Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-04 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 03.04.2015 um 20:28 schrieb Mattes: [...] Well, think of it like this (slightly oversimplified): 'tuplet' is a lilypond function, '\' will _call_ this function. Let's quickly check that: guile> tuplet #> If you do '#(define t tuplet)' 't' will have the same value as 'tuplet':

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-04 Thread Urs Liska
Am 03.04.2015 um 20:28 schrieb Mattes: Am Freitag, 03. April 2015 20:15 CEST, Urs Liska schrieb: Am 03.04.2015 um 19:45 schrieb Kevin Barry: On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Urs Liska mailto:u...@openlilylib.org>> wrote: I'll note that for explaining in a blog post because it seem

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-04 Thread Reedmace Star
* 2015-04-03 10:25 +0200 Andrew Bernard : > Can I make a simple abbreviation for input? For example \t instead of \tuplet? Since your question already got answered directly, I hope I can add a piece of advice without sounding too destructive: Don't do it. Redefining standard commands just to save

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-04 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 04.04.2015 um 12:37 schrieb Reedmace Star: * 2015-04-03 10:25 +0200 Andrew Bernard : Can I make a simple abbreviation for input? For example \t instead of \tuplet? Since your question already got answered directly, I hope I can add a piece of advice without sounding too destructive: Don't d

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Don't do it. Redefining standard commands just to save typing is a > terrible idea. It depends. Especially \tuplet is awfully long, and it makes scores with a lot of triplets extremely hard to read. > Apropos outsmarting tools: with LilyPond source code in particular, > you risk doing that to

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-04 Thread Johan Vromans
On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 12:55:51 +0200 (CEST) Werner LEMBERG wrote: > It depends. Especially \tuplet is awfully long, and it makes scores > with a lot of triplets extremely hard to read. Maybe we can conceive of a good, intuitive and short alternative notation for triplets (and/or tuplets)? E.g. (

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-04 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 04.04.2015 um 14:13 schrieb Johan Vromans: On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 12:55:51 +0200 (CEST) Werner LEMBERG wrote: It depends. Especially \tuplet is awfully long, and it makes scores with a lot of triplets extremely hard to read. Maybe we can conceive of a good, intuitive and short alternative no

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-04 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 04.04.2015 um 18:56 schrieb Simon Albrecht: Am 04.04.2015 um 14:13 schrieb Johan Vromans: On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 12:55:51 +0200 (CEST) Werner LEMBERG wrote: It depends. Especially \tuplet is awfully long, and it makes scores with a lot of triplets extremely hard to read. Maybe we can concei

Grace notes causes clef change to occur after bar

2015-04-04 Thread Nolan Winter
Like the title says. What is strange is that the clef change isn't even on the same staff yet the grace note causes it to be placed incorrectly. In the actual music that I am encountering this problem, there is a line break which will cause a problem with reading because the reader won't expect the

Re: Grace notes causes clef change to occur after bar

2015-04-04 Thread Nolan Winter
I sent that prematurely, whoops. Here's the code: \version "2.18.2" \language "english" \new PianoStaff << \new Staff { \clef bass e4 e e e \clef treble | e' e' e' e' } \new Staff = "down" { \clef bass f8-. r f-. r f-. r f-. r | \acciaccatura c,8-. c1-- | } >> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 2:12 PM, No

Scaling Scores

2015-04-04 Thread Peter Heisen
Dear List, I apologize if this is a total newbie question, but I am struggling with scaling scores. Sometimes I want really big music to put on presentation slides. Other times I want to fit a lot of music on one page. Doing something like: \layout { #(layout-set-staff-size 40) } within a s

RE: Grace notes causes clef change to occur after bar

2015-04-04 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Nolan: Place an “\acciaccatura s8” after the clef change and before the “e.” See below. Mark From: lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Nolan Winter Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2015 11:13 AM To: lilyp

Re: parts for natural horns and trumpets

2015-04-04 Thread Jay Anderson
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:22 AM, Urs Liska wrote: > You may have a look at > https://github.com/openlilylib/openlilylib/tree/master/editorial-tools/auto-transpose > That's pretty awesome. Unfortunately it doesn't behave like I'd expect by default. Here's an example: \version "2.19.15" \include

Re: Scaling Scores

2015-04-04 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-04-04 20:12 GMT+02:00 Peter Heisen : > Dear List, > > I apologize if this is a total newbie question, but I am struggling with > scaling scores. Sometimes I want really big music to put on presentation > slides. Other times I want to fit a lot of music on one page. Doing > something like: >

Re: Scaling Scores

2015-04-04 Thread Peter Heisen
Sorry about that, Harm. \version "2.18.2". On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: > 2015-04-04 20:12 GMT+02:00 Peter Heisen : > > Dear List, > > > > I apologize if this is a total newbie question, but I am struggling with > > scaling scores. Sometimes I want really big music to

Lilyjazz from a blind user

2015-04-04 Thread Daniel Contreras
Hello everyone, I am attempting to use lilypond to write jazz charts for a small jazz combo, and possibly a jazz trombone ensemble. I downloaded and installed the lilyjazz fonts from fonts.openlilylib.org. My question is pertaining to the sample PDF documents that came with the zip file. Is ther

