Re: Music Glossary - 1.64 Concert Pitch (2.12.2)

2009-04-04 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message , Paul Scott writes On Apr 3, 2009, at 3:49 PM, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message <7ca3d5a30904031519ya3b89hb87cf8f81a544...@mail.gmail.com>, Neil Puttock writes 2009/4/3 Anthony W. Youngman : In message , Anthony W. Youngman writes Ow! Sorry, reading this was painful

Re: Music Glossary - 1.64 Concert Pitch (2.12.2)

2009-04-04 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message , Paul Scott writes I don't see how the physics would work to give you a quarter- wavelength as you claim. I just did some quick online research and he is right. A tube closed on one end like a clarinet or trumpet has a wavelength that is four times the length of the tube. A fl

Left/right noteheads in chord containing second

2009-04-04 Thread Nick Payne
Is it possible, in a chord containing a second, to specify which note in the second should appear to the left of the stem and which to the right? The order of the notes doesn't change anything - ie and both have D to the left and E to the right. Nick __

Re: Left/right noteheads in chord containing second

2009-04-04 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Nick, Is it possible, in a chord containing a second, to specify which note in the second should appear to the left of the stem and which to the right? The order of the notes doesn't change anything - ie and gis,> both have D to the left and E to the right. My guess is, use the \tweak

lilypond fonts on ps and pdf files...

2009-04-04 Thread padovani
Hi, I am having some problems when trying to import pdf or ps files generated from Lilypond into Illustrator... some fonts are not found... Also when I send some pdfs to be printed in Windows machines with Acrobat, the dynamics fonts are not found... It seems to be related to how Adobe apps work

Re: Music Glossary - 1.64 Concert Pitch (2.12.2)

2009-04-04 Thread Henning Plumeyer
Therefore, by definition, all blown > musical instruments will have a fundamental frequency of 2L. Hi, not quite: clarinets sound an octave lower than you would expect when you regard their length. They behave like stopped organ pipes. I don't know exactly why -- it comes from their cylindr

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius

2009-04-04 Thread Jay Anderson
Werner LEMBERG gnu.org> writes: > > IMHO, this is visually unattractive while reading a lilypond source > and takes far too much time to enter. I really can't understand why > there is so much resistance to a one-letter chord repeat item -- > ideally an unused letter like `q' or another ascii ch

Re: Music Glossary - 1.64 Concert Pitch (2.12.2)

2009-04-04 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Apr 4, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Stan Sanderson wrote: On Apr 4, 2009, at 12:32 PM, Henning Plumeyer wrote: Therefore, by definition, all blown > musical instruments will have a fundamental frequency of 2L. Hi, not quite: clarinets sound an octave lower than you would expect when you regard

Slur/Tie Ambiguity

2009-04-04 Thread David Pounder
Good evening List, The snippet below shows two c naturals tied across a barline, followed by a c natural slurred to a c sharp across a barline. Lilypond makes both look identical. I think the first is right (born out by the NR) - but is the second? I know I can force the sharp or add a caution

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera)

2009-04-04 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op vrijdag 03 april 2009, schreef David Stocker: > It would be great if there was a > shorthand for this in LilyPond code for situations (like in many forms > of popular music) an accompaniment pattern consists of many repeated > chords--perhaps something like ""--simply instructing LilyPond to >

Slur/Tie Ambiguity

2009-04-04 Thread David Pounder
Sorry - forgot to attach the pdf. --- Original Message --- From: David Pounder To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: 4.4.09, 20:43:19 Subject: Slur/Tie Ambiguity Good evening List, The snippet below shows two c naturals tied across a barline, followed by a c natural slurred to a c sharp acro

Re: Slur/Tie Ambiguity

2009-04-04 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, Good evening List, The snippet below shows two c naturals tied across a barline, followed by a c natural slurred to a c sharp across a barline. Lilypond makes both look identical. I think the first is right (born out by the NR) - but is the second? I know I can force the sharp or a

Re: Music Glossary - 1.64 Concert Pitch (2.12.2)

2009-04-04 Thread Hans Aberg
On 4 Apr 2009, at 19:32, Henning Plumeyer wrote: Therefore, by definition, all blown > musical instruments will have a fundamental frequency of 2L. Hi, not quite: clarinets sound an octave lower than you would expect when you regard their length. They behave like stopped organ pipes. I don'

Re: Problem with barre music function

2009-04-04 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/4/4 Nick Payne : > When I look at the present entry for that in define-grobs.scm (LP 2.12.2), it > is: > > (meta . ((class . Spanner) >         (object-callbacks . ((normal-stems . ,ly:beam::calc-normal-stems))) >         (interfaces . (staff-symbol-referencer-interface >                    

Re: left aligned tempo markings different over multimeasure rests

2009-04-04 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/4/3 Francisco Vila : > Looking further for a solution, we saw that the definition of textLengthOn > > textLengthOn = { >  \override TextScript #'extra-spacing-width = #'(0 . 0) >  \override TextScript #'extra-spacing-height = #'(-inf.0 . +inf.0) > } > > now the problem is to find what type of

