Re: Metronome marks

2008-04-10 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
On 08/04/2008, Trevor Daniels wrote: > It's possible (most things are in LilyPond) but it's not easy (at least I > don't know an easy way). Essentially you have to create a tiny score > without a staff, etc. Have a look at > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=204 > This should give you some

Re: Learning Music

2008-04-10 Thread James E. Bailey
\midi {} in your \score {} block is probably the fastest way. Am 10.04.2008 um 11:22 schrieb Eric Beaty: I've recently been studying how to read music though I've played music by ear for many years. I downloaded LilyPond but I need a way to test/hear what I've created to make sure I'm writin

Learning Music

2008-04-10 Thread Eric Beaty
I've recently been studying how to read music though I've played music by ear for many years. I downloaded LilyPond but I need a way to test/hear what I've created to make sure I'm writing it correctly. Unfortunately, the free graphical interface programs you list are for Linux only and I used Wi

Re: Snippet 204 for 2.11 (was Metronome marks)

2008-04-10 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Dear Trevor and Valentin, On 10/04/2008, Trevor Daniels wrote: > Attached is a version of snippet 204 that works better with 2.11. I did > this some time ago, but forgot to send it. It's still not quite perfect, > though. I've annotated the extra statements with % td and commented out > those

Snippet 204 for 2.11 (was Metronome marks)

2008-04-10 Thread Trevor Daniels
Valentin Attached is a version of snippet 204 that works better with 2.11. I did this some time ago, but forgot to send it. It's still not quite perfect, though. I've annotated the extra statements with % td and commented out those that need to be removed in case anyone wishes to see the ch

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

2008-04-10 Thread Damian leGassick
i think you need: \override NoteHead #'duration-log = #1 d On 10 Apr 2008, at 05:47, Kurt Kroon wrote: 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

Building Lilypond for Leopard (calling Nicholas Sceaux)

2008-04-10 Thread Sven Axelsson
I just went over to Nicholas Sceaux's excellent site and found some information on how to build Lilypond for Mac OS 10.5 Intel. It almost works. Please, Nicholas, do you have further hints on this since you are obviously succeeding? I installed all the required packages from Macports and ran make.

Re: Learning Music

2008-04-10 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
For this purpose I would recommend Finale Notepad that is available for free download from Finale Co.-s website. Bert Eric Beaty wrote: I've recently been studying how to read music though I've played music by ear for many years. I downloaded LilyPond but I need a way to test/hear what I've c

Re: Chord dictionary

2008-04-10 Thread René Brandenburger
Hi, I do it the following way: \markup \center-align {C \fret-diagram #"s:0.75;6-x;5-3;4-2;3-o;2-1;1-o;"} best regards rene Am Mittwoch, den 09.04.2008, 21:59 -0500 schrieb Shamus: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > I like the fretboard diagram functionality,

Re: shortInstrumentName help

2008-04-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Stan (et al.): In the spirit of separating content from presentation, you should also consider the \with{} construct: \new Staff = "trumpet" \with { shortInstrumentName = "Tpt " } \transpose c c { \trumpet } Hope this helps! Kieren. __

Re: Snippet 204 for 2.11 (was Metronome marks)

2008-04-10 Thread Trevor Daniels
Of course not! That's fine. Thanks Risto. Trevor D - Original Message - From: "Risto Vääräniemi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Valentin Villenave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Matthias Loitsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:12 A

Re: Chord dictionary

2008-04-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I would propose to add the chord dictionary as a separate "score" or "Text markup" or whatever, before the main score. One way to obtain such a dictionary is outlined in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-06/msg00414.html Note however that that answer was written before the FretB

Re: Old LilyPond versions

2008-04-10 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Han-Wen" == Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Han-Wen> It's probably not in the manual, but if you want to be double-plus Han-Wen> sure that you don't get hit by this again, I recommend to use explicit Han-Wen> durations for lyrics, like Han-Wen> \lyricmode {

vim

2008-04-10 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear lilypond-users, I have a question concerning vim. I've read that there is a special vimrc available. But where can I get or find it? And I've also read that I have to add to the file " ~/.vim/filetype.vim " the message if exists("did_load_filetypes") finish endif augroup

Re: Building Lilypond for Leopard (calling Nicholas Sceaux)

2008-04-10 Thread Sven Axelsson
On 10/04/2008, Sven Axelsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just went over to Nicholas Sceaux's excellent site and found some > information on how to build Lilypond for Mac OS 10.5 Intel. It almost > works. Please, Nicholas, do you have further hints on this since you > are obviously succeeding?

