Re: Canonical[ish] place to get pop-chords.ly or jazz-chords.ly? Also, chords advice?

But, of course, you'll find it documented in the Notation Reference: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/chord-notation and http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/common-chord-modifiers. Thus, following your examples, you write f1:m7 or ef1:6.9. Best regards, Simo

Re: multiple marks

Am 12.05.2014 14:11, schrieb Carlo Vanoni: Hi everyone, I'm using this nice function to add a right-aligned text that states the number of repeats of a repeat block: repeatMark = #(define-music-function (parser location volte visible) (number? boolean?) (if visible #{ \o

Re: relative pitch with song sections

ery summit of engraving art and should IMHO serve as a reference before anything else. That notwithstanding one may of course reconsider the case, also because it really isn’t more than a nitpick, to be honest. All the best, Simon Albrecht ___

Re: MIDI dynamics parsing error

I said, I was very happy to have this in a composition of my own (which was actually kept in some early 19th century style) and it expressed exactly what I meant. So don't be over-correct :-) Simon Albrecht Am 16.05.2014 18:15, schrieb Phil Holmes: Well, LilyPond has the same problem

Re: Warning: Midi channels wrapped around Warrning Remapping modulo 16.

Hello Sebastian, it seems to me like you would require more than 16 midi channels (which normally correspond to the staves in your score) and midi doesn't support more than 16. So the output which would have gone to channel #17 is actually put into channel #1 (and inherits its instrument, dyna

#(ly:expect-warning "")

Hello, I just tried to suppress a series of expected warnings, but the scheme function seems to suppress only the first of a kind. See attached file. Why is this? Best regards, Simon \version "2.19.3" #(ly:expect-warning "MIDI channel wrapped around") #(ly:expect-warning "remapping modulo 16

Re: [bug?] Unnecessary avoid-slur warning

See also http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3729 – it’s the same, only that it’s about accidentalSuggestion, not about trillPitchAccidental. Perhaps you add a comment there? Best, Simon Am 20.05.2014 05:44, schrieb James Harkins: It appears that LilyPond 2.18.2 prints a warning

Re: MIDI dynamics parsing error

Am 20.05.2014 15:41, schrieb Knute Snortum: (Note: the above code still emits a warning: Programming error: impossible or ambiguous (de) crescendo) One of the things I really liked about LilyPond was the ability to compile sheet music and MIDI from the same source. It seems to me that this b

Re: #(ly:expect-warning "")

Am 18.05.2014 13:46, schrieb David Nalesnik: Hi Simon, On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 5:57 AM, Simon Albrecht mailto:simon.albre...@mail.de>> wrote: Hello, I just tried to suppress a series of expected warnings, but the scheme function seems to suppress only the first of a kin

Re: Draw a box spanning multiple staves

Am 21.05.2014 11:24, schrieb Urs Liska: Hi, for analysis purposes I'd like to draw (e.g.) boxes around objects on different staves (see attachment). Is there a straightforward and particularly robust way to do that with LilyPond itself (the image was postprocessed)? Hello Urs, sorry for not

Re: Problem: incompatible Lilypond and Guile

Am 22.05.2014 22:36, schrieb rm damerell: Dear colleagues, I have a problem due (I think) to a bad mixture of versions of Lilypond and Guile. Versions are: L-Ubuntu 12.04 guile-2.0.5+1-1 (most recent version I found in Ubuntu repository) Lilypond 2.18.2 (From lilypond.org) Lilypond still wor

Re: [WAS: Re: handbells] Tabulating notes used in a score

Am 26.05.2014 03:47, schrieb David Nalesnik: Hi all, FWIW, here's something which tabulates the notes used in an excerpt and presents them in ascending order. I think this might be useful in handbell music (which the example assuredly is not). Any suggestions for improving this are welcome

