Re: Hiding staff without hiding bar lines

2012-08-30 Thread Keith OHara
Federico Bruni gmail.com> writes: > Il 30/08/2012 03:58, Michael Rivers ha scritto: > > > > I've figured out how to hide clefs, time signatures, bar lines and the > > entire staff. My problem is that \stopStaff seems to also hide all bar > > lines. Often, this is what I want, but other times I ne

Re: Changing quarter tone notation

2012-08-30 Thread Keith OHara
Arle Lommel gmail.com> writes: > > As a separate question from the last, does anyone know of a simple way > to override the quarter-tone notation in Lilypond? This method http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=784 is maybe more complicated than you need, because it takes trouble to distinguish

Re: lilypond-book and title page

2012-08-30 Thread Daniel E. Moctezuma
Thanks Jakub, that tutorial helped to fix some issues I had. -- Daniel E. Moctezuma ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Hiding staff without hiding bar lines

2012-08-30 Thread David Kastrup
Federico Bruni writes: > Il 30/08/2012 03:58, Michael Rivers ha scritto: >> I'm a relatively new LilyPond user, so I apologize if this is something I >> should have found in the manual. I'm trying to use LilyPond to make >> worksheets and theory tests, so I need to hide elements for students to f

Re: Lyrics help

2012-08-30 Thread Trevor Daniels
Arle Lommel wrote Thursday, August 30, 2012 7:40 AM > I'm transcribing some songs I collected in the field and I need to > have a volta repeat in the music where the lyrics for two verses > are listed under the repeated section and then for the rest of the > song has a single line. I've figured

Re: Hiding staff without hiding bar lines

2012-08-30 Thread David Kastrup
Keith OHara writes: > Federico Bruni gmail.com> writes: > >> Il 30/08/2012 03:58, Michael Rivers ha scritto: >> > >> > I've figured out how to hide clefs, time signatures, bar lines and the >> > entire staff. My problem is that \stopStaff seems to also hide all bar >> > lines. Often, this is wha

Re: Lyrics help

2012-08-30 Thread Arle Lommel
Thanks Trevor, Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. My mistake was to look in lyrics, not repeats, I guess. I just tried it and it worked well, so I'm set. As you say, not trivially obvious, but I can see the logic behind the syntax (even if I would never have guessed it in a hundred

Re: Lyrics help

2012-08-30 Thread Arle Lommel
Actually, as I look, I'm not sure how I missed this. But I did search for quite a while, so thank you again Trevor for the help. Best, Arle ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Lyrics help

2012-08-30 Thread Marek Klein
Hello Arle, 2012/8/30 Arle Lommel > I'm transcribing some songs I collected in the field and I need to have a > volta repeat in the music where the lyrics for two verses are listed under > the repeated section and then for the rest of the song has a single line. > I've figured out ways to attach

Re: LC_PAPER and default paper size

2012-08-30 Thread David Kastrup
Pavel Roskin writes: > Quoting David Kastrup : > >> What is wrong with specifying the paper size you want in the \paper >> block? > > I want to make the scores available to everybody. I want users across > the world to be able to find the music, create the PDF and print it > with no problems on

vertical spacing on second page

2012-08-30 Thread Curt
Hi, am I misunderstanding how vertical spacing works? I am not sure how to make the second page of a score respect these \paper variables. The second page has everything close to the top for me. I am referring specifically to top-markup-spacing and markup-system-spacing. Thanks! Curt \vers

Re: vertical spacing on second page

2012-08-30 Thread eluze
Curt Siffert wrote > > Hi, am I misunderstanding how vertical spacing works? I am not sure how > to make the second page of a score respect these \paper variables. The > second page has everything close to the top for me. I am referring > specifically to top-markup-spacing and markup-system-sp

Re:LC_PAPER and default paper size

2012-08-30 Thread Felipe Castro
> I want to make the scores available to everybody. I want users across > the world to be able to find the music, create the PDF and print it > with no problems on the paper they have. > > Specifying \paper would make the choice for the users. Printers might > ask for paper that is not readily av

Help asked - lyrics & chords

2012-08-30 Thread Christ van Willegen
Hello, I'm trying to make a score consisting of only chords and lyrics. Perhaps someone would advise me to use a different program, but I would like to be able to scale the score to another font height easily. Not sure if that can be done with another program (especially not with a text editor, pr

Re: lilypondfile

2012-08-30 Thread Laura Conrad
> "pabuhr" == pabuhr writes: pabuhr> I tried manually converting the ps to eps: ps2pdf generates pabuhr> a file that is unusable (go figure), and "convert" generates pabuhr> a low quality image (maybe one of the many parameters can pabuhr> fix this). "convert -density' somet

Re: LC_PAPER and default paper size

2012-08-30 Thread David Kastrup
Felipe Castro writes: >> I want to make the scores available to everybody. I want users across >> the world to be able to find the music, create the PDF and print it >> with no problems on the paper they have. >> >> Specifying \paper would make the choice for the users. Printers might >> ask fo

