Re: \set vocalName = "Bert " when preceded by intro

2025-01-08 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 at 07:26, Walt North wrote: > > What would be the correct way to code something that has a short intoduction followed by stanzas that have singer names specific for each stanza? > > The MWE starts with an example from the documentation and then adds an intro. If I comment out t

Re: Breath Marks in Lyrics?

2025-01-02 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 at 07:10, Walt North wrote: > > I use lilypond to enter music notes, chords, and lyrics and use those > to create different handouts for different musicians. For those that > receive melody lines I can insert breath marks. > > The rhythm guitarist just wants lyrics and chords.

Re: TabStaff. Connect arpeggios.

2024-12-26 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 at 20:21, Епишин Василий Ильич wrote: > > Thank you for the quick answer, Xavier! > > I'm sorry I didn't specify. I need a connection between voices. In > Staff arpeggio connecting automatically. In TabStaff it doesn't. > > \version "2.25.16" > > voice = \relative{ > \v

Re: TabStaff. Connect arpeggios.

2024-12-26 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 at 18:57, Епишин Василий Ильич wrote: > > Hello! > > \version "2.25.16" > > Can't find any information about connection arpeggios in TabStaff. Is > it impossible to connect? Hello, If you have more than one TabStaff and put them in a GrandStaff (or alike), you can connect arp

Re: Doing layout for an entire score with certain constraints

2024-12-17 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 at 14:45, tran li wrote: > > After I completed a score, I found that the default layout created by LilyPond is not satisfactory. I would like to modify some aspects of my layout, but doing that all manually can be extremely exhausting and create even weirder layout effects whil

Re: Two bars at the start of a repeat

2024-12-11 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 at 11:59, Owen Le Blanc wrote: > > Thank you, Xavier. This now works as I would expect. But isn't that > a bug? Should bar disappear if you add it explicitly? Well, you added 2 \bar commands at the same time (for Lilypond), which is a line break. So only the last one was co

Re: Two bars at the start of a repeat

2024-12-11 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 at 10:55, Owen Le Blanc wrote: > > Actually Timothy's suggestion doesn't seem to work. I also noted that > I wasn't using the latest stable version, and so updated. It fails > with both. See attached. Hello, Don't use the \bar commands. Only \section and \repeat volta. Oth

Re: Distance between a main measure and an ossia

2024-12-04 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 at 11:55, Dimitri Sykias wrote: > > "How can I adjust the distance between a main measure and an ossia measure? > Here is the code for the ossia part: Hello, You can change VerticalAxisGroup.staff-staff-spacing for the ossia staff. And for your issue instead of using \new Staf

Re: Strange pdf render

2024-11-14 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 at 13:37, Mats-Olof Liljegren wrote: > > Hello! I have a strange issue that’s a bit off-topic, perhaps. When I render to PDF, everything looks fine on my computer and in printouts. But when I import the PDF into ForScore on iPad, I get strange discolorations. See the attached i

Re: custom page numbering

2024-11-11 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 at 23:58, Maria Kireva wrote: > > Thank you very much, Xaver. I tried this and and it works for this bookpart but the next bookpart starts with the wrong page number witch is the next pagenumber of the previous bookpart. How can I fix this? Hello, The following code does work

Re: Changing TabStaff clef font

2024-11-10 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 at 22:51, Helly, John wrote: > > Aloha. > > I'm trying to change the TabStaff clef font (the word 'Tab') to something like Courier rather than the script-like font that's the default. I've found how to change the color (as below) but I'm having trouble figuring out how to chan

Re: custom page numbering

2024-11-10 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 at 22:24, Maria Kireva via LilyPond user discussion < lilypond-user@gnu.org> wrote: > > Dear Lilypond user, > > I would like to set up custom page numbers in my lilypond file for the different bookparts so that the second bookpart starts at page number one. How can I achieve tha

Re: changing coda text 2.25.21

2024-11-07 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 at 21:46, Paul Scott wrote: > > Thank you for your reply, Xavier, > > I don't know enough to know how to override Score.coda.MarkFormatter. I > might be able to figure part of it from the code I was given to change > the D.C al Coda string. I don't know where to put the override

