Re: Combining roughly 70 separate files into a single book

2020-05-04 Thread Jacques Menu
Hello Brent, I you use the same names in numerous files, you can change them automatically in all of them with a script of some sort to make them distinct, to avoid cumbersome manual editing. JM > Le 4 mai 2020 à 06:39, Brent Annable a écrit : > > Hi Federico, > > Your strategy seems like g

Re: 2.21.1 change of behavior of \compressMMRests?

2020-05-04 Thread Paul Scott
Thank you for this, Valentin. On 5/3/20 11:14 PM, Valentin Villenave wrote: On 5/3/20, Paul Scott wrote: Out of simple curiosity what is the purpose of the \compressMMRests { } structure rather than the \set or \override action I would think of? I'm guessing \compressMMRests does \set \unset o

Re: Combining roughly 70 separate files into a single book

2020-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Brent Annable writes: > Hi Federico, > > Your strategy seems like good advice, and I've changed the files around so > I can do it. But the master file is getting very long and complicated with > all the \score blocks, so I have a question: can you put a \score block > into a variable, to avoid al

gitar chordname - without sus

2020-05-04 Thread Rita Composer
Dear Helpers, I wrote in the ly file \chordmode { \germanChords a1 *a2:4* s2 s1 a1 s1 a fis:m e a fis:m gis cis cis:m cis:m fis:m h cis:m cis:m fis:m h cis:m And in the note/score appeared A4sus3 How can I manage simple A4? Thank you! Rita

Chordname - fret-diagram line - in different order

2020-05-04 Thread Rita Composer
Dear Helpers, I would like to use fret-diagram just few time, and I wish the chords above the tune. How can I change...that the fret-diagram should be on the top? Or It would be ok for me, if there is NO fret-diagram, the simple chords would be on their normal place, not at so high. [image: Scre

Re: Re: 2.21.1 change of behavior of \compressMMRests?

2020-05-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
On 2020-05-04 08:14, Valentin Villenave wrote: On 5/3/20, Paul Scott wrote: Out of simple curiosity what is the purpose of the \compressMMRests { } structure rather than the \set or \override action I would think of? I'm guessing \compressMMRests does \set \unset or \override \revert pairs.

Re: gitar chordname - without sus

2020-05-04 Thread Thomas Morley
Am Mo., 4. Mai 2020 um 11:00 Uhr schrieb Rita Composer : > > Dear Helpers, > > I wrote in the ly file > > \chordmode > { \germanChords a1 a2:4 s2 s1 a1 s1 a fis:m e a fis:m gis cis cis:m > cis:m fis:m h cis:m > cis:m fis:m h cis:m > > And in the note/score appeared > A4sus3 > > How can I

Re: Chordname - fret-diagram line - in different order

2020-05-04 Thread Noeck
Hi Rita, you can put the chord names below the fret-boards: \version "2.20.0" chrd = \chordmode { a1 c1 } << \new FretBoards \chrd \new ChordNames \chrd \chrd >> By the way, in the second word of your lyrics, a space is missing and you can see the double hyphen in the image. It should be

Re: Combining roughly 70 separate files into a single book

2020-05-04 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno lun 4 mag 2020 alle 14:39, Brent Annable ha scritto: Your strategy seems like good advice, and I've changed the files around so I can do it. But the master file is getting very long and complicated with all the \score blocks, so I have a question: can you put a \score block into a va

Re[3]: 2.21.1 change of behavior of \compressMMRests?

2020-05-04 Thread Trevor
Hi Mats From: "Mats Bengtsson" What was the rationale to recommend (and only mention) \compressMMRests instead of \compressEmptyMeasures in http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.21/Documentation/notation/writing-rests#full-measure-rests? In my opinion, it's a bit more cumbersome to use the music funct

Re: Re: 2.21.1 change of behavior of \compressMMRests?

2020-05-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/4/20, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > What was the rationale to recommend (and only mention) \compressMMRests > instead of \compressEmptyMeasures in > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.21/Documentation/notation/writing-rests#full-measure-rests? Well, precisely the fact that \compressEmptyMeasures is applie

Re: Combining roughly 70 separate files into a single book

2020-05-04 Thread Brent Annable
Federico, Thank you very much for this. I had no idea that's what I'd been doing wrong all this time! I tried it many years ago and just assumed it was impossible -- my eyes have been opened. Now I can get on with things. With much gratitude, Brent. On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 19:56, Federico Bruni

