Re: I (and others) can't play lilypond-generated MIDI files

> "David" == David Wright writes: >> "aplaymidi -p 14:0 score.midi" doesn't crash but hangs and doesn't play >> anything. David> It "hung" here for the exact length of the MIDI file (about 4 seconds David> for the output from your attached .ly file, 46 seconds for tenor.midi

Re: I (and others) can't play lilypond-generated MIDI files

> "Stan" == Stanton Sanderson writes: Stan> For what it's worth, I am a Mac user- for many years I have been using Stan> qsynth as a front end for fluidsynth, with sound fonts from various Stan> sources. I’d hate to be without it! So if I tell my mac user to install fluidsynth, w

Re: I (and others) can't play lilypond-generated MIDI files

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Chubb writes: >>>>> "Laura" == Laura Conrad writes: Laura> Here's a test file that reproduces the Laura> problem: Laura> I have used both timidity and aplaymidi on Linux. 'timidity La

I (and others) can't play lilypond-generated MIDI files

Here's a test file that reproduces the problem: \version "2.22.0" \score { \relative c' { \time 3/2 d1 d2 d1 d2 d2 \bar "|." } \midi{\context { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 100 2) } } } This was originally reported by a non-technical MacOS us

Re: Repeats with bar-engraver removed

> "Kieren" == Kieren MacMillan writes: >> What I do is make the barlines transparent and with 0 width: >> \override Staff.BarLine #'transparent = ##t >> \override Staff.BarLine #'extra-spacing-width = #'(0 . 0) Kieren> Why not Kieren> \omit BarLine Kieren> ??

Re: Repeats with bar-engraver removed

> "J" == J Stasko writes: J> I need to be able to engrave repeats, but I fear that the bar-engraver, J> which I turned off for chant music, is responsible for engraving the J> repeats: when I turn it back on, then the repeats appear, but since the J> music is chant, it runs of

Re: Syntax for ligature brackets

>>>>> "Robin" == Robin Bannister writes: Robin> Laura Conrad wrote: >> I'm not saying this is wrong, and I'm certainly not saying it >> should be changed. But it would help me remember when I haven't >> transcribed a

Syntax for ligature brackets

All the other features that join two or more notes start after the first note, e.g. a slur is: a( b) and a beam is: a[b] But a ligature bracket is: \[a b\] I'm not saying this is wrong, and I'm certainly not saying it should be changed. But it would help me remember when I have

Re: [Spam] Re: Status and future of abc2ly

> "Andrew" == Andrew Bernard writes: Andrew> I had such poor results with abc2ly just recently that I Andrew> can't imagine there is any user base using it in earnest, or Andrew> even at all, else there would be lots of complaints. Or Andrew> perhaps I was doing something wron

Re: Photoscore

> "Jacques" == Jacques Menu Muzhic writes: Jacques> Oups, totally forgot I had tested it two years ago, my Jacques> fault. So use a different email to get another free trial. -- Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org) (617) 661-8097

Re: Emacs lilypond-mode

>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Albrecht writes: Simon> On 19.10.2015 18:01, Laura Conrad wrote: >> The problem is >> when entering long note values, which are common in early 16th century >> music, I have to leave the keypad to type \brev

Re: Emacs lilypond-mode

> "David" == David Kastrup writes: David> What it does do is trying to track the current "tonality". David> That's an interesting idea but requires an editing mode that David> will _propagate_ corrections in order to work nicely. Of David> course, the same will be needed in o

Re: Emacs lilypond-mode

> "David" == David Kastrup writes: David> Huh. I just committed midi-kbd.el to ELPA, the official David> Emacs package archive. That sounded like it would be something I wanted to try, so I listed the packages available and went to install it. But it said it depended on emacs25. S

Re: point-and-click from PDF viewer to lilypond editor

> "Federico" == Federico Bruni writes: Federico> Does anybody here use point-and-click from an external PDF viewer Federico> (either Evince or Xpdf) to the lilypond editor? I've been using point-and-click between Xpdf and emacs for years. I've thought of switching to evince, especia

