Re: Different Raster Size for every page

2010-08-22 Thread James Lowe
Hello On 21/08/2010 19:02, Nils Gey wrote: Thank you for your answer, but it was not a question about setting and printing notation but just a technical one. Well you could simply put a different #(set-global-staff-size XX) For each score on each page I guess? However if you wanted it scal

Re: lyrics and \skip

2010-08-22 Thread Graham Okely
Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote: > > > > Arjan Bos wrote: >> The solution proposed by Mats still completely eludes me. It does >> something with the difference between \new lyrics and \context lyrics >> and the differences are still not clear to me, even after using >> lilypond for more than 2 years

Mixed Time Signatures: Non regular alternantion between 5/8 and 8/8

2010-08-22 Thread fauban
Dear Lilypond community: I am typesetting a piece in two sections: The first one consists of 5/8 and 8/8 bars. Their alternaton does not follow any pattern. Then, the next section is always in 9/8. How can I engrave one of those mixed time signatures (that is, 5/8 8/8)? (Here is an example from W

Adding a temporal 3rd staff (for only 2 bars) in a Piano Staff

2010-08-22 Thread fauban
Hello Lilypond Community! I am typesetting a piano score. As most keyboard pieces, it begins with 2 staves, but measures 14 and 15 would need a 3rd staff over the other two. (I am using the new PianoStaff command) I have tried to make something like an ossia staff, but it's not the same, as its

Re: (re?)directing compile output to a file :

2010-08-22 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: curri...@iinet.net.au To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 5:06 AM Subject: Re: (re?)directing compile output to a file : Attention : Phil Holmes I assume I have now "posted" directly to lilypond-user forum I have a "LONG post" Analysis

Re: Mixed Time Signatures: Non regular alternantion between 5/8 and 8/8

2010-08-22 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, > How can I engrave one of those mixed time signatures (that is, 5/8 8/8)? Override the TimeSignature stencil -- there are examples of how to do this in the docs and LSR. Best regards, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org h

Re: Mixed Time Signatures: Non regular alternantion between 5/8 and 8/8

2010-08-22 Thread David Bobroff
On 8/22/2010 9:32 AM, fauban wrote: Dear Lilypond community: I am typesetting a piece in two sections: The first one consists of 5/8 and 8/8 bars. Their alternaton does not follow any pattern. Then, the next section is always in 9/8. How can I engrave one of those mixed time signatures (that is

Re: Mixed Time Signatures: Non regular alternantion between 5/8 and 8/8

2010-08-22 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 22 August 2010 11:33, fauban wrote: > > Dear Lilypond community: > I am typesetting a piece in two sections: > The first one consists of 5/8 and 8/8 bars. Their alternaton does not > follow any pattern. > Then, the next section is always in 9/8. > > How can I engrave one of those mixed time sig

Re: Adding a temporal 3rd staff (for only 2 bars) in a Piano Staff

2010-08-22 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "fauban" To: Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 10:52 AM Subject: Adding a temporal 3rd staff (for only 2 bars) in a Piano Staff Hello Lilypond Community! I am typesetting a piano score. As most keyboard pieces, it begins with 2 staves, but measures 14 and 15 wo

Re: Mixed Time Signatures: Non regular alternantion between 5/8 and 8/8

2010-08-22 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Sonntag, 22. August 2010, um 11:40:14 schrieb David Bobroff: > On 8/22/2010 9:32 AM, fauban wrote: > > Dear Lilypond community: > > I am typesetting a piece in two sections: > > The first one consists of 5/8 and 8/8 bars. Their alternaton does not > > follow any pattern. > > Then, the next sec

Re: Mixed Time Signatures: Non regular alternantion between 5/8 and 8/8

2010-08-22 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Reinhold, > for 20th-century music it's no uncommon to have alternating time signatures. Yes. > The main problem for lilypond is not the display, since the stencil can be > easily overridden, but rather the automatic barline feature, which needs to > know how long a particular measure needs

Re: Sustaining to end of measure (to bar line)?

2010-08-22 Thread James Bailey
On Aug 22, 2010, at 7:43 AM, Jesse Bye wrote: > On 8/21/2010 1:55 PM, Jesse Bye wrote: >> I'm writing a piece of music where I'd like to sustain some notes to the >> end of a measure: >> >> \set tieWaitForNote = ##t >> \set Staff.pedalSustainStyle = #'bracket >> e,4~\sustainOn fis~ b~ 4~ >> % 10

Re: Mixed Time Signatures: Non regular alternantion between 5/8 and 8/8

2010-08-22 Thread fauban
Xavier Scheuer wrote: > > > There is a snippet "Compound time signatures" in the doc, > NR 1.2.3 Displaying rhythms > Time signature > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/displaying-rhythms.html#time-signature > > Cheers, > Xavier > > Oh!, you may not have understood me wel

Re: Mixed Time Signatures: Non regular alternantion between 5/8 and 8/8

2010-08-22 Thread fauban
Kieren MacMillan wrote: > > Hi, > >> How can I engrave one of those mixed time signatures (that is, 5/8 8/8)? > > Override the TimeSignature stencil -- there are examples of how to do this > in the docs and LSR. > > Best regards, > Kieren. > __ >

Re: Mixed Time Signatures: Non regular alternantion between 5/8 and 8/8

2010-08-22 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Fauban, > I would like to ask you a couple of questions: > 1-The time signature is going to take some place, so how can I fix that? > 2-How can I engrave the [...] signature? \version "2.13.29" #(define ((custom-time-signature one two three four five six) grob) (grob-interpret-markup grob

