Re: Fixing a font size

2006-08-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I hope you don't adjust between-system-padding but also between-system-space. /Mats Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: I'm doing it the way I mentioned, by locking the global size and scaling just the staff. My scaling the music slightly does not look drastic but does eliminate page breaks. I

Re: self-alignment-X for trills?

2006-08-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Some of the properties listed under text-spanner-interface look promising. Did you try enclose-bounds, shorten-pair or bound-padding, for example? /Mats Trevor Bača wrote: Hi, Is there any way to get the "tr" trill glyph in a trill spanner to left-align to the parent notehead? I would think

Re: self-alignment-X for trills?

2006-08-04 Thread Trevor Bača
On 8/4/06, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Some of the properties listed under text-spanner-interface look promising. Did you try enclose-bounds, shorten-pair or bound-padding, for example? Alas, yes, and they're all ineffectual. It's as though TrillSpanner doesn't implement most of

Double time signatures

2006-08-04 Thread Henrik Frisk
Hi, Just noticed an odd thing with time signatures. The following prints double time signatures at the beginning of a bar: \version "2.9.11" \score { << \new Staff \relative c' { \time 8/8 \acciaccatura c16 c4 d4 r4 r4 } \new Staff \relative c' { \time 8

Re: Double time signatures

2006-08-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Please read the section on grace notes in the manual. /Mats Henrik Frisk wrote: Hi, Just noticed an odd thing with time signatures. The following prints double time signatures at the beginning of a bar: \version "2.9.11" \score { << \new Staff \relative c' { \time 8/8 \acciac

Re: triangle chord notation

2006-08-04 Thread Johannes Schöpfer
> >> The "o" with no slash for diminished and "+" for augmented 5th forms > are > >> widely accepted though. > >> > > > > Yes, but (a) the "o" can mean the diminished fifth only, > Not correctly. The circle always means fully diminished and the slashed > circle means half diminished. I a

\RemoveEmptyRhythmicStaffContext

2006-08-04 Thread Johannes Schöpfer
hello, i'm trying to use \RemoveEmptyRhythmicStaffContext for a drums, but it doesn't work(disappear). can anybody tell me what i'm doing wrong? i'm using lilyond 2.8.4. \layout { \context { \RemoveEmptyRhythmicStaffContext } } { \relative c' << \drums

Re: \RemoveEmptyRhythmicStaffContext

2006-08-04 Thread Toine Schreurs
\drums creates a DrumStaff, not a RhythmicStaff. There is no definition for \RemoveEmptyDrumStaffContext, but an inspection of the definition of RemoveEmptyRhythmicStaffContext in engraver-init.ly leads to: \layout { \context { \DrumStaff \remove "Axis_group_engraver"

Re: Fixing a font size

2006-08-04 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote: > > I hope you don't adjust between-system-padding but also > between-system-space. > >/Mats > > At my current skill level, I set between-system-space to -1 and just adjust the between-system-padding. I need to make more examples and do more experiments to lear

setting beams for "odd" time signatures

2006-08-04 Thread Adam Good
Hello, i would love some help with this! I'm trying to set the beams in a piece with a 12/8 time signature so that I don't have to manually put in " [ ] " brackets around note entries. the 8th notes in the 12 is grouped like: 3 4 3 2 so, in other words, rather than have to put in brackets l

Re: setting beams for "odd" time signatures

2006-08-04 Thread John Mandereau
Adam Good wrote: > Hello, > > i would love some help with this! > > I'm trying to set the beams in a piece with a 12/8 time signature so > that I don't have to manually put in " [ ] " brackets around note > entries. > > the 8th notes in the 12 is grouped like: > 3 4 3 2 > > so, in other words

A7(b9) ???

2006-08-04 Thread joelinux
I have no idea how to get an A7 (b9) into my Liliypond type setting I tried in the chordmode a:7es9. but it doesn't work Chord spelled A C# E G Bb ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-us

Re: setting beams for "odd" time signatures

2006-08-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
John Mandereau wrote: Adam Good wrote: Hello, i would love some help with this! I'm trying to set the beams in a piece with a 12/8 time signature so that I don't have to manually put in " [ ] " brackets around note entries. the 8th notes in the 12 is grouped like: 3 4 3 2 so, in other

Re: A7(b9) ???

