Re: quick reply(s) bar numbers

2012-10-25 Thread David Kastrup
Jay Hamilton writes: > Thanks for the comments, No the solutions didn't compile or I just > don't understand what Toine means/meant. The programs compiled fine on their own. > Putting the additional materials in the layout just ground the program > to a halt. "ground the program to a halt" is

Re: Staff spacing for Z beam

2012-10-25 Thread Helge Kruse
2012/10/26 Keith OHara > > Making space locally is probably the better option. You need to find > something that does not overlay the staves (that is, not the Stems) and > tell LilyPond to give that thing more space > > \once\override DynamicText #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(0 . 7) > 8\p \lower

Re: Writing functions for large-scale layout

2012-10-25 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > The idea was to be able to write > \score { > \precesAndResponse \mI \mII \mIII \mIV > } > > and after http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2928>, > you'll be able to do just that. Actually: your proposal looks totally fine as a solution to the actual probl

Re: Writing functions for large-scale layout

2012-10-25 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > Well, I managed to print a score (omiiting `preces´), but I'm quite > sure it is not really what you want: > > \version "2.16.0" > > precesAndResponse = > #(define-scheme-function (parser location ;preces > soprano alto tenor bass) > (;ly:music?

Re: Staff spacing for Z beam

2012-10-25 Thread Keith OHara
Helge Kruse gmx.net> writes: > I want to write cross staff > beams like you can see in the attached example. >\override VerticalAxisGroup #'staff-staff-spacing #'padding = #10 LilyPond needs to be explicitly told that this applies to a Staff, etc., with \override PianoStaff.VerticalAxisGro

Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-25 Thread David Kastrup
Eluze writes: > Am 26.10.2012 00:52, schrieb David Kastrup: >> Thomas Morley writes: >> >>> With "2.16.0" you could use: >>> >>> \tweak Accidental #'font-size #-2 >> The way it looks, with 2.17.6 you will likely have to write >> >> \tweak Accidental.font-size #-2 >> >> indeed, an incompatible sy

Re: Merging noteheads with \mergeDifferentlyHeadedOn

2012-10-25 Thread Keith OHara
Nick Payne internode.on.net> writes: > In the following, why is it that the first C# in the top and middle > voices don't merge unless I also use \once \override NoteColumn > #'ignore-collision = ##t before that note in either one of those voices. Often, the note in voice 4 would prevent the mer

Staff spacing for Z beam

2012-10-25 Thread Helge Kruse
Hello, I have a spacing question (once again). I want to write cross staff beams like you can see in the attached example. But this code does not gives the expected result: \version "2.16.0" \include "deutsch.ly" upper = { \change Staff = "upper" } lower = { \change Staff = "lower" } final

Re: Merging noteheads with \mergeDifferentlyHeadedOn

2012-10-25 Thread Nick Payne
On 26/10/12 10:01, Eluze wrote: > Nick Payne-3 wrote >> In the following, why is it that the first C# in the top and middle >> voices don't merge unless I also use \once \override NoteColumn >> #'ignore-collision = ##t before that note in either one of those voices. >> The subsequent notes in those

quick reply(s) bar numbers

2012-10-25 Thread Jay Hamilton
Thanks for the comments, No the solutions didn't compile or I just don't understand what Toine means/meant. Putting the additional materials in the layout just ground the program to a halt. So I am living as it's not the biggest deal for the exercise- it was just that I was surprised that the \re

Re: Writing functions for large-scale layout

2012-10-25 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/10/25 Christopher Smith : >> Assign the result to a variable xxx and use \xxx. > > The assignment works, but then Lilypond 2.16.0 throws "error: unknown > escaped string `\xxx'" and finally fails, expecting '='. I think it > may be having trouble figuring out what to do with the resulting > v

Re: dashed \draw-line

2012-10-25 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/10/26 David Nalesnik : > Hi Kevin, > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Kevin Patrick Barry wrote: >> Dear LilyPond users, >> >> I would like the markup function \draw-line to produce a dashed line, but I >> can't find it in the internals reference to see what overrides to use. I >> tried Te

Re: dashed \draw-line

2012-10-25 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Kevin, On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Kevin Patrick Barry wrote: > Dear LilyPond users, > > I would like the markup function \draw-line to produce a dashed line, but I > can't find it in the internals reference to see what overrides to use. I > tried TextScript #'style, Glissando #'style an

Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-25 Thread Eluze
Am 26.10.2012 00:52, schrieb David Kastrup: Thomas Morley writes: With "2.16.0" you could use: \tweak Accidental #'font-size #-2 The way it looks, with 2.17.6 you will likely have to write \tweak Accidental.font-size #-2 indeed, an incompatible syntax change. convert-ly will cover it, th

Re: Merging noteheads with \mergeDifferentlyHeadedOn

2012-10-25 Thread Eluze
Nick Payne-3 wrote > In the following, why is it that the first C# in the top and middle > voices don't merge unless I also use \once \override NoteColumn > #'ignore-collision = ##t before that note in either one of those voices. > The subsequent notes in those voices do merge successfully without

Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-25 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > With "2.16.0" you could use: > > \tweak Accidental #'font-size #-2 The way it looks, with 2.17.6 you will likely have to write \tweak Accidental.font-size #-2 indeed, an incompatible syntax change. convert-ly will cover it, though. 2.17.6 will make a lot of #'xxx and

Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-25 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Jay, 2012/10/25 David Kastrup : > Jay Hamilton writes: > >> Janek- >> I'm not going to do that. Here's a few reasons why. >> I've been using lilypond since some kind of 1 version. Some of the >> stable versions have been baby steps and easy to accommodate and >> understand. Many many of th

Re: Writing functions for large-scale layout

2012-10-25 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > Christopher Smith writes: > >>> Assign the result to a variable xxx and use \xxx. >> >> The assignment works, but then Lilypond 2.16.0 throws "error: unknown >> escaped string `\xxx'" and finally fails, expecting '='. I think it >> may be having trouble figuring out what

dashed \draw-line

2012-10-25 Thread Kevin Patrick Barry
Dear LilyPond users, I would like the markup function \draw-line to produce a dashed line, but I can't find it in the internals reference to see what overrides to use. I tried TextScript #'style, Glissando #'style and \tweak #'style. I'm just fumbling in the dark really; none of the grobs involv

Re: Writing functions for large-scale layout

2012-10-25 Thread David Kastrup
Christopher Smith writes: >> Assign the result to a variable xxx and use \xxx. > > The assignment works, but then Lilypond 2.16.0 throws "error: unknown > escaped string `\xxx'" and finally fails, expecting '='. I think it > may be having trouble figuring out what to do with the resulting > valu

Re: Writing functions for large-scale layout

2012-10-25 Thread Christopher Smith
> Assign the result to a variable xxx and use \xxx. The assignment works, but then Lilypond 2.16.0 throws "error: unknown escaped string `\xxx'" and finally fails, expecting '='. I think it may be having trouble figuring out what to do with the resulting value, which is (currently) a score. (I'm

Merging noteheads with \mergeDifferentlyHeadedOn

2012-10-25 Thread Nick Payne
In the following, why is it that the first C# in the top and middle voices don't merge unless I also use \once \override NoteColumn #'ignore-collision = ##t before that note in either one of those voices. The subsequent notes in those voices do merge successfully without needing this override. \ve

Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-25 Thread David Kastrup
Jay Hamilton writes: > Janek- > I'm not going to do that. Here's a few reasons why. > I've been using lilypond since some kind of 1 version. Some of the > stable versions have been baby steps and easy to accommodate and > understand. Many many of the changes that have been taking place in V2

Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-25 Thread Jay Hamilton
Janek- I'm not going to do that. Here's a few reasons why. I've been using lilypond since some kind of 1 version. Some of the stable versions have been baby steps and easy to accommodate and understand. Many many of the changes that have been taking place in V2 have not been like that. It t

