Re: remove empty staves

2008-05-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 23 May 2008 23:44:18 +0200 Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Freitag, 23. Mai 2008 schrieb Valentin Villenave: > > Mmmh... I have checked the "standalone" box instead, to make it more > > explicit. > > Okay, that works, as well. One take about the "standalone" box > thou

Re: Conditional footers, dependent on a page mark?

2008-05-23 Thread Carl Sorensen
Reinhold Kainhofer kainhofer.com> writes: > > PS2: In case you are interested what all my questions are about lately and > what I really did with all the great answers and your help, I put the first > seven pages of my latest edition on our web server: > http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/~reinhold/t

Conditional footers, dependent on a page mark?

2008-05-23 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
In printed scores, there are typically a few pages of introduction and then on the first real score page, the footer displays the copyright notice. I'm trying to implement this in lilypond, too, using the \on-the-fly approach, together with the concepts taken from Nicolas' fancy-headers.ily pack

Re: remove empty staves

2008-05-23 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 23. Mai 2008 schrieb Valentin Villenave: > 2008/5/23 Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Unfortunately, this snippet talks about the first line of the second > > staff, which is not shown in the image (because that's the second scor

Re: remove empty staves

2008-05-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/23 Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Unfortunately, this snippet talks about the first line of the second staff, > which is not shown in the image (because that's the second score in the > snippet)... Maybe it would be a good idea to wrap a <<...>> around the two > staff groups? The

Re: remove empty staves

2008-05-23 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 23. Mai 2008 schrieb Valentin Villenave: > 2008/5/23 Daniel Boronka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am using > > \RemoveEmptyStaffContext > > to remove empty staves. This works for all lines except the first line, > > Have a look at > http://ls

Re: remove empty staves

2008-05-23 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 23. Mai 2008 schrieb Daniel Boronka: > I am using > \RemoveEmptyStaffContext > to remove empty staves. This works for all lines except the first line, > where it shows three lines of empty bars (vocal canonic music). How can I > get this f

Re: remove empty staves

2008-05-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/23 Daniel Boronka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am using > \RemoveEmptyStaffContext > to remove empty staves. This works for all lines except the first line, Have a look at http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=436 for example. Cheers, Valentin ___

Re: grace notes in TimeSig

2008-05-23 Thread Trevor Daniels
Stefan Thomas wrote Friday, May 23, 2008 9:04 PM Hmm, it's an ugly trick, but it works! Not really. You have to ensure the timing of ordinary notes is correctly maintained in sync in simultaneous contexts, and you have to do the same for grace notes (although you can get away without doing so

remove empty staves

2008-05-23 Thread Daniel Boronka
Hi all, I am using \RemoveEmptyStaffContext to remove empty staves. This works for all lines except the first line, where it shows three lines of empty bars (vocal canonic music). How can I get this first line to also remove empty staves. I am using using Lilypond version 2.11.37. Danie

Re: grace notes in TimeSig

2008-05-23 Thread Stefan Thomas
Hmm, it's an ugly trick, but it works! Shouldn't it added to the collection of snippets? 2008/5/23 Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Stefan > > The mechanism used for timing means you have to include matching dummy > grace notes in all parallel contexts. If you make the following change I >

defining custom note heads

2008-05-23 Thread Brian Kidd
is there a way to define or import custom note heads? i'm interested in using specific symbols to indicate rhythmic notation in hand drumming. a picture of the symbols that i'd like to use for note heads is attached. sadly this image wasn't created in lilypond, but i figure it ought to be p

Re: OS X, lyqi and rumor?

2008-05-23 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 23 mai 08 à 15:36, Christopher Suckling a écrit : On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:29:43PM +0200, Nicolas Sceaux wrote: Le 21 mai 08 à 10:44, Christopher Suckling a écrit : In The LilyPond Report #4 , there is a video in which Nicolas Sceau

Re: OS X, lyqi and rumor?

