Frescobaldi preferences location (windows)

2022-10-18 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi, I'm in the horrible situation of having to setup a new (windows) laptop, as the display on the old one has b0rked. So, I need to reinstall Lilypond and Frescobaldi. I'd spent quite a bit of time tweaking the Frescobaldi preferences to exactly how I wanted them, and don't really want to have to

layout-set-staff-size overrides font configuration

2022-07-28 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi, it seems layout-set-staff-size overwrites any custom font-configuration that has been made. This input gives the attached output, where the titles have the correct font, but the TextScripts in the score that uses layout-set-staff-size have the default fonts. What's the correct way to work aro

Re: What is the meaning of a mordent on top of a sharp sign?

2022-06-28 Thread Simon Bailey
It seems it is BWV 939. See: https://imslp.org/wiki/5_Kleine_Pr%C3%A4ludien,_BWV_939-943_(Bach,_Johann_Sebastian) for multiple different versions. Kind regards, sb On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 at 15:50, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > > Hi Andrew; > > I'm just trying to engrave what 8notes.com claims is the

Cross-Staff stems not working

2022-06-25 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi, consider this code: \version "2.23.9" \layout { \context { \PianoStaff \consists "Span_stem_engraver" } } { \new PianoStaff << \new Staff { 4 r r2 | } \new Staff { \clef bass \crossStaff { 4 } r r2 | } >> } What am I missing to get the stem

Re: arbitrary repeat counter

2022-06-04 Thread Simon Bailey
mind. officially. blown. :D Thanks, Jean, for the additional input. I learnt some more ;) Happy weekending, sb On Wed, 1 Jun 2022 at 19:21, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > Le 01/06/2022 à 19:03, Simon Bailey a écrit : > > Here's a weird one. Using this definition in the c

Re: arbitrary repeat counter

2022-06-01 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi, On Wed, 1 Jun 2022 at 17:09, Jean Abou Samra - jean at abou-samra.fr wrote: > What did not work? This is perfectly valid Scheme: > > (set! count (1+ count)) (set! counter (+ counter 1)) was giving an error message. Probably had some misaligned parentheses or other weirdness. I didn't know a

Re: arbitrary repeat counter

2022-06-01 Thread Simon Bailey
On Wed, 1 Jun 2022 at 16:14, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > 1. What is the duration of a measure dependent on the current time > > signature? > > In an engraver :-) > > (ly:context-property context 'measureLength) > > You can't get it in the music function, since timing is not > established at that p

Re: arbitrary repeat counter

2022-06-01 Thread Simon Bailey
On Wed, 1 Jun 2022 at 15:50, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > I tested it with 2.22. There were some changes (by me) in > the internals of MeasureCounter in 2.23, so it needs to > be adapted a little: > I'll test that in a moment. > > I intend to wrap that in a music function that does all the override

Re: arbitrary repeat counter

2022-06-01 Thread Simon Bailey
nd regards, sb On Wed, 1 Jun 2022 at 13:51, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > Le 01/06/2022 à 12:25, Simon Bailey a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > with a little bit of digging through your manual, i have solved some > > of my questions: > > > > #(define (counter-stenci

Re: arbitrary repeat counter

2022-06-01 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi, with a little bit of digging through your manual, i have solved some of my questions: #(define (counter-stencil grob) (let* ((counter (ly:grob-property grob 'text))) ; get the value of the counter (ly:stencil-aligned-to (grob-interpret-markup grob (markup counter "!")

