Re: Quit [now definitely O/T]

2009-11-12 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/11/09 4:23 PM, "Jonathan Wilkes" wrote: >> >> spannerText = >> #(define-music-function (parser location span-text) >> (string?) >>   #{ >>       \override TextSpanner #'(bound-details >> left text) = #$span-text >>   #") >> >> which would allow above example to be coded much more >> ea

Re: Chord symbol placement from \layout

2009-11-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
which version) and has been corrected in 2.13.8 (which has not yet been released. If you use 2.12, I don't think that you will have this problem. Thanks, Carl Sorensen ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: [frogs] Changing Chord Name Font Size

2009-11-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
Dear KKLL00B, Thanks for your question. This is a question that is best asked on the lilypond-user list, which is where questions by new *users* are handled. The frogs list is for new *developers*, that is, for people who are trying to eliminate bugs from LilyPond. Anyway, to answer your questi

Re: No string for pitch #

2009-11-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/19/09 5:59 AM, "Jesús Guillermo Andrade" wrote: > David: > El 18/11/2009, a las 02:51 a.m., David Kastrup escribió: > >> Sounds like Lilypond is running out of strings for the given chords. >> Just a wild guess. > > Yes.. it is kind of shocking right?. But fact is that the notes listed

Re: Frets without string information

2009-11-21 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/20/09 9:51 PM, "Jesús Guillermo Andrade" wrote: > Dear fellows: I've read in several places that it is impossible to > transpose frets with string information. How can one create a fret > without it? I'd like to make lilypond able to transpose the basic > frets I am putting together. Th

Re: [frogs] Re: cadenza causes barcheck failure?

2009-11-21 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/20/09 12:15 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > Valentin Villenave schrieb: >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: >> >>> Could someone volunteer to create a patch to the documentation by adding >>> this to the Known issues

Re: No string for pitch #

2009-11-23 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/20/09 8:58 PM, "Jesús Guillermo Andrade" wrote: > Got the prick little b... It was as Carl initially suggested. I made a minimal > example and found that there was a problem with the model for the string > tuning function. > Thanks a lot... There was also a bug in the code that you found

Re: \set vs \override

2009-11-24 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/24/09 2:57 AM, "Nick Payne" wrote: > James Worlton wrote: >> Hi! >> >> >> In 2.13.6 I did a project and used: >> \set Score.markFormatter = #format-mark-box-alphabet >> and I got the boxes and the letter I (all in one command!) > Thanks for that. That particular value for set > (format

Re: \set vs \override

2009-11-24 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/24/09 4:56 AM, "David Kastrup" wrote: > Nick Payne writes: > >> Carl Sorensen wrote: >>> >>> On 11/24/09 2:57 AM, "Nick Payne" wrote: >>> >>>> James Worlton wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi

Re: [frogs] Re: format-mark-* Was: \set vs \override

2009-12-02 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/2/09 2:47 AM, "Valentin Villenave" wrote: > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Mats Bengtsson > wrote: >> Running the command "grep format-mark- scm/translation-functions.scm" in >> Linux gives the following list of functions: >> >> (define-public (format-mark-alphabet mark context) >> (d

Re: [frogs] Re: format-mark-* Was: \set vs \override

2009-12-02 Thread Carl Sorensen
body of the NR. We try to keep the body of the NR as short as feasible, and put exhaustive lists in the appendices. > > /Mats > > Valentin Villenave wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: >> >>> Doing this right probably means a ca

Re: [frogs] Re: format-mark-* Was: \set vs \override

2009-12-02 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/2/09 2:58 PM, "Mats Bengtsson" wrote: > Carl Sorensen wrote: >> >> On 12/2/09 1:40 PM, "Mats Bengtsson" wrote: >> >> >>> Why not simply extend the current example so that it shows all the >>> possibilities? No nee

Re: Changing all titles in one place?

2009-12-24 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/24/09 3:05 AM, "Dmytro O. Redchuk" wrote: > У чт, 2009-12-24 у 10:17 +0100, Wilbert Berendsen пише: >> Op donderdag 24 december 2009 schreef Dmytro: >>> #:override '(font-name . localComposerFont)\ A simpler way to do this is to just do #:override `(font-name . ,localCompos

Re: Default beaming with tuplets

2009-12-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/25/09 4:31 AM, "Nick Payne" wrote: > Notes in a tuplet by default are getting beamed with notes outside the > tuplet. Should the default beaming rules be doing this? No, they should not. Ccing to bug list. I'll look into this some more. > > \version "2.13.9" > > \relative c'' { >

Re: Default beaming with tuplets

2009-12-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/25/09 4:31 AM, "Nick Payne" wrote: > Notes in a tuplet by default are getting beamed with notes outside the > tuplet. Should the default beaming rules be doing this? > > \version "2.13.9" > > \relative c'' { > \time 3/4 > c4. c8 \times 2/3 { c aes g } > } > Nick, If you wa

Re: question about tablature

2009-12-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/26/09 5:16 AM, "Trevor Daniels" wrote: > > > James Bailey wrote Saturday, December 26, 2009 9:37 AM > Subject: question about tablature > > >> I don't know much about tablature, but are eighth notes supposed to >> have stems and beams? > > Yes, if \tabFullNotation is invoked. > > B

Re: question about tablature

2009-12-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/26/09 8:17 AM, "James Bailey" wrote: > > On 26.12.2009, at 14:19, Carl Sorensen wrote: > >> >> >> >> On 12/26/09 5:16 AM, "Trevor Daniels" wrote: >> >> >>> >>> >>>

Re: Default beaming with tuplets

2009-12-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/26/09 5:47 AM, "Carl Sorensen" wrote: > > > > > On 12/25/09 4:31 AM, "Nick Payne" wrote: > >> Notes in a tuplet by default are getting beamed with notes outside the >> tuplet. Should the default beaming rules be doing

Re: question about tablature

2009-12-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/26/09 10:21 AM, "Trevor Daniels" wrote: > Carl Sorensen wrote Saturday, December 26, 2009 1:19 PM > >> On 12/26/09 5:16 AM, "Trevor Daniels" >> wrote: >> >>> James Bailey wrote Saturday, December 26, 2009 9:37 AM >>> Subje

Re: question about tablature

2009-12-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/26/09 12:42 PM, "James Bailey" wrote: > > > On 26.12.2009, at 20:07, Carl Sorensen wrote: > >> >> >> >> On 12/26/09 10:21 AM, "Trevor Daniels" wrote: >> >>> Carl Sorensen wrote Saturday, December 26, 2009 1:

Re: 2.13 default beaming rules need support for tuplets

2009-12-28 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/28/09 12:03 AM, "Nick Payne" wrote: > Also, all the commercial scores I've seen have one tuplet indication per > beam (usually omitted after a couple of beams/bars), not a single tuplet > indication spanning multiple beams/bars. Shouldn't the default tuplet > indication be what is regard

Re: hymns: chords vs. voices

2010-01-02 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/1/10 6:30 PM, "mike99" wrote: > > Enter my question: What is your opinion to the two methods, given the > direction of the project and in terms of readability and complications that > it would cause in the score? It would not be a simple thing to switch > between the two methods once sev

Re: Editing notes in a separate file

2010-01-02 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/2/10 10:06 AM, "Michael J. O'Donnell" wrote: > You are proposing very good solutions for the short term production of > scores. I am more concerned with the very long term management of the > information. > > The object is to > > 1. have a file containing data entry from the MS which re

Re: Numeric note heads for singers

2010-01-03 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/3/10 1:35 AM, "David Olson" wrote: > > (1) Easy notation for singers > > The easy notation feature is designed for instrumentalists: > > < > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Note-heads#Easy-nota > tion-note-heads> > > i.e., it inscribes the letter value insid

Re: [frogs] Re: Numeric note heads for singers

2010-01-03 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/3/10 12:22 PM, "pound...@lineone.net" wrote: > I might be misunderstanding the request, but couldn't it be done with > > \override Voice . NoteHead #'note-names = #(vector "1" "2" "3" "4" "5" > "6" "7") > \easyHeadsOn . > > adjusting the numbers depending on the key This wou

Re: hymns: chords vs. voices

2010-01-07 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/7/10 3:40 PM, "pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au" wrote: > See, e.g., To God be the Glory, > http://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=195 > which has the words to the refrain set, but not the other words. > (BTW, the spacing algorithm changed after I first typeset it, and > although

Re: Staff Tab notation support?

