manual volta help

2009-07-28 Thread David Bobroff
The following is giving me almost what I'm after. A couple things are evading my attempts to solve them. 1) I want to print the volta texts as \italic (for some reason the "rs" of "GFirst" is coming out italicized as is. 2) I would like to close the volta box on the right side of the "Fine"

Re: manual volta help

2009-07-28 Thread Robin Bannister
David Bobroff wrote: for some reason the "rs" of "GFirst" is coming out italicized as is. This is because the voltas use the music font and it has special letters for doing dynamics like sfz and rfz. The way described in NR.1.4.1. at "Text can be included ..." would in your case define mar

Re: vertical alignment of single systems on page

2009-07-28 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Christian, Am Dienstag, 28. Juli 2009 08:50:45 schrieb grisu_76: > since a couple of days I try to align a single system (orchestral score) > vertically: see attachment for details; > http://www.nabble.com/file/p24693463/Missa%2Bin%2BEs_Partitur_04

Re: vertical alignment of single systems on page

2009-07-28 Thread grisu_76
Hello Reinhold, thanks for reply; It's a pitty that there's no (?) possibility to fix that problem; Did you find some workaround, as for you report a similar problem? Thanks and kind regards, Christian Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Chr

adding tremolo to a note with dotted duration

2009-07-28 Thread Nick Didkovsky
Hello What is the proper way to add 16th note tremolo to a note that has a dotted duration? The following renders a dotted eighth note with a single tremolo slash instead of two trem slashes g'8.:16 Thank-you Nick Didkovsky ___ lilypond-user m

generating graphic examples

2009-07-28 Thread Josh Nichols
I want to be able to generate graphic musical examples without getting it formatted on a giant paper-formatted .pdf or .png. How do I accomplish this? I cannot find anything in the manual which allows this. - Josh Nichols SDG _

Re: generating graphic examples

2009-07-28 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/7/28 Josh Nichols : > I want to be able to generate graphic musical examples without getting it > formatted on a giant paper-formatted .pdf or .png.  How do I accomplish > this? > > add this block \paper{ indent=0\mm line-width=120\mm oddFooterMarkup=##f oddHeaderMarkup=##f bookTit

Re: generating graphic examples

2009-07-28 Thread Alexander Kobel
Josh Nichols wrote: I want to be able to generate graphic musical examples without getting it formatted on a giant paper-formatted .pdf or .png. How do I accomplish this? I cannot find anything in the manual which allows this. I assume you basically want to trim your output to the really u

Re: generating graphic examples

2009-07-28 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Josh, If these other methods don't work for you, and if you're running Linux or Mac OSX, then I have a bash script that does exactly what you want. See this thread for more info: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.general/41125 Jon On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Josh Nichols w

suggestion for emproving NR: fingering istructions

2009-07-28 Thread Federico Bruni
Hi, from my privileged position of newbie ;-) I have a suggestion for a very tiny edit in the Notation Reference which might ease the understanding for new users. This is the page (section Selected Snippets): http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Inside-the-staff#Fingering-

Re: suggestion for emproving NR: fingering istructions

2009-07-28 Thread Mark Polesky
Federico Bruni wrote: > from my privileged position of newbie ;-) > I have a suggestion for a very tiny edit in the Notation > Reference which might ease the understanding for new users. > > This is the page (section Selected Snippets): > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/I

Re: suggestion for emproving NR: fingering istructions

2009-07-28 Thread Jonathan Kulp
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Mark Polesky wrote: > > Federico Bruni wrote: > > from my privileged position of newbie ;-) > > I have a suggestion for a very tiny edit in the Notation > > Reference which might ease the understanding for new users. > > > > This is the page (section Selected Snip

Re: suggestion for emproving NR: fingering istructions

2009-07-28 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/7/28 Jonathan Kulp : > The changes should > make it into the development docs in the next couple of days, if I > understand the way this works. If only it were that simple. :) The LSR changes won't make their way into the docs until I run makelsr.py on the nightly docs tarball. There's a co

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-07-28 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Tim McNamara wrote: On Jul 22, 2009, at 11:12 PM, David Fedoruk wrote: 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

Re: Impro-visor lilypond support!?

