Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

2009-04-21 Thread Frédéric Bron
> dammit, i should think a bit more before answering things. TextSpanner has > been moved to the score context, so we need to tell the override to use the > TextSpanner objects in the Score context rather than the default. Wonderful, you did it! Thank you very much. The more I use lily, the more I

Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

2009-04-21 Thread Simon Bailey
On 21 Apr 2009, at 09:11, Frédéric Bron wrote: dammit, i should think a bit more before answering things. TextSpanner has been moved to the score context, so we need to tell the override to use the TextSpanner objects in the Score context rather than the default. Wonderful, you did it! Tha

Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

2009-04-21 Thread Simon Bailey
frédéric, On 21 Apr 2009, at 09:50, Frédéric Bron wrote: Halas, for StaffGroup, the trick works but the spanners are all at the top of the score, not above each StaffGroup. now i'm at wit's end. my first suggestion would be to just put the Text_spanner_engraver in the top staff of each Sta

Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

2009-04-21 Thread Frédéric Bron
Halas, for StaffGroup, the trick works but the spanners are all at the top of the score, not above each StaffGroup. Frédéric \version "2.12.0" stringendo = { \textSpannerUp \override StaffGroup.TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = "Stringendo" } \new Score << \new StaffGroup \with {

Re: Fingerings with Flat Symbol

2009-04-21 Thread Robin Bannister
Jonathan Townes wrote: the use of fingerings would be much faster and require less typing This nice aspect of fingerings is due to the parser knowing what a fingering looks like. But this is defined as being a single digit, so you only have ten things you can ask for (corresponding to 0 .. 9)

Re: my articles and astroturfng LWN

2009-04-21 Thread Dave Phillips
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Hi Dave, Hi Jan ! Sorry for this delayed reply, I've been a bit overwhelmed here. Too much work, too much family stuff going on, too much of everything except spare time. If your objection to LWN is re: someone else's comment on my articles Yeah, that'

Re: The LilyPond Report, again!

2009-04-21 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op maandag 13-04-2009 om 18:17 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Valentin Villenave: > Well, it's time for a reboot! The LilyPond Report is back, with a new > design, new features... but still the same spirit :-) Yay, hooray! Thanks! Oh, and good for you for taking the, uhm, break, it was well wort

Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

2009-04-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Frédéric: Halas, for StaffGroup, the trick works but the spanners are all at the top of the score, not above each StaffGroup. Maybe this hint will help you solve the problem: \version "2.12.2" \layout { \context { \type "Engraver_group" \con

Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

2009-04-21 Thread Simon Bailey
now that's a far more elegant solution than anything i'd ever have come up with. :) thanks, kieren, i just learnt some new things. :) regards, sb On 21 Apr 2009, at 14:27, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Frédéric: Halas, for StaffGroup, the trick works but the spanners are all at the top of the

Fingering font size on grace notes

2009-04-21 Thread Nick Payne
Fingering indications on grace notes doesn't shrink to be proportional to the reduced size of the grace note, and the full size indication looks excessively large alongside the note. It's easy enough to override - using \override Fingering #'font-size = #-8 seems about right - but perhaps this shou

dual window editor

2009-04-21 Thread rathcoffey
I'm a new user of Lily Pond.  I'm running the program under Windows XP (I know, I know, don't tell me...)  I find it fast and easy to use.  I prefer it to Finale because it's so easy to debug the code. JEdit is O.K., but it would be a big help to me if there were a dual-window editor that

one other thing - documentation

2009-04-21 Thread rathcoffey
(see previous post).  I found the Manual and the Notation Reference very helpful.  I just have a couple of suggestions. The Command Summary which is part of Notation Reference (Appendix C, Cheat Sheet, page 545 ff.) could be extracted and made part of the short Guides.  Once I learned it w

Re: dual window editor

2009-04-21 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op maandag 20 april 2009, schreef rathcof...@comcast.net: > JEdit is O.K., but it would be a big help to me if there were a dual-window > editor that would incorporate an interpreter (rather than a compiler). One > window would show the text file as it was being developed; the other side > would d