Re: arbitrary repeat counter

2022-06-01 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi Jean, On Wed, 1 Jun 2022 at 10:04, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > How about doing it like this? > < SNIP SNIP SNIP> > << >\new Staff \unfoldRepeats \part >\new Staff \otherPart > >> Yeah, I know about unfoldRepeats. But using voltas in a part where they're not in a score is a big no-no. I r

arbitrary repeat counter

2022-06-01 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi, There's a handy snippet for counting repeated bars in the manual. But I'm running into limitations when for instance I'd like to have 2- or 4-bar sections that I'd like to count. Usage example: a bass guitar has a 4-bar riff that's repeated 8 times, but I can't use a volta repeat in the part b

Re: LilyPond 2.23.6 *-tmp-* files

2022-05-31 Thread Simon Bailey
For what it’s worth, this happened to me recently using frescobaldi on windows while having one of the resulting PDFs open in Adobe Acrobat. This may be something similar – most PDF readers lock the files, so lilypond can’t write to the PDF and then also won’t delete the intermediate files. prob

Re: generate eps file from frecobaldi

2022-05-31 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi Ming, go to the Lilypond menu and select "Engrave custom", then select EPS in the "Output format" dropdown. hth, sb On Tue, 31 May 2022 at 16:56, WaiMing Tsang wrote: > > Hi lilyponders: > > > > To produce ‘EPS’ images; > > lilypond -dbackend=eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts myfile

Re: Moving ClefModifiers vertically

2022-05-31 Thread Simon Bailey
\clef "F_8" c1 } The scheme snippet is still useful though, i'll keep that for a rainy day! :) Thanks, kind regards, sb On Tue, 31 May 2022 at 12:33, Simon Bailey wrote: > > Hi Jean, > > On Tue, 31 May 2022 at 11:46, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > Le 31/05/2022 à

Re: Moving ClefModifiers vertically

2022-05-31 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi Jean, On Tue, 31 May 2022 at 11:46, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le 31/05/2022 à 12:14, Simon Bailey a écrit : > The pairs in clef-alignments are not (x . y) but (x-down . x-up), > where x-down and x-up respectively control the horizontal > alignment for clef modifiers that lower

Moving ClefModifiers vertically

2022-05-31 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi, Consider the following code: \version "2.23.9" \relative c, { \override Staff.Clef.full-size-change = ##t % Defaults ClefModifier.clef-alignments = #'((G -0.2 . 0.1) (F -0.3 . -0.2) (C 0 . 0)) \set Staff.forceClef = ##t \clef "F_8" c1 \set Staff.forceClef = ##t \once \override St

Re: Piano pedalling in (conductor) scores

2022-05-30 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi all, well that kicked off more of a discussion than I expected :D I'm just going to roll all the replies into one mail. On Mon, 30 May 2022 at 13:50, Andrew Bernard wrote: > Well the Beethoven 5th Piano Concerto has pedalling in it. At least the > first edition by B&H. I'd expect it in a con

Piano pedalling in (conductor) scores

2022-05-30 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi, I realise that this is not necessarily a lilypond question per se, more of a general question for the professional copyists here: when preparing a conductor's score that also includes a piano (as an ensemble, not soloist) part, do you also include the pedalling information for the piano? How u

Re: Cluster fill-style

2022-05-28 Thread Simon Bailey
Awesome! Thank you so much! kind regards, sb On Fri, 27 May 2022 at 22:56, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le 27/05/2022 à 23:45, Simon Bailey a écrit : > > Hi Jean, > > > > thanks for reporting that bug. I'd also noticed that the MM rests > > didn't terminate t

Re: Cluster fill-style

2022-05-27 Thread Simon Bailey
ess you either comment out the additional staff or the #(layout-set-staff-size 16)... Kind regards, sb On Fri, 27 May 2022 at 22:01, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > > Le 27/05/2022 à 22:20, Simon Bailey a écrit : > > Hi Jean, > > > > actually, there seems to be a

Re: Cluster fill-style

2022-05-27 Thread Simon Bailey
sters, it works though. Any ideas? Thanks, kind regards, sb On Fri, 27 May 2022 at 20:38, Simon Bailey wrote: > Hi Jean, > > sweet, that does the trick perfectly! Thanks for your help. > > Kind regards, > sb > > On Fri, 27 May 2022 at 20:31, Jean Abou Samra wrote: >

Re: Cluster fill-style

2022-05-27 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi Jean, sweet, that does the trick perfectly! Thanks for your help. Kind regards, sb On Fri, 27 May 2022 at 20:31, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le 27/05/2022 à 20:57, Simon Bailey a écrit : > > Jean, > > > > That's absolutely amazing, thanks so much! > >

