Re: Determining what parameters exist for an item

On 24.01.2016 21:28, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 24.01.2016 21:15, Thomas Morley wrote: Now, if I want to reduce or enlarge KeyCancellation.X-extent, knowing that default is (0.0 . 5.82)*** gives me critical information that I can actually use as a reference point; without that information

Re: Font of accidentals changes after line break

On 24.01.2016 22:56, Robert Schmaus wrote: If it can't be fixed easily, how can I turn off the accidental after break? I tried \override Staff.Accidental.after-line-breaking = ##f but that didn't change anything. The after-line-breaking property can be set to a procedure, which will then be

Re: Determining what parameters exist for an item

On 25.01.2016 00:55, David Nalesnik wrote: \offset only works on properties that have a default value listed in the grob pages in the IR (derived from the alist in scm/define-grobs.scm). There is no default value listed for KeyCancellation.X-extent, hence the warning. Well, the point was t

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 158, Issue 140

On 25.01.2016 09:40, David Sumbler wrote: This "\offset" sounds very interesting. But I can find nothing about it in the documentation. It isn't indexed in any of the Lilypond manuals. Is it work in progress, added in a later version than my 2.19.30? No, it’s a 2.19 addition, but older than

Re: Determining what parameters exist for an item

On 25.01.2016 10:19, David Kastrup wrote: e.g. ‘Offset KeyCancellation’s X-extent by #'(0 . 2) (so it will have >two units whitespace at the right), regardless of how wide it would >normally be’. That would be a very powerful use case for \offset, if >also the technical limitations might be non-t

Re: simplifying chromatic scale notation

On 25.01.2016 22:19, musicus wrote: I just struggled with studying a complex music piece and thought that all the chromatic lines are horrible to read in standard notation. Especially the "enharmonic problem" is distracting the musician from a very simple musical structure. So I tried some of m

Re: ugly french-beaming hack messes with lyrics

On 26.01.2016 14:33, N. Andrew Walsh wrote: ah, now I see why I wasn't using something like your example. Look at what happens when the last note is raised a fourth: \version "2.19.35" << \relative c'' { c4 d f \override Stem.stemlet-length = #0.5 \override Stem.details.beamed-len

Re: "Automatische Aufteilung von Noten"

On 28.01.2016 11:02, Bernhard Kleine wrote: I have the following code and want to add this snippet from the Documentation: \new Voice \with { \remove "Note_heads_engraver" \consists "Completion_heads_engraver" \remove "Rest_engraver" \consists "Completion_rest_engraver" Adding it to

Re: Parenthesised articulations

On 31.01.2016 14:48, Andrew Bernard wrote: If I have an accent and a staccato indication together on a note and I want a single set of parentheses around both, how can this be achieved? Is this possible? How about that? Couldn’t think of a less clumsy name. %% \version "2.19.35" sho

Re: Parenthesised articulations

On 31.01.2016 15:02, Simon Albrecht wrote: shortAccentWithParens = -\tweak stencil #ly:text-interface::print -\tweak text \markup { Actually, each of the dashes before \tweak may be omitted. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: More Gounod :-)

On 31.01.2016 16:26, Alberto Simões wrote: Hi, Simon Although I still have some corrections to do, proposed by Brian, I would love to first close your suggestions. Yeah, last times have been rough, so a lot of time since this e-mail. On 11/12/15 22:55, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 11.12.2015

Re: Hiding one dynamic on a drum staff?

On 31.01.2016 20:20, Edward Ardzinski wrote: I usually write in a lazy way, omitting most dynamic marks, but a piece I'm working on now I'm explicitly putting a crescendo for a few bars on the drum part. For ease I just put it in the notes, rather than create a separate variable for the drum sta

Re: Hiding one dynamic on a drum staff?

On 31.01.2016 20:48, Edward Ardzinski wrote: Geez, thought about including the code: A complete, compilable example please. You can’t expect us to cook it up ourselves. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists

Re: Hiding one dynamic on a drum staff?

