Re: Wanting to parenthesize (b5) superscript

2024-03-19 Thread John Helly
It certainly does. Mahalo nui. J. On 3/19/24 19:26, Aaron Hill wrote: On 2024-03-19 10:13 pm, John Helly wrote: Aloha. I'm trying to improve a score that my colleagues find confusing since they mis-interpret A(b5) as Ab5; that is, when cis1:5- is transposed to A(b5). The transpose (c

Wanting to parenthesize (b5) superscript

2024-03-19 Thread John Helly
  g1:maj9 g1:6.9   cis1:5- } \layout {   ragged-right = ##t } << ===== MWE Above === -- John Helly / San Diego Supercomputer Center / Scripps Institution of Oceanography https://www.sdsc.edu/~hellyj / 808 205 9882 / 760 8408660

Re: Question regarding ChordNames

2024-03-13 Thread John Helly
w ChordNames { \bflat } } | Best, Jean -- John Helly / San Diego Supercomputer Center / Scripps Institution of Oceanography https://www.sdsc.edu/~hellyj / 808 205 9882 / 760 8408660

Re: Question regarding ChordNames

2024-03-13 Thread John Helly
nization)) \layout { \set ChordNames.chordRootNamer = #(lambda (pitch lowercase) (note-name->markup (converter (ly:pitch-semitones pitch)) lowercase)) } bflat = \chordmode { cis dis e fis gis a bis cis bes } \transpose cis' a { \new ChordNames { \bflat } } | Best, Jean -- John Helly

Re: Question regarding ChordNames

2024-03-13 Thread John Helly
Mahalo, X. I am using the naturalizeMusic function and will look into extending that.  Maybe that has some nuggets to mine. J. On 3/12/24 21:43, Xavier Scheuer wrote: On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 at 04:51, John Helly wrote: > > Aloha. > > Here's an MWE to exhibit the issue. > >

Re: Question regarding ChordNames

2024-03-12 Thread John Helly
Well, that approach won't handle G to C#.  I still get Db with no alternative. J On 3/12/24 19:02, John Helly wrote: M. Prompted by your idea, I could do the equivalent with a short bash script to edit selected chords to be the appropriate enharmonic form anticipating the tran

Re: Question regarding ChordNames

2024-03-12 Thread John Helly
M. Prompted by your idea, I could do the equivalent with a short bash script to edit selected chords to be the appropriate enharmonic form anticipating the transpose. Mahalo. On 3/12/24 18:48, John Helly wrote: Mahalo, that's an interesting approach.  Maybe something in that vein wou

Re: Question regarding ChordNames

2024-03-12 Thread John Helly
solution or some way to make a specialized chord library for a song. If there's no LP solution then I'll have to figure out plan B. J. On 3/12/24 18:22, Michael Werner wrote: Hi John, On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 11:51 PM John Helly wrote: Aloha. Here's an MWE to exhibit the iss

Re: Question regarding ChordNames

2024-03-12 Thread John Helly
Kieren MacMillan wrote: \version "2.25.11" \language "english" gsharp = \chordmode { gs1 } aflat = \chordmode { af1 } << \new ChordNames { \gsharp } \gsharp << \new ChordNames { \aflat } \aflat -- John Helly / San Diego Supercomputer Center / Scripps Institutio

Re: Question regarding ChordNames

2024-03-12 Thread John Helly
4 02:44, Kieren MacMillan wrote: \version "2.25.11" \language "english" gsharp = \chordmode { gs1 } aflat = \chordmode { af1 } << \new ChordNames { \gsharp } \gsharp << \new ChordNames { \aflat } \aflat -- John Helly / San Diego Supercomputer Cent

Question regarding ChordNames

2024-03-11 Thread John Helly
of double-flats and was able to implement that (I'm also using \transpose at times on this score) but can't figure out how to change the enharmonic mode (?) from flat to sharp on a chord-selective basis. Any guidance would be appreciated. Mahalo. J. -- John Helly / San Diego Super

