pizz and arco in midi

2006-12-21 Thread Neuro
Hello, Dear list, I am more and more glad with our list; instead of fumbling and trying out as I used to be, I just ask ^_^ A small question again.. How do you just pizz a few measures, then return to arco, in midi? thanks very much Neuro ___

Re: pizz and arco in midi

2006-12-21 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Why not try the obvious solution: \score{ \relative c'{ \set Staff.midiInstrument = "violin" c d e f \set Staff.midiInstrument = "pizzicato strings" c d e f \set Staff.midiInstrument = "violin" c d e f } \midi{} } /Mats Neuro wrote: Hello, Dear list, I am more and more glad with our l

Re: pizz and arco in midi

2006-12-21 Thread Neuro
Yes ~ , It works ^_^ Thank you Mats, very much :) Neuro - Original Message - From: "Mats Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Neuro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 1:01 AM Subject: Re: pizz and arco in midi Why not try the obvious solution: \score{ \relat

Re: pizz and arco in midi

2006-12-21 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Why not try the obvious solution: > \score{ > \relative c'{ > \set Staff.midiInstrument = "violin" > c d e f > \set Staff.midiInstrument = "pizzicato strings" > c d e f > \set Staff.midiInstrument = "violin" > c d e f > } > \midi{} > } BTW, there is a buglet in lilypond currently: \

beamlet length in grace

2006-12-21 Thread Jean-marc LEGRAND
hi list ! I'm sorry I haven't found a good trick for your pb, but when I put : c4 \afterGrace d4 \override Voice.Stem #'length = #50.0 { c16[ d] } the grace aspect changes. Actually, I'm not an expert in override, so... I'll try something else today JMarc ___

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-21 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 10:58, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Graham Percival wrote: > > ... hmm, what about allowing > > \tuplet 3:2 {c8 d e} \tuplet { f e d} > > Again, I definitely vote against! We already now have too many > optional constructs in the syntax, which causes more confusion than > i

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-21 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 07:51, Graham Percival wrote: > Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > Jonathan Henkelman escreveu: > >> I think Eriks point is actually well founded. The discussion started > >> with my discussion of trying to trim down the grammer complexity. Adding > >> syntax is not really i

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-21 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 15:25, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >>> \tuplet 3:2 {...} > >> > >> One minor detail is that the name isn't exactly appropriate when you > >> do > >> \set tupletSpannerDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 4) > >> \times 2/3 {c8 d e f e d e f g f e d } > > >

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-21 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Erik Sandberg wrote: What about: \tuplets 2/3 {c8 d e f e d e f g f e d } We could also make \tuplet and \tuplets differ on the iterator level, so that the tupletSpannerDuration property affects \tuplets expressions but not \tuplet expressions. I think that may just cause more confusio

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-21 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Erik Sandberg escreveu: > BTW, in this case it may be good to register the fraction as its own argument > type, so \tuplets and \tuplet are generic music functions, both with > signature > (tuplet-fraction? music?) it would be cool if we could pull this off, that would make \time generic too. -

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-21 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Mats Bengtsson wrote: BTW, in this case it may be good to register the fraction as its own argument type, so \tuplets and \tuplet are generic music functions, both with signature (tuplet-fraction? music?) Maybe such an argument type can also be used in functions like \compressMusic and

Re: Align Chord Name with Chord Position

2006-12-21 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You didn't really say what kind of alignment you want. Also, it is good habit to cut down the example files to only illustrate the specific problem you are asking about. However, here is an example that gives (at least almost) centered alignment. If you want left alignment, just replace #CENTER

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-21 Thread Karl Hammar
Paul Scott: > Karl Hammar wrote: ... > > I support Eriks idea: > > . it is much easier to write 2 3 instead of 2/3 > > > much?? It's about the same on my keyboard. 2/3 is even easier with the > numeric keypad. Well, it depends on which keyboard layout you are using. The swedish one is like

