Re: please direct to manual; different time signatures for different instruments

2018-03-25 Thread Wols Lists
On 25/03/18 23:39, Ben wrote: > On 3/25/2018 6:24 PM, Colin Campbell wrote: >> On 2018-03-25 12:19 PM, Sam Frybyte wrote: >>> I don't even know what this is called so finding it in the manual has >>> me stymied. >>> I am using version 2.18.2 >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >> I believe someone has

Re: an open question

2018-03-25 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello Jacques, last year I have been working on an export module for lilypond: https://github.com/jpvoigt/lilypond-export/ This is in an early stage, a proof of concept. I had to put this project aside for a while, but it is still on my agenda and hopefully it develops further soon. So if

Re: lilypond --output=directory is not working

2018-03-25 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno sab 10 mar 2018 alle 19:06, Federico Bruni ha scritto: Il giorno sab 10 mar 2018 alle 18:18, David Wright ha scritto: On Sat 10 Mar 2018 at 16:58:37 (+0100), Federico Bruni wrote: Il giorno sab 10 mar 2018 alle 16:26, David

Re: Is lilypond really suitable for composing?

2018-03-25 Thread David Kastrup
Vaughan McAlley writes: > Lilypond, a piano, a good inner ear (which I’m lucky to have), or whatever > the kids are using these days are all just tools. I’d be wrong to say a > piece of mine is superior to *The Rite of Spring* because Stravinsky worked > it all out on a

Re: Extra space at the beginning of the bar

2018-03-25 Thread paolo prete
I think that the biggest problem is that a skip event doesn't implement the Graphical Objects Interfaces' properties AFAIK (I just searched trhough the API) Then, no X-offset or extra-spacing-width ... etc. are avaible for it IMHO, it should be considered as a Graphical Object, because it is

Re: Is lilypond really suitable for composing?

2018-03-25 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, > I think it's likely rather hard to compose dissonant pieces without > access to the actual timbre (and thus overtone composition) used for > playing it. Apparently you haven’t been to any new classical music concerts in the last half-century. It’s *quite* clear that many composers —

Re: Extra space at the beginning of the bar

2018-03-25 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Paolo, > Unfortunately yhe first option adds space only after a barline, and not at > the measure on the left of the staff \score { \repeat unfold 12 { c'4 } \layout { \context { \Score \override TimeSignature.extra-spacing-width = #'(0 . 10) \override

Re: Variables and Repetition

2018-03-25 Thread Wols Lists
On 25/03/18 04:13, John A wrote: > I am entering the notes in relative mode, and when I engrave the score, > if the ending notes of the figure are too high or low, on the second > repetition the whole figure will be an octave too high or too low. On > the next repetition, it goes an octave higher

Re: Variables and Repetition

2018-03-25 Thread David Kastrup
John A writes: > Hi all, > > I just got started using Lilypond with Frescobaldi, and I'm having a > great time. I have been trying to organize the music with variables to > make things more efficient, and I am running into a little bit of > trouble. This is what

Re: Tie/Accidental Collision

2018-03-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 23.03.2018 17:58, Stefano Troncaro wrote: I understand. Let me ask you then, where should this behavior be documented? Perhaps in the section about modifying shapes in the Notation Reference? Currently it states:

Re: Extra space at the beginning of the bar

2018-03-25 Thread paolo prete
Hello Kieren, thanks for your help. Unfortunately yhe first option adds space only after a barline, and not at the measure on the left of the staff, and the second option doesn't add space if the measure starts with a rest or skip event. I could use "\tweak Rest.extra-spacing-width ... " for

Re: Extra space at the beginning of the bar

2018-03-25 Thread Paolo Prete
Hello Thomas, Given that the post events attached to a SkipEvent get parents like PaperColumn and VerticalAxisGroup, I expect that overriding some of these parents' properties shifts the dynamic placed on a skip event, consequently. But this doesn't happen. Better said: I don't know which parent

Re: Variables and Repetition

2018-03-25 Thread John A
On 03/25/2018 02:59 AM, David Kastrup wrote: John A writes: Hi all, I just got started using Lilypond with Frescobaldi, and I'm having a great time. I have been trying to organize the music with variables to make things more efficient, and I am running into

Re: Extra space at the beginning of the bar

2018-03-25 Thread Paolo Prete
Hi Kieren 2018-03-25 13:41 GMT+02:00 Kieren MacMillan : > Hi Paolo, > > > You’d have to add an equivalent tweak for any prefatory material (Clef, > KeySignature, etc.). > > Doesn't work for skip events too... > > and the second option doesn't add space if the

Re: Extra space at the beginning of the bar

2018-03-25 Thread Thomas Morley
2018-03-25 15:01 GMT+02:00 Paolo Prete : > Again: I think that these events [SkipEvents] must be managed as graphic > objects, with > the extra-spacing-width and X-offset properties. I don't understand why they > don't implement these interfaces and I wonder if is there

Re: Extra space at the beginning of the bar

2018-03-25 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Patrick, >> \score { >> \repeat unfold 12 { c'4 } >> \layout { >> \context { >> \Score >> \override BarLine.space-alist.first-note = #'(fixed-space . 12) >> \override BarLine.space-alist.next-note = #'(semi-fixed-space . 12.5) >> } >> } >> } > > I don’t understand your first

Re: get current bar number

2018-03-25 Thread Thomas Morley
2018-03-25 0:04 GMT+01:00 Kevin Barry : > Hi Jan/Wols, > > Thank you for responding. I have tinkered with \applyContext and > cannot get the property out of it to do anything useful with it. Since > it always returns music I can't feed it to a markup command or convert > it to

Re: Extra space at the beginning of the bar

2018-03-25 Thread Paolo Prete
Mark, I know that. But the snippet I just wrote has to be completed/enriched before proposing it for the repository. 2018-03-25 19:41 GMT+02:00 Mark Stephen Mrotek : > Paolo, > > > > The Lilypond Snipped Repository is at > > http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/ > > > > Mark > > > >

Re: Is lilypond really suitable for composing?

2018-03-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> I think it's likely rather hard to compose dissonant pieces without >> access to the actual timbre (and thus overtone composition) used >> for playing it. > > Apparently you haven’t been to any new classical music concerts in > the last half-century. It’s *quite* clear that many composers —

Re: Extra space at the beginning of the bar

2018-03-25 Thread Patrick Karl
> On Mar 25, 2018, at 2:56 AM, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 22:57:18 -0400 > From: Kieren MacMillan > To: paolo prete > Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List > Subject: Re:

Re: Extra space at the beginning of the bar

2018-03-25 Thread Thomas Morley
2018-03-25 17:17 GMT+02:00 Paolo Prete : > Hello Thomas, > > Given that the post events attached to a SkipEvent get parents like > PaperColumn and VerticalAxisGroup, I expect that overriding some of these > parents' properties shifts the dynamic placed on a skip event, >

Re: Extra space at the beginning of the bar

2018-03-25 Thread Paolo Prete
Hello Thomas, thanks for the tweak, which is massive. I think it would be useful to group in one snippet all these howtos and work-arounds for solving horizontal spacing issues. Then I created this snippet, which has to be completed and can be enriched. http://lilybin.com/p2whaw/4 Any

RE: Extra space at the beginning of the bar

2018-03-25 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Paolo, The Lilypond Snipped Repository is at http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/ Mark From: lilypond-user [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Paolo Prete Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2018 10:40 AM To: Thomas Morley Cc: Lilypond-User

Vibrato (wavy lines) notation

2018-03-25 Thread Richard Shann
I have been using a bit of code written by Mark Witmer to achieve wavy lines above a series of notes. It co-opts the trill spanner mechanism for this.  I just found a bug in that code. When there is a line break the calculation of (ly:grob-property grob  'X-extent) - with the grob being a #

Re: please direct to manual; different time signatures for different instruments

2018-03-25 Thread Ben
On 3/25/2018 6:24 PM, Colin Campbell wrote: On 2018-03-25 12:19 PM, Sam Frybyte wrote: I don't even know what this is called so finding it in the manual has me stymied. I am using version 2.18.2 Thanks in advance. I believe someone has already directed you to polymetric notation, but here is

please direct to manual; different time signatures for different instruments

2018-03-25 Thread Sam Frybyte
I don't even know what this is called so finding it in the manual has me stymied. I am using version 2.18.2 Thanks in advance. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: please direct to manual; different time signatures for different instruments

2018-03-25 Thread Torsten Hämmerle
Hi Sam, What you're looking for is probably Polymetric notation All the best, Torsten -- Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/User-f3.html