Re: lilypond in lyx

2007-05-01 Thread Bernard Hurley
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 22:34 +0100, Damian leGassick wrote: > hi bernard > > that's what i thought...so it's not really a feature-add at all is it? > Not really, but it may be just the start. > i thought about a script, but i reckon the amount of time it would > save me is about one millionth o

Automatic note splitting and line breaks - version 2.11.22

2007-04-30 Thread Bernard Hurley
Hi all, According to the documentation on Automatic note splitting: If you want to allow line breaking on the bar lines where Completion_heads_engraver splits notes, you must also remove Forbid_line_breaks_engraver. I take this to mean that the following code should generate tow bars with a line

Re: removing tags

2007-04-30 Thread Bernard Hurley
Thanks, /Bernard On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 13:44 +, Michael Lauer wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Is there any way of removing tags from music? > > You can write a music function to do it: > ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org htt

Re: Line breaks and glissandos in \version "2.11.22"

2007-04-29 Thread Bernard Hurley
Sorry, I've found the answer in the manual - I must be getting tired! On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 01:40 +0100, Bernard Hurley wrote: > Hi, > > After processing following code: > > === > { > \time 4/4 > r2 d''2\glissando > \break > c

Line breaks and glissandos in \version "2.11.22"

2007-04-29 Thread Bernard Hurley
Hi, After processing following code: === { \time 4/4 r2 d''2\glissando \break c''2 r2 } === there is no break between the two bars. I have a score with _lots_ of glissandi accross bar lines. I need to be able to force line breaks. How do I do it? I have tried: ==

Re: lilypond in lyx

2007-04-29 Thread Bernard Hurley
Bernard On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 15:57 +0100, Damian leGassick wrote: > thanks bernard > > > i think i asked the wrong question > > > do you know how to use ly'x new lilypond convertors in-place instead > of using eps files? > > > cheers > > > da

Re: removing tags

2007-04-29 Thread Bernard Hurley
Maybe this has something to do the order in which things are done. If \keepWithTag #'B is applied first and it is applied recursively to subexpressions of \three then the note b'' would be deleted. Bernard On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 20:34 +0100, Bernard Hurley wrote: > Hi all, >

removing tags

2007-04-29 Thread Bernard Hurley
Hi all, Is there any way of removing tags from music? For instance naively one might expect: = one= {a'' \tag #'A b'' c'' \tag #'C f''} two = {\keepWithTag #'A \one } three = { \tag #'B \two \tag #'E a'' } { d'' \keepWithTag #'B \three } === to display

Re: lilypond in lyx

2007-04-29 Thread Bernard Hurley
You can get lilypond to produce eps files and load these into lyx by hand. You will have to be careful about things like page lengths so you don't collide with lyx footers etc. /Bernard On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 17:47 +0100, Damian leGassick wrote: > is anyone using lyx 1.4.4 or 1.5.0b successfully

Re: changing time signatures

2007-04-27 Thread Bernard Hurley
*5 \time 3/8 \skip 4.*9 > ... > } > > For the parts: > > \score{ > \new Staff << \timesignatures \theactualmusic >> > } > > For the full score: > > \score{ > << > ... > \new TimeSig \timesignatures > ... > &g

changing time signatures

2007-04-26 Thread Bernard Hurley
Hi all, I am about to start typesetting a score with lots of changing time signatures. I want to do the following: 1) In the conductor's score I want the time signatures to appear on an invisible staff in the manner of time-signature-staff.ly from "Tips and Tricks". 2) When extracting individual

Re: \override VerticalAlignment #'forced-distance in version 2.11.15

2007-04-25 Thread Bernard Hurley
ts. > > /Mats > > Bernard Hurley wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just to clarify this, VerticalAlignment no longer has the property > > forced-distance in v 2.11. The lilypond score I am processing was > > written by a relative who unfortunately died last yea

Re: \override VerticalAlignment #'forced-distance in version 2.11.15

2007-04-24 Thread Bernard Hurley
struggle as it didn't have a \version tag and I had to use convert-ly several times before I got it to work. Bernard On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 18:55 +0100, Bernard Hurley wrote: > Hi all, > > What is the equivalent of: > > \context { > \PianoStaff > \

\override VerticalAlignment #'forced-distance in version 2.11.15

2007-04-24 Thread Bernard Hurley
Hi all, What is the equivalent of: \context { \PianoStaff \override VerticalAlignment #'forced-distance = #9 } in version 2.11.15? Thanks, Bernard ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailma

What is the header "texttranslator" for

2006-01-03 Thread Bernard Hurley
Hi all, The header field "texttranslator" is mentioned in the Lilypond documentation for version 2.7.27 but doesn't seem to do anything! -- Bernard Hurley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Extracting header fields for use by e.g. LaTeX?

