Re: Setting Gregorian chant: Note spacing for two note neumes seem to depend on length of lyric text

2020-10-07 Thread Matthew Fong
'\tenuto \melismaEnd } Many thanks, mattfong On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 12:48 PM Matthew Fong wrote: > Holy smokes. This is a thing of beauty. > > Thank you Aaron! Not everything notation can be automated away, and I'm > fine with the flexibility this offers. > > Many thanks, > mattf

Re: Setting Gregorian chant: Note spacing for two note neumes seem to depend on length of lyric text

2020-10-07 Thread Matthew Fong
on the note if it's a graphical articulation? Many thanks, mattfong On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 10:06 AM Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2020-10-07 8:44 am, Matthew Fong wrote: > > Hello Aaron, > > > > I did find an issue with your syllable function. It seems to swallow up > > dots, tha

Re: Setting Gregorian chant: Note spacing for two note neumes seem to depend on length of lyric text

2020-10-08 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello Aaron, Thanks for pointing out the many ways LilyPond can accomplish something. Going to play around with those options! Many thanks, mattfong On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 6:11 PM Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2020-10-07 11:03 am, Matthew Fong wrote: > > I suppose I could also u

Re: No ledger for custodes beyond 5-line staff

2020-10-13 Thread Matthew Fong
Thank you, Aaron! This definitely works-around the bug. Looking forward to a fix in future LilyPond versions. On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 2:11 AM Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > >> I was engraving a piece of chant in modern notation recently, and > >> discovered that none of the custodes will draw a

Re: Setting Gregorian chant: Note spacing for two note neumes seem to depend on length of lyric text

2020-10-05 Thread Matthew Fong
5 9:07 am, Matthew Fong wrote: > > I'm dissecting your syllable code and have a question for you: How do I > > create a similar list using a slur instead of a melisma? I found this > > documentation, but not sure how to use it > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/i

Re: Setting Gregorian chant: Note spacing for two note neumes seem to depend on length of lyric text

2020-10-05 Thread Matthew Fong
Holy smokes. This is a thing of beauty. Thank you Aaron! Not everything notation can be automated away, and I'm fine with the flexibility this offers. Many thanks, mattfong On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 11:32 AM Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2020-10-05 10:35 am, Matthew Fong wrote: > > He

Re: Setting Gregorian chant: Note spacing for two note neumes seem to depend on length of lyric text

2020-10-04 Thread Matthew Fong
to accomplish the same thing in LilyPond, but understanding the internals sees to be key. I just have to start loving to write some scheme! Many thanks, mattfong On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 5:13 PM Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2020-10-04 2:17 pm, Matthew Fong wrote: > > (I apologize if I've posted

Setting Gregorian chant: Note spacing for two note neumes seem to depend on length of lyric text

2020-10-04 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello LilyPonders, I am setting Gregorian chant in modern notation, using rhw example from the LilyPond online documentation on transcribing Gregorian chant located at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.20/Documentation/notation/working-with-ancient-music_002d_002dscenarios-and-solutions I have two

Re: Gregorian chant/Mensural notation: No ledger for custodes beyond 5-line staff

2020-10-12 Thread Matthew Fong
Hi everyone, I posted this to bug-lilyp...@gnu.org. I tried the code snippet at lilybin.com, and both versions there produce the same result as the latest stable version 2.20. Many thanks, mattfong On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 9:50 AM Matthew Fong wrote: > Hello fellow LilyPonders, &g

Re: Scheme help request: How can else of an if-statement be made to do nothing?

2020-10-17 Thread Matthew Fong
700, Matthew Fong wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > No less than 10 minutes after, I discovered I skipped the section on > > cond. That solves everything! > > I think you are missing something here: the if macro in Scheme does not > require an else expression > >

Re: Scheme help request: How can else of an if-statement be made to do nothing?

