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

2006-03-16 Thread Bertalan Fodor
|Try to use LyricSpace Bert| ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: line breaks

2006-03-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I hope you know about Sect. "Automatic Note Splitting" which describes one method to avoid having to think about these problems (or at least to assist in finding exactly where the problem is, if you have entered the wrong rhythm by mistake). /Mats Graham Percival wrote: On 15-Mar-06, at 2:2

Re: bars trouble

2006-03-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Please read the section on "System Start Delimiters" in the manual. /Mats jango wrote: 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://img2

Re: Guitar notation

2006-03-16 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am 15. März 2006, 23:15 Uhr (+0100) schrieb 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? No, you can't use ragged-right for that purpose. You have to insert some padding between the diag

Re: unmetered music question

2006-03-16 Thread Eddy-14
Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote: > > "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. > It works. Thanks !!! Just, I need to put it in all staves. If I understand

Re: Guitar notation

2006-03-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Popular question today! Bertalan Fodor just answered the same question in another thread. Look at the example called "lyric-hyphen-retain.ly" in the Regression Tests document. /Mats Jannik Jeppesen wrote: Hi... I added the code, and it helped. But can I somehow change the space between the

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

2006-03-16 Thread Bertalan Fodor
I suppose you need the |minimum-distance property. Bert |Geoff Horton wrote: On 3/16/06, Bertalan Fodor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |Try to use LyricSpace Bert| wordsOne = \lyricmode { \override LyricSpace #'padding = #4 Long long longer longer longest longest longest longest L

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

2006-03-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Yes, look at the example called "lyric-hyphen-retain.ly" in the Regression tests document. /Mats Bertalan Fodor wrote: I suppose you need the |minimum-distance property. Bert |Geoff Horton wrote: On 3/16/06, Bertalan Fodor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |Try to use LyricSpace Bert|

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

2006-03-16 Thread Geoff Horton
On 3/16/06, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, look at the example called "lyric-hyphen-retain.ly" in the > Regression tests document. Thank you! This does work: \layout { \context { \Lyrics \override LyricSpace #'minimum-distance = #0.6 } } Might I suggest u

Change Chord Name Font Size

2006-03-16 Thread Kamal
How do you change the default font size of chord names? I have tried the following but it didn't work: \chords { \set fontSize = #-2 e2.:m e:m e:m b:7 b:7 b:7 b:7 e:m g d } \version "2.6.5 Thank you. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu

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

2006-03-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Geoff Horton wrote: On 3/16/06, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, look at the example called "lyric-hyphen-retain.ly" in the Regression tests document. Thank you! This does work: \layout { \context { \Lyrics \override LyricSpace #'minimum-distance = #0.6

Re: Change Chord Name Font Size

2006-03-16 Thread Thibaut Chevalier
There are old threads dealing with this. I read that the simple \set fontSize is said not to be working, but in this post : http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2004-11/msg00117.html The following solution is suggested : \context ChordNames { \property ChordNames.chordChanges =

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

2006-03-16 Thread Geoff Horton
> The default value is 0.3, see the link to "LyricSpace" at the bottom of the > section on "Entering Lyrics". This is correct, but is it possible to revise the program reference to make it clear that this property now affects lyric spacing ("Minimum distance between rest and notes or beam" doesn't

Re: Change Chord Name Font Size

2006-03-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Whenever you find an answer in an old email, find out what LilyPond version it was written for. Then, make a temporary .ly file containing \version "2.0.0" % or whatever version the answer applied to and the lines of code. Then, run convert-ly -e temp.ly and see what the code should look like with

My tips page

2006-03-16 Thread Geoff Horton
I've been typesetting a number of hymns, and in the process I've come across (and occasionally at least somewhat invented) some techniques that are helpful in getting the results to look like I want. Some of these might be genuine FAQs, but since I concentrate on choral music, I know there are a lo

Hairpin with circleRe: (no subject)

2006-03-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Please specify a Subject line on your emails. As far as I know, it's not directly supported, but a hack like the following might be useful (it is of course possible to define some macros to make it more convenient to use): \version "2.7.32" % Define a macro that prints a circle and handles it a

Re: My tips page

2006-03-16 Thread Geoff Horton
> Why not publish them in the LilyPond Snippet Repository? > See lilypond.org -> Documentation I may add them, but I do a lot of discussion that I don't think fits very neatly into the format there. Geoff ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@g

Re: (no subject)

2006-03-16 Thread Trevor Bača
On 3/16/06, Arno Waschk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dear list, > > for a contemporary music score i need hairpin having a circles around > their tip, indicating cresc./descresc. from/into silence. > > what is the easiest way to enter these into the score? or does this need > to be implemented yet?

