two problems: vertical brackets and simultaneous voices

2009-10-18 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Hi! I've been too busy to read this list for a while, but now I've got a question. I'm copying Johan Halvorsen's Veslemøy (for male choir, with lyrics by Arne Garborg), and in the original I have the following bar: <> The divided basses here aren't easy. Now, I've managed to get the music print

Re: Margins

2009-04-17 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Also, although he's dealing with text (not music) in general, it is > important to note that all of his examples show a *LARGER* margin on > the unbound [!] side of the text block -- this is, of course, the > opposite of what most of us find intuitive (i.e., leaving *MO

Re: songbook from Lily scores

2009-03-08 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Zoltan Kota writes: > I have been using Lily for a year now, and I have several music scores > as separate lily files. I would like to make a songbook including > them, with cover page, table of contents, correct page numbering, etc. > How should I start? What sectiones should I learn in document

Re: Lyric representation in MIDI?

2008-05-06 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For songs with several verses, I guess the lyric printouts won't > make any sense, no matter how we place the information in the MIDI > files. Not unless we introduce some kind of semantic to tell Lilypond that they are verses, anyway. pseudocode-like

Re: How to put current date in footer?

2008-04-13 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Alain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi NG > > I'm trying to have a timestamp in the footer of every page. nice would > also be to have subversion revision as metainformation printed. > I'm quite new to Lilypnd... > > How can I do that? > > I've tried it the LaTeX way: > \paper{ > ... > oddFoot

Re: OT: what bar line to use with "D.S al Fine"?

2008-04-06 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The latter (\bar"||"). Thanks to all who replied! > See also page 229 of Gardner Read: Music Notation; A > manual of modern practice, Taplinger, 1979. I will, once I get it from Amazon in 9-30 days... ;-) Cheers, -- Arvid ___

OT: what bar line to use with "D.S al Fine"?

2008-04-06 Thread Arvid Grøtting
This is off-topic, but I'll ask here anyway: What's the correct bar line to use when ending a piece with "D. S. al Fine"? \bar "|.", like a normal ending? \bar "||"? something else? Cheers, -- Arvid ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user

Re: page-number

2008-04-05 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Ian Hulin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > J'utilise au moment Lilypond version 2.11.42, mais j'ai utilisé toute version > dès 2.10.1 et le suivant marche pour moi: > > \paper { > print-page-number = ##t > } Si je ne me trompe pas, ça marche pour 2.8 aussi. (Ça *change* rien, je croix; print-page-n

Re: How to make the copyright notice appear with the tagline

2008-04-05 Thread Arvid Grøtting
"Romel Anthony S. Bismonte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the upgrade suggestion. I have upgraded to 2.11.43, but > the tagline and copyright notice still do not appear on the bottom > of the first page. Perhaps the header needs to be in a different > place now that I'm in 2.11? Franc

Re: merging simultaneous rests from two voices

2008-04-04 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Montag, 31. März 2008 schrieb Wilbert Berendsen: >> Related question: isn't there a simpler way to just merge rests if they >> occur in both voices? Something like: >> \override Staff.NoteColumn #'merge-rests = ##t > > You know, the LSR cont

Re: GDP: \articulation and -\articulation

2008-02-26 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's one particular aspect of controlling directions that's specific for > articulations, namely that each separate articulation has its own rule for > the default direction. Some articulations, like \fermata, are always > above the stave, ...excep

Re: Full bar rests in multi-voiced piano scores -- question and a suggestion

2008-02-25 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So far, there's no automatic support in LilyPond to avoid collisions > between multi-measure rests and other objects. Their vertical > position is determined by the staff-position property, which by > default is set to zero. The \voiceOne macro sets sta

Re: Leaving: "I can't help"

2008-01-09 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Graham, > > Okay, the guilt and peer pressure has finally overwhelmed my better > judgement! ;-) Ooo-kay; me too. Between work, two small kids and a choir I can't promise to deliver by any set deadline, but I can probably re-read and revise som

Re: partcombine, but including rests in quiet voices?

2007-12-12 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -) Rests for both instruments are combined to one staff-centered > rest, rests for only one instrument are displayed in their own voice > (since those parts are printed like two voices) For that item *only*, and only for regular (not whole-measure)

Re: Lilypond for serial music?