2020-10-17 Thread Matthew Fong
wrote: > Am Sa., 17. Okt. 2020 um 19:39 Uhr schrieb Jean Abou Samra < > j...@abou-samra.fr>: > > > > Hi, > > > > Le 17/10/2020 à 19:27, Matthew Fong a écrit : > > > > > Hello Richard, > > > > > > I just discovered your explana

Scheme help request: How can else of an if-statement be made to do nothing?

2020-10-17 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello everyone, I've been digging into guile/scheme and LilyPond, and it doesn't appear that else-statements can be empty. Any pointers would be appreciated in advance. For the example below, I would prefer the else-statement here to do nothing, rather than print an empty markup: \markup { "" },

Re: Scheme help request: How can else of an if-statement be made to do nothing?

2020-10-17 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello everyone, No less than 10 minutes after, I discovered I skipped the section on cond. That solves everything! Many thanks, mattfong On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 9:27 AM Matthew Fong wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've been digging into guile/scheme and LilyPond, and it doesn

Re: Markup in left and right margins

2020-10-15 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello Andrew, Yes, in fact, I was considering rotating the content. There isn't much room, but just enough to get a few words sideways. Hello Aaron, Many thanks for the solution of translation. I'm toying around with it right now, and had a question: I am possible misunderstanding the

Re: Markup in left and right margins

2020-10-15 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello Aaron, Wowsers -- I am dense. That completely makes sense. And it is simple! Many thanks, mattfong On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 6:46 PM Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2020-10-15 6:03 pm, Matthew Fong wrote: > > Many thanks for the solution of translation. I'm toying around with it >

Re: Scheme help request: How can else of an if-statement be made to do nothing?

2020-10-17 Thread Matthew Fong
Thanks for the pointer, Harm. Matt On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 13:14 Thomas Morley wrote: > Am Sa., 17. Okt. 2020 um 22:09 Uhr schrieb John Schlomann > : > > > > Harm, > > > > You used a function or macro called add-text. I can't seem to find it in > any LilyPond or Guile manual. What is that? > >

Scheme: Syntax for storing a variable in an alist

2020-10-18 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello everyone, I am having a bit of an issue storing a variable in an alist, and I was wondering if you all could point out what I am doing wrong. If I write the string directly, there's no issue retrieving it ... my-alist = #'((1 . "A") (2 . "B") (3 . "C")) value = #(ly:assoc-get 2 my-alist "

Re: Scheme: Syntax for storing a variable in an alist

2020-10-18 Thread Matthew Fong
at 10:13 PM Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2020-10-18 5:36 pm, Matthew Fong wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I am likely in over my head with nesting pairs. I read the > > documentation > > link from Jean, and I don't completely understand the internal > > r

Re: Scheme: Syntax for storing a variable in an alist

2020-10-18 Thread Matthew Fong
. "ff"))) (3 quote ((77 . "gg") (88 . "hh") (99 . "ii") guile> (car b) (1 quote ((11 . "aa") (22 . "bb") (33 . "cc"))) guile> (cdr b) ((2 quote ((44 . "dd") (55 . "ee") (66 . "ff"))) (3

Re: Scheme: Syntax for storing a variable in an alist

2020-10-18 Thread Matthew Fong
r, likely because I may not understand how nested pairs work. dictHymnValue = #(ly:assoc-get 'ID dictHymn.HymnOne "error") \markup \dictHymnValue Many thanks, mattfong On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 3:35 PM David Kastrup wrote: > Jean Abou Samra writes: > > > Le 18/10/2020 à 22:10, Matthe

Re: Scheme: Syntax for storing a variable in an alist

2020-10-18 Thread Matthew Fong
-10-18 12:42 pm, Matthew Fong wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I am having a bit of an issue storing a variable in an alist, and I was > > wondering if you all could point out what I am doing wrong. If I write > > the > > string directly, there's no issue ret

Gregorian chant/Mensural notation: No ledger for custodes beyond 5-line staff

2020-10-10 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello fellow LilyPonders, I was engraving a piece of chant in modern notation recently, and discovered that none of the custodes will draw a ledger for middle C (C4) or A5, notes beyond the 5-line staff. These notes do occur in chant and polyphony. Is there a workaround for this? Or have I

