Re: Rendering cropped SVG

Quoting poto...@posteo.de (poto...@posteo.de): > I forgot: My file is just the minimum to test if Lilypond can do what I want > it to do. > > \pointAndClickOff > > \relative { > c' d e f g f e d > c' d e f a a b d > c' d e f a a b d > } > > \version "2.18.2" I typeset music fragments for

Re: Rendering cropped SVG

Quoting poto...@posteo.de (poto...@posteo.de): > I'm using Mac OS. There are no programs accessing the > files. However, I just noticed that everything is alright the first > time I render the file. But the second time, when the existing svg > file needs to be overwritten, the ps file won't get del

Re: Rendering cropped SVG

I wrote earlier: > > > After all, in your script you have: > > > pdfcrop --margins 1 '$file_base_name.pdf' '$file_base_name.pdf' > > > where the output filename is the same as the input filename. Quoting poto...@posteo.de (poto...@posteo.de): > I'm not using any version control here. Notice that t

Re: Rendering cropped SVG

> > Am 17.09.2015 um 03:08 schrieb David Wright : > > > > I wrote earlier: > >>>> After all, in your script you have: > >>>> pdfcrop --margins 1 '$file_base_name.pdf' '$file_base_name.pdf' > >>>> where the outpu

Fauré requiem

Hi, I've looked at your score and I fall into the Simon Albrecht camp, but I'll reply privately with questions of preference. I have a copy of OUP's Rutter 1893 version, only the vocal, not the full score. It's in the OUP's larger format (inconvenient for folders) and I've never sung from it (my w

Polyphonic repeats with lyrics (and rests)

I noticed some erroneous alto lyrics invading recent CPDL editions of Farmer's Fair Phyllis. I think the cause was some overenthusiastic factoring of the lyrics using tagging. So I thought I'd run up a copy myself, producing folded/unfolded scores from one source file. However I found, like others

Re: Polyphonic repeats with lyrics (and rests)

Quoting Simon Albrecht (simon.albre...@mail.de): > On 19.09.2015 06:18, David Wright wrote: > >I noticed some erroneous alto lyrics invading recent CPDL editions of > >Farmer's Fair Phyllis. I think the cause was some overenthusiastic > >factoring of the lyrics using tag

Re: Problems with text alignment

Quoting Mark Veltzer (mark.velt...@gmail.com): > I have a problem and a solution to it which does is not very stable. > > My problem is that I want music sheets to be followed by their text. Since > these are > songs I arrange the text in several columns to save space. The text is RTL > (hebrew i

Re: Multiple scores in a single document

Quoting Thomas Morley (thomasmorle...@gmail.com): > 2015-09-25 2:46 GMT+02:00 T. Michael Sommers : > > [...✂...] > Though there is something strange with the snippet you linked to. > Per default LilyPond does not support header-fields like: > metre > texidoc > enteredby > source metre looks like i

Re: Bar numbers seem to be one off

Quoting Simon Albrecht (simon.albre...@mail.de): > On 26.09.2015 19:18, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >>I just said that because often Elaine Gould is used as kind of a bible > >>and as normative reference, whereas a notable part of her statements > >>are personal suggestions and a matter of style or pre

Re: Bar lines in polyphonic music and words under split voices

Quoting Do something Artistic (vegasart...@hotmail.com): > I have been working on a piece of music for some time now and cannot seem to > get the following to happen. > [...] > 2. attach words to a split vocal line of the form << {}\\ {}>> lilypond > seems to want to just skip over it and go to th

Re: Polymetric setup and volta repeat with alternatives

Quoting Simon Albrecht (simon.albre...@mail.de): > these two don’t seem to go well together: > If Timing_translator and Default_bar_line_engraver are moved to > Staff context, no repeat bar lines are printed and the gap between > the Volta brackets disappears. Moving the > Repeat_acknowledge_engra

Re: Repeat with alternatives

Quoting s.p.korzil...@gmail.com (s.p.korzil...@gmail.com): > I’m trying to write a piece that has repeats with alternatives. It seems that > “ > \repeat volta 2” is the way to go with supplying the alternatives in “\ > alternative”. However, this seems to work only for alternative endings, while

