Re: Laissez viber ties dotted

2016-07-20 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 21.07.2016 um 03:14 schrieb Andrew Bernard: How can one make a laissez vibrer tie dotted or dashed, as can be done for a normal tie? Using \tieDotted has no effect. This is because \tieDotted is a shorthand for \override Tie.dash-pattern = #'((0 1 0.1 0.75)) and laissez vibrer ties are n

Re: \caps with Umlaut

2016-07-20 Thread Shane Brandes
While I use Frescobaldi, I was speaking as someone that has built a few score of fonts for sale, knowing there is often a larger gap between what is possible and what was likely done. On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 7:06 PM, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > Shane, > > If you are using Frescobaldi, you could

Re: Slur over single note?

2016-07-20 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On 2016-07-20 3:48 AM, Urs Liska wrote: > If I'm not mistaken this is a piano reduction? > If that's the case i'd assume there's a tied note or two slurred ones in > an instrumental part here. > > I see two options here, depending on what you want with this score: > > 1 (the scholarly approach):

Hyphenating words in lyrics across long repeats and across multiple pitches

2016-07-20 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, When I try to start a syllable that continues after the repeat, I have a problem. Lilypond complains loudly: repeats.ly:24:38: warning: unterminated hyphen; removing Below an example that should read Oh, tralalala! Tralalali! (Of course the hyphen would "kind of" work if I add "li

Re: How to create a thick horizontal line (as its own staff)?

2016-07-20 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Dear David, On 20 July 2016 at 22:49, David Nalesnik wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >> One further thought. >> >> Given that it's super difficult to "transfer" information "across staves" ... >> >> Would it be feasible to allow the following input syntax (or so

Laissez viber ties dotted

2016-07-20 Thread Andrew Bernard
How can one make a laissez vibrer tie dotted or dashed, as can be done for a normal tie? Using \tieDotted has no effect. I use the \extendLV functions from LSR to make long ones, and often need to have these extended ties dotted. Andrew ___ lilypond-use

Re: Lilypond Internals Reference LyricText font-size

2016-07-20 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/20/16 11:29 AM, "Colin Tennyson" wrote: >About this documentation: >http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/internals/lyrictext > > > font-size (number): > >1.0 > >The font size, compared to the Œnormal¹ size. 0 is style-sheet¹s normal >size, -1 is smaller, +1 is bigger. Each step

RE: \caps with Umlaut

2016-07-20 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Shane, If you are using Frescobaldi, you could not use \caps and access the special characters. Mark -Original Message- From: lilypond-user [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Shane Brandes Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 2:53 PM To: Jonathan Scholba

Re: \caps with Umlaut

2016-07-20 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 20.07.2016 23:01, Jonathan Scholbach wrote: \version "2.19.22" \markup{ \caps Bartholomäus } How can I solve this problem? I mean, how can I achieve that \caps works properly with umlauts and uses the uppercase umlaut? In the long run, your best bet is to use a special small caps font. Un

Re: \caps with Umlaut

2016-07-20 Thread Shane Brandes
Small caps are a subset of a font, it is pretty rare to have small caps worked out beyond the standard 26. This because they did not exist in Unicode as a defined glyph. Unicode is still only has 24 small caps defined. Your best bet is to try the Bold smaller size trick and see if that works. Shan

Re: How to create a thick horizontal line (as its own staff)?

2016-07-20 Thread David Nalesnik
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 3:49 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Mojca Miklavec > wrote: >> >> I would be super happy if there was a way to enter the input >> information only once because repeating it twice is calling for >> errors. But also because \startPush and \

\caps with Umlaut

2016-07-20 Thread Jonathan Scholbach
Dear ponders, I am using \caps in a \markup which prints the name of the composer. After having set a couple of pieces today it's the first time the composer's name contains an umlaut (in this case an ä). And that was when I found out, that \caps, as well as \smallCaps, "does not support accented

Re: How to create a thick horizontal line (as its own staff)?

