Re: Why has `NonMusicalPaperColumn` a width?

2023-12-19 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Why does the `NonMusicalPaperColumn` grob have a width of 0.5 units? Where it > is defined? Are you referring to the blue arrow from the second-to-last non-musical column to the last rest? That's not a width, it's the minimum distance to the last rest's musical column. Also, why would non-mu

Re: Why has `NonMusicalPaperColumn` a width?

2023-12-19 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> it's the minimum distance to the last  Correction: the *ideal* distance signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Why has `NonMusicalPaperColumn` a width?

2023-12-19 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Why does the `NonMusicalPaperColumn` grob have a width of 0.5 >> units? Where it is defined? > > Are you referring to the blue arrow from the second-to-last > non-musical column to the last rest? That's not a width, it's the > [ideal] distance to the last rest's musical column. Yes, it was

Re: Why has `NonMusicalPaperColumn` a width?

2023-12-19 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> I fully agree.  However, what I don't understand is why a zero-width > non-musical paper column has a non-zero ideal spring distance. > Additionally, this 0.5 value is hard-coded and undocumented, > apparently present in the code since the very beginning. Well, it's not zero-width, since it cont

Re: Staff Centre Vertical Alignment on page?

2023-12-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Stefano, It would really help if you provided a minimal working example (MWE), so those of us with an impulse to try to assist you don’t have to try to invent one ourselves… Thanks, Kieren. > On Dec 18, 2023, at 10:47 PM, Stefano Antonelli > wrote: > On Tue, 2023-12-12 at 16:10 -0800, Ste

Re: Staff Centre Vertical Alignment on page?

2023-12-19 Thread Stefano Antonelli
On Tue, 2023-12-19 at 19:28 -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > It would really help if you provided a minimal working example (MWE), > so those of us with an impulse to try to assist you don’t have to try > to invent one ourselves… Many apologies. I didn't think an MWE was required to address the q

Encoding Bar, Line breaks into MIDI?

2023-12-19 Thread Stefano Antonelli
Hello list, I'd like to encode bar lines and line breaks into the midi output. There are some general purpose midi control change messages that could be abused for this purpose. These general purpose control change messages have id's of 80-84. I don't see a way to use them in the lilypond docum

Re: Encoding Bar, Line breaks into MIDI?

2023-12-19 Thread Stefano Antonelli
Actually, this was a stupid question. Apologies for the noise. The bar line, the line break, and the starting note of the next bar all share the same moment. Which isn't helpful in terms of playing back a video of the score. What's necessary is to interpolate "when the bar is" in the playback b