Re: subscript in lyrics

On Fri 26 Apr 2024 at 20:33:26 (-0400), David Olson wrote: > As it turns out, the "bc" text needs to be in lower case for \smallCaps to > work. > > title = \markup { 539. Threshing Floor of Aruna. 1100 \smallCaps bc } > > it doesn't operate on text that's already capitalized. There's a bumper

Re: Note names are causing text marks to be duplicated

On Fri 26 Apr 2024 at 07:59:09 (-0700), Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2024-04-26 7:44 am, Eric Benson wrote: > > I see. How hard would it be to write a Scheme function that would > > copy a > > melody variable and remove the text marks, or in fact everything > > other than > > the note values, which are

Re: Note names are causing text marks to be duplicated

On Thu 25 Apr 2024 at 22:16:21 (-0700), Eric Benson wrote: > Is this intentional or desired? AIUI this is one of the reasons \textMark was invented, so that multiple text marks could be placed at the same point: "Note: Older LilyPond versions used the \mark command for text marks, even though

Re: Mixed ChoirGroup: Solo/Choir

On Thu 25 Apr 2024 at 13:36:49 (+), Schlipf, John (schlipf) wrote: > On question: > On Wed 24 Apr 2024 at 19:13:47 (+0200), Johannes Roeßler wrote: > > Hey David, > > > > it works - but I am running into an issue with short passages. > > I would like to stretch the choir part to the right

Re: Lyrics and Barchecks

On Thu 25 Apr 2024 at 13:06:01 (-0700), Steve Carlock wrote: > Thanks. I agree that the barcheck warning message is cryptic. It appears > that this issue happens when the lyric is attached to notes that are tied > across a measure boundary. Unfortunately I can't change the third measure > -

Re: Mixed ChoirGroup: Solo/Choir

On Wed 24 Apr 2024 at 19:13:47 (+0200), Johannes Roeßler wrote: > Hey David, > > it works - but I am running into an issue with short passages. > I would like to stretch the choir part to the right side, > but when I bring in "ragged-right = ##f" then it breaks: > > I assume you have a solution

Re: Mixed ChoirGroup: Solo/Choir

On Mon 22 Apr 2024 at 18:06:21 (+0200), Johannes Roeßler wrote: > \version "2.24.0" > \score { >   \new ChoirStaff << >     \new Staff {s1 s1 a'1} >     \new Staff {s1 s1 a'1} >     \new Staff {a'1 a' a'} >     \new Staff {s1 s1 a'1} >   >> >   \layout { } > } I'm guessing this might be an XY

Re: (No subject)

On Sun 21 Apr 2024 at 18:45:35 (+0200), Hans Aikema wrote: > > On 21 Apr 2024, at 17:58, Gian Paolo Renello wrote: > > > > I read as you suggested but didn't find the way. Here is hte piece of score > > code: > > > > \score{ > > \new StaffGroup << > > \new Staff \with { > >

Re: Horizontal note spacing in chant template

On Wed 17 Apr 2024 at 11:45:51 (+0100), rich...@oneill-griffiths.net wrote: > Hi, I've been using the Anglican chant template to set items for our choir > and I've just a note spacing problem with one chant (Walford Davies) last > quarter. > > How do I address the note spacing for the B/C clash

Re: Problems with lilypond-invoke-editor

On Wed 10 Apr 2024 at 21:35:16 (-0600), Ben Bradshaw wrote: > Well I fixed having multiple lilyponds installed, and at first I thought it > worked. Zathura and xpdf at least work when I open them separately. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by open separately. Is this: typing in a command

Re: Installing 2.24.1

On Thu 11 Apr 2024 at 21:14:14 (+0100), Wol wrote: > On 07/04/2024 11:50, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > > > > There is a web page that deals with command-line installation, if > > > > that's what you want: > > > > > > > > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/learning/command-line-setup > >

Re: Landscape printing

On Sun 07 Apr 2024 at 22:09:05 (+0100), Wol wrote: > On 07/04/2024 21:15, David Wright wrote: > > \version "2.24.0" % 2017-06-14 > > %% Seehttp://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2017-05/msg00017.html > > %% The paper itself is rotated to landscape. >

Re: Landscape printing

On Sun 07 Apr 2024 at 20:30:53 (+0100), Wol wrote: > I'm having fun trying to get things to print landscape. Okay, I'm > doing "monkey see monkey do" programming, but I have two apparently > almost identical files, one of which prints landscape, the other > portrait. I use the following files,

