Re: Some things need need to be fixed on the interfaces pages

2024-12-13 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> I'm left-handed by myself (but playing the piano), and I don't feel >> offended 🙂 > > But aren't you playing a right-handed piano? I do. However, I'm not *completely* left-handed – AFAIK, completely left-handed people are quite rare. For example, while I write with my left hand or hold a sp

Re: Some things need need to be fixed on the interfaces pages

2024-12-13 Thread Jeff Olson
On 12/13/2024 12:38 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Yes. Also, I guess not as many left-handed players are upset about this as I thought. I'm left-handed by myself (but playing the piano), and I don't feel offended 🙂 But aren't you playing a right-handed piano? (My guitar instructor uses that as ev

Re: Some things need need to be fixed on the interfaces pages

2024-12-12 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> *If* we had a page that showed all grob properties, then we could do > that. My bad, we actually have that :-) So yes, your suggestion is sound, and the list of grob properties could be amended accordingly. Werner

Re: Some things need need to be fixed on the interfaces pages

2024-12-12 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>>> There's a problem there, too, in that the default value depends on >>> the grob. >>> >>> In MeasureSpanner, the default value is (staff-bar . staff-bar) >>> >>> In PercentRepeat, it's (break-alignment . staff-bar) >> >> I don't see a problem here. > > You can't talk about *the* default value,

Re: Some things need need to be fixed on the interfaces pages

2024-12-12 Thread Christopher Heckman
On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 4:05 PM David Kastrup wrote: > > Christopher Heckman writes: > > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 10:58 PM Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >> > >> >> IIRC, a suggestion in the mentioned thread is to make the property > >> >> description displayed for a given grob show which interfaces i

Re: Some things need need to be fixed on the interfaces pages

2024-12-12 Thread David Kastrup
Christopher Heckman writes: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 10:58 PM Werner LEMBERG wrote: >> >> >> IIRC, a suggestion in the mentioned thread is to make the property >> >> description displayed for a given grob show which interfaces it is >> >> part of, for example >> >> >> >> ``` >> >> ‘spacing-pair

Re: Some things need need to be fixed on the interfaces pages

2024-12-12 Thread Christopher Heckman
n that left-handed chord diagrams > >>> (FretBoards) are supported by Lilypond. > >> > >> Well, this makes sense, because they are displayed differently. > > > > Also, there's a grob named StrokeFinger. It's not named > > RightHandFinger.

Re: Some things need need to be fixed on the interfaces pages

2024-12-11 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I mean should MMRs actually use centered-spanner-interface? MMRs are > after all spanners that are centered between spacing-pair. It looks > to me like the C++ code for MMRs does exactly the same offset > calculation as centered-spanner-interface::calc-x-offset, though not > all in one place.

Re: Some things need need to be fixed on the interfaces pages

2024-12-11 Thread Werner LEMBERG
gt;> And there's actually precedent, in that left-handed chord diagrams >>> (FretBoards) are supported by Lilypond. >> >> Well, this makes sense, because they are displayed differently. > > Also, there's a grob named StrokeFinger. It's not named > Ri

Re: Some things need need to be fixed on the interfaces pages

2024-12-11 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> IIRC, a suggestion in the mentioned thread > > Do you know the name of that thread? I tried searching for it, but > couldn't come up with anything. It's mentioned at the top of https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6210 namely https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2

Re: Some things need need to be fixed on the interfaces pages

2024-12-11 Thread Christopher Heckman
On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 9:38 PM Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > >> The policy of LilyPond is to avoid different property names for > >> similar functionality, which often leads to cryptic property > >> descriptions to be as generic as possible. In this particular case > >> an example is given, which is

Re: Some things need need to be fixed on the interfaces pages

2024-12-11 Thread Christopher Heckman
On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 9:38 PM Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > >> The policy of LilyPond is to avoid different property names for > >> similar functionality, which often leads to cryptic property > >> descriptions to be as generic as possible. In this particular case > >> an example is given, which is

