Re: adding tagged markup to mmrest-of-length

2015-06-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Kieren, after some trial and error and \displayMusic I got the attached solution with a music function. My (primitive enough) moment-duration function came in handy there. It would have been nicer to receive an attachment ready for opening in frescobaldi and starting work, though. I had

Re: tuplet beam

2015-06-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Mark, Am 01.06.2015 um 21:18 schrieb Mark Stephen Mrotek: Hello, The attached snippet, tuplet beam, produces the tuplets grouped in three sixteenths, as I want. When I copy and paste the code into the score, 6 Var WoO 70(5), the beaming changes. This is because the settings of the

Re: Color note heads outside nominal instrument range

2015-05-29 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 29.05.2015 um 16:37 schrieb Phil Holmes: - Original Message - From: Peter Gentry peter.gen...@sunscales.co.uk To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, May 29, 2015 3:32 PM Subject: RE:Color note heads outside nominal instrument range -Original Message- Message: 6 Date:

Re: A slur across a line break with change of clef in another staff generates bad output

2015-05-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 30.05.2015 um 18:10 schrieb Richard Shann: Attached is a bit of LilyPond which has a slur over a line break. At the same moment the clef is changing in the lower staff. The result is a horribly broken slur start in the top staff. I blindly applied the dragging-the-shape on this curve which

Re: Parenthesize accidental together

2015-05-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, see https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=155. This has been fixed in 2.19.20. Yours, Simos Am 31.05.2015 um 02:58 schrieb Venus' Wink: Hi, I'd like to output like the attachment purpose.png. But the following simple code \parenthesize ces''4 puts the flat

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 150, Issue 183

2015-05-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
Did you forget to write your actual text? Also please follow the advice in the e-mail header: When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of lilypond-user digest... Thanks, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: A slur across a line break with change of clef in another staff generates bad output

2015-05-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 31.05.2015 um 10:06 schrieb Richard Shann: On Sat, 2015-05-30 at 22:23 +0200, Simon Albrecht wrote: Am 30.05.2015 um 18:10 schrieb Richard Shann: Attached is a bit of LilyPond which has a slur over a line break. At the same moment the clef is changing in the lower staff. The result

Re: Parenthesize accidental together

2015-05-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 31.05.2015 um 12:08 schrieb Venus' Wink: Thanks, All. see https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=155. This has been fixed in 2.19.20. The lambda function have worked with 2.18.2. The parens are put a bit high probably for virtical centering for flat. But it's acceptable for

Re: Color note heads outside nominal instrument range

2015-05-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 31.05.2015 um 15:09 schrieb Gilles THIBAULT: Le samedi 30 mai 2015, 12:22:45 David Nalesnik a écrit : Have you seen http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=773? Just note that if you want to understand this snippet, you have to change the code : music = \relative { c4 d e f g^g' a

Re: Dynamic mark at the end of a bar

2015-05-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello David, Am 28.05.2015 um 00:17 schrieb David Sumbler: On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 16:52 -0500, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi David, On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:03 PM, David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk wrote: But both of these are work-arounds for something which is actually

Re: Dynamic mark at the end of a bar

2015-05-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 27.05.2015 um 22:03 schrieb David Sumbler: But both of these are work-arounds for something which is actually fairly normal musical notation. They are work-arounds because one method implies that a note is not really the length that it appears to be, and the other method implies that the

Re: Partial Bars

2015-07-05 Thread Simon Albrecht
Thanks, Pierre. Will, what’s more, it’s more semantically correct to set measurePosition instead of measureLength (if you’d rather not change to 2.19.x and have it done automatically :-) ). Yours, Simon Am 03.07.2015 um 16:10 schrieb Pierre Perol-Schneider: Hi Bill, 2015-07-03 14:57

Re: Partial Bars

2015-07-03 Thread Simon Albrecht
Very good example. However, I have two major points to make here: – As Lily correctly handles it, both alternatives always start at the same bar number (at least in this convention counting repeats only once). Thus, the close of the minuet would have bar 16a for the first, 16b for the second

