Scheme code for extracting LilyPond header properties?

2007-10-02 Thread John Zaitseff
Dear LilyPonders, I am not a particular expert on Scheme, hence my request for help. I am trying to write a new version of tagline that includes the particular document maintainer's name and e-mail address. Thus, I have the following in my header: \header { ... maintainer = "

Method of including PDF document information in LilyPond files?

2007-10-02 Thread John Zaitseff
Dear LilyPonders, Is there a way to include PDF metainfo (document information) in LilyPond documents? For example, I would like to do something like the following: \header { title = "Test title" subject = "Description of title" maintainer = "John Zaitseff" } and

lowering chord symbols

2007-10-02 Thread Ruth Roland
Sometimes, apparently due to the height of notes and markups above the staff, my chord symbols print too far above the staff to read easily. Is there a way to either raise an individual staff, lower chord symbols on one line only, standardize the distance between chord symbols and staff regard

Repeat timelines in the middle of a part.

2007-10-02 Thread m. r. johnston
Is there a way to make lilypond draw alternate timelines in the middle of a part? If you look at the attached example.jpg file, this is how repeat changes are traditionally represented in the middle of parts of bagpipe music. The best I have been able to come up with in lilypond is the attached e

Re: Spanner - markup collision

2007-10-02 Thread Trevor Bača
On 10/2/07, Palmer, Ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings - > > I'm running LilyPond 2.11.23 under Windows XP Pro, SP2. > > I'm having a problem with a markup vs. a TextSpanner. In the snippet, > the markup: > (One stand opt.8va) > is above the spanner if I do not move the markup. I'd like t

Re: Lilypond-book -- almost there...

2007-10-02 Thread Francisco Vila
2007/10/2, Eyolf Østrem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2. Is there a way to automatize the process? E.g. in Kile, vim, or You can obtain a reasonable degree of automation using the 'make' utility. Search for Marcus Brinkmann, (marcus dot brinkmann at rub dot de) for a nice example of how to use it on a co

Re: Pitches rewrite draft

2007-10-02 Thread Trevor Bača
On 10/1/07, Eyolf Østrem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01.10.2007 (16:16), Trevor Daniels wrote: > > Some comments on Pitches > > > - move Micro tones into Accidentals. > > > > No, too specialist. Should it be moved into Specialist > > notation? Wherever it is it needs a link to Other languages.

Re: Pitches rewrite draft

2007-10-02 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 01.10.2007 (16:16), Trevor Daniels wrote: > Some comments on Pitches > > - move Micro tones into Accidentals. > > No, too specialist. Should it be moved into Specialist > notation? Wherever it is it needs a link to Other languages. I say yes, in accordance with the general principle that ever

Lilypond-book -- almost there...

2007-10-02 Thread Eyolf Østrem
I've been struggling to get lilypond-book do what I want it to do, and I think I'm almost there. Now, I have working output, my question is if there is a better way to work to get there. I want to include files with lp-examples in chapters that I \include in a main LaTeX document, fullbook.tex, s

Spanner - markup collision

2007-10-02 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I'm running LilyPond 2.11.23 under Windows XP Pro, SP2. I'm having a problem with a markup vs. a TextSpanner. In the snippet, the markup: (One stand opt.8va) is above the spanner if I do not move the markup. I'd like to have the markup appear below the spanner. Can anyone point me in

Paper size (A4) problems

2007-10-02 Thread lilypond
Hi list, I've been trying to something which I though would be simple with Lilypond: to print music paper. Nothing took me too long to get done. Except for one important detail: the size of the paper. I've tried using set-paper-size on several sections of the Lilypond source, and the result is a

Re: GDP: add "extender line" to the glossary?

