code suggestions

2008-10-10 Thread David Stocker
Hello everyone. Is there anyone on the list who wouldn't mind taking a look at some code and offering general suggestions on writing input files? I've now successfully typeset several piano scores and would like some feedback from experienced users about the structure of my .ly files. I'm stil

Parenthesizing a note head /and/ the preceding accidental?

2008-10-10 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi all, I wonder if it's possible to wrap parentheses around an accidental and a note head. Currently the \parenthesize parenhesizes only the note head. One possible use for such a feature is presented in the included image (parentheses added in another application). -Risto %%% \version "2.

Re: Parenthesizing a note head /and/ the preceding accidental?

2008-10-10 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/10/10 Risto Vääräniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > One possible use for such a feature is presented in the included image > (parentheses added in another application). Hmm. For some reason Gmail preview messes up the image. It probably doesn't like grayscale images. Here it comes again in full RG

Re: code suggestions

2008-10-10 Thread James E. Bailey
On 10.10.2008, at 09:03, David Stocker wrote: Hello everyone. Is there anyone on the list who wouldn't mind taking a look at some code and offering general suggestions on writing input files? I've now successfully typeset several piano scores and would like some feedback from experienced

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/10/10 Patrick McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The blue links are very close to pure blue (#00F), which is a little > bit intense, but there aren't very many blues that pass the > guidelines. What does everyone think about this? Are there any > colors from this design that you like more than

Re: Parenthesizing a note head /and/ the preceding accidental?

2008-10-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/10/10 Risto Vääräniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hmm. For some reason Gmail preview messes up the image. It probably > doesn't like grayscale images. Here it comes again in full RGB. Looks a lot like http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=155 to me :-) Cheers, Valentin __

Re: code suggestions

2008-10-10 Thread Daniel Hulme
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:03:53AM -0400, David Stocker wrote: > \paper { > #(set-paper-size "concert") > } This is entirely a matter of preference, but I'd suggest making the closing brace be at the same indentation level as the line that opens the block, like so: \paper { #(set-paper-size

Re: Parenthesizing a note head /and/ the preceding accidental?

2008-10-10 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/10/10 Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Looks a lot like > http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=155 to me :-) Well, yes and no. :-) In the case of issue 155 it's quite easy to create a workaround. E.g. \once \override Score.AccidentalPlacement #'right-padding = #0.4 \p

Re: unusual Alto Clef

2008-10-10 Thread David Bobroff
In the midst of the discussion about different styles of clefs I mentioned an "English"* style of bass clef. A clear image of such a clef can be seen here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Oldbassclef.png It's called "old bass clef" there. -David *I called it "English" because I've only s

Re: Augmentation and Diminution

2008-10-10 Thread Aaron Dalton
Valentin Villenave wrote: 2008/10/7 Stefan Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Dear Aaron, maybee this could help You: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=390 ... or (better) this one: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=305 Thanks so much! Aaron ___ l

Re: Notating recitative

2008-10-10 Thread Ari Torhamo
I don't know how to get the two vertical lines before and after the note/chord that defines the pitches on the recitative section. Is there some command/marking I can attach to a note in the chord so that all lines would be automatically drawn from the lowest note to the highest. Or do I need to dr

Re: Parenthesizing a note head /and/ the preceding accidental?

2008-10-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/10/10 Risto Vääräniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > However, what I'm asking for would be a different way to place the > parentheses: > ( # note ) versus the current # ( note ). One option might be creating > a markup "()" and use extra-offset to lower / raise it around the > note and accident

Re: Notating recitative

2008-10-10 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 10.10.2008 (16:32), Ari Torhamo wrote: > I don't know how to get the two vertical lines before and after the > note/chord that defines the pitches on the recitative section. Is there > some command/marking I can attach to a note in the chord so that all > lines would be automatically drawn from

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Patrick McCarty wrote: I've created another design with a color palette that passes the W3C Web Content Accessibility guidelines for color contrast Yes, yes, yes! Thank you very much. At last I feel the web designer was more concerned about making it easy to read rather than easy to look at

