Re: How does one change the font for one set of lyrics?

Hello Connor, On 21.09.2015 00:58, Connor Harris wrote: not top-posting I'm writing a choral piece with a French text for SATB divisi choir, two parts per staff. I'd like to have two sets of lyrics per part: one with the original text in French orthography, and one in IPA phonetic transcription

Re: Polyphonic repeats with lyrics (and rests)

Hi David, On 19.09.2015 06:18, David Wright wrote: I noticed some erroneous alto lyrics invading recent CPDL editions of Farmer's Fair Phyllis. I think the cause was some overenthusiastic factoring of the lyrics using tagging. So I thought I'd run up a copy myself, producing folded/unfolded scor

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

On 21.09.2015 15:04, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi, On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 7:09 PM, David Nalesnik mailto:david.nales...@gmail.com>> wrote: OK, I see. Using \lyricmode would be a user-friendly way to specify markups/strings, connectors/no connectors, and relative spacing of texts th

Re: Ancient tab, letters alignment.

On 21.09.2015 17:52, David Kastrup wrote: Pierre Perol-Schneider writes: Hi List, I need to get an ancient tab with a standard markup alignment instead of the default vertical one. Unfortunately, this code has no effect: \version "2.18.2" #(define-public (my-fret-letter-tablature-format

Re: Polyphonic repeats with lyrics (and rests)

On 21.09.2015 19:04, David Wright wrote: Quoting Simon Albrecht (simon.albre...@mail.de): On 19.09.2015 06:18, David Wright wrote: I noticed some erroneous alto lyrics invading recent CPDL editions of Farmer's Fair Phyllis. I think the cause was some overenthusiastic factoring of the l

Re: proportional notation problem

On 22.09.2015 00:51, Neil Thornock wrote: See the two attached images for my problem spot. I'd like something more like the Finale output, but no matter what combination of proportional notation options I try, it won't budge. It seems like the ledger lines are too greedy. Also, I have no ide

Re: How to correctly compile the Messiah from Neuvar's Site.

On 22.09.2015 08:26, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2015, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: The Messiah score is compiled using a Makefile. If you have GNU make installed on your system, just go inside the "Messiah" directory and type make on the commandline and then everything should be

Re: proportional notation problem

On 22.09.2015 01:12, Neil Thornock wrote: Thanks Simon. Sample code: \transpose c c' { << { 16 q q q q q q q q q q q \times 2/3 { q8 q q } } \\ { \times 2/3 { des'4 des'8 } \times 2/3 { b8\rest 8 q } \times 2/3 { q q q } q q } >> } Simple solution: Use two staves. Though I’m pretty

Re: Multiple scores in a single document

On 22.09.2015 19:53, T. Michael Sommers wrote: Is it possible to have multiple independent scores in a single document, Of course it’s possible: just use more than one \score {} block. with each score having its own title, composer, arranger, and so forth? From what I can see, if a score has

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

On 22.09.2015 22:03, Trevor Daniels wrote: David Nalesnik wrote Monday, September 21, 2015 5:13 PM I'm attaching a rewrite of the code which allows an easy mix of markups/strings and interprets hyphens as connectors. Now there's no need for a TextSpanner.connectors property. ... and hardly any

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

On 21.09.2015 18:13, David Nalesnik wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 8:41 AM, David Kastrup > wrote: David Nalesnik mailto:david.nales...@gmail.com>> writes: > Here's a preliminary experiment with using \lyricmode as an input device > for text spanner detai

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

On 23.09.2015 01:20, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht writes: I made an essay on a simpler input interface, which redefines \startTextSpan as a music function. That would be much preferable at least in my eyes. What do you think? (I hope there wouldn’t be any merge conflicts here…) However

‘new text-spanner’ development

with any degree of efficiency. Any hints are welcome! :-) Yours, Simon \version "2.19.27" %%% Main author: David Nalesnik %%% modifications by Simon Albrecht %%% version: 0.2.1 %% CUSTOM GROB PROPERTIES % Taken from http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user%40gnu.org/msg97663.html % (P

Compiling Nenuvar Editions (was: Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 154, Issue 123)

Hi Michael, please always edit the subject line when replying to e-mail digests. Or just turn off digest mode – I find (using Thunderbird’s filtering and displaying by thread) that this is much more convenient to read also. On 23.09.2015 17:17, Michael Dykes wrote: When I type the code: mak

Scheme function to output \bookpart {} ?

