Re: Problem with Codas

2017-09-25 Thread Shamus Hammons
On 09/20/2017 11:35 AM, Carl Sorensen wrote: > On 9/19/17 5:33 PM, "David Kastrup" wrote: > >> Shamus Hammons writes: >> >>> On 09/17/2017 01:50 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >>>> Carl Sorensen writes: >>>> >>>>> On 9/16/17

Re: Problem with Codas

2017-09-19 Thread Shamus Hammons
On 09/17/2017 01:50 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Carl Sorensen writes: > >> On 9/16/17 8:09 AM, "Shamus Hammons" wrote: >> >>> I have a dream, that one day Lilypond will make codas first class >>> citizens instead of having to exist as a series of ugl

Problem with Codas

2017-09-16 Thread Shamus Hammons
http://shamusworld.gotdns.org/music/one-small-child.pdf (see page 2, bars 33-34) I have a dream, that one day Lilypond will make codas first class citizens instead of having to exist as a series of ugly hacks. In that day, I could simply write \coda (with maybe some options) and Lilypond would aut

Re: Help with chord dictionaries

2017-09-14 Thread Shamus Hammons
That works perfectly. Thank you! On 09/14/2017 12:18 PM, Robin Bannister wrote: > Shamus Hammons wrote: > >> This gets closer, but the flat sign is sitting all by itself, as if it >> were a separate word and not part of the chord symbol (like so: "B b >> maj7")

Re: Help with chord dictionaries

2017-09-14 Thread Shamus Hammons
This gets closer, but the flat sign is sitting all by itself, as if it were a separate word and not part of the chord symbol (like so: "B b maj7"). Also, doesn't address the issue of the chord names floating too high above the diagrams. On 09/14/2017 11:26 AM, Robin Bannister

Re: Help with chord dictionaries

2017-09-14 Thread Shamus Hammons
fretboard diagrams being too far away from the diagrams. :-/ On 09/14/2017 09:20 AM, Jacques Menu Muzhic wrote: > Hello Shamus, > > Using: > > subtitle = \markup { > \override #'(font-family . sans) > { \center-column { C9 \fret-d

Re: display chords (Ami7(b5))

2009-02-27 Thread Shamus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Shamus, > > Try adding the following to the bottom of pop-chords.ly > > chordNamesPop = #(append > (sequential-music-to-chord-exceptions exceptionsPop #t) > ignatzekExceptions) > &g

Re: display chords (Ami7(b5))

2009-02-26 Thread Shamus
'd be more than happy to code it. :-) Warmest regards, - -- Shamus David Stocker wrote: > Thanks Shamus, this is great. > > Incidentally, if you store a copy of "pop-chords.ly" in your lilypond's > usr/share/lilypond/current/ly folder (or somewhere else in LilyPon

Re: display chords (Ami7(b5))

2009-02-25 Thread Shamus
doesn't seem to be much agreement on how chords should be rendered even in category subsets like jazz or pop for that matter. So my solution has been to maintain a separate file with chord definitions that I like (side note: it would be nice to be able to simply include the file and get resu

Re: Chord spacing issues in 2.11 series

2008-08-05 Thread Shamus
ayout { | \context { |\ChordNames |\override ChordName #'extra-spacing-width = #'(-0.5 . 0.5) | | } | } Thank you very much! That did it! Warmest regards, - -- Shamus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using Gnu

Re: Chord spacing issues in 2.11 series

2008-08-04 Thread Shamus
ar to this arise quite often. The chords are too close together for comfortable reading, especially for nearly geriatric musicians like myself. Any help would be appreciated. Warmest regards, - -- Shamus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mo

Re: Chord spacing issues in 2.11 series

2008-08-03 Thread Shamus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Do'h! Trevor Daniels wrote: | | Shamus wrote Sunday, August 03, 2008 1:51 PM | |> I recently upgraded from 2.10.33 to 2.11.52 and noticed that |> SeparatingGroupSpanner is no longer available. | | You're right. A quick check of

Chord spacing issues in 2.11 series

2008-08-03 Thread Shamus
mentation but so far have been unable to find anything suitable. Thanks, - -- Shamus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIlanOmE5b/O3JjkYRAgrTAKDDXqlaaKA+6VOBy2dD+oHiTqxujQCg8bmz 8RjZHmZQC5ZcsCF/rXc

Re: Make an invisible measure?

