Re: Follow-up question to alternate music fonts

2014-07-11 Thread Urs Liska
Am 11.07.2014 07:00, schrieb David Kastrup: tisimst writes: All, Is there anyone who is VERY against distributing music fonts in binary form (i.e., as otf, svg, etc.files)? I just don't see how we can make other music fonts available by forcing them to have a metafont source file. I guess tha

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-11 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > I think the "cleanest" way with the least hassles (and maybe > discussion) would be to integrate into LilyPond the _possibility_ to > switch fonts (e.g. Abraham's functions) and provide the fonts > independently. I think the salient point is to provide the infrastructure wher

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-11 Thread Urs Liska
Am 11.07.2014 09:10, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska writes: I think the "cleanest" way with the least hassles (and maybe discussion) would be to integrate into LilyPond the _possibility_ to switch fonts (e.g. Abraham's functions) and provide the fonts independently. I think the salient poi

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-11 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Am 11.07.2014 09:10, schrieb David Kastrup: >> Urs Liska writes: >> >>> I think the "cleanest" way with the least hassles (and maybe >>> discussion) would be to integrate into LilyPond the _possibility_ to >>> switch fonts (e.g. Abraham's functions) and provide the fonts >>>

Re: [SPAM] Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-11 Thread Urs Liska
Am 11.07.2014 09:20, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska writes: Am 11.07.2014 09:10, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska writes: I think the "cleanest" way with the least hassles (and maybe discussion) would be to integrate into LilyPond the _possibility_ to switch fonts (e.g. Abraham's functio

Re: [SPAM] Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-11 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Am 11.07.2014 09:20, schrieb David Kastrup: >> Urs Liska writes: >> >>> Am 11.07.2014 09:10, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska writes: > I think the "cleanest" way with the least hassles (and maybe > discussion) would be to integrate into LilyPond the _possi

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-11 Thread Urs Liska
Am 11.07.2014 09:29, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska writes: Am 11.07.2014 09:20, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska writes: Am 11.07.2014 09:10, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska writes: I think the "cleanest" way with the least hassles (and maybe discussion) would be to integrate into

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-11 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Am 11.07.2014 09:29, schrieb David Kastrup: >> Urs Liska writes: >> >>> Am 11.07.2014 09:20, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska writes: > Am 11.07.2014 09:10, schrieb David Kastrup: >> Urs Liska writes: >> >>> I think the "cleanest" way with the leas

Re: Follow-up question to alternate music fonts

2014-07-11 Thread James
On 11/07/14 08:01, Urs Liska wrote: > Am 11.07.2014 07:00, schrieb David Kastrup: >> tisimst writes: >> >>> All, >>> >>> Is there anyone who is VERY against distributing music fonts in >>> binary form >>> (i.e., as otf, svg, etc.files)? I just don't see how we can make >>> other music >>> fonts av

Re: Follow-up question to alternate music fonts

2014-07-11 Thread Urs Liska
Am 11.07.2014 10:16, schrieb James: On 11/07/14 08:01, Urs Liska wrote: Am 11.07.2014 07:00, schrieb David Kastrup: tisimst writes: All, Is there anyone who is VERY against distributing music fonts in binary form (i.e., as otf, svg, etc.files)? I just don't see how we can make other music f

Changing how a font style is requested

2014-07-11 Thread Alexander Kobel
Dear all, I like to use the Romande ADF font family [1] in one of my scores. I do the usual rule-of-three with \paper { ... (make-pango-font-tree "Romande ADF No2 Std" "Romande ADF Std" "monospace" (/ myStaffSize 20)) ... } (If you wonder, No2 is condensed, a

Re: lilypondforum.nl

2014-07-11 Thread Johan Vromans
Federico Bruni writes: > We are talking about a forum in a language other than english, I don't > see any overlap with this mailing list. If I understand what you > mean... I'm just afraid that interesting topics posted in one list will escapes the others. Well, let's see... A final hint: Sett

Alternative partcombine strategy possible?

2014-07-11 Thread Abel Cheung
Does anybody have experience about overriding existing partcombine methods? I have a score that behave like the one below: - When both voices have identical rests, use partcombineUnisonoOnce - Use partcombineApart for everything else In the snippet below, the second line represents what I intende

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-11 Thread Noeck
Hi Urs, it seems like I missed something. How did you create those scores? Using Abrahams proposed tools? Are they public? Or did you do that with your own magic? I would also be interested to test these features. I have clear preferences when I look at the fonts you compared here. It is also int

Re: List defect?

2014-07-11 Thread PMA
Simon Albrecht wrote: Hello, now there definitely seems to be something wrong with mail delivery on the list. Agreed. I had reported similar trouble with other forums' email, but now only LilyPond's hasn't returned to normal. Pete ___ lilypond-use

Re: Chord Symbols with inversions

2014-07-11 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:52:13 +0100 Richard Shann wrote: > Hi list, > > With notation like > \version "2.18.0" > \chordmode { > c/g > } > I can get chord names with /G at the end to indicate a G added > below the root of the chord. > With the notation > \new ChordNames > { > 1 > }

Re: Chord Symbols with inversions

2014-07-11 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:52:13 +0100 Richard Shann wrote: > Hi list, > > With notation like > \version "2.18.0" > \chordmode { > c/g > } > I can get chord names with /G at the end to indicate a G added > below the root of the chord. > With the notation > \new ChordNames > { > 1 > }

Re: Alternative partcombine strategy possible?

