New American Accordion Notation converter

I wrote a (free) converter from AAN to bass and/or fully spelled out accordion chords. Its currently beta software and I will continue to add features and fix bugs as I can. https://github.com/KeithSBB/lilypond-AAN-converter I hope some find this useful. Keith Smith

MIDI Position Markers

Is there anyway to generate MIDI Position markers in the MIDI output? My use case is that \unfoldRepeats only works for simple "\repeat volta ...{" constructs.  In compositions that have D.S. Coda, etc the structure of the composition is lost in MIDI.  I import the MIDI from lilypond into my D

Re: Incorrect letter spacing in header

On 7/18/19 5:37 AM, Thomas Morley wrote: Am Do., 18. Juli 2019 um 13:04 Uhr schrieb David Kastrup : Steven Smith writes: I am working on an arrangement for band, and would like the header information to be the same size on the conductor's score and the instrumental parts. I put the scor

Incorrect letter spacing in header

t book has the larger staff size, the second book title spacing is too narrow. What is going on here? MWE code follows, images attached. -Steven Smith - \version "2.19.80" \language "english" notes = \relative c' { c1 d e f g

Re: Metronome marks above piano staff of vocal score?

On 7/9/19 11:25 AM, Torsten Hämmerle wrote: Steven Smith wrote Is there a a way to have the metronome mark created by "\tempo 4=80" appear next to the piano staff as well as above the top staff of a SATB/Piano score? Hi Steven, The metronome marks are being crea

Re: Metronome marks above piano staff of vocal score?

On 7/9/19 11:18 AM, Malte Meyn wrote: Am 09.07.19 um 18:52 schrieb Steven Smith: Is there a a way to have the metronome mark created by "\tempo 4=80" appear next to the piano staff as well as above the top staff of a SATB/Piano score? My research indicates that this placement

Metronome marks above piano staff of vocal score?

Is there a a way to have the metronome mark created by "\tempo 4=80" appear next to the piano staff as well as above the top staff of a SATB/Piano score? My research indicates that this placement is fairly common in choral pieces. Also, some submission typesetting guidelines of various contest

Re: First steps in Lilypond k

I will be On Mon, Apr 2, 2018, 7:46 AM foxfanfare wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Instead of spoiling the thread about OpenLilyLib > < > http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/OpenLilyLib-with-Windows-td208760.html > > > I started to ask some questions, I thought better to start a separate > thread >

GhostScript Fail (regression 2.19.17 to 2.19.18)

I'm getting a failure all-around on a new Arch VM I'm running in my windows machine. I'm using lyp here to make a/b version testing easier. Basically, the gs command is failing when liilypond runs it but it works just fine when I copy/paste it and run it manually. 2.19.17 works, but 2.19.18 fails.

Re: macro variable doesn't behave same as original?

I can wait for 2.21.0. I'll continuing coding with the assumption that the macrovariable will indeed be a one-for-one, text in-place, copy of the original. On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 7:44 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Caagr98 writes: > > >> On 11/14/17 13:21, Patrick Smith wro

macro variable doesn't behave same as original?

This works: \version "2.18.2" \relative c' { \time 2/4 c4 c( d) d( e) e( f) f( g) g( a) a( b) b( c) c( b) b( a) a( g) g( f) f( e) e( d) d( c2)~ c2 \fermata \bar "|." layout{} } This doesn't work: \version "2.18.2" macrovariable = {c4 c( d) d( e) e( f) f( g) g( a) a( b) b( c) c( b) b( a) a

Looking for advice on "looping" through all keys

2-week-old LilyPond newbie here. I've completed my first transcription of J. S. Bach Contrapuntus I for brass quartet and I must say that LilyPond is totally amazing! I'm now working on creating a Book of Basic Routines for the brass quartet. I'd like to have each scale routine printed in all key

Re: Newbie having trouble with transposition(s)

Hey list ... I wanted to thank all of you who responded. Your comments were very helpful and I've now incorporated all of them. I've completed my first transcription: J.S. Bach's Art of the Fugue, Contrapunctus I from string quartet into brass quartet. _

Newbie having trouble with transposition(s)

Another first-time LilyPond poster/user here! I've been using LilyPond for about a week now and I'm really loving it already. I'm a brass player who is using LilyPond to create beautiful engravings for brass ensembles. I'm also an engineer who wishes he was better at programming and LilyPond. An

