Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-14 Thread Patrick Horgan
Patrick McCarty wrote: I'm still experimenting with this. :-) I've created another design with a color palette that passes the W3C Web Content Accessibility guidelines for color contrast: This is great for me! Patrick ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: unusual Alto Clef

2008-10-14 Thread Patrick Horgan
Jonathan Kulp wrote: Cool!! I've attached the infamous Ravel quartet snippet that prompted me to post the query about this clef in the first place. Your C clef looks nice in there, almost like the original. Of course in this passage there's a switch to treble clef, and when it returns to alto

Re: rolled chords in mulivoice classical guitar score

2008-10-14 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Ok I've given this a tiny tweak that I think will work the way you want. I just removed the two separate voices I had used before in the score block for the melody and bass, and replaced those with a single voice called "music" that will hold all voices, instantiated on-the-fly with <<{}\\{}>>

Re: rolled chords in mulivoice classical guitar score

2008-10-14 Thread Tom Cloyd
Jonathan, First, thank you for your continued interest. Attached is my engraving of the 5th section of a "Variations and Theme" piece I have written - the theme comes last. The F# added to the final chord is my addition, and is there to remind listeners of the harmonic flavor of the variation

Re: Lilypond midi to stdout?

2008-10-14 Thread John O'Hagan
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: > Why is it important to play the midi file during generation? I'm glad you aked! The program is intended to have a performance mode: you enter a set of requirements and restrictions on the command-line (this is the creative part!) and th

Re: rolled chords in mulivoice classical guitar score

2008-10-14 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Hmm. These organizational things are a matter of preference, of course. Still, I don't see why you'd have to rewrite things so dramatically. I thought I saw in one of your posts here that you had all the notes in one variable. It seems like this \score block ought to work even when all the n

Re: rolled chords in mulivoice classical guitar score

2008-10-14 Thread Tom Cloyd
Sorry. I spoke too soon. This is no solution. It messes up the VISIBLE voicing in the score - the direction of stems. It also cannot be used to arpeggiate across chords where different voices have different durations - unless one breaks notes up into tied groups. This a bad solution. Sigh. I st

Re: rolled chords in mulivoice classical guitar score

2008-10-14 Thread Tom Cloyd
Adjunct to my previous post - I'll admit that my Ruby programming experience biases me in the direction of seeking simple, direct, comprehensible, heuristic solutions. I think I may have found one - Building on my notion of using this construct to manage polyphonically structured scores -

Re: rolled chords in mulivoice classical guitar score

2008-10-14 Thread Tom Cloyd
Jonathan, This looks interesting, and its structure is not hard to discern (for me), but it requires me to split my guitar scores into voices and write them separately from beginning to end. This is possible, but not exactly what one expects to do, except with true multi-voice scores (vocal,

Re: ragged-last-bottom in multiple scores

2008-10-14 Thread Joe Neeman
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 17:26 -0700, Graham Percival wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:07:13 -0700 > Joe Neeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:54 -0700, Graham Percival wrote: > > > I have a collection of scores that I'd like to print in one book. > > > Is there any way of g

Re: ragged-last-bottom in multiple scores

2008-10-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:07:13 -0700 Joe Neeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:54 -0700, Graham Percival wrote: > > I have a collection of scores that I'd like to print in one book. > > Is there any way of getting the non-last-scores to use > > ragged-last-bottom=##t ? > > Ch

Re: ragged-last-bottom in multiple scores

2008-10-14 Thread Joe Neeman
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:54 -0700, Graham Percival wrote: > I have a collection of scores that I'd like to print in one book. > Is there any way of getting the non-last-scores to use > ragged-last-bottom=##t ? Check out Nicolas' new \bookparts. ___ l

new page-spacing area

2008-10-14 Thread Graham Percival
As an addendum to my question about ragged-last-bottom, I wonder if it would be possible to define new "page areas". This idea is inspired by the \newSpacingSection for horizontal spacing -- it would be nice if we could say \newPageArea (or whatever) and have the page-breaking algorithm (and re

ragged-last-bottom in multiple scores

2008-10-14 Thread Graham Percival
I have a collection of scores that I'd like to print in one book. Is there any way of getting the non-last-scores to use ragged-last-bottom=##t ? Currently the only way I can think of doing this is by using lilypond-book: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \lilypondfile{peice1.ly} \lily

