Re: Adding dynamics to lyrics

2011-08-30 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:05:51 +1000 Peter Chubb schreef: This writes some dynamic markup in lyrics: \new Staff { r2 a' a' } \addlyrics { Hi \markup { \dynamic ff " there!" } } But you can of course add the dynamic to the music instead of the lyrics, which eliminates the tedious counting: t

Re: Adding dynamics to lyrics

2011-08-30 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Christ" == Christ van Willegen writes: Christ> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 05:48, Peter Chubb Christ> wrote: >> For the benefit of search-engine-land, the way to do this is to use >> a separate dynamics context.  Like this: Christ> The problem with specifying it like this, is that you'll hav

Re: Adding dynamics to lyrics

2011-08-30 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 05:48, Peter Chubb wrote: > For the benefit of search-engine-land, the way to do this is to use a > separate dynamics context.  Like this: The problem with specifying it like this, is that you'll have to repeat note lengths throughout the whole dynamic context. If you make

Re: Adding dynamics to lyrics

2011-08-30 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Peter" == Peter Chubb writes: Peter> Hi, I've been trying to work out how to add dynamics to lyrics, Peter> to give singers guidance. For the benefit of search-engine-land, the way to do this is to use a separate dynamics context. Like this: dynA={ s4\p s4\< s2 s4\mf s2. } tune=\relativ

Re: lilypond-book download

2011-08-30 Thread Pablo Zumarán
Wow, that's a lot of good stuff. Thank you! Graham Breed wrote: > > Pablo Zumarán wrote: > >> I'm having trouble understanding something. In Item 4 of >> "GNU Lilypond – Application Usage", under the heading >> "Integrating Text and Music", it explicitly says this >> "lilypond-book provides a

Re: lilypond-book download

2011-08-30 Thread Pablo Zumarán
Thank you! I'll go through it with a magnifying glass... pkx166h-2 wrote: > > Pablo, > > On 8/30/11, Pablo Zumarán wrote: >> >> Thank you very much for that tip. Following your advice, I've installed >> Lyx >> in my Ubuntu. In the included documentation, I've found only one >> reference >> to

Re: lyx usage [WAS: Re: lilypond-book download]

2011-08-30 Thread Pablo Zumarán
Thank you very much for the tip! Now I can see the music on LyX and view the pdf file. This is exactly the sort of program I was looking for, and now I can get down to work on my book. Who must I thank? Federico Bruni-5 wrote: > > Il 30/08/2011 23:42, Pablo Zumarán ha scritto: >> Thank you ver

Re: Define Music Function

2011-08-30 Thread harm6
Carl Testa wrote: > > Thanks for the help everyone. I am getting closer. I have one other > question. How could I set the font-size of the first number to be bigger > that the numbers of the fraction? > ... > Hi Carl, try: \version "2.14.2" fractionRest = #(define-music-function (parser l

Adding dynamics to lyrics

2011-08-30 Thread Peter Chubb
Hi, I've been trying to work out how to add dynamics to lyrics, to give singers guidance. I tried the obvious: foo = \lyricmode { start\p quiet -- ly \cresc and get loud -- er \f } but the dynamics appear to be interpreted as lyrics. (I was expecti

lyx usage [WAS: Re: lilypond-book download]

2011-08-30 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 30/08/2011 23:42, Pablo Zumarán ha scritto: Thank you very much for that tip. Following your advice, I've installed Lyx in my Ubuntu. In the included documentation, I've found only one reference to Lilypond (to use Insert>File>External Material>Lilypond file). When I do this (ie, insert a .ly

Re: Change font of titles, composer etc

2011-08-30 Thread Brett McCoy
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 6:45 PM, wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > This seems like it should be obvious, but I haven't been able to figure it > out. How does one change the font of the title, composer, copyright notice > etc? Can anyone point me in the right direction? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/D

Change font of titles, composer etc

2011-08-30 Thread ctesta
Hello Everyone, This seems like it should be obvious, but I haven't been able to figure it out. How does one change the font of the title, composer, copyright notice etc? Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Carl ___ lilypond-user mail

Re: lilypond-book download

2011-08-30 Thread Graham Breed
Pablo Zumarán wrote: > I'm having trouble understanding something. In Item 4 of > "GNU Lilypond – Application Usage", under the heading > "Integrating Text and Music", it explicitly says this > "lilypond-book provides a way to automate this process: > This program extracts snippets of music from

Re: Define Music Function

2011-08-30 Thread ctesta
Thanks for the help everyone. I am getting closer. I have one other question. How could I set the font-size of the first number to be bigger that the numbers of the fraction? This currently works, but I need the first number to be font-size = #6 and the numerator and denominator to be font-size =

Re: lilypond-book download

2011-08-30 Thread Peekay Ex
Pablo, On 8/30/11, Pablo Zumarán wrote: > > Thank you very much for that tip. Following your advice, I've installed Lyx > in my Ubuntu. In the included documentation, I've found only one reference > to Lilypond (to use Insert>File>External Material>Lilypond file). When I do > this (ie, insert a .