On 31.01.2016 20:59, Edward Ardzinski wrote: Edski-Rat-City_v2.ly Just as a courtesy to those trying to help, please follow the guidelines in . This is required in bug reports, an

Re: vertical positioning of consecutive figured bass indications

On 31.01.2016 22:25, Leszek Wroński wrote: if you take a look what Lilypond 2.19.5 (which is the version I'm using) produces from the following: \version "2.19.5" \score { \new Staff { \clef bass <16 <3>8.}>> }} you will, I hope, notice that the '3' is rendered quite a bit lower than t

Re: Gregorian clefs

On 31.01.2016 21:02, Joseph Folens wrote: Dear reader, I try to add the command \clef vaticana-do1 (or 2 or 3) into a text for a score In the report there is always a reference like "vaticana-do" is invalid, followed y the valid clefs, wich include the clef I have in my text. So, it seems the

Re: list of thicknesses affected by changing StaffSymbol.thickness

On 31.01.2016 22:34, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Ultimately, my goal is to be able to design stylesheets that match certain “house styles” (e.g., Hanle, Chappell & Co., Peters). I find that many plate-engraved scores appear to have a slightly heavier overall look to the staff lines, so I wanted to

Enhancement: Take ‘master’ line thickness from a context property [was: Re: list of thicknesses…]

On 31.01.2016 23:15, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 31.01.2016 22:34, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Ultimately, my goal is to be able to design stylesheets that match certain “house styles” (e.g., Hanle, Chappell & Co., Peters). I find that many plate-engraved scores appear to have a slightly hea

Re: Parenthesised articulations

On 01.02.2016 11:38, David Kastrup wrote: The "parenthesize" property is a boolean. Maybe it should be a boolean-or-symbol ? And if it's a symbol, the respective engraver collects all articulations with the same symbol and then sets one set of parentheses around all of them? I can’t quite fig

Re: Four Part Piano Staff

On 02.02.2016 03:25, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: Hello, I want to make a template for a piano staff with two explicitly instantiated voices (not <<{ } \\{ } >>) in each staff – this for four part fugues. Any assistance in accomplishing this would be greatly appreciated. To come back to yo

Re: How to align text and dynamixs

On 02.02.2016 08:43, Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote: Thank you! (Stupid brain seizing to work in the night, of course it is articulations...) It did the trick but i only understand half of what's going on in what you wrote. In the interest of learning, would you mind to decipher or give a pointe

Re: Four Part Piano Staff

On 03.02.2016 00:09, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: Thank you for your reply and the suggested code. What you provide works well with a single staff - as presented in the documentation. When inserted into a piano staff two additional staves are included between the two piano staves. You’d need to b

Re: automatic line-breaking in markup

On 03.02.2016 19:24, Jonathan Scholbach wrote: I want to create a template for a cover page. I do that by redefining bookTitleMarkup. The title of the piece is stored as string in a variable If there’s no particular need for that, I’d use a normal header block and \fromproperty. and I want

Re: Very fast typesetting regardless of beauty?

On 04.02.2016 02:51, Isaac Reilly wrote: And since it will always be rendering to a single page wide enough to hold it all on one line, I'd like to turn off the line break calculations. At least there are the ly:one-line-breaking and ly:one-line-auto-height-breaking (only from 2.19.36) algorit

Direction of tie from Completion_heads_engraver

Hello, is there any possibility to tweak direction of a tie generated via the Completion_heads_engraver? The following tweaks both don’t work: %%% \version "2.19.36" \layout { \context { \Voice \remove "Note_heads_engraver" \consists "Completion_heads_engraver" } } {

Tie and slur in opposite directions

Hello, I find the output from the following example quite unpleasant due to the different directions of slur and tie. What do you think? Do the ‘authorities’ say anything on the topic? Curiously, I can’t find a corresponding example for a downward slur and upward tie right now. Slurs have a st

Re: LilyBin.com wedged?

On 05.02.2016 02:14, Steve Lacy wrote: It looks like lilybin.com is internally wedged or something? The right hand side is just showing a "please wait" spinner for me, and the "Preview" button is greyed. No problem here. Just try again :-) Best, Simon _

Re: Direction of tie from Completion_heads_engraver

On 05.02.2016 23:25, Noeck wrote: a general upward flip of the ties can be achieved more easily with \tieUp (slaps hand to forehead) I see, the problem is not the \override, but the \once, or rather the moment at which the override is valid. An \override without \once works, and even the foll

Re: Direction of tie from Completion_heads_engraver

On 05.02.2016 22:44, Thomas Morley wrote: 2016-02-04 23:57 GMT+01:00 Simon Albrecht : Hello, is there any possibility to tweak direction of a tie generated via the Completion_heads_engraver? The following tweaks both don’t work: %%% \version "2.19.36" \layout {

