Re: Defining custom fretboards

2015-04-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/21/15 6:48 PM, "James" wrote: >Thanks, Carl. This does what I'm looking for. Is this in the >documentation? I couldn't (and still can't) find it. I think it's in the documentation, but maybe you can find a way to express it more clearly. The places I found it are listed below. Thanks, Ca

Re: How do new users feel about LilyPond's documentation?

2015-04-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/22/15 1:30 PM, "Martin Tarenskeen" wrote: >Stiil, I will try to give a sketch what happens to me again and again: > >I want to learn about how to change defaults and how to tweak default >output so I open the Notation Reference: > >Notation Refence -> 5. Changing Defaults >" A tutorial int

Re: How do new users feel about LilyPond's documentation?

2015-04-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/22/15 4:13 PM, "Eyolf Østrem" wrote: >On 22.04.2015 (21:19), Carl Sorensen wrote: > >> If the manual were to show you exactly how to make every possible >> particular tweak or change every possible default setting, it would need >> to be many times longe

Creating LilyPond Object Models

2015-04-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
David Elaine Alt finds that a major obstacle to understanding lilypond is the lack of a comprehensive (and/or comprehensible) object model. The question was asked: Does anyone really understand what a Voice is? I think there are two levels at which object models need to be understood: the user le

Re: Standard LilyPond score structure (Was: How do new users feel about LilyPond's documentation?)

2015-04-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/22/15 6:53 PM, "Kieren MacMillan" wrote: >Hi Gilles, > >> Yet you long for that would know how to remove a set of >> bars from "That Production" project. :-P >> A tool could do that *if* it knew what structure to expect. > >I don¹t believe that¹s necessaryŠ but we can leave that aside for

Re: How do new users feel about LilyPond's documentation?

2015-04-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/22/15 5:19 PM, "Kieren MacMillan" wrote: > >I would be happy to help write a ³Best Practices² guide (with whatever >small free time I currently have), if only we as a community could agree >on what that document would look like, where it would live, and what it >would contain. Is it an 11t

Re: How do new users feel about LilyPond's documentation?

2015-04-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/22/15 9:01 PM, "Carl Sorensen" wrote: > > >On 4/22/15 5:19 PM, "Kieren MacMillan" >wrote: > >> >>I would be happy to help write a ³Best Practices² guide (with whatever >>small free time I currently have), if only we as a community could

Re: "Instrument" as first-class citizen

2015-04-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/22/15 7:17 PM, "Flaming Hakama by Elaine" wrote: > >Since I understand programming languages rather well, if I understanding >how something is organized, then I can code it 100% of the time. > >Surely, I will have to refer to manuals to find out specifics about >objects, functional prototyp

What is a voice context?

2015-04-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
So now I'm going to jump in on what I think a Voice context is. A Voice context is a context, which means it can contain engravers, performers, and music expressions. It is a bottom context, which means it cannot contain other contexts. By default, it contains engravers that create the following

Re: Jianpu Notation

2015-04-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/22/15 8:59 PM, "Paul Morris" wrote: > >P.S. In case anyone is wondering, in 2.18 the context property >³keySignature" becomes ³keyAlterations" in 2.19. I believe this was to >prevent confusion with the ³KeySignature" grob. If your code has version strings, convert-ly should automatically

Re: Jianpu Notation

2015-04-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/22/15 8:59 PM, "Paul Morris" wrote: > >Ok, the problem was that your music file was for LilyPond 2.19 and >jianpu3.ly only works with 2.18. Have you proposed adding this to LilyPond? It seems like this would be a promising thing to add to the core, since it's another standard notation. I g

Re: Jianpu Notation

2015-04-23 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/22/15 10:57 PM, "Super-User" wrote: >Seheme, as a dialect of Lisp, can be annotated with ;; so that our Scheme >codes implementing Jianpu can be documented as well. Comments in the code are not the documentation I am talking about. The JianpuStaff should be added to the Internals Referen

Re: Jianpu Notation

2015-04-23 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/22/15 10:55 PM, "Werner LEMBERG" wrote: > >>>Ok, the problem was that your music file was for LilyPond 2.19 and >>>jianpu3.ly only works with 2.18. >> >> Have you proposed adding this to LilyPond? It seems like this would >> be a promising thing to add to the core, since it's another stand

Re: "Instrument" as first-class citizen

2015-04-23 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/23/15 6:32 AM, "Kieren MacMillan" wrote: >Hi Carl (et al.), > >>> It doesn't help that many things are implicit and based on contexts >>>which >>> are invisible and undocumented > >> Hmm. I have a bit more trouble understanding this. > >I infer that he (correctly) means how > >\version

Re: Creating LilyPond Object Models

2015-04-23 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/23/15 3:26 AM, "Urs Liska" wrote: > >I think this is an excellent approach. Actually this is exactly one kind >of information that is lacking in the documentation (or at least not >accessible to the user). If one has the chance to get such a model it is >much more easy to guess where to fi

Re: Creating LilyPond Object Models

2015-04-23 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/23/15 1:25 AM, "Johannes Rohrer" wrote: >* 2015-04-23 01:29 +0200: >> Translators are program elements that convert music expressions to >>output. >> Engravers are translators that create printed output. Performers are >> translators that create midi output. >> >> Translators examine the

Re: Jianpu Notation

2015-04-23 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/23/15 7:55 AM, "H. S. Teoh" wrote: >On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 12:34:32PM +, Carl Sorensen wrote: >> >> >> On 4/22/15 10:57 PM, "Super-User" wrote: >> >> >Seheme, as a dialect of Lisp, can be annotated with ;; so that our >&g

Re: What is a voice context?

2015-04-23 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/23/15 12:02 AM, "Urs Liska" wrote: > > >Am 23.04.2015 um 06:07 schrieb Carl Sorensen: >> So now I'm going to jump in on what I think a Voice context is. >> >> A Voice context is a context, which means it can contain engravers, >> perfor

B Series paper

2015-04-23 Thread Carl Sorensen
B4 paper is readily available in Japan (Japan has an amazing riches of paper!). You can purchase it online through Rakuten Global Market: http://global.rakuten.com/en/category/303151 It's not cheap per sheet, but its certainly cheaper than buying 19 tonnes. HTH, Carl ___

Re: Fixing overlapping notation

2015-04-24 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/24/15 2:00 PM, "Anthonys Lists" wrote: >On 24/04/2015 20:23, Simon Albrecht wrote: >> Please give us (code, eventually output) examples, else it¹s difficult >> to get your point. >> Yours, Simon > >pdf and relevant lily code attached. I know it's not compilable, but >it's a fairly simple p

Re: Creating LilyPond Object Models

2015-04-24 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/24/15 3:58 PM, "Simon Albrecht" wrote: >Hello Carl, > >this is a good approach. Am I right in assuming that this is a >boiled-down, low-threshold version of the relevant parts in Erik >Sandberg¹s masters thesis(1) referenced in CG 10.1? > Perhaps. It certainly should be compatible with th

Re: Fixing overlapping notation

2015-04-24 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/24/15 2:52 PM, "Anthonys Lists" wrote: > >I would, however, like to understand why :-) I can see you're setting a >variable to some scheme value, but why does adding an extra 1/2 unit >either side suddenly make text stack horizontally rather than >vertically? The spacing engine makes the

Concepts that may be missing (or are at least hidden) in LilyPond

2015-04-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
Hi all, I'm still trying to get a list of musical concepts that you commonly use to talk about music that are either missing or hard to find in LilyPond. So far we have a set of two: Instruments Measures Are there any others that you can think of? Thanks, Carl __

Re: Concepts that may be missing (or are at least hidden) in LilyPond

2015-04-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/26/15 10:55 PM, "Andrew Bernard" wrote: > >In what way are measures missing? Half the world calls them Œbars¹ by the >way - that¹s what they are under in the index. Are you simply referring >to terminology in the documentation? LilyPond creates bars (the things that divide measures) just fi

Re: Concepts that may be missing (or are at least hidden) in LilyPond

2015-04-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/27/15 6:37 AM, "Kieren MacMillan" wrote: >Hi Urs, > >> I would strongly oppose to *replacing* the current approach with a >>container based approach (I don't think you are even considering that, I >>just want to make that clear). > >+1 Just to clarify my intent -- I'm not proposing *anyth

Re: teaching a university module on engraving with lilypond

2015-04-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/27/15 7:18 AM, "Kevin Barry" wrote: > >3. Since I will, in effect, be creating a tutorial for new LilyPond >users, perhaps I could encourage some collaboration here, and make the >results freely available. MuseScore has an excellent series of tutorial >videos, for example. I'm not necessaril

Re: manuals page [WAS Re: teaching a university module on engraving with lilypond]

2015-04-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/27/15 10:47 AM, "Federico Bruni" wrote: >2015-04-27 17:25 GMT+02:00 Kevin Barry : > >- I'd rather use a conversational approach instead of unordered lists: >"Please be aware that LilyPond is a text-based(link) music engraver and >read the FAQ(link) before...". "You can see LilyPond in action

Re: Lining up key signatures

2015-04-28 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/28/15 3:20 PM, "James Worlton" wrote: >I don't see a way to make the key-cancellation and key-signature >simultaneous. I wouldn't expect there to be a way to make them simultaneous. The cancellation *should* show up before the new key signature, IMO. Thanks, Carl

Re: a proper whiteout function

2015-04-28 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/28/15 8:57 AM, "Kieren MacMillan" wrote: >Hi all, > >What would be involved in making a real stencil whiteout function which >could be applicable to all grobs? > >For it to Do The Right Thing, I imagine it should: >1. follow exactly the grob/glyph outline (i.e., not just a rectangle/box,

Re: my favorite bug :-)

2015-05-04 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/4/15 1:35 AM, "ArnoldTheresius" wrote: >2. the PS file, because it's used for another postprocessing: I generate a >booklet layout PDF from it (this PDF uses the double sheet size, e.g. A3) How do you do this? This is something I'm very interested in, but I've been doing it from the genera

Re: Cross-Staff Kneed Beams; Nested Voices

2015-05-05 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/5/15 1:26 PM, "Sam Bivens" wrote: >Second, is it possible to create nested multiple voices? What I >mean is to insert multiple voices within a single voice of a larger >multi-voice context. I need to create a third voice for one measure >of a piece and I'm wondering how to d

Re: a proper whiteout function

2015-05-17 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/17/15 5:18 PM, "Paul Morris" wrote: >> On Apr 28, 2015, at 11:57 AM, Kieren MacMillan >> wrote: >> >> What would be involved in making a real stencil whiteout function which >>could be applicable to all grobs? > >Hi all, I took Kieren up on his offer to sponsor a better whiteout >stencil

Re: a proper whiteout function

2015-05-18 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/18/15 12:04 PM, "Paul Morris" wrote: >> On May 17, 2015, at 7:48 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: >> >> This is a nice implementation -- I didn't think it could be done! > >Thanks Carl! > >> I think >> it should be made part of LilyPond, i

Re: a proper whiteout function

2015-05-18 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/18/15 12:49 PM, "Carl Sorensen" wrote: > >At any rate, there should probably be a user-specifiable way to change all >three values that govern the performance, whether by context properties or >by arguments. As I think about it some more, perhaps the most logically-c

Re: a proper whiteout function

2015-05-18 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/18/15 1:59 AM, "Wilbert Berendsen" wrote: >Hi Paul, > >this looks very nice! One thing I notice is that the size of the >objects changes, influencing the spacing. But that's probably easy to >fix. It should be very easy to fix. Just get the extents of the original stencil, and apply them t

Re: a proper whiteout function

2015-05-20 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/19/15 10:37 PM, "Janek Warchoł" wrote: > >- I think "offset" should be renamed to "padding". Throughout LilyPond, >offsets are used to measure distances and position, while padding is used >for ensuring there's enough whitespace around an object. I don't think it should be named "padding

Re: how to add barre indications to automatic fret diagrams?

2015-05-20 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/19/15 12:45 PM, "pls" wrote: >Hi all, > >LilyPond¹s automatic fret diagrams really are a very helpful feature! >More often than not it helps to not having to predefine and store a >diagram in a lookup table. But it has one little drawback: it doesn¹t >automatically include a barre indicat

Re: how to add barre indications to automatic fret diagrams?

