Re: Guitar harmonics indicators

2016-05-22 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Fri, 20 May 2016 17:40:10 +0200 BB wrote: Hsrmonics, also called "flagolets" may be indicated by small circles above the notes. They should be accompanied by an 8va to give true pitch if necessary. The diamond shaped note indicates a case where the pitch is not

Re: When to Use Pound Signs

2016-03-26 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sat, 26 Mar 2016 20:42:39 +0100 David Kastrup wrote: > Jason Silver writes: > > > Anyone have thoughts on how to notate a A minor add 9? > > > > I've tried this: > > > > chExceptionMusic = { > > 1-\markup { \super "add9" } % 1.3.5.9 > >

Re: 7dim symbol in chord names

2015-12-23 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 20:10:14 +0200 Yann wrote: > Hello all ! > > Is there a way to modify 7dim (e.g. print "C#7dim" instead of default > "C#07") notation in chord names, like what can be done for maj7 with > majorSevenSymbol property ? Do you mean a C#dim7 or C#m7(b5)? There

Re: 7dim symbol in chord names

2015-12-04 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 23:13:14 +0200 Blöchl Bernhard wrote: > >> Is there a way to modify 7dim (e.g. print "C#7dim"7 C#7dim is incorrect. It would have to be C#m7b5. C#dim7 uses the little "o". C#m7b5 uses the same "o" with a slash through it. One has a minor 7th

Re: 7dim symbol in chord names

2015-11-27 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 20:10:14 +0200 Yann wrote: > Hello all ! > > Is there a way to modify 7dim C#7dim is not correct. The standard name is C#m7b5. Not elegant, but unambiguous as concerns the minor 7th or dim. 7th interval. It is called a leading tone seventh or a

Re: 7dim symbol in chord names

2015-11-09 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 20:10:14 +0200 Yann wrote: > Hello all ! > > Is there a way to modify 7dim (e.g. print "C#7dim" It's always been C#dim or C#dim7. C#7dim would indicate a leading tone or "half diminished" seventh, which is not what you apparently want. Regards, Rald

Re: sharping naturals

2015-08-20 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 14:36:41 +0200 Peter Bjuhr peterbj...@gmail.com wrote: When you use key signatures like A major or B Major you end up with a lot of naturals in the score for which you may have to manually add sharps. Is there a switch that will automatically sharp all the

Re: sharping naturals

2015-08-19 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 14:36:41 +0200 Peter Bjuhr peterbj...@gmail.com wrote: When you use key signatures like A major or B Major you end up with a lot of naturals in the score for which you may have to manually add sharps. Is there a switch that will automatically sharp all the

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

2015-08-18 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 14:02:12 +0200 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-08-16 12:58 GMT+02:00 BB bb-543...@telecolumbus.net: \version 2.18.0 #(set-global-staff-size 25) { \override TextScript.color = #red c4^p c4-p c-2 c-3 c-4 c^\markup { \finger 2 - 3

Re: sharping naturals

2015-08-13 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 02:18:40 +0200 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes: Hi all, I’m no Scheme expert, of course… but it seems there should be a relatively easy way to code a music function which says “take all pitches [entered as

Re: sharping naturals

2015-08-13 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 00:31:42 +0200 Hans Aberg haber...@telia.com wrote: On 25 Jul 2015, at 00:18, Brother Gabriel-Marie brgabr...@sspx.org wrote: My problem was a coding issue, not a musical issue. I wanted a coding solution to save keystrokes but everyone wanted to talk music

Re: sharping naturals

2015-08-13 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 07:18:18 +0200 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: David Raleigh Arnold d...@openguitar.com writes: On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 11:33:50 -0500 Brother Gabriel-Marie brgabr...@sspx.org wrote: When you use key signatures like A major or B Major you end up with a lot

Re: sharping naturals

2015-08-13 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 09:35:44 +0200 Malte Meyn lilyp...@maltemeyn.de wrote: Am 25.07.2015 um 01:32 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: I’m no Scheme expert, of course… but it seems there should be a relatively easy way to code a music function which says “take all pitches [entered as ’naturals’]

