prettifier ?

2008-01-16 Thread Joe Mc Cool
a prettifier for Lilly, might such a thing be possible ? -- Thanks Joe Mc Cool Snark, currently LEYC 028 37548074, 07802572441 ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-use

Re: Copyright symbol

2008-01-16 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
On Jan 16, 2008 12:24 AM, Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: > I thought by virtue of the fact that I was using jEdit with LilyPondTool, it > was already in UTF-8 encoding. I looked throught the jEdit menus, and > couldn't find anything to find out which characters I had, or how to change > it. How do

Re: partcombine not fully displaying triplets

2008-01-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Isn't the problem that the part combiner puts the 8th rest in the unison voice and the quarter notes in the split voices, so the two ends of the triplet ends up in two separate voices, which LilyPond cannot handle. An ugly workaround is to move the tuplet engraver from the Voice context to the

Re: prettifier ?

2008-01-16 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
What do you mean? Like this: http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg27232.html ? Joe Mc Cool wrote: a prettifier for Lilly, might such a thing be possible ? -- LilyPondTool is the editor for LilyPond files. See http://lilypondtool.organum.hu _

Fw: [SPAM?]: another two questions

2008-01-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Since I don't use Windows, please answer his questions. Werner --- Begin Message --- Dear Werner: There are two additional questions. First, what's the difference between Lilypad-ascii.exe and Lilypad-unicode.exe? If I edit Chinese characters in the unicode version, will the output fonts

Re: Fw: [SPAM?]: another two questions

2008-01-16 Thread Francisco Vila
> From: hhpmusic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > There are two additional questions. First, what's the difference between > Lilypad-ascii.exe and Lilypad-unicode.exe? If I edit Chinese characters in > the unicode version, will the output fonts be embedded? Of course not. Any unicode-aware text edit

Re: Fw: [SPAM?]: another two questions

2008-01-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Werner LEMBERG wrote: Since I don't use Windows, please answer his questions. Werner Dear Werner: There are two additional questions. First, what's the difference between Lilypad-ascii.exe and Lilypad-unicode.exe? If I edit Chinese characters in the unicode version, will the output

[lilypond-user] Manual clarity question

2008-01-16 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
p. 11 of the LP manual: Warning: Every piece of LilyPond input needs to have { curly braces } placed around the input. p. 13 of the LP manual: \relative c' { c d e f g a b c } The manual goes on to say that \relative c' { ... } is the only part missing from most of the examples in the manual, and

Re: [lilypond-user] Manual clarity question

2008-01-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Chuckk Hubbard wrote: p. 11 of the LP manual: Warning: Every piece of LilyPond input needs to have { curly braces } placed around the input. p. 13 of the LP manual: \relative c' { c d e f g a b c } The manual goes on to say that \relative c' { ... } is the only part missing from most of the e

Re: [lilypond-user] Manual clarity question

2008-01-16 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Yeah, that statement is just not true. The lilypond file format is very free and has complicated rules. However, for writing notes you must use curly braces. Chuckk Hubbard wrote: p. 11 of the LP manual: Warning: Every piece of LilyPond input needs to have { curly braces } placed around the in

Re: [lilypond-user] Manual clarity question

2008-01-16 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On Jan 16, 2008 12:42 PM, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So just to clarify; the ONLY things allowed to not be surrounded by > > curly braces are "\relative" statements? OR, the only things allowed > > to not be surrounded by curly braces are escaped function names? > > > No, it's

Re: Copyright symbol

2008-01-16 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Risto, Thanks for the help, but I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT! I'm not a geek, and although I understand UTF-8, I have never worked in hex, or even Latex. (I did a bit of document editing in TeX about 20 years ago with my son's very close coaching, but that's it.) What I need to know

Re: Copyright symbol

2008-01-16 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Utilities > Buffer options > Encoding Bert Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: Risto, Thanks for the help, but I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT! I'm not a geek, and although I understand UTF-8, I have never worked in hex, or even Latex. (I did a bit of document editing in TeX about 20 ye

Re: Copyright symbol

2008-01-16 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Thanks, Bert. Now. I have discovered that my saves *are* in UTF-8, but for some reason Lily can't handle the copyright symbol when I inject it into the .ly file. How can I accomplish this? Gordon+ On 16/01/2008, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Utilities > Buffer o

Re: Copyright symbol

2008-01-16 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/15, Father Gordon Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I thought by virtue of the fact that I was using jEdit with LilyPondTool, it > was already in UTF-8 encoding. I looked throught the jEdit menus, and > couldn't find anything to find out which characters I had, or how to change > it. How do

Re: Copyright symbol

2008-01-16 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/16, Father Gordon Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have discovered that my saves *are* in UTF-8, but for some reason Lily > can't handle the copyright symbol when I inject it into the .ly file. How > can I accomplish this? Can you post your .ly source file? (You can remove the music, just

Re: signed trills/trillspan to barline

2008-01-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Since you know that the code example you found was intended for an older version of LilyPond, you should always use convert-ly to update it to the current syntax. If you do that on your file below (with a \version statement that matches the version the solution originally was intended for), you w

Learning Manual PDF?