Re: Direction of tie from Completion_heads_engraver

On 05.02.2016 23:37, Simon Albrecht wrote: Thanks Harm, that’s an intelligent solution for a global setting. Indeed, I only wanted to change it for some particular instances, where tie and slur go in opposite directions (see my other post of yesterday) Which shows that it would have been

Re: Direction of tie from Completion_heads_engraver

On 05.02.2016 23:45, David Kastrup wrote: Actually, I looked at the problem and the C code and decided that it was not doable (I'm no Morley it would appear). I figured out that a \once \override "at the right moment" would have worked, but since the whole point of the Completion_heads_engraver

Re: Grace notes and voices.

On 07.02.2016 01:13, Hwaen Ch'uqi wrote: Having searched rather thoroughly through the archives, I understand that the issue of grace notes within voice contexts is a perennial one. Unfortunately, the Known Issues and Warnings do not address my problem, and the example is, to my mind, incredibly

Re: Super and sub

On 07.02.2016 11:39, David Kastrup wrote: >(Preferably with LilyPonds own accidentals and perhaps the BC-font.) Well, what you put in there is up to you. You can also experiment along the lines of %%% \version "2.19.36" #(define-markup-command (number-stack layout props args) (markup-list

Re: Super and sub

On 07.02.2016 14:27, Noeck wrote: Could someone guide me a bit, how to upload the patch? Should the issue 3619 [1] be continued or a new one created? It’ll be better to create a new one. The procedure to submit patches is explained in the CG, see especially

Re: Super and sub

On 07.02.2016 14:50, Phil Holmes wrote: I wasn't aware that git-cl "always fails". Could you describe the problem I thought it was a known issue? It’s the case for which you recently added more helpful messages. Here’s the command line in- and output: $ git cl upload origin/master Document

Re: Best way to provide LilyPond via thumb drive

Hello Ralph, On 12.02.2016 14:06, Ralph Palmer wrote: Soon, I shall be visiting a music school which almost certainly has computers but which probably has little internet access. I would like to give them a thumb drive with all the files they would need for setup, learning, and running LilyPon

Re: positioning a rest

On 12.02.2016 22:02, Noeck wrote: the problem with your code is that your code says the second rest is in \oneVoice (this means there are no other simultaneous voices around). But there is the c' at the same time in \voiceTwo and that confuses LilyPond. If you mark the voices correctly, you will

Re: Horizontal offset in polyphonic contexts.

Hello Guy, On 12.02.2016 23:17, Guy Stalnaker wrote: Code below produces perplexing results."\once \override NoteColumn.X-offset" works in two situations, but not a third, and shifts the wrong notes on a fourth. I do not understand why. Why does the .X-offset work for ExampleTwo and ExampleFou

Re: Horizontal spacing - choir

Hello, On 14.02.2016 12:58, Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote: I need advice on how to best typeset my SATB score. The problem revolves around horizontal spacing. http://lilybin.com/15a0y9/2 I feel it is a bit cramped and the breaks do not flow naturally. I don’t think it’s cramped – well, I like

Re: Avoiding PhrasingSlur/accidental collisions

On 14.02.2016 11:57, N. Andrew Walsh wrote: I see the following possible override: \once \override PhrasingSlur.details.accidental-collision = #'(3) but that doesn't seem to have any effect. Am I modifying the wrong grob here? As Joram pointed out, you need to set this to a number, not a lis

Re: unusual lyric placement in second verse

Hello, On 14.02.2016 15:56, dl.mcnam...@comcast.net wrote: I'm typesetting a hymn where the first section is (volta) repeated with different lyrics. The way that the words are laid out across the two different lines seems odd and distracting to me -- particularly on the fourth and eighth bar

Re: unusual lyric placement in second verse

On 14.02.2016 16:42, dl.mcnam...@comcast.net wrote: I'm not sure how your suggestion would mesh with the piece's overall structure; Here's a more complete take: http://lilybin.com/l8kuff/2 There’s nothing in that link – could you try again? (I tried to trim extra stuff for a minimal example)