Re: sharping naturals

2015-08-13 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 14:20:24 +0200 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Robert Schmaus robert.schm...@web.de writes: I wasn't being rude, Rudeness is determined at the receiving end of a communication. The best you can say is that you did not intend to be rude. just reminding the guy

Re: sharping naturals

2015-08-13 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 12:07:19 +0200 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Wols Lists antli...@youngman.org.uk writes: On 25/07/15 08:04, David Kastrup wrote: If we wanted to support natural English note entry, it would become LilyPond's problem. As an irrelevant aside :-) Throwing

Re: sharping naturals

2015-08-13 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 13:47:34 +0200 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com writes: If I understand correctly your proposal is that \language english m = { ff' f' fs' } \m \follow fs \m \follow ff \m will be printed different. Well, it

Re: sharping naturals

2015-08-13 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
starting thus will be deleted. NB space # (c)2005 David Raleigh Arnold. --GNU Enjoy! rev. 20100528 # comments: del from whole file /^%% .*/d # key range -- top /Key[1-7n][b#n]/,/Key0/{ # branch to fall off end--problem dumb mistake? #/%.*/b ### Format: # no tabs s/\t/ /g # space follows

Re: sharping naturals

2015-08-13 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
., inside range: # r=a4 will become a4\rest # V3 = \voiceThree # Outside range: # %% -- all lines starting thus will be deleted. NB space # (c)2005 David Raleigh Arnold. --GNU Enjoy! rev. 20100528 # comments: del from whole file /^%% .*/d # key range -- top /Key[1-7n][b#n]/,/Key0/{ # branch to fall

Re: sharping naturals

2015-08-13 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 13:05:15 +0200 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-08-10 3:05 GMT+02:00 David Raleigh Arnold d...@openguitar.com: On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 11:33:50 -0500 Brother Gabriel-Marie brgabr...@sspx.org wrote: When you use key signatures like A major or B Major you

Re: Acciaccatura slurs

2015-08-09 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 23:20:32 +1000 Andrew Bernard andrew.bern...@gmail.com wrote: How would one go about making the slur from the c sharp in the acciaccatura here go across to the c sharp in the chord horizontally? \version 2.19.24 \relative c'' {   \acciaccatura { g8 cis( }   g cis

Re: sharping naturals

2015-08-09 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 11:33:50 -0500 Brother Gabriel-Marie brgabr...@sspx.org wrote: When you use key signatures like A major or B Major you end up with a lot of naturals in the score for which you may have to manually add sharps. Is there a switch that will automatically sharp all the

Re: string numbers (fingering instructions) as roman numerals?

2015-06-16 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
from all of the published guitar methods of others. For All Guitarists: solos, duets, and peerless guitar exercises David Raleigh Arnold http://www.openguitar.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org

Re: Don't merge note heads in different voices

2015-06-11 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
. There is no such thing as an authority on music notation. Kindest regards, Rale -- For All Guitar Beginners: The pages of very easy solos missing from all of the published guitar methods of others. For All Guitarists: solos, duets, and peerless guitar exercises David Raleigh Arnold http

Thank you much for s-z rest

2015-05-13 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
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re: Where is there a z or s quarter rest?

2015-05-12 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
tisimst tisimst.lilypond at gmail.com writes: All, I couldn't wait any longer, so here's a formal announcement about the new music fonts that I've been working on, by way of example. They are all 100% LilyPond compatible Please, a z-s rest? It's newer than the Gutenberg quarter rests you

Re: Slur and acciaccatura in chords

2014-10-28 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 14:31:46 -0700 (PDT) tisimst tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: This is an interesting problem... It begs the question, Can slurs be made to start/end on arbitrary chord notes? It appears that they cannot, but can they be made to do so? I don't think I'd personally have too

Re: Chord Symbols with inversions

2014-07-11 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:52:13 +0100 Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com wrote: Hi list, With notation like \version 2.18.0 \chordmode { c/g } I can get chord names with /G at the end to indicate a G added below the root of the chord. With the notation \new ChordNames {

Re: Chord Symbols with inversions

2014-07-11 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Guitarists: solos, duets, and peerless guitar exercises David Raleigh Arnold http://www.openguitar.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: minor chords

2014-07-10 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
. Regards, Rale -- For All Guitar Beginners: The pages of very easy solos missing from all of the published guitar methods of others. For All Guitarists: solos, duets, and peerless guitar exercises David Raleigh Arnold http://www.openguitar.com

Re: string numbers (fingering instructions) as roman numerals?

