Re: Frescobaldi?

2024-11-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le mercredi 27 novembre 2024 à 16:04 +, N. Andrew Walsh a écrit : > Hi all, > > since I kicked off a whole long discussion about this back in May > (see below), I thought it would be worth an update from me, as a > gentoo user, about how things look for my side. > > Gentoo dev on my original

Re: Appoggiature too fast

2024-09-12 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Le 12 sept. 2024 à 16:18, Xavier Scheuer a écrit : > > Could be linked to > https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/commit/a6b11d016886d53345766589a625ba5d0a1fa961 > that fixed 6489 > https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6489 I can't see how that commit could have changed anything t

Re: \with-url relative link?

2024-08-05 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le lundi 05 août 2024 à 11:18 -0700, l t a écrit : > Hi, > Wondering if it is possible to have lilypond produce a working relative url > link on a pdf, where, if I had a file in the same directory as the outputted > PDF, I could do something like this: > \markup  { \with-url  #"test.mid" } > or > \

Re: Suggestions for the lilypond-user archive search

2024-07-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le samedi 27 juillet 2024 à 15:40 -0500, Christopher Heckman a écrit : > This is a useful website to bookmark and use, but I've found over the > years that it can be improved. My suggestions are: > > (1) Allow an option to search by thread. If X is a thread that matches > the search, then most of

Re: Off-topic: does anybody know about these accidentals?

2024-07-23 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le mardi 23 juillet 2024 à 01:05 +0200, Jean Abou Samra a écrit : > The SMuFL standard has a *very* extensive set of accidentals, see > https://w3c.github.io/smufl/latest/tables/standard-accidentals-12-edo.html > and the following sections; yet I couldn't find them there either. My

Off-topic: does anybody know about these accidentals?

2024-07-22 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Hi folks, A friend of mine asked the following question, which I find pretty mysterious. In the Unicode musical symbols block, the available microtonal accidentals are these: - 𝄬 U+1D12C MUSICAL SYMBOL FLAT UP and 𝄭 U+1D12D MUSICAL SYMBOL FLAT DOWN - 𝄮 U+1D12E MUSICAL SYMBOL NATURAL UP and 𝄯 U+

Re: lilypond 2.24.0 looking for files outside local folder

2024-07-19 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Sorry if this was already asked.I found this strange behavior: $  ls -l satb.ly-rw-r--r-- 1 ambs ambs 6018 jul 19 20:52 satb.ly$   lilypond satb.lyGNU LilyPond 2.24.0 (running Guile 2.2)Processing `/opt/local/share/lilypond/2.24.0/ly/satb.ly'Parsing...Even with something like ./satb.ly, lilypond st

Re: Changes in notation font in 2.25

2024-07-14 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le dimanche 14 juillet 2024 à 03:41 +, Werner LEMBERG a écrit : > > No, it is not correct.  Option `-I` is for LilyPond input files and > not for basic resource files like the music fonts.  Please follow the > instructions given in the NR section 'Replacing the notation font'. Right. The alt

Re: Changes in notation font in 2.25

2024-07-14 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le samedi 13 juillet 2024 à 06:03 +, Werner LEMBERG a écrit : > Note, however, that a lot of Emmentaler glyphs have been renamed since > the original release of the cadence fonts, and these glyphs will > certainly fail because LilyPond won't be able to find them.  In other > words, your simple

Re: Changes in notation font in 2.25

2024-07-13 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le vendredi 12 juillet 2024 à 19:06 -0400, William Rehwinkel a écrit : > The reason is, it appears that old notation fonts have become slightly > broken, especially glyphs relating to numbers (time signatures, > multi-measure rests, figured bass).  This is almost certainly a setup issue. Please

Re: extra space on pages

2024-07-11 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le jeudi 11 juillet 2024 à 14:30 -0700, Paul Scott a écrit : > Some Lilypond syntax is not as clear to me as the other programming > languages that I have used. Basically, "_-" is the direction indicator "_" (down) plus the character for tenuto, "-", in the same vein as "_\p" or "_.". > I used

Re: extra space on pages

2024-07-11 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le jeudi 11 juillet 2024 à 23:13 +0200, Jean Abou Samra a écrit : > { c'_-\tweak padding 50 _\markup{ " " } } > > and the reason is that the first "_" should not be there. > (in fact the first "-" is not useful either) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: extra space on pages

