slashSeparator - usage

2009-11-09 Thread David Sumbler
I'm very new to LilyPond - using 2.12.1 I'm doing some pretty simple stuff at the moment, just for my own use. I am trying to create a file with some very short single-instrument exercises. Each one is only a few staves in length, so I don't want them to have a whole page each. Titles would be

Acciaccaturas under slurs

2010-05-15 Thread David Sumbler
Using Lilypond 2.12.1 Normally an acciaccatura is slurred to the following note. However, in wind music for instance, sometimes an acciaccatura occurs during a passage which is slurred already. In that case there is no reason to print an extra slur on the acciaccatura. In Lilypond, if I enter:

Re: Acciaccaturas under slurs

2010-05-15 Thread David Sumbler
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 16:42 +0100, Graham Percival wrote: On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 04:35:22PM +0100, David Sumbler wrote: a4( \acciaccatura b8 c4 d) Known problem; you can't do this. Oh! :-( How can I persuade Lilypond to print a slur correctly from the A to the D? You can kind

The opposite of ##f

2010-05-15 Thread David Sumbler
A steep learning curve, using Lilypond! I've found answers in the documentation to most of the problems, but after an hour of searching I'm stumped on this one. I used '\override TupletNumber #'stencil = ##f' earlier in my file. Now I want to cancel that setting and restore tuplet numbers. I

Printing music compactly

2010-05-16 Thread David Sumbler
I need to get the whole of a piece (originally 5 pages) onto 1 or 2 sheets of A4. It doesn't matter how small the print is - at the same time, I don't want to waste space. I have got a usable result, but it isn't quite what I was hoping for: ny .ly file produces 4 pages, so by printing from

Dynamics not correctly aligned

2014-01-26 Thread David Sumbler
I am a new user of Lilypond, using v. 2.14.2 on Ubuntu 12.04. I have read the Learning Manual and Notation Reference twice each, and most of the other documentation at least once. Having set two pieces (one for solo marimba, and one for flute and piano), I hoped that I had reached the stage of

How do I get Emacs mode? (was: Dynamics not correctly aligned)

2014-01-27 Thread David Sumbler
this out, please, or will I have to go back to using Lilypond 2.14.2 with no help other than the manuals? David On Sun, 2014-01-26 at 15:37 -0500, Hwaen Ch'uqi wrote: Greetings David, On 1/26/14, David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk wrote: I am a new user of Lilypond, using v. 2.14.2 on Ubuntu

Re: How do I get Emacs mode?

2014-01-27 Thread David Sumbler
immense problems, so I have given up on them. David On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 16:04 -0500, Hwaen Ch'uqi wrote: On 1/27/14, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk writes: Thanks to all for your responses to my enquiry about misaligned dynamics. Thanks especially

Re: How do I get Emacs mode?

2014-01-27 Thread David Sumbler
On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 18:02 -0500, Hwaen Ch'uqi wrote: Hmmm. You should have found seven .el files in the original lisp directory, one of them being lilypond-words.el. Be sure to move them all into one of the directories in your loadpath. For example, I am using ubuntu-13.04, and I have

Re: How do I get Emacs mode?

2014-01-28 Thread David Sumbler
On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 19:54 -0500, Hwaen Ch'uqi wrote: Just a question or two, based on my own experience. Did you first remove (or purge) LilyPond 2.14.2 before installing 2.18.0? Otherwise, your system may still be using the older installation. Yes, I removed 2.14.2 using the Ubuntu

Re: How do I get Emacs mode?

2014-01-28 Thread David Sumbler
On Tue, 2014-01-28 at 15:09 +0100, Federico Bruni wrote: 2014-01-28 David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk What manuals? I don't seem to have any. One of the things I liked about the Ubuntu installation of LilyPond 2.14.2 was that the html manuals were

Producing a title page

2014-01-30 Thread David Sumbler
Having now got LilyPond 2.18.0 set up on my two machines, thanks to all the help from the list, I have now started trying to adjust the output of the pieces I have so far produced. I have used \header blocks for title, composer etc., and these are working as I would wish. However, I should like

RE: Producing a title page

2014-01-31 Thread David Sumbler
On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 11:09 -0800, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: David, Putting a \pagebreak after the first header and before the first score seems to accomplish what you want. Mark Thanks for that - it seems to be one permutation I hadn't tried! I must confess that I find some aspects of

Dynamics over-lapping with bar-lines

2014-02-02 Thread David Sumbler
Following the problem I was having with dynamics in a flute part and a piano part not lining up, on the advice of the list I upgraded my LilyPond from v2.14.2 to 2.18.0. Problem of non-alignment solved. But I still find that dynamics often contact or even cross a bar-line. In the flute part of

Re: Dynamics over-lapping with bar-lines

2014-02-03 Thread David Sumbler
Thanks for your reply - it solves the problem of bar-line/dynamic collisions (or rather, it side-steps the problem). Actually it also begins to answer what might well have been my next question, because generally I prefer the left edge of dynamics to be related to the note position. But I should

Re: Dynamics over-lapping with bar-lines

2014-02-11 Thread David Sumbler
I've now had a chance to experiment further with this, and to try the suggestions you have made, which were very helpful. For Dynamic-Text objects, the self-alignment-X = #-1 appears to align the left edge of the dynamic with the left edge of the note; self-alignment-X = #1 aligns the right edge

Rallentando and accelerando in MIDI

2014-12-29 Thread David Sumbler
Rallentando and accelerando are supported in MIDI output if the articulate.ly script is used. Looking at the script, I can see how I can additional synonyms for rall., rit. etc. that the script would then recognize. I can also begin to see how to change the amount of rall, or accel. by modifying

Re: Rallentando and accelerando in MIDI

2014-12-30 Thread David Sumbler
Further to my query (below) yesterday about varying ralls and accels in midi, how do I actually get these to work at all? At the moment the articulate script is working correctly in executing trills, slurs etc. But it ignores my rit. markings and suchlike. I have tried entering these using

Re: Rallentando and accelerando in MIDI

2014-12-30 Thread David Sumbler
On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 22:04 +0100, Simon Albrecht wrote: Am 30.12.2014 13:16, schrieb David Sumbler: Further to my query (below) yesterday about varying ralls and accels in midi, how do I actually get these to work at all? At the moment the articulate script is working correctly

Re: Rallentando and accelerando in MIDI

2014-12-31 Thread David Sumbler
On Wed, 2014-12-31 at 11:52 +0100, Simon Albrecht wrote: Am 31.12.2014 00:32, schrieb David Sumbler: On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 22:04 +0100, Simon Albrecht wrote: Am 30.12.2014 13:16, schrieb David Sumbler: Further to my query (below) yesterday about varying ralls and accels in midi, how do I

Re: Rallentando and accelerando in MIDI

2014-12-31 Thread David Sumbler
On Wed, 2014-12-31 at 18:11 +, Phil Holmes wrote: Original Message - From: David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk Clearly I am doing something wrong - perhaps it is to do with the way I have entered my tempo markings. Just to make things clearer, I am setting a saxophone

Re: Condensing single-bar rests into a multi-measure rest

2015-01-03 Thread David Sumbler
From: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Condensing single-bar rests into a multi-measure rest Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 16:45:27 +0100 Am 03.01.2015 um 16:36 schrieb David Sumbler: I have now finished setting the saxophone quartet, which is the first

Condensing single-bar rests into a multi-measure rest

2015-01-03 Thread David Sumbler
I have now finished setting the saxophone quartet, which is the first substantial multi-instrument piece I have attempted with Lilypond. I am very pleased with the result, and I am now at the stage of tweaking the appearance of the output. Searching in the Lilypond documentation, one problem I

Re: Rallentando and accelerando in MIDI

2015-01-01 Thread David Sumbler
On Thu, 2015-01-01 at 20:57 +1100, Peter Chubb wrote: David == David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk writes: David Which brings me back now to my other question: how do I get David midi (specifically, the articulate.ly script) to recognize my David rits and ralls? I have tried entering them

