Re: Staff.VerticalAxisGroup #'Y-extent no longer working in Windows Lilypond 2.1

2007-01-08 Thread Trent J
From: "Joe Neeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Trent J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Staff.VerticalAxisGroup #'Y-extent no longer working in Windows Lilypond 2.1 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 08:05:37 +0200 On 1/9/07, Trent J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for your he

Re: Staff.VerticalAxisGroup #'Y-extent no longer working in Windows Lilypond 2.1

2007-01-08 Thread Joe Neeman
On 1/9/07, Trent J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for your help. I'd had gotten good page fill and SCORE like output by being able to manually fix the staff distances. I might stick with the earlier version for now. With the vertical-manual-setting - can this be set once for the entire piece

Re: Problem with Syntax

2007-01-08 Thread Paul Scott
Monica wrote: To the crew at Lilypond. Hi. And first let me thank you for creating a program such as this. I am already finding so much use in it. However, yesterday was my first day using it and I'm having a bit of a problem with putting in a time signature and a clef. I followed the instructi

Problem with Syntax

2007-01-08 Thread Monica
To the crew at Lilypond. Hi. And first let me thank you for creating a program such as this. I am already finding so much use in it. However, yesterday was my first day using it and I'm having a bit of a problem with putting in a time signature and a clef. I followed the instructions on the site

Re: piano centered dynamics

2007-01-08 Thread Jay Anderson
Try adding this with the other extra-offsets: \override DynamicTextSpanner #'extra-offset = #'(0 . 1.75) Perhaps this can be added to the manual. -Jay Anderson ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/list

Re: Open Chord Not Reflected in Chord Symbol

2007-01-08 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
There is a way around it, scan the archive for "jazzychord", there are some posts on using a chord names exceptions list, it should be in the manual too. Bryan Murdaugh wrote: > > If I try to display a chord symbol (in the ChordNames context), using > "g1:5^3" > (which looks like it should wor

Thanks

2007-01-08 Thread Pat Flor
Thanks Han-Wen, Jan, and everybody else who contributes to LilyPond, for a great program! I'm just getting started out, making scale/exercise sheets for my students, and I am saving lots of time while putting out better-looking parts. Bravi; I look forward to contributing once I am not-so-new. -

Spanner with three (or more) text parts

2007-01-08 Thread Maximilian Albert
Hi everyone, I wonder if is there neat way to create a text spanner similar to this: string gen do The syllables "string" and "do" can obviously be set by the edge-text property. But how to account for the "gen" part? It is certainly possible to place two spanners side by side in t

piano centered dynamics

2007-01-08 Thread James Bailey
I'm trying to get piano centered dynamics, and my "cresc." is far too close to the bottom staff. I'm just modifying the existing template. My question is, which line of the code do I need to alter to change this? following is my offending code (stripped down as best as I could \version

Multi-page SVG file

2007-01-08 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Hi! I just worked with Graham to be able to use my score in SVG in Inkscape. A one-page LilyPond score in SVG works well with Inkscape, but a multi-page score in SVG does not. Does anyone know enough about SVG and/or Inkscape to tell me how can I manipulate a multi-page score in SVG with Inkscape

Layout

2007-01-08 Thread Samuel Van Ransbeeck
Hello I have a file made in OpenMusic that i try to convert into lilypond (pdf-file) I asked a guy frm the ircam and he said me to use this command after the header \version "2.11" #(set-default-paper-size "a3" 'landscape) #(set-global-staff-size 12) \break Still I get A4 output with bad breaks

Re: Reading Lilypond SVG files with Inkscape on Mac

2007-01-08 Thread Graham Percival
Frédéric Chiasson wrote: I tried : mkdir ~/.fonts mkdir /.fonts But both don't make the fonts appear in Inkscape. In Gimp though, the symbols appear. mkdir ~/.fonts ln -s {path/to}/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf/*.otf ~/.fonts/ (all one line) works for m

Re: making midi output ignore accidentals?

2007-01-08 Thread Graham Percival
Ted Walther wrote: The documentation left it really unclear; does override only extend to the next note? Can I do an override on a patch of music by using {} immediately after the override? How about with \set? \once \override does one note. \override does all notes. Did you read 5.1 or chap

Re: Staff.VerticalAxisGroup #'Y-extent no longer working in Windows Lilypond 2.1

2007-01-08 Thread Trent J
From: "Joe Neeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Trent Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Staff.VerticalAxisGroup #'Y-extent no longer working in Windows Lilypond 2.11.9?? Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 11:47:07 +0200 On 1/7/07, Trent Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: making midi output ignore accidentals?