2014-06-30 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
of very easy solos missing from all of the published guitar methods of others. For All Guitarists: solos, duets, and peerless guitar exercises David Raleigh Arnold http://www.openguitar.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: dal segno several times

2014-05-12 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Mon, 12 May 2014 12:56:27 -0700 Jim Long lilyp...@umpquanet.com wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 12:18:37PM +0100, Carlo Vanoni wrote: I have a simple song, where the verse is 4 measures repeated twice, and the chorus again 4 measures repeated twice. What would you do if you had seven

Re: [SPAM] Re: acciaccatura before barline

2014-03-30 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
this much shorter. It's late. :-) Regards, Rale -- For All Guitar Beginners: The pages of very easy solos missing from all of the published guitar methods of others. For All Guitarists: solos, duets, and peerless guitar exercises David Raleigh Arnold http://www.openguitar.com

Re: acciaccatura before barline

2014-03-27 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
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Re: Printing Title Pages; has it been a thought?

2014-03-27 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
of others. For All Guitarists: solos, duets, and peerless guitar exercises David Raleigh Arnold http://www.openguitar.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: minor chords

2014-03-15 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:19:28 +0100 (CET) Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am working on a leadsheet (melody and chords) which is a job I don't do very often. I want to print maj7 chordnames using maj7 or Maj7 instead of the default triangle. I have found in the

Re: User comments on R shorthand

2013-03-20 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 22:54 +0800, James Harkins wrote: I apologize for weighing in on the R shorthand thread by sending a new message. I read the digest and normally reply to messages by gmane. However, for some unknown reason, R shorthand seems to be missing entirely from gmane. It exists in

Re: stem across voices

2012-06-03 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sun, 2012-06-03 at 15:15 +0200, Federico Bruni wrote: Hi, can you tell me what's the meaning of a stem which connects a note in a voice to a rest (?) in another voice? See image attached. Is it good output? (I think it's been engraved in Finale) If so, how can I get it in LilyPond?

Re: Fwd: Middle voices and rests

2012-05-15 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 17:31 -0400, David B. Stocker wrote: Hi group, Any guess on how to make LilyPond automatically shift rests the way it shifts notes in middle voices to avoid collisions with other notes? The rule makes it simple, but it is a very obscure rule to say the least. An inside

Re: Fwd: Middle voices and rests

2012-05-15 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 03:39 -0400, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 17:31 -0400, David B. Stocker wrote: Hi group, Any guess on how to make LilyPond automatically shift rests the way it shifts notes in middle voices to avoid collisions with other notes? The rule makes

Re: Ukulele string tunings

2012-05-13 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 15:56 +0200, Choan Gálvez wrote: Hi. Current tunings for tenor and baritone ukulele are string reversed. It is customary among players to give the tunings string reversed, as guitar EADGBE, as if the strings were a chord being played from the lowest note to the highest.

Re: Score layout in a separate file

2012-04-05 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 15:17 +0200, Siska Ádám wrote: Dear List, is there a way to put the layout block for a score in a variable that lives in a separate file? Unfortunately the following won't compile: This does something similar: http://www.openguitar.com/files/slyce.py Regards,

Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-22 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 18:38 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: David Raleigh Arnold d...@openguitar.com writes: Copyrighted material is intended to have a useful life after the expiration of copyright, not to be useless, like CP/M or Windows 3.2 or 98 for example. There is not much of a point

Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-20 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 22:11 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: David Raleigh Arnold d...@openguitar.com writes: On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:52:03 +0100, Hans Aberg wrote: On 19 Jan 2012, at 21:58, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 11:05 -0800, Bernardo Barros wrote: Open software

Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-19 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 15:02 -0500, PMA wrote: David Raleigh Arnold wrote: Your last sentence here hits on *the* issue in my original post. Why indeed would I...? But it seems that, to post on ISMLP/ WIMA, one *must* commit to public-domain-like status. I would like, of course, to find

Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-19 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 11:05 -0800, Bernardo Barros wrote: Open software people tend to consider artists as being equivalent to programmers, so they think artists should starve. I have no sympathy with that view. Obviously. Knowledge should be free, Yale to the contrary. Art shouldn't be

Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-17 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 20:26 -0500, PMA wrote: Hi List. I'm considering posting my scores on WIMA (now via ISMLP), and would much appreciate comment from any of you who have had experience in going that route. Make sure your midi, if any, has a copyright notice. Lilypond does not put one in

Re: Three voices plus tie in RH - notation best practice?