Re: frets and lyrics

Am 27.05.2014 15:40, schrieb paul bedaride: I would be something like this (but this doesn't work) \version "2.16.2" \include "predefined-ukulele-fretboards.ly " theChords = \chordmode { g g g g g } verseI = \lyricmode { \set stanza = #"1." This i

Re: Shifted notehead won't merge with same pitch from other voice

Am 29.05.2014 09:53, schrieb Urs Liska: Am 29.05.2014 09:15, schrieb Javier Ruiz-Alma: I'm typesetting the attached music using four voices. However, a shifted quarter note refuses to merge with the half-note from other voice. I suspect it has to do with both having same stem direction, but

Re: Shifted notehead won't merge with same pitch from other voice

Am 29.05.2014 20:40, schrieb Pierre Perol-Schneider: 2014-05-29 12:43 GMT+02:00 Thomas Morley >: How about: \tweak #'duration-log #1 Of course Harm (even with \tweak duration-log #1 ;) (or \tweak duration-log 1 !!!) It's just something I'm not use t

(was: print change of clef after barline) scm vectors in frescobaldi

Am 01.06.2014 12:09, schrieb Thomas Morley: Not exactly. Here some crazy settings for time-signature: #( ;; end of line: time-signature right before key-signature (span-bar breathing-sign staff-bar clef key-cancellation time-signatu

Dynamic text/staff symbol overlap

Hello, in places with tight vertical spacing it's often useful and best practice to have the dynamic text overlap slightly with the staff symbol lines. I tried to reproduce this with something like the following: \version "2.19" \relative { \once \override DynamicText.outside-staff-priorit

Re: Dynamic text/staff symbol overlap

ssage - *From:* Simon Albrecht <mailto:simon.albre...@mail.de> *To:* lilypond user list <mailto:lilypond-user@gnu.org> *Sent:* Thursday, June 05, 2014 8:57 PM *Subject:* Dynamic text/staff symbol overlap Hello, in places with tight vertical spacing it's often useful and best practi

Re: Dynamic text/staff symbol overlap

Am 05.06.2014 23:02, schrieb Karol Majewski: And how about: \version "2.19" \relative { \once \override DynamicLineSpanner #'Y-offset = #2.5 \once \override DynamicLineSpanner #'outside-staff-priority = ##f c'^\f } Very good! That's the one I overlooked. Thanks, Simon ___

Re: "avoid-slur" does not apply on a tie.

Am 14.06.2014 07:29, schrieb Pierre Perol-Schneider: 2014-06-13 23:53 GMT+02:00 Ralph Palmer >: I think this is, on fact, a slur, not a tie. If the sounding of the notes is separate, as would be implied by the staccato dots, that should make it a bow

Re: tags on tweaks

Am 15.06.2014 12:29, schrieb Orm Finnendahl: Hi, just to verify: I assume it is always necessary to tag a complete music expression, or can just tweaks themselves get tagged? You may insert the tag itself as a post-event using -\tag before the tweak, yet the tag will then apply both to the tw

Re: music

Am 17.06.2014 18:12, schrieb keira mccook: I have dyslexia and i find it hard to read sheet music.I am starting uni in September to study music. I've been instructed to improve my reading but it seems impossible.is there any way you can help. Hello Keira, I don’t know if this is the right place

Re: [DOC] 1.3.1 Expressive marks attached to notes, has v.2.16 format

Am 26.06.2014 09:39, schrieb Pierre Perol-Schneider: Hi James, Sorry, I should have written "syntax" instead of "format" 2014-06-26 9:27 GMT+02:00 James : Can you be a bit more specific as I don't understand what you are stating? 'Creating a delayed turn' ... \once \override AccidentalSugg

Re: [DOC] 1.3.1 Expressive marks attached to notes, has v.2.16 format

So sorry, wrong list… Am 26.06.2014 12:53, schrieb Simon Albrecht: Am 26.06.2014 09:39, schrieb Pierre Perol-Schneider: \once \override AccidentalSuggestion #'outside-staff-priority = ##f \once \override AccidentalSuggestion #'avoid-slur = #'inside \once \override AccidentalSu

