Re: Wide spacing after extremely long syllable

2016-03-09 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 09.03.2016 03:14, markdblackwell wrote: After an extremely long syllable in the lyrics, the next measure's spacing is quite wide, even with ragged-right. In the tiny example below, the problematic measure (of two eighth notes) comprises the word, "shine". First thing I think of would be a c

Re: top-markup-spacing problem

2016-03-14 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 14.03.2016 15:53, Sharon Rosner wrote: The … missing … attached files :-) Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 157, Issue 18

2016-03-14 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 14.03.2016 18:21, Joseph Haig wrote: I'm responding to a digest email. Will the mailing list system sort it out correctly? No, it won’t. Please always edit the subject line in such cases, or just disable digest mode. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-us

Re: Set beam subdivision to #t by default

2016-03-15 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 15.03.2016 09:44, Urs Liska wrote: I would strongly suggest to switch the default setting so that subdivideBeams is set to #t by default. Agreed. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listi

Re: no text

2016-03-15 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 15.03.2016 16:27, Bernhard Kleine wrote: I do not see what is wrong, the text is not displayed. It is close to what I used before. I am stymied. All you do in the ‘texttext’ variable is set the stanza number to a very long string. So no text is displayed. HTH, Simon Bernhard \version "

Re: Adding acoustic guitar (steel) to MIDI

2016-03-15 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 15.03.2016 23:31, Abraham Lee wrote: David, On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 4:14 PM, David Landt > wrote: Hello David. David Kastrup wrote > ChordName or FretBoard context? Yes, I used ChordNames. I think the grand piano instrument sounded on

Re: Adding acoustic guitar (steel) to MIDI

2016-03-15 Thread Simon Albrecht
lenge. This forum is very helpful. David Landt All the best for your way with LilyPond! Simon On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 6:15 PM -0700, "Simon Albrecht" mailto:simon.albre...@mail.de>> wrote: On 16.03.2016 01:04, David Landt wrote: > Hello Simon. > > > Simon Albrecht-2

Re: Dynamics context and vertical positions

2016-03-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 16.03.2016 11:07, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: \layout { \context { \Dynamics \override VerticalAxisGroup.nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing.basic-distance = #0 } } I wonder why isn't this the default behaviour though, why would people want the Dynamic context so far away from the rel

Re: HELP: Trill line without 'tr' written before it

2016-03-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi George, On 16.03.2016 11:21, George wrote: this creates a trill line above the note (I'd like it to appear on the stave) with 'tr' written before it (I'd like the zig-zag line to appear directly after the note head, with no extra text, just the line.) How can I accomplish this? Have a look

Re: HELP: Trill line without 'tr' written before it

2016-03-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 16.03.2016 11:42, Mike Solomon wrote: \once \override TrillSpanner #'bound-details #'left #'text = ##f % this is how IIUC this syntax is being disallowed at the moment and 2.20 will only allow the (very convenient) dot-separated list syntax \once\override TrillSpanner bound-details.left.te

Re: HELP: Trill line without 'tr' written before it

2016-03-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 16.03.2016 23:46, Thomas Morley wrote: 2016-03-16 12:17 GMT+01:00 Simon Albrecht : On 16.03.2016 12:15, Thomas Morley wrote: How about using RhythmicStaff and glissando? Why? I don’t see need to use such tricks here. Best, Simon I don't see any tricks in my code, just simplifying t

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

2016-03-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Graham, On 17.03.2016 23:51, Graham King wrote: # { c_\markup { \dynamic p \italic { dolce } } Looks like a dynamic, walks like a dynamic, but doesn't quack like one. Replace with { c-\omit\p_\markup { \dynamic p \italic { dolce } } Likewise for "meno f" and many other cases. # { c1\sf

Re: HELP: Trill line without 'tr' written before it

2016-03-19 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 16.03.2016 12:15, Thomas Morley wrote: How about using RhythmicStaff and glissando? Why? I don’t see need to use such tricks here. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-us

