Re: Fixed (absolute) line spacing in markup column

2014-01-15 Thread Eluze
Dominicus wrote > One can set an absolute fontsize for markup, but I don't know of a way to > set a fixed pointsize (or \mm dimension) for spacing between lines in a > markup column. > This causes the distance between stacked lines of text in a markup column > to scale relative to the staff size .

Re: (no subject)

2014-01-15 Thread jensgc
Eluze wrote > you can define the spanner in its own (dynamic) context and move it > wherever you want: thanks for the answer. I am aware of the possibility to have the dynamics in a separate voice - and it might be the solution here. I am however not fond of having to enter dynamics in a voice "wi

Re: (no subject)

2014-01-15 Thread Urs Liska
Am 15.01.2014 09:53, schrieb jensgc: Are there any plans on making a "SystemSpanner" or similar that will combine the flexibility from the TextSpanner with the "only on top of system" property from \tempo and \mark ? This sounds like a reasonable idea. If it isn't possible to do something like

Re: (no subject)

2014-01-15 Thread Simon Bailey
hi, On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:53 AM, jensgc wrote: > thanks for the answer. I am aware of the possibility to have the dynamics in > a separate voice - and it might be the solution here. I am however not fond > of having to enter dynamics in a voice "without music" - for the score in > question I

Re: (no subject)

2014-01-15 Thread Eluze
jensgc wrote > > Eluze wrote >> you can define the spanner in its own (dynamic) context and move it >> wherever you want: > thanks for the answer. I am aware of the possibility to have the dynamics > in a separate voice - and it might be the solution here. I am however not > fond of having to ente

Re: (no subject)

2014-01-15 Thread David Kastrup
jensgc writes: > Eluze wrote >> you can define the spanner in its own (dynamic) context and move it >> wherever you want: > > thanks for the answer. I am aware of the possibility to have the dynamics in > a separate voice - and it might be the solution here. I am however not fond > of having to e

Re: convert-ly: why \combine \null ?

2014-01-15 Thread David Kastrup
Henning Hraban Ramm writes: > Hi, > > if I update my scores with convert-ly to 2.18, it changes every > \vspace to \combine \null \vspace (within \markup{ \column {} }). > Why? Does that make sense? It doesn't make sense but compatibility. If you now write \vspace #2 in a vertical column, it ad

Re: how close are we to having an "addAt" or "insertAt" feature?

2014-01-15 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi Mike (et al.), > >>> What would be involved in developing a feature to add notes or >>> tweaks at an arbitrary moment within a music expression? >>> music = \addAt (4 3/8) \global \once \override >>> RehearsalMark.extra-offset #’(-1 . 0) > >> we’re about a half-day’s

Re: (no subject)

2014-01-15 Thread jensgc
Simon Bailey-5 wrote > this is untested, but what might work would be to set up your score > with a Dynamics context at the top. Don't be mislead by it being > called Dynamics, you can put ANYTHING in there, doesn't have to be > Dynamics (I use one for putting pedal markings in piano staves for > i

Re: (no subject)

2014-01-15 Thread Simon Bailey
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:28 AM, jensgc wrote: > > Just a quick thought - if I with the temporary polyphony construct shown in > your example can direct TextSpanner content to a special Dynamics context - > would it then be possible to skip the Dynamic context (and the spacer > definitions that g

Experiences from voice handling wanted

2014-01-15 Thread Peter Bjuhr
Hello all, this is asking for advices from you experienced LilyPond users. Lets say you're engraving music for an instrument capable of playing multiple voices, and the structure of the music is a mix between using one voice and several. (In my case I'm thinking about piano music, but lets ma

"Generative music" and "Algorithmic composition"

2014-01-15 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, David Kastrup kindly wrote a little Scheme script for me to generate random notes within a range and I have started using that to practise learning Classical Guitar and I think it is quite useful for learning to jump around the fretboard well. It occurred to me that the next step wou

Re: "Generative music" and "Algorithmic composition"

2014-01-15 Thread Urs Liska
Am 15.01.2014 13:32, schrieb Philip Rhoades: Is there any simple or otherwise stuff I could look at? http://lilypondblog.org/category/using-lilypond/advanced/ ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: (no subject)

