Re: Early (very early) project: The Celtic Song Book (c) 1928

2021-10-27 Thread Jay Anderson
for \unfoldRepeats: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/using-repeats-with-midi. The general recommendation is to have a score block for the pdf/image output and a separate block for the midi output with the repeats unfolded. -Jay

Re: Spacing between clef and first note without time signature

2021-01-03 Thread Jay Anderson
\layout { ragged-right = ##t indent = 0\cm line-width = 1.5\cm \context { \Staff \omit TimeSignature \override Clef.space-alist.first-note = #'(minimum-fixed-space . 3.0) } #(layout-set-staff-size 14) } -Jay

Spacing between clef and first note without time signature

2020-12-31 Thread Jay Anderson
essible (almost as if it's still leaving space for the time signature). Is there a way to squeeze this? I'm wanting this in a footnote and it needs to be reduced in size to look right. Thanks for the help. -Jay Anderson

Re: Scheme question

2019-09-20 Thread Jay Vara
Stefano, That works perfectly. The Cond conditional is even better. Thank you, Jay -- Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/User-f3.html ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Scheme question

2019-09-20 Thread Jay Vara
I have defined three pair lists nameCpitch, nameEpitch, nameGpitch and nameApitch. I want to assign nameold to one of the four depending on the value of pitch. I set pitch to G and have a set of if statements to define nameold. However it is not working. When I print one of the lists I defined,

Re: Multiple context NoteNames

2019-09-17 Thread Jay Vara
Wow! Fantastic! Thanks Aaron! -- Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/User-f3.html ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Multiple context NoteNames

2019-09-17 Thread Jay Vara
I have defined alternate note names using the following method: newnames = #`(("c" . "S") ("d" . "R") ("e" . "G") ("f" . "M") ("g" . "P") ("a" . "D") ("b" . "N")) myNoteNames = #(lambda (grob) (let* ((default-name (ly:grob-property grob 'text)) (new-name (assoc-get

Re: tie across voices

2018-12-23 Thread Jay Anderson
s also the spanner-id, but I don't believe that works for ties. -Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Merge_rests_engraver broken?

2018-12-18 Thread Jay Anderson
l > <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices#merging-rests> > : > What result are you seeing? Please describe the breakage you're seeing. Also consider using a newer version of lilypond. 2.19.82 is the latest version

Re: emails innummerable

2018-11-04 Thread Jay Hamilton
Merci but I just checked (and changed my name and address) and it was set (as far as I could understand ) to 'digest' or group so that is not the answer or at least not to the current problem. Jay On 2018-11-04 11:52, Jean-Julien Fleck wrote: > Hello Sam, > > I thin

acciaccatura issue

2018-10-19 Thread Jay Hamilton
I don't understand why the acciaccatura note is before the time signature in the third measure of this example \version "2.18.2" \header { title = "acciaccatura test" composer = "Jay Hamilton" copyright = \markup { \tiny \override #&#

Re: Transposing Keyless Brass Parts

2018-03-14 Thread Jay Anderson
that you could use tags (or the fancy edition engraver that's all the rage these days: https://github.com/openlilylib/edition-engraver). -Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Tempo Alignment Questions

2018-01-17 Thread Jay Anderson
On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 1:46 AM, Xavier Scheuer wrote: > On 14 January 2018 at 16:36, Jay Anderson wrote: > > > > Right. I want a more general solution. It gets annoying to have to > > tweak the same tempo in the score and different parts. With the > > accidental is

Re: Tempo Alignment Questions

2018-01-14 Thread Jay Anderson
o in the score and different parts. With the accidental issue for instance the object is on the page so I assume there is some way to tell it to align with that object. -Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/ma

Tempo Alignment Questions

2018-01-13 Thread Jay Anderson
mpo mark instead of stacking. Most of the time this isn't a big problem. However when music gets a bit compressed they stack (even using \markLengthOn). Also if I manage to make the above (3) work for alignment with multimeasure rests this will also occur. This would be worth thinking about after the above. Any suggestions for the above would be welcome. Thanks. -Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Adding \noPageBreak Programatically

