polyphony and bendAfter

Dear LilyPond group, Does anyone know how to correctly implement a bendAfter with polyphony? When i do \bendAfter #1 c c LilyPond simply ignores the bendAfter. The following example works, but isn't a very efficient/elegant workaround. Besides, it's technically not correct either since the be

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

Am 19.01.2015 um 04:44 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi all, I had been surprised not to find a template for the “lead sheets” I’ve been making. Yes! Let’s start making a list of the “big picture” targets: piano solo instrument solo/part orchestra score choir, a cappella

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

Am 19.01.2015 um 04:41 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Urs (et al.), Maybe having it as a semi-official library would be more manageable? Sure… whatever works best! I think it would be easier to develop such a thing as a library, as a work in progress. When including it into LilyPond it the s

OT: Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 22:44:29 -0500 Kieren MacMillan wrote: > piano solo > instrument solo/part > orchestra score > choir, a cappella > choir plus piano > piano + voice, art song > piano + voice + guitar chords, popular > chamber score (2-4 players) > piano cham

Re: Printing titles at a consistent size

> From: Noeck > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Printing titles at a consistent size > Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 23:57:09 +0100 > > Hi, > > if I am not mistaken, there was some discussion and a solution how to get the > line space consistent for different settings of the staff space within

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

Urs, et. al., On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:41 AM, Urs Liska [via Lilypond] wrote: > > I think it would be easier to develop such a thing as a library, Is this effort all about creating stylesheets (i.e., customizing the look-and-feel of scores via \overrides, fonts, etc.) or templates (i.e., t

Re: Printing titles at a consistent size

David, On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:43 AM, David Sumbler [via Lilypond] wrote: > > From: Noeck <[hidden email]> > > To: [hidden email] > > Subject: Re: Printing titles at a consistent size > > Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 23:57:09 +0100 > > > > Hi, > > > > if I am not mistaken, there was some disc

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

> ... I don't see any > reason why a standard set of these can't be included in LilyPond itself > for the user to access, but maybe that's more for something like > Frescobaldi. I'm inclined to second this. > ... but to be able to open an > actual file with a lot of the structure already crea

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

Am 19.01.2015 um 14:25 schrieb tisimst: Urs, et. al., On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:41 AM, Urs Liska [via Lilypond] <[hidden email] > wrote: I think it would be easier to develop such a thing as a library, Is this effort all about creating /stylesheets/ (i.e., customizing the look-and-feel o

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

Hi Abraham, > Is this effort all about creating stylesheets (i.e., customizing the > look-and-feel of scores via \overrides, fonts, etc.) Yes. > or templates (i.e., the structure of the scores)? No… but I could imagine that one beneficial side-effect of devevloping the stylesheets would be ne

Re: Order of contexts over staves

Very clever. Took me a while to work out what you're doing, but you're essentially putting in a staff that is never shown, and then putting the ossia above that. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Pierre Perol-Schneider To: Keith OHara Cc: lilypond-user Sent: Sund

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

Hi Martin, > But before needing all kinds of includes for different kinds of scores: I > think there is still enough room for improvement for the raw default LilyPond > output - without needing extra include files. I agree 100%. One of the outputs of this effort, I hope, will be a consensus-bui

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

Hi Urs (et al.), > I think it would be easier to develop such a thing as a library, as a work in > progress. When including it into LilyPond it the stakes are quite high, and > this might be a reason for never getting to that point … +1 > I'd see the attitude towards reviewing contributions st

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

Hi Urs, > Anything with figured bass. Good call. > I don't know if that should be a kind of "plug-in" solution or if it would > need a complete set of style sheets. Either way, I would hope it wouldn’t be a lot of extra overhead. Thanks, Kieren. ___ Kieren MacMillan, comp

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

Hi Christopher, > Melody + chords (tunes, e.g. Irish or old-timey) That’s a “lead sheet” in my parlance. > Instrument + piano (accompanied instrument solo) Good. This should be different (though not much so) from the piano+voice stylesheet. Cheers, Kieren. ___ Kieren MacM

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

Hi Jay (et al.), > - solo instrument + solo instrument (solo part is cue staff) Cool. > I assume the goal is mostly for setting sensible defaults for a > specific type of score and less about building the structure. So you'd > still need to manually build the scores and staves. Correct? Yes. Te

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

Hi Henning, > My templates contain a lot of commented lines with commands/tweaks that I > sometimes use, so that I don’t need to look them up again. That might fit > templates in Frescobaldi, but isn’t suitable for stylesheets that you just > include without looking at them. To my mind, the st

