Re: scheme score function

2017-12-11 Thread Gianmaria Lari
Any suggestion? On 11 December 2017 at 08:57, Gianmaria Lari wrote: > I created a simple scheme function with a single argument that works > similarly to the score command: > > \version "2.19.80" > mySc = #(define-scheme-function (music) (ly:music?) >#{ > \score { >

RE: \unfoldRepeats for midi file

2017-12-11 Thread Ming Tsang
Peter, I did reply all and I got mail delivery fail on your rmail address. Thank you for the answer. One question: how can I just want to show few color lyric text only? I try to use {}, but it shows all lyric text in color. Ming Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au Sent

Re: Converting musicxml files

2017-12-11 Thread Mike Dean
Thanks--Mike (I was that close to just starting from scratch in LilyPond.) \version "2.19.80" \language "english" #(set-default-paper-size "letter") \header { title = "Pastoral: The Great Physician" composer = "John Hart Stockton" arranger = "arr. Mike Dean" } \score { \relative c'' {

Re: Question about the horizontal spacing

2017-12-11 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Rus" == Rus writes: Rus> ― How can I control (I need to increase) the space Rus> between the bar line and the following note (or lyrics syllable)? One thing you could try is set the alignment of the first syllable to LEFT, to force it to start at the same place as the note. \version "2.

Re: Question about the horizontal spacing

2017-12-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Ben, > Wow. I need a new monitor, a new pair of eyes, and a vacation. Does the distance from the barline [at the end of m.2] to the really look the same to you as the distance from the barline [at the end of m.3] to the a? It's nearly twice the distance! > and an on-screen pixel ruler t

Re: Question about the horizontal spacing

2017-12-11 Thread Ben
On 12/11/2017 7:30 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Ben, In m.2, m.3, and m.4, the number of pixels (at a fixed magnification) from the rightmost edge of the barline to the leftmost edge of the lyric syllable are 85px, 58px, and 98px, respectively. Hope this helps, Kieren. _

Re: Question about the horizontal spacing

2017-12-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Ben, > I thought the OP was only concerned with the space from the barline to the > first note of each bar, right? No… Here's what the OP said: > How about controlling the space between the bar line and the following lyrics > syllable? > Is there something like BarLine.space-alist.next-LYR

Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part

2017-12-11 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 12.12.2017 01:12, Chris Jones wrote: One example I looked at when I got started on this used double "<< >>" brackets to represent chords whereas the official lilypond documentation recommends using single "< >" brackets. How are they different in terms of lilypond's behaviour? The officia

Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part

2017-12-11 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 08:29:54PM EST, Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Just look up the syntax for 'cross staff stems' in the NR. It's pretty > simple. Time allowing... I managed to take another look at the documentation. Will have to run additional tests and that may not be possible befo

Re: Question about the horizontal spacing

2017-12-11 Thread Ben
On 12/11/2017 6:09 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Ben, I see what you mean but couldn't you just change it to Score.BarLine then? It seems to work here, no? :) No, at least not as I understand the OP: there should be an equal/minimum gap between the barline and the left-hand edge of the lyr

Re: Question about the horizontal spacing

2017-12-11 Thread Rus
>>  It works well only without lyrics. With lyrics it works not well (see >> attachment). >> >>  \version "2.18.2" >>  \score { >>  \new StaffGroup >>  << >>  << >>  \new Staff { >>  \relative c' { >>  \override Staff.BarLine.space-alist.next-note = #'(fixed-space . 3) >>  c d e f c d e f c d e f

Re: Question about the horizontal spacing

2017-12-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Ben, > I see what you mean but couldn't you just change it to Score.BarLine then? It > seems to work here, no? :) No, at least not as I understand the OP: there should be an equal/minimum gap between the barline and the left-hand edge of the lyric. That's not true in your snippet (cf. measur

Re: Question about the horizontal spacing

2017-12-11 Thread Ben
It works well only without lyrics. With lyrics it works not well (see attachment). \version "2.18.2" \score { \new StaffGroup << << \new Staff { \relative c' { \override Staff.BarLine.space-alist.next-note = #'(fixed-space . 3) c d e f c d e f c d e f c d e f } \addlyrics { a bb cc dd aa bb

Re: Question about the horizontal spacing

2017-12-11 Thread Rus
  Hello!   How can I control (I need to increase) the space between the bar line and the following lyrics syllable?   I use version 2.18.2 >>>  Hi, >>> >>>  I'm not sure what you mean, but if you want to increase 'padding' so to >>>  speak, you could do something like this: >>>

