Re: Lead sheet: How to change spacing between staff and chords?

2007-04-17 Thread Robert Kennedy
> The general principles are described in the section on "Vertical spacing > inside a system" in the manual. In the 2.10.14 manual the section is called simply "Vertical Spacing," but thank you; this is exactly the pointer I needed. Your suggestions solved my problem. But your suggestions seem t

Lead sheet: How to change spacing between staff and chords?

2007-04-17 Thread Robert Kennedy
How do I move the chord symbols up from the staff in a lead sheet? The chord symbols come very close to the textscripts and I want to move them apart. Thanks! -- Robert P.S. Version 2.10.14. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: How do I get rehearsal marks at both end and beginning of lines?

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Kennedy
> Oh, there is a misunderstanding. I haven't said that this is the > wrong way (rather the opposite). I was just wondering what you are > actually trying to do. I see. I explained what I am actually trying to do in a different message. Basically I want "Fine" at the end of one line, and a letter

Re: Making a staff take extra vertical space?

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Kennedy
> That's also solve in the latest development versions. How stable are the development versions? If I try using them, will I be happy or more frustrated? Many thanks for your advice! -- Robert ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.

Re: How do I get rehearsal marks at both end and beginning of lines?

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Kennedy
> This is what I've said: You are using the RehearsalMark mechanism to > place a fermata and a tempo indication. Neither of them is a real > rehearsal marks actually. The user manual recommends using "\mark" for both of those. See section 8.1.3. If the manual is recommending the wrong way, what

Re: How do I get rehearsal marks at both end and beginning of lines?

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Kennedy
I wrote: > Werner wrote: > > Robert wrote: > > > I want a rehearsal mark at the end of one line, and a different > > > rehearsal mark at the beginning of the next line. > > Hmm. I've never seen this before. I assume that you use the > > RehearsalMark grob for something different, right? > I don't

Re: How do I get rehearsal marks at both end and beginning of lines?

2007-02-01 Thread Robert Kennedy
> > I want a rehearsal mark at the end of one line, and a different > > rehearsal mark at the beginning of the next line. > > Hmm. I've never seen this before. I assume that you use the > RehearsalMark grob for something different, right? I don't understand your question. Something different fr

Re: Making a staff take extra vertical space?

2007-02-01 Thread Robert Kennedy
> > I wonder, though, how I can get it to appear *below* the chords... > > One method is to typeset the text as a text script instead of using \mark: > > | c'4^\markup { \huge \line{ \box "C" \bold "(first time only)" }} > > Then it will be connected to the stave and therefore the chords > w

How do I get rehearsal marks at both end and beginning of lines?

2007-02-01 Thread Robert Kennedy
following files disappears. How do I get them both to appear in the right places? -- Robert Kennedy -- \new Staff { c''1 \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'break-visibility = #begin-of-line-invisible

Re: convert-ly broken in 2.10/11.15?

2007-02-01 Thread Robert Kennedy
> I've probably missed something, but in v 2.10.14/2.11/14 and > 2.10.15/2.11.15 if convert-ly is invoked (through Update Syntax), the > following message is presented: > > Traceback (most recent call last): >File "/Users/ssanders/Documents/Lilypond stuff/LilyPond 2.11.x/ > LilyPond.app

Re: Glissando notation?

2007-01-31 Thread Robert Kennedy
> In my experience, having played a number of pieces with glissandi, "rips" > to us horn players, the straight line notation is quite common. I've seen > both. Thanks for your input on this. I have seen the straight-line option in horn charts, but only in handwritten ones. Most horn charts (even

Re: Making a staff take extra vertical space?

2007-01-31 Thread Robert Kennedy
> In the latest development version, this problem doesn't exist anymore > since the collision handling has been improved. Actually, the result you > get there is similar to what you get if you add > \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'padding = #6 > before the corresponding \mark command, i.e

Making a staff take extra vertical space?

2007-01-30 Thread Robert Kennedy
es no horizontal space, but does take vertical space. Thanks for any help with this! -- Robert \header{ title = "Bouncing with Bud (Bebop in Pastel)" composer = "Earl Rudolph \"Bud\" Powell" ent

A few more tweaking questions

2007-01-30 Thread Robert Kennedy
hanks! -- Robert Kennedy \header{ title = "Bouncing with Bud (Bebop in Pastel)" composer = "Earl Rudolph \"Bud\" Powell" enteredby = "Robert Kennedy" style = "jazz" tagline = "&qu

Documentation: Software architecture overview and details?

2007-01-30 Thread Robert Kennedy
y setting some property will have no effect, and (hopefully) what different property or object I should use instead. There must be a way better than guessing. How can I learn about it? Thanks in advance for any help! -- Robert Kennedy ___ li

Glissando notation?

2007-01-30 Thread Robert Kennedy
It seems in Lilypond (v2.10.14) the default notation for glissandos is a straight line. I've never seen that notation used for glissando before so I have no idea why it's the default, but that's OK because everything can be changed, right? So I tried "\override Glissando #'style = #'zigzag", think

Re: Lead sheet examples?

2007-01-29 Thread Robert Kennedy
Late last night I wrote: > This looks like it should work, and LP accepts it OK, but it doesn't > have any effect... Embarassingly, now it seems to work. I must have been having some kind of version control problem when I wrote that. Many thanks to everyone who helped! -- Rob

Re: Lead sheet examples?

2007-01-29 Thread Robert Kennedy
u'd like to try and see if it really works for you. Again, many thanks for helping! -- Robert \header{ title = "Bouncing with Bud (Bebop in Pastel)" composer = "Earl Rudolph \"Bud\" Powell" entered

Re: Lead sheet examples?

2007-01-28 Thread Robert Kennedy
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Lead sheet examples?

2007-01-28 Thread Robert Kennedy
ems like a documentation bug that there is no example and no discussion of how to do this. If anyone can show me the right way, I'll be very grateful! Thanks in advance! -- Robert Kennedy \header{ title = "Bouncing with Bud (Bebop in Pastel)&q