Re: missing feature? piano hand brackets

Datum: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:10:55 +0100 Von: "Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)" An: till Rettig CC: lilypond-user@gnu.org Betreff: Re: missing feature? piano hand brackets First can be easily achieved with a postscript markup. (Two straight lines) till Rettig wrote: > Hi, > > from

missing feature? piano hand brackets

Hi, from the German LilyPond-Forum (at http://www.lilypondforum.de/index.php?topic=234.0): In Piano music it is some times important to indicat that a note written in one staff should be played by the hand of the other staff. This is mostly done by a l-shaped bracket pointing towards the staff

lilypond on Windows ME

Hello lilypond list! I report a problem by a user on the German forum: He installed LilyPond 2.12 on Windows ME and invoked the program from the command line. He got the following errors: 3 times: Fontconfig warning: no cachedir found (Dann folgt ein Ordnername und Pfad) adding cachedir. fon

Web-layout: Examples in the documentation

Hi, just saw that the examples page doesn't have yet the new layout. It would be nice if there would also a contents where it would be much easier to see what examples are available. I hope this is no big work. Also it appeared to me that it would be nice to have some examples of ancient mus

Re: Formatting of lyric syllables

Thank you for all that fast help, this is really the best list I know! Dominic Neumann schrieb: I updated your file a bit and hope that it is what you wanted. I added "" at the end of the lyrics of stanza 3. This shifts the fourth verse to the place you wanted. This gives a programming erro

Re: Formatting of lyric syllables

Bailey James E. schrieb: Aha! this one I know. music = \new Voice = stimme \relative { c4 d e f g a h c } lyrik = \new Lyrics \lyricsto stimme { do \override Score . LyricText #'font-shape = #'italic re \revert Score . LyricText #'font-shape mi fa sol la \override Score . LyricText

Formatting of lyric syllables

Hi all, is there a way to change only part of a lyric syllable? The issue is, that when having 4 repeats with 2 voltas, the fourth stanza (in the second volta) is on the same level as the third in the first volta. I would like to indicate that the text belongs to the fourth stanza, though. Id

Re: What to do when \> and \< produce text

Original-Nachricht > Datum: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:29:12 +0200 > Von: "Risto Vääräniemi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: lilypond-user@gnu.org, LilyPond Development <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mats > Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Betreff: Re: What to

Re: New doc website development

Patrick McCarty schrieb: By `text div', you mean the div with the main docs, right? If you would like the maximum line width to be 80em, what sort of page layout would you propose? I am having trouble visualizing how this would work. I was thinking about bigger screens, so they could some

New doc website development

Hi, sporadically following the discussion about the ongoing work on the new documentation web site. It is improving every day and looks really really good. Great job! I have a couple of things I thought you might (re)consider: first the width of the text div: I know this has been discussed e

Question about inserting a bracket: snippet "Bracketed passages"

Hi a user on the German Lilypond-Forum would like to insert several brackets one after the other in his score, as indicated with the snippet "bracketed passages". But the use of the \breathe obviously prevents to be put more than one time without anything in between. Does anybody have a quick

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 65, Issue 34

Trevor Daniels schrieb: OK, draft 8 will say: .6 Editorial markings .1 Annotational accidentals (was Musica ficta accidentals) (2.8.4) .2 Ligature brackets (was Ligatures) (2.8.2.4) .3 Baroque rhythmic notation (new) Karl: We don't have lilypond examples of this

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 65, Issue 34

Trevor Daniels schrieb: OK, draft 8 will say: .6 Editorial markings .1 Annotational accidentals (was Musica ficta accidentals) (2.8.4) .2 Ligature brackets (was Ligatures) (2.8.2.4) .3 Baroque rhythmic notation (new) (new - KH) Ok, so as I understand in 8.

