Re: hide time signature?

2006-01-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You will find a good hint in Sect. 9.2.1 Common tweaks. If you search the mailing list archives, I'm sure you will find some examples that do exactly what you ask for. /Mats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to hide the time signature? Or am I just not seeing it in the user manual?

Re: Hara kiri staffs takes up space

2006-01-26 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 26 January 2006 02.00, Jonatan Liljedahl wrote: Hi! I have a problem with removing empty staffs, it seems they are not actually removed but only made transparent, so they still take up space on the paper and does not give that space to the next staff. In this perticular case I

Re: right and left-align

2006-01-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-06/msg00637.html Note that the property names have changed a bit if you use LilyPond version 2.7.x. /Mats andrea valle wrote: Thanks Mats, I suspected but wasn't sure. So what should I use to have right / left-align in the way \center

Re: right and left-align

2006-01-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Currently we have the following to specify the horizontal alignment point of a single markup: left-align, hcenter, right-align and the following to stack several markups vertically: column (left aligned), center-align Proposal 1: Use left-align, center-align and right-align for the

Re: Text-Align

2006-01-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Please use the mailing list lilypond-user for ordinary usage questions. If you can't find anything in the documentation, I really recommend the mailing list archives. For example, you will find http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-11/msg00496.html /Mats Henrik Evers wrote:

Re: right and left-align

2006-01-26 Thread andrea valle
Thanks as usual Mats, I took a look at docs, and I updated (?) names. This doesn't work on 2.7.27 \context { \Score \override InstrumentName #'self-alignment-X = #right \override InstrumentName #'X-offset = #`(Self_alignment_interface::aligned_on_self) } warning: type check for `X-offset'

Re: Lilypond, OS X and LaTeX

2006-01-26 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2006-01-25 um 21:31 schrieb Heike Cappel: I am using lilypond-book on OS X and get several eps files, one without a -number ending and then one with a -number ending for each line. The first file is okay, the others only have staves, no notes. Currently I edit the include file to use

How can I change text to a serif font?

2006-01-26 Thread Steve
I have Lilypond 2.6.4 installed in Cygwin (this is the latest version available in Cygwin). Previous versions always used a serif font for all the text, but now the titles, footers, and rehearsal marks are in a sans serif font. I prefered the serif font. How can I change the default for text

Re: right and left-align

2006-01-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Try \layout{ \context { \Score \override InstrumentName #'self-alignment-X = #right \override InstrumentName #'X-offset = #Self_alignment_interface::x_aligned_on_self) } } /Mats andrea valle wrote: Thanks as usual Mats, I took a look at docs, and I updated (?) names. This

Re: right and left-align

2006-01-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
OK, use something along the lines of \set Staff.instrument = \markup{ \column { \right-align gong 3 \right-align bottle 1 } } /Mats andrea valle wrote: (thanks) This is the result. But I'd like to have names right-aligned with respect to numbers . I mean: number in the 3 staves, or at

Re: right and left-align

2006-01-26 Thread andrea valle
Ahah! This works perfectly. Still, numbers overlap with staffgroup lines. I used horizontalshift but nothing changed, and with annotatespacing I cannot see how to tune this parameter. ? -a- On 26 Jan 2006, at 17:34, Mats Bengtsson wrote: OK, use something along the lines of \set

Re: right and left-align

2006-01-26 Thread andrea valle
Actually I solved problems of collision adding \hspace in the markup. In any case, result is a bit complex: \new StaffGroup \new Staff \with { instrument = \markup{ \column { \right-align \line{ gong 3 \hspace #2.0 } \right-align \line{ gong 2 \hspace #2.0 } \right-align \line{ gong 1 \hspace

Re: Documentation tarball

2006-01-26 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Jonatan Liljedahl wrote: On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:54:42 +0100 Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonatan Liljedahl wrote: I would be really happy if the lilypond docs where available as a tarball and not only browsable online. I have never succeeded in building the docs locally, and

Re: How can I change text to a serif font?