2007-01-08 Thread Ted Walther
The documentation left it really unclear; does override only extend to the next note? Can I do an override on a patch of music by using {} immediately after the override? How about with \set? Ted On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:41:46AM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Maybe it's easier (and better) to

Open Chord Not Reflected in Chord Symbol

2007-01-08 Thread Bryan Murdaugh
If I try to display a chord symbol (in the ChordNames context), using "g1:5^3" (which looks like it should work from the manual) the chord name shows up as just a G, rather than a G5 or G(no3) or something to indicate its openness. Is there a way around this? -Bryan ___

Re: how to stop an accidental from being printed?

2007-01-08 Thread Ted Walther
That worked nicely; I was so busy Googling I never thought of looking in the beginning of the manual. Thank you Karl. The pages on lilypond and accidentals that Google popped up didn't say a word about this. Ted On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 12:57:40PM +0100, Karl Hammar wrote: I was entering Erik

Re: Shorten one end of a trill spanner manually?

2007-01-08 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Trevor Bača escreveu: > But no padding happens. (See pic.) What am I missing? Does something > have to be overriden for the feature to be turned on? the code is surrounded by #if 0 #endif so it doesn't do anything. my tip is to shorten the whole spanner by using bound-padding, and then mov

Re: Shorten one end of a trill spanner manually?

2007-01-08 Thread Trevor Bača
On 1/8/07, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Trevor Bača escreveu: > Hi, > > Is there any way to shoren one end (the right end) of a trill spanner by > hand? > > Something like ... > > \once \override TrillSpanner #'shorten-pair = #'(0 . 2) > > ... would be ideal. the easiest I can th

Re: Shorten one end of a trill spanner manually?

2007-01-08 Thread Trevor Bača
On 1/8/07, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Trevor Bača escreveu: > Hi, > > Is there any way to shoren one end (the right end) of a trill spanner by > hand? > > Something like ... > > \once \override TrillSpanner #'shorten-pair = #'(0 . 2) > > ... would be ideal. the easiest I can th

Lilypond Odd Jobs (mostly documentation)

2007-01-08 Thread Graham Percival
Are you interested in helping LilyPond? There are many tasks that are available which do not have time to do ourselves. Some of these require a fair amount of technical knowledge, but many of them only require a moderate amount of lilypond skill. Lilypond Odd Jobs - Cameron

Re: New argument types (Was: Constructive Criticism and a Question)

2007-01-08 Thread Bertalan Fodor
When I was writing the Antlr version of the parser I realized that extending the grammar in dozens of ways makes much more complicatons and unreadability than you gain in compactness. Actually I don't like that I almost have to reimplement LilyPond just to be able to decide if an input is syntac

Re: Shorten one end of a trill spanner manually?

2007-01-08 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Trevor Bača escreveu: > Hi, > > Is there any way to shoren one end (the right end) of a trill spanner by > hand? > > Something like ... > > \once \override TrillSpanner #'shorten-pair = #'(0 . 2) > > ... would be ideal. the easiest I can think of is to shorten the spanner with bound-padding,

make ties between notes from different voices

2007-01-08 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Hi! I'd like to know how to put ties between a chord from a single voice separating to the same notes but in two differents voice contexts in polyphony. With this example, the ties does not appear, without any warning though. Frédéric P.S. I also tried 4~, but the ties still don't appear. ___

Re: using bold or smallcaps in lyrics in lilypond-book

2007-01-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Karl Hammar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... \hspace{1em} \begin[fragment, staffsize=16]{lilypond} \new RhythmicStaff { \time 12/8 \partial 8 d8 d4 d8 d4 d8 d4 d8 d8 d8 d8 d4 d8 d4 d8 d4 } \addlyrics{ Some TIME She USED to PUT me THROU

Re: Reading Lilypond SVG files with Inkscape on Mac

2007-01-08 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
I tried : mkdir ~/.fonts mkdir /.fonts But both don't make the fonts appear in Inkscape. In Gimp though, the symbols appear. Any other ideas? Frédéric (Mac OS X.4.8) 2007/1/8, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Frédéric Chiasson wrote: > Hello! > > I tried to open a SVG file from LilyPon

Shorten one end of a trill spanner manually?

