Re: Small flageolet

2016-06-11 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 11.06.2016 13:25, Andrew Bernard wrote: New Complexity School scores, which all my work is. Therefore I often need non Common Era engraving concepts. In this case, I need two harmomic indicators for a work for 10 string guitar. Yeah, but the point is, then you have a chord, don’t you?

Re: Making flags a bit thicker? Changing distance between key signature elements?

2016-05-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 30.05.2016 11:13, Stanislav wrote: Hello everybody! I have been developing tactile stave music notation for the visually impaired. I am going to make a score with subsequent milling on a CNC machine. Now I mainly use Musescore, which is a wonderful piece of software, but as of yet it cannot

Re: Making flags a bit thicker? Changing distance between key signature elements?

2016-05-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
is that pieces of music is lng. Besides now I have been experimenting, so I am going to mill a simple Bach’s invention. Shouldn’t be too many problems with formatting I hope. Sincerely Stas. On 30 May 2016, at 12:27, Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> wrote: On 30.05.2016 11:13, Sta

Re: Making flags a bit thicker? Changing distance between key signature elements?

2016-05-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 30.05.2016 11:53, Federico Bruni wrote: Il giorno lun 30 mag 2016 alle 11:13, Stanislav ha scritto: Now I mainly use Musescore, which is a wonderful piece of software, but as of yet it cannot change the width of flags and chance distance between key signature

Re: Further scheme help, please

2016-05-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 30.05.2016 17:23, Phil Holmes wrote: I obviously need to do more potato peeling. Words of wisdom :-) On 30.05.2016 16:18, David Kastrup wrote: $@(make-list n #{ \lyricmode { _ } #}) David, could you give a hint as to what the @ does here, or where it’s documented? Obviously it’s not

Re: Further scheme help, please

2016-05-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 30.05.2016 18:41, David Kastrup wrote: On 30.05.2016 16:18, David Kastrup wrote: $@(make-list n #{ \lyricmode { _ } #}) David, could you give a hint as to what the @ does here, or where it’s documented? Obviously it’s not the use which is documented with Guile 1.8

1/24 in Allabreve

2016-06-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello everybody, I just noticed that Lily by default beams semiquaver triplets in 2/2 time 12 and 12, i.e. by half measure. That seems clumsy to me, and I’d vote for beaming them 6+6+6+6 by default. Any opinions? Best, Simon PS. Found this in Schubert, D 672, m.18ff.

Re: multiple tails

2016-05-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 30.05.2016 21:20, Michael Edwards wrote: And (maybe even more important): what code did produce that output? Here's bar 711. Please note that this code is being generated by my algorithmic composition software, slippery chicken, though I'm not sure that makes a difference. r8 < d'

Re: Custom / Fine tuning vertical space between piano staff lines

2016-06-17 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 17.06.2016 02:28, Harald Christiansen wrote: Hi, I need to add some supplemental white space between piano staff lines (to avoid a crowded look and near clashes). I looked long and hard at TFM _and_ whatever snippets I could find, but unfortunately I am still none the wiser :| The only

Re: In divisi lyrics, \skip in the top line skips two notes and causes bottom line to skip one note

2016-06-17 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Edward, On 17.06.2016 20:48, Edward Usher wrote: A question on the following MWE: \version "2.18.2" \score { << \new Voice = "melody" { \time 3/4 c'4 c'4 c'4 | c'4 c'4 c'4 | c'2. | } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" { << { a \skip 1 c } \new

Re: In divisi lyrics, \skip in the top line skips two notes and causes bottom line to skip one note

2016-06-17 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 17.06.2016 21:51, Simon Albrecht wrote: Unfortunately, the technique of nesting \new Lyrics is from an example in our very own manuals, as Edward pointed out in the other subthread. The only reliable solution I can think of right now is having all lyrics contexts start at the beginning

Re: In divisi lyrics, \skip in the top line skips two notes and causes bottom line to skip one note

