Re: Question about \noBeam documentation

2009-01-11 Thread Trevor Daniels
Nick The default beaming in 3/4 time permits beams to start anywhere but allows 8th note beams to terminate only at the bar end. So a \noBeam placed on the final 8th note means there is nowhere for the beam to terminate. If there are many bars with this timing you can override the default beami

RE: Question about \noBeam documentation

2009-01-11 Thread Nick Payne
Trevor Thanks. There are only a few bars with this timing, so I have used the [...] manual override. Nick > -Original Message- > From: Trevor Daniels [mailto:t.dani...@treda.co.uk] > Sent: Sunday, 11 January 2009 20:47 > To: Nick Payne; lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Question about

Re: Fragment with broken/torn/shredded staff lines

2009-01-11 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Mark Polesky wrote: > > > For the white boxes (no need to add an image, I > understand the problem), if you know the exact rgb > color of your background, you could substitute > that for white in the following line in the > tearGeneric definition (quick-and-dirty for sure). > > well, due t

Long compilation times

2009-01-11 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Hi folks, I'm wondering if a few people could run the file (below) and give me an idea of how long it runs. It's a 94 bar score that only has spacer notes, rehearsal marks and modified bar lines in each staff. (The intention is to use this as a worksheet for the paper-n-pencil phase of a piece I'm

Re: Accidental hiding fingering indication

2009-01-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/11/11 Trevor Daniels : > This accidental/fingering collision appears to be a bug, so I'm copying to > the bug list. I can't find a similar bug in the bug DB. Thanks to both of you; added (with much delay) as http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=728 Cheers, Valentin _

Re: Arpeggio next to a chord

2009-01-11 Thread Miklos Vajna
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 05:53:20AM +0100, Miklos Vajna wrote: > and I would like to add something like a \arpeggioArrowDown next to e1:m. Here is a picture about the original chord, just in case the description would be hard to parse: http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/pics/photo/P1000146.JPG Than

Re: Long compilation times

2009-01-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/1/11 Cameron Horsburgh : > I'm wondering if a few people could run the file (below) and give me > an idea of how long it runs. It's a 94 bar score that only has spacer > notes, rehearsal marks and modified bar lines in each staff. (The > intention is to use this as a worksheet for the paper-n

not so nice slur

2009-01-11 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear lilypond-users, in the below quoted example (from the mutopia library) the slur doesn't look very nice. How can I change it? I now there is a snippet in the snippet repository http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=134 but I don't understand it ! Thanks for Your help. Here is the snippet:

Re: accidentals in chords

2009-01-11 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Neil, thanks for Your answer. I think the problem should be solved. Off course one can add manually the "!" to the notes, but it would be better, to get this automatically. The dodecaphonic style isn't a good solution, in my opinion, because You get to many naturals, even for those notes, whe

arpeggio next to a chord

2009-01-11 Thread Miklos Vajna
Hi, I'm trying to use lilypond to digitalize some of my guitar chords, and I seem to hit a problem. So in guitar chords it's a common to have something like \arpeggioArrowDown next to a chord. Currently what I have is like: << { \clef "G_8" \key g

Re: Extracting the first line of a score

2009-01-11 Thread Alberto Simões
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > > > On 1/10/09 3:11 PM, "Graham Percival" wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 09:48:37PM +, Alberto Simões wrote: >>> I would like to extract (automatically, or automagically) the first line >>> from any score, just like Mutopia does, for instance, to create an i

Re: Long compilation times

2009-01-11 Thread John Mandereau
Cameron Horsburgh a écrit : I'm running a 2.4 GHz P4 with 1.25 Gig of Ram. The machine is aging, but it should be up to this challenge. I've noticed scores compile much quicker on much lower specced machines, so I'm suspecting something peculiar to my installation, but I don't know where to look.

define custom drums

2009-01-11 Thread Herman
Hi, I am working on customizing some drum notation. From the tutorial I got this #(define mydrums '( (bassdrum default #f -1) (snare default #f 0) (hihat cross #f 1) (pedalhihat xcircle "stopped" 2) (lowtom diamond #f 3))) It works but I don't know what I am doing. Wat does #f means? or "stopped

Re: arpeggio next to a chord

2009-01-11 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 11.01.2009 um 04:46 schrieb Miklos Vajna: Hi, I'm trying to use lilypond to digitalize some of my guitar chords, and I seem to hit a problem. So in guitar chords it's a common to have something like \arpeggioArrowDown next to a chord. … and I would like to add something like a \arpegg

Re: Arpeggio next to a chord

2009-01-11 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 11.01.2009 um 15:11 schrieb Miklos Vajna: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 05:53:20AM +0100, Miklos Vajna wrote: and I would like to add something like a \arpeggioArrowDown next to e1:m. Here is a picture about the original chord, just in case the description would be hard to parse: http://fru

