Re: Footnotes to lyrics

2013-02-27 Thread Noeck
> Can anyone recommend a workaround in the meantime? You could place a working footnote nearby and fake the number in the lyrics: \version "2.17.12" { a b \footnote " " #'(0.0 . 0) \markup { \super 1 Footnote for lyrics. } c' c' } \addlyrics { The Ly -- \markup \concat { ric\super 1 } test.

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-02-27 Thread David Kastrup
Adam Spiers writes: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:22 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> Adam Spiers writes: >>> I just blogged about this: >>> >>> http://blog.adamspiers.org/2013/02/25/music-industry-learns-nothing-from-the-avid-sibelius-saga/ >> >> Well, I see some fatally flawed assumptions here, ridi

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-02-27 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Adam Spiers wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:22 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> Adam Spiers writes: >>> I just blogged about this: >>> >>> http://blog.adamspiers.org/2013/02/25/music-industry-learns-nothing-from-the-avid-sibelius-saga/ >> >> Well, I see some f

ly2video to iPod

2013-02-27 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
Hi, I want to try to make a little video using ly2video that is playable on my iPod classic. ly2video.py has several parameters to control the video output format (--fps, --quality, --resolution, --width, --height, and I guess the extension/filetype of the output file is also important?) Bu

Re: Instrument switching with a new staff - possible?

2013-02-27 Thread David Kastrup
SoundsFromSound writes: > Just incredible. This LilyPond community is simply untouchable - > /unmatched /anywhere else on the web, in my experience. LaTeX community (the plain TeX community, in contrast, falls apart into few individuals with their own style and macros and very infrequent intera

Re: Single Whole Measure Rest vs compressed MMR

2013-02-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> 1. Are "single Whole Measure Rest" and "compressed MMR" two different > things, and treated as such, with specific rules, etc. in references > like Ross, Read, Gould? As far as I know, they are treated similarly. Why should there be a difference? The idea of having compressed MMRs is to save

Re: Output PDF has different chord font than expected

2013-02-27 Thread mayornancy
Xavier, Thank you for explaining the root cause of this frustrating problem. Based on your solution, I am now able to use the chord font of my choice by adding the following snippet at the top of my source file (in this case Verdana, which ships natively with Win7) \paper  {   #(define fonts  

Re: Instrument switching with a new staff - possible?

2013-02-27 Thread SoundsFromSound
Just incredible. This LilyPond community is simply untouchable - /unmatched /anywhere else on the web, in my experience. Thank you all for helping me with this - LilyPond keeps blowing my mind! I can't stop using it. I'll tweak this code a bit and it should work out just fine for what I need, t

RE: Footnotes to lyrics

2013-02-27 Thread Daniel Rosen
> -Original Message- > From: Trevor Daniels [mailto:t.dani...@treda.co.uk] > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 6:44 PM > To: wjm; d...@gnu.org; Lilypond-User List > Subject: Re: Footnotes to lyrics > > > wjm wrote Wednesday, February 27, 2013 7:34 PM > > > From the NR LilyPond version 2

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-02-27 Thread Adam Spiers
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:22 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Adam Spiers writes: >> I just blogged about this: >> >> http://blog.adamspiers.org/2013/02/25/music-industry-learns-nothing-from-the-avid-sibelius-saga/ > > Well, I see some fatally flawed assumptions here, riding on your notion > "both Muse

Re: Single Whole Measure Rest vs compressed MMR (WAS: Issue 3208 Wrong MultiMeasureRest glyph)

2013-02-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/2/28 Xavier Scheuer : > I sometimes wanted different horizontal space settings for "single Whole > Measure Rest" and "real" multimeasure rests a.k.a "compressed MMR" > (with a number above). Hi again. BTW, you could print the MultiMeasureRestNumber on a "single Whole Measure Rest", too: {

Re: Instrument switching with a new staff - possible?