Re: Adjusting the position of tempo indications

2015-01-14 Thread David Sumbler
On Mon, 2015-01-12 at 23:17 +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: 2015-01-12 22:37 GMT+01:00 David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk: The default position of tempo indications is, to my eye, rather too close to whatever is beneath them, be it a stave, a note or a slur. I have tried experimenting

Re: Adjusting the position of tempo indications

2015-01-14 Thread David Sumbler
in relation to what is beneath them and also to each other. David On 1/14/15, David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 2015-01-12 at 23:17 +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: 2015-01-12 22:37 GMT+01:00 David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk: The default position of tempo indications is, to my

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 146, Issue 98

2015-01-19 Thread David Sumbler
From: Noeck [hidden email] To: [hidden email] Subject: Re: Printing titles at a consistent size Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 23:57:09 +0100 Hi, if I am not mistaken, there was some discussion and a solution how to get the line space consistent for different

Re: Printing titles at a consistent size

2015-01-19 Thread David Sumbler
From: Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Printing titles at a consistent size Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 23:57:09 +0100 Hi, if I am not mistaken, there was some discussion and a solution how to get the line space consistent for different settings of the staff

Understanding Lilypond

2015-01-16 Thread David Sumbler
As I start to gain experience in setting music in Lilypond I am trying to understand more about how it works internally. As well as personal satisfaction, this obviously has a practical aim: it will make it easier for me to modify or correct things without having to ask so many questions on this

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 146, Issue 81

2015-01-16 Thread David Sumbler
From: Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Understanding Lilypond Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 00:04:34 +0100 Dear David, as a small addition and a partly similar answer to Urs’, I think the point is: LilyPond tries to suggest (or even enforce as a default)

Re: Adjusting the position of tempo indications

2015-01-17 Thread David Sumbler
On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 14:11 +, Kevin Barry wrote: Dear David, \score { \new StaffGroup \override Score.MetronomeMark.padding = #2 \topLine \bottomLine } Here if you replace the

Enlarging tenuto marks

2015-01-17 Thread David Sumbler
I find that tenuto lines in Lilypond are rather too thin and short. With the help of this list, as well as the Lilypond documentation, I am gradually starting to understand more about how Lilypond functions. So I was reasonably confident that I could at least increase the font size of tenuto

Printing titles at a consistent size

2015-01-18 Thread David Sumbler
My current project is a quartet. The score and each of the 4 parts are in separate \book blocks. I have #(set-global-staff-size 16) before the score \book, and #(set-global-staff-size 20) before the first of the 4 part \book blocks which follow. Today I turned my attention to formatting the

Re: Printing titles at a consistent size

2015-01-18 Thread David Sumbler
On Sun, 2015-01-18 at 11:25 -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi David, But is there perhaps a better way of getting the titles to appear the same size in the score and parts, despite the different staff sizes in the music that follows the titles? \markup \abs-fontsize … is your

Re: Printing titles at a consistent size

2015-01-18 Thread David Sumbler
On Sun, 2015-01-18 at 12:40 -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi David, I am getting a bizarre result: the titles in the score are as specified in my version of bookTitleMarkup; but although the parts have the correct font-sizes, both vertical spacing of the lines and horizontal spacing of

Re: rit. in Midi - was: Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 137, Issue 62

2015-02-15 Thread David Sumbler
From: Patrick Karl patrickk...@me.com Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 11:18:49 -0600 I think the most disturbiing thing is that \articulate is interpreting rit. to mean ritenuto rather than ritardando, which I think is the most common interpretation of rit.. It would be great if the tempo

Re: Key signature and key cancellation need to be aligned

2015-01-27 Thread David Sumbler
On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 20:26 +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: 2015-01-27 12:56 GMT+01:00 David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk: I use Staff.printKeyCancellation = ##f in my score. At one point the key changes from C major (concert) to C minor. As the piece is for a standard saxophone quartet

Key signature and key cancellation need to be aligned

2015-01-27 Thread David Sumbler
I use Staff.printKeyCancellation = ##f in my score. At one point the key changes from C major (concert) to C minor. As the piece is for a standard saxophone quartet, this means that 2 of the instruments change from D major (notated) to D minor, and the other 2 change from A major to A minor. A

Re: Key signature and key cancellation need to be aligned

2015-01-30 Thread David Sumbler
From: Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com To: David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk Cc: lilypond-user lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Key signature and key cancellation need to be aligned Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:21:15 +0100 2015-01-28 19:00 GMT+01:00 David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk

Re: Key signature and key cancellation need to be aligned

2015-01-28 Thread David Sumbler
2015-01-27 12:56 GMT+01:00 David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk: I use Staff.printKeyCancellation = ##f in my score. At one point the key changes from C major (concert) to C minor. As the piece is for a standard saxophone quartet, this means that 2 of the instruments change from D major

Adjusting the position of tempo indications

2015-01-12 Thread David Sumbler
The default position of tempo indications is, to my eye, rather too close to whatever is beneath them, be it a stave, a note or a slur. I have tried experimenting with \override TextScript #'padding = #4 and \override TextScript.padding = #4 (I was unsure of the syntax) just to see if I can

Re: Adjusting the position of tempo indications

2015-01-13 Thread David Sumbler
From: Dominic dominicirv...@gmail.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Adjusting the position of tempo indications Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 15:26:56 -0700 (MST) You probably need to adjust MetronomeMark.padding in the score context rather than TextScript.padding in the Staff context,

Levelling hairpins

2015-02-13 Thread David Sumbler
One of my pieces has a lot of crescendo-decrescendo markings, using two hairpins (i.e. and ). Mostly these look fine; but just occasionally, because of the contours of the melodic line above the hairpins, the crescendo and decrescendo hairpins have different vertical placements and are not

Re:Levelling hairpins

2015-02-14 Thread David Sumbler
From: Peter Gentry peter.gen...@sunscales.co.uk Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 20:53:15 - This is too well known to need an example, indeed one is given in the documentation http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/expressive-marks-attached-to-notes#dynamics where the

Re: Levelling hairpins

2015-02-14 Thread David Sumbler
It's probably a language thing... My use of the word 'shame' did not in any way imply that I think that anybody should feel shame, inadequacy or guilt for the fact that Lilypond does not always do what some of us would like. The English idiom it's a shame means the same as the similar it's a

Re: Levelling hairpins

2015-02-14 Thread David Sumbler
On Sat, 2015-02-14 at 15:41 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: It's probably a language thing... Indeed. I should have looked up the phrase before writing. Sorry. The link you included is very interesting - although I won't hold my breath, because I see that the discussion has been going on

Re:Levelling hairpins

2015-02-14 Thread David Sumbler
From: Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 14:15:35 +0100 Hi David, It's a shame that Lilypond does not (so far as I know) have any way to (a) associate one mark with another for positioning purposes This association can be done quite easily as you can see in my previous

Re: Condensing single-bar rests into a multi-measure rest

2015-01-03 Thread David Sumbler
From: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Condensing single-bar rests into a multi-measure rest Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 18:59:17 +0100 Am 03.01.2015 um 18:45 schrieb David Sumbler: From: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re

Re: Condensing single-bar rests into a multi-measure rest

2015-01-04 Thread David Sumbler
On Sun, 2015-01-04 at 09:26 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: I have now corrected my version of the combineMMRests function, but unfortunately it still leaves my output unaffected. I can see how something like this could work - unfortunately my understanding at this stage of Scheme and Lilypond

Changing vertical spacing in a column

2015-01-04 Thread David Sumbler
Before the start of the first staff system, I have the name of each instrument opposite the appropriate stave. The names are long, so I have arranged them vertically, e.g.: \set Staff.instrumentName = \markup { \center-column { Soprano Saxophone \line { in B \flat } } This is

Re: Changing vertical spacing in a column

2015-01-04 Thread David Sumbler
On Sun, 2015-01-04 at 20:22 +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: 2015-01-04 19:37 GMT+01:00 David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk: Before the start of the first staff system, I have the name of each instrument opposite the appropriate stave. The names are long, so I have arranged them vertically, e.g

Re: Non-printing score-wide dynamics

2015-03-15 Thread David Sumbler
On Wed, 2015-03-04 at 12:53 +, Kevin Barry wrote: On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:39 PM, David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk wrote: What I want is for the individual instruments' dynamics to remain with and apply to them, but simultaneously to allow any dynamics

Non-printing score-wide dynamics

2015-03-03 Thread David Sumbler
The first 2 bars of a score are as follows: invP = \tweak stencil ##f \p \parallelMusic #'(mid Vone Vtwo Va Vc) { % bar 0 \tempo 4 = 152 \partial 2 r2 | \tempo Allegro non troppo 4 = 152 \partial 2 r2 | \tempo Allegro non troppo 4 = 152 \partial 2 r2 | \tempo

Re: Non-printing score-wide dynamics

2015-03-04 Thread David Sumbler
about the mid context I'm not sure exactly what you have done, but it sounds like it's just a standalone music expression? I would need to see more code to be sure. Kevin On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 4:12 PM, David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk wrote: The first 2 bars of a score are as follows

Re: Dynamic mark at the end of a bar

2015-05-27 Thread David Sumbler
On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 12:47 -0500, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi David, On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:32 AM, David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk wrote: I often use 's1*0\!' to end a hairpin just before a barline. But how can a get a dynamic mark (e.g. 'ff') to appear

Re: Dynamic mark at the end of a bar

2015-05-27 Thread David Sumbler
On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 16:52 -0500, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi David, On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:03 PM, David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk wrote: But both of these are work-arounds for something which is actually fairly normal musical notation. They are work

Re: Dynamic mark at the end of a bar

2015-05-27 Thread David Sumbler
On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 22:14 +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk But both of these are work-arounds for something which is actually fairly normal musical notation. They are work-arounds because one method implies that a note

Re: Dynamic mark at the end of a bar

2015-06-02 Thread David Sumbler
Thanks to all for your consideration of the problem I have been having in placing a dynamic at the end of a bar. Stephen's 2 solutions are quite effective in some cases, but so far as I can see cannot be made to work when there is a single note (e.g. a semibreve) which has to carry the hairpin.

Re: Incomplete final bar with \parallelMusic

2015-05-25 Thread David Sumbler
On Mon, 2015-05-25 at 17:47 +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Monday, May 25, 2015 5:32 PM Subject: Incomplete final bar with \parallelMusic I am using the \parallelMusic entry for a string

Incomplete final bar with \parallelMusic

2015-05-25 Thread David Sumbler
I am using the \parallelMusic entry for a string quartet. At the beginning of the 1st movement (which is mostly in 4/4 time) there is a half bar before the first bar-line, which causes no problem because I have \partial 2 in each part. But the corresponding half bar at the end of the movement

Re: Incomplete final bar with \parallelMusic

2015-05-26 Thread David Sumbler
David Sumbler wrote Monday, May 25, 2015 5:32 PM I am using the \parallelMusic entry for a string quartet. At the beginning of the 1st movement (which is mostly in 4/4 time) there is a half bar before the first bar-line, which causes no problem because I have \partial 2 in each part

Dynamic mark at the end of a bar

2015-05-26 Thread David Sumbler
I often use 's1*0\!' to end a hairpin just before a barline. But how can a get a dynamic mark (e.g. 'ff') to appear at the end of a bar? In the following example, the first hairpin behaves as I want. The second one ends with a dynamic, but the new dynamic appears at the start of the following

Repeats in \parallelMusic

2015-08-25 Thread David Sumbler
Is there a way of using \repeat volta 2 and similar when using the \parallelMusic command? The following does not work: \version 2.18.0 \parallelMusic #'(Vone Vtwo) { %bar 1 \repeat volta 2 { d''1 | \repeat volta 2 { f'1 | %bar 2 c''1 } | e'1 } | } \score { \new Staff

Text-spanner text repeated at start of line

2015-10-26 Thread David Sumbler
I want to use a marking such as "accel.-alVivace". However, the following example does not do what I want, because the text is repeated at the start of each new line of music. I just want the dotted line to continue without repetition of the text. \version "2.19.24" \relative {

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 155, Issue 137

2015-10-29 Thread David Sumbler
Getting 40 newcomers to use Lilypond must be a record, I should think! Congratulations to you and Aymeric. I confess that I have only had a chance to watch the first couple of minutes of the video. And although I can read French pretty well, I would struggle with 2 hours of spoken French.

Re: Text-spanner text repeated at start of line

2015-10-27 Thread David Sumbler
tSpan-td180601.html > > > > Cheers, > > Pierre > > > > > > 2015-10-26 21:19 GMT+01:00 David Sumbler <da...@aeolia.co.uk>: > >> > >> I want to use a marking such as "accel.-alVivace". > >> > >> However, the following e

Re: Text-spanner text repeated at start of line

2015-10-27 Thread David Sumbler
OK - thanks for that information. And thanks to you and others for all the hard work that goes into Lilypond. David On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 10:35 -0500, David Nalesnik wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 9:54 AM, David Sumbler <da...@aeolia.co.uk> > wrote: Has a

Re: Text-spanner text repeated at start of line

2015-10-27 Thread David Sumbler
(for the umpteenth time) the whole of the Notation Reference. No doubt I shall be able to absorb many more details than I could the last time I did it. David On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 20:25 +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: > 2015-10-27 15:54 GMT+01:00 David Sumbler <da...@aeolia.co.uk>: > > Regardin

Re: Text-spanner text repeated at start of line

2015-11-16 Thread David Sumbler
\stopTextSpan fs g es fs es fs fs | } Thanks again. David On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 11:39 -0600, David Nalesnik wrote: > Hi David, > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 11:22 AM, David Sumbler <da...@aeolia.co.uk> > wrote: > I have now got around to trying to use >

Re: Text-spanner text repeated at start of line

2015-11-03 Thread David Sumbler
, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: > Hi David, > > > See : > http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Text-centralized-above-a-TextSpan-td180601.html > > > Cheers, > > Pierre > > 2015-10-26 21:19 GMT+01:00 David Sumbler <da...@aeolia.co.uk>: > I want to

Re: Tweaking a footnote

2015-10-08 Thread David Sumbler
ine { "*Theme by Louis > Drouet" } > c'4 > } > > > Cheers, > > Pierre > > > 2015-10-06 16:43 GMT+02:00 David Sumbler <da...@aeolia.co.uk>: > I want to annotate a particular passage with a footnote. > > S

Re: Handling of objects near barlines

2015-10-08 Thread David Sumbler
-10-05 19:49 GMT+02:00 David Sumbler <da...@aeolia.co.uk>: > > For a while I have been thinking about something which I feel could be a > > useful modification of Lilypond's behaviour. > > > > Lilypond defaults to standard choices for musical notation, which

Tweaking a footnote

2015-10-06 Thread David Sumbler
I want to annotate a particular passage with a footnote. So far I have managed to get what I want in the music itself with: \override Score.FootnoteItem.annotation-line = ##f \footnote "*" #'(0 . 3) "Theme by Louis Drouet" This produces an asterisk over the first note of the relevant passage,

Handling of objects near barlines

2015-10-05 Thread David Sumbler
For a while I have been thinking about something which I feel could be a useful modification of Lilypond's behaviour. Lilypond defaults to standard choices for musical notation, which generally saves a lot of work - for instance, it assumes that when we write c4 we want a standard crotchet to

Re: Repeats in \parallelMusic

2015-08-27 Thread David Sumbler
. David On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 17:12 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk writes: On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 14:10 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk writes: But suppose that the repeat should start in the middle of bar 1 and end in the middle

