Re: Ottava mark: edge dashed line

2018-04-17 Thread foxfanfare
Thomas Morley-2 wrote > Would be nice the default would offer more tweaking-possibilities to > avoid such messing around. > Also, ly:line-spanner::print should have at least the option to cover > the whole specified length, _avoiding_ space at start/end. > > > Best, > Harm Isn't this working?

Re: Key signatures in modes other than Ionian & Aeolian

2018-04-17 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2018-04-17 um 07:47 schrieb Lukas-Fabian Moser : > Am 17.04.2018 um 01:24 schrieb Torsten Hämmerle: > >> Even if my opinion may differ from the general opinion here, I think that in >> popular music, one would use standard D major key signature. >> Reason: Two sharps clearly show D major tonic

Re: Key signatures in modes other than Ionian & Aeolian

2018-04-17 Thread Erik Ronström
>> Even if my opinion may differ from the general opinion here, I think that in >> popular music, one would use standard D major key signature. >> Reason: Two sharps clearly show D major tonic and the characteristic mixo >> tone C (flat seventh) stands out in the sheet music by the accidental used

Re: lyluatex: call for Fedora users

2018-04-17 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno mar 27 mar 2018 alle 19:10, Sam Bivens ha scritto: Hi Federico, The MWE I compiled a couple weeks ago that *did* work fine now no longer does, and now I have the exact problem that you have. Curious. I have TeXLive 2016, which was downloaded from the Fedora repositories along wi

Re: Ottava mark: edge dashed line

2018-04-17 Thread Thomas Morley
2018-04-17 9:16 GMT+02:00 foxfanfare : > Thomas Morley-2 wrote >> Would be nice the default would offer more tweaking-possibilities to >> avoid such messing around. >> Also, ly:line-spanner::print should have at least the option to cover >> the whole specified length, _avoiding_ space at start/end.

Re: Ottava mark: edge dashed line

2018-04-17 Thread foxfanfare
One more thing: I have this problem when the modified 8va breaks lines: ottavaUp = { \once \override Staff.OttavaBracket.stencil = #ly:line-spanner::print \once \override Staff.OttavaBracket.bound-details = #`((left . ((Y . -0.2) (attach-dir . ,LEFT) (pad

Re: Pedal bracket alignment

2018-04-17 Thread Edward Neeman
Brilliant thanks Harm! I’ll let you know if I manage to “break” it. Best, Edward > On 15 Apr 2018, at 8:36 pm, Thomas Morley wrote: > > 2018-04-15 5:04 GMT+02:00 Edward Neeman : >> My dream option would be to be able to create a function that would give one >> set of shorten-pair values at the

Re: Pedal bracket alignment

2018-04-17 Thread Edward Neeman
Still, I appreciate your help Mark. Thanks, Edward > On 16 Apr 2018, at 12:48 am, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > > Edward, > Your requirements are more exacting than my knowledge/skill can meet. > > Mark > > From: lilypond-user > [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org] On

Re: Consistent vertical alignment of annotations, disable time signiture

2018-04-17 Thread Robert Hickman
Thanks, I have a vague familiarity with lisps, but have never used scheme. I'm not certain how to visually parse a statment like \Staff \omit TimeSignature. It kind of looks like \Staff is a function taking two arguments, where \omit is either a constant or a function that returns a constant, and

Re: Consistent vertical alignment of annotations, disable time signiture

2018-04-17 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Hickman writes: > Thanks, I have a vague familiarity with lisps, but have never used scheme. > > I'm not certain how to visually parse a statment like \Staff \omit > TimeSignature. It kind of looks like \Staff is a function taking two > arguments, where \omit is either a constant or a func

Re: Consistent vertical alignment of annotations, disable time signiture

2018-04-17 Thread Robert Hickman
> That's not Lisp/Scheme syntax but LilyPond syntax. There is a manual for it. > Several, in fact. I'm aware. \context { \Staff \omit TimeSignature } If I'm understanding this correctly, this would be written something like the following in a typical OO syntax: x = Staff.clone(); x.omit

Re: Consistent vertical alignment of annotations, disable time signiture

2018-04-17 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Hickman writes: >> That's not Lisp/Scheme syntax but LilyPond syntax. There is a >> manual for it. Several, in fact. > > I'm aware. > > \context { > \Staff > \omit TimeSignature > } > > If I'm understanding this correctly, this would be written something > like the following in a typ

