Re: Am I missing something obvious about \codaMark?

2025-05-17 Thread tim...@bitstream.net
To reply to myself, I did find a usable workaround using \mark \markup { \fontsize #-2 \musicglyph "scripts.coda" } but that seems ungainly. But perhaps it’s the best that can be managed. > On May 17, 2025, at 10:46 AM, tim...@bitstream.net via LilyPond user > discussion wrot

Am I missing something obvious about \codaMark?

2025-05-17 Thread tim...@bitstream.net
For jazz lead sheets, I frequently want to place a coda at the beginning of a line following a \break, centered over the barline (which may be implied unless the line begins with a repeat barline). I use manual breaks to force four bars to the line for readability. Getting the coda glyph in the

Re: still cannot install on iMac

2025-05-14 Thread tim...@bitstream.net
A couple of thoughts. Lilypond can be installed and run on 15.4 because I’ve got it running. My apologies if the below is not news to you and you already know this stuff. It’s easy to find oneself mansplaining on the Internet. 1. Perhaps don’t use Firefox for downloading. Try Safari, I find

Re: Barline confusion/question

2025-03-11 Thread tim...@bitstream.net
that seems quite useful for future reference. Thank you! Tim > On Mar 8, 2025, at 10:04 AM, Knute Snortum wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM Peter Chubb <mailto:lily.u...@chubb.wattle.id.au>> wrote: >> >>>>> "Timothy" ==

Barline confusion/question

2025-03-07 Thread tim...@bitstream.net
Of all the things in Lilypnd I find barline syntax perhaps the most baffling. What I want is a double barline to end an 8 bar intro section at the end of a line (I am using \break to force 4 bars to a line) and then a repeat barline at the start of the next line where the head begins. I’ve tri

Re: Frescobaldi on Apple Silicon M3

2024-12-11 Thread Tim McNamara via LilyPond user discussion
> On Dec 8, 2024, at 9:19 PM, Tim McNamara via LilyPond user discussion > wrote: > > > >> On Dec 8, 2024, at 6:08 PM, Yoshiaki Onishi wrote: >> >> >>> > On Dec 7, 2024, at 11:58 AM, Tim McNamara via LilyPond user discussion >>> >

Re: MacOS instalation

2024-12-11 Thread Tim McNamara via LilyPond user discussion
> On Dec 10, 2024, at 12:20 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > >>> Maybe you are using something else? In particular, I couldn't >>> find a definition of `\jazzOn`... >> >> That is in version 1.0, which has the different file LilyJAZZ.ily. >> cf >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-use

Re: Frescobaldi on Apple Silicon M3

2024-12-08 Thread Tim McNamara via LilyPond user discussion
> On Dec 8, 2024, at 6:08 PM, Yoshiaki Onishi wrote: > > >> > On Dec 7, 2024, at 11:58 AM, Tim McNamara via LilyPond user discussion >> > mailto:lilypond-user@gnu.org>> wrote: >> > >> > I use Lilypond with Frescobaldi, updated to 3.

MacOS instalation

2024-12-07 Thread Tim McNamara via LilyPond user discussion
I installed Lilypond 2.24.4 on my new MacBook Air, currently running OS 14.7.1 (Sonoma). Previously, updating Lilypond on the Mac tended to break many things, and I was still running 2.19.x as I was putting off the update. David Kastrup’s comment to me a week or so ago about my antediluvian in

Re: Chordname question- triads with added upper extension

2024-11-27 Thread Tim McNamara via LilyPond user discussion
>> Mac invariably involves breaking things, so I haven't gotten around to >> doing it. > > That sounds like something you should get fixed as it will cause an > increasing amount of problems communicating with other people about > things you try doing. A very good point, but I don’t currently have the hours available to fix what breaks when I do the update. Tim

Re: Chordname question- triads with added upper extension

2024-11-27 Thread Tim McNamara via LilyPond user discussion
> On Nov 27, 2024, at 11:39 AM, Knute Snortum wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 9:26 AM Tim's Bitstream via LilyPond user discussion > mailto:lilypond-user@gnu.org>> wrote: > I am trying to get a G triad with added #11 in \chordmode.G add #11 would > be fine on the lead sheet as would G

