A graphical editor for LilyPond

2003-12-30 Thread Richard Shann
, to illustrate the flexibility available. If you think this work might be useful for you I would like to hear about it - there is also a mailing list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard Shann ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman

Two bits of markup at the same point in the music?

2012-12-10 Thread Richard Shann
in mind is applying several pieces of text around a single chord with fine hand control over the positioning using #'extra-offset (this is for Wysiwyg control of positioning, dragging on the final pdf output in Denemo). Richard Shann ___ lilypond-user

Re: Two bits of markup at the same point in the music?

2012-12-10 Thread Richard Shann
.} \tweak #'extra-offset #'(0 . -10) _\markup {3} Thanks too to Eluze for his response. And the handy warning that the syntax is changing (I can put in a conditional to cover this). Richard Shann On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 11:28 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net

Tweaking the positions of figured bass figures.

2012-12-15 Thread Richard Shann
, or one figure up/down? Richard Shann ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Tweaking the positions of figured bass figures.

2012-12-16 Thread Richard Shann
\new Voice \VoiceI } I think this is enough for my purpose, though I would be intrigued to know if a tweak is possible to move a single figure as well. Richard Shann On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 16:28 -0500, Shane Brandes wrote: Richard, Try \override Staff.BassFigure #'Y-extent = #'(z.z . w.w

Re: output to a single, unwrapped, one-line PNG ?

2012-12-16 Thread Richard Shann
googling the name ly:one-line-breaking I came up with this \paper{ page-breaking=#ly:one-line-breaking } which appears to do the trick. HTH Richard Shann On Sun, 2012-12-16 at 13:11 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Bric b...@flight.us writes: Hi, all Is there a way to have lilypond output

Syntax for make-dynamic-script

2012-12-21 Thread Richard Shann
Can anyone spot what is wrong with this? \version 2.16 MvmntIVoiceI = { #(make-dynamic-script (markup #:normal-text #:bold #:italic pia.)) a'4 } \score { \MvmntIVoiceI } It is supposed to place a customized dynamics pia. on the score. It does this, but the

Re: Syntax for make-dynamic-script

2012-12-21 Thread Richard Shann
that be using $ too, as the location data is wrong for the syntax given (see the bug I emailed about this)? Thank you for the speedy and informative reply. Richard Shann ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: Objects as links

2012-12-30 Thread Richard Shann
I too am very interested in adding links to objects, but when I paste your example into lilypond version 2.16.0 I get syntax errors - is it specific to 2.17.9? Below is the error messages (simply changing \version in the file does not help). Richard Shann 88 GNU LilyPond

Re: Objects as links

2012-12-31 Thread Richard Shann
, 2012-12-31 at 02:46 +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: 2012/12/31 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com: 2012/12/30 Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net: I too am very interested in adding links to objects, but when I paste your example into lilypond version 2.16.0 I get syntax errors

Re: Shifting ties horizontally

2013-01-10 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 14:15 -0600, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi, On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:10 PM, karol karo...@wp.pl wrote: You have to use shape-tie function. First create file shape-tie.ly and paste the following code: The \shape command is available in the

Re: Shifting ties horizontally

2013-01-10 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 06:39 -0600, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi Richard, On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:37 AM, Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 14:15 -0600, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi, Is that to say that shape

Re: Shifting ties horizontally

2013-01-10 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 16:49 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: Am 10.01.2013 13:51, schrieb Richard Shann: ... Yes, \shape covers the functionality of \shapeTie and can be used for any curve that is specified by control points: Slur, PhrasingSlur, RepeatTie, and LaissezVibrerTie, in addition to Tie

Re: Grace notes on first bar of piano staff

2013-01-26 Thread Richard Shann
will try and include a fix in the script that checks the score for unterminated tuplets, incomplete measures etc. Richard Shann On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 21:03 +0100, Federico Bruni wrote: Il 26/01/2013 20:54, Jethro Van Thuyne ha scritto: When trying to typeset grace notes on the first beat

Re: Reimplement figuremode with links to notes for correct transposition?

