caps font shape not working

2006-03-15 Thread Laurenz Goellmann
In order to markup composers names in small caps font shape I tried different methods as recommended by the lilypond documentation and other user hints found in the internet - but nothing really worked. All other font shape tags like \italic, \bold are effective and working properly. But when I a

Re: French letters

2006-03-15 Thread Eddy-14
Gilles wrote: > >> How can I have french letters, such as é, à or ç, in the Lyrics, as well >> as in >> the header, the staff name... ? > You have to use the UTF-8 encoding for saving the .ly files. > Well, I edit and save the .ly files using Xemacs, I thought it used the UTF-8 encoding. Am I w

Re: Order of the staves

2006-03-15 Thread Eddy-14
Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote: > > I think the problem is that you have surrounded all the staves by a > GrandStaff. If you look at the program reference for GrandStaff, you > will learn that it can only contain Staff contexts, by default. > Perfect, thanks ! I just needed to erase the \new GrandSta

Re: unmetered music question

2006-03-15 Thread Eddy-14
Mats Bengtsson wrote: > > If you don't want any time signature printed, you can do > \override Staff.TimeSignature #'print-function = ##f > What if I don't want a time signature in a part of a piece, and I want it back in another part ? Setting it invisible is not a solution, since I change it

Re: New to Lilypond...many questions! Simple chord placement ? to start

2006-03-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Please include a copy of the code you have tried (in the mail body if you don't manage to attach it any other way). Otherwise it's very hard to guess what you did. /Mats Edward Ardzinski wrote: I am using 2.6.5 on a WIndows XP-home box. Pretty new computer, no issues in the 6 months I've b

Fw: Guitar notation

2006-03-15 Thread Jannik Jeppesen
I will use my EPS files to the following. I am making a guitar book, and shall make 2 pages with fret diagrams: how to make open chords, how to make barré chords So i want it to say the chord name, and then the diagram under it, and nothing else. Could anyone help me getting started on this?

Re: unmetered music question

2006-03-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Eddy-14 wrote: Mats Bengtsson wrote: If you don't want any time signature printed, you can do \override Staff.TimeSignature #'print-function = ##f What if I don't want a time signature in a part of a piece, and I want it back in another part ? Setting it invisible is not a solution, s

Re: French letters

2006-03-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Eddy-14 wrote: Gilles wrote: How can I have french letters, such as é, à or ç, in the Lyrics, as well as in the header, the staff name... ? You have to use the UTF-8 encoding for saving the .ly files. Well, I edit and save the .ly files using Xemacs, I thought it used the UTF-

Re: Fw: Guitar notation

2006-03-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Jannik Jeppesen wrote: I will use my EPS files to the following. I am making a guitar book, and shall make 2 pages with fret diagrams: how to make open chords, how to make barré chords So i want it to say the chord name, and then the diagram under it, and nothing else. Could anyone help me

Re: caps font shape not working

2006-03-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Looks like a bug! I forward it to bug-lilypond. /Mats Laurenz Goellmann wrote: In order to markup composers names in small caps font shape I tried different methods as recommended by the lilypond documentation and other user hints found in the internet - but nothing really worked. All other

Re: Guitar notation

2006-03-15 Thread Jannik Jeppesen
Hi again. That is probably what I was looking for. Can you tell me what exactly this meens? --- \with{\override VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-1.2 . 8.0)} \lyricmode { --- And then please look at my following file. (Sorry it is so long, just to let you get an idea of my prob) 1.

Re: unmetered music question

2006-03-15 Thread Geoff Horton
> To quote Section "Layout tunings within contexts": > > "the |\revert| command for a context undoes an |\override| command" > > so, simply do > \revert Staff.TimeSignature #'print-function > where you want to make the time signature visible again. That still leaves the blank spaces within the bar

Re: unmetered music question

2006-03-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 10.53, Eddy-14 wrote: > Mats Bengtsson wrote: > > If you don't want any time signature printed, you can do > > \override Staff.TimeSignature #'print-function = ##f > > What if I don't want a time signature in a part of a piece, and I want it > back in another part ? Setti

Re: Windows GUI

2006-03-15 Thread Aaron Mehl
Work has been done on a windows version, but not much success so far. In the near future we are planning a real push for getting Denemo up and running cross platform. Part of our limitation with windows is that the developers don't use windows so Mac and Linux are first up to bat. If you want to

