Re: giving MetronomeMarks the space they need

2013-02-12 Thread Keith OHara
On Sat, 09 Feb 2013 05:23:08 -0800, Kieren MacMillan wrote: By default, MetronomeMarks have settings requesting specifically that LilyPond ignore them when spacing notes and rests, analogous to \textLengthOff I use the two overrides below. There are still irregularities Can these things

Re: Add tempo spanners

2013-02-12 Thread Colin Hall
Jay Anderson writes: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Colin Hall wrote: >>> It would be great to have a TempoTextSpanner, for example in order to >>> handle common notation such as >>> >>> rit. - - - - a tempo >>> or >>> rall - - - - >>> >>> I do not see this request tracked yet. >> >> Tha

Re: Add tempo spanners

2013-02-12 Thread Jay Anderson
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Colin Hall wrote: >> It would be great to have a TempoTextSpanner, for example in order to >> handle common notation such as >> >> rit. - - - - a tempo >> or >> rall - - - - >> >> I do not see this request tracked yet. > > Thanks for the report, Xavier, but I t

Re: Add tempo spanners

2013-02-12 Thread Colin Hall
Xavier Scheuer writes: > On 4 February 2013 16:01, Kieren MacMillan > wrote: >> Hello all! >> >> A few weeks ago, in response to Mike Solomon's call for features and bugs, I >> posted a request: >> 2. Allowing a text markup (especially a MetronomeMark) to have a "minimum measure leng

Add tempo spanners

2013-02-12 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 4 February 2013 16:01, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hello all! > > A few weeks ago, in response to Mike Solomon's call for features and bugs, I > posted a request: > >>> 2. Allowing a text markup (especially a MetronomeMark) to have a "minimum >>> measure length". This would avoid collisions, pa

Reimplement figuremode with "links" to notes for correct transposition?

2013-02-12 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 12 February 2013 12:40, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: > On 02/12/2013 03:05 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> >> The advantage LilyPond has over the hand engraver is that it does not >> need to say "I don't make mistakes". The hand engraver puts down the >> staff lines, and short of throwing the pl

Partcombine, lyrics and colliding dots

2013-02-12 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hi! I'm trying to use partcombine and lyrics by using a hidden voice for the melody, as suggested by Daniel E. Moctezuma at http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.general/73934 The only problem is that the dots are pushed from their normal positions, apparently by the dots in the hidde

Re: Fingering with guide indications difference 2.16.2 -> 2.17.11

2013-02-12 Thread Ralph Palmer
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Nick Payne wrote: > The code below (I think it might have come from David Nalesnik) builds > without any error on both 2.16.2 and 2.17.11, but the output is correct on > 2.16.2 and incorrect on 2.17.11. On 2.17.11, the fingerings with guide > indication that are to

Re: bounty hack for some (non-Mike) Schemer out there

2013-02-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mike, > You won't be able to do this with a metronome mark because that Grob is an > item whereas the text spanner is a spanner, meaning it can take up multiple > columns witthout stretching the music too much. So I'd use a customized text > spanner in a separate context (like Dynamics...or

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-12 Thread David Kastrup
Joseph Rushton Wakeling writes: > On 02/12/2013 02:50 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> Joseph Rushton Wakeling writes: >>> What you actually want to see in a given passage is something like, >>> >>> { >>>\set Staff.transposition = #'chromatic >>>c'4 bf' gs' e'% any transposition applied t

Re: collision beam with staff-crossing beam

2013-02-12 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi Werner, On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > consider this real-life example (omitting the unimportant voices). > [..] > > There is an ugly clash between the two beams. Due to the cross-staff > beam, this is sort-of expected. > > What can I do to improve the formatting? I

Re: giving MetronomeMarks the space they need

2013-02-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Keith, > Others solved that problem with MarkLine > Unfortunately, that fix doesn't solve the problem I posted about (and still have). Thanks anyway, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user

