Re: Markup in left and right margins

2020-10-15 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2020-10-15 2:53 am, Andrew Bernard wrote: Hi Matthew, A good question. But I would have thought that margins are exactly that - margins. I don't think LilyPond was ever conceived to support marginal annotations and complex print formatting. Wouldn't you have to narrow your content in

Re: Markup in left and right margins

2020-10-15 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Matthew, A good question. But I would have thought that margins are exactly that - margins. I don't think LilyPond was ever conceived to support marginal annotations and complex print formatting. Wouldn't you have to narrow your content in whatever way so as to create left or right

Re: good practices regarding page breaks -- full score and parts

2020-10-15 Thread Federico Bruni
Then your use of tags seems the best solution. Il giorno gio 15 ott 2020 alle 14:40, Leszek Wroński ha scritto: Thank you very much! I'm already doing that :-) Still, it's a 70+ pages single-movement work where I'd like to control page-breaking in a precise way in a few locations... Best

Re: good practices regarding page breaks -- full score and parts

2020-10-15 Thread Leszek Wroński
Thank you all for your suggestions! This is very helpful. Leo and Christian, I will try the 'skip' idea: in this particular case I have 616 measures of straightforward 2/4, so it should not be too unwieldy. Kieren, I will investigate the edition-engraver... I've already attempted to learn it a few

Re: good practices regarding page breaks -- full score and parts

2020-10-15 Thread Christian Masser
Hi Leszek! I usually put the layout-Stuff in a separate voice, but I can imagine, this would be a total mess when dealing with many time signature changes. This sounds a lot like the "Invisible part" you're speaking of. music = { c1 c c c c c } breakVoice = { s1 s \pageBreak } \score { \new

good practices regarding page breaks -- full score and parts

2020-10-15 Thread Leszek Wroński
Dear Experts, I would like to compile a full score and parts based on one file containing musical definitions. I would like to put pagebreaks in specific places in the full score, so that they would not operate when parts are compiled. The way I'm doing it now is that I put a \pagebreak in one of

Re: good practices regarding page breaks -- full score and parts

2020-10-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Leszek, > I would like to compile a full score and parts based on one file containing > musical definitions. I would like to put pagebreaks in specific places in the > full score, so that they would not operate when parts are compiled. The way > I'm doing it now is that I put a \pagebreak

Re: good practices regarding page breaks -- full score and parts

2020-10-15 Thread Leszek Wroński
Thank you very much! I'm already doing that :-) Still, it's a 70+ pages single-movement work where I'd like to control page-breaking in a precise way in a few locations... Best regards, Leszek. On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 14:29, Federico Bruni wrote: > Il giorno gio 15 ott 2020 alle 14:19, Leszek

Re: Markup Between Systems

2020-10-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, > I've been looking for a long time to do something like Kieren's example. If > this also works for multi-line markup between systems it will be very helpful > for many of my scores. I can't wait to see the source code. > > Thanks, > Aberforth D > > On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 16:11, Marc

Re: good practices regarding page breaks -- full score and parts

2020-10-15 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno gio 15 ott 2020 alle 14:19, Leszek Wroński ha scritto: I don't really like this solution; it's just not tidy... and I have to remember which part I put the page breaks in. Are there any established Lilypond practices for doing this? Is it e.g. possible to introduce some sort of

Re: compiling sonata with \include

2020-10-15 Thread Molly Preston
I tried the print-all-headers = ##t and it didn't work. I also tried \bookpart around the \include and it gave me fatal errors. I have looked at the documents you reference, but I will have to look at the TitleMarkup I think. Thank you for directing me. On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 12:17 PM Xavier

Re: one system in the last page

2020-10-15 Thread Martín Rincón Botero
> \paper { >  min-systems-per-page = #2 > } > is another possibility Thank you! This is exactly the rule I was looking for :-). www.martinrinconbotero.com On 15. Oct 2020, 18:56 +0200, Xavier Scheuer , wrote: > > \paper { >   min-systems-per-page = #2 > } > is another possibility

Re: Cut Common Time signature

2020-10-15 Thread bobr...@centrum.is
\time 2/2 That will, by default, produce the C with vertical slash. David - Ritchie Fraser wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying the engrave a Cut Common time signature (Capital C with a > vertical line through it) and the beginning of the stave and can't find > out how to achieve

Re: good practices regarding page breaks -- full score and parts

2020-10-15 Thread Klaus Blum
Hi Leszek, Am 15.10.2020 um 15:13 schrieb lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org: I would like to put pagebreaks in specific places in the full score, so that they would not operate when parts are compiled. I can confirm all the replies that recommend include files and invisible voices. (I truly

font construction

2020-10-15 Thread Shane Brandes
Hi all, Is there any documentation floating around on how fonts for LilyPond are actually built? I know Abraham Lee has successfully made some new ones, but is he the only guy now that knows the process? I tried fiddling with working on one, but that was just by opening an extant font and

compiling sonata with \include

2020-10-15 Thread Molly Preston
Hello. I am confused by the hierarchy of headings. I have read about it in the manuals and still find it confusing. I am trying to use \include to compile my sonata. The score block and headings are in each file. I basically just have this: \include "Circle_mvt1.ly" \pageBreak \include

Re: one system in the last page

2020-10-15 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 18:37, Martín Rincón Botero < martinrinconbot...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > not that it's something too difficult to fix with manual \pageBreaks, but is there any way I can tell Lilypond to never put a single system on the last page if there's more than one page,

