Re: Engraving a close harmony

Elaine Gould in Behind Bars explicitly rejects this layout (page 91: "Altered Unisons"). Paul From: Dirck Nagy To: Knute Snortum , Robin Bannister , William Rehwinkel , "dirckn...@hotmail.com" Cc: Saul Tobin , "lilypond-user@gnu.org" Sent: 09/12/2024 0:52 Subject: Re:

Re: programming error: cyclic dependency: calculation-in-progress encountered for VerticalAxisGroup.adjacent-pure-heights

From: Knute Snortum Hmmm... I still get the programming errors in 2.25.21. As do I - on Windows, in case it's relevant. Paul

Re: merge parts/voices

Oops - I should have thought to check properly.  I call it from Frescobaldi, which doesn't expose the option... Thanks, Paul From: Werner LEMBERG To: Cc: , , Sent: 01/11/2024 15:25 Subject: Re: merge parts/voices > I'd be happy if an option to supress stemUp/stemDown

Re: merge parts/voices

I'd be happy if an option to supress stemUp/stemDown altogether was present; removing them is the first thing I do. Paul From: Antanas Budriūnas d) \stemDown and \stemUp received \once in front of each occurrance,

Re: Change text font size globally

Setting the default staff size is straightforward, but I no longer can remember how to set the default text size in the 2.24.x series (and I didn't succeed in looking it up in the `lilypond-user` archive). I seem to recall you can fiddle with the scaling factor in set-global-fonts: \paper {

Re: beaming of eighth note question for 4/4

The way to change the beaming behaviour in LilyPond is described at: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/setting-automatic-beam-behavior For the case of quavers in 4/4 time, Gould starts with the grouping used in the LilyPond default, but also suggests (page 154) situations whe

Re: Windows users - Call for testing

I've compiled seven choral scores of varying complexity with no problems. My most complex instrumental scores will have to wait until I have time to update them manually - convert-ly can't cope with them. Paul From: Michael Käppler To: Lilypond-User Mailing List Sent: 27/06/202

Re: Accidental placement with dense chord

practice situations will arise which the guides haven't fully anticipated.  Paul From: Wols Lists To: Sent: 18/06/2024 8:29 Subject: Re: Accidental placement with dense chord On 18/06/2024 00:00, Paul Hodges wrote: > Not necessarily.  Your rule is similar to w

Re: Accidental placement with dense chord

From: Dirck Nagy Arent accidentals in chords supposed to be placed as follows? Not necessarily.  Your rule is similar to what Read recommends; but the rule in Gould (which LilyPond generally follows) is based around placing the highest accidental first, then the lowest, and altern

Re: Accidental placement with dense chord

Would you consider: \relative {   \mark E   <<     {       8     }     \\     {       \once \override NoteColumn.force-hshift = #0.9       8     }   >> } Maybe it breaks the rules, but it looks easy to read to me. Paul From: Knute Snortum To: Sent: 16/06/2024 22:29 Subject:

Re: Cry for help - lost plot ....

If you make your lines sequential music in one score (by adding {...} around them, as a score can contain only one music expression) they'll all run together continuously.  You can add \break to force new lines, but then they are stretched to the width of the page.  You can then add ragged-right

Re: Segno and Coda from LilyJazz in a DrumStaff

From: Sebastien Richard I usually stick to the official release but I don't mind trying beta releases. I'll try that ASAP Bear in mind that you can install multiple versions of LilyPond without conflict. Paul

Re: Hold a note the length of a cadenza

The way I'd do it is to force the length of the held note to match that of the sung cadenza by multiplication.  For instance if there is a semibreve c being held while the cadenza part adds up to 7 crotchets, I'd write it as c1*7/4.   But you could just write it normally and pad it out with skips

Re: Tuplet bracket padding at system ending

I had a lot of trouble with this a while ago (using 2.23.3), and was quite vocal about it.  I believe the default behaviour has changed recently, so it's well worth checking the current beta. Paul From: Gregory Evans To: Lilypond-User Mailing List Sent: 24/12/2023 14:03 Subjec

Re: Unexpected bar boundaries with volta repeats and lyrics.

