Re: Major and minor

2010-02-05 Thread Éric Bouvéron
Hi, No answer for this? Is it possible to change the position of the triangle "major" to align it with the chord name, as it is with the m for "minor" ? Thanks, Éric 2010/2/4 Éric Bouvéron > Hi, > I include a file, on which I tried to show a probblem. > When major, a triangle is put up the name

Re: obsfuscated use of lilypond

2010-02-05 Thread Patrick McCarty
On 2010-02-05, Helge Kruse wrote: > I found a lilypond script on a programmer's website. It shall print > piano keys. But this gives only errors when I compile it with > lilypond. Would it be really possible to achieve what is requested > or is it just a joke? > > Here is the link: http://kuerzer.

Re: Community of professional LilyPond engravers?

2010-02-05 Thread Karl Hammar
Michael J. O'Donnell: > I am pondering offering engraving services with LilyPond. I wonder if > there are people ready and willing to share information on the > possibility to make modest money this way. Why not, it comes down to finding the customer. A former teacher of mine did engraving, but th

Re: Quality images for Wikipedia - several questions

2010-02-05 Thread Patrick McCarty
Hi Steve, You have you "reply to all" to keep messages on the list. On 2010-02-05, Steve Taylor wrote: > On 5 February 2010 17:49, Patrick McCarty wrote: > > > lilypond -dbackend=svg myfile.ly > > Yes, that works, apart from the cropping. I should try uploading one of > these files to wikime

Re: Remove key change warning at end of line

2010-02-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Tom Dickson wrote: I have a piece where I want to change keys without the key change being shown at the end of the previous line. \relative c' { \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \key bes \major g'1 g1 \bar "|." | \break \set Staff.printKeyCancellat

Re: Circular Staff in Inkscape [was Re: Lilypond vs Score]

2010-02-05 Thread Francisco Vila
2010/2/4 Francisco Vila : > 2010/2/4 Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) >> >> Circular staves ARE possible with pure LilyPond, just look at this: >> > > Great and almost perfect, except for the six-line staff What version did you use? I can not reproduce the example either in 2.13.12 nor 2.13.13, see

Re: Remove key change warning at end of line

2010-02-05 Thread Trevor Daniels
Tom Dickson wrote Friday, February 05, 2010 4:27 AM I have a piece where I want to change keys without the key change being shown at the end of the previous line. The two sections "Using break-visibility" and "Special considerations", both in section 5.4.7 of the Notation Reference will sho

Re: PDF vs HTML links

2010-02-05 Thread Francisco Vila
2010/2/5 Nick Payne : > There are links that work in the PDF version of the documentation but not in > the HTML version. For example, in the latest 2.13.12 PDF documentation, on > p.224 of the Notation Reference (selected fingering snippets), there are > links at the bottom of the page to the Strin

Re: Circular Staff in Inkscape[was Re: Lilypond vs Score]

2010-02-05 Thread Bertalan Fodor
2.12 i suppose that the difference in the default spacing or margins causing this ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Best practice when typesetting transposing instruments.

2010-02-05 Thread Kirill
Hi LilyPond Gurus, I cannot quite find figure out from the manual which is a better practice when typesetting transposing instruments (say, a B\flat clarinet): 1) Specifying \transposition bes { ... } and then writing out the transposed part. Or 2) Using \transpose bes, c {\transposition bes ...}

The "Gigsaw": about polymetric

2010-02-05 Thread Philippe Hezaine
Hi all, For the upcoming upgrade release the Drummer's "Gigsaw" will be becoming an polymetric editor for drums and percussions (with midi velocities). I'm currently writing a few demos and in the following one i'm wondering if I can get rid of this issues: 1. The output is OK but I have many Av

Re: Best practice when typesetting transposing instruments.

2010-02-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It all depends on what you find convenient and what source material you have available. For example, sometimes you have a set of hand-written orchestral parts that you want to make readable, in which case it's easiest to input the notes as they are written in the original parts (including transp

Fw: Quality images for Wikipedia - several questions

2010-02-05 Thread Gerard McConnell
Are there any concerns about the images not being viewable on some browsers or operating systems (e.g. missing fonts)? Hello, I'm using LilyPond 2.12 and Inkscape 0.47 on Win XP. The following doesn't exactly answer your question but is related. When SVG output from LilyPond is loaded into Inks

Re: String number in/out of the staff

2010-02-05 Thread Bobber
Nick Payne wrote: \override Fingering #'staff-padding = #'() % vertical fingering inside the staff \override StringNumber #'staff-padding = #'() % vertical string numbers inside the staff \override StrokeFinger #'staff-padding = #'() % vertical stroke fingering inside t

Re: PDF vs HTML links

2010-02-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Francisco Vila wrote: > Those links should point to > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/snippets/fretted-strings > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/internals/strokefinger I believe this is now fixed in git. Cheers, - Graham __

Re: Best practice when typesetting transposing instruments.