2011-10-19 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 16:27 +0800, James Harkins wrote: Hi, a notational correctness question rather than a lilypond technical question, hope that's okay. A student brought in some work today, some of which calls for three voices in the right hand of a PianoStaff. Minus expressive marks,

Re: preprocessing an included file with system command

2011-10-17 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sat, 2011-10-01 at 14:13 -0400, Michael Ellis wrote: For anyone who wants to make use of it, I've attached a short python script I wrote this morning for general purpose monitoring of files with given extensions in an arbitrary list of directories. Should be self-explanatory to python

Re: chord names with lowered bass

2011-06-28 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sunday, June 26, 2011 07:11:37 PM Tim McNamara wrote: On Jun 26, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: That's the way I use it as well. But I'm totally familiar with this being C/E. That's the only layout I've ever seen for this kind of notation. Before 1960 or so C/E was

Re: chord names with lowered bass

2011-06-26 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 11:43:04 +0200, Marc Hohl wrote: Am 26.06.2011 09:52, schrieb David Kastrup: Marc Hohlm...@hohlart.de writes: Not to speak about accordion, where upper case letters denote the bass note and lower case letters the chord. So you'll have (depending on the rhythm) C c c

Re: trying to add a new \language

2011-06-16 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 16 June 2011 11:56:46 -Eluze wrote: R. Mattes wrote: On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:52:22 -0700, -Eluze wrote: hi for some experiments i want to add a new language - let's call it myLanguage. I hope this gets resolved, because IMO there should be a way of using one of the many

Re: make systems seperated in one page

2011-03-11 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 10 March 2011 11:14:54 louloupond wrote: Hello , firstable excuse for my language , however i'll try to explain you my problem. I wonder if many users might find it convenient to insert vertical white spaces in systems by substituting |_| for | in the \bar commands, so for example,

Re: Creation of a generic pattern

2011-02-27 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sunday 27 February 2011 14:35:51 voyageur wrote: Hi, I have a score with a reccurent rythmic pattern. This is an example : \times 2/3 {c16\[(d c\!) } e16 \staccato c \staccato] I want to create some kind of template to save me typing the code many times. I'm not sure template is

Re: guitarist: how write chord names like Gadd5

2011-02-02 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tuesday 01 February 2011 09:13:44 Jürgen Ibelgaufts wrote: Hello, I want to write down guitar chords and frets with extra voicings, say a G chord with an extra Fifth on the B string, 3rd fret, or Em chord with an extra G on the treble e string. The whole idea of chord names is that one G

Re: Merging Rests in Single Staff with more than one 'voice'

2011-01-22 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Saturday 22 January 2011 12:52:54 James Lowe wrote: Hello, I don't often use multiple voices in a single staff, so am a bit unfamiliar and am still finding my way. However I cannot easily see how I can take two 'voices' each from a single source such that when they are combined on a

Re: why chords with notes of different duration is not supported?

2011-01-13 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Am Mittwoch, 12. Januar 2011, um 09:02:19 schrieb Graham Percival: On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:04:50AM -0500, Marc Mouries wrote: i'd like to know about the rationale behind not supporting chords with notes of different duration. Because there's no such thing as a chord with notes of

Re: Best practices for book output?

2010-09-05 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 01 September 2010 00:03:33 Christopher Meredith wrote: I may be in over my head. What I am trying to do is produce a hymnal. After much experimentation, I have settled upon a layout I like that I am using on a per-hymn basis. I have abstracted these portions of my input files and

Re: letter vs. a4 (and leger lines)

2010-09-04 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 02 September 2010 20:17:01 David Rogers wrote: * David Raleigh Arnold d...@openguitar.com [2010-09-02 19:36]: On Thursday 02 September 2010 12:23:58 David Rogers wrote: Just for good measure (or bad measure :-) ), another possible meaning could be lines resembling the ruling

Re: letter vs. a4 (and leger lines)

2010-09-04 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Saturday 04 September 2010 09:28:36 Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: David Raleigh Arnold d...@openguitar.com No-one cares, and it's not going to be changed. Thanks for the discussion. :-) Regards, daveA http://www.openguitar.com/refs/leger-line.html

Re: How do I enter the chord B(add4)/G#?

