lilypond code in (pdf/lua/xe)latex documents

2017-12-06 Thread Knut Petersen
Hi everybody! Some years ago I published example code how to integrate lilypond code in latex documents. The attached file is an extended update, it might be used with pdflatex, lualatex or xelatex, and it demonstrates how to use the new command line options that replaced --bigpdf in master.

Re: lilypond code in (pdf/lua/xe)latex documents

2017-12-06 Thread Mark Knoop
At 09:41 on 06 Dec 2017, Knut Petersen wrote: >Hi everybody! > >Some years ago I published example code how to integrate lilypond code >in latex documents. The attached file is an extended update, it might >be used with pdflatex, lualatex or xelatex, and it demonstrates how to >use the new command

Re: lilypond code in (pdf/lua/xe)latex documents

2017-12-06 Thread Mark Knoop
At 09:05 on 06 Dec 2017, Mark Knoop wrote: >At 09:41 on 06 Dec 2017, Knut Petersen wrote: >>Hi everybody! >> >>Some years ago I published example code how to integrate lilypond code >>in latex documents. The attached file is an extended update, it might >>be used with pdflatex, lualatex or xelatex,

Re: lilypond code in (pdf/lua/xe)latex documents

2017-12-06 Thread Knut Petersen
Am 06.12.2017 um 10:20 schrieb Mark Knoop: The file should be translated with either * pdflatex --shell-escape lyInLatex * lualatex --shell-escape lyInLatex * pdflatex --shell-escape lyInLatex Thanks for this Knut, very helpful. Presumably the 3rd of these should be xelatex. Yes. Inter

Song starts off with an incomplete bar...

2017-12-06 Thread Chris Jones
How should I handle it? Here's the "simple example": |\version "2.18.2" | |\header { |} | |global = { | \time 4/4 | \key g \major |} | |melody = \relative c { | \global |d'16\bar "||"%b00 |

Re: Scheme programming pointers

2017-12-06 Thread Hugh S. Myers
*Scheme *(now known as *Racket *for some silly reason) is actually a version of one of the oldest computer languages we have—*Lisp*. Google around for its history, it's impressive. Regards your question of more like a spreadsheet than run the answer is a good solid 'sorta'! Without getting too deep

Folder Structure for sources / path settings

2017-12-06 Thread Johannes Roeßler
Hi, certainly some of you know the great editions of Nicolas Sceaux. When I try to compile them on my windows system I'm always in trouble how to either built my folder structure accordingly or - to set the correct path information in frescobaldi (where I only fins path settings for the hypena

Re: Song starts off with an incomplete bar...

2017-12-06 Thread Ben
On 12/5/2017 5:28 PM, Chris Jones wrote: How should I handle it? Here's the "simple example": So it has to be something very basic that I must have missed while reading the fine manual over the weekend... and I can't think of the proper keywords to point me to the relevant documentat

Re: Scheme programming pointers

2017-12-06 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Hugh and Karlin, That's not right - Racket is a different dialect. The name is a joke: a scheme can be a type of plot and a racket is also. Scheme has not been renamed Racket.To quote from he Racket home page: "Racket started life as a Scheme implementation, but then grew into new areas." http

Re: Folder Structure for sources / path settings

2017-12-06 Thread Michael Gerdau
Hi Johannes, > certainly some of you know the great editions of Nicolas Sceaux. When I try > to compile them on my windows system I'm always in trouble how to either > built my folder structure accordingly or - to set the correct path > information in frescobaldi (where I only fins path setting

Re: Folder Structure for sources / path settings

2017-12-06 Thread Ben
On 12/6/2017 5:15 AM, Johannes Roeßler wrote: Hi, certainly some of you know the great editions of Nicolas Sceaux. When I try to compile them on my windows system I'm always in trouble how to either built my folder structure accordingly or - to set the correct path information in frescobaldi

Re: Folder Structure for sources / path settings

2017-12-06 Thread Ben
On 12/6/2017 5:15 AM, Johannes Roeßler wrote: Hi, certainly some of you know the great editions of Nicolas Sceaux. When I try to compile them on my windows system I'm always in trouble how to either built my folder structure accordingly or - to set the correct path information in frescobald

Re: Song starts off with an incomplete bar...