2014-01-15 Thread jensgc
Simon Bailey-5 wrote >> If I add the music from the topmost staff to a separate dynamics context >> (placed above that staff), will dynamics context then be printed twice? > > yes, that's correct. the music is suppressed, but the dynamics will be > shown. this is why i suggested using a global str

Re: "Generative music" and "Algorithmic composition"

2014-01-15 Thread Philip Rhoades
Urs, On 2014-01-15 23:38, Urs Liska wrote: Am 15.01.2014 13:32, schrieb Philip Rhoades: Is there any simple or otherwise stuff I could look at? http://lilypondblog.org/category/using-lilypond/advanced/ The only thing there that I could see was: "Programmatically Generating LilyPond Inp

Re: "Generative music" and "Algorithmic composition"

2014-01-15 Thread Urs Liska
Am 15.01.2014 13:58, schrieb Philip Rhoades: Urs, On 2014-01-15 23:38, Urs Liska wrote: Am 15.01.2014 13:32, schrieb Philip Rhoades: Is there any simple or otherwise stuff I could look at? http://lilypondblog.org/category/using-lilypond/advanced/ The only thing there that I could see was

Re: (no subject)

2014-01-15 Thread jensgc
jensgc wrote > The reason I don't like the idea of a global "structure" definition is > that I have the individual parts (e.g. the quartet and the choir parts) > defined in seperate files to be able to test and work with them > independently. Having the \time and \key definitions in a part that is

Re: (no subject)

2014-01-15 Thread Trevor Daniels
jensgc wrote Wednesday, January 15, 2014 1:03 PM > In regards to tempo markings, it is a different matter, since any change in > tempo needs to apply to each and every voice in the system. It makes perfect > sense that the \tempo marking always goes to the System - I just don't > understand why i

Re: (no subject)

2014-01-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, > In regards to tempo markings, it is a different matter, since any change in > tempo needs to apply to each and every voice in the system. It makes perfect > sense that the \tempo marking always goes to the System - I just don't > understand why it is much more difficult to give a ritardando

Re: (no subject)

2014-01-15 Thread jensgc
Trevor Daniels wrote > ? > \tempo "ritardando" Not a bad idea - but I would then have to abandon the idea of the normal "rit. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ al" construct where the text spans the entire duration of the ritardando. Think I'll try a feature request for a SystemSpanner - and perhaps a \startTe

Re: (no subject)

2014-01-15 Thread Simon Bailey
hi kieren, On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: >> In regards to tempo markings, it is a different matter, since any change in >> tempo needs to apply to each and every voice in the system. It makes perfect >> sense that the \tempo marking always goes to the System - I just do

Re: (no subject)

2014-01-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, > Not a bad idea - but I would then have to abandon the idea of the normal > "rit. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ al" construct where the text spans the entire > duration of the ritardando. Why not just put everything “global” in a global variable? Then all of this is handled for you easily. Thanks, Kier

Re: (no subject)

2014-01-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, > he doesn't want to use a global structure variable: Sorry… I missed this. =\ >> The reason I don't like the idea of a global "structure" definition is that >> I have the individual parts (e.g. the quartet and the choir parts) defined >> in seperate files to be able to test and work with t

Re: (no subject)

2014-01-15 Thread jensgc
Kieren MacMillan wrote >> In regards to tempo markings, it is a different matter, since any change >> in >> tempo needs to apply to each and every voice in the system. It makes >> perfect >> sense that the \tempo marking always goes to the System - I just don't >> understand why it is much more dif

Re: "Generative music" and "Algorithmic composition"

2014-01-15 Thread Philip Rhoades
Urs, On 2014-01-16 00:01, Urs Liska wrote: Am 15.01.2014 13:58, schrieb Philip Rhoades: Urs, On 2014-01-15 23:38, Urs Liska wrote: Am 15.01.2014 13:32, schrieb Philip Rhoades: Is there any simple or otherwise stuff I could look at? http://lilypondblog.org/category/using-lilypond/advanced

