Re: Chord diagrams

2017-02-21 Thread Patrick Schmidt
You can find a huge library of predefined guitar fretboards here: https://github.com/Philomelos/lilypond-predefined-fretboards/blob/master/README.org (The documentation is not complete but I think you get the gist. You can find loads of examples in the test files (https://github.com/Philomelos

Re: double fingering

2011-09-17 Thread Patrick Schmidt
.^\markup{\finger "4"} c-.^\markup{\finger "1"} > %your code > a-1-. b-2-- c'-3-^ d'-4-. > a-.-1 b---2 c'-^-3 d'-.-4 > c'-.-1 -1 > > I'm using jEdit v 4.4.1 and Lilypond v. 2.14.1 > > Thanks > Crist > > >

musicxml2ly: proposals concerning tagline, conversion info, -element and midi-output

2011-09-17 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hey all, I'd like to change (and add) some minor things in musicxml2ly, but before I make a patch I wanted to make sure that no-one objects: 1) tagline: musicxml2ly currently uses the contents of the -element for the LilyPond-tagline. So the tagline at the end of a piece engraved by LilyPond

Re: double fingering

2011-09-17 Thread Patrick Schmidt
to my lilypond file. Here is what I have: > > > Here is the output > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Patrick Schmidt wrote: >> >> Am 16.09.2011 um 18:44 schrieb Crist Khachikian: >> >>> What about for notes with stems pointing down? That's

Re: double fingering

2011-09-16 Thread Patrick Schmidt
-3 d'-.-4 c'-.-1 -1 } > > Thanks > Crist > > > > On Sep 16, 2011, at 9:17 AM, Patrick Schmidt wrote: > >> I can't reproduce any error. Your problems have got nothing to do with >> jEdit. I checked it with jEdit v4.3.2. All of the above-men

Re: double fingering

2011-09-16 Thread Patrick Schmidt
I can't reproduce any error. Your problems have got nothing to do with jEdit. I checked it with jEdit v4.3.2. All of the above-mentioned solutions are fine: \version "2.14.2" { a-1-. b-2-- c'-3-^ d'-4-. a-.-1 b---2 c'-^-3 d'-.-4 c'-.-1 -1 } <> Which version of LilyPond are you using? ht

Re: automatic indentation of long instrument names?

2011-09-15 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 15.09.2011 um 22:10 schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer: > Am Thursday, 15. September 2011, 22:08:04 schrieb Patrick Schmidt: >> in previews long instrument names seem to be indented automatically (see >> preview.png) > > Actually, preview simply crops the image where the i

convert-ly myfile.ly > mynewfile.ly

2011-08-18 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi all, by accident I noticed that when you try to upgrade a file (to version 2.14.2) that is already up to date (2.14.0) with convert-ly myfile.ly > mynewfile.ly a new but empty file is created. There aren't any error messages. When you fake an older version number everything works out and a

Re: How to define the names of separate \book output files

2011-04-04 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 04.04.2011 um 15:40 schrieb Dmytro O. Redchuk: > On Mon 04 Apr 2011, 15:22 Patrick Schmidt wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm using several \book blocks in one .ly file. This results as >> expected/desired in several output files such as foo.pdf, foo-1.pdf, >

How to define the names of separate \book output files

2011-04-04 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi all, I'm using several \book blocks in one .ly file. This results as expected/desired in several output files such as foo.pdf, foo-1.pdf, foo-2.pdf, etc. Is there a way to define the name of the output files in the .ly file? Thus it wouldn't be necessary to rename the output files to somethi

Re: scheme artificial harmonic (transposition within chord)

2011-02-15 Thread Patrick Schmidt
http://codereview.appspot.com/4186049/ HTH patrick Am 15.02.2011 um 15:25 schrieb Rob Canning: > hello, > i am trying to get scheme to automate artificial harmonics so i dont need to > specify the pitch of the note written up the perfect fourth > i am running in to the problem of scheme not eval

Re: guitarist: how write chord names like Gadd5

2011-02-01 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 01.02.2011 um 16:07 schrieb Brett McCoy: On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Jürgen Ibelgaufts wrote: I want to write down guitar chords and frets with extra voicings, say a G chord with an extra Fifth on the B string, 3rd fret, or Em chord with an extra G on the treble e string. As thes

Re: error in predefined chord diagram?

