Re: Figured Bass Improvements

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Trent J. writes:

> I've been following the developments for a while in hope

> Is it ever going to be improved?

> Any comments / hints of further development appreciated.

If you need something to be fixed in a Free Software such as LilyPond,
there are several options.  The good thing is that if you need
something real bad, you can always get it [fixed].  In order of
increasing guaranteed success

   1.  Wait,
   2.  Send a small .ly example with specific description of what your
   needs are,
   3a. Fix it yourself, or have a friend fix it; send a patch,
   3b. Make a donation to LilyPond development that pays to
   implement the feature.

Good luck,
Jan.

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Re: different behavior of "\remove Time_signature_engraver" in Lilypond-Book

[Mats Bengtsson]

The problem is that lilypond-book adds another \layout section
before your code and how should LilyPond know which one of them
to use? There are two simple solutions:
- Move your \layout{...} before the music:
\begin{lilypond}
\layout {
  ...
}
\relative c' {
  ...
}
\end{lilypond}
- Add \score{...} to tell what belongs together:
\begin{lilypond}
\score{
\relative c' {
  ...
}
\layout {
  ...
}
}
\end{lilypond}
  /Mats
Charles Gran wrote:
If I run this as a separate lily file the time signature is 
removed.  It is not removed when I embed this in a latex document 
as shown.
(WindowsXP, 2.4.2) -Charles

\begin{lilypond}
\relative c' {
\clef percussion 
\autoBeamOff
\cadenzaOn
c8. c16 c8 c c16 c c8
c16 c c4 c16 c c8 c
c16 c8. c8 c c c16 c
c4 c c \bar "|."
}
\layout {
  \context {
\Staff
\remove Time_signature_engraver
  }
}
\end{lilypond}

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Re: String numbers in circles

[Mats Bengtsson]

You don't say what platform you use. If you run the Cygwin version
in Windows, it might help to rerun setup.exe and add the packages
tetex-base and tetex-extra.
   /Mats
Walter Hofmeister wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to achieve numbers in circles? I used to be able to
get this to work on 2.1.x:
ces^\markup {"\\textcircled{\\tiny 1}"}
I think I got this from David Raleigh Arnold in a previous post. It no
longer works under 2.4.2. It gives the circle but no number inside of it.
I ran an old file through convert-ly and examined it to find that it did not
change the syntax. The new file ran without warnings but the generated file
gave the same result as described above; circle with no number.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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Re: How do I stop Adobe Acrobat from popping up?

[Mats Bengtsson]

Now, this is a LilyPond question, so I left out the other
mailing lists.
First of all, why do you call LilyPond using a DOS command?
- If you actually run the command from a DOS prompt, I definitely
  recommend you to use the Cygwin prompt instead, where you use
  the command 'lilypond' to just process the file. If you need
  an introduction to what can be done in a Cygwin command prompt,
  check the documentation at www.cygwin.com or some introductory
  text on LINUX or UNIX.
- If what you really want to do is to redefine what happens when
  you double-click a .ly file, then I think your question makes
  more sense. The easiest solution is to edit the script
  /usr/bin/lily-wins. It's written in the Python language
  (www.python.org), but it shouldn't be that hard to decipher
  the basic steps if you are familiar to some kind of programming.
  For example, to prevent that it starts Acrobat, just comment out
  the final line of the script.
- If what you really want is to call LilyPond from within some
  script you have written yourself, you could try any of the
  approaches, either to edit lily-wins or to write the full script
  in some language that can be run from within Cygwin instead,
  such as Perl or Python or Bash or whatever.
   /Mats
Josh Don wrote:
 
If --png -m -o etc don't work on windows, at least tell me this...
How do I stop Adobe Acrobat from popping up?
 
I am calling LilyPond like this:
C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c  "/usr/bin/lily-wins C:/t.ly"
 
any help to get the command line options going would also be appreciated
thanks.
 
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Re: text problem

[Mats Bengtsson]

I think you can find the answer in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-01/msg00393.html
(with followups) even though you might not realize it directly.
For a more direct answer, see
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-01/msg00141.html
  /Mats
Charles Gran wrote:
I want to get a lyric under the two tied whole notes in the 
final two measures of the attached song.  Can anyone help me 
on this?  I know it is similar to the way the pickup works at 
the end of the introduction, but am unsure of how to 
accomplish this.

