Bracket to indicate organ manual changes

2024-01-16 Thread David Poon
Hi, I've been trying to make a bracket to indicate a change of manuals for an organ piece, and have succeeded in getting Lilypond to generate what I want (code below) for a particular instance. However, I have three questions: 1) Why does this particular format work? I'm not understanding why rem

Re: Default beam exceptions for 4/4

2023-04-26 Thread David Poon
On Wed, 26 Apr 2023 at 08:35, Hans Aikema wrote: > > > On 26 Apr 2023, at 17:06, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > >  > On 2023-04-26 16:39, Michael Werner wrote: > > \version "2.25.4" > > > \new Staff = "main" { > > > \overrideTimeSignatureSettings > > 4/4% timeSignatureFraction - i.e. the t

Default beam exceptions for 4/4

2023-04-26 Thread David Poon
Is it possible to set automatic beaming in 4/4 time such that 4 4 8[ 8 8 8] but 4 4. 8 8[ 8] ? (i.e., I'd like to beam 8ths together in twos or fours, but never threes) (The only previous message I saw on this topic didn't appear to be answered: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user

Re: Completion_heads_engraver for line-ends only?

2023-01-17 Thread David Poon
Note that some durations still require a tie despite using barless notation (e.g. semibreve + crochet), so it wouldn't be completely heretical to have a few ties across barlines. The whole problem lies in using scores instead of partbooks. :) I've seen one engraver use custodes at the end of a lin

Re: irrational meters

2023-01-17 Thread David Poon
My $0.02 on terminology: if you think of the maths definition of "irrational" as "cannot be represented as a ratio of two integers", we can translate this definition into music as "cannot be represented as a ratio of an integer and a non-dotted, non-tuplet note value". I.e., treat the categorisat