2010-02-05 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hello. > I cannot quite find figure out from the manual which is a better practice when > typesetting transposing instruments (say, a B\flat clarinet): I use the following (assuming that the music contents is in variable "clarinetNotes" and that the "global" variable namely contains the "\key" de

Re: Community of professional LilyPond engravers?

2010-02-05 Thread Caio Barros
I've already done some paid engraving, but only with Finale and Sibelius (because i'm new to lilypond), first as a scholarship, I got paid to be the copist of my university's orchestra, and then I've done some freelance jobs. I think unless you are very lucky is almost impossible to become a profes

Re: Community of professional LilyPond engravers?

2010-02-05 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Michael J. O'Donnell wrote: I am pondering offering engraving services with LilyPond. I wonder if there are people ready and willing to share information on the possibility to make modest money this way. I think the problem with this is that most customers nowadays have big expectations on

Re: vertical spacing

2010-02-05 Thread Ole Schmidt
Am 05.02.2010 um 02:08 schrieb Neil Puttock: > Try setting padding in between-system-spacing: > > \paper { > between-system-spacing = #'((padding . 1)) > } > > Regards, > Neil Thanks, but when I put this line in my paper block it does have no effect, what am I doing wrong? ole %%%

Fwd: vertical spacing

2010-02-05 Thread Ole Schmidt
oops, it does have an effect, but between the wrong systems (see attached jpg),how can I achive distance between the first two and the second two systems?thanksole              <>Am 05.02.2010 um 02:08 schrieb Neil Puttock:Try setting padding in between-system-spacing:\paper { between-system-spacin

Fwd: vertical spacing

2010-02-05 Thread Ole Schmidt
oops, it does have an effect, but between the wrong systems (see attached jpg),how can I achive distance between the first two and the second two systems?thanksole              <>Am 05.02.2010 um 02:08 schrieb Neil Puttock:Try setting padding in between-system-spacing:\paper { between-system-spacin

Re: Best practice when typesetting transposing instruments.

2010-02-05 Thread James Lowe
This will depend on who else is seeing the music. For example I transpose a lot of music for the conductor of my orchestra (as some of us can't do it in our heads that easily), but I always set it in the original (i.e. if the conductor has it in A on their score I set it in A). That way if the

Re: Community of professional LilyPond engravers?

2010-02-05 Thread Colin Campbell
Michael J. O'Donnell wrote: I am pondering offering engraving services with LilyPond. I wonder if there are people ready and willing to share information on the possibility to make modest money this way. I found one (slightly broken) thread in the archives: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lil

Re: Community of professional LilyPond engravers?

2010-02-05 Thread Jack Cooper
Hi Michael, I would be interested in joining a discussion related to engraving and (dare I say) publishing with Lilypond, whether the discussion is part of a wiki, part of this group or part of a splinter group.. I have had a few freelance jobs fall my way and I know of folks who have hired fre

RemoveEmptyStaffContext erases previous setting

2010-02-05 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
I found out the hard way that apparently adding \RemoveEmptyStaffContext globally to a score will erase some previous settings. In particular, if you have: \layout { \context { \Staff ignoreFiguredBassRest = ##f } } \layout { \context { \RemoveEmptyStaffContext } } then the score wil

Re: Community of professional LilyPond engravers?

2010-02-05 Thread Kale Good
I'm about to graduate college with a music degree and am trying to figure out how to make a living with it (other than teaching guitar). Engraving with Lilypond is one of my many ideas. I've done a few small-scale compositions on it and am nowhere near the fluency level I would need to do this prof

Re: RemoveEmptyStaffContext erases previous setting

2010-02-05 Thread Neil Thornock
My understanding is that LilyPond can only take one \layout block - no? So any subsequent layout block will override the previous one. Have you tested this with settings other than RemoveEmptyStaffContext, to see if two layout blocks will work under any other condition? I don't think it's buggy a

Re: RemoveEmptyStaffContext erases previous setting

2010-02-05 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
On Friday 05 February 2010 17:50:28 you wrote: > My understanding is that LilyPond can only take one \layout block - > no? So any subsequent layout block will override the previous one. No,that's not true. You can have several layout blocks. Attached is an example, where the first block removes