2011-01-30 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 30.01.2011 um 10:45 schrieb bart deruyter: I can only speak for guitarists, because I am a guitarist, classical guitarist, and I'll definatly stick to the correct naming for the correct chords, and I am now going to create my own version of this predefined guitar diagrams list. If all

Re: Pentatonic Diatonic Transposition?

2011-01-23 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Michael, nice work! I just think that the name modal transposition is a little misleading in this case. At first I thought that I could change the mode of a tune with your function e.g. transpose music from c\major to c\minor or something like that. I just had the idea that it might be u

Re: How to tie the last note of one variable to the first note of another variable?

2011-01-22 Thread Patrick Schmidt
\version "2.13.42" partOne = \relative c' { c4 e g e~ } partTwo = \relative c' { e1 c4 e g e~ e1 } \score { \new PianoStaff << \set PianoStaff.midiInstrument = "acoustic grand" \new Staff { \set tieWaitForNote = ##t \tempo 4 = 120

Re: PDF preview in jEdit

2011-01-17 Thread Patrick Schmidt
, seems to take care of the issue. Ah, ok, sorry for that. When I "Run LilyPond" on a new file I *have* to press the "Preview Output (PDF)" button to see the file but I haven't tested the new version, yet. -Arle On Jan 17, 2011, at 14:29 , Patrick Schmidt wrote:

Re: PDF preview in jEdit

2011-01-17 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 17.01.2011 um 20:17 schrieb Arle Lommel: Hi all, Just started using jEdit and lilypondtool today on Mac OS X because I liked the idea of the PDF Preview and the integration between it and the editor. However, in trying it out, I find that once I first invoke the preview function it wo

Re: instrumentName in StaffGroup

2011-01-14 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 14.01.2011 um 13:09 schrieb Federico Bruni: 2011/1/14 James Lowe http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/displaying- staves#index-staff-group Scroll down you will see 'The PianoStaff is identical to a GrandStaff, except that it supports printing the instrument name dir

Re: ottava bassa

2011-01-10 Thread Patrick Schmidt
I believe this comes quite close to what you want but it's a trick. Something is strange... rightHand = { 1~ 4 } leftHandVoiceOne = { \voiceOne 1~ 4 } leftHandVoiceTwo = { \voiceTwo r2. 4~ 4 } \score { << \new PianoStaff << \new Staff = "rh" { \rightHand }

Re: how to write a scheme function to override glissando properties

2010-12-19 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 19.12.2010 um 21:26 schrieb jakob lund: I 2010/12/19 Marc Hohl : Am 16.12.2010 17:04, schrieb Patrick Schmidt: [...] Hi Marc, thanks for your solution but I'm still trying to find out what's wrong with the scheme function I posted. I discussed the need for this function

Re: how to write a scheme function to override glissando properties

2010-12-19 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 19.12.2010 um 20:13 schrieb Marc Hohl: Am 16.12.2010 17:04, schrieb Patrick Schmidt: [...] Hi Marc, thanks for your solution but I'm still trying to find out what's wrong with the scheme function I posted. I discussed the need for this function with Carl and he gave me s

Re: how to write a scheme function to override glissando properties

2010-12-16 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 14.12.2010 um 20:16 schrieb Marc Hohl: Am 14.12.2010 14:25, schrieb Patrick Schmidt: Hi all, Hi Patrick, I noticed that glissandi are quite often hardly visible in a Staff- context. There is also a huge difference in the look of glissandi in Staff- and TabStaff-contexts. I'd li

how to write a scheme function to override glissando properties

2010-12-14 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi all, I noticed that glissandi are quite often hardly visible in a Staff- context. There is also a huge difference in the look of glissandi in Staff- and TabStaff-contexts. I'd like to write a function to adjust these differences for Staffs and TabStaffs separately but I don't even manag

Re: barre line chordshape

2010-12-06 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 06.12.2010 um 21:04 schrieb bart deruyter: Hi all, I was wondering, as standard notation for the F, I am used to the non-barré chord, using the index to cover the first fret of the b and e string of the guitar. But I'm really having a hard time figuring this out in notation, showing t

Re: repeats and alternatives

2010-12-04 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 04.12.2010 um 23:05 schrieb James Bailey: I don't understand alternatives. Can someone explain to me what I'm doing wrong. Why does the first example not compile properly with the excuse, "more alternatives than repeats" but the second example compiles just fine? Hi James, in your firs

