Re: 2.13.54 breaks NoteNames vertical spacing

2011-03-20 Thread Keith OHara
Michael Ellis gmail.com> writes: > In 2.12, the NoteNames output lays close beneath the lyric line. > In 2.13.54 the gap is quite large and the output collides with > markup above the next staff. Is there a workaround? > > Try \layout { \context { \NoteNames \override VerticalAxisGroup

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-20 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Henning" == Henning Hraban Ramm writes: Henning> Am 2011-03-18 um 11:47 schrieb Graham Percival: >> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 09:17:47AM +0100, Marc Hohl wrote: >>> Just adding articulate.ly in ly/ and giving one example in the >>> docs is probably not what you expect ... >> >> Why not? T

Re: Suppress NoteNames output on ties ?

2011-03-20 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
Is it possible to tell the NoteNames engraver to print the name for only the first note of a sequence of tied notes? mymusic = { c'4 c' ~ c'2 } \score { << \new Voice \mymusic \context NoteNames \mymusic >> } Try that %%% tiedNoteToSkip = #(define-music-function (parser loca

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-20 Thread Francisco Vila
2011/3/18 Francisco Vila : > 2011/3/18 Graham Percival : >> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 09:17:47AM +0100, Marc Hohl wrote: >>> Just adding articulate.ly in ly/ and giving one example in the docs >>> is probably not what you expect ... >> >> Why not?  That's certainly how I'd start going about this.  I

Re: Suppress NoteNames output on ties ?

2011-03-20 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 20 March 2011 09:35, Gilles THIBAULT wrote: > > Try that > > %%% > tiedNoteToSkip = #(define-music-function (parser location music) (ly:music?) > (let ((prev-was-tie? #f)) > (define (tied-note->skip evt) >(let ((elt (ly:music-property evt 'element)) > (elts (ly:mus

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-20 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 20 March 2011 09:55, Francisco Vila wrote: > > I've not checked, but is the license compatible with that of lilypond? > A simple line stating "this file has the same license as the lilypond > package" would serve. According to the header of the articulate.ly script, it is GNU General Public

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-20 Thread Peter Chubb
On 20/03/2011, at 7:55 PM, Francisco Vila wrote: > 2011/3/18 Francisco Vila : >> 2011/3/18 Graham Percival : >>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 09:17:47AM +0100, Marc Hohl wrote: Just adding articulate.ly in ly/ and giving one example in the docs is probably not what you expect ... >>> >>>

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-20 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 3/20/11 2:55 AM, "Francisco Vila" wrote: > 2011/3/18 Francisco Vila : >> 2011/3/18 Graham Percival : >>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 09:17:47AM +0100, Marc Hohl wrote: Just adding articulate.ly in ly/ and giving one example in the docs is probably not what you expect ... >>> >>> Why

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-20 Thread Francisco Vila
2011/3/20 Peter Chubb : > On 20/03/2011, at 7:55 PM, Francisco Vila wrote: >> I've not checked, but is the license compatible with that of lilypond? >> A simple line stating "this file has the same license as the lilypond >> package" would serve. > > It's released under GPL version 2.0 > Its copyr

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-20 Thread Francisco Vila
2011/3/19 Federico Bruni : > Il giorno ven, 18/03/2011 alle 16.54 +0100, Francisco Vila ha scritto: >> The attached patch includes and documents the Articulate script. > > there's a typo in line 76 of the patch: > > +etc., and take rallentendo and accelerando into account. > > s/rallentendo/rallent

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-20 Thread James Lowe
Hello, Yes very good question. One thing that comes to mind is that I don't want to arrive at a point where musician will be teaching computers to play instead of learning to play themselves. We're long past that point. Many many pop and rock and hip hop keyboardists can't really play, i.e. i

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-20 Thread David Kastrup
Francisco Vila writes: > 2011/3/20 Peter Chubb : >> On 20/03/2011, at 7:55 PM, Francisco Vila wrote: >>> I've not checked, but is the license compatible with that of lilypond? >>> A simple line stating "this file has the same license as the lilypond >>> package" would serve. >> >> It's released

Re: 2.13.54 breaks NoteNames vertical spacing

2011-03-20 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Keith OHara" To: Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 7:26 AM Subject: Re: 2.13.54 breaks NoteNames vertical spacing Michael Ellis gmail.com> writes: In 2.12, the NoteNames output lays close beneath the lyric line. In 2.13.54 the gap is quite large and the out

Re: 2.13.54 breaks NoteNames vertical spacing

2011-03-20 Thread Michael Ellis
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Phil Holmes wrote: > - Original Message - From: "Keith OHara" > To: > Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 7:26 AM > Subject: Re: 2.13.54 breaks NoteNames vertical spacing > > >> Michael Ellis gmail.com> writes: >>> >>>  In 2.12,  the NoteNames output lays close

Re: Suppress NoteNames output on ties ?