Cut Common Time signature

2020-10-15 Thread Ritchie Fraser
Hello all, I am trying the engrave a Cut Common time signature (Capital C with a vertical line through it) and the beginning of the stave and can't find out how to achieve this. I have scoured the lilypond docs online but can't find any examples or the syntax to use. "Cut Common" appears

Re: compiling sonata with \include

2020-10-15 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 18:00, Molly Preston wrote: > > Hello. I am confused by the hierarchy of headings. I have read about it in the manuals and still find it confusing. > > I am trying to use \include to compile my sonata. The score block and headings are in each file. > > I basically just have

Re: Cut Common Time signature

2020-10-15 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Ritchie, See also: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.20/Documentation/notation/displaying-rhythms.html#index-_005cnumericTimeSignature Cheers, Pierre Le jeu. 15 oct. 2020 à 19:21, bobr...@centrum.is a écrit : > \time 2/2 > > That will, by default, produce the C with vertical slash. > > David > >

Re: Cut Common Time signature

2020-10-15 Thread Kevin Barry
Hi Ritchie, I get a cut C automatically with \time 2/2 Is that what you mean? Kevin On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 18:10, Ritchie Fraser wrote: > > Hello all, > > I am trying the engrave a Cut Common time signature (Capital C with a > vertical line through it) and the beginning of the stave and can't

one system in the last page

2020-10-15 Thread Martín Rincón Botero
Hello, not that it's something too difficult to fix with manual \pageBreaks, but is there any way I can tell Lilypond to never put a single system on the last page if there's more than one page, unless the last system takes up the "whole" page (f.ex. in a piece for orchestra)? I have the feeling

Re: Cut Common Time signature

2020-10-15 Thread Ritchie Fraser
Thanks, Yes that's exactly what I was looking for :-) I should have just tried that. Doh! Ritchie On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, 18:22 Pierre Perol-Schneider, < pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Ritchie, > See also: >

font construction

2020-10-15 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Hi all, Is there any documentation floating around on how fonts for LilyPond are actually built? I know Abraham Lee has successfully made some new ones, but is he the only guy now that knows the process? I tried fiddling with working on one, but that was just by opening an extant font and

Re: font construction

2020-10-15 Thread Karlin High
On 10/15/2020 12:13 PM, Shane Brandes wrote: Is there any documentation floating around on how fonts for LilyPond are actually built? Have you seen Simon Tatham's Gonville font? I cannot comment on whether its construction is the best starting point or not for your project, though.

Help with HEJI fonts

2020-10-15 Thread Dave Seidel
Hello, I am trying to HEJI microtonal notation with Lilypond, using the OTF fonts downloaded from plainsound.org, and the microlily package (originally by Graham Breed and now being worked on by Konstantin Steuer). The specific problem I'm having is that Lilypond does not seem to load or use

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 215, Issue 75

2020-10-15 Thread Molly Preston
\bookpart. > All this is documented in NR 3.2 Titles and headers and NR 3.1.5 File > structure. > > Personally for works with several movements I have customized the > headers (scoreTitleMarkup, > see NR 3.2.2) and use a custom "movement" field. > > Cheers, > Xavier >

Re: headers, and what include doesn't do

2020-10-15 Thread David Wright
On Thu 15 Oct 2020 at 19:23:36 (-0400), Molly Preston wrote: > Thank you guys. I tried the way Mark suggested before and I get the same > result of III. being shown on the first page. So still not seeming to > understand. Perhaps you could start with an example like the attached, and just remove

Re: Markup in left and right margins

2020-10-15 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello Andrew, Yes, in fact, I was considering rotating the content. There isn't much room, but just enough to get a few words sideways. Hello Aaron, Many thanks for the solution of translation. I'm toying around with it right now, and had a question: I am possible misunderstanding the

Re: font construction

2020-10-15 Thread Andrew Bernard
Lilypond uses MetaFont, does it not? That is well documented elsewhere. Andrew On 16/10/2020 4:13 am, Shane Brandes wrote: Is there any documentation floating around on how fonts for LilyPond are actually built?

[OLL] openLilyLib news

2020-10-15 Thread Andrew Bernard
What's happening with OLL, latest news. I have made a dedicated website, https://openlilylib.space. I think OLL is distinct enough to have it's own mailing list, and I don't want to clog the lilypond user list with technical OLL development posts, so I am in the business of setting up a list,

Re: Markup in left and right margins

2020-10-15 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2020-10-15 6:03 pm, Matthew Fong wrote: Many thanks for the solution of translation. I'm toying around with it right now, and had a question: I am possible misunderstanding the solution, and using the abs-override incorrectly. I cannot seem to place a comment string next to the stave. The

Re: [OLL] openLilyLib news

2020-10-15 Thread Freeman Gilmore
Nice, ƒg On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 9:31 PM Andrew Bernard wrote: > > What's happening with OLL, latest news. I have made a dedicated > website, https://openlilylib.space. > > I think OLL is distinct enough to have it's own mailing list, and I > don't want to clog the lilypond user list with

Re: Markup in left and right margins

2020-10-15 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello Aaron, Wowsers -- I am dense. That completely makes sense. And it is simple! Many thanks, mattfong On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 6:46 PM Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2020-10-15 6:03 pm, Matthew Fong wrote: > > Many thanks for the solution of translation. I'm toying around with it > > right now,