Re: grace notes MIDI playback

2015-12-03 Thread David Wright
On Thu 03 Dec 2015 at 21:08:30 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright writes: > > > On Sat 28 Nov 2015 at 06:23:00 (-0700), Gilberto Agostinho wrote: > >> David Kastrup wrote > >> > So how should this be rigged instead? Nominal length, unless that would > >> > swallow all of the following

Re: Introducing "LilyPond HTML Live Score"

2015-12-03 Thread Colin Campbell
On 15-11-29 11:08 AM, Mathieu Demange wrote: Hello all, I've been developing a tool which is at a very early stage now, but I humbly guess you should like the idea. Check this very simple page and click the "play" button (or you can click any note or rest). http://www.mathieudemange.fr/lilyp

Re: Marks and metronome marks per staff group

2015-12-03 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, This is easily accomplished through the use of a [custom] MarksLine or ScoreMarks context. Search the archives for numerous examples/snippets. If you’re looking for a “one-click” solution, that’s definitely a feature request… and likely one that’s a long way down the developers’ To Do List.

Marks and metronome marks per staff group

2015-12-03 Thread thorne
Hi. I am wondering about the issue referenced in a thread on this list that I found from early 2012 [1], namely, the question whether there is a way to have metronome and other marks appear not only at the top of a full score, but also (for example) above the first violin line (or whatever is the

Re: grace notes MIDI playback

2015-12-03 Thread Shane Brandes
Classical era Grace notes are taken out of the following note at their full temporal value, unless flagged then they come before the beat. Generally the most important thing is that in both classical era and baroque music the value of the graces are an equal subdivision of the tone so graced. Somew

Re: Can \barNumberCheck be set to error?

2015-12-03 Thread Urs Liska
Am 03.12.2015 um 23:34 schrieb thorne: > Thank you. I have changed the relevant bit to > > (begin >(ly:input-message (*location*) "") >(ly:error "Barcheck failed got ~a expect ~a" cbn n))) > > which works, but is not very elegant. This is the first time I've > looked at

Re: Can \barNumberCheck be set to error?

2015-12-03 Thread thorne
Thank you. I have changed the relevant bit to (begin (ly:input-message (*location*) "") (ly:error "Barcheck failed got ~a expect ~a" cbn n))) which works, but is not very elegant. This is the first time I've looked at the Internals documentation. I didn't see anything li

Re: accidentals for just intonation

2015-12-03 Thread Graham Breed
On 03/12/15 12:11, N. Andrew Walsh wrote: If your system requires only a range in cents to determine which accidental to use, that should be easy to calculate and apply. If it requires only the prime factors of the ratios, that should be easy, too. If it's some mixture of them, that works as wel

Re: grace notes MIDI playback

2015-12-03 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
David Wright wrote > That's not true for all appoggiaturas of that era, is it? Well, with old music it's always tricky to find rules for these type of things, and to cater our MIDI output around it will lead to madness IMO. But I'd say it's quite safe to assume the meaning of contemporary appoggia

Re: grace notes MIDI playback

2015-12-03 Thread David Kastrup
David Wright writes: > On Sat 28 Nov 2015 at 06:23:00 (-0700), Gilberto Agostinho wrote: >> David Kastrup wrote >> > So how should this be rigged instead? Nominal length, unless that would >> > swallow all of the following notelength or more? And otherwise scale >> > down repeatedly by a factor

Re: grace notes MIDI playback

2015-12-03 Thread David Wright
On Sat 28 Nov 2015 at 06:23:00 (-0700), Gilberto Agostinho wrote: > David Kastrup wrote > > So how should this be rigged instead? Nominal length, unless that would > > swallow all of the following notelength or more? And otherwise scale > > down repeatedly by a factor of 2 until it doesn't? > >

Re: parameters in lyrics?

2015-12-03 Thread David Nalesnik
On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 11:04 AM, David Nalesnik wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 10:54 AM, David Nalesnik > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Urs Liska wrote: >> >>> >>> > Maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't the following suffice? > > OK, sorry for the noise...I se

Re: parameters in lyrics?

2015-12-03 Thread David Nalesnik
On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 10:54 AM, David Nalesnik wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Urs Liska wrote: > >> >> >> Am 03.12.2015 um 17:30 schrieb Graham King: >> >> On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 17:12 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: >> >> >> >> Am 03.12.2015 um 17:10 schrieb Graham King: >> >> On Thu

Re: parameters in lyrics?

2015-12-03 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Urs Liska wrote: > > > Am 03.12.2015 um 17:30 schrieb Graham King: > > On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 17:12 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: > > > > Am 03.12.2015 um 17:10 schrieb Graham King: > > On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 16:57 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: > > Ah, forgot: the ending f

Re: parameters in lyrics?

