Re: Piano Left Hand Alone

2017-10-24 Thread Malte Meyn
Of course you can just only print one staff. If you sometimes need two staves, use \RemoveEmptyStaves. If you want a brace although you have only one staff, have a look at http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=579 Am 24.10.2017 um 05:07 schrieb Rohan Srinivasan: Thanks. I was wondering, though, if

Re: Piano Left Hand Alone

2017-10-24 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 24.10.2017 um 06:13 schrieb Mark Stephen Mrotek: By definition a Piano Staff consists of two staves. No. There is piano music on one (f. e. Rachmaninov, Ravel), two, three (f. e. Debussy, Grieg), four (f. e. Liszt) and more (20th/21st century composers) staves.

RE: Piano Left Hand Alone

2017-10-24 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Malte Meyn, My use of the "by definition" was too defining. For that I was in error. Yet I could assert that when "Piano Staff" is mentioned, two staves are invisioned. Mark -Original Message- From: lilypond-user [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Ma

\magnifyStaff on PianoStaff

2017-10-24 Thread Caagr98
What's the best way to change the size of a PianoStaff? Trying to put `\magnifyStaff` on the PianoStaff causes the following error: /usr/share/lilypond/2.19.65/scm/music-functions.scm:2513:19: In procedure ly:context-property in expression (ly:context-property Staff (quote magnifyStaffValue)): /

How to resize a piano staff?

2017-10-24 Thread Caagr98
Using \magnifyStaff on the PianoStaff context gives the following error: /usr/share/lilypond/2.19.65/scm/music-functions.scm:2513:19: In procedure ly:context-property in expression (ly:context-property Staff (quote magnifyStaffValue)): /usr/share/lilypond/2.19.65/scm/music-functions.scm:2513:19:

Re: How to resize a piano staff?

2017-10-24 Thread Ben
On 10/24/2017 1:10 PM, Caagr98 wrote: Using \magnifyStaff on the two constituent staves causes an uncomfortably large gap between the staves. What's the best way to do this? Hello, If you just want to *resize *the staff, you could do something like this maybe: (see attached) \version "2.

Emacs for Windows lilypond mode

2017-10-24 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
I'm sorry, but I'm having the darnedest time following the directions for how to install Lilypond-mode on Windows. I installed the latest release of GNU Emacs at c:\emacs and tried to follow the directions at http://www.geoffhorton.com/lilymacs.html. Either I'm looking at the wrong .emacs, or I hav

Re: Piano Left Hand Alone

2017-10-24 Thread Rohan Srinivasan
I would like it to act like the left hand staff of the Piano Staff. If this isn't possible, I suppose I can just use the Piano Staff and add rests on one hand. On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 9:13 PM, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > Rohan, > > > > By definition a Piano Staff consists of two staves. > > Wha

Re: Emacs for Windows lilypond mode

2017-10-24 Thread Ben
On 10/24/2017 3:31 PM, Garrett Fitzgerald wrote: I'm sorry, but I'm having the darnedest time following the directions for how to install Lilypond-mode on Windows. I installed the latest release of GNU Emacs at c:\emacs and tried to follow the directions at http://www.geoffhorton.com/lilymacs.h

Engraving for Spoken Chorus

2017-10-24 Thread Rohan Srinivasan
Sorry to bother you all again/ Spoken chorus uses (connected) one-line staves. How would I engrave this for, say, an S-A-T-B choir? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Piano Left Hand Alone

2017-10-24 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Rohan, > I would like it to act like the left hand staff of the Piano Staff. How is that behaviour different from a single Staff? Thanks, Kieren. Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info _

Re: Emacs for Windows lilypond mode

2017-10-24 Thread bobr...@centrum.is
- Original Message - > From: "Garrett Fitzgerald" > To: "Lillypond Users Mailing List" > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 7:31:27 PM > Subject: Emacs for Windows lilypond mode > I'm sorry, but I'm having the darnedest time following the directions for how > to > install Lilypond-mode o

Re: Engraving for Spoken Chorus

2017-10-24 Thread Ben
On 10/24/2017 6:34 PM, Rohan Srinivasan wrote: Sorry to bother you all again/ Spoken chorus uses (*connected*) one-line staves.  How would I engrave this for, say, an S-A-T-B choir? Connected staves, by default? You mean like this? Normal SATB, just with spoken lyrics? http://lilypond.or

Re: Piano Left Hand Alone

2017-10-24 Thread James Harkins
It's perhaps one of the confusing things in LilyPond that it engraves only the staves that you create. By convention, a piano staff has two staves, *but those staves don't exist unless you make them*. A PianoStaff is a staff group (container for staves) with specific properties: left brace, ke

Re: Piano Left Hand Alone

2017-10-24 Thread Ben
On 10/24/2017 8:36 PM, James Harkins wrote: A PianoStaff is a staff group (*container *for staves) with specific properties: left brace, keep-alive-together. By default, it contains *zero *staves. You may create only one staff in it, if you like. That's different from Sibelius, e.g., which cr

Re: Piano Left Hand Alone

2017-10-24 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 25.10.2017 um 00:12 schrieb Rohan Srinivasan: I would like it to act like the left hand staff of the Piano Staff. If this isn't possible, I suppose I can just use the Piano Staff and add rests on one hand. Hm … I don’t really understand what’s the difference to a “normal” single staff. Cou