clef - letter clefs - A, B, D, E

2025-01-16 Thread Murray MacKENZIE
in MuseScore, so I put out this notion-as-news down both the LilyPond and MuseScore 'channels' at the same time. Murray J. MacKenzie BSc CD1 corporal 3rd piper, THE CAPE BRETON HIGHLANDERS CANADIAN ARMY from personal account mur...@hotmail.com<mailto:mur...@hotmail.com>

Re: Automatic lyric colouring

2016-12-11 Thread Jack Mackenzie
I've been using this for a while now and sometimes the lyrics are randomly coloured black instead of being associated with the note colour. I've tried to find a pattern to it but there doesn't seem to be one. Anyone have any ideas? On 27 November 2016 at 16:42, Jack Mackenzie wrot

Re: Automatic lyric colouring

2016-11-27 Thread Jack Mackenzie
Wonderful! Works perfectly. Thank you very much. On 27 November 2016 at 13:26, Thomas Morley wrote: > 2016-11-27 2:40 GMT+01:00 Jack Mackenzie : > > I'm trying to put together an engraver for educational purposes, with > > noteheads coloured according to a particula

Re: Automatic lyric colouring

2016-11-26 Thread Jack Mackenzie
I worried that it might involve Scheme. I should certainly investigate it but I'm already extremely out of my depth! The material is simple but as I'm planning on compiling between 100-200 songs using up to 5 notes (for Kodaly/Orff-style music programmes), if the lyrics idea could work, I'd like to

Re: Automatic lyric colouring

2016-11-26 Thread Jack Mackenzie
Take this song for example: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Cu34bCPytiY/T4ZD9tR7CrI/FBE/gytZgtL4qTc/s1600/See+Saw+Up+And+Down+-+G.bmp I would want all the d notes one colour, and their lyrics the same colour, and all the b notes and their lyrics a different colour. This is for very young child

Automatic lyric colouring

2016-11-26 Thread Jack Mackenzie
I'm trying to put together an engraver for educational purposes, with noteheads coloured according to a particular scheme, and lyrics following this colouring. I've used the snippet for notehead colouring successfully ( http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=572), using "\override NoteHead.color =

time signature is printed after first bar line

2016-09-20 Thread Roderick Mackenzie
Hallo, I am still trying to print bagpipe tunes with Lilypond, with a repeat bar at the start of each part. I am almost there; my only problem now is that the time signature is printed after the first bar line (the repeat bar line). Here is a simple script: \version "2.16.2" \include "bagpipe.ly

Re: use of set Timing.measurePosition is disrupting automatic beaming

2016-09-13 Thread Roderick Mackenzie
Hallo, many thanks for the suggestions. I am using an older version because it happens to be in the Ubuntu LTS repositories and I have not got round to upgrading yet. Elaine, I use repeat barlines at the start of each part because bagpipe tunes always have them at the start and end of each part,

use of set Timing.measurePosition is disrupting automatic beaming

2016-09-12 Thread Roderick Mackenzie
o beaming. What am I doing wrong? Regards, Roddy Mackenzie \version "2.16.2" \include "bagpipe.ly" \layout { indent = 0.0\cm \context { \Score \remove "Bar_number_engraver" } } { \hideKeySignature \time 2/4 % First part \bar "|:" \partial 8

Scope of scheme defines in Lilypond projects

2011-02-10 Thread Simon Mackenzie
Hi I'm wanting to write some globally accessible scheme functions / procedures (defines) for my lilypond project but the documentation on such seems a bit limited. I.e. Do \header, \page and other contexts introduce new variable scopes (assuming yes here)? If so, how can scheme functions and va

Accessing public defines in scheme modules

2011-02-09 Thread Simon Mackenzie
If I use the following to load a scheme module into a lilypond script file I can use any of the public interfaces in this current file. #(load "init/credits.scm") #(use-modules (init credits)) %get access to the public defines in credits.scm #(ech 'set-song-number "66.") % ech is a public defin

Re: Accidental_engraver & Naturals

2009-08-26 Thread Simon Mackenzie
I can offer. Cheers Reverend Simon Mackenzie Lutheran Church of Australia [[ http://www.lca.org.au/ ]] On 27/08/2009, at 09:14, David Rogers wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 08:03, Simon Mackenzie wrote: I haven't been able to figure out how to replicate the three naturals on this music s