Here's my (rather tedious) suggestion for a workaround: so that the alternative starts with a note, not a rest, provide a note and hide it, then patch the rest in using another voice; the lyrics need a skip to avoid the dummy note.  It works (see below). Paul % \v

Re: Centering a word before a gap in the lyrics

I don't know where in the documentation the difference in behaviour between \skip1 and "" as opposed to _ is explained.  But the opportunity is missed on these pages, the first of which actually conflates the "" and _ notation: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/snippets/rhythms_003a-

Re: Centering a word before a gap in the lyrics

Sure. Just use a skip. Like so: And now I discover that "" will do the same - which makes it doubly curious that " " does not.  "" is a lot more elegant than \skip1 as well! Paul

Re: Centering a word before a gap in the lyrics

Thanks, Paul From: Michael Werner To: Paul Hodges Cc: Sent: 04/12/2023 9:10 Subject: Re: Centering a word before a gap in the lyrics Hi Paul,  On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 3:52 AM Paul Hodges wrote: In the middle lyric, the first word is justified because the following s

Centering a word before a gap in the lyrics

Consider the following: %%% \version "2.25.10" wordsA = \lyricmode { centred centred centred } wordsB = \lyricmode { justified _ centred }  wordsC = \lyricmode { justified " " centred }  wordsC = \lyricmode { centred \once \override Lyrics.LyricText.color = #white "." centred } 

Re: Aligning verse text?

I would put hidden notes there to link the lyrics to, and place the rests in a parallel voice, like this: %% \version "2.24.3" musicOne = {   \key f \major   \time 2/1   e'4. e'8 e'4 e' e'2 e'4   <<     { \hideNotes g'4 | g'4 g'4 g'4 r4 \unHid

Re: Relative rhythms across bars for time changes?

From: Kieren MacMillan There may be a way to do it with a MetronomeMark — I just don’t know it. I was surprised to find that I couldn’t make the following (or similar) work: When I was asked to place the = in a rhythm change over the start of a staff (i.e. sticking out to the left), I use

Re: change staff-staff-spacing in a single score?

Assuming your sections are all (or nearly all) less than half a page, you could halve the paper requirement by typesetting onto landscape A5 (or whatever is half the size of your output paper) and print from Acrobat (or whatever) two-up on each page. Paul From: David Zelinsky To: S

Re: Tuplet brackets too short?

I have used tupletFullLength extensively, and it mostly does what I need correctly.  However, the illustration here shows the remaining issue with it - which is specific to line breaks.  Within a line, the RH end of the bracket is correctly placed just before the bar line, but at a break it is p

Re: Barlines

Omit the \bar "||" and change the \bar ".|:  to \bar ".|:-||" Paul From: To: Sent: 15/10/2023 20:07 Subject: Barlines  I have a problem in the above snippet. In bar 7 there is a change of key and this should be seen at the end of bar 6 ( as in bar 20 ) with    

Re: Octave control.

The intervals in the image are all going to the nearest option.  You need to mark some of your notes with ' in order (I presume) to convert some of the downward fourths into upward fifths. Paul From: To: Sent: 15/10/2023 19:47 Subject: Octave control. For the initiated

Re: Dynamics placement in partCombine

I presume that partCombine overrides the dynamic placement so that dynamics for the two parts are placed above and below, which seems a reasonable approach when the parts are more distinct than in the given example.  Using ^ to override it in this case seems a tolerable alternative. Paul F

Re: How to end a trill with an acciaccatura in the same measure

rill { c16( d } | e2)\) Thank you very much, Vlad On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 4:09 PM Paul Hodges wrote: The way I'd do it is: { \afterGrace d''1\trill( { c''16_\( d'' } e''2)\) }  Paul From: Volodymyr Prokopyuk To: lilypond-user Sent: 12/1

Re: How to end a trill with an acciaccatura in the same measure

The way I'd do it is: { \afterGrace d''1\trill( { c''16_\( d'' } e''2)\) }  Paul From: Volodymyr Prokopyuk To: lilypond-user Sent: 12/10/2023 14:58 Subject: How to end a trill with an acciaccatura in the same measure Hi, I'd like to achieve the below With the follo

Re: The problem of acciaccatura from the beginning of the work.

The oldest bug of all, I believe! Just put hidden ("s") appoggiaturas in the other parts and then everything will line up. Paul From: Виноградов Юрий To: "lilypond-user@gnu.org" Sent: 10/10/2023 19:16 Subject: The problem of acciaccatura from the beginning of the work.

Re: 2.22.2 and 2.24.2

want (or right-click "Copy"  |  "Paste"), which quietly performs the necessary unzipping. Paul From: Jean Abou Samra To: Robin Bannister , Mark Stephen Mrotek , 'Paul Hodges' Cc: Sent: 09/09/2023 20:07 Subject: Re: 2.22.2 and 2.24.2

Re: 2.22.2 and 2.24.2

Mrotek To: 'Paul Hodges' , 'Jean Abou Samra' Cc: Sent: 09/09/2023 16:16 Subject: RE: 2.22.2 and 2.24.2 Paul,   Thank you for the reassurance based on your experience. Please bear with me and clarify some procedures. I opened: https://lilypond.org/doc

Re: 2.22.2 and 2.24.2

Yes you can - they install by default into separate directories.  I have installed in Windows the final version of every stable release from 2.6, and the current (and one other) development version so that I can compile and update any lilypond code I come across.  Frescobaldi has them all linked

Re: Bug

Ghule To: Paul Hodges Sent: 09/09/2023 0:05 Subject: Re: Bug Sorry for taking your time, but what should I do? Whith python zip which is in bin folder! Should I unziped it as well? On Sat, Sep 9, 2023, 4:20 AM Vishal Ghule wrote: I need that software to open right !? so when

Re: Bug

directories.  In bin you will find 20 files (including the dll files you got error messages about) - run lilypond.exe in that directory. Paul From: Vishal Ghule To: Paul Hodges Sent: 08/09/2023 19:38 Subject: Re: Bug No I did it  On Fri, Sep 8, 2023, 11:57 PM Paul Hodges wrote

Re: Bug

You have not extracted the application from its zip file.  On my machine it even warns me if I try running it without doing the extraction first, but that may depend on what program you have for viewing the contents of the zip file. Just extract the zip into a suitable directory where you want

Re: RhythmicStaff with measure counter

In the layout you're still adding the Measure_counter_engraver to the Staff context; you need to add it to the RhythmicStaff context. Paul From: Rajesh Baskar To: Lilypond-User Mailing List Sent: 06/09/2023 3:22 Subject: RhythmicStaff with measure counter Hi, I'm trying

Re: Trouble using version 2.20.0 & 2.24.1

From: Ian West Yes! I have now followed the instructions for running LilyPond with Frescobaldi. But I do not like it.  Indeed, I will not use it. The coding (on the left) is far too small for my eyes. (I was in the habit of using font-size 18 when typing in the code.) And I have not f

Re: search terms

I think the "errant" dot is in the right place (in line with the one above).   The issue I see is that the e above it is too far to the right.  I'd move that back and then adjust the tie with \shape to miss the dot on the c (also to miss the b at the other end). To hide the flags, try "\once \h

Re: strange detached beam issue

I note some other differences between your image and what the code sample generates, in the slur and dynamic positions. I can't suggest what in particular is happening, but if this happened to me, I'd be looking for an earlier tweak or override which hadn't been cancelled. Paul From: Ji

Re: grace notes/acciaccaturas occur before time signature change if only in bass clef

One of the oldest of all LilyPond bugs, to do with items which take no musical time.  You need to put a dummy grace note before the c in the upper staff; \grace s8 will do it. Paul From: Jin Choi To: Sent: 15/08/2023 19:30 Subject: grace notes/acciaccaturas occur before time

Re: One-page page-turning

From: Pierre-Luc Gauthier I understand from your code that this opens up the door to an arbitrary number of pages, say, a 3 page bloc. 'Could be fun ! This isn't necessarily a joke!  Both the last score I did (now in print) and the one I'm working on have fold-out pages to make the op

Re: shifting accidentals horizontally

Gould p91 "Altered Unisons" gives the requested layout, not the LilyPond one. Paul From: Werner LEMBERG To: Cc: Sent: 12/06/2023 18:46 Subject: Re: shifting accidentals horizontally > Not the answer to the Lilypond question, but as a reference of > comparison, here i

