Frets without string information

2009-11-20 Thread Jesús Guillermo Andrade
Dear fellows: I've read in several places that it is impossible to transpose frets with string information. How can one create a fret without it? I'd like to make lilypond able to transpose the basic frets I am putting together. Thanks ___ l

Re: No string for pitch #

2009-11-20 Thread Jesús Guillermo Andrade
Got the prick little b... It was as Carl initially suggested. I made a minimal example and found that there was a problem with the model for the string tuning function. Thanks a lot... El 20/11/2009, a las 10:31 p.m., Jesús Guillermo Andrade escribió: Yes... definitely except for the lit

Re: No string for pitch #

2009-11-20 Thread Jesús Guillermo Andrade
El 20/11/2009, a las 05:30 a.m., -Eluze escribió: it has has been mentioned before that it could be an octavation problem - so defining your chord as harmonies = \chordmode { e':7 } will solve the problem! Yes... definitely except for the little fact that if I change the chords from t

Re: ottava: remove dashed line

2009-11-20 Thread David Kastrup
Reinhold Kainhofer writes: > Am Freitag, 20. November 2009 18:47:11 schrieb David Kastrup: > >> It is customary to write "loco" then when the ottavation ends. >> Probably easy to do this manually, though, but might be nice to have >> this work automatically, so that one can use the same source fo

Re: ottava: remove dashed line

2009-11-20 Thread stefankaegi
Thank you. This has already helped very much. Do you also have an idea how to center it above a note? I can cheat a bit with extra-offset, but this isn't all-too accurate. Best wishes, Stefan Am Freitag, den 20.11.2009, 18:13 +0100 schrieb Mats Bengtsson: > The general strategy is fairly well des

Re: ottava: remove dashed line

2009-11-20 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Freitag, 20. November 2009 18:47:11 schrieb David Kastrup: > Mats Bengtsson writes: > > The general strategy is fairly well described in the LilyPond Learning > > Manual, especially in Sect. 4.3.1 "Visibility and color of objects", > > but also Sect. 4.1 and 4.2 are useful to get the basic conc

Re: ottava: remove dashed line

2009-11-20 Thread David Kastrup
Mats Bengtsson writes: > The general strategy is fairly well described in the LilyPond Learning > Manual, especially in Sect. 4.3.1 "Visibility and color of objects", > but also Sect. 4.1 and 4.2 are useful to get the basic concepts and to > learn how to find out what "object" to modify. > > Hmm,

Re: [Fwd: To say good bye]

2009-11-20 Thread David R. Linn
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Re: ottava: remove dashed line

2009-11-20 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The general strategy is fairly well described in the LilyPond Learning Manual, especially in Sect. 4.3.1 "Visibility and color of objects", but also Sect. 4.1 and 4.2 are useful to get the basic concepts and to learn how to find out what "object" to modify. Hmm, at second thought it wasn't tha

Re: Force staff height

2009-11-20 Thread George_
Neil Puttock wrote: > > > Simply remove the \context block (inside \layout { }) which defines > the Dynamics context; it should look similar to this: > > \context { > \type "Engraver_group" > \name Dynamics > \alias Voice > \consists "Output_property_engraver" >

[Fwd: To say good bye]

2009-11-20 Thread Pierre RUEL
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ottava: remove dashed line

2009-11-20 Thread stefankaegi
Hi Is there a way to remove the dashed line of an ottava section so that only the sign "8va" is centered above a single note? Thank you Stefan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: time signature: 3.5/4

2009-11-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Stefan, Thank you very much. This really solved it! Well... =\ My OCD won't let you use that version — at least this one fits in the staff, like a good time signature should: \version "2.13.7" tsa = \markup { \override #'(baseline-skip . 0) \center-column { \concat { \n

Re: Wanted: documentation editor

2009-11-20 Thread John Mandereau
Le vendredi 20 novembre 2009 à 14:56 +, Graham Percival a écrit : > 1) cd Documentation; make doc > 2) go cook dinner or read slashdot or catch up on emails or > whatever > 3) if it fails, complain on -devel. If it succeedes, then commit > the changes you want to test. > 4) touch Documenta

