Re: Frescobaldi Linux Mint install issue… again

2025-07-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 25.06.25 13:15, Federico Bruni wrote: You probably need this one: sudo apt install libxcb-cursor0 Only now did I think: should ‘we’ add that to the installation instructions as a dependency? Best, Simon

Re: Frescobaldi Linux Mint install issue… again

2025-07-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Federico, On 30.06.25 18:12, Federico Bruni wrote: What's the output of: ls -l /usr/local/share/alsa/alsa.conf You should probably add your user to a group which can read that file. Why /usr/local? Don't you have the same file in /usr? well… >> ~$ frescobaldi >> ALSA lib conf.c:4580:(sn

Re: Frescobaldi Linux Mint install issue… again

2025-06-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Federico, On 25.06.25 13:15, Federico Bruni wrote: You probably need this one: sudo apt install libxcb-cursor0 thanks a lot, that fixed most of it! I can now run Fresco, and I’m very grateful for the developments and developers! Here’s the terminal output I now get, in case it were inte

Frescobaldi Linux Mint install issue… again

2025-06-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi everyone, I’m sorry to come with what seems to me a recurring issue and uncommon (?) at the same time. A few months ago I fixed up the Frescobaldi installation on my laptop, also on Mint, and it still works even after a `git pull` (running Frescobaldi from source). Now I wanted to start

Troubleshooting Fresco install

2025-04-09 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 09.04.25 16:34, Federico Bruni wrote: It seems that you are running it from source, even if you call `frescobaldi` and not `python -m frescobaldi` (in the git dir). Maybe you have more than one frescobaldi in your PATH? I do. Here’s their respective outputs: ~$ bin/frescobaldi Traceback (m

Re: Frescobaldi 4.0.0 has been released!

2025-04-09 Thread Simon Albrecht
Tremendous news, wonderful to hear! Being clueless however how to deal with any python issues on updating… I had a working install, on Linux Mint, and after git pull-ing both the main app and python-ly, I get this on the console: ~$ frescobaldi Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/usr/l

Selecting font-series Black

2025-02-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi everyone, in the example below, why does overriding font-name work, but not overriding font-series? The way Frescobaldi displays the available fonts, it seems like the Black font weight is right there with the other weights (bold and [medium]). Best, Simon \version "2.25.23" \paper {  

Re: Frescobaldi development (4.0.0 coming)

2025-01-17 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Federico, Knute and everyone, On 16.01.25 11:04, Federico Bruni wrote: The target release date is 20th of January this is awesome news, thank you so much for working on it! Best, Simon

Re: I'll be in Freiburg/Basel 9-10 January

2025-01-08 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Janek, I think I’ll be there for the funeral, though I’m having immense trouble planning ahead for myself. Hope to meet you there. Best, Simon On 03.01.25 20:51, Janek Warchoł wrote: Hello, It's been almost a decade since I've been active in the LilyPond community, so I'm not sure who ca

Re: White on black with whiteout

2025-01-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Lukas, thanks already for helping! On 06.01.25 15:33, Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: This is possible, but The issue of “de-whiting” everything that’s supposed to be white outside of whiteout immediately popped up when applying this to my example file for LSR… Let’s keep in touch with regar

White on black with whiteout

2025-01-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Harm, hello list, unfortunately Yoshiaki-san’s “issue report” regarding whiteout has me coming back to you for help, since I don’t understand the mechanisms of your implementation well enough to start addressing the issue myself. Are we at the limits of what can sensibly be addressed on LS

Re: White on black

2025-01-04 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Yoshi, On 03.01.25 19:34, Yoshiaki Onishi wrote: \whiteout \use-color #black that’s a really important issue, and has me realise that I neglected testing the snippet on any real-world scores… However, it’s not that simple to implement whiteout automatically referring to the background-c

