Re: ottavation function

On 30.10.2015 22:31, Noeck wrote: Hi Simon, just to make sure: "Post awaiting moderation." is the usual thing to happen on sourceforge and someone will have a look at some point if he allows my comment? Done already :-) I suppose Phil or Trevor could well give you a status where this wouldn’t

Re: ottavation function

On 30.10.2015 22:01, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: Second thing, try this code: \relative c'' { R1*7 \ottavation #1 c8 \ottavation #0 d, d d d d d d } It will output only "8va" without the vertical line. I believe that, according to Gould, we always need to have the vertical "hook" in the end

Re: ottavation function

On 30.10.2015 23:29, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: Simon Albrecht-2 wrote Try: \layout { \context { \Staff \override OttavaBracket.springs-and-rods = #ly:spanner::set-spacing-rods %\override OttavaBracket.minimum-length = 0.3 } } and adjust minimum-length to taste. For

Re: Help with accaciatura

Hello Alberto, On 31.10.2015 22:46, Alberto Simões wrote: Hello In a piano piece, I have an accaciatura in the beginning of a repeat, in the upper voice. In the lower voice, it does not exist. It seems lilypond is somehow confused by it. This is most likely an instance of issue 34

Re: Bar count wrong after multirest

Hello Silas, On 31.10.2015 23:06, Silas S. Brown wrote: Hi, I wonder if someone could put in a feature request for better diagnostics of the following mistake. I gave this to Lilypond version 2.18.2: \score { << \new Staff << \context Voice = TheMusic { \compressFullBarRests \override Score.Ba

Re: Q regarding best practice with \relative

On 01.11.2015 12:59, David Kastrup wrote: So there's not really a "best practice" but rather one that requires least choice-making for those not interested in making more choices than necessary. It’s also the one with the least superficial elements, in other words: least to type. Yours, Simo

Re: Valse des Sylphes - Charles GOUNOD

On 03.11.2015 16:43, Alberto Simões wrote: On 03/11/15 14:04, Alberto Simões wrote: I did not like them too, but no clue how to remove them. GNU LilyPond 2.18.2 here, but I can try to update (even on El Capitan!) Oh, damn. 2.18.2 is the latest stable :-/ The ‘unstable’ versions also use t

Re: Website down?

On 03.11.2015 21:56, Edward Ardzinski wrote: I haven't been able to reach http://www.lilypond.org in a few days... I’m happy to be largely independent of the website (having installed the docs locally), since downtime is quite unfortunately frequent… Yours, Simon ___

Re: Cadenza...

On 03.11.2015 22:57, Malte Meyn wrote: Am 03.11.2015 um 22:33 schrieb Alberto Simões: Making the measure have a different duration is easy... Do you know the commands \cadenzaOn and \cadenzaOff? You don’t have to modify measure lengths if you use them ;) my main question is the notes siz

Re: Text-spanner text repeated at start of line

On 03.11.2015 18:50, David Kastrup wrote: you could put the bulk in a macro \addTempoText = \addTextSpannerText \markupMap LyricEvent.text \markup \upright \bold \etc \etc Astounding I call that. Kudos, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypo

Re: Website down?

On 03.11.2015 23:54, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht writes: On 03.11.2015 21:56, Edward Ardzinski wrote: I haven't been able to reach http://www.lilypond.org in a few days... I’m happy to be largely independent of the website (having installed the docs locally), since downtime is

Re: Website down?