Re: Cluster fill-style

2022-05-27 Thread Simon Bailey
kind regards, sb On Fri, 27 May 2022 at 17:09, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le 27/05/2022 à 11:41, Simon Bailey a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > I'm in the process of typesetting some music that includes an > > electronic component – still working out the best way to show th

Cluster fill-style

2022-05-27 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi, I'm in the process of typesetting some music that includes an electronic component – still working out the best way to show that in the score. Clusters might work, but is there any way to change the fill style, so it's not solid black? maybe dotted or hashed something? Thanks, kind regards, s

Re: Bar numbers every nth bar *and* at beginning of line

2022-05-26 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi Kieren, Now that's a weird one. I was expecting a stack of 3 bar numbers, not 4… :O Thanks for sharing that, definitely useful to know. Kind regards, sb On Wed, 25 May 2022 at 21:38, Kieren MacMillan - kieren at kierenmacmillan.info wrote: > Hi Jean, > > >> You’ve clearly never been [self-]

Bar numbers every nth bar *and* at beginning of line

2022-05-25 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi everyone, I can print bar numbers every n (let's say 5) bars using: \set Score.barNumberVisibility = #(every-nth-bar-number-visible 5) However, I'd like to have my cake and eat it and *also* have bar numbers printed at the beginning of every line, regardless of whether it's a multiple of 5. S

Re: Bar numbers every nth bar *and* at beginning of line

2022-05-25 Thread Simon Bailey
2022 at 18:48, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le 25/05/2022 à 19:21, Simon Bailey a écrit : > > Hi everyone, > > > > I can print bar numbers every n (let's say 5) bars using: > > > > \set Score.barNumberVisibility = #(every-nth-bar-number-visible 5) > >

Bar numbers every nth bar *and* at beginning of line

2022-05-25 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi everyone, I can print bar numbers every n (let's say 5) bars using: \set Score.barNumberVisibility = #(every-nth-bar-number-visible 5) However, I'd like to have my cake and eat it and *also* have bar numbers printed at the beginning of every line, regardless of whether it's a multiple of 5. S

Re: Tablature for Pedal Steel Guitar - 'text' in tab

2015-01-14 Thread Simon Bailey
anders, you're welcome. :) On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 7:08 PM, and...@andis59.se wrote: > There's more than one way to skin a cat' welcome to the wonderful world of lilypond. there are always many ways to get the results you need. you'll just have to find the one that works best for you. :) reg

Re: Tablature for Pedal Steel Guitar - 'text' in tab

2015-01-13 Thread Simon Bailey
Anders, try this snippet: %% SNIP HERE %% \version "2.19.11" \header { title="Pedal Steel Guitar - E9th" } noPed = \set fretLabels = #'("0" "1" "2" "3" "4" "5" "6" "7" "8" "9" "10" "11" "12" ) FPed = \set fretLabels = #'("0F" "1F" "2F" "3F" "4F" "5F" "6F" "7F" "8F" "9F" "10F"

repeat percent and line-breaks

2014-04-14 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi, i would like repeat percent which goes for more than one line to print the first bar in a line again. is this possible? ideally, the percent counter would carry on, looking something like the following: \score { \relative c' { \set countPercentRepeats = ##t << { \repeat percent 16 { c4 d

Re: custom markup for \tempo

2014-04-04 Thread Simon Bailey
hi, On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Wilbert Berendsen wrote: > > Make nbTempo a music function that accepts the arguments and calls the > markup command (which I renamed to nbTempomkup). Like this: > d'oh. well that was sufficiently simple that i'm ashamed i asked. i will never try programmin

custom markup for \tempo

2014-04-04 Thread Simon Bailey
hello, the list! i have constructed the following: %%% SNIP %%% #(define-markup-command (nbTempo layout props expression beat tempo) (markup? string? markup?) (interpret-markup layout props #{ \markup { \override #'(baseline-skip . 2) \column { \concat {

