Re: Extending the staff for time signature changes between scores

2016-05-19 Thread Knute Snortum
Thanks, that works. --- Knute Snortum (via Gmail) On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 6:23 PM, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 18 May 2016 at 08:43:12 (-0700), Knute Snortum wrote: > > My situation is this: I have two \score sections and at the end of the > > first I want to alert the reader that the next st

Re: What is the correct way(TM) to set a Rezitationston?

2016-05-19 Thread David Wright
I printed and processed the pot of coffee for myself, and thought I might as well put it into these archives. I added the overlooked lyric alignment, changed the hyphenation (most disappears) and removed the indentation. Ragged right closes up the syllables. In any case, I've always printed recita

Re: Troubleshooting installing dev version of lilypond on ubuntu

2016-05-19 Thread Paul
On 05/18/2016 01:48 PM, David Wright wrote: On Wed 18 May 2016 at 12:31:19 (-0400), Paul wrote: But I've now got it working. I noticed that I now have a ~/bin directory with "lilypond" and other shell scripts in it. And everything works fine when I do: $ ~/bin/lilypond test.ly or just $ lil

Converting Midi to PDF, or lilypond

2016-05-19 Thread Marco Oros
Hello people! I have a question. Is there any software for converting a Midi to sheet? This software will haveto be for free. Thank You! Marco Oros ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypon

Re: Converting Midi to PDF, or lilypond

2016-05-19 Thread Karlin High
On 5/19/2016 10:57 AM, Marco Oros wrote: > Is there any software for converting a Midi to sheet? LilyPond (which is free software) includes a command-line conversion tool called midi2ly. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/usage/invoking-midi2ly This converts a MIDI file into a LilyPon

Re: Troubleshooting installing dev version of lilypond on ubuntu

2016-05-19 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno mer 18 mag 2016 alle 18:31, Paul ha scritto: I wonder, is this the usual way/location to install a dev version alongside a stable version on GNU/Linux? Might be nice to have this documented somewhere. (Or maybe I'm just a newbie with this.) I think that this is up to the user and

Re: Converting Midi to PDF, or lilypond

2016-05-19 Thread Robert Schmaus
There's a program called Musescore (free open source WYSIWYG music sheet program) that can import and render MIDI. Might be messy, depending on the complexity of the music, but that's probably the same in all programs ... Best, Robert. __ It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to

Re: Converting Midi to PDF, or lilypond

2016-05-19 Thread Johan Vromans
On Thu, 19 May 2016 17:57:52 +0200 Marco Oros wrote: > I have a question. Is there any software for converting a Midi to sheet? > This software will haveto be for free. Try RoseGarden. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://list

Re: Extending the staff for time signature changes between scores

2016-05-19 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 19.05.2016 03:23, David Wright wrote: \layout { \context { \Staff \override StaffSymbol.break-align-symbols = #'(time-signature key-signature staff-bar break-alignment) } } I tried to use the proper LilyPond list syntax here: \override StaffSymbol.break-align-symbols = time

Re: Extending the staff for time signature changes between scores

2016-05-19 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 19.05.2016 um 22:19 schrieb Simon Albrecht: On 19.05.2016 03:23, David Wright wrote: \layout { \context { \Staff \override StaffSymbol.break-align-symbols = #'(time-signature key-signature staff-bar break-alignment) } } I tried to use the proper LilyPond list syntax here:

Re: Extending the staff for time signature changes between scores

2016-05-19 Thread David Kastrup
Simon Albrecht writes: > On 19.05.2016 03:23, David Wright wrote: >> \layout { >>\context { >> \Staff >> \override StaffSymbol.break-align-symbols = #'(time-signature >> key-signature staff-bar break-alignment) >>} >> } > > I tried to use the proper LilyPond list syntax here: >

Scheme question: context from grob?

2016-05-19 Thread Steven Weber
Is there any way to get the context from a grob?  Or is there another way to get the current bar number from a grob? I’m writing an after-line-break function and would like to know what bar number the grob is in: #(define (after-break-function grob) (newline)(display “whatever code gets

Re: Extending the staff for time signature changes between scores

2016-05-19 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > Simon Albrecht writes: > >> On 19.05.2016 03:23, David Wright wrote: >>> \layout { >>>\context { >>> \Staff >>> \override StaffSymbol.break-align-symbols = #'(time-signature >>> key-signature staff-bar break-alignment) >>>} >>> } >> >> I tried to use th

Re: Extending the staff for time signature changes between scores

2016-05-19 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 19.05.2016 23:54, David Kastrup wrote: 2.19.40 has […] So I have no idea what problem you are seeing here. The only problem was that I thought these changes had already made it into v2.19.39, with which version I made the tests. Sorry for the noise, and thanks again for this new possib

print instrument abbreviations to left of staff

2016-05-19 Thread Ryan Michael
Hello, I have a string quartet score, and I would like to show the canonical abbreviations for each instrument to the left of each staff line throughout the piece. How can I do that? Ryan. p.s. this is my layout: \score { \new StaffGroup << \new Staff << \global \cello >> \new Staff <

Re: Scheme question: context from grob?

2016-05-19 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Steven, On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Steven Weber wrote: > Is there any way to get the context from a grob? Not that I know of. > Or is there another way to > get the current bar number from a grob? Yes, you can do this using the function grob::rhythmic-location which will return a pair

Re: print instrument abbreviations to left of staff

2016-05-19 Thread tisimst
\set Staff.shortInstrumentName = #"abbr." On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Ryan Michael [via Lilypond] < ml-node+s1069038n190777...@n5.nabble.com> wrote: > Hello, I have a string quartet score, > and I would like to show the canonical abbreviations for each instrument > to the left of each staff

[ANN] Seven Music Notation Programs

2016-05-19 Thread jrethorst
About ten years ago a group of us decided to do a comparison of the most popular notation programs, to see how each program looked in print. Although one program's output can be made to look much like another's, some aspects of that are easier to do, and it’s interesting how the personality of the