2016-06-17 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 17.06.2016 21:47, David Kastrup wrote: Edward Usher writes: A question on the following MWE: \version "2.18.2" \score { << \new Voice = "melody" { \time 3/4 c'4 c'4 c'4 | c'4 c'4 c'4 | c'2. | } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody"

Re: how to get short broken ties

2016-06-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 21.06.2016 13:18, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Note that this is not a theoretical issue. Especially in French impressionistic piano music like the works of Debussy and Ravel I've seen such a notation, and having a `\shortTie' command would be handy. See

Re: \accidentalStyle for common choir notation

2016-06-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 21.06.2016 13:31, Jonathan Scholbach wrote: Can someone please help me? I grubbed myself through the manuals and was still unable to find a way to write my own /\accidentalStyle/ There is no actual documentation for creating custom accidental styles. I made a little dent into the high

Re: Custom / Fine tuning vertical space between piano staff lines

2016-06-19 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 19.06.2016 13:36, Noeck wrote: I could not find the setting which I suppose is similar to \paper { annotate-spacing = ##t } such that you can directly use the normal lilypond and see the skylines. Maybe someone can point me to it... #(ly:set-option 'debug-skylines #t) HTH, Simon

Re: \accidentalStyle for common choir notation

2016-06-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 22.06.2016 12:30, Phil Holmes wrote: Again, not at all. Piano players must read more than one staff at a time, and therefore an accidental on one staff might be felt to affect pitches on other staves. Singers (like orchestral players) have no need to see the music of the other voices

The purpose of \version

2016-06-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Harald, On 18.06.2016 19:40, Harald Christiansen wrote: (Now I am confused about the '\version'. Looks to me like it doesn't do what I understand it's supposed to do. But that's another story.) Basically, \version is only for maintenance purposes. LilyPond doesn’t actually do anything

Re: hairpin length

2016-06-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 18.06.2016 17:27, David Nalesnik wrote: (I would propose that bound-padding be redefined as a pair in the code base. Broken-bound-padding, too. The latter is not replaced with a broken-bound-padding-pair in this code experiment, but that should be easily done.) Well, it should be pretty

Re: Outliner markup command

2016-01-13 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 13.01.2016 13:24, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: Hi David, 2016-01-12 23:52 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup >: \override #`(color . ,red) And yes, I use a backward tick here. The forward tick will not cooperate with the comma later. I'm not sure

Re: Repeat 8va

2016-01-13 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 13.01.2016 20:02, John Gourlay wrote: There it is! I don’t know why I missed it the first time. I”m sorry to be a bother. Never mind, the docs _are_ difficult to penetrate sometimes… Yours, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Help with unexpexted double barline trouble and \markup

2016-01-15 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 15.01.2016 17:50, Urs Liska wrote: Am 15.01.2016 um 17:46 schrieb Simon Albrecht: On 15.01.2016 16:58, Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote: 1) My experience is that reading rhythms with the stemlets over the rests helps alot. It is a tad "modern" but generally approved. Is there a w

Re: Help with unexpexted double barline trouble and \markup

2016-01-15 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 15.01.2016 16:58, Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote: 1) My experience is that reading rhythms with the stemlets over the rests helps alot. It is a tad "modern" but generally approved. Is there a way to make it global? No problem: just insert \context { \Voice \override

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2016-01-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 18.01.2016 14:33, BB wrote: On 18.01.2016 13:29, Kieren MacMillan wrote: might be named Dm9no5/C, Cno5add2add4, Fmaj7add6no3/C depending on the context. Names are interpretations of the notes and always depend on the context. Your chords in the posting be labelled as Bb/C or

Alignment of ‘non-extremal’ bass figures

2016-01-15 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, does anyone know how to vertically align the 9 and 8 in the following example? \version "2.19.35" \score { << { s1 } \figures { <10 9>4 <8> } >> } TIA, Simon \version "2.19.35" \score { << { s1 } \figures { <10 9>4 <8> } >>