Re: White on black

2025-01-03 Thread Simon Albrecht
“Final” version of the file as submitted to LSR.\version "2.24.0" % page-post-process implementation thanks to Thomas Morley: % https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2025-01/msg00018.html \paper { background-color = #(x11-color "gray20") print-color = "ivory" #(define (page-post

Re: White on black

2025-01-03 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Harm, On 02.01.25 22:41, Thomas Morley wrote: Please add it to LSR, if you want. I've too much on my lily-todo-list and my winter-breaks ends soon... the last thing I’d want is disrupt work on that list :) Many thanks for the implementation! Uploaded as no. 1194, pending approval. Best,

Re: White on black

2025-01-03 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 02.01.25 22:41, Thomas Morley wrote: page-color = "navajowhite" page-background-color = #'(0.7 0.7 0.7) What is your reasoning to stick with page-color for the “foreground”, i.e. printed elements? I’d love to avoid confusion and have shorter names by just using print-color and backgro

Re: White on black

2025-01-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
, I’ll probably add it to the LSR. Best, Simon On 02.01.25 16:47, Ya Gloops wrote: Hello and Happy New Year! Is it possible to change the background color? For example background-color = #red Le jeudi 2 janvier 2025 à 16:32:17 UTC+1, Simon Albrecht a écrit : Hi Harm, On 01.01.25 14:00, Thomas

Re: White on black

2025-01-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Harm, On 01.01.25 14:00, Thomas Morley wrote: This should always give a black background, all other objects should be colored with `page-color`, apart from objects which already have a color. this is great! How about the attached file for an LSR snippet? Do you want to upload it yourself?

Re: Dark Mode sheet music

2024-12-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 28.12.24 15:42, Hans Aikema wrote: Only done in the context of 'sheet music on powerpoint slides' by means of transparent-background' PNG output with all objects' colors overridden to white and putting them on black-background powerpoint slides. But I presume you intend to have a PDF outpu

Re: White on black

2024-12-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
. 2024 um 19:01 Uhr schrieb Christ van Willegen : Hello Simon, On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 3:25 PM Simon Albrecht wrote: I would like to obtain LilyPond output with black and white inverted (black background, white music and text) for on-screen use and projections. Does someone know how to achieve

Dark Mode sheet music

2024-12-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, I would like to obtain LilyPond output with black and white inverted (black background, white music and text) for on-screen use and projections. Does someone know how to achieve that through LilyPond code, or has it been done before? Should absolutely be an LSR snippet IMO. I could pr

Re: \after 8 \turn as a variable

2024-12-07 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 07.12.24 16:08, Frédéric wrote: gruppetto = \after 8 \turn \etc should do it. The \etc acts as a pacifier. To clarify what’s actually happening: The \etc makes LilyPond create a music function without you having to delve into the internals. You need a music function instead of a simple va

Re: pyqt5 once again

2024-12-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 02.12.24 09:22, Federico Bruni wrote: Which version of Frecobaldi you want to run? If you want to run it from git master, you need PyQt6. The updated instructions have not been merged yet: https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/pull/1827 Please note that the new qpageview which works wi

pyqt5 once again

2024-12-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello everyone, trying to install frescobaldi on a work laptop I got this: pip seemed to fail to build package: qpageview Some possibly relevant errors from pip install: error: subprocess-exited-with-error ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyQt5' The full log file is attached. How coul

Re: How do you insert measures into scores with many parts?

