Re: Lilypond - chord progression

2009-09-03 Thread Patrick Horgan
Christian Henning wrote: Hi all, thanks for the replies. I could fix all of my problems. I'm using multipliers now which I find easier to use and to read. Thanks to Brett Duncan. This now finishes my first project using lilypond. I like it and will continue using it. Great stuff! Christian

Space before staff lines in ossia

2009-09-03 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hello, Here's a picky little question: what's the best way to get the staff lines of the ossia measure to extend, say, half a staff space before the first note (*without* changing any of the current spacing between notes)? Ideally I'd like to be able to set this in a \layout block. -Jonath

Re: Contemporary music documentation

2009-09-03 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 02:15:50PM +0200, Joseph Wakeling wrote: >(iii) What are the restrictions on including examples from actual > contemporary scores? I'm not thinking huge extracts, but maybe > a couple of bars from a known work just to illustrate how a > partic

Re: Lilypond Speed

2009-09-03 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Sat, 8/29/09, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: > From: Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) > Subject: Re: Lilypond Speed > To: "Jonathan Wilkes" > Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Date: Saturday, August 29, 2009, 6:40 AM > Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > > It sounds like there is a wide discrepancy

Re: Lilypond Speed

2009-09-03 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 3. September 2009 schrieb Tim Reeves: > Mainly for my own curiosity, I compiled the Reubke Sonata score to check > timing: > WinXP SP3 32-bit, LP 2.13.3, LPT 2.12.869, on Intel C2D E9600 (2.8GHz), 2 > GB RAM > > 5 min 38 seconds. > > A bit slower than the Linux times others got. W0

Re: Lilypond - chord progression

2009-09-03 Thread Christian Henning
Hi all, thanks for the replies. I could fix all of my problems. I'm using multipliers now which I find easier to use and to read. Thanks to Brett Duncan. This now finishes my first project using lilypond. I like it and will continue using it. Great stuff! Christian On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:34 AM

Re: mixed notehead styles in tablature chords

2009-09-03 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/3/09 1:53 PM, "Patrick Schmidt" wrote: > > Unfortunately the cross-style notehead does not appear in tablature. Is it > possible to mix notehead styles in tablature chords? Yes, thanks to the excellent work of Marc Hohl. Improved tablature has been implemented in LilyPond 2.13.4, whic

mixed notehead styles in tablature chords

2009-09-03 Thread Patrick Schmidt
hi all, how can I change the notehead style of only some of the noteheads of a chord in a tabvoice? In the archives I found a solution that produces a cross-style notehead for selected noteheads in normal/traditional notation: \version "2.13.3" x = #(define-music-function (parser location note)

Re: calling a music variable using a Scheme function

2009-09-03 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 3 sept. 09 à 10:47, Valentin Villenave a écrit : On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Nicolas Sceaux> wrote: %% UNTESTED! includeList = #(define-music-function (parser location variable-names) (list?) (make-sequential-music (map (lambda (variable-name) (let ((music (ly:parser-lookup

Re: Contemporary music documentation

2009-09-03 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Trevor Daniels wrote: > Stubs are fine, but make them visible rather than commented out, > perhaps followed by "TBC" (to be completed). You could do this > in the Turkish section too - I'm sure that's what Graham meant. Sure. In that case I just removed stuff because I was fairly sure I wasn't m

Re: Lilypond Speed

2009-09-03 Thread Tim Reeves
Mainly for my own curiosity, I compiled the Reubke Sonata score to check timing: WinXP SP3 32-bit, LP 2.13.3, LPT 2.12.869, on Intel C2D E9600 (2.8GHz), 2 GB RAM 5 min 38 seconds. A bit slower than the Linux times others got. I do have a Vista machine at home (wife's PC) I could check it on if

