Re: How to use global variables with \Markup

2007-02-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Paul Harouff wrote: You didn't understand my question. I have 12 verses interspersed between the scores. I want to type all of the verses in one spot at the beginning of the file, just like choral lyrics. I don't want to have to search the file and edit every \markup to revise the text every w

Re: wrong placed staccato dot

2007-02-05 Thread Graham Percival
Nice catch! Thanks, added as http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=281 Cheers, - Graham PS if you have created a minimal example like this, and have read the relevant page of the docs, it's safe to assume that it's a bug and you can send it directly to the bugs list. Roland G

Re: Lyric and Stanza collision

2007-02-05 Thread Fred Leason
Thanks for taking a look at this. I thought about inserting invisible bar lines to allow more natural breaking on long strings of lyric text. But for that to look right, there would need to be a way to optionally re-print the reciting tone at the beginning of the new line. I don't know if

RE: How to use global variables with \Markup

2007-02-05 Thread Paul Harouff
You didn't understand my question. I have 12 verses interspersed between the scores. I want to type all of the verses in one spot at the beginning of the file, just like choral lyrics. I don't want to have to search the file and edit every \markup to revise the text every week. Is there a way to

Re: Lyric and Stanza collision

2007-02-05 Thread Fred Leason
Thanks for responding. Agreed, I did not follow your advice exactly and in this email I have included a complete example. I used the text \markup for two reasons. First, it would still be nice to know the specific verse number and the verses don't always start at "1." Second, I am trying

Re: word-space at crescendoText?

2007-02-05 Thread Graham Percival
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Hint: What type of layout object is it that handles your crescendoText? It's not a TextScript! Hint #2: there's a list of commonly tweaked layout objects in 5.2 Fixing overlapping notation. Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user

Re: poco ff

2007-02-05 Thread Ole Schmidt
Dear Yota, I followed the advice of Graham and Seba (shame on me that I did not find it myself!) So here is the solution: %%% \new Staff psub = \markup{ { \dynamic p } sub. } { c'' c'' d''e''_\psub } } %%% best ole Am 05.02.2007

Re: word-space at crescendoText?

2007-02-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Hint: What type of layout object is it that handles your crescendoText? It's not a TextScript! /Mats Roland Goretzki wrote: Hi at all, (version 2.10.15) In the documentation under "8.1.6 Overview of text markup commands" is written, that the property word-space determines the space betwee

Re: poco ff

2007-02-05 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On Feb 5, 2007, at 11:54 PM, Graham Percival wrote: Alternatively, you could have searched for "dynamics" in the table of contents and directly found 8.1.8 New dynamic marks. ...or you could have searched the manual with LSR--the first hit for "new dynamic marks" is the one. :) Ciao

Re: poco ff

2007-02-05 Thread Graham Percival
Ole Schmidt wrote: is it possible to write something like "poco ff" in another way than writing \ff_\markup { poco } and than tweaking the "poco" in front of the "ff" with \override commands? I can't find something in the manual You could read 6.6.3 Dynamics: To create new dynamic marks or t

Re: poco ff

2007-02-05 Thread yota moteuchi
I use the following trick to print P subito psubito = #(make-dynamic-script (markup #:hspace 1 #:translate (cons 5 0) #:line( #:dynamic "p" #:normal-text #:italic "subito" ))) to use it : { c4 \psubito } following this example, you should be able to build a poco ff (and if you do please post

poco ff

2007-02-05 Thread Ole Schmidt
Dear all, is it possible to write something like "poco ff" in another way than writing \ff_\markup { poco } and than tweaking the "poco" in front of the "ff" with \override commands? I can't find something in the manual Thank you ole ___ lilyp

Re: A new feature since 2.10.14 doesn't work

2007-02-05 Thread Graham Percival
Roland Goretzki wrote: the new feature described in the documentation under "Changes" as: "Objects that belong outside of the staff are now positioned automatically to avoid collisions." You were looking at the changes for the unstable 2.11 branch. All of those new features are only found in

Re: make-dynamic-script shows mysterious aligning behaviour

2007-02-05 Thread Roland Goretzki
Hello list, hello Joe, You wrote: > On 2/2/07, Roland Goretzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [ ... ] > >In the following I've listed the lower case characters, which show a > >different behaviour ( > > 1. with "?" they are aligned about .4 or .5 staff spaces > > too high, > > 2. with "." t

wrong placed staccato dot

2007-02-05 Thread Roland Goretzki
Hi at all, (version 2.10.15) Setting the direction of staccato with "_" causes wrong positioning in x-direction. The very small .ly-snippet below demonstrates this. But I'm not sure, if this is a bug or a feature. If it were a feature, I would like to get a hint, how to disable this feature for

word-space at crescendoText?