Re: Repeat with alternatives

Quoting Johan Vromans (jvrom...@squirrel.nl): > On Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:41:21 +0100 > Anthonys Lists wrote: > > > Anyways, I think we've all missed the OPs problem. As he phrased it, I > > understand he wants > > > > {fixed part 1} {alternative 1} {alternative 2} {fixed part 2} repeat > > I'm n

Re: Repeat with alternatives

Quoting Richard Shann (rich...@rshann.plus.com): > On Fri, 2015-10-02 at 13:27 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Johan Vromans (jvrom...@squirrel.nl): > > > On Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:41:21 +0100 > > > Anthonys Lists wrote: > > > > > > > Anyways,

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

Quoting Simon Albrecht (simon.albre...@mail.de): > One small amendment: The spacing is less grotesque if you insert > %%% > selfAl = #(define-music-function (parser location num) (number?) > #{ \once \override LyricText . self-alignment-X = $num #}) > > text = \lyricmode { > Rid

Re: Question re title formatting

I've replied to the original post because it had a Reply-To which was not honoured by most of the responses in the thread. Quoting Karen Billings (ksbilli...@att.net): > I hate bothering the you all with a dumb question, but I've been wracking my > brain with this for two hours. > > I am arrangi

Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

Quoting Simon Albrecht (simon.albre...@mail.de): > On 06.10.2015 06:40, David Wright wrote: > >However, I just wanted to observe two things about the OP's > >original: the words are much smaller, and the first three bars > >look as though they are using proportional sp

Re: opus and piece fields in top level header.

Quoting Richard Shann (rich...@rshann.plus.com): > On Fri, 2015-10-09 at 23:37 +0200, Simon Albrecht wrote: > > On 09.10.2015 22:25, Richard Shann wrote: > > > In the 2.18 it does not seem to mention that the opus and piece fields > > > are not output anywhere if they are set in a \header{} block *

Re: Frescobaldi creates the pdf but doesn't export it?

Quoting Urs Liska (u...@openlilylib.org): > Am 12.10.2015 um 07:58 schrieb Wilbert Berendsen: > > Op Sat, 10 Oct 2015 13:48:39 +0200 > > Urs Liska schreef: > > > >> The only way out of that would be if LilyPond could learn to take its > >> input from stdin. Which might be a nice thing anyway? > >

Re: Repeat with alternatives [solved]

Quoting s.p.korzil...@gmail.com (s.p.korzil...@gmail.com): > I’m trying to write a piece that has repeats with alternatives. It seems that > “ > \repeat volta 2” is the way to go with supplying the alternatives in “\ > alternative”. However, this seems to work only for alternative endings, while

Re: alternate endings without repeats

Quoting Thomas Morley (thomasmorle...@gmail.com): > 2015-10-12 23:45 GMT+02:00 Juraj : > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.general/24012 > > > > (8 years old) helped. But if there are news about, I'm interested in! > Well, there is no convincing user-interface for it. > > You can

Re: partcombine and multi-measure rests

Quoting Gilberto Agostinho (gilbertohasn...@gmail.com): > When changing the type of \partcombine (for instance, using > \partcombineApart in the middle of the score) when one of the parts has > multi-measure rests I get some strange results: > >

Re: Emacs lilypond-mode comment indenting

Quoting Andrew Bernard (andrew.bern...@gmail.com): > Would there be any simple way to make the emacs lilypond mode indent % > comments to the same level as the code, and not over to the right as it > currently does? I am afraid I am not an elisp hacker. I use % for trailing comments and %% for o

Re: Repeat with alternatives

Quoting Thomas Morley (thomasmorle...@gmail.com): > 2015-10-13 3:18 GMT+02:00 David Wright : > > Quoting s.p.korzil...@gmail.com (s.p.korzil...@gmail.com): > > > >> I’m trying to write a piece that has repeats with alternatives. It seems > >> that “ > >&

Re: Emacs lilypond-mode and also point-and-click

Quoting Andrew Bernard (andrew.bern...@gmail.com): > Also, using evince on Ubuntu 15.04 with either Unity or the GNOME 3 Shell, > after several successful point-and-click redirects, the file in emacs get > messed up and the source file has to be reloaded. "messed up" is a bit vague. Is it reall

