Re: \magnifyMusic omits unison notes from \partcombine?

2017-04-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Karlin, > A songwriter looked at my LilyPond job and asked, > "Can you make the note heads bigger in proportion to everything else?” […] > a different way of achieving the same thing? \score { \partcombine \one \two \layout { \context { \Score \override NoteHead.font-size =

\magnifyMusic omits unison notes from \partcombine?

2017-04-27 Thread Karlin High
A songwriter looked at my LilyPond job and asked, "Can you make the note heads bigger in proportion to everything else?" Yes, thanks to \magnifyMusic, I thought. It's a SATB hymn, I'm using \partcombine, and apparently \magnifyMusic doesn't pick up the unison notes the way I'm writing it. Minimal e

Re: relative offset of systems [WAS: Center-align a score]

2017-04-27 Thread David Nalesnik
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 4:07 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: > Hi Harm, > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Thomas Morley > wrote: >> Hi David, >> >> nice stuff! >> >> Some comments, though: >> >> 2017-04-27 19:27 GMT+02:00 David Nalesnik : >>> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:22 PM, David Nalesnik >>> wr

Re: relative offset of systems [WAS: Center-align a score]

2017-04-27 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Harm, On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: > Hi David, > > nice stuff! > > Some comments, though: > > 2017-04-27 19:27 GMT+02:00 David Nalesnik : >> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:22 PM, David Nalesnik >> wrote: >> >>> >>> I'll just quote the relevant changes with some context. >

Re: relative offset of systems [WAS: Center-align a score]

2017-04-27 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi David, nice stuff! Some comments, though: 2017-04-27 19:27 GMT+02:00 David Nalesnik : > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:22 PM, David Nalesnik > wrote: > >> >> I'll just quote the relevant changes with some context. >> >> Within the function make-page-stencil: >> >> [...] >> I see no advantage to

Re: relative offset of systems [WAS: Center-align a score]

2017-04-27 Thread David Nalesnik
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:22 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: > > I'll just quote the relevant changes with some context. > > Within the function make-page-stencil: > > [...] > > (add-to-page (lambda (stencil x y extra-y) Oh, "nota bene" the above line too! > (set! page-stencil >

relative offset of systems [WAS: Center-align a score]

2017-04-27 Thread David Nalesnik
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 8:43 AM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > David, > > Perhaps there’s a way your new-found [?] knowledge/skill in this area can > help with a long-time feature request I’ve had: an \offset-like way to nudge > systems — especially the explicit Y-offset property, but also the > al

Re: Center-align a score

2017-04-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, > Notice that with the override, systems are placed lower on the page > and the bottom margin is lost. It’s not *quite* that simple, I think… Using \paper { ragged-right = ##t indent = 0 system-system-spacing.padding = 2 bottom-margin = 1\in } we see that most of the margin is ke

Re: Center-align a score

2017-04-27 Thread David Nalesnik
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 8:43 AM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > David, > >>> A little trial-and-error is required if doing it manually, but there might >>> be a way to automate the process. >> Here you go: > > You da man! This is *exactly* what I was envisioning. Nicely done. > > Now… ;) > > Perhaps

Re: Center-align a score

2017-04-27 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi David, > >>> I have learned that “You can’t do that with Lilypond” is a pretty >>> foolish bet — especially when David K is on the case. :) >> >> Well, in this case David N's solution is better since it uses the normal >> (skyline-based) page positioning rather tha

Re: Center-align a score

2017-04-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, >> I have learned that “You can’t do that with Lilypond” is a pretty >> foolish bet — especially when David K is on the case. :) > > Well, in this case David N's solution is better since it uses the normal > (skyline-based) page positioning rather than treating everything as > markup l

Re:Midiimport f?r Lilypond/Frescobaldi

2017-04-27 Thread Joseph Austin
> On Apr 26, 2017, at 1:21 PM, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: > > Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 19:21:06 +0200 > From: Bernhard Kleine > > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Midiimport f?r Lilypond/Frescobaldi > Message-ID: <5086c85

Re: Center-align a score

2017-04-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
David, >> A little trial-and-error is required if doing it manually, but there might >> be a way to automate the process. > Here you go: You da man! This is *exactly* what I was envisioning. Nicely done. Now… ;) Perhaps there’s a way your new-found [?] knowledge/skill in this area can help

Re: Center-align a score

2017-04-27 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi Simon, > >> I'm glad to see my pessimism so thoroughly unfounded :-) > > I have learned that “You can’t do that with Lilypond” is a pretty > foolish bet — especially when David K is on the case. :) Well, in this case David N's solution is better since it uses the n

Re: Center-align a score

2017-04-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Simon, > I'm glad to see my pessimism so thoroughly unfounded :-) I have learned that “You can’t do that with Lilypond” is a pretty foolish bet — especially when David K is on the case. :) Best, Kieren. Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmil

Re: Line breaks on a "where allowed" basis

2017-04-27 Thread David Kastrup
Lukas-Fabian Moser writes: >> >> > Is there a way to get something like >> > "Break at most where allowed by user"? >> >> \once\autoLineBreaksOn ? > > > Thanks a lot - sometimes it's so easy... :-) > > As for Thomas Morley's suggestion (setting penalties), this "sort of" > works, but for me it cr

Re: Line breaks on a "where allowed" basis

2017-04-27 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
> > > Is there a way to get something like > > "Break at most where allowed by user"? > > \once\autoLineBreaksOn ? Thanks a lot - sometimes it's so easy... :-) As for Thomas Morley's suggestion (setting penalties), this "sort of" works, but for me it created fewer line breaks, resulting in a not

Re: Midiimport für Lilypond/Frescobaldi

2017-04-27 Thread Robin Bannister
Bernhard Kleine wrote: With respect to the other contributions, I have Frescobaldi/Lilypond on win 7. I have seen that VLC mediaplayer has to be supplied with softfonts e.g. fluid-softfonts. The installation proposal, however, does not state how to supply this softfonts to the actual VLC. I have

Re: Midiimport für Lilypond/Frescobaldi

2017-04-27 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2017-04-27 at 10:08 +0200, Bernhard Kleine wrote: > Hi Carl, > > this has been most helpful and I will organize a keyboard for input. How > to record the tunes and to save them will take some time to learn. > > With respect to the other contributions, I have Frescobaldi/Lilypond on > win

Re: Midiimport für Lilypond/Frescobaldi

2017-04-27 Thread Bernhard Kleine
Hi Carl, this has been most helpful and I will organize a keyboard for input. How to record the tunes and to save them will take some time to learn. With respect to the other contributions, I have Frescobaldi/Lilypond on win 7. I have seen that VLC mediaplayer has to be supplied with softfonts e.