Re: line breaks

2006-03-15 Thread Thies Albrecht
Hi folks! Paul Scott schrieb: 3. 9/4 time will cause a half note to cross a bar line which I don't believe Lily will do. You original suggests 14/4. That's exactly what I experienced if you're talking about line breaks at that bar line. Perhaps a short hint should be added to the manual, tha

Re: line breaks

2006-03-15 Thread Paul Scott
Thies Albrecht wrote: Hi folks! Paul Scott schrieb: 3. 9/4 time will cause a half note to cross a bar line which I don't believe Lily will do. You original suggests 14/4. That's exactly what I experienced if you're talking about line breaks at that bar line. Perhaps a short hint should

Re: line breaks

2006-03-15 Thread Graham Percival
On 15-Mar-06, at 9:10 AM, Paul Scott wrote: Thies Albrecht wrote: That's exactly what I experienced if you're talking about line breaks at that bar line. Perhaps a short hint should be added to the manual, that line breaking only works at bar lines where there is no note lasting longer than

Re: unmetered music question

2006-03-15 Thread Graham Percival
On 15-Mar-06, at 3:07 AM, Geoff Horton wrote: That still leaves the blank spaces within the bars. You have to remove the engraver to stop that from happening (AFAIK), and I don't know how to remove it and put it back as needed. \layout { \context { \Staff \remove "Time_signature_engr

Re: line breaks

2006-03-15 Thread Paul Scott
Graham Percival wrote: On 15-Mar-06, at 9:10 AM, Paul Scott wrote: Would it not be helpful if Lily gave an error when the wrong number of beats are in a bar This is exactly what the bar line check does! See 6.2.4 Bar check! c'4 c c c | c c c c | Certainly but I for one don't put | at

Re: unmetered music question

2006-03-15 Thread Geoff Horton
On 3/15/06, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 15-Mar-06, at 3:07 AM, Geoff Horton wrote: > > > That still leaves the blank spaces within the bars. You have to remove > > the engraver to stop that from happening (AFAIK), and I don't know how > > to remove it and put it back as needed

Re: unmetered music question

2006-03-15 Thread Graham Percival
On 15-Mar-06, at 9:54 AM, Geoff Horton wrote: On 3/15/06, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 15-Mar-06, at 3:07 AM, Geoff Horton wrote: That still leaves the blank spaces within the bars. You have to remove the engraver to stop that from happening (AFAIK), and I don't know how

Re: line breaks

2006-03-15 Thread Graham Percival
On 15-Mar-06, at 9:53 AM, Paul Scott wrote: Graham Percival wrote: This is exactly what the bar line check does! See 6.2.4 Bar check! c'4 c c c | c c c c | Certainly but I for one don't put | at the end of every bar. I normally only use | when I have a problem. Are there musical cases

Re: line breaks

2006-03-15 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am 15. M�rz 2006, 10:53 Uhr (-0700) schrieb Paul Scott: > > > Are there musical cases where you can have more beats in a bar than the > time signature indicates? In Renaissance Polphonic Music, syncopations in individual voices are often written without ties, even across barlines for legibility.

Re: line breaks

2006-03-15 Thread Paul Scott
Graham Percival wrote: On 15-Mar-06, at 9:53 AM, Paul Scott wrote: Graham Percival wrote: This is exactly what the bar line check does! See 6.2.4 Bar check! c'4 c c c | c c c c | Certainly but I for one don't put | at the end of every bar. I normally only use | when I have a problem.

Re: line breaks

2006-03-15 Thread Geoff Horton
I didn't used to put | at the end of every bar, but the more I do the more I've found that it really does make life a lot easier--and even more so since I started using jEdit, which obligingly gives me the beat count as soon as I type the | symbol. It's quick and saves me a fair number of edit/comp

Re: unmetered music question

2006-03-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Geoff Horton wrote: To quote Section "Layout tunings within contexts": "the |\revert| command for a context undoes an |\override| command" so, simply do \revert Staff.TimeSignature #'print-function where you want to make the time signature visible again. That still leaves the blank spac

Re: line breaks

2006-03-15 Thread Graham Percival
On 15-Mar-06, at 10:31 AM, Paul Scott wrote: Graham Percival wrote: This is exactly what the bar line check does! See 6.2.4 Bar check! c'4 c c c | c c c c | Certainly but I for one don't put | at the end of every bar. I normally only use | when I have a problem. Benjamin Britten occas

