Re: specifically: how to do "p-f" dynamics (first time, second time); generally: how to find this in the manuals

2021-11-28 Thread Valentin Petzel
Hi, Maybe of interest: One of the musicxml to Lilypond converters (I thing it was the one from libmusicxml) add an event function called otherDynamic, which takes a markup as argument. Then if the argument is an atomic string markup it replaces words made up from m,r,z,f,p,s as dynamic text, ev

Re: specifically: how to do "p-f" dynamics (first time, second time); generally: how to find this in the manuals

2021-11-28 Thread Paul Scott
On 11/28/21 2:28 AM, Wols Lists wrote: I have a little include area for all my standard stuff - I redefine the header block, for example. But one of those files in there contains a bunch of definitions for all the odd dynamics. So every time I need to add a new one, I've got all the others th

Re: specifically: how to do "p-f" dynamics (first time, second time); generally: how to find this in the manuals

2021-11-28 Thread Wols Lists
I have a little include area for all my standard stuff - I redefine the header block, for example. But one of those files in there contains a bunch of definitions for all the odd dynamics. So every time I need to add a new one, I've got all the others there as examples ... :-) Cheers, Wol On

Re: specifically: how to do "p-f" dynamics (first time, second time); generally: how to find this in the manuals

2021-11-27 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Thank you! On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 10:15 AM Ritchie wrote: > Hi, > > I was looking / asking the same some time ago. > > A very helpful list denizen helped me by suggesting... > > \markup { \dynamic "p - f" } > > Just thought I'd pass on :-) > > Ritchie > > > On 27/11/2021 17:49, Kenneth Wolcott

Re: specifically: how to do "p-f" dynamics (first time, second time); generally: how to find this in the manuals

2021-11-27 Thread Ritchie
Hi, I was looking / asking the same some time ago. A very helpful list denizen helped me by suggesting... \markup { \dynamic "p - f" } Just thought I'd pass on :-) Ritchie On 27/11/2021 17:49, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: Thank you Knute, that helps. On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 7:03 AM Knute Snortu

Re: specifically: how to do "p-f" dynamics (first time, second time); generally: how to find this in the manuals

2021-11-27 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Thank you Knute, that helps. On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 7:03 AM Knute Snortum wrote: > > Here's how I would do it: > > * Go to Google and type "lilypond 2.22 dynamics". The 2.22 is the > version. This usually brings up several possible links to the manual > and the first one is a good one. > * Cli

Re: specifically: how to do "p-f" dynamics (first time, second time); generally: how to find this in the manuals

2021-11-27 Thread Knute Snortum
Here's how I would do it: * Go to Google and type "lilypond 2.22 dynamics". The 2.22 is the version. This usually brings up several possible links to the manual and the first one is a good one. * Clink the link about expressive marks: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/express

specifically: how to do "p-f" dynamics (first time, second time); generally: how to find this in the manuals

2021-11-26 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Hi; Regarding the old fable: "Give me a fish, I can eat for a meal; Give me a fishing pole, I can eat for a lifetime."... I can't remember how to do dynamics pertaining to an implied repeat. The music has "p -f" for dynamic marking. The general problem: How do I search (what phrases should I

Re: Repeat with Alternative on First Time

2015-11-25 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
: > >> Hi Mike, >> >> this is actually covered in the Notation Reference, more precisely, right >> there: >> >> >> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/long-repeats#manual-repeat-marks >> >> Best, >> Robert >> >

Re: Repeat with Alternative on First Time

2015-11-25 Thread Michael Hartl
too! Best Wishes Mike On 2015-11-25 14:41, Robert Schmaus wrote: Hi Mike, this is actually covered in the Notation Reference, more precisely, right there: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/long-repeats#manual-repeat-marks Best, Robert Am 25/11/15 um 13:57 schrieb M

Re: Repeat with Alternative on First Time

2015-11-25 Thread Robert Schmaus
more precisely, right there: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/long-repeats#manual-repeat-marks Best, Robert Am 25/11/15 um 13:57 schrieb Michael Hartl: Dear Lilypond Experts, this is my first time posting to this list. I am trying my hand at engraving a song with a perhaps unus

Re: Repeat with Alternative on First Time

2015-11-25 Thread David Wright
On Wed 25 Nov 2015 at 14:41:57 (+0100), Robert Schmaus wrote: > Hi Mike, > > this is actually covered in the Notation Reference, more precisely, > right there: > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/long-repeats#manual-repeat-marks I disagree. What's missing is the notation to