Re: giving MetronomeMarks the space they need

2013-02-12 Thread Keith OHara
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 04:31:12 -0800, Kieren MacMillan wrote: The other thing people do is make a separate context, analogous to Dynamics, usually called MarkLine. Yes, I do this (ScoreMarks). You reported a problem with ScoreMarks

Re: Orientation of Ornaments

2013-02-12 Thread David Kastrup
"Mark Stephen Mrotek" writes: > Mr. Kastrup: > > Thank you for your reply and instructions. Changing the two "apostrophes" to > one "quote" allowed the file to compile. > As a beginning student of Lilypond (about six months) my inquiries are at a > basic level. I appreciate your patience and that

RE: Orientation of Ornaments

2013-02-12 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Mr. Kastrup: Thank you for your reply and instructions. Changing the two "apostrophes" to one "quote" allowed the file to compile. As a beginning student of Lilypond (about six months) my inquiries are at a basic level. I appreciate your patience and that of others in the user's group. Although t

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-12 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 02/12/2013 02:50 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Joseph Rushton Wakeling writes: What you actually want to see in a given passage is something like, { \set Staff.transposition = #'chromatic c'4 bf' gs' e'% any transposition applied to this passage % will be chromatic

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-12 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: > you need to have a variety of rule sets (at least 2: chromatic and tonal), > you need to be able to switch arbitrarily between the two (e.g. some music > may have tonal parts and atonal parts). +1 I had encountered a piece that nee

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-12 Thread David Kastrup
Joseph Rushton Wakeling writes: > On 02/12/2013 01:24 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: >> we have a snippet >> Documentation/snippets/transposing-pitches-with-minimum-accidentals-smart-transpose.ly > > The problem with this snippet is that it's conceived as a function > that "wraps" a given piece of musi

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-12 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 02/12/2013 01:24 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: we have a snippet Documentation/snippets/transposing-pitches-with-minimum-accidentals-smart-transpose.ly The problem with this snippet is that it's conceived as a function that "wraps" a given piece of music. But as I recall, if you put a transposi

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-12 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 02/12/2013 12:48 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Looks we are missing the proper command for this. With \pitchedTrill, transposition works. Yes, absolutely. A proper command would also help with the appearance -- as it stands getting the accidental placed just right over the trill sign is a bit

Re: lilypond-book/LateX Beamer: best rendering practice?

2013-02-12 Thread David Kastrup
Florian Hollerweger writes: > Hi Phil, > > I'll go and do as you say, but wouldn't I be facing the problem that > pdflatex has its own ideas at which resolution to actually render > PNGs? It just packages them. It is up to you with what resolution you prepare them before inclusion into PDFLaTeX

Re: lilypond-book/LateX Beamer: best rendering practice?

2013-02-12 Thread Florian Hollerweger
Hi Phil, I'll go and do as you say, but wouldn't I be facing the problem that pdflatex has its own ideas at which resolution to actually render PNGs? That's precisely why I have ended up using graphics in PDF format whenever I can with pdflatex, but maybe I should investigate LaTeX rendering op

lilypond-book: clean up w/o --output?

2013-02-12 Thread Florian Hollerweger
Hi all, Trying to establish a workflow for lilypond-book and LaTeX, I am caught up in a conflict between wanting to clean up the small files that lilypond-book creates, but not wanting to use its --output flag. I usually encapsulate my LaTeX-only projects in a single directory containing: - p

Re: lilypond-book/LateX Beamer: best rendering practice?

2013-02-12 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Florian Hollerweger" To: "Lilypond User List" Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 11:55 AM Subject: lilypond-book/LateX Beamer: best rendering practice? Hi all, As mentioned earlier, I am planning to deliver a Lilypond workshop together with a friend at thi

Re: giving MetronomeMarks the space they need

2013-02-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Keith, > The other thing people do is make a separate context, analogous to Dynamics, > usually called MarkLine. Yes, I do this (ScoreMarks). > As written it ignores time-signatures but you could probably figure out how > to have it acknowledge time signatures and align the first tempo prop

lilypond-book/LateX Beamer: best rendering practice?