On 04.11.2015 02:45, Devin wrote: It is a real bummer that the website was down today, because I was trying to show my guitar student the software. He has a Mac and I am unfamiliar with how to install Lilypond onto a Mac from Github. In case it happens again: the download links are also contai

Re: A command-line wrapper for OpenLilyLIb

On 04.11.2015 14:59, Matteo Ceccarello wrote: Hello everybody, I just implemented a small command line tool that I hope will simplify the use of OpenLilyLib [1] in multiple projects. You can find a motivating example in a blog post [2]. The tool itself, together with installation instructions

Automated processing of multiple books

Hello, I have written a Scheme function to automatically produce all parts given through a symbol-list. Here is a boiled-down, dummy example: \version "2.19.28" printParts = #(define-scheme-function (abbrs) (symbol-list-or-symbol?) (let ((abbrs (if (symbol? abbrs) (list abbrs) a

Re: Automated processing of multiple books

On 04.11.2015 19:24, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht writes: Hello, I have written a Scheme function to automatically produce all parts given through a symbol-list. Here is a boiled-down, dummy example: \version "2.19.28" printParts = #(define-scheme-function (abbr

Re: Automated processing of multiple books

On 04.11.2015 20:36, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht writes: On 04.11.2015 19:24, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht writes: This compiles fine inasmuch as the output is just as intended, but it does sport a: <0>"/home/simon/lilypond/tests/wrap-multiple-books.ly:17:1:

Re: Stretching Text

Hello Dave, On 05.11.2015 18:41, Dave Higgins wrote: Is there a way to stretch text over some measures (other than manually)? For example: poco a poco crescendo to: poco a poco crescendo An oft required feature, for which the solution is not yet ready to make it into LilyPond p

Re: Invisible glissando, best fix?

On 07.11.2015 11:54, Richard Shann wrote: In some circumstances LilyPond leaves a glissando invisible: \version "2.19.25" { d'' 4\glissando cis'' 4 c'' b' } I looked up the issues list and found this: { \override Glissando #'minimum-length = #5 \override Glissando #'springs-an

Re: Invisible glissando, best fix?

On 08.11.2015 11:36, Richard Shann wrote: On Sat, 2015-11-07 at 23:36 +0100, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 07.11.2015 11:54, Richard Shann wrote: In some circumstances LilyPond leaves a glissando invisible: \version "2.19.25" { d'' 4\glissando cis'' 4 c&#x

Re: slashes and percent

Hello Peter, On 08.11.2015 22:54, Peter Berlau wrote: Hello, I like to use slashes and percent - repeaters but without a note in the beginning, The question likely is: For what purpose do you want that? Since obviously, if you really want a percent repeat (that is an abbreviated notation t

Re: slashes and percent

Hello Peter, On 09.11.2015 00:09, Peter Berlau wrote: Hello Simon, thanks for fast answer. I use this also, but in this case I need no first note written, I like to use the percent and slashes as we call in german 'faulenzer'. It is for an "arrangement" for jazz ensemble. I have to create sheet

Re: Markup for repeated notes or phrases

handy music function (second score): % \version "2.18.2" pattern = { c16 d16 } music = \relative c' { \repeat unfold 8 \pattern } \new Voice << \music { s4.. s16-. s4 s16 s8.-> } >> %music function by David Kastrup and Simon Albrecht after = #(define-music-f

Re: Markup for repeated notes or phrases

P.S. Technically, \staccato and similar are not markups (which would create a TextScript grob), but articulations (which create a Script grob) – important, when you want to use an override. On 09.11.2015 18:45, Stephan Neuhaus wrote: Dear list, I have a piece that contains phrases that are re

Re: slashes and percent

On 09.11.2015 21:38, Peter Berlau wrote: Hello Simon, hello All! a part of my problem is solved i using now \omit Stem b4 b b b \undo \omit Stem with the '/' as notehead But in tramspostion in Bb b = 'cis' in Es b = 'gis' thats pretty ugly... Could you please post a (small, complete an

Re: slashes and percent

\transpose es c' << \changes \new Staff \melody \set Staff.instrumentName = #"Eb" >> } \bookpart { \transpose c c, << \changes \new Staff \melody \clef bass \set Staff.instrumentName = #"bs" >> } \