Re: "Generative music" and "Algorithmic composition"

2014-01-15 Thread Paul Morris
Philip Rhoades wrote > It occurred to me that the next step would be to generate something that > is a little more melodic or musical One simple thing you can do is to only work with the notes from one key at a time. And I think this makes sense in terms of learning as well as sounding more musi

Re: (no subject)

2014-01-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, > Hi. Not sure if you have seen my earlier posts Sorry… yeah, I missed those. > I don't have my \tempo and \mark items in a global variable. I do recommend using a global variable in the future. > I wrote the quartet part (starting at > approx. bar 70) in a separate file, making proofreadi

Re: how close are we to having an "addAt" or "insertAt" feature?

2014-01-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, > So "a half-day's work" is more like the estimate for > every single further fix making the timing simulation work closer to > what iteration would do anyway. Well, then… tell me the real cost, and I’ll see what I can do to [help] sponsor it. There is *NOTHING* I can think of which woul

Re: (no subject)

2014-01-15 Thread Simon Bailey
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:48 PM, jensgc wrote: > Kieren MacMillan wrote >> It’s not… I do exactly this all the time. >> Simply put your ritardando or stringendo in the same global variable as >> your \tempo and \mark items. > > Hi. Not sure if you have seen my earlier posts - but I don't have my \

Re: (no subject)

2014-01-15 Thread jensgc
Kieren MacMillan wrote > Having just engraved 25 minutes of large forces music for voices and > instruments (57 staves, for ~330 performers!), I **HIGHLY** recommend you > avoid doing things like that in future scores. Thanks for the advice. I'm only on my 4th "real" score in Lilypond so I'll take

Re: how close are we to having an "addAt" or "insertAt" feature?

2014-01-15 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi all, > >> So "a half-day's work" is more like the estimate for >> every single further fix making the timing simulation work closer to >> what iteration would do anyway. > > Well, then… tell me the real cost, and I’ll see what I can do to > [help] sponsor it. Well,

Re: (no subject)

2014-01-15 Thread jensgc
Simon Bailey-5 wrote > have you seen: > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/skipping-corrected-music > ? Excellent! Highly useful - although it is a bit annoying to see a large bunch of warnings when the showLastLength is set. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.

Re: "Generative music" and "Algorithmic composition"

2014-01-15 Thread Philip Rhoades
Paul, On 2014-01-16 01:58, Paul Morris wrote: Philip Rhoades wrote It occurred to me that the next step would be to generate something that is a little more melodic or musical One simple thing you can do is to only work with the notes from one key at a time. And I think this makes sense i

Re: how close are we to having an "addAt" or "insertAt" feature?

2014-01-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> For better or worse, I am currently focusing on speeding up "git > blame" which is braking down lots of people. Excellent! If you want a test case from the dark side, try http://repo.or.cz/w/wortliste.git For historical reasons, the `wortliste' is a single, large file instead of smaller on

Re: global variables

2014-01-15 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 09:04:35AM -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi, > > > In regards to tempo markings, it is a different matter, since any change in > > tempo needs to apply to each and every voice in the system. It makes perfect > > sense that the \tempo marking always goes to the System - I

Re: how close are we to having an "addAt" or "insertAt" feature?

2014-01-15 Thread David Kastrup
Werner LEMBERG writes: >> For better or worse, I am currently focusing on speeding up "git >> blame" which is braking down lots of people. > > Excellent! If you want a test case from the dark side, try > > http://repo.or.cz/w/wortliste.git > > For historical reasons, the `wortliste' is a singl

Re: global variables

2014-01-15 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 01/15/2014 04:33 PM, Paul Scott wrote: +1 I've also been doing this for many years. I've started using global variables more recently but can highly recommend it! On 01/15/2014 03:48 PM, jensgc wrote: In effect - if there is someway to have \voiceA changed to \voiceAA in the example b

Re: global variables

2014-01-15 Thread David Kastrup
Peter Bjuhr writes: > On 01/15/2014 04:33 PM, Paul Scott wrote: >> +1 >> >> I've also been doing this for many years. > > I've started using global variables more recently but can highly > recommend it! Just don't let any programmers hear that. -- David Kastrup ___

