Re: \transpose and \transposition combination error(?)

2009-02-24 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <874oyl28nj.wl%pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au>, Peter Chubb writes >> "Trevor" == Trevor Daniels writes: > >Trevor> Hmm. Not sure it's a bug. The \transpose command transposes > >I think it is (and I reported it as one some time ago). > >The point of \transposition is to notate a Staff

Re: \transpose and \transposition combination error(?)

2009-02-24 Thread Trevor Daniels
Anthony W. Youngman wrote In message <874oyl28nj.wl%pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au>, Peter Chubb writes "Trevor" == Trevor Daniels writes: Trevor> Hmm. Not sure it's a bug. The \transpose command transposes I think it is (and I reported it as one some time ago). The point of \transposition

Re: [LilyKDE] Re: [Frescobaldi] Bass and Electric Bass template, tab tunings support

2009-02-24 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op dinsdag 24 februari 2009, schreef Grammostola Rosea: >     \new Staff \with { >       midiInstrument = "acoustic bass" >     } {  *\clef "bass_8"* \bass } >     \new TabStaff \with { >       stringTunings = #bass-tuning >     } \bass If this is the most used way, ( \clef "bass_8" for Acoustic o

Re: [LilyKDE] Re: [Frescobaldi] Bass and Electric Bass template, tab tunings support

2009-02-24 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Wilbert Berendsen wrote: Op dinsdag 24 februari 2009, schreef Grammostola Rosea: \new Staff \with { midiInstrument = "acoustic bass" } { *\clef "bass_8"* \bass } \new TabStaff \with { stringTunings = #bass-tuning } \bass If this is the most used way, ( \cle

Re: Looking for proper beam grouping

2009-02-24 Thread Trevor Daniels
Carl, you wrote Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:43 AM On 2/23/09 12:52 PM, "Maarten Deen" wrote: I have a piece of music in 3/4 which has bars like { d4. c8 b8. a16 } Lilypond groups the last three notes together, making it look like a 6/8 measure, but I want the c8 to be separate and only the

Re: staffsize

2009-02-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Strangely enough, the solution is to use the following strategy: #(set-global-staff-size 13) \book{ % Complete score ... } #(set-global-staff-size 20) \book{ % Part 1 ... } ... /Mats Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Hi Lilyponders, I'm trying to set up a score with a piece for 4 piano's. I have

Re: \transpose and \transposition combination error(?)

2009-02-24 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Trevor" == Trevor Daniels writes: Trevor> Producing the correct pitch in MIDI for transposing Trevor> instruments being notated at pitch is certainly the principal Trevor> use of \transposition. It's other use is to transpose cues Trevor> into the correct pitch when they appear in other

Re: \transpose and \transposition combination error(?)

2009-02-24 Thread Trevor Daniels
Peter Chubb wrote Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:28 AM "Trevor" == Trevor Daniels writes: Trevor> Producing the correct pitch in MIDI for transposing Trevor> instruments being notated at pitch is certainly the principal Trevor> use of \transposition. It's other use is to transpose cues Tre

Re: [LilyKDE] Re: [Frescobaldi] Bass and Electric Bass template, tab tunings support

2009-02-24 Thread David Stocker
By convention, double-bass and electric bass are notated using a standard bass clef with the understanding that the notes sound one octave lower than they appear on the staff. Guitar is the same way, but it is becoming more common to to use a modern tenor clef (i.e. "treble_8") now than in the

Re: guitar tab feature request

2009-02-24 Thread David Stocker
I'm working on the first group of "missing" LilyPond Tab features and it pertains to finger bends. I expect this to be a slow process. We have two (or maybe three) individuals who have expressed interest in joining the discussion, so when I have something, I'll send it out to those individuals

Re: [LilyKDE] Re: [Frescobaldi] Bass and Electric Bass template, tab tunings support

2009-02-24 Thread Jonathan Kulp
David Stocker wrote: By convention, double-bass and electric bass are notated using a standard bass clef with the understanding that the notes sound one octave lower than they appear on the staff. Guitar is the same way, but it is becoming more common to to use a modern tenor clef (i.e. "trebl

Re: [LilyKDE] Re: [Frescobaldi] Bass and Electric Bass template, tab tunings support