Re: Writing functions for large-scale layout

2012-10-25 Thread David Kastrup
Christopher Smith writes: > I am working on typesetting Anglican preces and responses, and since > the apparent best approach is to embed a score inside the > instrumentName for one of the parts (similar to the treatment of the > incipits in the scores at http://www.uma.es/victoria/partituras.htm

Writing functions for large-scale layout

2012-10-25 Thread Christopher Smith
I am working on typesetting Anglican preces and responses, and since the apparent best approach is to embed a score inside the instrumentName for one of the parts (similar to the treatment of the incipits in the scores at http://www.uma.es/victoria/partituras.html), I would like to write a reusable

Re: Documentation figured-bass

2012-10-25 Thread Marek Klein
Hello, 2012/10/23 Noeck > Hi, > > the last two snippets on this page are identical, aren't they? > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/figured-bass > > Is that a problem that only occurs in older versions? Should the > documentation be adapted? > Thank you for the report, it has

Re: Using the

2012-10-25 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/10/25 Keith OHara : > Seth gmail.com> writes: > >> I'd like the F-sharp at the beginning of the second measure to be >> printed with both a natural and a sharp sign in acknowledgement of >> the F double-sharp in the previous measure. How could I go about >> doing this? > > There are two chang

Re: Using the

2012-10-25 Thread Keith OHara
Seth gmail.com> writes: > I'd like the F-sharp at the beginning of the second measure to be > printed with both a natural and a sharp sign in acknowledgement of > the F double-sharp in the previous measure. How could I go about > doing this? There are two changes from LilyPond defaults #(s

Re: lilypond-book \begin{lilypond} does not accept options

2012-10-25 Thread David Kastrup
Mario Raffin writes: > Dear All, > I am trying to build a document with lilypond and latex. I started > building some example I found on the lilypond website. That is a mismatch between the version of the website documentation and your installed version of LilyPond. Your installation should ha

Using the "extra natural" accidental at the beginning of a measure.

2012-10-25 Thread Seth
Hello. In this snippet \relative c'' { \key a \major b fisis gis a % 1 fis a eis fis % 2 } I'd like the F-sharp at the beginning of the second measure to be printed with both a natural and a sharp sign in acknowledgement of the F double-sharp in the previous measure. How could I go about doing

Re: lilypond-book \begin{lilypond} does not accept options

2012-10-25 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello Mario, you may try to put the options before the curly brackets: \begin[line-width=12\cm,staffsize=14]{lilypond} ... There has been a change a while ago, that lilypond environment looks like other envs, IIRC. Cheers, Jan-Peter Am 25.10.2012 um 15:10 schrieb Mario Raffin: > Dear All, >

lilypond-book \begin{lilypond} does not accept options

2012-10-25 Thread Mario Raffin
Dear All,    I am trying to build a document with lilypond and latex. I started building some example I found on the lilypond website. All is fine but when I try to set some option, as for instance \begin{lilypond}[fragment] the builder says there is a syntax error since '[' and ']' are not r

Re: Manual search returns results from wrong version

2012-10-25 Thread Phil Holmes
Please see http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2845 -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Nick Payne Cc: bug-lilyp...@gnu.org ; lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 11:00 PM Subject: Re: Manual search returns results from wrong version

Re: custom voiceStyle

2012-10-25 Thread Phil Holmes
Not on my system. Could you confirm you've used my exact code, with the corrected voicing? Could you provide PNG output demonstrating the problem? -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Gagi Petrovic To: Phil Holmes Cc: Marc Hohl ; lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday

Re: Aligning Dynamic/Expressive Marks

2012-10-25 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
On 2012-10-25 06:10, Keehun Nam wrote: I know this is a novice question and I've tried what the document says to try but I don't thin its examples relate exactly to this situation although I'm sure it's been beaten into a pulp in previous discussions. I need to align "poco sf" where the sf align