Re: odd bar check errors

2013-05-11 Thread Wim van Dommelen
You horn music goes wrong because the opening bracket is in line 169 instead of directly after the \relative and \transpose. And before that another one is missing. I think in the bassoon, same problem with \relative there. Sorry, I don't have enough time now to look at it in detail Re

Re: two staffs in one page

2013-05-11 Thread Nathan
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Xavier Noria wrote: > I am writing a jazz solo and would like to have in addition to the main > staff a couple of lines with the chords listed with their notes displayed. > > [...] > > But what I'd really like is to have that reference at the top of the page > wi

Re: many users don't know about \shape

2013-05-11 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > 2013/5/11 David Kastrup : >> Janek Warchoł writes: >>> my experience (particularly with Fried project) shows that >>> with regard to slurs and ties, LilyPond is very far from automated >>> typesetting. If you want publication quality, you _have_ to tweak the >>> output qu

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2013-05-11 Thread David Kastrup
g...@sdf.org writes: > Thank you, Thomas! > >> >> Not sure I understood correct. >> Though, how about: >> >> \version "2.16.2" >> > > Alas, I use 2.14.2... Why? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.

Re: odd bar check errors

2013-05-11 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Cool cool. Well I think I'm still bar check failing even though I am counting the bars right. I put the braces where they should be I think. thanks for the advice about repeats though. i think I might or might now write out the shorter repeats. but not the longer ones. This is going to be a simp

Re: odd bar check errors

2013-05-11 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Really? It's in this harpsichord score in front of me lol! and it always has been in my years as a chellist and singer. lol! I might just write it out and that's actually what I've been doing for the oboe players and bassoon. lol! Take care. On May 11, 2013, at 1:07 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: > --

Re: many users don't know about \shape

2013-05-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello, > There will always be a need to change things, position objects to a user's > preference. In that regard, it's really too bad the extremely-useful 'head' and 'stem' positioning options are no longer in Lilypond… A huge percentage of the slur tweaks I need to add are simply re-positioni

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2013-05-11 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/5/11 : > Thanks a lot, this seems to work indeed! Actually I was dreaming of > something like \hfill\break in TeX, so that I could either do > > notes \bar "|." \hfill \break > > or > > notes \hfill \bar "|." \break > > for example, but your solution is already very good. Well, you could d

Re: many users don't know about \shape

2013-05-11 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/5/11 David Kastrup : > Janek Warchoł writes: >> my experience (particularly with Fried project) shows that >> with regard to slurs and ties, LilyPond is very far from automated >> typesetting. If you want publication quality, you _have_ to tweak the >> output quite heavily - would you rather

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2013-05-11 Thread ghe
You didn't mention your version. ;) Yes, sorry for that, my fault. Try the following version. Though, 2.16.2 returned better Slurs/PhrasingSlurs at linebreak: \version "2.14.2" spaceRight = #(define-music-function (parser location space)(number?) (let* ((amount (+ space 0.5)) (

Re: odd bar check errors

2013-05-11 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Sarah k Alawami" To: "lilly pond discuss discuss" Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 6:32 PM Subject: Re: odd bar check errors What I mean is I want them to go back and repeat the measure once more or at least that section. so it should be instead \repeat perce

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2013-05-11 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/5/11 : > > Thank you, Thomas! > > >> >> Not sure I understood correct. >> Though, how about: >> >> \version "2.16.2" >> > > Alas, I use 2.14.2... > > >> >> spaceRight = >> #(define-music-function (parser location space)(number?) >> (let* ((amount (+ space 0.5)) >> (space-right `(extr

two staffs in one page

2013-05-11 Thread Xavier Noria
I am writing a jazz solo and would like to have in addition to the main staff a couple of lines with the chords listed with their notes displayed. Right now I have this variable defined chordslist = \chordmode { c1:7 cs1:7 d1:m7 d1:7 d1:aug7 d1:11 d1:13 ef1:13 e1:7 e1:aug7 f1:7 g1:7 g1:aug7 a1:

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2013-05-11 Thread ghe
Thank you, Thomas! Not sure I understood correct. Though, how about: \version "2.16.2" Alas, I use 2.14.2... spaceRight = #(define-music-function (parser location space)(number?) (let* ((amount (+ space 0.5)) (space-right `(extra-space . ,amount))) #{ %% Maybe additional l

Re: Set midi volume per voice?

