Re: Cross-staff voice with modified context.

2014-09-05 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello again, Am 05.09.2014 um 20:37 schrieb Hwaen Ch'uqi: Greetings Simon, Thank you so much for your response. Yes, there was a silly oversight in my code which I have now corrected. Below is the code again followed by the compilation messages. I have also attached the rather strange result

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2014-09-05 Thread Simon Albrecht
I forgot the attachment... \version 2.18.2 #(ly:expect-warning no viable initial configuration found: may not find good beam slope) \score{ \new PianoStaff \new Staff = up { \relative c' { \key des \major \time 2/4 \clef treble {

Re: Score feedback request

2014-09-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Aura, there’s one main thing I notice: the left hand has only one voice throughout, so you should better use \oneVoice instead of \voiceOne there. The same is for the last two bars of the right hand part. For the piano staff, a separate Dynamics context between the two staves might be

Re: How to color a text spanner

2014-09-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 06.09.2014 um 21:52 schrieb David Nalesnik: On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Joram noeck.marb...@gmx.de mailto:noeck.marb...@gmx.de wrote: And I can add a question: What is the difference between DynamicLineSpanner and Hairpin? See

Re: Lyric word engraver bug

2014-09-07 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello David, many thanks for the proposed solution. For what I can see now, it works fine. And sorry for wrongly attributing authorship – no idea how I came to do that. Anyway, I corrected it now. Best regards, Simon Am 06.09.2014 um 23:32 schrieb David Nalesnik: Hi, On Sat, Sep 6, 2014

Re: Lyric word engraver bug

2014-09-07 Thread Simon Albrecht
And thanks also for these coding suggestions, they’re very good and I’ve incorporated them. Am 07.09.2014 um 00:37 schrieb David Nalesnik: On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 5:20 PM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com mailto:david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: Here's an unrelated suggestion.

Re: Breaking notes up across bar lines when using lyrics

2014-09-07 Thread Simon Albrecht
Looks like it’s worth a bug report and issue tracker, doesn’t it? About completion heads engraver and addlyrics being incompatible. However, the attached version of the file using @code{ \new Lyrics \lyricsto first } instead of @code{ \addlyrics } works as expected for me*. So working around

Re: In wait for a subsequent word (sorry how can I put it)?

2014-09-07 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 07.09.2014 um 18:05 schrieb Son_V: Thanks Phil, for your answer - but I usually (is it right?), as in your example, write Sanc __tus The problem is that you confuse hyphens (-) with underscores (_). In your examples, you have two underscores inbetween the syllables of ‘sanctus’; but what

Re: problem with moving notes

2014-09-07 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 07.09.2014 um 19:39 schrieb Rus: Does anyone have any ideas? Yes, to ask you why you would want that. Usually it’s best to leave the spacing to lilypond, since she makes about the best possible arrangement. Perhaps

Re: problem with moving notes

2014-09-07 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 07.09.2014 um 21:00 schrieb Rus: I would want that to make it more visible. I don’t think there is any problem with reading the rhythm from Lily’s default output, it’s perfectly clear. I can't understand what exactly I need to make from

Re: problem with moving notes

2014-09-08 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 07.09.2014 um 23:16 schrieb David Nalesnik: Rus, On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Rus rustik...@mail.ru mailto:rustik...@mail.ru wrote: I imagine you could use \newSpacingSection. Please post the code that created the PDFs you attach, and I'm sure you'll get a

Re: Add lyrics after n measures

2014-09-08 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 08.09.2014 um 18:10 schrieb Colin Campbell: On 14-09-08 01:36 AM, Phil Holmes wrote: (in reference to lyric \skips not terminating an extender) Try a single space in quotes: -- Phil Holmes Thanks, Phil. I found that in my testing later yesterday. It will at least get the project

Re: How to handle changing transpositions

2014-09-09 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 09.09.2014 um 11:46 schrieb Urs Liska: Hi list, I have a problem understanding how to efficiently deal with horn parts that change their transposition with the clef. That is: In the treble clef the part is notated as \transpose f, c while in the bass clef it is notated in concert pitch.

