Re: Algorithm to calculate tuplets?

2008-06-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Myron Marston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Isn't there a midi-to-lily converter? I figure that must have an algorithm like this... Yes, midi2ly does include such an algorithm and this is one of the main reasons that midi2ly isn't as useful as it otherwise might be. Of course, an added compli

Re: git question

2008-06-03 Thread Anthony Boyd
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 12:49 +0800, hhpmusic wrote: > Hi, > I have no time to learn GIT. I saw Reinhold's Orchestrallily has a dev > version, but in git access method. I quickly searched the manual, enter $ git > clone ssh://../orchestrallily.git. The ssh access is likely for developers ma

Re: LilyKDE 0.6.0 beta has been released

2008-06-03 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
hello, op dinsdag 3 juni 2008, schreef je: > Wow, that is great.  Does any of this stuff run on OSX? I think yes, if you install the relevant KDE parts via Fink (http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/) or MacPorts (http://www.macports.org/). best regards, Wilbert Berendsen -- LilyKDE, LilyPond for K

git question

2008-06-03 Thread hhpmusic
Hi, I have no time to learn GIT. I saw Reinhold's Orchestrallily has a dev version, but in git access method. I quickly searched the manual, enter $ git clone ssh://../orchestrallily.git. The first time I ran it, it asked me for password. The second time, It said the dir is already existin

Re: Chords with autochange

2008-06-03 Thread George_
Hi, I just stumbled upon this since I have a similar problem. A temporary solution could be to add another voice for below and one for above, but that is obviously quite messy in the long run. Has this been fixed in any of the 2.11 releases? Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote: > > That's not supported in L

Re: Algorithm to calculate tuplets?

2008-06-03 Thread Myron Marston
Thanks Trevor, that's really useful. I can definitely see that there's no single right way to go about this conversion. Your suggestion to generate the exact rhythmic notation during the composition process is a good one, especially if the main output of my application was sheet music. However,

Re: piano centered dynamics

2008-06-03 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Well, since no one is going to answer this I guess I'll answer it myself: RTFM (the Learning Manual, that is) :D (I figured it out...) Jon Jonathan Kulp wrote: Thanks Graham. I went and got this template and applied it to a piano piece of mine. The centering of dynamics is lovely, but I als

Re: rhythm template function

2008-06-03 Thread Stefan Thomas
Great, it works perfectly! 2008/6/3 Gilles THIBAULT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Dear Gilles, > thanks for Your tipp! But I tried it with an own example, that does not > work, I don't know why: > \include "rhythmen.ly" > > sax = #(define-music-function (parser location musicA musicB musicC) >

Re: contribute paper.scm

2008-06-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/31 hhpmusic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > I saw some people discussing what paper size to use one or two days > before. I'm also suffered from the paper size, and don't know how to handle > them when writing oversized large orchestral scores like Mahler and > Schoenberg did. Thank someone,

Re: rhythm template function

2008-06-03 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
Dear Gilles, thanks for Your tipp! But I tried it with an own example, that does not work, I don't know why: \include "rhythmen.ly" sax = #(define-music-function (parser location musicA musicB musicC) (ly:music? ly:music? ly:music?) #{ \set tupletSpannerDuratio

Re: piano chamber music score question

2008-06-03 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Dan, Hi, I have assembled the piano score part for a violin, cello, piano trio arrangement, and I was wondering if there is a way to shrink the violin and cello staffs on the score so that they aren't as big as the piano part (to increase visibility and overall space). thanks! See Ex

piano chamber music score question

2008-06-03 Thread Dan P .
Hi, I have assembled the piano score part for a violin, cello, piano trio arrangement, and I was wondering if there is a way to shrink the violin and cello staffs on the score so that they aren't as big as the piano part (to increase visibility and overall space). thanks! Dan Pinkham __

Re: Context creation

2008-06-03 Thread Jesse Engle
Coffer, Thanks for the good example, though are there any other uses for reusing existing contexts other than setting lyrics? - Jesse On 6/3/08, coffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Kieren MacMillan wrote: >> >> Hi Jesse, >> >>> If \context allegedly allows one to add notes to an existing con

Re: Algorithm to calculate tuplets?

