Re: VoiceFollower help

2009-04-11 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 12.04.2009 um 08:26 schrieb Mark Polesky: James E. Bailey wrote: \override VoiceFollower #'style = #'dotted-line doesn't seem to work here. Why not? When you use \once, the command only is in effect for the next note AFAIK. Either omit the \once or use this order of commands: Wow, all

Re: VoiceFollower help

2009-04-11 Thread Mark Polesky
James E. Bailey wrote: > \override VoiceFollower #'style = #'dotted-line > doesn't seem to work here. Why not? When you use \once, the command only is in effect for the next note AFAIK. Either omit the \once or use this order of commands: \showStaffSwitch g4 a h c a \once \override Voi

Re: Slur / phrasingSlur half dashed, half solid

2009-04-11 Thread Mark Polesky
MonAmiPierrot wrote: > Is there any way to have a half-dashed-half-solid Slur, i.e. a slur that > begins dashed and at a certain point turns solid (or viceversa?) Piero, here's one solution. Personally, I don't think it looks quite as good as it should, but maybe you're not as picky as I am. Prin

Re: lyrics to split parts / vocal cue notes

2009-04-11 Thread James E. Bailey
Wow, I should really not answer questions when I'm not awake. Lyrics need to be associated with a voice context. Regardless of whether or not you name them, lilypond creates its own contexts when you use the <<{}\\{}>> structure. To solve this, just use << {\voiceone}\context Voice = "new vo

Re: lyrics to split parts / vocal cue notes

2009-04-11 Thread James E. Bailey
I totally need to finish this documentation patch. For this, you cannot use this form of polyphony. You must explicitly create voices. See the documentation in the Notation Reference, rather than the learning manual. Am 12.04.2009 um 01:44 schrieb Hendrik Fuß: Hi there, I'm trying to put

Re: Fingering multiple voices above the stave

2009-04-11 Thread Gerard Neil
2009/4/12 Carl D. Sorensen : > I thought this would be easy, but it took me a while longer than I expected. > This file includes two slightly different ways of doing it: Carl, you're a champion! Thanks! That's exactly what I was trying to do. I'd sort of worked out that those were the two approac

Re: Fingering multiple voices above the stave

2009-04-11 Thread Gerard Neil
> hi > which version are you using? when i compile your code wit version 2.12.2 i > do not get collisions. I'm using 2.12.1 ; the most obvious problem was the 2 on the final c sharp being printed underneath the a of the topmost voice, is that fixed in 2.12.2. That would be nice! > if you feel ste

Re: Real-world usage of Lilypond

2009-04-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/11 Graham Percival : > Yes, there's a Frog mailist, but I can't remember the address > offhand.  If Valentin had his website up, I could find the address > there. Actually, the website /is/ up, but it's not official yet (and the webdesign hasn't been uploaded): http://frogs.lilynet.net/ P

Re: trills

2009-04-11 Thread M Watts
Berthold Gunreben wrote: Hi, I am quite new to lilypond and stumbled over a question regarding trills. I'd like to use pitched trills which works quite well with something like: \pitchedTrill b2 \startTrillSpan cis b \stopTrillSpan However when I want to do a pitched trill over just one sin

Re: Fingering multiple voices above the stave

2009-04-11 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/11/09 9:27 AM, "Gerard Neil" wrote: > > So I've got two questions: > 1. Can someone help me write a macro/function to make this simpler? It > would be nice to be able to write something like a^\multiFinger { 2 3 > }, for example. I'm sure this is possible, but I've spent a few hours >

lyrics to split parts / vocal cue notes

2009-04-11 Thread Hendrik Fuß
Hi there, I'm trying to put lyrics to a voice in a two-voice context, but I seem to be doing something wrong. In the following minimal example the notes after the split part are garbled: \score { \new Staff \relative c' { \time 2/4 << { \voiceOne

VoiceFollower help

2009-04-11 Thread James E. Bailey
I'm having two questions. First, \override VoiceFollower #'style = #'dotted-line doesn't seem to work here. Why not? \version "2.12.2" \score { \new PianoStaff << \new Staff = RH \relative g' { \time 3/2 \showStaffSwitch \once \override VoiceFollower #'styl

