Re: Harmonics with ottava

2019-02-07 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-02-07 3:01 am, N. Andrew Walsh wrote: Problem now is, Lily isn't avoiding collisions between the markup objects and grobs on other staves. Neither the markup nor the Staff.ottavation text block are given place, instead overlapping the voice above. How can I fix this? Do you have a MW

Re: Harmonics with ottava

2019-02-07 Thread N. Andrew Walsh
PS- also, I've made use of http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=875, which gets the notes in the correct positions. My example now looks like this: --- \version "2.19.82" \relative c, { \clef "bass_8" \textLengthOn \override Staff.NoteColumn.ignore-collision = ##t \override No

Re: Harmonics with ottava

2019-02-07 Thread N. Andrew Walsh
Hi Andrew On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 11:51 AM Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hello Andrew, > > Why are quartertones technically wrong? > Quartertones are wrong for harmonics (especially "natural" ones), because neither the finger position nor the resultant pitch are equivalent to equal-tempered quarterton

Re: Harmonics with ottava

2019-02-07 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hello Andrew, Why are quartertones technically wrong? My current string quartet is full of them. String players can do them just fine. Andrew On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 21:46, N. Andrew Walsh wrote: > > (And yes, I know quartertones are technically wrong. > __

Harmonics with ottava

2019-02-07 Thread N. Andrew Walsh
Hi List, I have the following construction: -- \version "2.19.82" \relative c, { \clef "bass_8" \textLengthOn \override Staff.NoteColumn.ignore-collision = ##t \override NoteHead.style = #'harmonic-mixed << { \oneVoice eih^\markup { \right-align "Sul D" }