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Re: I found an answer, but got "option --png not recognized" Error

[Mats Bengtsson]

To follow up on my previous answer, lily-wins is a very primitive
program that doesn't pass any command line options to lilypond.
Actually, it's turns out it's fairly simple to call lilypond directly
(still I don't really realize why you want to do it) using the
following DOS command:
C:/cygwin/bin/bash.exe --login -c "/usr/bin/lilypond ..."
However, the complication is that you then have to specify the
file name using the UNIX path name instead of the DOS path name.
For example, to process the file C:\t.ly, you should write
C:/cygwin/bin/bash.exe --login -c "/usr/bin/lilypond /cygdrive/c/t.ly"
Of course, there is a Cygwin command to translate between these two
conventions, so you could say
C:/cygwin/bin/bash.exe --login -c "/usr/bin/lilypond `cygpath -au C:\t.ly`"
The only complication is if you have a file path that contains spaces
(such as ...\Documents and Settings\...) since the spaces are normally
used to separate command options. This is one of the things that are
handled well by the lily-wins script, but seem more or less impossible
to do in a single commmand line.
   /Mats
Josh Don wrote:
 

I asked a question before, this answer works better than anything you 
guys told me,
it lets me run lilypond from WSH...

C:/cygwin/bin/bash.exe --login -c "/usr/bin/lily-wins C:/t.ly"
the problem is it doesn't recognise the command line options.
I've tried other options and, I've tried them from the cygwin prompt.
I've tried them in quotes and things. What is up with this?...
C:/cygwin/bin/bash.exe --login -c "/usr/bin/lily-wins --png C:/t.ly"

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/lily-wins", line 56, in ?
(opts, files)=getopt.getopt (sys.argv[1:],'dh', ['help', 'debug'])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/getopt.py", line 89, in getopt
opts, args = do_longs(opts, args[0][2:], longopts, args[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/getopt.py", line 153, in do_longs
has_arg, opt = long_has_args(opt, longopts)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/getopt.py", line 170, in long_has_args
raise GetoptError('option --%s not recognized' % opt, opt)
getopt.GetoptError: option --png not recognized
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Usage: lilypond [OPTION]... FILE...
Typeset music and/or produce MIDI from FILE.
LilyPond produces beautiful music notation.
For more information, see http://lilypond.org
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  -e, --evaluate=EXPR   set option, use -e '(ly:option-usage)' for help
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  -h, --helpprint this help
  -H, --header=FIELDwrite header field to BASENAME.FIELD
  -I, --include=DIR add DIR to search path
  -i, --init=FILE   use FILE as init file
  -m, --no-layout   produce MIDI output only
  -o, --output=FILE write output to FILE
  -p, --preview generate a preview
  --no-pagesdon't generate full pages
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  --dvi generate DVI
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Re: String numbers in circles

[Tapio Tuovila]

Mats Bengtsson kirjoitti:
You don't say what platform you use. If you run the Cygwin version
in Windows, it might help to rerun setup.exe and add the packages
tetex-base and tetex-extra.
   /Mats
Walter Hofmeister wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to achieve numbers in circles? I used to be 
able to
get this to work on 2.1.x:
ces^\markup {"\\textcircled{\\tiny 1}"}
I tried this with lilypond 2.4.4 on SuSE 9.2. Can see a circle and tiny 
"1" on a .dvi file with xdvi, but can't see anything but a circle on .ps 
or on .pdf or on paper. I think I have all tex packages offered by suse 
installed (save korean, chinese, japanese and the kind of pkg)
xdvi gives following messages:

xdvi 032-inve
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 
600 ecrm0500
mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for ecrm0500.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
xdvi: Can't find font ecrm0500; using Type1 version of cmr10 instead.

running dvips gives the following:
dvips 032-inve
This is dvips(k) 5.92b Copyright 2002 Radical Eye Software 
(www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2005.02.07:1610' -> 032-inve.ps
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 
600 ecrm0500
mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for ecrm0500.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
dvips: Font ecrm0500 not found, characters will be left blank.
. 

[1]
and the resulting .ps shows the circle only. 