2017-11-24 Thread Jay Anderson
scores (mostly bad line numbers in compile errors), but I'd prefer to not add another tool in the compile chain for the scores if possible. Thanks. -Jay On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Jay Anderson wrote: > I'm putting in some text before

Re: OpenType in LilyPond

2017-08-11 Thread Jay Anderson
eight pt 20) > )) > } > I did some of the work on that feature. It currently can't be globally enabled. I'd need to explore a bit more to figure it out how to make it available globally, but seems like it should be doable. I can't promise anything soon though.

Re: lilyvim

2017-08-10 Thread Jay Anderson
end me a working mail address of Heikki or Aaron? > How did these differ from the vim support included with lilypond? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/usage/text-editor-support.html#vim-mode -Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypo

Re: Allow dynamic + span bar line collision

2017-08-06 Thread Jay Anderson
On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 5:51 PM, Jay Anderson wrote: > I believe the default behavior in this case used to be for the dynamics to > collide with the bar line. These days it is creating a bit more space for > the dynamic. That's the right behavior in most cases, but not the one >

Allow dynamic + span bar line collision

2017-08-06 Thread Jay Anderson
\score { \new Staff { c4 c c c | c\sempreFF c c c | } } % creates empty space \score { \new GrandStaff << \new Staff { c4 c c c | c\sempreFF c c c | } \new Staff { c4 c c c | c\sempreFF c c c | } >> } = -Jay

Scheme / Lilypond question

2017-01-06 Thread Jay Vara
1) Is it possible to define a variable as a piece of music: jj = g16 \3 ( f e f) The idea is, in the music I am working on the note F is sometimes replaced by the above [and similarly other notes]. Perhaps a scheme function may be needed for this? 2) When I am specifying the guitar string the no

Re: Rests in polyphonic and simple music in the same staff in LilyPond version 2.18.2.

2016-12-23 Thread Jay Anderson
one through the process). I'll most likely have some next week time to refresh my memory how it works, clean it up, document it, and create some tests. Beyond that I'd need some guidance. > Thanks and merry holidays, > Alexander Thanks and same to you. -Jay ___

Re: Making a Hairpin end close to the end of a Score

2016-10-30 Thread Jay Anderson
e end. > > However, this will not work if the hairpin starts on the last printed note. I tend to use this: c1\> s1*0\! | -Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: problem with lyric extender line

2016-05-15 Thread Jay Anderson
quot; { ... } } \new Lyrics \lysicsto "oboe1" { ... } \new Staff { \new Voice = "oboe2" { ... } } \new Lyrics \lysicsto "oboe2" { ... } >> -Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Music or Scheme function to Auto Generate glissandos

2016-04-14 Thread Jay Vara
Wow! That works! Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Music-or-Scheme-function-to-Auto-Generate-glissandos-tp189566p189597.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing

Music or Scheme function to Auto Generate glissandos

2016-04-13 Thread Jay Vara
I have some music where I have Glissandos between each note of a phrase. This happens often enough to warrant a Music of Scheme function that takes a piece of music and adds glissandos between the notes. In the example code below, for example, such a function would take music and convert it musics

Re: Left Hand Fingerings on Guitar Tab

2016-04-06 Thread Jay Vara
Works perfectly. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Left-Hand-Fingerings-on-Guitar-Tab-tp189370p189391.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-use

Left Hand Fingerings on Guitar Tab

2016-04-06 Thread Jay Vara
I am trying to add left hand fingerings to the Tablature without affecting the staff. Here is a sample code: \version "2.19.15" one = \markup { \finger 1 } two = \markup { \finger 2 } three = \markup { \finger 3 } four = \markup { \finger 4 } myMusic = \relati