Re: Problems with lilypond-invoke-editor

On Fri 05 Apr 2024 at 20:43:01 (-0600), Ben Bradshaw wrote: > I've been using frescobaldi mostly because I like the point and click > functionality. I just discovered today that you can configure that to work > with other PDF viewers and editors, which I would like to do, since I keep > trying to

Re: multipart choral music - disable barlines between staves when using GrandStaff within ChoirStaff

On 2024-03-23 2:12 am, Eby Mani wrote: > Two questions. > 1, How do i set instrument names as per attached "example_1" picture. > > 2, example_1 - How do i disable connecting barlines between staves when > using PianoStaff or GrandStaff within ChoirStaff. You could also replace r1 with R1 in

Re: Help with some lyrics gymnastics

On Sat 13 Jan 2024 at 08:25:32 (-0800), Matthew Fong wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've done a few more things which might be described as hacking using > \markup. > > \tweak LyricText.self-alignment-X #-0.75 > \markup \center-column { \override #'(baseline-skip . 0.4) \line{ "lives > and reigns"

Re: Cut time/half-time/alle breve & 8/4 time

On Thu 11 Jan 2024 at 20:11:54 (-0600), Stanton Sanderson wrote: > > Thank you for the suggestion, but as stated previously, I’m trying to > reproduce the original from the Peters edition. The problem, as you point > out, is that the cut C is used in the original. Whether 8/4 or 4/2 (and I >

Re: Help with Measure Numbers

On Mon 08 Jan 2024 at 01:45:32 (+), Karen Billings wrote: > I deleted the commented section, saved the file, and got the same behavior. I > used the file lilypond-8.22.1.mingw, downloaded on 8/8/21, to install > lilypond on this machine. Is that the correct install program? I don't see that

Re: Help with Measure Numbers

On Sun 07 Jan 2024 at 23:55:09 (+), Karen Billings wrote: > Thank you so much for the info, Kieren. > I followed your instructions and moved the bar numbering block >     \context {      \Score      \consists "Bar_number_engraver"      > barNumberVisibility = #(every-nth-bar-number-visible

Re: Output PDF to stdout

On Thu 04 Jan 2024 at 23:34:28 (+0100), Volodymyr Prokopyuk wrote: > > I know that lilypond can receive a source.ly file from the stdin by > using lilypond > -. Is it possible for lilypond to output PDF to the stdout? > > My motivation behind using lilypond in a pipeline is to speed up PDF >

Re: automatically adds

On Wed 27 Dec 2023 at 18:06:05 (+0100), Tobias Lawrenz wrote: > > how can I turn off the automatically adds from notation elements, like the > time signature? > Because I want to make the whole score by myself without automatically adds. What functionality of LilyPond are you interested in

Re: text over hairpin

On Wed 13 Dec 2023 at 09:54:41 (-0700), Paul Scott wrote: > I should have changed my subject line to "text inside hairpin" before > sending the original post. Inside relative to what, though? (Think roads. In both the UK and the US, the "inside lane" is the one on the left, ie slow in the UK,

Re: ly:set-option png backend broken?

On Sun 10 Dec 2023 at 17:24:46 (+), Stefano Antonelli wrote: > On Sun, 2023-12-10 at 09:30 +0100, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > There is simply not "png" backend. The three available backends are > > "ps" (generates PostScript, and PDF or PNG by conversion through > > Ghostscript), "svg"

Re: Unexpected bar boundaries with volta repeats and lyrics.

On Sun 10 Dec 2023 at 08:14:32 (+1100), Kevin Pye wrote: > On Sat, 9 Dec 2023, at 23:45, Michael Werner wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 11:31 PM Kevin Pye wrote: > >> What silly mistake am I making here? > > > > Not all that silly. Though the docs do talk about putting lyrics into the > >

Inline attachments Re: Slur within a slur?

On Sun 03 Dec 2023 at 06:05:31 (-0800), Knute Snortum wrote: > > Ah, yes, I see it now! There is some problem between your email reader to > mine where I don't see inline attachments. So I only saw: > > "gives me > > > and a bar check warning." > > Which I wrongly interpreted as "gives me a

Re: Books with alternative lyrics minimizing code duplication?