Re: Emacs lilypond-mode and also point-and-click

Quoting Andrew Bernard (andrew.bern...@gmail.com): > No, it was truncated, but in a hard to understand way - quite irregular. But > we > now know that was an artefact of the narrowing issue, and has not occurred > again. Widening did not help. Terms are important here. There's a world of differen

Re: SSD disk longevity

Quoting Andrew Bernard (andrew.bern...@gmail.com): > Greetings All, > > This comes up on every single forum sooner or later, and always generates > really interesting talk. I’m forking this thread from the one on Frescobaldi. Hm. Were this linked to the thread "Frescobaldi creates the pdf but do

Re: [OT] Printer with or without Postscript

Quoting Johan Vromans (jvrom...@squirrel.nl): > On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 21:17:19 +1100 > Andrew Bernard wrote: > > > I am not convinced evince is very good at anything at all. Would this not > > be an issue with evince, rather than other parts of the toolchain? > > That could very well be the case.

Re: [OT] Printer with or without Postscript

Quoting Johan Vromans (jvrom...@squirrel.nl): > On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:59:42 -0500 > David Wright wrote: > > > A very common workflow but IMO a very poor one. If you have problems > > printing, where do you start looking for the cause? (for example, > > artifacts like

Re: independent time signatures

Quoting Michael Collins (mxcoll...@gmail.com): > I'm trying to write a piece for two staves in independent time signatures.  > After consulting this post, I moved the timing translator and bar line > engraver > out of the score context and into the staff context.  However, I'm still > getting garb

Re: lilypond-mode and electric-indent-mode (Emacs)

Quoting David Kastrup (d...@gnu.org): > pls writes: > > lilypond-mode (Git-repository) and electric-indent-mode don't seem to > > get along too well > > in Emacs. (I'm currently using GNU Emacs 25.0.50.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, > > GTK+ Version 3.10.8) but I have experienced the same issues with all

Re: Frescobaldi creates the pdf but doesn't export it?

> Am 22.10.2015 um 23:07 schrieb tisimst: > I think this thread has too many conflicting topics, and I'm > definitely > note sure what's causing some of the other issues that have been > brought up (sorry!), but let's jump back to the OP's original issue as > it

Re: partcombine and multi-measure rests

Quoting Gilberto Agostinho (gilbertohasn...@gmail.com): > Simon Albrecht-2 wrote > > On 14.10.2015 20:41, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: > >> \version "2.17.95" > > > > Just out of interest: what makes you still use that particular version? > > I don't, I actually use 2.19.15. The thing is I have seve

Re: bar checks and independent time signatures

Quoting Michael Collins (mxcoll...@gmail.com): > A couple days ago, I described a problem with a piece for two staves in > independent time signatures.  After consulting this post, I moved the timing > translator and bar line engraver out of the score context and into the staff > context.  While th

Re: Redundant accidentals after clef changes

Quoting David Kastrup (d...@gnu.org): > Noah Fields writes: > > I am working on a score for solo viola. There are measures in which I > > change from alto clef to treble clef, and then back to alto clef. Each time > > there is a clef change, Lilypond rewrites accidentals. I understand the > > usef

Re: Log output

Quoting Andrew Bernard (andrew.bern...@gmail.com): > In the output log for lilypond compilation, we see something like this: > > Interpreting music...[8][16][24][32][40][48][56][64] > > What do the numbers refer to? In my score there is no relation to pages or > lines or similar. I am asking in

Re: Log output

On Thu 29 Oct 2015 at 11:10:49 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > Well, I have 493 bars in the section, and lilypond log output only counts up > to [64]. That does not seem to be commensurate with the indications being bar > numbers. > > Andrew > > On 29 Oct 2015, at 01:32

Re: Gregorian notation - augmentum problem

On Thu 29 Oct 2015 at 09:27:44 (+0100), Noeck wrote: > a \bar "" \break works but I am working on something automatic, so this > is not really viable. Last night I was going to suggest that you switched timing off, until I saw you'd mentioned CadenzaOn, so I didn't bother. AFAICT the reason the l

Re: strange error message - cannot open .ly file

On Fri 30 Oct 2015 at 00:01:44 (+), MING TSANG wrote: > Hi lilyponders: Hi, please post text, not HTML, and if you can't avoid that, please post source code etc as attachments rather than inline. > Frecobaldi can open the file, yet when I hit to run lilypond, I got strange > error message: >

Re: Gregorian notation - augmentum problem

On Fri 30 Oct 2015 at 01:03:55 (+0100), Noeck wrote: > Dear Michael, all, > > > Maybe I just don't understand the usecase. You might want to explain > > what you are trying to achieve. Possibly then we can find a better > > solution. > > thanks for your help. I am trying to copy this chant: > htt

Re: Sibelius 7 to LilyPond Conversion!

On Tue 03 Nov 2015 at 15:22:58 (-0500), T. Michael Sommers wrote: > On 10/29/2015 5:28 AM, Richard Shann wrote: > > > >This > >script looks for pairs of same pitch notes connected by a slur and > >changes them into two tied notes. That one is actually so common (people > >make the mistake when ente

Re: lyluatex and distance between systems

On Thu 05 Nov 2015 at 18:11:52 (+0100), Marc Hohl wrote: > I use the lyluatex package for my latest project. Everything looks fine, > but unfortunately lyluatex does not support \preLilyPondExample, > \postLilyPondExample and \betweenLilyPondSystem, respectively. > > I want to control the distance

Re: Repositioning system

On Thu 05 Nov 2015 at 19:54:05 (+), Alex Seefeldt wrote: > Is there any way to manually change the vertical position of a single > system in Lilypond? I've tried just about everything I know and I can't > figure it out. I have done this sort of thing to control the spacing of *all* the lines

Re: lyluatex and distance between systems

On Fri 06 Nov 2015 at 08:57:36 (+0100), Marc Hohl wrote: > Am 05.11.2015 um 21:05 schrieb David Wright: > > NBSP = \lyricmode { " " } % non-breakable space > Thanks for these ideas, I'll give it a try! Posting things here makes you check things out. I have one .

LP syntax clarification, was Re: lyluatex and distance between systems

On Fri 06 Nov 2015 at 16:47:16 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright writes: > > NBSP = \markup { " " } > > NBSP = \markup { \char ##x00A0 } > You know that this is different from > > NBSP = \markup \char ##x00A0 > > and instead equivalent to &

Re: Parallel CueVoice with "too early" a clef change

On Mon 09 Nov 2015 at 17:00:51 (+0100), Menu Jacques wrote: > Hello David, > > The docs say that the part that « receives » a Cue is usually made of rests, > but not what happens if they contain actual notes. > Removing the last eight in the Cue avoids the problem, of course. > > I tried with cu

Re: Parallel CueVoice with "too early" a clef change

On Mon 09 Nov 2015 at 17:00:51 (+0100), Menu Jacques wrote: > Hello David, > > The docs say that the part that « receives » a Cue is usually made of rests, > but not what happens if they contain actual notes. > Removing the last eight in the Cue avoids the problem, of course. > > I tried with cu

Re: ScholarLy and polymetric music? (bar numbering, \RemoveEmptyStaffContext)

On Mon 09 Nov 2015 at 23:22:14 (+), Graham King wrote: > On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 14:55 -0600, Christopher R. Maden wrote: > > On 11/09/2015 02:47 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > > The very first thing they said to me was, “Add measure numbers.” > > > > That’s sufficient reason for

Re: Gounod - Le Rendez Vous

On Wed 11 Nov 2015 at 12:22:32 (-0700), tisimst wrote: > This is looking MUCH better (nice work with the extended dynamic lines ;-). > I'll look at it in greater detail later, but here's one thing that I > immediately noticed quite a few instances of that you would get dinged for: > You > should

Re: Gounod - Le Rendez Vous

On Wed 11 Nov 2015 at 14:21:45 (-0700), tisimst wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 2:18 PM, David Wright [via Lilypond] <[hidden email]> > wrote: > > On Wed 11 Nov 2015 at 12:22:32 (-0700), tisimst wrote: > > > This is looking MUCH better (nice work with