Re: Markup with text or text in dynamics font

In markup, you can use \dynamic to use the dynamics characters.  However, only a small part of the alphabet is provided, as it is normally only used for actual dynamics; what you want is not normal practice, and would come out looking like the attached image. Paul From: Ralph Palmer T

Re: Fonts and Tempo

For Unicode in Windows my preference is a little program called Wizkey - not free, but extremely ergonomic, both for searching and blind typing (in the case of ö, I just keyed: ctrl-: o). https://antibody-software.com/wizkey/ For the tempo example, I just use markup in the \tempo command. For

Re: Moving note in three-voice context

In fact Breitkopf's new Bach edition has somewhat more generous spacing that doesn't require a tweak.   Overriding LilyPond's very clever spacing algorithm is a dark art to me.  I'm having to do a lot of it right now, but my approach is unashamedly hacky - but it works for me!  Anyway, my tota

Re: Moving note in three-voice context

ps. There's a free imaginary balloon to anyone who recognises the piece. BWV 572, bar 109

Horizontal bracket with dashed edges - possible?

I have a horizontal bracket with lengthened edges.  I want the edges to be dashed, but I can't see a way to do this without the horizontal part being dashed as well.  Is there a simple solution, or do I just have to draw an extra solid line over the part I don't want dashed? Thanks, Paul

Re: Othering??

t checking. Paul From: Jean Abou Samra To: Paul Hodges , Sent: 10/05/2023 12:57 Subject: Re: Othering?? Le mercredi 10 mai 2023 à 12:54 +0100, Paul Hodges a écrit : No, it's not in the source (tried that...). I guess I'll try tweaking the code until I find w

Re: Othering??

Eh?  It's a perfectly good word that gets a moderate amount of use, typically describing the treatment of people who are to be considered outsiders to a group.  It is a fairly modern coinage, but "other" is recognised as a transitive verb by both Oxford and Meriam-Webster in their recent diction

Re: Othering??

No, it's not in the source (tried that...). I guess I'll try tweaking the code until I find what affects it, then.  Maybe by then I'll understand it, too! Thanks, Paul From: Jean Abou Samra To: Paul Hodges , Sent: 10/05/2023 12:37 Subject: Re: Othering??

Othering??

I am looking at some seriously weird LilyPond (largely Scheme, actually) which I suspect might help with something I am trying to do right now if I can get to follow what it's doing.  The sample I have found compiles correctly, and produces the expected output as far as I can see - but I may be

Re: Arrangement of adjacent notes in chord

.22.2, but not in 2.23.3. For my purposes using 2.22.2 is fine... Paul From: Jean Abou Samra To: Paul Hodges , Lilypond User Sent: 05/05/2023 17:29 Subject: Re: Arrangement of adjacent notes in chord Le vendredi 05 mai 2023 à 17:19 +0100, Paul Hodges a écrit : Is ther

Arrangement of adjacent notes in chord

Is there a way to control the way that notes are placed to the left or right of a stem?  I am trying to replicate an old score, and the placement of the noteheads is different from the LilyPond default (which follows Gould, of course). The attached image shows what I want to reproduce - note t

Re: Glissando intervoices

I guess we all have different styles.  While I often do the hidden notes thing, another approach I find useful at times is to put notes into the same voice when they really aren't... %% \version "2.25.1"  \language "english" <<   \new Staff = "uppe

Re: Circular staves

How about this: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-02/msg00150.html Not a natural, or even practical, way to code, sure; and for some reason shows a staff with 6 lines which I'm sure can readily be corrected. Paul From: Andrew Bernard To: Lilypond User Sent:

Re: Tuplet spacing comparison

From: Lukas-Fabian Moser on https://twitter.com/spagnolo_mic/status/1648702871112671232, someone (obviously a MuseScore developer) posted an analysis of a Sibelius/MuseScore comparison. I took the liberty of adding a LilyPond version in case anybody is interested, compiled with today

LilyPond 2.20.2 problem

I have old versions of LilyPond install to compile old scores directly.  I tried compiling with 2.20.2 (on Windows) today, and I get this error: (lilypond.exe:3184): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_fc_font_lock_face: assertion 'PANGO_IS_FC_FONT (font)' failed warning: cannot get postscript name Ex

Function for turning music upside-down.