2024-09-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
gridLY, part of the OpenLilyLib ecosystem, is one way to deal with that, although a very involved way that’s only going to be worthwhile for very large collaborative projects. Personally, I am entirely dependent on Frescobaldi point-and-click for this kind of issue. Best, Simon

Re: long sequence of 8th trioles without many \tuplets

2024-09-08 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi, to add to Steven’s answer, which gives the main solution: If you don’t want all the tuplet brackets/numbers displayed, there are various ways to achieve that: %%% First way %%% { \tuplet 3/2 4 { f8 g f \omit TupletBracket g f g  f g f g f g } } %%% Second way %%% { \tuplet 3/

Re: Suggestion for LSR #304

2024-07-15 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Werner, On 13.07.24 06:36, Werner LEMBERG wrote: I came across LSR #304https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=304 and I think we should suggest a coding with variables there, like this: [...] Yes, LilyPond should be both more supportive and more 'user friendly' here; this is tracked as htt

Suggestion for LSR #304

2024-07-12 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, I came across LSR #304 https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=304 and I think we should suggest a coding with variables there, like this: %% startTrillSpanSharp = -\tweak bound-details.left.text \markup { \musicglyph "scripts.trill" \raise #0.65 \teeny \sharp }

Re: beam subdivision problem

2024-07-07 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 04.07.24 19:00, Carl Sorensen wrote: The Alain and Rachmaninov only have one fewer beam, so the beam count between the groups is not appropriate for the lengths of the subdivided groups, according to the Gould rules.  Personally, I think the Gould rules are correct, but two of the music publ

Re: French lyrics and accented characters

2024-07-04 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 04.07.24 11:14, N. Andrew Walsh wrote: I suppose it'd be also possible if you're wrapping your .ly file inside some latex-ly .tex file to use LaTeX's syntax for accented characters Certainly the reason why #(include-special-characters) was developed, see my other reply in the thread. Bes

Re: French lyrics and accented characters

2024-07-04 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 04.07.24 09:09, Raphael Mankin wrote: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/ascii-aliases https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/list-of-special-characters I already use these, but they are incomplete. Assuming that you are referring to French characters w

Re: French lyrics and accented characters

2024-07-03 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Valentin, On 03.07.24 14:31, Valentin Petzel wrote: I’ve taken some time to create a function for decoding html-style entities. wow, that’s a great bit of initiative! I’m really sorry that only upon seeing this I remembered the text-replacements function already in LilyPond which does pre

Re: syntax for \afterGrace

2024-07-03 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 01.07.24 21:32, Paul Scott wrote: Sometimes the scope of functions? is not always clear. I’m not sure what you mean by that. \afterGrace takes two arguments, both of which are a single music expression each. {} or <<>> are used to combine multiple things into a single music expression (seq

Re: Output lilypond file with variables/functions applied?

2024-06-29 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Dimitri, On 29.06.24 22:16, Dmitri Volkov wrote: Hello, Is there a way to get Lilypond to output a file with variables and functions applied? No, there isn’t. Depending on your setup, the best tool for this purpose may be within the editor (Frescobaldi or other?), possibly using the pyt

Re: re-use a melody by removing

2024-06-20 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 20.06.24 19:31, Kieren MacMillan wrote: turning a melody in a minor key into a major key. There’s a function out there somewhere to do that — search the LSR, etc. Depending on what you’re trying to do it might be worth using tags for this as well. Unless of course you’re going to need this

Re: LSR typo: plz correct

2024-06-20 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 20.06.24 14:41, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Done Thanks!

LSR typo: plz correct

2024-06-20 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello everyone, I’m hoping to address someone with the necessary privileges to edit the title of LSR snippet 1017: s/there/their https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=1017 Thanks in advance Simon

Re: re-use a melody by removing

2024-06-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Peter, On 17.06.24 19:12, peter--- via LilyPond user discussion wrote: Greetings, I’m trying to reuse a melody with slight modifications. I would like to be able to remove stem directives from a melody when it is played alone without having to copy, paste and remove That’s very basic

Re: wordwrap on argument of markup function

2024-06-03 Thread Simon Albrecht
Thanks for elaborating! I forgot to hit Reply All when I replied to Jean, excuse me. On 02.06.24 10:10, Ya Gloops wrote: #(define-markup-command (freely layout props width-param text) (number? markup-list?)    "Format text for one bar of 'width-param' quarter notes’ length"    (interpret-marku

wordwrap on argument of markup function

2024-06-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello kind community folk, how do I make \wordwrap act correctly on the argument to this markup function? And why does \line not make \box act on the markup as a whole, as it is said to do? Best, Simon \version "2.25.14" #(define-markup-command (freely layout props width-param text) (numb

