"Live request" prenotice

2014-04-01 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, tomorrow I will have a presentation meeting without a clear agenda. It may be that I will have to ask questions, and then it would make a very good impression if I'd get quick support from the list ;-) So to all gurus on this list: If I should post questions tomorrow after 13.30 CEST

Smarter automatic beam subdivision?

2014-04-01 Thread Rutger Hofman
Good morning list, I would love to be able to make 'smart' automatic beam subdivision, so, for example, it automatically subdivides 16th at the quarter, but 32nds or 6/4* 16th etc at the eighths. Is there a way to accomplish that? Btw, the current syntax to do ad-hoc subdivision by hand is uh

Re: Smarter automatic beam subdivision?

2014-04-01 Thread Urs Liska
Am 01.04.2014 12:03, schrieb Rutger Hofman: I wouldn't mind if the syntax would allow things like: c32[[ c c c] c[ c c c]] Seems like a good idea, but I think it would be preferrable to have a distinct character for that to avoid confusion. Maybe something like c32[\[ c c c\] c\[ c c c\]]

Re: Smarter automatic beam subdivision?

2014-04-01 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Rutger Hofman" To: "lilypond-user" Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2014 11:03 AM Subject: Smarter automatic beam subdivision? Good morning list, I would love to be able to make 'smart' automatic beam subdivision, so, for example, it automatically subdivides 16t

Re: Smarter automatic beam subdivision?

2014-04-01 Thread Rutger Hofman
On 04/01/2014 12:23 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: "Rutger Hofman" To: "lilypond-user" Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2014 11:03 AM Subject: Smarter automatic beam subdivision? Good morning list, I would love to be able to make 'smart' automatic beam subdivision, so, for

Re: Smarter automatic beam subdivision?

2014-04-01 Thread Trevor Daniels
Rutger Hofman wrote Tuesday, April 01, 2014 12:11 PM > Yes, thanks, I looked at it quite often and I didn't find what I asked > for. Did I miss that section? Let me summarize: I asked for smart > *sub*division, not division. I would like to have an automatic > subdivision scheme that results i

Re: Once only custos

2014-04-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 01.04.2014 09:43, schrieb Jacques Menu: Hello Simon, With: \layout { ragged-right = ##t } \new Staff \with { \consists "Custos_engraver" \override Custos.stencil = ##f } \relative c' { g'1 \override Staff.Custos.style = #'mensural \break 1 b1 \once\override Staff.Cus

The pleasantry of Lilyponding

2014-04-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Lilypond aficionados, some days ago I sat in a regional train, two young guys opposite me talking about computer games they were playing. At which I found an answer to the question why I find it worthwile investing many and often tedious hours in music typesetting with LilyPond: It’s act

Re: The pleasantry of Lilyponding

2014-04-01 Thread Francois Planiol
Where is the like-button? Francois 2014-04-01 9:41 GMT-05:00, Simon Albrecht : > Hello Lilypond aficionados, > > some days ago I sat in a regional train, two young guys opposite me > talking about computer games they were playing. At which I found an > answer to the question why I find it worthwil

Re: The pleasantry of Lilyponding

2014-04-01 Thread David Kastrup
Simon Albrecht writes: > Hello Lilypond aficionados, > > some days ago I sat in a regional train, two young guys opposite me > talking about computer games they were playing. At which I found an > answer to the question why I find it worthwile investing many and > often tedious hours in music typ

Re: The pleasantry of Lilyponding

2014-04-01 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Am 01.04.2014 16:41, schrieb Simon Albrecht: > It’s like a mixture of a logical puzzle and a strategy game, with the > pleasant side effect that it is not just for fun, but you get a result > which can be ported to real life and has an actual use for other people! +1 IMO it is not only lilypond, bu

Re: The pleasantry of Lilyponding

2014-04-01 Thread SoundsFromSound
David Kastrup wrote > Simon Albrecht < > simon.albrecht@ > > writes: > >> Hello Lilypond aficionados, >> >> some days ago I sat in a regional train, two young guys opposite me >> talking about computer games they were playing. At which I found an >> answer to the question why I find it worthwile

Re: The pleasantry of Lilyponding

2014-04-01 Thread Nathan Ho
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Simon Albrecht wrote: > It’s like a mixture of a logical puzzle and a > strategy game, with the pleasant side effect that it is not just for fun, > but you get a result which can be ported to real life and has an actual use > for other people! Complex contemporary