Re: converting an old finale file

> "Stefan" == Stefan Thomas writes: Stefan> I have 2 very old finale-filee of two of my pieces and I'm Stefan> searching for someone, who could convert it to musicxml. Is Stefan> there someone around, who could do it for me? Finale does give you a free trial. I think all you ne

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

> "David" == David Kastrup writes: David> It's been some time since I last tried, but the basic answer David> I arrived at for myself was "don't bother". The tools are David> not good enough right now to save time. For me, MIDI input does save time. I cheat and use the numeric

Re: Repeating stanza numbers

> "Matthew" == Matthew Collett writes: Matthew> shortVocalName'. You may not like the position of the Matthew> numbers though (outside the left of the staff). >> >> I don't. Is there a workaround? Matthew> As I said in a message posted very shortly after the one

Re: Repeating stanza numbers

> "Matthew" == Matthew Collett writes: Matthew> On 27/01/2012, at 6:27 am, Matie Holtzhausen wrote: >>> \set Staff.vocalName >>> \set Staff.shortVocalName >>> >>> similar to instrumentName >> >> Thanks, but I was hoping to use multiple verses in the same staff:

Re: evince handling textedit://

> "Stjepan" == Stjepan Horvat writes: Stjepan> did you put the put the textedit-url.sh in your $PATH.. Stjepan> sudo cp ./textedit-url.sh /usr/bin/ Stjepan> sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/textedit-url.sh $ ls -l ~/bin/textedit-url.sh -rwxrwxr-x 1 lconrad lconrad 1385 Oct 9 10:40 /home/l

Re: evince handling textedit://

> "Stjepan" == Stjepan Horvat writes: Stjepan> you can make log file with touch ~/textedit_url.log . Stjepan> and your textedit-url.sh has to be in your $PATH.. It is. I touched the log file, and it now exists, but is empty, even after running evince and getting the red error box as

Re: evince handling textedit://

> "Mark" == Mark Knoop writes: Mark> Thanks for prompting me to update this. Gnome 3 no longer uses the Mark> gconf key, it's now actually a little easier. I've put the info and Mark> necessary files here: Mark> https://github.com/markk/textedit-ly Mark> Let me know if t

How to print a timesig.C22 character in the context of a grob

I have managed to modify the compound time snippet to print a neomensural time signature like "C3". Now I want one with the 2/2 C style instead of the 4/4 style. My code (don't laugh too hard, I just fiddled until it worked) looks like: settime = { #(define ((compound-time one two num) grob)

Re: xpdf won't show lily's PDF file

>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup writes: David> Laura Conrad writes: >> My system in currently in dependency hell, so I'm sure this isn't either >> a lilypond problem or an xpdf problem, but an ubuntu package manager >> prob

xpdf won't show lily's PDF file

My system in currently in dependency hell, so I'm sure this isn't either a lilypond problem or an xpdf problem, but an ubuntu package manager problem. (If anyone tells you ubuntu has 32-bit executables installing seamlessly on a 64-bit system, they haven't tested it much.) But if someone knows

Re: lilypondfile

> "pabuhr" == pabuhr writes: pabuhr> I tried manually converting the ps to eps: ps2pdf generates pabuhr> a file that is unusable (go figure), and "convert" generates pabuhr> a low quality image (maybe one of the many parameters can pabuhr> fix this). "convert -density' somet

Re: Sibelius and LilyPond parallels

> "David" == David Kastrup writes: David> I found it interesting that its text input form does not even David> enter this story. I find that quite often this is what makes David> a major difference to people (meaning that it is an important David> factor for either choosing,

Re: Import - convert

> "Jakub" == Jakub Pavlík writes: Jakub> Oh, blind me. Using etf2ly you can import from Finale Jakub> directly... You used to be able to. Have you done it with a recent lilypond version? I think the method that's encouraged for people with recent finale and recent lilypond is to

Re: Ambitus after incipit

> "Bockett" == Bockett Hunter writes: Bockett> What I would like is to have the voice range displayed  Bockett> after the incipit and before the modern clef, in the modern Bockett> clef, Nothing I've tried works; I would appreciate help. I kept having problems like that, and when

