Orchestral works good practice

2022-07-06 Thread Rip _Mus
Good morning to everyone, I am preparing a large orchestral work. In my writing style, each instrument often has two voices in its staff, for various reason (for example, each clarinet can handle two voices when playing multiphonics trills with threshold tones, or other techniques), but in some oth

Re: Error message using AikenHeads with NullVoice

2022-07-06 Thread David F.
> On Jul 6, 2022, at 1:20 PM, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > How about changing \Staff into \Voice? > > \layout { > \context { > \Voice > \aikenHeads > } > } > > That way, it won't affect those NullVoice contexts. > > Best, > Jean > Perfect. That does exactly what I wan

Re: Error message using AikenHeads with NullVoice

2022-07-06 Thread Jean Abou Samra
On 7/6/22 19:56, David F. wrote: I have a collection of SATB hymns that I would like to engrave using shape notes. The Lilypond files are all structured the same, as seen below—treble clef with music and a NullVoice for aligning lyrics, then the lyrics, then the bass clef. % \version

Re: Looking for the proper term to search for... like a... prelude? maybe?

2022-07-06 Thread Jean Abou Samra
On 7/5/22 16:03, Kevin Cole wrote: But your answer makes more sense to me and is what I really want to go with. (The introduction starts with a "\partial" and ends with an incomplete measure also. Then, when the vocals start it's another "\partial".) I just have no idea what the syntax for star

Re: grace note (first note) in a measure that follows an end of a repeat volta displays weirdly

2022-07-06 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Hi David; Thank you for the elaboration, I think I will finally get this! Thanks, Ken On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 11:41 AM David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 05 Jul 2022 at 23:56:36 (-0700), Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 11:43 PM Hans Aikema wrote: > > > On 6 Jul 2022, at 07:25, K

Re: grace note (first note) in a measure that follows an end of a repeat volta displays weirdly

2022-07-06 Thread David Wright
On Tue 05 Jul 2022 at 23:56:36 (-0700), Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 11:43 PM Hans Aikema wrote: > > On 6 Jul 2022, at 07:25, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > > > However, the first measure that follows a repeat section (without > > > alternatives) there is a slashed grace note that L

Re: Error message using AikenHeads with NullVoice

2022-07-06 Thread David Wright
On Wed 06 Jul 2022 at 11:56:52 (-0600), David F. wrote: > [ … ] > The command to use aikenHeads comes from a separate style file that gets > included for each hymn. But there is an unfortunate interaction between > aikenHeads and NullVoice: Lilypond outputs the following error message: > > prog

Re: Looking for the proper term to search for... like a... prelude? maybe?

2022-07-06 Thread Kevin Cole
On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 10:07 PM Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > For an eight bar intro you would normally leave the vocal line staff and > use full bar rests. This actually makes it easier for the vocalist, and > if you were making parts you would have to do this anyway. I would not > try t

Re: Looking for the proper term to search for... like a... prelude? maybe?

2022-07-06 Thread Kevin Cole
On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 8:47 PM William wrote: Kevin, if you don’t mind, I’m interested what you mean by the first system > ending with a partial measure and the second system including vocals > beginning with a partial measure? If you mean to break in the middle of one > continuous measure, you c

Error message using AikenHeads with NullVoice

2022-07-06 Thread David F.
I have a collection of SATB hymns that I would like to engrave using shape notes. The Lilypond files are all structured the same, as seen below—treble clef with music and a NullVoice for aligning lyrics, then the lyrics, then the bass clef. % \version "2.22" \language “english" % included

Re: error handling

2022-07-06 Thread Jean Abou Samra
On 7/5/22 01:10, Thomas Morley wrote: Am Di., 5. Juli 2022 um 00:34 Uhr schrieb Jean Abou Samra : I just detected I can't compile my code with 2.22. any more, due to the internal changes in \repeat volta. Ofcourse it could have been any other change as well. Should I code for both lily-versio

Re: Lilypond not generating PDF

2022-07-06 Thread Jean Abou Samra
On 7/4/22 11:06, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Do you volunteer to go update the installation instructions for the new binaries (https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6310) and test them on Linux + macOS + Windows? That would be very welcome (no irony intended). Well, saying that actually ga

Re: Adding a root note next to the key signature (like a single note Ambitus)

2022-07-06 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Am 05.07.22 um 23:39 schrieb Lukas-Fabian Moser: Hi Viktor, Am 05.07.22 um 20:17 schrieb Viktor Mastoridis: For educational purposes, I would like to see whether it's possible to add a small note head after the key signature? Like a single Ambitus note, really. Why would I do it? For examp