Re: notes for toms and floortoms

2009-01-11 Thread Mark Polesky
Herman vanHaagen wrote: > Wow!!, > this is really great. Thanks! Is there a special rum tutorial > where to figure out this kind of stuff? Herman, The LSR (LilyPond Snippet Repository) is a good place to start. http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search? and obviously, the LilyPond docs: http://lilyp

Re: Long compilation times

2009-01-11 Thread John Mandereau
Valentin Villenave a écrit : I'm running a 64-bits distro on a Pentium i7 with 6GB of Ram. (I had 3GB, but my opera wouldn't compile at less than 4). I have 4GB, and with a little swapping I can build it. If it needs to swap things, that doesn't surprise me. I think RAM is the key. It is f

Re: accidentals in chords

2009-01-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/1/11 Stefan Thomas : > Dear Neil, > thanks for Your answer. I think the problem should be solved. Off > course one can add manually the "!" to the notes, but it would be > better, to get this automatically. The dodecaphonic style isn't a good > solution, in my opinion, because You get to many

Re: not so nice slur

2009-01-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Stefan, in the below quoted example (from the mutopia library) the slur doesn't look very nice. What isn't nice about it? It looks quite nice to my eye… How can I change it? What do you want changed? Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lil

Re: not so nice slur

2009-01-11 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Kieren, with me version of lilypond it looks like in the attached png-file. 2009/1/11 Kieren MacMillan : > Hi Stefan, > >> in the below quoted example (from the mutopia library) >> the slur doesn't look very nice. > > What isn't nice about it? It looks quite nice to my eye… > >> How can I cha

Re: Long compilation times

2009-01-11 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 05:29:14PM +0100, John Mandereau wrote: > Cameron Horsburgh a écrit : >> I'm running a 2.4 GHz P4 with 1.25 Gig of Ram. The machine is aging, >> but it should be up to this challenge. I've noticed scores compile >> much quicker on much lower specced machines, so I'm suspecti

Re: not so nice slur

2009-01-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Stefan, with me version of lilypond it looks like in the attached png-file. Looks just like mine… and I like it! Are you trying to make it not cross through the stems? Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu

Re: not so nice slur

2009-01-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/1/11 Stefan Thomas : > Dear Kieren, > with me version of lilypond it looks like in the attached png-file. Chopin? :-) Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: Long compilation times

2009-01-11 Thread Nick Payne
I tried it on my box (HP dx1550, AMD dual core with 4Gb RAM), and it took 267 seconds to build. By comparison, to build the score from the Mutopia source files for the adagio from Brandenburg #1 (about 40 bars for 12 instruments) takes 22 seconds. Nick > -Original Message- > From: lilypon

Re: Arpeggio next to a chord

2009-01-11 Thread Miklos Vajna
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 06:08:40PM +0100, "James E. Bailey" wrote: > > Here is a picture about the original chord, just in case the > > description would be hard to parse: > > > > http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/pics/photo/P1000146.JPG > > Ah, well then, yes, you'd want to center column scripts.a

Re: Arpeggio next to a chord

2009-01-11 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 12.01.2009 um 00:05 schrieb Miklos Vajna: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 06:08:40PM +0100, "James E. Bailey" wrote: Here is a picture about the original chord, just in case the description would be hard to parse: http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/pics/photo/P1000146.JPG Ah, well then, yes, you'd

Re: Arpeggio next to a chord

2009-01-11 Thread Miklos Vajna
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:13:59AM +0100, "James E. Bailey" wrote: > > Second, this does exactly what I want, but how do I use this next to a > > chord? > > \chords {\germanChords e2:m b:m e1:m^\arpeggioGuitar e2:m e:m b:m > > b:m e:m e:m} > > I'm glad to see you moved to using lilypond's chor

Re: automatic numbers for examples

2009-01-11 Thread coffer
Thank you for this nice feature! I do really like it. Can you tell me how to change the appearance of the counter? For example, putting it in the title I can´t change to bold style. Thanks, coffer. Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am Samstag,

Re: Arpeggio next to a chord

2009-01-11 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 12.01.2009 um 00:19 schrieb Miklos Vajna: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:13:59AM +0100, "James E. Bailey" wrote: Second, this does exactly what I want, but how do I use this next to a chord? \chords {\germanChords e2:m b:m e1:m^\arpeggioGuitar e2:m e:m b:m b:m e:m e:m} I'm glad to see you

Re: Arpeggio next to a chord

2009-01-11 Thread Miklos Vajna
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:30:11AM +0100, "James E. Bailey" wrote: > The problem with this workaround is that the arpeggio is simply a > markup attached to the note, rather than being a part of the chord > name, which is a markup. Perhaps really thorough reading of 2.7.2 > displaying chords

Re: Arpeggio next to a chord

2009-01-11 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 12.01.2009 um 00:54 schrieb Miklos Vajna: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:30:11AM +0100, "James E. Bailey" wrote: The problem with this workaround is that the arpeggio is simply a markup attached to the note, rather than being a part of the chord name, which is a markup. Perhaps really thoroug

make-music function question

2009-01-11 Thread Michael Pozhidaev
Hello! Please, help me with my own music function creation. How can I modify music object or create a new one with existing music data and add sustain event to it? If I understand correct, I must use make-music function and then use (make-span-event 'SustainEvent START) call to generate sustain

