number of systems on a3 page

Hi, it seems I can't fit more than 8 systems of piano music on an a3 page, although at the bottom there is plenty of space. You can see the result here: http://icemserv.folkwang-hochschule.de/~finnendahl/download/lilytest.jpg It seems the layout doesn't produce systems beyond a certain point

Re: number of systems on a3 page

ok, thanks I'll try that. Am Friday, den 27. November 2009 um 14:31:23 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Federico Bruni: David Kastrup wrote: With the current developer version (2.13.9 or so), there are 12 systems per page with your input file. also with the last development version (2.13.8) there are

page breaking issues

Hi, I'm arranging piano parts for optimal page turning and have a lot of trouble getting it right by tweaking system sizes, inserting \break and \nobreak, adjusting system-count, recompiling and hoping that this time the pages break at the right place (just to find out that the page break I'm

Re: page breaking issues

Dear Alexander, thanks so much! -- Orm Am Wednesday, den 09. December 2009 um 13:07:06 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Alexander Kobel: Orm Finnendahl wrote: Hi, I'm arranging piano parts for optimal page turning and have a lot of trouble getting it right by tweaking system sizes, inserting \break

Math mode in lilypond?

Hi, I'm writing an introductory text to tuning systems and need to print mathematical expressions like roots, exponentials and such as markup. I would like to use TeX's capabilities for that but am not sure whether this can get integrated inline (without including the formulas as graphics or

printing Staff Symbol before \stopStaff

Hi, stopping a Staff at the beginning of a piece results in the clef and time signature being printed without the staff symbol. Is there a way to make the staff symbol appear *without* having to enter music (or to skip musical time) before the \stopStaff? Below is an example: I would like to

Re: Three questions about good German usage?

Am 29. Februar 2008, 23:56 Uhr (-0600) schrieb Trevor Bača: Hi, I have three questions about good German usage: 1. Are natürlichen Flageolettönen and künstlichen Flageolettönen the correct terms for natural and artificial harmonics? It is probably not wrong to use the term Flageoletton,

multimeasure rest on single line DrumStaff

Hi, I'm trying to input multimeasure rests on a single line DrumStaff. Unfortunately these rests are drawn above the stave (as the single line represents the middle b). How can I make this rest appear hanging on the single line instead of above it? (sorry if I'm missing the obvious). -- Orm

Re: multimeasure rest on single line DrumStaff

) { \time 9/8 R4.*3 } } } Does that have anything to do with the version I'm using,or am I doing it wrong? -- Orm Am 03. März 2008, 23:37 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Risto Vääräniemi: Hi Orm, On 03/03/2008, Orm Finnendahl wrote: I'm trying to input multimeasure rests on a single line DrumStaff

coloring dots (and ledger lines)

Hi, I'd like to color some notes in a piece but the dots aren't colored as well (see example below). I found an option called dot-color but can't get it to work. In addition I think it might be better to color the ledger lines as well, but don't know how to accomplish that either.. Can somebody

cross staff beams in choir staff

Hi, I'm trying to typeset cross staff notes on a 12-staff percussion system. Defining the staff systems as Staff and the StaffGroup as PianoStaff works well. Trying the same with ChoirStaff and the individual Staff systems as DrumStaff results in lots of errors and the beams and staff lines not

Re: cross staff beams in choir staff

Hi Neil, Am 14 Mär schrieb Neil Puttock: Hi Orm, Would you mind posting a minimal example which demonstrates the problems you're having? Sure. The first attached file works, the second doesn't (and neither works with DrumStaff instead of Staff). Please try it out. Maybe my lilypond version

double fermata

Hi, on DrumStaffs I get two fermatas on multimeasure rests, normal Staffs work as expected (see below and attached pdf). Am I doing something wrong? \version 2.11.42 \score { \new DrumStaff { R1^\fermataMarkup} \new Staff { R1^\fermataMarkup} } -- Orm test.pdf Description:

Re: double fermata

\remove Multi_measure_rest_engraver \consists Multi_measure_rest_engraver } } (If you think it looks strange, the problem was that the engraver was added twice and when you do \remove it removes both copies so you have to add one back afterwards.) /Mats Orm Finnendahl

Re: Adding an extra staff

Hi Alistair, Am Dienstag, den 26. August 2008 um 11:47:07 Uhr (+0200) schrieb alistair zaldua: and that didn't work. Where should I type the notes for the middle bar ? what you're trying to do seems to be creating a staff system on the fly, but the code shows a staff system which is

change temporarily to custom clef

Hi, in contemporary music sometimes unusual Clefs are temporarily used within a piece (for example for string instruments clefs where notes indicate the contact point of the bow between fingerboard and bridge). I guess for designing custom clefs one has to define a custom font but I wonder

contemporary accidental style

Hi, for years I'm sorely missing an accidental style for contemporary music, which I always use and which is quite common among contemporary composers in my experience. At the moment it requires quite some extra work in every score implementing the accidentals explicitely although its behaviour

Re: contemporary accidental style

Am Montag, den 21. Mai 2012 um 15:37:33 Uhr (+0200) schrieb David Kastrup: \accidentalStyle neo-modern does not match your requirements? its close, but the immediate repetition is the problem. I encounter calls by musicians quite often if I don't explicitely restate the accidental (even if

Re: contemporary accidental style

Am Montag, den 21. Mai 2012 um 15:58:14 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Jan Nieuwenhuizen: Question is: is neo-modern used and appreciated as it works right now and do we indeed need a contemporary style, or should neo-modern behave like Orm describes? I would opt for that. The only situation, I know of,

Re: contemporary accidental style

Am Montag, den 21. Mai 2012 um 16:18:16 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Orm Finnendahl: The example for neo-modern in the documentation actually is an excellent example for a situation where the musician has to ask about the second fis because it's not obvious if the accidental has been accidentally

Re: vibrato squiggle

Am Mittwoch, den 20. Juni 2012 um 08:46:33 Uhr (+0200) schrieb m...@apollinemike.com: If you google vibster lilypond, there used to be a snippet for 2.12 that did something like this. I'm not sure if it works in 2.14. doesn't seem to work here: GNU LilyPond 2.14.2 Processing

arrow notehead and articulation

Hi, I'm trying to replace a notehead above the staff by an arrow indicating a very high pitch. Here is my code, resulting in the attached example png: pfeileins = { \once \override NoteHead #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \once \override NoteHead #'stem-attachment = #'( 0.1 . 1 )

Re: arrow notehead and articulation

''' { \pfeileins f-. \pfeilzwei f-. } grüße aus Berlin, Jeff Treviño On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Orm Finnendahl [1]o.finnend...@inm.mh-freiburg.de wrote: Hi,  I'm trying to replace a notehead above the staff by an arrow indicating a very high pitch. Here is my

Re: arrow notehead and articulation

Hi Nathan, great, thanks a lot! -- Orm Am Dienstag, den 20. November 2012 um 08:40:03 Uhr (-0800) schrieb Nathan: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Orm Finnendahl [1]o.finnend...@inm.mh-freiburg.de wrote: Hi,  I'm trying to replace a notehead above the staff by an arrow

cvs-compile fails

Trying to compile lilypond from todays cvs gives the following error: make PACKAGE=LILYPOND package=lilypond -C user all make PACKAGE=LILYPOND package=lilypond -C bibliography all make PACKAGE=LILYPOND package=lilypond -C pictures all make PACKAGE=LILYPOND package=lilypond -C topdocs all

point and click

Hi, point and click doesn't seem to work as expected. After setting up xpdfrc, EDITOR (and, to be sure LYEDITOR), and clicking into the score, I get the following error in emacs: ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path: ERROR: Unable to find file ice-9/boot-9.scm in load path boot-9.scm is on

kick xpdf in lilypond-mod.el

Hi, I'm trying to get a tighter integration between emacs-snapshot and xpdf by starting up xpdf in server mode (with the -remote switch, one for each *.ly buffer) and kicking the current document rather than restarting a new xpdf process. Can someone give an advice how to integrate that

Re: point and click

Am 02. März 2006, 23:40 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: which version ? 2.7.36., which comes with guile 1.8.0 (in /usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin) The problem was solved in the meantime by setting GUILE_LOAD_PATH. I made a wrapper script for lilypond to keep my guile 1.6 usable. -- Orm

lilypond-mode.el

Hi, it seems an old bug concerning lilypond-mode in emacs-snapshot is still lurking in lilypond-mode.el: Wrong type argument: arrayp, nil I found a report on the net dating from last July that it has been fixed in lilypond-cvs, but the lilypond-install.sh of 2.7.32 still got it and using the

moving rest vertically

Hi, trying to input my first complete piece with lilypond (Bach's Prelude #20 from the WTC I), I stumbled across a rather trivial problem: A 32nd rest in a polyphonic 2nd voice collides with a note in the first voice. Can someone give me a hint how to move that rest down by 1 or 2 staff lines? I

mail delay

Hi, can anybody confirm that mail takes about 2 days to get to the list? Is there a way to accelerate this somehow? -- Orm ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: line breaks

Am 15. M�rz 2006, 10:53 Uhr (-0700) schrieb Paul Scott: Are there musical cases where you can have more beats in a bar than the time signature indicates? In Renaissance Polphonic Music, syncopations in individual voices are often written without ties, even across barlines for legibility.

Re: Guitar notation

So you say that it is impollible to have 2 diagrams in one line, with only one cm space between And in the next line have four diagrams with also one cm space between? Thats what I am looking for... Very sad, if it is not possible... Try putting this somewhere into your layout definition:

Re: Guitar notation

Am 15. März 2006, 23:15 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Jannik Jeppesen: Hi... I added the code, and it helped. But can I somehow change the space between the diagrams by using the code ragged-right = ##t? No, you can't use ragged-right for that purpose. You have to insert some padding between the

uninstalling 2.7.36

Hi, Before upgrading to 2.8 I'd like to uninstall the current 2.7.36 Is there any clean way to do this? It was installed using 'sh lilypond-2.7.36-1.linux.sh' Another related issue: I suspect the installscript to miss the proper setup of font installations for tex: When using lilypond-book,

Re: uninstalling 2.7.36

/local/bin/lilypond.python /usr/local/bin/lilypond.guile /usr/local/lilypond/ assuming that you installed the files in /usr/local/ /Mats Quoting Orm Finnendahl [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Before upgrading to 2.8 I'd like to uninstall the current 2.7.36 Is there any clean way to do

Re: uninstalling 2.7.36

Regarding lilybook, I found the culprit: ps2pdf seems to get rid of the noteheads. The Postscript file is fine. I guess this is related to the ghostscript version on my machine (7.07). Unfortunately updating ghostscript is a non-trivial task and there is no newer version for my distro (Ubuntu)

satb and pianoreduction

Hi, following the example given in the docs I typeset a 4 voice piece with automatic transcription of the 4 voices in a piano staff. Unfortunately the piece starts in the soprano with a stem-down note (the other voices resting). In the piano reduction, this voice retains the stem direction

lilypond-mode.el

Hi, before delving into the depths of it: Has anybody got the lilypond-mode.el working in terms of autocompletion and cursor movement under gnu emacs? I tried with emacs21 and emacs-gtk (Version 22) without success. Syntax highlighting seems to work, but pressing M-C-p or M-C-n gets me to the

Re: lilypond-mode.el

Am 30. März 2006, 05:57 Uhr (-0500) schrieb Geoff Horton: In addition Tab doesn't auto-complete but rather indents the current line... I'm pretty sure this is the intended behavior. snippet from lilypond-mode.el (if (string-match XEmacs\\|Lucid emacs-version) (define-key

Re: satb and pianoreduction

Thanks Martial! Am 31. M�rz 2006, 19:19 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Martial: well Is it really not possible to force a rest there? The way the pianostaff is rendered is misleading and orthographically plain wrong. try this : % \partcombine \global

Re: Change pdf viewer on mac

A couple of days ago I posted a modified lilypond-mode.el which takes advantage of xpdf's -remote option which does what you're asking for. It only works if you use emacs, though... -- Orm Am 02. April 2006, 02:02 Uhr (+) schrieb Mark A: Is there any way to customize the pdf viewer that

spanners not showing up

Hi, sorry, if that has been discussed before. In the following example, there are two glissandos with an end arrow between each f and g, but only the second one is showing up. This is obviously due to lilypond's spacing decisions, not leaving enough space for the first gliss sign (see attached