2011-03-20 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
Could/did you add this to the LSR? Why not, but not before 1 or 2 days, I have to finish a score before tomorow. (Working on this snippet was already not very reasonable ...). I have however change a bit the snippet. It is now cleaner because it deletes all tie events.

splitting measures in half.... or so

2011-03-20 Thread christian
Hi, I am working on a renaissance-piece and want to split measures across systems. Is this possible without disarranging the measure numbers? Gr. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:24:42AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > Not likely to work well. It is not even clear that Peter can > release/distribute it under GPL version 2.0 unless it will work > unmodified with a version of Lilypond released under GPL version 2.0. > If it doesn't, the question is w

Re: splitting measures in half.... or so

2011-03-20 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 20 March 2011 14:50, christian wrote: > > Hi, > > I am working on a renaissance-piece and want to split measures across systems. > Is this possible without disarranging the measure numbers? AFAIK \bar "" \break does not disarrange the measure numbers. See NR 4.3.1 Line breaking http://lilypo

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:07:09AM +0100, Xavier Scheuer wrote: > I'm glad that articulate is finally somewhat included officially into > LilyPond, since I asked for it 9 months ago So what? I have been pointing out that it would be easy to add for 2 years. And on the more general topic of "usef

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-20 Thread Bernardo Barros
Henning! Nice work so far! Would be nice to have those things too. How difficult would be to have precise and smooth cresc. and dim. within the same note? But in this case you would have to know the instrument, given that a piano could not change the dynamics unless the next note is played. At th

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-20 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 20 March 2011 15:39, Graham Percival wrote: > > So what? I have been pointing out that it would be easy to add > for 2 years. And on the more general topic of "useful scheme > functions it would be nice to include", I've been trying to > recruit interested workers since 2007. Nobody's been i

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-20 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival writes: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:24:42AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: >> Not likely to work well. It is not even clear that Peter can >> release/distribute it under GPL version 2.0 unless it will work >> unmodified with a version of Lilypond released under GPL version 2.0. >>

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-20 Thread Colin Campbell
On 11-03-20 03:27 AM, Francisco Vila wrote: 2011/3/19 Federico Bruni: Il giorno ven, 18/03/2011 alle 16.54 +0100, Francisco Vila ha scritto: The attached patch includes and documents the Articulate script. there's a typo in line 76 of the patch: +etc., and take rallentendo and accelerando int

Re: Tie collision with note

2011-03-20 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Mar 20, 2011, at 1:21 AM, Nicholas Moe wrote: That makes the tie how I want it, but I need to shift the middle notes to the right in the second measure to show that they are their own voice, whilst keeping the stems up. How could I do that? Nick I understand. How about this (thanks, JEdi

Re: OpenType ligatures

2011-03-20 Thread Bertrand Bordage
Ok :o\ So, for the moment, "sed -i [...] lyrics.ily" is the best solution. Thanks anyway ! Bertrand ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 04:23:12PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > Graham Percival writes: > > > The suggestion that a .ly file would somehow be a derivative work > > of lilypond is ridiculous. > > Depends on how interlocked and crossdependent it is with internals of > Lilypond and whether or not

Help with changing notehead glyph

2011-03-20 Thread James Lowe
Hello, I am trying to use one of the note glyphs as listed in the NR section http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/the-feta-font#special- notehead-glyphs I have tried a combination of \overrides but cannot seem to get the glyph I'd like - in fact nothing changes So for example in

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:35:37AM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Trevor, > > > Of course, we can't know about "good stuff" that vanished and has not been > > rediscovered :) > > Have you ever heard Mozart's son's piano music? There are some > pieces (especially the Mazurkas) which are clea

Re: Help with changing notehead glyph

2011-03-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 06:01:47PM +, James Lowe wrote: > I am trying to use one of the note glyphs as listed in the NR section > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/the-feta-font#special- > notehead-glyphs IIRC most of those are from Ancient music, so if you look through t

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 04:50:04PM +0200, Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote: > > Can't imagine how many issues they could fix instead of that waste of time... That goes for *anything* we do for entertainment -- including academic music / musicology / history / lilypond work / etc. Any one of us could have

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:26:40AM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Rather, I'm railing against the following [possibly inevitable, but still > disheartening] reality: > > In the 1940s, a barometer of popular taste was Frank Sinatra ... > In the 1960s, the barometer was Bob Dylan (who can write g

Re: Suppress NoteNames output on ties ?