Re: How is Lily counting measures

> "David" == David Kastrup writes: >> From the manual: David> Upbeats David> ... David> Partial or pick-up measures, such as an anacrusis or upbeat, are David> entered using the `\partial' command, with the syntax David> \partial DURATION

How is Lily counting measures

I believe that the attached file contains one partial and three full measures, with measures ending on the barchecks. Lily seems to disagree. She says: lilypond test.ly GNU LilyPond 2.15.23 Processing `test.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music... test.ly:11:13: warning: barcheck failed at: -1/2

Re: brackets for coloration

>>>>> "Laura" == Laura Conrad writes: >>> >>> So it looks similar to an ligature bracket, but doesn't have the line >>> between the begin and the end. harm> do you mean something like this? Laura> Maybe so

Re: brackets for coloration

>>>>> "harm" == harm6 writes: harm> Laura Conrad wrote: >> >> So it looks similar to an ligature bracket, but doesn't have the line >> between the begin and the end. harm> do you mean something like this? Maybe somethi

brackets for coloration

When I transcribe facsimiles that use "colored" notes (they look like a whole note or a breve, but they're filled in), I've been transcribing my guess at how the notes translate into modern notation, and footnoting the fact that they're colored. A friend recently pointed out that there's a conven

Help understanding print problem

My guess is that this is not a lilypond bug, but there might be someone here who could shed light on how to report it, or better ways to work around it. I have a PDF file , produced by lilypond-book with parts and score for a piece

Re: More alternate ending problems

>>>>> "Laura" == Laura Conrad writes: Laura>Failing that, is there a tweak I can use to enlarge the Laura>space left for an "empty" bar? (This would actually be Laura>useful for something else I'm doing.) Got it.

More alternate ending problems

I'm working on trying to make alternate endings readable in unbarred parts. There's probably a bug report I should file, because they are quite often ambiguous. I'm attaching the file I'm working on -- before I file the report I'll create a simpler test file, but you can see what I mean. altu

Re: Polymetric music and page breaks

> "Andrea" == Andrea La Rose writes: Andrea> Thanks for responding. Do keep in mind that this is only an Andrea> excerpt of a 40 minute piece. I excerpted enough so that the Andrea> problem would be apparent. So I realize that everything in Andrea> the excerpt is unequal and t

How to put a horizontal space with no time value?

I have been reading the fine manual, and see lots of things I could try. It's likely some of them would work, but it's also likely someone has already tried even more things than I see right now, and come to some conclusions about what works best. I'm transcribing some 16th century diminutions (D

Re: barAlways, slurs (melisma)

> "Germain" == Germain G Ivanoff-Trinadtzaty writes: Germain> Besides this, placing automatic invisible bars in all Germain> *relevant* places (for automatic line breaks, in different Germain> layouts) is typically a kind of computer task ! By the way, Germain> what was "barA

Re: Lilypond with Cubase/DAW for Musical

> "Phil" == Phil Holmes writes: Phil> I do something similar using Phil> Noteworthy. (http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/) I notate Phil> using Noteworthy, export using its text format and then use a Phil> self-written program to convert to LilyPond. The single piece Phil>

Re: Self-Publishing

> "Pete" == PMA writes: Pete> The upshot -- well, so far -- is that *if* I buy the printer, Pete> it will be a refurbished HP LaserJet 5000. Am sniffing out Pete> reputable vendors. I would recommend against this. I did that, after the kind of exploration you did, and if you c

Re: Old English font for titles

> "Phil" == Phil Holmes writes: Laura> ghostscript says: Laura> `(gs -q -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28 Laura> -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 Laura> -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite Laura> -sOutputFile=./five.pdf -c.setpdfwrite -ffive.ps)

Re: Old English font for titles

>>>>> "Laura" == Laura Conrad writes: Laura> This is on lilypond 2.13.58. On 2.12.3, it seems to work Laura> fine. I guess I should report this to bugs. I take it back. 2.12.13 has different bugs. It works fine with Georgia, but doesn't seem to