Re: Mixed Time Signatures: Non regular alternantion between 5/8 and 8/8

2010-08-22 Thread fauban
Kieren MacMillan wrote: > > > ...Yes, but once you've displayed the initial TS, you can just turn off > the stencil: > > \version "2.13.29" > > #(define ((custom-time-signature one two three four five six) grob) >(grob-interpret-markup grob > (markup #:override '

Re: Adding a temporal 3rd staff (for only 2 bars) in a Piano Staff

2010-08-22 Thread fauban
Phil Holmes-2 wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "fauban" > To: > Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 10:52 AM > Subject: Adding a temporal 3rd staff (for only 2 bars) in a Piano Staff > > >> Hello Lilypond Community! >> I am typesetting a piano score. >> As most keyboard pieces, it

Re: Mixed Time Signatures: Non regular alternantion between 5/8 and 8/8

2010-08-22 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Fauban, > I must admit I don't completely understand this code, but it works!! Here's a commented version: \version "2.13.29" %% Define a function to display custom time signatures #(define ((custom-time-signature one two three four five six) grob) (grob-interpret-markup grob

Re: Mixed Time Signatures: Non regular alternantion between 5/8 and 8/8

2010-08-22 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Sonntag, 22. August 2010, um 17:10:07 schrieb fauban: > I must admit I don't completely understand this code, but it works!! Basically, at the beginning, you modify the displayed time signature to display 3/4 5/8 2/4 rather then the default (#'stencil is the graphical object that will be disp

Re: Different Raster Size for every page

2010-08-22 Thread David Rogers
* James Lowe [2010-08-22 09:24]: Hello On 21/08/2010 19:02, Nils Gey wrote: Thank you for your answer, but it was not a question about setting and printing notation but just a technical one. Well you could simply put a different #(set-global-staff-size XX) For each score on each page I g

Re: Different Raster Size for every page

2010-08-22 Thread Francisco Vila
2010/8/20 Nils Gey : > Sorry for the confusion. > > What I really mean is a simple question: > I want page 1/2 size 16 and page 2/2 size 18 because its the last page and > has fewer notes. > > Note: Not really "I" but "he" or "someone". For me aestethics would prevent > such a thing, but maybe th

Re: Different Raster Size for every page

2010-08-22 Thread Bernhard Ott
On 22.08.2010 21:34, Francisco Vila wrote: 2010/8/20 Nils Gey: Sorry for the confusion. What I really mean is a simple question: I want page 1/2 size 16 and page 2/2 size 18 because its the last page and has fewer notes. Note: Not really "I" but "he" or "someone". For me aestethics would preve

One line of lyrics, then two lines -> vertical alignment

2010-08-22 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hello List I have grazed the ML archive and I (believe to) remember to have seen this question before, but I couldn’t find anything, only other meanings of ”vertical alignment of lyrics“. So I’m just asking again. :-) See the attached image of a page I’d like to set. It is page 2 of a song, wh

Re: One line of lyrics, then two lines -> vertical alignment

2010-08-22 Thread James Bailey
On Aug 22, 2010, at 10:35 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Hello List > > I have grazed the ML archive and I (believe to) remember to have seen this > question before, but I couldn’t find anything, only other meanings of > ”vertical alignment of lyrics“. So I’m just asking again. :-) > > See t

Re: One line of lyrics, then two lines -> vertical alignment

2010-08-22 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sonntag, 22. August 2010 schrieb James Bailey: > > My problem now is in the last system, where the lyrics part in two lines. > > I was unable to figure out how to achieve in it the way this page shows > > it. > > > > What is your suggestion, please? > Perhaps this from the LSR will help: > ht

Re: Different Raster Size for every page

2010-08-22 Thread David Rogers
* Bernhard Ott [2010-08-22 23:42]: On 22.08.2010 21:34, Francisco Vila wrote: 2010/8/20 Nils Gey: Sorry for the confusion. What I really mean is a simple question: I want page 1/2 size 16 and page 2/2 size 18 because its the last page and has fewer notes. Note: Not really "I" but "he" or "s

Re: Different Raster Size for every page

2010-08-22 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Nils Gey wrote: > Hello list, > > I recently worked together with a publisher who said he can't understand that > there is no option in any notation-software that allows having different > raster sizes (means scaling of objects) for every page. > It is not on me

Dot collides with flag when using magstep

2010-08-22 Thread Nick Payne
In guitar scores I usually increase the default stem length to minimise the amount of manual tweaking needed to prevent fingering indications from being overlaid by beams (I usually put fingering indications above treble notes and below bass notes). If I do this, then in single-staff polyphony

Re: Dot collides with flag when using magstep

2010-08-22 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
On Mon 23 Aug 2010, 15:21 Nick Payne wrote: > If I do this, then in single-staff polyphony, with the treble voice stems > always up, the dot on a dotted B eighth note intersects the flag. For some > reason, it only happens with the note B, and only when I lengthen the stems. > > %%

re:Manuscript Writer To Lilypond convertor

2010-08-22 Thread 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng
Hello, I'm a CHinese blind musician Hu Haipeng. I have been using Lilypond since 2008, and get many benefit from it. I also know Manuscript Writer, but since it's dos based, I seldom put attention to it. Thank you for developing a tool to convert MWR into Lilypond, but can I discuss something