instrumentName in StaffGroup

2011-01-13 Thread Federico Bruni
I have a StaffGroup containing a Staff and a TabStaff. I'd like to vertically center the instrument name between the two staves. This doesn't work: \version "2.13.46" \new StaffGroup << \set StaffGroup.instrumentName = #"Guitar 1 " \new Staff { R1 } \new TabStaff { R1 } >> Why? It seems

Re: do narrow and bold-narrow font-series exist? How can i squish Lyrics horizontally?

2011-01-13 Thread Shane Brandes
Small note. The term is "tracking" which means the adjustment of distance between letters, kerning is the adjustment of distance between two or more letters to make better use of whitespace and balance of inked areas. For example, tucking the "a" under the "w" in "awe," whereas tracking would consi

Re: do narrow and bold-narrow font-series exist? How can i squish Lyrics horizontally?

2011-01-13 Thread Robert Stoddard
The typesetting term for this is "kerning" -- modifying the space between letters. A valuable tool in text setting. Long ago Adobe sold fonts that were continuously variable, i.e. you could "dial in" any degree of bold or italic. I don't recall, though, that even those fonts had a "narrow" optio

Re: why chords with notes of different duration is not supported?

2011-01-13 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Am Mittwoch, 12. Januar 2011, um 09:02:19 schrieb Graham Percival: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:04:50AM -0500, Marc Mouries wrote: > > i'd like to know about the rationale behind not supporting chords with > > notes of different duration. > > Because there's no such thing as a chord with notes of

Re: why chords with notes of different duration is not supported?

2011-01-13 Thread Jan Warchoł
Hi all, 2011/1/13 Graham Percival > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:41:22AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > As far as I can see, there is not much more to do than just omit the > > > warning for parallel music when the output is sensible.  The extra > > > angles for being allowed (and required) t

Re: lilypond-book unwanted space

2011-01-13 Thread Karl Hammar
Peter O'Doherty: > On 01/13/2011 02:46 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 02:12:30PM +0100, Peter O'Doherty wrote: > >> \paper { > >>paper-width = 210\mm > >>left-margin = 20\mm > >>right-margin = 30\mm > >>line-width = 100\mm > >> } > > try: > >indent = 0\mm

Re: ottava bassa

2011-01-13 Thread Patrick Horgan
On 01/12/2011 07:42 AM, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: > If you modify that function in scm/define-music-callbacks.scm to 'Voice > instead of 'Staff, then \ottava only applies to the current voice (which > is, > however, probably now what we want by default). i guess

Re: lilypond-book unwanted space

2011-01-13 Thread Federico Bruni
2011/1/13 Peter O'Doherty > On 01/13/2011 02:46 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 02:12:30PM +0100, Peter O'Doherty wrote: >> >>> \paper { >>> paper-width = 210\mm >>> left-margin = 20\mm >>> right-margin = 30\mm >>> line-width = 100\mm >>> } >>> >> try: >> indent

rendering-order (Scheme) and lilypond-book

2011-01-13 Thread Phil Hézaine
Hi, Quoted from a previous post on this list: > \version "2.13.45" > > #(define sequence-number 0) > #(define-markup-command (score-sequence layout props sequence-number) > (number?) > (interpret-markup layout props >(markup #:bold #:huge (number->string sequence-number)#:fontsize 6 ".")))

Re: lilypond-book unwanted space

2011-01-13 Thread Peter O'Doherty
On 01/13/2011 02:46 PM, Graham Percival wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 02:12:30PM +0100, Peter O'Doherty wrote: \paper { paper-width = 210\mm left-margin = 20\mm right-margin = 30\mm line-width = 100\mm } try: indent = 0\mm as long as you have no instrument names, it should be fi

Re: setting the beamlet size in cue notes - help needed

2011-01-13 Thread Janek Warchoł
2011/1/12 Xavier Scheuer : > 2011/1/11 Janek Warchoł : >> how can i override beamlet length in cue notes? >> In the following code the \override Stem #'beamlet-default-length doesn't >> work. >> I know this can be done somehow because i did it once, and now i'm >> trying to do it again for an hour

Re: vertical alignment - how to bottom-align something?

2011-01-13 Thread Janek Warchoł
2011/1/12 James Bailey : > > On Jan 11, 2011, at 11:01 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: > >> I want to achieve this: >> >> bla >> ble >> bli >> blo >> blu foobar >> >> without messing with all the bla's. >> Any ideas? > > \markup { >   \general-align #Y #-1 { >      \column { >         "bla" "ble" "bli" "b

Re: do narrow and bold-narrow font-series exist? How can i squish Lyrics horizontally?

2011-01-13 Thread Janek Warchoł
2011/1/11 Alexander Kobel : > On 2011-01-11 00:30, Janek Warchoł wrote: >> Ok, thanks. >> What about compressing words? I mean, is it possible to change the >> amount of space between the letters? > > I don't think so, and I don't think it's to come: this is not even a > feature too common in amate

Re: lilypond-book unwanted space

2011-01-13 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 02:12:30PM +0100, Peter O'Doherty wrote: > \paper { > paper-width = 210\mm > left-margin = 20\mm > right-margin = 30\mm > line-width = 100\mm > } try: indent = 0\mm as long as you have no instrument names, it should be fine. Cheers, - Graham

lilypond-book unwanted space

2011-01-13 Thread Peter O'Doherty
Hi, I am using the command \lilypondfile[quote,noindent]{file.ly} to import a large file into a lilypond-book document and invoking using lilypond-book --output=out --pdf --left-padding=0 lilybook.lytex pdflatex lilybook.tex However, the music is shifted to the right such that it runs off the

Re: why chords with notes of different duration is not supported?

2011-01-13 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:41:22AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > As far as I can see, there is not much more to do than just omit the > > warning for parallel music when the output is sensible. The extra > > angles for being allowed (and required) to put the durations inside > > seem like a rea

Re: why chords with notes of different duration is not supported?

2011-01-13 Thread David Kastrup
Werner LEMBERG writes: > >> As far as I can see, there is not much more to do than just omit the >> warning for parallel music when the output is sensible. The extra >> angles for being allowed (and required) to put the durations inside >> seem like a reasonably cheap price to pay. > > There is

Re: why chords with notes of different duration is not supported?

2011-01-13 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> If at all, the syntax would be e.g. >> >> >> >> and the chord's duration would be the maximum of the single note's >> durations. >> >> This syntax extension looks quite natural to me. > > Not to me. Chord syntax explicitly creates a combined object with a > common duration, and the duration