Markup in left and right margins

2020-10-14 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello everyone, Would anyone know if there is a way to add mark-up in the left and right margins of the page. There are footnotes and headers for the bottom and top of the page, respectively. For example, I might want to add notes in the margins, rather than in the music. Many thanks, mattfong

Re: Setting Gregorian chant: Note spacing for two note neumes seem to depend on length of lyric text

2020-10-21 Thread Matthew Fong
, Oct 21, 2020 at 3:30 PM Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2020-10-20 12:07 pm, Matthew Fong wrote: > > I've been a little puzzled by a LilyPond layout issue. I apologize in > > advance for the long example, so I have included the input .ly files, > > and > > sample output.

Line spacing (leading) of verses in a hymn

2020-11-27 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello everyone! I hope everyone who celebrated Thanksgiving had a wonderful time. My question is how is the line spacing (leading) controlled for the verses in a hymn? The specifications I have are a 10pt font for the lyrics, with a 12pt leading (text baseline to text baseline spacing). I've

Re: Line spacing (leading) of verses in a hymn

2020-11-27 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello Aaron, That did the trick, setting the minimum-distance. I haven't been using these settings, but clearly they interact. Will play around some more. Many thanks, mattfong On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 3:09 PM Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2020-11-27 2:56 pm, Matthew Fong wrote: > > He

Re: Line spacing (leading) of verses in a hymn

2020-11-27 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello Aaron, With respect to the scale factor of 5 that you are using. Is that depending on staff size? I'm using #(layout-set-staff-size 18) at the moment. Many thanks, mattfong On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 4:11 PM Matthew Fong wrote: > Hello Aaron, > > That did the trick, setting th

Re: Line spacing (leading) of verses in a hymn

2020-11-27 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello Aaron, This is clear now. Many thanks! And works really well. mattfong On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 5:10 PM Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2020-11-27 4:28 pm, Matthew Fong wrote: > > Hello Aaron, > > > > With respect to the scale factor of 5 that you are using. Is that >

Control of score visibility based on variables

2020-11-30 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello everyone, I have multiple scores in my LilyPond file, and I was wondering if there is a programmatic way to selectively hide and show scores based on variables, or would this have to be done at the note and lyrics level? Many thanks, mattfong

Re: Control of score visibility based on variables

2020-12-01 Thread Matthew Fong
, 2020 at 7:15 AM Matthew Fong wrote: > Hello Vaughan, > > Many thanks for this. I haven't read up using books. This seems like it > will do the trick! > > > mattfong > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 8:22 PM Vaughan McAlley > wrote: > >> On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 at 04:0

Re: Stanza Collision

2020-12-06 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello Fr Samuel, It sounds like we are solving almost the same issue with note entry, and Aaron Hill created a function which basically scales note values so that they group together nicely. And the clutter from manual scaling is removed entirely. However, I am using fixed time (1/4). And to

Re: Controlling bar to note spacing on final measure

2020-12-05 Thread Matthew Fong
Dear Kieren, Thank you for the suggestions. Now I have another knob to study and play with! https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.20/Documentation/notation/layout-properties My solution: AmenBars = { \skip 1*2/4 \once\revert Score.BarLine.stencil \once\override Staff.BarLine.extra-spacing-width = #'(-1 .

