Re: Tricks and overrides for vocal music

2007-03-02 Thread Arvid Grøtting
2007/3/3, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Arvid Grøtting wrote: > That's fine, but if I want to do that with each setting, I also need > to write a small example around it. Between a day job, a 13 months > old son, a wife, a choir and scores of scores to typeset, I don't > really have the t

Re: Tricks and overrides for vocal music

2007-03-02 Thread Graham Percival
Arvid Grøtting wrote: That's fine, but if I want to do that with each setting, I also need to write a small example around it. Between a day job, a 13 months old son, a wife, a choir and scores of scores to typeset, I don't really have the time. So if someone wants this in the form of small sni

Re: Tricks and overrides for vocal music

2007-03-02 Thread Arvid Grøtting
2007/3/3, Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 3/2/07, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trevor Bača wrote: > > On 3/2/07, Arvid Grøtting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> That's it for tricks currently in use, I think. This is with 2.11.20, > >> by the > >> way; earlier versions may n

tidy piano glissandi

2007-03-02 Thread emily atkins
I'm looking for the ability to span treble and bass clefs with a glissando, similar to what can be done with arpeggiated notes. Right now I can't get the two clefs (glissando start and stop voices) to interact for this specific case. The bass clef gets shoved down to make way for multiple le

Re: percussion clef notes: transposing

2007-03-02 Thread Rune Zedeler
Scott Miller wrote: OK I see. Thank you. I was expecting a default perc clef to act as a treble clef. A very important reason for the percussion vlef not to behave like the trebble clef is that the percussion clef is often used on staves with another number of stafflines than five. The middle

Re: eps and bounding box

2007-03-02 Thread Graham Percival
Damian leGassick wrote: also (at least on osx), the -b option isn't there in 2.11.20 - is that right? or have things changed re eps? If you follow the unstable development version 2.11, then please read the NEWS files for each version. Cheers, - Graham _

Re: Tricks and overrides for vocal music

2007-03-02 Thread Trevor Bača
On 3/2/07, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Trevor Bača wrote: > On 3/2/07, Arvid Grøtting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That's it for tricks currently in use, I think. This is with 2.11.20, >> by the >> way; earlier versions may need other tricks... > > Can these please go into the m

Re: Markup for newline in big blocks of text? Markup for lists?

2007-03-02 Thread Graham Percival
Trevor Bača wrote: \markup \wordwrap { Here's the first long sentence. \n And here's the second long sentence. } \wordwrap-string ? It's not ideal, because it takes a string instead of a markup. The other option would be to use nested \column, \line, and \wordwrap (in some order). Also,

Markup for newline in big blocks of text? Markup for lists?

2007-03-02 Thread Trevor Bača
Hi, Is there something like \markup \wordwrap { Here's the first long sentence. \n And here's the second long sentence. } Also, is there markup hiding anywhere to make bullet or numbered lists? -- Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mail

Re: Tricks and overrides for vocal music

2007-03-02 Thread Graham Percival
Trevor Bača wrote: On 3/2/07, Arvid Grøtting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's it for tricks currently in use, I think. This is with 2.11.20, by the way; earlier versions may need other tricks... Can these please go into the manual under vocal music? Short answer: the fastest way of gett

Re: Tricks and overrides for vocal music (was: Re: Spacing issues)

2007-03-02 Thread Trevor Bača
On 3/2/07, Arvid Grøtting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David Feuer gmail.com> writes: > > \override DynamicText #'X-offset = #-2 > > Ooh! Neat! For some reason, this only seems to work for some of the > dynamics. They all move to the left, but only some of them move down. Yes; it all depe

Re: Tricks and overrides for vocal music

2007-03-02 Thread Graham Percival
Arvid Grøtting wrote: That's it for tricks currently in use, I think. This is with 2.11.20, by the way; earlier versions may need other tricks... Who else has vocal-related overrides and tricks they want to share? Please don't only share them here -- and this applies to Arvid, too. In addi