2013-02-13 Thread Richard Shann
the LilyPond text. Richard Shann. On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 00:31 +0100, Xavier Scheuer wrote: On 12 February 2013 12:40, Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net wrote: On 02/12/2013 03:05 AM, David Kastrup wrote: The advantage LilyPond has over the hand engraver is that it does not need

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-02-24 Thread Richard Shann
exactly this? Richard Shann ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Repeated accidental after tie across line break

2013-03-26 Thread Richard Shann
' ees'4 ees' ees' ees'8 ~ ees' ees'4 ees' ees' ees'8 } } Is this a bug? And more immediately, how can I omit the printing of the accidental - I have been digging through the manual without success ... Richard Shann ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Repeated accidental after tie across line break

2013-03-26 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 13:12 +0100, Janek Warchoł wrote: On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net wrote: Dear LilyPonders, When a tied note with accidental ties across a line boundary the accidental is repeated in the next bar. If there is a further note

Re: Repeated accidental after tie across line break

2013-03-26 Thread Richard Shann
That did the trick - thank you. Richard On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 12:58 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: Am 26.03.2013 12:46, schrieb Richard Shann: Dear LilyPonders, When a tied note with accidental ties across a line boundary the accidental is repeated in the next bar. If there is a further note

Re: Repeated accidental after tie across line break

2013-03-26 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 09:52 -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi, I wonder... The topics been up a few times already, once by myself years ago when I just started with LilyPond. I already got used to remove the accidentals manually, but what I'd really like is an automated way to suppress

Re: Repeated accidental after tie across line break

2013-03-27 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 21:50 +0100, Noeck wrote: Am 26.03.2013 21:35, schrieb Kieren MacMillan: I think Lilypond should offer as many options as possible, so that the user/engraver can make the choice. I'd like to second that. I think that’s some outcome of the discussion: There is still

Re: Repeated accidental after tie across line break

2013-03-27 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 14:50 +0100, Noeck wrote: Hi Richard, There is still something not said here: by default LilyPond is printing two accidentals in the measure following the line break in the example I posted. It is. Sorry, yes, you are quite right (though perhaps my contribution

LilyPond featured in Demo videos.

2013-03-28 Thread Richard Shann
with the saved Denemo score. And further tweaks can be inserted in the music in that window too. (Sadly, it still lacks syntax coloring...). Richard Shann ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Fermata over barline moving to next liine

2013-03-29 Thread Richard Shann
for this? Richard Shann ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Fermata over barline moving to next liine

2013-03-29 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2013-03-29 at 17:21 +0100, Noeck wrote: Hi Richard, \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'break-visibility = #end-of-line-visible \mark \markup { \musicglyph #scripts.ufermata } Instead of #end-of-line-visible you can use #begin-of-line-invisible, then it would be visible at

Suppressing an accidental inside a chord

2013-04-01 Thread Richard Shann
On a different topic you helpfully suggested: On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 12:58 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: You can use suppressAccidental = { \once \override Accidental #'stencil = ##f } I notice this can't be used on notes inside chords - I've been looking at

Re: Suppressing an accidental inside a chord

2013-04-01 Thread Richard Shann
Thank you - that worked nicely. Denemo now has a hide accidental command :) Richard On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 11:50 +0200, Federico Bruni wrote: 2013/4/1 Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net On a different topic you helpfully suggested: On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 12:58 +0100, Urs

Footnote separator line too close

2013-04-02 Thread Richard Shann
under the line ... any suggestions? Richard Shann ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Footnote separator line too close

2013-04-03 Thread Richard Shann
:08 +1100, Nick Payne wrote: On 03/04/13 06:24, Richard Shann wrote: I've found that the line dividing the footnote from the music is rather close to the footnote text. I can see I need to override this definition footnote-separator-markup = \markup \fill-line { \override #'(span-factor

