Re: "Text spanner"-ish thing with text in the middle

2017-10-27 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2017-10-27 21:37, James Harkins wrote: I couldn't find this quickly: for an unmetered section, I'd like to indicate duration by tuplet-style brackets, only not a tuplet (no change to note durations) and with arbitrary text markup in the middle, e.g. if a tuplet goes :- 3 -: I'd like

Re: Creating a 11-line system

2017-09-22 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2017-09-22 00:55, Ståle Ødegården wrote: Thank you, this is excactly what I was looking for! I have another challenge: making the key signature also mimic a standard PianoStaff setup. I have a partial solution with «\override KeySignature.flat-positions = #'((-10 . 10))» and similar, but I do

Re: Creating a 11-line system

2017-09-21 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2017-09-21 14:05, Ståle Ødegården wrote: Hi! I wonder how I can create a 11-line system with both treble and bass clefs present. I have two ideas, but I can’t make any of them work: - Create a PianoStaff or ChoirStaff and force the spacing between them to be _excactly_ one line apart - then

Re: Non-Standard Rhythmic Durations

2017-06-26 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2017-06-26 20:47, Brin Solomon wrote: Hey all, I'm working on an algorithmic piece where all the rhythmic durations are an integer number of eighth notes long. I'm using Completion_heads_engraver to handle the bar lines, but I'm running into trouble when I need to write notes that are five ei

Re: Export to ?????

2017-05-28 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2017-05-25 00:45, Don Gingrich wrote: I've been looking and looking and I cannot find any useful references to export file formats from LilyPond. Now, I will agree that LilyPond's PDF output is very good looking and is actually my preferred sheet music, But the sad reality it that there are p

Re: Hairpin endings

2017-04-21 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2017-04-21 05:39, David Nalesnik wrote: Instead of using a markup, why not use ly:line-interface::line (available from 2.19.27)? This gets thickness from the grob--and any other line attributes you want, so you can create dashed hairpins, whatever. There's no need adjust thickness in this cas

Re: Hairpin endings

2017-04-20 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2017-04-20 20:42, Andrew Bernard wrote: I posted a while ago with a query about hairpins, to which no response. Would there be any way to have hairpins that don't start, or end in the other direction, with the lines converging to the same point? I have need from time to time of hairpins where

Re: How to create measure with only slashes

2017-01-19 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2017-01-19 18:19, Rob Torop wrote: I'dlike to create a measure that has 4 forward slashes in it (only). This does almost what I want except of course it has the rest at the start: \repeat percent 4 { r4 } Is there a way to get just 4 slashes? Hi Rob, Here's how I do it: { \ov

Re: Tips on quick entry

2017-01-07 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2017-01-06 13:39, Samuel Speer wrote: Hello list, It takes me ages to enter the note data into LilyPond. Last night I spent almost an hour a page just getting notes and lyrics in. Does anyone have any tips for quick entry? I do have a midi keyboard but haven't tried it much. It seems slow bec

Re: Overlapping Characters in markup

2016-12-23 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-12-23 08:07, Br. Samuel Springuel wrote: [...] While \translate works, and I can manipulate the offsets via trial and error, I'm stumped as to the units. I found the documentation for the function (lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/align) and it's companion \translate-scaled

Re: Overlapping Characters in markup

2016-12-22 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-12-22 20:10, Br. Samuel Springuel wrote: If I wish to create a markup command that combines two characters from different fonts (the normal Roman font of the file and another font which provides special glyphs) in an overlapping fashion, how would I go about doing that? Thus far I have t

Re: Is there a short way of forcing a particular octave?

2016-12-21 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-12-21 11:55, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi David, I can't see the point in avoiding any methodology that makes things easier and more reliable. I agree 100%. Which is exactly why I abandoned \relative and use only \absolute. ;) I also stopped using \relative a few years ago (I think i

Re: Override SystemStartSquare width?

