Re: strange error message

Dear Knute, so far I have not been able to reproduce the error message, but I'll keep at it. In what contexts does the “cyclic dependency” message occur? Am Fr., 7. März 2025 um 01:07 Uhr schrieb Knute Snortum : > On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 5:02 AM Stefan Thomas > wrote: > >> Dear community, >> whi

Can LilyPond output the degree of compression or stretching of a staff?

Hello everyone, I’m wondering if LilyPond can output the degree of compression or stretching of a staff as a numerical value. For example, the output on the command line or in a log file might look like this: Line 1: -10 Line 2: -80 Line 3: +20 Here, a negative value would indicate compression,

Re: strange error message

On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 2:57 AM Stefan Thomas wrote: > Dear Knute, > so far I have not been able to reproduce the error message, but I'll keep > at it. > In what contexts does the “cyclic dependency” message occur? > I've seen them when using a \change Staff command, but that doesn't seem to be

Sample template for lead sheet with melody, chords & lyrics

I want to study a template for a simple pop song lead sheet with multiple lines of melody, chords and lyrics. I figured out how to notate multiple lines of music, and I can create lyrics, but I haven't figured out to make the lyrics go past the first line of the music. Thank you! Lawrence "Doc"

Re: Sample template for lead sheet with melody, chords & lyrics

> On 12 Mar 2025, at 05:27, Lawrence Probes wrote: > > I want to study a template for a simple pop song lead sheet with multiple > lines of melody, chords and lyrics. > I use this kind of thing: %%% %%% TITLE %%% %%% [20230112.mp] rev 2 %%% \version "2.24" \include "lilyjazz.ily" \include

Re: Barline confusion/question

Sorry for the late response. Using \bar ".|:-||” accomplished what I needed, albeit confusingly. Since the II precedes the .|: on the output PDF, why isn’t the correct syntax for this command \bar “||-.|:” ? I had actually tried this because \bar ".|:-||” is counterintuitive, and I didn’

Re: Sample template for lead sheet with melody, chords & lyrics

Thank you! Doc On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM Mark Probert wrote: > > > > On 12 Mar 2025, at 05:27, Lawrence Probes wrote: > > > > I want to study a template for a simple pop song lead sheet with > multiple lines of melody, chords and lyrics. > > > > I use this kind of thing: > > %%% > %%% TIT