Re: Pedal cautionary after a line break (current status and improvements)

2020-06-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/25/20, Paolo Prete wrote: > The lack of a cautionary pedal on a bracket could be seen as an enhancement > only in a self-referential context, which doesn't make sense to me. A > proper way to proceed is to check what modern professional engravers do > with it, and check as a consequence if

Re: How to submit improved LSR entry?

2020-06-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/19/20, Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: > But this seems not to have been taken up for the database, neither as an > addition nor as a replacement for 792 (see > http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=clef+change). > Did I do something wrong? No, you did everything right (TBH, you could also have

Re: Fine tuning of MetronomeMark's expression

2020-06-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/19/20, Paolo Prete wrote: > Is there a way, for the above metronome indication " (quarter = 120) " of > the above MetronomeMark to apply the same font parameters (\abs-fontsize, > \bold etc.) specified in the \markup expression? Well, you can always redefine a Scheme function (see the

Re: Making Lilypond faster

2020-06-13 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/13/20, Paolo Prete wrote: > At this point, I'm meditating about a "selective" way of compiling a score > with a preprocessor, so to save time. Also remember that if you have fixed page breaks, you can easily recompile only some pages using skipTypesetting or show[First|Last]Length. (You can

Janus M. Nowacki

2020-06-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
Greetings everybody, I just wanted to let you know that Janus Nowacki, one of the founders of the TeX Gyre font suite that is used by default in LilyPond, has recently died: http://www.gust.org.pl/news/jmn-obit-en And his personal website (in Polish): https://jmn.pl/ The TeX Gyre font project was

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 211, Issue 44

2020-06-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/12/20, Valentin Petzel wrote: > I’m not sure if \newSpacingSection is a nescessarily good idea, because it > basically divides the score into parts of different spacing. And I’m not > sure about that, but I think this may cause inconsequent spacing. Well, IMO as soon as you start

Re: Orchestral strings, how to organise score and parts for divisi, solos, desks etc.

2020-06-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/7/20, Rutger Hofman wrote: > My first attempt is here: > https://www.rutgerhofman.nl/lilypond/divisi-doc/divisi-doc.html Very nice! I have a few minor remarks: - The writing style differs a bit from our recommended style, see CG 5.5.3 and 5.5.4

Re: How to pass a fraction as a parameter for a Scheme function

2020-06-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/10/20, Paolo Prete wrote: > When I looked at the list of predicates...; > > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/predefined-type-predicates.it.html > > ... I have been misled by the term "rational". In fact, in the italian > language the term "rational" (---> razionale)

Re: horizontal spacing inside \magnifyMusic

2020-06-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/10/20, Eby Mani wrote: > Is there any way to add horizontal spacing to make music more readable > without using "skip" inside violin section commented in the score ?. Well, you probably can get a slightly better result by inserting \newSpacingSection in a few of these places (and also

Re: pdf bookmarks

2020-06-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/5/20, Frédéric wrote: > Has anything been done yet? Can I help? > In the past, I've already added to a postscript file some bookmarks. > It was just adding postscript commands somewhere. I would need to find > that again but then, the most difficult will be to make the links to > the pages.

Re: pdf bookmarks

2020-06-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/5/20, Frédéric wrote: > Is there any possibility that \tocItem generates such a bookmark? It’s certainly possible using pdfmark commands, but not supported yet (actually, I’ve been investigating that feature for a little while). Cheers, -- V.

Re: Changing the text of a TimeSignature

2020-06-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/5/20, Paolo Prete wrote: > Is there a way to change displayed text in the TimeSignature's fraction, > without changing the effective value? Yes, by overriding its 'stencil property: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=554 Good luck! Cheers, -- V.

Re: Adding metronome click track to MIDI

2020-06-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/4/20, Francesco Petrogalli wrote: > thank you both for your help. I have created a solution based on your > examples. I hope you don't mind the copy and paste + tweak exercise, Hey, that’s what the list is for! Also, I’ve uploaded a copy of my own function onto

Re: A weird spacing problem

2020-06-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/3/20, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > When I set piano four part I let Lilypond do all the work. Hear hear! (Even for more than four parts, btw.) > I have taken the liberty of recoding the section using four-part voicing. Yeah, so did I! That sure was tempting wasn’t it? :-) Cheers, -- V.