2015-12-03 Thread Urs Liska
Am 03.12.2015 um 17:30 schrieb Graham King: > On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 17:12 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: >> >> >> Am 03.12.2015 um 17:10 schrieb Graham King: >> >>> On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 16:57 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: Ah, forgot: the ending function would also have to be written before the syll

Re: LyricText center-on-word breaks lyricMelismaAlignment

2015-12-03 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-11-12 6:11 GMT+01:00 Kieren MacMillan : > Hi all, > > It seems that, when using the very useful center-on-word function > (), setting lyricMelimsaAlignment > to anything other than integer values (including #LEFT, etc.) fails. > > Fixing the snippet

Re: parameters in lyrics?

2015-12-03 Thread Graham King
On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 17:12 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: > > > > Am 03.12.2015 um 17:10 schrieb Graham King: > > > > > On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 16:57 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: > > > > > Ah, forgot: the ending function would also have to be written > > > before the syllable, so > > > > > > Three \foo

Music Blocks Software and LilyPond Integration

2015-12-03 Thread Devin
Hi, I have been working with Walter Bender of Sugar Labs to create web-based, free software (AGPL) for students to explore music's fundamental concepts in a visual programming environment (fork of Turtle Blocks). I have put the software up at http://www.musicblocks.net and you can try a stable ve

Re: Vertically centering a song text.

2015-12-03 Thread David Wright
On Thu 03 Dec 2015 at 07:32:44 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > tisimst writes: > > > \skip in the Lyrics context is necessary for skipping beats without > > creating a melisma (which can be manually created with a single underscore > > for each beat in the melisma). I'm not sure why it's insensit

Re: parameters in lyrics?

2015-12-03 Thread Urs Liska
Am 03.12.2015 um 17:10 schrieb Graham King: > On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 16:57 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: >> Ah, forgot: the ending function would also have to be written before >> the syllable, so >> >> Three \foo deaf and \bar blind mice are \foobar alive. >> >> should return >> >> Three [deaf and blin

Re: parameters in lyrics?

2015-12-03 Thread Graham King
On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 16:57 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: > Ah, forgot: the ending function would also have to be written before > the syllable, so > > Three \foo deaf and \bar blind mice are \foobar alive. > > should return > > Three [deaf and blind] mice are [alive] > Uh, no. I'd like it to retu

Re: parameters in lyrics?

2015-12-03 Thread Urs Liska
Am 03.12.2015 um 16:57 schrieb Urs Liska: > > > Am 03.12.2015 um 16:24 schrieb Urs Liska: >> >> >> Am 03.12.2015 um 16:19 schrieb Graham King: >>> On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 15:12 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: Am 03.12.2015 um 15:04 schrieb Graham King: > I'm trying to enclose some l

Re: How Beautiful Upon the Mountains by Stainer

2015-12-03 Thread Brian Barker
At 15:18 03/12/2015 +, Gregory Citarella wrote: Hello: is there any way I can get a pdf of the choir anthem that I see on you tube of How Beautiful upon the mountains by John Stainer. I see it was done by someone using lilypond.org https://github.com/jrmhaig/music/blob/9b6f04207762999dcd27

Re: How Beautiful Upon the Mountains by Stainer

2015-12-03 Thread Sam Bivens
Hi Gregory, As Chris pointed out, it's (partially) up on CPDL. You might try contacting some of the editors on http://www2.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/How_beautiful_upon_the_mountains_%28John_Stainer%29 to see if they'd be willing to share any of their scores with you. I see Andrew Crookall, for

Re: parameters in lyrics?

2015-12-03 Thread Urs Liska
Am 03.12.2015 um 16:24 schrieb Urs Liska: > > > Am 03.12.2015 um 16:19 schrieb Graham King: >> On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 15:12 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: >>> >>> >>> Am 03.12.2015 um 15:04 schrieb Graham King: >>> I'm trying to enclose some lyrics within square brackets but, for reasons too te

Re: How Beautiful Upon the Mountains by Stainer

2015-12-03 Thread Chris Yate
Sorry, I see that's an arrangement for ATB On 3 December 2015 at 15:44, Chris Yate wrote: > It's available at CPDL, did you look there? > > http://www1.cpdl.org/wiki/images/7/7e/How_beautiful_upon_the_Mountain.pdf > > > On 3 December 2015 at 15:18, Gregory Citarella < > gregory.citare...@gma

Re: How Beautiful Upon the Mountains by Stainer

2015-12-03 Thread Chris Yate
It's available at CPDL, did you look there? http://www1.cpdl.org/wiki/images/7/7e/How_beautiful_upon_the_Mountain.pdf On 3 December 2015 at 15:18, Gregory Citarella wrote: > Hello: is there anyway I can get a pdf of the choir anthem that I see on > you tube of How Beautiful upon the mountains

Re: parameters in lyrics?