Re: (de)cresendi syntax

2009-04-11 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message , Piero Faustini writes .ExternalClass .EC_hmmessage P {padding:0px;} .ExternalClass body.EC_hmmessage {font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;} recognising the original Italian from is adjectival. thus sorry for them, but it is WRONG at all. This is plain english syntax rules roughly

Re: Fingering multiple voices above the stave

2009-04-11 Thread -Eluze
hi which version are you using? when i compile your code wit version 2.12.2 i do not get collisions. if you feel stems and fingerings are to close you could add some extraspace with \override Fingering #'extra-offset = #'( -0.5 . 0) or choose the value you prefer hth -- View this message in

Include guards

2009-04-11 Thread gnomino
Hi, Is there any way to put include guards in .ly files, to ensure that each file is included only once? If not, then is there any way to simulate include guards using Scheme? In particular, is there a Scheme function that does the equivalent of \include? Thanks in advance. __

Re: Embedding TeX/LaTeX in .ly files?

2009-04-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:43:09PM -0400, Greg Novak wrote: > Is it possible to embed Latex commands into text within .ly files? No. If you were desperate, you could render the latex as an .eps file and then include that image, but that's it. Embedding .ly files into LaTeX, on the other hand, is

Embedding TeX/LaTeX in .ly files?

2009-04-11 Thread Greg Novak
Hello, Is it possible to embed Latex commands into text within .ly files? Something like: \markup{ 2^{nd}}, or perhaps \markup{ "$2^{nd}"} I don't like the output of \super, but I use Latex all the time so I'm quite comfortable with its commands, notation, etc. For context: I started using Lilyp

Re: Real-world usage of Lilypond

2009-04-11 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/4/11 Graham Percival : > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 03:57:03PM +0200, Christ van Willegen wrote: >> It seems that (parts of) Lily is in C++, which I've been using since >> 1995. So, I can read and (probably) bugfix in it. I guess I'll have to >> learn other languages on the way as well, includin

Fingering multiple voices above the stave

2009-04-11 Thread Gerard Neil
Hi everyone, I'm having a bit of trouble fingering a chorale-like work for piano. The upper staff has mostly two voices, and it looks best if I finger them both above the stave. My first approach was to use \override Fingering #'direction = #UP for the second voice, but then the fingerings collide

(de)cresendi syntax

2009-04-11 Thread Piero Faustini
> recognising the original Italian from is adjectival. thus sorry for them, but it is WRONG at all. This is plain english syntax rules roughly applied to a foreign language: in english you can say both "the sun keeps raising" and "the raising sun".But in italian, gerund is never usable

Re: LilyPond midi extension

2009-04-11 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/4/9 Simon Bailey : > here's the new patch-set. i'm sorry, but i can't work out how to get git to > give me one single patch for the three commits i made locally since checking > out. insert the following line before the start of the @code{\score} block: Simon, this line isn't quite right,

RE: Lilypond crash

2009-04-11 Thread Nick Payne
Thanks. I duplicated that for the stroke fingers p, i, m, and a, except that as I couldn't name a function either p or a, I used capitals instead - P, I, M, A. Nick > -Original Message- > From: lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.on@gnu.org > [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+nick.

Re: default midi velocity

2009-04-11 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/4/9 Martin Tarenskeen : > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 12:42:53AM +0100, Neil Puttock wrote: >> 2009/4/8 Martin Tarenskeen : >> >> Do you have git installed?  It would be preferable to have a patch >> >> created with git format-patch. > > I have attached such a patch. >From 8cb3d025d08f08437f22c9a

Margins

2009-04-11 Thread Mark Austin
Is there any way of setting a binding margin. I'm in the process of creating a music book, and need to increase the left margin of odd-numbered pages, and the right margin of even numbered pages to leave space for the ring binding, and don't (unless necessary) want to have to increase the size of b