Re: changing coda text 2.25.21

2024-11-07 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 at 17:45, Paul Scott wrote: > > 2.25.21 > > I know how to change the D.C. al Coda text with the \repeat segno structure. > > How do I change the coda sign that tells where to jump to the coda to > "To Coda [codasign]?" Hello, Not sure I understand exactly what you want. Try t

Re: DeLusse and Capriccio, Capriccio Light fonts

2024-11-05 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 at 19:43, l t wrote: > > Does anyone know where to find the DeLusse, Capriccio and Capriccio Light fonts, which are categorized at elbsound as "Alternative Lilypond Font" ? > It isn't among the others at https://github.com/OpenLilyPondFonts Hello, Apparently they were made by

Re: System spacing with lyluatex

2024-11-04 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 at 00:34, Ben Bradshaw wrote: > > I'm just inserting a single system of music into a worksheet, but the system has four staffs. The staffs are just a bit too squishy for my liking. Hello, Please keep the list in cc (reply to all). According to the documentation of lyluatex the

Re: System spacing with lyluatex

2024-11-01 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 at 23:29, Ben Bradshaw wrote: > > Hello, > I'm struggling figuring out how things like paper variables and stuff work inside lyluatex. I say in the usage manual that there's a fancy \newcommand for linebreaks, but I haven't been able to figure out how to do system spacing. When

Re: chordmode and measure length

2024-10-31 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 at 04:46, Walt North wrote: > > Is there anyway to require a minimum measure length for chordmode? When there is a Staff I use the trick to add transparent multi-measure rests with minimum-length. I was surprised to see that it seems to work with ChordNames as well if "Multi_m

Re: add automatically the file name in score

2024-10-30 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 at 10:34, Achard Jean Pierre wrote: > > Hello . > My question is in the topic. I can add the date automatically but what about the file name? > Is it possible? > Does anyone have an idea? Hello, I guess the following thread could help. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilyp

Re: InstrumentName + OneStaff

2024-10-18 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 at 15:42, Lucas Cavalcanti wrote: > > Hello! Is it possible to insert instrument names and cue names to staves nested inside OneStaff? Hello, \layout { \context { \OneStaff \consists Instrument_name_engraver } } I don't know why this engraver is not included in O

Re: Creating space at the top of a page

2024-10-18 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 at 12:48, David Sumbler wrote: > > One of these 2 solutions would almost certainly work for me, if only I could get the basics sorted out. But after a lot of experimentation, I cannot get one header on page 1 and another on page 2. Clearly I am doing something fundamentally w

Re: [version 2.25.20] Odd behavior with unfold within volta repeat

2024-10-15 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 at 21:54, Xavier Scheuer wrote: > > Ah, my bad, I remembered the other way around. > At least the old syntax gives the expected output. Sorry for the multiple messages within a short period of time. You can have the expected output and use the new syntax if yo

Re: [version 2.25.20] Odd behavior with unfold within volta repeat

2024-10-15 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 at 21:48, Nikolai Hedler wrote: > > The current documentation states that \alternative outside is the older syntax; I guess I'll keep doing it that way. Ah, my bad, I remembered the other way around. At least the old syntax gives the expected output. Kind regards, Xavier

Re: [version 2.25.20] Odd behavior with unfold within volta repeat

2024-10-15 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 at 21:35, Nikolai Hedler wrote: > > Hello, Use the new syntax with the \alternative block outside of the \repeat volta block. Kind regards, Xavier

Re: chordnames chordmode and markup

2024-09-30 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Mon, 30 Sept 2024 at 01:13, Walt North wrote: > > Is it possible in someway to get some sort of markup behavior in chordmode? They are cases where I want to add a remark for the rhythm guitar player for one reason or another for some chords. > > Simple minded example below. For a staff note I

