Re: Is it possible to replace a number with variable inside a pair?

2018-07-26 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
,lineThickness) \draw-hline > > That is semi-quote the pair with ` (instead of ') and then "unquote" the > variable to retrieve the value with a comma (,) > > HTH > Jan-Peter > > Am 26.07.2018 um 09:35 schrieb Risto Vääräniemi: > > Hi, > > &

Is it possible to replace a number with variable inside a pair?

2018-07-26 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi, I tried the following: lineThickness = 5 \markup \override #'(thickness . #lineThickness) \draw-hline But it seems I cannot give the variable inside the pair. This works: lineThicknessPair = #'(thickness . 5) \markup \override #lineThicknessPair \draw-hline Is there any way to make it work

Is it possible to run lilypond and not produce MIDIs?

2018-05-14 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi all, Well, the subject says pretty much all. It'd be nice to be able to run lilypond and disable MIDI generation with a flag or something (e.g. when producing the PDFs for printing in a designated folder). Is there a way? BR, Risto ___ lilypond-user

Re: is the lyric tie tweakable?

2018-04-24 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi Kieren, David & all, I was searching for a way to shift the lyric tie around and I found this thread from a year back. It looked promising and so I tried David's cool looking tiedLyricOverrides thingy but it only worked partially. I can adjust the word-space but the left-pad does not have any e

Re: Merge_rests_engraver and dotted rest problem

2017-08-28 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
On 28 August 2017 at 17:57, Thomas Morley wrote: > 2017-08-27 12:58 GMT+02:00 Risto Vääräniemi : >> >> I just discovered the new Merge_rests_engraver that should merge the >> rests of two voices. It is an improvement to the LSR snippet 336 *) >> because it now combi

Merge_rests_engraver and dotted rest problem

2017-08-27 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi, I just discovered the new Merge_rests_engraver that should merge the rests of two voices. It is an improvement to the LSR snippet 336 *) because it now combines the whole-measure rests. However, it fails to merge dotted rests. There was a short discussion from November 2016 about a similar is

Re: Adjusting space between a note and the following accidental(s)

2017-07-15 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi Kieren, On 15 July 2017 at 22:26, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Not necessarily: > > \version "2.19.63" > \language "english" > > \new Staff \with { \omit TimeSignature \omit Clef } << > { \time 3/4 \clef bass \voiceOne b8 f b4 c'8( cs') } > \new Voice { \voiceTwo d8 c d4 e8( \tweak Accidental

Re: Adjusting space between a note and the following accidental(s)

2017-07-15 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
On 15 July 2017 at 21:31, Malte Meyn wrote: > > Am 15.07.2017 um 20:03 schrieb Risto Vääräniemi: >> >> Is there a way to adjust the space between an accidental and a note >> that precedes it? The AccidentalPlacement has a right-padding value >> but not a "l

Adjusting space between a note and the following accidental(s)

2017-07-15 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi, Is there a way to adjust the space between an accidental and a note that precedes it? The AccidentalPlacement has a right-padding value but not a "left-padding" value so I guess it is handled by the preceding note somehow. I tried to find something suitable in NoteColumn but had no success so

Re: Padding between last system and footer

2017-01-18 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
On 18 January 2017 at 19:47, tisimst wrote: > Hey, Risto! > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Risto Vääräniemi-2 [via Lilypond] <[hidden > email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=199319&i=0>> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Is there a way to

Padding between last system and footer

2017-01-18 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi, Is there a way to add some padding between the last system of the page and the footer? I have the copyright in the end of the 1st page. There doesn't seem to be a suitable spacing option in the \paper variables. There used to be a "foot-separator" in 2.11 but since then the spacing has changed

How to adjust space between ChordNames and Staff?