Re: insertion of UTF-8 characters

2008-10-14 Thread Tom Cloyd
Good lord above, yes! THIS is immediately understandable if one has experience with a multitude of other programming languages, whereas that other approach is exasperating nonsense. Thanks, fellows, for chasing this one to ground. t. Trevor Daniels wrote: Neil Puttock wrote Tuesday, October

Re: scheme music function going backwards in time (or "better mp dolce") [solved]

2008-10-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:10:10 +0200 "Valentin Villenave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > these functions are quite interesting, but would it be possible to > have a single function that takes two strings as arguments and makes > the appropriate composite dynamic mark? Not that I know of. > \relative

Re: insertion of UTF-8 characters

2008-10-14 Thread Trevor Daniels
Neil Puttock wrote Tuesday, October 14, 2008 9:33 PM Hi Trevor, 2008/10/14 Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Tom It has to be within a \markup and not in quotes. And xc2a9 should be 00a9. Try c'4^\markup { #(ly:export (ly:wide-char->utf-8 #x00a9)) } or just \markup { "Copyright

Re: unfoldRepeats

2008-10-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Your mistake is that you believe that the repeats can be separated from the notes. Please always keep in mind that the input should describe the musical meaning, not only the resulting layout. In this case, the music that should be played is c g c a, right. In notation, you can use repeats as a s

unfoldRepeats

2008-10-14 Thread James E. Bailey
Okay, so I think I understand now. I think this may be a bug. Or at least, not documented. I don't know how to say this in proper lilypond terms, but the repeats don't unfold. \score { \new Staff << { \time 1/4 \repeat volta 2 {s4} \alternative { {s4} {s4}

Re: insertion of UTF-8 characters

2008-10-14 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Trevor, 2008/10/14 Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Tom > > It has to be within a \markup and not in quotes. And xc2a9 should be 00a9. > > Try > > c'4^\markup { #(ly:export (ly:wide-char->utf-8 #x00a9)) } > > or just > > \markup { "Copyright 2008" #(ly:export (ly:wide-char->utf-8 #x00

Re: Lilypond midi to stdout?

2008-10-14 Thread fiëé visuëlle
I'm glad you asked! The program is intended to have a performance mode: you enter a set of requirements and restrictions on the command-line (this is the creative part!) and then see what it produces. The program then does some combinatorial number-crunching, which can take a long time to c

Re: Right-margin & aligning of

2008-10-14 Thread J . Van
> I don't think right-margin exists - there's just left-margin and > line-width. Since left and right margins are by default 10mm, setting > left margin to 20mm means that the right-margin becomes 0mm. Mark, Setting the line-width indeed solved my problem. Thank you! Jethro. ___

Re: rolled chords in mulivoice classical guitar score

2008-10-14 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Ok this is better. I put the \set Staff.connectArpeggios in the score block instead. This is more elegant: % This shows how to use arpeggios that cross % from one voice to another. \version "2.11.62" melody = \relative c'' { \voiceOne e4\arpeggio 2 } bass = \relative c' { \voiceTwo

Re: rolled chords in mulivoice classical guitar score

2008-10-14 Thread Jonathan Kulp
I think I have it, Tom. Took me a long time, too. Try the code below: % This shows how to use arpeggios that cross % from one voice to another. \version "2.11.62" melody = \relative c'' { \voiceOne \set Staff.connectArpeggios = ##t e4\arpeggio 2 } bass = \relative c' { \voiceTwo

Re: Right-margin & aligning of "Composer"-field

2008-10-14 Thread Mark Knoop
At 14:03 on 14 Oct 2008, J.Van Thuyne wrote: > The subjoined code results (both in versions 2.11.58 and 2.11.62) in a > Composer-field without a right margin. Is this a known issue, or am I > missing a mistake? > > > \version "2.11.62" > > \paper { > #(set-paper-size "a4") > left-margin = 20