Re: Scoop (jazz notation)

2024-05-14 Thread Tim Giles
Thanks for the link, Werner. I have added a comment regarding the jazz application. Cheers, -Tim > On 14 May 2024, at 19:21, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > >> I agree with Tim. It's one of those frequently used jazz-isms that >> lilypond doesn't handle very elega

Scoop (jazz notation)

2024-05-14 Thread Tim Giles
can notate this a couple of years ago: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2022-12/msg00313.html As this effect is quite commonly used, I wondered if there was any interest in getting this mark added to Lilypond's built-in articulations? -Tim

Re: Landscape output displays sideways

2023-02-18 Thread tim
i { >     \tempo 2=100 >   } > in the score block. What's going on. > You cannot have more than 16 channels in a MIDI file, it's a limitation of > the MIDI > format. Maybe you have more than 16 staves? The piece has four staves. -- Tim Slattery t...@risingdove.com

Re: Landscape output displays sideways

2023-02-17 Thread tim
five of these messages: warning: MIDI channel wrapped around warning: remapping modulo 16 I am-generating a MIDI file, but the only line in the source file talking about MIDI is \midi { \tempo 2=100 } in the score block. What's going on. -- Tim Slattery t...@risingdove.com

Landscape output displays sideways

2023-02-17 Thread tim
oth in Frescobaldi and in a separate PDF reader, so the problem must be in the PDF. -- Tim Slattery t...@risingdove.com

Re: issues with installing Lilypond

2022-09-20 Thread tim
On 19 Sep 2022 at 17:55, Cluanie Fraser wrote: > > Hi Tim, > Thanks for responding. I´m really struggling as I´m quite out of depth > with this tech stuff. > This is what shows up when I download the Lilypond file from the website > and double > click to op

Re: Lilyjazz font and Score.markFormatter problem with Lily 2.23.6

2022-04-01 Thread Tim McNamara
> What I’d like is to have the chord names such Em7 in the lilyjazz font too, > though. Note that I use a very outdated Lilypond version because it works for me just fine; the updates make for changes in input that I just don’t have the time or energy to learn. I am a part time hobbyist music

Re: Midi file is quiet???

2021-09-03 Thread tim
i file is > > completely quiet, > > from beginning to end. What would cause that? > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- > > Tim Slattery > > t...@risingdove.com > > What version of LilyPond are you using? What environment are you on > (like Windows 10, Lin

Midi file is quiet???

2021-09-03 Thread tim
file ends. The PDF looks absolutely beautiful;, no problem there. But the midi file is completely quiet, from beginning to end. What would cause that? Thanks! -- Tim Slattery t...@risingdove.com

Re: Search/Replace in Frescobaldi

2021-08-17 Thread tim
eplace" box. When I click the "Replace" button > > ... nothing happens. > > When I click the "All" button ... nothing happens. > This sounds reminiscent of > https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/issues/1366. > What OS are you using? Wh

Search/Replace in Frescobaldi

2021-08-17 Thread tim
delete all occurrences of a particular string from my source code with Frescobaldi? -- Tim Slattery t...@risingdove.com

Re: Help!

2021-07-29 Thread tim
environment for hacking LilyPond code. > Do you have those two things? > Lukas Frescobaldi will also ask you questions in a Wizard format, then set up a Lilypond file for you, ready for you to add notes, lyrics, whatever you want. Very nice! Frescobaldi runs on just about any platform you

Re: What is happening on the email thing? CONTENTS DELETED

2021-06-24 Thread Tim McNamara
Interesting. This has not happened for me. > On Jun 24, 2021, at 1:47 PM, darki...@jesusgod-pope666.info wrote: > > Why are so many contents being deleted on the email list, like it seems to > grow wilder and wilder... > > What is going on? Are people getting censored or have it been hacked o

Re: convert-ly

2021-05-31 Thread tim
.bat, *.cmd,*.lnk that sort of thing. It doesn't know about the *.py extension, so you have to type it in as part of the command. -- Tim Slattery t...@risingdove.com

Re: Jazz chords above slash notation

2021-03-25 Thread Tim McNamara
Are you thinking of this as a polychord (one chord above another, rather than a chord over a bass note as is usually with a “slash” chord)? Here is a snippet intended to be used as an \include, if I recall correctly, to denote poly chords in \chordmode I haven’t had occasion to use it in years,

Re: Frescobaldi 3.1.3 and landscape music

2021-02-12 Thread tim
the function of existing language instead of invoking the new feature with new language? -- Tim Slattery t...@risingdove.com

Frescobaldi 3.1.3 and landscape music

2021-02-11 Thread tim
I use Fresco's LilyPond|Engrave(publish) command, Adobe Acrobat shows it the same way! What have I missed? -- Tim Slattery t...@risingdove.com

Re: Multi-measure rests with alternating time signatures

2020-11-21 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Nov 21, 2020, at 9:14 AM, Kieren MacMillan > wrote: > > I don’t think that solves the OP’s problem, as I understand it to be… I think > the OP wants a compressed visual representation of a whole bunch of 4/4+3/4 > two-measure chunks, without actually seeing them written out. As far as

Re: Markup Between Systems

2020-10-14 Thread Tim McNamara
I do something like that with notes for arrangements on lead sheets; this is the basic “skeleton” of my .ly file for these. Perhaps that might work for you? I separate the \score block at the bottom from the musical statements because that’s how I was shown to do it way back when. I don’t kno

Re: Future of openLilyLib

2020-09-22 Thread Tim McNamara
On Sep 22, 2020, at 10:20 AM, Partitura Organum wrote: > > Karsten […] mentioned the lilypond-files: "OpenLilyLib is licensed under the > GPL. Thus, the copyleft effect forces that all Lilypond files which include > OpenLilyLib files, have also to be distributed under the terms of the GPL.". >

Re: Future of openLilyLib

2020-09-22 Thread Tim McNamara
On Sep 22, 2020, at 10:17 AM, Karsten Reincke wrote: > On 22.09.20 14:58, Tim McNamara wrote: >>> On Sep 22, 2020, at 4:30 AM, Karsten Reincke >>> <mailto:k.rein...@fodina.de> wrote: >>> Dear Carl; >>> >>> here is my explanation using the m

Re: Future of openLilyLib

2020-09-22 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Sep 22, 2020, at 4:30 AM, Karsten Reincke wrote: > Dear Carl; > > here is my explanation using the method of showing an analogy: > You are conflating the GPL as applied to functional software versus the rights of the user for the content produced through the use of that functional soft

Re: Is it possible to import scores generated by Lilypond to other softwares?

2020-07-23 Thread tim
r it is > possible to import scores generated by Lilypond to professional softwares > allowing to play music. Frescobaldi can export a MusicXML version of your score. Many music programs can import that format. -- Tim Slattery t...@risingdove.com

Re: registering a composition

2020-05-23 Thread Tim McNamara
You know, the human race managed this pretty successfully for a few hundred years before computers... seems like this might be overthinking it. > On May 23, 2020, at 6:30 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 23 May 2020 at 23:35:10 (+0200), Hans Åberg wrote: On 23 May 2020, at 23:00, antlis

Re: registering a composition

2020-05-21 Thread Tim McNamara
> On May 21, 2020, at 3:34 AM, Valentin Villenave > wrote: > > On 5/21/20, Francesco Petrogalli wrote: >> I have written it with lilypond, but it hasn't been performed yet. I >> wanted to secure the copyright before performing it. Given that there >> is no performing artist yet, there is no

Re: Score Wizard Fresco 3.1

2020-01-06 Thread Tim Slattery
The change log for it doesn't mention this problem. Has there been any resolution yet? -- Tim Slattery tim risingdove com

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 3.1 has been released!