2017-12-06 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 08:22:36AM EST, Ben wrote: > On 12/5/2017 5:28 PM, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > I believe it's as easy as adding: > > \global >     \partial 16 d'16    \bar "||" > > See attached. Is this what you were after? :) Yes indeed! Thank you very much, Ben. CJ

Re: Scheme programming pointers

2017-12-06 Thread David Kastrup
Karlin High writes: > 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 for

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

2017-12-06 Thread David Kastrup
Flaming Hakama by Elaine writes: > Here is an illustration of using tags for this purpose. > > Note that there are other approaches, even using tags. > This approach uses the \keepWithTag within each \score > to distinguish Part vs Score, PDF vs MIDI, the specific > instrument, and each segment t

Re: lilypond code in (pdf/lua/xe)latex documents

2017-12-06 Thread Jacques Peron
Hello, Thank you very much for this : I hadn't ever understood all those `\catcode` tricks. Here is a modified version, that calls `lilypond` only when needed by computing a md5 hash of the content. What about making a package out of that and putting it on CTAN ? It would be more universal than ly

Setting default text font

2017-12-06 Thread Chris Jones
I am unsuccessfully trying to globally change the default text font that is lilypond uses in its pdf output (title of the song, lyrics, etc. I tried adding this statement at the top of my .ly input file immediately after the version statement: | \version "2.18.2" | | \paper { |top-margin =

Re: lilypond code in (pdf/lua/xe)latex documents

2017-12-06 Thread Jacques Peron
P. S.: I forgot to add that I modified it to make it compatible with lilypond 2.18 2017-12-06 20:40 GMT+01:00 Jacques Peron : > Hello, > > Thank you very much for this : I hadn't ever understood all those > `\catcode` tricks. > Here is a modified version, that calls `lilypond` only when needed by

Re: Setting default text font

2017-12-06 Thread Ben
On 12/6/2017 3:25 PM, Chris Jones wrote: I am unsuccessfully trying to globally change the default text font that is lilypond uses in its pdf output (title of the song, lyrics, etc. | | \paper { |#(define fonts | (make-pango-font-tree "TeXGyreSchola" |"TeXG

Frescobaldi

2017-12-06 Thread Tim Slattery
I've been enjoying using Frescobaldi for creating Lilypond scores, it makes many things much easier. I've been setting vocal pieces with German lyrics, and trying to use Tools| Special Characters to find things like a and u with Umlauts, and the double-s character that looks like a Beta. I find i

Re: Frescobaldi

2017-12-06 Thread Ben
On 12/6/2017 3:36 PM, Tim Slattery wrote: I've been enjoying using Frescobaldi for creating Lilypond scores, it makes many things much easier. I've been setting vocal pieces with German lyrics, and trying to use Tools| Special Characters to find things like a and u with Umlauts, and the double-s

Re: Frescobaldi

2017-12-06 Thread Ben
On 12/6/2017 3:36 PM, Tim Slattery wrote: I've been enjoying using Frescobaldi for creating Lilypond scores, it makes many things much easier. I've been setting vocal pieces with German lyrics, and trying to use Tools| Special Characters to find things like a and u with Umlauts, and the double-s

Re: Frescobaldi

2017-12-06 Thread Johan Vromans
On Wed, 06 Dec 2017 15:36:42 -0500, Tim Slattery wrote: > I've been setting vocal pieces with German lyrics, and trying to use > Tools| Special Characters to find things like a and u with Umlauts, > and the double-s character that looks like a Beta. I would strongly advise to look into a differe