Re: RemoveEmptyStaffContext erases previous setting

2010-02-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > I found out the hard way that apparently adding \RemoveEmptyStaffContext > globally to a score will erase some previous settings. Yes. \removeEmptyStaffContext copies the new context over the previous one. Or something like this. I re

Re: RemoveEmptyStaffContext erases previous setting

2010-02-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Neil Thornock : My understanding is that LilyPond can only take one \layout block - no? So any subsequent layout block will override the previous one. No! You can have several layout blocks and the accumulated result of all settings is used. I don't think it's buggy at all. You jus

Re: RemoveEmptyStaffContext erases previous setting

2010-02-05 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
On Friday 05 February 2010 18:05:52 you wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer > > wrote: > > I found out the hard way that apparently adding \RemoveEmptyStaffContext > > globally to a score will erase some previous settings. > > Yes. \removeEmptyStaffContext copies the new

Re: RemoveEmptyStaffContext erases previous setting

2010-02-05 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
On Friday 05 February 2010 18:20:23 you wrote: > The simple solution is to change the order, so that you do \layout { > \context { \RemoveEmptyStaffContext } > } > > before any other > > \layout { > \context { \Staff > ... > } > } > That's not easily possible if you want to have globa

Re: The "Gigsaw": about polymetric

2010-02-05 Thread Philippe Hezaine
Oops! I forgot to join 0-mydrums-style2.ly with my file. It's more easy like that. -- Phil. \version "2.12.0" #(define mydrums-style2 '( (acousticbassdrum () #f -3) (bassdrum () #f -3) (sidestick cross #f 1) (acousticsnare () #f 1) (snare () #f 1) (handclap

Re: Rehearsal marks

2010-02-05 Thread Werner
I'm more confused about, rehearsel marks are always *centered* over the element, they belong to. (Would like to have the possibility of left-align.) Because the rehearsel marks give the possibility, to get information in every single-voice but also in the whole partitur - there only once automatic

[2.13] Problem with two consecutive interruped lyrics

2010-02-05 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
Hi. I have a score with two stave and two lyrics lines both of which have "long pauses" --- let's say, a half of staff singing and next half --- silence. And i want to place both lyrics lines between these two stave. The problem is that 2.12 could place both lyric lines at the same baseline (twol

Re: Fw: Quality images for Wikipedia - several questions

2010-02-05 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Gerard McConnell wrote: >> Are there any concerns about the images not being viewable on some >> browsers >> or operating systems (e.g. missing fonts)? >> > Hello, > I'm using LilyPond 2.12 and Inkscape 0.47 on Win XP. > The following doesn't exactly answer your que

Re: Best practice when typesetting transposing instruments.

2010-02-05 Thread David Rogers
Kirill wrote: I cannot quite find figure out from the manual which is a better practice when typesetting transposing instruments (say, a B\flat clarinet): 1) Specifying \transposition bes { ... } and then writing out the transposed part. Or 2) Using \transpose bes, c {\transposition bes ...} a

Re: Community of professional LilyPond engravers?

2010-02-05 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
I sometimes perform paid engraving, e.g. arrangements or scores with translated lyrics for choirs. I do this with LilyPond. For me LilyPond is very usable to make very good-looking scores. In the coming years I hope to do more engraving and have some income from it. best regards, Wilbert Berend

placing fermata over bar of music

2010-02-05 Thread Paul Scott
Hi, Should the following work? I'm looking for a way to put a centered fermata over a bar of music. (In the actual case I want a tremolo under the fermata.) \version "2.13.12" \new Staff << { s1^\fermataMarkup } { a1 } >> TIA, Paul Scott ___

Easy noteheads

2010-02-05 Thread Robert Clausecker
Dear Lilypond Team Thank you for your quick response. I just upgraded to 2.13.9 and anything's fine. But I found another error: Easy noteheads are not working using svg-backend. Yours, Robert ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http

Re: vertical spacing

2010-02-05 Thread Ole Schmidt
Am 05.02.2010 um 02:08 schrieb Neil Puttock: > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/page-formatting#Page-formatting > > Try setting padding in between-system-spacing: > > \paper { > between-system-spacing = #'((padding . 1)) > } > > Regards, > Neil this increases the dista

Re: Easy noteheads

2010-02-05 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Robert Clausecker wrote: > > Thank you for your quick response. I just upgraded to 2.13.9 and > anything's fine. But I found another error: > > Easy noteheads are not working using svg-backend. Hi Robert, Can you be more specific about the error you are seeing, an