Re: openlilylib.org programming

2016-03-19 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 18.03.2016 14:26, Urs Liska wrote: new "logo" lettering Basically, I like it. There are very nice ideas. However, IMO the outline looks a little ‘haphazard’. E.g. I think it would be better if the first letters of each line would form one diagonal line – that would also enhance the ‘OLL’

Re: "format" and "make implicit" for muliple files

2016-03-19 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 19.03.2016 04:22, Craig Dabelstein wrote: Hi Lilyponders, Would anyone know how to apply some of Frescobaldi's features to a whole folder of files rather than one at a time? E.g. the "format" feature and the "make implicit (per line)" feature. I think this is functionality now contained i

Re: Q re LSR snippet 744

2016-03-19 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 19.03.2016 15:30, Thomas Morley wrote: 2016-03-19 12:41 GMT+01:00 Michael Gerdau : somewhere between 2.14. and 2.16. LilyPond internals changed how the Hyphen is represented. The check for (eq? (ly:music-property lyrics 'name) 'HyphenEvent) in (lyrics->list lyrics) will never be true nowaday

Re: Ask about the lyric of Lilypond

2016-03-19 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 19.03.2016 16:49, 15221328968 wrote: I know that English and Chinese words can be displayed as lyric. So I guess that maybe there is some configuration files where I can let the lilypond find the ttf font made by myself. But I don't know how to do that. There are different ways in LilyPond

Re: Ask about the lyric of Lilypond

2016-03-20 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 20.03.2016 14:21, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: you should install the font in such a way that fontconfig can find it, but how that works depends on your platform (windows, osx, linux) and which lilypond version you use. I've added the list which should be able to help you further. Just for the

Re: Chord Glissando Individual Voice right bound tweaking

2016-03-20 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 20.03.2016 15:59, dtsmarin wrote: The codefile is HUGE and I can't post it due to copyright reasons, so here is a part of the code. That’s what the explanation on our site is about: that you should create a _tiny_ example which shows the _exact_ problem, omitting all unrelated stuff. The e

Re: Licence LilyPond Logo?

2016-03-20 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 20.03.2016 14:51, Marco Heins wrote: Hi everybody, I'm currently working on a free tutorial about notation typesetting with LilyPond for classical guitar. I was wondering if it would be violating the licence if I show the nice LilyPond Logo on top of my tutorial? I don’t know how exactly th

Re: Multiple slurs on chord

2016-03-20 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 20.03.2016 18:31, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: "Alberto Simões" To: "lilypond" Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2016 4:52 PM Subject: Multiple slurs on chord Hi Is it possible to do a multiple slur, one for each note? (see attach) Thanks alberto FWIW, if I were readin

Re: Use a straight tick (single straight quote) for a breath mark

2016-03-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 21.03.2016 16:06, Thomas Morley wrote: 2016-03-21 15:53 GMT+01:00 Joseph N. Srednicki : Hello: I found the snippet that shows how to change symbol for the \breathe command. See http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=195 Can someone tell me how to change the script value to a straight tick, s

Re: A big advantage to lilypond

2016-03-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Daniel, On 22.03.2016 01:46, Redwood (Daniel) wrote: But I wonder: why aren’t more lilypond authors posting more of their sources to IMSLP? personally, I’m often reluctant to do so, because I might want to distribute my typesets commercially. In my opinion, _good_ music typography is an

Re: grace-note spacing and triplets

2016-03-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Jan-Peter, On 22.03.2016 15:10, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: Hi all, I have a problem spacing grace notes under a series of triplets. In the example, the grace notes produce a big gap between the tuplets or collide with the accidentals. It’s an annoying bug that this isn’t handled nicely, and

Re: Winged repeat bar line unique over multiple staves

2016-03-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 22.03.2016 23:01, Alexis Maleval wrote: Hi Thomas, thanks for your support, unfortunately I wasn’t able to open the two files, are they encrypted? No, they aren’t. I can open them just fine. See in case they didn’t ar

Re: Dynamics placement

2016-03-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Graham, please give an actual code example, as small as possible, to start with. Best, Simon On 22.03.2016 23:41, Graham King wrote: I've adopted Simon Albrecht's excellent suggestion in an earlier thread [1], and am now using code based on snippet 739 [2] to typeset some long dynamic m

Re: mute percussion notation

2016-03-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 23.03.2016 11:23, David Kastrup wrote: Bernard writes: Lilypond is highly flexible and many drumnotes are predefined. But I could not find info how to define my own drumnote. I tried : \version "2.18.2" #(define mydrums '( (bassdrum

Re: midi articulation

2016-03-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 23.03.2016 18:21, Daniel Birns wrote: I see what articulate.ly does. However… has anyone tried to do this within the midi generator. Without knowing much about the topic, I’d say it would be very welcome, since articulate.ly messes up printed output. I’m a software developer — not pytho

Re: PDF page number hyperrefs?

2016-03-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Mátyás, by the way: a subject is helpful :-) Only saying… Yours, Simon On 23.03.2016 08:33, Mátyás Seress wrote: Hi guys, I just downloaded the Lilypond Notation Reference pdf for version 2.19.38 from here: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation.pdf and I noticed that

Re: Make the span bar go from top to bottom through all staves

2016-03-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 24.03.2016 00:34, Joseph N. Srednicki wrote: Is it possible to make the span bars for the measures to extend through all staves of the system so that the bar lines appear as one solid line from top to bottom? Of course: just make it one StaffGroup (or PianoStaff, as you like). I’d sugg

Re: Where is the latest articulate.ly?

2016-03-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 24.03.2016 01:10, Daniel Birns wrote: So, the default is 7/8 (though I’m not sure yet what 1 . 2 is…) '(1 . 2), equivalent to (cons 1 2), is a scheme pair. but I wondered about 7/8. CPE Bach says normally notes are play for 1/2 their duration, That’s a very debatable quote. Numerical rel

Re: Custom drum midi notes (Was: mute percussion notation)

2016-03-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 24.03.2016 16:02, Pierre-Luc Gauthier wrote: % How can I append those bellow to the default list? % (Instead of replacing the old list) midiDrumPitches = #`( (key . ,(ly:make-pitch 0 6 FLAT)) (cr . ,(ly:make-pitch 1 1 NATURAL))

Re: How to add padding around whiteout text

2016-03-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 24.03.2016 19:25, Joseph N. Srednicki wrote: Could someone please explain how to add some padding around the text or point me to the location in the documentation or mail archive that deals with this issue? Just use: \markup { \override #'(thickness . 5) \whiteout { \fontsize #-3 \line

Re: How to add padding around whiteout text

2016-03-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 24.03.2016 20:26, Daniel Birns wrote: I downloaded 2.19.38 and got this. Is this a new problem with .38? Do you, Joseph, see this? dant.ly :35:1: error: syntax error, unexpected ‘}' This is a very basic LilyPond syntax error, so it certainly doesn’t have anything to do wit

Re: How to add padding around whiteout text

2016-03-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 25.03.2016 02:48, Daniel Birns wrote: Y’all, I had trouble with this in lilypond. Sure enough, if you look at the bottom, the email processing mangled the source. The last two << characters are replaced with something else. It’s rather the >>, isn’t it? > characters are used for indenting

Re: Custom drum midi notes

2016-03-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 25.03.2016 17:47, David Kastrup wrote: Pierre-Luc Gauthier writes: 2016-03-24 11:26 GMT-04:00 Simon Albrecht : An alist being a list of list you should be able to write midiDrumPitches = #(append midiDrumPitches `((key . ,(ly:make-pitch 0 6 FLAT

Re: Create staff for Congas

2016-03-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 25.03.2016 15:01, George wrote: official lilypond documentation for doing so: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for- percussion#percussion-staves In case you’re really using 2.16: why not update to at least 2.18? Or even recent unstable, which isn’t v