2014-07-11 Thread Janek Warchoł
2014-07-11 13:56 GMT+02:00 Abel Cheung : > Does anybody have experience about overriding existing partcombine > methods? I have a score that behave like the one below: > > - When both voices have identical rests, use partcombineUnisonoOnce > - Use partcombineApart for everything else > > In the sni

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-11 Thread David Nalesnik
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Abraham Lee wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 3:39 AM, James Harkins > wrote: > > Something I've been wondering about for awhile... lilypond.org boasts of > "optical spacing" for notes with alternating up and down stems, but it > seems this feature has been lost s

Re: Alternative partcombine strategy possible?

2014-07-11 Thread Abel Cheung
Yes, this is exactly what I needed, thanks a lot! On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: > 2014-07-11 13:56 GMT+02:00 Abel Cheung : >> Does anybody have experience about overriding existing partcombine >> methods? I have a score that behave like the one below: >> >> - When both voi

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-11 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 7:09 AM, David Nalesnik wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Abraham Lee wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 3:39 AM, James Harkins wrote: Something I've been wondering about for awhile... lilypond.org boasts of "optical spacing" for notes with alternating up and do

Re: Alternative partcombine strategy possible?

2014-07-11 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 11 July 2014 15:08, Janek Warchoł wrote: > > > Maybe this will help you: > https://github.com/openlilylib/openlilylib/tree/master/editorial-tools/merge-rests-engraver Hi Janek, Could this definition of Merge Rests Engraver (latest by Jay Anderson) be included directly in LilyPond? AFAICS it

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-11 Thread David Kastrup
Abraham Lee writes: >> Equally spaced stems do look nice with groupings that change staff >> constantly, however. I remember that SCORE had a feature that >> enabled this. I've often thought that LilyPond should have this >> option, but haven't studied the problem enough to know how it could >>

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-11 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:00 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Abraham Lee writes: Equally spaced stems do look nice with groupings that change staff constantly, however. I remember that SCORE had a feature that enabled this. I've often thought that LilyPond should have this option, but haven't

Barline at beginning of lines of music.

2014-07-11 Thread Richard Shann
For chord charts a barline is wanted at the start of each line of music - \bar "|" is, of course ignored in this position. Can anyone suggest how to force printing a barline here (after the time signature, if any). Incidentally, the documentation is slightly misleading on this point: http://www.l

Re: Barline at beginning of lines of music.

2014-07-11 Thread Richard Shann
It is somewhat embarrassing to reply to one's own question but: \defineBarLine "|" #'("|" "|" "|") does the trick. Richard On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 17:49 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: > For chord charts a barline is wanted at the start of each line of music > - \bar "|" is, of course ignored in thi

Re: Barline at beginning of lines of music.

2014-07-11 Thread James
On 11/07/14 18:00, Richard Shann wrote: It is somewhat embarrassing to reply to one's own question but: \defineBarLine "|" #'("|" "|" "|") does the trick. Richard So do we need to improve the documentation? If so, what do you suggest? http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-11 Thread Brian Barker
At 16:07 11/07/2014 +0006, Abraham Lee wrote: Maybe just me, but I don't really like the look of that. I see the stems are equidistant, but, at least to me, I feel like it's not balanced and it makes the notehead spacing a little awkward... I'd still rather see the default behavior. But we all

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-11 Thread tisimst
Noeck wrote > Hi Urs, > > it seems like I missed something. How did you create those scores? Using > Abrahams proposed tools? Are they public? Or did you do that with your > own magic? > I would also be interested to test these features. > > I have clear preferences when I look at the fonts you c

Re: Barline at beginning of lines of music.

2014-07-11 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 18:11 +0100, James wrote: > On 11/07/14 18:00, Richard Shann wrote: > > It is somewhat embarrassing to reply to one's own question but: > > > > \defineBarLine "|" #'("|" "|" "|") > > > > does the trick. > > > > Richard > So do we need to improve the documentation? > > If so,

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-11 Thread David Nalesnik
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Brian Barker wrote: > At 16:07 11/07/2014 +0006, Abraham Lee wrote: > >> Maybe just me, but I don't really like the look of that. I see the stems >> are equidistant, but, at least to me, I feel like it's not balanced and it >> makes the notehead spacing a little

Re: Barline at beginning of lines of music.

2014-07-11 Thread Thomas Morley
2014-07-11 21:14 GMT+02:00 Richard Shann : > On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 18:11 +0100, James wrote: >> On 11/07/14 18:00, Richard Shann wrote: >> > It is somewhat embarrassing to reply to one's own question but: >> > >> > \defineBarLine "|" #'("|" "|" "|") >> > >> > does the trick. >> > >> > Richard >> So

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-11 Thread David Nalesnik
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 5:18 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Brian Barker > wrote: > >> At 16:07 11/07/2014 +0006, Abraham Lee wrote: >> >>> Maybe just me, but I don't really like the look of that. I see the stems >>> are equidistant, but, at least to me, I fe

Re: Barline at beginning of lines of music.

2014-07-11 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 11.07.2014 18:49, schrieb Richard Shann: For chord charts a barline is wanted at the start of each line of music - \bar "|" is, of course ignored in this position. Can anyone suggest how to force printing a barline here (after the time signature, if any). Incidentally, the documentation is s

Multiple variables in one scope

2014-07-11 Thread Samuel Speer
Hello list, I've been trying to create several choral scores using the same template, but sometimes I need to change just a small part of the template, so I end up copying the original and naming it style_two.ily or style_piecename.ily etc. For example, in one piece I need to shrink the PianoStaff