Re: Old LilyPond versions

2008-04-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/4/8 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 17:37:16 +0200 > "Valentin Villenave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thank you very much for these comments. I do think we need to talk > > more about this issue. > > No, we most certainly do *not* need to bloody talk about th

Re: OOoLilypond instilation problems and coding help

2008-04-09 Thread Trevor Daniels
Hi Levi You have taken this example from a section of the manual which has not been updated recently, and I can see why it might be confusing - if you remove the two statements which create the Voice contexts the example still works perfectly in the more recent versions of the LilyPond. If yo

Re: OOoLilypond instilation problems and coding help

2008-04-09 Thread Trevor Daniels
Thanks again, Mats. Actually, I did try it myself, and was fooled into thinking it worked by not reading the error messages and just looking at the pdf output. I'd carelessly left the pdf open from the previous run with the \new DrumVoice statements in, so it wasn't changed and when I opened

Re: OOoLilypond instilation problems and coding help

2008-04-09 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Trevor Daniels wrote: Hi Levi You have taken this example from a section of the manual which has not been updated recently, and I can see why it might be confusing - if you remove the two statements which create the Voice contexts the example still works perfectly in the more recent version

Re: Colored hairpins?

2008-04-09 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Trevor Daniels wrote: Tim Reeves wrote Well, it helps some, but why do I get an error when I try the same thing with hairpins? error: syntax error, unexpected EVENT_IDENTIFIER r4 d4 \p d d | \repeat "unfold" 4 {d1~} | d1 \once \override Hairpin #'color = #blue \cr | d1 |

Re: Colored hairpins?

2008-04-09 Thread Trevor Daniels
Tim Reeves wrote Well, it helps some, but why do I get an error when I try the same thing with hairpins? error: syntax error, unexpected EVENT_IDENTIFIER r4 d4 \p d d | \repeat "unfold" 4 {d1~} | d1 \once \override Hairpin #'color = #blue \cr | d1 | d1 \f The error is due

Re: Old LilyPond versions

2008-04-09 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Graham Percival wrote: On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:21:36 +0200 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Quoting Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 2) it would of course be nice to automate this. At the moment, I can't see why this would take more than five hours. Maybe 15 hours if t

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 65, Issue 34

2008-04-09 Thread Trevor Daniels
Till Rettig wrote I don't know, what these slurs mean, I came up with the following editiorial items: 1. annotational accidentals 2. ligature brackets [I think they should be here, and not together with the ligatures] 3. Barock rhythm indication 1 is the same as 6.1, maybe 2 is the same as 6.

combining parts

2008-04-09 Thread James E. Bailey
Is it possible to combine four parts into two voices on one staff, ideally with one voice stems up and the other voice stems down? I've gotten as far as two voices combined into one voice with stems in the direction I want, but every time I add the other voice, I either lose the two voice c

Re: cannot find lilypond icon on my desktop after installation (window xp)

2008-04-09 Thread MING TSANG
Hi, all: My objective is to use .abc text file with Chinese character lyrics as input so that I can obtain music sheet with Chinese lyrics printed / displayed. I search the internet, theere is a chinese.tcl a TCL script. I do not know TCL. I read from Lilypond web page that it is able to to di

Re: Metronome marks

2008-04-09 Thread Ole Schmidt
Hi Matthias, see the snippet below, there is also a snippet in the lsr, but I can't find it... \version "2.10.15" \new Staff { \time 4/4 \override Staff.TimeSignature #'style = #'() \relative c'{ c4^\markup { { \score {\new Staff \with { \remove "Time_signature_engraver" \remove "Clef_e

Re: convert text encodings (was: Old LilyPond versions)

2008-04-09 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-08 um 20:28 schrieb Graham Percival: You're talking about the old LaTeX accents -> utf-8 ? Manual conversion is necessary with current convert-ly. I can think of three ways to automate it. They're all kind-of hackish, but they'd work in theory. It just needs somebody to translate t

