Re: Automatically numbering "instrument name"?

Am 09.08.2017 um 06:34 schrieb Manuela Gößnitzer: Do you mean something like this? #(define score-number 0) %% insert in first score #(set! score-number (1+ score-number)) \new PianoStaff \with { instrumentName = \markup { #(number->string score-number) "." } } \relative c''

OpenType in LilyPond

Hi list, if I understand correctly LilyPond already supports OpenType features and this will be documented in the next version (changes already have been pushed to master). Is this only for use in markup \overrides or can you select features document-wide? This would be nice: \paper { #(de

Re: OpenType in LilyPond

Am 11.08.2017 um 16:10 schrieb Malte Meyn: #:roman "Vollkorn" % Can this be Vollkorn with OT feature ss13? This should be a scheme comment (; instead of %) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.o

Re: setting ragged-right at a specific forced break

Am 11.08.2017 um 18:23 schrieb Benjamin Bloomfield: ​So if there is some way of adding as much empty space as will fit on a line before a break, that could work too. What I basically want is for systems that end with an automatic line break to be justified, but for those that end with my manua

Re: hideNotes doesn't hide ties and slurs

Am 12.08.2017 um 09:38 schrieb John Kinell: Hello everyone! I'm trying to use this snippet http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=1025, but the \hideNotes command leaves ties and slurs in the "dummy melody", which means that all ties and slurs in my score seem "double exposed". Tried both stable a

Re: in-stave / between notes spacing?

Am 15.08.2017 um 00:15 schrieb Vlad Kudelin: Hello, thank you again everybody for the fantastic tool! I enjoy it more and more, most things become easier every day, except for those few that become harder ) Hope asking questions once in a while is all right. ...I've found a lot about vertical

Re: OpenType in LilyPond

Am 12.08.2017 um 08:15 schrieb Jay Anderson: On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 7:10 AM, Malte Meyn wrote: if I understand correctly LilyPond already supports OpenType features and this will be documented in the next version (changes already have been pushed to master). Is this only for use in markup

Re: OpenType in LilyPond

Am 26.08.2017 um 11:28 schrieb Malte Meyn: I just realised I can override grob the grob property font-features, not only markups. So I’ll adapt snippet 443 from the LSR for now (http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=443). In my use case I don’t have markups, headers, page numbers etc. so this

Re: manual beaming and variables

Am 27.08.2017 um 08:45 schrieb Gianmaria Lari: \version "2.19.60" note = {a8} { {\note [b b b]} } This has nothing to do with the use of variables: the [ should stand after the first b, not before: \note b[ b b] off-topic: Why are you using so many pairs of braces? _

Re: a specific note head shape for string players

Am 31.08.2017 um 09:07 schrieb B~M: String players sometimes have to put one finger over two strings, but sound just one. The finger also stopping an unplayed string is often played later, so this action is one of finger preparation. I show this in the attached snippet where I have used a red n

Re: tweaking the colour of full bar rests...

Am 31.08.2017 um 09:27 schrieb B~M: I have a simple problem. In a Viola score I include some piano parts with a cue voice and, to make it very clear I colour the piano part in blue. Why would you want that? Isn’t small note size and a clear textual remark enough? IMO colors in sheet music sh

different notation fonts and LilyPond’s -b option

Hi list, I wanted to try Knut’s advice from the Gotlandstoner thread (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-09/msg00013.html) but the -b option doesn’t seem to work with different notation fonts; Ghostscript fails and outputs a PDF without any fonts (it doesn’t even contain Te

Re: Tuplets and cross-staff beams

Am 11.09.2017 um 14:22 schrieb Samuel Cederlund: Hello all, I have a piece of code that causes lilypond to say Drawing systems...lilypond: ../flower/include/drul-array.hh:35: T& Drul_array::at(Direction) [with T = double]: Assertion `d == 1 || d == -1' failed. the code is as follows:   \tupl

