Re: Swing Midi

2006-09-20 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 22:55, Ted Walther wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:34:33AM -0500, David Greene wrote: > >>If you want to do something more generic (something you can apply on > >>any existing ly score), then you may want to consider using music > >>streams. Music streams are a ne

Re: Does feta font support guitar harmonics?

2006-09-20 Thread Vít Reichel
No, I mean mean a black version of noteheads.s0harmonic. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Preventing page breaks

2006-09-20 Thread Graham Percival
OnionRingOfDoom wrote: When I added the title of the piece in what used to be a single page of music, lilypond decided to split the piece into two pages with each line of music being spaced very far apart. Previously I had been using this code in order to squeeze as much as I could onto one page

Preventing page breaks

2006-09-20 Thread OnionRingOfDoom
When I added the title of the piece in what used to be a single page of music, lilypond decided to split the piece into two pages with each line of music being spaced very far apart. Previously I had been using this code in order to squeeze as much as I could onto one page without being too crowde

how to get Slur *not* to avoid Stems

2006-09-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
[ Lilypond 2.9.18 ] Hello, all -- I'm trying to force a Slur to go through some Stems, but I'm having a terrible time. Even overriding the Stem #'positions doesn't seem to work! Anyone know how to solve this? Thanks, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user ma

RE: Problem with \markup { \score } quitting after first measure

2006-09-20 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Thanks, In my book thats a bug because I surely dont want to be using \break in all my music because I print the same songs on many different paper sizes. So I need the line breaks to occur naturally, within a system count limit and system spacing limit that is appropriate for whatever paper I'm

RE: Problem with \markup { \score } quitting after first measure

2006-09-20 Thread Trent J
Hi Rick, Hi just had a look at your code and it seems that the system-count = #2 in the main document layout block is the problem. If your remove the 'system-count' and replace with a \break where the system-count function was providing the break (end of bar 5) and re-run both bars of the ossi

Re: problem with line breaking with polyrhythm

2006-09-20 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Libero Mureddu wrote: Hi, I tried to go deeper in my problem, trying to understand where it starts to do not work, and it seems that as soon as I \remove the "Timing_translator" from the Score context, I lose the possibility to break lines. On the other side, I cannot have it in the Score contex

Re: Indentation despite noindent

2006-09-20 Thread Mark Pim
Sounds more like a problem with LaTeX than Lilypond. Try setting \parindent=0in I'm not saying that's definitely right but it might be :) Mark - Original Message From: James Cownie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) To: lilypond-

Re: problem with line breaking with polyrhythm

2006-09-20 Thread Libero Mureddu
Hi, I tried to go deeper in my problem, trying to understand where it starts to do not work, and it seems that as soon as I \remove the "Timing_translator" from the Score context, I lose the possibility to break lines. On the other side, I cannot have it in the Score context, and only remove the

Problem with \markup { \score } quitting after first measure

2006-09-20 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
v2.9.17 I believe I have uncovered a bug when using the \markup { \score { ... } } capability. In the following example I assign a markup score of 2 measures to a variable called "varFreeFormOssia". Then in the main music I apply that markup variable to a note. I would expect 2 measures of mar

Problem with non-ASCII characters

2006-09-20 Thread Ari Constancio
Hello, I'm starting to use Lilypond (version 2.8.6-1) and I'm having problems with non-ASCII characters used on lyrics. I use Emacs as editor and configured it for UTF-8. I searched in the 2.8.x manual for issues on encoding and followed section 10.1.4 (Text encoding) and used the suggested comm

Re: Does feta font support guitar harmonics?

2006-09-20 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I hope you have checked the list of font symbols in http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond/The-Feta-font.html Do you mean a black version of noteheads.s0diamond ? /Mats Vít Reichel wrote: As far as I know, the Feta font doesn't have a glyph for black harmonic notehead that

Re: Swing Midi

2006-09-20 Thread Ted Walther
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:34:33AM -0500, David Greene wrote: If you want to do something more generic (something you can apply on any existing ly score), then you may want to consider using music streams. Music streams are a new concept in 2.9, and nobody has used them yet AFAIK. However, I can

Does feta font support guitar harmonics?

2006-09-20 Thread Vít Reichel
As far as I know, the Feta font doesn't have a glyph for black harmonic notehead that is needed in guitar notation. Does anyone know of a workaround? VR ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond

Re: Orchestral score file organization

2006-09-20 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
I get what you are doing here, but I am constantly moving players around in sections, especially clarinet and flute going in and out of sax section for example, hiding/showing certain percussion instruments like Marimba that are not used on every song, etc. So I like to see my entire band reflect

Re: partcombine for three parts?

