Re: Putting piano/forte *before* the note

On 18 March 2017 at 12:08, David Kastrup wrote: > Mojca Miklavec writes: > >> Is there any way that I could write something like >> >> melody = { >> \makethispiano \melodyA >> \melodyB >> \makethisforte \melodyA >>

Putting piano/forte *before* the note

Hi, I often have repeated segments of music where the first time the segment is played piano and the second time it is played forte. I define segments with melodyA = \fixed c' { c4 e g | ... } and then melody = { \melodyA \melodyB \melodyA } Is there any way that I could write

Re: \repeatTie on a single note in a chord

Dear Malte, On 9 March 2017 at 17:27, Malte Meyn wrote: > Am 09.03.2017 um 17:07 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: >> How can one add "\repeatTie" that only works on a single note in a chord? >> >> Example where I would only want to add the tie just to "f": >>

\repeatTie on a single note in a chord

Hi, How can one add "\repeatTie" that only works on a single note in a chord? Example where I would only want to add the tie just to "f": melody = \fixed c' { \time 3/4 \repeat volta 2 { 2.~ | } \alternative { { 2. | } { 2 \repeatTie r4 |

Re: Problems with parallel voices when using David's accordion push spanner

Dear David, On 9 March 2017 at 14:16, David Nalesnik wrote: > On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 6:26 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just wanted to repeat my question (as I'm unable to get rid of some >> pretty annoying side effects when typesetting musing for accord

Re: Problems with parallel voices when using David's accordion push spanner

Hi, I just wanted to repeat my question (as I'm unable to get rid of some pretty annoying side effects when typesetting musing for accordion). I would greatly appreciate any hints for solving the problem. Thank you, Mojca On 24 February 2017 at 13:47, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >

Re: Problems with parallel voices when using David's accordion push spanner

Hi, Now with attachment ... On 24 February 2017 at 14:34, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > I just wanted to add another screenshot. If I change the above line of melody > to > > << > { > \voiceOne f'4 e' d' | f'4 d'2 | > } > \new

Re: Problems with parallel voices when using David's accordion push spanner

On 24 February 2017 at 13:47, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Hi, > > A while ago David Nalesnik wrote some wonderful macros to help me > write a thick line that denote accordion pushing [1]. The macros work > wonderfully in 99% of cases, but there are some strange examples whe

Problems with parallel voices when using David's accordion push spanner

Hi, A while ago David Nalesnik wrote some wonderful macros to help me write a thick line that denote accordion pushing [1]. The macros work wonderfully in 99% of cases, but there are some strange examples where this fails. The example below produces output you can see in the attached PNG. If I

Re: How to define a macros for writing predefined chords of arbitrary length?

Dear Thomas, Thanks a lot for the answer. On 31 January 2017 at 00:55, Thomas Morley wrote: > 2017-01-30 19:16 GMT+01:00 Mojca Miklavec: >> Hi, >> >> I can easily use a macro to create chords of predefined lengths, say >> >> chord_F = { 4 } >> >>

How to define a macros for writing predefined chords of arbitrary length?

Hi, I can easily use a macro to create chords of predefined lengths, say chord_F = { 4 } but the functionality is limited for what I want to achieve. On some instruments (like accordion) one gets that chord by pressing a single button and I need some reasonable way to enter them without

Typesetting "ornaments" with parallel voices when using accordion push spanner

Hi, I would like to typeset some scores where only the main melody is obligatory: \language "deutsch" global = { \time 3/4 \key f \major } melody = \fixed c' { \global 2.~ | 2. | } while one could optionally add some ornaments: \fixed c' { s4 g4. a8 |

Re: How to build LilyPond.app on macOS?

Dear Graham, On 6 December 2016 at 19:01, Graham Percival wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 08:44:58AM +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> I found >> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/contributor-big-page >> (didn't read it all) and only suspect that some logic

Re: How to build LilyPond.app on macOS?

