Re: warning: compressing over-full page by 217.9 staff-spaces

2018-02-20 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 09:51:48PM +0100, Urs Liska wrote: > Sorry for the noise (pun intended), but I have to share this "incident" :-) > > (result of joining three one-page pieces in one file and forgetting to > update the \paper block ...) [...] LOL... reminds me of what happened to me once

Re: Disable extra space around StaffGroup?

2018-02-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi again, Here's another example, with interspersed single Staff contexts. I can’t find any "extra space" above the groups…? Best, Kieren. %%% SNIPPET BEGINS \version "2.18.2" \paper { top-margin = 0 top-system-spacing = #'((basic-distance . 0) (minimum-distance . 0) (padding . 0)

Re: Very small rhythmic values

2018-02-20 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 20.02.2018 22:05, Thomas Morley wrote: If my math is correct it prints a

Hairpin solid with dashed end

2018-02-20 Thread Andrew Bernard
Is there any example of how to make a hairpin with normal solid lines, but dashed at the end, say the last quarter or so? [Yep, some new complexity notation again.] Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: About assigning a function to Tie.direction, and "warning: type check for 'direction' failed"

2018-02-20 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Stefano, others already commented about quote/unquote. Some other remark: 2018-02-20 18:55 GMT+01:00 Stefano Troncaro : > Hello everyone! > > I recently wrote the function bellow to be able to set the direction of ties > in a TieColumn by specifying a list of

Re: Disable extra space around StaffGroup?

2018-02-20 Thread Nathan Sprangers
Hi Ben, Thanks for the link, that might work for me. Do you happen to know, does lilypond modify these parameters of the previous staff when it sees '\new StaffGroup'? If it helps, my interest is in creating band scores, which usually place an extra bracket or brace around certain families (such

Re: warning: compressing over-full page by 217.9 staff-spaces

2018-02-20 Thread Karlin High
On 2/20/2018 2:51 PM, Urs Liska wrote: result of joining three one-page pieces in one file Ah! This must be one of those "new complexity" pieces I keep reading about. :) -- Karlin High Missouri, USA ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: warning: compressing over-full page by 217.9 staff-spaces

2018-02-20 Thread Andrew Bernard
Saves paper, Urs. Competent musicians should be able to read it. Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: LilyPond 2.19.81 for Linux/Ubuntu

2018-02-20 Thread David Wright
On Tue 20 Feb 2018 at 16:21:19 (-0500), Ralph Palmer wrote: > I went to the download site < ​ > http://lilypond.org/downloads/binaries/linux-64/ >, and tried to download < > lilypond-2.19.81-1.linux-64.sh >. When I right-clicked on the .sh link, > there was no "download" option, so I opened it in

Re: Hairpin solid with dashed end

2018-02-20 Thread Shane Brandes
Just out of curiosity what does it signify? Shane On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 9:25 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote: > Is there any example of how to make a hairpin with normal solid lines, but > dashed at the end, say the last quarter or so? [Yep, some new complexity > notation

Re: Disable extra space around StaffGroup?

2018-02-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Nathan, Can you tell me where the "extra space" is around these StaffGroups? \version "2.18.2" \paper { top-margin = 0 top-system-spacing = #'((basic-distance . 0) (minimum-distance . 0) (padding . 0) (stretchability . 0)) } \layout { \context { \StaffGroup \override

Best practices for Da Capo/Dal Segno/al Fine/etc.

2018-02-20 Thread Joel C. Salomon
… what is the current (2.19) best practice for typesetting the Da Capo/‌Dal Segno/‌al Fine/‌etc. repeat marks? (Last time I saw this come up on the list, the discussion became about a proposed input syntax, `\repeat coda {…} \alternative {…}`––which I’ll certainly use if & when it’s implemented,

Re: A couple of questions about Edition Engraver

2018-02-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jan-Peter, On Feb 20, 2018, at 4:46 AM, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: > At least I used it a lot in a score containing lyrics to balance the > syllables in order to get the rhythmic picture of the score intact. A staggeringly large percentage of my \editionMods are Lyric-nudges.