2015-05-20 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/20/15 7:30 PM, "Carl Sorensen" wrote: > > >On 5/19/15 12:45 PM, "pls" wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>LilyPond¹s automatic fret diagrams really are a very helpful feature! >>More often than not it helps to not having to predefine and sto

Re: how to add barre indications to automatic fret diagrams?

2015-05-21 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/21/15 1:30 AM, "pls" wrote: > >Nice! Thanks a lot. > >Yes, transposing chords with open strings probably poses a problem. >Fingering information would have to be included automatically in order to >decide whether they should be part of a barre. I¹d think it¹s safe to >assume that transposed

Re: how to add barre indications to automatic fret diagrams?

2015-05-21 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/21/15 8:39 AM, "pls" wrote: > >> >> I thought about this issue quite a bit when I was creating predefined >>fret >> diagrams. There, we introduced the idea of a chord shape. There is a >> function that shifts a chord shape by N frets (offset-fret). At >>present, >> it adds N to the fret

Re: how to add barre indications to automatic fret diagrams?

2015-05-21 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/21/15 4:42 PM, "pls" wrote: > >On 21.05.2015, at 21:06, Carl Sorensen wrote: > >> >> Transposing doesn't work on chord shapes. Transposing works on notes. >> The automatic fretboard creator looks at the notes and creates a >> fretboard

Re: Putting lyrics below its staff?

2015-05-21 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/21/15 5:23 PM, "Kaj Persson" wrote: >The example shows, that LilyPond perfectly understands the implied >structure and it also understands which lyric belongs to which note. >So that is not the problem. A minor issue is that the lyrics for the >top staff is broken into separ

Re: Putting lyrics below its staff?

2015-05-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/22/15 10:03 AM, "70147pers...@telia.com" <70147pers...@telia.com> wrote: > >Hi Carl! > >Yes, you are the person with the big understanding. I learned t from >your solution, that you can, and in this case must, do things inside >open parenthesis. I am concerned that

Re: how to add barre indications to automatic fret diagrams?

2015-05-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/22/15 9:30 AM, "pls" wrote: > >Yes, I have some issues with the predefined fretboards shipped with >LilyPond, e.g.: >+ the resulting diagrams are not always predictable: > + the number of notes in the diagrams varies from 4 to 6 even when you >enter a three-note chord modifier like \chord

Re: how to add barre indications to automatic fret diagrams?

2015-05-23 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/23/15 6:34 AM, "pls" wrote: > >Here is another test case for your patch: > >\version "2.19.20" > ><< > \new FretBoards { >1 >1 >\transpose g a { 1 } > } >>> > >These chords can be played with one finger! ;) So what do you recommend be done? I can make it so no fingerings ar

Re: how to add barre indications to automatic fret diagrams?

2015-05-24 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/23/15 11:59 PM, "pls" wrote: > > >> >> Maybe I should back the code back to where a barre will be indicated >>only >> if the fingers are specified in the chord, and no barre will be >>generated >> when an open chord is transposed. That would be a straightforward fix. >> It would never gene

Re: how to add barre indications to automatic fret diagrams?

2015-05-25 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/25/15 5:25 AM, "pls" wrote: > >Works great! Thanks a million! Thanks for your feedback. > >Should/Could LilyPond issue a warning message in the case of open strings >whenever "wrong" fingers (not 0) are ignored? Or is it better to >silently set the fingers to 0? >Example: (Perhaps the us

Re: how to add barre indications to automatic fret diagrams?

2015-05-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/26/15 2:44 AM, "pls" wrote: > >I¹m sorry to ask but I checked the translation-function files several >times: Did you inadvertently send me an unchanged file? diff did not show >any difference between this file and the last file. If diff didn't how the difference, then there must not have

Re: Cleanly showing every measure number

2019-12-09 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: Sam Bivens Date: Monday, December 9, 2019 at 12:37 PM To: lilypond-user Subject: Cleanly showing every measure number Hi everyone, For pedagogical reasons, I want to include every measure number in my scores. I've been using the LSR's consistently left-aligned numbers available at http

Re: A Javascript test code for modifying ties and slurs with mouse

2019-12-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
Paolo, I really appreciate your doing this. However, I would like to see us improve the *automatic* handling of slurs in LilyPond, so that \shape is almost never needed (much like extra-offset for standard music). I’m not asking for you to do any work on improving the automatic slur handling,

Re: A Javascript test code for modifying ties and slurs with mouse

2019-12-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: Paolo Pr Date: Friday, December 13, 2019 at 8:38 PM To: Carl Sorensen Cc: Urs Liska , "lilypond-user@gnu.org" Subject: Re: A Javascript test code for modifying ties and slurs with mouse Hello Carl, my script is not intended for replacing the automatic handling of slurs. I

Re: convert-ly problem 2

2019-12-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
In general, the way to execute convert-ly.py is not with convert-ly.py But instead python convert-ly.py If you create an executable batch file somewhere in your PATH called convert-ly, with the contents C:\Program Files (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin\python.exe C:\Program Files (x86)\LilyPond\usr

Re: Naming multiple midi files

2019-12-21 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/21/19, 10:06 AM, "kupirijo" wrote: I see. But then I need to copy the notes twice, one for the book with layout and for the book with the midi. No, you just need to put the notes in a variable. myMusic = { ... } \score { \myMusic \layout{} } \score { \myMusic \mi

Re: Book Structure and Frescobaldi

2019-12-24 Thread Carl Sorensen
Jerry, >From: "JxStarks ." >Date: Monday, December 23, 2019 at 7:48 PM >To: >Subject: Book Structure and Frescobaldi > >Hi, >I'm using LilyPond 2.18.2 and Frescobaldi 2.20.0. >When I create music with Frescobaldi, it generates this structure: There are a couple of issues with this code. 1) You

Re: ChordName and self-alignment-interface

2019-12-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/26/19, 7:08 AM, "Aaron Hill" wrote: Is there a particular reason why ChordName does not support self-alignment-interface? I would assume it's just an oversight. There is no reason I can imagine that it would be proscribed. Carl

Re: Sustain pedal problems with voices/staffs (re-posted)

2020-01-11 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: Paolo Prete Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 2:03 PM To: lilypond-user Subject: Sustain pedal problems with voices/staffs (re-posted) Hello. What about the status of this? http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Sustain-pedal-problems-with-voices-staffs-td157131.html Without having a

Re: Work structure question

2020-01-11 Thread Carl Sorensen
Guy, When you want help on the list, the best thing to do is to set up a compilable tiny example: http://lilypond.org/tiny-examples.html If you do that, then we can just make the needed changes. Pseudocode like you wrote in your email is hard to give good answers about. But I’ll show you a pse

Re: Sustain pedal problems with voices/staffs (re-posted)

2020-01-11 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: Paolo Prete Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 5:22 PM To: Carl Sorensen Cc: lilypond-user Subject: Re: Sustain pedal problems with voices/staffs (re-posted) %% \version "2.19.83" upper = { s1 } lower = { c'8[\sustainOn \change Staff

Re: Sustain pedal problems with voices/staffs (re-posted)

2020-01-11 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/11/20, 6:46 PM, "kieren_macmillan kieren_macmillan" wrote: Hi Paolo, > How can your solution can be applied to the above examples? See for a possible start. There’s obviously a better solution than the extra-offset I used, but I can

Re: Shift up OttavaBracket

2020-01-12 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: Paolo Prete Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 at 7:31 PM To: Aaron Hill Cc: lilypond-user Subject: Re: Shift up OttavaBracket As said in the first post staff-padding seems to have the same problem of Y-offset: http://lilybin.com/njdr3x/1 outside-staff-padding does the job only if reset;

Re: Shift up OttavaBracket

2020-01-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: Paolo Prete Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 at 12:29 PM To: Kieren MacMillan Cc: David Nalesnik , Aaron Hill , Lilypond-User Mailing List , Carl Sorensen Subject: Re: Shift up OttavaBracket You are right. I made the same test one minute ago :-) Well, definitely a bug. Is there a

Re: Shift up OttavaBracket

2020-01-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: Paolo Prete Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 at 12:21 PM To: David Nalesnik Cc: Kieren MacMillan , Aaron Hill , Lilypond-User Mailing List , Carl Sorensen Subject: Re: Shift up OttavaBracket Well, I investigated as well. I think that the only way to solve this is to use the

Re: Shift up OttavaBracket

2020-01-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/13/20, 12:25 PM, "Kieren MacMillan" wrote: Hi Paolo (et al.), > Well, I investigated as well. I think that the only way to solve this is to use the combination > Y-offset + \offset + 2.19 > As you can see, this seems to work in 2.19 > http://lilybin.com/yb5u35/12

Re: Shift up OttavaBracket

2020-01-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: Paolo Prete Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 at 1:33 PM To: Carl Sorensen Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List Subject: Re: Shift up OttavaBracket Does it mean that similar issues can happen with the same property applied to other grobs, like DynamicLineSpanner ? Since the Y-offset property

Re: Lyric misalignment and beaming?