Re: Ottava mark: edge dashed line

2018-04-17 Thread Thomas Morley
2018-04-17 13:03 GMT+02:00 foxfanfare : > One more thing: I have this problem when the modified 8va breaks lines: [skipping example-code] > How is it possible to modify the "ottavaUp" shortcut to personalize this? 'bound-details allows for left/right/left-broken/right-broken subproperties. Possibl

Re: Changing spacing between notes a lot

2018-04-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, > I was wondering if there is a way to change the spacing between notes > many times in a staff. There are many ways of accomplishing the thing you describe. > What I would like to do is to make something like this. > Here’s on

Stanzas over staves

2018-04-17 Thread Helge Kruse
I am starting a small project for a harp trio. The score is in most part "just" harp music. But in some measure one of the players shall recite some text of the literary source. Example: measure 1: some notes measure 2: text: This is the story of Max and Moritz measure 3: some notes measure 4: tex

Re: Stanzas over staves

2018-04-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi again, Given your example: > measure 1: some notes > measure 2: text: This is the story of Max and Moritz > measure 3: some notes > measure 4: text: Moritz > measure 5,6: more notes > measure 7: text AH, how oft we read or hear of Boys we almost stand in > fear of! For example, take these stor

Re: Consistent vertical alignment of annotations, disable time signiture

2018-04-17 Thread Robert Hickman
> Trying to understand LilyPond syntax based on how > it actually processes input is not likely to make learning easy since a > lot of complicated mechanisms work behind the scenes in order to make > things look easy. In my general experience, systems which try to be cleaver and are not explicit a

Re: Consistent vertical alignment of annotations, disable time signiture

2018-04-17 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Hickman writes: >> Trying to understand LilyPond syntax based on how it actually >> processes input is not likely to make learning easy since a lot of >> complicated mechanisms work behind the scenes in order to make things >> look easy. > > In my general experience, systems which try to b

Lilypond interfaces

2018-04-17 Thread Amir Teymuri
Hello, does anyone knows about interfaces and/or notation systems written in other programming languages which use lilypond as backend? Two examples of such interfaces are fomus (https://common-lisp.net/project/fomus/doc/) and abjad (http://projectabjad.org/). cheers, Amir - - - - - - - - -

Re: Lilypond interfaces

2018-04-17 Thread Mason Hock
On 04/17, Amir Teymuri wrote: > Hello, > > does anyone knows about interfaces and/or notation systems written in other > programming languages which use lilypond as backend? GNU Denemo is a graphical frontend to Lilypond. http://denemo.org/ Mason > Two examples of such > interfaces are fomus (

Re: Lilypond interfaces

2018-04-17 Thread Karlin High
On 4/17/2018 3:17 PM, Amir Teymuri wrote: does anyone knows about interfaces and/or notation systems written in other programming languages which use lilypond as backend? Music Blocks, teaching tool for exploring musical concepts

Re: Ottava mark: edge dashed line

2018-04-17 Thread foxfanfare
Thomas Morley-2 wrote > 'bound-details allows for left/right/left-broken/right-broken > subproperties. > Possible subsubproperties (read by ly:line-spanner::print) are documented > here: > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/spanners#using-the-line_002dspanner_002dinterface > > Pl

Dotted notes

2018-04-17 Thread foxfanfare
I struggle on this: \version "2.19.80" \paper { #(set-paper-size "a7") } \bookpart { \score { \relative c' { \cadenzaOn \omit Staff.TimeSignature c1.^"Default" d4.. e8... f16 } } } \bookpart { \paper { #(define fonts (set-global-fonts

Trouble with trill spanner avoiding slur

2018-04-17 Thread Knute Snortum
In this example... %%% Start \version "2.19.81" \language "english" { \override TrillSpanner.avoid-slur = #'inside \override TrillSpanner.outside-staff-priority = ##f c''1( | c''2. \startTrillSpan c''4 \stopTrillSpan | c''1) | } %%% End ...the slur doesn't avoid the trill spanner. Do I ne

Re: Consistent vertical alignment of annotations, disable time signiture

2018-04-17 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hello Robert, Speaking as a programmer myself with over forty years of experience, and an advanced lilypond users, I can categorically assert that lilypond is not trying to be 'clever'. This is an utter misunderstanding. Lilypond is however trying to engrave music to the highest possible standard,

Re: Stanzas over staves

2018-04-17 Thread Helge Kruse
Am 17.04.2018 um 21:13 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: it looks like you simply want to stack the text as markup above a measure-long rest (with fermatas in all parts, I would assume?). Oh, my bad wording. I mean not above the lines but inside. That's definitely a simple situation, easy to accompli