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

2006-03-16 Thread Father Panteleimon
This solution is perfect. \layout { \context { \Lyrics \override LyricSpace #'minimum-distance = #0.6 } } Thanks to all involved. I agree with Geoff that the default #.3 spacing is near invisible. Generally speaking, the "LyricSpace" solution makes far more sense than the one

Re: My tips page

2006-03-16 Thread Graham Percival
On 16-Mar-06, at 7:57 AM, Geoff Horton wrote: I've been typesetting a number of hymns, and in the process I've come across (and occasionally at least somewhat invented) some techniques that are helpful in getting the results to look like I want. Some of these might be genuine FAQs, but since I c

Re: My tips page

2006-03-16 Thread Geoff Horton
> Make sure you run the "texsetup" or "texconfig" and set the dvips paper > size to "letterpaper". For some reason it defaults to A4 -- even when > you specify "letterpaper" in your .latex (or .lytex) file. :( I'll have to play with this more, I guess. I was pulling my hair out (figuratively) a

al niente / de niente - was Re: (no subject)

2006-03-16 Thread Marcus Macauley
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:29:43 -0800, Trevor Bača"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/16/06, Arno Waschk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: dear list, for a contemporary music score i need hairpin having a circles around their tip, indicating cresc./descresc. from/into silence. what is the easiest way

Re: al niente / de niente - was Re: (no subject)

2006-03-16 Thread Trevor Bača
On 3/16/06, Marcus Macauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:29:43 -0800, Trevor Bača"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On 3/16/06, Arno Waschk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> dear list, > >> > >> for a contemporary music score i need hairpin having a circles around > >> their

Re: al niente / de niente - was Re: (no subject)

2006-03-16 Thread andrea valle
(in Italian it is not "de niente" but "dal niente") Best -a- On 16 Mar 2006, at 23:27, Trevor Bača wrote: On 3/16/06, Marcus Macauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:29:43 -0800, Trevor Bača"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/16/06, Arno Waschk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: al niente / de niente - was Re: (no subject)

2006-03-16 Thread Marcus Macauley
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:27:24 -0800, Trevor Bača"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/16/06, Marcus Macauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Another way of notating this, which I prefer, but also I think needs to be implemented, is to follow the decresc. (or precede the cresc.) with a bold/italic

Problem with init.ly file

2006-03-16 Thread Ben
I've been working on a number of small compositions, and every time I try to create a PDF with Lilypond 2.6.5 (Windows), I get a problem during "Parsing." The program tells me that there is one of several problems with init.ly. They vary from "error: syntax error, unexpected SCM_T" to " error: synt

Re: Guitar notation

2006-03-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Jannik Jeppesen wrote: 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 { If you remove that line, you will notice that the chord names are printed just edge to e

Percussion flams and ruffs and MIDI generation

2006-03-16 Thread Pete Stieber
I've been able to create a flam notation I like using \override Stem #'length = #4 \acciaccatura {sn8} \revert Stem #'length sn4 and a two-stroke ruff using \grace { \override Beam #'position = #(2 . 2) {sn16[( sn]} \revert Beam #'positions } sn4) and a three stroke ruff using \grace {

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

2006-03-16 Thread Carrick Patterson
Quoting Geoff Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 atta

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

2006-03-16 Thread Geoff Horton
> This works fine for me: > > > \version "2.7.36" > > soprano = \relative c'' { > \override Score.SeparationItem #'padding = #5 > c4 c c c | c c c c | c c c c | > } The point is that this is a score-wide tweak, affecting everything and not just the lyrics. The further point is that an adjustment

Re: unmetered music question

2006-03-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Please read the chapter on Changing Defaults. If you apply a setting to the Score context, then it will also apply to all contexts further down in the context hierarchy, such as all the Staff contexts. So, just use \override Score.TimeSignature ... \revert Score.TimeSignature ... /Mats Eddy-14

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

2006-03-16 Thread Geoff Horton
On 3/16/06, Bertalan Fodor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > |Try to use LyricSpace > > Bert| > wordsOne = \lyricmode { \override LyricSpace #'padding = #4 Long long longer longer longest longest longest longest Long long longer longer longest longest longest longest } produces unchanged output.

Re: al niente / de niente - was Re: (no subject)

2006-03-16 Thread Trevor Bača
On 3/16/06, Marcus Macauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:27:24 -0800, Trevor Bača"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On 3/16/06, Marcus Macauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Another way of notating this, which I prefer, but also I think needs to > >> be > >> implemente

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

2006-03-16 Thread Geoff Horton
> The default value is 0.3, see the link to "LyricSpace" at the bottom of the > section on "Entering Lyrics". I'm surprised a 0.3 spacing isn't more visible, but I'll shut up (at least on this point) and go away (at least on this point). Thanks again for helping me through this. Geoff _

Re: My tips page

2006-03-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Why not publish them in the LilyPond Snippet Repository? See lilypond.org -> Documentation /Mats Geoff Horton wrote: I've been typesetting a number of hymns, and in the process I've come across (and occasionally at least somewhat invented) some techniques that are helpful in getting the resul

Re: (no subject)

2006-03-16 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Arno Waschk wrote: dear list, for a contemporary music score i need hairpin having a circles around their tip, indicating cresc./descresc. from/into silence. what is the easiest way to enter these into the score? or does this need to be implemented yet? i did not find that mentioned in the

Question about repeat alternatives

2006-03-16 Thread Ambrose Li
Hi, I am trying to do something like \repeat volta 4 { ... } \alternative { {} { ... } } The idea is that only the 4th repeat has an alternative. But the result is that the alternative shows up all right, but labelled "1-3" instead of "4". What am I doing wrong, or is this a bug? I'm using Lily

Re: My tips page

2006-03-16 Thread Graham Percival
On 16-Mar-06, at 1:09 PM, Geoff Horton wrote: What's the level at which something becomes too obscure to be manual-worthy? (A serious question--I could make some suggestions, but I don't have a good handle on the criteria, The criteria is my vague sense of how often the property is needed and

lilypond guis

2006-03-16 Thread Aaron Mehl
Dave Phillips has a new installment and he highlights Denemo, Notedit, and Rosegarden notation tools. If you haven't seen it already here is the link: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8928 regards Aaron __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo