Newbie beyond recovery or definition, it seems

2001-11-27 Thread Sam Waring
I'm experimenting with LilyPond as a way of creating some simple melody lines I can kludge into explanations of chant. However, GSview keeps spitting up the first .ly file I've created (see below), complaining of an undefined term, and I can't find anything in the FAQs or list archives t

Re: Lyrics alignment again

2001-11-27 Thread Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy
The hack is rather simple - Upbow (it's not bowup after all) is perfect as far as the shape goes, the only problem is that it appears above a note rather than before one. So you have to shift it to the left: \property Voice.Script \override #'extra-offset = #'(-2 . 0) c-\upbow \propert

Re: Breath, Was: Lyrics alignment again

2001-11-27 Thread David Boersma
Hello, > > > Another thing I ran in to was that they use a checkmark as a way to note > > > places where one takes a breath. I eventually figured out a hack with > > > \bowup that works OK. > > > > I think that would be a nice hack to submit to > > http://lilypond.org/wiki/?LilyPondHacks... (and

Breath, Was: Lyrics alignment again

2001-11-27 Thread Mats Bengtsson
> Hello, > > > Another thing I ran in to was that they use a checkmark as a way to note > > places where one takes a breath. I eventually figured out a hack with > > \bowup that works OK. > > I think that would be a nice hack to submit to > http://lilypond.org/wiki/?LilyPondHacks... (and/or to t

Re: Lyrics alignment again

2001-11-27 Thread David Boersma
Hello, > Another thing I ran in to was that they use a checkmark as a way to note > places where one takes a breath. I eventually figured out a hack with > \bowup that works OK. I think that would be a nice hack to submit to http://lilypond.org/wiki/?LilyPondHacks... (and/or to the proposed 'Tip