Re: Ask about the typesetting of Lilypond

2016-06-14 Thread Karen S. Billings
Add another +1! With a Gregorian chant caveat or two... When using modern notation for Gregorian chant tunes, Lilypond sometimes gets confused and allows a line to run off the page. When this happens, I insert a "visual break" as needed, and then adjust at the end. I find that inserting a sing

Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

2016-04-07 Thread Karen S. Billings
Mark, No offense to Herr Bach or his playfulness - as an organist, I deeply appreciate his genius - and I never thought my innocent question would spark such dialog. >From an engineering standpoint, I would expect the "default" settings of an >application to adequately address the "majority" o

Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

2016-04-06 Thread Karen S. Billings
In my experience, at least, hemiolas are the exception, rather than the norm. From the standpoint of a trained musician, I would think that the hemiola should be the exception rather than the norm... or at least that's what they taught me in theory, harmony, and composition. From the standpoint

Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

2016-04-05 Thread Karen S. Billings
Kieren, You hit the nail on the head! Living in the southwestern U.S., I find myself going nuts between 6/8 and 3/4 - WSS is the perfect example - except that here we go back and forth without any actual notational indication (except maybe a hasty pencil mark). My head hurts by the end of my

Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

2016-04-05 Thread Karen S. Billings
Carl, Thanks for the additional detail - it was very helpful - at least for me. Unfortunately, it is probably a bit too much info for our young (second-year) viola student. I'm trying to keep his parts as "playable" as possibly. He needs to focus on tuning and confidence at the moment - readi

Re: Frescobaldi creates the pdf but doesn't export it?

2015-10-21 Thread Karen S. Billings
BB, Abraham, et al, I use Frescobaldi and have found a slightly different problem... While editing, my file exists and I get what I'm looking for when I run it through Lilypond (via Frescobaldi). But when I go to "publish" my file (since I need the PDF), Fresco generates a "File Not Found" err

Re: lilypond teaching material

2015-09-16 Thread Karen S. Billings
I definitely agree - the videos are extremely helpful! Karen > On Sep 16, 2015, at 10:24 AM, Michael Rivers wrote: > > Yes, that was my first thought too. Those video tutorials are quite nice. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/lilypond-teachi

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-10 Thread Karen S. Billings
ate immediate gratification... Or immediate "whoops!" feedback). I learned of the Utopia project when using a LilyPond engraving of BWV 680 (J.S.Bach). Since it's still new (6 months or so), I do find it a challenge... Karen S. Billings CAGO > On Sep 10, 2015, at 7:00 AM, Peter