Re: Problems with drum score

2004-08-19 Thread Patrick Stanistreet
Put out an example on the list of the grace note problem. I think you are saying the midi output timing is off. What player and system are you using? I have grace notes on 2.3.11 typeset scores and the midi output sounds ok to me. I am using version 2.3.11 and you may have already worked it out bu

Re: need to move a single rest just a bit to the left

2004-08-11 Thread Patrick Stanistreet
| %17 c2 c4 | %18 } \\ \relative c' { c2. | % 16 f2. | % 17 e2. | % 18 } \\ \relative c''{ \voiceFour g4\rest g'2 | %16 \override Rest #'extra-offset = #'(-2 . 0) g'4\rest g'2 | %17 g'4\rest g'2 | % 18 \rever

need to move a single rest just a bit to the left

2004-08-10 Thread Patrick Stanistreet
Starting to score some short pieces for guitar by Sor and using lilypond 2.3.11 The measures in question have 3 voices and the upper and lower voices are too close together on the staff so the rest overlaps the notes. The original manuscript moves the center rest slightly to the left and in the cl

Re: drum staff change print line of instrument

2004-08-07 Thread Patrick Stanistreet
Sorry; Found how to set up a custom drum staff layout in the lilypond manual under percussion staves and predefined lists. Patrick Stanistreet wrote: I completed a cheat sheet for the drum staff and noticed that middle b is used for most instruments. I would like to alter the line an instrument

drum staff change print line of instrument

2004-08-06 Thread Patrick Stanistreet
I completed a cheat sheet for the drum staff and noticed that middle b is used for most instruments. I would like to alter the line an instrument prints on say to distinguish mute hi conga from low conga. Another drum staff question: lilypond version 2.3.10 I tried combining two drum instruments o

Re: slurs, ties into and out of endings

2004-08-02 Thread Patrick Stanistreet
I looked this up using the archive with a search for ties alternative ending here is the link to the workaround. I noted also that lyrics have the same problem while working a guitar score with alternate endings. The author indicates it is for version 2.1.6 but I am using 2.3.8 and have the sa

question on removing bar numbers

2004-07-31 Thread Patrick Stanistreet
I am including some inline code which is an attempt on my part to print a drum score crib sheet without bar numbers. Commented out stuff doesn't work. Bug? The line #(set-default-paper-size "letter") seems to cause a layout problem although my usage of it may be incorrect. I noticed while adding

guitar transposition down an octave

2004-07-30 Thread Patrick Stanistreet
I wrote the list earlier that I was converting my lilypond 1.6.0 files to 2.3.8 (started with 2.2.0) using convert-ly the form for midi transpose no longer worked. I tried transposition and it works ok and does not affect the score output I put in just ahead of the notes, dont know why c works, I

need to lower guitar pitch by a scale octave for midi output

2004-07-12 Thread Patrick Stanistreet
I wrote in an earlier note that I am converting my 1.6.10 lily files to 2.2.0 and for the most part it is working. The code that I was using to lower the midi pitch of the guitar an octave does not seem to be working, Here is the convert-ly output \set Staff.midiInstrument = #"acoustic guitar

convert-ly V1.6.10 to V2.2.0 midi tranposition ?

2004-07-09 Thread Patrick Stanistreet
I have been using version 1.6.10 till recently but am now converting all my ly files to version 2.2.0 with convert-ly I was using this form to lower the midi pitch of the guitar an octave \property Staff.midiInstrument = #"acoustic guitar (nylon)" \property Staff.instrument = "guitar"

make 1.5.67

2002-07-15 Thread Patrick Stanistreet
I am trying to compile lilypond 1.5.67 on redhat 7.2 with guile 1.4 installed to /usr/local nothing passed to ./configure the config.make file looks okay to me except for one complaint MISSING_OPTIONAL = pktrace makeinfo 4.1 (installed: 4.0) make all dies with this message duration.cc: In f

winnt lilypond-book and guitar chord diagram update

2002-06-20 Thread Patrick Stanistreet
Greetings, Thanks to Jan and Mats for the winnt information. Sorry to everyone using lilypond on winnt, I pretty much live on linux so I only test infrequently on nt. Still it is amazing that it works as well as it does on that platform. I am using 1.5.55 on linux so changing the line drumpitc

winnt lilypond-book works with guitar chord diagrams

2002-06-10 Thread Patrick Stanistreet
I had a chance to test lilypond on winnt. using lilypond-book and the chord diagrams It appears that the version of latex distributed with the cygwin download doesnt support fancy headings so I left that out. Also lilypond-book choked on drumpitch-init.ly so I have left out the percussion line f

guitar chord diagrams

2002-06-05 Thread Patrick Stanistreet
I wrote a little script to layout guitar chord diagrams which can be placed above a line of music. You need lilypond-book to put it to use. I created a little demo which is described in the file gtrchord-eps.html It still needs work on the chord name labels as I haven't figured out how to displa