Absolute beginner with music notation, I often have to enter unmetered music in
Lilypond. My problem is that a long phrase (Bénis_le_Seigneur_ô_mon_âme, for
example) is often sung over the same note, breve or other in notation. Now,
Lilypond centers the text bloc under the note; so, I have text out
In this specific example, it seems that you have an extremely wide
key signature in one stave and none at all in the other stave. This is
a typical situation where you want to use
\override Score.SpacingSpanner #'average-spacing-wishes = ##f
since by default, LilyPond takes an average value of the
Hello, all --
I hope you have seen the earlier followups in this email thread [...]
Fair enough, but it's a *lot* more work in recent versions to have a
acceptable-looking score (with respect to initial measure spacing)
than it was in previous versions.
For example, I've included a scree
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Matt Bethe wrote:
> I am surprised that there is not an initial header that
> establishes the text for the tempo. In all the music I have
> seen the leftmost edge of the initial tempo text lines up with
> the leftmost edge of the meter.
See:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/
I am surprised that there is not an initial header that
establishes the text for the tempo. In
all the music I
have seen the leftmost edge of the initial tempo
text lines up with the leftmost
edge of the meter. I
looked through the examples and there are
three workarounds:
putting tempo
Hi Jamie,
> This is a feature request relating to the following thread:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-12/msg00253.html
>
> I would be happy to use this solution, but the slash is too short.
> Perhaps I could invent some other hack by inserting postscript directly
> into t
Bax wrote:
Michael gmail.com> writes:
I've got two chords, the and the . I want ties between the
respective c's and the a's, and a slur between the e and the d. The ties
appear but the slur is missing.
[...]
\version "2.10.5"
\new Staff {
\time 2/2 2
}
The follo
Kieran Coulter wrote:
Hello again,
I found the piece and version number in question, it's the 4th ballade by
Chopin, and convert-ly gets it up to version 2.5.18 before it can't get any
further. Am I right in assuming that the last line in the log file is the one
that prevents the file rende
