Re: Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files

2016-10-15 Thread David Wright
On Fri 14 Oct 2016 at 16:41:31 (-0700), Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > > 4.) What's the proper way to write the following: > > > > c4 4 4 > > > > when c's duration is actually "2." (a single button press) and d's > > duration is "2" (again a single button press)? Should one draw c2. or > > t

Re: Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files

2016-10-15 Thread David Wright
On Sat 15 Oct 2016 at 22:39:28 (+0200), Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 15 October 2016 at 01:01, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > > > >> 2.) Sometimes I have a very simple repeat pattern, say, part A repeats > >> four times. > >> The only difference is that the third time "c2." gets replaced by "c2 >

Re: Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files

2016-10-15 Thread David Wright
On Sat 15 Oct 2016 at 07:36:41 (+0200), Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you very much for some very useful suggestion. I'll reply to the > rest later, but I have one "objection" (I could probably have > mentioned that in my first post): > > On 15 October 2016 at 01:22, Flaming Hakama by Ela

Re: Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files

2016-10-15 Thread David Kastrup
Mojca Miklavec writes: > Thank you very much for the example. I compiled it, but the output > doesn't look too appealing to me. > > But you gave me the idea how to do it with two voices. For the visual > part I decided to use something like the following: > > << > { > 2.~ | >

Re: Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files

2016-10-15 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 15 October 2016 at 01:01, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > >> 2.) Sometimes I have a very simple repeat pattern, say, part A repeats >> four times. >> The only difference is that the third time "c2." gets replaced by "c2 >> c4" somewhere in the middle due to an additional syllable in the >> lyr

Re: Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files

2016-10-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hi, Thank you very much for some very useful suggestion. I'll reply to the rest later, but I have one "objection" (I could probably have mentioned that in my first post): On 15 October 2016 at 01:22, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > >> Is there a way to make this both appear correctly and play c

Re: Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files

2016-10-14 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
> 4.) What's the proper way to write the following: > > c4 4 4 > > when c's duration is actually "2." (a single button press) and d's > duration is "2" (again a single button press)? Should one draw c2. or > three c4, connected with a tie/slur? > I think there are different approaches to this

Re: Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files

2016-10-14 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
> 3.) I sometimes want to write repeats as | 1,3 | 2 | 4 | > > Is there any better way than the following? > > \alternative { > { > \set Score.repeatCommands = #'((volta "1, 3")) > ... > } > { > ... > } > { > \set Score.repeatCommands = #'((volta "4") end-repeat) > ...

Re: Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files

2016-10-14 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
> 2.) Sometimes I have a very simple repeat pattern, say, part A repeats > four times. > The only difference is that the third time "c2." gets replaced by "c2 > c4" somewhere in the middle due to an additional syllable in the > lyrics. > > a) What's the correct way to visually represent that? Drawi

Re: Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files

2016-10-14 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
> From: Mojca Miklavec > Subject: Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files > Hi, > > I have some simple beginner's questions about different aspects of > repeats, mostly from the perspective of creating proper MIDI files. > > 1.) Let's as

Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files

2016-10-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hi, I have some simple beginner's questions about different aspects of repeats, mostly from the perspective of creating proper MIDI files. 1.) Let's assume that the song has one of the following patterns Intro-A1-A2-B1-B2-A1-A2-A3 Intro-A1-A2-B1-B2-A1-A2-B1-B3 A1 = part A with

Re: Beginner's Questions

2014-12-13 Thread William Marchant
Thanks for the help. Saves me a lot of time. Bill On 14-12-12 02:03 PM, Daniel Berjón Díez wrote: On 12 December 2014 at 18:49, Urs Liska wrote: Am 12. Dezember 2014 18:14:52 MEZ, schrieb William Marchant : I started using Frescobaldi just last week. Forgive the questions of a rank beginn

