Bug regarding transposed key change

2017-12-05 Thread Robert Murdoch
Hi, I think I've discovered a bug in 2.19.80. When I change the key signature midway through a piece, the key of a transposed part is placed ahead of the key in the other parts. See the attached file if what I say makes no sense. \version "2.19.80" \score { << \transpose bes c' \relati

Re: Bug regarding transposed key change

2017-12-05 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Robert Murdoch" To: "lilypond-user" Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2017 10:58 AM Subject: Bug regarding transposed key change Hi, I think I've discovered a bug in 2.19.80. When I change the key signature midway through a piece, the key of a transposed part

Re: Bug regarding transposed key change

2017-12-05 Thread Robert Murdoch
On 05/12/2017 11:13, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: "Robert Murdoch" To: "lilypond-user" Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2017 10:58 AM Subject: Bug regarding transposed key change See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-11/msg00497.html -- Phil Holmes

Re: Bug regarding transposed key change

2017-12-05 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Robert Murdoch" To: "Phil Holmes" ; "lilypond-user" Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2017 12:33 PM Subject: Re: Bug regarding transposed key change On 05/12/2017 11:13, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: "Robert Murdoch" To: "lilypond-u

Re: Bug regarding transposed key change

2017-12-05 Thread Robert Murdoch
On 05/12/2017 13:12, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: "Robert Murdoch" To: "Phil Holmes" ; "lilypond-user" Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2017 12:33 PM Subject: Re: Bug regarding transposed key change Well - it happened as far back as 2.12 - which was released around 9 ye

Transposing an entire score

2017-12-05 Thread peter . gambie
I have a piece of choral music in 8 parts. It's too low for my choir to sing, so I want to transpose the entire piece up from the key of F to the key of A. I asked an almost identical question in November and the first answer I received worked. Unfortunately, it doesn't work this time, perhaps

Re: Transposing an entire score

2017-12-05 Thread Ben
On 12/5/2017 5:25 AM, peter.gam...@homecall.co.uk wrote: I have a piece of choral music in 8 parts. It's too low for my choir to sing, so I want to transpose the entire piece up from the key of F to the key of A. I asked an almost identical question in November and the first answer I received

Transposing an entire score (fwd)

2017-12-05 Thread peter . gambie
I have a piece of choral music in 8 parts. It's too low for my choir to sing, so I want to transpose the entire piece up from the key of F to the key of A. I asked an almost identical question on the forum in November and the first answer I received worked. Unfortunately, it doesn't work this

Re: Transposing an entire score

2017-12-05 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Peter, > I have a piece of choral music in 8 parts. It's too low for my choir to sing, > so I want to transpose the entire piece up from the key of F to the key of A. > I asked an almost identical question in November and the first answer I > received worked. Unfortunately, it doesn't work th

Re: Transposing an entire score

2017-12-05 Thread David Kastrup
peter.gam...@homecall.co.uk writes: > I have a piece of choral music in 8 parts. It's too low for my choir > to sing, so I want to transpose the entire piece up from the key of F > to the key of A. > > I asked an almost identical question in November and the first answer > I received worked. Unfo

Re: Transposing an entire score

2017-12-05 Thread David Kastrup
Ben writes: > On 12/5/2017 5:25 AM, peter.gam...@homecall.co.uk wrote: >> I have a piece of choral music in 8 parts. It's too low for my choir >> to sing, so I want to transpose the entire piece up from the key of >> F to the key of A. >> I asked an almost identical question in November and the f

Re: Transposing an entire score

2017-12-05 Thread SoundsFromSound
Kieren MacMillan wrote > Hi Peter, > >> I have a piece of choral music in 8 parts. It's too low for my choir to >> sing, so I want to transpose the entire piece up from the key of F to the >> key of A. >> I asked an almost identical question in November and the first answer I >> received worked. U

Re: Transposing an entire score (fwd)

2017-12-05 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: To: Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2017 12:15 PM Subject: Transposing an entire score (fwd) I have a piece of choral music in 8 parts. It's too low for my choir to sing, so I want to transpose the entire piece up from the key of F to the key of A. I asked an

Re: Spacing issues with Mark_engraver and Metronome_mark_engraver in Dynamics context

2017-12-05 Thread fbous
Thank you all for your quick replies. Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote > Regardless, the two page break issues of yours quoted above can be > addressed by what I suggested, which is to stop using automatic page > breaks, > and put them in explicitly: The workaround with manual page breaks works f

Re: Transposing an entire score (fwd)

2017-12-05 Thread Robin Bannister
Phil Holmes wrote: Incidentally - do check the log file produced. Your music is throwing lots of warnings. Mostly re AccidentalSuggestion.avoid-slur. If the corresponding overrides in \layout are commented back in, there are no more such warnings (but still no slurs). Cheers, Robin _

Re: Transposing an entire score

2017-12-05 Thread Karlin High
On 12/5/2017 9:34 AM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: I asked an almost identical question in November and the first answer I received worked. Unfortunately, it doesn't work this time, perhaps because the score is formatted differently. As a mere musician, I'm afraid many of the answers I received last

Question for a new LilyPond user (parts-only editing)