2008-05-23 Thread Christopher Suckling
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:29:43PM +0200, Nicolas Sceaux wrote: > > Le 21 mai 08 à 10:44, Christopher Suckling a écrit : > >> In The LilyPond Report #4 >> , there is a >> video in which Nicolas Sceaux demonstrates his lyqi quick insert mode >>

Re: smart transpose snippet from the LSR is not working with 2.11.43

2008-05-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
As you probably know, the LSR site runs version 2.10.something. However, most (!?) LSR snippets have been updated for version 2.11 and are included in the documentation for 2.11. If you look at the corresponding snippet at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Pitches#Pitches

smart transpose snippet from the LSR is not working with 2.11.43

2008-05-23 Thread Ole Schmidt
I attach the snippet below, it is not working under 2.11.43 if someone can confirm it or take a look in the code, thanks ole #(define (naturalise-pitch p) (let* ((o (ly:pitch-octave p)) (a (ly:pitch-alteration p))

Re: "header", "layout" and "paper" blocks as variables...

2008-05-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/23 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't think you remember correctly: Indeed! It even works with mylayout = \layout { \context{ \Voice \remove "Stem_engraver" } } Thanks for making this point; a whole new world of possibilities has just appeared to me... Cheers, Valentin ___

Re: Doc addition: TextSpanner vs. crescendoSpanner

2008-05-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/23 John Mandereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Valentin, > > I'm not the only guy who tries to make a crescendo spanner with a > TextSpanner, whereas setting crescendoSpanner (and optionally > crescendoText) is often more suitable, as shown in > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2

Re: "header", "layout" and "paper" blocks as variables...

2008-05-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Valentin Villenave wrote: 2008/5/23 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: As far as I can see in the source code, there is no support to assign a \header block to a variable. However, for \paper and \layout it should work fine. If I remember correctly, it only works for simple definiti

Doc addition: TextSpanner vs. crescendoSpanner

2008-05-23 Thread John Mandereau
Hi Valentin, I'm not the only guy who tries to make a crescendo spanner with a TextSpanner, whereas setting crescendoSpanner (and optionally crescendoText) is often more suitable, as shown in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-03/msg00352.html What about adding a sentence about

Re: "header", "layout" and "paper" blocks as variables...

2008-05-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/23 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As far as I can see in the source code, there is no support to assign a > \header block to a variable. > However, for \paper and \layout it should work fine. If I remember correctly, it only works for simple definition (e.g. not \context \consists st

Re: Whole bar rests - in the wrong place

2008-05-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/23 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If you just want the full measure rests to stay on the middle line but the > directions of stems, > slurs, ... to always be upwards in your top voice, you can also revert only > the specific setting > related to the full measure rests, see > http://l

Re: "header", "layout" and "paper" blocks as variables...

2008-05-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
As far as I can see in the source code, there is no support to assign a \header block to a variable. However, for \paper and \layout it should work fine. However, when you use the variables, you have to include them in a corresponding \paper or \layout block. Example: % Define default paper an

Re: "header", "layout" and "paper" blocks as variables...

2008-05-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/23 padovani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > is there a way to put the header, layout and block values as variables? I have encountered the same problem, and couldn't find any workaround. This is a feature I'd be very much interested in having. Cheers, Valentin ___

Re: Whole bar rests - in the wrong place

2008-05-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you have a monophonic section in the middle of an otherwise polyphonic piece, you can use the \oneVoice command to get the normal settings for stem directions and rest positions and then \voiceOne when you to back to being the top voice in polyphony. Please read section "Explicitly instantiat

Re: Whole bar rests - in the wrong place

2008-05-23 Thread George_
Yeah, it's part of the top voice. So is there a way to move it back to its original place? Because there it's the only thing that should show up on the staff. Thanks George Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote: > > I would guess that you are in the middle of some polyphonic section, > perhaps you used the

Re: Whole bar rests - in the wrong place

2008-05-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I would guess that you are in the middle of some polyphonic section, perhaps you used the <<{...} \\ {...} >> construct? Or maybe you inserted a \voiceOne somewhere? /Mats George_ wrote: Hi all I was typesetting some stuff and I put in a whole bar rest: %% R2.^\fermataMarkup | %% Ins

Manual repeats - volta ending prematurely?

2008-05-23 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
I'm transcribing an R. B. Hall march, "The Sentinel". The intro repeats, then the first strain repeats, skips the third ending, plays the second strain, repeats, dal segnos, and ends at the third ending. I didn't see how to do it with repeat volta/alternative, so I tried doing it manually. However