Re: resetting accidentals at word breaks

2020-05-04 Thread Kevin Barry
Hi Lukas/Samuel, On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 10:24:27AM +0200, Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: > in contrast to my above definition of "lyric?" using music-is-of-type?. > > 1) Which variant is to be preferred? > 2) What is the difference between 'LyricEvent and 'lyric-event ? Looking at the code, it appea

Unbound variable: \markup

2020-05-04 Thread Freeman Gilmore
The first one below works fine but the second does not work when the dollar is replaced with \markup \vcenter \huge \bold "$". Please explain why?Why is \markup bound in the first and not in the second.I see \markup used in many places like to the second example that works, what is the di

Re: Unbound variable: \markup

2020-05-04 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi Freeman, Am 04.05.20 um 16:02 schrieb Freeman Gilmore: The first one below works fine but the second does not work when the dollar is replaced with \markup \vcenter \huge \bold "$". Please explain why?Why is \markup bound in the first and not in the second.I see \markup used in many

Re: Unbound variable: \markup

2020-05-04 Thread Kevin Barry
Hi Freeman, > The first one below works fine but the second does not work when the > dollar is replaced with \markup \vcenter \huge \bold "$". Please > explain why?Why is \markup bound in the first and not in the > second.I see \markup used in many places like to the second > example tha

Re: Stanzas with different rhythms

2020-05-04 Thread Fr. Samuel Springuel
> On 3 May, 2020, at 3:57 PM, Caio Barros wrote: > > Personally I tend to use explicit durations (no \lyricsto) in complex cases > like this, but a workaround would be simply: I’m avoiding explicit durations in this project because each set of words can be set to multiple possible tunes. Thes

Re: 2.21.1 change of behavior of \compressMMRests?

2020-05-04 Thread Paul Scott
On 5/4/20 2:10 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: On 2020-05-04 08:14, Valentin Villenave wrote: On 5/3/20, Paul Scott wrote: Out of simple curiosity what is the purpose of the \compressMMRests { } structure rather than the \set or \override action I would think of? I'm guessing \compressMMRests does

Re: Stanzas with different rhythms

2020-05-04 Thread David Wright
On Mon 04 May 2020 at 11:14:43 (-0400), Fr. Samuel Springuel wrote: > > On 3 May, 2020, at 3:57 PM, Caio Barros wrote: > > > > Personally I tend to use explicit durations (no \lyricsto) in complex cases > > like this, but a workaround would be simply: > > I’m avoiding explicit durations in this

Re: Stanzas with different rhythms

2020-05-04 Thread Fr. Samuel Springuel
> On 4 May, 2020, at 12:45 PM, David Wright wrote: > > Well, in a sense, you haven't managed to localise the complications > because the lyrics are stuffed with redundant associatedVoices when > reused elsewhere. Very true. Getting the separation I want is still very much a work in progress. >

Re: Unbound variable: \markup

2020-05-04 Thread Freeman Gilmore
Lukas and Kevin: Thank you, this should do it. Looks like it answers many question I have been having. ƒg On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 10:51 AM Kevin Barry wrote: > Hi Freeman, > > > The first one below works fine but the second does not work when the > > dollar is replaced with \markup \vcenter \

Re: Stanzas with different rhythms

2020-05-04 Thread Caio Barros
Em seg., 4 de mai. de 2020 às 13:46, David Wright escreveu: > From your example's "music" variable, I would derive two simple > versions, musicA and musicIII, each for one rhythm. The words > would contain no specific indications, but set with NullVoice > to the appropriate music. > > Of course,

Re: Stanzas with different rhythms

2020-05-04 Thread Fr. Samuel Springuel
> On 4 May, 2020, at 12:45 PM, David Wright wrote: > > Of course, you can break up the music into several variables > from which you assemble the different versions, in order to > localise the variation and make it easier to maintain. So, attached is my first go at that sort of “assembly-require

Re: Stanzas with different rhythms

2020-05-04 Thread Fr. Samuel Springuel
> On 4 May, 2020, at 3:20 PM, Fr. Samuel Springuel > wrote: > > Now, I’m almost certain the answer is yes (at least in principle), but before > I start trying to write a music function that does [concatenates a variable > consisting of pairs of keys and music expressions into a single music >

Re: Unbound variable: \markup

2020-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Lukas-Fabian Moser writes: > Hi Freeman, > > Am 04.05.20 um 16:02 schrieb Freeman Gilmore: >> The first one below works fine but the second does not work when the >> dollar is replaced with \markup \vcenter \huge \bold "$". Please >> explain why?Why is \markup bound in the first and not in