Re: Large set of parts

2018-04-27 Thread Karlin High
On 4/27/2018 8:28 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote: It falls into the category of alliteration, which abounds in English As a poetry form, too - "Beowulf" and J. R. R. Tolkien's unfinished work "The Fall of Arthur" come to mind. Sort of like "rhyming" the beginnings of the words instead of the ending

Re: Large set of parts

2018-04-27 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Shane, It's not really a tongue twister for Mandarin speakers, so much as a wonderful play on tones on the same phoneme. It's not hard to pronounce - my definition of a tongue twister - but just a glorious play with language. There's only four tones in Mandarin. [This latter point can be argued

Re: Large set of parts

2018-04-27 Thread Karlin High
On 4/27/2018 5:17 PM, shane wrote: There is a chinese tongue twister that is really long and consists entirely of the sound "shi." Oh, dear - tonal language yet too. I give up in advance. There are probably two to seven differently-toned "shi" sounds... -- Karlin High Missouri, USA _

Re: Large set of parts

2018-04-27 Thread shane
There is a chinese tongue twister that is really long and consists entirely of the sound "shi." The vice president of the shanghai conservatory told me that one.  It is worth looking up.  Regards,Shane Brandes Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device Original message From: Jacques M

Re: spacer rest *

2018-04-27 Thread Gianmaria Lari
On 27 April 2018 at 15:45, Simon Albrecht wrote: > On 27.04.2018 10:53, Gianmaria Lari wrote: > >> To fix it I found two different ways. >> First one: >> >> \version "2.19.81" >> \score { >> \new Voice << >> {f4 g a b} >> {s4\< s4 s4 s4\!} >> >> Other possibilities: > { s4

Re: spacer rest *

2018-04-27 Thread Gianmaria Lari
On 27 April 2018 at 15:44, David Wright wrote: > [...] > Well, I don't know how the decision was arrived at, but my own view is > that it's the correct one. The duration-only notation is aimed at > people writing rhythms, and they write them for instruments that play > notes (and pseudonotes like

Re: Large set of parts

2018-04-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
> ah, the wonders of the English language “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.” is a grammatically correct sentence. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo) =) Kieren. Kieren M

Re: Easy definition of music function

2018-04-27 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Use $pa $pb $pc (and make sure to add a space before adding something like ] afterwards) and $pd . For # in music expressions, Lily expects music expressions, not pitches. For $ it chooses the syntactical category according to expression type. Brillant! Thanks a bundle :-) I knew there must

Re: Large set of parts

2018-04-27 Thread Jacques Menu Muzhic
Excellent, Werner! JM > Le 27 avr. 2018 à 20:17, Werner LEMBERG a écrit : > > >>> Guiness Book claim for worst tongue-twister: >>> >>> "The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sick sheep's sixth sheep's sick" >>> >>> Say it several times fast for full effect. >> >> The worst German one I know is "Bra

Re: \textLengthOn relative to bar lines instead of following note

2018-04-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2018-04-27 17:39 GMT+02:00 Robert Hickman : >> >> Another hack: >> >> \version "2.18.2" >> >> pushRight = >> #(define-event-function (parser location amount)(number?) >> #{ >> \tweak text \markup \with-dimensions #(cons 0 amount) #'(0 . 0) "" >> -\rightHandFinger #5 >> #}) >> >> { >> \partial

Re: Easy definition of music function

2018-04-27 Thread David Kastrup
Lukas-Fabian Moser writes: > Folks, > > I sometimes enter music which consists of a lot of "patterns" where > (relatively complicated) constructions of beams, tuplets etc. are used > repeatedly with changing pitches. Of course I'd like to put those in a > function. > > For instance, in a Mozart s

Easy definition of music function

2018-04-27 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Folks, I sometimes enter music which consists of a lot of "patterns" where (relatively complicated) constructions of beams, tuplets etc. are used repeatedly with changing pitches. Of course I'd like to put those in a function. For instance, in a Mozart symphony I have   r16 \once \omit Tupl

RE: Beam Length override not working.

2018-04-27 Thread foxfanfare
But for your initial problem, if it is what you want, maybe: \version "2.18.2" \new Staff \relative c'' { \time 2/4 << {\voiceOne \stemUp r16 r8 r16 r8 } \\ {\override Beam.positions = #'(-1 . -1) \voiceOne \stemDown e8 e16 ees \override Beam.positi

RE: Beam Length override not working.

2018-04-27 Thread foxfanfare
Or maybe: \version "2.18.2" \new Staff \relative c'' { \time 2/4 << { \stemNeutral \override Rest.staff-position = #0 r16 \override Rest.staff-position = #-1 r8 r16 \override Rest.staff-position = #-

Re: Large set of parts

2018-04-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Guiness Book claim for worst tongue-twister: >> >> "The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sick sheep's sixth sheep's sick" >> >> Say it several times fast for full effect. > > The worst German one I know is "Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid und > Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut. Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut und

RE: Beam Length override not working.