Re: Partial Bars

2015-07-03 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 03.07.2015 um 11:01 schrieb David Kastrup: Well, we are likely talking past each other. I was explicitly talking about LilyPond's behavior in the 2.19 series (I may have forgotten adjusting the version header in the examples I posted, though). I see – that settles the matter. Best, Simon

Re: non-greedy regexp don't seem to work

2015-05-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guile Yours, Simon Am 22.05.2015 um 11:42 schrieb Michael Gerdau: In answering my own post: Hi list, the following two statements should provide the exakt same strings: (match:substring (string-match _(.*?)_ a_ä_ö_de_fü_) 1) (match:substring

Re: Automatically inserting bar lines when a line is broken on an empty bar line

2015-05-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Matie, Am 22.05.2015 um 11:44 schrieb Matie Holtzhausen: Hi, How can I print a bar line if the line-breaker decides to break at an empty bar line: For example: \paper { paper-width = 60\mm } \relative c' {c8 c c c \bar c c c c | c c c c} This causes the line-breaker to break at \bar “”.

Re: Fine tuning

2015-05-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Bernhard, some more remarks from me: – Generally, I wouldn’t go for one page at any cost. I understand your wish, but it would be easier to read if the choir were on four staves. And that’s what the great 19th century complete works editions used to do. Also, your current setup throws

Re: How to avoid a collision?

2015-05-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 21.05.2015 um 15:21 schrieb Olivier Vogel: 2015-05-21 13:54 GMT+01:00 Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca mailto:kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca: May I ask why you’re not using Lilypond’s built-in (and generallly excellent) voice-handling? e.g. In the modified snippet

Re: Finale challenge

2015-05-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 22.05.2015 um 00:45 schrieb Jacques Menu: Hello Urs, Sorry, no joke intended actually… I just don’t know what a Finale challenge is! I think the point was about typesetting some complicated music, which Urs will send to anyone interested. Here are the sizes:

Re: Can't find right hand fingering without string #'s

2015-08-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 16.08.2015 um 11:32 schrieb BB: Sorry, cannot find any any c-p in the attached code to check the allegation putting the markup p below the note, not a fingering indication.! Well, just try and compile something like %% { c-p } %% And, yes, it is markup: insert

Re: Beam exceptions

2015-08-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 16.08.2015 um 05:28 schrieb Andrew Bernard: In the following MWE, I would like to have the second bar have a primary beam across all the notes, as per the first bar. I imagine it may require more than what I have here, possibly something to do with setting up beamExceptions? Unfortunately,

Re: Can't find right hand fingering without string #'s

2015-08-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 16.08.2015 um 14:02 schrieb Thomas Morley: The quite verbose \rightHandFinger #1 can be shortened as already shown in this thread. Let me quote NR again: #(define RH rightHandFinger) And since 2.19.24 we have a non-scheme alternative for this: RH = \rightHandFinger \etc Perhaps it might

Re: Can't find right hand fingering without string #'s

2015-08-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 16.08.2015 um 16:20 schrieb BB: Well, if you say, there is a need ... you oversee the side effects, hidden for me. The quotes are not a real problem. The inconsistency is illustrated in this example: \version 2.19.2 { \voiceOne c'1-p} { c'1-p } Please be more explicit. I may only guess

Re: automatic bar number following multimeasure rest

2015-08-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 16.08.2015 um 15:27 schrieb bobr...@centrum.is: Klaus, I haven't tested that. I'm sure it probably works. Unfortunately, this is what I was trying not to do. My reason for wanting an automatic solution is for making rehearsals easier for parts with lots of rests. Start at measure x,

Re: Lining up notes in staves with different rhythms and time signatures

2015-08-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 20.08.2015 um 22:46 schrieb Blöchl Bernhard: That are the interesting cases where to outsmart the optimised depiction of lilypond. Usually not an easy task! First thee is an error, as d8 d4. a16 c8. | does not sum up to 2/4. Nay be that line should read | e8 g a g | e c4. | d8 d4. | a8 c4.