RE: Problem with barre music function

2009-04-04 Thread Nick Payne
Ok, thanks. I tried that, and for a simple example it fixes the problem. But in an actual score with lots of barring indications of various sorts, you get to a situation where a staff runs off the right-hand edge of the page because there are many consecutive bars where a line can't be broken wi

Re: default midi velocity

2009-04-04 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/4/3 Carl D. Sorensen : > Anybody willing to take this on as a patch?  It shouldn't be too hard, but I > imagine it'll take some time grepping through the source files. If we agree that it's just a case of changing the default velocity, then this is ideally suited to a Frog; on the other hand

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius

2009-04-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >> Yet another alternative is to let LilyPond do the job, either using >> simple techniques like \repeat unfold {} or Scheme based >> solutions like http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=390, >> http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=390 or >>

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius

2009-04-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> As far as the exact syntax is concerned would it be possible to just > use no character at all? > > c4 2 8. 16 Aah, indeed this looks optimal! Han-Wen? > We would probably still want a repeat character for when '\repeat > unfold' is too long: > > c4 & & & Following your first idea, `c4 4 4

is this markup no longer applicable?

2009-04-04 Thread Chip
I am trying to move 'Fine' just a bit to the left and am using this markup - \once \property Voice.TextScript \override #'extra-offset = #'(2 . -5) What I want is the 'Fine' over the double bar - R2*31 \bar "||" \once \property Voice.TextScript \override #'extra-offset = #'(2 . -5) R2^"Fine" b

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius

2009-04-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> You could adapt the parser so it stores simple_elements (or whatever > they are called) in a variable automatically (say 'r'), and you can > repeat things using \r. This could also be the implementation > mechanism for default durations. This still needs two characters -- and would it be possi

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius

2009-04-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >> As far as the exact syntax is concerned would it be possible to just >> use no character at all? >> >> c4 2 8. 16 > > Aah, indeed this looks optimal!  Han-Wen? This looks like a syntactic nightmare. You are suggesting c4 c 4 -> c4 c4 c

Re: is this markup no longer applicable?

2009-04-04 Thread Chip
Nick Payne wrote: You can use tweak: R2-\tweak #'extra-offset #'(2 . 0)^\markup { Fine } Nick Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately it is not working. The word Fine just stays put over the rest, no matter what numbers I put in there. -- Chip -Original Message- From: lilypond-u

RE: is this markup no longer applicable?

2009-04-04 Thread Nick Payne
You can use tweak: R2-\tweak #'extra-offset #'(2 . 0)^\markup { Fine } Nick > -Original Message- > From: lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.on@gnu.org > [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.on@gnu.org] On > Behalf Of Chip > Sent: Sunday, 5 April 2009 09:32 >

Re: my articles and astroturfng LWN

2009-04-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > As for LilyPond vs. Sibelius: if we do it, we should do it > objectively.  One thing we might do in the new website is to have > examples of notation from the latest software (lilypond stable, > finale 20XY, sibelius 20AB, etc) and point o

Re: default midi velocity

2009-04-04 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/4/09 4:21 PM, "Neil Puttock" wrote: > 2009/4/3 Carl D. Sorensen : > >> Anybody willing to take this on as a patch?  It shouldn't be too hard, but I >> imagine it'll take some time grepping through the source files. > > If we agree that it's just a case of changing the default velocity,

Re: is this markup no longer applicable?

2009-04-04 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Chip: The word Fine just stays put over the rest, no matter what numbers I put in there. I think you're looking for MultiMeasureRestText, not TextScript. HTH! Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailm

Re: is this markup no longer applicable?

2009-04-04 Thread Chip
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Chip: The word Fine just stays put over the rest, no matter what numbers I put in there. I think you're looking for MultiMeasureRestText, not TextScript. HTH! Kieren. Thanks for the reply. Doesn't matter what I put in there - when I run it I get an error that it does

Re: is this markup no longer applicable?

2009-04-04 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 09:04:25PM -0700, Chip wrote: > Kieren MacMillan wrote: >> Chip: >> >>> The word Fine just stays put over the rest, no matter what numbers I >>> put in there. >> >> I think you're looking for MultiMeasureRestText, not TextScript. >> >> HTH! >> Kieren. > Thanks for the repl

Re: is this markup no longer applicable?

2009-04-04 Thread Chip
Got it working, the order of the whole thing was wrong. Here's how it should be - R2*31 \bar "||" \once \override Voice.MultiMeasureRestText #'extra-offset = #'(-7 . 1) R2^"Fine" Leave out the \property, move \override before the Voice. Now I have the Fine centered over the double bar. Than

Automatic beaming

2009-04-04 Thread Helge Kruse
Hello, I sent this mail yesterday with the graphics attached, but it did not appear in the mailing list. I resend it with an link to the graphic at a web server. Hope this passes the moderation. I write a piece with where are a lot of triplets in one variation. It looks nice to have the beam

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius

2009-04-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> This looks like a syntactic nightmare. You are suggesting > > c4 c 4 -> c4 c4 c4 > > i.e. making white space syntactically significant. Honestly, this would be OK with me. How many users are aware that `c 4' is the same as `c4' (I wasn't, BTW)? Is this ever documented? Do we have a singl