Markup over last barline

2005-08-14 Thread Hans Aberg
I want to put a markup \markup { \center-align {\italic "D.C." \italic "al Fine" } } under or over the last barline of the piece. How do I do that? Hans Aberg ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/list

Re: alignment: gjpqy chars in markup

2005-08-14 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2005-08-14 um 05:56 schrieb Graham Percival: What's the best way to get two markup strings (once containing a gjpqy, the other without such characters) to align? In the example below, the "bag" is typeset higher than "foo", because the "g" requires space under the line. The extra space s

Re: Markup over last barline

2005-08-14 Thread Graham Percival
On 14-Aug-05, at 2:16 AM, Hans Aberg wrote: I want to put a markup \markup { \center-align {\italic "D.C." \italic "al Fine" } } under or over the last barline of the piece. How do I do that? Please look at the second example in 8.1.3 Text marks. - Graham ___

Re: alignment: gjpqy chars in markup

2005-08-14 Thread Graham Percival
On 14-Aug-05, at 3:34 AM, fiëé visuëlle wrote: Am 2005-08-14 um 05:56 schrieb Graham Percival: What's the best way to get two markup strings (once containing a gjpqy, the other without such characters) to align? In the example below, the "bag" is typeset higher than "foo", because the "g"

Re: Markup over last barline

2005-08-14 Thread Hans Aberg
On 14 Aug 2005, at 12:54, Graham Percival wrote: I want to put a markup \markup { \center-align {\italic "D.C." \italic "al Fine" } } under or over the last barline of the piece. How do I do that? Please look at the second example in 8.1.3 Text marks. I have already seen it. The lines \o

unsolicited praise =)

2005-08-14 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hey, HW-J-etc: Just wanted you to know that you rock! Lilypond 2.7.4 thoroughly exceeds expectations regarding computer-generated music engraving output -- quite simply, it leaves every other app in the dust (and, indeed, most commercially-available scores, regardless of their engraving proce

Re: unsolicited praise =)

2005-08-14 Thread Hans Aberg
On 14 Aug 2005, at 14:32, Kieren Richard MacMillan wrote: Lilypond 2.7.4 thoroughly exceeds expectations regarding computer- generated music engraving output -- quite simply, it leaves every other app in the dust (and, indeed, most commercially-available scores, regardless of their engraving

Re: unsolicited praise =)

2005-08-14 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Hans Aberg writes: > If somebody is interest in a comparison, one has had a thread in the > Usenet newsgroup rec.music.theory with the same music piece being > typeset in seven different programs, including LilyPond. Yes. Unfortunately, an older version of LilyPond was used. Jan. -- Jan Nieuw

Re: unsolicited praise =)

2005-08-14 Thread Laura Conrad
> "JN" == Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JN> Hans Aberg writes: >> If somebody is interest in a comparison, one has had a thread in the >> Usenet newsgroup rec.music.theory with the same music piece being >> typeset in seven different programs, including LilyPond

slurs and brackets

2005-08-14 Thread lfanele
hi everybody,i just discovered this great piece of software yesterday and i am really amazed by its functionality and engraving beauty. i quickly decided to use this software for my work instead of sibelius or finale, which are way too clumsy to use for my taste.Right now i'm working on a music-the

RE: Flipping text in a \markup

2005-08-14 Thread Fairchild
Sven - Thinking Polish, try this: %%% \version "2.4.6" \score { { c''1 c''^\markup { \postscript #" 2.2 2 moveto /Times findfont 2.0 scalefont setfont 180 rotate (K) show" } c''^\markup { \postscript #" 2.4 2 moveto /Times findfont 3.0 scalefont setfont 180 rotate (K) sho

Re: Newbie Q about stems and chords

2005-08-14 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi, thanks to Graham for his almost instantaneous help. On Sunday 14 August 2005 03:08, Graham Percival wrote: > s1 means "a whole-note invisible rest" -- in other words, sixteen 16th > notes. You probably want to use s2 here. Indeed, I should do better in basic math... > The duration is specified

Re: Markup over last barline

2005-08-14 Thread Graham Percival
On 14-Aug-05, at 4:38 AM, Hans Aberg wrote: On 14 Aug 2005, at 12:54, Graham Percival wrote: Please look at the second example in 8.1.3 Text marks. I have already seen it. The lines \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'self-alignment-X = #right \mark "D.S. al Fine " generate the erro

Re: slurs and brackets

2005-08-14 Thread Graham Percival
On 14-Aug-05, at 9:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - i want to show the half tones between e and f,  b and c: i would like to use a V shaped slur for that (right now it's just a simple slur), is there a command i have overseen to generate such a shape. i tried some markup commands but that di

Re: Markup over last barline

2005-08-14 Thread Hans Aberg
On 14 Aug 2005, at 23:20, Graham Percival wrote: I have already seen it. The lines \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'self-alignment-X = #right \mark "D.S. al Fine " generate the error: Processing `/Users/foo/Music/LilyPond/RachenitsaB.ly' Parsing...: In expression ’self-alignment-X:

Re: Slurs in TabStaff

2005-08-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
dwaynec wrote: Hello, I have been having great success using lilypond to make up guitar scores with tablature, but I am running into trouble expressing hammer ons and pull offs, I would like to put in a slur with an "H" or a "P" above it, either above or below the 2 notes (numbers on the ta

Re: Getting key change alterations printed

2005-08-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Graham Percival wrote: On 13-Aug-05, at 4:32 PM, Hans Aberg wrote: You have a setup, different from the one I am used to. On the Bison list, people are recommended trying out the latest beta, so one gets to know that it works. Beta, or pre-alpha? 2.7 is currently in pre-alpha stage; expec

Re: unsolicited praise =)

2005-08-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Kieren Richard MacMillan wrote: Hey, HW-J-etc: Just wanted you to know that you rock! Lilypond 2.7.4 thoroughly exceeds expectations regarding computer-generated music engraving output -- quite simply, it leaves every other app in the dust (and, indeed, most commercially-available scores, re

Re: LilyPond Version in PDF

2005-08-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
dax2 wrote: Working with a couple of different LilyPond versions I sometimes must reassure myself whether some output really was LilyPond 2.6.x or something else. I think it would be nice to be able to see from the PDF which LilyPond version was used to transform the source. Though I have

Re: sponsoring better tied chords?

2005-08-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
VSD wrote: All, it seems that Lilypond still manages the tied chords poorly, and the ties in chords collide very often. e.g. see: http://personales.ya.com/v_s_d/tied_chords.png imho this problem should be solved to avoid "poor looking" spots in the otherwise gorgeously engraved lilypond

Re: slurs and brackets

2005-08-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everybody, i just discovered this great piece of software yesterday and i am really amazed by its functionality and engraving beauty. i quickly decided to use this software for my work instead of sibelius or finale, which are way too clumsy to use for my taste. Rig

Re: Auto-beaming in asymmetrical time signatures

2005-08-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Hans Aberg wrote: Apparently one just adds a few more "override-auto-beam-setting": \time 7/16 #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 7 16) 2 16) #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 7 16) 4 16) Sorry for bothering you with so simple matters. Can one insert automated dotted bar-lines

Re: Lilypond error

2005-08-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Steve Leyland wrote: Sorry to be a nuisance guys, but I wonder if you can help? I've recently set up a new desktop machine running Fedora Core 4 and loaded Lilypond version 2.6.1. When I try to run the... it looks like a packaging error in GUILE. Which version/where did you get it from?

question à propos de LilyPond

2005-08-14 Thread adam\.guillaume
Bonjour, je viens de découvrir LilyPond et je m'entraine à l'utiliser. Il me semble qu'il serait plus simple à utiliser avec un logiciel de traitement de texte tel que "Context" par exemple qui permet de visualiser avec des couleurs les différents caractères utilisés, dans différents langages de p

Lilypond Fonts

2005-08-14 Thread david wynn
I've recently rebuilt my Linux system from scratch, and am still trying to get everything back to the way it was. I use a mostly Kubuntu system, but am willing to add Debian Testing modules where necessary. My Lilypond version is now 2.4.5 from Debian. The actual music -- notes / staffs / et

character encoding problem with windows

2005-08-14 Thread Jay Anderson
I'm trying to update a piece that I typeset with the 2.4.0 cygwin build. I decided to upgrade to the newest native windows version but when I compile none of the special characters show up (Très modéré, più, etc...). I get nothing instead of them. Is this a problem anyone else has experienced? Is t

Re: unsolicited praise =)

2005-08-14 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Han-Wen: Thanks! it's not perfect yet, but we're getting there, Agreed! Han-Wen "sponsor me" Nienhuys. How 'bout quoting a sponsorship cost for each of the fixes in this first measure: 1. Ties between two notes spaced closely together on inner-staff lines: too tall. 2. Tempo indi

Re: unsolicited praise =)

2005-08-14 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hello, Laura: For those who just want to see the pdf's and not read the whole thread, I've posted links to them on my blog . Thanks! That is quite a helpful investigation... Surprisingly, Finale makes quite a good showing in this case -- cer

(I'll help co-sponsor work on) tied chords

2005-08-14 Thread Steve D
First, VSD wrote: > >e.g. see: > >http://personales.ya.com/v_s_d/tied_chords.png > > > >Anyone would like to join forces (budget) with me to help me to afford > >the sponsoring? :) > > > >My suggestion would be to extend the TieColumn object to have a > >"direction" property for each tie, e.g.

Re: question à propos de LilyPond

2005-08-14 Thread Kris Shaffer
If my French is correct, he is asking for a text editor which utilizes context-sensitive coloring for Lilypond code, as many text editors (Context is his example) do with common programming languages. Response: I use Jedit with the lilytool plugin. It recognizes Lilypond syntax and even in

Re: Markup over last barline

2005-08-14 Thread stk
Hans Aberg wrote: > . . . The lines > \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'self-alignment-X = #right > \mark "D.S. al Fine " > generate the error: > Processing `/Users/foo/Music/LilyPond/RachenitsaB.ly' > Parsing...: In expression ^Òself-alignment-X: > : Unbound variable: ^Òself-alignm