2019-12-28 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Dec 28, 2019, at 3:22 PM, Davide Liessi wrote: > > Il giorno sab 28 dic 2019 alle ore 20:01 Tim McNamara > ha scritto: >> I downloaded the .dmg and installed on Catalina 10.15.1. The app crashes on >> launch each time. I have a log file for this which is att

Re: Mac OS 10.15 Catalina (fonts)

2019-11-17 Thread Tim McNamara
The default Catalina shell is zsh. You can use bash but you may have to set it to that.

Re: Mac OS 10.15 Catalina

2019-11-16 Thread Tim McNamara
Thank you, Hans, for making this work! > On Nov 16, 2019, at 11:21 AM, Hans Åberg wrote: > > Great! The other LilyPond programs are also in /opt/lilypond/bin/ would you > need them. > > >> On 16 Nov 2019, at 15:32, Mario Bolognani wrote: >> >> On a second attempt, following your very usefu

Re: Mac OS 10.15 Catalina

2019-11-14 Thread Tim McNamara
Frescobaldi itself does not generate sheet music. You need to install Lilypond also. In my experience with Catalina, Hans Aberg's .mkpg installs with a double click and works fine(except for convert-ly, apparently). Frescobaldi 3 does not work out of the box on the Mac; there are a half a dozen

Re: Mac OS 10.15 Catalina

2019-11-13 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Nov 13, 2019, at 9:34 AM, Carl Sorensen wrote: > > You can get an installable LilyPond package created by Hans Aberg here: > > https://www.et.byu.edu/~sorensen/lilypond-devel-2.19.83_2.mpkg > > There is a 64-bit Frescobaldi installer for Version 2.20: > > https://github.com/frescoba

Re: transpose for baritone sax

2019-09-26 Thread Tim McNamara
Read up on \transpose which should do what you want, combined with octaves. > On Sep 26, 2019, at 7:33 PM, Francesco Petrogalli > wrote: > > Hi, > > I have written a part using the orchestral pitch (real note) of an > instrument, the baritone sax (and other instruments, like trumpets, > alto,

Re: [Lilypond] How to get guitar chords to appear at each bar

2019-06-09 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Jun 9, 2019, at 6:32 PM, John Helly wrote: > > Aloha. > > With various suggestions that I'm very grateful for, I've mostly gotten > this guitar and vocal piece to score reasonably. However, I'm now stuck > trying to get the guitar chords to appear over each measure of the > verses and ch

Re: Volume Events Appearing In MIDI File

2019-05-18 Thread Mr Tim
; -- > Phil Holmes > > > > - Original Message - > *From:* Mr Tim > *To:* lilypond-user@gnu.org > *Sent:* Saturday, May 18, 2019 2:37 PM > *Subject:* Volume Events Appearing In MIDI File > > I had to re-install Lilypond and Frescobaldi on a new computer so they are > m

Volume Events Appearing In MIDI File

2019-05-18 Thread Mr Tim
d not include volume events in the MIDI output? Thanks, Tim ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Tangled up in Lilypond syntax

2019-03-26 Thread Tim Slattery
Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: >\new Staff \relative a' { >   a a a << { \voiceOne a a a } \new Voice { \voiceTwo e b b } >> >\oneVoice a a a >} >\addlyrics { \repeat unfold 10 test } That did it! Thanks for saving me much time and grief. -- T

Tangled up in Lilypond syntax

2019-03-25 Thread Tim Slattery
the soprano part at all. I'm not an expert in Lilypond syntax, so I'm at a standstill. What do I need to do to make this work? Thanks -- Tim Slattery tim risingdove com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Frescobaldi website in English

2019-03-22 Thread Tim Slattery
Ralph Palmer wrote: >Beautiful! Thanks, Wilbert. And thanks again for the wonderful program. I >use it for all my LilyPond entry. Oh, amen!!! I don't know who I ever used Lily without it! -- Tim Slattery tim risingdove com ___ li

