polymetric music - barlines in wrong places

2006-05-23 Thread Michael Meixner
Hello fellow lilyponders, while trying to set a polymetric piece (Dufay) I ran into a problem. Please try the following snippet - I get barlines after the whole note, and after ONE quarter, and then the counting seems to be ok for the rest (as if I had written \time 4/4 c1 \time 1/4 c4 \time 4/

Re: German text characters

2006-05-23 Thread Graham Percival
On 23-May-06, at 3:39 AM, bears388 wrote: Downloaded the 2.8.2 Manual, and found the entries the same. I also got a unicode character set, but no matter what I try, writing the characters in unicode and saving them as utf-8 and then cutting and pasting,I cannot get the umlauts on any letters

Re: lilypond packages now available in Fedora Extras

2006-05-23 Thread Graydon
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:17:37PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen scripsit: > Quentin Spencer writes: > > I mentioned on this list a while ago that I was trying to get > > lilypond into Fedora Extras. The first packages were released > > yesterday and they should now be installable using "yum install > >

Inital barnumber?

2006-05-23 Thread Christian Conkle
I'm working on what the Lilypond docs so nicely term a "musicological document" with lilypond-book excerpts from a Bach fugue. (fis minor from WTCI) I'm using \set Score.currentBarNumber to keep the bar numbering correct, and it would be nice to have Lilypond put a bar number at the beginning of

Re: Page layout frustration

2006-05-23 Thread Joe Neeman
On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 14:15 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to fit a piece of music onto one page. By default, lily > formats it as 11 systems, 10 on the first page, 1 on the second. So I > told lily to fit it in 10 systems - which it nicely laid out as 9 on the > first page, 1 on the

Re: lilypond packages now available in Fedora Extras

2006-05-23 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Quentin Spencer writes: > I mentioned on this list a while ago that I was trying to get lilypond > into Fedora Extras. The first packages were released yesterday and > they should now be installable using "yum install lilypond". That's grand, thanks! Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Page layout frustration

2006-05-23 Thread Richard Schoeller
Some things you might want to check out... 1. You really can tweak the margins. 2. In your paper block you can set between-system-padding . I find that setting to 2 or 3 can sometimes compress things enough, even 1. 3. You might want to look at how much padding you have on any rehearsal mark

lilypond packages now available in Fedora Extras

2006-05-23 Thread Quentin Spencer
I mentioned on this list a while ago that I was trying to get lilypond into Fedora Extras. The first packages were released yesterday and they should now be installable using "yum install lilypond". There is also a lilypond-doc package available with the HTML docs. Right now these are only avai

Re: Connecting notes on separate staves...

2006-05-23 Thread Stephen
Belatedly, I remember that (taking a cue from the definition of \oneVoice) there is way other than \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #0.0 : \revert NoteColumn #'horizontal-shift   There is a subtle distinction between the two. But what is it?   Stephen - Original Message -

(again?) beatLength - bug in 2.8.2?

2006-05-23 Thread Roland Goretzki
Hi, what's the matter with beatLength in 2.8.2? Trying to update the 13. Chopin Study on mutopia (which was still typeset with 2.2.6) I found, that the setting for beatLength to quarters in "\times 2/3" does no longer work. I've tried to reproduce and demonstrate it with a very short example con

Re: Page layout frustration

2006-05-23 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Walter wrote: annotate-spacing = ##t For someone as geeky and obsessive-compulsive as I, this is one of the coolest applications of technology that I've seen since www.visualthesaurus.com>. Way to go, Lilypond Team! Thanks, Kieren. ___ lilypo

Re: Page layout frustration

2006-05-23 Thread Walter Hofmeister
On 5/23/06 7:15 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to fit a piece of music onto one page. By default, lily > formats it as 11 systems, 10 on the first page, 1 on the second. So I > told lily to fit it in 10 systems - which it nicely laid out as 9 on the > first page, 1

Re: \parallelMusic and \relative

2006-05-23 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hello, all -- Some time ago, Werner started a thread with It seems that \parallelMusic doesn't work with \relative. This makes it very unnatural to work with. Any chance to implement something similar, say, a special mode where the first note in a `section' is absolute and the remaining notes

Re: Connecting notes on separate staves...

