it may be interesting to use

Printing bar number 1

2008-08-27 Thread Johan Vromans
Yes, this has been asked before but the archives didn't show an answer... So, here it goes again: How can I print bar number 1? E.g., \set Score.currentBarNumber = #1 \bar \repeat unfold 4 {c4 c c c} \break \repeat unfold 4 {c4 c c c} -- Johan Chord is alive!

Re: Printing bar number 1

2008-08-27 Thread Johan Vromans
Peter Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, here it goes again: How can I print bar number 1? E.g., Add this here: [...] And it will work for any \set Score.currentBarNumber greater than 1. And, as you may have guessed, it's number 1 that I want printed :). -- Johan Chord is alive!

Re: Printing bar number 1

2008-08-27 Thread Johan Vromans
Dmytro O. Redchuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: % add this: \set Score.barNumberVisibility = #(every-nth-bar-number-visible 1) \override Score.BarNumber #'break-visibility = #'#(#f #f #t) % probably this isn't the best way But it works perfectly! Thanks! I believe that

Re: Printing bar number 1

2008-08-27 Thread Johan Vromans
Gilles THIBAULT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: w Weel, not for me ... \version 2.11.51 This works for me: \version 2.10.33 \relative c' { R1 * 4 \break \set Score.barNumberVisibility = #(every-nth-bar-number-visible 1) \set Score.currentBarNumber = #1 \time 4/4 c1 c c c

Re: Printing bar number 1

2008-08-27 Thread Johan Vromans
Dmytro O. Redchuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The only thing I'd want to get rid of is the time change indicator at the end of the first staff. Time remains unchanged, so, why specify it? Maybe a little explanation of what I'm trying to achieve. I play with a pop choir

Re: Getting a list of all pitches used in a score

2008-08-27 Thread Johan Vromans
Kenny Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone have any ideas about how to get a list of all the pitches from a score? ... besides just counting off the sheet music. Even better, to get a count of how many times each of the used notes are played. For our handbell group, we want to

Re: Getting a list of all pitches used in a score

2008-08-29 Thread Johan Vromans
Gilles Sadowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In any case, here is the script inline (just copy/paste the text between the ---CUT--- marks in another file): Please be aware that this script scans anything, including commented-out lines and controls. For example, title = This is a nice song

Re: transparent background in lilypond generated png's

2008-08-29 Thread Johan Vromans
Wilbert Berendsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Op maandag 25 augustus 2008, schreef Gilles Sadowski:  $ convert test.png -transparent white test_tr.png This will convert 'white' to '100% transparent', but not the shades of grey created by the anti-aliasing algorithms in ghostscript. I'd

Re: Getting a list of all pitches used in a score

2008-08-29 Thread Johan Vromans
Gilles Sadowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If accuracy is important, I'd advise to use the MIDI scanner I posted here. This will give 100% accurate results. [For my intended usage then, this is not quite accurate since I guess that notes in repeats will be picked up several times, whereas

Re: transparent background in lilypond generated png's

2008-08-29 Thread Johan Vromans
Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That said, IIRC at worse IE6 flattens PNG images on an ugly grey background, so I think LilyPond snippets would still be readable (however ugly). It's easier to add a white background to a transparent PNG than to remove a background from a PNG. So

Re: LSR status

2008-08-30 Thread Johan Vromans
Damian leGassick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: surely if a snippet deserves/needs to be in LSR it should be incorporated into the next revision of the docs? I'd consider the LSR complementary to the docs. -- Johan Chord is alive! http://chordii.sourceforge.net

--evaluate command line option

2008-09-09 Thread Johan Vromans
I often use my .ly files for different purposes, e.g., to print self-contained sheet music and to print embedded sheet music. In the latter case I do not want headings, and use different page settings. I want to control this from the command line. For this purpose, I'd like to set a variable that

Re: --evaluate command line option

2008-09-10 Thread Johan Vromans
Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Search the mailist archives; this has been discussed two or three times. I think the last time was about a year ago? The first thing I can find is dated Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:36:08 -0700, where you replied: This has been discussed on either this mailing

Re: emacs question

2008-09-10 Thread Johan Vromans
James E. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just wish someone with a little elisp help could point me toward the part of whichever file determines how the file is processed in emacs so I could learn enough to be able to add to it. You'll find the code in lilypond-mode.el. It should be

Re: Vertical spacing between Staff and Lyrics

2008-09-16 Thread Johan Vromans
Alan Fabian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: this time I did not find the following in the manual: How to change the space between a Staff and a Lyrics? Questions like this pop up frequently, and there are many documents that provide some or part of the answers. For a while I've been playing with

Re: Vertical spacing between Staff and Lyrics

2008-09-17 Thread Johan Vromans
Patrick Horgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN html /blockquote The second one looks quite similar to a lilypond score when rendered with:br ttbr \paper { annotate-spacing = ##t }br /ttbr Yes, that's one of the features I'll heavily

Ragged breaks

2008-09-23 Thread Johan Vromans
In a sigle-staff score, I want to add a manual break but I do not want the broken line to be adjusted to the score width. I'm sure I can temporarilty override ragged-right but I haven't been able to find the right place to put it. Suggestions welcome! Thanks, -- Johan Chord is alive!