2010-09-03 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 01 September 2010 23:59:23 John Zaitseff wrote: A very quick and simple question that has me stumped: How do I enter the chord B(add4)/G# in LilyPond's chord mode? I am trying to transcribe that very chord in a song we have... I am quite adept at using LilyPond, but my

Re: page count doesn't work for me

2010-08-15 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 28 April 2010 13:02:47 Stefan Thomas wrote: I've made relative links in the main score to these libraries. I don't know how to make a -zip or -tar file which include the relative links. I will try it and then I would like to send the score. Thanks, Stefan

Re: Function to add a - before finger number

2010-08-06 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 04 August 2010 15:09:59 Neil Puttock wrote: On 3 August 2010 21:49, Marc Mouries m...@mouries.net wrote: Thanks Neil. I just tried it and as you can see the number is too far on the right. I inserted a call to make-general-align-markup X LEFT but it did not help. Is there a way

Re: Function to add a - before finger number

2010-08-03 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tuesday 03 August 2010 09:38:24 Antheo wrote: Thanks for the suggestion Nick. But it is important that it does not look like a glissando because a glissando is an audible transition between 2 notes while I am trying to indicate a silent shift. Per the look also, a glissando looks like :

barcheck numberer

2010-06-10 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Fast bar numbering in your editor. A white line is filled with a bar. Other lines _ending_ with | get numbers. No notice is taken of | which does not end line. Begin any number, step any number. b=1 and s=1 is the default. - To use, make cb.awk executable in

Re: beamed-stem-shorten

2010-06-04 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 02 June 2010 22:41:07 you wrote: How about using version 2.12.3 score { new Staff { clef G_8 time 3/4 key e minor stemDown times 2/3 { override Stem #'length-fraction = #(magstep -2) g'8[ e' b] } times 2/3 {g'[ e' b] } times 2/3 {g'[ e' b] } times 2/3 {

Re: beamed-stem-shorten

2010-06-03 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 02 June 2010 22:01:06 David Raleigh Arnold wrote: % I need to shorten some beams. % beamed-stem-shorten doesn't seem to work % at all: TIA daveA \version 2.12.3 % I need to shorten some stems, (oops-- not beams.) % beamed-stem-shorten doesn't seem to work % even with latest

beamed-stem-shorten

2010-06-02 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
% I need to shorten some beams. % beamed-stem-shorten doesn't seem to work % at all: TIA daveA \version 2.12.3 \score { \new Staff { \clef G_8 \time 3/4 \key e \minor \stemDown \times 2/3 { \override Stem #'(beamed-stem-shorten) = #'( 2.0 ) g'8[ e' b] } \times 2/3 {g'[ e' b] } \times 2/3 {g'[

Re: Editing tool: transpose 8ve

2010-05-26 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 26 May 2010 03:09:12 Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote: I'd say, doing this in Scheme is a much better thing in some cases --- it is rollbackable easily, configurable and so on. In some cases :-) The working part of each sed script is very short, 3 lines, but the reason I posted it was

Editing tool: transpose 8ve

2010-05-25 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
else echo Select some lilypond data, then: $ ottava [up|down] (c)2010 David Raleigh Arnold --GNU. Enjoy. fi -- For beginners: very easy guitar music, solos, duets, exercises. Early intermediate guitar solos. One best scale set for all

Re: Page 'X' of 'Y'

2010-04-12 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 08 April 2010 21:22:35 Jason Kratz wrote: Is it possible for Lilypond to print page numbers in the format Page 'x' of 'y'? For example Page 1 of 3, with 3 being the total number of pages. I've dug around trying to find an example of this but haven't had any luck. I kept this

Re: A reminder maybe?