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-08-25 Thread Simon Mackenzie
The key signature assignment tells LilyPond how to display the pitches. For exmaple; 'e' *always* means e-natural no matter what the key signature is. -David Simon Mackenzie wrote: Hi guys correct me if I am wrong. The g minor chord has two flats Eb & Bb which need to be marked as

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-08-25 Thread Simon Mackenzie
In response to Graham and others who have expressed frustration about people who have failed to pickup on accidentals. It can be very difficult for fist time novices like myself to understand implicit information about what is a reasonably technical musical concept. I spent four hours last

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-08-25 Thread Simon Mackenzie
Hi guys correct me if I am wrong. The g minor chord has two flats Eb & Bb which need to be marked as es and bes in Lilypond other wise the Accidental_engraver sees them as naturals in the g minor chord, hence the natural symbol for any unmarked E or B note in your music. Just trying to se

Re: Naturals & Accidental_engraver

2009-08-23 Thread Simon Mackenzie
For basic music theory this site seems helpful... http://www.8notes.com/ Simon On 24/08/2009, at 09:28, Simon Mackenzie wrote: Hi All, Yes by now you would have figured out I am musically challenged, seriously musically challenged. 1) My initial task was to generate a result which would

Re: Naturals & Accidental_engraver

2009-08-23 Thread Simon Mackenzie
people what to do and teaching people what to do and why are not the same thing. Many thanks to those who have taught me what to do and why, it is equipping me to be a teacher of others. Reverend Simon Mackenzie Lutheran Church of Australia On 23/08/2009, at 22:19, Patrick Schmidt wrote: Hi

Re: Naturals & Accidental_engraver

2009-08-21 Thread Simon Mackenzie
I guess I'm simple minded so enlighten me ;-) Simon On 21/08/2009, at 15:24, Graham Percival wrote: On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 03:13:40PM +0700, Simon Mackenzie wrote: It will be helpful not to think about the problem from the Lilypond side of things. No, that will not be helpful. Sto

Re: Naturals & Accidental_engraver

2009-08-21 Thread Simon Mackenzie
hard copy of the music sheet above.Simon On 21/08/2009, at 11:52, James E. Bailey wrote: On 21.08.2009, at 04:21, Simon Mackenzie wrote:I'm lost on this one...If I place the override in the voice context I end up with the following which is nothing like what I need to achieve.Okay, I think I

Re: Naturals & Accidental_engraver

2009-08-20 Thread Simon Mackenzie
g the stencil in the music. i.e., with \once \override Staff.Accidental_engraver #'stencil = ##f Just trying to get my head around how all this works. On 20.08.2009, at 18:10, Simon Mackenzie wrote: If I turn Accidental_engraver off no accidentals appear as expected but then if leave

Re: Layout and coding style

2009-08-20 Thread Simon Mackenzie
Simon On 20/08/2009, at 23:04, Mark Polesky wrote: Simon Mackenzie wrote: I have revised my approach to the question of what constitutes good coding style and come up with this layout for my master music sheet files. Any comments on the following style and layout would be appreciated

Re: Naturals & Accidental_engraver

2009-08-20 Thread Simon Mackenzie
If I turn Accidental_engraver off no accidentals appear as expected but then if leave it on I don't seem to be able to manually set naturals with ! and exclude / turn off everything else. Simon On 20/08/2009, at 22:48, James E. Bailey wrote: On 20.08.2009, at 17:39, Simon Mackenzie

Naturals & Accidental_engraver

2009-08-20 Thread Simon Mackenzie
I haven't been able to figure out how to replicate the three naturals on this music sheet using Lilypond script? Any ideas? <> Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Layout and coding style

2009-08-20 Thread Simon Mackenzie
I have revised my approach to the question of what constitutes good coding style and come up with this layout for my master music sheet files. Any comments on the following style and layout would be appreciated. There are separate chord and voice include files and each lyric verse is also p

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2009-08-12 Thread Simon Mackenzie
Yeah it's proving to be an interesting learning experience trying to wrap my head around Lilypond. I feel it is like a multi-headed beast with Scheme & Lilypond script intermingled together. It makes for an interesting mix to get ones head around. The manuals are helpful but there are hugh

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2009-08-09 Thread Simon Mackenzie
f4 e8[ e8]( | c2.) g'8[ b8] | g4. c8 b4 e,8[ f8] | g2. c8[ c8] |\break ... f4. e8 c4 e8[( b8)] | c2 f4 f4 | f4. e8 c4 b8[( e8)] | c1 | \bar "|." } === End - CHORDSNOTES_061.ly == Cheers Simon On 08/08/2009, at