Re: Some things need need to be fixed on the interfaces pages

2024-12-11 Thread Saul Tobin
I mean should MMRs actually use centered-spanner-interface? MMRs are after all spanners that are centered between spacing-pair. It looks to me like the C++ code for MMRs does exactly the same offset calculation as centered-spanner-interface::calc-x-offset, though not all in one place. On Tue, Dec

Re: Some things need need to be fixed on the interfaces pages

2024-12-10 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> The policy of LilyPond is to avoid different property names for >> similar functionality, which often leads to cryptic property >> descriptions to be as generic as possible. In this particular case >> an example is given, which is actually a good thing, but it doesn't >> cover the `centered-sp

Re: Some things need need to be fixed on the interfaces pages

2024-12-10 Thread Christopher Heckman
On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 12:58 AM Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > I went through the interfaces pages recently, and I found a couple of > > things that need to be fixed (these is from the 2.25 version). > > > > (1) The centered-spanner-interface page talks about using it wi

Re: Some things need need to be fixed on the interfaces pages

2024-12-09 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I went through the interfaces pages recently, and I found a couple of > things that need to be fixed (these is from the 2.25 version). > > (1) The centered-spanner-interface page talks about using it with > MultiMeasureRest, but MultiMeasureRest isn't among the list o

Some things need need to be fixed on the interfaces pages

2024-12-09 Thread Christopher Heckman
I went through the interfaces pages recently, and I found a couple of things that need to be fixed (these is from the 2.25 version). (1) The centered-spanner-interface page talks about using it with MultiMeasureRest, but MultiMeasureRest isn't among the list of grobs at the bottom that u

Frescobaldi: missing menu bar FIXED

2024-05-15 Thread Graham King
I'd like to record a fix, of sorts, for a missing menu bar in Frescobaldi under a rather specific combination of circumstances. It might help someone. Possibly future-me! I run Frescobaldi on an Ubuntu 22.04 system, with an Apple-Mac-OS-X- like KDE theme that puts the menus of the currently-focuss

Re: FIXED: Re: Frescobaldi: Weird error with 3.3.0 (OT?)

2023-05-08 Thread Stephan Schöll
I can confirm that this is exactly the issue I've encountered ... alongside with the solution I found on my own. Am 03.05.2023 um 13:40 schrieb Jean Abou Samra: Le dimanche 30 avril 2023 à 23:46 +0200, Stephan Schöll a écrit : So to me it seems that the uninstaller doesn't do a clean job. I

Re: FIXED: Re: Frescobaldi: Weird error with 3.3.0 (OT?)

2023-05-03 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le dimanche 30 avril 2023 à 23:46 +0200, Stephan Schöll a écrit : > So to me it seems that the uninstaller doesn't do a clean job. I wasn't aware of it, but it looks like this is a known problem. https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/issues/1252 signature.asc Description: This is a digita

FIXED: Re: Frescobaldi: Weird error with 3.3.0 (OT?)

2023-04-30 Thread Stephan Schöll
I tried to help with some C++ Redistributables according to advice in some posts. But all failed saying that a newer version is already installed. I tried to uninstall 3.3.0 and install 3.2 for comparison purposes. And yet, some similar error occured. I uninstalled any Frescobaldi installation an

Re: \fixed

2020-02-16 Thread Noeck
What happens if you compile the file? Is \fixed just marked red or is there an error when compiling? Older versions of Frescobaldi did not know some commands and treat them as a warning in syntax highlighting even though the installed LilyPond version might understand the syntax. That being said

Re: \fixed

2020-02-16 Thread David Kastrup
Ethan Sue writes: > In the past, I mostly used Weblily and recently started using Frescobaldi. > When I used Weblily, I used \fixed. When I put those files into > Frescobaldi, it highlights the line in red where the \fixed is. It also > highlights lines in red where \new GrandStaff s

\fixed

2020-02-16 Thread Ethan Sue
In the past, I mostly used Weblily and recently started using Frescobaldi. When I used Weblily, I used \fixed. When I put those files into Frescobaldi, it highlights the line in red where the \fixed is. It also highlights lines in red where \new GrandStaff s are. All my older saved files use

Re: How to set a fixed distance between upper page edge and top line of first staff?

