Re: Delayed posts

On 15.11.2015 20:44, Simon Albrecht wrote: 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? Or, _I_ could do, if it were a problem on my side? ~ Simon

Re: Scheme question: convert a range

On 16.11.2015 21:59, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> writes: 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 r

Re: Scheme question: convert a range

On 16.11.2015 23:30, pls wrote: Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> writes: 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 wi

Re: tips for formatting an interview

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't want to use lilypond-book and LaTeX just because of this minor part of the book. I've two questions: 1) There's any way to place the text

Re: Testing requested: new manuscript viewer tool for Frescobaldi

On 14.11.2015 13:23, Klaus Blum wrote: Is there any documentation out there that tells how to run a program from git? I have an Ubuntu installation, but no deeper Linux knowledge, so I've got no idea what to do. It is a feature of Python (in which frescobaldi is written) that a program

Re: second footnote in Lyrics doesn't work

On 12.11.2015 16:11, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Simon, >It seems that every kind of alphabetic string is mistaken by \footnote to be the second-to-last, optional argument, specifying the grob path. Ah! But… why is that not true of the FIRST lyric-embedded footnote in my example? Because

Re: second footnote in Lyrics doesn't work

Hello Kieren, On 12.11.2015 15:37, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hello all, In lyricmode, this works as expected: Oo, __ oo, __ \footnote #"*" #'(-1 . 0.5) #"* like the shower scene in “Psycho”" Ree! Ree! Ree! Hel -- lo! but this Oo, __ oo, __ \footnote #"*" #'(-1 . 0.5)

Re: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()

Hi Ming, On 12.11.2015 15:53, MING TSANG wrote: Hi, lilyponders: I ran the attach file and got the following. Question: can this be solved? How? It works fine if you don’t use any non-ASCII characters in the file name. I hope this is no problem for you. Else, there won’t be much we can do,

Re: Gounod - Le Rendez Vous

On 12.11.2015 16:52, Alberto Simões wrote: Hello, Simon! On 12/11/15 11:21, Simon Albrecht wrote: Two annotations: – Sometimes it would be nice to have whiteout for DynamicTextSpanner against SpanBar; I don’t quite know the best way to do it, though. Perhaps you could use \markup\whiteout-box

Re: [feature-request] optional duration for temporary

On 11.11.2015 14:08, Johan Vromans wrote: On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 13:42:58 +0100 David Kastrup wrote: But if you have to close the group anyway with a brace, where is the point in not just doing a music function doing { \temporary $xxx ... \undo $xxx } I do not see how to cope

Re: addlyrics does not work properly

Hello Niels, and welcome to the list. On 11.11.2015 16:39, Niels wrote: If I comment out the line with the text (cor -- di -- ae su ) the last line (eis 4. eis8 cis4 a4. a8 cis4) will be compiled and appear in the pdf file. However, If I want the text with the notes (a'4.^\markup{"alto solo"}

Re: Gounod - Le Rendez Vous

On 11.11.2015 20:29, Alberto Simões wrote: Hi, Abraham This is looking MUCH better (nice work with the extended dynamic lines ;-). I'll look at it in greater detail later, but here's one thing that I immediately noticed quite a few instances of that you would get dinged for: You should

Re: addlyrics does not work properly

P.S. If you had sent this as a reply to your first post, I’d have seen that part of my reply was pointless. Regards, Simon On 11.11.2015 16:42, Niels wrote: If I comment out the line with the text (cor -- di -- ae su ) the last line (eis 4. eis8 cis4 a4. a8 cis4) will be compiled and appear in

Re: slashes and percent

On 09.11.2015 23:30, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > > I have a "dirty solution" for this percent ( slashes ) > > \override Stem #'length = #0.0 > #'thickness = #0.0 > b4 b4 b4 > \override Stem #'length = #7.0 > \override Stem #'thickness = #1.3 > >

Re: slashes and percent

On 09.11.2015 23:52, Simon Albrecht wrote: Did you even _read_ my replies to this thread, Or did the mailing list engine delay posts again, so you couldn’t know that solutions had already been given? ~ Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: slashes and percent