2013-02-27 Thread Nathan
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:24 PM, SoundsFromSound wrote: > Nathan: > > Wow, that comes out amazingly in LilyPond when I render it - how did you > know how to do all that? Damn, I wish I could be that savvy :) > > It's not *essential* that the line be centered, I was just trying to make > this as "n

Re: Horns example from blog

2013-02-27 Thread Jim Long
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 02:56:45PM +0100, Janek Warcho?? wrote: > > Yes, it's a nice example and i wouldn't hesitate to post it in that > discussion. I don't see it there; would you like me to post it? Thanks for your kind comments. Yes, you may post it if you like. Word the post yourself of c

Re: Single Whole Measure Rest vs compressed MMR (WAS: Issue 3208 Wrong MultiMeasureRest glyph)

2013-02-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/2/28 Xavier Scheuer : > On 27 February 2013 18:13, wrote: >> >> Comment #1 on issue 3208 by philehol...@googlemail.com: Wrong >> MultiMeasureRest glyph >> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3208 >> >> OK - let's just be clear about what the bug is. Lilypond does the right >>

Re: Footnotes to lyrics

2013-02-27 Thread Trevor Daniels
wjm wrote Wednesday, February 27, 2013 7:34 PM > From the NR LilyPond version 2.17.13 > +++ > Known issues and warnings > > Footnotes cannot be attached to MultiMeasureRests or automatic beams or > lyrics. > Yes; when I documented the footnote command I failed to find a way of adding a fo

Re: Output PDF has different chord font than expected

2013-02-27 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 27 February 2013 20:29, mayornancy wrote: > Hello, > > I am using lilypond (2.16.2) on Windows7 SP1 in "portable" mode (I simply > extracted the installer to a folder). > > After compiling the following Chord example found at: > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Chords

Single Whole Measure Rest vs compressed MMR (WAS: Issue 3208 Wrong MultiMeasureRest glyph)

2013-02-27 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 27 February 2013 18:13, wrote: > > Comment #1 on issue 3208 by philehol...@googlemail.com: Wrong > MultiMeasureRest glyph > http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3208 > > OK - let's just be clear about what the bug is. Lilypond does the right > thing (TM) for single Whole Measure

Re: Output PDF has different chord font than expected

2013-02-27 Thread mayornancy
Federico, Thanks for your suggestion. I downloaded and installed the font families from your screenshot (all 3 were missing from my PC), but this has not solved the problem. I can reproduce the same font problem on a second PC (running Win7 x64). Any other ideas? Greg

Re: Instrument switching with a new staff - possible?

2013-02-27 Thread SoundsFromSound
Eluze: Oh wow, you got it centered too?? You guys are too smart here :) Thank you thank you - how exactly did you do that? Drum mode? Eluze wrote > > SoundsFromSound wrote >> Good afternoon everyone, >> >> I was attempting to engrave this piece today and I've hit a bit of a >> roadblock. >>

Re: Instrument switching with a new staff - possible?

2013-02-27 Thread SoundsFromSound
Nathan: Wow, that comes out amazingly in LilyPond when I render it - how did you know how to do all that? Damn, I wish I could be that savvy :) It's not *essential* that the line be centered, I was just trying to make this as "neat" on the eyes as possible - it's absolutely FINE if it must stay u

Re: Instrument switching with a new staff - possible?

2013-02-27 Thread SoundsFromSound
Thanks to both of your for the brainstorming! I really appreciate you taking the time to help me. Yes, I will most certainly share my findings with you all once I figure it all out! :) I'll trying both those suggestions now, I'll post how it goes asap. Ben Eluze wrote > > SoundsFromSound wro

Re: removing identical staves

2013-02-27 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 27 February 2013 19:37, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Helge, > > Your problem is very similar to one that I will face [again] soon: > I will be engraving a choir piece of mine in which there are S+A+T+B > sections, SA+TB sections, and SATB ("choral unison") sections. > > During that process, I'm

Re: Temporarily removing bracket from staff groups

2013-02-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/2/20 Thomas Morley : > 2013/2/19 Trevor Daniels : >> >> Thomas Morley wrote Tuesday, February 19, 2013 9:29 PM >> >>> There were some similiar requests in the past, perhaps I should write >>> a LSR-snippet or is it worth to be included in the source-docs? >> >> An LSR snippet would be great. >

can compressibility be set to zero?

2013-02-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
[Lilypond v2.17.13] Hello all! Is there a way to guarantee that the space between two contexts cannot be compressed beyond #'minimum-distance? I have a book where there's still compressible space between socres, and between staves within those scores, but I don't want my ScoreMarks context (

Re: Instrument switching with a new staff - possible?