Re: Manual page-breaking

2024-09-24 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 24 Sept 2024 at 16:41, David Sumbler wrote: > > The best solution I have come up with is adding \autoPageBreaksOff at the start of each Score block, and adding \noPageBreak between markup items etc. which come outside of the Score block. So far, this seems to be working. Hello, You coul

Re: Omitting an accidental

2024-09-24 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 24 Sept 2024 at 21:53, David Sumbler wrote: > > I am having difficulty with the new repeat structure. The code below > produces the result I want except that the repeat should only be 2 bars > long. In other words, the ":|." bar line at the end of the inner > repeat should come at the en

Re: Lead sheet capo chords in brackets

2024-09-23 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Mon, 23 Sept 2024 at 21:32, Colin Baguley wrote: > > Hi > Thank you for trying - but I've just copied and pasted your code - and it still doesn't do the parentheses. > I've attached the PDF I get .. Hello, \override ChordName.parenthesized = ##t Kind regards, Xavier

Re: unexpected 2nd staff

2024-09-22 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Sun, 22 Sept 2024 at 22:20, Paul Scott wrote: > > How can I make this happen in one staff with all the stems down? Hello, Or use \partCombine, it's not clear what you are after. instrumentOne = \fixed c'' { \partCombineUnisono e8( f~ \partCombineChords f2.) } instrumentTwo = \fixed c'' { e8(

Re: Simple ternary da capo structure

2024-09-18 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Wed, 18 Sept 2024 at 12:57, David Sumbler wrote: > > Thank you both for your help. I'm still struggling with one thing, though. I want "D.C." at the end of the 'B' section, rather than "D.C. al Fine". The best thing I have managed so far was to put \jump "D.C." at the end, but of course that

Re: Ossia in Lyrics?

2024-09-17 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 17 Sept 2024 at 21:12, Walt North wrote: > > Is this possible? I have a case where I want to have a Chord and Lyrics sheet with some occasional hints to Guitar player on melody fills scattered here and there. The lilypond docs show examples with Staff but not with Lyrics. Hello, That's

Re: Simple ternary da capo structure

2024-09-17 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 17 Sept 2024 at 17:03, Knute Snortum wrote: > > Here's what I came up with: Hello, Actually there is a property for the fine bar type. \set Score.fineBarType = "||" and you don't need to put explicitly the \bar "||" at Fine. Kind regards, Xavier

Re: Footnote line-spacing

2024-09-17 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 17 Sept 2024 at 01:39, Dimitri Sykias wrote: > > How can I reduce the vertical spacing between the lines in a auto-footnote? > > I attempted the following code to reduce the spacing: > > \auto-footnote \italic “1.” \wordwrap \small { \override #'(line-spacing . 0.8) footnote text. } > > Ho

Re: Appoggiature too fast

2024-09-12 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Thu, 12 Sept 2024 at 15:53, wrote: > > I'm still hoping for a response to this, if only to confirm whether others > see the change in behaviour and that it's not something unique to my > installation. I'm pretty sure that what 2.25.19 is doing is wrong. Hello, Could be linked to https://gitl

Re: Changing percussion notation without starting a new staff

2024-09-10 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 10 Sept 2024 at 20:09, Richard Cookson < richardcookson.3rdpla...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am writing some percussion parts (orchestral, not kit) which require a number of changes of instrument. I would like to change from one instrument to another without starting a new staff. I hav

Re: reusing melody in different TabVoice instruments

2024-09-10 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 10 Sept 2024 at 17:04, Walt North wrote: > > Is there any way to do this? What follows is a made up example. I have a melody that may be shared across different string instruments. > > I'd like to be able to reuse the melody notes and not repeat that for each instrument. The different ins

Re: Bracket

2024-09-09 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 10 Sept 2024 at 02:50, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > > Hi Dimitri, > > > How can I reduce the space between the bracket and the first barline? > > %%% SNIPPET BEGINS > \version "2.25.11" > > \new ChoirStaff > \with { \override SystemStartBracket.extra-offset = #'(0.5 . 0) } Hello, Althoug

