drum staff change print line of instrument

2004-08-06 Thread Patrick Stanistreet
I completed a cheat sheet for the drum staff and noticed that middle b is used for most instruments. I would like to alter the line an instrument prints on say to distinguish mute hi conga from low conga. Another drum staff question: lilypond version 2.3.10 I tried combining two drum instruments o

Re: Explicit Accidentals

2004-08-06 Thread Carl Bolstad
W. C. wrote: Is there a way to attach an explicit accidental beside a note, even though it is covered by a key signature? In all the paper engravings of Liszt's Liebestraum that I have encountered, some notes have explicit flats even though they are already part of the key signature. Is this poss

Re: Explicit Accidentals

2004-08-06 Thread Graham Percival
On 6-Aug-04, at 2:22 PM, W. C. wrote: Is there a way to attach an explicit accidental beside a note, even though it is covered by a key signature? In all the paper engravings of Liszt's Liebestraum that I have encountered, some notes have explicit flats even though they are already part of the

Explicit Accidentals

2004-08-06 Thread W. C.
Is there a way to attach an explicit accidental beside a note, even though it is covered by a key signature? In all the paper engravings of Liszt's Liebestraum that I have encountered, some notes have explicit flats even though they are already part of the key signature. Is this possible to do

Re: Swing indications in text markup?

2004-08-06 Thread Paul Scott
David Raleigh Arnold wrote: On Friday 06 August 2004 03:43 pm, Benjamin Esham wrote: I am typesetting a piece which has some "swing" sections. In these sections, two eighth notes should be played as a tripletted quarter note and eighth note. A swing or jazz 8th is far less different from a

Re: Swing indications in text markup?

2004-08-06 Thread David Rogers
On Aug 6, 2004, at 1:33 PM, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: A swing or jazz 8th is far less different from an 8th than a triplet, or even than a quintuplet 3:2. Experiment with very small time values now, it will save you time. What you say is true. However, the original poster is asking for a way t

Re: Swing indications in text markup?

2004-08-06 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Friday 06 August 2004 03:43 pm, Benjamin Esham wrote: > I am typesetting a piece which has some "swing" sections. In these > sections, two eighth notes should be played as a tripletted quarter > note and eighth note. A swing or jazz 8th is far less different from an 8th than a triplet, or even

Swing indications in text markup?

2004-08-06 Thread Benjamin Esham
I am typesetting a piece which has some "swing" sections. In these sections, two eighth notes should be played as a tripletted quarter note and eighth note. I'm trying to typeset an indication of this; usually, it appears as two beamed eighth notes, an equals sign, and then a quarter and an eig

Re: metronome mark

2004-08-06 Thread Libero Mureddu
Good! I have the 2.2.4 working and with metronome marks. Thank you all. By the way, I just want to share one little experience: Lilypond, via etf2ly, is compatible with Ircam's Openmusic, the lisp-based software for computer-assisted composition; in Openmusic there's a module called "Voice" that

Re: \alternative Not Working

2004-08-06 Thread Will Oram
I got it to work. \alternative seems to be in conflict with my notes block dedicated to spacing bars (s1*x \break, etc). If I comment out \spacing, then the alternative boxes appear as they should. This explains why, by itself, the code I sent works on your machine and mine. Will On Aug 6, 200

Re: metronome mark

2004-08-06 Thread Benjamin Esham
On Aug 6, 2004, at 7:19 AM, Libero Mureddu wrote: Il giorno 06/ago/04, alle 11:21, Mats Bengtsson ha scritto: Unfortunately, you have found a bug that was introduced in version 2.2.5. If you have the possibility to install version 2.2.4 the metronome markings should work correctly. I will send a bu

Re: \alternative Not Working

2004-08-06 Thread Will Oram
On Aug 6, 2004, at 5:59 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Your example works fine here with version 2.3.11 (I just added a \score{\relative c'' ... } around it). I can't see anything in the ChangeLog that should make a difference from 2.3.10, but you never know. You can see a copy of the result at http://w