Re: Fixed number of Systems on page

2014-04-03 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi, On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 3:03 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: > I actually wrote another engraver which handles measures per line/systems > per page. It looks like development found its way into a private thread, > so I'm enclosing the result here. > > Hopefully the example in the file should give a

Re: Fixed number of Systems on page

2014-04-03 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi Urs, On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Urs Liska wrote: > is it possible to enforce a specific number of systems on a specific page? > For example to say: "I want a given music (e.g. between two manual page > breaks) on that page, but I also want to have it on 5 systems"? > > Or similarly ask

Re: systems-per-page

2014-01-29 Thread Simon Bailey
marc, On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Marc Hohl wrote: >> Is something like that possible? > > > David N's systems-per-page engraver works differently, but seems to > do exactly what you want: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-12/msg00775.html that is amazing! thanks for

Re: spacing/layout 2.19

2014-01-29 Thread Simon Bailey
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:57 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Simon Bailey writes: >> following my issues with ligatures, i compiled 2.19.2 from source on >> OS X. i'm now seeing very different spacing and layouting than with >> the 2.18.1 official package from lilypond.org

spacing/layout 2.19

2014-01-29 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi, following my issues with ligatures, i compiled 2.19.2 from source on OS X. i'm now seeing very different spacing and layouting than with the 2.18.1 official package from lilypond.org. it's generally a lot better and utilizes space more optimally. Is this a general improvement in 2.19 or is t

systems-per-page

2014-01-29 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi, i've been using the systems-per-page layout variable for some scores and have a question related to it. in the piano pieces i've been working with lately, finding page breaking has become challenging. i've generally resorted to system-count, forced page-breaks and at times, systems-per-page.

Re: Shape of individual ties in chords

2014-01-24 Thread Simon Bailey
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:44 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Simon Bailey writes: >> two i can think of: >> - it can't be quoted (at least i haven't found the correct event to >> quote yet) > > I think that this will be fixed as a side effect of > http://cod

Re: Shape of individual ties in chords

2014-01-24 Thread Simon Bailey
James, On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:56 AM, James wrote: >> there's a few things which are only documented in the learning manual. :) >> >> > Actually I would change that last sentence to read: > > There's a few things which are not documented in the Learning Manual. > > And this is a deliberate dec

Re: frescobaldi macports broken after update

2014-01-24 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi Henning et al, On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > I have two little complaints with Frescobaldi on OSX, that didn’t change in > all the versions I tried: > > - If I start the program by opening a .ly file, Frescobaldi starts, but the > file doesn’t open. This was

Re: Shape of individual ties in chords

2014-01-24 Thread Simon Bailey
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:26 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Simon Bailey writes: > >> hi, >> >> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Richard Shann >> wrote: >>> Thanks for this - while playing around with it I noticed the mysterious >>> synatx q

Re: Shape of individual ties in chords

2014-01-24 Thread Simon Bailey
hi, On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Richard Shann wrote: > Thanks for this - while playing around with it I noticed the mysterious > synatx q that appears. I tried looking this up in the two indices > without success. It causes a syntax error after a note but repeats a > chord when placed after

Re: 64-bit font problems in GUB

2014-01-23 Thread Simon Bailey
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Phil Holmes wrote: > - Original Message - From: "Simon Bailey" <...SNIP SNAP...> >> This leads me to conclude that there seems to be a problem with the >> 64-bit version of the font libraries in the build system for the

64-bit font problems in GUB

2014-01-23 Thread Simon Bailey
Hello, I kicked this thread off last week sometime: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-01/msg00762.html TL/DR summary: ligatures were not being shown for lilypond-generated output. further investigation led me to: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-01/msg00804.

Re: [THANKS] new spacing/compression warning

2014-01-21 Thread Simon Bailey
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Just wanted to thank whoever(s) made the new spacing warning read (e.g.,) > > warning: compressing over-full page by 1.9 staff-spaces > warning: page 6 has been compressed > > This is SO helpful (to me, anyways), as

Re: nuancing and customizing midi rendering

2014-01-20 Thread Simon Bailey
hi, On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Bric wrote: > Looks like the Articulate script tries to simulate stoccato by shortening > written note duration and writing in a compensating rest (i.e., { > e4\stoccato b\stoccato } is converted to { e16 r8. b16 r8. }). As the > documentation warns, this, o

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-17 Thread Simon Bailey
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Urs Liska wrote: > You could use Git and configure author name slightly different on each > computer (e.g. sbailey-osx). > That way git blame would tell you that :-) that's actually the first argument FOR git that makes sense for my use case. :D -- Do not meddl

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-17 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi Hraban, On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:28 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Hi, > as far as I scanned the thread nobody analyzed the problem of the shifted > umlaut diacritic. true, but i did find the root cause. ;) > > You might look up „composed“ vs. „decomposed“ Unicode - e.g. OSX uses (or > u

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Simon Bailey
ok, this is a known issue. https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2656#c29 -- Do not meddle in the affairs of trombonists, for they are subtle and quick to anger. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/m

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Simon Bailey
Hello listers, On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Noeck wrote: > ah, for me it does not work with the default (2.16.2) Lilypond coming > with Ubuntu (/usr/bin/lilypond). But with newer versions installed from > the website, which use different libraries. Using the 64 bit _linux_ version of 2.18.0-

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Simon Bailey
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Urs Liska wrote: > The problem (as Wernes said initially) is that you can't _ask_ LilyPond for > it. Depending on your OS and font setup it just does it or not ... where do i start debugging? this obviously works for other people. OS: Fedora 20 lilypond: 2.17.97,

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi, On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >> the ligature is obviously there in my copy of the font. > > You are aware that `Aufführung' *without* an `ff' ligature is the > correct way to write this word in German? `Auf' is a prefix, and as > such it should not have a ligatur

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Simon Bailey
hi, On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Urs Liska wrote: > Am 16.01.2014 12:17, schrieb Simon Bailey: > >> I'm using it through typekit, there are some hoops to jump through to >> get lilypond to recognise it. > > Which may be a hint where to look for problems.

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Simon Bailey
Kieren, Urs, On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: >> Does the font handling in Lilypond know about ligatures in opentype fonts? > > I don’t believe so… one of the many typographical features Lilypond lacks. Urs' example seems to show that it does... Strange >> Using the sa

kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Simon Bailey
Hello, Does the font handling in Lilypond know about ligatures in opentype fonts? Using the same font in Indesign and lilypond gives me the attached output. Compare the "ff" -- it should look like the Indesign variant. Another question: why has the Umlaut over the "u" gone wrong in lilypond's out

Re: (no subject)

2014-01-15 Thread Simon Bailey
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:48 PM, jensgc wrote: > Kieren MacMillan wrote >> It’s not… I do exactly this all the time. >> Simply put your ritardando or stringendo in the same global variable as >> your \tempo and \mark items. > > Hi. Not sure if you have seen my earlier posts - but I don't have my \

Re: (no subject)

2014-01-15 Thread Simon Bailey
hi kieren, On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: >> In regards to tempo markings, it is a different matter, since any change in >> tempo needs to apply to each and every voice in the system. It makes perfect >> sense that the \tempo marking always goes to the System - I just do

Re: (no subject)

2014-01-15 Thread Simon Bailey
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:28 AM, jensgc wrote: > > Just a quick thought - if I with the temporary polyphony construct shown in > your example can direct TextSpanner content to a special Dynamics context - > would it then be possible to skip the Dynamic context (and the spacer > definitions that g

Re: (no subject)

2014-01-15 Thread Simon Bailey
hi, On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:53 AM, jensgc wrote: > thanks for the answer. I am aware of the possibility to have the dynamics in > a separate voice - and it might be the solution here. I am however not fond > of having to enter dynamics in a voice "without music" - for the score in > question I

Re: RehearsalMark

2014-01-13 Thread Simon Bailey
hi, On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 2:51 AM, pabuhr wrote: > I'm sorry, I can't make this example smaller and generate the problem. > > I want line 2 to end with the mark "Fine", but the mark "Fine" appears at the > start of line 3. How do I get "Fine" to appear at the end of line 2? this is probably wh

Re: Changing fonts

2014-01-10 Thread Simon Bailey
joram, On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Noeck wrote: > that works. I still have to specify the staff size before the include (I > can live with that). > > The interesting thing is this: If I have a set-global-staff-size after > the include, not the font size is wrong but the choice of fonts is >

Re: Changing fonts

2014-01-10 Thread Simon Bailey
hiya, On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Noeck wrote: > But that way I always need to specify the staff size. However, I would > like to put this in a style sheet and set the staff size later in a > file. Is that possible? > > Or is it possible to read in the global staff size? > Or could #(set-glo

Re: little bar at the beginning of a one-staff-system

2014-01-10 Thread Simon Bailey
rafael, On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Rafael Arndt wrote: >> >> 2014/1/9 Rafael Arndt >> > There is a tiny estatical detail I would like to change, but found out >> > nowhere how to do it: >> > I would like to have a bar at the beginning of the system here: <...SNIP...> > I actually did some

shapeII strange behaviour

2014-01-09 Thread Simon Bailey
hi all, when running the following file (sorry, this is as minimal as i can get it): <<< \version "2.18.0" \language "deutsch" \include "openlilylib/notation-snippets/shaping-bezier-curves/shapeII.ily" \relative c' { \time 4/4 e1 | \break a8 h ~ h8 cis8 \shapeII #'((h)(0 . 1.5)(ap 85 1)(h)) Slur

Re: Engraving challenges

2014-01-08 Thread Simon Bailey
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: > It might actually be interesting _not_ to collaborate, and see what > differences occur. This might also be true for Lilypond. > I was thinking something similar. It might be interesting to see how different people interpret or beautify the

Re: Version control tools

2014-01-08 Thread Simon Bailey
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Simon Bailey wrote: > don't get me wrong, i'm really trying to find a reason to like git. but > nothing seems different to SVN so far, except for the fact that i have to > commit TWICE... > just to clarify: i'm trying to find a

Re: Version control tools

2014-01-08 Thread Simon Bailey
hi, On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 10:20 AM, wrote: > Joram: > > Simon Bailey: > > > so, my follow up question: why use git as a single user? > > > > I always use git, event git-svn for svn repos. > > Comparing to CVS and SVN, I see these advantages: > > >

Re: Version control tools (was: Survey: Git (G)UIs)

2014-01-07 Thread Simon Bailey
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Urs Liska wrote: > > As a follow-up question I'd be interested in whether people use other > version control systems beside Git. If you use more than one, a short > comparison would be of general interest I think. > i use svn, that's what i know professionally and

Re: new and context

2014-01-07 Thread Simon Bailey
hi, On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Noeck wrote: > Hi, > > when looking at this snippet: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=292 > I have the following question: > > Why is \context Staff allowed here? How can I fill bass figures in a Staff? > > I thought I need a \new FiguredBass context fo

Re: Learning Lilypond, comments invited - part 2

2014-01-07 Thread Simon Bailey
hi, On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 7:20 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Noeck writes: > > With the promising caption "\set versus \override" and no content: > > > http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/set-versus-override > > Having spent quite a bit of time writing this section and makin

Re: 3x repeats

2013-12-23 Thread Simon Bailey
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Xavier Noria wrote: > On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: > > I've no idea - I'm just quoting what Elaine Gould says... >> > > Ah, OK :) > > By now I am putting a "3x" mark above the repeat (if I put the mark at the > beginning it is printed abov

Re: [Feature Request] \compressFullBarRests improvement(s)

2013-12-22 Thread Simon Bailey
On 22 Dec 2013, at 06:56, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > I also support this request. Another reason is that in many parts of > percussion instruments, say, there is `tacet' for a very long time, > e.g. from rehearsal number 20 to 76. A potential new implementation > of \compressFullBarRests (or a va

Re: SostenutoPedalLineSpanner and texts

2013-12-21 Thread Simon Bailey
On 20 Dec 2013, at 22:55, David Nalesnik wrote: > > Oops, mistakenly sent this only to the OP... once again, thanks, David! this is perfect. :) regards, sb <> ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: autochange and tuplet brackets

