Re: Moving 8va brackets

2004-09-13 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Patrick Hubers writes: > I'm probably just being dense, but I can't seem to find how to > vertically move an ottava-bracket. I have a few places in my score > where the bracket runs through the slurs of the notes it is attached > to. I've tried the #'padding attribute of both OctavateEight and >

text-script-engraver error

2004-09-13 Thread chip
I am trying to use the slash note heads with the example from the manual and get the following error: Parsing... error: unknown translator: `Text_script_engraver' here is the code: \context { \name ImproVoice \type "Engraver_group_engraver" \consists "Note_heads_engraver" \consis

Re: problem with /property

2004-09-13 Thread chip
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:32:40 -0700 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 13-Sep-04, at 6:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I am using version 2.2.2 and am getting errors when trying to > > position a > > segno symbol. Seems this worked okay in 2.0, I can't find any new > > info on w

Re: problem with /property

2004-09-13 Thread chip
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:32:40 -0700 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 13-Sep-04, at 6:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I am using version 2.2.2 and am getting errors when trying to > > position a > > segno symbol. Seems this worked okay in 2.0, I can't find any new > > info on w

Re: problem with /property

2004-09-13 Thread chip
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:32:40 -0700 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 13-Sep-04, at 6:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I am using version 2.2.2 and am getting errors when trying to > > position a > > segno symbol. Seems this worked okay in 2.0, I can't find any new > > info on w

Re: problem with /property

2004-09-13 Thread Graham Percival
On 13-Sep-04, at 6:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using version 2.2.2 and am getting errors when trying to position a segno symbol. Seems this worked okay in 2.0, I can't find any new info on what may have changed. Have you read the NEWS file? \property Score.RehearsalMark \set #'extra-of

problem with /property

2004-09-13 Thread chip
I am using version 2.2.2 and am getting errors when trying to position a segno symbol. Seems this worked okay in 2.0, I can't find any new info on what may have changed. Here is a snippet of the code: r4 r8 e8 a4 \property Score.RehearsalMark \set #'extra-offset = #'( -3 . 2 ) a4^\mark ^\

Re: Lyric Entry

2004-09-13 Thread Aaron Dalton
On September 13, 2004 11:12 am, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > In most scores, such a melisma (that you sing one syllable to several > notes) is typeset with a slur or possibly a beam over the corresponding > notes. LilyPond knows about these conventions, but if you want a > melisma without a correspondin

Re: Fixed Measure Widths

2004-09-13 Thread Jennifer Clark
> Just last week, I had a job with a local jazz ensemble (I'm a (french) > horn player, so this is pretty uncommon) and had to transpose a couple > parts, so since I was already punching out parts with lilypond, I copied > one piece that was so badly done in finale that I could barely read it. I >

Re: Fixed Measure Widths

2004-09-13 Thread Libero Mureddu
Thanks for your answer, and for the explanation about copyediting, (I didn't know and I think you are right). In my message,I was just thinking about the specific hand-written real books layout that condenses in the same paper both theme and chord changes and I was thinking about a musical motiv

Re: Fixed Measure Widths

2004-09-13 Thread Graham Percival
On 13-Sep-04, at 12:39 PM, D Josiah Boothby wrote: The workaround Graham pointed out shows that with lilypond, the task of imitating a convention which seems to be fairly straightforward shows itself to be fairly difficult to implement. I wouldn't call it difficult -- unintuitive, perhaps, but no

Re: Voice vertical alignment

2004-09-13 Thread Patrick Hubers
Gustavo J. Mata schreef: ... I succeeded in writing a very simple two-voice score. The problem is that in the output the voices are not vertically aligned. I assume that this a general convention for writing several voices in one staff. In guitar music, however, all voices are vertically aligned, a

Moving 8va brackets

2004-09-13 Thread Patrick Hubers
Hi, I'm probably just being dense, but I can't seem to find how to vertically move an ottava-bracket. I have a few places in my score where the bracket runs through the slurs of the notes it is attached to. I've tried the #'padding attribute of both OctavateEight and OttavaBracket, but to no av