2017-01-12 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi all, The spacing between ChordNames and Staff seems a bit tight by default. I've been trying to adjust it but I haven't figured out the right magic words yet. The IR says *) that there should be nonstaff-nonstaff-spacing.padding and nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing.padding available and I have tri

Re: LyricExtender and alternate volta ending

2017-01-01 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
stop them extending over notes I want to skip e.g. { dah __ "" _ _ } --> { dah __ \nbsp _ _ }. Happy new year... -Risto On 1 January 2017 at 04:52, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 31 Dec 2016 at 13:36:15 (+0200), Risto Vääräniemi wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm

LyricExtender and alternate volta ending

2016-12-31 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi all, I'm porting a project I made on 2.11 to 2.19 and every now and then I encounter some things that worked with the old version but not anymore with the new one. The most recent one is the behaviour of the LyricExtender in the alternate endings. In 2.11 you could fool the system to add the a

Fwd: Weird behaviour with TupletNumber.avoid-slur (beam disappears)

2016-11-16 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
TupletNumber #'avoid-slur = #'outside \once \override TupletBracket #'padding = #2 About the disappearing beam bug... Shall I just forward this thread to lily-bug or create the ticket by myself? -Risto On 16 November 2016 at 11:14, Thomas Morley wrote: > 2016-11-16 8:30 GMT+01:0

Re: Weird behaviour with TupletNumber.avoid-slur (beam disappears)

2016-11-15 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
se partial slurs seem to point > in the wrong direction, as if half-heartedly trying to leap over the > numbers. > > > From: Risto Vääräniemi [mailto:risva...@gmail.com] > > I need a slur. It was quicker to write a bunch of same notes. I tested > it again with different pitch

Re: Weird behaviour with TupletNumber.avoid-slur (beam disappears)

2016-11-15 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
r a tie? > > I have tried two alterations (in 2.18.2): > > 1. Changing pitches to “g^ (a) b” and the number is positioned > correctly. > > 2. Changing from a slur to a tie, “g^~ g g ” and the number is > positioned correctly. > > > > Mark > > > &g

Weird behaviour with TupletNumber.avoid-slur (beam disappears)

2016-11-15 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi, I tried to keep the tuplet number from colliding with a slur by using TupletNumber.avoid-slur = #'outside. It has worked before ~2.12.XX but with 2.19.49 something weid happened. The tuplet beam disappeared (actually was shortened and moved to the left of the staff, see the red circle). Even

Re: Start volta after time signature change (instead of before)?

2016-10-21 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
On 21 October 2016 at 19:52, David Kastrup wrote: > Risto Vääräniemi writes: > > > On 20 October 2016 at 22:16, Risto Vääräniemi > wrote: > > > >> On 20 October 2016 at 21:40, David Kastrup wrote: > >> > >>> Risto Vääräniemi writes: >

Re: Start volta after time signature change (instead of before)?

2016-10-21 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
On 20 October 2016 at 22:16, Risto Vääräniemi wrote: > > On 20 October 2016 at 21:40, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Risto Vääräniemi writes: >> >> > Is there a way to start the volta repeat after the time signature >> change? >> >> Something akin

Re: Start volta after time signature change (instead of before)?

2016-10-20 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
On 20 October 2016 at 21:40, David Kastrup wrote: > Risto Vääräniemi writes: > > > Is there a way to start the volta repeat after the time signature change? > > Something akin to > > Oh, yeah. Thanks a bunch. :-) -Risto ___ li

Start volta after time signature change (instead of before)?

2016-10-20 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi, Is there a way to start the volta repeat after the time signature change? By default Lilypond puts the time signature after the bar line. The Gould book says that it could / should be before the repeat if it affects the whole repeat (no need to "duplicate" it). -Risto --- Here's the snippet

Is there a way to tweak glissandos (glissandi)

2013-12-15 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi, Long time no see. I was rekindling my Lilypond skills with a set of Christmas carols and stumbled upon a set of that are quite ugly quite. Is there a way to tweak them e.g. by changing the Y offset of end points? I have understood that the \shape and control-points are for Bezier based stuff

Re: chordname vertical spacing

2009-04-06 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
On 05/04/2009, François Labadens wrote: > I would like to have chord names nearer to the staff... How can I do that ? I had the same problem. I'm now using the following setting in the Staff below the chords: \new Staff \with {\override VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-4 . 3)} Sometime

Reducing top margin when using -dbackend=eps?