Printing problem with Evince

2008-09-24 Thread Johan Vromans
I noticed that Evince (I have Fedora 8 with Evince 2.20.2) does a lousy job on printing LilyPond scores. It may do a bad job on other prints as well, but the effect on LilyPond scores is dramatic. See for yourself: http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/lpev.png . Image left is scanned from a print by

Re: Printing problem with Evince

2008-09-24 Thread Johan Vromans
Francisco Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2008/9/24 Francisco Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I also posted a bug report for this in the appropiate component, but nobody in the devel team for Evince seems to be willing to investigate it. Do you have an URL so I can add some incentive? -- Johan

Re: Printing problem with Evince

2008-09-24 Thread Johan Vromans
Francisco Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: see http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg37172.html AFAICS (and you can see it on my example pics too) this has nothing to do with the form that evince renders the rounded rectangles that barlines are made from. It looks as if it renders

Re: Printing problem with Evince

2008-09-24 Thread Johan Vromans
Francisco Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please note that this has nothing to do with actual printing, Evince shows this problem in preview too. Yes, indeed. I'll pass you an URL of the bug. Thanks! -- Johan Chord is alive! http://chordii.sourceforge.net

Re: Printing problem with Evince

2008-09-24 Thread Johan Vromans
Daniel Hulme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As someone else suggested, try kpdf, or use xpdf, which is what I use. xpdf is not really a modern GUI application, but I always use it from the command-line anyway. I use gv, which is ancient but bloody fast. And yes, printing from the command line

Re: postscript output with psbook and psnup

2008-10-09 Thread Johan Vromans
Daniel Hulme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know. I'm using 2.10.33 on Debian/sid, and I've just tested running one of my lilypond scores through psbook, psnup, and psbook | psnup, and I couldn't get any of them to not be viewable with gv. I can reproduce this on Fedora 8. AFAICS the

Re: Soundfonts in ps file

2008-10-15 Thread Johan Vromans
Paul Hodges [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I compile a score on my computer at work, the ps file is about six times the size of the resulting pdf - the difference apparently being embedded sound fonts. I sincerely hope you mean music fonts, not sound fonts. The PS is bigger since the fonts

Re: lilypond and scribus

2008-11-02 Thread Johan Vromans
Ricardo Teruel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to be able to import the .ps file generated by lilypond into Scribus (the Page Layout program) to combine texts and graphics over the score in a more visual way. Everything works out fine when you import the lilypond .ps except that there

Scheme question: symbol to music

2008-11-11 Thread Johan Vromans
Stupic question, I assume... In a scheme function I have a symbol that is the name of a lilypond expression. How can I get its music value? E.g. ifDefined = #(define-music-function (parser location sym) (symbol?) (if (defined? sym) ??? return the value of the expression ???

Re: Scheme question: symbol to music

2008-11-12 Thread Johan Vromans
Carl Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You need to use the procedure primitive-eval to evaluate a symbol YES! That's the trick. Thanks! -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Scheme question: symbol to music

2008-11-12 Thread Johan Vromans
Mark Polesky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wow! Someone should add this to the LSR! Stay tuned, it'll get even better... -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Scheme question: symbol to music

2008-11-12 Thread Johan Vromans
Johan Vromans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stay tuned, it'll get even better... If it would only work... What I'm trying to achieve is to have input lines processed selectively based on whether certain symbols are defined. For example, I have a file highstaff.ly: \new Staff = High

Re: Scheme question: symbol to music

2008-11-12 Thread Johan Vromans
Nicolas Sceaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A more idiomatic way to do it: Nice. This gives me the following snippet: % \ifDefined #'symbol % Returns the music expression defined by symbol, % or a void expression if symbol has not been defined. ifDefined = #(define-music-function

Re: Scheme question: symbol to music

2008-11-12 Thread Johan Vromans
Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 05:28:37PM +0100, Johan Vromans wrote: What I'm trying to achieve is to have input lines processed selectively based on whether certain symbols are defined. Umm, use \tag? I use this for other purposes: allMusic