Re: A weird spacing problem

2020-06-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/3/20, Robert Blackstone wrote: > Overall there are several instances where I needed "\once \override > NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #x" , and a few "\once\override > NoteColumn.X-offset = #x”. Ouch. That’s pretty brutal. May I ask why you felt the need to use all these? This alters

Re: showLastLength

2020-06-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/3/20, David Kastrup wrote: > Once you stop assuming that the manual writers are incompetent > […] it should be obvious that Hmm, since we’re on -user, let’s not antagonize people coming here asking for advice, perhaps? :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith The OP

Re: showLastLength

2020-06-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/3/20, David Sumbler wrote: > I have never used 'showLastLength' or 'showFirstLength' until today. > I inserted a line such as > showLastLength = R1*5 > exactly as shown in NR3.4.2, immediately before the first (and only) > \score { } section. Are you sure there isn’t an unclosed

Re: Adding metronome click track to MIDI

2020-06-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/3/20, Francesco Petrogalli wrote: > Is there a special midi instrument I could use for that? Not that I know. BTW, here’s a quick-and-dirty way of adding a click track, in case you might find it useful: %% addTicks = #(define-music-function (m) (ly:music?) #{ << $m \new

Re: list of strings from a string

2020-06-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/3/20, Freeman Gilmore wrote: > % Gives me this: (-3 A -6 1 -B), Well, it _is_ a list of strings, as you can verify by adding: #(display (map string? Y)) Or you can use #(write Y) instead of (display Y), which will print the double quotes. > % I need: ("-3" "A" "-6" "1" "-B"), how

Re: Making Lilypond faster

2020-06-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/3/20, Paolo Prete wrote: > Did you succeed (or someone else) in compiling with guile-3, meanwhile ? > If so, did you see some improvement in speed? No, for now guile 2.0 has become nearly as reliable as 1.8 but there remains a noticeable performance drop; building LilyPond with guile 2.2 is

Re: A weird spacing problem

2020-06-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/3/20, Robert Blackstone wrote: > I’m vainly struggling with a weird spacing problem Hi Robert, Unless you post some code, it’s gonna be difficult to help you. You should first double check your source files in case there’s some \override affecting the DotColumn object somewhere? Cheers, --

Re: Error while trying to put a Text above a notehead

2020-06-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/2/20, Robin Bannister wrote: > Well, you could define your own markup command(s). > Have a look at /scm/define-markup-commands.scm for examples, > including \abs-fontsize. Well, for once, there’s even some documentation about it!

Re: IMSLP upload policy (was: Re: Orchestral strings, how to organise score and parts for divisi, solos, desks etc.)

2020-06-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/2/20, Rutger Hofman wrote: > I know that pdftk can add attachments to PDFs. Is that now also built > into Lilypond? Well… yes! https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/lilypond.git/commit/?id=0fa6f042cccacb643d46781dde23617c71a9753e Man, I wish more people would know about that feature. I need

Re: string-split procedure

2020-06-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/2/20, Thomas Morley wrote: > (string-split "root x 0 0 root /root /bin/bash" #\SPACE) I think the recommended syntax is #\space (which is internally an alias for #\sp if I understand correctly). Cheers, -- V.

Re: When (in seconds) does each page begin?

2020-06-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/30/20, Matt Wallis wrote: > But I'd still like to know how to find out when a page of a score begins Well, there is something to be done with the 'page-number and 'rank-on-page properties, as demonstrated in this regtest:

Re: Orchestral strings, how to organise score and parts for divisi, solos, desks etc.

2020-06-01 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/1/20, Rutger Hofman wrote: > And I could contribute a bit on techniques to have >2 voices per staff, > rhythmically homophonic or rhythmically polyphonic, especially in the > context of divisi staves. That would certainly be interesting. As you can see in the patch I posted earlier in this

Re: bach chorales

2020-05-31 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/31/20, Ph. Hezaine wrote: > The link > http://superbonus.project.free.fr/spip.php?article48 > is up again but not all the site. For instance the midi files of > Superbonus are missing. Hey Phil, good to know! Thanks for bringing it back online in good shape. > For Matt: If you want you

Re: Text spanner with middle text

2020-05-31 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/31/20, James Worlton wrote: > Is there a way to do this using a single text spanner? I could probably > fake it with 2 spanners, but would rather not if I didn't have to, since > the positioning of the middle text would be trial and error. Indeed. But I think that if you’re looking for

