Access a stem’s notehead

Hello, I want to write a before-line-breaking callback for stem and need the staff-position of the associated NoteHead. (There aren’t going to be any chords.) This % \version "2.19.35" { \override Stem.before-line-breaking = #(lambda (grob) (format #t "~a\n"

Re: simplifying chromatic scale notation

On 25.01.2016 22:19, musicus wrote: I just struggled with studying a complex music piece and thought that all the chromatic lines are horrible to read in standard notation. Especially the "enharmonic problem" is distracting the musician from a very simple musical structure. So I tried some of

Re: Determining what parameters exist for an item

On 25.01.2016 10:19, David Kastrup wrote: e.g. ‘Offset KeyCancellation’s X-extent by #'(0 . 2) (so it will have >two units whitespace at the right), regardless of how wide it would >normally be’. That would be a very powerful use case for \offset, if >also the technical limitations might be

Re: Determining what parameters exist for an item

On 24.01.2016 18:22, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Lilypond has grobs, and those grobs have properties, and those properties have values, I think the point is that some properties either do not have values at all, or those values are determined during compilation, depending on other

Re: Slashed grace with long slur

On 24.01.2016 15:08, Kristin Rollins wrote: It worked for me to move the \slurUp command inside the \slashedGrace, as in: \slashedGrace { \slurUp e8( } d b) Even easier: { \slashedGrace { e8^( } d b) } And, astoundingly this minimal example works here: (but your larger example doesn’t)

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 158, Issue 140

On 25.01.2016 09:40, David Sumbler wrote: This "\offset" sounds very interesting. But I can find nothing about it in the documentation. It isn't indexed in any of the Lilypond manuals. Is it work in progress, added in a later version than my 2.19.30? No, it’s a 2.19 addition, but older than

Re: Determining what parameters exist for an item

On 25.01.2016 00:55, David Nalesnik wrote: \offset only works on properties that have a default value listed in the grob pages in the IR (derived from the alist in scm/define-grobs.scm). There is no default value listed for KeyCancellation.X-extent, hence the warning. Well, the point was

Re: ugly french-beaming hack messes with lyrics

On 26.01.2016 14:33, N. Andrew Walsh wrote: ah, now I see why I wasn't using something like your example. Look at what happens when the last note is raised a fourth: \version "2.19.35" << \relative c'' { c4 d f \override Stem.stemlet-length = #0.5 \override

Re: Displaying variables and parameter values

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 "Variable ‘foo’ currently has the value ~a\n" foo) where foo is the variable, ~a references the next

Re: Infinite page length

On 20.01.2016 12:18, Richard Shann wrote: see the thread: Re: ly:one-page-breaking (was: ly:one-line-breaking) the last email in this thread was yesterday! Is there an easy way of linking to a thread from and email? I use to search it on

Re: Access a stem’s notehead

On 22.01.2016 14:26, Paul Morris wrote: On January 22, 2016 7:47:11 AM EST, Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> wrote: How do I retrieve the NoteHead from the Column? Hi Simon, this snippet should help: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=621 It shows how to get a Stem from a No

Re: Access a stem’s notehead

On 22.01.2016 16:30, Simon Albrecht wrote: Oops, there was an else-statement missing. And it didn’t work with rests. I forgot to test the code on a real score before posting… %%% #(define crop-outside-staff-stem (lambda (grob) (let* ((note-col (ly:grob-parent grob 0

Re: Access a stem’s notehead

On 22.01.2016 16:41, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 22.01.2016 16:30, Simon Albrecht wrote: Oops, there was an else-statement missing. And it didn’t work with rests. What’s more, we have to avoid programming errors if there are beams. I’m learning a lot at this… %% \version

Re: Font of accidentals changes after line break

On 24.01.2016 22:56, Robert Schmaus wrote: If it can't be fixed easily, how can I turn off the accidental after break? I tried \override Staff.Accidental.after-line-breaking = ##f but that didn't change anything. The after-line-breaking property can be set to a procedure, which will then be

Re: Determining what parameters exist for an item

On 24.01.2016 21:28, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 24.01.2016 21:15, Thomas Morley wrote: Now, if I want to reduce or enlarge KeyCancellation.X-extent, knowing that default is (0.0 . 5.82)*** gives me critical information that I can actually use as a reference point; without that information