Re: Silence as long as another part

Am 12.09.2017 um 21:13 schrieb Joel C. Salomon: On 2017-09-12 2:37 PM, David Kastrup wrote: How can I set one piece to be silent for the duration of another? I know I’ve seen this in the past, but I cannot find it again. $(skip-of-length upper) Thank you. I was searching for “rest” and “

Re: \mark and slur

Am 14.09.2017 um 11:14 schrieb Gianmaria Lari: c4 c c d (c4) c c c […] c4 c c d \mark "X" (c4) c c c The start of slur belongs to the d, not the c. Writing d (c) is possible and equivalent to d( c) but the latter more clearly says what’s going on. You tried t

Re: \mark and slur

Am 14.09.2017 um 11:43 schrieb David Kastrup: Incidentally, current master delivers the following verbiage: GNU LilyPond 2.21.0 Processing `sll.ly' Parsing... sll.ly:4:13: warning: Adding <> for attaching loose post-event \mark "X" (c4) c c c Interpreting music... sll.ly:4:16:

How near is 2.20? [was: Re: \mark and slur]

Am 14.09.2017 um 11:43 schrieb David Kastrup: Incidentally, current master delivers the following verbiage: GNU LilyPond 2.21.0 […] Is that more helpful than previously? GNU LilyPond 2.19.80 This looks nice :) Do I understand correctly that after 2.19.65 follows 2.21.0 in the master br

Re: frescobaldi print

Am 14.09.2017 um 12:49 schrieb Gianmaria Lari: Sorry to ask this that probably is a very trivial question, but I have not able to find a solution online. Is there any way to print the pdf file generated by lilypond directly from Frescobaldi? File → Print music … or Ctrl+P as in most applicat

Re: Forcing non-standard accidental behaviour

Am 15.09.2017 um 15:59 schrieb Lukas-Fabian Moser: Is it possible to force Lilypond into using strictly "relative" accidentals? What I mean by this: A raised 4th in d-major (g-sharp) gets a sharp sign. A raised 4th in f-major (b-natural) gets a natural sign. I want this to get a sharp sign a

Re: Text Spanner Leading Directly Into Another Text Spanner

Am 18.09.2017 um 19:03 schrieb Robert Murdoch: Hi, Is there a way to create a text spanner that leads directly into another text spanner, for example an accelerando into a ritardando? I've tried using \stopTextSpan and \startTextSpan on the same note, but the second text spanner is above th

Re: Text Spanner Leading Directly Into Another Text Spanner

Am 19.09.2017 um 11:08 schrieb Robert Murdoch: Thanks for all the helpful replies everyone, but I've now run into a new problem; I want the second text spanner to align with the first spanner's dashed lines, for the first system. The second text spanner is currently below the dashed lines. Ho

Re: Text Spanner Leading Directly Into Another Text Spanner

Am 19.09.2017 um 12:45 schrieb Robert Murdoch: Will do. As I assumed staff-padding is the right thing here: \override TextSpanner.staff-padding = 2.5 ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lil

Re: restrain string numbers

Am 22.09.2017 um 16:51 schrieb bb: I want to restrain/omit string numbers in the score. But I need them to define because of the guitar tabs. How can I do that? I was looking in the lilypond-user Archives for restrain/omit/avoid/no string numbers but found no hit. Regards BB \omit StringNum

Re: trill syntax

Am 26.09.2017 um 00:05 schrieb Flaming Hakama by Elaine: %  The default for adjacent trills is cluttered, %  and there is no clean way to specify the stop of the last trill if it is the last note. %  This attempt at something semantically appropriate produces the error %  "programming error:

Re: Header

Am 26.09.2017 um 11:44 schrieb Marc Hohl: Am 25.09.2017 um 20:37 schrieb Mario Moles: Hi lilyponders! How to make like in tha jpg? Please provide us some more informations. The jpg looks like a LaTeX document, so the commands used there do not apply for LilyPond. Marc is right, more info

Re: Now I understand, why d minor is so sad...

Am 26.09.2017 um 15:58 schrieb Michael Gerdau: \markup \column { "Now I understand why" "d minor is so sad..." } { \key d \minor a' f' d' } I think that this so-called “alternative” has had enough attention, we shouldn’t let them spoil music. ___

Re: fretboard-bug?