Re: Fingering inside staff

2020-05-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/30/20, Thomas Morley wrote: > add-stem-support is not really documented. > Alas, I've not the time and energy to write a patch myself and fight > my way through the new GitLab process. “Fighting your way” sounds pretty accurate these days. If I may give it a try:

Re: Bar line definition with annotation

2020-05-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/30/20, Thomas Morley wrote: > Above means; at line-end use ||-bar, which has ||-span-bar. TBH, the NR documentation isn’t entirely clear in this regard (I remember having to go look at the source code to understand how it actually works). I’m submitting some additions to the Notation

Re: Fingering inside staff

2020-05-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/30/20, Valentin Villenave wrote: > Excellent; NOTABUT then. Ouch. NOTABUG. (Though I can’t say I wasn’t childishly tempted to add an additional T :-) V.

Re: Fingering inside staff

2020-05-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/30/20, Thomas Morley wrote: > Fingering.add-stem-support is per default set to 'only-if-beamed' Of course!! I vaguely remembered having come across something like that. Sorry for making a fool of myself. > Try: > \override Fingering.add-stem-support = #'() > and it'll work Excellent;

Re: Fingering inside staff

2020-05-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/29/20, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: > Hi Simone, > A basic solution: > \relative c' { > \stemUp > \override Fingering.staff-padding = #'() > 4 8 > } Sure there are workarounds, but: shouldn’t we be treating this as a bug? There’s no obvious reason why unsetting staff-padding should

Re: use variable out side procedure

2020-05-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/29/20, Ralf Mattes wrote: > No, no, no! While all the books you mention are very good books (even so > very special) they are really bad books for smeone trying to learn Scheme to > get > along with Lilypond. Well, to each their own I guess. Getting some useful basics in programming has

Re: italian list or forum

2020-05-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/29/20, Federico Bruni wrote: > Next week I'll send a patch to update the website. Great! This should also appear in news-headlines, methinks. Looking forward to seeing your patch! Cheers, -- V.

Re: use variable out side procedure

2020-05-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/29/20, Freeman Gilmore wrote: > But how do i get Z (or x) out side so i can use the variable? for example: > #(display Z) You need to define it at the top-level; then you can change its value using set!: \version "2.20.0" #(use-modules (ice-9 regex)) #(define Z '()) j =

Re: When (in seconds) does each page begin?

2020-05-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/29/20, Matt Wallis wrote: > BTW, I didn't see a vibraphone example. I scanned a few branches, but > maybe I didn't try the right branch. That’s the “pools” example. You can try the following: ## git clone https://gitlab.com/sigmate/lilypond-html-live-score cd

Re: How to enter chords names in makam.ly

2020-05-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/28/20, prosfigaki80 wrote: > Hi, I am writing music including makam.ly but chords names different from > natural notes are not recognized by Lilypond Greetings, you’re right. You can fix it by adding this at the top of your file: \include "makam.ly" #(set! language-pitch-names

Re: When (in seconds) does each page begin?

2020-05-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/28/20, Matt Wallis wrote: > The output from event-listener is so close. I just need to get it to > listen to the appropriate events ... if that is possible. Then you should definitely have a look at the last link I sent (lilypond-html-video); IIRC it uses a Scheme engraver (so no patching

Re: When (in seconds) does each page begin?

2020-05-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/28/20, Matt Wallis wrote: > I would like to obtain timing information to tell me at how many seconds > into the score each page begins. I have had a go at this, and failed. If you’re trying to make videos out of LilyPond scores, here are some links for you:

Re: Strange error from define-syntax

2020-05-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/28/20, John Schlomann wrote: > Thank you, David, for your quick response. I'm not sure what you mean by > "stick to macros". I thought define-syntax was the way to define a macro. > What am I missing? I think David may have been referring to LilyPond macros; have a look at that for example:

Re: Orchestral strings, how to organise score and parts for divisi, solos, desks etc.