Re: Old English font for titles

>>>>> "Henning" == Henning Hraban Ramm writes: Henning> Am 2011-04-09 um 17:32 schrieb Laura Conrad: >> 1. How to tell lilypond how to use a particular font for titles. Henning> \header{ Henning> title = \markup{\override #'(font

Old English font for titles

Back in the olden days, lilypond-book only set the music, and left the titling to the publishing program. I produced a book of Drinking Songs in LaTeX, with the titles in hge, an Old English font derived from the Hershey font. I now want to do an updated version of this book. I would like the t

Re: volta bracket too short

>>>>> "Nick" == Nick Payne writes: Nick> On 22/03/11 03:51, Laura Conrad wrote: >> I'm trying to write a piece with an alternative ending labeled "Final." >> >> This bracket is over a whole note for all parts. For

Re: volta bracket too short

> "Phil" == Phil Holmes writes: >> >> I'm trying to write a piece with an alternative ending labeled >> "Final." >> >> This bracket is over a whole note for all parts. For two of the five >> parts, the spacing on the last line of the part is tight enough that >

volta bracket too short

I'm trying to write a piece with an alternative ending labeled "Final." This bracket is over a whole note for all parts. For two of the five parts, the spacing on the last line of the part is tight enough that there isn't room under the volta bracket for the whole word "Final." Does anyone ha

Re: How to tell lilypond some barlines have width

>>>>> "Neil" == Neil Puttock writes: Neil> On 9 March 2011 16:02, Laura Conrad wrote: >> Unfortunately, it creates a new one.  In some cases, such as the >> attached small example, when I use this BarType I get a lot of errors: >>

Re: How to tell lilypond some barlines have width

>>>>> "Neil" == Neil Puttock writes: Neil> On 8 March 2011 18:05, Laura Conrad wrote: >> Does anyone know a way to tell lily that an "empty" barline shouldn't >> have space, but there should still be some space around the barli

How to tell lilypond some barlines have width

I'm attempting to print out my Holborne parts with something more like 17th century spacing and less like 19th century spacing. A recipe for this that I got a year or so ago

Re: Baroque Articulation mark

> "Phil" == Phil Holmes writes: >> >> I'm transcribing a flute sonata from an eighteenth centuray facsimile, >> and there's a decoration that I don't know either what it means (so that >> I could translate it into an equivalent modern articulation mark), or >> how to produ

Re: Baroque Articulation mark

>>>>> "Laura" == Laura Conrad writes: Laura> I'm transcribing a flute sonata from an eighteenth centuray Laura> facsimile, and there's a decoration that I don't know either Laura> what it means (so that I could translate it into an

Baroque Articulation mark

I'm transcribing a flute sonata from an eighteenth centuray facsimile, and there's a decoration that I don't know either what it means (so that I could translate it into an equivalent modern articulation mark), or how to produce something that looks like that in lilypond. I'm attaching a scan. A

Re: Converting .nwc files to .ly

> "Michael" == Michael Dykes writes: Michael> How do I take a nwc (under wine) file & convert it to a ly Michael> file? I know there's an nwc2abc program somewhere that might be some use. I personally just re-transcribe NWC files. -- Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org) (617) 661

Re: Mixing notation and lyric entry

> "Michael" == Michael Ellis writes: Michael> Any suggestions for how to write the \withLyrics function? Michael> Or is there an existing clean solution I haven't found yet? I always used to wish for that, and then I figured out how to use point-and-click and I don't need it any more

Re: musescore

> "Ed" == Ed Ardzinski writes: Ed> Does anyone have an opinion if it's a good manuscript program? Ed> Not that I am interested in stopping my use of Lilypond... I've been using it to import capella files (from the web -- it's the Holborne dances on the Werner Icking site) and export

Re: Emacs lily mode

> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Sceaux writes: Nicolas> Le 15 juil. 2010 à 16:06, Tim McNamara a écrit : >> What are you thinking that you'd like to see? Nicolas> - quick note entry, with instant audio feedback. I second this. I'm using my USB MIDI keyboard to enter notes, which reduce

