Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-14 Thread Chip
Patrick McCarty wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Chip wrote: Chip wrote: I've come across this a couple times - when I am inputting a song it all works fine in \relative mode. I do some editing, some copy/paste from one part to another, view the resulting pdf and see the octaves

Replacing \set stanza with custom verseNumber

2009-05-14 Thread Tom Dickson
It doesn't work correctly - it appears Scheme doesn't like the second use of the variable? verseNumber = #(define-music-function (parser location markp) (string?) #{ \set vocalName = $markp \set shortVocalName = $markp \override InstrumentName #'X-offset = #2 \override Instrumen

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-14 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Chip wrote: > Chip wrote: >> >> I've come across this a couple times - when I am inputting a song it all >> works fine in \relative mode. I do some editing, some copy/paste from one >> part to another, view the resulting pdf and see the octaves are all messed >> up

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-14 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Chip wrote: Chip wrote: I've come across this a couple times - when I am inputting a song it all works fine in \relative mode. I do some editing, some copy/paste from one part to another, view the resulting pdf and see the octaves are all messed up. The only way to fix them is to use absolute

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-14 Thread Chip
Chip wrote: I've come across this a couple times - when I am inputting a song it all works fine in \relative mode. I do some editing, some copy/paste from one part to another, view the resulting pdf and see the octaves are all messed up. The only way to fix them is to use absolute octave marks

relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-14 Thread Chip
I've come across this a couple times - when I am inputting a song it all works fine in \relative mode. I do some editing, some copy/paste from one part to another, view the resulting pdf and see the octaves are all messed up. The only way to fix them is to use absolute octave marks in small sec

Re: JEdit question

2009-05-14 Thread Tim Reeves
Glad it helped. From Francisco's answer, it looks like you could see better behavior if you updated your jEdit. I'm using 4.3pre16. (Or maybe he meant updating your LilypondTool. I'm not sure which.) Tim Reeves rathcof...@comcast.net 05/14/2009 04:57 PM To Tim Reeves cc Subject Re: JE

RE: Need help with this trill

2009-05-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, Does this not exactly answer the (second) question? Regards, Kieren. > Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 16:14:58 -0700 > From: elu...@gmail.com > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Need help with this trill > > > > Carl

Re: Need help with this trill

2009-05-14 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/5/15 Carl D. Sorensen : >> 1. How to get the two minor notes (sort of like appoggiaturas) placed >> correctly after the main note, at the end of the bar. \appoggiatura seems to >> always put the minor notes before the actual notes. > > I think \graceAfter is what you're looking for. I think i

Re: Need help with this trill

2009-05-14 Thread -Eluze
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > > > > > On 5/14/09 3:24 PM, "Holger Hellebro" wrote: > > I think \graceAfter is what you're looking for. > >> 2. How to put the natural symbol above the trill symbol. I've tried  >> ^\markup{\tiny \natural} both before and after the \trill, but the trill >> sign >

Re: Need help with this trill

2009-05-14 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/14/09 3:24 PM, "Holger Hellebro" wrote: > Hi > > I'm a new Lilypond user and I'm really enjoying the program so far. However I > am having difficulties typesetting a certain trill. You can see in the > attached picture what I want to achieve. I run into two difficulties: > > 1. How to g

Re: JEdit question

2009-05-14 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/5/14 Tim Reeves : > It shouldn't do that after typing just the backslash. It should bring up a > dropdown list of many available commands, from \accent to > \withmusicProperty. Then when you type the next letter, say 'b', it narrows > down the list to all commands starting with 'b', and so on

Re: How to achieve chord stop with ¬

2009-05-14 Thread M Watts
Marc Hohl wrote: Stjepan Brbot schrieb: In chords for chord stop usually the following sign is used: ¬ How to get this with lilypond? Have you an example of how this should look like? I haven't seen this mark ever before. The only place I've seen this sign is in symbolic logic, where it mean

Re: missing glissando features (bugs?)

2009-05-14 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/5/14 Marc Hohl : > Neil Puttock schrieb: >> This will apply an extra-dy of 1 for glissandos which aren't on the >> same staff-position. >> >> > > No, it doesn't; at least in my test files. I have attached an example where > the > default and the corrected behaviour are compared, please have a

Need help with this trill

2009-05-14 Thread Holger Hellebro
Hi I'm a new Lilypond user and I'm really enjoying the program so far. However I am having difficulties typesetting a certain trill. You can see in the attached picture what I want to achieve. I run into two difficulties: 1. How to get the two minor notes (sort of like appoggiaturas) placed corre

Re: printing rest in ChordNames context

2009-05-14 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/5/14 Carl D. Sorensen : > Not right now.  I will investigate to see if it is easily done. I think the only way, short of introducing a new event class which includes both types of rest, would be to remove the listener for rests and instead add one for rythmic-event. You could then filter ou

Re: JEdit question

2009-05-14 Thread Tim Reeves
>I've recently started using LilyPond. I'm enjoying it. I'm using JEdit with the LP plugins. >I haven't been able to find an answer to this question in either the LP Help files or the JEdit help. I'm probably not searching the index for the right terms. >In the Editor, when I enterÂ