2008-04-15 Thread Shamus
-X = #left \mark \markup { { \musicglyph #"scripts.coda" } "Coda" } ... The current bar number is reset in order to make the bar count on subsequent lines display correctly. Otherwise, your bar count will be off by one. ;-) - -- Shamus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Chord dictionary

2008-04-09 Thread Shamus
quot;3-(;6;;5;4;3-);" } } It works, but I also need to be able to put the chord names above the diagrams. This approach seems really hackish to me--perhaps some kind soul could point me in the right direction? Thanks, - -- Shamus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/

Re: constructing a jazz piece

2008-04-09 Thread Shamus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shamus wrote: | Thanks for that David. I've been doing this to separate out dynamic | markings, but I didn't know you could do the same with voltas and the like. | | /me goes off to try it Wow! Works like a charm! This is not only going

Re: constructing a jazz piece

2008-04-09 Thread Shamus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for that David. I've been doing this to separate out dynamic markings, but I didn't know you could do the same with voltas and the like. /me goes off to try it - -- Shamus David Bobroff wrote: | Don't know if there's

Making chord text substitutions globally

2008-04-09 Thread Shamus
s with my customized chords just by including the pop-chords.ly file *without* having to stick that \popChords thing in there. Any ideas? Is this currently impossible? - -- Shamus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.

Re: constructing a jazz piece

2008-04-09 Thread Shamus
ay to do it now that I've overlooked? :-) As it is now, I have to specify the structure in all parts (except chords) if I want to be able to print out separate parts. Needless to say (but here I am saying it anyway :-P) it makes part entry more cumbersome and error prone when you have t

Improper markup placement in 2.8.0?

2006-08-12 Thread Shamus
f you take out the \break (i.e., it works correctly with the exception of the case where the bar occurs at a page break). Bug or feature? -- Shamus \version 2.8.0 \score { \relative c' << \new Staff { c4 d e f | c d e f | c d e f | c d e f | \break \once \override Score.RehearsalMark

Missing volta bracket in 2.8.0

2006-08-12 Thread Shamus
I don't know if this has been pointed out already but it seems that \stopStaff followed by a \startStaff causes volta brackets to disappear. I also don't have the foggiest idea how to fix this either. -- Shamus \version "2.8.2" \score { \relative c' << \new Staff

Re: Changing fonts in headers

2006-07-14 Thread Shamus
setting up a custom font tree with the font I want in my header (DomCasual BT) in the sans serif slot. I then override the font family in the header to use the sans serif font (I also bump up the font size, since to me the title font is too small). I'm sure ther

Re: Ossia fragments in 2.8.2

2006-07-04 Thread Shamus
handle boundary cases very well. I'm more than willing to code up a workaround if a kind developer could point me in the right direction. -- Shamus ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Dash instead of 'm' for minor chords

2006-07-03 Thread Shamus
ch other and correctly placed. As far as I know, the \super command does nothing to the size of the character it's raising (i.e., it's a shortcut method of doing \raise) so I'm not sure what the issue is there (though I could be wrong about that). -- Shamus ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Ossia fragments in 2.8.2

2006-06-30 Thread Shamus
adding a \context for \ChordNames, but that didn't work either. I'm attaching the whole chart this time because reducing isn't helping in this case. I note that when I comment out everything after the first \stopStaff in StaffRiffs that it works (you can also see that the ossia

Re: Ossia fragments in 2.8.2

2006-06-30 Thread Shamus
} Well, it turns out this doesn't work for what I'm trying to do. The example below is a bit long, but it does show the problem with the \layout block that the example above does not. -- Shamus \version "2.8.2" \include "english.ly" % % Lead vocal % Lea

Re: segno, coda, etc. below rehearsal mark

2006-06-29 Thread Shamus
opinion) and that lily no longer keeps track of the rehearsal symbols for you, so you have to keep track of them yourself. I'm sure there's a better way, but I'm also pretty sure you can't use \mark \default in combination with any other text markup. :-/ -- Shamus ___

Re: Dash instead of 'm' for minor chords

2006-06-29 Thread Shamus
y to do it with partial exceptions, but I can't seem to find a quick 'n' dirty example. -- Shamus ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Ossia fragments in 2.8.2