Re: Order of contexts over staves

- Original Message - From: "Keith OHara" To: Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2015 10:00 PM Subject: Re: Order of contexts over staves You could \new Staff \with {alignAboveContext = "dn" } ... \new Dynamics = "dn" ... Thanks, Keith. I should probably have worked that out myself, but

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

Johan Vromans wrote Monday, January 19, 2015 1:55 PM > In an earlier posting I mentioned a set of templates that I've developed > and used for a couple of years. These do not work by changing the template > code, but adding to it. This is much simpler to achieve. > > For example: > > +--- > | \

Re: instrumentSwitch and addInstrumentDefinition use

Hi all, > I certainly understand that as being the most common need. And apparently the one we officially recommend in the documentation. =) > However I am not a composer. I am in the position of either adapting an > existing book > for younger players who may not be able to play all the instr

editionEngraver

Dear openlilylib people, I have read a few messages about this mysterious editionEngraver and I would like to try using it, but I am doing something wrong and I don't know what. I found the folder for it on github and tried to use it by downloading the three files there (definitions.ily, example.

Re: editionEngraver

2015-01-19 17:34 GMT+01:00 Kevin Barry : > Dear openlilylib people, > > I have read a few messages about this mysterious editionEngraver and I > would like to try using it, but I am doing something wrong and I don't know > what. I found the folder for it on github and tried to use it by > downloa

Re: editionEngraver

Dear Kevin, thanks for this hint! There is an error in the description ... The editionEngraver is part of openLilyLib. To use it, you have to download the whole library and add the path to the list of include paths. Then you can \include "editorial-tools/edition-engraver/definitions.ily" and us

Re: editionEngraver

Am 19. Januar 2015 17:45:00 MEZ, schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt : >Dear Kevin, > >thanks for this hint! There is an error in the description ... >The editionEngraver is part of openLilyLib. To use it, you have to >download the whole library and add the path to the list of include >paths. >Then you can

Changing Laissez Vibrer ties for chords

I'm using a Laissez Vibrer tie on a chord. It works fine, but I would like to change the shape. \shape works fine but for only one tie. How do I shape both ties? %%% -- Start \version "2.19.15" \language "english" \relative c, { \time 3/4 \key a \major \clef bass \shape #' ( (1 . 0) (2

Re: Changing Laissez Vibrer ties for chords

Hi Knute, On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Knute Snortum wrote: > I'm using a Laissez Vibrer tie on a chord. It works fine, but I would > like to change the shape. \shape works fine but for only one tie. How do > I shape both ties? > As with the ties in a TieColumn, \shape won't work for l.

Staccato

Section 1.285 "staccato" of the 2.19.15 LilyPond Music Glossary says: Staccato is indicated by a dot above or below the note head. Gardner Read ("Music Notation: A Manual of Modern Practice") agrees with this and has a little picture showing a stem-up note with a dot just beneath the note-hea

RE: Staccato

Cynthia, The placement of the staccato, also fingerings, articulations, and dynamics, can be place above a note using "^" and below a note using "_" in place of the "-." Mark http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/inside-the-staff http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/source/

Re: Staccato

Hi Cynthia, > Is there a way to get the second snippet to produce regular staccato dots? You van use \dotsDown or \dotsUp Greetings, Ed ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Staccato

> On Jan 19, 2015, at 1:20 PM, Ed Gordijn wrote: > > Hi Cynthia, > > Is there a way to get the second snippet to produce regular staccato dots? > > You van use \dotsDown or \dotsUp > > Greetings, Ed > It’s difficult to tell exactly what those commands do, but I don’t think they’re intended

Re: Staccato

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Cynthia Karl wrote: > Section 1.285 "staccato" of the 2.19.15 LilyPond Music Glossary says: > Staccato is indicated by a dot above or below the note head. Gardner Read > ("Music Notation: A Manual of Modern Practice") agrees with this and has a > little pict

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 146, Issue 98

> > > From: Noeck <[hidden email]> > > > > > To: [hidden email] > > > Subject: Re: Printing titles at a consistent size > > > Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 23:57:09 +0100 > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > if I am not mistaken, there was some discussion and a solution how > > to get the > > > line spac

Double thin bar lines and repeats?