2024-07-11 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le jeudi 11 juillet 2024 à 14:08 -0700, Paul Scott a écrit : > I believe I got this code from Kieren but I may have a typo in my use of it. > >    _-\tweak padding 50 _\markup{ " " } > > It produces blank space on the page below the music as desired but I get > a tenuto mark in the music before

Re: French lyrics and accented characters

2024-07-04 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le jeudi 04 juillet 2024 à 15:21 +0100, Raphael Mankin a écrit : > It is partly an OS problem,  but also that no common keyboard (or > keyboard layout) contains  the complete set of Latin characters. Not sure how far what you call the “complete set of Latin characters” extends, but if you somehow

Re: French lyrics and accented characters

2024-07-04 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le jeudi 04 juillet 2024 à 08:09 +0100, Raphael Mankin a écrit : > I already use these, but they are incomplete. > > Thanks to all who replied; I obviously struck a nerve, and i10n is still > an issue in spite of utf8. I beg to differ. IMHO, entering special characters is an OS-level problem; p

Re: French lyrics and accented characters

2024-07-03 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le mercredi 03 juillet 2024 à 08:26 +0100, Raphael Mankin a écrit : > Thank you. The obvious is what generally escapes one. But character > picking is a PITA. I shall have to add a French keyboard to my layouts. > AZERTY :-( Have you tried a Compose key? At least under a GNOME Linux desktop, th

Re: French lyrics and accented characters

2024-07-02 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> I have tried all sorts of  things, but how  do I get French accented > characters in lyrics and markup? Uh… just write them directly: \version "2.24.2" \markup { Quelques caractères accentués } \lyrics { É à û Ï } Jean signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: syntax for \afterGrace

2024-07-01 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le lundi 01 juillet 2024 à 12:05 -0700, Paul Scott a écrit : > Hi, > > This MWE works as I expect for the 1st \afterGrace but not for the 2nd > one. In both cases I want the 16th notes in curly brackets to be the > grace notes. I have tried several places to put the tied note. > > \version "2.2

Re: alternate time signatures

2024-06-28 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> I thought I had this solved before but I can't find it. I need to set the > time signatures 9/8 and 3/4 side-by-side surrounded by parentheses at the > beginning of a score. See https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=782

Re: Windows users - Call for testing

2024-06-28 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le vendredi 28 juin 2024 à 22:22 +, bobr...@centrum.is a écrit : > Michael, > > I'm sorry, but I don't really understand what your code does, nor do > I know what to do with it in a real score.  If you want to throw a > score at me using it I'll be happy to run LilyPond 2.25.17 (Guile > 3.0) a

Re: Windows users - Call for testing

2024-06-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
>  Hmm, but that looks like syntax errors in your test.ly file that are > unrelated >  to the Guile patches. As can be seen in the list archives, Klaus' mail client inserted spurious newlines that turn parts of comments into non-comments. The correct code should be #(define step 1) #(define

Re: LSR typo: plz correct

2024-06-20 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> I’m hoping to address someone with the necessary privileges to edit the > title of LSR snippet 1017: s/there/their > > https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=1017 Done signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: latin letter "N"

2024-06-14 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> I'm using Lilypond on Mac and by the font Times New Roman the latin letter > "N" appears not right. Can anybody help with this issue? We've seen this before and it turned out to be a bug in the Times New Roman font file shipped by that macOS version, see https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond

Re: hairpin over bar line and over end of line

2024-06-11 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> How would I have found that in the documentation? It's in the "expressive marks" snippets, though I admit I couldn't have found it myself without searching the docs source code. https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/snippets/expressive-marks.html#expressive-marks-controlling-spanner-vis

Re: hairpin over bar line and over end of line

2024-06-11 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Probably a simple answer but how do I get a crescendo in this example to > continue to the next line? \override Hairpin.after-line-breaking = ##f signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Fine-tuning footer alignment

2024-06-10 Thread Jean Abou Samra
\version "2.25.13" \header { copyright = \markup { \general-align #Y #DOWN \left-column { \line{© Cameron Horsburgh. This work is licensed under} \line{CC BY-ND 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit } \line {https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0} } } t

Re: Two adjacent clefs

2024-06-09 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> I think it's not uncommon for two clefs to appear side by side at the > start of a piece (e.g. when a piano piece starts with both staves in > bass clef so as to alert the pianist that the upper staff is not in > treble clef). > How is this done in LilyPond? See https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item

Re: wordwrap on argument of markup function

2024-06-01 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> (define-markup-command (freely layout props width-param text) (number? > markup?) ^^^ Make that `markup-list?`. Otherwise, your command is accepting only a single markup. In your example, \line inside the command is

Re: fontconfig not using XDG directories

2024-06-01 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> I am running on Alpine Linux and I noticed that lilypond creates > ~/.fontconfig/ with cache files every time I run it. > > It seems like fontconfig is supposed to follow the XDG environment > variables > (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/commit/8c255fb), > which I have def

Re: Vertical alignement

2024-05-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Try \version "2.24.3" \markup \fill-line { \column { \override #'(padding . 10) \table #`(,LEFT ,LEFT) { \line { "1." \column { "Поблискують черешеньки" "В листі зелененькім," "Черешеньки ваблять очі" "Діточка

Re: running lilypond

2024-05-24 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le vendredi 24 mai 2024 à 07:23 -0600, ming tsang a écrit : > I try to run the following code as lilypond .ly > \version "2.24.3" > lilypond -dbackend=eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts myfile.ly This looks like a command that you should run in a terminal, not LilyPond syntax. In Frescob

Re: DIfferent note values within a chord

2024-05-21 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Could someone give me a pointer for this? > > This is a quite popular notation for bowed string instruments. I’m almost > certain that I saw a way to achieve this before but could not find it this > time. \version "2.24.2" { 2 } HTH Jean signature.asc Description: This is a digitally s

Re: Moving dynamics onto the staff

2024-05-20 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> So why would overriding the dynamic line spanner's outside-staff-priority > change where the forte goes?  Isn't it DynamicText?  If anyone can clear this > up for me, I would be very appreciative.  When there are consecutive dynamics like \p \< ... \f \> ... \pp, they need to be all vertically a

Re: Conditional code in the midi block

2024-05-20 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> nostaffmidi = > #(define-scheme-function () () >(if TrackPerVoice #{ \context { \Staff \remove "Staff_performer" } #})) Ah, that proves me wrong. I didn't recall the parser was smart enough for this. > Although, I don't understand why the contents of the scheme functions cannot > be pla

Re: Conditional code in the midi block

2024-05-20 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> I would like to include some Staff and Voice context settings in the > \midi block only if a flag is set to ##t and I have not been able to > figure out how to do this.  When I try to wrap the \context blocks > in a code block with #{…#} I get this error: > trackPerVoiceMWE.ly:31:16: error: synt

Re: One-page PDF cut off after a certain height?

2024-05-20 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> I run into a problem when I create a (very high) single-page PDF file from a > Lilypond score. 'After a certain time', the rest of the page is rendered in > white. > > In my use case, I wanted to make a large system staff, and white-on-black > music, because of readability-reasons. Specifically

Re: Looking for documentation for constants

2024-05-19 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> This is a very basic question.  I have see some examples that use > constants like "$SELECTION" or ""$CURSOR'$ANCHOR". but despite doing all the > obvious things (searching the documentation, etc.) I've not found any relevant > information. > > I would sincerely appreciate being pointed in the r

Re: vertical spacing per score

2024-05-18 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Le 19 mai 2024 à 02:53, Walt North a écrit : > > David, thanks, this did indeed accomplish my goal - so I'm happy. Well, \bookpart will work *if* you are happy with having a page break between the two scores.

Re: vertical spacing per score

2024-05-18 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Le 19 mai 2024 à 01:56, David Wright a écrit : > > Perhaps > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2024-04/msg00247.html Indeed, but there was a more technical one, with Lukas I think.