Order in which \mark and \tempo are stacked above a staff

2013-04-04 Thread Richard Shann
#scripts.ufermata } d'16 b' d'' b' d' b' d'' b' e' b' e'' b' e' b' e'' b' } I have tried reversing the order in which they appear in the lilypond but that has no effect. Any ideas how to get the fermata directly over the barline? Richard Shann

Re: Order in which \mark and \tempo are stacked above a staff

2013-04-04 Thread Richard Shann
= #3000 \tempo a tempo \mark \markup { \musicglyph #scripts.ufermata } d'16 b' d'' b' d' b' d'' b' e' b' e'' b' e' b' e'' b' } Note #' syntax instead of . notation. Andrew On 4/04/13 8:55 PM, Richard Shann wrote: Thanks for the reply - you example does not compile

RE: LilyPond featured in Demo videos.

2013-04-04 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 12:31 -0600, Eduardo Silva wrote: Subject: LilyPond featured in Demo videos. From: richard.sh...@virgin.net To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:00:56 + Dear LilyPond, LilyPond features in a demo video that I have posted at

Setting X-offset and Y-offset graphically.

2013-04-16 Thread Richard Shann
with the designing of slur shapes, but it is on my list of things to do. Thanks to Janek Warchoł on the lilypond-devel-request list for triggering this solution, and Harm for the brilliant red-dot markers. Richard Shann ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond

Re: how offsets and alignment works: an explanation

2013-04-16 Thread Richard Shann
in (if (eq? line #t) (begin (ly:stencil-add (make-line-stencil 0.05 (car (first cps)) (cdr (first cps)) (car (second cps)) (cdr (second cps))) cps)) (car (third cps)) (cdr (third cps))). this is with 2.16.2 Richard Shann ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Setting X-offset and Y-offset graphically.

2013-04-16 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 15:44 +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: Thanks. I'm wondering whether a similar feature could be easily implemented in Frescobaldi. There is quite a lot of machinery to achive this behind the scenes. btw, maybe it would be possible to skip that click on the middle line part of

Re: how offsets and alignment works: an explanation

2013-04-16 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 09:41 -0500, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi, On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de wrote: Am 16.04.2013 14:07, schrieb Richard Shann: On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 10:29 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: BTW

Re: Setting X-offset and Y-offset graphically.

2013-04-16 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 16:59 +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: 2013/4/16 Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net: On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 15:44 +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: btw, maybe it would be possible to skip that click on the middle line part of you used David Nalesnik's \offset https

Re: how offsets and alignment works: an explanation

2013-04-16 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 16:59 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 09:41 -0500, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi, [...] When I recently cut-and-pasted the code from the email, I had this same problem. IIRC, the only problem was that a long comment line had been broken across lines

Re: how offsets and alignment works: an explanation

2013-04-16 Thread Richard Shann
of syntax so I immediately started trying to guess what the parallel syntax might be... Well, I can get stuck into this now - thanks! Richard Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net schrieb: On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 16:59 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 09:41

Re: Setting X-offset and Y-offset graphically.

2013-04-19 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 10:19 +0200, Wilbert Berendsen wrote: Op Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:48:10 +0100 Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net schreef: On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 15:44 +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: Thanks. I'm wondering whether a similar feature could be easily implemented

Re: Setting X-offset and Y-offset graphically.

2013-04-21 Thread Richard Shann
On Sun, 2013-04-21 at 10:38 +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: 2013/4/19 Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net: Here is a short demo showing dragging the shape of a slur in Denemo https://vimeo.com/64408182 The code to do this is in Denemo's git repository now. Wow!! You know, i almost

Re: Setting X-offset and Y-offset graphically.

2013-04-23 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 17:16 +0200, Urs Liska wrote: David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com schrieb: Hi, On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/4/23 Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net: On Sun, 2013-04-21 at 22:11 +0200, Janek

Re: Setting X-offset and Y-offset graphically.

2013-04-23 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 17:31 +0200, Urs Liska wrote: Am 23.04.2013 17:25, schrieb Richard Shann: On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 17:16 +0200, Urs Liska wrote: David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com schrieb: Hi, On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.comwrote

Re: Setting X-offset and Y-offset graphically.