2020-01-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: Arle Lommel Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 at 4:45 PM To: Subject: Lyric misalignment and beaming? Got a head scratcher here. Using 2.19.83, I’ve run into a problem where I *cannot* create a minimal example: The minimal example works exactly as it should and it is only in context where

Re: Lyric misalignment solved. Was Re: Lyric misalignment and beaming?

2020-01-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/14/20, 6:58 AM, "Arle Lommel" wrote: So schrieb David: > Either way is acting as it should. > > The manual has an index entry "beam, with lyrics" for the chapter > "Setting automatic beam behavior" but there is no usable reference > whatsoever in that chapter

Re: Distance of a grob from its reference point

2020-01-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: Paolo Prete Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 at 8:10 PM To: Aaron Hill Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List Subject: Re: Distance of a grob from its reference point I really can't count how many times I had to to that in so many scores. And there's no way to do that automagically. Really n

Re: Distance of a grob from its reference point

2020-01-15 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: Paolo Prete Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 2:30 PM To: Carl Sorensen Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List Subject: Re: Distance of a grob from its reference point Then, do you agree that this causes that the \offset command is broken at least for the X/Y-offset properties of any grob

Re: Distance of a grob from its reference point

2020-01-15 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: Paolo Prete Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 4:16 PM To: Carl Sorensen Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List Subject: Re: Distance of a grob from its reference point I don't mean that with *broken*. I mean that it's unusable, given that the values you put inside this func

Re: Distance of a grob from its reference point

2020-01-15 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: Paolo Prete Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 4:45 PM To: Carl Sorensen Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List Subject: Re: Distance of a grob from its reference point Thanks to you Carl. Now, given that it's nonsense to offset an unknown value, I would remove this property fro

Re: Distance of a grob from its reference point

2020-01-15 Thread Carl Sorensen
Paolo, Please don’t top-post on this list. Users are expected to interleave their responses. Please see how other users do it. From: Paolo Prete Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 5:15 PM To: Carl Sorensen Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List Subject: Re: Distance of a grob from its reference

Re: Distance of a grob from its reference point

2020-01-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/16/20, 9:34 AM, "Robin Bannister" wrote: Paolo Prete wrote: > I simply wanted to understand how to offset a bracket. > And the conclusion is: avoid \offset + X/Y-offset and use > > 1) extra-offset (if you don't need automatic collision-avoidance) > > OR

Re: Distance of a grob from its reference point

2020-01-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: Paolo Prete Date: Thursday, January 16, 2020 at 10:24 AM To: Robin Bannister Cc: Michael Gerdau , Lilypond-User Mailing List , Carl Sorensen Subject: Re: Distance of a grob from its reference point On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 5:33 PM Robin Bannister mailto:r...@dabble.ch>> wrote

Re: \offset Y-offset

2020-01-21 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/21/20, 2:29 AM, "Aaron Hill" wrote: On 2020-01-19 7:15 am, Paolo Prete wrote: > I'm looking at your code and I don't understand what is it intended to > do. > You write: "% Test with bracket that is positioned by Y-offset." > but from what I see, the bracket is positi

Re: license question

2020-01-21 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/21/20, 11:07 AM, "David Nalesnik" wrote: Hi all, I have a question concerning the GPL. Is it permissible for an app under a GPL-incompatible license to provide output in LilyPond code? For example, could Finale provide a Finale->LilyPond converter even though the

Re: Beams over rests and concaveness

2020-01-23 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/23/20, 7:48 AM, "Gilberto Agostinho" wrote: Hi everyone, It seems that the beam concaveness value is ignored when beaming over rests, in the case of a single note with a single rest. This happens with and without stemlet. See the code and score below, the groups marke

Re: macOS 10.15 update?