Re: Determining what parameters exist for an item

On 24.01.2016 21:15, Thomas Morley wrote: Now, if I want to reduce or enlarge KeyCancellation.X-extent, knowing that default is (0.0 . 5.82)*** gives me critical information that I can actually use as a reference point; without that information, the trial-and-error factor increases

Re: Best way to provide LilyPond via thumb drive

On 14.02.2016 17:11, Colin Campbell wrote: the Spanish version of the docs might be more or less out of date I just saw that the Spanish version has been extensively updated very recently. I don’t know if this revision has already made it into a release, but it seems that in general this

Re: unusual lyric placement in second verse

On 14.02.2016 16:42, dl.mcnam...@comcast.net wrote: I'm not sure how your suggestion would mesh with the piece's overall structure; Here's a more complete take: http://lilybin.com/l8kuff/2 There’s nothing in that link – could you try again? (I tried to trim extra stuff for a minimal

Re: unusual lyric placement in second verse

On 14.02.2016 19:46, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 14.02.2016 16:42, dl.mcnam...@comcast.net wrote: I'm not sure how your suggestion would mesh with the piece's overall structure; Here's a more complete take: http://lilybin.com/l8kuff/2 There’s nothing in that link – could you try again? (I

Re: How to trigger rall. in articulate.ly

On 14.02.2016 16:47, Richard Shann wrote: On Sun, 2016-02-14 at 13:15 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Richard Shann writes: The articulate.ly script appears to support rallentando but I can't figure out how to trigger it. In LilyPond AFAIK rall. is expressed as text in a

Re: Horizontal spacing - choir

On 14.02.2016 20:24, Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote: I tried this inside the lyrics, i dont see any change though: \override LyricText #'font-name = #Alegreya-Regular You need to give the font name as a string, in this case: \override LyricText.font-name = "Alegreya" (untested) HTH, Simon

Re: unusual lyric placement in second verse

On 14.02.2016 20:27, dl.mcnam...@comcast.net wrote: Thanks Simon, you've pointed me in the right direction. Here's the updated score http://lilybin.com/l8kuff/3 (I neglected to save the #2 version before sending the email). This is totally workable for me. While you may consider it ‘workable’,

Re: Best way to provide LilyPond via thumb drive

Hello Ralph, On 12.02.2016 14:06, Ralph Palmer wrote: Soon, I shall be visiting a music school which almost certainly has computers but which probably has little internet access. I would like to give them a thumb drive with all the files they would need for setup, learning, and running

Re: Horizontal spacing - choir

Hello, On 14.02.2016 12:58, Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote: I need advice on how to best typeset my SATB score. The problem revolves around horizontal spacing. http://lilybin.com/15a0y9/2 I feel it is a bit cramped and the breaks do not flow naturally. I don’t think it’s cramped – well, I

Re: unusual lyric placement in second verse

Hello, On 14.02.2016 15:56, dl.mcnam...@comcast.net wrote: I'm typesetting a hymn where the first section is (volta) repeated with different lyrics. The way that the words are laid out across the two different lines seems odd and distracting to me -- particularly on the fourth and eighth

Re: positioning a rest

On 12.02.2016 22:02, Noeck wrote: the problem with your code is that your code says the second rest is in \oneVoice (this means there are no other simultaneous voices around). But there is the c' at the same time in \voiceTwo and that confuses LilyPond. If you mark the voices correctly, you will

Re: Horizontal offset in polyphonic contexts.

Hello Guy, On 12.02.2016 23:17, Guy Stalnaker wrote: Code below produces perplexing results."\once \override NoteColumn.X-offset" works in two situations, but not a third, and shifts the wrong notes on a fourth. I do not understand why. Why does the .X-offset work for ExampleTwo and

Re: Avoiding PhrasingSlur/accidental collisions

On 14.02.2016 11:57, N. Andrew Walsh wrote: I see the following possible override: \once \override PhrasingSlur.details.accidental-collision = #'(3) but that doesn't seem to have any effect. Am I modifying the wrong grob here? As Joram pointed out, you need to set this to a number, not a

Re: Segfault when using RemoveEmptyStaves

On 15.02.2016 23:15, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Hello list I was ponding along with 2.18.2 and all of a sudden, the piece I was typing didn't build a PDF anymore. As it turns out, lilypund is suffering a segmentation fault. I took the file apart and in an hour's search narrowed it down to those

Re: Is there a bug in the way Lilypond handles staccatos?