2009-03-07 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi, It seems that the (negative) top-margin and page-top-space don't have much effect on the white space at the top of the page if I use -dbackend=eps. I am able to reduce the top margin (with negative top-margin) if I invoke LP normally. I'm using this EPS feature to get separate PDFs. Is there

Re: (Bug?) Hidden staves take space if there are lyrics

2009-02-20 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi all, Has anyone else encountered this issue? The feature / bug still exists in 2.12.2. -Risto 2008/9/1 Risto Vääräniemi : > Hi, > > It seems that if I remove the empty staves using > RemoveEmptyStaffContext everything is usually OK if there are not > lyrics. There's e

Re: \natural

2009-02-20 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2009/2/20 Nikolay Kirov : > I need to place \natural (in front of a note) like sharp or flat (aes > or ais) ignoring any automatic rules. > Is it possible? Do you mean something like a! (note the exclamation mark)? These "forced" accidentals are explained in the beginning of the Notational Refere

Re: [ANN] LilyPondTool-2.12-r2 released

2009-02-17 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2009/2/17 Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) : > Oh, never thought of it :-) > > Could you create a bug tracker on http://sf.net/projects/lily4jedit? Ok. It's there now. -Risto > Risto Vääräniemi wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I just noticed that the opening the ge

Re: [ANN] LilyPondTool-2.12-r2 released

2009-02-16 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi, I just noticed that the opening the generated PDF file in an external viewer has a small flaw. On Windoze machines LPTool starts the default PDF viewer (usually Acrobat) instead of the one the user specifies (e.g Foxit). The viewer is started using a "start" command like this: start "path to t

Re: feta.ttf?

2009-02-15 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2009/2/15 Risto Vääräniemi : > I had a look at the Emmentaler OTF font using the Windows Character > Map tool and the font seemed to contain only the numbers, a few > letters (m, f, s, etc.) and some punctuation marks. > > I couldn't find any musical glyphs such as sharp

Re: feta.ttf?

2009-02-15 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi all, 2008/10/25 Andrew Hawryluk : > After installing LilyPond you will have OpenType versions of the fonts > (probably in a directory like .../lilypond/current/fonts/otf), but > they won't work with Finale. This is because the two programs actually > use different sets of glyphs and the two fon

Re: Why a \score inside \markup doesn't allow breaks?

2009-01-29 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2009/1/29 M Watts : > Hmm, I can see how this could be annoying -- I guess \markup's ability to > include a \score was originally intended for short phrases and alternative > readings etc., although the docs provide an example of some length. Yeah. That's probably the original intention. However,

Re: Why a \score inside \markup doesn't allow breaks?

2009-01-29 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi again, Has no-one else encountered this issue? BR, Risto 2009/1/21 Risto Vääräniemi : > I was wondering why a \score inside \markup doesn't allow breaks. If I > insert a \break everything after it is ignored. If I want to have a > multi-line piece inside a \markup I have t

Why a \score inside \markup doesn't allow breaks?

2009-01-21 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi all, I was wondering why a \score inside \markup doesn't allow breaks. If I insert a \break everything after it is ignored. If I want to have a multi-line piece inside a \markup I have to put multiple \scores in a column. Is there another way? -Risto start \version "2.12.1" \markup

Spacer rests, dynamics and lyrics don't mix

2008-12-05 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Dear All, I just noticed that if I use spacer rests to position dynamics everything works well until I add some lyrics to the soup. With lyrics the dynamics attached to the spacer rests adjust themselves with the lyrics instead of the notes. In the attached image in the first bar the dynamics are

