Re: Catch direction operators

2013-09-28 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Urs, On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Urs Liska wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 'function' that redefines commands like \slurUp to color the > corresponding grob (highlighting manual interventions during score > development). > > Is it possible to 'catch' instances of grobs whose direction has be

Center Lyric Syllables (ignoring punctuation)

2013-09-28 Thread Thomas Morley
To the author of the new LSR-snippet "Center Lyric Syllables (ignoring punctuation)" Many thanks for your code. I did some slightly reformatting of code and description. It's now approved as http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=888 Best, Harm ___ li

Re: filled path

2013-09-28 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Yep, that will do the trick. Thanks a lot, Phil. As for the documentation, maybe it would be interesting to include at least one example of filled path, such as the one we are using here. It is really helpful for beginners such as myself to find tiny examples that you can copy and modify for your

Catch direction operators

2013-09-28 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, I have a 'function' that redefines commands like \slurUp to color the corresponding grob (highlighting manual interventions during score development). Is it possible to 'catch' instances of grobs whose direction has been set by the ^ and _ operators and call a music function on the affected

Re: filled path

2013-09-28 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Gilberto Agostinho To: lilypond-user Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 5:45 PM Subject: filled path Hi all, I agree the documentation isn't clear on this, but a bit of searching and I find: \markup { \override #'(filled . #t) \path #0.25 #samplePath }

filled path

2013-09-28 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi all, I would like to ask you a simple question: how do I make a filled path in the example below? I can't find what is the correct syntax... samplePath = #'((moveto 0 0) (lineto -1 1) (lineto 1 1) (lineto 1 -1) (curveto -5 -5 -5 5 -1 0) (closepath)) \markup { \path

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-28 Thread searchfgold6789
Thank you very much, rumor is now working. I think that we have used more disk space, collectively, discussing whether or not MIDI input to Lilypond will save time, than the rumor source code takes up. And more time was probably spent in the discussion than will be saved by using (or not using) MI

Re: variables tied with slurs

2013-09-28 Thread David Kastrup
Peter Bjuhr writes: > On the other hand, this doesn't work: > > \version "2.17.28" > > A = \relative c'' {a4 b c a ~ } > > \score { > \new Staff > { \A \A } > } That's because each \A is in a Voice of its own. Use an explicit Voice to avoid independent implicit voices for each \A: \score {

new Frescobaldi release set for October 16th, please update translations

2013-09-28 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Dear friends, October 16th, I'll release the new version of Frescobaldi. There are some changes to the translatable strings, and a few new strings; so if you can find some time, please update the translations for your languages. This release also marks an important point in Frescobaldi develop

Re: Help with Chordname

2013-09-28 Thread Robin Bannister
Steve Noland wrote: I am having problems with some of the jazz chordnames engraving correctly. Specifically, a Dm7(b5) chord (D minor 7, flat 5) ... Check out this recent thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-08/msg00568.html Cheers, Robin ___

Re: variables tied with slurs

2013-09-28 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 09/28/2013 08:49 AM, Urs Liska wrote: \version "2.17.26" % How could I write the equivalent of \drums { sn8 sn8 ~ sn8 sn8 } %using variables? % This does work! A = \drummode { sn8 sn8 ~ } \score { \new DrumStaff { \A \A } } %end with a tie { b'4 a' g' b' ~ } Best Peter Thanks. I didn

Re: Acciaccaturas and slashed stems

2013-09-28 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 09/28/2013 10:30 AM, David Kastrup wrote: They are probably compiled, but that does not_install_ them. You should be able to run LilyPond from out/bin/lilypond without installing it. Yes, if I'm not totally mistaken I have the system setup so that I have the stable 2.16.2 version installed

"Unknwown internal option" warning

2013-09-28 Thread Urs Liska
When I add a custom option on the command line with -dcustom-option and test for it in the input file using #(if (defined? 'custom-option)) My file compiles well and respects the option, but I get a warning about "No such internal option: custom-option" (maybe it's differently worded, I'm tr

#(use-modules (guile-user)) warning

2013-09-28 Thread Urs Liska
I'm following the Application Usage to define variables on the command line: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/usage/command_002dline-usage.html#basic-command-line-options-for-lilypond When I use the -e command line option and write #(use-modules (guile-user)) at the beginning of

Re: Acciaccaturas and slashed stems

2013-09-28 Thread David Kastrup
Peter Bjuhr writes: > On 09/28/2013 09:27 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> There are only three rather glaringly obvious reasons I can think of: >> >> a) you are not running the rebuilt executable >> b) the rebuilt executable is in a place where it accesses the old >> engraver-init.ly >> c) you ar

Re: Acciaccaturas and slashed stems

2013-09-28 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 09/28/2013 09:27 AM, David Kastrup wrote: There are only three rather glaringly obvious reasons I can think of: a) you are not running the rebuilt executable b) the rebuilt executable is in a place where it accesses the old engraver-init.ly c) you are looking at the wrong PDF file If y

Re: Acciaccaturas and slashed stems

2013-09-28 Thread David Kastrup
Peter Bjuhr writes: > 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 chang