Re: Defining custom MIDI dynamics

2014-09-09 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Knute, perhaps its just an unusual topic few have experience with? At least I don’t; yet after a look in the NR section on the topic I think you’re on the right path with the cond approach. After all, you want to define a single function to pass it on as dynamicAbsoluteVolumeFunction.

Re: beginner stanza help

2014-09-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 10.09.2014 um 02:35 schrieb Steven Arntson: I'm trying to get stanzas to work for a song that has two verses. What am I doing wrong? text = \lyricmode { \set stanza = #1. here are | %m1 the words | %m2 } \lyricmode { \set stanza = #2.

Re: Rest with tie behaving differently than note

2014-09-14 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello David, Am 14.09.2014 um 18:58 schrieb David Bellows: In the following code Lilypond correctly creates the tie to the note even when it's left out (a tie just to a duration): \version 2.19.13 \score{ \new Staff {d4~ 16} } But if you try to do this with a rest: \version 2.19.13

Re: Can NoteNames in higher octaves be changed?

2014-09-15 Thread Simon Albrecht
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user \version 2.16.2 \header { snippet-title = Octavate capital note names snippet-author = Simon Albrecht after Tao Cumplido snippet-description = \markup { Easily write octavated notes with capitalized note-names. Has to be modified

Re: Can NoteNames in higher octaves be changed?

2014-09-15 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 15.09.2014 um 15:39 schrieb Jay Vara: Hello Simon, I tried using the code you sent. The output is still the same. It appears that your code allows me to input capital names for higher octave notes. Is that right? Yes. What I wanted is for automatically printing capital names - using

Re: Odd layout choices

2014-09-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
(continuing the thread on ly-user) Hello Guy, no, there isn't, because it tends to contradict the logic: they won't appear to be simultaneous, if they are placed one after another. You might try the methods described in . For the dynamics, this can be complicated, but try: \override

Re: \change staff question

2014-09-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Ming, if you have a look into the documentation for \change (when in doubt, look it up in the command index), you’ll find that it does not require any braces following or indeed any argument. It looks like you try to enter the notes in parallel, which is illogical, since they are

Re: Dominant Seventh Sharp Fifth Chord

2014-09-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 25.09.2014 um 14:48 schrieb bb: The description of chord naming is a bit short for my experience. I am looking for the code for a Dominant Seventh Sharp Fifth Chord Say i. e. G^7#5 How can I do that? Is there any extended turorial or something like that to learn from.

Re: Time signatures ¢¢ and cc

2014-09-26 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 26.09.2014 um 04:10 schrieb Dan Eble: I have a hymnal in which many songs have time signatures with symbols cc and ¢¢ [doubled cut-time symbol]. I can't find any information on these online. Does anyone know what they actually mean? Were they common historically, or is this hymnal just

Re: Long stretch in one voice, then two

2014-09-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, do you really think they aren't user-friendly? I always found them easy to understand and use. Is this because they comply to german syntax more neatly? Anyway... And I agree with the docs on the explicit/implicit voicing: it depends... Some pieces are easier to input and read with the

Re: About a RULE I hadn't found in the Bible (Beyond bars)

2014-09-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, I think it's best practice to use curly braces around the differing parts, and place the common ending centered between the outermost stanzas. However, I must consider it a desideratum for lilypond to provide an interface for this. It is a major task to fit this into the current

Re: Long stretch in one voice, then two

2014-09-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
-28 23:25 GMT+02:00 Simon Albrecht : Hello, do you really think they aren't user-friendly? I always found them easy to understand and use. Is this because they comply to german syntax more neatly? We have two commands named \voiceOne and \oneVoice. That's definitely confusing; one