Re: Converting musicxml files

2017-12-11 Thread Mike Dean
For what it is worth, I ended the Frescobaldi-invoked Lilypond (and didn't get an error log), so I'm not sure if I need to add something to my Frescobaldi 3.0.1/Lilypond 2.19.80 installation to get the conversion working properly (On the other hand, I don't have a need to import musicxml files for

Re: Converting musicxml files

2017-12-11 Thread Mike Dean
Yes, I meant import...Meanwhile the Frescobaldi-invoked Lilypond is still running (and can challenge the Energizer Bunny in an 8K) Richard: Thank you for attaching the output...I am going to take a knee on the current operation. Mike Dean On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 12:41 PM, Richard Shann wrote: >

Re: removing automatically generated natural signs

2017-12-11 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 03:16:12PM EST, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 08 Dec 2017 at 16:21:41 (-0500), Chris Jones wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 02:22:32PM EST, Ben wrote: > > > ( > > > On 12/8/2017 2:09 PM, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > This response seems to invite a brief explanation. > > You

Re: Converting musicxml files

2017-12-11 Thread Mike Dean
Am not sure how long Lilypond is to be running before expecting output (error messages or otherwise), but am hoping that it is not hanging... Mike Dean On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Mike Dean wrote: > Hi Martin: > I am not sure if I was doing the steps correctly (was working with > Frescoba

Re: Converting musicxml files

2017-12-11 Thread Mike Dean
Hi Martin: I am not sure if I was doing the steps correctly (was working with Frescobaldi 3.01 and LP 2.19.42; have since updated to 2.19.80) Am trying the steps again; in 2.19.42 I got no output 1. Menu File > Import MusicXML 2. Select a MusicXML file 3. Execute musicxml2ly Expect: The

Re: Question about the horizontal spacing

2017-12-11 Thread David Wright
On Mon 11 Dec 2017 at 19:23:59 (+0300), Rus wrote: > >>  Hello! > >>  How can I control (I need to increase) the space between the bar line and > >> the following lyrics syllable? > >>  I use version 2.18.2 > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm not sure what you mean, but if you want to increase 'padding' so to

Re: Question about the horizontal spacing

2017-12-11 Thread Ben
On 12/11/2017 11:23 AM, Rus wrote:  Hello!  How can I control (I need to increase) the space between the bar line and the following lyrics syllable?  I use version 2.18.2 Hi, I'm not sure what you mean, but if you want to increase 'padding' so to speak, you could do something like this: {

Re: Question about the horizontal spacing

2017-12-11 Thread Rus
>>  Hello! >>  How can I control (I need to increase) the space between the bar line and >> the following lyrics syllable? >>  I use version 2.18.2 > > Hi, > > I'm not sure what you mean, but if you want to increase 'padding' so to > speak, you could do something like this: > > { c d e f? \once >

Re: Convert from Personal Composer to Lilypond?

2017-12-11 Thread Rutger Hofman
Hello list, Joshua, If Personal Composer exports NIFF, then you can give my converter niff2ly a try: it reads NIFF and generates. Nowadays, it is in a public git repo: https://github.com/rfhh/lily-contribs subdirectory niff2ly. In niff2ly/, there is a README that explains how to build. If yo

Re: Convert from Personal Composer to Lilypond?

2017-12-11 Thread Rutger Hofman
On 12/11/2017 12:08 PM, Rutger Hofman wrote: Hello list, Joshua, If Personal Composer exports NIFF, then you can give my converter niff2ly a try: it reads NIFF and generates. Nowadays, it is in a public I mean: reads NIFF and generates lilypond. git repo: https://github.com/rfhh/lily-contrib

Re: Auto-transposition

2017-12-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Neo, > I'm new to Lilypond, coming over from a commercial program. Welcome! > The issue: > I seem to get measures auto-transposed one by one. > I have one bar of music, then the second one gets transposed one octave > higher, the next one even one octave higher, and so on. > > Without /rela

Re: Triple slurring

2017-12-11 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 11-Dec-2017 14:56:40 +0100 schrieb li...@openlilylib.org: Am 11.12.2017 um 10:08 schrieb David Kastrup: > David Kastrup writes: > >> Urs Liska writes: >> >>> I'm encountering triple slurs like in the attached >>> examples. Discussion came to the conclusion that I should not >>> "mode