Re: Hairpin solid with dashed end

2018-02-20 Thread Stefano Troncaro
Well, I worked a bit with the stencil drawing procedure earlier, so I adapted it for what you describe. It is not working well with line breaks... I'll have to figure out why later, but for normal hairpins it should do what you describe. Hope that helps. By the way I'm also curious about their

Re: About assigning a function to Tie.direction, and "warning: type check for 'direction' failed"

2018-02-20 Thread Stefano Troncaro
That fixes it, thank you everyone! I'll have to spend some time with that Lilypond Scheme Book, it looks like it will save me a lot of time and confusion. I wish I had found about it earlier. Also, I didn't know that for-each could iterate through many lists in parallel, that's actually very

Re: A couple of questions about Edition Engraver

2018-02-20 Thread Stefano Troncaro
> > 4. Things would be way easier if the EE (and/or Frescobaldi) had a method > to highlight (colour-ing the grobs?) all mods, and a linking method to > navigate to the correct spot in the edition file. There was an example of > this [colouring part] some time ago, but I don't know if it was

Re: Hairpin solid with dashed end

2018-02-20 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi All, For the composer I engrave for, the hairpin with a dashed section is used when transitioning between two dynamic levels, but there is a rest or silence in the line, and it is a way of reminding the performer that the cresc or decresc continues but to be aware of the rest and not carry the

Re: A couple of questions about Edition Engraver

2018-02-20 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello Stefano, this is a great idea! Setting global context variables can reduce the needed code significantly. In https://github.com/openlilylib/edition-engraver/blob/master/usage-examples/development-1.ly I use global variables to create "dynamic" editionModLists. The files development*.ly

fingering

2018-02-20 Thread Gianmaria Lari
I would like to write some fingering information on the left of the notes like this: [image: Inline images 2] As you can see I need that some numbers are specified inside circles (on the button accordion this means that the finger has to be played on the additional rows). This is the code I used:

Re: [Spam] partcombine bug when using quoteDuring?

2018-02-20 Thread Rutger Hofman
On 02/19/2018 08:09 PM, Nathan Sprangers wrote: When both voices in \partcombine finish a \quoteDuring at the same time, only one voice is rendered for subsequent notes. \version "2.18.2" \addQuote "melody" \relative c'' {   a4 a a a   d d d d } \addQuote "alto" \relative c'{   f2 f   g2

Re: conditional breaks

2018-02-20 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Craig, Am 20.02.2018 um 11:14 schrieb Craig Dabelstein: Hi all, I'm trying to get the edition engraver, scholarly and conditional breaks all to work at the same time. In the MWE I've attached, the edition engraver and scholarly are working but I can't seem to get the conditional breaks

Re: fingering

2018-02-20 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Gianmaria, Well it's obviously impossible if they have to be in a vertical line. Could you offset the fingerings in a stagger perhaps? Andrew On 20 February 2018 at 21:28, Gianmaria Lari wrote: > > But now the number inside the circle are too small. How could I

Re: fingering

2018-02-20 Thread Gianmaria Lari
On 20 February 2018 at 11:42, Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hi Gianmaria, > > Well it's obviously impossible if they have to be in a vertical line. > Could you offset the fingerings in a stagger perhaps? > > My english didn't help me :) I would like to keep the different

conditional breaks

2018-02-20 Thread Craig Dabelstein
Hi all, I'm trying to get the edition engraver, scholarly and conditional breaks all to work at the same time. In the MWE I've attached, the edition engraver and scholarly are working but I can't seem to get the conditional breaks to work as well. Could someone please tell me what I'm doing

Re: Fermatas with tremolos

2018-02-20 Thread Ben
On 2/19/2018 6:04 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote: Hi Harm, thanks for the help. On 19.02.2018 23:47, Thomas Morley wrote: Also, following links may be of interest. They provide excerpts of an old and new edition of Janacek, Glagolitic Mass.

Re: Fermatas with tremolos

2018-02-20 Thread Peter Toye
Simon, I am less worried than yourselves about the "coldness" of the new engraving. As a performer, what I want is clarity and the new version wins hands down. However, I hate the fermata tremolo which seems to me to combine the worst features of all possible solutions. Presumably whatever

Re: Placement of clefs at repeat bars

2018-02-20 Thread Peter Toye
Mark, This works for my example as given, but not for the following one. Here the problem is that two clef changes are needed: 1) for the repeat from bass to treble (bar 6 back to 4), and 2) one for the continuation, from treble to bass (from 3 on to 7). LP sees the bass clef in bar 6 and

