Semi-globally changing fonts

2004-07-16 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Bert, Can't you just change the text in font.scm so that each font named cm is instead named aex? Granted, this would eliminate all use of cm fonts, but it seems to me that that's what you want for this project. Alternatively, it seems you could add a whole series of fonts in a scheme

nested repeats

2004-07-16 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Here's an example of one way to do it. I used the manual repeat syntax at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.2/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Manual- repeat-commands.html#Manual%20repeat%20commands The partial measure syntax described at

lilypond-book rotates some elements

2004-07-16 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
I tried to duplicate your problem to see if I could find what was wrong, but your lilypond files aren't there. Perhaps you could post a link to a .tar or .zip file that included all the lilypond files? Carl Sorensen ___ lilypond-user mailing list

another fingering question

2004-08-11 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
You have a syntax error, which is easily remedied. Instead of c-5, you change to c_5 to force the markup below and c^5 to force it above. You never use c_-5. Carl Carl D. Sorensen Department of Mechanical Engineering Brigham Young University 435 CTB Provo, UT 84602 801-422-6397FAX 801-422

Re: Cannot correctly code this rhythm...

2009-02-20 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 2/20/09 3:40 PM, RandomLilyPondUser eupho...@gmail.com wrote: I've already taken a look at that page - many times. I have the same proportional code in my attachment (under score), have tried putting it under many different headings, but it doesn't fix the spacing issue. Maybe you

Re: Cannot correctly code this rhythm...

2009-02-21 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 2/20/09 5:23 PM, RandomLilyPondUser eupho...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, that works for a new project, but what about in the context of my drum project I've attached a couple posts back? I looked into your project, but the project was complex enough that I didn't want to spend the time

Re: How to control ordering of staves?

2009-02-21 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 2/21/09 7:15 PM, aliteralmind aliteralmind-lilyp...@yahoo.com wrote: Here's an image of what I keep getting: http://jeffyepstein.com/tmp/staves_bad.gif I'm trying to get the clap staff above the voice staff. Can someone please help me understand how to control the ordering of

Re: (de)cresendi syntax

2009-02-22 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Frederic, I have made some comments in your message below. Thanks for taking on this project. This type of proposal probably should go to lilypond-devel, rather than -user, so I'm cross-posting to -devel. On 2/22/09 1:25 AM, Frédéric Bron frederic.b...@m4x.org wrote: Hello, I am in

Re: Looking for proper beam grouping

2009-02-24 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 2/24/09 2:46 AM, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk wrote: Carl, you wrote Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:43 AM On 2/23/09 12:52 PM, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: I have a piece of music in 3/4 which has bars like { d4. c8 b8. a16 } Lilypond groups the last three notes

Re: why does this simple notation fail a barcheck?

2009-02-24 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 2/24/09 5:09 PM, Chip c...@wiegand.org wrote: trpta = { \partial 8*1 e8-. | e4 d8 c4 d8 | e4 e8-. r r e | e4 d8 c4 d8 | e4 e8 r r fs | g4 fs8 g4 e8 | d2 d8 e | \times 2/3 {f4 fs b} | The measure above here is a 6/8 measure (f4 fs b), but you've multiplied it by 2/3, so it's only

Re: tweaking lilypond and mediawiki

2009-02-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 2/25/09 4:29 PM, Glen Hein glenh...@gmail.com wrote: Ah ha!! The trick to getting the lilybook images to discard the whitespace is to set the tagline to in the header. I fixed the rendering on my test page. My next hurdle is to get scores with multiple output pages to work. One

Re: Naming output files

2009-02-26 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 2/26/09 3:32 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2009 10:58:19 Mats Bengtsson wrote: The obvious follow-up question is, why you get the additional number even when the file name would be unique

Re: A chordChanges toggle for the Fretboard_engraver?

2009-03-01 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/1/09 8:41 AM, Huub Stoffers huub.stoff...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm fairly new to Lilypond, but I think I've studied the documentation fairly well, particularly those parts related to the topic addressed below. After experimenting with various ways of adding chord names and fret

Re: glissando up from no note to a note

2009-03-09 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/9/09 9:50 PM, Chip c...@wiegand.org wrote: \book { \score { \new Staff = trumpeta \with { \remove Instrument_name_engraver } \trumpeta \header {piece=Trumpet 1} \layout { indent = 0\mm} } } Why do you use around a single staff? I don't know that it's giving you any problems, but

Re: Parametric variables?

