Re: How to submit a feature request (issue)

2023-07-02 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le dimanche 02 juillet 2023 à 23:25 -0700, Curt McDowell a écrit : > > I don't think it's tenable to expect anyone to keep a separate version of > LilyPond for each unique \version called for by all the scores in their > library. In the current system, that would be the only way to guarantee > co

Re: How to submit a feature request (issue)

2023-07-02 Thread Curt McDowell
I don't think it's tenable to expect anyone to keep a separate version of LilyPond for each unique \version called for by all the scores in their library. In the current system, that would be the only way to guarantee correct and consistent output. I'd hesitate to call the LilyPond version sys

Re: How to submit a feature request (issue)

2023-07-01 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le samedi 01 juillet 2023 à 11:30 -0700, Curt McDowell a écrit : > I tend not to use convert-ly because I feel upgrading a file version > would unfairly force anyone who wants to compile my music to upgrade > their LilyPond installation. Upgrading might not be straightforward when > using a stan

Re: How to submit a feature request (issue)

2023-07-01 Thread Curt McDowell
how to submit a feature request issue. I'd like to request the following change to the LilyPond parser: One feature that would be useful is for the LilyPond parser to output the following version numbers: The LilyPond version, e.g. 2.24.1; The source file "\version", e.g. 2.22.0. If

Re: How to submit a feature request (issue)

2023-07-01 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le samedi 01 juillet 2023 à 12:46 +0200, Valentin Petzel a écrit : > Maybe Lilypond should also give a warning if it on a lower language version. > The assumption here is that lower language versions are generally compatible > with higher program versions, but this is not true. So basically we on

Re: How to submit a feature request (issue)

2023-07-01 Thread Valentin Petzel
Maybe Lilypond should also give a warning if it on a lower language version. The assumption here is that lower language versions are generally compatible with higher program versions, but this is not true. So basically we only guarantee that a specific language version will be working with the s

Re: How to submit a feature request (issue)

2023-06-30 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le vendredi 30 juin 2023 à 15:36 -0700, Stu McKenzie a écrit : > > I'm not sure how to submit a feature request issue. > > I'd like to request the following change to the LilyPond parser: > > One feature that would be useful is for the LilyPond parser to output >

How to submit a feature request (issue)

2023-06-30 Thread Stu McKenzie
I'm not sure how to submit a feature request issue. I'd like to request the following change to the LilyPond parser: One feature that would be useful is for the LilyPond parser to output the following version numbers: The LilyPond version, e.g. 2.24.1; The source file "

Re: Need help using math in markup command definition, and a feature request.

2023-05-09 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le mardi 09 mai 2023 à 08:14 +, Werner LEMBERG a écrit : > Yes, evaluated, sorry. It is evaluated when baz is executed. ``` (define (foo bar) (define (baz) (if bar "yes" "no")) (set! bar #t) (baz)) (foo #f) ⇒ "yes" ``` signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed mess

Re: Need help using math in markup command definition, and a feature request.

2023-05-09 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> >> D'oh, this should be >> >> ``` >> (define (foo bar) >>   (define (baz) >>     ... >>     (if bar)    ; Is 'bar' visible here?  If yes, when is >>   ...   ; 'bar' expanded?  At the time 'baz' is >>     ; defined? At the time 'baz' is executed? >> ``` > > I do

Re: Need help using math in markup command definition, and a feature request.

2023-05-09 Thread dfro
On 5/9/23 03:22, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Le lundi 08 mai 2023 à 22:55 -0400, dfro a écrit : Jean, I think \translate-scaled will work for me! This is a wonderful tool.  In the following example, \concat allows me to get the symbols closer together. The -.2 values for x in /translate-scaled o

Re: Need help using math in markup command definition, and a feature request.

2023-05-09 Thread dfro
On 5/9/23 03:22, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Le lundi 08 mai 2023 à 22:55 -0400, dfro a écrit : Jean, I think \translate-scaled will work for me! This is a wonderful tool.  In the following example, \concat allows me to get the symbols closer together. The -.2 values for x in /translate-scaled o

Re: Need help using math in markup command definition, and a feature request.

