Re: website draft 4, help wanted

2009-07-08 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 7/8/09 6:27 PM, "Graham Percival" wrote: > > Now for *my* rant. > > As I've said before, I stopped using lilypond 4-5 years ago. Last > Fall, I briefly got back into improving the engraving of my old > compositions, but that stopped when I went to Singapore. > > So why am I still around

Re: Bass clarinet fingering chart

2009-07-07 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Mike, great work! I have some comments below On 7/7/09 2:46 PM, "Mike Solomon" wrote: > Hey lilypond-users, > Before I put this on the LSR, please play around with this. > Specifically, please > > 1) Make it less sprawling. Decrease your tab settings. Follow the indentation suggestions g

Re: chordChanges true, but certain "cautionary" chordnames wanted

2009-07-07 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 7/7/09 6:44 AM, "Werner" wrote: > Hello. > > For accidentals there is the possibility to obtain them also if not needed by > adding an exclamation mark ! > > How to get a chordsymbol if \set chordChanges = ##t ? > > Is there a hint? > > (Would be nice with the exclamation mark too.) >

Re: Chordnames and added Bassnotes

2009-07-07 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 7/7/09 5:38 AM, "Werner" wrote: > Hello, > > is there a possibility to print e.g. > > F > _ > C > > instead of > > F/C > > ??? As far as I know, this is not easily done right now. The chord naming code is currently under revision; I think that it will be more easily done in the futu

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-07-02 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 7/2/09 1:41 AM, "Graham Percival" wrote: > On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 03:50:14PM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote: >> >> Graham Percival wrote: > "where is the gui" is unfortunately still common, but the > new website and the 10.5 GUI work should fix that. Actually, I beg to differ. Since th

Re: Header title problem or convert-ly problem

2009-06-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/25/09 2:37 PM, "Jay Hamilton" wrote: > A: I have tried over and over to follow the docs. AND I have copy and pasted > both Mats suggestions and now Simon's . > Mats has never worked. Yes the version info is in the file. No it did not > work. > Simon's suggestion, I renamed the file wit

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 79, Issue 104

2009-06-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/25/09 8:37 AM, "Hajo Dezelski" wrote: >> Possibly we should also think of >> - a better slogan? it seems to me that "Sibelius 6 - Perfect scores" >> is more attractive than "music notation for everyone." >> possibly something vaguely like: > ... >> Jan. > > > Lilypond - Keep

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/23/09 5:19 PM, "Tim McNamara" wrote: > > > On Jun 23, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > >> On 6/23/09 9:16 AM, "Grammostola Rosea" >> wrote: >> >>> Tim McNamara wrote: >>>> >>>> On Jun 15,

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/23/09 9:16 AM, "Grammostola Rosea" wrote: > Tim McNamara wrote: >> >> On Jun 15, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: >> >>> Wol et al: >>> >> Would it be reasonable to separate the functions of putting notes on >> the staff and chord names above the staff, and let the user spell

Re: subdivideBeams broken?

2009-06-21 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/21/09 4:25 PM, "Mark Polesky" wrote: > > > Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > >> By default, beatLength is the numerator of the time signature. > > Don't you mean denominator? I would call the numerator beatCount > or something. Haven't fol

Re: subdivideBeams broken?

2009-06-21 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/21/09 3:27 PM, "Hans Aberg" wrote: > Yes, beatLength will do a (2+2)+(2+1) beaming. Though this is one > possible beaming for what I am writing now, my problem is that I have > bunch of different meters. For example, I may want (2+2)+3, > (2+2)+3+(2+2) and so on. > > I have looked at the

FW: [frogs] Re: Patching the output file naming code (Was: thanks to whomever put this in the LSR...)

2009-06-21 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
I've forwarded Ian's message from the Frogs mailing list, because I don't know how to answer his question. I'm sure somebody on -devel will. Thanks, Carl -- Forwarded Message From: Ian Hulin Reply-To: Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:25:42 -0600 To: Reinhold Kainhofer , Conversation: [frogs] R

Re: subdivideBeams broken?