2010-01-09 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/8/10 6:48 PM, "Daniel Quaroni" wrote: > Hello. Over at at Chapman Stick forum there's a discussion going on about > ways we can bring Staff Tab notation to people for less than $600. Staff Tab > is a modification of traditional music notation adds the string and fret > positions (and al

Re: [frogs] Re: Numeric note heads for singers

2010-01-09 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/9/10 12:50 PM, "pound...@lineone.net" wrote: > > >> Original Message >> From: da...@thirdculture.com >> Date: 09/01/2010 19:01 >> To: "Carl Sorensen" >> Cc: "fr...@lilynet.net", >> "lilypond-user@gnu

Re: Staff Tab notation support?

2010-01-09 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/9/10 6:25 PM, "Hugh Myers" wrote: > Don't know about anyone else, but I'd certainly like to see what > you've got cooking... > > --hsm > > On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Eric Knapp wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Carl So

Re: [frogs] Re: Numeric note heads for singers

2010-01-10 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/10/10 4:52 AM, "Ian Hulin" wrote: > Hi Carl and everyone, > > This looks a good idea in principle, but you've got to address what I call the > tonic-sol-fa/solfeggio problem. > You have to consider all of these (and I may have missed a few) > 1. What is your base-level tonic? > 2. what m

Re: Staff Tab notation support?

2010-01-10 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/10/10 9:25 AM, "Eric Knapp" wrote: > Thanks for the offer, Carl. I have attached a clip of the current > state of the notation system. There is a custom music font in > PostScript Type 1 and TrueType here: > http://www.arthurdurkee.net/stickfonts.html. > > StaffTab is a way to combine st

Re: Staff Tab notation support?

2010-01-10 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/10/10 9:43 PM, "Eric Knapp" wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: >> >> >> >> >> Eric, >> >> I don't think that this is hugely difficult to make work.  (Of course, I'm >> not doing

Re: hymns: chords vs. voices

2010-01-18 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/18/10 2:24 AM, "mike99" wrote: > Carl's method of using partcombine allows for keeping the voice inputs > separate. This makes the code clearer, and is encouraging since it's still > undecided which notation to adopt; by changing a few declarations I could > use either method (minus twea

Re: Question about scheme engravers

2010-01-18 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/18/10 2:41 PM, "Eric Knapp" wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > I'm working on creating engravers in scheme. I have the example from > here: > > http://codereview.appspot.com/181109/show > > In the example file named, "scheme-engraver.ly" there is this piece of > code: > > (cons 'rest-event

Re: Lotus Symphony Lilypond Widget

2010-01-18 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/18/10 2:01 PM, "Philip DiTullio" wrote: > Hi, > I have just been getting into using Lilypond and Open Office with the plugin. > I > really like the Lotus Symphoney setup. I know that the it is based in Open > Office I was wondering if there will be a Widget(IBM's format of plugins)for > L

Re: hymns: chords vs. voices

2010-01-18 Thread Carl Sorensen
mike99 gmail.com> writes: > > > Carl Sorensen-3 wrote: > > This does work, though I found another limitation. Because you have to place > the note head about one staff space down in order to avoid horizontal > displacement of the phantom note head, the stem protrudes f

Re: Question about scheme engravers

2010-01-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/19/10 9:18 AM, "Eric Knapp" wrote: > Thanks, Carl. > > I am making a bit progress, but I haven't cracked the fingerings in a > chord, yet. I'll post another with my source to the devel list. Fingerings in a chord are part of the 'articulations property of the note. To see these things,

Re: How to include a file just once?