On 10.11.2015 00:19, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: In my opinion, yours approach is poorly designed, since it introduces a problem (notes to represent slashes that will be transposed) that then requires a solution. The solution I disseminated avoids that problem in its entirety. Good

Re: ottavation function

On 30.10.2015 22:01, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: Second thing, try this code: \relative c'' { R1*7 \ottavation #1 c8 \ottavation #0 d, d d d d d d } It will output only "8va" without the vertical line. I believe that, according to Gould, we always need to have the vertical "hook" in the

Re: ottavation function

On 30.10.2015 22:31, Noeck wrote: Hi Simon, just to make sure: "Post awaiting moderation." is the usual thing to happen on sourceforge and someone will have a look at some point if he allows my comment? Done already :-) I suppose Phil or Trevor could well give you a status where this

Re: ottavation function

On 30.10.2015 22:01, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: Hi Simon, thanks for the improvements, I knew my function was utterly inefficient but I have a hard time with Scheme. I’ve had that too, but it gets better :-) Just two things about this all: Which modifications to your function should I do

Re: ottavation function

On 30.10.2015 23:29, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: Simon Albrecht-2 wrote Try: \layout { \context { \Staff \override OttavaBracket.springs-and-rods = #ly:spanner::set-spacing-rods %\override OttavaBracket.minimum-length = 0.3 } } and adjust minimum-length to taste

Re: Sibelius 7 to LilyPond Conversion!

Hello Thomas, On 30.10.2015 05:09, Thomas Wilmot wrote: minimal example which fails: { c-\-. } If I change it back to { c-\staccato }, then it works again { c-\staccato } would translate into the shorthand notation as: { c-. } HTH, Simon ___

Re: strange error message - cannot open .ly file

Hi Ming, On 30.10.2015 01:01, MING TSANG wrote: Hi lilyponders: Frecobaldi can open the file, yet when I hit to run lilypond, I got strange error message: I can’t confirm that either: I get two failed barchecks, but else it compiles fine. It would seem odd that Lily didn’t recognise the

Re: Q regarding best practice with \relative

On 01.11.2015 12:59, David Kastrup wrote: So there's not really a "best practice" but rather one that requires least choice-making for those not interested in making more choices than necessary. It’s also the one with the least superficial elements, in other words: least to type. Yours,

Re: Markup on different lines

On 30.10.2015 11:58, Thomas Willnot wrote: I am trying to write three markup comments in the music and they should be all on their own lines. I can't seem to find anything about that anywhere. Quite bad style to post the same question twice. I could’ve saved the time writing a reply if I had

Re: Markup on different lines

On 30.10.2015 13:48, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> writes: On 30.10.2015 11:58, Thomas Willnot wrote: I am trying to write three markup comments in the music and they should be all on their own lines. I can't seem to find anything about that anywhere. Qui

Re: Sibelius 7 to LilyPond Conversion!

On 30.10.2015 11:00, Thomas Wilmot wrote: I am trying to write three markup comments in the music and they should be all on their own lines. I can't seem to find anything about that. I can’t quite figure out what you mean… You might look in

Re: Automated processing of multiple books

On 04.11.2015 20:36, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> writes: On 04.11.2015 19:24, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> writes: This compiles fine inasmuch as the output is just as intended, but it does sport a: <0>&qu

Re: Valse des Sylphes - Charles GOUNOD

On 03.11.2015 16:43, Alberto Simões wrote: On 03/11/15 14:04, Alberto Simões wrote: I did not like them too, but no clue how to remove them. GNU LilyPond 2.18.2 here, but I can try to update (even on El Capitan!) Oh, damn. 2.18.2 is the latest stable :-/ The ‘unstable’ versions also use

Re: Cadenza...

On 03.11.2015 22:57, Malte Meyn wrote: Am 03.11.2015 um 22:33 schrieb Alberto Simões: Making the measure have a different duration is easy... Do you know the commands \cadenzaOn and \cadenzaOff? You don’t have to modify measure lengths if you use them ;) my main question is the notes

Re: Website down?