Re: vertical spacing per score

2024-05-18 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Hi.  I have a case where I want to have different vertical spacing between two > different scores.  I can get system-system spacing to change for both scores > using a \paper variable. But if I'm understanding the documentation correctly > I should be able to use the same variable in a distinct l

Re: manual repeat mark syntax question

2024-05-16 Thread Jean Abou Samra
>    \set Score.repeatCommands = #'((volta ,voltaOpt)) ^^^ This should be ` not ' . signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Custom colors in fret diagrams

2024-05-15 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Quick question on coloring dots in fret-diagrams. There is an option to use > predefined colors from normal, CSS or X11 palettes which works perfectly well > in the fret-diagram-verbose with the snippet below: > > >  (place-fret 3 6 3 dodgerblue2) > > For some reason I cannot get it working wit

Re: italic phrase in lyrics

2024-05-15 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le mercredi 15 mai 2024 à 17:05 -0400, David Olson a écrit : > Suppose the lyrics contain two contradictory propositions: > >    Ma -- the -- ma -- tics is in -- vent -- ed. >   Ma -- the -- ma -- tics is dis -- cov -- ered. > > Is this the only way to put the second proposition in italics? > >

Re: layout problem - new issue

2024-05-14 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> I've tried placing the new bar in 3 different places on the treble > staff.  In the current pdf, the first 2 are commented out and the third > -- which I expected to work -- is active: placement after the >>.  > Somehow a spurious bar is inserted, but I don't know where it's coming from. You

Re: Frescobaldi?

2024-05-10 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> I've freshly installed Frescobaldi using mac port. When lauching the > frescobaldi.app, Are you sure that this is the Frescobaldi that was installed by MacPorts? It rather sounds like the (buggy) .app distributed in the Frescobaldi releases. I think the MacPorts-installed Frescobaldi should be

Re: \after positioning in voices

2024-05-07 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> >   % \after 2 \< \after 8*7 \!\> \after 2 \! >   s2 d8(c b2) Make that       s2 d8(\< c \after 8 \> b2) <>\! \after doesn't work the way you indented your code suggests you think it does. The syntax is \after DURATION ARTICULATION MUSIC and gives something roughly equivalent to <

Re: Frescobaldi?

2024-05-06 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Regarding MacOs porting, a valid alternative would be to run > the linux version of Frescobaldi from a Docker container Perhaps, but from the perspective of building .app bundles, that replaces a headache (shipping Qt, PyQt, Poppler and python-poppler-qt5) with what sounds like an even larger he

Re: Re[4]: Frescobaldi?

2024-05-06 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> I'm an intermediate-level python programmer but I might be able to help with > busy work like typing and documenting functions, with some feedback.  Anything > to give back to a project that I use all the time! Thanks. However, without wanting to stop you from contributing, I'll reiterate that

Re: Re[4]: Frescobaldi?

2024-05-06 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le lundi 06 mai 2024 à 14:05 +, Steph Phillips a écrit : > Well, I'm glad you asked about feedback because I'm curious what other > folks who contribute to Frescobaldi might think. > > After digging around in the codebase, I'm wondering if the application > might benefit from a more object-o

Re: Re[2]: Frescobaldi?

2024-05-06 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Hey all, I've been looking over the Frescobaldi codebase for the last > few days, and it seems to be within the realm of something I could pick > up maintenance for. > > There would definitely be a learning curve, so hopefully it doesn't > reach it's EOL too soon... But, I don't know, I feel

Re: Frescobaldi?

2024-05-06 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> I’m wondering if the Frescobaldi approach is actually working out. Keep in > mind that originally Frescobaldi was just a project for adding support for > Lilypond to KATE, then it became a KDE parts solution, then it started to do > everything itself for more control. And this means you’ll ne

Re: Frescobaldi?

2024-05-05 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> The technical stuff is way over my head, but this reads like the top- > level description of a GSOC project (in case the mentioned friend > doesn't take the bait)... GSoC projects are nice for doing focused work on some specific part of the code base. For overhauling just about everything, I'd

Re: how difficult would it be to have “auto-correct spacing” (even for just a single measure)?

2024-05-04 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> > If you look at the first measure of the third system, you can see > > that the note spacing is distorted by various things (lyrics, > > accidentals, etc.). But clearly there’s more than enough horizontal > > room to make those eighth notes absolutely even — in fact, that kind > > of thing is w

Re: Fw: Frescobaldi ... panic alternatives?

2024-04-29 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> FYI, what I like the most about Frescobaldi are: > >  * Templates and wizards >  * Snippets >  * Point and Click selection >  * Syntax highlighting > > If Frescobaldi for Mac does indeed vanish, what are my alternatives for a > Lilypond editor? Syntax highlighting should be doable in Emacs, V

Re: How to manually set MIDI channel # for a staff?

