Re: time signature and key change at end of line

2025-03-07 Thread Timothy Lanfear
On 06/03/2025 20:50, Paul Scott wrote: I posted before about time signatures and/or key changes repeated at the end of the previous line and was shown that it works correctly. I finally saw the problem that occasionally effects my normal code structure. Could the \endSpanners music function

Re: time signature and key change at end of line

2025-03-06 Thread Carl Sorensen
On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM Paul Scott wrote: > Hi, > > I posted before about time signatures and/or key changes repeated at the > end of the previous line and was shown that it works correctly. > > I finally saw the problem that occasionally effects my normal code > structure. > > I always se

Re: time signature and key change at end of line

2025-03-06 Thread Knute Snortum
On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM Paul Scott wrote: > Hi, > > I posted before about time signatures and/or key changes repeated at the > end of the previous line and was shown that it works correctly. > > I finally saw the problem that occasionally effects my normal code > structure. > > I always s

Re: Time signature at the end of measure before jump to coda

2024-08-07 Thread Vlado Ilić
This is what i came up with \version "2.24.4" \relative c'' { f \tweak extra-offset #'(0 . -2) \rightHandFinger \markup{ \parenthesize{ \fontsize #4 \compound-meter #'(6 8) } } } It's hacky but it works. On Sun, Aug 4, 2024 at 1:43 AM Vlado Ilić wrote: > Thanks, > While it does sh

Re: Time signature at the end of measure before jump to coda

2024-08-03 Thread Vlado Ilić
Thanks, While it does show what i want, problem is that next measures (g4 in this example) also takes 6/8 time. Example \version "2.24.4" music = \fixed c' { f1 \repeat segno 2 { g1 \alternative { \volta 1 { \repeat unfold 4 { a2 } \break \key f \major \time 6/

Re: Time signature at the end of measure before jump to coda

2024-08-03 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Sat, 3 Aug 2024 at 17:17, Vlado Ilić wrote: > > So i need something like in the first picture, on coda i have different time signature than the one before the jump so i need to mark time change just before the jump. Also related, in the second image i need to mark time and key change before jum

Re: Time measurement

2024-03-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jean, > To get 2-digit precision on the number of seconds, you can simply replace > > (format #f "~as" (round rest)) > > with > > (format #f "~,2fs" rest) > > in the format-time function. > > For seconds:frames at 24 frames/second, replace format-time with > > (define (format-time secon

Re: Time measurement

2024-03-15 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Hi Jean, > > As always… remarkable. > > One question: How hard would it be to have this output more precise > timings (e.g., 1/4 or 1/10th or 1/100th of a second, or SMPTE timecode > in minutes:seconds:frames)? I could imagine this being *very* useful > for film/video/media composers. To get

Re: Time measurement

2024-03-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Lukas, I love that we have two custom engravers to compare and learn from! Thank you so much for this solution — looking forward to analyzing it when I have a moment. Best, Kieren. > On Mar 14, 2024, at 5:54 PM, Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: >> “This sounds like a job for… Custom Engraver!!” :

Re: Time measurement

2024-03-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jean, As always… remarkable. One question: How hard would it be to have this output more precise timings (e.g., 1/4 or 1/10th or 1/100th of a second, or SMPTE timecode in minutes:seconds:frames)? I could imagine this being *very* useful for film/video/media composers. Thanks! Kieren. > On

Re: Time measurement

2024-03-14 Thread mskala
On Thu, 14 Mar 2024, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > “This sounds like a job for… Custom Engraver!!”  :) > > #(define (Custom_engraver!! context) >(define (format-time seconds) Thanks! I haven't tested this extensively, but so far it looks like it works well. -- Matthew Skala msk...@ansuz.sooke

Re: Time measurement

2024-03-14 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi, Am 14.03.24 um 17:27 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Matthew, Is there any easy way to find out the time in seconds from the start of a score to a specified point, corresponding to the timing of the MIDI output? I can count measures and do math on the tempo, but that's less than ideal in the

Re: Time measurement

2024-03-14 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> “This sounds like a job for… Custom Engraver!!”  :) \version "2.24.2" #(define (Custom_engraver!! context) (define (format-time seconds) (let ((minutes (euclidean-quotient seconds 60)) (rest (euclidean-remainder seconds 60))) (string-append (if (zero? minutes) "" (form

