Re: clefs and positioning

2008-03-04 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Dienstag, 4. März 2008 schrieb Timothy C Litwiller: Thanks so much for that. It looks like it is working very well. You're welcome. Note, however, that the clef you are generating is effectively the same as treble_8, since the C clef defines the position of the middle c. So I suppose the

Re: clefs and positioning

2008-03-04 Thread Tim Litwiller
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: Am Dienstag, 4. März 2008 schrieb Timothy C Litwiller: Thanks so much for that. It looks like it is working very well. You're welcome. Note, however, that the clef you are generating is effectively the same as treble_8, since the C clef defines the position

Re: clefs and positioning

2008-03-03 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
* Chorvereinigung Jung-Wien, http://www.jung-wien.at/ \version 2.11.41 myclef = { \set Staff.clefGlyph = #clefs.neomensural.c \set Staff.clefPosition = #1 \set Staff.middleCPosition = #1 } #(set! supported-clefs (cons '(neomensural-cc . (clefs.neomensural.c 1 0)) supported-clefs)) \context Staff

Re: clefs and positioning

2008-03-03 Thread Timothy C Litwiller
Thanks so much for that. It looks like it is working very well. Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: Am Montag, 3. März 2008 schrieb Timothy C Litwiller: no, here is a scan of the upper left corner that he wrote by hand http://www.arkansascabinetsolutions.com/the_presence.gif There are two

clefs and positioning

2008-03-02 Thread Timothy C Litwiller
I am try to set a piece that a friend wrote recently it is what we call a Mens Quartet vocal piece. The top line of notes above the words is almost right if I use \clef neomensural-c4 or c3 c4 is on the line above the space where we need it and c3 is on the line below where we need it. what

Re: clefs and positioning

2008-03-02 Thread Andrew Hawryluk
Are you looking for the octave-transposed treble clef? \clef treble_8 e.g. http://www.musicbyandrew.ca/data/emmanuel.pdf Andrew On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Timothy C Litwiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am try to set a piece that a friend wrote recently it is what we call a Mens Quartet

Re: clefs and positioning

2008-03-02 Thread Timothy C Litwiller
no, here is a scan of the upper left corner that he wrote by hand http://www.arkansascabinetsolutions.com/the_presence.gif Andrew Hawryluk wrote: Are you looking for the octave-transposed treble clef? \clef treble_8 e.g. http://www.musicbyandrew.ca/data/emmanuel.pdf Andrew On Sun, Mar 2,

LSR how to move clefs on uneven staff lines?

2008-03-01 Thread Till Rettig
= #clefs.F \set Staff.middleCPosition = #6 \set Staff.clefPosition = #2 \set Staff.clefOctavation = #0 %\clef bass \lower } } But it doesn't change the position of the notes or the clefs. What is here wrong? I tried as in NR 1.1.3.1 Greetings Till

RE: LSR how to move clefs on uneven staff lines?

2008-03-01 Thread Trevor Daniels
as specified. So what do you think is wrong? Trevor D -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+t.daniels=treda.co.u [EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Till Rettig Sent: 01 March 2008 14:52 To: lilypond-user Mailinglist Subject: LSR how to move clefs

Re: LSR how to move clefs on uneven staff lines?

2008-03-01 Thread Till Rettig
-bounces+t.daniels=treda.co.u [EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Till Rettig Sent: 01 March 2008 14:52 To: lilypond-user Mailinglist Subject: LSR how to move clefs on uneven staff lines? Hi, I tried to get the clef right for this example from lsr: upper = \relative c'' { c1 d e f } lower = \relative c

RE: LSR how to move clefs on uneven staff lines?

2008-03-01 Thread Trevor Daniels
Message- From: Till Rettig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 March 2008 18:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lilypond-user Mailinglist Subject: Re: LSR how to move clefs on uneven staff lines? OK, yes, it does work... :-) what I meant was with the settings of middleC =7 and clef position =1

Re: Several issues transcribing ancient notation (clefs, noteheads, spacing)

2008-02-22 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
As a little help, there is an LSR snippet that takes given notes and applies the same rhythm to them (i.e. it applies certain durations to the passed notes), so I suppose it should be able to adjust it to your needs: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=346 You have that, too

Re: Several issues transcribing ancient notation (clefs, noteheads, spacing)

2008-02-21 Thread till
Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote: till wrote: 2. There is a lot of threads here on the list. You can play with all sorts of spacing but nothing is yet really convincing. The most simple workaround appears to be to scale all note durations to a singe duration, eg. 1/8, which can be achieved

Re: Several issues transcribing ancient notation (clefs, noteheads, spacing)

2008-02-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Till, So this is no easy way to scale all notes to the same duration. No, but a Scheme-savvy person (Mats? or you, Till?) should be able to whip up something like unifyDuration = #(define-music-function (parser location music duration) (ly:music?

