Re: ledger line crash with very high notes in first chord of system

2013-01-30 Thread Paul Morris
On Jan 30, 2013, at 5:32 PM, Jeffrey Trevino wrote: > A great trick! It looks like beaming and slurring across staffs works well > with this technique, which is marvelous. Hi Jeff, Glad this may prove useful to you. > Is there a way to attach a "treble^8" clef at the beginning of the additio

Re: ledger line crash with very high notes in first chord of system

2013-01-30 Thread Paul Morris
On Jan 30, 2013, at 11:36 PM, Paul Morris wrote: > \set Staff.clefOctavation = #7 Actually, this should be: \set Staff.clefOctavation = #14 since the clef is two octaves higher, not one, right? -Paul___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gn

Re: ledger line crash with very high notes in first chord of system

2013-01-30 Thread Jeffrey Trevino
Hi Paul, A great trick! It looks like beaming and slurring across staffs works well with this technique, which is marvelous. This could be the way to go, but I need to figure out a few more things with this paradigm before I can use it: Is there a way to attach a "treble^8" clef at the beginning

Re: ledger line crash with very high notes in first chord of system

2013-01-28 Thread Paul Morris
On Jan 28, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Eluze wrote: > adding > > \stopStaff \startStaff > > works Thanks! I also added an override to keep the stems from being extended all the way down. Not sure if this is the best approach, but good to know how to use it. -Paul \version "2.16.1" \relative c'

Re: ledger line crash with very high notes in first chord of system

2013-01-28 Thread Eluze
Am 28.01.2013 16:49, schrieb Paul Morris: On Jan 28, 2013, at 5:32 AM, m...@mikesolomon.org wrote: I haven't completely wrapped my head around the best way to implement it, but it seems like one solution is overriding the stencil function of the LedgerLineSpanner to be continuous across note

Re: ledger line crash with very high notes in first chord of system

2013-01-28 Thread Paul Morris
On Jan 28, 2013, at 5:32 AM, m...@mikesolomon.org wrote: > I haven't completely wrapped my head around the best way to implement it, but > it seems like one solution is overriding the stencil function of the > LedgerLineSpanner to be continuous across notes. Hmmm... I tried overriding the lin

Re: ledger line crash with very high notes in first chord of system

2013-01-28 Thread m...@mikesolomon.org
On 28 janv. 2013, at 11:21, Jeffrey Trevino wrote: > Hi Keith, > > Thanks for your report and your suggested override. I'll give it a shot; in > the meantime, I've gone for a popular contemporary music workaround: the > addition of a third staff with an octave treble clef, to eliminate the le

Re: ledger line crash with very high notes in first chord of system

2013-01-28 Thread Jeffrey Trevino
Hi Keith, Thanks for your report and your suggested override. I'll give it a shot; in the meantime, I've gone for a popular contemporary music workaround: the addition of a third staff with an octave treble clef, to eliminate the ledger lines. (hence my post about changing staffs for the notes of

Re: ledger line crash with very high notes in first chord of system

2013-01-26 Thread Keith OHara
Jeffrey Trevino gmail.com> writes: > the accidentals should be moved to the left to avoid collision with the > ledger lines. Yes, the ledger lines are discontinuous, so they hide the accidental much more than staff lines would. I added a bug report

Re: ledger line crash with very high notes in first chord of system

2013-01-26 Thread Phil Holmes
Why? We don't do that with accidentals on stave lines. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Jeffrey Trevino To: Phil Holmes Cc: lilypond-user Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 2:14 AM Subject: Re: ledger line crash with very high notes in first chord of s

Re: ledger line crash with very high notes in first chord of system

2013-01-25 Thread Jeffrey Trevino
Hi there, That's right: the accidentals should be moved to the left to avoid collision with the ledger lines. cheers, Jeff On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Phil Holmes wrote: > ** > I presume you don't like the fact that the accidentals are within the > ledger lines, rather like they are in st

Re: ledger line crash with very high notes in first chord of system

2013-01-25 Thread Phil Holmes
I presume you don't like the fact that the accidentals are within the ledger lines, rather like they are in staff lines. What would you want? -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Jeffrey Trevino To: lilypond-user Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 4:47 AM Subject: ledger

Re: ledger line crash with very high notes in first chord of system

2013-01-24 Thread Jeffrey Trevino
PS disregard "in first system" in the subject -- for a moment I thought this was the case, but it happens regardless of a chord's position On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Jeffrey Trevino wrote: > I think I've found a default behavior that could use a little work: > > When I make a chord that co