Re: Multi line text with a common text

2014-09-29 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 27.09.2014 um 14:55 schrieb Phil Holmes: - Original Message - From: Son_V vincenzo.a...@gmail.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2014 1:38 PM Subject: Multi line text with a common text Sorry for the unclear subject. I found a score I've put on LilyPond

Re: Multi line text with a common text

2014-09-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 30.09.2014 um 19:29 schrieb Son_V: Hi, thanks to you and Phil in the first place ... then, I've tried to use your example And I got VERY close to the result I wanted! Just one problem: I think it would be preferable that the curly bracket starts from the rest; like in the jpg file i've

Re: Lyrics and Chord Names with no notes

2014-10-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Richard, you need to enter the lyrics in \lyricmode with explicit durations: \lyricmode { Hal4. -- le8 -- lu -- ja } Thus they are independent of any staff context. Documented in

Re: Multi line text with a common text

2014-10-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 01.10.2014 um 13:25 schrieb Son_V: I know nothing more intelligent than \once\override StanzaNumber.extra-offset = … Hi Simon, where shoud be put this command, and what numerical value to try? Just found old posts while searching ... I hope you are familiar with the related Learning Manual

Re: Multi line text with a common text

2014-10-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
One thing I forgot… Am 01.10.2014 um 13:25 schrieb Son_V: I know nothing more intelligent than \once\override StanzaNumber.extra-offset = … Hi Simon, where shoud be put this command, and what numerical value to try? Just try. It’s measured in staff spaces (isn’t it?), so I’d estimate around

Re: Multi line text with a common text

2014-10-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 01.10.2014 um 10:47 schrieb Son_V: PS. The case not covered is the one with an even number of stanzas… but I don’t have a good idea for that, either. Hi Simon, I had an idea, don't know if it could be useful: if we have four stanzas, like 1. when good. 2. If .

Re: Multi line text with a common text

2014-10-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 01.10.2014 um 19:01 schrieb Son_V: Just to add other oddities, I first extracted just the Soprano voice to test the 'curly bracket' problem. Looking back at this, now i recognize that the just one voice got the curly bracket correctly aligned with the rest, but with a wider space between

Re: Two time signature at start of system

2014-10-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 02.10.2014 um 14:50 schrieb MING TSANG: Dear lilyponders, I didn't realize until I have coded a hymn with 92 measures that two time signature at bar #78. So I code a test version just bar 76-79 to show the problen system. I have been playing with code and still couldn't remove one of

Re: losing a bar number when the first beat is irregular

2014-10-04 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 04.10.2014 um 14:33 schrieb Son_V: Hi all, as I have said i use Musescore to write down the notes and lyrics, then I export to .xml to import the file in Frescobaldi. I encounter a humble problem. If the score I'm transcribing has just one note in the first beat, to have a correct visual

Re: losing a bar number when the first beat is irregular

2014-10-04 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 04.10.2014 um 21:22 schrieb Son_V: If a piece starts with an incomplete measure this measure doesn't have a number Well, thanks. I've searched on beyond bars 2011 ed. but I wasn't able to find a reference to this problem. Nor I was able to found a way in the index: no irregular beats. Maybe

Re: Key signatures in hidden staves take up space

2014-10-04 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 04.10.2014 um 23:13 schrieb Peter Crighton: As you can see in the following code and the attached image, there is a possible bug when using \RemoveEmptyStaves with voices in different keys (such as in a score with transposing instruments): key signatures appearing only in hidden empty

Re: Lyrics only

2014-10-05 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-10/msg4.html. Best, Simon Am 05.10.2014 um 13:10 schrieb Jay Vara: I saw some discussion of how to get lilypond to print only lyrics from a few years ago. I tried a few things suggested in those posts, but nothing worked

Re: Dynamics and articulation in lyrics

2014-10-05 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 05.10.2014 um 18:04 schrieb Graham King: I'm setting a song with multiple stanzas, in which I would like to include dynamics and articulations (breathing, phrasing) within the text. After much hunting around the docs and snippets, I've got this far: /version 2.19.2 ...