Hi! I'm a long time TeX geek trying to wrap my head around Lilypond - with some, but limited, success. :-) However, I'm trying to end a section of piano music with thin double bar lines, break the line, and then start the next line with repeat marks. I cannot make it work. Any hints? Here's my a

Re: Metronome vertival position after vertical space

Hello Pierre, This version with the empty tempo name is the one that fits my need best, since it’s easier to fine tune with offsets for every particular case. Thanks a lot! JM > Le 14 janv. 2015 à 18:39, Pierre Perol-Schneider > a écrit : > > Or even : > > %% > \version "2.19.1

Re: Staccato

Am 19.01.2015 um 20:29 schrieb Cynthia Karl: > >> On Jan 19, 2015, at 1:20 PM, Ed Gordijn > > wrote: >> >> Hi Cynthia, >> > Is there a way to get the second snippet to produce regular staccato dots? >> >> You van use \dotsDown or \dotsUp I confirm – as it has been

Re: Double thin bar lines and repeats?

2015-01-19 22:10 GMT+01:00 Lars-Johan Liman : > Hi! > > I'm a long time TeX geek trying to wrap my head around Lilypond - with > some, but limited, success. :-) > > However, I'm trying to end a section of piano music with thin double bar > lines, break the line, and then start the next line with re

ANN: Frescobaldi 2.17.2

Dear friends, Frescobaldi 2.17.2 has been released, with source code for Linux and any other platform, and packages for MS Windows and Mac OS X. Download via: http://frescobaldi.org/download . 2.17.2 fixes one annoying bug that could pop up when compiling a LilyPond file (AttributeError: 'unicode

Are these triple-dots of augmentation possible?

Here's a little thing that has got me stumped. Is it possible to add three dots to a note glyph, thus: O:. to signify that the duration of the note is to be multiplied by 9/4 ? And can this be done in such a way (i) that the dots avoid clashing with staff lines, and (ii) that the note

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

Hi Kieren, et al. I like you initiative and I would contribute my modest style sheets for choir works (SATB). It is mostly about distances (paper) and fonts – not really choir related. I think the OpenLilyLib snippets/stylesheets would be a good place to collect them. (If Urs agrees – I am not su

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 09:36:55AM -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > > > Melody + chords (tunes, e.g. Irish or old-timey) > > That's a "lead sheet" in my parlance. IMO, it would be useful to include an (optional) lyric context in the lead sheet stylesheet. Jim _

Re: Double thin bar lines and repeats?

%{ From: Lars-Johan Liman Subject: Double thin bar lines and repeats? > However, I'm trying to end a section of piano music with thin double bar > lines, break the line, and then start the next line with repeat marks. I > cannot make it work. Any hints? The trick is to define a missing barline

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

> There is a built-in template almost exactly like this in LilyPond already > which may be used to typeset a range of choral music, with or without > accompaniment, in two or four staves. > > See > http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/learning/built_002din-templates That’s interestin

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

> E.g., I would not use small caps for the voice names. More > important, I would need German voice names. … and it is very well documented how to do that in those templates! I will have another look at them … ;) Joram ___ lilypond-user mailing list li

Re: Double thin bar lines and repeats?

thomasmorle...@gmail.com: > Try: > \bar ".|:-||" Thanks a bunch! That does indeed work. If you ever need a trick or two from the advanced DNS trick book, I'll be happy to repay you ... :-) > It's in the NR ;) I did find that part, but that is, however, not how I understood it. :-P Can you also

Re: OT: Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

Hi all, > "Chord Chart” +1 > the compact chord symbols have yet to make it into LilyPond I don’t think those (or any other) chord symbols should “make it into Lilypond” — instead, I think we should have stylesheets like stylesheets/chords/ChordNames.ily and stylesheets/chords/names/

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

Am 20.01.2015 um 00:15 schrieb Noeck: Hi Kieren, et al. I like you initiative and I would contribute my modest style sheets for choir works (SATB). It is mostly about distances (paper) and fonts – not really choir related. I think the OpenLilyLib snippets/stylesheets would be a good place to c

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

Hi Joram (et al.), > I would contribute my modest style sheets for choir works (SATB). > It is mostly about distances (paper) and fonts – not really choir related. That’s what a stylesheet is, in my opinion. Templates are a whole different thing — which should be discussed in a different thread.

Re: Double thin bar lines and repeats?