2013-12-20 Thread Simon Bailey
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Mark Knoop wrote: > Yes, and interestingly in this edition the rfz in the second system is > misplaced. It should be on the LH octave. > interesting. there are four versions on IMSLP. two breitkopf & härtel (the screenshot is from the first edition 1852). both

Re: autochange and tuplet brackets

2013-12-20 Thread Simon Bailey
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:05 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Not really: what's discussed in that thread is what happens when the > bracket-visibility is #f. In that case, the tuplet number is placed as > if there were a bracket, and since that bracket is placed quite far from > the beam in cross-st

Re: autochange and tuplet brackets

2013-12-20 Thread Simon Bailey
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Mark Knoop wrote: > > In my opinion the tweaked tuplet brackets are too far from the > bass noteheads (particularly in bar 13). In situations like this I've > always had to adjust the positions for each instance. > agreed, this is not quite yet the final print ve

Re: Fwd: autochange and tuplet brackets

2013-12-20 Thread Simon Bailey
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Urs Liska wrote: > Am 20.12.2013 10:55, schrieb Simon Bailey: > > that was a good tip -- turned up the amazing cross-staff beams >> attached... :D >> >> Please do ... yeah, i just realised that. and that the screeny is

Re: Fwd: autochange and tuplet brackets

2013-12-20 Thread Simon Bailey
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Urs Liska wrote: > <...SNIPSNAP...> >> notation is less complex for the player, but not being a pianist, i'm >> not sure if it would be considered the "correct" way to do it. if not, >> i'm open to suggestions on how better to notate this section. i haven't >> co

Re: delayed turn

2013-12-20 Thread Simon Bailey
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Eluze wrote: > Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote > > The length of the code was to demonstrate the inconsistencies, i.e., nine > > separate instances produce randomly two different results. > > you can write \repeat unfold 9 {...} so the reader is sure there is no > (ina

Re: Fwd: autochange and tuplet brackets

2013-12-20 Thread Simon Bailey
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 9:55 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Urs Liska writes: > >> Am 20.12.2013 08:33, schrieb Simon Bailey: >>> is this a bug or just unexpected behaviour on a border-case which doesn't >>> occur in real music?;) >> >> Well, it _

SostenutoPedalLineSpanner and texts

2013-12-19 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi, I'd like the SostenutoLine to be prefixed with "(Sost.)" after a line break. Is there a possibility to get the SostenutoPedalLineSpanner to support the following definition? \override SostenutoPedalLineSpanner.bound-details.left-broken.text = "(Sost.)" Thanks, regards, sb -- Do not meddle i

Re: guitar position indication

2013-12-18 Thread Simon Bailey
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 5:12 PM, bart deruyter wrote: > Thanks for the tips, Simon's solution seems to be the best. Thank you very > much :-D . > you're welcome. i'll be needing this function in the next month or so, so it didn't hurt that you asked... :D > @David Kastrup: > I didn't know \endS

Re: guitar position indication

2013-12-18 Thread Simon Bailey
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 3:59 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > bart deruyter writes: > > <...SNIPPETY SNIP...> > > consistent way of indicating a position, without having to rely on > spanners? > > What's wrong with spanners? > > You know about \endSpanners ? > THAT is a cool trick. 10 years of lilypo

Re: \partcombine "reminders" after page-break

2013-12-16 Thread Simon Bailey
hi kieren, On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hello all, > > When a Staff is populated by \partcombine, it is often difficult to > tell/remember who is playing right after a page-break. (n.b., Unlike > percussion or vocal staves, it isn’t

Re: survey on multiple development versions

2013-12-10 Thread Simon Bailey
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Mike Solomon wrote: > > I don’t think asking users a question is blasting ahead with a solution. > It is a question that will help me better understand how users use > unstable versions LilyPond, which in turn will help me understand the > problem. > i've been u

