Re: score transposition problem

2011-04-13 Thread Tom Cloyd
Wow, as usual I'm totally delighted with the range and richness of responses to my query. Many things to try and to investigate. Not all of them will take me to my goal as easily as I'd like, but all sound worth following up on. I've very grateful to you all. Thank you very much. I was afraid

Re: first attempt

2011-04-13 Thread Neil Thornock
Nope, I'm reading cross-eyed! Nevermind previous response... Actually, it's very difficult to answer a question without a functioning snippet of code (or at least thorough explanation). But I'm glad you solved your problem. :) Neil On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Neil Thornock wrote: > Proba

Re: first attempt

2011-04-13 Thread Neil Thornock
Probably the fist thing you did wrong was not read the learning manual :) http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/Tutorial#Tutorial Otherwise, you need braces... melody = \relative { c' } On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Andrew Wood wrote: > syntax error unexpected NO

first time

2011-04-13 Thread Andrew Wood
I just asked a question about syntax error NOTENAME_PITCH. I removed the melody = and it works now___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

first attempt

2011-04-13 Thread Andrew Wood
syntax error unexpected NOTENAME_PITCH What did I do wrong? melody = \relative c'___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: ossia and lyrics

2011-04-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
David, you wrote Wednesday, April 13, 2011 9:45 PM This does the trick. I had to assign some contexts. Why are the lyrics not aligned properly? It's due to the \lyrics: \lyrics { \set alignBelowContext = #"1" \new Lyrics \lyricsto "1" \sopranoLyrics } This ca

Re: ossia and lyrics

2011-04-13 Thread David Bobroff
On 4/13/2011 8:20 PM, David Bobroff wrote: On 4/13/2011 5:12 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: Please reply-all when answering a question on the user-list - that way everyone can see your answers and contribute. Also - if you're lucky enough to have a mail program that always properly quotes with a > ma

Re: ossia and lyrics

2011-04-13 Thread David Bobroff
On 4/13/2011 5:12 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: Please reply-all when answering a question on the user-list - that way everyone can see your answers and contribute. Also - if you're lucky enough to have a mail program that always properly quotes with a > mark, please add contributions at the bottom.

Re: [tablatures] Re: dampened symbol in tablature when using fonts other than Feta

2011-04-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/13/11 12:32 PM, "Federico Bruni" wrote: > Il giorno mar, 12/04/2011 alle 17.11 -0600, Carl Sorensen ha scritto: >>> ... maybe I've overwritten the command instead of just adding the >>> override? >> >> That's right. >> >> Look in ly/property-init.ly for the definition of \deadNote, and

Re: [tablatures] Re: dampened symbol in tablature when using fonts other than Feta

2011-04-13 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno mar, 12/04/2011 alle 17.11 -0600, Carl Sorensen ha scritto: > > ... maybe I've overwritten the command instead of just adding the > > override? > > That's right. > > Look in ly/property-init.ly for the definition of \deadNote, and > duplicate > it, but with the override added. Thanks

Re: ossia and lyrics

2011-04-13 Thread Phil Holmes
Please reply-all when answering a question on the user-list - that way everyone can see your answers and contribute. Also - if you're lucky enough to have a mail program that always properly quotes with a > mark, please add contributions at the bottom. Mine doesn't, so I'm doing it wrong. I

Re: ossia and lyrics

2011-04-13 Thread Phil Holmes
Could you let us know what version of LilyPond you're using? - aspects of this have changed recently Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: "David Bobroff" To: "lilypond-user" Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 5:28 PM Subject: ossia and lyrics I've been tasked with altering a score

ossia and lyrics

2011-04-13 Thread David Bobroff
I've been tasked with altering a score I've prepared. The score currently consists of a piano part with a vocal line and a contrabass obligato line. As it stands, all is well. Now I need to put in ossia passages for the voice. I have managed to create ossia passages by using examples in the

Re: score transposition problem

2011-04-13 Thread Nils Hammerfest
You can use Denemo for this. Choose the clefs the original has, insert the notes just as if they were dots on lines and in the end change the clef to what you want. Nils > On 04/13/2011 00:15 AM, Tom Cloyd wrote: > > I want to arrange a Bach chorale for guitar. My score for the chorale is > >