Re: Beginner's Questions

2014-12-12 Thread Daniel Berjón Díez
On 12 December 2014 at 18:49, Urs Liska wrote: > > > Am 12. Dezember 2014 18:14:52 MEZ, schrieb William Marchant > : >>I started using Frescobaldi just last week. Forgive the questions of a >> >>rank beginner please. >>1. Is there a keyboard equivalent for the engrave button? I cannot >>find o

Re: Beginner's Questions

2014-12-12 Thread Urs Liska
Am 12. Dezember 2014 18:14:52 MEZ, schrieb William Marchant : >I started using Frescobaldi just last week. Forgive the questions of a > >rank beginner please. >1. Is there a keyboard equivalent for the engrave button? I cannot >find one. Ctrl-m for Preview. Ctrl-shift-p for publish Ctrl-shi

Beginner's Questions

2014-12-12 Thread William Marchant
I started using Frescobaldi just last week. Forgive the questions of a rank beginner please. 1. Is there a keyboard equivalent for the engrave button? I cannot find one. 2. I notice that saving a program does not automatically put the .ly on the file name. I think this would be very handy.

Re: Beginner's questions

2009-11-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Pierre RUEL wrote: > I'm just beginning with Lilypond (after some years of practice with other > notation softwares). In fact I've produced some PC programmed music and > wan't to use Lilypond as an interface between VBA produced .txt code and > music. Greetings,

Re: Beginner's questions

2009-11-18 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Wednesday, November 18, 2009 5:36 PM Pierre RUEL writes: and the analysis of the soft says: "syntax error, unexpected STRING, expecting > or DRUM_PITCH or MUSIC_FUNCTION or NOTENAME_PITCH" < do''2 reb''2> Could anybody explain what is that "guilty" STRING ? Apparentl

Re: Beginner's questions

2009-11-18 Thread James E. Bailey
On 18.11.2009, at 18:36, David Kastrup wrote: Pierre RUEL writes: Hello, … and the analysis of the soft says: "syntax error, unexpected STRING, expecting > or DRUM_PITCH or MUSIC_FUNCTION or NOTENAME_PITCH" < do''2 reb''2> Could anybody explain what is that "guilty" STRING ? Apparentl

Re: Beginner's questions

2009-11-18 Thread David Kastrup
Pierre RUEL writes: > Hello, > I'm just beginning with Lilypond (after some years of practice with > other notation softwares). In fact I've produced some PC programmed > music and wan't to use Lilypond as an interface between VBA produced > .txt code and music. > I have a huge .ly file of more t

Re: Beginner's questions

2009-11-18 Thread David Bobroff
I think that the likely problem is that you should change: to: 2 You have specified a chord and the time values for chords takes place after the chord. -David Pierre RUEL wrote: Hello, I'm just beginning with Lilypond (after some years of practice with other notation softwares). In fac

Beginner's questions

2009-11-18 Thread Pierre RUEL
Hello, I'm just beginning with Lilypond (after some years of practice with other notation softwares). In fact I've produced some PC programmed music and wan't to use Lilypond as an interface between VBA produced .txt code and music. I have a huge .ly file of more than 400 A4 pages and the .log

Re: some beginner's questions

2003-10-03 Thread Jost Schenck
Am Freitag, 3. Oktober 2003 14:51 schrieb Mats Bengtsson: > You could correct it manually, by doing the clef change somewhat > earlier in the bar: > 1*3/4 \clef bass s4 Yes, this works, thanks! Regarding the other things: should I formally file bug reports for things like this or is it

Re: some beginner's questions

2003-10-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Definitely not beginners questions! Jost Schenck wrote: Hi, I have some questions on which I could not find answers in the documentation nor in the mailing list archives. I hope somebody can help me! If I overlooked something, forgive me. - I have to change the clef in the lower Staff of a Pian

some beginner's questions

2003-10-02 Thread Jost Schenck
Hi, I have some questions on which I could not find answers in the documentation nor in the mailing list archives. I hope somebody can help me! If I overlooked something, forgive me. - I have to change the clef in the lower Staff of a PianoStaff from treble to clef, at the end of a bar. This le