Re: line breaks

2006-03-15 Thread Paul Scott
Graham Percival wrote: On 15-Mar-06, at 10:31 AM, Paul Scott wrote: Graham Percival wrote: This is exactly what the bar line check does! See 6.2.4 Bar check! c'4 c c c | c c c c | Certainly but I for one don't put | at the end of every bar. I normally only use | when I have a problem

Re: line breaks

2006-03-15 Thread Paul Scott
Orm Finnendahl wrote: Am 15. M�rz 2006, 11:31 Uhr (-0700) schrieb Paul Scott: So it could be reasonable to give an error when the number of beats/bar is exceeded (when not in a cadenza). Dir you read my post regarding Renaissance Music and the example in 3.5.1? Yes. See my next p

Re: Guitar notation

2006-03-15 Thread Jannik Jeppesen
Hi again thanx alot. 1. How do I set the space between the diagrams ... there is way too much now. You mean the horizontal space? That's your own fault since you inserted \break commands. LilyPond spaces out all music evenly on each score line. So you say that it is impollible to have 2

Re: Guitar notation

2006-03-15 Thread Jannik Jeppesen
Ok one more question... Why is there less space between chord name and diagram in the G chords, that there is in the other chords when it now is specified with the following code? As I see it it also is in C an B that meens every second line any idea? \with{\override VerticalAx

Re: Guitar notation

2006-03-15 Thread Orm Finnendahl
> So you say that it is impollible to have 2 diagrams in one line, with only > one cm space between > And in the next line have four diagrams with also one cm space between? > Thats what I am looking for... Very sad, if it is not possible... Try putting this somewhere into your layout definition:

Re: line breaks

2006-03-15 Thread Graham Percival
On 15-Mar-06, at 11:36 AM, Paul Scott wrote: So it could be reasonable to give an error when the number of beats/bar is exceeded (when not in a cadenza). I would guess the present bar line logic already presents the condition where the error message could be added. I have generated many pag

Re: Guitar notation

2006-03-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Jannik Jeppesen wrote: Ok one more question... Why is there less space between chord name and diagram in the G chords, that there is in the other chords when it now is specified with the following code? As I see it it also is in C an B that meens every second line any idea? Ma

Re: Guitar notation

2006-03-15 Thread Jannik Jeppesen
Hi... I added the code, and it helped. But can I somehow change the space between the diagrams by using the code ragged-right = ##t? So you say that it is impollible to have 2 diagrams in one line, with only one cm space between And in the next line have four diagrams with also one cm space

Re: line breaks

2006-03-15 Thread Thies Albrecht
Hi Graham! > Eh? The docs already state that you can only have a line break at a > bar line. Should we specify that bar lines only occur at the end of a > bar? To be clear what I'm talking about: The (fragment of an) example below gives two bars of music, which will be displayed correctly by

Half open hihat symbol

2006-03-15 Thread Pete Stieber
I've used lilypond for a while and this is my first post. Before I start asking a bunch of questions I just want to state my appreciation for this package. Lilypond combined with Audacity and Timidity++ have helped revive my interest in music and in particular drumming. I am an electrical engineer

Re: lyric spacing : "why not follow instructions in manual"

2006-03-15 Thread Geoff Horton
Sorry to dredge up an old thread, but I've been working on converting files to 2.7.38 for the last few days and I'm in full agreement with Fr. P on this. The lyric spacing in 2.7.38 is very, very bad (see the attached image, generated from the attached file--there's no way to tell from the text alo

bars trouble

2006-03-15 Thread jango
i have the problems with \bar "|" i need a certain bar to run across the stave, like on the picture: http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/1330/tem13ct.jpg , but i have something like that instead: http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/1330/tem13ct.jpg thanks! bassMusic = \relative c' { %

Re: line breaks

2006-03-15 Thread Graham Percival
On 15-Mar-06, at 2:29 PM, Thies Albrecht wrote: The (fragment of an) example below gives two bars of music, which will be displayed correctly by Lilypond. As there is a half on beat #4 in measure #1, which lasts 'til beat #1, measure #2, the next 'c' will be (correctly) set on beat #2, measu

Re: Half open hihat symbol

2006-03-15 Thread Graham Percival
On 15-Mar-06, at 5:49 PM, Pete Stieber wrote: I'm used to a symbol in drum set notation for a half open hi-hat that I can't seem to find in lilypond. It consists of the symbol used to indicate an open hi-hat (scripts.open ?) with a hyphen through it. You could probably create this symbol us