I have been asked to take a piece of music (which I already have in LilyPond), and mirror it vertically.  That's to say, to take each note which is n semitones above middle c and replace it with the note n semitones below middle c, and vice versa. Before I start trying to write a function to d

Re: Benefits of Cairo backend over Ghostscript for PDF

From: Andrew Bernard In this day of gigabyte this an terabyte that, does a large PDF matter very much? What is the issue of concern? Unnecessary waste of resources is always a poor idea, especially if it is unexplained. My concern is more wondering that if the ordinary PDF is of the re

Re: Discourse

From: Jean Abou Samra Did they switch from a mailing list, or from other forum/discussion software? Other forum software; e.g. Steinberg previously used phpBB which they had set up well (it's free and well-known, but a maintenance nightmare, as I know from working with it).  I've not tried

Re: Discourse

From: Andrew Bernard I did a major investigation of other free forum programs and it pretty clear that Discourse is superior to all,  I guess that's your opinion - however, my opinion is that the forums which I follow that have switched to Discourse are less convenient to use as a resul

Re: Installation of Lilypond 2.24.0 on a Windows 11 computer

What directory have you unpacked the LilyPond directory to?  I have put it into C:\Program Files (which is where Frescobaldi also gets installed) and I have no such problem. It may be that if you have LilyPond and Frescobaldi in different places, then something may not get the permissions it e

Unexpected warning message

The code below produces exactly the output that I expect. (It is extracted from a very complex bit of notation - trust me that things like the way the grace notes are written have a good reason in context.) My concern is that as well as producing the expected output, it also generates a warni

Re: irrational meters

From: Mark Knoop To: H. S. Teoh Cc: Sent: 18/01/2023 8:22 Subject: Re: irrational meters Perhaps one should define "correctly" before assuming impossibility. By any definition of correctly which makes sense in this context (i.e. precise rhythmic execution), it is arguably

Re: Unknown expression mark

This is simply a combination of marcato (aka "strong accent") and staccato.   The symbols are not usually overlapped like that, but it is not unknown - see the attached image from "Music Engraving Today" by Steven Powell (which I found in a discussion of how to get Dorico to do this). I haven't

CrossStaff and Slashed grace

I am using a function "\slash" from the snippets repository to add a slash to acciaccaturas with multiple notes.  This works fine in isolation. However, if I use CrossStaff on the same notes, the slash no longer appears.  I presume this is because both the slash code and the CrossStaff code are

Re: Allowing a collision

Thanks, Paul From: Jean Abou Samra To: Paul Hodges , lilypond-user Mailinglist Sent: 04/01/2023 16:27 Subject: Re: Allowing a collision Le 04/01/2023 à 17:24, Paul Hodges a écrit : > I have a score which has two staves, for unrelated instruments.  To > reproduce the c

Allowing a collision

I have a score which has two staves, for unrelated instruments.  To reproduce the composer's notation, I occasionally need to join the stems of simultaneous notes on the two staves.   In a piano staff this is catered for using the \crossStaff command.  However, in my case this is inapplicable;

Feathered beams issue

When I feather these beams, the third beam is simply absent.  I suppose this is a bug (or an undocumented "limitation"?), but is there a practical workaround? I guess I also need to make the beam thickness less so that the structure becomes more visible, though I suspect that will be less of a

Re: Simultaneous dotted notes

On 02/01/2023 16:39:00, "Pierre Perol-Schneider" wrote: (a) Is the Lilypond default presentation really the better way of indicating this? If so, I can just leave it alone. Otherwise, Yes it is, AFAIK (See E. Gould as ref. as far as I remember) In this specific instance I disagree. See

Re: Simultaneous dotted notes

On 02/01/2023 16:39:00, "Pierre Perol-Schneider" wrote: (a) Is the Lilypond default presentation really the better way of indicating this? If so, I can just leave it alone. Otherwise, Yes it is, AFAIK (See E. Gould as ref. as far as I remember) Gould, top of page 59: "Unless conditions a