Re: Wanted: documentation editor

2009-11-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 09:09:42AM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Op vrijdag 20-11-2009 om 08:51 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Frédéric > Bron: > > > Can you say how you do it in 30 minutes because each time I want to > > update the NR after a small modification, its 15 to 20 minutes of > > com

Re: time signature: 3.5/4

2009-11-20 Thread stefankaegi
Thank you very much. This really solved it! Cheers, Stefan Am Freitag, den 20.11.2009, 09:03 -0500 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: > Hi Stefan, > > > Now the problem is that the slash is slightly too big > > so the "4" is placed a bit too low. How could I solve this? > > Maybe something like > > \ve

Re: time signature: 3.5/4

2009-11-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Stefan, Now the problem is that the slash is slightly too big so the "4" is placed a bit too low. How could I solve this? Maybe something like \version "2.13.7" tsa = \markup { \override #'(baseline-skip . 0) \center-column { \concat { \number 3 \raise #0.5 "+" \

Re: time signature: 3.5/4

2009-11-20 Thread stefankaegi
Ok... This already helped a lot. I did the following: tsa = \markup { \override #'(baseline-skip . 0.0 ) \column { \number 3+1/2 \number 4 } } \once \override Staff.TimeSignature #'style = #'default \once \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = #(lambda (grob) (grob-interpret-markup g

Re: modern accidentals rule (was: Re: Bad spacing (gap) when large interval and accidental)

2009-11-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 08:45:24AM +0100, Frédéric Bron wrote: > > Didn't you already push it?  It appeared in my git tree, but maybe > > I committed it locally but forgot about it? > > > > If it's already pushed, you'll need to make a new patch against > > master; go ahead and push that. > > Hi G

Re: Problem with Lilypond

2009-11-20 Thread Xavier Scheuer
Le Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:27:16 + (UTC), François a écrit : > And i don't understand what do i have to do. > Thank you in advance for your answer. Hi, LilyPond has no graphical user interface (as other well-known scorewriters have), which can be surprising. It uses text files to produce PDFs,

Re: Problem with Lilypond

2009-11-20 Thread Jonathan Kulp
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:27 AM, François wrote: > Hello, > > I've downloaded Lilypond but when i try to start it, it says : > > "Congratulations, LilyPond has been installed > successfully. > Now to take it for the first test run. > 1. Save this LilyPond file on your desktop > with the name "tes

Re: Lilypond incipits

2009-11-20 Thread Roman Stawski
J. bezeqint.net> writes: > If some one can help or point me to documentation > in how to make 20 note incipits in Lilypond for a large folk song > collection I am working to publish from the linux computer I have > inherited. > I want to take the opening phrase of each one and > create an in

Problem with Lilypond

2009-11-20 Thread François
Hello, I've downloaded Lilypond but when i try to start it, it says : "Congratulations, LilyPond has been installed successfully. Now to take it for the first test run. 1. Save this LilyPond file on your desktop with the name "test.ly". 2. Pick it up from the desktop with your mouse pointer, d

Re: No string for pitch #

2009-11-20 Thread -Eluze
Jesús Guillermo Andrade wrote: > > This is a minimal example. > it has has been mentioned before that it could be an octavation problem - so defining your chord as harmonies = \chordmode { e':7 } will solve the problem! hth -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/No-string-f

Re: modern accidentals rule

2009-11-20 Thread Hans Aberg
On 10 Nov 2009, at 07:25, David Kastrup wrote: BTW, I have found a strange behaviour of "modern" accidentals rule: LilyPond considers volta alternatives as "previous" measure. Is this correct? (Note the natural sign at the 2nd and 3rd alternatives, not related to the previous _played_ measure.)

Re: time signature: 3.5/4

2009-11-20 Thread Hans Aberg
On 19 Nov 2009, at 19:00, James E. Bailey wrote: I'd like to have the time signature "3+1/2 / 4" (three and a half quarters). How can I do this? The easiest way is probably to create a hidden 7/8 time signature, and override the displayed time signature with markup showing what you want.

Re: Wanted: documentation editor

2009-11-20 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op vrijdag 20-11-2009 om 08:51 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Frédéric Bron: > Can you say how you do it in 30 minutes because each time I want to > update the NR after a small modification, its 15 to 20 minutes of > compilation... > Do you have a secret to make it quicker? Type make; go do the la