Re: Elongating Measures

Hi Greg, > I would like it to be longer so the decrescendo is a bit more prominent. > [snip] > Is there a way I can specify the length of the measure or otherwise make it > longer? Here’s one option: %%% SNIPPET BEGINS \version "2.25.11" { df2\mf df\< | \time 3/2 df df( f)\! | \time 2

Elongating Measures

Hello - I am arranging a chart where I have whole notes in a measure and I would like to start at forte and decrescendo to mezzo-forte (or whatever). The problem is the measure comes out short: [image: image.png] I would like it to be longer so the decrescendo is a bit more prominent. I tried put

Accidental style with brief changes of clef.

I'm aware that this has been discussed before at https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-10/msg00678.html

Re: Percussion with lyrics

Hi Kieren, Leo, etc. Kieren, I thought that "I tried creating Lilypond files with just the lyrics, aligned to the beats of the melody, and the percussion staff in it" was specific enough, but perhaps showing a (mock up) screen shot of what I wanted would have made things even clearer. On Fri, Sep

Re: Percussion with lyrics

Hi, > Well, I'd rather not see the (empty) staff there. It will only take up space! > Both your snippets show an empty 'voice' staff (that I'm not particularly > interested in :-) ) Then maybe you should be more specific with your requests… %%% SNIPPET BEGINS \version "2.22.1" \header { ti

Re: Percussion with lyrics

Like this? The staff with the lyrics was being created because in the score block, when you created the NullVoice it had nowhere to go, so the staff was implicitly created for it. Here it is created inside the DrumStaff in the drumsPart variable. %%% SNIPPET BEGINS \version "2.22.1" \header {

Re: Percussion with lyrics

HI Kieren, On Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 12:56 PM Kieren MacMillan < kie...@kierenmacmillan.info> wrote: > p.s. > > You could get away with your “one giant lyric blob on whole notes” > approach with a few tweaks: > > > %%% SNIPPET SNIPPED > > Hope that [also] helps! > Kieren. Well, I'd rather not see

Re: Percussion with lyrics

p.s. You could get away with your “one giant lyric blob on whole notes” approach with a few tweaks: %%% SNIPPET BEGINS \version "2.22.1" \header { title = \markup \concat { "Oh, but it " \underline "does" " work!" } instrument = "Frog / Cajonga's" } \paper { left-margin = 20 } \layout

Re: Percussion with lyrics

Hi, > I tried using a NullVoice, but I haven't been able to find the correct > incantation yet :-( > Attached is a M(N)WE, I hope someone can nudge me in the right direction... How much of a nudge do you want? ;) Really Subtle Nudge: Change NullVoice to Voice and look at what’s happening. Bul

Re: Percussion with lyrics

Hi, On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 9:10 PM Saul Tobin wrote: > Just responding to one piece of this: the NullVoice context was created > specifically for the use case of rhythmically aligning lyrics to invisible > notes. Devnull, as you discovered, just sends musical events into a black > hole. It mig

Re: Question about Scheme's syntax

Fixed! On Thu, Sep 5, 2024 at 9:34 PM David Kastrup wrote: > Paolo Prete writes: > > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2024 at 2:07 PM David Kastrup wrote: > > > >> Paolo Prete writes: > >> > >> > >> Still scheme? instead of markup? > >> > >> Still a scheme function instead of a markup command. > >> > >> >