Re: ghostscript 9.56.1 in lilypond 2.23.14 no longer finds font Helvetica-Bold, but gs in 2.22.1 did

2022-11-14 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 15/11/2022 à 05:29, Jeff Olson a écrit : That's it exactly!  What a relief to know a fix is coming. For a start, version 2.23.81 is supposed to be better in this respect, although the problem remains in very intensive situations. Best, Jean OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Show ledger line with hidden staff

2022-11-14 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 14/11/2022 à 21:29, Rajesh Baskar a écrit : Hi, I'm trying to display just the notes without the staff lines but I need the ledger line to be displayed. I know you can use \stopStaff or \remove "Staff_symbol_engraver" but that removes the ledger line as well. Please advise and thanks in a

Re: ghostscript 9.56.1 in lilypond 2.23.14 no longer finds font Helvetica-Bold, but gs in 2.22.1 did

2022-11-14 Thread Jeff Olson
On 11/14/2022 1:53 PM, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Meanwhile I've got to get back to making an MWE to explore why 2.23.14 (but not 2.22.1) is crashing with a segmentation fault when I put too many scores in a bookpart (clearly another thread). If it is something like "exited with return code -107374

Re: Flexible lyric alignment

2022-11-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi again! Given the success of my first sortie, here's another snippet that might be automated. (Note that this one matches the OP's situation.) This is definitely a tweak I do on a very regular basis in my music-with-text scores: sliding a text backwards, potentially under previous grobs. This

Show ledger line with hidden staff

2022-11-14 Thread Rajesh Baskar
Hi, I'm trying to display just the notes without the staff lines but I need the ledger line to be displayed. I know you can use \stopStaff or \remove "Staff_symbol_engraver" but that removes the ledger line as well. Please advise and thanks in advance. \version "2.22.0" \include "english.l

Re: Multi-measure spacer rests

2022-11-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Sámuel, > I could not get Kieren's \at method working I apologize: I should have made it clear that what I typed was not a working solution, but rather an attempt (using "pseudocode") to highlight a feature that would be very useful in the situation you were describing. Sincerely, Kieren.

Resend: Vertical and horizontal spacing

2022-11-14 Thread Sámuel Simon-Németh
My first email didn't appear to send, so here we go with the copy-paste: First of all, sorry for not understanding the docs, I hope you get it, being a beginner sucks. So, the questions: 1) How would I increase the spacing between piano left hand and right hand, AND between systems? 2) How w

Re: ghostscript 9.56.1 in lilypond 2.23.14 no longer finds font Helvetica-Bold, but gs in 2.22.1 did

2022-11-14 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 14/11/2022 à 21:33, Jeff Olson a écrit : Yes!  It is excellent and I highly recommend it.  Especially after you incorporated my 7/12/2022 off-list suggestions concerning named let and various presentation formatting issues (self-promotion 😉)! I am notoriously bad with remembering names

Vertical and horizontal spacing

2022-11-14 Thread Sámuel Simon-Németh
First of all, sorry for not understanding the docs, I hope you get it, being a beginner sucks. So, the questions: 1) How would I increase the spacing between piano left hand and right hand, AND between systems? 2) How would I increase the minimum (horizontal) measure length, right now it look

Re: Flexible lyric alignment

2022-11-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jean, > this example isn't specific to lyrics, although this situation > probably occurs more often in lyrics than in other contexts. Definitely. > Here's one way to do this, but don't be too excited: not only > is it hacky (in "fixable" ways), but it makes lots of assumptions > that hold in

Re: Multi-measure spacer rests

2022-11-14 Thread Sámuel Simon-Németh
Thanks all, this solved it (although I could not get Kieren's \at method working, it works well with empty chords. Gotta say, really nice community On 13/11/2022 10:16 pm, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Le 13/11/2022 à 21:44, Sámuel Simon-Németh a écrit : \version "2.23.80" \new Dynamics \with { % so

Re: Flexible lyric alignment

2022-11-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jean, > This just removes the lyric syllable's presence in horizontal > spacing, then adjusts its placement if it collides with its > right neighbor. It works in this case because there is nothing > on the left that the lyric syllable in question could collide > with. (It also does not handle c

Re: Flexible lyric alignment

2022-11-14 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 14/11/2022 à 17:11, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : Hi again! Given the success of my first sortie, here's another snippet that might be automated. (Note that this one matches the OP's situation.) This is definitely a tweak I do on a very regular basis in my music-with-text scores: sliding a te

Re: Flexible lyric alignment

2022-11-14 Thread Jean Abou Samra
The bit with LyricHyphen was not working, this will be better: \version "2.23.81" #(ly:set-option 'compile-scheme-code) \layout {   \context {     \Lyrics     \consists   #(lambda (context) (let ((previous #f))    (make-engraver     (acknowledgers ((lyr

Re: ghostscript 9.56.1 in lilypond 2.23.14 no longer finds font Helvetica-Bold, but gs in 2.22.1 did

2022-11-14 Thread Jeff Olson
On 11/13/2022 1:24 PM, Jean Abou Samra wrote: [Self-promotion:] Have you tried to read this? https://scheme-tutorial.readthedocs.io (It originates in a presentation that some people found clear, which is the reason why I wrote it down.) Yes!  It is excellent and I highly recommend it.  Espec