Re: Rehearsal mark/tempo collision

2015-11-27 Thread Jay Anderson
imple options I'd suggest: - Option 1: Manually move the tempo \override Score.MetronomeMark.X-offset = #3 - Option 2: Don't align to `time-signature`. This will align to the note. \override Score.MetronomeMark.break-align-symbols = #'() -Jay On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 1:10

Combined marks (rehearsal mark, fermata) + break

2015-11-12 Thread Jay Anderson
ot;, "|)", and "(|)" for fermatas above, below, and above and below (and of course variations with different actual bar types). What do you think? Is it too strange to put this as part of the bar line? -Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Colouring guitar strings

2015-11-07 Thread Jay Vara
Marc, that is perfect. Let me try and figure out how to adapt it to guitar tabs. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Colouring-guitar-strings-tp183220p183233.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _

Colouring guitar strings

2015-11-06 Thread Jay Vara
Is there a way to have the guitar staff lines colour-coded? That is, have each line in a different colour? There is a snippet that allows you to change the thickness of staff lines. Something along the same lines perhaps could be available. ___ lilypond-u

Re: 2.19.24 'add-score' + \noPageBreak

2015-08-05 Thread Jay Anderson
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:48 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Jay Anderson writes: >> #(add-score #{ \noPageBreak #}) > > Which version should that ever have worked in? I haven't figured out when it changed (git bisect), but it at least worked in 2.19.15. (With the added parser at

2.19.24 'add-score' + \noPageBreak

2015-08-05 Thread Jay Anderson
etting the same effect? Thanks. -Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Windows performance

2015-04-18 Thread Jay Anderson
hread). I don’t > think we’ve had anyone corroborate the results on GNU/Linux yet. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-04/msg00482.html That was on linux (64-bit). A speed-up there as well. So there are speed-ups across the board. -Jay

Re: (hypothetical) Availability of LilyPond engravers

2015-04-16 Thread Jay Anderson
very willing, though I most likely wouldn't be able to work full time. Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-16 Thread Jay Anderson
Not one big score, but lots of smaller ones bundled: http://horndude77.github.io/horn-solos/. About 700 total pages (10x13in horn part, 9x12in piano). 2.19.17 - 9m39s 2.19.18 - 7m00s (a nice speed bump here.) Both max out around 6.5gb. I recall past versions required more memory. -Jay On

Re: parts for natural horns and trumpets

2015-04-04 Thread Jay Anderson
concert pitch and to output the music in the transposed pitch. This is the opposite of what lilypond's 'transposition' means. Switching these around works great, but the default seems wrong. Anyway, this is a _very_ useful function. Functionality like this should be part of liliyp

Re: Highlight or Cross out measures

2015-03-16 Thread Jay Anderson
> There has been another thread about that: > http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/scheme-problem-colored-background-layers-td169023.html > <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/scheme-problem-colored-background-layers-td169023.html> > Awesome. That worked great. Thanks. -Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Highlight or Cross out measures

2015-03-15 Thread Jay Anderson
other work on this in the intervening years? My other thoughts are to use analysis brackets or draw custom bar lines to denote the sections. -Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond

opera written with lily performance/demo

2015-03-14 Thread Jay Hamilton
After trials and tribulations and a great deal of help from many of you I finished the score to my opera The Map in 2012. www.themaptheopera.com On the 21st of March a performance (to garner more support for a full production) of 5 scenes is Happening. Thanks for the aid- truly Jay

Re: Peer review

2015-02-17 Thread Jay Anderson
parts such as these. A4 is fairly narrow which could be part of the problem as well. -Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: skip in 5/8

2015-02-11 Thread Jay Hamilton
Thanks to both of you, where in the manual is this? Jay On 2015-02-11 09:21, Shane Brandes wrote: Apologies R1*5/8*15 will do it. I misread the beats as measures. Shane On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Shane Brandes wrote: R1*5/8*60 ought to do the trick. Shane On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at

skip in 5/8

2015-02-11 Thread Jay Hamilton
way to do this? Thanks Jay -- Thanks for reading blogs at https://learnivore.com/users/music# www.soundand.com www.themaptheopera.com Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: centering full-measure objects (notes and/or rests)

2015-02-03 Thread Jay Anderson
-centered-ness of the note. It's never bothered me enough to try and fix it though. I'd definitely be interested in being able to tweak it if it were available. -Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.or

Re: staccato dots and slurs in second voice

2015-01-25 Thread Jay Anderson
ould also take into account other articulations that behave like staccato (staccatissimo, stopped (I've seen this one both ways), etc.) -Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Staccato

2015-01-19 Thread Jay Anderson
{ \Voice \consists #stacc-corrector } } } The default toward-stem-shift for staccato marks is 0.5 (I'm not quite sure why). The above also moves the staccato back to the default position if other articulations are present. -Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

2015-01-18 Thread Jay Anderson
defaults for a specific type of score and less about building the structure. So you'd still need to manually build the scores and staves. Correct? -Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Getting pitch out of a pair

2015-01-16 Thread Jay Anderson
- It won't work within a quoted list (e.g. #'(#{ b #} . #{ cis' #}) won't get you pitches.) -Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Question about \afterGrace

2015-01-15 Thread Jay Anderson
ine before the grace notes. Gould also says "the trill line continues right up to the following notehead or its accidental (if it has one)", or it "stops at the barline". -Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu

Re: Question about \afterGrace

2015-01-15 Thread Jay Anderson
tion/special-rhythmic-concerns Essentially the implementation of afterGrace is a workaround to make the grace show before the bar line (see music-functions-init.ly). -Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

controlling number of bars in a line

2015-01-05 Thread Jay Hamilton
lly. Thanks in advance I'm sure this is easily found but I couldn't version 2.18.2 Jay -- Thanks for reading blogs at https://learnivore.com/users/music# www.soundand.com www.themaptheopera.com Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list li

Re; volta issues resolved and explained

2014-12-21 Thread Jay Hamilton
Thank you for the solution and explanation. This is something I wouldn't know how to notice in the manuals or even to look for. Best Jay -- Thanks for reading blogs at https://learnivore.com/users/music# www.soundand.com www.themaptheopera.co

Re: volta problem plus a new issue question concerning volta

2014-12-21 Thread Jay Hamilton
r the finding the mistake that I just didn't catch. Jay Message: 2 Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 21:30:51 -0800 From: "Mark Stephen Mrotek" To: "'Jay Hamilton'" , "'Lilypond User'" Subject: RE: Re; Volta problem Message-ID: <000

Re; Volta problem

2014-12-20 Thread Jay Hamilton
h \markup because I'm not interested in the midi for it. here's a snippet that shows the problem Thanks Jay \version "2.18.2" \header { title = "Overture- Lully" } #(ly:set-option 'delete-intermediate-files #t) #(set-default-paper-size "letter

Bar numbers below staff

2014-12-20 Thread Jay Hamilton
Hello Where in the manual(s) is the alignment for bar numbers below staff? I found the engrave details but nothing (that I could find with my limited wisdom) refers to putting them below the staff. Thanks Jay BTW gang my opera "The Map" which was completely set and somewhat com

Adding \noPageBreak Programatically

2014-12-16 Thread Jay Anderson
==== Unfortunately I can't get the \noPageBreak to work here. Any ideas on the difference? Thanks. -Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: [OT] solfege to notes software?

2014-12-13 Thread Jay Vara
All music in Carnatic Classical music is written in solfege. Not sure if this is an example of what you are talking about. Plus there is no specific standard, but rather a bunch of different conventions. And the ornamentations are left to the performer and not specifically written. Timing is handle

Problems with Completion_heads_engraver

2014-11-29 Thread Jay Vara
For some reason the Completion heads engraver does not seem to be working in some situations. In some cases it swallows up a note (although timing wise it seems ok) and sometimes it produces some weird looking notes. Here is one example I was able to recreate in a small example: [image: Inline ima

Re: Programming question

2014-11-26 Thread Jay Vara
could not get past the syntax / non-music expression issues. On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 12:41 AM, David Nalesnik wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Jay Vara wrote: > >> Trying to force the lyric in David's program to associate with the >> Staff/Voice, I added

Re: Programming question

2014-11-25 Thread Jay Vara
. On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: > 2014-11-25 15:49 GMT+01:00 Jay Vara : > > Trying to force the lyric in David's program to associate with the > > Staff/Voice, I added a name "jun" to the voice and see if that worked. > > > &g

Re: Programming question

2014-11-25 Thread Jay Vara
Trying to force the lyric in David's program to associate with the Staff/Voice, I added a name "jun" to the voice and see if that worked. noteNameToLyric = #(define-void-function (parser location lst) (list?) (let* ((str (t lst)) (str (string-append "{ " str "}"))) (display str) (newline) (ly

Programming question

2014-11-23 Thread Jay Vara
Given that NoteNames are really a type of lyrics, is it possible to have a function that just takes music and returns a text string that is a lyric. For example: music = \relative c' { c4 d e f g a b c } notenameLyric = \NoteNameToLyric \music would make notenameLyric = "c d e f g a b c" so

Replace slur events with skip

2014-11-17 Thread Jay Vara
I tried to change the tiedNoteToSkip procedure to also skip slurs. For some reason, it does not seem to work the same way. It skips the first note in a 3 note slur, but not the second. Here is the script: \version "2.19.15" #(define (name-of music) (ly:music-property music 'name)) tiedNoteToSki

Re: Colors in alists

2014-11-04 Thread Jay Anderson
ow to > turn the returned string into a color to be used in an override. Try quasiquote + unquote: #(define types `(("one" . ,red) ("two" . ,blue))) #(display types) => ((one 1.0 0.0 0.0) (two 0.0 0.0 1.0)) -Jay ___

Re: how to get "h" instead of "b" in notenames

2014-11-04 Thread Jay Vara
Apparently, in the NoteNames context it defaults to Dutch. You can use the following code to get what you want I think. b has been redefined to h in the definition of newnames and the myNoteNames override to NoteName.stencil makes this substitution. %%% \version "2.18

Re: Unicode Font Issues

2014-11-02 Thread Jay Vara
Yes, you are right. The unicode fonts failed on 2.19.5. I even tried the new windows 10 and it failed. Now that I know it works on linux (thanks to Bric), I will try to get access to linux using virtual box and try it out. On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > If it works

Re: Accidental Notes in different colour

2014-11-01 Thread Jay Vara
veral key signature changes in my music and I realised that by the time Lilypond gets to printing the NoteNames, it seems to have lost knowledge of the key signatures and only remembers the very last one. Jay -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Accidental-Not

Re: Unicode Font Issues

2014-11-01 Thread Jay Vara
If it works on Linux, I may have a way to get Linux on the windows PC using Virtual Box. On the other hand I am using version 2.18.2 - perhaps I should try 2.19.5 first. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Unicode-Font-Issues-tp168122p168243.html Sent from the

How to force NoteNames to be printed before key change

2014-10-31 Thread Jay Vara
I have a program which is roughly as below: \score { \new staff { \key c \major << \new voice { musicA } \context NoteNames { \override NoteName.stencil = #myNoteNames

Re: Accidental Notes in different colour

2014-10-31 Thread Jay Vara
Jay, Thanks. That works very well. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Accidental-Notes-in-different-colour-tp168088p168120.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Accidental Notes in different colour

2014-10-31 Thread Jay Vara
>I am not top-posting Paul, Thanks. I was able to use the snippets you pointed out to get it almost working. Check out this snippet: > > Using ly:grob-object to access grobs with \tweak > http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=621 > This is the program I wrote. It does colour the note heads for