Re: Supporting ♯ and ♭

2014-10-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Marc, I find if surprising that you call this 'easier to type'. At any rate, alphabetic characters are way easier to reach on virtually any keyboard layout. Few layouts will support those signs at all. And I think LilyPonds representation of notes is reasonably easy to read. Perhaps it

Re: previous version manual

2014-10-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 06.10.2014 um 21:14 schrieb Mark Stephen Mrotek: Hello, Where is the manual for the previous stable version (2.16?) located? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/web/manuals It may be found through Manuals - All. Yours, Simon ___

Re: Overlapping ties in different voices

2014-10-07 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 07.10.2014 um 21:57 schrieb Frederick Bartlett: Hi! I'm trying to set selection from Saint-Saën's Oratorio de Noël for my choir. In the Gloria in altissimis (p9 in the IMSLP PDFs), I found an odd combination of ties: \relative c''' { { s1 | b1 ~ | b2 cis } \\

Re: Overlapping ties in different voices

2014-10-07 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 07.10.2014 um 22:36 schrieb Abraham Lee: On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Frederick Bartlett frederick.bartl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I'm trying to set selection from Saint-Saën's Oratorio de Noël for my choir. In the Gloria in altissimis (p9 in the IMSLP PDFs), I found an odd combination

Re: remove first empty staff and ambitus

2014-10-09 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Kai, HTH would sure be one of the most active contributors to this list if he were one, but it's only an abbreviation for 'hope that helps'... I also had to look that one up when I first came across it :-) Yours, Simon Am 09-Oct-2014 14:21:57 +0200 schrieb kai.lautenschlae...@me.com:

Re: header markup puzzle

2014-10-09 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello David, I attach a file which should do what you want, and add some comments below: Am 09.10.2014 um 23:50 schrieb Flaming Hakama by Elaine: Hello, I was wondering if anyone had suggestions for a text formatting challenge I've been unable to solve. The format I like to use for header

Re: Time signature differs from measure length

2014-10-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 10.10.2014 um 12:45 schrieb Noeck: -Original Message- I want to write a piece with a alla-breve time signature but with four half notes in a measure (4/2). Is it better to overwrite the time signature stencil and use \time 4/2 or do it like this: \version 2.18.2 \relative c''

ly:pitch and string

2014-10-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, consider the following setup: %% \version 2.19.12 newTonic = d newTonicString = d \bookOutputSuffix #(string-append in- newTonicString) \score { \transpose c \newTonic { c' } } %% For easy handling of different transpositions the ‘destination pitch’ is

Re: Time signature differs from measure length

2014-10-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 10.10.2014 um 21:53 schrieb Mark Stephen Mrotek: Simon, Regarding the snippet you provide, I would be confused in reading it. The ₵ would tell me 2/2, yet there would be four semi-breves. No, a semi-brevis is what we call „ganze Note” in Germany; the „halbe Note” would be a minim (the

Re: Automatic multimeasure spacer rests?

2014-10-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, did you even try what Urs suggested? \new Staff \spacers \one means that \spacers and \one are simultaneous , not sequential {}. So you can just fill in the example Urs gave and it will do what it seems you want (that hasn’t been easy to understand). Yours,

Re: ly:pitch and string

2014-10-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Paul, thanks a lot! I thought along the same lines also, but (1) my less elegant coding and (2) the complications brought along by German notenames would’ve made it too tedious. Am 10.10.2014 um 23:44 schrieb Paul Morris: Just for fun, another version, more compact, probably more

Re: ly:pitch and string

2014-10-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
, the newTonicString was always eses regardless of the input. Perhaps the computer and I ought to go to sleep. (what a mad sentence that is…) And thanks again for your input, Paul. Best, Simon Am 10.10.2014 um 23:55 schrieb Simon Albrecht: Hello Paul, thanks a lot! I thought along the same lines