2009-06-21 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/21/09 9:49 AM, "Hans Aberg" wrote: > On 21 Jun 2009, at 16:47, Trevor Daniels wrote: > >> SubdivideBeams will break beams at intervals >> defined by beatLength, which by default is set >> to 1 over the denominator of the time signature. > > Yes, but this is what goes wrong, as my time s

Re: Petrucci-like spacing?

2009-06-19 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/18/09 8:45 AM, "Laura Conrad" wrote: >>>>>> "Carl" == Carl D Sorensen writes: > > Carl> Does this seem at all promising? >>> >>> Yes, but there's still the problem of extra space at the barline. I >>>

Re: RFC: new vertical layout engine

2009-06-15 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/15/09 2:37 PM, "Jonathan Kulp" wrote: > Joe Neeman wrote: >> I've started working on a new system for doing vertical layout in one >> pass (ie. positioning and stretching the systems simultaneously). This >> should give better default behaviour than the current code and it should >> also

Re: Problems regarding figured bass

2009-06-14 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/14/09 3:38 AM, "Reinhold Kainhofer" wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > I'm running into several problems with figured bass while writing another > large > orchestral piece. Attached is a sample file highlighting these issues: > > 1) How can I add a fi

Re: Petrucci-like spacing?

2009-06-13 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/8/09 6:15 PM, "Laura Conrad" wrote: >>>>>> "Carl" == Carl D Sorensen writes: > > Carl> Here's my attempt to get the spacing you're looking for. I've > Carl> done it manually, but if you like it, I think that I

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-13 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/12/09 9:10 AM, "Tim McNamara" wrote: > > > On Jun 12, 2009, at 1:28 AM, Tao Cumplido wrote: > >>> I think it's great that you did this. Have you put this on LSR? >> >> Thanks. I haven't put this on LSR yet because the function hasn't >> been much tested yet. Maybe I should have done

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-12 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/12/09 12:28 AM, "Tao Cumplido" wrote: >> I think it's great that you did this. Have you put this on LSR? > > Thanks. I haven't put this on LSR yet because the function hasn't been much > tested yet. Maybe I should have done anyway. > When the function is updated I will upload it there.

Re: Trouble with convert-ly

2009-06-11 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/11/09 4:36 PM, "Father Gordon Gilbert" wrote: > Hi Bertalan, > > Looking in jEdit plugin options, the line which shows were the program and > convert-ly are shows /usr/bin .  And Lily fires up just fine, so you'd think > convert-ly should work as well.  I did 'which convert-ly' and it sh

Re: Issues compiling multiple voice drum midi

2009-06-10 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/10/09 8:16 PM, "hendr...@umn.edu" wrote: > This issue may be too elementary for this mailing list or may have already > been addressed, however I cannot find answers in digging through the > archives and am not sure where to ask more basic questions. If I need to be > re-directed to anoth

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-10 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/10/09 2:03 AM, "Tao Cumplido" wrote: >> But as I said before, if anybody wants to create a chordname input mode >> that >> takes a root, and arbitrary name string, and an optional added bass, >> they're >> welcome to do so. > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-02/msg0

Re: translation of the doc into italian

2009-06-09 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/9/09 10:39 AM, "Federico Bruni" wrote: > Hi all, > > as far as I can see there is not an italian documentation for lilypond. > > I'd like to help with that, could you please tell me how can I contribute? > If other italians want to join, either for just proofreading or > translating als

Re: "Missing" jazz chord modifiers

2009-06-09 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/9/09 11:16 AM, "lasconic" wrote: > > > maybe bass ? > for removing third and fifth and keeping the root only? Does this mean that you'd like to have a one-note "chord"? I've never seen this before in notation (but that doesn't mean too much). If you do want a one-note chord, I'd pref