Re: slashes and percent

sh_engraver and \improvisationOn is for… Yours, Simon JM Le 9 nov. 2015 à 22:46, Simon Albrecht a écrit : Hello Peter, now the problem is clear. That’s what the Pitch_squash_engraver, used in the example from the Notation Reference, is for: it moves all the notes to the center of the staff, rega

Re: slashes and percent

On 09.11.2015 23:30, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > > I have a "dirty solution" for this percent ( slashes ) > > \override Stem #'length = #0.0 > #'thickness = #0.0 > b4 b4 b4 > \override Stem #'length = #7.0 > \override Stem #'thickness = #1.3 > >

Re: slashes and percent

On 09.11.2015 23:52, Simon Albrecht wrote: Did you even _read_ my replies to this thread, Or did the mailing list engine delay posts again, so you couldn’t know that solutions had already been given? ~ Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: slashes and percent

On 10.11.2015 00:19, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: In my opinion, yours approach is poorly designed, since it introduces a problem (notes to represent slashes that will be transposed) that then requires a solution. The solution I disseminated avoids that problem in its entirety. Good point

Re: Chords with "optional" notes

On 10.11.2015 20:31, Alberto Simões wrote: Hello There are musics where chords have a smaller note, that is optional. I found some logs from this mailing list in 2007, suggesting things like: \tweak #'font-size #-4 g Is there any easier way? (as in, less verbose). The cheapest wa

Re: Chords with "optional" notes

On 10.11.2015 21:59, Alberto Simões wrote: On 10/11/15 20:57, Simon Albrecht wrote: The cheapest way would be (using a syntax introduced very recently) %% sm = \tweak #'font-size #-4 \etc { } %% This sounds awesome. Love that \etc there :) David K.’s

Re: [feature-request] optional duration for temporary

On 11.11.2015 14:08, Johan Vromans wrote: On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 13:42:58 +0100 David Kastrup wrote: But if you have to close the group anyway with a brace, where is the point in not just doing a music function doing { \temporary $xxx ... \undo $xxx } I do not see how to cope with the $xxx. Cou

Re: addlyrics does not work properly

Hello Niels, and welcome to the list. On 11.11.2015 16:39, Niels wrote: If I comment out the line with the text (cor -- di -- ae su ) the last line (eis 4. eis8 cis4 a4. a8 cis4) will be compiled and appear in the pdf file. However, If I want the text with the notes (a'4.^\markup{"alto solo"}

Re: addlyrics does not work properly

P.S. If you had sent this as a reply to your first post, I’d have seen that part of my reply was pointless. Regards, Simon On 11.11.2015 16:42, Niels wrote: If I comment out the line with the text (cor -- di -- ae su ) the last line (eis 4. eis8 cis4 a4. a8 cis4) will be compiled and appear in

Re: Gounod - Le Rendez Vous

On 11.11.2015 20:29, Alberto Simões wrote: Hi, Abraham This is looking MUCH better (nice work with the extended dynamic lines ;-). I'll look at it in greater detail later, but here's one thing that I immediately noticed quite a few instances of that you would get dinged for: You should ALWAY

Re: Gounod - Le Rendez Vous

On 11.11.2015 15:39, Alberto Simões wrote: Dear list, Again, I am both pleased to announce the transcription of the Gounod Suite of Valses, "Le Rendez Vous" [1] and asking for any correction you might suggest. Two annotations: – Sometimes it would be nice to have whiteout for DynamicTextSpan

Re: second footnote in Lyrics doesn't work

Hello Kieren, On 12.11.2015 15:37, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hello all, In lyricmode, this works as expected: Oo, __ oo, __ \footnote #"*" #'(-1 . 0.5) #"* like the shower scene in “Psycho”" Ree! Ree! Ree! Hel -- lo! but this Oo, __ oo, __ \footnote #"*" #'(-1 . 0.5)

Re: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()

Hi Ming, On 12.11.2015 15:53, MING TSANG wrote: Hi, lilyponders: I ran the attach file and got the following. Question: can this be solved? How? It works fine if you don’t use any non-ASCII characters in the file name. I hope this is no problem for you. Else, there won’t be much we can do,