Hello, is it possible to have a Scheme function output a bookpart? In the attached example and my real-world setup, I get ‘error: bad expression type’. TIA, Simon \version "2.19.27" test = #(define-scheme-function (mus) (ly:music?) #{ \bookpart { \score { $mus } } #})

Re: Compiling Nenuvar Editions

Hello, I begin with another general policy: always reply on-list, unless information is really private. It may help others too. On 23.09.2015 17:59, Michael Dykes wrote: Ok, I just downloaded his entire zip directory. So, from within what folder should I type the make Haendel/Oratorio/Messi

Re: double time signature with single-digit

On 23.09.2015 18:28, Andreas Stenberg wrote: Hi! I need a way to modify the double time signature snippet in LSR Which one? It’s hard to help without a starting point… Yours, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.

Re: Scheme function to output \bookpart {} ?

On 23.09.2015 22:45, Thomas Morley wrote: 2015-09-23 17:50 GMT+02:00 Simon Albrecht : Hello, is it possible to have a Scheme function output a bookpart? In the attached example and my real-world setup, I get ‘error: bad expression type’. TIA, Simon Hi Simon, this may give you a starting

Re: Scheme function to output \bookpart {} ?

On 23.09.2015 23:43, David Kastrup wrote: Thomas Morley writes: 2015-09-23 17:50 GMT+02:00 Simon Albrecht : Hello, is it possible to have a Scheme function output a bookpart? In the attached example and my real-world setup, I get ‘error: bad expression type’. TIA, Simon Hi Simon, this

Re: Scheme function to output \bookpart {} ?

On 23.09.2015 22:45, Thomas Morley wrote: 2015-09-23 17:50 GMT+02:00 Simon Albrecht : Hello, is it possible to have a Scheme function output a bookpart? In the attached example and my real-world setup, I get ‘error: bad expression type’. TIA, Simon Hi Simon, this may give you a starting

Re: Centering markup between staves

Hello Robert, On 25.09.2015 01:17, Robert Clausecker wrote: Hello all! I'm currently trying to transcribe an organ score [1] which notes register changes between the two staves for the left and right hand. For æsthetic reasons, these annotations should be vertically centred precisely between th

Re: Multiple scores in a single document

On 25.09.2015 03:15, Thomas Morley wrote: Though there is something strange with the snippet you linked to. Per default LilyPond does not support header-fields like: metre texidoc enteredby source ‘Does not support’ isn’t quite the right way to think about it: it doesn’t _print_ these. But ba

Re: Centering markup between staves

On 25.09.2015 13:21, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Simon (et al.), I hope this also work in more complicated situations. This (admittedly extreme) example shows that it doesn’t: \version "2.19.27" regR = \markup \general-align #Y #0 { \normal-text { R } \override #'(font-encoding . fetaBrace

Re: Centering markup between staves

On 25.09.2015 14:29, Robert Clausecker wrote: Here’s a really nice version which uses the Stanza_number_engraver (normally used in Lyrics contexts) to place the clavier indication before the moment for which it applies. Besides, this fortunately ensures perfect alignment with the dynamic followin

Re: Getting an override into a markup function

On 25.09.2015 23:10, Thomas Morley wrote: 2015-09-25 12:28 GMT+02:00 Malte Meyn : Am 25.09.2015 um 10:58 schrieb Urs Liska: { \override TextScript.self-alignment-X = #LEFT c'2 ^\markup \rotate #90 "This is a long markup" c } You could use an event function: % \version "2.19.27"

Re: Getting an override into a markup function

On 26.09.2015 01:05, Michael Gerdau wrote: While following this thread I've copied the various solutions into a growing file. Interstingly with all three proposed solution one after another the final resulting PDF is roted by 90 degree as well. Commenting out any of the 4 \markup (or note) lines

Re: Bar numbers seem to be one off

On 26.09.2015 12:36, Wols Lists wrote: On 26/09/15 08:31, Andrew Bernard wrote: However, you don’t often see scores with every barline numbered, and generally publishers only print the bar number at the start of each line, and normally leaving out 1. Actually, printing bar numbers at the star

Re: Bar numbers seem to be one off

On 26.09.2015 16:14, Brian Barker wrote: At 11:36 26/09/2015 +0100, Ant Youngman wrote: Actually, printing bar numbers at the start of each line is NOT general practice. Yes I think it's great, and leave it there when I'm redoing parts, but I've almost never seen it in any music I've been give