Re: setting fretboard diagrams at the top of the page

2019-01-19 Thread Mr Tim
Oops, forgot to include the community. On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 5:51 PM Mr Tim wrote: > This is fantastic. I just changed how I do my chords. I used to have > "invisible" staff, notes, etc to do this. This is very helpful. I > actually put all the "define"

Re: Use of \vspace and \hspace

2019-01-19 Thread Mr Tim
strup wrote: > Mr Tim writes: > > > I am really confused on where I can and cannot use the \vspace and > > \hspace. > > They are markup commands. They can only appear inside of markup and > markup lists. > > -- > David Kastrup > _

Use of \vspace and \hspace

2019-01-19 Thread Mr Tim
I am really confused on where I can and cannot use the \vspace and \hspace. I've seen them inside \column expressions, is that the only place they can be? Reading the documentation does not help me at all. So I see it inside \markup { }. Well, then where can I put \markup? If markup has to be

Re: Lilypond not rendering PDF on Mac

2019-01-09 Thread Tim McNamara
That's what I was wondering. Might be helpful to make from source rather than using the precompiled binary. The MacOS update to 14.2 might have broken something- different version of some library or other- but building anew might resolve it, at the risk of dependency hell. > On Jan 9, 2019, a

Control over midi output

2018-12-04 Thread Mr Tim
Hi all, I'm trying to use Lilypond to create midi files to be played by an organ and I'm having difficulty getting it formatted the way it needs to be. 1) The midi file needs to be type 0 (everything in one track--the first one). This is very common for driving instruments since it's simpler and

Re: parenthesized chord symbols

2018-12-02 Thread Tim McNamara
Here is something I have used for years with good results. Someone on the list created this off the cuff. I have not tried it with 2.19.x. No doubt it could be improved, but it is short and simple. \version "2.18.0" #(define (left-parenthesis-ignatzek-chord-names in-pitches bass inversion c

Re: Should the LilyPond website mention financial support for contributors?

2018-11-09 Thread Tim McNamara
There’ve been many discussions about how to manage funding and contributing especially for those of us who cannot contribute to the coding. The Lilypond project doesn’t have any administration or central organization to be responsible for soliciting, collecting, accounting for and distributing

Re: A Midi question

2018-09-11 Thread Mr Tim
A friend of mine uses Anvil Studio for midi on Windows. I think they have a free version, but even the premium is not much. Sent from my iPad > On Sep 11, 2018, at 1:06 PM, foxfanfare wrote: > > Karlin High wrote >>> On 9/11/2018 11:05 AM, foxfanfare wrote: >>> 2. What do you do with the defa

Re: FW: shaped notes

2018-05-10 Thread Tim Slattery
o much for your time! If you're talking about the Sacred Harp style four-shape system or many seven-shape systems, the answer is YES, they are built-in. -- Tim Slattery tim risingdove com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org h

Re: Shortcut for Frescobaldi

2018-05-03 Thread Tim Slattery
Torsten Hämmerle wrote: >Hi Tim, > >Even if this is no Windows forum... ;) No, but I thought maybe some other Frescobaldi users had run into the same problem. I won't be posting general Win10 questions here, don't worry. >In Windows 10, the contents of the Start Menu Fold

Re: Shortcut for Frescobaldi

2018-05-03 Thread Tim Slattery
on the application with the mouse right button >- select "Open file location"... And that did it! Many thanks for the help. -- Tim Slattery tim risingdove com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Shortcut for Frescobaldi

2018-05-02 Thread Tim Slattery
ns. So I looked in the Frescobaldi directory to find the executable to point a shortcut to, but -- where is it? Can somebody tell me where to point the shortcut to? Thanks. -- Tim Slattery tim risingdove com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypo

Re: Lilypond slow to start up on the Mac

2018-04-24 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Apr 23, 2018, at 1:13 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 23 Apr 2018 at 11:40:46 (-0400), Arle Lommel wrote: >> I’ve noticed on the Mac for some time that the first time I invoke Lilypond >> from an external application after a reboot, it can take quite a while for >> it to respond. Norm