Re: creating a centred column of markups

2008-11-26 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/11/26 Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I need a centred column of (left-aligned) markups — it's a poem that I want > "floating" in the centre of the leading page of a choral score. Is it the same thing that I had a couple of weeks ago or do you want the exact opposite behaviour? http

Re: Fixed number of bars per line

2008-11-20 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/11/20 seppo silaste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > How can I get a fixed number of bars per line (eg. 4)? I'm trying to create > empty sheets for writing down (by hand) 12-bar jazz-blues guitar chord > progressions. A quick and dirty solution: \time 4/4 \repeat unfold X { s1 s1 s1 s1 \break } where

Re: LyricExtender extends too far in some verses

2008-11-19 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/11/20 Jonathan Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I devised an ugly hack to make the LyricExtenders stop at the right place by > adding an invisible syllable of text. Ex: I've usually used: verseTwo = \lyricmode { tar -- es. __ "" } Lilypond complaints about empty elements, though: programming

Re: Short decrescendo

2008-11-18 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/11/18 Cordilow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Excellent. Thanks! I guess it wasn't a bug after all, eh? Just a default > setting or such. :) Yes. The default behaviour was changed a couple a versions ago. The syntax for the command was changed, too. -Risto

Re: Short decrescendo

2008-11-18 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/11/18 Cordilow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Does anyone know how to make this decrescendo go all the way to the a'2? It's > supposed to, I think. Try putting \once \override Hairpin #'to-barline = ##f in front of the crescendo / decrescendo you want to extend beyond the barline. Like this. \time

Re: Special characters (umlauts, accents, etc) in lyrics

2008-11-12 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi Tim, 2008/11/12 Tim Slattery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > So how can I get Lilypond to use these characters? Lilypond should be able to handle them if you set the file encoding to UTF-8 -Risto ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http:/

Re: Compound time sig with parentheses (Was: How to prevent \center-column)

2008-11-10 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/11/10 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I forgot about that. Look at my second email in that thread. > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-10/msg00681.html Thanks for the pointer. After a couple hours' tweaking I came up with these. I ruthlessly exploited your implement

Re: Compound time sig with parentheses (Was: How to prevent \center-column)

2008-11-09 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/11/9 Ralph Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What a beautiful job! > > Can these be added to the LSR? OK by me. -Risto ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Compound time sig with parentheses (Was: How to prevent \center-column)

2008-11-09 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/11/9 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You could use \bracket, although I would just recommend "(". I tried "(" but they looked too wide if I just scaled them. I searched for a function that would allow markup stretching but couldn't find one (I did find an old message where someone els

Compound time sig with parentheses (Was: How to prevent \center-column)

2008-11-09 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
On 08/11/2008, Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The second column needs to be aligned in relation to the first using > \left-align: Thanks a lot, Neil. Anyway... I made yet another type of time compound signature. This time the "descriptive" part is wrapped in parentheses. Since I could

How to prevent \center-column colliding with other markup?

2008-11-08 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi, I am trying to add a \center-column'ed text in my markup block. However, that part is not properly aligned (at least in my opinion) and it is partially placed on top of the text that's on its left side. Should I wrap the \center-column part inside some other markup function? I already tried \l

Re: What to do when \> and \< produce text

2008-10-30 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/10/30 Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In my experience (vocal music), cresc and dim without a dashed > line is used almost universally. Hairpins are used when an extent > is being indicated. I have the same impression (choir music). > I vote for not adding the dashed line to these co

Re: Tuplet groupings / TupletBracket Padding

2008-10-29 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi Erik, 2008/10/29 Erik Hagström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've tried putting "\revert TupletBracket #'padding" at various places but it > doesn't seem to work. I feel like there's probably some solution to this > though > - hope you can help out! I think the \tweak command could do the trick. I

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-17 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hello all, Just a side note... I noticed that when I browse a full page document it takes quite a long time for context menus (right click) to appear. I usually use that feature to get back to the previous view. When the context menu appears the horizontal and vertical scroll bars for the whole p

Re: LilyPond examples

2008-10-17 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/10/16 Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Difficult modern concepts are much easier in Lilypond than the others, e.g. > >figured bass: > Just out of curiosity (I don't know anything about figures bass)... :-) Is the number 6 on the

Re: Parenthesizing a note head /and/ the preceding accidental?

