Re: Programmatically sized markup?

2024-11-10 Thread Alex Harker
Thanks Werner Alex > On 10 Nov 2024, at 05:55, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > >> Ah - it would appear that there is a typo on the doc page, which >> refers to make-center-markup (which doesn’t exist) but >> make-center-column-markup does. > > https://gitlab.com/l

Re: Programmatically sized markup?

2024-11-09 Thread Alex Harker
Thanks Robin, I think it should probably be centre-column (as in make-centre-column-markup) and it’s just a doc mistake. Good to know this can also be used for custom markup. Thanks Alex > On 9 Nov 2024, at 22:46, Robin Bannister wrote: > > Alex Harker wrote: > >> I’m r

Re: Programmatically sized markup?

2024-11-09 Thread Alex Harker
Ah - it would appear that there is a typo on the doc page, which refers to make-center-markup (which doesn’t exist) but make-center-column-markup does. Once I figured that I out I was able to fix this myself. Sorry for the noise. A. > On 9 Nov 2024, at 17:25, Alex Harker wrote: > &

Programmatically sized markup?

2024-11-09 Thread Alex Harker
x the below code for me (or tell me how to do so) that would be super helpful. Thanks Alex ** N.B. display shows the horizontal/vertical issue, but the code is mainly to log the differences between the two outputs \version "2.24.1" #(define (psg-string-number-list idx num fontsize)

Re: Advice on (within one score) adding new pedal markings

2024-11-09 Thread Alex Harker
rm I’ve seen probably not too hard. There’s no need for it to be standard in what I’m doing, but again there’s quite a variety out there in terms of how this is done so any pointers to examples welcome. Alex

Re: Advice on (within one score) adding new pedal markings

2024-11-05 Thread Alex Harker
Thanks Mark, That’s really useful - thanks for the pointer, and nice to see you here! Alex > On 5 Nov 2024, at 08:28, Mark Knoop wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > Basically yes, this should all be possible at the 'user' level in scheme. You > probably will want to wri

Re: Advice on (within one score) adding new pedal markings

2024-11-05 Thread Alex Harker
need to keep track of which pedals are down somewhere and how they combine to create a specific tuning, but that is likely my next task, to be able to write some music that sets correctly for the specified pedals, and also in stave notation That doesn’t seem too hard. Alex > On 5 Nov 20

Re: Advice on (within one score) adding new pedal markings

2024-11-04 Thread Alex Harker
Actually it was more this thread that covers formatting issues: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-01/msg00266.html <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-01/msg00266.html> Alex > On 4 Nov 2024, at 23:52, Alex Harker wrote: > > Hi Walt

Re: Advice on (within one score) adding new pedal markings

2024-11-04 Thread Alex Harker
determination will get me through. In a previous project I made a custom look woodwind fingering by modifying what is in the internal scm as a separate file for instance. Happy to share what I come up with in this case if it might be of use. Alex > On 4 Nov 2024, at 23:32, Walt North wrote: >

Advice on (within one score) adding new pedal markings

2024-11-04 Thread Alex Harker
this would not be to modify lilyponds internal code at all, but just to add further scheme code purely to create my score. Is there any way this is possible (to add new events/objects in this way? Any advice would be gratefully appreciated. Thanks Alex

Re: \epsfile and SVG output

2024-04-10 Thread Alex Harker
Thanks - the idea about post-processing is particularly interesting. In the long run it would be great to be able to add SVGs directly, but I suspect that would be too big a dev job (in terms of understanding the lily pond codebase) for me to get into at the moment. Alex > On 10 Apr 2024,

Re: \epsfile and SVG output

2024-04-10 Thread Alex Harker
in terms of file size or speed of render, but possible) - work on a system to convert SVG paths to Lilypond/Scheme paths in order to be able to draw in a vector within Lilypond to any backend. Have I missed anything? Alex > On 10 Apr 2024, at 12:33, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > >> An

\epsfile and SVG output

2024-04-10 Thread Alex Harker
epsfile. I can’t see anything in the docs that would suggest that I should expect this. Can anyone shed any light on this matter at all? Many thanks Alex

