Re: How to adjust the padding between a StemTremolo and a NoteHead?

2015-08-11 Thread Abraham Lee
On 8/11/2015 11:14 AM, tisimst wrote: \layout { \override Voice.StemTremolo.after-line-breaking = #(lambda (grob) (let* ((*pad 1.0*) % <--- ADJUST THIS TO TASTE (cnt (ly:grob-property grob 'flag-count)) (stem (ly:grob-object grob 'stem)) (leng (ly:grob-prope

New Music-Engraving Forum

2015-10-08 Thread Abraham Lee
All, Prompted by some discussions on the Finale user forums, a new software-agnostic forum has been created to discuss general practice music notation/engraving issues and questions. As far as I'm aware, all users are welcome, regardless of what their software of choice is for music engraving. He

Scorio Software

2015-11-08 Thread Abraham Lee
While perusing the main LilyPond website, in the announcements section, I only just discovered the online software Scorio that acts as a GUI front end to LilyPond 2.16. Does anyone on this list actually use it? I don't think I ever will for a number of reasons, but I was just curious if anyone else

Re: Gounod - Le Rendez Vous

2015-11-19 Thread Abraham Lee
Alberto, On Thursday, November 19, 2015, Alberto Simões < al...@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt> wrote: > > > On 11/11/15 19:22, tisimst wrote: > >> [1] https://github.com/ambs/music/tree/master/Gounod/LeRendezVous >> >> >> This is looking MUCH better (nice work with the extended dynamic lines >> ;-)

Lower-case letter rehearsal marks

2015-12-08 Thread Abraham Lee
Greetings, All! I am trying to figure out how to make rehearsal mark letters be their lower-case counterparts. I've read through all the options in "scm/translation-functions.scm" to see what's currently available and it doesn't seem to be an option at the moment. I realize this isn't the standar

Beamed Tremolo + Fermata

2015-12-24 Thread Abraham Lee
Happy holidays, everyone! I noticed a question in a different forum about the placement of a fermata relative to a beamed tremolo. The attached image shows three possible scenarios for this, but it was a pretty unanimous vote that measure 2 was correct. Intrigued, I wondered how LP would respond

Re: Ossia problem

2015-12-29 Thread Abraham Lee
David, On Tuesday, December 29, 2015, David Kastrup wrote: > Ralph Palmer > writes: > > > Greetings - > > > > I'm running ly 2.19.33 under Win7. > > > > I'm trying to remove the first line of the ossia staff from the attached > > score. I would appreciate it if someone could tell me where I'm go

Re: Ossia problem

2015-12-29 Thread Abraham Lee
On Tuesday, December 29, 2015, David Kastrup wrote: > Abraham Lee > writes: > > > David, > > > > On Tuesday, December 29, 2015, David Kastrup > > wrote: > > > >> Ralph Palmer > > writes: > >> > >> > Greetings - > >

Re: Ossia with dashed span bars

2015-12-31 Thread Abraham Lee
Ralph, On Thursday, December 31, 2015, Ralph Palmer wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 1:28 AM, tisimst > wrote: > >> Ralph, >> >> Ralph Palmer wrote >> > [...] I need dashed span bars between the lower normal staff and >> > the ossia staff. >> >> Here's one way to do it. >> >> %<-- S

Re: When to Use Pound Signs

2016-01-05 Thread Abraham Lee
Jason, On Tuesday, January 5, 2016, Jason Silver wrote: > I wonder if someone would explain the purpose of the pound signs when > indicating measurements? > > For example, this seems to work: > > system-system-spacing #'padding = .8 > > > But I often see examples with # marks like: > > syste

Re: How to reproduce this?

2016-01-07 Thread Abraham Lee
Jacques, On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Jacques Menu wrote: > Hello Pierre, > > This doesn’t compile on 2.19.33 though. > > Thanks for all the help you provide to the rest of us! > Try this out: %<--- \version "2.19.31" \layout { \context { \ChordNames \over

Re: best solution for book making with multiple scores and multiple titles but w/o page breaks between pieces

2016-01-11 Thread Abraham Lee
Just override the scoreTitleMarkup variable to look like bookTitleMarkup and then you can put everything in the score's \header. Best, Abraham On Monday, January 11, 2016, Mike Solomon wrote: > Hey all! > > \bookpart forces a page break between pieces in a suite, which I don’t > want, but other

Re: best solution for book making with multiple scores and multiple titles but w/o page breaks between pieces

2016-01-11 Thread Abraham Lee
he same name in the score-level header block. Best, Abraham On Monday, January 11, 2016, Abraham Lee wrote: > Just override the scoreTitleMarkup variable to look like bookTitleMarkup > and then you can put everything in the score's \header. > > Best, > Abraham > >

Re: Can't seem to merge note groups

2016-01-11 Thread Abraham Lee
Here's another alternative that shows how you can change the displayed notehead by changing its duration-log property: http://lilybin.com/64zsk1/5 On the other hand, it seems that there is a bug here that should be fixed because the top notehead is merging like it should, but not the bottom one.