Re: Lining up notes in staves with different rhythms and time signatures

2015-08-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 21.08.2015 um 20:56 schrieb Malte Meyn: Am 21.08.2015 um 20:45 schrieb Blöchl Bernhard: Interesting! New rules for basics of music. I think this is too bold an assumption. It may very well be that there is one 3/4 measure here, and I would trust the original typeset here. Not every time

Re: vertical spacing of rests

2015-08-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 23.08.2015 um 00:48 schrieb Michael Rivers: It would be nice if this were just newbie question, but all of us old-bies and have to deal with it all the time. It would be really nice if Lilypond just combined the rests as it should. That would have to be discussed, but I agree that it would be

Re: Way to flatten nested \include's?

2015-08-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 23.08.2015 um 15:23 schrieb Knute Snortum: I don't know of a LilyPond way to do this, but it would probably be a fairly simple Python or Perl program. And wouldn’t it be user-friendly to provide such a script with our default binaries, that is alongside convert-ly? My 2cts, Simon Knute

Re: vertical spacing of rests

2015-08-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Peter, Am 23.08.2015 um 03:11 schrieb Peter Selinger: Wait, this didn't quite work: hideRests = { \override Rest.transparent = ##t } It almost produces the correct output, but it generates a million warnings (one for each rest) about a rest collision that could not be resolved. I

Re: A call to Cantique de Fauré

2015-08-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 23.08.2015 um 20:00 schrieb Ali Cuota: Hello, Does somebody where to find the Cantique de Jean Racine in Ly? Mutopia, cpdl, imslp and so far google say no. :-( In https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-01/msg00295.html Sir Michiel Lange was asking about a solution for manual

Re: Errors when using TabStaff with stringTunings

2015-08-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Kevin, welcome back to the Pond :-) There have been many syntax changes since v2.12, and one of them is the culprit here, so you’ll want to get a look at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/usage/updating-files-with-convert_002dly. (In case you’re using Frescobaldi: Tools/Update

Re: Change size of notes in addQuote passage

2015-08-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 24.08.2015 um 18:59 schrieb owainsut...@gmail.com: Is there a way to (a) use 'transposedCueDuring' which retains these details from the original, Yes, see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/writing-parts#index-quotedCueEventTypes. Although actually a ‘cue’, as you are

Re: Equal spacing of notes in a bar

2015-08-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Bill, ‘proportional notation’ is the magic word: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/proportional-notation. HTH, Simon Am 24.08.2015 um 20:54 schrieb William Marchant: I have looked though the documentation without finding what I need. The attached code gives me a

Re: Snowballing

2015-06-29 Thread Simon Albrecht
The problem now ceased suddenly as it begun… Whatever :-) Best, Simon Am 25.06.2015 um 18:50 schrieb Simon Albrecht: Hello everyone, is it just me who has been having a kind of ‘snowballing’ problem on the -user and -devel lists for the last two days or so? Most of the mails arrive two up

Re: separate consecutive cluster chords

2015-06-26 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 25.06.2015 um 23:22 schrieb Klaus Blum: P.S.: To separate the voices, I'd like to replace the double backslash by a \new Voice construction, but this adds a new staff. Can't figure out why... :-( Lily automatically adds \new Staff. To prevent this, be more explicit: \new Staff \new Voice

Re: Height and vertical alignment of first system on first page

2015-08-11 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 09.08.2015 um 12:16 schrieb Jonathan Scholbach: Hi Ponders, I have a score with an odd number of systems. Each page has two systems (it's an eight-voiced Choirstaff), the first page gets one system (and the title-section) - fine. Lilypond stretches the first system vertically to make it

Re: Acciaccatura slurs

2015-08-11 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 09.08.2015 um 17:13 schrieb Thomas Morley: 2015-08-09 16:20 GMT+02:00 Andrew Bernard andrew.bern...@gmail.com: Hi Harm, Well, are the glyphs that lilypond automatically puts in for acciaccaturas slurs or ties? I am quite confused. I thought they were slurs. The manual suggests to my way of

Re: problem with installed font when set-global-staff-size is changed

2015-08-11 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 11.08.2015 um 18:19 schrieb Jonathan Scholbach: Hi! I would like to use the Garamond font for all the text in my sheet (header, lyrics, markup). I downloaded the EBGaramond from http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/download.html and put all the .otf-files into the directory

Re: Align scores in markup

2015-08-14 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 14.08.2015 um 14:58 schrieb MarcM: the custom function helps for readability and reuse of score snippets. \markup { this \score { { c' d' e' } \layout { indent=0 } } should be aligned with this \score { { c d e } \layout { indent=0 } } } %% This is more concise

\transpose and quoting

2015-08-15 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, I’m looking for a way to quote another voice, but in a different octave. My thinking was: ‘\quoteDuring is a music function, so it returns music, so I can wrap it into \transpose c c, {} and all’s fine.’ However, \transpose has no effect. Using \transposition doesn’t seem quite the

Re: \transpose and quoting

2015-08-15 Thread Simon Albrecht
Thanks, Kieren and Paul. Pre-transposing works. Best, Simon Am 15.08.2015 um 17:31 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Simon, I’m looking for a way to quote another voice, but in a different octave. I ran into this, too. Don’t know if it’s the best way, but I used \addQuote “melody_8vb”

Re: Text spanner text in the middle

2015-08-14 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 14.08.2015 um 13:11 schrieb Malte Meyn: Am 14.08.2015 um 12:32 schrieb Andrew Bernard: Just re my own suggestion of text spanners with text in the middle, although the present need is for a repeat indication, I am well aware that this is poor design, since a textual mark does not indicate

Spaces around braces

2015-07-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, I keep noticing that many users don’t put any spaces around { } = etc. I recall reading when I had just started working with Lily that it’s recommended to _always_ surround these with spaces. Ultimately, this is a GLISS issue, but is there any striking reason right now to request using

Re: chorus staff then hymn

2015-07-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Brother Gabriel, Am 23.07.2015 um 00:58 schrieb Brother Gabriel-Marie: My hymn starts with a chorus and then goes to the verses, so I want to put the chorus on its own staff, then put the verses together as numbered lyrics. Let’s start from the structure here, since LilyPond code is

\offset and mutable properties

2015-07-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, while developing a workaround (or solution?) for issue 4316 https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4316, I encountered the following problem: \offset cannot be used on X and Y offset properties, apparently because these are mutable, and as the doc string for (offsetter)

Re: Key Signature only on first staff

2015-07-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 21.07.2015 um 19:43 schrieb Simon Albrecht: Hello Brother Gabriel, Am 21.07.2015 um 19:11 schrieb BGM: My piece is in B Major and the repetition of the key signature takes up a lot of room on the page. I would like to show it on the first staff only and suppress the rest. That is unusual

Re: Key Signature only on first staff

2015-07-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Brother Gabriel, Am 21.07.2015 um 19:11 schrieb BGM: My piece is in B Major and the repetition of the key signature takes up a lot of room on the page. I would like to show it on the first staff only and suppress the rest. That is unusual, but I’ve seen it done in hymn books on small

Re: \offset and mutable properties

2015-07-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 22.07.2015 um 02:43 schrieb David Nalesnik: On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de mailto:simon.albre...@mail.de wrote: So a ‘mutable property’ would be one that is unset by default? My understanding is that immutable properties store default

Re: Attachment size

2015-07-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 21.07.2015 um 20:55 schrieb Ralph Palmer: Hello again - While we're at it, does anyone have any suggestions for reducing image size? I started with a .jpg with fairly high resolution, I guess. I have Gimp2 installed, but I could not figure out how to get the file size down below 2 Mb. I

Re: Key Signature only on first staff

2015-07-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
{ \Score } \context { \Lyrics } } \midi { } } On 7/21/2015 12:43 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote: Hello Brother Gabriel, Am 21.07.2015 um 19:11 schrieb BGM: My piece is in B Major and the repetition of the key signature takes up a lot of room on the page. I