Re: placing fermata over

2010-02-05 Thread Patrick Karl
On 5 Feb 2010 at 14:50 Paul Scott wrote: Should the following work? I'm looking for a way to put a centered fermata over a bar of music. (In the actual case I want a tremolo under the fermata.) \version "2.13.12" \new Staff << { s1^\fermataMarkup } { a1 } >> At version 2.12.2 the right way

Community on LilyPond Wiki for professional engraving

2010-02-05 Thread Michael J. O'Donnell
There was enough interest that I whipped up a few pages on LilyPond Wiki for the community of "LilyPond Professional Toads," interested in professional use of LilyPond: http://wiki.lilynet.net/index.php/Professional_Toads I intend "professional" to be interpreted as broadly as you like. You don't

Re: Easy noteheads

2010-02-05 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/5/10 2:47 PM, "Robert Clausecker" wrote: > Dear Lilypond Team > > Thank you for your quick response. I just upgraded to 2.13.9 and > anything's fine. But I found another error: > > Easy noteheads are not working using svg-backend. They work just fine on 2.13.12. Carl

Re: Rehearsal marks

2010-02-05 Thread Trevor Daniels
Werner wrote Friday, February 05, 2010 6:37 PM I'm more confused about, rehearsel marks are always *centered* over the element, they belong to. (Would like to have the possibility of left-align.) The horizontal alignment of rehearsal marks can be changed by overriding the 'break-align-ancho

Re: Rehearsal marks

2010-02-05 Thread Werner
Hello Trevor. > All this is explained with examples in Section 5.5.1 of the Notation > Reference, in the "Using the break-alignable-interface" sub-section. Great. I think there should be a link in NR 1.2.5 Bars [1.2.5.4] Rehearsal marks to NR 5.5.1 Aligning Objects [5.5.1.4] Using the break-ali

Re: vertical spacing

2010-02-05 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 5 February 2010 23:05, Ole Schmidt wrote: > this increases the distance, but between the wrong systems (see > attached picture) how can I change the distance between the two > \score blocks? I suppose you mean the distance between the last system of first \score and the title of second \score

Re: polymetric parts - ???BUG???

2010-02-05 Thread Werner
Neil Puttock gmail.com> writes: > Please post you test file; it's difficult to diagnose what's wrong otherwise. > > Regards, > Neil Playing around I found out, that it doesn't work if there are the lines \context { \RemoveEmptyStaffContext % \context { \AncientRemoveEmptyStaffContext

Re: placing fermata over

2010-02-05 Thread Paul Scott
Patrick Karl wrote: On 5 Feb 2010 at 14:50 Paul Scott wrote: Should the following work? I'm looking for a way to put a centered fermata over a bar of music. (In the actual case I want a tremolo under the fermata.) \version "2.13.12" \new Staff << { s1^\fermataMarkup } { a1 } >> At versio

Re: Rehearsal marks

2010-02-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 12:04:04AM +, Werner wrote: > I think there should be a link in > NR 1.2.5 Bars > [1.2.5.4] Rehearsal marks > to > NR 5.5.1 Aligning Objects > [5.5.1.4] Using the break-alignable-interface > > Otherwise its hard to find! That sounds reasonable. James? > Btw - why n

Re: polymetric parts - ???BUG???

2010-02-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 12:17:56AM +, Werner wrote: > Playing around I found out, that it doesn't work if there are the lines > \context { \RemoveEmptyStaffContext > % \context { \AncientRemoveEmptyStaffContext > \override VerticalAxisGroup #'remove-first = ##t > } > } > in the

Re: Remove key change warning at end of line

2010-02-05 Thread Tom Dickson
On 2010/02/05, at 2:10 AM, Trevor Daniels wrote: > The two sections "Using break-visibility" and > "Special considerations", both in section 5.4.7 of the Notation Reference > will show you how to do this. The > "Special considerations" section contains the information > you need. > > Trevor T

Re: RemoveEmptyStaffContext erases previous setting

2010-02-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 06:20:23PM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > If would be pedagogically simpler to realize this difference if the > syntax was separate if you define a context from scratch (as is the > case with \RemoveEmptyStaffContext) or if it's defined by adding onto > an existing context.

Re: Lilypond on iPhone

2010-02-05 Thread Eric Knapp
On Thursday, February 4, 2010, Dave Addey wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I’m wondering if anyone has built or tried to build the Lilypond library for > the iPhone platform, to render engraved music on an iPhone-OS-powered device? >  I’m considering this for an upcoming project, and wanted to ask a few