Re: nested beaming

2024-04-08 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 08.04.24 18:22, Paul Scott wrote: Many years ago I could nest square brackets in Lilypond. How can I write this now incorrect code: a16[[ 16 16] 16[ 16 16]]  i.e. two groups of 3 beamed 16th notes joined by a single beam. The question is: what is the context and why do you want this? Nor

Re: Adding to a tagGroup on the fly

2024-03-05 Thread Simon Albrecht
Added https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6702.

Re: Adding to a tagGroup on the fly

2024-03-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi David! On 02.03.24 12:44, David Kastrup wrote: Just naming an existing member should be enough since taggroups are exclusive. Like this, for example? \tagGroup soprano,alto \addTagToGroupWith soprano mezzosoprano I think I tend to agree with Raphael that having a name for the tagGroup is

Adding to a tagGroup on the fly

2024-03-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 01.03.24 14:29, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht writes: The downside of that is that I cannot add more tags to those groups on the fly, and always have to add them directly to the library file.) Suggestions for a user interface to do that? Interesting. Would of course require

Re: extracting a single “vocal line” (including lyrics) from multiple variables

2024-03-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Kieren, On 29.02.24 15:42, Kieren MacMillan wrote: I didn’t see an issue/request for quoting lyrics, so I added one (https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6700) and we’ll see how the discussion goes. :) I was curious and tried, and in fact you can quote lyrics perfectly well. It

Re: extracting a single “vocal line” (including lyrics) from multiple variables

2024-03-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 29.02.24 15:42, Kieren MacMillan wrote: use both \keepWithTag_and_ \removeWithTag like this: text = \lyricmode { \tag A { on -- ly al -- to } \tag nA { ev’ -- ry -- one ex -- cept al -- to } } #mindblown Why didn’t I think of using set theory?! THANK YOU! That hint a

Re: extracting a single “vocal line” (including lyrics) from multiple variables

2024-03-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi David, On 29.02.24 15:54, David Kastrup wrote: I'd rather use \tagGroup alto,non-alto \lyricmode { \tag alto { on -- ly al -- to } \tag non-alto { ev’ -- ry -- one ex -- cept al -- to } } \keepWithTag alto ... \keepWithTag non-alto ... But one would need to look at the rest to see w

Re: extracting a single “vocal line” (including lyrics) from multiple variables

2024-02-29 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Kieren, huge respect for the kind of projects you are doing :) Answering these questions is difficult because they can depend a lot on the specifics of the music and any solution can become cumbersome because of only a little instance that doesn’t fit the schematic. A few thoughts: On 27

Re: [large/complex projects] where should transpositions go?

2024-01-29 Thread Simon Albrecht
Dear Kieren, I’d like to share two approaches I’ve developed for such issues. There’s two caveats: Firstly, I couldn’t take time to study your setup and how that makes these approaches viable or not—sorry for that. Secondly, if possible, I always try to use vanilla LilyPond tools, so I pre

Re: combining two whole notes into one

2023-09-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Yuriy, it is possible, yes, but it’s not correct, unless you have a very specific reason to make an exception from the rule. There’s a reason why Lily provides commands for merging differently headed or differently dotted notes, but only for notes with a stem. If you merge notes without st

Re: Obscure message in Frescobaldi

2023-09-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Hajo, I can’t answer your question, but I can say that the better place to ask it would be either the Issue tracker in the Frescobaldi project on Github, or via the contact adress included in Frescobaldi at Help->About. Hope that helps! Simon On 26.09.23 21:51, Hajo Baess wrote: This

Re: what is an articulation that looks like a marcato but is shaped like a half-moon?