Re: Vertical alignment of custom dynamics

Thanks, that worked. Had to change the horizontal alignment but now I have exactly what I was looking for. On 6 August 2017 at 00:46, Martin Neubauer wrote: > > > On 06/08/2017 00:19, Gregor Smith wrote: > > \version "2.16.0" > > > > \include &q

Vertical alignment of custom dynamics

Hi everyone! I have a repeated section of music with a different dynamic on each repeat. As such, I've used a markup object to create the text "mp - f" in the dynamic font. Because the music is piano music, my dynamics are in their own Dynamics context. My problem is that my custom dynamics don't

\transpose not work working inside define-music-function

I'm trying to define a music function that transposes a chord and a melody multiple times.  But for some reason, the transposition is done only once.   Here's my attempt:   repeatpattern = #(define-music-function (parser location chord pattern) (ly:music?  ly:music?)   #{   <<   \new ChordName

\transpose not work working inside define-music-function

I'm trying to define a music function that transposes a chord and a melody multiple times. But for some reason, the transposition is done only once. Here's my attempt: repeatpattern = #(define-music-function (parser location chord pattern) (ly:music? ly:music?) #{ % << \new ChordNames

notation reference query

Hi folks, I'm a new user making a foray into Lilypond and I am in the process of scouring the learning manual/notation reference to become acquainted with the application (v2.17.95). I had a small query in regards to the appendices detailing articulation and ornamentation. I was looking at the

Automatic production of simple practice scores

Hi all This is my first post to the list, so I'd like to say thanks for your work. LilyPond looks awesome. I have a client who needs a little program writing, and I wanted to run it by you guys first. This is what he asked me for... """ I am looking for a program that can automatically generate

Re: Writing functions for large-scale layout

l ... #} This produces "error: syntax error, unexpected SCORE_IDENTIFIER ". (Additionally, is there a convenient way to find the width of some grob that I could use to feed to the layout indent? I'm not a Scheme programmer and am having trouble wrapping my head around the

Writing functions for large-scale layout

e invocation produces the expected output. Is there something explicit that I need to do, either in the function or in the call, to have the output printed? Christopher Smith prtest.ly Description: Binary data ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.

Re: glissando and how to create concise code

> But have a look at the output of \displayMusic. > > Cheers, > Harm Wow, \displayMusic looks extremely useful! I didn't know about that function. Thanks! -- Brad Smith ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http

Re: glissando and how to create concise code

here that had a note used ly:music. When should you use ly:pitch and when should you use ly:music? (Is there a place in the documentation that is good for learning these things?) -- Brad Smith ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

glissando and how to create concise code

t I'm finding it hard to figure out what's going on. When trying to solve this problem, I'm not sure where to start in the documentation. Can anyone help? -- Brad Smith ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

tremolo issues

using 2.12.3 (as packaged with Debian stable), I get the following issues: tremolo marks touch the half-note stems, and I would like them to stop short (giving an appearance similar to the tremelo marks for the whole note in the included file) I get the warning message "weird stem size, check

Re: seeking tips for transcribing a modernist score

On 05/05/2012 09:40 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Justin Glenn Smith writes: attached is a photo of the bizarre measure in question (it also shows my follow up question, the pair of triplets containing a note that is a member of both triplets) \new Voice { \time 8/6 \times 2/3 { fis'

seeking tips for transcribing a modernist score

As a personal exercise I am attempting to reproduce a printed score from an ex-teacher. I have encountered a few difficulties for which I would appreciate suggestions. Notes have an explicit accidental even for natural (similar to the dodecaphonic accidentals style), but only for their first u

Re: seeking tips for transcribing a modernist score

postscript outline in inkscape and just put it in the score as an image? On 05/04/2012 10:45 AM, Justin Glenn Smith wrote: As a personal exercise I am attempting to reproduce a printed score from an ex-teacher. I have encountered a few difficulties for which I would appreciate suggestions. Notes

Re: can't output multiple midi drum voices

Ah, okay. Thanks. On Feb 1, 2012, at 6:58 AM, -Eluze wrote: > > > Andrew C. Smith-2 wrote: >> >> Whenever I have more than one DrumVoice going at a time neither one >> outputs anything at all. >> >> Sample code follows. You'd expect the first

can't output multiple midi drum voices

Whenever I have more than one DrumVoice going at a time neither one outputs anything at all. Sample code follows. You'd expect the first part to at least make some sound, but it doesn't do anything at all. My initial thought is that since there's only one percussion midi channel it breaks down