Re: How to apply patches

2010-12-03 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 03.12.2010 um 20:02 schrieb Carl Sorensen: On 12/3/10 10:42 AM, "Patrick Schmidt" wrote: Hi Carl, I tried to apply patch 3326042 (http://codereview.appspot.com/ 3326042/) before and after your last modification but I wasn't successful (Lilybuntu, LP version 2.13.41):

How to apply patches

2010-12-03 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Carl, I tried to apply patch 3326042 (http://codereview.appspot.com/ 3326042/) before and after your last modification but I wasn't successful (Lilybuntu, LP version 2.13.41): p...@lilybuntu:~/lilypond-git$ git apply issue3326042_18001.diff error: input/regression/tablature-tie-spanner.ly

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-24 Thread Patrick Schmidt
some technical aspects. so I think having a more general mechanism would also be very useful. +1 Thanks, patrick Thanks, -steve On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Patrick Schmidt wrote: Hi Steve, Am 23.11.2010 um 08:37 schrieb Steve Yegge: Hi all, The TabStaff is amazingly cool. I&

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-23 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Steve, Am 23.11.2010 um 08:37 schrieb Steve Yegge: Hi all, The TabStaff is amazingly cool. I'm not a big tab user myself, but for people who want tabs, LilyPond makes it easy to add them. I've been busily adding tabs for a few months and have some feature requests to put into the queue if

Re: \book output

2010-11-21 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Put each score in a \bookpart{} or use \pagebreak after each score. HTH patrick Am 21.11.2010 um 17:56 schrieb Stephan Elliot Perez: Ah no, I did not. Now it is working. Is there a way to simple way to force the creation of a new page after each score? On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Phi

Fwd: tablature and svg

2010-11-16 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: Von: Patrick Schmidt Datum: 16. November 2010 14:24:21 MEZ An: Gerard McConnell Betreff: Re: tablature and svg Hi Gerard, Am 16.11.2010 um 11:18 schrieb Gerard McConnell: Hello, I find that when I open a LilyPond produced guitar tablature saved as

user-defined predefined fretboard hash-table

2010-11-12 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi all, the following example doesn't compile with version 2.13.38: \version "2.13.38" \include "predefined-guitar-fretboards.ly" #(define custom-fretboard-table-one (make-fretboard-table)) #(define custom-fretboard-table-two (make-fretboard-table default-fret-table)) \storePredefinedDiagram

Re: voice sharing the same note on different staves

2010-11-05 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 05.11.2010 um 10:14 schrieb David Kastrup: David Kastrup writes: When writing ut queant laxis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ut_queant_laxis>, French note names would be more appropriate. Oh, we don't have them. The Italian note names use "do" rather than "ut". I have a Swiss accordion s

Re: Tuxguitar exported code

2010-10-21 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 21.10.2010 um 14:31 schrieb Alan E. Davis: On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Graham Percival music.ca> wrote: On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:44:12PM +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: After spending a little time trying to understand lilypond, I >have come to the conclusion that there is somethin

Re: \chordmode chords jumping about on PDF using Mac OSX

2010-10-20 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 20.10.2010 um 19:49 schrieb Patrick Schmidt: Am 20.10.2010 um 18:20 schrieb James: Hello I am using Mac OSX Snow Leopard (10.6.x) with LilyPond 2.13.35 Here is the smallest example I could get down to -- \version "2.13.35" RH = \relative c'' { \repeat

Re: \chordmode chords jumping about on PDF using Mac OSX

2010-10-20 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 20.10.2010 um 18:20 schrieb James: Hello I am using Mac OSX Snow Leopard (10.6.x) with LilyPond 2.13.35 Here is the smallest example I could get down to -- \version "2.13.35" RH = \relative c'' { \repeat unfold 30 { a8 a a a } } LH = { \clef bass \repeat unfold 30 { a8 a a

Fwd: a JEdit/LilyPondTool behaviour

2010-10-14 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: Von: Gerard McConnell Datum: 14. Oktober 2010 00:17:58 MESZ An: Patrick Schmidt Betreff: Re: a JEdit/LilyPondTool behaviour Excellent, that did the trick. The path had parentheses in it - folder(9) Many thanks Patrick. On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:26 PM

Re: a JEdit/LilyPondTool behaviour

2010-10-13 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Gerard, IINM you should avoid certain characters in your path. I'm pretty sure you used something like: "(,), é, ä, à etc. in your directory/ file labels. HTH patrick Am 13.10.2010 um 11:48 schrieb Gerard McConnell: Hello, Just wondering about a behaviour when I'm using the PDF viewer in

Re: custom staff and barlines

2010-10-06 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Gerard [this time I got your name right! ;-)] try it with \override BarLine #'bar-size = #4 HTH patrick Am 06.10.2010 um 12:34 schrieb Gerard McConnell: Hello, How do I get barlines to appear in the following? \version "2.12.0" \layout { \context { \Score \remove "Bar_num

Re: How to include a file/definition temporarily?

