Re: display chords (Ami7(b5))

2009-02-22 Thread Tim McNamara
On Feb 22, 2009, at 8:02 AM, Grammostola Rosea wrote: Hi, How do I make chords with the 5th an half tone lower or higher (e.g. b5 or #5)? for example Am7(b5) or D7(#5) I just asked this same question a couple of weeks ago. The standard way would be: Am7(b5) for two beats =

Re: display chords (Ami7(b5))

2009-02-22 Thread Tim McNamara
On Feb 22, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Grammostola Rosea wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: On Feb 22, 2009, at 8:02 AM, Grammostola Rosea wrote: Hi, How do I make chords with the 5th an half tone lower or higher (e.g. b5 or #5)? for example Am7(b5) or D7(#5) I just asked this same question

Re: NR one big page is messed up

2009-02-25 Thread Tim McNamara
On Feb 25, 2009, at 10:50 PM, Chip wrote: The most recent attempt to load the web page docs - http:// lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-big-page - throws up this error message - Content Encoding Error The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an

Parenthesizing chord names

2009-02-28 Thread Tim McNamara
A common jazz lead sheet convention is to parenthesize optional chords written over the melody staff. An example is a turnaround at the end of a song that is not played the last time through. For example in Easy Living the turnaround over the last two bars of the second ending is (using

Re: transpose leadsheet (chords + melody)

2009-03-01 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 1, 2009, at 8:31 AM, Grammostola Rosea wrote: Hi, How do I transpose leadsheet? Chords and melody? With the \transpose command where you've defined the melody and the harmony. It works spectacularly well IMHO, really for me one of the biggest selling points of using LilyPond.

Re: transpose leadsheet (chords + melody)

2009-03-02 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 2, 2009, at 2:38 AM, Francisco Vila wrote: 2009/3/1 Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net: To transpose a song down a whole step, say from F major to Eb major, the syntax would be: \transpose c bes (or however the language you are using signifies a Bb) Be careful here, because

Re: emacs lilypond-mode and the midi command

2009-03-07 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 7, 2009, at 4:05 AM, James E. Bailey wrote: On OSX, the lilypond mode for emacs doesn't properly escape filenames. open -a 'Mighty MIDI' /Users/jamesebailey/Documents/James Music/ Choral Music/Windhauch/Windhauch.midi 2009-03-07 10:59:31.767 open[465] No such file: /Users/jamesebailey/

Emacs lilypond-mode or possibly Bash glitch

2009-03-07 Thread Tim McNamara
When I try to compile a .ly file in lilypond-mode, it fails with the message: -*- mode: compilation; default-directory: ~/Desktop/Downloads/Music Charts/Lilypond Charts/Dead Tunes/Days Between/ -*- Compilation started at Sat Mar 7 10:22:25 lilypond /Users/tim/Desktop/Downloads/Music\

Fwd: emacs lilypond-mode and the midi command

2009-03-07 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 7, 2009, at 4:05 AM, James E. Bailey wrote: On OSX, the lilypond mode for emacs doesn't properly escape filenames. open -a 'Mighty MIDI' /Users/jamesebailey/Documents/James Music/ Choral Music/Windhauch/Windhauch.midi 2009-03-07 10:59:31.767 open[465] No such file: /Users/

Re: Emacs lilypond-mode or possibly Bash glitch

2009-03-08 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 7, 2009, at 10:45 AM, James E. Bailey wrote: On 07.03.2009, at 17:29, Tim McNamara wrote: When I try to compile a .ly file in lilypond-mode, it fails with the message: -*- mode: compilation; default-directory: ~/Desktop/Downloads/ Music Charts/Lilypond Charts/Dead Tunes/Days

Re: Emacs lilypond-mode or possibly Bash glitch

2009-03-08 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 7, 2009, at 10:45 AM, James E. Bailey wrote: On 07.03.2009, at 17:29, Tim McNamara wrote: When I try to compile a .ly file in lilypond-mode, it fails with the message: -*- mode: compilation; default-directory: ~/Desktop/Downloads/ Music Charts/Lilypond Charts/Dead Tunes/Days

Re: midi2ly on Mac OS X

2009-03-28 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 28, 2009, at 12:00 PM, James E. Bailey wrote: Am 27.03.2009 um 00:04 schrieb istlota: As it turns out, midi2ly is bundled inside of the MAC OS lilypond.app file. The trick is knowing how to access it. Here is a link to instructions on how to access midi2ly on a MAC:

Re: Real-world usage of Lilypond

2009-04-08 Thread Tim McNamara
On Apr 8, 2009, at 9:27 PM, Wei-Wei Guo wrote: Hi Kieren, Thanks. I think maybe I know how to do now. I've been looking into the link several times, but never gotten any sense. My problem might be too unfamiliar with Lilypond. PS. Why doesn's Lilypond provide a easy-to-use mechanism for

Re: Real-world usage of Lilypond

2009-04-09 Thread Tim McNamara
On Apr 9, 2009, at 1:38 AM, Wei-Wei Guo wrote: I don't know there are many different systems. I'm working on a songbook for our family church, but I have little knowledge of music. So I started learning music script about a month ago. Since it's difficult for me to remember and

Re: Lilypond can't compile

2009-04-22 Thread Tim McNamara
On Apr 22, 2009, at 7:48 PM, Sávio M. Ramos wrote: Hi, Lilypond can't compile, the error message: Compilation started at Wed Apr 22 21:26:17 xpdf /home/asd/a_asd/zz_varios/musica/savio/bach.pdf Error: Couldn't open file '/home/asd/a_asd/zz_varios/musica/savio/ bach.pdf'

N.C. symbol?

2009-05-08 Thread Tim McNamara
I need to be able to put a symbol for no chord (such as N.C.) on several lead sheets and can't find a simple way to do it. Or, really, any way which I find even remotely comprehensible. It seems like it ought to be possible- and that the simplest way would be- to put something like:

Re: N.C. symbol?

2009-05-08 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 8, 2009, at 3:30 PM, Martial wrote: Hello use chordNameExceptions http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=309 %% \version 2.12.2 % Whiteout hide the chordname NCString = { c e g-\markup { \whiteout { \hspace #2 NC } } } ChrdExcep = #(append

Re: printing rest in ChordNames context

2009-05-13 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 13, 2009, at 11:11 PM, James E. Bailey wrote: Am 13.05.2009 um 23:07 schrieb Stjepan Brbot: Simon Bailey-2 wrote: hi zoli, Zoltan Kota wrote: Is it possible somehow to display rest symbols in a ChordNames context? yes. use: \score \context ChordNames \with { \consists

Re: printing rest in ChordNames context

2009-05-14 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 14, 2009, at 1:03 AM, Marc Hohl wrote: Tim McNamara schrieb: [...] In jazz lead sheets, the usual method is to write N.C. above the staff (No Chord) which cues the chordal instruments and rhythm section to stop playing to allow the break. There's a workaround that Martial wrote

Re: printing rest in ChordNames context

2009-05-14 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 14, 2009, at 9:12 AM, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: 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

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-15 Thread Tim McNamara
I'm not sure that the relative mode gets forgotten but that LilyPond follows its own internal rules. I find that LilyPond behaves the way that the manual says it does: it picks the closest pitch. If I write { c2 a2 } it picks the A below that C rather than the A above that C. If I want

Re: Complex chords

2009-05-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 15, 2009, at 6:45 AM, Stjepan Brbot wrote: How to achieve these complex chords: C+5 (instead of C+) Cdim (instead of Co) Cmaj8 (instead of triangle) and chord transition from G7/4-3 as show on image attached http://www.nabble.com/file/p23558140/slika.jpeg You need to define

