Re: Lilypond Woodwind-Diagram for Bassoon missing half-hole option for first finger

2013-03-16 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Ryan, Unfortunately this feature does not exist yet. If I understand correctly you want the result as shown in the PNG attachment. (Shown with a quick and dirty round hole, not the ellipse form) <> Regards, Wim. On 16 Mar 2013, at 02:45 , ryanmichaelmcclure wrote: I am attempting

Re: Changing accidental style for one section of a piece

2013-03-16 Thread David Kastrup
James Harkins writes: > I'm working on a piece now where most of it is modal, but one section > will be free-chromatic. I would like to use one of the more modern > accidental styles, but only in that section. > > I read the section of the manual about automatic accidentals, and it > appears at f

Re: stem directions in music for voice and guitar

2013-03-16 Thread David Kastrup
ivan.k.kuznet...@gmail.com writes: > Attached is the beginning of an arrangement for > voice and guitar. The guitar part is two part counterpoint > in which I would like to control where the steps go up or > down. > > (1) In the guitar part, even though I have \voiceOne marked with \stemUp > and

Re: Changing accidental style for one section of a piece

2013-03-16 Thread Urs Liska
Am 15.03.2013 15:07, schrieb James Harkins: Hi, I'm working on a piece now where most of it is modal, but one section will be free-chromatic. I would like to use one of the more modern accidental styles, but only in that section. I read the section of the manual about automatic accidentals,

Re: conversion factor for \pt

2013-03-16 Thread Trevor Daniels
Thomas Morley wrote Saturday, March 16, 2013 2:10 AM > in the following markup I want draw-line to have the same Y-length as the > brace. > > \version "2.16.2" > > factor = #0.175 % a rough estimation, and for default-staff-size only > size = #40 > > \markup { >\left-brace #size >

Re: roling cords

2013-03-16 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Sarah, On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Sarah k Alawami wrote: > Ok. so based on the example I played I have no choice. so do I just put > the whole shebang on beat one and hope the pianist, in this case either me > or the prof or a class mate would have the sense to do what I did, better > t

big-picture question regarding Lilypond's capabilities (current and potential)

2013-03-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, My two-act musical, "Robin Hood: The Legendary Musical Comedy", had a three-week run at Toronto's Hart House Theatre in January. It was quite successful, to the point that several parties have voiced an interest in further developing and producing it. In my dream world, people who a

Re: cautionary accidentals based on cautionary in another staff?

2013-03-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Keith, >> Has anyone solved this problem, i.e., including cautionary accidental(s) >> in one staff if one was required in the same measure of another staff in the >> same score? > > Exactly this rule probably won't work for you, but I set a rule to set > cautionary > accidentals when any inst

barline at end of staff

2013-03-16 Thread Arno Rog
L.S. I'm trying to figure out a way to place the last bar line exactly at the end of the staff in the score of the Dutch anthem at http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet? id=648 Now it's done manually: \override Staff.BarLine #'extra-offset = #'(23 . 0) \bar "|." Can this be automatically (and cor

Re: big-picture question regarding Lilypond's capabilities (current and potential)

2013-03-16 Thread m...@mikesolomon.org
On 16 mars 2013, at 17:17, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hello all, > > My two-act musical, "Robin Hood: The Legendary Musical Comedy", had a > three-week run at Toronto's Hart House Theatre in January. It was quite > successful, to the point that several parties have voiced an interest in > fur

Re: big-picture question regarding Lilypond's capabilities (current and potential)

2013-03-16 Thread David Kastrup
"m...@mikesolomon.org" writes: > On 16 mars 2013, at 17:17, Kieren MacMillan > wrote: >> >>1. “I would like PDFs for the full score, vocal score, vocal >> book, and band parts for piano+bass+percussion." >>2. "I would like ‘Generosity’ transposed down a tone.” >>3. “In the opening n

Changing of default midi instrument

2013-03-16 Thread Peter Schütt
Hallo, I am new in Lilypond. I try to change the default midi instrument (piano) for a song to a violin. After longer searching I did not find a solution. Perhaps someone can give me a example. ... \score { << \new ChordNames { \set chordChanges = ##t \melodyHarmonies \

Re: Changing of default midi instrument

2013-03-16 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Peter Schütt" To: Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 5:47 PM Subject: Changing of default midi instrument Hallo, I am new in Lilypond. I try to change the default midi instrument (piano) for a song to a violin. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/nota

Brackets between notes

2013-03-16 Thread Noeck
Hi, I would like to have brackets/spanners between notes like they are common in musical education to show semitones (= \/) and tone (= |_|) as shown on this page: http://www.akkorde.info/dur-akkorde.html (I would prefer them without slope/ends on same vertical position). I know analysis brackets

