Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

Dear community, I'd like to collect some suggestion for a replacement font for Century Schoolbook. I created a style sheet for a certain kind of score that I need regularely, namely classical voice-piano songs. When I reduced the staff size in a way that I get enough music on a page it alway

Re: \hideNotes and MIDI Note_performer

Adam Spiers adamspiers.org> writes: > I've noticed that MIDI generation doesn't honour transparent notes, > e.g. in > > f8( \hideNotes \grace { c16 \glissando } \unHideNotes f8) > > a NoteOn event is generated for the c16. Hopefully I should be able > to address this if someone gives me a f

ChordNames default font

Hi, I find the default choice of font and fontsize for ChordNames extremely ugly. I know, it's a matter of personal taste. But has there ever been a poll/vote among Lilypond users about this? I have a feeling that I am not the only one who *always* uses \override to change this ChordName fon

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

Am 07.01.2013 11:24, schrieb Andrew Bernard: Greetings from Australia, So what font is it, actually? You did not mention. I didn't mention because it is visible in the pdf... But of course it would have been polite to explicitely mention Adobe Minion Pro. What I like about it is - the 'moder

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

On 07/01/13 21:36, Urs Liska wrote: Am 07.01.2013 11:24, schrieb Andrew Bernard: Greetings from Australia, So what font is it, actually? You did not mention. I didn't mention because it is visible in the pdf... But of course it would have been polite to explicitely mention Adobe Minion Pro.

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

Am 07.01.2013 11:48, schrieb Nick Payne: On 07/01/13 21:36, Urs Liska wrote: Am 07.01.2013 11:24, schrieb Andrew Bernard: Greetings from Australia, So what font is it, actually? You did not mention. I didn't mention because it is visible in the pdf... But of course it would have been polite t

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

Am 2013-01-07 um 10:14 schrieb Urs Liska: > I'd like to collect some suggestion for a replacement font for Century > Schoolbook. > So (to finally get to the point) I'd be happy about suggestions for good free > text fonts to use with LilyPond. > They should be well equipped in terms of language

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

Henning Hraban Ramm writes: > Am 2013-01-07 um 10:14 schrieb Urs Liska: > >> I'd like to collect some suggestion for a replacement font for >> Century Schoolbook. >> So (to finally get to the point) I'd be happy about suggestions for >> good free text fonts to use with LilyPond. >> They should be

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

On Mon, 7 Jan 2013, Nick Payne wrote: The Minion Pro font is bundled by Adobe with Adobe Reader. If you install Reader on Linux, the font files are copied to /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Resource/Font (that's where they are on my system), and if you install Reader on Windows, they are copied to C:\Pro

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

Martin Tarenskeen writes: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2013, Nick Payne wrote: > >> The Minion Pro font is bundled by Adobe with Adobe Reader. If you >> install Reader on Linux, the font files are copied to >> /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Resource/Font (that's where they are on my >> system), and if you install Reader

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

Am 07.01.2013 12:14, schrieb David Kastrup: Henning Hraban Ramm writes: Am 2013-01-07 um 10:14 schrieb Urs Liska: I'd like to collect some suggestion for a replacement font for Century Schoolbook. So (to finally get to the point) I'd be happy about suggestions for good free text fonts to use

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013/1/7 Martin Tarenskeen : [...] > > I don't like Adobe Reader on > my system, it takes much too much space. I use evince. [...] A little off-topic. I recently wrote a draw-dashed-line-markup-command. During development I made the experience that evince didn't print all dots in all cases. Adob

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

Am 07.01.2013 12:09, schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: Am 2013-01-07 um 10:14 schrieb Urs Liska: I'd like to collect some suggestion for a replacement font for Century Schoolbook. So (to finally get to the point) I'd be happy about suggestions for good free text fonts to use with LilyPond. They sh

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

Am 2013-01-07 um 12:14 schrieb David Kastrup: > Henning Hraban Ramm writes: > >> Am 2013-01-07 um 10:14 schrieb Urs Liska: >> >>> I'd like to collect some suggestion for a replacement font for >>> Century Schoolbook. >>> So (to finally get to the point) I'd be happy about suggestions for >>> g

Re: RUMOR Midi utility & Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

On 7/01/13 6:11 PM, SoundsFromSound wrote: Thank you so much for the reply. I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed, very few apps other than the usual: Synaptic, Inkscape, LilyPond/Frescobaldi, etc. All I did was install Rumor and poof - these appeared, no other items I can think of that could be the ca

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

Urs Liska writes: > Am 07.01.2013 12:09, schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: >> Am 2013-01-07 um 10:14 schrieb Urs Liska: >> >>> I'd like to collect some suggestion for a replacement font for >>> Century Schoolbook. >>> So (to finally get to the point) I'd be happy about suggestions for >>> good free te