Re: Changing Laissez Vibrer ties for chords

2016-03-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 27.03.2016 06:09, dtsmarin wrote: Please I need some help..this code doesn't work for me. Version 2.19.38 -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Changing-Laissez-Vibrer-ties-for-chords-tp170717p189016.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.co

Re: Changing Laissez Vibrer ties for chords

2016-03-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 27.03.2016 22:47, dtsmarin wrote: Sorry for not including the code, but I simply grabbed it from this thread and pasted it in Lilypond, so I figured out that you would do the same to see if this code doesn't work. That’s why I wrote about not everybody (or not even most people) using the Na

Re: Tweaking individual ties in a chord

2016-03-29 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Andrew, I’ve never done this myself, but you need to tweak TieColumn instead. Best, Simon On 29.03.2016 10:41, Andrew Bernard wrote: Can you tweak individual ties in a chord (despite that the NR says that this is a known issue)? I am always hopeful there are solutions. The 2.19.38 NR says

Re: How to get swing feel from dotted notation?

2016-03-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 31.03.2016 09:41, Blöchl Bernhard wrote: Is'nt it possible to provide a "swing button" for 67/33 for to make the midi file swinging, but leaves the 50/50 notation in the pdf untouched? That’s all this thread is about. Stephen MacNeil already pointed out that Johannes Rohrer has come up wi

Re: Ties across staves

2016-03-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Andrew, that’s a really interesting look you gave to the music! :-) On 31.03.2016 12:36, Andrew Bernard wrote: There’s a group of grace notes that are tied to chord notes in the bottom staff and the top staff as well. The problem is not having a voice change staff – that’s easy – but havi

Re: unfold: volta for typesetting, unfold for MIDI generation?

2016-03-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 31.03.2016 22:46, Christoph Friedrich wrote: Hi would it be possible to upload articulate.ly ? What do you mean, this: ? Best, Simon Am 30.03.2016 um 13:12 schrieb Henning Hrab

Re: unfold: volta for typesetting, unfold for MIDI generation?

2016-03-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
\include it right away. Best, Simon Am 31.03.2016 um 23:16 schrieb Simon Albrecht : On 31.03.2016 22:46, Christoph Friedrich wrote: Hi would it be possible to upload articulate.ly <http://articulate.ly>? What do you mean, this: <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=

Re: booleans and conditional compilation?

2016-04-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 01.04.2016 21:23, Johannes Waldmann wrote: Hi. Is there a standard way of conditional compilation, e.g., to turn parts (on any level) of a score on and off? The standard way is using tags, as Urs said. But of course you can do everything you like via scheme: \version "2.19.38" foo = ##f A

Re: booleans and conditional compilation?

2016-04-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 01.04.2016 22:43, Simon Albrecht wrote: you can use Guile Scheme. LilyPond uses Guile 1.8, whose Reference Manual is here: <http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/docs-1.8/guile-ref/>. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Lilypond server

2016-04-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Sharon, I’ve only cursorily read through; isn’t that a wrong comment in line 26, after (waitpid child)? Sorry if I’m being stupid, after all you have tested the script and something like that should have stopped it from working. Best, Simon On 02.04.2016 07:12, Sharon Rosner wrote: Hi a

Re: Writing a number in stead of notehead.

2016-04-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 02.04.2016 12:27, Philip Bergwerf wrote: I am searching for a simple way to manually replace the notehead symbol to a digit like a guitar-tab note. Is there a simple command to do that? There are many ways, more or less simple, and as Malte already said, the point is we need to know what th

composing Scheme identifiers?

