Re: Piano music switching staves

2013-10-12 Thread Derek
@Ben I was trying to make the example as simple as possible so I omitted all that stuff but I can put it back in when I get home. I tried using the example in the documentation but it just added another staff -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Piano-music-s

Re: ugly bar line when changing line-count

2013-10-12 Thread Eluze
Gilberto Agostinho wrote > And still one more little problem concerning changes in line-count: if the > line-count is changed in the middle of a bar, they tend to be modified > only after an accidental! Have a look on the following code: > > On the top staff, everything is fine between accidental

Lyric-Staff-spacing fails with smaller lyrics

2013-10-12 Thread Marc Hohl
Hello list, I want to place lyrics above and below a certain staff which works perfectly as long as I do not change the size of staff and lyrics, see the attached file and its resulting pdf. Interestingly, it seems that tin example 2, the upper lyrics are farther away in the first line, whereas

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-12 Thread EdBeesley
Thomas Morley-2 wrote > Also possible: > > \version "2.16.2" > > moreVerticalDynamicTextSpannerWhiteoutII = > #(define-music-function (parser location adds)(pair?) > > (define (flexible-stencil-whiteout add stencil) > (let* > ((x-ext (ly:stencil-extent stencil X)) >

Re: Lyric-Staff-spacing fails with smaller lyrics

2013-10-12 Thread Eluze
Marc Hohl wrote > Hello list, > > I want to place lyrics above and below a certain staff which works > perfectly as long as I do not change the size of staff and lyrics, > see the attached file and its resulting pdf. > > Interestingly, it seems that tin example 2, the upper lyrics are > farther a

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-12 Thread David Kastrup
EdBeesley writes: > Damnit David, I'm a musician not a programmer! In all seriousness > though I always do my best to figure out the answer myself via the > documentation. Good. Then you can tell us where the documentation falls short. To be exact, I reacted to your statement: > Now when you

Piano/Xylophone key diagrams

2013-10-12 Thread Phil Holmes
At college, one of my ensembles is a mixed-music group performing modern music. I normally get away with singing or "playing" a triangle and bits of other untuned percussion. Imagine my surprised when I was given a xylophone piece to play. Fortunately, it's only one note at a time, and most o

Aligning output question

2013-10-12 Thread Kevin Tough
One of the last hurdles I have to figure out to start producing course notes is to Left/Right jusify staff output, if it is possible. I've done some document scanning and not found my solution. Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction or check my input code to see if it even has the

Re: Piano/Xylophone key diagrams

2013-10-12 Thread David Kastrup
"Phil Holmes" writes: > At college, one of my ensembles is a mixed-music group performing > modern music. I normally get away with singing or "playing" a > triangle and bits of other untuned percussion. Imagine my surprised > when I was given a xylophone piece to play. Fortunately, it's only >

Re: Lyric-Staff-spacing fails with smaller lyrics

2013-10-12 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 12.10.2013 13:42, schrieb Eluze: Marc Hohl wrote Hello list, I want to place lyrics above and below a certain staff which works perfectly as long as I do not change the size of staff and lyrics, see the attached file and its resulting pdf. Interestingly, it seems that tin example 2, the upp

Re: Aligning output question

2013-10-12 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 12.10.2013 15:09, schrieb Kevin Tough: One of the last hurdles I have to figure out to start producing course notes is to Left/Right jusify staff output, if it is possible. I've done some document scanning and not found my solution. Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction or ch

Re: Aligning output question

2013-10-12 Thread David Kastrup
Kevin Tough writes: > One of the last hurdles I have to figure out to start producing course > notes is to Left/Right jusify staff output, if it is possible. I can't figure out what you want. > Another guestion is about variable usage. Can variables be changed or > are they equivalent to consta

Re: Piano/Xylophone key diagrams

2013-10-12 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/10/12 David Kastrup : > "Phil Holmes" writes: > >> At college, one of my ensembles is a mixed-music group performing >> modern music. I normally get away with singing or "playing" a >> triangle and bits of other untuned percussion. Imagine my surprised >> when I was given a xylophone piece

Re: Piano/Xylophone key diagrams

2013-10-12 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > 2013/10/12 David Kastrup : >> "Phil Holmes" writes: >> >>> Could anyone start me off on this and help when I get stuck again? >> >> Starting off would be on >> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3563#c4>. Check >> its output. This is basically what you n