Re: [DOC] 1.3.1 Expressive marks attached to notes, has v.2.16 format

Am 26.06.2014 13:33, schrieb David Kastrup: And he's right with that as well... Have you actually tried it? My mistake again. Sorry for being pert and not checking first. I wasn’t aware that your parser improvements had gone so far… Best regards, Simon __

Re: Crescendos, sforzandos, and "impossible" MIDI volumes

Am 27.06.2014 20:42, schrieb Knute Snortum: I want to start a discussion about this and maybe get a change into LilyPond. Currently, you can get an "impossible (de)crescendo" error in LilyPond if your crescendo has a \sf in the middle [1]. It stops the crescendo and if you restart it, ending

Re: With \markup { \score { can I separately control the score size?

Am 29.06.2014 19:10, schrieb Paul Morris: Hi all, Is this way of scaling a score (by putting it inside a markup) the best way to do it, if you want to keep all of the proportions strictly consistent at different sizes? The approach in the staffSize snippet does not keep the proportions consiste

Re: Text inside hairpin

Am 30.06.2014 08:41, schrieb Janek Warchoł: You're welcome :) Maybe i should add this function to official LilyPond? Good idea, I think! Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: rest collisions

Am 01.07.2014 20:50, schrieb bart deruyter: Hi all, I've got an issue here with rests. I have three voice score with rests in the second voice . There simply is not enough space for the rest between the highest and the lowest note, so I tried to move the rest to the left using: \once \overr

Re: Issue on packed-spacing?

Well, of course this reminded me of \textLengthOff and \textLengthOn, which normally serve to control this behaviour. However, with packed-spacing, \textLengthOff has no effect at all, while \textLengthOn slightly increases the spacing between notes, or basically it seems to me that it increases

Dot-separated list as music function argument

Hello everybody, I just wrote a music function to mark grobs as editorial addition by colouring them grey. See the code and an example: \version "2.19.8" ed = #(let ((string-or-list? (lambda (grob) (or (string? grob) (list? grob) (define-music-function (parser location grob mus) (

Re: unclear topic

Am 08.07.2014 16:16, schrieb Federico Bruni: Hi Michael Problems in translated manuals should be reported on the translation list. The german translation is not updated as far as I know, since I've seen some reports from german users in the last year. Last commit of Till Paala was in october 201

Re: unclear topic

Am 08.07.2014 23:38, schrieb Federico Bruni: 2014-07-08 18:49 GMT+02:00 Simon Albrecht <mailto:simon.albre...@mail.de>>: Am 08.07.2014 16:16, schrieb Federico Bruni: Hi Michael Problems in translated manuals should be reported on the translation list.

Re: Dot-separated list as music function argument

Many thanks for the responses, Thomas and David. And sorry for the messy code layout… I’ll see if I can change that. Yours, Simon Am 08.07.2014 15:50, schrieb Thomas Morley: 2014-07-08 13:39 GMT+02:00 Simon Albrecht : Hello everybody, I just wrote a music function to mark grobs as editorial

List defect?

Hello, now there definitely seems to be something wrong with mail delivery on the list. Some people already reported they were not receiving some posts at all. With me, some posts pop up another time two days or so after they were originally sent (including my own). Do any of you know what migh

Re: Barline at beginning of lines of music.

Am 11.07.2014 18:49, schrieb Richard Shann: For chord charts a barline is wanted at the start of each line of music - \bar "|" is, of course ignored in this position. Can anyone suggest how to force printing a barline here (after the time signature, if any). Incidentally, the documentation is s

Re: stem length in polyphony

Am 13.07.2014 11:29, schrieb Pierre Perol-Schneider: Hi Bart, 2014-07-13 10:52 GMT+02:00 bart deruyter >: I've attached an image and a .ly example. Here's what I'd do : \version "2.18.2" global = { \key e \minor \time 2/4 } upper = \relative e' {

Re: tenorized treble clef

Am 27.07.2014 16:30, schrieb Janek Warchoł: Hi, LilyPond has a treble clef with added C-clef-like stuff: { \clef "tenorG" c' } (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-11/msg00661.html) However, it seems to me that these added lines should be positioned half a staff-space lower.

