Re: ottavation text format

2024-10-18 Thread damianlegassick
Thanks for that Kieren, it works and is very flexible I couldn't find an obvious switch for line alignment (top, center, bottom), so I feared that lambda would be appearing :-) FWIW I checked a handful of scores each from Schott, Universal, Faber, Ricordi and while not identical, they lean towa

Re:  ottavation text format

2024-10-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Damian, > how do I get the dotted line to align with the bottom of the 8 rather than > the middle? This is the kind of thing I use, though it’s old enough that there may well be better ways nowadays: %%% SNIPPET BEGINS \version "2.25.11" loco = \ottava #0 #(define eightva #{ %% messin

Re: ottavation text format

2024-10-17 Thread damianlegassick
mmm, just one more thing how do I get the dotted line to align with the bottom of the 8 rather than the middle? thanks again

Re: ottavation text format

2024-10-17 Thread damianlegassick
Thanks all It works with \set Staff.ottavation = \markup {\concat {8 \tiny{vb}}} Damian On 17 Oct 2024, at 12:47, Mark Knoop wrote: At 11:28 on 17 Oct 2024, damianlegassick wrote: I had this same problem. To investigate it, I looked up the definition of ottavation-ordinals in ly/property-init.l

Re: ottavation text format

2024-10-17 Thread Mark Knoop
At 11:28 on 17 Oct 2024, damianlegassick wrote: >> I had this same problem. To investigate it, I looked up >> the definition of ottavation-ordinals in >> ly/property-init.ly. I then created a new ottavation list >> called ottavation-ordinals-b, with "va" and "ma" changed >> to "vb" and "mb" for t

Re: ottavation text format

2024-10-17 Thread damianlegassick
I had this same problem. To investigate it, I looked up the definition of ottavation-ordinals in ly/property-init.ly. I then created a new ottavation list called ottavation-ordinals-b, with "va" and "ma" changed to "vb" and "mb" for the negative ottavations. I included the new ottavation list in

Re: ottavation text format

2024-10-17 Thread damianlegassick
Hi Mark Technically wrong yes, but not so uncommon anymore. I don't use vb myself but am interested in why I can't get the text size to match exactly thanks Damian On 17 Oct 2024, at 12:17, Mark Knoop wrote: At 06:56 on 17 Oct 2024, Carl Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 5:34 AM damianlega

Re: ottavation text format

2024-10-17 Thread Mark Knoop
At 06:56 on 17 Oct 2024, Carl Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 5:34 AM damianlegassick > wrote: >> Hi all >> >> When I use >> >> \set Staff.ottavation = "8vb" >> >> the v and the b are larger than with the plain: >> >> \set Staff.ottavationMarkups = #ottavation-ordinals >> >> any clues

Re: ottavation text format

2024-10-17 Thread Carl Sorensen
On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 5:34 AM damianlegassick wrote: > Hi all > > When I use > > \set Staff.ottavation = "8vb" > > the v and the b are larger than with the plain: > > \set Staff.ottavationMarkups = #ottavation-ordinals > > any clues how to adjust this? > > thanks > > Damian > I had this same p

Re: ottavation text format

2024-10-17 Thread damianlegassick
Depends on how you want to adjust it, I suppose… Do you want the “va” larger or the “vb” smaller? vb smaller ideally, but either would work

Re: ottavation text format

2024-10-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Damian, > When I use > \set Staff.ottavation = "8vb" > the v and the b are larger than with the plain: > \set Staff.ottavationMarkups = #ottavation-ordinals > any clues how to adjust this? Depends on how you want to adjust it, I suppose… Do you want the “va” larger or the “vb” smaller? Kiere

Re: ottavation text format

2024-10-17 Thread damianlegassick
\version "2.25.18" \layout { ragged-last = ##f } { \clef bass c,,4 \set Staff.ottavationMarkups = #ottavation-ordinals \ottava -1 4 4 4 \ottava 0 4 \set Staff.ottavation = "8vb" \ottava -1 4 4 4 }

Re: ottavation text format

2024-10-17 Thread damianlegassick
the v and the b are larger than larger than the v and the a in ...

