Re: Horizontalized scores

2014-02-13 Thread David Kastrup
Chris Crossen writes: > I am also generating single, continuous line scores with Lilypond and > am wondering what you use to extract your images from PDF. What's wrong with lilypond --png here? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypon

Re: Ottava

2014-02-13 Thread Noeck
Hi, thanks for looking this up! This is what I am most used to, too. I would like to see it in LilyPond. Could that be added to the issues as a wish or enhancement (it is even a bit ugly). Cheers, Joram >> What does E. Gould say ... > > Page 28: >> The octave sign is written in italic, the num

Re: Ottava

2014-02-13 Thread Noeck
Sorry, I wanted to have this code in: Hi, thanks for looking this up! This is what I am most used to, too. I would like to see it in LilyPond. Could that be added to the issues as a wish or enhancement (it is even a bit ugly). Cheers, Joram >> What does E. Gould say ... > > Page 28: >> The oc

Lilypond for blind musicians

2014-02-13 Thread Claudio Garanzini
Hi all! I have some little questiosn for you guys: Are there any blind musician or composer that’' use lilypond regularly? Is there a software like Frescobaldi but more accessible using NVDA as my default screen reader? I’ve tryed Frescobaldi but simply can’t use it because of it’s complete inac

Re: frescobaldi macports broken after update

2014-02-13 Thread Davide Liessi
Dear all, 2014-01-24 12:20 GMT+01:00 Henning Hraban Ramm : > If Frescobaldi already runs and I doubleclick a .ly file, it opens correctly. > But if FB is not yet running, it just starts, but doesn’t open the file. > > The FB icon in Finder doesn’t accept any files, just in the dock. But if the >

Re: Lilypond for blind musicians

2014-02-13 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
2014-02-13 13:46 GMT+01:00 Claudio Garanzini : > Hi all! > Hi Claudio, > [...] > Are there any blind musician or composer that’' use lilypond regularly? > [...] Could you tell mee how to use midi2ly converter? > Have I to put it in my midi folder for its use? > [...] It's a subjet

Re: frescobaldi macports broken after update

2014-02-13 Thread Garrett McGilvray
- On Feb 13, 2014, 6:54:10 AM, Davide Liessi wrote: Please try this to upgrade your installation (including py2app) and reinstall frescobaldi(-devel): sudo port selfupdate sudo port upgrade outdated sudo port uninstall active and name:frescobaldi sudo port install frescobaldi # or fr

Re: New try with lyric extender

2014-02-13 Thread Yann
> I think the best solution for me now is to use the method described in > the manual : > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/techniques-specific-to-lyrics#polyphony-with-shared-lyrics > and to manually build and tailor the NullVoice to have proper extenders. > > I prefer this meth

Re: New try with lyric extender

2014-02-13 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Yann, On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Yann wrote: > > > I have a problem with the code below, lilypond gives me errors with > the two scheme expressions. > > \version "2.18.0" > > correctionAlignement = ##t > aligner = \relative c' { g'4. g8 c,4( c) | } > lyrics = \lyricmode { Glo -- ri

Re: New try with lyric extender

2014-02-13 Thread Yann
2014-02-13 15:36 GMT+01:00 David Nalesnik : > Hi Yann, > > Looks to be simply a problem with too many parentheses. > Try this: > > \version "2.18.0" > correctionAlignement = ##t > aligner = \relative c' { g'4. g8 c,4( c) | } > lyric = \lyricmode { Glo -- ri -- a __ } > > << > \new Staff << >

Re: New try with lyric extender

2014-02-13 Thread David Kastrup
Yann writes: > 2014-02-13 15:36 GMT+01:00 David Nalesnik : >> Hi Yann, >> >> Looks to be simply a problem with too many parentheses. >> Try this: >> >> \version "2.18.0" >> correctionAlignement = ##t >> aligner = \relative c' { g'4. g8 c,4( c) | } >> lyric = \lyricmode { Glo -- ri -- a __ } >> >

Re: New try with lyric extender

2014-02-13 Thread Yann
>> Ah yes, it works. I didn't think too much parentheses could harm... Is >> it because they have some special meaning in scheme (evaluate this >> expression, or something like this) ? > > Yes. When an expression is read, () enclose a list. When a list is > evaluated, its first element is the fun

Layout-level between-staves spacing

2014-02-13 Thread Javier Ruiz-Alma
Is there an equivalent command to either: \version "2.16.1" \paper{ system-system-spacing #'padding = #6 } or \paper{ system-system-spacing #'basic-distance = #12 } That could be applied in the \layout block to adjust vertical spacing between staves within a single score? I have a multi score

Re: Lilypond for blind musicians

2014-02-13 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
2014-02-13 16:24 GMT+01:00 Claudio Garanzini : > > Hi ! > Thanks for your answer! > I don’t use braille for my music learning; i use midi, for the most part! > I’m using Lilypond because I simply can tipe text and turn it into music > that my “normal” friends could read. I also like the way Lilypo

