Re: string substitution, transpose, auto-time

2002-06-29 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 09:37:10 Felipe Massia Pereira wrote: > Hello, > > I have these 3 questions... > > 1) what's the best way to use string substitution, I mean something > like: > > tune = "c" > > soprano = \notes \transpose $tune {...} > alto = \notes \transpose $tune {...} > > 2) What's t

Re: Rehearsal marks, percent repeat

2002-06-29 Thread Han-Wen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > (number of slashes = number of measures.) I've seen numbers on top > > > > just to help people, i.e. > > > > > > > > > > > > 1 2 3 > > > > % | % | % | etc. > > > > > > another version i came across a lot when i used to play in the youth > > > orchestra

Re: newb questions

2002-06-29 Thread Atte Andre Jensen
On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > By the way, in your example file, the line > \input "a4.ly" > could just as well be removed. The default paper size > is already A4 Thanks. I now have \include "paper23.ly" instead... -- love, peace & harmony Atte _

Re: newb questions

2002-06-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
By the way, in your example file, the line \input "a4.ly" could just as well be removed. The default paper size is already A4 and if you really want to change the paper size, you have to use the method described at http://lilypond.org/stable/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Paper-size.html#P

Re: Rehearsal marks, percent repeat

2002-06-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
> Moving from 1.2.17 to 1.4.12 some of my favourite commands > do not work as expected > > The command I had standardized for boxed rehearsal marks, i.e. > > \mark "{\\font\\twelverm=cmbx12\\twelverm{\\hspace{10mm}\\raisebox{0mm}{\\fbox{1" > > makes some additional white space to be inserte

Re: newb questions

2002-06-29 Thread Atte Andre Jensen
On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > > I have a couple of questions that I didn't see treated in the > > documentation: > > > > * I have entered about one page of piano music > > (http://home.wanadoo.nl/atte/intermezzo1.ly), but lily squeezes it > > together on two systems, how do I contr

Re: newb questions

2002-06-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
> I have a couple of questions that I didn't see treated in the > documentation: > > * I have entered about one page of piano music > (http://home.wanadoo.nl/atte/intermezzo1.ly), but lily squeezes it > together on two systems, how do I control the general "spacey-ness" of the > music? I've most

newb questions

2002-06-29 Thread Atte Andre Jensen
I have a couple of questions that I didn't see treated in the documentation: * I have entered about one page of piano music (http://home.wanadoo.nl/atte/intermezzo1.ly), but lily squeezes it together on two systems, how do I control the general "spacey-ness" of the music? * I read in the docu th

Re: Rehearsal marks, percent repeat

2002-06-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
> > > (number of slashes = number of measures.) I've seen numbers on top > > > just to help people, i.e. > > > > > > > > > 1 2 3 > > > % | % | % | etc. > > > > another version i came across a lot when i used to play in the youth > > orchestra was : > > > >8 > > | % | > > > > as

Re: Rehearsal marks, percent repeat

2002-06-29 Thread Simon Bailey
On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 12:38, Han-Wen wrote: > That's more difficult. You would have to look into > percent-repeat-engraver.cc and percent-repeat-iterator.cc I'm also not > sure what you really want. AFAIK the syntax for repeating longer > fragments is > > . /// > ///. this is for repeating a

Re: Rehearsal marks, percent repeat

2002-06-29 Thread Han-Wen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > (number of slashes = number of measures.) I've seen numbers on top > > just to help people, i.e. > > > > > > 1 2 3 > > % | % | % | etc. > > another version i came across a lot when i used to play in the youth > orchestra was : > >8 > | % | > > as in

other_brackets

2002-06-29 Thread David Bobroff
I asked a question some time ago about bracketing some notes but never got a suggestion. I'm not talking about the same kind of brackteing as the recent bracket thread. What I would like to do is something like this: ____ | * * * * | | | |

Re: string substitution, transpose, auto-time

2002-06-29 Thread Han-Wen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > 3) I read in documentation that I could use addLyrics with \notes instead > > of \lyrics. I would use it with an alto voice that has the same timing of > > the soprano voice (in fact, all voices have the same timing). Is there a > > way so I can type the timing onl

Re: Rehearsal marks, percent repeat

2002-06-29 Thread Antonio PALAMA'
Han-Wen wrote: >>- It is not possible to have multiple precent repeat behave a la "skipBars" >> > >That's more difficult. You would have to look into >percent-repeat-engraver.cc and percent-repeat-iterator.cc I'm also not >sure what you really want. AFAIK the syntax for repeating longer >fragment

Rehearsal marks, percent repeat

2002-06-29 Thread Han-Wen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > }}" > > is not usable at all (lots of white space before and after the barline). I can't duplicate this problem. can you send a small .ly ? > I would like to look in the sources to see if I can do something > to solve the problems outlined in my previous posting abou

Re: string substitution, transpose, auto-time

2002-06-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
> Hello, > > I have these 3 questions... > > 1) what's the best way to use string substitution, I mean something like: > > tune = "c" > > soprano = \notes \transpose $tune {...} > alto = \notes \transpose $tune {...} The problem is that the c in this case is not interpreted as a string but ra

string substitution, transpose, auto-time

2002-06-29 Thread Felipe Massia Pereira
Hello, I have these 3 questions... 1) what's the best way to use string substitution, I mean something like: tune = "c" soprano = \notes \transpose $tune {...} alto = \notes \transpose $tune {...} 2) What's the best way to transpose a whole score? Should I put a \transpose on every expression

Rehearsal marks, percent repeat

2002-06-29 Thread Antonio PALAMA'
Moving from 1.2.17 to 1.4.12 some of my favourite commands do not work as expected The command I had standardized for boxed rehearsal marks, i.e. \mark "{\\font\\twelverm=cmbx12\\twelverm{\\hspace{10mm}\\raisebox{0mm}{\\fbox{1" makes some additional white space to be inserted before and aft