Re: instrumentName in StaffGroup

2011-01-15 Thread Jan Warchoł
2011/1/14 Reinhold Kainhofer : > To be honest, I don't understand, why the Instrument_name_engraver is not > added to all staff group contexts by default. It is a very simple engraver, so > it would not induce much overhead. > From a user's point of view, if he sets an instrument name, he wants it

Re: Complex time signature

2011-01-15 Thread Patrick Horgan
Someone mentioned this format and I had the files laying around from when they came through the list before. I didn't keep track of who wrote them. compound-test.png \version "2.11.62" compoundTimeSignature = #(define-music-function (parser layout timesig compound) (list? list?) #{ % gr

Re: instrumentName in StaffGroup

2011-01-15 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 14 January 2011 20:56, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > > To be honest, I don't understand, why the Instrument_name_engraver is not > added to all staff group contexts by default. It is a very simple engraver, so > it would not induce much overhead. And it does not have any side effects. On > the ot

Re: overrideBeamSettings

2011-01-15 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 15 January 2011 07:03, Helge Kruse wrote: > > I have tried to set this excerpt from a score but failed with some > problems: > > 1) As you can see there is a staff change again and again. It's annoying to > switch as shown below. Can this be done better? You could use a variable to make the s

Re: lilypond-book unwanted space

2011-01-15 Thread Peter O'Doherty
Thanks Graham and Federico. I actually took another route, cheating I suppose, which suits my requirements just as well. I created two pdfs, one from a .lytex file which includes introductory text and music snippets and one from a .ly file containing the main score and then combined them into o

Parallel installation of different Lilypond version

2011-01-15 Thread Helge Kruse
Hello, I have installed several versions of Liylpond in parallel. That's useful if you migrate to a newer version to use it's features. But I can't modify all sources at once. That's why I need to install the current version while keeping the old. When I try to install lilypond-2.13.46-1.min

Re: Parallel installation of different Lilypond version

2011-01-15 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Helge Kruse" To: Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2011 12:28 PM Subject: Parallel installation of different Lilypond version Hello, I have installed several versions of Liylpond in parallel. That's useful if you migrate to a newer version to use it's features

Re: Parallel installation of different Lilypond version

2011-01-15 Thread Vicente Solsona
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:28:44 +0100, Helge Kruse wrote: Hello, I have installed several versions of Liylpond in parallel. That's useful if you migrate to a newer version to use it's features. But I can't modify all sources at once. That's why I need to install the current version while ke

Re: Parallel installation of different Lilypond version

2011-01-15 Thread Music Teacher
Hi, 2011/1/15, Vicente Solsona : > On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:28:44 +0100, Helge Kruse > when I want to use 2.12, I rename the new directory to \Lilypond_2.13 and > the > old to \Lilypond, i.e, the "active" installation is always C:\Program > Files\Lilypond > and the "inactive" ones are renamed. > > I

Re: OverrideBeamSettings

2011-01-15 Thread David Kastrup
Helge Kruse writes: > * > > > I have tried to set this excerpt from a score but failed with  some > problems: > > 1) As you can see there is a staff change again and again. It's > annoying to switch as shown below. Can this be done better? > > 2) The staff change does not work in the first measur

Workarounds for impressionistic music

2011-01-15 Thread Mike Solomon
Hey all, For class the other day, I had to typeset a Debussy example, and I found that Lilypond does not like some of the hairier passages in Debussy. To wit: \version "2.13.46" tuptrans = { \override TupletBracket #'transparent = ##t \override TupletNumber #'transparent = ##t } arps = \rela

Re: instrumentName in StaffGroup

2011-01-15 Thread Marc Mouries
On 1/15/2011 4:56 AM, Xavier Scheuer wrote: On 14 January 2011 20:56, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: To be honest, I don't understand, why the Instrument_name_engraver is not added to all staff group contexts by default. It is a very simple engraver, so it would not induce much overhead. And it does

Re: OverrideBeamSettings

2011-01-15 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: [...] > global={ \key es\major >\time 2/4 \override Beam #'auto-knee-gap = #4 } Oops. When one uses the original pitches instead of using the wrong octave, you don't need to fiddle with auto-knee-gap to get your result. ud=#(define-music-function (parser location lo

Bug in lyric extenders?

2011-01-15 Thread Phil Holmes
If I use the following: { << \new Staff = "Staff" \new Voice = "xMelisStaff" { c''4 c''4 c''4 ~ c''4 | % 1 c''4 c''4 c''2 ~ | % 2 c''4 c''4 ~ c''2 | % 3 c''4 c''4 c''4 c''4 } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "xMelisStaff" { La la la La la la La la la la la } \new Lyrics \lyricsto

Re: Bug in lyric extenders?

