Breathe signs too narrow (slim) compared to barlines

2009-01-31 Thread Jiri Zurek (Prague)
Although I can control the thickness of barlines in lilypond, I did not find the same property in breath signs which are used in old chant instead of barlines (divisio minor, maior, maxima, finalis) - these are defined in the gregorian.ly which is included in the lilypond distribution, but when I

Re: once and shortcuts

2009-01-31 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting M Watts : Nick Payne wrote: Why is it that I can use, for example: \once \override Slur #'direction = #DOWN or \once \override Slur #'direction = #UP but \once \slurDown or \once \slurUp Generates a syntax error. The same happens with stemUp and stemDown, tieUp and tieDown, etc.

Re: scheme - notes as variables

2009-01-31 Thread Rob Canning
#!/usr/bin/perl sub InsertNotes { my ($num, $form, @notes) = @_; my ($output, @temp); while (@notes) { (@temp[0..$num-1], @notes) = @notes; $output .= sprintf $form, (@temp); } return $output; } my @list = qw"a b c d a b c d a f cis d aes b c d g b c d a bes c dis c

Re: Breathe signs too narrow (slim) compared to barlines

2009-01-31 Thread Patrick McCarty
Hi Jiri, On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Jiri Zurek (Prague) wrote: > > Although I can control the thickness of barlines in lilypond, I did not find > the same property in breath signs which are used in old chant instead of > barlines (divisio minor, maior, maxima, finalis) - these are defined

Re: Fitting as many lines as possible on a page

2009-01-31 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Samstag, 31. Januar 2009 02:06:38 Joe Neeman wrote: > On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 00:53 +0100, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Freitag, 30. Januar 2009 23:37:28 Tim Yang wrote: > > > It doesn't wo

Re: Breathe signs too narrow (slim) compared to barlines

2009-01-31 Thread Jiri Zurek (Prague)
> A property that does work is 'minimum-X-extent, so I changed all > 'extra-X-extent --> 'minimum-X-extent, and the attached image is the > resulting output. I don't know if this is more optimal or not, but > there is certainly a problem here. I'll raise this issue on > lilypond-devel. Hal

Make eighth looks like quarter note

2009-01-31 Thread Manolo Padron Martinez
Hi: I'm really newbie with lilypond. I've been looking in google about how to change the look of the eighth note to appear like a quarter note. I only want to change how the note is draw into the pdf but I don't want to make it a quarter note. In drum partiture looks like better in that way but I

Re: Make eighth looks like quarter note

2009-01-31 Thread James E. Bailey
in this case, why don't you just use <> to show that it's two notes happening in the same voice simultaneously. hh8 hh hh16 Also, since you're really new to lilypond, you should probably read through the entire Learning Manual before attempting to make a score. You'll learn a lot about ho

incorrect auto bar and auto beaming ?

2009-01-31 Thread Rob Canning
hello, i have a score which specifies: \time 4/4 {tomfl16-> toml16 tomml16 tommh16 tomh4.:32\laissezVibrer r8 tomfl16 toml8:16 tomml16 tomh16 tommh8 tomfl16 toml8 tommh8 tomml16 tomh16 r4 tomfl16-> toml16 tommh16 tomh16 tomml4.:32\laissezVibrer r8 tomfl16 toml8:16 tomh16 tomml16 tommh8 tomfl

Re: Fitting as many lines as possible on a page

2009-01-31 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <200901310053.32352.reinh...@kainhofer.com>, Reinhold Kainhofer writes On Freitag, 30. Januar 2009 23:37:28 Tim Yang wrote: It doesn't work. I set the page-count as 2 and Lilypond still uses 3 pages. I think it is because somehow Lilypond thinks these lines don't fit in 2 pages but i

grace notes cause extra bar to contain them

2009-01-31 Thread Rob Canning
hi, not sure whats going on here... if i isolate and render only one of the two staves then everything is fine but if i parse the .ly that contains two staves an extra bar gets created that contains the grace notes. i cant figure out why... here is the .ly http://pastebin.com/m672b44fd see firs

Re: incorrect auto bar and auto beaming ?

2009-01-31 Thread -Eluze
could it be that the bar counting is not fully correct - try to make some bar checks - best is after each measure! hdh -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/incorrect-auto-bar-and-auto-beaming---tp21764013p21764803.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive a

Re: bar "||" kills start-repeat

2009-01-31 Thread Robin Bannister
Simon Bailey wrote: so basically that paragraph is telling me to NOT use the manual repeat barlines and use \repeat volta instead. The documentation uses a lot of different names for repeats. When you say "manual repeat barlines" it sounds as though you may not be distinguishing - manual ba

\crescTextCresc... 2.10 vs 2.12

2009-01-31 Thread Frédéric Bron
I upgraded to 2.12 and dicovered that \crescTextCresc is not set for ever instead of just for the next crescendo. Is is possible to come back to 2.10 behaviour? I think it was better because: 2.10: type \crescTextCresc only for text crescendo (once before) 2.12: type \crescTextCresc before and \cr

Re: Fitting as many lines as possible on a page

2009-01-31 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Anthony W. Youngman wrote: Yes, currently the vertical page layouting algorithm of lilypond is sub- optimal. Lilypond reserves 10% of the total space to make sure it does not overprint staves. This means that 10% of the page will always be wasted... Unfortunately, there is no easy way around t

Re: scheme - notes as variables

2009-01-31 Thread Andrew Wilson
2009/1/31 Rob Canning : > #!/usr/bin/perl > > sub InsertNotes { > my ($num, $form, @notes) = @_; > > my ($output, @temp); > while (@notes) { > (@temp[0..$num-1], @notes) = @notes; > $output .= sprintf $form, (@temp); > } > return $output; > } > my @list = qw"a b c d a b c d a f