Re: \flageolet too big

2007-03-02 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I don't really see what the problem is: > > \relative c'{ > c-\tweak #'font-size #-3 _\flageolet > c-\tweak #'font-size #-3 ^\flageolet > } I want to say c^\F c_\F where \F is a smaller \flageolet, and this \F can't be defined with define-music-function. Werner __

Tricks and overrides for vocal music (was: Re: Spacing issues)

2007-03-02 Thread Arvid Grøtting
David Feuer gmail.com> writes: > > \override DynamicText #'X-offset = #-2 > > Ooh! Neat! For some reason, this only seems to work for some of the > dynamics. They all move to the left, but only some of them move down. Yes; it all depends on whether LilyPond thinks they'll fit. > Is the

Re: Size of Musica Ficta Accidentals

2007-03-02 Thread Robert Memering
Am Freitag, 2. März 2007 15:00 schrieb Mats Bengtsson: > It seems that this is a bug which has been fixed in the latest 2.11 > version. > I haven't checked 2.10, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's fixed > in the latest 2.10.x version as well. I tried 2.11.20 today, and the size of the accidental

Re: NoteNames, how do I change language and spacing

2007-03-02 Thread Kevin Dalley
Thanks. I'm compiling the code anyway, and trying to get ready for submitting some changes. I'm getting used to modifying the code. I don't know whether I will add this change myself, or wait for someone else. Maximilian Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mats Bengtsson schrieb: > >> Kevin

Re: \flageolet too big

2007-03-02 Thread Ole Schmidt
can I use the \tweak -command also with an identifier? ole Am 02.03.2007 um 10:26 schrieb Mats Bengtsson: I don't really see what the problem is: \relative c'{ c-\tweak #'font-size #-3 _\flageolet c-\tweak #'font-size #-3 ^\flageolet } /Mats Werner LEMBERG wrote: \tweak only accepts

Re: chord and clef questions

2007-03-02 Thread rif
> I recommend that you install the latest stable LilyPond version 2.10 from > www.lilypond.org -> Downloads. There's an installation package there that > works for all Linux distributions. Updated to 2.10.20. > I made a quick hack to solve a similar problem in > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html

Re: chord and clef questions

2007-03-02 Thread rif
> > 2. Is there an easy way to only have the treble clef symbol and key > > signature to only appear on the first line of each page? > > > Not if you want it fully automated. However, you can turn of the clef > symbol > using > \override Score.Clef #'break-visibility = #all-invisible > and turn i

Re: chord and clef questions

2007-03-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
rif wrote: Hi. I'm typesetting a jazz lead sheet, and trying to go for a somewhat "RealBook" style look, and I'm having a couple of problems. I've combed the documentation, but I'm not really finding the answers. (I'm using lilypond 2.6.3, which is the current ubuntu linux version.) I r

Re: right-oriented fingering instructions overwrite the dot of a dotted note

2007-03-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If this is a bug report, please send it to bug-lilypond@gnu.org instead. /Mats Luc wrote: \version "2.10.20" % on Windows XP % right-oriented fingering instructions overwrite the dot of a dotted note \layout { ragged-right = ##t } { \set fingeringOrientations = #'( right ) < f'-3 >

right-oriented fingering instructions overwrite the dot of a dotted note

2007-03-02 Thread Luc
\version "2.10.20" % on Windows XP % right-oriented fingering instructions overwrite the dot of a dotted note \layout { ragged-right = ##t } { \set fingeringOrientations = #'( right ) < f'-3 > 4. \set strokeFingerOrientations = #'( right ) < f'-\rightHandFinger #1 > 4. } Thanks Lu

chord and clef questions

2007-03-02 Thread rif
Hi. I'm typesetting a jazz lead sheet, and trying to go for a somewhat "RealBook" style look, and I'm having a couple of problems. I've combed the documentation, but I'm not really finding the answers. (I'm using lilypond 2.6.3, which is the current ubuntu linux version.) 1. At the end of the

Re: How to set the last word of a verse (lyricmode) in the first repeat/alternative of the melody?