Re: Can't seem to merge note groups

2016-01-12 Thread Abraham Lee
that in my example both > notes should merge. It might be a bug. > In Pierre's case there's also a need to temporarily silence the "too many > clashing notes" warning. Abraham's doesn't need the second voice at all, so > it's perhaps the most simpl

Re: Superscript in \markup environment

2016-02-05 Thread Abraham Lee
Robert, On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Robert Blackstone < blackstone.rob...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear list > > The LilyPond-project that I'm presently working on deals with some 40 > songs, voice and a keyboard instrument, with comments and explanations > underneath each score, some with small

LilyPond score used on PhotoScore site

2016-02-09 Thread Abraham Lee
I was pleasantly surprised to see a Mutopia score (Beethoven's Piano Trio, Opus 11, Movement 1) "featured" on PhotoScore's product page. Here's the direct link to the page: http://www.neuratron.com/photoscore2.htm

Re: Aligning upbows and downbows

2016-02-11 Thread Abraham Lee
David, You are very welcome! Don't forget to reply to the mailing list so others know you found a solution. BTW, if you haven't read through the Learning Manual, this will introduce you to many useful topics and concepts like the one I shared with you. In fact here's the exact section that talks a

Re: Music function for arrow directions in arpeggios

2016-02-23 Thread Abraham Lee
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 arpeggios. >> > > I would prefer an event function with a tweak: > > \version "2.19.36" > >

Accessing Context Properties

2016-02-25 Thread Abraham Lee
All, In the docs are numerous sections that discuss how to modify context properties. This is not complicated. However, a handful of recent threads on the user list have got me wondering about the correct way(s) of _accessing_ these properties within, for example, a music function. The music funct

Using \score in define-markup-command

2016-02-29 Thread Abraham Lee
All, I'm trying to utilize the \score markup command within a custom define-markup-command that accepts a music expression, but I can't figure out how. I'm probably missing something obvious, but here's a minimal example: \version "2.19.36" \markup { I know I can do this: \scor

Funny LilyPond Score

2016-03-01 Thread Abraham Lee
Fellow Pond Dwellers, Here's a laugh for everyone today. I was browsing through the sea of scores on the web and stumbled across this one . Enjoy! Best, Abraham ___ lilypond-user ma

OT: Help needed to package cross-platform python application

2016-03-09 Thread Abraham Lee
All, I have developed a couple of python PDF utilities that make certain batch processing operations a little easier. I'd like to make some binary files of the utilities so that users can just download and use them without needing to worry about setting up a python installation on their machines,

Re: Adding acoustic guitar (steel) to MIDI

2016-03-15 Thread Abraham Lee
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 > channel 1 because it was following the chord progression. I only wanted to > displa

Re: A big advantage to lilypond

2016-03-21 Thread Abraham Lee
Check out: www.mutopiaproject.org Best, Abraham On Monday, March 21, 2016, Redwood (Daniel) wrote: > Maybe, but then putting them on IMSLP? > > I suppose. > > -d > > On Mar 21, 2016, at 5:54 PM, David Kastrup > > wrote: > > > > "Redwood (Daniel)" > writes: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I’m convert

Re: lilypond fonts

2016-03-26 Thread Abraham Lee
Martin, On Saturday, March 26, 2016, Martin Neubauer wrote: > Unfortunately my enthusiasm for these new possibilities got dampened > somewhat by the current absence of the distribution site for these fonts ( > fonts.openlilylib.org, of course.) This made me wonder, are there any > news regarding

Re: Fonts from the former fonts.openlilylib.org

2016-03-26 Thread Abraham Lee
Carl, On Saturday, March 26, 2016, Carl Sorensen wrote: > Dear users, > > As many of you are aware, we have lost the repository of the libre fonts > formerly available on fonts.openlilylib.org. > > In order to preserve access to these fonts, I'm willing to host a > repository consistent with the

