Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

2009-04-20 Thread Simon Bailey
dammit, i should think a bit more before answering things. TextSpanner has been moved to the score context, so we need to tell the override to use the TextSpanner objects in the Score context rather than the default. change the definition of stringendo to: stringendo = { \textSpannerUp \ove

Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

2009-04-20 Thread Simon Bailey
hi frédéric, On Apr 21, 2009, at 6:58 AM, Frédéric Bron wrote: It half works! Fine for the dashed line but the text is not printed... Here is an example: \version "2.12.0" stringendo = { \textSpannerUp \override TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = "Stringendo" } \new Score \with { \consis

Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

2009-04-20 Thread Frédéric Bron
> remove the Text_spanner_engraver from the individual voice contexts and put > it in the score context. > > something like this [n.b.: untested]: > > \new Score \with { >        \consists "Text_spanner_engraver" > } << >        \new Staff { >                \new Voice \with { >                    

Fingerings with Flat Symbol

2009-04-20 Thread Jonathan Townes
Hello I'm transcribing jazz solos and am searching for an efficient means of notating scale-tone numbers above notes, incorporating sharps and flats, e.g. 1 3 sharp5 flat7. I realize I'm able to use text markup commands for this. However, the use of fingerings would be much faster and require less

Re: Moving dynamics to a fixed vertical position (inside the staff)

2009-04-20 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/20/09 4:32 PM, "Neil Puttock" wrote: > 2009/4/20 Reinhold Kainhofer : > >> Is there any way to position a dynamic sign at an explicit staff-relative >> (not >> note-relative) vertical position? > > Since the dynamic's X-parent is the notehead, you can normalize its > position by retriev

Re: Moving dynamics to a fixed vertical position (inside the staff)

2009-04-20 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/20/09 3:11 PM, "Reinhold Kainhofer" wrote: > > Is there any way to position a dynamic sign at an explicit staff-relative (not > note-relative) vertical position? Here's a hack that uses staff-padding together with a change in the Y-extent that makes it work. However, if you try to put

Re: Call For Info: new composer/musician models using Lilypond

2009-04-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/20 Kieren MacMillan : > I'd be interested in hearing [OFFLINE] from anyone who has a story of > "musical innovation" to share, and would be willing to have me (possibly) > include them in my presentation next year. I'm on the road tommorrow, but I would certainly be interested in discussing

Re: Moving dynamics to a fixed vertical position (inside the staff)

2009-04-20 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/4/20 Neil Puttock : > 2009/4/20 Reinhold Kainhofer : > >> Is there any way to position a dynamic sign at an explicit staff-relative >> (not >> note-relative) vertical position? > > Since the dynamic's X-parent is the notehead, you can normalize its > position by retrieving the notehead's Y-of

Re: invisible pedal sustain

2009-04-20 Thread Steve Yegge
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Mark Polesky wrote: > > Steve Yegge wrote: > > I tried > > \override SustainPedal #'transparent = ##t > > with no luck. Any suggestions? > > try > \override Staff.SustainPedal #'transparent = ##t > Ah, that did it, thanks. I also had to add: \override Sta

Re: Moving dynamics to a fixed vertical position (inside the staff)

2009-04-20 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/4/20 Reinhold Kainhofer : > Is there any way to position a dynamic sign at an explicit staff-relative (not > note-relative) vertical position? Since the dynamic's X-parent is the notehead, you can normalize its position by retrieving the notehead's Y-offset: dynamicsAllInside = #(define-mus

Re: invisible pedal sustain

2009-04-20 Thread Mark Polesky
Steve Yegge wrote: > I tried > \override SustainPedal #'transparent = ##t > with no luck. Any suggestions? try \override Staff.SustainPedal #'transparent = ##t ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailm

invisible pedal sustain

2009-04-20 Thread Steve Yegge
Hello, I'd like to be able to add invisible \sustainDown and \sustainUp instructions to a guitar piece I'm working on, so that the MIDI output uses the sustain, but no sustain stuff appears in the score. (For these arpeggiated chords, the sustain is implicit.) I tried \override SustainPedal #'

Re: Custom guitar chords

2009-04-20 Thread Miklos Vajna
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:21:42AM +0200, Marc Hohl wrote: > As a guitarist, I would call this chord B5/A, because it without the > third, it isn't really > a minor chord - but this depends on the context. > > Just a thought. It's not me who found out the chord name, anyway you are right, yes.

Moving dynamics to a fixed vertical position (inside the staff)

2009-04-20 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 We had a similar discussion already last August, but this question was not raised back then: There are ways to move dynamics to the left/right, let it fall down towards the staff, once it has left the skyline of the note, or even move the dynamic i

Call For Info: new composer/musician models using Lilypond

2009-04-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello Lily-dippers!! A colleague of mine just landed a professorship at a U.S. college, in a program which emphasizes innovation in music. I asked him if he'd like me to do a guest lecture, and he's very interested. In addition to a short technical presentation (and cheerleading session)

Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

2009-04-20 Thread Simon Bailey
On 19 Apr 2009, at 08:08, Frédéric Bron wrote: Is it possible to have a text spanner at the score level instead at the Staff level? I have a tempo indication "Stringendo - - - - -" which appears at every line of the conductor score. This is too much. The original score I am copying has printed i

Re: Lyrics verse numbers on every line

2009-04-20 Thread johanperu
Just for the record: What I said here is nonsense and does not work. I appeared to me that it did but the solution is found in this posting. Johan johanperu wrote: > > Tom, I added this and it seems to be pretty close if not exactly the same. > > \override InstrumentName #'font-size = #'0.1

Re: (de)cresendi syntax

2009-04-20 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Montag, 20. April 2009 05:31:20 Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > On 4/17/09 11:02 AM, "Reinhold Kainhofer" wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Am Freitag, 17. April 2009 schrieb Frédéric Bron: > > > > Hmm, no you are right

Re: conditionals in scheme?

2009-04-20 Thread Marc Hohl
Simon, thank you! The link looks interesting - good starting point! Marc Simon Bailey schrieb: marc, On 19 Apr 2009, at 21:46, Marc Hohl wrote: The other clefs simply use other values for raise, fontsize and baseline-skip, so my idea is to use conditionals to get these values on the right p

Re: conditionals in scheme?

2009-04-20 Thread Simon Bailey
marc, On 19 Apr 2009, at 21:46, Marc Hohl wrote: The other clefs simply use other values for raise, fontsize and baseline-skip, so my idea is to use conditionals to get these values on the right place, depending on the number of strings, which in turn can be evaluated using the list of pitc