Re: Naturals & Accidental_engraver

2009-08-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
> Simon Mackenzie wrote: > >> I will be looking myself, but if anyone can suggest a good web site >> which would aid me in grasping music theory this would also be much >> appreciated. GNU Solfege is a Free Software program (like LilyPond) that could provide you with useful exercizes: http://solfe

Re: Scheme function for ossia

2009-08-23 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Would probably help if I showed the file :). I'm guessing the problem is it's not allowed to use a variable inside of the braces after the \with command, but I don't understand why. -Jonathan \version "2.12.2" ossia = #(define-music-function (parser location staffName) (string?) #{

Re: Naturals & Accidental_engraver

2009-08-23 Thread Mark Polesky
Simon Mackenzie wrote: > I will be looking myself, but if anyone can suggest a good web site > which would aid me in grasping music theory this would also be much > appreciated. http://www.dolmetsch.com/theoryintro.htm - Mark ___ lilypo

Re: Naturals & Accidental_engraver

2009-08-23 Thread Simon Mackenzie
For basic music theory this site seems helpful... http://www.8notes.com/ Simon On 24/08/2009, at 09:28, Simon Mackenzie wrote: Hi All, Yes by now you would have figured out I am musically challenged, seriously musically challenged. 1) My initial task was to generate a result which would d

Scheme function for ossia

2009-08-23 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
This is my first attempt at a scheme function, just to make a shortcut so that I don't have to type out all the overrides when making an ossia staff. But I get an unexpected string error when I try to compile it. Any advice on why this doesn't work? Thanks, Jonathan

re: excessively large PDF files produced when lilypond script contains CJK characters

2009-08-23 Thread 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng
Hello, I'm a Chinese musician, and I know how to produce smaller pdf files. I wrote a song accompanied by orchestra last year. The full score has 13 pages, but the size of the pdf is only 1.30M. If you're running Windows, please use your system's built-in fonts (please use a tool to view the r

Re: Naturals & Accidental_engraver

2009-08-23 Thread Simon Mackenzie
Hi All, Yes by now you would have figured out I am musically challenged, seriously musically challenged. 1) My initial task was to generate a result which would demonstrate to my clients the viability of my proposal for standardized music sheets across multiple language groups in our churc

Re: boxed measures

2009-08-23 Thread Matthieu Jacquot
It's maybe better like that : \version "2.13.3" notes = \relative c' { \override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'(4 . 10) c''-\markup { \box \pad-markup #5 { " " } } a f d c a f d } \score { \notes \layout { } } Regards, Matthieu http://www.nabble.com/file/p251

horizontal synchronisation of notation in drum mode

2009-08-23 Thread Brian Lloyd
Dear Colleagues, A relative newcomer to Lilypond, I am v. pleased to be able to notate drums in drum mode, and / but— Need your guidance on getting notation on beat in upper and lower voice to same horizontal location. I am typesetting swing-feel cymr in the upper voice and writing figures invo

Fw: Text Spanner with more than two words

2009-08-23 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Oops, I posted this to the devlist by mistake: --- On Sun, 8/23/09, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > From: Jonathan Wilkes > Subject: Text Spanner with more than two words > To: lilypond-de...@gnu.org > Date: Sunday, August 23, 2009, 8:03 PM > Hello, >      What's the easiest way to do text > spanners

RE: boxed measures

2009-08-23 Thread Nick Payne
The box could be drawn with Postscript. Here's an example of drawing large square brackets with Postscript. Easily modifiable to draw a box: \version "2.12.1" #(define lbracket "0.25 setlinewidth 0 setlinejoin 0 setlinecap 0.5 -2 moveto

Re: copying error messages in Frescobaldi

2009-08-23 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op dinsdag 18 augustus 2009, schreef Federico Bruni: > How can I copy the error message in Frescobaldi? > ctrl+C or ctrl+shift+C don't work.. > > Where can I find the log file? > > > Thanks in advance, Just select the LilyPond messages with the mouse and paste them where you want them with the

Re: boxed measures

2009-08-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/8/23 Mark Polesky : > Ugh. Kludge-o-rama. Ghost voices, hidden notes, clashing > note-columns, spacing nightmares... I'll see if someone > has a better idea on -devel, but in the meantime, this is > an option. A quite ugly one then -- no offence :-) Let's make this official, even with some m

Re: boxed measures

2009-08-23 Thread Matthieu Jacquot
Maybe we could try in this way : \version "2.13.3" notes = \relative c' { %\override RehearsalMark #'Y-offset = #5.5 c''-\markup { \box { \score { \new Staff \with { \remove Time_signature_engraver \remov

Re: Accidental_engraver & Naturals

2009-08-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:03:13PM +0700, Simon Mackenzie wrote: > I haven't been able to figure out how to replicate the three naturals on > this music sheet using Lilypond script? > Any ideas? Yes. My idea is that you should read: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-learn

Re: \context for named Staff

2009-08-23 Thread Marc Hohl
Trevor Daniels schrieb: Marc Hohl wrote Saturday, August 22, 2009 7:30 PM Jay Anderson schrieb: [...] So what do you think? Should the "SmallStaff" just be left as a snippet? If it is a snippet ideally I'd want to do something like: \include "small_staff.lyi" \score { \new SmallStaff {.

