Re: transpose a score from mutopia

2016-12-01 Thread mj
Hi Michael, Thanks for your suggestion, it improves matters a lot, but there are still *MANY* (different kinds) errors. The complete output is here: http://codepad.org/Qc93Rvyu Are there some basic settings/things that would perhaps help..? (and generally speaking... would main.ly be the

LilyPond MIDI Input and Export Tutorials (with Audio Playback) Tutorials

2016-12-01 Thread SoundsFromSound
Hello everyone, I just wanted to let you guys know that not long ago I uploaded some tutorials showing how to setup a MIDI keyboard for MIDI input of your scores (using Frescobaldi), as well as how to listen to your score playback, and also how to export MIDI. These were at the top of my most

Distance between Lyrics and Dynamics context

2016-12-01 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, I'm once again struggling with the issue of vertical spacing and can't find a solution in the manuals. I think it would be a really cool thing if someone wrote a tutorial or a series of tutorials introducing all this in some more depth and slower-paced than what the reference can provide. In

Re: Distance between Lyrics and Dynamics context

2016-12-01 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Urs Liska" To: "lilypond-user" Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2016 1:44 PM Subject: Distance between Lyrics and Dynamics context Hi, I'm once again struggling with the issue of vertical spacing and can't find a

Re: LilyPond MIDI Input and Export Tutorials (with Audio Playback) Tutorials

2016-12-01 Thread David Kastrup
SoundsFromSound writes: > Hello everyone, > > I just wanted to let you guys know that not long ago I uploaded some > tutorials showing how to setup a MIDI keyboard for MIDI input of your scores > (using Frescobaldi), as well as how to listen to your score playback, and

Re: transpose a score from mutopia

2016-12-01 Thread karl
mj: ... > Michael: > >> I am trying to transpose a Messiah lilypond file from mutopia: > >> http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/HandelGF/HWV56/Messiah/Messiah-lys.zip > >> > >> However I'm not getting very far, could use a bit of help > >> > >> Extracting the zip gives a folder structure like: >

Re: New LilyPond website

2016-12-01 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/30/16 7:35 PM, "John Roper" wrote: >Ok, I tested, and I made some more fixes. John, Thanks for doing this! It would probably work better to have the proposed patches be posted to a new thread on the lilypond-devel list. That's where things happen to change

Re: Distance between Lyrics and Dynamics context

2016-12-01 Thread Urs Liska
Am 01.12.2016 um 18:22 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: > Hi Urs, > >> I want to have everything starting from "1. Satz - 7 Stücke" to be >> closer to the upper line with the "T DD" - as can be seen in the new >> attachment. The upper is implemented as a Lyrics context, the lower as >> Dynamics. >>

Re: Long time maintainance of scores (was Re: request for help: huge score)

2016-12-01 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Karl, > Regarding the edition engraver, could it help > with long term maintainance of scores? In a certain way, yes: since all tweaks are “external” (i.e., presentation is separated from content), there is usually no need to “maintain” the note-code [once it’s complete/correct]. (An

Re: Distance between Lyrics and Dynamics context

2016-12-01 Thread Urs Liska
Am 01.12.2016 um 16:55 schrieb Phil Holmes: > - Original Message - From: "Urs Liska" > To: "lilypond-user" > Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2016 1:44 PM > Subject: Distance between Lyrics and Dynamics context > > >> Hi, >> >> I'm once again

Re: transpose a score from mutopia

2016-12-01 Thread Gerdau, Michael
Hi MJ, > Thanks for your suggestion, it improves matters a lot, but there are > still *MANY* (different kinds) errors. The complete output is here: > > http://codepad.org/Qc93Rvyu I see lots of errors. I then had a look at the Messiah ly files and saw most of them have no \version in them,

Re: Distance between Lyrics and Dynamics context

2016-12-01 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs, > I want to have everything starting from "1. Satz - 7 Stücke" to be > closer to the upper line with the "T DD" - as can be seen in the new > attachment. The upper is implemented as a Lyrics context, the lower as > Dynamics. > > A complication is that there is a second Dynamics context

Re: transpose a score from mutopia

2016-12-01 Thread Gerdau, Michael
> Hi MJ, > > > Thanks for your suggestion, it improves matters a lot, but there are > > still *MANY* (different kinds) errors. The complete output is here: > > > > http://codepad.org/Qc93Rvyu > > I see lots of errors. I then had a look at the Messiah ly files and saw most > of > them have no

Re: Distance between Lyrics and Dynamics context

2016-12-01 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs, >> I end up just manipulating these kind of things using the edition engraver — >> that would be my suggestion in this case — but I’m intruiged to hear how you >> end up solving it. > > You mean moving the elements individually? Well, with Lyrics, you can move a whole system up with a