2005-12-01 Thread Bernard Hurley
I like the -H option as well -- it will greatly simplify invocation > > for this case, and cases like it. > > > > On Nov 30, 2005, at 7:08 AM, Bernard Hurley wrote: > > > >> I have thought of a better way of doing this: > >> > >> modify \lilypo

Re: Extracting header fields for use by e.g. LaTeX?

2005-11-30 Thread Bernard Hurley
the next two weeks. It might also be a good idea if lilypond-book could take a -H option that would then be passed on to lilypond. -- Bernard Hurley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/m

Re: Extracting header fields for use by e.g. LaTeX?

2005-11-27 Thread Bernard Hurley
ighted to test the patch. > Thanks, I have been working with 2.7.x, but I don't think lilypond-book has changed much so I'll see what I can do! > -- Bernard Hurley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Extracting header fields for use by e.g. LaTeX?

2005-11-27 Thread Bernard Hurley
mmand {\preLilyPondExample}[1]{\section {\protect\input #1.title }} and then \lilypondfile {song1} \lilypondfile {song2} \lilypondfile {songn} Bernard On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 18:19 -0500, Laura Conrad wrote: > >>>>> "BH" == Bernard Hurley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: Extracting header fields for use by e.g. LaTeX?

2005-11-27 Thread Bernard Hurley
\header { title="The test title" composer="Bernard Hurley" } {a b c} and run: lilypond-book --psfonts --process="lilypond -b eps -H title " test.lytex you get a file called something like: lily-1915112629.title which contains the text of th

Re: Extracting header fields for use by e.g. LaTeX?

2005-11-27 Thread Bernard Hurley
ok --process="lilypond -H title" .... > > -- Bernard Hurley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Extracting header fields for use by e.g. LaTeX?

2005-11-27 Thread Bernard Hurley
time when it did - it probably still does if you use the tex backend. But lilypond-book now uses the eps backend. -- Bernard Hurley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Extracting header fields for use by e.g. LaTeX?

2005-11-27 Thread Bernard Hurley
t; The other problem with that solution is that it doesn't allow for the > placement of a song number beside the title -- think of the typical > layout of a hymnal. > > So I really do need to figure out how to get lilypond to leave the > titling to LaTeX,

Re: Extracting header fields for use by e.g. LaTeX?

2005-11-26 Thread Bernard Hurley
a TOC. Bernard > Is that possible to accomplish with the current header handling > mechanisms and lilypond-book? What would the rough outline look like? > > Thanks. > -- Bernard Hurley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ lilypond-user

Integration with LyX was: Re: Newbie needs help with LaTeX/lilypond integration

2005-11-26 Thread Bernard Hurley
For some reason I always seem to return to > Emacs :) > > Josiah > -- Bernard Hurley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> README (c) Copyright 2005 Bernard Hurley License: GNU General Public License Version 2 or later Make sure you have read and understood this file before proceeding!

Re: D.C. al Coda?

2005-11-24 Thread Bernard Hurley
On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 00:48 -0600, S L Raymond wrote: > I'm running Ubuntu Breezy and for some reason, even after apt-get > update, 2.2 is the latest version it will fetch. You probably have apt set up so that it only knows about Debian stable packages. The latest version in Debian stable is 2.2.6

Re: Newbie needs help with LaTeX/lilypond integration

2005-11-22 Thread Bernard Hurley
functioning lilypond-book. All this said: can you recommend a LaTeX > > implementation and/or a GUI for Windows that will work well with > > lilypond? If not, I can handle taking the PDF route – I would simply > > prefer a different one. > > > > > > > > Again, thank you fo

Re: Is it possible to get lilypond to generate a lilypond source file?

2005-11-21 Thread Bernard Hurley
Thanks, for some reason I didn't see this thread when I was looking to see if there was any posts on this subject. Bernard On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 07:42 +1100, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: > I suggested something similar (my original message isn't there, but it's > referenced at > http://lists.gnu.org/

Re: Is it possible to get lilypond to generate a lilypond source file?

2005-11-21 Thread Bernard Hurley
s, Bernard On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 11:00 +, Bernard Hurley wrote: > I think it ought to be possible to write a .ly file containing guile > code that makes lilypond do the following: > > 1) Read another .ly file > 2) parse that file > 3) convert the r

Is it possible to get lilypond to generate a lilypond source file?