Re: Simultaneous dotted notes

From: Pierre Perol-Schneider (a) Is the Lilypond default presentation really the better way of indicating this?  If so, I can just leave it alone.  Otherwise, Yes it is, AFAIK (See E. Gould as ref. as far as I remember)  In this instance I disagree. See Gould, p59 (near top):

Re: Problems with musicxml2ly

From: Jacques Menu The legend on this page is misleading: the files that can be downloaded clicking on the supposedly MusicXML icon have a ‘.mxl’ suffix, i.e. they are MuseScore files in fact: .mxl files are the standard compressed form of Music XML files; the Music XML file is compre

Re: LilyPond 2.24.0 released!

Your snippet compiles correctly (with the errors) on my Windows install of 2.24.0 Paul From: H. S. Teoh via LilyPond user discussion To: Sent: 16/12/2022 18:33 Subject: Re: LilyPond 2.24.0 released! On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 10:42:42PM +0100, Jonas Hahnfeld via LilyPond user

Re: The disappearing glissando - a horizontal spacing saga

Oops - didn't attach the examples. Paul From: Paul Hodges To: Lilypond-User Mailing List Sent: 02/11/2022 17:18 Subject: The disappearing glissando - a horizontal spacing saga 1) The problem I have a grace note several degrees higher than the main note, and I have to

The disappearing glissando - a horizontal spacing saga

1) The problem I have a grace note several degrees higher than the main note, and I have to draw a glissando between them.  This works if the main note has no accidental (though it's skimpy because of the minimal X-space available; but if the main note has an accidental then the grace note is

Re: Change clef size

\once \override on the clef extent. It doesn't really matter because I've worked round it fine, but I am left wondering what made it go wrong as I can't think of a mechanism to cause it. Paul From: Jean Abou Samra To: Paul Hodges , Lilypond-User Mailing List Sent: 3

Re: Curious behaviour of q and a tweak

Oops - start should read: I wanted to lengthen the stem of only the second of a pair of tied chords. From: Paul Hodges To: Sent: 31/10/2022 15:08 Subject: Curious behaviour of q and a tweak I wanted to lengthen the stem of a pair of tied chords, but it didn't wo

Curious behaviour of q and a tweak

I wanted to lengthen the stem of a pair of tied chords, but it didn't work as expected.  After some playing around, I found that I cannot tweak the properties of a chord represented by q (repeating the previous chord), but that the tweaks on the original chord get carried over.  This example s

Re: Change clef size

So easy!  Thanks Jean and Leo. The simple thing I missed was that the size of a glyph is a font-size and can be tweaked that way. Thanks, Paul

Change clef size

To get the best match with other pieces being supplied to the same publisher I am using the Bravura font instead of Emmentaler.  However, the change-clef glyphs in this font are notably smaller than usual, and I've been asked to enlarge them.  I know how to use the full size clef glyphs, but tha

Re: Passing a parameter to Scheme

rameter in a way that I can access it to tweak. Paul From: Paul Hodges To: lilypond-user Sent: 29/10/2022 10:50 Subject: Passing a parameter to Scheme I am trying to make my first steps in actually modifying some Scheme.  I am using a procedure taken from the snippets repos

Passing a parameter to Scheme

I am trying to make my first steps in actually modifying some Scheme.  I am using a procedure taken from the snippets repository to add a cross to a stem (e.g. to indicate sprechgesang): %% speak = {   \once \override Stem.stencil =     #(lambda (grob)  

Re: Polyrhythmic music

Samra To: Paul Hodges , Sent: 27/10/2022 13:03 Subject: Re: Polyrhythmic music Le 27/10/2022 à 12:10, Paul Hodges a écrit : > This is not (yet) a specific query, I'm afraid.  My new project is > going to push my usage of LilyPond way beyond what I've done up

Re: Complex vertical positioning (eight items in four bars)

Aside from the main issue, when there is only one voice on a staff you need to change that voice to \oneVoice so that the rests are correctly centred and ties on octaves go in opposite directions (then back to \voiceOne or \voiceTwo as necessary). Paul From: Kenneth Wolcott To: Lily

Re: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

From: Nicholas Bailey  I see you have a Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford email address. They shouldn't be using that OS any more. When I retired from Oxford University (where I was a department network manager) six years ago, most departments were alrea

Re: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

I used XP64 for a while.  What killed it for me was that when XP service pack 3 came out, many programs started to require the new facilities it included, and so checked for SP3 being installed.  XP64 had the same service pack, but because the 64bit XP had come out later than the 32bit version,

Re: Accent on single note of chord?