2010-01-21 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/21/10 1:07 PM, "Michael J. O'Donnell" wrote: > Many other languages, including most programming languages, and also the > LaTeX typesetting system, have recognized the value of declaring in file > A that it requires file B, and automatically including B if it has not > already been included

Re: avoid multiple fret diagrams

2010-01-21 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/21/10 12:27 PM, "Pascal Obry" wrote: > > > I'd like to have the fret diagram only printed over the TabStaff and not > the staff. Given the following small code snippet I have the fret > diagram displayed twice. Is there a solution to this? Using macros? I'm > quite new to lilypond and d

Re: avoid multiple fret diagrams

2010-01-21 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/21/10 1:13 PM, "Pascal Obry" wrote: > James, > > Thanks for the quick reply. > >> First of all, hello. Welcome. I encourage everyone to read the Learning >> Manual once completely through before doing anything. > > I've gone through the manual already. But I've not found an answer to m

Re: RE; Re nesting curves getting closer

2010-01-23 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/23/10 6:39 AM, "i...@soundand.com" wrote: > > > Gilles asked for an attachment I don't exactly know what to attach so > I've attached the latest pdf output. What was wanted was the exact working code to get bad output, which you've included in the body of the email. Perfect! > > This

Re: RE; Re nesting curves getting closer

2010-01-23 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/23/10 7:07 AM, "Gilles Sadowski" wrote: > Hi. > >>> Gilles asked for an attachment I don't exactly know what to attach so >>> I've attached the latest pdf output. >> >> What was wanted was the exact working code to get bad output, which you've >> included in the body of the email. Perf

Re: Direction of beamlets

2010-01-25 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/24/10 3:01 AM, "Sven Axelsson" wrote: > In Scottish bagpipe music it is customary to have the beamlets in a dotted/cut > pair of notes to always point towards the dotted note. > However, the default Lilypond setup for something like > > { c8. c16 c16 c8. } > > is to tie the beam for the sh

Re: RE; Re nesting curves getting closer

2010-01-25 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/24/10 7:42 AM, "David Kastrup" wrote: > Graham Percival writes: > >> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:39:51AM +0100, Gilles Sadowski wrote: > IMHO, perfect would be to *attach* a complete lilypond file, so that > people Well, IMO, it's better to have a short file in the bod

Re: RE; Re nesting curves getting closer

2010-01-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/26/10 1:41 AM, "David Kastrup" wrote: > Carl Sorensen writes: > >> On 1/24/10 7:42 AM, "David Kastrup" wrote: >>> >>> You can use an inline attachment for that, like this: >>> >> >> This is even worse for tho

Re: scheme-function to export a note-list?

2010-01-30 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/30/10 9:09 AM, "Ewald Gutenkunst" wrote: > > The \ambitus is already a sort of analysis, it shows simply the range of > pitches. But how is it possible to have the information of the whole staff at > the beginning of it? Your new engraver goes step by step through the score > and displa

Re: Grouped beams

2010-01-31 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/31/10 11:23 AM, "Frank Steinmetzger" wrote: > Hi group, > > I've got two questions concerning the attached measure (you see the original > and my attempt on reproducing it). > How can I achieve a similar "grouping" of beams? I.e. having one beam go > through, and the rest grouped. And se

Re: Lilypond vs Score

2010-02-01 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/1/10 3:08 PM, "David Bobroff" wrote: > On 2/1/2010 9:57 PM, Bobber wrote: >> >> Is anyone familiar with Score and what makes it superior? >> > > to use Finale, but haven't in several years) and he is also probably > correct when he says that most major publishing houses use Score. The

Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite

2010-02-02 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/2/10 12:49 AM, "Johan Vromans" wrote: > Kirill writes: > > >> 4) Chords ARE produced by the converter, at least from Sib6 scores. > > There are chords in the .xml but not in the .ly. > This brings up an issue that has been concerning me in this whole thread. I believe that a good xml

Re: Printing entire score on 1 line

2010-02-02 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/2/10 6:15 AM, "pat eyler" wrote: > My wife is a new lilypond user (and not super computer literate). > She's trying to typeset a score generated by denemo (see below), > but the output is all squeezed onto a single line which overflows > the right side of the page. > > I've looked over t

Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite

2010-02-02 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/2/10 9:18 AM, "Kirill" wrote: > Carl, > I promise I will maintain the project better, and will follow more robust > testing procedures (absolutely essential for this kind of tool). > I apologise for the temporary bugs, but the project is very-very young. > I'm sure in a few weeks it wil

Re: Editing notes in a separate file

2010-02-03 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/2/10 10:06 AM, "Michael J. O'Donnell" wrote: > In the hope that I had overlooked > something (I've read the whole notation manual, but there are clearly > things that haven't made it in yet---I've found some of them in the > *.scm and *.ly sources but there are bound to be others that I've >

Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite

2010-02-04 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/4/10 3:53 PM, "Michael Good" wrote: > > LilyPond may be free software, but it has more lock-in than nearly any current > commercial music notation product. Scores can only be imported into LilyPond > format. They can never be moved effectively from LilyPond to another notation > program.