Re: Problem with merging notes and accidental placement in two voices

2015-07-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Ralph, this is issue 1134 https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1134. There are workarounds tracked there. HTH, Simon Am 21.07.2015 um 21:13 schrieb Ralph Palmer: Greetings - (This is the second time - my original .png was too large.) I'm running LilyPond 18.2 under

Mac users: verify fix

2015-07-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Mac users, just to be sure, could someone please verify that issue 1544 is actually fixed? https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1544 Thank you, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: chorus staff then hymn

2015-07-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 23.07.2015 um 18:17 schrieb Brother Gabriel-Marie: Thank you very much. (I had searched for an hour and a half for answers before posting!) Don’t worry. It takes some time to figure out where answers can be found :-) But we’re glad to help on the list, even though sometimes the answers may

Re: \offset and mutable properties

2015-07-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi David, thanks for the response. Am 21.07.2015 um 22:17 schrieb David Nalesnik: Hi Simon, On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de mailto:simon.albre...@mail.de wrote: Hello, while developing a workaround (or solution?) for issue 4316 https

Re: \offset and mutable properties

2015-07-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
at 12:26 PM, Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de mailto:simon.albre...@mail.de wrote: Hello, while developing a workaround (or solution?) for issue 4316 https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4316, I encountered the following problem: \offset cannot be used on X

Re: workaround for a lyrics bug

2015-07-13 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 13.07.2015 um 13:46 schrieb David Kastrup: Brutal fix in 2.19.16 (issue 2010, may cause disappearing music in some circumstances), nice fix in 2.19.23 (issue 4419). Thanks a lot for that! Yours, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Overriding font size in markup variable

2015-07-14 Thread Simon Albrecht
Sorry, I forgot including the list. Am 13.07.2015 um 15:16 schrieb Simon Albrecht: Hello Javier, the relevant doc section would be http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/extending/new-markup-command-definition. See the attached solution. HTH, Simon Am 12.07.2015 um 03:08 schrieb

Re: un-bold font inside \tempo

2015-07-17 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Bruno, to avoid creating a new markup from scratch you can use LSR snippet no. 869 http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=869 to modify the default. Example attached. Yours best, Simon Am 17.07.2015 um 01:19 schrieb Bruno Ruviaro: Hi all, This is my first post on this list, and my first

Re: Full measure rest for time 6/8

2015-07-19 Thread Simon Albrecht
Excuse me, but how on earth did you get the idea of writing { R4. s4. } ? It’s got to be R2. only, of course. A ‘R’ rest is always interpreted like { | R | }, so there will be warnings if these barchecks fail. Yours, Simon Am 19.07.2015 um 15:37 schrieb MING TSANG: Dear lilyponders:

Re: TextSpanner + \mark?

2015-07-19 Thread Simon Albrecht
Unfortunately no. See https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3176. Yours, Simon Am 19.07.2015 um 15:43 schrieb James Harkins: Is there a way to use a textspanner with a \mark? Rationale: accel. and rit. directions are frequently text spanners, but in the score, they aren't

Re: Full measure rest for time 6/8

2015-07-19 Thread Simon Albrecht
by coming to the Lists for help. Which is a good thing and I’m sorry if I’ve been too harsh. I hope it’s clear now. Immanuel, Simon On Sunday, July 19, 2015 9:46 AM, Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de wrote: Excuse me, but how on earth did you get the idea of writing { R4. s4. } ? It’s got

Re: phrasing slur in piano staff

2015-07-15 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Ming, use \new Voice { \voiceOne … } \new Voice { \voiceTwo … } , i.e. two explicit voices alive through the entire piece, with only spacer rests and the stem down notes in the second voice. The first voice will then contain the phrasing slurs. There is no possibility (yet) to

Allow LyricText/SpanBar overlapping

2015-08-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, following 19th century practice, I am using StaffGroup for choir scores. When there are longer syllables at the end of a measure, they avoid to overlap with the span bar, which costs horizontal space. I’d prefer this to be turned off, but how? I might conduct a lengthy and imprecise

Re: Way to flatten nested \include's?

