Re: GDP: info about controlling direciton / placement

2008-02-15 Thread Nicholas WASTELL
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:25 -0800 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2) Add one sentence with a link to a central place which > discusses directions. This gets my vote. A much reduced risk of the reader skimming through a couple of paragraphs and missing some point about the primary

Re: Showing instrument name and correct clef with cue notes

2008-02-15 Thread Simon Bailey
hi reinhold, On Feb 11, 2008, at 11:57 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: Is it possible to show the instrument together with the quoted cue notes? Unfortunately, I can't modify either the quoting, nor the quoted music (since I generate other scores from the them too, where the cue notes are re

RE: info about controlling direciton / placement

2008-02-15 Thread Trevor Daniels
I'd go with (2). Good idea. It permits a better explanation of the general concept of 'direction (up, center, down, left, right and the uses of numerical values) and the various commands which use it (\..up, \..down, \..neutral). I'd support this as a general principle for (some) other properti

Re: fermata and text (markup) on/above one note

2008-02-15 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/2/15, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > To understand why, you have to understand what the default setting > of DynamicLineSpanner #'Y-extent does, namely to calculate the actual > extent of the included dynamics indications. Then, once this has done, > the placement of the full Dynami

Re: Second attempt - Chord gis ais b dis - getting its proper name

2008-02-15 Thread Thies Albrecht
Hi list! Brett Duncan schrieb: As far as I know this is called a G#-minor-add9, not add2. Perhaps this can give the clue. (I'm not sure whether this nomenclatur is still right for minor chords, but at least I makes sense to me.) Well, if the chord is structured from bottom to top as Tomas has

Re: Second attempt - Chord gis ais b dis - getting its proper name

2008-02-15 Thread Brett Duncan
Hi Thies, Thies Albrecht wrote: Hi list! Brett Duncan schrieb: As far as I know this is called a G#-minor-add9, not add2. Perhaps this can give the clue. (I'm not sure whether this nomenclatur is still right for minor chords, but at least I makes sense to me.) Well, if the chord is structur

Re: fermata and text (markup) on/above one note

2008-02-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Valentin Villenave wrote: 2008/2/15, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: To understand why, you have to understand what the default setting of DynamicLineSpanner #'Y-extent does, namely to calculate the actual extent of the included dynamics indications. Then, once this has done, the pl

Re: Showing instrument name and correct clef with cue notes

2008-02-15 Thread Simon Bailey
hi, i remembered that there was an instrumentCueName property defined at some point, and have extended the solution a bit more. On Feb 15, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Simon Bailey wrote: <<< tec = { \once \override Staff.Clef #'font-size = #-3 \clef tenor } bc = { \once \override Staff.Clef #'font-size

Re: GDP: info about controlling direciton / placement

2008-02-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
In general, I'm in favour of 2) and I just learned that you can use ^ and _ also for ties (and that ^[ and _[ is allowed syntax but doesn't do anything else than [ ). /Mats Graham Percival wrote: GDP page: http://web.uvic.ca/~gperciva/ About half the subsections in NR 1 and 2 are about mater

Re: Second attempt - Chord gis ais b dis - getting its proper name

2008-02-15 Thread Thies Albrecht
Hi Brett, hi list! We agree on the point that Tomas has to "roll his own" like you call it as long as he wants lily to display G#-minor-add2. And just to stop a debatte before it comes up: I understand your point an add2-chord being a different voicing than an add9-chord. I asked a musician

Re: fermata and text (markup) on/above one note

2008-02-15 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/2/15, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Since the forte symbols are slightly cut at the bottom of the snippet, the > lower extent setting of -1 should probably be changed to something like > -1.5. > > You don't mention the TextScript objects in the explanation. For example, > you coul

Re: fermata and text (markup) on/above one note

2008-02-15 Thread Trevor Bača
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Trevor Ba?a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > At the risk of belaboring the point, I'm having trouble understanding > *why* > > this works. Here's an absolutely minimal example: > > > > > > %%% TURNING ON Y-EXTENT %%% >

Re: fermata and text (markup) on/above one note

2008-02-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Trevor Bača wrote: To understand why, you have to understand what the default setting of DynamicLineSpanner #'Y-extent does, namely to calculate the actual extent of the included dynamics indications. Then, once this has done, the placement of the full DynamicLineSpanner is det

Re: fermata and text (markup) on/above one note

2008-02-15 Thread Trevor Bača
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Trevor Bača wrote: > > > > To understand why, you have to understand what the default setting > > of DynamicLineSpanner #'Y-extent does, namely to calculate the > actual > > extent of the included dynamics