Re:

2023-10-10 Thread Alex
I'm missing backslashes in the first example, sorry On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 3:47 PM Alex wrote: > Hi, > > Since you're new and don't seem to have a specific question yet, I'll say > how I organize things, and hopefully that helps you pick this up quickly

Re: Print brace, clef and key signature at start of Coda separated by blank space

2023-08-18 Thread Alex Voice
Oops: I am so sorry, Jean. Must work out how to turn AutoCorrect off, or actually read messages before I send them.  Apologies, once again Alex > On Aug 18, 2023, at 12:07 PM, Jean Abou Samra wrote: >> Le 18 août 2023 à 12:59, Alex Voice via LilyPond user discussion &g

Re: Print brace, clef and key signature at start of Coda separated by blank space

2023-08-18 Thread Alex Voice via LilyPond user discussion
\once \omit Staff.BarLine   \replicateDelims   \startStaff   \key as \minor   \section   \sectionLabel "Coda"   c'1   \bar "|." } \score {   \new PianoStaff   <<     \new Staff = "upper" \upper     \new Staff = "lower" \lower   >> } Jean’s original code is at  https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/127631/how-can-i-insert-an-additional-systemstartbrace-into-a-pianostaff-in-lilypond, along with an equally successful alternative from Valentin Petzel. The code above should lead to this: I hope that this is helpful. Do let me know if you discover a more straightforward method! Alex Voice

Re: System delimiters for middle of stave

2023-07-25 Thread Alex Voice
{       \Staff       \consists #inline-staff-engraver     }   }  } % ——— Do you think it would be possible to close up the gaps here, or recommend a work-around? I am very grateful for your help already and realise that my use-case here is far outside what either of you had envisaged or

Re: System delimiters for middle of stave

2023-07-24 Thread Alex Voice
wizardry. Alex > On Jul 24, 2023, at 11:00 PM, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > > Le lundi 24 juillet 2023 à 22:23 +0100, Alex Voice a écrit : >> >> >> > I tried replacing the replicate-stil code with your version, but the whole >> > code does n

Re: System delimiters for middle of stave

2023-07-24 Thread Alex Voice
work out the correct parameters, but I have no idea where to start with the bracket stencil! If there is another method that would work in some way, I’d be really pleased to hear about it. Many thanks again, Alex Voice   > On Jul 23, 2023, at 11:08 PM, Valentin Petzel wrote: >

System delimiters for middle of stave

2023-07-23 Thread Alex Voice
taff line in the ChoirStaff), so producing as little interruption to the flow of the PianoStaff as possible. This has been the most challenging score I have tackled (my colleague having given up on other engraving programs for this). If it were possible to achieve any or all this I would be so grateful. With many thanks in advance. Alex Voice

Re: another 'wrong type argument' error

2022-10-17 Thread Alex Harker
of getting around Apple’s gatekeeper and that would be something to think about later down the line, but only once the app was back up an running locally. Let me know also if I should continue any more technical questions here, or on another list. Alex > On 14 Oct 2022, at 19:02, Jo

Re: another 'wrong type argument' error

2022-10-13 Thread Alex Harker
atform for development. Jonas - thanks for your work on the Mac builds. It is appreciated here and I’m sure by lots of other people. Alex

Re: another 'wrong type argument' error

2022-10-09 Thread Alex Harker
having tended to use IDEs to build my projects) - I’ve done a little bit though recently one project that deploys to pure data, however. Alex > On 10 Oct 2022, at 00:31, Alex Harker wrote: > > The computer under discussion (2011 Intel Core i7 iMac) has a 64 bit > architectur

Re: another 'wrong type argument' error

2022-10-09 Thread Alex Harker
minimum OS then it will (I believe) default to the OS it is being compiled on - that might be the source of the issue. Alex > On 9 Oct 2022, at 23:16, David Kastrup wrote: > > Jean Abou Samra writes: > >>> Le 9 oct. 2022 à 22:52, Kieren MacMillan >>> a écrit : >