2008-01-16 Thread Albert Frantz
Hello, I assume this will be on its way soon, but in case it's not I'd like to request the new Learning Manual in PDF format. Even having the development version available for printing now would be helpful! Many thanks, Albert ___ lilypond-user ma

Re: signed trills/trillspan to barline

2008-01-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Regarding your second question on extending the trill to the bar line, see the following bug report http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=493&q=to-barline /Mats Ruth Roland wrote: Hi, There have been various posts regarding putting an accidental above a trill. Does anyone have a

RE: Learning Manual PDF?

2008-01-16 Thread Trevor Daniels
Albert It is available now in PDF format. Click on the Learning Manual (LM) link on the development documentation page and look at the top of the page which comes up. I don't know why this is different for the LM. It would be good if someone could change it... Trevor > -Original Message-

parenthesized phrase

2008-01-16 Thread Ruth Roland
Hi, I have used \parenthesize for one note at a time; is there a way to have the parentheses or brackets enclose a series of notes? Thanks, Ruth ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: signed trills/trillspan to barline

2008-01-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Ruth Roland wrote: Excuse my ignorance--does this just mean that this code doesn't currently work? Right! /Mats That's what it looks like, but I want to make sure there isn't a fix hidden in this message... Thanks, Ruth On Jan 16, 2008, at 6:44 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Regarding your s

Re: prettifier ?

2008-01-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Bertalan (etc.), What do you mean? Like this I *think* he means a "pretty-printer", like they have for HTML/XML, or Java, etc. -- a script that would automagically indent things "properly". Best regards, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing l

Re: prettifier ?

2008-01-16 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
It can be done with enscript. See this file: http://lily4jedit.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lily4jedit/trunk/LilyJHelp/makeModes.bsh?revision=305&view=markup&sortby=rev From the vim keywords it will automatically generate an enscript configuration file. AFAIK vim itself can be used to pretty p

Re: parenthesized phrase

2008-01-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
One solution is shown in http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=206 If you want a parenthesis instead of a bracket, you can make two \markup{...} commands that produce the desired left and right parenthesis (for example using \music-glyph and an appropriate font size setting) and replace the right

Re: prettifier ?

2008-01-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: It can be done with enscript. See this file: http://lily4jedit.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lily4jedit/trunk/LilyJHelp/makeModes.bsh?revision=305&view=markup&sortby=rev From the vim keywords it will automatically generate an enscript configuration file.

Re: parenthesized phrase

2008-01-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mats (et al.), If you want a parenthesis instead of a bracket, you can make two \markup{...} commands that produce the desired left and right parenthesis (for example using \music-glyph and an appropriate font size setting) and replace the right hand side of the settings \once\override B

Re: \tiny font in define-markup-function applied to list

2008-01-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Since you want it to apply to a horizontal line of markups, you have to use the #:line markup command: #(define-markup-command (mm layout props notetype beats) (string? string?) (interpret-markup layout props (markup #:tiny #:line ("(" #:raise 0.4 #:note notetype 1 "=" beats ")" )) )) /Mats

Re: signed trills

2008-01-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Ruth Roland wrote: Thank you. I did not know about convert-ly, but I will look up how to use it for next time. \override TrillSpanner #'bound-details #'left #'text = \markup{ \vcenter \musicglyph #"scripts.trill" \vcenter \teeny \flat } This works beautifully, but I could not figure out

Re: pitchedTrill with a chord?

2008-01-16 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/11, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi everybody, I have seen a few recent discussions about trillspanners or whatever, but unfortunately none answered the following (maybe silly) question: > In the following snippet, the trill can be interpreted as a > chord-trill; however, the

Re: Copyright symbol

2008-01-16 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Bonjour, Valentin, Yes, here is my file. I don't mind people seeing it (not my composition, and the composer is personally to me -- I simply Lilyponded his melody; words are public domain). Melody *is* copyright, and for use, you need to contact me. Copyright symbol goes in the \header section.

Re: [lilypond-user] Manual clarity question

2008-01-16 Thread Graham Percival
Are you reading the GDP docs? http://web.uvic.ca/~gperciva/ If you see this problem in there, please let me know. Please be specific -- does this occur in the LN, NR, etc. Cheers, - Graham On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:31:01 +0200 "Chuckk Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > p. 11 of the LP manual:

Re: Learning Manual PDF?