On Fri 24 Nov 2023 at 16:23:52 (+0200), YTG 123 wrote: > > I have alternative versions of lyrics text, which I would like to > export in different files (or \book blocks). The music, order of > staves, etc. is identical. > > Ideally, I would want to do this as cleanly and with as little code >

Re: What's causing this extra bar line and empty bar?

On Mon 20 Nov 2023 at 00:23:45 (+), Robert Hickman wrote: > Good point. I'm using 2.18.2 which is what's in the repo for debian 10. On Mon 20 Nov 2023 at 00:43:59 (+), Robert Hickman wrote: > Updating to the latest version fixed the issue, and also the unwanted > extra space. Problem was

Re: Emacs Mode Problem with includes

On Tue 14 Nov 2023 at 07:04:39 (+1100), Laurie Savage wrote: > Thanks, I should have spotted that. So presumably the "cannot find file" error went away when you corrected the full path "/home/Laurie/Lilypond/includes/jazzchords.ily" but how about when you type only: \include "jazzchords.ily"

Re: skip of defined length in lyrics?

On Sun 15 Oct 2023 at 15:07:52 (+0100), Graham King wrote: > Note to self, since this thread has risen to the status of > documentation for me: Valentin's method is sensitive to slurs in the > instrumental line (I suspect that the end of a slur is equivalent to > \unset melismaBusy), so some

Re: Still failing to operate lilypond 2.20.0 64-bit version.

On Thu 05 Oct 2023 at 23:12:44 (+0200), Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > Le 5 oct. 2023 à 22:39, Ian West a écrit : > > Dear David (copied to Jean, and Paul,) > > You are very kind. I shall give it a go. But I think you will have to > > agree that this is some 5 orders (***) of magnitude more

Re: Still failing to operate lilypond 2.20.0 64-bit version.

On Thu 05 Oct 2023 at 19:43:27 (+0200), Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > Le 5 oct. 2023 à 17:36, David Wright a écrit : > > > > Is this the way you should be going? > > No, it's not going to give him the GUI that he regrets. I'm sorry—perhaps I attached too much signif

Re: Still failing to operate lilypond 2.20.0 64-bit version.

On Thu 05 Oct 2023 at 14:49:41 (+0100), Ian West wrote: > Dear Lilypond team, continuing from 1 Sept 17:43hrs. (similar problems to > Mark Stephen Mrotek though he is Windows.) > > I successfully used version 2.20.0 on my MacBook Air M2 2022, macOS > 13.4.1 from August 2022 till July

Re: Initial rests in MIDI not included?

On Wed 27 Sep 2023 at 10:22:04 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright writes: > > On Wed 27 Sep 2023 at 01:13:09 (+0200), Jean Abou Samra wrote: > >> After replacing “ ... ” with “ c' ”, I got the expected MIDI output with > >> LilyPond 2.24.2, i.e., lots

Re: Initial rests in MIDI not included?

On Wed 27 Sep 2023 at 01:13:09 (+0200), Jean Abou Samra wrote: > After replacing “ ... ” with “ c' ”, I got the expected MIDI output with > LilyPond 2.24.2, i.e., lots of silence and four C notes at the end. I did the same, and I attach a screenshot of audacious playing the file, called mid.midi.

Re: Initial rests in MIDI not included?

On Tue 26 Sep 2023 at 18:52:52 (-0400), Kevin Cole wrote: > Once again, I'm flummoxed by some syntax problem... I was hoping for 40 > measures of silence, as I plan to mix it with other parts, and want to be > able to mute parts interactively. However the following doesn't give me 40 > measures of

Re: Standalone lyrics part

On Tue 29 Aug 2023 at 18:00:47 (-0400), Pierre-Luc Gauthier wrote: > Le mar. 29 août 2023, à 17 h 33, Carl Sorensen a écrit : > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 3:12 PM Pierre-Luc Gauthier wrote: > >> > >> I need some standalone rhythmically correct lyrics that I place around > >> scores. Devnull seems

Re: vertically center rests in polyphonic voices

On Thu 10 Aug 2023 at 20:27:39 (-0400), Jin Choi wrote: > I’m transcribing some piano music where it is helpful to use \voiceOne and > \voiceTwo for some extended polyphonic sections. When I come across shared > rests, I’ve been putting in rests in one voice and invisible rests in the > other

