Need a new articulation glyph...

2011-12-03 Thread George_
I'd appreciate some feedback on how to implement a new ornament: http://old.nabble.com/file/p32910828/Untitled.png It's a Bach ornament known as a slide, and is normally played by playing the 2 consecutive notes below and leading up to the ornamented note. So for the given example, you would pl

Overriding fingering font and \markup \finger

2011-12-03 Thread Nick Payne
Is this a bug or expected behaviour? Here I am overriding the fingering font, but when I use \finger inside a markup, I still get the default fingering font rather than the font I've selected, unless I issue a separate font override inside the markup: \version "2.15.20" \relative c'' { \o

Re: positioning of \tempo in 2.15.20

2011-12-03 Thread Jay Anderson
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Paul Scott wrote: > How do other people solve this problem? I'm pretty sure this is a known bug (see http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=712). The tempo mark seems to ignore the break-align-symbols (and other properties like X-offset) when it's over

Re: positioning of \tempo in 2.15.20

2011-12-03 Thread Paul Scott
On 12/03/2011 02:05 AM, James wrote: Hello, On 3 December 2011 06:55, Paul Scott > wrote: Hi, 2.15.20: Should the positioning of \tempo over notes be different than over whole rests? If so, can I make the second behavior like the first?

Re: Conditionally including lyrics

2011-12-03 Thread Jay Anderson
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:26 AM, Marc Hohl wrote: > Now the data files contain different numbers of stanzas, and ideally, the > generator file > should be intelligent enough to include all stanzas which are present. Has > someone an idea > how to create a loop which scans for textA, textB, textC et

Re: Chord diagram by itself?

2011-12-03 Thread seisei
Is it possible to get a custom chord diagram by itself? Without the staff... Carl Sorensen-3 wrote: > > On 12/1/11 3:10 PM, "seisei" wrote: > >> >>Hello, >> >>How do I create a custom chord diagram? I only want to show one note, not >>a >>chord. > > > See Section 2.4.1 of the Notation Ref

Re: positioning of \tempo in 2.15.20

2011-12-03 Thread James
Hello, On 3 December 2011 06:55, Paul Scott wrote: > Hi, > > 2.15.20: > > Should the positioning of \tempo over notes be different than over whole > rests? > Just to answer that - sorry I forgot in my last email - in my experience 'it depends'. Being a Brass player I get a lot (a LOT!) of rests

Re: positioning of \tempo in 2.15.20

2011-12-03 Thread James
Hello, On 3 December 2011 06:55, Paul Scott wrote: > Hi, > > 2.15.20: > > Should the positioning of \tempo over notes be different than over whole > rests? > If so, can I make the second behavior like the first? > > \version "2.15.20" > > \relative c'' { > \tempo "text over notes" c1 c c c \bre