Re: Dynamic context that can follow system breaks?

2012-04-13 Thread -Eluze
James Harkins-2 wrote: > > At Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:29:14 +0800, > James Harkins wrote: >> >> I'm sure somebody has had to do this before: place dynamics under a staff >> so that all the dynamics in one system are the same distance below the >> staff, but that distance can be different from one s

Re: Barline type before \time change

2012-04-13 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello Urs, There are two possibilities: 1.: use a little music-function-helper: --snip-- \version "2.15.36" dbtime = #(define-music-function (parser location frac)(fraction?) #{ \bar "||" \time $frac #}) % example \relative c' { c4 e g b \dbtime 3/4 c des b | c2. } --snip-- but this m

Re: Suggestion for documentation: Easy path to datatype reference

2012-04-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
Trevor Daniels wrote Thursday, April 12, 2012 9:55 PM James Harkins wrote Thursday, April 12, 2012 5:08 PM Still, it might be helpful to link to this page from some other places, say, "Tweaking methods." For instance, ~~~ The general syntax of this command is: \override Context.LayoutO

advanced (?) instrumentname setting

2012-04-13 Thread Gagi Petrovic
Dear LilyPond-users, after hours of research I decided to ask you the following: - How do I add text which is aligned with certain barlines? This is quite common for percussion notation to indicate which line represents which (part of an) instrument. In my case: which part of a gong to strike. *

Re: Barline type before \time change

2012-04-13 Thread Urs Liska
Hello Jan-Peter and Tim, thanks for your replies. I would like to use this on sources I'm already working on. So I don't need to use your include construct. But I think I'll try out your Scheme engraver approach. If it doesn't work or behave as I would like, then I'll go for entering the double

Re: musicxml2ly from sibelius

2012-04-13 Thread Josiah Boothby
Thank you, Mattias, for showing me this workaround! > You could also try to import the musicxml file into MuseScore: MuseScore is > available for Linux, Windows and Mac. It does not only read musicxml, but > midi as well. Plus: it exports in lilypond-format! > > I've had success in reading a music

Re: Barline type before \time change

2012-04-13 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Jan-Peter, thanks a lot, works perfectly! Am 13.04.2012 11:49, schrieb Urs Liska: Hello Jan-Peter and Tim, thanks for your replies. I would like to use this on sources I'm already working on. So I don't need to use your include construct. But I think I'll try out your Scheme engraver appro

Re: Two voice notes with one voice rests

2012-04-13 Thread Richard Sabey
Phil Holmes wrote > Here's one way: > >\relative c'' { > << { \override Rest #'staff-position = #0 d8 r d r d r d r } \\ { b8 s b >s b s b s } >> >r r r r >} This suggestion is fine for notes at those particular positions on the stave, but for higher or lower notes, a different metho

help, please/ Contemporary Music Notation

2012-04-13 Thread Sabina Covarrubias
Hello, I am new in Lilypond, because I need to include contemprary music notation in my socres, but I can not find any code or examples in the part concerning to Contemporary Music Notation: It is the same in the PDF version http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/contemporary-music

Re: Suggestion for documentation: Easy path to datatype reference

2012-04-13 Thread David Kastrup
Jonathan Wilkes writes: > Well it's definitely a pain.  My favorites are booleans, which require > one hash to denote scheme code, and one hash for the boolean.  (Why > not one more hash, for good measure?) The character "#" would be written as ##\# when accessed from LilyPond. So what? -- Dav

Re: help, please/ Contemporary Music Notation

2012-04-13 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Apr 13, 2012, at 1:09 AM, Sabina Covarrubias wrote: > > > Hello, I am new in Lilypond, because I need to include contemprary music > notation in my socres, but I can not find > any code or examples in the part concerning to Contemporary Music Notation: > It is the same in the PDF version >

Flying ties

2012-04-13 Thread James Worlton
I've found some odd tie behavior--not sure if it's known currently. Sorry, currently I can't test whether it also happens in earlier versions. The following code creates a "flying tie" situation around the upper and lower notes of the chord, in other words the ties lie far outside the staff. This

Re: Flying ties

2012-04-13 Thread James
James On 13 April 2012 16:30, James Worlton wrote: > I've found some odd tie behavior--not sure if it's known currently. > Sorry, currently I can't test whether it also happens in earlier > versions. > > The following code creates a "flying tie" situation around the upper > and lower notes of the

Re: Flying ties

2012-04-13 Thread James Worlton
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:59 AM, James wrote: > James > > On 13 April 2012 16:30, James Worlton wrote: >> I've found some odd tie behavior--not sure if it's known currently. >> Sorry, currently I can't test whether it also happens in earlier >> versions. >> >> The following code creates a "flyin

Re: Suggestion for documentation: Easy path to datatype reference

2012-04-13 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 8:28 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Jonathan Wilkes writes: > >> Well it's definitely a pain.  My favorites are booleans, which require >> one hash to denote scheme code, and one hash for the boolean.  (Why >> not one more hash, for good measure?) > > The character "#" would b

Re:Dynamic context that can follow system breaks?

2012-04-13 Thread James Harkins
> > At Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:29:14 +0800, > > James Harkins wrote: > >> > >> I'm sure somebody has had to do this before: place dynamics under a staff > >> so that all the dynamics in one system are the same distance below the > >> staff, but that distance can be different from one system to the nex