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2009-08-08 Thread Simon Mackenzie
Ahhh! Thank you. Simon On 08/08/2009, at 20:04, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Quoting Simon Mackenzie : Ok it appears to be a scoping issue. So I need to declare variables outside the \book scope? Is this correct? But if my script file is included inside a \book scope how can i then declare

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2009-08-08 Thread Simon Mackenzie
Simon On 08/08/2009, at 05:41, Trevor Daniels wrote: Simon Mackenzie wrote Friday, August 07, 2009 3:55 PM Eg. What does it mean on page 34 of the Learning Tutorial when it says... "Variables must be defined before the main music expression." Does this mean the \score { }

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2009-08-07 Thread Simon Mackenzie
Ok it appears to be a scoping issue. So I need to declare variables outside the \book scope? Is this correct? But if my script file is included inside a \book scope how can i then declare new variables inside this scope? Simon On 07/08/2009, at 21:55, Simon Mackenzie wrote: Agreed!!! Eg

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2009-08-07 Thread Simon Mackenzie
Agreed!!! Eg. What does it mean on page 34 of the Learning Tutorial when it says... "Variables must be defined before the main music expression." Does this mean the \score { } or does it mean the expression in which the declared variable is referenced? Because I dutifully declare my vari

Re: Compiling on MAC OS X 10.5.7

2009-06-19 Thread Simon Mackenzie
On 19/06/2009, at 11:21 AM, Graham Percival wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 09:08:11AM +0700, Simon Mackenzie wrote: On 19/06/2009, at 8:37 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: On 18.06.2009, at 16:05, Simon Mackenzie wrote: Has any one had any success compiling Lilypond 2.12.2 on a MAC OS X 10.5.7

Re: Compiling on MAC OS X 10.5.7

2009-06-18 Thread Simon Mackenzie
On 19/06/2009, at 8:37 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: On Jun 18, 2009, at 7:08 PM, Simon Mackenzie wrote: On 18/06/2009, at 11:29 PM, James E. Bailey wrote: On 18.06.2009, at 16:05, Simon Mackenzie wrote: Hi All, Has any one had any success compiling Lilypond 2.12.2 on a MAC OS X 10.5.7

Re: Compiling on MAC OS X 10.5.7

2009-06-18 Thread Simon Mackenzie
On 18/06/2009, at 11:29 PM, James E. Bailey wrote: On 18.06.2009, at 16:05, Simon Mackenzie wrote: Hi All, Has any one had any success compiling Lilypond 2.12.2 on a MAC OS X 10.5.7 system? Cheers Reverend Simon Mackenzie Lutheran Church of Australia Nan Thailand I've

Compiling on MAC OS X 10.5.7

2009-06-18 Thread Simon Mackenzie
Hi All, Has any one had any success compiling Lilypond 2.12.2 on a MAC OS X 10.5.7 system? Cheers Reverend Simon Mackenzie Lutheran Church of Australia Nan Thailand ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org

Re: Compilation Errors on MAC OS X 10.4.11

2009-01-29 Thread Simon J Mackenzie
Thank you for your prompt replies. I'm downloading the 2.12.2-1 version now. Simon On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:22:04 +1100, "Brett Duncan" said: > Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > > This is an error that exists in 2.12.1. > > > > See the list bug-lilyp...@gnu.org for the fix that is needed. > > > > 2.12.2

Compilation Errors on MAC OS X 10.4.11

2009-01-28 Thread Simon J Mackenzie
I have installed LilyPond 2.12.1-1 on a Mac Mini running MAC OS X 10.4.11 for Mac Intel machines but now I getting the following error messages when I attempt to compile my project. I have also attempted to use 2.11.65 but keep receiving the same error messages. The same code compiles fine on Kubun

Re: Vertical alignment of Chords - Feature / Bug??? Subtle Solution

2008-12-19 Thread Simon J Mackenzie
that it prevented the chord below entering the lyric line. Not ideal but it works. :-) I'm sure there must be a better solution. Any suggestions? Simon On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:45:11 +0700, "Simon J Mackenzie" said: > The idea of having to manually tweek each lead sheet is not wh

Re: Vertical alignment of Chords - Feature / Bug???

2008-12-18 Thread Simon J Mackenzie
The idea of having to manually tweek each lead sheet is not what I had in mind. Any ideas on how to prevent this from happening automagically? Simon On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:32:11 -0500, "Kieren MacMillan" said: > Hi Carl, > > > For me, it's the lyrics context that should not use skylining. We

Vertical alignment of Chords - Feature / Bug???