Re: Fonts from the former fonts.openlilylib.org

2016-03-26 Thread Abraham Lee
Andrew, On Saturday, March 26, 2016, Andrew Bernard wrote: > What I am concerned about is how would a lawyer or the owner know if you > were using the open source font or the commercial one? There is no way to > tell the difference from a published score as far as I would know. There > are now

Re: Fonts from the former fonts.openlilylib.org

2016-03-27 Thread Abraham Lee
Urs, On Sunday, March 27, 2016, Urs Liska wrote: > > > Am 27. März 2016 10:13:20 MESZ, schrieb tisimst < > tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com >: > >Andrew, > > > >On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 12:39 AM, N. Andrew Walsh [via Lilypond] < > >ml-node+s1069038n189018...@n5.nabble.com > wrote: > > > >> A side note:

Re: Fonts from the former fonts.openlilylib.org

2016-03-27 Thread Abraham Lee
On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Paul Morris wrote: > > On Mar 27, 2016, at 4:13 AM, tisimst wrote: > > > > I have considered Patreon before, but before I jump into that, does > anyone else have any other suggestion? > > Gratipay (formerly Gittip) is worth considering: https://gratipay.com/ > >

Re: Dot-separated list as music function argument

2014-07-08 Thread Abraham Lee
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:39 AM, Simon Albrecht wrote: 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) (de

Re: Header markup question

2014-07-08 Thread Abraham Lee
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Larry Kent wrote: I'm editing a file that was created in 2.16. Within the \paper settings, I have the following two lines that put headers on pages after the first, and they print too close to the top edge of the paper. What markup should be added to move the

Re: Dot-separated list as music function argument

2014-07-08 Thread Abraham Lee
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:48 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht writes: 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

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-09 Thread Abraham Lee
Xavier, That issue is a perfect example of what can be changed easily (i.e., no symbolic linking, no fancy naming-renaming, copying-recopying, etc.) All the fonts can co-exist, just as we are already used to with text fonts, in what I've developed. Regards, Abraham Xavier Scheuer wrote: >On

Re: Header markup question

2014-07-10 Thread Abraham Lee
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 4:03 AM, Noeck wrote: Hi Abraham, this was the next point on my LilyPond todo list, doing such a spacing cheat sheet. Thanks a lot for sharing. Can you provide a link such that other users can be pointed to it? Thanks, Joram Am 08.07.2014 16:48, schrieb Abraham Lee

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-10 Thread Abraham Lee
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 3:39 AM, James Harkins wrote: Something I've been wondering about for awhile... lilypond.org boasts of "optical spacing" for notes with alternating up and down stems, but it seems this feature has been lost somewhere (or disabled by default). In this example, it's quite

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-11 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 7:09 AM, David Nalesnik wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Abraham Lee wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 3:39 AM, James Harkins wrote: Something I've been wondering about for awhile... lilypond.org boasts of "optical spacing" for notes with alt

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-11 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:00 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Abraham Lee writes: Equally spaced stems do look nice with groupings that change staff constantly, however. I remember that SCORE had a feature that enabled this. I've often thought that LilyPond should have this option, but ha

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-14 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Noeck wrote: Hi Urs, it seems like I missed something. How did you create those scores? ... What is the Cadence font? Joram, I can answer for Urs. ... The Cadence font was the first result of that effort. Hi Abraham, thanks! Now I know what

Re: See the new music fonts in action

2014-07-26 Thread Abraham Lee
Janek, You are right about Ross. I updated the Ross example PDF (same link as before, so see the original message). See what you think with the thicker lines now. Regards, Abraham P.S. Anyone interested in using these should wait a little until we get the distribution website up and running. It

Re: [SPAM] Re: See the new music fonts in action

2014-07-26 Thread Abraham Lee
> > Am 26.07.2014 19:52, schrieb Abraham Lee: > > > >> > >> P.P.S. You don't like "Amadeus"? I feel rejected :) > > > > Well, it's not that I don't like it, it feels like a good name for a > notation font. But it's similarly unap

Re: See the new music fonts in action

2014-07-27 Thread Abraham Lee
You may be joking, but that's not a bad idea. Scorlatti... Maybe so. -Abraham On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 8:30 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Abraham Lee writes: > > > P.P.S. You don't like "Amadeus"? I feel rejected :) I guess I'm okay with > > that... W

