Re: notes in text

On 23/04/20 18:42, bobr...@centrum.is wrote: > I'm looking for a way to include some free standing notes in a line of text. > Specifically, I want a pair of beamed 16th, a '=' sign, and then three beamed > 16th notes, indicating that two 16ths equal three 16ths. I'd also like to > use it in a

Re: Remote Ensemble Playing

On 30/03/20 10:15, Dr Nicholas Bailey wrote: > I don't trust Zoom anyway. Why has it got more than 2 open file > descriptors? What's it doing with my files?? > > $ lsof | grep -i zoom | wc -l > 20811 I can't find what I was looking for, but this was mentioned recently on LWN. Apparently

Re: Chord options in leadsheets

On 22/02/20 09:11, hendry.mich...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > I use Lilypond to prepare jazz leadsheets. Most of the time, this is > straightforward, but the screenshot illustrates three additions I'd like to > be able

Re: QtWebEngine vs. Ubuntu 16.04

On 29/12/19 04:30, Simon Albrecht wrote: > thanks for the reply. I have learned from painful experience that it > seems better to just reinstall the OS completely, avoiding any issues > with the upgrade, and restore user data from backup. I have made all > preparations for that and am trying to do

Re: transpositions within a global key setting.

On 10/12/19 06:41, Urs Liska wrote: > > Am 09.12.19 um 15:24 schrieb N. Andrew Walsh: >> Hi List, >> >> let us say I have a piece where I want to specify the key signature >> once for all instruments. I have something like the following: >> >> \version = 2.19.82 >> global= { >> \key f \minor >>

Re: make text span a specified musical interval?

On 25/11/19 03:00, Jace Toronto wrote: >> Is this what you would like the output to look like or am I misunderstanding? > > Hi Ben, > > Yes, thank you, that is exactly the right look for this particular example. > Is there a way to tell the end of the text to align with the barline (or >

Re: Set a temporary tempo change

On 18/11/19 01:51, Paolo Prete wrote: > Aaron, > > that's great. > I propose to the ML to add the function to the official release. It's > very helpful when you want to make the midi output more realistic, with > frequent tempo changes A lot of music I play has "tempo primo". Personally I don't

Re: Polyrythmic Align Bars

On 16/09/19 14:38, sir.teddy.the.fi...@gmail.com wrote: > The 4/4-Bar needs to be played over the duration of the two 6/8-Bars and > I want it to realign afterwards to continue both voices with a 6/8 time. > > The 4/4-Part would need to have a different tempo, because if both play > at the same

Re: Proportional notation not working as expected.

On 15/09/19 01:51, Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hi Stefano, > > I work extensively with a New Complexity School composer whose work I > engrave. I disagree with one of his major concepts, which is that the > bars should be 3.0 cm wide and represent one second of music. He's > really insistent on this.

Re: Producing scores for visually impaired and blind people

On 14/09/19 10:50, David Kastrup wrote: > Also I would imagine that learning by ear is pretty tricky for ensemble > rather than solo work. Probably no harder than anything else ... I'm bad at remembering stuff, but years ago I was told I had to learn a piece by heart because we were playing on

Re: Detecting first and last pages of a score

On 06/09/19 17:00, David Kastrup wrote: > I am not saying "it never will be able to do" things like that but the > mechanisms are not there even in rudimentary form, so the manner in > which it may be done at some prospective future time is not clear. Is this the sort of thing the editions

Re: Lyrics extend question

On 29/08/2019 19:53, Jacques Menu wrote: Hello David, The other thread was about a score I’m adapting for our oboes band for concerts to come. This lead me to compare how various applications import MusicXML, and I found this difference. And you’re right, my interest is in the algorithms

Re: frescobaldi extensions [was: python-ly, ly.indent]

On 18/08/19 09:00, Urs Liska wrote: > Hi Mason, > > 18. August 2019 01:05, ma...@masonhock.com schrieb: > >> > On 08/17, Urs Liska wrote: >> > >>> >> ... >> > >> > Thanks. While I personally prefer command line tools, I would consider >> > turning this into a Frescobaldi extension if that

Re: Alternating text and music

On 26/07/19 12:23, Peter Toye wrote: > All, > > Thanks very much for all the suggestions. I had asked for an _easy_ way! > Also, I'm not 100% fussed about the exact layout as it's only for an > example. Just a thought ... can't lily chuck out png's? I've never used it, but if it can chuck out

