Re: Start new score without line break

2017-02-23 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Simon, I think MuseScore can do it also, for simple cases. Nothing is impossible - it's just software after all! Harm has given me a pointer to as way to fake this out which works fine when adapted a little. But it's lots of code, and the idea of \noBreak \score would be very helpful to many p

Re: Start new score without line break

2017-02-23 Thread tisimst
Hi, Simon! On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Simon Albrecht-2 [via Lilypond] < ml-node+s1069038n200415...@n5.nabble.com> wrote: > Am 22.02.2017 um 14:41 schrieb Andrew Bernard: > > I would still like to be able to start a new score with no break, for > > example in books of say, harpsichord music

Re: ancient custom time signature

2017-02-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 21.02.2017 um 13:23 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: Jean Brefort: ... You might use something like: \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \override Staff.TimeSignature #'text = \markup {\musicglyph #"timesig.mensural34" \lower #0.9 \bold \large "3"} Thanks, tha

Re: Start new score without line break

2017-02-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 22.02.2017 um 14:41 schrieb Andrew Bernard: I would still like to be able to start a new score with no break, for example in books of say, harpsichord music with lots of small, short movements, where the systems would be the same proportions but the piece is new. There are other conceivabl

Re: Quotes in Lyrics

2017-02-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 23.02.2017 um 01:57 schrieb David Wright: But why not do the Right Thing and dispose of this problem with \addlyrics { “I am so lone- ly” said she } and have yourself a proper set of 66 and 99 quotation marks without needing to enclose them in quotes. +1 Simon __

Re: Quotes in Lyrics

2017-02-23 Thread David Wright
On Thu 23 Feb 2017 at 11:06:16 (-0500), Tim Slattery wrote: > Joseph Austin wrote: > > >I don't fully understand the point or effect of the "extra" quotes in the > >example. > >Why is the f example incorrect? > > Looks like a quotation mark must be within a quoted string (or it > means somethin

Re: Melisma with manual syllable durations

2017-02-23 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Thursday, February 23, 2017 2:29 PM > Alexander Kobel writes: > >> It might be surprising that a non-existing voice does not even produce >> a warning; but there *is* a (very sensible) difference. > [snip] > If searchForVoice is set (a context property) and this voice has

Re: Quotes in Lyrics

2017-02-23 Thread Tim Slattery
Joseph Austin wrote: >I don't fully understand the point or effect of the "extra" quotes in the >example. >Why is the f example incorrect? Looks like a quotation mark must be within a quoted string (or it means something else). But once you start a quoted string, another quote will end it. The

Re: Quotes in Lyrics

2017-02-23 Thread Joseph Austin
DUH--don't know how I missed that. > On Feb 23, 2017, at 9:01 AM, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: > > The preceding paragraph to the one you quote says: > > "Normal quotes may be used in lyrics, but they have to be preceded with a > backslash character and the whole syllable has to be encl

Re: Melisma with manual syllable durations

2017-02-23 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Kobel writes: > On 2017-02-22 17:21, David Sumbler wrote: >> [...] >> So I experimented. I find that, not only does it not matter which >> voice or stave I name as "associatedVoice", but it does not even matter >> whether such a voice exists! [...] > > Wrong. Compare the extenders in:

Re: Melisma with manual syllable durations

2017-02-23 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2017-02-22 17:21, David Sumbler wrote: > [...] > So I experimented. I find that, not only does it not matter which > voice or stave I name as "associatedVoice", but it does not even matter > whether such a voice exists! [...] Wrong. Compare the extenders in: \version "2.18.2" \paper { ragge

Re: Quotes in Lyrics

2017-02-23 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Joseph Austin" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 11:52 PM Subject: Quotes in Lyrics LilyPons Notation Reference 2.1.2 contains the following example of quotes in lyrics: \relative c' { \time 3/4 e4 e4. e8 d4 e d c2. } \addlyrics { "\"I" am so lone-