2010-09-27 Thread Patrick Schmidt
> > BTW at the end of the build process I got the following errors: > > > > Dissecting...lilypond-book.py: error: file not found: fretboards- > > alternate-tables.ly > > Do you have a file > Documentation/snippets/new/fretboards-alternate-tables.ly? > No, I haven't. > IF you do, you may need t

Re: How to include a file/definition temporarily?

2010-09-27 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Don't feel any pressure to test my patch. I just wanted you to know it was available because you had made the feature request. It will get added to git relatively soon, and there should be a new release coming soon as well. I actually haven't got a clue what I have to do with your pa

Re: 2.13.34

2010-09-27 Thread Patrick Schmidt
I used the full version of Adobe Acrobat to create a PDF portfolio of the 2.13.34 English PDF docs, which is indexed to be able to search across all the manuals at once. It can be downloaded from http://www.users.on.net/~njpayne/music/lilydoc.pdf (38Mb). It can only be used with v9.x Ado

chord mode: inversions & modifiers

2010-09-26 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi all, here are some reflections on chord mode especially on inversions and some suggestions concerning modifiers. The Notation Reference states in 2.7.1 Chord mode: Only the second inversion can be created by adding a bass note. The first inversion requires changing the root of the chord

Re: how to invoke self-compiled development versions

2010-09-25 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 25.09.2010 um 18:02 schrieb Patrick Schmidt: Am 25.09.2010 um 17:16 schrieb James Bailey: On Sep 25, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Patrick Schmidt wrote: Hi all, I'm using VirtualBox v.3.0.12 (the last release that supports Mac OS 10.4.11) and LilyBuntu. I downloaded the source code o

Re: how to invoke self-compiled development versions

2010-09-25 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 25.09.2010 um 17:16 schrieb James Bailey: On Sep 25, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Patrick Schmidt wrote: Hi all, I'm using VirtualBox v.3.0.12 (the last release that supports Mac OS 10.4.11) and LilyBuntu. I downloaded the source code of the current development version with git to ~/lil

how to invoke self-compiled development versions

2010-09-25 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi all, I'm using VirtualBox v.3.0.12 (the last release that supports Mac OS 10.4.11) and LilyBuntu. I downloaded the source code of the current development version with git to ~/lilypond-git and compiled it with "make all" as described in the manuals. So far so good! According to the CG

Re: How to include a file/definition temporarily?

2010-09-24 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Carl, first of all thank you very much for your patch! I had a quick look at it on Rietveld and I'm stunned. I don't know how you managed to get all of this done in such a short period of time. Am 24.09.2010 um 07:12 schrieb Carl Sorensen: Patrick, I've loaded a patch on Rietveld that all

Re: separating music and guitar instructions

2010-09-20 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 20.09.2010 um 20:29 schrieb Vicente Solsona: On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:27:37 +0200, "Vicente Solsona" wrote: To sumarise: String numbers, harmonics and right hand fingerings *must* be defined inside a chord construct even if there is only a single note. you can attach finger numbers to s

Re: How to include a file/definition temporarily?

2010-09-20 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 20.09.2010 um 11:57 schrieb David Kastrup: Patrick Schmidt writes: For example I couldn't find "copy-list" anywhere in the manuals so I guess it is a self-defined function or a scheme function I haven't found, yet. My Scheme-foo is lousy. It is `list-copy

Re: How to include a file/definition temporarily?