Re: Better sound file then MIDI

2014-07-28 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:39 AM, dirk van damme wrote: Hi, Is there a possibility/approach to produce with Lilypond a music file that comes much closer to the natural sound of the music instruments used in the score - then through MIDI output as documented in the manuals. Or do I need to pr

Re: See the new music fonts in action

2014-07-28 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Mark Polesky wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Mark Polesky wrote: Or Scordato, which means "out of tune" but also "forgotten". The word scordatura is a derivative of this. Also scordare means "detune" and also "forget" All, I knew this was an awe

Re: See the new music fonts in action

2014-07-28 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Hans Aberg wrote: On 26 Jul 2014, at 01:14, tisimst wrote: I couldn't wait any longer, so here's a formal announcement about the new music fonts that I've been working on, by way of example. They are all 100% LilyPond compatible for both PDF and SVG outpu

Re: Multiple stanzas to selection of melody

2014-07-28 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Marten wrote: 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

Re: Where to Download the New Music Fonts?

2014-07-28 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Steve Noland wrote: Dear all, Can you post a link where the new music fonts can be found for downloading? I am unable to get to them on openlillylib.org. Thanks, Steve ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@

Re: Multiple stanzas to selection of melody

2014-07-28 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Marten wrote: 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

Re: Where to Download the New Music Fonts?

2014-07-28 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: 2014-07-29 0:58 GMT+02:00 Abraham Lee : 2. LilyPond needs to be patched in order actually use the fonts. I'd be interested in that file, too. Can't find it on the list ... Although we are going to see if this can be made p

Re: Where to Download the New Music Fonts?

2014-07-29 Thread Abraham Lee
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Urs Liska wrote: Am 29.07.2014 14:58, schrieb Hans Aberg: > On 29 Jul 2014, at 14:53, Urs Liska wrote: > >> On 29. Juli 2014 14:47:57 MESZ, Hans Aberg wrote: >>> On 29 Jul 2014, at 00:58, Abraham Lee >>> wrote: >>>

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

2014-07-31 Thread Abraham Lee
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 2:44 PM, MING TSANG wrote: Hi, lilyponders: I try to engrave a hymn which has two staff - one for SA and one for TB. At measure 70 to the end (measure 91) SA staff split into two S & A and each contains two voices. TB stays on one staff till the end. SA measure 1 to

Re: See the new music fonts in action

2014-08-01 Thread Abraham Lee
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Urs Liska wrote: Or send me the latest version of the file. Urs Urs, Here's the newest version of "font.scm". I decided to create my own function after all so that make-pango-font-tree (at least from the user's perspective) follows the same syntax, it is

Re: See the new music fonts in action

2014-08-01 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Larry Kent wrote: This looks great! It compiled correctly for me in LilyPond, but Frescobaldi 2.0.16 returns an error message on this line: #(define fonts (although it also compiled a lovely bit of score). This latest version of Frescobaldi seems to max out

Re: [SPAM] Re: See the new music fonts in action

2014-08-02 Thread Abraham Lee
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Urs Liska wrote: Just one question before I can make a patch from this: which Lilypond version is this file derived from? (I need to know that in order not to discard any work others may have done in that file). Urs I'm using 2.18.2. Sorry for not putting th

Re: Many staff contexts do not nest

2014-08-04 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Richard Shann wrote: Perhaps the following could be added to the Nested Staff Groups section of the page http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-staves "By default Piano Staff, Grand Staff and Staff Group can be nested inside a Choir

Re: Many staff contexts do not nest

2014-08-04 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:41 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Abraham Lee writes: On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Richard Shann wrote: Perhaps the following could be added to the Nested Staff Groups section of the page http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying

Re: See the new music fonts in action

2014-08-04 Thread Abraham Lee
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 8:49 PM, tisimst wrote: Okay, this is the last call for anyone to vote on the new name for the Amadeus (SCORE look-a-like) music font. I'll announce the new name tomorrow. In case you forgot, here's the survey link: http://kwiksurveys.com/s.asp?sid=l49o0rvfccqd8ow39

RE: piano pedal

2014-08-05 Thread Abraham Lee
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: David, Thank you for your reply and the commands. Where in the documentation can I find more on the method (the why and how it works) you presented? Thank you for your kind attention. Mark -Original Message- From: David Ka