Re: Time measurement

2024-03-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Matthew, > Is there any easy way to find out the time in seconds from the start of a > score to a specified point, corresponding to the timing of the MIDI > output? I can count measures and do math on the tempo, but that's > less than ideal in the face of multiple tempo changes. Another idea

Re: Time signature cancellation

2023-06-04 Thread Andrew Bernard
The criterion for a word to be included in the Oxford English Dictionary is three proven printed examples. :-) Andrew On 5/06/2023 2:25 pm, Werner LEMBERG wrote Understood. However, we *need* good real-world examples that are not bound to certain notation programs so that we have a chance to

Re: Time signature cancellation

2023-06-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> It's not unusual, just not Common Era period which lilypond > principally focuses on. Understood. However, we *need* good real-world examples that are not bound to certain notation programs so that we have a chance to find a generic implementation. > One example has been given. Do you need m

Re: Time signature cancellation

2023-06-04 Thread Andrew Bernard
Re that merge request, I think it's important to frame it as an open meter sign, not as a cancellation. As somebody pointed out, it can start a piece and so it is not cancelling anything previous. Andrew

Re: Time signature cancellation

2023-06-04 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hello All, It's not unusual, just not Common Era period which lilypond principally focuses on. It is not a _cancellation_ or a crossing out. It's as designator of open meter. Dorico enables it because people use it and request it, not because the Dorico team read it in Gould. Dorico targets

Re: Time signature cancellation

2023-06-04 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
> > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Mark Knoop > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2023 16:33:41 +0100 > Subject: Re: Time signature cancellation > > At 14:59 on 04 Jun 2023, Damian leGassick wrote: > > you just want a r

Re: Time signature cancellation

2023-06-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> you just want a recent real-world example? Birtwistle: Harrison’s > Clocks. Thanks! Werner

Re: Time signature cancellation

2023-06-04 Thread Mark Knoop
At 14:59 on 04 Jun 2023, Damian leGassick wrote: > you just want a recent real-world example? Birtwistle: Harrison’s > Clocks. See bar 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufDaECmsXNw I see this usage occasionally, but not sure that I'd quite call it a standard. It is however fairly clear, a

Re: Time signature cancellation

2023-06-04 Thread Damian leGassick
you just want a recent real-world example? Birtwistle: Harrison’s Clocks. D > On 4 Jun 2023, at 14:51, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >  >> >>> Has anyone here ever used or seen the X-shaped time-signature >>> cancellation sign pictured at [1], or anything similar? >> >> It's one standard for open

Re: Time signature cancellation

2023-06-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Has anyone here ever used or seen the X-shaped time-signature >> cancellation sign pictured at [1], or anything similar? > > It's one standard for open meter. > > Here's the Dorico manual info: [...] Thanks, but ideally we would like to see a real-world example that predates recent notation pro

Re: Time signature cancellation

2023-06-04 Thread Andrew Bernard
It's one standard for open meter. Here's the Dorico manual info: Andrew On 4/06/2023 10:49 pm, Dan Eble wrote: Has anyone here ever used or seen the X-shaped time-signature cancellation sign pictured at [1], or anything similar? Thanks, -- Dan [1]https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/mer

Re: Time signatures above score, aligning short instrument names

2022-11-08 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 08/11/2022 à 23:47, Nate Whetsell a écrit : Thank you for this! I’m not sure how it works—it looks like a Scheme engraver that changes the /x/ parent of some time signatures—but it sure does! Yes, that's it. Basically, in order to make TimeSignature support alignment via break-align-symbo

Re: Time signatures above score, aligning short instrument names

2022-11-08 Thread Nate Whetsell
Thank you for this! I’m not sure how it works—it looks like a Scheme engraver that changes the x parent of some time signatures—but it sure does! > On Nov 8, 2022, at 2:59 PM, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > Le 08/11/2022 à 14:13, Nate Whetsell a écrit : >> I’ve noticed two issues with this. First,

Re: Time signatures above score, aligning short instrument names

2022-11-08 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 08/11/2022 à 14:13, Nate Whetsell a écrit : I’ve noticed two issues with this. First, the above-score time signatures are usually centered over bar lines, but not when a measure is preceded by a clef change. In this case, time signatures seem to be placed before the new clef rather than cent

Re: \time 9/8 (3/4)