Re: Alignment of ‘non-extremal’ bass figures

2016-01-15 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 16.01.2016 00:44, Simon Albrecht wrote: Hello, does anyone know how to vertically align the 9 and 8 in the following example? \version "2.19.35" \score { << { s1 } \figures { <10 9>4 <8> } >> } Forgot to mention: I alre

Re: Handling of subdivisions with shortened beams

2016-01-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 18.01.2016 18:27, Urs Liska wrote: Am 18.01.2016 um 18:24 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Urs, c) Take a) as the default and provide a context property This. Thanks, Kieren. Any suggestions for a better name than \set subdividedBeamCountAddForShortenedBeam = ##t It would almost

Re: Configuring beam count at subdivisions

2016-01-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 18.01.2016 18:12, Urs Liska wrote: Thanks for the feedback. off-list I got one strong opinion against providing the #'one option because it's incorrect. ‘Because it’s incorrect’ being one of the weaker arguments. Actually it impedes legibility, so… I know it's incorrect, and that's

Re: Configuring beam count at subdivisions

2016-01-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 18.01.2016 17:32, Urs Liska wrote: This gives arguably the best option as default and still gives Sibelius-converts the chance to redo their familiar shortcomings ;-) Opinions? LGTM :-) Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2016-01-17 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 17.01.2016 22:35, Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote: Thank you. This is indeed a good start! However. How to adjust the lenght of the parenthesis? As of now they only encapsule 1/3 of the stack. I havent the foggiest on how to make them "flexible". You might have a look in the NR, section A.11

Re: temporarily escaping chordmode

2016-01-17 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 18.01.2016 02:00, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hello all, If I’ve want to explicitly enter a chord in a chordmode block, e.g., \chordmode { c1 d1:m6 } what’s the incantation? In case you should need that for which you initially asked :-) – there’s \notemode {}. Normally

Re: Alignment of ‘non-extremal’ bass figures

2016-01-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 16.01.2016 12:16, Thomas Morley wrote: 2016-01-16 0:44 GMT+01:00 Simon Albrecht<simon.albre...@mail.de>: >Hello, > >does anyone know how to vertically align the 9 and 8 in the following >example? > >\version "2.19.35" >\score { > << >

Re: smallest possible bounding box

2016-01-17 Thread Simon Albrecht
Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de <mailto:simon.albre...@mail.de>>: On 17.01.2016 12:10, Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote: 2) I need to export pngs for my latex documents and i would like the bounding box to be as small as possible. How do i do this? It’s not quite clear what you

Re: Alignment of ‘non-extremal’ bass figures

2016-01-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 16.01.2016 12:48, Richard Shann wrote: The syntax Denemo uses is this <10 9>4 \once \override Staff.BassFigureAlignmentPositioning #'Y-offset = #'7 You could use Staff.BassFigureAlignmentPositioning.Y-offset here – unless you want to support 2.16 syntax, but other than that there’s no

Re: Instrument names and smallest possible bounding box

2016-01-17 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 17.01.2016 12:10, Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote: The default placement of instrument names seems a bit messy compared to my default Sibelius output. They seem "off", not alligned properly. This is of course the fault of the author. Most likely there is a easy fix. Suggestions? Well, it’s not

Re: smallest possible bounding box

2016-01-17 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 17.01.2016 12:10, Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote: 2) I need to export pngs for my latex documents and i would like the bounding box to be as small as possible. How do i do this? It’s not quite clear what you want. Perhaps: \paper { top-margin = 0 bottom-margin = 0 left-margin = 0

Re: smallest possible bounding box

2016-01-17 Thread Simon Albrecht
\context { \Staff \omit TimeSignature \override InstrumentName.self-alignment-X = #RIGHT %% or 1 } } } HTH, Pierre 2016-01-17 12:30 GMT+01:00 Carl-Henrik Buschmann <chbuschm...@mac.com <mailto:chbuschm...@mac.com>>: > 17. jan. 2016 kl. 12.22 skrev Si

Re: Behavior of non-flag side with strictBeatBeaming

2016-01-14 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 15.01.2016 01:09, Urs Liska wrote: F) is interesting as it*only* has strictBeatBeaming set. There is no subdivision in the middle of the beam (7-8) because subdivideBeams is not set. However, the beamlets at stems 2 and 10 force the subdivisions 2-3 and 9-10, each resulting in the beam count

Re: Swedish letters in Lilypond lyrics?

2016-01-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 19.01.2016 01:52, Andrew Bernard wrote: Hi Karin, Lilypond is Unicode aware. HTML escape codes have no relevance to lilypond. There are the text replacements, see NR A.13 (2.19.35). Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Ossia problem

2016-01-14 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 29.12.2015 17:32, Abraham Lee wrote: David, On Tuesday, December 29, 2015, David Kastrup > wrote: Ralph Palmer > writes: > Greetings - > > I'm running ly 2.19.33 under Win7. > > I'm trying

Re: Swedish letters in Lilypond lyrics?

2016-01-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
Den mån 2016-01-18 skrev Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de>: Ämne: Re: Swedish letters in Lilypond lyrics? Till: "Karin" <karin_glasmas...@yahoo.se>, lilypond-user@gnu.org Datum: måndag 18 januari 2016 21:47 On 18.01.2016 20:33

Re: Swedish letters in Lilypond lyrics?

2016-01-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
f you can find an option in your editor to save it in UTF-8 encoding. Best, Simon BR, Karin Den mån 2016-01-18 skrev Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de>: Ämne: Re: Swedish letters in Lilypond lyrics? Till: "Karin"

Re: Swedish letters in Lilypond lyrics?

2016-01-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 18.01.2016 20:33, Karin wrote: Hi! I have just recently discovered the world of Lilypond and was really pleased as long as I wrote the lyrics in English. When switching to Swedish I ran into trouble. There are three specific characters in Swedish and only onle of them is available in the

Re: Swedish letters in Lilypond lyrics?

2016-01-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 18.01.2016 22:18, k...@aspodata.se wrote: Simon Albrecht: On 18.01.2016 22:03, Karin Glasmästar wrote: Now I found the way to what Karl wrote: I am using the built-in crude editor of Lilypond itself - doesn't that editor support UTF-8? I don’t know, I’m not even sure if there is a Linux

Re: Restricting cross staff stems

2016-06-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
supposed to cross between the middle and low staves, but not to the top one. Sorry for being smug. Best, Simon Andrew On 25 June 2016 at 8:01:12 PM, Simon Albrecht (simon.albre...@mail.de <mailto:simon.albre...@mail.de>) wrote: On 25.06.2016 11:46, Andrew Bernard wrote: > Gree

Re: Multiple rhythms in same score

2016-06-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 24.06.2016 05:17, Don Gingrich wrote: When I see full scores for a number of songs published, it is clear that the reason that various verses are printed separately is that one or more bars have significantly different rhythm from the first verse. This is the same case with bilingual vocal

Re: Restricting cross staff stems

2016-06-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 25.06.2016 11:46, Andrew Bernard wrote: Greetings all, Referring to the attached image, I want the cross staff stems to not extend to the top staff, temporarily, for a short section of score. Can this be done? Huh? The last time I looked, you had to wrap the notes concerned in the

Re: Direction of tie from Completion_heads_engraver

2016-02-05 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 05.02.2016 23:25, Noeck wrote: a general upward flip of the ties can be achieved more easily with \tieUp (slaps hand to forehead) I see, the problem is not the \override, but the \once, or rather the moment at which the override is valid. An \override without \once works, and even the

Re: Direction of tie from Completion_heads_engraver

2016-02-05 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 05.02.2016 23:37, Simon Albrecht wrote: Thanks Harm, that’s an intelligent solution for a global setting. Indeed, I only wanted to change it for some particular instances, where tie and slur go in opposite directions (see my other post of yesterday) Which shows that it would have been

Re: Direction of tie from Completion_heads_engraver

2016-02-05 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 05.02.2016 23:45, David Kastrup wrote: Actually, I looked at the problem and the C code and decided that it was not doable (I'm no Morley it would appear). I figured out that a \once \override "at the right moment" would have worked, but since the whole point of the Completion_heads_engraver

Re: Grace notes and voices.