2016-11-16 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-11-16 16:16, dtsmarin wrote: Hello, How can I extend the square bracket to fill the gap? (see attached image) Hi Dmitris, Bad news. Looks like SystemStartSquare is hardcoded at 0.8 staff spaces (source: System_star

Re: How to get irrational tuplets inside a regular meter like 9/8

2016-11-08 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-11-08 15:02, mclaren wrote: Whatever Lilypond is doing internally, there's some arbitrary limit to the numbers it uses. Time signatures above some large value cause a crash. Too many tuplets of too many different kinds causes Lilypond to crash. Hi mclaren, So you found bugs in LilyPo

Re: Cross staff and beaming

2016-11-06 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-11-05 08:05, Andrew Bernard wrote: This is a question about cross staff stems and beaming. Referring to the attached example, can this be done by any means in lilypond? Am I missing something obvious? Is there perhaps any way to have beams from the bass and from the treble be made to coi

Re: Two different time signatures with different tuplets in 'em

2016-11-05 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-11-05 23:35, mclaren wrote: Urs Liska's and Andrew Ho's page break code works well on most examples I've worked through, but it doesn't work here. Hi mclaren, I hate to correct you, but the correct names are Hans Liska and Andrew Ho. Andrew ___

Re: Can't get page breaks for 7 over square root of 71 meter

2016-11-03 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-11-03 17:36, mclaren wrote: The problem comes from Lilypond's bizarre assumption that at some point all the barlines in the score will line up. In this case, clearly the barlines in the 7/sqr(71) staff will never line up with any of the other barlines in the score. Therefore Lilypond c

Re: Stencil questions (adding text and defining line style)

2016-09-21 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-09-21 11:49, Urs Liska wrote: Concretely I want to add a text element at a certain position to a (ly:stencil-add construction. Hi Urs, grob-interpret-markup is the way to create text. You can position it with ly:stencil-translate, and add it to another stencil using ly:stencil-add

Re: Open Sound control?

2016-08-13 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-08-13 06:52, bb wrote: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_Control is sayed to replace MIDI. Is this something usefull for lilypond? Can one save osc files like MIDI files? OSC replaces one particular use of MIDI, which is for real-time communication between software or hardware d

Re: I am not top posting

2016-07-23 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-07-23 21:05, Robert Edge wrote: I have no idea why, but this interface won't let me ask a question. It says I am top posting. I am not top posting. I have not quoted anything. How do I send a message to this list? Sometimes if you have ">" symbols in LilyPond code, the list gets c

Segmentation fault with a bad systemStartDelimiter

2016-07-13 Thread Nathan Ho
Hi list, A bad value for StaffGroup.systemStartDelimiter appears to cause a segmentation fault: \version "2.19.45" \new StaffGroup \with { systemStartDelimiter = #'aaa } { c'4 } $ lilypond test.ly GNU LilyPond 2.19.45 Processing `traiettorie_ohshit.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music...Segment

Re: Flute Accompaniment

2016-06-26 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-06-26 11:14, Br. Gabriel-Marie | SSPX wrote: In my piece I have a piano staff with the music on the bottom staff. In the upper staff it is supposed to be notes for recorder or flute accompaniment. In the original the flute notes and its staff are all a bit smaller in size. What do you c

Re: Lilypond statistics

2016-04-08 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-04-07 21:51, Dave Higgins wrote: Is there any way to generate statistics for a file? Things like, let say, a concordance or the number of a's b's or bes's, or repeated markup's? (I know I can do stuff like this with grep, but that's very singular.) Try event-listener.ly (http://lilyp

Re: Use jazz fonts in LilyPond?

2016-03-06 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-03-06 16:10, Nathan Ho wrote: On 2016-03-06 15:10, Eric Albert wrote: I've been working from Leigh Verlag's page on faking a Real Book page in LilyPond (thanks to Kieren for the link): http://leighverlag.blogspot.ca/2015/12/mimicking-real-book-look.html That page answers

Re: Use jazz fonts in LilyPond?

2016-03-06 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-03-06 15:10, Eric Albert wrote: I've been working from Leigh Verlag's page on faking a Real Book page in LilyPond (thanks to Kieren for the link): http://leighverlag.blogspot.ca/2015/12/mimicking-real-book-look.html That page answers many of my questions. I still have some font questi

Re: Funny LilyPond Score

2016-03-01 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-03-01 11:03, Abraham Lee wrote: Fellow Pond Dwellers, Here's a laugh for everyone today. I was browsing through the sea of scores on the web and stumbled across this one [1]. Enjoy! Funny! I was going to ask where you found this, but I answered my own question: https://opensource.com

Re: music writing

2016-02-27 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-02-27 11:25, Robert Sabourin wrote: how do you over ride the security in place? i get a message that this did not come from an apples store so it will not be installed. Hi Robert, Please use "Reply All" in mailing list conversations, thanks! Sorry, I don't use a Mac. Perhaps others o

Re: music writing

2016-02-27 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-02-27 10:51, Robert Sabourin wrote: will this program work on an apple computer? i have an i-mac. Hi Robert, Welcome to LilyPond! Yes, the program is available for Mac: http://lilypond.org/macos-x.html Nathan ___ lilypond-user mailing l

Re: Exited with return code -1073741819.