Re: printing rest in ChordNames context

2009-05-14 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 14, 2009, at 9:12 AM, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 5/14/09 8:07 AM, "Tim McNamara" wrote: into the \chords feels clunky and intrusive to me. I'd prefer to minimize putting formatting code in the music content as much as possible. Being able to write something like nc1 (or r1) and hav

Re: printing rest in ChordNames context

2009-05-14 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/14/09 9:03 AM, "Gilles Sadowski" wrote: > Hi. > >> This solution to the N.C. problem (use r to indicate N.C.) > ^^^ > Will R also work? Not right now. I will investigate to see if it is easily done. Carl

Re: adding a snippet: No output from lilypond

2009-05-14 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Frédéric Bron wrote: I tried to add a snippet but I get the following message : "No output from lilypond". Is it because the LSR works with 2.10.12? If so, why not switching to current stable release 2.12.2? Frédéric It's probably because of the version. There has been discussion recently abou

Funny behaviour of LilyPondTool

2009-05-14 Thread Francisco Vila
When I click on an acciaccatura on the PDF, the point-and-click feature makes jEdit open the file /usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/ly/grace-init.ly and place the cursor inside the definition of startAcciaccaturaMusic. Interesting, but is this on purpose? I am able to place the cursor

adding a snippet: No output from lilypond

2009-05-14 Thread Frédéric Bron
I tried to add a snippet but I get the following message : "No output from lilypond". Is it because the LSR works with 2.10.12? If so, why not switching to current stable release 2.12.2? Frédéric ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http

Re: JEdit question

2009-05-14 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/5/14 : > In the Editor, when I enter the backslash \ > the editor autofills: > \melody > I have to remember each time to erase "melody" or else it creates errors. > It would be much more useful to have the backslash without the autofill. > How do I get rid of the autofill - anybody have any

Re: printing rest in ChordNames context

2009-05-14 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. > This solution to the N.C. problem (use r to indicate N.C.) ^^^ Will R also work? Thanks, Gilles ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/

Re: JEdit question

2009-05-14 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Or the lilyAssist.dat is somehow not available in the LilyPondTool.jar A solution could be to download LilyPondTool.jar directly from http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/lily4jedit Soon I will fix the build procedure and make it more stable. Bert MonAmiPierrot wrote: rathcoffey wrote: I

Re: printing rest in ChordNames context

2009-05-14 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/14/09 8:07 AM, "Tim McNamara" wrote: > > into the \chords feels clunky and intrusive to me. I'd prefer to > minimize putting formatting code in the music content as much as > possible. Being able to write something like nc1 (or r1) and have it > interpreted by LilyPond as N.C. would be

Re: printing rest in ChordNames context

2009-05-14 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 14, 2009, at 1:03 AM, Marc Hohl wrote: Tim McNamara schrieb: [...] In jazz lead sheets, the usual method is to write "N.C." above the staff ("No Chord") which cues the chordal instruments and rhythm section to stop playing to allow the break. There's a workaround that Martial wrot

Re: JEdit question

2009-05-14 Thread MonAmiPierrot
rathcoffey wrote: > > In the Editor, when I enter the backslash \ > > the editor autofills: > > \melody > > I have to remember each time to erase "melody" or else it creates errors.  > It would be much more useful to have the backslash without the autofill.  > How do I get rid of the auto

JEdit question

2009-05-14 Thread rathcoffey
I've recently started using LilyPond.  I'm enjoying it.  I'm using JEdit with the LP plugins.  I haven't been able to find an answer to this question in either the LP Help files or the JEdit help.  I'm probably not searching the index for the right terms. In the Editor, when I enter th

Re: Petrucci-like spacing?

2009-05-14 Thread Michael Lauer
Laura Conrad laymusic.org> writes: > > But when I transcribe Petrucci from the facsimile, the spacing lilypond > does always looks clunky, especially in the parts with large > note-values. > > > I believe Petrucci's spacing is just equal spacing for every note, no > matter what its value. >

Re: Reduce vertical space in one \score ?

2009-05-14 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/5/14 : > I would like to reduce the vertical space between staves (aka 1-stave > systems) within one \score on a page that has two other \scores. > > Once the rest of the content is added, I want to force the first \score's > staves much closer together and leave all the default automatic spa

Reduce vertical space in one \score ?

2009-05-14 Thread dan
(I think this bounced, forgive me if this double-posts. - D) I would like to reduce the vertical space between staves (aka 1-stave systems) within one \score on a page that has two other \scores. See below. Once the rest of the content is added, I want to force the first \score's staves much clo

Reduce vertical space in one \score ?

2009-05-14 Thread dan
I would like to reduce the vertical space between staves (aka 1-stave systems) within one \score on a page that has two other \scores. Once the rest of the content is added, I want to force the first \score's staves much closer together and leave all the default automatic spacing in place for the

Re: Lyric problem when alternative begins with a rest

2009-05-14 Thread Trevor Daniels
Tim Rowe wrote Thursday, May 14, 2009 1:18 AM 2009/5/14 Neil Puttock : In your lyrics definition, you're missing curly brackets around the alternatives: \alternative { so } { do } The { do } block isn't part of the \alternative block, so lilypond interprets the volta as having a repeat