2009-03-14 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Tomas, You were very close. You were just missing a pair of brackets, which I've indicated below. On 3/14/09 10:10 AM, Tomas Valusek tvalu...@seznam.cz wrote: Hello, thanks for answer. I tried my best, but I don't understand what's wrong. I have slightly modified last example in NR

Re: Accessing emmentaler glyph-names in scheme

2009-03-15 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/15/09 9:44 AM, tao_lilypondu...@gmx.net tao_lilypondu...@gmx.net wrote: Hi lists, I am trying to get glyphs from the emmentaler font as it is explained in the manual by the functions ly:system-font-load and ly:font-get-glyph. So far it seems to work to access the glyphs and checking

Re: Help migrating a script from lilypond 2.10 to 2.12

2009-03-15 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/15/09 7:39 PM, Allan Spagnol Comar allan.co...@gmail.com wrote: I had made the barre parts of the following script and post it on lilypond wiki for guitar barres. It had worked fine from lilypond 2.6 to 2.10, last week I had try to use it on 2.12 and it did not print nothing. Three

Re: an LM update

2009-03-16 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/16/09 11:52 AM, James E. Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com wrote: On 16.03.2009, at 16:43, Graham Percival wrote: c) Can we just make the change so that more people aren't confused by the issue. (I've answered another question related to this in the last week) Yes, please

Re: Transparent ledger lines

2009-03-17 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/17/09 6:37 PM, Ari Torhamo ari.torh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have been wrestling with a problem for a while. I'm using these two lines \override Voice.NoteHead #'transparent = ##t \override Voice.Stem #'transparent = ##t to make certain note heads and stems

Re: Cross Staff Stems

2009-03-18 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/18/09 4:17 PM, Alberto Simões al...@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt wrote: Hello While the documentation explains that these vars need to be changed in order to produce croll-staff stems: % stems may overlap the other staff \override Stem #'cross-staff = ##t %

Re: auto-beaming

2009-03-19 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/19/09 5:13 AM, Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se wrote: Trevor Daniels wrote: Unfortunately, this will also subdivide 16th beams too. This is what I meant by not quite possible. You would need to turn subdivideBeams on and off as required. Should we turn this into feature

Re: auto-beaming

2009-03-19 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/19/09 8:34 AM, Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se wrote: Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 3/19/09 5:13 AM, Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se wrote: Should we turn this into feature request to make the automatic subdivision of beams even more flexible, with separate rules

Re: default margins

2009-03-19 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/19/09 7:53 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:03:42PM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: I have! At one point I was frustrated by this very issue and went through my score library with a ruler. Valentin mentioned precise measurements, but to my

Re: scheme (format) question

2009-03-21 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/21/09 1:34 AM, Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com wrote: \version 2.12.2 %{ How can I change the following code so that it returns 2 0.25 0.? That is: return integers without decimal point, otherwise round to as many decimal places as needed, but not more than 4. %}

Re: guitar tab feature request

2009-03-21 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/21/09 1:48 PM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: [Sorry, the attached eps was too big; I converted it to png] I have a wishlist of features for the tablature and guitar _notation_ feature request. I don't know how far the work on the features has gone, so I post to the list: (1)

Re: easy insert fret diagrams (with Frescobaldi)

2009-03-21 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/21/09 4:12 PM, Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks. Doing it your way, you get predefined fret diagrams right? What if you want to have customized fret boards, like chords on the 9th fret etc. ? The term predefined fret diagrams just means that the fret

Re: repeat a set of measures (A to B) later on in the score

2009-03-21 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/21/09 5:49 PM, patrick duka patrickd...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a set of measures that I want to repeat several times at different times of the score. I want to put the letter A at the beginning of this set of measures, and B at the end,  then I want A-B to repeat at some

Re: guitar tab feature request

2009-03-22 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/22/09 10:20 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Carl, thanks for your answer. You're welcome. How about #(define (x-tab-format str context event) (make-whiteout-markup (make-vcenter-markup (markup #:musicglyph noteheads.s2cross x =

Re: Command switch based on Lily version?