Re: Emacs lily mode

> "Tim" == Tim McNamara writes: Tim> Nicolas Sceaux wrote: >> Having a useful lilypond mode in Emacs would be really great. Tim> Using the existing lilypond-mode for all my .ly file editing already Tim> and it's pretty useful to me- Me, too. Tim> but of course there is

Re: LilyPond to Finale :-(

> "Patrick" == Patrick Schmidt writes: Patrick> 1) If you manage to open the .ly-file with MuseScore you can export to Patrick> MusicXML and then import the .xml-file with Finale. MuseScore is a good program, but if that doesn't work, there are several other GUI programs (rosegarden

Re: master file in emacs lilypond mode

> "moboyle79" == moboyle79 writes: moboyle79> At the bottom of the file being edited, put moboyle79> %%% Local Variables: moboyle79> %%% LilyPond-master-file: "SomeMasterFileName.ly" moboyle79> %%% End: Thanks, this works, and is exactly what I wanted to know. -- Laura

flag on mensural custos

I was explaining to someone what a custos was and what it looked like, and I realized that I have no idea why the flag on the mensural custos I use goes up sometimes and down other times. Reading the documentation

Re: Lilypond and Wordpress

> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Wilkes writes: Jonathan> The problem I'm having is that when I run lilypond-book, Jonathan> it makes a relative link for images, and it seems like Jonathan> on the web server I need to give a full url for images; Jonathan> currently I can't get them to

Re: Lilypond and Wordpress

> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Wilkes writes: Jonathan> Does anyone have some experience using Jonathan> lilypond-book together with wordpress? I'd like to make Jonathan> a blog entry in html, then run lilypond-book on it and Jonathan> upload it to the webserver as a blog entr

Re: Ancient tablatures

> "Marc" == Marc Hohl writes: >> I've made some efforts to transcribe the tablature, but what I want >> ideally is to transcribe what's there, in an input form that doesnt' >> require me to translate the tablature into notes, and then use that >> transcription plus the tuning

Re: Ancient tablatures

> "Marc" == Marc Hohl writes: Marc> I am not at all familiar with these old tablatures, but they Marc> look just amazing, so simply for typographic and aesthetical Marc> reasons, these should be made possible with lilypond. Actually, there are good musical reasons, too. In the 1

Re: Ancient tablatures

> "Trevor" == Trevor Daniels writes: Trevor> Fronimo uses its own custom fonts for this style. Trevor> They are licensed with the phrase: Trevor> "The fonts coming with Fronimo are given for Trevor> free, but their use is restricted to non Trevor> commercial purposes f

Re: another route from MIDI to lilypond (from NtEd developer)

> "Joerg" == Joerg Anders writes: >> >> The version I saved hadn't >> >> spelled the flats right, either, but I think I might have fixed that >> >> later. >> Joerg> Could you please tell us what is misspelled ? Is it really Joerg> the "bes" instead "Bb" ? >>

Re: another route from MIDI to lilypond (from NtEd developer)

>>>>> "Joerg" == Joerg Anders writes: Joerg> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Laura Conrad wrote: >> I didn't find that with my sample -- it was the only one of the >> programs that didn't split the voices out correctly. There should be

Re: another route from MIDI to lilypond (from NtEd developer)

> "Martin" == Martin Tarenskeen writes: >> NtEd has such a "--key=..." option implicitely! >> I can't see any problem here. Martin> Yes, NtEd does a pretty good job. I didn't find that with my sample -- it was the only one of the programs that didn't split the voices out corr

Re: finale->lilypond?

