Re: variables tied with slurs

2013-09-27 Thread Urs Liska
Am 27.09.2013 10:46, schrieb Peter Bjuhr: On 09/27/2013 07:05 AM, Urs Liska wrote: Does A = \drums { sn8 sn8~ } { \A \A } Do what you want? I was curious of this, but Urs is right it does work. There are no obstacles in ending with a tie. Apparently it is just ignored: \version "2.17.26

Re: staff-specific markup?

2013-09-27 Thread David Kastrup
Graham King writes: > Brilliant. Thank you. "<>" gives me something to which to attach a > \markup in the absence of any nearby note. I would never have guessed > that. Well, we spell it out in http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/single-voice#chorded-notes> (scroll down to

Re: Help with Chordname

2013-09-27 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Sep 27, 2013, at 7:23 PM, Steve Noland wrote: > > I am trying to typeset a score for jazz orchestra. I am having problems with > some of the jazz chordnames engraving correctly. Specifically, a Dm7(b5) > chord (D minor 7, flat 5) engraves as a Dº, or D diminished. What can be the > p

Re: \path command

2013-09-27 Thread MING TSANG
Curt & Martin: Thank you for the postscript code.  I play around with different number, I finally settle for this code: \version "2.17.27" \markup { \hspace #1.5 \note #"8" #1 "yMt" %\postscript #"0.5 setlinewidth 5 -1 moveto -15 8 -10 -7 -0.5 3 \postscript #"0.05 setlinewidth 0 -2.5 moveto -14

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 130, Issue 178

2013-09-27 Thread MING TSANG
Eluze, Thomas & Colin: Thank you all for your help and patience.  Frecobaldi generate the template code, I did not check the rehearsalmidi part closely. Next time I will follow tiny-sample  to demonstrate the problem. Thanks again, emanuel, Ming.       2. R

Re: Help with Chordname

2013-09-27 Thread Alec Bartsch
On Sep 27, 2013, at 5:23 PM, Steve Noland wrote: > I am trying to typeset a score for jazz orchestra. I am having problems with > some of the jazz chordnames engraving correctly. Specifically, a Dm7(b5) > chord (D minor 7, flat 5) engraves as a Dº, or D diminished. What can be the > problem

Re: programming error

2013-09-27 Thread Eluze
Am 27.09.2013 14:33, schrieb MING TSANG: Hi, Eluze: Yes, it probably doesn't 5o+ measure to show the problem, but I don't know when and where the "programming error" suddenly appears. The compile run seems producing .pdf ok. I will follow you suggestion and try identify when and where that e

RE: \path command

2013-09-27 Thread Curt McDowell
Martin, you're absolutely right, I should have included an attachment. Sorry for the time wastage. Ming, try this version. It's just an idea. You might need to tweak relative positions and/or make the PostScript more elaborate to draw what you want. Cheers, Curt \version "2.13.51" \header {

Re: Re[surrecting]: Version Control and Public Repository

2013-09-27 Thread Franciszek Boehlke
2013/9/27 Alexander Kobel > Dear all, > > long time ago there was this thread about version controlling Lily scores, > and much more recently Urs' excellent essay and tutorial on the LilyPond > blog [1]. > > Now, that surely is a great read, but I'm left with one question. Over > time, I've colle

Re: Acciaccaturas and slashed stems

2013-09-27 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 09/27/2013 01:43 PM, David Kastrup wrote: I've committed a patch implementing grace autobeaming to http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3566> Hi David! I also wanted to contribute with some testing. I changed the files with your patched changes (lily/auto-beam-engraver.cc an

Re: programming error

2013-09-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/9/27 Colin Campbell : > On 13-09-27 02:16 PM, MING TSANG wrote: > > Eluze, > > I follow your suggestion and I came up with smaller file about 268 lines. > I attach the .ly file and the error message log file. Please refer to red > text below log file. > > Emanuel, > Ming. > > > > > In your reh

Re: Re[surrecting]: Version Control and Public Repository

2013-09-27 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 09/27/2013 10:53 PM, Curt wrote: This is a common problem in software engineering. [...] I assumed so; I don't experience it in the projects I'm currently involved in, but I am sure it is well studied. For a git-only approach, the *classic* way of handling this - and I haven't yet tried