Re: See the new music fonts in action

2014-08-05 Thread Abraham Lee
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 8:49 PM, tisimst wrote: Okay, this is the last call for anyone to vote on the new name for the Amadeus (SCORE look-a-like) music font. I'll announce the new name tomorrow. In case you forgot, here's the survey link: http://kwiksurveys.com/s.asp?sid=l49o0rvfccqd8ow396917 < h

RE: Better sound file then MIDI

2014-08-06 Thread Abraham Lee
Dirk, I've collected all my soundfonts into a MASSIVE compressed file (~2.5 GB). Here's the link where you can download it from my Google Drive account: https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&confirm=6Ccw&id=0B48p48kXy91YRUVqUGMzbl9PdGs Enjoy! Regards, Abraham On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 1

Re: Better sound file then MIDI

2014-08-06 Thread Abraham Lee
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Nathan Ho wrote: On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Abraham Lee wrote: Dirk, I've collected all my soundfonts into a MASSIVE compressed file (~2.5 GB). Here's the link where you can download it from my Google Drive account: https://docs.goo

Re: Where to Download the New Music Fonts?

2014-08-06 Thread Abraham Lee
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: PS: if you want some excerpts of those scores, just let me know! That would be great! Send them my way! Regards, Abraham ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu

Re: Issue 1129: Font styles return to default when font size changed

2014-08-08 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Hilary Snaden wrote: On 2014-08-08 09:35, tisimst wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Hilary Snaden [via Lilypond] wrote: Is this likely to be resolved? Perhaps a more fully-functioning workaround? I'm not nearly clever enough to do either myself, an

Re: Reduce vertical space between \score's?

2014-08-08 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 11:44 AM, PMA wrote: P.S. I should ask alternatively: Is there a way that "proportionalNotationDuration...make-moment..." can be reset _per system_ (assuming now a multi- system \score)? PMA wrote: Hi List. An *.ly of mine has four 1-system \score's on each page, rathe

Re: Reduce vertical space between \score's?

2014-08-08 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Pete, Trouble is, the vertical space between \score's is too big. This was not so in the original version (2.12.3), but is now after my upgrade to version 2.18.2. Is it possible to reduce LP-1.18.2's default value for the vert

Re: Problem with line breaks and guitar chords

2014-08-15 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 2:24 PM, David Bellows wrote: Hello all, I'm developing a program that does various things to sounds including various ways of creating scores. One of the things intends to produce simple guitar chords with fret diagrams, chord names, and strumming patterns by generating

Re: Crowd engraving project

2014-08-21 Thread Abraham Lee
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Urs Liska wrote: Hi all, this has been discussed before, but now's the time to repeat the "call for participation" for our crowd engraving project with "Das trunkne Lied", a large scale orchestral work by Oskar Fried. We are looking for people to enter and p

Re: problems with proportional spaced bar alignment

2014-09-01 Thread Abraham Lee
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Adam Spiers wrote: Please could someone tell me why the bar lines aren't aligned correctly in this? https://gist.github.com/aspiers/3a9fa8fc4422742cab82 I've tried all the obvious stuff from: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/proportio

Re: How can we obtain ties across voices in parallel music?

2014-09-04 Thread Abraham Lee
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Jacques Menu wrote: Hello folks, I’d like to obtain the tie between the cis’s in beat 1 and 2 in the attached, from a version of BWV 508 (3/4). The best I could find is: % \version "2.18.2" { \clef "treble" \key b \major \time 3/4 … \tieDown

Re: Henle Music font

2014-09-06 Thread Abraham Lee
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Nicolai Pfeffer wrote: Hi Abraham! I’m a clarinetist and music editor from Cologne, Germany and I’ve worked as an engraver for some of the major German publishing houses. I highly appreciate your effort of creating a Henle-like music font for public use. Sinc

fonts.openlilylib.org is live!

2014-09-09 Thread Abraham Lee
Dear LilyPond Community, The new website where you can download alternative music fonts is now live! Head on over to fonts.openlilylib.org and try them out! If there are any broken links, please let me know so I can fix them. If any instructions are unclear, please let me know so I can clarify

Re: beginner stanza help

2014-09-09 Thread Abraham Lee
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Steven Arntson wrote: Thanks for this, it helps. I'm struggling to understand this program with very little background, and it is like spelunking without a headlamp. Consequently, I fear asking questions that are not worth answering. I thought I could get the

Re: fonts.openlilylib.org is live!

