Re: Split percent repeats at line breaks

2020-03-01 Thread antlists
On 29/02/2020 13:10, Davide Liessi wrote: Hi all. I'd like to have percent repeats automatically split at line breaks, i.e., in the following example I'd like the first score to look like the second. \version "2.19.84" \score { \repeat percent 30 { c'1 } } \score { { \repeat percent

Re: Transposing instruments

2020-03-13 Thread antlists
On 13/03/2020 11:29, Francisco Vila wrote: So my question for Kieren is, for large scores involving transposing wind instruments along with strings etc, how do you manage this by using only clefs and no transposition? This is a double question, seeing as wind instruments rarely transpose by

Re: Remote Ensemble Playing

2020-03-28 Thread antlists
On 28/03/2020 11:00, Peter Gentry wrote: I appreciate this is off topic but in these times of social isolation does anyone have any tips. Clearly latency is the main issue – I wonder could this be reduced by say hosting a Zoom meeting on a private router – maybe only one video for a conductor.

Re: Remote Ensemble Playing

2020-03-28 Thread antlists
On 28/03/2020 18:55, Ralf Mattes wrote: To the OP: there is an immanent latency in all network connections - packets need to pass through switches and routers, and let's not forget the speed of electrical signals. While one can get pretty low latency on local networks (Dante et al.) trying

Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent

2020-05-13 Thread antlists
On 13/05/2020 16:38, David Kastrup wrote: Given the number of English-speaking LilyPond users who all share the somewhat strange habit of calling a b-flat "b" if there is a flat in the key signature, it is sort of a safe bet that you are not the first to make this kind of proposal. Are these

Re: Current octave in relative mode

2020-05-16 Thread antlists
On 15/05/2020 12:28, antlists wrote: There's a function Han Wen wrote for me years ago, that's made its way in to standard lilypond. It's probably mentioned in the docu about relative mode. Something along the lines of   c1  \highlight { c8 d e f g f e d }   \setAbsoluteOctave

Re: Current octave in relative mode

2020-05-16 Thread antlists
On 17/05/2020 00:04, David Kastrup wrote: antlists writes: On 16/05/2020 23:19, David Kastrup wrote: As I say, I think this function or something similar has made its way into lilypond proper. What advantage over the solution using make-relative that I posted do you see here? Because

Re: Current octave in relative mode

2020-05-16 Thread antlists
On 16/05/2020 23:19, David Kastrup wrote: As I say, I think this function or something similar has made its way into lilypond proper. What advantage over the solution using make-relative that I posted do you see here? Because if I understand the OP correctly, what he wants is

Re: Current octave in relative mode

2020-05-15 Thread antlists
There's a function Han Wen wrote for me years ago, that's made its way in to standard lilypond. It's probably mentioned in the docu about relative mode. Something along the lines of c1 \highlight { c8 d e f g f e d } \setAbsoluteOctave ... c1 \highlight { c8 d e f g a b c }

Re: Identify included files

2020-05-18 Thread antlists
On 15/05/2020 21:17, Fr. Samuel Springuel wrote: Now I just need to turn this list into something that can be used to figure out if the target needs to be recompiled. As Jacques said, "make". At the top of your directory structure you can have a makefile, and it just contains a list of all

Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent

2020-05-18 Thread antlists
On 18/05/2020 17:33, Kieren MacMillan wrote: We (well… modulo me LOL) don’t get this worked up about how \relative makes cut-and-paste a nightmare. Why start now?;) Those of us who only use \relative (just me?) don't have any problems with cut-n-paste. Or is it just that my workflow is more

Re: Identify included files

2020-05-18 Thread antlists
On 18/05/2020 15:29, Fr. Samuel Springuel wrote: On 18 May, 2020, at 9:37 AM, antlists wrote: define trombone-notes.ly as a target, define it as changed if its dependencies change, and say "it doesn't exist as a file that can be created with a command". Right, that’s the step

Re: Identify included files

2020-05-18 Thread antlists
On 18/05/2020 13:44, David Kastrup wrote: antlists writes: On 15/05/2020 21:17, Fr. Samuel Springuel wrote: Now I just need to turn this list into something that can be used to figure out if the target needs to be recompiled. As Jacques said, "make". At the top of your directory

Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent

2020-05-18 Thread antlists
point remains - ESPECIALLY if it's the melodic scale - how is lilypond supposed to know whether the g and f are supposed to be sharpened? :-) Mark Cheers, Wol -Original Message- From: lilypond-user [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org] On Behalf Of antlists Sent

Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent

2020-05-14 Thread antlists
On 14/05/2020 23:38, Karlin High wrote: On 5/14/2020 5:32 PM, antlists wrote: Because Americans like to think they speak English (but they are mistaken!). I play crotchets, not quarter-notes. I don't know what other weird language habits the Americans have ... :-) You really don't know? I'm

Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent

2020-05-14 Thread antlists
On 14/05/2020 19:46, David Wright wrote: Wol gave these "b" people the benefit of the doubt as being "b/h" people (but why was the American tongue mentioned?). Because Americans like to think they speak English (but they are mistaken!). I play crotchets, not quarter-notes. I don't know what

Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent

2020-05-19 Thread antlists
On 19/05/2020 16:04, David Kastrup wrote: All because people think "it's not difficult to figure out how to make it work" when actually it is once you aim for more than a "mostly working" determination and keep shuffling around just which 10% you are willing to let fall apart. Too many people

Re: Identify included files

2020-05-23 Thread antlists
On 23/05/2020 06:06, Michael Gerdau wrote: Big deal. I won't ask what's in voiceTrombone.ily. A variable declaration. You know - EXACTLY THE SAME as C programmers often stick in .h files ... I don’t think that’s correct. For one according to my understanding LP has no variable

Re: show key signature but also alterations

2020-05-21 Thread antlists
n 21/05/2020 07:35, Frédéric wrote: Hi, I'm writing a scale book. I would like to have the key signature but also an accidentals in front of each note. For example, in d \major, I would like to print f# c# as key signature and a # in front of each f and c. I see 2 possibilities: 1. define a

Re: registering a composition

2020-05-23 Thread antlists
On 23/05/2020 20:21, Valentin Villenave wrote: I’m not saying the world is a nice place (it isn’t); you should, at the very least, secure*your* copyright by having a solid proof of anteriority, as we discussed. What I’m saying is that you shouldn’t overestimate the possible threat to your work

Re: registering a composition

2020-05-24 Thread antlists
On 24/05/2020 11:59, David Kastrup wrote: Wols Lists writes: On 24/05/20 01:08, Carl Sorensen wrote: Actually, GNU allows charging for the software. From the Preamble to the GNU GPL: "When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are

Re: registering a composition

2020-05-23 Thread antlists
On 22/05/2020 13:26, Gilles Sadowski wrote: IIUC, CC licences aim to protect against others making money from your work. How is "ASCAP not being happy" related to that? Unless I'm mistaken, LilyPond (GNU) and CC belong to the "eco-system" where sharing is the norm (to enhance the common

Re: Identify included files

2020-05-21 Thread antlists
On 21/05/2020 16:36, David Wright wrote: On Thu 21 May 2020 at 13:57:00 (+0100), antlists wrote: On 21/05/2020 01:49, David Wright wrote: I don't understand your equivalence between .ily and .h files. The .ily file(s) can contain just as much code as the .ly file(s), whereas .h files don't

Re: adding chordmode chord modifiers

2020-09-08 Thread antlists
On 08/09/2020 03:21, Randy Josleyn wrote: (By the way, I switched to a daily digest for lilypond-user emails and I'm not sure about how replies work from them. I've made mistakes with how replies to a list work before, so I apologize if I've done it again.) I don't know how it works, but I

Re: Dynamics context

2020-09-08 Thread antlists
On 07/09/2020 17:01, Martín Rincón Botero wrote: I wanted to ask if using the Dynamics context is the simplest way available in Lilypond for achieving this kind of vertically aligned dynamics. The huge drawback of the Dynamics context is that it disrupts the syntax, since dynamics can’t be

Re: macro for \once\override

2020-08-28 Thread antlists
On 28/08/2020 20:42, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Well, we have to make a compromise. The PDF document has a small line width, and you can't scroll horizontally... Theoretically, the snippet could be printed with a smaller font size, but this doesn't look very pretty IMHO. I consider the `\oo`

Re: Forzando in Lilypond 2.20

2020-10-01 Thread antlists
On 01/10/2020 19:27, Carl Sorensen wrote: Variables can only be defined at top level, not inside a score. https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.20/Documentation/notation/file-structure I just shove all of this sort of stuff in an include file, and include it at the top. I've come across things like

Re: Forzando in Lilypond 2.20

2020-10-03 Thread antlists
On 03/10/2020 03:32, Mike Dean wrote: Not really sure how to get the fermata over the repeat bar line rather than over the clef on the next line Isn't this the default behaviour of \uFermata and friends? Sorry I can't from memory be more specific, but I know my battle with fermatas was

Re: Getting started with Scheme

2020-05-26 Thread antlists
On 23/05/2020 11:37, Kevin Barry wrote: My copy of windows doesn’t have a*Start* menu: so that’s another instruction that is meaningless. OK. Is there a common way to accomplish the old Start -> Run -> type in the name of a program? Windows 10 has a (sort of) start menu - click on the

Re: Identify included files

2020-05-21 Thread antlists
On 21/05/2020 01:49, David Wright wrote: I don't understand your equivalence between .ily and .h files. The .ily file(s) can contain just as much code as the .ly file(s), whereas .h files don't contain any code at all (in the sense of producing executable code for the next stage. a) just like

