Re: How to print the date and time in the footer of a score?

2006-07-20 Thread Toine Schreurs
See (the thread of) http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-04/msg00141.html and http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-06/msg00272.html Toine Schreurs > I would like to print the date and time in the footer of the score so I can > tell which of two printed copies is th

FW: help with custom markup command?

2006-07-20 Thread Monk Panteleimon
Yes, I've been looking at the 2.9 docs, and I see that they are quite clearly written, but it's still pretty hard for me, being a non-programmer. Maybe I can submit some more specific questions. Let's say in the "smallcaps" example in section 12.4.3 we wanted to employ the functions represented

No instrument property?

2006-07-20 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
What are the chances of getting an "instrument" property added to the ChordNames context object? After all it's on TabStaff and DrumStaff etc. How do I differentiate my mandolin player from my guitar player from my banjo player all using ChordNames staffs? -- View this message in context: ht

acciaccatura on all notes of a chord

2006-07-20 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
How do I apply acciaccatura's in front of all the notes of a chord? I tried the follwing but it wont compile: \acciaccatura I also tried this and it wont compile: <\acciaccatura fs16 g \acciaccatura fs16 g'> The G note chord is actually an octave double stop being played on guitar, I want t

Re: How to print the date and time in the footer of a score?

2006-07-20 Thread Graham Percival
Charles Cave wrote: I would like to print the date and time in the footer of the score so I can tell which of two printed copies is the most recent. I searched the Lilypond documentation (PDF) (I used version 2.8.3) for the word date and could not find any mention. Have you searched LSR and

How to print the date and time in the footer of a score?

2006-07-20 Thread Charles Cave
I would like to print the date and time in the footer of the score so I can tell which of two printed copies is the most recent. I searched the Lilypond documentation (PDF) (I used version 2.8.3) for the word date and could not find any mention. Printing dates and times in Word processing docu

Re: help with custom markup command?

2006-07-20 Thread Graham Percival
Monk Panteleimon wrote: I have been ambitiously reading the section on "programmer interfaces" and the scheme tutorial in an attempt to make a special markup command. I'm not getting very far, and I thought someone more clever and experienced might do better. I also thought someone clever and exp

Re: Update on changing header fonts

2006-07-20 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Michael J Millett schreef: I wanted to post an update of my attempt at changing the fonts in the headers, since it might be helpful to other non-programmers like myself. It's been a real education! Writing this code into the header part of an LP file, then running it in LP, produced a long li

help with custom markup command?

2006-07-20 Thread Monk Panteleimon
Hello. I have been ambitiously reading the section on "programmer interfaces" and the scheme tutorial in an attempt to make a special markup command. I'm not getting very far, and I thought someone more clever and experienced might do better. I also thought someone clever and experienced might qui

Update on changing header fonts

2006-07-20 Thread Michael J Millett
I wanted to post an update of my attempt at changing the fonts in the headers, since it might be helpful to other non-programmers like myself. It's been a real education! Writing this code into the header part of an LP file, then running it in LP, produced a long list of fonts that are availab

Re: Position of TextScript in \cueDuring

2006-07-20 Thread Markus Schneider
Finally I realized that this isn't "a bug" nor "not a feature", it's simple user stupidity... :( ... and it has nothing to do with CueVoices or \cueDuring for that matter either! I forgot the curly braces: << R1*1 \\ s2 s8 s8^\cueOboeC s4 >> doesn't work (i.e. puts all skips/notes on the first bea