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 65, Issue 34

Hi Karl Hammar wrote Trevor Daniels wrote Karl Hammar wrote Till: 8.5 Transcription of ancient music Why not call it "Editing" or "Making an edition", but transcription is also fine. I think we'll stick with "Transcription" - it seems closer to th

Re: GDP: Reorganisation of NR 2 - Final call for comments

Trevor Daniels schrieb: Thanks Till Would "Ancient and modern from one source" cover it. I can't think of anything shorter. I am fine with that one. Anyone else any better suggestions? Trevor - Original Message ----- From: "Till Rettig" <[EMAIL PRO

Re: GDP: Reorganisation of NR 2 - Final call for comments

Trevor Daniels schrieb: Till Rettig wrote Hi, this would be my suggestion for the ancient section: 8.5 Transcription of ancient music 5.1 using the same source for the original and the transcription [Here among others the snippets about reducing note length] 5.2 Incipits and Mensurstriche

Re: Re: GDP: Reorganisation of NR 2 - Final call for comments

ilypond-user@gnu.org > Betreff: Re: GDP: Reorganisation of NR 2 - Final call for comments > > > > Till Rettig wrote: > > I like this new layout of the second chapter! I hope, though, you can > > still > > consider my suggestions... > > :) Of course ... >

Re: StaffSymbol: line-positions

{ \override StaffSymbol #' line-positions = #' ( 18 12 2 0 -2 -4 ) }{ d d d d } Thanks Till Valentin Villenave schrieb: 2008/4/1, Till Rettig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: About the bug: I thought I would write: this works only with symmetrical staff lines. As I understand eve

Re: StaffSymbol: line-positions

\score{ \new Staff \with { \override StaffSymbol #' line-position = #' ( 6 3 0 -3 -6 ) }{ d' e' f' g' c'' } } In my idea the second example should print wider spaces and set the notes somhow off the lines, but it just prints the standard lines 4 2 0 -2 -4. Why is this so? Have you

Re: StaffSymbol: line-positions

f the examples seem to do what I would expect them to do. I don't understand exactly what you mean by "only if the staff is empty or the notes are on ledger lines.". /Mats till Rettig wrote: How does the line-position property of the StaffSymbol work correctly? I get it set to

Re: StaffSymbol: behaviour of ledger-line-thickness

t the top of the score. However, if you want to change it in the middle of a score, you can insert \stopStaff \startStaff which finishes the previous StaffSymbol object and creates a new one which reads the new property setting. /Mats till Rettig wrote: thanks for the quick answer. I tried n

StaffSymbol: line-positions

How does the line-position property of the StaffSymbol work correctly? I get it set to different positions only if the staff is empty or the notes are on ledger lines. Is this behaviour implied? And does the list of the positions need a specific order? It obviously takes only as much arguments (

Re: StaffSymbol: behaviour of ledger-line-thickness

? Till Original-Nachricht > Datum: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:32:51 +0200 > Von: Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: lilypond-user@gnu.org, "till Rettig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Betreff: Re: StaffSymbol: behaviour of ledger-line-thickness >

StaffSymbol: behaviour of ledger-line-thickness

Hi, could somebody explain me how ledger-line-thickness behaves? The IR states that it should be a pair: "ledger-line-thickness (pair of numbers) The thickness of ledger lines. It is the sum of 2 numbers: The first is the factor for line thickness, and the second for staff space. Both contr

Re: Starting a new staff in the same line

Thanks, I remember this discussion, it also appeared to me that there might be some solution, but I thought maybe there would be another easier way like just letting the following score begin in the same line. I will check out the incipit issue. Greetings Till Mats Bengtsson schrieb: As far as I

Starting a new staff in the same line

Hi all, a user at lilypondforum.de asked how to stop a staff group and start a new one after a short white space with a new system start delimiter bracket. I couldn't really help, I pointed to the \startStaff and \stopStaff commands, but they won't produce the starting bracket. Also when making

Re: LSR how to move clefs on uneven staff lines?

ypond-user-bounces+t.daniels=treda.co.u [EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Till Rettig Sent: 01 March 2008 14:52 To: lilypond-user Mailinglist Subject: LSR how to move clefs on uneven staff lines? Hi, I tried to get the clef right for this example from lsr: upper = \relative c'' { c1 d e f }

LSR how to move clefs on uneven staff lines?

Hi, I tried to get the clef right for this example from lsr: upper = \relative c'' { c1 d e f } lower = \relative c { c1 b a g } \score { \context PianoStaff << \new Staff << \upper >> \new Staff { \override Staff.StaffSymbol #'line-count = #4 \set Staff.clefGlyph = #

Snippet/template how to use lilypond-book with xelatex

Hi, I was writing about this already some time ago, now I prepared a small file that demonstrates how to use xelatex (and its advanced font selection features) whith lilypond-book. This is only a workaround since it pretends to lilypond-book to use pdflatex instead. But something like this cou

Re: GDP: What term do you use?