Re: Contemporary music documentation

2009-09-03 Thread Trevor Daniels
Joseph Wakeling wrote Thursday, September 03, 2009 7:13 PM Trevor Daniels wrote: BTW, slightly tangential, but have you seen section 4.5.5 on Proportional notation, written by Trevor Bača? There would be no need to repeat this. Sure -- I've even tried using that functionality in one or two

Re: Contemporary music documentation

2009-09-03 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Trevor Daniels wrote: > BTW, slightly tangential, but have you seen section 4.5.5 on Proportional > notation, written by Trevor Bača? There would be no need to repeat this. Sure -- I've even tried using that functionality in one or two pieces. :-) Incidentally, what's described there is only a s

Re: Contemporary music documentation

2009-09-03 Thread Trevor Daniels
Joseph Wakeling wrote Thursday, September 03, 2009 1:15 PM Following my fun experience writing some documentation for makam.ly and Turkish classical music, I'm thinking of writing a section on contemporary music for the Notation Reference. This would join the existing sections of Chapter 2

Re: chord durations

2009-09-03 Thread Tim McNamara
On Sep 3, 2009, at 10:21 AM, Christian Henning wrote: Hi there, I'm at work and don't really have much time.I just wanna state that I presented my problem with a reduced sheet. The problem was regarding the chord durations and not with the melody. I'm a software engineer and this is how I post

Re: chord durations

2009-09-03 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/3/09 9:21 AM, "Christian Henning" wrote: > Hi there, I'm at work and don't really have much time.I just wanna > state that I presented my problem with a reduced sheet. The problem > was regarding the chord durations and not with the melody. I'm a > software engineer and this is how I post

Re: Lilypond Speed

2009-09-03 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 3. September 2009 schrieb Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool): > Please don't start this discussion :) Then how about a discussion about top posting? ;-) ;-) *duckandhide* -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' What do you call a dead bee? - A was. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: The best way for a book?

2009-09-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Marc Hohl wrote: Pierre Couderc schrieb: What is the best way for a book with Lilypond extracts in it? I have tried LaTeX with lilypond book, but I get mixs of lilyponds 'images" with other images. What am I missing? I am not sure that this solves your problems, but you can tell LaTeX whet

Re: Lilypond Speed

2009-09-03 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Please don't start this discussion :) Pierre Couderc wrote: Mmm, It may be too that linux applications are by nature of the OS quicker than Windows ones... Tim McNamara a écrit : On Sep 3, 2009, at 7:04 AM, Nick Payne wrote: So it looks as though, for any sort of substantial score, turnaro

Re: chord durations

2009-09-03 Thread Christian Henning
Hi there, I'm at work and don't really have much time.I just wanna state that I presented my problem with a reduced sheet. The problem was regarding the chord durations and not with the melody. I'm a software engineer and this is how I post questions to reduce the chance of confusion. I have poste

Re: Contemporary music documentation

2009-09-03 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Bryan Stanbridge wrote: > One thing that's always been a pain to me are the "box" score notations > where a small snippet of music is enclosed in a box, then a dark line > with or without an arrow will run for the duration that the performer is > to repeat the box. I've stayed away from typesetting

Re: The best way for a book?

2009-09-03 Thread Marc Hohl
Pierre Couderc schrieb: What is the best way for a book with Lilypond extracts in it? I have tried LaTeX with lilypond book, but I get mixs of lilyponds 'images" with other images. What am I missing? Is Scribus an alternative : I see here that there are problems too? Ooffice? Thank you in a

Re: chord durations

2009-09-03 Thread Tim McNamara
On Sep 2, 2009, at 7:56 PM, Patrick Horgan wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: I am a guitarist. If all he wants is a chord chart, some paper and a pencil would be a better approach. Or even a word processor two write out the chords like Ralph Patt did with the Vanilla Book. http://www.ralphpat

Re: automatic beams: is it possible to achieve this automatically?

