Re: Mystery empty staves appear on score

2016-11-07 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/7/16 5:03 AM, "mclaren" wrote: > >The Lilypond documentation is poorly organized and extremely incomplete. >For >exmaple, I was only only able to find out about tie direction control by >glancing at an unrelated list of tweaks. Tie direction control \tieUp and >\tieDown should be featured

Re: Mystery empty staves appear on score

2016-11-07 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 07.11.2016 12:03, mclaren wrote: This offers an example of the inadequacy of the Lilypond documentation. This kind of limitation in Lilypond's output really should be featured prominently somewhere in the basic info about entering note-values in the Lilypond Learning Guide. One sentence would

Re: Mystery empty staves appear on score

2016-11-07 Thread David Kastrup
mclaren writes: > Thanks, it's useful to know that Lilypond doesn't have printable > objects to represent time values shorter than 1/128 note, but that > Lilypond nevertheless does insert them into scores and deal with them. > > This offers an example of the inadequacy of the Lilypond > documenta

Re: Mystery empty staves appear on score

2016-11-07 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno lun 7 nov 2016 alle 12:03, mclaren ha scritto: The Lilypond documentation is poorly organized and extremely incomplete. For exmaple, I was only only able to find out about tie direction control by glancing at an unrelated list of tweaks. Tie direction control \tieUp and \tieDown shou

Re: Mystery empty staves appear on score

2016-11-07 Thread Urs Liska
Am 07.11.2016 um 12:03 schrieb mclaren: > The Lilypond documentation is poorly organized and extremely incomplete. For > exmaple, I was only only able to find out about tie direction control by > glancing at an unrelated list of tweaks. Tie direction control \tieUp and > \tieDown should be featur

Re: Mystery empty staves appear on score

2016-11-07 Thread Bernhard Kleine
Am 07.11.2016 um 12:03 schrieb mclaren: > The Lilypond documentation is poorly organized and extremely incomplete. For > exmaple, I was only only able to find out about tie direction control by > glancing at an unrelated list of tweaks. Tie direction control \tieUp and > \tieDown should be featured

Re: Mystery empty staves appear on score

2016-11-07 Thread mclaren
ection control \tieUp and \tieDown should be featured prominently in the Lilypond Learning Manual in the section on ties. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Mystery-empty-staves-appear-on-score-tp196198p196264.html Sent from the User mailing l

Re: Mystery empty staves appear on score

2016-11-07 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 07.11.2016 11:29, Urs Liska wrote: Experience shows that Lilypond won't print a rest shorter than 1/128 note, so maybe if I enter a short enough silent rest Lilypond won't insert it at all in the score. LilyPond doesn't know about notes or rests shorter than 1/128. This is an arbitrary limita

Re: Mystery empty staves appear on score

2016-11-07 Thread Urs Liska
Am 07.11.2016 um 11:23 schrieb mclaren: > Thanks! That answer a lot of questions. So presumably the S2 is means > "silent half note rest." > I'm guessing, then, that S1024 or S4096 will generate silent 1/1024 note > rest and silent 1/4096 note rests, respectively. > > Ideally, what I want is a s

Re: Mystery empty staves appear on score

2016-11-07 Thread mclaren
e. I'll fiddle around with Lilypond some more and see what I can come up with. In any case, this valuable clue points me in the right direction. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Mystery-empty-staves-appear-on-score-tp196198p196258.html Sent from the

Re: Mystery empty staves appear on score

2016-11-06 Thread Noeck
Hi mclaren, I would not know how to play these nested tuplets and I would have difficulties with that piece. But that's not the question. The empty staves are there, because you ask for them with your \breaks variable. Wherever you put \breaks into the music (at least 3 times in your score), you

Mystery empty staves appear on score

2016-11-05 Thread mclaren
} \breaks \tuplet 18/15 { c4[ \tuplet 7/3 {b4 \tuplet 6/3 {a4 \tuplet 5/3 {g4 \tuplet 4/3 {f4 \tuplet 3/4 {e4 \tuplet 3/5 {f4 \tuplet 3/6 {g4 \tuplet 3/7 {f d4] c4[ \tuplet 7/3 {b4 \tuplet 6/3 {a4 \tuplet 5/3 {g4 \tuplet 4/3 {f4 \tuplet 3/4 {e4 \tuplet 3/5 {f4 \tuplet 3/6 {g4 \tuplet 3/7 {f }}}} d4]