Re: ly:pitch and string

2014-10-11 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello David, thanks, that’s exactly the kind of brief and elegant solution I was hoping for. Yours, Simon Am 11.10.2014 um 16:52 schrieb David Kastrup: Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de writes: Hello, consider the following setup: %% \version 2.19.12 newTonic = d

Re: automatic fingering annotation

2014-10-12 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello David, Am 12.10.2014 um 16:34 schrieb David Nalesnik: Hi Erik, On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 2:35 AM, erik flister erik.flis...@gmail.com mailto:erik.flis...@gmail.com wrote: hi- i'm writing some software that generates .ly files and want to offer the option to automatically

Re: Can I make a TextScript occupy no space, potentially colliding?

2014-10-12 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 12.10.2014 um 18:21 schrieb Richard Shann: In this code I put a large letter A above the music. If I uncomment the tweak the letter A is moved elsewhere, but it still takes up space at the top of the score. If I uncomment the override, I don't get the space back. \version 2.18.0 \score { {

Re: ly:pitch and string

2014-10-12 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Paul, Thanks for your help in improving the helper functions; however, ‘inverting’ string-append and cond seems to be based on a misunderstanding. It needs to be %% \version 2.19.12 \language deutsch pitch-to-key-string-german = #(define-scheme-function (parser location

Re: Slash Chords

2014-10-13 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 13.10.2014 um 22:45 schrieb keith Luke: How do you get LilyPond to display slash chords in the chord name? I'm trying to print C Maj 7/Bb and D/F# in my scores. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-chords documents chord names notation. Side note, also to

Re: A solution I've invented for a SATB choir

2014-10-17 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Vincenzo, interesting idea. It might increase organisation expenses, though, if you have to provide two different scores instead of just one full score. Another way to save vertical space is the one used in the 19th century complete editions of Mendelssohn, Schumann, and many other

Re: Scheme function to affect a compound music expression?

2014-10-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello all, I tried to write such a function, but failed at the point you’ll see in the attachment. I’d like to learn how this can be made to work ;-) … The problem is in extracting the list from SequentialMusic’s 'element property. And I suspect it has to do with the following question: With

Re: text above

2014-10-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Bernhard, Am 24.10.2014 um 13:36 schrieb Dr. Bernhard Kleine: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following code has some errors: The tenor lyrics should above the system. See comments below. The \mf should be moved here a little to the left to have more space for the

Re: Point and click off by one after markup

2014-10-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 24.10.2014 um 13:59 schrieb Richard Shann: On Fri, 2014-10-24 at 11:15 +0200, Helge Kruse wrote: Thank you for your response. I think you should not added control characters like newline to the markup text. yes, perhaps that is the case - I assumed any white space was acceptable, but it

Re: Tags in Lyrics

2014-10-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Noeck, hello everybody, at least you can save a lot of typing from v2.18 on: Am 24.10.2014 um 09:25 schrieb Noeck: Hi, when I write choir pieces I like to have one song text for all voices and to use tags. Often, the differences are only whether there is an extender line or not \tag A

Re: Tags in Lyrics

2014-10-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 24.10.2014 um 21:48 schrieb Thomas Morley: 2014-10-24 21:19 GMT+02:00 Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de: [...] I tried to, but somehow an extender line inside a music function body gives a syntax error and I’ve got no clue how to circumvent that. You’ll find the current function attached

Re: Tie results in strange error

2014-10-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 25.10.2014 um 16:04 schrieb Dr. Bernhard Kleine: c1~ | (c4 d g, e d c2 h~ h a c, gis) Hello Bernhard, it helps a lot if you post compilable examples (that is, complete .ly files), and best in an attachment so mailing systems can’t mess up anything. However: the ( for the slur must come

Re: Tags in Lyrics

2014-10-26 Thread Simon Albrecht
schrieb Thomas Morley: 2014-10-25 14:46 GMT+02:00 Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de: Am 24.10.2014 um 21:48 schrieb Thomas Morley: 2014-10-24 21:19 GMT+02:00 Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de: [...] I tried to, but somehow an extender line inside a music function body gives a syntax

Re: Unresolvable rest collision?

2014-12-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 27.12.2014 08:27, schrieb Jayaratna: Just a few days ago I had to correct the following incipit: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n169753/dentestui01.png In the original the longae rests at the beginning of the piece indicate that the Modus Longarum is imperfect, thus:

Re: glissando to a nearby modified pitch doesn't always work inside a triplet

2014-12-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 27.12.2014 21:41, schrieb list_lilypond: I'm new here and don't know if I can send attachments, Yes, you can send attachments, and it’s a good thing to do, at best a (compilable) .ly file (see http://www.lilypond.org/tiny-examples.html) and a small png (or pdf) image, since it makes

\\[ as music function – stack overflow

2014-12-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, when I start to compile the attached file, lily takes a long time for parsing and then exits with Microsoft’s stack overflow/stack exhaustion error code. I tested this with lily 2.19.8 and .15 and on both Windows and Ubuntu platforms with similar results. How does this come? and how

Re: \markup and gregorian.ly

2014-12-29 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 29.12.2014 13:53, schrieb Alicuota618: Merci Pierre, this works fine but must be inserted in all subsequent files. A job for sed... Francois 2014-12-29 4:21 GMT-05:00, Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com: Hi François, In your layout bloc you can try to add : \override

Two scores in one LSR snip

2014-12-29 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, I added a new LSR snippet for review: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1id=968 and although there are two \scores in the snippet, only the first is shown in the preview. Is this as expected? Best regards, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Rallentando and accelerando in MIDI

2014-12-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 30.12.2014 13:16, schrieb David Sumbler: Further to my query (below) yesterday about varying ralls and accels in midi, how do I actually get these to work at all? At the moment the articulate script is working correctly in executing trills, slurs etc. But it ignores my rit. markings and

Re: Lilypond generates a chord from nowhere

2014-12-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 30.12.2014 22:08, schrieb Robert Schmaus: __ In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice. -- Jerry Coyne On 30 Dec 2014, at 20:33, Stan Mulder st4588...@earthlink.net wrote: Basically, I think the chord in both instances (with or without the slash notes) should be

Re: Rallentando and accelerando in MIDI

2014-12-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 31.12.2014 00:32, schrieb David Sumbler: On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 22:04 +0100, Simon Albrecht wrote: Am 30.12.2014 13:16, schrieb David Sumbler: Further to my query (below) yesterday about varying ralls and accels in midi, how do I actually get these to work at all? At the moment

Re: Autobeam constraints

2014-12-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Helge, \noBeam after the third and fourth notes should do what you want. %% \version 2.18 \relative c'' { \time 3/4 \key es \major \voiceTwo as8\ c f\noBeam \voiceOne as\noBeam c f\! | } %% HTH, Simon Am 31.12.2014 10:11, schrieb Helge Kruse:

Re: What is the name of this and how to code in lily

2015-02-07 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 07.02.2015 um 12:20 schrieb Noeck: Hi Ming, I played a bit to reproduce the measure you sent. This was my first try to typset the upper staff: \version 2.18.2 \relative c ' { \key g \major c d fis a4 es g bes8[ d f g b]:64--- ~ q2:32\fermata \bar |. } However there are 3

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 147, Issue 46

2015-02-07 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello David, begging your pardon: Did you forget the content of your actual reply? In any case, please consider what is written at the top of every digest and _edit the Subject line_. By the way: I have made good experiences with not using digest mode but receiving single messages and having

Re: Problem with r2. in two voices

2015-02-08 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 08.02.2015 21:32, schrieb Kevin Barry: On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Cynthia Karl pck...@mac.com mailto:pck...@mac.com wrote: But I don't want to make it visually that there are two voices here, I want to make it visually explicit that there is a single voice. That's why

EB Garamond font-series

2015-02-08 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello list, I just re-installed the incredibly beautiful EB Garamond font from http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/ https://bitbucket.org/georgd/eb-garamond/downloads/EBGaramond-0.016.zip, but apparently Lily can’t find the bold font series. Can anyone tell me where to search for a

Re: Are these triple-dots of augmentation possible?

2015-01-20 Thread Simon Albrecht
Of course this is possible with any number of dots: \version 2.19 \relative { g'2.. 8 2... 16 % or even 2 32 2.. 128 } %%% end snip %%% I don't see why there should be any problem with shiftDurations there. But if I'm right, three dots multiply the duration by 15/8... HTH, Simon

Re: How do I create vertical space between staff lines

2015-02-11 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 12.02.2015 01:26, schrieb Stan Mulder: I have created a lead sheet with Intro, Chorus and Ending. It's all one continuous song, but I want to separate with white space the staves of the Intro from the Chorus, and I want to separate the Chorus from the Ending. So I would end up with three

Re: skip in 5/8

2015-02-11 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 12.02.2015 00:53, schrieb Jay Hamilton: Thanks to both of you, where in the manual is this? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/writing-rhythms#scaling-durations Jay On 2015-02-11 09:21, Shane Brandes wrote: Apologies R1*5/8*15 will do it. I misread the beats as

Re: How to encapsulate TextSpanner?

2015-02-12 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 12.02.2015 um 22:48 schrieb Kevin Barry: On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:25 PM, H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx mailto:hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: I've tried various ways of doing this -- putting the commands in a variable, using various Scheme make-script / make-music constructs,

Re: Scheme problem?

2015-02-12 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 12.02.2015 um 17:00 schrieb takumi ikeda: Hi Kevin, Thank you for your reply. But the part of (if (= UP dir) -0.5 0.5) seems to not working... BTW, How can I learn the syntax like (ly:duration-log (ly:music-property music 'duration))? I found the documentation

Re: Strange d.g. notation

2015-02-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
be a German-Italian composite meaning col 8va bassa? In a viola part? With that fast notes? Certainly not. Yours, Simon Albrecht ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Staffs extending past the end of music

2015-02-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
OK. I think what you want is \RemoveEmptyStaves, to be inserted in \layout{ \context{ \Staff \RemoveEmptyStaves } } HTH, Simon Am 17.02.2015 01:21, schrieb Tyler A Stank: On 02/16/2015 06:09 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote: Hello Tyler, 1. sorry for being an incorrigible nitpick

Re: Staffs extending past the end of music

2015-02-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Tyler, 1. sorry for being an incorrigible nitpick, but the plural of “staff” is “staves” ;-) 2. It’s exceedingly difficult to understand your problem without an example. Could you please send one? At best an attached .ly file (if it’s included in the message body, it might suffer

Re: bar number for \partial 4

2015-02-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 16.02.2015 15:55, schrieb MING TSANG: Hi, lilyponder, (1) I am transcribe a score that it count the \partial 4 measure as bar #1. How to achieve this. (1) This is contradicting both musical logics and general usage, so why not change it? Of course I don't know your reason to keep so close

Re: bar number for \partial 4

2015-02-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 16.02.2015 16:13, schrieb MING TSANG: Thank you. Yes I did try the snippet and did not find any sample. What snippet? An example of what? The Notation Reference is often the first place to go. Yours, Simon Immanuel, Ming. On Monday, February 16, 2015 10:09 AM, Simon Albrecht

Re: How to increase the distance between systems?