2010-04-12 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Monday 12 April 2010 11:01:21 Mark Polesky wrote: David Raleigh Arnold wrote: I hope I didn't miss this, but has the automatic further shortening of downward stems on very low notes and of upward stems on very high notes been implemented? (There was discussion of this back

A reminder maybe?

2010-04-01 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
I hope I didn't miss this, but has the automatic further shortening of downward stems on very low notes and of upward stems on very high notes been implemented? (There was discussion of this back in the Cretaceous.) Regards, daveA -- For beginners: very easy guitar music, solos, duets,

Re: dynamic and midi velocity

2010-03-11 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Saturday 06 March 2010 03:12:11 David Kastrup wrote: David Raleigh Arnold d...@openguitar.com writes: Ideally the volume should be preset for each instrument according to ratios expressing the relative natural loudness of the instrument, IOW set it and forget it, and only velocity should

Re: dynamic and midi velocity

2010-03-05 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 04 March 2010 18:36:01 Philippe Hezaine wrote: Martin Tarenskeen a écrit : On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: So why on earth is conversion from velocity to volume in decibels an issue? If you are using ppp pp p mp mf f ff fff why convert at all? Just use

Re: dynamic and midi velocity

2010-03-04 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tuesday 02 March 2010 19:03:26 Peter Chubb wrote: bachelet == bachelet w...@theps.net writes: bachelet any luck finding this script, I'd like to use it, too It was in this mailing list, at http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-lilyp...@gnu.org/msg03960.html Peter C The velocity is

Re: Incorrect Lilypond version

2010-01-20 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:02:31 -0800 (PST) hsweet hswee...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all... I've installed what I think should be Lilypond 2.12 every way I can dream up, the installation messages say it's installing 2.12. but lilypond -v still thinks it 2.10.33. This is on a machine running

Re: svg output

2010-01-16 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:09:36 + Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: new feature (*cough* bugfix) What does that mean? Why wasn't svg output fixed when it broke? Is there is a problem with priorities? Doesn't lilypond's on line output, including the docs, look a million times

[no subject]

2010-01-14 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
In /v2.6/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.html: The SVG backend is now a fully functional backend. Please, can this be fixed this in 2.12? It is hardly a new feature. Hasn't it been out of commission long enough? TAI. Regards, daveA ___ lilypond-user

svg output

2010-01-14 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
In /v2.6/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.html: The SVG backend is now a fully functional backend. Please, can this be fixed this in 2.12? It is hardly a new feature. Hasn't it been out of commission long enough? TAI. Regards, daveA ___ lilypond-user

Re: svg output

2010-01-14 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:32:25 -0800 Patrick McCarty pnor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Patrick McCarty pnor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:44 AM, David Raleigh Arnold d...@openguitar.com wrote: In /v2.6/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.html: The SVG

Re: Fast lilypond input - does midi keyboard help?

2009-09-13 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:51:36 +1200 Daryna Baikadamova daryna.baikadam...@gmail.com wrote: For simple monophonic lines, would it be faster to input using midi keyboard (together with realtime midi to lilypond converter such as rumor and an IDE such as Frescobaldi)? Then after input, we will

Re: RESOLVED letter size, paper height

2009-09-10 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 12:02:28 -0400 David Raleigh Arnold d...@openguitar.com wrote: I am using the tarball 2.12.2 on a debian stable system. I found that without paper-height, the page was too long as displayed by gv or xpdf. Is #(set-paper-size letter) correct? If so, it doesn't work

RESOLVED letter size, paper height

2009-09-09 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
I am using the tarball 2.12.2 on a debian stable system. I found that without paper-height, the page was too long as displayed by gv or xpdf. Is #(set-paper-size letter) correct? If so, it doesn't work without stating the paper-height. I think this is a bug in ghostscript, not lilypond, but it

Re: Thoughts on Midge (was: Re: [midi] Re: Articulate midi script)

2009-09-09 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:15:21 +1000 Peter Chubb lily.u...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: Grammostola == Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com writes: Grammostola David Raleigh Arnold wrote: Again, why not get in touch with the developer(s) of midge? The syntax is completely

Re: Articulate midi script

2009-09-06 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 18:53:37 +0100 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 12:23:28PM +0200, Grammostola Rosea wrote: @ Valentin, yeah would be nice if we could improve the midi output by default. I can remember I mentioned this before, but one comment (not