2009-03-22 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/22/09 6:26 PM, MonAmiPierrot pierofaust...@hotmail.com wrote: Peter Chubb-6 wrote: Peter == Peter Chubb lily-u...@chubb.wattle.id.au writes: Peter I embed Lily in a shell script for that kind of thing (I'm Peter running on Unix): Thanks Peter, but it seems I

Re: Command switch based on Lily version?

2009-03-22 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/22/09 6:26 PM, MonAmiPierrot pierofaust...@hotmail.com wrote: Thanks Peter, but it seems I didn't explain myself: what I need is sometihng like this (the syntax is invented: I don't know scheme] directly IN lily files: LilyVers = [Get lilypond version: 2.10 or 2.12] IF LilyVers =

Re: guitar tab feature request

2009-03-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/23/09 5:02 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: I assume that this will happen when tablature is updated. As far as I know, nobody is yet planning to do the work on tablature. They are only planning to put in the requests. I'd be happy to have a Frog (even a new Frog, like

Re: an LM update

2009-03-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/23/09 6:25 AM, James E. Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com wrote: Are you using Git? then use git-format-patch to generate the patch; otherwise, use diff -u to obtain a diff with context lines. -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) The incredible carnival of Badajoz

Re: Adding \new Lyrics \lyricsto Tenor II \text cancels \set timing

2009-03-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/23/09 2:59 PM, Jay Hamilton jay...@linuxquestions.net wrote: Mr. Bailey- would like me to go and reread a section of the LM, that is all well and good but in the Manual for 2.10 section 7.3.9.4 Printing stanzas at the end- I used the information to create the score. The score looks

Re: Bends

2009-03-24 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/23/09 7:07 PM, Tony Willoughby to...@pobox.com wrote: Alright, I'd like to help. But, like David, I'm pretty much flat out at work until the summer. I'm a software engineer and am pretty handy with C, perl, assembly, bash, expect, sed, awk. Linux stuff in general. It never

Re: How do you run/open Lilypond?

2009-03-24 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/24/09 9:13 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke-l...@xs4all.nl wrote: Op dinsdag 24-03-2009 om 09:55 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Jonathan Kulp: Check the third question/answer on this page: http://lilypondwiki.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=FAQ Why do we have to send a mail to point

Re: How do you run/open Lilypond?

2009-03-24 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
, Carl Trevor - Original Message - From: Carl D. Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke-l...@xs4all.nl; Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com Cc: Jeb maestro...@comcast.net; lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:53 PM Subject: Re: How do you run

Re: How do you run/open Lilypond?

2009-03-24 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/24/09 1:44 PM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke-l...@xs4all.nl wrote: Op dinsdag 24-03-2009 om 13:32 uur [tijdzone -0600], schreef Carl D. Sorensen: If Jan could point me in the right direction, I'd be happy to try a fix myself; otherwise, I'll have to defer to somebody with more knowledge

Re: How do you run/open Lilypond?

2009-03-24 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
as the website is rebuilt. Thanks, Carl Trevor - Original Message - From: Carl D. Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke-l...@xs4all.nl; Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com Cc: Jeb maestro...@comcast.net; lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:53 PM

Re: Overlong extender

2009-03-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/25/09 12:12 AM, James E. Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 25.03.2009 um 02:26 schrieb Frederick Dennis: Dear All, In the following extract from The Preces and Responses by John Reading (d. 1692), the tenorTwoSnippet lyric to has an over-long extender. Adding skips

Re: Overlong extender

2009-03-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/25/09 12:07 PM, Chris Snyder csny...@adoromusicpub.com wrote: Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Can you give a bit more context? After paring down to just this, I'm having a little difficulty understand how this problem arises in the actual music. The extender is so long because there's

Re: lilypond-book setup for windows

2009-03-27 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/27/09 4:56 AM, Hajo Dezelski dl1...@googlemail.com wrote: I was afraid of that - back to square one - In the early 90s I had a quarrel with my former boss who wanted to force me to TeX and later LaTex and I, working on a Mac, was a vivid Wysiwyg advocator. I won. Now - I have yet