Re: Semibreve rests look like breve rests

On Wed 11 Nov 2015 at 17:24:54 (-0500), Bockett Hunter wrote: > When I staff size to 30 or above, semibreve rests fill > the area between lines, and look like breve rests. > > The gap below the rest shows for default staff size 20, but then > the appearance is very sparse; heavier notes are > more

Re: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()

On Thu 12 Nov 2015 at 14:53:31 (+), MING TSANG wrote: > I ran the attach file and got the following. > Question: can this be solved? How? Appreciate help given. > > Starting lilypond.exe 2.19.31 [test_ymt-曾煒明.ly]... > Processing `K:/LILY_POND/test_ymt-��.ly' > Parsing... > Interpreting mus

Re: ScholarLy and polymetric music? (bar numbering, \RemoveEmptyStaffContext)

On Tue 10 Nov 2015 at 13:52:33 (+), Graham King wrote: > On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 21:53 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 09 Nov 2015 at 23:22:14 (+), Graham King wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 14:55 -0600, Christopher R. Maden wrote: > > On 11/09/201

Re: Lilypond 2.19.31 on openSUSE Leap 42.1

On Sat 14 Nov 2015 at 22:52:47 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > Anybody running this combination? > When attempting to run lilypond, libffi.so.6 is not found: > error while loading shared libraries: libffi.so.6: cannot open shared > object file: No such file or directory > I am presently un

Re: Testing requested: new manuscript viewer tool for Frescobaldi

On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 16:56:47 (+0100), Federico Bruni wrote: > Il giorno mer 18 nov 2015 alle 16:33, Urs Liska > ha scritto: > >Does sh read ~/.bashrc? > > Yes, it does: > > $ sh -c "echo $LILYPOND_GIT" > /home/fede/src/lilypond-git I'm not sure what this is meant to demonstrate. If your norma

Re: Testing requested: new manuscript viewer tool for Frescobaldi

On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 17:48:34 (+0100), Federico Bruni wrote: > Il giorno mer 18 nov 2015 alle 17:38, Ralf Mattes > ha scritto: > > > >Am Mittwoch, 18. November 2015 16:56 CET, Federico Bruni > > schrieb: > > > >> Il giorno mer 18 nov 2015 alle 16:33, Urs Liska > >> ha > >> scritto: > >> > Does sh

Re: Repeat with Alternative on First Time

On Wed 25 Nov 2015 at 13:57:40 (+0100), Michael Hartl wrote: > Dear Lilypond Experts, Not me, then. > this is my first time posting to this list. I am trying my hand at > engraving a song with a perhaps unusual, but very simple repeat > pattern > and I couldn't find out how to come to the correct

Re: Repeat with Alternative on First Time

On Wed 25 Nov 2015 at 14:41:57 (+0100), Robert Schmaus wrote: > Hi Mike, > > this is actually covered in the Notation Reference, more precisely, > right there: > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/long-repeats#manual-repeat-marks I disagree. What's missing is the notation to

Re: aligning melisma and non-melisma lyrics across staves in the same system

On Wed 25 Nov 2015 at 12:01:44 (-0500), Kieren MacMillan wrote: > I know there is a way to have accidentals “cross-canceled” between staves in > the same system. > (I’ve used it… and it’s wonderful!) I don't; what is it? > Would it be similarly possible to have lyrics aligned between staves > w

Re: Vertically centering a song text.

On Thu 03 Dec 2015 at 07:32:44 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > tisimst writes: > > > \skip in the Lyrics context is necessary for skipping beats without > > creating a melisma (which can be manually created with a single underscore > > for each beat in the melisma). I'm not sure why it's insensit

Re: grace notes MIDI playback

On Sat 28 Nov 2015 at 06:23:00 (-0700), Gilberto Agostinho wrote: > David Kastrup wrote > > So how should this be rigged instead? Nominal length, unless that would > > swallow all of the following notelength or more? And otherwise scale > > down repeatedly by a factor of 2 until it doesn't? > >