2016-02-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 07.02.2016 01:13, Hwaen Ch'uqi wrote: Having searched rather thoroughly through the archives, I understand that the issue of grace notes within voice contexts is a perennial one. Unfortunately, the Known Issues and Warnings do not address my problem, and the example is, to my mind, incredibly

Re: Very fast typesetting regardless of beauty?

2016-02-04 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 04.02.2016 02:51, Isaac Reilly wrote: And since it will always be rendering to a single page wide enough to hold it all on one line, I'd like to turn off the line break calculations. At least there are the ly:one-line-breaking and ly:one-line-auto-height-breaking (only from 2.19.36)

Direction of tie from Completion_heads_engraver

2016-02-04 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, is there any possibility to tweak direction of a tie generated via the Completion_heads_engraver? The following tweaks both don’t work: %%% \version "2.19.36" \layout { \context { \Voice \remove "Note_heads_engraver" \consists "Completion_heads_engraver" } } {

Tie and slur in opposite directions

2016-02-04 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, I find the output from the following example quite unpleasant due to the different directions of slur and tie. What do you think? Do the ‘authorities’ say anything on the topic? Curiously, I can’t find a corresponding example for a downward slur and upward tie right now. Slurs have a

Re: Super and sub

2016-02-07 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 07.02.2016 11:39, David Kastrup wrote: >(Preferably with LilyPonds own accidentals and perhaps the BC-font.) Well, what you put in there is up to you. You can also experiment along the lines of %%% \version "2.19.36" #(define-markup-command (number-stack layout props args)

Re: Super and sub

2016-02-07 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 07.02.2016 14:50, Phil Holmes wrote: I wasn't aware that git-cl "always fails". Could you describe the problem I thought it was a known issue? It’s the case for which you recently added more helpful messages. Here’s the command line in- and output: $ git cl upload origin/master

Re: Super and sub

2016-02-07 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 07.02.2016 14:27, Noeck wrote: Could someone guide me a bit, how to upload the patch? Should the issue 3619 [1] be continued or a new one created? It’ll be better to create a new one. The procedure to submit patches is explained in the CG, see especially

Re: LilyBin.com wedged?

2016-02-04 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 05.02.2016 02:14, Steve Lacy wrote: It looks like lilybin.com is internally wedged or something? The right hand side is just showing a "please wait" spinner for me, and the "Preview" button is greyed. No problem here. Just try again :-) Best, Simon

Re: Direction of tie from Completion_heads_engraver

2016-02-05 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 05.02.2016 22:44, Thomas Morley wrote: 2016-02-04 23:57 GMT+01:00 Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de>: Hello, is there any possibility to tweak direction of a tie generated via the Completion_heads_engraver? The following tweaks both don’t work: %%% \version "2.19.

Re: "Automatische Aufteilung von Noten"

2016-01-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 28.01.2016 11:02, Bernhard Kleine wrote: I have the following code and want to add this snippet from the Documentation: \new Voice \with { \remove "Note_heads_engraver" \consists "Completion_heads_engraver" \remove "Rest_engraver" \consists "Completion_rest_engraver" Adding it

Re: Four Part Piano Staff

2016-02-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 02.02.2016 03:25, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: Hello, I want to make a template for a piano staff with two explicitly instantiated voices (not <<{ } \\{ } >>) in each staff – this for four part fugues. Any assistance in accomplishing this would be greatly appreciated. To come back to

Re: How to align text and dynamixs

2016-02-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 02.02.2016 08:43, Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote: Thank you! (Stupid brain seizing to work in the night, of course it is articulations...) It did the trick but i only understand half of what's going on in what you wrote. In the interest of learning, would you mind to decipher or give a

Re: Four Part Piano Staff

2016-02-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 03.02.2016 00:09, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: Thank you for your reply and the suggested code. What you provide works well with a single staff - as presented in the documentation. When inserted into a piano staff two additional staves are included between the two piano staves. You’d need to