2013-04-23 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 17:49 +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: 2013/4/23 Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net: On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 17:16 +0200, Urs Liska wrote: David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com schrieb: I'm a little confused here too. I watched the demo (very cool, BTW!) and you

Re: Setting X-offset and Y-offset graphically.

2013-04-23 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 18:23 +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: 2013/4/23 Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net: On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 17:49 +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: What about this: ask the user to drag the control points. Then he doesn't have to click precisely on the control point

Hara Kiri staff behavior

2013-05-11 Thread Richard Shann
a command is in this context - what do I write inside \layout { } to get the desired behavior? I dpn't even see anything in LSR for this ... Richard Shann ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Hara Kiri staff behavior

2013-05-11 Thread Richard Shann
On Sat, 2013-05-11 at 16:58 +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net To: lilypond-user lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 4:30 PM Subject: Hara Kiri staff behavior I'm currently baffled by not finding

Re: Hara Kiri staff behavior

2013-05-12 Thread Richard Shann
On Sat, 2013-05-11 at 18:45 +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: Look in the index for the command \RemoveEmptyStaves ??? that is precisely the page quoted above??? Richard No it's not. Note the \ . Ah, yes - thank you, I never noticed before that there was stuff indexed under \blah as

Re: Hara Kiri staff behavior

2013-05-12 Thread Richard Shann
On Sun, 2013-05-12 at 11:26 +0200, Thomas Morley wrote: 2013/5/12 Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net: With the page pointed to by \RemoveEmptyStaves I arrived at \layout { \context { Staff \RemoveEmptyStaves } } then I discovered that my recollection was correct - I had already

Re: Best practice for parts with varying number of staves

2013-05-15 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 10:05 +0200, Urs Liska wrote: c) I could initially create the score with all possible staves and just let \RemoveEmptyStaves do its job (well, that's what it is intended for ...) - But that would mean the extra overhead of filling the extra staves with rests for all

Re: split duration when changing time signature

2013-06-05 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 10:23 +0200, Stjepan Horvat wrote: is there a way to split duration of long notes when chaning time signature: \time 4/4 c1 to \time 2/4 c2 ~ c2 i'm intrested in the output? There is a command in Denemo to do this, but import from LilyPond into Denemo is still

How to set line-width to width of paper

2013-06-05 Thread Richard Shann
at the end of the work). Could someone point me in the right direction here? Richard Shann ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: How to set line-width to width of paper

2013-06-05 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 16:58 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net writes: I have just started using \override #'(line-width . n) for text markup, and I want the value n to be chosen so as to work out as the distance between the margins of the paper I'm

Re: How to set line-width to width of paper

2013-06-05 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 07:49 -0700, Eluze wrote: Richard Shann wrote I have just started using \override #'(line-width . n) for text markup, and I want the value n to be chosen so as to work out as the distance between the margins of the paper I'm printing

Re: Discuss signature for new function \annotate (new version)

2013-06-10 Thread Richard Shann
This looks great Urs. I wrote a CriticalComment command for Denemo that allows you to attach comments to notes in a score. These comments can include \score {} blocks so that the music being commented on can be engraved within the sentence. The Critical Comments are collected up and referenced at

Re: Discuss signature for new function \annotate (new version)

2013-06-10 Thread Richard Shann
On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 18:52 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net writes: This looks great Urs. I wrote a CriticalComment command for Denemo that allows you to attach comments to notes in a score. These comments can include \score {} blocks so that the music

Re: Discuss signature for new function \annotate (new version)

2013-06-10 Thread Richard Shann
On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 18:24 +0200, Urs Liska wrote: Hi Richard, thanks for the feedback. I'd be happy to design the stuff in a way that it can be used by Denemo and Frescobaldi as well. Am 10.06.2013 17:53, schrieb Richard Shann: This looks great Urs. I wrote a CriticalComment command

Re: Discuss signature for new function \annotate (new version)

2013-06-10 Thread Richard Shann
in Denemo to achieve alignment with the lowest line of the staff). Richard On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 20:40 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net writes: On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 18:52 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net writes

Two timesignatures?