Am 28.09.2017 um 13:08 schrieb bb:     #"1-1; 1-1;o;o;2-2;" % This is not a bug but you have an extra space here. It should be #"1-1;1-1;o;o;2-2;" % correct #"1-1; 1-1;o;o;2-2;" % wrong but not a bug ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Exited with return code 1. - Guile signal error & cannot find context to switch to

This code has two errors: 1. You didn’t name the staves "left" and "right" in the definition of rehearsalMidi. 2. ly:make-moment doesn’t take durations but numbers. So it has to be \set Score.tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 228 8) or \tempo 4. = 76 instead of \se

Re: warning if line is too wide?

Am 20.11.2015 um 20:58 schrieb Malte Meyn: Hi list, is it possible to be informed by LilyPond if a line in the pdf is too wide because of too many notes or \noBreak etc. (like LaTeX’ overfull hbox warnings)? Sometimes this would be useful (f. e. in cases where a line is only a little bit

Re: Merge_rests_engraver, \magnifyStaff and full measure rests

Am 02.10.2017 um 01:19 schrieb Davide Liessi: Is this a bug in the Merge_rests_engraver? Yes, it seems so. The engraver sets Y-offset instead of staff-position. Is there a workaround? Not really, but I fixed the engraver, see attachment (.ily for the corrected engraver, .ly for a usage e

Re: \justify & break

Am 04.10.2017 um 17:11 schrieb Gianmaria Lari: Is there any \break like command to avoid to use two \justify? Use \justify-string instead. Empty lines make line breaks: \version "2.19.65" \markup { \column { \line \bold \smallCaps { Note } \justify-string #"L'articolazione d'

Re: TimeSignature.style question

Am 05.10.2017 um 13:29 schrieb Menu Jacques: Hello folks, I’ve found that: \once \override TimeSignature.style = #'single-digit has no effect in the example below. Is there a way to suppress the denominators in measure 2? […] \once \override TimeSignature.style = #'single-digit

Re: Ties between voices?

Am 05.10.2017 um 10:56 schrieb James Harkins: One nut I never cracked in LilyPond: how to tie a note from one Voice to another, e.g. Does LSR snippet 8 (http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=8) help? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.o

Re: Cadenza, skip-of-length, and mmrest-of-length

Am 05.10.2017 um 16:51 schrieb Pierre-Luc Gauthier: How can I scale a music expression to the size of another music expression? e.g. (pseudocode based on \scaleDurations) \scaleDurations (fraction-of resulting-scale over music-to-be-scaled) music-to-be-scaled Have a look at https://lists.gn

Re: Cadenza, skip-of-length, and mmrest-of-length

Am 05.10.2017 um 20:54 schrieb Pierre-Luc Gauthier: I peppered bars (e.g: \bar "") at most beam breaks in the cadenza thus enabling LilyPond to brake lines correctly at all "possible" places (I have different editions (letter, big-letter, tablet, score, etc) so manual line breaking is unaccepta

Re: Cadenza, skip-of-length, and mmrest-of-length

Am 06.10.2017 um 14:57 schrieb Pierre-Luc Gauthier: At first, just reading your reply, I thought it would(could) break systems at *any* note but there seems to be another rule that prevents breaking inside a beam. Yes, beams over barlines prevent a line break, but if you wanted you could cha

Re: Skylines and custom MMR range engraver

Am 06.10.2017 um 16:47 schrieb Pierre-Luc Gauthier: I suspect that, to overcome this limitation and thus being able to print*bellow* the staff, _this line was added to make the object have no dimensions at all thus no collision. \with-dimensions #empty-interval #empty-interval I think you’r

Re: Note heads possibilites?