2016-02-26 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-02-25 16:23, MING TSANG wrote: I transcribe a score SA-TB + piano contains 118 measures. I enter the last measure and I got the error message. If I comment out measure #118, the compile went OK. I double check measure 118 and there is no code error. What is the error message "Exited with

Re: Tie across voices

2016-02-12 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-02-12 15:37, Joseph N. Srednicki wrote: In the following three-beat example, I am trying to tie the upper-voice note in the second beat with the lower-voice note of the third beat. My example seems to work somewhat, but the notes of the upper and lower voices of the second and third beat

Re: overlaying noteheads in different voices

2016-02-08 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-02-08 19:27, Charles O. Lawrence wrote: How do I get the dotted half low a in voice 2 to overlay (blot out? I don't know the proper terminology) the eighth low a in voice 1? I searched the LSR, but came up empty, probably because I don't know the proper lilypond terminology for this nota

Re: Very fast typesetting regardless of beauty?

2016-02-03 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-02-03 17:51, Isaac Reilly wrote: Hi all, I'm working on a graphical music editing program. The final output (with Lilypond, of course) is going great, but for editing the music in real-time it's way too slow. Can you give me advice or point me toward a resource on speeding up Lilypond b

Re: Learning more complicated lilypond coding

2016-01-29 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-01-29 14:54, Charles O. Lawrence wrote: For my edification in learning more complicated lilypond coding techniques, could one of you gurus post a sample of how to code the attached measure. The complication, for me at least, is the fact that the r8 should come AFTER the bass clef. With th

Re: Is this an error?

2016-01-29 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-01-29 07:54, Joseph Breton wrote: AMDG I am just learning using OOolilypond. The following code prints out b flat and not b natural. Try as I might, I have not been able to remedy the problem. Any suggestions? Thanks. melody = \relative c' { \key g \major \time 3/4 b } \score {

Re: simplifying chromatic scale notation

2016-01-25 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-01-25 21:35, Paul Morris wrote: On Jan 25, 2016, at 4:19 PM, musicus wrote: See attached. Comments, suggestions are very welcome ;) Hi musicus, I think you’re right that standard notation is not as good as it could be for such chromatic music, and you have an interesting approach for

RE: unterminated tie

2016-01-15 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-01-15 12:26, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: Nathan, Thank you for your reply and the observation. I did not mention that the second f is after a clef change - bass to treble - so the ' is necessary. Since it compiles correctly, perhaps it is just a "glitch" in the program. Hi Mark,

Re: unterminated tie

2016-01-15 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-01-15 11:49, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: Hello: I cannot find the "unterminated tie" in the following measures. r4 q2 | r4 2 | q2. | r4 2 | r4 2 | % this line highlighted. Hi Mark, Check your octaves on the f. If you're in relative mode, the second f on this line ends up an octave

Re: Bravura svg font

2016-01-07 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-01-07 15:49, Simon Albrecht wrote: In case others be interested: Nice and funny :-) Thanks, Abraham (and Mark)! Yours, Simon There aren't enough novelty music fonts out there. Once I was a kid and I entered "Take Me O

Re: Bravura svg font

2016-01-07 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-01-07 02:57, Paul Booker wrote: Thanks Nathan, Since posting, I've scanned the bug and devel groups, and it would appear I am not being fashionable in wanting to do this. The trend seems to be toward woff fonts for svg, is that the case? Yes and no. The openlilylib font project mostl

Re: Bravura svg font

2016-01-07 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-01-06 11:23, Paul Booker wrote: Hi, I'm a new use of lilypond-windows on Win 8.1 64bit and Win 7. First of all, thanks for wonderful software; I'm generating many snippets for educational purposes. My main problem so far is getting the bravura alternative font to appear. I don't mind

Re: When to Use Pound Signs

2016-01-05 Thread Nathan Ho
On 2016-01-05 20:55, Colin Campbell wrote: On 16-01-05 09:47 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote: According to the Unicode Standard 6.2, this is u0023, which is designated Number Sign, and also known equivalently as: pound sign, hash, crosshatch, octothorpe I have always called it octothorpe, mostly bec

Re: Child quote

2015-09-28 Thread Nathan Ho
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Menu Jacques wrote: > Hello folks, > > My grand-son, 6 years and a half old, discovered what he named a rainbow in > the first LP score I’ve done for him. The goal is for him to copy it by hand > on empty staves. > The rainbow is actually a fermata… \markup {

Re: Time signature denominator as a note rather than number?