2008-10-10 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/10/10 Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Looks a lot like > http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=155 to me :-) Well, yes and no. :-) In the case of issue 155 it's quite easy to create a workaround. E.g. \once \override Score.AccidentalPlacement #'right-padding = #0.4 \p

Re: Parenthesizing a note head /and/ the preceding accidental?

2008-10-10 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/10/10 Risto Vääräniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > One possible use for such a feature is presented in the included image > (parentheses added in another application). Hmm. For some reason Gmail preview messes up the image. It probably doesn't like grayscale images. Here it co

Parenthesizing a note head /and/ the preceding accidental?

2008-10-10 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi all, I wonder if it's possible to wrap parentheses around an accidental and a note head. Currently the \parenthesize parenhesizes only the note head. One possible use for such a feature is presented in the included image (parentheses added in another application). -Risto %%% \version "2.

Re: Piano staff, single staff polyphony and lyrics

2008-10-08 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Terve Ari, 2008/10/8 Ari Torhamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It works, it works! Now I can get forward with what I'm doing :-) > > One more thing. I tried to add \lyricsto to the line above, but this > caused an error message. I'm trying to align the lyrics to the melody, > so that it wouldn't be nece

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/10/7 Nick Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You can remove the time signature like so: Or: \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f t. Risto >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of Jonathan Kulp >> Sent: Tuesday, 7 October 2008

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/10/7 Jonathan Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Oh man, I really don't know about the copyright. If it was published in > 1905, then it's in p.d. in the U.S. In Europe (European Economic Area) the term of copyright ends when the author has been dead for more than 70 years. Ravel died in December 2

Re: Lyric tie glyph not found (directory separator problem?)

2008-10-02 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/10/2 Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You might need to rebuild FontConfig's cache; delete the folder named > C:\Documents and Settings\yourname\.lilypond-fonts.cache-2 > then launch a new compilation. Ah, it was in the profile folder. I suspected that the cache was the culprit beca

Re: Lyric tie glyph not found (directory separator problem?)

2008-10-02 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
On 02/10/2008, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there a way to tell Pango, which font to use for this lyric tie? If >> I have both Arial Unicode and DejaVuLGC installed and would like to >> specify that DejaVuLGC was used. Alright, I installed the same font that worked in the ot

Re: Lyric tie glyph not found (directory separator problem?)

2008-10-02 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/10/2 Risto Vääräniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/10/2 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Note that Pango (the font handling library used in LilyPond) may pick >> different symbols from different fonts, so even if the rest of the text is >> typeset u

Re: Lyric tie glyph not found (directory separator problem?)

2008-10-02 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/10/2 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Note that Pango (the font handling library used in LilyPond) may pick > different symbols from different fonts, so even if the rest of the text is > typeset using the standard Century Schoolbook font, the lyric tie is > typically taken from a separat

Re: Lyric tie glyph not found (directory separator problem?)

2008-10-01 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi Mats, 2008/10/2 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Have you read the warning about the font you need, in > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Entering-lyrics#Entering-lyrics Yes, I have seen it. I'm using the standard Century Schoolbook font from LP distribution and b

Lyric tie glyph not found (directory separator problem?)

2008-10-01 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi, Something strange just happened. I tried to use the lyric tie (~) in one song and LP complained that it couldn't find the glyph. These kind on messages usually appeared when the file wasn't saved as UTF but this time the same file works on my work computer (don't tell my boss). The directory

Re: height of volta brackets

2008-09-30 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi Sebastian, 2008/9/30 Sebastian Menge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > How can I make both brackets to be at the same height? Or is this > considered "good looking"? Which LP version are you using? That should be fixed in 2.11. However, in LSR there's a workaround for older versions: http://lsr.dsi.unim

Re: Lyrics, Staff and dynamics

2008-09-29 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/9/29 Dmytro O. Redchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > i guess: since dynamics are "parts" of Voice context, > and Lyrics is a separate context (of "the same level") -- > it is impossible to place dynamics far from staff than lyrics > (to place lyrics between staff and dynamics). I've been wondering t

Re: How to get text width in Scheme?