Original-Nachricht > Datum: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:46:42 +0200 > Von: "Risto Vääräniemi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: till <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Betreff: Re: GDP: What term do you use? > On 28/02/2008, till wrote: > > I just checked Felix Krohn again (well

Re: staff section

ssage- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+t.daniels=treda.co.u [EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Till Rettig Sent: 24 February 2008 13:19 To: lilypond-user Mailinglist Subject: GDP: staff section Hi GDP-helpers! I started now finally with the staff section of NR1. As with the r

Re: GDP: NR 1.1 comment

Mats Bengtsson schrieb: Quoting Till Rettig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, I just noticed that the staff contexts of the examples in 1.1.3.5 are PianoStaff. In 1.6 there is only mentioned GrandStaff. Which one is the preferred one to be used? I would mention both in 1.6, but I think we

GDP: NR 1.1 comment

Hi, I just noticed that the staff contexts of the examples in 1.1.3.5 are PianoStaff. In 1.6 there is only mentioned GrandStaff. Which one is the preferred one to be used? I would mention both in 1.6, but I think we should develop guidelines which context names to use. Maybe the PianoStaff is

GDP: staff section

Hi GDP-helpers! I started now finally with the staff section of NR1. As with the repeat section, I would also suggest some new grouping. The order of the section is now the following: # 1.6 Staff notation * 1.6.1 Displaying staves o 1.6.1.1 System start delimiters o 1.6.1.2

Re: Several issues transcribing ancient notation (clefs, noteheads, spacing)

Benedict Singer schrieb: Oh wow, this looks even easier than the scheme function I was going to write to scale everything. Is this in the lsr? No, I didn't yet do anything, I send an example of tight spacing to the list some times. If not, perhaps the cadenza settings could be put in and it co

Re: GDP: addition for Rhythms?

Mats Bengtsson schrieb: till wrote: Hi, I just read a bit further in the GDP and saw this example about polymetric music where each note has still the same duration, so the barlines won't be on the same vertical position. Because Lilypond can't count the bars anymore, it won't put bar numb

Re: Align of Staff.instrumentName

nment-Y = #0.31 and \override InstrumentName #'Y-offset = #-1.9 - both not very smart (because hard coded) Stefan Till Rettig wrote: Hello, I am trying to have an incipit as part of the instrument name for each staff. The example explains how it should look. This goes to far wel

Re: Help on changing staff sizes

page layout. It would then also be possible to refer to that chapter from the LM. Till Trevor D -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+t.daniels=treda.co.u [EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Till Rettig Sent: 05 December 2007 16:49 To: Graham Perciv

Re: Help on changing staff sizes

Sorry, I try to say it in a way that it might be added to the docs. In 5.2.1 the @refbugs (line 495 in spacing.itely on master) it states: "@code{layout-set-staff-size} does not change the distance between the staff lines." Could we add a sentence: "Use instead the pair fontSize

Re: Help on changing staff sizes

tch the reduced note size. Change the two -2s to suit your needs, but keep them the same value. Trevor D -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Till Rettig Sent: 01 December 2007 16:29 To: lilypond-user Mailinglist Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] Help on

Help on changing staff sizes

Hi, I need some help about changing the distance of staff lines: in NR 5.2.1 it says "The context property fontSize and the layout property staff-space (in StaffSymbol) can be used to tune the size for individual staves. The sizes of individual staves are relative to the global size." and

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 59, Issue 78

Monk Panteleimon wrote: I think its not that easy. I would use ChoirStaff as well for polyphonic music with only one voice per system, but as well I do songs, like the SATB example in de appendix, but with only one voice in the middle. It appeared somehow logical to me to use ChoirStaff

Re: Better vertical spacing in 2.11 adversely affects lyric spacing

>Is there any possibility to make the spacing algorithm behave >differently for >Lyrics contexts that are included in a ChoirStaff compared to those that >are not? That's the only way I could think of to deduce from the information >available in the .ly file if the lyrics should be centered betwe

Problem with \markup

Hi, what is happening here? The first bar shows the version that a want, the second then adds some markup text -- and screws the rest totally up! Greetings Till %% %EXAMPLE %% \version "2.11.33" u = { \change Staff = upper \stemDown \slurDown } m = { \change Staff = lower \ste

Re: GDP: add "extender line" to the glossary?