Re: Help ~ LilyPond Tablature

2013-12-04 Thread Simon Bailey
hi, On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Раул Апонт wrote: > > I just wanted to know what is this bongos notation about, I do not > understand what "bohm" or "boho" is, it would be a pleasure to get some > help of you guys, I would definitely thank you if you send me a brief > description of this not

Re: system-separator-markup = \slashSeparator

2013-11-23 Thread Simon Bailey
On Friday, 22 November 2013 at 19:32, i...@soundand.com wrote: > The conductor of my opera (The Map) has a preference for slash > separators on both sides/edges of the score is there a way to do this? untested, try: \paper { system-separator-markup = \markup { \fill-line { \slashSeparator \s

Fwd: Frescobaldi preview with two "window"-modes

2013-10-30 Thread Simon Bailey
please keep on list… -- Trombones and iPhones, what next? Begin forwarded message: > From: Francois Planiol > Date: 30 October 2013 13:19:42 CET > To: Simon Bailey > Subject: Re: Frescobaldi preview with two "window"-modes > > Hi and thanks for the helps, >

Re: Frescobaldi preview with two "window"-modes

2013-10-30 Thread Simon Bailey
hi, On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Wilbert Berendsen wrote: >> For typesetting from pdf scores on screen, opened in - lets say, >> acrobat - it would be usefull to have a very narrow viewer (or none) >> for entering code >> looking at the pdf the same time (narrowed frescobaldi), and 2 a wide

Re: announcement: OpenLilyLib Snippet Repository is open!

2013-10-29 Thread Simon Bailey
Hiya, > On 29 Oct 2013, at 23:36, Janek Warchoł wrote: > > As you may have noticed, we recently reorganized the repository and > now it should work more or less like you described. I hope you'll > like it! i checked out the repository in exactly this way on Sunday. ;) (i needed the stem atta

Re: Should this be entered relative or ...

2013-10-27 Thread Simon Bailey
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Kevin Tough wrote: > my first try at bass notes. It is a lot of fiddling to keep the proper > tab positions or I am doing something the hard way. The notes and their > positions I want indicated in the tab are correct for the first four > bars. I can carry on in th

Re: So, slashed beamed grace notes...

2013-10-24 Thread Simon Bailey
gilberto, On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: > When dealing with older music, the grace notes are normally referred as <...SNIP...> > When it comes to contemporary music, both types of grace notes tend to be > interpreted as "play as fast as possible". That said, the slas

Re: So, slashed beamed grace notes...

2013-10-23 Thread Simon Bailey
hi, > On 23 Oct 2013, at 21:25, Gilberto Agostinho > wrote: > > As for typing a score without the slashes: as a composer myself, I think > that it is inadmissible that a score of mine would be printed without the > slashes if I wrote them there. i may have missed this part of the discussion (o

Re: octaves

2013-10-22 Thread Simon Bailey
good evening, On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > The attached snippet is from http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=445. > > > > It was copied (“select all,” “copy”) into Frescobaldi 2.0.11 using Lilypond > 2.16.2. The octaves do not appear. > > > > What adjustment m

Re: "Octave" script in Frescobaldi

2013-10-22 Thread Simon Bailey
hey philippe, On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 12:57 PM, flup2 wrote: > These days, I have to input a lot of octaves in some music scores (a typical > figure in orchestral reductions :( ). I usually write but, with lots > of those, I hope it would be possible to write a snippet in Frescobaldi to > accele

Re: Mandatory or a cautionary accidental?

2013-10-22 Thread Simon Bailey
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Urs Liska wrote: >> ah, ok. the snippet you posted above _does_ look really good. is the >> slur from d, (LH beat 1) to g' > > gis' ! Haha :-) aaaggghhh. :D there's your answer -- it needs an accidental. :P >> (RH beat 3) original lilypond or >> tweaked? > >

Re: Mandatory or a cautionary accidental?

2013-10-22 Thread Simon Bailey
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Urs Liska wrote: > Rereading David's post I realize I haven't completely understood him yet. > First he says it's mandatory then cautionary, responding to different parts > of my message. > So obviously I'm still not really clear about it. i think i boils down to

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