Re: Contemporary music documentation

2009-09-05 Thread Trevor Daniels
Carl Sorensen wrote Friday, September 04, 2009 11:57 PM On 9/4/09 10:27 AM, "Trevor Daniels" wrote: Carl Sorensen wrote" Friday, September 04, 2009 3:06 PM Also, as you plan sections, remember that anything using \set or \override belongs in a snippet, not in the main text body. This

I cannot integrate music and text

2009-09-05 Thread mark damerell
I have a lilypond file which is a 4 part vocal score, 20 bars long. It runs with no visible error and prints correctly. I have tried: 1. Using OOolilypond 0.4. I inserted my file into the template "direct to lilypond", it produces lots of syntax errors. I found a minimal example: \key c \major a

Re: I cannot integrate music and text

2009-09-05 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/9/5 mark damerell : > I have a lilypond file which is a 4 part vocal score, 20 bars long. It > runs with no visible error and prints correctly. I have tried: > > 1. Using OOolilypond 0.4.  I inserted my file into the template "direct to > lilypond", it produces lots of syntax errors. I found a

Re: Contemporary music documentation

2009-09-05 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/4/09 10:37 AM, "Joseph Wakeling" wrote: > Trevor Daniels wrote: >>> In order to have a >>> meaningful manual, this may require the addition of some new LilyPond >>> commands, which is *not* a problem. >> >> And is to be recommended if it results in an >> easier user interface. > > I do

PATH and definitions.ly problem

2009-09-05 Thread Ralph Palmer
Hi - I feel kind of foolish, but . . . . I haven't had much time to do much Lilypond work on my new-ish Ubuntu setup. I'd like some advice on where to put a generic "definitions.ly" file that I want to include in most of my pieces. I'm afraid that if I put the definitions.ly in my Lilypond progra

Disconnected and oddly placed stems

2009-09-05 Thread Dan Florio
Here are the first few measures of a guitar part in a tune I'm working on: (Each line represents a measure) \version "2.12.2" \header { title = "Percussion Song" composer = "Dan Florio" } Guitar = \relative c' { << e1 g d' g >> << e, g d' fis >> << ees, g des' fis >>

Re: PATH and definitions.ly problem

2009-09-05 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/9/5 Ralph Palmer : > Hi - > > I feel kind of foolish, but . . . . > > I haven't had much time to do much Lilypond work on my new-ish Ubuntu setup. > I'd like some advice on where to put a generic "definitions.ly" file that I > want to include in most of my pieces. I'm afraid that if I put the

Re: Disconnected and oddly placed stems

2009-09-05 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Samstag, 5. September 2009 schrieb Dan Florio: > I've attached the pdf of that specific part. Notice how the stems in > the fourth measure are disconnected and opposite. Anyone know why this > is happening, and how I can fix it? Well, I don't know why, but how to avoid it: you can use multip

Re: PATH and definitions.ly problem

2009-09-05 Thread James E. Bailey
On 05.09.2009, at 17:06, Ralph Palmer wrote: Hi - I feel kind of foolish, but . . . . I haven't had much time to do much Lilypond work on my new-ish Ubuntu setup. I'd like some advice on where to put a generic "definitions.ly" file that I want to include in most of my pieces. I'm afraid

Re: Disconnected and oddly placed stems

2009-09-05 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Dan, Notice how the stems in the fourth measure are disconnected and opposite. Anyone know why this is happening, and how I can fix it? You are not correctly coding single-staff polyphony — I suggest you (re?)read the appropriate documentation sections, starting with

Re: Disconnected and oddly placed stems

2009-09-05 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/5/09 9:37 AM, "Dan Florio" wrote: > Here are the first few measures of a guitar part in a tune I'm working on: > > (Each line represents a measure) > > \version "2.12.2" > > \header > { > title = "Percussion Song" > composer = "Dan Florio" > } > > Guitar = \relative c' >

Re: Disconnected and oddly placed stems

2009-09-05 Thread James E. Bailey
On 05.09.2009, at 20:15, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 9/5/09 9:37 AM, "Dan Florio" wrote: Here are the first few measures of a guitar part in a tune I'm working on: (Each line represents a measure) \version "2.12.2" \header { title = "Percussion Song" composer = "Dan Florio"

Re: Articulate midi script

2009-09-05 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Grammostola Rosea wrote: Hi, I was wondering if the acticulate midi script is already in Lilypond? http://www.nicta.com.au/people/chubbp/articulate I put articulate.ly in my lilypondfiles folder and the script in /usr/local/bin But I got this message: d...@debian:~/lilypondfiles$ lilywrap

custum dynamic marks: how to left align instead of center below a note?