Re: Scheme question: symbol to music

2008-11-13 Thread Johan Vromans
Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm. I guess I don't quite understand what you were asking; I can't see why \tag wouldn't work. Using \tag requires that all the variables are defined, and the variables that need (not) to be processed must get a tag. leadWords = \lyricmode { Some

Re: Scheme question: symbol to music

2008-11-13 Thread Johan Vromans
Roman Stawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Take a look at http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1id=493 Nice! Is there a way to get rid of the warning: no such internal option: target? This lets you have constructs such as \ifTargetIn #'(foo) { ... } A limitation is that it works on

Lighter appearance

2008-11-14 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi, While comparing the LilyPond gegerated output with the output of a competitor program, I noticed that the LP outout is much 'heavier'. See e.g., http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/lilsib.jpg . The top line is from LilyPond, the bottom line is from a Sibelius printout. I think the larger

Re: Lighter appearance

2008-11-15 Thread Johan Vromans
Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is not the default output of LilyPond. I agree -- are you sure the top line isn't from Finale or something? It looks incredibly bad. WTF is up with the gap between the sixteenth and eighth in the second bar from the end?! LilyPond would

Re: Lighter appearance

2008-11-15 Thread Johan Vromans
Carl D. Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I set that exact line in LilyPond 2.11.64. I needed to do some manual beaming to get the same beaming as in the top line. Interesting. When I try: \relative c' { \time 6/8 r4 a8 d e f | e d4 ~ d4. | r4 r16 g,16 e'8 g e16 d | c8. ( a16

Re: chords and set Staff.midiInstrument

2008-11-15 Thread Johan Vromans
coralline algae [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have tried set Staff.midiInstrument Chords are usually set in a ChordNames staff. If so, did you try set ChordNames.midiInstrument ? -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: chords and midiInstrument

2008-11-16 Thread Johan Vromans
coralline algae [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: thank you Johan that works nicely. set ChordNames.midiInstrument by way of explanation - with piano for the chords it almost drowns out the melody line in midi playback \set ChordNames.midiMaximumVolume = #0.5 or some other figure.

String versus scheme function

2008-11-16 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi, I can do \new Staff = FooBar ... and xxx = #(string-append Foo Bar) \new Staff = \xxx ... but not \new Staff = #(string-append Foo Bar) ... What is needed to get the last form working? -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Repeats and midi blocks

2008-11-17 Thread Johan Vromans
Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It depends on why you're listening to the piece. I *do* want to hear it clunking along, since I only ever listen to midi as a quick proofread [...] Yes, though I'd say Ian has a point, too. I use the midi initially to 'proofread', but finally I

Re: String versus scheme function

2008-11-17 Thread Johan Vromans
Nicolas Sceaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le 16 nov. 08 à 22:50, Johan Vromans a écrit : What is needed to get the last form working? That would require to change the parser. Clear. Thanks. -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user

Re: Repeats and midi blocks

2008-11-17 Thread Johan Vromans
Ian Hulin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Write some wrapper functions \setMidiRepeats to take a boolean flag and save this in an internal Scheme variable, say unfoldmidirepeats. Your function then tests (if Reinhold does this sort of thing in orchestrallily, so I should be able to steal from the

Re: lilypond print jobs consistently disappear to dev null

2008-11-17 Thread Johan Vromans
Federico Grau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My lilypond print jobs consistently disappear to dev null when I try to print them with a free software tool such as kpdf or gpdf?! My printer is a pretty standard laser printer, (HP Lasterjet 4 with PS support) Sounds familiar. The only way I can

Re: Lighter appearance

2008-11-18 Thread Johan Vromans
David Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you look at a good score of anything that was printed before the time of computers, you can see that Lilypond looks 'almost like real music', and Sibelius looks 'like a computer' This does not necessarily mean that old scores look better than new

Re: Giving back: LHML template

2008-11-20 Thread Johan Vromans
[Quoting Graham Percival, on November 19 2008, 14:48, in Re: Giving back: LHM] Could you add this to LSR? That way more users will see it, and it can be easily added to the docs. Sure (but how?) Actually I was hoping for some feedback of lilypond-users before 'releasing' it... -- Johan

Re: lyrics in a PianoStaff

2008-11-21 Thread Johan Vromans
Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Tarenskeen wrote Thursday, November 20, 2008 9:24 PM Why \new Staff = upper {...} and \new Staff = lower {...} ? I use just \new Staff {...} with the same results. [...] You're quite right though, the names are quite unnecessary. By giving

Re: lyrics in a PianoStaff

2008-11-21 Thread Johan Vromans
Johan Vromans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By giving the Staff a name you can refer to its context later. See sect. 5.1.2. Also, the Staff name will be the track name used in the MIDI file. -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user

Re: Fwd: Parser error when including file

2008-11-21 Thread Johan Vromans
Arjan Bos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, the error is signalled in the other file! Not really. LP processes the includeError.ly. It sees 'y', and starts looking for and '='. I assume it processes the \version internally, and then starts including the includedError.ly. Again, it processes

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2008-11-22 Thread Johan Vromans
I must admit... That I do share some feelings with John. I've been using LilyPond infrequently for many years, and frequently for a year now. I often get surprised by its behaviour, and I often have to puzzle how to achieve certain results. But... The documentation has improved enormously. The

Re: Midi to lilypond conversion.

