tie configuration documentation

2006-09-06 Thread Jay Anderson
It may be useful to explain a little better what the tie-configuration list pairs mean. It wasn't obvious to me from the documentation. Here's what I found from trial and error: The first value is the offset from the center of the staff. The second value indicates the direction of the tie: 1=>up,

arpeggio across voices

2006-09-06 Thread Jay Anderson
Here's what I have right now: %\set PianoStaff.connectArpeggios = ##t %this is close but not quite << {ees4( d8 ees4 des8)} \\ {4.\arpeggio \arpeggio} >> I want these arepeggi to go from the e flat down to the g flat. It is a piano piece, but the connectArpeggios didn't quite do it as I don't wa

Re: \markup in manual volta endings

2006-09-06 Thread Graham Percival
Paul Scott wrote: Should \markup work in manual volta endings? It doesn't seem to in 2.9.14. Also in this example the "r" in interlude is in a different font. Look at the \markup on http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond/Text-spanners.html (I don't can't explain why it needs

Re: Tip/Trick: elision between lyric syllables

2006-09-06 Thread Graham Percival
If this is something common in vocal music, might it be worth adding to the manual? (recall that I don't do vocal music; to make changes I need exact instructions) - Graham Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hello, all -- I've seen a couple of inquiries about this issue on the list in the past... Just

Re: png format

2006-09-06 Thread Graham Percival
Eyolf Ostrem wrote: I'm preparing some music examples for a book. I therefore use a non-standard page format. When I preview the files in a ps/pdf viewer, they look right, but when I output them to png files with lilypond --png, they still occupy a whole a4 page (as far as I can see; I haven't

Re: Markup text through transparent barline

2006-09-06 Thread Graham Percival
That's a neat trick! Michael, could you add it to LSR so that other people can find it easily? http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/ - Graham Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi, Michael: Is there a way to write a text markup that causes part of the barline to be transparent? Might I recommend either \whiteout

Re: Laissez vibrer question

2006-09-06 Thread Graham Percival
Panteck wrote: I'm trying to force the direction of a laissez vibrer tie like so: I can't figure out how to do it, either. The following notes look the same to me: \version "2.9.17" \layout{ragged-right=##t} { \override LaissezVibrerTie #'direction = #UP c'4\laissezVibrer \override L

Re: Easy Note Heads and colors

2006-09-06 Thread Daniel Johnson
> Unfortunately I couldn't find any more info about "brew-ez-stencil" -- > even grepping the source didn't turn up anything useful. (?!) Try looking at brew_ez_stencil in lily/easy-notation.cc. The relevant block is as follows: SCM idx = scm_from_int (pit->get_notename ()); SCM names = me->

Re: Easy Note Heads and colors

2006-09-06 Thread Graham Percival
Interesting question! Unfortunately I couldn't figure out how \setEasyHeads decides what text to print. ly/property-init.ly contains setEasyHeads = \sequential { \override NoteHead #'stencil = #ly:note-head::brew-ez-stencil \override NoteHead #'font-size = #-7 \override NoteHead #'font-f

Re: LilyPondTool 2.8 - release

2006-09-06 Thread Stephen Corey
Bert, Loaded your new tool on my Suse 10.1 Linux setup and it seems to work mostly okay. I love the pdf viewer and the point and click feature is awesome. For me at least, closing the viewer will also close (or maybe crash) jEdit. Not sure if that is intended. And the viewer did crash jEdit fo

Re: changing the midi instrument; broken

2006-09-06 Thread Graham Percival
This is good info; does anybody want to submit changes to the manual? It would be good if it were a "normal user" who suggested the changes. http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/documentation-adding - Graham Mats Bengtsson wrote: Some further clarifications below. Quoting Erik Sandbe

Re: guitar

2006-09-06 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting lorenzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Mario I am an Italian guitarist too... I am starting with lilyponnd as well... It is not easy but the output is so beautiful.. For right hand fingering use \markup For example g'^\markup { a } Which should be completely equivalent to g'^"a" /Mats

Re: New lilytool on jEdit isn't running

2006-09-06 Thread Bertalan Fodor
When upgrading to the new version, make sure that in Plugin Options>LilyPond>Commands the lilypond command is set to just "lilypond" and NOT the full path. Sorry, now I know, it's an incompatibility. Thanks, Bert But I can't get the basic thing i.e. getting my files processed by lilypond to

Re: guitar

2006-09-06 Thread lorenzo
Mario Moles wrote: > > Hello to all! They are a chitarrista Italian classic and use Lilypond in > order > to rewrite musics to me that sound! But I have a problem with the > ditegiatura > of the right hand: To di Anulare comes confused from Lilypond with the > note a > that in English it is s

Re: Titles in lilypond-book (2.8.6 vs 2.2.5)