--Perhaps this is something similar with the original question??
-- What is this thing about the 'ecrm0500',  messing up with the fonts 
again??

greetings, Tapio

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Re: String numbers in circles

[Walter Hofmeister]

On 2/7/05 5:51 AM, "Mats Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> You don't say what platform you use. If you run the Cygwin version
> in Windows, it might help to rerun setup.exe and add the packages
> tetex-base and tetex-extra.
> 
> /Mats
> 
> Walter Hofmeister wrote:
>> Can anyone tell me how to achieve numbers in circles? I used to be able to
>> get this to work on 2.1.x:
>> ces^\markup {"\\textcircled{\\tiny 1}"}
>> 
>> I think I got this from David Raleigh Arnold in a previous post. It no
>> longer works under 2.4.2. It gives the circle but no number inside of it.
>> 
>> I ran an old file through convert-ly and examined it to find that it did not
>> change the syntax. The new file ran without warnings but the generated file
>> gave the same result as described above; circle with no number.
>> 
>> Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> Walter Hofmeister
>> 
Sorry Mats,
I'm on Mac OS X. I'm using Fink and there appears to be no tetex-extra.
Here is a list of the packages that are available:

(i)  tetex   2.0.2-37  Complete distribution
of the TeX typesetting system

(i)  tetex-base  2.0.2-37  Base programs for a
teTeX installation

(i)  tetex-dev   2.0.2-37  Developer files for a
teTeX installation

tetex-macosx  [virtual package]

tetex-nox   2.0.2-24  Base programs for teTeX,
with X11 disabled

(i)  tetex-shlibs2.0.2-37  Shared libraries for
a teTeX installation

i   tetex-texmf 2.0.2-2   Main texmf tree for a
teTeX installation

The packages with an I means they are installed. The ones with (i) means
that there are newer packages available. Any ideas?

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Re: String numbers in circles

[Mats Bengtsson]

This is one of the font files that should be generated automatically
as soon as you need it, if you have a normal installation of teTeX.
Occasionally, it helps to do run the command "tex testfont" and
input the following:
Name of the font to test = ecrm0500
Now type a test command (\help for help):)
*\table\bye
This should create a file testfont.dvi that you can view with
xdvi or convert into a Postscript with dvips.
I have no idea about how SuSE have packaged things, maybe they
have put these font files in a separate package.
   /Mats
Tapio Tuovila wrote:
Mats Bengtsson kirjoitti:
You don't say what platform you use. If you run the Cygwin version
in Windows, it might help to rerun setup.exe and add the packages
tetex-base and tetex-extra.
   /Mats
Walter Hofmeister wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to achieve numbers in circles? I used to be 
able to
get this to work on 2.1.x:
ces^\markup {"\\textcircled{\\tiny 1}"}
I tried this with lilypond 2.4.4 on SuSE 9.2. Can see a circle and tiny 
"1" on a .dvi file with xdvi, but can't see anything but a circle on .ps 
or on .pdf or on paper. I think I have all tex packages offered by suse 
installed (save korean, chinese, japanese and the kind of pkg)
xdvi gives following messages:

xdvi 032-inve
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 
600 ecrm0500
mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for ecrm0500.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
xdvi: Can't find font ecrm0500; using Type1 version of cmr10 instead.

running dvips gives the following:
dvips 032-inve
This is dvips(k) 5.92b Copyright 2002 Radical Eye Software 
(www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2005.02.07:1610' -> 032-inve.ps
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 
600 ecrm0500
mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for ecrm0500.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
dvips: Font ecrm0500 not found, characters will be left blank.
. 

[1]
and the resulting .ps shows the circle only.
--Perhaps this is something similar with the original question??
-- What is this thing about the 'ecrm0500',  messing up with the fonts 
again??

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LilyPond error

[Mardi Girard]

Hello
I'm having trouble getting test.ly to work. My 
test.log file says
 
lilypond (GNU LilyPond) 2.2.5Running 
lilypond-bin...Now processing `test.ly'Parsing...
 
/cygdrive/c/Dokumente und 
Einstellungen/Besitzer/Eigene Dateien/My Music/test.ly:3:0: error: syntax error, 
unexpected '{':
 
{
 
/cygdrive/c/Dokumente und 
Einstellungen/Besitzer/Eigene Dateien/My Music/test.ly:4:8: warning: Braces 
don't match:  c4(  c    
4)Failed files: test.ly 
 
lilypond: error: LilyPond failed on input file test (exit status 
1)lilypond: warning: Running LilyPond failed. Rerun with --verbose for a 
trace.
Can you help me? Thank you
Mardi
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Re: LilyPond error

[Mats Bengtsson]

Apparently, you have installed version 2.2.5, but used a version
of the file test.ly that is written for a newer version, 2.4.3.
My best suggestion is to upgrade to version 2.4.x. The alternative
is to keep your current version and read the Tutorial which is
included in the documentation for your current version of the
program (available at www.lilypond.org).
   /Mats
Mardi Girard wrote:
Hello
I'm having trouble getting test.ly to work. My test.log file says
 
