Re: Cross-hand notation

2010-04-30 Thread David Fedoruk
Cross-hand-notation-tp28393898p28393898.html > Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > ___ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user &g

Re: [Fwd: lilypond on eee pc]

2009-10-05 Thread David Fedoruk
ond fan ;) > > > ___________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administr

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2009-08-13 Thread David Fedoruk
Regarding those questions I didn't know how to word in an understandable way; my reasons for just simply letting them sit unasked is that in my experience, it means I've missed something along the way to the problem. So just hanging tough and letting the problem sit while I go on with soe other po

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2009-08-11 Thread David Fedoruk
gs worked in real life. It is difficult to tell an expert that he may be wrong about something. Choosing words carefully gets good results, rants almost never get the required results. I don't like the quicksand any more than anyone else, but considering the state of the program, that is t

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-07-22 Thread David Fedoruk
In my discussion with my jazz professional, we looked at complex chords, in fact we deliberately looked for complex ones to find out how they were expressed. We found, quite amazingly that the more complex the chord got the more ambiguous its name became. The other thing we noted is that frequent

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-07-15 Thread David Fedoruk
pic). Lilypond should not seek to make a new method of entering this type of notation, it shoud simply enable copyists to make their music look the way they or the composer intended and to do it in a way that makes it easy for performing musicians to read. Am I makeing sense here? cheers, davidf

Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-07-12 Thread David Fedoruk
-- Forwarded message -- From: David Fedoruk Date: Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 4:25 PM Subject: Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords To: "Carl D. Sorensen" Hello: I've seen a number of people talking about the "right" way to name chords used in jazz. The problem is t

Re: theory question

2009-07-05 Thread David Fedoruk
ing triads than the complex 4 note chords. Begin with the triads built on each degreee of the scale, then move to understanding the iimplications of adding that fourth note. > > - Mark > > > > > > ___ > lilypond-user mail

Re: convert-ly broken on Mac OS X "Tiger"?

2008-09-12 Thread David Fedoruk
See my message on Sep 2 > to this list. Search for "env python". > > Cheers, > - Graham > > > ___ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.or

Re: it's all up to you users (was: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU)

2008-08-17 Thread David Fedoruk
Please be mindful that we are not all located in the same time zone. I read my mail 8 - 10 hours after people in Europe do. I wake up to read whole threads which have sprung up and been answered and re-answered by the time I wake up in the morning. Its sometimes a but frustrating to be that time-la

Re: use the \tweak command (was Re: Coloring ornaments)

2008-03-11 Thread David Fedoruk
is that I am not naming the object I'm trying to color correctly. There is another post about coloring a Cautionary accidental <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-03/msg00275.html> His problem was that he called the object Voice.Accidental. This is incorrect, it should

Coloring ornaments

2008-03-10 Thread David Fedoruk
ains about "-mordent", so that is not right, but I do not know where to go from here. Help on this would be appreciated, Cheers, David -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003 http://recordjackethistorian.wordpress.com "Music is

Re: Baroque ornamentation

2008-03-10 Thread David Fedoruk
s of at least one of these ornaments. It is the double curve that I am in need of. cheers, David On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 1:41 AM, David Fedoruk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello: > > Does Lilypond have a way to print a pre-classical period appogiatura > as preceding a pral

Baroque ornamentation

2008-03-10 Thread David Fedoruk
have written it. It was J.C. Bach ( I believe ) who began the practice of writing appogiaturas with a note value rather than just an ornament glyph. Cheers, David -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003 http://recordjackethistorian.wordpress.com

tuplet-type groups and bar check

2008-03-05 Thread David Fedoruk
dea why it acts the way it does. What am I not seeing? Cheers David -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003 http://recordjackethistorian.wordpress.com "Music is enough for one's life time, but one life time is not enough for

Re: cross-staff "synchronized" grace-note figure

2008-02-29 Thread David Fedoruk
times what looks complex turns out to have a simple solution. Cheers, David -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003 http://recordjackethistorian.wordpress.com "Music is enough for one's life time, but one life time is not enough for mus

Re: Midi problem

2008-02-27 Thread David Fedoruk
装 了 网 易 有 道 免 费 英 汉 词 典 , 点 击 此 处 可 以 快 速 下 载 > ___ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 20

Re: GDP: NR 1.1 comment

2008-02-27 Thread David Fedoruk
maybe be the default, so nobody > will be wondering why the instrument name won't show up... > What for is the GrandStaff then? > > Till > > > > > > /Mats > > > > > ___ > lilypond-user mai

Re: GDP: What term do you use?

