Re: Ottava overlapping fermata

2014-08-20 Thread alfstorm
Thank you all for helpful advice. I went with Mark's workaround which works perfectly. I will look at the 'cross staff' collision trackers mentioned by pkx166h and see if the bug is covered there. On a side note: I wasn't aware of Elaine Gould's book before I started using LilyPond. But judging by

Re: advice on final ad lib measure

2014-08-20 Thread Matthew Collett
On 21/08/2014, at 7:51 am, Xavier Noria wrote: > The last "measure" is played ad lib. The way they play suggests eights to me > to choose a notation, but they do not look well within the 5/4 tempo (see > screenshot). > > Which notation would you suggest there? Is there a way to tell Lilypond "

advice on final ad lib measure

2014-08-20 Thread Xavier Noria
I am transcribing the saxophone part of a theme of Dave Brubeck: The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Five For Ten Small Fingers The last "measure" is played ad lib. The way they play suggests eights to me to choose a notation, but they do not look

Re: Ottava overlapping fermata

2014-08-20 Thread Michael Rivers
The spacing between staves when cross staff beams are used is also a big problem in Lilypond (it doesn't provide enough and then throws errors). In general, if you are using cross staff beams, get used to having lots of issues. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble

Re: Ottava overlapping fermata

2014-08-20 Thread James
On 20/08/14 13:40, Mark Knoop wrote: At 13:00 on 20 Aug 2014, Brian Barker wrote: At 21:14 19/08/2014 +0200, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: 2014-08-19 19:54 GMT+02:00 Alf Storm: Is there any way to tweak the ottava height? Or is this a bug I should report? I don't know what Elaine Gould says a

Re: Setting accidentalStyle for all Score contexts

2014-08-20 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 09:45 -0600, Samuel Speer wrote: > "To set score layout options globally, enter them in a > toplevel \layout block. To set layout options for an individual score, > enter them in a \layout block inside the \score block, after the > music." Ah, thank you. That covers it. I wond

Re: Setting accidentalStyle for all Score contexts

2014-08-20 Thread Samuel Speer
"To set score layout options globally, enter them in a toplevel \layout block. To set layout options for an individual score, enter them in a \layout block inside the \score block, after the music." http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/the-layout-block > can you see this in the d

Re: Setting accidentalStyle for all Score contexts

2014-08-20 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 17:26 +0200, Alexander Kobel wrote: > On 08/20/2014 05:14 PM, Richard Shann wrote: > > The documentation > > > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-pitches#automatic-accidentals > > > > shows how to set the accidental style for a Score context, but

Re: Setting accidentalStyle for all Score contexts

2014-08-20 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 08/20/2014 05:14 PM, Richard Shann wrote: The documentation http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-pitches#automatic-accidentals shows how to set the accidental style for a Score context, but when there are several movements I find that putting \layout{\conte

Setting accidentalStyle for all Score contexts

2014-08-20 Thread Richard Shann
The documentation http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-pitches#automatic-accidentals shows how to set the accidental style for a Score context, but when there are several movements I find that putting \layout{\context { \Score \accidentalStyle neo

Re: Spanner

2014-08-20 Thread Peter O'Doherty
On 08/19/2014 07:22 PM, Peter Bjuhr wrote: On 2014-08-19 17:15, Peter Bjuhr wrote: If you change the glyph names I think you'll be able to get what you want. Here is the full list of glyphs to choose between: http://www.smufl.org/version/latest/range/multiSegmentLines/ Best Peter T

Re: Ottava overlapping fermata

2014-08-20 Thread Mark Knoop
At 13:00 on 20 Aug 2014, Brian Barker wrote: >At 21:14 19/08/2014 +0200, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: >>2014-08-19 19:54 GMT+02:00 Alf Storm: >>>Is there any way to tweak the ottava height? Or is this a bug I >>>should report? >> >>I don't know what Elaine Gould says about this particular case. >

Re: Ottava overlapping fermata

2014-08-20 Thread Brian Barker
At 21:14 19/08/2014 +0200, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: 2014-08-19 19:54 GMT+02:00 Alf Storm: Is there any way to tweak the ottava height? Or is this a bug I should report? I don't know what Elaine Gould says about this particular case. Personally, I'd move the fermata : ... She disagrees,