2008-11-22 Thread Johan Vromans
David Picón Álvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: d''4*95/192 s4*1/192 a'4*95/192 s4*1/192 a4*95/192 s4*1/192 g4*95/192 s4*1/192 f4*95/192 s4*1/192 e4*95/192 s4*1/192 d4*95/192 s4*1/192 e4*95/192 s4*1/192 | I was looking at the source of the converter, and although I'm not sure if I

Re: Parser error when including file

2008-11-22 Thread Johan Vromans
Arjan Bos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It certainly seems weird and I can understand why it is. And I know it is very hard to write good parsing error messages, but if I now jump to the error, it jumps away from my typo into a perfectly correct file. And I can't help but wondering that it might

Re: left-margin

2008-11-23 Thread Johan Vromans
Keith Weintraub [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't seem to get left-margin to work. In addition when I change the line width the header width doesn't change. You have several confusing and/or conflicting settings. The paper size settings, \paper and \layout interact unexpectedly. When you move

Re: templates

2008-11-25 Thread Johan Vromans
Mary Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having trouble getting the templates to work. Can anyone give me a template for choral music that is in 3 parts (ie SAB) with one or more verses between the staves? Thanks. You may want to try the template kit I posted recently to this group. You can

Re: Just chords and lyrics.

2008-11-25 Thread Johan Vromans
Keith Weintraub [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone have an example (forgive me if I missed it in the docs) of just chords and lyrics? Try http://chordii.sourceforge.net . -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Just chords and lyrics.

2008-11-27 Thread Johan Vromans
Carl D. Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But LilyPond is transposable, ... one of the things I really like about LilyPond is that I can transpose songs automatically. Chordii can handle that as well. -- Johan Chord is alive! http://chordii.sourceforge.net

Re: Just chords.

2008-11-28 Thread Johan Vromans
Keith Weintraub [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like the measures to be 4 per line. And I would like them to line up from one line to the next. For this purpose I'd suggest you take a look at http://johan.vromans.org/software/sw_playtab.html . (The most recent version also accepts chords in

Re: jpedal slowness

2008-11-29 Thread Johan Vromans
Martin Tarenskeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not a very big problem. My script can still be used then, but after startup the user will have to manually position the windows the way he wants them on screen. You may wish to take a look at devilspie.

Re: jpedal slowness

2008-11-29 Thread Johan Vromans
Martin Tarenskeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3. If I edit the source, everytime I save this is detected by an endless loop in my script, lilypond is called and a new postscript is created. This is detected by gv thanks to the -watch option. Et voila, the score can be seen almost

Re: Can't generate PDF file in Windows

2008-11-30 Thread Johan Vromans
Dave Trowbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I select Generate PDF in the right-click menu in Windows explorer, no PDF file is generated, and the log file reads as follows: # -*-compilation-*- Changing working directory to `C:/Program Files/LilyPond/usr/bin' Processing `C:/Program

Re: left-aligned syllables?

2008-11-30 Thread Johan Vromans
Ivo Bouwmans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Preparing some Christmas music (see below or attachment), I saw that the first syllables in the final system are left-aligned rather than centred below the note as they should be. Does anyone know what causes this? Some deductions... It only happens

Re: Can't generate PDF file in Windows

2008-12-01 Thread Johan Vromans
Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not exactly true! You have to include a \layout block if you have a \midi block, but not otherwise. Oops. I stand corrected -- thanks, Mats! -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: font switching help

2008-12-04 Thread Johan Vromans
Neil Puttock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Fonts#Single-entry-fonts While at the subject... To change the default fonts for a document, the advised code is: \paper { myStaffSize = #20 #(define fonts (make-pango-font-tree

Re: reduce vertical spacing between stanzas?

2008-12-05 Thread Johan Vromans
Mark Polesky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can I reduce vertical spacing between stanzas? \context { \Lyrics \override VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(0 . 0) } or ... \score { \new ChoirStaff \new Staff = upperstaff \new Voice = upper { \uppermelody }

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