Re: Quick comment on usability

2012-11-01 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 2:57 AM, James Harkins wrote: > Actually not a complaint! But inspired by the thread on upgrading vs not > upgrading, where it was suggested that LP has become inherently more complex > and harder to use, even for simple typesetting. > > [...] > > I just wanted to mention i

Re: increase vertical space

2012-11-01 Thread Eluze
Peter O'Doherty-2 wrote >>> On 10/30/2012 11:43 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: or if you want to affect only a single line of the score, use \overrideProperty #"Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn" #'line-break-system-details #'((alignment-distances . (30))) after rethinking I

Re: Well there be improvements to Gregorian Chant?

2012-11-01 Thread wjm
Hi Keith, you wrote:- The first one I ran across is getting alignment correct for a flexa on a single syllable. \version "2.16.0" \score { << \new VaticanaStaff \new VaticanaVoice = "Hymn40" { e' e' \[\melisma d'

Re: One staff, two voices

2012-11-01 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, sorry for delay, i was very busy... On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Wim van Dommelen wrote: > But the top part of the example shown uses an include-file. > That is not "tiny", anything can happen there. So I would add > to the rules for a tiny example no use of include files. You mean \in

Re: One staff, two voices

2012-11-01 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > Hi, > > sorry for delay, i was very busy... > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Wim van Dommelen wrote: >> But the top part of the example shown uses an include-file. >> That is not "tiny", anything can happen there. So I would add >> to the rules for a tiny example no

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 119, Issue 128

2012-11-01 Thread Joseph Haig
> Message: 6 > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:30:59 -0400 > From: "Keith N. McKenna" > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Well there be improvements to Gregorian Chant? > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > Good-day All; > > I have recently been experimenting wit

Re: One staff, two voices

2012-11-01 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 10:03 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Janek Warchoł writes: > > You mean > > \include "english.ly" > > in the page about tiny examples? Actually, english.ly is a file > > bundled with Lilypond, which allows to spell note names with english > > names ('fsharp' or 'fs' instead of

Re: One staff, two voices

2012-11-01 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi Wim, Please reply to the whole list, so that others might benefit from our discussion. On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Wim van Dommelen wrote: > The other discussion would be: Are you going to use the Tiny Examples as a > way of showing small pieces of code doing some specific action? Is tha

Re: Changing staff size with custom note head stencils

2012-11-01 Thread m...@mikesolomon.org
On 1 nov. 2012, at 00:11, Paul Morris wrote: > On Oct 31, 2012, at 4:52 PM, Thomas Morley > wrote: > >> Hi Paul, >> >> postscript is scaled with global-staff-size only. >> >> To work around you could use: >> >> TwinNoteNoteHeads = >> #(lambda (grob) >> (let* ((sz (ly:grob-property grob 'fo

Re: Changing staff size with custom note head stencils

2012-11-01 Thread m...@mikesolomon.org
On 1 nov. 2012, at 12:44, m...@mikesolomon.org wrote: > On 1 nov. 2012, at 00:11, Paul Morris wrote: > >> On Oct 31, 2012, at 4:52 PM, Thomas Morley >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Paul, >>> >>> postscript is scaled with global-staff-size only. >>> >>> To work around you could use: >>> >>> TwinNoteNo

Re: Word wrapping section headers (book-titling.ily)

2012-11-01 Thread Olivier Biot
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: > 2012/10/28 Thomas Morley : >> 2012/10/28 Olivier Biot : >>> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Thomas Morley >>> wrote: 2012/10/28 Olivier Biot : > Hi all, > > I'm using the book-titling.ily macros by Nicolas Sceaux to create

Re: _ underscore lyric hyphen

2012-11-01 Thread Rustik
Thomas Morley wrote > I've never seen this before, but it _is_ possible. > > Try this workaround: > > \version "2.16.0" > > \paper { > ragged-right = ##f > } > > strangeLyricHyphens = > \override LyricHyphen #'after-line-breaking = > #(lambda (grob) > (let* ((l-bd (ly:

Show (and increment) bar numbers only after a double bar

2012-11-01 Thread Olivier Biot
Hi all, Is there a way to display and increment bar numbers only after a double bar? Example: \score { a16-.-\upbow b (c) d(c) b ( | % DO NOT count the following bar, and DO NOT print the bar number here a) b (c) d(c) b-\laissezVibrer \bar "||" a16 (b) c(d) c(b)

Re: Hello everyone!

