Re: What to do when \> and \< produce text

2008-10-30 Thread till Rettig
gt; Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Betreff: Re: What to do when \\> and \\< produce text > 2008/10/30 Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > In my experience (vocal music), cresc and dim without a dashed > > line is used almost universally. Hairpins are u

Re: What to do when \> and \< produce text

2008-10-30 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/10/30 Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In my experience (vocal music), cresc and dim without a dashed > line is used almost universally. Hairpins are used when an extent > is being indicated. I have the same impression (choir music). > I vote for not adding the dashed line to these co

Re: What to do when \> and \< produce text

2008-10-30 Thread Trevor Daniels
Mats Bengtsson wrote Thursday, October 30, 2008 9:03 AM Valentin Villenave wrote: 2008/10/29 Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: \decresc ... Starts a text decrescendo This one wasn't available earlier, but can of course easily be added if there's consensus about it. For the macros tha

Re: What to do when \> and \< produce text

2008-10-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Valentin Villenave wrote: 2008/10/29 Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: \cresc ... Starts a text crescendo \dim ... Starts a text diminuendo Already done, as I mentioned in an earlier email. \decresc ... Starts a text decrescendo This one wasn't available earlier, but can of

Re: What to do when \> and \< produce text

2008-10-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/10/29 Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > \cresc ... Starts a text crescendo > \decresc ... Starts a text decrescendo > \dim ... Starts a text diminuendo > All of these would simply be ended by \!. I agree, but in this case we'd have to first have a convert rule that turns \version "

Re: What to do when \> and \< produce text

2008-10-29 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2008 schrieb George_: > Well, shouldn't the file be changed for future versions of Lilypond so that > the \cresc command produces the text crescendo, and the \< \! produces the > hairpin one? They are separate commands, and in

Re: What to do when \> and \< produce text

2008-10-29 Thread George_
Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote: > > > This is exactly what happens if you use the command in version > 2.10 or earlier, so the current behaviour in 2.11 is a regression > bug. > > I have modified the definitions in the GIT source code repository so > that \cresc and \dim only give one-time text dynam

Re: What to do when \> and \< produce text

2008-10-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
George_ wrote: ... As I said before (and I am even more certain about this now) I think the \cresc and \dim should be changed in future versions of Lilypond (especially with the stable release coming up) to make them into one-time text dynamics. This is exactly what happens if you use the comman

Re: What to do when \> and \< produce text

2008-10-29 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:59 AM, George_ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The exclusion of the command \cresc and \dim from this section, and the fact > that there are actual commands giving a text crescendo (\crescTextCresc, > \dimTextDecresc, \dimTextDecr, and \dimTextDim) sort of implies that \cr

Re: What to do when \> and \< produce text

2008-10-29 Thread George_
Valentin Villenave wrote: > > > cresc = { >#(ly:export (make-event-chord (list cr))) >\set crescendoText = \markup { \italic "cresc." } >\set crescendoSpanner = #'text > } > > I don't know why George used \cresc in the first place though. > > Well, shouldn't the file be changed

Re: What to do when \> and \< produce text

2008-10-29 Thread Tim Reeves
> > The \cresc macro is defined in ly/spanners-init.ly and is preceded > by a comment: > > > > % STOP: junkme! > > > > so it's clearly not well-supported It's certainly intended to > generate a text style crescendo "cresc.". > > However, at the time the macro was implemented, any setting of > c

Re: What to do when \> and \< produce text

2008-10-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Valentin Villenave wrote: 2008/10/29 Brett Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: as clearly shown in Notation Reference 1.3.1, it there really a need to keep it? I can't say that I've seen many instances of the text "cresc." without the dashed line, but perhaps others have. AFAICS it is used

Re: What to do when \> and \< produce text

2008-10-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/10/29 Brett Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > as clearly shown in Notation Reference 1.3.1, it there really a need to keep > it? I can't say that I've seen many instances of the text "cresc." without > the dashed line, but perhaps others have. AFAICS it is used quite a bit in one of our example

Re: What to do when \> and \< produce text

2008-10-29 Thread Brett Duncan
Valentin Villenave wrote: Use the Source, Luke... ly/spanners-init.ly, line 21: cresc = { #(ly:export (make-event-chord (list cr))) \set crescendoText = \markup { \italic "cresc." } \set crescendoSpanner = #'text } Okay, that makes things clearer (for me, at least). I don't know w

Re: What to do when \> and \< produce text

2008-10-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Brett Duncan wrote: The problem was that George had used the \cresc command in his file, but had \crescHairpin command _before_ the \cresc command. Moving \crescHairpin appears to have solved his problem. I couldn't find \cresc in the Notation Reference, but it does appear in the Internals

Re: What to do when \> and \< produce text

2008-10-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/10/29 Brett Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I couldn't find \cresc in the Notation Reference, but it does appear in the > Internals Reference, where it is listed simply as an alternative notation > for \<. From George's file, it appears to not only generate a text crescendo > but also switch th

Re: What to do when \> and \< produce text

2008-10-29 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/10/29 Brett Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > George's file was linked to in his previous email: > http://www.nabble.com/file/p20216702/T.ly Oh, it was hidden by a quoting format. > From George's file, it appears to not only generate a text crescendo > but also switch the display of crescendos t

Re: What to do when \> and \< produce text

2008-10-29 Thread Brett Duncan
Francisco Vila wrote: 2008/10/28 George_ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I did some tests and they came out perfectly fine, so it has to be something wrong with my ly file, right? Except I can't find anything in there that I did differently between the crescendo that came out right and the ones that starte

Re: What to do when \> and \< produce text

2008-10-28 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/10/28 George_ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I did some tests and they came out perfectly fine, so it has to be something > wrong with my ly file, right? Except I can't find anything in there that I > did differently between the crescendo that came out right and the ones that > started coming out wr

Re: What to do when \> and \< produce text

2008-10-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/10/28 George_ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I did some tests and they came out perfectly fine, so it has to be something > wrong with my ly file, right? Except I can't find anything in there that I > did differently between the crescendo that came out right and the ones that > started coming out wr

Re: What to do when \> and \< produce text

2008-10-28 Thread George_
I did some tests and they came out perfectly fine, so it has to be something wrong with my ly file, right? Except I can't find anything in there that I did differently between the crescendo that came out right and the ones that started coming out wrong. The file includes one crescendo done correct

Re: What to do when \> and \< produce text

2008-10-28 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/10/28 George_ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I didn't change anything in between the times when the crescendi came out as > hairpins and when they came out as text. In any event, the crescendi don't > revert to hairpins when I put in \crescHairpin. So, now I'm just confused... > > George Try to iso

Re: What to do when \> and \< produce text

2008-10-28 Thread George_
I didn't change anything in between the times when the crescendi came out as hairpins and when they came out as text. In any event, the crescendi don't revert to hairpins when I put in \crescHairpin. So, now I'm just confused... George Valentin Villenave wrote: > > 2008/10/28 George_ <[EMAIL P

Re: What to do when \> and \< produce text

2008-10-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/10/28 George_ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > For some reason, about 15 bars into typesetting a piece, whenever I use and > \< to typeset crescendi, Lilypond outputs this with the word 'cresc.' This > doesn't happen with \>, the decrescendo prints normally, and it only started > occurring, as I said,