2015-09-15 Thread Nathan Ho
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 7:12 PM, ViniWolfling wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Anybody know how to put a note instead of a number in the denominator? Or at > least /if/ it can be done? For example: > > > > Thanks in advan

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-10 Thread Nathan Ho
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Nathan, > >> Most music I work with now is not conventionally notated, >> so I haven't found much use for LilyPond recently. > > What kinds of things do you do? > How *is* it notated? > > You may be the perfect [kind of] person to help

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-10 Thread Nathan Ho
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Tim Reeves wrote: > Age: 49 > Amateur hornist. > Typesetting of existing parts, occasionally creating simple exercises, > fingering charts, etc. Not a regular user, but like to keep up on > development. > I use Frescobaldi every time for some time now, and I've be

Re: set barlines manually

2015-08-26 Thread Nathan Ho
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Mátyás Seress wrote: > Hi all, > > how can I set barlines completely manually throughout a whole sheet music? If you have no time signatures, remove Time_signature_engraver and use \cadenzaOn. You can place bars with \bar "|". Regards, Nathan __

Re: Randomness in layout

2015-08-21 Thread Nathan Ho
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 4:16 AM, Malte Meyn wrote: > > > Am 21.08.2015 um 12:55 schrieb Malte Meyn: >> >> I think that it should be possible to redefine "(" to tweak every slur >> with some randomness. > > > Here you go: You can also do \relative { \override Slur.eccentricity = #(lambda (grob) (*

Re: Sibelius 8

2015-06-24 Thread Nathan Ho
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Urs Liska wrote: > Sibelius 8 has arrived - and gives an implicit answer to the questions > that have arisen after they let their collected development competence > go ... > http://www.sibeliusblog.com/news/sibelius-8-is-here/ Corpses for sale, only $670 each. Re

Re: A Chord Question

2015-06-21 Thread Nathan Ho
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 4:27 PM, William Marchant wrote: > Using the \chordmode function, when I enter "a:m7.5-" I get as shown > in the documentation. > > The guitarist in our group would very much like to stay with the notation > he is used to. Namely . > Hi William, Have a look at http:

Re: Polyphonic notes slur solution

2015-06-21 Thread Nathan Ho
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 12:22 AM, rsfjr wrote: > > I placed a \override Staff.Arpeggio.direction = 1 at the code, so that the > arpeggio parenthesis would be at the right. It works OK, but, can it be > mirroed? The parenthesis is pointed out the note pair. > Tried the \shape command and nothing wa

Re: Polyphonic notes slur solution

2015-06-20 Thread Nathan Ho
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:48 PM, rsfjr wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to overcome an issue. I need to place some slurs in a > polyphonic > pair, connecting the noteheads. Is there any workaround? > Hi rsfjr, LilyPond doesn't support vertical slurs. What you're looking for is \arpeggioParenthe

Re: "Assertion failed!"

2015-06-12 Thread Nathan Ho
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Daniel Rosen wrote: > Hello all, > > When I try to attach a balloon to a whole note, like this: > > %%% Snippet begins > \version "2.19.21" > \new Voice \with { \consists "Balloon_engraver" } > { > \balloonGrobText #'Stem #'(3 . 3) \markup { "I'm a Stem" } > g

Re: Scheme function

2015-06-10 Thread Nathan Ho
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 7:17 AM, Víctor wrote: > Hi all: > > solfa = > #(define-music-function > (parser location framed number note) > (string? string? string?) > #{ > ^\markup{ > \box > \pad-to-box #'(0 . 0) #'(0 . 2.2){ #framed } > #number : > \italic #not

Re: Formatting Titles...

