Re: Variables, tags, filtering, conditions

2024-05-19 Thread Giles Boardman
nks Giles From: Timothy Lanfear Sent: 19 May 2024 12:03 To: Giles Boardman ; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Variables, tags, filtering, conditions On 19/05/2024 11:36, Giles Boardman wrote: Hello, I am an occasional Bb clarinetist and very bad at transposing on the fly. I wou

Variables, tags, filtering, conditions

2024-05-19 Thread Giles Boardman
Hello, I am an occasional Bb clarinetist and very bad at transposing on the fly. I would like to create alternative versions of a score based on the value of a parameter. I have been using variables to hold phrases and sections, but I can't find how to test their contents. I have read about con

Re: Cry for help - lost plot ....

2024-05-18 Thread Giles Boardman
Just like that? Just like that! Wow! From: Kieren MacMillan Sent: 18 May 2024 18:45 To: Giles Boardman Cc: Aaron Hill ; Lilypond-User Mailing List Subject: Re: Cry for help - lost plot Hi Giles, > though being able to put multiple columns side by s

Re: Cry for help - lost plot ....

2024-05-18 Thread Giles Boardman
t;spurious". From: David Wright Sent: 18 May 2024 18:24 To: Giles Boardman Cc: Aaron Hill ; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Cry for help - lost plot On Sat 18 May 2024 at 16:46:43 (+), Giles Boardman wrote: > Thanks for getting back to me Aaron and

Re: Cry for help - lost plot ....

2024-05-18 Thread Giles Boardman
r just won't be enough and I'll want multiple lines elegantly spaced, just like this. And it's such fun too, apart from the hair tearing. Thanks again Giles From: Kieren MacMillan Sent: 18 May 2024 18:21 To: Giles Boardman Cc: Aaron Hill ; Lilypond-U

Re: Cry for help - lost plot ....

2024-05-18 Thread Giles Boardman
x27;8 b''8 a''8 g''4 e''8 d''4 d''8 \mark "ON079-1a-_02" \key c\major \time 9/8 a'8 a'8 a'8 d''4 d''8 e''8 f''8 g''8 \mark "ON079-1a-_03" \key c\major \time

Cry for help - lost plot ....

2024-05-18 Thread Giles Boardman
Hello, I hope someone will be able to put me straight as I seem to be missing something absolutely fundamental and probably just need someone to put me straight. For anyone who has already helped me, I have switched to my Windows 11 machine and am running "2.24.3" and using Frescobaldi 3.3.0

Re: Key signatures in MIDI output

2024-05-14 Thread Giles Boardman
flats will be right there for me to see. I have actually found myself wishing for this on occasion, so all is well. 👍 From: David Kastrup Sent: 14 May 2024 19:33 To: Giles Boardman Cc: msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca ; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Key signatures

Re: Naming lines of music

2024-05-14 Thread Giles Boardman
technical understanding of the composition of the environment and I don't recall what the something was (though I think it begins with "g") so I took it at face value. Best Giles From: Xavier Scheuer Sent: 14 May 2024 15:15 To: Giles Boardman Cc: lilypond-

Re: Naming lines of music

2024-05-14 Thread Giles Boardman
y 2024 14:08 To: Giles Boardman Cc: Kieren MacMillan ; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Naming lines of music On Tue, 14 May 2024 at 14:44, Giles Boardman mailto:giles.board...@hotmail.co.uk>> wrote: > > Hello Kieren/Xavier, > > I wasn't going to be picky per Kieren'

Naming lines of music

2024-05-14 Thread Giles Boardman
The \mark command is centred. Can text be formatted to be left aligned (and smaller)? Is there an initialisation parameter I can change to set its default alignment? The snippet below is repeated i.e. multiple \score { blocks so I get a page of short sections of music with their titles. Only th

Re: Key signatures in MIDI output

2024-05-14 Thread Giles Boardman
M and the Key Sigs stand out because there's more than one. So, Cakewalk expects Key Signatures in Track #0 and Lilypond doesn't put them there and how data is brought into Lilypond won't change that. ____ From: David Kastrup Sent: 11 May 2024 20:22 To:

Re: Key signatures in MIDI output

2024-05-11 Thread Giles Boardman
rt2v1.ly" \score { \time 4/4 \key d\major { \mark "1K002-1a-" { \partial 8 g''8 fis''16 d''8. b'8. d''16 a'4 fis'4 fis'16 a'8. d''8. fis''16 g''16 e''8. e''8. g'

Re: Key signatures in MIDI output

2024-05-11 Thread Giles Boardman
ce for me is that when I use MIDIDSM to create a TXT file the Time Sig event is missing. I must have been mistaken in thinking I had seen the information in some output and not in other. My apologies. From: msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca Sent: 11 May 2024 13:

Re: Key signatures in MIDI output

2024-05-11 Thread Giles Boardman
nippets to the forum. Thanks for your interest. From: msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca Sent: 10 May 2024 21:21 To: Hans Åberg Cc: Giles Boardman ; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Key signatures in MIDI output On Fri, 10 May 2024, Hans Åberg wrote: > > sign

Key signatures in MIDI output

2024-05-10 Thread Giles Boardman
Hello, I am reading that I can create MIDI output which is different from the printed output. For example, I can unfold repeats in the midi output but use alternative endings and double barlines in my score. Awesome! So, I tried it and I notice that my MIDI output doesn't reflect the key signa

Re: MIDI format and MIDI resolution

2024-05-10 Thread Giles Boardman
_ From: lilypond-user-bounces+giles.boardman=hotmail.co...@gnu.org on behalf of Martin Tarenskeen Sent: 10 May 2024 10:06 To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: MIDI format and MIDI resolution Op donderdag 9 mei 2024 om 16:33:02 +00:00:00 schreef Giles Boardman : > He

Re: MIDI format and MIDI resolution

2024-05-09 Thread Giles Boardman
Is that "no, you can't tell me" or "no, it can't be done? (Just kidding). Thanks very much. It will save me spending time looking. From: David Kastrup Sent: 09 May 2024 18:41 To: Giles Boardman Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject:

MIDI format and MIDI resolution

2024-05-09 Thread Giles Boardman
Hello, Can anyone tell me if it is possible to generate Midi format 0 files and whether it is possible to control the resolution setting. I have been standardising resolution for midi files from different sources and the value I chose is not the one output by Lilypond. Thanks Giles

Re: Spacing in mensural notation

2024-05-08 Thread Giles Boardman
he answer 😉 Best Giles ________ From: Graham King Sent: 08 May 2024 10:20 To: Giles Boardman ; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Spacing in mensural notation Hi Giles, please copy the list: it helps others, and you might get better advice than I can offer. Thought

Spacing in mensural notation

2024-05-07 Thread Giles Boardman
Hello, I am new to Lilypond, cutting my teeth on a couple of pretty simple layouts - this exercise is to reproduce a page of a Petrucci score. [X] I'm thrilled with this [cid:710639fb-021d-4038-8cea-e057f36c7914] but I would like to remove the space from around the notes and bu

Transposing into related modes

2024-04-24 Thread Giles Boardman
Hello, I have been aware of Lilypond for some time but have only just taken the plunge and started to use it. I am in awe of the people who have created this astonishing resource, so, first of all, a huge thank you to everyone involved. The functionality is amazing, the documentation world clas