Re: unusual lyric placement in second verse

On 14.02.2016 19:46, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 14.02.2016 16:42, dl.mcnam...@comcast.net wrote: I'm not sure how your suggestion would mesh with the piece's overall structure; Here's a more complete take: http://lilybin.com/l8kuff/2 There’s nothing in that link – could you

Re: How to trigger rall. in articulate.ly

On 14.02.2016 16:47, Richard Shann wrote: On Sun, 2016-02-14 at 13:15 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Richard Shann writes: The articulate.ly script appears to support rallentando but I can't figure out how to trigger it. In LilyPond AFAIK rall. is expressed as text in a text spanner, there's no

Re: Best way to provide LilyPond via thumb drive

On 14.02.2016 17:11, Colin Campbell wrote: the Spanish version of the docs might be more or less out of date I just saw that the Spanish version has been extensively updated very recently. I don’t know if this revision has already made it into a release, but it seems that in general this tran

Re: Horizontal spacing - choir

On 14.02.2016 20:24, Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote: I tried this inside the lyrics, i dont see any change though: \override LyricText #'font-name = #Alegreya-Regular You need to give the font name as a string, in this case: \override LyricText.font-name = "Alegreya" (untested) HTH, Simon _

Re: unusual lyric placement in second verse

On 14.02.2016 20:27, dl.mcnam...@comcast.net wrote: Thanks Simon, you've pointed me in the right direction. Here's the updated score http://lilybin.com/l8kuff/3 (I neglected to save the #2 version before sending the email). This is totally workable for me. While you may consider it ‘workable’,

Re: unusual lyric placement in second verse

On 14.02.2016 21:40, dl.mcnam...@comcast.net wrote: If you see deficiencies in the coding style please let me know what they are. For example to always surround = and { } with spaces. Also indentation should be only by 2 spaces per level – the Frescobaldi auto-formatter does a good job. Bes

Re: Segfault when using RemoveEmptyStaves

On 15.02.2016 23:15, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Hello list I was ponding along with 2.18.2 and all of a sudden, the piece I was typing didn't build a PDF anymore. As it turns out, lilypund is suffering a segmentation fault. I took the file apart and in an hour's search narrowed it down to those

Re: Is there a bug in the way Lilypond handles staccatos?

On 16.02.2016 07:22, Helge Kruse wrote: Maybe I'm wrong. But how are slurs related to stccatos? This was only a typo, corrected by Devin in a parallel post. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mai

Re: variables in \book { }

On 17.02.2016 13:27, David Kastrup wrote: Graham King writes: \book { music = \relative { c' d e f } \score { \music } } The problem is that it would likely be possible to teach LilyPond's parser to accept the latter,

Re: Cross-staff phrase marks

On 17.02.2016 11:01, Andrew Bernard wrote: lilypond uses only cubic bezier curves, Which means they can have at most one ‘turning point’, that’s the limitation. So S-shaped is possible, but ‘W-shaped’ isn’t. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing l

Re: Arbitrary number of arguments in Scheme function?

On 17.02.2016 14:02, David Kastrup wrote: I don't really see much of an option other than accepting 8 and consequently also 8(~ as an expression of type ly:music? Which would be a useful feature IMO. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypo

Re: Cross-staff phrase marks

On 17.02.2016 18:19, Kieren MacMillan wrote: chaining, [composite] slurs There’s no such thing, and it sounds like a nightmare ;-) Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Multi-rest with automatic bar number before and after it

Hello Jacques, there are two possible approaches: %% \version "2.18.2" multiROne = #(define-music-function (parser location bar-count)(rational?) (let ((display-bar-num #{ \once\override Score.BarNumber.break-visibility = ##(#f #t #t) #}) (dur (ly:make-duration 0 0 b

Re: Multi-rest with automatic bar number before and after it

On 18.02.2016 21:34, Craig Dabelstein wrote: On this same subject, is it possible to put the span of bar numbers below a multi bar rest e.g. below a 14-bar multi bar rest, have it print (centered) 1-14? Sounds quite confusing to me: Either you have a MultiMeasureRestText, giving the duration

Re: Manual bug in 2.18

On 19.02.2016 17:14, BB wrote: I just tried it again with 2.18 \version "2.18.0" \relative c' { \set Staff.keySignature = #`(((0 . 6) . ,FLAT) ((0 . 5) . ,FLAT) ((0 . 3) . ,SHARP)) c4 d e fis aes4 bes c2 } does not work? I think compiling with 2.18 under2.19 there is not really used ver

Re: How do I adjust organ pedal marks vertically?