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 15, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Chip wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: I'm not sure that the relative mode gets forgotten but that LilyPond follows its own internal rules. I find that LilyPond behaves the way that the manual says it does: it picks the closest pitch. If I write { c2 a2

Creating harmonized lines

2009-05-15 Thread Tim McNamara
Is LilyPond capable of generating harmonized lines of notes? For example, say I have: \key g \major \melody { c8 d8 e8 fis8 g1 } for one instrument and I want a second instrument to play a harmonized line a third up from that (e.g., { e8 fis8 g8 a8 b1 } ), is there a command for LilyPond

Re: Creating harmonized lines

2009-05-17 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 16, 2009, at 2:36 AM, Tao Cumplido wrote: Take a look at this threads, there are several slightly different versions of modal and diatonic transpose functions. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-12/msg00805.html

Re: Creating harmonized lines

2009-05-17 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 17, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Marc Hohl wrote: Tim McNamara schrieb: On May 17, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Marc Hohl wrote: Tim McNamara schrieb: On May 16, 2009, at 2:36 AM, Tao Cumplido wrote: Take a look at this threads, there are several slightly different versions of modal and diatonic

(Retry) LilyPond ignoring \break... what did I do wrong?

2009-05-17 Thread Tim McNamara
Apologies if this is a duplicate, it did not seem to get relayed through the server the first time I sent it. I'm doing an arrangement of a song for a jazz ensemble. I am finding that LilyPond is ignoring one of the manual line breaks (after bar 12- I like four bars per line for

Re: (Retry) LilyPond ignoring \break... what did I do wrong?

2009-05-17 Thread Tim McNamara
Apologies if this is a duplicate, it did not seem to get relayed through the server the first time I sent it. I'm doing an arrangement of a song for a jazz ensemble. I am finding that LilyPond is ignoring one of the manual line breaks (after bar 12- I like four bars per line for

Re: (Retry) LilyPond ignoring \break... what did I do wrong?

2009-05-17 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 17, 2009, at 7:30 PM, Jonathan Kulp wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: Apologies if this is a duplicate, it did not seem to get relayed through the server the first time I sent it. I'm doing an arrangement of a song for a jazz ensemble. I am finding that LilyPond is ignoring one

Users versus developers (was: Tempo mark alignment)

2009-05-23 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 23, 2009, at 6:34 AM, Graham Percival wrote: My goal is not to insult you into feeling bad; my goal is to insult you into HELPING US FIX THINGS. Learn scheme. Join the Frogs. Contribute to lilypond. If everybody sits around saying why doesn't somebody fix this, then it WILL NEVER BE

Re: Users versus developers (was: Tempo mark alignment)

2009-05-23 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 23, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message 1243107160.13852.64.ca...@mung-papu, Ari Torhamo ari.torh...@gmail.com writes The first option is achieved by handling everything a non-programmer can do: managing bugs, helping new users, writing the newsletter, etc. The

Re: looking for examples

2009-05-23 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 23, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Lewis Overton wrote: I'm working on pieces for 5 trombones and rhythm in a jazz idiom. Writing individual bits and pieces is ok, but putting things together is causing me grief. In particular, problems include combining chords for piano with occasional

Re: Users versus developers (was: Tempo mark alignment)

2009-05-24 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 24, 2009, at 2:47 AM, Graham Percival wrote: snip much appreciated clarifications On the other hand, I am a psychologist with some knowledge of how people interact with information and those skills might offer a way to contribute and I have tried to do that. Also, my use (and others')

Re: The fastest way to typeset orchestral scores, especially when splitting the work to many workers

2009-05-27 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 27, 2009, at 8:10 PM, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:56:29AM +1200, Daryna Baikadamova wrote: I plan to typeset some orchestral works. Within a movement, is it faster to typeset a instrument at time, or an orchestral page (i.e. open edit display for all

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-30 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 30, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 5/30/09 3:21 AM, Brett Duncan bdd1...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Grammostola Rosea wrote: Do we have an Jazz/pop chord expert on the list (I'm sure he/she exist)? And who wants to help with this? I don't consider myself an expert, but

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-30 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 30, 2009, at 8:23 PM, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 5/30/09 7:16 PM, Carl D. Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu wrote: Right now we have a naming problem, separate from the display problem. If we can get the code to recognize that we have a Ebmaj7b5, then we can figure out how to display

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-01 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 1, 2009, at 4:13 AM, Tim Rowe wrote: 2009/6/1 Carl D. Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu: You are welcome to pursue this, if you are interested in it. It is not my interest. I think it shows the impossibility of what you are trying to achieve, at least in the completely general case,

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-01 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 1, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: A chordnamemode *input* mode has been proposed a couple of times. This mode would take only a root (and optionally, a slash or alternate bass note), and everything else about the chord would be in the form of a markup. For american jazz

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-02 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 2, 2009, at 4:55 AM, Jean-Alexis Montignies wrote: Hi there, as a jazz player I would like to share my input. What I need in scores is really chord names. The chord name denotes the intent of the composer and is much subject to interpretation. Some examples: If you have a dominant

Re: Mac OS X LilyPond Terminal install problems.

2009-06-05 Thread Tim McNamara
I use 10.4 and LilyPond runs well there, but there is a lot of commentary on the Web that LilyPond is severely broken on 10.5. I don't have a 10.5 machine to test (and frankly won't upgrade to 10.5 until LilyPond is known to be stable and functional without a lot of drama). Here's what

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-09 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 9, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 6/9/09 9:16 AM, Jean-Alexis Montignies j...@sente.ch wrote: You can find an example of a chord notated as 'phrygian' (well it's more a modal indication, but that's what the composer Gary Peacock intended) in the lead sheet for

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-12 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 12, 2009, at 1:28 AM, Tao Cumplido wrote: I think it's great that you did this. Have you put this on LSR? Thanks. I haven't put this on LSR yet because the function hasn't been much tested yet. Maybe I should have done anyway. When the function is updated I will upload it there.

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 15, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Wol et al: Let's take the notes C, Eb, F, Ab. Which chord is that? What's the root? You can easily go from the name to the notes, but not the other way round. We *could* parse it from the first note, i.e. in relative mode F C Eb

Re: new website: initial comments

2009-06-23 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 23, 2009, at 7:11 AM, David Stocker wrote: 2. On the documentation page, maybe it would be better to choose a wording other than Normal Users for the second section of documentation links. This might imply that Beginning Users are somehow /abnormal/. Maybe Regular Users

Re: new website: initial comments

2009-06-23 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 23, 2009, at 8:52 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: On Jun 23, 2009, at 7:11 AM, David Stocker wrote: 2. On the documentation page, maybe it would be better to choose a wording other than Normal Users for the second section of documentation links. This might imply that Beginning

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-23 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 23, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 6/23/09 9:16 AM, Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: On Jun 15, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Wol et al: Would it be reasonable to separate the functions of putting notes

Re: new website: initial comments

2009-06-23 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 23, 2009, at 6:55 PM, Graham Percival wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 08:52:08AM -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: On Jun 23, 2009, at 7:11 AM, David Stocker wrote: 2. On the documentation page, maybe it would be better to choose a wording other than Normal Users for the second

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-23 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 23, 2009, at 11:36 PM, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 6/23/09 5:19 PM, Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net wrote: On Jun 23, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 6/23/09 9:16 AM, Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: On Jun 15, 2009, at 2

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-24 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 24, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Mark Polesky wrote: Jonathan Kulp wrote: I like the new website, Graham. The crash course is excellent, although I question whether it's good to have lyrics like Lily, got me on my knees. (Whew!) Actually, as much as *I* like the joke, I'm afraid I agree