Re: Hairpin inside slur?

Am 27.07.2014 23:17, schrieb pls: On 27.07.2014, at 22:18, Phil Holmes > wrote: I don't know. My guess: there is no reasonable slur that will miss the hairpin if the hairpin is inside the slur, so Lily does the best compromise. Thanks, Phil! It's actually an

Re: Multiple stanzas to selection of melody

Am 28.07.2014 21:47, schrieb Marten: Dear all, Trying to typeset a song I am faced with the following problem for which I can;t find a solution in the manual or snippet repository. I kindly request your help. I'm typesetting a song with one staff, where the refrain comes first and spans multipl

Re: Multiple stanzas to selection of melody

Am 29.07.2014 01:28, schrieb Marten: Hello Abraham, Simon, Thanks for your solutions and quick replies :) I decided to try to implement Simon's third solution, as it explicitly keeps the melody of the stanzas together with their texts. Ingenious - hadn't thought about a solution like that. I

Re: How split SA staff into two staff - each now has two voices?

Hello, I’d like to suggest rearranging the instrument names in LSR 650 using \center-column (more elegant in my eyes). Attached you find an updated version of the file. Do you approve? Best, Simon Am 01.08.2014 15:10, schrieb Phil Holmes: - Original Message - From: "Janek Warchoł"

Re: How split SA staff into two staff - each now has two voices?

Am 01.08.2014 16:49, schrieb Janek Warchoł: 2014-08-01 16:39 GMT+02:00 Simon Albrecht : Hello, I’d like to suggest rearranging the instrument names in LSR 650 using \center-column (more elegant in my eyes). Attached you find an updated version of the file. Do you approve? Definitely. Not

Re: Dotted breve (and longa etc.)

Am 18.08.2014 12:40, schrieb Jayaratna: Yes, c\breve. gives out an error. Can’t confirm that on Ubuntu with Lily 2.19.8. What version and system are you using? What kind of error message did you get? Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list li

Re: Add lyrics after n measures

Am 29.08.2014 um 16:58 schrieb Jacques Menu: Hello Marco, Always copy the list in your messages, to let the them know. Put as many \skip as you have notes in the melody in the first 8 bars if you use \addlyrics or \lyricsto, Much more convenient: use _ for every note without a lyric syllable.

Re: partcombine/divisi framework - let the fun begin!

Am 29.08.2014 um 08:53 schrieb Keith OHara: Janek Warchoł gmail.com> writes: I'm working on putting together a set of functions for handling parts that split into multiple voices and/or staves Attachment (definitions.ily): text/x-lilypond, 2359 bytes Attachment (example.ly): text/x-lilypon

Re: Upbeat as full measure or not?

Furthermore, there is the rule that, if there is an upbeat, upbeat and last measure of the piece must add up to one full bar. I’m not sure where it comes from and how widely it is obeyed, but at least for a “classical” period in the 18th to 20th centuries it’s to be regarded as standard. So as

Re: How to control beamed stem length to avoid collision?

Hello Steve, admittedly this is not easy to figure out. \once \override Beam.positions = #'(-3.5 . -3.5) is what you want here. It specifies the y position of the left and right ends of the beam in staff-space units. Yours, Simon Am 04.09.2014 um 20:11 schrieb st...@linuxsuite.org: Howd

Re: Use my roman font digits for time signature

Hello, how about: \version "2.19.12" \new Staff \with { \override TimeSignature.font-name = #"Garamond" \override TimeSignature.font-size = 1.5 } { \time 3/4 r4 r r \time 7/8 r r r r8 } It helps if you include some working example code. HTH, Simon Am 05.09.2014 um 07:51 schrieb Jayaratna:

Re: Cross-staff voice with modified context.