Am 06.10.2017 um 23:18 schrieb Menu Jacques: Hello folks, MusicXML is rather rich in terms of note heads, basically: slash, triangle, diamond, square, cross, x, circle-x, inverted triangle, arrow down, arrow up, slashed, back slashed, normal, cluster, circle dot, left triangle, re

Re: Overly large text font size issue

Am 07.10.2017 um 08:12 schrieb Patrice Levesque: Hi, Happy LilyPond user here, for many years. I doubt this is a problem with LilyPond per se — possibly trouble lies within my environment — but lately I've encountered something very strange: font size for text has exploded when I compile Lil

Re: Mac terminal question

Am 08.10.2017 um 09:05 schrieb Jacques Menu Muzhic: Hello Craig, You can create a script (text) file like this one, make it executable and accessible in your PATH: I don’t know Mac but I assume that it can be done *MUCH* easier: lilypond -dno-point-and-click *.ly _

Re: lilyjazz

Am 10.10.2017 um 02:14 schrieb Curt: Can someone tell me what I need to do? Also, is there some up to date lilyjazz installation article that I’ve missed? I googled a bunch and there are out of date articles, and other articles redirecting us to “superseding” articles that don’t actually ha

Re: Mac terminal question

Not standard way for such simple things that only require a shell expansion of *.ly … but of course you can do that. Am 10.10.2017 um 01:18 schrieb Ivan Kuznetsov: You could learn how to use a makefile. That is the standard way to do such a thing under unix. Maxime's Music wrote: What do I

Re: Incorrectly merged noteheads

Am 11.10.2017 um 13:29 schrieb Ben: The PDF is different than the code, which I'm sure you were aware of - Not in 2.18.2, the version Brent is using as you can see from the \version statement. but I just don't understand what you are looking for - the code seems to give you what you want

Re: Footnote separator line

Am 11.10.2017 um 14:42 schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt: Hi fellows, I have a footnote in a score. This footnote is separated by a centered horizontal line. Is there a possibility to remove it or adjust formatting? TIA Jan-Peter \paper { footnote-separator-markup = ##f } ___

Re: Footnote separator line

Am 11.10.2017 um 14:55 schrieb Malte Meyn: Am 11.10.2017 um 14:42 schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt: Hi fellows, I have a footnote in a score. This footnote is separated by a centered horizontal line. Is there a possibility to remove it or adjust formatting? TIA Jan-Peter \paper {   footnote

Re: Glissando in parentheses

Am 16.10.2017 um 19:38 schrieb Rodney Duplessis: I want to put a glissando in parentheses. I’ve tried to adapt some snippets (for example, http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=902 and http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=647) to my needs but I couldn’t get any results. How about this? Can be us

Re: Glissando in parentheses

Am 16.10.2017 um 22:48 schrieb Thomas Morley: Nice. Though, I'd use \vcenter instead of \raise #-0.5 Oh, you’re right. Didn’t think of that, I’m no markup possibilities expert ;) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.

Re: \version statement, etc.

Am 17.10.2017 um 08:31 schrieb Paul Scott: I just downloaded and installed 2.19.80 (what happened to 2.19.66 through 2.19.79?) 2.19.80 is the first pre-release for 2.20; the xx in 2.19.xx approaching 99 stands for “we’ll be there soon”. 2.19.80 doesn't seem to see my version statements:

Re: Piano Left Hand Alone

Am 23.10.2017 um 06:11 schrieb Rohan Srinivasan: How would I go about engraving a piece for piano left hand solo? Hi Rohan, that’s a very unspecific question; what do you want to know? Piano for left hand solo isn’t very much different from piano for two hands. Some hints though: • If yo

Re: Piano Left Hand Alone

There is a category of music including piano left hand: http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Scores_featuring_the_piano_left_hand Am 23.10.2017 um 08:39 schrieb Mark Stephen Mrotek: Rohan, For examples of published works for left hand alone, look at the Petrucci Library, imslp.org. Mark *From:*l

Re: Piano Left Hand Alone

Of course you can just only print one staff. If you sometimes need two staves, use \RemoveEmptyStaves. If you want a brace although you have only one staff, have a look at http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=579 Am 24.10.2017 um 05:07 schrieb Rohan Srinivasan: Thanks. I was wondering, though, if

Re: Piano Left Hand Alone

Am 24.10.2017 um 06:13 schrieb Mark Stephen Mrotek: By definition a Piano Staff consists of two staves. No. There is piano music on one (f. e. Rachmaninov, Ravel), two, three (f. e. Debussy, Grieg), four (f. e. Liszt) and more (20th/21st century composers) staves.