Metronome Marks above a StaffGroup

Hey everyone, On larger orchestral scores a metronome mark will appear at the top of each staff group (like strings, winds, brass, etc.) Is there a way to achieve this in Lilypond? I've tried removing Staff_collecting_engraver and Metronome_mark_engraver from the score and adding them to Staf

Re: musicxml2ly bug report

On 7/12/2011 5:09 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: 2011/7/12 K. Kellogg-Smith: Good afternoon. I'm new to LilyPond and don't know my way around very well, so please excuse my ignorance. The other day I used musicxml2ly.py to convert a musicxml lead sheet file (Scott Joplin's &

musicxml2ly bug report

Good afternoon. I'm new to LilyPond and don't know my way around very well, so please excuse my ignorance. The other day I used musicxml2ly.py to convert a musicxml lead sheet file (Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer"). I noticed two significant inconsistencies in the converted file's LY code

Re: Convert-ly and related files

On 6/29/2011 12:07 PM, Graham Percival wrote: On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:18:56AM -0400, K. Kellogg-Smith wrote: For example, is there a list of obsolete LY codes and commands and the last version after which those codes and commands were no longer supported (for example, the articulation

Convert-ly and related files

I’m using convert-ly with old (‘legacy’) .ly files to learn more about LY programming. I have questions about the inter-relationships between convert-ly, convertrules, and the source(s) of the code substitutions I’m finding in converted .ly source code. While this is an excellent and educationa

Re: convert-ly log file

. Kellogg-Smith Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: convert-ly log file On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 06:20:07PM -0400, K. Kellogg-Smith wrote: convert-ly -e >logfile.txt). DOS creates the log file okay, but the file is empty after the conversion is made. You've redirecte

convert-ly log file

As a rookie LilyPond programmer, I've found that the LilyPond files in the Mutopia Project are a treasure chest of LilyPond programming examples. However, many of those files are outdated and need to be updated (e.g., the obsolete \midi { tempo N = nnn }command). Using convert-ly I tried, wit

Re: Adding line breaks within lyrics

ne-width . 20) \wrap-lyrics {these lyrics will be wrapped with a narrower line width} } On Jun 19, 2011, at 12:18 PM, Andrew C. Smith wrote: > Thanks Kieren & James, > > This helped a lot. I actually found a lesser workaround later last night, but > your solutions were way bette

Re: Adding line breaks within lyrics

Thanks Kieren & James, This helped a lot. I actually found a lesser workaround later last night, but your solutions were way better. Continuing this conversation: I'm trying to now make a markup function, and running into trouble. Here's the function: --- #(define-markup-command (wrap-lyrics

Adding line breaks within lyrics

Hi everyone, I'm writing a piece where the rhythms of the sung words are free, so a whole phrase is attached to a single note. I'm putting my lyrics in " " for each note, but they appear on one long line, when I actually want them wrapped to the width of the bar. Is there a way to add a line br

Re: Repeat alternative includes a tempo change

thank you so very much again for your kind help. Very best regards, Ken - Original Message - From: Phil Holmes To: Ken Smith ; m...@apollinemike.com Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 6:23 AM Subject: Re: Repeat alternative includes a tempo change Ke

Re: Repeat alternative includes a tempo change

her volta for the fourth verse, with an alternate ending for the last notes of the final stanza. Thank you again for taking the time to help me. Very best regards, Ken - Original Message - From: m...@apollinemike.com To: Ken Smith Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, May 0

Repeat alternative includes a tempo change

it right (volta showing verses 1 - 4, alternative showing verse 4 only) will I need to code the final couplet of verse 4 into \alternative? Or is there a better, more professional way to do it? Thanks, very best regards, Ken Kellogg-Smith ___ li

Re: Prevent Repeats in Ossia

Hi Colin, Thanks for you response: > I've checked your examples with 2.13.51, Bobby, and the > ossia still has repeats. I'm not altogether clear on why > you would *not* want the ossia repeated with the associated > main voice? I'll try to explain... I am producing sheet music for various Afro

Re: Prevent Repeats in Ossia

I just realized that I messed up when creating my "tiny example". I accidentally pasted the repeat in front of the ossia. Here is the revised example: \version "2.12.3" \new Staff = main \relative c'' { c4 b d c << \repeat volta 2 { r4 b d c } \new Staff \with { \rem

Prevent Repeats in Ossia

I am trying to create an ossia that is above a measure with repeats. Is it possible to prevent the repeats from appearing in the ossia but at the same time, preserve the bar lines and prevent the staves from extending past the last bar? Here is a a code snippet that demonstrates... \version "2.12

PDF output to Illustrator--non-LY fonts not appearing

I'm importing Illustrator into Lilypond I used past mailing list suggestions to convert the feta-alphabet fonts to ttf and drop them into the Library/Fonts folder. However, I have Lilypond write my text in a different font (Garamond) and use yet another font as "sans" for alternative accidental

Re: string_identifier into string? Was: Creating arbitrary lines (or other postscript things)

> >> Hmm. Is this intentional? It looks like a bug... > > I'm not sure, though changing the parser rule to use `string' instead > of `STRING' appears to be harmless. > > Cheers, > Neil Thanks Neil! This totally works. best, Andrew ___ lilypond-use

string_identifier into string? Was: Creating arbitrary lines (or other postscript things)

> > Thanks for this I have sent this example to LilyPond Snippet Repository (LSR) > as I think this is a nice simple and clear way of how to do this for us > lesser mortals. > Thanks, I'll probably be searching for it in a year or two... I'm having yet more trouble, this time creating a music

Re: Creating arbitrary lines (or other postscript things)

>> >> Also (again not Scheme) see >> >> http://lilypond.org/examples.html > > Sorry I forgot to mention i was referring to the Schenker Graph. > > James > Ah, interesting. Yeah, I suppose I didn't think to search for voice following lines across staves. One issue that also came up (and tha

Re: Creating arbitrary lines (or other postscript things)

> >> Would it make sense to, rather than use glissando or something similar, >> create a function that takes a syntax similar to the following: > >> \lineBegin x y >> \lineEnd x y > >> where x is an index so that \lineBegin and \lineEnd may be matched to one >> another (even across the entire

Re: Creating arbitrary lines (or other postscript things)

> >>> >>> What is it about a glissando that doesn't give you what you want? >> > > >> A glissando only creates a line to the next note. I want a line to another >> arbitrary note, not necessarily the next one. I guess glissando is basically >> what I want to do, but I want to >explicitly defin

Creating arbitrary lines (or other postscript things)

Dear users, I'm working on a piece of music where certain notes need to be connected by dotted lines. I've tried a few different things: using \glissando and overriding the stencil to get a different position, or just creating \markup with a stencil object. I've also tried writing it in postscr

Lilypond on Mac with TexShop

I have recently begun using LilyPond on my new Mac Pro (after having successfully completed a number of small .ly projects on my PC laptop). I have done the following, but cannot get my .ly files to Typeset/compile at all: 0) I'm running Mac OS X 10.5.7 on a brand new Mac Pro. 1.0) I downloaded th

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 46, Issue 78

Hi Catalin Try also looking at the \transposition command (as opposed to \transpose) which affects midi only. Section 8.2.6 of the manual (lilypond v2.8) at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.8/Documentation/user/lilypond.html#Instrument-transpositions Cheers Magnus Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:06:46

Re: ChordName placement - above or below staff

ff { \key aes \major \time 4/4 f'8 aes'8~ \times 2/3 {aes'8 f'8 aes'8} bes'8 aes'4 f'16 des'16}\new ChordNames \chordmode {c1 d1} >>}(note that "\chords" is just a shorthand for "\new ChordNames \chordmode") /MatsFred S

ChordName placement - above or below staff

I believe I found that this question has already been posted - however, I did not see an answer. Any pointers would greatly be appreciated!I'm trying to create lead sheets using lilypond.  However, I'm unable to control whether chord names are printed above or below the staff - the position

Re: Tying only one note of a chord?

From: " Trevor Ba?a " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Tying only one note of a chord? To: lilypond-user Hi, Is it possible to tie only one note of a chord? This snippet using the tie-configuration property of the TieColumn is basically what I'm looking for, except that the tie prints three times,

Decomposing Lilypond-book for makefile optimization?