2015-01-20 0:43 GMT+01:00 Lars-Johan Liman : > thomasmorle...@gmail.com: >> Try: >> \bar ".|:-||" > > Thanks a bunch! That does indeed work. If you ever need a trick or two > from the advanced DNS trick book, I'll be happy to repay you ... :-) > >> It's in the NR ;) > > I did find that part, but th

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.17.2

Thank you, Wilbert, for a fantastic program! - Abraham Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 19, 2015, at 3:55 PM, Wilbert Berendsen-6 [via Lilypond] > wrote: > > Dear friends, > > Frescobaldi 2.17.2 has been released, with source code for Linux > and any other platform, and packages for MS Windows

Re: Double thin bar lines and repeats?

2015-01-20 1:33 GMT+01:00 Thomas Morley : > 2015-01-20 0:43 GMT+01:00 Lars-Johan Liman : >> thomasmorle...@gmail.com: >>> Try: >>> \bar ".|:-||" >> >> Thanks a bunch! That does indeed work. If you ever need a trick or two >> from the advanced DNS trick book, I'll be happy to repay you ... :-) >> >>

Re: Double thin bar lines and repeats?

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 01:40:11AM +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: > > To answer my own question: > In repeat-acknowledge-engraver.cc is a comment and code: > > /* > We only set the barline if we wouldn't overwrite a previously set > barline. > */ > SCM wb = get_property ("whichBar"); >

Re: Double thin bar lines and repeats?

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 06:26:38PM -0800, Jim Long wrote: > > That is, a closing volta barline which has no matching opening > volta barline repeats either to the beginning of the piece, or to > the nearest double barline, whichever is closer. My apologies for not describing that very definitivel

Re: Staccato

> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 23:18:31 +0100 > From: Noeck > Subject: Re: Staccato > Am 19.01.2015 um 20:29 schrieb Cynthia Karl: >> >>> On Jan 19, 2015, at 1:20 PM, Ed Gordijn >> > wrote: >>> >>> Hi Cynthia, Is there a way to get the second snippet to produce regu

Re: Staccato

Hi, On Jan 19, 2015, at 9:43 PM, Cynthia Karl wrote: > You must have an intimate knowledge of LP source code to be able to say that. > […] > How would anyone know what \dotsDown does? 1. Search the contents of the application for “dotsDown” — find 4 results. 2. The one in property-init.ly is

Re: Typesetting chord symbols

Hi all, What’s happening with this issue? I would love to coordinate my efforts on the chord names stylesheets I’m putting together with whatever’s going on with regard to structural change(s). Thanks, Kieren. ___ Kieren MacMillan, composer www:

Re: Order of contexts over staves

Oups, you're wright, I should have added some explanation. Anyway, Keith's solution is so much better! I didn't take care enough before posting mine. Cheers, Pierre 2015-01-19 15:21 GMT+01:00 Phil Holmes : > Very clever. Took me a while to work out what you're doing, but you're > essentially pu

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 146, Issue 98

> I dare say there is a prettier and more concise way of doing this, > but at least I now have something that works! What about the following? #(define-public (pt-to-ss size) "Convert from points to staff space units." ;; The value `output-scale' gives the size (in mm) of the staff ;;

How to pack notes very tightly?

I'm transcribing a Mendelssohn score, and am trying to get Lilypond to pack notes about as densely as they are in the original score. For example, trying to fit a snippet like this onto a single line: \version "2.16.2" \language "english" \relative c''' { \key e \minor \mark \default \time

Re: How to pack notes very tightly?

Am 20. Januar 2015 07:47:20 MEZ, schrieb Steve Lacy : >I'm transcribing a Mendelssohn score, and am trying to get Lilypond to >pack >notes about as densely as they are in the original score. For example, >trying to fit a snippet like this onto a single line: > >\version "2.16.2" >\language "engl

Re: How to pack notes very tightly?

Thanks, Urs. Reading your code, seems like it was just a convenience function for setting SpacingSpanner.common-shortest-duration Adding a simple: \override Score.SpacingSpanner #'common-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1 4) Got me to the density I was looking for. (http://lilybin.com/qu

Re: instrumentSwitch and addInstrumentDefinition use

On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 21:09:07 -0800, Paul Scott wrote: So I am saying that I would like any new features for instrument switching to suit my need to not always enter the notes in concert pitch. I don't really think that be a problem. Absolutely. There is a set of tests to make sure the ol

Re: How to pack notes very tightly?

Forwarding to bug-lilypond. Could someone please verify this and create a tracker entry? (It's not my code BTW) Am 20. Januar 2015 08:20:25 MEZ, schrieb Steve Lacy : >Thanks, Urs. > >Reading your code, seems like it was just a convenience function for >setting SpacingSpanner.common-shortest-durat