Re: New LilyPond website

2016-12-01 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/30/16 6:53 PM, "Paul" wrote: >On 11/30/2016 08:01 PM, John Roper wrote: > >> Why is the website auto generated? What content is auto generated or >> is it just setup that way so that it is always built to the latest >> version for releases? By having the website

Re: transpose a score from mutopia

2016-12-01 Thread mj
Hi Karl, There is a lot of information in your email, I'll need t bit of time to digest it all. Thinking about it... it might actually be faster to just transpose from the sheetmusic. It's just two voices and soprano... Thanks for your big reply! MJ On 12/01/2016 06:18 PM,

Re: Header fields in custom footer

2016-12-01 Thread Noeck
Hi Harm, Am 01.12.2016 um 11:00 schrieb Thomas Morley: > (ly:modules-lookup (list $defaultheader) 'foo "xy") Thanks a lot. That's it. Joram ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Long time maintainance of scores (was Re: request for help: huge score)

2016-12-01 Thread Noeck
Hi Karl, convert-ly should work in both cases. When you have a new version and you want to profit from improvements to automatic engraving, in both cases you have to go through all manual changes (tweaks) and see whether they are still necessary and whether they do the right thing. To keep up

Re: New LilyPond website

2016-12-01 Thread John Roper
My css file is a proposed inclusion into the website. On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: > > > On 11/30/16 6:53 PM, "Paul" wrote: > >>On 11/30/2016 08:01 PM, John Roper wrote: >> >>> Why is the website auto generated? What content is

Language selection on lilypond.org

2016-12-01 Thread Noeck
Hi how does the automatic language selection feature work on the lilypond website? I've looked trough the source code but could not find a hint that would point me to language selection things. When I go to lilypond.org with Firefox, the page is written in English. My preferred language in

Re: Language selection on lilypond.org

2016-12-01 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno gio 1 dic 2016 alle 22:43, Noeck ha scritto: how does the automatic language selection feature work on the lilypond website? I've looked trough the source code but could not find a hint that would point me to language selection things. it's in

Re: Long time maintainance of scores (was Re: request for help: huge score)

2016-12-01 Thread Urs Liska
Am 01.12.2016 um 20:31 schrieb Noeck: > The *pros* of the edition-engraver with respect to maintainance: > - You can keep the tweaks separated from the music, so it's easy to find > all of them and go through them > - You have to touch less files depending on your setup. > - Each tweak has a

Re: Language selection on lilypond.org

2016-12-01 Thread Noeck
Hi Federico, > You can find a good explanation here: > https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-apache-lang-neg Thanks a lot! > Install this firefox plugin: > https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefox/addon/live-http-headers/ My fault. While the graphical Firefox settings showed me: de,en-us,

Re: Header fields in custom footer

2016-12-01 Thread Noeck
\fromproperty #'header:author respects the local \header block but I cannot use it in scheme, right? Joram ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: transpose a score from mutopia

2016-12-01 Thread karl
MJ: ... > Thinking about it... it might actually be faster to just transpose from > the sheetmusic. It's just two voices and soprano... ... If you want to do a subset of the work, you can write your own score file and include the relevant voices. (cd to top dir of file structure) The chorus

Re: transpose a score from mutopia

2016-12-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 01.12.2016 21:06, mj wrote: Thinking about it... it might actually be faster to just transpose from the sheetmusic. It's just two voices and soprano... What Nicolas Sceaux has done here, is one way of coping with a large LilyPond project. On one hand, this makes management much easier

Re: New LilyPond website

2016-12-01 Thread Gerdau, Michael
> My css file is a proposed inclusion into the website. John, may I kindly asked you to start trimming your responses to this list? You always top post, write a line or two then followed by a large amount of text, most of which has little to do with what you just wrote. For illustration

Top-posting (Was: New LilyPond website)

2016-12-01 Thread Gilles
Hi. On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 00:13:19 +0100 (CET), Gerdau, Michael wrote: My css file is a proposed inclusion into the website. John, may I kindly asked you to start trimming your responses to this list? You always top post, http://www.idallen.com/topposting.html Regards, Gilles write a

Re: Header fields in custom footer

2016-12-01 Thread Noeck
Hi Harm, hm, I am still not getting what I want. I fear that's what you meant by the limitations concerning the $defaultheader. This is a minimal example to show the problem: \version "2.19.50" %%% from included file \header { author = "default author" % just in case there is no author

Re: LilyPond MIDI Input and Export Tutorials (with Audio Playback) Tutorials

2016-12-01 Thread Urs Liska
Am 01.12.2016 um 17:59 schrieb David Kastrup: > SoundsFromSound writes: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I just wanted to let you guys know that not long ago I uploaded some >> tutorials showing how to setup a MIDI keyboard for MIDI input of your scores >> (using