2014-03-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, I currently work on a mass setting by Palestrina. The music is stored in variables sopranoK, altoK, tenorK, bassK, sopranoVerseK, …, sopranoG, altoG, etc. etc. for the different parts and movements. Now since I need a separate \score block for each movement, but these score blocks will

Multiple lily versions on ubuntu

2014-03-03 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, I recently exchanged Windows for Lubuntu on my computer. Lilypond 2.18.0 is already installed and I want to add 2.19.3, but when I run the installing file, it requires that I uninstall the "old" versions before installing the new one. However, I want to have both at hand, as it seems t

Re: Right-to-Left

2014-03-03 Thread Simon Albrecht
ed, one might take a solution or ideas from there.) However this is on text and I don't know anything about music typesetting conventions. -- Simon Albrecht, Kirchenmusikstudent ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Multiple lily versions on ubuntu

2014-03-03 Thread Simon Albrecht
, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:29 AM, Simon Albrecht wrote: Hello, I recently exchanged Windows for Lubuntu on my computer. Lilypond 2.18.0 is already installed and I want to add 2.19.3, but when I run the installing file, it requires that I uninstall the "old" versions before installing the new on

Re: Repeat Box

2014-03-05 Thread Simon Albrecht
r such non-traditional notation forms! Why is this not in the LSR or even in http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/graphical-notation? If we don’t yet have an elaborate documentation there, it would be a notable progress to have at least a collection of

Re: Text above Chord

2014-03-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
eight where they will fit. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user -- Simon Albrecht, Kirchenmusikstudent ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

markuplist and markup

2014-03-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
overlook some „integration” feature or should I suggest creating one? Thanks for everything, Simon -- Simon Albrecht, Kirchenmusikstudent ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: markuplist and markup

2014-03-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
I’m so sorry. I just misunderstood something, or my brain was fuzzy, but actually it all works. Have a nice day! Am 10.03.2014 15:08, schrieb David Kastrup: Simon Albrecht writes: is there any possibility to include \markuplist commands inside \markup? I’m trying to use a \table-of-contents

Re: Winterreise

2014-03-12 Thread Simon Albrecht
r musicological proficiency and my estimate about the necessity of a new edition of Schubert’s Winterreise is incorrect? After all, I am judging it more from the artist’s than from the scientist’s point of view. Best regards, Simon Albrecht _

Re: markuplist and markup

2014-03-12 Thread Simon Albrecht
ps be discussed there. Am 10.03.2014 17:17, schrieb David Kastrup: Simon Albrecht writes: is there any possibility to include \markuplist commands inside \markup? I’m trying to use a \table-of-contents with reduced line-width, centered on the page and with a box around it, if possible. All

Re: Grace notes causing extra space in other staves

2014-03-13 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 13.03.2014 03:16, schrieb carltesta: Hello Everyone, I have a measure written below, the top staff of the piano has three beamed grace notes and it seems to be affecting the spacing of the sixteenth notes in the bottom staff. Is there anything I could do so that the unsightly space in the mi

Re: minor chords

2014-03-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 16.03.2014 17:52, schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi, I wonder why the notation of minor as lowercase seems to be only known in German folk circles … It’s known here, too — at least in my circles — but avoided, mostly because at a glance it can be hard to tell c from C. =) As in all notation,

Re: minor chords

2014-03-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 17.03.2014 00:15, schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Simon, I’m under the impression that this debate is very old, widespread and unlikely to end in onemindedness True. so it’s just advisable to provide different options, which will let everyone have his will That doesn’t logically follow!

Re: Fwd: Replace dot symbol?

2014-03-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 17.03.2014 00:28, schrieb Paul Morris: David Stephen Grant wrote Paul, this certainly cleans things up! Thank you. A minor follow up question - in this code the cross notehead "dot" glyph is being printed and offset through markup - would it be possible to replace the symbol directly (\once

Re: Staff/chords spacing.

2014-03-17 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 17.03.2014 19:00, schrieb Matthias Hüsken: On 15.03.2014 09:09, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: Mini example please ~Pierre Sorry, forgot to post one. During shortening some code into a mini example, I was actually able to solve my problem. I'm posting it anyway because I'm not sure it's

Re: Staff/chords spacing.