Re: grace notes MIDI playback

On Thu 03 Dec 2015 at 21:08:30 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright writes: > > > On Sat 28 Nov 2015 at 06:23:00 (-0700), Gilberto Agostinho wrote: > >> David Kastrup wrote > >> > So how should this be rigged instead? Nominal length, unless that would &g

Shrinking a part with its lyrics

Hi, I sometimes set an accompanist's copy (merging/separating the pedal, unfolding repeats, improving pageturns etc) and reduce the pagecount by shrinking the vocal parts. The lyrics say it all: I'm perplexed as to why they remain at full size in just the last fragment. The notes shrink, as does th

Re: Shrinking a part with its lyrics

On Sun 06 Dec 2015 at 23:49:57 (-), Trevor Daniels wrote: > David Wright wrote Sunday, December 06, 2015 11:11 PM > > Hi, I sometimes set an accompanist's copy (merging/separating the > > pedal, unfolding repeats, improving pageturns etc) and reduce the > > pageco

Re: Settings for automatic beam slope

On Tue 08 Dec 2015 at 12:34:55 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: [...] > On the same topic, I have come across references to beam-qaunting, with no > explanation of what it is. Is this something to do with beams having to touch > staff lines? What is it exactly? Is this what is causing the flat beams

Re: Noteheads slightly too large

Excuse my top-posting, but is there any context for this message? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-12/msg00296.html is no help either. It *might* be helpful to be able to see the Message-ID and In-Reply-To for the postings there, but the list administrators seem more interested

NullVoice and Cautionary accidentals appear to interact

Hi, I'm used to a bit of work setting up lyric alignment with NullVoice—normally involving making sure that NullVoice has the most subdivisions of any part—but I was surprised by the appearance of the natural sign on the B line. As you can see, I normally copy one part (typically soprano) into the

Re: NullVoice and Cautionary accidentals appear to interact

On Sat 12 Dec 2015 at 00:00:24 (-0600), David Wright wrote: > Hi, I'm used to a bit of work setting up lyric alignment with > NullVoice—normally involving making sure that NullVoice has the > most subdivisions of any part—but I was surprised by the appearance > of the natural s

Re: Noteheads slightly too large

On Sat 12 Dec 2015 at 09:47:18 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright writes: > > > Excuse my top-posting, but is there any context for this message? > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-12/msg00296.html > > is no help either. It *might* be helpf

Re: Strings as variable names

On Mon 28 Dec 2015 at 20:27:22 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > Johan Vromans writes: > > > On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 19:01:47 +0100 > > Urs Liska wrote: > > > >> > part = cello > >> > > >> > \score { > >> > \"bella_melodia_\part" > >> > } > >> > >> I think something like this should be achievable

Re: Strings as variable names

On Sun 03 Jan 2016 at 16:22:29 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright writes: > > > On Mon 28 Dec 2015 at 20:27:22 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > >> > >> The strings in Python's regular expression replacements can interpolate > >> variable

Re: trying to attach lyrics to global variable in /score

On Mon 04 Jan 2016 at 00:26:44 (+0100), Simon Albrecht wrote: [...] > That said: The following code works for me. > > %% > \version "2.18.2" > global = { s1 } > recorder = { c''1 } > verseOne = \lyricmode { test } > \score { > \new StaffGroup << > > \new Staff << > \new Voice

Re: trying to attach lyrics to global variable in /score

On Sun 03 Jan 2016 at 15:33:39 (-0800), Ryan Michael wrote: > Thank you for the reminder, so he is a complete, however abridged version of > my > code:  > > viola = \new Voice \relative c' { > c1 c1 c1 > } > > recorder = \new Voice \relative c' { > c1 c1 c1 > } > > verseOne = \lyricmode { >   m

Re: warning for duplicate definitions

On Fri 08 Jan 2016 at 15:44:32 (+0200), Mike Solomon wrote: > I’m combining several documents into a large book tonight and I am positive > that I have: > > legato = \markup \italic “legato” > > in at least 10 documents. I’d like to consolidate these into a style sheet > but I’m worried that I

Re: Lyrics for additional verses in LilyPond?