2013-02-12 Thread Florian Hollerweger
Hi all, As mentioned earlier, I am planning to deliver a Lilypond workshop together with a friend at this year's Linux Audio Conference. For the workshop slides, I already have a working setup using lilypond-book --pdf in combination with pdflatex and LaTeX Beamer. However, I am not entirely s

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-12 Thread David Kastrup
Joseph Rushton Wakeling writes: > On 02/12/2013 03:05 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> The advantage LilyPond has over the hand engraver is that it does not >> need to say "I don't make mistakes". The hand engraver puts down the >> staff lines, and short of throwing the plate(s) away and starting ove

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-12 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 02/12/2013 03:05 AM, David Kastrup wrote: The advantage LilyPond has over the hand engraver is that it does not need to say "I don't make mistakes". The hand engraver puts down the staff lines, and short of throwing the plate(s) away and starting over, the layout has to fit those lines, and t

Re: Orientation of Ornaments

2013-02-12 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > 2013/2/12 Mark Stephen Mrotek : >> Mr. Morley: >> >> >> >> Thank you again for the instructions: >> >> >> >> mor = >> >> #(define-event-function (parser location)() #{\tweak #'text \markup >> >> { \fontsize #5 \musicglyph #''scripts.mordent'' } -1 I see '' ins

Re: Orientation of Ornaments

2013-02-12 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/2/12 Mark Stephen Mrotek : > Mr. Morley: > > > > Thank you again for the instructions: > > > > mor = > > #(define-event-function (parser location)() #{\tweak #'text \markup > > { \fontsize #5 \musicglyph #''scripts.mordent'' } -1 > > #}). > > > > When compiling this error m

Re: accidentalstyle in the layout-block?

2013-02-12 Thread David Kastrup
Stefan Thomas writes: > Dear community, > I would like to define the accidentalstyle for a piece with four > mouvements in the layoutblock. > Is it possible to do that in version 2.16.2? Sure, go ahead. http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-23#post_scriptum_prelude_1_in_scheme> -- Davi

Re: collision beam with staff-crossing beam

2013-02-12 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> What can I do to improve the formatting? Note that globally > increasing the distance between the staves is not a possible > solution since this would ruin the layout of the whole piece. After some thinking, I would like to change the `padding' for beams so that the skyline's distance from the

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-12 Thread Andrew Bernard
Truly inspiring to watch a master craftsman engraving. I too was astonished at the cutting of beams and stems without a rule, and the virtuoso slur engraving. When you consider slurs are thinner at the ends, there must a lessening of the graver pressure at the ends of the slur which is incredib

accidentalstyle in the layout-block?

2013-02-12 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, I would like to define the accidentalstyle for a piece with four mouvements in the layoutblock. Is it possible to do that in version 2.16.2? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypo

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-12 Thread Urs Liska
Am 12.02.2013 10:17, schrieb Werner LEMBERG: Seeing him cutting stems and beams etc. freehand was incredible. And seeing him 'draw' a slur made me think of how many iterations with adjusted offsets *I* need to bring a slur to a form I'm happy with ... Well, he has drawn stems, beams, slurs, etc.

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-12 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Seeing him cutting stems and beams etc. freehand was incredible. > And seeing him 'draw' a slur made me think of how many iterations with > adjusted offsets *I* need to bring a slur to a form I'm happy with ... Well, he has drawn stems, beams, slurs, etc. beforehand with a pencil. Werner

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-12 Thread Urs Liska
Am 12.02.2013 03:05, schrieb David Kastrup: Janek Warchoł writes: On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Urs Liska wrote: "Music Engraving on Metal Plates": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=345o3Wu95Qo That's awesome! However, despite the fact that this man is truly skilled, there are some imperfe

collision beam with staff-crossing beam

2013-02-12 Thread Werner LEMBERG
[originally sent to lilypond-devel, resent to this list after recommendation, with slight modifications] Folks, consider this real-life example (omitting the unimportant voices). << \new Staff = "R" \relative c' { \voiceTwo d16[ b \change Staff = "L" \stemUp