2011-03-20 Thread Michael Ellis
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Gilles THIBAULT wrote: > #(define-music-function (parser location music) (ly:music?) > (let ((prev-was-tie? #f)) >  (define (tied-note->skip evt) >    (let ((elt (ly:music-property evt 'element)) >          (elts (ly:music-property evt 'elements)) >          (name

Re: Help with changing notehead glyph

2011-03-20 Thread -Eluze
pkx166h wrote: > > Hello, > > I am trying to use one of the note glyphs as listed in the NR section > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/the-feta-font#special- > notehead-glyphs > > I have tried a combination of \overrides but cannot seem to get the glyph > I'd like - in f

Re: Tie collision with note

2011-03-20 Thread Nicholas Moe
Thanks, Stan, for all your help on this. I checked out LilyPondTool and JEdit and was able to see how to get control points from the slur tweak tool. But as I was trying to figure out how to use the slur tweak tool, I came across another tweak that works even better. I adapted \shapeSlur from the L

Re: Help with changing notehead glyph

2011-03-20 Thread David Rogers
pkx166h wrote: Hello, I am trying to use one of the note glyphs as listed in the NR section http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/the-feta-font#special- notehead-glyphs I have tried a combination of \overrides but cannot seem to get the glyph I'd like - in fact nothing changes

Re: Suppress NoteNames output on ties ?

2011-03-20 Thread Michael Ellis
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Michael Ellis wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Gilles THIBAULT > wrote: >> #(define-music-function (parser location music) (ly:music?) >> (let ((prev-was-tie? #f)) >>  (define (tied-note->skip evt) >>    (let ((elt (ly:music-property evt 'element)) >>    

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Graham, > IMO, the world would be a better place if we were more precise in > our musical judgements. Fair enough. > If you don't specify that something is a personal opinion, then "go objective > or go home". Some philosophers would say that every statement is subjective, even "The sun ro

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Graham, > On a subjective level, listening (and watching) Vocaloid music has > brought me more pleasure than *any* academic music composition > (going back as far as the Rite of Spring I couldn't even make it through one 3-minute Vocaloid song, but have listened with great pleasure to the Rit

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
> I don't find this disheartening -- I consider this a triumph of science. As Patton Oswald once said, "We're Science: all about 'coulda', not about 'shoulda'!" =) > I somewhat consider "produced music recordings" to be in a category like > theatre or movies -- they might involve live music at

Re: Resetting bar count and showing alternate fingering

2011-03-20 Thread Javier Ruiz-Alma
Thank You for the pointers Kieren and Robin, Concatenating fingering commands to show alternate fingerings worked like a charm (i.e. "c8-2-3" ).  Thank You! On the passages that had incomplete last bars, I tried \cadenzaOn and \partial.  These worked to override the automatic bar generator but

Re: Suppress NoteNames output on ties ?

2011-03-20 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
The \noBreak is necessary to prevent system breaks at the dashed bar. I noticed that the function was not suppressing the NoteNames output for notes tied across the dashed bar lines. It appears that the \noBreak is the culprit. mymusic = { \time 7/4 c'2 c'2 ~ \bar "dashed" c'2.^"ok" | c'2 c'2 ~ {

Re: Suppress NoteNames output on ties ?

2011-03-20 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
I have not tested but it propably list to errors messages if you use several several notes for each chord. I meant : it propably *leads* to errors messages Gilles ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/li

Re: Release candidate 3 of 2.14 - LilyPond 2.13.54 released

2011-03-20 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 3/19/11 4:41 PM, "Frédéric Bron" wrote: >> LilyPond 2.13.54 is out; this is the third release candidate of the >> upcoming 2.14 stable release. > > I noticed that convert-ly does not converts auto beaming settings. > Kind regards, > Frédéric > > Parsing... > indications.ly:6:9: error: GUI

strangeness on fresh install [OT?]