Re: Question about \include options

2024-01-08 Thread John Helly
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2230__;!!Mih3wA!CSSDx3tfKA07_Dlu8t6PXaus9A1ynPmgQGAVCwFoDwZzdvyQeDoGSu3fi_l64xhgEd7AFwg$ Werner -- John Helly / San Diego Supercomputer Center / Scripps Institution of Oceanography https://www.sdsc.edu/~hellyj / 808 205 9882 / 760 8408660

Re: Question about \include options

2024-01-08 Thread John Helly
e for everyone. If this is not helpful feedback, please feel free to ignore and I'll go silent. J. On 1/8/24 13:07, Carl Sorensen wrote: On Mon, Jan 8, 2024 at 3:29 PM John Helly wrote: Aloha K. I go to the LP home page, using that search box (upper right), type #f and thi

Re: Question about \include options

2024-01-08 Thread John Helly
. On 1/8/24 12:14, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Le lundi 08 janvier 2024 à 12:04 -1000, John Helly a écrit : My default search engine is Google but I've also tried DuckDuckGo and Bing with similar, but different, results. So, this problem falls into a use-case that I usually call 'the com

Re: Question about \include options

2024-01-08 Thread John Helly
-IPgdHDPlY-qCoRCahg_aL$ That’s the first hit when I search! :) K __ My work day may look different than your work day. Please do not feel obligated to read or respond to this email outside of your normal working hours. -- John Helly, University of

Re: Question about \include options

2024-01-08 Thread John Helly
#x27;t succeed. If you do a web search for lilypond "#f" is the very first hit not sufficiently helpful? Cheers, Kieren. __ My work day may look different than your work day. Please do not feel obligated to read or respond to this email ou

Re: Question about \include options

2024-01-08 Thread John Helly
short, I wouldn't have likely found this bit about #t #f without referrals.  Seems I should have been able to search for them but it didn't succeed.  I'd like to help figure out why it didn't succeed. J. On 1/8/24 02:37, Aaron Hill wrote: On 2024-01-07 11:14 pm, John Hell

Re: Question about \include options

2024-01-08 Thread John Helly
Mahalo.  Appreciate the response. J. On 1/8/24 02:39, Graham King wrote: On Sun, 2024-01-07 at 21:14 -1000, John Helly wrote: Aloha. In reading the documentation about \include (https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/including-lilypond-files), I find the following sentence

Re: Question about \include options

2024-01-08 Thread John Helly
ure were you are searching, in fact. But different search techniques will anyway do different things with non-alphanumeric characters, I think. Is that relevant? There's no way I would probably find these without your help. Am I missing something? Don't know, I'm afraid. Brian Barke

Question about \include options

2024-01-07 Thread John Helly
the files. ...' Mahalo. J. -- John Helly / San Diego Supercomputer Center / Scripps Institution of Oceanography https://www.sdsc.edu/~hellyj / 808 205 9882 / 760 8408660

Re: Unable to align lyric to rests (with MWE)

2024-01-03 Thread John Helly
agged-right = ##f }   <<     \new Staff \new Voice = "melody" << \global \mel >>     \addlyrics \lyrA     \addlyrics \lyrB   >> } Hope that helps! Kieren. __ My work day may look different than your work day. Please do not feel obl

Re: Unable to align lyric to rests (with MWE)

2024-01-02 Thread John Helly
Mahalo to all of you for injecting. Love this stuff and just intrigued by the variety of expressions. Remarkable that this has been built (i.e. Lilypond) as well as this community. J. On 1/2/24 17:50, Christopher R. Maden wrote: On 1/2/24 22:18, John Helly wrote: That worked in terms of

Re: Unable to align lyric to rests (with MWE)

2024-01-02 Thread John Helly
On 3 Jan 2024, at 00:41, John Helly wrote: Hi Kieren. But, ... I don't really see why it should. There are many songs for which the vocal precedes the melody. Perhaps there is some other way to accomplish this that I'm unaware of. I'm pretty much a novice at writing. Howev

Re: Unable to align lyric to rests (with MWE)

2024-01-02 Thread John Helly
rk day may look different than your work day. Please do not feel obligated to read or respond to this email outside of your normal working hours. -- John Helly / San Diego Supercomputer Center / Scripps Institution of Oceanography https://www.sdsc.edu/~hellyj / 808 205 9882 / 760 8408660