Re: remove emptry tabstaff lines

2024-09-02 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 3 Sept 2024 at 06:28, Walt North wrote: > > Thanks. > > It didn't work when I tried (comparing an empty Staff line to an empty TabStaff line) so thought maybe there was some different syntax for TabStaff. In any case it's not a big deal - I can work around it. I find that Lilypond usuall

Re: remove "tr" from TrillSpanner

2024-09-02 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Mon, 2 Sept 2024 at 20:56, Paul Scott wrote: > > How do I remove the "tr" from a TrillSpanner or is there an object that > is just the wavy line? I thought I had done this before but I didn't see > it in NR 1.3.3 or snippets. Hello, \override TrillSpanner.bound-details.left.text = "" If you

Re: Lyric spacing confusion

2024-08-19 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 at 02:14, Laurie Savage wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to set up lyrics to start on the upbeat of beat 4 in bar four of a song (calling the anacrusis bar 0). I succeeded but I'm very puzzled. Hello, Sorry but it is difficult to try to help you. You do not give the complete cod

Re: Beam.positions affecting space between staves

2024-08-19 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 at 01:51, Karim Haddad wrote: > > Hi > > I know there is a simple solution for this but cannot find it. > > When applying \override Beam.positions in order to raise the beam of a grouped rythm above the first staff: > > 1) it doesn't overlapp the first staff > 2) an extra space

Re: Time signature at the end of measure before jump to coda

2024-08-03 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Sat, 3 Aug 2024 at 17:17, Vlado Ilić wrote: > > So i need something like in the first picture, on coda i have different time signature than the one before the jump so i need to mark time change just before the jump. Also related, in the second image i need to mark time and key change before jum

Re: Vertically align objects of same class?

2024-07-27 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 at 02:11, Fennel wrote: > > Setting staff-affinity = #DOWN should mean that the brackets appear above the staff instead of below, right? Hello, staff-affinity is used for spacing purposes. Use alignAboveContext, as explained in NR 5.1.7 Context layout order https://lilypond.o

Re: baseMoment in the latter half of a measure

2024-07-15 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 at 14:26, Masaki, Akikazu < masaki-0.56714...@zeus.eonet.ne.jp> wrote: > > Hello, > > \set Timing.baseMoment seems not to work in the latter half of a measure. > Is it a bug, or some setting is missing? > > % > \version "2.24.3" > { >\set Timing.baseMoment = #(ly:mak

Re: Matching Lilypond and Word font sizes

2024-07-15 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 at 09:18, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > If you use `\abs-fontsize`, you get a font size (in markups) in points > regardless of the selected staff size. Hello, And the default text font size is 11pt for a default staff size (20pt), as documented by Werner in NR 1.8.2 https://lilyp

Re: Barline scaling issues

2024-07-11 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 at 22:10, Tom Brennan wrote: > > Hi all > > When using `\magnifyStaff #2/3`, I'm seeing weird transitions between the staves of a `StaffGroup`. For example, > > (snip) > > The question is, is this a bug or expected behavior? Is there a workaround to get that barline to snap to

Re: music glyph in text

2024-07-08 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Mon, 8 Jul 2024 at 21:31, bobr...@centrum.is wrote: > > I have been looking for a way to use music glyphs in inline text, specifically in a lilypond-book document. I want to write "the note should be Bb and not C#" but I want to use a flat and a sharp and not a lower case 'b' and an octothorp

Re: restart ChoirStaff including decoration

2024-06-26 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 at 10:42, Alexander Kobel wrote: > > So, first question "simply" is: Does anyone know a way to produce a ChoirStaff bracket at the beginning of measure 2? ;-) Hello, See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2023-07/msg00189.html Kind regards, Xavier

Re: suppressing implicit TabStaff

2024-06-25 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 at 08:11, Jeff Olson wrote: > > Thanks, David! > > That works even for the case where there is no explicit Staff (just a bare TabStaff). Excellent! > > But I still had to remove my \tabFullNotation command to avoid an implicit TabStaff. > > Is there an alternative place (outsi

