part of chordname in brackets?

2006-01-29 Thread Felix Hammer
Hello Is it possible to print a part of a chorname in round brackets? I want to have something like this: Bb7(b9) I tried this: bes:7.(9-) and bes:7(.9-) but it doesnt work. Can anybody help me? Felix

Re: Lilypond, OS X and LaTeX

2006-01-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Graham Percival wrote: The .tex file produced by lilypond-book should include the big eps files. Lilypond-book should not create a .tex file that contains the small eps files. If lilypond-book _does_ create .tex files that reference the small eps files, please file a bug report. Documen

Re: Questions from a Wanderer Returning

2006-01-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Alan McConnell wrote: 2. I have been poking about in the lilypond fonts; I have displayed most of the feta* fonts. But I can't find the more fundamental fonts, with note shapes, stems and flags; are they in the TeX hierarcy somewhere? [ Reason for asking: I have the occasion to make a couple

Re: Lyrics and figured bass positioning

2006-01-29 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 29 January 2006 15.09, Gilles wrote: > > In the attached file, I want to stack two "PianoStaff" (each with their > > own lyrics and figured bass lines). [See attached pdf.] > > But I can't figure out why the lyrics and figures intended for the first > > piano (setup in lines 58-59) come *

Re: scanning music and transposing

2006-01-29 Thread Robert T Wyatt
fiëé, David, and Nicholas, Thanks for the pointers! Okay, so some enterprising person has a niche they can fill if they choose! For our purposes, I think we'll choose the low-tech, uncomplicated, and free solution of typing in the tune by hand and then transposing. It's not a complicated pie

Re: Lyrics and figured bass positioning

2006-01-29 Thread Gilles
> > In the attached file, I want to stack two "PianoStaff" (each with their > own lyrics and figured bass lines). [See attached pdf.] > But I can't figure out why the lyrics and figures intended for the first > piano (setup in lines 58-59) come *after* the second piano. [And if I add > those to t

Re: Completion notes

2006-01-29 Thread Thies Albrecht
First of all: using v2.7.28, WinXP It doesn't sound right; could you produce a minimal example and send it to the bugs email list? Short description as I post also to the bug list as recommended: Line won't break at bar line when note value will last longer than remaining bar length even thoug

Re: feature request: semi-automatic vertical spacement

2006-01-29 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Nicolas Sceaux wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: can you have a look at current CVS? I had to deviate from the original design for naming the tweak files. The current interaction between \book, \score \paper etc. was too messy for a sensible automatic solution. I have not

Re: Questions from a Wanderer Returning

2006-01-29 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 28 January 2006 11.59, Alan McConnell wrote: > Assembled Wisdom! > > I used lilypond several years ago, but had a lot of trouble > upgrading, because then one had to build from scratch and there > were always guile imcompatibilities, etc. So I did nothing with > computer music typesett

Re: Lilypond, OS X and LaTeX

2006-01-29 Thread Graham Percival
On 26-Jan-06, at 2:54 PM, Heike Cappel wrote: On 26 Jan 2006, at 21:03, Graham Percival wrote: I am using lilypond-book on OS X and get several eps files, one without a -number ending and then one with a -number ending for each line. The first file is okay, the others only have staves, no not

Lyrics and figured bass positioning

2006-01-29 Thread Gilles
Hello. In the attached file, I want to stack two "PianoStaff" (each with their own lyrics and figured bass lines). [See attached pdf.] But I can't figure out why the lyrics and figures intended for the first piano (setup in lines 58-59) come *after* the second piano. [And if I add those to the sec

Re: Completion notes

2006-01-29 Thread Graham Percival
On 27-Jan-06, at 9:17 AM, Thies Albrecht wrote: The notes are notated in the correct way (dotted half on beat3, bar#1, correct bar line, next note on beat2, bar#2). But what I observed is that there will be no line break at the bar line neither if left to lily nor by manually inserting \break

Grace Note Stem Length

2006-01-29 Thread Trent Johnston
Hello All,   I'm not sure if this is a bug or but I'll try here first. The length of the beamed grace notes in this bar appear to be very elongated is this how they are supposed to appear? Is there a way to shorten the stem length of the beamed grace notes?   I've tried \override Beam #'beame

Re: \set stanza question

2006-01-29 Thread Matevz Jekovec
Yes, but I'd like to write a stanza number in \markup block, so I could add some other markings (like piano, forte etc.) beside the stanza number. Regards. - Matevž Caio Tiago Oliveira wrote: > Matevz Jekovec, 25-01-2006 17:56: > >> Is it possible to do in Lyrics block (or is there a trick?) >>

trouble with easyHeads

2006-01-29 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
Hello- I thought I'd set a few piano exercises for my beginning students in \setEasyHeads. However when I put the line after the header just before the 'notes' I got and error message that it was an unknown 'Identifier' and wouldn't compile and when I put it in the score/ the piece compiled but

Re: feature request: semi-automatic vertical spacement

2006-01-29 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > you will need to define your own spacingTweaks music function to set > stretching appropriately. > muurbloem:~/src/lilypond$ cat page-layout-twopass-page-layout.ly > blabla = { > \break > \pageBreak > \spacingTweaks #'((system-Y-extent -11.050006 . 0

Re: Questions from a Wanderer Returning

2006-01-29 Thread Graham Percival
On 28-Jan-06, at 2:59 AM, Alan McConnell wrote: I recently did a reinstall of a very ancient Linux system and am now running Debian Sarge; and I reinstalled Lilypond from -snip- 1. If I want to upgrade to a Lilypond 2.6.x, will that mean I have to get a new guile, and possibly other libs?