2005-11-21 Thread Bernard Hurley
'm sure it ought to be possible. Thanks Bernard -- Bernard Hurley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Limit on lilypond-book

2005-05-14 Thread Bernard Hurley
help me. > ___ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user -- Bernard Hurley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: dot following barline

2005-05-11 Thread Bernard Hurley
nsurstriche editions, and the later > > Dowland facsimiles that I'm transcribing these days do it as well. > > > > I mean a case like: > > > > \time 4/4 > > a4 b4 c4 d4. | e8 > > > > It would be good to be able to tell lilypond that the d notehe

Re: multiple tempi

2005-05-08 Thread Bernard Hurley
Yes this is can be done. See section 8.5.1 Polymetric notation of the ver 2.5 manual for some simple examples /Bernard James wrote: > hello list. > > I am new to lilypond, and cant really use it well yet. I have used other > software in the past, but recently I have not found them to b

Re: multi-part piece: output for separate parts

2005-05-05 Thread Bernard Hurley
See section 2.19 of the user manual /Bernard benoit farley wrote: > Hello, > > I have a piece of music for 4 harps, and I would like to know how to > produce outputs > for each separate part: one output set of files (pdf, ps, etc.) for > Harp 1, > another set for Harp2, etc. ___

Re: 2.5 in debian?

2005-04-28 Thread Bernard Hurley
No, not at all. Firstly I said what I had done not what you should do. I did not do this because I cannot run "make uninstall" but because I tend to be somewhat paranoid about these things and don't necessarily assume that either "make install" or "make uninstall" will actually do what I expect, a

Re: 2.5 in debian?

2005-04-28 Thread Bernard Hurley
Graham Percival wrote: > > 1) Create a new user ( called it "invisible" but coul be anything) for > > installing lily locally > > You don't need to be a new user. > No, you don't, but a lot of Debian users get pretty good at installing/de-installing Debian packages, but never install anything

Re: 2.5 in debian?

2005-04-28 Thread Bernard Hurley
napshot"? > > Josiah > > > _______ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > -- Bernard Hurley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Notes in Key Sig

2005-04-25 Thread Bernard Hurley
I had started looking at the idea of a "lilypond code" backend that would output lilypond source code with repeats unwrapped, transpositions done etc. I don't know when (or if) I will have produced anything useful. /Bernard On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 01:48 +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Op m

Re: Solfeggio

2005-04-24 Thread Bernard Hurley
I guess its partly a matter of what you use Lilypond for. If you are basically encoding music that has already been written then It may well be easiest to use relative entry. However I have a large number of lilypond scores that are "works in progress" - pieces I am writing. These are revised/edite

Re: Solfeggio

2005-04-24 Thread Bernard Hurley
Nicolas Sceaux wrote: > We could use the LilyPond compiler to read a (part of a) file, make > some transformation (relative->absolute, transposition) and then > output the result. That would require to define functions that can > print music expressions. For most common tasks, only notes/skips/res

Re: Solfeggio (was:)Notes in Key Sig

2005-04-23 Thread Bernard Hurley
I can see that a solfeggio notation might be useful. as for you remarks on relative pitch information. Some people may find it easier to enter the pitches in this way but it makes the score almost impossible to edit afterwards. NoteEdit exports lilypond scores in this format and the first thing I d

Re: Notes in Key Sig

2005-04-23 Thread Bernard Hurley
I think one of the nice things about lilypond is that it allows you to separate data from presentation. For instance the third note of your example is C sharp. This is normally represented by cis' in a lilypond score i.e. as data representing a particular note. How it appears in the final printed s

Re: Notes in Key Sig

2005-04-23 Thread Bernard Hurley
Would there be any mileage in "contributed" scripts being distributed with Lily. Making sure they work, are documented and compatible with the current version is the author's responsibility, but they would be distributed under the GPL, as is the rest of Lily. I suppose it would mean someone would h

Re: A slash through a group of grace notes

2005-04-22 Thread Bernard Hurley
Mats Bengtsson wrote: > No, but there was a similar request on the mailing list some month ago. > > /Mats > Thanks, but how come I can see you reply on the list but not my original post? /Bernard ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.

Re: Continuous rasgueado

2005-04-22 Thread Bernard Hurley
Yes I did look at this, but it is discussing an arpeggio with an arrow head; I also wanted tremolo strokes through the arpeggio symbol. /Bernard Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Have you seen > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2004-04/msg00146.html > > /Mats > > Be

A slash through a group of grace notes

2005-04-22 Thread Bernard Hurley
In some Boulez score, a single slash is drawn through a group of grace note (usually a beamed set of quavers). Does anyone have any idea how to do this? /Bernard ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinf

Continuous rasgueado

2005-04-22 Thread Bernard Hurley
Some composers (e.g. Francis Miroglio) use an arpeggio symbol with a tremolo symbol superimposed on it to indicate a continuous rasgueado roll on the guitar. How could I do this? /Bernard ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lis

Re: time signature in parantheses?