Re: Repeat with Alternative on First Time

2015-11-25 Thread Robert Schmaus
Hi Mike, this is actually covered in the Notation Reference, more precisely, right there: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/long-repeats#manual-repeat-marks Best, Robert Am 25/11/15 um 13:57 schrieb Michael Hartl: Dear Lilypond Experts, this is my first time posting

Re: Repeat with Alternative on First Time

2015-11-25 Thread David Wright
On Wed 25 Nov 2015 at 13:57:40 (+0100), Michael Hartl wrote: > Dear Lilypond Experts, Not me, then. > this is my first time posting to this list. I am trying my hand at > engraving a song with a perhaps unusual, but very simple repeat > pattern > and I couldn't find ou

Repeat with Alternative on First Time

2015-11-25 Thread Michael Hartl
Dear Lilypond Experts, this is my first time posting to this list. I am trying my hand at engraving a song with a perhaps unusual, but very simple repeat pattern and I couldn't find out how to come to the correct result from the manuel. The melody goes like this:

Re: First time Voices user

2014-12-21 Thread James Harkins
chubb.wattle.id.au> writes: > As an aside, dutch note names and \relative make data entry MUCH > faster. See below (part 2). FWIW, English note names are shorter if you use "f" for flat and "s" for sharp: cs vs cis is 33% more efficient. I understand why some prefer the Dutch names, as you c

Re: First time Voices user

2014-12-21 Thread Br. Samuel Springuel
On 2014-12-21 4:30 PM, Urs Liska wrote: Your irritation originates in the fact that you want to produce a score that*looks* like chords but is structurally a polyphonic setting. There's nothing wrong with this but it implies expecting some "uncommon" behaviour. Concretely you have to hide the ar

Re: First time Voices user

2014-12-21 Thread peter
> "Br" == Br Samuel Springuel writes: Br> On 2014-12-21 12:20 AM, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: >> As both cases have the same stem direction one has to be shifted. >> Usually if you want two voices you either give them separate >> staves, or give one the \voiceOne and the other the \voiceT

Re: First time Voices user

2014-12-21 Thread Urs Liska
Am 21. Dezember 2014 21:09:23 MEZ, schrieb "Br. Samuel Springuel" : >The piece I'm typesetting is a modern chant "Our Father" that we use in > >our morning office. It's sung acapella and has a melody and harmony >line. The lyrics, dynamics, and articulations are always in sync >between the t

Re: First time Voices user

2014-12-21 Thread Urs Liska
Am 21. Dezember 2014 21:57:37 MEZ, schrieb "Br. Samuel Springuel" : >On 2014-12-21 3:27 PM, Kevin Barry wrote: >> Does the piece you are reproducing have two sets of articulations, >> both above the staff? I can't remember ever having seen that kind of >> notation before. > >No, it has only on

Re: First time Voices user

2014-12-21 Thread Br. Samuel Springuel
On 2014-12-21 3:27 PM, Kevin Barry wrote: Does the piece you are reproducing have two sets of articulations, both above the staff? I can't remember ever having seen that kind of notation before. No, it has only one set of articulations, but they apply to both parts when they appear. If you

Re: First time Voices user

2014-12-21 Thread Kevin Barry
Hi, Does the piece you are reproducing have two sets of articulations, both above the staff? I can't remember ever having seen that kind of notation before. If you want to remove the articulations from one voice you can add the following line to it (place it in the same block as the music, befor

Re: First time Voices user

2014-12-21 Thread Br. Samuel Springuel
The piece I'm typesetting is a modern chant "Our Father" that we use in our morning office. It's sung acapella and has a melody and harmony line. The lyrics, dynamics, and articulations are always in sync between the two parts, it's just that the harmony has a different note (effectively, the

Re: First time Voices user

2014-12-21 Thread Urs Liska
Am 21.12.2014 um 18:00 schrieb Br. Samuel Springuel: On 2014-12-21 12:20 AM, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: As both cases have the same stem direction one has to be shifted. Usually if you want two voices you either give them separate staves, or give one the \voiceOne and the other the \voiceT

