Re: Lilypond and ePub

On 5 March 2012 18:19, Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl wrote: On Mon, 5 Mar 2012, Francisco Vila wrote: 2012/3/2 Nils l...@nilsgey.de: I tried pdf and epub books now and it is clear that epdf is not a good format for this device. I suspect the same for other readers which are

Re: musical logic: what dynamic after the repeat (picture attached)?

On 17 March 2012 22:37, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote: - Original Message - From: Nils l...@nilsgey.de To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 11:30 AM Subject: musical logic: what dynamic after the repeat (picture attached)? Hello list, What dynamic is

Re: String Bass Notation

On 19 April 2012 03:08, Tim Roberts t...@probo.com wrote: Playing in the pit for Pirates of Penzance last night, the bass player pointed out an articulation mark in the string bass part that neither of us had seen before.  It was basically the Greek character phi -- a circle with a vertical

Re: how to enter notes quickly (midi keyboard available)

On 26 May 2012 03:28, Klaus Föhl klaus.fo...@uni-giessen.de wrote: Hello, I like the lilypond notation using \relative being concise and readable. Entering on a computer keyboard is fairly quick, but still it feels that playing a melody line would be so much quicker. In particular if one

Re: Scheme syntax vs. other languages [was: Re: Appreciation / Financial support]

On 8 June 2012 07:44, Matthew Collett m_coll...@ihug.co.nz wrote: SICP does for computer programming what Linderholm's classic 'Mathematics Made Difficult' does for arithmetic -- except that in this case the authors are entirely serious. It didn’t seem too scary to me, or at least the start

Incremental compiling

Following one of the tangents from the “Sibelius Software UK office shuts down thread”, here’s a potential algorithm for incremental compiling. It’s only a suggestion: sorry if it’s flawed or you don’t like it! • when Lilypond is compiled, a temp file is created, containing the source file, and

What’s wrong with this snippet?

This is a slight variation on: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/snippets/vocal-music#single-staff-template-with-notes-and-lyrics I’m trying to apply the idea from Skips in lyric mode[1], so that the lyrics start in the second bar, but the \skip only skips to the next note. Vaughan

Re: What’s wrong with this snippet?

On 13 August 2012 16:16, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: \lyricsto refits the durations. Ah, that would explain it. My real-world example is something like this: \skip 1*17 \skip 4*4 % 17 3/4 bars of complicated music I’m using a blank syllable and \melisma at the moment, but was

Re: page layout

On 5 September 2012 19:18, michael.str...@boehringer-ingelheim.com wrote: Hi all, I’m quite new to lilypond and currently workng on some madrigals ( choir with 6 voices ) from the 16th century. The barlines are set between staves only. The output of lilypond is really beautiful. But the

Re: F-flat Key Signature

On 19 September 2012 21:11, Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de wrote: So like in a Fifo buffer the first accidentals (f sharp or b flat a.s.o.) are bumped out - the double accidentals go at the end. Yes, it seems the order is correct, it just looks strange because I’ve never seen such a key

Re: beatStructure

On 24 September 2012 15:49, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: pabuhr pab...@fastmail.fm writes: I've tried everything but I can't get the first bar without square brackets to look like the second bar with square brackets. Can someone make it so. \version 2.16.0 \language english

Re: beatStructure

On 24 September 2012 20:44, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk wrote: Vaughan McAlley wrote Monday, September 24, 2012 10:08 AM Specifically, the pattern of eight eighths triggers a beamException that overrides what you’re trying to do. I’ve found that adding \set Timing.beamExceptions

Re: Is it possible to change beaming from the \layout block?

On 30 October 2012 13:09, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: \new Voice { \set beamExceptions = #'((end . (((1 . 8) . (2 2 2 2) \myNotes } Is there any alternative to setting \beamExceptions explicitly in every voice? That’s what I’m looking for...

Re: Is it possible to change beaming from the \layout block?

