Re: Right hand notes have too many ledger lines.

2011-02-16 Thread Francisco Vila
2011/2/16 Disc Magnet : > I have attached the PDF output with this email. In his score, the > treble clef is supposed to be played with right hand and the bass clef > with left hand. However, in the treble clef (right hand), we have two > notes ('a' and 'g') which are below the middle C and thus re

Re: Right hand notes have too many ledger lines.

2011-02-16 Thread David Kastrup
Disc Magnet writes: > I have attached the PDF output with this email. In his score, the > treble clef is supposed to be played with right hand and the bass clef > with left hand. However, in the treble clef (right hand), we have two > notes ('a' and 'g') which are below the middle C and thus repr

Barline at the beginning of a "piece"

2011-02-16 Thread Michael Dykes
Hullo all. I am creating chant templates for the 8 tones, and need repeat barlines at the beginning of each section. I know how to acheive that in the gregorian.ly style, but how do I do this if I do not have that feature on? i.e. no gregorian.sty and cadenzaOn? Before, I would type: \repeat volta

Re: Right hand notes have too many ledger lines.

2011-02-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/16/11 12:07 PM, "Disc Magnet" wrote: > > I have attached the PDF output with this email. In his score, the > treble clef is supposed to be played with right hand and the bass clef > with left hand. However, in the treble clef (right hand), we have two > notes ('a' and 'g') which are below t

Re: Right hand notes have too many ledger lines.

2011-02-16 Thread James Lowe
Disc Magnet, -Original Message- From: Disc Magnet Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:37:04 +0530 To: lilypond-user Subject: Right hand notes have too many ledger lines. >This is the code: > >\version "2.12.3" >\score { >\new PianoStaff << >\set PianoStaff.midiInstrument = "acoustic g

Re: Overriding bar-line behaviour

2011-02-16 Thread Robin Bannister
Matthias Hüsken wrote: What I'd like to achieve: When ending a bar with the repetition sign ":|", I need double lines ("||") at the beginning of the next bar. It looks as though you actually mean ending/beginning lines, not bars. [...] (":||" . (":|" . "||")) [...] Unfortunately, this does n

Lilypond-book: Adjust left page margin

2011-02-16 Thread Daniel Dieterle
Hi, currently I'm working on a song book with lilypond-book. I would like to have equal page margins on the left and right of 1 cm. So I configured the page layout with the LaTex geometry package. Lilypond-book adopts the staff length accordingly: The right space from the end of a staff line to t

Re: Shorthand notation for multi-measure rests in music with frequent meter changes ?

2011-02-16 Thread Michael Ellis
Thanks Neil, those are good tips. I'm a long time vim user so shortcuts are certainly a possibility. OTOH, I've recently found that JEdit + LilyPondTool makes a real difference in my productivity compared to vim + some helper scripts I had put together. I know JEdit has its own Java-based macro

Re: Right hand notes have too many ledger lines.

2011-02-16 Thread Jan Warchoł
2011/2/16 Disc Magnet : > This is the code: > > \version "2.12.3" > \score { >    \new PianoStaff << >        \set PianoStaff.midiInstrument = "acoustic grand" >        \tempo 4 = 120 >        \new Staff { >            \relative c' { >                c d c b >                a c d c >              

Re: Shorthand notation for multi-measure rests in music with frequent meter changes ?

2011-02-16 Thread Neil Thornock
I can't answer your question, but I have two responses to the dilemma. First, R2. is more compact than R1*3/4, and R1*2 is better than R1*8/4. Same with R4*5 vs R1*5/4. Also, if you happen to use Vim -- I keep all my time signatures in a separate file from the notes. It's then simple to map tim

Right hand notes have too many ledger lines.

2011-02-16 Thread Disc Magnet
This is the code: \version "2.12.3" \score { \new PianoStaff << \set PianoStaff.midiInstrument = "acoustic grand" \tempo 4 = 120 \new Staff { \relative c' { c d c b a c d c c d c b g c d c

Re: Overriding bar-line behaviour

2011-02-16 Thread Matthias Hüsken
Ok, I give up for tonight - obviously, before writing my last mail I tested while having the new barline definitions in scm/output-lib.scm (instead of reverting that file). Which means I cannot get things to work without modifying scm/output-lib.scm. Any ideas how to put this into a .ly file ar

Shorthand notation for multi-measure rests in music with frequent meter changes ?

2011-02-16 Thread Michael Ellis
I'm currently transcribing parts from music with frequently changing meters and segments where a part is resting. The sequence below is typical.     \time 3/4 R1*3/4 |     \time 3/8 R1*3/8 |     \time 4/4 R1*8/4 |  % 2 bars     \time 3/8 R1*3/8 | Does anyone know how to write a music function th

Re: Overriding bar-line behaviour

2011-02-16 Thread Matthias Hüsken
Sorry for the noise on the mailing list - I knew it was some stupid mistake... I tried to override the wrong value, it should have been \override Score.BarLine #'break-glyph-function = #my-bar-line::calc-glyph-name instead of \override Staff.BarLine #'glyph-name = #my-bar-line::calc-glyph-name

Re: Use custom font's flat (b) and sharp (#) symbols for chords(solved)