2010-09-20 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Carl and David Am 20.09.2010 um 11:29 schrieb Carl Sorensen: On 9/20/10 1:19 AM, "David Kastrup" wrote: Patrick Schmidt writes: Hi all, I have several files with definitions of guitar fret diagrams for various chord shapes (e.g. c-shape.ly, a-shape.ly, g-shape.ly, e- shap

Re: Help, please --- can not mode dot down .(

2010-09-20 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 20.09.2010 um 10:53 schrieb Dmytro O. Redchuk: On Sat 18 Sep 2010, 16:47 Patrick Schmidt wrote: It looks to me as if this strange behaviour is caused by the No, with no \voiceTwo lilypond produces wrong picture, too (dots can not be moved). Thank you, Patrick and Vicente, i've

How to include a file/definition temporarily?

2010-09-19 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi all, I have several files with definitions of guitar fret diagrams for various chord shapes (e.g. c-shape.ly, a-shape.ly, g-shape.ly, e- shape.ly and d-shape.ly). I can't include all of these files at the same time in the main file as quite a few chord alternatives start on the same pit

Re: Help, please --- can not mode dot down .(

2010-09-18 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 18.09.2010 um 16:05 schrieb Dmytro O. Redchuk: Hi! Here lilypond puts dots "in betweens noteheads", i need both of them (all of them) would be in spaces below noteheads: \version "2.13.33" % 2.12 does the same \relative c'' { \time 3/4 \voiceTwo % neither of two works: \overri

Re: piano staves and lyrics

2010-09-18 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Gerald, \addlyrics can't handle polyphony. See NR v.2.13. You should use \lyricsto. You just forgot to add \new Lyrics: \new Lyrics \lyricsto "soprano" { please help } If you'd like to have the lyrics in between the two staves you have to add: \layout { \context { \PianoStaff \accepts

Re: choosing frets for harmonics

2010-09-17 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Steve, Am 17.09.2010 um 08:37 schrieb Steve Yegge: For a 5th harmonic, the TabStaff automatically chooses the 19th fret rather than the 7th fret. For instance: music = { << \relative c' { \harmonicsOn b'1\6 \harmonicsOff } >> } \score { << \new Staff { \music } \new TabS

Re: close voices influence noteheads/ledger lines

2010-09-13 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 13.09.2010 um 10:59 schrieb Dmytro O. Redchuk: On Fri 10 Sep 2010, 22:58 Patrick Schmidt wrote: Hi all, when voices get very close to one another ledger lines and/or note heads seem to change their behavior. In the following example the note head of the c is too far to the right. The

collision of chord names

2010-09-12 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi all, I'm engraving a choral piece in which all line breaks and page breaks were calculated automatically. The layout is just the way it is supposed to be. Unfortunately in two measures some rather long chord names collide (A F#m/B | E F#m/B). Is there a way to resolve the collisions wi

close voices influence noteheads/ledger lines

2010-09-10 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi all, when voices get very close to one another ledger lines and/or note heads seem to change their behavior. In the following example the note head of the c is too far to the right. The ledger lines of the notes on the left side of the chord are shorter than normal. The ledger line of

Re: LilyPondTool users on Mac?

2010-09-10 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 10.09.2010 um 19:37 schrieb Carl Sorensen: On 9/10/10 9:45 AM, "Seth Williamson" wrote: I want to thank everybody who has helped thus far in the saga of my getting the LilyPond/JEdit/LilyPondTool combo up and running. Thanks to several people's suggestions, I think I got the permissi

Re: LilyPondTool users on Mac?

2010-09-10 Thread Patrick Schmidt
It compiles just fine here! Can you compile it via the command line? lilypond Seth's Test Score.ly Am 10.09.2010 um 17:45 schrieb Seth Williamson: I want to thank everybody who has helped thus far in the saga of my getting the LilyPond/JEdit/LilyPondTool combo up and running. Thanks to sev

harmonics in tablature

2010-09-10 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi all, I'm having difficulties to indicate in tablature where to place a finger to get harmonics other than the first harmonic (see Ex. 1). The first harmonic is normally produced in the 12th fret and sounds in the same octave as if the string were stopped in the 12th fret (one octave ab

Re: initial grace notes prevent instrumentName & systemStartBrace/Square

2010-09-09 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 10.09.2010 um 04:16 schrieb Patrick McCarty: Hi, On 2010-09-09, Patrick Schmidt wrote: \version "2.13.31" % on Mac OS X \paper{ raggedright = ##t } initialAcciaccatura = \relative c' { \acciaccatura 8 8 } initialGrace = \relative c'' {