2007-03-02 Thread Maximilian Albert
Another comment (off-topic): Are you sure you do not want the hyphens to appear centered between the syllables, which can be done by entering, for example, schla -- fen instead of schla- fen ? Just a thought ... Cheers, Max ___ lilypond-user ma

Re: Size of Musica Ficta Accidentals

2007-03-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It seems that this is a bug which has been fixed in the latest 2.11 version. I haven't checked 2.10, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's fixed in the latest 2.10.x version as well. /Mats Robert Memering wrote: Hi all, I have some smaller staves in my score. I got them by scaling StaffSymbol

Re: Making Lilypond disregard invisible slurs at accidentals

2007-03-02 Thread Pothárn Imre
> Why not use \melisma and \melismaEnd to indicate the melismas. > This will solve all slur related problems that you see. > >/Mats Well, I do not know why I did not do it this way, now I tried and it works. Thanks. Imre

Re: How to set the last word of a verse (lyricmode) in the first repeat/alternative of the melody?

2007-03-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Since you had defined your \context Voice = "melodyVoi" within the \repeat volta 3 {...} the melodyVoi Voice context didn't include the alternative endings. The simple solution is to move the \context Voice = "melodyVoi" {...} outside the \repeat volta 3 {...}\alternative{...} If you want the fin

Re: NoteNames, how do I change language and spacing

2007-03-02 Thread Maximilian Albert
Mats Bengtsson schrieb: > There's no need to send bug reports on problems that already have a > FIXME comment in the source code (possibly unless you want to give > it very high priority). Oops, sorry. My fault. I wasn't aware of this, but of course I could and should have guessed it. Max _

How to set the last word of a verse (lyricmode) in the first repeat/alternative of the melody?

2007-03-02 Thread Oguz Erden
Hello, I am struggling to have print out the last word "stehn" of the fourth line of the lyrics in the first alternative part under the note g'. Do I have to include another lyricmode in the alternative block? Just can't figure out, although I tried a lot of different approaches. Any idea w

Re: NoteNames, how do I change language and spacing

2007-03-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
There's no need to send bug reports on problems that already have a FIXME comment in the source code (possibly unless you want to give it very high priority). /Mats Maximilian Albert wrote: Mats Bengtsson schrieb: More precisely, in the file lily/pitch.cc, there is a comment in lines 161-162

Re: \flageolet too big

2007-03-02 Thread Martial
Lol , too simple ! Thanks ! I don't really see what the problem is: \relative c'{ c-\tweak #'font-size #-3 _\flageolet c-\tweak #'font-size #-3 ^\flageolet } ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/l

Re: NoteNames, how do I change language and spacing

2007-03-02 Thread Maximilian Albert
Mats Bengtsson schrieb: > Kevin Dalley wrote: >> I'm using NoteNames for some demos. There are 2 items I want to >> change. >> >> 1. I'm including english.ly, but "as" is output as "ais". Is it >> possible to change the language? >> >> > Unfortunately, it seems that the language is hard-code

German chords with default base note

2007-03-02 Thread Morten Lemvigh
How do I print German chord names with \germanChords but keep the standard notation for the base note, so I get fx A7/c# instead of A7/cis??? Thanks, Morten ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l

Re: NoteNames, how do I change language and spacing

2007-03-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Kevin Dalley wrote: I'm using NoteNames for some demos. There are 2 items I want to change. 1. I'm including english.ly, but "as" is output as "ais". Is it possible to change the language? Unfortunately, it seems that the language is hard-coded in the current implementation. That shoul

Re: \flageolet too big

2007-03-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I don't really see what the problem is: \relative c'{ c-\tweak #'font-size #-3 _\flageolet c-\tweak #'font-size #-3 ^\flageolet } /Mats Werner LEMBERG wrote: \tweak only accepts `-' due to its definition. Is there a definition of \tweak given somewhere in some .scm file? I