Re: Bug with transpose in functions

On 12/07/19 19:04, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >> Functions like transpose act destructively on their argument, so you >> need a copy or the original will get changed. [...] > > How can Joe User find out whether a function is acting destructively? > Computer pedant here :-) Functions do not have

Re: Two Hands "Snake"

to down. 2 - When the spanner arrive to a line break it's stops and do not continue as can be seen in the attached image. El lun., 8 de jul. de 2019 a la(s) 11:15, tdy lists (tdy.li...@gmail.com) escribió: > Wow! > Thank > > I'll try to make something of all these! > I think

Re: Two Hands "Snake"

Wow! Thank I'll try to make something of all these! I think Pierre's answer to Andrew is where I find the most acurate answer, now I'll extract the fragment needed (ifI can manage), and put it inside the staff... Let's start tweaking!!! THANKS again! El lun., 8 de jul. de 2019 a la(s)

Re: percent repeats (bug?)

On 04/07/19 00:59, Christopher Heckman wrote: > In a post/email sent out several months ago, Randy brought up some > issues about percent repeats over more than two measures. He cited two > issues, related to where the percent sign is placed and what it looks > like. > > I would like to add a

Re: Two simultaneous mark events

On 19/05/19 02:08, Andrew Bernard wrote: > Why not just use markup for 'fine'? Position it as you wiil. Because it doesn't make sense to use markup? It's a lot easier to position something, if it's attached to its reference object. Otherwise a minor change to the score will mess things up nicely!

Re: <>

On 05/01/19 20:40, Aaron Hill wrote: > But I don't think we ever lost a stand, so I can only imagine the > conditions you are forced to play in. Seaside bandstands :-) Where if the band calls it off they don't get paid. You need to find the organisers and get them to cancel it, and where do you

Re: <>

On 05/01/19 20:20, Aaron Hill wrote: > P.S. I would like to add that, as a performer who has great disdain for > annoying page turns, I will join you in the battle for promoting sane > typesetting. Slightly squished and/or "creative" notation is far better > than wrestling with (and wasting)

Re: <>

On 05/01/19 17:34, Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2019-01-05 2:40 am, Wols Lists wrote: >> On 04/01/19 18:41, Aaron Hill wrote: >>> I *H*A*T*E* about people who proclaim "This is >> correct". >> >> Take my case - which would you choose between "follow

Re: <>

On 04/01/19 18:41, Aaron Hill wrote: > >> Yeesh, that is terrible.This is why it's important to follow good >> notation >> practice: I was so confused by this bad typesetting that I thought the >> bar >> was 6/4 time, and now my day is ruined. > > Unless someone is doing academic work where it

Re: [OT] Variations in ordinals and building floor numbers

On 02/01/19 03:42, Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hi David, > > Never seen '*' in Australia. > Same here in the UK. QUITE often, the street level is either green, or noticeably raised, or both, but I've come across several where the street exit is on "1" and "G" takes you some place else ... (And

Re: Flat flared hairpins

ndrew Cheers, Wol > > > On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 at 00:07, Wols Lists <mailto:antli...@youngman.org.uk>> wrote: > > > American English floors: first second third fourth > English floors: ground first second third > > > > ___

Re: Flat flared hairpins

On 31/12/18 12:55, David Kastrup wrote: > > Natural language cardinals: zero onetwothree > Natural language ordinals: first second third > Scheme cardinals: 0 1 2 3 > Scheme ordinals: 0 1 2 American English floors:

Re: landscape printing and viewing

On 09/09/18 23:55, Simon Albrecht wrote: > On 09.09.2018 23:13, David Kastrup wrote: >> Kieren MacMillan writes: >>> Hi Martin, \paper { #(set-paper-size "a4" 'landscape) } >>> If I’m not mistaken, the correct incantation is >>> >>> \paper { >>> #(set-paper-size "a4landscape")

Re: Proprietary Software term

On 19/08/18 08:44, David Kastrup wrote: Wols Lists writes: On 19/08/18 00:34, David Kastrup wrote: As any theoretical physicist will tell you, anything that involves actual hardware also is maths. Are you telling me that maths PREscribes reality? No. Reality's math is inseparable from