2020-05-27 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/27/20, Lib Lists wrote: > merge the stems so > that the final result looks like one voice. In that case, what you want clearly is \partcombine (\partCombine since 2.21). If you have more than two voices, then you can always apply another \partCombine on top of the first two voices, or use

Re: GitLab access

2020-05-27 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/27/20, Aaron Hill wrote: > I probably could have been (or rather should > be) submitting patches for consideration. Hear hear! But as I said, helping out on the lists is certainly not less worthy as a way of contributing. > I went ahead and linked my GitHub with GitLab, so I am @seraku24

Re: registering a composition

2020-05-27 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/27/20, Francesco Petrogalli wrote: > I am replying here in the middle of the thread, because I decided to > opt for an open source license after reading the considerations in > this email. The source is available here: > https://github.com/fpetrogalli/trr Hi Francesco, That’s excellent

Re: GitLab access

2020-05-27 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/27/20, Aaron Hill wrote: > Apologies for hijacking the thread. No apology needed. > The link you provided worked for me > without needing an account. What level of access are you talking about? > Is it something a mere mortal like me (i.e. someone who is not > currently a collaborator

Re: Some new tutorials in Spanish

2020-05-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/26/20, Francisco Vila wrote: > I'd like to share my last attempt of a series of ultra-fast tutorials in > Spanish. That’s great! (At least, I’m sure it is :-) BTW, if you have an account on GitLab, feel free to let us know so that you can be added and gain access to the tracker, merge

Re: Orchestral strings, how to organise score and parts for divisi, solos, desks etc.

2020-05-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/26/20, Xavier Scheuer wrote: > I have used several times the technique mentioned on this list and > documented only in the regression test ‘divisi-staves.ly’. It may indeed be more useful if added to the NR; I’ve just written a patch with that mind:

Re: Orchestral strings, how to organise score and parts for divisi, solos, desks etc.

2020-05-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/26/20, Lib Lists wrote: > For example, I'd start with the concertmaster's part, then duplicate > it and edit it to generate the music the second soloist, then the > other soloists, then desks, divisi and so on. Greetings, I wouldn’t recommend to “duplicate” any code. As Xavier said, you can

Re: AW: Are Lilyponds beams thick enough?

2020-05-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/26/20, David Kastrup wrote: > 0.5 would likely result more often in beam thicknesses getting rounded > up sometimes, down at other times, making for an uneven look after > digitisation. You’re right in theory, but that doesn’t sound like a convincing argument within the LilyPond ideological

Re: Identify included files

2020-05-25 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/25/20, R. Padraic Springuel wrote: > It depends on the state of the relative-includes variable. If true, then > paths are relative to the file in which the include statement appears. If > false, the paths are relative to the main input file. Default behavior is > false. Careful, the

Re: musicxml2ly

2020-05-25 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/23/20, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: > > On Sat, 23 May 2020, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: >> There must be something seriously broken if musicxml2ly can't convert >> this > > P.S. I just tried downgrading to lilypond 2.19.84 (from Fedora repo) and > the problem disappeared. So it does look like a

Re: bach chorales

2020-05-24 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/24/20, Ph. Hezaine wrote: > many thanks Valentin. It seems my precedent mail was not receipt. Hey!! Nice to hear from you Phil. I hope your family’s all right, and I wish your health gets better soon. There are quite a few people here and on -user-fr who’ll be delighted to exchange with

Re: registering a composition

2020-05-24 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/24/20, David Kastrup wrote: > You are working from the premise that everybody except you is an idiot. Guys, stop bickering and veering off-topic. The original purpose of this thread was to help Francesco gain some insight into the copyright modalities and possible publishing choices;

Re: bach chorales

2020-05-24 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/24/20, Andrew Bernard wrote: > Who are we to thank for this wonderful and useful work? I see the name > Ph. Hardy in the score with an email. Is he still active? It’s an alias of Philippe Hézaine, who was quite active on -user and -user-fr a few years ago:

Re: registering a composition

2020-05-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/23/20, Francesco Petrogalli wrote: > Hi Valentin - I am all new to these things and every time I look into > this I get more confused. No problem. (I’m adding back the list, just in case others may correct me if I say something wrong and/or stupid.) > Say I give a CC BY license to the

Re: italian list or forum

2020-05-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/22/20, Federico Bruni wrote: > Do you know how can I ask GNU to create a new mailing list? LilyPond has currently four admins listed on Savannah: https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/lilypond/ Han-Wen or David might be your best bet these days. You can refer to this thread:

Re: italian list or forum

2020-05-22 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/21/20, Federico Bruni wrote: > What would you suggest to use? Hey Federico, in case you end up opening a GNU mailing list, may I offer you some of my CSS overrides? Before: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user After: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user-fr

Re: registering a composition

2020-05-22 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/21/20, Francesco Petrogalli wrote: > In the spirit > of open source, I initially wanted to use a CC-BY license on the work, > then I read this and completely changed my mind. > https://www.ascap.com/playback/2007/FALL/FEATURES/creative_commons_licensing, > which somehow seems to contradict >

Re: bug in \caps

2020-05-22 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/22/20, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: > Hi Frédéric, > See: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/changes-big-page.html By the way Frédéric, do feel free to ask such questions on the -user-fr mailing list (assuming your subscription is still active). Both Pierre and I can be reached

Re: registering a composition

2020-05-21 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/21/20, Francesco Petrogalli wrote: > I have written it with lilypond, but it hasn't been performed yet. I > wanted to secure the copyright before performing it. Given that there > is no performing artist yet, there is no recording, so I cannot > register it with ASCAP. Have I got this right?

Re: Tone cluster

2020-05-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/20/20, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: > Anything better? Nothing better. I was about to suggest using a modifier Arpeggio stencil, but your solution is simpler and better. I’m not really sure why you’d need a music function at all, though: toneCluster ={ \once \override

Re: Combining percussion parts in one staff

2020-05-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/20/20, Christopher R. Maden wrote: > ... I get rests scattered all over the place, not to mention redundant > dynamics. Is there a way to combine the different drum parts on one > staff without engraving a terrible mess? Well, I’m not gonna lie: that’s a tough one. That’s typically what

Re: Rests vertical position problem

2020-05-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/19/20, Jacques Menu wrote: > This doesn’t change the position of the rests in measure 2, since there’s a > single voice playing then. Well, yes: as I said, it doesn’t work yet. (And the way it’s currently written, I suspect it would require some fairly substantial changes. Or perhaps a

Re: Rests vertical position problem

2020-05-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/19/20, Jacques Menu wrote: > In the attached example, the \voiceOne and \voiceTwo commands used for the > first score lead to the eigth rests in measure 2 to appear too high. Well, it’s merely printed the way the source code’s requesting it. \voiceOne rests are consistently placed at the

Re: PNG generation ignoring color

2020-05-16 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/16/20, David Kastrup wrote: > Like the warning LilyPond prints out indicates, the X11 #rrggbb > convention is not supported for specifying colors. x11-color instead > supports _named_ colors like "green". Chris, you *could* simply change the definition or your function as follows:

Re: Resources For Learning Scheme?

2020-05-16 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/16/20, Caio Barros wrote: > I wasn't aware Urs wrote this book. This is very nice! I agree. Obviously one of the first places to check out is our in-house manual (sadly still unfinished): http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.21/Documentation/extending/ Cheers, -- V.

Re: Page numbers

2020-05-16 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/15/20, brahim.pro wrote: > I would like to change the page number position. Now, it's in the left for > right pages and on the right for left pages. I would like to put them always > on the left. And I would like also to change its font size. Greetings, as Pierre explained, it’s handled by

Re: Identify included files

2020-05-15 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/15/20, Fr. Samuel Springuel wrote: > Before I start writing a script to do this, is there an existing tool which > will identify all the `\include` files that a LilyPond file depends on? > Even better, one that will work in a recursive fashion? Since 2.19.39, you can simply use this:

Re: is it possible to change midi channels in the middle of a song ?.

2020-05-13 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/13/20, Eby Mani wrote: > Is it possible to specify midi channel numbers for a given voice or switch > channels in the middle of a song in lilypond ?. That should be possible by just using \set Staff.midiInstrument = #"something else" You may need to adjust midiChannelMapping as well:

Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent

2020-05-13 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/13/20, Paul McKay wrote: > If I'm writing music in F, then I suggest that I be able to use *bF* as a > pitch instead of *bf*. The *F* would indicate that all subsequent *b*s > would be flattened until one is encountered with a different accidental or > until the end of the current music

Re: Off-topic: BeOS and Haiku (was Re: Your Bespoke Lilypond Environment)

2020-05-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/8/20, Aaron Hill wrote: > I have to commend the Haiku team for having the > dedication to preserve what they could from the BeOS world. Well, yes and no. They managed to maintain binary compatibility for an impressively long time, but the need for newer GCC versions and 64-bit arch means

Re: horziontal spacing in chants

2020-05-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/7/20, Christian Masser wrote: > I am currently working on my Master thesis and would like to show parts of > gregorian chants in modern notation for comparison purposes. Greetings, good luck for your thesis! > Is it possible to get the note heads even closer together, so that they are >

Re: [bug] 2.20.0 -> 2.21.1 Multi_measure_rest_engraver

2020-05-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/6/20, Trevor Bača wrote: > The following MWE works under 2.20.0 but crashes LilyPond under 2.21.1. Wow, that’s a nice one. I’m marking this as Critical because its a/ a segfault, b/ a regression and c/ not that unusual a use case. https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5964/ Since

Re: Re: 2.21.1 change of behavior of \compressMMRests?