Re: Control of score visibility based on variables

2020-12-05 Thread Matthew Fong
-condition (add-score score))) But I'm really no Scheme expert. Still hacking my way through. Many thanks, mattfong On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 8:45 AM Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: > Hi Matthew, > > Am 03.12.20 um 01:50 schrieb Matthew Fong: > > ... and I will have use of question? Di

Controlling bar to note spacing on final measure

2020-12-05 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello everyone, Would there be a programmatic way to control the spacing of the final bar to the final note? At the moment, I just use s4 or s4. just to add a tiny bit of space so it doesn't feel as cramped. I do have the following override enabled to compact the spacing of the notes for chant,

Re: Control of score visibility based on variables

2020-12-01 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello Vaughan, Many thanks for this. I haven't read up using books. This seems like it will do the trick! mattfong On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 8:22 PM Vaughan McAlley wrote: > On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 at 04:08, Matthew Fong wrote: > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I have mul

Re: Control of score visibility based on variables

2020-12-02 Thread Matthew Fong
... and I will have use of question? Didn't know about that! On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 1:49 PM Matthew Fong wrote: > Hello Wim and Lukas, > > Many thanks for chiming in. I do like the cleaner solutions. At some point > in the future, I will turn my work over to someone else,

Re: Control of score visibility based on variables

2020-12-02 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello Wim and Lukas, Many thanks for chiming in. I do like the cleaner solutions. At some point in the future, I will turn my work over to someone else, and they get to figure out some of these details! mattfong On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 5:16 AM Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: > Hi Matthew, > > > I

Re: Scheme help request: How can else of an if-statement be made to do nothing?

2020-12-11 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello Aaron, This makes sense, and the let statement is something I was missing (!) mattfong On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 12:54 PM Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2020-12-11 12:30 pm, Matthew Fong wrote: > > Hello Aaron, > > > >> .< Oh boy, that is *simple*. I went off t

Re: Setting Gregorian chant: Note spacing for two note neumes seem to depend on length of lyric text

2020-12-12 Thread Matthew Fong
uld spot where I use the work-around. > > > Many thanks, > mattfong > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 3:30 PM Aaron Hill > wrote: > >> On 2020-10-20 12:07 pm, Matthew Fong wrote: >> > I've been a little puzzled by a LilyPond layout issue. I apologize i

Re: Scheme help request: How can else of an if-statement be made to do nothing?

2020-12-11 Thread Matthew Fong
syntax. Many thanks, mattfong On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 12:07 PM Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2020-12-11 10:43 am, Matthew Fong wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > Resurrecting an old thread. I've been trying my hand in Scheme > > programming, > > via small examples on the p

Re: Scheme help request: How can else of an if-statement be made to do nothing?

2020-12-11 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello everyone, Resurrecting an old thread. I've been trying my hand in Scheme programming, via small examples on the project I'm working on. I wanted to extend the variable list to this function Harm wrote, to take an extra boolean variable, which is pretty trivial. The boolean is meant to

Writing Scheme in Lilypond to control glyph used for custom custos function

2021-03-07 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello everyone, I'm writing a function that places a custos after the double bar to give singers an indication of the pitch of their next note. Usually, custos are are used within a piece, but in chant, I have verses that are part of new scores, and it is helpful to indicate the pitch of the

Re: Extracting pitch of first note, then assign duration

2021-03-07 Thread Matthew Fong
tencil ##f $(first (music-pitches noteList)) 4 #} ) Many thanks, mattfong On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 11:54 AM Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: > Hi Matthew, > > Am 07.03.21 um 20:03 schrieb Matthew Fong: > > I am in the process of writing a note replacement function that allows > > me to

Re: Writing Scheme in Lilypond to control glyph used for custom custos function

2021-03-08 Thread Matthew Fong
-pos)) 1 0) Many thanks, mattfong On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 2:55 AM Thomas Morley wrote: > Am Mo., 8. März 2021 um 02:26 Uhr schrieb Matthew Fong >: > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > > I'm writing a function that places a custos after the double bar to give

Re: Extracting pitch of first note, then assign duration

2021-03-08 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello Silvain, That's super interesting -- thank you for your link. I will take time to read through your code. When I have access to a piano sometime, I think Bach will certainly make the list. Many thanks, mattfong

Extracting pitch of first note, then assign duration

2021-03-07 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello everyone, I am in the process of writing a note replacement function that allows me to place a custos anywhere I might need. I am stuck on writing a function that extracts the pitch of the first note, given a list of notes, and then forcing a duration of 1/4. Any pointers would be

