Re: Best name for function to create cross-style noteheads

2009-07-22 Thread Marc Hohl
TaoCG schrieb: Carl Sorensen-3 wrote: 2) For each of the instances you identified in part 1), what do you call the resulting note? I've never heard the term 'dead note' but 'ghost note' is very common. Doesn't matter if it's a string or wind instrument. Neither is it limited to woodwin

Re: feature request (concerning midi-output)

2009-07-22 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/7/21 Werner : > \midi { >        \context { >        \Score >        % harmonies = ##f >        % (output all voices but no harmonies from chordNames!) >        } > } There's already a way to do it. Try something such as \midi { \context { \type "Performer_group" \name ChordNames

Re: midi output without harmonies from ChordNames

2009-07-22 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/7/21 Mark Polesky : >> % midi-out all voices but not harmonies from ChordNames > Commands that are too specific are not as useful. The syntax allows > you to create as many score blocks as you like containing as many > combinations of elements as you like. The user has control of many > indiv

Re: Best name for function to create cross-style noteheads

2009-07-22 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Mark Polesky wrote: > > "Trevor Daniels" wrote: > > Given the wide variation in the use of the > > x-shaped note head I think the only possible > > name to use is one that reflects the shape of > > the note head - crossNote, crossNoteHead or > > similar - rather than tryin

Re: Best name for function to create cross-style noteheads

2009-07-22 Thread Marc Hohl
David Raleigh Arnold schrieb: On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Mark Polesky wrote: "Trevor Daniels" wrote: Given the wide variation in the use of the x-shaped note head I think the only possible name to use is one that reflects the shape of the note head - crossNote, crossNoteHead or similar -

Line-width in Lilypond-book

2009-07-22 Thread Hugo Leonardo Ribeiro
Hi everyone, I am trying to adjust the line width in a lilypond-book example, but whatever I try, it always look like a ragged right style. What I want is to stretch the line, in order to the chords places more distant one from each other. I searched in earlier messages and someone named Morton had

Re: Best name for function to create cross-style noteheads

2009-07-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/21/09 9:01 PM, "Mark Polesky" wrote: > > > "Trevor Daniels" wrote: >> Given the wide variation in the use of the >> x-shaped note head I think the only possible >> name to use is one that reflects the shape of >> the note head - crossNote, crossNoteHead or >> similar - rather than tryin

Re: Line-width in Lilypond-book

2009-07-22 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
2009/7/22 Hugo Leonardo Ribeiro : > Hi everyone, > I am trying to adjust the line width in a lilypond-book example, but > whatever I try, it always look like a ragged right style. What I want is > to stretch the line, in order to the chords places more distant one from > each other. Try noragged-ri

Re: Line-width in Lilypond-book

2009-07-22 Thread Jonathan Kulp
To handle this problem on my own files, I make sure to use "false" ragged-right setting inside the included lilypond file. Jon On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Hugo Leonardo Ribeiro wrote: > Hi everyone, > I am trying to adjust the line width in a lilypond-book example, but > whatever I try, it

Re: Best name for function to create cross-style noteheads

2009-07-22 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, Just adding my 2¢... I might disagree. I'm big on semantics, and I would rather have a lot of commands that create the same look but mean different things, than have one command that creates a look which could mean a lot of different things. I don't know how people will be using LilyPon

Re: Line-width in Lilypond-book

2009-07-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/22/09 8:11 AM, "Hugo Leonardo Ribeiro" wrote: > Hi everyone, > I am trying to adjust the line width in a lilypond-book example, but > whatever I try, it always look like a ragged right style. What I want is > to stretch the line, in order to the chords places more distant one from > each

Re: Best name for function to create cross-style noteheads

2009-07-22 Thread Ian Hulin
Mark Polesky wrote: "Trevor Daniels" wrote: Given the wide variation in the use of the x-shaped note head I think the only possible name to use is one that reflects the shape of the note head - crossNote, crossNoteHead or similar - rather than trying to find a suitable generic name which adequat

"anchors" in the music stream?

2009-07-22 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, Like many Lilyponders, I break down my code into variables, e.g. global (for time signature changes, etc.), notes, dynamics, etc. The main irritation with this (IMO) is that each variable requires a complete set of skips in order to keep the timing accurate. Would it be technic

Re: "anchors" in the music stream?

2009-07-22 Thread Mark Polesky
Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Like many Lilyponders, I break down my code into variables, e.g. > global (for time signature changes, etc.), notes, dynamics, etc. > The main irritation with this (IMO) is that each variable > requires a complete set of skips in order to keep the timing > accurate. > > W

Re: "anchors" in the music stream?