2013-06-10 Thread Richard Shann
I've just been digging around in the docs and lsr for typesetting two time signatures right next to each other 3/4 6/8 I can see the stuff for putting one in brackets, but not for printing both next to each other. Anyone know where this is (I know it must exist, it is common enough), Richard

Re: Two timesignatures?

2013-06-11 Thread Richard Shann
On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 23:32 +0200, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: ... see here : http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=782 or else : http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=time Cheers, Pierre On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 23:43 +0200, Thomas Morley wrote: ... After

Re: Discuss signature for new function \annotate (new version)

2013-06-11 Thread Richard Shann
On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 20:42 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: (I guess that is why I put the \raise #6.0 in the Critical Commentary code in Denemo to achieve alignment with the lowest line of the staff). In fact I think I see the issue you are grappling with, if the snippet has a bass clef

Re: Discuss signature for new function \annotate (new version)

2013-06-11 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 10:38 +0200, Urs Liska wrote: Am 10.06.2013 18:52, schrieb David Kastrup: Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net writes: This looks great Urs. I wrote a CriticalComment command for Denemo that allows you to attach comments to notes in a score. These comments can

Re: LilyPond identifier restrictions

2013-06-14 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 11:52 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: Maybe it's obvious but I always wondered why LilyPond identifiers are so restricted to [a-zA-Z] characters. They aren't. \version 2.16 Mvmnt1Voice1 = { a b c } \score { \Mvmnt1Voice1 }

LilyPond grace note synchronization feature

2013-07-13 Thread Richard Shann
Staff notation, such as key signatures, bar lines, etc., There has been a feature in LilyPond when grace notes coincide with bar lines for many years now, so I have created a command in Denemo Install Grace Note Hints to work around it. This means the user just has to put in the grace notes

fermata on dotted notes on the top line

2013-07-15 Thread Richard Shann
I don't know if this is the right forum for posting unfortunate examples of LilyPond's output but I came across this one: \version 2.16 \score { f''4.\fermata } The fermata seems connected visually with the dot on the note, it looks better to me dragged further away, which I have done for the

Re: fermata on dotted notes on the top line

2013-07-15 Thread Richard Shann
menu. Richard On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 09:38 -0700, SoundsFromSound wrote: Hmm, that does like quite bad. But Eluze has the right idea: I would just use something like f''4.- \tweak #'padding #1 \fermata ...as a temporary fix :) -Ben Eluze wrote Richard Shann wrote I

Comparing LilyPond with Sibelius, Finale, Musescore etc

2013-07-20 Thread Richard Shann
I have been compiling some examples of LilyPond's typesetting compared with those of well-known alternatives: http://denemo.org/CompareScorewriters If anyone can provide better examples - these are just taken from published work that I could find with a quick search - then please let me know -

Re: Comparing LilyPond with Sibelius, Finale, Musescore etc

2013-07-23 Thread Richard Shann
On Sun, 2013-07-21 at 23:20 +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote: I have been compiling some examples of LilyPond's typesetting compared with those of well-known alternatives: http://denemo.org/CompareScorewriters If anyone can provide better examples - these are just taken from published

Re: Comparing LilyPond with Sibelius, Finale, Musescore etc

2013-07-23 Thread Richard Shann
On Sun, 2013-07-21 at 14:03 +0200, Urs Liska wrote: Am 20.07.2013 17:57, schrieb Richard Shann: I have been compiling some examples of LilyPond's typesetting compared with those of well-known alternatives: http://denemo.org/CompareScorewriters If anyone can provide better examples

Re: Comparing LilyPond with Sibelius, Finale, Musescore etc

2013-07-23 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 17:23 +0200, pls wrote: On 23.07.2013, at 15:03, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote: - Original Message - From: Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net To: Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 1