2008-01-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:55:02 - "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is available now in PDF format. Click on the Learning > Manual (LM) link on the development documentation page and > look at the top of the page which comes up. I don't know > why this is different for the LM.

Re: positioning of \revert

2008-01-16 Thread Graham Percival
The whole of NR 6 will be drastically changed (perhaps deleted entirely) when we get to it. At the current rate of progress, this will likely be August 2008. LM 4 Tweaks now contains most (all?) of the info in NR 6, and it is under active development. Please report any problems in that. Cheers,

Re: Copyright symbol

2008-01-16 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/16, Father Gordon Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Copyright symbol goes in the \header section. Currently, I have (c) in its > place -- I would rather have (c) -- esthetics only. The following line works here. copyright = "words: Public Domain; Music (c) 2008, Fr. Peter Donatelli" I

Re: \tiny font in define-markup-function applied to list

2008-01-16 Thread Paul Scott
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Since you want it to apply to a horizontal line of markups, you have to use the #:line markup command: That works for me! Thanks! The documentation seems to imply that "(" in Scheme is equivalent to "{" in Lily for markup. I can use \tiny{ ... } in Lily but not #:tiny{

spacers and multimeasure rests

2008-01-16 Thread Neil Thornock
Hello all, I'm trying to add some carefully-positioned markup above a multimeasure rest by attaching it to a spacer within the rest (s8^\markup {} R1*15/16*2). But the presence of the spacer alters the horizontal spacing routine of the multimeasure rest. Is there a way to convince the multimeasu

Re: \tiny font in define-markup-function applied to list

2008-01-16 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 16 janv. 08 à 19:45, Paul Scott a écrit : Mats Bengtsson wrote: Since you want it to apply to a horizontal line of markups, you have to use the #:line markup command: That works for me! Thanks! The documentation seems to imply that "(" in Scheme is equivalent to "{" in Lily for marku

Re: spacers and multimeasure rests

2008-01-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
What LilyPond version do you use? Some aspects of this problem have been fixed fairly recently and perhaps only in the development versions 2.11.x. /Mats Quoting Neil Thornock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello all, I'm trying to add some carefully-positioned markup above a multimeasure rest by

Automatic Piano Reduction with > 4 parts

2008-01-16 Thread Benedict Singer
Hi all, I'm working on a choral piece for SSATBB using 2.10, and would love to get an automatic piano reduction to go along with it. With 4 vocal parts this was no problem, but I'm not sure if it's possible in a clean way with 6. What I've been trying so far is essentially the following: right

horizontally centered rests

2008-01-16 Thread Tiago Morin
Hi lilyponders, I'd like to have the rest (r1 or r2 depending on \time 4/4 or 2/4) centered horizontally between the measure bars instead of the location where the (absence) of note should be (in the beginning of the measure). How to? regards Tiago _

Re: horizontally centered rests

2008-01-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello Tiago, I'd like to have the rest (r1 or r2 depending on \time 4/4 or 2/4) centered horizontally between the measure bars instead of the location where the (absence) of note should be (in the beginning of the measure). How to? R1 or R2; see the ample documentation on "Multi-measure Rests"

Re: Automatic Piano Reduction with > 4 parts

2008-01-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Unfortunately, the part combiner is very buggy in general and it's also very limited in scope, for example since it only can handle two voices. Have you tried to simply let your three lines of music appear in the same Voice context? This is far from a perfect solution, but can still work surpri

invisible barlines at breaks

2008-01-16 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi, I´ve got a little problem. When I write music, sometimes it is necessary to insert a break where there´s a special barline, e.g. if you have something like that: e4 e e e | e e e \bar "|:" e | e e e e | ... it would be nicer to insert a break at the "|:" barline. This works great by writing

Re: midi in windows

2008-01-16 Thread Shelagh Manton
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:22:20 +0100, Stefan Thomas wrote: > Sorry, > as far as I know, there is only a czech version. With trial and > error-method You can find the download-link. Helge Kruse schrieb am > 15.01.2008: >>Mats, >> >>The three words in Czech I know are not sufficient to read the page.

Re: GDP: addition for Rhythms?

2008-01-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:16:12 -0800 (PST) till <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just read a bit further in the GDP and saw this example about > polymetric music where each note has still the same duration, so the > barlines won't be on the same vertical position. Because Lilypond > can't count the ba

Re: Copyright symbol

2008-01-16 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Valentin, you are a genius! 2.11.37 managed to print the proper copyright symbol (the c within a circle) instead of the makeshift one (c), so now I'm completely happy! Thanks again, Gordon+ On 16/01/2008, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2008/1/16, Father Gordon Gilbert <[EMAIL

color and size of rest

2008-01-16 Thread Zoltan Kota
Hi, How could I change the color and size of rests? Please see the lower part of the attached screenshot. Zoltan <>___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user