2023-09-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Kenneth, On 18.09.23 04:31, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: what is an articulation that looks like a marcato but is shaped like a half-moon? This is from an arrangement of the Marcello Oboe Concerto (Adagio movement) by way of Bach and/or Vivaldi, re-arranged for two trumpets, french horn and tuba.

Re: squeezing a page

2023-07-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Tom, On 10.07.23 03:09, Tom Sgouros wrote: And also for pointing out page-count. That does seem easiest and in fact it worked. I always like it best when I can tell the computer, "you're a computer, figure it out". to add to that: The spacing considerations for music are enormously comple

Re: LyricExtender doesn't terminate before grace note

2023-07-08 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Abraham, On 07.07.23 16:36, Abraham Lee wrote: All, This came up on the FB group and I determined that the problem is the presence of the \acciaccatura. In the following passage, the LyricExtender somehow misses the signal to end before the grace note appears, forming a continuous line fr

Re: Define an alias to a parametrized command

2023-06-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 28.06.23 00:54, Valentin Petzel wrote: If you want a real alias (that is a second binding to the same function) you can do #(define acc acciaccatura) This will create another binding to the same object AFAIK, acc = #acciaccatura and likewise af = #after will have the same effect. Best, Sim

Re: Metronome marking with non-integer value

2023-06-26 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 25.06.23 16:36, Jean Abou Samra wrote: |\layout { \context { \Score \remove Metronome_mark_engraver \cadenzaOn } \context { \Staff \remove Time_signature_engraver \consists Metronome_mark_engraver } }| Would the relatively new \layout {   \enablePolymeter } be appropriate here? (plus of c

LSR 1169 issue: missing point-and-click

2023-06-20 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello everyone, it’s great to have LSR 1169 and it seems to be working as it should—many thanks to Jean Abou Samra and Werner Lemberg! However I’m sorry to write this mail because there is one issue I found ;) Any syllable but the last in a word doesn’t have point-and-click the way it is imp

Re: How to make a blank page

2023-06-11 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Paul, On 11.06.23 15:41, Paul McKay wrote: A solution which would also allow me to insert a blank space between scores (so I could begin a 2nd movement on an even-numbered page) would be good, but my current request is just for an initial one. Jean already gave one solution, another common

Re: Magnetic snap and whiteout on LyricText: warnings

2023-06-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Jean, hi Werner, On 05.06.23 22:28, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Well, for my defense, I did also post a revised version of the “magnetic lyrics” snippet: https://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg149201.html thanks for that pointer and your contributions. I reviewed that thread, s

Magnetic snap and whiteout on LyricText: warnings

2023-06-05 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello everyone, I don’t know where the “Lyric syllable magnetic snap” snippet is mainly stored, I grabbed it from the list years ago and attach it in the version that I have, from December 2011 and with links to user list archive. I hope I’m not somehow behind time with this, having followed

Re: Get the margin values

2023-06-05 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Pierre, On 05.06.23 15:07, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: So how can I get the paper values as a markp? the call to ly:output-def-lookup returns a number or an empty list. So this returns valid markup regardless: \version "2.24.1" \paper {   top-margin =

Re: nested \relative ?

2023-02-11 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 10/02/2023 19:22, Saul Tobin wrote: What is the reasoning behind having smaller relative blocks? I agree that there are many factors in the workflow, project and templates that influence this decision. I want to give just one example: Piano score or similar with changing number and orienta

Re: nested \relative ?