Re: Unable to align lyric to rests (with MWE)

2024-01-02 Thread John Helly
Mahalo. That sounds reasonable and very much appreciated.  What I did was replace the rest with the succeeding note on essentially the same logic.  However, I like your solution. J. On 1/2/24 14:04, Hans Aikema wrote: On 3 Jan 2024, at 00:41, John Helly wrote: Hi Kieren. But, ... I

Re: Unable to align lyric to rests (with MWE)

2024-01-02 Thread John Helly
ease the #0.5. Cheers, Kieren. __ My work day may look different than your work day. Please do not feel obligated to read or respond to this email outside of your normal working hours. -- John Helly / San Diego Supercomputer Center / Scripps Institution of Oceanography https://

Re: Unable to align lyric to rests (with MWE)

2024-01-02 Thread John Helly
t's writ -- ten in the star -- light __ _ _ } >> } [where you can obviously adjust the #0.5 to your liking] Hope this helps! Kieren. __ My work day may look different than your work day. Please do not feel obligated to read or respond to this email outside

Unable to align lyric to rests (with MWE)

2024-01-02 Thread John Helly
( e4 ) r4 |     r4 r8  dis16 dis dis8 e4 fis8 | }   }     \addlyrics {    but  it's writ -- ten in the star -- light __ _ _    }   >> } -- John Helly / San Diego Supercomputer Center / Scripps Institution of Oceanography https://www.sdsc.edu/~hellyj / 808 205 9882 / 760 8408660

Re: Problem with Repeats and Alternatives

2022-04-21 Thread John Helly
Aloha. It was a version mismatch.  Thank you for your help. J. On 4/20/22 16:45, Ralph Palmer wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 7:22 PM John Helly wrote: Aloha. I've not used LP for a while but in coming back to it I've been struggling with repeats and find that this

Re: Problem with Repeats and Alternatives

2022-04-21 Thread John Helly
Mahalo. It was version mismatch.  Thanks for your response. J. On 4/20/22 16:54, Carl Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 8:21 PM John Helly wrote: Aloha. I've not used LP for a while but in coming back to it I've been struggling with repeats and find that this

Re: Problem with Repeats and Alternatives

2022-04-21 Thread John Helly
Good point.  I am duly reprimanded. J. On 4/21/22 01:01, David Kastrup wrote: John Helly writes: Aloha. I've not used LP for a while but in coming back to it I've been struggling with repeats and find that this 'preferred syntax' does not seem to work in that it produces

Problem with Repeats and Alternatives

2022-04-20 Thread John Helly
\alternative {    \volta 1,2,3 { c2 e }    \volta 4,5 { f2 d }    \volta 6 { e2 f } } } c1 } } However, the old style of specifying \alternative does seem to work. Am I doing something wrong here? Mahalo. J.- John Helly, University of California, San Diego / San Diego S

Re: 2.20 fails when filename has non-ASCII characters

2021-02-25 Thread John Helly
Yes.  I find that to be true.  I suspect that it has to do with the installed fonts.  I remember trying to use a French keyboard at the Ecole Normal in Lyon and suppose that the font implementation is assumed in the applications.  This incompatibility seems to be at the ghostscript level as tha

Re: Aligning lyric syllables to notes within beams and slurs?

2021-02-24 Thread John Helly
Mahalo. I'll send a more complete snippet once I understand the refs better. J. On 2/24/21 14:11, Carl Sorensen wrote: *From: *lilypond-user on behalf of John Helly *Date: *Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 5:03 PM *To: *Carl Sorensen , "lilypond-user@gnu.org" *Cc: *&

Aligning lyric syllables to notes within beams and slurs?

2021-02-24 Thread John Helly
am and/or slur? My understanding is that the default behavior is to align syllables on the first note of the beam rather than on the notes within a beam.  Not sure if that's correct. Mahalo. J. -- John Helly, University of California, San Diego / San Diego Supercomputer Center

Mailserver problem?

