Re: Staff spacing, and glissandos

2004-12-23 Thread Paul Scott
Tom Cornall wrote: Hi - I've just started using LilyPond and it's fantastic, I love it! What version? However, I do have a couple of problems. The first one is probably easily fixed; I have a score which fills up one page then leaves just one line onto the next page. Is there some way to shrink

Re: Staff spacing, and glissandos

2004-12-23 Thread Graham Percival
On 23-Dec-04, at 10:33 PM, Tom Cornall wrote: one line onto the next page. Is there some way to shrink the spacing between staves (there is only one instrument, I mean lines of staves) so that I can fit the entire song onto one page? Please read the "global layout" section of the documentation, pa

Staff spacing, and glissandos

2004-12-23 Thread Tom Cornall
Hi - I've just started using LilyPond and it's fantastic, I love it! However, I do have a couple of problems. The first one is probably easily fixed; I have a score which fills up one page then leaves just one line onto the next page. Is there some way to shrink the spacing between staves (there is

Re: My first serious work (and a probable bug?)

2004-12-23 Thread Graham Percival
On 23-Dec-04, at 6:59 PM, Luis G. López wrote: P.S.2: AH! I almost forget: I think I got a bug. Please see the .ly. No bug. If you do "s4 <>", then the mi is a quarter note. Quarter notes aren't beamed, so they don't fit under a beam. In addition, when making a possible bug report, could you ma

My first serious work (and a probable bug?)

2004-12-23 Thread Luis G.
Hi! Now that I could get lilypond working (thank you again!), I wanted to typeset one of my pieces. I could solve some problems, but wanted to share my advances...and doubts! :-) Attached is part of the score (I originally did it with finale), and the .ly. Some problems: - Do you see the little

Re: Slurs and beams

2004-12-23 Thread Karina Aleksandrova
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:21:04 -0800, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You may want to do a few google search for an introduction to musical > notation; the manual was written with the assumption that users would > be familiar with notation already. > These notes need to be eighth note

Re: Slurs and beams

2004-12-23 Thread Roland Goretzki
Hello list, hello Karina, You wrote: > For example, I put in: > > bes[( a]) If there was given a duration to a note before as for a 1/8-note, 1/16-note or more, it might work. Otherwise lilypond will use the default, which is a quarter note. And perhaps for this case You have to learn also, tha

Re: Slurs and beams

2004-12-23 Thread Graham Percival
On 23-Dec-04, at 1:48 PM, Karina Aleksandrova wrote: I have recently downloaded Lylipond. I don't know musical notation, so I've been learning both Lylipond and the musical notation together, just going by the way it looks. I have encountered a problem. In the You may want to do a few google search

Re: Slurs and beams

2004-12-23 Thread Gilles
> bes[( a]) What's the duration of the notes? Try: \time 2/4 bes8( a) [Most of the beams are generated by LilyPond, depending on the time signature.] Best, Gilles ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/l

pfa-error when compiling 2.4.2

2004-12-23 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi all, > > when trying to compile 2.4.2 on SuSE 9.1 having installed mftrace from > Han-Wen's > site I get the following: Oops. I've released a 1.1 version of mftrace, but forgot about the lily 2.4 release which still uses the 1.0 interface. Quick solution: grab

Slurs and beams

2004-12-23 Thread Karina Aleksandrova
Hello! I have recently downloaded Lylipond. I don't know musical notation, so I've been learning both Lylipond and the musical notation together, just going by the way it looks. I have encountered a problem. In the original image the two notes had both beam and slur, but Lylipond only prints slur.

