Re: lyric syllable skipping a note -- why?

2006-02-07 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 06 February 2006 23.16, Eduardo Vieira wrote: > Hello users, > > I've been struggling to set the lyrics correctly for this song. But I can't > assign the word "right" and the word "true" (2nd stanza) for the note "d2." > in this part: << { d2. } \\ { g,4.( f4.) } >> <<\\>> creates new vo

Re: symphonic, continuos movements, percussion, midi

2006-02-07 Thread alexandre reche e silva
Graham Percival gmail.com> writes: > > On 2-Feb-06, at 5:02 AM, alexandre reche e silva wrote: > > > A) Nevertheless, marks alignment cannot be tuned and is centred “by > > nature”. How to force left align? > > This is explained in section 8.1.3 Text marks in the manual for > lilypond 2.7. I

Re: lyric syllable skipping a note -- why?

2006-02-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Monday 06 February 2006 23.16, Eduardo Vieira wrote: Hello users, I've been struggling to set the lyrics correctly for this song. But I can't assign the word "right" and the word "true" (2nd stanza) for the note "d2." in this part: << { d2. } \\ {

Re: short first bar, long tempo indication

2006-02-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Exactly what kind of tempo indication do you have in mind? c4^"Allegro moderato" \tempo 4=90 c4 or \mark "Allegro moderato" c4 As always, I recommend to include some example .ly code to clarify exactly what you ask about. /Mats Quoting Kieren Richard MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [ Mac

Cannot output Japanese from sakura-sakura.ly

2006-02-07 Thread IMAI Yuji
Hello, users. I want to output Japanese lyrics from sakura-sakura.ly But could not. Output log as following: Layout output to `sakura-sakura.ps'... warning: don't know how to embed "MS-Gothic"="C:/WINDOWS/fonts/msgothic.ttc" Converting to `sakura-sakura.pdf'... Previous, I found "TTC file is not

Re: lyric syllable skipping a note -- why?

2006-02-07 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Thank you, Erik I had figured out that with the help of the archives. I made a similar construct that worked, and I had to use \oneVoice afterwards. It seems like Context & Lyrics are sort of a stumbling block for beginners in Lilypond. I wonder how could we write a "Tutorial for Dummies" in this p

Windows GUI

2006-02-07 Thread Folkert (sent by Nabble.com)
Hello, I justed installed Lilypond on my computer and now I'm looking for a windows graphical user interface. Everything I find on the net is either commercial, for linux or not being updated anymore. Any suggestions? So far I found 'Lilycomp', but I'm  not satisified with it since it's still no

Re: Windows GUI

2006-02-07 Thread Ramana Kumar
In my opinion there currently don't exist any particularly good GUIs for lilypond (unless you count your text editor!), simply because text editing is a lot more powerful... ...but I understand that having a GUI is sometimes very desireable. Apart from Lilycomp, the only other program I know about

How to add another output format?

2006-02-07 Thread Milan Zamazal
I started to work on a small project to output a Festival singing mode file from LilyPond input (this is useful for blind authors to easily check lyrics is properly aligned with music). I think this could be similar to producing MIDI output but I haven't found a way how to take advantage of it. I

midi file names only 3 parts

2006-02-07 Thread debian
Please, lilypond 2.6.3: lilypond the.bottom.bracket.ly produces a midi file named: the.bottom.midi It chops off the third part of the name. Any way round this ? Joe ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: lyric syllable skipping a note -- why?

2006-02-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Eduardo Vieira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ... One thing that confuses me is that in lyricmode we are supposed to specify durations for each lyric syllable (Lilypond.pdf v. 2.7.16), but in many instances you can do without. There are basically two different possibilities to specify where the

Re: symphonic, continuos movements, percussion, midi

2006-02-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting alexandre reche e silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > B) ...The last notes of first section tied with first > notes of the second section dont tie, indeed. What to do? You could fake this with invisible notes and slurs. Excuse my newbieness, more tips will be really appreciated : ) Search

\tempo not working

2006-02-07 Thread Marius Amado Alves
\tempo does not seem to be working here (Mac OS X 10.3, LilyPond 2.6.5, QuickTime Player 7.0.4) It does not have an effect on the MIDI output. What am I missing? Thanks a lot. The test piece follows. \header { title = "Blue Pearl" subtitle = "2nd mov. of Blue Pearl suite" composer = "Marius

Trumpet Trio (Image - ~250kb)

2006-02-07 Thread Mattl (sent by Nabble.com)
I am re-writing this, because i wanted to learn lilypond, and to be able to write out my own custom things on it.  But I have had some problems. (attatched is an image of the first page of things i would like ot fix.  i know how to do some, but not all of them.) (in a more recent version, i add

Re: \tempo not working

2006-02-07 Thread yournewbestfriend
I had the same problem. same system configuration. Am 07.02.2006 um 15:07 schrieb Marius Amado Alves: \tempo does not seem to be working here (Mac OS X 10.3, LilyPond 2.6.5, QuickTime Player 7.0.4) It does not have an effect on the MIDI output. What am I missing? Thanks a lot. The test piece

Re: midi file names only 3 parts

2006-02-07 Thread Marius Amado Alves
lilypond the.bottom.bracket.ly produces a midi file named: the.bottom.midi It chops off the third part of the name. Any way round this ? Not using dots in the name? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailma

Re: \tempo not working

2006-02-07 Thread Marius Amado Alves
On 8 Feb 2006, at 00:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had the same problem. same system configuration. Am 07.02.2006 um 15:07 schrieb Marius Amado Alves: \tempo does not seem to be working here (Mac OS X 10.3, LilyPond 2.6.5, QuickTime Player 7.0.4) It does not have an effect on the MIDI outpu

Specify output filename from within lilypond?

2006-02-07 Thread Ian Hawthorn
How do you specify the output file name from within lilypond? Can you in fact do this at all? What I have in mind is a template for producing part specific music and learning midis for a quartet from a single lilypond file. It would be simple enough to write multiple score blocks in a template to

Re: \tempo not working

2006-02-07 Thread Ed Baskerville
I just responded on bug-lilypond with a link to previous documentation of the problem: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2004-02/msg00346.html For now, you can use Mighty MIDI for playback, available on versiontracker.com. --Ed On Feb 7, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Marius Amado Alves w

chords in full score

2006-02-07 Thread plutek
greetings! i am copying an orchestral score in which there are three flute parts, always in rhythmic unison. we would like them to appear in the full score as chords, but still be easily extracted for parts. is there a way (other than a lot of cut'n'paste) to do this? my basic strategy for t

Stupid question

2006-02-07 Thread Jean Bergeron
I start o work with Lily-Pond nd I have a question. I'm able to write the partition and put the lyrics beside but I'm not able to put the ChordsNames on top of the staves. The Chords names are always on the top on many lines than the music with the lyricsappears correctly or the Chords are at the

Re: Stupid question

2006-02-07 Thread IMAI Yuji
Hi, Jean Bergeron. The \chords and music must be inside << >>. And your music "c' c' ..." is not relative mode. So, do not write relative. I could create PDF file for your hope as following: \header { title = "Chanson pour l\'Auvergnat" subtitle = " " source = " " composer = "Georges

Removing Indentations and Bar Numbers

2006-02-07 Thread S L Raymond
Having trouble finding these answers in docs: 1. How do I configure the first staff on a page so that it isn't indented? 2. How do I completely remove measure numbers? Using 2.6. Thank you. Lyle ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.or