Re: \crescTextCresc... 2.10 vs 2.12

2009-01-31 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 04:58:16PM +0100, Frédéric Bron wrote: > I upgraded to 2.12 and dicovered that \crescTextCresc is not set for > ever instead of just for the next crescendo. Sounds like a bug. In fact, I was fairly certain that it's already in the issue tracker, although I couldn't find it

Re: grace notes cause extra bar to contain them

2009-01-31 Thread Daniel Hulme
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 04:26:25PM +, Rob Canning wrote: > hi, > not sure whats going on here... > if i isolate and render only one of the two staves then everything is > fine but if i parse the .ly that contains two staves an extra bar gets > created that contains the grace notes. It's not

Re: \crescTextCresc... 2.10 vs 2.12

2009-01-31 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Samstag, 31. Januar 2009 18:09:46 Graham Percival wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 04:58:16PM +0100, Frédéric Bron wrote: > > I upgraded to 2.12 and dicovered that \crescTextCresc is not set for > > ever instead of just for the next crescendo. > > S

vertical system spacing -adjusting only selected systems

2009-01-31 Thread Tom Hall
Hello List I have a piece of music for a solo (single stave) instrument, with about 10 systems per page. Of those, I use \bar "||" \break for about two systems per page, and wish to add additional space/padding before the next system in those cases (these breaks separate subsections of the piece

Re: bar numbers at beginning of bar - partial solution

2009-01-31 Thread Paul Scott
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Paul, Thanks for answering, Mats. With the following code the bar number displaces the notes in each bar to the right. If I remove the two self-alignment-X overrides the bar number does not displace any music. \layout { \context { \Score \o

Re: Staves closer to one another

2009-01-31 Thread Fibonacci Prower
Tried that. Setting \override Staff.VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-3 . 3) to anything lower than -4 . 4 has absolutely no effect. Something higher does have an effect, though - which is exactly the opposite to what I want. Also, what about the font size? 2009/1/31 Wilbert Berendsen >

Re: \crescTextCresc... 2.10 vs 2.12

2009-01-31 Thread Frédéric Bron
> Actually, it's the other way round: \setTextCresc was documented (and meant) > to apply only to the next crescendo, although in reality it was never reset > and its effect continued for all following crescendi. This behavior was fixed > in 2.12 and the effect now really only applies to the next c

RE: Make eighth looks like quarter note

2009-01-31 Thread Nick Payne
You can use \override Stem #'flag-style = #'no-flag c8 c and so on to remove the flag on eighth or shorter notes. Nick From: lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.on@gnu.org [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.on@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Manolo Padron Ma

Re: \crescTextCresc... 2.10 vs 2.12

2009-01-31 Thread Trevor Daniels
Frédéric You are quite right. I think what was finally done in 2.11 and 2.12 was to make \crescTextCresc set crescencii persistently to text and \cresc do a once-only text crescendo. There is a similar symmetry between dimTextDim (persists) and \dim (once only) but not between \dimTextD

Re: Persian accidentals

2009-01-31 Thread Kees van den Doel
> Kees van den Doel wrote: > > Is there any way to print the koron (60cents flat) and sori > (40 cent sharp)? > > I've defined these pitch alterations by modifying makam.ly but > they should really > > be printed according to the Persian notation. > > > > koron = upside down flat, with a triangu

Re: bar numbers at beginning of bar - partial solution

2009-01-31 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Paul, I just searched through the docs and I don't find the meaning of X- extent. What does it mean? What does the above do? Google X-extent site:lilypond.org/doc/v2.12 [Hint to everyone: using the 'site' Google-keyword is a great method of searching the docs!] The first hit is

Re: bar numbers at beginning of bar - partial solution

2009-01-31 Thread Paul Scott
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Paul, I just searched through the docs and I don't find the meaning of X-extent. What does it mean? What does the above do? Google X-extent site:lilypond.org/doc/v2.12 [Hint to everyone: using the 'site' Google-keyword is a great method of searching the docs

Re: bar numbers at beginning of bar - partial solution

2009-01-31 Thread Trevor Daniels
Paul Scott wrote Saturday, January 31, 2009 8:47 PM Kieren MacMillan wrote: The first property description on that page is: "X-extent (pair of numbers) Hard coded extent in X direction." I had no trouble finding X-extent in the docs. Reading that did not tell me what X-extent meant.

phrasing slur continued through a repeat?

2009-01-31 Thread Ed Ravin
I'm using LilyPond Version 2.10.29-1 on a PPC MacOS 10.4 (Tiger). I'm trying to typeset a piece that has phrasing slurs and repeats. One of the phrasing slurs starts in the repeated section, and it ends in the alternative section. The attached file "slurme.ly.txt" shows the problem. It compiles

Re: bar numbers at beginning of bar - partial solution

2009-01-31 Thread Paul Scott
Trevor Daniels wrote: Paul Scott wrote Saturday, January 31, 2009 8:47 PM Kieren MacMillan wrote: The first property description on that page is: "X-extent (pair of numbers) Hard coded extent in X direction." I had no trouble finding X-extent in the docs. Reading that did not tell m

Re: \crescTextCresc... 2.10 vs 2.12

2009-01-31 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 08:11:11PM -, Trevor Daniels wrote: > > The docs for 2.12 don't mention \cresc or \dim. This could (should) be > fixed now. Rather, \cresc and \dim should finally be removed. See the message in ly/spanner-init.ly Cheers, - Graham _