Re: Quarter tone sharp symbol in font

2019-02-20 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Andrew, How about: { dih4 ^\markup\concat\vcenter { "D" \hspace #.2 \semisharp } } Cheers, Pierre Le mer. 20 févr. 2019 à 07:30, Andrew Bernard a écrit : > OK. I am using it in markup. I found \semisharp, which answers the > question. > > Now, how to align the semisharp higher here:

Re: Quarter tone sharp symbol in font

2019-02-20 Thread Andrew Bernard
Thank you Pierre. That also solves my problem in my code where these is too much space between the letter and the semisharp. Appreciated! Andrew On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 19:14, Pierre Perol-Schneider < pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > How about: > > { > dih4 > ^\markup\concat

Re: Notation for string portamento

2019-02-20 Thread Thomas Morley
Am Mi., 20. Feb. 2019 um 04:22 Uhr schrieb Andrew Bernard : > > Hi Ralph, > > Thanks for this. I came up with the same thing. But, my score is very tight, > and grace notes take up space and tend to push positioning around. I was > hoping there may be a solution with some sort of note head engrav

Creating custom articulation using regular text font

2019-02-20 Thread Urs Liska
I'm trying to create an articulation printing a glyph from the "regular" text font. Copying from this (working) script definition list: #(define asterisk-list `("asterisk" . ((stencil . ,ly:text-interface::print) (text . ,#{ \markup \musicglyph "pedal.*" #}) ; any oth

Re: Flipping fingering and TextScript

2019-02-20 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Aaron, thank you for taking the time to investigate this. Pretty interesting results, although they don't really help me in my case. There must be something fishy buried in my libraries because (as my previous example showed) I can't even flip the elements anymore even when I'm hardcoding

Lilypond slurs do not transfer to midi output

2019-02-20 Thread Even Thorbergsen
Hello Lilypond users, I cannot manage to have the use of slurs do any impact on the midi representation of Lilypond scores. I guess there is a solution to this? Best regards, Even Thorbergsen Norwegian amateur musician ___ lilypond-user mai

Re: Lilypond slurs do not transfer to midi output

2019-02-20 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Wed, 20 Feb 2019, Even Thorbergsen wrote: Hello Lilypond users, I cannot manage to have the use of slurs do any impact on the midi representation of Lilypond scores. I guess there is a solution to this? For a better MIDI interpretation of slurs you could try to include articulate.ly

Re: Lilypond slurs do not transfer to midi output

2019-02-20 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Even, On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 8:06 AM Even Thorbergsen wrote: > > Hello Lilypond users, > > > > I cannot manage to have the use of slurs do any impact on the midi > representation of Lilypond scores. > > I guess there is a solution to this? > LilyPond's MIDI output is fairly rudimentary, thou

Ordering of Script glyphs

2019-02-20 Thread Andrew Bernard
Is there any way to instruct lilypond to always place accents above a note first, and then blowing marks? They are all Scripts. I am fully aware of LSR 447 and 965 but I have thousands and I don't want to \tweak each one. LSR 255 does not seem to apply, for some reason. If I specify string number b

Re: Notation for string portamento

2019-02-20 Thread Robin Bannister
Andrew Bernard wrote: Thanks for this. I came up with the same thing. But, my score is very tight, and grace notes take up space and tend to push positioning around. You want a straight bendBefore. My bends use glyphs, and repeatGliss uses \grace. But starting from Nathan's version of scoop

Re: modern-straight and flat- flags too thick and too spaced apart

2019-02-20 Thread edes
el 2019-02-19 a las 22:05 Thomas Morley escribió: > You could even do: > > #(define-public (my-flag grob) > ((straight-flag 0.4 1 -70 3 -70 3) grob)) > > { > \override Flag.stencil = #my-flag > a'8 > b' > } > %% or > { > \override Flag.stencil = > #(lambda (grob) ((straight-flag 0

Re: Lilypond slurs do not transfer to midi output

2019-02-20 Thread Gilles
Hi. On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:37:26 +0100, Even Thorbergsen wrote: Hello Lilypond users, I cannot manage to have the use of slurs do any impact on the midi representation of Lilypond scores. I guess there is a solution to this? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/the-articula