2023-02-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Darren, On 10/02/2023 11:46, Darren Ng wrote: \ghostNoteWhichDoesNotActuallyAppear { c,,, } I think what you want here is \resetRelativeOctave. The best solution depends on many factors around your workflow and the setup of your project, but generally it is recommendable to split things

Re: Duplicate marks with removed Staves (frenched)

2023-02-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
;>   >>   \new ChoirStaff <<     \new Staff << \marks \B >>   >> >> Maybe I'm missing a way to do this while keeping the mark engravers in the ChoirStaff context. Saul On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 1:29 AM Simon Albrecht wrote: Hi Saul, On 08

Re: Duplicate marks with removed Staves (frenched)

2023-02-09 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Saul, On 08/02/2023 22:03, Saul Tobin wrote: Is there a reason to have the marks in a child context rather than just a simultaneous music variable? You mean the Devnull? Just convenience. It works well with the way I assemble different ChoirStaffs for different output formats and adding

Duplicate marks with removed Staves (frenched)

2023-02-08 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello everyone, I am working on a large score with several ChoirStaves and want to have BarNumbers and Marks in the middle as well. However, when I use \RemoveEmptyStaves, removed Staves still have their BarNumbers etc. How can I solve this without hard-coding where the Staves are removed? O

Re: Controlling Slur Marks

2022-08-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Greg, great to hear you’re starting with LilyPond! On 30/08/2022 21:52, Greg Lindstrom wrote: I see later in the documentation there is a snippet on how to merge voices, so that's next on my list. There’s one bit of important advice that usually makes the experience of learning LilyPond

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

2022-07-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 28/07/2022 16:25, David Kastrup wrote: There is also \startTrillSpan/\stopTrillSpan, \startGroup/\stopGroup, \startGraceSlur/\stopGraceSlur, \startTextSpan/\stopTextSpan, \startMeasureCount/\stopMeasureCount, \startMeasureSpanner/\stopMeasureSpanner . On the opposite side, there is \endSpanne

Re: Markup command trouble

2022-07-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi David, On 25/07/2022 16:35, David Kastrup wrote: You probably meant \markup spanish = \markup \italic \etc which defines a markup command. The way you wrote it, \spanish is just a scheme function that happens to return the internals of a markup command definition. I did mean that. Strang

Issue with download link

2022-07-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello everyone, On 24/07/2022 19:44, Jonas Hahnfeld via LilyPond user discussion wrote: Please refer to the Installing section in the Learning Manual for instructions how to set up the provided binaries: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/learning/installing This link leads to a 2.23

Markup command trouble

2022-07-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
Dear list, I wanted to define a markup command for easy switchable styling of text and ran into an issue which seems hard to understand: \version "2.23.9" spanish = \markup\italic \etc \markup \column {   \spanish \justify { test } } => “error: not a markup” My un

Re: Undertie in lyrics to show no breath

2022-07-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi mancunius, On 20/07/2022 12:34, mancunius wrote: Hello. In the following example I want the undertie to be placed between the 2 “O sacrum convivium” lines of lyrics, to indicate that no breath should be taken by the singers - as per the normal choral convention. (cf. the commented-out \brea

Re: Orchestral works good practice

2022-07-11 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, On 07/07/2022 08:50, Rip _Mus wrote: Good morning to everyone, I am preparing a large orchestral work. In my writing style, each instrument often has two voices in its staff, for various reason (for example, each clarinet can handle two voices when playing multiphonics trills with thres

Re: \repeat unfold has problems inside \repeat volta

2022-07-03 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 02/07/2022 18:20, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Simon, you moved this from bug-lilypond to lilypond-user. Was that intentional? Did I? I’m sure I just clicked Reply All, and the thread as I received is on the user list… this e-mail of yours is the first that for me shows the bug list as recipien

Re: \repeat unfold has problems inside \repeat volta

2022-07-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi David and others, On 01/07/2022 12:32, David Kastrup wrote: I don't think so. The problem is that repeats now support putting the \alternative phrase inside of the construct since that is a saner way of doing things. But the previous way is still supported for compatibility reasons. Your i

Re: Generating a spiccato

2022-06-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Jacques, On 27/06/2022 22:13, Jacques Menu wrote: Does anyone know of some way to generate spiccato articulations in the scores produced by Lily? what would you expect that to look like? { a'4-! } maybe? Best, Simon