2006-08-04 Thread Paul Scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no idea how to get an A7 (b9) into my Liliypond type setting I tried in the chordmode a:7es9. but it doesn't work Chord spelled A C# E G Bb a7.9- Not promising it will be written as you want it but this is how to modify extensions of chord names. It's no

Re: triangle chord notation

2006-08-04 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:00:14 +0200, Johannes Schöpfer wrote: > >> >> The "o" with no slash for diminished and "+" for augmented 5th forms >> are >> >> widely accepted though. >> >> >> >> >> > Yes, but (a) the "o" can mean the diminished fifth only, >> Not correctly. The circle always m

RE: A7(b9) ???

2006-08-04 Thread Ed Ardzinski
try a:7+9 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: A7(b9) ??? Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 14:08:47 -0600 (GMT-06:00) I have no idea how to get an A7 (b9) into my Liliypond type setting I tried in the chordmode a:7es9. but it doesn't work Chord spelled

Re: triangle chord notation

2006-08-04 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 23:10:48 +0200, Eyolf Ostrem wrote: > On Thu 03 August 2006 22:35, Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: >> You'll hardly find a jazz fake book that does not use triangles >> somewhere or always for M7, take a look at Aebersold, Hal Leonard, Sher, >> etc. > > Agreed - but that's jazz

Re: setting beams for "odd" time signatures

2006-08-04 Thread Adam Good
Mats, thanks for answering...interesting, that's what I was doing before as it seems logical but i'm not getting the results that I want, beams are not correct. code for the score is posted below. any ideas? No, not in that section but in the section on "Setting automatic beam behavior". Try

Re: triangle chord notation

2006-08-04 Thread Stewart Holmes
Academics poison the well when they use the system for analysis, which is a purpose for which it was never intended. Do not follow the innovations suggested by academic articles. It leads to such abominations as the flat13th chord or the B#7, which is better written C7, regardless of a big fat b

Re: triangle chord notation

2006-08-04 Thread eyolf ostrem
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:39:19 -0400 David Raleigh Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I wrote years ago, the best thing to do is to adhere to that > strictly limited symbol set, and always to base spelling on quick > recognition rather than musical meaning, which is irrelevant in > improvisation

Re: A7(b9) ???

2006-08-04 Thread Paul Scott
Ed Ardzinski wrote: try a:7+9 That + actually raises the seventh giving Amaj7/9 (written with the triangle. Joe wanted a flat (not sharp) ninth. a:7.9- does work. Paul ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mai

Re: A7(b9) ???

2006-08-04 Thread Ed Ardzinski
Oops. Haven't been using much lately. Guess I should have waited until I got home and tried it - or looked at something I've actually written. Would have found it quickly... :-( From: Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ed Ardzinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re:

Re: setting beams for "odd" time signatures

2006-08-04 Thread Markus Schneider
Adam, I also expected Mats' solution to work - but it doesn't. If this is by design or random I can't say, but if you use #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * * *) 3 8) #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * * *) 7 8) #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * * *) 10 8) and \time 12/8 \set beatL

slashed beams in beamed graces

2006-08-04 Thread Mehmet Okonsar
how can I get a slash in beamed graces? \override Stem#'stroke-style = #"grace" didn't work -- Mehmet Okonsar, pianist-composer-conductor www.okonsar.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypo

Re: \RemoveEmptyRhythmicStaffContext

2006-08-04 Thread Johannes Schöpfer
> \drums creates a DrumStaff, not a RhythmicStaff. There is no definition > for \RemoveEmptyDrumStaffContext, but an inspection of the definition > of RemoveEmptyRhythmicStaffContext in engraver-init.ly leads to: > > \layout { > \context { >\DrumStaff >\remove "Axis_grou