2008-02-27 Thread David Fedoruk
It does not imply change of key in all contexts, keys have meaning only in > tonal music anyway. > -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003 http://recordjackethistorian.wordpress.com "Music is enough for one's life time, but o

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

2008-02-25 Thread David Fedoruk
Arvid's solutions in the next post looks interesting and I'll give it a try and see what happens. Thanks for the help! And since this is scheduled to be made part of the documentation I'm happy :) -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UB

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

2008-02-25 Thread David Fedoruk
to have been a hard one to ask. cheers, david > See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2004-03/msg00198.html > > /Mats > > > > David Fedoruk wrote: > > >Hello: > > > >A question about rests in multi-voiced piano scores: Most of the time &

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

2008-02-24 Thread David Fedoruk
that have troubled me currently. The piano section is small, but so much of the complexity of writing it is covered elsewhere in Lilypond under other kinds of music typesetting. I am watching for those kinds of issues and will mention them as I find them. This is the first of those issues. cheer

Re: GDP: What term do you use? (redux)

2008-02-16 Thread David Fedoruk
(quite possible!) Most people in North America simply will not understand the British terms. Cheers, David -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003 http://recordjackethistorian.wordpress.com "Music is enough for one's life ti

Re: GDP: What term do you use?

2008-02-16 Thread David Fedoruk
isplacement does not change the key. Cheers David -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003 http://recordjackethistorian.wordpress.com "Music is enough for one's life time, but one life time is not enough

lilypond include scripts

2008-02-13 Thread David Fedoruk
should be possilbe to combine both of those commands into something like set! chRHDn to ( \change Staff = "rh" \override Stem #'direction = #DOWN) and set! chLHUp to ( \change Sraff = "lh" \override Stem #'direction = #UP) and save it to UpDown.ly and add \include

Re: Subject: GDP: index entries for snippets

2008-02-09 Thread David Fedoruk
he mix. Its sort of like trying to be all things to all people. That Lilypond has gotten as far as it has is something of a miracle in itself! -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003 http://recordjackethistorian.wordpress.co

change staff to staff in different context

2008-02-08 Thread David Fedoruk
ontext. Lilypond always tells me that " cannot change `Context' to `rhTwo': none of these in my family". I think I haven't told lilypond how to find the staff I want it to switch to correctly. I've tried multiple variants but only get more errors. Cheers, David -- Dav

Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Piano Templates

2008-02-02 Thread David Fedoruk
> > > > :-) > > > > Cheers, > > Valentin > > > > > > > ___ > > lilypond-user mailing list > > lilypond-user@gnu.org > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilyp

Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Piano Templates

2008-02-01 Thread David Fedoruk
slowly add complexity rather than removing it. The "Piano Centered Dynamics" template in particular is overwhelming. Perhaps separating the pedal performer out from the rest would make this template less overwhelming. Cheers, David -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Sy

Re: Lilypond language definition for Notepad++

2008-01-21 Thread David Fedoruk
lso, Smultron has been my favorite text editor through many versions. For some reason Smultrons's syntax completion doesn't work for me, hence I abandoned it quickly and remained with jEdit and LilypondTool. Cheers, David -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certific

Re: double repeat voltas

2008-01-13 Thread David Fedoruk
ng this. I guess I'm looking for exactly one bar of time. If I can correct the time problem will that solve the problem I'm having getting the B section to become two voices again? That problem haunts here but I think it is linked to the extra bar lines as well. Cheers, David

Re: double repeat voltas

2008-01-12 Thread David Fedoruk
} %% END SNIP %%% I hope this is enough code to see the problem. The change from one voice to two voices is faulty. It only almost works. and part-way through the first bar of A (bar 49) the end of the bar i saw begin in the middle of the second ending appears. Cheer

Re: double repeat voltas

2008-01-09 Thread David Fedoruk
; In either case, check it. > > - Graham > -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003 http://recordjackethistorian.wordpress.com "Music is enough for one's life time, but one life time is not e

double repeat voltas

2008-01-09 Thread David Fedoruk
aring with each new development version is VERY helpful! Thanks to everyone who is helping with this. I'd really be lost or even more lost than I feel now without its vastly improved state. -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administrati

Re: You can support software freedom in 2008!