Re: Piano Left Hand Alone

Am 25.10.2017 um 00:12 schrieb Rohan Srinivasan: I would like it to act like the left hand staff of the Piano Staff. If this isn't possible, I suppose I can just use the Piano Staff and add rests on one hand. Hm … I don’t really understand what’s the difference to a “normal” single staff. Cou

Re: How to resize a piano staff?

Am 24.10.2017 um 19:10 schrieb Caagr98: Using \magnifyStaff on the PianoStaff context gives the following error: /usr/share/lilypond/2.19.65/scm/music-functions.scm:2513:19: In procedure ly:context-property in expression (ly:context-property Staff (quote magnifyStaffValue)): /usr/share/lilypo

Re: Rhythmic clusters (i.e. *not* \makeClusters)

Am 28.10.2017 um 10:01 schrieb David Kastrup: James Harkins writes: That other question... I would like to notate some clusters, but articulated: blocks instead of notes, but showing repeated, re-articulated blocks. \makeClusters doesn't do it. Even if I put a "s"kip in between, it still c

Re: How to get \fromproperty to work with score headers?

Am 29.10.2017 um 11:21 schrieb Shevek: Does anyone know if there's an updated version of http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=467 to work with score-level headers? It's listed as "to do" in the snippet, but I believe that dates back to several years ago. I'd like to use \fromproperty #'header:

Re: dead link in http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/

Am 29.10.2017 um 15:33 schrieb bb: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-percussion the link Schnipsel: Percussion. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/snippets/schlagzeug -> not found In the english version it's active http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Docu

Re: Small caps not working in bookTitleMarkup?

Am 29.10.2017 um 15:50 schrieb Patrick Hubers: Hi, I'm trying to create titles in small caps by modifying the bookTitleMarkup in my stylesheet. For some reason, all font modifiers (\bold, \italic etc.) seem to work, except for \caps or \smallCaps. […] Am I doing something wrong, have I mi

Re: Small caps not working in bookTitleMarkup?

Am 29.10.2017 um 16:41 schrieb Malte Meyn: Am 29.10.2017 um 15:50 schrieb Patrick Hubers: Hi, I'm trying to create titles in small caps by modifying the bookTitleMarkup in my stylesheet. For some reason, all font modifiers (\bold, \italic etc.) seem to work, except for \ca

Re: Footnotes

Am 30.10.2017 um 07:21 schrieb Dave Hartley: On 30 October 2017 at 12:33, Ben > wrote: Something like this? (see attached) \version "2.19.80" \relative c''\footnote #'(1 . 2) "Here is your footnote" a Not really, I want to be able to su

Re: Approximate Time of 2.20 Release?

Am 30.10.2017 um 08:35 schrieb Robert Murdoch: Hi, I was curious if the development team has an estimation of when LilyPond 2.20 will be released. It would be nice to have some idea as to the approximate time it will happen. It says 2.19.80 is "a pre-release for the upcoming stable 2.20 relea

Re: rallentando/ritardando midi

Am 31.10.2017 um 15:44 schrieb Caagr98: ``` << { e8^"rall." d c c c4 c } \tag midi { \tempo 4=50 s8 \tempo 4=45 s8 \tempo 4=40 s8 \tempo 4=35 s8 %etc... } ``` You'll have to use two scores, one of which has `\removeWithTag midi`, to make this work. Alternatively, you

Re: How to end a melisma

Am 31.10.2017 um 18:09 schrieb pkarl: My next naive attempt was to try to positively indicate where the melisma should end: Music = \relative c'' { c4 d e f    c d e f    r d e f    c d e f } Lyrics = \lyricmode { do re mi fa __ _ _ _ _  " "   \repeat unfold 2 { \skip 1 } sol l