Re: Identify included files

2020-05-21 Thread antlists
On 21/05/2020 14:36, David Kastrup wrote: antlists writes: On 21/05/2020 01:49, David Wright wrote: I don't understand your equivalence between .ily and .h files. The .ily file(s) can contain just as much code as the .ly file(s), whereas .h files don't contain any code at all (in the sense

Re: Naming RFC: Properties, property sets, presets

2020-07-15 Thread antlists
On 15/07/2020 12:08, Urs Liska wrote: Out of curiousity: How do you feel about the use of "preset" in synthesizers, radios or audio processors like equalizers or effects (to name just a few I know of)? As I understand what's going on, a preset with synthesizers et al is a "preset list of

Re: Harmonics in tablature

2020-06-30 Thread antlists
On 29/06/2020 10:30, Valentin Petzel wrote: 3) Forcing a string number can be done manually easily (though this is not good if the tuning changes at some point). But in code it is quite a bit more effort to achieve the same result, because we then would need to read the string tunings from the

Re: What happened to INSTALL.txt?

2020-07-30 Thread antlists
On 30/07/2020 17:25, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 08:30:34AM -0700, Knute Snortum wrote: Well it looks like README.git should just contain this: Instructions for compiling LilyPond from source files can be found online at:

Re: AW: Custom Format

2021-04-01 Thread antlists
On 01/04/2021 09:50, Kevin Barry wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 11:47:05PM +0100, antlists wrote: On 31/03/2021 20:20, Callum Cassidy-Nolan wrote: You are correct, there is no distinction between these two notes, because in terms of pitch they are the same. Actually, they're

Re: AW: Custom Format

2021-03-31 Thread antlists
On 31/03/2021 20:20, Callum Cassidy-Nolan wrote: You are correct, there is no distinction between these two notes, because in terms of pitch they are the same. Actually, they're not ... If you're talking about "well-tempered" instruments - basically keyboard - then IN PRACTICE they are the

Re: why Kieren is a \relative evangelist [was “Re: Nested transposition"]

2021-03-21 Thread antlists
On 19/03/2021 16:43, H. S. Teoh wrote: It's somewhat mitigated by inserting octave checks every so often (say, at the start of every section), so that when it does go wrong, there's a warning, and the problem only propagates up to the next octave check rather than the rest of the piece. :-)

Re: Guitar Tab / Bends

2021-03-12 Thread antlists
If you're into guitar stuff, there's something else you might be interested in cleaning up and getting working ... I wrote a capo feature, but it sort of fell by the wayside. If you're using chord notation, it puts "Capo G" or whatever at the start of the piece, and transposes the chord and

Re: why Kieren is a \relative evangelist [was “Re: Nested transposition"]

2021-03-17 Thread antlists
On 17/03/2021 08:23, Michael Gerdau wrote: I don't have any of the show stopper Kieren is so evangelistic about and very clearly find \relative easier to enter via a normal keyboard by a long shot. Entering all those "'" (requires SHIFT on a german keyboard) and "," is not at all fluent.

Re: Repeated durations: pitches vs rests

2021-02-22 Thread antlists
On 22/02/2021 06:02, Andrew Bernard wrote: Its not a bug. It's just the syntax. A 16 without a note will produce a note, not a rest, even after a rest. There would be a dozen different possibilities for syntax, but that's how it is. Principle of least surprise. As a player, a rest is a note

Re: Concert pitch question (confused ex-tuba player)

2021-09-17 Thread antlists
On 17/09/2021 22:58, Michael Seifert wrote: Trombone player here. You and I play instruments that are in concert pitch. This means that when you & I look at a C printed on the page, and move our fingers/slide/lips to play it, a C comes out of our horns. Nitpick here - our

Re: Concert pitch question (confused ex-tuba player)

2021-09-17 Thread antlists
On 17/09/2021 22:09, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: I know, as an ex-tuba player (and a very low-level amatuer tuba player), that tuba and trombone (bassoon?) don't require transposition as they are already in concert pitch (I never played a tuba in the key of C, F or Eb). Tuba and trombone don't

Re: Concert pitch question (confused ex-tuba player)

2021-09-17 Thread antlists
On 17/09/2021 23:11, antlists wrote: Then when I output it, likewise I wrap it again in "\transpose c c {}" for bass clef, or "\transpose c' bf {}" for treble_8 clef (note I transpose treble clef an octave and the music a second here). Whoops - should read "\transpose

Re: Musical Theatre-Style Bar Numbers

2021-09-20 Thread antlists
On 20/09/2021 04:38, Calvin Ransom wrote: Hello everyone, I’m transposing a musical theatre book and sometimes the bar numbers contain letters then go back to normal numbering. Here is an example for the Bar Numbering that I am looking for: 1 2 3 3a 3b 3c 4 5 6 Does anyone know how to do