2009-07-28 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Robert Keller wrote: I'll be looking toward moving Impro-Visor to a public repository, as soon as I stabilize the current version, which I hope will be before the end of June. Is SourceForge the best bet? Thanks. Bob Robert Keller Csilla & Walt Foley Professor Computer Science Harvey Mudd Co

Right block to contain setting of print-first-page-number

2009-07-28 Thread Richard Sabey
I am trying to lay out a book containing 5 songs. There is a \bookpart block for the title page, then a \bookpart block for each song. There is no explicit \book block. How do I get page numbers on all pages, including the first page for each song, except the title page? I have tried setting

How to stop Lily spreading systems over 2 pages?

2009-07-28 Thread Richard Sabey
I am having trouble getting Lilypond to lay some music out on my desired number of pages, and so I'm posting this in search of suggestions. The piece is a song. I want it on 3 pages (left, right, left). There is a forced \pageBreak. When this song is coded on its own, Lilypond successfully lay

Re: suggestion for emproving NR: fingering istructions

2009-07-28 Thread Jonathan Kulp
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Neil Puttock wrote: > 2009/7/28 Jonathan Kulp : > > The changes should > > make it into the development docs in the next couple of days, if I > > understand the way this works. > > If only it were that simple. :) > > The LSR changes won't make their way into the d

Re: Right block to contain setting of print-first-page-number

2009-07-28 Thread David Bobroff
I've been using \bookpart myself with very satisfactory results. I put print-first-page-number = ##t in the \paper{} block for each \bookpart block. I don't, however, necessarily put one piece in a \bookpart block. What I often do is put a whole number of pages in a \bookpart block. For exampl

\arpeggioArrowUp across staves

2009-07-28 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hi, I've tried every combination of \arpeggioArrowUp, connectArpeggios, and/or arpeggio-direction to get a squiggly arpeggio with an upward arrow that spans both staves of a PianoStaff, but nothing seems to work. Is it possible? I'm looking at the arpeggio examples in 1.3.3 as a guide. Thank

Re: \arpeggioArrowUp across staves

2009-07-28 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Oh, I'm using version 2.12.2 on winxp. --- On Wed, 7/29/09, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > From: Jonathan Wilkes > Subject: \arpeggioArrowUp across staves > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 6:50 AM > Hi, > > I've tried every combination of \arpeggioArrowUp, > connectArpeg

Re: \arpeggioArrowUp across staves

2009-07-28 Thread Mark Polesky
Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > I've tried every combination of \arpeggioArrowUp, connectArpeggios, and/or > arpeggio-direction to get a squiggly arpeggio with an upward arrow that > spans both staves of a PianoStaff, but nothing seems to work. > > Is it possible? I'm looking at the arpeggio example

Re: \arpeggioArrowUp across staves

2009-07-28 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Wow that was quick. Thanks! -Jonathan --- On Wed, 7/29/09, Mark Polesky wrote: > From: Mark Polesky > Subject: Re: \arpeggioArrowUp across staves > To: "Jonathan Wilkes" , lilypond-user@gnu.org > Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 7:01 AM > > Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > > > I've tried every comb

Re: \arpeggioArrowUp across staves

2009-07-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Mark Polesky wrote: Yes, but this is tricky enough that I think something should be added to the docs. Maybe when I have some time I can do that, Why not add it to the LSR? /Mats ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists

Re: \arpeggioArrowUp across staves

2009-07-28 Thread Mark Polesky
Mats Bengtsson wrote: > > Yes, but this is tricky enough that I think something should be > > added to the docs. Maybe when I have some time I can do that, > Why not add it to the LSR? First I'd like to see what the general opinion is on this: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/20

Re: \arpeggioArrowUp across staves

2009-07-28 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
> Why not add it to the LSR? > >    /Mats > I think a note about "arrowed" arpeggios that cross staves would be helpful under the Arpeggios->"Known issues and warnings" subheading in NR 1.3.3. There's such a note about cross-staff tremolos being tricky, which saved me from trying a bunch of