2023-05-09 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le lundi 08 mai 2023 à 22:55 -0400, dfro a écrit : > > Jean, > > I think \translate-scaled will work for me! This is a wonderful tool.  In the > following example, \concat allows me to get the symbols closer together. The > -.2 values for x in /translate-scaled on the third \markup example d

Re: Need help using math in markup command definition, and a feature request.

2023-05-08 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le mardi 09 mai 2023 à 04:26 +, Werner LEMBERG a écrit : > > D'oh, this should be > > ``` > (define (foo bar) >   (define (baz) >     ... >     (if bar)    ; Is 'bar' visible here?  If yes, when is >   ...   ; 'bar' expanded?  At the time 'baz' is >     ; defin

Re: Need help using math in markup command definition, and a feature request.

2023-05-08 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> BTW, I suggest to cover one more issue with local variables, namely > whether arguments to a function are seen in sub-functions, which are > IMHO a very good addition to `let` and `let*` to write clean and > readable code – often much more readable than anonymous lambda > expressions. > > Examp

Re: Need help using math in markup command definition, and a feature request.

2023-05-08 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Second, you need to use `let` here, not `define`. See > > https://extending-lilypond.gitlab.io/en/scheme/local-variables.html BTW, I suggest to cover one more issue with local variables, namely whether arguments to a function are seen in sub-functions, which are IMHO a very good addition to `l

Re: Need help using math in markup command definition, and a feature request.

2023-05-08 Thread dfro
On 5/8/23 21:06, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Le lundi 08 mai 2023 à 20:55 -0400, dfro a écrit : Fellow music engravers, I have a feature request. Perhaps, this has been discussed already. Sometimes, I would like the spacial formatting in a \markup command to respond to changes in fontsize, so

Re: Need help using math in markup command definition, and a feature request.

2023-05-08 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le lundi 08 mai 2023 à 20:55 -0400, dfro a écrit : > Fellow music engravers, > > I have a feature request. Perhaps, this has been discussed already. > > Sometimes, I would like the spacial formatting in a \markup command to > respond to changes in fontsize, so that all of t

Need help using math in markup command definition, and a feature request.

2023-05-08 Thread dfro
Fellow music engravers, I have a feature request. Perhaps, this has been discussed already. Sometimes, I would like the spacial formatting in a \markup command to respond to changes in fontsize, so that all of the \markup spacing will change proportional to the change in fontsize. I think

OLL autotranspose feature release

2023-02-05 Thread Saul Tobin
Hi all, Just want to let everyone know, auto-transpose in OpenLilyLib now has automatically inserted key signatures. https://github.com/openlilylib/oll-misc/tree/master/pitch/auto-transpose Please let me know if you run into any bugs using it. Saul

Re: not understanding the Al_Fine repeat feature of 2.23.9

2022-06-02 Thread Jacques Menu
lcott a écrit : >>> >>> Hi; >>> >>> I tried to engrave a simple Tuba Duet that has a Fine+D.C. construct >>> using Lilypond 2.23.9 >>> >>> I don't think I used the Al_Fine repeat feature correctly, as the >>> "Fine"

Re: not understanding the Al_Fine repeat feature of 2.23.9

2022-06-01 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
should precede the note it applies to. > > JM > > > > > > > Le 29 mai 2022 à 01:59, Kenneth Wolcott a écrit : > > > > Hi; > > > > I tried to engrave a simple Tuba Duet that has a Fine+D.C. construct > > using Lilypond 2.23.9 > > > &

Re: not understanding the Al_Fine repeat feature of 2.23.9

2022-06-01 Thread Jacques Menu
+D.C. construct > using Lilypond 2.23.9 > > I don't think I used the Al_Fine repeat feature correctly, as the > "Fine" is displayed one bar later than I expected it to be. > > Could someone be so kind as to explain what I did wrong or what I > could do better?