Re: Lilypond slow to start up on the Mac

2018-04-23 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Apr 23, 2018, at 10:40 AM, Arle Lommel wrote: > > I’ve noticed on the Mac for some time that the first time I invoke Lilypond > from an external application after a reboot, it can take quite a while for it > to respond. Normally this is something like a 40–60 second delay, after which >

Re: Lead sheet with variables

2018-01-23 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Jan 23, 2018, at 9:23 AM, JH Austin wrote: > > I tried to modify the Lead Sheet example by using a variable: > --- > \version "2.19.40" > > \music = \relative c'' { >a4 e c8 e r4 >b2 c4( d) > } > \score { > << > \chords { c2 g:sus4 f e } > \music > \addlyrics { One d

Re: PDF woes

2018-01-18 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Jan 17, 2018, at 10:46 PM, Travis Weller wrote: > I'm using the default editor which is included in the MacOS build of > lilypond. I'm not using Frescobaldi. > > And yes, I've checked that I'm using preview mode. The links are there. I can > see them when I mouse over, and they work in

Re: fondu fails on newer OS X versions

2018-01-12 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Jan 12, 2018, at 12:03 PM, padovani wrote: > > Hello, > > it seems that I'm having the mentioned fondu issue while running LilyPond > 2.19.80 on OSX 10.11.6 - El Capitan. > [http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/fondu-problems-on-El-Capitan-td189203.html] > > > Is there a fix around? D

Re: Next round on frescobaldi dependencies

2017-12-31 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 31, 2017, at 5:30 AM, bb wrote: > > I think you cannot install different versions of frescobaldi or parallel from > different sources. You might simply remove the repository version, try again > and see what happens. > > Concerning the description on http://www.frescobaldi.org/downloa

Re: Vintage Jazz Chords post in 2011 - Howto get it to display on Fresco?

2017-12-27 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 25, 2017, at 5:41 PM, James Harkins wrote: >> > I pasted this into Frescabaldi... >> >> you have to paste it to where lilypond can find it. That is not necessarily >> the font directory of lilypond, but I think that is not a wrong place. >> lilypond does not have frescobaldi in the se

Re: Frescobaldi

2017-12-06 Thread tim
On 6 Dec 2017 at 14:49, Guy Stalnaker wrote: > > Tim, > > From Frescobaldi menu: Tools | Special Characters -- my install has all three > of the characters > you mention (highlighted in the screen shot). This is the default view shown > me when I select this &g

Re: Frescobaldi

2017-12-06 Thread tim
On 6 Dec 2017 at 14:49, Guy Stalnaker wrote: > > Tim, > > From Frescobaldi menu: Tools | Special Characters -- my install has all three > of the characters > you mention (highlighted in the screen shot). This is the default view shown > me when I select this > Tool.

Frescobaldi

2017-12-06 Thread Tim Slattery
d what I'm looking for? -- Tim Slattery tim risingdove com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: OT: Apple stealing "Lily"

2017-05-06 Thread Tim McNamara
> On May 6, 2017, at 3:47 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > > Robert Schmaus writes: > >>> Please cool down and stop overreacting. >> >> >> Well your statement, which - very possibly without any bad intention - >> turned around the historical facts, so admirably matched that notion >> that occasio

Re: Apple stealing "Lily"

2017-05-02 Thread Tim McNamara
Thank you for your good sense, Andrew. > On May 2, 2017, at 8:30 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > Come on guys. Lilypond is not named Lily, the app is not developed by Apple, > Apple is not stealing anything, and it has nothing to do with music engraving. > > Lilypond is not a brand and not a tra

Re: Midi velocity output

2017-03-20 Thread Tim Aldegarmann
Hi! Thank you! Tim -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Midi-velocity-output-tp201139p201279.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https

Midi velocity output

2017-03-15 Thread Tim Aldegarmann
used for music engraving, I'm just curious if there is way to do this. Best regards, Tim Aldegarmann -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Midi-velocity-output-tp201139.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at

Re: Quotes in Lyrics

2017-02-23 Thread Tim Slattery
r quote will end it. The back slash "escapes" the following character, telling LP that it's not a control character, but an actual quote. A bit clumsy but logical, kind of like using ##T to set some LP option true. The first # to tell LP that a Scheme expression is following, then

Re: How to build LilyPond.app on macOS?