Re: rolled chords in mulivoice classical guitar score

2008-10-14 Thread Tom Cloyd
Maybe. Probably. If I could get it to work. The problem is that it start a new staff. I need arpeggios across voices in arbitrary locations - of course. Here's the structure of my file: \header stuff staffClassicalGuitar = { my music, in 2 & 3 part voicing} \score { \new Staff { (staff de

Right-margin & aligning of "Composer"-field

2008-10-14 Thread J . Van Thuyne
The subjoined code results (both in versions 2.11.58 and 2.11.62) in a Composer-field without a right margin. Is this a known issue, or am I missing a mistake? \version "2.11.62" \paper { #(set-paper-size "a4") left-margin = 20 right-margin = 20 top-margin = 20 between-system-space = 2

Re: Keeping annotations when extracting parts from a score

2008-10-14 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. > I've got a song where several annotations like "Refrain" or "Verse" are set > in > the Vocals (because that's the voice at the top of the system). > Now I'm starting to extract parts, and of course the annotations are only > shown in the vocal part. > is there any other way to have the

Re: Lilypond midi to stdout?

2008-10-14 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
I think LilyPond must have the full score to create the MIDI, it doesn't happen measure by measure. John O'Hagan wrote: Why is it important to play the midi file during generation? I'm glad you asked! The program is intended to have a performance mode: you enter a set of requirements an

Re: insertion of current date in text string

2008-10-14 Thread Tom Cloyd
Yes, this is the solution. Put this right below the "\version "2.11.60"" in my file... date = #(strftime "%Y.%m.%d" (localtime (current-time))) % define a variable to hold the formatted date Then \header { [...] subsubtitle = \markup { "score version of" \date } [...]} This automatic

Re: square note heads for cluster

2008-10-14 Thread andersvi
Heres a start on a cluster-chord function. A question someone might help answer: When using the music-function on a chord - ie "\clusterKord 2" - it only 'eats' the first note of the chord, and appends the second one as a separate note if i dont 'kill it' inside the music-function. The code belo

Re: square note heads for cluster

2008-10-14 Thread andersvi
> "M" == Mark Polesky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: M> I'm finding myself able to make the clusters look however I want M> them to look, but I want one all-encompassing function to apply M> arbitrary cluster-styles on the fly. M> It's not necessarily difficult, but I want to sup

Re: scheme music function going backwards in time (or "better mp dolce") [solved]

2008-10-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/10/4 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This version of the files now do the following: > - commands are placed after the note they belong to -- ie > \pdolce behaves just like \p. Except for the "dolce" part. :) Hi graham, these functions are quite interesting, but would it be possible

Re: insertion of current date in text string

2008-10-14 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/10/14 Tom Cloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Nowagain: I'm being misunderstood, and, strangely, it appears that no > one is reading either the subject line of this thread or what I'm writing in > the message body. Let me say it again: This thread is 6 hours old by now, please be patient. > > I

Re: insertion of UTF-8 characters

2008-10-14 Thread Trevor Daniels
Tom It has to be within a \markup and not in quotes. And xc2a9 should be 00a9. Try c'4^\markup { #(ly:export (ly:wide-char->utf-8 #x00a9)) } or just \markup { "Copyright 2008" #(ly:export (ly:wide-char->utf-8 #x00a9)) } outside the score block to place it in text, or for the copyright

Re: square note heads for cluster

2008-10-14 Thread Mark Polesky
Anders, I recently started working on a keyboard-cluster function, but it's a big project and I haven't gotten very far yet. I've attached a png generated by the file included below to share some basic ideas about my initial approach. Perhaps this will help you. I'm finding myself able to make the

Re: Accidental besides trill

2008-10-14 Thread Marcos di Silva
2008/10/13 Gilles Sadowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> How to put an accidental besides trill? > > Try this: > > e^\markup{\musicglyph #"scripts.trill" {\raise #1 \sharp}} It works :-) Thank you, Gilles. Cheers, -- Marcos di Silva http://www.marcosdisilva.net/ ___

Re: square note heads for cluster

2008-10-14 Thread Sebastian Menge
Am Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:24:37 +0200 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I need to notate some clusters using squared rhythmic note-heads, > something along the lines of this figure: I was recently looking for that kind of clusters too. It is really standard in some contemporary music. If someone knows h