Lilypond for blind musicians

2014-02-13 Thread Claudio Garanzini
Hi ! Thanks for your answer! I don’t use braille for my music learning; i use midi, for the most part! I’m using Lilypond because I simply can tipe text and turn it into music that my “normal” friends could read. I also like the way Lilypond permittes mee to input the notes, just like a line

Re: Lilypond for blind musicians

2014-02-13 Thread Hwaen Ch'uqi
Greetings Claudio, I know nothing about NVDA, nor am I a Windows user, but a quick search seems to indicate that NVDA has much progress yet to be made, particularly where specialized applications are concerned. I gather that you are most interested in free and truly actively develop

Re: frescobaldi macports broken after update

2014-02-13 Thread Stan Sanderson
Davide, I first verified that Frescobaldi (-devel) would load if a foo.ly file was clicked and foo.ly files were set to be opened by it. Frescobaldi loaded but did not load foo.ly. Following re-installation of Frescobaldi (-devel) as you suggested, clicking on foo.ly not only runs Frescobaldi

Re: frescobaldi macports broken after update

2014-02-13 Thread Davide Liessi
Dear Garrett, 2014-02-13 15:07 GMT+01:00 Garrett McGilvray : > After updating and trying those steps (same thing happens for each): > Frescobaldi launches, and I see the splash screen. > Then when the flash screen goes away, there is nothing; no window open, not > on any space. Even right-click on

Re: Lilypond for blind musicians

2014-02-13 Thread Claudio Garanzini
Thanks a lot! I will try Emax! Bye bye for now -Messaggio originale- From: Hwaen Ch'uqi Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 6:38 PM To: Pierre Perol-Schneider Cc: Claudio Garanzini ; lilypond-user Subject: Re: Lilypond for blind musicians Greetings Claudio, I know nothing about NVDA

Re: Ottava

2014-02-13 Thread Ed Gordijn
Hi Joram, Text positioning: - \super does not look good, therefore \raise - the raise value of 0.7 depends on the font, is there a way to align the top boundaries of the 8 and the va? If you want the 'va' aligned to the top of the eight for different font sizes try: \version "2.18.0" te

Re: Layout-level between-staves spacing

2014-02-13 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
2014-02-13 17:03 GMT+01:00 Javier Ruiz-Alma : > Is there an equivalent command to either: > > \version "2.16.1" > \paper{ system-system-spacing #'padding = #6 } > or > \paper{ system-system-spacing #'basic-distance = #12 } > > That could be applied in the \layout block to adjust vertical spacing >

Re: \fill-line while respecting natural widths

2014-02-13 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi all, I've posted an update to this on the issue tracker. I think the discussion should move there. https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3860 Best, David ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailm

Re: Lilypond for blind musicians

2014-02-13 Thread Federico Bruni
2014-02-13 13:46 GMT+01:00 Claudio Garanzini : > Hi all! > I have some little questiosn for you guys: > Are there any blind musician or composer that’' use lilypond regularly? > I think there are a few in this list. It would be nice if they shared their experience here so we might add some tip

Best practice for dynamics position on SATB hymn with chords

2014-02-13 Thread Yann
Good evening everybody, My usual layout when typesetting hymns is a ChoirStaff, with SA-TB voices, main lyrics printed between staves, and chord names printed above the ChoirStaff. In some hymns that have some "echo" voice, if lyrics differ for the echo, they are printed below the ChoirStaff. I w

Re:Lilypond for blind musicians

2014-02-13 Thread Marc Sabatella
I had a blind student in one of my classes a few years ago and we considered using LilyPond as a way of exchanging music for class work and of allowing her to produce music in standard notation to share with other musicians as necessary (she's a jazz vocalist, and often needs to do that sort of

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 135, Issue 60

2014-02-13 Thread Erik Linde
\ottava #2 a''' a > \ottava #-2 a a > \ottava #3 a''''' a > } > \new Staff \relative c''' { > \ottavaa a a > \ottavab a,, a > \ottavac a''' a > \ottavad a a

RE: Horizontalized scores

2014-02-13 Thread Chris Crossen
> From: lilypond-user-bounces+chris=crossen@gnu.org [mailto:lilypond- > user-bounces+chris=crossen@gnu.org] On Behalf Of David Kastrup > Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 23:07 > To: Chris Crossen > Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Horizontalized scores > > Chris Crossen writes:

Re: Best practice for dynamics position on SATB hymn with chords

2014-02-13 Thread Brian Barker
At 00:06 14/02/2014 +0100, Yann Cha wrote: My usual layout when typesetting hymns is a ChoirStaff, with SA-TB voices, main lyrics printed between staves, ... I was wondering, what is the best practice for positioning the dynamics ? Above or below the staves ? Should them be printed only once fo

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 135, Issue 60

2014-02-13 Thread David Kastrup
Erik Linde writes: > Hey Chris / David, > > Adding the --png option when you run your lilypond command works fine (as > David stated)... Also, you may want to set the -dresolution parameter to > something high like 300 (DPI) to get a good resolution. Or even set it to > 600, and then shrink it to