2008-06-03 Thread Trevor Bača
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Myron Marston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working on an application that generates music. I'd like to use > Lilypond to > generate my scores, but I'm having difficulty figuring out the best way to > produce the proper lilypond notation for the durations of th

Re: defining custom note heads

2008-06-03 Thread v!ctor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello Valentin, > Thanks Victor (nice to see you again :-) you too! > > I have added your example to the LSR: > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=475 excellent! > > Your workaround with the tuplets (on the other thread) is really nice, > feel free to add it to the LSR if you want (I'd have

Re: defining custom note heads

2008-06-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/3 v!ictor [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > There are two things you need to do to create arbitrary noteheads from > within lilypond: Thanks Victor (nice to see you again :-) I have added your example to the LSR: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=475 Your workaround with the tup

Re: Context creation

2008-06-03 Thread coffer
Kieren MacMillan wrote: > > Hi Jesse, > >> If \context allegedly allows one to add notes to an existing context, >> why does the following example not do so? >> >> \version "2.10.33" >> >> \new Staff = "mycontext" \relative c' { c4 d e f g2. } >> >> \context Staff = "mycontext" \relative c' { g

Re: defining custom note heads

2008-06-03 Thread v!ictor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello Brian, There are two things you need to do to create arbitrary noteheads from within lilypond: 1. change the NoteHead stencil to the text interface: \once \override NoteHead #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print 2. define the text attribute of the NoteHead. you can put any markup command yo

Re: TupletNumber with tuplet-number::calc-fraction-text and \note

2008-06-03 Thread v!ictor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hello Jose, I believe this is what you want. It's a bit of a hack because you need to specify the tuplet ratio twice, in the \times command and in the actual markup. You could define your own function that takes two numbers (n and d) and wraps both the \times n/d and the TupletNumber #'text overri

Algorithm to calculate tuplets?

2008-06-03 Thread Myron Marston
I'm working on an application that generates music. I'd like to use Lilypond to generate my scores, but I'm having difficulty figuring out the best way to produce the proper lilypond notation for the durations of the notes. Internally, all of my rhythmic durations are represented as fractions (i.

Re: Context creation

2008-06-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I'm not sure that the previous followups to your email has clarified this issue completely. The reason that your example does not do what you expected is that it is equivalent to \version "2.10.33" \score{ \new Staff = "mycontext" \relative c' { c4 d e f g2. } } \score{ \context Staff = "mycon

LilyKDE 0.6.0 beta has been released

2008-06-03 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Hi all, LilyKDE 0.6.0beta has been released. This is a beta release, featuring a powerful new score wizard (ctrl+shift+n). In three tabs, it allows you to setup titles and headers, parts, and other score settings like key and time signature. For some instruments, individual parts can be configu

Re: Context creation

2008-06-03 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 10:19:28 +0100 "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... and if you add an explicit \score you will need an extra set of > braces - one set to delimit the single compound music expression > which is required by the score block, and one set to make the > two statements co

Re: rhythm template function

2008-06-03 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Gilles, thanks for Your tipp! But I tried it with an own example, that does not work, I don't know why: \include "rhythmen.ly" sax = #(define-music-function (parser location musicA musicB musicC) (ly:music? ly:music? ly:music?) #{ \set tupletSpannerDuration = #(ly:make-mom

Re: Context creation

2008-06-03 Thread Trevor Daniels
Kieren MacMillan wrote Hi Jesse, If \context allegedly allows one to add notes to an existing context, why does the following example not do so? \version "2.10.33" \new Staff = "mycontext" \relative c' { c4 d e f g2. } \context Staff = "mycontext" \relative c' { g'4 g f e d c1 } Because

Re: Clef change and rest colliding

2008-06-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/3 Benedict Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have a clef change at the end of a line colliding with an 8th rest right > before it. If there's a collision, it's a bug. Can you try to produce a minimal example (i.e. remove everything in your code that doesn't prevent the collision from happeni