Re: First time Voices user

2014-12-21 Thread Br. Samuel Springuel
On 2014-12-21 12:20 AM, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: As both cases have the same stem direction one has to be shifted. Usually if you want two voices you either give them separate staves, or give one the \voiceOne and the other the \voiceTwo appellations. Ah! I didn't notice this because I'

Re: First time Voices user

2014-12-20 Thread peter
> "Br" == Br Samuel Springuel writes: Br> 1) Some notes that don't collide (to my eye), are getting shifted Br> as if they did. When the same pair of notes are set as a chord, Br> there is no shift. Clearly there's a difference between what Br> lilypond considers a collision between notes

First time Voices user

2014-12-20 Thread Br. Samuel Springuel
So, I'm trying out voices for the first time, switching a piece I had written using chords for single staff polyphony to using voices. In the process I have run into a couple of things I don't understand: 1) Some notes that don't collide (to my eye), are getting shifted as if

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
You can even find it in _handwritten_ 19th century scores. For example look at the last measure in this Schubert manuscript: http://www.schubert-online.at/activpage/manuskripte.php?werke_id=253&werkteile_id=&image=MH_00122_D648_052.jpg&groesse=100&aktion=einzelbild&bild_id=51 BTW: nice websi

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread Urs Liska
Am 27.11.2012 10:11, schrieb Xavier Noria: 2. Whole notes and rests are kind of flushed to the left. It's been many years since I did music but if I am not mistaken it was customary to have them centered... is there a way to center them? I'm embarrassed that I don't exactly know when and where, b

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
David Kastrup writes: > Without an authorization by Stevie Wonder, publishing a version of his > work on GitHub is not allowed in most countries of the world, so you > should likely make this part of your repository private. Either that, or move to a country which allows such publishing. As an a

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread Xavier Noria
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:07 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Xavier Noria writes: > >> Hi! This is the first time I use LilyPond, thanks for the software and >> the documentation, they are really good! >> >> I have transcribed a song by Stevie Wonder: >> >&

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/11/27 Xavier Noria : > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Thomas Morley > wrote: > >>> 2. Whole notes and rests are kind of flushed to the left. It's been >>> many years since I did music but if I am not mistaken it was customary >>> to have them centered... is there a way to center them? >> >

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread David Kastrup
Francisco Vila writes: > 2012/11/27 Thomas Morley : >> 2012/11/27 Xavier Noria : >>> Hi! This is the first time I use LilyPond, thanks for the software and >>> the documentation, they are really good! >>> >>> I have transcribed a song by Stevie Wond

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread David Kastrup
Xavier Noria writes: > Hi! This is the first time I use LilyPond, thanks for the software and > the documentation, they are really good! > > I have transcribed a song by Stevie Wonder: > > https://github.com/fxn/scores/blob/master/stevie-wonder/you-and-i.ly Here likel

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/11/27 Thomas Morley : > 2012/11/27 Xavier Noria : >> Hi! This is the first time I use LilyPond, thanks for the software and >> the documentation, they are really good! >> >> I have transcribed a song by Stevie Wonder: >> >> https://github.com/fxn/s

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/11/27 Xavier Noria : > Hi! This is the first time I use LilyPond, thanks for the software and > the documentation, they are really good! > > I have transcribed a song by Stevie Wonder: > > https://github.com/fxn/scores/blob/master/stevie-wonder/you-and-i.ly > &

first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread Xavier Noria
Hi! This is the first time I use LilyPond, thanks for the software and the documentation, they are really good! I have transcribed a song by Stevie Wonder: https://github.com/fxn/scores/blob/master/stevie-wonder/you-and-i.ly and have a couple of questions I have not been able to figure out

Re: first time

2011-04-14 Thread Ralph Palmer
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Andrew Wood wrote: > *I just asked a question about syntax error NOTENAME_PITCH. I removed > the melody = and it works now* > > Greetings, Andrew Wood - I would strongly recommend that you read the Learning Manual, which can be found at : http://www.lilypond

first time

2011-04-13 Thread Andrew Wood
I just asked a question about syntax error NOTENAME_PITCH. I removed the melody = and it works now___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: could you point me to doc about first time bar, second time bar, dal capo etc?

2008-10-01 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hy Daryna, Within the notation manual, could you please give me the link to pages discussing about commands for first time bar, second time bar <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/ Repeats#Repeats> da capo and da signo a fine? <http://lilypond.org/

could you point me to doc about first time bar, second time bar, dal capo etc?