Using lilypond examples in an essay or text document

2015-04-04 Thread Daniel Contreras
subject line says it all, I want to use Lily Pond in a text document. Can someone point me in the right direction to achieve this? Thanks a bunch I am using version 2.18. Daniel Contreras ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://li

Re: Using lilypond examples in an essay or text document

2015-04-04 Thread Urs Liska
Am 4. April 2015 21:41:17 MESZ, schrieb Daniel Contreras : >subject line says it all, I want to use Lily Pond in a text document. >Can someone point me in the right direction to achieve this? Thanks a >bunch I am using version 2.18. Ehm, and what program to produce the text document? >Daniel

Re: Using lilypond examples in an essay or text document

2015-04-04 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 4 Apr 2015, at 21:10, Urs Liska wrote: > > > > Am 4. April 2015 21:41:17 MESZ, schrieb Daniel Contreras > : >> subject line says it all, I want to use Lily Pond in a text document. >> Can someone point me in the right direction to achieve this? Thanks a >> bunch I am using version 2.18.

Re: Using lilypond examples in an essay or text document

2015-04-04 Thread Colin Campbell
On 2015-04-04 02:20 PM, Michael Hendry wrote: On 4 Apr 2015, at 21:10, Urs Liska wrote: Am 4. April 2015 21:41:17 MESZ, schrieb Daniel Contreras : subject line says it all, I want to use Lily Pond in a text document. Can someone point me in the right direction to achieve this? Thanks a bunc

Re: Using lilypond examples in an essay or text document

2015-04-04 Thread Nick Payne
On 05/04/2015 05:41, Daniel Contreras wrote: subject line says it all, I want to use Lily Pond in a text document. Can someone point me in the right direction to achieve this? Thanks a bunch I am using version 2.18. Lyx and Scribus both allow Lilypond source to be included in frames within a

Re: Using lilypond examples in an essay or text document

2015-04-04 Thread Urs Liska
Am 04.04.2015 um 22:20 schrieb Michael Hendry: On 4 Apr 2015, at 21:10, Urs Liska wrote: Am 4. April 2015 21:41:17 MESZ, schrieb Daniel Contreras : subject line says it all, I want to use Lily Pond in a text document. Can someone point me in the right direction to achieve this? Thanks a b

lilypond-book, snippet inside tabular

2015-04-04 Thread dl . mcnamara
I'm trying to put lilypond snippets inside a tabular environment in LaTeX, but running lilypond-book on the file seems to ignore the lilypond blocks. I'm guessing that lilypond-book just ignores the tabular environment as a whole. Anyone have a workaround for using lilypond-book? otherwise I'l

RE:Using lilypond examples in an essay or text document

2015-04-04 Thread Stephen MacNeil
I would suggest just write the document in lilypond... that's what i do. HTH Stephen ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: lilypond-book, snippet inside tabular

2015-04-04 Thread karl
dl.mcnam...@comcast.net: > I'm trying to put lilypond snippets inside a tabular environment in LaTeX, > but > running lilypond-book on the file seems to ignore the lilypond blocks. > I'm guessing that lilypond-book just ignores the tabular environment as a > whole. > > Anyone have a workaroun

Re: Scaling Scores

2015-04-04 Thread Peter Heisen
Using version 2.18.2, I found that "#(set-global-staff-size 10)" inserted at the book level scales everything on the page nicely. Ditto for a big size like 40. But "\score{ … \layout { #(layout-set-staff-size 10) } }" has unpredictable results. The documentation at http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2

Re: lilypond-book, snippet inside tabular

2015-04-04 Thread Nick Payne
On 05/04/2015 07:28, dl.mcnam...@comcast.net wrote: I'm trying to put lilypond snippets inside a tabular environment in LaTeX, but running lilypond-book on the file seems to ignore the lilypond blocks. I'm guessing that lilypond-book just ignores the tabular environment as a whole. Anyone hav

align text with rests horizontally

2015-04-04 Thread MarcM
I'm trying to put text below rests to indicate what to do for the next note. I tried 2 ways to align text with rests but the text is not aligned horizontally. Any other way to try? Here is a sample: http://lilybin.com/0krmre/1 -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabbl

Re: guide / shift finger

2015-04-04 Thread MarcM
that's nice but you may want to look at the fingeringSlideEngraver http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-02/txt3tFIgdpIld.txt -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/guide-shift-finger-tp174025p174080.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at

Re: Using lilypond examples in an essay or text document

2015-04-04 Thread James Harkins
Org-mode is a pretty remarkable way to do this. You can embed LilyPond source code directly into the document's markup. Then, when you export to LaTeX, it can compile the LP snippets automatically and insert them into the result. begin sample org file #+PROPERTY: header-args:lilypond :prolo

Re: Scaling Scores

2015-04-04 Thread Trevor Daniels
Peter, you wrote Saturday, April 04, 2015 11:51 PM > Using version 2.18.2, I found that "#(set-global-staff-size 10)" inserted > at the book level scales everything on the page nicely. Ditto for a big > size like 40. But "\score{ … \layout { #(layout-set-staff-size 10) } }" has > unpredictable