2007-11-30 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Miguel Lopes Santos Ramos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm considering either moving back to Common LISP with Lilypond output > or using the built-in Scheme interpreter; but although I have a 15+ year > programming background, I'm not finding it very easy to use Lilypond Scheme. I found googling

Re: graphics in scheme?

2007-11-21 Thread Arvid Grøtting
"Tao Cumplido" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also [...] is it actually possible to use postscript (with > variables) inside scheme? Sure! You can write a scheme function that returns a string that is valid postscript, and use that postscript in a markup block. I've tried, and it works for me.[1

posting snippets

2007-11-13 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Hi, I tried posting a snippet two days ago or so, but for some reason it doesn't show up on LSR. It seems it hasn't been approved. Is this supposed to happen? -- Arvid ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mail

Re: stretching and lyrics (was: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 59, Issue 78)

2007-11-07 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now in 2.11, the lyrics seem to be glued to the SA > staff (when using ragged-bottom=##f and ragged-last-bottom=##f), so they are > quite far away from the TB, which make the scores absolutely unusable for > choir use. You need to tell Lilypond

Re: Better vertical spacing in 2.11 adversely affects lyric spacing

2007-10-30 Thread Arvid Grøtting
"Joe Neeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10/30/07, Monk Panteleimon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It appears that 2.11 is trying to keep single staves from occupying their > > own (last) page. That's a good idea too but, at least in my case, it seems > > to be doing so at the expense of good

Re: footnotes?

2007-09-10 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Wilbert Berendsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to create footnotes? I.e. a command to add a footnote > (containing markup) to the bottom of the current page, without stopping a > \score and writing a toplevel \markup ? I don't think there is[1], and I definitely think it would b

Re: Should slurs really start before the key signature?

2007-08-26 Thread Arvid Grøtting
> Have a look at issue 379, "ugly slur with key signature and line break". Ah, so this is possibly a duplicate. > It's classed as a low-priority defect, unfortunately. It *should* be simple to fix at least this aspect of it, though: Both ties and phrasing slurs start after the key signature and

Re: Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States

2007-06-13 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:13:03 -0300, > "Han-Wen Nienhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> And a typographic nit: the margins seem rather on the small side. >> Have you done the page layout yourself? I recommend copying margins >> from reknowned public

Re: setting systems per page in lilypond-book

2007-06-10 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Laura Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been using the \betweenLilyPondSystem hack that Adam describes in > a later post, and I agree that it's a pain. But I doubt that anything > else would be easy to implement. A similar thread had suggestions not involving lilypond-book at all, e.g. p

Re: rest position, polyphony

2007-06-09 Thread Arvid Grøtting
"Germain G. Ivanoff-Trinadtzaty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would you know another way to get rests merged > without introducing layout tricks in the music ? Yes. I have the following two files in my private include directory ("../include/"): merge-rests.ly Description: application/lilypo

Re: etf2ly

2007-05-23 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Helge Kruse t-online.de> writes: > > Hello, > > I tried to use a graphical front end at my Windows XP system. Since Finale > Notepad is free, I wrote a simple song and store the MUS file. When I run > etf2ly lala.MUS I get always the content > > % lily was here -- automatically converted by

Re: Can Lilypond export separate pdfs?

2007-05-03 Thread Arvid Grøtting
2007/5/3, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: You are right that the handling of inter-score line distance, for example, is lost since each score line is generated as a separate EPS/PDF file which is then included into the LaTeX document using \includegraphics{...}. However, this is not necessar

Re: Can Lilypond export separate pdfs?

2007-05-03 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Mats Bengtsson ee.kth.se> writes: > > If you want to make a LaTeX document that contains some scores, I strongly > recommend you to use lilypond-book. Is lilypond-book actively developed? I'm especially thinking of stuff like actually using page-based vertical and horizontal layout with a lily

Re: Measure number collision

2007-04-22 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Graham Percival gmail.com> writes: > What about giving a StaffGroup some width? I'm thinking of your recent > fix for #352. I mean, if there's a StaffGroup grob then we want the bar > numbers to be higher; if there's no StaffGroup grob then we don't want > to move the bar numbers. Of cours

Re: producing "archival" scores

2007-04-08 Thread Arvid Grøtting
alcor.concordia.ca> writes: > I wonder what the typical note-entry-time/layout-tweak-time ratio is > amongst LilyPond users. I'm probably not average (who is?), but I guess I spend about 40% of the time spent on a score on initial note entry, 30% on layout tweaking, 20% on proofreading and

