Re: transposing octaves for a piano part

2011-10-05 Thread James Harkins
At Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:47:43 -0400, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: > Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 17:45:15 +0100 > From: Steve Downes > Subject: Re: transposing octaves for a piano part > My comment on the manuals was not intended as a critism. I fully > understand why it is as it is and the breadt

Re: tempo setting

2011-10-05 Thread me
Musicians will automatically assume a dotted half note to mean the duration of three consecutive quarter notes. Option #2 will probably be easiest to interpret. On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:48 PM, PMA wrote: > Hi List. > > This is a question about notational judgment. > > I have a several-bar phrase

tempo setting

2011-10-05 Thread PMA
Hi List. This is a question about notational judgment. I have a several-bar phrase in quick 5/8 time (qtr. + dotted qtr., but quick enough to allow only one felt beat per bar), and want to give its first bar a tempo spec equivalent to = 80 So, how shall I specify that value? I fi

Re: articulating a group of notes

2011-10-05 Thread Pato Press
2011/10/5 David Nalesnik > Hello, > > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Pato Press wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm writing a simple score that have a group of different notes all with >> the same articulation over their head. >> >> Is there a way to articulate a group of notes? Or I have to add to e

Re: articulating a group of notes

2011-10-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 06:40:18PM -0300, Pato Press wrote: >Is there a way to articulate a group of notes? Or I have to add to each >note the same articulation? You need to write a scheme function to do it, but it's not hard: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=82 http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it

Re: articulating a group of notes

2011-10-05 Thread David Nalesnik
Hello, On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Pato Press wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm writing a simple score that have a group of different notes all with > the same articulation over their head. > > Is there a way to articulate a group of notes? Or I have to add to each > note the same articulation? > > I

articulating a group of notes

2011-10-05 Thread Pato Press
Hi all, I'm writing a simple score that have a group of different notes all with the same articulation over their head. Is there a way to articulate a group of notes? Or I have to add to each note the same articulation? I can't find in the docs whether these simple thing exist. Thanks! tdy. __

Re: transposing octaves for a piano part

2011-10-05 Thread Steve Downes
Sorry, My comment on the manuals was not intended as a critism. I fully understand why it is as it is and the breadth of the subject matter involved. It was just a comment on the difficulty I was having as someone new to the software in linking the various methods & possibilities together to make

Re: wind instrument transposition (was Good work, Keith!)

2011-10-05 Thread Neil Thornock
> I've been a pianist for 45 years and a clarinetist for 40, so I am > comfortably aware of transposition issues, but what you're saying > doesn't explain the issues I pointed out.  If a piece is in concert D > and I am asked to play it on my Bb clarinet, my music should have a key > signature of E

Re: transposing octaves for a piano part

2011-10-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 05:35:55PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > David Rogers writes: > > > Steve Downes writes: > > > >> I am finding finding my way round the manuals a bit convoluted at > >> present & merging info from one section into a script styled on > >> another very hit & miss. No doubt

Re: transposing octaves for a piano part

2011-10-05 Thread David Kastrup
David Rogers writes: > Steve Downes writes: > >> I am finding finding my way round the manuals a bit convoluted at >> present & merging info from one section into a script styled on >> another very hit & miss. No doubt it will get easier. > > The manual is very convoluted, but it probably has t

Re: transposing octaves for a piano part

2011-10-05 Thread David Rogers
Steve Downes writes: I am finding finding my way round the manuals a bit convoluted at present & merging info from one section into a script styled on another very hit & miss. No doubt it will get easier. The manual is very convoluted, but it probably has to be because Lilypond itself is a

Re: markup in lyrics

2011-10-05 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Ups, you only need this: lyrcaps = #(define-lyric-markup (markup #:frompropertysmallcaps 'lyric:text)) In the markupCommand are smallCaps already set ... Cheers, Jan-Peter Am 05.10.2011 11:55, schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt: Hello Vaughan, there is a known issue with caps/smallcaps and fromproper

Re: transposing octaves for a piano part

2011-10-05 Thread Steve Downes
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 09:40:21PM -0400, Ralph Palmer wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Steve Downes wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I could do without altering the octave of each note manually & feel this > > should be possible. > > > > > Greetings, Steve - > > I don't have the documenta

Re: markup in lyrics

2011-10-05 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello Vaughan, there is a known issue with caps/smallcaps and fromproperty (or nested markups? see below): http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1482 If you take the little snippet from that site, you can use this (exchange caps/smallCaps as you like): --snip-- #(define-markup-com

Re: markup in lyrics

2011-10-05 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 5 October 2011 18:48, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: > Hello list, > > for the simple case of italic lyrics, the answer withe override/revert is > already given. But I just wanted to point out another possibility for more > complex markups in lyrics: > In the following snippet I define a function to cr

Re: markup in lyrics

2011-10-05 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello list, for the simple case of italic lyrics, the answer withe override/revert is already given. But I just wanted to point out another possibility for more complex markups in lyrics: In the following snippet I define a function to create music functions, that wraps all lyric syllables in