Re: Distinguishing semibreve and minim rests without a staff

2024-05-26 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Mon, 27 May 2024 at 06:09, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I'm writing a resource for beginner musicians, and many of the early exercises I'm writing don't use staff lines (Lilypond's 'easy play' feature is very useful here!) > > One problem I have--it's very difficult to distinguish

Re: Staff size - normal and Vaticana

2024-05-25 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Sat, 25 May 2024 at 18:53, mpk wrote: > > Hi, > Could anybody help me to individually adjust the Vaticana staff-size, > please? Hello, \score { \new VaticanaScore { % etc. } \layout { #(layout-set-staff-size 18) } } \score { % normal score } Kind regards, Xavier

Re: Control beaming with tuplets

2024-05-24 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Fri, 24 May 2024 at 10:57, Kenneth Flak wrote: > > Thanks! That almost did the trick. The only thing that's not working is that connecting beam between the two quintuplets. See attached screenshot... Hello, \set subdivideBeams = ##t And then either, for 2.24: \set baseMoment = #(ly:make-mo

Re: Removing the change clef in a first ending (volta 1)

2024-05-21 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 21 May 2024 at 20:38, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > This information should probably be added to the NR, together with an > example. Can you prepare a patch (or even an MR) or formulate > something that I can then massage accordingly? Hi Werner, Actually this is already in NR 1.1.3 Clef (no

Re: Removing the change clef in a first ending (volta 1)

2024-05-21 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 21 May 2024 at 19:42, Knute Snortum wrote: > > It's probably easier to see in the MWE and screen shot I've attached. So is there a way to get rid of the bass change clef indicator in the first ending? Hello, \once \set Staff.explicitClefVisibility = #end-of-line-invisible before your \b

Re: DIfferent note values within a chord

2024-05-21 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 21 May 2024 at 16:04, Aaron Hill wrote: > > It is interesting how we interpreted the clef and key signature > differently when trying to recreate the image. You did manage to the > squeeze in the forte, which I did not. Yes, I thought exactly the same thing when I saw your answer. In fac

Re: DIfferent note values within a chord

2024-05-21 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 21 May 2024 at 15:42, Jun Tamura wrote: > > Hello, > > Could someone give me a pointer for this? > > This is a quite popular notation for bowed string instruments. I’m almost certain that I saw a way to achieve this before but could not find it this time. Hello, \relative c' { \key bes \

Re: Naming lines of music

2024-05-14 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 14 May 2024 at 15:43, Giles Boardman wrote: > > Thanks again Xavier. You are very patient - I have just sat down at my up-to-date computer and the difference between the versions' functionality is enormous. If I'd realised, I would have bitten the bullet and had fewer questions and taken u

Re: Naming lines of music

2024-05-14 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 14 May 2024 at 14:44, Giles Boardman wrote: > > Hello Kieren/Xavier, > > I wasn't going to be picky per Kieren's ** but ... > > ... using Xavier's code (override Score.RehearsalMark.self-alignment-X = #LEFT) I have a whole page of music and the tunes are in different keys,

Re: Naming lines of music

2024-05-14 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 14 May 2024 at 12:43, Giles Boardman wrote: > > The \mark command is centred. Can text be formatted to be left aligned (and smaller)? Is there an initialisation parameter I can change to set its default alignment? Hello, Please consider upgrading, version 2.18.2 is over 10 years old. Cur

Re: 2.25.15 quotedCueEventTypes

2024-05-10 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Wed, 8 May 2024 at 19:35, Paul Scott wrote: > > Yes. Does one of those include phrasing slurs? Hello, For phrasing slurs you need to add phrasing-slur-event to the list. FYI the default value of quotedCueEventTypes is in IR 2.1.31 Score https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/internals

Re: The demise of ly:multi-measure-rest::percent

2024-05-03 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Fri, 3 May 2024 at 12:43, Richard Shann wrote: > > In earlier versions of LilyPond I avoided the use of \repeat percent 2 > {} syntax by overwriting the stencil for a whole bar rest: > > \version "2.20.0" > { c c c c > \once \override MultiMeasureRest.stencil = #ly:multi-measure-rest::percent

Re: Note names are causing text marks to be duplicated

2024-04-26 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 at 16:46, Eric Benson wrote: > > I see. How hard would it be to write a Scheme function that would copy a melody variable and remove the text marks, or in fact everything other than the note values, which are all I want in the NoteNames variable? That would be preferable to ent

Re: simple problem: my first text spanner starts too early?