Re: Easy noteheads

2010-02-05 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/5/10 2:47 PM, "Robert Clausecker" wrote: > Dear Lilypond Team > > Thank you for your quick response. I just upgraded to 2.13.9 and > anything's fine. But I found another error: > > Easy noteheads are not working using svg-backend. They work just fine on 2.13.12. Carl

Re: Editing notes in a separate file

2010-02-06 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/6/10 1:53 PM, "Michael J. O'Donnell" wrote: > Carl, > > Thanks for the note. One thing that I discovered in source, but can't find in > manuals, is "not-first-page" (in titling-init.ly). I used it to define my own > "part-not-first-page", since I like to format lots of things as bookpart

Re: vowel aligned lyrics - want to improve it

2010-02-15 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/15/10 8:16 AM, "Wolf Alight" wrote: > Hi Lilyponders > > I just wanted to improve the vowel alignment of the lyrics and a few days > later I find myself diving deep into the Lilypond with fascination > and...yes...some frustration.  > > I want to improve

Re: Best current method to include only once

2010-02-15 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/14/10 11:05 AM, "Michael J. O'Donnell" wrote: > For those who would like to use it too, I append a complete utility file > that I use to copy in a file full of definitions with \includeIfAbsent, > skipping the copy if the file has already been copied in with > \includeIfAbsent. This utili

Re: Mailing Subject Format Inquiry

2010-02-15 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/15/10 11:41 AM, "Steven White" wrote: > On 2/15/10 12:06 PM, Colin Campbell wrote: >> Steven White wrote: >> > I'm currently working on tweaking the placement of a note in a two voice > segment. Working on this Scriabin piece "Two Poems" There is an odd > "Chord" in the piece where all th

Re: Emmentaler font containing only some characters?

2010-02-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/15/10 4:06 PM, "Fallenblood" wrote: > Hi all. I am trying to use Lilypond's Emmentaler font in a wxPython project of > mine. However, the font seems to consist only of a small set of actual > characters, and the others are blank. I read about someone having the same > problem, but I could

Re: vowel aligned lyrics - want to improve it

2010-02-17 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/17/10 3:32 AM, "Wolf Alight" wrote: >> >> You could do interpret-markup and get a stencil of an individual character, >> then get its X-extent, I think.  It would involve getting the 'text, then >> going through the text elements one by one and creating a stencil. >> >> Hope this is hel

Re: vowel aligned lyrics - want to improve it

2010-02-17 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/17/10 1:57 PM, "Neil Puttock" wrote: > From a callback, the easiest method for evaluating markup is to use > grob-interpret-markup. For example: > > my-callback = > #(lambda (grob) > (grob-interpret-markup grob (markup "foo"))) > Thanks, Neil. I've added this to the section on c

Re: vowel aligned lyrics - want to improve it

2010-02-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/19/10 5:24 AM, "Wolf Alight" wrote: > A great suggestion. To override was the way to go.  > > So here it comes!  Beautiful! > My inner perfectionist only have one complaint: the note width has been hard > coded and the value should be adjusted if non default notehead sizes are > used.  >

Re: old-relative, what does it men

2010-02-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/19/10 6:33 AM, "Stefan Thomas" wrote: > Dear lilypond-users, > I get sometimes a strange error message, that I do not understand: > /usr/share/lilypond/2.12.2/ly/init.ly:29:0: Fehler: syntax error, unexpected > SCM_TOKEN > > #(if (and (ly:get-option 'old-relative) > I have no idea what t

Re: Lyric-aligned music

2010-02-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/19/10 5:46 AM, "Christ van Willegen" wrote: > In church music, using a hyphen to split syllables is not done. > Instead, words with 2 syllables have a note attached to each syllable > (centered on the vowels, ofcourse :-) ) > > So, I would like to be able to typeset {c4 d} \addLyrics {Je-

