Re: Creating Musical Examples without Meter

2011-10-29 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 10:43:46PM -0500, ivan.k.kuznet...@gmail.com wrote: > As far as I can tell, the only tool to notate "unmetered" > music is the \cadenzaOn,\cadenzaOff pair of tags. > Am I right about this, or are there other ways? Proportional notation? maybe as well as manually scaling d

Creating Musical Examples without Meter

2011-10-29 Thread ivan . k . kuznetsov
I would like to be able to use Lilypond to create musical examples for inclusion in papers and slides, and often, these musical examples will have no notated meter. With such examples, I will want to control exactly how much space each examples takes so that they can "line up" with other examples

Re: Bug in .eps output (or its interpretation?) on Linux: Ledger lines loose fill

2011-10-29 Thread Nick Payne
On 30/10/11 08:22, MarkusPfaff wrote: On my Kubuntu 11.10 system the .eps output generated from a .ly file has ledger lines that loose their fill gradually from left to right. You may see that in the attached example especially if you zoom in heavily on such a line. If I open the eps file you

Re: Making feathered beams more variable

2011-10-29 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Harm, On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Thomas Morley < thomasmorle...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > To make it possible to enter the same arguments to both, > featherDurationTest and grow-dir-var, I added some conditions to the > turnaround-argument and the end-multiplier. > Good idea -- thank y

Re: What is my error here?

2011-10-29 Thread Jay Hamilton
Thanks- just before you wrote I found them both too. The error messages are sometimes misleading as these were. Thank you for helping. Jay On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Jonas Müthing wrote: > Hi Jay, > > Here is the wrong bit in your code: > > r^\markup {\italic "Daughter 2"} cis4 cis8 cis*"

Re: What is my error here?

2011-10-29 Thread Jonas Müthing
Hi Jay, Here is the wrong bit in your code: r^\markup {\italic "Daughter 2"} cis4 cis8 cis"4 cis8 b4 a8 gis4 fis8 fis4 e8 fis4 a8 gis4 fis8 e4 If you change this as well, it should work fine: fis8^\markup {\italic Lir} b4 e8, a4 a8 gis4 r8 b8 gis e a fis d cis4 gis' a,4. e'8 fis (e) fis4

Re: What is my error here?

2011-10-29 Thread Jay Hamilton
Jonas thanks for the reply here's the whole section I'm not seeing the problem you suggest. Also until %page 11 this compiled fine. Jay melody = \relative c' { \clef treble \key a \major \time 6/8 r2 r8\f cis cis4 a'8 a4 gis8 fis4 e8 cis4 e8 e4 e8 gis4 fis8 e4 fis8 d4. cis8 b e d4. cis8 b e fis4.

Re: What is my error here?

2011-10-29 Thread Jonas Müthing
Hej Jay, look for your last quotation mark in the file. It looks as if you have forgotten to close a section within quotation marks, therefore lilypond thinks that all of this %r8 \fermata ^\markup {\italic \tiny still is some text that it should write in the score and that "an uh moment"

What is my error here?

2011-10-29 Thread jay
I don't know what is wrong here I'm using version "2.14.1" the % works everywhere except here %r8 fermata ^markup {italic tiny "an uh moment"} gis8 e' d cis b ~ b [r a] b cis fis, gis a gis4 cis the error message actually tells me %r8 fermata ^markup {italic tiny "an uh moment"}

Re: Making feathered beams more variable

2011-10-29 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi David, 2011/10/29 David Nalesnik > Hi again, > > (...) > The attached should work with accel./rit. and rit./accel. > Wow!! Looks great!! > There is only one extra argument now, which represents the position of the > "turnaround". This can't be larger than the number of notes in the group.