2008-01-08 Thread David Fedoruk
se with Lilypond, since many members already have supported the Lilypond Developers with paid for feature requests. However, the milk has been spilled and as in our case, we cannot make time move backward (yet). Cheers, David -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Adminis

Manual Staff switching

2007-12-30 Thread David Fedoruk
f \major \time 2/4 \skip 1 * 5 % idem } \score { \new PianoStaff << \override SpacingSpanner #'base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1 16) \set PianoStaff.instrumentName = "Piano "

Re: Staff and voice definitions

2007-12-24 Thread David Fedoruk
u would read a book. So when I come to working with Lilypond, I have to re-examine many of these things. I don't think about English grammar when I read or write and often I may not even completely understand my own grammatical choices. I may not even why my sentence construction is correct. -- Da

Staff and voice definitions

2007-12-23 Thread David Fedoruk
e out myself. A follow-up question is can a Piano staff which has two staffs which work together, have only one { music } and still run between both staves? A single voice played by two hands. Cheers David -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC,

tuplets other than standard 8th into quarter note

2007-12-17 Thread David Fedoruk
umentation for staff switching, but it seems to be useful in singular situations. I don't think I can leave this to auto staff changes if what I'm doing is considered staff changes. I need to understand what I'm attempting before trying something which may be doomed to failure. cheers.

modifying piano templates

2007-11-20 Thread David Fedoruk
nd more complex typesetting solutions are necessary. My skill set simply cannot keep up with it. Can anyone help out with this? Cheers David -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 "Music is enough for one's life time, but one life time is not enough for

Re: GDP: chattiness in @seealso

2007-11-15 Thread David Fedoruk
e often found the footnotes in a book or article as interesting or more interesting than the main piece of writing. Cheers, David -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003 http://recordjackethistorian.wordpress.com "Music is enough for one'

Re: Why will this tie not work?

2007-07-28 Thread David Fedoruk
sed to be. Acrobate Reader is my villan is my PDF reader! AG Good reason to keep multiple applications on had for cases like this. This is the first time I"ve seen Acrobat fail to read a proper Lilypond document. I wonder if I can bill Adobe for the lost hours ! Cheers, David

Re: Why will this tie not work?

2007-07-27 Thread David Fedoruk
ace af16 gf8 f ef df ] > | % bar 69 > > That won't work - it just tells LilyPond to insert a new voice, so you get > an extra bar. You must have the << >> present for simultaneous music. > > Regards, > Neil -- David F

Re: Why will this tie not work?

2007-07-27 Thread David Fedoruk
aff.instrumentName = "Piano " \new Staff = "upper" \upper \new Staff = "lower" \lower >> \layout { } \midi { } } This new code also does not add the tie even though it is much si

Re: Why will this tie not work?

2007-07-27 Thread David Fedoruk
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Why will this tie not work?

2007-07-27 Thread David Fedoruk
;||" % bar 70 } \score { \new PianoStaff << \set PianoStaff.instrumentName = "Piano " \new Staff = "upper" \upper \new Staff = "lower" \lower >> \layout { }

abreviating note collsion notation

2007-07-11 Thread David Fedoruk
rride Staff.NoteCollision #'merge-differently-dotted = ##t but none of the variations I've tried seem to work, suc a common occurance must have some shorthand but it has eluded me What have I missed? Cheers David -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, U

Re: Rendering two documents as one musical score

2007-07-08 Thread David Fedoruk
f the posted tweaks. It must have come up before! Cheers David On 7/8/07, David Fedoruk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK... then this i s way way to easy! Two files PartA.ly and PartB.ly of the same piece so I just a shell command: cat PartB.ly >> PartA.ly its done! After that jus

Re: Rendering two documents as one musical score

2007-07-08 Thread David Fedoruk
simple shell script. This is right out of everyone's first lesson in UNIX. I like it a lot when things get this simple! Thank-you :) Cheers, David P.S. it worked perfectly! -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC,

Rendering two documents as one musical score

2007-07-07 Thread David Fedoruk
understand what's going on. The short cuts may just serve to confuse things I just barely understand. Cheers, David -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003 http://recordjackethistorian.wordpress.com "Music is enough for one's life tim

note collisions, relative pitches and to many columns

2007-07-02 Thread David Fedoruk
\set PianoStaff.instrumentName = "Piano " \new Staff = "upper" \upper \new Staff = "lower" \lower >> \layout { } \midi { } } Thanks for any help, cheers, David -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Ce

Re: Scarlatti, polyphony within a keyboard score

2007-07-01 Thread David Fedoruk
rses first by section, ie. Header, version, scheme, then music. Within each part it runs code line by line. Only fatal errors stop the rendering process. Am I on the right track here? Thanks for your help! Cheers, David -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administratio

Scarlatti, polyphony within a keyboard score

2007-07-01 Thread David Fedoruk
about these new polyphonic bits? The occur with regularity in this peice but are transitory in nature. They last a few measures then the voice simply disappears as is not uncommon in piano scores. Cheers, David -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC,