Re: list of thicknesses affected by changing StaffSymbol.thickness

2016-01-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 31.01.2016 22:34, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Ultimately, my goal is to be able to design stylesheets that match certain “house styles” (e.g., Hanle, Chappell & Co., Peters). I find that many plate-engraved scores appear to have a slightly heavier overall look to the staff lines, so I wanted

Re: vertical positioning of consecutive figured bass indications

2016-01-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 31.01.2016 22:25, Leszek Wroński wrote: if you take a look what Lilypond 2.19.5 (which is the version I'm using) produces from the following: \version "2.19.5" \score { \new Staff { \clef bass <16 <3>8.}>> }} you will, I hope, notice that the '3' is rendered quite a bit lower than

Re: Hiding one dynamic on a drum staff?

2016-01-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 31.01.2016 20:48, Edward Ardzinski wrote: Geez, thought about including the code: A complete, compilable example please. You can’t expect us to cook it up ourselves. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Hiding one dynamic on a drum staff?

2016-01-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 31.01.2016 20:59, Edward Ardzinski wrote: Edski-Rat-City_v2.ly Just as a courtesy to those trying to help, please follow the guidelines in . This is required in bug reports,

Re: Gregorian clefs

2016-01-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 31.01.2016 21:02, Joseph Folens wrote: Dear reader, I try to add the command \clef vaticana-do1 (or 2 or 3) into a text for a score In the report there is always a reference like "vaticana-do" is invalid, followed y the valid clefs, wich include the clef I have in my text. So, it seems

Enhancement: Take ‘master’ line thickness from a context property [was: Re: list of thicknesses…]

2016-01-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 31.01.2016 23:15, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 31.01.2016 22:34, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Ultimately, my goal is to be able to design stylesheets that match certain “house styles” (e.g., Hanle, Chappell & Co., Peters). I find that many plate-engraved scores appear to have a slightly hea

Re: Hiding one dynamic on a drum staff?

2016-01-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 31.01.2016 20:20, Edward Ardzinski wrote: I usually write in a lazy way, omitting most dynamic marks, but a piece I'm working on now I'm explicitly putting a crescendo for a few bars on the drum part. For ease I just put it in the notes, rather than create a separate variable for the drum

Re: automatic line-breaking in markup

2016-02-03 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 03.02.2016 19:24, Jonathan Scholbach wrote: I want to create a template for a cover page. I do that by redefining bookTitleMarkup. The title of the piece is stored as string in a variable If there’s no particular need for that, I’d use a normal header block and \fromproperty. and I want

Re: Parenthesised articulations

2016-02-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 01.02.2016 11:38, David Kastrup wrote: The "parenthesize" property is a boolean. Maybe it should be a boolean-or-symbol ? And if it's a symbol, the respective engraver collects all articulations with the same symbol and then sets one set of parentheses around all of them? I can’t quite

Re: Parenthesised articulations

2016-01-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 31.01.2016 14:48, Andrew Bernard wrote: If I have an accent and a staccato indication together on a note and I want a single set of parentheses around both, how can this be achieved? Is this possible? How about that? Couldn’t think of a less clumsy name. %% \version "2.19.35"

Re: Parenthesised articulations

2016-01-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 31.01.2016 15:02, Simon Albrecht wrote: shortAccentWithParens = -\tweak stencil #ly:text-interface::print -\tweak text \markup { Actually, each of the dashes before \tweak may be omitted. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: More Gounod :-)

2016-01-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 31.01.2016 16:26, Alberto Simões wrote: Hi, Simon Although I still have some corrections to do, proposed by Brian, I would love to first close your suggestions. Yeah, last times have been rough, so a lot of time since this e-mail. On 11/12/15 22:55, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 11.12.2015

Re: How to correctly use ly:warning-located?

2016-02-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 22.02.2016 12:20, David Kastrup wrote: You probably want to use ly:input-warning instead of ly:warning-located. Thanks, that does it. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Vertical position of bar numbers

2016-02-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello David, On 22.02.2016 05:09, David Wright wrote: Having recently fixed a similar problem with bar numbering by moving the Mark_engraver and adding Staff_collecting_engraver at Staff level, I've run into the following: my bar numbers are running along the skyline of my lyrics, as shown in

Re: How to work with large orchestral1 projects

2016-02-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 22.02.2016 08:51, Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote: In my mind i figured that nothing can come from nothing, so i tried the following: << {a2} \\ {s4\sfz\> s4\pp\<} >> But this produces only the top voice with the stem the wrong way (of course). Any ideas? As Urs wrote you’re

Re: How to correctly use ly:warning-located?

2016-02-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 22.02.2016 02:04, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> writes: *location* is a procedure (used for accessing the fluid %location local to the guile module), not a location. So call it. OK, that’s one thing. But with (*location*) I still get the same error m

Re: Graphic background behind systems

2016-02-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 28.02.2016 18:31, Klaus Blum wrote: you could use \override Score.BarLine.whiteout = ##t but that would make the white "frame" around the barlines cover the staff lines. That kind of problems can be overcome by overriding layer on the competing objects. Best, Simon

Re: Vertical position of bar numbers

2016-02-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 28.02.2016 05:52, David Wright wrote: I hit p167 and the construct \new Lyrics = "sopranos" \with { % this is needed for lyrics above a staff \override VerticalAxisGroup.staff-affinity = #DOWN } I can see a very subtle difference with and without this \with { } clause, but there's no

Re: Long words in lyrics and spacing

2016-02-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 28.02.2016 08:45, Andrew Bernard wrote: If I remove the call to the consists statement in the layout block, the long words run over the bar. If you add it in, they line up. I don’t understand why. If you add a Bar_engraver to the Lyrics, it will engrave BarLines. Lyrics contexts are by

Re: Quarter notes with bars like \breve

2016-02-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 28.02.2016 18:31, Gregor Giesen wrote: Hi, how can I write a quarter note (without stem) embraced by two bars exactly like a note of the length \breve? It’s not easy, since the bars belong to the note head glyph used by breve notes. Probably you need to combine three tools: – [\once]

Re: Graphic background behind systems

2016-02-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 28.02.2016 19:33, Klaus Blum wrote: Hmmm... I could use \override Score.BarLine.layer = #-1 \override Score.BarLine.whiteout = ##t to move the barline behind the staff lines. But if I want to whiteout the staff lines as well, that doesn't help anymore. Or is there a way to place

Re: Graphic background behind systems

2016-02-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 28.02.2016 20:10, Klaus Blum wrote: Simon Albrecht-2 wrote Please give an example of what exactly you can’t achieve. David suggested to whiteout the staff lines AND the barlines, but not the whole markup-score thing. I don't know how to do this without one covering the other. I’m

Re: Graphic background behind systems

2016-02-29 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 29.02.2016 12:03, Paul Booker wrote: I can't find an explanation of the tweak prefixes. Do you know the difference between -\tweak ^\tweak and \tweak in the above script? It doesn't work without them! A direction modifier (- for ‘neutral’, ^ for ‘up’ or _ for ‘down’) is needed to mark a

Re: Graphic background behind systems

2016-02-29 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 29.02.2016 18:00, Klaus Blum wrote: you could add \with-dimensions #'(0 . 0) #'(0 . 0) Or, in 2.19.37, equivalently: \with-dimensions-from \null Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Music function for arrow directions in arpeggios

2016-02-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 23.02.2016 22:22, Noeck wrote: the names \arpeggioUp and \arpeggioDown are still free and would me much more lilypondish. More imprecise, really. It’s really only the direction of the arrow that’s changed, not the direction of the whole grob. Best, Simon

Re: Music function for arrow directions in arpeggios

2016-02-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 23.02.2016 16:14, Abraham Lee wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 8:04 AM, Malte Meyn > wrote: Am 23.02.2016 um 15:52 schrieb Caio Giovaneti de Barros: I'm trying to write a function to make easier for me to change arrow

Re: Music function for arrow directions in arpeggios

2016-02-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 24.02.2016 00:08, Dan Eble wrote: Is this a case where attaching an arpeggio to a chord with ^ or _ should make a difference, or do I misunderstand the point of those characters? Yes, you do. They change the direction of the entire grob, not the arpeggio-direction indicated by the arrow.

Re: Fingerings get crushed if key is removed. Bug?

2016-02-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 24.02.2016 17:14, Pierre-Luc Gauthier wrote: Greetings, Just documenting an oddity. If you remove the key (on line 11) the piano fingerings get crushed into the beams. Rather strange… Should I file a bug report ? No, I think this is ‘expected behaviour’ in some way: Without the key

Re: unusual lyric placement in second verse

2016-02-14 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 14.02.2016 21:40, dl.mcnam...@comcast.net wrote: If you see deficiencies in the coding style please let me know what they are. For example to always surround = and { } with spaces. Also indentation should be only by 2 spaces per level – the Frescobaldi auto-formatter does a good job.

Re: Swedish letters in Lilypond lyrics?

2016-01-19 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 19.01.2016 22:34, David Kastrup wrote: k...@aspodata.se writes: David Kastrup: k...@aspodata.se writes: David Kastrup: k...@aspodata.se writes: ... BTW, does someone know why add-text-replacements in attached file doesn't work ? I got the syntax from:

Re: Swedish letters in Lilypond lyrics?

2016-01-19 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 19.01.2016 22:13, k...@aspodata.se wrote: David Kastrup: k...@aspodata.se writes: David Kastrup: k...@aspodata.se writes: ... BTW, does someone know why add-text-replacements in attached file doesn't work ? I got the syntax from:

Re: Swedish letters in Lilypond lyrics?

2016-01-19 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 19.01.2016 17:07, k...@aspodata.se wrote: David Kastrup: k...@aspodata.se writes: ... BTW, does someone know why add-text-replacements in attached file doesn't work ? I got the syntax from: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/String-Syntax.html#String-Syntax That's the

Re: Swedish letters in Lilypond lyrics?

2016-01-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 18.01.2016 20:33, Karin wrote: There are three specific characters in Swedish and only onle of them is available in the Lilypond "list of special characters". I need the letters å, ä, ö, Å, Ä and Ö - or as a HTML-person would put it: Can you help me fix this? I have only found and

Re: Algorithm for calculating slur shape

2016-01-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 21.01.2016 23:49, Michael Kassler wrote: I am a user of the Guido music notation system. I believe that Lilypond has developed an algorithm for calculating slur shape given parameters such as the (x,y) positions of notes in a passage to be slurred, the number of notes in such a passage, etc.

Re: Access a stem’s notehead

2016-01-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 22.01.2016 16:11, Simon Albrecht wrote: The feature is designed for a very specific case: Renaissance vocal music, one voice per staff, no chords, no dynamics etc. With this callback, I crop those stems which protrude beyond the staff, such as to allow for still closer vertical spacing

Re: default note duration

2016-01-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 22.01.2016 19:16, Gianmaria Lari wrote: Hello, the lilypond default note duration is 1/4. For example if I write { a b } lilypond generates two quarter notes. There is any way to set the _default_ note value to another value for example to 1/8 so that the previous code would generate two

Re: Displaying variables and parameter values

2016-01-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 22.01.2016 22:18, David Sumbler wrote: On Tue, 2016-01-19 at 16:26 +0100, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 19.01.2016 16:20, David Sumbler wrote: Is there a way of displaying the current value of particular variables and parameters during Lilypond compilation? Of course, e.g. with #(format

Re: Determine the including file

2016-01-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 22.01.2016 12:38, k...@aspodata.se wrote: I don't know of any way to check if aria_ily is defined or not. Tried with #(if (defined? aria_ily) (display "Yes\n") (display "no\n")) but it gives: aria.ly:15:2: error: GUILE signaled an error for the expression beginning here # (if (defined?

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