2024-04-29 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le lundi 29 avril 2024 à 06:31 -0500, Jason Yip a écrit : > Hi, > > Does anyone know how to manually set the midi channel # for a staff to > something other than the default of channel 0/1? Without having to > create dummy staffs with just `s256` as the voice content preceding the > desired sta

Re: Frescobaldi?

2024-04-29 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> yeah, I just had the package-manager in gentoo downgrade to the previous > version of snappy, and then filed a bug with gentoo. It's a workaround for > now. > > As another workaround, I'm trying to get my latex editor to use lilypond-book, > but since it's on a nonstandard path, I don't seem ab

Re: Frescobaldi?

2024-04-29 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> It gets a bit more complicated now. See this bug: > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=278633 > > That bug is for freeBSD, but I expect it applies to other > distros as well (it certainly applies to gentoo, as I'm > getting the exact same error). In short, snappy (an archiver) >

Re: Frescobaldi?

2024-04-29 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Would it maybe make things a bit easier to leave the whole MacOS > business aside and take care of the Linux-specific stuff first? Linux is not really causing us any specific problems. Packaging is a lot easier, thanks to Linux distributions and Flatpak. The only wrinkle is the oddities on Wayl

Re: Frescobaldi?

2024-04-28 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> […] > Well, the explanation wasn't that brief. Sorry that I didn't have > time to write a shorter one, as they say. PS: Maybe I should mention that at the time I went down the rabbit hole of Python packaging in general because of Frescobaldi, I wrote two articles on the LinuxFR site, which may

Re: Frescobaldi?

2024-04-28 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> unfortunately, as I noted above, the problem seems to be that frescobaldi > depends on a now-deprecated version of qtwebengine, and without updating > it we'll eventually reach a point where it no longer runs. I looked into > this because qtwebengine-5.15 failed to compile on my machine this morn

Re: Frescobaldi?

2024-04-28 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> I own a bunch of Macs. In fact, right here in my studio I have two late-2014 > Mac Minis with fresh Monterey installs which are completely unused. I also > have a *really* excellent [fibre] internet connection — it usually hovers near > 900Mbps up and down (though right now it’s only at 200Mbps

Re: Frescobaldi?

2024-04-28 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Just had a quick look. It seems to me we need to create a python-poppler-qt6, > port qpageview to Qt6 and of course frescobaldi itself. I would hope that > qpageview and frescobaldi both basically mean moving from PyQt5 to PyQt6 which > I expect to be mostly busy work. The poppler bindings seem t

Re: Frescobaldi?

2024-04-28 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> If there is busy work that needs to be done on the project, I can do that, but > I also don't own a Mac. Thanks, but unfortunately the kind of work needed is deeply technical, not busy work. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Frescobaldi?

2024-04-28 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Is Frescobaldi the most common tool on Linux, or what do the majority of > Lilypond users use? Frescobaldi is the most common LilyPond editor, on all OSes. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Frescobaldi?

2024-04-28 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Doing some system updates today, I see that frescobaldi is the only program > that requires PyQtWebEngine:5, which in turn requires qtwebengine:5. Looking > at the frescobaldi page, I see a somewhat concerning note that the project is > on the verge of being unmaintained, due to this dependency o

Re: Delayed turns etc

2024-04-17 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> That works for the last line of the whole score. The line I want to be > "ragged" is the last line of a page. with more music on the next page. There is no way to make just one system ragged except the last one in the score. I'm afraid you need a second \score block if you want to do this. sig

Re: score with dynamic beats

2024-04-12 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> I note that in one solution one uses \remove and in the other \omit to > achieve the same thing. > > Is there any prospect of  moving to a situation where only one operator > is used to achieve a result, possibly by having a preferred and > deprecated options first? This is a general point,

Re: Installing 2.24.1

2024-04-11 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Is there any reason for expecting me to install an unwanted program, in > order to get a program I do want? Or are you trying to force everybody > to use Frescobaldi? Why? The default installation tutorial use Frescobaldi because it's a newcomer-friendly IDE. That doesn't mean we're trying to

Re: computer compatible

2024-04-11 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Is Lilypond compatible with iMac sonoma 14.2? Yes. As written on https://lilypond.org/download.html , current versions of LilyPond are compatible with macOS 10.15 Catalina and higher. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: \epsfile and SVG output