> "Frédéric" == Frédéric Bron writes: Frédéric> A friend of mine is used to Finale. I try to convert him Frédéric> to lilypond. What is the best way to convert a score Frédéric> from Finale to Lilypond? Regards, What *ought* to be the best way is to have Finale save the file as

Re: another route from MIDI to lilypond

> "lasconic" == lasconic writes: lasconic> Out of curiosity, which software packages did you try? midi2ly, midi2abc, noteflight, nted. These all had spelling errors. I just tried rosegarden, which exports lilypond directly. It looks pretty good, and may be tweakable to be even better

Re: another route from MIDI to lilypond

> "Villum" == Villum Sejersen writes: Villum> Both of you ought to take a look at Jöerg Anders' NtED, Villum> which to my experience has good import/export Villum> facilities. Both the application and the source code (C++) Villum> look very impressive to me. A quick test on t

another route from MIDI to lilypond

I was frustrated only this week by the problems of getting a MIDI file into lilypond via midi2ly, so when I got a newsletter from Noteflight saying that they now have MIDI import, I did a quick test. It turns out to be fairly simple to import the MIDI file into note

Re: some problems with mensural music

> "Denis" == Denis Roegel writes: Denis> 2) the ligrature \[g1( f)\] comes out with a slur, but I Denis> would like to avoid the slur; however, if I remove Denis> (...), the synchronization of the lyrics is screwed up Denis> ; how can I put one syllable on \[g

Re: Petrucci-like spacing?

>>>>> "Laura" == Laura Conrad writes: Carl> How about this? Carl> \relative c'' { Carl> \key f \major Carl> \cadenzaOn Carl> g1*1/4 bes1*1/4 a1*1/4 g1*1/4 g1.*1/6 c4 bes4 c1*1/4 Carl> } Carl> I think th

Re: Petrucci-like spacing?

> "Carl" == Carl D Sorensen writes: Carl> Does this seem at all promising? >> >> Yes, but there's still the problem of extra space at the barline. I >> tried Michael's solutions and doing nothing at all and there's still >> extra space after the 4th whole note. Carl

Re: Petrucci-like spacing?

> "Carl" == Carl D Sorensen writes: Carl> Here's my attempt to get the spacing you're looking for. I've Carl> done it manually, but if you like it, I think that I can write Carl> a music function \petrucciSpacing{} that will generate it Carl> automatically. Carl> What I'

Re: Preview?

> "Francisco" == Francisco Vila writes: Francisco> does not Francisco> lilypond -dpreview file.ly Francisco> work for you? Thanks. Francisco> it is listed in Francisco> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-program/Command-line-options-for-lil

Preview?

Back in the olden days (lilypond 2.0 or so) there used to be a command line option --preview which would produce a .png file of the first line of the piece. It seems to have been removed, and I'd like to have something like that for the new website. I could probably write a script that would d

Re: Petrucci-like spacing?

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Lauer writes: Michael> Laura Conrad laymusic.org> writes: >> >> But when I transcribe Petrucci from the facsimile, the spacing lilypond >> does always looks clunky, especially in the parts with la

Re: Aligning a "D.S. al Fine" at the end of a piece.

> "Tim" == Tim Rowe writes: Tim> 2009/5/13 Kieren MacMillan : >> So TextScript has a default #'font-size value of 0, the score's "normal >> size". So it *should* [warning: untested] work to just set the RehearsalMark >> #'font-size = #0. Tim> Thanks for digging all of th

Petrucci-like spacing?

In general, I love the way lilypond output looks when compared with other computer-generated sheetmusic. I'm aware that the ideal espoused by the developers is the 19th century hand-engraved sheet music. I usually like the look of my lilypond output as compared with the late sixteenth and early

Re: Why do Lilyond Engravers have inhibitions to store their score in Mutopia?

> "Hajo" == Hajo Dezelski writes: Hajo> So my questions: Hajo> - Why do Lilyond Engravers have inhibitions to store their Hajo> score in Mutopia? I average at least one piece a week, and I sometimes get behind just the overhead to put my work up on my own site, let alone submi

Re: Feat. request: autobehaviour of \unfoldRepeats

> "Kees" == Kees van den Doel writes: Kees> I would also prefer \unfoldRepeats to be the default. I Kees> frequently use the midi as practice material for the Kees> musicians. It's also good to have the repeats in the midi Kees> for listening checks to make sure you have all