Re: Feature request: Fix cascading error messages

2022-03-29 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> This sounds sensible; maybe this suppression of processing `\score` >> blocks can be implemented in Scheme so that LilyPond with a special >> command line option acts as a syntax checker. > > Have you actually tried? Apart from scores placed in explicit books > and bookparts, LilyPond alread

Re: Feature request: Fix cascading error messages

2022-03-29 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 29/03/2022 à 09:31, Werner LEMBERG a écrit : In this context I could imagine a paramater that kind of highlights the first few error messages (or only shows the first N error messages) being very forthcoming to some people without a dev background. Or maybe at the end of the compilation output

Re: Feature request: Fix cascading error messages

2022-03-29 Thread Martín Rincón Botero
> > This sounds sensible; maybe this suppression of processing `\score` > > blocks can be implemented in Scheme so that LilyPond with a special > > command line option acts as a syntax checker. > That would be an improvement. It's still however not what the OP's

Re: Feature request: Fix cascading error messages

2022-03-29 Thread Martín Rincón Botero
Ah, mea culpa. www.martinrinconbotero.com > > On Mar 29, 2022 at 12:58 PM, mailto:d...@gnu.org)> wrote: > > > > Martín Rincón Boterowrites: > >> Since > TeX is predominantly employed for compiling LaTeX sources, that >> speaks > more

Re: Feature request: Fix cascading error messages

2022-03-29 Thread David Kastrup
Martín Rincón Botero writes: > >> Since TeX is predominantly employed for compiling LaTeX sources, that >> speaks more about the LaTeX implementation than TeX itself. > > Because I'm under the impression that Lilypond is more similar to > LaTeX than to TeX, It totally isn't, neither in

Re: Feature request: Fix cascading error messages

2022-03-29 Thread David Kastrup
Werner LEMBERG writes: >> Why make the user wait so long to make him fix a misspelled word or >> make him put a curly brace? A first pass should be done without >> \score blocks and abort (or at least ask if you want to continue!) >> if this first pass produces errors. > > This sounds sensible; m

Re: Feature request: Fix cascading error messages

2022-03-29 Thread Martín Rincón Botero
> > > Since TeX is predominantly employed for compiling LaTeX sources, that > > > > speaks more about the LaTeX implementation than TeX itself. > > > Because I'm under the impression that Lilypond is more similar to L

Re: Feature request: Fix cascading error messages

2022-03-29 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Why make the user wait so long to make him fix a misspelled word or > make him put a curly brace? A first pass should be done without > \score blocks and abort (or at least ask if you want to continue!) > if this first pass produces errors. This sounds sensible; maybe this suppression of proce

Re: Feature request: Fix cascading error messages

2022-03-29 Thread David Kastrup
Martín Rincón Botero writes: > I'm lucky to be able to work using Lilypond through Python. I never > compile the whole score I'm working on, but only the current "segment" > (around 2 pages) and the corresponding pages get updated in the > PDF. Compiling the whole thing is something I do only at

Re: Feature request: Fix cascading error messages

2022-03-29 Thread Martín Rincón Botero
*I'll implement it. On mar. 29 2022, at 12:06 pm, Martín Rincón Botero wrote: > > Sometimes I want to see the output inspite of errors. Aborting > > immediately if there is a syntax problem is definitely not always the > > best solution. I fully agree with other people that it should be > > Fres

Re: Feature request: Fix cascading error messages

2022-03-29 Thread Martín Rincón Botero
> Sometimes I want to see the output inspite of errors. Aborting > immediately if there is a syntax problem is definitely not always the > best solution. I fully agree with other people that it should be > Frescobaldi's job to jump to the first error message (in case it > doesn't do this already).

Re: Feature request: Fix cascading error messages

2022-03-29 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> But shouldn't Lilypond check first if the syntax is correct instead > of spending several seconds/minutes compiling a code that's doomed > to visually fail? Sometimes I want to see the output inspite of errors. Aborting immediately if there is a syntax problem is definitely not always the bes

Re: Feature request: Fix cascading error messages

2022-03-29 Thread Martín Rincón Botero
> I strongly disagree :-) > When there is an error, the default should be to continue as long as > possible. For large projects where the compilation takes time, you want > to have some viewable output even if there is a glitch somewhere. I also > think you are overestimating the "developing effort

Re: Feature request: Fix cascading error messages

2022-03-29 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> In this context I could imagine a paramater that kind of highlights > the first few error messages (or only shows the first N error > messages) being very forthcoming to some people without a dev > background. Or maybe at the end of the compilation output a clearly > marked: "First (few?) Error(

Re: Feature request: Fix cascading error messages

2022-03-29 Thread Christian
I think most developers are used to having a full error log - which is definitely the right default behaviour for lilypond. On the other hand I can fully understand that especially for users that aren't used to software development a full error log can be quite a mess to the (untrained) eye. In th