2018-04-27 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Rodrigo, As a pianist what I wrote is clear, it may not be proper guitar, yet hopefully it might give you some idea of what to do. Mark \version "2.18.2" \new Staff \relative c'' { \time 2/4 << { e8 e16 ees d8 d16 des } \\ { s1

Tongue twisters (was: Large set of parts)

2018-04-27 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > Karlin High writes: > >> On 4/27/2018 9:07 AM, Guy Stalnaker wrote: >>> "very thoroughly thought through (…ah, the wonders of the English >>> language <3 )" >>> >>> Brilliant! >>> >>> :-) >>> >>> Guy Stalnaker >>> jimmyg...@gmail.com >> >> Gui

Beam Length override not working.

2018-04-27 Thread Rodrigo Pinto
Hello all. My first message here. I'm writing a guitar music and I have a problem I could not solve. I'm using Lilypond for Windows (v2.18.2). I tried to make a minimal example of my problem. Here is the code: %%begin% \version "2.18.2" \new Staff \relative c'' { \time

Re: Large set of parts

2018-04-27 Thread David Kastrup
Karlin High writes: > On 4/27/2018 9:07 AM, Guy Stalnaker wrote: >> "very thoroughly thought through (…ah, the wonders of the English >> language <3 )" >> >> Brilliant! >> >> :-) >> >> Guy Stalnaker >> jimmyg...@gmail.com > > Guiness Book claim for worst tongue-twiste

Re: Large set of parts

2018-04-27 Thread Karlin High
On 4/27/2018 9:07 AM, Guy Stalnaker wrote: "very thoroughly thought through (…ah, the wonders of the English language <3 )" Brilliant! :-) Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com Guiness Book claim for worst tongue-twister: "The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sick sheep's

Re: Large set of parts

2018-04-27 Thread Guy Stalnaker
"very thoroughly thought through (…ah, the wonders of the English language <3 )" Brilliant! :-) Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 8:52 AM, Simon Albrecht wrote: > On 27.04.2018 06:52, Nathan Sprangers wrote: > >> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to produce a lar

Re: Schenkerian analysis diagram

2018-04-27 Thread David Kastrup
Simon Albrecht writes: > On 26.04.2018 23:48, Jérôme Plût wrote: >>> I don’t think you need to patch LilyPond. Have a look at >>> >>> and >>>

Re: spacer rest *

2018-04-27 Thread David Kastrup
David Wright writes: > On Fri 27 Apr 2018 at 14:58:13 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: >> David Wright writes: >> >> > I would assume it's because this notation (which arrived too late for >> > me to make use of when it would have been handy¹) is designed for >> > percussion and lets you write, say

Re: Large set of parts

2018-04-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 27.04.2018 06:52, Nathan Sprangers wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions on how to produce a large set of parts from an existing score? Each instrument's music is saved as a variable separate from the score staves. So I need to create a \score and \staff for 31 parts. Do I create 31 sepa

Re: Schenkerian analysis diagram

2018-04-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 26.04.2018 23:48, Jérôme Plût wrote: I don’t think you need to patch LilyPond. Have a look at and

Re: spacer rest *

2018-04-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 27.04.2018 10:53, Gianmaria Lari wrote: To fix it I found two different ways. First one: \version "2.19.81" \score { \new Voice <<   {f4 g a b}   {s4\< s4 s4 s4\!} Other possibilities: { s4*3\< s4\! } { s2.\< s4\! } { s4\< s s s\! } By the way: It is customary to always

Re: spacer rest *

2018-04-27 Thread David Wright
On Fri 27 Apr 2018 at 14:58:13 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright writes: > > > On Fri 27 Apr 2018 at 13:49:24 (+0200), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > >> On 27 April 2018 at 11:56, Andrew Bernard wrote: > >> > >> > Hi Gianmaria, > >> > > >> > The shorthand of using a duration number only app

Re: Dots wrongly positioned in not merged chords - Final

2018-04-27 Thread 70147persson
Hi folks, Thank you all foradvice, sparkling ideas and brilliant thoughts. When I put my question onto the forum I had a hope for hints about a property of some grob or engraver something. Which I could just change a value from ##t to ##f and the landscape suddenly should show up as it was on

Re: frescobaldi clipboard file name

2018-04-27 Thread Gianmaria Lari
On 24 April 2018 at 16:30, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 24 Apr 2018 at 08:53:01 (+0200), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > > On 23 April 2018 at 15:48, David Wright > wrote: > > > > > On Mon 23 Apr 2018 at 09:43:01 (+0200), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > > > > The following frescobaldi snippet call the "more.com