2017-12-05 Thread Ben
Hi everyone, Hope you're all having a great day. I had a friend ask me a question the other day which got me thinking. I figured the best way was to pass it along here and ask the community what they think. (My friend is strongly considering switching to LilyPond from Finale currently) We we

Re: Question for a new LilyPond user (parts-only editing)

2017-12-05 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Ben, > how would you tell a new potential-LilyPond user the easiest way to go about > changing some markings or music specifically in the part itself only while > not touching it in the main score file? "Easiest" in the short-term, or the long-term? ;) Easiest in the short-term is almost

Transposing an entire score

2017-12-05 Thread peter . gambie
Thank you for your replies. Unfortunately, I still can't make head-or-tail of most of them, so some more context might help. The music I'm trying to transpose isn't mine. I downloaded it (quite legally!) from CPDL. I therefore have no control over which Lilypad version it is. As I said, I want

Re: Question for a new LilyPond user (parts-only editing)

2017-12-05 Thread Urs Liska
Am 5. Dezember 2017 19:07:40 MEZ schrieb Kieren MacMillan : >Hi Ben, > >> how would you tell a new potential-LilyPond user the easiest way to >go about changing some markings or music specifically in the part >itself only while not touching it in the main score file? > >"Easiest" in the short-t

Re: Question for a new LilyPond user (parts-only editing)

2017-12-05 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Urs, > I think this very-well-formulated question would be a terrific setting for a > general introduction to the edition-engraver. > It would be cool if you and Jan-Peter could write a post on the blog ;-) Challenge accepted! See you on the field at dawn. :^) Cheers, Kieren. _

Re: Bug regarding transposed key change

2017-12-05 Thread Noeck
Hi Robert, Am 05.12.2017 um 16:02 schrieb Robert Murdoch: > It just seemed strange to me that the program would do this. Lilypond aligns the key signature (only the flats or sharps) and puts the key cancellation (which is a different object from the key signature) before the key signature. Perha

Re: Transposing an entire score

2017-12-05 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Peter, > The music I'm trying to transpose isn't mine. I downloaded it (quite > legally!) from CPDL. I therefore have no control over which Lilypad version > it is. Of course you do: use convert-ly (as I did) to update it automatically. That's one of the great benefits of open source music.

Scheme programming pointers

2017-12-05 Thread Chris Yate
Hi all, I can probably work a lot out on my own, but if someone could direct me to any Lilypond-specific Scheme tutorials that might help with the idea I'm thinking about, that would be super! My idea is to remove a lot of boilerplate for score creation. Thus I can have music defined as: vio

Re: Scheme programming pointers

2017-12-05 Thread Urs Liska
Am 05.12.2017 um 20:16 schrieb Chris Yate: Hi all, I can probably work a lot out on my own, but if someone could direct me to any Lilypond-specific Scheme tutorials that might help with the idea I'm thinking about, that would be super! https://scheme-book.ursliska.de is very much work-in-(

Re: Question for a new LilyPond user (parts-only editing)

2017-12-05 Thread Karlin High
On 12/5/2017 12:22 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: It would be cool if you and Jan-Peter could write a post on the blog;-) Challenge accepted! See you on the field at dawn. :^) I will be watching for this! OpenLilyLib and its Edition Engraver are things I've been wondering about, but never saw a

Re: aligning \mark text

2017-12-05 Thread Noeck
Dear Rohan, > is there a reference sheet for these properties somewhere that i > should consult in future before writing the list? I would recommend to read the learning manual. For questions like yours, these pages could have helped you: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/learning/movin

Re: list of stencils

2017-12-05 Thread Massimiliano Viel
Thank you very much for the help and for sharing! I didn’t know the repository on github. I’ll take a deep look on the whole library. Again thank you! Massimiliano > On 5 Dec 2017, at 00:21, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > HI Massimiliano, > > I have written a very nice slash function that covers

Re: Scheme programming pointers

2017-12-05 Thread Chris Yate
https://scheme-book.ursliska.de "Iterating over the elements of a list is an extremely common programming task. However, this is an area where Scheme is quite different from other languages, and its idioms are very elegant - once they are not confusing anymore. It is therefore important to reall

Re: Scheme programming pointers

2017-12-05 Thread Karlin High
On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Chris Yate wrote: > > https://scheme-book.ursliska.de > > However, this is an area where Scheme is quite different from other > languages The times I've looked at Scheme, I got the impression that it works more like spreadsheet formulas that just "calculate" rather

Re: Question for a new LilyPond user (parts-only editing)

2017-12-05 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
> From: Kieren MacMillan > To: Ben > Subject: Re: Question for a new LilyPond user (parts-only editing) > Hi Ben, > > > how would you tell a new potential-LilyPond user the easiest way to go > about changing some markings or music specifically in the part itself only > while not touching it in th

Re: Scheme programming pointers

2017-12-05 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Karlin, No, not correct, and not a useful analogy. The lambda calculus is a universal model of computation. Scheme is a reasonably thin layer over the top of lambda calculus to make it more practical for programming. Scheme therefore has deep theoretical beauty, almost no syntax, and is much l