Re: rest merging (willing to sponsor)

2007-04-02 Thread Arvid Grøtting
2007/3/21, yota moteuchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: i'm looking forward to seeing this feature implemented ^^ I posted an ugly hack that happens to work (with 2.11.21 on the little input I've tried it on) to lilypond-devel yesterday. It won't get included in lilypond unless someone cleans it up (and

Re: Intermittent Lyrics in Choral Piece

2007-04-02 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Jason Merrill yale.edu> writes: > An obvious way to do this is to use the \skip command in the lyrics, > but I'm not sure this is the best way. If I could leave a "hook" in > the notated music, it would save me some counting. Both approaches *should* work, but I've seen bugs with the second ap

Re: 2.11.21-1 for PPC

2007-03-26 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Paul Scott ultrasw.com> writes: > > > Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > 2007/3/26, Paul Scott ultrasw.com>: > >> Is anyone running 2.11.21-1 on a PowerPC. Previous versions have worked > >> but the latest version tells me it can't run a binary file. It works for me: MacAllan:~/musikk/tmp arvidg$

Re: rest merging (willing to sponsor)

2007-03-21 Thread Arvid Grøtting
2007/3/21, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I hope you have tried the workaround described in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-06/msg00020.html While certainly usable, this workaround requires that I know which voices I want to go to which staff, at least in the multiple

rest merging (willing to sponsor)

2007-03-21 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Hi, in the category for "Coding better typography automation", my choir is willing to sponsor (within reason) the coding of automatic rest merging within a staff. Background: In staffs with multiple voices, common typesetting practice is to merge simultaneous rests of equal duration that are com

Re: sponsorship option gone?

2007-03-21 Thread Arvid Grøtting
and this is what I thing you are searching: http://lilypond-design.com/sponsor/ Yes, and I've read that before. Doesn't seem too updated, though. I'll post a request here and see what happens. :) -- Arvid ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypon

sponsorship option gone?

2007-03-21 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Hi, I was browsing through the web site today in order to find the instructions for sponsoring a bugfix/feature, but it looks gone. Is sponsoring features no longer an option? Cheers, -- Arvid ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Skips in lyricsto

2007-03-11 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Mats Bengtsson ee.kth.se> writes: > If you still end up using \skip, the duration of each \skip > shouldn't matter at all, so you could just as well use > \skip 4 or whatever. That's what I do, usually in the context of a voice having different lyrics from the other voices only for a fraction of

Re: Tricks and overrides for vocal music

2007-03-02 Thread Arvid Grøtting
2007/3/3, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Arvid Grøtting wrote: > That's fine, but if I want to do that with each setting, I also need > to write a small example around it. Between a day job, a 13 months > old son, a wife, a choir and scores of scores to typeset, I don

Re: Tricks and overrides for vocal music

2007-03-02 Thread Arvid Grøtting
2007/3/3, Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 3/2/07, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trevor Bača wrote: > > On 3/2/07, Arvid Grøtting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> That's it for tricks currently in use, I think. This is with 2.11.20

Tricks and overrides for vocal music (was: Re: Spacing issues)

2007-03-02 Thread Arvid Grøtting
David Feuer gmail.com> writes: > > \override DynamicText #'X-offset = #-2 > > Ooh! Neat! For some reason, this only seems to work for some of the > dynamics. They all move to the left, but only some of them move down. Yes; it all depends on whether LilyPond thinks they'll fit. > Is the

Re: Spacing issues

2007-03-01 Thread Arvid Grøtting
David Feuer gmail.com> writes: > I should mention that I wouldn't mind shifting the dynamics down and > left to get them out of the way and let the lyrics move down, but I > couldn't figure out how to make that happen. I've started using \override DynamicText #'X-offset = #-2 in vocal piec

Re: Automatic stretching (was: Re: Wrong Type Argument 2.0)

2007-02-19 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Arvid Grøtting gmail.com> writes: > Do you want a minimal-example bug report about this, or (failing that) a > real-life-example bug report? Never mind; this has already been reported (by someone else). -- Arvid ___ lilypond-use

Automatic stretching (was: Re: Wrong Type Argument 2.0)

2007-02-19 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Joe Neeman gmail.com> writes: > Note, though, that the latest development versions will stretch the systems > without needing a second pass. So I've noticed. I'm not sure it always stretches in a suitable place, though; I've tried some vocal scores where the stretching was done between a staff

Re: two-pass line/page breaking and lilypond-book -- example/docs?