"Missing" jazz chord modifiers

2009-06-09 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
In our discussion about chord names, Jean-Alexis pointed out that we are probably missing some modifiers in our chord mode input. He pointed out one example: alt: 7.3-.5-.9-.11-.13- What are some other modifiers that should be added, in your opinion? Remember that m7b5 doesn't qualify as a modif

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-09 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/9/09 9:16 AM, "Jean-Alexis Montignies" wrote: > > You can find an example of a chord notated as 'phrygian' (well it's more a > modal indication, but that's what the composer Gary Peacock intended) in the > lead sheet for Vignette. > More arguments for using names: Alt is much more easy

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-02 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/2/09 3:55 AM, "Jean-Alexis Montignies" wrote: > Hi there, as a jazz player I would like to share my input. Thanks for sharing, Jean-Alexis. > > What I need in scores is really chord names. > The chord name denotes the intent of the composer and is much subject > to interpretation. > >

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-01 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/1/09 1:45 PM, "lasconic" wrote: > > > Hi, > Just in case it can be helpful, someone (Karl) post a pdf he wrote on > MuseScore (http://www.musescore.org) mailing list about chord name display. > Musescore is a free GPL WYSIWYG scorewriter (with lilypond export > capabilities) > Maybe it

Re: Better MIDI

2009-06-01 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/1/09 5:29 PM, "Peter Chubb" wrote: > > > Hi, > > I've put up a page on how to get more realistic sounding MIDI output > from current LilyPond, along with the scripts and scheme code used, at > http://www.nicta.com.au/people/chubbp/articulate Peter, I haven't had a chance to loo

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-01 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/1/09 8:56 PM, "Tim McNamara" wrote: > > > On Jun 1, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > >> A chordnamemode *input* mode has been proposed a couple of times. >> This mode >> would take only a root (and optionally, a slash or alternate bas

Re: Problems with Piano Staff Template

2009-06-01 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/1/09 1:38 PM, "Jonathan Kulp" wrote: > Mats Bengtsson wrote: >> >> >> Mark Austin wrote: >>> Thanks James. Works a treat now. However, this means the error is in >>> the template in the Learning Manual, since I copied it straight over. >>> >>> The first few lines of the first \score bl

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-01 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/1/09 12:50 PM, "Grammostola Rosea" wrote: > Tim McNamara wrote: >> >> On Jun 1, 2009, at 4:13 AM, Tim Rowe wrote: >> >>> 2009/6/1 Carl D. Sorensen : >>> >>>> You are welcome to pursue this, if you are interested in it. I

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-31 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/31/09 7:34 AM, "Johannes Schöpfer" wrote: > Hi, > >> As I already said some time ago when I made my own chordnames functions, I >> still believe chordnames should be seperated from chords, or at least chords >> shouldn't produce chordnames since it'll never be clear. And the other way >>

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-31 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/30/09 10:55 PM, "Brett Duncan" wrote: > Carl D. Sorensen wrote: >>> I assume that there would still have to be some means of creating >>> exceptions. If someone wants chords named mainly in the Real Book style, >>> but with minors notated sl

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-30 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/30/09 7:16 PM, "Carl D. Sorensen" wrote: > Right now we have a naming problem, separate from the display problem. If > we can get the code to recognize that we have a Ebmaj7b5, then we can figure > out how to display it in a way that the users will like. Right no

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-30 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/30/09 5:15 PM, "Brett Duncan" wrote: > Carl D. Sorensen wrote: >>>>> My currently-planned starting point for chord naming is >>>>> >>>>> http://www.dolmetsch.com/musictheory17.htm#namechords >>>>> >>>>

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-30 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/30/09 9:53 AM, "Grammostola Rosea" wrote: > Tim McNamara wrote: >> >> On May 30, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: >> >>> On 5/30/09 3:21 AM, "Brett Duncan" wrote: >>> >>>> Grammostola Rosea wrote:

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-30 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/30/09 3:21 AM, "Brett Duncan" wrote: > Grammostola Rosea wrote: >> Do we have an Jazz/pop chord expert on the list (I'm sure he/she exist)? >> And who wants to help with this? > > I don't consider myself an "expert", but after 20 years of playing with > various pop, rock and jazz groups,

