Re: Key change with clef after the bar line?

2022-02-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 27/02/2022 à 08:09, Alasdair McAndrew a écrit : In my current project, I'm trying as far as possible to replicate the spirit of the original 18th century publication, in which a key change has a clef printed, and both after the bar line.  In one piece, there's a segno in the middle of a bar,

Re: Key change with clef after the bar line?

2022-02-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 27/02/2022 à 09:31, Jean Abou Samra a écrit : Le 27/02/2022 à 08:09, Alasdair McAndrew a écrit : In my current project, I'm trying as far as possible to replicate the spirit of the original 18th century publication, in which a key change has a clef printed, and both after the bar line.  I

Re: A little help

2022-02-27 Thread Valentin Petzel
Hello, Doing it your way you can simply use \new Dynamics \with { \consists Stem_engraver \consists Note_heads_engraver \override NoteHead.stencil = #point-stencil alignAboveContext = "giu"} which requires a bit less tuning than getting a Staff to behave not like

Re: Key change with clef after the bar line?

2022-02-27 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
Dear Jean, Thank you very much for your detailed reply. What a duffer I am not to realize that \global was not being used! I'll look through - and experiment with - your solution with care and great interest. kind regards, Alasdair On Sunday 27 February 2022 19:31:17 (+11:00), Jean Abou Samra

Snippet only as PDF

2022-02-27 Thread Bophead 2000
Hello all, I want to produce lilypond snippets to be used within a text – but only in one graphics file format (PDF, EPS or SVG). In the moment I am using a method I copied from the examples in the HTML-manuals putting the following in front of the music: \include "lilypond-book-preamb

Re: A little help

2022-02-27 Thread K. Blum
Hello, Am 27.02.2022 um 06:03 schrieb lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org: In a PianoStaff, transiently, I insert a new staff above the left hand to create a kind of "tactus" reference (widely used in contemporary music). did you already search the notation reference for "Grid_line_span_engraver"? h

Re: Snippet only as PDF

2022-02-27 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hi Bophead, welcome, fellow ConTeXt user! Do you know https://wiki.contextgarden.net/LilyPond ? I’m using only parts of lilypond-book-preamble.ly Maybe we can improve the ConTeXt-LilyPond integration together. Hraban Am 27.02.22 um 10:40 schrieb Bophead 2000: Hello all, I want to produce lil

Re: A little help

2022-02-27 Thread K. Blum
Hi Rip_Mus, Am 27.02.2022 um 12:23 schrieb Rip _Mus: Yes, I tried to use the grid point-grid line engravers, but they write segments that spread over the entire system... Ah, I see. They spread between the center staff lines. But it seems you can change that by modifying GridPoint.Y-extent. Do

Re: A little help

2022-02-27 Thread Valentin Petzel
Hello, please keep the list in CC, if you want to have actual stems that is of course fine. But then I’d simply do this: giu = \new Staff = "giu" { \relative c' { << {b4 a g f} \new Dynamics \with { \accepts Voice \defaultchild "Voice" \override NoteHead.Y-

Re: Re: Snippet only as PDF

2022-02-27 Thread Bophead 2000
Hi Hraban, I have seen that page in ConTeXtgarden. But as far as I understood the “filter” module works only in ConTeXt MkIV and the workaround to use it in ConTeXt LMTX has a security flaw (cannot remember where I read the latter). That is why I have not tried it yet. I wanted something that work

Re: Snippet only as PDF

2022-02-27 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hi Bophead, Am 27.02.22 um 14:16 schrieb Bophead 2000: Hi Hraban, I have seen that page in ConTeXtgarden. But as far as I understood the “filter” module works only in ConTeXt MkIV and the workaround to use it in ConTeXt LMTX has a security flaw (cannot remember where I read the latter). That

\include in scheme functions

2022-02-27 Thread Pierre-Yves Saumont
Hi, The Lilypond documentation says that any lilypond code can be use in a Scheme function by enclosing it in a #{ ... #} block, but it seems \include doesn't work in this case. I am building a program to handle multiple Big Band scores. I need to extract parts for each instrument (16 to 22) and

Various ways to write triplets

2022-02-27 Thread Pierre-Yves Saumont
Hi, I have always used the following syntax to write triplets: \tuplet 3/2 {a8 b c) But when I import MusicXML files, tuplets are most often rendered as: \once \omit TupletBracket \times 2/3 { a8 b8 c8} } The most surprising is that the tuple bracket isn't omitted, and removing "\once \om

Re: Various ways to write triplets

2022-02-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 27/02/2022 à 10:29, Pierre-Yves Saumont a écrit : Hi, I have always used the following syntax to write triplets: \tuplet 3/2 {a8 b c) But when I import MusicXML files, tuplets are most often rendered as: \once \omit TupletBracket   \times 2/3  { a8 b8 c8}   } The most surprising is tha

Re: \include in scheme functions

2022-02-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 27/02/2022 à 09:50, Pierre-Yves Saumont a écrit : Hi, The Lilypond documentation says that any lilypond code can be use in a Scheme function by enclosing it in a #{ ...  #} block, but it seems \include doesn't work in this case. I am building a program to handle multiple Big Band score

Re: Various ways to write triplets

2022-02-27 Thread Knute Snortum
There's also a fifth way: %%% \version "2.22.0" \score { \new Staff { \relative c' { \time 4/4 \key c \major a4 b \tuplet 3/2 {c d e} | f g a b \break a,4 b \times 2/3 {c d e} | f g a b \break \once \omit TupletBracket a,4 b \times 2/3 {c d e} | f g a b \

Re: Fatal error messages

2022-02-27 Thread David Wright
On Sun 27 Feb 2022 at 05:35:25 (+), Alasdair McAndrew wrote: > Many thanks - your thought about write access was right on the money. For > reasons I can't determine, the folder in which I'm working had user write > access removed, so its permissions were dr-xr-xr-x instead of drwxr-xr-x as

Re: Snippet only as PDF

2022-02-27 Thread David Wright
On Sun 27 Feb 2022 at 14:16:32 (+0100), Bophead 2000 wrote: > > > I want to produce lilypond snippets to be used within a text – but only in > > > one graphics file format (PDF, EPS or SVG). In the moment I am using a > > > method I copied from the examples in the HTML-manuals putting the > > > fo

Re: Snippet only as PDF

2022-02-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 27/02/2022 à 10:40, Bophead 2000 a écrit : What is the simplest way to get snippets cut down to only content as only one file – be it PDF, EPS or SVG? Add #(ly:set-option 'aux-files #f) Best, Jean

My Tuba+Piano engravings: during midi playback, the Piano dominates the Tuba; why?

2022-02-27 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Hi; My Tuba+Piano engravings: during midi playback, the Piano dominates the Tuba; why? I know that this is really a midi versus live performance question... I can change the dynamics of the Tuba to be "fff" and both the left hand and right hand of the Piano to be "ppp", and yet the Piano d

Re: My Tuba+Piano engravings: during midi playback, the Piano dominates the Tuba; why?

2022-02-27 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hello? Le dim. 27 févr. 2022 à 18:47, Kenneth Wolcott a écrit : > > Hi; > > My Tuba+Piano engravings: during midi playback, the Piano dominates > the Tuba; why? > > I know that this is really a midi versus live performance question... > > I can change the dynamics of the Tuba to be "fff" an

Re: My Tuba+Piano engravings: during midi playback, the Piano dominates the Tuba; why?

2022-02-27 Thread Valentin Petzel
Hello Ken, Lilypond does not do midi replay, it just produces a midi file. This means that this is most likely a balancing problem of whatever sampler you're using for playback. Cheers, Valentin 27.02.2022 18:47:30 Kenneth Wolcott : > Hi; > >   My Tuba+Piano engravings: during midi playback,

Re: My Tuba+Piano engravings: during midi playback, the Piano dominates the Tuba; why?

2022-02-27 Thread Valentin Petzel
Hello Ken, Lilypond does not do midi replay, it just produces a midi file. This means that this is most likely a balancing problem of whatever sampler you're using for playback. Cheers, Valentin 27.02.2022 18:47:30 Kenneth Wolcott : > Hi; > >   My Tuba+Piano engravings: during midi playback,

Re: Snippet only as PDF

2022-02-27 Thread Bophead 2000
Hi Jean, That works fine for PDF and EPS output already, but not for SVG. So I added #(ly:set-option 'backend 'svg) afterwards and that made the Lilypond command line options for SVG output work. I guess that overrides the EPS-backend defined in “ lilypond-book-preamble.ly”. I will try to modif

Re: My Tuba+Piano engravings: during midi playback, the Piano dominates the Tuba; why?

2022-02-27 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Thank you, Gilles and Valentin. I'll look into what settings I can change with fluidsynth. I did try the "\set Staff.midiMinimumVolume = #0.2" and the " \set Staff.midiMaximumVolume = #0.8" idea; it seemed to help a little. Thanks! On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 10:03 AM Valentin Petzel wrote: > > He

Re: My Tuba+Piano engravings: during midi playback, the Piano dominates the Tuba; why?

2022-02-27 Thread Valentin Petzel
Hi Ken, if you’re using fluidsynth you probably have a badly made sound font. Maybe changing the soundfont would do the trick. Cheers, Valentin Am Sonntag, 27. Februar 2022, 20:06:14 CET schrieb Kenneth Wolcott: > Thank you, Gilles and Valentin. > > I'll look into what settings I can change wi

Re: My Tuba+Piano engravings: during midi playback, the Piano dominates the Tuba; why?

2022-02-27 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 at 04:48, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > Hi; > > My Tuba+Piano engravings: during midi playback, the Piano dominates > the Tuba; why? > > I know that this is really a midi versus live performance question... > > I can change the dynamics of the Tuba to be "fff" and both the le

Re: A little help

2022-02-27 Thread Rip _Mus
Thank you Valentin, this is really perfect! Il dom 27 feb 2022, 13:50 Valentin Petzel ha scritto: > Hello, please keep the list in CC, > > if you want to have actual stems that is of course fine. But then I’d > simply do > this: > > giu = \new Staff = "giu" { > \relative c' { > << >