Hello Hwaen, the code you provided doesn’t compile for me (with 2.19.12, but it has nothing to do with the version). Please send working code. Yours, Simon Am 05.09.2014 um 15:36 schrieb Hwaen Ch'uqi: Greetings All, What is the best way of achieving a cross-staff voice where one of the stav

Re: Cross-staff voice with modified context.

Hello again, Am 05.09.2014 um 20:37 schrieb Hwaen Ch'uqi: Greetings Simon, Thank you so much for your response. Yes, there was a silly oversight in my code which I have now corrected. Below is the code again followed by the compilation messages. I have also attached the rather strange result as

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I forgot the attachment... \version "2.18.2" #(ly:expect-warning "no viable initial configuration found: may not find good beam slope") \score{ \new PianoStaff << \new Staff = up { \relative c' { \key des \major \time 2/4 \clef treble << {

Re: Score feedback request

Hello Aura, there’s one main thing I notice: the left hand has only one voice throughout, so you should better use \oneVoice instead of \voiceOne there. The same is for the last two bars of the right hand part. For the piano staff, a separate Dynamics context between the two staves might be in

Re: How to color a text spanner

Am 06.09.2014 um 21:52 schrieb David Nalesnik: On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Joram > wrote: And I can add a question: What is the difference between DynamicLineSpanner and Hairpin? See http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/internals/dynamic_005

Re: Lyric word engraver bug

Hello David, many thanks for the proposed solution. For what I can see now, it works fine. And sorry for wrongly attributing authorship – no idea how I came to do that. Anyway, I corrected it now. Best regards, Simon Am 06.09.2014 um 23:32 schrieb David Nalesnik: Hi, On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at

Re: Lyric word engraver bug

And thanks also for these coding suggestions, they’re very good and I’ve incorporated them. Am 07.09.2014 um 00:37 schrieb David Nalesnik: On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 5:20 PM, David Nalesnik mailto:david.nales...@gmail.com>> wrote: Here's an unrelated suggestion. When you use \wordco

Re: Breaking notes up across bar lines when using lyrics

Looks like it’s worth a bug report and issue tracker, doesn’t it? About completion heads engraver and addlyrics being incompatible. However, the attached version of the file using @code{ \new Lyrics \lyricsto "first" } instead of @code{ \addlyrics } works as expected for me*. So working around t

Re: In wait for a subsequent word (sorry how can I put it)?

Am 07.09.2014 um 18:05 schrieb Son_V: Thanks Phil, for your answer - but I usually (is it right?), as in your example, write "Sanc __tus" The problem is that you confuse hyphens (-) with underscores (_). In your examples, you have two underscores inbetween the syllables of ‘sanctus’; but what y

Re: problem with moving notes

Am 07.09.2014 um 19:39 schrieb Rus: Does anyone have any ideas? Yes, to ask you why you would want that. Usually it’s best to leave the spacing to lilypond, since she makes about the best possible arrangement. Perhaps

Re: problem with moving notes

Am 07.09.2014 um 21:00 schrieb Rus: I would want that to make it more visible. I don’t think there is any problem with reading the rhythm from Lily’s default output, it’s perfectly clear. I can't understand what exactly I need to make from http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/ch

Re: problem with moving notes

Am 07.09.2014 um 23:16 schrieb David Nalesnik: Rus, On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Rus > wrote: I imagine you could use \newSpacingSection. Please post the code that created the PDFs you attach, and I'm sure you'll get a solution to your liki

Re: Add lyrics after n measures

Am 08.09.2014 um 18:10 schrieb Colin Campbell: On 14-09-08 01:36 AM, Phil Holmes wrote: (in reference to lyric \skips not terminating an extender) Try a single space in quotes: " " -- Phil Holmes Thanks, Phil. I found that in my testing later yesterday. It will at least get the project