Re: Help asked - lyrics & chords

2012-08-30 Thread m...@mikesolomon.org
On 30 août 2012, at 13:45, Christ van Willegen wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to make a score consisting of only chords and lyrics. > Perhaps someone would advise me to use a different program, but I > would like to be able to scale the score to another font height > easily. Not sure if that ca

Re: Help asked - lyrics & chords

2012-08-30 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Christ van Willegen wrote: > So, I created the attached file, a children's song in Dutch. The > 'melody' is only there to specify how long the text that is added to > the notes takes, to line it up with the chords. Is there another way > to do that? > > I have

Re: Help asked - lyrics & chords

2012-08-30 Thread Christ van Willegen
Mike, Janek, On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: > Sure! Don't use any staff at all, just an explicit Lyrics context > with durations: Thanks for the excellent suggestions! This makes it a lot easier to do this than the way I wanted to do it. I'll think about how to make it

Re: Parenthesized Hairpin

2012-08-30 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Daniel, > So far so good, but I've noticed that if you do a \break before ending the > hairpin (e.g. a hairpin through 4 bars), the hairpin parenthesis repeats. > Is that a normal behaviour? > This is the expected and documented behavior in LilyPond, but not convenient! The reason this happen

Re: LC_PAPER and default paper size

2012-08-30 Thread Hans Aberg
On 30 Aug 2012, at 08:55, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: > I always try to set the borders in my scores wide enough so that at least > everything will be readable on both A4 and Letter pages, even though the > score has been created and tested for a4 paper. > > QUESTION: > > This reminds of a questi

Re: running lilypond-book in frescobaldi?

2012-08-30 Thread Stefaan Himpe
1. I am running lilypond in frescobaldi. Can I run lilypond-book in frecobaldi as well. I copy-paste from frescobaldi into lyx for that purpose. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-u

Re: Hiding staff without hiding bar lines

2012-08-30 Thread Michael Rivers
\override Staff.StaffSymbol #'stencil = ##f That works perfectly. I don't even need to worry about the ledger lines because it's all one one pitch on the staff -- purely a rhythm exercise. It makes sense that stopping the staff entirely would make the bar lines infinitely short; if I wanted a thre

Re: Parenthesized Hairpin

2012-08-30 Thread eluze
David Nalesnik-2 wrote > > > Below I've rewritten the snippet to show you how this might be done: > thanks David now I see another problem (maybe I should open a new post or bug report for it): this example moves the hairpin to the right (on the first line) and in the second line the text is

Re: Parenthesized Hairpin

2012-08-30 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi eluze, On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 5:06 PM, eluze wrote: > > David Nalesnik-2 wrote >> >> >> Below I've rewritten the snippet to show you how this might be done: >> > thanks David > > now I see another problem (maybe I should open a new post or bug report for > it): > > this example moves the hair

Re: Parenthesized Hairpin

2012-08-30 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi again, I'm going to attach the last as a file so the comment lines aren't broken. -David hairpin-test01.ly Description: Binary data ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

giant bar numbers

2012-08-30 Thread Curt
For film scoring, it's common to want giant bar numbers in the middle of the score. Does anyone have ideas on how to center bar numbers above a bar, as opposed to them being aligned to the bar line? With that, I'm thinking I can create an invisible staff that has no engraver except for the b

Re: giant bar numbers

2012-08-30 Thread Nick Payne
On 31/08/12 13:00, Curt wrote: For film scoring, it's common to want giant bar numbers in the middle of the score. Does anyone have ideas on how to center bar numbers above a bar, as opposed to them being aligned to the bar line? With that, I'm thinking I can create an invisible staff that h

Re: giant bar numbers

2012-08-30 Thread Nick Payne
On 31/08/12 15:10, Nick Payne wrote: On 31/08/12 13:00, Curt wrote: For film scoring, it's common to want giant bar numbers in the middle of the score. Does anyone have ideas on how to center bar numbers above a bar, as opposed to them being aligned to the bar line? With that, I'm thinking I

Re: Hiding expressive notation

2012-08-30 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 30/08/2012 08:10, David Kastrup ha scritto: Just add this in the \layout block: > > \layout { > \context { > \Staff > \override StringNumber #'transparent = ##t > } > } It is better to do \override StringNumber #'stencil = ##f since that does not reserve space for the st

Re: Hiding expressive notation

2012-08-30 Thread David Kastrup
Federico Bruni writes: > Il 30/08/2012 08:10, David Kastrup ha scritto: >>> Just add this in the \layout block: >>> > >>> > \layout { >>> > \context { >>> > \Staff >>> > \override StringNumber #'transparent = ##t >>> > } >>> > } >> It is better to do \override StringNumber #