Re: Bar numbers seem to be one off

On 26.09.2015 16:22, Brian Barker wrote: At 16:15 26/09/2015 +0200, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 26.09.2015 16:14, Brian Barker wrote: Just to add another statistic: ... Which is only one opinion. Isn't that what "another statistic" means? (Mind you, the unqualified suggestio

Re: Bar numbers seem to be one off

On 26.09.2015 19:18, Werner LEMBERG wrote: I just said that because often Elaine Gould is used as kind of a bible and as normative reference, whereas a notable part of her statements are personal suggestions and a matter of style or preference. She’s just the only one who has made a comprehensive

Re: PDF Links in Windows

On 28.09.2015 00:21, Thomas WillNot wrote: There are lots of Windows users out there in the world! (Though I'd be interested to know which percentage of LilyPonders are!) A small one, I’d estimate below 20%. As for myself, my LilyPond experience actually formed a major part of the motivation t

Can a music function see an active DynamicLineSpanner?

Hello, is it possible to know within a music function whether a DynamicLineSpanner is currently playing in the particular voice? Test file: \version "2.19.27" dummy = #(define-music-function (dyn) (ly:music?) (format #t "Is there an active DynamicLineSpanner already?") dyn)

Re: Scheme function to output \bookpart {} ?

On 24.09.2015 00:22, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 23.09.2015 22:45, Thomas Morley wrote: 2015-09-23 17:50 GMT+02:00 Simon Albrecht : Hello, is it possible to have a Scheme function output a bookpart? In the attached example and my real-world setup, I get ‘error: bad expression type’. TIA

Polymetric setup and volta repeat with alternatives

Hello, these two don’t seem to go well together: If Timing_translator and Default_bar_line_engraver are moved to Staff context, no repeat bar lines are printed and the gap between the Volta brackets disappears. Moving the Repeat_acknowledge_engraver along fixes the bar lines, but prints no Vol

Re: Stacked letters in markup

On 01.10.2015 15:33, Urs Liska wrote: Sorry, I have to ask this *without* looking for a solution before. Just don't have any time left this time: How can I overlay letters in lyrics? I want to print two "D"s that overlap, one left-top, the other bottom-right. The default symbol for a double domi

Re: Scheme function to output \bookpart {} ?

On 30.09.2015 01:28, Thomas Morley wrote: Could you post a fully compilable example for follow readers? Here’s a demo file showing the entire framework in action (since you seemed to be interested in more detail, I included all of it (except for style-sheet information), resulting in quite a

Re: Best Practices for file structures, score and parts

On 02.10.2015 12:03, Malte Meyn wrote: I remember an issue with note names in german (and perhaps other languages) when you have several names (asas and ases) for the same pitch (a flat). I’m not sure whether this has been fixed. You might check at the issue tracker:

Re: Slur under beam

On 02.10.2015 07:27, Andrew Bernard wrote: Simon Albrecht has made a fine fix That’s very kind to say, but I only did some updating; there remain bugs as I already posted on this list (search for "Debugging shapeII"). Yours, Simon __

Re: Whiteout on hairpins?

On 01.10.2015 20:07, Connor Harris wrote: Is there any way to print hairpins while whiting out parts of anything (specifically, in this case, note stems and beams) that they cross, analogous to what the \whiteout command does for text markup? I’d suggest to either use a \tweak command: { c-\twe

Re: Question re title formatting

On 02.10.2015 18:29, Karen Billings wrote: Lilypond incorporates the "meter" but ignores the "arranger"... Can’t confirm that either on 2.18. If you’re still having the problem, then please post a complete compilable file as attachment for further checking. One more point: I think I can ima

Re: Aw: Re: PDF Links in Windows

On 05.10.2015 08:30, Blöchl Bernhard wrote: Am 05.10.2015 08:27, schrieb msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca: On Mon, 5 Oct 2015, Blöchl Bernhard wrote: > Does anyone know if it would be possible to make the links in the regular > PDF reader go to Frescobaldi? What is a regular PDF reader? Is it a worki

Re: left offsetting dotted note leaves dot unmoved

Hi Marten, On 05.10.2015 03:09, Marten wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to left offset a dotted note in a CueVoice, but although the note is shifted left as expected, the dot is not moved left. How can I make the dot go left as well? I’d have liked to suggest %%% \version "2.18.2" m