2013-02-27 Thread Eluze
SoundsFromSound wrote > Good afternoon everyone, > > I was attempting to engrave this piece today and I've hit a bit of a > roadblock. > > Essentially what I'm supposed to do is have the piano break away from it's > "normal" grand staff for many measures (15+). > > Then change to a percussio

Re: Advocating non-free softwares [WAS: Heads up about Frescobaldi & Ubuntu - Insert Menu Glitch]

2013-02-27 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: >> No idea... I just begun to use the last realease of frescobaldi under >> [a freedom-limiting operating system] and this is just fantastic. [..] > Could you please be more aware and more careful about advocating the use > of non-free operating systems? I have read th

Re: Instrument switching with a new staff - possible?

2013-02-27 Thread Nathan
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:47 PM, SoundsFromSound wrote: > Good afternoon everyone, > > I was attempting to engrave this piece today and I've hit a bit of a > roadblock. > > Essentially what I'm supposed to do is have the piano break away from it's > "normal" grand staff for many measures (15+).

Re: Output PDF has different chord font than expected

2013-02-27 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 27/02/2013 20:29, mayornancy ha scritto: After compiling the following Chord example found at: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Chords#Single-staff-template-with-notes-and-chords my result PDF chord symbols are using a very different font than the example output show

Instrument switching with a new staff - possible?

2013-02-27 Thread SoundsFromSound
Good afternoon everyone, I was attempting to engrave this piece today and I've hit a bit of a roadblock. Essentially what I'm supposed to do is have the piano break away from it's "normal" grand staff for many measures (15+). Then change to a percussion 1-line staff to notate the various per

Re: Footnotes to lyrics

2013-02-27 Thread wjm
Greetings, From the NR LilyPond version 2.17.13 +++ Known issues and warnings Multiple footnotes for the same page can only be stacked, one above the other; they cannot be printed on the same line. Footnotes cannot be attached to MultiMeasureRests or automatic beams or lyrics. Footnote

Re: removing identical staves

2013-02-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Helge, Your problem is very similar to one that I will face [again] soon: I will be engraving a choir piece of mine in which there are S+A+T+B sections, SA+TB sections, and SATB ("choral unison") sections. During that process, I'm hoping to perfect the methods available in Lilypond to handl

Re: removing identical staves

2013-02-27 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Helge Kruse" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 5:43 PM Subject: removing identical staves I there, I am typesetting a piece for a small orchestra. There ares voice for the violas and cellos too. These violas play unisono for the first five pages. The

removing identical staves

2013-02-27 Thread Helge Kruse
I there, I am typesetting a piece for a small orchestra. There ares voice for the violas and cellos too. These violas play unisono for the first five pages. Then suddenly they play very different voices. I am reluctant to add a Viola I staff and a viola II staff to the whole score. The composer

Re: Footnotes to lyrics

2013-02-27 Thread David Kastrup
Daniel Rosen writes: >> -Original Message- >> From: David Kastrup [mailto:d...@gnu.org] >> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 9:03 AM >> To: Daniel Rosen >> Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org >> Subject: Re: Footnotes to lyrics >> >> Phooey. I assume that "Lyric" was supposed to be the text of t

RE: Footnotes to lyrics

2013-02-27 Thread Daniel Rosen
> -Original Message- > From: David Kastrup [mailto:d...@gnu.org] > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 9:03 AM > To: Daniel Rosen > Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Footnotes to lyrics > > Phooey. I assume that "Lyric" was supposed to be the text of the lyrics, > right? Correct.

Re: Advocating non-free softwares

2013-02-27 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: >> I suggest rereading the thread in context, taking note about who >> wrote what, and then checking your summary to be accurate, fair and >> matched in style to all those contributing to the thread that have >> ventured an opinion differing from yours. > > Done. And it d

Re: Advocating non-free softwares

2013-02-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
> I suggest rereading the thread in context, taking note about who wrote > what, and then checking your summary to be accurate, fair and matched in > style to all those contributing to the thread that have ventured an > opinion differing from yours. Done. And it didn't change my opinion that some

Re: Footnotes to lyrics

2013-02-27 Thread David Kastrup
Daniel Rosen writes: >> -Original Message- >> From: David Kastrup [mailto:d...@gnu.org] >> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 5:24 AM >> To: lilypond-user@gnu.org >> Subject: Re: Footnotes to lyrics >> >> Conversion to 2.17.13 (what I have here) leaves this unchanged. The error >> messa