Re: Accidental Notes in different colour

2014-10-31 Thread Jay Vara
Paul Thanks. I modified your snippet and was able to get it to work for the note heads. For some reason the stems and accidentals do not work. I even tried a separate function to set Stem.color - also did not work. The stem does not seem to see accidentals. When I tried the color-acci in my p

Unicode Font Issues

2014-10-31 Thread Jay Vara
I tried to use unicode fonts for the lyrics. While the fonts show perfectly well in the input file, the output is not correct. Is there a workaround? %% \version "2.18.2" \score { \new Staff \relative c' { << {c2 d4e f2 g a b c} \new Lyrics \lyri

Re: Accidental Notes in different colour

2014-10-31 Thread Jay Vara
Paul, Thanks. I modified the snippet and was able to get it half-way working. I say half-way because I was not able to get the Stem and the Accidental to change colour, just the NoteHead. Well, not quite. I tried this function on a long music and it changed the colour of the stem here and there -

Accidental Notes in different colour

2014-10-29 Thread Jay Vara
Is there a way to make the accidental notes in a different colour? I can make a particular note a different colour by: \tweak NoteHead.color #red \tweak Stem.color #red \tweak Accidental.color #red c4 However, I would like to have all the accidentals to be coloured. Perhaps, override NoteHead c

Re: How does map-some-music work?

2014-10-08 Thread Jay Vara
Paul > > Hi Jay, Did you see my reply here: > http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/map-some-music-question- tp167241p167250.html Thanks. I will try your suggestions. I was watching this site. http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.general For some reason, there were no u

How does map-some-music work?

2014-10-08 Thread Jay Vara
I am trying to display all the names that appear in a piece of music (NoteEvent etc.) using map-some-music. It the function musShow is only printing the top level name. What am I missing here? \version "2.18.2" #(define (showMus music) (display-scheme-music (ly:music-propert

Re: map-some-music question

2014-10-07 Thread Jay Vara
I am trying to display all the names that appear in a piece of music (NoteEvent etc.) using map-some-music. It the function musNam is only printing the top level name. What am I missing here? %%% \version "2.18.2" #(define (name-of music) (display-scheme-music (ly:music-property

map-some-music question

2014-10-06 Thread Jay Vara
I am trying to display all the names that appear in a piece of music (NoteEvent etc.) using map-some-music. It the function musNam is only printing the top level name. What am I missing here? %%% \version "2.18.2" #(define (name-of music) (display-scheme-music (ly:music-property

NoteName Engraver and Ties

2014-10-06 Thread Jay Vara
Is there a way to tell the NoteName Engraver not to print the notes under ties? Or print a - when the note is tied to the previous note? In the following code, e and g are tied. The NoteName currently prints e e and g g. Instead I would like to see it print e - and g -. %%% \version "2.18

Lyrics only

2014-10-05 Thread Jay Vara
I saw some discussion of how to get lilypond to print only lyrics from a few years ago. I tried a few things suggested in those posts, but nothing worked well. Does anyone know if a good solution exists? Ideally, NoteNames and Lyrics contexts would print, but staff does not print or occupy spac

Re: Transpose a lilypond file

2014-10-05 Thread Jay Vara
tead of adding a new file. > Being able to call from the command line would be quite interesting. We were going to have a website where someone could get the song sheet plus the corresponding midi with the transpose they want. Would be easy to implement with the command line opti

Re: The silent s

2014-10-05 Thread Jay Vara
Marc > > A quick search in the sources shows that at least 's' seems to be > hardcoded in lily/parser.yy, so there is no easy way to define another > letter instead of 's'. > Okay, thanks. I should be able to work around it. Jay _

Re: Transpose a lilypond file

2014-10-05 Thread Jay Vara
pieces in the score. \musicA \musicB \musicC etc. In some cases only two are defined and in some cases five or six are defined. I should be able to used the defined? construct to handle that. Thanks. Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