Re: How to end a melisma

Am 01.11.2017 um 01:19 schrieb Simon Albrecht: The correct way would be Music = \relative c'' {   c4 d e f\melisma   c d e f\melismaEnd   r d e f   c d e f } Ok, obviously that’s more correct than my solution. I didn’t know these commands, nice to learn something new about LilyPond ever

Re: "Guide notes"

Am 01.11.2017 um 16:03 schrieb David Wright: I've sung (strictly, not sung) a great many of these without knowing what they're officially called. I've created this one with what looks like an awful hack. Is there a better way in LP? (Googling lilypond guide note turns up anything but.) Y

Re: "Guide notes"

Am 07.11.2017 um 16:45 schrieb David Wright: Thanks for the replies. I did try specifying a chord, but the "pitch" parameter won't take it. That’s because I didn’t know that you wanted chords … Of course it’s possible to specify a chord, see the following code. There’s only one reason I fir

Re: Transposing an entire score

Am 07.11.2017 um 17:54 schrieb peter.gam...@homecall.co.uk: I have a piece of choral music written in 7 parts. It's around 80 bars long. It's in the key of F major, which is too low for my choir. I'd like to transpose it up 3 semitones to A flat major. I'm new to Lilypond and the syntax gives

Re: mix dynamic within markup on single note

Am 11.11.2017 um 07:20 schrieb Ryan Michael: I am trying to place "submit" markings after dynamics, but I would like the dynamics to be the actual default dynamic font as opposed to bold text. Just replace \bold by \dynamic ;) %% \version "2.18.2" { \time 4/4 d'4\pp fis' fi

\startGroup and \=

Hi list, it seems like \= doesn’t work for \startGroup and \stopGroup as it does for slurs and phrasing slurs. Any ideas how to achieve the same effect for analysis brackets? Cheers, Malte %% \version "2.19.80" % this is nice \relative { \cadenzaOn g\=1(

stanza alignment

Hi list, when I have multiple verses the stanza numbers are aligned. This works also I put some verses above the a staff and some below. But it doesn’t work anymore if I then add another staff. Any ideas how to solve this problem? Is this a bug? Cheers, Malte % \ver

Re: [OT] Linux Users

Am 19.11.2017 um 16:57 schrieb Urs Liska: Am 19.11.2017 um 16:46 schrieb Marc Hohl: Am 18.11.2017 um 17:58 schrieb Jacques Peron: Linux, LilyPond, LuaLaTeX (and Gregorio for gregorian chant) here. To integrate LilyPond into LaTeX, I developped lyluatex .

Re: [OT] Linux Users

Am 19.11.2017 um 20:28 schrieb David Kastrup: Jacques Peron writes: The only thing I don't know how to do is to have the same name (lilypond) for thé command and for the environment. So I privileged the environment. Neither are called lilypond. It's not particularly great, but there are ex

Re: variable

Am 24.11.2017 um 09:37 schrieb Gianmaria Lari: I'm sorry for the trivial question but why this code is wrong? \version "2.19.80" music = {a b} \music The easiest way to deal with this is to add some scheme code that does nothing: \version "2.19.80" music = {a b} #'() \music

Re: Full bar rest R time 6/8 and 9/8

Am 29.11.2017 um 18:36 schrieb David Kastrup: Ming Tsang writes: Lilyponders: 1 for time 4/4R1 provides full bar rest centered; 2 for time 2/4R2 provides full bar rest centered 3 for time 3/4 R2. Provides full bar rest centered How to code : 4 for time 6/8; for time 9/8 Ho

Re: Fontsize ornaments

Am 03.12.2017 um 01:43 schrieb Pieter Terpstra: Dear People, Have a piece here with a lot, lots of acciaccatura's. The fingering numbers font size under the principal notes is good but those under the acciaccatura's are too small to read. Is there a way to increase the fontsize under the acc

Re: Fontsize ornaments

Am 03.12.2017 um 09:34 schrieb Malte Meyn: It *seems* (I’m not sure whether it actually works like that) like Fingering.font-size is based on the context property fontSize and that is set to -3 for grace notes (Fingering.font-size = fontSize - 5) so for normal notes it’s -5 and for grace

