Re: suggestion about web page examples and essay

2008-07-07 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 18:55:10 +0200 "Libero Mureddu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course I'm not just trowing a stone here and hiding my hand here > (italian motto... :-), that means that I'm ready to take the time and > effort to work on the points I suggested (clearly with the help of > others)

Re: accidentals collide with time signature (was Re: position of accidentals)

2008-07-07 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op maandag 7 juli 2008, schreef Marc Mouries: > I checked LilyKDE, LilyPond for KDE: http://lilykde.googlecode.com/ and > it looks great. I wish something like this existed for Mac. It should be possible to run LilyKDE on Mac (using KDE from fink or macports), but Rumor will probably not work. b

Re: Barline spanner

2008-07-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jesse, How can I do this? Search the LSR for "barline": there are lots of examples, including at least one which is exactly what you need. Hope this helps, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mai

Barline spanner

2008-07-07 Thread Jesse Engle
Hi everyone, I'm trying to duplicate a renaissance Palestrina-type score from a book called "The Craft of Modal Counterpoint" by Thomas Benjamin. I want to remove the barlines from the height of the staff but keep the barline spanners that span the space between each staff in a score. How can I do

Ties, and Clef change - disembodied tie ends

2008-07-07 Thread George_
Hi guys, http://www.nabble.com/file/p18330018/1.jpg Is there a way to get the tie to connect with the notes, when the staff has changed clef in the tie? Thanks George -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Ties%2C-and-Clef-change---disembodied-tie-ends-tp18330018p18330018.ht

Space between systems in lilypond-book

2008-07-07 Thread Hugo Ribeiro
Dear all, When I compile my lytex file with a piano music example, it seems that LaTex shrinks the space between systems, so the output is not ok. The systems looks too tight. When I compile only the music example, the distance between the system are ok. Note that I am talking about the distanc

Re: different rhythmic units for tuplet's numerator and denominator

2008-07-07 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 08.07.2008 um 00:04 schrieb Uri Sala: Dear James, Thanks but, again, this is misleading, since the numbers in the bracket would be 6:5 but there would be 3 notes inside the tuplet. I don't have 6 attacks but 3. This is the kind of cheating I do in Sibelius, and that I would like to avo

Re: different rhythmic units for tuplet's numerator and denominator

2008-07-07 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 08.07.2008 um 00:04 schrieb Uri Sala: Dear James, Thanks but, again, this is misleading, since the numbers in the bracket would be 6:5 but there would be 3 notes inside the tuplet. I don't have 6 attacks but 3. This is the kind of cheating I do in Sibelius, and that I would like to avo

Re: different rhythmic units for tuplet's numerator and denominator

2008-07-07 Thread Uri Sala
Dear Kieren, Thanks for the crash course in tweaking. As far as I understand, one has to "manually" output the desired text in the bracket. This seems incredibly laborious, especially for those that, as me, only write tuplets, and with several nesting levels. Is is possible to turn tupletE

end of a TextSpanner

2008-07-07 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear lilypondusers, how can I achieve the end of the TextSpanner together with the last shorter-rest in the below quoted example: %% begin %%% \version "2.11.49" pedal = { \once \override TextSpanner #'outside-staff-priority = #500 \textSpannerDown \once \override TextSpanner #'bound

Re: different rhythmic units for tuplet's numerator and denominator

2008-07-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Uri, So, the only solution is to indicate in the bracket 3$:5& (where $=eight note sign and &=sixteen note sign). I am very new to lilypond, and know no scheme. Is what I am asking possible? Absolutely -- the following example, while not perfect, should give you the hints you need.

help with scheme and midi output

2008-07-07 Thread Bainos
Hi all! I'm writing a little collection of drum grooves. For each groove I would like to have a midi file. Since now I used the following method: [code] I = \drummode { \override Beam #'positions = #'(5 . 5) \repeat volta 2 { tomfh16 hh hh sn hh sn sn hh bd8 hh16

Re: different rhythmic units for tuplet's numerator and denominator

2008-07-07 Thread Uri Sala
Dear James, Thanks but, again, this is misleading, since the numbers in the bracket would be 6:5 but there would be 3 notes inside the tuplet. I don't have 6 attacks but 3. This is the kind of cheating I do in Sibelius, and that I would like to avoid if possible. Sorry to be so demanding,

Re: different rhythmic units for tuplet's numerator and denominator

2008-07-07 Thread Uri Sala
Dear Kieren, thanks for your answer. I thought about that, but the problem is that, again, most performers will assume that the values X:Y refer to same rhythmic values, and will hesitate about the total duration. The need is there to explicitly (graphically, with a rhythmic unit) show what