2022-07-29 Thread Hans Åberg
> On 29 Jul 2022, at 15:21, Kieren MacMillan > wrote: > > Hi Hans, Hello, >> Hindemith, "Training…", indicates that 6/8 is always bipartite, so the 3/4 >> is a metric shift in this music piece. > > Correct. > >> By contrast, 9/8 is tripartite, just as 3/4, so I do not see any obvious >>

Re: \time 9/8 (3/4)

2022-07-29 Thread Hans Åberg
> On 29 Jul 2022, at 15:14, Paul Hodges wrote: > > From: Hans Åberg > > There is also the practise to write the triplet markers just a few bars, and > then skipping them. Perhaps for simplifying handwriting and helping then > engraver in the days this was done by hand, so would not be need

Re: \time 9/8 (3/4)

2022-07-29 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Hans, > Hindemith, "Training…", indicates that 6/8 is always bipartite, so the 3/4 is > a metric shift in this music piece. Correct. > By contrast, 9/8 is tripartite, just as 3/4, so I do not see any obvious > difference here. The difference is that each of the three big beats in 9/8 is su

Re: \time 9/8 (3/4)

2022-07-29 Thread Paul Hodges
From: Hans Åberg There is also the practise to write the triplet markers just a few bars, and then skipping them. Perhaps for simplifying handwriting and helping then engraver in the days this was done by hand, so would not be needed nowadays when done electronically. Not needed maybe,

Re: \time 9/8 (3/4)

2022-07-29 Thread Hans Åberg
> On 29 Jul 2022, at 14:27, Eef Weenink wrote: > > The question started with a piece of Liszt. It has to be played adante. Time > is set: > first part: 9/8 (3/4) > second part: 6/8 (2/4) istesso tempo (means that a 1/4 stays 1/4. So the > duration of the measure changes). > > Writing it th

Re: \time 9/8 (3/4)

2022-07-29 Thread Hans Åberg
> On 29 Jul 2022, at 13:30, Kieren MacMillan > wrote: > > Hi Carl, > >> Just curious, because I know precious little about polymetry. >> Does 9/8 (3/4) mean anything different from (3 + 3 + 3)/8 ? > > Yes: the parenthetical notation is usually an instruction to alternate time > signatures,

Re: \time 9/8 (3/4)

2022-07-29 Thread Eef Weenink
The question started with a piece of Liszt. It has to be played adante. Time is set: first part: 9/8 (3/4) second part: 6/8 (2/4) istesso tempo (means that a 1/4 stays 1/4. So the duration of the measure changes). Writing it this way, prevents printing the triplet everywhere. The feel of the

Re: \time 9/8 (3/4)

2022-07-29 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi Carl, > >> Just curious, because I know precious little about polymetry. >> Does 9/8 (3/4) mean anything different from (3 + 3 + 3)/8 ? > > Yes: the parenthetical notation is usually an instruction to alternate > time signatures, not simply a clarification of intenti

Re: \time 9/8 (3/4)

2022-07-29 Thread Wol
On 29/07/2022 12:30, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Carl, Just curious, because I know precious little about polymetry. Does 9/8 (3/4) mean anything different from (3 + 3 + 3)/8 ? Yes: the parenthetical notation is usually an instruction to alternate time signatures, not simply a clarification

Re: \time 9/8 (3/4)

2022-07-29 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Carl, > Just curious, because I know precious little about polymetry. > Does 9/8 (3/4) mean anything different from (3 + 3 + 3)/8 ? Yes: the parenthetical notation is usually an instruction to alternate time signatures, not simply a clarification of intention. For example, in “West Side Stor

Re: \time 9/8 (3/4)

2022-07-29 Thread David Kastrup
Carl Sorensen writes: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 1:52 PM Eef Weenink wrote: > >> This score starts with \time 9/8, but i also should have 3/4 feeling, so >> there is written: >> >> 9/8 (3/4) (in parenthesis). > > > Just curious, because I know precious little about polymetry. > > Does 9/8 (3/4)

Re: \time 9/8 (3/4)

2022-07-29 Thread bobr...@centrum.is
ensen" > To: "Eef Weenink" > Cc: "Lillypond Users Mailing List" > Sent: Friday, July 29, 2022 11:00:01 AM > Subject: Re: \time 9/8 (3/4) > On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 1:52 PM Eef Weenink wrote: > >> This score starts with \time 9/8, but i also sh