Custom upbow and downbow markings

2019-02-20 Thread Andrew Bernard
For my work, the default upbow and downbow markings are OK, and standard, yes I know, but we want something more along the gutsier style of Boosey & Hawkes, as for example in the Bartok String Quartet 3, image attached. The upbow is much more masculine, and italicized compared to the spindly thin l

Re: Creating custom articulation using regular text font

2019-02-20 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, I haven't got any further, but ... Am 20.02.19 um 11:53 schrieb Urs Liska: I'm trying to create an articulation printing a glyph from the "regular" text font. ... I moved all the relevant code into an MWE, which might trigger more ideas than the abstract excerpt I originally posted.

Re: Contexts affected by \override and \overrideProperty

2019-02-20 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > Urs Liska writes: > >> Can someone explain to me why \overrideProperty Staff.BarLine.color >> #red colors the barlines in *all* staves while \override >> Staff.BarLine.color = #red only affects the current Staff context? > > Because the respective engraver is only active

Re: Creating custom articulation using regular text font

2019-02-20 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Urs, in an articulation event the font is emmentaler and not a normal one. So in the trill-list part you have to switch back to normal text with \markup \normal-text "T" HTH Jan-Peter Am 20.02.19 um 17:23 schrieb Urs Liska: > Hi, > > I haven't got any further, but ... > > Am 20.02.19 um 11:

Re: Creating custom articulation using regular text font

2019-02-20 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Jan-Peter, thank you very much, this was exactly what I needed! And your solution came *exactly* in the moment when I had to decide whether I should skip the three affected snippets instead of including them in the upcoming set for review :-) Best Urs Am 20.02.19 um 18:25 schrieb Jan-Pete

Re: Notation for string portamento

2019-02-20 Thread Robin Bannister
Um, sorry, I got sidetracked. This is more like your use case: { r4 \jib 50 c'4 r4 \jib 50 c''4 < \jib 50 g' \jib 50 d'' >1 } Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Configuration Point & Click

2019-02-20 Thread foxfanfare
Hi everybody, I didn't take the time to update the thread earlier because of intense working, but I wanted to write a little more about the issue and the solution that worked. I hope this could help some people who wants to make a working environment for LP between VIM and zathura. BTW everything

Re: Ordering of Script glyphs

2019-02-20 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Am 20.02.19 um 13:52 schrieb Andrew Bernard: Is there any way to instruct lilypond to always place accents above a note first, and then blowing marks? They are all Scripts. I am fully aware of LSR 447 and 965 but I have thousands and I don't want to \tweak each one. LSR 255 does not seem to app

SV: Lilypond slurs do not transfer to midi output

2019-02-20 Thread Even Thorbergsen
Hello David, Thank you for your answer. Actually, I have tried this, but cannot make it work. Here is an example of what I have tried, the format is imo not easily grasped: \version "2.18.2" \include "deutsch.ly" \include "articulate.ly" #(set-global-staff-size 25) \header { title = \mark

Re: Creating custom articulation using regular text font

2019-02-20 Thread Abraham Lee
Hi, Urs! On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 10:41 AM Urs Liska wrote: > Hi Jan-Peter, > > thank you very much, this was exactly what I needed! > And your solution came *exactly* in the moment when I had to decide > whether I should skip the three affected snippets instead of including > them in the upcomin

Re: Quarter tone sharp symbol in font

2019-02-20 Thread Abraham Lee
Andrew, On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 1:53 AM Andrew Bernard wrote: > Thank you Pierre. That also solves my problem in my code where these is > too much space between the letter and the semisharp. > > Appreciated! > > Andrew > > > On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 19:14, Pierre Perol-Schneider < > pierre.schneid

Re: SV: Lilypond slurs do not transfer to midi output

2019-02-20 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Wed, 20 Feb 2019, Even Thorbergsen wrote: Thank you for your answer. Actually, I have tried this, but cannot make it work. Here is an example of what I have tried, the format is imo not easily grasped: Hi Even, You can find the solution in the P.S. of my previous answer. You are using

Re: Configuration Point & Click

2019-02-20 Thread edes
el 2019-02-20 a las 10:51 foxfanfare escribió: > Does someone knows how to configure vim in order to have the access of > the whole LP syntax and make suggestions like in frescobaldi? it's fairly easy to have basic completion, you just need to define a dictionary for lilypond. http://vim.wikia.