On 30 October 2012 21:16, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: \layout { \context { \Voice beamExceptions = #'((end . (((1 . 8) . (2 2 2 2) } } Ah,

Accidentals with \modalTranspose

Greetings, I want to notate a modal canon at the fifth. \modalTranspose works well until there are accidentals in the original line. Fiddling with the scale by adding notes causes problems; what would be nice is to be able to specify *two* scales: \transposeFrom = \relative c' { a b c cis d e f

Re: Best practices in lyric typesetting

On 18 December 2012 20:19, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote: - Original Message - From: m...@mikesolomon.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 9:04 AM Subject: Best practices in lyric typesetting Hey all, Putting aside the impossibility of the

Re: Transposing instruments

On 30 January 2013 19:47, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: There is a Midi-only command for _then_ telling LilyPond that the instrument is transposed. So you need to place your horn part within \transpose f c' { \transposition f ... } in order to have the visuals go up one fifth, and have

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

On 11 February 2013 10:23, Shane Brandes sh...@grayskies.net wrote: The hand engraving was amazing. I liked the I don't make mistakes quote. Shane I never thought much about how music used to be engraved, but when I did there were always more questions than answers. I’m surprised how

Re: Changing the midpoint of a custom staff for stem direction purposes

On 11 February 2013 15:32, Paul Morris p...@paulwmorris.com wrote: On Feb 10, 2013, at 6:09 PM, Eluze elu...@gmail.com wrote: I never used such transformations, but in /NR 1.6.2 Modifying single staves /(2.17.11) I found: The clef position and the position of middle C may need to be

Re: vertical distance of articulations

On 20 February 2013 07:28, Werner mey@web.de wrote: Try: { c4-. r \once \override Script #'padding = #5 c4-. r } Thank you. \override Script #'padding = #.5 was good for me. Werner I, for one, would be happy if the default padding was more than it is. I

Re: Refer to a staff relatively, not by name

On 31 March 2013 22:36, Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de wrote: Is it possible to refer to a staff relative to the current staff and not by its name? So, is it possible to write something like \change Staff = previous/next or higher/lower instead of \change Staff = Explicit-name-of-staff

Re: MusicXML

On 24 April 2013 05:32, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: As David (and Mike) pointed out not everything is included in the music stream, so a XSLT conversion won't be completely sufficient (although probably a good start and way better than the status quo). Maybe there would be a way

Re: some Musikmesse and MusicXML

On 23 April 2013 02:01, Klaus Föhl klaus.fo...@uni-giessen.de wrote: Hello, As Urs initiated quite some discussion with his 'lobbying' paper, I shall turn my ballpen-on-paper notes from Frankfurt into Bytes... ... my comments, clarifications {} ... organised by scorio { it took some locals

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.10

On 13 May 2013 12:24, Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net wrote: Struggling through with installing this on a Mac, how the heck does one get Poppler to work? Jeez, after installing nearly a GB of dependencies, everything seems to work but Poppler. Qt libraries (qt-mac-opensource-4.8.4.dmg)

Re: Frecobaldi 2 Mac OS X install guide

On 28 May 2013 13:42, Paul Morris p...@paulwmorris.com wrote: Hmmm, I remember running into the No module named sip problem back when I was trying to install the dependencies manually. When I switched to using MacPorts I installed python using it (following the instructions on the

Re: Ancient History

On 29 June 2013 05:49, and...@andis59.se and...@andis59.se wrote: From MakeMusics web site Please note that support for Encore, Rhapsody, SCORE, MIDI Scan, and SmartScore .fin file types was removed in Finale 2010. http://makemusic.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/136/kw/Rhapsody So

Re: More post-divisi oddities

On 3 July 2013 08:52, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: I built your example with 2.17.21. No warnings at all in the log, and the only problem I can see anywhere in the output is in the piano reduction mm 3 4, where the tie between the two whole notes in the upper voice goes

Feta font embedded in PDFs

At my local office supplies / self-serve printing chain I brought my score in on a USB stick. Being in a hurry I skipped the preview option (stupid I know), then 68 pages into my 118 page score I turned a page over to find the printer had substituted Feta (and every other font) with Helvetica.

Re: Feta font embedded in PDFs

? This is of interest to me because if it is Officeworks then I am going to hit the same issue sooner or later. Andrew Melbourne., Australia On 3/07/13 6:04 PM, Vaughan McAlley wrote: At my local office supplies / self-serve printing chain I brought my score in on a USB stick. Being in a hurry I

Re: Ancient History

On 2 July 2013 06:12, Tim Roberts t...@probo.com wrote: I appreciate the kind offers. After taking another look, I decided it would be more efficient simply to retype it, and I completed that task yesterday. Ultimately, you can’t beat a hard copy for portability. And major versions take

Re: More post-divisi oddities

On 6 July 2013 05:15, Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com wrote: Gentlemen, Thanks for your replies. Vaughan, Your attachment was filtered out as a binary file by my email server. The GNU.org archives also shows it as a .bin file so I cannot 'see' what you've done. If you would, please

Re: Anyone using a tablet for lily?