Re: Fermatas with tremolos

2018-02-20 Thread Noeck
Hi Ben, > What's the easiest way in LilyPond to create those beamed tremolos? Just read the mail with code before in this thread. You can create them via the \repeat tremolo command: { \repeat tremolo 8 { c'32 e' } \repeat tremolo 4 { c'32 e' } } If you want to change the beam gap, here

Re:A couple of questions about Edition Engraver

2018-02-20 Thread David Sumbler
Thank you all for your responses to my original post, and for the ensuing discussion which I am following with great interest.  I shall not reply to each response individually, mainly because I have little to offer that would be constructive: I made my original post because it was my view as a

Re: Very small rhythmic values

2018-02-20 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Amir, >From the Notation Reference: Durations as short as 128 notes can be entered but shorter values, while possible, can only be entered as beamed notes. Andrew On 20 February 2018 at 22:04, Amir Teymuri wrote: > > is a 128 the smallest possible rhythmic value one

Re: Fermatas with tremolos

2018-02-20 Thread Ben
On 2/20/2018 7:24 AM, Noeck wrote: Hi Ben, If you want to change the beam gap, here are the overrides: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/snippets/repeats#repeats-engraving-tremolos-with-floating-beams Best, Joram Ah, yes. Sorry I wasn't as clear as I meant to be - the beam gap

Re: Very small rhythmic values

2018-02-20 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Amir, See: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=995 HTH, Cheers, Pierre 2018-02-20 12:04 GMT+01:00 Amir Teymuri : > Hello, > > is a 128 the smallest possible rhythmic value one can write in Lilypond or > is there a way to write even shorter values (e.g. 256 or even

RE: Placement of clefs at repeat bars

2018-02-20 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Peter, Try this \version "2.19.52" \language "english" \new Staff { \override Score.BarNumber.break-visibility = ##(#t #t #t) \time 4/4 \clef "treble" c''1 \clef "bass" c \clef "treble" c'' \repeat volta 2 { c'' } \alternative { { c'' \clef "bass" c } { \set

Re: Very small rhythmic values

2018-02-20 Thread Simon Albrecht
> Hello, > > is a 128 the smallest possible rhythmic value one can write in Lilypond or > is there a way to write even shorter values (e.g. 256 or even smaller)? Why didn't you just try? ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_hundred_fifty-sixth_note#cite_ref-LilyPond_10-0 Best, Simon

Another code AbMaj7(#11)/Eb

2018-02-20 Thread Ming Tsang
Hi, lilyponders, I need help for code another chord per the image link https://tsang94-rogers.tinytake.com/sf/MjM2OTAyOF83MjE0MDA1 Is there any resource that I can locate the solution? Thank you, Ming Sent from Mail for Windows 10 ___ lilypond-user

Re: chord name e2:m7(b5)/d

2018-02-20 Thread Ming Tsang
Thank You Torsten and Robert: Thank you for the tips. I use language English sot I change c ees ges bes to c ef gf bf. The result is great. Ming Sent from Mail for Windows 10 ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Syllable count

2018-02-20 Thread Karlin High
On 2/19/2018 10:08 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Here's one pretty simple way that doesn’t require counting skips Thank you, Kieren! That's an approach I hadn't considered at all. -- Karlin High Missouri, USA ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Very small rhythmic values

2018-02-20 Thread Amir Teymuri
Hello, is a 128 the smallest possible rhythmic value one can write in Lilypond or is there a way to write even shorter values (e.g. 256 or even smaller)? Thanks in advance, - - - - - - - - - - - ateymur...@gmail.com - - - - - - - - - - - ___

Re: Placement of clefs at repeat bars

2018-02-20 Thread Peter Toye
Mark, Thanks. This solves problem 2, but I've adapted it for no 1 (see below). I can't see any way of printing the clef change immediately before the closing repeat bar (for the repeat) and after it (for the continuation). Does anyone here know what the accepted layout would be? \version

Re: fingering

2018-02-20 Thread DJF
> Gianmaria Lari wrote: > > But now the number inside the circle are too small. How could I keep the size > like in the first example and keep the fingering more separated? > My english didn't help me :) I would like to keep the different fingering > elements in a

