Re: Jazz Ornamentation

2004-08-10 Thread Graham Percival
On 7-Aug-04, at 6:46 PM, Lyle Raymond wrote: On Saturday 31 July 2004 10:07 pm, you wrote: 2. What is the best way to display a "ghost" note, either by changing the note head to an "X" or by enclosing the notehead in parentheses? I'd change the notehead; \override NoteHead #'style = #'cross Thi

Re: Some random lilypond questions

2004-08-10 Thread Benjamin Esham
On Aug 10, 2004, at 11:28 PM, Graham Percival wrote: On 10-Aug-04, at 7:39 PM, Benjamin Esham wrote: - In concert band music, multi-measure rests always appear as a thick horizontal bar with vertical flares at each end-- for an example of this, see the 17-measure rest in the "Multi measure rests"

Re: Some random lilypond questions

2004-08-10 Thread Graham Percival
On 10-Aug-04, at 7:39 PM, Benjamin Esham wrote: - In concert band music, multi-measure rests always appear as a thick horizontal bar with vertical flares at each end-- for an example of this, see the 17-measure rest in the "Multi measure rests" section in the documentation. Is it possible to forc

Some random lilypond questions

2004-08-10 Thread Benjamin Esham
I have a bunch of mostly unrelated questions about lilypond. Any responses to any of these items would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! - In concert band music, multi-measure rests always appear as a thick horizontal bar with vertical flares at each end-- for an example of this, see the 17-measur

Re: Swing indications in text markup?

2004-08-10 Thread Benjamin Esham
On Aug 6, 2004, at 5:12 PM, Paul Scott wrote: 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

Re: pagebreak one line too early

2004-08-10 Thread Graham Percival
I just tried Mats' example in 2.3.11, and it worked (with and without commenting that line). I tried an example of mine that hadn't been working, and it also worked. This prompted some more investigation. \pageBreak appears to work perfectly within lilypond (ie "lilypond foo.ly"), but it fails

Re: help

2004-08-10 Thread Carl Sorensen
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 04:32, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > The only problems related to TeX setup I have seen during the last years > are: > - That setup.exe doesn't always get the dependencies right, so the >tetex-* packages are not installed. => Cygwin problem! I had this problem, but worked my

need to move a single rest just a bit to the left

2004-08-10 Thread Patrick Stanistreet
Starting to score some short pieces for guitar by Sor and using lilypond 2.3.11 The measures in question have 3 voices and the upper and lower voices are too close together on the staff so the rest overlaps the notes. The original manuscript moves the center rest slightly to the left and in the cl

Re: default stem direction

2004-08-10 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 08:53 am, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > According to what rule? When I try your example here, the stems > point upwards. I tried manually forcing them down and compared > which version felt most pleasing to the eye, but I have to say > it was a fair play. When the stems are do

Re: default stem direction

2004-08-10 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
David Raleigh Arnold writes: > e g, a b % <- group has wrong stem direction Because you use the loose term `group', I assume you talk about beam direction, rather than stem direction? We have had three algoritms for years: mean, median and majority. If you want something else, you can plug-in y

Re: default stem direction

2004-08-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
David Raleigh Arnold wrote: Is it advisable to leave the stable version now and upgrade? I searched the changelog for \stem and didn't find anything. \header { \version "2.2.5" } \score { \notes { \context Voice = voiceUno{ \relative c' { c4 d8 e f g a b c e, f g a b c d e g, a b % <- gro

default stem direction

2004-08-10 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Is it advisable to leave the stable version now and upgrade? I searched the changelog for \stem and didn't find anything. \header { \version "2.2.5" } \score { \notes { \context Voice = voiceUno{ \relative c' { c4 d8 e f g a b c e, f g a b c d e g, a b % <- group has wrong stem direction

Re: another fingering question

2004-08-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Hopefully, you can find the answer at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.2/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Articulations.html#Articulations If not, we should clarify the manual. /Mats korneel bernolet wrote: how to add the fingerings BELOW the notes ? (in the bottom piano staff) i tried eg. c_-5 bu

another fingering question

2004-08-10 Thread korneel bernolet
how to add the fingerings BELOW the notes ? (in the bottom piano staff) i tried eg. c_-5 but this does not work... any suggestions ? thx a lot korneel _ New: download more than 350.000 tracks starting from € 0,80! http://entertainmen

Re: fingering & markup

2004-08-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The following example works excellently here (version 2.2.5): d^\prall^\markup{\finger "5-3" } /Mats korneel bernolet wrote: hello a few months ago i started using lilypond. what a wonderful software! but i have a little "problem": i know how to add fingerings (eg. c'-2), but how to add multipl

fingering & markup

2004-08-10 Thread korneel bernolet
hello a few months ago i started using lilypond. what a wonderful software! but i have a little "problem": i know how to add fingerings (eg. c'-2), but how to add multiple fingerings (eg. 5-3 or 534) ? i tried, like in the manual, with the \markup { \finger "5-3" } but this won't work. there is

Re: pagebreak one line too early

2004-08-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I made some experiments and the result seems somewhat random. The following example shows the behaviour reported by Corinna. \version "2.2.5" \score{\notes\relative c'{ \repeat unfold 5 {c4 d e f g f e d c1 } % Commenting the next line gives correct behaviour!!! \repeat unfold 5 {c4 d e f g f e

Re: help

2004-08-10 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Mats Bengtsson writes: > - That setup.exe doesn't always get the dependencies right, so the >tetex-* packages are not installed. => Cygwin problem! By the way, if anyone is able to supply a reproducible test case for this, I'm positive the Cygwin folks will be glad to fix it. Jan. -- Jan N

Re: Can't chord lyrics?

2004-08-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Your example doesn't work, since both lines of lyrics and both settings of the stanza property are done in one and the same Lyrics context. What you have to do is to make sure that the two lines of lyrics end up in separate contexts, for example by words=\lyrics { a start part << {

Re: Lillypond/Cygwin installation troubles

2004-08-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
This problem has appeared a couple of times on the mailing list recently. Could you please try the following: - rerun setup.exe and make sure that the package tetex-bin is selected (it should be by default, but seems to fail occasionally). - If the tetex-bin package is installed and you still get

Re: help

2004-08-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Carl Sorensen wrote: If there were a way to have a customized lilypond version of cygwin's setup.exe, with the appropriate packages automatically selected, so that we could just tell users to click on next, and next, and next..., then I think the installation could be better. And if we could get

Re: help

2004-08-10 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Carl Sorensen writes: > If there were a way to have a customized lilypond version of cygwin's > setup.exe, with the appropriate packages automatically selected, so that > we could just tell users to click on next, and next, and next..., then > I think the installation could be better. That's easy