Re: Fontsize ornaments

Am 03.12.2017 um 09:47 schrieb Malte Meyn: You can change this by copying the definition of general-grace-settings/score-grace-settings and commenting out the Fingering.font-size. Of course, you can adjust the value instead of commenting the whole line out if you want smaller but not so

Re: Left Hand Fingerings on Guitar Tab

Am 06.04.2016 um 21:20 schrieb Jay Vara: I am trying to add left hand fingerings to the Tablature without affecting the staff. […] Is there a way to suppress the fingerings on the staff and have it show up only in the Tablature? Instead of markups you should use fingerings like in c-1 c d-

Re: Left Hand Fingerings on Guitar Tab

Am 06.04.2016 um 21:45 schrieb Simon Albrecht: On 06.04.2016 21:32, Malte Meyn wrote: Am 06.04.2016 um 21:20 schrieb Jay Vara: I am trying to add left hand fingerings to the Tablature without affecting the staff. […] Is there a way to suppress the fingerings on the staff and have it show

Re: Contemporary glissando breaks bar-checking

Am 19.04.2016 um 19:41 schrieb Michael Hendry: I’ve returned to a file I created under version 2.14.0 […] and I get bar-check warnings and unsatisfactory layout. The \cadenzaOn and \cadenzaOff behaviour changed between 2.16 and 2.18; \cadenzaOff doesn’t set the measurePosition to zero anym

Re: Replying to posts

Am 29.04.2016 um 15:50 schrieb Alexander Kobel: There's one single reason why I sometimes prefer even small code pieces in attachments, despite the fact that I usually like to read them inline: If there is a lone ">>" (which happens quite often in LilyPond code, for obvious reasons), it messes

Re: Choice of pitch input mode

Am 29.04.2016 um 13:58 schrieb Matt Hood: What does everyone prefer? Relative, absolute, or a mix of both? I always use \relative without reference pitch because reference pitches confused me every single time I used them. In RhythmicStaffs I use only durations without pitch (possible in 2.

Re: Added ninth chord (symbol)

Am 29.04.2016 um 19:22 schrieb Henry Law: "add9" is not a valid chord designator in Lilypond, as far as I can see. I can ask for "9" or "maj9" or "sus2" but none of these is my chord: LilyPond knows the difference between 9 and add9 but doesn’t display it by default. Am I stuck? I'm ho

Re: Added ninth chord (symbol)

Am 30.04.2016 um 08:56 schrieb Brett Duncan: Henry, have you had any success with the pop-chords.ly file? (If not, I have some files I could send to you.) You don’t need this or chord exceptions in general if you follow my much simpler answer that no-one replied to (http://lists.gnu.org/arc

Re: Choice of pitch input mode

Am 30.04.2016 um 05:43 schrieb David Wright: But it's no surprise that composing directly into LP is only really possible in absolute mode. It’s not. I’ve always done it in \relative mode using octave checks, I never had any problems. ___ lilypon

Re: Added ninth chord (symbol)

Am 30.04.2016 um 15:07 schrieb Henry Law: On 30/04/16 13:49, Henry Law wrote: \new ChordNames { \set additionalPitchPrefix = "add" \chordmode { c:5.9 c:m7.5- c:5+.9- } } Another wrinkle I've just found. If you want a minor chord with an added ninth (say) you can't code, for in

Re: Added ninth chord (symbol)

Am 30.04.2016 um 14:53 schrieb ming : It works in version 2.18.2 Error in version 2.19.40 Sent from Mail for Windows 10 What doesn’t work? Your mail lacks context (In-Reply-To header, quote, or code example) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilyp

Re: Scoring song with multiple sections

Am 01.05.2016 um 17:29 schrieb Henry Law: But on the second appearance of "<<" Lily barfs with "syntax error, unexpected <<". Every \score can contain only one music expression but you did something like % \version "2.18.2" \score { << \new Staff a \new Staff b >> <<

tie from grace to second in chord

Hi list, the tie from the f' in the following code goes too far right as if the f' wasn’t shifted because of the g' (see attachment). Is this a bug? Any ideas for a workaround? %%% \version "2.19.40" % 2.18.2 and earlier \language "deutsch" \relative { \set tieWaitForNote = ##t \

Re: format-mark function for A, B, C, …, X, Y, Z, Aa, Bb, Cc, …

Am 16.08.2015 um 22:00 schrieb Thomas Morley: 2015-08-16 21:21 GMT+02:00 Malte Meyn : Hi list, sometimes there are more than 25 or 26 rehearsal marks in a piece. LilyPond’s format-mark-(alphabet|letters) function and friends continue after X, Y, Z with AA, AB, AC, … I have never seen this

Re: Add a little horizontal space?

Am 11.05.2016 um 00:10 schrieb Jérôme Plût: Is there a simple way to add a little horizontal space between two notes (actually, two time moments - preserving staff alignment) in a score? I want to change something like this: —♩—♫— to something like —♩———♫— . You can X-offset a NoteColumn (t

Re: Single-note tremolos

Am 16.05.2016 um 01:23 schrieb Carl Sorensen: 2) The tremolo lines are too thick (they should be thinner than beams, but in LilyPond they are the same thickness). IMO your variant isn’t much better: The tremolo beams look *very* slim now. Two ideas: 1. Does Gould say something about *how muc

Re: Single-note tremolos

Am 16.05.2016 um 21:20 schrieb Malte Meyn: IMO your variant isn’t much better: I should have first thanked you to work on this topic at all (and your changes 1 and 3 are indeed worth to be included into LilyPond; 2 with some further changes, I have no opinion on 4 but these thoughts let me

Re: Rhythmic shorthand for notes?

Am 18.05.2016 um 00:48 schrieb Julian Lam: I suppose it's a two-parter: Yes it is. - How do I combine four sixteenths into what looks like a single quarter note with the beams crossing through the stem? \repeat tremolo 4 a16 \repeat tremolo 4 a or a4:16 a: - How do I notate that

Re: Extending the staff for time signature changes between scores

Am 19.05.2016 um 22:19 schrieb Simon Albrecht: On 19.05.2016 03:23, David Wright wrote: \layout { \context { \Staff \override StaffSymbol.break-align-symbols = #'(time-signature key-signature staff-bar break-alignment) } } I tried to use the proper LilyPond list syntax here:

Re: Time signature at end of score.

Am 24.05.2016 um 00:47 schrieb Charles Suncana: Hi, I´m a newbie to Lilypond and am using Frescobaldi to help me use it. At the end of each engraving Frescobaldi puts a courtesy time signature for the next expected bar. However when the piece is finished AND converted to PDF, the courtesy ti

Re: Arrow Accidentals Code Error v.2.19

Am 01.06.2016 um 02:58 schrieb dtsmarin: Hi everyone, this code doesn't work anymore. Any ideas why? http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=784 Thanks, Dimitris No, but using convert-ly to update the code works ;) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lily

Re: Hiding empty staves

Am 03.06.2016 um 06:39 schrieb David Wright: On Thu 02 Jun 2016 at 21:14:17 (-0400), Andrew Bernard wrote: I have a two stave piece using a PianoStaff. In some sections I need to hide the unused lower stave for a number of bars. Using \RemoveEmptyStaves or \RemoveAllmptyStaves does nothing. Th

Re: Adjust the manual length or position of hairpins?

Am 11.06.2016 um 23:24 schrieb Joshua Nichols: I've looked all over the notation reference and I can't seem to find a specific application for adjusting the length of a hairpin manually, or to what degree it opens. Anyone know where I can find it or can elaborate? Thanks! For the opening hei

Re: background colour

Am 12.06.2016 um 13:00 schrieb Christian: Hi all, I am trying to make a reverted score (white music on black background). The first part works, the second doesn't. Does anybody know how to make the background black? See http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=699 sopranoVoice = \relative c' {

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