Re: Key signature on multiple staves

2017-09-01 Thread Robert Murdoch
I'm really sorry, everyone. I did not mean to come across as rude. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: \transposition question

2017-09-01 Thread Jacques Menu Muzhic
Hello David, Simon and Greg, My quite strange question arose from reading the description of MusicXML’s : The transposition is represented by chromatic steps (required) and three optional elements: diatonic pitch steps, octave changes, and doubling an octave down. The diatonic element speci

Re: Key signature on multiple staves

2017-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Murdoch writes: > I'm really sorry, everyone. I did not mean to come across as rude. I don't think you did. People just get excited. With regard to your request, there are basically two actions that the Key_engraver does: typeset a signature change and execute the property changes of a

Re: multiple \keys and \time problem

2017-09-01 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Thanks a lot! However, below you can find one case (using your >> second, improved version) where it is failing: the key signature at >> the beginning of a line gets canceled, which is incorrect.. > > Ofcourse, I should have thought of this. > > I'll have a look - my holidays ended, though :

debian-stretch lilypond workaround solution

2017-09-01 Thread rrbuer...@freenet.de
My lilypond - experience and workaround-solution with debian stretch: I updated 2 PCs (precisely a pc and a laptop) at the beginning of July 2017 from a zero-errors-running Jessie to a (censored by vice squad ;-) ) Stretch. One of the knockouts was: I had overlooked, that lilypond is removed in S

Re: \transposition question

2017-09-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 01.09.2017 09:35, Jacques Menu Muzhic wrote: But then, why is the markup present in MusicXML? A few days ago, in the Music Engraving Tips forum on Facebook, we had a discussion about why Čaikovskij spells what sounds a B major chord in the Horns in F as . In short: A# is very uncomfortabl

Re: \transposition question

2017-09-01 Thread Jacques Menu Muzhic
Hello Simon, The 7 semitones are there anyways, since the markup is mandatory… JM > Le 1 sept. 2017 à 10:23, Simon Albrecht a écrit : > > On 01.09.2017 09:35, Jacques Menu Muzhic wrote: >> But then, why is the markup present in MusicXML? > > A few days ago, in the Music Engraving Tips forum

Re: \transposition question

2017-09-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 01.09.2017 12:09, Jacques Menu Muzhic wrote: Hello Simon, The 7 semitones are there anyways, since the markup is mandatory… Of course it is, else you’d never know if it’s horns in F or in F# (yes, there is such a thing). But in addition you have the information that it’s 5 diatonic steps

Re: \transposition question

2017-09-01 Thread Jacques Menu Muzhic
So helps forcing the use of the « simplest » pitch, while I thought it was used to help forcing the use of the enharmonic one. Now I understand. Thanks Simon for this enlightenment, and a nice day! JM > Le 1 sept. 2017 à 12:31, Simon Albrecht a écrit : > > On 01.09.2017 12:09, Jacques Menu M

Re: A note which is three measures long

2017-09-01 Thread Graham King
On Thu, 2017-08-31 at 16:06 +0200, Simon Albrecht wrote: > On 31.08.2017 14:40, Bernhard Kleine wrote: > > At the end of the Kyrie from Palestrina's Missa Brevis there is a note > > three measure long. Is there any way to do that simply? > > Yes, there is. However, that is actually a \maxima (wit

Re: A note which is three measures long

2017-09-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 01.09.2017 13:37, Graham King wrote: Yes, there is. However, that is actually a \maxima (with a duration of 8*1) or even more, with "perfection" at the level of prolation, tempus, modus or (theoretically) maximodus. Which IIUC you don’t need to know if you’re only going as early as Palestr

Re: notes regex expression

2017-09-01 Thread Gianmaria Lari
Salut Jacques! I don’t have any experience with C# programming, but maybe the Flex and > Bison specifications that are part of the LilyPond source code could be > integrated within a C# application? > This would provide a full and usable scanner and parser. > This would open interesting possibil

Re: A note which is three measures long

2017-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
Graham King writes: > On Thu, 2017-08-31 at 16:06 +0200, Simon Albrecht wrote: > >> On 31.08.2017 14:40, Bernhard Kleine wrote: >> > At the end of the Kyrie from Palestrina's Missa Brevis there is a note >> > three measure long. Is there any way to do that simply? >> >> Yes, there is. However, t

Re: Gotlandstoner

2017-09-01 Thread Knut Petersen
3) The song files are run through lilypond to produce pdf files 4) The text information from the abc source is extracted and inserted into a book template, again using the config file, to produce a ”book document” in latex format, which also includes the individual song pdf files 5) The late

Re: Moving a tempo mark to the right

2017-09-01 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Wol, > Given that I can't even do it ONCE successfully, what makes you think I can > write a function to do it automatically? Fair point. =) > While it may sound weird. the reality is you probably didn't find it too hard > to learn Scheme, because you're a composer not a programmer. Actua

different notation fonts and LilyPond’s -b option

2017-09-01 Thread Malte Meyn
Hi list, I wanted to try Knut’s advice from the Gotlandstoner thread (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-09/msg00013.html) but the -b option doesn’t seem to work with different notation fonts; Ghostscript fails and outputs a PDF without any fonts (it doesn’t even contain Te

Detecting null markup in Scheme

2017-09-01 Thread Graham King
I have a monstrous music-function that constructs a markup in Scheme and then decides whether to put it at system-level or staff-level, along the following lines (much-redacted): foo = #(define-music-function (args...) (types...) (let* ((markupContents #{ \markup { \co

Re: A note which is three measures long

2017-09-01 Thread Graham King
On Fri, 2017-09-01 at 14:32 +0200, Simon Albrecht wrote: > On 01.09.2017 13:37, Graham King wrote: > > Which IIUC you don’t need to know if you’re only going as early as > Palestrina… ;-) > Apologies. I got over-enthusiastic and failed to read the question properly. Null Points. ___

Re: Detecting null markup in Scheme

2017-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
Graham King writes: > I have a monstrous music-function that constructs a markup in Scheme and > then decides whether to put it at system-level or staff-level, along the > following lines (much-redacted): > > foo = #(define-music-function (args...) (types...) > (let* ((markupContents #{ >

Re: different notation fonts and LilyPond’s -b option

2017-09-01 Thread Knut Petersen
Am 01.09.2017 um 17:03 schrieb Malte Meyn: Hi list, I wanted to try Knut’s advice from the Gotlandstoner thread (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-09/msg00013.html) but the -b option doesn’t seem to work with different notation fonts; You are right, it only works with the

Re: Moving a tempo mark to the right

2017-09-01 Thread Anthony Youngman
On 01/09/17 15:17, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Wol, While it may sound weird. the reality is you probably didn't find it too hard to learn Scheme, because you're a composer not a programmer. Actually, I am a programmer: started with BASIC (and a little assembler language) in the early 1980s

Re: Moving a tempo mark to the right

2017-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
Anthony Youngman writes: > On 01/09/17 15:17, Kieren MacMillan wrote: >> Hi Wol, >> >> >>> While it may sound weird. the reality is you probably didn't find >>> it too hard to learn Scheme, because you're a composer not a >>> programmer. >> >> Actually, I am a programmer: started with BASIC (and

Re: Gotlandstoner

2017-09-01 Thread Erik Ronström
> > Nice work, but your pdf includes many different subsets of the lilypond fonts > and is several MB to big because of this. > > Use the --bigpdfs option of lilypond in step 3. The resulting pdfs are > _much_ bigger because all glyphs from the fonts are included. > > … Wow, thanks, I hadn’

Re: Moving a tempo mark to the right

2017-09-01 Thread Anthony Youngman
On 01/09/17 21:36, David Kastrup wrote: I find the same thing with databases. So many people have their minds stuck in the 2-D relational world, and just cannot grasp the concept of a multi-dimensional database like Pick. Given that Pick is very much list-based (unlike SQL which is set-based), wh

break-align-symbol setup for left-aligning a RehearsalMark with the first note

2017-09-01 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, Is there a break-align-symbols list such that a RehearsalMark left-aligns with the first note in the measure, rather than the barline? %%% M[N]WE: { \tweak RehearsalMark.self-alignment-X #LEFT \tweak RehearsalMark.break-align-symbols #'() \mark \default c''1 } Thanks, Kieren

Re: Moving a tempo mark to the right

2017-09-01 Thread Anthony Youngman
On 01/09/17 21:11, Anthony Youngman wrote: The big problem I can see is if sometimes it occurs at the start of a line, in which case the rehearsal mark will naturally move left out of the way, and letting lily move stuff around may move it to the middle of the line where I get a collision. Sayi

Re: Moving a tempo mark to the right

2017-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
Anthony Youngman writes: > On 01/09/17 21:36, David Kastrup wrote: >>> I find the same thing with databases. So many people have their minds >>> stuck in the 2-D relational world, and just cannot grasp the concept >>> of a multi-dimensional database like Pick. Given that Pick is very >>> much lis

Re: Moving a tempo mark to the right

2017-09-01 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Wol, > I still want some way of making rehearsal marks push notes sideways out of > the way, as it looks naff and can waste space, but it's much better. { \tweak RehearsalMark.extra-spacing-height #'(-inf.0 . +inf.0) \tweak RehearsalMark.extra-spacing-width #'(-0.5 . 0.5) \tweak Rehears

Re: Moving a tempo mark to the right

2017-09-01 Thread Anthony Youngman
On 01/09/17 22:14, David Kastrup wrote: Change the memory for known good memory, and the kernel compiled fine. No idea what Gcc does that memory test programs fail to account for. Have you come across the memory smashing exploit? I can't remember much about it, but if you can hammer memory in

video generation

2017-09-01 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
> I am not top posting I've been wanting to generate videos from lilypond, and so far it seems like the best approach (scrolling, rather than paginated) is: https://github.com/aspiers/ly2video I wanted to see if anyone else (besides the author of that approach) has been able to get this to wor

Re: break-align-symbol setup for left-aligning a RehearsalMark with the first note

2017-09-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 01.09.2017 23:01, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hello all, Is there a break-align-symbols list such that a RehearsalMark left-aligns with the first note in the measure, rather than the barline? Should be left-edge, I think (untested, sorry). From

Re: A note which is three measures long

2017-09-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 01.09.2017 14:50, David Kastrup wrote: Graham King writes: On Thu, 2017-08-31 at 16:06 +0200, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 31.08.2017 14:40, Bernhard Kleine wrote: At the end of the Kyrie from Palestrina's Missa Brevis there is a note three measure long. Is there any way to do that simply? Ye

Re: break-align-symbol setup for left-aligning a RehearsalMark with the first note

2017-09-01 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Simon, > Should be left-edge, I think I believe "left-edge" refers to the system? In any case, using that doesn't seem to turn my M[N]WE into a MWE… Cheers, Kieren. Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.i

Re: Moving a tempo mark to the right

2017-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
Anthony Youngman writes: > On 01/09/17 22:14, David Kastrup wrote: >> Change the memory for known good memory, and the kernel >> compiled fine. No idea what Gcc does that memory test programs fail to >> account for. > > Have you come across the memory smashing exploit? I can't remember > much ab

Re: Gotlandstoner

2017-09-01 Thread Knut Petersen
Am 01.09.2017 um 22:42 schrieb Erik Ronström: Nice work, but your pdf includes many different subsets of the lilypond fonts and is several MB to big because of this. Use the --bigpdfs option of lilypond in step 3. The resulting pdfs are _much_ bigger because all glyphs from the fonts are incl

Re: A note which is three measures long

2017-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
Simon Albrecht writes: > On 01.09.2017 14:50, David Kastrup wrote: >> Graham King writes: >>> On Thu, 2017-08-31 at 16:06 +0200, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 31.08.2017 14:40, Bernhard Kleine wrote: > At the end of the Kyrie from Palestrina's Missa Brevis there is a note > three measure

Re: video generation

2017-09-01 Thread Knut Petersen
Am 01.09.2017 um 23:26 schrieb Flaming Hakama by Elaine: > I am not top posting I've been wanting to generate videos from lilypond, and so far it seems like the best approach (scrolling, rather than paginated) is: https://github.com/aspiers/ly2video It does not allow anything but 7-bit char

Re: A note which is three measures long

2017-09-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 02.09.2017 00:34, David Kastrup wrote: Mensural music tends to be a lot less beat-centric (and chord-centric) than later music. I used to think that as well, and many people did, and do. For several reasons, I don’t anymore: 1) There’s the „notationskundliche“ (‘notationological’…) aspect, wh

Re: Moving a tempo mark to the right

2017-09-01 Thread Anthony Youngman
On 01/09/17 23:19, David Kastrup wrote: Anthony Youngman writes: On 01/09/17 22:14, David Kastrup wrote: Change the memory for known good memory, and the kernel compiled fine. No idea what Gcc does that memory test programs fail to account for. Have you come across the memory smashing ex

Re: video generation

2017-09-01 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Knut Petersen wrote: > Am 01.09.2017 um 23:26 schrieb Flaming Hakama by Elaine: > >> > I am not top posting >> >> >> I've been wanting to generate videos from lilypond, and so far it seems >> like the best approach (scrolling, rather than paginated) is: >> >> https

Re: A note which is three measures long

2017-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
Simon Albrecht writes: > On 02.09.2017 00:34, David Kastrup wrote: Mensural music tends to be a lot less beat-centric (and chord-centric) than later music. >>> I used to think that as well, and many people did, and do. For several >>> reasons, I don’t anymore: >>> 1) There’s the „notati

Show Key name and first note of song?

2017-09-01 Thread David F.
I have a hymnal that prints the name of the key and the first note the song above the treble clef sign of the first staff. So, for example, if you have Amazing Grace in the key of G major, the first note of the soprano (melody) part is a D. That is printed as “G/D”. Can lilypond do that? I t