2014-03-17 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 17.03.2014 20:22, schrieb David Kastrup: Simon Albrecht writes: Am 17.03.2014 19:00, schrieb Matthias Hüsken: On 15.03.2014 09:09, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: Mini example please ~Pierre Sorry, forgot to post one. During shortening some code into a mini example, I was actually able

Re: Staff/chords spacing.

2014-03-17 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 17.03.2014 20:42, schrieb David Kastrup: Simon Albrecht writes: In more complex situations with \include and several scores in one file it _is_ useful or even necessary, if you want to have one \layout definition for all scores in common, but for example remove the Mark_engraver (from

Re: How do I expand lyrics...

2014-03-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 18.03.2014 20:17, schrieb Kevin Tough: Hey Thanks, when I first read the manual I thought Lilypond's symbol to spread or center a lyric between two note values was the double underscore. No matter how I placed or spaced it this naturally didn't work. Now I see from playing with your example

Re: "+" & utf-8 characters on file name

2014-03-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 18.03.2014 21:05, schrieb Fredrik Wallberg: Hi Ming, someone with more knowledge about Unicode (and Windows) could perhaps explain why that happens, but since you also asked for a workaround: Instead of using \bookOutSuffix, you could try with \bookOutputName, like this: \book { \bookOu

Re: lyrics hyphens question

2014-03-19 Thread Simon Albrecht
You might be interested in the following thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2013-12/msg00425.html This thread went private after a time, and I proposed the attached solution. Mike S. had suggested the use of a new grob to collect syllables, and this is what I did. The n

Palestrina: Missa "Brevis"

2014-03-20 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, just a little announcement: I have completed my re-engraving of the Missa "Brevis" by Palestrina and posted it on imslp.org. The text is derived from the 19th century scientific edition on the same

Re: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic)

2014-03-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 22.03.2014 02:45, schrieb Anthony Youngman: And I don't tend to dig deep into all the "esoteric" settings - there are so many of them that I don't understand, that I tend to shy away from them. I shouldn't, but I'd rather just use standard bells and whistles - when I need to use all sorts of

Re: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic)

2014-03-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 22.03.2014 11:01, schrieb Anthony: Well, I've put in a fair bit of time and effort over the years. The problem, as always, is finding time to play, and also remembering what worked last time :-) Many moons ago, I proofread the entire main manual about three times! I've dug into the code and

Re: Ambitus - emphasizing pitch

2014-03-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 09.03.2014 22:09, schrieb Thomas Morley: \new Voice \with { \consists "Ambitus_engraver" keySignature = #'() } \relative c'' { \key c \minor ees,2 dis' } I just had another look at this, because I wanted to use it myself, and found out there is no documentation on

Re: Ambitus - emphasizing pitch

2014-03-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 23.03.2014 20:06, schrieb Thomas Morley: 2014-03-23 18:50 GMT+01:00 Simon Albrecht : Am 09.03.2014 22:09, schrieb Thomas Morley: \new Voice \with { \consists "Ambitus_engraver" keySignature = #'() } \relative c'' { \key c \minor ees,2

Re: A couple of questions that I'm having trouble finding how to do it in the manuals or in the LSR

2014-03-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 24.03.2014 03:39, schrieb Mike Dean: (1) how can I get a certain field to break across two (or more) lines? example: \version "2.18.0" \header { copyright = "Copyright © 2003 by composer-name. For all countries. All rights reserved. " } Perhaps you'd also like to try \version "2.19.3

Discussing typographical standards (was: Tuplet notehead shared...)

2014-03-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 24.03.2014 13:33, schrieb Richard Shann: An example of this, typeset using LilyPond is posted here: http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/278632 To do this I set tuplet timing around the entire bass part and used doubled time signatures (one hidden IIRC) Richard The following is com

Re: "dodecaphonic-first" accidental style

2014-03-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 24.03.2014 15:45, schrieb Rutger Hofman: Right, so there is a new style dodecaphonic-no-repeat from 2.19.3 onwards. But it does something else than the style dodecaphonic-first that I wrote about, long ago. dodecaphonic-no-repeat suppresses accidentals for immediately repeated notes. dode

Re: Generating Interest in LilyPond through Kickstarter

2014-03-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
You might check imslp.org, which often is a source for excellent engravings. I have no idea whether there is a scientifically approvable edition there. My thoughts referred in particular to the 19th century complete editions for example of Bach which combine unsurpassed typographical excellence

Re: Discussing typographical standards

2014-03-26 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 26.03.2014 11:11, schrieb Urs Liska: Am 25.03.2014 01:10, schrieb Simon Albrecht: The following is completely off-topic, but I'd like to share some observations I often make and thoughts I have and ask for your opinion: Looking at this score confirms me in my opinion that LilyPond de

Lyrics: \set associatedVoice

2014-03-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, I've got a problem: I'm typesetting a Brahms lied where some melismata are only for one stanza and not for the other. Now look at the following example (output attached): \version "2.19.3" << \new Staff << \new Voice = "one" { \voiceOne c'4 c' c'8 c' c'4 } \new Voice = "two" { \voi

Re: Lyrics: \set associatedVoice

2014-03-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 28.03.2014 03:57, schrieb David Kastrup: Simon Albrecht writes: Hello, I've got a problem: I'm typesetting a Brahms lied where some melismata are only for one stanza and not for the other. Now look at the following example (output attached): \version "2.19.3" &l

Re: avoiding collisions between rest and stems when writing multiple expressions

2014-03-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 28.03.2014 18:04, schrieb Jordan B: Hello - When writing multiple expressions, I find the rest collides with the stem of notes. Like so: \version "2.14.2" Please consider upgrading to the current stable version, 2.18.2. There are many and great improvements in there. \relative c' { \c

Paper variables in scheme function

2014-03-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, I'm just creating a style sheet and want to create a scheme function which sets the paper margins. However it seems the paper variables aren't bound and I don't know why. A simple example would be: \version "2.19.3" test = #(define-scheme-function (parser location num) (number?) #{

Re: Paper variables in scheme function

2014-03-28 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 28.03.2014 20:44, schrieb David Kastrup: Simon Albrecht writes: Hello, I'm just creating a style sheet and want to create a scheme function which sets the paper margins. However it seems the paper variables aren't bound and I don't know why. A simple example would be: \

Re: "unspecified starting volume" for decrescendo

2014-03-29 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 29.03.2014 15:50, schrieb Phil Holmes: - Original Message - From: "Alberto Simões" To: "lilypond" Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 2:45 PM Subject: "unspecified starting volume" for decrescendo Hi. I have a music that starts with fis4.^\> d\! But lilypond complains when generati

Re: Once only custos

2014-04-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
Le 31 mars 2014 à 23:06, Simon Albrecht a écrit : Am 31.03.2014 16:15, schrieb Jacques Menu: Hello, I’d like to display a custo at the end of one line only to help, but not for the whole score. Couldn’t find an equivalent of: \once\override Staff.Custos.style = #’mensural though. Than

The pleasantry of Lilyponding

2014-04-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Lilypond aficionados, some days ago I sat in a regional train, two young guys opposite me talking about computer games they were playing. At which I found an answer to the question why I find it worthwile investing many and often tedious hours in music typesetting with LilyPond: It’s act

Re: The pleasantry of Lilyponding

2014-04-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 02.04.2014 22:10, schrieb Daniel Rosen: -Original Message- From: Simon Albrecht [mailto:simon.albre...@mail.de] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2014 10:42 AM To: lilypond user list Subject: The pleasantry of Lilyponding Hello Lilypond aficionados, It’s like a mixture of a logical puzzle

Re: Whiteout Sextuplet

2014-04-04 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 03.04.2014 00:45, schrieb Graeme Lee: On 3-Apr 8:59, Joshua Nichols wrote: Hello all, I'm having trouble with this: global = { \override TupletNumber.whiteout = ##t } Use \omit TupletNumber If you want it back: \undo \omit TupletNumber Whiteout is a different thing: it doesn't turn t