Re: second footnote in Lyrics doesn't work

On 12.11.2015 16:11, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Simon, >It seems that every kind of alphabetic string is mistaken by \footnote to be the second-to-last, optional argument, specifying the grob path. Ah! But… why is that not true of the FIRST lyric-embedded footnote in my example? Because o

Re: Gounod - Le Rendez Vous

On 12.11.2015 16:52, Alberto Simões wrote: Hello, Simon! On 12/11/15 11:21, Simon Albrecht wrote: Two annotations: – Sometimes it would be nice to have whiteout for DynamicTextSpanner against SpanBar; I don’t quite know the best way to do it, though. Perhaps you could use \markup\whiteout-box

Re: Tuplets spaced unevenly

On 13.11.2015 09:40, Urs Liska wrote: Am 13.11.2015 um 09:11 schrieb Noeck: Hi Javier, this has been solved in some 2.19 version. In 2.19.21 the tuplets are evenly spaced. Can you upgrade? In case you *have* to use 2.18 there's a workaround by restarting a spacing section. I don't have the co

Re: RFC: new location for openLilyLib repository

Hello Urs, I think this makes a very sound and nice impression. Go ahead! Thanks, Simon On 13.11.2015 11:58, Urs Liska wrote: Am 13.11.2015 um 10:57 schrieb Davide Liessi: 2015-11-13 6:02 GMT+01:00 Henning Hraban Ramm: Why not combine the options? Use GitHub as long as it makes sense, but

Re: Scholarly footnotes

On 13.11.2015 13:29, Graham King wrote: I might struggle a bit at first to get from Scheme to lilypond markup In case you don’t know about that already: might help. Yours, Simon __

Re: RFC: new location for openLilyLib repository

On 13.11.2015 15:49, Urs Liska wrote: (note: this will make it possible to create private/project/house repositories that take advantage of the openLilyLib infrastructure) Will this also be possible for repositories hosted outside GitHub (e.g. with BitBucket?) ~Simon ___

Re: RFC: new location for openLilyLib repository

On 13.11.2015 17:19, Federico Bruni wrote: Il giorno ven 13 nov 2015 alle 11:58, Urs Liska ha scritto: I suggest (and if noone objects will do it) renaming the "openlilylib" repository to "snippets" -> https://github.com/openlilylib/snippets NOTE: This may require users to adapt their repositor

Re: Testing requested: new manuscript viewer tool for Frescobaldi

On 14.11.2015 13:23, Klaus Blum wrote: Is there any documentation out there that tells how to run a program from git? I have an Ubuntu installation, but no deeper Linux knowledge, so I've got no idea what to do. It is a feature of Python (in which frescobaldi is written) that a program needn’t

Re: tips for formatting an interview

On 14.11.2015 15:22, Federico Bruni wrote: Hi all I'm trying to format directly in LilyPond an interview (the single text only part of a book). I don't want to use lilypond-book and LaTeX just because of this minor part of the book. I've two questions: 1) There's any way to place the text o

Delayed posts

Hello everybody, The notorious delay with which many posts arrive on this list gets annoying… At times there is no problem, but these days it’s really bad. Is there anything we could do? Yours, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu

Re: tips for formatting an interview

On 15.11.2015 20:50, Federico Bruni wrote: Il giorno dom 15 nov 2015 alle 3:17, Simon Albrecht ha scritto: On 14.11.2015 15:22, Federico Bruni wrote: Hi all I'm trying to format directly in LilyPond an interview (the single text only part of a book). I don't want to use lilypon

Scheme question: convert a range

Hello, The subject certainly seems cryptic – it’s difficult to summarize, but an example will make it clear immediately. I want to write a scheme procedure, which takes a pair like #'(3 . 7) and returns a list with all the numbers in the range: #'(3 4 5 6 7) How is this done most easily? TIA,

