Dear Mark,
I did this in a slightly different way...if you do
\displayMusic c4\rest
you can see how to represent a rest using the make-music procedure in
scheme code. Modifying that a bit, I got
%
\version "2.25.6"
%\displayMusic c4\rest =
%(make-music
%'RestEvent
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I mentioned previously that I wrote a program to convert MIDI files to LilyPond
files. That program is called MidiToLily and it’s now freely available on
GitHub. It’s a console app, doesn’t have an installer, and doesn’t store things
in the registry or anywhere else. It
Many thanks, Aaron. A clear and helpful answer!
The “why” was simply an exercise in seeing if I could cleanup a LP file by
using such syntactic sugar (to which the answer is no :-) ).
Thanks again
..m.
> On 19 Dec 2023, at 07:05, Aaron Hill wrote:
>
> On 2023-12-17 9:33 pm, Mark Probert
On 2023-12-17 9:33 pm, Mark Probert wrote:
Hi.
I'm struggling some with writing a music function for rests. Basically
I
want to be able to write something like
\rel-rest( b', 1)
Minor nit: Functions in LilyPond do not use parentheses and commas for
arguments in this way. You need only
>>> please have a look at Merge Request 2188 and comment there on how
>>> to proceed with the new distances between clefs and time
>>> signatures, together with the new distances between clefs and key
>>> signatures.
>>>
>>> https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2188
>>>
>>>
On Tue, 2023-12-12 at 16:10 -0800, Stefano Antonelli wrote:
> I'm producing muliple pngs with a single staff each. When I 'flip'
> through these pngs, the staff appears to move up and down on the
> page.
>
> I can set
>
> top-system-spacing.basic-distance = #7
It turns out I need exactly
