How do I put parentheses around some notes?

2007-12-21 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, I'm reproducing a Christmas carol from a book I have, mostly in order to transpose it. The composer and poet are both long dead, though, so the piece is public domain afaik. Some of the lines of lyrics have a leading note (a \partial 4), but some of them have no leading note. In the boo

Re: How do I put parentheses around some notes?

2007-12-21 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Friday, 21. December 2007 schrieb Father Gordon Gilbert: > But how > do I put parentheses around these (only sometimes-used) notes? See the LSR for this (parenthesis around one note or even one note inside a chord): http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=parenthesize > Also, what about dotted s

syntax for "minor triad sus 2"

2007-12-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
[Lilypond 2.11.33-1] Hello all, I can't seem to get a simple minor chord sus 2 in \chordmode... =\ This (which was my intuition, and the docs imply) bandChords = \chordmode { gs2:m.2/ds cs:maj/ds } throws an error. My "fix" bandChords = \chordmode { gs2:m3.2/ds cs:maj/ds } doesn't

including and formatting

2007-12-21 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Lilypond-users, I have a question concerning the "\include"-command. When I have a file consisting of \inlude "part_one.ly" \include "part_two.ly" etc. the part two starts automatically a new line and measure numbers are counted from one, again. Is it possible to avoid this? I'm thinking of a