2011-03-20 Thread bobr...@centrum.is
This weekend I upgraded my Linux system from Fedora 11 to Fedora 14 (and got all updates) and I have just now installed, as root, the latest stable version of Lilypond. When I tried just getting the current version number I got this in the console: * $ lilypond -v /usr/loca

Re: Tie collision with note

2011-03-20 Thread Stan Sanderson
Indeed, a much cleaner and more elegant approach. Regards, Stan On Mar 20, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Nicholas Moe wrote: Thanks, Stan, for all your help on this. I checked out LilyPondTool and JEdit and was able to see how to get control points from the slur tweak tool. But as I was trying to figure ou

Re: Release candidate 3 of 2.14 - LilyPond 2.13.54 released

2011-03-20 Thread Frédéric Bron
>> I noticed that convert-ly does not converts auto beaming settings. > Didn't convert-ly give you a message that said you needed to change it > manually? I have run conver-ly for many files so that I did not see the message! It would have been nice to have a rule that added a comment in the file

Re: scores in columns - vertical alignment

2011-03-20 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi Tim, 2011/3/17 Timothy Sheasby : > From the LilyPond essay I learned that LilyPond deliberately *avoids* > lining up the staff lines vertically to make the music look more > like a hand engraved manuscript . . . No, that's not true! You misunderstood the concept explained in essay. LilyPond do

fighting with lyrics

2011-03-20 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Hello, Having used Lilypond successfully for some instrumental works, I'm typesetting a song with it. Here's a link to the lilypond source: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/356919/ Here's a image as it looks currently: http://imgur.com/Afa3q Two questions: How do I get the hyphens to show? Why does it

Re: fighting with lyrics

2011-03-20 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Mar 20, 2011, at 8:11 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > Hello, > Having used Lilypond successfully for some instrumental works, I'm > typesetting a > song with it. Here's a link to the lilypond source: > http://paste.pocoo.org/show/356919/ Here's a image as it looks currently: > http://imgur.com/

Re: fighting with lyrics

2011-03-20 Thread Benjamin Peterson
mike apollinemike.com apollinemike.com> writes: > Hey Ben, Hi Mike, Thanks for the comments. > 1)In vocal scores, the hyphens between lyrics > disappear when the spacing > is tight. Wow, really? In my G. Schirmer Barber Collected Songs, all the words are hyphenated. >2)The lagging you are tak

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-20 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Graham" == Graham Percival writes: Graham> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 04:23:12PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: >> Graham Percival writes: >> >> > The suggestion that a .ly file would somehow be a derivative work >> > of lilypond is ridiculous. >> >> Depends on how interlocked and crossdepend

Re: 2.13.54 breaks NoteNames vertical spacing

2011-03-20 Thread Colin Campbell
On 11-03-19 08:25 PM, Michael Ellis wrote: On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Xavier Scheuer wrote: On 20 March 2011 01:05, Michael Ellis wrote: Just installed 2.13.54 on OS X. Attached images show what happens to the NoteNames engraver (which I use every day) under this release. In 2.12, th

Re: fighting with lyrics

2011-03-20 Thread David Rogers
* Benjamin Peterson [2011-03-21 01:38]: mike apollinemike.com apollinemike.com> writes: Hey Ben, Hi Mike, Thanks for the comments. 1)In vocal scores, the hyphens between lyrics disappear when the spacing is tight. Wow, really? In my G. Schirmer Barber Collected Songs, all the words are

spacing error possibly related to Issue 1472

2011-03-20 Thread Paul Scott
Hi, The following code produces a spacing error near the end of the line that looks to me similar to Issue 1472. If it's a bug I'll report it. \version "2.13.54" \relative c'' { \key ges \major a1 b c d c8 b c b c b c b a4 b c d r8 e d c r2 \key fis \major \break a1 } Paul Scott _

unexpected STRING error with unapparent cause

2011-03-20 Thread tbear2500
I'm writing an a cappella piece in Lilypond (actually transcribing one which is probably copyrighted, hence all notes and titles being removed) primarily for a midi file with which to practice. I have six different files ('[songtitle].ly', 'intro.ly', 'soprano.ly', 'alto.ly', 'tenor.ly', and 'bas

Re: lilypond v2.13.54

2011-03-20 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, 2011/3/17 Phil Holmes > > It looks like the LilyPond installation is no longer adding the path > to the executable to the Windows PATH.  I have installed .54 and > don't have it on my path.  For me that's actually good - my PATH > variable overflowed and I lost all the ones I wanted.  However

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-20 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > In the 1940s, a barometer of popular taste was Frank Sinatra (who > could sing/croon/perform, but not really write lyrics or music) > singing/performing/crooning songs written by others (who *could* write > lyrics and/or music, but not sing/croon/perform). > In the 1960