Re: Scheme question: convert a range

On 16.11.2015 21:59, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht writes: Hello, The subject certainly seems cryptic – it’s difficult to summarize, but an example will make it clear immediately. I want to write a scheme procedure, which takes a pair like #'(3 . 7) and returns a list with al

Re: Scheme question: convert a range

On 16.11.2015 22:20, Thomas Morley wrote: (define (foo pair) (if (and (integer? (car pair)) (integer? (cdr pair))) (iota (1+ (interval-length pair)) (car pair) 1)) #f) (foo '(3 . 7)) --> (3 4 5 6 7) An equally good solution. Thank you, Simon __

Re: Testing requested: new manuscript viewer tool for Frescobaldi

On 15.11.2015 17:54, Federico Bruni wrote: Il giorno sab 14 nov 2015 alle 13:23, Klaus Blum ha scritto: Is there any documentation out there that tells how to run a program from git? I don't think so. It may be added to the github wiki... I have an Ubuntu installation, but no deeper Linux

Re: Controlling markup vertical position

On 16.11.2015 08:08, Menu Jacques wrote: Hello, As it turns out, using \tempo solves the issue: Well, it depends on what you’re typesetting there, but a \tempo indication will always move to the topmost staff, so this is at least very fragile. But how about: %% \version "2.19.30" \

Re: Scheme question: convert a range

On 16.11.2015 23:30, pls wrote: Simon Albrecht writes: The subject certainly seems cryptic – it’s difficult to summarize, but an example will make it clear immediately. I want to write a scheme procedure, which takes a pair like #'(3 . 7) and returns a list with all the numbers in the

Re: Strange LilyPond crash

On 16.11.2015 11:27, Marc Hohl wrote: Hi list, I am currently reworking some older stuff that compiled perfectly under 2.13.x Yes, I used convert-ly on all files, but nevertheless, I encountered a strange problem: I have a drum part, consisting of an upper and a lower DrumVoice, and if I

Re: Delayed posts

On 15.11.2015 20:44, Simon Albrecht wrote: Hello everybody, The notorious delay with which many posts arrive on this list gets annoying… At times there is no problem, but these days it’s really bad. Is there anything we could do? Or, _I_ could do, if it were a problem on my side? ~ Simon

Re: Programming error with removeEmptyStaves

On 15.11.2015 17:04, Jean-Charles Malahieude wrote: How could I find the culprit in a 5 staves score which looks all right? Perhaps you can reproduce it with fewer bars of music? You might try showFirstLength/showLastLength, or just delete some music. Generally: save a copy of the main input

Re: Strange Scheme problem

On 18.11.2015 09:43, Menu Jacques wrote: Hello Andrew, You make me discover that I have to copy with a right click in the log window, instead of merely using the usual keyboard shortcut, thanks! BTW, that could be an enhancement to Frescobaldi. If you like, you can open up an issue in the t

Re: Fwd: Slash chords

On 20.11.2015 10:56, Urs Liska wrote: Dear Luca, this is a question you should ask on the lilypond-user mailing list. I have forwarded it there but I strongly suggest you subscribe at https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user to automatically receive any replies. Best Urs Am 20.1

Re: Settings for automatic beam slope

Hello, I made a test suite, which shows quite peculiar results: – The problem typically appears with at least 7 (‘II’ series) or 9 (‘I’ series) notes under one beam, but sometimes also with 3 notes (ex. II and IIc) – In each example, the problem occurs only for one of the voices. I couldn’t ye

Re: Lilypond+Emacs

On 20.11.2015 16:40, Amir Teymuri wrote: Hello Lilypond communiy, i am new to lilypond, i am trying to set up the lilypond mode in emacs, till now unsuccessfuly! This is what i have tried so far: 1. downloaded the lilypond extecutable sh file from the homepage and installed it by doing th