Parentheses around a ChordName and unending LyricExtenders

2008-04-09 Thread Christopher Johnson
Salutations, y'all! I have two questions. How do I put parentheses around a ChordName grob generated from a \new ChordNames { } staff? I'm typesetting some of my cousin's compositions for her and she insists this is very important. The only thing that I've found that comes close to doi

Re: combining parts

2008-04-09 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The simplest solution is ErsteStimme = { c''8 b' b' a' g' g' f' e' } ZweiteStimme = { a'8 a' g' f' f' e' d' c' } DritteStimme = { e'8 f' c' d' e' e' b a } VierteStimme = { c'8 d' a b c' b g f } \score { \new Staff << \new Voice <<\voiceOne \ErsteStimme \ZweiteStimme>> \new Voice <<\voiceTw

Lilypond + Python + Mac

2008-04-09 Thread Lepsinasse
Hello I've been using lilypond for a while now, but I do have some problems with my mac version. Everything was just fine until I install and uninstall apple developper utilities. Now, when I launch lilypond, an error message pops up telling me that lilypond finds no module named "os". I thought t

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 65, Issue 34

2008-04-09 Thread Karl Hammar
Trevor: ... > OK, draft 8 will say: > >.6 Editorial markings > .1 Annotational accidentals (was Musica ficta accidentals) > (2.8.4) > .2 Ligature brackets (was Ligatures) > (2.8.2.4) I don't regard ligature brackets as an editorial thing, since it is just the modern

Re: combining parts

2008-04-09 Thread James E. Bailey
My gosh, thank you. You have no idea how long I tried to get that to work. And I'm perfectly happy with \remove Rest_engraver. On 09.04.2008, at 15:23, Mats Bengtsson wrote: The simplest solution is ErsteStimme = { c''8 b' b' a' g' g' f' e' } ZweiteStimme = { a'8 a' g' f' f' e' d' c' } DritteS

Re: Parentheses around a ChordName and unending LyricExtenders

2008-04-09 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Christopher Johnson wrote: Salutations, y'all! I have two questions. How do I put parentheses around a ChordName grob generated from a \new ChordNames { } staff? I'm typesetting some of my cousin's compositions for her and she insists this is very important. The only thing that I've fo

Number over the percent repeat?

2008-04-09 Thread Stan Mulder
In a percent repeat, can I get the number of measures to be repeated over the double percent sign? \time 4/4 \repeat percent 2 { d8 f4 d8 e4 e | d2 csharp } ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lil

Re: Number over the percent repeat?

2008-04-09 Thread Graham Percival
It's the second example in the 2.11 docs. Cheers, - Graham On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 14:36:06 + (UTC) Stan Mulder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a percent repeat, can I get the number of measures to be repeated > over the double percent sign? > > \time 4/4 > \repeat percent 2 { d8 f4 d8 e4 e | d2

Re: Parentheses around a ChordName and unending LyricExtenders

2008-04-09 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 9. April 2008 schrieb Mats Bengtsson: > Christopher Johnson wrote: > > Salutations, y'all! > > > > I have two questions. > > > > How do I put parentheses around a ChordName grob generated from a \new > > ChordNames { } staff? I'm typese

Re: Number over the percent repeat?

2008-04-09 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Graham Percival wrote: It's the second example in the 2.11 docs. As I interpreted the question, Stan wants to typeset a "2" over the double percent in \repeat percent 2 { d8 f4 d8 e4 e | d2 csharp } and a "4" in \repeat percent 2 { c1 | d | e | f | } /Mats Cheers, - Graham On Wed, 9 A

Re: combining parts

2008-04-09 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 9. April 2008 schrieb James E. Bailey: > My gosh, thank you. You have no idea how long I tried to get that to   > work. And I'm perfectly happy with \remove Rest_engraver. Doesn't the rest collision work in this case, too? http://lsr.dsi

Re: Number over the percent repeat?