2006-09-06 Thread Mats Bengtsson
As far as I can see, there is no such option. However, it should be possible to do something along the lines of \begin{lilypond} \paper{bookTitleMarkup=##f scoreTitleMarkup=##f } \include{myfile.ly} \end{lilypond} assuming that you today use \lilypondfile{myfile.ly} /Mats Quoting Jim Cownie

Titles in lilypond-book (2.8.6 vs 2.2.5)

2006-09-06 Thread Jim Cownie
I've just upgraded from 2.2.5 to 2.8.6. I have a latex document which includes lilypond files and is processed by lilypond-book. In 2.2.5 the \header contents did not appear in the set music, however in 2.8.6 they do. Since I'm already setting the titles in the latex sources I now get duplicate t

Re: Printing tempo marks on every part

2006-09-06 Thread David Greene
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Anything I can do to help debug this? I can produce a testcase eventually, but probably not right now due to time constraints. I'll try 2.8 and see if that works. segfaults are bugs. Please submit the offending .ly. Yep. I determined that I had a \new Staff in the

Re: TextScript implements self-alignment interface

2006-09-06 Thread Trevor Bača
On 9/6/06, Markus Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Trevor, I derived this from the hint given regarding the OctavateEight in define-grobs.scm: \override TextScript #'X-offset = #(ly:make-simple-closure `(,+ ,(ly:make-simple-closure (list ly:self-alignment-interface::x-align

Re: Printing tempo marks on every part

2006-09-06 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
David A. Greene wrote: Markus Schneider wrote: In pseudo code this would look like this: somevoice = { } partWithAllMarksAndStuff = {} \addquote framework \partWithAllMarksAndStuff I tried this but lily 2.9.17 chokes on the \addquote: Interpreting music... make: *** [test.pdf] Segmentatio

LilyPondTool 2.8 - release

2006-09-06 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Dear LilyPond users, I'm very happy that I can announce, that after a year of waiting, the updated, upgraded, enhanced version of LilyPondTool, the most sophisticated development environment for LilyPondTool is available for download. It is a very important release. Major highlights: - HOT: PDF

LilyPondTool 2.8 - release

2006-09-06 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Dear LilyPond users, I'm very happy that I can announce, that after a year of waiting, the updated, upgraded, enhanced version of LilyPondTool, the most sophisticated development environment for LilyPondTool is available for download. It is a very important release. Major highlights: - HOT:

Re: Markups w/ articulations

2006-09-06 Thread Markus Schneider
Hi Kamal, see Chapter "Articulations" in the fine doc -> Commonly tweaked properties. HTH Markus P.S. Link to 2.9. doc: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond/Articulations.html#Articulations ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypo

Markups w/ articulations

2006-09-06 Thread Kamal
I need a text markup to be placed above an articulation.Is there a simpler way to do the above other than the following: < e b gis e b e, >^\markup {\hspace #0.4 \musicglyph #"scripts.ufermata"}^\markup {E} If I use:< e b gis e b e, >^\markup {E}\fermataor < e b gis e b e, >\fermata^\markup {E}then

Re: Error invoking lilypond-book

2006-09-06 Thread Mats Bengtsson
First of all, please read in the manual on what flags to use for lilypond-book and dvips. Secondly, from your error printout it seems that you don't have write permission in the working directory where you tried to run the command. /Mats François Planiol-Auger wrote: Hello, I got trouble

Error invoking lilypond-book

2006-09-06 Thread François Planiol-Auger
Hello, I got trouble in invoking lilypond-book 2.8.6 on Suse Linux 10.1. I removed lilypond 2.6. and installed 2.8.6 with the commandline installer. lilypond works fine. But in trying lilypond-book with (modified) file from the user manual (see 1), I got the error message "permission denie

Re: Swing Eighths Marking

2006-09-06 Thread Stewart Holmes
Give a man a match, and he'll be warm for a few minutes. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. ;) - Original Message - From: "Rick Hansen (aka RickH)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 3:36 AM Subject: Re: Swing Eighths Marking If

Re: TextScript implements self-alignment interface

2006-09-06 Thread Markus Schneider
Hi Trevor, I derived this from the hint given regarding the OctavateEight in define-grobs.scm: \override TextScript #'X-offset = #(ly:make-simple-closure `(,+ ,(ly:make-simple-closure (list ly:self-alignment-interface::x-aligned-on-self)) ,(ly:make-simple-closure (list ly:self

1/4 notes stems don't merge

2006-09-06 Thread Jean-marc LEGRAND
Hi list. Using Lily 2.8 on XP. When I run this : {a8 [a16 s a16 a8] } I get the a16 stems "unlinked". How can I get the same thing as {a8 [a16 a16 a8] } ? I get the same pb using \hiddenNotes Best regards JMarc ___ lilypond-user mailing li