Re: Aw: Re: Lilypond+Emacs

olored, and i see a LilyPond at the top of minibuffer (as majormode), but there are no autocompletions (although there are auto-indentations), is this now the correct lilypond mode? thanks *Gesendet:* Freitag, 20. November 2015 um 17:14 Uhr *Von:* "Simon Albrecht" *An:* "Amir T

Re: Fwd: Slash chords

the slash, hard to say without trying it out). I've tried to look in the source (for 2.18.2) and I found that in chord-ignatzek-names.scm, around line 210, it calls a routine names make-line-markup, which might be near where the modification needs to happen. But I have no idea

Re: Table of Contents: 2 problems

On 21.11.2015 14:50, David Sumbler wrote: Thank you for this suggestion. But unfortunately using \override-lines #'(line-width . 100) effectively alters the width of the right margin without altering the left margin. I want the text centred horizontally on the page, so this does not produce the

Re: Gounod - Le Rendez Vous

On 21.11.2015 20:21, Alberto Simões wrote: On 20/11/15 11:30, Alberto Simões wrote: Hey On 20/11/2015 05:49, Abraham Lee wrote: That being said, since there appears to be arguments for doing it both ways, I'd recommend that you pick one way and be consistent throughout the entire work. Can

Re: Gounod - Le Rendez Vous

On 22.11.2015 14:52, tisimst wrote: One other thing I noticed in Valse 2, m. 42-43 - remove staccato from tied end notes. They just don't make sense. I would guess the one in the source engraving (m. 42) is a typo as it is omitted in the next measure. It is definitely not. There is perfect c

Re: question about overrides within repeats

On 22.11.2015 21:44, David Kastrup wrote: Thomas Morley writes: Though, why it is that arbitrary? Look at this variation and the attached image: \version "2.19.29" #(define test-nmbrs (let ((nmbrs (circular-list 1 2 3 4))) (lambda (grob) (let ((n (car nmbrs))) (set! n

Re: Gounod - Le Rendez Vous

On 22.11.2015 22:41, Alberto Simões wrote: Hi all, Final version here: https://github.com/ambs/music/blob/master/Gounod/LeRendezVous/suite.pdf Will submit it to IMSLP later to the end of the week, in case anybody spots any critical issue. The last measure of the Introduction actually has on

Re: missing stem

Hello Bogi, On 23.11.2015 00:50, Bogi Lützen wrote: Please help me with this little problem. This is just one of my efforts, but in all of them I miss the stem on the first g'2: \version "2.18.0" { <<{c''1^~|\stemUp c''2 c''4 c''| c''1}{\stemDown g'2 a' |g' a'

‘Kerning’ a clef

Hello, have a look at the attached image. I’d like the clef to take less space, especially to the right, and at best to overlap with the following note. How can I achieve that? extra-spacing-width obviously can only increase spacing, and the following doesn’t work either: % \vers

Re: ‘Kerning’ a clef

On 23.11.2015 19:58, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht writes: have a look at the attached image. I’d like the clef to take less space, especially to the right, and at best to overlap with the following note. How can I achieve that? extra-spacing-width obviously can only increase spacing

Re: ‘Kerning’ a clef

On 23.11.2015 20:01, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Simon, I’d like the clef to take less space, especially to the right, and at best to overlap with the following note. How can I achieve that? \version "2.19.31" { a'8 \tweak Clef.space-alist.next-note #'(extra-space . 0) \tweak Clef.X-exte

Re: [WAS] Staff ends before \clef, \time and \key

On 23.11.2015 10:36, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: Hi, See: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Staff-ends-before-clef-time-and-key-td174133.html#a174182 Reminder: %% Here works fine: \version "2.18.2" { \key e\major \time 3/4 % mes.98 s2. \bar "||" \key e \minor } %% Bug

Re: [WAS] Staff ends before \clef, \time and \key

on X-extent to work here… Yours, Simon On 23.11.2015 20:52, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: 'cause of a DS to the former key sig. 2015-11-23 20:45 GMT+01:00 Simon Albrecht <mailto:simon.albre...@mail.de>>: On 23.11.2015 10:36, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: Hi,

No blot in custom bar line

Hello, I’ve defined a custom bar line, following the examples in scm/bar-line.scm. Now I would have expected the whole ‘blot’ business to give me round edges, at least with \override Staff.BarLine.rounded = ##t, but it doesn’t. Why? Also, it’s a bit of a nuisance that calc-blot isn’t publicly

Re: outside-staff-priority?