2008-09-21 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/9/21 Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This is sort-of a bug. The 'font is only set in C++, from > > Font_interface::get_default_font (Grob *me) > > we should change this so it uses the standard property calculation > scheme. Then your sample code works correctly. Ah, thanks for the in

Re: How to get text width in Scheme?

2008-09-19 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi Valentin, 2008/9/19 Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/9/19 Risto Vääräniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Can someone tell me how I can get the text width inside scheme? > > I think you might be interested in using ly:stencil-extent > (not sure th

How to get text width in Scheme?

2008-09-19 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi all, Can someone tell me how I can get the text width inside scheme? There's a method called ly:text-dimension that takes font metric and the text as parameters and gives the dimensions. Alright - I should get the font metric somehow. I tried (let ((fontMetr (ly:grob-property BarNumber 'font))

Re: fong shape of fingering

2008-09-18 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
On 18/09/2008, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> \override Score.Fingering #'font-encoding = #'latin1 >> > Well, there is not a single word in the documentation about that latin1 > is a valid value for font-encoding. You could be right. :-) I once struggled trying t

Re: fong shape of fingering

2008-09-18 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi Stefan, 2008/9/18 Stefan Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> 2008/9/18 Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>> Try to set font-encoding to #f >>> That may switch back to text font style >>> >>> Stefan Thomas wrote: >>> >>> Ok. >>> What I really want is to change the fingerings to l

Re: (Layout nitpick) Time signature irregularities (mainly 9/4)

2008-09-16 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Continued from another topic: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-09/msg00553.html 2008/9/16 Neil Puttock: > 2008/9/15 Risto Vääräniemi: >> How did you get that image? In Lilypond or in Fontforge (or something >> else)? I'd like to see if the numbers in Emmen

Re: piano pedal vertical alignment question

2008-09-15 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi Neil, 2008/9/14 Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > No, unless you're compiling from source. The asterisk's bounding box > is hard-coded during font generation (see attached image). How did you get that image? In Lilypond or in Fontforge (or something else)? I'd like to see if the numbers in

Re: (Layout nitpick) Time signature irregularities (mainly 9/4)

2008-09-08 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/9/8 Risto Vääräniemi: > I just noticed that the different time signature numbers are aligned > differently. For instance the "4" in 9/4 is placed a lot lower than in > 5/4. I've included two images displaying the issue. Forgot... I got these results with 2.11.56 an

(Layout nitpick) Time signature irregularities (mainly 9/4)

2008-09-08 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi, I just noticed that the different time signature numbers are aligned differently. For instance the "4" in 9/4 is placed a lot lower than in 5/4. I've included two images displaying the issue. How is this placement done and what might lead to these differences? Do different numbers have differ

Re: Stem Combining

2008-09-04 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/9/4 James E. Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What were you looking for in terms of combining? I was hoping to get results as presented in the attached image (situation was staged). I had one song that I wanted to cram into a smaller space. Since all the rhythms were the same on both voices I d

Re: Stem Combining

2008-09-04 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/9/4 Risto Vääräniemi: > 2008/9/4 James E. Bailey: >> >> What's the problem? > Thanks for the tip. I was trying to attach the lyrics to the combined > voice and not to an original one. Based on the section "Automatic part > combining" I thought that t

Re: Stem Combining

2008-09-04 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/9/4 James E. Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > What's the problem? > \score { > << > \new Staff \with { printPartCombineTexts = ##f } << \partcombine > \voiceone \voicetwo >> > \new Lyrics \lyricsto "voice one" \words > >> > } Thanks for the tip. I was trying to attach the lyrics