2024-04-22 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 at 21:48, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > > Hi; > > I've made a simple mistake but I can't figure out what I did wrong. > > At bar #36 the first text spanner starts. I think that's correct. But > the piano articulation should be a bar earlier? But that also seems > correct. How ca

Re: (No subject)

2024-04-21 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 at 20:44, Gian Paolo Renello wrote: > > Your right, thanks. I noticed it and changed as well in my code, but the problem won't solve (see previous mail about the context) Hello, The Lyrics should come after the \new Voice = "sopranoVoice". If you get an error please send a m

Re: Can \showStaffSwitch \pageBreak ? Bug?

2024-04-17 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 at 21:53, Pierre-Luc Gauthier wrote: > > Hi there, > > Is this a known bug ? > > The \showStaffSwitch indication seems uneasy about page breaks. Hello, It might be another instance of #6684, which itself is apparently a duplicate of #6551. https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond

Re: Conflicting \section and \grace?

2024-03-29 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 at 22:31, Knute Snortum wrote: > > This looks like a very old bug that LilyPond has. Basically, if you have a grace note starting a measure in one staff, you have to have one on all staves, even if it's just a spacer. So adding this to the melody will fix the problem: Exactl

Re: end-of-line-invisible exception

2024-03-26 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 at 17:05, bobr...@centrum.is wrote: > > Is there a way to omit the key signature at the end of a line in this case? Hello, Well, here *it is* key cancellation. \override Staff.KeyCancellation.break-visibility = #all-invisible Kind regards, Xavier

Re: remove key change at end of line

2024-03-25 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 at 22:19, bobr...@centrum.is wrote: > > I want to remove a key change from the ends of lines/systems. I am *not* referring to just key cancellation, which I do also want. I mean, at the end of a line the new key should not appear before the new line. I haven't worked it out.

Re: Can't compile Lilypond files

2024-03-24 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 at 17:14, David Sumbler wrote: > > I haven't used Lilypond for a while, but I have currently got v.2.24.1 > > I started a new, very small, project today, but I can't compile anything. Thinking I must have forgotten even the basics of writing Lilypond files, I tried a few of my

Re: ragged-bottom and spacing for individual pages

2024-03-20 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 at 19:47, Paul Scott wrote: > > 1. How can I cause an individual page other than the last page of a > score to have ragged-bottom? Hello, I don't think this is possible. Personally I would produce 2 different PDFs and then split and merge the pages as desired. > 2. How can I

Re: Troubles with StaffGrouper

2024-03-20 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 at 04:48, Ben Bradshaw wrote: > > Hello, > I think I must not be understanding how the StaffGrouper works. I'm doing a score with instrument and piano accompaniment, and have the piano music in a PianoStaff. I'm trying to get more space between the solo staff and the piano staf

Re: Tremolo with staccato

2024-03-19 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 at 16:08, Ralph Palmer wrote: > > Hello, again! > > This list has been a great help on numerous occasions. > > I have a new problem - how to combine staccato with tremolo. I'm > attaching an example from the score I'm trying to transcribe. The > problem is similar to > > Adding

Re: B.A.C.H. motif

2024-03-19 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 at 13:57, Peter Mayes wrote: > > Being relatively new to this forum, I suspect I am not the first person > to ask this. > > And it is more out of curiosity than necessity. > > But does anybody have lilypond code to engrave the famous B.A.C.H. motif > in the attached image? Hel

Re: Question regarding ChordNames

2024-03-14 Thread Xavier Scheuer
Hi Jean, Are you adding this to the LSR? I don't know if it would make sense to add it to the documentation as well, personally I don't engrave scores that would use this. Best regards, Xavier On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 at 09:55, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Mahalo, X. I am using the naturalizeMusic func

Re: Question regarding ChordNames

2024-03-13 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 at 04:51, John Helly wrote: > > Aloha. > > Here's an MWE to exhibit the issue. > > I have a flat note (bes) that I want to transpose down 4 half-tones to F#. However, when the transpose is applied, the result is Gb. I understand that a flat note was the initial value so maybe

Re: Transpose tab into label forms

2024-03-04 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 at 11:05, achar wrote: > > Thank you for the answer. Label form may not be the correct translation. We could say "diagram" for guitar. > See an example attached. Good day. jean-Pierre > It would save me time. > Does anyone have any ideas or is this simply impossible? > Thank you

Re: Moving a fingering mark below a slur

2024-02-28 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 at 12:07, Peter Mayes wrote: > As a beginner at Lilypond, I was looking for a way to achieve this. I started just saying c4^"III" or similar. I then modified that to use \markup to shrink the text. But if there is a more "natural" way of adding these fingering marks, I would b

Re: Moving a fingering mark below a slur

2024-02-27 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 at 17:28, Peter Mayes wrote: > > Almost certainly a fairly trivial question: in bar 3, how to put the "L" mark above the note, but below the slur? Hello, Should the "L" mark really be considered as a Fingering object? Because as you currently define it, it's a TextScript. Sho

Re: Cue clefs

2024-02-26 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 at 22:13, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: > > Thanks. It says this -- but it works: > > programming error: No spacing entry from BarLine to `cue-clef' > continuing, cross fingers Ah yes, I hadn't paid attention to that. In that case, let's add a spacing entry between BarLine and cue-c

Re: Cue clefs

2024-02-25 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Sun, 25 Feb 2024 at 22:35, Xavier Scheuer wrote: > > By the way I would not remove the cue end clef. This is also standard practice: to "close" the cue clef (back to playing instrument clef). Actually in your example I would move the cue end clef to the end of the bar (just be

Re: Cue clefs

2024-02-25 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Sun, 25 Feb 2024 at 21:36, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: > > It does, thank you. > Any ideas for the other question (how to move the cue clef after the bar line)? Hello, Add this before the \cueClef (I only moved the cue-clef after staff-bar): \once \override Score.BreakAlignment.break-align-order

Re: staff size in mm

2024-02-13 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 at 12:48, Mariya Kireva wrote: > > Dear Xavier, > > thank you very much for your answer. Do you know if I can set the lyrics size precise in pt? Hello Mariya, Please keep the lilypond-user mailing list in Cc (Reply to all). I found this in the archive: https://lists.gnu.org/a

Re: staff size in mm

2024-02-13 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 at 10:20, Mariya Kireva wrote: > > Hello all, > > it is possible to set up the staff size in lilypond precise in cm or mm? Hello, Do you want to set the global staff size so that you have a precise staff height and scale everything (note heads, stems, texts, titles) according

Re: broken bar line across staff

2024-01-31 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 15:12, Robert Garrigos wrote: > > Hi all, > > My first post in this list. > > Is there a way to accomplish this? > > > the bar line across the staff is broken to enable the text to be more visible Hello, Sure, use the whiteout property. In this case you will need to put th

Re: Drum notation and style

2024-01-19 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 at 13:46, Adrian wrote: > > Thanks for the reply, and apologies for not replying to all. However, > > \override Lyrics.LyricsText.font-name = "Font Name" > > returns the following warning: > > warning: not a grob name, `LyricsText' > > and doesn't alter the font. Sorry, my bad

Re: Drum notation and style

2024-01-19 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 at 01:42, Adrian wrote: > > How would you change the font of the lyrics? > > \override LyricsText.font-name = "Font Name" > > doesn't work yet throws no error. At the moment, I haven't found a method to identify the name of the object to style or the name of the style property

Re: Drum notation and style

2024-01-18 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 at 21:26, Stu McKenzie wrote: > > I often use Lyrics to provide sticking. Hello, That would have been my suggestion as well, especially if you want the sticking to be horizontally aligned. > The lyrics are below the staff, but this can be changed. Personally, I've had diffic

Re: crescendo lines to thin

2024-01-11 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 at 14:43, Bernhard Kleine wrote: > > Dear all, happy new year! > > Ich have a separate dyn line for the dynamics, but the lines there are > to thin. How to change it? Hello, \override Hairpin.thickness = #1.5 Adapt value according to your liking (default value is 1). Actuall

Re: Slurs within chords, and dotted notes

2024-01-07 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Sun, 7 Jan 2024 at 21:35, Joel C. Salomon wrote: > > Reposting for clarity as to what I’m asking. > > In the second case below, instead of the slur attaching to the specific note, it moves vertically—I assume, to avoid collision with the duration dot. (Though it’s interesting that a tie does n

Re: lilypond does not generate pdf - new install on mac os sonoma

2023-11-19 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Mon, 20 Nov 2023 at 05:15, Abe Raher wrote: > > p.s. This story ended oddly. > > I uninstalled ghostscript and then installed ghostscript 10.02.0. > > I pinned that version. > > Still got the error ... > > Uninstalled lilypond. > > Reinstalled lilypond – this required unpinning ghostscript. > >

Re: vertical spacing of top-level `\markup` and `\bookpart`

2023-10-04 Thread Xavier Scheuer
in `\bookparts`)? Hello, If you add ragged-last-bottom = ##f in your \paper block you have the same result with bookpart Kind regards, Xavier -- Xavier Scheuer

Re: rest note disappear on last 3 measure.

2023-09-14 Thread Xavier Scheuer
level instead of PianoStaff. Here it seems to "merge" the rests from your left and right staff. Kind regards, Xavier -- Xavier Scheuer

Re: How to have a parenthesized dynamic scripts including \cresc?

2023-08-28 Thread Xavier Scheuer
ver it does not work for \cresc as > c4^\parendyn\cresc > creates an empty () mark. > > Is there a way to extend the above macro to work with \cresc and \decr > as well? I have found LSR #1097 https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=1097 Kind regards, Xavier -- Xavier Scheuer

Re: Bar numbers on Dynamics staff above music

2023-08-28 Thread Xavier Scheuer
.break-visibility = #end-of-line-invisible barNumberVisibility = #(every-nth-bar-number-visible 1) } } Kind regards, Xavier -- Xavier Scheuer

Re: Extend bar line to fit raised staff

2023-08-26 Thread Xavier Scheuer
ed question with a minimal example. Add \once \override Staff.BarLine.bar-extent = #'(-2 . 3) after your Staff.StaffSymbol.line-positions. Kind regards, Xavier -- Xavier Scheuer

Re: Increasing default piano staff spacing

2023-08-11 Thread Xavier Scheuer
f-grouped-staves Cheers, Xavier -- Xavier Scheuer

Re: Liszt's accents

2023-06-01 Thread Xavier Scheuer
the second and third control points of the slur as shown below, > but this does not seem to be a realistic solution. Hello, I guess Lukas-Fabian's "VShapeSlur" could be a good starting point. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2020-09/msg00129.html Cheers, Xavier -- Xavier Scheuer

Re: Adjusting layout to bigger notes

2023-05-23 Thread Xavier Scheuer
less-than-fortunate side effects. > > (snip) > > Is there an elegant way to adjust this to the larger staff size? Hello, Use #(set-global-staff-size 26) instead ? Cheers, Xavier -- Xavier Scheuer

Re: Cues and Rest Collision Warning

2023-03-14 Thread Xavier Scheuer
easure rests Cheers, Xavier -- Xavier Scheuer

Re: Change Size of \slashSeparator

2023-03-01 Thread Xavier Scheuer
tor } % 150% in X and Y, change to your convenience Or change the definition of slashSeparator, which is slashSeparator = \markup { \center-align \vcenter \combine \beam #2.0 #0.5 #0.48 \raise #0.7 \beam #2.0 #0.5 #0.48 } % from ly/titling-init.ly Cheers, Xavier -- Xavier Scheuer

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