2009-07-22 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mark, Have you tried using the \tag command? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Different- editions-from-one-source#Using-tags Certainly I've used \tag for filtering content, but I don't understand how \tag could help with the problem I'm describing... could you

Re: Best name for function to create cross-style noteheads

2009-07-22 Thread Marc Hohl
Ian Hulin schrieb: Mark Polesky wrote: "Trevor Daniels" wrote: Given the wide variation in the use of the x-shaped note head I think the only possible name to use is one that reflects the shape of the note head - crossNote, crossNoteHead or similar - rather than trying to find a suitable generi

Re: "anchors" in the music stream?

2009-07-22 Thread Jay Anderson
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hello all, > > Like many Lilyponders, I break down my code into variables, e.g. global (for > time signature changes, etc.), notes, dynamics, etc. The main irritation > with this (IMO) is that each variable requires a complete set of skips

eps, markup and adding hammer-on/pull-off to tablature

2009-07-22 Thread Federico Bruni
Hi all, I'm trying to add hammer-on and pull-off to a tablature. These are not supported by tablature.ly, so I was told to use an .eps file and \markup to get what I want. I need your help to understand how to do it actually. Please direct me to a place of the manual where this issue is discus

Re: Best name for function to create cross-style noteheads

2009-07-22 Thread Paul Scott
Hans Aberg wrote: On 21 Jul 2009, at 20:20, Carl Sorensen wrote: ... a question come up about the name for some notation. In rock (and maybe jazz) guitar, there is a note described as a "dead note" that is notated in both tablature and staff notation with a cross-style notehead. This note i

Re: Best name for function to create cross-style noteheads

2009-07-22 Thread Paul Scott
Hans Aberg wrote: On 21 Jul 2009, at 20:20, Carl Sorensen wrote: ... a question come up about the name for some notation. In rock (and maybe jazz) guitar, there is a note described as a "dead note" that is notated in both tablature and staff notation with a cross-style notehead. This note i

2.13.3 docs emacs mode documentation AU 2.2.1 out of date?

2009-07-22 Thread Paul Scott
Hi, I'm resurrecting a laptop whose hard drive died. I'm trying to set up Emacs lilypond-mode. AU 2.2.1 tells me to do a 'make install' in the elisp directory. I don't see a makefile and 'make install' doesn't find an install target rule. Am I missing something or are the docs behind? T

Re: Best name for function to create cross-style noteheads

2009-07-22 Thread Paul Scott
Sorry for the noise. I didn't think the first version of this email had succeeded. Paul Paul Scott wrote: Hans Aberg wrote: On 21 Jul 2009, at 20:20, Carl Sorensen wrote: ... a question come up about the name for some notation. In rock (and maybe jazz) guitar, there is a note described

clip-systems png output?

2009-07-22 Thread ian rashkin
hi, am a total newbie to lilypond, but way impressed, hope to use it a lot. interested in outputting clips as png, so trying various combinations, all of which are the same result. file scale.ly: \version "2.12.0" % necessary for upgrading to future LilyPond versions. #(ly:set-option 'clip-sys

Re: 2.13.3 docs emacs mode documentation AU 2.2.1 out of date?

2009-07-22 Thread James E. Bailey
On 23.07.2009, at 04:20, Paul Scott wrote: Hi, I'm resurrecting a laptop whose hard drive died. I'm trying to set up Emacs lilypond-mode. AU 2.2.1 tells me to do a 'make install' in the elisp directory. I don't see a makefile and 'make install' doesn't find an install target rule. A

Re: eps, markup and adding hammer-on/pull-off to tablature

2009-07-22 Thread nick . payne
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; } I know nothing about tablature, but to use your EPS file in a markup would be something like markup { epsfile #X #8 #"hammer-pull.eps" } where the first parameter is the axis and the second is the amount to scale by. Nick On T

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-07-22 Thread David Fedoruk
In my discussion with my jazz professional, we looked at complex chords, in fact we deliberately looked for complex ones to find out how they were expressed. We found, quite amazingly that the more complex the chord got the more ambiguous its name became. The other thing we noted is that frequent

Re: 2.13.3 docs emacs mode documentation AU 2.2.1 out of date?

2009-07-22 Thread Paul Scott
James E. Bailey wrote: On 23.07.2009, at 04:20, Paul Scott wrote: Hi, I'm resurrecting a laptop whose hard drive died. I'm trying to set up Emacs lilypond-mode. AU 2.2.1 tells me to do a 'make install' in the elisp directory. I don't see a makefile and 'make install' doesn't find an ins

Re: "anchors" in the music stream?

2009-07-22 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Would it be technically feasible/possible to establish a system of > "anchors" instead? This would be indeed a great feature! Werner ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: eps, markup and adding hammer-on/pull-off to tablature

2009-07-22 Thread Marc Hohl
Federico Bruni schrieb: Hi all, I'm trying to add hammer-on and pull-off to a tablature. These are not supported by tablature.ly, so I was told to use an .eps file and \markup to get what I want. Hi Federico, as long as you need simple slurs to indicate hammer-on and pull-off, you'll have t