/lilypond (GNU LilyPond) 2.2.5
Running lilypond-bin...
Now processing `test.ly'
Parsing.../
// 
//cygdrive/c/Dokumente und Einstellungen/Besitzer/Eigene Dateien/My 
Music/test.ly:3:0: error: syntax error, unexpected '{':/
// 
/{/
// 
//cygdrive/c/Dokumente und Einstellungen/Besitzer/Eigene Dateien/My 
Music/test.ly:4:8: warning: Braces don't match:
  c4(  c
4)
Failed files: test.ly /
// 

/lilypond: error: LilyPond failed on input file test (exit status 1)
lilypond: warning: Running LilyPond failed. Rerun with --verbose for a 
trace.
/
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Re: opus/composer alignment

[Anthony W. Youngman]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Erik Sandberg 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
thanks. I have added the bug to the database. It will not be fixed in the 2.4
series, but as Daniel pointed out it is fixed in 2.5.
You can pass -f ps to lilypond, this will make the output slightly different;
the composer will be slightly off to the right instead.
If it's fixed in 2.5 but will not be backported, when can we expect 2.6? 
I'm particularly interested because of stuff that's been added for me 
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Re: transpose, transposition, and relative

[Anthony W. Youngman]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Graham Percival 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
On 5-Feb-05, at 9:40 AM, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
As I've said before, please tell me exactly what section(s) should
changed, and exactly
what should be changed or added.
Table of Contents
* GNU LilyPond \u2014 The music typesetter
* Preface
  o Notes for version 2.4
* 1 Introduction
  o 1.1 Engraving
  o 1.2 Automated engraving
Something like this? --> Relevant Features/Limitations
 (of the languages (TeX, LaTeX, Scheme, etc.)
  o 1.3 What symbols to engrave?
  o 1.4 Music representation
  o 1.5 Example applications
While you do skirt the topic several times in the section, I think it
deserves a subsection heading.  daveA
OK, got it.  We should have a section about "Relevant 
features/limitations".
I'm not certain if the intro is the best place for it -- maybe 
somewhere in
chapter 7 or 8 would be better? -- but we can work that out later.

Now what should I include in such a section?  In other words,
(see my above quoted section) what exactly should be added?
As the person who started all this ...
The problem is that I missed the one line about midi.
I would suggest two changes. In the section about transposition, the 
*first* sentence should say something like "this command is used to 
convert transposed music to concert pitch for midi output only. For 
printed output use transpose".

And in the section about transpose, okay ... I know it's me being dense 
but ... the manual goes on about transposing music to output a part. I 
didn't make the manual leap to inputting a part. Going on about the 
trombone again, but how about ... "Or consider an instrument like the 
trombone, where parts may be in either Bb or C. A part can be wrapped in 
"\transpose c bf" when entering from a Bb part, and then that can be 
wrapped in either "\transpose c c" or "\transpose bf c" depending on 
which part you want to produce."

The problem is, it never crossed my mind (and it's not obvious from the 
manual) that you can actually do "\transpose c bf { \transpose bf c { 
music }}". And it probably never crossed anybody else's mind as to why 
on earth anyone would want to do such a thing :-) but if you want to 
produce a score and parts from the same set of notes, it makes life a 
lot easier (at least it does for me) if I can simply assume any music 
fragment is in C unless I've forced it to something else for a specific 
reason.

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Re: Vertical spacing isn't working...

[Anthony W. Youngman]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Graham 
Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
On 18-Jan-05, at 5:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Got it. I'm trying to increase the space between systems on a page, 
and minimumVerticalExtent is for staves in a system ...

(it is possible though, that it is impossible to easily generate 
tighter
spacing. If you have a lot of notes, then they simply have to be 
very small
in order to fit on one page)
What did work, though, was
 \layout {
 betweensystemspace = 10\mm
 }
Thanks, I didn't know that.  Info added to CVS.
This is actually documented in section 7.5.11. I do think, actually (and 
planned to do some work on it) that this should be expanded to be far 
more important in the manual.

I've got a half-written tutorial for lilypond, and it's intended to 
cover this sort of thing. I'm hoping to get some music I can set as a 
tutorial from one of my bandmasters, but what I would love is either a 
Sousa or Kenneth Alford March. Does anyone know where I can get an "out 
of copyright" copy to work on?

