Re: Centering chorus between even verses

2008-11-18 Thread Marek Klein
Maybe this snippet is what you are looking for: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=503 -- Marek Klein http://gregoriana.sk 2008/11/18 Cordilow [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sometimes it's desirable to have the chorus begin on the same system as the end of the rest of the song. I have a situation

Re: Short decrescendo

2008-11-18 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/11/18 Cordilow [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone know how to make this decrescendo go all the way to the a'2? It's supposed to, I think. Try putting \once \override Hairpin #'to-barline = ##f in front of the crescendo / decrescendo you want to extend beyond the barline. Like this. \time 3/4

Re: Centering chorus between even verses

2008-11-18 Thread Cordilow
Marek Klein wrote: Maybe this snippet is what you are looking for: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=503 Yep—that's exactly what I was looking for. :) Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Centering-chorus-between-even-verses-tp20554992p20555131.html Sent from

Re: Short decrescendo

2008-11-18 Thread Cordilow
Risto Vääräniemi-2 wrote: Try putting \once \override Hairpin #'to-barline = ##f in front of the crescendo / decrescendo you want to extend beyond the barline. Like this. … Excellent. Thanks! I guess it wasn't a bug after all, eh? Just a default setting or such. :) -- View this message

RE: Dashed/dotted barlines

2008-11-18 Thread Nick Payne
No, those values don't seem to be listed there (internals s.3.2.9) - maybe they should be, but they are shown in s.1.2.5 of the notation reference. Nick From: Stefan Waler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 18 November 2008 18:53 To: Nick Payne Cc: 'lilypond-user' Subject: Re:

Re: Short decrescendo

2008-11-18 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/11/18 Cordilow [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Excellent. Thanks! I guess it wasn't a bug after all, eh? Just a default setting or such. :) Yes. The default behaviour was changed a couple a versions ago. The syntax for the command was changed, too. -Risto

RE: Dashed/dotted barlines

2008-11-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Nick Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No, those values don't seem to be listed there (internals s.3.2.9) - maybe they should be, but they are shown in s.1.2.5 of the notation reference. I just updated the source code, so that : and dashed will be included also in IR 3.2.9 in the next

Polymetric notation and percent repeats

2008-11-18 Thread Francesco Casadei
Hi all, I'm writing a piece of music with compound signature time 4/4 + 3/4 (i.e. alternating measures of 4/4 and 3/4) with: % Create 4/4 + 3/4 time signature tsMarkup =\markup { \override #'(baseline-skip . 2) \number { \column { 4 4 } \vcenter + \column { 3 4 } } } and then:

Re: Lighter appearance

2008-11-18 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
2008/11/14 Johan Vromans [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Is there a set of settings to make LP output lighter? Setting line-thickness = \staff-space / 16 seems a good start, but I assume there's more to it. I've tried to make it lighter, for a particular publication -- there is some settings

Re: Lighter appearance

2008-11-18 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
2008/11/14 Johan Vromans [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Is there a set of settings to make LP output lighter? Setting line-thickness = \staff-space / 16 seems a good start, but I assume there's more to it. I've tried to make it lighter, for a particular publication -- there is some settings

No time signature?

2008-11-18 Thread Monk Panteleimon
I'm new to Lilypond. I've been looking for a way to typeset music without time signatures. This is because I'm transcribing chants that often use _recitativ_ and rarely follow any strict meter--the rhythm of the chant is completely text-driven. Hello Alyozhik, When I'm doing metreless

Staff alignement

2008-11-18 Thread stefanozanobini
Hi, to keep two staffs nearer I've used the command-lines \overrideProperty #Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn #'line-break-system-details #'((alignment-offsets . (0 -8))) but it works fine only for the first system! In the second one the staffs

Re: Centering chorus between even verses

2008-11-18 Thread james bailey
Is it just me, or does the brace not show up? 2008/11/18 Marek Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe this snippet is what you are looking for: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=503 -- Marek Klein http://gregoriana.sk 2008/11/18 Cordilow [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sometimes it's desirable to have

Re: Centering chorus between even verses

2008-11-18 Thread Dominic Neumann
There is only the definition of leftbrace and rightbrace but these are not used in any place. So they don´t show up. I´ve tried to add \rightbrace after \dropLyrics which works quite good, but has one fundamental problem: The brace uses one note as a syllable would. Maybe someon else has a helping

Re: Centering chorus between even verses

2008-11-18 Thread james
\concat is your friend. It's also my friend. Am 18.11.2008 um 16:36 schrieb Dominic Neumann: There is only the definition of leftbrace and rightbrace but these are not used in any place. So they don´t show up. I´ve tried to add \rightbrace after \dropLyrics which works quite good, but has one

Re: Lighter appearance

2008-11-18 Thread Johan Vromans
David Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you look at a good score of anything that was printed before the time of computers, you can see that Lilypond looks 'almost like real music', and Sibelius looks 'like a computer' This does not necessarily mean that old scores look better than new

Re: Polymetric notation and percent repeats

2008-11-18 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Francesco, 2008/11/18 Francesco Casadei [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've tried using this hack: \repeat percent 2 { d1 \skip 2. | \skip 1 d2. | } This works, but the result is ugly because of the horizontal spacing introduced by the skips. A slightly different hack, using scaled durations

Re: Lighter appearance

2008-11-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
This will always be a kludge. The font and the line width settings are tuned together. If you really want to do this, you have to recompile LilyPond including the fonts, and update the definitions for the fonts too. On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Dmytro O. Redchuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: