Re: Centered text lines in markuplist

2016-07-17 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno dom 17 lug 2016 alle 4:17, Andrew Bernard ha scritto: How does one centre a block of justified text spanning multiple pages? [Text here obviously abbreviated for the purposes of the MWE.] You cannot change the \paper line-width, right? I've tried \halign but the last sentence falls

Re: Scheme controllable text spanner padding

2016-07-17 Thread Urs Liska
Am 16.07.2016 um 21:31 schrieb dtsmarin: > Thanks a lot David! > The next step would be to make pairs of arg's but I think I can do this on > my own. > See what I meant? One concise question => Instant response ... ;-) Best Urs ___ lilypond-user ma

Re: Centered text lines in markuplist

2016-07-17 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Federico, I would like it centred, not left offset - because you can not easily get it centred this way except by trial and error, and even when it is off a little bit the eye notices it. Also, this solution has the strange problem at the end, which makes it not much good. Sorry! Is there no

Re: Centered text lines in markuplist

2016-07-17 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Andrew, How about: \version "2.19.45" \markuplist { \fill-line { \override #'(line-width . 60) \justify { Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Phasellus scelerisque justo ut posuere aliquam. Integer aliquet eu nunc a iaculis. In hac habitasse pl

Re: Centered text lines in markuplist

2016-07-17 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Pierre, Not sure if I was clear in original post. I have a lot of text and it spans multiple pages. I can't find a way to centre that in a justified block. Do I need to go out to TeX or similar? Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@g

Re: Centered text lines in markuplist

2016-07-17 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
I'm afraid yes. AFAIK markups do not handle page breaks. 2016-07-17 11:31 GMT+02:00 Andrew Bernard : > Hi Pierre, > > Not sure if I was clear in original post. I have a lot of text and it > spans multiple pages. I can't find a way to centre that in a justified > block. > > Do I need to go out to

Re: Centered text lines in markuplist

2016-07-17 Thread Robert Blackstone
On 17 Jul 2016, at 12:26 , Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: > I'm afraid yes. > AFAIK markups do not handle page breaks. > > 2016-07-17 11:31 GMT+02:00 Andrew Bernard : > Hi Pierre, > > Not sure if I was clear in original post. I have a lot of text and it > spans multiple pages. I can't find a w

Re: Centered text lines in markuplist

2016-07-17 Thread David Kastrup
Pierre Perol-Schneider writes: > 2016-07-17 11:31 GMT+02:00 Andrew Bernard : > >> Hi Pierre, >> >> Not sure if I was clear in original post. I have a lot of text and it >> spans multiple pages. I can't find a way to centre that in a justified >> block. >> >> Do I need to go out to TeX or similar?

Re: Independent Repeat Spanner

2016-07-17 Thread David Nalesnik
dtsmarin wrote > Hello, > > I'm trying to create an independent repeat spanner. (see attached) > rep_spanner.png > > > There are several ways to notate what I'm looking for but the same > principles are applied. > > Obviousl

Re: Centered text lines in markuplist

2016-07-17 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi David, Tools such as InDesign offer all the possibilities for the last line, of which there are several, as you know. I would settle for left aligned. That would be fine, and is a fairly common usage in typography. I am sorry if I am not clear. I simply want a relatively narrow column of justi

Re: Centered text lines in markuplist

2016-07-17 Thread David Kastrup
Andrew Bernard writes: > Hi David, > > Tools such as InDesign offer all the possibilities for the last line, > of which there are several, as you know. I would settle for left > aligned. That would be fine, and is a fairly common usage in > typography. Sigh. Can you please tell what you actuall

Re: Independent Repeat Spanner

2016-07-17 Thread dtsmarin
Hi David, Thanks a lot for your great code!!! Well you can't compile my attached file because it needs the file "definitions.ily" which produces the glyphs for the repeat brackets that contain characters from the Bravura font. Anyway your code seems to work fine for me. The only things I would

Re: Centered text lines in markuplist

2016-07-17 Thread David Wright
On Sun 17 Jul 2016 at 19:31:41 (+1000), Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hi Pierre, > > Not sure if I was clear in original post. I have a lot of text and it > spans multiple pages. I can't find a way to centre that in a justified > block. > > Do I need to go out to TeX or similar? The quick answer: yes.

Re: Centered text lines in markuplist

2016-07-17 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi David, I am unable to understand your response. Is my mail not clear? I explicitly diagrammed what would be good. At no point in this topic have I offered criticism of any kind of lilypond, or your work. Others would verify that I am sure. Whence this aggression in your reply David? It is ent

Re: Centered text lines in markuplist

2016-07-17 Thread David Kastrup
Andrew Bernard writes: > Hi David, > > I am unable to understand your response. Is my mail not clear? I > explicitly diagrammed what would be good. > > At no point in this topic have I offered criticism of any kind of > lilypond, or your work. Others would verify that I am sure. > > Whence this a

Re: Start music at specified measure without having to fill the previous.

2016-07-17 Thread Urs Liska
Am 17. Juli 2016 17:40:27 MESZ, schrieb dtsmarin : >Hello, > >I'm working with a lot of time signature changes and it's very >frustrating >to calculate all the rests needed to fill the measures before. >Is it possible to tell Lilypond start inserting music after a specified >number of measures e

Resetting page numbers between bookparts

2016-07-17 Thread Dosh Doshington
Greetings, I wish to create a single PDF containing all the parts to my work, instead of 30-something single PDFs. I would like not to use an external PDF merging tool since I recompile very often. This code fails to work since page numbers continue after each page break. \book { \bookOutput

Re: Start music at specified measure without having to fill the previous.

2016-07-17 Thread dtsmarin
Thanks Urs, could you explain further this? Btw, I downloaded the files but they don't work. Too many missing .ily files that even if I downloaded them I don't get it to work. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Start-music-at-specified-measure-without-hav

Emacs for LilyPond with embedded scheme

2016-07-17 Thread Jeffery Shivers
Hi, Are there any emacs packages that currently provide (good) syntax highlighting and indentation for lilypond *including* embedded scheme? I've tried using lilypond-mode, but have had a better experience just sticking to scheme-mode when working with lilypond files that are mostly scheme (that

Use variable to simplify colorizing specific notes

2016-07-17 Thread Jim Garrett
I wonder if anyone could give me some concise advice on how to simplify colorizing specific notes. I know that preceding the note with "\tweak color #red" turns the color red but when one has many colorized notes, this becomes very cluttered. I'm transcribing and analyzing Turkish improvisat

Re: Use variable to simplify colorizing specific notes

2016-07-17 Thread Noeck
> However I haven't found any variant of this that works. Hi Jim, this works for me: \version "2.19.36" stable = \tweak #'color #red \etc { a \stable b } Cheers, Joram ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/

Re: Start music at specified measure without having to fill the previous.

2016-07-17 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Dimitris, in general it would be helpful to quote the relevant part of the message you are replying to because otherwise people might not know what you are referring to. Am 17.07.2016 um 18:11 schrieb dtsmarin: > Thanks Urs, > > could you explain further this? First I must say I threw in th

Re: Use variable to simplify colorizing specific notes

2016-07-17 Thread David Kastrup
Noeck writes: >> However I haven't found any variant of this that works. > > > Hi Jim, > > this works for me: > > > \version "2.19.36" > > stable = \tweak #'color #red \etc > > { > a \stable b > } The 2.18 equivalent is stable = #(define-music-function (parser location m) (ly:music?) #{ \t

Re: Emacs for LilyPond with embedded scheme

2016-07-17 Thread David Kastrup
Jeffery Shivers writes: > Are there any emacs packages that currently provide (good) syntax > highlighting and indentation for lilypond *including* embedded scheme? No. > I've tried using lilypond-mode, but have had a better experience just > sticking to scheme-mode when working with lilypond f

Re: 17th century English kbd ornaments

2016-07-17 Thread Michael Rivers
Did anybody ever come up with a way to draw the shake from Purcell in Lilypond? I'm trying to typeset something from the book cited in the top post, and my skills are not up to the task. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/17th-century-English-kbd-ornaments-tp

Re: Start music at specified measure without having to fill the previous.

2016-07-17 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 17.07.2016 22:45, Urs Liska wrote: I thought that - when the "mods" are entered as "LilyPond music expressions" this might also be used to insert actual music at that specific point in time (the edition-engraver addresses measures by number, regardless of how "much" time has gone by so far). A

Re: Start music at specified measure without having to fill the previous.

2016-07-17 Thread Urs Liska
Am 17.07.2016 um 23:54 schrieb Simon Albrecht: > On 17.07.2016 22:45, Urs Liska wrote: >> I thought that - when the "mods" are entered as "LilyPond music >> expressions" this might also be used to insert actual music at that >> specific point in time (the edition-engraver addresses measures by >>

Re: 17th century English kbd ornaments

2016-07-17 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Michael, I'm not sure about the glyph you're talking about. I found two: \version "2.19.45" purcell = ^\markup\stencil #(make-path-stencil '(M -0.20 0.05 L 1.55 0.51 M -0.31 0.43 L 1.45 0.90 ;; uncomment the line hereunder if necessary: ;; M -0.69 -0.10 L -1.1

Re: Independent Repeat Spanner

2016-07-17 Thread David Nalesnik
> Thanks a lot for your great code!!! Glad I could help! > Anyway your code seems to work fine for me. The only things I would change > is a) > the type of the repeat barlines (I prefer the ones with the brackets ) This would be easy enough to change, I think. You could probably substitute you

Re: Start music at specified measure without having to fill the previous.

2016-07-17 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/17/16 9:40 AM, "dtsmarin" wrote: >Hello, > >I'm working with a lot of time signature changes and it's very frustrating >to calculate all the rests needed to fill the measures before. >Is it possible to tell Lilypond start inserting music after a specified >number of measures even if they h

Re: Start music at specified measure without having to fill the previous.

2016-07-17 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello Dimitris, hello Carl, if you split your global/meta-variable with all you your timesigs, you can make use of $(mmrest-of-length globalA) to create multi-measure-rests, which fill all measures in global: % globalA = { \time 3

Re: Start music at specified measure without having to fill the previous.

2016-07-17 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Urs, Am 17.07.2016 um 22:45 schrieb Urs Liska: Hi Dimitris, ... First I must say I threw in the comment about the edition-engraver from my mobile, without any further checks. And it seems that right now my idea doesn't work. That's right. The edition-engraver is a tool that can insert m