Re: global variables

2014-01-15 Thread David Kastrup
Peter Bjuhr writes: > On 01/15/2014 04:54 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> Peter Bjuhr writes: >> >>> >>> I've started using global variables more recently but can highly >>> recommend it! >> Just don't let any programmers hear that. >> > > David, I'm sorry; I must again ask you what you mean? Is thi

Re: global variables

2014-01-15 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 01/15/2014 04:54 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Peter Bjuhr writes: I've started using global variables more recently but can highly recommend it! Just don't let any programmers hear that. David, I'm sorry; I must again ask you what you mean? Is this a joke I'm missing like the previous ti

Re: global variables

2014-01-15 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 01/15/2014 05:15 PM, David Kastrup wrote: On 01/15/2014 04:54 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >>Peter Bjuhr writes: >> >>> >>>I've started using global variables more recently but can highly >>>recommend it! >>Just don't let any programmers hear that. >> > >David, I'm sorry; I must again ask yo

Re: global variables

2014-01-15 Thread Jacques Menu
Le 15 janv. 2014 à 17:15:53, David Kastrup a écrit : > Peter Bjuhr writes: > >> On 01/15/2014 04:54 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >>> Peter Bjuhr writes: >>> I've started using global variables more recently but can highly recommend it! >>> Just don't let any programmers hear that

articulation marks

2014-01-15 Thread Martin Duclos
I'm at a loss in finding a way to do some articulation marks. I'm looking for an accented staccato so should be a combination of -. and -> on top of each other. Is this possible? Thanks Martin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https:

Re: 2.18 test.ly produce no pdf

2014-01-15 Thread Tom van der Hoeven
This problem is solved: version 2.18 is working now! I did two things: 1. Uninstall Because of some exercise with point and click I reserved a copy of output-ps.scm It looks like at uninstall the map that contains this file ... /usr/share/lilypond/current/scm/output-ps.scm was not removed. 2. "2

Re: articulation marks

2014-01-15 Thread Noeck
> I'm looking for an accented staccato so should be a combination of -. > and -> on top of each other. Is this possible? -.-> ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: global variables

2014-01-15 Thread David Kastrup
Jacques Menu writes: > Le 15 janv. 2014 à 17:15:53, David Kastrup a écrit : > >> Peter Bjuhr writes: >> >>> On 01/15/2014 04:54 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Peter Bjuhr writes: > > I've started using global variables more recently but can highly > recommend it! Just d

Re: articulation marks

2014-01-15 Thread David Kastrup
Martin Duclos writes: > I'm at a loss in finding a way to do some articulation marks. > > I'm looking for an accented staccato so should be a combination of -. and > -> on top of each other. Is this possible? { c-.-> } -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-

Re: articulation marks

2014-01-15 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 01/15/2014 05:40 PM, Martin Duclos wrote: I'm at a loss in finding a way to do some articulation marks. I'm looking for an accented staccato so should be a combination of -. and -> on top of each other. Is this possible? I think the way to do this is to write the two articulations in suc

Re: global variables

2014-01-15 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 04:54:17PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > Peter Bjuhr writes: > > > On 01/15/2014 04:33 PM, Paul Scott wrote: > >> +1 > >> > >> I've also been doing this for many years. > > > > I've started using global variables more recently but can highly > > recommend it! > > Just don

Re: how close are we to having an "addAt" or "insertAt" feature?

2014-01-15 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Kieren, James and all, I extracted my edition-engraver from lalily. The example compiles here with 2.18. You can try this and comment ... I will add more comments to the code, if this is of interest ;) The compilation creates a file example.edition.log containing all edition-engraver paths. I

Re: articulation marks

2014-01-15 Thread Martin Duclos
Tried that before and it didn't work. Just tried again and it's fine. Must have been some other unrelated syntax error. Thanks for the quick replies! On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:51 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Martin Duclos writes: > > > I'm at a loss in finding a way to do some articulation mark

Re: "Generative music" and "Algorithmic composition"