Re: Stem Combining

2008-09-04 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/9/4 Mats Bengtsson : > I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned \partcombine, so far. It's probably > the closest you can > get to your wishes, with the built-in support in LilyPond. See Section > "Automatic part combining" > in the manual for more information. Note that the current part combin

Re: lyrics and repeat

2008-09-01 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi, 2008/9/1 Grammostola Rosea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Can someone tell me why D.S. is not at the end of the bar, but on the > beginning? How do I change that? You are using it as a \mark and it is now attached to the next bar line. You could try: r2 ^\markup "D.S.". > Why isn't the second coda

(Bug?) Hidden staves take space if there are lyrics

2008-09-01 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi, It seems that if I remove the empty staves using RemoveEmptyStaffContext everything is usually OK if there are not lyrics. There's equal amount of space between the staves. However, if I throw in some lyrics the spacing is messed up and the invisible staves start taking some space. If there ar

Re: custom titles example doesn't work

2008-08-26 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/8/26 Tom Cloyd: > You're asking ME? Like I'd know? Thanks so much for the code. I'll have to > study up on it a bit, as it's not exactly something I can readily understand > at this point. It'll be good for me to dig into this, no doubt. I'm sorry for messing you up. You don't need to add the

Re: custom titles example doesn't work

2008-08-26 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi Tom, 2008/8/26 Tom Cloyd: > So by specifying "odd..." but NOT "even..." I was trying to be clever and > specify both in one statement. The documentation, to me, indicates that this > is possible, and even a designed in feature. That would be perfect, since > what I'm wanting is a title on each

Bug? Vertical spacing algorithm changed? (lyrics move notes)

2008-08-22 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi, I just compiled a piece of music that I created earlier this summer and I noticed that if I modify the minimum-Y-extent the lyric text sometimes moves the following notes. I wonder if this is a deliberate change or a bug? The behaviour changed between 2.11.52 and 2.11.53. I have attached two

Re: Ending volta problem with ChoirStaff

2008-08-11 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi Dmytro, 2008/8/11 Dmytro O. Redchuk: >Well, i run into a problem with ending volta -- see file attached, >ending volta continued after line break, but this continuation >disappears if i uncomment additional staves (see \score { ... } >section). So, there is no ending volta cont

Re: Tie control-points delete another tie

2008-07-24 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi, My mail probably belongs better to the user list so I post it there... Trevor Daniels wrote: > It's not clear what you are trying to achieve here, > as the ties without the override look ok. I don't know about Marco's intentions but I once had a similar case. I got around by using both slurs

Re: Markup and music side by side

2008-07-09 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi Kieren, On 10/07/2008, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Don't forget that \markup can include \score (as long as that \score > includes a \layout): Sounds very promising. Thank you very much, Kieren (again :-)). I already wrote the piece using CorelDraw to place the instructions and the choir parts

Markup and music side by side

2008-07-09 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi, I was wondering if there's a way to put a markup block, e.g., on the left side of the paper and the music on the right side of the page? I am wrestling with quite a peculiar piece that consists of snippets of music and performing instructions and I'd like to put the text next to the music. I

Re: metronome mark position

2008-07-04 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/7/4 Libero Mureddu: > Hi, > I'm trying to play a bit with the metronome mark and the \mark \markup > commands in order to have a unified way to set the tempo in my scores, > but I'm a bit lost: > the three rules I know for that are: > 1) if there's a time signature, the tempo should be left al

Re: \repeat with upbeat (partial) and alternatives

2008-07-04 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/7/4 Reinhold Kainhofer: > Actually, all choir scores that I have do it exactly this way. I have never > seen any choir score, where the volta does not span whole measures. I have. I'm writing a song book right now and during the process I've seen a couple. I'm trying to avoid such things, th

