Re: Forcing markup to be IN the staff

2009-03-04 Thread James E. Bailey
El 04.03.2009, a las 15:13, aliteralmind escribió: You gotta admit, it's a crazy amount of information for a newbie to sift through, even one that has some musical training. It's a crazy amount of information to sift through, period. I have such a new found respect for computer music notat

Re: Forcing markup to be IN the staff

2009-03-04 Thread aliteralmind
Valentin Villenave wrote: > > You have to know that we just have been spending about 18 months > reorganizing the docs, and we did put a lot of thoughts (and > arguments) into this process, to say the least. > > I would have thought that the first place to look at would be the manual: > Musica

Re: Forcing markup to be IN the staff

2009-03-04 Thread James E. Bailey
El 04.03.2009, a las 14:17, Kieren MacMillan escribió: Hi Mats (et al), It would certainly not have been obvious to me that this has anything to do with repeats, if I didn't know that that's the syntax used in LilyPond. Certainly, it's related to repeating something, but I would be surpris

Re: Forcing markup to be IN the staff

2009-03-04 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mats (et al), It would certainly not have been obvious to me that this has anything to do with repeats, if I didn't know that that's the syntax used in LilyPond. Certainly, it's related to repeating something, but I would be surprised if you could find it in any music notation handbook i

Re: Forcing markup to be IN the staff

2009-03-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Valentin Villenave wrote: I would have thought that the first place to look at would be the manual: Musical Notation -> Repeats -> Short repeats Can you think of anything more obvious? It would certainly not have been obvious to me that this has anything to do with repeats, if I didn't kn

Re: Forcing markup to be IN the staff

2009-03-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/4 aliteralmind : > > The mind boggles  %-|   For about three weeks now, I have been reading LY > documentation, forum posts, snippets, and examples, yet I never came across > this. There is SO much information to absorb. I'm feeling more and more like > the documentation could be organized b

Re: Forcing markup to be IN the staff

2009-03-04 Thread aliteralmind
The mind boggles %-| For about three weeks now, I have been reading LY documentation, forum posts, snippets, and examples, yet I never came across this. There is SO much information to absorb. I'm feeling more and more like the documentation could be organized better. This is exactly what I ne

Re: Forcing markup to be IN the staff

2009-03-03 Thread madMuze
>How can I force this collision? The manual mentions setting outside-staff-priority = ##f to keep slurs from interfering with your goal ( http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Curves#index-slurs Positioning text markups inside slurs ). I've also found setting X-extent and Y-ex

Re: Forcing markup to be IN the staff

2009-03-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Why not use an established notation practice, which is supported by LilyPond? See http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Short-repeats#Percent-repeats /Mats Quoting aliteralmind : I have repetitive notes: c8 c c c c c c c c c c c | This type of repetition is fo

Re: Forcing markup to be IN the staff

2009-03-03 Thread James E. Bailey
You can always use markup to replace the glyph. El 03.03.2009, a las 17:51, aliteralmind escribió: I have repetitive notes: c8 c c c c c c c c c c c | This type of repetition is found throughout my piece. I'm trying to hide the second-through-fourth beats of notes, and have a "..." i

RE: Forcing markup to be IN the staff

2009-03-03 Thread Nick Payne
Two possibilities: Change secondaryMusic to be either secondaryMusic = \relative c { \clef bass c8 c c \hideNotes c-\tweak #'extra-offset #'(0 . 2.3)_\rptDDDInStaff c c c c c c c c \unHideNotes | } Or secondaryMusic = \r

Re: Forcing markup to be IN the staff

2009-03-03 Thread Jonathan Kulp
You might try the solution I posted in this thread a while back: http://www.nabble.com/bracketed-silence-td18414197.html Jon aliteralmind wrote: I have repetitive notes: c8 c c c c c c c c c c c | This type of repetition is found throughout my piece. I'm trying to hide the second-throu