Numering for exercises

2007-09-26 Thread Charles Gran
I'm looking for a way to number short rhythms and melodies on practice sheets for an ear training class I'm teaching. The example below looks how I want it, but I am wondering if there is some way to have the exercises numbered automatically. \version "2.10.33" #(set-default-paper-size "lette

Rosegarden on Live CD?

2007-09-27 Thread Charles Gran
Does anybody know where I can get Rosegarden on a live CD? I have been unable to download the live cd version on Studio to Go (judging from the website, I wonder if that's realy being worke on anymore)) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gn

RhythmicStaff

2007-09-28 Thread Charles Gran
If I'm creating a sheet of short rhythms [ex below], do I meed to use \RhythmicStaff for each rhythm, or can I do something globally? \score { \new RhythmicStaff { \time 4/4 \set Staff.instrumentName = "1 " b'2 b r4 b r b b r b r b2 r4 b \bar "|." } } \score { \new RhythmicStaff { \time 4/4 \set

line break in headers

2007-10-22 Thread Charles Gran
How can I get two line in a header? Like: \header { copyright = "First line \\ Second line" } Charles ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: line break in headers

2007-10-22 Thread Charles Gran
Borrowing from http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/More-about- stanzas#More-about-stanzas Lilypond 2.10.33 doesn't accept this: \header { copyright = "\markup { \column{ \line{ Verse 2. } \line{ All the children laughed and played } \line{ To se

\fermata and \markup over a note

2007-10-22 Thread Charles Gran
I need to have booth a fermata and a div. sign over a diad, how do I get this? 2\fermata\markup { div. } gives me an error message. Charles ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: line break in headers

2007-10-22 Thread Charles Gran
On 22 Oct 2007 at 22:31, Ralph Little wrote: > > > > How can I get two line in a header? Like: > > > > \header { > >copyright = "First line \\ Second line" > >} This works. Thank you. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http:/

Re: line break in headers

2007-10-22 Thread Charles Gran
On 22 Oct 2007 at 23:29, Alexander Kobel wrote: > \header { > copyright = \markup { \column{ > \line{ "Verse 2." } > \line{ "All the children laughed and played" } > \line{ "To see a lamb at school." } > } > } > } This works as well. Thank you. -- ht

lyrics and polyphony

2007-10-22 Thread Charles Gran
[I tried resarching this topic on the list archive but most related topics are too extensive for me to sort out.] In a choral piece, I have a part that tempoarily divides into (single- line) polyphony. How do I handle lyrics at this point? Charles The format of the score is outlined below:

Re: lyrics and polyphony

2007-10-22 Thread Charles Gran
This example attached: \version "2.10.33" \header { } } global = { \key a \minor \time 4/4 } sopranonotes = \relative c' { r1 r r r r } sopranowords = \lyricmode { } altonotes = \relative c' { r1 r r r r} altowords = \lyricmode { } tenornotes = \relative c' { \clef "G_8" r1 | r4 << { c

hyphens and spacing

2007-10-22 Thread Charles Gran
I'm copying a choral piece and am finding the spacing too tight, I want to open it up and also have all hyphens in the lyrics print. Can anyone help or direct me to the appropriate sections in docs? I did find: \override Lyrics.LyricSpace #'minimum-distance = #5.0 in 7.3.8 Spacing lyrics but wa

Importing ly files into a master file

2007-11-07 Thread Charles Gran
I'm pretty sure that I read somewhere that you can include lily files in other lily files. What I am hoping to do is divide a chorale piece into four files one for each part, so that when I am working on a part I can run that part only. I'm just trying to speed up the run process. Charles

octava line broken in polyphony

2007-11-10 Thread Charles Gran
Why does the octava line in this example get broken up? \relative c' { \clef treble \time 2/2 << { r2 b'4 b8 c ~ | c2 e4 e8 f | #(set-octavation 1) r4 g'2 c,4 ~ | c e2. | r4 a2 e4 ~ | e f2. | } \\ { e,,4 e8 f e2 | a4 a8 bes a2 | a' a | a f | e g | a1 | } >> << { r4 g'2 c,4 ~ | c e2. | r

Re: octava line broken in polyphony

2007-11-11 Thread Charles Gran
Well, I just ran this on another machine and it looks fine, so I'll have to fool around on my end and see if I can't fix it. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: octava line broken in polyphony

2007-11-11 Thread Charles Gran
Actually the problem seems to be with the PDF viewer that comes with the LilyPondTool plugin for JEdit (2.10.4, JEdit 4.3pre11, windows xp sp2). The octava line displays differently than with acrobat or gsview. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypon

Polyphony clarification

2007-11-11 Thread Charles Gran
A couple of questions about polyphony: 1. In this excerpt should I use "\new Voice" twice or can I just use "\voiceTwo" the second time? 2. Could \voiceOne be assumed? 3. \upper and \lower as mentioned in 6.3.4 in the manual aren't really commands are they. Charles \relative c { \clef bass

Re: Polyphony clarification

2007-11-12 Thread Charles Gran
On 12 Nov 2007 at 14:54, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > I hope you have read the section called "Explicitly instantiating voices" > carefully a number of times ;-). Yes, and my head spun each time. Kidding. (Actually, as a note to whomever does the documentation: though I understand it is to clearly

Re: Polyphony clarification

2007-11-13 Thread Charles Gran
On 12 Nov 2007 at 16:41, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > > So \upper could be a name of a voice that could have \voiceTwo > > properties? > > > That wouldn't make sense, since \voiceTwo is equivalent to > \stemDown \slurDown \tieDown \dynamicDown ... > and you typically want everything to point upward

