Re: Trying to Replicate a Measure with Decreasing Subdivisions

2009-08-14 Thread Mark Polesky
Andrew Wiley wrote: > Okay, I think I solved this, thanks to the excellent > Lilypond documentation. I needed a combination of > stemLeftBeamCount, stemLeftBeamCount, stemUp, and > cross-staff stems. Solved what? Where is the message you're replying to? - Mark _

Re: Trying to Replicate a Measure with Decreasing Subdivisions

2009-08-14 Thread Andrew Wiley
Okay, I think I solved this, thanks to the excellent Lilypond documentation. I needed a combination of stemLeftBeamCount, stemLeftBeamCount, stemUp, and cross-staff stems. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/l

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/14/09 5:57 PM, "Reinhold Kainhofer" wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am Samstag, 15. August 2009 01:06:40 schrieb Carl Sorensen: >> On 8/14/09 4:46 PM, "Reinhold Kainhofer" wrote: >>> Attached is my current code for general complex time signatures >>> (arbitr

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 15. August 2009 01:06:40 schrieb Carl Sorensen: > On 8/14/09 4:46 PM, "Reinhold Kainhofer" wrote: > > Attached is my current code for general complex time signatures > > (arbitrary # of fractions, arbitrary # of numerators). I have not yet

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:13:18PM +0200, James E. Bailey wrote: > Look at that, even I need scheme. I wanted to have the time signature be > > 3+3+2 > 8 Great! Search the archives for this list, last Oct or Nov or maybe even Dec, to find the solution. "lilypond elegance" will help the sea

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread James E. Bailey
On 15.08.2009, at 00:46, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 14. August 2009 23:13:18 schrieb James E. Bailey: Look at that, even I need scheme. I wanted to have the time signature be 3+3+2 8 Apparently this is where Scheme is necessar

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/14/09 4:46 PM, "Reinhold Kainhofer" wrote: > Attached is my current code for general complex time signatures (arbitrary # > of fractions, arbitrary # of numerators). I have not yet tried to get it into > master, because the auto-beaming does not yet follow the signature. How should aut

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 14. August 2009 23:13:18 schrieb James E. Bailey: > Look at that, even I need scheme. I wanted to have the time signature be > > 3+3+2 > 8 > > Apparently this is where Scheme is necessary. I've found the one that > makes it > 3+3+2 >

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread Mark Polesky
James E. Bailey wrote: > > 3) decide if you want > >(#:column (one num)) > >...or just... > >one > >etc. > This bit I don't understand. (#:column (one num)) would be the > equivalent of \markup \center-column { one num }, right? > How would I do > \markup \center-column {\line {one

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread James E. Bailey
On 15.08.2009, at 00:30, Carl Sorensen wrote: 3) decide if you want (#:column (one num)) ...or just... one etc. This bit I don't understand. (#:column (one num)) would be the equivalent of \markup \center-column { one num }, right? How would I do \markup \center-column {\line {on

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread Mark Polesky
James E. Bailey wrote: > > 3) decide if you want > >(#:column (one num)) > >...or just... > >one > >etc. > This bit I don't understand. (#:column (one num)) would be the > equivalent of \markup \center-column { one num }, right? > How would I do > \markup \center-column {\line {one

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/14/09 4:12 PM, "James E. Bailey" wrote: > > On 14.08.2009, at 23:59, Mark Polesky wrote: >> >> Umm, that's probably not the best way of asking for help... We >> usually prefer "can someone point me in the right direction" or >> something like that... > > Usually I do, except here, a po

RE: horizontal/vertical text spanner alignment

2009-08-14 Thread Nick Payne
See attached. I already had a music function for indicating string numbers in guitar scores, and it only took a minute or two to modify it to have a different number on each end of the spanner. Nick > -Original Message- > From: lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.on@gnu.org >

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread James E. Bailey
On 14.08.2009, at 23:59, Mark Polesky wrote: Umm, that's probably not the best way of asking for help... We usually prefer "can someone point me in the right direction" or something like that... Usually I do, except here, a point in the right direction wouldn't be sufficient for me. I kinda

Re: complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread Mark Polesky
James E. Bailey wrote: > Apparently this is where Scheme is necessary. I've found the one > that makes it > 3+3+2 > 8 8 8 > > in the documentation but I don't understand how to make the change. > > Can someone just do that for me? Umm, that's probably not the best way of asking for help... We usua

complex time signatures: scheme help

2009-08-14 Thread James E. Bailey
Look at that, even I need scheme. I wanted to have the time signature be 3+3+2 8 Apparently this is where Scheme is necessary. I've found the one that makes it 3+3+2 8 8 8 in the documentation but I don't understand how to make the change. #(define ((compound-time one two num) grob)