Re: Doubling a note makes MIDI output louder

On Sun 09 Jul 2023 at 10:53:58 (-0400), msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jul 2023, David Wright wrote: > > > players. But that's the problem here. When two real voices happen on > > the same note, the result doesn't sound like one louder voice, yet > > that's

Re: Doubling a note makes MIDI output louder

On Sun 09 Jul 2023 at 09:57:23 (-0400), msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jul 2023, Knute Snortum wrote: > > > I'm not sure exactly how one would deal with this problem, other than with > > tags.  Maybe \parenthesize could not produce MIDI output?  Or is there a way > > Is that a

Re: N.C. No Chord poll

On Fri 19 May 2023 at 22:35:04 (-0400), David Olson wrote: > > > > the default setting for LilyPond chord engraving is: whenever there is a > rest, to display "N.C." > Iteration after iteration, this default setting has

Re: /usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond: not found

On Tue 11 Apr 2023 at 17:04:07 (-0700), JD Margulici wrote: > Hello, I am running the following commands to install Lilypond on Alpine > Linux: > > wget https://lilypond.org/download/binaries/linux-64/$LILYPOND_INSTALLER > sh $LILYPOND_INSTALLER > > with LILYPOND_INSTALLER set to

Re: bookOutputName still gets "-1" suffix added to SVG file names

On Thu 30 Mar 2023 at 07:57:23 (+0200), Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le mercredi 29 mars 2023 à 22:56 -0600, Jeff Olson a écrit : > > I've got to generate a thousand+ cropped SVG files with specified file > > names > > from one lilypond compilation, so I'm wrapping each score in a \book with > >

Re: Discourse proposal status

On Mon 06 Mar 2023 at 04:18:17 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > Andrew Bernard writes: > > > Well you can dynamically increase CPU or RAM or both on Digitalocean > > that I use. You can do it on a temporary basis - but I'm not sure if > > you get charged for a month or on a strict time basis,

Re: Message size limit

On Sat 04 Mar 2023 at 13:02:13 (-0800), Saul Tobin wrote: > Hard disagree on plain text emails. > > I didn't really have a strong opinion re the whole discussion about message > boards vs. email, but IMO the world has moved on to rich text email with > embedded media. I think the reliance on

Re: Refrain text shown only once

On Thu 02 Mar 2023 at 15:35:05 (+0100), bernhard kleine wrote: > > When a refrain is at the end of the score, you may omit it in the > strophes when it is repeated. The problem I have is a refrain infront of > the strophes. googling lilypond text pauses did not give any useful > information.

Re: Discourse

On Thu 23 Feb 2023 at 15:14:08 (-0800), Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2023-02-23 3:08 pm, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 23 Feb 2023 at 23:50:43 (+0100), Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > > Le jeudi 23 février 2023 à 22:14 +, Wols Lists a écrit : > > > > >

Re: Discourse

On Thu 23 Feb 2023 at 23:50:43 (+0100), Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le jeudi 23 février 2023 à 22:14 +, Wols Lists a écrit : > > Many of the websites I interact with on a regular basis (shopping, of > > course) have completely broken print interfaces, so bad that one page of > > interesting

Re: Documentation: Should we possibly have aliases for current stable and current devel?

On Mon 13 Feb 2023 at 15:58:42 (+0100), Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Mailing list support: answer questions from fellow users. > (This may entail helping them navigate the online documentation; > in such cases it may sometimes be appropriate to point them to > version-agnostic URL paths such as

Re: writing score in absolute time

On Tue 07 Feb 2023 at 15:29:29 (+0100), Jean Abou Samra wrote: > On 07/02/2023 14:58, Cordelia wrote: > > Amazing, really. > > I lastly just wonder now, if it’s possible to write the duration in > > seconds.. But I understood that’s not the way of working of lilypond. > > Thank you! > > > This

Re: Changes to png file while using \omit Accidental

On Mon 30 Jan 2023 at 20:52:05 (-0800), Rajesh Baskar wrote: > > You can see in > the mage attached that Lilypond generates them a bit differently. The > line dividing the two measures is thicker You'll also notice that the stems of the last note in each measure are apparently thicker than the

Re: LP 2.24.0 segno repeat where coda break is in the middle of a repeat volta block

On Sat 21 Jan 2023 at 15:51:16 (-0800), Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > Using Lilypond 2.24.0, I engraved "Memory" (from "Cats") using the > example published in the Hal Leonard Easy Piano Songs book (the pdf > file generated from photos from this book are huge). I displayed your PDF at 60% size, and

Re: Slurs not being followed in one vocal part

On Sun 22 Jan 2023 at 11:59:06 (+1100), Vaughan McAlley wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jan 2023, 10:32 Jon Arnold, wrote: > > > Hey folks- > > > > Can anyone tell me why the slurs are not being followed in the soprano > > part of the attached file? It first occurs in the 2nd half of bar 7, bottom > > of

Re: LilyPond 2.25.1

On Sat 21 Jan 2023 at 11:38:27 (-0800), Knute Snortum wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 11:33 AM Jonas Hahnfeld via LilyPond user > discussion wrote: > > > > We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.1. This is termed > > a development release, but these are usually reliable for

Re: Documentation viewer in Frescobaldi

On Fri 20 Jan 2023 at 14:09:05 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > Frescobaldi 3.2 on Linux (EndeavorOS, and Ubuntu), no matter what URL > or local file I put in the Lilypond Documentation preferences it does > not work. If I use a URL at lily[pond.org I get an Apache error. If > trying to add a

Re: irrational meters

On Wed 18 Jan 2023 at 08:22:19 (+), Mark Knoop wrote: > At 16:46 on 17 Jan 2023, "H. S. Teoh" via LilyPond user discussion wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 07:08:41PM -0500, David Zelinsky wrote: > >> Kieren MacMillan writes: > >>> > I wonder about the term “irrational” meter. Should

Re: Unicode accidentals vs. Markup accidentals

On Sun 15 Jan 2023 at 22:52:50 (-0800), Saul Tobin wrote: > Lilypond ships with a text font as well as a music font. I agree that I > suspect that currently Lilypond's text font does not actually define these > Unicode music characters, so it falls back on the OS to find them. Why not > just add

Re: Key Signature Bug in 2.24.0,Re: Key Signature Bug in 2.24.0

On Fri 13 Jan 2023 at 19:30:29 (+), nitra...@posteo.net wrote: > I was talking about the first note of each measures after the Key Signature. > But you were right, it is the default spacing. > > About the distance between different accidentals, consider the example > bellow. You can see a

Re: Key Signature Bug in 2.24.0,Re: Key Signature Bug in 2.24.0

On Fri 13 Jan 2023 at 11:58:42 (+), nitra...@posteo.net wrote: > Yes it is better, thank you for your fast reply. But several problems are > still there in my opinion: > > - The first note of the measure doesn't align with the last accidental and > is still too far. None of the first notes

Re: Getting readline to work in scheme-sandbox

On Tue 10 Jan 2023 at 10:34:19 (-0500), Kevin Cole wrote: > An old thread at > https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2020-01/msg00350.html > finished up with: > > > From:Michael Käppler > > Subject:Re: Getting readline to work in scheme-sandbox > > Date:Fri, 17 Jan 2020 23:22:38 +0100 >

Re: Breath marks

On Thu 08 Dec 2022 at 14:22:31 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > On 8/12/2022 1:29 pm, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > Actually, in version 2.23, the default breathing sign was changed > > to a shape similar to your picture. See > > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/changes/index.html > > >

Re: Double lyrics in part of composition

On Fri 18 Nov 2022 at 16:52:41 (+0100), Jogchum Reitsma wrote: > > With the help of Frescobaldi, I try to set du Prez' El Grillo. > > It has a two-verse piece in the middle, which I can't get right. > > Iǘe added the jpeg of the piece to be set in lilypond, and the > .ly-file create so far. >

Re: 2.23.81 new D.S. code

On Wed 16 Nov 2022 at 06:21:41 (-0500), Kieren MacMillan wrote: > > >> What about creating all the parts for a score? I certainly > >> don't want to type all the common structure in each part. > > If you type the structure first, then as you use emacs, it's easy to > > copy and paste sufficient

Re: 2.23.81 new D.S. code

On Tue 15 Nov 2022 at 14:41:28 (-0700), Paul Scott wrote: > On 11/15/22 1:57 PM, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > Le 15/11/2022 à 21:50, Paul Scott a écrit : > > > What about creating all the parts for a score? I certainly > > > don't want to type all the common structure in each part. If you type the