On 16.02.2016 07:22, Helge Kruse wrote: Maybe I'm wrong. But how are slurs related to stccatos? This was only a typo, corrected by Devin in a parallel post. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: variables in \book { }

On 17.02.2016 13:27, David Kastrup wrote: Graham King writes: \book { music = \relative { c' d e f } \score { \music } } The problem is that it would likely be possible to teach LilyPond's

Re: Cross-staff phrase marks

On 17.02.2016 11:01, Andrew Bernard wrote: lilypond uses only cubic bezier curves, Which means they can have at most one ‘turning point’, that’s the limitation. So S-shaped is possible, but ‘W-shaped’ isn’t. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Arbitrary number of arguments in Scheme function?

On 17.02.2016 14:02, David Kastrup wrote: I don't really see much of an option other than accepting 8 and consequently also 8(~ as an expression of type ly:music? Which would be a useful feature IMO. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Cross-staff phrase marks

On 17.02.2016 18:19, Kieren MacMillan wrote: chaining, [composite] slurs There’s no such thing, and it sounds like a nightmare ;-) Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Multi-rest with automatic bar number before and after it

Hello Jacques, there are two possible approaches: %% \version "2.18.2" multiROne = #(define-music-function (parser location bar-count)(rational?) (let ((display-bar-num #{ \once\override Score.BarNumber.break-visibility = ##(#f #t #t) #}) (dur (ly:make-duration 0 0

Re: Multi-rest with automatic bar number before and after it

On 18.02.2016 21:34, Craig Dabelstein wrote: On this same subject, is it possible to put the span of bar numbers below a multi bar rest e.g. below a 14-bar multi bar rest, have it print (centered) 1-14? Sounds quite confusing to me: Either you have a MultiMeasureRestText, giving the duration

Re: Manual bug in 2.18

On 19.02.2016 17:14, BB wrote: I just tried it again with 2.18 \version "2.18.0" \relative c' { \set Staff.keySignature = #`(((0 . 6) . ,FLAT) ((0 . 5) . ,FLAT) ((0 . 3) . ,SHARP)) c4 d e fis aes4 bes c2 } does not work? I think compiling with 2.18 under2.19 there is not really used

Re: How do I adjust organ pedal marks vertically?

On 19.02.2016 16:50, Joseph N. Srednicki wrote: I am engraving the final movement of Mendelssohn’s Organ Sonata 6. Just to be sure: Mendelssohn didn’t write any pedal marks, those come from some editor. If you want to make a ‘practical’ edition, then that’s fine; if you’d like to stick to

Re: Font size of pedal marks

On 19.02.2016 19:18, Joseph N. Srednicki wrote: Is there a command to adjust the size of the pedal marks \rheel, \lheel, \rtoe, \ltoe? They produce Script grobs, so you’d need (in a \layout block) \override Script.font-size = -10 % dummy value However this will also change numerous other

Re: manual Makam example

On 21.02.2016 12:54, BB wrote: At the end of subchapter "Arabic key signatures" in chapter "2.10.2 Arabic music" on page http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/arabic-music there is in subchapter "Selected Snippets" a snippet example. It is very peculiar that in this example is

Re: Install on linux

On 21.02.2016 13:18, Jean Bréfort wrote: Why don't you directly use the lilypond package? sudo apt-get install lilypond You might end up with a more or less old LilyPond version. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

How to correctly use ly:warning-located?

