Staff.instrument collides with choir staff

Hey everyone, I'm trying to setup a template for my renaissance choir. I want to include the name of voices, so I used /set Staff.instrument #"Cantus " etc. However, Cantus and Bassus are colliding with the choir staff bracket. I tried adding spaces to the end of voice name, but it didn

defaultBarType

Hey everyone, I'm trying to typeset a 17th-century madrigal that uses dotted barlines. I would like to change the defaultBarType. I tried \set Staff.defaultBarType = #":" But that didn't change anything (no error message either). I cannot find the correct syntax in the manual or in the mailing-li

SubEthaEdit Highlight Mode?

Do any of you Mac OS X users use SubEthaEdit to edit Lilypond files? If so, have any of you created a syntax highlight mode file for Lilypond? If you have (or maybe if you wish to do it), I'm sure others would be appreciative. I know that I could use jEdit on OS X, but it's not Cocoa (at least

\thinspace in Lyrics

Is there anyway to use Latex commands like \thinspace in Lyrics? ``' looks ugly without \thinspace. Thanks! tssfulk ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

\thinspace in Lyrics

Is there anyway to use Latex commands like \thinspace in Lyrics? ``' looks ugly without \thinspace. Thanks! tssfulk ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Switching paper sizes -- fixed

I little trip to "man" gave me the solution ("man dvips"). If anyone else has a problem with the paper size switching to U.S. letter, dvips is set to U.S. letter by default. You have to type "dvips -t a4 -Ppdf -u +lilypond filename" to get a proper a4 .pdf file. Ted S. Sunhede Fulk

Papersize switching

This is a strange problem. I've been working on a songbook using lilypond-book and Latex. In the .tex file, I specified that I wanted a4 paper ("\documentclass[a4paper]{book}"). However, the final .pdf file is U.S. letter. Here are the commands that I used to produce the .pdf (all from the man

Problems with lilypond-book after upgrade

Hey everyone, This is a two part problem -- the problem before the upgrade and the problem after the upgrade. I just upgraded Lilypond from 2.2.0 to 2.3.4 via Fink. I wanted to see if that would fix a problem that I was having with Lilypond-book. I am creating a songbook with many songs (I use

Feature request: Melisma

eset has multiple verses, and the verses have melismata on different notes (which makes all of your schemes a pain in the butt). Maybe you have an easier way to do them, but I have not seen anything in the docs. TS Sunhede Fulk ___ Lilypond-user maili

Cannot install on OS X

Hello, I tried to follow the installation instruction for OS X. I have fink. I enabled unstable/main and unstable/crypto. I updated the cvs. Then I typed fink install liliypond-unstable and got this output: Information about 3007 packages read in 2 seconds. Failed: no matching version found for