On 31 July 2013 01:31, flup2 phili...@philmassart.net wrote: An alternative, requiring an internet connection, could be to use http://lilybin.com/ http://lilybin.com/ but for now, the separation line between editor and preview is difficult to move using a tablet. -- View this message in

Redefining \parenthesisOpenSymbol

Most scores I do (renaissance choral editions) have no slurs and hundreds of \melisma and \melismaEnds. My source code would look a lot nicer if I could redefine ( and ) to mean \melisma and \melismaEnd. What is wrong with this code? \version 2.16.1 slurStart = #(make-span-event 'SlurEvent

Re: Redefining \parenthesisOpenSymbol

On 8 August 2013 18:45, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Vaughan McAlley vaug...@mcalley.net.au writes: Most scores I do (renaissance choral editions) have no slurs and hundreds of \melisma and \melismaEnds. My source code would look a lot nicer if I could redefine ( and ) to mean \melisma

Re: can I set panning in midi

On 6 September 2013 08:50, Karl Hammar k...@aspodata.se wrote: Stefan Thomas: which platform do You use? WIndows, Mac, Linux? Linux. For which purposes do You want to use midi? Producing exercise sound files for the choir, they basically wants mp3's or something similar. I have tried

Re: can I set panning in midi

On 6 September 2013 19:06, Karl Hammar k...@aspodata.se wrote: Vaughan McAlley: On 6 September 2013 08:50, Karl Hammar k...@aspodata.se wrote: ... For which purposes do You want to use midi? Producing exercise sound files for the choir, they basically wants mp3's or something

Re: [ANNOUNCE] New Portfile for Frescobaldi on Mac (Wilbert Berendsen)

On 17 September 2013 19:55, Davide Liessi davide.lie...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Guy, 2013/9/17 Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com: 3. run sudo port selfupdate to get things up to date after the clean and FileVault issues (this took well over SIX hours -- good gawd) Are you really saying

Re: Octave script in Frescobaldi

On 22 October 2013 22:22, flup2 phili...@philmassart.net wrote: Oh thanks ! Someday my Scheme will come ;-) Philippe -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Octave-script-in-Frescobaldi-tp152801p152806.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at

Re: Misleading autobeaming in 3/4

Bertrand Bordage wrote: Ok, I'll keep LilyPond's default beaming since it's the usual notation. Thanks! Bertrand No! Beam it how _you_ like. Otherwise it’s like using Times font just because it’s the Microsoft Word default :-) Just say you’re following Debussy... I ran into a similar problem

Simple variable definition

I’ve spent way to long trying to work this out... the simple test file: %test1.ly \version 2.14.2 myTranspose =\transpose c' c staffOneName = Soprano % Version for men’s choir %{ myTranspose = \transpose c' g staffOneName = Alto %} ...produces test1.ly:4:0: error: syntax error,

Re: Good work, Keith!

On 5 October 2011 03:57, Tim Roberts t...@probo.com wrote: Francisco Vila wrote: Hello all, I think this is remarkable: Keith OHara has put Dvořák's 9th symphony in Mutopia. Kudos! http://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=1793 That is remarkable, indeed. There are some odd

Re: markup in lyrics

On 4 October 2011 14:44, Benjamin Peterson benja...@python.org wrote: Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmillan at sympatico.ca writes: What about     \override LyricText #'font-shape = #'italic … \revert LyricText #'font-shape ? Works great. Thanks. Regards, Benjamin It’s not obvious from

Re: [issue 1482] \caps \fromproperty and markup-string

On 7 October 2011 00:12, Jan-Peter Voigt jp.vo...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Vaughan, I introduced the define-lyric-markup method a few mails ago, so it is no lilypond standard. Here I added methods to your file and used the recaps command, I introduced in a revious mail, to capsify markups

Re: [issue 1482] \caps \fromproperty and markup-string

On 7 October 2011 04:39, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Jan-Peter Voigt jp.vo...@gmx.de writes: Am 06.10.2011 um 16:12 schrieb: Vaughan McAlley vaug...@mcalley.net.au writes: On 7 October 2011 00:12, Jan-Peter Voigt jp.vo...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Vaughan, I introduced the define-lyric