2013-05-11 Thread ghe
Thank you, Nathan! Use midiMinimumVolume and midiMaximumVolume to set the volume ranges of each staff or voice. They don't seem to have any effect if you don't place any dynamics. This is exactly the information I was missing. \score {   <<     \new Staff \with {       midiMinimumVolu

Re: odd bar check errors

2013-05-11 Thread David Kastrup
"Mark Stephen Mrotek" writes: > Sarah: > > I notice that although you indicate 12/8 in the "global" command the > score prints with "C" or 4/4. I am not sure how to fix this yet I am > sure that it effects the bar checks. fluteMusic = \relative c' \key g \major \global \repeat volt

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2013-05-11 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/5/11 : > > Is it possible, with LilyPond, to have something like the "\hfill" effect in > TeX, that is, "fill the rest of the staff with blank space"? > > If I type: > > { a b c d \break a b c d \bar "|." } > > the layout is ugly because the notes are spread over the whole staff. I > know th

Re: Hara Kiri staff behavior

2013-05-11 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Richard Shann" To: "Phil Holmes" Cc: "lilypond-user" Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 6:18 PM Subject: Re: Hara Kiri staff behavior On Sat, 2013-05-11 at 16:58 +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: "Richard Shann" To: "lilypond-user"

Re: Set midi volume per voice?

2013-05-11 Thread Nathan
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 4:20 PM, wrote: > > Hi list, > > Is it possible to set the volume of the midi tracks for each different > track? > (Sorry, I had this message in Drafts and I forgot to send it.) Use midiMinimumVolume and midiMaximumVolume to set the volume ranges of each staff or voice.

Re: odd bar check errors

2013-05-11 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Yeah I've been trying to do that eliminating a bunch of errors along the way. bit by bit. I'll check on that later. and see where the closing right brace should be. Ty. On May 11, 2013, at 10:12 AM, Wim van Dommelen wrote: > Hi Sarah, > > Remember that error-messages do have a function. Th

Re: odd bar check errors

2013-05-11 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Uh? Odd? Did I mess up in the \global veritable some ware? That just does not make sense. 4/4 does not equal 12/8 unless you want to count everything as triplets. I hope I did not brake anything. On May 11, 2013, at 9:50 AM, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > Sarah: > > I notice that although you i

Re: odd bar check errors

2013-05-11 Thread Sarah k Alawami
What I mean is I want them to go back and repeat the measure once more or at least that section. so it should be instead \repeat percent 2 {what ever that music was} instead of what never Ihad? I still get confused with the braces but math was not and never will be my strong point. Most of th

Re: Hara Kiri staff behavior

2013-05-11 Thread Richard Shann
On Sat, 2013-05-11 at 16:58 +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Richard Shann" > To: "lilypond-user" > Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 4:30 PM > Subject: Hara Kiri staff behavior > > > > I'm currently baffled by not finding the documentation for Hara Kiri > > staffs.

Re: odd bar check errors

2013-05-11 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Sarah, Remember that error-messages do have a function. The program communicates to you that it cannot follow. Your problems start in line 14 by forgetting the opening bracket { of the \relative. But I can only guess where the closing bracket should be. The bracket don't add-up to

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2013-05-11 Thread ghe
Is it possible, with LilyPond, to have something like the "\hfill" effect in TeX, that is, "fill the rest of the staff with blank space"? If I type: { a b c d \break a b c d \bar "|." } the layout is ugly because the notes are spread over the whole staff. I know that: \layout { ragged-

RE: odd bar check errors

2013-05-11 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Sarah: I notice that although you indicate 12/8 in the "global" command the score prints with "C" or 4/4. I am not sure how to fix this yet I am sure that it effects the bar checks. Mark -Original Message- From: lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org [mailto:lilypond-user-bou

Re: odd bar check errors

2013-05-11 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Sarah k Alawami" To: "lilly pond discuss discuss" Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 5:25 PM Subject: odd bar check errors (replying again to make my reply easier for Sarah to read) There's a few problems with braces { } and double bracket << >> placing, which w

Re: odd bar check errors

2013-05-11 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Sarah k Alawami" To: "lilly pond discuss discuss" Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 5:25 PM Subject: odd bar check errors Ok. I'm in 12/8 and i put that in the \global veritable and put the \blobal veritable in every part of this score that I'm working on for t

odd bar check errors

2013-05-11 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Ok. I'm in 12/8 and i put that in the \global veritable and put the \blobal veritable in every part of this score that I'm working on for the moment where it should have gone, I think. How ever, something is still up as 'm counting where the bar checks are failing and I'm getting the right amoun

Re: Hara Kiri staff behavior

2013-05-11 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Richard Shann" To: "lilypond-user" Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 4:30 PM Subject: Hara Kiri staff behavior I'm currently baffled by not finding the documentation for Hara Kiri staffs. That is a staff that only has whole measure rests for a line is dropped.