On 19.02.2016 16:50, Joseph N. Srednicki wrote: I am engraving the final movement of Mendelssohn’s Organ Sonata 6. Just to be sure: Mendelssohn didn’t write any pedal marks, those come from some editor. If you want to make a ‘practical’ edition, then that’s fine; if you’d like to stick to wha

Re: Font size of pedal marks

On 19.02.2016 19:18, Joseph N. Srednicki wrote: Is there a command to adjust the size of the pedal marks \rheel, \lheel, \rtoe, \ltoe? They produce Script grobs, so you’d need (in a \layout block) \override Script.font-size = -10 % dummy value However this will also change numerous other ob

Re: manual Makam example

On 21.02.2016 12:54, BB wrote: At the end of subchapter "Arabic key signatures" in chapter "2.10.2 Arabic music" on page http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/arabic-music there is in subchapter "Selected Snippets" a snippet example. It is very peculiar that in this example is no

Re: Install on linux

On 21.02.2016 13:18, Jean Bréfort wrote: Why don't you directly use the lilypond package? sudo apt-get install lilypond You might end up with a more or less old LilyPond version. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https

How to correctly use ly:warning-located?

Hello, the doc string for ly:warning-located says ‘Function: ly:warning-located location str rest A Scheme callable function to issue the warning str at the specified location in an input file. The message is formatted with format and rest.’ However, with this example %%% \version "2

Re: manual Makam example

I think that ha s to do with the missing key alteration order? May be an extension/redesign of maqam.ly is necessary? Help would be appreciated! On 21.02.2016 13:27, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 21.02.2016 12:54, BB wrote: At the end of subchapter "Arabic key signatures" in chapter "

Re: manual Makam example

On 21.02.2016 16:15, Simon Albrecht wrote: Don’t reply off-list! I have no idea whatsoever about arabic music, so there’s no point in e-mailing me. Sorry for the noise… Best, Simon On 21.02.2016 14:44, BB wrote: I still think that the snippet ifrom the world music chapter is better than the

Re: How to correctly use ly:warning-located?

On 21.02.2016 15:13, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht writes: Hello, the doc string for ly:warning-located says ‘Function: ly:warning-located location str rest A Scheme callable function to issue the warning str at the specified location in an input file. The message is formatted with

Re: How to correctly use ly:warning-located?

On 22.02.2016 02:04, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht writes: *location* is a procedure (used for accessing the fluid %location local to the guile module), not a location. So call it. OK, that’s one thing. But with (*location*) I still get the same error message that it be of the wrong

Re: Vertical position of bar numbers

Hello David, On 22.02.2016 05:09, David Wright wrote: Having recently fixed a similar problem with bar numbering by moving the Mark_engraver and adding Staff_collecting_engraver at Staff level, I've run into the following: my bar numbers are running along the skyline of my lyrics, as shown in th

Re: How to work with large orchestral1 projects

On 22.02.2016 08:51, Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote: In my mind i figured that nothing can come from nothing, so i tried the following: << {a2} \\ {s4\sfz\> s4\pp\<} >> But this produces only the top voice with the stem the wrong way (of course). Any ideas? As Urs wrote you’re

Re: How to correctly use ly:warning-located?

On 22.02.2016 12:20, David Kastrup wrote: You probably want to use ly:input-warning instead of ly:warning-located. Thanks, that does it. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond

Re: Music function for arrow directions in arpeggios

On 23.02.2016 22:22, Noeck wrote: the names \arpeggioUp and \arpeggioDown are still free and would me much more lilypondish. More imprecise, really. It’s really only the direction of the arrow that’s changed, not the direction of the whole grob. Best, Simon _

Re: Music function for arrow directions in arpeggios

On 23.02.2016 16:14, Abraham Lee wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 8:04 AM, Malte Meyn > wrote: Am 23.02.2016 um 15:52 schrieb Caio Giovaneti de Barros: I'm trying to write a function to make easier for me to change arrow directions in ar

Re: Music function for arrow directions in arpeggios

On 24.02.2016 00:08, Dan Eble wrote: Is this a case where attaching an arpeggio to a chord with ^ or _ should make a difference, or do I misunderstand the point of those characters? Yes, you do. They change the direction of the entire grob, not the arpeggio-direction indicated by the arrow.