2009-02-24 Thread David Stocker
Editorially, I prefer the treble_8 clef as well, but I think it's safe to say that most readers (to the extent they notice at all) are more accustomed to seeing the regular "treble" and "bass" clefs, as opposed to "treble_8" or "bass_8." Dave Jonathan Kulp wrote: David Stocker wrote: By conv

Re: [LilyKDE] Re: [Frescobaldi] Bass and Electric Bass template, tab tunings support

2009-02-24 Thread Grammostola Rosea
David Stocker wrote: Editorially, I prefer the treble_8 clef as well, but I think it's safe to say that most readers (to the extent they notice at all) are more accustomed to seeing the regular "treble" and "bass" clefs, as opposed to "treble_8" or "bass_8." Dave Jonathan Kulp wrote: David

Re: Editorial Annotation

2009-02-24 Thread -Eluze
grisu_76 wrote: > > but when I'm using it in the code as f.i. ^\roundTr, the trill-symbol and > the leading parenthese are printed one upon the other; the trailing > parenthese is printed correct; > you can force the spacing by adding \translate... after the first parenthesis: roundTr = \mark

Re: Looking for proper beam grouping

2009-02-24 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 2/24/09 2:46 AM, "Trevor Daniels" wrote: > > > Carl, you wrote Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:43 AM > >> On 2/23/09 12:52 PM, "Maarten Deen" wrote: >> >>> I have a piece of music in 3/4 which has bars like { d4. c8 b8. >>> a16 } >>> Lilypond groups the last three notes together, making i

problem with installing frescobaldi

2009-02-24 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear lilypond-users, I tried to install Frescobaldi from source. But I get the following error message: The C++ compiler "CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER-NOTFOUND" is not able to compile a simple test program. I don't undertand the meaning of it- I use Kubuntu, with KDE 4.2 _

Re: Partial measures

2009-02-24 Thread jpeters
Since pickups conventionally are subtracted from the last measure of a section, a future edition might change "\partial" to "partial {}" where the beat/measure count could be correctly adjusted across the section. M Watts wrote: > > jpeters wrote: >> One way to do this is with measureLength:

Re: \score inside define-markup-command

2009-02-24 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 23 févr. 09 à 10:36, Michael Käppler a écrit : Hi, I don't know if it will work, but perhaps you can try to type \displayMusic {<< \clef #testclef a4 h c >>} to get the scheme version of your music, and to copy/paste the output you got after the #:score markup ... good idea! But it stil

building lilypond from freebsd ports

2009-02-24 Thread Glen Hein
Hello Everybody, I sent this question to the freebsd port maintainer, but I also wanted to ask this list. I'm trying to build lilypond from the free port (print/lilypond) and I'm getting a seg fault from Ghostscript. I was wondering if anybody has seen this problem. Here is the error I get from th

Re: staffsize

2009-02-24 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:16:33AM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Strangely enough, the solution is to use the following strategy: Thank you. There are (many) times that I don't yet completely understand the logic behind Lilypond. This was one of them. Good to have this mailinglist :-) > > #(s

Re: guitar tab feature request

2009-02-24 Thread Tony Willoughby
I am interested in contributing financially. David Stocker wrote: I'm working on the first group of "missing" LilyPond Tab features and it pertains to finger bends. I expect this to be a slow process. We have two (or maybe three) individuals who have expressed interest in joining the discu

Re: problem with installing frescobaldi

2009-02-24 Thread Chris Snyder
Stefan Thomas wrote: > I tried to install Frescobaldi from source. > But I get the following error message: > The C++ compiler "CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER-NOTFOUND" is not able to compile a > simple test program. > I don't undertand the meaning of it- > I use Kubuntu, with KDE 4.2 It looks to me like yo

Re: building lilypond from freebsd ports

2009-02-24 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 01:03:00PM -0700, Glen Hein wrote: > I sent this question to the freebsd port maintainer, but I also wanted to > ask this list. I'm trying to build lilypond from the free port > (print/lilypond) and I'm getting a seg fault from Ghostscript. I was > wondering if anybody has s

Re: building lilypond from freebsd ports

2009-02-24 Thread Glen Hein
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Matthias Kilian wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 01:03:00PM -0700, Glen Hein wrote: > > I sent this question to the freebsd port maintainer, but I also wanted to > > ask this list. I'm trying to build lilypond from the free port > > (print/lilypond) and I'm getting

Re: building lilypond from freebsd ports

2009-02-24 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:44:08PM -0700, Glen Hein wrote: > > - is this reproducable, i.e. does it always crash in ghostscript, and at > > the same file? > The problem is reproducible. It fails on the same file every time. I had > been building using csh, so as a WAG, I tried bash. The bash ulimi

why does this simple notation fail a barcheck?