On 03.11.2015 21:56, Edward Ardzinski wrote: I haven't been able to reach http://www.lilypond.org in a few days... I’m happy to be largely independent of the website (having installed the docs locally), since downtime is quite unfortunately frequent… Yours, Simon

Re: Text-spanner text repeated at start of line

On 03.11.2015 18:50, David Kastrup wrote: you could put the bulk in a macro \addTempoText = \addTextSpannerText \markupMap LyricEvent.text \markup \upright \bold \etc \etc Astounding I call that. Kudos, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Invisible glissando, best fix?

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 the issues list and found this: { \override Glissando #'minimum-length = #5 \override Glissando

Re: A command-line wrapper for OpenLilyLIb

On 04.11.2015 14:59, Matteo Ceccarello wrote: Hello everybody, I just implemented a small command line tool that I hope will simplify the use of OpenLilyLib [1] in multiple projects. You can find a motivating example in a blog post [2]. The tool itself, together with installation

Re: Website down?

On 04.11.2015 02:45, Devin wrote: It is a real bummer that the website was down today, because I was trying to show my guitar student the software. He has a Mac and I am unfamiliar with how to install Lilypond onto a Mac from Github. In case it happens again: the download links are also

Re: Website down?

On 03.11.2015 23:54, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> writes: On 03.11.2015 21:56, Edward Ardzinski wrote: I haven't been able to reach http://www.lilypond.org in a few days... I’m happy to be largely independent of the website (having installed the docs l

Re: Automated processing of multiple books

On 04.11.2015 19:24, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> writes: Hello, I have written a Scheme function to automatically produce all parts given through a symbol-list. Here is a boiled-down, dummy example: \version "2.19.28" printParts =

Automated processing of multiple books

Hello, I have written a Scheme function to automatically produce all parts given through a symbol-list. Here is a boiled-down, dummy example: \version "2.19.28" printParts = #(define-scheme-function (abbrs) (symbol-list-or-symbol?) (let ((abbrs (if (symbol? abbrs) (list abbrs)

Re: ottavation function

On 30.10.2015 21:29, Noeck wrote: At first, the endings (22da, 29na) looked convincing, but I wondered why I have seen 22ma before (e.g. in Bravura [1]). When looking at this and searching online, I tend to think ma is correct as the Italian word seems to be 'ventiduesimo/-a' and the same for

Re: Stretching Text

Hello Dave, On 05.11.2015 18:41, Dave Higgins wrote: Is there a way to stretch text over some measures (other than manually)? For example: poco a poco crescendo to: poco a poco crescendo An oft required feature, for which the solution is not yet ready to make it into LilyPond

Re: ottavation function

Hello Gilberto, On 30.10.2015 18:49, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: H. S. Teoh wrote Very nice! But shouldn't this be fixed in Lilypond itself, not just as an external function? Thanks! And sure, if people want to implement this idea in LilyPond itself that would be ideal. Thank you for this

Re: Help with accaciatura

Hello Alberto, On 31.10.2015 22:46, Alberto Simões wrote: Hello In a piano piece, I have an accaciatura in the beginning of a repeat, in the upper voice. In the lower voice, it does not exist. It seems lilypond is somehow confused by it. This is most likely an instance of issue 34

Re: Bar count wrong after multirest

Hello Silas, On 31.10.2015 23:06, Silas S. Brown wrote: Hi, I wonder if someone could put in a feature request for better diagnostics of the following mistake. I gave this to Lilypond version 2.18.2: \score { << \new Staff << \context Voice = TheMusic { \compressFullBarRests \override

Re: any slur after-line-breaking [automated] hacks?

On 19.10.2015 04:47, Kieren MacMillan wrote: a great number of trial-and-error adjustment+compilation cycles Well, \shapeII by Janek in openlilylib does offer the facility of giving a list of lists for each of the siblings of a broken bezier (that’s not documented, IIRC), like: \shapeII

Re: partcombine and multi-measure rests

On 14.10.2015 20:41, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: \version "2.17.95" Just out of interest: what makes you still use that particular version? Regards, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: partcombine and multi-measure rests

On 14.10.2015 20:41, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: Something just crossed my mind and this works out well: by using \repeat unfold N R1 we can solve this problem, This is not a full solution: if you try \compressFullBarRests, you’ll notice different behaviour (some wrote a music function to deal

Re: Stem-to-stem slurs

On 07.10.2015 14:50, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Javier, Other than adding \shape overrides Why do you want to avoid \shape overrides? Because they have to be done for each slur individually? At any rate, it would be easier to, say, \override Slur.attachment = #'Stem (as opposed to

Re: Accidentals tied over a system break

On 08.10.2015 16:38, Trevor Daniels wrote: Furthermore, if the tie is removed the sharp on the final fis is also removed. The issue is, without the \break the final fis needs the sharp as the second fis doesn't have one, being tied to the first fis. Adding the \break causes the second fis to

Workaround for issue 4633?

