first-time user, a couple of questions

Hi! This is the first time I use LilyPond, thanks for the software and the documentation, they are really good! I have transcribed a song by Stevie Wonder: https://github.com/fxn/scores/blob/master/stevie-wonder/you-and-i.ly and have a couple of questions I have not been able to figure out s

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012/11/27 Xavier Noria : > Hi! This is the first time I use LilyPond, thanks for the software and > the documentation, they are really good! > > I have transcribed a song by Stevie Wonder: > > https://github.com/fxn/scores/blob/master/stevie-wonder/you-and-i.ly > > and have a couple of questio

Re: Error Message

2012/11/27 Zenaan Harkness : >> I verified that the manual contains no instance of >> "TupletSpannerDuration". "copy and paste" has a rather fixed meaning >> that is usually not meant to include "read and manually retyped". > > Aww, c'mon. What's a few [de]capitalisations or an extra char between

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012/11/27 Thomas Morley : > 2012/11/27 Xavier Noria : >> Hi! This is the first time I use LilyPond, thanks for the software and >> the documentation, they are really good! >> >> I have transcribed a song by Stevie Wonder: >> >> https://github.com/fxn/scores/blob/master/stevie-wonder/you-and-i.

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

Xavier Noria writes: > Hi! This is the first time I use LilyPond, thanks for the software and > the documentation, they are really good! > > I have transcribed a song by Stevie Wonder: > > https://github.com/fxn/scores/blob/master/stevie-wonder/you-and-i.ly Here likely the Github usage condi

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

Francisco Vila writes: > 2012/11/27 Thomas Morley : >> 2012/11/27 Xavier Noria : >>> Hi! This is the first time I use LilyPond, thanks for the software and >>> the documentation, they are really good! >>> >>> I have transcribed a song by Stevie Wonder: >>> >>> https://github.com/fxn/scores/bl

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012/11/27 Xavier Noria : > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Thomas Morley > wrote: > >>> 2. Whole notes and rests are kind of flushed to the left. It's been >>> many years since I did music but if I am not mistaken it was customary >>> to have them centered... is there a way to center them? >> >

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:07 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Xavier Noria writes: > >> Hi! This is the first time I use LilyPond, thanks for the software and >> the documentation, they are really good! >> >> I have transcribed a song by Stevie Wonder: >> >> https://github.com/fxn/scores/blob/mas

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

David Kastrup writes: > Without an authorization by Stevie Wonder, publishing a version of his > work on GitHub is not allowed in most countries of the world, so you > should likely make this part of your repository private. Either that, or move to a country which allows such publishing. As an a

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

Am 27.11.2012 10:11, schrieb Xavier Noria: 2. Whole notes and rests are kind of flushed to the left. It's been many years since I did music but if I am not mistaken it was customary to have them centered... is there a way to center them? I'm embarrassed that I don't exactly know when and where, b

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

You can even find it in _handwritten_ 19th century scores. For example look at the last measure in this Schubert manuscript: http://www.schubert-online.at/activpage/manuskripte.php?werke_id=253&werkteile_id=&image=MH_00122_D648_052.jpg&groesse=100&aktion=einzelbild&bild_id=51 BTW: nice websi

new user--Glissando question

Hello! I'm trying to use LilyPond to score music for Harp and have a question about continuous glissandos. There are measures in this piece (4/4) where each quarter note is the beginning and the end of a glissando (well, except the first). After doing this for a while, this pattern stops and

2.17.7 won't compile

I'm getting this error on "make": --- begin quote - ! I can't find file `mfplain'. l.27 input mfplain --- end quote --- What is "mfplain" ? Online searching fails to explain. I'm on Ubuntu Maverick (10.10). Thanks. _

Re: 2.17.7 won't compile

Bric writes: > I'm getting this error on "make": > > > --- begin quote - > ! I can't find file `mfplain'. > l.27 input mfplain > --- end quote --- > > > What is "mfplain" ? Online searching fails to explain. $ dpkg -S mfplain texlive-metapost: /usr/share/texlive/t

Re: 2.17.7 won't compile

David Kastrup writes: > Bric writes: >> What is "mfplain" ? Online searching fails to explain. > > $ dpkg -S mfplain While helpful for this user in this specific case, that only works if you already have what you are missing. Try (after apt-file update of course) $ apt-file search mfplain