Re: Feature request: Fix cascading error messages

2022-03-28 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 29/03/2022 à 08:46, Martín Rincón Botero a écrit : +1. I think making it customizable (with a --cascade-level parameter) wouldn't add much value considering developing effort, though. Lilypond, like Python f. ex., should simply report the first error (and ideally immediately abort compilatio

Re: Feature request: Fix cascading error messages

2022-03-28 Thread Martín Rincón Botero
+1. I think making it customizable (with a --cascade-level parameter) wouldn't add much value considering developing effort, though. Lilypond, like Python f. ex., should simply report the first error (and ideally immediately abort compilation). —Martín. www.marti

Re: Feature request: Fix cascading error messages

2022-03-28 Thread Christopher Heckman
On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 4:58 PM David Kastrup wrote: > > Christopher Heckman writes: > > > I have a request concerning Lilypond that has bothered me for a while, > > but which I haven't seen any one else complain about. It is the > > cascade of error messages you get when you leave out a right-br

Re: Feature request: Fix cascading error messages

2022-03-28 Thread David Kastrup
Christopher Heckman writes: > I have a request concerning Lilypond that has bothered me for a while, > but which I haven't seen any one else complain about. It is the > cascade of error messages you get when you leave out a right-brace or > some other symbol. > > Maybe this could be added as an o

Re: Feature request: Fix cascading error messages

2022-03-28 Thread David Santamauro
+1 From: lilypond-user on behalf of Christopher Heckman Date: Monday, March 28, 2022 at 7:11 PM To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Feature request: Fix cascading error messages I have a request concerning Lilypond that has bothered me for a while, but which I haven't seen any one

Feature request: Fix cascading error messages

2022-03-28 Thread Christopher Heckman
I have a request concerning Lilypond that has bothered me for a while, but which I haven't seen any one else complain about. It is the cascade of error messages you get when you leave out a right-brace or some other symbol. Maybe this could be added as an option to lilypond? lilypond --cascade-le

ANN: New feature added to Spontini-Editor (custom templates)

2021-11-08 Thread Paolo Prete
Hello, I just added a new useful feature to Spontini-Editor; It is now possible to automatically add customizable templates to the score, using the autocomplete tool provided by CodeMirror. See: https://github.com/paopre/Spontini/blob/master/documentation/miscellaneous.md ...at the paragraph

Re: Feature request: Alternative G clef

2020-10-24 Thread Martín Rincón Botero
Hi Jean, thank you for that font showcase! I’ll take a closer look at Profondo. However, its overly long bass clef looks quite unappealing to me. I wouldn’t use any of the others, as far as I can tell. About what pairs with what is certainly more of a matter of taste. I find Emmentaler’s trill

Re: Feature request: Alternative G clef

2020-10-24 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 24/10/2020 à 11:47, Martín Rincón Botero a écrit : Hello all, a few months ago in some forum I found the following snippet of a beautiful G clef (I think by Pierre Perol-Schneider) that I've been extensively using since then. Right now in the NR we have \clef G, \clef treble, \clef "G2" a

Re: Feature request: Alternative G clef

2020-10-24 Thread Martín Rincón Botero
Thank you Simon for your answer. As much as I applaud the efforts for making Lilypond work with other fonts, I find it a pity that more glyphs can’t be included in the core. It’s not rare to find alternative or “extra” glyphs in other fonts either (Maestro, Opus, etc.), so this wouldn’t be the f

Re: Feature request: Alternative G clef

2020-10-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Martín, On 24.10.20 11:47, Martín Rincón Botero wrote: I wish Perol-Schneider's clef could be considered for inclusion into standard Lilypond, possibly named as "G2" (which would actually produce a "second" G clef) or as \clef varG. two things here: there has been a lot of work to making

Feature request: Alternative G clef

2020-10-24 Thread Martín Rincón Botero
Hello all, a few months ago in some forum I found the following snippet of a beautiful G clef (I think by Pierre Perol-Schneider) that I've been extensively using since then. Right now in the NR we have \clef G, \clef treble, \clef "G2" and \clef violin, all producing what seems to be the exact sa

