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2009-02-23 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
Hi Lilyponders, I'm trying to set up a score with a piece for 4 piano's. I have made five \book {...} sections - one for the complete score and four for the individual piano parts - in one lilypond file. I prefer to have everything in one file. ( I hate getting lost between multiple edit window

Re: Looking for proper beam grouping

2009-02-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 2/23/09 12:52 PM, "Maarten Deen" wrote: > I have a piece of music in 3/4 which has bars like { d4. c8 b8. a16 } > Lilypond groups the last three notes together, making it look like a 6/8 > measure, but I want the c8 to be separate and only the b8. a16 to be grouped > (like a proper 3/4 woul

Re: Looking for proper beam grouping

2009-02-23 Thread jpeters
or even: qBeam = { #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end ** * *) 1 4 'Staff) #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end ** * *) 2 4 'Staff) #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end ** * *) 3 4 'Staff) } In case the shortest note isn't an 8th. Jonathan Kulp-2 wrote: > > Maarten Deen wrote: >> I h

Re: Stanza Numbers at Beginning of Each Line of Music

2009-02-23 Thread James E. Bailey
I don't know of any automated way, I just manually insert them. words = \lyricmode { \set stanza = "1. " First line \set stanza = "1. " Sec -- ond line. } El 23.02.2009, a las 22:08, Tim Slattery escribió: Randy Nelson <77ra...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi - Does anyone know how to get Lilypond to

Re: [Frescobaldi] Bass and Electric Bass template, tab tunings support

2009-02-23 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Andrew Wilson wrote: 2009/2/19 Grammostola Rosea : About the bass-tuning. When I do c,4\3 The fret position and the high of the C wasn't what I suspected and which should be the default imho. when I do c4\3 The note is ok, but the fret position not... Do you realise that Bass guit

Re: Stanza Numbers at Beginning of Each Line of Music

2009-02-23 Thread Tim Slattery
Randy Nelson <77ra...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi - Does anyone know how to get Lilypond to print the Stanza #s at the >beginning of each line of the sheet music? Thanks in advance. Something like this: VerseTwo = \lyricmode { \set stanza = "1. " words words words words words } -- Tim Slattery slatt

Re: Looking for proper beam grouping

2009-02-23 Thread Maarten Deen
Nick Payne wrote: Much simpler to use [..]: \relative c' { \time 3/4 d4. c8 b8.[ a16] } For a single measure it is, but not if you have a dozen of them. The macro worked like a charm, thanks. Maarten -Original Message- From: lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.on@g

RE: Looking for proper beam grouping

2009-02-23 Thread Nick Payne
Much simpler to use [..]: \relative c' { \time 3/4 d4. c8 b8.[ a16] } Nick > -Original Message- > From: lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.on@gnu.org > [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.on@gnu.org] On > Behalf Of Jonathan Kulp > Sent: Tuesday, 24 Fe

Re: Looking for proper beam grouping

2009-02-23 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Maarten Deen wrote: I have a piece of music in 3/4 which has bars like { d4. c8 b8. a16 } Lilypond groups the last three notes together, making it look like a 6/8 measure, but I want the c8 to be separate and only the b8. a16 to be grouped (like a proper 3/4 would look like). I've tried some

Stanza Numbers at Beginning of Each Line of Music

2009-02-23 Thread Randy Nelson
Hi - Does anyone know how to get Lilypond to print the Stanza #s at the beginning of each line of the sheet music? Thanks in advance. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Looking for proper beam grouping

2009-02-23 Thread Maarten Deen
I have a piece of music in 3/4 which has bars like { d4. c8 b8. a16 } Lilypond groups the last three notes together, making it look like a 6/8 measure, but I want the c8 to be separate and only the b8. a16 to be grouped (like a proper 3/4 would look like). I've tried some settings, like #(over

Re: help with: Cannot find voice

2009-02-23 Thread Alberto Simões
Hello Yeah, my problem was not having notes, yet. After adding some notes things got working alright :) Thanks Alb. Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Sometimes you get that warning if the music in the corresponding Voice > doesn't start from the first beat, but in those cases you get the > desired result

Re: Custom key signatures

2009-02-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Kees van den Doel wrote: My source file looks like this: \include "persian.ly" \score { \relative c' { \set Staff.keySignature = \shurE a b c } \midi { } \layout { \context { \Score \override KeySignature #'text = #shurEKey } } } which works

Re: \transpose and \transposition combination error(?)

