Re: showing TimeSignatures on each line?

2017-09-06 Thread Evan Laforge
On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Wols Lists wrote: > Just because it's not normal practice doesn't mean people won't find it > useful. I looked at tht document about music typesetting conventions for > the first time in ages a day or so ago, and it finishes pretty much with > the statement that, a

Re: showing TimeSignatures on each line?

2017-08-29 Thread Evan Laforge
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote: > Hi Evan, > > > On 29.08.2017 22:26, Evan Laforge wrote: >> >> In music where the time signature changes a lot, it's nice to show the >> time signature on each line even when it hasn't changed. > &

mini glissando line for portamento?

2017-08-29 Thread Evan Laforge
I'm accustomed to using a short glissando line to indicate a rapid glissando between notes. What I mean is that given 'c1 \glissando | d1', the implication is that the player spends the whole duration slowly moving. But if I want something like 'c2~ c4~ c8 c8 \glissando | d1', then I omit the tie

showing TimeSignatures on each line?

2017-08-29 Thread Evan Laforge
In music where the time signature changes a lot, it's nice to show the time signature on each line even when it hasn't changed. Is there a way to get that to happen? I experimented with the (undocumented?) TimeSignature.break-visibility, but even with (#t #t #t) it doesn't seem to have any effect

Re: use default directions for \voiceN?

2011-08-14 Thread Evan Laforge
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Evan, > >> I'm guessing both of these are possible, but I don't know quite the >> right knobs to tweak to modify a voice in this way.  And I imagine it >> must be a fairly common problem, so surely someone else has already >> done somet

use default directions for \voiceN?

2011-08-14 Thread Evan Laforge
Hi everyone, I'm new to lilypond, so sorry if this is a simple question, but I wasn't able to find an answer in either the documentation or the archives. I have a piece which is mostly monophonic, but occasionally has another voice. Up until now I have been using << \\ >> to split the voices as n