Re: new website: draft 2.1, panic over community

2009-06-25 Thread Tim McNamara
Introduction and About seem like they overlap to me. Can they be combined? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 28, 2009, at 2:55 AM, chip wrote: I think there is obviously far too much white space, also the same on the Downloads page. I disagree and find that most web pages have too much stuff crammed into them, usually so much that it's hard to find the information one is looking for. I

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-29 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 29, 2009, at 12:48 AM, chip wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: On Jun 28, 2009, at 2:55 AM, chip wrote: I think there is obviously far too much white space, also the same on the Downloads page. I disagree and find that most web pages have too much stuff crammed into them, usually so

Website 3b

2009-07-03 Thread Tim McNamara
I just looked at the former crash course page: http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_7.html#Text- input I think the rewrites- especially the light blue boxed statement- are a very good improvement. I also like the humor in the link on the Introduction page (You write

Re: website draft 4, help wanted

2009-07-04 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jul 4, 2009, at 3:49 AM, Mark Polesky wrote: chip wrote: Generally speaking, when it comes to Windows documentation - it is almost always dummy proof. Showing every step one might come across during the process. It applies to XP as that is what I use, should apply equally to NT and 2000.

Re: theory question

2009-07-05 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jul 5, 2009, at 6:49 AM, Grammostola Rosea wrote: Mark Polesky wrote: Harmonic minor has a raised 7 which changes all odd degrees: i: min/maj7 ii: -7 III: maj7+5 iv: min7 V: dom7 VI: maj7 vii: dim7 As a subtle point, I would always use lower case for minor chords. Hope this helps. -

Re: website draft 4, help wanted

2009-07-08 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jul 8, 2009, at 4:54 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: On di, 2009-07-07 at 23:26 -0700, Graham Percival wrote: Hi Graham, I disagree; I think we've spent *too much* time on the look/feel Yes, I understand that's how you feel. It's exactly why I sent my mail, and why I reacted so

Re: new website draft 5: help wanted, I mean it

2009-07-10 Thread Tim McNamara
Criminy on a crutch, wow. I'm sorry to say it but there are an awful lot of hurdles to get over in learning to use LilyPond and then even more in trying to contribute to it. I think I see why there are fewer contributor than Graham and Patrick etc. would like: being a contributor comes

Re: new website draft 5: help wanted, I mean it

2009-07-11 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jul 11, 2009, at 1:02 AM, John Mandereau wrote: 2009/7/11 Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net: How about something like Drupal? Or do you not want to make editing the Web site that direct? It's not in the culture of Lily authors and most current contributors, and they are too busy

Re: hurdles for contributors (was: help wanted, I mean it)

2009-07-11 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jul 11, 2009, at 4:11 AM, Trevor Daniels wrote: When that's finished I shall get back to the LM, as I promised. For that, I'd be happy for contributors to send me small changes as straight text, but any major changes would have to contain texinfo mark-up. There would be no need for

Re: guitar guide-mark

2009-07-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jul 15, 2009, at 7:46 PM, Peter Buhr wrote: When writing the fingering for guitar, there is a notation used to indicate a guide finger in left-hand shifting. The fingering mark looks like -3, but the - is rotated up about 30 degrees, which means to silently slide the 3rd finger from

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-07-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jul 15, 2009, at 8:42 PM, David Fedoruk wrote: I did, as I mentioned earlier, visit my local music store and looked at their selection of fake books. I found what was the first legally published one in its new format. I was dissa pointed. That's not very specific. By chance were you

Re: website draft 6

2009-07-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jul 15, 2009, at 9:42 PM, Graham Percival wrote: For example, nobody is working on Introductions-Features. I'll have a go at this in the next few days. The basics are already there and seem to me to just need a little polishing, maybe a few slightly different headings. But it's

Re: 2.13.3 docs emacs mode documentation AU 2.2.1 out of date?