2009-02-23 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Trevor" == Trevor Daniels writes: Trevor> Hmm. Not sure it's a bug. The \transpose command transposes I think it is (and I reported it as one some time ago). The point of \transposition is to notate a Staff at a different pitch from its sounding pitch. When you combine this with other

Re: Lilypond Right to Left

2009-02-23 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary
2009/2/20 Fr. Michael Gilmary : Is there any development in Lilypond for typesetting the music and lyrics from right to left? We would use it for setting some Syriac hymns. Valentin Villenave wrote: Surprisingly enough, it is not (yet) supported. You can, however, print text from rig

Re: help with: Cannot find voice

2009-02-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Sometimes you get that warning if the music in the corresponding Voice doesn't start from the first beat, but in those cases you get the desired result anyway. Have you checked if the warning is just such a warning or an indication of a real problem? /Mats Trevor Daniels wrote: It should

Re: Partial measures

2009-02-23 Thread M Watts
jpeters wrote: One way to do this is with measureLength: \relative c'' { \time 4/4 \repeat volta 2 { \partial 8 gis8 |

midi volume range with Hairpin

2009-02-23 Thread 今井雄治
Hi, users. I want to set volume range of midi, so use midiMinimumVolume and midiMaximumVolume. But I could not resolve some problems. 1st work so good. 2nd midi volume over the value of midiMaximumVolume. 3rd set \f with transparent, midi volume is good, but Hairpin too short. 4th midi volume and

Re: LilyPond on Leopard

2009-02-23 Thread Christopher Berg
David, Thank you for this. It will be a big help! /christopher On Feb 23, 2009, at 3:41 AM, Daniel Hulme wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 02:31:02PM -0500, Christopher Berg wrote: Additionally, the output files always get saved to my ~ folder, no matter where the .ly file was. The output f

Re: LilyPond on Leopard

2009-02-23 Thread Christopher Berg
Jonathan, Thank you for your information. I had been to Nicolas Sceaux's site, but the procedure he outlines is a bit beyond my comprehension and skill. I do have his site bookmarked for when I feel up to it. regards, /christopher On Feb 22, 2009, at 3:45 PM, Jonathan Kulp wrote: Chri

Re: display chords (Ami7(b5))

2009-02-23 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Tim McNamara wrote: On Feb 22, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Grammostola Rosea wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: On Feb 22, 2009, at 8:02 AM, Grammostola Rosea wrote: Hi, How do I make chords with the 5th an half tone lower or higher (e.g. b5 or #5)? for example Am7(b5) or D7(#5) I just asked this s

Re: SPACING AND MIDI ISSUES

2009-02-23 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op zondag 22 februari 2009, schreef mischa falkenburg: > Hello All, > > I have a piece that currently is 84 pages in length. > It is 6 voices in harmony. When the pdf files is generated, however, > each page shows six lines at the top, a GAP, and then 6 lines again at > the bottom...until the final

Re: \transpose and \transposition combination error(?)

2009-02-23 Thread Trevor Daniels
Peter Chubb wrote Monday, February 23, 2009 2:23 AM "Trevor" == Trevor Daniels writes: Trevor> Hmm. Not sure it's a bug. The \transpose command transposes I think it is (and I reported it as one some time ago). I agree this is a bug now. It doesn't seem to be in the bug DB, so I've

Re: \score inside define-markup-command

2009-02-23 Thread Michael Käppler
Hi, I don't know if it will work, but perhaps you can try to type \displayMusic {<< \clef #testclef a4 h c >>} to get the scheme version of your music, and to copy/paste the output you got after the #:score markup ... good idea! But it still doesn't work. Let's look at the following minimal

Re: Persian music

2009-02-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Many thanks for all your help, we can now write Persian music!! Great! Please file a bug report (with all your macros, fonts, etc.) so that we eventually add Persian accidentals directly to the feta fonts -- as you can see, the stem widths and the height of the Persian accidentals don't comple

sample function: How to use custom NoteHead stencils in a Drum context

2009-02-23 Thread Tao Cumplido
Hi all, I wrote a small function which makes it possible to use custom stencils for NoteHeads in a costum drumstyle-table. This issue has come up a few times in the past: http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg44108.html http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg45133.htm

Re: \score inside define-markup-command

2009-02-23 Thread Tao Cumplido
LP syntax can always be expressed in Scheme. \displayMusic { a'4 } will show you how the LP expression a'4 is written in Scheme. I haven't tried it but I suppose that's the way to go. Regards, Tao Original-Nachricht > Datum: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:01:23 +0100 > Von: "Michael Kä

Re: LilyPond on Leopard

2009-02-23 Thread Daniel Hulme
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 02:31:02PM -0500, Christopher Berg wrote: > Additionally, the output files always get saved to my ~ folder, no > matter where the .ly file was. The output files are always placed in the file you run Lilypond from. So, if you are in a terminal, your working directory is /Use

Re: display chords (Ami7(b5))

2009-02-23 Thread Tao Cumplido
Hi, a few weeks ago I started an attempt to make chord symbols more independent from actual < c e g > constructs, which makes it easier to display exactly the chord you want. Maybe that's an option for you. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-02/msg00293.html Regards, Tao -

Re: \score inside define-markup-command

2009-02-23 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
#(define-markup-command (test layout props testclef) (string?) (interpret-markup layout props (markup #:score ( << \clef #testclef a4 h c >> This is invalid code because it mixes LilyPond and Scheme syntax. How can I achieve something similar to what's expressed in this dummy code pie