Re: What’s wrong with this snippet?

2012-08-13 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 13 August 2012 16:16, David Kastrup wrote: > \lyricsto refits the durations. Ah, that would explain it. My real-world example is something like this: \skip 1*17 \skip 4*4 % 17 3/4 bars of complicated music I’m using a blank syllable and \melisma at the moment, but was investigating other opt

Re: What’s wrong with this snippet?

2012-08-13 Thread David Kastrup
Vaughan McAlley writes: > On 13 August 2012 16:16, David Kastrup wrote: >> \lyricsto refits the durations. > > Ah, that would explain it. My real-world example is something like this: > > \skip 1*17 \skip 4*4 % 17 3/4 bars of complicated music > > I’m using a blank syllable and \melisma at the m

On Pondish

2012-08-13 Thread Hilary Snaden
Reading Kirill Sidorov's comments on Lilypond uplist has reminded me of something which has crept into my composing, arranging and editing over the last couple of years. I often now find myself annotating paper drafts with corrections in Lilypondish (Pondish?) especially where the score is crow

Re: Ledger line visibility issue

2012-08-13 Thread James Bailey
On Aug 12, 2012, at 6:58 PM, "Peter Gentry" wrote: > I have a score with many repeated beamed quavers and semi-quavers on ledger > lines. The default layout is difficult to read as ledger lines and the staff > produce an almost hypnotic effect which confuses the reader. This resuluts in > lo

Re: Ledger line visibility issue

2012-08-13 Thread m...@mikesolomon.org
On 13 août 2012, at 05:35, Keith OHara wrote: > Peter Gentry sunscales.co.uk> writes: > >> I have a score with many >> repeated beamed quavers and semi-quavers on ledger lines. The default >> layout is difficult to read as ledger lines and the staff produce an almost >> hypnotic effect whic

Re: Having trouble with chord symbols above notes

2012-08-13 Thread BrAthanasius
I am having difficulty understanding what is going on in the \chords dialog. I have not seen anything on the website that clarifies the point either. Is "s4" supposed to skip four beats, and if so is that what a \breve is worth? For instance when I have : << \chords { c \breve:m s4 s f s4 c:m }

Re: Having trouble with chord symbols above notes

2012-08-13 Thread Reedmace Star
* 2012-08-13 16:55 +0200 BrAthanasius: > I am having difficulty understanding what is going on in the \chords > dialog. I have not seen anything on the website that clarifies the > point either. Is "s4" supposed to skip four beats, and if so is that > what a \breve is worth? Durations in chord m

Re: Having trouble with chord symbols above notes

2012-08-13 Thread BrAthanasius
Thank you for explaining it to me -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Having-trouble-with-chord-symbols-above-notes-tp130480p130568.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mail

setting Delia Derbyshire's abstract electronic scores

2012-08-13 Thread martinwguy
Is Lilypond capable of helping with exotic stuff like this, from Delia Dervyshire's notes for her, maybe lost, Radio Newsreel signature tune e.g. the bottom of http://delia-derbyshire.net/papers/html/dd164139.html the top left and bottom left corners of http://delia-derbyshire.net/papers/html/dd164

clef change confuses manual key signature

2012-08-13 Thread james
In the following: \version "2.14.2" \score { \relative c' { \time 2/4 \set Staff.keySignature = #`(((0 . 4) . ,SHARP) ((0 . 3) . ,SHARP)) \clef treble c8 a c d %%% Commenting out the following line solves the problem %%% \clef bass e fis d c } \layout {}

Re: clef change confuses manual key signature

2012-08-13 Thread David Kastrup
james writes: > In the following: > \version "2.14.2" > \score { >\relative c' { > \time 2/4 > \set Staff.keySignature = #`(((0 . 4) . ,SHARP) ((0 . 3) . ,SHARP)) > \clef treble > c8 a c d > %%% Commenting out the following line solves the problem %%% > \clef bas

Publishers using LilyPond?

2012-08-13 Thread Daniel E. Moctezuma
Hello, I was wondering if there are (well-known) sheet music publishing companies (or engraving services) using GNU LilyPond, if so which ones? So far I know there are many composers/musicians on this list who use it, as well as web services providing an online IDE/editor, what about the companie