2014-01-15 Thread SoundsFromSound
Paul Morris wrote > > Philip Rhoades wrote >> It occurred to me that the next step would be to generate something that >> is a little more melodic or musical > One simple thing you can do is to only work with the notes from one key at > a time. And I think this makes sense in terms of learning a

nuancing and customizing midi rendering

2014-01-15 Thread Bric
Please forgive me if this has been discussed and/or documented; I haven't found specifics yet. Are there lilypond controls for things like staccato, accents, and other articulations/dynamics, with respect to midi output? I noticed that the midi output is sensitive to the "\staccato" directiv

Re: nuancing and customizing midi rendering

2014-01-15 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 01/15/2014 08:28 PM, Bric wrote: Please forgive me if this has been discussed and/or documented; I haven't found specifics yet. Are there lilypond controls for things like staccato, accents, and other articulations/dynamics, with respect to midi output? I noticed that the midi output is

Re: "Generative music" and "Algorithmic composition"

2014-01-15 Thread Paul Morris
SoundsFromSound wrote > Paul, that is a great little bit of code! Thank you for sharing that...I'm > going to play around with it later today. :) Glad you like it, but David Kastrup gets the credit for it: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-01/msg00638.html I just changed it f

Re: multi-column markup function/macro?

2014-01-15 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Kieren, I have extracted the latex-markup commands. At the end of the file is a little example. There are three ways to produce the latex source: 1. use a markup-list, which is converted with markup->tex: \xelatex { ... } 2. include a file with tex-content: \xelatexInclude #"" 3. use a string,

Error in documentation

2014-01-15 Thread Peter Crighton
Hello all, in the documentation about percussion notation it is said that you need to include the Parenthesis_engraver in order to use \parenthesize – http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-percussion.html#ghost-notes This is not true, you do not have to include an

Re: multi-column markup function/macro?

2014-01-15 Thread Alex Loomis
I got no output and a page full of fontconfig warnings when I ran it. I left out all but the first since there were about 100 and they're all nearly identical. Starting lilypond 2.19.0 [xelatex-command-list.ly]... Processing `/tmp/xelatex-command-list.ly' Parsing... This is XeTeX, Version 3.14

Re: global variables

2014-01-15 Thread Alex Loomis
>there may be some temptation for offering a >LilyPond-native syntax for that. Pretty please? It's the feature I've been missing the most in lilypond. On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:48 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Jacques Menu writes: > > > Le 15 janv. 2014 à 17:15:53, David Kastrup a écrit : > > >

Re: how close are we to having an "addAt" or "insertAt" feature?

2014-01-15 Thread Alex Loomis
How much sense would it make for there to be a separate \mark-style command that functioned identically but didn't mess with the counter? On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi Werner, > > > I suggest that such a command allows for a third,

Re: partcombine and quoteDuring

2014-01-15 Thread Alex Loomis
In addition to the problem Mogens described, the first B is marked Solo when \partcombine should be marking it a2. On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Mogens Lemvig Hansen wrote: > Hi, > > With the first version of voiceB below I get “ warning: ignoring too many > clashing note columns” > The seco

Re: partcombine and quoteDuring

2014-01-15 Thread Alex Loomis
And also, with the first version the rest disappears. On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Alex Loomis wrote: > In addition to the problem Mogens described, the first B is marked Solo > when \partcombine should be marking it a2. > > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Mogens Lemvig Hansen wrote: > >>

Re: partcombine and quoteDuring

2014-01-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, Let’s just admit that \partcombine needs a fair bit of work… Much like Janek’s Google Summer of Code Lyric Project, there are probably a dozen features/fixes that would fit under GUPPY — that’s "Grand Unified Partcombine Project, Yo!” — including: 1. arbitrary voice count; 2. li

Re: how close are we to having an "addAt" or "insertAt" feature?

2014-01-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Alex, > How much sense would it make for there to be a separate \mark-style command > that functioned identically but didn't mess with the counter? Meh… I don’t really like the original suggestion (of a RehearsalMark-relative \addAt parameter), so it makes little sense to me. Cheers, Kieren

Re: how close are we to having an "addAt" or "insertAt" feature?