Re: spanners not showing up

Am Freitag, den 01. März 2013 um 19:20:25 Uhr (-) schrieb Phil Holmes: Checkout glissando on: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/spanners Thanks and sorry for the noise. I should have found that myself... ___ lilypond-user

Re: Multi column page setup

Hi Hanns Holger, below is a minimal example (with a layout block for each column for illustration how to specify different layout settings for each column). You can extend it to as many columns you want. There is a major drawback though: You can't have lilypond figure out page breaking as the

xpdf broken on ubuntu

Hi, are there any recommendations for a stand-alone lilypond point-and-click capable pdf viewer for current ubuntu distros? xdf seems to be deprecated (see discussion: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xpdf/+bug/943195). Are there any emacs-cooperative alternatives (without having to

Re: xpdf broken on ubuntu

Am Sonntag, den 07. April 2013 um 09:43:30 Uhr (+0200) schrieb David Kastrup: I think I also saw some recipe for getting evince to work with pointclick when doing a web search, but it involved meddling with the gconf configuration of either evince or GNOME's URI handlers. That could be a way

Re: xpdf broken on ubuntu

Hi Mark, Am Sonntag, den 07. April 2013 um 16:48:14 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Mark Knoop: https://github.com/markk/textedit-ly Thanks that was really helpful (especially the apparmor part! Ubuntu seems to gradually digress into some bugridden version of Windows...). I adapted everything to work

Re: xpdf broken on ubuntu

Am Montag, den 08. April 2013 um 08:47:45 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Mark Knoop: If you can send me that script and documentation I'll include it in the git repo. ok, here you go: Configuring evince as the default pdf viewer in emacs with lilypond-mode: 1. Put mimeapps.list and textedit.dektop into

voice context on the fly and lyrics

Hi, in the example below, I'm trying to create a Voice context on the fly and add lyrics to it. It doesn't seem to do what I would expect. The attached png shows my output (lilypond 2.13.43 on Linux). My questions: 1. Why are the b and a eigth notes rendered simultaneously with the c on

Re: How to generate small example PNGs

Hi Ralf, did you try the -dclipsystems option? Its explained in 3.4.1 of the notation reference (Extracting fragments of music). -- Orm Am Thursday, den 23. June 2011 um 10:06:47 Uhr (+) schrieb Ralf Mattes: Hello list, for a webproject with music examples I need to create PNG files

Instrument Names for Staff Groups?

Hello, I'm trying to typeset a piece for 4 Percussionists. Each of them will use 4 \Staffs combined into a \StaffGroup: 2 percussion staffs and a combined bass/treble \PianoStaff for Mallets. I would like to have the name Percussion 1 printed in front of the whole group, vertically centered and

Re: Instrument Names for Staff Groups?

Hi Trevor, thanks a lot, worked right away! -- Orm Am Tuesday, den 21. September 2010 um 23:02:02 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Trevor Daniels: You need to add the Instrument_name_engraver to StaffGroup, and also set shortInstrumentName. See

Instrument Names for Staff Groups?

Hello, I'm trying to typeset a piece for 4 Percussionists. Each of them will use 4 \Staffs combined into a \StaffGroup: 2 percussion staffs and a combined bass/treble \PianoStaff for Mallets. I would like to have the name Percussion 1 printed in front of the whole group, vertically centered and

starting music with an acciaccatura

Hi all, starting a score with an \acciaccatura gives unintended results in the following example on my machine: \version 2.13.23 \score { \new PianoStaff { \new Staff { \clef G \acciaccatura { c'16[ c'16] } c'16- r8. } \new Staff { \clef bass c4 } } \layout {} } As the

empty Staff context and vertical spacing

Hi, when using \RemoveEmptyStaffContext, between-system-padding and between-system-space seem to have no effect, the staff systems are squeezed together with seemingly no vertical space between them. Sorry if I'm missing the obvious. I tried to find information in the doca about that but didn't