2019-07-30 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-07-30 10:21 am, kimfierens wrote: Unfortunately none of your proposed solutions produced entirely satisfactory results. For some odd reason, the one note examples work pretty well, but as soon as more notes are added to a staff, the staffs are whacked out of alignment. It would be hel

Re: How to set a fixed distance between upper page edge and top line of first staff?

2019-07-30 Thread Karlin High
On 7/30/2019 12:21 PM, kimfierens wrote: To be honest, it seems a bit disappointing that a sophisticated piece of software (which LilyPond obviously is) seems unable to accomplish what the 18th century engraver probably took no more than a ruler and some elbow grease. LilyPond probably CAN do i

Re: How to set a fixed distance between upper page edge and top line of first staff?

2019-07-30 Thread kieren_macmillan kieren_macmillan
Hi all, Sorry I’m late to the thread — I’m in Edinburgh with my [Lilypond-engraved!] show at the Fringe. =) > Additionally, I find it difficult to get all the snippets equal width. Seems like all of that would be dead simple by packing each score in a \markup wrapper and then just placing them

Re: How to set a fixed distance between upper page edge and top line of first staff?

2019-07-30 Thread kimfierens
Hi Urs and Alexander, Sorry about the late reply. I had some trouble getting LuaLaTeX set up properly. Unfortunately none of your proposed solutions produced entirely satisfactory results. For some odd reason, the one note examples work pretty well, but as soon as more notes are added to a staff,

Re: How to set a fixed distance between upper page edge and top line of first staff?

2019-07-29 Thread Alexander Kobel
Hi Urs, hi Kim, On 29.07.19 11:10, Urs Liska wrote: > Hi Kim (?), > > 28. Juli 2019 22:59, "kimfierens" schrieb: > >> Hi everyone, I'm new to LilyPond, and I have a layout question for you. The >> title says it all basically: how do I get LilyPond to pu

Re: How to set a fixed distance between upper page edge and top line of first staff?

2019-07-29 Thread Urs Liska
in a usable solution for your use case. HTH Urs 29. Juli 2019 11:10, "Urs Liska" schrieb: > Hi Kim (?), > > 28. Juli 2019 22:59, "kimfierens" schrieb: > >> Hi everyone, I'm new to LilyPond, and I have a layout question for you. The >> title says

Re: How to set a fixed distance between upper page edge and top line of first staff?

2019-07-29 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Kim (?), 28. Juli 2019 22:59, "kimfierens" schrieb: > Hi everyone, I'm new to LilyPond, and I have a layout question for you. The > title says it all basically: how do I get LilyPond to put a fixed distance > between the upper page edge and the top line of the firs

How to set a fixed distance between upper page edge and top line of first staff?

2019-07-28 Thread kimfierens
Hi everyone, I'm new to LilyPond, and I have a layout question for you. The title says it all basically: how do I get LilyPond to put a fixed distance between the upper page edge and the top line of the first staff, regardless of any stuff (such as notes on ledger lines) that might stick out

Re: fixed vs relative

2019-05-11 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On Fri, 10 May 2019 at 04:00, Gianmaria Lari wrote: > > I saw the discussion about fixed vs relative few times in the lilypond ml. > > I think it's a lot about personal taste and habit and personally I decided to stick to fixed mainly because I find fixing mistakes in relative

Re: fixed vs relative

2019-05-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am 10.05.19 um 02:46 schrieb David Wright: You know that Frescobaldi can convert absolute to relative and vice versa? As can the ly standalone (derived from F~ possibly). Sorry I don't understand. ly, packaged as python3-ly in Debian, has a number of commands hived off (I assume) fro

python3-ly WAS Re: fixed vs relative

2019-05-09 Thread Andrew Bernard
HI David, Well I am delighted utterly. I can't use Frescobaldi anymore as the program takes minutes to position the cursor in my complex scores, due to issues that have been discussed on detail on the lists. So I switched to gvim (principally because the emacs lilypond mode is buggy and the indent