2015-06-10 Thread Nathan Ho
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Marco Bagolin wrote: > Hello all. > I must to format titles. > > I write the following code: > > \header { > > dedication = \markup \override #'(font-name . "Book Antiqua") \bold > {"Music from the Motion Picture"} > > title = \markup \override #'(font-name . "Boo

Re: Formatting tempo text

2015-06-08 Thread Nathan Ho
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Marco Bagolin wrote: > > > Hello all. > How can I obtain what you can see in What_I_want.png file? > > My best result is in myresult.png file. > The code I wrote is the following: > \tempo \markup {\column {\line { \tiny {"''Do You Want to smile?''"}} > \line {"Mod

Re: ostinato rhythm

2015-06-07 Thread Nathan Ho
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Dan Eble wrote: > % complete the bass ostinato on the same pitch as the preceding > % quarter note > ost = \notemode { r8 8~ 4 4 } > > Used like: > > | g4 \ost | a4 \ost | … > > This is good for avoiding some typing in a long piece. Can anyone improve > o

Re: dodecaphonic-no-repeat and grace notes

2015-06-06 Thread Nathan Ho
On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Gilberto Agostinho < gilbertohasn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I found a little problem with the \accidentalStyle dodecaphonic-no-repeat. > When there is a grace note between two identical pitches, the second one > does not receive an accidental as it's suppos

Re: override stencil question

2015-06-04 Thread Nathan Ho
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:41 PM, priosfilho wrote: > Sorry, Nathan. I will try to make my point clearer. > > *Firstly*, I got the code developed earlier in this thread and altered the > numbers of handles of path-gliss to four -- the original version came with > the values (list 'curveto 0 0 (firs

Re: override stencil question

2015-06-04 Thread Nathan Ho
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 1:14 PM, priosfilho wrote: > Thanks a lot, Nathan! This will really works fine. > > I just have one question now. I would very much appreciate if you could > help > me with that. > > I would like to have local control upon all the four variables of list > 'curveto. With the

Re: override stencil question

2015-06-04 Thread Nathan Ho
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:35 AM, priosfilho wrote: > Hey Nathan > > This is just the code developed in the thread plus more adjustable handles > for curveto: Unfortunately this code isn't compiling for me. There are a few extra )'s in there. I created this from code earlier in the thread; mayb

Re: override stencil question

2015-06-04 Thread Nathan Ho
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:06 AM, priosfilho wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just new to Lilypond, not a programing knower, but just trying to > follow > some instructions on the forum so I can finally achieve really beautiful > scores in a not-too-easy but definitely intelligent way. > > I wanted to make a

Re: change font name of just lyrics?

2015-05-26 Thread Nathan Ho
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Joshua Nichols wrote: > I've looked for a hack, but I haven't found one yet. I was wondering if > y'all could expedite my question: > > I'd like to be able to change the default lyric font to a different font > within the same font family. I have an expert font t

Re: variable containing header

2015-05-26 Thread Nathan Ho
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 5:23 AM, Gianmaria Lari wrote: > I'm trying to define a variable containing the header but lilypond does not > accept it. Am'I doing some error or is this forbidden? > > % my source > \version "2.18.2" > head = \header { > title = "The Third Position" > } > > \score { >

Re: Sometimes order is significant

2015-05-25 Thread Nathan Ho
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Nathan Ho wrote: > > > This cheat sheet shows many note syntax elements in the correct order: > > http://joramberger.de/files/lilypond_sheet_2.18_en.pdf > > It seems that all the components starting with string number can be placed > in

Re: Sometimes order is significant

2015-05-25 Thread Nathan Ho
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Knute Snortum wrote: > I've noticed over the months I've been using LilyPond that there are some > parts of the syntax that depend on order and some that don't. For example: > > { c'!8 } > > Everything about must be in the exact order -- the note letter, the octa

Re: rhytm

2015-05-22 Thread Nathan Ho
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Gianmaria Lari wrote: > I'm creating in lilypond a violin study.Every measures have the same > rhytmic configuration. For instance the first measure is: > > g4. \tuplet 3/2 a8 (b8 c8) > > > and the second... > > > d4. \tuplet 3/2 e8 (f8 g8) > > > Does exist any wa

Re: Question about copyrights and licenses on the LSR

2015-05-02 Thread Nathan Ho
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 3:17 PM, David Bellows wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm trying get everything organized and altogether legal and > what-have-you with respect to my big music/software project the > Platonic Music Engine (www.platonicmusicengine.com) which means that I > need to make sure all the d