Re: empty Staff context and vertical spacing

Hi Xavier, Thanks a lot, I wasn't aware of the change and will look into it. -- Orm Am Tuesday, den 12. October 2010 um 10:52:06 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Xavier Scheuer: The vertical spacing system has changed from 2.12 to 2.13. You have to use a syntax like between-system-spacing = #'((space

ps to pdf conversion fails

Hi, a file I could typeset yesterday now fails on the conversion to pdf with the following error: `gs -q -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=841.89 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=1190.55 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=./schnell-pno01.pdf -c .setpdfwrite -f

ottava bracket and fingering

Hi, the fingering of columns is placed outside the ottava bracket in the following example: \version 2.13.43 \new Staff { \relative c''' { \override OttavaBracket #'outside-staff-priority = #20 \override OttavaBracket #'staff-padding = #60 \override OttavaBracket #'y-offset = #60

Re: ps to pdf conversion fails

Am Saturday, den 18. December 2010 um 11:23:17 Uhr (-) schrieb Phil Holmes: This normally occurs when it's not possible to delete the previous version of the PDF - often because it's open in a PDF viewer. Try deleting the old version and see if that fixes it. Thanks !!! -- Orm

including eps file

Hi, In lilypond 2.8.4 I'm trying to attach an eps file above a staff with the \epsfile markup command. the eps file gets included, but seems to be anchored to the bottom of the page instead of being related to the staff no matter how I change the parameters of the markup. I attach the lilypond

Re: including eps file

Am 30. Mai 2006, 02:45 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: Strange, I can't really get anything to appear. Did you scroll down all the way to the bottom of the page? In the code example only the eps gets displayed without the staff system (which probably is shifted off the page). Are you

Re: including eps file

Am 30. Mai 2006, 11:52 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Mats Bengtsson: One thing I noticed is that you set the bounding box to include lots of whitespace, which probably explains why it fills the whole page and shifts the music off the page. I don't think so. The bounding box is a4 landscape wide (842)

Re: including eps file

Hi, I still couldn't get anywhere concerning the eps issue. I tried to post the eps file which caused the error to the list, but since it is a bitmap, it's too huge for the list. I also don't think it helps trying to solve the lilypond error using a bitmap eps which will not get used anyway. Can

Re: including eps file

Hi Han-Wen, Am 31. Mai 2006, 13:38 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: see http://lilypond.org/~hanwen/eps-demo.zip I can't get the barlow.ly example to compile. the log file is attached. gs version is 8.15.2 on my machine. -- Orm ___

Re: including eps file

Hi Han-Wen, sorry, forgot the attachment... Am 31. Mai 2006, 13:38 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: see http://lilypond.org/~hanwen/eps-demo.zip I can't get the barlow.ly example to compile. the log file is attached. gs version is 8.15.2 on my machine. -- Orm

neo-mensural time signatures

Hi, I'm trying to typeset a piece of renaissance music in neomensural style and would like to use the neo-mensural time signature glyphs. Unfortunately they are preset to decode 3/2 or 2/2 bars although the tempus imperfectum or perfectum should get translated into 2 or 3 semibrevis which means

Re: neo-mensural time signatures

Am 27. Juli 2006, 16:57 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Mats Bengtsson: See the first example in the section on Polymetric notation for information on how to modify the time signature with whatever text markup. Thanks a lot. Do you know, what the Text markup would be to get the neomensural signs printed

neomensural time signature

Hi, I'm still trying to get the neomensural timesignatures into my score. does anybody have a clue on ow to get the glyphs into a text markup so I can use it for 3/1 and 2/1 measures? -- Orm PS: I use lilypond 2.8.0 ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: neomensural time signature

usage of the timesignatures the way they are now in practice. Yours, Orm Am 28. Juli 2006, 10:02 Uhr (-0700) schrieb Daniel Johnson: Orm Finnendahl wrote: Hi, I'm still trying to get the neomensural timesignatures into my score. does anybody have a clue on ow to get the glyphs into a text

changing proportional notation duration in mid-line

Hi, I would like to change the amount of horizontal space for a specified duration in the middle of a line (reflecting a tempo change) globally (without having to deal with compress music for each staff). Is there a way to override the setting of Score.proportionalNotationDuration on the fly, or

parametrized macros

Hi, can someone point me to the documentation of parametrized definitions? Here's what I want to do: I need to set time signatures above the score without using horizontal space. Therefore I removed the time signature engraver and added a markup at each bar with a changed time signature like