Re: \time 9/8 (3/4)

2022-07-29 Thread Carl Sorensen
On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 1:52 PM Eef Weenink wrote: > This score starts with \time 9/8, but i also should have 3/4 feeling, so > there is written: > > 9/8 (3/4) (in parenthesis). Just curious, because I know precious little about polymetry. Does 9/8 (3/4) mean anything different from (3 + 3 +

Re: \time 9/8 (3/4)

2022-07-29 Thread Hans Åberg
> On 29 Jul 2022, at 09:44, David Kastrup wrote: > > Hans Åberg writes: > >>> On 28 Jul 2022, at 22:43, Jean Abou Samra wrote: >>> >>> Also here: >>> >>> https://myrealbook.vintherine.org/mesures-composees.html >> >> One also write I think: >> \time #'(4 4 3) 11/8 > > Slightly more huma

Re: \time 9/8 (3/4)

2022-07-29 Thread David Kastrup
Hans Åberg writes: >> On 28 Jul 2022, at 22:43, Jean Abou Samra wrote: >> >> Also here: >> >> https://myrealbook.vintherine.org/mesures-composees.html > > One also write I think: > \time #'(4 4 3) 11/8 Slightly more human-readable: \time 4,4,3 11/8 -- David Kastrup

Re: \time 9/8 (3/4)

2022-07-28 Thread Eef Weenink
Thank you Hans, The \time #'(4 4 3) 11/8 makes the subdivision, but only shows 11/8. I will use the example from https://myrealbook.vintherine.org/mesures-composees.html > Op 28 jul. 2022, om 23:17 heeft Hans Åberg het volgende > geschreven: > > >> On 28 Jul 2022, at 22:43, Jean Abou S

Re: \time 9/8 (3/4)

2022-07-28 Thread Hans Åberg
> On 28 Jul 2022, at 22:43, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > Also here: > > https://myrealbook.vintherine.org/mesures-composees.html One also write I think: \time #'(4 4 3) 11/8 For a kopanitsa 11=4+3+4, I use: \time #'(4 3 4) 11/16

Re: \time 9/8 (3/4)

2022-07-28 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Le 28 juil. 2022 à 21:52, Eef Weenink a écrit : > > This score starts with \time 9/8, but i also should have 3/4 feeling, so > there is written: > > 9/8 (3/4) (in parenthesis). > > Probably a returning question, but I could not find it, because no idea what > search-wortds to use. >

Re: Time signature guide

2022-03-22 Thread Leo Correia de Verdier
I hadn’t seen David’s reply until after I posted, otherwise I wouldn't have basically repeated his answer. A disadvantage of the << … \\ … >> syntax in this case is that it applies \voiceTwo to \melody (it has all its stems turned down, for instance). While you can reset that with \oneVoice I pr

Re: Time signature guide

2022-03-22 Thread Rip _Mus
Thank you so much, you offered two similar and valid solutions! Regards Il giorno lun 21 mar 2022 alle ore 10:19 Leo Correia de Verdier < leo.correia.de.verd...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > I’m not sure I understood your question right, but I think the usual way > to do it would be to write the ”g

Re: Time signature guide

2022-03-21 Thread Leo Correia de Verdier
I’m not sure I understood your question right, but I think the usual way to do it would be to write the ”global” variable as a sequence of tempos, time signatures and other events separated by spacers or skips. Something like: %% \version "2.23.6" global = { \time 4/4 \tempo "All

Re: Time signature guide

2022-03-21 Thread bobr...@centrum.is
- Original Message - > From: "Rip _Mus" > To: "Lillypond Users Mailing List" > Sent: Monday, March 21, 2022 8:51:16 AM > Subject: Time signature guide > Good morning, > I would need advice. > In a score with many time signature changes (where I therefore cannot use a > stable global v

Re: Time signatures for all parts

2021-10-18 Thread Christian
To be honest, Carl's example is far superior and cleaner to my one - I really have to put a little more thought into my examples and answers, when I look at the quality stuff all the other people here deliver! Sorry about the bar check hint. It was only meant for the actual music variables and it

Re: Time signatures for all parts

2021-10-17 Thread David Kastrup
Erika Pirnes writes: > I asked about adding time signature changes into a variable that can > be used by all instrument parts. The solution below (by Christian) > worked perfectly, but I don't recommend adding bar checks into the > variable. I did that and it caused the multi-measure rest compres