Hara Kiri staff behavior

2013-05-11 Thread Richard Shann
I'm currently baffled by not finding the documentation for Hara Kiri staffs. That is a staff that only has whole measure rests for a line is dropped. I thought this was the default, and I thought I had looked it up before, but now I can only find obscure (to me) references to RemoveEmptyStaves and

Re: writing percussion notes

2013-05-11 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Hey thanks for the help all of you have given. I'm writing the timpani notes as if they are regular music. I tried a new staff but that failed, probably my error lol! I read about the \drums thing but I don't quite understand how it will work after the percussionMusic equals \relative c

Re: many users don't know about \shape

2013-05-11 Thread David Nalesnik
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 1:58 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Janek Warchoł writes: > > > 2013/5/10 David Kastrup : > >> Janek Warchoł writes: > >>> I'm wondering whether we should advertise \shape more. It's > >>> tremendously helpful, and yet despite it had been added ~1 year ago > >>> (IIRC) many

Re: How to remove time signatures in part of the score

2013-05-11 Thread Peter Toye
Thomas, Thanks. But I need the 2/4 time sig at bar 82 (bars 1-81 have such varied time sigs it's not worth while notating) - how do I do that? It's on the same staff, so I need to switch the sig on and off within the staff. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com -

Re: How to remove time signatures in part of the score

2013-05-11 Thread David Kastrup
Peter Toye writes: > Re: How to remove time signatures in part of the score > > David, > > Thanks. But \omit isn't in the documentation (at least, a search in > the PDF fails to find it). How does one find out how to use it please? Obviously, this depends on the version of LilyPond you are using

Re: How to remove time signatures in part of the score

2013-05-11 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/5/11 Peter Toye : > David, > > Thanks. But \omit isn't in the documentation (at least, a search in the PDF > fails to find it). How does one find out how to use it please? > > Best regards, > > Peter Well, that's the reason why I asked you (in the other thread) to include the version. \omit

Re: Fatal bug in strftime?

2013-05-11 Thread Andrew Bernard
FWIW, the strftime procedure with this format works fine under Arch Linux, and lilypond 2.17.14. Also, typing the scheme expression directly in the REPL for guile 1.8.8, it works just fine. So, since the Windows users on the list can confirm it, and the Linux users cannot, it may be worth notin

Re: Set midi volume per voice?

2013-05-11 Thread ghe
Is it possible to set the volume of the midi tracks for each different track? Till now I have: one = { a b c d } two = { d e f g } global = { \key b \minor } \score { \new Staff << \new Voice = vone { \voiceOne << \global \one >> } \new Voice = vtwo { \voiceTwo << \global \two >> } >>

Re: How to remove time signatures in part of the score

2013-05-11 Thread Peter Toye
David, Thanks. But \omit isn't in the documentation (at least, a search in the PDF fails to find it). How does one find out how to use it please? Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@g

Re: How to position whole-bar rests?

2013-05-11 Thread Peter Toye
Thomas, Many thanks. In fact, all I had to do was to override the staff position of the MultiMeasureRest and it's now fine. Didn't have to change the voices at all. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Saturday, May 11, 2013, 11:13:08 A

Re: many users don't know about \shape

2013-05-11 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > Sure, we're working on it with Urs (progressing slowly). It'd be nice > for LilyPond Report, but frankly i think we should rather create a > multi-author blog - it would be easier to keep it active. A "multi-author blog" sounds pretty much the same as a journal except th

Re: Fatal bug in strftime?

2013-05-11 Thread David Kastrup
"and...@andis59.se" writes: > On 2013-05-11 11:27, Federico Bruni wrote: >> >> 2013/5/11 Peter Toye mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com>> >> >> When I try to use the %e format to get rid of leading zeros in the >> date, lilypond crashes out. >> >> \header { >>title = "title" >>c

Re: many users don't know about \shape

2013-05-11 Thread Urs Liska
Am 11.05.2013 11:15, schrieb Janek Warchoł: 2013/5/11 Federico Bruni : 2013/5/11 Janek Warchoł ... Quite frankly, if we didn't have \shape, i'd say that LilyPond was incapable of handling Fried project :( I think I missed this project, all I can find is this: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/htm

Re:many users don't know about \shape

2013-05-11 Thread Kevin Patrick Barry
> > Or the post processing would have been done using inkscape or some > similar tool... At any rate, \shape is no substitute to fixing > LilyPond's typesetting of slurs. It's a stop-gap measure tied into a > particular version of LilyPond and loosely tied into a particular > version of a score.

Re: Fatal bug in strftime?

2013-05-11 Thread Eluze
Federico Bruni-5 wrote > 2013/5/11 Peter Toye < > lilypond@ > > > >> When I try to use the %e format to get rid of leading zeros in the date, >> lilypond crashes out. using a short example it does (crash) on windows 7 64 in all versions since 2.12.3! Eluze -- View this message in context:

Re: How to position whole-bar rests?