Re: Offset fermata problem

Hello Jacques, On 05.10.2015 17:25, Menu Jacques wrote: Hello folks, I’d like to obtain the following from Poulenc, in which the fermata is in-between a2 and r4: based on an idea by David Kastrup I wrote a music function, which provides a nice interface for this kind of things: %%%

Re: Handling of objects near barlines

Hello David, On 05.10.2015 19:49, David Sumbler wrote: Even when we write the opposite, Lilypond still conforms to the standard practice - which is very nice of it, but unnecessary. Lilypond is a practical tool, not an educational one, and people using it know the conventions I don’t and I’m

Re: Ties or multiple voices

On 05.10.2015 19:00, S wrote: My question may need some clarification. Especially the third example, which should look something like this: Inline afbeelding 1 \relative c''{ <<{2. r4}\\{4 a8 c}>> } The tie starting at the b on the third beat in the second voice looks a little awkwa

Re: Two questions about key signatures

On 05.10.2015 11:33, T. Michael Sommers wrote: Hmmm. When I change from a key with sharps or flats in it to one with no sharps or flats, the cancelling accidentals still appear. I can understand that, since otherwise there would be no indication that the key had changed, but for my application

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

On 05.10.2015 13:33, Urs Liska wrote: Remove the slurs in the first two measures completely Hear, hear! The musicologist deviates from the original notation :-) You definitely need to make an editorial remark… Cheek aside, I think they are phrasing slurs and make sense as such. Yours, Simon

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

Hello Jurgen, On 05.10.2015 12:46, jurgen.lams...@telenet.be wrote: Hi all, I'm a complete newbie here, so please bear with me ;-) I already spent a couple of hours, reading all manuals and mailing lists, Reading the manuals is always helpful, but at the beginning it’s a huge heap – and aft

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

On 05.10.2015 22:01, Urs Liska wrote: Am 05.10.2015 um 21:07 schrieb Simon Albrecht: On 05.10.2015 13:33, Urs Liska wrote: Remove the slurs in the first two measures completely Hear, hear! The musicologist deviates from the original notation :-) You definitely need to make an editorial

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

a -- round } %%% instead of the lyrics. Yours, Simon On 05.10.2015 21:41, Simon Albrecht wrote: Hello Jurgen, On 05.10.2015 12:46, jurgen.lams...@telenet.be wrote: Hi all, I'm a complete newbie here, so please bear with me ;-) I already spent a couple of hours, reading all manual

Re: Offset fermata problem

On 06.10.2015 15:45, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht writes: Hello Jacques, On 05.10.2015 17:25, Menu Jacques wrote: Hello folks, I’d like to obtain the following from Poulenc, in which the fermata is in-between a2 and r4: based on an idea by David Kastrup I wrote a music function

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

On 06.10.2015 06:40, David Wright wrote: However, I just wanted to observe two things about the OP's original: the words are much smaller, and the first three bars look as though they are using proportional spacing. No, they don’t. Proportional spacing is a very specific means for complicated

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

On 06.10.2015 22:22, jurgen.lams...@telenet.be wrote: Thanks a lot everyone for those smart responses. I've been reading and re-reading the thread multiple times ;-) Must say, reading let stand writing code like this for such an easy part is not that easy for a beginner I'm afraid... If you

Re: Stem-to-stem slurs

On 07.10.2015 14:50, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Javier, Other than adding \shape overrides Why do you want to avoid \shape overrides? Because they have to be done for each slur individually? At any rate, it would be easier to, say, \override Slur.attachment = #'Stem (as opposed to #'NoteHea

Re: Accidentals tied over a system break

On 08.10.2015 16:38, Trevor Daniels wrote: Furthermore, if the tie is removed the sharp on the final fis is also removed. The issue is, without the \break the final fis needs the sharp as the second fis doesn't have one, being tied to the first fis. Adding the \break causes the second fis to ne

Re: lyrics placement change from 2.18 to 2.19 ?

Hello Johannes, and welcome to the list. On 09.10.2015 00:02, Johannes Waldmann wrote: Hi. The following snippet is interpreted differently by 2.18.* and 2.19.* : \score { << \new Staff { \key a \minor \relative c'' { a1 \new Voice { c2 d2 } e1 }} \addlyrics { foo bar } } notes are disp

Re: Tweaking a footnote

On 08.10.2015 18:58, David Sumbler wrote: Thanks for the response. It hadn't occurred to me to look in \paper variables for 'footnote-separator-markup', though it probably should have done. Don’t worry. The footnote engine is not well documented. Similarly, it hadn't occurred to me simply t

Re: opus and piece fields in top level header.