Re: changing proportional notation duration in mid-line

Am 06. November 2006, 13:09 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Mats Bengtsson: Just as any other context property, you can set it with \set. Example: \relative c'{ c d e f g f e d \set Score.proportionalNotationDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 64 ) c d e f g f e d \unset

placing of artificial harmonic

Hi, I'm trying to write a doublestop in a violin piece, where on note is played as an artificail harmonic. In the sequence 'eih d g \harmonic4' The harmonic is placed above the 'eih' but should be placed above the 'd'. Is there any way to either flip the noteheads of the eih and d or move the

Re: placing of artificial harmonic

Am 16. November 2006, 09:40 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Mats Bengtsson: To make a single note in a chord invisible, you have to use the \tweak feature: eih d g \harmonic \tweak #'transparent ##t f 4 thanks, that worked. Unfortunately that creates a new problem: Tieing two such chords together creates

pitchedTrill

Hi, I need to do a pitchedTrill, where the bracketed pitch has to be played as a harmonic. Using \pitchedTrill f aih2~\startTrillSpan gis \harmonic f aih4~ \stopTrillSpan results in an error. In addition another pitched Trill with an es above the staff (third ledger line) doesn't display the

Re: changing proportional notation duration in mid-line

Am 20. November 2006, 11:50 Uhr (-0600) schrieb Trevor Bača: Additionally, as of the 2.9 series there's a \newSpacingSection command available that might be useful if the spacing characteristics of the piece change for a define period of time. The 2.10 NEWS file gives an example. Thanks for

Re: colliding accidentals

Hi, I finally found a way to avoid the collision of the accidentals by moving the notes in different voices, shifting the notehead and making the stem invisible in one of the voices and moving the accidental with tweaking the extra-offset property of the accidental. Now the moved accidental

Re: broken crescendo

Am 23. November 2006, 10:26 Uhr (-0800) schrieb Graham Percival: Sure! http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/ o.k. I put it up there. It's called Broken Crescendo Hairpin and should be accessible by tomorrow (if I understood the system correctly). If you find the title misleading, just go ahead and

Re: which language for programming

Am 28. November 2006, 08:56 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Jean-marc LEGRAND: So Santa Claus will have to find a good book on that ! Regarding scheme I would recommend the following two books. You can actually get them electronically in full text (no need to wait for Santa Claus ;-):

brackets around noteheads

Hi, I would like to write noteheads with brackets around them (preferably square brackets) without using Markup commands, as most of them have to be on ledger lines and it is very awkward to get those drawn. It would be very nice to enter the notes in question using a new voice context in order

Re: brackets around noteheads

-offsets or such. -- Orm Am 02. Dezember 2006, 15:16 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Orm Finnendahl: Hi, I would like to write noteheads with brackets around them (preferably square brackets) without using Markup commands, as most of them have to be on ledger lines and it is very awkward to get those

DynamicLineSpanner padding

Hi, I observed a nasty behaviour trying to set the #'padding property of the DynamicLineSpanner: The \p and \pp are not baseline-aligned with the \ff or \mf. Has this been reported before? To me this looks like something which should rather get corrected in lilypond itself than cluttering the

Re: DynamicLineSpanner padding

in this case is to use empty spaces for the edge textes and then do simple text markup, shifting the text around with padding, which is unlikely to be the purpose of the edge-text property. Should I file that as a bug report somewhere? -- Orm Am 02. Dezember 2006, 17:02 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Orm

a2 paper

Hi, it seems, lilypond can't deal with a paper size of a2. It reports an error if trying teh following: #(set-default-paper-size a2) \paper { #(set-paper-size a2) left-margin = 2 \cm right-margin = 1 \cm indent = 0 \cm } If the paper size is set to a3 lilypond outputs the

passing music symbols to define-music-function

Hi, how is it possible to write music functions which use symbols as parameters which get interpreted as pitch entities by the function? I made three examples below to illustrate the problem. The third works but is less than ideal in the lilypond source as the main purpose of the definition is

proportional notation

Hi, trying to convince lilypond to keep the proportional notation correct is very time-consuming (ca. 1/2 hour for one line; sigh!). It is especially hard to figure out, why the second value of the ly:make-moment form sometimes has to get doubled in order to make a bar stretch out 10% more than

proportional notation screws up score

Hi, it seems proportional notation and the spacing is more broken than I ever expected. I'm extremely frustrated (especially after I put so much hope into lilypond) having spent 5 days to enter 12 lines of music and now having lost 4 hours of work trying to space 4 lines of music correctly (with

Re: passing music symbols to define-music-function

Thanks for the help! I'll look into it. For those interested: I found a workaround for now in the following way: bracket = #(define-music-function (parser location note ) (ly:music? ) #{ \once\override TrillSpanner #'transparent = ##t \pitchedTrill s32 \startTrillSpan $note s32

Re: proportional notation screws up score

Hi Trevor, Han-Wen, thanks a lot for your efforts to help me out and thanks a lot for your ideas and thoughts! Sorry if I sounded desperate. Trevor's post seems to indicate that it might not work out to get everything perfectly aligned (although I was very close for the first three lines before

Re: DynamicLineSpanner padding

Hi Mats, thanks for the reply. Am 03. Dezember 2006, 20:33 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Mats Bengtsson: This problem has been discussed before and in the mailing list archives do you have any idea how the thread was called? I presume, the workaround is similar to using a \strut box in TeX? -- Orm

Re: proportional notation screws up score

for the loss, ideally the error should get stretched out over a couple of notes to make it look nicer. -- Orm Am 03. Dezember 2006, 15:26 Uhr (-0600) schrieb Trevor Bača: On 12/3/06, Orm Finnendahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Trevor, Han-Wen, thanks a lot for your efforts to help me out and thanks

uniform-stretching

Hi, I tried the uniform-stretching property but couldn't get it to work as expected. If I understand this property correctly, it should stretch out bars according to their time-signature regardless of skips or rests within. This fails (e.g. the first measure should be much wider than the second,

Re: uniform-stretching

Hi Trevor, The mailserver of my ISP was down for 14 hours, sorry for the late response. Thanks a lot for all your time and effort! The last example you sent works pretty well here now except for the first measure (4/4). It takes about the same amount of space as the following 3/8 measure.

Re: uniform-stretching

Hi Trevor, Han-Wen, Note to Orm then that we should remember to try the sample score example on 2.11.2 when it releases. Thanks a lot for the fix Han-Wen! When will be the release of 2.11.2? I'm a little reluctant to compile myself and would rather do the spacing part of the work with the

text markup above eps-graphic

Hi, below is an example to show my problem with 2.11.2. In order to make it work you will have to put the attached eps-file in the same folder as the example. The second time signature was below the graph in 2.11.0 All time signatures should be horizontally aligned. Maybe I'm doing it wrong

Re: uniform-stretching

Hi Han-Wen, Am 16. Dezember 2006, 16:48 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: segfaults are always serious errors. Please send the offending input. This caused the segfault: \acciacatura s32 It worked in 2.11.0 but for this score I found a way around it. Do you know why the markup is

Re: uniform-stretching

Hi Graham, thanks for the notes. Am 24. Dezember 2006, 05:48 Uhr (-0800) schrieb Graham Percival: \acciacatura s32 Do you mean \acciaccatura ? When complaining about a bug, please include a complete example that we can compile (or in this case, not compile). I can't reproduce the

thoughts

Hi, I just wanted to add to my recent comments. It might seem that my posts are unadequately critical. Although they are fueled by my frustration using the program I want to make clear that I really appreciate the tremendous and excellent work which has been done so far by the developers! Part

Re: thoughts

Am 28. Dezember 2006, 17:59 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: numbers and underscores do make things easier to read, but it makes things hard to parse. Consider: c4_\staccato_\markup { bla } does this reference \staccato or \staccato_ ? Underscores make most sense in the middle of

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