Re: Font path/finding issue on Mac OS Big Sur

2022-10-05 Thread Alex Harker
rld of eight-tone accidentals… Apologies for the noise and thanks for those who offered assistance. Alex > On 5 Oct 2022, at 18:47, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > Le 05/10/2022 à 14:21, Alex Harker a écrit : >> Hi All, >> >> I was wondering if anyone could help me d

Re: Font path/finding issue on Mac OS Big Sur

2022-10-05 Thread Alex Harker
Ah - the error is just due to a version issue. If I reduce the version requirement to what I have installed that there is no error in the console, but the font is not found. Alex > On 5 Oct 2022, at 18:15, Alex Harker wrote: > > Thanks for your response. > >> On 5 Oct 20

Re: Font path/finding issue on Mac OS Big Sur

2022-10-05 Thread Alex Harker
but I can’t see how that would be important to finding the font on the system. Thanks Alex

Font path/finding issue on Mac OS Big Sur

2022-10-05 Thread Alex Harker
anywhere I can put the font files where I need them to be, but my understanding is that lily pond should be searching the system fonts. Any help that anyone can offer would be great. Alex

cues overlapping compressed multi measure rest

2019-05-02 Thread Alex Jones
I am trying to replicate an odd structure, which places cue notes over top of the conclusion of a compressed multi measure rest. Normally when I make cues I use the << {} \\ {} >> structure such that I might have code like the following, but it breaks up the multi measure rest, any suggestion

Re: lilyjazz?

2017-05-03 Thread Pierre-Alex . Hébert
Hello, I had this problem too: "\require" has to be replaced by "\include". Regards, Pierre -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/lilyjazz-tp200044p202876.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___

Re: problem with \partcombine and dynamics/hairpins

2016-09-27 Thread Alex Voice
single hairpin whilst retaining individual hairpins in the parts? Otherwise, sorry for the noise. Alex > On Sep 27, 2016, at 10:14 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: > > > 2016-09-27 22:56 GMT+02:00 Alex Voice : >> >> >> Hi Harm, >> >> >> I'

Re:problem with \partcombine and dynamics/hairpins

2016-09-27 Thread Alex Voice
> g'1\> \endI R1\! > > } > > musicB = { > > b'1\> \endII R1\! > > } > > > > > \new Staff \partcombineII \musicA \musicB > > I have tried your solution to Kieran’s recent problem with \pa

Re: problem with accent placement

2015-12-27 Thread Alex Jones
This was successful, thank you! I did not try the more involved solution. -akj > On Dec 27, 2015, at 1:12 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: > > 2015-12-27 18:18 GMT+01:00 Alex Jones : >> I’m using the Script.priority-order to place an accidental above a trill >> ornament, but

problem with accent placement

2015-12-27 Thread Alex Jones
I’m using the Script.priority-order to place an accidental above a trill ornament, but when combining with a note accent it creates an ordering property as per the documentation example. However with the following snippet: \version "2.18.0" \relative c''' { a2-> \trill \once \override Script.

Repositioning system

2015-11-05 Thread Alex Seefeldt
Is there any way to manually change the vertical position of a single system in Lilypond? I've tried just about everything I know and I can't figure it out. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/li

Re: questions about chord ties to null and Ped. glyph

2015-09-13 Thread Alex Jones
Thank you!!! -akj > On Sep 13, 2015, at 11:15 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > > \musicglyph #"pedal.Ped" ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

questions about chord ties to null and Ped. glyph

2015-09-13 Thread Alex Jones
Two questions, I’m trying to write a chord with a tie to null space (see pic below). I tried 1 (<>) and only get one slur then I tried << {e1 (<>)} \\ {g! (<>)} \\ {b (<>)} \\ {e (<>)} >> and the notes are not vertically aligned suggestions? Second question: I’m trying to write a dynamic foll

staff manipulation question

2015-05-25 Thread Alex Jones
I’m working with a score that has multiple staves that appear and disappear at various points. I ran into a curious behavior: I have two staves fro a while, the second has two notes that complete mid-measure so I encoded like this: \score { \new StaffGroup \relative c' { \new Staff \key f \maj