Re: Proprietary Software term

On 19/08/18 00:34, David Kastrup wrote: > As any theoretical physicist will tell you, anything that involves > actual hardware also is maths. Are you telling me that maths PREscribes reality? Are you telling me that Newton got it right? If hardware is maths, then how comes physicists aren't

Re: Proprietary Software term

On 18/08/18 23:28, David Kastrup wrote: > zip has been defined using patentable techniques (like > https://www.google.com/patents/US5051745) but the implementations are > usually unencumbered. Just because it has been patented does not mean it is patentable :-( Of course, the problem is

Re: Proprietary Software term

On 18/08/18 21:18, David Kastrup wrote: >> "Undocumented proprietary format" doesn't express the intent which >> > "lock-in" does. As David pointed out, patents can be used to protect >> > a proprietary format, only I don't think that, for example, the exFAT >> > filesystem is, in his words, a

Re: Proprietary Software term

On 18/08/18 12:51, David Kastrup wrote: >> Indeed, that wasn't expressed too well. What I meant is that >> > CodaMusic's policy to use binary non-released (for some time even >> > encrypted) file formats strongly discouraged anyone to make a program >> > use these files. > That's more than just

Re: an "odd" accidental problem...

On 27/07/18 14:10, David Kastrup wrote: > Torsten Hämmerle writes: > >> B~M wrote >>> It appeared in the "Fantasy Etudes for >>> Viola" written by >>> Lillian Fuchs who was a significant contributor to Viola in the USA. >> >> >> Hi Paul, >> >> Thanks for this background information. >> Lillian

Re: an "odd" accidental problem...

On 27/07/18 15:30, Torsten Hämmerle wrote: > Anthony Youngman-2 wrote >> Well, lilypond is about the only place I ever normally see it! :-) YMMV >> :-) > > Here's a non-LilyPond excerpt of Tchaikovsky's Nocturne op. 19 no. 4: > >

Re: an "odd" accidental problem...

On 27/07/18 11:49, B~M wrote: Is there please a way to typeset this in Lilypond ? This is the only time I've seen such notation, so Im guessing its rare ? Rare for who? Too many people think "I never see it in music I'm familiar with, so surely nobody uses it ...". I've had this contre-temps

Staff-brace-like horizontal spanner

Hi all, I'm looking for a way to create a horizontal spanner that looks like a PianoStaff brace, which automatically grows horizontally without scaling the whole shape. The model can be seen on this page: http://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb10527451_00050.html Of

Different types of music expressions

Hi, I have a music-function that has to behave differently depending on the "type" of music it gets as an argument. Interpreting the music properties 'types and 'elements I was so far able to successfully discern * sequential music * single chords * single rhythmic events (but not if they're

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 186, Issue 108

On 22/05/18 21:11, Arle Lommel wrote: lmost right, but doesn’t function quite as Hindemith’s > notation does: > > * The Hindemith editions use time signatures /both/ above and in line, > but never at the same time. They serve different purposes. The > snipped removes the ability to do

Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

On 27/05/18 11:50, Robert Schmaus wrote: > The analogy is probably not perfect because investing time in Scheme > would benefit my overall Lilypond abilities, I guess. Learning different ways to think is ALWAYS valuable. Scheme requires a different mindset from most languages, so learning it WILL

Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

On 27/05/18 10:49, Robert Schmaus wrote: > From that thread, I take away the comfort that I'm not the only one with > Scheme-problems. > Now, I can live with that - most of the times I don't have to customise > anything anyway. It's just, that with Scheme, I know, I'll never get > into it, too. >

Re: Need someone testing XML file in Finale and Sibelius (and Dorico)

7. Mai 2018 18:51, "Jacques Menu Muzhic" schrieb: > Would it be a reasonable approach to have LilyPond first produce data in > memory, i.e. Scheme data > representing the whole score, and then either to produce the score or a MIDI > file or supply this > data to other

Re: Need someone testing XML file in Finale and Sibelius (and Dorico)

Hi Torsten, 5. Mai 2018 11:44, "Torsten Hämmerle" schrieb: > Hi Urs, > > Sibelius works fine: > > > Thanks. > > As my Dorico evaluation period has expired, I can't even start it. > All the

Re: Intervals enharmony question

On 04/05/18 17:14, Paul Scott wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 11:00:59AM +0100, Wols Lists wrote: >> On 30/04/18 22:46, Torsten Hämmerle wrote: >>> Hans Åberg-2 wrote >>>> I suspect the least pitch-flexible instrument is the oboe, as one >>>> typica

Re: Tempo & Markup

On 04/05/18 12:34, foxfanfare wrote: > But I was wondering if I could be able to write a small function for it. > Is it possible to change the default command "2 = 76-84" so it will take > my own markup preferences? Almost certainly ... I do the same thing with the header block on my music.