Hello, the doc string for ly:warning-located says ‘Function: ly:warning-located location str rest A Scheme callable function to issue the warning str at the specified location in an input file. The message is formatted with format and rest.’ However, with this example %%% \version

Re: manual Makam example

a s to do with the missing key alteration order? May be an extension/redesign of maqam.ly is necessary? Help would be appreciated! On 21.02.2016 13:27, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 21.02.2016 12:54, BB wrote: At the end of subchapter "Arabic key signatures" in chapter "2.10.2 Arabic

Re: manual Makam example

On 21.02.2016 16:15, Simon Albrecht wrote: Don’t reply off-list! I have no idea whatsoever about arabic music, so there’s no point in e-mailing me. Sorry for the noise… Best, Simon On 21.02.2016 14:44, BB wrote: I still think that the snippet ifrom the world music chapter is better than

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

On 21.02.2016 15:13, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> writes: Hello, the doc string for ly:warning-located says ‘Function: ly:warning-located location str rest A Scheme callable function to issue the warning str at the specified location in an inpu

Re: top-markup-spacing problem

On 14.03.2016 15:53, Sharon Rosner wrote: The … missing … attached files :-) Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Adding acoustic guitar (steel) to MIDI

. This forum is very helpful. David Landt All the best for your way with LilyPond! Simon On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 6:15 PM -0700, "Simon Albrecht" <simon.albre...@mail.de <mailto:simon.albre...@mail.de>> wrote: On 16.03.2016 01:04, David Landt wrote: > Hello Simon. >

Re: Adding acoustic guitar (steel) to MIDI

On 15.03.2016 23:31, Abraham Lee wrote: David, On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 4:14 PM, David Landt > wrote: Hello David. David Kastrup wrote > ChordName or FretBoard context? Yes, I used ChordNames. I think the grand piano

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 157, Issue 18

On 14.03.2016 18:21, Joseph Haig wrote: I'm responding to a digest email. Will the mailing list system sort it out correctly? No, it won’t. Please always edit the subject line in such cases, or just disable digest mode. Best, Simon ___

Re: Set beam subdivision to #t by default

On 15.03.2016 09:44, Urs Liska wrote: I would strongly suggest to switch the default setting so that subdivideBeams is set to #t by default. Agreed. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: no text

On 15.03.2016 16:27, Bernhard Kleine wrote: I do not see what is wrong, the text is not displayed. It is close to what I used before. I am stymied. All you do in the ‘texttext’ variable is set the stanza number to a very long string. So no text is displayed. HTH, Simon Bernhard \version

Re: HELP: Trill line without 'tr' written before it

On 16.03.2016 12:15, Thomas Morley wrote: How about using RhythmicStaff and glissando? Why? I don’t see need to use such tricks here. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: openlilylib.org programming

On 18.03.2016 14:26, Urs Liska wrote: new "logo" lettering Basically, I like it. There are very nice ideas. However, IMO the outline looks a little ‘haphazard’. E.g. I think it would be better if the first letters of each line would form one diagonal line – that would also enhance the ‘OLL’

Re: Dynamics context and vertical positions

On 16.03.2016 11:07, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: \layout { \context { \Dynamics \override VerticalAxisGroup.nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing.basic-distance = #0 } } I wonder why isn't this the default behaviour though, why would people want the Dynamic context so far away from the

Re: HELP: Trill line without 'tr' written before it

On 16.03.2016 11:42, Mike Solomon wrote: \once \override TrillSpanner #'bound-details #'left #'text = ##f % this is how IIUC this syntax is being disallowed at the moment and 2.20 will only allow the (very convenient) dot-separated list syntax \once\override TrillSpanner

Re: HELP: Trill line without 'tr' written before it

Hi George, On 16.03.2016 11:21, George wrote: this creates a trill line above the note (I'd like it to appear on the stave) with 'tr' written before it (I'd like the zig-zag line to appear directly after the note head, with no extra text, just the line.) How can I accomplish this? Have a

Re: HELP: Trill line without 'tr' written before it

On 16.03.2016 23:46, Thomas Morley wrote: 2016-03-16 12:17 GMT+01:00 Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de>: On 16.03.2016 12:15, Thomas Morley wrote: How about using RhythmicStaff and glissando? Why? I don’t see need to use such tricks here. Best, Simon I don't see any tricks in m

Re: Impossible or ambiguous (de)crescendo in MIDI.