2009-02-24 Thread Chip
trpta = { \partial 8*1 e8-. | e4 d8 c4 d8 | e4 e8-. r r e | e4 d8 c4 d8 | e4 e8 r r fs | g4 fs8 g4 e8 | d2 d8 e | \times 2/3 {f4 fs b} | \times 2/3 {d c b} | g2.\fermata \bar "||" | r1*5 } There errors are this - Interpreting music... [8] F:/Lilypond Files/Score Template.ly:41:21: warning: barc

Re: building lilypond from freebsd ports

2009-02-24 Thread Glen Hein
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Matthias Kilian wrote: > Well, then it's probably worth tracking down the exact input file > passed to ghostscript and to check wether it's a general bug of > ghostscript or of the FreeBSD port of ghostscript. > The actual ghostscript command that fails is (I shor

Re: why does this simple notation fail a barcheck?

2009-02-24 Thread Gilles Sadowski
> trpta = { > \partial 8*1 e8-. | > e4 d8 c4 d8 | > e4 e8-. r r e | > e4 d8 c4 d8 | > e4 e8 r r fs | > g4 fs8 g4 e8 | > d2 d8 e | > \times 2/3 {f4 fs b} | > \times 2/3 {d c b} | > g2.\fermata \bar "||" | > r1*5 > } > > There errors are this - > > > Interpreting music... [8] > F:/Lilypond Files/Scor

Re: why does this simple notation fail a barcheck?

2009-02-24 Thread Tim Reeves
Chip wrote: > > trpta = { > \partial 8*1 e8-. | > e4 d8 c4 d8 | > e4 e8-. r r e | > e4 d8 c4 d8 | > e4 e8 r r fs | > g4 fs8 g4 e8 | > d2 d8 e | > \times 2/3 {f4 fs b} | > \times 2/3 {d c b} | > g2.\fermata \bar "||" | > r1*5 > } > > There errors are this - > > > Interpreting music... [8] > F:/L

Re: why does this simple notation fail a barcheck?

2009-02-24 Thread Chip
Gilles Sadowski wrote: trpta = { \partial 8*1 e8-. | e4 d8 c4 d8 | e4 e8-. r r e | e4 d8 c4 d8 | e4 e8 r r fs | g4 fs8 g4 e8 | d2 d8 e | \times 2/3 {f4 fs b} | \times 2/3 {d c b} | g2.\fermata \bar "||" | r1*5 } There errors are this - Interpreting music... [8] F:/Lilypond Files/Score Template

Re: why does this simple notation fail a barcheck?

2009-02-24 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 2/24/09 5:09 PM, "Chip" wrote: > trpta = { > \partial 8*1 e8-. | > e4 d8 c4 d8 | > e4 e8-. r r e | > e4 d8 c4 d8 | > e4 e8 r r fs | > g4 fs8 g4 e8 | > d2 d8 e | > \times 2/3 {f4 fs b} | The measure above here is a 6/8 measure (f4 fs b), but you've multiplied it by 2/3, so it's only 2/3 of

Re: why does this simple notation fail a barcheck?

2009-02-24 Thread Brett Duncan
Chip wrote: \times 2/3 {f4 fs b} looks like 3 quarter notes to me. You've got TWO THIRDS of three quarter notes (timewise). What is it you're trying to achieve with the triplet? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gn

Writing text in a measure

2009-02-24 Thread Kees van den Doel
I'm trying to write text in an otherwise empty measure (some special performance instructions). not above it or below, but in it. How can I do that? There is a snippet doing something like that http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=258 but when I apply it my text overwrites music after the bar in

Stanza number before each line of a verse?

2009-02-24 Thread Tom
I want to put the Stanza number before every line of verse in a longer hymn, but cannot get the hint here to work: http://www.geoffhorton.com/lilypond.html#versenumbers Investigating the Stanza_number_engraver doesn't seem to give any clues, either. Is this possible to do without manual markup?