Adjusting horizontal space from notehead to bar line

2021-08-23 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello fellow Lilyponders, I'm looking around the documentation on NoteHead to Barline spacing, and I'm not finding much? Any pointers will be helpful. My goal is to add a bit more space from the first note to the last Barline, for every measure. It seems a bit too close even with the staff size

Re: Adjusting horizontal space from notehead to bar line

2021-08-23 Thread Matthew Fong
1:52 AM Hans Aikema wrote: > > > On 23 Aug 2021, at 17:42, Matthew Fong wrote: > >  > Hello fellow Lilyponders, > > I'm looking around the documentation on NoteHead to Barline spacing, and > I'm not finding much? Any pointers will be helpful. > > My goal is to

Re: Adjusting horizontal space from notehead to bar line

2021-08-23 Thread Matthew Fong
Dear Aaron, Brilliant! That was what was missing! Many thanks, mattfong On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 6:23 PM Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2021-08-23 4:03 pm, Matthew Fong wrote: > > Hello Hans, LilyPonders, > > > > Thank you! I added the line to my Staff context,

Re: considering getting a new mac that has the new M chip; does Lilypond install/run ok?

2021-09-24 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello Kenneth, I've installed LilyPong from MacPorts, along with MacTeX on my M1 MacMini. Alas, it's no faster than my 2019 iMac for compilation. But far more energy efficient, and no fans at full speed when compiling hundreds of files for PDF output. It's a wonderful computing experience.

Re: How to add a horizontal line after every third verse?

2021-10-16 Thread Matthew Fong
\lineSep \lyricsto someVoice someLyrics >> >> And see if it solves the problem. If it doesn’t, would it be possible to >> append the source file (potentially in a private email if that may cause >> any >> problems), so that I can try to track down the root? >

Re: How to add a horizontal line after every third verse?

2021-10-16 Thread Matthew Fong
closer to the lower ones. > > But you should be able to simply remove the line to fix the warning. > > Cheers, > Valentin > > 16.10.2021 20:39:00 Matthew Fong : > > Dear Colin and Valentin, > > Confirmed solution works. Also have the same warning. > > >

Re: How to add a horizontal line after every third verse?

2021-10-15 Thread Matthew Fong
Dear Valentin, I tried your solution, and it appears there is an extra stave that I cannot seem to get rid of (or understand how it is being produced). Otherwise, your code does what I want it to. Many thanks, mattfong On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 10:38 AM Valentin Petzel wrote: > Glad to hear

Re: How to add a horizontal line after every third verse?

2021-10-14 Thread Matthew Fong
Thank you all. I will give both options a try and report back. All the best, mattfong On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 1:25 PM Valentin Petzel wrote: > Hello Colin, hello Matthew, > > Consider this method I created for Kira a week ago. > > Cheers, > Valentin

Re: Cannot eliminate layout block in score block?

2022-03-13 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello David, Many thanks for explaining that. Makes complete sense now! mattfong On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 9:35 PM David Wright wrote: > On Sat 12 Mar 2022 at 20:14:41 (-0800), Matthew Fong wrote: > > Hello Lilypond friends, > > > > I am working on a polyphone piece o

Re: Notehead substitution and Slur overrides

2022-03-09 Thread Matthew Fong
custom. Many thanks, mattfong On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 3:28 PM Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le 09/03/2022 à 17:13, Matthew Fong a écrit : > > Dear Jean and LilyPond friends, > > > > My apologies for not initially including this, and it took time to get > > this reduction;

Re: Inter-staff bar line for ChoirStaff?

2022-03-17 Thread Matthew Fong
17, 2022 at 3:07 PM Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > > Le 17/03/2022 à 23:03, Matthew Fong a écrit : > > Dear LilyPonders, > > > > I'm using ChoirStaff to typeset some SATB vocal music, but for clarity > > to the singers, I wanted to extend the double bar so that it is

Inter-staff bar line for ChoirStaff?