Re: LibreOffice, Latex Docs ?? Documenting Lilypond's *.pdf output

2013-10-12 Thread Arjen Bax
Kevin Tough toughlife.org> writes: > > As a Lilypond newbie in what direction should I be looking to be able to > create documentation including Lilypond's pdf output. Inserting the > *.pdfs into Libre Office in Fedora seems to be a dead end, at least > directly. Create encapsulated postscript

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-12 Thread EdBeesley
David Kastrup wrote > EdBeesley < > edplaysdrums@ > > writes: > >> Damnit David, I'm a musician not a programmer! In all seriousness >> though I always do my best to figure out the answer myself via the >> documentation. > > Good. Then you can tell us where the documentation falls short. To b

Re: Aligning output question

2013-10-12 Thread Kevin Tough
Hi Marc, I just cleaned up my code as you suggested, thanks. My input file puts out 2 pairs of staffs. One with whole notes and one with half notes. Is it possible to vertically align both the start and end length of the two pairs? This is just a piece of a larger file with 5 pairs of staffs. Th

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-12 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "EdBeesley" To: Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2013 2:45 PM Subject: Re: cresc. whitespace padding David Kastrup wrote EdBeesley < edplaysdrums@ > writes: Damnit David, I'm a musician not a programmer! In all seriousness though I always do my best to

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-12 Thread David Kastrup
EdBeesley writes: [...] > I'm sensing a certain level of hostility here which I don't think is > completely deserved I'm assuming from your experience and knowledge > that you are a programmer first and foremost? You mean, as opposed to a human being? > So for example if you saw the first

Re: Lyric-Staff-spacing fails with smaller lyrics

2013-10-12 Thread Eluze
Marc Hohl wrote > > Still I don't quite understand why the distances seem to change > between the first and the second line of the second example. could this be determined by one of the …-…-spacing's!? - Eluze -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Lyric-Staff-

Re: Aligning output question

2013-10-12 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Kevin Tough" To: "LilypondMailingListGenUser" Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2013 2:09 PM Subject: Aligning output question One of the last hurdles I have to figure out to start producing course notes is to Left/Right jusify staff output, if it is possible.

Re: Aligning output question

2013-10-12 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/10/12 Phil Holmes : > - Original Message - From: "Kevin Tough" > To: "LilypondMailingListGenUser" > Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2013 2:09 PM > Subject: Aligning output question > > > >> One of the last hurdles I have to figure out to start producing course >> notes is to Left/Right j

Re: Aligning output question

2013-10-12 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > 2013/10/12 Phil Holmes : >> - Original Message - From: "Kevin Tough" >> To: "LilypondMailingListGenUser" >> Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2013 2:09 PM >> Subject: Aligning output question >> >>> One of the last hurdles I have to figure out to start producing course

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-12 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Ed, 2013/10/12 EdBeesley : > David Kastrup wrote >> EdBeesley < > >> edplaysdrums@ > >> > writes: >> >>> Damnit David, I'm a musician not a programmer! That's true for me, too! :) >>> In all seriousness >>> though I always do my best to figure out the answer myself via the >>> documentation.

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-12 Thread EdBeesley
"I don't think it was intended. The problem is that the documentation for Lilypond is generally excellent and occasionally useless. Regular contributors get a little tired of users who can't be bothered to read the bits that are excellent, and instead ask here (often repeatedly asking questio

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-12 Thread David Kastrup
EdBeesley writes: > I think my main problem last night was that I couldn't figure out how > to turn the x-ext and y-ext into variables that could be passed to the > function. But looking at it now it almost seems obvious. Perhaps if > you could include an example using more complex scheme code li

Stand alone guitar chord diagrams

2013-10-12 Thread Kevin Tough
First thanks for the help getting started with Lilypond! In my course documentation I will need a flexible means to generate chord diagrams. I would be greatly surprised that Lilypond could be used for this but perhaps someone has experience with this and would make a suggestion as to what I might

Re: cresc. whitespace padding

2013-10-12 Thread EdBeesley
David Kastrup wrote > EdBeesley < > edplaysdrums@ > > writes: > >> I think my main problem last night was that I couldn't figure out how >> to turn the x-ext and y-ext into variables that could be passed to the >> function. But looking at it now it almost seems obvious. Perhaps if >> you could i

no tableofcontents with lilypond-book

2013-10-12 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, I don't get a table of contents with this latex-file, when I compile it with pdflatex and lilypond-book. > \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} > \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} > %\newcommand{\betweenLilyPondSystem}[1]{\vspace{36mm}\linebreak} % hier > irgendeinen vernünftig erschein

