Re: Possible feature request for 'q' shorthand or tie syntax

2012-09-21 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/9/21 David Kastrup : > There is no concept of "concatenation" involved here. Spaces are not > significant between separate syntactic elements. Not even in lyrics. > If you write > xxx="text" > then \lyricmode{\xxx\xxx} and \lyricmode { \xxx \xxx } are both > equivalent to \lyricmode { text t

Re: Possible feature request for 'q' shorthand or tie syntax

2012-09-21 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Graham Percival" To: "Nicolas Sceaux" Cc: "David Kastrup" ; Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 7:01 PM Subject: Re: Possible feature request for 'q' shorthand or tie syntax On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 07:45:41PM +0200, Nicolas Sceaux wrote: If c'4 was actual

Re: Possible feature request for 'q' shorthand or tie syntax

2012-09-21 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival writes: > I'm particularly asking about making every note into a chord > because that would make David's favorite <> construct a *lot* more > consistent. At the moment, we have > no note at a time unit: <> > single note at a time unit: c'4 > multiple notes at a time unit: 4

Re: Possible feature request for 'q' shorthand or tie syntax

2012-09-21 Thread David Kastrup
Francisco Vila writes: > 2012/9/21 David Kastrup : >> There is no concept of "concatenation" involved here. Spaces are not >> significant between separate syntactic elements. Not even in lyrics. >> If you write >> xxx="text" >> then \lyricmode{\xxx\xxx} and \lyricmode { \xxx \xxx } are both >>

Help with musicxml2ly

2012-09-21 Thread TaoCG
Hello, I'm trying to convert from xml for the first time but I get the following errors: a long list of Negative skips and then this Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Program Files (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin\musicxml2ly.py", line 2947, in ? main() File "C:\Program Files (x86)\LilyP

Re: Possible feature request for 'q' shorthand or tie syntax

2012-09-21 Thread Gilles
You noticed yourself that this does not work well with chords, but it also does not play overly well with \relative if you write \av c' for example. In the \samePitch function, i try to play with the property 'to-relative-callback. It seems to work also here but of course, it is heavier -:( (

Re: Possible feature request for 'q' shorthand or tie syntax

2012-09-21 Thread David Kastrup
Gilles writes: >> You noticed yourself that this does not work well with chords, but it >> also does not play overly well with \relative if you write \av c' for >> example. > > In the \samePitch function, i try to play with the property > 'to-relative-callback. It seems to work also here but of c

Re: Problem with a specific font in header markup

2012-09-21 Thread Urs Liska
Am 21.09.2012 06:34, schrieb Jim Long: Summary: I'm trying to print a sample of a text font I found named JazzText. I can't seem to make it work. I can make another font work, called Air Conditioner. I can make the JazzText font work in Scribus, and create a PDF that renders as expected. But

Re: Beaming notes in different layers

2012-09-21 Thread Urs Liska
The problem isn't due to the transparency, but that the fis2 just doesn't have a beam. You have to write a8 g fis8 s4. then you'll get the beam. (You'll have to tweak it then, though) HTH Urs Am 21.09.2012 01:30, schrieb jasonpiano25: Hello, I'm trying to beam some notes together that are in

Re: Possible feature request for 'q' shorthand or tie syntax

2012-09-21 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi all, there's a lot of emails in this thread so i'll post a general reply. First, i was puzzled myself that q only repeats chords. I didn't know that it was intentional (missed the discussion, sorry) and i was going to suggest to change this behaviour myself. I understand Marc's argument abou

Re: Possible feature request for 'q' shorthand or tie syntax

2012-09-21 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > However, the idea of creating another shortcut (p seems to be a good > name) appeals to me. I would design p to repeat chords as well as > pitches. When writing c q p, what does p repeat and why? How will it be represented in music lists so that the usual manipulations

Re: Help with musicxml2ly

2012-09-21 Thread pls
Hi, can you replicate the error in a tiny example and post the .xml-file? Right now I can only guess. Is there a pickup measure? Are there multiple voices? patrick Am 21.09.2012 um 11:54 schrieb TaoCG: > Hello, > > I'm trying to convert from xml for the first time but I get the following > e

Re: Problem with a specific font in header markup

2012-09-21 Thread Jim Long
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 01:00:57PM +0200, Urs Liska wrote: > What does the PDF viewer tell you about embedded fonts? > Does this give you any hints? Thank you, Urs. The PDF viewer doesn't say anything about embedded fonts. xpdf's only output is: Error: No paper information available - using def

Re: Help with musicxml2ly

2012-09-21 Thread TaoCG
pls-2 wrote > Hi, > > can you replicate the error in a tiny example and post the .xml-file? > > Right now I can only guess. Is there a pickup measure? Are there multiple > voices? > > patrick Unfortunately no. It's a very complex piece which I got in Sibelius format which I exported then to mu

Re: Help with musicxml2ly

2012-09-21 Thread Josiah Boothby
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 4:04 PM, TaoCG wrote: > pls-2 wrote >> Hi, >> >> can you replicate the error in a tiny example and post the .xml-file? >> >> Right now I can only guess. Is there a pickup measure? Are there multiple >> voices? >> >> patrick > > Unfortunately no. It's a very complex piece wh

Mehrere Textzeilen geklammert & Akkordhinweise

2012-09-21 Thread Hartmut Leister
Hallo liebe Lilypondler, ich habe zwei Fragen 1) Wie bekomme ich mehrere Textzeilen (im LyricMode) unter die Noten, mache aber am Anfang eine geschweifte Klammer um alle? (Siehe 1. Zeile in [1]) 2) Wie kann ich zu den Akkorden den Anschlagszeitpunkt markieren? (siehe "x" in [1] in der ersten Zeile

Re: Mehrere Textzeilen geklammert & Akkordhinweise

2012-09-21 Thread eluze
Hartmut Leister wrote > ich habe zwei Fragen > 1) Wie bekomme ich mehrere Textzeilen (im LyricMode) unter die Noten, > mache aber am Anfang eine geschweifte Klammer um alle? (Siehe 1. Zeile > in [1]) > 2) Wie kann ich zu den Akkorden den Anschlagszeitpunkt markieren? (siehe > "x" in [1] in der erst