Re: Repeat 8va

2016-01-13 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 13.01.2016 20:02, John Gourlay wrote: There it is! I don’t know why I missed it the first time. I”m sorry to be a bother. Never mind, the docs _are_ difficult to penetrate sometimes… Yours, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.

Re: Repeat 8va

2016-01-13 Thread John Gourlay
There it is! I don’t know why I missed it the first time. I”m sorry to be a bother. > On Jan 13, 2016, at 1:50 PM, Trevor Daniels wrote: > > > John, you wrote Wednesday, January 13, 2016 6:18 PM > >> I’m still puzzled by the lack of documentation for \transposition, however. >> How have you

Re: Repeat 8va

2016-01-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
John, you wrote Wednesday, January 13, 2016 6:18 PM > I’m still puzzled by the lack of documentation for \transposition, however. > How have you all learned to use it, by word of mouth? No :), you'll find it here: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/displaying-pitches#inst

Re: Repeat 8va

2016-01-13 Thread John Gourlay
Using \unfoldRepeats in a separate \score for the midi output works. Thank you, Malte. I’m still puzzled by the lack of documentation for \transposition, however. How have you all learned to use it, by word of mouth? John Gourlay ___ lilypond-user m

Re: Repeat 8va

2016-01-11 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 11.01.2016 um 21:02 schrieb John Gourlay: > The pdf output contained the music I hoped for but the midi output does not > contain the second measure of this three-measure opus. You should use \unfoldRepeats (or \articulate): \version "2.18.2" foo = \relative { \repeat volta 2 { c'4 d

Re: Repeat 8va

2016-01-11 Thread John Gourlay
David, et al., The \transposition command would seem do what I want, except that I’ve discovered belatedly that LilyPond’s midi output doesn’t seem to respect repeats at all. Is this true? I compiled the following little file using \transposition as I think you intended: music = {c'4 d' e' f'

Re: Repeat 8va

2016-01-09 Thread David Kastrup
msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca writes: > On Sat, 9 Jan 2016, David Kastrup wrote: >> For "this issue"? It allows you to use different tags for different >> purposes without interference between the purposes. >> >> Not more, not less. > > Then why suggest it? Because you stated "That can be worked arou

Re: Repeat 8va

2016-01-09 Thread mskala
On Sat, 9 Jan 2016, David Kastrup wrote: > For "this issue"? It allows you to use different tags for different > purposes without interference between the purposes. > > Not more, not less. Then why suggest it? -- Matthew Skala msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca People before principles. h

Re: Repeat 8va

2016-01-09 Thread David Kastrup
msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca writes: > On Sat, 9 Jan 2016, David Kastrup wrote: >> > I've had trouble getting that to work in more complicated situations, such >> > as when there's nesting involved. If I want a few notes different inside > >> You know the \tagGroup command, do you? > > I found it whe

Re: Repeat 8va

2016-01-09 Thread mskala
On Sat, 9 Jan 2016, David Kastrup wrote: > > I've had trouble getting that to work in more complicated situations, such > > as when there's nesting involved. If I want a few notes different inside > You know the \tagGroup command, do you? I found it when I was looking for a clean solution to thi

Re: Repeat 8va

2016-01-09 Thread David Kastrup
msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca writes: > On Fri, 8 Jan 2016, H. S. Teoh wrote: >> > It's a shame that LilyPond's requirement to completely evaluate music >> > expressions immediately, and therefore once and for all, forces this >> > kind of thing on us. The natural thing to want to do would be to have

Re: Repeat 8va

2016-01-09 Thread David Kastrup
msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca writes: > On Fri, 8 Jan 2016, Christopher R. Maden wrote: >> Generally, once you get into any kind of moderately complicated score, you >> have to concoct your score and MIDI separately, e.g.: >> >> theTune = c c c c >> theScore = \repeat volta 2 { \theTune } >> theMidi =

Re: Repeat 8va

2016-01-08 Thread David Kastrup
John Gourlay writes: > As an exercise in learning to use LilyPond I’m engraving “The Entertainer” by > Scott Joplin. In the old published version I’m working from (1902), the score > looks like this at measure 22: > * > > I’m concerned about the “Repeat 8va”, which I assume means that on the > se

Re: Repeat 8va

2016-01-08 Thread mskala
On Fri, 8 Jan 2016, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > It's a shame that LilyPond's requirement to completely evaluate music > > expressions immediately, and therefore once and for all, forces this > > kind of thing on us. The natural thing to want to do would be to have > This is not really true. What I usua

Re: Repeat 8va

2016-01-08 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 12:11:48AM -0600, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jan 2016, Christopher R. Maden wrote: > > Generally, once you get into any kind of moderately complicated > > score, you have to concoct your score and MIDI separately, e.g.: > > > > theTune = c c c c > > theScore

Re: Repeat 8va

2016-01-08 Thread mskala
On Fri, 8 Jan 2016, Christopher R. Maden wrote: > Generally, once you get into any kind of moderately complicated score, you > have to concoct your score and MIDI separately, e.g.: > > theTune = c c c c > theScore = \repeat volta 2 { \theTune } > theMidi = \theTune \transpose c c' \theTune > \score

Re: Repeat 8va

2016-01-08 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 08.01.2016 23:08, John Gourlay wrote: As an exercise in learning to use LilyPond I’m engraving “The Entertainer” by Scott Joplin. Without wanting to spoil your efforts and interest: I’ve only just updated the engraving on Mutopia. Since the pull request is still pending, you must retrieve

Re: Repeat 8va

2016-01-08 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 04:16:15PM -0600, Christopher R. Maden wrote: > On 01/08/2016 04:08 PM, John Gourlay wrote: > >As an exercise in learning to use LilyPond I’m engraving “The > >Entertainer” by Scott Joplin. In the old published version I’m > >working from (1902), the score looks like this at

Re: Repeat 8va

2016-01-08 Thread Christopher R. Maden
On 01/08/2016 04:08 PM, John Gourlay wrote: As an exercise in learning to use LilyPond I’m engraving “The Entertainer” by Scott Joplin. In the old published version I’m working from (1902), the score looks like this at measure 22: I’m concerned about the “Repeat 8va”, which I assume means that o