2020-02-05 Thread Carl Sorensen
Please try https://bintray.com/marnen/lilypond-darwin-64/download_file?file_path=lilypond-2.19.83.build20200201185223-darwin-64.tar.gz . Let me know if this doesn’t work. Thanks, Carl From: Denis Lorrain Reply-To: Denis Lorrain Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 9:49 AM To: Subject: m

Re: macOS 10.15 update?

2020-02-05 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/5/20, 4:24 PM, "Louis Guillaume" wrote: This appears to work for me. I'll continue testing. The stderr is very chatty but that's ok because it works! Thank You :) I'm trying to build using "pkgsrc" but it gets hung up on "gobject-introspection". Apparently "meson/ni

Re: Ties in chord mode

2020-03-01 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: Ben Eichler Date: Saturday, February 29, 2020 at 1:46 AM To: Subject: Ties in chord mode Hi all, I transcribe songs using a style of melody + lyrics + chords. In certain songs, I write the same chord twice. Sometimes I want both chords to be printed, for example the second chord is s

Re: Markup in chordmode

2020-03-11 Thread Carl Sorensen
I have no idea what f,,2/+c:3.5.8 is supposed to mean, and that gives me an error when I run your file. Carl From: Pablo Cordal Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 at 9:28 AM To: Subject: Markup in chordmode \version "2.18.2" #(ly:set-option 'midi-extension "midi") \score { << \new

Re: Bend before

2020-03-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: Mogens Lemvig Hansen Date: Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 1:40 PM To: Lilypond User Subject: Bend before Hi, The bendBefore code at http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/bends-before-notes-how-to-td22214.html does not work for me (version 2.20.0). error: GUILE signaled an error for the

Re: Lilypond 64-bit binaries

2020-04-02 Thread Carl Sorensen
I note that Moritz mentions he gets the same results from the MacPorts build. Perhaps the MacPorts people could provide some insight. Carl From: Marnen Laibow-Koser Date: Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 8:48 AM To: LilyPond Users , Moritz Heffter Subject: Re: Lilypond 64-bit binaries On Thu, A

Re: Lilypond 64-bit binaries

2020-04-02 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: Marnen Laibow-Koser Date: Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 11:07 AM To: Carl Sorensen Cc: LilyPond Users , Moritz Heffter Subject: Re: Lilypond 64-bit binaries On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 1:02 PM Carl Sorensen mailto:c_soren...@byu.edu>> wrote: I note that Moritz mentions he gets th

Re: Unwanted warnings/errors on pedals for multiple voices

2020-04-06 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: Paolo Prete Date: Monday, April 6, 2020 at 9:15 AM To: Thomas Morley Cc: Kieren MacMillan , Lilypond-User Mailing List Subject: Re: Unwanted warnings/errors on pedals for multiple voices On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 4:25 PM Thomas Morley mailto:thomasmorle...@gmail.com>> wrote: Am Mo., 6.

Re: Unwanted warnings/errors on pedals for multiple voices

2020-04-06 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: Paolo Prete Date: Monday, April 6, 2020 at 11:25 AM To: Carl Sorensen Cc: Thomas Morley , Kieren MacMillan , Lilypond-User Mailing List Subject: Re: Unwanted warnings/errors on pedals for multiple voices On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 6:17 PM Carl Sorensen mailto:c_soren...@byu.edu

Re: Your Bespoke Lilypond Environment

2020-04-07 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/7/20, 10:49 AM, "cgilmore" wrote: Greetings, all! I was curious what everyone's setup is like for writing Lilypond, specifically, for any non-Frescobaldi users. We all know Frescobaldi is great and probably the most ideal environment for Lilypond, but I'm personal

Re: h1\rest instead of R1 will not be centered

2020-04-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: Bernhard Kleine Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 at 5:03 AM To: lilypond-user mailinglist Subject: h1rest instead of R1 will not be centered Hi, I have the following extract of Mendelssohn 100.Psalm. [cid:part1.7256DA10.E08761C4@gmx.net] While pauses in \voiceOne and \voiceTwo settings

Re: A request on behalf of Turkish Music

2020-04-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: Adam Good Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 at 11:27 AM To: Werner LEMBERG Cc: , Lilypond-user Subject: Re: A request on behalf of Turkish Music Hi everyone, I'm finally chiming in here... On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 8:38 AM Werner LEMBERG mailto:w...@gnu.org>> wrote: Well, here's the questio

Re: Lyrics vs horizontal spacing

2020-04-28 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: Pierre Perol-Schneider Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 2:39 AM To: lilypond-user Subject: Lyrics vs horizontal spacing I'm not sure if this is a bug (I didn't find any it in the bug list). Anyway, I'd like to avoid this bad spacing. Any idea how to? CS-> I eliminated it by using \add

Re: Lyrics vs horizontal spacing

2020-04-28 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: Pierre Perol-Schneider Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 8:16 AM To: Carl Sorensen Cc: lilypond-user Subject: Re: Lyrics vs horizontal spacing Hi Carl, Thanks, but since you gathered both staves to a single score, yes that works. However, if 2 scores the first syllable looks ok -- so

Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent

2020-05-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
> -- Forwarded message -- > From: Kieren MacMillan > To: David Nalesnik > Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List > Bcc: > Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 10:22:15 -0400 > Subject: Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent > Hi David, > > > But minor-mode music is often a conglomeration o

Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent

2020-05-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 4:13 PM David Kastrup wrote: > Carl Sorensen writes: > > >> -- Forwarded message -- > >> From: Kieren MacMillan > >> To: David Nalesnik > >> Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List > >> Bcc: > >

Re: registering a composition

2020-05-23 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/23/20, 2:46 PM, "antlists" wrote: On 22/05/2020 13:26, Gilles Sadowski wrote: >> IIUC, CC licences aim to protect against others making money from >> your work. How is "ASCAP not being happy" related to that? >> > >Unless I'm mistaken, LilyPond (GNU) and CC belong to the "eco-system" >

Re: Are Lilyponds beams thick enough?

2020-05-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/26/20, 1:14 AM, "David Kastrup" wrote: writes: >> Hello Valentin, >> >> For an unknown reason (at least unknown to me), LilyPond's default >> beam-thickness is 0.48 staff spaces. > > 0.5 would likely result more often in beam thicknesses getting rounded > up sometimes, down at other tim

Re: Change a string in to a identical list

2020-06-04 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 6/4/20, 7:00 AM, "Freeman Gilmore" wrote: On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 7:23 AM David Kastrup wrote: > > Freeman Gilmore writes: > > > How to change a string in to a identical list. > > From "-3 31 A -6 B -8" to (-3 31 A -6 B -8).(Or from ("-3" > > "31" "A" "-6" "B" "-8") to (-3 31 A -

Re: Change a string in to a identical list

2020-06-04 Thread Carl Sorensen
What do you want A to be? Do you want it to be the symbol A? Carl On 6/4/20, 8:13 AM, "Freeman Gilmore" wrote: Carl: I know about that section but i do not know how to make any thing there work for this Do you have an example? Thank you,ƒg On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 9:52 AM Car

Re: Acciaccatura giving errors

2020-06-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
I ran your exact file, with no changes, and got no errors. convert-ly was not needed to get it to compile successfully. Lilypond 2.20.0 MacOS Frescobaldi Carl From: Peter Toye Reply-To: Peter Toye Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 5:04 AM To: Subject: Acciaccatura giving errors \version "2.

Re: Acciaccatura giving errors

2020-06-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
: Carl Sorensen , lilypond-user Mailinglist Subject: Re: Acciaccatura giving errors Xavier, Ah, the problems of using a Linux-developed program on Windows. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com<http://www.ptoye.com> - Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 5

Re: Misaligned tempo indications

2020-06-18 Thread Carl Sorensen
Change \new Voice = “vocals” To \new Staff = “vocals” The Voice exists inside a Staff. Your metronome mark in the vocals was aligned with the beginning of the Voice, not the beginning of the Staff. Your metronome mark in the PianoStaff aligned with the beginning of the Staff. HTH, Carl

Re: Orchestral strings, how to organise score and parts for divisi, solos, desks etc.

2020-06-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
In my opinion, this does not belong in the notation reference. I think there should be another volume added to the documentation, perhaps something like "Advanced Engraving". The information you are trying to add is tutorial in nature, rather than reference. A reference manual aims at answerin

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