Lilypondit

2007-04-01 Thread Jason Merrill
Is there any lilypond analog to latexit: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/math_science/latexit.html Googling lilypondit and lilypond latexit didn't yield anything too promising. For longer documents, lilypond-book looks like it would be fantastic, but if I want to throw one or two quick

Intermittent Lyrics in Choral Piece

2007-04-01 Thread Jason Merrill
I'm looking for a good way to write intermittent lyrics for a choral part. I'm working on a piece with a repetitive bass figure, so after the first repetition, there is no need to keep writing out the words. However, I'd like to write more words at the beginning of the next section. An obvious w

remove clef

2007-04-01 Thread steve berthiaume
hello, is there any way to have the clef only appear in the first line of a part? i couldn't find anything about that in the 'clef' section in the documentation, and searching the archives for 'clef' produced no results (!?). thanks, -steve ___ lilypo

Re: aleatoric

2007-04-01 Thread Neuro
ok, then, how about this small examples? the group 1 - of horn and bassoon: %% % horn_1.ly in F horn = { \clef treble \time 4/4 c'4 d' e' f' g'1 } %% %% % bassoon_1.ly in C bassoon = { \clef bass \time 4/4 c'4 d' e' f' g'1 } %% %% % flute_1.ly in C flu

Re: aleatoric

2007-04-01 Thread Andrea Valle
Hi, As far as I can say, alea can be notated in thousand ways. You should provide an example of the desidered notation output so that people can suggest solutions. "Rhythmically independent" is too vague... Best -a- On 2 Apr 2007, at 00:49, Neuro wrote: Dear list, How do I write al

aleatoric

2007-04-01 Thread Neuro
Dear list, How do I write aleatoric music in Lilypond? Actually, I am writing a woodwind quintet, intending to have two group for aleatoric: "Horn & bassoon" is one group playing thythmically together, while f"lute, clarinet, and oboe" is another group playing thythmically together; yet each

Re: "non adjacent" glissando: state of the art?

2007-04-01 Thread Andrea Valle
Thanks a lot Victor, I'm working with your method 2. Really nice, to be included in docs. I was thinking. Premise: I know nothing of lily's internals and about scheme. But: As all the trick is to exactly calculate the offset of the noteheads, wouldn't be possible to add such a calculation as

Re: How do I mix ly and scheme in define-music-function

2007-04-01 Thread Graham Percival
Kevin Dalley wrote: Is this worth mentioning somewhere in the Music Functions section of the documentation. Does that mean I have to write it. Yes please; my eyes glazed over during this discussion. For hints, see http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/documentation-adding Cheers, - Gr

Re: Lyric Ties (desperate)

2007-04-01 Thread José Luis Cruz
Here is the page for downloading the fonts: http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Download If you have windows, this is the direct linc to the ttf's on a zip: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dejavu/dejavu-ttf-2.16.zip?download I extracted the fonts to the c:\windows\fonts folder (wher

removeEmptyStaff one by one

2007-04-01 Thread yota moteuchi
Dear lilypond List I have something like \version "2.11.20" \score { \new StaffGroup << \new Staff { \voiceA } \new Staff { \voiceB } \new Staff { \voiceC } >> \layout { \context { \removeEmptyStaffContext } } } \pa

Re: newbie q: staff size

2007-04-01 Thread Dominic Neumann
hi, try to put the setting directly after the \version tag. This works fine for me: %%% BEGIN OF CODE %%% \version "2.10.20" #(set-global-staff-size 40) \score {\relative c' % Intro { \set Score.markFormatter = #format-mark-box-barnumbers {\set Staff.instrumentName = "T

Lyric Ties (desperate)

2007-04-01 Thread Aaron Dalton
I am preparing a series of typeset manuscripts for both formal publication and my thesis. I cannot do this until I figure out how to typeset lyric ties (http://huge-url/#Entering-lyrics). The problem, as the documentation states, is that you need a font that correctly encodes U+203F. What the do

Re: How do I mix ly and scheme in define-music-function

2007-04-01 Thread Kevin Dalley
Thanks. That was the part I was missing. I didn't realize that all of the items must be combined, and I didn't know how to combine them anyway. Is this worth mentioning somewhere in the Music Functions section of the documentation. Does that mean I have to write it. Nicolas Sceaux <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Melisma error.

