Too high measure numbers with ossia staff

2022-10-21 Thread Erika Pirnes
Hi, I just learned how to use the ossia staff. And I'm quite happy with the results, except it seems that the measure numbers follow the hidden ossia staff instead of the first visible staff. Can anyone think of a nice way to move the measure numbers down? Below is a modified version of the exa

VS: DynamicTextSpanner spacing

2022-03-05 Thread Erika Pirnes
Thank you Aaron, it seems to work! But what does stencil mean exactly? Best, Erika Lähettäjä: Aaron Hill Lähetetty: lauantai 5. maaliskuuta 2022 18.35 Vastaanottaja: Erika Pirnes Kopio: lilypond-user@gnu.org Aihe: Re: DynamicTextSpanner spacing On 2022-03-05 3

DynamicTextSpanner spacing

2022-03-05 Thread Erika Pirnes
I would like the dotted line of the crescendo to start a bit later and end a bit earlier. It is too close to "cresc.", in my opinion at least. And sometimes too close to the "f" as well. (A tiny detail, for sure, but it looks annoying.) Any ideas? Minimal example below. (The problem with "f" di

Re: Is the slur too close to the top note?

2022-02-11 Thread Erika Pirnes
Yes, I think the slur is way too close to the top note. Another issue with slurs I have encountered is that they look very awkward when there is a line break in the middle of a slur, because it looks like two slurs instead of one longer one continuing over the line break. (I might try to produce

Re: Accent size and stem length

2022-02-11 Thread Erika Pirnes
Thank you for the answers, Leo and Paul! It seems that \override Script.font-size = #-1.5 works nicely, at least for now. There is something about the stems that doesn't look right to my eye, but maybe it is not the length. Best, Erika

Accent size and stem length

2022-02-10 Thread Erika Pirnes
Hi, There are two things that I would like to achieve and haven't yet been able to figure out. One is to globally reduce the accent size. I'm reducing the size of the noteheads, and that makes the accents look ridiculously big. The other thing is to have a more consistent length for stems. In m

Re: Feedback wanted: syntax highlighting in the LilyPond documentation

2022-01-04 Thread Erika Pirnes
I personally find the black text much easier to read than the syntax-highlighed one in colors. I still have young eyes, but somehow the colored text feels tiring. Maybe this is just what I am used to, as I am still using the standard text editor to write my .ly files. Would it be terribly diffic

Re: Tenuto marking too close to note

2021-12-29 Thread Erika Pirnes
Thank you for all the answers! The solution that best suits my situation is overriding the script.padding, what Vaughan suggested. I find the staccatos to be too close to notes as well, so having it affect all articulations doesn't seem like a problem (at least at the moment). As Lukas pointed o

Tenuto marking too close to note

2021-12-28 Thread Erika Pirnes
Hi, I would like to have the tenuto mark a bit farther away from the note. I had a similar issue with tuplet numbers and then "\override TupletNumber.Y-offset = #-2.5" fixed the issue. I don't know what I should replace "TupletNumber" by in the case of tenuto lines. Minimal example here: \ver

Re: Windows Media Player alternatives for midi playing?

2021-10-30 Thread Erika Pirnes
I have used Timidity++. (I use Linux but apparently you can get the program for Windows as well.) The sound quality is not too great but otherwise it does what it's supposed to do: namely plays the most recent version of the file without the need to close the program or open the file again. Eri

Re: Markup with long notes spacing

2021-10-25 Thread Erika Pirnes
What Aaron suggested seemed to work with the passage similar to the previous rit-a tempo example, but the stretching 8-notes problem arises elsewhere, like in the example below. \version "2.18.2" pocoaccel = \markup { \italic "poco accel." } common = { \override TextScript.extra-spacing-widt

Re: Markup with long notes spacing

2021-10-24 Thread Erika Pirnes
Actually, it seems that my previous solution with "hideNotes" and rests leads to collisions as well, and it also shifts down any dynamic markings below the staff, which is not a desirable effect. I'm grateful for any suggestions on how to solve the problem. Again, the issue is that using textLe

Re: Markup with long notes spacing

2021-10-24 Thread Erika Pirnes
I changed Paul's solution with "hideNotes" to use rests instead of notes, to avoid the warning for clashing note columns. Aaron's solution works well for the score, but my problem came up when I tried to write the individual parts. The updated example below illustrates the problem and my solutio

Re: Markup with long notes spacing

2021-10-24 Thread Erika Pirnes
Sure, using "hideNotes" to obtain better spacing is a cheat, but it works better than anything I tried. (I actually tried a similar thing but with spacer rests which did not produce the wanted result.) Thanks! Erika

Markup with long notes spacing

2021-10-24 Thread Erika Pirnes
I've been struggling with spacing issues. In my example below, the second measure shows the default behavior, where the two markups are placed on top of each other. (If I was playing this, I would find it very confusing.) I would like to stretch the long note in the beginning of second measure,

Re: Time signatures for all parts

2021-10-17 Thread Erika Pirnes
I asked about adding time signature changes into a variable that can be used by all instrument parts. The solution below (by Christian) worked perfectly, but I don't recommend adding bar checks into the variable. I did that and it caused the multi-measure rest compression not to work. It took qu

Rehearsal mark vertical spacing

2021-10-16 Thread Erika Pirnes
I'm trying to figure out how to position rehearsal marks a bit farther from the staff. It might be an easy fix (I hope so) but I couldn't find a solution yet. My example below; especially with notes above the staff the rehearsal mark seems to be too clingy. \version "2.18.2" notes = \relative

Re: Time signatures for all parts

2021-10-13 Thread Erika Pirnes
Thank you for the answers! What I had not realized was that I can use spacer notes in the "global" variable (I thought it was only for the beginning key/time) and add two simultaneous "music layers" on a staff, in the style of \new Staff << \first \second >>. This will certainly make life easier

Time signatures for all parts

2021-10-12 Thread Erika Pirnes
t for all parts separately. (I know that for writing a score I only need the time signature changes in one part, but if I leave the time signatures out of other parts, I'll run into problems when I try to get the separate parts out.) Thank you, Erika Pirnes

Instruction text between header and staff

2021-10-04 Thread Erika Pirnes
I'm trying to add some instruction text in my score. I would like to position it between the header and the music, but I cannot seem to figure out how to do this, as markup cannot be placed inside a score block. I also tried taking the header out of the score block which still seemed to produce