Re: Comparing LilyPond with Sibelius, Finale, Musescore etc

2013-07-23 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 15:12 +0200, Urs Liska wrote: Am 23.07.2013 15:09, schrieb Richard Shann: On Sun, 2013-07-21 at 14:03 +0200, Urs Liska wrote: Am 20.07.2013 17:57, schrieb Richard Shann: I have been compiling some examples of LilyPond's typesetting compared with those of well-known

Re: Comparing LilyPond with Sibelius, Finale, Musescore etc

2013-07-23 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 13:01 -0400, Carl Peterson wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 17:23 +0200, pls wrote: (both MusicXML and their corresponding PDF/PNG files) as reference files

Re: Comparing LilyPond with Sibelius, Finale, Musescore etc

2013-07-24 Thread Richard Shann
if you like. Richard On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 17:05 +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net To: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net Cc: Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se; lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 5:49 PM

Re: Comparing LilyPond with Sibelius, Finale, Musescore etc

2013-07-24 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 11:34 -0700, arnepe wrote: ok and done, both pdf's are on their way. And here (last two examples) are the resultant comparisons: http://denemo.org/compareFinale Please check that I am not misrepresenting LilyPond here. I have put a command into Denemo to fix slurs that

Re: Comparing LilyPond with Sibelius, Finale, Musescore etc

2013-07-25 Thread Richard Shann
that would be good (but a lot of work, of course, else you wouldn't be reading here :) ) Richard On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 22:10 +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net To: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net Cc: Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts

Re: \slashedGrace positioning problem

2013-07-27 Thread Richard Shann
On Sat, 2013-07-27 at 13:05 +1000, Nick Payne wrote: On 27/07/13 07:52, Wim van Dommelen wrote: Hi, I've a piece starting with a \slashedGrace. See attached .png and .ly for an example of what happens. I remember but cannot find back the positioning at the beginning of a measure has

Re: Anyone using a tablet for lily?

2013-07-30 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 13:56 -0400, Carl Peterson wrote: On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Eduardo Silva eduardo.su...@hotmail.com wrote: What I would be interested in is a WYSIWYG editor that would be able to take down notes and output a basic ly file, perhaps

Re: Anyone using a tablet for lily?

2013-07-30 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 07:14 +1000, Nick Payne wrote: On 31/07/13 01:21, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 08:39:16 -0600 i...@soundand.com wrote: Is anyone using a tablet to run lilypond and if so which one? I was thinking about getting a tablet but why run Lilypond on it?

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread Richard Shann
with a samll (5Mb) soundfont not to waste people's bandwidth when, if they care, they will use one of the many free sound fonts that suit their needs. For my own use I have a 100 Mb single harpsichord stop patched in, replacing the grand piano. Richard Shann

Re: MIDI keyboard

2013-08-13 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 12:17:17 +0200 Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl wrote: Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com writes: Denemo already supports this two pass input, you can find a screencast on Vimeo. Yes, I did look at Denemo. With Denemo you have to enter the durations using

Re: MIDI keyboard

2013-08-13 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:50:16 -0400 Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.netwrote: here is your problem. You are hoping that the timing of your keypress could be interpreted and a duration of note estimated from

Re: MIDI keyboard

2013-08-13 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 18:00:01 +0200 Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl wrote: Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net writes: here is your problem. You are hoping that the timing of your keypress could be interpreted and a duration of note estimated from it. Such systems have been tried

Re: MIDI keyboard

2013-08-13 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 21:11:59 +0200 Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl wrote: Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net writes: If you can read music fluently and have a lot of music to enter sequentially into LilyPond then Denemo gives you a way of leveraging your sight-reading skill

Re: MIDI keyboard

2013-08-13 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:09:53 -0700 David Rogers davidandrewrog...@gmail.com wrote: Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net writes: You could have played the entire piece in by the time you have set about looking for mistakes in the automatic entry systems. Richard: I think playing