Re: Fingerings get crushed if key is removed. Bug?

On 24.02.2016 17:14, Pierre-Luc Gauthier wrote: Greetings, Just documenting an oddity. If you remove the key (on line 11) the piano fingerings get crushed into the beams. Rather strange… Should I file a bug report ? No, I think this is ‘expected behaviour’ in some way: Without the key si

Re: Graphic background behind systems

On 28.02.2016 18:31, Klaus Blum wrote: you could use \override Score.BarLine.whiteout = ##t but that would make the white "frame" around the barlines cover the staff lines. That kind of problems can be overcome by overriding layer on the competing objects. Best, Simon _

Re: Vertical position of bar numbers

On 28.02.2016 05:52, David Wright wrote: I hit p167 and the construct \new Lyrics = "sopranos" \with { % this is needed for lyrics above a staff \override VerticalAxisGroup.staff-affinity = #DOWN } I can see a very subtle difference with and without this \with { } clause, but there's no e

Re: Long words in lyrics and spacing

On 28.02.2016 08:45, Andrew Bernard wrote: If I remove the call to the consists statement in the layout block, the long words run over the bar. If you add it in, they line up. I don’t understand why. If you add a Bar_engraver to the Lyrics, it will engrave BarLines. Lyrics contexts are by def

Re: Graphic background behind systems

On 28.02.2016 19:33, Klaus Blum wrote: Hmmm... I could use \override Score.BarLine.layer = #-1 \override Score.BarLine.whiteout = ##t to move the barline behind the staff lines. But if I want to whiteout the staff lines as well, that doesn't help anymore. Or is there a way to place

Re: Quarter notes with bars like \breve

On 28.02.2016 18:31, Gregor Giesen wrote: Hi, how can I write a quarter note (without stem) embraced by two bars exactly like a note of the length \breve? It’s not easy, since the bars belong to the note head glyph used by breve notes. Probably you need to combine three tools: – [\once] \hid

Re: Graphic background behind systems

On 28.02.2016 20:10, Klaus Blum wrote: Simon Albrecht-2 wrote Please give an example of what exactly you can’t achieve. David suggested to whiteout the staff lines AND the barlines, but not the whole markup-score thing. I don't know how to do this without one covering the other. I’

Re: Graphic background behind systems

On 29.02.2016 12:03, Paul Booker wrote: I can't find an explanation of the tweak prefixes. Do you know the difference between -\tweak ^\tweak and \tweak in the above script? It doesn't work without them! A direction modifier (- for ‘neutral’, ^ for ‘up’ or _ for ‘down’) is needed to mark a

Re: Graphic background behind systems

On 29.02.2016 18:00, Klaus Blum wrote: you could add \with-dimensions #'(0 . 0) #'(0 . 0) Or, in 2.19.37, equivalently: \with-dimensions-from \null Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: Spacing with \new Lyrics and a full measure rest.

On 01.03.2016 11:04, Hwaen Ch'uqi wrote: Greetings All, This is an example from a vocal score for a musical. What is the best way of ensuring that the barline and subsequent measure respects the length of the spoken text rather than the full bar rest? Add a Bar_engraver to the Lyrics context.

Re: page numbering with front-matter

Hello Graham, On 01.03.2016 14:18, Graham King wrote: I've set a \book{} with a table-of-contents and other front-matter on the inside front cover. How do I persuade lilypond to omit the page-number on the inside-front-cover, and start numbering pages from "1" on the next page? Use bookpart

Re: Spacing with \new Lyrics and a full measure rest.

On 01.03.2016 12:09, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: you can make the BarLine transparent: Of course. Much better :-) Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Key signature and clef sneaking in

Hello, this is complicated to describe, but the example should be easily understood. If I have a new Staff appearing in the middle of a system, how can I make the key signature and clef not expand spacing in the other staves, i.e. shift to the right below the previous music? Best, Simon \ver

Re: Piano centered lyrics does't go to the right place.

Hello Fan, On 02.03.2016 04:36, Fan Hongtao wrote: I use the template http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/learning/piano-centered-lyrics trying to engrave “Ten little Indian boys". The lyrics does't go to the right place. It looks like the lyrics can only match upper notes. first a

Re: fingeringOrientations = #'( left right ) not possible?

