Re: Miscellaneous part questions: Margins and ostinati

2008/7/3 Nick Baskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Where does the "\override Score.PaperColumn #'keep-inside-line = ##t" line go? Either: - At the beginning of one of your voices - or inside \score, between your topmost << >> - or (which I use) in the \layout block, in a \context block: \layout { \con

Close-together chords with dotted durations

Basically, my problem is this - I want to typeset this chord: 4. And this is what I get: http://www.nabble.com/file/p18251902/1.jpg Because the notes of the chord are so close together and there are so many of them, the dots all queue up. Surely there must be a way to eliminate all the extra

Re: Lilypond working on Mac OS X 10.5, thanks

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Carl D. Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This kind of goes against the LilyPond philosophy of one GUB for all > possible platforms, so I'm not sure how it might be implemented in the > standard LilyPond website/distribution. Perhaps Han-Wen could chime in > her

Re: Chord Charts - rhythm and chords

On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Carl Sorensen wrote: cpgray library.uwaterloo.ca> writes: I'm trying out LilyPond to see if there is a way to do chord charts in the fashion illustrated in the wikipedia article on "Chord Charts". The image there illustrates what I'm looking for: http://en.wikipedia.org/w

Miscellaneous part questions: Margins and ostinati

Where does the "\override Score.PaperColumn #'keep-inside-line = ##t" line go? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Error message using 2.11.50-1

Hi everyone, I just installed the latest build and when I ran the file I'm working on, it came back with this error, which I think has to do with a macro included near the top of the document. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop$ tarantella running tarantella file now... GNU LilyPond 2.11.50 Process

Re: Chord Charts - rhythm and chords

cpgray library.uwaterloo.ca> writes: > > > Warning: LilyPond Newbie > > I'm trying out LilyPond to see if there is a way to do chord charts in the > fashion illustrated in the wikipedia article on "Chord Charts". The image > there illustrates what I'm looking for: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wi

Re: making lyrics italic

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 11:39:25PM +0200, James E. Bailey wrote: > I'm trying to make lyrics italicised, I can see that the text-interface > is a part of the lyrictext, I just don't know how to access teh text > markup commands so I can italic. Can anyone help? \override LyricText #'font-shape

Re: Lilypond working on Mac OS X 10.5, thanks

On 7/2/08 3:04 PM, "James E. Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Am 02.07.2008 um 22:50 schrieb Carl D. Sorensen: > > > It's the first I've heard of such a thing, and it might persuade me to > go back to using TeXShop for editing instead of nano. I use the > distributed PPC binary, so I ki

making lyrics italic

I'm trying to make lyrics italicised, I can see that the text- interface is a part of the lyrictext, I just don't know how to access teh text markup commands so I can italic. Can anyone help? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http

Re: Lilypond working on Mac OS X 10.5, thanks

Am 02.07.2008 um 22:50 schrieb Carl D. Sorensen: On 7/2/08 2:41 PM, "Eric Knapp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It works! I have a modified applescript that will open the hyperlink into TextMate. The TextMate command line utility only has the ability to go to a specified line in the file but t

Re: Lilypond working on Mac OS X 10.5, thanks

On 7/2/08 2:41 PM, "Eric Knapp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It works! I have a modified applescript that will open the hyperlink > into TextMate. The TextMate command line utility only has the ability > to go to a specified line in the file but that's OK with me. Would > there be a place where

Re: Lilypond working on Mac OS X 10.5, thanks

Christopher Suckling googlemail.com> writes: > So... > > Trash the PPC application then install the two Platypus wrapped > scripts I've dumped here: > > http://claviclaws.net/LilyPond/LPHelper.zip > This looks really interesting, but I'm enough of a newbie to MacOS that it's hard for me to fo

imslp back up

It seems the International Music Score Library Project with legal support from the free as in beer community has risen from the ashes. Patrick ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu

Duration dots and Bar lines on custom Staves.

Hello All, I'm using Staff contexts with the "line-positions" property modified to fit my capricious needs. In doing so I'm running into 2 problems (please see attached png): 1. When I set lines to odd numbers, the duration dots of the note heads fall *on* the staff lines rather than within the s

Re: Lilypond working on Mac OS X 10.5, thanks

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:44:08PM -0500, Eric Knapp wrote: > > Next I'm trying to get Point and Click to open the editor of my > choice. I'm using Apple's Preview application to see the PDF documents > with the embedded hyperlinks. I want to open TextMate which has a > command line utility. So f

Lilypond working on Mac OS X 10.5, thanks

Hi, all. I used the excellent instructions from Nicolas Sceaux and was successful in building lilypond 2.11.50 on my new macbook pro. I'm only using it on the command line or with command line utilities and I'm really appreciating the speed. Many thanks to Nicolas and this list for steering me in

Chord Charts - rhythm and chords

Warning: LilyPond Newbie I'm trying out LilyPond to see if there is a way to do chord charts in the fashion illustrated in the wikipedia article on "Chord Charts". The image there illustrates what I'm looking for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Chord_chart.jpg In other words, music staff wi

Re: Shifting headers (title, composer, opus, etc.) vertically upward

Hi Drew, The exception, at the moment, is that I don't know how to change the (vertical) position of pieces of the \header block - I want to move the title, composer, poet, etc. text bits vertically upward on the first page so that more systems of music will fit on the page. 1. You can ch

Shifting headers (title, composer, opus, etc.) vertically upward

Hi all, I've recently started using LilyPond and generally love it - picking up tweaks was a little difficult at first but I'm now able to move around most objects just fine. The exception, at the moment, is that I don't know how to change the (vertical) position of pieces of the \header block -

suggestion about web page examples and essay

Hi all, following a recent discussion on the Reaper mailing list (in which I had to defend Lilypond from a quite heavy critic due to a misunderstanding of what Lily is and what Lily can do, but that's fine and absolutely not the point of this email), I checked the example page of the Lily's website

Re: not-so-ancient flags

on 2008-06-28 at 14:53 Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: >In your original images, the slant is somewhere betwen 40 and 45 >degrees... But I agree, that large slant does not look good. I prefer >something like 30 degrees. >About the length: I also agree that they look too short. >I'll try to come up wit

Re: notation and tablature (+bend, slide etc.)

I'd like to second rosea's sentiment about tablature. I'm just learning LilyPond and would like to help the programmers improve LilyPond's support for fretted instrument tablature, including support for bends, slides, ligado and the various other instrument specific notations. I've been a profess

Re: \repeat with upbeat (partial) and alternatives

2008/7/1 Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think "OK" is just a more polite way of closing the window than > clicking on the "close window" button; it doesn't save anything. As far as I know, "save" saves without closing the window, while "OK" saves *and* closes the window. Cheers, Valentin