2020-05-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/4/20, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > What was the rationale to recommend (and only mention) \compressMMRests > instead of \compressEmptyMeasures in > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.21/Documentation/notation/writing-rests#full-measure-rests? Well, precisely the fact that \compressEmptyMeasures is

Re: lilybin

2020-05-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/3/20, Kevin Barry wrote: > I was able to find the broken link in our unstable documentation > version. It looks like it's a bug arising from a switch to https (this > link was probably changed unintentionally). Indeed. Thanks Stefan, I’ve just pushed a fix and it should appear on the next

Re: 2.21.1 change of behavior of \compressMMRests?

2020-05-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/3/20, Paul Scott wrote: > Out of simple curiosity what is the purpose of the \compressMMRests { } > structure rather than the \set or \override action I would think of? > I'm guessing \compressMMRests does \set \unset or \override \revert pairs. As you can see if you open the

Re: Lilypond svg output to stdout?

2020-05-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 4/30/20, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 30 Apr 2020 at 21:58:28 (+0200), Marcel Aartsen wrote: > I don't think you can use stdout itself, as LP already uses it. Well, there *used* to be some work towards something like that; see the framework-socket.scm file in LilyPond’s source code… > I

Re: Scores for piano four hands

2020-04-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 4/18/20, Stephan Schöll wrote: > Have there been any functionality increments in > Lilypond regarding this task, or would you still recommend the same > procedure? (2 scores, merge them with pdftk) As far as I know there’s still no native support for that sort of thing (except perhaps a very

Re: Manual in the terminal

2020-04-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 4/17/20, foxfanfare wrote: > I know you can access to the manual page inside a terminal with "info > lilypond", but I was wondering if there was also a similar option available > to access the "internal documentation" Well, I suspect what you want is `info lilypond-internals’. In fact, in

Re: edit to Lilypond wikipedia article

2020-04-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 4/17/20, David Olson wrote: > If some of you take a look and make changes > (or instruct me to do so), it can be better. How about mentioning lilypond-book first? Perhaps the paragraph could open with: """ An integration with various document formats (not only [[TeX]]-based systems such as

Re: RemoveEmptyStaves doesnt remove percussion staff

2020-04-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 4/16/20, neuro黃學仁 wrote: > How can one remove the empty percussion staff in Grandscore? > The \RemoveEmptyStaves seems not working on percussion staff. Greetings, here is a solution: \layout { indent = 2.6\cm short-indent = 1.6\cm \context { \Staff \RemoveEmptyStaves }

Re: Libraries (was: Re: Read git tags using Scheme)

2020-04-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 4/18/20, Noeck wrote: > It could not adapt this to my situation: > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11961400/getting-rid-of-git-usr-local-lib-libz-so-1-no-version-information-available > Any idea about this? Well, the easiest solution I found was to compile LilyPond myself. Not, however,

Re: SVG style and contributing barrier to entry

2020-04-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 4/16/20, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > Well, you just *did* submit a patch, and I'm going it to apply soon. Indeed; initiating, or taking part in, discussions on some of our mailing lists (or forums) is a pretty easily-achievable first step. LilyPond (like most Free Software projects, and perhaps

Re: SystemStart changes after stop/startStaff - how to get it back

2020-04-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 4/12/20, Thomas Morley wrote: > Over the last decades I tried again and again to find a better > workaround, with less manual work. Apparently we stumbled upon your white whale :-) > I now come up with the attached. Brilliant. Although it’s still a workaround. > To get the gaps in

Re: SystemStart changes after stop/startStaff - how to get it back

2020-04-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 4/12/20, Thomas Morley wrote: > Hi, > The SystemStartBrace vanishes after stop/startStaff. Weird. That’s definitely an unwanted behavior (in other words, a bug). > consider the following code: > > > mus = \new Staff { R1 \break R \stopStaff s \startStaff R \break R \break R > } > > \new

Re: Get current staff size

2020-04-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 4/10/20, Kevin Barry wrote: > As it happens, I found another solution Good job! Now, if you’ve found a solution with which you’re happy, could you try and build a nice snippet for the LSR? (Explaining why this is useful, and why it’s tricky to achieve.) It may help people who’d stumble

Re: Proposal: Changing tremolo beam gap implementation

2020-04-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 4/9/20, Thomas Morley wrote: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2020-04/msg00160.html > It's ofcourse a workaround, but usable, afaict. Could it be worth mentioning on the tracker page for #704/#3143/#318/whichever? Cheers, V.

Re: Coda / split staff

2020-04-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 4/9/20, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: > Dear Harm et all, > Would you mind putting the following snippet to the LSR? > Originally: > http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Appending-coda-on-last-line-td44971.html#a44972 Or some version of the latest update:

Re: Get current staff size

2020-04-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 4/9/20, Kevin Barry wrote: > Is there a way to obtain the current value of the staff size as set > with set-global-staff-size (or the layout version)? Would something like that help? %%% \applyOutput Staff.StaffSymbol #(lambda (grob org cur) (ly:message "\nCurrent staff size is:

Re: Your Bespoke Lilypond Environment

2020-04-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 4/7/20, Karlin High wrote: > DDR-SDRAM sure beats having to say > "double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory." Here I was, thinking that these memory cards were all from East-Germany… :-) As for OP’s request, it depends whether I’m on tty or graphical interface. In tty mode,

Re: lilypond score in youtube video

2020-04-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 4/8/20, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: > I now have found my own workflow Well, do feel free to share :-) Cheers, V.

Re: [Off-topic] A question about opera scores

2020-04-01 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 3/30/20, Daniel Rosen wrote: >> do you as a conductor >> prefer to see the vocal parts above the strings, >> or within the strings >> (between the violas and >> cellos)? Greetings, I personally always put the vocal parts above the strings. IMO the only case where it’s still making any sense

An exciting new release… of Sibelius!!!

2020-03-27 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hi everybody, I know it’s off-topic but I wanted to share the news because, let’s be honest, nobody in their right mind would want to miss it: Yes! It’s finally here! The latest and brightest version of Sibelius is out… *And* it offers one particularly exciting, exclusive new feature:

Re: divisi music for one measure

2019-04-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 4/5/19, N. Andrew Walsh wrote: > How can I keep this phrasing slur where > it is, when the lyrics in both voices terminate on a note tied to that f4. > in Bar 8? Greetings Andrew, I’m not sure what’s happening there (an example would be helpful): phrasing slurs entered as \( \) are not

A LilyPond Café in Paris

2019-04-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
Greetings everybody, just to let you know that a French contributor, Mathieu Demange, has managed to put together a LilyPond event tomorrow in Paris: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user-fr/2019-02/msg00178.html We’re hoping that it can turn into a regular event; at the very least

Re: divisi music for one measure

2019-04-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 4/4/19, N. Andrew Walsh wrote: > how do I ensure that only the lyrics in \altvocoLyricsSop get > attached to it, then resume following \voceMusicSop afterwards? You can \set the associatedVoice property to another Voice’s name whenever you want; see

Re: Adding parallel thirds to the notes of a melody

2019-04-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 4/3/19, Gianmaria Lari wrote: > I don't have lilypond programming experience and I would like to know: > - if there are hidden mistakes No, that’s quite clean actually! > - if it is better to write the function in a different way I think in this case, simpler is better. > - how I could

Re: treble and bass clef simultaneously

2019-04-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 4/2/19, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > Can you suggest a (possibly read-only) property or properties that > could be easily added to either the `Clef' or `NoteColumn' grob on the > C++ side, and which would considerably simplify the code? Hi Werner, upcoming new features notwithstanding, could you

Re: lilypond 2.21 & scheme unbound variable

2019-04-01 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 4/1/19, Valentin Villenave wrote: > You just need to first define the number-or-markup? function, which > isn’t included in Scheme or in LilyPond out-of-the-box … Actually, you’d better use integer-or-markup? which _is_ provided, and which would be more appropriate for fingerings

Re: lilypond 2.21 & scheme unbound variable

2019-04-01 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 4/1/19, Gianmaria Lari wrote: > How can I fix it? You just need to first define the number-or-markup? function, which isn’t included in Scheme or in LilyPond out-of-the-box: #(define (number-or-markup? x) (or (number? x) (markup? x))) Cheers, V.

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