On 09.10.2015 22:25, Richard Shann wrote: In the 2.18 it does not seem to mention that the opus and piece fields are not output anywhere if they are set in a \header{} block *outside* any \score{} block, but this seems to be the case. I can’t access the 2.18 docs ATM, since lilypond.org is down

Re: compress full bar rests

Hello David, On 09.10.2015 22:31, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: Somehow, through this framework, I cannot get full bar rests to compress when I use a globals treatment. Minimal examples are highly useful: You should follow the instructions on if you

Re: Frescobaldi creates the pdf but doesn't export it?

Hello Luca, On 10.10.2015 11:57, Luca Danieli wrote: Hello all, in these last 2 days I have been re-editing some scores of mine in lilypond. One worked perfectly, while the second one worked fine as well but didn't export the pdf file of the score. I mean that I can stream the pdf in Frescoba

Re: Frescobaldi creates the pdf but doesn't export it?

P.S. It’s better if you compose a new e-mail to the list than replying to an old one. There is some internal data field which assigns the new e-mail to the other thread, even if you edit the subject line. Thanks. On 10.10.2015 11:57, Luca Danieli wrote: Hello all, in these last 2 days I have

Re: Frescobaldi creates the pdf but doesn't export it?

On 10.10.2015 12:55, Federico Bruni wrote: it's evident by the output he pasted that he saved the file No, it’s not. If I take a ‘test.ly’ file, make some changes and process it without saving before, I get Starting lilypond 2.18.2 [test.ly]... Processing `/tmp/frescobaldi-jXLbVl/tmpcignDY/

Re: Ottava bracket outside-staff-priority

On 10.10.2015 13:04, Andrew Bernard wrote: It is as though the ottava bracket ignores changes to its outside-staff-priority It’s probably simple as that: Ottava_spanner_engraver lives in Staff, so you need to \override Staff.OttavaBracket. Yours, Simon __

Re: Frescobaldi creates the pdf but doesn't export it?

On 10.10.2015 13:10, Federico Bruni wrote: I wouldn't suggest to enable "Save document is possible" when saving to an SSD disk. Why that? ~ Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-us

Re: Selected pieces in a book

Hello Pierre, On 10.10.2015 19:41, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: Hi LilyPonders, I'm trying to automagically select pieces within a library. My first intention was to use 'tags' but it does not seem to work a that level. \tag is a music function, so it can’t output scores. Any idea how t

LilyPond syntax element like Scheme ‘)’? (was: Re: Selected pieces in a book)

The definition of \stringAppend is definitely awkward. After all, the only difference between \stringAppend and \string-append is that the former has a specified number of arguments, and the latter doesn’t work since in LilyPond syntax there is no delimiter like ‘)’ in Scheme. I wonder if we mi

Re: shapeII (openlilylib) with v2.19.25

On 13.10.2015 02:06, Peter Crighton wrote: 2015-09-08 0:23 GMT+02:00 Simon Albrecht <mailto:simon.albre...@mail.de>>: Am 07.09.2015 um 22:52 schrieb Urs Liska: Simon, please create an issue on GitHub with this information. <https://github.com

Re: Beam devide

Hello Helge, try inserting the following: On 13.10.2015 20:25, Helge wrote: \version "2.18.0" \relative c { \set tupletSpannerDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 8) \set Timing.beamExceptions = #'((end . (((1 . 8) . (4 4)) ((1 . 12) . (3 3 3 3))

Re: shapeII (openlilylib) with v2.19.25

On 13.10.2015 20:49, Urs Liska wrote: Can I assume that you two have looked enough on the code so I can merge without further testing (I'd be glad in this case)? Yes, the changes are minimally invasive and I’d be much surprised if there was any problem. Thanks for merging. Looks plausible.