2024-04-10 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Many thanks for the clarification that this approach will not work and > alternative suggestions. > > I presume that /image will only include PNGs in a SVG output and not EPS (the > documentation reads a little unclearly on this as the section on backends is > elided with comments on coloured ba

Re: \epsfile and SVG output

2024-04-10 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> It would be possible to convert EPS to SVG with pstoedit or via PDF and > Inkscape. Both would avoid rastering vectors into a pixel image. True, but LilyPond so far doesn't support including SVG images either. (It does support \markup \path in SVG though.) signature.asc Description: This i

Re: \epsfile and SVG output

2024-04-10 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> An alternative, if you can use raster graphics, would be a PNG file added > with the \image command. P.S. \image is new in 2.25 https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/graphical-markup (and I remember now that I wrote down what does and doesn't support EPS in the 2.25 documentatio

Re: \epsfile and SVG output

2024-04-10 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> I am trying to include an epsfile as a top-level markup (it is not in > a score) and then output as SVG. You can't (this should indeed be mentioned in the documentation). EPS files are included by basically inlining them into the PS code that LilyPond generates, which is then converted to PDF.

Re: PianoPedalBracket.to-barline doesn't always work as expected

2024-04-10 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le mardi 09 avril 2024 à 23:55 +0200, Maurits Lamers via LilyPond user discussion a écrit : > Hey all, > > I encountered a situation where the PianoPedalBracket setting to-barline > doesn't always do what you'd expect. Given the following code, the pedal > bracket is not extended to the end of

Re: Minimize flats or sharps in transposed key signature?

2024-04-08 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> I'm using \transpose pretty heavily, and I'm running into an issue I don't > quite know how to solve. I'm aware of the \naturalizeMusic hack described > in the LilyPond documentation. I'm looking for something similar, but for > key signatures. This was discussed in the past, for example I post

Re: nested beaming

2024-04-08 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le lundi 08 avril 2024 à 09:22 -0700, Paul Scott a écrit : > Many years ago I could nest square brackets in Lilypond. How can I write > this now incorrect code: > > a16[[ 16 16] 16[ 16 16]]  i.e. two groups of 3 beamed 16th notes joined > by a single beam. > > I have looked at NR 1,2,4 A litt

Re: Get name of music object

2024-04-02 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> I know how to get the properties from a music object - but how about the name? > I cannot figure out how to get the name from a music object. (ly:music-property the-object 'name) HTH Jean signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: nested \set ?

2024-03-25 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> My Lilypond knowledge is small but have you tried the "\unset" command ?? \unset will simply remove the value. Werner is looking for something that resets the previous value. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: nested \set ?

2024-03-25 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le lundi 25 mars 2024 à 07:31 +, Werner LEMBERG a écrit : > LilyPond provides `\temporary` and `\revert` to set a grob property > temporarily, and afterwards the value of the grob property is the same > as before. > > Is there a similar possiblity for `\set` (or something usable in > Scheme)? 

Re: \enablePolymeter not working

2024-03-17 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/58/lily-fa68165d.ly That's the LilyPond 2.23 documentation. > I am using lilypond 2.22.1 Now you should understand the problem :) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Time measurement

2024-03-15 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Hi Jean, > > As always… remarkable. > > One question: How hard would it be to have this output more precise > timings (e.g., 1/4 or 1/10th or 1/100th of a second, or SMPTE timecode > in minutes:seconds:frames)? I could imagine this being *very* useful > for film/video/media composers. To get

Re: Time measurement

2024-03-14 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> “This sounds like a job for… Custom Engraver!!”  :) \version "2.24.2" #(define (Custom_engraver!! context) (define (format-time seconds) (let ((minutes (euclidean-quotient seconds 60)) (rest (euclidean-remainder seconds 60))) (string-append (if (zero? minutes) "" (form

Re: Question regarding ChordNames

2024-03-13 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Mahalo, X. I am using the naturalizeMusic function and will look into > extending that.  Maybe that has some nuggets to mine. `\naturalizeMusic` is not going to work well on `\chordmode` music (it will destroy the interval in chords, leading to wrong chord names), but you can use code like t

Re: Omit TupletNumber problem

2024-03-12 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> I cannot figure out how to revert or reverse "\omit TupletNumber". \undo \omit TupletNumber Best, Jean signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Control breaks in staff that I get from a variable?