Re: Repeats in \parallelMusic

2015-08-26 Thread David Sumbler
On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 18:34 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk writes: Is there a way of using \repeat volta 2 and similar when using the \parallelMusic command? The following does not work: \version 2.18.0 \parallelMusic #'(Vone Vtwo) { %bar 1

Re: Repeats in \parallelMusic

2015-08-26 Thread David Sumbler
On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 14:10 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk writes: is it possible to have repeats starting and ending within a bar when using \parallelMusic? \version 2.18.0 \parallelMusic #'(Vone Vtwo) { %bar 1 \repeat volta 2 { d''2 d

Development or stable version?

2015-09-10 Thread David Sumbler
After recently asking about the use of \repeat inside \parallelMusic I was recommended to download to the latest "development" version of Lilypond. At the time I said I wouldn't do this, but would wait for the next "stable" version. But shortly afterwards, I realised that I needed to use

Clef symbol after a barline

2015-09-12 Thread David Sumbler
At a repeat, if there is a clef sign within the first-time-bar, then it is essential to restate the appropriate clef at the start of the second-time-bar - but of course the clef sign needs to come after the repeat barline, not before it in its usual position at a barline. I tried the solution

Unterminated tie

2015-09-12 Thread David Sumbler
I have yet another problem related to repeats. The piece I am setting has one instrument which is tied from the last note in the first-time-bar to the note at the start of the repeat. (Moving the repeats does not help, because there are a lot of overlapping ties.) I tried to produce an

RE: Clef symbol after a barline

2015-09-13 Thread David Sumbler
On Sat, 2015-09-12 at 14:10 -0700, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > David, > > Here is a snippet. I am not sure where it is located in the manual, V 2.18. > > \once \override Score.BreakAlignment #'break-align-orders = #(make-vector 3 > '( staff-bar > clef > key-cancellation > key-signature >

Re: Unterminated tie

2015-09-13 Thread David Sumbler
On Sun, 2015-09-13 at 00:46 +0200, Thomas Morley wrote: > 2015-09-13 0:11 GMT+02:00 David Sumbler <da...@aeolia.co.uk>: > > I have yet another problem related to repeats. The piece I am setting > > has one instrument which is tied from the last note in the > >

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-12 Thread David Sumbler
I guess I had better join in this "off"-topic. I use Lilypond and Emacs on Ubuntu 12.04. I previously use Score for the flute-and-harp arrangements that my former partner and I used to publish. I found learning to use Lilypond effectively much harder to than Score was. It's always much easier

Percent repeats within \parallelMusic

2015-10-01 Thread David Sumbler
The string quartet I have been working on has a few passages where one or more of the instruments are playing the same pattern for several bars in succession. In the score I want these to be written out in full, but in the parts I would like to use numbered "percent" repeat marks. The obvious

Re: Percent repeats within \parallelMusic

2015-10-02 Thread David Sumbler
t 10:23 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > David Sumbler <da...@aeolia.co.uk> writes: > > > The string quartet I have been working on has a few passages where one > > or more of the instruments are playing the same pattern for several bars > > in succession. > >

Controlling hairpin length

2015-12-12 Thread David Sumbler
Although I quite often find myself needing to use \override Voice.Hairpin.minimum-length = #2 or similar, I find that the results are unpredictable (to me!) Sometimes I have a very short hairpin, perhaps starting on a quaver and ending on the next quaver. In the output such a hairpin sometimes

Re: Extending staff lines through key change

2015-12-12 Thread David Sumbler
> > From: Cynthia Karl > > To: lilypond-user > > Subject: Extending staff lines through key change > > Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 15:41:32 -0600 > > > > I’m engraving a piece that ends with a D.C. al Fine. Also the key > > at the beginning of the piece is

Re: Strings as variable names

2015-12-28 Thread David Sumbler
> > From: David Kastrup > > To: Andrew Bernard > > Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org > > Subject: Re: Strings as variable names > > Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 12:51:51 +0100 > > > > Andrew Bernard writes: > > > > >

