Re: Happy Thanksgiving!!!

2014-11-27 Thread Conor Cook
Happy Thanksgiving to all Lilyponders! I am grateful that such a community as this exists, in which there is so much good will and friendliness, while still holding everyone to a high standard. And that this community works toward the constant attainment and improvement of, as the blog title s

Re: Possible Bug with \partcombine?

2014-11-27 Thread Keith OHara
Joshua Nichols gmail.com> writes: > Is there talk about improving this feature? Yes. Someone recently gave \partcombine an option to double-stem unisons http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4112 The example at the top of this follow-up might make more sense http://code.google.com

Re: Beaming and grace notes

2014-11-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2014-11-27 23:08 GMT+01:00 Keith OHara : > Knute Snortum gmail.com> writes: > >> I want to start a run of grace notes with a note with a normal head. > >> ...but with the c' beamed to the d'. > > If these notes all happen before the beat, then > \relative c' { >\grace { <\tweak #'font-size #0

Re: Beaming and grace notes

2014-11-27 Thread Keith OHara
Knute Snortum gmail.com> writes: > I want to start a run of grace notes with a note with a normal head.  > ...but with the c' beamed to the d'. If these notes all happen before the beat, then \relative c' { \grace { <\tweak #'font-size #0 c>32 d e f g a b } c8 } This looks like it might

Re: anti-alias-factor kills the transparency (pngalpha)

2014-11-27 Thread Noeck
> lilypond -dbackend=eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts \ > -dpixmap-format=pngalpha --png myfile.ly … > -danti-alias-factor=4 > > That removes the transparency and reverts to the white background. No answers up to now. I suppose this means it is just not implemented in a way that the

Re: Chapter 3 of "LilyPond Extending" document

2014-11-27 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi again, On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 2:39 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: > > > You could search the music expression for context modifications. > Try running this to see what kind of information would be accessible to you from the music expression you'd be running \naturalizeMusic on: \displayMusic {

Re: Chapter 3 of "LilyPond Extending" document

2014-11-27 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Peter, On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Peter Gentry wrote: > You are spot on David. I spend a lot of time transposing music for a > small band of amateur wind players. I use the said snippet as an include > file "enharmonic.ly" to tidy up the accidentals. My issue is that the > tidy up ta

Re: Possible Bug with \partcombine?

2014-11-27 Thread Joshua Nichols
> The simplest solution here is to keep the voices separate through the slurs... Thanks, this is helpful. Is there talk about improving this feature? Or do you know of a hack for getting the desired output? Your solution will be a solid work around from here on out. Thanks. Josh __

Re: Registrations on organ and harpsichord

2014-11-27 Thread Joshua Nichols
Hi Marco, > It is possible to type to the lilypond notations the registration marks for Harpsichord, or organ? I think I know what you are trying to do. Could you give me a little more detail? For example, I have done this with lilypond: \markup { \general-align #Y #0.5 \left-brace #50 \gen

RE: Chapter 3 of "LilyPond Extending" document

2014-11-27 Thread Peter Gentry
You are spot on David. I spend a lot of time transposing music for a small band of amateur wind players. I use the said snippet as an include file "enharmonic.ly" to tidy up the accidentals. My issue is that the tidy up takes no account of the current key signature and so sometimes you are left

Beaming and grace notes

2014-11-27 Thread Knute Snortum
I want to start a run of grace notes with a note with a normal head. So like this: \version "2.19.15" \relative c' { c32 \grace { d32 e f g a b } c8 } ...but with the c' beamed to the d'. Knute Snortum (via Gmail) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lil

Registrations on organ and harpsichord

2014-11-27 Thread Marco Oros
Hi! I have one question. It is possible to type to the lilypond notations the registration marks for Harpsichord, or organ? Thank You. Marco Oros ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Chapter 3 of "LilyPond Extending" document

2014-11-27 Thread David Nalesnik
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Peter Gentry wrote: > > This chapter headed "LilyPond Scheme Interfaces" would be most useful to > the tyro since it would help to get information into and > out of music streams. > > However it is missing from the 2.18.2 documentation which relates to the > 2.16.

Chapter 3 of "LilyPond Extending" document

2014-11-27 Thread Peter Gentry
This chapter headed "LilyPond Scheme Interfaces" would be most useful to the tyro since it would help to get information into and out of music streams. However it is missing from the 2.18.2 documentation which relates to the 2.16.2 release. Inside the 2.18.2 source download there is a file sch

Re: Note name to markup

2014-11-27 Thread Hans Aberg
> On 27 Nov 2014, at 08:56, Pierre Perol-Schneider > wrote: > > Maybe this snippet could help : http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=856 It looks great, though it does not work with with microtonal pitches. I will see if I can fix that. ___ lilypond

Re: would 'gn' for G-natural be useful in \language "english" ?

2014-11-27 Thread Keith OHara
Ralph Palmer gmail.com> writes: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Keith OHara oco.net> wrote:Dear list, > In English, pronouncing the 'natural' in 'C-natural' is required if the note is out-of-key.  LilyPond does not consider the key when reading note- input, but could easily accept 'cn' as

Re: Possible Bug with \partcombine?

2014-11-27 Thread Keith OHara
Joshua Nichols gmail.com> writes: > I was recently typesetting a song, using part combine, from a hymnal. I ran into a problem: everytime I ran \partcombine, I found that "unterminated slur" and "cannot end slur," were common warnings. I was confused, and so I created this small snippet that s