2008-04-09 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Mittwoch, 9. April 2008 schrieb Graham Percival: > Stan Mulder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In a percent repeat, can I get the number of measures to be repeated > > over the double percent sign? > It's the second example in the 2.11 docs. While we are at it: Is there something similar for lon

Re: Old LilyPond versions

2008-04-09 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2008/4/8, Laura Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Graham> - a certain grumpy doc writer points out that if you read the > Graham> instructions in > Graham> LM 5.1 Suggestions for writing LilyPond files > Graham> then you can avoid almost all these problems. > > The grumpy doc wr

Re: Parentheses around a ChordName and unending LyricExtenders

2008-04-09 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: However, note that with the upcoming LilyPond version 2.11.44, you will be able to use \parenthesize f:sus4 Yes, but notice that the parenthesis is way too small for my taste. The parenthesis is the right size for note heads and accidentals, but not for o

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 65, Issue 34

2008-04-09 Thread Till Rettig
Trevor Daniels schrieb: OK, draft 8 will say: .6 Editorial markings .1 Annotational accidentals (was Musica ficta accidentals) (2.8.4) .2 Ligature brackets (was Ligatures) (2.8.2.4) .3 Baroque rhythmic notation (new) (new - KH) Ok, so as I understand in 8.

Re: Number over the percent repeat?

2008-04-09 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: Am Mittwoch, 9. April 2008 schrieb Graham Percival: Stan Mulder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In a percent repeat, can I get the number of measures to be repeated over the double percent sign? It's the second example in the 2.11 docs. While we are

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 65, Issue 34

2008-04-09 Thread Till Rettig
Trevor Daniels schrieb: OK, draft 8 will say: .6 Editorial markings .1 Annotational accidentals (was Musica ficta accidentals) (2.8.4) .2 Ligature brackets (was Ligatures) (2.8.2.4) .3 Baroque rhythmic notation (new) Karl: We don't have lilypond examples of this

Re: Number over the percent repeat?

2008-04-09 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Mittwoch, 9. April 2008 schrieben Sie: > Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 9. April 2008 schrieb Graham Percival: > >> Stan Mulder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> In a percent repeat, can I get the number of measures to be repeated > >>> over the double percent sign? > >> > >> It's the

Re: combining parts

2008-04-09 Thread James E. Bailey
On 09.04.2008, at 16:53, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 9. April 2008 schrieb James E. Bailey: My gosh, thank you. You have no idea how long I tried to get that to work. And I'm perfectly happy with \remove Rest_engraver. Doesn't the res

Re: combining parts

2008-04-09 Thread James E. Bailey
is there anything similar to \partcombine but at the voice level? I think that would give me an acceptable solution. Or can I move \partcombine to a voice context? On 09.04.2008, at 15:23, Mats Bengtsson wrote: The simplest solution is ErsteStimme = { c''8 b' b' a' g' g' f' e' } ZweiteStimme

GDP: NR 2 Draft 8 (hopefully the final one!)

2008-04-09 Thread Trevor Daniels
The latest draft for the revision of the headings to NR 2 is attached. There are relatively few changes since Draft 7, and these are all at the end of the Ancient notation section, so this is (hopefully) the final draft, as I shall close off discussion at the end of today (Wed 9 Apr). I deci

constructing a jazz piece

2008-04-09 Thread Stan Mulder
In constructing a small combo piece, I'm not sure how to modularize individual parts. For example, notes are specific to a certain instrument whereas a segno or coda is common to all parts. I'm confused as to where these things get inserted. For example, Do I put the coda symbol in each of the

Re: constructing a jazz piece

2008-04-09 Thread David Bobroff
Stan Mulder wrote: In constructing a small combo piece, I'm not sure how to modularize individual parts. For example, notes are specific to a certain instrument whereas a segno or coda is common to all parts. I'm confused as to where these things get inserted. For example, Do I put the cod

Re: Number over the percent repeat?

