Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

2015-10-07 Thread Michael Rivers
a normal piano score. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/How-write-cross-staff-slur-in-combination-with-lyrics-tp182033p182126.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list l

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

2015-10-06 Thread David Wright
Quoting Simon Albrecht (simon.albre...@mail.de): > On 06.10.2015 06:40, David Wright wrote: > >However, I just wanted to observe two things about the OP's > >original: the words are much smaller, and the first three bars > >look as though they are using proportional spacing. > > No, they don’t. Pr

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

2015-10-06 Thread Urs Liska
y be daunting that you can't simply pull things around like in a graphics program. Best Urs > >Best regards! >Jurgen L. > > >- Original Message - >From: "Simon Albrecht" >To: "David Wright" >Cc: "jurgen lamsens" , lilypond-use

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

2015-10-06 Thread Urs Liska
Am 06.10.2015 um 21:06 schrieb Simon Albrecht: >> One of the things that I've noticed about LP is that by default the >> lyrics are scaled up in size relative to the music, compared with >> many publishers' scores, which can lead to a more irregular note >> spacing. This isn't a criticism: it's e

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

2015-10-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 06.10.2015 22:22, jurgen.lams...@telenet.be wrote: Thanks a lot everyone for those smart responses. I've been reading and re-reading the thread multiple times ;-) Must say, reading let stand writing code like this for such an easy part is not that easy for a beginner I'm afraid... If you

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

2015-10-06 Thread jurgen . lamsens
- From: "Simon Albrecht" To: "David Wright" Cc: "jurgen lamsens" , lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 9:06:29 PM Subject: Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics) On 06.10.2015 06:40, David Wright wrote: > However, I just

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

2015-10-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 06.10.2015 06:40, David Wright wrote: However, I just wanted to observe two things about the OP's original: the words are much smaller, and the first three bars look as though they are using proportional spacing. No, they don’t. Proportional spacing is a very specific means for complicated

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

2015-10-06 Thread tisimst
e why a beginner's piano book has lyrics at all, > particularly placing them between the staves. > > Cheers, > David. > > _______________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=182080&i=2> > https://lists.g

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

2015-10-05 Thread David Wright
Quoting Simon Albrecht (simon.albre...@mail.de): > One small amendment: The spacing is less grotesque if you insert > %%% > selfAl = #(define-music-function (parser location num) (number?) > #{ \once \override LyricText . self-alignment-X = $num #}) > > text = \lyricmode { > Rid

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

2015-10-05 Thread Simon Albrecht
One small amendment: The spacing is less grotesque if you insert %%% selfAl = #(define-music-function (parser location num) (number?) #{ \once \override LyricText . self-alignment-X = $num #}) text = \lyricmode { Rid -- ing, | rid -- ing, | \selfAl #.5 ’round \selfAl #-.5 and a

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

2015-10-05 Thread Urs Liska
Am 05.10.2015 um 22:20 schrieb Simon Albrecht: > On 05.10.2015 22:01, Urs Liska wrote: >> >> Am 05.10.2015 um 21:07 schrieb Simon Albrecht: >>> On 05.10.2015 13:33, Urs Liska wrote: Remove the slurs in the first two measures completely >>> Hear, hear! The musicologist deviates from the origi

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

2015-10-05 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 05.10.2015 22:01, Urs Liska wrote: Am 05.10.2015 um 21:07 schrieb Simon Albrecht: On 05.10.2015 13:33, Urs Liska wrote: Remove the slurs in the first two measures completely Hear, hear! The musicologist deviates from the original notation :-) You definitely need to make an editorial Depen

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

2015-10-05 Thread Urs Liska
Am 05.10.2015 um 21:07 schrieb Simon Albrecht: > On 05.10.2015 13:33, Urs Liska wrote: >> Remove the slurs in the first two measures completely > > Hear, hear! The musicologist deviates from the original notation :-) > You definitely need to make an editorial Depends on the type of publication o

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

2015-10-05 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Jurgen, On 05.10.2015 12:46, jurgen.lams...@telenet.be wrote: Hi all, I'm a complete newbie here, so please bear with me ;-) I already spent a couple of hours, reading all manuals and mailing lists, Reading the manuals is always helpful, but at the beginning it’s a huge heap – and aft

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

2015-10-05 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Simon Albrecht" To: "Urs Liska" ; Sent: Monday, October 05, 2015 8:07 PM Subject: Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics) On 05.10.2015 13:33, Urs Liska wrote: > Remove the slurs in the first two measures compl

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

2015-10-05 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 05.10.2015 13:33, Urs Liska wrote: Remove the slurs in the first two measures completely Hear, hear! The musicologist deviates from the original notation :-) You definitely need to make an editorial remark… Cheek aside, I think they are phrasing slurs and make sense as such. Yours, Simon

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

2015-10-05 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Jurgen, welcome to this list and LilyPond! I will answer some of your questions but you'll surely get other responses as well. Am 05.10.2015 um 12:46 schrieb jurgen.lams...@telenet.be: > Hi all, > > I'm a complete newbie here, so please bare with me ;-) > > I already spent a couple of hours,

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

2015-10-05 Thread David Kastrup
jurgen.lams...@telenet.be writes: > Hi all, > > I'm a complete newbie here, so please bare with me ;-) > > I already spent a couple of hours, reading all manuals and mailing > lists, trying to engrave something as simple as this: > > * > > Notice: the "full-measure rests" are not shown in the scre

How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

2015-10-05 Thread jurgen . lamsens
Hi all, I'm a complete newbie here, so please bare with me ;-) I already spent a couple of hours, reading all manuals and mailing lists, trying to engrave something as simple as this: Notice: the "full-measure rests" are not shown in the screenshot (beginner piano book), but I want to engr