Re: Two lines of lyrics (English & Latin)

2010-02-20 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/20/10 9:25 AM, "Athanasius Pelletier" wrote: > How do I modify my file to make two lines of lyrics, one for Latin and another > under it for the English translation: > > % Created on Fri Feb 19 11:30:41 EST 2010 > \version "2.13.9" > > \include "gregorian.ly " > >

Re: Suppressing the o in fret diagrams

2010-03-02 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 3/2/10 1:59 AM, "keith Luke" wrote: > Is it possible to suppress the open string indicator in fret diagrams? > > Instead of \fret-diagram #"4-2-2;3-1-1;2-o;1-o;" I would like the equivalent > of \fret-diagram #"4-2-2;3-1-1;2- ;1- ;" where the o does not appear on > strings 2 and three. If yo

Re: default beaming

2010-03-03 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 3/3/10 9:15 AM, "Mats Bengtsson" wrote: > Ole Schmidt wrote: >> Hi, >> >> When I write \times 2/3 { c8 c16 c8. } the second beam of the sixteenth note >> goes to the left which in my opinion is wrong. >> Am I missing something or do I have to overwrite the default settings? (if >> yes, how ca

Re: measurePosition within a music function?

2010-03-05 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 3/5/10 5:05 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > > This works fine, but I wanted to evaluate the position of the current note > within the current bar. I found the measurePosition property, but to use > > ly:context-property context 'measurePosition > > in my function, I need the appropriate context

Re: substitution for context

2010-03-06 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 3/6/10 9:11 AM, "Stefan Thomas" wrote: > Dear community, > I wanted to create a substitution-function with Scheme, where one could freely > choose the context. > I don't know which kind of variable is necessesary for the context. You have a couple of problems, including the name left for y

Re: Partials and upbeats

2010-03-11 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 3/10/10 10:04 AM, "Phil Holmes" wrote: > Mats said: >>> Quoting Phil Holmes : Is it correct that the \partial command applies to all voices below the one in which it is issued, > >>> No, the \partial command sets some properties on the Score level, so the >>> order shouldn't matt

Re: Any progress in chord name design?

2010-03-17 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 3/17/10 1:51 PM, "fiëé visuëlle" wrote: > Ahoi, > > I still gratefully use Thomas Morgan's patch from september 2009 to > get minor chord names in lowercase, and apply this patch to every new > version I install. > Today my 2.13.3 stopped working (OSX error dialog comes up, looks like > a

Re: Turning autobeaming off for a stave

2010-03-17 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 3/17/10 10:43 AM, "Phil Holmes" wrote: > I read from the documentation that the \autoBeamOff command only applies to > a voice by default. [I'd like it to apply to a staff] > > Could anyone point me, please? \set Staff.autoBeaming = ##f HTH, Carl _

Re: Turning autobeaming off for a stave

2010-03-18 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 3/18/10 4:49 AM, "Phil Holmes" wrote: > Carl, > > Thanks. Doing that sort of fixes my problem, but set me off finding a > number of other oddities in the way beaming works with implicit voices. > Here we go > > This is some excerpts from some real music, so isn't quite minimal but do

Re: Enhancement request

2010-03-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 3/19/10 8:40 AM, "Phil Holmes" wrote: > According to the documentation for 2.12.3 "There is no support for chords > where the same note occurs with different accidentals in the same chord." I > have a situation where this is required and would like to add it as an > enhancement request. I've

Re: Enhancement request

2010-03-20 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 3/20/10 9:43 AM, "Kieren MacMillan" wrote: > Hi Phil, > >> understood it to mean that when there are 2 notes in 2 voices but which have >> the same fundamental note, only differing in an accidental, then LilyPond >> doesn't support this. > > Nope -- but we should adjust the documentation if

Re: 2.13.16 crashes while processing old good file (2.8.8 and 2.12.3 do not)

2010-03-23 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 3/23/10 2:26 AM, "Dmytro O. Redchuk" wrote: > Hi. > > My problem (again, yes, my own,) now is that 2.13.16 crashes on a > file, which can happily be compiled with 2.12.3 and 2.8.8 (2.13.0 > segfaults, did not try others yet). > > Having no idea how to debug, i would like to ask what can