2020-08-29 Thread John Helly
Aloha. There seems to be something wrong with the lilypond mailserver.  I'm getting 6 copies (or 3 depending on how you count).  Is anyone else experiencing this?   It's been going on for months, I just haven't bothered complaining. J. On 8/28/20 22:17, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >> Maybe >> >> \void

Re: Harmonic reduction

2020-06-22 Thread John Helly
Well, maybe I'm the music shop assistant who works as  a part-time electronics technician and pipes-up, 'Sounds like you need a spectrum analyzer, sometimes known as a grahpical EQ'. J. On 6/22/20 00:59, Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: > Hi Urs, > >>> Also, Schönberg gave (in his Harmonielehre) funny ex

MIDI problems on Mojave.

2019-12-28 Thread John Helly
Confer: https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/79409/error-initializing-coremidi-starting-logic-pro-x-on-mojave I discovered this problem because I use LogicX also.  I'll check it out on Catalina. J. On 12/28/19 13:29, Davide Liessi wrote: > Il giorno sab 28 dic 2019 alle ore 21

Re: Frescobaldi 3.1 Successes (happy to report)

2019-12-28 Thread John Helly
Seems to be. I just verified it a couple of times on Mojave.  No sound output without doing it first.  No MIDI events show in the flashing green light on Qsynth unless doing it first. J. On 12/28/19 13:29, Davide Liessi wrote: > Il giorno sab 28 dic 2019 alle ore 21:54 John Helly > ha s

Re: [Frescobaldi] Frescobaldi 3.1 Successes (happy to report)

2019-12-28 Thread John Helly
I confirm same behavior. J. On 12/28/19 13:11, Stanton Sanderson wrote: > (Mac OS Mojave (current), Frescobaldi 3.1 from dmg) > > An anomaly noted: document conversion from 2.19.2 to 2.19.83 fails with the > following error message reported: > >> ImportError: Bad magic number in >> /Application

Frescobaldi 3.1 Successes (happy to report)

2019-12-28 Thread John Helly
Aloha. 1. Tried unsuccessfully to build from scratch on 10.14.6 (Mojave) and ran into a series of python dependency problems that I haven't fully solved. 2. Downloaded the 3.1 dmg and successfullly run it on 10.14.6 (Mojave) and 10.15.2 (Catalina).  Nice job. 3. Tested on 10.14.6 wi

Re: Qsynth not producing sound when used from within frescobaldi

2019-10-17 Thread John Helly
Aloha. I reinstalled qsynth (not the macports version, which doesn't seem to build) and have it working now by, apparently, spinning the Gain dial. J. On 10/17/19 11:15, John Helly wrote: > Aloha. > > I'm using FB 2.20.0 with Qsynth 0.5.6 with fluidsynth 2.0.5 on OSX 10.14.

Qsynth not producing sound when used from within frescobaldi

2019-10-17 Thread John Helly
ndfile it works fine and SimpleSynth and VLC work fine so I know the computer audio is ok. I've tried changing the audio setting from default to speakers but no joy there either. Mahalo. J. -- John Helly, University of California, San Diego / San Diego Supercomputer Center / Scripps In

Re: Running Frescobaldi 3 on OSX?

2019-09-03 Thread John Helly
Aloha. I did work compiling FB with LP but gave in in favor of the MacPorts version which is working for me.  I'm running OSX 10.4.3 and don't have much to say about Qt.  I perhaps could answer specific questions about what FB is using based on the console log if that would help. J. On 9/3/19 10

Re: How to skip to chorus from stanza and return to next stanz?

2019-07-16 Thread John Helly
Mahalo.  I'll have a go at your suggestions. J. On 7/16/19 20:32, Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2019-07-16 7:52 pm, John Helly wrote: >> Aloha. >> >> I have a guitar and vocal song with 6 stanzas and a chorus and outro >> with lyrics.  I would like to jump to the chorus

How to skip to chorus from stanza and return to next stanz?