Re: [m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl: translation error]

2009-08-23 Thread Mark Polesky
Martin Tarenskeen wrote: > I bumped into a really ugly dutch translation error message: > > "geforceerde breuk werd opgeheft door andere gebeurtenis, zou je > maatcontrole moeten gebruiken?" > > (The dutch people on this list will know what the error is - I hope ;-) > What's the right place to

Re: boxed measures

2009-08-23 Thread Mark Polesky
Mark Polesky wrote: > A while back, I did exactly that. I'll look for it and > get back to you... Ugh. Kludge-o-rama. Ghost voices, hidden notes, clashing note-columns, spacing nightmares... I'll see if someone has a better idea on -devel, but in the meantime, this is an option. Let me know if

[m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl: translation error]

2009-08-23 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
I bumped into a really ugly dutch translation error message: "geforceerde breuk werd opgeheft door andere gebeurtenis, zou je maatcontrole moeten gebruiken?" (The dutch people on this list will know what the error is - I hope ;-) What's the right place to report such translation errors ? --

Re: boxed measures

2009-08-23 Thread Mark Polesky
Valentin Villenave wrote: > I suspect this might be achieveable by using the > Horizontal_bracket_engraver (see NR1.7.2.3). It would require to > override the HorizontalBracket #'stencil property and replace it with > a Scheme callback but I don't know exactly how to do it. > > It would certainly

Re: boxed measures

2009-08-23 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Valentin, that sounds a bit too difficult for me. I think I will try it with the help of scribus, in the meantime. 2009/8/23 Valentin Villenave > 2009/8/23 Stefan Thomas : > > I would like to do something like You can see in the attached image. > > I suspect this might be achieveable by usi

Re: Naturals & Accidental_engraver

2009-08-23 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Simon, if you send me your file "V-CHW066.ly" I'll have a look at it. Cheers, patrick Original-Nachricht > Datum: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:21:19 +0700 > Von: Simon Mackenzie > An: "James E. Bailey" > CC: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Betreff: Re: Naturals & Accidental_engraver > I'm

Re: boxed measures

2009-08-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/8/23 Stefan Thomas : > I would like to do something like You can see in the attached image. I suspect this might be achieveable by using the Horizontal_bracket_engraver (see NR1.7.2.3). It would require to override the HorizontalBracket #'stencil property and replace it with a Scheme callback

RE: Vertifal alignment of fingering and accent

2009-08-23 Thread Nick Payne
> -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 Mark Polesky > Sent: Sunday, 23 August 2009 11:29 AM > To: Nick Payne; lilypond > Subject: Re: Vertifal alignment of fin

Re: excessively large PDF files produced when lilypond script contains CJK characters

2009-08-23 Thread Michel Villeneuve
2009/8/23 Daryna Baikadamova : > Whenever I have CJK characters in the title or composer fields in the > header, the generated PDF file is always at least 2MB, even if there > is only one page, but when I remove the CJK characters, it shrunk back > to about 300kB.  How can I control the PDF file si

excessively large PDF files produced when lilypond script contains CJK characters

2009-08-23 Thread Daryna Baikadamova
Whenever I have CJK characters in the title or composer fields in the header, the generated PDF file is always at least 2MB, even if there is only one page, but when I remove the CJK characters, it shrunk back to about 300kB. How can I control the PDF file size? Thanks! Daryna

Re: \context for named Staff

2009-08-23 Thread Trevor Daniels
Marc Hohl wrote Saturday, August 22, 2009 7:30 PM Jay Anderson schrieb: [...] So what do you think? Should the "SmallStaff" just be left as a snippet? If it is a snippet ideally I'd want to do something like: \include "small_staff.lyi" \score { \new SmallStaff {...} } How would one make

boxed measures

2009-08-23 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, I would like to do something like You can see in the attached image. I don't mean the feathered beams (I know how this can be done) but the boxed bars, followed by the dotted lines. I have no idea how to do this in Lilypond. A hint would be great! Thanks Stefan <>___