Re: Building Lily

2004-12-23 Thread Tapio Tuovila
LinuxChiq kirjoitti: ./configure //ok make // too many errors, gave up make install // too many errors, gave up and most interesting: linux:/home/trinity/lilypond/src/lilypond-2.4.2 # buildscripts/clean-fonts.sh -bash: buildscripts/clean-fonts.sh: Permission denied linux:/home/trinity/lilypond/src/

Re: tuplet chart

2004-12-23 Thread Paul Scott
Aaron wrote: Hi all, does anyone have a tuplet cheat sheet showing the tuplet name and the lilypond fraction with notes? I need such a chart for a presentation I am doing. Thanks Aaron tuplet name lilypond triplet \times x/3 musicexpr quadruplet \times x/4 musicexpr pentuplet \times x/5 musicexp

Re: acciaccatura problem under volta bracket !

2004-12-23 Thread Albert Einstein
What is space note and 5.7.11 ? ALbert Paul Scott wrote: Albert Einstein wrote: Volta brace interprets acciaccatura as other bar. And in case of acciaccatura under second brace the brace is divided as in example. In this example I applied : \set Score.repeatCommands = #'((volta "1.") ) \partial 4

tuplet chart

2004-12-23 Thread Aaron
Hi all, does anyone have a tuplet cheat sheet showing the tuplet name and the lilypond fraction with notes? I need such a chart for a presentation I am doing. Thanks Aaron tuplet name lilypond triplet quadruplet pentuplet sextuplet septuptlet etc _

Re: betweensystemspace

2004-12-23 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 23 December 2004 06:33 am, Karl Hammar wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > ... > > > Is lilypond-book functional at all in 2.4.2? > > Yes, it is. I did this with it: > > http://turkos.aspodata.se/motett/ThomasMorley.tgz And a fantastic job it is, too. Thanks a lot for posting it. I'm sure

Printing chord names between the staves of a PianoStaff

2004-12-23 Thread Onni Koskinen
I'm new to LilyPond but I already feel impressed. Anyway, I have one problem: I'd like chord names to be printed between the two staves of a PianoStaff. I did a quick search of the archives but couldn't find help there. I know it's possible with normal staves, like this: score = \new Score <<

Re: Notes having two values contemporaneously

2004-12-23 Thread Die5Willes
"Maurizio Tomasi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > You can use multiple voices, like in the following example: > > \version "2.4.2" > > \score { > \new Staff \relative c'' { > \time 2/8 > > \set Score.tupletSpannerDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 8) > \override Score.TupletBrac

Re: betweensystemspace

2004-12-23 Thread Karl Hammar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... > Is lilypond-book functional at all in 2.4.2? Yes, it is. I did this with it: http://turkos.aspodata.se/motett/ThomasMorley.tgz Using lilypond from cvs in my debian system (unstable), with approx. theese steps: dpkg -i .../ec-fonts-mftraced_1.0.7-1_all.deb # which I

pfa-error when compiling 2.4.2

2004-12-23 Thread ttuovila
Hi all, when trying to compile 2.4.2 on SuSE 9.1 having installed mftrace from Han-Wen's site I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@!/root/lilypond-2.4.2/stepmake/bin!g' > out/cmr.enc mftrace --encoding feta11.enc -I ./out/ --pfa --simplify feta11 error: getopt says: `option --pfa not recognize

Re: acciaccatura problem under volta bracket !

2004-12-23 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 21 December 2004 21.53, Albert Einstein wrote: > Volta brace interprets acciaccatura as other bar. > And in case of acciaccatura under second brace the brace is divided as > in example. > In this example I applied : > \set Score.repeatCommands = #'((volta "1.") ) > \partial 4 a4-- > \m

Re: acciaccatura problem under volta bracket !

2004-12-23 Thread Paul Scott
Albert Einstein wrote: What is space note and 5.7.11 ? A space note is "s" followed by a time value; s2 is the space of a half note. See "5.1.7 Skips" in the user manual: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Skips.html#Skips "5.7.11 Grace notes" is a section of

Re: Combo Template for Lilypond 2.4

2004-12-23 Thread Christ van Willegen
Rick wrote: > Christ wrote: > > I would suggest dmaj_II for plaring a major D chord in the 2nd > > position (a 'shifted' C major chord). > > > That is a good idea. Would it be possible to incorporate the shape the > chord is based on as part of the name? You could do that, but it would make types