Re: Making lyrics quicker

2020-08-11 Thread David Kastrup
Paul McKay writes: >> On Tue, 11 Aug 2020, 17:53 David Kastrup, wrote: >> >>> Paul McKay writes: >>> >>> > Hi Aaron. >>> > Many thanks for this. I can now write functions like this: >>> > mock = #(define-music-function >>> >( punct) >>> >( markup?) >>> >#{ \addPunct \lyricmode { He

Re: Making lyrics quicker

2020-08-11 Thread Paul McKay
Cool! Thanks On Tue, 11 Aug 2020, 17:53 David Kastrup, wrote: > Paul McKay writes: > > > Hi Aaron. > > Many thanks for this. I can now write functions like this: > > mock = #(define-music-function > >( punct) > >( markup?) > >#{ \addPunct \lyricmode { He mock -- eth at us } $punct #

Re: Making lyrics quicker

2020-08-11 Thread David Kastrup
Paul McKay writes: > Hi Aaron. > Many thanks for this. I can now write functions like this: > mock = #(define-music-function >( punct) >( markup?) >#{ \addPunct \lyricmode { He mock -- eth at us } $punct #}) That one's just mock = \addPunct \lyricmode { He mock -- eth at us } \etc

Re: Q: Irregular alternate repeats and MIDI

2020-08-11 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 07:29:33AM -0700, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Michael Gerdau <[1]m...@qata.de> > To: Lilypond User <[2]lilypond-user@gnu.org> > Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 07:57:23 +0200 (CEST) > Subject: Q: Irregular

Re: Q: Irregular alternate repeats and MIDI

2020-08-11 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
> > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Michael Gerdau > To: Lilypond User > Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 07:57:23 +0200 (CEST) > Subject: Q: Irregular alternate repeats and MIDI > Hi List, > > I have a score with repeats and irregular alternate endings. I can neatly > engrave that but I do

Re: Making lyrics quicker

2020-08-11 Thread Paul McKay
Hi Aaron. Many thanks for this. I can now write functions like this: mock = #(define-music-function ( punct) ( markup?) #{ \addPunct \lyricmode { He mock -- eth at us } $punct #}) and sopranoVerse = \lyricmode { \mock ; \mock ! } Ace! On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 10:03, Aaron Hill wrote: > On

Re: set-current-page-number

2020-08-11 Thread bobr...@centrum.is
Replying to my own query here with the solution. I was sent, off-list, a couple of solutions: \paper { ... oddHeaderMarkup = \markup \fill-line { "" "11" } } \paper { print-first-page-number = ##t first-page-number = 2 % or whatever number you need } The second one is working fine. T

Re: Making lyrics quicker

2020-08-11 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2020-08-11 1:57 am, Aaron Hill wrote: On 2020-08-11 1:48 am, Aaron Hill wrote: (last (car (take-right elts 1))) And in my haste to reply, I overlooked simplifying the car/take-right 1 to being just a call to the SRFI-1 "last" procedure: (last (last elts)) Though, I pro

Re: Making lyrics quicker

2020-08-11 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2020-08-11 1:48 am, Aaron Hill wrote: (last (car (take-right elts 1))) And in my haste to reply, I overlooked simplifying the car/take-right 1 to being just a call to the SRFI-1 "last" procedure: (last (last elts)) Though, I probably should pick a better local variabl

Re: Making lyrics quicker

2020-08-11 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2020-08-11 1:08 am, Paul McKay wrote: I'm working on transcribing some movements of an oratorio. In common with that genre, the same words (more or less) get repeated over and over again. I'm trying to minimize both typing and errors and have come up with the following which does most of wha

Making lyrics quicker

2020-08-11 Thread Paul McKay
I'm working on transcribing some movements of an oratorio. In common with that genre, the same words (more or less) get repeated over and over again. I'm trying to minimize both typing and errors and have come up with the following which does most of what I want: \version "2.20.0" Lord = \markup