Re: Very small rhythmic values

2018-02-20 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 20.02.2018 um 12:04 schrieb Amir Teymuri: Hello, is a 128 the smallest possible rhythmic value one can write in Lilypond or is there a way to write even shorter values (e.g. 256 or even smaller)? Thanks in advance, - - - - - - - - - - - ateymur...@gmail.com Hi Amir, it’s possible

RE: Placement of clefs at repeat bars

2018-02-20 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Peter, I read your request as putting a treble clef at the end of measure 8. To do that there must be a measure 9. \version "2.19.52" \language "english" \new Staff { \override Score.BarNumber.break-visibility = ##(#t #t #t) \time 4/4 \clef "treble" c''1 \clef "bass" c

RE: Placement of clefs at repeat bars

2018-02-20 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Peter, Got the measure numbers wrong. The snippet is correct. Mark From: Peter Toye [mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 7:01 AM To: Mark Stephen Mrotek ; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Placement of clefs at repeat bars Mark,

Re: fingering

2018-02-20 Thread Robin Bannister
DJF wrote: perhaps someone else knows if it’s possible to control the vertical spacing within the staff; You can splay it out using Y-offset: 1 Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user

Re: A couple of questions about Edition Engraver

2018-02-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Stefano, > I am undecided on what the best interface for it would be though, since as > Urs already mentioned there are trade-offs with each possibility. I too think > that a discussion should be had about that, to see what use-cases and needs > arise. How do you usually do that here? Do

Re: A couple of questions about Edition Engraver

2018-02-20 Thread Urs Liska
Am 20. Februar 2018 18:42:03 MEZ schrieb Kieren MacMillan : >Hi Stefano, > >> I am undecided on what the best interface for it would be though, >since as Urs already mentioned there are trade-offs with each >possibility. I too think that a discussion should be had

Re: About assigning a function to Tie.direction, and "warning: type check for 'direction' failed"

2018-02-20 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 20.02.2018 18:55, Stefano Troncaro wrote: \tieDirectionFromList #'(-1 1 -1) %The following gives warning: type check for `direction' failed; value `DOWN' must be of type `direction' %\tieDirectionFromList #'(DOWN UP DOWN) That’s a problem with quoting: try \tieDirectionFromList

Disable extra space around StaffGroup?

2018-02-20 Thread Nathan Sprangers
Hi, The spacing settings I've found so far all relate to the space after a staff our staff group, but lilypond creates extra space above a staff group as well. Is there an engraver or something that can be turned off to disable this? I'd like to be able to keep all the other features of a staff

Re: fingering

2018-02-20 Thread Gianmaria Lari
On 20 February 2018 at 17:10, Robin Bannister wrote: > DJF wrote: > > perhaps someone else knows if it’s possible to control the vertical >> spacing within the staff; >> > > You can splay it out using Y-offset: > 1

Re: Disable extra space around StaffGroup?

2018-02-20 Thread Ben
On 2/20/2018 12:24 PM, Nathan Sprangers wrote: Hi, The spacing settings I've found so far all relate to the space after a staff our staff group, but lilypond creates extra space above a staff group as well. Is there an engraver or something that can be turned off to disable this? I'd like to

About assigning a function to Tie.direction, and "warning: type check for 'direction' failed"

2018-02-20 Thread Stefano Troncaro
Hello everyone! I recently wrote the function bellow to be able to set the direction of ties in a TieColumn by specifying a list of directions: > \version "2.19.80" > tieDirectionFromList = > #(define-music-function (dir-list) (list?) >#{ > \once \override Tie.before-line-breaking = >

Re: A couple of questions about Edition Engraver

2018-02-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs, >> 1. Use of \editionModList and other convenience "compressors" can, >> in many cases, make for maintenance difficulties. > interesting point. Yes… I didn't really think about it until I was well into using it heavily. OT: That inspired me to write this "compressed" score of "Mary Had

Re: A couple of questions about Edition Engraver

2018-02-20 Thread Stefano Troncaro
I completely missed development1.ly, that is great! The way the proc is managed is particularly useful. It seemed to me that all the ingredients for a convenience function are already there. I am undecided on what the best interface for it would be though, since as Urs already mentioned there are

Re: fingering

2018-02-20 Thread Gianmaria Lari
Thank you Robin and DJF for your kind help! I made some experiments that I post here so that other can take advantages of them or improve them. Attached the output result. %overlapping fingering \version "2.19.81" \fixed c' { \set fingeringOrientations = #'(left) \set stringNumberOrientations