2024-03-10 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le dimanche 10 mars 2024 à 18:33 +, Werner LEMBERG a écrit : > > Can you provide some additional sentence or sentences for the > documentation so that we have something to start with? See also https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6439 signature.asc Description: This is a digitall

Re: search and replace on all included files on compile

2024-03-06 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Try ``` \version "2.24.2" \paper { #(add-text-replacements! '(("1↑" . "1"))) } { c'^\markup "1↑" } ``` Best, Jean signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: installation

2024-03-01 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le vendredi 01 mars 2024 à 16:21 -0800, carsonm...@ca.rr.com a écrit : > Went to \users\Mark\lilypond 2.24.3\gs The program you should add is ...\lilypond(.exe), not ...\gs. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: slur into a repeat volta 2 section

2024-02-24 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Just replace `4\repeatTie` with `4`? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Music generated by function confuses relative pitch

2024-02-22 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Hi Morten, Le jeudi 22 février 2024 à 23:00 +0100, Morten Lemvigh a écrit : > \version "2.24.1" > > double = > #(define-music-function (music)(ly:music?) >    (let ((notes (ly:music-property music 'elements))) >      (make-music 'SequentialMusic >                  'elements >                  (li

Re: Position coordinates fail

2024-02-22 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Do you know how I can solve this problem? Consider that I have no error > messages. We'll need an example where it fails. Preferably  [tiny](https://lilypond.org/tiny-examples.html), but your full score (if you can share it) would work too. Best, Jean signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: 5th anniversary conference? :)

2024-02-15 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> I was just waxing nostalgic about that fabulous Salzburg conference in 2020, > and noted that in Jan 2025 — just under a year from now! — it will have been > five years since we got together, talked music/notation, and raised [more > than] a few pints together. > > Any chance for a repeat? :)

Re: Control breaks in staff that I get from a variable?

2024-02-10 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> As some of us know, this does not work: > > << >   \staffIGot >   { s1*5 \break } > >> > > It introduces an extra staff. Not wanted. The classic fix is << \new Devnull { s1*5 \break } \staffIGot >> Best, Jean signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Texinfo documentation.

2024-02-10 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> I have recently upgraded from 2.22.2 to 2.24.3. However, as I only use > LTS distributions of ubuntu, I had to download the tar.gz package. No > problem. But how may I obtain the documentation in texinfo format for > use with emacs? In fact, looking through the archive, it does not > appear that

Re: Score overruns page. Bug or something I did?

2024-02-06 Thread Jean Abou Samra
It's not a bug —  by default, LilyPond forbids line breaks on a bar line when there are notes straddling on that bar line. You can change this with ``` \layout { \context { \Voice \remove Forbid_line_break_engraver } } ``` Best, Jean signature.asc Description: This is a digital

Re: Duration shortcut not working for rests

2024-02-03 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Am I misunderstanding something, or is this a bug? Since the "r4" at the > start of the second measure is fully qualified, I was expecting the "4"s that > follow it to be quarter rests as well, but I'm seeing "c"s in the rendered > output. > > ``` > \version "2.25.6" > > { >     c'4 r

Re: How to

2024-02-01 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Try ``` #(define (should-not-print-arranger layout props) (equal? "" (chain-assoc-get 'header:arranger props))) ``` For one thing, `'header:arranger` just gives a [symbol](https://extending-lilypond.gitlab.io/en/scheme/quoting.html), it doesn't look up the arranger. A symbol is never equal

Re: PDF Bookmarks

2024-01-30 Thread Jean Abou Samra
There is a known bug when combining `\tocItem` and `\bookpart`. See [issue #6355](https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6355). I've just posted a workaround on the issue. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Numérotation des versets

2024-01-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Try the code here? https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2022-04/msg00036.html Best, Jean signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Numérotation des versets

2024-01-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Hello, This is the English-speaking list. You probably meant to send this to the French forum, user-fr@lilypond.community .

Re: zero-duration s to hold marks

2024-01-10 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Raphael: > That strikes me as being a programmer's response, and I speak as a > programmer for over 50 years. Using <> works, but it is unintuitive. If > s0 is more intuitive then that should be considered for future inclusion. s1*0 works and is more or less equivalent to <> . John: > The seco

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