Re: Stanzas over staves

2018-04-17 Thread Helge Kruse
Am 17.04.2018 um 21:13 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: it looks like you simply want to stack the text as markup above a measure-long rest (with fermatas in all parts, I would assume?). Oh, my bad wording. I mean not above the lines but inside. That's definitely a simple situation, easy to accompli

Re: Consistent vertical alignment of annotations, disable time signiture

2018-04-17 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hello Robert, Speaking as a programmer myself with over forty years of experience, and an advanced lilypond users, I can categorically assert that lilypond is not trying to be 'clever'. This is an utter misunderstanding. Lilypond is however trying to engrave music to the highest possible standard,

Trouble with trill spanner avoiding slur

2018-04-17 Thread Knute Snortum
In this example... %%% Start \version "2.19.81" \language "english" { \override TrillSpanner.avoid-slur = #'inside \override TrillSpanner.outside-staff-priority = ##f c''1( | c''2. \startTrillSpan c''4 \stopTrillSpan | c''1) | } %%% End ...the slur doesn't avoid the trill spanner. Do I ne

Dotted notes

2018-04-17 Thread foxfanfare
I struggle on this: \version "2.19.80" \paper { #(set-paper-size "a7") } \bookpart { \score { \relative c' { \cadenzaOn \omit Staff.TimeSignature c1.^"Default" d4.. e8... f16 } } } \bookpart { \paper { #(define fonts (set-global-fonts

Re: Ottava mark: edge dashed line

2018-04-17 Thread foxfanfare
Thomas Morley-2 wrote > 'bound-details allows for left/right/left-broken/right-broken > subproperties. > Possible subsubproperties (read by ly:line-spanner::print) are documented > here: > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/spanners#using-the-line_002dspanner_002dinterface > > Pl

Re: Lilypond interfaces

2018-04-17 Thread Karlin High
On 4/17/2018 3:17 PM, Amir Teymuri wrote: does anyone knows about interfaces and/or notation systems written in other programming languages which use lilypond as backend? Music Blocks, teaching tool for exploring musical concepts

Re: Lilypond interfaces

2018-04-17 Thread Mason Hock
On 04/17, Amir Teymuri wrote: > Hello, > > does anyone knows about interfaces and/or notation systems written in other > programming languages which use lilypond as backend? GNU Denemo is a graphical frontend to Lilypond. http://denemo.org/ Mason > Two examples of such > interfaces are fomus (

Lilypond interfaces

2018-04-17 Thread Amir Teymuri
Hello, does anyone knows about interfaces and/or notation systems written in other programming languages which use lilypond as backend? Two examples of such interfaces are fomus (https://common-lisp.net/project/fomus/doc/) and abjad (http://projectabjad.org/). cheers, Amir - - - - - - - - -

Re: Consistent vertical alignment of annotations, disable time signiture

2018-04-17 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Hickman writes: >> Trying to understand LilyPond syntax based on how it actually >> processes input is not likely to make learning easy since a lot of >> complicated mechanisms work behind the scenes in order to make things >> look easy. > > In my general experience, systems which try to b

Re: Consistent vertical alignment of annotations, disable time signiture

2018-04-17 Thread Robert Hickman
> Trying to understand LilyPond syntax based on how > it actually processes input is not likely to make learning easy since a > lot of complicated mechanisms work behind the scenes in order to make > things look easy. In my general experience, systems which try to be cleaver and are not explicit a

Re: Stanzas over staves

2018-04-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi again, Given your example: > measure 1: some notes > measure 2: text: This is the story of Max and Moritz > measure 3: some notes > measure 4: text: Moritz > measure 5,6: more notes > measure 7: text AH, how oft we read or hear of Boys we almost stand in > fear of! For example, take these stor

Stanzas over staves

2018-04-17 Thread Helge Kruse
I am starting a small project for a harp trio. The score is in most part "just" harp music. But in some measure one of the players shall recite some text of the literary source. Example: measure 1: some notes measure 2: text: This is the story of Max and Moritz measure 3: some notes measure 4: tex

Re: Changing spacing between notes a lot

2018-04-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, > I was wondering if there is a way to change the spacing between notes > many times in a staff. There are many ways of accomplishing the thing you describe. > What I would like to do is to make something like this. > Here’s on

Re: Ottava mark: edge dashed line

2018-04-17 Thread Thomas Morley
2018-04-17 13:03 GMT+02:00 foxfanfare : > One more thing: I have this problem when the modified 8va breaks lines: [skipping example-code] > How is it possible to modify the "ottavaUp" shortcut to personalize this? 'bound-details allows for left/right/left-broken/right-broken subproperties. Possibl