Re: time signature magic

2015-05-23 Thread Alex Jones
This worked like a charm, thanks to everyone! -akj On May 23, 2015, at 7:05 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: > #(define ((time-parenthesized-time up down upp downp) grob) >(ly:stencil-combine-at-edge > (grob-interpret-markup grob > (markup #:override '(baseline-skip . 0) #:number #:colum

Re: time signature magic

2015-05-23 Thread Alex Jones
-parentheses-_002d-method-3 -akj On May 23, 2015, at 6:09 PM, ole wrote: > maybe this helps? > > http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=782 > > ole > > > > Am 23.05.2015 um 23:44 schrieb Alex Jones : > >> Does anyone have a suggestion for a good way to acco

Re: time signature magic

2015-05-23 Thread Alex Voice
You need the magic of: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=782 - Good Luck! Alex Jones-2 wrote > Does anyone have a suggestion for a good way to accomplish this in > lilypond? > time signature with a second time signature in parentheses? > > Screen Shot 2015-05-23 at 5.41

time signature magic

2015-05-23 Thread Alex Jones
Does anyone have a suggestion for a good way to accomplish this in lilypond? time signature with a second time signature in parentheses? Thanks in advance! -akj ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinf

Re: parts for natural horns and trumpets

2015-03-31 Thread Alex Loomis
I'm trying to understand your problem. Is it that the horn part is currently in concert pitch and you're looking for an easy way to transpose it? Are you asking how to notate the changes? Perhaps it would help if you attached an image of what things look like now and described what you w

Re: overlapping articulations with slurs

2015-01-09 Thread Alex Jones
ous request. > > -- > Phil Holmes > > > - Original Message - From: "Alex Jones" > To: > Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 7:06 PM > Subject: overlapping articulations with slurs > > > Apologies if others have solved this in the past, but I wasn

overlapping articulations with slurs

2015-01-09 Thread Alex Jones
Apologies if others have solved this in the past, but I wasn’t able to find a solution on the list quickly. Has anyone seen something like the following: I’m trying to write both a stopped and accented note, that is slurred to an open note. I’m having trouble with the stopped and accented arti

overlapping articulations with slurs

2015-01-08 Thread Alex Jones
Apologies if others have solved this in the past, but I wasn’t able to find a solution on the list quickly. I’m trying to write both a stopped and accented note, that is slurred to an open note. I’m having trouble with the stopped and accented articulation occurring overtop of each other. Add

Re: Best practice with inconsistent "à 2"

2014-08-07 Thread Alex Loomis
In my copy of Dvorak 8 the parts use a2 for isolated unison passages and double stems for passages where the voices are also split at some point. On Aug 7, 2014, at 8:49 AM, Urs Liska wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have a large romantic score in front of me. In the handwritten score the > \partco

Re: Notation

2014-07-18 Thread Alex Loomis
I got a similar problem a while back. For me it wasn't a problem with lilypond, it's a problem with LaTeX. LaTeX relative includes seem to be relative to where the command was run from, not from where the file is, so cd to where the output is and try running LaTeX from there. On Fri, Jul 18, 2014

Re: How to avoid key change with \transpose ?

2014-07-16 Thread Alex Loomis
I don't know about keeping in the right key for transposition (I actually ran into the same project today). To make the ending work, perhaps you should do something like: base = \relative c' { c4 c8 [ d8 ] e4 e8 [ f8 ] g4 } violinI = \relative c' { \base e f g} violinII = \relative c' { r2 \trans

Re: Is there a translator from LilyPond to XML?