2009-07-24 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jul 24, 2009, at 1:51 AM, Paul Scott wrote: David Stocker wrote: Paul, Are you using Linux or Windows XP? After you install LilyPond, you'll have all the files you need for lilypond-mode to work right there in your installation directory. You'll just need to tell Emacs where to

Re: 2.13.3 docs emacs mode documentation AU 2.2.1 out of date?

2009-07-24 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jul 24, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Paul Scott wrote: I am still concerned why AU 2.2.1 doesn't seem to make sense. Sorry to be pig-ignorant here, but what the frak is AU 2.2.1? Obviously it's some kind of abbreviation for documentation, but unfortunately I've not seen the whole name spelled

Fwd: 2.13.3 docs emacs mode documentation AU 2.2.1 out of date?

2009-07-25 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jul 25, 2009, at 1:56 AM, Paul Scott wrote: What I commented on is still the current online docs for the developmental version: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/ Here is the entire text from 2.2.1 for lilypond-mode for Emacs: *** 2.2.1 Emacs mode Emacs

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-07-25 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jul 22, 2009, at 11:12 PM, David Fedoruk wrote: In my discussion with my jazz professional, we looked at complex chords, in fact we deliberately looked for complex ones to find out how they were expressed. We found, quite amazingly that the more complex the chord got the more

Re: website: why do you use lilypond?

2009-08-01 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 1, 2009, at 8:41 PM, Nick Payne wrote: The best introduction to Lilypond that I have seen is at http://www.eugenecormier.com/pdfs/lilypond-guide.pdf. It's what I used when getting started with Lilypond. By comparison, the manuals are a bit daunting. Wow. There is some stuff in

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2009-08-08 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 8, 2009, at 8:54 AM, Simon Mackenzie wrote: Here is my scenario If I create a variable at the top scope how do I reassign its value in a subsequent scope eg. aVariable = \markup { \bold bananas } \book { \bookpart { \aVariable % bananas

Re: Decreasing font size of chord name root note

2009-08-08 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 8, 2009, at 8:11 AM, Akira wrote: Please look at - http://picasaweb.google.co.jp/Lilypondakira/ Lilypond#5367578175183729026 Root name of chord (/F, /D) is so large that I can't recognize what is chord name or what is root note, so I want to decrease font size of chord name root

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2009-08-09 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 9, 2009, at 9:05 AM, Simon Mackenzie wrote: So again my question is, how can I assign a new value to a variable so I can make all this happen and keep my global declarations / assignments to an absolute minimum and meet my goal of ensuring good clarity in my lilypond code for

Re: website menus: gradient vs. solid

2009-08-12 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 12, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Graham Percival wrote: I'm not certain if the question was clear, so let's do this again and put it to a vote. These two images have the same top-level menu item selected. Which is easier to see? http://lilypond.org/~graham/solid.png

Re: Strumming rhythm for chord progression

2009-08-14 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 14, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Christian Henning wrote: Hi all, thanks a lot for your reply. I think I understand now. Inside the \improvisationOn section I don't have to reuse the real chord name. A placeholder might be sufficient? So instead of writing g1:sus I can just use g1. All I want in

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-08-25 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:50 AM, Simon Mackenzie wrote: Sorry but as a first time user to lilypond and music in general this section in the tutorial was about as clear as mud to me. Not wanting to offend anyone just stating how I felt the fist time I read this section in the learning tutorial.

Re: Rhythm

2009-08-25 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 25, 2009, at 9:27 PM, Christian Henning wrote: Hi there, I cannot figure out how to encode a 16th note rhythm. When counting by mouth I would say: 1and 2and 3and 4and when all notes are taking part. In lilypond I would write: g16 g g g g16 g g g g16 g g g g16 g g g. But how do I: 1ad

Re: chord durations

2009-08-31 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 30, 2009, at 10:23 PM, Christian Henning wrote: Hi there, adding a dot to a chord duration prolongs it by 50%. g4., for instance, is 1.5 beats or three 8th notes. g4.. is 1.75 beats, I believe. Which would translate into seven 16th notes. But what is g4...? Here, with 3 dots. Two dots

