Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Vaughan, > Finale does automatic word extensions for lyrics. Um… so does Lilypond. Cheers, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Aleatoric / modern notation

2012-03-12 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 3:18 AM, m...@apollinemike.com < m...@apollinemike.com> wrote: > > On Mar 11, 2012, at 8:53 AM, James Harkins wrote: > > > At Sun, 11 Mar 2012 08:12:35 +0100, > > m...@apollinemike.com wrote: > >> The best way to achieve that with current LilyPond is Scheme engravers.

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-12 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 13 March 2012 11:44, James Harkins wrote: > At Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:14:02 -0400, > lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: >> Impressive! Can you now create scores as quickly as you used to in >> Finale? I think I can now... I’ve been using Lilypond for about six months now and like James I enjoy

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-12 Thread James Harkins
At Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:14:02 -0400, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: > Impressive! Can you now create scores as quickly as you used to in > Finale? It's partly a matter of where you want to spend your time. My go-to example is here: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words/blog5.php/2011/07/11/t

Re: Default length of laissezvibrer ties

2012-03-12 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/3/11 David Kastrup : > Thomas Morley writes: > >> Hi Nick, >> >> 2012/3/9 Nick Payne : >> >>> Thanks. I gave it a try. The one shortcoming I've found is that the ends of >>> LV ties on a chord containing a second no longer align. >> >> That's because "factor" is used in a multiplication. An e

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-12 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:39 PM, John Link wrote: > How can I get going in LilyPond as quickly as possible? I suggest reading Learning Manual (http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/learning/index) and then trying typesetting a very simple 1-page score. When you're familiar with the syn

Re: addl. normal staff (ossia) in drummode or DrumStaff context

2012-03-12 Thread Trevor Daniels
Uwe Falke wrote Monday, March 12, 2012 5:05 PM Ah, Trevor, the simple example worked well with your advice (thanks again), but I am lost in real life ...: [snip] You had \notemode { \new staff { r4 a4 fis2 } } "Staff" needs a capital S Trevor ps please don't send digitally sign

Re: Test

2012-03-12 Thread Phil Holmes
Looks like it's just taking a while to filter through. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: John Link To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 7:33 PM Subject: Test This is the third message I've sent to the list. I did not receive the other two despi

Re: addl. normal staff (ossia) in drummode or DrumStaff context

2012-03-12 Thread David Kastrup
Eluze writes: > Am 12.03.2012 03:32, schrieb Uwe: > > Dear lilypond people, > > I have just started to use lilypond to set some drum scores. As I need to add > a > few patches of backing vocals, I'd attempted to add extra (normal) staffs at > those places, however, lilypond seems to refuse

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-12 Thread David Kastrup
John Link writes: > A few years ago I was encouraged to try LilyPond as an alternative to > Sibelius because LilyPond produced more beautiful scores. I was also > told that it would allow me to do things like specify that bars 25 > through 32 are to be identical to bars 9 through 16 and avoid cut

Re: addl. normal staff (ossia) in drummode or DrumStaff context

2012-03-12 Thread Trevor Daniels
Uwe, you wrote Monday, March 12, 2012 2:32 AM I have just started to use lilypond to set some drum scores. As I need to add a few patches of backing vocals, I'd attempted to add extra (normal) staffs at those places, however, lilypond seems to refuse doing that. Example: \score { \new DrumS

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-12 Thread John Link
On Mar 12, 2012, at 10:01 AM, David Bobroff wrote: On 3/12/2012 1:52 PM, John Link wrote: 1) What is the easiest way to extract parts from a score? A Zen master would reply "mu" (= un-ask the question). "Extracting" parts is a meaningless idea in LilyPond. I thought that might be the c

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-12 Thread John Link
On Mar 12, 2012, at 9:42 AM, David Bobroff wrote: On 3/11/2012 6:39 PM, John Link wrote: A few years ago I was encouraged to try LilyPond as an alternative to Sibelius because LilyPond produced more beautiful scores. I was also told that it would allow me to do things like specify that ba

Re: addl. normal staff (ossia) in drummode or DrumStaff context

2012-03-12 Thread Eluze
Am 12.03.2012 03:32, schrieb Uwe: Dear lilypond people, I have just started to use lilypond to set some drum scores. As I need to add a few patches of backing vocals, I'd attempted to add extra (normal) staffs at those places, however, lilypond seems to refuse doing that. Example: \score {

Re: lyric hyphen goes outside staff limits at line break

2012-03-12 Thread Zsolt Cselényi
> I've no solution but some observations: > \remove Bar_engraver causes some problems, \override SpacingSpanner > #'packed-spacing = ##t from gregorian.ly, too. > But it is possible to provoke the problem even without them. -> > attached png (The last LyricHyphen of the line collides with the > Bar

addl. normal staff (ossia) in drummode or DrumStaff context

2012-03-12 Thread Uwe
Dear lilypond people, I have just started to use lilypond to set some drum scores. As I need to add a few patches of backing vocals, I'd attempted to add extra (normal) staffs at those places, however, lilypond seems to refuse doing that. Example: \score { \new DrumStaff << \drummode {