2014-05-21 Thread Alex Loomis
I was under the impression MuseScore had Lilypond import and XML export On May 21, 2014, at 2:18 PM, pls wrote: > > On 21.05.2014, at 18:44, Dennis Clason wrote: > >> I have a publisher interested in some of my work, but they want it in their >> house style. They know about LilyPond, but

Re: pas de midi avec frescobladi dev

2014-05-08 Thread Alex Loomis
Avez-vous Timidity ? Je l'ai du installer sur mon ordinateur. On May 8, 2014 12:12 PM, "Éditions IN NOMINE" wrote: > Merci pour cette réponse rapide, mais hélas, j'avais déjà touché à tous > les boutons avant de poster... bon ça ne fonctionne pas chez moi... Je n'ai > que Midi Through Port-0 pour

Page number padding

2014-02-10 Thread Alex Loomis
Page numbers are consistently too close to other content. What is the best way to force them away? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Lilypond and midi files

2014-02-04 Thread Alex Loomis
I know Lilypond can import MusicXML files, so you could import the MIDI into something that can export Music XML (I think Sibelius might work?) and then import the XML file. I'm not sure if it's possible to go directly from MIDI to Lilypond. On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Claudio Garanzini < cla

Re: Beam height

2014-01-25 Thread Alex Loomis
Is there a way to make them all the same height? On Jan 25, 2014, at 2:55 AM, Janek Warchoł wrote: > 2014/1/25 Alex Loomis : >> Is this a bug? I would expect for the beams to all line up with the first. >> They do if you take it down an octave. >> >> \version &

Beam height

2014-01-24 Thread Alex Loomis
Is this a bug? I would expect for the beams to all line up with the first. They do if you take it down an octave. \version "2.19.1" {\relative c' {\repeat unfold 4 { es16 fes ges es }}} ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists

Re: bar-check warning when generating rehearsal midi soprano, alto, tenor etc

2014-01-22 Thread Alex Loomis
Could you try to make a minimal (not) working example? On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:45 PM, MING TSANG wrote: > When compile the .ly there is no warning or error in the log file: > Starting lilypond-windows.exe 2.19.0 [test-midi.ly]... > Processing `C:/Users/Tsang/Dropbox/CHOIR/the-rock/test-midi.l

Re: Overriding bound details of VoiceFollower line

2014-01-20 Thread Alex Loomis
Move it to after the e but before the change. \voiceOne \showStaffSwitch cs8 a r a e' e \once \override VoiceFollower #'(bound-details right Y) = #-2 \change Staff = "Right" \voiceTwo gs fs16 e On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:55 AM, David B. Stocker wrote: > I've followed the directions in

Re: multi-column markup function/macro?

2014-01-16 Thread Alex Loomis
With the split files there are still a ton of warnings, but it creates and displays the pdf. On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: > Hi Alex, > > OK ... first note, I use this on my machine with Ubuntu 12.04 having > texlive(2012)-full installed and it does c

Re: partcombine and quoteDuring

2014-01-15 Thread Alex Loomis
And also, with the first version the rest disappears. On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Alex Loomis wrote: > In addition to the problem Mogens described, the first B is marked Solo > when \partcombine should be marking it a2. > > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Mogens Lemv

Re: partcombine and quoteDuring

2014-01-15 Thread Alex Loomis
In addition to the problem Mogens described, the first B is marked Solo when \partcombine should be marking it a2. On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Mogens Lemvig Hansen wrote: > Hi, > > With the first version of voiceB below I get “ warning: ignoring too many > clashing note columns” > The seco

Re: how close are we to having an "addAt" or "insertAt" feature?

2014-01-15 Thread Alex Loomis
How much sense would it make for there to be a separate \mark-style command that functioned identically but didn't mess with the counter? On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi Werner, > > > I suggest that such a command allows for a third,

Re: global variables

2014-01-15 Thread Alex Loomis
>there may be some temptation for offering a >LilyPond-native syntax for that. Pretty please? It's the feature I've been missing the most in lilypond. On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:48 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Jacques Menu writes: > > > Le 15 janv. 2014 à 17:15:53, David Kastrup a écrit : > > >

Re: multi-column markup function/macro?

2014-01-15 Thread Alex Loomis
I got no output and a page full of fontconfig warnings when I ran it. I left out all but the first since there were about 100 and they're all nearly identical. Starting lilypond 2.19.0 [xelatex-command-list.ly]... Processing `/tmp/xelatex-command-list.ly' Parsing... This is XeTeX, Version 3.14

Re: v2.19 released, etc.

2014-01-11 Thread Alex Loomis
http://www.lilypond.org/development.html On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: > Alex, > > They are still showing: > > LilyPond 2.18.0-1 > > Regards, > > Phil. > > > > On 2014-01-12 12:55, Alex Loomis wrote: > >> The repo

Re: overlap

2014-01-11 Thread Alex Loomis
To change the padding, use \once \override Staff.Hairpin.outside-staff-padding = #'0 but depending on what's going on you might also have to manually set the space between the staffs. On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Shane Brandes wrote: > O.k. that was a terrible question, after further wor

Re: v2.19 released, etc.

2014-01-11 Thread Alex Loomis
The repository packages are updated rarely, the lilypond website's packages are updated pretty much day of. On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: > People, > > > > On 2014-01-12 06:57, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> Thanks for v2.19! Great work. >> >> For anyone

Re: Engraving challenges

2014-01-08 Thread Alex Loomis
Another vote for this. It would also make logistics easier. On Jan 8, 2014, at 6:48 AM, Simon Bailey wrote: > On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: > It might actually be interesting _not_ to collaborate, and see what > differences occur. This might also be true for Lilypond.

Re: Is it possible to invert the two-sided option?

2014-01-07 Thread Alex Loomis
In books, recto (odd) pages have larger left margin and versos have larger right margins. Does anyone know why LilyPond reverses it? On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Carl Peterson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Speldosa wrote: > > I would like to use \paper{two-sided = ##t} in order t

Re: Open string tunings for guitar

2014-01-07 Thread Alex Loomis
The Frescobaldi website says to post feature requests here. https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/issues On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Fulvio Turra wrote: > Federico hit the point. I forgot to mention in my first message that > Frescobaldi is the editor I use and a custom tuning generator wou

Professional Engraving

2014-01-07 Thread Alex Loomis
This isn't directly related to LilyPond, but I have a question for people on the mailing list. it seems like several people on this mailing list get payed to engrave music. How did you get started with those jobs? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-u

Re: TextLine help needed

2014-01-07 Thread Alex Loomis
How likely is the content to change? You could make that in LaTeX and include it in LaTeX from an eps file, but even as I'm typing it that seems like a very clunky way of doing things to me... I'll sleep on it and see if I can come up with anything. On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Kieren MacMilla

Re: new and context

2014-01-07 Thread Alex Loomis
It depends. It can be easier to read when they are all below the staff. On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Noeck wrote: > > Figured bass can be displayed using the FiguredBass context, or in most > > staff contexts. > > Hi Simon, > > thanks for the explanation! > > This means bass figures should

Re: Center Lyric Syllables (ignoring punctuation)

2014-01-07 Thread Alex Loomis
Shouldn't this be the default output? Looking at hand-engraved examples, such as this lied, words tend to be centered ignoring punctuation (measures 8 and 14), or furth

Re: snippet: standard staff sizes

2014-01-07 Thread Alex Loomis
> Or from the computer-based point of view: Is anything wrong with > choosing a staff size of 19.1? >From the computer-based view, no. From the typography-based view, yes. Something as small as that won't likely make a difference, but the further from its intended size you force a glyph the worse

Re: Position of text and symbol above note

2014-01-07 Thread Alex Loomis
This should do the trick. a4.^\markup{\vcenter "To Coda"\musicglyph #"scripts.coda"} On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 8:59 PM, muggle wrote: > This works, but is there a way to vertically align the coda symbol so that > it > looks nicer? > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lilypond.1069

Re: adding extra spacing ABOVE a context

2014-01-07 Thread Alex Loomis
Could you give an example? On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hello all, > > I’ve got a text-only context (TextLine) which contains script information > (dialogue, stage directions, etc.) in my music dramas. This context is the > uppermost

Re: Engraving challenges

2014-01-07 Thread Alex Loomis
I'm interested and have access to both LillyPond (of course) and Sibelius. On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Urs Liska wrote: > Hi all, > > recently we discussed about comparing LilyPond's performance with that of > competing programs > (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-11/ms