Re: Several issues transcribing ancient notation (clefs, noteheads, spacing)

2008-02-21 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Donnerstag, 21. Februar 2008 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Till, So this is no easy way to scale all notes to the same duration. No, but a Scheme-savvy person (Mats? or you, Till?) should be able to whip up something like unifyDuration = #(define-music-function (parser location music

Re: Several issues transcribing ancient notation (clefs, noteheads, spacing)

2008-02-20 Thread till
Thank you, this is really good! I had first problems with the bar lines -- they made the notes really spacy (though closer together than without this option). But I switched on the cadenza mode and it looks really as it should look! The disadvantage is that now you will have to set line breaks

Re: Several issues transcribing ancient notation (clefs, noteheads, spacing)

2008-02-20 Thread Benedict Singer
Oh wow, this looks even easier than the scheme function I was going to write to scale everything. Is this in the lsr? If not, perhaps the cadenza settings could be put in and it could be added. If you'd like a real example I can submit one of the transcriptions I'm doing when I finish.

Re: Several issues transcribing ancient notation (clefs, noteheads, spacing)

2008-02-20 Thread Till Rettig
Benedict Singer schrieb: Oh wow, this looks even easier than the scheme function I was going to write to scale everything. Is this in the lsr? No, I didn't yet do anything, I send an example of tight spacing to the list some times. If not, perhaps the cadenza settings could be put in and it

Re: Several issues transcribing ancient notation (clefs, noteheads, spacing)

2008-02-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
till wrote: 2. There is a lot of threads here on the list. You can play with all sorts of spacing but nothing is yet really convincing. The most simple workaround appears to be to scale all note durations to a singe duration, eg. 1/8, which can be achieved by appending the note duration:

Re: Several issues transcribing ancient notation (clefs, noteheads, spacing)

2008-02-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2008/2/12, till [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2. There is a lot of threads here on the list. You can play with all sorts of spacing but nothing is yet really convincing. The most simple workaround appears to be to scale all note durations to a singe duration, eg. 1/8, which can be achieved by appending

Re: Several issues transcribing ancient notation (clefs, noteheads, spacing)

2008-02-12 Thread till
of the available clefs quite match the source material. Can these also be replaced? Thanks in advance for answers to any or all of these questions! Ben Hi, 1. I don't really know what you want: do you want to print first the time signature and then the clef? It probably goes only by shifting

educational use - writing violin clefs with pen

2008-02-11 Thread bpeter
clefs. The color of clefs is grey, so children can re-draw it with a pencil or pen. After practising with re-drawing, children can write his/her own violin clefs onto the gaps between the pre-written ones. I am a new lilypond user and I can't know the Scheme language. I wrote this lilypond file

How to traverse clefs

2006-12-16 Thread Carl Youngblood
I'm trying to write an arpeggio on a piano system that begins in the bass clef and continues in the treble clef with the same beam for the eight notes. In other words, there are a series of eighth notes in the arpeggio. The ones in the bass clef have note stems going down from the beam and the

Re: How to traverse clefs

2006-12-16 Thread Tomas Valusek
Hello, maybe placing your arpeggio in separate voice and changing staves during arpeggio would help - seek section 7.1.2 of the manual - Manual Staff Switching. Tomas Valusek Carl Youngblood napsal(a): I'm trying to write an arpeggio on a piano system that begins in the bass clef and

Re: Numbering exercises; overriding defaults; points for clefs.

2006-11-29 Thread Christophe Dang Ngoc Chan
Nick Bailey wrote: My understanding was that the f dots are the vestiges of the two lines in the letter F... is that not the case? Hence the C clef and G clef wouldn't have them AFAIK, the dots are usefull when the music is handwritten: it is sometime difficult to read the exact position of

Re: Numbering exercises; overriding defaults; points for clefs.

2006-11-29 Thread Manuel
What does AFAIK stand for? Certainly, the dots make practical, besides systematical and didactical, sense in handwriting music; this in itself is a good reason to transfer their use to typeset music, which should reflect the way it is written by hand. Also, that music theory is at the

Re: Numbering exercises; overriding defaults; points for clefs.