Re: Intervals enharmony question

On 04/05/18 11:34, Aaron Hill wrote: > As a piano/keyboards/bass/guitar player here who has only played with an > "orchestra" for high school musicals many moons ago, you have me > wondering now: > > From what I thought happened, the oboist tunes to the piano if one is > used or to a tuner

Re: Intervals enharmony question

On 30/04/18 22:46, Torsten Hämmerle wrote: > Hans Åberg-2 wrote >> I suspect the least pitch-flexible instrument is the oboe, as one >> typically uses that for a tuning reference pitch. > > Yep, and just to keep up tradition, it's the oboe player who operates the > digital tuning device. ;D >

Re: Intervals enharmony question

On 04/05/18 00:48, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > I didn’t get that far into trumpet playing — I switched to trombone as soon > as I could, because it better suited my embouchure — but I got far enough to > realize that I could do a *lot* of "tuning" with those limited valves and > slides. Based on

Re: Intervals enharmony question

On 30/04/18 20:54, Malte Meyn wrote: > > > Am 30.04.2018 um 15:50 schrieb Hans Åberg: >> But orchestral instruments depart from Pythagorean tuning, not E12, so >> they are not equivalent, differing by a comma of about 20 cents. > > Which orchestral instruments do you refer to? All instruments

Re: Intervals enharmony question

On 30/04/18 20:32, Hans Åberg wrote: > >> On 30 Apr 2018, at 21:11, Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: >> >> On 30/04/18 14:50, Hans Åberg wrote: >>> >>>> On 29 Apr 2018, at 22:17, Jacques Menu Muzhic <imj-muz...@bluewin.ch> &

Re: Intervals enharmony question

On 30/04/18 14:50, Hans Åberg wrote: > >> On 29 Apr 2018, at 22:17, Jacques Menu Muzhic wrote: >> >> OK, now everything is clear, it’s precisely on jazz chords I’m working. > > FYI, I recall the Mehegan books on jazz improvisation applying enharmonic > equivalents

Re: Large set of parts

On 29/04/18 00:00, J Martin Rushton wrote: On 28/04/18 04:46, Karlin High wrote: On 4/27/2018 8:28 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote: It falls into the category of alliteration, which abounds in English As a poetry form, too - "Beowulf" and J. R. R. Tolkien's unfinished work "The Fall of Arthur" come

Re: Temporarily split lyrics

2. April 2018 15:01, "Malte Meyn" schrieb: > Am 02.04.2018 um 14:55 schrieb li...@openlilylib.org: > >> Hm, thanks for the idea, but the problem is that this would require the >> "empty" lyrics to actually >> start at the beginning of the piece. > > You could try

Re: Temporarily split lyrics

2. April 2018 14:59, "Phil Holmes" schrieb: > Is http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=265 any use? Partially, thank you. I've realized (on lilybin) that I can start a new Lyrics context within the lyrics definition. Probably It'll work when I use named contexts to align to.

Re: Temporarily split lyrics

2. April 2018 14:49, "Malte Meyn" schrieb: > Am 02.04.2018 um 14:32 schrieb u...@openlilylib.org: > >> Hi all, >> >> what would be the most efficient way of typesetting lyrics that are >> split for a few words, ideally together with some sort of brackets >> similar to

Re: please direct to manual; different time signatures for different instruments

On 25/03/18 23:39, Ben wrote: > On 3/25/2018 6:24 PM, Colin Campbell wrote: >> On 2018-03-25 12:19 PM, Sam Frybyte wrote: >>> I don't even know what this is called so finding it in the manual has >>> me stymied. >>> I am using version 2.18.2 >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >> I believe someone has

Re: Variables and Repetition

On 25/03/18 04:13, John A wrote: > I am entering the notes in relative mode, and when I engrave the score, > if the ending notes of the figure are too high or low, on the second > repetition the whole figure will be an octave too high or too low. On > the next repetition, it goes an octave higher