2015-08-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Andrew, many thanks for your work. I just tried the script and can’t avoid getting an error about lacking rights. My command was: $flatten-ly 18-der-stuermische-morgen.ly debug.ly sudo doesn’t help and it’s regardless of whether I place the script in /usr/bin/ or in ~/. Can you tell why

Re: Errors when using TabStaff with stringTunings

2015-08-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 24.08.2015 um 22:12 schrieb Kevin Nowaczyk: Thanks for the help everyone, I would up changing the stringTungings line to: \set Staff.stringTunings = \stringTuning e,, a,, d, g, And everything works fine. However, I also tried the notaion: \set Staff.stringTunings = #bass-tuning but that

Re: Way to flatten nested \include's?

2015-08-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 24.08.2015 um 21:57 schrieb Blöchl Bernhard: The attached file is a binary, not a lilypond file, regardless of the extension .ly? Have another look: it’s not flatten.ly, but flatten-ly – without any file name extension. It’s not a binary either, but plain text, and is used as a shell script,

Re: Hiding bars and crescendo on last bar of a piece

2015-10-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Karl, welcome to the list! On 24.10.2015 14:35, Karl Husum wrote: How do you hide bars in Lilypond, There’s a really nice command for that: ‘\hide BarLine’ :-) that is make them invisible? \hide does typeset the grob, but invisibly, and thus still reserves space; you might also

Re: Hiding bars and crescendo on last bar of a piece

2015-10-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
, or otherwise more context? Yours, Simon Not sure if it the most elegant solution, but it should mbe possible. Thank you Karl Den 24-10-2015 kl. 13:54 skrev Simon Albrecht: Hello Karl, welcome to the list! On 24.10.2015 14:35, Karl Husum wrote: How do you hide bars in Lilypond, There’s

Re: Rehearsal mark number

2015-10-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 24.10.2015 22:54, Jérôme Plût wrote: Is there a way, from within Scheme, to access (read/write) the following: - the current rehearsal \mark number; - (optionnally) the current value of Score.markFormatter? The reason I am asking this is that I am typesetting a score where the mark J

Re: Hiding bars and crescendo on last bar of a piece

2015-10-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 24.10.2015 15:25, Karl Husum wrote: { c1\mp\<\fermata \bar ":|."| %16 \break r1\! | %17 } The easiest way is using an empty chord <> to attach the \!. It has no duration, so you can just insert it before or after the \bar command: {

Re: My finances for working on LilyPond

2015-10-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 22.10.2015 19:21, David Kastrup wrote: As you all know, my sole source of income are donations from happy LilyPond users. It would appear that LilyPond users have stopped being happy with my work. You must know that this is not the case. I should be much surprised if I were the only one

Re: chord symbol styling

2015-10-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 27.10.2015 13:00, David Kastrup wrote: 6 whole steps per octave. So if I want to illustrate the shrinking of distances higher up the fretboard, I can just add -0.5 per semitone to the font-size. Or something. :-) ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: chord symbol styling

2015-10-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 27.10.2015 11:33, Noeck wrote: Hi, For some reason, font-size seems to have a minimum. Value "1" seems to be the minimum, and anything below that (e.g., 0.1) seems to be rounded up to 1. I could be wrong. No, you can see the size as an exponent if you like. These sizes are not: 8pt, 12pt

Re: Sibelius 7 to LilyPond Conversion!

2015-10-29 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 29.10.2015 10:28, Richard Shann wrote: The third one replaces rests that fill a whole measure with a whole measure rest - again this may just be a characteristic error made by Sibelius users. And not only by them, it can be seen in LilyPond files also. ~ Simon

Re: Using fonts installed on the system

2015-10-29 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Klaus, On 29.10.2015 23:04, Klaus Blum wrote: Hi fellow LilyPonders, has there recently been a change in how LilyPond can access fonts that are installed on the system? I'm on Windows 7... When compiling this: % \markup

Re: Sibelius 7 to LilyPond Conversion!