Re: score transposition problem

2011-04-13 Thread Christopher R. Maden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/2011 00:15 AM, Tom Cloyd wrote: > I want to arrange a Bach chorale for guitar. My score for the chorale is > a nightmare. I can barely read bass clef, and can do that in my mind, > but the scores for soprano, alto, and tenor all use C-clefs,

Re: position of the little '8' in bass clef

2011-04-13 Thread Arlin
James, thank you so much! That is exactly what I needed. James Worlton wrote: > > On Apr 2, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Arlin wrote: > ... > \clef "bass^8" > \override Staff.OctavateEight #'Y-offset = #1.8 > \override Staff.OctavateEight #'X-offset = #0.6 > ... > -- View this message in context: h

Re: Forced Tie between non-equal notes?

2011-04-13 Thread bruys .
Sorry, I've gone off half-cocked. I can't get this to work when the second note in the tie has an accidental. I thought I could get it to work, as follows, but the tie doesn't print, and the accidental I'm trying not to print gets printed. Bruys \version "2.12.3" \score { { ces''2 ~ ces''2

Re: Lilypond with Cubase/DAW for Musical

2011-04-13 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> [...] the fact that someone modified abc2ly to break the way *my* > ABC uses clefs (ABC isn't standardized, so there are several > dialects) is a real nuisance. This kind of change should be > discussed somewhere. Bug report, please. Werner __

Re: Lilypond with Cubase/DAW for Musical

2011-04-13 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Phil" == Phil Holmes writes: Phil> I do something similar using Phil> Noteworthy. (http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/) I notate Phil> using Noteworthy, export using its text format and then use a Phil> self-written program to convert to LilyPond. The single piece Phil>

Re: Forced Tie between non-equal notes?

2011-04-13 Thread bruys .
David came up with an interesting observation, but it didn't seem to help with Nils's problem. But, there's more than one way to skin the cat: using David's observation, and the fact that changing the "middleCPosition" property doesn't make the clef get re-drawn, we can trick Lilypond into drawing

Re: score transposition problem

2011-04-13 Thread David Kastrup
Marc Hohl writes: > Am 13.04.2011 09:56, schrieb Janek Warchoł: >> Hi, >> >> 2011/4/13 Marc Hohl: >>> Am 13.04.2011 06:15, schrieb Tom Cloyd: I want to arrange a Bach chorale for guitar. My score for the chorale is a nightmare. I can barely read bass clef, and can do that in m

Re: score transposition problem

2011-04-13 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 13.04.2011 09:56, schrieb Janek Warchoł: Hi, 2011/4/13 Marc Hohl: Am 13.04.2011 06:15, schrieb Tom Cloyd: I have a simple problem which I've never before faced, and I'm hoping there exists a simple solution about which someone can tell me. I play and write music for classic guitar, so I us

Re: score transposition problem

2011-04-13 Thread David Santamauro
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:15:54 -0600 Tom Cloyd wrote: > I want to arrange a Bach chorale for guitar. My score for the chorale > is a nightmare. I can barely read bass clef, and can do that in my > mind, but the scores for soprano, alto, and tenor all use C-clefs, > and in a way that each score mus

Re: Stacked markup problem

2011-04-13 Thread -Eluze
Jesse Engle-3 wrote: > > > What I wanted was for the first row of text to read "L L R R," and the > second row to read "R R L L", but Lilypond seems to have a different > means of choosing the display order. Is there any way to override this, > or is it a bug? > you can stack L and F in a \

Re: score transposition problem

2011-04-13 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, 2011/4/13 Marc Hohl : > Am 13.04.2011 06:15, schrieb Tom Cloyd: >> >> I have a simple problem which I've never before faced, and I'm hoping >> there exists a simple solution about which someone can tell me. >> >> I play and write music for classic guitar, so I use "\clef "treble_8"" in >> my s

Re: How can I get good layout and good midi without writing everything twice?

2011-04-13 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 13.04.2011 08:56, schrieb Martin Tarenskeen: On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Marc Hohl wrote: Or, if you are using the latest development version, you can use \articulate in your \midi { } block. don't you forget \include "articulate.ly" ? or is that not necessary anymore in the latest developmen