2013-05-11 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/5/11 Peter Toye : > Thomas, > > Sorry - here it is. > > RestText= {e2\rest} > > OboePart= { > > \time 2/4 > > { > << > \relative c' > { > \repeat unfold 9 {\RestText }| > } > \new CueVoice > \relative c'' > { > \stemUp > r4 r8

Re: Fatal bug in strftime?

2013-05-11 Thread and...@andis59.se
On 2013-05-11 11:27, Federico Bruni wrote: 2013/5/11 Peter Toye mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com>> When I try to use the %e format to get rid of leading zeros in the date, lilypond crashes out. \header { title = "title" composer = "no-one" tagline = \markup {

Re: How to position whole-bar rests?

2013-05-11 Thread Peter Toye
Thomas, Sorry - here it is. RestText= {e2\rest} OboePart= { \time 2/4 { << \relative c' { \repeat unfold 9 {\RestText }| } \new CueVoice \relative c'' { \stemUp r4 r8. a16 | c8. b16 c8 d | e4 e8. c16 | e8 r16 d d8 b | g4. g8

Re: How to position whole-bar rests?

2013-05-11 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/5/11 Peter Toye : > I'm trying to position whole-bar rests onto the bottom line of the staff to > keep them out of the way of the cues, and can't get it to work. > > I'm still a newbie, and have found out about the \rest command, but this > gives me two problems: > > 1) it doesn't apply to who

Re: Fatal bug in strftime?

2013-05-11 Thread Federico Bruni
2013/5/11 Peter Toye > When I try to use the %e format to get rid of leading zeros in the date, > lilypond crashes out. > > \header { > title = "title" > composer = "no-one" > tagline = \markup { > Engraved > \simple #(strftime "%e/%m/%Y" (localtime (current-time))) > with \with

Re: How to remove time signatures in part of the score

2013-05-11 Thread David Kastrup
Could you stop posting HTML copies of your articles? The formatting is all off in them. Peter Toye writes: > I want to remove the time signature in part of the score without > losing the bar count. I've tried this, but it doesn't seem to work - > I get the default 4/4 time sig. What am I doin

How to position whole-bar rests?

2013-05-11 Thread Peter Toye
I'm trying to position whole-bar rests onto the bottom line of the staff to keep them out of the way of the cues, and can't get it to work. I'm still a newbie, and have found out about the \rest command, but this gives me two problems: 1) it doesn't apply to whole bar rests, so the horizontal p

Re: many users don't know about \shape

2013-05-11 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/5/11 Federico Bruni : > > 2013/5/11 Janek Warchoł >> >> I'm 100% for automated typesetting: it's my dream and the very reason >> why i'm using LilyPond. >> However, my experience (particularly with Fried project) shows that >> with regard to slurs and ties, LilyPond is very far from automated

Re: lilynet down?

2013-05-11 Thread Federico Bruni
2013/5/11 Janek Warchoł > Hi, > > lilynet.net seems to be down. Do you know anything about it? Maybe > the domain has expired or something (maybe this > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-05/msg00077.html > wasn't scam after all?).. > > Janek > the domain expires in August, a

How to remove time signatures in part of the score

2013-05-11 Thread Peter Toye
I want to remove the time signature in part of the score without losing the bar count. I've tried this, but it doesn't seem to work - I get the default 4/4 time sig. What am I doing wrong? OboePart= { \new Voice \with { \remove Time_signature_engraver } { \compressFullBarRests

Re: many users don't know about \shape

2013-05-11 Thread Federico Bruni
2013/5/11 Janek Warchoł > I'm 100% for automated typesetting: it's my dream and the very reason > why i'm using LilyPond. > However, my experience (particularly with Fried project) shows that > with regard to slurs and ties, LilyPond is very far from automated > typesetting. If you want publicati

Fatal bug in strftime?

2013-05-11 Thread Peter Toye
When I try to use the %e format to get rid of leading zeros in the date, lilypond crashes out. \header { title = "title" composer = "no-one" tagline = \markup { Engraved \simple #(strftime "%e/%m/%Y" (localtime (current-time))) with \with-url #"http://lilypond.org/"; \line {

Re: lilynet down?

2013-05-11 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > Hi, > > lilynet.net seems to be down. Do you know anything about it? Maybe > the domain has expired or something (maybe this > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-05/msg00077.html > wasn't scam after all?).. The "Chinese registrar" stuff is very much a

lilynet down?

2013-05-11 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, lilynet.net seems to be down. Do you know anything about it? Maybe the domain has expired or something (maybe this http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-05/msg00077.html wasn't scam after all?).. Janek ___ lilypond-user mailing lis