At least for the German translation I had really problems finding a word for that -- I think it is still untranslated... Is there any real term for this that could then also be translated easily? On the other hand -- so far we have this term, so it really should show up in the glossary if transl

Re: tuplets

Cześć Michał, fajnie, że ktoś chce tłumaczyć LP na język polski, bardzo się cieszę. michał poręba wrote: It seems to be a big problem for all of as. I am wanna-be polish translator and I have to admit that in my mother language people use tuplet, but only those who know Finale. None of encyclope

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007/9/24, Henning Hraban Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As Mark Knoop wrote, (indeed "das") "Tupel" is normally a vector and > as a musical term seems to be as common as "tuplet". > For the German tuplets named Duole, Triole, Quartole, Quintole/Pentole > etc. the neologism would have to be "die Tu

Re: GDP: rearrangement

Hello, from what so far has been discussed I catched somewhat the need is to group the issues more into "single topic" sections of subsections. For the discussion about the format of the html-docu: I would rather like to have whole subsections downloading than those tiny pages -- I also get l

Subject: Deutsches Lilypond Forum

Hi Thomas, das sieht schön aus, ich werd mal schaun ob ich es schaffe, da aktiv dabei zu sein. :-) Habe auch schon eine Weile nachgedacht... Eigentlich ist die Idee von einem Forum fast besser als eine Mailing-Liste, jedenfalls ist die Hemmschwelle kleiner. Wie wäre es mit einer Notiz auf die

Re: example directories, was: ancient accidentals won't show

Graham Percival wrote: input/test/ is being removed; you'll find this file on LSR and in the "snippets" section. Ok, so this is a bug! In the whole documentation Example: -links link to input/test/ and not to lsr. This should be fixed. Is there any way to do is automatically? Greetings Till

Re: problems with repeats-doc, was: afterGrace

partial measure doesn't affect the repeat." But then -- as I wrote this it appeared to me that this is nothing new nor extra, so would it be better to skip the whole example, because it doesn't introduce anything new? Till John Mandereau wrote: Le samedi 19 mai 2007 à 12:18 +0300,

ancient accidentals won't show

Hi, what has happened to the file input/test/ancient-accidentals.ly (as referenced from chapter 7.7.2) in the development version? I find it only in the 2.10 branch. And taking the defini

problems with repeats-doc, was: afterGrace

John Mandereau wrote: What about Chapter 9 "Changing defaults"? It's very practical, and it deals in detail with \tweak, \set and \override. Chapter 5 is only an introduction to tweaking, for beginners. Yes, I see, this is really good enough. If we give working examples in the sections

Re: problems with afterGrace

John Mandereau wrote: Le jeudi 17 mai 2007 à 16:42 +0300, Till Rettig a écrit : this is my minimal example: \version "2.11.23" \relative c'' { c1 { Why do you use a brace after c1? It is more confusing than useful. Yes, you are right, i wanted to c

Re: problems with afterGrace

Well, I would like to, but I don't get this working yet. The line \set afterGraceFraction = #(cons 2 4) is obviously not correct in this form. Graham Percival wrote: I'm always willing to replace examples in the documentation; please send me a better example. Cheers, - Graham T

problems with afterGrace

Hello all, I just tried to apply the example from the docs for 2.11, chapter 6.5.7 for changing the distance from afterGrace notes. But I get always a warning that the right context cannot be found. Would it be good to add a better example to the docs? this is my minimal example: \version "

Re: question about the documentation

ok, this sounds resonable, I just didn't understand the passage. So to say: within a fifth means that it can be a second, third, and fourth, but not a fifth. Thanks for the explanations. Till Valentin Villenave wrote: 2007/5/12, Till Rettig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, while tr

question about the documentation

Hi, while translating I found this sentence in the Docs Version 2.11.23 chapter 6.1.7: "In the example below, the first check passes without incident, since the |e| (in |relative| mode) is within a fifth of |a'|. However, the second check produces a warning, since the |e| is not within a fif

Re: tex backend

I included the lilypond files with \lilypondfile in my latex file. If I translate the lilypond file on it's own with lilypond, the postscript output is ok. If I translate the latex file with lilypond-book, the output has postscript errors. Both the latex file and the .ly files are utf-8 encoded.