On Sat 16 Jan 2016 at 15:27:48 (+), Tim Regan wrote: > Thanks Knute. That works. At first I place the markup block inside the score > after my add lyrics block but that threw syntax errors. Once I placed it > after the score it did exactly what I want. I basically copied the example from p27

Re: smallest possible bounding box

On Sun 17 Jan 2016 at 12:30:57 (+0100), Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote: > > 17. jan. 2016 kl. 12.22 skrev Simon Albrecht : > > > > On 17.01.2016 12:10, Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote: > >> > >> 2) I need to export pngs for my latex documents and i would like the > >> bounding box to be as small as pos

Re: [OT] Linking to threads in this list Re: Infinite page length

On Wed 20 Jan 2016 at 14:04:08 (+), Richard Shann wrote: > On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 14:00 +0100, Simon Albrecht wrote: > > On 20.01.2016 12:18, Richard Shann wrote: > > > see the thread: > > > > > > Re: ly:one-page-breaking (was: ly:one-line-breaking) > > > > > > the last email in this thread was

Re: alternative problem in repetition

On Tue 26 Jan 2016 at 14:35:32 (-0300), Marcos Press wrote: > Hi list!, > Can anyone try these and tell me why does lilypond eliminate the second > alternative? > My output said that there are more \alternatives than repetitions, but thats > not true. >  \alternative { >   { a2. } >  \\

Re: Piano centered dynamics - dealing with bar collisions

On Sat 30 Jan 2016 at 00:00:43 (+0100), Przemyslaw Pawelczyk wrote: > I've noticed another thing just now, after zooming in. > Regardless of the overrides, first half note in the lower staff > actually does not line up with quater note in the upper staff. Isn't that because a minim is wider then

Bar number moves down inexplicably

Coincidentally with Message-ID: <56ae6df7.8010...@gmx.de> > It also seems to move the bar number down. Does anybody know why? I also have a bar number which moves down for some reason. The attached snippet shows the problem. Commenting out the \layout with % { → %{ fixes the bar number but I los

Re: Bar number moves down inexplicably

On Mon 01 Feb 2016 at 08:04:17 (+0100), Michael Gerdau wrote: > Hi David, > > > > It also seems to move the bar number down. Does anybody know why? > > > > I also have a bar number which moves down for some reason. > > > > The attached snippet shows the problem. Commenting out the \layout > > wi

Re: Four Part Piano Staff

On Mon 01 Feb 2016 at 18:25:36 (-0800), Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > I want to make a template for a piano staff with two explicitly instantiated > voices (not <<{ } \\{ } >>) in each staff – this for four part fugues. Apart from "fugues", sounds like a hymn (set in UK-style). So I stripped the w

Re: Four Part Piano Staff

On Mon 01 Feb 2016 at 20:31:27 (-0800), Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > In the past I have used the "variable" format. Naturally. > This leads to some repeated adjustments in the placement of the second voice. I don't understand what you mean by "repeated adjustments". > I prefer not to use varia

Re: Four Part Piano Staff

On Tue 02 Feb 2016 at 15:37:29 (-0800), Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > Michael, > > Thank you for your response and suggestion. Whenever I make an inquiry I > attach a .ly file. Your reply, quoted below, implies a question: "Why do I get two unwanted additional staves?". I can only hazard a guess

Re: repeat

On Thu 11 Feb 2016 at 14:48:18 (+0100), BB wrote: > That works, but the long note sequence has to be repeated - exactly > that's what I would like to avoid. I don't understand your complaint. In the attached (rpt1), the "d e f g" bar is printed once but played twice, which is what you asked for.