Re: Triple slurring

2017-12-11 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Am 11.12.2017 um 10:08 schrieb David Kastrup: >> David Kastrup writes: >> >>> Urs Liska writes: >>> I'm encountering triple slurs like in the attached examples. Discussion came to the conclusion that I should not "modernize" the notation using only one slur bu

Re: Triple slurring

2017-12-11 Thread Urs Liska
Am 11.12.2017 um 10:08 schrieb David Kastrup: David Kastrup writes: Urs Liska writes: I'm encountering triple slurs like in the attached examples. Discussion came to the conclusion that I should not "modernize" the notation using only one slur but regard it as an expressive means. Any ide

Re: Interview with Elaine Gould

2017-12-11 Thread Urs Liska
Part 2: https://www.scoringnotes.com/people/interview-elaine-gould-part-2-behind-bars/ Am 01.12.2017 um 09:31 schrieb Urs Liska: Hi all, I haven't read it yet but thought I'd better share before I forget thinking about it: https://www.scoringnotes.com/people/interview-elaine-gould-part-1-e

Re: Ties between bottom two staff lines and top two staff lines positioned strangely

2017-12-11 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 11.12.2017 09:47, Andrew Bernard wrote: Without resorting to adjusting the TieColumn, you could take a look at the Tie.details list. There ought to be enough tunability in there to suit you (although I am well aware of the Tie Crusade. Whatever happened to that by the way?) It was a projec

Re: Color lyrics text

2017-12-11 Thread Ben
On 12/11/2017 12:35 AM, Ming Tsang wrote: Hi lilyponders, Can I color few lyric text? Thank you for your help. Ming Sent from Mail for Windows 10 Ming, You can color certain words by this /override/ from the documentation: (see attached

Re: Ties between bottom two staff lines and top two staff lines positioned strangely

2017-12-11 Thread Robert Murdoch
Well, ties on other notes seem to be positioned just above or below the notes (unless they're in a interval/chord) which I think is the standard. I guess it does boil down to a matter of taste in the end, but I don't think I've seen ties in a professional score be positioned the way they are fo

Re: Triple slurring

2017-12-11 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > Urs Liska writes: > >> I'm encountering triple slurs like in the attached >> examples. Discussion came to the conclusion that I should not >> "modernize" the notation using only one slur but regard it as an >> expressive means. > >> Any ideas? >> (And particularly ideas t

Re: Convert from Personal Composer to Lilypond?

2017-12-11 Thread Joshua Stutter
If I remember correctly, and backed up by https://web.archive.org/web/20131206102455/http://pcomposer.com/features.html , Personal Composer could import MusicXML, MIDI and NIFF but only export MIDI and NIFF. Your best bet therefore is to use midi2ly as a starting point for input. Joshua. On

Re: Triple slurring

2017-12-11 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > I'm encountering triple slurs like in the attached > examples. Discussion came to the conclusion that I should not > "modernize" the notation using only one slur but regard it as an > expressive means. > Any ideas? > (And particularly ideas that also work with LilyPond 2.18?)

Triple slurring

2017-12-11 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, I'm encountering triple slurs like in the attached examples. Discussion came to the conclusion that I should not "modernize" the notation using only one slur but regard it as an expressive means. I'm somewhat at a loss at how to proceed best with that as LilyPond only provides "double" s

Re: Ties between bottom two staff lines and top two staff lines positioned strangely

2017-12-11 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Robert, For me, I see nothing strange - I think this is a matter of taste. I don't have the standard text Behind Bars to quote from, but I feel this is a matter of personal judgement. Without resorting to adjusting the TieColumn, you could take a look at the Tie.details list. There ought to be

Re: Convert from Personal Composer to Lilypond?

2017-12-11 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 10.12.2017 20:33, Andy Bradford wrote: Hello, I searched the archives (and also search engines) and couldn't find a discussion about converting Personal Composer (.pc files) into Lilypond, so I thought I would ask if anyone knows of a conversion tool. I could manually engrave it again fr

Ties between bottom two staff lines and top two staff lines positioned strangely

2017-12-11 Thread Robert Murdoch
Hi, Two days ago, I posted a topic to the mailing list called "Tie Crusade: The Revenge" where I informed that ties between the bottom two staff lines (e.g. treble F4, bass A2, alto G3) and between the top two staff lines (e.g. treble E5, bass G3, alto F4) are positioned strangely; they are p