Re: initial grace notes prevent instrumentName &, systemStartBrace/Square

2010-09-09 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 09.09.2010 um 11:12 schrieb Mats Bengtsson: Good morning LilyPond, \version "2.13.31" % on Mac OS X \paper{ raggedright = ##t } initialAcciaccatura = \relative c' { \acciaccatura 8 8 } initialGrace = \relative c'' { \grace c16 c4 } initialAppoggiatura = \r

initial grace notes prevent instrumentName & systemStartBrace/Square

2010-09-09 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Good morning LilyPond, \version "2.13.31" % on Mac OS X \paper{ raggedright = ##t } initialAcciaccatura = \relative c' { \acciaccatura 8 8 } initialGrace = \relative c'' { \grace c16 c4 } initialAppoggiatura = \relative c'' { \appoggiatura c16 c4 }

Re: tabulatures and stems

2010-09-08 Thread Patrick Schmidt
You have to add the command \tabFullNotation to make the stems visible. HTH patrick Am 08.09.2010 um 12:40 schrieb bart deruyter: Hi, I have recently started using lilypond, but there are some things that don't seem ok. Following the documentation I started writing a tabulature for guita

Re: Help with JEdit/LilyPondTool user problem

2010-09-07 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Seth, just cut an paste the following line into "Path to LilyPond binary": /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/ This should solve your problem. HTH, patrick Am 07.09.2010 um 15:56 schrieb Seth Williamson: I got the following reply from the other list. But I'm still getting

Re: \set TabStaff.minimumFret may cause an unwanted TAB-symbol

2010-08-31 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Phil, Am 31.08.2010 um 11:48 schrieb Phil Burfitt: Hi Patrick, I'm not familiar with the inner workings of lilypond, but it seems to me the problem occurs when a TabStaff command (\set TabStaff.minimumFret) is executed in a Staff context. using \set minimumFret = #5 instead should solve the

\set TabStaff.minimumFret may cause an unwanted TAB-symbol

2010-08-30 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi all, I found two instances in which \set TabStaff.minimumFret = #xy causes an unwanted TAB-symbol in between a normal Staff and a TabStaff (\version 2.13.30): a) no explicit \clef "xy"-command: music = { \set TabStaff.minimumFret = #5 c'1 } \score { << \new Staff { \m

Re: print not only page-number, but #1 of #2 (#1 page number, #2 pages of the whole piece

2010-08-28 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 28.08.2010 um 12:28 schrieb Werner: Hello. I would like to get instead of just a page number something like: 1/3 1 of 3 1 von 3 on first page if the whole piece contains 3 pages Maybe also (small) „title“, S. 2 von 3 „title“, p. 2 of 3 „title“, 2/3 on page two of three... (but also just

Re: \remove Note_heads_engraver => no notes at all

2010-08-24 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi, I think that's what you want: \score { \new Staff \relative c' { \override NoteHead #'stencil = #point-stencil c4 d e8 f g a } } see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/learning/visibility- and-color-of-objects HTH, patrick Am 24.08.2010 um 15:21 schrieb alexandros:

Re: \\arpeggioArrow* across voices

2010-08-23 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Eluze, thank you! I think it works because the \once\override... command changes the normal arpeggio style to a style with an arrow. So in this example you don't really need the command \arpeggioArrowUp any more. Cheers patrick Am 23.08.2010 um 12:07 schrieb eluze: hi Patrick since

Re: \arpeggioArrow* across voices

2010-08-23 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Nick & Xavier, thanks very much and sorry for re-asking the question (when I described the problem I had no internet connection and I forgot to check the archives before actually sending the mail). Cheers patrick Am 23.08.2010 um 11:41 schrieb Nick Payne: On 23/08/10 18:04, Pat

\arpeggioArrow* across voices

2010-08-23 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi all, it doesn't seem to be possible to draw arrow-type arpeggios across several voices. In the following example the arpeggio is drawn but the arrow is missing. \version "2.13.30" musicVoiceOne = { \arpeggioArrowUp 4\arpeggio } musicVoiceTwo = { %\arpeggioArrowUp e4\arpeggio }

Re: Problem: multi-bar rests in SATB score

2010-08-17 Thread Patrick Schmidt
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/snippets/rhythms#merging- multi_002dmeasure-rests-in-a-polyphonic-part Does this help? Am 17.08.2010 um 10:58 schrieb Xavier Scheuer: On 17 August 2010 01:17, Trevor Daniels wrote: [...] The easiest fix is to use s1*7 in the second voice, althou