2012-11-01 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:51 PM, soundsfromsound wrote: > I just wanted to say hello and introduce myself. My name is Ben and I am a > composer based out of Boston, MA (USA) and I am an active LilyPond user. In > my opinion, LilyPond is the best music engraving program out there and I'm >

Re: increase vertical space

2012-11-01 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Eluze wrote: > On 10/30/2012 11:43 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: > if you want to affect only a single line of the score, use > > \overrideProperty #"Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn" > #'line-break-system-details #'((alignment-distances . (30))) > >

Polyphony

2012-11-01 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Fellow Users: Using the Frescobaldi wizard (Tools/Setup New Score), I created a Piano Staff for three polyphonic voices. (I am coding WTC 1 Fugue 3.) \score { \new PianoStaff \with { instrumentName = "Piano" } << \new Staff = "right" \with { midiInstrument = "acousti

Re: Polyphony

2012-11-01 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > how to have the notation for the middle voice move from the > treble staff to the bass staff and back (This to avoid ledger lines.) The > online documentation (Notation Reference 2.2.1) provides instruction for all > pitch notations in t

Q and A web

2012-11-01 Thread Noeck
Hi, most discussions on this mailing list follow this course: 1) how can I achieve this: description 2) some answers are given 3) perhaps the person asking finds his best solution Others having the same problem or question have to follow the mailing list or hope for a snippet in the LSR. Click

Re: Q and A web

2012-11-01 Thread Raphaël Doursenaud
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le jeu. 01 nov. 2012 20:54:03 CET, Noeck a écrit : > Imho, something like http://stackoverflow.com would be perfect for > Lilypond. I know it from python programming and it's so convenient to > see if there is a question matching the own problems and t

Half bar line

2012-11-01 Thread Noeck
Hi, is there a bar line that spans only the upper half of the staff? I'd like to use it (according to common notation in hymn books) to indicate that the original notation did not have bar lines. What I am looking for is not: \divisioMaxima/Minima/Maior and not \bar "'". (At least not untweaked v

Re: Half bar line

2012-11-01 Thread Toine Schreurs
> is there a bar line that spans only the upper half of the staff? > I'd like to use it (according to common notation in hymn books) to > indicate that the original notation did not have bar lines. > > What I am looking for is not: \divisioMaxima/Minima/Maior and not \bar > "'". (At least not untw

Re: Half bar line

2012-11-01 Thread Noeck
01.11.2012 21:53, Toine Schreurs: > \override Staff.BarLine #'bar-extent = #'(0 . 2) Thank you, that's what I was looking for! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: increase vertical space

2012-11-01 Thread Eluze
Janek Warchoł-2 wrote >> after rethinking I wonder why one has to use such special functions - >> doesn't LilyPond already do a good job on vertically spreading the >> systems >> on one ore more pages. >> do you have an example where this doesn't work? > > Yes, and it's very painful when LilyPond

Re: Well there be improvements to Gregorian Chant?

2012-11-01 Thread Keith N. McKenna
wjm wrote: Hi Keith, you wrote:- The first one I ran across is getting alignment correct for a flexa on a single syllable. \version "2.16.0" \score { << \new VaticanaStaff new VaticanaVoice = "Hymn40" { e' e' \

Re: Well there be improvements to Gregorian Chant?

2012-11-01 Thread wjm
HI keith, You wrote:- + Now I just have to conquer where to but the \relative c' statement so that it applies to the entire voice. + This is how I would set it out. Note the use of 'variables' to store the music and words and how they are

Re: increase vertical space

2012-11-01 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
On 2012-11-01 22:54, Eluze wrote: Janek Warchoł-2 wrote This may sound surprising, but there are many cases when LilyPond's vertical spacing could be noticeably improved (i admit that most of these cases would matter only to a demanding professional engraver). +999 Except that some very easy

Re: Well there be improvements to Gregorian Chant?

2012-11-01 Thread Keith N. McKenna
wjm wrote: HI keith, You wrote:- + Now I just have to conquer where to but the \relative c' statement so that it applies to the entire voice. + This is how I would set it out. Note the use of 'variables' to store the music and words and how