2009-09-05 Thread Frédéric Bron
Hi, In the following example, I define a new dynamic mark "p ausdrucksvoll". I would like the "p" to be centered below the note and "ausdrucksvoll" written to the right. This works fine with \markup command but \markup command is not printed on the same line as dynamics, in particular with hairpin

Re: custum dynamic marks: how to left align instead of center below a note?

2009-09-05 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 5. September 2009 21:12:03 schrieb Frédéric Bron: > In the following example, I define a new dynamic mark "p ausdrucksvoll". > I would like the "p" to be centered below the note and "ausdrucksvoll" > written to the right. [...] > Is there a

Re: custum dynamic marks: how to left align instead of center below a note?

2009-09-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 09:12:03PM +0200, Frédéric Bron wrote: > Is there a way to say the the next dynamic event should be left > aligned instead of centered? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-09/msg00811.html I really should have added that to LSR by now. Cheers, - Graham

Re: partial chord ties in second alternative

2009-09-05 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Robin & Marc, thanks for your solutions! The problem is that they don't work in a tabVoice context. (In my mail I didn't mention that I also wanted to use tablature.) So I guess the best bet is to use single staff polyphony: upper = \relative c { \voiceOne \repeat volta 2 { 1 | }

RE: PATH and definitions.ly problem

2009-09-05 Thread Nick Payne
I just put my similar file at the top of the directory structure that contains all my ly files and include it in files one or more levels down in the structure by specifying the relative path. E.g. for a file three levels down: \include "../../../definitions.ly" Nick From: lilypond-us

Re: PATH and definitions.ly problem

2009-09-05 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/9/5 Nick Payne : > \include "../../../definitions.ly" A slight problem is: this makes your file less relocatable and dependant on the depth of the directory tree which it is in. -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org www.csmbadajoz.com

Re: custum dynamic marks: how to left align instead of center below a note?

2009-09-05 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 5. September 2009 22:46:15 schrieb Graham Percival: > On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 09:12:03PM +0200, Frédéric Bron wrote: > > Is there a way to say the the next dynamic event should be left > > aligned instead of centered? > > http://lists.gnu.o

Re: Articulate midi script

2009-09-05 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Grammostola" == Grammostola Rosea writes: Grammostola> Grammostola Rosea wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was wondering if the acticulate midi script is already in >> Lilypond? Not yet. >> >> http://www.nicta.com.au/people/chubbp/articulate >> >> >> I put articulate.ly in my lilypondfiles folde

Re: Articulate midi script

2009-09-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Peter Chubb wrote: > Not yet. This won't go forgotten as long as I have anything to do with LilyPond :-) (I could open a tracker page if that may help) > Looks like the code in lilywrap.sh that tries to work out what > arguments to give Lilypond to generate just

tieWaitForNote across staves

2009-09-05 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hello, Is there a way to get the attached notation in Lilypond? I tried fooling around with tieWaitForNote but it seems the ties set in the rh keeping on waiting, and waiting, and waiting... Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Jonathan <>__

Re: The best way for a book?

2009-09-05 Thread Pierre Couderc
Thank you, Yes, as I want to make think fairly complex (bilingual+ music) , I shall study more Scribus.. Provero... PC Federico Bruni a écrit : Pierre Couderc wrote: >What is the best way for a book with Lilypond extracts in it? >I have tried LaTeX with lilypond book, but I get mixs of lily

Re: The best way for a book?

2009-09-05 Thread Pierre Couderc
Mmm, I note that you that you write : "you'll have to split each pdf produced by LilyPond". I do not understand well, because in lilypond-books used with LaTex, each individual staff is generated in an indivudual .pdf Is it not the case with Scribus..? Pierre Federico Bruni a écrit : Pier