Re: Height of start bar brace

2015-04-26 Thread Nathan Ho
On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Noeck wrote: > Hi, > > can I change the height of a start bar brace, like in > > \version "2.19.16" > \new PianoStaff << > \new Staff { R1 } > \new Staff { R1 } > >> > > I would like to reduce the vertical size a little bit. > > For some reason this solution

Re: the sound of brushes

2015-04-07 Thread Nathan Ho
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 1:54 PM, PharaoS wrote: > I am trying to get the sound of the jazz brushes with midi \drums { > sn2^"brush" sn1 sn sn sn} gives me only short snaps. Is it possible to > improve that > This is a consequence of the MIDI player you're using, and not something that can be cont

Re: Defining event classes

2015-03-31 Thread Nathan Ho
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 4:41 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: > > You need to add 'event' to types for your event to register. (I'd have to > investigate why.) Also, 'music-event' should be replaced with > 'general-music'. > > #(define bang-types >'( > (BangEvent > . ((description . "BAN

Re: Defining event classes

2015-03-31 Thread Nathan Ho
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Nathan Ho wrote: > Hi list, > > What is the most up-to-date way to define my own event classes? > > I've looked at frameEngraver as a model but none of the old versions > seem to be working. The most up-to-date one I could find > (htt

Re: Having shortInstrumentName appear at start of score (instead of instrumentName)?

2015-03-31 Thread Nathan Ho
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Trevor Bača wrote: > Hi, > > Let's say that I have a stylesheet that sets instrumentName values and > shortInstrumentName values for a bunch of contexts in the normal way: > > \context { > \Staff > ... > instrumentName = \markup { Flut

Re: Padding inside \bracket markup?

2015-03-31 Thread Nathan Ho
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 7:40 AM, Trevor Bača wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to pad bracketed markup ... > >% doesn't work >\override #'(padding . 2) \bracket Foo > > ... analogously to parenthesized markup ... > >% does work >\override #'(padding . 2) \bracket Foo > > ... with an

Defining event classes

2015-03-30 Thread Nathan Ho
Hi list, What is the most up-to-date way to define my own event classes? I've looked at frameEngraver as a model but none of the old versions seem to be working. The most up-to-date one I could find (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-07/msg00373.html) gives me numerous "Event

Re: Name of a context

2015-03-29 Thread Nathan Ho
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Urs Liska wrote: > I *think* this is (ly:context-id context). Exactly what I was looking for, thanks. That's pretty confusing since everywhere else in the documentation, this string is referred to as the "name" of the context, whereas ly:context-name returns the

Name of a context

2015-03-29 Thread Nathan Ho
Hi list, How do I extract the name of a context in Scheme? That is, I want to be able to get "foo" from, say, \new Voice = "foo". I don't see this in the context properties lists. Regards, Nathan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org htt

Re: Guitar chord mode no longer produces MIDI file with chords

2015-03-25 Thread Nathan Ho
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 2:08 PM, David Bellows wrote: > In the versions of Lilypond I've used up through 2.19.16 when I would > compile the attached file the resulting MIDI file would play the > entire chord. With 2.19.17 now only the root note is played. I don't > really know where to look for th

Re: Redefine chord default position in chordmode

2015-03-25 Thread Nathan Ho
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Calixte Faure wrote: > Hello Lilyponders! > > Typing \chordmode{ c f g } produces { }, would it be > possible to define that \chordmode{ f g } should be { } for > all the piece? > I know i could use \chordmode{ f/a g/b } but i wish to simplify the input, > and Ch

Re: Score content spilling off left side of page

2015-03-25 Thread Nathan Ho
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Stan Mulder wrote: > For some reason a score I made won't fit all the text on the left side of > the page. I cannot find anything different about this score than previous > ones. > > The first page looks okay, but it's the subsequent pages with the instrument > ab

Re: Problem with repeat alternative endings that contain lyrics and leading rests

2015-03-25 Thread Nathan Ho
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Peter Heisen wrote: > Dear List, > > The LilyPond notation reference, section 2.1.2, > (http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/techniques-specific-to-lyrics) > contains the following example of how to use lyrics in concert with repeat > alternativ

Re: Problem with lyrics in alternative endings that contain leading rests

2015-03-25 Thread Nathan Ho
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Colin Campbell wrote: > I can see that the problem seems to involve a lack of output, but perhaps a > bit more input might clarify it a bit? Now that's what I call a "minimal example"! \drummode { sn8 bd8 r8 cymc8 } __