Hello Graham, On 17.03.2016 23:51, Graham King wrote: # { c_\markup { \dynamic p \italic { dolce } } Looks like a dynamic, walks like a dynamic, but doesn't quack like one. Replace with { c-\omit\p_\markup { \dynamic p \italic { dolce } } Likewise for "meno f" and many other cases. # {

Re: Wide spacing after extremely long syllable

On 09.03.2016 03:14, markdblackwell wrote: After an extremely long syllable in the lyrics, the next measure's spacing is quite wide, even with ragged-right. In the tiny example below, the problematic measure (of two eighth notes) comprises the word, "shine". First thing I think of would be a

Re: How to get swing feel from dotted notation?

On 31.03.2016 09:41, Blöchl Bernhard wrote: Is'nt it possible to provide a "swing button" for 67/33 for to make the midi file swinging, but leaves the 50/50 notation in the pdf untouched? That’s all this thread is about. Stephen MacNeil already pointed out that Johannes Rohrer has come up

Re: chordmode and markup

On 06.04.2016 19:45, Carl Sorensen wrote: \version "2.19.39" { \chordmode{c_\markup {test}} } This is difficult to read, and there are much worse cases. Just put spaces around the braces, in general. It’s a useful convention. Yours, Simon ___

Re: Left Hand Fingerings on Guitar Tab

On 06.04.2016 21:32, Malte Meyn wrote: Am 06.04.2016 um 21:20 schrieb Jay Vara: I am trying to add left hand fingerings to the Tablature without affecting the staff. […] Is there a way to suppress the fingerings on the staff and have it show up only in the Tablature? Instead of markups

Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

On 07.04.2016 04:21, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: Martin, Hemiola? Cf. WTC I 3 Prelude, measures 97 – 104. I don’t quite know how this is related to the current discussion, since this example is clearly a case for manual beaming. What’s more, it’s nothing to do with a hemiola. A hemiola

Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

Please ignore this e-mail. I’ve been having problems with my Internet connection and it seemed like the previous one had failed to arrive. Sorry. On 08.04.2016 00:05, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 07.04.2016 04:21, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: Martin, Hemiola? Cf. WTC I 3 Prelude, measures 97

Re: Technical question

On 07.04.2016 21:51, Philip Bergwerf wrote: Hello everyone, in the past i have woked with blender which is a 3d open source modelling, animation program. And i noticed that when you have a fast video card, the pogram works much faster. How about lilypond? lilypond works very slow in grapic way.

Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

On 07.04.2016 04:21, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: Martin, Hemiola? Cf. WTC I 3 Prelude, measures 97 – 104. The Neue Bach-Ausgabe has the semiquavers beamed three and three only in m. 97 & 98, and this clearly indicates primarily the distribution to the hands: first three notes sinistra,

Re: How to create complex chord

Hi Larry, how come you asked on the devel list? As the name says, this list is about developing LilyPond, not about using it – for that, there’s the user list. On 06.04.2016 21:57, Larry wrote: Hello, I need to create a chord of which part is a tuplet and don't know how. A chord can only

Re: chordmode and markup

On 06.04.2016 23:33, Gianmaria Lari wrote: >> Why this is not correct: >>\chordmode {c} \markup {test} [Carl] >When you do \chordmode{c}, you have ended the music expression containing >the c, so you can no longer attach a markup to the c chord. So you just >move the markup inside the

Re: chordmode and markup

On 07.04.2016 00:49, Thomas Morley wrote: 3 Would it be possible to write in the compiler error a hint for the user? Something like: Error: markup outside of text script or \lyricmode \chordmode {c} _\markup {test} Maybe you want to do \chordmode{c _\markup {test}}

Re: How to create complex chord

On 07.04.2016 02:41, Larry wrote: I have read the Learning Manual and did all the exercises. The problem is that my retention is not as good as it once was (I'm 70 years old). However I still enjoy learning. It does take some time till one gets to grips with Lily. I wish you all the best

Re: two beginners questions

On 06.04.2016 09:31, mj wrote: On 04/05/2016 05:55 PM, David Kastrup wrote: 2.19.2, however, is almost as old as 2.18.0 (close to two years I think). It's actually older than 2.18.1. That seems like a strange choice to use. Well, strange as it may be, it was the lilypond version that was

Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

On 06.04.2016 04:46, Martin Neubauer wrote: I was more curious about the existence of music that's strictly in 3/4 time and where the way of printing a three-quaver pickup would actually make a difference. There are hardly such cases before 1900, and that’s exactly why the convention

Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

On 06.04.2016 09:10, Thomas Scharkowski wrote: Even simpler (for the 3/4 case): /\set Timing.beamHalfMeasure = ##f/ From the Notation Reference: "In engraving from the Romantic and Classical periods, beams often begin midway through the measure in 3/4 time, but modern practice is to avoid the

Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

On 08.04.2016 02:42, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: May I be so bold as to inquire, how does the beaming "clearly indicate" nothing more than distribution of notes between hands? 1) It makes a lot of sense to play it that way 2) It was very common to indicate distribution of notes between hands

Re: faster compilation (was: Technical question)

On 08.04.2016 02:44, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: So, the approach is to segment your piece using \tag and then work on it one segment at a time. (Of course, depending on what types of issues you are working on like page breaks or line breaks, you may need to compile the preceding or

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 161, Issue 39

Don’t forget to always edit the subject line :-) Replying to individual e-mails instead of digests would be even better, since this will allow sorting by thread. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Music Notation/Interpretation question

On 08.04.2016 22:38, Alberto Simões wrote: Hi This is not exactly a Lilypond doubt... but imagine a chord, in a left hand piano piece, with Lilypond will eventually put c and g at the left of the note stem, and d and a at the right (what it does exactly is not relevant for the question).

Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

On 06.04.2016 00:20, Martin Neubauer wrote: Hi Karen, When working in 3/4, Lilypond is autobeaming 8th notes in groups of 3 8th notes per pulse (as if it were 6/8) rather than in groups of 2 8th notes per pulse. That's not entirely accurate, in 3/4 time the autobeaming by default

Re: "format" and "make implicit" for muliple files

On 19.03.2016 04:22, Craig Dabelstein wrote: Hi Lilyponders, Would anyone know how to apply some of Frescobaldi's features to a whole folder of files rather than one at a time? E.g. the "format" feature and the "make implicit (per line)" feature. I think this is functionality now contained

Re: Q re LSR snippet 744

On 19.03.2016 15:30, Thomas Morley wrote: 2016-03-19 12:41 GMT+01:00 Michael Gerdau : somewhere between 2.14. and 2.16. LilyPond internals changed how the Hyphen is represented. The check for (eq? (ly:music-property lyrics 'name) 'HyphenEvent) in (lyrics->list lyrics) will never

Re: A big advantage to lilypond

Hi Daniel, On 22.03.2016 01:46, Redwood (Daniel) wrote: But I wonder: why aren’t more lilypond authors posting more of their sources to IMSLP? personally, I’m often reluctant to do so, because I might want to distribute my typesets commercially. In my opinion, _good_ music typography is an

Re: grace-note spacing and triplets

Hi Jan-Peter, On 22.03.2016 15:10, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: Hi all, I have a problem spacing grace notes under a series of triplets. In the example, the grace notes produce a big gap between the tuplets or collide with the accidentals. It’s an annoying bug that this isn’t handled nicely, and

Re: Winged repeat bar line unique over multiple staves

On 22.03.2016 23:01, Alexis Maleval wrote: Hi Thomas, thanks for your support, unfortunately I wasn’t able to open the two files, are they encrypted? No, they aren’t. I can open them just fine. See in case they didn’t

Re: Dynamics placement

Hello Graham, please give an actual code example, as small as possible, to start with. Best, Simon On 22.03.2016 23:41, Graham King wrote: I've adopted Simon Albrecht's excellent suggestion in an earlier thread [1], and am now using code based on snippet 739 [2] to typeset some long dynamic

Re: mute percussion notation

On 23.03.2016 11:23, David Kastrup wrote: Bernard writes: Lilypond is highly flexible and many drumnotes are predefined. But I could not find info how to define my own drumnote. I tried : \version "2.18.2" #(define

Re: Make the span bar go from top to bottom through all staves

On 24.03.2016 00:34, Joseph N. Srednicki wrote: Is it possible to make the span bars for the measures to extend through all staves of the system so that the bar lines appear as one solid line from top to bottom? Of course: just make it one StaffGroup (or PianoStaff, as you like). I’d

Re: PDF page number hyperrefs?