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-21 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 21 December 2006 12:55, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Erik Sandberg escreveu: > > BTW, in this case it may be good to register the fraction as its own > > argument type, so \tuplets and \tuplet are generic music functions, both > > with signature > > (tuplet-fraction? music?) > > it would b

Getting involved

2006-12-21 Thread Till Rettig
Hi everybody, a while ago I thought i might put my own bit into the lilypond work. So I checked the stuff on the development pages and ended up that a German translation for the web page and the documentation would be a nice thing. But first I thought of asking here if there is this kind of p

no cautionary clef

2006-12-21 Thread Mehmet Okonsar
how can I make no cautionary clefs? I tried without success: \override Staff.Clef #'transparent = ##t and \set Staff.forceClef = ##f thanks.. -- Mehmet Okonsar, pianist-composer-conductor www.okonsar.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-21 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Erik Sandberg escreveu: > On Thursday 21 December 2006 12:55, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: >> Erik Sandberg escreveu: >>> BTW, in this case it may be good to register the fraction as its own >>> argument type, so \tuplets and \tuplet are generic music functions, both >>> with signature >>> (tuplet-fract

Rhythms Notations

2006-12-21 Thread bbarros
I was interested in construct/processing rhythms with lisp or python, like we could do in open music with "tree" library, and output for Lillypond. OM uses the Comom Music Notation, that is very good for this kind of task. It looks like this: (cmn treble (rqq '(2 ((1 (1 1 1 2)) (1 (1 2)) (1 (1 2

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-21 Thread Jonathan Henkelman
Stephen Kress wrote: > 4.  By default, a single number will be engraved in the tuplet bracket.  There is already the text property of the TupletNumber object that can be tweaked to get the ratio printed if one so desires.  In other words, no changes need to be made to LP in how the single numbe

Re: no cautionary clef

2006-12-21 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You mean the small clef at the end of the line if the clef change happens at a line break, right? Try \set Staff.explicitClefVisibility = #end-of-line-invisible /Mats Mehmet Okonsar wrote: how can I make no cautionary clefs? I tried without success: \override Staff.Clef #'transparent = ##

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-21 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Jonathan Henkelman wrote: How exactly will this work. \times 2/3 {c8 d e f g a} does not produce the output _I_ would expect, which is two standard triplets. Instead it produces two triplets with a single spanner with the text '3' in it. Do we want to work on this default notation at the

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-21 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 21 December 2006 15:01, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Erik Sandberg escreveu: > > On Thursday 21 December 2006 12:55, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > >> Erik Sandberg escreveu: > >>> BTW, in this case it may be good to register the fraction as its own > >>> argument type, so \tuplets and \tuplet

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-21 Thread John Mandereau
Frédéric Chiasson wrote: > But to avoid repeating \tuplet functions for long passages with the > same tuplets, we could admit that kind of syntax : > > \tuplet 3:2 {c8 d e f g a b c d e d c b a g f e d} > > without having one long bracket going through all the notes. But I > understand that you d

Re: Getting involved

2006-12-21 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Till Rettig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Till, > a while ago I thought i might put my own bit into the lilypond > work. So I checked the stuff on the development pages and ended up > that a German translation for the web page and the documentation would > be a nice thing. But first I thought of

Re: no cautionary clef

2006-12-21 Thread Mehmet Okonsar
On Thursday 21 December 2006 16:11, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > \set Staff.explicitClefVisibility = #end-of-line-invisible ok thank you -- Mehmet Okonsar, pianist-composer-conductor www.okonsar.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http:

Re: Convert-ly crashes

2006-12-21 Thread Laura Conrad
I'm moving this to lilypond-user, since it no longer has anything to do with the particular bug that started the thread. > "Graham" == Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Graham> Laura Conrad wrote: >>> "Graham" == Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> G

Chord library

2006-12-21 Thread Sébastien Gross
Hi there, I am working on a guitar chord library for lily [1] based on the \fret-diagram command. The generator is written in python. The chord configuration file is quite simple: a section header indicates the chord type. Followin lines a defining a chord name. If a chord name ends with "-b" t

Re: Chord library

2006-12-21 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I hope you have read the NEWS included in the on-line documentation for version 2.10, especially about the FretBoards context. /Mats Sébastien Gross wrote: Hi there, I am working on a guitar chord library for lily [1] based on the \fret-diagram command. The generator is written in python.