Re: Beam devide

On 13.10.2015 21:34, David Kastrup wrote: Helge writes: Am Tue, 13 Oct 2015 20:41:21 +0200 schrieb Simon Albrecht : \set Timing.beamExceptions = #'((end . (((1 . 8) . (4 4)) ((1 . 12) . (3 3 3 3))

Re: acciaccatura in grace

On 12.10.2015 23:18, Mario Moles wrote: Hi! How do like the image? Where is it from? Could be Chopin, he was always the guy for extreme notational constructs. This is not working: 8[ \grace {fs'16( gs) fs es fs gs fs \acciaccatura {} ds'} ds16. cs32] Please, in future, always provi

Re: partcombine and multi-measure rests

On 14.10.2015 20:41, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: Something just crossed my mind and this works out well: by using \repeat unfold N R1 we can solve this problem, This is not a full solution: if you try \compressFullBarRests, you’ll notice different behaviour (some wrote a music function to deal w

Re: partcombine and multi-measure rests

On 14.10.2015 20:41, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: \version "2.17.95" Just out of interest: what makes you still use that particular version? Regards, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lily

Re: Repeat with alternatives

Hi David, On 15.10.2015 17:48, David Wright wrote: Now I have another target to think about: how music functions work. You might be interested in the Extending Manual, especially . HTH, Simon ___

Workaround for issue 4633?

Hello, does anybody have an idea how to work around issue 4633 ? The problem is that the MMR should use the same glyph as `r\breve`, but it doesn’t iff the staff is explicitly instantiated _and_ Timing_translator is moved to Staff level.

Re: Workaround for issue 4633?

On 16.10.2015 01:25, Thomas Morley wrote: \override MultiMeasureRest.usable-duration-logs = #'(-3 -2 -1) Brilliant! Thanks :-) Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: any slur after-line-breaking [automated] hacks?

On 19.10.2015 04:47, Kieren MacMillan wrote: a great number of trial-and-error adjustment+compilation cycles Well, \shapeII by Janek in openlilylib does offer the facility of giving a list of lists for each of the siblings of a broken bezier (that’s not documented, IIRC), like: \shapeII #'((

Re: Emacs lilypond-mode

On 19.10.2015 18:01, Laura Conrad wrote: The problem is when entering long note values, which are common in early 16th century music, I have to leave the keypad to type \breve and \longa Except you’d enter it with shortened note values (say to 1/4) and use e.g. the Frescobaldi Rhythm Tools to

Serpent Publications

Hello Laura, I just had a look at your collection. Very nice project you have there! I like the concept of using parts and retaining the original ‘measure notation’. (Personally, I also think we might gain a lot by just turning to use the traditional c clefs ag

Re: independent time signatures

On 21.10.2015 00:09, Urs Liska wrote: This is true, LilyPond can only make a line break when all staves are at the same moment in time. You can force mid-measure breaks with \bar "", but only at these points. Unless of course you remove the "Forbid_line_break_engraver" (from Voice) – a feature

Re: My finances for working on LilyPond

On 22.10.2015 19:21, David Kastrup wrote: As you all know, my sole source of income are donations from happy LilyPond users. It would appear that LilyPond users have stopped being happy with my work. You must know that this is not the case. I should be much surprised if I were the only one to

Feature Requests (was: Re: My finances for working on LilyPond)

On 23.10.2015 20:31, Bernardo Barros wrote: Something I requested many years ago was the support for quarter-tone tablatures notation, which seems to work but is actually buggy at the moment, it generates wrong tablatures in strings with quarter-tones alterations etc. Did it receive some attentio

Re: Feature Requests

On 24.10.2015 00:26, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 23.10.2015 20:31, Bernardo Barros wrote: Something I requested many years ago was the support for quarter-tone tablatures notation, which seems to work but is actually buggy at the moment, it generates wrong tablatures in strings with quarter-tones

Re: Hiding bars and crescendo on last bar of a piece

Hello Karl, welcome to the list! On 24.10.2015 14:35, Karl Husum wrote: How do you hide bars in Lilypond, There’s a really nice command for that: ‘\hide BarLine’ :-) that is make them invisible? \hide does typeset the grob, but invisibly, and thus still reserves space; you might also try

Re: Hiding bars and crescendo on last bar of a piece

otherwise more context? Yours, Simon Not sure if it the most elegant solution, but it should mbe possible. Thank you Karl Den 24-10-2015 kl. 13:54 skrev Simon Albrecht: Hello Karl, welcome to the list! On 24.10.2015 14:35, Karl Husum wrote: How do you hide bars in Lilypond, There’s a

Re: Hiding bars and crescendo on last bar of a piece

On 24.10.2015 15:25, Karl Husum wrote: { c1\mp\<\fermata \bar ":|."| %16 \break r1\! | %17 } The easiest way is using an empty chord <> to attach the \!. It has no duration, so you can just insert it before or after the \bar command: { c1\mp\<\fermata