Hello, does anybody have an idea how to work around issue 4633 ? The problem is that the MMR should use the same glyph as `r\breve`, but it doesn’t iff the staff is explicitly instantiated _and_ Timing_translator is moved to Staff level.

Re: Repeat with alternatives

Hi David, On 15.10.2015 17:48, David Wright wrote: Now I have another target to think about: how music functions work. You might be interested in the Extending Manual, especially . HTH, Simon

Re: Workaround for issue 4633?

On 16.10.2015 01:25, Thomas Morley wrote: \override MultiMeasureRest.usable-duration-logs = #'(-3 -2 -1) Brilliant! Thanks :-) Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Emacs lilypond-mode

On 19.10.2015 18:01, Laura Conrad wrote: The problem is when entering long note values, which are common in early 16th century music, I have to leave the keypad to type \breve and \longa Except you’d enter it with shortened note values (say to 1/4) and use e.g. the Frescobaldi Rhythm Tools to

Serpent Publications

Hello Laura, I just had a look at your collection. Very nice project you have there! I like the concept of using parts and retaining the original ‘measure notation’. (Personally, I also think we might gain a lot by just turning to use the traditional c clefs

Re: independent time signatures

On 21.10.2015 00:09, Urs Liska wrote: This is true, LilyPond can only make a line break when all staves are at the same moment in time. You can force mid-measure breaks with \bar "", but only at these points. Unless of course you remove the "Forbid_line_break_engraver" (from Voice) – a

Re: lyrics placement change from 2.18 to 2.19 ?

Hello Johannes, and welcome to the list. On 09.10.2015 00:02, Johannes Waldmann wrote: Hi. The following snippet is interpreted differently by 2.18.* and 2.19.* : \score { << \new Staff { \key a \minor \relative c'' { a1 \new Voice { c2 d2 } e1 }} \addlyrics { foo bar } } notes are

LilyPond syntax element like Scheme ‘)’? (was: Re: Selected pieces in a book)

The definition of \stringAppend is definitely awkward. After all, the only difference between \stringAppend and \string-append is that the former has a specified number of arguments, and the latter doesn’t work since in LilyPond syntax there is no delimiter like ‘)’ in Scheme. I wonder if we

Re: Offset fermata problem

Hello Jacques, On 05.10.2015 17:25, Menu Jacques wrote: Hello folks, I’d like to obtain the following from Poulenc, in which the fermata is in-between a2 and r4: based on an idea by David Kastrup I wrote a music function, which provides a nice interface for this kind of things:

Re: Ties or multiple voices

On 05.10.2015 19:00, S wrote: My question may need some clarification. Especially the third example, which should look something like this: Inline afbeelding 1 \relative c''{ <<{2. r4}\\{4 a8 c}>> } The tie starting at the b on the third beat in the second voice looks a

Re: Handling of objects near barlines

Hello David, On 05.10.2015 19:49, David Sumbler wrote: Even when we write the opposite, Lilypond still conforms to the standard practice - which is very nice of it, but unnecessary. Lilypond is a practical tool, not an educational one, and people using it know the conventions I don’t and I’m

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

On 05.10.2015 13:33, Urs Liska wrote: Remove the slurs in the first two measures completely Hear, hear! The musicologist deviates from the original notation :-) You definitely need to make an editorial remark… Cheek aside, I think they are phrasing slurs and make sense as such. Yours, Simon

Re: Two questions about key signatures

On 05.10.2015 11:33, T. Michael Sommers wrote: Hmmm. When I change from a key with sharps or flats in it to one with no sharps or flats, the cancelling accidentals still appear. I can understand that, since otherwise there would be no indication that the key had changed, but for my

