Re: Beginners first attempt

2006-05-12 Thread Paul Scott
Colin Wilding wrote: Hmmm... how about using hidden notes instead of spaces? Sounds good! Thanks, Paul ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Beginners first attempt

2006-05-12 Thread Colin Wilding
pond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Beginners-first-attempt-t1575027.html#a4355712 Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User forum at Nabble.com.

Re: Beginners first attempt

2006-05-12 Thread Paul Scott
Colin Wilding wrote: Yes, I see your point. What I meant, though, was that you cannot attach the markup *directly* to a variable, e.g. as \gDown^\markup{ .. } at least, I don't think you can. It didn't work for me with the \downbow anyway. I agree. << { } { } >> allowed me a lot of fre

Re: Beginners first attempt

2006-05-12 Thread Colin Wilding
u could even make that chord show as 'A' in the chord names, using chord exceptions, if you wanted to be fancy). I'm not sure it's worth it, though, given that you can define the chords as variables as I have done. Hope that helps. If you need any further explanation of the appr

Re: Beginners first attempt

2006-05-12 Thread Colin Wilding
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Re: Beginners first attempt

2006-05-11 Thread Paul Scott
Colin Wilding wrote: There are quite a few ways in which you could make your life easier here, I think. 1. You should be able to use variables for chords - you didn't put the contents of Chords.ly in your email so I can't see why it didn't work; a definition like this works ok: gDown = { 4 \do

Re: Beginners first attempt

2006-05-11 Thread Colin Wilding
at I prefer to do is put all the music definitions into variables and then pull it all together in a \score at the end. If I get time later I will have a go at doing all this on the example you gave. Colin -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Beginners-first-attempt-t1575027.htm

Re: Beginners first attempt

2006-05-09 Thread Nick
Thanks On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 09:06 -0700, Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: > I'm not on a computer where I can test this now, but a cursory glance tells > me that your containment of the \center-align { } function is not correct. > All the things that you want "stacked vertically" should be containe

Re: Beginners first attempt

2006-05-08 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
er-align { \line { "B" }}} > 4 \downbow > 4 \downbow > 4 \upbow > > 4 \downbow > ^\markup{ \center-align { \line { "A" }}} > 4 \downbow > 4 \downbow > 4 \upbow > > 4 \downbow >

Beginners first attempt

2006-05-07 Thread Nick
I have written out a simple instructional guitar usage of America's "Sister Golden Hair". There are several mistakes problems with the file. #1 This was done in a very linear fashion, I tried to use variables for the chords and include them from another file, but couldn't make that work. # The ly