On 23.11.2015 23:05, Ralph Palmer wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Stephen MacNeil mailto:classicalja...@gmail.com>> wrote: \override Score.MetronomeMark.padding = #5 \tempo "Mod. fast Bulgar" 4 = 110-115 My thanks to both Stephen and to Malte Meyn. Yes, I missed "Score". I

Re: No blot in custom bar line

On 23.11.2015 23:02, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi Simon, On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Simon Albrecht mailto:simon.albre...@mail.de>> wrote: Hello, I’ve defined a custom bar line, following the examples in scm/bar-line.scm. Now I would have expected the whole ‘blot’ bu

Why does \fromproperty fail in instrumentName?

Hello everybody, help is appreciated with the following minimal example: \version "2.19.31" \header { test = "test" } \new Staff \with { instrumentName = \markup\fromproperty #'header:test } { 4 } TIA, Simon ___ lilypond-

Re: Why does \fromproperty fail in instrumentName?

On 24.11.2015 13:16, Jacques Menu wrote: Hello Simon, Succeeds with 2.19.32. Huh. Not for me (Ubuntu 14.04, 64bit). ~ Simon JM Le 24 nov. 2015 à 13:10, Simon Albrecht a écrit : Hello everybody, help is appreciated with the following minimal example: \version "2.

Re: Table of Contents: 2 problems

On 24.11.2015 14:30, David Sumbler wrote: the snippet does not have a "version" statement. The LSR currently supports 2.18. Yours, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Layout of a (piano) hand indicator

On 24.11.2015 18:49, Urs Liska wrote: Hi all, please consider the attached image, especially the "half-bracket" at the center. This is to indicate that this d' is to be played with the left hand. Is there anything I could improve to the proportions and placement of that sign? Any suggestions f

Re: [Best Practices] splitting and combining choral parts

Hello Kieren, first of all: Looks like a nice piece! Second: offtopic nitpicks. There are some superfluous LyricExtenders there – I’d rather leave them out if they are very short. ( …) And note the mid-air bar-numbers, where they are aligne

Re: [Best Practices] splitting and combining choral parts

On 25.11.2015 00:03, Michael Gerdau wrote: Last not least for vocal lines I always turn off autoBeam and manually put beams to groups that are sung on a single syllable. For my singers eyes that strongly helps to keep words and music in a proper flow. It’s rather a question of rhythmic complexi

Re: [Best Practices] splitting and combining choral parts

On 24.11.2015 23:36, Kieren MacMillan wrote: And I like for long syllables to be increasingly left-aligned This is one of the many, many lyric-related problems in Lilypond. (See my numerous other posts and sponsorship offers on that topic.) I solve almost all of them post-hoc, using the editio

Re: Why does \fromproperty fail in instrumentName?

On 24.11.2015 23:44, Thomas Morley wrote: Reinhold’s final code is http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=467 Thanks, I’ll try that. Yours, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: aligning melisma and non-melisma lyrics across staves in the same system

David, On 26.11.2015 06:40, David Wright wrote: 1) If there's a lyric extender on a lyric which is being attached to a non-melisma note, ignore it. This would often save having four sets of SATB lyrics differing only in each ones placement of extenders. This is issue 4509

Re: Rehearsal mark/tempo collision

On 27.11.2015 21:10, Craig Dabelstein wrote: Any idea how I can prevent the rehearsal marks from being pushed upwards by the tempo indication, and get the tempo marks to be moved a little to the right. Another way: \once\override MetronomeMark.self-alignment-X = #-0.2 or the like. Yours, Si

Re: Is there a similar command to LaTeX's \vfill?