Re: MIDI keyboard

2013-08-13 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 21:55:27 +0200 Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl wrote: Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net writes: Yes modern GUI based tools are slow. The main problem with your method, is that you have to look at the screen. Looking away from the music you are transcribing

Transcribing from Audio

2013-08-26 Thread Richard Shann
Denemo can now help in transcribing an audio performance into notation typeset by LilyPond. The audio is loaded into an empty score and Denemo detects note-onsets in the piece and provides a set of beats at whatever tempo you have guessed at (you can suggest the time signature too). You can then

Re: Score examples

2013-09-03 Thread Richard Shann
. As to listing them all, I notice that many have tags which can be clicked on (e.g. as Richard Shann/Editor or Richard Shann/Arranger) to find more. Finally, I know of one other contributor to IMSLP that uses LilyPond, namely Mario Bolognani. I am not sure that he explicitly mentions this, but I am sure he

Re: Score examples

2013-09-03 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 09:09 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: Urs, [...] As to listing them all, I notice that many have tags which can be clicked on (e.g. as Richard Shann/Editor or Richard Shann/Arranger) to find more. hmm, that was dumb of me, of course I can give the links: http://imslp.org

Re: insert an arbitrary SVG ?

2013-09-22 Thread Richard Shann
On Sun, 2013-09-22 at 08:05 +0200, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: 2013/9/22 Bric b...@flight.us Is there a way to insert an arbitrary SVG shape? It has to be eps. You may like to use this to convert: inkscape --export-text-to-path --export-bbox-page --without-gui

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-25 Thread Richard Shann
You may need to know about Denemo and Frescobaldi which both allow MIDI input and generate LilyPond output. Richard On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 11:20 -0700, searchfgold6789 wrote: Hello, I was looking for a way to create Lilypond files at a better speed than just typing them by hand. Someone

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-26 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 09:32 +, James Harkins wrote: - With a MIDI keyboard, I would be back to the Finale hell of correcting enharmonic misspellings. Enharmonic misspellings are a thing of the past if you use Denemo to play in the pitches from a MIDI keyboard. Firstly, because the set of

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-26 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 11:52 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com writes: David Kastrup dak at gnu.org writes: It's been some time since I last tried, but the basic answer I arrived at for myself was don't bother. The tools are not good enough right now to

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-26 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 15:41 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com writes: I have to agree with David here. When I first started looking at LilyPond, one of my first questions was about MIDI input. But then I realized: ... this is all based on using a MIDI

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-26 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 19:16 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net writes: On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 11:52 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Anway, my point is: the currently available tools are not good enough right now to save time. This very much depends

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-27 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 13:41 +0800, James Harkins wrote: On Sep 27, 2013 12:10 AM, Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net wrote: Since introducing this I have had zero enharmonic misspellings in my transcriptions. But this might not be suitable for some sorts of music, I confess. My

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-27 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 20:28 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net writes: Denemo completely ignores the time-stamps on the midi input stream. The midi events are serialized into a buffer by a separate thread, and Denemo just picks them up in the order

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-27 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 09:04 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: So if you wanted some assorted collection of sharps and flats (E-flat with A-flat but F-sharp ...) whoops! it would have to be weirder than that, say D-Sharp with A-flat ... Richard

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-27 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 11:38 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Sure, that may be of interest to the other people on the thread who *are* looking for MIDI input. For myself, I prefer working with the code directly, and I will likely continue to prefer the code even if there's the option of

Re: installation denemo in window.

2013-09-27 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 04:20 -0700, MING TSANG wrote: Lilyponders: This email would be better sent to the Denemo mailing list On the download page it said it includes lilypond. I already have lilypond v2.16.2 and v2.17.26 installed on my desktop computer. Will the installation clobber my

Re: Page number changes forcing headers to appear on second page

2013-10-07 Thread Richard Shann
Nicholas Sceaux created a LilyPond include file to do title page stuff. A modified version of it is available in the LilyPond output from Denemo (if you give a book title to your score). In that version you can additionally add a short excerpt from the score on the title page and a border is drawn

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