2015-02-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Kaj, you'd want to search the notation reference for Flexible vertical spacing between systems. It's the \paper variable system-system-spacing that needs to be adjusted. HTH, Simon Am 18.02.2015 15:34, schrieb Kaj: I have tried to find in the manuals180 how to increase the distance

Re: global marks

2015-02-13 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, I usually don’t write this in the \score block, but instead define a music function like global = #(define-music-function (parser location mus) (ly:music?) #{ \helper \relative { \key as \minor \time 9/16 \partial 8. \autoBeamOff $mus } #})

Re: How to encapsulate TextSpanner?

2015-02-13 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 12.02.2015 um 23:40 schrieb Kevin Barry: On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:32 PM, H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx mailto:hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: Why doesn't it work when I use \override instead of \tweak? I think \override doesn't work because it gets between the note and

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 137, Issue 62

2015-02-14 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Patrick, first thing: _Please_ mind the advice given with every single digest and edit the subject line so the e-mail may be correctly sorted into the thread where it belongs. I also find it quite annoying to receive e-mails with such cryptic subjects as this. Am 14.02.2015 18:18,

Re: EB Garamond font-series

2015-02-09 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello everybody, then it seems I have been deceived by the fact that there is a separate file for each bold, italic and bold italic in the .zip provided via the download link I sent along. Thanks for the information. Still, I wonder: I tried it out even in leafpad (ubuntu's simple text editor)

Re: \articulate command doesn't handle {c4 4}

2015-02-15 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, the support for standalone durations was one of the first (and most important?) changes made in 2.19 (see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/changes/index.html. But indeed, it seems to be a bug if \articulate can't handle them. Yours, Simon Am 15.02.2015 15:26, schrieb

Re: Git/Lilypond workflow

2015-02-15 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 15.02.2015 21:19, schrieb RomanticStrings: What is the benefit of using Git? I understand that it keeps track of changes, so you can check your log and even retrieve previous versions(?). I use my home MacBook Pro and my work (sacred music director) PC laptop, and I have both a Dropbox and

Re: Starting music at an arbitrary bar

2015-03-14 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Martin, see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/skipping-corrected-music. showFirstLength and showLastLength should do what you want. Yours, Simon Am 14.03.2015 um 22:02 schrieb J Martin Rushton: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 GNU LilyPond 2.18.2

Re: getting parts of the system start barline invisible

2015-03-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 18.03.2015 um 02:14 schrieb Zoran Kesic: Hi, Although relatively new to Lilypond, I was able to find solutions to my needs so far, thanks to this forum and fantastic supporting documentation for Lilypond. However, there is one thing that is driving me mad and I was hoping someone would be

Re: Using multiple tags

2015-03-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 18.03.2015 um 14:42 schrieb Anton Curl: Hi everyone! I like using tags in my scores but it becomes complicated: I want to use tags for: - layout or midi - score or part - first / second / third / fourth time a variable is used I could always use removeWithTag, but - for the third case it's

Re: Messiaen-style ties?

2015-03-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 22.03.2015 um 22:12 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Trevor (et al.), (One last thought: Messiaen's notation might be conceptually equivalent to a type of reverse l.v. indication. That might help provide a name for the feature should it ever find its way into LilyPond.) Yes…

Re: Messiaen-style ties?

2015-03-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 22.03.2015 um 21:48 schrieb tisimst: Trevor, Try something like c f\repeatTie True, this gives quite the desired output, but it would make sense to have this as a 'style option to Tie rather than using different musical input in the first place. So I’d support an enhancement tracker issue

Re: Narrow down search of Lilypond documentation to English

2015-03-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 21.03.2015 um 15:38 schrieb Colin Tennyson: For Lilypond the reference documentation is the one in english. Besides that translated versions of the documenation are available (in various states of completeness). The Lilypond website uses a naming system: Example: English version:

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 148, Issue 144

2015-03-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Bill, only for policy: If you have the digest mode turned on, please always edit your subject line (i.e. Re: original subject) if you’re replying, so it becomes apparent to what your reply refers and so that it may be sorted into the thread by software. Thank you, Simon PS. Only

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