Cheers,
Wol
--
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HEX wondered how much he should tell the Wizards. He felt it would not be a
good idea to burden them with too much input. Hex always thought of his reports
as Lies-to-People.
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Re: transpose, transposition, and relative

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Sunday 06 February 2005 04:08 pm, Graham Percival wrote:
> On 5-Feb-05, at 9:40 AM, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
> >> As I've said before, please tell me exactly what section(s) should
> >> changed, and exactly
> >> what should be changed or added.
> >
> > Table of Contents
> >
> > * GNU LilyPond \u2014 The music typesetter
> > * Preface
> >   o Notes for version 2.4
> > * 1 Introduction
> >   o 1.1 Engraving
> >   o 1.2 Automated engraving
> > Something like this? --> Relevant Features/Limitations
> >  (of the languages (TeX, LaTeX, Scheme,
> > etc.) o 1.3 What symbols to engrave?
> >   o 1.4 Music representation
> >   o 1.5 Example applications
> >
> > While you do skirt the topic several times in the section, I think
> > it deserves a subsection heading.  daveA
>
> OK, got it.  We should have a section about "Relevant
> features/limitations".
> I'm not certain if the intro is the best place for it -- maybe
> somewhere in
> chapter 7 or 8 would be better?

In the intro the prospective user is told about the programs
lilypond uses.  That is an appropriate place to mention that
one can't use numbers in definitions--before the tutorial,
where an example is given.   Another?  TeX has a memory
limitation that I ran into once.  That was interesting.  daveA

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Re: String numbers in circles

[Graham Percival]

On 7-Feb-05, at 7:12 AM, Walter Hofmeister wrote:
I'm on Mac OS X. I'm using Fink and there appears to be no 
tetex-extra.
Here is a list of the packages that are available:
You have lily 2.4.2 installed, right?  From the fink package?
Try this:
\version "2.4.2"
\layout{raggedright=##t}
{
ces^\markup {"\\textcircled{\\tiny 1}"}
}
If it doesn't work, please inform us.  I just tried it on my system
(OSX), and it worked.
Cheers,
- Graham

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Re: Increasing space between notes?

[Graham King]

Thanks Graham,
\once \override Staff.Hairpin #'minimum-length = #10
worked nicely.

It was indeed covered in the 2.4 manual (section 5.7.13).

My kludge is unnecessary, and should be eschewed by all.

-- Graham :)

On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 05:47, Graham Percival wrote:
> On 6-Feb-05, at 5:00 AM, Graham King wrote:
> 
> > The three bars in the example below illustrate a problem in the middle
> > of a piece I'm transcribing.  The composer has written sfz followed by 
> > a
> > diminuendo onto the following note, but lilypond does not make enough
> > horizontal space for the ">" diminuendo.
> 
> Please read the section on "Dynamics".  I think this is covered in
> 2.4, but if that doesn't mention this problem, see the Dynamics section
> in 2.5.
> 
> Cheers,
> - Graham Percival
> 


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Having a lot of text under one note

[eva & Morten Borchorst]

Hi all on the list.
This is my first posting to this list, so pls forgive me if I'm asking 
silly questions.

We are aiming at getting some modern churchmusic to print, and have come 
to stop by a problem concerning one bar. According to the manuscript the 
bar consists of a whole note with a lot of text under. The following 
example shows what we have accompliched till now. Only to see that part 
of the text falls over the clef and to the left of the system. When one 
of these bars is in the middle of a system, apparently the right part of 
the text will be missing.

Could you tell me how to extend the measure to give room for all of the 
text?

psalm23.ly:
\version "2.2.0"
\header {
  dedication = "Dedication"
  title = "Psalm 23 [Nieuwe Bijbelvertaling]"
  subtitle = "gezet voor anglican Chant"
  subsubtitle = "subsubtitle"
...
}
sopMusic = \notes  \relative c'' {
\key e \major
...
soprano music
...
}
sopWords = \lyrics {   }
altoMusic = \notes  \relative c' {
\key e \major
...
some alto music
...
e1 fis2 e dis1( dis) \bar "||" cis  dis \break cis b
...
more alto music
...
}
altoWords =\lyrics  {
...
\override LyricText
#'self-alignment-X = #-0.50
"en leidt mij langs veilige paden tot"
\override LyricText
#'self-alignment-X = #0
eer "van zijn" naam.
...
}
...
more music and text
...
\score { \notes
  \context StaffGroup <<
  \context Lyrics = sopranos { s1 }
  \context Staff = women <<
  \context Voice = sopranos { \voiceOne \sopMusic }
  \context Voice = altos { \voiceTwo \altoMusic }
  >>
  \context Lyrics = altos { s1 }
  \context Lyrics = tenors { s1 }
  \context Staff = men <<
  \clef bass
  \context Voice = tenors { \voiceOne \tenorMusic }
  \context Voice = basses { \voiceTwo \bassMusic }
  >>
  \context Lyrics = basses { s1 }