2015-12-03 Thread Urs Liska
Am 03.12.2015 um 16:19 schrieb Graham King: > On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 15:12 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: >> >> >> Am 03.12.2015 um 15:04 schrieb Graham King: >> >>> I'm trying to enclose some lyrics within square brackets but, for >>> reasons too tedious to trouble the list with*, I'd like to >>> parame

How Beautiful Upon the Mountains by Stainer

2015-12-03 Thread Gregory Citarella
Hello: is there anyway I can get a pdf of the choir anthem that I see on you tube of How Beautiful upon the mountains by John Stainer. I see it was done by someone using lilypond.org This is the url I am referring to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5wCy3v3Xyg I am the Minister of Music at Zi

Re: parameters in lyrics?

2015-12-03 Thread Graham King
On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 15:12 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: > > > > Am 03.12.2015 um 15:04 schrieb Graham King: > > > > > I'm trying to enclose some lyrics within square brackets but, for > > reasons too tedious to trouble the list with*, I'd like to > > parameterise the brackets using the \foo and \

Re: accidentals for just intonation

2015-12-03 Thread Urs Liska
Am 01.12.2015 um 15:56 schrieb Paul Morris: >> On Dec 1, 2015, at 5:38 AM, Urs Liska wrote: >> >> You have a rather small number of individual components (vertical, >> horizontal and diagonal elements) that can all represented by a >> postscript path. A function should be able to determine from

Re: accidentals for just intonation

2015-12-03 Thread Urs Liska
Am 03.12.2015 um 13:11 schrieb N. Andrew Walsh: > The point of this project is that it should be possible to specify a > library file for each of these different systems, that each might be > able to extract different information from the scripting that Urs is > doing, and apply the accidentals c

Re: parameters in lyrics?

2015-12-03 Thread Urs Liska
Am 03.12.2015 um 15:04 schrieb Graham King: > I'm trying to enclose some lyrics within square brackets but, for > reasons too tedious to trouble the list with*, I'd like to > parameterise the brackets using the \foo and \fooEnd constructs in the > following pseudocode. Is there a way to do this

parameters in lyrics?

2015-12-03 Thread Graham King
I'm trying to enclose some lyrics within square brackets but, for reasons too tedious to trouble the list with*, I'd like to parameterise the brackets using the \foo and \fooEnd constructs in the following pseudocode. Is there a way to do this without causing "[" and "]" to be set as separate syll

Re: Request for tiny Finale/Sibelius snippets

2015-12-03 Thread Urs Liska
Am 03.12.2015 um 13:21 schrieb Phil Holmes: > - Original Message - From: "Urs Liska" > To: "lilypond-user" > Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2015 12:12 PM > Subject: Request for tiny Finale/Sibelius snippets > > >> Hello Sibelius/Finale users out there, >> >> could someone please send me t

Re: Request for tiny Finale/Sibelius snippets

2015-12-03 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Urs Liska" To: "lilypond-user" Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2015 12:12 PM Subject: Request for tiny Finale/Sibelius snippets Hello Sibelius/Finale users out there, could someone please send me the default result of { \key g \major \repeat unfold 3 { ai

Re: Request for tiny Finale/Sibelius snippets

2015-12-03 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Urs Liska" To: "lilypond-user" Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2015 12:12 PM Subject: Request for tiny Finale/Sibelius snippets Hello Sibelius/Finale users out there, could someone please send me the default result of { \key g \major \repeat unfold 3 { ai

Request for tiny Finale/Sibelius snippets

2015-12-03 Thread Urs Liska
Hello Sibelius/Finale users out there, could someone please send me the default result of { \key g \major \repeat unfold 3 { ais16 e' ais' e' } } as a PDF file? I would like to compare their approach to optical spacing with LilyPond's. Thank you Urs ___

Re: accidentals for just intonation

2015-12-03 Thread N. Andrew Walsh
Thank you for the links. As I said above, I have significant objections to a system of accidentals for just intonation that are based on cents deviations from equal temperament. They're legitimate objections, and it's outside of the scope of this thread to discuss them (I find, unfortunately, that

Re: Vertically centering a song text.

2015-12-03 Thread David Kastrup
Simon Albrecht writes: > On 03.12.2015 07:32, David Kastrup wrote: >> tisimst writes: >> >>> >\skip in the Lyrics context is necessary for skipping beats without >>> >creating a melisma (which can be manually created with a single underscore >>> >for each beat in the melisma). I'm not sure why i

Re: Vertically centering a song text.

2015-12-03 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 03.12.2015 07:32, David Kastrup wrote: tisimst writes: >\skip in the Lyrics context is necessary for skipping beats without >creating a melisma (which can be manually created with a single underscore >for each beat in the melisma). I'm not sure why it's insensitive to the >number after it.