Re: Rehearsal mark number

On 24.10.2015 22:54, Jérôme Plût wrote: Is there a way, from within Scheme, to access (read/write) the following: - the current rehearsal \mark number; - (optionnally) the current value of Score.markFormatter? The reason I am asking this is that I am typesetting a score where the mark J *and

Re: chord symbol styling

On 27.10.2015 11:33, Noeck wrote: Hi, For some reason, font-size seems to have a minimum. Value "1" seems to be the minimum, and anything below that (e.g., 0.1) seems to be rounded up to 1. I could be wrong. No, you can see the size as an exponent if you like. These sizes are not: 8pt, 12pt

Re: chord symbol styling

On 27.10.2015 13:00, David Kastrup wrote: 6 whole steps per octave. So if I want to illustrate the shrinking of distances higher up the fretboard, I can just add -0.5 per semitone to the font-size. Or something. :-) ___ lilypond-user mailing list l

Re: Sibelius 7 to LilyPond Conversion!

Hello Thomas, On 28.10.2015 21:24, Thomas WillNot wrote: attempted to use the MusicXML2LY program supplied with LilyPond with no luck. MusicXML2ly is known to be unreliable and lack maintenance. It also adds staccato and other markings with "-\staccato" or "-\markup" - I don't know the purpo

Re: Sibelius 7 to LilyPond Conversion!

On 29.10.2015 10:28, Richard Shann wrote: The third one replaces rests that fill a whole measure with a whole measure rest - again this may just be a characteristic error made by Sibelius users. And not only by them, it can be seen in LilyPond files also. ~ Simon __

Re: Using fonts installed on the system

Hi Klaus, On 29.10.2015 23:04, Klaus Blum wrote: Hi fellow LilyPonders, has there recently been a change in how LilyPond can access fonts that are installed on the system? I'm on Windows 7... When compiling this: % \markup {"

Re: Sibelius 7 to LilyPond Conversion!

Hello Thomas, On 30.10.2015 05:09, Thomas Wilmot wrote: minimal example which fails: { c-\-. } If I change it back to { c-\staccato }, then it works again { c-\staccato } would translate into the shorthand notation as: { c-. } HTH, Simon ___ lily

Re: strange error message - cannot open .ly file

Hi Ming, On 30.10.2015 01:01, MING TSANG wrote: Hi lilyponders: Frecobaldi can open the file, yet when I hit to run lilypond, I got strange error message: I can’t confirm that either: I get two failed barchecks, but else it compiles fine. It would seem odd that Lily didn’t recognise the ver

Re: Sibelius 7 to LilyPond Conversion!

On 30.10.2015 11:00, Thomas Wilmot wrote: I am trying to write three markup comments in the music and they should be all on their own lines. I can't seem to find anything about that. I can’t quite figure out what you mean… You might look in

Re: Markup on different lines

On 30.10.2015 11:58, Thomas Willnot wrote: I am trying to write three markup comments in the music and they should be all on their own lines. I can't seem to find anything about that anywhere. Quite bad style to post the same question twice. I could’ve saved the time writing a reply if I had k

Re: Markup on different lines

On 30.10.2015 13:48, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht writes: On 30.10.2015 11:58, Thomas Willnot wrote: I am trying to write three markup comments in the music and they should be all on their own lines. I can't seem to find anything about that anywhere. Quite bad style to post the

Re: ottavation function

Hello Gilberto, On 30.10.2015 18:49, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: H. S. Teoh wrote Very nice! But shouldn't this be fixed in Lilypond itself, not just as an external function? Thanks! And sure, if people want to implement this idea in LilyPond itself that would be ideal. Thank you for this wor

Re: ottavation function

On 30.10.2015 21:29, Noeck wrote: At first, the endings (22da, 29na) looked convincing, but I wondered why I have seen 22ma before (e.g. in Bravura [1]). When looking at this and searching online, I tend to think ma is correct as the Italian word seems to be 'ventiduesimo/-a' and the same for 29m

Re: ottavation function

On 30.10.2015 22:01, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: Hi Simon, thanks for the improvements, I knew my function was utterly inefficient but I have a hard time with Scheme. I’ve had that too, but it gets better :-) Just two things about this all: Which modifications to your function should I do if

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