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-21 Thread Jonathan Henkelman
Mats Bengtsson ee.kth.se> writes: > Jonathan Henkelman wrote: > > > > How exactly will this work. \times 2/3 {c8 d e f g a} does not produce the > > output _I_ would expect, which is two standard triplets. Instead it produces > > two triplets with a single spanner with the text '3' in it.

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-21 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Yes, that makes sense. Frédéric 2006/12/21, John Mandereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Frédéric Chiasson wrote: > But to avoid repeating \tuplet functions for long passages with the > same tuplets, we could admit that kind of syntax : > > \tuplet 3:2 {c8 d e f g a b c d e d c b a g f e d} > > withou

Re: Getting involved

2006-12-21 Thread Robert Memering
Am Donnerstag, 21. Dezember 2006 14:05 schrieb Till Rettig: > Another point is the support for ancient notation, especially the > mensural or renaissance engravers. I think there should still be some > work done, and I would be happy if I could also help here -- though I > don't know will I actuall

Re: Rhythms Notations

2006-12-21 Thread Trevor Bača
On 12/21/06, bbarros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was interested in construct/processing rhythms with lisp or python, like we could do in open music with "tree" library, and output for Lillypond. OM uses the Comom Music Notation, that is very good for this kind of task. It looks like this: (cm

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-21 Thread Trevor Bača
On 12/20/06, Kress, Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok. Based on what everyone has been saying and seeming to come to an agreement on, here's the details of the changes that we are proposing be made. 1. \times is replaced by \tuplet since tuplet makes more musical sense and convert-ly

Re: Chord library

2006-12-21 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
seb-g wrote: > > Hi there, > > I am working on a guitar chord library for lily [1] based on the > \fret-diagram command. > > The generator is written in python. > > The chord configuration file is quite simple: > > -- > Sebastien Gross > > > __

Re: Chord library

2006-12-21 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: > > > > seb-g wrote: >> >> Hi there, >> >> I am working on a guitar chord library for lily [1] based on the >> \fret-diagram command. >> >> The generator is written in python. >> >> The chord configuration file is quite simple: >> >> -- >> Sebastien Gross

Doublequotes in markup?

2006-12-21 Thread Trevor Bača
Hi, What's the right way to typeset doublequotes in markup? The expression ... \markup { The word "andante" should appear between quotes. } ... doesn't do what I would imagine. -- Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypo

Re: Doublequotes in markup?

2006-12-21 Thread Geoff Horton
What's the right way to typeset doublequotes in markup? The expression ... \markup { The word "andante" should appear between quotes. } I guess it wouldn't. Can you use the character code instead? Or set real left and right double-quotes, which LilyPond doesn't use for anything else? Geoff

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-21 Thread David Rogers
I have enclosed two messages which I think are getting at the same problem in different ways. Regardless of \tuplet vs. \times and the associated programming discussion, I think the fact that Lily's default is to print nonsense in this kind of case, should be thought of as a bug. Jonathan Henk

ungroup a staff

2006-12-21 Thread Mehmet Okonsar
how to temporarily "ungroup" a staff, i.e. remove it from the group it belongs so barlines are not connected.. thanks -- Mehmet Okonsar, pianist-composer-conductor www.okonsar.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.

Re: Doublequotes in markup?

2006-12-21 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Popular question nowadays. See "Entering Lyrics" in the manual. /Mats Trevor Bača wrote: Hi, What's the right way to typeset doublequotes in markup? The expression ... \markup { The word "andante" should appear between quotes. } ... doesn't do what I would imagine. --

Re: ungroup a staff

2006-12-21 Thread Mats Bengtsson
That's a tricky question. I don't see any obvious solution. /Mats Mehmet Okonsar wrote: how to temporarily "ungroup" a staff, i.e. remove it from the group it belongs so barlines are not connected.. thanks -- = Mats Bengtsson

How to silently change the current duration in music?