Re: Unexpected file name in EPS output

On Sun 06 Nov 2022 at 23:01:44 (+0100), Carlo Stemberger wrote: > Il giorno dom 6 nov 2022 alle ore 22:17 Knute Snortum > ha scritto: > > > On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 12:21 PM Federico Bruni wrote: > > > > > > Il giorno dom 6 nov 2022 alle 18:54:00 +0100, Carlo Stemberger > > > > Where did you see

Re: Question about paths in point-and-click

On Tue 01 Nov 2022 at 02:23:23 (+0100), Paolo Prete wrote: > I need to change them. > More specifically, each: > > xlink:href="textedit:///some/personal/path/file.ly:x:y:z" > > should be changed into > > xlink:href="textedit:///dummy/path/file.ly:x:y:z" > > For all the grobs with such metadata

Re: Legacy scripted installation, was Re: LilyPond 2.23.14

On Wed 19 Oct 2022 at 06:46:22 (-0700), Knute Snortum wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 11:21 AM David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 18 Oct 2022 at 05:15:31 (-0400), Craig Bakalian wrote: > > > > > > And could we please release the latest greatest lilypond as a shel

Legacy scripted installation, was Re: LilyPond 2.23.14

On Tue 18 Oct 2022 at 05:15:31 (-0400), Craig Bakalian wrote: > > And could we please release the latest greatest lilypond as a shell > script like it used to be released. You seemed to be happy enough when you wrote https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2022-09/msg00071.html Can you

Re: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

On Fri 14 Oct 2022 at 10:24:37 (+0100), J Martin Rushton wrote: > On Fri, 2022-10-14 at 01:51 -0700, Aaron Hill wrote: > > On 2022-10-14 12:18 am, J Martin Rushton wrote: > > > For some reason best known to Microsoft Windows held > > > systems down in 32-bit node for years after they were

Re: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

On Fri 14 Oct 2022 at 09:48:41 (+), Dag Bergman wrote: > Thanks David for your comments. > > As I said to Werner, I will probably have to do Lilypond work on the Windows > 10 machine, albeit inconvenient. On Fri 14 Oct 2022 at 00:16:39 (+), Dag Bergman wrote: > Hi David, > > Thanks for

Re: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

On Fri 14 Oct 2022 at 00:16:39 (+), Dag Bergman wrote: > > On Wed 12 Oct 2022 at 23:51:22 (+), Dag Bergman wrote: > > > I have a Windows XP computer with Lilypond 2.10.25. It works fine with > > > simple program codes and advanced code developed with earlier versions of > > > Lilypond.

Re: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

On Wed 12 Oct 2022 at 23:51:22 (+), Dag Bergman wrote: > > I have a Windows XP computer with Lilypond 2.10.25. It works fine with > simple program codes and advanced code developed with earlier versions of > Lilypond. It does not work so well when I try to use a newer program > developed

Re: another 'wrong type argument' error

On Mon 10 Oct 2022 at 12:06:11 (+0100), Wols Lists wrote: > On 10/10/2022 06:43, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > The problem isn’t LilyPond’s or its dependencies’ support for older macOS, > > which is better than even the system support. The real problem is Apple > > preventing you from upgrading

Re: error: Unbound variable: \version

On Tue 20 Sep 2022 at 05:49:24 (-0400), ming tsang wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 4:56 AM Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > Le 20/09/2022 à 10:18, ming tsang a écrit : > > > dear lilyponders, > > > i have the following lilypond code: > > > \version "2.18.2" > > > \markup "Test" > > > > > > That

Re: Raise the "Fine" and "D.C. Fine" above the repeat volta alternative brackets, how?

On Mon 19 Sep 2022 at 17:45:24 (-0700), Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > What is "\rightjust"? Is it a variable (macro) that you have > defined? I can't find that command in the NR. How does that differ > from right-align, which I tried and it didn't work for me. Oops, I'm sorry. I forgot that I'm

Re: Raise the "Fine" and "D.C. Fine" above the repeat volta alternative brackets, how?

On Mon 19 Sep 2022 at 16:28:35 (-0700), Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > I have implemented the "Fine" and "D.C. al Fine" as rehearsal mark markups. > > Now I have a problem where the "D.C. al Fine" consumes much more > space than the bar containing the dotted-half note, it even falls off > the

Re: How to enlarge the entire Lilypond output (pdf)

On Fri 16 Sep 2022 at 08:02:35 (-0700), Knute Snortum wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 11:29 PM Eef Weenink wrote: > > > > I use the crop function to minimize the white around the music. > > If you want, you can do this inside LilyPond in a paper block: > > top-margin = 5\mm > bottom-margin

Re: is this a slashed grace?

Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > > I asked this question regarding a different piece that I was engraving. > > It looks like the slashed grace as shown in the Lilypond documentation is > > not the same as what I have engraved (there is no slash). > > Now another piece has come up with the same

Re: How to enlarge the entire Lilypond output (pdf)

On Thu 15 Sep 2022 at 16:50:30 (-0700), Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > > Perhaps I'm not searching the Lilypond documentation wisely, but I do not > see a way to enlarge the entire Lilypond output in scale (staff, notes, > text, everything). Everything? including the paper? > Perhaps I have to

Re: Moving fingering, spacing between staves

On Fri 09 Sep 2022 at 10:38:24 (+0200), Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le 07/09/2022 à 01:00, Knute Snortum a écrit : > > In order to avoid the AB problem, > > What do you call by "AB problem"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem > > what I'm trying to do is move some > > fingering down in the

Re: Lilypond-book problem

On Tue 06 Sep 2022 at 11:19:28 (+0200), Rip _Mus wrote: > Il giorno lun 5 set 2022 alle ore 19:06 Knute Snortum ha scritto: > > On Sun, Sep 4, 2022 at 10:26 PM Rip _Mus wrote: > > >> On Sun, Sep 4, 2022 at 9:06 AM Rip _Mus wrote: > > >> > I have installed the version 2.22.1, wich I used for a lot

Re: Latest Version sh file?

On Mon 05 Sep 2022 at 13:19:44 (-0400), Craig Bakalian wrote: > Hi David, > > Thanks, got it.  I used to be a C programmer, lol.  You think I would > know.  I must say that I did like the sh file better than sudo mv.   > One more question though, I can't move it to usr/share because that is >

Re: Getting point and click going with gvim on Alma Linux

On Tue 06 Sep 2022 at 03:27:46 (+1000), Andrew Bernard wrote: > > I'll incorporate your suggestions. Note that this was specifically > about gvim not vim, but I can add in vim as well, since it is so > closely related. There's still stuff here that is not covered in the > NR,. such as window

Re: Getting point and click going with gvim on Alma Linux

Just some jottings for your consideration. On Mon 05 Sep 2022 at 09:46:44 (+1000), Andrew Bernard wrote: > In response to the recent thread on alternatives to Frescobaldi on > Alma Linux I have prepared this set of instructions. I have tested > this and there are two points in addition to the

Re: Latest Version sh file?

On Mon 05 Sep 2022 at 10:39:23 (-0400), Craig Bakalian wrote: > I do appreciate using the latest version of lilypond.  I went to > download the latest version, because I did a complete update to my > computer with mint 21, and the linux latest version to download > appears to be source files. 

Re: Alternative to Frescobaldi

TL;DR You need to follow Usage, §4.1.1 for evince to call lilypond-invoke-editor successfully. On Sat 03 Sep 2022 at 08:49:11 (+0100), J Martin Rushton wrote: > On Fri, 2022-09-02 at 19:53 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 02 Sep 2022 at 22:46:01 (+0100), J Martin Rushton wrote: >

Re: Alternative to Frescobaldi

On Fri 02 Sep 2022 at 22:46:01 (+0100), J Martin Rushton wrote: > On Fri, 2022-09-02 at 16:17 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 02 Sep 2022 at 21:43:25 (+0100), J Martin Rushton wrote: > > > I've just spent another couple of hours clearing out previous > > > attemp

Re: Alternative to Frescobaldi

On Fri 02 Sep 2022 at 21:43:25 (+0100), J Martin Rushton wrote: > I've just spent another couple of hours clearing out previous attempts > to get Frescobaldi running and attempting to sort out its dependency > hell. > > Is there any alternative to Frescobaldi? An editor (emacs) + LilyPond + PDF

Re: Configuration problems following new installation of Frescobaldi

On Tue 30 Aug 2022 at 09:27:03 (+0200), Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > > > > > Le 30/08/2022 à 08:56, Michael Hendry a > écrit : > >cite="mid:f07d2e1c-86fb-4b51-8cb9-dff22577c...@gmail.com"> > I stopped using Frescobaldi and > Lilypond at the beginning