Re: Offset fermata problem

On 06.10.2015 15:45, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> writes: Hello Jacques, On 05.10.2015 17:25, Menu Jacques wrote: Hello folks, I’d like to obtain the following from Poulenc, in which the fermata is in-between a2 and r4: based on an idea by David Kas

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

On 06.10.2015 22:22, jurgen.lams...@telenet.be wrote: Thanks a lot everyone for those smart responses. I've been reading and re-reading the thread multiple times ;-) Must say, reading let stand writing code like this for such an easy part is not that easy for a beginner I'm afraid... If you

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

Hello Jurgen, On 05.10.2015 12:46, jurgen.lams...@telenet.be wrote: Hi all, I'm a complete newbie here, so please bear with me ;-) I already spent a couple of hours, reading all manuals and mailing lists, Reading the manuals is always helpful, but at the beginning it’s a huge heap – and

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

On 06.10.2015 06:40, David Wright wrote: However, I just wanted to observe two things about the OP's original: the words are much smaller, and the first three bars look as though they are using proportional spacing. No, they don’t. Proportional spacing is a very specific means for

Re: Tweaking a footnote

On 08.10.2015 18:58, David Sumbler wrote: Thanks for the response. It hadn't occurred to me to look in \paper variables for 'footnote-separator-markup', though it probably should have done. Don’t worry. The footnote engine is not well documented. Similarly, it hadn't occurred to me simply

Re: opus and piece fields in top level header.

On 09.10.2015 22:25, Richard Shann wrote: In the 2.18 it does not seem to mention that the opus and piece fields are not output anywhere if they are set in a \header{} block *outside* any \score{} block, but this seems to be the case. I can’t access the 2.18 docs ATM, since lilypond.org is

Re: compress full bar rests

Hello David, On 09.10.2015 22:31, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: Somehow, through this framework, I cannot get full bar rests to compress when I use a globals treatment. Minimal examples are highly useful: You should follow the instructions on if you

Re: Frescobaldi creates the pdf but doesn't export it?

On 10.10.2015 13:10, Federico Bruni wrote: I wouldn't suggest to enable "Save document is possible" when saving to an SSD disk. Why that? ~ Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Frescobaldi creates the pdf but doesn't export it?

Hello Luca, On 10.10.2015 11:57, Luca Danieli wrote: Hello all, in these last 2 days I have been re-editing some scores of mine in lilypond. One worked perfectly, while the second one worked fine as well but didn't export the pdf file of the score. I mean that I can stream the pdf in

Re: Frescobaldi creates the pdf but doesn't export it?

P.S. It’s better if you compose a new e-mail to the list than replying to an old one. There is some internal data field which assigns the new e-mail to the other thread, even if you edit the subject line. Thanks. On 10.10.2015 11:57, Luca Danieli wrote: Hello all, in these last 2 days I

Re: Frescobaldi creates the pdf but doesn't export it?

On 10.10.2015 12:55, Federico Bruni wrote: it's evident by the output he pasted that he saved the file No, it’s not. If I take a ‘test.ly’ file, make some changes and process it without saving before, I get Starting lilypond 2.18.2 [test.ly]... Processing

Re: Ottava bracket outside-staff-priority

On 10.10.2015 13:04, Andrew Bernard wrote: It is as though the ottava bracket ignores changes to its outside-staff-priority It’s probably simple as that: Ottava_spanner_engraver lives in Staff, so you need to \override Staff.OttavaBracket. Yours, Simon

Re: acciaccatura in grace

On 12.10.2015 23:18, Mario Moles wrote: Hi! How do like the image? Where is it from? Could be Chopin, he was always the guy for extreme notational constructs. This is not working: 8[ \grace {fs'16( gs) fs es fs gs fs \acciaccatura {} ds'} ds16. cs32] Please, in future,

Re: shapeII (openlilylib) with v2.19.25

On 13.10.2015 20:49, Urs Liska wrote: Can I assume that you two have looked enough on the code so I can merge without further testing (I'd be glad in this case)? Yes, the changes are minimally invasive and I’d be much surprised if there was any problem. Thanks for merging. Looks

