Re: New LilyPond scores -- video editing software

2012-04-10 Thread PMA
Interesting! I do like these styles (per-system or continuous-line) for Mike's and Jay's audio entries. My audios, though, will be long -- Franck, Busoni, etc. -- and may, if displaying only very local score views at a time, hide "the forrest for the trees". I'll experiment to see, probably, how

Re: Multimeasure rests over a cadenza

2012-04-10 Thread James Harkins
At Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:31:08 +0800, James Harkins wrote: > > the cadenzaToMusic-function _replaces_ \cadenzaOn and \cadenzaOff. > > If you delete these commands it works and there is no need for manual bars: > > Ah, OK, I didn't get the "replacing" part. Thanks for clarifying. > > I have a deadli

musicxml2ly from sibelius

2012-04-10 Thread Josiah Boothby
A composer recently gave me a messy part he'd prepared with Sibelius, and I asked him for a musicxml file on the off chance that it might work in Lilypond and I could clean it up. With Lilypond 2.15.36 (Slackware 13.37, x86), I get the error below along with no output file. I tried the prebuilt lil

System in different colors

2012-04-10 Thread uunail
Hi everybody Using this wonderful tool I again have a problem. I want to use different colors in a piece to illustrate that they are played by different people (and not using multiple systems). The snippet below works almost fine with only one little thing that I want to have changed: \version

node head positions

2012-04-10 Thread Huang
Hi LilyPond experts, I am new to LilyPond and I am impressed by the beauty of the music printout. I am just wondering if there is any way to extract the node head positions from a Lilypond score? Since the Lily file is compiled and arrange for the page layout, I assume there may be a way to extr

Re: musicxml2ly from sibelius

2012-04-10 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Josiah Boothby" To: "lilypond-user Mailinglist" Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 5:34 AM Subject: musicxml2ly from sibelius A composer recently gave me a messy part he'd prepared with Sibelius, and I asked him for a musicxml file on the off chance that it mig

Re: musicxml2ly from sibelius

2012-04-10 Thread pls
Am 10.04.2012 um 06:34 schrieb Josiah Boothby: > A composer recently gave me a messy part he'd prepared with Sibelius, > and I asked him for a musicxml file on the off chance that it might > work in Lilypond and I could clean it up. With Lilypond 2.15.36 > (Slackware 13.37, x86), I get the error

Re: System in different colors

2012-04-10 Thread James
Hello, On 10 April 2012 10:41, uunail wrote: > > Hi everybody > > Using this wonderful tool I again have a problem. > > I want to use different colors in a piece to illustrate that they are played > by different people (and not using multiple systems). > > The snippet below works almost fine with

Re: node head positions

2012-04-10 Thread Tim Roberts
Huang wrote: > > I am new to LilyPond and I am impressed by the beauty of the music > printout. I am just wondering if there is any way to extract the node > head positions from a Lilypond score? Since the Lily file is compiled > and arrange for the page layout, I assume there may be a way to > e

Re: node head positions

2012-04-10 Thread Tim Roberts
Huang wrote: > Tim, Please keep your replies to the list, where others may benefit. > Thanks for your information. I am thinking to highlight these notes > if I can get their positions. I will look into the PS to see if I can > get these positions. It is good to know that LilyPond can output M

Re: node head positions

2012-04-10 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Tim Roberts wrote: > Huang wrote: >> Thanks for your information. I am thinking to highlight these notes >> if I can get their positions. I will look into the PS to see if I can >> get these positions. It is good to know that LilyPond can output MIDI, >> which is d

Re: node head positions

2012-04-10 Thread Huang
Yes, I am looking for a way to highlight notes while playing MIDI. I will definitely check Frescobaldi to see how it works. I need to understand how Lily generates these notes and find out their positions. Thanks, Herbert 2012/4/10 Janek Warchoł > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Tim Roberts w

flageolets near noteheads

2012-04-10 Thread Paolo Prete
Hi all, is there a way to place the flageolet symbol always NEAR (above or below) the notehead? I can see that if the notehead is within the staff, the flageolet is placed far from the notehead, above or below the staff. thanks Paolo ___ lilypond-

Re: flageolets near noteheads

2012-04-10 Thread Nick Payne
On 11/04/12 07:50, Paolo Prete wrote: Hi all, is there a way to place the flageolet symbol always NEAR (above or below) the notehead? I can see that if the notehead is within the staff, the flageolet is placed far from the notehead, above or below the staff. \version "2.15.32" \relative c'

Re: flageolets near noteheads

2012-04-10 Thread Paolo Prete
thanks very much --- Mer 11/4/12, Nick Payne ha scritto: > Da: Nick Payne > Oggetto: Re: flageolets near noteheads > A: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Data: Mercoledì 11 Aprile 2012, 00:05 > On 11/04/12 07:50, Paolo Prete > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > is there a way to place the flageolet symbol alway

Re: musicxml2ly from sibelius

2012-04-10 Thread Josiah Boothby
>> I'm a bit surprised you have musicxml from Sibelius.  As far as I was >> aware, it doesn't export into _any_ useful interchange format, including >> musicxml. > > Googling suggests there is an expensive 3rd party program. Googling also suggests that Sibelius is confident of their MusicXML outpu

Re: node head positions

2012-04-10 Thread Tim Roberts
Huang wrote: > Yes, I am looking for a way to highlight notes while playing MIDI. I > will definitely check Frescobaldi to see how it works. I need to > understand how Lily generates these notes and find out their positions. I just want to caution you about how difficult this task will be. The PD

more space between systems?

2012-04-10 Thread eriksbike
I'm having some trouble creating more space between systems. I have tried increasing the system-system-spacing #'minimum-distance and system-system-spacing #'padding variables. But when I compile I receive the message "warning: cannot fit music on page: ragged-spacing was requested, but page was

Re: Avoiding tie/prall collision

2012-04-10 Thread Helge Kruse
Am 10.04.2012 08:37, schrieb Janek Warchoł: On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Helge Kruse wrote: What is the benefit of the two voices approach and when should I avoid the stem up/down? It's not a matter of benefits - using stemUp/Down instead of voiceOne/Two/.. simply produces typographically

musicxml2ly lilypond output formatting

2012-04-10 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
Hi, As I posted earlier, I often get better results with lilypond files generated by musicxml2ly after a little bit of extra editing. As musicxml2ly gets better and bugs are found and fixed, this post-editing will be required less and less, I guess/hope. When editing the files I noticed th