Re: lilypond-book download

2011-08-30 Thread Pablo Zumarán
Thank you very much for that tip. Following your advice, I've installed Lyx in my Ubuntu. In the included documentation, I've found only one reference to Lilypond (to use Insert>File>External Material>Lilypond file). When I do this (ie, insert a .ly file) all I get is a field saying "Lilypond type

automatically adjust bar numbers upwards

2011-08-30 Thread Neil Thornock
Hi all, By default, it appears that bar numbers, in order to occupy their horizontal space, will push measure content to the right if necessary. In the code below, the C that begins measure 2 begins some way into the measure to allow room for the huge number 2. This gets very ugly in my orchestra

Re: sh install (continue Friedrich Fischer's ost by march-april 2011)

2011-08-30 Thread marco caminati
I think I have spotted the root of the problem: https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=4111 The bottom line is to force your os using an alternative tail than that of busybox (e.g. coreutils') until they fix the problem. An alternative remedy (worked for me) is to use tail +n rather than tail

Re: lilypond-book download

2011-08-30 Thread bart deruyter
I had the same 'problem'.. It is indeed not that easy. That's why I now tried the latest Lyx version, which includes the possibility to include lilypond code, and it uses, as far as I know, lilypond-book as backend, but it is hidden, so no command line is needed. Perhaps you could give that a try..

Re: lilypond-book download

2011-08-30 Thread Pablo Zumarán
Thanks! I'm having trouble understanding something. In Item 4 of "GNU Lilypond – Application Usage", under the heading "Integrating Text and Music", it explicitly says this "lilypond-book provides a way to automate this process: This program extracts snippets of music from your document, runs lil

Re: Define Music Function

2011-08-30 Thread Mike Solomon
On Aug 30, 2011, at 5:12 PM, cte...@wesleyan.edu wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I have been experimenting with music functions in Lilypond and defining > new grobs/glyphs etc. I am wondering if someone can help me with this > problem I am having. What I would like to create is a rest that looks lik

Re: shorten a broken hairpin at a linebreak?

2011-08-30 Thread Mike Solomon
On Aug 30, 2011, at 4:28 PM, harm6 wrote: > > > Mike Solomon-2 wrote: >> >> How about: >> >> \version "2.14.0" >> >> #(define (has-interface? grob interface) >> (member interface >> (assoc-get 'interfaces >>(ly:grob-property grob 'meta >> >> #(define (find-sys

Re: Extra staff in lilypond 2.14.2

2011-08-30 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:04:46 +0200 David Kastrup wrote: > "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" writes: > > themusic = { > > << > > \tempo 4 = 160 > > \new Staff { > > \set Staff.midiInstrument = "acoustic bass" > > \Common > > \clef "bass_8" > > \relative c, { \time 3/4 a4. b8 c d

Re: Define Music Function

2011-08-30 Thread David Kastrup
cte...@wesleyan.edu writes: > Hello Everyone, > > I have been experimenting with music functions in Lilypond and defining > new grobs/glyphs etc. I am wondering if someone can help me with this > problem I am having. What I would like to create is a rest that looks like > a big number that takes u

Re: lilypond-book download

2011-08-30 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Dienstag, 30. August 2011, 16:01:01 schrieb Dmytro O. Redchuk: > On Mon 29 Aug 2011, 11:43 Pablo Zumarán wrote: > > I already have lilypond in my Ubuntu. What must I download so that I can > > use lilypond-book? > > You need to have latex (texlive-latex-base at least) installed. Only if you wa

Re: Define Music Function

2011-08-30 Thread -Eluze
Carl Testa wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > I have been experimenting with music functions in Lilypond and defining > new grobs/glyphs etc. I am wondering if someone can help me with this > problem I am having. What I would like to create is a rest that looks like > a big number that takes up the

Define Music Function

2011-08-30 Thread ctesta
Hello Everyone, I have been experimenting with music functions in Lilypond and defining new grobs/glyphs etc. I am wondering if someone can help me with this problem I am having. What I would like to create is a rest that looks like a big number that takes up the whole staff and then a fraction wi

Re: shorten a broken hairpin at a linebreak?

2011-08-30 Thread harm6
Mike Solomon-2 wrote: > > How about: > > \version "2.14.0" > > #(define (has-interface? grob interface) > (member interface > (assoc-get 'interfaces > (ly:grob-property grob 'meta > > #(define (find-system grob) > (if (has-interface? grob 'system-interfa

Re: shorten a broken hairpin at a linebreak?