Re: RUMOR Midi utility & Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

Brett Duncan writes: > On 7/01/13 6:11 PM, SoundsFromSound wrote: > > Thank you so much for the reply. I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed, very few > apps other than the usual: Synaptic, Inkscape, LilyPond/Frescobaldi, etc. > > All I did was install Rumor and poof - these appeared, no other items

Re: \hideNotes and MIDI Note_performer

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Johannes Rohrer wrote: > Adam Spiers adamspiers.org> writes: > >> I've noticed that MIDI generation doesn't honour transparent notes, >> e.g. in >> >> f8( \hideNotes \grace { c16 \glissando } \unHideNotes f8) >> >> a NoteOn event is generated for the c16. Hopef

Re: RUMOR Midi utility & Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

Hi, I also saw that with Frescobaldi under ubuntu (with the default unity desktop). It might be connected to the global menu of unity, because it never occured with the gnome-panel interface, I am using now instead of unity. Cheers, Joram ___ lilypond-

Put-mm

I have searched, Mail Archives, Snippet repositry and the Lilypond home page for this function but cannot find any reference to it - where should I be looking? Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 01:28:17 -0500 From: Kieren MacMillan To: Andrew Bernard Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: vspace multiplie

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

Could you explain to me why you think Gentium isn’t suitable for lyrics? I’m using it (Gentium Book Basic) for my lyrics and am quite satisfied with it: https://s3.amazonaws.com/radiant_records/Sing+it+High+Songbook/Sing+It+High+Sample.pdf But maybe I’m missing some important issues … I’m not that

Re: Put-mm

Hi Peter On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Peter Gentry wrote: > I have searched, Mail Archives, Snippet repositry and the Lilypond home > page for this function but cannot find any reference to it > - where should I be looking? > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-04/msg00057.

Re: RUMOR Midi utility & Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

OK, I'll try making a new user and see if that fixes it. Thanks! David Kastrup wrote > Brett Duncan < > bdd1967@.net > > writes: > >> On 7/01/13 6:11 PM, SoundsFromSound wrote: >> >> Thank you so much for the reply. I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed, very >> few >> apps other than the usual:

Re: RUMOR Midi utility & Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

David: I added two new users, one at a time, and tried them all. All accounts show this error in Frescobaldi / LilyPond. One admin account and two regular accounts. Any ideas how I can fix this? It's so bad that every time I click the mouse on any menu options of any menu in Frescobaldi, it dup

Re: RUMOR Midi utility & Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

Oh and I just found this! https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/frescobaldi/+bug/1058911 I guess it's a bug...from a few months back? - composer | sound designer -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/RUMOR-Midi-utility-Frescobaldi-Menu-Error-tp138931p

Re: RUMOR Midi utility & Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

SoundsFromSound writes: > David: > > I added two new users, one at a time, and tried them all. All accounts show > this error in Frescobaldi / LilyPond. One admin account and two regular > accounts. Ok, that means at least that this is not a problem of your _personal_ account configuration. S

Re: RUMOR Midi utility & Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

SoundsFromSound writes: > Oh and I just found this! > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/frescobaldi/+bug/1058911 > > I guess it's a bug...from a few months back? That's nothing. Try https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xpdf/+bug/943195> and this is not the first time _that_ bug o

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

Antonio Gervasoni writes: > Of course, just typing notes in a keyboard may be faster than inputing them > with the mouse but the workflow becomes very slow when you have to > make all the necessary tweaks to get a nice result. Also, there are lots of > different expressions and commands and some

Re: Exporting SVG files into Inkscape - font issues

SoundsFromSound writes: > This DOES work in Linux, no problem - beautifully too, Olivier. But > Windows, no matter what I do/move what fonts where, it just will NOT open > the SVG w/ correct fonts. Grrr. Windows and fonts is a nightmare. I looked into Denemo and GUI fonts for Windows and remem

Re: RUMOR Midi utility & Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

Got it, sounds good! Thanks David! I'm on it. David Kastrup wrote > SoundsFromSound < > soundsfromsound@ > > writes: > >> Oh and I just found this! >> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/frescobaldi/+bug/1058911 >> >> I guess it's a bug...from a few months back? > > That's nothing. >

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

Am 07.01.2013 15:01, schrieb Peter Crighton: Could you explain to me why you think Gentium isn’t suitable for lyrics? I’m using it (Gentium Book Basic) for my lyrics and am quite satisfied with it: https://s3.amazonaws.com/radiant_records/Sing+it+High+Songbook/Sing+It+High+Sample.pdf But maybe I’

Re: RUMOR Midi utility & Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

- composer | sound designer -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/RUMOR-Midi-utility-Frescobaldi-Menu-Error-tp138931p138987.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing li

sophisticated SystemStartBar callback needed

Hi all! I'm frantically cranking out orchestrations and scores for "Robin Hood: The Legendary Musical Comedy", which opens this Friday. p.s. This is *by far* the largest project I've ever Lily-pounded! Anyway, it's hardly critical (

