Re: Aw: Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-15 Thread TaoCG
This is all very interesting, I'd love to have a jazz style font in LilyPond, though I don't particularly like the Sigler Jazz font. I much prefer their Swing font. I was still wondering if there won't be any license issues if the font is redrawn manually since in the end everyone familiar with the

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-15 Thread Robert Schmaus
Hi Torsten, first of all: This looks just amazing! Thanks for sharing it! Even though I like LilyPond's original typesetting a lot, I noticed that sheets get more difficult to read in certain lighting conditions (I assume you are a jazz musician as well and know what I mean ...). Especially for th

Changing accidental style for one section of a piece

2013-03-15 Thread James Harkins
Hi, I'm working on a piece now where most of it is modal, but one section will be free-chromatic. I would like to use one of the more modern accidental styles, but only in that section. I read the section of the manual about automatic accidentals, and it appears at first glance that the accidenta

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-15 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2013-03-15 um 10:06 schrieb TaoCG: > This is all very interesting, I'd love to have a jazz style font in LilyPond, > though I don't particularly like the Sigler Jazz font. I much prefer their > Swing font. > I was still wondering if there won't be any license issues if the font is > redrawn ma

cautionary accidentals based on cautionary in another staff?

2013-03-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi! I've got a score with a piano part and a flute part, amongst other staves. In m49, the flute part has a B-natural near the beginning (requiring an accidental), and a B-flat in a different octave near the end. (See attached screenshot, which contains the measure in question.) Thanks to the '

Re: System start delimiter in middle of system; new score without breaking line

2013-03-15 Thread Davide Liessi
2013/3/15 Thomas Morley : > 2013/3/15 Davide Liessi : >> 1. is it possible to print the system start delimiter in the middle of a >> system? > > Perhaps my workaround here is of some interest: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-05/msg00379.html This is very interesting! It is

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 15, 2013, at 4:52 AM, Robert Schmaus wrote: > Hi Torsten, > > first of all: This looks just amazing! Thanks for sharing it! > Even though I like LilyPond's original typesetting a lot, I noticed that > sheets get more difficult to read in certain lighting conditions (I > assume you are a j

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-15 Thread Urs Liska
Am 15.03.2013 16:38, schrieb Tim McNamara: On Mar 15, 2013, at 4:52 AM, Robert Schmaus wrote: Hi Torsten, first of all: This looks just amazing! Thanks for sharing it! Even though I like LilyPond's original typesetting a lot, I noticed that sheets get more difficult to read in certain lightin

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, On 2013-Mar-15, at 11:42, Urs Liska wrote: > AFAIK the only way (except creating a pango-font-ree) is to redefine > booktitlemarkup and/or scoretitlemarkup from scratch to be able to access the > font settings for these items (as \markups) Um… doesn't everyone do this for all their sco

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-15 Thread Urs Liska
Am 15.03.2013 16:49, schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi all, On 2013-Mar-15, at 11:42, Urs Liska wrote: AFAIK the only way (except creating a pango-font-ree) is to redefine booktitlemarkup and/or scoretitlemarkup from scratch to be able to access the font settings for these items (as \markups) Um

Spacing from lyric below staff to next system

2013-03-15 Thread Rustik
Hello! I have a problem. I have page with five systems. There is same spacing between systems. One of medium systems has lyric line below bottom staff. I wish make extra space between this lyric line below staff and next system with with the preservation of the interval between other systems. How c

Custom footers

2013-03-15 Thread Jérôme Plût
I don't understand how to define custom footers. Is there a hook in odd/evenpagefooter where I can plug a Scheme function, or are they limited to the very poor language of \fromproperty and \on-the-fly? What I want to do in my case: I have a big PDF file containing all parts for a big piece. I wan

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 15, 2013, at 10:38 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: > On Mar 15, 2013, at 4:52 AM, Robert Schmaus wrote: > >> Hi Torsten, >> >> first of all: This looks just amazing! Thanks for sharing it! >> Even though I like LilyPond's original typesetting a lot, I noticed that >> sheets get more difficult to

How to align a new MultiMeasureRest-stencil?

2013-03-15 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi, I'm trying to set a new MultiMeasureRest-stencil. Therefore I read out the left- and right-bound: NonMusicalPaperColumn, their X-coordinate and the interval-length of their grob-extent. These values are used to do some calculations to center the new MMR-stencil in the measure. Intented is to

Re: Spacing from lyric below staff to next system

2013-03-15 Thread Eluze
Rustik wrote > Hello! > I have a problem. I have page with five systems. There is same spacing > between systems. One of medium systems has lyric line below bottom staff. > I wish make extra space between this lyric line below staff and next > system with with the preservation of the interval betwe

Re: roling cords

2013-03-15 Thread Sarah k Alawami
No I mean like when you have a fist full of cord and you want the cord to play on the beat but it's so big you have to role from the top to the bottom. Here is a badly played example. sorry about the ringing c sharp. it's broken. http://alawamiproductions.com/dl/DM421359.MP3 It's not arpasia