2006-05-23 Thread Stephen
Is it easier to see my reply if I place it on top?   Almost, rather than fiddle with the number try using just zero:   \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #0.0 This usually works. It is from the larger context:   << {g4.( ~ | g8[ fis])}   \\ {\override Staff.NoteCollision #'merge-diff

RE: Feature request - jazz / bigband notation and caesurae[]

2006-05-23 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, > > E.g. cdoit-c' > > > > Not sure on what would be appropriate syntax though :( > > One problem is that the versions I'm used to don't really > "go" anywhere. I'm going to look at this when I get a chance > (probably some time next week), and write it up for Han-Wen. > I guess we want on

Re: Page layout frustration

2006-05-23 Thread Stephen
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 8:15 AM I'm trying to fit a piece of music onto one page. By default, lily formats it as 11 systems, 10 on the first page, 1 on the second. So I told lily to fit it in 10 systems - which it nicely laid out as 9 on the first page, 1 on the s

Page layout frustration

2006-05-23 Thread lilypond
I'm trying to fit a piece of music onto one page. By default, lily formats it as 11 systems, 10 on the first page, 1 on the second. So I told lily to fit it in 10 systems - which it nicely laid out as 9 on the first page, 1 on the second! :-( When I tell it to fit it in 9 systems, it finally puts

lilypond-book fragment with ties/slurs continuing over the end of the fragment

2006-05-23 Thread Vaclav Smilauer
Hello, I tried to typeset fragments that have slurs and ties that continue to the part of music that is not in the fragment. The fragments are block-aligned; I would like to produce the slur/tie as if the fragment was line-broken at the end, but without the other line appearing. I tried two approa

Re: format conversion questions

2006-05-23 Thread Darius Blasband
Atte André Jensen wrote: Darius Blasband wrote: We are currently looking at the possibility of using Lilypond as typesetting back-end for Finale. Sounds very interresting, at least I know now that serious people is taking this seriously :-) Well, I would definitely not consider myself ser

Re: format conversion questions

2006-05-23 Thread Atte André Jensen
Darius Blasband wrote: We are currently looking at the possibility of using Lilypond as typesetting back-end for Finale. Sounds very interresting, at least I know now that serious people is taking this seriously :-) The Finale export of MusicXML seems to be decent (There was a bad glitch wit

Re: Feature request - jazz / bigband notation and caesurae

2006-05-23 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, There are some nice examples (hand written) here: http://bands.army.mil/masterclass/tusafb/dec2000/jazz.htm What exactly are we asking for then? I think what's been mentioned so far is what the above page calls "Drops", "Falls", "Doits"(?) and "Bends". The rest of what I've seen and is mentio

Re: format conversion questions

2006-05-23 Thread Darius Blasband
Hello, We are currently looking at the possibility of using Lilypond as typesetting back-end for Finale. In other words, the process we (I mean, Han-Wen and I) are looking at goes as follows: - Music XML export - Convert to lily - Print on the fly. I understand that the converter is meant

Re: Feature request - jazz / bigband notation and caesurae

2006-05-23 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, Put me down for 20 euros. Regards, Ralph > At this point I agree that I don't know how to do it either. So now we > need more money to get these features. Any more people willing to > contribute? TRIBAL TECHNOLOGY IS A MEMBER OF THE TRIBAL GROUP plc www.tribalgroup.co.uk This email and

Re: German Text Characters

2006-05-23 Thread zrlaszlo
Unfortunately, you have not told us, what OS and Lilypond version you are using (Linux or Windows). Anyway, the solution below should work. Just make sure you have German keyboard support installed on your system. Since lilypond 2.6 (I think) UTF-8 input is supported. There is no need to use speci

format conversion questions

2006-05-23 Thread Atte André Jensen
Hi I teach piano in a couple of music schools. Teachers there use everything from finale, sibelius, musicator and cubase to abc to typeset the stuff we give to students. It would be nice to be able to share sheets between teachers, so I'm thinking about making a web based system that would a

Re: Piano and Solo

2006-05-23 Thread Tomas Valusek
Hello, I played a little with my example and things are getting slightly more complicated, because a \layout block of my example contains folowing line: \override VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-1 . 1) So if I use your \with statement, the \layout overriding is applied instead of

Re: Piano and Solo

2006-05-23 Thread Tomas Valusek
Hello, thanks for your answer. it helped me very much. Bottom line: You have answered my mail very quickly, unfortunately my public mail service provider has tossed it into Spam folder, where I discovered it a few minutes ago. Tomas Valusek Mats Bengtsson napsal(a): See the section on Vert