Re: Newby question about stem directions

2009-05-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Tim, Does the \\ keep adding voices (effectively) indefinitely [...] I'm worried about running out of voices! I don't know the official answer. (Maybe Mats or HW or Graham can speak to this?) It seems that you can have an infinite number and looking at the impleme

Re: Newby question about stem directions

2009-05-10 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/5/10 Kieren MacMillan : > I've attached a better (IMO) way of doing the same thing. > > Hope this helps! /Very/ much better, and conceptually matches how I would expect to do it. Splendid! Thanks. -- Tim Rowe ___ lilypond-user mailing list lil

Re: Newby question about stem directions

2009-05-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Tim, Why do you need two voices just to align lyrics to a dotted slur? If you post your current workaround, I'm sure someone on the list will be able to show you how to do it with only one voice. I used the snippet at http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=308 for exactly the use mentioned

Re: Newby question about stem directions

2009-05-10 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/5/10 Kieren MacMillan : > Why do you need two voices just to align lyrics to a dotted slur? > If you post your current workaround, I'm sure someone on the list will be > able to show you how to do it with only one voice. I used the snippet at http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=308 for exact

Re: Newby question about stem directions

2009-05-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Tim, Does the \\ keep adding voices (effectively) indefinitely [...] I'm worried about running out of voices! I don't know the official answer. (Maybe Mats or HW or Graham can speak to this?) The attached test shows that there are at least 5 -- I'm assuming there are an indefinite numbe

Re: Newby question about stem directions

2009-05-10 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/5/10 Kieren MacMillan : > In the example you give, << {M1} {M2} >> (i.e., without the \\), Lilypond > simply says "engrave the two musical gestures {M1} and {M2} simultaneously > in the same Voice context << V >>". > Hence, there is no concern for stem direction, collision, etc. Thanks. Does

Re: Newby question -- Root notes in chord notation.

2009-05-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Tim, Is there any way to get a fakebook style indication of modified root notes? Read the doc section on chords -- this is explained there (right in the second example). Cheers, Kieren.

Re: Newby question about stem directions

2009-05-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Tim, I can't get the following bit of notation to work -- despite the \stemUp command the stems are down (which looks horrid!) -- can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong? You're not letting Lilypond do the correct voice handling for you... \version "2.12.2" \include "english.ly" lower =

Re: newby question

2004-04-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You may want to take a look at the answer I just sent to a related question, "placement of rehearsal marks and more," see the mailing list archives at http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/ Peter wrote: Hi all, I'm just starting with Lilypond, trying to print out some sheet music for a

Re: newby question

2004-04-27 Thread Peter
On 27-apr-04, at 22:51, Peter wrote: I'm just starting with Lilypond, Oh, I forgot... lilypond (GNU LilyPond) 2.1.37 on Mac OSX 10.3.3 Cheers, Peter. ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user