Re: spacer rest *

2018-04-27 Thread Gianmaria Lari
On 27 April 2018 at 14:58, David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright writes: > > > On Fri 27 Apr 2018 at 13:49:24 (+0200), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > >> On 27 April 2018 at 11:56, Andrew Bernard > wrote: > >> > >> > Hi Gianmaria, > >> > > >> > The shorthand of using a duration number only applies to not

Re: spacer rest *

2018-04-27 Thread David Kastrup
David Wright writes: > On Fri 27 Apr 2018 at 13:49:24 (+0200), Gianmaria Lari wrote: >> On 27 April 2018 at 11:56, Andrew Bernard wrote: >> >> > Hi Gianmaria, >> > >> > The shorthand of using a duration number only applies to notes, not rests. >> > >> > As per the NR: >> > >> > Isolated duratio

Re: spacer rest *

2018-04-27 Thread David Wright
On Fri 27 Apr 2018 at 13:49:24 (+0200), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > On 27 April 2018 at 11:56, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > > Hi Gianmaria, > > > > The shorthand of using a duration number only applies to notes, not rests. > > > > As per the NR: > > > > Isolated durations – durations without a pitch – t

Re: spacer rest *

2018-04-27 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Gianmaria, You would have to get somebody like DK to explain it. I think it may have something to do with the semantics of the parser, where an isolated number represents a pitch with the pitch name elided, and since rests have no pitch, the parser would not know what to do. It seems hard to de

Re: spacer rest *

2018-04-27 Thread Gianmaria Lari
On 27 April 2018 at 11:56, Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hi Gianmaria, > > The shorthand of using a duration number only applies to notes, not rests. > > As per the NR: > > Isolated durations – durations without a pitch – that occur within a music > sequence will take their pitch from the preceding not

Re: spacer rest *

2018-04-27 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Gianmaria, The shorthand of using a duration number only applies to notes, not rests. As per the NR: Isolated durations – durations without a pitch – that occur within a music sequence will take their pitch from the preceding note or chord. That is how it is. More learned fellows may be abl

Re: Large set of parts

2018-04-27 Thread Martin Neubauer
For me it depends primarily on the length and complexity of the score. For (larger) orchestral works I usually prefer having separate output files for each part. That way it's easy to just print out a single part and to distribute the parts electronically to the players. (\bookOutputName and \bookO

Re: large bottom text area only on first page

2018-04-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> let's assume that I want to add a large block of text at the bottom >> of the first page only: [...] > > I'd go for a page-footer and `on-page'. > > Below our modified > input/regression/page-headers-and-footers.ly Thanks a lot! Werner ___ li

Re: large bottom text area only on first page

2018-04-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2018-04-27 10:32 GMT+02:00 Thomas Morley : > I'd go for a page-footer and `on-page'. For page 1 `first-page' would do it already. Cheers, Harm ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: spacer rest *

2018-04-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2018-04-27 10:53 GMT+02:00 Gianmaria Lari : > > > > On 25 April 2018 at 10:09, Gianmaria Lari wrote: >> >> I don't understand the difference between s8 8 8 and s8*3. >> >> For example have a look to the following code that engrave two scores: >> >> \version "2.19.81" >> rh = \fixed c'{g8 8 8 8} >>

Re: spacer rest *

2018-04-27 Thread Martin Neubauer
On 27/04/2018 10:53, Gianmaria Lari wrote: > And why spacer rests and rests don't "propagate" like note? I'm not sure what you mean by that, but »regular« notes behave just the same way: << {f'4 g' a' b'} \\ {d'4\< d'4*3\! } >> -- I am my own reality check. signature.asc Descripti

Re: spacer rest *

2018-04-27 Thread Gianmaria Lari
On 25 April 2018 at 10:09, Gianmaria Lari wrote: > I don't understand the difference between s8 8 8 and s8*3. > > For example have a look to the following code that engrave two scores: > > \version "2.19.81" > rh = \fixed c'{g8 8 8 8} > > dyn = { s8 \> 8 8 8 \!} > { << \rh \new Dynamics \dyn >> }

Re: large bottom text area only on first page

2018-04-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2018-04-27 9:50 GMT+02:00 Werner LEMBERG : > > Folks, > > > let's assume that I want to add a large block of text at the bottom of > the first page only: > > >page 1 page 2, 3, ... > +-+ +-+ > | |

large bottom text area only on first page

2018-04-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Folks, let's assume that I want to add a large block of text at the bottom of the first page only: page 1 page 2, 3, ... +-+ +-+ | | | | | music | | mus