Re: tex backend

Message: 9 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:14:55 +0100 From: "Dr. Johannes Zellner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: tex backend To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 You wrote: See also my other post from today where I ask how I could get a f

Re: Sprechgesang

Hi, definitely interesting might be, that the autographs from Schönberg himself doen't contain this special symbols, but he set a cross instead of a notehead. Confer to http://www.schoenberg.at/6_archiv/music/works/op/compositions_op21_sources_e.htm# for instance page 12 of the cathegory B. I

Re: Some more German cathegory two)

> > We translated all testimonials excepted the ones from Chris Cannam (too > difficult to translate) and Vaylor Trucks (easy to understand). Till, > you're certainly right, we should also add the testimonials in English. > Jan, shall I go ahead for French translation? > > Cheers > -- > John Ma

German translation help file

the patch form and another time the file itself so it is more easy to read. Thank you! Till From 0f876dc707a47267b40da3b9453c8f6d2ba29973 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Till Rettig <[EMAIL PROTECTED](none)> Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 19:41:57 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] README.de added --- README.de

Re: German translation update

Ok, I checked again the wiki pages and made a new version of my local git repository, and finally I got the right commitish and could add changes! Here is the patch! Till From 86c0ec8106a4fb525c95e6c24ff173952f76e823 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Till Rettig <[EMAIL PROTECTED](none)>

Re: German translation Part 2 & 3

Yes, I wrote a short message, but I don't now get the git to work out this patch, forgot how to update an already existing file, so I will send it this time directly. I just addes the message to the site/news.html file, hope that was right. Here ist the message also alone: lilypond.org auf d

Re: German po-file and contact.ihtml

Archiv) Direkter Kontakt zu den Autoren? Siehe die Liste der Autoren. (Bitte ausschließlich bei persönlichem Kontakt!) # de.po -- LilyPond German website language file # Copyright (C) 2006 Till Rettig # This file is distributed under the same license as the LilyPond packa

Re: German translation

Wow this worked fast -- this is actually my first bit of work for the "great community", so quite happy that results are coming so quick. Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: For the next batch of files, please use this method. Please make sure that you only add files to the git archive that you are actu

Some more German cathegory two)

So here come the files that are marked with cathegory two. I will send them alone, so they would replace those with the same names in the tarball I sent earlier today. Now I started with the engraving-text, which is really quite a lot of work. I was just asking myself if it wouldn't be wiser to

German translation

Ok, so here comes the de.po-file (which is yet not compatible with my translation, since that is called new-de) Till # nl.po -- LilyPond Dutch website language file # Copyright (C) 2005 Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tineke de munnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. # Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Getting involved

Ok, I see, I was quite unclear. First about this mentioned passive forms: Direkt imperative as in English sounds in German somehow unpolite, maybe indeed the "active" style that Han-Wen mentioned. Actually it is some kind of passive form ("so you can see what is going on" would be translated "d

Re: Getting involved

Thank you Jan. So I tried now to get the diff with git (this is how I understand the command below. It seems there is quite a lot of addition, especially at the windows installation pages. Is there a way of applying them automatically to the already translated files so they would at least be up

Re: Getting involved

This sounds like a good start. Does the translation so far only concern the webpage, or is there also some (of course now older) documentation translated? Well I will try to sort out my way on this... Greetings Till Till Rettig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Till, a while

Getting involved

Hi everybody, a while ago I thought i might put my own bit into the lilypond work. So I checked the stuff on the development pages and ended up that a German translation for the web page and the documentation would be a nice thing. But first I thought of asking here if there is this kind of p

Bar numbering -- tweaking staves?

Hello, I started putting a ChoirStaff together with multimetre mesures. Because the score context calculates the bar numbering, it cannot gather anymore information on all staves, since they appear to have different measure numbers. One possibility is to add the bar_number_engraver to the staf

Re: midi-instrument problem

with version 2.8 and it seems to work fine. Possibly, it might help to explicitly instantiate the Staff contexts in your \score, i.e. to replace \context Voice = by \context Staff = in your example. /Mats Till Rettig wrote: Hello, does somebody have any idea, why I get only drum set as a

midi-instrument problem

t; \tenor >> >> \midi {\tempo 4=60 } \layout { } } It doesn't happen, when I don't make this predefinition of the voices but insert one after the other into the \score directly via \new Staff -command. But I actually would like to keep this definition as it makes files