Re: Adjacent double bars

2015-03-21 Thread Nathan Ho
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 8:38 AM, John McWilliam wrote: > Bagpipe music has it's own conventions where each section or part of a tune > is enclosed in either repeat bars or what I call double bars (\bar ".|" and > \bar "|."). The end of a part usually coincides with a line break. I have a > problem

Re: Fine piano pedals notation

2015-03-08 Thread Nathan Ho
On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 9:28 AM, 良ϖ wrote: > Hello, > > Although I often read messages from this mailing list, this is likely to be > the first message I post to it. I've engraved some piano music already but > it's always been pre-contemporary music: Bach, Liszt or even Debussy. Now > I'm having t

Re: Levelling hairpins

2015-02-14 Thread Nathan Ho
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Peter Gentry wrote: > > This is very true but the dynamics context is very cumbersome for this > purpose alone. > > Surely there must be a simpler way to align hairpins. Hmm, how about a Scheme function that extracts all the dynamic events and moves them into a D

Re: Are these triple-dots of augmentation possible?

2015-02-14 Thread Nathan Ho
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Graham King wrote: > Here's a little thing that has got me stumped. > > Is it possible to add three dots to a note glyph, thus: > > O:. > > to signify that the duration of the note is to be multiplied by 9/4 ? > And can this be done in such a way > (i) that the dot

Re: Augmentation Dot Appearance

2015-02-12 Thread Nathan Ho
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 6:16 PM, thepocketwade wrote: > > Is it possible to change the appearance of augmentation dots? I'd like to > use an open dot (think a degree symbol), to indicate adding 1/4 of note > value. I've only seen this notation in Stuart Saunders Smith's pieces, but > it seems us

Re: Better sound file then MIDI

2014-08-06 Thread Nathan Ho
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Abraham Lee wrote: > Dirk, > > I've collected all my soundfonts into a MASSIVE compressed file (~2.5 GB). > Here's the link where you can download it from my Google Drive account: > > https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&confirm=6Ccw&id=0B48p48kXy91YRUVqUGMzb

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-09 Thread Nathan Ho
Oops, sorry about the double email. Connection problems. Regards, Nathan On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Nathan Ho wrote: > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Jim Long wrote: >> Does anyone know what font is used for the chordnames in Pat >> Metheny's anthology songbook, publ

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-09 Thread Nathan Ho
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Jim Long wrote: > Does anyone know what font is used for the chordnames in Pat > Metheny's anthology songbook, published by Hal Leonard? > > Here is a sample image linked from a seller's website: > > http://d29ci68ykuu27r.cloudfront.net/product/Look-Inside/large/295

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-09 Thread Nathan Ho
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Jim Long wrote: > Does anyone know what font is used for the chordnames in Pat > Metheny's anthology songbook, published by Hal Leonard? > > Here is a sample image linked from a seller's website: > > http://d29ci68ykuu27r.cloudfront.net/product/Look-Inside/large/295

Re: The pleasantry of Lilyponding

2014-04-01 Thread Nathan Ho
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Simon Albrecht wrote: > It’s like a mixture of a logical puzzle and a > strategy game, with the pleasant side effect that it is not just for fun, > but you get a result which can be ported to real life and has an actual use > for other people! Complex contemporary

Re: LilyPond benchmarks - request for proposals

2014-03-01 Thread Nathan Ho
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 3:01 AM, Urs Liska wrote: > Hello LilyPond users, > > [...] > > My ideas so far are: > > - classical piano piece > > - string quartet > > - solo instrument > > - moderately complex orchestral score > > - SATB choir with piano > > - complex song > -> We'll probably be able

Re: Changing stem stencil

2014-02-28 Thread Nathan Ho
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Peter Bjuhr wrote: > > On 2014-02-27 20:44, Peter Bjuhr wrote: > > [...] > > I found this http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=864, and thanks to that I > managed to set up this script: > > \include "../smufl/definitions.ily" > > #(define (PendereckiTremolo-stem g

Re: Ligatures in music font

2014-02-09 Thread Nathan Ho
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 7:31 AM, Noeck wrote: > > [...] > > Hmm, yes for the tuplet5 yes. But not for the tuplet8 that I wanted to > use. So perhaps that’s just a bug in the font? > I can confirm that it doesn't work for tuplet8; in addition, the SMuFL spec mysteriously skips over the gClefLigated