Re: feature requests: scalable \shape values; (stem) for \shapeII

2020-10-12 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Andrew, I'll put up a MR to add the improved \shape to lilypond proper, as soon as I find the time to do so. At least it will be an improvement. Though, I did not look into shapeII, maybe it could be improved similarly? Cheers, Harm Am Mo., 12. Okt. 2020 um 09:55 Uhr schrieb Andrew Bernard

Re: feature requests: scalable \shape values; (stem) for \shapeII

2020-10-12 Thread Andrew Bernard
Stay tuned, and will add the improvement to the OLL repository, once I have it all set up. Andrew On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 17:44, Martín Rincón Botero wrote: > > > I have to run more tests, but your \shape-h function is simply excellent. > Thank you! I wish this could be the default behavior of a

Re: feature requests: scalable \shape values; (stem) for \shapeII

2020-10-11 Thread Martín Rincón Botero
Dear Harm, I have to run more tests, but your \shape-h function is simply excellent. Thank you! I wish this could be the default behavior of a new \reshape function. Perhaps the open issue shouldn’t be fixed for \shape: that way the folks who carefully used small values for small staves to fix

Re: feature requests: scalable \shape values; (stem) for \shapeII

2020-10-11 Thread Martín Rincón Botero
Dear Thomas, sorry for not having provided examples myself of what doesn’t scale. I haven’t had the time for that yet. However, your explanation seems to be right. I definitely have to use smaller values for smaller font sizes. I was planning to collect a few examples from the viola concerto I’

Re: feature requests: scalable \shape values; (stem) for \shapeII

2020-10-11 Thread Thomas Morley
Am Mi., 7. Okt. 2020 um 10:35 Uhr schrieb Martín Rincón Botero : > > Now that we’ve been talking about \shape and \shapeII, I would like to ask if > it’s possible that values put for \shape(II) could scale according to staff > size. Whenever I have a smaller staff, whatever values work for a 20 p

Re: feature requests: scalable \shape values; (stem) for \shapeII

2020-10-07 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 07/10/2020 à 19:50, Jean Abou Samra a écrit : Le 07/10/2020 à 18:58, Martín Rincón Botero a écrit : Hello Jean, thanks for further exploring the first request. In my experience with Lilypond 2.20 \shape doesn’t scale with set-global-staff-size either. I’m already kinda “used” to writing

Re: feature requests: scalable \shape values; (stem) for \shapeII

2020-10-07 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 07/10/2020 à 18:58, Martín Rincón Botero a écrit : Hello Jean, thanks for further exploring the first request. In my experience with Lilypond 2.20 \shape doesn’t scale with set-global-staff-size either. I’m already kinda “used” to writing smaller values —my primitive math only cooperated

Re: feature requests: scalable \shape values; (stem) for \shapeII

2020-10-07 Thread Martín Rincón Botero
in > > piano scores) —this is however my speculation. > > > > My second feature request is for \shapeII. I find it great to have a (head) > > attachment value instead of having to manually calculate how much of an > > offset it would take to bring the slur closer to the

feature requests: scalable \shape values; (stem) for \shapeII

2020-10-07 Thread Jean Abou Samra
piano scores) —this is however my speculation. My second feature request is for \shapeII. I find it great to have a (head) attachment value instead of having to manually calculate how much of an offset it would take to bring the slur closer to the head. Consequently, it would be nice if you could

feature requests: scalable \shape values; (stem) for \shapeII

2020-10-07 Thread Martín Rincón Botero
scores) —this is however my speculation. My second feature request is for \shapeII. I find it great to have a (head) attachment value instead of having to manually calculate how much of an offset it would take to bring the slur closer to the head. Consequently, it would be nice if you could do

New openLilyLib feature: properties

2020-06-28 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, triggered by a new analysis.highlighters module that Klaus Blum shared with me last week I had a few feature/functionality wishes that I implemented, especially a kind of stylesheet support and selective activation of elements. I quickly realized that this should be generalized and

Possible Feature Request?

2020-06-11 Thread Fr. Samuel Springuel
Right now we have ly:source-files which contains a list of all input files which have been opened up to the point of it’s call, but there is, so far as I can tell, no equivalent for output files. How difficult would it be to add such a scheme function/list? As I see it, LilyPond obviously know

bug or feature with 'gap-count?

2020-04-09 Thread Thomas Morley
ted. IR says: " gap-count (integer) Number of gapped beams for tremolo. " Thus at least IR is plain wrong and the question is: bug or feature? Cheers, Harm

Re: Frescobaldi feature testing (Document font dialog)

2019-09-09 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno lun 9 set 2019 alle 11:59, Urs Liska ha scritto: I've finally managed to do some work on Frescobaldi again, picking up on a completely new "Document Fonts" dialog I had started some time ago. I think it is approaching a point where it can be merged, and therefore I'd be glad about pe

Frescobaldi feature testing (Document font dialog)

2019-09-09 Thread Urs Liska
field, plus there's a text sample for every font. Notation fonts can be listed and (to some extent) managed by "installing" and "removing" them from a given LilyPond installation. An option to download new fonts will be added later. The main feature of the dialog is to gen

Re: An unusual feature request concerning FiguredBass

2018-04-29 Thread Robert Blackstone
Hi Kieren, Your version did help me enormously. Thank you very much. The whole score is now what it should be. I usually work with separate voices to be collected in the score, but with the extra BC-line I could not get it right. I spent most of this day wondering what the hell the error messa

Re: An unusual feature request concerning FiguredBass

2018-04-29 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Robert, > Whatever I tried, it stubbornly kept "bass" for both staves. What am I doing > wrong? There’s a spurious instrument name setting. But given the structure of your code, it’s very hard to spot. Might I suggest putting all of your note code into variables, then building them togethe

Re: An unusual feature request concerning FiguredBass

2018-04-29 Thread Robert Blackstone
Hello, I have finally managed to apply your recommendations in my score. On the whole they work out very well except for one error that I have not been able to get rid of: to change the staff name of the upper staff in "cantus". Whatever I tried, it stubbornly kept "bass" for both staves. What

Re: An unusual feature request concerning FiguredBass

2018-04-29 Thread Robert Blackstone
Good morning, Many thanks for your quick reactions and helpful advice. Because it will take me a while to try these solutions in my score, and because at this moment I am in rural France where my internet connection is very buggy and unstable --- in a few minutes I may be disconnected till lat

Re: An unusual feature request concerning FiguredBass

2018-04-28 Thread Ben
On 4/28/2018 4:33 PM, Torsten Hämmerle wrote: Ahem, If you want to get rid of the "connecting line", it might helpful to know that this line is called SystemStartBar and it lives in the Score context. So, \omit Score.SystemStartBar will make it disappear without SVG manipulation. HTH, Torsten

Re: An unusual feature request concerning FiguredBass

2018-04-28 Thread Torsten Hämmerle
Ahem, If you want to get rid of the "connecting line", it might helpful to know that this line is called SystemStartBar and it lives in the Score context. So, \omit Score.SystemStartBar will make it disappear without SVG manipulation. HTH, Torsten -- Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.na

Re: An unusual feature request concerning FiguredBass

2018-04-28 Thread Ben
On 4/28/2018 1:08 PM, Noeck wrote: Dear Robert, I don't know this notation. So my advice is probably not the best solution. Entering FiguredBass1 and FiguredBass2 did not give me anything but error messages You mean \new FiguredBass1 ? You cannot just invent context names. But you can stack s

Re: An unusual feature request concerning FiguredBass

2018-04-28 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Robert, it's easier to help you if you provide a Minimal Working Example, otherwise it's hard to know what exactly you tried. Anyway: It's not problem at all to create multiple FiguredBass-environments. The line between them is a bit more tricky; I once used a rhythm staff with all bar lines

Re: An unusual feature request concerning FiguredBass

2018-04-28 Thread Noeck
Dear Robert, I don't know this notation. So my advice is probably not the best solution. > Entering FiguredBass1 and FiguredBass2 did not give me anything but > error messages You mean \new FiguredBass1 ? You cannot just invent context names. But you can stack several contexts of the same type.