Re: Adding notes symbols in lyrics positions

2014-04-01 Thread Harald Christiansen
\markup + \note, \rest ... Many thanks that was it. (still finding my way around :-) Cheers. On 1/04/2014 15:46, Thomas Morley wrote: > 2014-04-01 2:33 GMT+02:00 Harald Christiansen : >> Hello all, >> >> Here's my problem: >> >> In a PianoStaff, I want to add some notes symbols (e.g. a quarter n

trouble with RemoveEmptyStaffContext

2014-04-01 Thread Graham King
In a vocal score (SATB on separate staves + keyboard), it is useful to suppress empty staves when all the singers are silent, using: \score { \layout { \context { \RemoveEmptyStaffContext }}} Is there a way to suppress this behaviour selectively, when one singer happens to have a few bars rest? I

Re: trouble with RemoveEmptyStaffContext

2014-04-01 Thread Thomas Morley
2014-04-02 0:42 GMT+02:00 Graham King : > In a vocal score (SATB on separate staves + keyboard), it is useful to > suppress empty staves when all the singers are silent, using: > \score { \layout { \context { \RemoveEmptyStaffContext }}} > > Is there a way to suppress this behaviour selectively, wh

Bibliography in LilyPond-Book

2014-04-01 Thread Conor Cook
Dear All, I am having a heck of a time getting a bibliography to display in a LilyPond-Book document. I have a separate .bib file, and the .tex file, but they are not finding each other. I am not satisfied that I’ve found a good explanation of how to implement the bibliography, so I am includ

shortcuts for righthand fingerings

2014-04-01 Thread Branko
when I use, #(define RH rightHandFinger) and then later, \RH #3, for example.. it works.. but I want to further enhance this so I tried: #(define RHm rightHandFinger #3) and then, \RHm, but that does not work.. What should I do to make that shortcut work? Thanks. _

Re: shortcuts for righthand fingerings

2014-04-01 Thread Nick Payne
On 02/04/14 13:22, Branko wrote: when I use, #(define RH rightHandFinger) and then later, \RH #3, for example.. it works.. but I want to further enhance this so I tried: #(define RHm rightHandFinger #3) and then, \RHm, but that does not work.. What should I do to make that shortcut work? Th

Re: The pleasantry of Lilyponding

2014-04-01 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2014-04-02 um 03:41 schrieb Nathan Ho : > Complex contemporary scores are especially fun to engrave. I guess > this explains why I sometimes typeset Brian Ferneyhough or George > Crumb just to kill time. Amazing. My patience doesn’t last so long, I’m happy with one or two song sheets :-) G

Re: The pleasantry of Lilyponding

2014-04-01 Thread Conor Cook
That is something that, legal issues aside, I would love to see. On Apr 1, 2014, at 4:41 PM, Nathan Ho wrote: > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Simon Albrecht wrote: >> It’s like a mixture of a logical puzzle and a >> strategy game, with the pleasant side effect that it is not just for fun, >>

Re: The pleasantry of Lilyponding

2014-04-01 Thread Conor Cook
Any by legal issues, I think I just mean the issues of my being able to see them. On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:27 PM, Conor Cook wrote: > That is something that, legal issues aside, I would love to see. > > On Apr 1, 2014, at 4:41 PM, Nathan Ho wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Simon Albr

Rest placement following use of Temporary Polyphonic Context is wrong

2014-04-01 Thread Guy Stalnaker
I noticed this recently but did not have time to post to the list. Now I do so here 'tis. I checked the docs and in the section on TPC (http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices#single_002dstaff-polyphony) I see no note or warning that what I see is "expected". W

Re: trouble with RemoveEmptyStaffContext

2014-04-01 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Graham, you will most likely have a PianoStaff for the keys and a ChoirStaff or StaffGroup (or the like) for the choir. You can consist a grouping context (ChoirStaff,StaffGroup,...) with: \consists "Keep_alive_together_engraver" That way the whole group disappears only, if all child-cont

Re: Rest placement following use of Temporary Polyphonic Context is wrong

2014-04-01 Thread Nick Payne
On 02/04/14 16:22, Guy Stalnaker wrote: \version "2.16.0" \language "english" \header { title = "Rest placement error?" subtitle = "After Temporary Polyphonic Context" subsubtitle = "Rests appear as if for upper voice" } global = { \key c \major \time 3/4 } sopranoVoice = { \global