2011-01-15 Thread Jan Warchoł
2011/1/15 Phil Holmes : > If I use the following: > > { > << > \new Staff = "Staff" >  \new Voice = "xMelisStaff" { >   c''4 c''4 c''4 ~  c''4  |  % 1 >   c''4 c''4 c''2 ~   |  % 2 >   c''4 c''4 ~  c''2  |  % 3 >   c''4 c''4 c''4 c''4 >  } >  \new Lyrics \lyricsto "xMelisStaff" {  La la la La la la

Re: Bug in lyric extenders?

2011-01-15 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Jan Warchoł" To: "Phil Holmes" Cc: "LilyPond User Group" Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2011 5:45 PM Subject: Re: Bug in lyric extenders? I have a workaround - ad an empty syllabe: The funny thing is that " " (1 space inside) doesn't work, and " " (2 spa

Re: Workarounds for impressionistic music

2011-01-15 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/15/11 9:39 AM, "Mike Solomon" wrote: > Hey all, > > For class the other day, I had to typeset a Debussy example, and I found that > Lilypond does not like some of the hairier passages in Debussy. To wit: > > You'll see several questionable things in Lilypond's standard output, > includin

global staff-staff spacing fails in 2.13.46

2011-01-15 Thread James Worlton
Hello, The following code compiles, but the spacing override in the layout block fails. The layout block code was copied and pasted into my test directly from the NR 4.4.1 "Within-system spacing properties". According to the docs, this is supposed to apply globally to all staves within s

Re: Workarounds for impressionistic music

2011-01-15 Thread Mike Solomon
Thanks Carl! It looks better, and I can mess w/ lily/slur.cc to make it more dynamic. Your fix gets rid of the majority of the problems. I think that in 2.15, I will work on the cross-beam stuff, as I feel that Lilypond's automatic behavior could be more responsive to them. Cheers, MS On Jan

Using lyrics in a markup

2011-01-15 Thread Marc Hohl
Hello list, is there a possibility to re-use lyrics in a markup? I am working on a musical for children and I get the sheets for several instruments, choir, partition etc. by a simple shell script which calls sed and lilypond. Now I wonder whether it is possible to create a kind of text book by

Re: why chords with notes of different duration is not supported?

2011-01-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 09:58:15PM +, Neil Puttock wrote: > On 14 January 2011 21:04, David Kastrup wrote: > > > Sometimes I am inclined to just commit and be done.  After all, this > > would just omit a warning in working cases, and would fix the totally > > broken warning message when breve

Re: why chords with notes of different duration is not supported?

2011-01-15 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival writes: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 09:58:15PM +, Neil Puttock wrote: >> On 14 January 2011 21:04, David Kastrup wrote: >> >> > Sometimes I am inclined to just commit and be done.  After all, this >> > would just omit a warning in working cases, and would fix the totally >> >

Re: Using lyrics in a markup

2011-01-15 Thread Neil Puttock
On 15 January 2011 19:01, Marc Hohl wrote: > Now I wonder whether it is possible to create a kind of text book by > including the lyrics in a markup, perhaps with a scheme function which > replaces the " -- " by "". > > Is it possible to store the text in a variable? Store the lyrics first, then

Re: global staff-staff spacing fails in 2.13.46

2011-01-15 Thread Keith OHara
James Worlton gmail.com> writes: The following code compiles, but the spacing override in the layout block fails. The layout block code was copied and pasted into my test directly from the NR 4.4.1 "Within-system spacing properties". ... \override VerticalAxisGroup #'staff-staff-spacing #'b

Adding repeat bars at the beginning of a chant piece

2011-01-15 Thread Michael Dykes
I have a piece of Orthodox Chant that requires a repeat at the very beginning of the piece. Attached is the piece with all of the music and the repeat at the end of where the repeated music ends, but I also need the repeat sign at the beginning of this piece. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Re: Adding repeat bars at the beginning of a chant piece

2011-01-15 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/15/11 8:18 PM, "Michael Dykes" wrote: > I have a piece of Orthodox Chant that requires a repeat at the very beginning > of the piece. Attached is the piece with all of the music and the repeat at > the end of where the repeated music ends, but I also need the repeat sign at > the beginning o

Tempo indication prolongs StaffSymbol #'line-count

2011-01-15 Thread Mike Solomon
Hey all, \version "2.13.46" markings = { s1 \mark \markup { \musicglyph #"scripts.ufermata" } \tempo Langsam s1 s1 } foo = { b'1 \stopStaff \override Staff . StaffSymbol #'line-count = #1 \startStaff b' \stopStaff \override Staff . StaffSymbol #'line-count = #5 \startStaff b' | } \score { \ne