Moving markup over rests

2007-11-25 Thread Charles Gran
I have been having trouble moving a tempo mark that appears over a rest. This is a choir and piano piece and I have been putting the tempo indications in the soprano part. I want to play around with the spacing (like in section 5.1 of the manual), but it doesn't seem to do anything because the

Dynamics context

2007-11-25 Thread Charles Gran
I'm not sure if "dynamics context" is th right way of saying it, but is there a way to have a special instrument (voice, whatever) where I can put markup above the systems for mutli-instrument compositions? Like: { s1*5 s1^\markup{ \bold Faster } } Charles -- http://www.campdeadly.com htt

Forcing more systems per page

2007-11-25 Thread Charles Gran
Hi, I'm reading through chapter 11 and am a bit overwealmed by the wealth of options. I'm wondering if someone can help me narrow things down a bit. I want to have a score (choir + piano) that always created 2 systems per page, right now I'm often getting only one. Charles -- http://www.c

using an older tex file

2006-12-04 Thread Charles Gran
Hi, I have a tex document that I created with version 2.7.40 (I think) and haven't updated it in a while, but want to now, don't have that version installed, installed the new version, and can't get it to ouptu successfully. I've attached the windows output and the beginning of the doc. Can some

Failed to extract font

2006-12-06 Thread Charles Gran
Can someone help me with this: Writing fonts to 1-test1.psfonts...Failed to extract CenturySchL- Roma, Emmentale r-20 from lily-1889349313.eps I'm running under windows xp. D:\Docs2\1\final>lilypond-book --psfonts --output=out 1-test1.lytex lilypond-book.py (GNU LilyPond) 2.10.0 Reading 1-test1.l

problems in xp

2004-12-16 Thread Charles Gran
Hi I'm trying out Lilyponmd using Cygwin under XP(sp2). Didn't work: -Charles Gran === GNU LilyPond 2.4.2 Processing `test.ly' Parsing... test.ly:4:15: error: unknown escaped string: `\notes': \score { \notes { c4-( c4-) } } test.ly:4:14: error: synt

accidental correction

2005-01-06 Thread Charles Gran
I've been trying out Lilypond and and entering a song in F min. I have a passage that includes a d#. Lily notates this with both a natural and then a sharp. While I realize this is technically correct, what I really want is just d#. How can I change this accidental, or the behavior that con

Tempo over chords

2005-01-10 Thread Charles Gran
I'm working on a lead sheet and am using the template from the manual (section 3.2.4). I'd like the tempo mark and some markup text to appear above the chord symbols. Suggestions? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.

one-time x notehead

2005-01-10 Thread Charles Gran
I'd like to have a single pitch in a vocal line with a "x" notehead (for a spoken word). ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: one-time x notehead

2005-01-10 Thread Charles Gran
Graham Percival wrote: \override Notehead #'style = #'cross I believe that's the right command; "cross" might be a different word, though. If it doesn't work, try looking up note or notehead in the program reference. Couldn't get this to work. As you say, maybe "cross" isn't it. Does anyone know

lyrics in polyphony

2005-01-11 Thread Charles Gran
I am writing a song in lead-sheet format. I have an introduction that is polyphonic (manual 2.16). The last measure of the introduction has a pickup into the melody proper. I can't get a lyric on that pick-up. In single-staff polyphony, how can you treat the top line as melody with lyric and

\skip in lyricmode

2005-01-11 Thread Charles Gran
In lyricmode \skip 1 goes the next note in a series of 8th notes? I can't seem to get this number to represent anything. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: \skip in lyricmode

2005-01-13 Thread Charles Gran
Casting Spells" poet = "C J Ver Burg" composer = "Charles Gran" tagline = "" } melody = { \set Staff.extraNatural = ##f \clef treble \key f \minor \time 2/2 %\tempo 2=60 << { 8-. -. < f' g' >4 8-. -. < f' g' >4

chord symbol parentheses

2005-01-17 Thread Charles Gran
Is there a way to alter the behavior of chord symbols as discussed on the manual 5.14.1ff? I'd like to get C7(b5) rather than C7/b5 (the b's being flats). ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilyp

Re: chord symbol parentheses

2005-01-20 Thread Charles Gran
Use a space for a "chord Field Separator" and give up the idea of /bass notes. The alternative is to put the chords in as text, which is what I have always done. With \sharp and \flat it's all text. I'm only now getting to this. I can't find find reference to "chord Field Separator" in the manu

text problem

2005-02-05 Thread Charles Gran
I want to get a lyric under the two tied whole notes in the final two measures of the attached song. Can anyone help me on this? I know it is similar to the way the pickup works at the end of the introduction, but am unsure of how to accomplish this. Charles witches19.ly Description: Binar

text problem

2005-02-05 Thread Charles Gran
I want to get a lyric under the two tied whole notes in the final two measures of the attached song. Can anyone help me on this? I know it is similar to the way the pickup works at the end of the introduction, but am unsure of how to accomplish this. witches19.ly Description: Binary data __

different behavior of "\remove Time_signature_engraver" in Lilypond-Book

2005-02-06 Thread Charles Gran
If I run this as a separate lily file the time signature is removed. It is not removed when I embed this in a latex document as shown. (WindowsXP, 2.4.2) -Charles \begin{lilypond} \relative c' { \clef percussion \autoBeamOff \cadenzaOn c8. c16 c8 c c16 c c8 c16 c c4 c16 c c8 c c16 c8. c8 c c c

squeezed measure

2005-01-30 Thread Dr. Charles Gran
When I run a version of the example found at http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/An-example-of-a-musicological-document.html#An-example-of-a-musicological-document I get a squezzed example for the first staff of music. I'm using cygwin under Windows XP (2.4.2) and