Re: one other thing - documentation

2009-04-21 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:34:56PM +, rathcof...@comcast.net wrote: > The Command Summary which is part of Notation Reference > (Appendix C, Cheat Sheet, page 545 ff.) could be extracted and > made part of the short Guides. Once I learned it was there, I > found it in Notation Reference, print

Re: dual window editor

2009-04-21 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/20/09 6:26 AM, "rathcof...@comcast.net" wrote: > I'm a new user of Lily Pond. I'm running the program under Windows XP (I > know, I know, don't tell me...) I find it fast and easy to use. I prefer it > to Finale because it's so easy to debug the code. > There's nothing wrong with run

Re: one other thing - documentation

2009-04-21 Thread Simon Bailey
mw, On 20 Apr 2009, at 14:34, rathcof...@comcast.net wrote: You could make these conventions explicit - I had to learn about them by trial and error. cis'4 is a valid command; cis4' is not. there is a perverse logic to this, which makes it not a convention but syntax. the ' and , are actu

Re: dual window editor

2009-04-21 Thread Simon Bailey
hi, On 20 Apr 2009, at 14:26, rathcof...@comcast.net wrote: I'm a new user of Lily Pond. I'm running the program under Windows XP (I know, I know, don't tell me...) I find it fast and easy to use. I prefer it to Finale because it's so easy to debug the code. lily works well on windows,

Re: one other thing - documentation

2009-04-21 Thread Simon Bailey
sorry if this is double posted, my mail-client seems to be affected by sunspot activity or the lack of it. :) mw, On 20 Apr 2009, at 14:34, rathcof...@comcast.net wrote: You could make these conventions explicit - I had to learn about them by trial and error. cis'4 is a valid command; cis4

Re: dual window editor

2009-04-21 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
on a mac, i use TeXShop. you can probably get TeXniccenter on windows to play nicely with lilypond -- iirc it's easy to add a new typesetting engine to it, but i haven't done things like that on windows for a few years. (i think they called them output profiles). or you can go the route of JE

Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

2009-04-21 Thread Frédéric Bron
Exellent, it is exactly what I was hoping! I am going back to the documentation to see if I can learn such magic things. Thanks! Frédéric ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

2009-04-21 Thread Simon Bailey
frédéric, On Apr 21, 2009, at 6:54 PM, Frédéric Bron wrote: Exellent, it is exactly what I was hoping! I am going back to the documentation to see if I can learn such magic things. start in LM 3.3 and then move on to NR 5.1. regards, sb -- Simon Bailey Oompa Loompa of Science +43 699 190 631

Lilypond Tool in jEdit

2009-04-21 Thread Helge Kruse
Hello, I installed jEdit and LilyPondTool (LPT) at Windows XP. Unfortunately LPT could not be installed with the Plugin Manager of jEdit 4.2. So I choosed to install jEdit 4.3pre16 (the development version) and LPT. I also write in LaTeX and tried to use jEdit for this purpose. But jEdit han

Re: Lilypond Tool in jEdit

2009-04-21 Thread Kees Serier
Helge Kruse schreef: > Hello, > > I installed jEdit and LilyPondTool (LPT) at Windows XP. > Unfortunately LPT could not be installed with the Plugin Manager of > jEdit 4.2. So I choosed to install jEdit 4.3pre16 (the development > version) and LPT. > LPT works nice in jEdit 4.3pre16 on Windows XP

Lilypond to XML

2009-04-21 Thread craigbakalian
Hi all, Do we have anything to convert a lilypond file to a music xml file. Doing a google search just provides the opposite, xml to lily. Anybody know of anything? Craig Bakalian 560 Keswick Drive Yardley, PA 19067 215-428-0856 ___ lilypond

Re: Grace Note in Pick-Up Bar

2009-04-21 Thread grisu_76
I tried your recommendations with the \grace before the \partial; it doesn't seem to work; as requested, here's the full example; it is based on two files: the second one is the music-file and the first one is the file for the full score, including the music-file %% FILE 1: \include "sa

