On 11/22/2011 11:18 PM, Brandon Pisani wrote:
Howdy, y'all,
I just started trying to use this recently. My eventual use is to
compile a personal (non-distributed, non-sold, etc.) tunebook for tin
whistle. I am trying, or thought I was trying, to start of small, and
I don't understand some of the structure quite yet. Please, help me
out with a couple of questions.
First, as I'm an American and tend to use letter-sized paper (8.5" x
11"), where should I put the \paper { } command?
Second, and here's the rub, I'm trying to put this piece of music
(http://www.wtv-zone.com/phyrst/audio/nfld/06/ble.htm) into the
program using the code after the signature on this message. What I'm
running into: without the \bar "|" there's no bar between the new time
signature and the rest of the music. If I put in bar checks, I get
errors. There's no ending bar. Maybe I'm missing some theory and the
original piece is written strangely. Maybe I'm missing something
regarding this language.
Any help, suggestions, thrown fruit, send them my way.
Cheers,
Brandon Pisani
\version "2.14.0"
\header {
title = \markup { "Trois Navires de" \concat { "Bl" \char ##x00E9 } }
}
melody = \relative c' {
\clef treble
\key c \major
\time 6/4
\autoBeamOff
\partial 2
\repeat volta 2{
c'4 b8 a g4 c c c c b8 c d4 e d c d e d2~ d
}
c4. d8 e4 d c d
\bar "|"
\numericTimeSignature
\time 4/4
e4 d c8([ b)] a b c4 d d2 a8 b a g g4 g8 g
\time 6/4
a4 e' e d d( e) c2~ c
}
\score {
\new Staff \melody
\layout { }
\midi { }
}
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Brandon,
Just a couple things to get you started here. First, for the paper size
see:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/paper-size-and-automatic-scaling
For the piece you've selected as "small" you've actually picked one with
some interesting issues. The partial measure at the beginning you
handled correctly, but when you get to the repeat sign you're only 2/3
of the way through the measure so two beats later you get another bar
line. The music is correct as it is repeating back to the partial bar
at the beginning but LilyPond doesn't know that. You'll have to shorten
the measure and hide the time signature (I think).
You are having to add \bar "|" at the time change to see the barline
because you're actually changing time sigs in the middle of a measure.
This has to do with where the repeat sign is. See previous paragraph.
At the end there is no barline because you have not yet reached the end
of the measure. Again, you can either shorten the measure/hide the time
signature or simply add a final barline ( \bar "|." ) manually at the
end of the music.
Hope this helps,
-David
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