2015-10-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Thomas, On 28.10.2015 21:24, Thomas WillNot wrote: attempted to use the MusicXML2LY program supplied with LilyPond with no luck. MusicXML2ly is known to be unreliable and lack maintenance. It also adds staccato and other markings with "-\staccato" or "-\markup" - I don't know the

Feature Requests (was: Re: My finances for working on LilyPond)

2015-10-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 23.10.2015 20:31, Bernardo Barros wrote: Something I requested many years ago was the support for quarter-tone tablatures notation, which seems to work but is actually buggy at the moment, it generates wrong tablatures in strings with quarter-tones alterations etc. Did it receive some

Re: Feature Requests

2015-10-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 24.10.2015 00:26, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 23.10.2015 20:31, Bernardo Barros wrote: Something I requested many years ago was the support for quarter-tone tablatures notation, which seems to work but is actually buggy at the moment, it generates wrong tablatures in strings with quarter-tones

Re: Chords with "optional" notes

2015-11-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 10.11.2015 21:59, Alberto Simões wrote: On 10/11/15 20:57, Simon Albrecht wrote: The cheapest way would be (using a syntax introduced very recently) %% sm = \tweak #'font-size #-4 \etc { } %% This sounds awesome. Love that \etc there :) David K.’s work

Re: Chords with "optional" notes

2015-11-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 10.11.2015 20:31, Alberto Simões wrote: Hello There are musics where chords have a smaller note, that is optional. I found some logs from this mailing list in 2007, suggesting things like: \tweak #'font-size #-4 g Is there any easier way? (as in, less verbose). The cheapest

Re: slashes and percent

2015-11-09 Thread Simon Albrecht
c' << \changes \new Staff \melody \set Staff.instrumentName = #"Eb" >> } \bookpart { \transpose c c, << \changes \new Staff \melody \clef bass \set Staff.instrumentName = #"bs" >> } \version "2.18.2

Re: slashes and percent

2015-11-09 Thread Simon Albrecht
and \improvisationOn is for… Yours, Simon JM Le 9 nov. 2015 à 22:46, Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> a écrit : Hello Peter, now the problem is clear. That’s what the Pitch_squash_engraver, used in the example from the Notation Reference, is for: it moves all the notes to the

Re: Invisible glissando, best fix?

2015-11-08 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 08.11.2015 11:36, Richard Shann wrote: On Sat, 2015-11-07 at 23:36 +0100, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 07.11.2015 11:54, Richard Shann wrote: In some circumstances LilyPond leaves a glissando invisible: \version "2.19.25" { d'' 4\glissando cis'' 4 c'' b' } I looked up

Re: Markup for repeated notes or phrases

2015-11-09 Thread Simon Albrecht
nction (second score): % \version "2.18.2" pattern = { c16 d16 } music = \relative c' { \repeat unfold 8 \pattern } \new Voice << \music { s4.. s16-. s4 s16 s8.-> } >> %music function by David Kastrup and Simon Albrecht after = #(define-music-function (parser loca

Re: slashes and percent

2015-11-08 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Peter, On 08.11.2015 22:54, Peter Berlau wrote: Hello, I like to use slashes and percent - repeaters but without a note in the beginning, The question likely is: For what purpose do you want that? Since obviously, if you really want a percent repeat (that is an abbreviated notation

Re: Markup for repeated notes or phrases

2015-11-09 Thread Simon Albrecht
P.S. Technically, \staccato and similar are not markups (which would create a TextScript grob), but articulations (which create a Script grob) – important, when you want to use an override. On 09.11.2015 18:45, Stephan Neuhaus wrote: Dear list, I have a piece that contains phrases that are

Re: slashes and percent

2015-11-09 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 09.11.2015 21:38, Peter Berlau wrote: Hello Simon, hello All! a part of my problem is solved i using now \omit Stem b4 b b b \undo \omit Stem with the '/' as notehead But in tramspostion in Bb b = 'cis' in Es b = 'gis' thats pretty ugly... Could you please post a (small, complete

Re: slashes and percent

2015-11-08 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Peter, On 09.11.2015 00:09, Peter Berlau wrote: Hello Simon, thanks for fast answer. I use this also, but in this case I need no first note written, I like to use the percent and slashes as we call in german 'faulenzer'. It is for an "arrangement" for jazz ensemble. I have to create