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-05-29 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/29/09 9:20 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > Carl D. Sorensen schrieb: >> >> On 5/29/09 2:05 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: >> >> >>> Carl D. Sorensen schrieb: >>> >>>> [...] >>>> >>> There i

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-05-29 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/29/09 1:56 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > David Stocker schrieb: >> If I may chime in... >> >> This may just be a matter of editorial taste, but would it be possible >> to make it so the 'X' on in the Tab staff is not the musical glyph >> from Feta, but rather the character 'capital X' from th

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-29 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/29/09 6:10 AM, "Grammostola Rosea" wrote: > Hi, > > In the last months there where some questions about Jazz/pop chords. > About the notation of the default chords but also about chords with an E > in the bass, A/E, sus4 etc. > Some people even posted ways to do it right. > If I remember

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-05-29 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/29/09 2:05 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > Carl D. Sorensen schrieb: >> [...] >> >> Here's one way to do it: >> >> deadNote = >> #(define-music-function (parser location note) (ly:music?) >> (set! (ly:music-property no

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-05-28 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/28/09 6:28 PM, "David Stocker" wrote: > If I may chime in... > > This may just be a matter of editorial taste, but would it be possible > to make it so the 'X' on in the Tab staff is not the musical glyph from > Feta, but rather the character 'capital X' from the same font set being > us

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-05-28 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/28/09 7:22 AM, "Julian" wrote: >> But still not within the tablature staff >> At the moment, I don't know how to manage this. > > I found it, > > < >% Dead Note >\tweak #'stencil #ly:note-head::print >\tweak #'glyph-name #"2cross" >\tweak #'style #'special >f'\1 >

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-05-28 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/28/09 1:21 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > Carl D. Sorensen schrieb: >> [...] >> >> I think it's better to have the duplication and the ability to switch >> between \tabNumbersOnly and \tabFullNotation, than to avoid the duplication, >> and

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-05-27 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/27/09 2:50 PM, "Neil Puttock" wrote: > 2009/5/23 Marc Hohl : >> Neil Puttock schrieb: > >>> Since none of this works properly (I suspect it will require more than >>> Scheme hacking to get everything working), I don't think it's suitable >>> for inclusion. >>> >>> >> >> Hm, I guess yo

Re: Tweaking end-of-line time signature?

2009-05-27 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/26/09 4:03 PM, "Trevor Bača" wrote: > %%% BEGIN #3 PROPORTIONAL SPACING WITHOUT STRICT NOTE SPACING AND WITH  EOL > ADJUSTMENT %%% > > adjustEOLMeterBarlineExtraOffset = #(define-music-function (parser location) > () >    #{ >   #(define (foo grob) > (if (<= (ly:item-break-

Re: Confused about asterisk notation

2009-05-26 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/26/09 7:33 AM, "David Bobroff" wrote: > Brandon Olivares wrote: >> Hi, >>> One of the tracks starts with this: >> >> s16*259 16 16 16 s16 16 16 >> > > The "*" is a multiplication sign. "s16*259" means "skip (i.e. invisible > rest) a 16th note 259 times. I'd actually say it a bit diff

Re: Line lengths in NR [was Petrucci-like spacing?]

2009-05-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/25/09 4:43 PM, "Patrick McCarty" wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 03:26:42PM -0700, Patrick McCarty wrote: >> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Trevor Daniels >> wrote: It looks like a whole note but has the duration of a quarter note, when LilyPond determines the spacing.

Re: Petrucci-like spacing?

2009-05-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/25/09 10:57 AM, "Henning Plumeyer" wrote: > Am 25.05.2009, 02:13 Uhr, schrieb Carl D. Sorensen : > > There are some issues though - not with Laura's example where no bar lines > are needed. But when you want bar lines the bars are too "full". >

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-05-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/25/09 12:13 PM, "Julian" wrote: > > Hello Marc, > > Well at first, english is no my native lang, so sorry for don't speak it well. > > I'm the admin of tuxguitar (a tablature editor) project and now i'm trying to > implement some of these features to the lilypond exporter plugin. > >

Re: Petrucci-like spacing?

