Re: Center entire markup block

2010-09-04 Thread James Bailey
On Sep 5, 2010, at 6:19 AM, Christopher Meredith wrote: > I have a couple of markup blocks which are currently left aligned > which I would like to be centered on the page. The following snippet > is the section in question and it contains solutions from the LSR as > well as other projects. In ot

Re: overlapping notes transcribing to tablature

2010-09-04 Thread Marc Schonbrun
On Sep 3, 2010, at 4:55 PM, Marten Visser wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to create tablature for guitar from regular notes. I have a > piece with chords and melody, formatted for a piano staff. > > For conversion to tablature, Lilypond guesses the string and fret to play the > note on. This may lead

Lilypond on IMSLP

2010-09-04 Thread madMuze
“Troisième livre d’orgue des huit tons de l’eglise” by Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers is now available at http://imslp.org/wiki/Troisi%C3%A8me_livre_d%E2%80%99orgue_des_huit_tons_de_l%E2%80%99%C3%A9glise_%28Nivers,_Guillaume-Gabriel%29 imslp . The music (but not the prefatory text) was typeset in Lilyp

Center entire markup block

2010-09-04 Thread Christopher Meredith
I have a couple of markup blocks which are currently left aligned which I would like to be centered on the page. The following snippet is the section in question and it contains solutions from the LSR as well as other projects. In other words, I know it works but I don't know exactly how. http://p

Re: 2.13.32 not honouring margins and staves going off page

2010-09-04 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/4/10 5:07 PM, "Nick Payne" wrote: > I haven't been able to reproduce this behaviour with a small example, > but I'm getting some staves in a score where lilypond tries to fit too > many bars and the stave goes past the margin and off the right-hand edge > of the page, and others where the th

Re: segmentation fault with 2.13.32

2010-09-04 Thread Neil Puttock
On 5 September 2010 00:22, Paul Scott wrote: > I have reduced the problem to the presence of a \tempo command: Thanks for the report, Paul. The segfault is triggered by the presence of the full-bar rest in the lower stave: it prevents the setting of a horizontal parent for the MetronomeMark, wh

Re: metronome marks suppression again

2010-09-04 Thread Neil Puttock
On 5 September 2010 01:39, michael webster wrote: > yes indeed, setting Score.tempoHideNote = ##f will force lily to display > redundant makings like \tempo 4 = 80. > > but is there also a way to force lily to show redundant tempo markups like > this one?: Try adding \null to the end of the se

metronome marks suppression again

2010-09-04 Thread michael webster
howdy all - a refinement to my question. yes indeed, setting Score.tempoHideNote = ##f will force lily to display redundant makings like \tempo 4 = 80. but is there also a way to force lily to show redundant tempo markups like this one?: \score{ \new Staff{ c d e f %%%

suppression of identical tempo markings

2010-09-04 Thread michael webster
with this code: \score { \new Staff { \tempo 4 = 80 c d e f \tempo 4 = 80 g a b c }} lilypond does not display the second (redundant) tempo indication. is there a way to force lilypond to display it? I am using dotted quarter = quarter metronome marks in succession and lilypond is refusing to

Re: custom drumstuff, positions of noteheads

2010-09-04 Thread Neil Puttock
On 5 September 2010 00:28, Toine Schreurs wrote: > I don't know why it works, but changing, within your fourtoms definition, > the float-numbers syntax by surrounding the dots with spaces helps. The values following the dots are ignored, so it's equivalent to this: #(define fourtoms '((hightom d

Re: 2.13.32 not honouring margins and staves going off page

2010-09-04 Thread Neil Puttock
On 5 September 2010 00:07, Nick Payne wrote: > I haven't been able to reproduce this behaviour with a small example, but > I'm getting some staves in a score where lilypond tries to fit too many bars > and the stave goes past the margin and off the right-hand edge of the page, > and others where t

Re: custom drumstuff, positions of noteheads

2010-09-04 Thread Toine Schreurs
I don't know why it works, but changing, within your fourtoms definition, the float-numbers syntax by surrounding the dots with spaces helps. \version "2.12.2" %%% four Toms #(define fourtoms '((hightom default #t 4) (himidtom default #t 1 . 4) (lowmidtom de

Re: segmentation fault with 2.13.32

2010-09-04 Thread Paul Scott
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 11:30:58PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > I'm getting a seg. fault with 2.13.32. I haven't got the exact > cause yet but one variable is that I only see the fault when I add a > second \new Staff in a StaffGroup. I have two parts based on the > same score which both succeed wh

Re: 2.13.32 not honouring margins and staves going off page

2010-09-04 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi! You might try *very carefully* checking each of your measures to make sure they have exactly the correct value of notes/rests. I have found this same kind of situation when I inadvertently had too many sixteenths, or some such. Gordon+ -- Fr. Gordon Gilbert Penetanguishene, ON

repeats

2010-09-04 Thread Peter Buhr
I cannot figure out how to indicate the following repeat pattern for this music. I want the player to repeat the first line 4 times, repeat the second line 2 times, play the last line, and then start this pattern over again (until they get bored). Any help would be appreciated. ==

[Fwd: Overlap Beams in Time?]