Re: \autoBeamOff

2010-08-16 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 17.08.2010 um 05:30 schrieb Carl Sorensen: On 8/16/10 3:30 PM, "Patrick Schmidt" wrote: Dear LilyPonders, while trying to typeset some vocal music I encountered some difficulties with \autoBeamOff: 1) \autoBeamOff has no effect on other voices when used in a global vari

\autoBeamOff

2010-08-16 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Dear LilyPonders, while trying to typeset some vocal music I encountered some difficulties with \autoBeamOff: 1) \autoBeamOff has no effect on other voices when used in a global variable/ghost voice. It has to be turned on explicitly for each voice. This is probably intentional but AFAIK

Re: please help a newbie with partial measures

2010-08-14 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Rose, Am 14.08.2010 um 16:39 schrieb Rose Mawhorter: Hi all, I've been stewing over what should be simple all afternoon. I documentation seems to be getting me no where. I'm working on entering an old hymn. The piece has an upbeat, which I'm having a bit of trouble with. The partial me

Re: Guitar tab string numbers

2010-07-24 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Phil, Am 24.07.2010 um 12:31 schrieb Phil Burfitt: Ciao Federico, Thanks, I've since found that using TabStaff.minimumFret helps reduce the need to define string numbers. Yes, it's a very useful feature! The advantage is that you could also define some string numbers to show up in norma

Re: XML2Liliypond conversion

2010-06-22 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think that musicxml2ly can read .capx-files. It can handle .xml and .mxl-files, though. But you can import .cap(x)-files with MuseScore and export them as .ly-files. MuseScore converts to LilyPond Version 2.12.0. You can update it with convert-ly. You'll

Re: LilyPond to Finale :-(

2010-06-22 Thread Patrick Schmidt
1) If you manage to open the .ly-file with MuseScore you can export to MusicXML and then import the .xml-file with Finale. 2) You could use PDFtoMusic. The software converts PDFs (no scans) to MusicXML but it's not perfect and it's commercial. You might have to edit/correct the output in Fina

Re: LM 2.13.24 (HTML)

2010-06-21 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 19.06.2010 um 19:05 schrieb James Lowe: Hello, On 19 Jun 2010, at 16:57, Patrick Schmidt wrote: Hi all, some observations concerning the HTML version of the Learning Manual… 2.2.4 Combining notes into chords In the following example the square brackets don't make much sense as

LM 2.13.24 (HTML)

2010-06-19 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi all, some observations concerning the HTML version of the Learning Manual… 2.2.4 Combining notes into chords In the following example the square brackets don't make much sense as there is no real need for them: r4 8[ ]~ 2 | r4 8( \> 4 \!) | To show that beams and ties can be combined with

LilyPond output in other programs

2010-05-09 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi all, this should probably be listed in Usage 4.4: LilyPond can be integrated in Google Wave, WordPress, SPIP and mediawiki. Plug-ins: 1) http://code.google.com/p/lilypondy/ 2) http://scorerender.abelcheung.org/ 3) http://www.spip-contrib.net/Plugin-Lilyspip 4) http://www.mediawiki.org/wi

Re: Circular Staff in Inkscape

2010-05-03 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Thanks Bertalan & David, now it works. It must have been some sort of space character, indeed. After deleting all empty lines from the copied&pasted code it compiled successfully. Am 03.05.2010 um 11:59 schrieb David Kastrup: "Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)" writes: Perhaps you copied

Re: Circular Staff in Inkscape [was Re: Lilypond vs Score]

2010-05-03 Thread Patrick Schmidt
f a "failed compilation"-message the following pdf is produced: circular-staff.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document Any ideas? Thanks for your help! patrick Am 03.05.2010 um 09:45 schrieb Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool): Patrick Schmidt wrote: Dear Bertalan, when I compile you

Re: Circular Staff in Inkscape [was Re: Lilypond vs Score]

2010-05-02 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Dear Bertalan, when I compile your circular-staff-code with LilyPond version 2.13.19 I get a "syntax error, unexpected STRING" for each line containing an override-command. The compilation fails. Am I missing out on something? Thanks for your help! patrick Am 04.02.2010 um 17:33 schrieb Ber