2011-02-16 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Xavier Scheuer" To: "Matthias Hüsken" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 5:32 PM Subject: Re: Use custom font's flat (b) and sharp (#) symbols for chords(solved) 2011/2/16 Matthias Hüsken : Hi again, thanks a lot for the pointers in the right dire

Re: engraving question - changing stem direction to avoid levitatingslur

2011-02-16 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Xavier Scheuer" To: "Neil Puttock" Cc: "Janek Warchoł" ; "lilypond-user" Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 1:23 PM Subject: Re: engraving question - changing stem direction to avoid levitatingslur 2011/2/15 Neil Puttock : You might try adding the

Overriding bar-line behaviour

2011-02-16 Thread Matthias Hüsken
Hi again, while trying to change LilyPond's behaviour concerning bar lines, I stumbled upon some strange behaviour. What I'd like to achieve: When ending a bar with e repetition sign ":|", I need double lines ("||") at the beginning of the next bar. I found bar-glyph-alist in scm/output-lib.sc

Re: Use custom font's flat (b) and sharp (#) symbols for chords

2011-02-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/16/11 2:29 AM, "Matthias Hüsken" wrote: > Hi again, > > thx so far. Sorry for my English, I think I did not make myself clear enough, > so I'll try to elaborate a little more. Your English is great. I just think that none of us knew how to answer you. > > So, what I would ideally like t

Re: Use custom font's flat (b) and sharp (#) symbols for chords (solved)

2011-02-16 Thread Xavier Scheuer
2011/2/16 Matthias Hüsken : > > Hi again, > > thanks a lot for the pointers in the right direction, I finally got my problem > solved. It is based on the solution found here: > http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg02286.html > > In case someone else stumbles upon this problem,

Re: Use custom font's flat (b) and sharp (#) symbols for chords (solved)

2011-02-16 Thread Matthias Hüsken
Hi again, thanks a lot for the pointers in the right direction, I finally got my problem solved. It is based on the solution found here: http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg02286.html In case someone else stumbles upon this problem, here is my (shortened) solution: % co

Re: strange output

2011-02-16 Thread Phil Holmes
Yes - this is a known issue: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1412 Just ignore the error message. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Mario Moles To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 11:06 AM Subject: Re: strange output I

Re: alpha test, horizontal spacing

2011-02-16 Thread Ralph Palmer
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Jan Warchoł < lemniskata.bernoulli...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/2/12 Trevor Daniels : > > > > Jan Warchoł wrote Saturday, February 12, 2011 9:25 AM > > > >> I agree too, but in my opinion it's a less important problem than the > >> one marked in red in the attachmen

Re: Use custom font's flat (b) and sharp (#) symbols for chords

2011-02-16 Thread Matthias Hüsken
> > So, what I would ideally like to have is a way of making Lilypond use "b" > > and "#" from a custom font, but exclusively in chord mode. I did quite > > some searching but did not come up with anything useful, so I already > > feared it might not be easy (or doable at all...). > > I think you c

Re: scheme artificial harmonic (transposition within chord)

2011-02-16 Thread Rob Canning
Neil Puttock wrote: On 15 February 2011 14:25, Rob Canning wrote: where lies the error or is there a better way to do this - am slightly suprised there is not a build in function for this... maybe there is? There are several parser limitations you're encountering here. The only way

Use custom font's flat (b) and sharp (#) symbols for chords

2011-02-16 Thread Matthias Hüsken
Hi everyone, I'm new to Lilypond and impressed with the ease of writing music and the quality of the output. For writing lead sheets, I changed Lilypond's standard font for printing chord names to a custom font. While this works perfectly, the style difference between the chord symbols and Lil

Re: engraving question - changing stem direction to avoid levitating slur

2011-02-16 Thread Xavier Scheuer
2011/2/15 Neil Puttock : > > You might try adding the Melody_engraver for this: it changes the > neutral-direction based on the stem directions of surrounding notes > (but only in the current bar, I think): Wow, I did not know the existence of this engraver! It is not mentioned in the doc (except

Re: strange output

2011-02-16 Thread Mario Moles
In data martedì 15 febbraio 2011 13:52:32, hai scritto: > See "Known issues and warnings" in the Notation Reference, section 1.2.6, > Grace notes. > > -- > Phil Holmes > Ok! Solved! But now this is the log: Processing `Impromptu.ly' Analisi... Interpreting music... Preprocessing graphical object

Re: Use custom font's flat (b) and sharp (#) symbols for chords

2011-02-16 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 16.02.2011 10:29, schrieb Matthias Hüsken: Hi again, thx so far. Sorry for my English, I think I did not make myself clear enough, so I'll try to elaborate a little more. What I have: - I am setting notes and chords. - I changed the font for the chords to a custom one (real book style). - N

Re: Use custom font's flat (b) and sharp (#) symbols for chords

2011-02-16 Thread Matthias Hüsken
Hi again, thx so far. Sorry for my English, I think I did not make myself clear enough, so I'll try to elaborate a little more. What I have: - I am setting notes and chords. - I changed the font for the chords to a custom one (real book style). - Notes (and related accidentals like flat and sha