An unusual feature request concerning FiguredBass

2018-04-28 Thread Robert Blackstone
Dear all, I am asked to add to psalm-setting two different figured bass lines, separated by a line and with, at the beginning of the first bar, the words "Pretonal" and "Tonal", as can be seen in the screenshot: Entering FiguredBass1 and FiguredBass2 did not give me anything but error messag

Re: (Git users) Please test a Fresocbaldi Feature

2017-03-17 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno ven 17 mar 2017 alle 9:06, Urs Liska ha scritto: Hi all, there's a pull request for Frescobaldi, submitted by a new contributor (https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/pull/905), and I have a problem with it: The contributor states it works for him, I can't see anything wrong in

(Git users) Please test a Fresocbaldi Feature

2017-03-17 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, there's a pull request for Frescobaldi, submitted by a new contributor (https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/pull/905), and I have a problem with it: The contributor states it works for him, I can't see anything wrong in the code, but it doesn't work for me. So I'd be happy if others coul

Re: \single \hideNotes stem vanishes: bug or feature?

2017-03-16 Thread Michael Gerdau
Thanks David, >> %%% >> \version "2.19.57" >> >> { <\single \hideNotes b' f'> } >> %%% >> >> As expected the b is not displayed. But why does the stem of f vanish >> (completely) as well? >> Is that intended (why?) or is that a bug? >> And if it's intended how do I get the f's stem back? > > The

Re: \single \hideNotes stem vanishes: bug or feature?

2017-03-16 Thread David Kastrup
Michael Gerdau writes: > Hi list, > > I just stumbled about the following: > > %%% > \version "2.19.57" > > { <\single \hideNotes b' f'> } > %%% > > As expected the b is not displayed. But why does the stem of f vanish > (completely) as well? > Is that intended (why?) or is that a bug? > And if i

\single \hideNotes stem vanishes: bug or feature?

2017-03-16 Thread Michael Gerdau
Hi list, I just stumbled about the following: %%% \version "2.19.57" { <\single \hideNotes b' f'> } %%% As expected the b is not displayed. But why does the stem of f vanish (completely) as well? Is that intended (why?) or is that a bug? And if it's intended how do I get the f's stem back? Kin

Re: feature request: stem length should scale for scaled/cue notes

2016-02-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Harm, > in CueVoice stem length _is_ shortened. Well, that’s a relief! =) > But it in your example it has no effect, because 'no-stem-extend is #f Hmmm… Should that be the default? > Try it with Works great. Thanks! > For reduced sizes in a common Voice we nowadays have `magnifyMusic', >

Re: feature request: stem length should scale for scaled/cue notes

2016-02-07 Thread Thomas Morley
2016-02-07 17:11 GMT+01:00 Kieren MacMillan : > Hello all, > > I searched the issue tracker and LSR, but couldn’t find anything related to > this. > (Apologies if I missed it.) > > Please consider the output of following snippet: > > %%% BEGIN SNIPPET > \version "2.19.35" > > cees = { c'8 8 8 8 }

feature request: stem length should scale for scaled/cue notes

2016-02-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, I searched the issue tracker and LSR, but couldn’t find anything related to this. (Apologies if I missed it.) Please consider the output of following snippet: %%% BEGIN SNIPPET \version "2.19.35" cees = { c'8 8 8 8 } tinyteeny = { \time 2/4 \cees \tiny \cees \teeny \cees

Re: feature request: abs-fontsize available for all text grobs

2016-02-03 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
. Februar 2016 23:02:10 MEZ, schrieb Kieren MacMillan : >Dear David and Jan-Peter, > >It appears that the absFontSize feature I sponsored a few years ago — >and employ in absolutely [ha!] every score I engrave — has not been >rolled into the main Lilypond codebase. > >Is that

Re: feature request: abs-fontsize available for all text grobs

2016-02-01 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Dear David and Jan-Peter, It appears that the absFontSize feature I sponsored a few years ago — and employ in absolutely [ha!] every score I engrave — has not been rolled into the main Lilypond codebase. Is that true? If so, what is stopping it from being added? I think users could benefit

Re: Feature request for Nalesnik's rN.ly

2015-12-10 Thread Ferdinand Grau
> I've moved all development of this to a GitHub repository here: https://github.com/davidnalesnik/lilypond-roman-numeral-tool. There are significant improvements over what you'll find in the archives. Ability to do altered figures is one of the things I've added. It's exactly what I need! Thank y

Re: Feature request for Nalesnik's rN.ly

2015-12-09 Thread David Nalesnik
On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 6:21 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: > > > I've moved all development of this to a GitHub repository here: > https://github.com/davidnalesnik/lilypond-roman-numeral-tool. There are > significant improvements over what you'll find in the archives. Ability to > do altered figures i

Re: Feature request for Nalesnik's rN.ly

2015-12-09 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Ferdinand, On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Ferdinand Grau wrote: > The problem is that I severely lack the ability to typest chords like the > ones in the attachment: II6/5/♭, II7/♭5, etc. Interestingly enough, > arbitrary number of inversion digits was supported by earlier version of > \rN (

Feature request for Nalesnik's rN.ly

2015-12-09 Thread Ferdinand Grau
The problem is that I severely lack the ability to typest chords like the ones in the attachment: II6/5/♭, II7/♭5, etc. Interestingly enough, arbitrary number of inversion digits was supported by earlier version of \rN (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-11/msg00470.html). but it

Re: [feature-request] optional duration for temporary

2015-11-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi James, > I have opened > https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/4658/ Thanks. (I’m getting a 404 error at the moment, but I assume that’s temporary.) Cheers, Kieren. Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenm

Re: [feature-request] optional duration for temporary

2015-11-14 Thread James Lowe
On 11/11/15 02:58, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hello all, > > Rather than having to \revert an \override (or set of \override-s), might it > be possible to set an optional duration for which the override would be in > effect? e.g. > > \temporary #’(10 1/8) \override LyricText.extra-offset = #’(0

Re: [feature-request] optional duration for temporary

2015-11-11 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 11.11.2015 14:08, Johan Vromans wrote: On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 13:42:58 +0100 David Kastrup wrote: But if you have to close the group anyway with a brace, where is the point in not just doing a music function doing { \temporary $xxx ... \undo $xxx } I do not see how to cope with the $xxx. Cou

Re: [feature-request] optional duration for temporary

2015-11-11 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Kieren, et.al., David came up with a nice solution :) To get such a function with the edition-engraver, we will have to integrate some other piece. The proposed solution works horizontal in time, while the edition-engraver is triggered "vertically" in time. So there has to be an event, whic

Re: [feature-request] optional duration for temporary

2015-11-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, As always, a wonderful solution. Thank you! %%% SNIPPET BEGINS \version "2.19.30" ranged = #(define-music-function (overrides music) (ly:music? ly:music?) #{ \temporary $overrides #music \undo $overrides #}) { c d e f \ranged \override NoteHead.color = #red { c d e f } c d e

Re: [feature-request] optional duration for temporary

2015-11-11 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi David, > >> But if you have to close the group anyway with a brace, where is the >> point in not just doing a music function doing >> >> { \temporary $xxx ... \undo $xxx } > > Wouldn’t one have to create a separate music function for each possible tweak? > If not, t

Re: [feature-request] optional duration for temporary

2015-11-11 Thread Johan Vromans
On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 13:42:58 +0100 David Kastrup wrote: > But if you have to close the group anyway with a brace, where is the > point in not just doing a music function doing > > { \temporary $xxx ... \undo $xxx } I do not see how to cope with the $xxx. Could you give an example imlememtation

Re: [feature-request] optional duration for temporary

2015-11-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, > But if you have to close the group anyway with a brace, where is the > point in not just doing a music function doing > > { \temporary $xxx ... \undo $xxx } Wouldn’t one have to create a separate music function for each possible tweak? If not, then there is, as you say, no point. Th

Re: [feature-request] optional duration for temporary

2015-11-11 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi Johan, > >> I'd hate the counting of measures… > > Me, too… but…? > >> { \local LyricText.extra-offset = #’(0 . -1) … } > > Ah! Even better. That looks like \new Lyrics \with { \override LyricText.extra-offset = #'(0 . -1) } { ... } with the main Lyrics packed in

Re: [feature-request] optional duration for temporary

2015-11-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Johan, > I'd hate the counting of measures… Me, too… but…? > { \local LyricText.extra-offset = #’(0 . -1) … } Ah! Even better. Thanks, Kieren. Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info _

Re: [feature-request] optional duration for temporary

2015-11-10 Thread Johan Vromans
On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 21:58:10 -0500 Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Rather than having to \revert an \override (or set of \override-s), might > it be possible to set an optional duration for which the override would > be in effect? e.g. > > \temporary #’(10 1/8) \override > > would lower the Lyric

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