On 6 December 2016 at 19:01, Tim McNamara wrote: >> On Dec 6, 2016, at 5:46 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >>(b.2) I would actually like to know how to change the behaviour, >> so that my favourite text editor opens rather than LilyPond.app. > > Wait, is al

Re: How to build LilyPond.app on macOS?

On 6 December 2016 at 13:38, Sven Axelsson wrote: > On 6 December 2016 at 12:46, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >> Dear Davide, >> >> (b) See the attached screenshot. If I click, I'm transferred to >> LilyPond.app and I end up in the correct line and column to fi

Re: How to build LilyPond.app on macOS?

Dear Davide, On 6 December 2016 at 10:50, Davide Liessi wrote: > Dear Mojca, > > 2016-12-06 8:44 GMT+01:00 Mojca Miklavec: >> I would like to see LilyPond.app being distributed in a package >> manager, but for that to happen I first need to understand how to >> bu

Re: How to build LilyPond.app on macOS?

Dear Michael, Werner & others, On 6 December 2016 at 08:54, Michael Gerdau wrote: > Hi Mojca, > >> Can someone please provide me a hint about how to build LilyPond.app >> on macOS (natively, without any cross-compiling, ideally without >> compiling any dependencies like ghostscript etc.)? > > you

How to build LilyPond.app on macOS?

Hi, Can someone please provide me a hint about how to build LilyPond.app on macOS (natively, without any cross-compiling, ideally without compiling any dependencies like ghostscript etc.)? I checked lilypond-2.19.51.tar.gz, but it's not clear to me where the sources for that would be. There is

Re: Vertically overlapping material / too small vertical space

Dear David, On 30 November 2016 at 20:14, David Kastrup wrote: > Mojca Miklavec writes: >> >> I need a horizontally aligned list of button labels / fingerings. Most >> of the time I need two labels, but every so often I need three or four >> (when a chord consis

Re: Vertically overlapping material / too small vertical space

d the fourth line. I need them aligned above the first and second line though, even if it's usually empty. Mojca > Hi, > > I'm also attaching a "quasi-minimal" example (if a full page may even > be called "minimal"). > > Mojca > > (please CC me) >

Re: Vertically overlapping material / too small vertical space

Dear Michael, On 30 November 2016 at 16:30, Gerdau, Michael wrote: >> I'm also attaching a "quasi-minimal" example (if a full page may even >> be called "minimal"). > > Is the attached what you actually want? No. I want the button names above the first line, not below. Mojca

Vertically overlapping material / too small vertical space

Hi, I would like to ask for a bit of a guidance. I sometimes end up with the scores as you see in the attachment. There's simply not enough vertical space between staves and text is overlapping very badly. I can attach the complete example (or perhaps come up with some "\repeat unfold ..." trick

Re: unexplained shift of a note head when layout-set-staff-size is set to 16.3

On 29 November 2016 at 14:51, Davide Liessi wrote: > 2016-11-29 14:43 GMT+01:00 Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com>: >> I'm experiencing a weird behaviour with the note head of g being >> shifted to the left when I add >> #(layout-set-staff-size 16.3) &

unexplained shift of a note head when layout-set-staff-size is set to 16.3

Hi, I'm experiencing a weird behaviour with the note head of g being shifted to the left when I add #(layout-set-staff-size 16.3) The source code is below and the image is in attachment. I tried some using other numeric values, but none of those I tried leads to the same problem. Without

Re: Setting the number for \mark \default

Dear Robin, On 14 November 2016 at 17:28, Robin Bannister wrote: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >> I eventually needed to run "locate rehearsal-mark-letter.ly" on my >> computer and inspect the contents to arrive to the answer. > > I was referring to the regressi

Re: Setting the number for \mark \default

Dear Robin, On 14 November 2016 at 15:58, Robin Bannister wrote: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >> >> Is there a way to just set the counter without printing the mark >> itself? (I would like to set the counter at the beginning of Coda and >> then use \markDe

