Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

Stefan Thomas wrote: Ok, I've understood this now. In the meantime, I tried to make my own microtone-uitchtable. But, unfortunately, it doesn't work. I always get the error message: stefansMikrotoene.ly:32:6: warning: Could not find glyph-name for alteration -162/247 That says it's a warning,

Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

On 9/25/09 5:36 PM, "fiëé visuëlle" wrote: > Am 2009-09-25 um 22:54 schrieb James E. Bailey: >>> Just, pretty please: Could someone tell me how to get chord names >>> with -is and -es (saying "fis" and not "f#")? >>> Or of course point me to the appropriate chapter of the docs. >> >> Section

Re: another route from MIDI to lilypond

> "Villum" == Villum Sejersen writes: Villum> Both of you ought to take a look at Jöerg Anders' NtED, Villum> which to my experience has good import/export Villum> facilities. Both the application and the source code (C++) Villum> look very impressive to me. A quick test on t

Re: another route from MIDI to lilypond

Both of you ought to take a look at Jöerg Anders' NtED, which to my experience has good import/export facilities. Both the application and the source code (C++) look very impressive to me. http://vsr.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/staff/jan/nted/nted.xhtml -- yours, Villum Sejersen Nørregade 1 A D

dynamic marks vertical alignment

hello list, apologies in advance if this is silly or obvious, but i've been away from lilypond for some time. i realized that by default lilypond puts dynamic marks aligned at the top, resulting in poor alignment of pianos and fortes. for example, this code: \relative c'{ d'2\fp d2\sfp d2\f d\p

Re: A6-sheet

On Sep 25, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Jeroen Heijmans wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 22:28, Andrew Tucker > wrote: On Sep 25, 2009, at 12:54 PM, Jeroen Heijmans wrote: I've forced the evenly spread with 'system-count = 5' but, I think that's not the way to create small sheets(?). It's just something

Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

Am 2009-09-25 um 22:54 schrieb James E. Bailey: Just, pretty please: Could someone tell me how to get chord names with -is and -es (saying "fis" and not "f#")? Or of course point me to the appropriate chapter of the docs. Section 2.7.2, Displaying chords under Customizing chord names Of co

Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 07:36:21PM +0100, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: >> For the record, does he also want you to use the old Novello >> "backwards eighth-note rest" for quarter rests? >> I mean, that was also the "common practice since Bach" — but people >> [wisely] decided that a *real* quarte

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

On 25 Sep 2009, at 21:59, Stefan Thomas wrote: I've already defined some microtonal pitchnames But, unfortunately I have problems with the correct spacing. Especially I don't understand why the distance between the barline and the cis is better if it is a whole note but not, if it is a quart

Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

On 9/25/09 2:17 PM, "fiëé visuëlle" wrote: > > Just, pretty please: Could someone tell me how to get chord names with > -is and -es (saying "fis" and not "f#")? > Or of course point me to the appropriate chapter of the docs. Here's a set of scheme routines that will allow you to get Fis, Aes

Re: A6-sheet

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 25. September 2009 22:46:56 schrieb Jeroen Heijmans: > You're all correct about the dimensions. > Evince gives the same measurements (A6). > > But my print preview is on A4. I have to print with the options '4 > pages on 1 page' to have th

Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

On 25.09.2009, at 22:17, fiëé visuëlle wrote: Just, pretty please: Could someone tell me how to get chord names with -is and -es (saying "fis" and not "f#")? Or of course point me to the appropriate chapter of the docs. Section 2.7.2, Displaying chords under Customizing chord names James E.

Re: A6-sheet

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 22:28, Andrew Tucker wrote: > > On Sep 25, 2009, at 12:54 PM, Jeroen Heijmans wrote: >> >> I've forced the evenly spread with 'system-count = 5' but, I think >> that's not the way to create small sheets(?). >> It's just something I can't really pinpoint. >> The staves need

Re: another route from MIDI to lilypond

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 01:13:29PM -0400, Laura Conrad wrote: > > I was frustrated only this week by the problems of getting a MIDI file > into lilypond via midi2ly, so when I got a newsletter from Noteflight > saying that they now have MIDI import, I > did a quick tes

Re: A6-sheet

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 19:27, Jean-Charles Malahieude wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've been trying and trying. >> Removed settings, changed some, but I just can't get a good A6-sized >> sheet. >> >> These are my files: >> http://www.ff.fm/downloads/ptfm.ly >> http://www.ff.fm/downloads/ptfm.pdf >> >> I

Re: A6-sheet

On Sep 25, 2009, at 12:54 PM, Jeroen Heijmans wrote: I've forced the evenly spread with 'system-count = 5' but, I think that's not the way to create small sheets(?). It's just something I can't really pinpoint. The staves need to be closer to eachother. Marchingsheet-music looks different than

Re: command-line usage - bus error

Just to be sure, have you deleted the ~/.fontconfig, and ~/.fonts.cache* files (again) and (optionally) changed Font Book to store fonts on the computer, and not the user? That solved all of my font problems. Those font caches sometimes need a little help. On 25.09.2009, at 21:09, Patrick S

Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

Am 2009-09-25 um 21:03 schrieb Carl Sorensen: The reason why I didn't just use [] instead of () is that I didn't want to check and change the lyrics of all the songs that were already typeset. I guess I'll use that approach for the rest of the songbook. But the documentation says that if au

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

Dear Community, I've already defined some microtonal pitchnames But, unfortunately I have problems with the correct spacing. Especially I don't understand why the distance between the barline and the cis is better if it is a whole note but not, if it is a quartenote. Here the snippet: \version "2.1

Re: command-line usage - bus error

> Well, similar enough, the instructions have you make a link to the > lilypond binary, but I was more interested if just lilypond (without > a file argument) worked. And if I understand correctly, you're saying > that 2.13.4.1 doesn't work. Was that even a complete upload? Graham > ment

Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

On 9/25/09 10:15 AM, "fiëé visuëlle" wrote: > > The reason why I didn't just use [] instead of () is that I didn't > want to check and change the lyrics of all the songs that were already > typeset. I guess I'll use that approach for the rest of the songbook. > But the documentation says th

Re: command-line usage - bus error

Well, similar enough, the instructions have you make a link to the lilypond binary, but I was more interested if just lilypond (without a file argument) worked. And if I understand correctly, you're saying that 2.13.4.1 doesn't work. Was that even a complete upload? Graham mentioned somethi

Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

In message , Kieren MacMillan writes Hi, Sorry, no chance - "this is common practice since Bach, and I as a seasoned choir leader" yadda yadda... Wow... a closed-minded, backwards-thinking choral director. There's a first time for everything, I guess! ;) He's very much convinced that hi

Re: command-line usage - bus error

Original-Nachricht > Datum: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:30:53 +0200 > Von: "James E. Bailey" > An: Patrick Schmidt > CC: lilypond-user Mailinglist > Betreff: Re: command-line usage - bus error > Can you run just "lilypond"? It may be a problem in the file. You mean invoking lilypond

Re: command-line usage - bus error

Can you run just "lilypond"? It may be a problem in the file. On 25.09.2009, at 10:32, Patrick Schmidt wrote: Dear Community, I get a bus error when I try to invoke 2.13.4.1 from the command- line (Mac OS X 10.4.11). I followed the guidelines in the manual "Program Usage" (section MacOS X

Re: A6-sheet

Hi, I've been trying and trying. Removed settings, changed some, but I just can't get a good A6-sized sheet. These are my files: http://www.ff.fm/downloads/ptfm.ly http://www.ff.fm/downloads/ptfm.pdf It seems to me, I'm getting an A4 pdf. But the biggest problem is getting the staffs and meas

another route from MIDI to lilypond

I was frustrated only this week by the problems of getting a MIDI file into lilypond via midi2ly, so when I got a newsletter from Noteflight saying that they now have MIDI import, I did a quick test. It turns out to be fairly simple to import the MIDI file into note

Re: A6-sheet

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 18:27, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am Freitag, 25. September 2009 18:00:16 schrieb Jeroen Heijmans: >> Removed settings, changed some, but I just can't get a good A6-sized sheet. >> >> These are my files: > [...] >> It see

Re: A6-sheet

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 25. September 2009 18:00:16 schrieb Jeroen Heijmans: > Removed settings, changed some, but I just can't get a good A6-sized sheet. > > These are my files: [...] > It seems to me, I'm getting an A4 pdf. No, in the PDF viewer the page dime

Re: A6-sheet

Am 2009-09-25 um 18:00 schrieb Jeroen Heijmans: I've been trying and trying. Removed settings, changed some, but I just can't get a good A6-sized sheet. Did you try #(set-default-paper-size "a6") outside of everything (top-level)? Greetlings from Lake Constance --- fiëé visuëlle Henning

Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

Thank you all for the discussion and the good advice! I don't want to let my editor look like an evil stick-in-the-mud (or how do you say) - he's a real expert in German and European folk music, so maybe he's just only used to older songbooks... (And I agree, most folk songbooks that are 10

A6-sheet

Hi, I've been trying and trying. Removed settings, changed some, but I just can't get a good A6-sized sheet. These are my files: http://www.ff.fm/downloads/ptfm.ly http://www.ff.fm/downloads/ptfm.pdf It seems to me, I'm getting an A4 pdf. But the biggest problem is getting the staffs and measure

Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

On 9/25/09 9:44 AM, "Reinhold Kainhofer" wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am Freitag, 25. September 2009 17:41:00 schrieb Carl Sorensen: >> On 9/25/09 8:39 AM, "fiëé visuëlle" wrote: >>> If I switched off slurs using >>> \override Slur #'stencil = ##f >>> how do I

Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 25. September 2009 17:41:00 schrieb Carl Sorensen: > On 9/25/09 8:39 AM, "fiëé visuëlle" wrote: > > If I switched off slurs using > > \override Slur #'stencil = ##f > > how do I enable it again without warnings? > > > > \override Slur #'st

Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

On 9/25/09 8:39 AM, "fiëé visuëlle" wrote: > > If I switched off slurs using > \override Slur #'stencil = ##f > how do I enable it again without warnings? > > \override Slur #'stencil = ##t > does work, but issues an error (#t is no stencil) If you read the Internals Reference, 3.1.90 Slur,

Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

Hi, Sorry, no chance - "this is common practice since Bach, and I as a seasoned choir leader" yadda yadda... Wow... a closed-minded, backwards-thinking choral director. There's a first time for everything, I guess! ;) He's very much convinced that his "standard" is much easier to read

Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

Hi Reinhold, here in Europe, that is traditional notation Yes, it's "traditional notation" over here, too... ;) From the Essential Dictionary of Music Notation, pg 186: "Beaming of notes associated with a lyric now follows standard notational practice. Traditional practice, now obsolete,

Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

On 9/25/09 6:31 AM, "fiëé visuëlle" wrote: > Hi again, > > my editor tells me, in vocal music eights (everything smaller than a > quarter) have to be normally unbarred and I should use barred eights > instead of slurs. > > Is there a global setting for that? To change the global settings fo

Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

I don't understand how \override Slur #'stencil = ##f can solve any problems, since you have to insert the corresponding beams manually to get the correct melisma. Why not use your text editor to replace each ( by a [ and each ) by a ] ? This, combined with \autoBeamOff, will give the desired b

Re: lyrics with syllables associated to notes

Simply use a phrasing slur instead of a slur, see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Curves#Phrasing-slurs. /Mats Jatziri Valtierra wrote: Hi! I would like to do a melodic line with phrasing slur and use lyrics with syllables associated to notes inside the phrasing sl

Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

Am 2009-09-25 um 16:37 schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer: Am Freitag, 25. September 2009 16:21:01 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi, my editor tells me, in vocal music eights (everything smaller than a quarter) have to be normally unbarred and I should use barred eights instead of slurs. That is *not*

Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

Am 2009-09-25 um 16:21 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: my editor tells me, in vocal music eights (everything smaller than a quarter) have to be normally unbarred and I should use barred eights instead of slurs. That is *not* modern practice... I would *strongly* recommend that you try to convin

Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 25. September 2009 16:21:01 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: > Hi, > > > my editor tells me, in vocal music eights (everything smaller than > > a quarter) > > have to be normally unbarred and I should use barred eights instead > > of slurs. > >

Re: Vertical Spacing

Hi Jonathan, How do I say: "Hey Lilypond, use the following 'minimum-Y-extent for whatever system m. 2 ends up in." I think you'd have to put an invisible object with that Y-extent in m2. Cheers, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypon

Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

Hi, my editor tells me, in vocal music eights (everything smaller than a quarter) have to be normally unbarred and I should use barred eights instead of slurs. That is *not* modern practice... I would *strongly* recommend that you try to convince your editor to use modern practice (i.e.,

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

On 25 Sep 2009, at 14:44, Graham Breed wrote: what I don't understand: How many cents are an alteration of 10/1023? It's a fraction of 200 cents. So 200 * 10/1023 = 2000/1023 = 1.955... cents, which looks like a schisma. From my computations, it corresponds choosing an approximation in

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

Ok, I've understood this now. In the meantime, I tried to make my own microtone-uitchtable. But, unfortunately, it doesn't work. I always get the error message: > stefansMikrotoene.ly:32:6: warning: Could not find glyph-name for > alteration -162/247 > I don't understand how to make use of the HE-

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

Stefan Thomas wrote: what I don't understand: How many cents are an alteration of 10/1023? It's a fraction of 200 cents. So 200 * 10/1023 = 2000/1023 = 1.955... cents, which looks like a schisma. Graham ___ lilypond-user mailin

slurs and bars in vocal music

Hi again, my editor tells me, in vocal music eights (everything smaller than a quarter) have to be normally unbarred and I should use barred eights instead of slurs. Is there a global setting for that? I know \autoBeamOn/Off (works only within a voice) and \override Slur #'stencil = ##f

tweaking ChordNames

Hello fellow pond dwellers, 1) How can I tweak my ChordNames to print -is and -es as such, not as # and b? I.e. print "fis" as "Fis" and not "F#" 2) How can I set \germanChords globally, i.e. not within a ChordNames context? (I thought "deutsch.ly" would do that, but it doesn't.) Greetli

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

Dear Graham, what I don't understand: How many cents are an alteration of 10/1023? 2009/9/25 Graham Breed > Stefan Thomas wrote: > >> Dear Graham, >> absolutely, I would like to define a list of notenames, for e.g. pitches >> that are about 15cents lower, But I have no idea how to do it, when I

Re: Contemporary music required feature #1: chromatic transposition

On 25 Sep 2009, at 07:11, Joseph Wakeling wrote: Joe, can you come up with a short description and a minimal example, so Valentin can add it to the tracker? Will do. Sorry for not replying earlier to your kind offer of help -- I'm going through a bit of a busy patch -- but will get to work