Global colour substitution for specific characters in lyrics

2020-05-19 Thread Witold Uchman
Hello! I am looking for a way to simplify input in a book of psalms, namely to be able to simply put an |*| in lyrics and make the character in red. I tried with |#(add-text-replacements!|, but it only performs simple character substitution, and I am afraid I am not fluent enough in lilypond

Combining percussion parts in one staff

2020-05-19 Thread Christopher R. Maden
I’m engraving a marching band score. The pitched instruments were fun. Percussion is giving me a headache, though. Each drum has its own part, e.g.: % bass.ily \version "2.18.2" bassMusic = \drummode { bd4 \f r bd r | } % bass.ly \version "2.18.2" \include "bass.ily" \score { \new Rhythmi

Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent

2020-05-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 4:13 PM David Kastrup wrote: > Carl Sorensen writes: > > >> -- Forwarded message -- > >> From: Kieren MacMillan > >> To: David Nalesnik > >> Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List > >> Bcc: > >> Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 10:22:15 -0400 > >> Subject: Re: Suggestion

Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent

2020-05-19 Thread David Kastrup
Carl Sorensen writes: >> -- Forwarded message -- >> From: Kieren MacMillan >> To: David Nalesnik >> Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List >> Bcc: >> Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 10:22:15 -0400 >> Subject: Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent >> Hi David, >> >> > But minor-mode

Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent

2020-05-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
> -- Forwarded message -- > From: Kieren MacMillan > To: David Nalesnik > Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List > Bcc: > Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 10:22:15 -0400 > Subject: Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent > Hi David, > > > But minor-mode music is often a conglomeration o

Re: Adding a new instrument

2020-05-19 Thread Caio Barros
Em seg., 18 de mai. de 2020 às 15:49, Tobias escreveu: > Is it possible to add a new instrument? What are the necessary steps to > do so? > Hey, Tobias. I think those are just names that map to General Midi [1] instruments. On the back-end it is just assigning a number to identify which instrume

Re: use lilypondfile without creating link to source file

2020-05-19 Thread Caio Barros
Em seg., 18 de mai. de 2020 às 12:23, David Nalesnik < david.nales...@gmail.com> escreveu: > Is it possible to use the command in lilypond-book and > not create a link to the LY file > in an HTML document? I'm hoping there is some automation available > with lilypond-book. > > Thanks, > David >

Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent

2020-05-19 Thread antlists
On 19/05/2020 16:04, David Kastrup wrote: All because people think "it's not difficult to figure out how to make it work" when actually it is once you aim for more than a "mostly working" determination and keep shuffling around just which 10% you are willing to let fall apart. Too many people t

RE: Rests vertical position problem

2020-05-19 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Jacques, Most welcome. Mark -Original Message- From: Jacques Menu [mailto:imj-muz...@bluewin.ch] Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2020 8:00 AM To: Mark Stephen Mrotek Cc: Jacques Menu ; lilypond-user Subject: Re: Rests vertical position problem Hello Mark, Thanks a lot, I looked at the snip

Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent

2020-05-19 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi David, > >> But minor-mode music is often a conglomeration of the "forms" of the >> minor scale which makes them of limited separate utility. Nothing is >> in "harmonic minor." Notating something in minor by J. S. Bach could >> be terrifying. > > Oh, I totally agre

Re: Rests vertical position problem

2020-05-19 Thread Jacques Menu
Hello Mark, Thanks a lot, I looked at the snippets doc and missed that… Will make good use of it! JM > Le 19 mai 2020 à 16:45, Mark Stephen Mrotek a écrit : > > Jacques, > > Look at > http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=merge+rests > > Mark > > -Original Message- > From: lilypond-

Re: Rests vertical position problem

2020-05-19 Thread Jacques Menu
> Le 19 mai 2020 à 16:42, Valentin Villenave a écrit : > > On 5/19/20, Jacques Menu wrote: >> This doesn’t change the position of the rests in measure 2, since there’s a >> single voice playing then. > > Well, yes: as I said, it doesn’t work yet. (And the way it’s > currently written, I sus

Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent

2020-05-19 Thread David Nalesnik
Kieren, On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 9:22 AM Kieren MacMillan wrote: > > Hi David, > > > But minor-mode music is often a conglomeration of the "forms" of the > > minor scale which makes them of limited separate utility. Nothing is > > in "harmonic minor." Notating something in minor by J. S. Bach co

RE: Rests vertical position problem

2020-05-19 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Jacques, Look at http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=merge+rests Mark -Original Message- From: lilypond-user [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Jacques Menu Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2020 12:32 AM To: lilypond-user Subject: Re: Rests vertical position

Re: Rests vertical position problem

2020-05-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/19/20, Jacques Menu wrote: > This doesn’t change the position of the rests in measure 2, since there’s a > single voice playing then. Well, yes: as I said, it doesn’t work yet. (And the way it’s currently written, I suspect it would require some fairly substantial changes. Or perhaps a who

Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent

2020-05-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, > But minor-mode music is often a conglomeration of the "forms" of the > minor scale which makes them of limited separate utility. Nothing is > in "harmonic minor." Notating something in minor by J. S. Bach could > be terrifying. Oh, I totally agree with "terrifying" (and, in my opini

Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent

2020-05-19 Thread David Nalesnik
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 8:20 PM Kieren MacMillan wrote: > > Hi Wol, > > > how is lilypond supposed to know whether the g and f are supposed to be > > sharpened? :-) > > \keyed \a \harmonicminor { a g g+ a } > > Is it really that difficult to figure out a rational input syntax? > I could come up w

Re: Rests vertical position problem

2020-05-19 Thread Jacques Menu
I tried: \new Staff = "Part_POne_Staff_One" \with { \consists "Merge_rests_engraver" } This doesn’t change the position of the rests in measure 2, since there’s a single voice playing then. JM > Le 19 mai 2020 à 10:14, Jacques Menu a écrit : > > Hello Valentin, >

Re: Rests vertical position problem

2020-05-19 Thread Jacques Menu
Hello Valentin, > Le 19 mai 2020 à 10:02, Valentin Villenave a écrit : > > On 5/19/20, Jacques Menu wrote: >> In the attached example, the \voiceOne and \voiceTwo commands used for the >> first score lead to the eigth rests in measure 2 to appear too high. > > Well, it’s merely printed the way

Re: help

2020-05-19 Thread Davide Liessi
Dear David, Il giorno mar 19 mag 2020 alle ore 08:56 David Rodríguez Blanco ha scritto: > I can run Frescobaldi because don’t know how install Monospace font or instar > it in Frescobaldi PATH you have already opened an issue on GitHub (https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/issues/1304). I

Re: Rests vertical position problem

2020-05-19 Thread Robin Bannister
On 19.05.2020 09:25, Jacques Menu wrote: Is there a way to use some equivalent of \voiceOne and \voiceTwo measure-wise in such a case, using it only in measures that have more than one voice playing? The rests in measure 1 occurs while another voice is playing. The rests in measure 2 occur

Re: Rests vertical position problem

2020-05-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/19/20, Jacques Menu wrote: > In the attached example, the \voiceOne and \voiceTwo commands used for the > first score lead to the eigth rests in measure 2 to appear too high. Well, it’s merely printed the way the source code’s requesting it. \voiceOne rests are consistently placed at the top

Re: Rests vertical position problem

2020-05-19 Thread Jacques Menu
I know I could use \rest to control the placement of rests manually, but this code is created from MusicXML automatically. musicxml2ly exhibits the same behaviour as the first score shown, BTW. JM > Le 19 mai 2020 à 09:25, Jacques Menu a écrit : > > Hello folks, > > In the attached example, t

Re: how to encircle a note

2020-05-19 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Aaron, thanks for your help. It's exactly what I was looking for! > > On 2020-05-16 10:49 am, Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear community, is it possible to encircle a note in lilypond? And could someone give a short example of code for this? http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=722 Including the st

Rests vertical position problem

2020-05-19 Thread Jacques Menu
Hello folks, In the attached example, the \voiceOne and \voiceTwo commands used for the first score lead to the eigth rests in measure 2 to appear too high. Removing them as in the second score makes the look more satisfying in this regard, but then measure 1 gets awful. Is there a way to use