Re: Table of Contents: 2 problems

2015-11-29 Thread David Sumbler
Thank you for the help I received with this problem. I have finally had time to get back to the project, and have ended up with: \paper { inner-margin = 30\mm outer-margin = 30\mm print-page-number = ##f tocTitleMarkup = \markup { \vspace #10 \fontsize #6 \column {

Re: Aligning a tempo marking with a note

2015-11-20 Thread David Sumbler
The markings that have been discussed relate either to "dynamic" (e.g. "mf" or "dim.), or to tempo (e.g. "Allegro", rit."). They also indicate either a state ("mf", "Allegro") or a continuous change ("dim.", "rit."). Both "mf" and "Allegro" could apply to a whole piece lasting, say, half an

Re: Aligning a tempo marking with a note

2015-11-19 Thread David Sumbler
Thanks to all for the various suggestions on this topic. In particular, Kieren's suggestion is interesting. I must confess that, having been reading and playing music for a mere 63 years, I had to look up what the word "custos" means! As you can deduce, I've never really been "into" early

Changing first-system indent

2015-11-19 Thread David Sumbler
I have finally got to the stage of tidying up the score I have been working on. The top-level .ly file is structured like this: \book { \paper { *variables* } \bookpart { *titlepage* } \bookpart { \header { *variables* } \score { { *first-movement-music* } \header {

Re: Table of Contents: 2 problems

2015-11-21 Thread David Sumbler
Table of Contents, but for the preceding paragraphs of text on the > same page, you could use > > \override-lines #'(line-width . 100) { . . . } > > to affect those particular margins. > > Hwaen Ch'uqi > > > On 11/21/15, David Sumbler <da...@aeolia.co.uk> wrote: &g

Re: Table of Contents: 2 problems

2015-11-24 Thread David Sumbler
On Tue, 2015-11-24 at 14:47 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > David Sumbler <da...@aeolia.co.uk> writes: > > > I have experimented with elements from the all the suggestions made - > > thanks to all. One thing that has been confirmed is that my > > understanding

Re: Table of Contents: 2 problems

2015-11-24 Thread David Sumbler
). I have tried putting an old version number at the top of the snippet (e.g. "version" 2.16.1) and running convert.ly, but no significant changes are made to the file. How can I get this snippet to work? David On Sat, 2015-11-21 at 11:56 +, David Sumbler wrote: > I have not u

Re: Changing first-system indent

2015-11-19 Thread David Sumbler
Thanks for the answer to my query. I now see that this is mentioned in section 4.1.5 of the NR. The mistake I was making was in trying to put indent within a \paper block inside a \layout block. Best wishes David On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 15:31 +, Trevor Daniels wrote: > David, you wrote

Aligning a tempo marking with a note

2015-11-19 Thread David Sumbler
Although many scores use a similar italic font for "rit.", "accel." etc. as they do for dynamic changes such as "cresc.", I prefer to use an upright bold font - the same as for other tempo markings such as "Allegro". The easiest way for me to do this (at least until now) is to use '\tempo "rit."'

Table of Contents: 2 problems

2015-11-21 Thread David Sumbler
I have not used a Table of Contents before, and I am having some difficulty in getting the result I want. I have 2 problems. 1) I would like to have a dotted line between the title and the page number in each line. But if I use tocItemMarkup = \tocItemWithDotsMarkup then there does not seem

Repeated notes

2016-06-14 Thread David Sumbler
Is there a quick way to write repeated notes? I know that I can write  \repeat unfold 8 { bf8 } instead of  bf8 bf bf bf bf bf bf bf But is there a simpler way?  Perhaps something along the lines of  bf8*8 (which, as it stands, doesn't work, of course). David

Re: Repeated notes

2016-06-14 Thread David Sumbler
On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 19:01 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > David Sumbler <da...@aeolia.co.uk> writes: > > > > > Is there a quick way to write repeated notes? > > > > I know that I can write  > > > > \repeat unfold 8 { bf8 } > &

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