Re: Ties break the ability to add lyrics

Dear Phil, On 14 November 2016 at 14:34, Phil Holmes wrote: > - Original Message - From: "Mojca Miklavec" >> >> While trying to add slightly more complex fingerings (button label + >> finger number) on top of some scores, I'm facing a problem with tie

Re: Ties break the ability to add lyrics

On 14 November 2016 at 13:31, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Hi, > > While trying to add slightly more complex fingerings (button label + > finger number) on top of some scores, I'm facing a problem with ties > on the following structure: > > << {f'2~} {s8 d'4.~} {s4 b4~} {s4

Ties break the ability to add lyrics

Hi, While trying to add slightly more complex fingerings (button label + finger number) on top of some scores, I'm facing a problem with ties on the following structure: << {f'2~} {s8 d'4.~} {s4 b4~} {s4. g8} >> 4. 8 | (This is some "simplification" that would look ugly if I would tie five

Setting the number for \mark \default

Hi, I'm using \markDefault from the following code for marking parts of music: stdMarkFormat = { \set Score.markFormatter = #format-mark-box-letters } markDefault = { \stdMarkFormat \mark \default } But if I follow: http://flaminghakama.com/adding-a-coda to make Coda a "score" on its

Re: Ties over multiple chords

On 11 November 2016 at 09:49, Richard Shann wrote: > On Fri, 2016-11-11 at 09:15 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: >> Try \set tieWaitForNotes = ##t > > Is there any circumstance in which it is useful to have this set false? > That is, why is it not the default? (I never found this and when > typesetting

Re: Ties over multiple chords

Dear Simon, On 11 November 2016 at 09:16, Simon Albrecht wrote: > On 11.11.2016 08:59, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I don't know how to explain in proper terms what I want to achieve, >> but I hope that it will be clear from the example below (I

Ties over multiple chords

Hello, I don't know how to explain in proper terms what I want to achieve, but I hope that it will be clear from the example below (I would be grateful for a proper English term for this as well :). I wrote the same thing twice. The second alternative works, but looks ugly to me. I would like to

Re: Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files

On 15 October 2016 at 01:01, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > >> 2.) Sometimes I have a very simple repeat pattern, say, part A repeats >> four times. >> The only difference is that the third time "c2." gets replaced by "c2 >> c4" somewhere in the middle due to an additional syllable in the >>

Re: Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files

Hi, Thank you very much for some very useful suggestion. I'll reply to the rest later, but I have one "objection" (I could probably have mentioned that in my first post): On 15 October 2016 at 01:22, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > >> Is there a way to make this both appear correctly and play

Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files

Hi, I have some simple beginner's questions about different aspects of repeats, mostly from the perspective of creating proper MIDI files. 1.) Let's assume that the song has one of the following patterns Intro-A1-A2-B1-B2-A1-A2-A3 Intro-A1-A2-B1-B2-A1-A2-B1-B3 A1 = part A with the first

Help for entering the basses for diatonic accordion

Hi, After getting some very useful hints on this list about creating scores for diatonic accordion, I would like to return for getting more help on entering the basses in an easier way than having to manually type the same information over and over again. A few other things from the wishlist

Re: "Problematic" conversion from MIDI: c4*5, c1 (in 3/4 time) etc.

On 29 July 2016 at 21:55, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 29 Jul 2016 at 14:29:57 (+0200), Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> I have a midi file that I wanted to convert into scores, but the >> scores simply don't look right. >> >> While I have a real (relatively long) song in the MI

"Problematic" conversion from MIDI: c4*5, c1 (in 3/4 time) etc.

