Re: Can't get soprano lyric above staff

2006-09-23 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Holly Briscoe earthlink.net> writes: > \new Lyrics = "sopranoWords" { s1 } % this line puts the "thee" [...] > \new Staff = women << > \new Voice = "women" { << \womenMusic >> } > >> > \new Lyrics = "women" { s1 } > \new Lyrics = "altoWords

Re: identifiers

2006-09-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Mike Amundsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: While creating identifiers for fret diagrams I found the identifiers can be alpha only. I've searched the archives to see if there was a discussion that described the reasons for that constraint. I'd guess it's for reasons of simplicity and/or something

Re: notes with different values coinciding

2006-09-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Paul Bakker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Thanks for Lilypond. Is it possible to have two notes that have different note values occupying the same position in one stave? Of course: \version "2.8.0" \score{ \new Staff \relative c' { << c1 \\ {c2 b} >> } } See "Basic Polyphony" for more inform

Re: Using Slurs in Scheme Music Functions

2006-09-23 Thread Graham Percival
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The example in the manual wouldn't work at first - Lilypond just died quietly with no error messages at all. Changing #(def-music-function to #(define-music-function sorted it though. Is this a typo? I was puzzled before about the difference between the two. That's ol

Re: Capo chords

2006-09-23 Thread aabb
I achieve this by creating 2 parts, so that the transposed chords appear below the original ones. I've seen this format used in a number of published song books. You can create the "Capo 3", or similar text using the \set instrument command. This puts "Capo 3" to the far left of the first system, a

Re: Can't get soprano lyric above staff

2006-09-23 Thread Holly Briscoe
[I'm not sure how to reply in the thread, since there's no "reply link" in the thread itself--at least the way I'm looking at it, which is simply by using Mozilla Firefox and the page's web address. So this continuation of the thread may not be attached properly--my apologies. I couldn't find a

Re: Padding doesn't work

2006-09-23 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Mats Bengtsson schreef: OnionRingOfDoom wrote: Ok, thanks for the quick help there! Someone should fix the doc so that it's a little easier to find that info though... Please see http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/documentation-adding That doesn't apply here, though, as it's in

Re: Can't get soprano lyric above staff

2006-09-23 Thread Paul Scott
Holly Briscoe wrote: > [I'm not sure how to reply in the thread, since there's no "reply link" in > the thread itself--at least the way I'm looking at it, which is simply by > using Mozilla Firefox and the page's web address. So this continuation of the > thread may not be attached properly--my