2006-12-30 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Graham Percival gmail.com> writes: > I understand even less about the two-pass stuff. :-) I looked again yesterday, and either I didn't look very well last time or someone has written something. I also looked a bit in the code, now that I knew what to look for. I'm not sure it works the way I

Re: page layout

2006-12-29 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Matevž Jekovec gmail.com> writes: > I'd like to have the first page introductory one (title, author, lyrics, > its translation etc.) and the next pages the score itself. I'm using > \book for this but I can't force the very first staff to be on the > second page - it's always on the first one, a

two-pass line/page breaking and lilypond-book -- example/docs?

2006-12-15 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Hi! I was browsing through the 2.11.2 docs today looking for documentation for two-pass line/page breaking. Unfortunately, all I found was a reference to a regression test that I didn't quite understand. What I'd like to do is take the line breaks from a score processed with optimal-page-breaks

Re: tie attached on left side

2006-12-07 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Graham Percival gmail.com> writes: > Lilypond now produces binary eps files. See > http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=157 I get errors from lilypond-book now, possibly because I haven't updated the included files, but the BoundingBox is in the text-format header. The ugly sed t

Re: tie attached on left side

2006-12-07 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Laura Conrad laymusic.org> writes: > There's a more important problem (to me) that appeared in 2.9.23, so > I'm not updating until somebody fixes or finds a good workaround for > the lilypond-book staff alignment problem. Mine's stopped working, then? (I haven't checked.) Oh, well; it was an u

Customizing the footer with information from the current score -- possible?

2006-12-04 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Hi, I have several multi-score "\book"s that I want to typeset, and ideally I'd like to do this from within Lilypond (and not with lilypond-book) to take advantage of the new line/page breaking (and to keep my tool-chain as short as possible). Now, I know how to include a full header for each pie

Re: DynamicLineSpanner padding

2006-12-04 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Trevor Bača gmail.com> writes: > (I personally think that at least dynamics should exhibit baseline > alignment by default, but at least there's an easy workaround with > definitions like those above.) Any text that aligns horisontally, should align on the baseline. For latin scripts at least.

Re: Tutorial

2006-11-29 Thread Arvid Grøtting
James E. Bailey mac.com> writes: > > I'm having some difficulty with the Metronome_Mark_engraver. I've successfully > hidden it, but the notes > are spaced around it so there's some odd spacing. I'm wondering it's possible > to remove the metronome mark altogether. Sure! In the \layout block,

Re: Numbering exercises; overriding defaults; points for clefs.

2006-11-29 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Manuel limay.de> writes: > I take a different view on this matter. I think that painting was the > first way of writing, letters being a later development. The first > attempts to typesetting music were clumsy indeed, but even now, when > typeset music is quite good, no printed score can eq

Re: Multiple sections in ChoirStaff

2006-11-27 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Geoff Horton gmail.com> writes: > > Also, can someone please explain > > the significance of the "{ s1 }" in the "\new Lyrics" lines? I cannot > > find any reference to this anywhere in the manual. > > That's one way I know this isn't my template--I am really not fond of > setting up parts that

Re: Manual engraving video

2006-11-22 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Johan Vromans squirrel.nl> writes: > Lilypond produces PostScript (or PDF) which means it has infinite > sharpness. It is the reproduction device that controls how the result > looks. If you use a professional quality printer the result will be > splendid. Maybe you can contact a real printer (n

Re: Manual engraving video

2006-11-22 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Erik Sandberg gmail.com> writes: > The fact that they chose to switch to computer-engraving doesn't contradict > that hand-engraving is far better; [...] True. On the other hand, hand-engraved doesn't always mean better. I've seen, sung from and copied hand-engraved scores (or photocopies the

Re: which language for programming

2006-11-22 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Jean-marc LEGRAND total.com> writes: > > > hi all ! > > I'm trying to choose a language to learn programming. i know, it depends en what I want dto do with > it : but I don't have particular project on my table. > > So I was wondering if a good idea wouldn't be to use the same language as lil

Re: Manual engraving video

2006-11-22 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Joseph Haig gmail.com> writes: > Note the second comment: "It will be a long time before this beautiful > process can be replicated by computers." Erm ... It took Henle three years, from the video was made in 1997 until they stopped hand-engraving in 2000. Three years should not be a long time

Re: Crazy idea: point-and-click for PDF end-users?