Re: my articles and astroturfng LWN

> "Mats" == Mats Bengtsson writes: Mats> I think we can agree that both LilyPond and Sibelius are Mats> among the better options when it comes to typesetting Mats> quality, right? Sibelius is certainly not one of the better options for establishing communication with free softwar

test files for musicxml

There's a site called that has a lot of lead sheets in both PDF and musicxml. The one I looked at first (Edith Piaf's _La vie en rose_) might show up some problems with the musicxml2ly import of both chords and lyrics. -- Laura (

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius

> "Andrew" == Andrew Hawryluk writes: Andrew> The full report is at Andrew> http://www.musicbyandrew.ca/finale-lilypond-4.html, but here's my Andrew> conclusion: Andrew> "At least for me, MIDI entry is much faster than typing the pitches Andrew> and durations myself. I p

Re: Review of Valentin's Opera

> "Kieren" == Kieren MacMillan writes: Kieren> Then again, I *never* use \partcombine, and I manually Kieren> tweak vertical spacing a fair bit, so that might be where Kieren> you are running into problems with your scores. I've always assumed that with some manual tweaking the s

Re: Review of Valentin's Opera

> "Reinhold" == Reinhold Kainhofer writes: Reinhold> The musicians really liked the good look of the score. Reinhold> The only problems appear when trying to create Reinhold> good-looking full scores for the conductor (part Reinhold> combining is unusable and vertical stretch

Re: Using midi2ly

> "Graham" == Graham Percival writes: Graham> Frankly, I think we should just remove every *2ly convert Graham> apart from musicXML2ly. Nobody wants to work on them, so Graham> they just get gradually more and more broken over time. I might support that if we were setting the ex

Re: Sibelius conversion - sib2ly

> "Johan" == Johan Vromans writes: Johan> Yes, it would be very nice to have one good export format Johan> and a good importer. But Sibelius does not produce MusicXML Johan> without the help of an expensive plugin. As far as I can see, all notation products (including lilypond) a

Re: Sibelius conversion - sib2ly

> "Matthew" == Domain Admin writes: Matthew> If anyone's interested, I've started work on a Sibelius Matthew> plug-in to export Lilypond data. Since it's a Sibelius plugin, that means those of us who mostly use Linux are out of luck. I do run into Sibelius files I'd like to conver

Re: \remove has removed clefs-

> "Jay" == Jay Hamilton writes: Jay> If you have the time could you point me to the section in the Jay> docs where this additional bit is explained? I'll try it out Jay> later this afternoon. I started doing this long before the docs had anything like their current shape, so it

Re: \remove has removed clefs-

> "Jay" == Jay Hamilton writes: Jay> version 2.10.25 Jay> included in \context { \Staff Jay> \remove "Bar_engraver" Jay> \remove "Time_signature_engraver" Jay> \override Stem #'transparent = ##t Jay> this has the effect of removing all the clefs from everywhere

Re: Repeat in the middle of a measure

> "Tim" == Tim Slattery writes: Tim> Mats Bengtsson wrote: >> I guess you have several voices or even several staves involved in your >> piece. Note that the \repeat volta command should be inserted >> in all voices of music and also have to appear at exactly the same >>

Re: Missing petrucci-f clef (and other missing clefs)

> "Stefan" == Stefan Waler writes: Stefan> lilypond provides one petrucci style f clef (called Stefan> "petrucci-f"). Stefan> Unfortunately, this is not really sufficient: similar to Stefan> the C clefs, f clefs can be placed on various staff lines. Here's the way I get the

Re: midi keyboard input

>>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Sceaux writes: Nicolas> Le 1 janv. 09 à 23:02, Laura Conrad a écrit : >> It looks like there are rumor-based solutions that might be closer to >> what I need. I was hoping someone would say, "I'm entering

Re: midi keyboard input

>>>>> "lasconic" == lasconic writes: lasconic> Laura Conrad wrote: >> >> The most obvious thing wrong with the note entry is that each measure >> has a comment "% measure 1". If it had the actual measure number it &

Re: midi keyboard input

> "lasconic" == lasconic writes: lasconic> Another way is to use MuseScore : lasconic> http://www.musescore.org Lilypond output is quite beta lasconic> for the moment, but to get the pitches it should be ok I lasconic> guess. That's actually easier than I expected. Thanks f

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