Re: fixed vs relative

2019-05-09 Thread David Wright
On Thu 09 May 2019 at 21:40:30 (+0200), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 21:32, David Wright wrote: > > > On Thu 09 May 2019 at 20:20:36 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > > > Gianmaria Lari writes: > > > > > > > I saw the discussion about f

Re: fixed vs relative

2019-05-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am 9. Mai 2019 21:40:30 MESZ schrieb Gianmaria Lari : >On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 21:32, David Wright >wrote: > >> On Thu 09 May 2019 at 20:20:36 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: >> > Gianmaria Lari writes: >> > >> > > I saw the discussion about fixed

Re: fixed vs relative

2019-05-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am 9. Mai 2019 21:52:49 MESZ schrieb David Kastrup : >David Wright writes: > >> one note has a dramatic effect on the following music, but is easily >> corrected with one tick. When this trick has been applied, many notes >> may have to be individually tickled after the mistake is discovered. >

Re: fixed vs relative

2019-05-09 Thread Gianmaria Lari
On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 21:32, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 09 May 2019 at 20:20:36 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > > Gianmaria Lari writes: > > > > > I saw the discussion about fixed vs relative few times in the lilypond > ml. > > > > > > I think

Re: fixed vs relative

2019-05-09 Thread David Kastrup
David Wright writes: > one note has a dramatic effect on the following music, but is easily > corrected with one tick. When this trick has been applied, many notes > may have to be individually tickled after the mistake is discovered. I was of the opinion that Frescobaldi can transpose regions.

Re: fixed vs relative

2019-05-09 Thread David Wright
On Thu 09 May 2019 at 20:20:36 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > Gianmaria Lari writes: > > > I saw the discussion about fixed vs relative few times in the lilypond ml. > > > > I think it's a lot about personal taste and habit and personally I decided > > to s

Re: fixed vs relative

2019-05-09 Thread Gianmaria Lari
On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 20:20, David Kastrup wrote: > Gianmaria Lari writes: > > > I saw the discussion about fixed vs relative few times in the lilypond > ml. > > > > I think it's a lot about personal taste and habit and personally I > decided > > to st

Re: fixed vs relative

2019-05-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am 9. Mai 2019 20:20:36 MESZ schrieb David Kastrup : >Gianmaria Lari writes: > >> I saw the discussion about fixed vs relative few times in the >lilypond ml. >> >> I think it's a lot about personal taste and habit and personally I >decided >> to st

Re: fixed vs relative

2019-05-09 Thread David Kastrup
Gianmaria Lari writes: > I saw the discussion about fixed vs relative few times in the lilypond ml. > > I think it's a lot about personal taste and habit and personally I decided > to stick to fixed mainly because I find fixing mistakes in relative mode is > much more anno

fixed vs relative

2019-05-09 Thread Gianmaria Lari
I saw the discussion about fixed vs relative few times in the lilypond ml. I think it's a lot about personal taste and habit and personally I decided to stick to fixed mainly because I find fixing mistakes in relative mode is much more annoying than writing in fixed way But what i

Fixed [was Re: Lilypond is not generating a pdf file]

2018-05-29 Thread Peter Horan
Hi Aaron > Message: 7 > Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 06:57:28 -0700 > From: Aaron Hill > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Lilypond is not generating a pdf file > Message-ID: <55f4d3d5c00209db6b25aeb1c670a...@hillvisions.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On 201

Set a fixed width for a bar

2018-03-12 Thread paolo prete
Hello, In the snippet below, is there a way to force bar 2 (e' e' e' e') to have 1) a fixed width with a given number 2) a fixed width = 40% of the entire staff ...? Thanks { c' c' c' c' | \noBreak e' e&