Re: Arpeggio next to a chord

2009-01-11 Thread Brett Duncan
James E. Bailey wrote: Great, that worked. This is still a workaround, but given that I don't want to use the major 7 (at least for now) for its original purpose, I can just say to overwrite it with arpeggioGuitar then I get what I wished. Rather than subverting your major 7th symbol, you cou

Copyright symbol

2009-01-11 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
There appears to be no way of inserting a copyright © symbol in lilypond 1.12.1. U+xxx, ©, © and © don't work. I notice that the manual's copyright may not be valid because the symbol is omitted. (c) is ugly, amateurish and not valid. In previous versions, © worked. How can I get the symbol? Do I

Re: Copyright symbol

2009-01-11 Thread Patrick McCarty
Hi Dave, On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:49 PM, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: > There appears to be no way of inserting a copyright (c) symbol in > lilypond 1.12.1. U+xxx, ©, © and (c) don't work. I notice that > the manual's copyright may not be valid because the symbol is omitted. > (c) is ugly, amateu

Re: Copyright symbol

2009-01-11 Thread Mark Polesky
David Raleigh Arnold wrote: > There appears to be no way of inserting a copyright © > symbol in lilypond 1.12.1. U+xxx, ©, © and © don't work. Dave, Strange that the usual method fails. This is a less elegant solution, but it should work. Patrick, it doesn't work for me either, and I've saved a

Re: Arrow at end of slur (like in Carter's 2nd string quartet)

2009-01-11 Thread Mark Polesky
Mike Solomon wrote: > I am looking to use a slur with an arrow at the > end like Carter uses in his second string quartet. Mike, can you supply a scan? It's hard to visualize. Are the slurs otherwise in their usual position connecting from one note to another? Mark _

get-staff-size? get-note-head-width?

2009-01-11 Thread Mark Polesky
Is there a way to detect the current staff-size within a music-function? Is there a way to detect the width of a note-head within a music- function? - Mark ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/lis

Re: Copyright symbol

2009-01-11 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 08:12:41PM -0800, Mark Polesky wrote: > > Strange that the usual method fails. This is a less > elegant solution, but it should work. Patrick, it > doesn't work for me either, and I've saved as UTF-8. > > Hope this helps. > - Mark > >

Re: Copyright symbol

2009-01-11 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Strange. This one © works fine for me on 2.12.1-1. I'm running Ubuntu 8.04. Anyone else having problems with the © symbol? Jon Mark Polesky wrote: David Raleigh Arnold wrote: There appears to be no way of inserting a copyright © symbol in lilypond 1.12.1. U+xxx, ©, © and © don't work. Da

Re: Copyright symbol

2009-01-11 Thread Mark Polesky
Jonathan Kulp wrote: > Strange. This one © works fine for me on 2.12.1-1. I'm running Ubuntu > 8.04. Anyone else having problems with the © symbol? OK, now it works. I just had a lot of files open at the same time, and I may have clicked on one and thought it was the other. So, maybe there was

Chord names with I, IV, V, etc.

2009-01-11 Thread Geoffrey Prewett
Hi, I've recently begun using lilypond to make lead sheets. The songs I play have a tendency to get transposed to different keys, depending on the situation, so I would like to put the meta-chord (or whatever I, ii, IV, V, etc. are supposed to be called) instead of the chord for a given key. I a

Re: Copyright symbol

2009-01-11 Thread Brett Duncan
David Raleigh Arnold wrote: There appears to be no way of inserting a copyright © symbol in lilypond 1.12.1. U+xxx, ©, © and © don't work. I notice that the manual's copyright may not be valid because the symbol is omitted. (c) is ugly, amateurish and not valid. In previous versions, © worked

Re: get-staff-size? get-note-head-width?

2009-01-11 Thread Mark Polesky
Mark Polesky wrote: > Is there a way to detect the current staff-size > within a music-function? Is there a way to > detect the width of a note-head within a music- > function? I don't know about staff-size, but you can get the width of a note-head with a callback proceduresimilar to the one de

Re: Chord names with I, IV, V, etc.

2009-01-11 Thread M Watts
Geoffrey Prewett wrote: Hi, I've recently begun using lilypond to make lead sheets. The songs I play have a tendency to get transposed to different keys, depending on the situation, so I would like to put the meta-chord (or whatever I, ii, IV, V, etc. are supposed to be called) instead of the c

Re: not so nice slur

2009-01-11 Thread Trevor Daniels
Stefan Section 4.5.2 of the Learning Manual discusses this type of problem with phrasing slurs. Scroll down to the positions property. Trevor - Original Message - From: "Stefan Thomas" To: "Kieren MacMillan" Cc: "lilypond-user" Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 7:27 PM Subject: Re: