Re: How to find the definition of a function?

2009-04-14 Thread Wei-Wei Guo
Hi Patrick, That's good enough for me. Thanks! Best wishes, Wei-Wei Patrick McCarty 写道: 2009/4/13 Wei-Wei Guo : Dear all, I sometimes want to see how a function or a variable is defined, for example the TimeScaledMusic. How can I find their definition in source code? One way is to do a se

Re: How to input a time signature in \markup?

2009-04-14 Thread Wei-Wei Guo
I want to define a new command \timesig instead of a new \markup, because I need to use it in \markup with other texts, such as \markup { \timesig #3 #4 blur blur } Best wishes, Wei-Wei Dmytro O. Redchuk 写道: You need to "define-markup-command", not "define-music-function". #(define-marku

Re: How to input a time signature in \markup?

2009-04-14 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
2009/4/14 Wei-Wei Guo : > I want to define a new command \timesig instead of a new \markup, because I > need to use it in \markup with other texts, such as > >   \markup { \timesig #3 #4 blur blur } You can include markups in markups. I did such a commands int this way, not sure if there is more c

Re: How to input a time signature in \markup?

2009-04-14 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
2009/4/14 Dmytro O. Redchuk : > 2009/4/14 Wei-Wei Guo : >> I want to define a new command \timesig instead of a new \markup, because I >> need to use it in \markup with other texts, such as >> >>   \markup { \timesig #3 #4 blur blur } > You can include markups in markups. I mean you usually do exa

Re: How to find the definition of a function?

2009-04-14 Thread Paul Scott
Wei-Wei Guo wrote: Hi Patrick, That's good enough for me. Thanks! Best wishes, Wei-Wei Patrick McCarty 写道: 2009/4/13 Wei-Wei Guo : Dear all, I sometimes want to see how a function or a variable is defined, for example the TimeScaledMusic. How can I find their definition in source code?

Re: How to find the definition of a function?

2009-04-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Many of these functions are defined in the ly/ directory in the installation, see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/Other-sources-of-information#Other-sources-of-information /Mats Patrick McCarty wrote: 2009/4/13 Wei-Wei Guo : Dear all, I sometimes wan

Re: Slur / phrasingSlur half dashed, half solid

2009-04-14 Thread Marc Hohl
Kieren MacMillan schrieb: Hi all you Slur-happy people, 1. Kudos to Mark for his amazing and generous contributions! 2. Does it (now) bother anyone else that dashed slurs do not look like real slurs? I guess I always assumed — without visually confirming, obviously — that dashed slurs were re

Re: Real World Usage

2009-04-14 Thread sdfgsdhdshd
Kieren MacMillan wrote: > >> 3) Lilypond can do this, but nobody, including the people reading >> lilypnod-user, was willing to spend an hour writing a solution for >> my own personal problems. > > a) Thanks... I didn't want to say it, but I figured you would! ;-) > 1) Thanks for imagining t

Re: Real World Usage

2009-04-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi "sdfgsdhdshd", 3) Lilypond can do this, but nobody, including the people reading lilypnod-user, was willing to spend an hour writing a solution for my own personal problems. a) Thanks... I didn't want to say it, but I figured you would! ;-) 1) Thanks for imagining thinks about me that ar

Re: Real World Usage

2009-04-14 Thread Brett Duncan
sdfgsdhdshd wrote: "craigbakalian" wrote lilypond can't compete with Finale; i disagree and explained why. Not so - Craig asked a question about whether the topic was about Lilypond needing a GUI - you didn't actually answer that. You did, however, say that Lilypond is missing features th

Barline spacing at rehearsal mark

2009-04-14 Thread Nick Payne
I want some extra spacing before and after the barlines where I have rehearsal marks. I tried \override Score.RehearsalMark #'extra-spacing-width (which made no visible change) and \override Staff.BarLine #'extra-spacing-width (which only adds space after the barline, though the documentation on ex

Re: Barline spacing at rehearsal mark

2009-04-14 Thread -Eluze
Nick Payne-3 wrote: > > > What command should I use? > > this should do the job (with a *-* [minus]): \once \override Staff.BarLine #'extra-spacing-width = #'(-2 . 2) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Barline-spacing-at-rehearsal-mark-tp23038247p23039029.html Sent fr

Re: How to find the definition of a function?

2009-04-14 Thread Wei-Wei Guo
Hi Mats and Paul, Thanks a lots! All your infos are helpful for me. Best wishes, Wei-Wei Mats Bengtsson 写道: Many of these functions are defined in the ly/ directory in the installation, see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/Other-sources-of-information#Other

Re: How to input a time signature in \markup?

2009-04-14 Thread Wei-Wei Guo
I tried the following expr with the new command defined by 'define-markup-command' \markup { \timesig #3 #4 } \markup { \markup \timesig #3 #4 } I don't know why. Wei-Wei Dmytro O. Redchuk 写道: 2009/4/14 Dmytro O. Redchuk : 2009/4/14 Wei-Wei Guo : I want to define a new command \timesig i

Re: How to input a time signature in \markup?