Re: Automatic vertical spacing when *some* values are fixed

2018-02-14 Thread Urs Liska
Hi David, thanks but that doesn't help, because no, I'm no "setting quartets" but "anything": Am 14.02.2018 um 01:30 schrieb David Wright: until I find something that promises to work generically (i.e. when I don't know the actual music and page layout beforehand)? IIRC you're setting quart

Re: Automatic vertical spacing when *some* values are fixed

2018-02-13 Thread David Wright
On Tue 13 Feb 2018 at 21:41:01 (+0100), Urs Liska wrote: > I know that the music can't be properly printed with the given > combination of paper size, margins and staffsize. But I want > LilyPond to prefer the solution with two systems per page (in this > example) because the compressed variant is

Re: Automatic vertical spacing when *some* values are fixed

2018-02-13 Thread Urs Liska
fixed, the only flexibility left lies in varying the distances between systems and staves. Unfortunately, the system-system-spacing has a default minimum distance of 8 (between the systems) and squeezing three systems into one page seems to be better than stretching them too far apart. I'd

Re: Automatic vertical spacing when *some* values are fixed

2018-02-13 Thread Torsten Hämmerle
Hi Urs, With the top and bottom fixed, the only flexibility left lies in varying the distances between systems and staves. Unfortunately, the system-system-spacing has a default minimum distance of 8 (between the systems) and squeezing three systems into one page seems to be better than

Automatic vertical spacing when *some* values are fixed

2018-02-13 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, recently (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2018-01/msg00576.html) I asked about how to use the vertical spacing variables to force the top system to an absolute position, which I could achieve with the basic-distance and minimal-distance of top-system-spacing and its s

Re: fixed vertical spacing within staff-group

2017-12-31 Thread Malte Meyn
Organ, the output is transposed to F Maj. Do let me know how to set fixed vertical spacing for staff-group. Please reply thru the lilypond user list and do not share the file on the list. Thanks. On Fri, 29/12/17, Malte Meyn wrote: \ove

Re: fixed vertical spacing within staff-group

2017-12-30 Thread Eby Mani
. On Fri, 29/12/17, Malte Meyn wrote: Subject: Re: fixed vertical spacing within staff-group To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Date: Friday, 29 December, 2017, 5:21 PM Am 29.12.2017 um 05:30 schrieb Eby Mani: > Hi, > > How to set fixed vertical spacing within st

Re: fixed vertical spacing within staff-group

2017-12-29 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 29.12.2017 um 05:30 schrieb Eby Mani: Hi, How to set fixed vertical spacing within staff-group ?. Hi, please always give a minimal working (and compilable) code example that shows what you are doing currently. I have tried the following in \layout { \context } section. Vertical

Re: \fixed absolute octave entry without brackets

2016-12-20 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 21.12.2016 00:57, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 21.12.2016 00:23, Gianmaria Lari wrote: Is there any way to avoid this additional bracket? It’s funny how for the second time in 7 hours I get to reply with \resetRelativeOctave Oh man, I need to go to sleep. Obviously, since you’re using absol

Re: \fixed absolute octave entry without brackets

2016-12-20 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 21.12.2016 00:23, Gianmaria Lari wrote: Is there any way to avoid this additional bracket? It’s funny how for the second time in 7 hours I get to reply with \resetRelativeOctave :-) I already made a patch to document it in the NR. Best, Simon

\fixed absolute octave entry without brackets

2016-12-20 Thread Gianmaria Lari
Few months ago I switched from relative to absolute octave entry. In the rare cases I need to write very high or very low octave notes and consequently I need to write too much single quote ( ' ) or comma ( , ) I use the "\fixed" function that I just discovered (before I was us

Re: layout-set-staff-size: will it ever be fixed?

2015-03-24 Thread Mark Knoop
>> Am 23.03.2015 um 21:53 schrieb Nikolai Hedler: >>> Would you like to enlighten me, then? Or do you mean to recommend >>> that I just use the hackish workaround? >>> Actually the following works perfectly well in a single file: \version "2.18.2" #(set-global-staff-size 15) \book { \bookOu

Re: layout-set-staff-size: will it ever be fixed?

