Re: Creating a book of music

2008-01-02 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 2 janv. 08 à 23:07, Alasdair McAndrew a écrit : I'm typesetting up a 17th century manuscript which contains eight pieces. I'd like to place them all in a book which contains a title page, table of contents, introduction etc. I'm very happy to use LaTeX for this, but I'd like to see ex

Creating a book of music

2008-01-02 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
I'm typesetting up a 17th century manuscript which contains eight pieces. I'd like to place them all in a book which contains a title page, table of contents, introduction etc. I'm very happy to use LaTeX for this, but I'd like to see examples of other people's work. I've had a small look around

Re: Few more questions from a beginner

2008-01-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Mark Knoop wrote: * Some of the notes are stacked on top of each other. (e.g., measure 4) Should I just use padding to move each note individually? Yes, I think so. Not padding! Read about force-hshift in the subsection on Collision resolution in "Polyphony". You could try it in version 2

Re: Two midi questions

2008-01-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Alasdair McAndrew wrote: 1. I have used \set Staff.midiInstrument = "viola" but the midi output still seems to contain a piano sound in it. It's as though I can add an instrument sound to the midi file, but not turn off the default piano sound. What's going on, an

pedal tremolo

2008-01-02 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Lilypond-users, I have special a question: I want to write a pedal-tremolo. Therefore I would like to change the line-style of the piano-pedal bracket. I would like to have the same kind of line which is also used for trill-spanners. Can You tell me if and how it is possible? Thanks, Stefan

Re: Few more questions from a beginner

2008-01-02 Thread Mark Knoop
J. Cohen wrote: I've managed to get this far on Lachrimae from the help that people on the list have provided so far: http://www.guitarmiami.com/tank/lachrimae.ly http://www.guitarmiami.com/tank/lachrimae.pdf I haven't been able to figure out a few things: * Put some naturals in parentheses (e.

Re: Few more questions from a beginner

2008-01-02 Thread Tiago Morin
> * Put some naturals in parentheses (e.g., measures 8 and 9) Section 6.1.3 in the manual ( c? will put accidental in parentheses) > * Move rests to correct height. Many of the rests aren't appearing at > the same height as their voices. (e.g., measures 3 and 7) Section 6.1.9 (part 2) in the manu

Re: Lne width set in time rather than mm or cm?

2008-01-02 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Clifford, Like to say [1 quarter-notes per cm] or something like that? I think the only way to do that would be to set the music, and then manually \break the lines at whatever time-duration you want. Hope this helps! Kieren. ___ lilypond-us

Lne width set in time rather than mm or cm?

2008-01-02 Thread Clifford Racz
I am transcribing music for some music books and I am generating EPS files using lilypond-book. I read the manual and looked at the newsgroup, seeing that line widths are set using a block that defines the paper width: \paper{ line-width=120\mm } I wondered if there was a way to set the lin

Re: combining little complete pieces in one "book"?

2008-01-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Francisco Vila wrote: 2008/1/2, Ole Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I overlooked that the \header(s) have to be inside the \score blocks in the files (and than work only with piece = " " and opus = " ") as described in the manual (mea culpa...) So what would be the proper way to achieve

Few more questions from a beginner

2008-01-02 Thread J. Cohen
I've managed to get this far on Lachrimae from the help that people on the list have provided so far: http://www.guitarmiami.com/tank/lachrimae.ly http://www.guitarmiami.com/tank/lachrimae.pdf I haven't been able to figure out a few things: * Put some naturals in parentheses (e.g., measures 8 and

Re: files

2008-01-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Paul Scott wrote: I'll check more in a few minutes but I never create a Staff of any kind inside a \relative{ ... }. Try reversing the \relative and \new Staff for each hand. That shouldn't be an issue, see the following example: \version "2.10.0" \relative c'' << \new Staff {c d e f } \ne

Re: combining little complete pieces in one "book"?

2008-01-02 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/1/2, Ole Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I overlooked that the \header(s) have to be inside the \score blocks > in the files (and than work only with > piece = " " and opus = " ") as described in the manual (mea culpa...) So what would be the proper way to achieve little pieces with different

Re: Manual Staff switching

2008-01-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
David Fedoruk wrote: one other problem with this piece is that when I render this code, I have an extra treble clef above the two lines of staff I need. What is the problem with the template I'm using? ## Code \version "2.11.36 " ... \score { \

Re: combining little complete pieces in one "book"?

2008-01-02 Thread Ole Schmidt
I overlooked that the \header(s) have to be inside the \score blocks in the files (and than work only with piece = " " and opus = " ") as described in the manual (mea culpa...) ole Am 02.01.2008 um 16:11 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Ole, only show the header from the second file. The las

Re: remove Time_signature_engraver only partially

2008-01-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Kieren MacMillan wrote: However, you can always turn the time signature engraver OFF for a few bars \override TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f and then \override TimeSignature #'stencil = ##t This won't work, as far as I know! (or \revert TimeSignature #'stencil) Which is t

Re: combining little complete pieces in one "book"?

2008-01-02 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Ole, only show the header from the second file. The last included bit of code will override any previous includes (or explicit entries). Or is there only one \header whatsoever? There's only one title, subtitle, etc. However, they may be included in separate \header blocks, even sc

Re: combining little complete pieces in one "book"?

2008-01-02 Thread Ole Schmidt
oops, I just posted again about this problem it works perfect as you described it... I had a vague memory that the \book command exists and read the manual again only to see how to use the command and not if I have to use it to achive my goal... What is still unclear to me- There are \head

Re: Leaving: "I can't help"

2008-01-02 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Graham, Firstly, I wanted to add my voice to the chorus of "Thanks!" for all the work you've done -- Lilypond will miss you. =) But secondly, I wanted to comment on the following: I'm spend all my time writing music, so I don't have time!

Re: getting line feeds and page feeds in \markup between scores

2008-01-02 Thread Ole Schmidt
When I try: \book { \markup { blah blah } \include "Benedictus.ly" } I get: Benedictus.ly:13.0: Fehler: syntax error, unexpected STRING staffClarinet = \new Staff my Benedictus.ly file looks like this: staffClarinet = \new Staff { blablabla(music) } staffTrumpet = \new Staff

Re: combining little complete pieces in one "book"?

2008-01-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
As long as you only want a single output PDF file, there's no need for a \book command. Just make a .ly file which looks like: \include "file1.ly" \include "file2.ly" % ... Is there still information in the manual that gives you the impression that you need \book in these circumstances? I recal

Re: getting line feeds and page feeds in \markup between scores

2008-01-02 Thread Jay Ricketts
I'm still on 2.10. But this could be a reason to upgrade!!! Thanks, Daf On Jan 1, 2008 6:43 AM, Nicolas Sceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Le 1 janv. 08 à 00:44, Jay Ricketts a écrit : > > > Hi, > > > > I'm using \Book to put a hymnal together, and have hit a total snag > > trying to get som

Re: text encoding compatibility

2008-01-02 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> LilyPond fully supports UTF-8. Just make sure your editor supports > it and it is enabled. ... and make sure that you have the corresponding CJK fonts installed. However, you might still suffer under the font problems with current LilyPond releases on the Windows platform... Werner __