2005-04-22 Thread Bernard Hurley
Ron Piterman wrote: > Hi, > Can I put the time signature in paratheses? > Cheers, > Ron > > You could try using the trick in stencil-hacking.ly in the regression tests. /Bernard ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.

Re: subsubsection lilypondfile

2005-04-21 Thread Bernard Hurley
Mats Bengtsson wrote: I understood the request to mean you could have something like: 2.3.4 Title 1 section body 1 2.3.5 Music 2.3.6 Title 2 section body 2 So in effect you have text sections - with titles and music sections that have no title but where the score starts on the sa

Re: subsubsection lilypondfile

2005-04-21 Thread Bernard Hurley
Mats Bengtsson wrote: > > On the other hand, why would you ever want a multi-line score > in a section title? > > I had understood the request was to get the sort of formatting you get in some editions of Bach chorales where numbers appear to the left of the first line of scores. But with the

Re: subsubsection lilypondfile

2005-04-21 Thread Bernard Hurley
; All it would take is to start the lilypond file immediately after the > > [sub]section number. It would be helpful if every example had a > > reference number in the docs, IMO. daveA > > > -- Bernard Hurley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: subsubsection lilypondfile

2005-04-20 Thread Bernard Hurley
after the > [sub]section number. It would be helpful if every example had a > reference number in the docs, IMO. daveA > -- Bernard Hurley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: textscript at start of bar, and hiding skipped bars?

2005-04-18 Thread Bernard Hurley
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 18:56 -0300, Jonatan Liljedahl wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:43:54 +0200 > Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>That's the purpose of the \mark command. > > >> > > >> /Mats > > >> > > >> Jonatan Liljedahl wrote: > > >> > Is it possible to put markup text ab

Re: Powerchords

2005-04-17 Thread Bernard Hurley
> A question I can't seem to find the answer to in the manual or online: > Is it possible to represent powerchords, i.e. those consisting of only a > root note and fifth, in the ChordNames notation? I havn't come across the term "powerchord" before. I would normally refer to them as "bare fift

Re: instrument name padding

2005-04-16 Thread Bernard Hurley
#x27;t figure out how to do this! > > Lilypond 2.5.18 > > /Jonatan-=( http://kymatica.com )=- > > > ___ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > -- Berna

Re: Noteheads - harmonic

2005-04-11 Thread Bernard Hurley
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 11:06 +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > I've never seen harmonics notated with black note heads, > could you mention some examples where it's used? > >/Mats > This is actually quite a common way to notate harmonics in Classical Guitar, together with a number to indicate wh

RE: two bugs (?)

2002-07-11 Thread Bernard Hurley
MIDI devices,   and connect them together  in wierd and wonderful ways.   I haven't used  it for  a  long  time  so  I can't  say much about  how well  it  works. Bernard -Original Message- From: David Raleigh Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 July 2002 15:06 To: Bern

RE: two bugs (?)

2002-07-10 Thread Bernard Hurley
Title: RE: two bugs (?) The situation is a bit more complex than that.  As far as I can recall (I wrote the embedded code for a midi interface many moons ago): 1) A midi channel can only have one instrument at a time assigned to it, but it is possible to change instruments.  2) A midi chann

RE: lilypond-mode in Emacs on Windows

2002-07-04 Thread Bernard Hurley
Title: RE: lilypond-mode in Emacs on Windows   >> Try putting this in ylur .emacs file: >Can that be done automatically, ie, does the Emacs for Windows >configuration know the concept of a site start directory, something >like: >   /etc/emacs/site-start.d >that we could copy the lilyp

RE: sltly OT: how was sheet music printed before computers? :)

2002-07-04 Thread Bernard Hurley
Title: RE: sltly OT: how was sheet music printed before computers? :) With great difficulty. Bernard -Original Message- From: Felipe Massia Pereira To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 7/4/02 1:26 PM Subject: sltly OT: how was sheet music printed before computers? :) that's a curiosity..

RE: lilypond-mode in Emacs on Windows

2002-07-04 Thread Bernard Hurley
Title: RE: lilypond-mode in Emacs on Windows Hi, Try putting this in ylur .emacs file: (Yes the regular expression does contain 8 backslashes in a row! Bernard -- snip --- ;;; Lilypond mode (load-library "lilypond-mode.el") (setq auto-mode-alist   (append '(("\\.ly$" . LilyPond-mod

RE: lilypond-mode in Emacs on Windows

2002-07-03 Thread Bernard Hurley
Title: RE: lilypond-mode in Emacs on Windows   I've just tried running lp2dvi from within emacs on a Win 2000 platform and it worked with no problems.  (My work laptop - don't tell anybody!) I'll have a poke around my configuration to see if I can work out what you need. Of course it may be s