Help with "edition-engraver" lilypond documentation

2016-12-01 Thread SoundsFromSound
Hello all, I recently did a search for "edition-engraver" lilypond documentation and couldn't really find anything at all. Can someone direct me to a manual or help file that explains what exactly the edition-engraver is, how it is used, how you can use it to tweak elements of your score, and

Re: Help with "edition-engraver" lilypond documentation

2016-12-01 Thread Urs Liska
Am 02.12.2016 um 01:45 schrieb SoundsFromSound: > Hello all, > > I recently did a search for "edition-engraver" lilypond documentation and > couldn't really find anything at all. > > Can someone direct me to a manual or help file that explains what exactly > the edition-engraver is, how it is

Re: New LilyPond website

2016-12-01 Thread Paul
Hi Carl, On 12/01/2016 12:44 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: One thing that is note mentioned in your quote is that texinfo separates semantics from appearance. It is this precise separation that allows one to make big but consistent changes in the appearance of the website with changes in the CSS.

Re: Distance between Lyrics and Dynamics context

2016-12-01 Thread Urs Liska
Am 01.12.2016 um 18:22 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: > Hi Urs, > >> I want to have everything starting from "1. Satz - 7 Stücke" to be >> closer to the upper line with the "T DD" - as can be seen in the new >> attachment. The upper is implemented as a Lyrics context, the lower as >> Dynamics. >>

Re: Help with "edition-engraver" lilypond documentation

2016-12-01 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi the edition-engraver is not part part of lilypond proper (yet). For a long time docs for the edition-engraver are on my agenda, but ... most people will guess, what prevents me from finishing this task, as its done beside job and family. There's a little bit more text in the origin of my

Re: New LilyPond website

2016-12-01 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Regarding the font: While I find it acceptable for most of the text, > I’d prefer something different for titles, esp. the main title. You have to be more specific. I like the current font look of http://jmroper.com/lilypond because it is very uniform, not distracting from the contents.

Re: Any way to get "optional" chords?

2016-12-01 Thread Robin Bannister
On 01.12.2016 01:14, Don Gingrich wrote: I'd be happy to have brackets, parentheses, See also this thread from a month ago http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-10/msg00565.html Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Header fields in custom footer

2016-12-01 Thread Thomas Morley
2016-11-30 23:31 GMT+01:00 Noeck : > Hi, > > I have one more question on this topic: > > How can I check whether a header field is present at all? > (Or my main goal: how can I avoid that the code fails?) > > This works: > \version "2.19.50" > \header { > title = "ABC" > }

Long time maintainance of scores (was Re: request for help: huge score)

2016-12-01 Thread karl
Urs: > Am 01.12.2016 um 04:21 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: > > > there is a good point in avoiding tweeks, because you can just > > > wait a few years and then magically you don't need it any longer --- > > > because lilypond has become so much better and does it for you > > > automatically. > > A

Re: New LilyPond website

2016-12-01 Thread John Roper
>So, in my experience as a professional (web) designer, I’d go for something >that works without JS, but also/better with. (Bootstrap is one candidate.) My new design uses bootstrap 4 entirely with a little bit of css to adjust fonts, colors and create the footer. On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 3:12

Re: New LilyPond website

2016-12-01 Thread Urs Liska
Am 01.12.2016 um 12:14 schrieb John Roper: >> So, in my experience as a professional (web) designer, I’d go for something >> that works without JS, but also/better with. (Bootstrap is one candidate.) > My new design uses bootstrap 4 entirely with a little bit of css to > adjust fonts, colors

Re: New LilyPond website

2016-12-01 Thread John Roper
I saw that. The text does not scale as it should so I need to fix that. It wasn't very high on my priority list. On Dec 1, 2016 6:19 AM, "Urs Liska" wrote: > > > Am 01.12.2016 um 12:14 schrieb John Roper: > >> So, in my experience as a professional (web) designer, I’d go

Re: Creating marginal comments?

2016-12-01 Thread tapani
Knut Petersen wrote > Am 29.11.2016 um 13:02 schrieb tapani: >> I am producing a hymnal, using Lilypond and lilypond-book with xelatex. I >> would like to insert biblical references in the margin of the page, >> parallel >> with the lyrics. >> >> For example, in "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing", the

Re: Language selection on lilypond.org

2016-12-01 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno gio 1 dic 2016 alle 23:40, Noeck ha scritto: My fault. While the graphical Firefox settings showed me: de,en-us, en, I had some strange setting somewhere sending only this: Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Adding en-gb, made the de part appear, too.