2006-11-17 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Graham Percival gmail.com> writes: > For the user interface, I suggest looking at lilypondtool. Actually, I was thinking of finding a way of using the PDF as the user interface, here. The trick would be to find a way to allow users to annotate the PDF and send the annotated file back to me, us

Crazy idea: point-and-click for PDF end-users?

2006-11-17 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Point-and-click is great for those corrections I do myself to a piece, but quite often someone else will notice a typo only after I've posted a PDF for download. Does anyone know of a way to hack point-and-click to do some way of point-and-annotate? What I'm thinking of is a function that if you

Re: Stupid resolution questions

2006-11-16 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Rick Hansen (aka RickH windcrestsoftware.com> writes: > IOW do I need to do one last compile of my lily work to produce a > "pre-press" PDF using some option flag I am not aware of ? Otherwise I will > tell the shop to select their highest resolution, is this enough? Am I > forgetting anything?

Re: lilypond-book shifts music right relative to text

2006-10-16 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Laura Conrad laymusic.org> writes: > lilypond-book knows whether it's setting complete lines or only > snippets. I'm not entirely sure it does (Lilypond obviously does), but if it doesn't, an option to the lilypond-book commands (either in the .lytex file or on the command line) could tell lily

Re: lilypond-book shifts music right relative to text

2006-10-12 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Laura Conrad laymusic.org> writes: > Has anyone figured out a way around this? A workaround, yes: For each EPS file, between running lilypond-book and tex, replace the first (and negative) number in the BoundingBox comment with 0. On Unix (including Mac), you could do this step thus: sed

Re: Two lyrics extender problems

2006-09-30 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Holly Briscoe earthlink.net> writes: > Problem 1: > In measure 29, the men sing "thee" and hold it for two measures. > But the extender line continues until meas 37. Try replacing the first \skip with "" or _. -- Arvid ___ lilypond-user mailin

Re: VOCAL Cue Note Problems

2006-09-27 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Mats Bengtsson ee.kth.se> writes: > See the NEWS for version 2.8 or the section on "Objects connected to the > input" in the latest manual for version 2.9. Ah; I thought I'd seen it somewhere. ...will make the lower a smaller, then. Thanks! -- Arvid _

Re: VOCAL Cue Note Problems

2006-09-27 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Holly Briscoe earthlink.net> writes: > The cue notes discussed in section 8.3.4 of version 2.8.6 of > the manual aren't exactly what I'm dealing with. The cue notes > I need are in the vocal parts, where an optional note is > printed in case the choir has enough voices to cover more than > the fo

Re: "Alla breve" music function

2006-09-26 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Markus Schneider hotmail.com> writes: > > Hello list, > > I'm looking for a function that doubles every duration. > > Here's a short example: > > Turn { c1 c2 c4 c16 c16 c16 c16 } > into { c1 ~ c1 c1 c2 c8 c8 c8 c8 } > > I digged around, but I think this is still beyond my limited s

Re: Can't get soprano lyric above staff

2006-09-23 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Holly Briscoe earthlink.net> writes: > \new Lyrics = "sopranoWords" { s1 } % this line puts the "thee" [...] > \new Staff = women << > \new Voice = "women" { << \womenMusic >> } > >> > \new Lyrics = "women" { s1 } > \new Lyrics = "altoWords

Re: Tip/Trick: elision between lyric syllables

2006-09-09 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Mats Bengtsson ee.kth.se> writes: > Isn't it strange that there isn't any relevant symbol defined in Unicode > that can be used directly, without having to move it around. Depends on how much of a perfectionist you are. I've used the Unicode "undertie" character ("‿") directly in a score, and

Re: Vocal Lyric Placement?