2010-09-04 Thread PMA
Fixed. For proof, see pudding attached. (And I see this was hardly a new issue.) Thanks Jay! Pete Original Message Subject: Overlap Beams in Time? Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:53:49 -0400 From: PMA To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Dear List: First, thank you for Lilypond -- this wonde

Re: Overlap Beams in Time?

2010-09-04 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/4/10 12:53 PM, "PMA" wrote: > Dear List: > > First, thank you for Lilypond -- this wonderful tool -- and for > accepting my subscription. > > I am placing noteheads, and using beams, in a way that has little to do > with common usage. > Lilypond has to a considerable extent "played along",

Re: Problem with volta alternatives and time signature

2010-09-04 Thread Mario Moles
{\time 9/8 \repeat volta 2 { e8[ e b' e,] c'[ c b g g] a[ a d a] f'[ f e c c] } \alternative { { \time 7/8 a[ a] bes a[ a] f[ f] } { \time 7/8 g[ a] g[ g] f g[ g] } } } -- oiram/bin/selom ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: letter vs. a4 (and leger lines)

2010-09-04 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Saturday 04 September 2010 09:28:36 Phil Holmes wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "David Raleigh Arnold" > No-one cares, and it's not going to be changed. Thanks for the discussion. :-) Regards, daveA http://www.openguitar.com/refs/leger-line.html -- For beginners: very easy gu

Re: Overlap Beams in Time?

2010-09-04 Thread Jay Anderson
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 11:53 AM, PMA wrote: > Does anybody know a way around this predicament?  I've scoured the docs and > wiki in vain. The prelude to bach's cello suite no.1 has something like that I believe (http://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=517). Is this what you're look

Problem with volta alternatives and time signature

2010-09-04 Thread Tony Hogard
I have a strange issue with time signatures in alternatives: \time 9/8 \repeat volta 2 { e8[ e b' e,] c'[ c b g g] a[ a d a] f'[ f e c c] } \alternative { { \time 7/8 a[ a] bes a[ a] f[ f] } { \time 7/8 g[ a] g[ g] f g[ g] } } This results in the proper 7/8 time

Overlap Beams in Time?

2010-09-04 Thread PMA
Dear List: First, thank you for Lilypond -- this wonderful tool -- and for accepting my subscription. I am placing noteheads, and using beams, in a way that has little to do with common usage. Lilypond has to a considerable extent "played along", as you'll see in the attached example. But

Re: custom drumstuff, positions of noteheads

2010-09-04 Thread Neil Puttock
On 3 September 2010 13:58, Stefan Thomas wrote: > What I don't understand: in the below quoted snippet the positions of the > last three drum notes are the same. > Why is it so and how can I change it? Only integers are allowed for 'line-positions in a DrumStaff. This can be easily fixed, thoug

Re: How to add a \mark every 8 measures?

2010-09-04 Thread Heather W. Reichgott
Hi Mike, Thanks! Works great. Heather On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Mike Solomon wrote: > \version "2.13.32" > > << > \relative c' { \repeat unfold 64 { a b c d } } > { \repeat unfold 8 { \mark "foo" s1*8 } } >>> > > The only Scheme programming you'd need is if you didn't know exactly how > lo

Re: letter vs. a4 (and leger lines)

2010-09-04 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "David Raleigh Arnold" You continue to ignore the evident fact that the English "ledger" and French "leger" are not the same word. Since the spelling "leger" was in use to indicate the slight lines, and since "leger" was not used for a beam or large book, the

Re: letter vs. a4 (and leger lines)

2010-09-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> That's a pretty sorry performance, don't you think? Before it's getting personal: It's quite obvious that noone on the list is an expert for finding out a correct answer (if such a thing exists at all in that case). What about continuing this discussion off-list? Werner

Re: letter vs. a4 (and leger lines)

2010-09-04 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 02 September 2010 20:17:01 David Rogers wrote: > * David Raleigh Arnold [2010-09-02 19:36]: > >On Thursday 02 September 2010 12:23:58 David Rogers wrote: > >> Just for good measure (or bad measure :-) ), another possible > >> meaning could be "lines resembling the ruling in a ledger bo

Re: Add prefix to lyrics

2010-09-04 Thread Alexander Kobel
[repost to -user; I guess the attachments were too large. What's the maximum message size for the mailing list?] On 2010-09-03 10:47, Werner LEMBERG wrote: will font's hyphen be acceptable for lyrics as a _minimally_ acceptable. I think the answer is yes. However, this is my feeling and not

Re: Piano Staff: Templates: Centered Dynamics.

2010-09-04 Thread Ferran Auban
hi Ferran please always try to keep your examples or your code very small - this avoids running after problems that do not really exist! it is also good practice not to change too many things at a time! now, have you tried to compile my little example (including your music)? what are the resul