Re: Articulate midi script

2009-09-06 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:49:50 +0200 Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com wrote: David Raleigh Arnold wrote: On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 18:53:37 +0100 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 12:23:28PM +0200, Grammostola Rosea wrote

followKeySignature

2009-09-01 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
to english.ly # Put KEY[1-7][bs] anywhere on first line to edit and new key anywhere # on any line to change keys. KEY0 ends processing. # examples: KEY4s = E major. KEY3b = Eb major. KEY0 = A minor ;-) # (c)2005 David Raleigh Arnold. --GNU Enjoy! rev. 20080116 # no tabs s/\t/ /g # space follows

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-08-31 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Friday 28 August 2009, David Rogers wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:58, Kieren MacMillankieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi David (et al), Just to be absolutely clear, the fallacy in your argument lies in the following statement: It's necessary to consider the sound of the

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-08-30 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sunday 30 August 2009, David Bobroff wrote: Graham Percival wrote: On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 04:13:56PM -0400, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: But in this instance, the majority of coders line up in opposition. You have shouted down the users, but convinced none. Why? Because you

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-08-30 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Saturday 29 August 2009, Kieren MacMillan wrote: David, The key signature is and has been for many centuries an integral part of the notation. Yes... and now you're suggesting we make it *not* integral — your argument holds no merit. No. I'm stating outright that you make the key

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-08-29 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Friday 28 August 2009, Kieren MacMillan wrote: David, It is also perfectly reasonable for a person who has been writing music for decades for it to make no sense. Why? Because it makes no sense, and never did. ? Why not a \followKeySignature command? ?? I can't remember

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-08-29 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Friday 28 August 2009, David Rogers wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:58, Kieren MacMillankieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi David (et al), Just to be absolutely clear, the fallacy in your argument lies in the following statement: It's necessary to consider the sound of the

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-08-28 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tuesday 25 August 2009, James E. Bailey wrote: It is actually perfectly reasonable for a person completely new to notating music for this to not make sense. It is also perfectly reasonable for a person who has been writing music for decades for it to make no sense. Why? Because it makes

Re: Minor releases?

2009-08-19 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tuesday 18 August 2009, John Mandereau wrote: Le lundi 17 août 2009 à 16:20 -0400, David Raleigh Arnold a écrit : You do a great job summarizing the minor versions of the development versions, but there is nothing in news-gmane-lilypond.devel about stable minor changes. The only

Re: Minor releases?

2009-08-17 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Monday 17 August 2009, John Mandereau wrote: Le dimanche 16 août 2009 à 14:34 -0700, Graham Percival a écrit : On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 11:48:53AM -0400, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: I don't see any straightforward way of seeing a changelog or anything which tells the differences

Minor releases?

2009-08-16 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
I don't see any straightforward way of seeing a changelog or anything which tells the differences between minor releases. I think I can justify x.x.1 on one machine and x.x.2 on another, but I would like to know what the differences are to avoid open manholes. Is there a CHANGELOG somewhere, and

Re: website: why do you use lilypond?

2009-08-01 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Saturday 01 August 2009, Graham Percival wrote: Work on the actual content of the website seems to have hit a brick wall. I'm not very happy about this, especially since some of the gaps are easy to fill. (*nobody* knows *anything* about the non-English forums for discussing lilypond?

Re: Best name for function to create cross-style noteheads

2009-07-22 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Mark Polesky wrote: Trevor Daniels wrote: Given the wide variation in the use of the x-shaped note head I think the only possible name to use is one that reflects the shape of the note head - crossNote, crossNoteHead or similar - rather than trying to find a

Re: repeat a set of measures (A to B) later on in the score

2009-03-22 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Saturday 21 March 2009, patrick duka wrote: Hi, I have a set of measures that I want to repeat several times at different times of the score. I want to put the letter A at the beginning of this set of measures, and B at the end, then I want A-B to repeat at some time later on, 1.

Re: auto ottavation

2009-03-01 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sunday 01 March 2009, Rob Canning wrote: hello, is there anything i can \set or \override or anything in order for lilypond to automaticaly take care of ottavation? i would like to be able to set an upper and lower threshold and then when these are exceeded lilypond will automagicaly

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