Re: horizontal/vertical text spanner alignment

2009-08-14 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/8/14 Patrick Schmidt : > how can I align a text spanner vertically and horizontally to get something > like this ➂---➁? Here is a tiny example: You need to make the string numbers part of the text spanner using '(bound-details left text)/'(bound-details right text). Take a look at this sni

horizontal/vertical text spanner alignment

2009-08-14 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Dear all, how can I align a text spanner vertically and horizontally to get something like this ➂---➁? Here is a tiny example: \version "2.13.3" scale = \relative c'' { %\once \override TextSpanner #'(bound-details left Y) = #5 %\once \override TextSpanner #'(bound-details righ

Re: markup help

2009-08-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/14/09 12:27 PM, "James E. Bailey" wrote: > > On 14.08.2009, at 19:11, Carl Sorensen wrote: > >> >> >> >> On 8/14/09 9:54 AM, "James E. Bailey" wrote: >> >> Though I reorganized them for 2.13. Hopefully you'll find this version easier to read: http://kainhofer

Re: markup help

2009-08-14 Thread James E. Bailey
On 14.08.2009, at 19:11, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 8/14/09 9:54 AM, "James E. Bailey" wrote: Though I reorganized them for 2.13. Hopefully you'll find this version easier to read: http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/notation/index_54.html - Mark Thank you, incidentally, af

Re: Strumming rhythm for chord progression

2009-08-14 Thread Mark Polesky
Tim McNamara wrote: > Much IMHO simpler would be to use following template which was > sent to me by someone else on the list when I first started > using LilyPond. An LSR search for "harmonies" yields some related snippets: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=harmonies - Mark ___

Re: markup help

2009-08-14 Thread Mark Polesky
James E. Bailey wrote: > Thank you, incidentally, after some trial and error (after I > sent the email) I figured that out. Although I should point out, > neither documentation source says that the glyph names for the > numbers don't begin with "scripts". Are you referring to the section NR 1.2.5

Re: markup help

2009-08-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/14/09 9:54 AM, "James E. Bailey" wrote: >> >> Though I reorganized them for 2.13. Hopefully you'll find this >> version easier to read: >> http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/notation/index_54.html >> >> - Mark >> >> > > Thank you, incidentally, after some trial and error (

Re: markup help

2009-08-14 Thread James E. Bailey
On 14.08.2009, at 07:52, Mark Polesky wrote: James E. Bailey wrote: Reading the documentation, I don't understand why this doesn't work: \version "2.12.2" \markup { \musicglyph #"scripts.zero" \musicglyph #"scripts.one" ... } The glyph names for the numbers don't begin with "script

Re: Strumming rhythm for chord progression

2009-08-14 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 14, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Christian Henning wrote: Hi all, thanks a lot for your reply. I think I understand now. Inside the \improvisationOn section I don't have to reuse the real chord name. A placeholder might be sufficient? So instead of writing g1:sus I can just use g1. All I want in th

Re: Strumming rhythm for chord progression

2009-08-14 Thread Christian Henning
Hi all, thanks a lot for your reply. I think I understand now. Inside the \improvisationOn section I don't have to reuse the real chord name. A placeholder might be sufficient? So instead of writing g1:sus I can just use g1. All I want in the end is to have the chord name to appear above the stave

Re: huge file with Japanese characters

2009-08-14 Thread Michel Villeneuve
2009/8/13 Werner LEMBERG : > This is a bug in gs.  If the Japanese font contains embedded bitmaps, > they are not subsetted (as done with all outline glyphs) in the PDF > but output completely.  The recent version of gs, 8.70, should simply > strip these bitmaps,[1] yielding much smaller PDF files.

Re: Strumming rhythm for chord progression

2009-08-14 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Christian, I think you just forgot one closing curly brace ("}"). This works for me: \version "2.12.2" << \new ChordNames { \chordmode { g1 g2:sus4 g } } \new Voice \with { \consists "Pitch_squash_engraver" } { \relative c'' { \improvisationOn g4 g8. g1

Re: Strumming rhythm for chord progression

2009-08-14 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello Christian, everytime you want to enter chord, you have to put it in \chordmode. This version compiled in my Lilypond: -- \version "2.12.2" \header { title = " \"Creep\" by Radiohead" } << \new ChordNames { \chordmode { g1 g1:sus4 } }

Re: Strumming rhythm for chord progression

2009-08-14 Thread Robin Bannister
Christian Henning wrote: I'm struggling with sus4 chords. ... unexpected STRINGsus4 This is notemode complaining. It is the default input mode: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Input-modes sus4 is meant only for chord mode. But note mode is digesting your mu