2009-09-03 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/3/09 6:15 AM, "Frédéric Bron" wrote: > Hi, > > I would like the default behaviour of 2/4 time, i.e. beams end at the > end of each beat. > However, if there are only 8th notes in the measure, I would like the > beam not to stop half measure as shown below. > Is it possible to achieve tha

Re: Lilypond Speed

2009-09-03 Thread Pierre Couderc
Mmm, It may be too that linux applications are by nature of the OS quicker than Windows ones... Tim McNamara a écrit : On Sep 3, 2009, at 7:04 AM, Nick Payne wrote: So it looks as though, for any sort of substantial score, turnaround time will be markedly reduced by using 64-bit Linux. Th

Re: Lilypond Speed

2009-09-03 Thread Tim McNamara
On Sep 3, 2009, at 7:04 AM, Nick Payne wrote: So it looks as though, for any sort of substantial score, turnaround time will be markedly reduced by using 64-bit Linux. Thanks for all the comparisons, Nick, that was very interesting. If I understand the history of LilyPond correctly, it is

Contemporary music documentation

2009-09-03 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Hello all, Following my fun experience writing some documentation for makam.ly and Turkish classical music, I'm thinking of writing a section on contemporary music for the Notation Reference. This would join the existing sections of Chapter 2 on various other forms of specialist notation. The

Re: calling a music variable using a Scheme function

2009-09-03 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 3. September 2009 13:15:33 schrieb Valentin Villenave: > What got me confused here is that in > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=630 I thought Nicolas actually > created header texts instead of standalone markups. Yes, Nicolas uses n

automatic beams: is it possible to achieve this automatically?

2009-09-03 Thread Frédéric Bron
Hi, I would like the default behaviour of 2/4 time, i.e. beams end at the end of each beat. However, if there are only 8th notes in the measure, I would like the beam not to stop half measure as shown below. Is it possible to achieve that with automatic rules? With 2.13 maybe? but I did not see in

RE: Lilypond Speed

2009-09-03 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 Nick Payne > Sent: Wednesday, 2 September 2009 7:02 PM > Cc: 'lilypond' > Subject: RE: Lilypond Speed > > > -Origin

Re: calling a music variable using a Scheme function

2009-09-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > You have to use let* instead of let. With let* the definitions are evaluated > in > the given order and can depend on each other. With let, you cannot use one of > the variables in the value of another. Oh, thanks. Actually there was so

Re: calling a music variable using a Scheme function

2009-09-03 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 3. September 2009 11:29:48 schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer: > > - how can I add a \header block for each \score produced > > In the OrchestralLily package (http://www.repo.or.cz/w/orchestrallily.git), > I'm using this to assign a piece name t

Articulate midi script

2009-09-03 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Hi, I was wondering if the acticulate midi script is already in Lilypond? http://www.nicta.com.au/people/chubbp/articulate I put articulate.ly in my lilypondfiles folder and the script in /usr/local/bin But I got this message: d...@debian:~/lilypondfiles$ lilywrap lilywraptest.ly /usr/loca

Re: calling a music variable using a Scheme function

2009-09-03 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 3. September 2009 10:47:52 schrieb Valentin Villenave: > - why does scorify-music fail here? > > includeList = > #(define-music-function (parser location variable-names) (list?) > (map (lambda (variable-name) > (let ((music (m

Re: calling a music variable using a Scheme function

2009-09-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Nicolas Sceaux wrote: > %% UNTESTED! > includeList = > #(define-music-function (parser location variable-names) (list?) >  (make-sequential-music >   (map (lambda (variable-name) >          (let ((music (ly:parser-lookup parser (string->symbol > variable-name >

Re: one bar number per system

2009-09-03 Thread Trevor Daniels
Dan Eble wrote Wednesday, September 02, 2009 11:51 PM \bar allows a break, but does not force it. Ideally, I would like a bar number printed only after a break. If memory serves, the all-visible override didn't work in mid-measure for the upcoming full-measure bar line. (I do not have