  \context Lyrics = sopranos \lyricsto sopranos \sopWords
  \context Lyrics = altos \lyricsto altos \altoWords
  \context Lyrics = tenors \lyricsto tenors \tenorWords
  \context Lyrics = basses \lyricsto basses \bassWords

  >>
  \paper {
\context {
% a little smaller so lyrics can be closer to the staff.
\StaffContext
minimumVerticalExtent = #'(-3 . 3)
}
  }
}
thks
Morten Borchorst
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Re: String numbers in circles

[Walter Hofmeister]

On 2/7/05 5:14 PM, "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> On 7-Feb-05, at 7:12 AM, Walter Hofmeister wrote:
>> I'm on Mac OS X. I'm using Fink and there appears to be no
>> tetex-extra.
>> Here is a list of the packages that are available:
> 
> You have lily 2.4.2 installed, right?  From the fink package?
> 
> Try this:
> \version "2.4.2"
> \layout{raggedright=##t}
> {
> ces^\markup {"\\textcircled{\\tiny 1}"}
> }
> 
> 
> If it doesn't work, please inform us.  I just tried it on my system
> (OSX), and it worked.
> 
> Cheers,
> - Graham
> 
Graham,
It did not work. I got the circle above the note but it was empty.
Since there is a newer package available than the one I have I will update
it and see if that solves the problem. If you have any other thoughts on
this I would appreciate hearing about it. Thanks.

Walter




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Re: String numbers in circles

[Walter Hofmeister]

On 2/7/05 6:18 PM, "David Raleigh Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sunday 06 February 2005 10:15 pm, Walter Hofmeister wrote:
>> ces^\markup {"\\textcircled{\\tiny 1}"}
> 
> It's hard to keep up.  This works for 2.4.2:
> 
> \version "2.4.2"
> \score { \new Staff {
> a'
> b'
> ces'^\markup {"$\\!\\!$\\textbf{\\textcircled{\\small{1}}}\\dots"}
> ces'^\markup {"$\\!\\!$\\textbf{\\textcircled{\\small{2}}}"}
> }}
> 
> To use letters for strings \\textsc{} (smallcaps) work well. DaveA
I tried this as well and got the same results. Circles with nothing in them.
Thanks for trying though. I am attempting to update teTex as I write this.
I'll report back if it solved anything.

Walter




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Re: String numbers in circles

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Sunday 06 February 2005 10:15 pm, Walter Hofmeister wrote:
> ces^\markup {"\\textcircled{\\tiny 1}"}

It's hard to keep up.  This works for 2.4.2:

\version "2.4.2"
\score { \new Staff {
a'
b'
ces'^\markup {"$\\!\\!$\\textbf{\\textcircled{\\small{1}}}\\dots"}
ces'^\markup {"$\\!\\!$\\textbf{\\textcircled{\\small{2}}}"}
}}

To use letters for strings \\textsc{} (smallcaps) work well. daveA

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Re: String numbers in circles

[Graham Percival]

On 7-Feb-05, at 4:15 PM, Walter Hofmeister wrote:
On 2/7/05 5:14 PM, "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You have lily 2.4.2 installed, right?  From the fink package?
It did not work. I got the circle above the note but it was empty.
Since there is a newer package available than the one I have I will 
update
it and see if that solves the problem. If you have any other thoughts 
on
this I would appreciate hearing about it. Thanks.
Ah, I see.
Yes, I'm using fink lilypond 2.4.2-2.  If that same example fails
on your system (once you've upgraded to 2.4.2-2), then we have
a serious problem.  If you're using 2.4.2-1 or below, then upgrade
and try again.  :)
- Graham

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notation for pitch bends and drops

[wintryblue]

In lilypond, is there the ability to get symbols that are common in
jazz notation such as drops, falls, doits, bends, squeezes, turns, and
shakes?

For examples:

http://bands.army.mil/masterclass/tusafb/dec2000/jazz.htm

In the articulations section of the lily manual I only see classical
music notation. The closest I can think of is the glissando, but in
jazz that symbol sometimes is often tied to only one note, either
leading to or from, and I would like to get that effect as well.

What I really need are the bends and falls, and gliss markings that
are more flexible.

I would really like to use Lilypond, but I may have to go back to
Finale if this not work out :(

Any suggestions? Will these markings be made available?

WB


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