Re: Moving horizontally a \markup block that's outside score

2008-07-03 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/7/3 Kieren MacMillan: > One solution is to use \translate. > > Hope this helps! Oh, yes. That did the trick. Thanks, Kieren. -Risto ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Moving horizontally a \markup block that's outside score

2008-07-03 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi, I was wondering if it's possible to move around a \markup block that's outside the \score block. Inside the music section you can do wonders with \override TextScript #'whatever but I couldn't come up with a solution for this situation. I've attached an example below. I'm asking this is becau

Re: Chord Charts - rhythm and chords

2008-07-03 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/7/3 Chris Gray : >>Am Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2008 schrieb Johan Vromans: >>> Is there a way to avoid the naturals and sharps? They're rather >>> meaningless. > Because b natural is used in the myrhythm in the first measure, a natural is > used before that note head in the first measure. Carl w

Re: Vertical Collision

2008-06-23 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi Jeffrey, 2008/6/22 Jeffrey Vos: > I'm pretty new at using LilyPond, but I'm trying to engrave some of my > marching band music using it. I have a tuplet with a marcato marking > underneath, and I cannot figure out how to keep the marcato marking from > colliding with the tuplet. I've included

Re: minimumVerticalExtent & minimum-Y-extent

2008-06-13 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/6/13 Mats Bengtsson : > \lyricmode has nothing to do with it. It just tells the part of Lilypond > that interprets your .ly file, that anything within the \lyricmode{...} > should be treated syntactically as lyrics and note as note names. > What you probably mean is that happens with \lyricst

Re: minimumVerticalExtent & minimum-Y-extent

2008-06-13 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/6/13 Trevor Daniels: > The \addlyrics construct does have its limitations due to relying on the > implicit creation of the various contexts, and this seems to be one of them, > although I would regard this as a bug. > > If you specify the contexts explicitly you can use the \with construct, >

Re: minimumVerticalExtent & minimum-Y-extent

2008-06-13 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/4/8 Mats Bengtsson : >> \layout { >> \context { >>\Lyrics >> \override VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(0 . 0) >> } >> } >> >> was 'working'. > > Yes, but as you have seen, it redefines all Lyric contexts in the score. >> >> Now, how do I keep the 'above default spacing'

Re: no midi file in the new lilypond for Windows

2008-06-10 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/6/11 ANNETTE GIESBRECHT: > This is the "Welcome_to_LilyPond" file itself. I am not talking about a > file I copied from the Lilypond pdf or manuscript. > Before that, I always got a midi file.But the ps file opens up my media > player -I have the VLC media player and I cannot play that

Re: no midi file in the new lilypond for Windows

2008-06-10 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Dear Annette, 2008/6/10 ANNETTE GIESBRECHT : > The last time I used LilyPond, I got ps files that were to open in my media > player, but since I have windows I cannot use them. I cannot see the midi > files. the one that I downloaded was 2.11.48-1. So even though I can see > the sheet music

Re: Font difference between 2.11.23 and GDP

2008-06-06 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/6/6 Palmer, Ralph: > Greetings - > > I'm running LilyPond 2.11.23 under Windows XP SP2. I've been working on > Repeats in the GDP. To demonstrate the behavior of manually setting > repeat signs and brackets, I borrowed from LSR snippet 316, modified it, > and included it in Repeats. I tested m

Re: Dynamics and kerning

2008-05-13 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/5/13 Kim Bastin : > I find the kerning of dynamics unsatisfactory, indeed I'm not sure that it's > happening at all. ff is spaced too wide, with visible daylight between the > f's; mp is squashed too close together. These pairs are the worst; pp, sf, > fz look okay. Have you tried sp? I think

Re: Lyrics, barlines and whiteout

2008-05-08 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/5/8 James E. Bailey: > in 2.11, the text is typeset between the bars. That is, the text fits > between the bars, and there's no need to white out part of the bar line to > accommodate the text. That's right. However, the lyric hyphens sometimes do collide with bar lines. Is there a way to pre

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