Score Layout, several questions

2015-04-06 Thread N. Andrew Walsh
Good morning, I've been tasked with preparing the score of what will be a critical edition of some liturgical works of a lesser-known 18th-century composer. Because of the nature of the source (the composer was writing at a monastery), the originals are engraved using single-press typesetting

Re: Score Layout, several questions

2015-04-06 Thread N. Andrew Walsh
lines. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - *From:* Andrew Bernard andrew.bern...@gmail.com *To:* N. Andrew Walsh n.andrew.wa...@gmail.com *Cc:* lilypond-user@gnu.org *Sent:* Monday, April 06, 2015 2:14 PM *Subject:* Re: Score Layout, several questions Where you refer

Re: Score Layout, several questions

2015-04-06 Thread Andrew Bernard
Where you refer to: the originals are engraved using single-press typesetting (ie, each note is its own block, so staff-lines and whatnot aren't continuous), so it's an interesting exercise in historical scores.” Andrew On 6 April 2015 at 22:44:15, N. Andrew Walsh (n.andrew.wa...@gmail.com)

Re: Score Layout, several questions

2015-04-06 Thread Mark Knoop
At 14:43 on 06 Apr 2015, N. Andrew Walsh wrote: Thanks for the snippet. Do you know of any way to set that *generally*? At the least, a way to set the difference between the first and last Beam.positions values to be less than some maximum? Try experimenting with different values of Beam.damping.

Re: Score Layout, several questions

2015-04-06 Thread David Nalesnik
andrew.bern...@gmail.com *To:* N. Andrew Walsh n.andrew.wa...@gmail.com *Cc:* lilypond-user@gnu.org *Sent:* Monday, April 06, 2015 2:14 PM *Subject:* Re: Score Layout, several questions Where you refer to: the originals are engraved using single-press typesetting (ie, each note is its own

Re: Score Layout, several questions

2015-04-06 Thread Andrew Bernard
Re beaming positions control: An example snippet: \version 2.19.17 treble = \relative c'' {   \once \override Beam.positions = #'(-3 . -3)   c8 e g a   \once \override Beam.positions = #'(3 . 3)   c, g e c } \score {   \new Staff { \treble } } You seem to have jumped in the deep end! Welcome

Re: Score Layout, several questions

2015-04-06 Thread David Nalesnik
lines. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - *From:* Andrew Bernard andrew.bern...@gmail.com *To:* N. Andrew Walsh n.andrew.wa...@gmail.com *Cc:* lilypond-user@gnu.org *Sent:* Monday, April 06, 2015 2:14 PM *Subject:* Re: Score Layout, several questions Where you refer

Re: Score Layout, several questions

2015-04-06 Thread N. Andrew Walsh
Thanks for the snippet. Do you know of any way to set that *generally*? At the least, a way to set the difference between the first and last Beam.positions values to be less than some maximum? I'm unsure what you mean by trying to engrave the gaps in the staff lines between the type sorts. Also,

Re: Score Layout, several questions

2015-04-06 Thread Phil Holmes
, 2015 2:14 PM Subject: Re: Score Layout, several questions Where you refer to: the originals are engraved using single-press typesetting (ie, each note is its own block, so staff-lines and whatnot aren't continuous), so it's an interesting exercise in historical scores.” Andrew

Re: Score Layout, several questions

2015-04-06 Thread Paul Morris
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Re: Score Layout, several questions

2015-04-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 06.04.2015 um 15:50 schrieb N. Andrew Walsh: oh, heavens! I'm sorry, I didn't mean I was trying to reproduce them (and yes, that's what I meant about the score: it looks like that, though with oval noteheads. Just figuring out what printing technology they were using would be interesting to