Re: Position of text and symbol above note

2014-01-07 Thread Alex Loomis
a4.^\markup{"To Coda"\musicglyph #"scripts.coda"} On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 8:34 PM, muggle wrote: > I want to postion "To Coda" and the coda symbol on a single line above a > note > like this > > > a4.^"To Coda"\coda > pri

Re: Fwd: Start creating with Finale 2014 today

2014-01-07 Thread Alex Loomis
I am throwing together a response to the article someone linked to in this thread, would anyone like to fact-check it when I am through? On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Shane Brandes wrote: > The universe refuses write access to anything but the future. > Excellent observation. Had me laughing.

Re: Survey: Git (G)UIs

2014-01-06 Thread Alex Loomis
I mostly use the command line. As far as the basics go I know what I'm doing, but branches still don't fully make sense to me. On Jan 6, 2014, at 7:53 AM, Urs Liska wrote: > Hi all Git users, > > I'd like to make a survey on how you are working with Git. > > Do you use the command line excl

Re: musicxml2ly on Windows

2014-01-05 Thread Alex Loomis
Have you tried upgrading to 2.18? It's possible that if the issue is with musicxml2ly that it has been fixed. On Jan 5, 2014, at 4:42 PM, TaoCG wrote: > TaoCG wrote >> >> Phil Holmes-2 wrote >>> - Original Message - >>> From: "TaoCG" < > >>> tao_lilyponduser@ > >>> > >>> To: < >

Re: svg output differs from pdf output

2014-01-05 Thread Alex Loomis
There also seems to be something wring with the ledger lines in the pdf. On Jan 4, 2014, at 5:50 PM, bart deruyter wrote: > Hi all, > > I ran a little test, because I often use svg as output to manipulate > afterwards. > I noticed there seems to be a difference between the pdf and svg output

Re: \include "*.ly" for only part of a score

2014-01-03 Thread Alex Loomis
In general it's best practice to keep includes at the top of the file, so I would do it like this: %file custom.ly varA = %letter paper; can't check syntax on my ipod so not going to try varB = %ragged right %your file \version "2.18.0" \include "custom.ly" \paper{ \varB } etc. On Jan 2, 2014,

Re: Learning LilyPond, comments invited

2014-01-03 Thread Alex Loomis
>From what I've seen, \cadenzaOn seems to be the preferred way of writing >unmeasured music. On Jan 3, 2014, at 3:14 AM, Colin Tennyson wrote: > Carl Sorensen-3 wrote >> Your music has some durations that cross bar lines. These durations mess >> up the bar checks. Is there a reason you don'

Re: Multiple scores on same page

2014-01-01 Thread Alex Loomis
Just put each in a separate \score block. Lilypond will automatically put a line break between each score. On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Ed Faulk wrote: > I have three related scores, each scored for piano and each requiring two > systems. I'd like to be able to put all three on a single pag

Re: arrrgh. manuals download link hard to find...

2013-12-30 Thread Alex Loomis
Those are links to the online versions, it sounded like he was looking for the PDFs. On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 8:06 PM, SoundsFromSound wrote: > Tom Cloyd-2 wrote > > Updating everything, due to new release of Ly, I'm trying to get the new > > manuals. Running into an old problem: > > > > On the h

Re: PDF portfolio of 2.18.0 docs

2013-12-30 Thread Alex Loomis
t 11:10 PM, Alex Loomis wrote: > >You need to open the portfolio in Adobe Reader 9 or later to use it as > intended > > Make that to use it at all. Using anything else all you get is a page with > the message "For the best experience, open this PDF portfolio in Acrobat 9 > or

Re: PDF portfolio of 2.18.0 docs

2013-12-30 Thread Alex Loomis
>You need to open the portfolio in Adobe Reader 9 or later to use it as intended Make that to use it at all. Using anything else all you get is a page with the message "For the best experience, open this PDF portfolio in Acrobat 9 or Adobe Reader 9, or later." Could you also post them as individu