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 30.10.2015 23:29, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: Simon Albrecht-2 wrote Try: \layout { \context { \Staff \override OttavaBracket.springs-and-rods = #ly:spanner::set-spacing-rods %\override OttavaBracket.minimum-length = 0.3 } } and adjust minimum-length to taste. For som

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Noeck
> All approved now - future posts should be forwarded immediately. > > Trevor Thanks a lot, Simon and Trevor ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Trevor Daniels
Noeck wrote Friday, October 30, 2015 9:31 PM > just to make sure: "Post awaiting moderation." is the usual thing to > happen on sourceforge and someone will have a look at some point if he > allows my comment? All approved now - future posts should be forwarded immediately. Trevor _

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Simon Albrecht-2 wrote > Try: > \layout { >\context { > \Staff > \override OttavaBracket.springs-and-rods = > #ly:spanner::set-spacing-rods > %\override OttavaBracket.minimum-length = 0.3 >} > } > and adjust minimum-length to taste. For some reason this has no effect for me

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 30.10.2015 22:01, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: Second thing, try this code: \relative c'' { R1*7 \ottavation #1 c8 \ottavation #0 d, d d d d d d } It will output only "8va" without the vertical line. I believe that, according to Gould, we always need to have the vertical "hook" in the end

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 30.10.2015 22:31, Noeck wrote: Hi Simon, just to make sure: "Post awaiting moderation." is the usual thing to happen on sourceforge and someone will have a look at some point if he allows my comment? Done already :-) I suppose Phil or Trevor could well give you a status where this wouldn’t

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Noeck
Hi Simon, just to make sure: "Post awaiting moderation." is the usual thing to happen on sourceforge and someone will have a look at some point if he allows my comment? Cheers, Joram ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gn

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 30.10.2015 22:01, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: Hi Simon, thanks for the improvements, I knew my function was utterly inefficient but I have a hard time with Scheme. I’ve had that too, but it gets better :-) Just two things about this all: Which modifications to your function should I do if

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi Simon, thanks for the improvements, I knew my function was utterly inefficient but I have a hard time with Scheme. Just two things about this all: Which modifications to your function should I do if I want to have only a "8" text, without the "va"? Maybe we could create a \ottavation-no-text fo

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Noeck
Hi Simon, > And regarding your other comments: please comment in the tracker yourself. Thanks for pushing me to sign up. Finally I have an account and I will comment myself. Cheers, Joram ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://li

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 30.10.2015 21:29, Noeck wrote: At first, the endings (22da, 29na) looked convincing, but I wondered why I have seen 22ma before (e.g. in Bravura [1]). When looking at this and searching online, I tend to think ma is correct as the Italian word seems to be 'ventiduesimo/-a' and the same for 29m

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Noeck
Hi Gilberto and Simon, I have my own ottava function as a replacement of \ottava, more about it below. @Gilberto: Very nice, I tried to move the lines up/down once but without success. You solve all my issues [3], [4] :) I will gladly use your solution! @Simon: Even better. Thanks. At first, the

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Gilberto, On 30.10.2015 18:49, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: H. S. Teoh wrote Very nice! But shouldn't this be fixed in Lilypond itself, not just as an external function? Thanks! And sure, if people want to implement this idea in LilyPond itself that would be ideal. Thank you for this wor

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
H. S. Teoh wrote > Very nice! But shouldn't this be fixed in Lilypond itself, not just as > an external function? Thanks! And sure, if people want to implement this idea in LilyPond itself that would be ideal. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/ottavation-f

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Urs Liska
Am 30.10.2015 um 18:34 schrieb H. S. Teoh: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 10:31:22AM -0700, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: >> Hello LilyPonders, >> >> I would like to share a little function I created for myself. >> According to Elaine Gould's /Behind Bars/, the ottava dashed line >> should attach itself t

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 10:31:22AM -0700, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: > Hello LilyPonders, > > I would like to share a little function I created for myself. > According to Elaine Gould's /Behind Bars/, the ottava dashed line > should attach itself to the top of the 8va (or 15ma) and to the bottom >

Re: Ottavation text too long for next line

2015-05-17 Thread Knute Snortum
Great suggestions. Thanks. Knute Snortum (via Gmail) On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi Knute, > > Maybe something like this will work for you? > > \version "2.19.20" > \language "english" > > #(define (ottava-jr grob) >(let* ( >

Re: Ottavation text too long for next line

2015-05-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Knute, Maybe something like this will work for you? \version "2.19.20" \language "english" #(define (ottava-jr grob) (let* ( ;; have we been split? (orig (ly:grob-original grob)) ;; if yes, get the split pieces (our siblings) (siblings (if (ly:grob?

Re: Ottavation text too long for next line

2015-05-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Knute, well this is one of those complicated cases where Lily is not yet smart enough. I’d suggest to make the text ‘shorter’, the following may give some ideas: \version "2.19.20" \language "english" octaveUp = { \set Staff.ottavation = \markup \override #'(baseline-skip . 1.5) \colu

RE: Ottavation text too long for next line

2015-05-16 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Knute, When I eliminated the indent ( \layout {\indent = #0} ), all of it fits on the first line. Mark From: lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Knute Snortum Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2015 10:14 AM

Re: ottavation duplicates text after \break

2014-12-24 Thread Jinsong Zhao
On 2014/12/24 17:31, Thomas Morley wrote: 2014-12-24 21:48 GMT+01:00 Jinsong Zhao : Hi there, For the following snippet,I want the ottavation duplicates text after \break to be (8va), how to get that? \version "2.19.15" \relative c'' { c4 \ottava #1 \set Staff.ottavation = #"octave

Re: ottavation duplicates text after \break

2014-12-24 Thread Thomas Morley
2014-12-24 21:48 GMT+01:00 Jinsong Zhao : > Hi there, > > For the following snippet,I want the ottavation duplicates text after \break > to be (8va), how to get that? > > \version "2.19.15" > \relative c'' { > c4 \ottava #1 > \set Staff.ottavation = #"octave" > c4 c4 c4 \break >

Re: ottavation

2011-04-07 Thread Peter O'Doherty
Thanks a lot Mike and Nick. Your suggestions have been very helpful. Regards, Peter On 04/07/2011 01:37 AM, Nick Payne wrote: On 06/04/11 23:26, Peter O'Doherty wrote: Thanks. The code you sent applies \ottava #1 to the whole score, whereas I also have instances of |8vb and 15va etc|. All I n

Re: ottavation

2011-04-06 Thread Nick Payne
On 06/04/11 23:26, Peter O'Doherty wrote: Thanks. The code you sent applies \ottava #1 to the whole score, whereas I also have instances of |8vb and 15va etc|. All I need is a way to change the property to print only 8 or 15 without va, vb etc. to save me typing \set Staff.ottavation = #"8" ea

Re: ottavation

2011-04-06 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
,1 > } > > }} > \layout { > \context { > % \Score ottavation=#"8" % this does not work > } }} > > > > > On 04/06/2011 01:51 PM, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: >> >> On Apr 6, 2011, at 7:22 AM, James Lowe wrote: >> >>> From

Re: ottavation

2011-04-06 Thread Peter O'Doherty
ote: On Apr 6, 2011, at 7:22 AM, James Lowe wrote: From: Peter O'Doherty [mailto:k.p.odohe...@gmail.com] Sent: 06 April 2011 12:21 To: James Lowe Subject: Re: ottavation Thanks for your reply, James. My question wasn't very clear - there are numerous instances of ottava passages in t

Re: ottavation

2011-04-06 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Apr 6, 2011, at 7:22 AM, James Lowe wrote: > From: Peter O'Doherty [mailto:k.p.odohe...@gmail.com] > Sent: 06 April 2011 12:21 > To: James Lowe > Subject: Re: ottavation > > Thanks for your reply, James. My question wasn't very clear - there are > numerous

RE: ottavation

2011-04-06 Thread James Lowe
Hello, )-Original Message- )From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org )[mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org] On )Behalf Of Peter O'Doherty )Sent: 06 April 2011 09:51 )To: lilypond-user )Subject: ottavation ) )Hi, ) )How can I adjust \set Staff.ott