Re: repeat

Excuse my replying to the wrong posting, but I can't reply to a posting that seems to be missing from the thread. On Fri 12 Feb 2016 at 09:48:23 (+0100), Johan Vromans wrote: > On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:48:18 +0100 BB wrote: > > > That works, but the long note sequence has to be repeated - exactly

Re: repeat

On Sat 13 Feb 2016 at 10:21:51 (+0100), Johan Vromans wrote: > On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 23:14:18 -0600 > David Wright wrote: > > > So, if you write/print the sequence of notes once, why would you want > > to copy and paste them all in again? That comment of mine, as I ex

Re: repeat

On Sat 13 Feb 2016 at 20:29:15 (-), Trevor Daniels wrote: > "BB" wrote Saturday, February 13, 2016 1:31 PM > > > Your answer: No, you can't. That is what I argued, therefore I postet this > > question, hoping that eventually somebody has a solution. But it is good to > > know that there is'n

Re: repeat

On Sat 13 Feb 2016 at 15:25:22 (+0100), Jonathan Scholbach wrote: > I had a similar problem when managing different spread of text in different > stanzas of a song. Maybe the following solution (which does not produce the > correct midi-output!) is appropriate for you? - for me it looks like a bit

Re: aligning an arrow

On Sun 14 Feb 2016 at 20:21:57 (+0100), Robert Blackstone wrote: > > On 14 Feb 2016, at 13:18 , Phil Holmes wrote: > > > Your way of laying this out is rather unusual, > > A beginner's messy product but I was glad it worked (except for the third > arrow). But I see that your suggested manner .

Re: Fw: Re: digital music editions - is Lilypond a suitable tool for it?

On Sun 14 Feb 2016 at 19:51:53 (+), musicus wrote: > Sorry, didn't know that an attached html file does'nt work... > Please change the attached file to ".html" I don't understand. The only difference between your two attachments appears to be that the second one has DOS-style line endings. Wha

Re: Fw: Re: digital music editions - is Lilypond a suitable tool forit?

On Sun 14 Feb 2016 at 21:50:08 (+), musicus wrote: > > I don't understand. The only difference between your two attachments > > appears to be that the second one has DOS-style line endings. > > What does that affect? > My browser didn't show the first one as attachement, but displayed the conte

Re: Is there a bug in the way Lilypond handles staccatos?

On Mon 15 Feb 2016 at 14:53:18 (-0500), Devin wrote: > @Urs, Klaus, and Andrew > > Thank you very much! > > This makes sense now (I guess Lilypond does not need to be a "programming > language" per se and that is where the confusion is). I will add your replies > to our Music Blocks discussion th

Re: Midi doesn't build correctly from version 2.12

On Tue 16 Feb 2016 at 02:05:16 (+0100), Luca Danieli wrote: > Hi, > > I am making some modifications to a old score build originally with lilypond > 2.12. > The same versione with lilypond 2.18 build graphically correctly, with no > errors, but the midi is very corrupted. > > Also, I can build th

Re: Install on linux

On Sun 21 Feb 2016 at 19:10:29 (+0100), Peter O'Doherty wrote: > Thanks a lot. Sorted now using sudo sh lilypond... I can't help wondering what the ... stands for. > On 21-02-16 13:13, Peter O'Doherty wrote: > >Hi, > > > >When I install lilypond on Ubuntu (following the instructions on > >the web

Re: Install on linux

On Sun 21 Feb 2016 at 22:12:51 (+0100), Malte Meyn wrote: > Am 21.02.2016 um 22:02 schrieb David Wright: > >On Sun 21 Feb 2016 at 19:10:29 (+0100), Peter O'Doherty wrote: > >>Thanks a lot. Sorted now using sudo sh lilypond... > > > >I can't help wondering

Vertical position of bar numbers

Having recently fixed a similar problem with bar numbering by moving the Mark_engraver and adding Staff_collecting_engraver at Staff level, I've run into the following: my bar numbers are running along the skyline of my lyrics, as shown in the fabricated example. I like the 4 in the normal (defaul

Re: Confused about line breaking

On Tue 23 Feb 2016 at 12:55:05 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > While trying to concoct a minimal example for my question about staff-staff > spacing, I find I am confused. In the attached example, why are the bass notes > spaced apart by the number of spacers in the voice for line breaking? I woil

Re: Controllling repeat volta text

On Tue 23 Feb 2016 at 03:25:04 (+), Stan Mulder wrote: > Andrew Bernard gmail.com> writes: > > Something like this? > > > > \version "2.19.36" > > > > voltaAdLib = \markup { 1. 2. 3... \text \italic { ad lib. } } > > voltaLast = \markup { \text "last" } > > \relative { > >   \set Score.repea

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