Re: (de)cresendi syntax

2009-04-11 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:40:24AM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: > > Werner LEMBERG wrote Saturday, April 11, 2009 9:35 AM > > >> >>> In an english context, the plural is simple: "crescendoes". >> >> Ouch. I would use `crescendos'. > > To be pedantic, if "crescendo" is not a noun there is no > plur

RE: (de)cresendi syntax

2009-04-11 Thread Piero Faustini
All of this, of course, to avoid answering Werner's question... that's REAL pedantery ;) > To be pedantic, if "crescendo" is not a noun there is no _ Quante ne sai? Scoprilo con CrossWire! http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/14063036

Re: Real-world usage of Lilypond

2009-04-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 03:57:03PM +0200, Christ van Willegen wrote: > Graham, list, > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Graham Percival > wrote: > > Are you?  The best way to get this started is to join the Frogs, > > our team of bugfixers.  After fixing a few bugs, you'll be able to > > start e

Re: guitar tab feature request

2009-04-11 Thread Marc Hohl
Grammostola Rosea schrieb: Hi guys, Some progress on the tablature side of Lilypond? I'm looking forward to it ;) David is collecting the desired features, but I don't know how far he has come ... David, if I can help you in any way, don't hesitate, just tell me what to do. Have an nic

Re: (de)cresendi syntax

2009-04-11 Thread Trevor Daniels
Werner LEMBERG wrote Saturday, April 11, 2009 9:35 AM In an english context, the plural is simple: "crescendoes". Ouch. I would use `crescendos'. To be pedantic, if "crescendo" is not a noun there is no plural, even in English. It should always be written as "crescendo markings" or "c

trills

2009-04-11 Thread Berthold Gunreben
Hi, I am quite new to lilypond and stumbled over a question regarding trills. I'd like to use pitched trills which works quite well with something like: \pitchedTrill b2 \startTrillSpan cis b \stopTrillSpan However when I want to do a pitched trill over just one single note, I always get erro

Re: hiding portions of slurs/ties around specific objects

2009-04-11 Thread Mark Polesky
Mark Polesky wrote: > So the command > \override Fingering #'avoid-slur = ##f > will trigger the warning only if there's actually a > fingering in the score following the command. > > Does anyone know an easier way to find which grobs > trigger this warning? Then I can incorporate it into > th

Re: (de)cresendi syntax

2009-04-11 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> In an english context, the plural is simple: "crescendoes". Ouch. I would use `crescendos'. Werner ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: (de)cresendi syntax

2009-04-11 Thread MonAmiPierrot
...it's a dirty job but... the italian term "crescendo" is not a noun, is a gerund (meaning "raising", "growing"), so, when substantivated, in italian language, is indeclinable - thus if I "amo il crescendo rossiniano", I still "amo tutti i crescendo rossiniani" (if you find an italian who says "

Re: Lilypond crash

2009-04-11 Thread Michael Käppler
Hi Nick, I'm able to reproduce this on OpenSuse 11.0 with LilyPond 2.13, too. I don't know if there's a more simple way, but try this instead: i = #(define-music-function (parser location) () (apply make-music (append (list 'StrokeFingerEvent 'ori

Re: please help

2009-04-11 Thread Mark Polesky
Um... I wouldn't reply to this if I were you! How much more spammy can you get? Real people post questions, not e-mail address requests... - Mark - Original Message > From: Sky B. > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 7:20:07 PM > Subject: please help > > coul

Re: Lilypond crash

2009-04-11 Thread M Watts
Nick Payne wrote: I was attempting to shorten the entry required for indicating strokefingering: \version "2.12.2" i = #(define-music-function (parser location) () #{ \rightHandFinger #2 #}) \relative c' { } This causes Lilypond to crash (2.12.2, Windows). The entry in the applicatio

RE: Feat. request: autobehaviour of \unfoldRepeats

2009-04-11 Thread Piero Faustini
Thanks Valentin, > It is now: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=769 _ Quante ne sai? Scoprilo con CrossWire! http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/140630367/direct/01/___ lilypond-