CueVoice Font

2019-02-20 Thread Ben
Hi all, Is there a "better" way to change the CueVoice font family / kerning other than manually via markup? I thought it would be a sort of: \context {     \CueVoice \override ...   } ...but I haven't found a way to adjust the kerning and/or font family. Have I missed something?

Re: Configuration Point & Click

2019-02-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 2/20/19, foxfanfare wrote: > And the the result in action. > This is completely off-topic, but: what’s that tiling environment you’re using? It looks neat! Is that pseudo-transparency or compositing? (I used to be a ratpoison user, but

Re: CueVoice Font

2019-02-20 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-02-20 3:32 pm, Ben wrote: I've attached an image showing the "fl" looking a bit squished to my eyes. :) "fl" (fl) is a ligature in many fonts. Therefore, what you are seeing as tighter kerning is most likely a single glyph representing both characters. You could try something like \

Re: Configuration Point & Click

2019-02-20 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-02-20 3:58 pm, Valentin Villenave wrote: On 2/20/19, foxfanfare wrote: And the the result in action. This is completely off-topic, but: what’s that tiling environment you’re using? It looks neat! Is that pseudo-transparency or

Re: CueVoice Font

2019-02-20 Thread Ben
On 2/20/2019 7:18 PM, Aaron Hill wrote: On 2019-02-20 3:32 pm, Ben wrote: I've attached an image showing the "fl" looking a bit squished to my eyes. :) "fl" (fl) is a ligature in many fonts.  Therefore, what you are seeing as tighter kerning is most likely a single glyph representing both cha

Re: Custom upbow and downbow markings

2019-02-20 Thread Andrew Bernard
More work on this. I have made a first approximation to this more boldened upbow using markup paths. I am happy with this, but there is something missing. We use a lot of extended stems (eccentric yes, but that's how the style is for this work). For my new upbow something goes wrong with the vertic

Re: CueVoice Font

2019-02-20 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-02-20 5:52 pm, Ben wrote: I didn't know that about ligatures, thanks! Now it makes more sense. Do you know if it's possible to make a 'global' CueVoice font change via \context, or do I need to continue doing it manually / setup a variable, but still outside a \context? i.e. \markup *{

Re: Quarter tone sharp symbol in font

2019-02-20 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Abraham, I was in fact using markup, so this answer is excellent, and I eventually found \semisharp. But it actually came up when I wanted to use a semisharp in a text document, and I was surprised to find that although defined as Unicode 1D132, no font that I can find has a glyph at that code

Re: Custom upbow and downbow markings

2019-02-20 Thread Andrew Bernard
Is my problem that this is a markup and not a proper articulation? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Quarter tone sharp symbol in font

2019-02-20 Thread David Wright
On Thu 21 Feb 2019 at 13:22:27 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > I was in fact using markup, so this answer is excellent, and I eventually > found \semisharp. But it actually came up when I wanted to use a semisharp > in a text document, and I was surprised to find that although defined as > Unicode

Re: Custom upbow and downbow markings

2019-02-20 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hello All, Continuing my investigations here, with reference to the list archive: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-04/msg00118.html I have tried making a custom articulation, rather than a text markup, and of course, all the alignment issues are solved. MWE below. I will no

Re: Configuration Point & Click

2019-02-20 Thread David Wright
On Wed 20 Feb 2019 at 10:51:31 (-0700), foxfanfare wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I didn't take the time to update the thread earlier because of intense > working, but I wanted to write a little more about the issue and the > solution that worked. I hope this could help some people who wants to make a

Re: Quarter tone sharp symbol in font

2019-02-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> I was in fact using markup, so this answer is excellent, and I >> eventually found \semisharp. But it actually came up when I wanted >> to use a semisharp in a text document, and I was surprised to find >> that although defined as Unicode 1D132, no font that I can find has >> a glyph at that co