Re: get current bar number

On 23/03/18 06:21, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: > If you are going to write an engraver you can find some informations in > the archive. Also look at the rehearsal mark engraver. One of the options is to use the bar number as the rehearsal mark, so that might give you some ideas. Cheers, Wol

Re: Transposing Keyless Brass Parts

On 17/03/18 23:54, Glassmenagerie wrote: > By accident I came across another possible solution. > > \score { > > > \transpose c g { > \relative g' { > \time 2/4 > > g8[-.\p g ( aes ) aes] ( > g g4 ) g8 ( > f ) f4 f8 ( > g\<[ ) g ( f\> ees]\! ) > d4 ( c >

Re: bookparts

On 05/03/18 17:55, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Knut, > >> Because the definition of testing is invalid at that point of the main >> source file. If tempTest.ly would contain e.g. a score or a \paper block >> no error would occur. > > No, it still throws an error because you can't define a

Re: bookparts

On 04/03/18 19:11, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi David, > >>> book = file >>> bookpart = portion of file with forced page break >>> >>> No? >> >> No. One input file can have several books (and there is one implicit >> book where scores and bookparts outside of books end up). >> > >> There might

Re: A couple of questions about Edition Engraver

Hi David, 19. Februar 2018 12:00, "David Sumbler" schrieb: > As a newcomer to using Edition Engraver, and looking at the example > files etc., I wondered why they were written with so much repetition. > "Perhaps it is just to keep things easy for newcomers like me to >

Re: Interesting glitch when using tags ...

On 04/02/18 19:20, David Kastrup wrote: > Wol's lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> writes: > >> Okay. You wanted a minimal example ... >> >> But surely, "f4. ~ f4" is clearly something wrong if it's complaining >> about an unterminated tie? Yes you

Re: Interesting glitch when using tags ...

, Wol On 04/02/18 18:49, Wol's lists wrote: Okay. You wanted a minimal example ... But surely, "f4. ~ f4" is clearly something wrong if it's complaining about an unterminated tie? Yes you might need a bit more information to debug it, but on the face of it it's a blatant bug ... C

Re: Interesting glitch when using tags ...

trup wrote: Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> writes: On 04/02/18 00:33, David Kastrup wrote: Wol's lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> writes: I suspect the cause is that I'm mixing slurs and ties, but I'm getting the following error ... voiceTrombone.ily:30:59: warning: untermi

Re: Interesting glitch when using tags ...

On 04/02/18 00:33, David Kastrup wrote: > Wol's lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> writes: > >> I suspect the cause is that I'm mixing slurs and ties, but I'm getting >> the following error ... >> >> voiceTrombone.ily:30:59: warning: unterminated tie >>

Interesting glitch when using tags ...

I suspect the cause is that I'm mixing slurs and ties, but I'm getting the following error ... voiceTrombone.ily:30:59: warning: unterminated tie \repeat percent 4 { f,8[ r f] f[ r f] } | f4. ~ f4 r8 | a8-> r4 a8-> r4 | a2. | bf2.( but as

Re: Weirdo code?

On 28/01/18 20:09, David Kastrup wrote: > Wol's lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> writes: > >> I've just tried to do a cut-n-paste into a piece of music, from >> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/bars >> >> At the very bottom you'll fin

Weirdo code?

I've just tried to do a cut-n-paste into a piece of music, from http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/bars At the very bottom you'll find \relative c' { c1 \mark \markup { \musicglyph "scripts.segno" } c1 \mark \markup { \musicglyph "scripts.coda" } c1 \mark \markup {

Re: Character for plural Latin, "ae"

On 24/01/18 22:50, Karlin High wrote: > Pick your favorite method, any of them can do the job. And you can even > just copy and past the thing from here: æ I just tried this in konsole and it worked ... A Cheers, Wol ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Fwd: Re: Engraver action every measure with Scheme

Forwarding to the list ... Weitergeleitete Nachricht --- Von: li...@openlilylib.org An: "Ed Harbison" Gesendet: 9. Januar 2018 10:59 Betreff: Re: Engraver action every measure with Scheme Hi Ed, 9. Januar 2018 09:30, "Ed Harbison" schrieb:

Re: New information (success report) for Frescobaldi 3 and the Ubuntu 16.04 repositories