Re: Mac OS X libguile.17.dylib Trace/BPT Trap error when adding a second voice to piano score

2007-06-28 Thread David Fedoruk
On 6/25/07, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2007/6/25, David Fedoruk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I should also mention that the error happens so fast after the command > has been issued that I don't think lilypond actually had time to parse > the code I wr

Re: Mac OS X libguile.17.dylib Trace/BPT Trap error when adding a second voice to piano score

2007-06-24 Thread David Fedoruk
ine up to that point, I had assumed it was my coding that was in error. Cheers, David -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003 http://recordjackethistorian.wordpress.com "Music is enough for one's life time, but on

Re: Mac OS X libguile.17.dylib Trace/BPT Trap error when adding a second voice to piano score

2007-06-15 Thread David Fedoruk
On 6/15/07, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David Fedoruk wrote: > \version "2.10.25" > upper = \relative c'' { >\clef treble >\key e \major >\time 3/4 > > \key e \minor r8 b''8 \grace a16 g8

Mac OS X libguile.17.dylib Trace/BPT Trap error when adding a second voice to piano score

2007-06-15 Thread David Fedoruk
on't think lilypond has even parsed the file completely. I'm using Mac OS 10.4.9 Thanks for any help Cheers David -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003 http://recordjackethistorian.wordpress.com "Music is enough for one'

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-24 Thread David Fedoruk
ise, we're simply turning \times into \tuplet without really changing anything about its functionality. I think I agree with this, except that any type of prolongation or compression of notes should be able to use this function. cheers -- David Fedoruk http://recordjackethistorian.wordp

Re: Web documentation automatic language

2006-12-18 Thread David Fedoruk
o configure apache that .en is the default? Yes, but that defeats the who concept of automatic language configuration. Cheers, David -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003 http://recordjackethistorian.wordpress.com "Music is enough for

Web documentation automatic language

2006-12-17 Thread David Fedoruk
Hello: I have been using the web documentation for lilypond 2.11 quite intensively the last few days. I've begun to get pages in French and a few in Spanish. This seems very odd. I did check my browsers configuration thinking it was the problem. I use Camino which is a Mozilla type browser for O

Re: version 2.6.x for debian (unstable or sarge)?

2005-09-26 Thread David Fedoruk
gh! I posted a few weeks ago about this iissue and Russel Harris asked where I'd seen the quote about its "low urgency" and i couldnt' remember.. here it is now! Perhaps we can get this changed. DF -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administrat

accidentals in ornaments

2005-08-30 Thread David Fedoruk
major \time 2/4 % measure 1 4 4 | % measure 2 4. ees16._([ aes32 ] ) | % measure 3 g8[ (g16. des'32)] ) c8[ c16. d32\reverseturn] | 8. } -- end code thanks for your help david -- David Fedoruk B.Mus

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-22 Thread David Fedoruk
off the list if some of you wish, but knowing some command line basics is essential eventually to use OS X effectively and have access to all the applications from UNIX and Linux that are potentially available. cheers.. david -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Admi

Re: Problem with update syntax in Mac OS X --- converts to 2.7.7 instead of 2.7.6

2005-08-22 Thread David Fedoruk
hanics that I was loath to even suggest it. ;) -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003 "Music is enough for one's life time, but one life time is not enough for music" Sergei Rachmaninov

Problem with update syntax in Mac OS X --- converts to 2.7.7 instead of 2.7.6

2005-08-21 Thread David Fedoruk
SNIP -- Notice that it coverts to 2.7.7, one version higher that it really is. As soon as you run the compile for the script it dies because of the wrong version. It is really 2.7.6. david -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003 &quo

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-21 Thread David Fedoruk
t put will be (assuming there are no errors) your typset music as post script file, a midi file and you will find PNG files for each page of music manuscript you produced. I hope this makes things WAY easier! Let me know if there are any other questions. -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certifica

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-21 Thread David Fedoruk
will alos simply export the file to a jpeg for you as well. cheeers, david -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003 "Music is enough for one's life time, but one life time is not enough for music

Fwd: Output other than PDF

2005-08-20 Thread David Fedoruk
Sorry.. this should have gone directly to the list -- Forwarded message -- From: David Fedoruk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Aug 20, 2005 11:29 PM Subject: Re: Output other than PDF To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi: Just drag the file you wanat to refe

Re: Broken MIDIs with 2.7.5 on MacOSX

2005-08-18 Thread David Fedoruk
lse, I imported the file into GarageBand. There is nothing in the file. No MIDI at all. cheerrs, David -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003 "Music is enough for one's life time, but one life time is not enough for