Re: chord durations

2009-09-02 Thread Tim McNamara
On Sep 1, 2009, at 9:30 PM, Christian Henning wrote: Am I right, that lilypond is rarely used for my type of notation? Meaning rock/pop tunes for acoustic guitar. No, the style of music makes no difference. But LilyPond is intended for engraving music which is fundamentally based upon

Re: chord durations

2009-09-02 Thread Tim McNamara
On Sep 2, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Patrick Horgan wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: On Sep 1, 2009, at 9:30 PM, Christian Henning wrote: Am I right, that lilypond is rarely used for my type of notation? Meaning rock/pop tunes for acoustic guitar. No, the style of music makes no difference

Re: chord durations

2009-09-03 Thread Tim McNamara
On Sep 2, 2009, at 7:56 PM, Patrick Horgan wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: I am a guitarist. If all he wants is a chord chart, some paper and a pencil would be a better approach. Or even a word processor two write out the chords like Ralph Patt did with the Vanilla Book. http

Re: chord durations

2009-09-03 Thread Tim McNamara
On Sep 3, 2009, at 10:21 AM, Christian Henning wrote: Hi there, I'm at work and don't really have much time.I just wanna state that I presented my problem with a reduced sheet. The problem was regarding the chord durations and not with the melody. I'm a software engineer and this is how I post

Re: NR typo: Minor-major seventh chord

2009-09-07 Thread Tim McNamara
Andrew Tucker wrote: In NR B.2 Common chord modifiers, I think the line with: Minor-major seventh Minor triad, major seventh maj7.5- - should change to: maj7.3- (both text and chord) Clearly maj7.5- is *not* a minor-major seventh chord so that's a good catch. The syntax that seems most

Help with positioning coda glyph

2009-09-16 Thread Tim McNamara
I am having problems getting LilyPond to properly position coda glyphs. I've included the code to see if others reproduce it. The first coda glyph should be at the end of bar 28 but LilyPond insists on putting it at the end of bar 29. The /break command seems to be involved (is this a

Fwd: Help with positioning coda glyph

2009-09-16 Thread Tim McNamara
And of course I replied only to myself, since the reply-to header is not set to the mailing list for some reason. Begin forwarded message: From: Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net Date: September 16, 2009 9:17:03 AM CDT To: Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net Subject: Re: Help with positioning

Re: Can't get started-no matter how hard I try

2009-10-06 Thread Tim McNamara
On Oct 6, 2009, at 1:17 AM, David Bobroff wrote: Ami Magori Cohen wrote: Hi, Thank you very much for this software,and for your help. After having read about this wonderful software,I have downloaded it and tried to get started,but i'm stuck!When I open the software,I see a blank page

Re: Transpose for pattern sheets

2009-10-21 Thread Tim McNamara
On Oct 21, 2009, at 4:13 AM, Peter Berlau wrote: I have done writing done some patterns of my favorite sax players and like to transpose this patterns to any key. I found a solution but I am not sure if this is a elegant method, also maybe it is more useful to make use of the enharmonics to

Re: website so close, and yet so far

2009-10-24 Thread Tim McNamara
On Oct 24, 2009, at 9:16 AM, Graham Percival wrote: I have to admit I'm pretty disappointed with the user community. Well, since you reject the majority of what is sent to you, it probably discourages people from trying to contribute. ___

Re: Quit [now definitely O/T]

2009-11-11 Thread Tim McNamara
On Nov 11, 2009, at 11:29 AM, David Kastrup wrote: For me, this situation is awkward, impeding and dissatisfactory. For others, it is reason to go away. I don't see that anything is gained for chastising me for my impression. That is merely shooting the messenger. Actually, more than the

Re: Quit [now definitely O/T]

2009-11-12 Thread Tim McNamara
Sorry, I initially just sent this to Jan and meant to send it to the group. On Nov 12, 2009, at 2:11 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Op donderdag 12-11-2009 om 08:41 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef David Kastrup: Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu writes: _Addressing_ the actual problems is

Re: GUI (was: Re: No Work!