Re: Displaying bar numbers for repeats

On Sun 28 Aug 2022 at 10:25:28 (+0100), Wols Lists wrote: > On 28/08/2022 04:46, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 28 Aug 2022 at 10:33:30 (+1000), Andrew Bernard wrote: > > > I suppose there is a way to do this but the concept is strange. I have > > > never seen any edi

Re: Displaying bar numbers for repeats

On Sun 28 Aug 2022 at 10:33:30 (+1000), Andrew Bernard wrote: > I suppose there is a way to do this but the concept is strange. I have > never seen any edition do this. Why? Speaking as an organist if I came > across this I would have to spend time working out what in earth the > bracketed number

Re: completely filling a page, but not too compact, how?

On Fri 19 Aug 2022 at 09:32:45 (+0200), Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: > What I didn't change: Classical convention would probably give the > final bar a length of only 4 (with fermata), not 1. But I wouldn't put > too much stock in this, I know that a crotchet final chord would > probably look

Re: very simple off-topic question regarding command line viewing of postscript files on macOS

On Wed 03 Aug 2022 at 09:22:53 (+0200), Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > Le 3 août 2022 à 01:24, Kenneth Wolcott a écrit : > > I'm trying to simplify my workflow. I think I want to generate > > postscript files instead of pdf files when using Lilypond. I already > > know how to do that. But what I

Re: Last note of a first alternative is a tie to the first note in the repeat; how to engrave this?

On Wed 27 Jul 2022 at 21:27:53 (-0700), Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > > I must be missing something obvious here. > > The last note of a first alternative is a tie to the first note in the > repeat. > > Lilypond 2.22.2 complains: > > La_Bamba.ly:67:40: warning: unterminated tie > r8

Re: Undertie in lyrics to show no breath

On Fri 22 Jul 2022 at 12:52:17 (+0200), mancunius wrote: > On 22 Jul 2022, at 10:41, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > Le 22/07/2022 à 10:27, Simon Albrecht a écrit : > >> On 20/07/2022 12:34, mancunius wrote: > >>> Hello. In the following example I want the undertie to be placed between > >>> the 2 “O

Re: Undertie in lyrics to show no breath

On Wed 20 Jul 2022 at 11:34:58 (+0100), mancunius wrote: > Hello. In the following example I want the undertie to be placed between the > 2 “O sacrum convivium” lines of lyrics, to indicate that no breath should be > taken by the singers - as per the normal choral convention. (cf. the >

Re: Piping contents of SVG directly to stdout

On Mon 18 Jul 2022 at 21:35:11 (+0200), Silvain Dupertuis wrote: > Le 18.07.22 à 20:33, David Wright a écrit : > > On Mon 18 Jul 2022 at 11:28:26 (-0500), DoubleFelix wrote: > > > Actually this is exactly what I'm trying to do. My current setup uses a > > > python

Re: Piping contents of SVG directly to stdout

On Mon 18 Jul 2022 at 11:28:26 (-0500), DoubleFelix wrote: > > > Felix, I’m curious what you mean by cropping the file. Sounds to me like > > you are trying to just write a small snippet of music, maybe a few > > measures, and not have the output flooded by whitespace all around the size > > of

Re: Installing Lilypond 2.23.10

On Thu 14 Jul 2022 at 17:33:01 (+0100), David Sumbler wrote: > On Wed, 2022-07-13 at 23:00 +0200, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > Le 13/07/2022 à 20:26, David Sumbler a écrit : > > > Thank you for that.  Yes, I should have noticed that the contents > > > of > > > the tar file were not source code.  As

Re: Error with -dbackend=null (Lilypond 2.23.10)

On Sun 10 Jul 2022 at 23:08:19 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > Paolo Prete writes: > >> On Sunday, July 10, 2022, David Kastrup wrote: > >>> Jean Abou Samra writes: > >>> > Le 10/07/2022 à 17:38, Paolo Prete a écrit : > >>> >> I just used -dno-print-pages as an alternative, and it works. > >>>

Re: grace note (first note) in a measure that follows an end of a repeat volta displays weirdly

On Tue 05 Jul 2022 at 23:56:36 (-0700), Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 11:43 PM Hans Aikema wrote: > > On 6 Jul 2022, at 07:25, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > > > However, the first measure that follows a repeat section (without > > > alternatives) there is a slashed grace note that

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