2007-01-08 Thread Trevor Bača
Hi, Is there any way to shoren one end (the right end) of a trill spanner by hand? Something like ... \once \override TrillSpanner #'shorten-pair = #'(0 . 2) ... would be ideal. Trevor. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://

Re: Change colors to white on black

2007-01-08 Thread Jan B
Graham Percival-2 wrote: > > Jan B wrote: >> i need the output from lilypond white on black (for special presentations >> with OpenOffice Impress). >> Of course i can change the colors with i.e. Gimp, but we have to make >> many >> many presentations. >> So i want to include a template to chang

Re: Reading Lilypond SVG files with Inkscape on Mac

2007-01-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Frédéric Chiasson wrote: Hello! I tried to open a SVG file from LilyPond in Inkscape. Since there was no ~/.fonts directory to copy the OTF fonts into, I copied them in those two directories : Why not make the directory yourself? mkdir ~/.fonts /Mats __

Re: Change colors to white on black

2007-01-08 Thread Graham Percival
Jan B wrote: i need the output from lilypond white on black (for special presentations with OpenOffice Impress). Of course i can change the colors with i.e. Gimp, but we have to make many many presentations. So i want to include a template to change all colors, but how can i change ALL colors?

Change colors to white on black

2007-01-08 Thread Jan B
Hi, i need the output from lilypond white on black (for special presentations with OpenOffice Impress). Of course i can change the colors with i.e. Gimp, but we have to make many many presentations. So i want to include a template to change all colors, but how can i change ALL colors? Can you hel

Again associatedVoice in 2.10.10

2007-01-08 Thread Georg Dummer
Hi all, Again I couldn't figure out how to cope with "associatedVoice". Why is the syllable "sau" aligned to 'c' and not to 'a'? Thank you Georg << \relative \new Voice = "lahlah" { \set Staff.autoBeaming = ##f c4 << \new Voice = "alternative" { \voiceOne %

Re: using bold or smallcaps in lyrics in lilypond-book

2007-01-08 Thread Karl Hammar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... > \hspace{1em} > > \begin[fragment, staffsize=16]{lilypond} > \new RhythmicStaff { > \time 12/8 > \partial 8 > d8 d4 d8 d4 d8 d4 d8 d8 d8 d8 d4 d8 d4 d8 d4 > } > \addlyrics{ Some TIME She USED to PUT me THROUGH the re SPO

Reading Lilypond SVG files with Inkscape on Mac

2007-01-08 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Hello! I tried to open a SVG file from LilyPond in Inkscape. Since there was no ~/.fonts directory to copy the OTF fonts into, I copied them in those two directories : /Library/Fonts /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/fonts But it didn't work, did I miss something? Frédéric

using bold or smallcaps in lyrics in lilypond-book

2007-01-08 Thread Davide Benini
Hello folks. I mailed this a few hours ago but it apparently didn't get through. Hope it's not a double. After your previous suggestions, I am experimenting the use of lilypond-book for the small fragments of music in my LaTeX PhD dissertation. Here is an example of what I am doing: blah b

Making successive trill spanners play nicely: recent tweak?

2007-01-08 Thread Trevor Bača
Hi, I seem to remember Han-Wen recently (in the last 6 weeks or so) adding something somewhere that shortens trill spanners just the right amount so that ... \pitchedTrill c'4 \startTrillSpan d' \pitchedTrill c'4 \stopTrillSpan \startTrillSpan d' c'4 ... comes out perfectly, with both trill

Re: Removing the accidental in a pitched trill?

2007-01-08 Thread Trevor Bača
On 1/8/07, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Trevor Bača escreveu: > Hi, > > Pitched trills seem always by default to print an accidental: > > \pitchedTrill c'4 \startTrillSpan d' c'4 \stopTrillSpan > > Is it possible to remove the natural sign from in front of the D? > > (There is Tri

Re: Removing the accidental in a pitched trill?

2007-01-08 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Trevor Bača escreveu: > Hi, > > Pitched trills seem always by default to print an accidental: > > \pitchedTrill c'4 \startTrillSpan d' c'4 \stopTrillSpan > > Is it possible to remove the natural sign from in front of the D? > > (There is TrillPitchHead grob which the docs list as implementing

Re: Bar numbering with Timing_translator in Staff context

2007-01-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I assume that you refer to the second example in that section. If I was LilyPond and was asked to print bar numbers that were valid for the full score even though each stave has the bar lines at different places, I would certainly also get very confused. Try to move the Bar_number_engraver from

Removing the accidental in a pitched trill?

2007-01-08 Thread Trevor Bača
Hi, Pitched trills seem always by default to print an accidental: \pitchedTrill c'4 \startTrillSpan d' c'4 \stopTrillSpan Is it possible to remove the natural sign from in front of the D? (There is TrillPitchHead grob which the docs list as implementing the pitched-trill-interface. Looking up

Re: how to stop an accidental from being printed?