Headers pushed to PDF doc properties

2013-03-15 Thread Javier Ruiz-Alma
Some (but not all) entries from the \header block are pushed as PDF properties, and either appear in the "Description", or in the "Custom" fields tab of the PDF document "Properties" dialog box: * title * composer (shown in the "Author" field, as well as in a custom "Composer" fi

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-15 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2013-03-15 um 10:06 schrieb TaoCG: This is all very interesting, I'd love to have a jazz style font in LilyPond, though I don't particularly like the Sigler Jazz font. I much prefer their Swing font. I was still wondering if there won't be a

RE: roling cords

2013-03-15 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Sarah: What is the Chopin piece? I may have a copy and could "see" what you want. Mark -Original Message- From: Sarah k Alawami [mailto:marri...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 4:58 PM To: Mark Stephen Mrotek Subject: Re: roling cords lol. My hands are not that big. I wish I c

Interface for controlling fermata

2013-03-15 Thread Jim Long
What is the appropriate grob name for a fermata? I want to: \once \override Fermata #'Y-offset = #2 but Lily tells me that's not correct: fermata-test.ly:18:12: warning: not a grob name, `Fermata' Looking at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/internals/all-layout-objects and

Re: Interface for controlling fermata

2013-03-15 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/3/16 Jim Long : > What is the appropriate grob name for a fermata? Script. Though, that's the family. > > I want to: > > \once \override Fermata #'Y-offset = #2 > > but Lily tells me that's not correct: > > fermata-test.ly:18:12: warning: not a grob name, `Fermata' > > Looking at > > h

Lilypond Woodwind-Diagram for Bassoon missing half-hole option for first finger

2013-03-15 Thread ryanmichaelmcclure
I am attempting to make a fingering chart for a friend of mine for bassoon, but sadly, there is no first-finger half hole or anything other than one or oneT. This is one of the more crucial holes that has a half hole on the bassoon. Is there a way to make it have a half hole, or does this feature n

conversion factor for \pt

2013-03-15 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi, in the following markup I want draw-line to have the same Y-length as the brace. \version "2.16.2" factor = #0.175 % a rough estimation, and for default-staff-size only size = #40 \markup { \left-brace #size \translate #`(0 . ,(/ (* size factor) -2)) \draw-line #`(0

how to keep BarNumber above pedal indications?

2013-03-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, My BarNumbers are being pushed down by my pedal brackets, as shown in the following minimal example: \version "2.17" \language "english" \layout { \context { \name PianoPedals \type "Engraver_group" \consists "Piano_pedal_engraver" \consists "Axis_group_engraver"

Re: Custom footers

2013-03-15 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/3/15 Jérôme Plût : Hi Jérôme, it's not clear to me what you want to achieve. > I don't understand how to define custom footers. Is there a hook in > odd/evenpagefooter where I can plug a Scheme function, or are they > limited to the very poor language of \fromproperty and \on-the-fly? > > Wh

Re: Changing accidental style for one section of a piece

2013-03-15 Thread Keith OHara
James Harkins gmail.com> writes: > I would like to use one of the more modern accidental styles, > but only in that section. > It wasn't clear if the style could change in the middle of a piece. I would think it should work. So far, it works for me to put \accidentalStyle in the middle of musi

Re: cautionary accidentals based on cautionary in another staff?

2013-03-15 Thread Keith OHara
Kieren MacMillan sympatico.ca> writes: > Has anyone solved this problem, i.e., including cautionary accidental(s) > in one staff if one was required in the same measure of another staff in the > same score? > Exactly this rule probably won't work for you, but I set a rule to set cautionary acc

Re: roling cords

2013-03-15 Thread Shane Brandes
If it is a Chopin piece simply rolling a large chord would not be inappropriate. Rolling chords was probably a much more common practice in that era anyway. In any event, early recordings and anecdotal evidence suggest such a thing. So the point is if you feel you need to roll a chord to make the p

stem directions in music for voice and guitar

2013-03-15 Thread ivan . k . kuznetsov
Attached is the beginning of an arrangement for voice and guitar. The guitar part is two part counterpoint in which I would like to control where the steps go up or down. (1) In the guitar part, even though I have \voiceOne marked with \stemUp and \voiceTwo marked with \stemDown, why do the stem

RE: stem directions in music for voice and guitar

2013-03-15 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Ivan: When I write polyphony for the piano I use << { %here pitches for top voice } \\ { %here pitches for bottom voice} >>. Lilypond seems to take care of the stem directions. I reset you example using this format. Some notes of the voices might need to be adjusted. \version "2.16.0" \include

Re: roling cords

2013-03-15 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Ok. so based on the example I played I have no choice. so do I just put the whole shebang on beat one and hope the pianist, in this case either me or the prof or a class mate would have the sense to do what I did, better then me of corse. lol. I know how to build the cord in lily pond but I'm w

Re: stem directions in music for voice and guitar

2013-03-15 Thread Nick Payne
On 16/03/13 15:15, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: Ivan: When I write polyphony for the piano I use << { %here pitches for top voice } \\ { %here pitches for bottom voice} >>. Lilypond seems to take care of the stem directions. I reset you example using this format. Some notes of the voices might n