Hi gang. I'm using lilypond-book to render some musical diagrams into a latex document. I'm having a problem for which I need help to solve.My document has about 30 short musical compositions that are included as diagrams. They are also full compositions in their own right, so I want to use the sta

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 37, Issue 39

Date: 13 Dec 2005 21:13:57 GMT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raphael Manfredi) Subject: Re: triplets To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Quoting jutta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from ml.lilypond.users: :Hi, :I would like to "switch" the

Re: ignore \break \noBreak \noPageBreak commands for the score

Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:33:28 + (UTC) > From: Felix Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: ignore \break \noBreak \noPageBreak commands for the score > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hello. > > ... > > As you can s

Re: MIDI dynamics seem completely broken

The silent notes will sound properly if you terminate the (de)crescendi with \! before the next dynamic mark... as in \relative c'' { c16\p c c c c\< d e f g\!\f g g g g\> f e d c\!\p c c c c4 } Magnus Anders Kaseorg wrote: If I run the following simple test of dynamics through lilypond

Re: Undefined control sequence. \embeddedps

Mats Bengtsson s3.kth.se> writes: > > As you can see from the error message, latex finds some files > from an installation of lilypond 2.3.4, so if you really run the > lilypond command from version 2.2.2 then the problem is that > you have two versions of the program installed but not set up >

Undefined control sequence. \embeddedps

I am running Lilypond 2.2.2 on FreeBSD. It was running fine, then I had to upgrade the tex system to gain some added functionality for LyX. Since upgrade teTeX, lilypond [actually, LaTeX] is now broken. On FreeBSD, tex-latex2e is deprecated for teTeX-texmf. While I know this is mostly a LaTeX pr

pdf issues on Mac OS

Using OS X.3.8 Have Lilypond 2.3.12 When I open a .pdf (in the OS X environment- using acrobat or preview) file the fonts (title, composer, version tag at the bottom of the page, etc.) are monstrously huge. However, when I open the .ps file the fonts are normal size but some page formatting is

Problem with Macintosh installation

I'm running OS 10.3.8 I have installed X11 1.0 - XFree86 4.3.0 from the Apple developer site I also have installed the Xcode tools etc. Using fink I installed the latest lilypond (2.2.5) Installation appeared to be successful, however, when I attempt to run a .ly file (my own test file, mutopia fil

updates

New Q E M software Nero V 6.0 Ultra Edition CD/DVD Burning Suite - 30 SuSe Linux 9.1 Professional Edition - 50 Diskeeper 8 Professional - 25 Nero V 6.0 Ultra Edition CD/DVD Burning Suite - 30 QuickBooks Premier 2004 - 110 QuarkXPress 6 Passport - 120 3D Home Architect V 6 Deluxe - 15 Pinnacle Stud

Re: User-defined messages in .ly compilation output?

--- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Magnus Lewis-Smith writes: > > > Is it possible to write messages to the terminal during the compilation of > a > > .ly file? (not the compilation of lilypond itself!) > > How about this ;-) > >

User-defined messages in .ly compilation output?

ile.ly:2:14: warning: Junking event: `KeyChangeEvent': \key d \majo r file.ly:4:14: warning: Junking event: `KeyChangeEvent': \key a \majo r [3] Preprocessing graphical objects...

PDF has wonky note glyphs

MySource.latex latex MySource.tex bibtex MySource latex MySource.tex dvips -Ppdf -G0 -o MySource.ps MySource.dvi ps2pdf MySource.ps Any suggestions? -- Jeff Smith Computer Science Dept. University of Saskatchewan ___ lilypond-user mailing

Install from rpm - where is the profile script?

Is there anybody out there who's dealt with this problem and is willing to share their secrets? -- Jeff Smith Computer Science Dept. University of Saskatchewan ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Tutorial

Dear Sir or Madam: I have spent many hours reviewing the documentation and music samples. I think this is an awesome and powerful program. I have review Maestro and Finale. While these are end-user programs, I enjoy having the ability to "code" the music. However, I having much difficulty i

Accidents

Dear Sir or Madam: I have completed the tutorial and started coding my first piece of music. There is a problem that I cannot find a resolution. I am currently using lilypond to update some of our choir music that was written many years ago. One song is "Eternal Father" and I thought this wo

installation error

rpm know that it is not installed? 2. once that is done should a rpm of lilypond get the software installed??? thank you for any advice you can give me. joel smith ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user