Voice vertical alignment

2004-09-13 Thread Gustavo J. Mata
Hello everybody! I have just downloaded LilyPond version 2.0.1, which runs on Mac OS X. The port is that provided by Fink. I'm a beginning guitar student and I would like to use LilyPond to copy music for th classical guitar. I succeeded in writing a very simple two-voice score. The problem is that

Re: Fixed Measure Widths

2004-09-13 Thread D Josiah Boothby
I wouldn't call it difficult -- unintuitive, perhaps, but not difficult. Definitely a better way to describe it. Josiah ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

The New Slurring = OWNAGE

2004-09-13 Thread Will Oram
I would like to express my deep pleasure in .16's increased slurring intelligence. In .15, I had combined parts that contained slurs that connected notehead to notehead, with a huge arc between them. In .16, lily's wise enough to connect two notes stem to stem, making the slurs shapely and sens

Re: Fixed Measure Widths

2004-09-13 Thread D Josiah Boothby
I think that the problem of mainstream jazz notation cannot be resolved simply answering that it's bad tipography: is simply a kind of notation that needs some different layout according to a precise musical practice: if one has to play in a gig lots of compositions that are based on 8+8, 4+4

question about LilyPond

2004-09-13 Thread Heather Pierson
Hello, I am not sure which version of LilyPond to download. I have Windows 98 OS. Thanks. ___ Heather Pierson Vessel Recordings PO Box 533 Fryeburg, ME 04037-0533 207-935-4505 www.vesselrecordings.com www.heatherpierson.com ___ l

Re: Fixed Measure Widths

2004-09-13 Thread Libero Mureddu
Hi! I think that the problem of mainstream jazz notation cannot be resolved simply answering that it's bad tipography: is simply a kind of notation that needs some different layout according to a precise musical practice: if one has to play in a gig lots of compositions that are based on 8+8,

Re: Lyric Entry

2004-09-13 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Aaron Dalton wrote: I am brand new to Lilypond and am having a heck of a time getting lyrics to render properly. I have 2 questions: 1) I want to line up the words "Agnus Dei" under a certain set of notes. So far the only way I have been able to properly align the syllables "De-i" is using 3

Re: No header lines...

2004-09-13 Thread Mats Bengtsson
This sounds very strange! First of all, I would recommend you to upgrade to the latest stable version 2.2.x (see instructions at www.lilypond.org on how to get a package for Debian). I hope you have realized that ly2dvi has been renamed to lilypond (and the old lilypond to lilypond-bin). Try runnin

Re: Rehearsal Marks

2004-09-13 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It seems that the solution proposed in the rehearsal-mark-number.ly example in Regression Tests is unnecessarily complicated. It's easier to reuse the existing formating functions for numbers or letters and just add the box around it: \set Score.markFormatter = #(lambda (mark context) (m

Re: staff group vs. single staff barlines

2004-09-13 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Do you mean something like the following? midbar = \notes{ \once \override Score.SpanBar #'transparent = ##t \bar "|" } \score { \notes \relative c' \new StaffGroup << \new Staff { a2 \midbar a2 a2 \midbar a2 } \new Staff { f2 f2 f2 f2 } >> } If you want th

Re: Duplicate Alternate Repeat Brackets

2004-09-13 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The example I refered to showed two things, 1. How to add repeat brackets above the chord names. 2. How to remove the repeat brackets from the top stave. It seems that you only tried the former, not the latter. You need a voltaOnThisStaff = ##f somewhere in your .ly file as well (I leave it as an e

Re: german ss or \"s

2004-09-13 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You didn't say what version of LilyPond you use, neither what operating system or text editor you have. In all recent versions, it should work to just insert the plain ß or directly in the .ly file. However, this requires that your text editor save the file using Latin1 encoding (also called ISO 88