Divisi in separate staves

Greetings, I’m working on a string orchestra piece which has two cello parts, both independent enough to warrant separate staves, except for 24 bars in the middle where they are in unison. It would be nice in the score to mark it unis. and leave out the second cello for the duration of the

Re: Compressing mensural notation

On 31 October 2011 02:46, Phil Holmes em...@philholmes.net wrote: \include gregorian.ly \paper {  ragged-right = ##t } \score {  \new MensuralStaff \with { \remove Time_signature_engraver }     \new MensuralVoice = Tenor {     \key f \major     \tempo 1 = 120     \override

Orphaned bars

I work with renaissance choral music separated into sections with double barlines. There’s not really any need to put a line-break at these double bars, but it looks bad if the last bar of a section begins a line or the first bar of a section ends a line:

Re: Page layout issues setting Preces Responses (or, how to remove line breaks between \score blocks)

On 20 January 2012 10:29, Benedict Singer sing...@mac.com wrote: On 01/19/2012 01:32 PM, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: On Jan 19, 2012, at 10:19 PM, Benedict Singer wrote: Hi all, I've been away from Lilypond for a while (I used it as a composer to set my pieces, and composition has taken a

Re: Lyircs melsima line ending in interpunctation

On 24 January 2012 15:06, Shane Brandes sh...@grayskies.net wrote: My reasoned opinion, which Hayden reiterated, on Gould's pronouncement about the matter. Anyway, certainly some ammunition to dissuade the editor. Shane I’ve just looked at the sample pages of Behind Bars and would say that

Re: Ambitus after incipit

On 6 February 2012 11:01, Bockett Hunter bockett1.hun...@gmail.com wrote: I am doing an edition of some early music, so each voice has an incipit, which is the start of the music in the old clef. (There is an example in A.5 Ancient Notation Templates.) I also wish to show the range of each

Re: Other programming languages LilyPond

On 3 December 2013 13:18, PMA peterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu wrote: I program in J almost exclusively, since the pursuit of my brainstorms (music-bound or not) tends to favor handy ad-hoc number crunching. +1 but with Lua. I’ve done some useful things. Alternatives are Frescobaldi snippets if you

Re: emacs point-and-click on OSX

These links might help... it’s all about setting the correct custom URL handler. Unhiding your Library folder (thanks Apple, heaven forbid we try to do anything interesting): http://www.se7ensins.com/forums/threads/unhide-library-folder-in-mac-os-x-10-7-lion.428277/ Configuring your textedit URL

Fwd: emacs point-and-click on OSX

On 21 December 2013 23:57, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Kevin Patrick Barry barr...@tcd.ie writes: Once Mac Ports is installed, the following: sudo port install xpdf does install xpdf and all necessary stuff. Thanks for this. I am getting closer, but still no cigar. Xpdf is

Re: 3x repeats

On 24 December 2013 11:39, Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonm...@ca.rr.com wrote: Mr. Kastrup, Please help me with my understanding of this issue. Why is http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/short-repeats not an acceptable solution? Mark I’ve seen pieces where a bar or two

Re: punctus perfectionis/divisionis (Machaut)

On 31 December 2013 00:00, k...@aspodata.se wrote: Do anyone know how to make punctus perfectionis/divisionis in mensural music (in lilypond) other than using hackery ? I'm using the example from: http://turkos.aspodata.se/noter/diamm/ http://diamm.nsms.ox.ac.uk/moodle/ Regards,

Re: Learning LilyPond - Parser permissiveness

On 4 January 2014 20:12, Colin Tennyson colintenny...@outlook.com wrote: ficta = { \once \set suggestAccidentals = ##t } (Slightly OT): You may be interested in my slightly modified \ficta... + \version 2.18.0 \language english ficta = { \once \set

Re: Off-topic: Automatically create rehearsal files from SATB midi file

On 20 January 2014 07:09, Colin Campbell c...@shaw.ca wrote: \set Score.midiPanPosition = #RIGHT \set Staff.midiPanPosition = #LEFT This is missing in the 2.18 changes, so I didn’t know about it until now. Very nice! Vaughan ___ lilypond-user

Re: Split Parts

On 22 January 2014 07:06, Orm Finnendahl o.finnend...@inm.mh-freiburg.de wrote: Hi List, I'm taking the plunge to write a pretty big orchestra piece with lilypond (contemporary music) and am wondering how to organize the parts: There will be sections in the piece where e.g. the first

Re: \set Score.midiPanPosition

On 24 January 2014 14:06, Jim Long lilyp...@umpquanet.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 04:09:38PM +1100, Vaughan McAlley wrote: On 20 January 2014 07:09, Colin Campbell c...@shaw.ca wrote: \set Score.midiPanPosition = #RIGHT \set Staff.midiPanPosition = #LEFT This is missing

Auto-panner

I was so excited by \set Score.midiPanPosition that I was inspired to write a function in Scheme that spreads the voices evenly from left to right. It can’t look ahead to find the number of voices or staves, that needs to be specified at the start or before a new \score definition: \version

Re: Auto-panner

On 28 January 2014 07:07, Jan-Peter Voigt jp.vo...@gmx.de wrote: On 27.01.2014 20:51, David Kastrup wrote: What about a closure? Won't be able to distinguish being called another time from the same output (\layout, \midi, \musicxml (this one's hypothetical yet), \addQuote...) or the next

Removing the dividing line above footnotes

Hi, In this particular case (see attached), it would be nice not to have a line above the footnotes. It doesn’t mix well with word extensions in the bass line. As far as I can tell, everything in the Internals Reference about footnotes relates to the part that is in the music. I’m very happy to

Re: Removing the dividing line above footnotes

On 4 March 2014 12:33, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.cawrote: Hi Vaughan, I think you’re looking for footnote-separator-markup = ##f (e.g., in your \paper block). FYI: you can also change how much padding is above and below it, or change its appearance (e.g.,

Re: Removing the dividing line above footnotes

On 4 March 2014 12:50, Vaughan McAlley vaug...@mcalley.net.au wrote: On 4 March 2014 12:33, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.cawrote: Hi Vaughan, I think you’re looking for footnote-separator-markup = ##f (e.g., in your \paper block). FYI: you can also change how much

Re: too wide score after upgrading 2.18.1 to 2.18.2

On 22 April 2014 09:06, Marcin Gryszkalis m...@fork.pl wrote: On 20.04.2014 23:02, Janek Warchoł wrote: https://github.com/openlilylib/snippets/tree/master/notation-snippets/adjust-horizontal-spacing That's it, worked like a charm :) I thought one can only use 1/(2^n) as moment... Thanks

Re: frescobaldi vs. org-babel-lilypond

On 28 April 2014 09:56, Steven Arntson ste...@stevenarntson.com wrote: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: Am 27.04.2014 20:15, schrieb Steven Arntson: I may be getting in over my head with this question. I'm a new user of Lilypond, transitioning away from Musescore. I've been using

Re: Typesetting b bes! chord

On 12 June 2014 12:35, Javier Ruiz-Alma jav...@ruiz-alma.com wrote: Need help with notation for a b! bes! chord. Original typeset places the accidentals to the left of each notehead, while LP is bundling accidentals to one side and noteheads in other. See attached. Thank You

Re: How to indicate a set of measures should not be played?

2014-06-19 20:03 GMT+10:00 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de writes: Am 19.06.2014 11:11, schrieb David Kastrup: [...] Maybe something like If I compile your snippet, I get GNU LilyPond 2.19.9 »tsp.ly« wird verarbeitet Analysieren... Interpretation der

Anyone have experience with PDF/A-1b?

Hi, I want to try to produce PDF/A-1b files from Lilypond to submit to the Australian Music Centre (australianmusiccentre.com.au). It looks like it would be possible to do this by exporting to Postscript and using Ghostscript: http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.14/Ps2pdf.htm#PDFA Has anyone done

Re: Frescobaldi custom script

On 25 October 2014 20:35, Davide Liessi davide.lie...@gmail.com wrote: However I think that having the possibility to define custom compilers would be very useful. Sorry if I’m wrong, but can’t you type anything you like into Frescobaldi’s Engrave (Custom) command line window? Something like:

Re: best practice(s) for divisi choral works

On 25 December 2014 at 13:23, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hello all! I’m about to dive in to [re]engraving a choral piece. Like many choral works, it regularly alternates between “choral unison” (which can effectively be displayed using a single staff), homophonic

Re: How to get lyrics to skip measures?

On 27 January 2015 at 10:53, Chris Trahan trahan.ch...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Kieren. That's what I tried in the 1st place but the actual musical passage is not as simple as my example, so using \skip is very unwieldy. It's a whole verse. \skip in lyrics is indeed arcane and unwieldy.

Re: many-lyrics separator (slightly OT)

On 6 January 2015 at 02:57, Mogens Lemvig Hansen mog...@kayju.com wrote: Hi Francois, I prefer to simply repeat the music: http://yen-hansen.ca/hymns/mlh03.pdf Improved readability that often doesn't even cost extra paper. Regards, Mogens I agree. I think extra paper is “cheaper”

[OT] Vaughan is now composing…

http://xkcd.com/1482/ …it would be quite easy to implement in Frescobaldi or Lilypond! Vaughan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Paper size survey

On 20 Apr 2015 5:27 pm, Orm Finnendahl orm.finnend...@selma.hfmdk-frankfurt.de wrote: Hi, for the orchestra parts I used B4 portrait. Orchestra musicians love this format as this fits well on a music stand (A3 is too big) and fits more music than A4 (less page turns). I also used thicker

Re: using python snippets in Lilypond

On 22 June 2015 at 04:51, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Am 21.06.2015 um 18:25 schrieb Peter Bjuhr: On 2015-06-21 16:47, Urs Liska wrote: Just a question: would it be possible to call a Python script from Scheme (this should be possible) and use its output in LilyPond? Maybe

Re: Change direction of already positioned markup?

On 1 June 2015 at 12:14, Peter Crighton petecrigh...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-05-31 23:43 GMT+02:00 Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de: Am 31.05.2015 um 18:25 schrieb Jacques Menu: Hello Peter, Maybe tags would be an easy solution, specifying variants according to the uses of the music,

Re: \parenthesize and optional arguments

On 4 July 2015 at 17:17, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: You are thinking of LilyPond/Scheme as a procedural language here. (begin ( … ) ( … ) ( … ) ( … ) ( … ) ( … ) ( … )) Oops :-) Vaughan ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: MIDI track names

On 31 July 2015 at 17:23, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Vaughan McAlley vaug...@mcalley.net.au writes: Hi, I analyse MIDI files for things like tessitura and consecutives. Lilypond MIDI files either don’t have track names, or are called :uniqueContext0, :uniqueContext1 etc. I

MIDI track names

Hi, I analyse MIDI files for things like tessitura and consecutives. Lilypond MIDI files either don’t have track names, or are called :uniqueContext0, :uniqueContext1 etc. I can’t be sure that the numbers are going down the score from top to bottom. Is there any way of setting track names from

Re: Tweaking in an engraver

On 20 July 2015 at 05:01, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: An engraver has the advantage that it is at the latest possible point in the pipeline. But it might be too late to actually change pitches before other engravers get to see them. From what Scheme-fiddling I’ve been doing, it seems

Re: Tweaking a footnote

On 9 October 2015 at 10:35, Simon Albrecht wrote: >> ... > Don’t worry. The footnote engine is not well documented. > >> ... > There’s much room for improvement in the footnote implementation. True, and true. On the upside, Lilypond actually *has* footnotes that move when

Re: \cueClefUnset problem

On 11 July 2015 at 06:52, Menu Jacques imj-...@bluewin.ch wrote: Hello folks, In the following code, I get the bass clef twice before the 6/8 time signature. The problem only arises when the parallel music containing the new CueVoice is directly followed by a \clef command. Uncommenting

Re: Chords and what they mean

On 19 September 2015 at 07:30, David Kastrup wrote: > > We have an exception for c:13 already (it leaves off the 11). It would be great if that actually displayed C13. When a 13th is the most complicated chord you’re using, you have to trawl the docs and do a whole lot of

Re: November font

On 11 December 2015 at 10:52, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > I wonder if the whole idea goes against the grain of the open source concept > of lilypond anyway. > There’s something to be said for having one person produce a whole font. We shouldn’t complain that it’s

Re: Storing a bookpart in a variable

On 25 February 2016 at 19:08, Jacques Menu Muzhic <imj-muz...@bluewin.ch> wrote: > Hello Vaughan, > > Not sure to understand your need: would tags help in that case? > > JM > >> Le 25 févr. 2016 à 00:48, Vaughan McAlley <vaug...@mcalley.net.au> a écrit : >&g