2016-07-20 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Mojca, On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Dear David (and others), > > One further thought. > > Given that it's super difficult to "transfer" information "across staves" ... > > Would it be feasible to allow the following input syntax (or something > similar)? > > m

Lilypond Internals Reference LyricText font-size

2016-07-20 Thread Colin Tennyson
About this documentation: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/internals/lyrictext font-size (number): 1.0 The font size, compared to the ‘normal’ size. 0 is style-sheet’s normal size, -1 is smaller, +1 is bigger. Each step of 1 is approximately 12% larger; 6 steps are exactly a fac

Re: Lyrics.LyricText.font-size in layout block

2016-07-20 Thread Colin Tennyson
Hello tisimst, hello Noeck, thank you for your replies. You have explained to me why a very small number, -0.2, has such a noticable effect. I infer that Lilypond _replaces_ the step value for the LyricText font-size with the entered step number (rather than performing an addition.) So when I en

Re: Lyrics.LyricText.font-size in layout block

2016-07-20 Thread tisimst
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 12:34 AM, Noeck [via Lilypond] < ml-node+s1069038n192857...@n5.nabble.com> wrote: > Hi Abraham, > > Am 20.07.2016 um 01:05 schrieb tisimst: > > Shouldn't it be without the -1 though? > > In general, yes. The default is 1.0, so I wrote it for this case of > lycris. If you en

Re: Simultaneous accidental breaks cross-staff stem

2016-07-20 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On 2016-07-20 1:56 AM, Malte Meyn wrote: > Am 19.07.2016 um 22:39 schrieb Joel C. Salomon: >> From “Arrival of the Wolves”: an accidental in the upper Staff’s >> voiceOne shifts a chord in its voiceTwo so it no longer aligns with the >> corresponding note in the lower Staff, yielding the attached

Re: Defining a function that passes contents between braces to a markup

2016-07-20 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 19 July 2016 at 14:36, David Kastrup wrote: > > Well, let's put this in perspective. I've been throwing stuff at you > without the slightest attempt of toning it down to beginners' level, > basically expecting you to ask back where required. I cannot remember > any list newcomer ingest stuff a

Re: How to create a thick horizontal line (as its own staff)?

2016-07-20 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Dear David (and others), One further thought. Given that it's super difficult to "transfer" information "across staves" ... Would it be feasible to allow the following input syntax (or something similar)? melody = { c a c \startPush f g a \stopPush h c d } \new PianoStaff << \ne

Running midi -> ly conversion

2016-07-20 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hi, I wonder if there is any easier (more intuitive) way to run the midi to lilypond conversion on Mac than arch -32 /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/midi2ly test.midi which additionally complains about /Applic

Re: Cross staff stems between notes of different durations

2016-07-20 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 20.07.2016 15:14, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Maybe even better would be a possibility to just use \change Staff = "id" inside a chord. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypon

Re: Cross staff stems between notes of different durations

2016-07-20 Thread Rutger Hofman
For me, this just works, with differentlyHeaded and with different durations for the same NoteHead type: \version "2.19.39" \score { \new PianoStaff \with { \consists #Span_stem_engraver } << \new Staff = RH << \time 3/4 \relative c'' {

Re: Cross staff stems between notes of different durations

2016-07-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Andrew, > Total silence? No thoughts, anybody? Until we have the ability to say, e.g., which could easily be music-function-ized, I think your hack (or something similar) is all you’ve got. Would love to be proven wrong, though! Cheers, Kieren. Kieren

Re: Cross staff stems between notes of different durations

2016-07-20 Thread Andrew Bernard
Total silence? No thoughts, anybody? Andrew On 18 July 2016 at 11:45:51 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote: If one wants to have cross staff stems between notes of different durations, found often in the contemporary music I set, is there a lilypond setting of some sort to do this? _

Re: Slur over single note?

2016-07-20 Thread Urs Liska
Am 20.07.2016 um 04:26 schrieb Andrew Bernard: > All the rest of the signs are phrasing slurs in this snippet. I would > say it’s also a phrasing slur, and not a mistake or error. > I disagree. I have skimmed through the whole score, and I'm still nearly sure (maybe now 98.5 % instead of merely