Re: Setting 3/4 beaming

2010-03-25 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 3/25/10 4:40 AM, "T.Skeggs" wrote: > Thank you for the mantra required to inhibit 6/8 beaming in 3/4 time > [viz. \overrideBeamSettings #'Score #'(3 . 4) #'end #'((* . (1 1 1))) ] > > It took a bit of trial-and-error to find a location for this command that > took effect > (not with the

Re: Tablature without white space around TabNoteHead

2010-03-25 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 3/24/10 11:31 AM, "David Stocker" wrote: > Is there a way to prevent LilyPond from whiting out the space around tablature > numbers, so that the tablature staff line goes all the way through the tab > number? Yes, use \override TabNoteHead #'whiteout = ##t When you get this figured out,

Re: Chords

2010-03-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 3/26/10 4:41 PM, "David Stocker" wrote: > I have some questions/concerns about display of chords in LilyPond: > * Is there a way to make LilyPond center the entire chord symbol (root and > suffix) on its rhythmic axis? Right now, LilyPond is only centering the root > on the rhythmic axis, w

Re: Dividing (or multiplying) note lengths?

2010-04-08 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/8/10 6:46 AM, "Han-Wen Nienhuys" wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Kieren MacMillan > wrote: >> Hi Hilary, >> >>> Can Lilypond do this automagically >> >> Almost... >> > > the snippet has a \break, and the 2nd line is not showing up...

Re: Woodwind Fingerings

2010-04-10 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/9/10 6:06 PM, "Bernardo Barros" wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to notate woodwind fingerings? Let's say to notate a flute > fingering above a note? There is a snippet for clarinet fingerings: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=615 It might be able to be modified for flutes. HTH,

Re: Woodwind Fingerings

2010-04-12 Thread Carl Sorensen
Mark Polesky yahoo.com> writes: > You should be able to use a boolean type-check in a music > function. You should be able to use any type-check that > appears in "type-p-name-alist" in scm/lily.scm: > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=blob;f=scm/lily.scm#l421 > > (the docume

Re: Woodwind Fingerings

2010-04-12 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/12/10 4:59 PM, "Bernardo Barros" wrote: > I followed your instructions, I have now another kind of error, but it > still doesn't work. > > I DID: > > #(define-markup-command (woodfing layout props fingers) > AND: > > > c'^\woodfing #'(##t ##t

Re: Problems with chord glissandos with articulations and tablature

2010-04-15 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/15/10 7:48 AM, "Bernardo Barros" wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question. I'm trying to notate the following situation (see PDF > file). Its a example from the guitar part. > > I'm having a lot of problems here, and it's going to happen again and again, > so it's better to find a more practi

Re: Problems with chord glissandos with articulations and tablature

2010-04-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/15/10 9:09 PM, "Bernardo Barros" wrote: > Thanks a lot, Carl. > > Let me know if you make this work with any number of notes. > > I'm sure that would be a great feature to add to the next version of > Lilypond.  > > I'm new to Lilypond, but I'm finding a pretty good programme.  > I'm a

Re: Problems with chord glissandos with articulations and tablature

2010-04-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/16/10 6:23 AM, "Kieren MacMillan" wrote: > Carl, > > 1. This is awesome! Thanks! I had fun doing it, and learned more about Scheme programming in LilyPond. > 2. I get "clashing note columns" errors < is that a known side-effect, to be > ignored? Yes, it is. There are more than two v

Re: Problems with chord glissandos with articulations and tablature

2010-04-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/16/10 7:27 AM, "Phil Holmes" wrote: > You can override this: > > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=457 Thanks for the tip! Here's a revised version, with the warning message turned off during the chordGlissando and back on afterwards: % Start of cut and paste section \version

Re: Problems with chord glissandos with articulations and tablature

2010-04-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/16/10 8:30 AM, "Bernardo Barros" wrote: > Hi Carl and others, > > Very good job indeed! I'm trying now to notate the chord glissando I mentioned > in the first email. The problem is that it is actually a re attacked chord > glissando, so I would need to hide some noteheads and the glissa

Re: Adding space between chord names and notes

2010-04-17 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/17/10 7:52 AM, "Alberto Simões" wrote: > Hello > > I am using \chords { ... } to input chords, but on some staffs they are > appearing inside the staff, making it difficult to read and is not very > attractive. > > Any way to force to place them outside the staff? They should be outsid

Re: custom autobeam settings trashed by time sig?

