Re: Introduction, and question on symbol placement

2011-11-07 Thread Peekay Ex
Hello, On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 4:24 AM, wrote: > Wow, what great software.  I've been looking for something > like this, and am very glad to have found it. > > I use lilypond to write lead sheets.  I have a chart with a > coda jump that occurs right after a second ending.  The coda > symbol gets

Re: Introduction, and question on symbol placement

2011-11-07 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 07/11/2011 05:24, lilyp...@umpquanet.com ha scritto: Is there a way I can tweak the placement of the Coda symbol to bring it a little (or a lot) lower, and hopefully cause the software to spread the horizontal spacing a little to prevent crowding? In order to spread the horizontal space a bi

Chord symbols above staff

2011-11-07 Thread Steve Downes
I have been using the excellent jazzcombo template by Amelie Zapf, & I am now doing my third fake sheet. So far just a bass staff & chords & annotations above it. The first two, & all the examples in the manuals, put the chords above the staff, where I want them. My third, which I am working on now

Re: Chord symbols above staff

2011-11-07 Thread Steve Downes
On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 10:04:04AM +, Steve Downes wrote: > I have been using the excellent jazzcombo template by Amelie Zapf, & I > am now doing my third fake sheet. So far just a bass staff & chords & > annotations above it. The first two, & all the examples in the > manuals, put the chords a

Re: Chord symbols above staff

2011-11-07 Thread eluze
have a look at 'Vertically aligning ossias and lyrics' in http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/modifying-single-staves#ossia-staves Eluze ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lily

How does lilypond choose fonts?

2011-11-07 Thread Frederick Bartlett
Hi! I'm using lilypond 2.14.1 under CygWin 2.7, and have a large number of fonts I've accumulated over the decades. I have set up my lilypond files to use fonts I like in \paper: #(define fonts (make-pango-font-tree "Centaur MT" "ITC Eras"

Re: How to change the stem-length?

2011-11-07 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Harm, On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 6:56 AM, harm6 wrote: But when using it in a cross-staff > example with kneed-beams, I've noticed a problem: Some stems are affected > some not. Oddly enough, when changing the global-staff-size, I retrieve > different results. > I don't have the answer to your q

Re: How does lilypond choose fonts?

2011-11-07 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I have set up my lilypond files to use fonts I like in \paper: > > #(define fonts > (make-pango-font-tree "Centaur MT" > "ITC Eras" > "Prestige Elite" >(/ myStaffSize 20))) > > And this works exactly as expecte

"official" way to have a MultiMeasureRest force appearance of a french-ed Staff

2011-11-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, Situation: Lilypond 2.15.x Staff has been "french-ed" by \RemoveEmptyStaves one particular MultiMeasureRest needs to be visible What's the current best practice for doing this? (At one point it was to mess with keep-alive-interfaces, but I know a lot of changes have been m

Re: Chord symbols above staff

2011-11-07 Thread Steve Downes
On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 01:17:12PM +0100, eluze wrote: > have a look at 'Vertically aligning ossias and lyrics' in > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/modifying-single-staves#ossia-staves > > Eluze > Sorted now, thanks very much for your help Steve

Re: How to change the stem-length?

2011-11-07 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Nov 6, 2011, at 4:56 AM, harm6 wrote: > > Hi, > > using a beam-stencil-override, I'd wish to adjust the stem-length within the > beam-stencil-override. The following (boiled down) function works fine in > most cases, even with kneed-beams. But when using it in a cross-staff > example with kn