2006-12-21 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
How can I change the "current" duration in my music without actually entering something that will take up any beats? IOW we all know that duration is "sticky", it remains at whatever you last set it to so that you do not have to continually type in duration numbers. What command can I enter to "

Re: Doublequotes in markup?

2006-12-21 Thread Manuel
I just learned to input them so: \score { { c' d' e' f' } \header { piece = "Branle \"Quatre Branles\"" opus = "Susato" } } for a title. Maybe you can use it for your purposes. Manuel Am 21/12/2006 um 18:17 schrieb Trevor Bača: Hi, What's the right way to typeset doublequo

Re: Chord library

2006-12-21 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
seb-g wrote: > > Hi there, > > I am working on a guitar chord library for lily [1] based on the > \fret-diagram command. > > The generator is written in python. > > -- > Sebastien Gross > > > ___ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.

Re: How to silently change the current duration in music?

2006-12-21 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The problem is that the approach won't work, since when you do \myVariable = { a } the note will get a duration already when you do the variable assignment, taken from the previous duration used in the file. In general, the "sticky" durations are handled directly when the file is parsed, so the

Re: Convert-ly crashes

2006-12-21 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Laura Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think this might be worth discussing on the users' list. The > contributors are probably all making some assumptions about people's > work habits that doubtless hold true for only some of the population. > So here's the question: What are your actual a

Re: Doublequotes in markup?

2006-12-21 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
"Trevor Bača" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > What's the right way to typeset doublequotes in markup? The expression ... > > \markup { The word "andante" should appear between quotes. } > > > ... doesn't do what I would imagine. \markup { The word "\"andante\"" \italic does appear between

Re: How to silently change the current duration in music?

2006-12-21 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Would it be possible to change the stencil of a grace note so that it appears invisible and of zero width? Then enter the grace note with the desired "current" duration? It is my understanding that grace notes dont count against my beats but they do appear to reset the current sticky duration, i

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-21 Thread Brett Duncan
John Mandereau wrote: Frédéric Chiasson wrote: But to avoid repeating \tuplet functions for long passages with the same tuplets, we could admit that kind of syntax : \tuplet 3:2 {c8 d e f g a b c d e d c b a g f e d} without having one long bracket going through all the notes. But I under

Re: Convert-ly crashes

2006-12-21 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Nicolas Sceaux wrote: The conversion from 1.6 or 1.8 to 2.2 was painful, because of the many syntax changes there were then (\markup, or << >> vs < > for instance), The conversion rules in convert-ly to handle the changes around 1.9.0 have been revised some year ago and should handle the co

Re: How to make "undisappearable" hyphens?

2006-12-21 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando Eduardo Vieira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello list, I'm still puzzled with this problem. Can anybody help me? > We know that in some words an hyphen should be used and as part of lyrics of > a > song it must not disappear. > I'm trying to do that based on a suggestion of an older version of t

problems compiling 2.10.2 and 2.10.3

2006-12-21 Thread luis jure
hello list, i can't compile either 2.10.2 or 2.10.3 on my gentoo linux (everything went fine with 2.8.8). the problem is that configure doesn't detect correctly the versions of guile and mftrace. configure stops thus: ERROR: Please install required programs: guile-config >= 1.6.7 (installed: 1.

Re: problems compiling 2.10.2 and 2.10.3

2006-12-21 Thread Quentin Spencer
luis jure wrote: hello list, i can't compile either 2.10.2 or 2.10.3 on my gentoo linux (everything went fine with 2.8.8). the problem is that configure doesn't detect correctly the versions of guile and mftrace. configure stops thus: ERROR: Please install required programs: guile-config >= 1.