Re: no tableofcontents with lilypond-book

2013-10-12 Thread David Kastrup
Stefan Thomas writes: > Dear community, > I don't get a table of contents with this latex-file, when I compile it > with pdflatex and lilypond-book. >> (cd "$TEMP_DIR" && \ >> pdflatex "$1".tex && \ >> mv "$1".pdf ..) && \ >> rm -rf "$TEMP_DIR" You won't get a table of contents with _any_ LaT

Re: Flat flags

2013-10-12 Thread Karol Majewski
Hi Harm, does the patch fix issue 3096? Karol Dnia 12-10-2013 o godz. 8:26 Thomas Morley napisał(a): > 2013/10/2 Gilberto Agostinho : > > Hi Harm, > > > > Thank you so much for this code. I realize now that it was not your > > flat-flag code that wasn't matching the old and modern-straight-flags

Re: laying out plainsong chant

2013-10-12 Thread Noeck
Hi Gabe, please always reply to the list, because others might also be interested and in this case I can't help much. Here is a parametrized version of \longbar which puts it on the line number pos. However with odd numbers, ledger lines are drawn for the rest and it looks different. I don't know

Re: Flat flags

2013-10-12 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/10/12 Karol Majewski : > Hi Harm, > > does the patch fix issue 3096? > > Karol No. Though, I've an idea how to tackle 3096. I'll try tomorrow, currently I'm too tired. Cheers, Harm ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lis

Re: laying out plainsong chant

2013-10-12 Thread Gabe Moothart
Hi Ben, Thanks, that helps. When I use the underscore, lilypond is placing the first tick (under the b-flat) lower down than the others; do you know why this is? I would like them to all be parallel. source: https://gist.github.com/gmoothart/6954226 output: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/

Re: Stand alone guitar chord diagrams

2013-10-12 Thread Eluze
Kevin Tough wrote > First thanks for the help getting started with Lilypond! > > In my course documentation I will need a flexible means to generate > chord diagrams. I would be greatly surprised that Lilypond could be used > for this but perhaps someone has experience with this and would make a >

Re: ugly bar line when changing line-count

2013-10-12 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi Elize, Thank you very much for your answer. I had a look on your code, and here is what I think about these issues: - indeed most of these things are easily corrected with some sort of tweaking, but I believe that (at least some of them) should be automatic. Let's go case by case. - I already

Re: Flat flags

2013-10-12 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Perfect Harm, thanks a lot! I am really looking forward to it. Take care, Gilberto -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Flat-flags-tp151684p152208.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lily

Re: ugly bar line when changing line-count

2013-10-12 Thread Eluze
Gilberto Agostinho wrote > - I already spoke about the issue in the first example in your code named > "corrected bar-line". I still believe that the bar line should cover all > five lines (or the largest number of lines, such as in this code: there are more options to do this, eg. \once \overrid

Re: How to print just a tempo in a LaTeX document?

2013-10-12 Thread Kevin Zembower
Just to bring this thread to a conclusion: After two weeks of part-time effort to upgrade from Debian sneezey to wheezy (or something like that), I still ended up with just lilypond 2.14.2, which didn't work with either of David's examples. Next attempt will be to dump the Debian install of lilypo

Re: ugly bar line when changing line-count

2013-10-12 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi Elize, Thanks again for your reply. First of all, let me just make some things clear: I am not a programmer by any means, I am just a musician. My motivation to write to this mailing list is to help to improve LilyPond; thus, when I see something that seems odd according to what I believe are t

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-12 Thread Carl Peterson
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Garrett McGilvray < garrett.mcgilv...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > The short version of the question (I think) is this: how do you set a > multi-measure rest when manually specifying lyric duration? > > -- > If the short version isn't sufficient, here is w

Re: Complete syntax documentation

2013-10-12 Thread SoundsFromSound
Hi Kevin, The LilyPond documentation goes into detail about concepts like simultaneous notes, music expressions (braces), etc. - have you checked this page out yet? --> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/musical-notation Each sub-link on that notation page has topics mapped

Re: laying out plainsong chant

2013-10-12 Thread Gabe Moothart
Joram, Thanks. I noticed that in the feta font there are different rest glyphs: ( http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/the-feta-font#rest-glyphs ) And I guess lilypond is automatically choosing one for the even staff lines (rests.1), and the other for odd lines (rests.1o). Is i

Re: Complete syntax documentation

2013-10-12 Thread Paul Morris
Kevin wrote > I have searched and searched, but I can't to seem find any documentation > on the actual file structure, with all the various elements, in one place. Have you come across this page on "file structure"? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/file-structure HTH, -Paul