Re: Whiteout box function by Thomas Morley / need help

2014-04-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 06.04.2014 16:38, schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi all, Function I'm asking for would allow to control the width of whiteout box. Just to note [again] that I would much prefer a whiteout function that followed the glyph outline (with a padding or margin parameter), rather than a rectangle. +

Re: placement of Dynamics

2014-04-09 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 09.04.2014 16:17, schrieb MING TSANG: David, Thank you for the link. It is good to know that "new Voice" can be use instead of "\new Staff". Voice and Staff are different things. If you write \new Voice and don't explicitly create a Staff context, it will be created automatically. Thus,

Re: LSR connection

2014-04-15 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 15.04.2014 22:12, schrieb Federico Bruni: 2014-04-15 22:05 GMT+02:00 Pierre Perol-Schneider >: Hi, Does anyone have access to the LSR ? Hi Pierre I can access to it here: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Search Hi, no problem for me either.

Ubuntu 14.04 update and lilypond

2014-04-20 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, today I installed the update to newly released Ubuntu 14.04 (from previous 13.04) and at the end of the process stands the removal of software packages not needed anymore. The packages which are removed by default include Guile 1.8 (which I take to be the version currently required by

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 update and lilypond

2014-04-20 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 20.04.2014 23:23, schrieb Simon Albrecht: Hello, today I installed the update to newly released Ubuntu 14.04 (from previous 13.04) and at the end of the process stands the removal of software packages not needed anymore. The packages which are removed by default include Guile 1.8 (which

Re: Move tie to the end(top) of the stem

2014-04-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Alternatively, use the override inserted below. Best, Simon Am 22.04.2014 00:40, schrieb Conor Cook: Does the tie need to connect the eeses? This looks good, but maybe not to your specs. \version "2.18.2" \new Staff { \key bes \major \time 5/4 << { 4 8[ ] } \\ { \override Stem.length = #

Re: Once only custos

2014-05-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Bonsoir Jacques, I don’t know why you altered the suggestion I sent you: Am 06.05.2014 17:06, schrieb Jacques Menu: Hello Simon, Thanks for your answer. With: % \version "2.18.1" \layout { ragged-right = ##t \context { \Staff \consists "Custos_engraver" uncomment the following

Re: Automatic beaming in polymetric (scaled) context

2014-05-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Urs, you need to change the beamExceptions for that, see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/beams#setting-automatic-beam-behavior. The syntax for that has changed recently, I see with surprise :-) So we get: \version "2.19.3" \relative c' { \time 9/8 c8 c c c c c c

Re: An old claveciniste's notation

2014-05-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 06.05.2014 21:18, schrieb Richard Shann: On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 00:11 +1000, Andrew Bernard wrote: If you are engraving coulés I wager you are going to need pincé and all the usual suspects as well! Yes, I don't know whether using mordents etc will be sufficient for this job, or whether new

Re: Redefining parentheses

2014-05-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
thank you for you answer. But this redefining haven't Slur. I need function with no_space only under Slur, but *with* slur. I try use #(make-span-event 'SlurEvent START) in your variant, but this line get error: unexpected post-event thank you, Evgeny 2014-05-06 0:24 GMT+04:00

Fwd: Re: Redefining parentheses

2014-05-07 Thread Simon Albrecht
please don’t forget the CC... Original-Nachricht Betreff:Re: Redefining parentheses Datum: Wed, 07 May 2014 14:11:53 +0400 Von:Evgeny An: Simon Albrecht Hello, Simon, thank you. This code more elegancy, but I hope lily-scheme let me find more simply solve

Re: Trill span problem

2014-05-09 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 09.05.2014 00:06, schrieb Peter Bjuhr: On 2014-05-08 16:22, Knute Snortum wrote: I have a problem with sequential trill spans. they seems to be just a little too long and therefore they stagger vertically. I would think the solution is to shorten the trill span but I'm not sure how to do

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