Hello, I have a midi file that I wanted to convert into scores, but the scores simply don't look right. While I have a real (relatively long) song in the MIDI, I believe that I can fully reproduce the problem with the following simple example: \score { \new Voice = "melody" {

Re: Asking midi2ly to output pitch names in another language

On 28 July 2016 at 12:06, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 28 July 2016 at 11:38, Federico Bruni wrote: >> Il giorno gio 28 lug 2016 alle 11:01, Mojca Miklavec ha scritto: >>> >>> Is it possible to convince midi2ly to output pitch names in, say >>> \language "

Re: Asking midi2ly to output pitch names in another language

On 28 July 2016 at 12:20, Federico Bruni wrote: > Il giorno gio 28 lug 2016 alle 12:06, Mojca Miklavec ha scritto: >> On 28 July 2016 at 11:46, David Kastrup wrote: >>> >>> >>> I believe that this sort of pitch/representation manipulation is >>> s

Asking midi2ly to output pitch names in another language

Hi, Is it possible to convince midi2ly to output pitch names in, say \language "deutsch" ? I prefer using "b" to "bes". Also, is it possible to get the output in something like \fixed c' ? Those problems are not something that I couldn't solve by either manually editing the scores or

Re: More problems with hor. alignment of button numbers when misusing lyrics (for accordion)

On 26 July 2016 at 21:21, David Nalesnik wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 1:23 PM, David Nalesnik > wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 1:01 PM, David Nalesnik >> wrote: >>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 12:52 PM, David

Re: Midi entry

On 27 July 2016 at 10:22, Richard Shann wrote: > On Wed, 2016-07-27 at 00:25 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> On 26 July 2016 at 17:01, Richard Shann wrote: >> >> I realized that Denemo comes as a binary for Mac, so I tested it now, > > I wonder on which file? The o

Re: Midi entry

On 26 July 2016 at 17:01, Richard Shann wrote: > On Tue, 2016-07-26 at 15:45 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > I think the first track is just being used to vary the tempo. Whether > that is because it originated in a human performance (it would be a > sophisticated program

Re: Midi entry

Hello, Just before I give up about midi2ly: On 22 July 2016 at 17:50, David Kastrup wrote: > Mojca Miklavec writes: > >> That said, I wouldn't mind suggestions for some good OpenSource (GUI) >> MIDI editors. I have a bunch of weird MIDI files that I would like to >> turn

More problems with hor. alignment of button numbers when misusing lyrics (for accordion)

ons. But if I enter a hundred scores now, I would like to be able to use some "magic wand" to transpose/change/improve all of the scores in a single go a few years from now. For this reason it is important to me to prepare the most suitable input now. Thank you, Mojca On 19 July 2016

Re: Changing and playing a different instrument in MIDI

On 22 July 2016 at 11:46, Robert Blackstone wrote: > On 22 Jul 2016, at 08:51 , Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I don't have much experience with MIDI. I just tried all the media >> players on OS X and realized than only QuickTime Player 7 had some >>

Changing and playing a different instrument in MIDI

Hello, I don't have much experience with MIDI. I just tried all the media players on OS X and realized than only QuickTime Player 7 had some very very basic support for playing MIDI files (I cannot even make it play loud enough, let alone do anything else with it). None of the others I have

Re: Hyphenating words in lyrics across long repeats and across multiple pitches

On 21 July 2016 at 11:29, Simon Albrecht wrote: > On 21.07.2016 03:39, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >> When I try to start a syllable that continues after the repeat, I have >> a problem. >> >> Lilypond complains loudly: >> repeats.ly:24:38: warning: un

Hyphenating words in lyrics across long repeats and across multiple pitches

Hello, When I try to start a syllable that continues after the repeat, I have a problem. Lilypond complains loudly: repeats.ly:24:38: warning: unterminated hyphen; removing Below an example that should read Oh, tralalala! Tralalali! (Of course the hyphen would "kind of" work if I add

Re: How to create a thick horizontal line (as its own staff)?

Dear David, On 20 July 2016 at 22:49, David Nalesnik wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >> One further thought. >> >> Given that it's super difficult to "transfer" information "across staves" ... >> >&g

Re: Defining a function that passes contents between braces to a markup

On 19 July 2016 at 14:36, David Kastrup wrote: > > Well, let's put this in perspective. I've been throwing stuff at you > without the slightest attempt of toning it down to beginners' level, > basically expecting you to ask back where required. I cannot remember > any list newcomer ingest stuff

Re: How to create a thick horizontal line (as its own staff)?

Dear David (and others), One further thought. Given that it's super difficult to "transfer" information "across staves" ... Would it be feasible to allow the following input syntax (or something similar)? melody = { c a c \startPush f g a \stopPush h c d } \new PianoStaff <<

Running midi -> ly conversion

Hi, I wonder if there is any easier (more intuitive) way to run the midi to lilypond conversion on Mac than arch -32 /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/midi2ly test.midi which additionally complains about

Re: Defining a function that passes contents between braces to a markup

Dear David, On 16 July 2016 at 09:31, David Kastrup wrote: > Mojca Miklavec writes: >> >> I've learnt some basics of scheme and managed to write some simple >> functions, but I'm unable to figure out how to write a function that >> would take all the contents be

Re: Vertical clash of contents

On 18 July 2016 at 14:55, David Kastrup wrote: > Mojca Miklavec writes: > >> I also totally agree that the fingerings are *the most sensible* place >> where this information should be entered. (Placing the information >> inside the lyrics is "kind-of horribl

Re: How to create a thick horizontal line (as its own staff)?

On 14 July 2016 at 23:59, David Nalesnik wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >>> Ah, OK. Good. I assumed that the push applied to both staves and so >>> should be >>> centered like many piano dynamics. But as I say I know not

Re: Vertical clash of contents

On 18 July 2016 at 14:01, Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hi Mojca, > > Why can’t you simply use the lilypond fingering instruction? You can stack > fingerings as per your MWE, and they are easy to enter. 1.) I want to enter both finger number *and* button name. So something like "2 B4" (where 2 is the

Vertical clash of contents

Hello, I'm experiencing a weird (ugly) vertical clash inside the scores and don't quite understand why. I'm "misusing" lyrics above the stave to add button names. (I initially tried with "^\markup{}", but didn't know how to vertically align it.) The same trick works if the line with lyrics is

Defining a function that passes contents between braces to a markup

Hi, I've learnt some basics of scheme and managed to write some simple functions, but I'm unable to figure out how to write a function that would take all the contents between braces as an argument and return a markup. I would be grateful even if I get just the simplified version working, so

Re: How to create a thick horizontal line (as its own staff)?

Here's another examples of scores from someone's homepage: http://www.stavarmatic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Moja-brez_0001.png The order here is: - figure number for melody - button name for melody - pitch for melody - (lyrics missing) - button numbers for the basses - horizontal line (I

Re: How to create a thick horizontal line (as its own staff)?

code could be simplified). On 14 July 2016 at 14:35, David Nalesnik wrote: > Hi Mojca, > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 4:41 AM, Mojca Miklavec > <mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear David, >> >> On 14 July 2016 at 00:01, David Nalesnik wrote: >>>

Re: How to create a thick horizontal line (as its own staff)?

Dear David, On 14 July 2016 at 00:01, David Nalesnik wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 1:58 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >> I would like to have: >> >> - a thick horizontal line for "push" and nothing at all on "pull", no >> vertical lines

Re: How to control the placement of symbols (in \mark \markup)?

Dear Simon, On 13 July 2016 at 21:48, Simon Albrecht wrote: > On 13.07.2016 08:31, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >> I want to put this sign as the first thing after the bar >> (or potentially anywhere later between the pitches). > > Perhaps you’ll like this function, w

How to create a thick horizontal line (as its own staff)?

Hi, Following the example to create scores for diatonic accordion as posted recently by David: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/snippets/templates#templates-score-for-diatonic-accordion I would like to get a better understanding of how \staffTabLine is created and how it could be

How to control the placement of symbols (in \mark \markup)?

I'm "misusing" scripts.upbow and scripts.downbow to mark the change of playing direction (for accordion). In contrast to the "intended use" where it is used for marking a single pitch, I want to put this sign as the first thing after the bar (or potentially anywhere later between the pitches). I

Re: Generating cropped PDFs

On 12 July 2016 at 13:32, David Kastrup wrote: > Mojca Miklavec writes: > >> Hello, >> >> I would occasionally like to create cropped PDFs (either entirely >> cropped or with some reasonable/configurable margin) without having to >> guess the size of the p

Re: Position fingerings for diatonic accordion that include button name (not just finger)

On 11 July 2016 at 22:44, Carl Sorensen wrote: > On 7/11/16 12:06 PM, "David Kastrup" wrote: > >>I think the fundamental question is how to provide the information. >> >>We have a similar choice to make with tablature: enter the musical >>information, or enter the playing instructions. >> >>With

Generating cropped PDFs

Hello, I would occasionally like to create cropped PDFs (either entirely cropped or with some reasonable/configurable margin) without having to guess the size of the paper for each snippet. I found a page which seems to contain reasonable answers:

Re: Position fingerings for diatonic accordion that include button name (not just finger)

On 9 July 2016 at 17:07, David Kastrup wrote: > Mojca Miklavec writes: > >> On 9 July 2016 at 13:25, David Kastrup wrote: >>> Mojca Miklavec writes: >>> >>>> I'm relatively new to lilypond (and new to diatonic accordion). >>> >>> Slo

Re: Position fingerings for diatonic accordion that include button name (not just finger)

On 9 July 2016 at 17:07, David Kastrup wrote: > Mojca Miklavec writes: > > This mechanism for pulling pitches and making graphics for them can be > changed into something specific for your task. However, we need > additional information because the assignment of buttons to notes

Re: Position fingerings for diatonic accordion that include button name (not just finger)

On 9 July 2016 at 13:25, David Kastrup wrote: > Mojca Miklavec writes: > >> I'm relatively new to lilypond (and new to diatonic accordion). > > Slovenia is a nice area to be in for diatonic accordion, though. > >> I would eventually like to add more automation to wr

Position fingerings for diatonic accordion that include button name (not just finger)

Hello, I'm relatively new to lilypond (and new to diatonic accordion). I would eventually like to add more automation to write scores for accordion, but I need to start somewhere where I can at least get the desired output. I would like to make a "fingering" sign above every single pitch, but I

Re: Converting music files in Windows

Ben van Zanten wrote: I don't know were to find python… You can hardly miss it. http://www.python.org/download/ Mojca ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Lilypond for Windows 2.5.28 - Guile error

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Mojca Miklavec writes: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/22512. Well, the script calls lilypond filename. Maybe it should call $(which lilypond) filename. Why doesn't it happen already at the installation time then? Because I do not know how

Re: Lilypond for Windows 2.5.28 - Guile error

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Mojca Miklavec writes: E:\Mojcaset LILYPOND_VERBOSE=1 E:\Mojcalilypond warning: argv0 relocation: argv0=lilypond, prefix=/usr/share/lilypond/2.6.3 Can you try with the absolute file name (c:/Program Files/LilyPond/usr/bin/lilypond.exe --verbose), or running

Re: Lilypond for Windows 2.5.28 - Guile error

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Mojca Miklavec writes: This solves it! If I call lilypond with the whole path, it works (but it should be working also when calling lilypond alone). I can modify the module which calls lilypond to fit my installation Ok, great. , but it won't work

Re: Lilypond for Windows 2.5.28 - Guile error

introduced problem and switched back to 2.6.3, but the behaviour didn't change.) Thank you very much, Mojca Miklavec Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. E:\Mojcaset LILYPOND_VERBOSE=1 E:\Mojcalilypond warning: argv0 relocation: argv0