Re: unhiding a hidden staff at the NEXT line break (instead of previous line break)

2012-12-16 Thread nothingwavering
Thanks for taking a look at this, Mr. Kastrup, Mr. OHara, and anyone else participating in this. I'm trying to wrap my head around this reverse hara kiri idea, but it doesn't seem to make sense to me. This dead-is-alive stuff make it sound like any staff Lilypond would normally hide is shown a

Re: looking for a style guide

2012-12-16 Thread Shane Brandes
Xavier, Meter and rhythm will determine the beaming and breaking of beams in a piece. The primary governor of beaming is of course the time signature. So 4/4 determines at the 8th note level 4 groupings of 8ths (two at a time). Cut-time looks like 4/4 but will break the 8ths in two groups of 4s.

Re: two note heads on one bean

2012-12-16 Thread Shane Brandes
\override NoteHead #'transparent = ##t , \set subdivideBeams = ##t , \set Score.beatStructure = #'(3 2 2) These bits of code might help. Getting the first double stop(? not a violinist ) note might be a headache. At the moment nothing is leaping to mind. Shane Brandes On Sun, Dec 16, 2012

Re: looking for a style guide

2012-12-16 Thread Nick Payne
On 17/12/12 09:47, Xavier Noria wrote: Is there any style guide for scores online? For example, I don't know if I should break the groups of four eight notes in the sample in pairs... would like to get the picture about these basic things. Here's a start: http://www.dolmetsch.com/musictheory15.

looking for a style guide

2012-12-16 Thread Xavier Noria
Is there any style guide for scores online? For example, I don't know if I should break the groups of four eight notes in the sample in pairs... would like to get the picture about these basic things. <>___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Re:Re: Lyrics (David Kastrup) (Phil Holmes)

2012-12-16 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Maarten de Keijzer" To: Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 2:55 PM Subject: Re:Re: Lyrics (David Kastrup) (Phil Holmes) That's strange (maybe the wrong file?) ! I get error messages, but they are related to the lyrics. For each syllable it says: Lyric syllab

top posting (was: svg output)

2012-12-16 Thread David Kastrup
Gerard McConnell writes: > By the way, I presume I'm "top-posting". I read somewhere that there's > something wrong with doing that, but doesn't it allow whoever is > following the thread to get the new material without having to go > through the old material? Why would you be leaving _unreferen

Re: svg output

2012-12-16 Thread Gerard McConnell
Apparently Microsoft has created the problem: «Known issues with this security update We are aware of issues related to OpenType Font (OTF) rendering in applications such as PowerPoint on affected versions of Windows that occur after this security update is applied. We are currently investigat

Re: svg output

2012-12-16 Thread Gerard McConnell
Thanks very much gents, it is a font problem. I opened the svg file with a text editor and replaced Lilypond's Century Schoolbook L with Times New Roman for all text occurrences, which solved the problem. I guess in order to avoid having to do that I need to make Inkscape see the Century Schoo

Re: Begin lyrics only with new section

2012-12-16 Thread m...@mikesolomon.org
On 16 déc. 2012, at 21:26, Marek Klein wrote: > Hello, > > 2012/12/16 m...@mikesolomon.org > Let's say that on the interior of B I add a lot of new music but I don't have > lyrics yet. It is fastidious to count how many notes I added and put skips, > so as a result, all the lyrics from C sh

Re: Begin lyrics only with new section

2012-12-16 Thread james
On Dec 16, 2012, at 8:40 PM, m...@mikesolomon.org wrote: > Hey all, > > Say, for example, I have: > > mA = { some music } > lA = { lyrics to some music } > mB = { some more music } > lB = { lyrics to some more music } > mC = { even more music } > lC = { lyrics ot even more music } > > and all

Re: Begin lyrics only with new section

2012-12-16 Thread Marek Klein
Hello, 2012/12/16 m...@mikesolomon.org > Let's say that on the interior of B I add a lot of new music but I don't > have lyrics yet. It is fastidious to count how many notes I added and put > skips, so as a result, all the lyrics from C shift under B. Is there a way > to avoid this by indicati

Begin lyrics only with new section

2012-12-16 Thread m...@mikesolomon.org
Hey all, Say, for example, I have: mA = { some music } lA = { lyrics to some music } mB = { some more music } lB = { lyrics to some more music } mC = { even more music } lC = { lyrics ot even more music } and all of these are strung in a row : { \mA \mB \mC } \addlyrics { \lA \lB \lC } Let's s

Re: 4-Drum Conga Notation in LilyPond

2012-12-16 Thread Eric Pancer
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Eric Pancer wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Thomas Morley > wrote: >> 2012/12/12 Eric Pancer : >>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Eric Pancer wrote: > [..] >>> I've got this working using the following definition: >>> >>> #(define mydrums '( >>> (bas

two note heads on one bean

2012-12-16 Thread Christopher Brooks
How might I notate this? Christopher Brooks violinist 925 Virginia Avenue Lancaster, PA 17603 717-291-9123 cbro...@orpheus-acoustics.com <>___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lil

Re: Improving alignment of pedal marks

2012-12-16 Thread Arle Lommel
Thanks. This works beautifully, once I figured out how to get the right pedal style (because I'd changed it for a staff context earlier I had to update that bit, and then it worked and the alignment looks great! -Arle On 2012 Dec 15, at 23:55 , Nathan wrote: > You can move the \sustain comman

Re: output to a single, unwrapped, one-"line" PNG ?

