Re: Pdf point and click on Mac OS

2013-08-31 Thread Paul Morris
It works in Frescobaldi on a mac. That might be your best bet, and you'd get all the other great benefits of using Frescobaldi: http://www.frescobaldi.org/ The downside is that installing it on the mac is not a simple process, but there is a good guide: https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/wiki/

Re: Emacs integration

2013-08-31 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/8/31 David Kastrup : > Thomas Morley writes: > >> \version "2.17.25" >> >> scalesAndTriads = >> #(define-music-function (parser location m music)(ly:music? ly:music?) >> (let* ((elts (ly:music-property m 'elements)) >> (pitches (map (lambda (x) (ly:music-property x 'pitch)) elts))

Re: Title Spacing

2013-08-31 Thread bmathias
Fantastic. Works beautifully. Thanks very much. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Title-Spacing-tp149994p150029.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-u

Re: Reverting to atonal or open key

2013-08-31 Thread David Kastrup
Micah Walter writes: > In Lilypond, there is a distinction between specifying \key c \major and > leaving the key blank. Not really. > In the former case, transposing instruments will change the key > signature accordingly, while in the latter case, no key signature will > be added. Using \tran

Reverting to atonal or open key

2013-08-31 Thread Micah Walter
In Lilypond, there is a distinction between specifying \key c \major and leaving the key blank. In the former case, transposing instruments will change the key signature accordingly, while in the latter case, no key signature will be added. Using \transpose c d, for instance, will add two sharps if

Re: Emacs integration

2013-08-31 Thread Urs Liska
Am 31.08.2013 20:47, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska writes: Currently we have a blog post in the pipeline (one of the first 'guest contributions') that shows how to generate sets of scales for any given or all pitches. Jacques uses shell scripts for that. Well, that's one advantage of LilyP

Re: Emacs integration

2013-08-31 Thread Johan Vromans
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > Below is something I hacked-up to auto-create PDF-preview and > compilation windows, Long time ago I wrote a small tool that is run external of Emacs. It basically fires up a PDF viewer (evince) and an editor window (Emacs) and waits until one of a list of files (e.g

Re: Emacs integration

2013-08-31 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Currently we have a blog post in the pipeline (one of the first 'guest > contributions') that shows how to generate sets of scales for any > given or all pitches. Jacques uses shell scripts for that. Well, that's one advantage of LilyPond's plain text format: you don't _need_

Re: Emacs integration

2013-08-31 Thread Urs Liska
Just FYI, Currently we have a blog post in the pipeline (one of the first 'guest contributions') that shows how to generate sets of scales for any given or all pitches. Jacques uses shell scripts for that. Urs Jan Nieuwenhuizen schrieb: >Hi, > >I was inspired by pair of video's this mornin

Re: Emacs integration

2013-08-31 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > \version "2.17.25" > > scalesAndTriads = > #(define-music-function (parser location m music)(ly:music? ly:music?) > (let* ((elts (ly:music-property m 'elements)) > (pitches (map (lambda (x) (ly:music-property x 'pitch)) elts)) > (pitch-octaves (map (lam

Re: Emacs integration

2013-08-31 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/8/31 Jan Nieuwenhuizen : > Hi, > > I was inspired by pair of video's this morning > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZU8dm9MtHo > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZU8dm9MtHo > > in which George Hess shows how to create a scale sheet in Finale and in > MuseScore. > > It looks to me as a

Re: Emacs integration

2013-08-31 Thread David Kastrup
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > While I was in the process of creating a screencast using Frescobaldi, > it dawned on my how weird that is, because I'm realy bad at editing > text in something that's not Emacs. However, Frescobaldi has become > much, friendlier than our Emacs mode. There are severa

Title Spacing

2013-08-31 Thread bmathias
Hello, I apologize if this is an easy fix, but I've searched high and low, and can't find an answer. I'm using Lilypond 2.16.2, and the vertical spacing between titles (title, subtitle, composer, arranger, etc.) is a bit large for my taste. How can I control the spacing of these elements? As far

Pdf point and click on Mac OS

2013-08-31 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hi all, I've seen a number of things on google about making PDF point an click work on the Mac. None seem to me like an official way of dealing with it. Is there a well documented way to do it? Thanks! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu

RE: polymetics in piano

2013-08-31 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Trevor: Thank you for your reply and the references. Mark -Original Message- From: Trevor Daniels [mailto:t.dani...@treda.co.uk] Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 2:14 AM To: Mark Stephen Mrotek; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: polymetics in piano Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote Saturday,

Re: Conditionally setting variables in \paper section

2013-08-31 Thread Daniel Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/08/13 14:49, David Kastrup wrote: >> I am trying to modify an shared include file the allow it to >> switch the score that uses it between A4 "normal" mode and an >> cut-down A5 form (for an e-book reader). >> >> I can make set-paper-size condit

Re: Strummed chord as straight line arpeggio

2013-08-31 Thread Peter Bjuhr
Thanks! Perhaps it's interesting to note that this (to put the arrows above the stave) is actually what is recommended by Gould in the book for multiple strummed chords in succession. But in my case I'm doing single strums. Peter There's a flamenco snippet in the LSR which does it slightly

Re: Strummed chord as straight line arpeggio

2013-08-31 Thread Peter Bjuhr
Great! Thanks a lot! Peter On 08/30/2013 10:21 PM, Robin Bannister wrote: Peter Bjuhr" wrote: My starting point was that this could be achieved by using some kind of alternative arpeggio, but so far this has not been a successful approach. Here is a rough sketch of such an approach, without

Re: system and staff spacing

2013-08-31 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Thanks a lot Pierre! I find myself constantly confused with the changes from version 2.16 to 2.17. On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Pierre Perol-Schneider < pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2013/8/30 Gilberto Agostinho > >> Hello all, >> > > Hi Gilberto, > > >> >> I altered the *syst

Re: polymetics in piano

2013-08-31 Thread Trevor Daniels
Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote Saturday, August 31, 2013 2:06 AM > In a previous thread > (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-08/msg00673.html), a > Chopin Nocturne was discussed that has polymetrics starting on the second > page of the score. I have looked at the .ly file (attached

Re: Title Spacing

2013-08-31 Thread Eluze
bmathias wrote > I apologize if this is an easy fix, but I've searched high and low, and > can't find an answer. I'm using Lilypond 2.16.2, and the vertical spacing > between titles (title, subtitle, composer, arranger, etc.) is a bit large > for my taste. How can I control the spacing of these ele