Re: odd configure error

2009-03-27 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/27/09 7:24 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke-l...@xs4all.nl wrote: Op donderdag 26-03-2009 om 21:06 uur [tijdzone +0800], schreef Graham Percival: GIT from git.sv.gnu.org git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git This does not set up easy pulling or pushing in the future, and

Re: Transpose

2009-03-30 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/30/09 5:07 AM, Ossie Wilson Snr os...@exemail.com.au wrote: Good evening David and Francisco I tried the snippet in my Ly file but there was no change to the pdf file output. There were no errors flagged in the Log file ­ just a record of straight-forward processing. I then

Re: Transpose

2009-03-30 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/30/09 5:07 AM, Ossie Wilson Snr os...@exemail.com.au wrote: Ossie, The snippet in question appears to be broken. I'll try to get you a fixed version in a day or two. Thanks, Carl ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Transpose

2009-03-30 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/30/09 4:58 PM, Ossie Wilson Snr os...@exemail.com.au wrote: And yes, Win98 users are stuck at 2.8. I do have computers with much faster chips and later versions, but I am still waiting for a stable version to appear. I thought it would be 2.12 but now there is talk of 2.14 in the

Re: invisible slurs in tablature

2009-03-31 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/31/09 2:46 PM, Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com wrote: Grammostola Rosea wrote: Marc Hohl wrote: Grammostola Rosea schrieb: Btw it's time to make tablature with invisible Ties, Slurs, Dots, Stems etc. default imo. I don't know whether this should be the default,

Re: invisible slurs in tablature

2009-04-01 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/1/09 1:09 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Carl D. Sorensen schrieb: Would it be easier to define two separate staff commands? In my files, I define noten = \relative c { c d e f } and feed this into a Staff AND a TabStaff. So, why not create a compound Staff (called

Re: invisible slurs in tablature

2009-04-02 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/2/09 1:14 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Oh, absolutely. But it's not necessary to add everything all at once. While we're in a development cycle (2.13), we can add features a little bit at a time, and hopefully be close to done by the time we release 2.14. Just curious:

default midi velocity

2009-04-02 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Martin Tarenskeen writes: Questions: 1. How can I change the default MIDI velocity from 127 to a more modest value, without adding dynamic marks in the printable score ? How about this: music = \relative c' { c' d e f } \score { \music \layout{} } \score { \new Score {

Re: default midi velocity

2009-04-04 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/4/09 4:21 PM, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/3 Carl D. Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu: Anybody willing to take this on as a patch?  It shouldn't be too hard, but I imagine it'll take some time grepping through the source files. If we agree that it's just a case

Re: How to get a single notation of clifs, keys, or others?

2009-04-05 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/5/09 10:01 AM, Wei-Wei Guo wwgu...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I'm writing a extension for Sphinx, with which I can write music learning notes. I need to show those clifs, keys, notes, and so on with out staff and other things. I'm not sure exactly what you want to show. You say

Re: default midi velocity

2009-04-05 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/5/09 2:42 PM, Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se wrote: Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Yes, it's probably a good idea. In scm/midi.scm, there is the following: ;; 90 == 90/127 == 0.71 is supposed to be the default value ;; urg: we should set this at start of track (define-public

Re: including scheme files?

2009-04-05 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
#(load myfile.scm) HTH, Carl On 4/5/09 5:19 PM, Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com wrote: How do I include a scheme file from within a .ly file? I see the source uses (define-module) and (use-modules). I looked at the guile docs, but I couldn't figure it out. Thanks - Mark

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius

2009-04-05 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/5/09 4:59 PM, Valentin Villenave v.villen...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/5 Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com: Please come up with something different.  I think the idea to use (for example) as a place holder is much more sane. As I suggested, if we forbid such standalone durations

Re: LilyPond midi extension

2009-04-09 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/9/09 4:23 AM, Simon Bailey bina...@gmail.com wrote: here's the new patch-set. i'm sorry, but i can't work out how to get git to give me one single patch for the three commits i made locally since checking out. Simon, The way to get a single patch from multiple commits is to use

Re: LilyPond midi extension

2009-04-09 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/9/09 8:09 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 03:37:39PM +0200, Simon Bailey wrote: carl, On 9 Apr 2009, at 15:27, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: The way to get a single patch from multiple commits is to use git rebase. git rebase -i origin

Re: I don't remember how to do this ...