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

On 07/01/13 22:19, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2013, Nick Payne wrote: The Minion Pro font is bundled by Adobe with Adobe Reader. If you install Reader on Linux, the font files are copied to /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Resource/Font (that's where they are on my system), and if you install

Re: \hideNotes and MIDI Note_performer

Adam Spiers adamspiers.org> writes: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Johannes Rohrer johannesrohrer.de> wrote: >> Adam Spiers adamspiers.org> writes: >> >>> I've noticed that MIDI generation doesn't honour transparent notes, >>> e.g. in >>> >>> f8( \hideNotes \grace { c16 \glissando } \unHid

Re: sophisticated SystemStartBar callback needed

- Original Message - From: "Kieren MacMillan" To: "Lilypond-User Mailing List" Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 4:56 PM Subject: sophisticated SystemStartBar callback needed Hi all! I'm frantically cranking out orchestrations and scores for "Robin Hood: The Legendary Musical Comedy",

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

Am 2013-01-07 um 15:01 schrieb Peter Crighton: > Could you explain to me why you think Gentium isn’t suitable for > lyrics? I’m using it (Gentium Book Basic) for my lyrics and am quite > satisfied with it: > https://s3.amazonaws.com/radiant_records/Sing+it+High+Songbook/Sing+It+High+Sample.pdf >

Re: sophisticated SystemStartBar callback needed

On 2013-01-07 20:16, Kieren MacMillan wrote: But here's a screenshot of what I'm getting with soloists plus chorus (this is exactly as desired): And here's the result when there are no soloists in the [frenched] system: In this latter situation, I want the straight bar (which is only present to

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

I found Gentium Book Basic to be rather condensed, though, when choosing it several months ago. But you’re right, it might not be that suitable in other settings. I mainly write scores of the type I linked to, though, so at the moment, Gentium Book Basic is perfect for me. I very much like the rath

new piece, typesetted with lilypond

Dear community, my newest piece for piano, synthesizer and percussion will be premiered this saturday in the Tonhalle in Düsseldorf, Germany Is it possible to make an anouncement at the lilypond-website? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.or

Prallup on lefthand of note: positioning the glyph

I believe the attached glyph is a prall-up. What is the override(s) needed to allow the script to print inside the staff to the lefthand of the note? Javier<>___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/li

Measure counter

I'm currently using code based on the snippet in http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/snippets/repeats#repeats-measure-counterto create numbers above bars where they are repeated. However this starts with a number 2 above the second bar, and I would like a 1 above the first bar. What's

Re: Prallup on lefthand of note: positioning the glyph

\override Script #'extra-offset = #'(-2.6 . -2.0) just a wild guess on the values. Shane On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Javier Ruiz wrote: > I believe the attached glyph is a prall-up. > > What is the override(s) needed to allow the script to print inside the > staff to the lefthand of the

grace notes break preceding ties in MIDI

Hi all, Can anyone explain the following bug, and offer a work-around? Reproducible on latest git master: \include "english.ly" %\include "articulate.ly" \score { \new Staff { \relative c' { % BUG: This first f~ tie will not be honoured in the MIDI output % due to the \grace:

Re: sophisticated SystemStartBar callback needed

Hi Phil, > Why do you need the line at all? I've never seen a vocal score anything like > that, and I have seen quite a few. With only a very quick scan of my library, I turned up about a dozen that have a bar for the vox — they're mostly musical theatre scores (e.g., Les Miz, Sweeney Todd, L

Re: RUMOR Midi utility & Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

On 7 January 2013 13:51, Noeck wrote: > I also saw that with Frescobaldi under ubuntu (with the default unity > desktop). It might be connected to the global menu of unity, because it > never occured with the gnome-panel interface Confirmed. I use gnome and couldn't see it. Switch to guest sessio

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

How does Fairplay look to you? http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Playfair+Display -e. On Jan 7, 2013, at 4:23 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > [Vernon Adams and Eben Sorkin are two typographers who are actively > designing lots of typefaces, Dave Crossland is a fabulous promoter of > free f

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

Nick Paine writes: > If you have a whole passage of tuplets, then... > \set tupletSpannerDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 4) > \times 2/3 { } > no need to repeat the \times 2/3 {} for each tuplet. Werner Lemberg writes: > And with a small music function like > T = #(define-music-function (pars

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

>> If you have a whole passage of tuplets, then... [...] > >> And with a small music function like [...] > > Excellent, but I would say that only musicians who are also > programmers and with a good knowledge of Scheme might be able to > figure out such solutions. I disagree. All the knowledge

Evince (Was: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?)

Thomas Morley writes: > I recently wrote a draw-dashed-line-markup-command. > > During development I made the experience that evince didn't print all > dots in all cases. > Adobe did. > So I wouldn't want to miss it. Although I use evince all of the time, I never use it for printing LilyPond sco

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > That's why I like to differentiate between inputting and tweaking. > Inputting is probably much, much faster using the keyboard. [...] > I'm still not sure what the ideal way of inputting and tweaking would > look like. The nice thing about text-based tweaks as compar