Re: shiftDurations and tempo

2022-06-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi David, On 27/06/2022 21:07, David Kastrup wrote: Before looking for a possible following `=` LilyPond has to have made a decision what type the token/expression coming before that has. It cannot look at the type of a #... expression before deciding to look for `=` but it can (and will) look

Re: shiftDurations and tempo

2022-06-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Jean, On 27/06/2022 20:37, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Le 27/06/2022 à 20:10, Simon Albrecht a écrit : Hello everyone, I’m trying to encode a piece such that I can switch whether or not durations will be shifted (note values halved/doubled). Unfortunately \tempo isn’t affected by

shiftDurations and tempo

2022-06-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello everyone, I’m trying to encode a piece such that I can switch whether or not durations will be shifted (note values halved/doubled). Unfortunately \tempo isn’t affected by \shiftDurations (that would be a sensible feature request, right?), so I tried this: %%% \

Re: Score header and top-level markup

2022-06-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Jean, thanks once more for the speedy and helpful reply! On 06/06/2022 14:43, Jean Abou Samra wrote: How can I change that? That sounds like an XY question. Sorry about that. I meant to imply: How do I swap the placement of the headers? What is the use case? Having a large, left-ali

Score header and top-level markup

2022-06-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi everyone, %%% \version "2.23.9" \bookpart {   \markup \fontsize #10 "general title"   \header {     title = "specific title"   }   \score {     { 1 }   } } why does "general title" appear below "specific title" and not above? How can I change that? Best, Simon

Re: Three slurs from a single voice to three voices?

2022-06-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Kevin, On 02/06/2022 22:56, Kevin Cole wrote: The hand-written score I'm looking at shows an F# with three slurs coming off of it going to each of the three notes in the following measure. I tried the following but it only shows one slur. What did I miss? without context it’s hard to tell

Re: bookTitleMarkup and tocItem cause empty page

2022-06-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Jean, On 01/06/2022 22:41, Jean Abou Samra wrote: As said on the ticket, you need to move \tocItem inside the second bookpart, thanks for looking into it and opening the issue. The workaround is inconvenient, because I want to have the \bookpart{} statement in an include file for use in

bookTitleMarkup and tocItem cause empty page

2022-06-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Jean, On 01/06/2022 15:24, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Please give an example. I’ve gone debugging, and it’s a weird combination of two things that causes the empty page: %%% \version "2.23.9" \paper {   bookTitleMarkup = \markup {     \vspace #.3   } } \bookpart { \ma

Start bookPart on even page

2022-06-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi everybody, it’s been a long time since I’ve used bookPart, it seems, and I don’t know how to search for an answer. How can I allow Lily to start a bookPart on even pages? She will insert empty pages to avoid that. Best, Simon

Re: Scheme function and top-level markup

2022-05-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Jean, On 27/05/2022 12:34, Jean Abou Samra wrote: The solution for now is to use a plain Scheme function: Thanks a bunch for the solution and explanations, that does it! Best, Simon

Re: Openlilylib

2022-05-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Andrew, sorry that your investments into Dorico didn’t work out! It’s great to have you back in the Pond :) I have been thinking that it would be nice to invest more time into Lily myself, but I don’t yet know whether/how/when I can make that happen. Best, Simon On 27/05/2022 10:24, And

Re: Scheme function and top-level markup

2022-05-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
ieceTitle "I. Kyrie" /tmp/frescobaldi-0fy0zxi0/tmpkd3e8qov/document.ly:11:1: error: bad expression type \pieceTitle "I. Kyrie" %% On 27/05/2022 12:21, Simon Albrecht wrote: Hello everyone, I’m a bit surprised that the following doesn’t work