Re: Chord library

2006-12-21 Thread Sébastien Gross
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 09:05:20AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes, as Mats said please check out the FretBoards context, I sponsored it! > > It will allow you to transpose fret diagrams and enter fret diagrams using > standard lilypond notes, it will auto detect the strings for minimal hand

Re: Chord library

2006-12-21 Thread Sébastien Gross
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:45:52PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Here is an example of my "non-programmers" approach to forming a chord > library: (note this example can only be run in version 2.11.4 or better due > to a crash issue) Ok I will install 2.11.4. I am still old fashion with 2.1

Re: Chord library

2006-12-21 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
seb-g wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 09:05:20AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: >> Yes, as Mats said please check out the FretBoards context, I sponsored >> it! >> >> It will allow you to transpose fret diagrams and enter fret diagrams >> using >> standard lilypond notes, it will auto de

Re: Chord library

2006-12-21 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
seb-g wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:45:52PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: >> >> Here is an example of my "non-programmers" approach to forming a chord >> library: (note this example can only be run in version 2.11.4 or better >> due >> to a crash issue) > > Ok I will install 2.11.

My first define-music-function, I'm trying, need help

2006-12-21 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
The simple substitution example below should be pretty easy, but I'm "in a pickle", can someone show me how to replace the note name in the transpose statement with the note specified on the function call (parameter called "root")? But it gets the following error: :2:13: error: syntax error, une

Re: Chord library

2006-12-21 Thread Sébastien Gross
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:05:25PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A define-music-function would be better than tags, then the whole library > would be inside a function where you just specify the chord name as a string > parameter then have a giant IF statement to generate the named chord, (root

Re: Chord library

2006-12-21 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
seb-g wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:05:25PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: >> A define-music-function would be better than tags, then the whole library >> would be inside a function where you just specify the chord name as a >> string >> parameter then have a giant IF statement to ge

No parenthesises

2006-12-21 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Hello, I tried for the first time to use parenthesises on notes but it doesn't work. Am I doing something wrong? \version "2.11.3" \relative c'{ \parenthesize b1 } Frédéric ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mai

Re: Chord library

2006-12-21 Thread Sébastien Gross
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:41:19PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Yes, I was thinking \varMyChordLibrary would not be needed in this case, all > the chords would simply come out of the function each embraced by an IF > statement to match the input parameter (like a giant CASE selection). > B

Re: How to make "undisappearable" hyphens?

2006-12-21 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando Laura Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > "Eduardo" == Eduardo Vieira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> %% I don't want the hyphen "ti" and "frut" to disappear. The others > can > >> disappear. > > Why not just: > > text = \lyricmode { > Tut -- ti- -- frut -- ti > } > Be

Re: Chord library

2006-12-21 Thread Sébastien Gross
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:45:52PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here is an example of my "non-programmers" approach to forming a chord > library: (note this example can only be run in version 2.11.4 or better due > to a crash issue) With this solution, fingering and notation will cause a prob

Re: no cautionary clef

2006-12-21 Thread stk
>> how can I make no cautionary clefs? > You mean the small clef at the end of the line if the clef change > happens at a line break, right? Try > > \set Staff.explicitClefVisibility = #end-of-line-invisible Well, for no cautionary time signatures (at the end of a line) I've used \override Scor

Re: ungroup a staff

2006-12-21 Thread Mehmet Okonsar
can we make the barline running between and connecting the staves disappear? can we also make the "left barline" transparent at the start of systems? On Thursday 21 December 2006 22:27, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > That's a tricky question. I don't see any obvious solution. > > /Mats > > Mehmet Okons

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-21 Thread stk
> . . . either you still need to have \set tupletSpannerDuration > or you need to build the tuplet duration into the tuplet function > itself, e.g. \tuplet 3:2 2. {c c8 c c4} for John's first example, > and \tuplet 3:2 4. {c4 c8 c c4} for the second. . . Yes. Up until this point, the argument ha

Re: Chord library

2006-12-21 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
For ChordNames, to eliminate all the "add" whatevers, I use an exceptions list which is documented, or search the archive for "jazzychord". I've had my exceptions list for some time now and just use it routinely, there are also cases where I'll call a chord a 6th vs a 13th, a sus4th an 11th, a su