There have been a bunch of discussions lately about lillypond-book

2009-03-12 Thread Tim Litwiller
but reading them I can not determine if there is a way to use it in windows or not. I run lilypondtool as setup with easylilypond and them upgraded with the latest lilypond and lilypondtool and I have 5 local songwriters setup this way also. What can I do to to help them compile their music i

Re: Need information about Lyric spacing in Lilypond

2009-02-19 Thread Tim Litwiller
I didn't know what your original paper size was - and on my machine it all fit on 1 8x11 page. So I think with adjusting the paper size and font size and then a bit of tweaking it should work fine. Frank Zimmerman wrote: Timothy, Thanks for the sample LY file. I tested it out and for a bas

Re: OT: singing training

2008-09-16 Thread Tim Litwiller
Graham Percival wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:21:38 -0500 Tim Litwiller<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What I would like to find is some kind of program that would play a note or tone and she would try to sing that note or tone back into a microphone and then it would continue to the nex

Re: OT: singing training

2008-09-15 Thread Tim Litwiller
Nick Bailey wrote: We did some work on Rosegarden which might interest you: http://www.n-ism.org/Papers/Nick_Bailey/icmc2008_19ETrehearsal.pdf The software described in that paper was for training expert musicians to sing microtonal songs which have more than 12 divisions of the scale suc

OT: singing training

2008-09-15 Thread Tim Litwiller
This is not specifically on the topic of lilypond but my daughters love of singing and trying to help her learn to sing is one of the things that got me interested in lilypond in the first place. She loves to sing and I would love to help her learn to hear when she hits a pitch. We are 2 hours

Re: doc work

2008-08-15 Thread Tim Litwiller
Well, you decide! I'll keep the thread open for a while, and then make a final decision based on the majority of responses I get. Thanks! Kieren. I agree, keep the midi code in the examples - comment it out if you want. with a reference or link to the part of the documentation that explain

Re: Lyric braces?

2008-05-16 Thread Tim Litwiller
It looks like the attachment didn't come thru - so my example doesn't make a lot of sense. If you want to see the example let me know and I'll put it on a web server after work tonite. Timothy C Litwiller wrote: Timothy C Litwiller wrote: This isn't perfect but may be a place for you to start

vertical braces in the lyrics - I'm stuck

2008-04-14 Thread Tim Litwiller
I am really stuck and would appreciate some help. I have tried just about every which way there is and I apparently don't understand the concept here. I am trying to enter braces at the beginning of the song. I was suggested that they should go in the set stanza part of the lyrics and I agr

Re: cannot find lilypond icon on my desktop after installation (window xp)

2008-04-08 Thread Tim Litwiller
Are you thinking that lilypond is a program you open and interactively work with? If that is what you want you will want to download from here. http://valentin.villenave.info/spip.php?article44 It will give you an editor with an output viewer and a music player linked to lilypond that all work

Re: braces in the lyrics

2008-04-08 Thread Tim Litwiller
sorry for replying to myself - I don't see that the frist attempt reached the list. Timothy C Litwiller wrote: A friend of mine composed a song and we have some similar layouts in our Church songbooks look like this attached braces.jpg You sing to the start of the chorus on the first line of

Re: clefs and positioning

2008-03-04 Thread Tim Litwiller
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: Am Dienstag, 4. März 2008 schrieb Timothy C Litwiller: Thanks so much for that. It looks like it is working very well. You're welcome. Note, however, that the clef you are generating is effectively the same as "treble_8", since the C clef defines the positio

Re: Win XP Notepad-related lilypond bugs

2007-12-10 Thread Tim Litwiller
So do you right click and choose edit source? or do you right click and choose open with and then notepad? It seems edit source opens lilypad - which does as you say. But if you open with notepad it works as you expect notepad to work. I really like the lilypondtool addition to jedit - It mak

C Cleft

2007-10-04 Thread Tim Litwiller
If I make a song with \clef c a flat on the top staff the notes are 1/2 line off from where they are expected to be. will setting the clef to tenor or mezzosoprano move the note the 1/2 line it needs to move ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypo

Re: LilyPondTool bundle

2007-09-21 Thread Tim Litwiller
It does sort of work in win 98. I had to get an older version of Java, edit the .cmd file to call that version and then rename it to .bat I made the shortcut start minimized and autoclose so the dos window goes away. Tim Litwiller wrote: So, is there any chance that this will work on

Re: LilyPondTool bundle

2007-09-21 Thread Tim Litwiller
So, is there any chance that this will work on windows 98? I'm guessing not, but let me know if it does. My friend that I am hlping with lilypond only has a windows 98 computer. The have all their school stuff in MS Works or I would change them to linux. Actually, I may still have a windows

Re: I'm having a problem with this file

2007-09-10 Thread Tim Litwiller
Thanks so much for that, another thing to add to my watch for this list. Ralph Little wrote: Tim Litwiller wrote: Yeh, I'm moving along trying different suggested methods as I go, keeping notes as to what works. and what doesn't. Hi Tim, Could you mail the file to me as an att

Re: GDP: rearrangement (third attempt)

2007-09-09 Thread Tim Litwiller
In email setting under your account Composition & Addressing - do you have it set to Compose message in HTML format and then if you have preferred to recieve message format as plaintext in the addressbook. if they are different thunderbird will try to convert if you don't have the list in you

I'm having a problem with this file

2007-09-09 Thread Tim Litwiller
the bass voice isn't showing below that tenor in the bottom staff It is rather displaying after the end of the song - but the midi is playing it at the correct time. It was ok, last night when I was editing it - but I lost the \aikenheads after the first rests. when I was trying to fix that I m

Re: sunday school music

2007-09-08 Thread Tim Litwiller
Eduardo Vieira wrote: Citando Tim Litwiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: snipped ... Hello, I want to share my experiences with hymns and songs, too. Actually, once you get the hang of it, Lilypond is perfectly suited for your needs Tim. There is a good workaround for typing the four

Re: sunday school music

2007-09-08 Thread Tim Litwiller
Thanks for that - It looks very nice and not so hard to incorporate as some examples. Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Reinhold, The "centering" here is achieved by simply putting the common text into the second stanza, which happens to be vertically centered. However, if you have four stanzas, th

Re: sunday school music

2007-09-08 Thread Tim Litwiller
Thanks, with your help I'm getting there! I had figured out having a second DevNull voice to space the repeating last night. I'm not sure I understand the second snippet tho. also I'm sure that there is some kind of \markup that I can use to vertically center the soprano lyrics section where

Re: bars not getting placed correctly

2007-09-08 Thread Tim Litwiller
Valentin Villenave wrote: 2007/9/8, Tim Litwiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I've been working on this piece, it is set in 4/4 time and rather than start as I think it should with a whole measure it places a 1/4 note and then the first bar. That throws the bars off for the whole song.

bars not getting placed correctly

2007-09-07 Thread Tim Litwiller
I've been working on this piece, it is set in 4/4 time and rather than start as I think it should with a whole measure it places a 1/4 note and then the first bar. That throws the bars off for the whole song. here is a scan of the music I am working from http://www.litwiller.net/images/powerin

Re: sunday school music

2007-09-07 Thread Tim Litwiller
here is a link to a scan of the original http://www.litwiller.net/images/powerintheblood.jpg Ralph Little wrote: Hi, It would be easier to look at an example I guess. If you can scan it when you get home and send me a link, I'll have a look! Cheers, Ralph Tim Litwiller wrote: Ok,

Re: sunday school music

2007-09-07 Thread Tim Litwiller
Ok, that fixes something I hadn't noticed yet :) Maybe that will help with a question I was saving for after I got the flags problem fixed. I have some songs that alto, tenor or bass have some repeating in the chorus. like the song that Gordon Gilbert sent. in the chorus the soprono and alto

Re: Sunday School songs

2007-09-06 Thread Tim Litwiller
I'm playing with it. The notes are slightly different from my copy I changed to the head style we use - I haven't got the part combine working yet. and the tenor and bass repeating words I haven't figured out yet. Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: Hi Tim, Attached is a copy of a hymn I have do

partcombine

2007-09-06 Thread Tim Litwiller
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Vocal-ensembles#Vocal-ensembles on this page section D.4.2 SATB vocal score and automatic piano reduction if you look at the piano reduction part it gets it right. or at least in this sample. so if I could just make it do the

Re: sunday school songs

2007-09-06 Thread Tim Litwiller
Ralph Little wrote: Hi Tim, OK, it is a bit of a frig if you fancy giving it a try, but I think I can make it happen and it depends on what version of Lilypond you are using. Find the file part-combiner.scm - it should be in the scm directory of your Lilpond installation. Search for the s

Re: sunday school songs

2007-09-06 Thread Tim Litwiller
I updated the link to contain the whole scan. this song only has 4 or 5 but I need something flexible enough for 60 - 100 songs. \partcombine {f4 f f g a8 a4 } {c4 c c c f8 f4} <> \partcombine {a2} {f2}... I'm not sure that that is much better, though - it depends on how many of the spl

Re: sunday school songs

2007-09-06 Thread Tim Litwiller
I have my .ly file at home. I'll have to wait till I get there this evening to send you an example. Ralph Little wrote: Hi, I had a bit of a fiddle and came up with the following which produces pretty much what you want, but I'm not really happy with it. It uses chords instead of \partcombi

sunday school songs

2007-09-06 Thread Tim Litwiller
I have a bunch on sunday school songs like this that I need to put into lilypond so we can make clean nice prints. I have been playing with it for a week now and going thru the manual and tutorial, downloading samples and layout tools like Jedit and the pspad plug ins and canorus. I haven't

test to list

2007-09-06 Thread Tim Litwiller
I've tried sending my question 2 times already and I didn't ever get it back. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user