2007-02-05 Thread Roland Goretzki
Hi at all, (version 2.10.15) In the documentation under "8.1.6 Overview of text markup commands" is written, that the property word-space determines the space between each markup in args. This does work properly. :-) But trying to use it with setting the crescendoText, it doesn't work, and I ca

A new feature since 2.10.14 doesn't work

2007-02-05 Thread Roland Goretzki
Hi list, the new feature described in the documentation under "Changes" as: "Objects that belong outside of the staff are now positioned automatically to avoid collisions." doesn't work on my machine (debian sarge 3.1), neither with 2.10.14 nor with 2.10.15. I copied the source from there and co

Re: Lyric and Stanza collision

2007-02-05 Thread Geoff Horton
I'm wondering if you couldn't avoid this by adding bar lines to the lyrics context and making them invisible. This _might_ make the lyrics dodge them automatically (though I make no guarantees). In practice, I've just left multiple syllable lyrics centered at the end of a phrase (not the beginning

Re: Lyric and Stanza collision

2007-02-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I think you misunderstood my reply. I didn't say that you should use text \markup commands, but that you should use Rehearsal marks, i.e. use the \mark command, just as you already have done for the "REFRAIN" indication in your original example. Also, it's much easier to understand a question if

a 'linux guitar'

2007-02-05 Thread Mike Blackstock
I hope this isn't too far off topic; maybe Lilypond could somehow be fit into the thing as a music-printing engine or something: from http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/01/31/1951219 "It would have an iPod running Linux plugged in, that would allow me to record the music that was played on i

Re: Lyric and Stanza collision

2007-02-05 Thread Fred Leason
Mats: I removed set stanza and used rehearsal marks instead. Here is an example: BEFORE: allWords = \lyricmode { \set stanza = "1" \once \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #LEFT \markup{\raise #2.0 \dynamic f The LORD is King; let the} people tremble;* \once \override

Re: Editor OT: s-underdot in vim?

2007-02-05 Thread Mark Knoop
On 05/02/07, Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/5/07, Mark Knoop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05/02/07, Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2/5/07, Mark Knoop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 05/02/07, Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Any

Re: markup + set

2007-02-05 Thread yota moteuchi
I had a look on preprocessors... but it's complicated to publish a source containing such a trick on the other hand, the learning curve of the scheme functions is tough (a nice way to say I don't understand a word ^^) That's why I'm looking for tips :) I could work from any example of a function

Re: Editor OT: s-underdot in vim?

2007-02-05 Thread Trevor Bača
On 2/5/07, Mark Knoop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 05/02/07, Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone know the magic key combination to produce s-underdot in vim? > > I've got a multibyte-compiled vim that I use for all sorts of extended > Unicode, and it works great. But perusing

Editor OT: s-underdot in vim?

2007-02-05 Thread Trevor Bača
Hi, Anyone know the magic key combination to produce s-underdot in vim? I've got a multibyte-compiled vim that I use for all sorts of extended Unicode, and it works great. But perusing the table generated by :digraphs doesn't turn up any way to produce the lowercase s with underdot (as is use

Re: pageBreak?

2007-02-05 Thread Trevor Bača
On 2/1/07, Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/1/07, Joe Neeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/1/07, Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Joe, > > > > This is cool. > > > > So setting line-break-permission = ##f should preclude the value of > > page-break-permission, right? (I

Re: Moving markup box above chord names in a leadsheet?

2007-02-05 Thread Bertalan Fodor
One solution is to upgrade to the latest development version, where any text marks, i.e. \mark \markup{...} now appear above the chords, in contrast to what you get in version 2.10 and earlier. Actually they do not appear above the chords, but above the line of the chords. So I don't think it

Re: Moving markup box above chord names in a leadsheet?

2007-02-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
One solution is to upgrade to the latest development version, where any text marks, i.e. \mark \markup{...} now appear above the chords, in contrast to what you get in version 2.10 and earlier. See also http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-01/msg00734.html which describes a meth

Re: markup + set

2007-02-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The easiest solution is probably to use an external preprocessor, like M4 (if you search the mailing list archives you can also find hints on other similar preprocessors to do purely textual replacements in the file. There, you can also find comments on why the main authors of LilyPond don't want

markup + set

2007-02-05 Thread yota moteuchi
Bonjour, I'm trying to write a NICE lilypond function to do properly what I could do with a simple find and replace in the text where \pizz would become : ^\markup {\italic pizz.} \set Staff.midiInstrument = "pizzicato strings" I tried some make-markup stuffs but... how to insert a \set proper

Re: Lyric and Stanza collision

2007-02-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Why not use reheasal marks, see the section on "Rehearsal marks" for more details. As you can see there, you can even get automatic numbering. It might also be possible to make the stanza number allocate space so it doesn't collide with the preceding lyrics, but I don't know how to do that. Yet a

Re: How to use global variables with \Markup

2007-02-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
See section "More about stanzas", which shows how to mix ordinary scores with \markup commands that contain pure text. /Mats Paul Harouff wrote: I want to alternate markup text verses (reader) with scores (choir). The text verses change from week to week, but the scores remain the same. Wha