Re: Song verses with variant rhythms

2025-02-10 Thread David Wright
On Mon 10 Feb 2025 at 12:00:23 (+), Raphael Mankin wrote: > On 10/02/2025 10:17, Timothy Lanfear wrote: > > On 09/02/2025 10:09, Raphael Mankin wrote: > > > Attached is a MWE. > > > > > > I tried using explicit syllable lengths, but it appears that > > > they were ignored. So writing "rhythm4"

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2025-02-10 Thread robert--- via LilyPond user discussion
I want to extend lilypond functionality by altering an provided scheme file (in particular fret-diagrams.scm, adding bass fret as label). I did the changes to the file but if I start lilypond it complains with: ;;; note: .../fret-diagrams.scm ;;; newer than compiled .../ccache/lily/fret-diagrams.

Re: Unicode sharps and flats in lyrics

2025-02-10 Thread David Kastrup
Werner LEMBERG writes: > Sorry for the late reply. > >>> > Why not add global text replacements substituting the accidental >>> > markups in place of the Unicode characters? Personally I prefer >>> > to type and read within my code the Unicode accidentals but I'd >>> > always want the output to u

Re: \set Score.proportionalNotationDuration warning on LilyPond 2.25.23

2025-02-10 Thread Saul Tobin
> > I think it is unfair to put this burden on us developers > for the 2.25.xx series. Fair enough. I was mainly thinking it could be worthwhile for the developers' sake to reduce the number of email threads from users taken by surprise when their code stops working. A fair amount of time seems t

Re: [OT] PDF manipulation mystery

2025-02-10 Thread bobr...@centrum.is
Thanks for the responses. Peter Chubb suggested that I was shrinking the scores twice which was something I had begun to suspect. I changed the 'A4' to 'A3' in my script and my PDF viewer shows something a bit different from what I was getting before. I'll have an opportunity to try printing it

Re: [OT] PDF manipulation mystery

2025-02-10 Thread Alexander Kobel
Hi David, > # re-collate into book signature > pdfjam $1-out-2up.pdf --signature $2 --paper a3 --landscape --outfile > $1-sig.pdf > It *appears* to work perfectly.  The final output looks fine on my PDF viewer > (Sumatra).  When printed out, however, the scores themselves are undersize.  >

Re: Song verses with variant rhythms

2025-02-10 Thread Raphael Mankin
On 10/02/2025 10:17, Timothy Lanfear wrote: On 09/02/2025 10:09, Raphael Mankin wrote: Attached is a MWE. I tried using explicit syllable lengths, but it appears that they were ignored. So writing "rhythm4" or "jer8 -- "ky8" does nothing. Switching the order of the voices in << ... >> mad

Re: Unicode sharps and flats in lyrics

2025-02-10 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 at 05:13, Saul Tobin wrote: > > I'm not sure I follow your thought process. What is it that you worry would be confusing to beginners? Genuine question. Is it something about accidental replacements specifically, or just text replacements generally? Hello, Speaking of users (

Re: [OT] PDF manipulation mystery

2025-02-10 Thread Raphael Mankin
You may find the pdfarranger program useful for doing this in a GUI. Of course, if you really want a scripted solution then your current way is better. raph@X1:~/src/Music/Songs$ dpkg -s pdfarranger Package: pdfarranger Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: graphics Installed

Re: Song verses with variant rhythms

2025-02-10 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Sun, 9 Feb 2025 at 11:10, Raphael Mankin wrote: > > Attached is a MWE. > > I tried using explicit syllable lengths, but it appears that they were > ignored. So writing "rhythm4" or "jer8 -- "ky8" does nothing. That's because you use \addlyrics. As mentioned in the doc, this is the same as \ne

Re: Unicode sharps and flats in lyrics

2025-02-10 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> While it is rather innocuous in this particular case it might be >> extremely frustrating for beginners to find out why LilyPond does >> this. > > I'm not sure I follow your thought process. What is it that you > worry would be confusing to beginners? Genuine question. Is it > something about

Re: Song verses with variant rhythms

2025-02-10 Thread Timothy Lanfear
On 09/02/2025 10:09, Raphael Mankin wrote: Attached is a MWE. I tried using explicit syllable lengths, but it appears that they were ignored. So writing "rhythm4" or "jer8 -- "ky8" does nothing. Switching the order of the voices in << ... >> made no difference; it always aligned to the short

Re: \set Score.proportionalNotationDuration warning on LilyPond 2.25.23

2025-02-10 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Do you think this isn't prominently enough? If so, how could this >> be improved? > > I think that as with many warnings, the fact that it's always there > leads to it fading into the background for many readers, > particularly as they learn from experience that for *most* code, > *most* of

Re: [OT] PDF manipulation mystery

2025-02-10 Thread Peter Chubb
> "bobroff@centrum" == bobroff@centrum is writes: bobroff@centrum> PDF which consists of 16 small scores in A4 bobroff@centrum> landscape. I want to print them in a signature bobroff@centrum> booklet, 2up (top/bottom) on two sheets of A3 paper, bobroff@centrum> duplex, of course. After some e