2014-09-10 Thread Abraham Lee
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Shane Brandes wrote: I fiddled around with making one a while back but thought the system was to oddball to be handily useful at the time and that was several releases ago. I may work on one when the snows come again, probably for an earlier printing era. Shane

Re: fonts.openlilylib.org is live!

2014-09-11 Thread Abraham Lee
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:39 AM, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Hi, Once I have more time I will definitely try the new fonts. It's an interesting project and addition to the power of LilyPond. But I hope this will not change the goal of LilyPond development in the future from "How can we produc

Re: fonts.openlilylib.org is live!

2014-09-11 Thread Abraham Lee
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 3:29 AM, Urs Liska wrote: Hi Abraham, great that it has come to that point, congratulations. At a time we'll surely try out the effect on our new _big_ Oskar Fried score :-) I'm at least very interested how it will come out with Cadence, but for a dense orchestral scor

Re: Creating new fonts with FontForgeErreur

2014-09-12 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: Hi, Since Abraham has done a wonderful job with his new fonts, I wanted to come back to some font works i started years ago without success (I'm a total newbee with FontForge). And still, I'm stucked with two issues which are pro

Re: Henle Music font

2014-09-12 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Urs Liska wrote: Hi, Abraham, I invite you to visit me and investigate my engraving plate from Chopin's f minor concerto :-) Urs, You have an actual engraving plate in your possession?! Lucky! I really wish I could come and visit to see the plate in person.

Re: Henle Music font

2014-09-12 Thread Abraham Lee
-- Forwarded message -- From: Conor Cook Subject: Re: Henle Music font Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:49:57 -0500 To: Abraham Lee Oops, I didn't mean to make it private. I get the emails as a digest, which makes responding hard. The German fonts can be hard to read, eh?

Re: \override #'(font-series . medium) doesn't work anymore?

2014-09-19 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Karol Majewski wrote: OK, so having read what Abraham wrote, I'll put my question in other way: Is there any typeface that works in LilyPond with \medium command? I haven't found any... -- Karol Karol, Do you mean that you want a slightly heavier look t

Re: \override #'(font-series . medium) doesn't work anymore?

2014-09-19 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Neil Puttock wrote: On 19 September 2014 18:18, TaoCG wrote: There must be something wrong on your side. I can see a clear difference between Regular and Medium in both normal and italic shape. Same here. Could be a browser issue. I guess so. How stra

Re: Automatic fit-to page staff spacing help

2014-09-19 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Scott Miller wrote: On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote \paper { ragged-bottom = ##f } Thanks! Yeah I have tried various ragged-xxx options, but it doesn't seem to space evenly over the whole page. Ex: http://lilybin.com/n8jjn6/3 What

Re: Henle Music font

2014-09-25 Thread Abraham Lee
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 5:36 AM, tisimst wrote: Thanks so much for your kind words! I think you are right about how much easier it is now, but in all fairness to Han-wen, et al, who created Emmentaler, I didn't have to parametrically define the glyphs. I understand how much effort goes into

Re: overriding articulate.ly

2014-09-25 Thread Abraham Lee
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Hi, I often \include "articulate.ly" to generate midifiles from my LilyPond scores. Looking at the content of the articulate.ly file I see for example: #(define ac:staccatoFactor '(1 . 2)) Is there a way to override these values in

Re: Strange happenings with alternate music fonts 2.19.14

2014-09-26 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Joshua Nichols wrote: I wonder if this problem has occurred with 2.18.2, but I have not tried it. Anyone understand why the composer is coming out all the way to the right of the margin? see attached. Sincerely, Josh Josh, I, personally, haven't noticed

Re: Strange happenings with alternate music fonts 2.19.14

2014-09-26 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Joshua Nichols wrote: Thanks Abraham. See attached. Thank you for the tremendous and hard work you have put to explore alternate fonts. I am in debt to you (for which I might just donate ;) ). IC, Josh On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Abraham Lee wrote

Re: Strange happenings with alternate music fonts 2.19.14

2014-09-26 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Joshua Nichols wrote: > (or rather, the empty markup)... What do you mean? I don't see an empty markup. > So it must be the current composer... Is it too long? IC, Josh Josh, It's not that YOU put empty markup in it, but that the other header properties

Re: LilyPond Enhancement Proposal (with Bounty)