2008-04-09 Thread Stan Mulder
Mats Bengtsson ee.kth.se> writes: > As I interpreted the question, Stan wants to typeset a "2" over the > double percent in > \repeat percent 2 { d8 f4 d8 e4 e | d2 csharp } > and a "4" in > \repeat percent 2 { c1 | d | e | f | } Exactly. Is this possible? ___

Re: constructing a jazz piece

2008-04-09 Thread Stan Mulder
David Bobroff centrum.is> writes: > What I do is to put road-map stuff (key changes, time changes, repeats, > segnos etc.) in a 'global' block. Then I combine that with parts for > the individual part scores, and with the top staff in the main score. David, Is there an example somewhere? St

Re: constructing a jazz piece

2008-04-09 Thread David Bobroff
Stan Mulder wrote: David Bobroff centrum.is> writes: What I do is to put road-map stuff (key changes, time changes, repeats, segnos etc.) in a 'global' block. Then I combine that with parts for the individual part scores, and with the top staff in the main score. David, Is there an exampl

Re: Colored hairpins?

2008-04-09 Thread Tim Reeves
Thanks all, I figured out last night where to put the overrides to make them work. r4 d4 \p d d \repeat "unfold" 3 {d1~} \once \override Hairpin #'color = #blue d1 \< d1 d1 d1 \once \override DynamicText #'color = #blue d4 \f d d d \p d \once \override DynamicTextSpanner

Re: constructing a jazz piece

2008-04-09 Thread Shamus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stan Mulder wrote: | In constructing a small combo piece, I'm not sure how to modularize individual | parts. | | For example, notes are specific to a certain instrument whereas a segno | or coda is common to all parts. I've been wondering this myself

Re: constructing a jazz piece

2008-04-09 Thread Stan Mulder
David Bobroff centrum.is> writes: > You can put all sorts of things in the 'global' block like rehearsal > marks, too. I get it now. Thanks. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Making chord text substitutions globally

2008-04-09 Thread Shamus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I was wondering if there is a way to make my customized chord list take over by simply including the external .ly file--the same way you can override the default note names by including the appropriate file. As it is now, I have to explicitly

Re: constructing a jazz piece

2008-04-09 Thread Shamus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for that David. I've been doing this to separate out dynamic markings, but I didn't know you could do the same with voltas and the like. /me goes off to try it - -- Shamus David Bobroff wrote: | Don't know if there's a simple example in the

RE: Number over the percent repeat?

2008-04-09 Thread Steven Weber
This has been on the list before (or maybe the LSR) since I know I didn't come up with it myself, but here's how I do it: << { \repeat volta 5 { c1 ~ } c1 } \new Voice { \set countPercentRepeats = ##t \

Re: combining parts

2008-04-09 Thread Mats Bengtsson
\partcombine will indeed produce Voice contexts. The reason that you get problems is that the names of these Voice contexts is hard-coded, which means that the results of your two \partcombine commands end up in one and the same Voice context (since the name is the same). This is just one of many

Re: combining parts

2008-04-09 Thread James E. Bailey
Yeah, I got as far as: ErsteStimme = { r2 c''4 d'' g'8 g' g'4 fis' g'4} ZweiteStimme = { g'4 a' r2 e'8 e' d'2 c'4 } DritteStimme = { r2 fis''4 g'' g'8 g' g'4 fis' g'4 } VierteStimme = {c'4 c' r2 e'8 e' d'2 c'4 } \score { \new Staff << \set Staff.printPartCombineTexts = ##f \new Voice \w

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 65, Issue 34

2008-04-09 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:47:58 +0300 Till Rettig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually Graham has pronounced that we should not have a > task-orientated structure, but just tell about the issues not > referring to the context they are used to. But maybe it is still ok > in this case. Ancient music

Re: convert text encodings (was: Old LilyPond versions)

2008-04-09 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-08 um 23:24 schrieb Graham Percival: You're talking about the old LaTeX accents -> utf-8 ? Manual conversion is necessary with current convert-ly. I can think of three ways to automate it. They're all kind-of hackish, but they'd work in theory. It just needs somebody to translate t

Re: Colored hairpins?