Re: Beam devide

On 13.10.2015 21:34, David Kastrup wrote: Helge <helge.kr...@gmx.net> writes: Am Tue, 13 Oct 2015 20:41:21 +0200 schrieb Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de>: \set Timing.beamExceptions = #'((end . (((1 . 8) . (4 4)) ((1 . 12

Re: shapeII (openlilylib) with v2.19.25

On 13.10.2015 02:06, Peter Crighton wrote: 2015-09-08 0:23 GMT+02:00 Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de <mailto:simon.albre...@mail.de>>: Am 07.09.2015 um 22:52 schrieb Urs Liska: Simon, please create an issue on GitHub with this information.

Re: Beam devide

Hello Helge, try inserting the following: On 13.10.2015 20:25, Helge wrote: \version "2.18.0" \relative c { \set tupletSpannerDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 8) \set Timing.beamExceptions = #'((end . (((1 . 8) . (4 4)) ((1 . 12) . (3 3 3 3))

Re: Printing movement titles in page header

Am 09.07.2015 um 16:34 schrieb Wols Lists: On 09/07/15 09:05, Mark Knoop wrote: Thanks Jan-Peter, I'll take a look at this and post back if I make any progress. I was pointed at the scheme code that prints the header - can't remember what it was and I'm not on the computer with it so I can't

Re: Equivalent of the automatic insertion of '\bar !'

The most convenient, I think, is using a separate variable like pat = { s4 s s \bar ! s s } barlines = { % \time 5/4 would be best placed within \global anyway \repeat unfold 100 \pat } and inserting it into one of the \voices in parallel. I don’t think there is a more specific solution for

Re: Scholarly footnotes

On 13.11.2015 13:29, Graham King wrote: I might struggle a bit at first to get from Scheme to lilypond markup In case you don’t know about that already: might help. Yours, Simon

Re: Make a new staff occupy the same vertical space as a previous staff

Am 27.08.2015 um 15:50 schrieb Joel Ebel: On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 2:53 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Oh wow. This one is seriously annoying. If you take out all \stopStaff, it is apparent that the TabStaff is alive through the whole piece. This is also the case when replacing \new

Re: a basic question

Hello Paul, I do suggest using the solution Marc provided, it’s so much easier. But for the sake of completeness: Am 27.08.2015 um 09:44 schrieb B~M: Sorry to ask this silly little question. I am writing out SATB harmonies for a music exam and Ive decided to colour the bass in blue, just to

Re: bowing change in a long trill

Hello Robert and Paul, Am 27.08.2015 um 17:44 schrieb Robert Schmaus: Note the use of ‘s’, a spacer rest, which is semantically more correct than \hide c''. I used the hidden note to place the bowing sign in the correct height. I'm not sure if s\upbow looks good if you overlay that with

Re: a basic question

Am 27.08.2015 um 17:11 schrieb Marc Hohl: Am 27.08.2015 um 16:55 schrieb Marc Hohl: Am 27.08.2015 um 14:48 schrieb Simon Albrecht: Hello Paul, [...] The solution posted by Mark will not work on anything which lives at Score level, e.g. ledger lines and bar lines. Since the OP example

Re: bowing change in a long trill

: % \version 2.19.25 % music function by Simon Albrecht after an idea of David Kastrup after = #(define-music-function (t e m) (ly:duration? ly:music? ly:music?) #{ #m { \skip $t -\tweak extra-spacing-width #empty-interval $e } #}) \relative { c''2.\downbow ~ %% read: after the duration

Re: bowing change in a long trill

Am 27.08.2015 um 20:53 schrieb Robert Schmaus: Hi Simon, I never really checked out this structure { music } { yet more music } Awesome, I didn't know it worked that way! Simultaneous music within a voice – that’s also how often a \global variable with \tempo, \key, \mark and \bar

Re: bowing change in a long trill

Am 28.08.2015 um 13:24 schrieb B~M: Dear Rob thanks so much for your help and all the others that helped with my little questions. Thanks also for pointing out potential copyright issues. On this point, perhaps you can educate me. I've transposed several works Hindemith wrote for Violin to

Re: LilyPond crashes on \musicglyph #space

Am 29.08.2015 um 14:23 schrieb David Kastrup: Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com writes: I just noticed that LilyPond is crashing on this: \version 2.18.0 { ^\markup {\musicglyph #space} s1*4/4 } with Interpreting music... Preprocessing graphical objects...terminate called after

Re: how to get notes without tails?