Re: Text markup locations and background

2004-08-06 Thread Mats Bengtsson
W. C. wrote: I wanted to put a small piece of text ("ten") right beneath a note. However, I needed the text to appear over the staff, but \translate seems to stop as soon as the text begins to cover the staff. Is there any way to do this? You can use the extra-offset property (see the mailing li

pagebreak one line too early

2004-08-06 Thread rosencrantz
Hello, all! I am typesetting the Mendelssohn octet for Project Gutenberg and I have a problem with forced pagebreaks. \newpage at the bar line where I want a page break induces the appropriate line break, but a page break only after the NEXT line. I am using lilypond 2.2 on cygwin. Thanks for you

Re: \alternative Not Working

2004-08-06 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Mats Bengtsson writes: (I just added a \score{\relative c'' ... } around it) (Why?) Since I'm one of these old-fashioned guys who haven't learnt the new features of 2.3.x yet. :-) /Mats ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL

Re: metronome mark

2004-08-06 Thread Mats Bengtsson
In general, I wouldn't expect a development version to be as stable as the "stable" one, even though you have managed to find one example of the opposite. There have been quite some changes in 2.3.x related to the paper layout handling and some changes to the input syntax, but convert-ly should tak

Re: problem on lylipond

2004-08-06 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Just try to rerun the setup.exe program once more and make sure that the package tetex-bin is selected in the "Select Packages" view (it should be by default, but sometimes the installation doesn't work correctly). What Windows version do you use? (If you have more questions, please keep them on t

problem on lylipond

2004-08-06 Thread o\.fradin
I downloaded lylipond as you tell to do, but when i launch the software, i have a strange window that tell : bash: kpsexpand: command not found and there is an email address with my name and then i don't know what to do. test ly doesn't work and i don't find test.log but i'm sure that i had choose

Re: \alternative Not Working

2004-08-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Mats Bengtsson writes: > (I just added a \score{\relative c'' ... } around it) (Why?) -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org ___ lilypond-user mail

Re: metronome mark

2004-08-06 Thread Libero Mureddu
Unfortunately, it seems that via fink is not possible to install the previous version, fink doesn't find the 2.2.4. Do you think that the unstable version is stable enough at the moment? I'm not so expert to valuate this. Thank you Libero Il giorno 06/ago/04, alle 11:21, Mats Bengtsson ha scrit

Re: \alternative Not Working

2004-08-06 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Your example works fine here with version 2.3.11 (I just added a \score{\relative c'' ... } around it). I can't see anything in the ChangeLog that should make a difference from 2.3.10, but you never know. You can see a copy of the result at http://www.s3.kth.se/~mabe/oram.pdf (or maybe I should cal

Re: tweaking voicefollower lines

2004-08-06 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Did you try the gap property? \override VoiceFollower #'gap = #1.0 (default: 0.5) /Mats Shelagh wrote: Did this get through before? I sent it a couple of days ago. How would you go about tweaking voice follower lines? I want them to be not as attached to the noteheads (eg shorter). I tried s

Re: metronome mark

2004-08-06 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Unfortunately, you have found a bug that was introduced in version 2.2.5. If you have the possibility to install version 2.2.4 the metronome markings should work correctly. I will send a bug report. /Mats Libero Mureddu wrote: Hi! Can you help me to understand why the metronome marking doesn't a

Re: scorditura (or "string-specific transposition")

2004-08-06 Thread Graham Percival
On 1-Aug-04, at 1:31 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know how to display the new tuning for a stringed instrument. Can Lilypond (almost certainly via scheme) print the noteheads correctly? I mean, can the lilypond input file be written in C, and have Lilypond/scheme transpo

Re: metronome mark

2004-08-06 Thread Graham Percival
On 5-Aug-04, at 9:27 AM, Libero Mureddu wrote: Can you help me to understand why the metronome marking doesn't appear in the following example? This doesn't really help you, but I just tried your file in Lilypond 2.3.11 (after doing convert-ly), and the metronome marking appeared. Ibook g3 800 m

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2004-08-06 Thread Graham Percival
I'm sorry...? What are you talking about? We're not mind-readers; you have to tell us what you're trying to do and how it isn't working. - Graham On 5-Aug-04, at 12:11 AM, JimmyThePage wrote: How it doesn't work it?please help me it's very important... Anticipate tnx...___