Re: Frescobaldi

2017-12-06 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Tim, >From Frescobaldi menu: Tools | Special Characters -- my install has all three of the characters you mention (highlighted in the screen shot). This is the default view shown me when I select this Tool. Depending on our OS you may find alternatives more useful. If you have a Windows computer,

Japanese text with furigana

2017-12-06 Thread Caagr98
I'm trying to insert a bit of Japanese text in some markup. Putting the text itself works fine, but as soon as I try adding furigana (small kana above the kanji), it looks terrible. Is there anything I can do about that? —— \version "2.19.80" #(define-markup-command (furi layout props kanj

Re: LilyPond blog

2017-12-06 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
> -- Forwarded message -- > From: Urs Liska > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 23:31:25 +0100 > Subject: Re: LilyPond blog > > Hi David, > > Am 31.10.2017 um 23:07 schrieb Flaming Hakama by Elaine: > > > From: Urs Liska >> To: lilypond-user >> Subje

Re: Lilypond blog (alternativeRestores)

2017-12-06 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
%{ >From http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/changes-big-page.html Context properties named in the ‘alternativeRestores’ property are restored to their value at the start of the first alternative in all subsequent alternatives. Currently the default set restores ‘current meter’, ‘measure

Re: Frescobaldi

2017-12-06 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Windows Vista!!! 😱 The ALT-Keypad sequence should remain viable for you. You can also create some snippets in Frescobaldi for those you use most freqently and assign a key-sequence for them, e.g., create a snippet for an ellipse … using Alt-0133 and assign, say, Ctrl-Alt-. as its key sequence. Fra

Re: Japanese text with furigana

2017-12-06 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/6/17, 2:00 PM, "Caagr98" wrote: I'm trying to insert a bit of Japanese text in some markup. Putting the text itself works fine, but as soon as I try adding furigana (small kana above the kanji), it looks terrible. Is there anything I can do about that? Since the kanji should b

Re: Frescobaldi

2017-12-06 Thread tim
On 6 Dec 2017 at 14:49, Guy Stalnaker wrote: > > Tim, > > From Frescobaldi menu: Tools | Special Characters -- my install has all three > of the characters > you mention (highlighted in the screen shot). This is the default view shown > me when I select this > Tool. I'm using Windows Vista

Re: Frescobaldi

2017-12-06 Thread tim
On 6 Dec 2017 at 14:49, Guy Stalnaker wrote: > > Tim, > > From Frescobaldi menu: Tools | Special Characters -- my install has all three > of the characters > you mention (highlighted in the screen shot). This is the default view shown > me when I select this > Tool. I take it back, somewhat

Re: Frescobaldi

2017-12-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 06.12.2017 21:45, Ben wrote: One more thing, if you want (and are on Windows), you could also just use the wicked handy cheat sheet numpad shortcuts :) That's an option as well. I have done that in the past.  Alt + 0203 = *Ë, *for example. In my experience, that’s such a hassle that it’s a

Re: Japanese text with furigana

2017-12-06 Thread Caagr98
That works for that particular example, yes. Doesn't work for anything other than exactly two kana per kanji, though. On 12/06/17 23:50, Carl Sorensen wrote: > > > On 12/6/17, 2:00 PM, "Caagr98" wrote: > > I'm trying to insert a bit of Japanese text in some markup. Putting the > text its

Question about the horizontal spacing

2017-12-06 Thread Rus
Hello! I have some questions about horizontal spacing: — How to reduce the proportional notation? — How can I control (I need to increase) the space between the bar line and the following note (or lyrics syllable)? example.ly Description: Binary data example.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document

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

2017-12-06 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 8:33 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Flaming Hakama by Elaine writes: > > > Here is an illustration of using tags for this purpose. > > > > Note that there are other approaches, even using tags. > > This approach uses the \keepWithTag within each \score > > to distinguish Part

Re: aligning \mark text

2017-12-06 Thread Rohan Drape
thanks joram, they're excellent references! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user