RE: new user--Glissando question

Since you never have more than two voices of music at once, there's no need for you to have more than one voice within a Staff context. Just put all the music for the each hand in its respective Staff context and use the \change function to switch staves: %%% start \header{ title = "glissando

Re: new user--Glissando question

Bill Restemeyer wrote > Hello! I'm trying to use LilyPond to score music for Harp and have a > question about continuous glissandos. There are measures in this piece > (4/4) where each quarter note is the beginning and the end of a glissando > (well, except the first). After doing this for a whi

Re: measures per system

Hi Kieren, > On 2012-Nov-26, at 12:34, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> One of my favourite snippets (thanks David!) is >> I'm glad you like it! >> >> Is there a way that this can be coded "arbitrarily", e.g. >> >> 1. The first 19 measures

Re: review of a Mutopia file (why TabStaff gives error here?)

On 27/11/12 11:52, David Kastrup wrote: #(define (text-spanner-start-stop mus) (let ((elts (extract-typed-music mus 'rhythmic-event))) (for-each (lambda (sel) (let ((m (sel elts))) (set! (ly:music-property m 'articulations) (cons (make-music 'Te

Re: review of a Mutopia file (why TabStaff gives error here?)

2012/11/27 David Kastrup : > Probably try something like > > #(define (text-spanner-start-stop mus) > (let ((elts (extract-typed-music mus 'rhythmic-event))) > (for-each > (lambda (sel) > (let ((m (sel elts))) > (set! (ly:music-property m 'articulations) >

Re: review of a Mutopia file (why TabStaff gives error here?)

2012/11/27 Nick Payne : > On 27/11/12 11:52, David Kastrup wrote: >> >> #(define (text-spanner-start-stop mus) >>(let ((elts (extract-typed-music mus 'rhythmic-event))) >> (for-each >>(lambda (sel) >> (let ((m (sel elts))) >>(set! (ly:music-property m 'articula

Re: include header conflicts

David Kastrup wrote > > You could suck the whole file into one score and get just the music back > out again using ly:score-music, something like > > #(ly:score-music #{ \score { \include "xxx.ly" } #}) > > The music will already be "scorified" (repeat chords expanded, \\ > replaced and other th

Re: review of a Mutopia file (why TabStaff gives error here?)

On 28/11/12 09:35, Thomas Morley wrote: Although I can confirm your observation, I asked myself: How would I use a TextSpanner to span a repeat-unfold-expression with pure LilyPond-syntax? I couldn't find any reasonable method. The following doesn't work (ofcourse not): \relative c {

Re: include header conflicts

Eluze writes: > David Kastrup wrote >> >> You could suck the whole file into one score and get just the music back >> out again using ly:score-music, something like >> >> #(ly:score-music #{ \score { \include "xxx.ly" } #}) >> >> The music will already be "scorified" (repeat chords expanded, \

Re: new user--Glissando question

Daniel, Thanks much for the valuable tips. I was able to adapt your method for other parts of the piece also. I promise to follow the rules of Tiny Examples if I need to submit another snippet. :-) Bill On Nov 27, 2012, at 12:24 PM, Daniel Rosen wrote: > Since you never have more than two

Re: new user--Glissando question

It's less a question of following rules, and more about making things easier for everyone involved--often by stripping stuff away I'm able to isolate and fix issues myself. :) DR Sent from my iPhone On Nov 27, 2012, at 7:28 PM, "Bill Restemeyer" wrote: > Daniel, > > Thanks much for the val

Lilypond-book does not run

I have used Lilypond-book (2.14) with Vista. Now I switched to Windows 8 and installed the actual stable lilypond Version (2.16). An actual MikTeX Installation did run (pdfLaTeX works). Lilypond.exe runs well, lilypond-book does not run correctly. To have a simple test I used the example of the

Re: Note duration line (contemporary)

> It looks like you might be able to use a glissando and override the style to > be "line", then twiddle the thickness until it looks right? Using this glissando method mentioned, does anybody know of a specific override that would force the glissando line to be flat (i.e. ignore the y position

Re: Note duration line (contemporary)

Hi Oscar, On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Oscar Dub wrote: >> It looks like you might be able to use a glissando and override the style to >> be "line", then twiddle the thickness until it looks right? > > Using this glissando method mentioned, does anybody know of a specific > override that w