2009-04-14 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
2009/4/14 Wei-Wei Guo : > I tried the following expr with the new command defined by > 'define-markup-command' > > \markup { \timesig #3 #4 } > \markup { \markup \timesig #3 #4 } > > I don't know why. Try to define markup command as Neil suggested >> #(define-markup-command (timesig layout props

Re: Slur / phrasingSlur half dashed, half solid

2009-04-14 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Mark Polesky wrote: > > Oops. > Just back and I find this Easter present. Thanks Mark. On the dashed slur: I find it in the critical edition (Chicago Univ/Ricordi) of Verdi's Traviata edited by musicologist Fabrizio Della Seta, with the meaning of an editor-added slur. This Traviata looks lik

Re: Real World Usage

2009-04-14 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: > > in Hungarian, German and many other languages, the hyphenation often can > not be correctly done without knowing the meaning of that word. > > Also, the same applies in LilyPond: if you use manual breaks to force > breaks at convenient places, upon fu

Re: Barline spacing at rehearsal mark

2009-04-14 Thread -Eluze
Nick Payne-3 wrote: > > BTW, trying to search the LSR for either extra-spacing-width or > "extra-spacing-width" just returns a syntax error. > i know this is a pain - try https://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/list.php?type=snippet https://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/list.php?type=snippet where you can enter all (?

Re: Margins

2009-04-14 Thread Francisco Vila
I think this is not implemented directly in LilyPond but possibly doable with an external tool on the PDF. Sorry for not being more helpful 2009/4/11 Mark Austin : > Is there any way of setting a binding margin. I'm in the process of > creating a music book, and need to increase the left margin o

Re: How to input a time signature in \markup?

2009-04-14 Thread Wei-Wei Guo
Sorry for wasting your time. It works now. I didn't notice in my test file the command is \markup { \timesig #3 #4} instead of \markup { \timesig #3 #4 } Why is a white space so important? Wei-Wei Dmytro O. Redchuk 写道: 2009/4/14 Wei-Wei Guo : I tried the following expr with the ne

Re: How to input a time signature in \markup?

2009-04-14 Thread Simon Bailey
hi, On 14 Apr 2009, at 18:15, Wei-Wei Guo wrote: Sorry for wasting your time. It works now. I didn't notice in my test file the command is \markup { \timesig #3 #4} instead of \markup { \timesig #3 #4 } Why is a white space so important? i assume that the whitespace is required to p

Re: Slur / phrasingSlur half dashed, half solid

2009-04-14 Thread Mark Polesky
Marc Hohl wrote: > Daniel Taupin and Werner Icking created > some fonts for dashed slurs, I have > attached a page of a well-known piece > of contemporary electric guitar :-), > where I use dashed slurs (not created > with lilypond) Thanks Marc, That's good to see. Though the solution I prop

Re: Margins

2009-04-14 Thread Mark Polesky
Francisco Vila wrote: > > 2009/4/11 Mark Austin : > > Is there any way of setting a binding > > margin... need to increase the left > > margin of odd-numbered pages, and the > > right margin of even numbered pages... > > I think this is not implemented directly > in LilyPond but possibly doabl

Re: Margins

2009-04-14 Thread Henning Plumeyer
Am 14.04.2009, 18:32 Uhr, schrieb Mark Polesky : Francisco Vila wrote: 2009/4/11 Mark Austin : > Is there any way of setting a binding > margin... need to increase the left > margin of odd-numbered pages, and the > right margin of even numbered pages... Could we say inner margin? Should be

RE: Barline spacing at rehearsal mark

2009-04-14 Thread Nick Payne
Thanks (smacks forehead). 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 -Eluze > Sent: Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:01 > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re:

RE: Problem with barre music function

2009-04-14 Thread Nick Payne
> -Original Message- > From: Neil Puttock [mailto:n.putt...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, 3 April 2009 09:23 > To: Nick Payne > Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Problem with barre music function > > 2009/4/2 Nick Payne : > > I have a music function I use for barring indications in gui

Re: Problem with barre music function

2009-04-14 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/4/14 Nick Payne : > I asked at the beginning of the month about this problem I had come across > with the end of TextSpanners vanishing at the start of lines. However, from > reading the bug report referenced above, it seems that rather than being > considered a bug (which it would seem to

Re: Slur / phrasingSlur half dashed, half solid

2009-04-14 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/13/09 10:02 AM, "Mark Polesky" wrote: > > > Kieren MacMillan wrote: >> I now see that dashed "slurs" are simply dashed >> lines (of invariant > thickness) which curve along >> the path that a slur would take between > two notes. >> What is standard engraving practice when it comes >> to

Re: Slur / phrasingSlur half dashed, half solid

2009-04-14 Thread Mark Polesky
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > > 1. Would it be better to have an abrupt transition > from dashed to solid, or to have a gradual > transition from dashed to solid, with the > dash-fraction gradually increasing? If I had to choose only one, I would say abrupt. If you're willing to implement a gradual

Re: Re: Problem with barre music function

2009-04-14 Thread nick . payne
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Great! I'll wait for 2.13.1. Thanks Nick On Wed 15/04/09 8:00 AM , Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com sent: 2009/4/14 Nick Payne : > I asked at the beginning of the month about this problem I had come across with the end of Te

Re: How to input a time signature in \markup?

2009-04-14 Thread Wei-Wei Guo
Hi Simon, Thanks! Best wishes, Wei-Wei Simon Bailey 写道: hi, On 14 Apr 2009, at 18:15, Wei-Wei Guo wrote: Sorry for wasting your time. It works now. I didn't notice in my test file the command is \markup { \timesig #3 #4} instead of \markup { \timesig #3 #4 } Why is a white space