2006-11-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
As far as I know, it stands for as far as I know. Regarding the typesetting practice, I often view handwriting as more or less clumsy attempts to imitate what is done in well typeset printed music, not the other way around. /Mats Manuel wrote: What does AFAIK stand for? Certainly, the

Re: Numbering exercises; overriding defaults; points for clefs.

2006-11-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
As a matter of fact, I've always written every C and F clef with two dots, and it is indeed very useful (since there are many C clefs, and two F clefs, but only one G clef in modern music). AFAIK : As Far As I Know IMHO : In My Humble Opinion (maye this should be integrated in lilypond docs

Re: Numbering exercises; overriding defaults; points for clefs.

2006-11-29 Thread Manuel
handwriting. In the same way that instruments imitate, and should imitate, the cantabile of the human voice, a printed score should, I believe, approach as much as possible the expressive aesthetic of the handwritten music: you will agree with the concept of typeset signs - clefs, staves, etc

Re: Numbering exercises; overriding defaults; points for clefs.

2006-11-29 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Manuel libros at limay.de writes: I take a different view on this matter. I think that painting was the first way of writing, letters being a later development. The first attempts to typesetting music were clumsy indeed, but even now, when typeset music is quite good, no printed score

Re: Numbering exercises; overriding defaults; points for clefs.

2006-11-29 Thread Trevor Bača
On 11/29/06, Arvid Grøtting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Manuel libros at limay.de writes: I take a different view on this matter. I think that painting was the first way of writing, letters being a later development. The first attempts to typesetting music were clumsy indeed, but even now, when

Re: Numbering exercises; overriding defaults; points for clefs.

2006-11-29 Thread Manuel
Am 29/11/2006 um 12:46 schrieb Arvid Grøtting: Manuel libros at limay.de writes: I take a different view on this matter. I think that painting was the first way of writing, letters being a later development. The first attempts to typesetting music were clumsy indeed, but even now, when

Re: Numbering exercises; overriding defaults; points for clefs.

2006-11-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
= #'() } } \score{ \relative c'{ \mark \default c1 d e f f e d c \break \mark \default c1 d e fis fis e d c \break } } Also, I notice that only the F-clef has its two points; but I say that every clef should have them, like the Soprano and French Soprano clefs do in the big Bachausgabe

Re: Numbering exercises; overriding defaults; points for clefs.

2006-11-28 Thread Manuel
Am 28/11/2006 um 10:40 schrieb Mats Bengtsson: Also, I notice that only the F-clef has its two points; but I say that every clef should have them, like the Soprano and French Soprano clefs do in the big Bachausgabe. How do I put this necessary points to my clefs? Are you saying

Re: Numbering exercises; overriding defaults; points for clefs.

2006-11-28 Thread Manuel
). I've no authoritative source for this though. Nick/. I'm not sure, but you are probably right, I have seen G and F clefs with dots, but not C clefs and I recall only one instance of G clefs. Yet I use the dots because they make good logical sense and facilitate precise handwriting

Numbering exercises; overriding defaults; points for clefs.

2006-11-27 Thread libros
have them, like the Soprano and French Soprano clefs do in the big Bachausgabe. How do I put this necessary points to my clefs? Best, Manuel ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Double clefs?

2006-01-18 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 07.40, amhso (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: I'm new to all this lilypond. I used to use noteworhty so this is a big change for me. anyways... Picture of my situation . I don't get how to format all this stuff. feels like programming. How do i make the second clef

Re: Double clefs?

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Double clefs?

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Re: bars and clefs

2005-11-07 Thread Guy Durrieu
Mats Bengtsson wrote : An alternative solution that goes more to the source of the actual problem is to do something like \override Score.BarLine #'space-alist = #'( (time-signature . (extra-space . 0.75)) (custos . (minimum-space . 2.0))

Re: bars and clefs

2005-11-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
An alternative solution that goes more to the source of the actual problem is to do something like \override Score.BarLine #'space-alist = #'( (time-signature . (extra-space . 0.75)) (custos . (minimum-space . 2.0)) (clef .

bars and clefs

2005-11-03 Thread Guy Durrieu
Hello, When specifying a clef change after a bar (for exemple a repeat bar), the clef is placed before the bar. I would like to know if there is a mean to ask a clef change to be placed after the bar. Thanks in advance for your help ! --

Re: bars and clefs

2005-11-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
This order is specified by the break-align-orders property of the BreakAlignment object, see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond-internals/BreakAlignment.html#BreakAlignment So, to modify this for clef changes in the middle of a line, for example, you could do;