2005-12-04 Thread Arvid Grøtting
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Gianluca D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alle 23:06, venerdì 2 dicembre 2005, Ian Hawthorn ha scritto: > > > I can tell you that what you are asking is a hard problem, so don't get > > your hopes up that there is an easy answer. > > The answer is quite easy,

Re: finale2ly hbe2ly

2004-12-13 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Némo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For finale you can use this one : etf2ly. > I never used it, [...] I have used it (quite a while ago, but the script hasn't been maintained much, I think), so I can comment a bit further: - etf2ly has[1] problems with empty measures, in a voice/staff, at the

Re: Barbershop Quartet / TTBB template ready for your critique

2004-10-24 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Arvid Grøtting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm afraid it's at home and I'm at work at the moment; I'll try to > remember posting it, but please remind me if I seem to have forgotten, > OK? Here it is. Not quite perfect yet, I'm afraid. -=-=-=->8 cu

Re: Barbershop Quartet / TTBB template ready for your critique

2004-10-22 Thread Arvid Grøtting
"Peter B. Steiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Singers, please take a look at it and tell me where it needs > improvement. Arvid, you mentioned working on a TTBB template; I would > especially like to see yours (meaning: steal all your good ideas to put > in mine). I'm afraid it's at home and

Re: Little problem with lilypond (Modified by Maurits Lamers)

2004-10-21 Thread Arvid Grøtting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Musically [lyrics] are a part of one staff. IMHO, in the general case they belong to a voice, not to a staff. In some "special cases" (actually, in some very common cases), e.g. one voice per staff or the same rythm in all voices on a staff, this is equivalent to thei

Re: How do you handle lyrics for 2nd, 3rd, etc verses to a song?

2004-10-18 Thread Arvid Grøtting
"James Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. Putting together some music for a choir I've just joined, and I'm having > trouble figuring out where the lyrics for the 2nd, 3rd, etc verses go. > Normally for songs I see music that just has the lyrics for the first verse > next to the notes, and t

Re: Spacing Dynamics

2004-10-14 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What version of LilyPond do you use (always tell, when you send questions > to the mailing list)? > > If the forte and the crescendo overlap, I would consider it a bug. At least in 1.6, 2.0 and 2.2.1, those being the versions I've used the most, as far

Re: shared rests between voice parts?

2004-09-30 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Nicolas Sceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've just typeset a score with the same issue: 4 french horns on two > staves, with several common rests on each staff. I ended up using the > following workaround: a third voice per staff, with the common rests, > and using skips in the horns parts. T

Re: shared rests between voice parts?

2004-09-30 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> No, there's splitInterval just for that. > > Yes, but unfortunately, that property does not work anymore with the > part combiner. So basically, i can't use the part combiner for this? Oh, well. I've put a file out[1

Re: shared rests between voice parts?

2004-09-29 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's just one application of the part combiner. OK, so the only problem is how to apply the part combiner to this case, then. I haven't found out how, yet, and I have read the fine manual in several of its incantations. Assuming I have \sopMusic

Re: shared rests between voice parts?

2004-09-29 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Robinson P. Tryon writes: > >> I'm typesetting a book of college songs and came across some parts >> where two voices are on a single staff and share rests. > > That sounds like a job for \partcombine, see input/test/hymn.ly Won't that give a single

Re: alternate lyrics + multiple strophes

2004-09-18 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, I don't understand your problems with \skip, see the following > version of your example: I don't get \skip to play nicely with \lyricsto in 2.2.1, though. Is this something that's been fixed later? -- Arvid

Re: Large time signatures

2004-09-07 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Kim Bastin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, I could give "scores" of examples, but I'm not sure what pieces > or editions you can conveniently consult. Anyway, here are a few from > one pile of music on my shelves: > > Schoenberg: Klavierstück Op. 33a, Universal-Edition Nr. 9773 > Schoenberg: K

Re: lyrics: multiple words to one note?

2004-08-31 Thread Arvid Grøtting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robinson P. Tryon 03) writes: > I'm typesetting my college's alma mater (copy from 1908 :-), and I'm > facing a little problem with the lyrics. > > The piece is for TTBB + Piano, and there are three stanzas of lyrics > between a treble and bass clef (tenors and basses). Ah, TTB

Re: Methods of working

2004-06-25 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> A not-too-complicated 4-voice TTBB piece with lyrics usually enters at >> about 2 hours a page for me, at the moment. > > The numbers that I hear surpise me much. For (admittedly: simple) > polyphonic pieces (eg. mozart,

Re: Methods of working

2004-06-25 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems that not much people use Xdvi and point-and-click, not even > emacs users? Xdvi and what, exactly? Now you really got me curious. Me, I use GNU Emacs (under X11 on OSX) and xdvi. I use lilypond-mode in Emacs, and I compile the files from

