Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-19 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi pabuhr. On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:48 PM, pabuhr pab...@fastmail.fm wrote: I've been working on the last version of David Nalesnik's guide-finger code. The reason is a horizontal and vertical placement problem when the guide line is long and/or at a steep angle. I have managed to fix the

Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-17 Thread pabuhr
I've been working on the last version of David Nalesnik's guide-finger code. The reason is a horizontal and vertical placement problem when the guide line is long and/or at a steep angle. I have managed to fix the vertical problem, but the horizontal problem has me flummoxed. The example below

Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-07 Thread Nick Payne
On 07/10/12 11:07, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi pabuhr, On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 5:21 PM, pabuhr pab...@fastmail.fm wrote: [...] Below is my attempt at a guide finger (which I'm sure you saw a few months ago). http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg73509.html [...] The problem

Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-07 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Nick, On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: [...] Thanks, that's very useful. I added three functions to your code which which take just the slope as parameter and default to using either hyphen, en dash, and em dash, to cater for different degrees

Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-07 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi again, On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 6:00 PM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nick, [...] if you're interested simply in drawing lines, then there will be greater flexibility with a line stencil, rather than em- and en-dashes and such. I've adapted the function to do just

Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-07 Thread David Nalesnik
Me again-- On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 6:20 PM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: [...] It's meant to connect fingering numbers, but you can hide the first number to mimic the effect of the function earlier in the thread. (I'm sure something could be done to this so you wouldn't

Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-07 Thread Werner LEMBERG
programming error: Glyph has no name, but font supports glyph naming. Skipping glyph U+10002E3A, file /usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf/emmentaler-18.otf Uh, oh, this is a nonsense error message. There *never* exists U+10002E3A, since this is outside of the valid

Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-07 Thread Nick Payne
On 08/10/12 15:16, Werner LEMBERG wrote: programming error: Glyph has no name, but font supports glyph naming. Skipping glyph U+10002E3A, file /usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf/emmentaler-18.otf Uh, oh, this is a nonsense error message. There *never* exists U+10002E3A,

Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-06 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/10/6 Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net: I'm using glissandos to indicate a guide finger in fingering, and in most cases where there are chords, I don't want it between all the notes in successive chords. Can this be done without creating a separate hidden voice with the single notes

Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-06 Thread pabuhr
I'm using glissandos to indicate a guide finger in fingering, and in ... Hey Nick, we certainly struggle with indicating a guide finger. 8-) First, an observation, which I know you are already aware of, but I'll make it anyway. It is important to differentiate between the glissando, which

Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-06 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi pabuhr, On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 5:21 PM, pabuhr pab...@fastmail.fm wrote: [...] Below is my attempt at a guide finger (which I'm sure you saw a few months ago). http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg73509.html [...] The problem with my version is that the combined

Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-06 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Harm, On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: [...] two month ago I created the code below (the same is attached, too). It is not exactly what you want, but it should give you some ideas. Just tried this out. Very cool! -David