2009-04-10 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/10/09 9:28 AM, Chip c...@wiegand.org wrote: I have two trombone parts written in concert key - F Maj - and just realized that the notes are one step too high. I don't recall how to transpose a part without changing the key signature. If I recall correctly it involved two /transposes,

Re: (de)cresendi syntax

2009-04-10 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/10/09 5:54 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com wrote: On Sonntag, 22. Februar 2009 09:25:57 Frédéric Bron wrote: I am in charge of the question of (de)crescendo syntax issue in 2.12.2. Okay, sorry if I'm working on the same issue as you now, but I simply got too frustrated

Re: Fingering multiple voices above the stave

2009-04-11 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/11/09 9:27 AM, Gerard Neil xy...@devferret.org wrote: So I've got two questions: 1. Can someone help me write a macro/function to make this simpler? It would be nice to be able to write something like a^\multiFinger { 2 3 }, for example. I'm sure this is possible, but I've spent a

Re: Slur / phrasingSlur half dashed, half solid

2009-04-14 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/13/09 10:02 AM, Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com wrote: Kieren MacMillan wrote: I now see that dashed slurs are simply dashed lines (of invariant thickness) which curve along the path that a slur would take between two notes. What is standard engraving practice when it comes

Re: Custom guitar chords

2009-04-15 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/15/09 10:51 AM, Miklos Vajna vmik...@frugalware.org wrote: Hi, Here is a sample: \version 2.12.1 \score { \chords { e1:sus4 g e:m b:m } \relative c' { e8. ^\markup

Dashed, variable-thickness slurs

2009-04-16 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Dear LilyPond users, I've posted a patch for approval that implements variable thickness dashed and part-dashed, part-solid slurs. I hope it will be fully implemented in 2.13.1. As a preview, here's some slurs that were output by the new code. Please let me know if these are acceptable, or if

Re: Dashed, variable-thickness slurs

2009-04-16 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
, not the half half? Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Dear LilyPond users, I've posted a patch for approval that implements variable thickness dashed and part-dashed, part-solid slurs. I hope it will be fully implemented in 2.13.1. As a preview, here's some slurs that were output by the new code

Re: Text Spanner misbehaving?

2009-04-17 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/17/09 11:46 AM, Diosnel Herrnsdorf herrnsd...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy! I'm working on a piece that calls for a custom text span (v2.12.1). After setting up the following (I'm copying from the online manual): \override TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = #slargandosi poco a

Re: invisible slurs in tablature

2009-04-18 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/18/09 9:22 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Carl D. Sorensen schrieb: People who care strongly about tablature (of which I am *not* one) should be the people who make the decision about what the default should be. In fact, I don't think there's anybody on the core development

Re: Dashed, variable-thickness slurs

2009-04-19 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/19/09 1:16 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:31:26AM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: I think it's been a great learning process for everybody involved, but I personally would work on either personal stuff (I want it!), popular-requested

Re: (de)cresendi syntax

2009-04-19 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/17/09 11:02 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 17. April 2009 schrieb Frédéric Bron: Hmm, no you are right. It seems that when using a music-function, the scheme expression is: (make-music

Re: Moving dynamics to a fixed vertical position (inside the staff)

2009-04-20 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/20/09 3:11 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com wrote: Is there any way to position a dynamic sign at an explicit staff-relative (not note-relative) vertical position? Here's a hack that uses staff-padding together with a change in the Y-extent that makes it work. However,

Re: Moving dynamics to a fixed vertical position (inside the staff)

2009-04-20 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/20/09 4:32 PM, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/20 Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com: Is there any way to position a dynamic sign at an explicit staff-relative (not note-relative) vertical position? Since the dynamic's X-parent is the notehead, you can

Re: Playing a file in midi

2009-04-22 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/22/09 5:09 AM, Shayne Picard shay...@gmail.com wrote: How can I play a file in midi? See Notation Reference Section 3.5 in the LilyPond documentation. Thanks, Carl ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Vertical Spacing question

2009-04-22 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/22/09 9:13 AM, Mischa Falkenburg because_producti...@myfairpoint.net wrote: Hello All, I'm using version 2.12.1, and my piece utilizes a GrandStaff with 6 Staffs. The .pdf file generated shows all the pages, except for the final page, with a big space between two GrandStaffs. I

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/23/09 9:31 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 09:56:05AM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: Graham Percival wrote: I will admit that outputting the version number appears in the Text list, rather than the titles. In fact, both snippets should

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/23/09 12:04 PM, Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com wrote: Graham Percival wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:31:22AM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: And we really (IMO) need to be doing it as part of moving to a 2.12 LSR. We should also be evaluating: A) Does it run in 2.12? B

Re: Removing empty (drum) staff in a score, instrument name placement

2009-04-24 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/24/09 1:51 PM, Toine Schreurs a.m.m.schre...@chem.uu.nl wrote: 1. You would need (the nonexisting) RemoveEmptyDrumStaffContext. But inspection of engraver-init.ly points to the solution: SNIP Toine, Thanks for a great, clear answer. You're making a great contribution to LilyPond by

Re: music expression explanation

2009-04-24 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/24/09 4:22 PM, Peter Chubb lily.u...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: I'd really appreciate an appendix or something that gives Lily syntax as BNF, or as a syntax diagram. The syntax is very complex, and I've been caught out a number of times by things not being as I expected them to be

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 9:37 AM, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/23 Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com: Graham Percival wrote: 1.  Log in to LSR as an editor.  (I remember the discussion now; this isn't your fault) 2.  Find the tags section for each snippet. 3.  Click on the

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 1:31 PM, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps the point I was trying to make got lost in my slightly facetious reply: if we're talking about LSR snippets which are in the docs, the LSR editor must be mindful of the fact that editing such examples in LSR may have no

Re: New fonts for chords

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 12:52 PM, Pekka Siponen pekka.sipo...@bastu.net wrote: Here are some thoughts about the default chords in LilyPond: 1. The suffixes should not be scaled (see attachment). The weight of the smaller character gets too light if it is simply scaled down from the original font.

Re: tablature.ly

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Looks great, Marc! *Very* nicely done. On 4/25/09 4:06 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Hello tablature users*, SNIP 3) some more tunings are defined: guitar-seven-string-tuning guitar-drop-d-tuning bass-four-string-tuning bass-drop-d-tuning

Re: New fonts for chords

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 2:36 PM, Pekka Siponen pekka.sipo...@bastu.net wrote: Indeed it (suffix position) is a personal preference, and not correct most likely. I find that there is no standard for chord names, they have been around only for a short time historically, and mostly everything is based on

Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 3:38 PM, -Eluze elu...@gmail.com wrote: Carl D. Sorensen wrote: You use the Internals Reference. You find the object you want engraved under 3.1 All layout objects: 3.1.111 TextSpanner. The IR tells you that TextSpanners are created by Dynamic_engraver

Re: Changing font of Table of Contents

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 5:38 PM, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: I'm putting together a book of pieces, and using a particular font for headers, footers, titles, subtitles, etc. The one place where I haven't figured out how to get that font used is for the header text for the table of

Re: Changing font of Table of Contents

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 5:38 PM, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: I'm putting together a book of pieces, and using a particular font for headers, footers, titles, subtitles, etc. The one place where I haven't figured out how to get that font used is for the header text for the table of

Re: tablature.ly

2009-04-26 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Neil, Thanks for your input. I think it's all really good. On 4/26/09 1:49 PM, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/25 Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de: Hello tablature users*, Like Carl, I'm not a tablature user, so I can only comment on matters of coding. Some suggestions and

Re: tablature.ly

2009-04-27 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/27/09 3:38 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Neil Puttock schrieb: 2009/4/25 Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de: (font-size (- (* num-strings 1.5) 7)) (base-skip (cond ((= 4 num-strings) 1.55) ((= 5 num-strings) 1.84)

Re: tablature.ly

2009-04-27 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/27/09 12:47 PM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Carl D. Sorensen schrieb: On 4/27/09 3:38 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: No, I didn't get this mail. I played around with your suggestions and the improvements given by Neil and have now: #(define-markup-command

Re: adding to the LSR

2009-04-28 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/28/09 4:42 PM, Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com wrote: Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Thanks for the offer, Chip. I've just finished a preliminary run through all of the snippets. I downloaded the tarball of the entire repo and ran them through the convert-ly script, then did