2010-04-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/18/10 8:15 PM, "Kieren MacMillan" wrote: > Hi all, > > In Lilypond 2.13.x, I'm finding that my autobeam overrides are being > overridden every time I change [i.e., alternate] time signatures -- for > example, > > \version "2.13.17" > \relative c' { > \time 2/2 > \overrideBeamSetti

Re: Adding space between chord names and notes

2010-04-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/19/10 3:49 AM, "Alberto Simões" wrote: > Hello > > I will try to produce a small test case. At the present moment I can't, > but as the file is quite small I am attaching it. > > Later today I will try to prepare the test case (if nobody found what is > going on). When I compile your f

Re: Problems with chord glissandos with articulations and tablature

2010-04-23 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/23/10 1:48 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > Carl Sorensen schrieb: >> >> On 4/16/10 8:30 AM, "Bernardo Barros" wrote: >> >> >>> [...] >>> >> >> Check out the attached files for one possibility. Note th

Re: Problems with chord glissandos with articulations and tablature

2010-04-23 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/23/10 1:48 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > Carl Sorensen schrieb: >> >> On 4/16/10 8:30 AM, "Bernardo Barros" wrote: >> >> >>> [...] >>> >> >> Check out the attached files for one possibility. Note th

Re: [tablatures] Re: Problems with chord glissandos with articulations and tablature

2010-04-24 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/24/10 1:39 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > Carl Sorensen schrieb: >> >> OK, I couldn't keep away from it while I was at my son's graduation >> exercise. >> > Hehe, sounds familiar :-) >> I've attached replacement code that now

Re: [tablatures] Re: Problems with chord glissandos with articulations and tablature

2010-04-24 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/24/10 9:38 AM, "Neil Puttock" wrote: > On 24 April 2010 16:08, Carl Sorensen wrote: > >> Thanks, Neil! >> >> This not only looks like it solves the problem, it also taught me a bit >> about using context-spec-music.  I was thinking that we&#

Re: [tablatures] Re: Problems with chord glissandos with articulations and tablature

2010-04-24 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/24/10 9:38 AM, "Neil Puttock" wrote: > On 24 April 2010 16:08, Carl Sorensen wrote: > >> Thanks, Neil! >> >> This not only looks like it solves the problem, it also taught me a bit >> about using context-spec-music.  I was thinking that we&#

Re: [tablatures] Re: Problems with chord glissandos with articulations and tablature

2010-04-24 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/24/10 3:12 PM, "Neil Puttock" wrote: > On 24 April 2010 21:54, Carl Sorensen wrote: > >> Actually, map was my friend. > > Ah, my attempts failed because I forgot to wrap the music in > `make-simultaneous-music'. :) Whoa -- I wouldn't have ex

Re: [PATCH] Re: syntax change for \cresc

2010-04-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/26/10 2:24 PM, "Reinhold Kainhofer" wrote: > Am Sonntag, 25. April 2010 14:10:40 schrieben Sie: > >> Should I say that it would be useful for many people to see this in the >> LSR and in the doc? > > Yes, I totally understand. However, the LSR is (still?) based on lilypond > 2.12, so it'

Re: Bug report with tablature and quater-tone scordatura

2010-04-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/27/10 12:44 PM, "Bernardo Barros" wrote: > Hi all, > > I found a bug when working with tablature with a quarter-tone. See the third > string for example. > I can't do this: >     \set TabStaff.stringTunings = #'(3 -1 -5.5 -11 -15 -21) > Because I get things like 0.5 in the score. OK. I

Re: Bug report with tablature and quater-tone scordatura

2010-04-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/27/10 3:56 PM, "Bernardo Barros" wrote: > Ok, Carl, > > But I think it's 'almost' there, lilypond rounds sometimes inappropriately up > or down, but I have to say most of the time it is correct. > Is it that difficult to fix? If 'yes' I have to abandon the work I made so far > and make the

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