Re: Lyrics extend question

2019-08-30 Thread Wol's lists
On 29/08/2019 19:53, Jacques Menu wrote: Hello David, The other thread was about a score I’m adapting for our oboes band for concerts to come. This lead me to compare how various applications import MusicXML, and I found this difference. And you’re right, my interest is in the algorithms f

Re: Proprietary Software term

2018-08-21 Thread Wol's lists
On 19/08/18 08:44, David Kastrup wrote: Wols Lists writes: On 19/08/18 00:34, David Kastrup wrote: As any theoretical physicist will tell you, anything that involves actual hardware also is maths. Are you telling me that maths PREscribes reality? No. Reality's math is inseparable from real

Re: an "odd" accidental problem...

2018-07-27 Thread Wol's lists
On 27/07/18 11:49, B~M wrote: Is there please a way to typeset this in Lilypond ? This is the only time I've seen such notation, so Im guessing its rare ? Rare for who? Too many people think "I never see it in music I'm familiar with, so surely nobody uses it ...". I've had this contre-temps

Re: Large set of parts

2018-04-29 Thread Wol's lists
On 29/04/18 00:00, J Martin Rushton wrote: On 28/04/18 04:46, Karlin High wrote: On 4/27/2018 8:28 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote: It falls into the category of alliteration, which abounds in English As a poetry form, too - "Beowulf" and J. R. R. Tolkien's unfinished work "The Fall of Arthur" come

Re: Interesting glitch when using tags ...

2018-02-04 Thread Wol's lists
7;t... Cheers, Wol On 04/02/18 18:49, Wol's lists wrote: Okay. You wanted a minimal example ... But surely, "f4. ~ f4" is clearly something wrong if it's complaining about an unterminated tie? Yes you might need a bit more information to debug it, but on the face of it i

Re: Interesting glitch when using tags ...

2018-02-04 Thread Wol's lists
David Kastrup wrote: Wols Lists writes: On 04/02/18 00:33, David Kastrup wrote: Wol's lists writes: I suspect the cause is that I'm mixing slurs and ties, but I'm getting the following error ... voiceTrombone.ily:30:59: warning: unterminated tie \repeat p

Interesting glitch when using tags ...

2018-02-03 Thread Wol's lists
I suspect the cause is that I'm mixing slurs and ties, but I'm getting the following error ... voiceTrombone.ily:30:59: warning: unterminated tie \repeat percent 4 { f,8[ r f] f[ r f] } | f4. ~ f4 r8 | a8-> r4 a8-> r4 | a2. | bf2.( but as

Weirdo code?

2018-01-28 Thread Wol's lists
I've just tried to do a cut-n-paste into a piece of music, from http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/bars At the very bottom you'll find \relative c' { c1 \mark \markup { \musicglyph "scripts.segno" } c1 \mark \markup { \musicglyph "scripts.coda" } c1 \mark \markup { \musi

Re: Auto-transposition

2017-12-18 Thread Wol's lists
On 18/12/17 15:08, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Saul, \resetRelativeOctave belongs IMO always as part of the definition of a music expression, ideally on the line directly preceding note entry. Agreed. Until it's a repeated phrase, but not necessarily the same octave. iirc (as I said it's a l

Re: Markings on a percent bar

2017-11-23 Thread Wol's lists
On 23/11/17 18:14, David Kastrup wrote: The problem, from my point of view, is that lilypond syntax is simple and makes sense to me. As soon as scheme gets involved, the learning curve is like hitting a cliff. The Scheme "involved" here is a music function wrapper. The body of the music funct

Re: Markings on a percent bar

2017-11-23 Thread Wol's lists
On 23/11/17 17:17, David Kastrup wrote: Can anybody give me any hints? I really hate it when people don't even_try_ entering a single note themselves and leave all the work to every single reader. Sorry. But it might be a problem someone's already solved, seeing as it's pretty common in my s

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

2017-11-17 Thread Wol's lists
On 17/11/17 16:10, David Wright wrote: On Fri 17 Nov 2017 at 07:45:58 (-0500), Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi all, [Am 17.11.2017 um 08:55 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm:] An apostrophe in German is a sign for something left out like "so’n Ding" (short for "so ein Ding"), similar to English use

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

2017-11-15 Thread Wol's lists
On 15/11/17 20:32, David Kastrup wrote: David Wright writes: On Wed 15 Nov 2017 at 11:56:07 (-0500), Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Simon, A duchess has gender, but I don't see that the word "duchess" has grammatical gender. How is that expressed? "The duchess ate her lunch" as opposed to