Re: Changing of default midi instrument

2013-03-16 Thread Peter Schütt
Hallo, [..] >> I am new in Lilypond. >> I try to change the default midi instrument (piano) for a song to a >> violin. > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/midi- instruments#index-MIDI_002c-instruments I found this page, but I do not find out how the correct commands and synt

Re: Changing of default midi instrument

2013-03-16 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Sat, 16 Mar 2013, Phil Holmes wrote: I am new in Lilypond. I try to change the default midi instrument (piano) for a song to a violin. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/midi-instruments#index-MIDI_002c-instruments In this case it doesn't matter but: If a (new) user h

Re: Changing of default midi instrument

2013-03-16 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/3/16 Peter Schütt : > Hallo, > > [..] >>> I am new in Lilypond. >>> I try to change the default midi instrument (piano) for a song to a >>> violin. >> >> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/midi- > instruments#index-MIDI_002c-instruments > > I found this page, but I do not fin

Re: Changing of default midi instrument

2013-03-16 Thread Noeck
Dear Peter, this page of the documentation explaines it: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/creating-midi-files In your example this would work: \new Voice = "Strophe" { \set Staff.midiInstrument = #"violin" … and so on or here: \midi { \context { \ChordNameVoice

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-16 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2013-03-16 um 00:29 schrieb Martin Tarenskeen: >> Am 2013-03-15 um 10:06 schrieb TaoCG: >> >>> This is all very interesting, I'd love to have a jazz style font in >>> LilyPond, >>> though I don't particularly like the Sigler Jazz font. I much prefer their >>> Swing font. >>> I was still wonde

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-16 Thread Johan Vromans
Henning Hraban Ramm writes: > But some even use (more or less) the same metrics, like URW Nimbus > Sans [...] Using the same metrics is on purpose, so the font can be used as a free drop-in replacement for the original but copyrighted font. -- Johan ___

Re: Brackets between notes

2013-03-16 Thread Noeck
> I would like to have brackets/spanners between notes like they are > common in musical education to show semitones (= \/) and tone (= |_|) as > shown on this page: http://www.akkorde.info/dur-akkorde.html > (I would prefer them without slope/ends on same vertical position). I tried also \[ and \

Re: stem directions in music for voice and guitar

2013-03-16 Thread ivan . k . kuznetsov
Thanks to everyone who responded. "Mark Stephen Mrotek" writes: > > When I write polyphony for the piano I use > << > { %here pitches for top voice > } > \\ > { %here pitches for bottom voice > } > >> Yes, your solution works and I have used it in the past. I was trying to figure out h

articulation simbols

2013-03-16 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Hello to all. I was tryign to look up accents and staccato marks in lily pond. I found a lit of articulations but it just shows the image of music and the manual at least as far as I can tell does not explain what % and - and + mean etc etc etc. I thin I remember how to do it but is there text

Re: articulation simbols

2013-03-16 Thread ryanmichaelmcclure
Hi there! To be honest, I don't use the symbols like "+" and things like that. Here is what I use: After the note in question, after a duration if it has one, add the following: \staccato \tenuto \accent For example, if you wanted an accent over a half note c: c2\accent Let me know if things

Re: Brackets between notes

2013-03-16 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/3/16 Noeck : >> I would like to have brackets/spanners between notes like they are >> common in musical education to show semitones (= \/) and tone (= |_|) as >> shown on this page: http://www.akkorde.info/dur-akkorde.html >> (I would prefer them without slope/ends on same vertical position).

Re: Lilypond Woodwind-Diagram for Bassoon missing half-hole option for first finger

2013-03-16 Thread ryanmichaelmcclure
This is precisely what I need. Is there a way that I could make this appear in the fingering using a tweak? -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Lilypond-Woodwind-Diagram-for-Bassoon-missing-half-hole-option-for-first-finger-tp142777p142835.html Sent from the U

Re: Brackets between notes

2013-03-16 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/3/16 Thomas Morley : > 2013/3/16 Noeck : >>> I would like to have brackets/spanners between notes like they are >>> common in musical education to show semitones (= \/) and tone (= |_|) as >>> shown on this page: http://www.akkorde.info/dur-akkorde.html >>> (I would prefer them without slope/e

Re: Brackets between notes

2013-03-16 Thread Noeck
> > Hi Joram, > > below some code which seems to do what you want, hijacking Glissando. … > HTH, > Harm Hi Harm, this is incredible! Thanks a lot! This looks really good. With a tiny adjustment, this is exactly what I was looking for. (I will probably make the semiTone-bracket a bit flatter.)

