Re: Creating Musical Examples without Meter

2011-11-06 Thread ivan . k . kuznetsov
Bill Mooney writes: > > By using two 'Score' statements I think your requirement is met, EXCEPT > that it works only if the example is only one system. By choosing a > wider page eg 'landscape' mode one might be able to obtain a fairly > large example (more measures) while staying in the 'one

Re: Creating Musical Examples without Meter

2011-11-06 Thread ivan . k . kuznetsov
Graham Percival writes: > > On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 02:46:58PM -0500, ivan.k.kuznet...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > Okay, the syntax I am using in my example: > > > >#'base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1 16) > > > > is an example of proportional notation, no? If not, > > Is that

Creating Musical Examples without Meter

2011-11-05 Thread Bill Mooney
Greetings Ivan, I hope the attached file is of some use... By using two 'Score' statements I think your requirement is met, EXCEPT that it works only if the example is only one system. By choosing a wider page eg 'landscape' mode one might be able to obtain a fairly large example (more measures

Re: Creating Musical Examples without Meter

2011-11-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 02:46:58PM -0500, ivan.k.kuznet...@gmail.com wrote: > > Graham Percival writes: > > > > Proportional notation? maybe as well as manually scaling > > distances with *15/16 and stuff like that? > > Okay, the syntax I am using in my example: > >#'base-shortest-dur

Re: Creating Musical Examples Without Meter

2011-11-05 Thread ivan . k . kuznetsov
Thanks to those who reponded. Sorry about my delay in writing back. "J. Boor" writes: > > Ivan, > > To turn off time signature all together, > do \set Score.timing = ##f I cannot get this syntax to work. Lilypond compiles but the time signature is still visible. Does this go in the \con

Re: Creating Musical Examples without Meter

2011-11-05 Thread ivan . k . kuznetsov
Graham Percival writes: > > On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 10:43:46PM -0500, ivan.k.kuznet...@gmail.com wrote: > > As far as I can tell, the only tool to notate "unmetered" > > music is the \cadenzaOn,\cadenzaOff pair of tags. > > Am I right about this, or are there other ways? > > Proportional notat

Re: Creating Musical Examples Without Meter

2011-10-30 Thread J. Boor
Ivan, To turn off time signature all together, do \set Score.timing = ##f That gets ride of time signature both visually and actually, if you want to insert barlines after that, inser them manually: \bar If you want to break a line with no barline at the end, do \bar "" \break Actually, I

Re: Creating Musical Examples without Meter

2011-10-29 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 10:43:46PM -0500, ivan.k.kuznet...@gmail.com wrote: > As far as I can tell, the only tool to notate "unmetered" > music is the \cadenzaOn,\cadenzaOff pair of tags. > Am I right about this, or are there other ways? Proportional notation? maybe as well as manually scaling d

Creating Musical Examples without Meter

2011-10-29 Thread ivan . k . kuznetsov
I would like to be able to use Lilypond to create musical examples for inclusion in papers and slides, and often, these musical examples will have no notated meter. With such examples, I will want to control exactly how much space each examples takes so that they can "line up" with other examples