Re: Gounod - Le Rendez Vous

2015-11-12 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 11.11.2015 15:39, Alberto Simões wrote: Dear list, Again, I am both pleased to announce the transcription of the Gounod Suite of Valses, "Le Rendez Vous" [1] and asking for any correction you might suggest. Two annotations: – Sometimes it would be nice to have whiteout for

Re: RFC: new location for openLilyLib repository

2015-11-13 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Urs, I think this makes a very sound and nice impression. Go ahead! Thanks, Simon On 13.11.2015 11:58, Urs Liska wrote: Am 13.11.2015 um 10:57 schrieb Davide Liessi: 2015-11-13 6:02 GMT+01:00 Henning Hraban Ramm: Why not combine the options? Use GitHub as long

Re: Tuplets spaced unevenly

2015-11-13 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 13.11.2015 09:40, Urs Liska wrote: Am 13.11.2015 um 09:11 schrieb Noeck: Hi Javier, this has been solved in some 2.19 version. In 2.19.21 the tuplets are evenly spaced. Can you upgrade? In case you *have* to use 2.18 there's a workaround by restarting a spacing section. I don't have the

Re: RFC: new location for openLilyLib repository

2015-11-13 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 13.11.2015 15:49, Urs Liska wrote: (note: this will make it possible to create private/project/house repositories that take advantage of the openLilyLib infrastructure) Will this also be possible for repositories hosted outside GitHub (e.g. with BitBucket?) ~Simon

Re: RFC: new location for openLilyLib repository

2015-11-13 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 13.11.2015 17:19, Federico Bruni wrote: Il giorno ven 13 nov 2015 alle 11:58, Urs Liska ha scritto: I suggest (and if noone objects will do it) renaming the "openlilylib" repository to "snippets" -> https://github.com/openlilylib/snippets NOTE: This may require users

Re: tips for formatting an interview

2015-11-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 15.11.2015 20:50, Federico Bruni wrote: Il giorno dom 15 nov 2015 alle 3:17, Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> ha scritto: On 14.11.2015 15:22, Federico Bruni wrote: Hi all I'm trying to format directly in LilyPond an interview (the single text only part of a book). I don'

Scheme question: convert a range

2015-11-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, The subject certainly seems cryptic – it’s difficult to summarize, but an example will make it clear immediately. I want to write a scheme procedure, which takes a pair like #'(3 . 7) and returns a list with all the numbers in the range: #'(3 4 5 6 7) How is this done most easily?

Delayed posts

2015-11-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello everybody, The notorious delay with which many posts arrive on this list gets annoying… At times there is no problem, but these days it’s really bad. Is there anything we could do? Yours, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Controlling markup vertical position

2015-11-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 16.11.2015 08:08, Menu Jacques wrote: Hello, As it turns out, using \tempo solves the issue: Well, it depends on what you’re typesetting there, but a \tempo indication will always move to the topmost staff, so this is at least very fragile. But how about: %% \version "2.19.30"

Re: Testing requested: new manuscript viewer tool for Frescobaldi

2015-11-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 15.11.2015 17:54, Federico Bruni wrote: Il giorno sab 14 nov 2015 alle 13:23, Klaus Blum ha scritto: Is there any documentation out there that tells how to run a program from git? I don't think so. It may be added to the github wiki... I have an Ubuntu

Re: Scheme question: convert a range

2015-11-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 16.11.2015 22:20, Thomas Morley wrote: (define (foo pair) (if (and (integer? (car pair)) (integer? (cdr pair))) (iota (1+ (interval-length pair)) (car pair) 1)) #f) (foo '(3 . 7)) --> (3 4 5 6 7) An equally good solution. Thank you, Simon

Re: Strange LilyPond crash

2015-11-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 16.11.2015 11:27, Marc Hohl wrote: Hi list, I am currently reworking some older stuff that compiled perfectly under 2.13.x Yes, I used convert-ly on all files, but nevertheless, I encountered a strange problem: I have a drum part, consisting of an upper and a lower DrumVoice, and if I

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