Re: Time signatures for all parts

2021-10-17 Thread Erika Pirnes
I asked about adding time signature changes into a variable that can be used by all instrument parts. The solution below (by Christian) worked perfectly, but I don't recommend adding bar checks into the variable. I did that and it caused the multi-measure rest compression not to work. It took qu

Re: Time signatures for all parts

2021-10-13 Thread Erika Pirnes
Thank you for the answers! What I had not realized was that I can use spacer notes in the "global" variable (I thought it was only for the beginning key/time) and add two simultaneous "music layers" on a staff, in the style of \new Staff << \first \second >>. This will certainly make life easier

Re: Time signatures for all parts

2021-10-12 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: lilypond-user on behalf of Erika Pirnes Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 at 8:09 AM To: "lilypond-user@gnu.org" Subject: Time signatures for all parts I'm writing an orchestra piece with a lot of time signature changes. I was wondering if there is a way to put all the time signature ch

Re: Time signatures for all parts

2021-10-12 Thread Christian
Hi Erika! This is pretty easily accomplished. Just put the time signature changes in a seperate variable, eg.: changes = { \time 4/4 s1*15 \time 3/4 s2.*14 \time 2/4 s2*10 } trombone = \relative { %notes } \new Staff { << \changes \trombone >> You can also put rehearsal marks and special bar l

Re: Time bracket notation for very large scale compositions

2021-04-09 Thread Andrew Culver
Carl - Jean - Kieren - Tom: Thank you so much for your responses and suggestions and examples. I will study and test it all diligently and get back to you. One thing the first responder Shane got right: it’s a welcoming and helpful community. Very much something to be proud of. Regards, Andre

Re: Time bracket notation for very large scale compositions

2021-04-09 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: lilypond-user on behalf of AHF Date: Friday, April 9, 2021 at 10:16 AM To: "lilypond-user@gnu.org" Subject: Time bracket notation for very large scale compositions Hello LilyPeople, I am looking into using LilyPond for future works. What I like about it is the text input, which makes

Re: Time bracket notation for very large scale compositions

2021-04-09 Thread Andrew Culver
Tom Your comparison between a .ly - scheme - API’s and HTML/JS is very helpful. And it highlights the issue I raised about the future usability of any set of technologies. At my company iLiv our products run in browsers, currently we use a React-Relay-GrapQL-PostgreSQL stack on AWS. 10 years ag

Re: Time bracket notation for very large scale compositions

2021-04-09 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Andrew,  > I want to know if I should be using LilyPond. Simple answer: Yes. =) > The example below is from one of Cage’s Number pieces, demonstrating Time > Bracket notation. The important challenges for a notation program are: > - Each time bracket is centered on the page, and the system i

Re: Time bracket notation for very large scale compositions

2021-04-09 Thread Andrew Culver
Thank you Shane for opening up the conversation, and for expressing your confidence in LiyPond. And thanks for mentioning Scheme as a possible ally. I will look into that. Regards Andrew Culver > On Apr 9, 2021, at 14:18, Shane Brandes wrote: > > Greetings Andrew Culver, > > You have poste

Re: Time bracket notation for very large scale compositions

2021-04-09 Thread Tom Brennan
Hi Andrew I'm a professional software engineer, and I recently asked myself most of the questions you're asking here when evaluating Lilypond, and ultimately, I decided that for my usecases, it made more sense to use Lilypond, because I would make a lot of use of the musical modeling/abstractions

Re: Time bracket notation for very large scale compositions

2021-04-09 Thread Shane Brandes
Greetings Andrew Culver, You have posted a pretty broad swathe of questions to the LilyPond Community. I suspect people will likely give a few responses. My personal use case is limited in comparison to things you might be undertaking. The Thalberg piano concerto is the largest thing I ever have t

Re: time signature and grace note

2020-11-25 Thread Leo Correia de Verdier
This is a hard-solved issue we have lived with for long time, ant probably the most common source of questions on this list. While Andrew’s solution is perfect in this situation, where the time signatures in the second voice are redundant, it may not work everywhere. The solution would then be

Re: time signature and grace note

2020-11-25 Thread Andrew Bernard
Some would say you would be better writing this: melody = \relative c'' { \new Staff << { \voiceOne \time 4/4 \grace {c8} c4 d4 f2 \time 2/4 \grace {c8} c4 d4 } \new Voice { \voiceTwo a,4 b c2 a4 b } >> } \score {\melody}

