RE: beginner problems

2005-05-06 Thread Fairchild
er@gnu.org Subject: Re: beginner problems Okay, first of all a huge thank you to Han-Wen and everyone else that makes lilypond work! This is pretty awesome to be able to do this so easily. Now, I have a few questions: 1) Is the default papersize A4? How do I change it to US letter (the pdf

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Jennifer! That's it! Thanks very much, Robert At 10:25 PM +0100 5/5/05, Jennifer Clark wrote: Robert T Wyatt wrote: (It yields Co7 instead of Co/, if you know what I mean.) Any ideas? How about:- c:m7.5- Jennifer ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Jennifer Clark
Robert T Wyatt wrote: (It yields Co7 instead of Co/, if you know what I mean.) Any ideas? How about:- c:m7.5- Jennifer ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Robert T Wyatt wrote: > (now, about that half-diminished \chord notation...) Found it! http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Chord-name-chart.html Well, no, that is not quite what I want I'm afraid. Yes, the 13th example is a half-diminished chord, and yes I want the de

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
> (now, about that half-diminished \chord notation...) Found it! http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Chord-name-chart.html#Chord-name-chart ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/li

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
> (now, about that half-diminished \chord notation...) Found it! http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Chord-name-chart.html#Chord-name-chart ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/li

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
By jove, I think I've got it now! You are beautiful people! You have no idea how happy this composer will be to see his song so beautifully engraved! I've included it below and am open to suggestions for improvement on the lilypond entry part. Really! Thank you, Robert (now, about that half-diminis

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
By jove, I think I've got it now! You are beautiful people! You have no idea how happy this composer will be to see his song so beautifully engraved! I've included it below and am open to suggestions for improvement on the lilypond entry part. Really! Thank you, Robert (now, about that half-dim

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Check how to specify the duration of a chord at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Combining-notes-into-chords.html#Combining-notes-into-chords /Mats Robert T Wyatt wrote: Thank you Mats! This worked perfectly. --rtw Now a follow-up question, the answer to which will

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Okay, first of all a huge thank you to Han-Wen and everyone else that makes lilypond work! This is pretty awesome to be able to do this so easily. Now, I have a few questions: 1) Is the default papersize A4? How do I change it to US letter (the pdf says the paper size isn't right and do I want to s

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Okay, first of all a huge thank you to Han-Wen and everyone else that makes lilypond work! This is pretty awesome to be able to do this so easily. Now, I have a few questions: 1) Is the default papersize A4? How do I change it to US letter (the pdf says the paper size isn't right and do I want t

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Graham, Thanks! I tried this and it works also! (More than one way to do it!) --Robert Graham Percival wrote: On 4-May-05, at 9:57 PM, Robert T Wyatt wrote: I'm using 2.4.5 on MacOS 10.3.9. Why is there a second staff? You used << and >> , that means "do these things at the same time". In particu

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Thank you Mats! This worked perfectly. --rtw Now a follow-up question, the answer to which will probably get me through the remainder of this straightforward piece: This works just fine (yes, there are more chords than music so far, but that will change): << \chords { d1:m | bes1 | a1:7 | d2:m

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Since it's possible to have different key signatures on different staves in a score (for example if you have transposing instruments), you have to specify the key signature in every Staff context. You want one line of chords and one staff with key signature and music, so just include the key signat

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-04 Thread Graham Percival
On 4-May-05, at 9:57 PM, Robert T Wyatt wrote: I'm using 2.4.5 on MacOS 10.3.9. Why is there a second staff? You used << and >> , that means "do these things at the same time". In particular, "f major" and "\relative {a bunch of note}". Note that the staff with your notes is in C major. I'm a bit

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-04 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Robert T Wyatt wrote: Hi all, A couple of easy beginner questions for you: I'm using 2.4.5 on MacOS 10.3.9. Why is there a second staff? Why does my bar check on my chords fail? << \key f \major \time 4/4 \chords { d:m | } \relative { d'8. a16~ a8 f16 d16~ d16 d16 f16 a16 d16 c16 b16 a16 | } >

beginner problems

2005-05-04 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Hi all, A couple of easy beginner questions for you: I'm using 2.4.5 on MacOS 10.3.9. Why is there a second staff? Why does my bar check on my chords fail? << \key f \major \time 4/4 \chords { d:m | } \relative { d'8. a16~ a8 f16 d16~ d16 d16 f16 a16 d16 c16 b16 a16 | } >> Thanks very much, Rober