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-12 Thread David Bobroff
On 3/12/2012 2:15 PM, John Link wrote: On Mar 12, 2012, at 10:01 AM, David Bobroff wrote: On 3/12/2012 1:52 PM, John Link wrote: 1) What is the easiest way to extract parts from a score? A Zen master would reply "mu" (= un-ask the question). "Extracting" parts is a meaningless idea in Li

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-12 Thread David Bobroff
On 3/12/2012 1:52 PM, John Link wrote: On Mar 12, 2012, at 9:42 AM, David Bobroff wrote: On 3/11/2012 6:39 PM, John Link wrote: A few years ago I was encouraged to try LilyPond as an alternative to Sibelius because LilyPond produced more beautiful scores. I was also told that it would allow

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-12 Thread David Bobroff
On 3/11/2012 6:39 PM, John Link wrote: A few years ago I was encouraged to try LilyPond as an alternative to Sibelius because LilyPond produced more beautiful scores. I was also told that it would allow me to do things like specify that bars 25 through 32 are to be identical to bars 9 through 1

Test

2012-03-12 Thread John Link
This is the third message I've sent to the list. I did not receive the other two despite having specified in my settings that I am to receive copies of messages I send. If anyone can tell me what I need to do I would appreciate it. Thanks, John Link johnl...@nyc.rr.com http://www.cdbaby.co

Re: Finding note positions and midi values in lilypond

2012-03-12 Thread Mark Burton
On 12 Mar 2012, at 03:21, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Mark Burton wrote: >> Hi, >> Way back in 2005 you hinted that extracting e.g. midi note values and their >> corresponding position on e.g. a PDF page would be possible…. >> Did you ever build the examples you t

Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-12 Thread John Link
A few years ago I was encouraged to try LilyPond as an alternative to Sibelius because LilyPond produced more beautiful scores. I was also told that it would allow me to do things like specify that bars 25 through 32 are to be identical to bars 9 through 16 and avoid cutting and pasting fro

Re: Finding note positions and midi values in lilypond

2012-03-12 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Mark Burton wrote: > Hi, > Way back in 2005 you hinted that extracting e.g. midi note values and their > corresponding position on e.g. a PDF page would be possible…. > Did you ever build the examples you talked about? - Or do you have some hints > and tips where

Re: Default length of laissezvibrer ties

2012-03-12 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > Hi Nick, > > 2012/3/9 Nick Payne : > >> Thanks. I gave it a try. The one shortcoming I've found is that the ends of >> LV ties on a chord containing a second no longer align. > > That's because "factor" is used in a multiplication. An easy fix would > be to change that to

Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-12 Thread John Link
A few years ago I was encouraged to try LilyPond as an alternative to Sibelius because LilyPond produced more beautiful scores. I was also told that it would allow me to do things like specify that bars 25 through 32 are to be identical to bars 9 through 16 and avoid cutting and pasting fro

Re: lilypond 2.15.33 available as a FreeBSD port

2012-03-12 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/3/10 : > FreeBSD users who wish to test the recently-released 2.15.33 > candidate may download an ad-hoc port from: Now I think understand the whole point of this alternative form of distribution. Every fan of an OS or distribution is also a fan of its package type. Windows users prefer doub

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.4

2012-03-12 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:50:40 +0100 Wilbert Berendsen schreef: > the first commit is of Nov 11, 2012 sorry, must be 2010 or course :) -- Wilbert Berendsen (http://www.wilbertberendsen.nl) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://

Re: vertical spacing of scripts attached to spacer rests

2012-03-12 Thread -Eluze
Shevek wrote: > > I have a passage something like the following. I want to get the last > bowing to display vertically as if it were attached to a note at the same > staff position. Any ideas? > > \new Staff \relative c''' { > a1\downbow % without this line, an error occurs? > << > { a

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.4

2012-03-12 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:10:35 +0100 Valentin Villenave schreef: > Yeah, I'm still not entirely convinced by the KDE-less version (in a > couple months we should discuss it in the Report :-). Please let me know the things you miss most! Note that F2 is only (roughly) one year old and really writte

vertical spacing of scripts attached to spacer rests

2012-03-12 Thread Shevek
I have a passage something like the following. I want to get the last bowing to display vertically as if it were attached to a note at the same staff position. Any ideas? \new Staff \relative c''' { a1\downbow % without this line, an error occurs? << { a1 } { s2\upbow s2\downbow }