2008-10-01 Thread Daryna Baikadamova
Hi, Within the notation manual, could you please give me the link to pages discussing about commands for first time bar, second time bar, da capo and da signo a fine? THanks! Daryna ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http

Lilypond error on starting for the first time

2007-11-30 Thread Munin
I just downloaded Lilypond version 2.10.33-1 (upgrading from 2.10.2), and when I try to typeset files I get an error: (OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error) I'm running Mac OS 10.4.10; Lilypond is in the Applications folder. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Brenda GS (er, 'Munin')

Re: First time user, can't seem to compile examples from mutopia

2006-08-19 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
> Just installed lilypond using the script located at > http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/linux-x86_/lilypond-2 > .8.6-1.linux.sh > > I installed it on an x86 running Debian stable. Tried > to compile the .ly file here: > http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/BachJS/BWV997/bwv997-01pr

Re: First time user, can't seem to compile examples from mutopia

2006-08-19 Thread Paul Scott
Howard Jones wrote: Just installed lilypond using the script located at http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/linux-x86_/lilypond-2.8.6-1.linux.sh I installed it on an x86 running Debian stable. Tried to compile the .ly file here: http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/BachJS/BWV997/bwv99

First time user, can't seem to compile examples from mutopia

2006-08-19 Thread Howard Jones
Just installed lilypond using the script located at http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/linux-x86_/lilypond-2.8.6-1.linux.sh I installed it on an x86 running Debian stable. Tried to compile the .ly file here: http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/BachJS/BWV997/bwv997-01prelude_/bwv997-01

Re: First time running, cannot get to work. Request help

2006-06-13 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 05:05:58PM -0500, Michael J Millett wrote: > > Here is the test file I have used: > > { c'4 e' g' } > > Here is the response I get from Terminal: > > lilypond test.ly > lilypond (GNU LilyPond) 2.2.5 > Running lilypond-bin... > Now processing `test.ly' > Parsing... > >

Re: First time running, cannot get to work. Request help

2006-06-13 Thread Graham Percival
On 13-Jun-06, at 3:05 PM, Michael J Millett wrote: { c'4 e' g' } Here is the response I get from Terminal: lilypond test.ly lilypond (GNU LilyPond) 2.2.5 Please use LilyPond 2.4 or above -- I highly recommend 2.8. If for some reason you must use lily 2.2.5, please read the manual for that

First time running, cannot get to work. Request help

2006-06-13 Thread Michael J Millett
I have not yet been able to get LilyPond to work. For even the test file, I get: parser error. braces don't match. This happens even though I have directly cut and pasted from .ly files available on your web site. I have tried numerous ways of adjusting the curly braces, but still can't get it

Lilypond error on starting for the first time

2006-04-10 Thread Robert Blackstone
Opened Lilypond.app 2.8.2-4 for the first time today. Saved the opening file, chose Compile > Typeset file , as instructed, but received "unexpected" error message: "(OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error)" What can I do? Computer: Apple Powerbook G4, OS 10.4.5

Re: Problems Running lilypond First Time

2005-11-11 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Michael Carroll wrote: I'm trying to run for the first time on a SuSE 9.0 Linux installation with 2.6.8: are you sure? That one hasn't been released yet. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen ___ lil

Problems Running lilypond First Time

2005-11-10 Thread Michael Carroll
I'm trying to run for the first time on a SuSE 9.0 Linux installation with 2.6.8: (process:23846): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed ** (process:23846): CRITICAL **: _pango_engine_shape_shape: assertion `PANGO_IS_FONT (fon

Re: Trouble running Lilypond for first time

2005-01-19 Thread Graham Percival
On 18-Jan-05, at 9:04 PM, Jane Craford wrote: Could you walk me through some troubleshooting steps? I downloaded and installed Fink to my iBook PowerPC G3 running OS X 10.3.7; then used FinkCommander v. 0.5.3 to install Lilypond binary 2.2.5. Interesting. I don't think that this is the problem,

Trouble running Lilypond for first time

2005-01-19 Thread Jane Craford
Hello, Could you walk me through some troubleshooting steps? I downloaded and installed Fink to my iBook PowerPC G3 running OS X 10.3.7; then used FinkCommander v. 0.5.3 to install Lilypond binary 2.2.5. I created a test file in a text editor, as instructed. Then, in Darwin, entered the comma