Re: programming error

2013-09-27 Thread Colin Campbell
On 13-09-27 02:16 PM, MING TSANG wrote: Eluze, I follow your suggestion and I came up with smaller file about 268 lines. I attach the .ly file and the error message log file. Please refer to red text below log file. Emanuel, Ming. In your rehearsalMidi section, you've set the Score.midiM

Re: Re[surrecting]: Version Control and Public Repository

2013-09-27 Thread Curt
This is a common problem in software engineering. In my day job as a java developer we use something called archiva which collects multiple versions of the libraries we depend on. So if projectA (like your score) depends on version 1.1 of a library (like your tweaks), while another project dep

Re: staff-specific markup?

2013-09-27 Thread Graham King
Brilliant. Thank you. "<>" gives me something to which to attach a \markup in the absence of any nearby note. I would never have guessed that. Am I correct in thinking that there is no way to attach markup to, say, a clef or a time signature? On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 21:47 +0200, David Kastrup wr

Re: programming error

2013-09-27 Thread MING TSANG
Eluze, I follow your suggestion and I came up with smaller file about 268 lines. I attach the .ly file and the error message log file. Please refer to red text below log file. Emanuel, Ming. Starting lilypond-windows.exe 2.17.26 [how-beautiful-your-nameTEST.ly]... Processing `C:/Users/Tsang/Dr

Re: staff-specific markup?

2013-09-27 Thread David Kastrup
"Phil Holmes" writes: > use \markup instead of \mark \markup? More like <>^\markup ... -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: staff-specific markup?

2013-09-27 Thread Phil Holmes
use \markup instead of \mark \markup? -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Graham King To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 8:28 PM Subject: staff-specific markup? I'm trying to engrave a vocal score in which the majority of markups are common

Re: Midi equalisation

2013-09-27 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Hilary Snaden" To: "LilyPond Users" Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 8:07 PM Subject: Re: Midi equalisation On 2013-09-15 14:45, Janek Warchoł wrote: Hi, 2013/9/10 David Kastrup : Hilary Snaden writes: This (trimmed) example doesn't work as the docum

Re: Re[surrecting]: Version Control and Public Repository

2013-09-27 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Alec Bartsch" To: "Phil Holmes" Cc: "Alexander Kobel" ; "Urs Liska" ; Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 5:20 PM Subject: Re: Re[surrecting]: Version Control and Public Repository On Sep 27, 2013, at 3:50 AM, Phil Holmes wrote: > If you have scoreA.ly a

staff-specific markup?

2013-09-27 Thread Graham King
I'm trying to engrave a vocal score in which the majority of markups are common to all parts. Lilypond helpfully engraves these just once, above the top part, as expected. However, there are some rare \mark \markup items that I want to appear above only one of the inner staves. Is there a way to

overlapping contexts and consequences

2013-09-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, In my choral scores, I often want centered dynamics and centered lyrics, e.g., \new ChoirStaff << \new Staff = "SA" \lady_music \new Dynamics \choir_dynamics \new Lyrics \choir_lyrics \new Staff = "TB" \man_music >> 1. When the dynamics and lyrics *don't* occupy th

Re: convert-ly on Mac?

2013-09-27 Thread Graham King
On OSX /Applications/Lilypond.app looks like a single file. However, if you right-click on it in the Finder, and select "Show package contents", you'll find convert-ly (and a lot else) inside. To do this, you'll first need to have enabled right-click. To do so on a Macbook, go to System Preferen

Re: Midi equalisation

2013-09-27 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 2013-09-15 14:45, Janek Warchoł wrote: > Hi, > > 2013/9/10 David Kastrup : >> Hilary Snaden writes: >> >>> This (trimmed) example doesn't work as the documentation suggests it >>> should, in this case to reduce the volume of the organ relative to the >>> voices. Changing the volume values make

Re: Lilypond-Book not compiling LaTeX

2013-09-27 Thread flup2
Hello, In your example, there is a missing accolade at the end: \end{document in place of \end{document} If I add it, it compiles without problem. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Lilypond-Book-not-compiling-LaTeX-tp151496p151498.html Sent from the User m

Re: Violin tab for fiddle tunes

2013-09-27 Thread R.D. Latimer
I've put together a sample fiddle tune with music notation, sample fiddle tab (using finger number), guitar tab (using fret number), and guitar capo 2 tab (using fret number based on capo). Let me know if anyone would like me to post. On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 8:39 AM, R.D. Latimer wrote: > I'd

Lilypond-Book not compiling LaTeX

2013-09-27 Thread Marcos Press
Hi! Finaly I decide to learn LaTeX, and integrateit with Lilypond. I've been writting in LaTeX with the usuall learning curbe problems. And finaly arrive to the moment of putting some music within the text. So I type many diferent trys, and nothing works. Always the same output. So I decide to tr

Re: Acciaccaturas and slashed stems

2013-09-27 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi David, I think your solution is absolutely great: if the graces are simple enough, then they are all beamed. This will solve 99% of the problems. If one needs something fancier, then she or he should manually write all beams. Thank you once again for all your help. Take care, Gilberto -- V

Re: Re[surrecting]: Version Control and Public Repository

2013-09-27 Thread Alec Bartsch
On Sep 27, 2013, at 3:50 AM, Phil Holmes wrote: > If you have scoreA.ly and this includes my-tweak.ily and you create a commit > in the git repo for this music, no matter how often you then alter my-tweak, > you could always return to the commit for this music, and my-tweak will > always be a

Re: barré fret diagram guitar

2013-09-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/24/13 12:57 AM, "bart deruyter" wrote: >Now the fretboard diagrams have to be mixed into the score, which really >is not nice. It's harder to read the lilypond file, and I have to dig >into the score code to get a version without diagrams instead of just >modifying the score part. > The t

Re: How to modify a syllable, if "~" (or "_") is involved?

2013-09-27 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Am 27.09.2013 11:42, schrieb David Kastrup: Check the definition of \tied-lyrics in scm/define-markup-commands.scm ... so its easy ... \markup { \italic \tied-lyric #"foo~" bar } and the documentation doesn't need improvement (IMO) http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/musi

Re: installation denemo in window.

2013-09-27 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 04:20 -0700, MING TSANG wrote: > Lilyponders: This email would be better sent to the Denemo mailing list > On the download page it said it includes lilypond. I already have > lilypond v2.16.2 and v2.17.26 installed on my desktop computer. Will > the installation clobber my

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-27 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 11:38 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > > Sure, that may be of interest to the other people on the thread who > > *are* looking for MIDI input. For myself, I prefer working with the > > code directly, and I will likely continue to prefer the code even if > > there's the option of

Re: Acciaccaturas and slashed stems

2013-09-27 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi David, First of all, thank you so much for doing this, I really appreciate it. Unfortunately I do not know how to apply the patch, but I created a small LilyPond code that could be used as a regression test: \version "2.17.26" { \relative c'' { \grace {a8 b } a1 \grace {a8 b c b gis

Re: programming error

2013-09-27 Thread MING TSANG
Hi, Eluze: Yes, it probably doesn't 5o+ measure to show the problem, but I don't know when and where the "programming error" suddenly appears. The compile run seems producing .pdf ok.  I will follow you suggestion and try identify when and where that error first appears. Emanuel, Ming _

Re: Acciaccaturas and slashed stems

2013-09-27 Thread David Kastrup
Gilberto Agostinho writes: > Hello Peter, > > I am sorry for my late reply, I have been away for the past days. > > About Frescobaldi, though I am very thankful for you to have implemented the > automatic beams for the grace notes, I have to say I am not very fond of the > idea of installing sti

installation denemo in window.

2013-09-27 Thread MING TSANG
Lilyponders: On the download page it said it includes lilypond.  I already have lilypond v2.16.2 and v2.17.26 installed on my desktop computer.  Will the installation clobber my existing lilypond? What version of lilypond that denemo installer include? I want to try out denemo, but am afraid to

Re: Re[surrecting]: Version Control and Public Repository

2013-09-27 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Alexander, of course I'm interested in this topic ;-) but I have a concert tonight (anybody in/near Gelsenkirchen?) So I don't know if I can answer in detail today ... Best Urs Alexander Kobel schrieb: >Dear all, > >long time ago there was this thread about version controlling Lily >sco

Re: Re[surrecting]: Version Control and Public Repository

2013-09-27 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Alexander Kobel" To: "Urs Liska" Cc: Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 10:11 AM Subject: Re[surrecting]: Version Control and Public Repository Dear all, long time ago there was this thread about version controlling Lily scores, and much more recently Urs

Re: How to modify a syllable, if "~" (or "_") is involved?

2013-09-27 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > 2013/9/27 Jan-Peter Voigt : >> Hi Harm, >> >> this seems to be tricky, because the corresponding engraver seems to look >> for strings containig '~'. So a markup would have to be split ... a custom >> engraver might do it ... >> If the syllable is not a string, but a marku

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-27 Thread David Kastrup
James Harkins writes: > On Friday, September 27, 2013 4:04:36 PM HKT, Richard Shann wrote: >>> My music only seldom follows common practice tonality, >> >> The built-in support is for any range (e.g. E-flat to G-sharp, or D to >> F-double-sharp), with the modulation controller on the MIDI keyboa

Re: How to modify a syllable, if "~" (or "_") is involved?

2013-09-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/9/27 Jan-Peter Voigt : > Hi Harm, > > this seems to be tricky, because the corresponding engraver seems to look > for strings containig '~'. So a markup would have to be split ... a custom > engraver might do it ... > If the syllable is not a string, but a markup containing a string, > contain

Re[surrecting]: Version Control and Public Repository

2013-09-27 Thread Alexander Kobel
Dear all, long time ago there was this thread about version controlling Lily scores, and much more recently Urs' excellent essay and tutorial on the LilyPond blog [1]. Now, that surely is a great read, but I'm left with one question. Over time, I've collected a few scores, made with differen

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-27 Thread James Harkins
On Friday, September 27, 2013 4:04:36 PM HKT, Richard Shann wrote: My music only seldom follows common practice tonality, The built-in support is for any range (e.g. E-flat to G-sharp, or D to F-double-sharp), with the modulation controller on the MIDI keyboard changing the range sharper or fla

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-27 Thread pls
On 27.09.2013, at 08:27, Johan Vromans wrote: > Laura Conrad writes: > >> I use , which I think has >> been mentioned elsewhere in the thread. > > As being a 404? http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/rlwrap/#midi_input > > -- Johan > > __

Re: variables tied with slurs

2013-09-27 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 09/27/2013 07:05 AM, Urs Liska wrote: Does A = \drums { sn8 sn8~ } { \A \A } Do what you want? I was curious of this, but Urs is right it does work. There are no obstacles in ending with a tie. Apparently it is just ignored: \version "2.17.26" % How could I write the equivalent of \d

Re: How to modify a syllable, if "~" (or "_") is involved?

2013-09-27 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Harm, this seems to be tricky, because the corresponding engraver seems to look for strings containig '~'. So a markup would have to be split ... a custom engraver might do it ... If the syllable is not a string, but a markup containing a string, containing "~", then put the right stencil i

How to modify a syllable, if "~" (or "_") is involved?

2013-09-27 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi, is there any possibility to modify one syllable of LyricText if the syllables are connected with "~"? In this example the \markup disturbs "~". (Same for "_") \version "2.17.26" \new Lyrics \lyricmode { foo~bar \markup { \italic foo }~bar } Thoughts? Thanks, Harm _

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-27 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 09:04 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: > So if you wanted some assorted > collection of sharps and flats (E-flat with A-flat but F-sharp ...) whoops! it would have to be weirder than that, say D-Sharp with A-flat ... Richard ___ lilyp

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-27 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 20:28 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Richard Shann writes: > > > Denemo completely ignores the time-stamps on the midi input > > stream. The midi events are serialized into a buffer by a separate > > thread, and Denemo just picks them up in the order they appear in the > > qu

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-27 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 13:41 +0800, James Harkins wrote: > On Sep 27, 2013 12:10 AM, "Richard Shann" > wrote: > > Since introducing this I have had zero enharmonic misspellings in my > > transcriptions. But this might not be suitable for some sorts of > music, > > I confess. > > My music only seld

RE: \path command

2013-09-27 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, Curt McDowell wrote: Here's something like that, but using \postscript instead of \path. I can't get \path at the right origin. It seems to ignore an initial "moveto". Even \postscript seems to set the origin differently depending on which note the markup goes on (hence