2009-12-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 15, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Kees van den Doel wrote: If lilypond came with a rudimentary GUI I think it would at least octuple the number of people trying it out. Something simple like a window with File/compile menus, a text editor pane, compile messages at bottom, and a score preview.

Re: No Work!

2009-12-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 15, 2009, at 7:09 AM, Graham Percival wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Federico Bruni brunol...@gmx.com wrote: Il 15/12/2009 12:22, Philip Potter ha scritto: Please keep all discussion on list - the easiest way to do this is to click Reply All and ensure that

Re: No Work!

2009-12-16 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 16, 2009, at 8:55 AM, John Mandereau wrote: Le mardi 15 décembre 2009 à 20:20 -0600, Tim McNamara a écrit : Wouldn't it be simplest to set the Reply-To header to the list? Then all replies go to the list by default. No. For good reasons about this, see http://www.unicom.com/pw

Re: Lilypond not working on internal disk on Mac

2009-12-17 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 17, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Robert Ley wrote: The hard disc format is determined by the type of processor you have in the machine: GUID format for Intel chips, MacOS Extended for PPC chips. I have a G4 [PPC] chip, so both Ext. and Int. are formatted with MacOS Extended. The EXTERNAL

Re: GUI

2009-12-17 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 17, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Graham Percival wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Kees van den Doel kvand...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Valentin Villenave No. The alternate input page is extremely easy to find.

Re: GUI

2009-12-18 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 18, 2009, at 2:59 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Kees van den Doel kvand...@shaw.ca writes: Of course there is nothing really wrong with the current website. Most people will want to just download lilypond and try it out; who has time to read all the crap on a product's website? Once

Re: GUI

2009-12-19 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 19, 2009, at 2:49 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Robert Ley robert...@gmail.com writes: Also, please remember that some of us, me included, have little experience writing command lines, so when you put, as part of the first information on command line use: Create a directory to

Hello! and question about jazz chords

2009-02-10 Thread Tim McNamara
Hi- My name is Tim and I am a new LilyPond user. Sounds like an AA meeting introduction, sorry! I live in St. Paul MN and started using LP about 10 days ago. Thus far I have been using LP to create jazz lead sheets and- once past the initial learning curve- I've able to set a half dozen

Slurs and repeats

2009-02-15 Thread Tim McNamara
I can't figure out how to end a slur across a repeat into an alternate ending and the documentation doesn't seem to cover this. I get an error message about being unable to end the slur. Of course this could always be the \endUserError bug! The workaround I have adopted is to use

Re: Status of Lilypond for MacOS X

2012-03-09 Thread Tim McNamara
2.15.22 and 2.15.33 launch correctly and compile the test file just fine on my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.6.8. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Help needed creating a Mac OS X installer for Frescobaldi

2012-03-25 Thread Tim McNamara
Frescobaldi opens and runs on my MacBook Pro wit 10.6.8 installed. One quirk- the text of the .ly file is so small on the screen that I would not be able to work with it very easily- it's rendered in about 6-8 pt. There seems to be no way to make the text bigger; the default Cmd-+ keybinding

Re: Score layout in a separate file

2012-04-03 Thread Tim McNamara
On Apr 3, 2012, at 8:17 AM, Siska Ádám wrote: is there a way to put the layout block for a score in a variable that lives in a separate file? Unfortunately the following won't compile: have you tried using \include? ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: \markup beneath a fermata?

2012-04-06 Thread Tim McNamara
On Apr 6, 2012, at 5:47 AM, Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: Hi all, In the following (last note in my bass clef), I'd like the \markup to appear *below* the \fermata, for obvious reasons. What's the best way to accomplish this? \clef F c,2._\fermata _\markup \small \italic {(Blue Bk 139)}

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