2008-12-18 Thread Simon J Mackenzie
Hi Could people please have a look at the PDF at the following link. Note the positioning of the sixth and seventh chord in this dummy music sheet and compare their placement with that of the subsequent chords on the sheet. Is this normal behavior or a potential bug in the positioning routines for

Re: Segmentation fault on file with bookparts

2008-12-15 Thread Simon J Mackenzie
I'm using Kubuntu Linux 8.04 Hardy Heron KDE 3.5.10 Linux Kernel 2.6.24-22 generic (i386) Simon On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:06:35 -0600, "Jonathan Kulp" said: > Patrick McCarty wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 5:25 AM, Jonathan Kulp > > wrote: > >> Yes, I had trouble, too, when I tried downloadi

Re: Segmentation fault on file with bookparts

2008-12-15 Thread Simon J Mackenzie
\version "2.11.65" Segmentfaults with either command lilypond lorca.ly lilypond -V lorca.ly Simon On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:25:37 -0600, "Jonathan Kulp" said: > Nicolas Sceaux wrote: > > > > I'll try to investigate it soon. Currently my problem is that I can't > > reproduce these bus errors or s

Re: Segmentation fault on file with bookparts

2008-12-14 Thread Simon J Mackenzie
Hi Just adding to this from my early experience... \version "2.11.65" Yeah I had similar problems. When I removed the incomplete temporary \addlyrics {} entries the problem cleared up (Noting in them but % comment lines.) The other interesting thing was if I ran lilypond with the -V (verbose) op

Re: Replacement Macros - Thank you

2008-12-14 Thread Simon J Mackenzie
Dec 2008 17:21:57 +, "Neil Puttock" said: > Hi Simon, > > 2008/12/14 Simon J Mackenzie : > > > \header { > > %Common settings > > poet = #(markup lyricist) > > } > > > > \book { > > \bookpart { > > \header { >

Re: Replacement Macros - Ooops! Try Again Again

2008-12-14 Thread Simon J Mackenzie
to use scheme there but it works. > Hope that helps. > > Regards, > > Tao > > ---- Original-Nachricht > > Datum: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:00:25 +0700 > > Von: "Simon J Mackenzie" > > An: "LilyPond Mailing List" > > Betreff: Replaceme

Replacement Macros - Ooops! Try Again Again

2008-12-13 Thread Simon J Mackenzie
Hi How do you go about defining replacement macros so that ... lyricist = \markup { \bold "Fred" "J" \italic "Bones" } is transformed into say a form of... poet = lyricist Cheers Simon ------ Reverend Simon J Mackenzie

Replacement Macros

2008-12-13 Thread Simon J Mackenzie
Hi How do you go about defining replacement macros so that ... lyricist = \markup { \bold "Fred" "J" \italic "Bones" } is transformed into say a form of... poet = fullName Cheers Simon ------ Reverend Simon J Mackenzie

Replacement Macros

2008-12-13 Thread Simon J Mackenzie
Hi How do you you go about defining replacement macros so that ... lyricist = \markup { \bold "Fred" "J" \italic "Bones" } is transformed into say a form of... poet = fullName Cheers Simon ------ Reverend Simon J

Re: Horizontal Alignment of Numbers in Table of Contents. Sample result attached!

2008-12-13 Thread Simon J Mackenzie
Sample result attached. On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:20:40 +0700, "Simon J Mackenzie" said: > Hi Nicolas, > Thank you for your help and an elegant solution. Would have been very > lost otherwise. > > Very much appreciated. > > Simon > > Sample result attached

Re: Horizontal Alignment of Numbers in Table of Contents

2008-12-13 Thread Simon J Mackenzie
Hi Nicolas, Thank you for your help and an elegant solution. Would have been very lost otherwise. Very much appreciated. Simon Sample result attached. The language is Thai On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:37:07 +0100, "Nicolas Sceaux" said: > Le 12 déc. 08 à 07:59, Simon J Mack

Horizontal Alignment of Numbers in Table of Contents

2008-12-11 Thread Simon J Mackenzie
it whispers is invariably deep filled music for thirsty souls." ------ Reverend Simon J Mackenzie LUTHERAN CHURCH OF AUSTRALIA 197 Archer Street, North Adelaide, South Australia, AUSTRALIA, 5006 ___ lilyp

Size

2007-09-15 Thread Mackenzie
Hello Lillypad. I think your system would be great for me. First, I need to know the size of the software. Thank You. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user