reduce spacing between chord names and staff?

2004-02-22 Thread Paul Scott
What property will reduce the distance the chord names and the staff below? TIA Paul Scott ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: reduce spacing between chord names and staff?

2004-02-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
This is controlled by the |minimumVerticalExtent| property of the two involved contexts, namely ChordNames and Staff. However, by default the ChordNames don't extend below zero, so you probably have to reduce the upper value (= the second value) of the property for Staff. Note that this may affec

Re: Turning off one time signature in 2.1.25

2004-02-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
A much simpler solution to your problem is to change the duration of the breve note to fit into the existing time signature: d\breve*1/2 /Mats Reuben Thomas wrote: I want to do something very simple: change the time signature without anything appearing. I looked over the list archive, but I can

Re: Turning off one time signature in 2.1.25

2004-02-22 Thread Reuben Thomas
> A much simpler solution to your problem is to change the duration of the > breve note to fit into the existing time signature: > d\breve*1/2 Brilliant, thanks. I hadn't yet come across that notation. -- http://www.mupsych.org/~rrt/ compulsion, n. the eloquence of power (Bierce)

Re: lilypond: ps2pdf not found

2004-02-22 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Bertalan Fodor writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html > > install pstools Shouldn't this be added to requires:? -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org ___

Additional spaces for \rest ?

2004-02-22 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
Hello, the following example produces rests (\rest) which are placed some spaces over or under the desired position in upper or lower voice respectively. It did not happen in previous versions (around 2.0.1). Is this a bug? Thomas cygwin xp -- \version "2.1.25" \score { \notes { %Oberstimme <<

Re: Strange English in the manual

2004-02-22 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sunday 22 February 2004 09:07, Reuben Thomas wrote: > "If a staff is ended halfway a piece," > > Am I just being stupid, or is this a bit weird? For a bunch of non-native English speakers, the developers do a fantastic job of writing documentation. The only exception is a persistent inability

Re: Strange English in the manual

2004-02-22 Thread Reuben Thomas
> > "If a staff is ended halfway a piece," > > > > Am I just being stupid, or is this a bit weird? > > For a bunch of non-native English speakers, the developers > do a fantastic job of writing documentation. Indeed. > The only exception is a persistent inability to write "staves" > instead of "s

problem in loading midi python module

2004-02-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I have a problem . I have installed a precompiled lilypond rmp on a Mandrake Linux 9.1 . I was running midi2ly and I got the following message : Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/midi2ly", line 43, in ? import midi ImportError: No module named midi It seems that the

Re: Strange English in the manual

2004-02-22 Thread David Bobroff
>> The only exception is a persistent inability to write "staves" >> instead of "staffs", but I think that is some kind of joke. > >It's American usage. American usage, as far as I, as an American, know is: staff/staves My British colleagues say: stave/staves I was reading through the PDF manu

Re: Strange English in the manual

2004-02-22 Thread Aaron
Where is this from in the manual? Aaron Reuben Thomas wrote: "If a staff is ended halfway a piece," Am I just being stupid, or is this a bit weird? For a bunch of non-native English speakers, the developers do a fantastic job of writing documentation. Indeed. The only exception is a persiste

Re: Strange English in the manual

2004-02-22 Thread Peter Dobratz
David Bobroff writes: > >> The only exception is a persistent inability to write "staves" > >> instead of "staffs", but I think that is some kind of joke. > > > >It's American usage. > > American usage, as far as I, as an American, know is: > > staff/staves > > My British colleagues sa

Re: problem in loading midi python module

2004-02-22 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
> Hi, I have a problem . I have installed a precompiled lilypond rmp on a Mandrake > Linux 9.1 . > > I was running midi2ly and I got the following message : > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/midi2ly", line 43, in ? > import midi > ImportError: No module named midi

Re: Strange English in the manual

2004-02-22 Thread David Bobroff
>Yes, I'm continuing the off-topic rambling, but I for one am an >American and have always used "staffs" both in writing and >conversation. http://m-w.com is also quite informative on the >subject : > >http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=staff > > plural "staffs" or "staves" > s

Re: reduce spacing between chord names and staff?

2004-02-22 Thread Paul Scott
Mats Bengtsson wrote: This is controlled by the |minimumVerticalExtent| property of the two involved contexts, namely ChordNames and Staff. However, by default the ChordNames don't extend below zero, so you probably have to reduce the upper value (= the second value) of the property for Staff. No

Re: Strange English in the manual

2004-02-22 Thread Reuben Thomas
> Where is this from in the manual? Under "Staff Notation". No idea on section numbers, I'm using the HTML version. The easy way to find such things is to use a search function. -- http://www.mupsych.org/~rrt/ Astrophysics: it's not exactly rocket science __

Re: Strange English in the manual

2004-02-22 Thread Reuben Thomas
> >> The only exception is a persistent inability to write "staves" > >> instead of "staffs", but I think that is some kind of joke. > > > >It's American usage. My bad. I knew that the American *singular* was "staff" (British sing. "stave") and made an incorrect extrapolation. -- http://www.mups

chord names under endings?

2004-02-22 Thread Paul Scott
In printed music that I am familiar with the chord names are printed between the (first and second, etc.) ending brackets and the staff. Is this possible with Lilypond? Thanks, Paul Scott ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mai

merging rests problem (bug?)

2004-02-22 Thread fodber
When there were equal length simulteanous rests in two voices in the same staves in former versions I wrote: << { r4 } \\ { s4 } >> This way the rest was centered, as if it were merged. How to center (merge) rests in current version? Thanks, Bert ___

Getting a final barline on a piano score

2004-02-22 Thread Reuben Thomas
I must be missing something simple. I am trying to get a final double barline on a piano score, but whatever I do, I get a double barline on each stave, and a single barline between them. I've read the manual, I've downloaded example code (which seems to do exactly what I've done, namely put \bar "

Getting a final barline on a piano score

2004-02-22 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I must be missing something simple. I am trying to get a final double > barline on a piano score, but whatever I do, I get a double barline on > each stave, and a single barline between them. I've read the manual, I've > downloaded example code (which seems to do exactly

Re: Getting a final barline on a piano score

2004-02-22 Thread Paul Scott
Reuben Thomas wrote: I must be missing something simple. I am trying to get a final double barline on a piano score, but whatever I do, I get a double barline on each stave, and a single barline between them. I've read the manual, I've downloaded example code (which seems to do exactly what I've d

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grace questions: sharing stems with other notes; tuning MIDI output

2004-02-22 Thread Matthias Kilian
Hi! I've the following two questions about grace notes: 1. Given an ordinary note/chord followed by a beamed sequence of 32th grace notes, is it possible to attach the beam to the ordinary note's stem? Or, in other words, if I have something like this: c4 \grace {c32 d fis g a ...} can

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2004-02-22 Thread Reuben Thomas
Another basic question, but again, I can't find the answer in the docs: does LilyPond (2.1.25 in my case) have standard text styles for expression markings, tempo markings &c.? All I've found in the docs and from pieces on mutopia.org is ad-hoc font settings (using \bold, \italic, \large &c.) which

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Re: Strange English in the manual

2004-02-22 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sunday 22 February 2004 09:49, you wrote: > > The only exception is a persistent inability to write "staves" > > instead of "staffs", but I think that is some kind of joke. > > It's American usage. No, it's not. daveA -- It's not that hard to understand the lesson of Viet Nam. Never never

Re: Strange English in the manual

2004-02-22 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sunday 22 February 2004 11:47, Peter Dobratz wrote: > David Bobroff writes: > > >> The only exception is a persistent inability to write "staves" > > >> instead of "staffs", but I think that is some kind of joke. > > > > > >It's American usage. > > > > American usage, as far as I, as an Am

Piano markings question

2004-02-22 Thread Reuben Thomas
I've used the hack in the Lilypond docs for getting dynamics centred between the staves of a PianoStaff, but I would like to make it more convenient to do other markings. At the moment, I can write something like s1\f to get a piano dynamic which is nicely centred, but if I write another markin

Re: chord names under endings?

2004-02-22 Thread Walter Hofmeister
On 2/22/04 1:08 PM, "Paul Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In printed music that I am familiar with the chord names are printed > between the (first and second, etc.) ending brackets and the staff. Is > this possible with Lilypond? > > Thanks, > > Paul Scott > > > > __

Re: Making Large-Print Music

2004-02-22 Thread Ruven Gottlieb
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you upgrade to a recent development version of LilyPond, you may actually say #(set-global-staff-size 42) to obtain exactly what you ask for. I've upgraded to Lilypond 2.1.25. I tried "#(set-global-staff-size 42)" and it's very good. Th

Re: chord names under endings?

2004-02-22 Thread Paul Scott
Walter Hofmeister wrote: On 2/22/04 1:08 PM, "Paul Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I searched my files and found something that I had cut and pasted from an earlier posting by Scott Ainsworth (I don't remember what date it was posted or any other reference, and I hope he does not mind me pos

2.1.25 Compile problems

2004-02-22 Thread Walter Hofmeister
Hello All, I have been trying to get 2.1.25 to install under Fink on OS X and have had some problems. The method is as follows: 1. Download the source tarball and and the lilypond-2.1.25-1.i386.rpm file and place them in the folder /sw/src (this is where Fink is going to look for source). 2.

Re: LilyPond 2.1.25 packaged for Cygwin

2004-02-22 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hello, > > I work on winXP with cygwin. > I have some troubles with lilypond-book since I've upgraded 2.1.18-1 to > 2.1.25 on your homepage. > When I call : lilypond-book essai.tex, > with essai.tex like this ; > \documentclass[12pt]{article} > \begin{document} > This

Re: Making Large-Print Music

2004-02-22 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 08:18:34PM -0500, Ruven Gottlieb wrote: > ...If you want to override this, use a |\translator| block as follows: > > \translator { > \PianoStaffContext > VerticalAlignment \override #'forced-distance = #9 > } > > ** > But I don't know wh

Re: Making Large-Print Music

2004-02-22 Thread Ruven Gottlieb
Put it into the paper block: \score { ... \paper { \translator { \PianoStaffContext VerticalAlignment \override #'forced-distance = #9 } } I'd tried this before. The problem was a typo in the manual (determined by trial-and-error...). It's ac

Again: \rest spacing

2004-02-22 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
Hello, maybe my last post was not clear enough, so I try again: In polyphonic situations the vertical position of rests entered with \rest is not as expected. The attached code produces correct positions for bar 1 (which is "monophonic" and wrong positions for bar 2, which is polyphonic. I am qu