2006-09-20 Thread Mats Bengtsson
As has already been mentioned, the current implementation of partcombine has several problems and limitations and there are plans to rewrite it completely. Therefore, none of the main hackers has any interest in tweaking the current implementation any more, so unless you want to do the modificatio

Re: Orchestral score file organization

2006-09-20 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Good thing I'm not a full-time programmer. The only blocks I'm splitting across files are the \Score, \ChoirStaff and \StaffGroup all the others (paper, header layout, etc), are self contained in their .ly files. It's worked well in that I do need to print on various kinds of paper mostly 9x12 a

Lilypond-book and eps files

2006-09-20 Thread Mark Fernandes
Windows XP Lilypond 2.8.6 Hello, I use lilypond a lot and recently have started to want to use lily-pond book. Unfortunately I cannot manage to generate a pdf file as I would like. I manage to generate a dvi file but when I try to convert to a pdf file the notation held in the eps files disap

Re: Orchestral score file organization

2006-09-20 Thread Mats Bengtsson
David Greene wrote: This is a more structured approach than splitting the syntax across files. Perhaps it is already possible to do this -- I haven't tried. Try it! You will be positively surprised. /Mats ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypon

Re: Swing Midi

2006-09-20 Thread David Greene
Erik Sandberg wrote: If you want to do something more generic (something you can apply on any existing ly score), then you may want to consider using music streams. Music streams are a new concept in 2.9, and nobody has used them yet AFAIK. However, I can try to guide you if you're interested.

Re: Orchestral score file organization

2006-09-20 Thread David Greene
Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: \include CommonHeader.ly% contains header block and begins a score block and begins a nested choir staff block \include AltoSax1.ly % generic template for alto sax and transposes for Eb \include AltoSax2.ly

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 46, Issue 59

2006-09-20 Thread Henrik Frisk
Sorry for not editing the Subject in my reply... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Trevor Ba?a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/20/06, Henrik Frisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Still working on edge-text adjustments ... > > > > > > In the snippet be

Re: Independent left- and right-control of bound-padding?

2006-09-20 Thread Trevor Bača
On 9/20/06, Markus Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Trevor, your request was immune to most approaches I used so far, but I found a solution. You can now alter your paddings independently (look for the "i"s). For regular use, I recommend to turn this into a function. Beware, this is "dee

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 46, Issue 59

2006-09-20 Thread Trevor Bača
On 9/20/06, Henrik Frisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Still working on edge-text adjustments ... > > In the snippet below, I've got exactly what I want -- thanks to much > help from the list -- with the one exception that the padding of the > two vertical spanners is off-center relative t

"Alla breve" music function

2006-09-20 Thread Markus Schneider
Hello list, I'm looking for a function that doubles every duration. Here's a short example: Turn { c1 c2 c4 c16 c16 c16 c16 } into { c1 ~ c1 c1 c2 c8 c8 c8 c8 } I digged around, but I think this is still beyond my limited scheme understanding. If someone did somthing like this already

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 46, Issue 59

2006-09-20 Thread Henrik Frisk
> Hi, > > Still working on edge-text adjustments ... > > In the snippet below, I've got exactly what I want -- thanks to much > help from the list -- with the one exception that the padding of the > two vertical spanners is off-center relative to each piece of edge > text. Notice that the solid h

partcombine for three parts?

2006-09-20 Thread Ted Walther
Does \partcombine yield a music expression? I tried doing this: \partcombine \partcombine \foo \bar \baz The results were ugly. Lilypond complained a lot too. warning: ignoring too many clashing note columns The reason I ask is that Sacred Harp music from the Denson book has three voices tog

shape note support broken?

2006-09-20 Thread Ted Walther
A bug in 2.8 is still present in 2.9.17. I quote a mail from 4 months ago: Subject: shape note heads From: Monk Panteleimon Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:10:19 -0700 Thought I might as well report these as bugs: Shape-note heads in 2.8 are abnormally small. They were fine (I thought) in 2.7. Also

Re: Independent left- and right-control of bound-padding?

2006-09-20 Thread Markus Schneider
Hi Trevor, your request was immune to most approaches I used so far, but I found a solution. You can now alter your paddings independently (look for the "i"s). For regular use, I recommend to turn this into a function. Beware, this is "deep-hack" mode! Cheers, Markus %%% BEGIN BOUND PADDING SNI