Re: Consistent vertical alignment of annotations, disable time signiture

2018-04-17 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Hickman writes: >> That's not Lisp/Scheme syntax but LilyPond syntax. There is a >> manual for it. Several, in fact. > > I'm aware. > > \context { > \Staff > \omit TimeSignature > } > > If I'm understanding this correctly, this would be written something > like the following in a typ

Re: Consistent vertical alignment of annotations, disable time signiture

2018-04-17 Thread Robert Hickman
> That's not Lisp/Scheme syntax but LilyPond syntax. There is a manual for it. > Several, in fact. I'm aware. \context { \Staff \omit TimeSignature } If I'm understanding this correctly, this would be written something like the following in a typical OO syntax: x = Staff.clone(); x.omit

Re: Consistent vertical alignment of annotations, disable time signiture

2018-04-17 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Hickman writes: > Thanks, I have a vague familiarity with lisps, but have never used scheme. > > I'm not certain how to visually parse a statment like \Staff \omit > TimeSignature. It kind of looks like \Staff is a function taking two > arguments, where \omit is either a constant or a func

Re: Consistent vertical alignment of annotations, disable time signiture

2018-04-17 Thread Robert Hickman
Thanks, I have a vague familiarity with lisps, but have never used scheme. I'm not certain how to visually parse a statment like \Staff \omit TimeSignature. It kind of looks like \Staff is a function taking two arguments, where \omit is either a constant or a function that returns a constant, and

Re: Pedal bracket alignment

2018-04-17 Thread Edward Neeman
Still, I appreciate your help Mark. Thanks, Edward > On 16 Apr 2018, at 12:48 am, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > > Edward, > Your requirements are more exacting than my knowledge/skill can meet. > > Mark > > From: lilypond-user > [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org] On

Re: Pedal bracket alignment

2018-04-17 Thread Edward Neeman
Brilliant thanks Harm! I’ll let you know if I manage to “break” it. Best, Edward > On 15 Apr 2018, at 8:36 pm, Thomas Morley wrote: > > 2018-04-15 5:04 GMT+02:00 Edward Neeman : >> My dream option would be to be able to create a function that would give one >> set of shorten-pair values at the

Re: Ottava mark: edge dashed line

2018-04-17 Thread foxfanfare
One more thing: I have this problem when the modified 8va breaks lines: ottavaUp = { \once \override Staff.OttavaBracket.stencil = #ly:line-spanner::print \once \override Staff.OttavaBracket.bound-details = #`((left . ((Y . -0.2) (attach-dir . ,LEFT) (pad

Re: Ottava mark: edge dashed line

2018-04-17 Thread Thomas Morley
2018-04-17 9:16 GMT+02:00 foxfanfare : > Thomas Morley-2 wrote >> Would be nice the default would offer more tweaking-possibilities to >> avoid such messing around. >> Also, ly:line-spanner::print should have at least the option to cover >> the whole specified length, _avoiding_ space at start/end.

Re: lyluatex: call for Fedora users

2018-04-17 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno mar 27 mar 2018 alle 19:10, Sam Bivens ha scritto: Hi Federico, The MWE I compiled a couple weeks ago that *did* work fine now no longer does, and now I have the exact problem that you have. Curious. I have TeXLive 2016, which was downloaded from the Fedora repositories along wi

Re: Key signatures in modes other than Ionian & Aeolian

2018-04-17 Thread Erik Ronström
>> Even if my opinion may differ from the general opinion here, I think that in >> popular music, one would use standard D major key signature. >> Reason: Two sharps clearly show D major tonic and the characteristic mixo >> tone C (flat seventh) stands out in the sheet music by the accidental used

Re: Key signatures in modes other than Ionian & Aeolian

2018-04-17 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2018-04-17 um 07:47 schrieb Lukas-Fabian Moser : > Am 17.04.2018 um 01:24 schrieb Torsten Hämmerle: > >> Even if my opinion may differ from the general opinion here, I think that in >> popular music, one would use standard D major key signature. >> Reason: Two sharps clearly show D major tonic

Re: Ottava mark: edge dashed line

2018-04-17 Thread foxfanfare
Thomas Morley-2 wrote > Would be nice the default would offer more tweaking-possibilities to > avoid such messing around. > Also, ly:line-spanner::print should have at least the option to cover > the whole specified length, _avoiding_ space at start/end. > > > Best, > Harm Isn't this working?