Re: Fingering: showing strings by dots?

2020-08-22 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Alasdair, I play bass gamba - I've always wanted to do the lovely curved beams (and for Bach,. and the lot!). No chance lilypond will ever be able to, I don't think! Andrew

Re: Fingering: showing strings by dots?

2020-08-22 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Pierre, Bass gamba in France has very detailed markups, such as poussez (p) and tirez (t), push and pull (up and down bow), and a whole swag more. I'll dig up some Marin Marais and send to you. Andrew On 23/08/2020 2:35 pm, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: Hi Alasdair, I've never seen suc

Re: Fingering: showing strings by dots?

2020-08-22 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Alasdair, I've never seen such notation. I'd be curious to see an example. Maybe this could help: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=1068 E.g.: \version "2.20.0" #(define-markup-command (circled-pattern layout props radius angle num arg) (number? number? number? markup?) (interpret-marku

Fingering: showing strings by dots?

2020-08-22 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
I am trying to typeset some early 18th century French music for viola da gamba. The standard notation, which I would like to keep, is that the string is indicated by a row of dots above the finger number. That is, for example, a 4 with three dots over it (generally in a slight arc, rather than in

Re: Inheritance of MIDI settings into embedded contexts?

2020-08-22 Thread Dr. Thomas Tensi
Hello Aaron, thanks for the quick and detailed answer! You wrote: > The Dynamic_performer is part of the Voice context; and the > construct << ... \\ ... >> implicitly creates new Voice contexts. That is what I had assumed: the voice context _initializes_ its dynamics to the default value rega

Re: Inheritance of MIDI settings into embedded contexts?

2020-08-22 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2020-08-22 8:52 am, Dr. Thomas Tensi wrote: I am using lilypond as the frontend for audio production and now I have a problem where I do not understand lilypond's internal logic for transferring MIDI settings into embedded contexts. [ . . . ] This means that the embedded voices are in the MI

New table of contents formatting

2020-08-22 Thread Timothy Lanfear
In NR 3.2.6 (version 2.21.5) a new formatting for the table of contents is described. The documentation suggests the formatting, which defaults of bold, will only be applied in the case of a hierarchical table of contents, whereas the bold formatting is applied also for a flat table of contents

Inheritance of MIDI settings into embedded contexts?

2020-08-22 Thread Dr. Thomas Tensi
Dear all, I am using lilypond as the frontend for audio production and now I have a problem where I do not understand lilypond's internal logic for transferring MIDI settings into embedded contexts. The file - \version "2.19.82" \score { << \new Staff = piano \with { midiInstru