Re: frescobaldi ERROR

2013-12-29 Thread Alex Loomis
Have you checked under frescobaldi's preferences to see what command it's running when you tell it to engrave? On Dec 29, 2013, at 5:38 AM, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: > > > On Sun, 29 Dec 2013, Federico Bruni wrote: > >> But I still can't compile *any* lilypond file, not even a >>

Re: chart alignment

2013-12-28 Thread Alex Loomis
The documentation for chords is here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/displaying-chords On Dec 28, 2013, at 6:22 AM, "Phil Holmes" wrote: > - Original Message - From: "Bric" > To: "lilypond-user" > Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2013 6:51 AM > Subject: chart align

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-27 Thread Alex Loomis
I can proofread the English version. On Dec 27, 2013, at 4:08 AM, Daniel Rosen wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Janek Warchoł [mailto:janek.lilyp...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 12:58 PM >> To: Daniel Rosen >> Cc: LilyPond Users; Jan Nieuwenhuizen; David Kastrup

Re: [Feature Request] \compressFullBarRests improvement(s)

2013-12-27 Thread Alex Loomis
How would it behave if \draftSkip were, instead of being changed, tagged, and you ran lilypond with exclude-tag #draft? (I can't remember the syntax off the top of my head, but I think that's reasonably close.) On Dec 27, 2013, at 1:38 AM, "Keith OHara" wrote: > On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 18:44:56

Re: using latex @ packages within \markup

2013-12-27 Thread Alex Loomis
Have you looked at lilypond-book? On Dec 27, 2013, at 9:12 AM, Francois Planiol wrote: > hello, > > I dont know how is developping for Riemann symbols right know. > I developped this in LaTeX and this works ok for me. > The question is how to pack it in a \markup block, using LaTeX and two >

Re: note / rest clash

2013-12-26 Thread Alex Loomis
Change the fourth line to << { \voiceTwo b,2 b4\rest } \\ { \voiceFour g'4 g g } \\ { \voiceOne d'2 d4\rest } >> | \break The odd numbered voices will always have stems up and even voices will always have down stems. I don't remember where it was but I remember reading the numbering of voices s

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.12

2013-12-26 Thread Alex Loomis
Does anyone know why the version in the ubiuntu repos is always so out of date? On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 3:34 PM, SoundsFromSound wrote: > Johan Vromans wrote > > Wilbert Berendsen < > > > wbsoft@ > > > > writes: > > > >> Enjoy, and please report bugs as usual! > > > > Oh, how wonderful it would

Re: 3x repeats

2013-12-25 Thread Alex Loomis
I'm surprised you can't do it with a spanner. Why don't we have something like: \override TextSpanner #'(center-text text) = \markup { \small Play three times } On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 4:12 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: > > Hi Janek, > > On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Janek Warchoł > wrote: > >>

Re: 3x repeats

2013-12-23 Thread Alex Loomis
Slash repeats are never used with certain instruments and only rarely seen outside handwritten scores. Even Ravel's Bolero doesn't use them in the score, where the snare drum plays the same pair of bars for 65 pages (though it does obviously use them in the part). On Dec 23, 2013, at 8:26 PM,

Re: New user frustration, pedal and alternative endings, roman numerals

2013-12-23 Thread Alex Loomis
There is a way to make roman numerals here. http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=710 Click on the image, save the wall of text you see as roman.ly, and add the line \include roman.ly after the version line. As for the rest, I would have to see your code to see why it was acting strange. On Mon, D

Re: Alternative notation for guitar 7th chords

2013-12-22 Thread Alex Loomis
I'm not sure what it does, like I said I just upgraded it to be compatible with 2.17.95. Given your error I assume you're using 2.16.x, before a certain change in syntax became usable, so changing it to \override ChordName #'extra-spacing-width = #'(-1.25 . 1.25) should work. If it displays well

Re: calling all opera/musical engravers

2013-12-22 Thread Alex Loomis
Would you mind explaining that code? My scheme is, alas, nearly nonexistent, and I have a project where I would like to change what is page one. On Dec 21, 2013, at 7:23 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Jean-Charles, > > Thanks for the response. > >> Have you looked at Nicolas Sceaux's work

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