2006-01-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I'm afraid it's a bug in the Cygwin version of 2.6.4. Unless you have specific reasons to use the Cygwin version, I recommend the non-Cygwin Windows package instead (which of course also can be called from a Cygwin command window). /Mats Steve wrote: I have Lilypond 2.6.4 installed in

Re: feature request: semi-automatic vertical spacement

2006-01-26 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The way to define tweak-key for each score block is OK. And using a spacingTweaks function like this is a cool idea. blabla = { \break \pageBreak \spacingTweaks #'((system-Y-extent -11.050006 . 0.0) (system-refpoint-Y-extent -4.0 . -4.0)

Re: tagline

2006-01-26 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 04:29 pm, Gilles wrote: Hi. For the moment I'd like to know, if (and how) I can create more than one tagline The copyright notice must be on the title page or the first page of music. Others might not count. daveA -- Free download of technical exercises

frustrated but seek style

2006-01-26 Thread Aaron Mehl
Hi all, I have been using lilypond for a while and truthfully a few things would make me so much happier and less frustrated, one I have asked about but from past response sorta doubt anything will come of it. The other maybe. I use css and xml/html and love the ability to separate

Re: right and left-align

2006-01-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
A better(!?) solution is described in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2005-06/msg00023.html In your case, you should replace PianoStaff with Staff. /Mats Quoting andrea valle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Actually I solved problems of collision adding \hspace in the markup. In any case,

NEWBIE: repeating whole tunes

2006-01-26 Thread debian
Please, what is the best way to ask lilypond to create a midi file in such a way that the _whole_ tune is played n times. n will be passed from the command line. I have written perl code to extract the essential parts of the tune and create a new ly file with the essential parts repeated n

Re: frustrated but seek style

2006-01-26 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Aaron Mehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: now I have to stick some things inside the markup, others in the paper block and others in the layout block. and maybe others will require a scheme hack? I don't say the syntax of css is right for lilypond, I just am frustrated with having to fiddle to

Re: frustrated but seek style

2006-01-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
For the examples you mention, they can easily be controlled in the \layout{...} block and \paper{...} blocks. Just put these in a separate file that you include in your .ly files. /Mats Quoting Aaron Mehl [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I have been using lilypond for a while and truthfully a

Re: NEWBIE: repeating whole tunes

2006-01-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Repeating is simple: \score{ \repeat unfold 20 {...} \midi{...} } or \score{ \repeat unfold 20 ... \midi{...} } The problem is how to pass the parameter from the command line. However, if you use Perl, it's trivial to just let the script insert the correct number for the \repeat

Re: Lilypond, OS X and LaTeX

2006-01-26 Thread Heike Cappel
Thank you for your reply. On 26 Jan 2006, at 21:03, Graham Percival wrote: On 25-Jan-06, at 12:31 PM, Heike Cappel wrote: I am using lilypond-book on OS X and get several eps files, one without a -number ending and then one with a -number ending for each line. The first file is okay, the

Re: Hara kiri staffs takes up space

2006-01-26 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Erik Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 26 January 2006 02.00, Jonatan Liljedahl wrote: Hi! I have a problem with removing empty staffs, it seems they are not actually removed but only made transparent, so they still take up space on the paper and does not give that space to the

Re: Lilypond, OS X and LaTeX

2006-01-26 Thread Graham Percival
On 25-Jan-06, at 12:31 PM, Heike Cappel wrote: I am using lilypond-book on OS X and get several eps files, one without a -number ending and then one with a -number ending for each line. The first file is okay, the others only have staves, no notes. That's normal. Currently I edit the

Re: NEWBIE: repeating whole tunes

2006-01-26 Thread debian
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 11:04:28PM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Repeating is simple: \score{ I had to put \unfoldRepeats here \repeat unfold 20 {...} \midi{...} } but, it is working fine. The perl bit is easy. Thanks a lot. Joe ___