2014-01-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jan-Peter, > I extracted my edition-engraver from lalily. This seems so magical as to be almost unbelievable. =) 1. What — if any — drawbacks are there? 2. Why is this not exactly (or even a superset of) the \addAt feature I requested? Thanks! Kieren. __

Re: "Generative music" and "Algorithmic composition"

2014-01-15 Thread Philip Rhoades
Paul, On 2014-01-16 07:22, Paul Morris wrote: SoundsFromSound wrote Paul, that is a great little bit of code! Thank you for sharing that...I'm going to play around with it later today. :) Glad you like it, but David Kastrup gets the credit for it: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-

Re: how close are we to having an "addAt" or "insertAt" feature?

2014-01-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> How much sense would it make for there to be a separate \mark-style >> command that functioned identically but didn't mess with the >> counter? I'm all for it! > Meh… I don’t really like the original suggestion (of a > RehearsalMark-relative \addAt parameter), so it makes little sense > to me

Re: global variables

2014-01-15 Thread David Kastrup
Alex Loomis writes: >>there may be some temptation for offering a >>LilyPond-native syntax for that. > > Pretty please? It's the feature I've been missing the most in lilypond. Well, it's not a missing feature as such, it's just syntactic sugar. At any rate, it does not make all that much sense

Re: how close are we to having an "addAt" or "insertAt" feature?

2014-01-15 Thread David Kastrup
Alex Loomis writes: > How much sense would it make for there to be a separate \mark-style command > that functioned identically but didn't mess with the counter? What do you mean? Neither \mark #4 nor \mark "G" mess with the counter. -- David Kastrup _

Re: "Generative music" and "Algorithmic composition"

2014-01-15 Thread David Kastrup
Paul Morris writes: > SoundsFromSound wrote >> Paul, that is a great little bit of code! Thank you for sharing that...I'm >> going to play around with it later today. :) > > Glad you like it, but David Kastrup gets the credit for it: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-01/msg

Re: "Generative music" and "Algorithmic composition" - found something to play with!

2014-01-15 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, On 2014-01-15 23:32, Philip Rhoades wrote: People, David Kastrup kindly wrote a little Scheme script for me to generate random notes within a range and I have started using that to practise learning Classical Guitar and I think it is quite useful for learning to jump around the fretboa

Re: "Generative music" and "Algorithmic composition" - found something to play with!

2014-01-15 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, On 2014-01-16 17:39, Philip Rhoades wrote: People, On 2014-01-15 23:32, Philip Rhoades wrote: People, David Kastrup kindly wrote a little Scheme script for me to generate random notes within a range and I have started using that to practise learning Classical Guitar and I think it i

Re: "Generative music" and "Algorithmic composition"

2014-01-15 Thread Philip Rhoades
David, On 2014-01-16 07:43, David Kastrup wrote: Paul Morris writes: SoundsFromSound wrote Paul, that is a great little bit of code! Thank you for sharing that...I'm going to play around with it later today. :) Glad you like it, but David Kastrup gets the credit for it: http://lists.gnu.

Re: how close are we to having an "addAt" or "insertAt" feature?

2014-01-15 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 16.01.2014 06:35, schrieb David Kastrup: Alex Loomis writes: How much sense would it make for there to be a separate \mark-style command that functioned identically but didn't mess with the counter? What do you mean? Neither \mark #4 nor \mark "G" mess with the counter. Perhaps some ki

Re: convert-ly: why \combine \null ?

2014-01-15 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2014-01-14 um 14:28 schrieb David Kastrup : > Henning Hraban Ramm writes: > >> Hi, >> >> if I update my scores with convert-ly to 2.18, it changes every >> \vspace to \combine \null \vspace (within \markup{ \column {} }). >> Why? Does that make sense? > > It doesn't make sense but compatib

Re: multi-column markup function/macro?

2014-01-15 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Alex, OK ... first note, I use this on my machine with Ubuntu 12.04 having texlive(2012)-full installed and it does compile - but frescobaldi doesn't recognize the produced PDF (it is not displayed). I do also get a lot of Warnings from xelatex and from lilypond. The TeX-warnings are a matter