Re: LilyPond Enhancement Proposal (with Bounty)

2014-09-28 Thread Abraham Lee
That's what I thought. I just wanted to make sure that that's what was really the issue that needed to be addressed. Regards, Abraham Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 28, 2014, at 9:34 PM, Chris Crossen wrote: > > > >> On Sep 28, 2014, at 8:08 PM, Abraham Lee wrote: >> >> Paul, >> >> This

Re: LilyPond Enhancement Proposal (with Bounty)

2014-09-28 Thread Chris Crossen
On Sep 28, 2014, at 8:08 PM, Abraham Lee wrote: > Paul, > > This sounds intriguing! First of all, my best wishes to you and your startup > company. May you have great success! > > Secondly, I'm not entirely sure I understand what you are trying to avoid > with the text above measure bars. C

Re: LilyPond Enhancement Proposal (with Bounty)

2014-09-28 Thread Abraham Lee
Paul, This sounds intriguing! First of all, my best wishes to you and your startup company. May you have great success! Secondly, I'm not entirely sure I understand what you are trying to avoid with the text above measure bars. Can you give us an example or two showing us exactly what you mean

LilyPond Enhancement Proposal (with Bounty)

2014-09-28 Thread Paul Tannous
LilyPonders: We are part of a startup company that wants to put LilyPond-generated musical scores on tablets. We believe this will allow users to have beautiful, readable scores on tablets and spread the usage of LilyPond to a wider audience. We have completed the first version of an Android a

Re: Thanks to David Nalesnik and Jan-Peter Voigt

2014-09-28 Thread Jay Vara
Hi David, Actually, your logic and reasoning were quite correct. Only, the format statement was before the measureLength was set. I moved the format statement after the context-set-property and it now shows that the engraver does successfully reset the meter. I think the real problem is with the

Re: Thanks to David Nalesnik and Jan-Peter Voigt

2014-09-28 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Jay, On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 7:24 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: > > > Possibly the problem is that the custom engraver is setting measureLength > too late for Completion_heads_engraver to use it? > > That just might be it. The Completion_heads_engraver listens for note-events. So, doing this sam

Re: Thanks to David Nalesnik and Jan-Peter Voigt

2014-09-28 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Jay, On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Jay Vara wrote: > Hi David, > > Actually, your logic and reasoning were quite correct. Only, the format > statement was before the measureLength was set. I moved the format > statement after the context-set-property and it now shows that the engraver > do

Re: Long stretch in one voice, then two

2014-09-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
Well probably it's intuitive for German native speakers by analogy to "eine Stimme" and "Stimme Eins", that what I meant. The next question, of course, is: Do you have an alternative proposal? :-) Good night again (...) Simon Am 28-Sep-2014 23:28:42 +0200 schrieb janek.lilyp...@gmail.com: 2014-

Re: About a RULE I hadn't found in the Bible (Beyond bars)

2014-09-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, I think it's best practice to use curly braces around the differing parts, and place the common ending centered between the outermost stanzas. However, I must consider it a desideratum for lilypond to provide an interface for this. It is a major task to fit this into the current architec

Re: Long stretch in one voice, then two

2014-09-28 Thread Janek Warchoł
2014-09-28 23:25 GMT+02:00 Simon Albrecht : > Hello, > > do you really think they aren't user-friendly? I always found them easy to > understand and use. Is this because they comply to german syntax more > neatly? We have two commands named \voiceOne and \oneVoice. That's definitely confusing; on

Re: Long stretch in one voice, then two

2014-09-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, do you really think they aren't user-friendly? I always found them easy to understand and use. Is this because they comply to german syntax more neatly? Anyway... And I agree with the docs on the explicit/implicit voicing: it depends... Some pieces are easier to input and read with the m

Re: Thanks to David Nalesnik and Jan-Peter Voigt

2014-09-28 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Jay, On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Jay Vara wrote: > David, > > If I use the compound meter which has a (1 4) as one of the moments, it > does not work. It seems to be treated as a (2 4). Actually, I think the > Completion_heads_engraver may be the one with a problem. I checked by > varyi

Re: Thanks to David Nalesnik and Jan-Peter Voigt

2014-09-28 Thread Jay Vara
>I am not top-posting David, All I can say is I am amazed at your expertise. You have already saved me a few days of work! Thank you for the original idea for this engraver and many more thanks for this refinement. Jay > > Here's an idea to make the engraver more flexible: > >  \version "2