2016-12-06 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Dec 6, 2016, at 5:46 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >(b.2) I would actually like to know how to change the behaviour, > so that my favourite text editor opens rather than LilyPond.app. Wait, is all you want to do is to be able to assign *.ly files to open with a specific text editor if y

Re: New LilyPond website

2016-11-29 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Nov 29, 2016, at 3:57 AM, Andrew Bernard wrote: > If however you are discussing expanding the mindshare of lilypond in the > music publishing world, then I hardly think the cosmetic appearance of a > website is the most influential factor. That's a very shallow approach. > Surely it must be

Re: Guitar harmonics indicators

2016-05-20 Thread Tim McNamara
Bear in mind, though, that fairly few guitarists are used to seeing guitar written as if for piano. Johnny Smith advocated that, because it allows the guitar to be written as it sounds, but he was almost unique. 99% of the relatively few guitarists who can sight read expect to see treble clef,

Re: attachments and digest mode

2016-05-06 Thread Tim Reeves
> Message: 9 > Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 11:26:17 -0700 > From: Flaming Hakama by Elaine > To: Lilypond-User Mailing List > Subject: Re: attachments and digest mode > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > This thread is dying a quick death. I have raised this issue wit

Re: Added ninth chord (symbol)

2016-04-29 Thread Tim McNamara
loating around called pop-chord.ly or pop-chords.ly that has a lot of these kinds of exceptions already done. You use the \include command to utilize it; how to do that is also in the manual. The file ought to be in the snippet repository, I would think. Tim ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Replying to posts

2016-04-28 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Apr 28, 2016, at 11:45 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > >> Reading your admonition to "don't use top-posting," I tried to >> locate the command in Outlook 2013 that sets this option as default. > > What about this? > > http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/ > > I'm not an

Re: Replying to posts

2016-04-28 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Apr 28, 2016, at 9:37 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > The whole reason I began this thread was to ask if there may be some > simple way we could post the code of conduct/guidelines/policy for the > mailing list so that people could be made aware of it. Nobody has > addressed that simple poin

Re: Gaps in lyrics

2016-04-26 Thread tim
On 26 Apr 2016 at 17:14, Richard Shann wrote: > I just did this in Denemo, I selected the notes and chose the Skip > Syllables in Selection command > it generated > \repeat unfold 8 \skip 1 Outstanding! Works perfectly. Thanks for the solution! -- Tim Slattery t...@ri

Gaps in lyrics

2016-04-26 Thread Tim Slattery
d verse. It looks like I could use \skip ... but I'd have to have one for each note to be skipped. Is there a way to tell Lilypond how many notes or measures to skip? -- Tim Slattery tim risingdove com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Replying to posts

2016-04-25 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Apr 25, 2016, at 8:11 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: > >> On 25 Apr 2016, at 13:39, Tim McNamara wrote: >> >> On Apr 25, 2016, at 5:00 AM, Andrew Bernard wrote: >> >>> Greetings All, >>> >>> In a recent post David Wright asks of

Re: Replying to posts

2016-04-25 Thread Tim McNamara
On Apr 25, 2016, at 5:00 AM, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > Greetings All, > > In a recent post David Wright asks of a user: > > > Please configure your client to post a text equivalent of your HTML code. > > He also asked me to do that. The reality is that the world, given the ubiquity of broadb

Re: Lilypond error behaviour

2016-04-19 Thread Tim Reeves
y're just not > instantly fatal. > > -- > Matthew Skala > msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca People before principles. > http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ > Maybe they should be called "mortally-wounding" errors? :) Tim Reeves_

Re: Lilypond error behaviour

2016-04-17 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Apr 17, 2016, at 3:16 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > > Noeck writes: > >> These two are often similar but not always. >> IMHO, it would make sense to consider both and have 3 categories: >> - warning: user, please look at this >> - error: this is severe, there is something definitely wrong,

Re: Transpose down a perfect fifth

2016-04-10 Thread Tim McNamara
Sent from my iPad > On Apr 10, 2016, at 5:21 PM, Ryan Michael wrote: > > Hello . I have a score that I would the entirety of to be transposed down a > perfect fifth. > I tried > > \Transpose c f,{ > > E4 e f g g f e d c c d e e4. D8 d2 r2 > } Out of curiosity, did \Transpose really work?

Re: creating chords like F/A(D/F#) with \chordmode { }

2016-03-12 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 12, 2016, at 11:24 AM, Eby Mani wrote: > > Here it is. > >> On Sat, 12/3/16, Tim McNamara wrote: >> >> If you could point to an >> existing example out on the web that looks like what you >> want, it wou

Re: creating chords like F/A(D/F#) with \chordmode { }

2016-03-12 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 12, 2016, at 8:25 AM, Eby Mani wrote: > > How do i create chords like - B flat(G) or F/A(D/F#) with \chordmode { } ?. It would help if you would explain what you are trying to do a bit more fully. What is the chord "B flat(G)"? Or "F/A(D/F#)"? If I saw that on a lead sheet I would no

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2016-01-17 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Jan 17, 2016, at 3:28 PM, Carl-Henrik Buschmann > wrote: > > A properly formatet complex chord stacks alterations in parenthesis. Hemmm, that is a matter of individual preferences. As a jazz musician I find parentheses in chords add to the visual clutter and add no useful information.

Re: Lyrics for additional verses in LilyPond?

2016-01-16 Thread Tim Regan
Thanks Knute. That works. At first I place the markup block inside the score after my add lyrics block but that threw syntax errors. Once I placed it after the score it did exactly what I want. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http

Re: When to Use Pound Signs

2016-01-06 Thread Tim Reeves
> > Message: 6 > > Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 21:55:42 -0700 > > From: Colin Campbell > > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > > Subject: Re: When to Use Pound Signs > > Message-ID: <568c9e4e.6060...@shaw.ca> > > > > On 16-01-05 09:47 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > > > I wonder if the spaces delimited by the l

Re: [OT} Was "Re: Rounded beams"

2015-12-17 Thread Tim Reeves
ts. Typography is about rendering the content, not being it." There are obviously some different philosophies at play here, but the line between "good, readable scores" and "visual artworks" is at least a little fuzzy, isn't it? Tim Reeves__

Re: ChordNames: Brandt & Roemer exceptions

2015-11-29 Thread Tim McNamara
Oh, don't give me credit for that! It was sent to me by another list member a few years back as the pop-chords.ly file. > On Nov 29, 2015, at 3:42 PM, Kieren MacMillan > wrote: > > p.s. Thanks to Tim McNamara for the root-namer Scheme function! > (Full documentation and c

Re: Chord names

2015-11-26 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Nov 26, 2015, at 10:10 AM, Kieren MacMillan > wrote: > > Hi all, > >>> LilyPond's chord-naming names actually played chord notes, >>> not anticipated chords. > > I, for one, am grateful there are overrides, so I can easily label chords > with a chord name that my musicians prefer to see

Re: Repeat with alternatives

2015-10-01 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Sep 30, 2015, at 8:22 AM, s.p.korzil...@gmail.com wrote: > > Dear Sir / Madam, > > I’m trying to write a piece that has repeats with alternatives. It seems that > “\repeat volta 2” is the way to go with supplying the alternatives in > “\alternative”. However, this seems to work only for

Re: Chords and what they mean

2015-09-20 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Sep 20, 2015, at 2:58 AM, BB wrote: > > On 20.09.2015 03:30, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: >> ... >> >> > I suppose that this is because some people (and Lilypond) think that >> > C:sus2 is equally as valid or usual interpretation of "sus", and >> >> May be I misundertand this? c:sus2

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