2007-04-01 Thread Dominic Neumann
Please provide us an example code to play with it. Dominic 2007/4/1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I am trying to add lyrics to a tune which has a note tied across two measures. The usual method of adding a double underscore after the word doesn't work. Since all the examples given h

Re: Noteheads

2007-04-01 Thread Kevin Dalley
You also need to describe where to attach the stems. A few sentences on this would be nice for the documentation. I managed to do it once, but I'm not ready to describe the process myself. Maximilian Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's a fun experience to learn metafont, so if you have th

Re: How do I mix ly and scheme in define-music-function

2007-04-01 Thread Maximilian Albert
Nicolas Sceaux schrieb: > The music expression that is finally inserted into the surrounding music > is what is *returned* by the music function, that is, the last form. Ah, that's point. Thanks for the hint! I'm sure this will help me quite a few times in the future (when I finally find the time

Re: How do I mix ly and scheme in define-music-function

2007-04-01 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Maximilian Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nicolas Sceaux schrieb: > >> Here is the structure of your function: >> >> setAltStaff = >> #(define-music-function (parser location style lowerOctave upperOctave) >> (string? number? number?) >> (if #t >> #{ ..foo.. #})

newbie q: staff size

2007-04-01 Thread steve berthiaume
hello; enjoying learning this program! i want to enlarge the size of my trumpet chart, as we are all getting older and must apparently continue to play in poorly-lit venues :-(. what's the easiest way to do this? i've tried \layout {#(set-global-staff-size 20)} but this only generates an

Re: How do I mix ly and scheme in define-music-function

2007-04-01 Thread Maximilian Albert
Nicolas Sceaux schrieb: > Here is the structure of your function: > > setAltStaff = > #(define-music-function (parser location style lowerOctave upperOctave) > (string? number? number?) > (if #t > #{ ..foo.. #}) > #{ ..baz.. #}) > > The function return the last form

Fwd: cadenza and accidentals

2007-04-01 Thread Antanas Budriūnas
Hello, I was senging this question a couple weeks ago but didn't got any answer. Please don't be angry for repetition. -- Forwarded message -- From: Antanas Budriūnas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2007.03.20 12:19 Subject: cadenza and accidentals To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Hello, us

Melisma error.

2007-04-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am trying to add lyrics to a tune which has a note tied across two measures.  The usual method of adding a double underscore after the word doesn't work.  Since all the examples given happen entirely within one measure, perhaps the command doesn't apply here.  I tried using \melisma and \melismaE

Re: Noteheads

2007-04-01 Thread Maximilian Albert
Klaus Muth schrieb: > How can I - if at all - design my own noteheads? Of course you can. Note, however, that it requires a knowledge of metafont, and you need to recompile lilypond to actually use the new glyphs. Metafont was written by Donald Knuth almost thirty years ago (as a counterpart to

Re: Need Help

2007-04-01 Thread David Bobroff
>From the description of your problem it sounds like you need to check the section in the manual about single staff polyphony. -David Don Hauht wrote: > I have been using Lilypond to transfer a peice of existing sheet music for > about 3 weeks and i am almost 100% done except for one problem whi

Need Help

2007-04-01 Thread Don Hauht
I have been using Lilypond to transfer a peice of existing sheet music for about 3 weeks and i am almost 100% done except for one problem which 1s: How to code the following example : In 3/4 time an alto note 'e' for two beats while the soprano notes 'g' and upper 'c' are slurred. The last note

Noteheads

2007-04-01 Thread Klaus Muth
Hi! How can I - if at all - design my own noteheads? -- Klaus Muth privat [EMAIL PROTECTED] geschaeftlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: How do I mix ly and scheme in define-music-function

2007-04-01 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Kevin Dalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This doesn't work. The if block appears to be skipped. > > setAltStaff = #(define-music-function (parser location style lowerOctave > upperOctave) > (string? number? number?) > > (if #t > #{ > \s