Re: time signature and grace note

2020-11-25 Thread Andrew Bernard
Why don't you try something like this: melody = \relative c'' { << { \time 4/4 \grace {c8} c4 d4 f2 \time 2/4 \grace {c8} c4 d4 } \\ { a,4 b c2 a4 b } >> } \score {\melody}

Re: Time signature ID and implementation

2020-10-08 Thread Graham King
On musicological grounds: certainly C2. In this period, cut-C and C2 were, in practice, equivalent despite the latter implying "modus cum tempore." Please don't ask me about _that_, because I'm at the limit of my understanding! References for this would include: Apel: The Notation of Polyphonic

Re: Time signature ID and implementation

2020-10-08 Thread Andrew Bernard
Wow. Fantastic. Thank you! A treasure. Andrew On 8/10/2020 5:58 pm, Brett Duncan wrote: It could well be a 2, looking at this: https://artscimedia.case.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/135/2020/04/20164113/NotationManual.pdf.

Re: Time signature ID and implementation

2020-10-08 Thread Adam Griggs
—/contratenor/ Until I find a matching font, this will do. Thanks again! On 8/10/20 3:24 pm, Aaron Hill wrote: On 2020-10-07 11:07 pm, Andrew Bernard wrote: I dont think it's a 2. Looks more like some kind of symbol. I am not a scholar of that period. Not a scholar either, but a quick web

Re: Time signature ID and implementation

2020-10-08 Thread Brett Duncan
It could well be a 2, looking at this: https://artscimedia.case.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/135/2020/04/20164113/NotationManual.pdf. On 8/10/20 5:24 pm, Aaron Hill wrote: On 2020-10-07 11:07 pm, Andrew Bernard wrote: I dont think it's a 2. Looks more like some kind of symbol. I am not a schol

Re: Time signature ID and implementation

2020-10-08 Thread Adam Griggs
How is it that I didn't know about that resource? Thanks a lot! Side note: That image I posted earlier should of course say /countertenor/, not /cantus/. Ooops. On 8/10/20 3:24 pm, Aaron Hill wrote: On 2020-10-07 11:07 pm, Andrew Bernard wrote: I dont think it's a 2. Looks more like some k

Re: Time signature ID and implementation

2020-10-07 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2020-10-07 11:07 pm, Andrew Bernard wrote: I dont think it's a 2. Looks more like some kind of symbol. I am not a scholar of that period. Not a scholar either, but a quick web search turned up this [1]. [1]: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Dictionary_of_Music_and_Musicians/Proportion C2

Re: Time signature ID and implementation

2020-10-07 Thread Andrew Bernard
I dont think it's a 2. Looks more like some kind of symbol. I am not a scholar of that period. Andrew

Re: replace-stencil and overlay-stencil (was: Re: time signature 4 / \breve ?)

2019-10-16 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Thank you for this Aaron! Cheers, Pierre Le jeu. 17 oct. 2019 à 06:42, Aaron Hill a écrit : > On 2019-10-16 7:00 pm, Graham King wrote: > > \version "2.19.82" > > { > > \once \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = > > #(lambda (grob) > > (grob-interpret-markup > >grob > >

Re: time signature 4 / \breve ?

2019-10-16 Thread Paul Scott
Graham, Thank you very much for both your solutions! Paul On Oct 16, 2019, at 7:00 PM, Graham King wrote: > Another way (slightly different result): > > \version "2.19.82" > > { > \once \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = >#(lambda (grob) > (grob-interpret-markup > gro

Re: time signature 4 / \breve ?

2019-10-16 Thread Paul Scott
On Oct 16, 2019, at 6:14 PM, Ben wrote: Ben, Thank you very much! Paul > On 10/16/2019 8:59 PM, Paul Scott wrote: >> Is it possible to write a time signature 4 / \breve ? >> >> This occurs in Carmina Burana. >> >> Thank you for any ideas, >> >> Paul >> > Hi Paul, > > Does this help get y

replace-stencil and overlay-stencil (was: Re: time signature 4 / \breve ?)

2019-10-16 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-10-16 7:00 pm, Graham King wrote: \version "2.19.82" { \once \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = #(lambda (grob) (grob-interpret-markup grob #{ \markup \override #'(baseline-skip . 1) \center-column { \musicglyph "four"

Re: time signature 4 / \breve ?

2019-10-16 Thread Graham King
Another way (slightly different result): \version "2.19.82" { \once \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = #(lambda (grob) (grob-interpret-markup grob #{ \markup \override #'(baseline-skip . 1) \center-column { \musicglyph "four"

Re: time signature 4 / \breve ?

2019-10-16 Thread Graham King
\version "2.19.82" tsMarkup = \markup { \override #'(baseline-skip . 0.5) \column { \number 4 \note #"breve" #0 } } { \override Staff.TimeSignature.style = #'default \override Staff.TimeSignature.stencil = #(lambda (grob) (grob-interpret-markup grob tsMarkup)) \time

Re: time signature 4 / \breve ?

2019-10-16 Thread Ben
On 10/16/2019 8:59 PM, Paul Scott wrote: Is it possible to write a time signature 4 / \breve ? This occurs in Carmina Burana. Thank you for any ideas, Paul Hi Paul, Does this help get you close to what you're looking for? (see attached) %%% \version "2.19.83" #(use-modules (

Re: Time signature change in first alternative causes different behavior depending on number of staves

2019-07-26 Thread Palmer Ralph
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 3:12 PM Jörn Eichler wrote: > > Hi to everybody, > > this is my first post to this list. I experienced a problem in v2.19.83 > when I tried to produce orchestral parts from a score. Since I couldn't > find it on the issue tracker, I hope it's OK to post here: > > \score { >

Re: Time signature and beat markers

2018-11-07 Thread Mark Knoop
At 21:16 on 06 Nov 2018, Andrew Bernard wrote: >Answering my own question, this simple approach works: > > \time 5/4 > \set Timing.measureLength = #(ly:make-moment 1/4) > >I'm happy to make the thincker barlines manually, unless anybody has >some clever special engraver ideas. Try something like

Re: Time signature and beat markers

2018-11-06 Thread Karim Haddad
ike 12/21, etc... But it works perfectly well. I have been using this for my polymeter/polytempi scores... Best K > -- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2018 20:10:52 +1100 > From: Andrew Bernard > To: lilypond-user Mailinglist > Subject: Re: Time signature an

Re: Time signature and beat markers

2018-11-06 Thread Andrew Bernard
Answering my own question, this simple approach works: \time 5/4 \set Timing.measureLength = #(ly:make-moment 1/4) I'm happy to make the thincker barlines manually, unless anybody has some clever special engraver ideas. Andrew ___ lilypond-user mai

Re: Time signature and beat markers

2018-11-06 Thread Andrew Bernard
Here is my MWE. It seems rather naive, and I feel there must be more intelligent ways to do this. Here's a basis for help to start with, hopefully making clearer what I want. The disadvantage here of course is that the heavier barlines have to be manually inserted. Not a large effort, but just doe

Re: Time signatures above the staff

2018-03-07 Thread Ben
On 3/7/2018 4:50 PM, Pedro Proença wrote: Hi Is it possible to put time signatures above the staff, on top of the barlines? If so, how would I go about doing it? I've searched the web and came up short Also, I'd like for, in a score with multiple staves, just one time signature, on the ver

Re: time signature is printed after first bar line

2016-09-20 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 20.09.2016 um 17:28 schrieb Roderick Mackenzie: I am still trying to print bagpipe tunes with Lilypond, with a repeat bar at the start of each part. I am almost there; my only problem now is that the time signature is printed after the first bar line (the repeat bar line). How do I get the

Re: Time signature before end of volta repeat

2016-06-26 Thread Thomas Morley
2016-06-26 22:01 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup : > Thomas Morley writes: > >> 2016-06-26 19:58 GMT+02:00 Imanuel Habekotte : >>> >>> Thanks for trying to help Federico. Does anyone else know a solution >>> to the problem below? >> >> >> LilyPond interprets the input successively, repeats are disregarded

Re: Time signature before end of volta repeat

2016-06-26 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > 2016-06-26 19:58 GMT+02:00 Imanuel Habekotte : >> >> Thanks for trying to help Federico. Does anyone else know a solution >> to the problem below? > > > LilyPond interprets the input successively, repeats are disregarded. > > So your problem can be reduced to: > { \time 3/

