Re: 3 questions

2021-10-29 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Valentin, > I’ve been thinking about maybe we should create a collection of high quality > style sheets users can simply include to get really nice, different styles. I > think that might open up the customizabilty of Lilypond Scores to new users. If you search the archives, you’ll see that

Re: 3 questions

2021-10-29 Thread Valentin Petzel
Hello Kieren, Using stylesheets is a powerful option in Lilypond. For example I’ve got a cosmetic include that takes care of fonts and many small details, like paper margins, offsetting ^\markup in Dynamics contexts to have them centered. Also I have slightly heavier Beams (Lilypond’s Beams are

Re: 3 questions

2021-10-29 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Kira, > I am also a new user Nice to have you in the ’Pond! > what draws me to Lilypond is the sheer aesthetics of it. Even the most basic > thing created with Lilypond looks 1000 times more professional and attractive > than MuseScore, in my opinion! Oh, for sure. I have a choral octavo s

Re: 3 questions

2021-10-26 Thread Kira Garvie
I am also a new user, but what draws me to Lilypond is the sheer aesthetics of it. Even the most basic thing created with Lilypond looks 1000 times more professional and attractive than MuseScore, in my opinion! It is a learning curve though, one I’m still slogging through! On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at

Re: 3 questions

2021-10-26 Thread Tim's Bitstream
I think that for typesetting purposes Lilypond is more powerful than MusicXML. I have tried MuseScore in the past, probably close to 10 years ago, and I'm sure it has developed a lot since then. For my purposes at that time, however, Lilypond was more effective. When I started using it, I was in

Re: 3 questions

2021-10-26 Thread Kevin Cole
I'm just a beginner, and have used MuseScore a little in the past. It suited my needs then (and probably will again). However, I've switched to LilyPond in order to transcribe a lot of music from a 331-page PDF that was produced by scanning a rather dilapidated book from 1928. The book contains g

Re: 3 questions

2021-10-26 Thread Jefferson Felix
I'm not a musescore user, but I came from Finale and Sibelius, and I think MuseScore is like those ones (WYSIWYG), but it's free. The main reason I used Lilypond, and this happened in 2004 (I believe it was version 2.4) was the same reason that made me use LaTeX instead of Word: to concentrate on

3 questions

2021-10-26 Thread Charlie Boilley
Hello, Relatively new user here. Do MuseScore 4.x could attract Lilypond users or will Lilypond still be maintened in the next decade as a open source Dorico alternative ? - How large is the Lilypond community ? - Why not a Discourse forum ? - Why not a clean MusicXML imprt / export thoughout a

Re: Creating new context: 3 Questions

2015-03-25 Thread Robert Schmaus
8 } } >> \new Staff \new Voice { \repeat unfold 2 { c'4 d' e' f' } } >> >> >> } >> >> %< SNIP -- >> >> HTH, >> Abraham >> >>> On Wed, Mar 25,

Re: Creating new context: 3 Questions

2015-03-25 Thread Abraham Lee
ote: > >> Paul Morris wrote >> \context { \Staff \accepts "RhythmicLine" } >> >> Ah-ha! this should be >> >> \context { \Score \accepts "RhythmicLine" } >> >> since RhythmicLine is a kind of staff context (rat

Re: Creating new context: 3 Questions

2015-03-25 Thread tisimst
cepts "RhythmicLine" } > > since RhythmicLine is a kind of staff context (rather than a kind of voice > context). Then \remove works as expected. > > -Paul > > -- > If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the disc

Re: Creating new context: 3 Questions

2015-03-25 Thread Paul Morris
this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Creating-new-context-3-Questions-tp173645p173653.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Creating new context: 3 Questions

2015-03-25 Thread Paul Morris
hythmic_column_engraver" \consists "Note_heads_engraver" \override NoteHead.style = #'slash \consists "Stem_engraver" \consists "Beam_engraver" \hide BarLine %} } \context { \Staff \accepts "RhythmicLine" } } -- View this me

Re: Creating new context: 3 Questions

2015-03-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Robert, I’m not really into the topic, but I have two remarks: Am 25.03.2015 um 14:50 schrieb Robert Schmaus: Hi Ponderers, I have tried a couple of times now but can't get this to work. Maybe someone sees my mistake ... [snip] So my first question is: why doesn't this work? My second q

Creating new context: 3 Questions

2015-03-25 Thread Robert Schmaus
Hi Ponderers, I have tried a couple of times now but can't get this to work. Maybe someone sees my mistake ... I've checked out section "Defining new contexts" of the manual (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/defining-new-contexts) and tried to do the following: I'd like to cre

Re: vim&Lilypond learning curve_jazzchord font_bars per line? 3 questions

2010-12-03 Thread Ludo Beckers
thank you James & James & Tim I'll delve into the learning manual and see how far I get (ps I'm not on Mac but on Linux) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: vim&Lilypond learning curve_jazzchord font_bars per line? 3 questions

2010-12-02 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 2, 2010, at 10:06 AM, LazyLew wrote: I have some simple questions - can't find it in the manuals so far, because there's so much there. - is it easy to adapt fonts for chords? I like 'em bold, the way you often see in jazz sheets. On a Mac anything with changing fonts seems to be

Re: vim&Lilypond learning curve_jazzchord font_bars per line? 3 questions

2010-12-02 Thread James
LzzyLew On 02/12/2010 17:17, James Bailey wrote: On Dec 2, 2010, at 5:06 PM, LazyLew wrote: I have some simple questions - can't find it in the manuals so far, because there's so much there. - is it easy to adapt fonts for chords? I like 'em bold, the way you often see in jazz sheets. - is

Re: vim&Lilypond learning curve_jazzchord font_bars per line? 3 questions

2010-12-02 Thread James Bailey
On Dec 2, 2010, at 5:06 PM, LazyLew wrote: > > I have some simple questions - can't find it in the manuals so far, because > there's so much there. > > - is it easy to adapt fonts for chords? I like 'em bold, the way you often > see in jazz sheets. > - is it easy to control the amount of measu

vim&Lilypond learning curve_jazzchord font_bars per line? 3 questions

2010-12-02 Thread LazyLew
humb as much as possible. - is the learning curve doable for a combination of vim and Lilypond? I'm new at both, and am 53, so don't have decades left to learn. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/vim-Lilypond-learning-curve_jazzchord-font_bars-per-line--3-questions-tp30