Re: Thanks to David Nalesnik and Jan-Peter Voigt

2014-09-28 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Jay, On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 12:48 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Jay Vara wrote: > >> I wanted to get bar lines after each sub-meter of a compound meter, and >> to have Completion_heads_engraver recognize these bar lines and split >> and tie notes as neede

Re: Thanks to David Nalesnik and Jan-Peter Voigt

2014-09-28 Thread David Nalesnik
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Jay Vara wrote: > I wanted to get bar lines after each sub-meter of a compound meter, and > to have Completion_heads_engraver recognize these bar lines and split > and tie notes as needed. > > Thanks to David and Jan-Peter, I was able to change their > doubleBarl

Re: Thanks to David Nalesnik and Jan-Peter Voigt

2014-09-28 Thread David Nalesnik
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Jay Vara wrote: > I wanted to get bar lines after each sub-meter of a compound meter, and > to have Completion_heads_engraver recognize these bar lines and split > and tie notes as needed. > > Thanks to David and Jan-Peter, I was able to change their > doubleBarl

can a context change staff-affinity in a frenched score?

2014-09-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, Given \new ChoirStaff << \new Staff \new Lyrics \new Staff >> Can the Lyrics have staff-affinity = #CENTER when both Staff contexts are alive, and staff-affinity = #UP or #DOWN when the lower or upper Staff, respectively, is frenched? I’m using the latest development bu

Re: About a RULE I hadn't found in the Bible (Beyond bars)

2014-09-28 Thread Shane Brandes
There might not be a rule for that, especially since there seems to be a multiplicity of ways to put that on paper. At least I have seen enough not to see any consistent trend. Shane On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Son_V wrote: > > I found a score where there are three lines of lyrics (1,2, 3)

Thanks to David Nalesnik and Jan-Peter Voigt

2014-09-28 Thread Jay Vara
I wanted to get bar lines after each sub-meter of a compound meter, and to have Completion_heads_engraver recognize these bar lines and split and tie notes as needed. Thanks to David and Jan-Peter, I was able to change their doubleBarlinesAfterTimeSig engraver to achieve this effect. I still ha

Re: Multi line text with a common text

2014-09-28 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Son_V" To: Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2014 2:53 PM Subject: Re: Multi line text with a common text Here it is: The example you posted is just a one voice with more line

About a RULE I hadn't found in the Bible (Beyond bars)

2014-09-28 Thread Son_V
I found a score where there are three lines of lyrics (1,2, 3) and then, after beat 7, there is just ONE (common) line of a common lyrics. like the example below: lyrics for first stanza| lyrics for second stanza | lyrics for third stanza | common endin

Re: Multi line text with a common text

2014-09-28 Thread Son_V
Here it is: The example you posted is just a one voice with more lines of the (same) lyrics. I'm in trouble in an already made score (Musescore > XML > LilyPond). -- View this message in context: http://lil

Re: A help document i would like to have

2014-09-28 Thread Son_V
Another example of a VISUAL dictionary: http://dsii.dsi.unifi.it/~moods/moods/mus_not.htm It lacks the MULTILINGUAL side. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/A-help-document-i-would-like-to-have-tp166860p166908.html Sent from the User mailing list archive

Re: Harp fingering and lever

2014-09-28 Thread denial44
My son has started playing the harp and although I know nothing of the technicalities of the instrument, I find it inspiring when he plays. I have asked him to listen to the top harp players to improve. -- View this message

Re: Multi line text with a common text

2014-09-28 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Son_V" To: Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2014 1:17 PM Subject: Re: Multi line text with a common text Thanks Phil, but it's about just one voice, and I'm trying to apply it to an already made SATB score; I have tried to work your example on my score, but I

Re: A help document i would like to have

2014-09-28 Thread Son_V
> \version "2.18.2" \paper { Hi Joram, I think you've got what i meant. Unfortunately, to work on this file is Far off of my capabilities. :-( I coul try to make an example with LibreOffice. I will put it here. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/

Re: Multi line text with a common text

2014-09-28 Thread Son_V
Thanks Phil, but it's about just one voice, and I'm trying to apply it to an already made SATB score; I have tried to work your example on my score, but I felt in a maze (really). I can't actually make it work. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Multi-line-t