Hi Mátyás, by the way: a subject is helpful :-) Only saying… Yours, Simon On 23.03.2016 08:33, Mátyás Seress wrote: Hi guys, I just downloaded the Lilypond Notation Reference pdf for version 2.19.38 from here: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation.pdf and I noticed that

Re: midi articulation

On 23.03.2016 18:21, Daniel Birns wrote: I see what articulate.ly does. However… has anyone tried to do this within the midi generator. Without knowing much about the topic, I’d say it would be very welcome, since articulate.ly messes up printed output. I’m a software developer — not

Re: Where is the latest articulate.ly?

On 24.03.2016 01:10, Daniel Birns wrote: So, the default is 7/8 (though I’m not sure yet what 1 . 2 is…) '(1 . 2), equivalent to (cons 1 2), is a scheme pair. but I wondered about 7/8. CPE Bach says normally notes are play for 1/2 their duration, That’s a very debatable quote. Numerical

Re: Custom drum midi notes (Was: mute percussion notation)

On 24.03.2016 16:02, Pierre-Luc Gauthier wrote: % How can I append those bellow to the default list? % (Instead of replacing the old list) midiDrumPitches = #`( (key . ,(ly:make-pitch 0 6 FLAT)) (cr . ,(ly:make-pitch 1 1 NATURAL))

Re: How to add padding around whiteout text

On 25.03.2016 02:48, Daniel Birns wrote: Y’all, I had trouble with this in lilypond. Sure enough, if you look at the bottom, the email processing mangled the source. The last two << characters are replaced with something else. It’s rather the >>, isn’t it? > characters are used for

Re: Multiple slurs on chord

On 20.03.2016 18:31, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: "Alberto Simões" To: "lilypond" Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2016 4:52 PM Subject: Multiple slurs on chord Hi Is it possible to do a multiple slur, one for each

Re: Use a straight tick (single straight quote) for a breath mark

On 21.03.2016 16:06, Thomas Morley wrote: 2016-03-21 15:53 GMT+01:00 Joseph N. Srednicki : Hello: I found the snippet that shows how to change symbol for the \breathe command. See http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=195 Can someone tell me how to change the script

Re: Licence LilyPond Logo?

On 20.03.2016 14:51, Marco Heins wrote: Hi everybody, I'm currently working on a free tutorial about notation typesetting with LilyPond for classical guitar. I was wondering if it would be violating the licence if I show the nice LilyPond Logo on top of my tutorial? I don’t know how exactly

Re: Ask about the lyric of Lilypond

On 20.03.2016 14:21, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: you should install the font in such a way that fontconfig can find it, but how that works depends on your platform (windows, osx, linux) and which lilypond version you use. I've added the list which should be able to help you further. Just for

Re: Chord Glissando Individual Voice right bound tweaking

On 20.03.2016 15:59, dtsmarin wrote: The codefile is HUGE and I can't post it due to copyright reasons, so here is a part of the code. That’s what the explanation on our site is about: that you should create a _tiny_ example which shows the _exact_ problem, omitting all unrelated stuff. The

Re: Custom drum midi notes

On 25.03.2016 17:47, David Kastrup wrote: Pierre-Luc Gauthier <p.luc.gauth...@gmail.com> writes: 2016-03-24 11:26 GMT-04:00 Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de>: An alist being a list of list you should be able to write midiDrumPitches = #(append mid

Re: Create staff for Congas

On 25.03.2016 15:01, George wrote: official lilypond documentation for doing so: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for- percussion#percussion-staves In case you’re really using 2.16: why not update to at least 2.18? Or even recent unstable, which isn’t

Re: Changing Laissez Vibrer ties for chords

On 27.03.2016 06:09, dtsmarin wrote: Please I need some help..this code doesn't work for me. Version 2.19.38 -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Changing-Laissez-Vibrer-ties-for-chords-tp170717p189016.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at

Re: Changing Laissez Vibrer ties for chords

On 27.03.2016 22:47, dtsmarin wrote: Sorry for not including the code, but I simply grabbed it from this thread and pasted it in Lilypond, so I figured out that you would do the same to see if this code doesn't work. That’s why I wrote about not everybody (or not even most people) using the

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