Re:vim

2008-04-10 Thread Romel Anthony S. Bismonte
Hi Stefan. "~" means your home directory. In a Linux shell, typing "cd ~" will take you to your home directory (which is something like /home/yourusername or something; I used Ubuntu). You can look there for the .vim folder. In Windows XP the home directory is usually C:\Documents and Settings

Re: Learning Music

2008-04-10 Thread Frédéric Moinard
Hi, Eric Beaty a écrit : I've recently been studying how to read music though I've played music by ear for many years. I downloaded LilyPond but I need a way to test/hear what I've created to make sure I'm writing it correctly. Unfortunately, the free graphical interface programs you list are

Re: Building Lilypond for Leopard (calling Nicholas Sceaux)

2008-04-10 Thread Sven Axelsson
On 10/04/2008, Ivo Bouwmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Sven, > > > > Answering my own question - putting the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH in > > .bash_login as well as in .profile solved the problem for me. W00t!!11 > > I have a fast Lilypond again. Joy! > > > > Do I get it right that you managed to

Re: Snippet 204 for 2.11 (was Metronome marks)

2008-04-10 Thread Matthias Loitsch
Thank you all! That did the job... But I'm surprised that this is not a standard feature... Changing rhythm like that, is a very common request in my opinion, and should be as easy as \tempo 120. But I also now: It's an open source project, I shouldn't complain but do something about it :) Tha

Re: Building Lilypond for Leopard (calling Nicholas Sceaux)

2008-04-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/4/10 Sven Axelsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I can't really package the binaries - this build is only for the > command line stuff, and the files are left in place in the Lilypond > source folder, so I don't know what happens (and I don't want to try) > if you move them. AFAIK There's also a wa

Re: learning music

2008-04-10 Thread Tim Reeves
Eric, I'm not sure why Bertalan is steering you away from Lilypond, though it may do much more than you need at this time. As James said, if you add a \midi {} in your .ly file, Lilypond will generate a midi file that you can play back in Windows Media Player or whatever program you choose

Re: Building Lilypond for Leopard (calling Nicholas Sceaux)

2008-04-10 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 10 avr. 08 à 19:18, Sven Axelsson a écrit : There are a few minor quips in Nicholas writeup. These are the changes I made: 2. the command chmod +755 ~/bin/lily-configure should be chmod 755 ~/bin/lily-configure. oops, that was a mix of chmod +x and chmod 755. nicolas __

Re: shortInstrumentName help

2008-04-10 Thread Stan Mulder
I wanted to thank everybody for the help. I had it all mixed up. The shortInstrumentName must come before the \trumpet part, etc. otherwise it won't work. I forgot to group with curly braces as well. This worked like a charm though: \book { \score { << \new Staff

Problem with lilypond-book after upgrading to 2.11.43-2

2008-04-10 Thread René Brandenburger
Hi list, after upgrading from 2.11.35 to 2.11.43-2, my call to lilypond-book does not work anymore. I used to call lilypond-book the following way: lilypond-book --pdf --include=BookIn --include=. --output=BookOut SongBook.tex and it always worked fine, but after the upgrade, I get the followi

Re: Snippet 204 for 2.11 (was Metronome marks)

2008-04-10 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 10. April 2008 schrieb Matthias Loitsch: > Thank you all! That did the job... > > But I'm surprised that this is not a standard feature... Changing rhythm > like that, is a very common request in my opinion, and should be as easy as > \t

Re: braces in the lyrics

2008-04-10 Thread Timothy C Litwiller
Wilbert Berendsen wrote: Op dinsdag 8 april 2008, schreef Timothy C Litwiller: .. other line doesn't have a set stanza with a number in it. Try putting the brace in the stanza number, and move the (big) brace down somewhat using some markup commands (fontsize, raise, or translate, etc

volta repeat challenge

2008-04-10 Thread Stan Mulder
I want to repeat a 16 bar comping section. I can get it to write the slash marks, but the repeat symbols won't show up. I'm using the "comp" macro found at lilypond.org (I think) which writes the slash marks. I can post that if necessary. \repeat volta 2 { << \comp #64

Extracting only lyrics and chords

2008-04-10 Thread Brett Duncan
I have a lily file that contains a vocal line (melody), lyrics, chords and piano part. My output from this file is the piano part with centred lyrics, and a separate lead sheet showing chords, melody and lyrics. All of this is OK. But I now have a guitarist who wants only the chords (with bar

Re: Snippet 204 for 2.11 (was Metronome marks)

2008-04-10 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
On 10/04/2008, Matthias Loitsch wrote: > But I'm surprised that this is not a standard feature... Changing rhythm like > that, is a very common request in my opinion, and should be as easy as > \tempo 120. Yes. That would be nice. However, I've now used mark & markup to specify the tempo mark