Re: percussion pictograms (was: Re: recovering LilyPond user....)

2010-02-22 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Mika Kuuskankare wrote: > > BTW, I tried to use fonts inside the embedded PS code but it failed. Does > anybody know how to do it? > "/Helvetica findfont 22 scalefont setfont (a) show"    did not work... This was a problem in 2.13.13 that should be fixed when 2.1

Re: percussion pictograms (was: Re: recovering LilyPond user....)

2010-02-22 Thread Mika Kuuskankare
Mark, On 22.2.2010, at 18:20, Mark Polesky wrote: > Mika Kuuskankare wrote: >> BTW, I'm working with a set of percussion symbols for my >> own software and as I need them in Lilypond myself I >> export them as a collection of postscript markups. I'm not >> sure if this would be of interest to the

percussion pictograms (was: Re: recovering LilyPond user....)

2010-02-22 Thread Mark Polesky
Mika Kuuskankare wrote: > BTW, I'm working with a set of percussion symbols for my > own software and as I need them in Lilypond myself I > export them as a collection of postscript markups. I'm not > sure if this would be of interest to the Lilypond > community. There are, of course, no standards

Re: recovering LilyPond user....

2010-02-22 Thread Mika Kuuskankare
On 22.2.2010, at 10:26, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Mika Kuuskankare wrote: >> (2) Can I change the number of staff-lines in the middle of a measure (or by >> measure at least), say when switching between different percussion >> instruments? >> > This is described in one of the examples of > htt

Re: recovering LilyPond user....

2010-02-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Mika Kuuskankare wrote: (2) Can I change the number of staff-lines in the middle of a measure (or by measure at least), say when switching between different percussion instruments? This is described in one of the examples of http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Modifying

Re: recovering LilyPond user....

2010-02-19 Thread Mika Kuuskankare
On 19.2.2010, at 14:49, David Stocker wrote: > The answer to the third item is pretty routine. >> (3) Can I somehow force a piece of text in the score to reserve more >> horizontal space for itself? For example, when there is "pizz" in one note >> and "arco" in the next one is it possible to fo

Re: recovering LilyPond user....

2010-02-19 Thread David Stocker
The answer to the third item is pretty routine. (3) Can I somehow force a piece of text in the score to reserve more horizontal space for itself? For example, when there is "pizz" in one note and "arco" in the next one is it possible to force more space for the "pizz"? \textLengthOn c4_\ma

recovering LilyPond user....

2010-02-19 Thread Mika Kuuskankare
Hi, Greetings to the list. I'm currently looking into Lilypond for a project that I'm doing. I have a couple of questions I could not find an answer to right away: (1) I'm using a nice snippet by Nicolas Sceaux that provides for a title page. Is it also possible to include the title and compos