Re: missing rests in tablature

2010-04-30 Thread Patrick Schmidt
n has an effect on all following voices in a (tab)staff. This works: \new TabStaff = "guitar tab" << \context TabVoice = "upper" { \tabFullNotation \upper} \context TabVoice = "lower" { \tabFullNotation \lower } >> Thanks, patri

missing rests in tablature

2010-04-30 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi, this might be a known issue… When I compile the snippet "polyphony in tablature" (http:// lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=polyphony+in+tablature+) with version 2.13.19 (and 2.13.18) the first sixteenth rest is missing in tablature: \version "2.13.19" upper = \relative c' { \time 12/8

Re: \partial after \cadenzaOff

2010-04-07 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 07.04.2010 um 04:11 schrieb Graham Percival: On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 06:59:30PM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Werner wrote: I got problems with \partial after \cadenzaOff, which is ignored for three of four voices. In the DOC i found: The \partial command is intended to be used only at

separating music and tablature information

2010-02-28 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi all, in order to achieve different guitar tablature editions of the same piece of music I experimented with ghost voices consisting of spacer rests in combination with tablature information. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be possible to use spacer rests in chord constructs such as .

Re: chord names in alternate endings with upbeats

2010-02-13 Thread Patrick Schmidt
> set this to false > > \set chordChanges = ##f This was staring me in the face for hours but I didn't see it… Thanks a lot! patrick -- Sicherer, schneller und einfacher. Die aktuellen Internet-Browser - jetzt kostenlos herunterladen! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/atbrowser _

chord names in alternate endings with upbeats

2010-02-12 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi all, I'm having problems to typeset chord names in alternate endings. Or to be precise: one chord name is not displayed in the alternative ending of my example. (I already tried to use the \partial\repeat\alternative-commands within \chordmode{} but to no avail.) Can anybody spot my mistake?

Re: transpose help - piano staves

2010-01-31 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Original-Nachricht > Datum: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:03:53 -0800 > Von: Avram Aelony > An: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Betreff: transpose help - piano staves > > > Hello, > > I'd like to set up some ii-v-i voicing exercises for piano. > > The transpose seems to be working, but it's

slashed note heads for chords

2010-01-28 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi all, is it possible to use slashed note heads for chords to indicate the rhythm of a strumming pattern? This is what I have tried so far: \version "2.13.10" chordsI = \chordmode {c1 } chordsII = { 1 } \relative c' { \new Voice \with {\consists "Pitch_squash_engraver" } { \chordsI \c

Re: LilyPondTool doesn't find predefined-guitar-fretboards.ly

2010-01-21 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Done! thanks, patrick Original-Nachricht > Datum: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:43:25 +0100 > Von: "Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)" > An: Patrick Schmidt > CC: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Betreff: Re: LilyPondTool doesn\'t find predefined-guitar-fretboards.ly

LilyPondTool doesn't find predefined-guitar-fretboards.ly

2010-01-21 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Bertalan, first of all thank you very much for LilyPondTool! It makes life much easier! I just discovered that LilyPondTool (version 2.12.894; jEdit 4.3pre 17; Mac OS 10.4) produces the following warning message when I include the file predefined-guitar-fretboards.ly in my .ly-files: /Appli

Re: alla breve

2010-01-18 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Alla breve (C with a vertical line through) is set by default with \time 2/2. See Notation Reference 1.2.3 Time Signature HTH patrick Original-Nachricht > Datum: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:14:58 +0100 > Von: Ove Ditlevsen > An: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Betreff: alla breve > Please, ca

Re: \stopStaff does not work with TabStaff in StaffGroup

2010-01-07 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Original-Nachricht > Datum: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:09:49 +0100 > Von: Federico Bruni > An: Patrick Schmidt > CC: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Betreff: Re: \\stopStaff does not work with TabStaff in StaffGroup > Il 07/01/2010 16:33, Patrick Schmidt ha scritto: >

Re: \stopStaff does not work with TabStaff in StaffGroup

2010-01-07 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Federico, I think it's a problem with moderntab. If you remove all the \clef "moderntab" then everything works fine. (I tested it with version 2.13.10.) Hope this helps a bit! patrick Original-Nachricht > Datum: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:42:39 +0100 > Von: Federico Bruni > An: lilyp

Re: header in score block not working

2010-01-02 Thread Patrick Schmidt
sorry, I was wrong. The error message escaped my notice. (And I didn't consult the Notation Reference.) thanks Mike Original-Nachricht > Datum: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:28:37 +0100 > Von: "Patrick Schmidt" > An: Federico Bruni , lilypond-user@gnu.org > B

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