Can't get the voices right with \stemUp and \stemDown

2003-06-13 Thread ario
Hello all, Trying to write a piece for 4 voices choir, I'm stuck with the problem that the stems won't stand in the right direction. Wherever I put those \stemUp en \stemDown commands, they just don't seem to have the desired effect. I want the sopranos and the tenors have their stem up, and the

Re: Can't get the voices right with \stemUp and \stemDown

2003-06-13 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you want individual settings for the different voices, simply use a separate Voice context for each of them. I recommend to take a look at the template file satb.ly (found at www.lilypond.org or in /usr/share/doc/lilypond/input/templates/ on your local installation). /Mats ario wrote: Hello

Re: flip \grace

2003-06-13 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Did you consider fis8 \grace {\stemDown bes( } ) a, /Mats David Bobroff wrote: I want to flip the first grace note so that its stem is down. I've tried putting \stemDown in front of \grace but it flips the following a, instead. The \grace still stays up. How do I do this? -David Bobroff

beam height etc.

2003-06-13 Thread David Bobroff
> Did you consider > > fis8 \grace {\stemDown bes( } ) a, > >/Mats Yes, I just found out a short while ago that I needed to put the \stemDown *inside* the \grace group. Now I'm trying to get some other problems fixed. I need to adjust some stem length on beamed notes but I have not found

weird time signature

2003-06-13 Thread David Bobroff
I'm working on a piece that has a weird time sig in two places. Expressed as Lily input it would be: \time X/4 ...which doesn't work, of course. Is there a way to hack it? -David Bobroff ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail

Re: weird time signature

2003-06-13 Thread Larry Gilbert
On 13 Jun 2003, David Bobroff wrote: > I'm working on a piece that has a weird time sig in two places. > Expressed as Lily input it would be: > > \time X/4 That does sound weird. The X isn't a Roman numeral, by chance, is it? -- Larry Gilbert Renton, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: weird time signature

2003-06-13 Thread David Bobroff
> > I'm working on a piece that has a weird time sig in two places. > > Expressed as Lily input it would be: > > > > \time X/4 > > That does sound weird. The X isn't a Roman numeral, by chance, is it? No, just the letter 'X'. It's just sort of an "out of time" measure. The piece is in manus

Re: weird time signature

2003-06-13 Thread Larry Gilbert
On 13 Jun 2003, David Bobroff wrote: > No, just the letter 'X'. It's just sort of an "out of time" measure. > The piece is in manuscript. Regarding the measure being out-of-time, I think you can do that with \cadenzaOn and \cadenzaOff. I can't answer the question of how to typeset X/4 as a tim

How do I change the title font?

2003-06-13 Thread Rob Vlasaty
How do I change the font of the title and stanza numbers? I'm a new lilypond user, and I've figuered out how to change the font of the verses. I would like the title and stanza numbers to match. Also, I am making a small booklet, and would like to have the songs numbered. How do I place a s