2022-03-17 Thread Matthew Fong
Dear LilyPonders, I'm using ChoirStaff to typeset some SATB vocal music, but for clarity to the singers, I wanted to extend the double bar so that it is also in between the bar lines. The ChoirStaff doesn't allow this per LilyPond documentation (

Re: Inter-staff bar line for ChoirStaff?

2022-03-17 Thread Matthew Fong
Dear Jean, Grazie mille! This is exactly what I was looking for: [image: Screen Shot 2022-03-17 at 16.43.13.png] Many thanks, mattfong On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 3:55 PM Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > > Le 17/03/2022 à 23:22, Matthew Fong a écrit : > > Hello Jean, > > > >

Re: Inter-staff bar line for ChoirStaff?

2022-03-18 Thread Matthew Fong
t; > > \new ChoirStaff << >\new Staff { 1 1 \bar "||" 1 } >\new Staff { 1 1 1 } > >> > > Cheers, > Valentin > > Am Freitag, 18. März 2022, 00:44:46 CET schrieb Matthew Fong: > > Dear Jean, > > > > Grazie mille! This is

Re: Inter-staff bar line for ChoirStaff?

2022-03-18 Thread Matthew Fong
taff << >\new Staff { 1 1 \bar "||" 1 \bar ":|." 1 \bar ".|:" 1 \bar ":|.|:" 1 > \bar > "|." } >\new Staff { \repeat unfold 6 c'1 } > >> > > or if you want to span anything BUT a normal barline you might want

Re: Notehead substitution and Slur overrides

2022-03-07 Thread Matthew Fong
Dear Jean, My apologies for not including code. I will get an example out shortly, along with the quilismaPathGreciliae. Many thanks, mattfong On Sun, Mar 6, 2022 at 11:06 PM Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le 04/03/2022 à 05:17, Matthew Fong a écrit : > > Hello everyone, > >

Cannot eliminate layout block in score block?

2022-03-12 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello Lilypond friends, I am working on a polyphone piece of music which employs a ChoirStaff, and proceeded to make a local layout block in the score a global one. The include to make a *global* layout block works just fine, but if I eliminate the layout block in the score block itself, the

Re: Installing Alternate Music Fonts with Frescobaldi and Homebrew Installation on M1 Mac

2022-02-09 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello Jesse, On the Mac, to place fonts in the typical location (~/Library/Fonts), you need to modify the /opt/local/etc/fonts/local.conf file. I am using MacPorts, which puts /etc in /opt/local; HomeBrew may place it elsewhere. The modification is as follows: In the section, add

Re: Help using a Scheme variable in a function

2024-01-06 Thread Matthew Fong
, Jan 6, 2024 at 3:21 PM Matthew Fong wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm feeling somewhat confounded by LilyPond Scheme variables. > > I've created some global variables that I want to use in functions so I > change up some custom spacing only one (as these may vary with staff s

Re: Help using a Scheme variable in a function

2024-01-06 Thread Matthew Fong
trup writes: > > > >> Matthew Fong writes: > >> > >>> I tried the following inside the function, and all generate errors. I > would > >>> like to use the value of rubricsWidthSU in this override. > >>> > >>> \override #'(line-width . \r

Help using a Scheme variable in a function

2024-01-06 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello everyone, I'm feeling somewhat confounded by LilyPond Scheme variables. I've created some global variables that I want to use in functions so I change up some custom spacing only one (as these may vary with staff size) I defined the following #(define kOneStaffUnitInInches 0.0761)

Re: Help with some lyrics gymnastics

2024-01-15 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello Thomas, That works splendidly. Thank you. The NullVoice is a new concept to me, and seems necessary here. I also found the same LSR example and was working through trying to understand it. Many thanks, mattfong

Re: Help with some lyrics gymnastics

2024-01-17 Thread Matthew Fong
Thank you again, Thomas. I'm going to try this out this week! Matt