2009-05-24 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/24/09 8:56 AM, "Laura Conrad" wrote: > > I think so. There's a lot of stuff where modern transcribers typically > halve or even quarter the note values, and I'd prefer not to but it's > problematic with the normal lilypond spacing. (One reason it probably > became common is that the sa

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-05-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/23/09 1:09 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > Neil Puttock schrieb: >> 2009/5/22 Marc Hohl : >>> % for ties in tablature, fret numbers that are tied to should be invisible >>> % or -after a line break - put in parentheses. Since this is not (easily?) >>> % possible in lilypond, we offer three comma

Re: Should sample code in NR build correctly?

2009-05-22 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/22/09 4:25 PM, "Nick Payne" wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Patrick McCarty [mailto:pnor...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Saturday, 23 May 2009 8:15 AM >> To: Nick Payne >> Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org >> Subject: Re: Should sample code in NR build correctly? >> >> On Sat, May 23, 2009

Re: \partial at start, but want whole bar at end

2009-05-22 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/22/09 7:27 AM, "Paul Hodges" wrote: > Hi all, > > I have looked around, but I can't find anything about this in the pdf > documentation or snippets (v2.12.2): > > At the start of my piece, I have \partial for an upbeat. However, I > wish to have a full bar (a semibreve in 2/2) at the e

Re: How to achieve chord stop with ¬

2009-05-21 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/21/09 2:07 PM, "Stjepan Brbot" wrote: > > > > Carl D. Sorensen wrote: >> >> Stjepan, >> >> First, you should know that this has been fixed in the git sources and >> will >> be available in the next development release. >

Re: Complex chords

2009-05-21 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/21/09 2:54 PM, "Stjepan Brbot" wrote: > > > But this should be the whole snippet code form snippets guide, look at: > Yes, but in your file there are apparently 16 lines that come before the lines you showed in your email. The line that caused the error is line 2 in your email, and l

Re: Complex chords

2009-05-21 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/21/09 12:41 AM, "Stjepan Brbot" wrote: > > > > Tim McNamara wrote: >> >> You need to define exceptions to the way that LilyPond writes >> chords. One way is to use one of the alternative chord rendering >> methods that you can find in the snippet repository. You can put >> this into

Re: How to achieve chord stop with ¬

2009-05-21 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/21/09 1:08 AM, "Stjepan Brbot" wrote: > > > > M Watts wrote: >> >> There are at least 2 versions in UTF-8; a normal one U+00AC, and a >> full-width one U+FFE2. >> >> To use these within lilypond, do \markup { \char ##x00AC } or \markup { >> \char ##xFFE2 }. >> >> Or, if your file is

Re: missing glissando features (bugs?)

2009-05-20 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/20/09 10:41 AM, "Graham Percival" wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:19:47AM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: >> > > Nonsense. You can push down a string without a fingerboard... ok, > granted this *really* makes the "ideal string" calculations >

Re: missing glissando features (bugs?)

2009-05-20 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/20/09 9:20 AM, "Graham Percival" wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:04:30AM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote: >> >> I've played several orchestral pieces where the violin parts include >> glissandi ranging over several strings. >> Mahler Symphony no. 4 comes to my mind, for example. I'm stil

Re: [PATCH] Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-19 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
OK, done. Everything looked great -- you even took out some pre-existing line-ending whitespace. Thanks, Carl On 5/19/09 2:02 PM, "Jonathan Kulp" wrote: > Jonathan Kulp wrote: >> Here's a patch incorporating your suggestions, Carl. Thanks for the help. >> >> Jon >> > > Carl, when you ge

Re: Special markups

2009-05-18 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/18/09 4:09 PM, "Neil Puttock" wrote: > 2009/5/18 Mark Polesky : >> Helge Kruse wrote: >>> I want to add >> markups... circled T and the >>> half-moon... How do I add such special markups? >> >> See the 2 attached files. > > Nice curve. :) > > Here's a slightly simplified version: > >

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-18 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/18/09 6:04 PM, "Jonathan Kulp" wrote: > Carl, > > I'm working on your suggestions and have come across a problem. > >> \relative c' { \chordmode { c \relative c'' { c }} >> > > This last example won't compile. (It was missing the last curly brace > but I added it.) Here's the termina

Re: Quoting everything from another voice

2009-05-15 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/15/09 4:13 PM, "Reinhold Kainhofer" wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > The notation reference states in section 1.6.3 that \quoteDuring is typically > used for two instruments that play the same notes during a passage of music. > Unfortunately, quoteDuring quote

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-15 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/15/09 3:06 PM, "Anthony W. Youngman" wrote: > In message <200905151909580...@1654122929>, David Pounder > writes >> >> I don't know if it's worth mentioning, but you can also run into >> problems using \repeat inside a \relative block if an \unfoldRepeats is >> used outside the block. F

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-15 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/15/09 8:43 AM, "Mats Bengtsson" wrote: > > > > Carl D. Sorensen wrote: >> >> Music inside a \transpose or \chordmode block is absolute, unless a >> \relative is included inside the the \transpose or \chordmode block. When >> \relative b

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-15 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/15/09 5:05 AM, "Jonathan Kulp" wrote: > Chip wrote: >> Patrick McCarty wrote: >>> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Chip wrote: >>> >>> >>> I think this is the issue mentioned in the Known Issues for Chapter >>> 1.1.2 "Transpose" in the Notation Reference. However, the two >>> sentences

Re: Need help with this trill

2009-05-14 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/14/09 3:24 PM, "Holger Hellebro" wrote: > Hi > > I'm a new Lilypond user and I'm really enjoying the program so far. However I > am having difficulties typesetting a certain trill. You can see in the > attached picture what I want to achieve. I run into two difficulties: > > 1. How to g

Re: printing rest in ChordNames context

2009-05-14 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/14/09 9:03 AM, "Gilles Sadowski" wrote: > Hi. > >> This solution to the N.C. problem (use r to indicate N.C.) > ^^^ > Will R also work? Not right now. I will investigate to see if it is easily done. Carl

Re: printing rest in ChordNames context

2009-05-14 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/14/09 8:07 AM, "Tim McNamara" wrote: > > into the \chords feels clunky and intrusive to me. I'd prefer to > minimize putting formatting code in the music content as much as > possible. Being able to write something like nc1 (or r1) and have it > interpreted by LilyPond as N.C. would be

Re: writing chords

2009-05-12 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/12/09 1:51 PM, "Tim Rowe" wrote: > > I can get them all except for the last; when I try to remove the 9th > (c:m11^7^9) lilypond gets stuck :-( If you read the notation reference carefully, you'll see that only the *first* pitch to be removed is preceded by ^. (6 examples in under Exte

Re: writing chords

2009-05-12 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/12/09 12:41 PM, "James E. Bailey" wrote: > I will be the first one to admit that I don't work with chords frequently. I'm > also trying to understand them. I understand that I can enter c:7 and lilypond > will recognise that I want to display c7, and display it accordingly. Since I > want

Re: Bass in Chord Name

2009-05-12 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/12/09 10:35 AM, "Stjepan Brbot" wrote: > > > > > Kieren MacMillan wrote: >> >> Hi Stjepan, >> >>> I'd like to get the following chord "D7/F#". How to define this F# >>> as bass in >>> chord? I can use d:7/fis but I get "fis", not wanted F# as bass. >> >> If you're using "english.ly

Re: Newbie Question -- verse and chorus

2009-05-12 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/12/09 4:44 AM, "Tim Rowe" wrote: > > Now on to my next exercise -- working out how to print capo chords in > parentheses after the regular chord, so I get: > (capo 3) C (A) G7 (E7) > The nearest I can find is at > http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg24850.html, but

Re: bad spacing

2009-05-06 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/5/09 9:03 PM, "Victor Eijkhout" wrote: > This looks really bad: > > harpchords = \relative c' { \time 15/8 >s2^"C" s2^"G/B" s2^"Am" s4. | s2^"Cmaj7/B" s2^"Em/G" s2^"F" s4. | >s2^G s2^"F/A" s2^"G/B" s4. | s2^"Dm/A" s2^"Dm/F" s2 s4. | >\repeat volta 2 { > s2^C s2^"G/B" s2^

Re: Chord Names Tweak

2009-05-03 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Jonathan, On 5/2/09 2:23 PM, "Jonathan Townes" wrote: > Hello all, > Does anyone have suggestions for tweaking the position of accidental in > chord names. For example, the flat sign in in the chord name Ab? I > find in the default Lilypond setting the flat symbol is too big and > too low on th

Re: adding to the LSR

2009-05-02 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/2/09 5:50 AM, "Daniel Hulme" wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 09:54:09PM +0800, Graham Percival wrote: >> Is it worth defining our own function >> replaceOnly("\\octave", ...) >> which does >> re.sub("\\octave[?a-z,A-Z]", ...) >> or whatever the regex was? > > \\octave\b would work f

Re: auto-beam in pickup-bars with grace note

2009-05-01 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Christian, This kind of question is better asked on lilypond-user. Thanks, Carel On 4/30/09 12:57 PM, "grisu_76" wrote: > > > As for I get some helpful hints for solving the spacing-problem in > pickup-bars starting with a grace note, now I struggle with the > auto-beaming: > > global = {

Re: tablature.ly

2009-04-30 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/30/09 1:36 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > [snip] > > I have reworked my tablature.ly according to all suggestions and > improvements by Neil and Carl. > > The modern tab clef seems to be scaling properly, I played a bit with > some values for staff-space, > and it looks now as it should be (a

Re: tablature.ly

2009-04-29 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/29/09 3:12 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > Neil Puttock schrieb: >> 2009/4/27 Carl D. Sorensen : >> >>> Neil, >>> >>> Thanks for your input. I think it's all really good. >>> >>> >>> On 4/26/09 1:49 PM

Re: adding to the LSR

2009-04-28 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/28/09 4:42 PM, "Jonathan Kulp" wrote: > Carl D. Sorensen wrote: >>>> >>> Thanks for the offer, Chip. I've just finished a preliminary run >>> through all of the snippets. I downloaded the tarball of the entire >>> repo and r

Re: adding to the LSR

2009-04-28 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/28/09 10:24 AM, "Jonathan Kulp" wrote: > Chip wrote: >>> There are plans to upgrade it to 2.12 but it hasn't happened yet. I >>> don't understand all of the technical issues but one of the problems >>> was discussed on a recent thread, which is that someone has to check >>> all the snipp

Re: tablature.ly

2009-04-27 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/27/09 12:47 PM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > Carl D. Sorensen schrieb: >> >> On 4/27/09 3:38 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: >> >> > No, I didn't get this mail. I played around with your suggestions and the > improvements given by Neil and ha

Re: tablature.ly

2009-04-27 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/27/09 3:38 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > Neil Puttock schrieb: >> 2009/4/25 Marc Hohl : >> >>> (font-size (- (* num-strings 1.5) 7)) >>> (base-skip (cond ((= 4 num-strings) 1.55) >>>((= 5 num-strings) 1.84) >>>((= 6

Re: tablature.ly

2009-04-26 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Neil, Thanks for your input. I think it's all really good. On 4/26/09 1:49 PM, "Neil Puttock" wrote: > 2009/4/25 Marc Hohl : >> Hello tablature users*, > > Like Carl, I'm not a tablature user, so I can only comment on matters of > coding. > > Some suggestions and thoughts follow below: >

Re: Changing font of "Table of Contents"