2019-07-16 Thread John Helly
Aloha. I have a guitar and vocal song with 6 stanzas and a chorus and outro with lyrics.  I would like to jump to the chorus after the 2nd and 4th stanzas and return to the 3rd and 5th, respectively, coming out of the chorus.  Since I'm not formally trained in notation, I don' t know how this shou

Re: [Lilypond] How to get guitar chords to appear at each bar

2019-06-10 Thread John Helly
Merci, Pierre. That succeeded in moving the chord names down to the 5th measure (2nd system? Not sure of proper term here).  However, it made me realize that all I had to do was add more chords to the Chords block and voila! Mahalo. J. -- Univers

Re: [Lilypond] How to get guitar chords to appear at each bar

2019-06-10 Thread John Helly
Mahalo.  Understand. J. On 6/10/19 00:57, Simon Albrecht wrote: > As a small aside, metadata you sent links this e-mail to a thread > about part names running off the page. Please make sure you keep > topics separated into their own threads by not replying to unrelated > messages and instead compo

Re: [Lilypond] How to get guitar chords to appear at each bar

2019-06-09 Thread John Helly
he chorus to no avail. J. On 6/9/19 17:12, Tim McNamara wrote: > >> On Jun 9, 2019, at 6:32 PM, John Helly wrote: >> >> Aloha. >> >> With various suggestions that I'm very grateful for, I've mostly gotten >> this guitar and vocal piece to score

[Lilypond] How to get guitar chords to appear at each bar

2019-06-09 Thread John Helly
Aloha. With various suggestions that I'm very grateful for, I've mostly gotten this guitar and vocal piece to score reasonably.  However, I'm now stuck trying to get the guitar chords to appear over each measure of the verses and chorus.  I've tried a variety of things but they all seem to cause t

Re: two-way synchronization (live or otherwise) between Lilypond and a DAW

2019-05-30 Thread John Helly
/Bart_Issimo> > On Google+ <https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/116379400376517483499/> > > > Op do 30 mei 2019 om 22:57 schreef John Helly <mailto:hel...@hawaii.edu>>: > > I'm very interested in this topic as well.  Should this be on the >

Re: two-way synchronization (live or otherwise) between Lilypond and a DAW

2019-05-30 Thread John Helly
I'm very interested in this topic as well.  Should this be on the developer's list? J. On 5/30/19 10:21, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hello all, > > The subject says it all: I’d like to figure out the present state-of-the-art > when it comes to working with Lilypond and a DAW "simultaneously", and

Re: [Lilypond] How to add 12 bars of guitar strumming as Intro

2019-05-26 Thread John Helly
Mahalo. I'll investigate. J. On 5/26/19 20:34, Michael Hendry wrote: >> On 26 May 2019, at 22:35, John Helly wrote: >> >> Aloha. >> >> I'm writing a song for guitar and vocal that has the structure below. I >> would like to add 12 bars of strummin

[Lilypond] How to add 12 bars of guitar strumming as Intro

2019-05-26 Thread John Helly
Aloha. I'm writing a song for guitar and vocal that has the structure below. I would like to add 12 bars of strumming guitar as an Intro but cannot figure out how to add it within the Staff since it doesn't have a melody, only strumming of the chords. I've been trying to figure out how to add thi

Re: [Lilypond] How to add chorus to multi-verse lead sheet for guitar?

2019-05-21 Thread John Helly
Thanks very much.  I don't understand all of that just yet but this is great advice.  I just finished reading Fundamental Concepts. J. On 5/21/19 19:08, Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2019-05-21 8:48 pm, John Helly wrote: >> Mahalo. Definite maybe.  I found a reference to using multiple vo

Re: [Lilypond] How to add chorus to multi-verse lead sheet for guitar?

2019-05-21 Thread John Helly
Mahalo. Definite maybe.  I found a reference to using multiple voices in the learning manual that might be a more general solution but don't understand it yet. J. On 5/21/19 15:46, Karlin High wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 8:07 PM John Helly wrote: >> I have a multi-verse gui

[Lilypond] How to add chorus to multi-verse lead sheet for guitar?

2019-05-21 Thread John Helly
Aloha. I just discovered LP and am very excited about it after struggling with Sibelius.  I have a multi-verse guitar lead sheet working but cannot figure out how to add a chorus.  I’m struggling to find an example with a chorus and wonder if anyone can point me in the right direction, pls? The