I have now finished a run-through of installation instructions. As I have once more renamed it the link is now https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/wiki/Installing-Frescobaldi-3-on-Linux-(Package-or-Source) I'd be glad about feedback: * confirmation * questions * reports about mistakes *

Re: Fwd: frescobaldi 3

6. Januar 2018 12:27, "Blöchl Bernhard" schrieb: > Thanks for your kind support! > > To avoid a false delusion, in advance for list members jumping into this > thread the good message > for all linux users that the repository version of frescobaldi is always >

New information (success report) for Frescobaldi 3 and the Ubuntu 16.04 repositories

Hi all, after all the discussion about getting Frescobaldi to run on distributions based on Ubuntu < 17.xx I decided to give it a shot myself. TL;DR Frescobaldi *can* be installed on Ubuntu 16.04/Mint 18.3 from its own Git repositories and the Ubuntu package repositories without issues.

Re: Next round on frescobaldi dependencies

Hi all, I must add some more confusion to this issue. I just had the opportunity to install a new OS from scratch and did (exactly) the following: * Install Ubuntu MATE 17.10 from DVD * sudo apt update * sudo apt upgrade * sudo apt install etckepper

Re: Change the text within a volta

On 30/12/17 18:48, nokel81 wrote: > Thank you very much however, my text comes out really weird. I have set my > font- name to "sans" but that doesn't seem to help. > > I think the problem(s) I had were 1) the default font was only

Re: Change the text within a volta

On 29/12/17 22:32, nokel81 wrote: > Yes, I tried using the raw tag, I guess it didn't work. > > \omit Score.BarLine > \repeat volta 3 {} > \alternative { > {} > { > \undo \omit Score.BarLine > \bar "|" > f2 > \bar "|" > } >

Re: Two short questions

On 28/12/17 16:07, Malte Meyn wrote: > Have a look at the PDF in the post linked above: The function can do > both uppercase (AA) and mixedcase (Aa) (but not yet lowercase (aa)). Sorry, I did look, but obviously missed it ... :-( Cheers, Wol ___

Re: Two short questions

On 28/12/17 15:37, Malte Meyn wrote: > > > Am 28.12.2017 um 16:34 schrieb Malte Meyn: >> >> >> Am 28.12.2017 um 16:03 schrieb Jérôme Plût: >>> 1. I am typesetting some music which is in 2/1, and mark using a cut >>> time signature. How is it possible with Lilypond to put a ℂ symbol for >>> a 2/1

Re: Two short questions

On 28/12/17 15:03, Jérôme Plût wrote: > 2. In virtually all orchestra scores I play the alphabetic marks skip > the letter J. However format-mark-box-letters skips the letter I. So > at each rehearsal this confuses all my colleagues. Since they are > obviously slow to learn that I == J, does there

Re: Next round on frescobaldi dependencies

23. Dezember 2017 03:30, "Simon Albrecht" )> schrieb: Hello everybody, just to let you know: After gathering from the recent thread that the situation with frescobaldi dependencies and conflicting versions of

Re: Auto-transposition

On 18/12/17 15:08, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Saul, \resetRelativeOctave belongs IMO always as part of the definition of a music expression, ideally on the line directly preceding note entry. Agreed. Until it's a repeated phrase, but not necessarily the same octave. iirc (as I said it's a

Re: Auto-transposition

On 15/12/17 17:48, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > > Actually, I think it had to do with midi output for bass > clarinet. The > > sample I used was not transposed the octave, and I had to > compensate by > > transposing the music down. > > According to Wikipedia, bass

Re: Auto-transposition

On 15/12/17 13:45, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 15 Dec 2017 at 10:02:19 (+), Wols Lists wrote: >> On 15/12/17 06:20, Saul Tobin wrote: >>> Relative mode makes perfect sense if you're entering music that cares >>> mainly about the relationship between notes within a

Re: Auto-transposition

On 15/12/17 06:20, Saul Tobin wrote: > Relative mode makes perfect sense if you're entering music that cares > mainly about the relationship between notes within a phrase (i.e. most > music). IMO absolute mode might be easier from the perspective of the > software, but it's not how most musicians