Re: How to handle changing transpositions

Am 09.09.2014 um 11:46 schrieb Urs Liska: Hi list, I have a problem understanding how to efficiently deal with horn parts that change their transposition with the clef. That is: In the treble clef the part is notated as \transpose f, c while in the bass clef it is notated in concert pitch. T

Re: Defining custom MIDI dynamics

Hello Knute, perhaps its just an unusual topic few have experience with? At least I don’t; yet after a look in the NR section on the topic I think you’re on the right path with the cond approach. After all, you want to define a single function to pass it on as dynamicAbsoluteVolumeFunction. An

Re: beginner stanza help

Am 10.09.2014 um 02:35 schrieb Steven Arntson: I'm trying to get stanzas to work for a song that has two verses. What am I doing wrong? text = \lyricmode { \set stanza = #"1. " here are | %m1 the words | %m2 } \lyricmode { \set stanza = #"2. "

Re: Rest with tie behaving differently than note

Hello David, Am 14.09.2014 um 18:58 schrieb David Bellows: In the following code Lilypond correctly creates the tie to the note even when it's left out (a tie just to a duration): \version "2.19.13" \score{ \new Staff {d4~ 16} } But if you try to do this with a rest: \version "2.19.13" \sc

Re: Can NoteNames in higher octaves be changed?

lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user \version "2.16.2" \header { snippet-title = "Octavate capital note names" snippet-author = "Simon Albrecht after Tao Cumplido

Re: Can NoteNames in higher octaves be changed?

Am 15.09.2014 um 15:39 schrieb Jay Vara: Hello Simon, I tried using the code you sent. The output is still the same. It appears that your code allows me to input capital names for higher octave notes. Is that right? Yes. What I wanted is for automatically printing capital names - using NoteN

Re: Odd layout choices

(continuing the thread on ly-user) Hello Guy, no, there isn't, because it tends to contradict the logic: they won't appear to be simultaneous, if they are placed one after another. You might try the methods described in . For the dynamics, this can be complicated, but try: \override DynamicTex

Re: \change staff question

Hello Ming, if you have a look into the documentation for \change (when in doubt, look it up in the command index), you’ll find that it does not require any braces following or indeed any argument. It looks like you try to enter the notes in parallel, which is illogical, since they are sequen

Re: Dominant Seventh Sharp Fifth Chord

Am 25.09.2014 um 14:48 schrieb bb: The description of chord naming is a bit short for my experience. I am looking for the code for a Dominant Seventh Sharp Fifth Chord Say i. e. G^7#5 How can I do that? Is there any extended turorial or something like that to learn from.

Re: Time signatures ¢¢ and cc

Am 26.09.2014 um 04:10 schrieb Dan Eble: I have a hymnal in which many songs have time signatures with symbols "cc" and "¢¢" [doubled cut-time symbol]. I can't find any information on these online. Does anyone know what they actually mean? Were they common historically, or is this hymnal just

Re: Long stretch in one voice, then two

Hello, do you really think they aren't user-friendly? I always found them easy to understand and use. Is this because they comply to german syntax more neatly? Anyway... And I agree with the docs on the explicit/implicit voicing: it depends... Some pieces are easier to input and read with the m

Re: About a RULE I hadn't found in the Bible (Beyond bars)

Hello, I think it's best practice to use curly braces around the differing parts, and place the common ending centered between the outermost stanzas. However, I must consider it a desideratum for lilypond to provide an interface for this. It is a major task to fit this into the current architec

Re: Long stretch in one voice, then two

lilyp...@gmail.com: 2014-09-28 23:25 GMT+02:00 Simon Albrecht : > Hello, > > do you really think they aren't user-friendly? I always found them easy to > understand and use. Is this because they comply to german syntax more > neatly? We have two commands named \voiceOn