Re: 2 Qns again

2004-06-14 Thread Arvid Grøtting
"Joshua Koo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perphaps this works > r4-\markup { \bold{ \large { \italic {"[" \dynamic "f" "]" }}} } > But I find this funny. Any ideas? Looks a lot like the way I do things; I'll often do stuff like: c4-\markup{\italic{\dynamic{p} dolce}} Only trouble is, Lilyp

Re: Volta brackets and chaord symbols

2004-06-10 Thread Arvid Grøtting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Scharkowski) writes: > I have a chord symbol above the first note in a volta bracket. > This chord symbol collides with the bracket. Is it possible to move a > single chord symbol? In my humble opinion, this is but a symptom of a more general, underlying bug: Symbols t

Re: strange error in converted file

2004-06-03 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Arvid Grøtting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've run across a strange error in a file converted from 1.6.9 to > 2.2.1. Never mind; it was in a context redefinition (to get midi from voice contexts) that I don't need

strange error in converted file

2004-06-03 Thread Arvid Grøtting
I've run across a strange error in a file converted from 1.6.9 to 2.2.1. The compilation ends like this: warning: can't find ascii character: 229 warning: can't find ascii character: 228 warning: can't find ascii character: 229 [3][6][9][12][15][18][21][24][27][30][33][36][39][42][45][48][51][54]

Re: emacs and lilypond on OS X

2004-06-03 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was hoping to maybe get a little help: I can't seem to get emacs to > do all they indenting, highlighting, etc. with lilypond. I'm on OS X, > panther, and I have installed lily 2.2.2 with fink. I have tried > installing a new version of emacs using fink, I'

Re: First impressions (Was: Rolls and Ruffs)

2004-05-26 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Peter Mogensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >- Ideally you should only write each peace of information 1 > time. However, there's as far as I can see no silver bullet to do > this with LilyPond. If I want "Da CAPO al FINE" (I do), where should > I write it so it's only written on

Re: Some questions from a novice

2004-05-24 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - It's also a good habit to write one bar per line in the input >file. This is often cited as a good habit, but it's one I always break these days. Me, I prefer writing one line of the original manuscript per line in the input file; that way, I ge

Re: weird output: doubled full-measure rests

2004-05-14 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems to be a bug, yes. But there is no longer any developer > working on the 2.0 series, so it will most probably not be > fixed. For reasons like this, I strongly recommend you to switch to > 2.2 asap. I'll do that as soon as I get to the P in ASAP

Re: weird output: doubled full-measure rests

2004-05-13 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> [1] >> [2] > > I'm sorry, but these links are broken. (404 error) My mistake. Here:

weird output: doubled full-measure rests

2004-05-13 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Version: 2.0.1, on MacOS X/Fink I'm totally confused now. The Lilpond file at [1] gives me some strange output: for some reason, the first full-measure rests in one of the voices get doubled and reappear in the next measure, superimposed on the actual music. That is: R2 | g8\p->-. f8-. d8-.

Re: Scandinavian letters in lyrics and text markup

2004-04-19 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Oddgeir Finstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > An example .ly file with Scandinavian lyrics would probably be the > easiest way out for me. Or maybe a table with instructions of how to > type the actual letters? Or some relevant pointers? The absolutely simplest way of entering Scandinavian lyrics

Re: From Hair-cutter

2004-03-01 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Vally an Leon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Stop that nonsense! You are (most probably) talking to a virus. I'm afraid it won't listen. -- Arvid ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Repeating title

2004-01-15 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is what I'm trying to do (I have two score blocks) but the title > appears only one time. Ah, right. You might have to have the score blocks in separate files (and \include the music file itself). -- Arvid

Re: Repeating title

2004-01-15 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Alberto Simoes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all. > For typesetting four hand music I would like to repeat the title info on > primo and second staves. Is this possible (and how) with lilypond? I'm just guessing here, and I'm not a piano player at all, but wouldn't it be reasonable to view the

Re: 6/4 rests

2004-01-02 Thread Arvid Grøtting
John Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > r1 is a rest of length 1 (= 4/4), but you want 6/4. > > Try R4*6 for a single rest which fills the measure. Or simply "R1." -- Arvid ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/m

Re: staff spacing

2003-11-14 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When you have a score line with empty lyrics, it is removed completely > meaning that it doesn't occupy any space. Alas, this seems (to me) not to work when the lyrics aren't "empty" as much as they are _s or ""s (using \addlyrics) in a voice that just

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