Vertical rest alignment

2010-02-08 Thread Bobber
My score is coming along nicely. But I am not satisfied with the positioning of the rests in the upper voice. Here is an example. The placement of the dotted half rest here just looks too high to me. How can I move it so that it is lower? % measure 16: << { r2.^\markup { \bold \

Re: String number in/out of the staff

2010-02-05 Thread Bobber
Nick Payne wrote: \override Fingering #'staff-padding = #'() % vertical fingering inside the staff \override StringNumber #'staff-padding = #'() % vertical string numbers inside the staff \override StrokeFinger #'staff-padding = #'() % vertical stroke fingering inside t

String number in/out of the staff

2010-02-04 Thread Bobber
Ok, I'm getting the hang of things a little better now. Here's a tricky measure I'm working on. It has left hand fingerings and a string number. I don't quite understand the behavior of the string number. If I designate right or left, it goes next to the note and on the staff. But if I put

Re: Community of professional LilyPond engravers?

2010-02-04 Thread Bobber
See the thread I started a couple of days ago: Lilypond vs. Score. A commercial publisher that I talked with claims that there is no product currently available which can produce the same quality of output as the Score software. Michael J. O'Donnell wrote: I am pondering offering engraving serv

Re: String number tuning

2010-02-03 Thread Bobber
hich are not within a chord construct. That is, if you want a single note fingering to go left (or right or down), you'll have to put it into chord braces -- 4 rather than b4-1 (that trips up a lot of new users when they start modifying fingering placements). Have fun, David Bobber wro

String number tuning

2010-02-03 Thread Bobber
I would like to have more control over where string numbers, left hand fingerings and right hand fingers are placed. I mean putting them below a note, to the side or above. Is this possible? -- Bob Wooldridge Blog: http://kc0dxf.net/blog/ ___ li

Re: String number collision

2010-02-03 Thread Bobber
David Stocker wrote: Greetings. Your example works as is in 2.13.11, with the string number indications appearing above the beams of the notes. I'm using the 2.12 stable branch. Is 2.13.11 mostly usable? -- Bob Wooldridge Blog: http://kc0dxf.net/blog/ _

String number collision

2010-02-02 Thread Bobber
I'm engraving some guitar music. It's polyphonic on one staff. In one measure I am indicating string numbers. The numbers are colliding with the upper voice. Here's the measure where it's happening: % measure 20: << { r8 8 8 c'8 e'4 } \\ { c2. } >> The eight n

Re: Lilypond vs Score

2010-02-02 Thread Bobber
On 02/02/2010 04:15 AM, Valentin Villenave wrote: As far as I'm concerned: LilyPond is Free Software, Score is not. Period. Yes, I agree. However, one of the claims made in the discussion was that publishers can work with a Finale file and convert it to work with Score but this is not poss

Re: Lilypond vs Score

2010-02-01 Thread Bobber
Graham Percival wrote: Score can do stuff like having the staves in a spiral. Think of George Crumb -- if he used any computer engraver, it would be score. Score is also not free: it's not open source, and IIRC it costs $500 or more. I only saw it briefly a few years ago. I think our fonts ar

Lilypond vs Score

2010-02-01 Thread Bobber
I have been having a discussion with a small publisher who uses the music manuscript program called Score. He says that neither Lilypond or Finale can produce engraving that is comparable to Score. And that most of the major music publishers in the world use Score. Is anyone familiar with Sc