From: Werner LEMBERG Actually, it is a standard thing, at least in piano music.  Attached is an example from Schumann's 'Humoreske' (Henle Urtext).  I've also seen it in twentieth-century piano music.  But it is not mentioned in any of Ross, Read, Stone, or Gould - so I guess it's consider

Re: How to get .ly from .pdf

From: Aaron Hill There is certainly no shortage of good ideas from the many users on the mailing list.  Anytime someone is able to publish the source for a real-world score, there is hope of finding some new pattern or structure that can streamline your own work. I suspect that if I r

Re: Export to XML

From: Andrew Bernard   Subject: Re: Export to XML  Unless they accept a PDF  from you and print that or reset from scratch I think you are stuck. My son is arranging the publication of the remaining works of a recently deceased composer, and the republication properly typeset of some works alr

Re: Expanding rest printing so tempo changes don't clash

Look into \markLengthOn and markLengthOff. You can find examples on this page:  https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/displaying-rhythms Paul From: Galen Hazelwood To: Sent: 02/08/2022 22:55 Subject: Expanding rest printing so tempo changes don't clash Hel

Re: Byzantine singing

(Dead links; web.archive.org Wayback Machine might help.) Sadly, no it doesn't.  And searching for Lilychant finds nothing but a different project on GitHub. Paul

Re: \time 9/8 (3/4)

From: Hans Åberg There is also the practise to write the triplet markers just a few bars, and then skipping them. Perhaps for simplifying handwriting and helping then engraver in the days this was done by hand, so would not be needed nowadays when done electronically. Not needed maybe,

Re: Last note of a first alternative is a tie to the first note in the repeat; how to engrave this?

From: David Kastrup There is also \startTrillSpan/\stopTrillSpan, \startGroup/\stopGroup, \startGraceSlur/\stopGraceSlur, \startTextSpan/\stopTextSpan, \startMeasureCount/\stopMeasureCount, \startMeasureSpanner/\stopMeasureSpanner .  So there is a clear pattern of \startItem and \endItem b

Re: Lilypond not generating PDF

From: Aaron Hill LilyPond does not require nor does it request elevation. I didn't think it did.  But sometimes people change the priority of programs for reasons we may not realise.  I merely pointed out that Windows has a way to prevent drag and drop working, in case this was (abnormall

Re: Lilypond not generating PDF

Blocking dropping onto elevated targets from a non-elevated desktop has been a security feature of UAC since it was introduced a decade and a half ago.  You can remove the restriction by running with UAC turned off, which the security-minded will of course advise you not to do, and many people h

Re: Lilypond not generating PDF

From: Andrew Bernard I do know know how to _not_ install it with admin rights as the sole user, me, has admin permissions. Sorry, I expressed it loosely.  As you determined, the issue is specifically Extended Permissions - which, however, are selected in Windows with the menu item "Run a

Re: Lilypond not generating PDF

Still can't get it right!   s/Extended/Elevated/ Paul From: Paul Hodges To: lilypond-user Sent: 04/07/2022 14:13 Subject: Re: Lilypond not generating PDF From: Andrew Bernard I do know know how to _not_ install it with admin rights as the sole user, me, has

Re: Lilypond not generating PDF

Is LilyPond installed with administrative rights?  That's a common reason for drag and drop not to work (it's forbidden in that case). Paul From: Ben Eisenstein To: Sent: 03/07/2022 23:48 Subject: Lilypond not generating PDF I installed Lilypond pn Windows 10. I follo

Re: Simultaneous ottava and non-ottava voices

The ottava bracket needs both ends defined to appear, so the ottava command and its cancellation should be at the start and end of the music to be affected, like this:   << { \ottava 1 \repeat unfold 4 c'' \ottava 0 } \\ { \repeat unfold 4 d,, } >> However, the command is acted on at the sta

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