On 29.11.2015 03:07, Joshua Nichols wrote: I'm looking to force a \markup{} after a score block to the bottom of the page for a project I am in. In LaTeX, this looks like \vfill, which forces the next bit of text/content to the bottom of the page. Is there something like it in LilyPond? No, u

Re: Gounod - Le Rendez Vous

On 29.11.2015 22:45, Alberto Simões wrote: Hell, Simon On 23/11/15 00:03, Simon Albrecht wrote: The last measure of the Introduction actually has only two quarters (the half note isn’t dotted), to be complemented by the immediately following upbeat for Valse 1. I need your help with this

Re: Layout of a (piano) hand indicator

ientations = #'(left) } } { } %% It’s not quite elegant with its hard-coded values, but it’s easy to use. Thanks for the ideas, Simon On 24.11.2015 23:44, Urs Liska wrote: Am 24.11.2015 um 22:39 schrieb Simon Albrecht: On 24.11.2015 18:49, Urs Liska wrote: Hi all, please co

Re: Vertically centering a song text.

On 03.12.2015 07:32, David Kastrup wrote: tisimst writes: >\skip in the Lyrics context is necessary for skipping beats without >creating a melisma (which can be manually created with a single underscore >for each beat in the melisma). I'm not sure why it's insensitive to the >number after it.

Re: Vertically centering a song text.

On 03.12.2015 17:19, David Wright wrote: On which basis, I'd also criticise it because, at the point of definition, skipFour = \repeat unfold 4 { \skip 8 } does *not* indicate that it's only going to be used in a Lyrics context, so the "8" *appears* to have an unwarranted significance at this t

Re: LyricText center-on-word breaks lyricMelismaAlignment

On 03.12.2015 17:32, Thomas Morley wrote: #(define space-set (list->char-set (string->list "—.?-;,:“”‘’–— */()[]{}|<>!`~&…"))) I get an encoding problem with this. Could you resend as attachment? Yours, Simon ___ lilypond-user

Re: parameters in lyrics?

On 03.12.2015 18:04, David Nalesnik wrote: On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 10:54 AM, David Nalesnik mailto:david.nales...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi, On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Urs Liska mailto:u...@openlilylib.org>> wrote: Am 03.12.2015 um 17:30 schrieb Graham King: On

Re: Vertically centering a song text.

On 04.12.2015 09:08, Robert Blackstone wrote: Good morning Bill, Thanks for your advice. Yours was the first and, as far as I can understand, only answer to my question and it gave me exactly what I needed. Unfortunately the rest of what is discussed in this thread escapes me, but I have a sne

Re: Marks and metronome marks per staff group

On 04.12.2015 00:42, thorne wrote: One person in that thread said he was going to file a bug report, so I thought maybe something had changed by now. Yes, we have a tracker issue now… So we’re waiting for someone to fix it :-/ Yours, Sim

Re: problem adding \epsfile to markup

On 05.12.2015 11:56, Ryan Michael wrote: I have a local EPS file called "niolin.eps" which I am trying to add to my markup. I think i need to add a bounding box for it for it to work, but am not sure how to do that. I exported the EPS file directly from Adobe Illustrator. Here is the lilypond

Re: proper beaming question

Hello Karol, well, NR 1.2.4 discusses (in the paragraph starting with ‘In engraving from…’) this very topic, but only for ‘time signatures with 3 in the numerator’. I think this is much a matter of style, and thus I, as a notorious traditionalist, would prefer the 19th century version. But I a

Re: Why break doesn't work?

On 06.12.2015 02:12, Luca Danieli wrote: Thank you Brian for your help. I tried to add \bar "" \break and still didn't have any effect. Just to understand, so to behave correctly in possible future questions: what part of code should I post? All the 450 lines of my script? Of course not, un

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