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 5:38 PM, "Nick Payne" wrote: > I'm putting together a book of pieces, and using a particular font for > headers, footers, titles, subtitles, etc. The one place where I haven't > figured out how to get that font used is for the header text for the table > of contents that Lilypond cr

Re: Changing font of "Table of Contents"

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 5:38 PM, "Nick Payne" wrote: > I'm putting together a book of pieces, and using a particular font for > headers, footers, titles, subtitles, etc. The one place where I haven't > figured out how to get that font used is for the header text for the table > of contents that Lilypond cr

Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 3:38 PM, "-Eluze" wrote: > > > > Carl D. Sorensen wrote: >> >> You use the Internals Reference. You find the object you want engraved >> under 3.1 All layout objects: 3.1.111 TextSpanner. >> >> The IR tells y

Re: New fonts for chords

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 2:36 PM, "Pekka Siponen" wrote: > Indeed it (suffix position) is a personal preference, and not correct > most likely. I find that there is no standard for chord names, they have > been around only for a short time historically, and mostly everything is > based on personal preferenc

Re: tablature.ly

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Looks great, Marc! *Very* nicely done. On 4/25/09 4:06 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > Hello tablature users*, > > > 3) some more tunings are defined: >guitar-seven-string-tuning >guitar-drop-d-tuning >bass-four-string-tuning >bass-drop-d-tuning >bass-five-string-tuning >ba

Re: New fonts for chords

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 12:52 PM, "Pekka Siponen" wrote: > Here are some thoughts about the default chords in LilyPond: > > 1. The suffixes should not be scaled (see attachment). The weight of the > smaller character gets too light if it is simply scaled down from the > original font. Thanks for making a

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 1:31 PM, "Neil Puttock" wrote: > Perhaps the point I was trying to make got lost in my slightly > facetious reply: if we're talking about LSR snippets which are in the > docs, the LSR editor must be mindful of the fact that editing such > examples in LSR may have no effect, since

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 9:37 AM, "Neil Puttock" wrote: > 2009/4/23 Jonathan Kulp : >> Graham Percival wrote: >> >>> 1.  Log in to LSR as an editor.  (I remember the discussion now; >>> this isn't your fault) >>> >>> 2.  Find the "tags" section for each snippet. >>> >>> 3.  Click on the drop-down menus,

Re: music expression explanation

2009-04-24 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/24/09 4:22 PM, "Peter Chubb" wrote: > > I'd really appreciate an appendix or something that gives Lily syntax > as BNF, or as a syntax diagram. The syntax is very complex, and I've > been caught out a number of times by things not being as I expected > them to be from the NR --- not th

Re: Removing empty (drum) staff in a score, instrument name placement

2009-04-24 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/24/09 1:51 PM, "Toine Schreurs" wrote: > 1. You would need (the nonexisting) RemoveEmptyDrumStaffContext. But > inspection of engraver-init.ly points to the solution: Toine, Thanks for a great, clear answer. You're making a great contribution to LilyPond by doing this. You not only

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/23/09 12:04 PM, "Jonathan Kulp" wrote: > Graham Percival wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:31:22AM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: >>> And we really (IMO) need to be doing it as part of moving to a 2.12 LSR. >>> We should also be evaluating: >&

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/23/09 9:31 AM, "Graham Percival" wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 09:56:05AM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: >> Graham Percival wrote: >> >>> I will admit that "outputting the version number" appears in the >>> Text list, rather than the titles. In fact, both snippets should >>> appear in b

Re: Vertical Spacing question

2009-04-22 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/22/09 9:13 AM, "Mischa Falkenburg" wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm using version 2.12.1, and my piece utilizes a GrandStaff with 6 Staffs. > The .pdf file generated shows all the pages, except for the final page, > with a big space between two GrandStaffs. > > I would like to modify the spa

Re: Playing a file in midi

2009-04-22 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/22/09 5:09 AM, "Shayne Picard" wrote: > How can I play a file in midi? > See Notation Reference Section 3.5 in the LilyPond documentation. Thanks, Carl > > > ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mai

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