Re: Lilypond to XML

2009-04-21 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dienstag, 21. April 2009 20:24:42 craigbakalian wrote: > Do we have anything to convert a lilypond file to a music xml file. No, Reinhold - -- - -- Reinhold Kainhofer, reinh...@

Re: Lilypond to XML

2009-04-21 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/21 craigbakalian : >        Do we have anything to convert a lilypond file to a music xml file. > Doing a google search just provides the opposite, xml to lily.  Anybody > know of anything? This is a popular feature request, and hopefully someone will implement it some day: http://code.goog

Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

2009-04-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, Frédéric wrote: Exellent, it is exactly what I was hoping! Glad to hear that! I am going back to the documentation to see if I can learn such magic things. Bonne chance! _ Simon wrote: now that's a far more elegant solution than anything i'd ever have come up with.

Re: Lilypond to XML

2009-04-21 Thread Jack Cooper
As others have replied, this isn't currently a lilypond feature.  However, a commercial program called pdftomusicpro provides translation between pdf output and another format which can then be exported to musicxml.  It works pretty well, although I've only used it for leadsheet and songbook-style

Re: dual window editor

2009-04-21 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: > > Actually as LPT has its own parser, which can tell more or less whether > the current input is valid, a constantly updated view could be possible. > (Like looking for the last valid version of the file in every 30 seconds > and generate the file.) >

Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

2009-04-21 Thread -Eluze
Kieren MacMillan wrote: > > > Since I'm currently teaching (a week-long FileMaker Pro course), I > must be in good instructor mode... ;-) > > nice solution so far - but still some open points! trying to take advantage of your mood i'll ask the following questions: - it might be simpler to

Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

2009-04-21 Thread Simon Bailey
hiya, On 22 Apr 2009, at 00:35, -Eluze wrote: nice solution so far - but still some open points! trying to take advantage of your mood i'll ask the following questions: - it might be simpler to use skips (s) in the contextSpan voice kieren was probably copy-pasting and saving time. if you

Hymns with several verses and a chorus

2009-04-21 Thread johanperu
Hi, I am to do many hymns with 2 to 6 verses. Then the music continues with some and a single chorus follows. I do the hymns with the verses, fine. I can add the chorus when the chorus has the same music as the verses below the bottom staff. (There are two staffs, like piano music, treble and

Re: invisible pedal sustain

2009-04-21 Thread Jay Anderson
Steve Yegge gmail.com> writes: > Any idea how to squelch these? -steve I don't know how to disable these warnings, but there are a couple other options which would yield the same result without warnings: - Separate the pedals from the music. This would be similar to how the "Piano template with c

Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

2009-04-21 Thread Frédéric Bron
> - it might be simpler to use skips (s) in the contextSpan voice This would be more complicated as I just have to write \clarinet for example whereas with spaces, I would have to calculate exactly where each spanners goes (I am writing the 4th symphony of Schumann and the conductor score is 100 pa

Re: Hymns with several verses and a chorus

2009-04-21 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 22.04.2009 um 04:55 schrieb johanperu: Hi, I am to do many hymns with 2 to 6 verses. Then the music continues with some and a single chorus follows. I do the hymns with the verses, fine. I can add the chorus when the chorus has the same music as the verses below the bottom staff.

Re: dual window editor

2009-04-21 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: Feel free to contribute this feature ;-) Doh! :( That didn't mean I wouldn't do it :) Bert ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Hymns with several verses and a chorus

2009-04-21 Thread Tom Dickson
What I normally do is just typeset the music as one piece, and then one verse is extra long. So: sopMusic { cccetc} verseOne { A song A chorus} verseTwo { A song} This shows correctly and the most I have to do is \break the music at the right place. You can even use a \markup to add R

Re: Lilypond Tool in jEdit

2009-04-21 Thread Helge Kruse
I also write in LaTeX and tried to use jEdit for this purpose. But jEdit hangs several times per hour when running LaTeX. I argue that it would be better to use the stable version 4.2 of jEdit. But there's no LPT available I haven't used LaTeX for some years, that was before I used jEdit. Yo