2015-03-23 Thread tisimst
s such can't really afford to take the >> time to teach myself all about it. The main purpose of this is to inquire >> as to any reason why it hasn't been addressed already. >> > For the same reason: everybody who works on lilypond does so in their > free time (exce

Re: layout-set-staff-size: will it ever be fixed?

2015-03-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
lready. For the same reason: everybody who works on lilypond does so in their free time (except for David Kastrup, who also does very good to concentrate on the things he can do best and which are most important). So it’s not a matter of “does this bug need to be fixed?” but of “do I have time,

Re: layout-set-staff-size: will it ever be fixed?

2015-03-23 Thread Nikolai Hedler
I see that this may have been worked on in 2.19 as Issue 216 ; can someone update me as to the current status? On 23 March 2015 at 16:47, Niko

Re: layout-set-staff-size: will it ever be fixed?

2015-03-23 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Nikolai, > Is there any reason not to fix a known bug that's been around for this long > that's been a pain in the neck since I started using LilyPond? If you don’t see any reason, then please send in a patch for review. > My goal is to be able to create a single file which outputs a book in

layout-set-staff-size: will it ever be fixed?

2015-03-23 Thread Nikolai Hedler
https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=367&can=1&q=layout-set-staff-size&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Stars%20Owner%20Patch%20Needs%20Summary This is a bug which has been known about since 2.11 in 2007, but for some reason someone decided that it didn't deserve fixing, in spite of the

Re: Stem length at a fixed height

2015-03-05 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Just great! Thank you very much Harm for this smart solution and the detailed answer. Cheers, Pierre 2015-03-06 0:10 GMT+01:00 Thomas Morley : > 2015-03-05 18:46 GMT+01:00 Pierre Perol-Schneider > : > > Hi, > > > > In a tablature, full notation, I need to get the stem length at the same > > leve

Re: Stem length at a fixed height

2015-03-05 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Stephen, Fixing the stem length means that I'll have to manually change it for each bass string. My fault, my example should have bean more explicit. Thanks for giving a try anyway. Cheers, Pierre 2015-03-05 23:39 GMT+01:00 Stephen MacNeil : > How is this > > \version "2.18.2" > > > myMusic

Re: Stem length at a fixed height

2015-03-05 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-03-05 18:46 GMT+01:00 Pierre Perol-Schneider : > Hi, > > In a tablature, full notation, I need to get the stem length at the same > level as the predefined beam position. > Today I use a workaround that gives a bunch of warnings: > > \version "2.18.2" > > myMusic = \transpose c c, { > \key e

RE:Stem length at a fixed height

2015-03-05 Thread Stephen MacNeil
How is this \version "2.18.2" myMusic = \transpose c c, { \key ees\major \tag myStaff { ees8 ees16 f f f aes8~ aes4 aes8 g16 f } % => here's a workaround, using brackets, but gives warnings: \tag myTab { ees8 ees16 f f f aes8~ aes4 aes8 g16 f } } \score { \new StaffGroup << \new Staff

Stem length at a fixed height

2015-03-05 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi, In a tablature, full notation, I need to get the stem length at the same level as the predefined beam position. Today I use a workaround that gives a bunch of warnings: \version "2.18.2" myMusic = \transpose c c, { \key ees\major \tag myStaff { ees8 ees16 f f f aes8~ aes4 aes8 g16 f }

Re: Fixed width measures

2015-03-05 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 05.03.2015 um 09:21 schrieb Urs Liska: Am 05.03.2015 um 08:34 schrieb Brian Barker: At 11:37 05/03/2015 +1100, Andrew Bernard wrote: I have asked this question on the list in the past, but no solution seems to be available. The topic is fixed width measures. I have contemporary music

Re: Fixed width measures

2015-03-05 Thread Urs Liska
Am 05.03.2015 um 08:34 schrieb Brian Barker: At 11:37 05/03/2015 +1100, Andrew Bernard wrote: I have asked this question on the list in the past, but no solution seems to be available. The topic is fixed width measures. I have contemporary music that has lots of complex tuplets within

Re: Fixed width measures

2015-03-04 Thread Simon Albrecht
the readability… Am 05.03.2015 um 01:37 schrieb Andrew Bernard: Greetings all, I have asked this question on the list in the past, but no solution seems to be available. The topic is fixed width measures. I have contemporary music that has lots of complex tuplets within tuplets and rapidly

Re: Fixed width measures

2015-03-04 Thread Brian Barker
At 11:37 05/03/2015 +1100, Andrew Bernard wrote: I have asked this question on the list in the past, but no solution seems to be available. The topic is fixed width measures. I have contemporary music that has lots of complex tuplets within tuplets and rapidly varying time signatures (New

Fixed width measures

2015-03-04 Thread Andrew Bernard
Greetings all, I have asked this question on the list in the past, but no solution seems to be available. The topic is fixed width measures. I have contemporary music that has lots of complex tuplets within tuplets and rapidly varying time signatures (New Complexity School). The composer I am

Fixed ledger line width with no dimension.

2015-02-22 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi All, Please find herewith my last attempt to reach a kind of modern and easy gregorian notation (see previous discussion here : http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/kind-of-gregorian-moving-noteheads-tc170995.html and here : http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Hungarian-Gregorian-tc171130.

Re: BarNumber vertical positioning won't stay fixed relative to Staff/system

2015-02-03 Thread Kevin Barry
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Nice! This solves the problem completely for this one-Staff score (e.g., > linear instrumental part). > No doubt a similar incantation (e.g., on PianoStaff) will work for my > other scores — I’ll have to che

Re: BarNumber vertical positioning won't stay fixed relative to Staff/system

2015-02-03 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Kevin, > Have you tried removing bar numbers from the Score context and placing them > in the Staff context instead? viz. > > \layout { > \context { > \Score > \remove "Bar_number_engraver" > } > \context { > \Staff > \consists "Bar_number_engraver" > }

Re: BarNumber vertical positioning won't stay fixed relative to Staff/system

2015-02-03 Thread Kevin Barry
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > This may be related to the fact that I have a ScoreMarks (a.k.a. MarkLine) > context at the top of my score: Have you tried removing bar numbers from the Score context and placing them in the Staff context

Re: Fixed distance between staves in all systems

2015-01-04 Thread Knute Snortum
snip > > Not being familiar with such early LP version, I'm assuming the original > typesetter set a fixed distance between the staves in each system > throughout the piece. > > Convert-ly is unable to update this forced distance override, giving this > warning: >

Fixed distance between staves in all systems

2015-01-03 Thread Javier Ruiz-Alma
being familiar with such early LP version, I'm assuming the original typesetter set a fixed distance between the staves in each system throughout the piece. Convert-ly is unable to update this forced distance override, giving this warning:"...2.11.15, Not smart enough to convert Ve

Re: How to make staff spacing with lyrics fixed

2014-10-03 Thread Knute Snortum
Do you have a small input file that illustrated the problem? Knute Snortum (via Gmail) On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Carl Peterson wrote: > Hey all, > > How do I get the spacing between lyrics and the surrounding staves to be > equal and fixed, regardless of whether noteheads/s

How to make staff spacing with lyrics fixed

2014-10-02 Thread Carl Peterson
Hey all, How do I get the spacing between lyrics and the surrounding staves to be equal and fixed, regardless of whether noteheads/stems collide with the lyrics? I've tried a number of different combinations of settings and can't get the stems ignored. Also, I noticed that the spacing

Re: Fixed measure width for chord charts.

2014-09-04 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 12:20 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: > The remaining outstanding difficulty is controlling the measure width > - > ideally all the bar lines would align vertically down the screen (the > chord symbols would be made smaller if they didn't fit). > I have set > > \set Score.proport

Re: Fixed measure width for chord charts.

2014-09-04 Thread Richard Shann
bout \consists \with and so on... As I remarked earlier, getting the line breaks in is not a big deal, there are only three or four in a chord chart. But I fear fixed bar widths may turn out to be more important than I thought. It is all to do with how people's eyes scan the lines as they re

Re: Fixed measure width for chord charts.

2014-08-30 Thread Richard Shann
On Sat, 2014-08-30 at 15:09 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: > Richard Shann writes: > > >> You may wish to take a look at the playtab program. > > > > What LilyPond (& Denemo) can bring to the party is transposition, > > playback, adding (non-printing) drum tracks, using the same music for a > > lead

Re: Fixed measure width for chord charts.

2014-08-30 Thread Johan Vromans
Richard Shann writes: >> You may wish to take a look at the playtab program. > > What LilyPond (& Denemo) can bring to the party is transposition, > playback, adding (non-printing) drum tracks, using the same music for a > lead sheet and a wealth of other stuff - dynamics, repeat bars etc. Playt

Re: Fixed measure width for chord charts.

2014-08-30 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 19:17 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: > Richard Shann writes: > > > I have been developing LilyPond code to enable the generation of "Chord > > Charts" such as the one attached here. > > You may wish to take a look at the playtab program. > > http://johan.vromans.org/software/

Re: Fixed measure width for chord charts.

2014-08-29 Thread David Nalesnik
Richard, On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Richard Shann wrote: > On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 16:00 +0200, Jacques Menu wrote: > > Hello Richard, > > > > \set Score.bars-per-line-engraver '(4)) > Thanks - > I can't get that to compile, and indeed I can't track down > bars-per-line-engraver

Re: Fixed measure width for chord charts.

2014-08-29 Thread Johan Vromans
Richard Shann writes: > I have been developing LilyPond code to enable the generation of "Chord > Charts" such as the one attached here. You may wish to take a look at the playtab program. http://johan.vromans.org/software/sw_playtab.html -- Johan _

Re: Fixed measure width for chord charts.

2014-08-29 Thread Richard Shann
able the generation of "Chord > > > Charts" such as the one attached here. > > > They differ from conventional music notation by being short, comprising > > > only Chord Symbols with one or two chord durations, and, ideally, a > > > fixed measure spacing, us

Re: Fixed measure width for chord charts.

2014-08-29 Thread Richard Shann
"Chord > > Charts" such as the one attached here. > > They differ from conventional music notation by being short, comprising > > only Chord Symbols with one or two chord durations, and, ideally, a > > fixed measure spacing, usually four to a line. > > Various tweaks

Re: Fixed measure width for chord charts.

2014-08-29 Thread Jacques Menu
music notation by being short, comprising > only Chord Symbols with one or two chord durations, and, ideally, a > fixed measure spacing, usually four to a line. > Various tweaks have been applied in this example to suit very small > displays. > The remaining outstanding difficulty is co

Fixed measure width for chord charts.

2014-08-29 Thread Richard Shann
I have been developing LilyPond code to enable the generation of "Chord Charts" such as the one attached here. They differ from conventional music notation by being short, comprising only Chord Symbols with one or two chord durations, and, ideally, a fixed measure spacing, usually four

Re: Fixed number of Systems on page

2014-04-03 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Great!!! Am 03.04.2014 15:03, schrieb David Nalesnik: > 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 an id

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 David Nalesnik
Hi, On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 6:08 AM, Simon Bailey wrote: > 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 tha

Re: Fixed number of Systems on page

2014-04-03 Thread Phil Burfitt
- Original Message - From: "Urs Liska" To: "lilypond-user" Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 10:54 AM Subject: Fixed number of Systems on page Hi all, is it possible to enforce a specific number of systems on a specific page? For example to say: "I want a give

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: Fixed number of Systems on page

2014-04-03 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Urs, Am 03.04.2014 11:54, schrieb Urs Liska: > 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"? with lilypond anything should be

Fixed number of Systems on page

2014-04-03 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, 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 asked: "Please distribute the following 50 measures on 16 sta

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