2014-09-28 Thread Abraham Lee
Paul, This sounds intriguing! First of all, my best wishes to you and your startup company. May you have great success! Secondly, I'm not entirely sure I understand what you are trying to avoid with the text above measure bars. Can you give us an example or two showing us exactly what you mean

Re: LilyPond Enhancement Proposal (with Bounty)

2014-09-28 Thread Abraham Lee
That's what I thought. I just wanted to make sure that that's what was really the issue that needed to be addressed. Regards, Abraham Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 28, 2014, at 9:34 PM, Chris Crossen wrote: > > > >> On Sep 28, 2014, at 8:08 PM, Abraham Lee wro

Re: Long stretch in one voice, then two

2014-09-29 Thread Abraham Lee
+1! I think that makes perfect sense and feels very coherent with the other functions. Regards, Abraham Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 29, 2014, at 1:18 AM, Knute Snortum wrote: > > Well, mine would be "\voiceNeutral", but I'm not demanding that! It would > fit with \tieUp -> \tieNeutral,

Re: Unexpected TabStaff creation

2014-09-29 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Peter Crighton wrote: I see, thanks. I have several files I include in every project, in one of which I make some overrides to TabStaff. How can I avoid this problem in scores I’m not using any TabStaffs in, other than removing the Clef_engraver from TabSt

Re: Unexpected TabStaff creation

2014-09-29 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Peter Crighton wrote: 2014-09-29 21:18 GMT+02:00 Federico Bruni : 2014-09-29 21:12 GMT+02:00 Abraham Lee : Put the overrides in a \layout block, like: \layout { \override TabStaff.Stemstencil = ##f } This won't create a new context, but it will app

Re: Unexpected TabStaff creation

2014-09-29 Thread Abraham Lee
g the same syntax as the original code. I'm not sure if this will buy you anything new, but who knows. Good luck! Regards, Abraham Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 29, 2014, at 5:18 PM, Peter Crighton wrote: > > 2014-09-30 0:49 GMT+02:00 Abraham Lee : >> If it's something yo

Re: LilyPond Enhancement Proposal (with Bounty)

2014-10-02 Thread Abraham Lee
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Chris Crossen wrote: Due to the lack of response, I’m wondering if this question is posted on the right list. Is there another list where this question is more likely to be seen by developers? Thanks, Chris Chris, I looked into this a little bit and found

Re: Overriding header fonts in a template

2014-10-02 Thread Abraham Lee
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Harris, Jeff wrote: Abraham, Thanks for the help. Creating a new header block is working, it does seem to work better when the variables are defined before they are used. The issue with this is that I don't know what header elements will be used for the next

Re: Bounty for Fixing Ligature Bug?

2014-10-06 Thread Abraham Lee
Josh, It's not the hints. Font hints are instructions for the computer to render the glyphs more accurately at small sizes. Unfortunately, it's a different issue. -Abraham Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 6, 2014, at 8:25 PM, Joshua Nichols wrote: > > I apologize for not responding sooner. > >

Re: Overlapping ties in different voices

2014-10-07 Thread 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''' { << { s1 | b1 ~

Feedback Request for Music Fonts

2014-10-09 Thread Abraham Lee
Greetings, fellow users! With the advent of the new music fonts and the accompanying website, I just thought I'd open up this thread to any feedback anyone has about the fonts and ANYTHING related to them. I think it would also be neat for users to also share success stories from using them. I

Re: Feedback Request for Music Fonts

2014-10-10 Thread Abraham Lee
gt; 2014-10-10 9:05 GMT+02:00 Pierre Perol-Schneider > : >> Hi Abraham, >> >> 2014-10-09 15:39 GMT+02:00 Abraham Lee : >> >>> I just thought I'd open up this thread to any feedback anyone has about the >>> fonts and ANYTHING related to them. &

Re: Feedback Request for Music Fonts

2014-10-10 Thread Abraham Lee
Guy, Thank you for using it! That's a wonderful story! Keep it up :) Regards, Abraham Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 9, 2014, at 2:56 PM, Guy Stalnaker wrote: > > I LOVE what you've done. I them installed on all of my lilypond/Frescobaldi > intallations (five in total). And you have a complime

Re: Feedback Request for Music Fonts

2014-10-10 Thread Abraham Lee
Scott, Very interesting... If they're used to Finale's output, then this isn't too surprising, since Finale's Maestro font and Profondo are based on the same glyph set, only Profondo is a heavier version. And I'm glad you like Scorlatti! Care to share any of your recent works with it? Regards

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