Re: set command / position of the chord symbol in relation to the first staff

2017-02-05 Thread Dr. Raphael D. Thöne
Hi Simon, thank you very much for the link and the hint. My problem is that I get it working in Frescobaldi (i.e. lilypond). But when I use the layout environment inside a LaTeX-document and compile it via lilypondbook, lilypondbook seemingly doesn’t catch the \layout block. The same happened t

Re: with and set

2017-02-05 Thread David Kastrup
Noeck writes: > Hi Simon > > Am 06.02.2017 um 00:02 schrieb Simon Albrecht: >> if you use \set, the Staff is created without a setting for >> instrumentName, and instrumentName is set at the timestep where the \set >> command is issued. > > Are you sure? I might be misreading David's mail, but as

Re: with and set

2017-02-05 Thread Noeck
Thanks for this additional caveat, David! You convinced me ;) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: with and set

2017-02-05 Thread Noeck
Hi Simon Am 06.02.2017 um 00:02 schrieb Simon Albrecht: > if you use \set, the Staff is created without a setting for > instrumentName, and instrumentName is set at the timestep where the \set > command is issued. Are you sure? I might be misreading David's mail, but as far as I understood, the s

Re: with and set

2017-02-05 Thread David Kastrup
Simon Albrecht writes: > On 05.02.2017 23:58, Noeck wrote: >> In other words: if the \set happens early enough (with the staff >> creation) there is no difference. > > Technically, there is still a difference: if you use \with{}, the > Staff is _created_ with that particular setting for the conte

Re: with and set

2017-02-05 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 05.02.2017 23:58, Noeck wrote: In other words: if the \set happens early enough (with the staff creation) there is no difference. Technically, there is still a difference: if you use \with{}, the Staff is _created_ with that particular setting for the context property, if you use \set, the

Re: with and set

2017-02-05 Thread Noeck
In other words: if the \set happens early enough (with the staff creation) there is no difference. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: with and set

2017-02-05 Thread Noeck
Hi David, >> What are cases in which that makes a difference? I always thought they >> were equivalent. > Once you take over the job of LilyPond, we might take note that you > consider them equivalent and change the documentation. In the meantime, > LilyPond's thoughts about the issue are more re

Re: with and set

2017-02-05 Thread David Kastrup
Noeck writes: > Hi, > > I read on the dev list and in the issues [1] that setting some > properties in the \with block is advisable, instead of setting them > somewhere in the music. So > \new Staff \with { instrumentName = "Flute" } { a } > is better than > { \set Staff.instrumentName = "Flute"

Re: set command / position of the chord symbol in relation to the first staff

2017-02-05 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 05.02.2017 22:50, "Dr. Raphael D. Thöne" wrote: I would like to increase the space between a chord symbol and the first staff, so that all chords are placed slightly higher than default. I presumably can use a set command for this, but unfortunately in the documentation, I didn’t find the app

with and set

2017-02-05 Thread Noeck
Hi, I read on the dev list and in the issues [1] that setting some properties in the \with block is advisable, instead of setting them somewhere in the music. So \new Staff \with { instrumentName = "Flute" } { a } is better than { \set Staff.instrumentName = "Flute" a } even though the output is i

set command / position of the chord symbol in relation to the first staff

2017-02-05 Thread Dr. Raphael D. Thöne
Hi, thanks for the help on the system-system-spacing topic, it now works. I would like to increase the space between a chord symbol and the first staff, so that all chords are placed slightly higher than default. I presumably can use a set command for this, but unfortunately in the documentatio

Re: Position of staves

2017-02-05 Thread Urs Liska
Am 5. Februar 2017 16:34:08 MEZ schrieb "Dr. Raphael D. Thöne" : >Hi, > >I have created this simple code for use inside of lilypondbook. > >right = { s1 s s s \break s s s s} >left = { \clef bass s1 s s s \break s s s s } > > >\score >{ >\new PianoStaff \with {\override StaffGrouper #'

Position of staves

2017-02-05 Thread Dr. Raphael D. Thöne
Hi, I have created this simple code for use inside of lilypondbook. right = { s1 s s s \break s s s s} left = { \clef bass s1 s s s \break s s s s } \score { \new PianoStaff \with {\override StaffGrouper #'staff-staff-spacing #'basic-distance = #10 } <<