Re: bars and clefs

2005-11-03 Thread Guy Durrieu
Mats Bengtsson wrote : This order is specified by the break-align-orders property of the BreakAlignment object, see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond-internals/BreakAlignment.html#BreakAlignment Thanks for your help. That works ; however, with a :|: bar, when

Re: bars and clefs

2005-11-03 Thread stk
. . . however, with a :|: bar, when inverting the order, the clef is almost stuck to it... You might try \once \override Staff.Clef #'extra-X-extent = #'(-2 . 1) \clef tenor which would give you 2 more units of space to the left of the clef symbol and 1 more unit of space to the

Re: bars and clefs

2005-11-03 Thread Guy Durrieu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : You might try \once \override Staff.Clef #'extra-X-extent = #'(-2 . 1) \clef tenor which would give you 2 more units of space to the left of the clef symbol and 1 more unit of space to the right of the clef. (tenor: sorry, I deleted so much e-mail

Re: Lyrics and Clefs in Cues for Horns

2005-03-20 Thread D Josiah Boothby
I can't help you with the lyrics question, but: (Pre-question: is there a mode where the key signature is not shown, but all accidentals are printed? This seems to be the common way to write horn parts, but I don't see how to do it in Lilypond except to manipulate the key signatures myself.)

Lyrics and Clefs in Cues for Horns

2005-03-19 Thread J. Daniel Ashton
Hello all, I'm typesetting horn parts to an oratorio. (Pre-question: is there a mode where the key signature is not shown, but all accidentals are printed? This seems to be the common way to write horn parts, but I don't see how to do it in Lilypond except to manipulate the key signatures

Re: Full-sized clefs for clef changes?

2004-11-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
a property called full-size-change. The order of clefs, bar lines, time signatures and so on is determined by the BreakAlignment object. In the Regression Test for version 2.2.x, you can find an example called ambitus.ly that shows how to change the default order. Unfortunately, this example has been

Full-sized clefs for clef changes?

2004-11-10 Thread Benjamin Esham
I'm engraving a simple piece-- it's a demonstration of middle C with various clefs, and it looks like this: \clef treblec'1 \clef alto c' \clef tenor c' \clef bass c' After each whole note, there is a small clef, a bar line, and then the next note. Is there a way to a) make

Re: midiinstrument and clefs

2004-03-21 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sunday 21 March 2004 02:25, David Bobroff wrote: Why does lilypond do small clefs in the middle of a line by default instead of regular? It is common engraving practice. As to why it is common practice I can only speculate that a full sized clef would appear bulky and out of place

midiinstrument and clefs

2004-03-20 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
. Question 2: Why does lilypond do small clefs in the middle of a line by default instead of regular? Aren't small clefs supposed to be for changing clef without having to change the key signature, so the whole idea is *not* to have a new key sig appear? Isn't that what they're for? If you change

Re: midiinstrument and clefs

2004-03-20 Thread David Bobroff
Why does lilypond do small clefs in the middle of a line by default instead of regular? It is common engraving practice. As to why it is common practice I can only speculate that a full sized clef would appear bulky and out of place, or that it would have appeared bulky and out of place

How to center an instrument name between two clefs

2004-01-10 Thread Carl Youngblood
I'm trying to center the piano's instrument name between the bass and treble clefs, but I'm having trouble. Here is my code: \context PianoStaff \context Staff=up \context Voice { \property Staff.instrument = \markup

Lyrics and clefs

2002-06-08 Thread Iain Phillips
I would like to use the treble clef down an octave (G_8) for the tenor voice in transcribing a choral piece. I notice that the lyrics are placed lower than when a simple treble clef is used, as if they are trying to avoid clashing with the 8 below the clef. Is there a way I can get the lyrics

Re: Lyrics and clefs

2002-06-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
One feature of Lilypond is that it adjusts the spacing between different staves and between staves and lyrics based on the vertical extent of each stave. The problem is that the highest and lowest object of a stave is used to determine the spacing, even though they may be separated horizontally.

Lilypond bug - noteheads and clefs don't show

2002-05-19 Thread Nicholas Blah Hill
When I process an .ly file, the output is there except for special things such as noteheads and clefs. It seems I am missing some PS fonts. Here is the bug report file: + echo + mkdir -p /home/JohnGarcia + cd + pwd /home/JohnGarcia + ls -l total 105 -rw-r--r--1 John Gar unknown 400

Re: Lilypond bug - noteheads and clefs don't show

2002-05-19 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Nicholas Blah Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I process an .ly file, the output is there except for special things such as noteheads and clefs. It seems I am missing some PS fonts. Here is the bug report file: There's something strange with your Cygwin installation. Maybe you should

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