Re: Brackets between notes

2013-03-16 Thread Noeck
Thanks, that's even nicer and more flexible in usage. Cheers, Joram ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Brackets between notes

2013-03-16 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/3/17 Noeck : >> >> Hi Joram, >> >> below some code which seems to do what you want, hijacking Glissando. > … >> HTH, >> Harm > > Hi Harm, > > this is incredible! Thanks a lot! This looks really good. > With a tiny adjustment, this is exactly what I was looking for. > (I will probably make th

Re: Brackets between notes

2013-03-16 Thread Noeck
>> Is it difficult to make it not depending on the vertical note position >> (more behaving like piano-pedal brackets), so staying in one line and >> not rising with the scale? > > It's not so hard, although I'd prefer the former version. I think you convinced me ;) Thanks, Joram For the record

Re: big-picture question regarding Lilypond's capabilities (current and potential)

2013-03-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, > Why would you need absolute note entry? > Usually \relative has done its deed before you excise tags. That's great to know — I much prefer relative note entry. Thanks, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lis

Re: conversion factor for \pt

2013-03-16 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/3/16 Trevor Daniels : [...] > Does the example in > http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/fonts#entire-document-fonts > help? > > Trevor A little, though: Wanting to get a brace and a line having the same length in a markup, I need to do some calculations, therefore I seem

Re: articulation simbols

2013-03-16 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Ok. I was for some odd reason surrounding it in quotes. I'll play with that and thanks goodness I commented in my file where these things were lol! Will give this a go. Using v 2.16 I think, the latest stable release. Not ready to go beta as I'm still very much learning and doing my best. Tc

final touches, but getting errors.

2013-03-16 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Ok. I don't recall changing anything in this templet. All was working fine until I added some accent marks and such. those compiled ok but now when I added the \bar"|" I got the compilation errors. I know I'm close. did I miss an equals sign some wares? here is the ly file. and I'm aware I miss

hide ledger lines for one notehead

2013-03-16 Thread Jeffrey Trevino
a yes or no question for y'all -- Is there a way to hide the ledger lines for a single notehead? I see that it's possible to override a ledger lines stencil at the level of staff context, but I don't see how to do it for a single notehead. thanks, Jeff _

Re: hide ledger lines for one notehead

2013-03-16 Thread Nick Payne
On 17/03/13 14:22, Jeffrey Trevino wrote: a yes or no question for y'all -- Is there a way to hide the ledger lines for a single notehead? I see that it's possible to override a ledger lines stencil at the level of staff context, but I don't see how to do it for a single notehead. You can \ov

RE: final touches, but getting errors.

2013-03-16 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Sarah: When I compiled the file I got the "unexpected string" error message for the "unexpected String \set PianoStaff.instrumentName = #"Piano " ." My experience is that this occurs when I fail to have a closing brace, "}," correctly paired with an opening brace , "{". This may or may not be the

Re: final touches, but getting errors.

2013-03-16 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Actually that's the first thing I checked and I don't think I found a missing close brace.. I'll look again in case I missed it. That was my thinking to actually. Take care. On Mar 16, 2013, at 9:06 PM, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > Sarah: > > When I compiled the file I got the "unexpected st

Multiple simultaneous time signatures vs. staffgroups

2013-03-16 Thread James Harkins
Hi, I'm working on a trio. In one section, one instrument will play metered music and the other two will have aleatoric notation, without barlines. LSR #344 [1] ("Printing music with different time signatures") shows how to suppress normal barlines in one or more parts. But, in this case, the staf

Re: final touches, but getting errors.

2013-03-16 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Got it. I had \bar"\" not \bar"|" All fixed now. Strange that would cause the error. I would have expected something like unknown escape string or something like that. Now it's all done. lol! Thanks for the hint. Take care. On Mar 16, 2013, at 9:06 PM, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > Sarah: >

Horn Solos Project

2013-03-16 Thread Jay Anderson
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1206816328/horn-solos This is a project I've worked on for a while. I've got a pretty good response from the horn community. (I mentioned this on the Google+ lilypond group, but I figured I'd mention it here as well). I do plan on opening up the source after I

Re: final touches, but getting errors.

2013-03-16 Thread Paul Scott
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 09:24:02PM -0700, Sarah k Alawami wrote: > Got it. I had \bar"\" not \bar"|" All fixed now. Strange that would > cause the error. I would have expected something like unknown escape > string or something like that. Now it's all done. lol! It meant that the quote before t

Re: articulation simbols

2013-03-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> \staccato >> \tenuto >> \accent > > Will give this a go. It's a glaring omission in the manual (and thus a severe obstacle for blind users) that most articulation symbols are not described verbally but only shown as images. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/list-of-arti

Re: Lilypond Woodwind-Diagram for Bassoon missing half-hole option for first finger

2013-03-16 Thread m...@mikesolomon.org
Hey Ryan, It'll require a bit of hacking. -) Find the file display-woodwind-diagrams.scm for the version of LilyPond you're using. Do a system search until you come across it if you're note sure how/where to find it. -) Go to line 1366 of the file. -) Change the word "trill" to the word "cov