Re: Lilypond errors in log file

2011-07-22 Thread Bill Mooney
Hi Sarah, There appears to be a mismatched << immediately after the \score { at line 136. Commenting it out lets your file compile - whether the result is what you want, I don't know! :) Regards Bill ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.o

Lilypond errors in log file

2011-07-22 Thread sarah-k
Hi all - I apologize because I'm sure this answer can be found somewhere, but I am VERY new at this, and I don't have lots of time to research this. I've exported a MuseScore file to an ly file, and all appears fine, except that I'm getting the following errors when trying to create the PDF: # -

Re: Understanding multi-score books

2011-07-22 Thread Christopher R. Maden
On 07/22/2011 09:00 PM, Bill Mooney wrote: > Does the attached file help? > I haven't tested it with lp-v12... Thanks, Bill! Adding print-all-headers = ##t to the \paper{} block causes the book part and score titles both to print. However, the book and book part titles seem mutually exclusive, a

Re: Chords above notes for chant

2011-07-22 Thread Br. Athanasius Pelletier
I figured it out. The regular rests wouldn't work (r4, 48, etc.) so I used spacer rests (s4, s8, etc.) and added those << thingys. \score { << \chords { s2 s4 f\breve s2 s4 bf\breve s2 d:m} \new Staff \with { \remove "Time_signature_engraver" } { \key c \major \set Staff.instrumentNa

Re: Understanding multi-score books

2011-07-22 Thread Bill Mooney
You wrote ++ I’m trying to put together a book of Irish tunes. I don’t need a lot of text, so lilypond-book is overkill. I’m trying instead to use the \book markup as described in the File Structure section of the manual. H

Re: Chords above notes for chant

2011-07-22 Thread Br. Athanasius Pelletier
I don't want the notes to be chords because the notes are chanted as they are. An organ will accompany the chanting and play the chords that I want to indicate above certain notes. Also, how would I insert a rest? All I get when I try your example is a N.C. On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Chr

Re: Chords above notes for chant

2011-07-22 Thread Christopher R. Maden
On 07/22/2011 08:14 PM, Br. Athanasius Pelletier wrote: > I need to get the letters for the chords above certain notes in the > example below. I thought of using markup but I don't know if I can > get sharp or flat symbols. I want "F" above the first f breve, a "B > flat(symbol)" above the second

Chords above notes for chant

2011-07-22 Thread Br. Athanasius Pelletier
I need to get the letters for the chords above certain notes in the example below. I thought of using markup but I don't know if I can get sharp or flat symbols. I want "F" above the first f breve, a "B flat(symbol)" above the second F breve and "D min." above the last D. Thanks \version "2.14.

Understanding multi-score books

2011-07-22 Thread Christopher R. Maden
I’m trying to put together a book of Irish tunes. I don’t need a lot of text, so lilypond-book is overkill. I’m trying instead to use the \book markup as described in the File Structure section of the manual. However, when I assign titles to a book, a book part, and a score, as per the manual, I

Re: multiple timesignatures

2011-07-22 Thread Matthew Collett
On 23/07/2011, at 6:26 am, Ruud van Silfhout wrote: > I saw that in January of this year a new feature called compoundTime > signatures > is introduced in Lilypond. A good effort. compoundTime specified the timing > of > each measure. However, for church music (esp. hymns) this does not suffic

Re: Simplest way to get notes without staves

2011-07-22 Thread John Allsup
Thanks for that, and I intend to get round to learning lilypond-book in latex, but it is more than I need for what I want to achieve in the near future. John On 22/07/11 07:22, Federico Bruni wrote: You replied just to me, not to the list. I don't think this is what you wanted to do. Anyway,

Re: lead sheet

2011-07-22 Thread Johan Vromans
zilekym zilekym writes: > Hi everybody! > > I would like to make a lead sheet very schematic and simple. My idea is > start from the context Chordnames in order to write every name of the chord > placed over each measure over which I want to write as maximum tow chords. > My goal is to place the

multiple timesignatures

2011-07-22 Thread Ruud van Silfhout
I saw that in January of this year a new feature called compoundTime signatures is introduced in Lilypond. A good effort. compoundTime specified the timing of each measure. However, for church music (esp. hymns) this does not suffice. What you see there is that multiple meters are specified a t

Re: lead sheet

2011-07-22 Thread Ole Schmidt
> > I would like to make a lead sheet very schematic and simple. My idea is > start from the context Chordnames in order to write every name of the chord > placed over each measure over which I want to write as maximum tow chords. > My goal is to place the bar lines symmetrically making measures

Re: Alignment bug?

2011-07-22 Thread Hilary Snaden
Phil Holmes wrote: It looks like LilyPond hasn't realised that the semi-breves don't have stems, so it is shifting them to avoid the stems (which aren't there) from clashing. This sounds like a bug to me. I've done some experimenting and have shown that you can align 4 semi-breves in differe

Re: Alignment bug?

2011-07-22 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "harm6" To: Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 12:15 AM Subject: Re: Alignment bug? Hilary Snaden wrote: I've now tried everything I can think of, as well as some suggestions from others, but none of the tweaking works reliably (or at all) if there are more th