Re: Multi line text with a common text

Am 27.09.2014 um 14:55 schrieb Phil Holmes: - Original Message - From: "Son_V" To: Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2014 1:38 PM Subject: Multi line text with a common text Sorry for the unclear subject. I found a score I've put on LilyPond (Messaus - Dies est laetitiae); the original s

Re: Multi line text with a common text

Am 30.09.2014 um 19:29 schrieb Son_V: Hi, thanks to you and Phil in the first place ... then, I've tried to use your example And I got VERY close to the result I wanted! Just one problem: I think it would be preferable that the curly bracket starts from the rest; like in the jpg file i've posted

Re: Lyrics and Chord Names with no notes

Hello Richard, you need to enter the lyrics in \lyricmode with explicit durations: \lyricmode { Hal4. -- le8 -- lu -- ja } Thus they are independent of any staff context. Documented in

Re: Multi line text with a common text

Am 01.10.2014 um 13:25 schrieb Son_V: I know nothing more intelligent than \once\override StanzaNumber.extra-offset = … Hi Simon, where shoud be put this command, and what numerical value to try? Just found old posts while searching ... I hope you are familiar with the related Learning Manual s

Re: Multi line text with a common text

One thing I forgot… Am 01.10.2014 um 13:25 schrieb Son_V: I know nothing more intelligent than \once\override StanzaNumber.extra-offset = … Hi Simon, where shoud be put this command, and what numerical value to try? Just try. It’s measured in staff spaces (isn’t it?), so I’d estimate around 5.

Re: Multi line text with a common text

Am 01.10.2014 um 10:47 schrieb Son_V: PS. The case not covered is the one with an even number of stanzas… but I don’t have a good idea for that, either. Hi Simon, I had an idea, don't know if it could be useful: if we have four stanzas, like 1. when good. 2. If . ma

Re: Multi line text with a common text

Am 01.10.2014 um 19:01 schrieb Son_V: Just to add other oddities, I first extracted just the Soprano voice to test the 'curly bracket' problem. Looking back at this, now i recognize that the just one voice got the curly bracket correctly aligned with the rest, but with a wider space between the

Re: Two time signature at start of system

Am 02.10.2014 um 14:50 schrieb MING TSANG: Dear lilyponders, I didn't realize until I have coded a hymn with 92 measures that two time signature at bar #78. So I code a test version just bar 76-79 to show the problen system. I have been playing with code and still couldn't remove one of them.

Re: losing a bar number when the first beat is irregular

Am 04.10.2014 um 14:33 schrieb Son_V: Hi all, as I have said i use Musescore to write down the notes and lyrics, then I export to .xml to import the file in Frescobaldi. I encounter a humble problem. If the score I'm transcribing has just one note in the first beat, to have a correct visual corre

Re: losing a bar number when the first beat is irregular

Am 04.10.2014 um 21:22 schrieb Son_V: If a piece starts with an incomplete measure this measure doesn't have a number Well, thanks. I've searched on "beyond bars" 2011 ed. but I wasn't able to find a reference to this problem. Nor I was able to found a way in the index: no "irregular beats". Ma

Re: Key signatures in hidden staves take up space

Am 04.10.2014 um 23:13 schrieb Peter Crighton: As you can see in the following code and the attached image, there is a possible bug when using \RemoveEmptyStaves with voices in different keys (such as in a score with transposing instruments): key signatures appearing only in hidden empty staves

Re: Lyrics only

Hello, see . Best, Simon Am 05.10.2014 um 13:10 schrieb Jay Vara: I saw some discussion of how to get lilypond to print only lyrics from a few years ago. I tried a few things suggested in those posts, but nothing worked wel

Re: Dynamics and articulation in lyrics

Am 05.10.2014 um 18:04 schrieb Graham King: I'm setting a song with multiple stanzas, in which I would like to include dynamics and articulations (breathing, phrasing) within the text. After much hunting around the docs and snippets, I've got this far: /version "2.19.2" ... second