2007-10-02 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 9/28/07 12:05 PM, "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Should we add "extender line" to the glossary? Is this a real musical > term, or a made-up lilypond term? Any vocalists want to comment? I've found a couple references: In a set of songs published by A-R Editions in their Musi

Re: score imbedded in markup text (in-line)

2007-10-02 Thread Stan Sanderson
At the risk of trying your patience, I pose the next dilemma, with apologies for my lack of understanding of the nuances of the /markup command. 1. Suppose there is a long sentence ( foo foo etc. ) which extends past the right margin. How can it be wrapped to the line width (or a specifie

Re: Question about piano template with centered dynamics

2007-10-02 Thread Martijn Vromans
> Are you sure that you copied all relevant lines? Are you sure that the > version of the manual that you copied them > from is the same as the version of LilyPond you have installed. Oh yes! I copied it from the online version from the latest stable version. But I remember that this example neve

Re: Question about piano template with centered dynamics

2007-10-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Martijn Vromans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi all, There's a question here about the piano template with centered dynamics. I never used this template but it seemed quite fashionable to have centered dynamics. However, it appears somewhat strange. First of all there are two score blocks. Is t

Question about piano template with centered dynamics

2007-10-02 Thread Martijn Vromans
Hi all, There's a question here about the piano template with centered dynamics. I never used this template but it seemed quite fashionable to have centered dynamics. However, it appears somewhat strange. First of all there are two score blocks. Is this really needed? Second... some syntax errors

Lyric tie and MS-Gothic font

2007-10-02 Thread Trevor Daniels
I'm having problems with the lyric tie on a Windows XP system. Here's a simple example containing it: \version "2.10.20" \paper { ragged-right = ##t } << \relative c' { c4.~ c8 d b } \addlyrics { Lar -- go~al fac } >> On my system this gives the error message: Parsing... Interpretin

Re: printing Staff Symbol before \stopStaff

2007-10-02 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
You can set firstClef to #f, and remove Time_signature_engraver from the ossia-staff. See e.g. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/input/manual/lily-6910c8f3a6.ly Met vriendelijke groet, Wilbert Berendsen -- http://www.wilbertberendsen.nl/ "You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

odd beaming in tuplets

2007-10-02 Thread Anders Vinjar
Hi there. Is the strange beaming inside the tuplet in the first 4/8 measure of this sniplet expected? Right now im overriding with manually setting stemBeamCount to correct values, but its very tedious. [2. image notation --- image/jpeg; lilypond-beaming-oddness.jpg]... \version "2.10.20"

Re: guitar chords

2007-10-02 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 02.10.2007 (09:57), Zoltan Kota wrote: > Hi, > > I'm newbie here. I have just started to learn lilypond. It looks very nice > (altough it needs some time to learn syntax, commands and tricks). :-) > > Is it possible to add guitar chords above a staff (accompanying guitar > chords for a vocal)?

RE: Pitches rewrite draft

2007-10-02 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham replied: > Trevor Daniels wrote: > > Graham wrote: > >> - move Micro tones into Accidentals. > > > > No, too specialist. Should it be moved into Specialist > > notation? Wherever it is it needs a link to > Other languages. > > I disagree with this, although I admit that I > can't come up w

Re: Pitches rewrite draft

2007-10-02 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 01.10.2007 (13:12), Graham Percival wrote: > Trevor Daniels wrote: > >Graham wrote: > >>- move Micro tones into Accidentals. > >No, too specialist. Should it be moved into Specialist > >notation? Wherever it is it needs a link to Other languages. > I disagree with this, although I admit that I

guitar chords

2007-10-02 Thread Zoltan Kota
Hi, I'm newbie here. I have just started to learn lilypond. It looks very nice (altough it needs some time to learn syntax, commands and tricks). :-) Is it possible to add guitar chords above a staff (accompanying guitar chords for a vocal)? Like Em, D, C, H, etc. I have played with \chords, \cho

Re: score imbedded in markup text (in-line)

2007-10-02 Thread Maximilian Albert
Mats Bengtsson schrieb: There's no need for trial and error. If you want the text exactly centered with the music, then you can use \markup { { \general-align #Y #CENTER foo \general-align #Y #CENTER \snip } } which sets the alignment point of both the text and the \snip on the vertica

Re: score imbedded in markup text (in-line)

2007-10-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Maximilian Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In the example, I have also changed the vertical alignment, to > make it look better. You may want to try \general-align #Y #DOWN > instead. ... or even some value in between like \general-align #Y #-0.2 so as to make the text appear at about the

Elision/lyric tie again

2007-10-02 Thread Eyolf Østrem
One more thing about the elision/lyric tie, which I discovered today: I generated eps files from two different but structurally identical files, in the same batch process, and one ended up at 100 kb, the other at 1.2 Mb. I couldn't understand why, but eventually, I realized that there was an elisio