2012-12-16 Thread David Kastrup
Bric writes: > On December 16, 2012 at 7:11 AM David Kastrup wrote: >> Bric writes: >> >> > Hi, all >> > >> > Is there a way to have lilypond output to a very long, skinny PNG >> > image with a >> > one-"line" score? >> > >> > In other words, no wrapping or line breaking — bar after bar laid ou

Re: output to a single, unwrapped, one-"line" PNG ?

2012-12-16 Thread Bric
On December 16, 2012 at 7:40 AM Richard Shann wrote: > googling the name ly:one-line-breaking I came up with this > > \paper{ > page-breaking=#ly:one-line-breaking > } > > which appears to do the trick. > HTH Yes. Thanks again. I forgot to be more specific in previous reply, about my bug. I

Re: output to a single, unwrapped, one-"line" PNG ?

2012-12-16 Thread Bric
On December 16, 2012 at 7:11 AM David Kastrup wrote: > Bric writes: > > > Hi, all > > > > Is there a way to have lilypond output to a very long, skinny PNG > > image with a > > one-"line" score? > > > > In other words, no wrapping or line breaking — bar after bar laid out > > horizontally, to t

Re: output to a single, unwrapped, one-"line" PNG ?

2012-12-16 Thread Richard Shann
googling the name ly:one-line-breaking I came up with this \paper{ page-breaking=#ly:one-line-breaking } which appears to do the trick. HTH Richard Shann On Sun, 2012-12-16 at 13:11 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > Bric writes: > > > Hi, all > > > > Is there a way to have lilypond output to a v

Re: Tweaking the positions of figured bass figures.

2012-12-16 Thread Richard Shann
Thank you for your response, it got me hunting around some more and this works: \version "2.16" VoiceI = { a a } BassFiguresLine = \figuremode { \once \override Staff.BassFigureAlignmentPositioning #'Y-offset = #'15.0 < 6 4>4 < 5 4>4 } \score { \new Staff << \context Staff \BassFiguresL

Re: output to a single, unwrapped, one-"line" PNG ?

2012-12-16 Thread David Kastrup
Bric writes: > Hi, all > > Is there a way to have lilypond output to a very long, skinny PNG > image with a > one-"line" score? > > In other words, no wrapping or line breaking — bar after bar laid out > horizontally, to the very end (and, of course, only one instance of > Clefs, Time > Signature

output to a single, unwrapped, one-"line" PNG ?

2012-12-16 Thread Bric
Hi, all Is there a way to have lilypond output to a very long, skinny PNG image with a one-"line" score? In other words, no wrapping or line breaking — bar after bar laid out horizontally, to the very end (and, of course, only one instance of Clefs, Time Signature, Key — at the very beginning) T

Re: brainstorming a really smart system engraver

2012-12-16 Thread m...@mikesolomon.org
On 14 déc. 2012, at 14:47, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hello all, > > Like many people on this list, I engrave a number of choral works using > Lilypond. Like a smaller subset of those people, I engrave a number of large > and very large works (musicals, operas, extended choral works, etc.), w

Re: Moving a staff closer to another one

2012-12-16 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 15 December 2012 21:44, Arle Lommel wrote: > Great. That takes care of the issue with the rests, but not with the > vertical alignment of the pedal brackets, which move all over the > place to accommodate other objects. But knowing this about voices > helps me a ton. > I've learned Lilypond on

Re: brainstorming a really smart system engraver

2012-12-16 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 14 December 2012 14:47, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hello all, > > (snip) > > Ultimately, I would like to have Lilypond choose the correct number > of staves so that horizontal and vertical spacing is optimal, using > partcombine (or 'partexplode'?), cueing, etc., to accomplish its > task. > > (s

Re: lyqi link from LP web site not valid

2012-12-16 Thread Colin Hall
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 06:12:50AM +1100, Nick Payne wrote: > The link to lyqi at > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/web/easier-editing is > not valid (the page http://nicolas.sceaux.free.fr/lilypond/lyqi.html > doesn't exist. The correct link now appears to be > http://github.com/nsceau