Re: fermata and text (markup) on/above one note

2008-02-15 Thread Valentin Villenave
Mats, one more detail: 2008/2/15, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This is the reason that I specified minimum-Y-extent instead of Y-extent > for the > TextScript objects in a previous example. However, for some reason I didn't > manage to get good results when I replaced Y-extent by mini

Re: ANN: LilyKDE, tool to work with LilyPond in KDE

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Black
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:39:11AM +0100, Wilbert Berendsen wrote: > Hi, > > I just released version 0.3 of my shiny new lil' pet project: LilyKDE. > It combines the power of KDE, Kate and KPDF to make editing LilyPond files in > KDE easier. If you use KDE you might like it: http://lilykde.google

Fermata

2008-02-15 Thread Victoria
Is there a way to do a fermata? I've spent upwards of 2 hours looking in the tutorial and just can't find it, if it's there. If not, can you make one? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypon

Re: Fermata

2008-02-15 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Freitag, 15. Februar 2008 schrieb Victoria: > Is there a way to do a fermata? I've spent upwards of 2 hours looking in > the tutorial and just can't find it, if it's there. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Articulations Cheers, Reinhold -- -

Re: info about controlling direciton / placement

2008-02-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:18:52 - "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd go with (2). Good idea. It permits a better > explanation of the general concept of 'direction (up, > center, down, left, right and the uses of numerical values) > and the various commands which use it (\..up, \

Re: GDP: info about controlling direciton / placement

2008-02-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:09:38 +0100 Nicholas WASTELL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the explanatory section linked from your example, you (I guess > it's you) say, 'Maybe rename section to "directions".' I think > 'Directions' is far too uninformative. 'Controlling direction' as a > minimum, or p

Re: Fermata

2008-02-15 Thread Mark Knoop
Victoria wrote: Is there a way to do a fermata? I've spent upwards of 2 hours looking in the tutorial and just can't find it, if it's there. If not, can you make one? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Articulations-and-ornamentations -- Mark Knoop __

Re: Showing instrument name and correct clef with cue notes

2008-02-15 Thread Simon Bailey
hi, i remembered that there was an instrumentCueName property defined at some point, and have extended the solution a bit more. On Feb 15, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Simon Bailey wrote: <<< tec = { \once \override Staff.Clef #'font-size = #-3 \clef tenor } bc = { \once \override Staff.Clef #'font-size =

Re: Showing instrument name and correct clef with cue notes

2008-02-15 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 15. Februar 2008 schrieb Simon Bailey: > i remembered that there was an instrumentCueName property defined at > some point, and have extended the solution a bit more. Thanks! I also found the instrumentCueName in an LSR example, but since

Re: Showing instrument name and correct clef with cue notes

2008-02-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:05:28 +0100 Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PS2: Is there anything that resets a property, that was changed by > \set ? Just like \revert undoes the last \override. Umm, \unset ? Please see the GDP Learning Manual. It's in there somewhere. Cheers, - Graha

Re: Showing instrument name and correct clef with cue notes

2008-02-15 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/2/15, Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Also, a simple example shows that \unset really removes the value, not reset > it to the value before the previous \set. See the attached file. If \unset > undid the last \set, the third name would get the InstrumentSwitch > text "Original".

Re: Showing instrument name and correct clef with cue notes

2008-02-15 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Freitag, 15. Februar 2008 schrieben Sie: > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:05:28 +0100 > > Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PS2: Is there anything that resets a property, that was changed by > > \set ? Just like \revert undoes the last \override. > > Umm, \unset ? Please see the GDP Lea

Re: LilyKDE, tool to work with LilyPond in KDE - problems with kpdf

2008-02-15 Thread Francesco Guglie
Alle giovedì 14 febbraio 2008, Wilbert Berendsen ha scritto: > Op donderdag 14 februari 2008, schreef Larry Kent: > > The site says if you want to preview pdf files, you need KPDF, but > > there's no button (that I can see) for downloading that.  What am I > > missing? -LK > > KPDF is part of KDE (

Bug with grace notes and repeat voltas?

2008-02-15 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Hello everyone, I've discovered what I think is a bug in 2.10.25. Apologies if this has been fixed in more recent versions but a Google search didn't raise any awareness of the issue. Here's the problem. Suppose I have a repeat volta set up with alternative end bars: \repeat volta 2 {

Problems with several parts, movements

2008-02-15 Thread Ben Lewis
I've been typesetting a Telemann concerto for a baroque ensemble that I play in, and I've been having difficulties with actually producing more than one part from the same file (I need to input Violin 1,2 and Viola parts, since we only have hand-written ones.) My other problem comes from the fac