Modifying fermatas

2025-07-28 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
> Hi, > > I’m transcribing the pictured piece, and want my fermata to be a bit smaller > with a ‘poco’ above it. When I run the attached code it says: > > programming error: Cannot get a text stencil from this font > > continuing, cross fingers > > … and prints a normal fermata. What am I doin

Re: Fallout from change to tempoWholesPerMinute

2025-07-15 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
> > There is however one residual issue. If the following MWE is compiled under > lilypond 2.25.18, the PDF output is as expected. However if it is compiled > under 2.25.25, an unwanted markup "[semibreve] = 50" appears at bar 2. How > is this best avoided? > While it may be a quick-fix s

Re: "note equals note" or durational equivalent

2025-06-08 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
> I'm on 2.24.1, BTW > > I'm still curious what the # commands refer to in the Lilypond manual > example. > > Also, does anyone know the whereabouts of an arrow symbol I could use in a > similar markup? > > It doesnt happen all that often, but sometimes "note = note" will be written > "

Editorial parentheses for a series of staccati

2025-06-01 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
Hello Tamura-san, Having run into this problem myself before and discovered that there had been a solution previously proposed in this mailing list about ten years ago (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-04/msg00105.html), my solution is modeled after that: %%% BEGIN %%% \v

Re: No MIDI sound in Frescobaldi 4.0.1

2025-04-25 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
> > Am 25.04.2025 um 07:50 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm : > > > > I’d guess your different installations of MIDI synths interfere > > I have tried every possible single and combined installations. > Fluidsynth and Qsynth from MacPorts btw. I have MacBook Pro, M2 Max, 14.7.4, and I have set it up

Re: Dashed bar line across PianoStaff

2025-04-22 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
That’s enlightening; thanks Kieren! I would add the following near beginning of the code: \unset systemStartDelimiter So it looks like: \defineBarLine "|-dashedSpan" #'(#t #f "!!") \layout { \context { \GrandStaff \name GrandStaffDashed \override SpanBar.glyph-name = #"|-dashedSpan"

Dashed bar line across PianoStaff

2025-04-22 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
> Hi, > > I'm trying to put dashed bar lines between PianoStaff like in this screenshot. > > I believe it's the same with StaffGroup. > > However I haven't been able to find a solution. > Writing several with \with measureBarType or \defineBarLine was to no avail > on me, e.g. all dashed. > Hav

Frescobaldi 4.0.1 released! (bugfix release for macOS)

2025-04-04 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
Dear Federico and the entire Frescobaldi development team, I would like to thank you all so much for all your work. I downloaded 4.0.1 on my MacOS, and I am so happy to see that the “crash upon exit” error is gone. I feel that compared to 3.3.0, the version is quicker to run, thanks to the abil

help with translation

2025-03-25 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
Dear Werner, Here are the Japanese translations of the lines you requested (I copied it from the linked GitLab code page, lines 227 and 228: 'Other Regression tests for ': ‘その他の回帰テスト バージョン ', 'PDF of other regtests for ': ‘その他の回帰テスト (PDF 版) バージョン ‘, Also, just to get things started with French

Create blank page based on page-number (if odd)

2025-03-15 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
> Hello. I'm writing a book and after my ToC I need a blank page ("this page is > left blank purposefully") only if this blank page would have an odd page > number. If it falls under an even page number it must not be printed. I've > looked in the manual and didn't find an answer... any help wou

Interesting article on music editors (the human kind) in NY Times

2025-03-14 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
> Thought this audience might be interested in this New York Times > article entitled, "Inside the Detail-Obsessed, Essential World of Music > Editing." There's some quotes from Elaine Gould, and a link to "Behind > Bars." No mention of Lilypond, but does mention Sibelius. > I came across this ar

Re: too small tie

2025-02-21 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
... I tried to use \shape #'(alist) Tie option when I was crafting my solution, but I suppose I wasn't patient enough here. Good to know that \shape indeed works. To be fair, mine does allow the overlapping of the tie/slur over accidentals, but my solution isn't elegant. On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 5:

too small tie

2025-02-21 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
> Here the ties are perfectly aligned: > > (See attachment s1) > \version "2.25.23" > \fixed c' > { > 2^~ > > } > > But when I change the last chord from... > > > to > > > ... the resulting tie between g appears small and not clear (to me). (See > attachment s2) > > What's the best wa

Re: Glissando to nothing example in docs

2025-02-18 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
> > On Tue 18 Feb 2025 at 17:56:02 (+), Richard Shann wrote: > > At https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/glissando > > under the section > > Contemporary glissando > > is this example (without the whole bar rest at the end). > > 8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><

Fine-tuning footnote mark positioning

2025-02-04 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
> Hi all, > > I'm trying to place a footnote mark, but I can't manage to get it exactly > where I want it to be. > > \version "2.24.2" > > \score { > << > \new Staff { \override Footnote.annotation-line = ##f %%this doesn't seem to > affect the issue but reduces visual clutter so makes it clea

Re: Align lyrics under the stem, not the notehead

2025-01-28 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
Stu McKenzie via LilyPond User List > wrote: > > > On 2025-01-28 19:40, Yoshiaki Onishi wrote: >>> I sometimes add sticking to drum scores to assist readers by showing the >>> preferred hand for each stroke. >>> >>> I'm aware of the a

Align lyrics under the stem, not the notehead

2025-01-28 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
> I sometimes add sticking to drum scores to assist readers by showing the > preferred hand for each stroke. > > I'm aware of the ability to change the horizontal position of lyrics using > '\override LyricText.self-alignment-X'. > > When I use '= #LEFT', the lyric is under the notehead, rather

Re: White on black

2025-01-04 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
Dear Simon, > The \use-color function you refer to has to be a custom command of yours, no? Gah! I’ve meant \with-color. So replacing \whiteout with: \whiteout \with-color #black … is what I meant. Apologies for the blunder! Yoshi

Re: White on black

2025-01-03 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
> “Final” version of the file as submitted to LSR. What a wonderful implementation! I am trying it on my current project, and it works like a charm. It is so friendly to my eyes, too. Thank you so much for all your work, everyone! One thing I noticed that might be helpful to know to anyone usin

Re: Splitting Staff into two

2024-12-30 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
gt; > %% > \set Staff.middleCPosition = -11 > \once \override Staff.Clef.stencil = ##f > \startStaff > << >{ > \clef bass % inserted bass clef for left hand/bass comping. > {\repeat unfold 4 {c1 d e f} } > } >\new Staff \with { >%% > >

Splitting Staff into two

2024-12-29 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
P.S. After hitting “send,” it occurred to me that the code I sent would not account music after a new system starts. The clef would appear incorrectly placed. I amended the code as below, and in this version, I tweaked the Scheme code setting so that the two clefs would not collide in the new sy

Splitting Staff into two

2024-12-29 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
> Is there any possibility of doing something like this picture below? On top > is lilypond's default output and on the bottom is what I seek to write. > Dear Lucas, Referring to the following pages on LilyPond Documentation: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/modifying-sing

Position of note heads in chords

2024-12-27 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
> I'd like to specify which note heads should be printed left or right of > the stem. Here is my minimal example: > > \version "2.24.1" > \relative c'' { > 8 > } > > I'd like the e to always be left of the stem for continuity, is it > possibly to specify that? > > Best Regards, > Alexander D

Controlling the length of a broken beam

2024-12-22 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
> I have a Chopin piece where the notes form a broken beam across a key change > and break (see first attachment broken-beam-over-key-change.) LilyPond has > drawn the stem and beam long in the upper right-hand corner to avoid the key > change. I'm not sure I like that and I'm trying to chang

"Wild" Harp Glisses

2024-12-18 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
P.S. In case the attached .ly file did not open properly, here is its content: \version "2.24.4" squiggly = \once \override Voice.NoteHead.stencil = #(grob-transformer 'stencil (lambda (grob original ) (let* ((added-markup #{ \markup {

"Wild" Harp Glisses

2024-12-18 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
> Engraving a musical theater score and I've got a handful of spots that have > some ad lib./"wild" harp glisses (as seen in the example images below.) Does > anyone have a good reliable/reusable way to engrave these without needing to > manually adjust the positions of the glissando spans for e

Re: Contemporary Notation Snippets

2024-12-17 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 12:36 AM Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > >> The best place to contribute to would be the LilyPond Notation > >> Reference manual, whose Contemporary music section has been a stub > >> for years: > >> > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/contemporary-music > >

Re: Contemporary Notation Snippets

2024-12-15 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
On Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 11:20 AM Knute Snortum wrote: > > You seem to have the TeX / LilyPond interface worked out but I was > wondering if you knew about lilypond-book ( > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/usage/lilypond_002dbook)? > It's designed for exactly your situation: where you

Contemporary Notation Snippets

2024-12-15 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
Dear LilyPonders, Ever since I started learning LilyPond a little over three months ago, I started to write codes for handling contemporary notations, and I started to make a document cataloging them. I just wanted to share the link to the GitHub repository here, in the event it could be useful fo

Re: Frescobaldi on Apple Silicon M3

2024-12-08 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
> > On Dec 7, 2024, at 11:58 AM, Tim McNamara via LilyPond user discussion < > lilypond-user@gnu.org> wrote: > > > > I use Lilypond with Frescobaldi, updated to 3.3.0, which has a > work-around-able oddity: if launching the app from the Dock or by double > clicking it, it is unresponsive and the m

Proportional notation - Bar length

2024-09-16 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
Dear Michael, I have v. 2.24.4 so I had to replace \musicLength 16 to #(ly:make-moment 1/16). But it appears that the proportionalNotationDuration computes as expected if a measure is complete. Combining concatenated scores in complete measure(s) against those in incomplete measures will cause

Re: Question re: scheme, \transpose function

2024-09-15 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
Dear LilyPonders, I am grateful for all your input. Synthesizing all the points raised in this thread, I realized the solution was to make the .ly file in which I made the function in the absolute pitch mode. Then the original function worked as expected. Thank you once again— Yoshi On Fri, S

Re: Question re: scheme, \transpose function

2024-09-13 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
c' and cause the apostrophe to be parsed twice. I'm away from my > computer right now so can't actually test the example. > > Saul > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2024, 10:58 AM Yoshiaki Onishi > wrote: > >> Dear LilyPond Community, >> >> In the inter

Question re: scheme, \transpose function

2024-09-13 Thread Yoshiaki Onishi
Dear LilyPond Community, In the interest of learning more about Scheme as used in LilyPond (and learning LilyPond in general!), I am currently in the process of making a shortcut function that handles the artificial harmonic notation of string instruments instead of typing ""However, something mus