Storing a bookpart in a variable

Greetings, I’d like to be able to specify at the top of my main score which movements are printed. I can store a \bookpart in a variable, but I can’t seem to return it from a scheme expression. Is there a bookpart equivalent to define-music-function that I haven’t found? Vaughan

Re: Dorico announced

On 17 May 2016 11:37 p.m., "Kieren MacMillan" wrote: > > Hello all, > > > Just an FYI. > > Cheers, > Kieren. > > > Kieren MacMillan, composer > ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info >

Re: Choice of pitch input mode

On 3 May 2016 at 04:53, David Wright wrote: > Perhaps composers don't sweat over individual notes like that and/or > don't need a decent looking copy in front of them. Some compose at the > piano, don't they. When I’m composing, I don’t want to have to deal with

Re: Changing and playing a different instrument in MIDI

On 22 July 2016 at 16:51, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Hello, > > I don't have much experience with MIDI. I just tried all the media > players on OS X and realized than only QuickTime Player 7 had some > very very basic support for playing MIDI files (I cannot even make

[ANN] LilyQuick 0.9beta - fast accurate Lilypond MIDI note entry for Linux

Greetings, I’m pleased to announce LilyQuick, a greatly improved descendant of Finale’s Speedy Note Entry. The basic idea is to play notes on the MIDI keyboard with your left hand, and use the numeric keypad to enter the rhythms with your right hand. LilyQuick types the notes for you. Being able

Re: [ANN] LilyQuick 0.9beta - fast accurate Lilypond MIDI note entry for Linux

On 25 Feb 2017 12:30 a.m., "Urs Liska" <u...@openlilylib.org> wrote: Hi Vaughan, Am 24.02.2017 um 13:49 schrieb Vaughan McAlley: > Greetings, > > I’m pleased to announce LilyQuick, a greatly improved descendant of > Finale’s Speedy Note Entry. The basic idea is

Re: [ANN] LilyQuick 0.9beta - fast accurate Lilypond MIDI note entry for Linux

On 25 February 2017 at 06:30, Johan Vromans wrote: > It compiles and build flawlessly on Fedora 25, both with system lua and the > supplied lua. > That's nice to know. > After adjusting the LQconfig.lua it runs, starts qsynth and I can play and > hear notes from the MIDI

Re: Prevent "orphan" markup

On 16 January 2017 at 19:59, Urs Liska wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a multi-movement work (or rather numerous ones) where the > movement titles are printed using an automatically generated top-level > markup. The overall structure looks like: > > \book { > \markup {

Re: [ANN] LilyQuick 0.9beta - fast accurate Lilypond MIDI note entry for Linux

On 25 February 2017 at 20:45, Johan Vromans <jvrom...@squirrel.nl> wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 10:33:11 +1100, Vaughan McAlley > <vaug...@mcalley.net.au> wrote: > > > Maybe your keyboard is interpreting F8 as something else rather than > > the function ke

Re: Hiding a staff with notes in it

On 18 August 2016 at 09:42, Evan O'Dorney wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a way to allow Lilypond to hide a staff on certain systems, similar > to \RemoveEmptyStaffContext, but applicable to certain non-empty staves? My > situation is that I have a choral piece where the 1st

Re: Phrasing slurs shortened when broken

On 17 October 2016 at 13:00, Javier Ruiz-Alma wrote: > > The concern with fixing the first segment via \shape is the correction would > be useful when the slur is broken, but undesirable when not. We typeset the > same source with different paper sizes, so there's a real

Re: Getting a new computer

On 17 November 2016 at 13:24, Vaughan McAlley <vaug...@mcalley.net.au> wrote: > Greetings, > > My 2008 iMac is reaching the end of its useful life, and I would like to > replace it with some kind of desktop computer that runs Debian. Given that a > significant proportion o

Re: general question for composers

On 19 Nov 2016 8:20 a.m., "Tobin Chodos" wrote: > > hi all, > > this is a general question for composers using lilypond. at what point in your process do you generally start engraving? Like most composers coming from the consumer notation softwares, I'm accustomed to

Re: wierd beamlet behaviour

On 12 November 2016 at 14:34, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > > Hello all, > > In the following screenshot, you will notice some odd beamlet behaviour: > The following minimal snippet does NOT show this problem: > > SNIPPET ENDS > \version "2.19.49" > \language

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