Re: Windows 10

On 01/12/17 14:15, peter.gen...@sunscales.co.uk wrote: > Everything worked fine but after one fateful OS update I found to extra > folders in C:\windows\users\ , PETERDESKTOP and PETERDESKTOP.000. Did this update do a "clean install" of Windows? That sounds to me like you've done a fresh

Indicate (barre) frets for chords to be played in guitar sheets

Hey there, I recall having read about that topic in the list a (rather long) while ago, though I'm not too sure about it. But anyway, there is a possibility to put text above the chord names and make chord names look the way one wants it, but is there some kind of best practice? Could somebody

Re: Markings on a percent bar

On 23/11/17 18:14, David Kastrup wrote: The problem, from my point of view, is that lilypond syntax is simple and makes sense to me. As soon as scheme gets involved, the learning curve is like hitting a cliff. The Scheme "involved" here is a music function wrapper. The body of the music

Re: Markings on a percent bar

On 23/11/17 17:17, David Kastrup wrote: Can anybody give me any hints? I really hate it when people don't even_try_ entering a single note themselves and leave all the work to every single reader. Sorry. But it might be a problem someone's already solved, seeing as it's pretty common in my

Re: Markings on a percent bar

On 23/11/17 16:53, SoundsFromSound wrote: > Wols Lists wrote >> This is actually very common in my sort of music. As you can see, I have >> a "\repeat percent 4 {}", and I have both a crescendo starting on the >> fourth bar, plus the number "4" abov

Markings on a percent bar

This is actually very common in my sort of music. As you can see, I have a "\repeat percent 4 {}", and I have both a crescendo starting on the fourth bar, plus the number "4" above it. And I don't know where to start trying to enter this ... :-) That "4" is actually a simple example of a common

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

On 18/11/17 18:18, Karlin High wrote: > On 11/18/2017 11:33 AM, David Wright wrote: >> You might find yourself being >> misunderstood in more serious circumstances, if you don't allow >> for the same words to mean different things, or even the opposite. > > Reminds me of my cousin on a business

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

On 17/11/17 16:10, David Wright wrote: On Fri 17 Nov 2017 at 07:45:58 (-0500), Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi all, [Am 17.11.2017 um 08:55 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm:] An apostrophe in German is a sign for something left out like "so’n Ding" (short for "so ein Ding"), similar to English

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

On 16/11/17 13:58, Karlin High wrote: > On 11/16/2017 7:45 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> Personally, I don't think that micromanaging gender identities is going >> to help anybody deal better with who and what they and/or others are. > > "Shifts in terms have an unfortunate side effect. Many people

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

On 15/11/17 20:32, David Kastrup wrote: David Wright writes: On Wed 15 Nov 2017 at 11:56:07 (-0500), Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Simon, A duchess has gender, but I don't see that the word "duchess" has grammatical gender. How is that expressed? "The duchess

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

On 15/11/17 01:13, Andrew Bernard wrote: > Often people refer to boats as 'she', but that's not a part of grammar. And the same boat is, so I understand, usually referred to BY THE CREW, as "he". So your own boat is "he", others are "she". Cheers, Wol

Re: double time signature problem

On 15/11/17 10:51, Knut Petersen wrote: > Am 15.11.2017 um 00:26 schrieb Noeck: >> >>> The diminutive of „Magd“ is „Mägdelein“ or maybe „Mägdchen“ (nobody >>> would use the latter), but not „Mädchen“. >> But still "Mädchen" seems to be derived from "Magd": >>

Re: double time signature problem

On 14/11/17 16:50, Karlin High wrote: > And I just learned something there: > > "Der Hund hat den Mann gebissen" and > "Den Mann hat der Hund gebissen" > both mean "The dog has bitten the man". > > I knew the Russian language had that word-order feature/bug, but didn't > realize German did too.

Re: Transposing an entire score

On 08/11/17 19:38, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > > Subject: Re: Transposing an entire score > On 08/11/17 11:42, Francisco Vila wrote: > > Transposing every definition does work indeed, but it is a potential > > source of problems for reusing that music (maybe in another >

Re: Transposing an entire score

On 08/11/17 11:42, Francisco Vila wrote: > Transposing every definition does work indeed, but it is a potential > source of problems for reusing that music (maybe in another > transposition) unless you want the music definitions transposed at > origin once and forever, for some reason. When I'm

Re: Transposing an entire score

On 07/11/17 19:13, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: peter.gam...@homecall.co.uk > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2017

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