2011-08-30 Thread David Nalesnik
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:02 AM, harm6 wrote: > > > David Nalesnik-2 wrote: > > > > > > OK, this should do it! > > > > Now all you have to do is call \eraseBrokenHairpin -- no arguments needed > > -- and it should handle positioning of the whiteout box. I'm guessing > > that > > this would be ea

Re: shorten a broken hairpin at a linebreak?

2011-08-30 Thread harm6
David Nalesnik-2 wrote: > > > OK, this should do it! > > Now all you have to do is call \eraseBrokenHairpin -- no arguments needed > -- and it should handle positioning of the whiteout box. I'm guessing > that > this would be easily extensible to other spanners? > > Best, > David > Hi Dav

Re: lilypond-book download

2011-08-30 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
On Mon 29 Aug 2011, 11:43 Pablo Zumarán wrote: > > I already have lilypond in my Ubuntu. What must I download so that I can use > lilypond-book? You need to have latex (texlive-latex-base at least) installed. -- Dmytro O. Redchuk"Easy to use" is easy to say. Bug Squad

Re: Shifting hairpins' starting/ending points etc [was: Re: Lilypond lobbying?]

2011-08-30 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
On Mon 29 Aug 2011, 13:10 David Kastrup wrote: > "Dmytro O. Redchuk" writes: > > > On Sun 28 Aug 2011, 11:21 Janek Warchoł wrote: > >> 2011/8/26 Dmytro O. Redchuk : > >> > On Fri 26 Aug 2011, 13:54 David Kastrup wrote: > >> >> So maybe the "spacer rest" terminology is not doing anybody a favor. >

Re: Lilypond lobbying?

2011-08-30 Thread Urs Liska
That's what I mentioned - nobody seemed to notice it ... -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9 Mail gesendet. "Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)" schrieb: - develop a GUI fro easy tweaking Isn't there such a thing in LilyPondTool? There is. See http://lilypondto

lilypond-book download

2011-08-30 Thread Pablo Zumarán
I already have lilypond in my Ubuntu. What must I download so that I can use lilypond-book? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/lilypond-book-download-tp32359182p32359182.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___

Re: \transpose of drum voices

2011-08-30 Thread Fernando Dobladez
Excellent. Thanks! On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Jay Anderson wrote: > On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Fernando wrote: >> Is it possible to use \transpose for patterns written in \drummode ? > > Here's something that I might do: > == > \version "2.14.2" > > drumSw

Re: Lilypond lobbying?

2011-08-30 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
>> - develop a GUI fro easy tweaking >> > Isn't there such a thing in LilyPondTool? There is. See http://lilypondtool.organum.hu/fileadmin/lilypondtool/docs/ch05s05.html ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: Shifting hairpins' starting/ending points etc [was: Re: Lilypond lobbying?]

2011-08-30 Thread David Kastrup
"Dmytro O. Redchuk" writes: > On Sun 28 Aug 2011, 11:21 Janek Warchoł wrote: >> 2011/8/26 Dmytro O. Redchuk : >> > On Fri 26 Aug 2011, 13:54 David Kastrup wrote: >> >> So maybe the "spacer rest" terminology is not doing anybody a favor. >> >> >> >> Would you have felt more comfortable if my examp

Re: Extra staff in lilypond 2.14.2

2011-08-30 Thread David Kastrup
"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" writes: > I upgraded Lilypond and found a weird change. The input is below this > message. On 2.12.3 it displays a single bass staff as I would expect. > On 2.14.2 it adds an extra, empty staff above with a treble clef and > the time signature but no lines or key. This happe

Re: Extra staff in lilypond 2.14.2

2011-08-30 Thread Éditions IN NOMINE
Hi. Your MetronomeMark is assigned outside the staff, so Lily creates a new staff for that, between the << ...>> so it comes in parallel with your music. Putting the tempo inside \new Staff{...} solves the pb. best regards JMarc D'Arcy J.M. Cain a écrit : I upgraded Lilypond and found a wei

Re: shorten a broken hairpin at a linebreak?

2011-08-30 Thread David Nalesnik
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Mike Solomon wrote: > > How about: > > Mike -- Wow. So that's how it's done! David ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: shorten a broken hairpin at a linebreak?

2011-08-30 Thread Mike Solomon
On Aug 29, 2011, at 11:56 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 4:50 PM, David Nalesnik > wrote: > > \relative c' { >\override Hairpin #'color = #red >\key ces\major >\eraseBrokenHairpin #(list 41 23 15 0 13 0) ;; recast as offsets > from line-wi