Re: LilyPond 2.19.81 for Linux/Ubuntu

2018-02-20 Thread Ralph Palmer
On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 3:44 PM, Ben wrote: > On 2/20/2018 3:38 PM, Ralph Palmer wrote: > > Hi - > > I'm runnning Linux via Ubuntu 16.04, with Frescobaldi 2.18.1. > > I just had to reinstall Linux/Ubuntu, and the latest package that's > available through Frescobaldi in

Re: fingering

2018-02-20 Thread Thomas Morley
2018-02-20 18:42 GMT+01:00 Gianmaria Lari : > On 20 February 2018 at 17:10, Robin Bannister wrote: >> >> DJF wrote: >> >>> perhaps someone else knows if it’s possible to control the vertical >>> spacing within the staff; >> >> >> You can splay it out

Re: conditional breaks

2018-02-20 Thread Craig Dabelstein
Hi Urs, I changed the conditional breaks target to "manuscript-breaks" to make sure there wasn't a conflict but the breaks package is still not working (at all). I get no errors but also no breaks. Updated MWE attached. Craig On 20 February 2018 at 20:20, Urs Liska

Re: LilyPond 2.19.81 for Linux/Ubuntu

2018-02-20 Thread Ben
On 2/20/2018 4:21 PM, Ralph Palmer wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 3:44 PM, Ben >wrote: On 2/20/2018 3:38 PM, Ralph Palmer wrote: Hi - I'm runnning Linux via Ubuntu 16.04, with Frescobaldi 2.18.1. I just had to

Re: Placement of clefs at repeat bars

2018-02-20 Thread Thomas Morley
2018-02-20 11:08 GMT+01:00 Peter Toye : > Mark, > > This works for my example as given, but not for the following one. Here > the problem is that two clef changes are needed: > > 1) for the repeat from bass to treble (bar 6 back to 4), and > 2) one for the continuation, from

Re: LilyPond 2.19.81 for Linux/Ubuntu

2018-02-20 Thread Ben
On 2/20/2018 3:38 PM, Ralph Palmer wrote: Hi - I'm runnning Linux via Ubuntu 16.04, with Frescobaldi 2.18.1. I just had to reinstall Linux/Ubuntu, and the latest package that's available through Frescobaldi in Ubuntu is 2.18.2, but I have a lot of files that were written in or upgraded to

Re: Very small rhythmic values

2018-02-20 Thread Thomas Morley
2018-02-20 16:57 GMT+01:00 Malte Meyn : > > > Am 20.02.2018 um 12:04 schrieb Amir Teymuri: >> >> Hello, >> >> is a 128 the smallest possible rhythmic value one can write in Lilypond or >> is there a way to write even shorter values (e.g. 256 or even smaller)? >> >> Thanks in

Re: warning: compressing over-full page by 217.9 staff-spaces

2018-02-20 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Sorry for the noise (pun intended), but I have to share this "incident" :-) > > (result of joining three one-page pieces in one file and forgetting to > update the \paper block ...) Sort of a cramped score. -- David Kastrup

Re: Another code AbMaj7(#11)/Eb

2018-02-20 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
> From: Ming Tsang > To: "lilypond-user@gnu.org" > Subject: Another code AbMaj7(#11)/Eb > > Hi, lilyponders, > > I need help for code another chord per the image link > > https://tsang94-rogers.tinytake.com/sf/MjM2OTAyOF83MjE0MDA1 > > > > Is there any

LilyPond 2.19.81 for Linux/Ubuntu

2018-02-20 Thread Ralph Palmer
Hi - I'm runnning Linux via Ubuntu 16.04, with Frescobaldi 2.18.1. I just had to reinstall Linux/Ubuntu, and the latest package that's available through Frescobaldi in Ubuntu is 2.18.2, but I have a lot of files that were written in or upgraded to 2.19.80. I had previously installed 2.19.80 via

Re: About assigning a function to Tie.direction, and "warning: type check for 'direction' failed"

2018-02-20 Thread Urs Liska
Am 20. Februar 2018 20:20:19 MEZ schrieb Simon Albrecht : >On 20.02.2018 18:55, Stefano Troncaro wrote: >> \tieDirectionFromList #'(-1 1 -1) >> %The following gives warning: type check for `direction' failed; >value >> `DOWN' must be of type `direction'