Re: tablature.ly

2009-04-29 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/29/09 3:12 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Neil Puttock schrieb: 2009/4/27 Carl D. Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu: Neil, Thanks for your input. I think it's all really good. On 4/26/09 1:49 PM, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/25 Marc Hohl m

Re: tablature.ly

2009-04-30 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/30/09 1:36 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: [snip] I have reworked my tablature.ly according to all suggestions and improvements by Neil and Carl. The modern tab clef seems to be scaling properly, I played a bit with some values for staff-space, and it looks now as it should

Re: auto-beam in pickup-bars with grace note

2009-05-01 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Christian, This kind of question is better asked on lilypond-user. Thanks, Carel On 4/30/09 12:57 PM, grisu_76 christian.hum...@univie.ac.at wrote: As for I get some helpful hints for solving the spacing-problem in pickup-bars starting with a grace note, now I struggle with the

Re: adding to the LSR

2009-05-02 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/2/09 5:50 AM, Daniel Hulme s...@istic.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 09:54:09PM +0800, Graham Percival wrote: Is it worth defining our own function replaceOnly(\\octave, ...) which does re.sub(\\octave[?a-z,A-Z], ...) or whatever the regex was? \\octave\b would work fine.

Re: Chord Names Tweak

2009-05-03 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Jonathan, On 5/2/09 2:23 PM, Jonathan Townes edmundtow...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, Does anyone have suggestions for tweaking the position of accidental in chord names. For example, the flat sign in in the chord name Ab? I find in the default Lilypond setting the flat symbol is too big

Re: bad spacing

2009-05-06 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/5/09 9:03 PM, Victor Eijkhout vic...@eijkhout.net wrote: This looks really bad: harpchords = \relative c' { \time 15/8 s2^C s2^G/B s2^Am s4. | s2^Cmaj7/B s2^Em/G s2^F s4. | s2^G s2^F/A s2^G/B s4. | s2^Dm/A s2^Dm/F s2 s4. | \repeat volta 2 { s2^C s2^G/B s2^Am

Re: Newbie Question -- verse and chorus

2009-05-12 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/12/09 4:44 AM, Tim Rowe digi...@gmail.com wrote: Now on to my next exercise -- working out how to print capo chords in parentheses after the regular chord, so I get: (capo 3) C (A) G7 (E7) The nearest I can find is at

Re: Bass in Chord Name

2009-05-12 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/12/09 10:35 AM, Stjepan Brbot stjepan.br...@zg.t-com.hr wrote: Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Stjepan, I'd like to get the following chord D7/F#. How to define this F# as bass in chord? I can use d:7/fis but I get fis, not wanted F# as bass. If you're using english.ly, you

Re: writing chords

2009-05-12 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/12/09 12:41 PM, James E. Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com wrote: I will be the first one to admit that I don't work with chords frequently. I'm also trying to understand them. I understand that I can enter c:7 and lilypond will recognise that I want to display c7, and display it

Re: writing chords

2009-05-12 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/12/09 1:51 PM, Tim Rowe digi...@gmail.com wrote: I can get them all except for the last; when I try to remove the 9th (c:m11^7^9) lilypond gets stuck :-( If you read the notation reference carefully, you'll see that only the *first* pitch to be removed is preceded by ^. (6 examples

Re: printing rest in ChordNames context

2009-05-14 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/14/09 8:07 AM, Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net wrote: into the \chords feels clunky and intrusive to me. I'd prefer to minimize putting formatting code in the music content as much as possible. Being able to write something like nc1 (or r1) and have it interpreted by LilyPond as

Re: printing rest in ChordNames context

2009-05-14 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/14/09 9:03 AM, Gilles Sadowski gil...@harfang.homelinux.org wrote: Hi. This solution to the N.C. problem (use r to indicate N.C.) ^^^ Will R also work? Not right now. I will investigate to see if it is

Re: Need help with this trill

2009-05-14 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/14/09 3:24 PM, Holger Hellebro hol...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'm a new Lilypond user and I'm really enjoying the program so far. However I am having difficulties typesetting a certain trill. You can see in the attached picture what I want to achieve. I run into two difficulties: 1.

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