On 02.03.2016 15:17, Thomas Scharkowski wrote: Original-Nachricht Thomas Scharkowski writes: \version "2.19.36" { \set fingeringOrientations = #'(left right) } gives right-orientated fingerings. Is this intended? Why wouldn't it be intended? You give LilyPond the

Re: Impossible or ambiguous (de)crescendo in MIDI.

On 02.03.2016 21:21, Graham King wrote: On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 14:37 +, Graham King wrote: Is there a magic spell to soothe lilypond in these circumstances? It might seem like nit-picking, but there are so many of these errors in the score that they are obscuring other, more important, mess

Re: First measure too far to right

On 03.03.2016 21:18, Eric Albert wrote: I'd also love to know how to: - have a B minor 7 flat 5 display as "Bm7b5" (rather than the default half-diminished symbol, an 'O' with a slash through it) Customizing chord names is explained in the first of the ‘Selected snippets’ on

Re: OT: pagenumber

On 04.03.2016 22:53, Blöchl Bernhard wrote: But please do not forget that the manual is not addressed to programmers in first place but simple minded users like me. As a simple minded user I am only just interested how to get it work! I don’t want LilyPond to be ‘esoteric’, but… At least I wo

Re: Impossible or ambiguous (de)crescendo in MIDI

On 05.03.2016 01:04, Graham King wrote: On Fri, 2016-03-04 at 13:33 -0600, Cynthia Karl wrote: > I think I understand why these errors are generated. It would appear that \fz is not intended to be used as a dynamic - it is not mentioned in the NR. Nevertheless, is is defined as a dynamic scr

Re: Problems with midi2ly

On 05.03.2016 18:37, mark damerell wrote: 3. Lyrics get mangled. To see this, go to manuals > learning > 3.4.2 Four part SATB and extract the Handel example. Add \layout {} \midi {} just above the very last } which terminates the \score. Save, say as handel.ly . Run

Re: Whiteout box function by Thomas Morley / need help

On 06.03.2016 12:16, Karol Majewski wrote: As for skylines: in a nutshell, skylines are invisible borders. Setting them to #'() affects the shape of these borders. IIUC, it rather removes the skyline, making the grob invisible for spacing purposes, doesn’t it? Best, Simon __

Re: Use jazz fonts in LilyPond?

On 07.03.2016 00:10, Eric Albert wrote: I like the look of the commercial product JazzFont (to view the complete character sets, click on "KEYSTROKES" in the rightmost blue box on the second line of boxes in the top center of the page, then click on "Jazzfont for Windows", which is down a bit o

Re: Piece/instrument names choice

On 07.03.2016 14:39, Menu Jacques wrote: Hello folks, I’m re-scoring the bassoon parts of Spohr’s first clarinet concerto, whose originals are hard to read. They start with movement and instrument names placed this way: Try redefining the paper variable bookTitleMarkup, as explained here:

Re: scale durations

On 07.03.2016 21:21, Craig Dabelstein wrote: I'm struggling with a piece of polymetric notation. I have a piece in 9/8 but halfway through some staves need to change to 3/4. I have this: \set Staff.timeSignatureFraction = #'(3 . 4) \scaleDurations #'(3 . 2) but I can't figure out what fra

Re: scale durations

On 07.03.2016 22:20, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht writes: On 07.03.2016 21:21, Craig Dabelstein wrote: I'm struggling with a piece of polymetric notation. I have a piece in 9/8 but halfway through some staves need to change to 3/4. I have this: \set Staff.timeSignatureFra

Re: scale durations

On 07.03.2016 22:53, Craig Dabelstein wrote: Hi David, No, I didn't have to move the Default_bar_line_engraver. It worked fine the way you originally said. The one with Default_bar_line_engraver was directed at me. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user ma

Re: I'm not smart enough to figure out the math for this.

On 08.03.2016 21:19, Blöchl Bernhard wrote: May be you need some private coaching in waltz math ? Here it is: \relative c' { \time 3/4 c4 c c | c c c } Bernhard, what the heck do you think you’re up to? Please _read_ others’ posts before sneering at them, or better just quit th

Re: I'm not smart enough to figure out the math for this.

On 08.03.2016 22:06, Michael Rivers wrote: Thanks for the solutions. I'm OK with an error message! Or you can insert #(ly:expect-warning "strange") in your source. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.

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