Am 30.08.2015 um 21:52 schrieb Trevor Daniels: Blöchl Bernhard wrote Sunday, August 30, 2015 7:56 PM Well, the glossary is a nice hint. But have you considered that the glossary is only available in English? So that a not anglophone could not find an expression she/he does not know! (Just

Re: how to get notes without tails?

Am 30.08.2015 um 18:39 schrieb BB: On 30.08.2015 16:47, Malte Meyn wrote: Am 30.08.2015 um 16:20 schrieb BB: I actually do some work with arabic scales (maqamat) and would like notes without tails. Is there any switch in lilypond? (As example see http://maqamworld.com/maqamat/bayati.html)

Re: how to get notes without tails?

Am 30.08.2015 um 20:56 schrieb Blöchl Bernhard: It could help, if there is a parallel glossary in another mothertongue. This is not the case, as there is only an English version - AFAIK. Do you really think, a non English speaker will find a word in an English glossary one does not know?

Re: Glossary index [was: how to get notes without tails?]

Am 30.08.2015 um 22:42 schrieb Trevor Daniels: Simon Albrecht wrote Sunday, August 30, 2015 8:58 PM Am 30.08.2015 um 21:52 schrieb Trevor Daniels: It would be a great help, I think, to add all the non-English terms to the Glossary Index. That would be easy to do, but very laborious and time

Re: how to get notes without tails?

Am 30.08.2015 um 21:32 schrieb Blöchl Bernhard: Am 30.08.2015 21:11, schrieb Simon Albrecht: Am 30.08.2015 um 20:56 schrieb Blöchl Bernhard: It could help, if there is a parallel glossary in another mothertongue. This is not the case, as there is only an English version - AFAIK. Do you

lyric-text::interpolate-alignment

Hello, with my current project I wanted to avoid making too many manual adjustments on LyricText.self-alignment-X, and so I made an essay at having this done automatically depending on the width of the syllable. It’s not a very sophisticated approach – a really intelligent solution is still

Re: lyric-text::interpolate-alignment

Am 26.08.2015 um 00:04 schrieb Simon Albrecht: Hello, with my current project I wanted to avoid making too many manual adjustments on LyricText.self-alignment-X, and so I made an essay at having this done automatically depending on the width of the syllable. It’s not a very sophisticated

Re: lyric-text::interpolate-alignment

Am 26.08.2015 um 01:31 schrieb David Nalesnik: Simon, On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de mailto:simon.albre...@mail.de wrote: Am 26.08.2015 um 00:04 schrieb Simon Albrecht: Hello, with my current project I wanted to avoid making too

Re: Glossary index [was: how to get notes without tails?]

Am 31.08.2015 um 17:40 schrieb BB: I avoided using "Vorhalt". A "Vorhalt" is not a proper word in this context. A "Vorhalt" is in English a "suspension". That means that in a shift of harmony from one chord to another one or more notes of the first chord are played again (or held, prolonged)

Re: stacking whole notes of different size

Am 31.08.2015 um 18:22 schrieb Marc Hohl: Am 31.08.2015 um 15:41 schrieb Simon Albrecht: Hello Marc, this is a known issue: see <https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/3900/>. Ok, so I managed to shift the upper note heads by using extra-offset: < g \tweak font-size #

Re: Gallery of Interesting Music Notation

Am 31.08.2015 um 21:33 schrieb Steve Lacy: I found this fascinating: http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/donbyrd/InterestingMusicNotation.html I wonder if anyone here (or elsewhere) has tried to engrave some of these, even as musical fragments? Well, in order to engrave Sorabji (with the slur

Re: Gallery of Interesting Music Notation

Am 31.08.2015 um 21:33 schrieb Steve Lacy: I found this fascinating: http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/donbyrd/InterestingMusicNotation.html I wonder if anyone here (or elsewhere) has tried to engrave some of these, even as musical fragments? I'm sure it would be an eye-opening process. :)

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