Re: [Lyric+Chords project] required engravers

2018-12-14 Thread Thomas Morley
Am Fr., 14. Dez. 2018 um 04:09 Uhr schrieb Kieren MacMillan : > > Hello all, > > I’m trying to develop a Lilypond lyrics+chords [only] framework, and am > trying to understand the "cleanest" possible starting point. > > The final goal: Given a set of lyrics (either with “inline” durations, or >

Re: Multiple tempos at the same time and midi playback?

2018-12-14 Thread Yakir Arbib
Hi All, Thank you very much for your help and suggestions! On 12/14/18, Carl Sorensen wrote: > > > On 12/13/18, 5:33 AM, "Yakir Arbib" wrote: > > Hi All, > > > My name is Yakir and I'm a pianist / composer based in Paris. > > I am very new to LilyPond, so please pardon me if my

Re: [Lyric+Chords project] required engravers

2018-12-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Harm, > I don't have a clue how to deal with those issues, but I'd love to be > proofed wrong. > > Any idea how to tackle: > > (1) ligatures > \lyricmode { f -- i } This is a fringe case in my world, so I’m happy to cross that bridge when (if?) all other problems are solved. > (2) short

Re: Multiple tempos at the same time and midi playback?

2018-12-14 Thread Yakir Arbib
Sorry - email got cut! Thanks DJF for your detailed example... I really appreciate it. Yes I am very new to LilyPond and still reading the latter parts of the user manuals. But from what you say, it seems like at least visually LilyPond can accomplish a score with different metronome marks for

Re: Handbell mallets

2018-12-14 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2018-12-14 10:46 pm, Aaron Hill wrote: Creating a custom articulations is probably the best option, however you can also easily redefine the stencil for an existing one: \version "2.19.82" % handbell mallet hbm = \tweak stencil #(lambda (grob) (grob-interpret-markup grob #{ \markup

Handbell mallets

2018-12-14 Thread Rick Kimpel
All, In handbell music, there is an articulation for playing the bell with a mallet while it is on the table. It looks like a "stopped" symbol near the note head, with a "staccato" articulation just beyond that. I can get reasonable results for notes near the top and bottom of the staff, but

Re: Handbell mallets

2018-12-14 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2018-12-14 9:58 pm, Rick Kimpel wrote: All, In handbell music, there is an articulation for playing the bell with a mallet while it is on the table. It looks like a "stopped" symbol near the note head, with a "staccato" articulation just beyond that. I can get reasonable results for notes

Re: Problem with accidentals.ly and Lilypond 2.19.82

2018-12-14 Thread Luca Danieli
Hi Thomas, your analysis has been very good. I have almost solved the issue. I just don't know what's the glyph name for the SEMI-SHARP and SEMI-FLAT In the following code, I should add the ones for SEMI-SHARP and SEMI-FLAT. Do you know what's the name of the glyph? I already tried (e.g.

Why is spacing wrong before command?

2018-12-14 Thread Reggie
Here is my code I do not understand why newspacing would have any effect on previous notes and measures why not just what comes after? Like in the user manual. Page here http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/new-spacing-section Why are the first 3 measures adjusted when the

Re: [Lyric+Chords project] required engravers

2018-12-14 Thread Johan Vromans
On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 08:49:33 -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > > (2) short syllables, both with chords > > This is an issue even in Microsoft Word, Interesting to encounter MSWord as apparent trendsetter... It is about the worst tool for producing lead sheets. The approach seen in many

Re: [Lyric+Chords project] required engravers

2018-12-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Johan, > Interesting to encounter MSWord as apparent trendsetter... It is about the > worst tool for producing lead sheets. And yet many, many people I know use it (or LibreOffice). ;) My point was simply that the "short syllables with [many and/or long] chords" isn’t a Lilypond-only

Re: [Lyric+Chords project] required engravers

2018-12-14 Thread Johan Vromans
On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 11:27:13 -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > And yet many, many people I know use it (or LibreOffice). ;) Libre/Open Office has a nifty plugin called ChordTransposer that makes it possible to type in chords easily and obtain the right alignment for the chords (and, as the name

Re: [Lyric+Chords project] required engravers

2018-12-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Johan, > Libre/Open Office has a nifty plugin called ChordTransposer that makes it > possible to type in chords easily and obtain the right alignment for the > chords (and, as the name suggests, you get transpositions too). Nice! I’ll have to look into that for inspiration. > It works by

Re: [Lyric+Chords project] required engravers

2018-12-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Harm, > Any idea how to tackle: > (1) ligatures > \lyricmode { f -- i } Can you give me a real world situation — in a "regular" score (i.e., with notes) — in which you would want both a ligature *and* chords on both elements of the ligature? I can’t comprehend what that would look like…

Re: [Spam] Re: Status and future of abc2ly

2018-12-14 Thread David Wright
On Fri 14 Dec 2018 at 17:32:59 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > I was so disappointed with the complete mess the current abc2ly makes of > Irish tunes from the vast repository at thesession.org that I started > looking into this. The others mentioned that using abc2xml and then using > musixxml2ly

Re: Why is spacing wrong before command?

2018-12-14 Thread Klaus Blum
Hi Reggie, Reggie wrote > Why > are the first 3 measures adjusted when the newspacing comes after? The \newSpacingSection command only ensures that there are two separate sections which can have their own spacing. If you want, you can independently tweak them with overrides. The second