Re: Re: Time signature before end of volta repeat

2016-06-26 Thread Thomas Morley
2016-06-26 21:30 GMT+02:00 Thomas Morley : > 2016-06-26 21:27 GMT+02:00 Thomas Morley : >> 2016-06-26 19:58 GMT+02:00 Imanuel Habekotte : >>> >>> Thanks for trying to help Federico. Does anyone else know a solution to the >>> problem below? >> >> >> LilyPond interprets the input successively, repe

Re: Re: Time signature before end of volta repeat

2016-06-26 Thread Thomas Morley
2016-06-26 21:27 GMT+02:00 Thomas Morley : > 2016-06-26 19:58 GMT+02:00 Imanuel Habekotte : >> >> Thanks for trying to help Federico. Does anyone else know a solution to the >> problem below? > > > LilyPond interprets the input successively, repeats are disregarded. > > So your problem can be redu

Re: Re: Time signature before end of volta repeat

2016-06-26 Thread Thomas Morley
2016-06-26 19:58 GMT+02:00 Imanuel Habekotte : > > Thanks for trying to help Federico. Does anyone else know a solution to the > problem below? LilyPond interprets the input successively, repeats are disregarded. So your problem can be reduced to: { \time 3/4 R2. \time 4/4 \time 3/4 R2. } where

Fwd: Re: Time signature before end of volta repeat

2016-06-26 Thread Imanuel Habekotte
Thanks for trying to help Federico. Does anyone else know a solution to the problem below? Forwarded message Subject:Re: Time signature before end of volta repeat Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2016 18:13:24 +0200 From: Imanuel Habekotte To: Federico Bruni Hello

Re: Time signature before end of volta repeat

2016-06-26 Thread Federico Bruni
Hello Immanuel Please reply to all, including the mailing list. I've understand your problem now, but I don't have a solution for you. Probably someone here is able to help you. Il giorno dom 26 giu 2016 alle 18:13, Imanuel Habekotte ha scritto: Hello Federico, I meant like inside the 1st

Re: Time signature before end of volta repeat

2016-06-26 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno dom 26 giu 2016 alle 9:56, Imanuel Habekotté ha scritto: I would like to have a time signature printed before the end bar of a volta repeat. Here is an example of what I would like to have: https://html1-f.scribdassets.com/60ssbtzf5s2k8f21/images/2-88fc29efc8.jpg Instead I get a tim

Re: Time signature at end of score.

2016-05-25 Thread Richard Shann
unity. Best > -charles- > > > > Subject: Re: Time signature at end of score. > > From: rich...@rshann.plus.com > > To: sunc...@hotmail.com > > CC: lilypond-user@gnu.org > > Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 09:44:18 +0100 > > > > On Wed,

Re: Time signature at end of score.

2016-05-25 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 08:30 +, Charles Suncana wrote: > global = { > > } > > violin = \relative c'' { \time 3/4 d4 e f | g f e | d2.\bar "|." > \global > % Music follows here. > > } This isn't the idea - you have emptied the \global and still not placed the music after the comment "

Re: Time signature at end of score.

2016-05-25 Thread J Martin Rushton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm also a beginner at Lily, but as a programmer I'm quite certain you have found the problem. Consider the violin stanza: violin = ... { \time 3/4 ... \global ... } "global" has no special meaning, it is just expanded in line, hence: violin =

RE: Time signature at end of score.

2016-05-25 Thread Charles Suncana
Hi again, after persevering a bit I think the problem as using the Score wizard in Frescobaldi. Here is my tiny problem: \version "2.18.2" \header { } \layout { \context { \Voice \consists "Melody_engraver" \override Stem #'neutral-direction = #'() } } global = { \key d \ma

Re: Time signature at end of score.

2016-05-23 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 24.05.2016 um 00:47 schrieb Charles Suncana: Hi, I´m a newbie to Lilypond and am using Frescobaldi to help me use it. At the end of each engraving Frescobaldi puts a courtesy time signature for the next expected bar. However when the piece is finished AND converted to PDF, the courtesy ti

Re: Time signature at end of score.

2016-05-23 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Charles, welcome to the world of LilyPond. Hopefully you'll get a good start and stick to it :-) Am 24.05.2016 um 00:47 schrieb Charles Suncana: > Hi, I´m a newbie to Lilypond and am using Frescobaldi to help me use > it. At the end of each engraving Frescobaldi puts a courtesy time > signatu

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