Re: different rhythmic units for tuplet's numerator and denominator

2008-07-07 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 07.07.2008 um 22:14 schrieb Uri Sala: It is a bit more convoluted than that. I will try to make myself clearer: I want to write 3 against 5. In this case, since 3 is smaller than 5, it has to use a rhythmic unit twice longer than the unit associated with 5. Let's be over-explicit and ca

Re: LSR search is broken (was: \repeat with upbeat )

2008-07-07 Thread Eluze Weehaeli
Thanks, nice to hear that the system is fine - any chance to get an automatic update in a regular interval?! Even if we can't get real time we would very much appreciate to know where we are and not to waste our time looking for phantoms... The snippet repository is very valuable but being so b

Re: different rhythmic units for tuplet's numerator and denominator

2008-07-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Uri, I want to write 3 against 5. [...] I will argue against most people and most notation manuals and most modern scores that the only correct way to notate this is 3 eight- notes I often feel the same way -- depending on the situation, I often want (e.g.) 2 half notes as a "tuplet" in

lilypond-book and spaces in file name

2008-07-07 Thread Renaud Flavigny
Hi I met an issue with lilypond-book 2.11.49 with Windows XP SP2 When I try to compile the lytex file including some \lilypondfile tag, I got the following messages Microsoft Windows XP [version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. D:\renaud\Ma musique\CahierDeChants>lilypond-bo

Re: defining custom note heads

2008-07-07 Thread Eric Knapp
Thank you, Neil. That is a very good point and I'm now switching to standard \markup usage. An thanks to everyone who chimed in here. I have been trying to develop a way to notate for my instrument, the Chapman Stick, for a long time. I really made a big leap today. -Eric On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 3

Re: different rhythmic units for tuplet's numerator and denominator

2008-07-07 Thread Uri Sala
It is a bit more convoluted than that. I will try to make myself clearer: I want to write 3 against 5. In this case, since 3 is smaller than 5, it has to use a rhythmic unit twice longer than the unit associated with 5. Let's be over-explicit and call this "3 equally spaced attacks within the durat

Re: defining custom note heads

2008-07-07 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Eric, 2008/7/7 Eric Knapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have one more piece of the puzzle to solve. How do you translate > this markup command into scheme? > > \draw-line #'(4 . 4) #:draw-line '(4 . 4) or #:draw-line (cons 4 4) > Some of the markup commands call for pairs of numbers. I can't find

Re: defining custom note heads

2008-07-07 Thread Eric Knapp
I have one more piece of the puzzle to solve. How do you translate this markup command into scheme? \draw-line #'(4 . 4) Some of the markup commands call for pairs of numbers. I can't find any docs for how the pairs are coded in scheme. Thanks, -Eric On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Eric Knap

Re: slash

2008-07-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I think I have seen some clever solution on the mailing list, that redefined the function that draws the stem, in order to automatically get it correctly placed. I don't remember if it was a slash or a cross or something else that was placed on the stem, though. Try to search the archives and perh

Re: defining custom note heads

2008-07-07 Thread Eric Knapp
Thanks, Victor! I see the correct syntax now and I have it working. This is really great, I've been trying to do this for a long time. -Eric On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:23 PM, V!ctor Adán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Eric, > > here are a few more examples. > The first (headCircle) is the one

Re: defining custom note heads

2008-07-07 Thread V!ctor Adán
Hello Eric, here are a few more examples. The first (headCircle) is the one I had given before. It just calls musicgryph inside a markup. The second (headTriW) just draws a triangle. Notice how you can set the size with the fontsize command. The third (headXinD) combines (with the combine directi

Re: different rhythmic units for tuplet's numerator and denominator

2008-07-07 Thread Peter Johnson
urisala wrote: > > Hi, > The only way one can write a tuplet such as "3 notes in the duration of 7 > 16ths " in a consistent and correct way with a general law of tuplet > notation is to assign the rhythmic value of a quarter note to the 3 notes, > so that the total value is of 12 16ths (the fir

Re: I don't know if anyone else cares, but

2008-07-07 Thread Joe Neeman
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Offtopic, but I'm always wondering, how this can happen. > What changed in the last 10 years? The C++ specification or the Intel > architecture? > Could you explain? I suspect it's just the ability of mod

Re: defining custom note heads

2008-07-07 Thread James E. Bailey
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:09 PM, James E. Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:20 AM, v!ictor [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Brian, There are two things you need to do to create arbitrary noteheads from within lilypond: 1. change the NoteH

Re: defining custom note heads

2008-07-07 Thread Eric Knapp
I have it working when you define glyphs, like this: headCircle = {\once \override NoteHead #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \once \override NoteHead #'text = #(markup #:musicglyph "scripts.flageolet" ) } What I can't get to work is what Victor mentioned but didn't give and e