The silent s

2014-10-05 Thread Jay Vara
I have the letter s as a defined pitch abc = #`( (s . ,(ly:make-pitch -1 0 NATURAL) ) which I set as a note name. How do I set a different letter to the silent note s? Also for the rest r? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org htt

Transpose a lilypond file

2014-10-05 Thread Jay Vara
I have a song.ly file which prints a song. Is it possible for someone to print the song with a transposition, say c to d, without editing the .ly file? Something like: \transpose c d {\include song.ly} ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@g

Re: Merge Rests Engraver

2014-10-04 Thread Jay Anderson
d for better dot placement that caused this. One option is to use \override Dots #'stencil = ##f in one of the voices. Not great. Or use the other solution (http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=336). My main complaint with it is that it doesn't handle multi-measure rests (an

Re: String as a command?

2014-10-03 Thread Jay Vara
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-04/msg00602.html > >From a brief look at the thread, it looks like it might work. I will work on it this weekend to understand it and check it out. Thanks Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list

String as a command?

2014-10-03 Thread Jay Vara
Is there a way to execute a string as a command? For example, tt = 45 #(display tt) #(newline) jj = "tt = 65" #(display jj) #(newline) tt = #(eval-string jj) #(display tt) #(newline) would display the value 65 for tt, the result of evaluating the string jj. If I define lilyA, lilyB, lilyC to be

Re: Special bar lines at end of a line

2014-10-02 Thread Jay Vara
> Not quite. This definition makes all the lines end with the "special" barline "|.". I only wanted it at the end of the FirstPart of music. Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Special bar lines at end of a line

2014-10-02 Thread Jay Vara
I have four bars per line, plus I have double bar lines at the beginning and end of a line as seen in the code below. I tried to get a special bar line at the end of the FirstPart (at the end of the first line) without success. I think I was able to get it in one of the trials, but that made the d

Re: Thanks to David Nalesnik and Jan-Peter Voigt

2014-10-02 Thread Jay Vara
David, I tried your snippet with a different meter and it gives some weird results. It seems to produce additional bars - I changed the bar after the compound meter to double bar so we can see the extraneous bars. And the notes are not placed properly. Am I doing something totally foolish here? %

Re: Thanks to David Nalesnik and Jan-Peter Voigt

2014-10-01 Thread Jay Vara
ays of doing things in lilypod and guile in more depth than the manuals. I am quite thankful for this. Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Function not called in the NoteName context

2014-10-01 Thread Jay Vara
>I am not top-posting I have defined a function sspOn that just sets a variable SSP to 1. It is called from the music expression \music. \music is used in the Voice context as well as in the NoteNames context. However, the function call is made only once. How do I get the function to be calle

Re: Line in lyrics to show half or full note

2014-10-01 Thread Jay Vara
rneath notes to indicate 8th or 16th notes - should extend similar to beams. Best Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Thanks to David Nalesnik and Jan-Peter Voigt

2014-10-01 Thread Jay Vara
by sub-bar units in lily/completion-noteheads-engraver.cc? If they mean sub-bar units of the compound meter, they should work for your snippet and they do not. Thanks, Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Line in lyrics to show half or full note

2014-10-01 Thread Jay Vara
When a lyric syllable corresponds to several notes, it is easy to get a line extending under all the notes concerned. When a lyric syllable corresponds to a single full note (or dotted full or a half note) I would like to see a line the extends from the lyric till the completion of the current note

Re: Alignment of markups

2014-10-01 Thread Jay Vara
Jay Vara diljun.com> writes: > I am trying to get the text about the two staffs to align. \left-align or \right-align both seem to just give centre align. I think I got it. I had to use \override Score.RehearsalMark.self-alignment-X =

Alignment of markups

2014-10-01 Thread Jay Vara
I am trying to get the text about the two staffs to align. \left-align or \right-align both seem to just give centre align. Here is the code and what it produces. %% \version "2.18.2" \new Voice {\mark \markup {\left-align "Left-Align"} \relative c' {c d e f g a b c} } \new Voice {\mark

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