2007-01-08 Thread Karl Hammar
> I was entering Erik Satie's piece "Vexations" which is heavy on > accidentals. In front of the sharps and flats, lilypond puts a (*) > symbol, where * represents the "natural" accidental. This gets > annoying. Is there a way to turn it off? I just want the accidentals > themselves to be shown

Bar numbering with Timing_translator in Staff context

2007-01-08 Thread Vivian Barty-Taylor
Could somebody please explain how this works? I've moved the Timing_translator as described in section 8.4.1 of the manual (Polymetric notation). Now bar numbers appear only irregularly throughout my score (on 2 pages out of 7 ) and are also incorrect! Confusingly, the bar numbers don't print e

Re: New argument types (Was: Constructive Criticism and a Question)

2007-01-08 Thread stk
> >\foo c \nul 4. % \nul would be a sort of syntactic "breath mark" > >\foo c \ 4. % \ -- same idea as \nul (short, but maybe risky?) > >\foo c \\ 4.% \\ -- same as \nul > >\foo c =4. % = prefixed to any expression: "this is separate item" > . . . If we should add a

Re: Absolute Beginners - Chapter One

2007-01-08 Thread Manuel
I think one important conceptual idea of LilyPond is that the input file is mainly used to describe the music and the structure of the music, not primarily how it should be printed on paper. Therefore, I agree with Henning that it's much better to directly learn the correct syntax for repeats in

Re: Absolute Beginners - Chapter One

2007-01-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Manuel wrote: Am 02/01/2007 um 21:21 schrieb fiëé visuëlle: Don't you think \repeat{} makes more sense? (I prefer logical over visual markup.) Henning, I don't know if that would be the simplest thing to learn at the beginning. How would you put it? I think one important conceptual ide

Re: Absolute Beginners - Chapter One

2007-01-08 Thread Manuel
Am 02/01/2007 um 21:21 schrieb fiëé visuëlle: Don't you think \repeat{} makes more sense? (I prefer logical over visual markup.) Henning, I don't know if that would be the simplest thing to learn at the beginning. How would you put it? I'd introduce bar checks before partials. I think

Re: sostenido/bemol

2007-01-08 Thread Manuel
Am 03/01/2007 um 13:46 schrieb Diosnel Herrnsdorf: As I told Christopher a few days ago (my mistake for not sending the message to the list), here in Paraguay we use "sostenido" for sharp and "sostenida" for sustain. Diosnel, I agree with you: the masculine is right, though many may use

Re: Arrows in markup text

2007-01-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Frédéric Chiasson wrote: Hi, Using : LilyPond 2.11.9 on Mac OS X.4.8 I would like to put a markup text as : (left arrow) (quarter note) = (dotted quarter note) (right arrow), for making Carter-like "rythmic modulations". I don't know how to put arrows. Putting the arrow from the Mac text

Re: beaming only inside slurs? is possible?

2007-01-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
That's not available. However, I hope you have seen the link in Section "Melisma" on how to turn off the automatic beaming. /Mats Ted Walther wrote: Hi. I'm typesetting some Sacred Harp music. This is four part vocal music. For clarity in singing, is there a knob or setting so that notes

Re: need some lyrics alignment in a melisma

2007-01-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Try \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #LEFT (the default value is #CENTER) /Mats Ted Walther wrote: Hi. I'm typing in some Sacred Harp music. Is there a way to make a word in a melisma be aligned the same as words that are tied to a single note? See, in the four part music, for long

Re: making midi output ignore accidentals?

2007-01-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Maybe it's easier (and better) to input the music the way you want it to sound and make the accidentals invisible in the printed output if you want. \override Accidental #'transparent = ##t One big advantage if such an approach is that you easily can print the music according to some other typese

Re: how to stop an accidental from being printed?

2007-01-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
See the section on "Accidentals". /Mats Ted Walther wrote: I was entering Erik Satie's piece "Vexations" which is heavy on accidentals. In front of the sharps and flats, lilypond puts a (*) symbol, where * represents the "natural" accidental. This gets annoying. Is there a way to turn it o

Re: New argument types (Was: Constructive Criticism and a Question)

2007-01-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Increasing the number of different argument types for music functions would almost certainly be extremely useful for users, who, judging from this mailing list, seem to have an unlimited imagination when it comes to wanting to be able to extend LP syntax. I doubt th

Re: SVG file as an output

2007-01-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Read the output of lilypond --help or read about "Command line options" in the manual or search the mailing list archives. /Mats Frédéric Chiasson wrote: Hi again, i'm trying to get a SVG file as an output so I can modify it with Inkscape. For this, I am typing : lilypond --format=svg