2006-06-27 Thread Shamus
fluencing the ossia stave when it shouldn't). Again, I'm not sure exactly how to fix this, or if it's even fixable. -- Shamus \score{ \relative c' << \new Staff{ R1 | R1 | \repeat volta 2 { c4 e d f } | \break R1 | \repeat volta 2 { c4 f e d } | R1 | \break \repeat volta

Re: Ossia fragments in 2.8.2

2006-06-26 Thread Shamus
27;t know that something like that is even possible without making changes to the backend, but perhaps one of the developers could weigh in on this issue? -- Shamus ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Ossia fragments in 2.8.2

2006-06-26 Thread Shamus
I thought I had reduced it (this is NOT my full score--notice no chord names or chord rhythms). Is this better? Seriously, there isn't much more I can cut from this. >> Following the instructions in the manual for getting ossia fragments >> yielded the results you see in the image. The relevant bi

Ossia fragments in 2.8.2

2006-06-23 Thread Shamus
Following the instructions in the manual for getting ossia fragments yielded the results you see in the image. The relevant bits are below. My question is: Is there a way to make these ossia fragments stop where they're supposed to stop, i.e., well before the repeat sign? -- Shamus Staff

Font contributions

2006-06-23 Thread Shamus
that there is a need for such a thing, but I could be wrong about that. -- Shamus ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Sizing noteheads in a chord construct?

2006-06-23 Thread Shamus
smaller font (set! (ly:music-property arg 'tweaks) (acons 'font-size -3.0 (ly:music-property arg 'tweaks))) arg) I'm not convinced this is the best way to do it (please feel free to point out a better way), but it'll do for now. :-) -- Shamus ___

Sizing noteheads in a chord construct?

2006-06-22 Thread Shamus
rve space on my chart. Version 2.8.2, and the documentation and tutorials have exactly nothing to say on the subject. -- Shamus ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-22 Thread Shamus
stings? It sounds like it would be very useful--at least to me. I would be willing to contribute on the subject of charts for pop/rock/jazz groups, since what's there doesn't really address how do this and get professional results. My 0.02USD. -- Shamus _

Text/dynamic mark collisions?

2006-06-21 Thread Shamus
ertical position of the text markup and hairpins by hand, but isn't this something that lily should be able to handle on her own? In other words, does this render this way by design or is it a bug? -- Shamus ___ lilypond-user mailing list li

Re: DYI \chordcombine

2006-06-20 Thread Shamus
ogramming paradigm of LISP and its variants (of which Scheme is one), then you shouldn't have too much difficulty figuring out what you need to do. :-) -- Shamus ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Pronunciation of the author's names

2006-06-19 Thread Shamus
given; my best guess is that they would fall on the second to last syllable in each case. This is also most likely the wrong pronunciation in any case. So how did I do? Did I get anywhere close? :-) -- Shamus ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Spacing bug in 2.8.2?

2006-06-08 Thread Shamus
d in the lilypond manual? Or is having notes/rests nearly flush against the key signature correct behavior? I would truly like to know. :-) -- Shamus ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Spacing bug in 2.8.2?

2006-06-07 Thread Shamus
rt of the piece pictured really is in the key of G. Anyone? -- Shamus ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: lilypond-2.4.7-1

2006-06-06 Thread Shamus
Stephen wrote: > How do I install 2.4.7 from > http://lilypond.org/download/binaries/cygwin/uploads/lilypond/ ? Just curious, but why 2.4.7 when the 2.8 and 2.9 series are available? -- Shamus ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@g

Font issues with 2.8.2

2006-06-05 Thread Shamus
behavior I'm seeing here (yes, I know about the (/ num1 num2) construct in the example--it implied that it would be a value of 1)? Also, I'm wondering if there's a way to override *just* the sans font family instead of having to create a font tree--the docs are silent on this issue. -- S

Chordname accidental munging

2006-05-25 Thread Shamus
and I'd like to put that chordNameExceptions line in there too so I don't have to tweak every \chordmode context, i.e., it should be like the english.ly file--you include it and you're done. Is this even possible? -- Shamus ___

Tie behavior

2004-07-09 Thread Shamus
make the user jump through hoops as per above--after all, they are in the same \notes{} context. Is this possible? Or would it require major changes in lily's internal structure? Again, this is with 2.0.3, but judging from what I've seen (and not seen) I don't think it has been chan