Re: Supporting ♯ and ♭

Hello Marc, I find if surprising that you call this 'easier to type'. At any rate, alphabetic characters are way easier to reach on virtually any keyboard layout. Few layouts will support those signs at all. And I think LilyPonds representation of notes is reasonably easy to read. Perhaps it re

Re: previous version manual

Am 06.10.2014 um 21:14 schrieb Mark Stephen Mrotek: Hello, Where is the manual for the previous stable version (2.16?) located? It may be found through Manuals -> All. Yours, Simon ___ lilyp

Re: Overlapping ties in different voices

Am 07.10.2014 um 21:57 schrieb Frederick Bartlett: Hi! I'm trying to set selection from Saint-Saën's Oratorio de Noël for my choir. In the Gloria in altissimis (p9 in the IMSLP PDFs), I found an odd combination of ties: \relative c''' { << { s1 | b1 ~ | b2 cis } \\

Re: Overlapping ties in different voices

Am 07.10.2014 um 22:36 schrieb Abraham Lee: On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Frederick Bartlett wrote: Hi! I'm trying to set selection from Saint-Saën's Oratorio de Noël for my choir. In the Gloria in altissimis (p9 in the IMSLP PDFs), I found an odd combination of ties: \relative c''' { <

Re: remove first empty staff and ambitus

Hello Kai, HTH would sure be one of the most active contributors to this list if he were one, but it's only an abbreviation for 'hope that helps'... I also had to look that one up when I first came across it :-) Yours, Simon Am 09-Oct-2014 14:21:57 +0200 schrieb kai.lautenschlae...@me.com: De

Re: header markup puzzle

Hello David, I attach a file which should do what you want, and add some comments below: Am 09.10.2014 um 23:50 schrieb Flaming Hakama by Elaine: Hello, I was wondering if anyone had suggestions for a text formatting challenge I've been unable to solve. The format I like to use for header m

Re: Time signature differs from measure length

Am 10.10.2014 um 12:45 schrieb Noeck: -Original Message- I want to write a piece with a alla-breve time signature but with four half notes in a measure (4/2). Is it better to overwrite the time signature stencil and use \time 4/2 or do it like this: \version "2.18.2" \relative c'' \sc

ly:pitch and string

Hello, consider the following setup: %% \version "2.19.12" newTonic = d newTonicString = "d" \bookOutputSuffix #(string-append "in-" newTonicString) \score { \transpose c \newTonic { c' } } %% For easy handling of different transpositions the ‘destination pitch’ is

Re: Time signature differs from measure length

Am 10.10.2014 um 21:53 schrieb Mark Stephen Mrotek: Simon, Regarding the snippet you provide, I would be confused in reading it. The "₵" would tell me 2/2, yet there would be four semi-breves. No, a semi-brevis is what we call „ganze Note” in Germany; the „halbe Note” would be a minim (the Bri

Re: Automatic multimeasure spacer rests?

Hello, did you even try what Urs suggested? \new Staff << \spacers \one >> means that \spacers and \one are simultaneous <<>>, not sequential {}. So you can just fill in the example Urs gave and it will do what it seems you want (that hasn’t been easy to understand). Your

Re: ly:pitch and string

Hello Paul, thanks a lot! I thought along the same lines also, but (1) my less elegant coding and (2) the complications brought along by German notenames would’ve made it too tedious. Am 10.10.2014 um 23:44 schrieb Paul Morris: Just for fun, another version, more compact, probably more crypt

Re: ly:pitch and string

newTonicString was always "eses" regardless of the input. Perhaps the computer and I ought to go to sleep. (what a mad sentence that is…) And thanks again for your input, Paul. Best, Simon Am 10.10.2014 um 23:55 schrieb Simon Albrecht: Hello Paul, thanks a lot! I thought along the

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