2008-04-09 Thread Trevor Daniels
Tim Reeves wrote My last question is where to put the variable definition blueDyn = \once \override Hairpin #'color = #blue When I put it at the top of the file, it gives errors: Parsing... c:/Program Files/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/ly/english.ly:15:0: error: syntax error, unexpecte

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 65, Issue 34

2008-04-09 Thread Karl Hammar
Till: > Trevor Daniels schrieb: ... > > .3 Baroque rhythmic notation (new) > Karl: > > We don't have lilypond examples of this. I have seen this in a Novello > score for Purcells Dido. So I suggest we drop this for the moment. > (Though an ossia section might show what the editor want.) > >

Re: GDP: NR 2 Draft 8 (hopefully the final one!)

2008-04-09 Thread Karl Hammar
Trevor: > The latest draft for the revision of the headings to NR 2 is attached. ... > changes have been made and text has been reassigned. For now the discussion > on Ancient notation is Closed, with thanks again to Karl and Till. Ok with me. Regards, /Karl ___

Re: Rotating/grouping grobs for microtonal accidentals

2008-04-09 Thread Torsten Anders
Dear Graham, thanks for your reply and sorry for the delay. On Apr 3, 2008, at 7:17 PM, Graham Percival wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 19:08:06 +0100 Torsten Anders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: thank you for your kind reply and sorry for my late response. The example you provided does indeed work ni

Re: Colored hairpins?

2008-04-09 Thread Tim Reeves
That was it. I had braces around the variable definition that caused the errors. So that means that "{" means music input to Lilypond... I learn most of this stuff by examples and by trial and error. Sometimes the errors are so many that the trials are plentiful and still not sufficient! Than

Re: constructing a jazz piece

2008-04-09 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Stan" == Stan Mulder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stan> David Bobroff centrum.is> writes: >> What I do is to put road-map stuff (key changes, time changes, >> repeats, segnos etc.) in a 'global' block. Then I combine that >> with parts for the individual part scores, and with the top staff

shortInstrumentName help

2008-04-09 Thread Stan Mulder
I'm want my score to have short instrument names. What I've got is not working. Apparently I need to separate the trumpet and clarinet contexts but I'm not sure how to do that. \book { \score { << \new StaffGroup = "horns" <<

Re: constructing a jazz piece

2008-04-09 Thread Shamus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shamus wrote: | Thanks for that David. I've been doing this to separate out dynamic | markings, but I didn't know you could do the same with voltas and the like. | | /me goes off to try it Wow! Works like a charm! This is not only going to save me lo

Chord dictionary

2008-04-09 Thread Shamus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I like the fretboard diagram functionality, but I was thinking instead of putting them into the score that I could put them all at the beginning of the score as a sort of chord dictionary that I could then refer to in the actual score using a

Re: shortInstrumentName help

2008-04-09 Thread Frédéric Moinard
Hi, Stan Mulder a écrit : I'm want my score to have short instrument names. What I've got is not working. Apparently I need to separate the trumpet and clarinet contexts but I'm not sure how to do that. \book { \score { << \new StaffGroup = "horns" <<

Re: constructing a jazz piece

2008-04-09 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Shamus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | Thanks for that David. I've been doing this to separate out dynamic | markings, but I didn't know you could do the same with voltas and the like. | | /me goes off to try it Wow! Works like a charm! This is not only going to save me lots of time, but what's

Re: shortInstrumentName help

2008-04-09 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You have to tell LilyPond what belongs together, using curly brackets. One way to think of it is that within each Staff, you first specify the instrument name, then typeset the music: \new Staff = "trumpet" \transpose c c { \set Staff.shortInstrumentName = "Tpt " \trumpet } /Mats Quoting

White Baroque notation (was: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 65, Issue 34)

2008-04-09 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2008/04/09 3:45 PM, "Karl Hammar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Trevor Daniels schrieb: > ... >>> .3 Baroque rhythmic notation (new) >> Karl: >> >> We don't have lilypond examples of this. I have seen this in a Novello >> score for Purcells Dido. So I suggest we drop this for the moment. >

Re: braces in the lyrics

2008-04-09 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op dinsdag 8 april 2008, schreef Timothy C Litwiller: > How would I go about laying this out. I have the notes and a lyrics line > defined for each line of lyrics liuke they are six verses  but every > other line doesn't have a set stanza with a number in it. Try putting the brace in the stanza nu