Scheme function and top-level markup

2022-05-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello everyone, I’m a bit surprised that the following doesn’t work and don’t know where to look for a solution. % \version "2.23.9" pieceTitle = #(define-scheme-function (str) (markup?)    #{ \markup \huge $str \noPageBreak    #}) \pieceTitle "I. Kyrie" { c

Re: Openlilylib

2022-05-11 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Andrew, thanks for the information. Sorry to hear about your illness and all the best wishes nonetheless! Best, Simon On 09/05/2022 09:53, Andrew Bernard wrote: Hello All, I've been absent from the list for a long time, but recently got CC'd about an Openlilylib pull request. I must a

Re: openlilylib pull request

2022-05-08 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 08/05/2022 20:37, Jean Abou Samra wrote: The case study of how OLL fell out of maintenance is one of the things leading me to think that a model where snippets providing significant functionality and becoming somewhat popular get upstreamed into the LilyPond core is a better fit for LilyPond t

openlilylib pull request

2022-05-08 Thread Simon Albrecht
Dear community, I have made some small updates to keep the openlilylib/bezier module working with current versions of LilyPond and created a pull request on GitHub. Is anyone currently able to notice and approve the request? Best, Simon

Re: Removing all dynamics from MIDI

2022-04-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi David, On 16/04/2022 18:11, David Santamauro wrote: Hi, it seems removing the Dynamic_performer doesn’t actually remove performance of articulations. Articulations are Script grobs, not Dynamics. Maybe removing Script_engraver as well would do the trick? I don’t work with MIDI much, so I

Re: DurationLine avoiding RehearsalMarks

2022-04-12 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Jean, On 11/04/2022 18:04, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Well, maybe it doesn't make sense anyway -- I don't think I've ever seen a breathing sign in one staff and not another. It definitely happens and is perfectly valid musically. Breathing_sign_engraver sits in Voice (and similar) by default

Re: Musical questions

2022-04-11 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Jacques, On 11/04/2022 16:16, Jacques Menu wrote: Also, what is the musical meaning of the ligatures above the staff? these are not standard notation and it’s impossible to tell. Maybe the larger context might give some hint, but most likely you’d need an explanation in foreword or criti

Re: Ignore stems

2022-03-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Jean, On 25/03/2022 13:20, Jean Abou Samra wrote: In English: these properties (X-extent, Y-extent, horizontal-skylines, vertical-skylines) have implicit defaults, which are given when the property is found not to be set. Now you're setting them to the empty list, which for some reason (David

Ignore stems

2022-03-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello everybody, I want to try having Lyrics placed without regard for any stems in the adjacent staff (and then using whiteout to remedy the clash, of course). The below approach doesn’t work. Why? Can I make it work? Best, Simon \version "2.23.6" \layout {   \context {   

Width proportions of large note values

2022-03-13 Thread Simon Albrecht
Dear list, while engraving 17th century music, I have an issue with the way Lily spaces large note values by default. If there are no shorter values present, breve and whole notes receive almost the same horizontal space which makes the rhythms hard to read. How can I override that? Best, Si

Re: Music publishing houses accepting Lilypond files?

2022-03-13 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Colin, I haven’t tried it myself, but generally publishers have a house style and want all their publications to comply with that house style. It’s offputting to me, because I have my own aesthetic preferences which don’t match with what computer typesetting typically looks like, so I woul

Re: Please tear apart this example lead sheet template for traditional Western folk tunes

2022-02-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Valentin, one line in your Scheme code confused me. If you don’t mind explaining, why do you write `(,CN ,FB ,VC . ,LY) instead of (list CN FB VC LY) ? Best, Simon On 22/02/2022 09:25, Valentin Petzel wrote: Hello Tom, A good template will separate content and form. Ideally you’d be

Re: LilyPond 2.22.2 released

2022-02-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 22/02/2022 14:07, Phil Holmes wrote: We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.22.2 on 2-22-22 (i.e. February the 22nd, 2022). Fabulous ;) Thanks to everyone involved!

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