Re: defining custom note heads

2008-07-07 Thread James E. Bailey
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:20 AM, v!ictor [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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-

Re: different rhythmic units for tuplet's numerator and denominator

2008-07-07 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 7. Juli 2008 schrieb Uri Sala: > The only way one can write a tuplet such as "3 notes in the duration of 7 > 16ths " in a consistent and correct way with a general law of tuplet > notation is to assign the rhythmic value of a quarter note to

different rhythmic units for tuplet's numerator and denominator

2008-07-07 Thread Uri Sala
Hi, The only way one can write a tuplet such as "3 notes in the duration of 7 16ths " in a consistent and correct way with a general law of tuplet notation is to assign the rhythmic value of a quarter note to the 3 notes, so that the total value is of 12 16ths (the first rule of a correct treatment

Re: defining custom note heads

2008-07-07 Thread Eric Knapp
Hello, I'm trying to get the second option below to work. This is one where you use markup commands to create the notehead. I can't get the syntax right, could you also provide an example of that? Thanks, -Eric On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:20 AM, v!ictor [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Some Midi Output Problems

2008-07-07 Thread grick
Hi people, first of all, I would like to thank lilypond developers for putting in so much time and effort into this beautiful software. All your hard work is greatly appreciated. And now, i explain my problems. I'm using lilypond-2.10.33 on a Ubuntu 8.04 (with no GUI interface but gvim, xpdf

lilypond-book and space in filename

2008-07-07 Thread Renaud Flavigny
Hi I met an issue with lilypond-book 2.11.49 with Windows XP SP2 When I try to compile the lytex file including some \lilypondfile tag, I got the following messages Microsoft Windows XP [version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. D:\renaud\Ma musique\CahierDeChants>lilypond-bo

Re: slash

2008-07-07 Thread luis jure
on 2008-07-07 at 12:30 Stefan Thomas wrote: >do You need the slash for a tremolo? If this is the case, postscript >is much to complicated. You should have a look in the user guide, the >chapter concerning repeats. danke, stefan, but what i need is different from the tremolo slash. it's thinner,

Re: I don't know if anyone else cares, but

2008-07-07 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Offtopic, but I'm always wondering, how this can happen. What changed in the last 10 years? The C++ specification or the Intel architecture? Could you explain? Bert Patrick Horgan wrote: I've been working with one of the guile developers, because the development (git) version of guile, when u

accidentals collide with time signature (was Re: position of accidentals)

2008-07-07 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op maandag 7 juli 2008, schreef Stefan Thomas: > Dear Lilypond users, > in the below quoted example, the positions of the accidentals are not > convincing, in my opinion. Is there a possibilitie to change this > generally? I rewrote your example just to make it more readable (it's a good habit to

Re: I don't know if anyone else cares, but

2008-07-07 Thread John Mandereau
Le samedi 05 juillet 2008 à 13:15 -0700, Patrick Horgan a écrit : > I've been working with one of the guile developers, > because the development (git) version of guile, when > used with gcc 4.3 or newer wouldn't build lilypond > (or a lot of other stuff). Yesterday we figured it out > and now you

position of accidentals

2008-07-07 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Lilypond users, in the below quoted example, the positions of the accidentals are not convincing, in my opinion. Is there a possibilitie to change this generally? %% begin %% \relative { \time 3/4 8-> r r2 \time 4/4 8-> r r4 r2 } % end %%% _

Re: Slur ending repeated

2008-07-07 Thread Luc
PortugalG wrote: > > Is there a way that i can create slur ending in repeat volta, without > using cadenza or hidind notes? > Can i create a broken slur or phasing? > does one of these fit? { \repeat volta 2 { e 1 ~ } \alternative { { e 2 f 4 e \laissezVibrer | } { e 2 \repeatTi

Re: curved vertical bracket

2008-07-07 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op maandag 7 juli 2008, schreef Richard Wattenbarger: > I'm looking for a code snippet to > generate a vertical curved bracket (i.e., > something like a left or open parenthesis). > Anyone have such a thing? (I suppose > I'm looking for a variation on the > arpeggioBracket). I think such an arpegg

LSR search is broken (was: \repeat with upbeat )

2008-07-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
> Am 07.07.2008 um 00:44 schrieb Eluze Weehaeli: > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1&id=490 > Using http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/ you can search - e.g. for upbeat or repeat - > the snippet repository but you will not find this snippet > Using Browse you can find it after scrolling through several

Re: \repeat with upbeat (partial) and alternatives

2008-07-07 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 07.07.2008 um 00:44 schrieb Eluze Weehaeli: 2008/7/1, Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I've approved the snippet using the first example (http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1&id=490). This works perfectly. Using http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/ you can search - e.g. for upbeat or repeat - the