Re: Notating recitative

2008-10-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Eyolf Østrem wrote: On 10.10.2008 (16:32), Ari Torhamo wrote: I don't know how to get the two vertical lines before and after the note/chord that defines the pitches on the recitative section. Is there some command/marking I can attach to a note in the chord so that all lines would be autom

Re: code suggestions

2008-10-10 Thread David Stocker
Thank you, James and Daniel, for your suggestions. You only need to do that if you use <<{\voiceOne}\new Voice {\voiceTwo}>>\oneVoice, in which case, all of that is necessary for the same multi-voice construct. This has dogged me for several weeks and I finally gave up. Now, seeing the overall

Re: code suggestions

2008-10-10 Thread James E. Bailey
On 10.10.2008, at 16:21, David Stocker wrote: Thank you, James and Daniel, for your suggestions. You only need to do that if you use <<{\voiceOne}\new Voice {\voiceTwo}>>\oneVoice, in which case, all of that is necessary for the same multi-voice construct. This has dogged me for several we

Re: mBreak function

2008-10-10 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Danny Sosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Hello everyone! Thank you all for your help so far. There is something that I cannot figure out! I need help... I'm trying to typeset an existing piece of music with lilypond I thought that using mBreak was a very good idea as

rolled chords

2008-10-10 Thread Danny Sosa
First of all... thanks to James for his help with mBreak, the magic words were "outside of any music block". I was trying to define mbreak inside the {}. Does anyone know how to write rolled chords in Lilypond? it's just like a little squiggly line left of any chord this is how I would like to mak

Re: rolled chords

2008-10-10 Thread James E. Bailey
\arpeggio On 10.10.2008, at 20:11, Danny Sosa wrote: First of all... thanks to James for his help with mBreak, the magic words were "outside of any music block". I was trying to define mbreak inside the {}. Does anyone know how to write rolled chords in Lilypond? it's just like a little

Re: rolled chords

2008-10-10 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 10.10.2008 (11:11), Danny Sosa wrote: > First of all... thanks to James for his help with mBreak, the magic words > were "outside of any music block". I was trying to define mbreak inside the > {}. > Does anyone know how to write rolled chords in Lilypond? The sign in the picture is an arpeggi

Re: rolled chords

2008-10-10 Thread Danny Sosa
... less than 8 minutes and you already solved my problem... you're amazing! haha thank you so much! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: rolled chords

2008-10-10 Thread David Stocker
\relative c' { 1 \arpeggio } To apply an unbroken arpeggio line to all voices and staves for piano, use "\set PianoStaff.connectArpeggios = ##t" inside your new \PianoStaff and use \arpeggio on the same beat within each voice context you want it to apply to. I don't know if the same command wo

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:08:00 +0100 "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many thanks for this. The abbreviations are fine as they are - these > headwords are not intended to teach anything, they're just to show > what is possible. I added midi output (hope that's OK with you - > what tem

Slur position

2008-10-10 Thread Danny Sosa
I'm writing a scale pattern using slurs on certain notes with parenthesis " _ ; ^ ; () " but whenever I try making a slur above the note Lilypond automatically puts it above the beam. Could you guys help me tweak it so it does it only above notehead? Here is what I'm trying to accomplish: http://

New doc website development

2008-10-10 Thread Till Rettig
Hi, sporadically following the discussion about the ongoing work on the new documentation web site. It is improving every day and looks really really good. Great job! I have a couple of things I thought you might (re)consider: first the width of the text div: I know this has been discussed e

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-10 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham, you wrote Friday, October 10, 2008 7:38 PM On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:08:00 +0100 "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Many thanks for this. The abbreviations are fine as they are - these headwords are not intended to teach anything, they're just to show what is possible. I adde

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:59:43 +0100 "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Graham, you wrote Friday, October 10, 2008 7:38 PM > > > On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:08:00 +0100 > > "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Err, why midi? It doesn't help anything for the docs, and as > >

Re: New doc website development

2008-10-10 Thread Patrick McCarty
Hi Till, On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Till Rettig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > sporadically following the discussion about the ongoing work on the new > documentation web site. It is improving every day and looks really really > good. Great job! Thanks! > I have a couple of things I