Re: Horns example from blog

2013-02-27 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Jim Long wrote: > Thanks for this tip, and also to Xavier for mentioning > \partcombine. It simplified the code nicely. > > I modified the combined trombone score to show all four parts > on one staff. > > The code looks much cleaner now. Yes, it's a nice ex

Re: Advocating non-free softwares

2013-02-27 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > David, > >> "tolerant" is not the same as "stanceless". > > Agreed. And "taking a stance" is not the same as "driving potential > users away with your senseless bigotry, and bothering existing users > with your poor communication skills". > But that is all semantics. I

RE: Footnotes to lyrics

2013-02-27 Thread Daniel Rosen
> -Original Message- > From: David Kastrup [mailto:d...@gnu.org] > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 5:24 AM > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Footnotes to lyrics > > Conversion to 2.17.13 (what I have here) leaves this unchanged. The error > message is a different one, though.

Re: Advocating non-free softwares

2013-02-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
David, > "tolerant" is not the same as "stanceless". Agreed. And "taking a stance" is not the same as "driving potential users away with your senseless bigotry, and bothering existing users with your poor communication skills". But that is all semantics. > Forbidding people to discuss what tha

Re: Advocating non-free softwares

2013-02-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
James, > If we must spend energy on advocacy, let's work on gaining wider use of > Lilypond in the music business. Precisely. Thank you for injecting some sense-ful commentary in an increasingly sense-less thread. Best, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mail

Re: Advocating non-free softwares

2013-02-27 Thread James Harkins
Han-Wen Nienhuys gmail.com> writes: > Our mission has always been to provide excellent music notation in a > free software package to as many people as possible, including those > using windows and macs. We have no business doing ideological > advocacy, and frankly, the original message that star

Re: Advocating non-free softwares

2013-02-27 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > David, > >> Then it would seem that many of us have forgotten >> what brought LilyPond to them in the first place. > > No — some of us just have a sense of balance and tolerance. Sounds to me like the "fair is foul and foul is fair" idea of balance and tolerance pervad

Re: change barline type with time signature change

2013-02-27 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Am 27.02.2013 12:45, schrieb David Kastrup: Jan-Peter Voigt writes: Hi Kieren, hi David K., applyContext is good for doing somethind conditionally anywhere in the music stream: cond = ##t mod = \with { \override NoteHead #'color = #red } \relative c' { c4 e g b \applyContext #(lambda (con

Re: change barline type with time signature change

2013-02-27 Thread David Kastrup
Jan-Peter Voigt writes: > Hi Kieren, hi David K., > > applyContext is good for doing somethind conditionally anywhere in the > music stream: > > cond = ##t > > mod = \with { \override NoteHead #'color = #red } > > \relative c' { > > c4 e g b \applyContext #(lambda (context) (if cond > (ly:context

Re: change barline type with time signature change

2013-02-27 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Kieren, hi David K., applyContext is good for doing somethind conditionally anywhere in the music stream: cond = ##t mod = \with { \override NoteHead #'color = #red } \relative c' { c4 e g b \applyContext #(lambda (context) (if cond (ly:context-mod-apply! context mod))) c a f d c1 }

Re: Advocating non-free softwares

2013-02-27 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 02/27/2013 11:41 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: I am and have been ambivalent about being part of the GNU project. It has come with a lot of harping about how we should say things (like insisting on naming Linux as "GNU/Linux"), with little in return. At the risk of opening up a can of worms,

Re: Advocating non-free softwares

2013-02-27 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:21 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >>> Those who don't care will not actively help Free Software including >>> LilyPond, so it is in LilyPond's best interest to make them care. Which >>> is not necessarily the same as annoying them. But it is also not the >>> same as hiding un

Re: Footnotes to lyrics

2013-02-27 Thread David Kastrup
Daniel Rosen writes: >> -Original Message- >> From: David Kastrup [mailto:d...@gnu.org] >> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 7:24 PM >> To: lilypond-user@gnu.org >> Subject: Re: Footnotes to lyrics >> >> Daniel Rosen writes: >> >> > At >> > http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentatio