ties across voices -- DIFFICULT!!!

2008-07-15 Thread Eric Flesher
I am having an extremely difficult time finding an acceptable coding solution for a fairly straightforward (though relatively complex) notational problem: I have several measures of piano music (code appended below) in which an initial chord is struck, with voices released at different times. This

Re: ties across voices -- DIFFICULT!!!

2008-07-15 Thread Eric Flesher
Eric Flesher gmail.com> writes: > > I am having an extremely difficult time finding an acceptable coding solution > for a fairly straightforward (though relatively complex) notational problem: ... et cetera... Here's the code: \version "2.11.51" upper = \

markup dynamics wrong size

2008-08-05 Thread Eric Flesher
Wondering if anyone has experienced the following problem: When creating new centered dynamics in a piano staff in ver. 2.11.55 (and several earlier versions) using \markup, three things happen: 1. the markup text created is significantly larger than the normal dynamic size 2. the text doe

Re: markup dynamics wrong size

2008-08-07 Thread Eric Flesher
Mats Bengtsson ee.kth.se> writes: > > The best solution for you is probably to use #(make-dynamic-script ... ) > to define all your dynamic commands, see subsection "New dynamics". > Then, they will behave exactly as all the other dynamics. > I haven't investigated how much tweaks would be in

duplets

2008-08-07 Thread Eric Flesher
Greetings, Is it possible to suppress/alter the tuplet number in the case of the duplet shown below? (m. 91, bass staff) According to Stone, this should be engraved as a duplet with the numeral "2" in the bracket. This could of course be represented instead by dotted eighths, but these th

problem with engraving "breath" tones

2009-01-22 Thread Eric Flesher
I have a score that involves numerous passages of wind instruments making pure breath (i.e. non-pitched) sounds; as per Kurt Stone, these should be indicated on a single tablature line above the staff with circular noteheads. These noteheads are unusual in that they are centered on the stem (i.e. t

Re: air-tone tablature

2009-01-23 Thread Eric Flesher
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool organum.hu> writes: > > > How do you do that in Sibelius? Perhaps mirroring the same approach > would be the best. With Sibelius, one can easily start and stop a staff mid-system (or measure) by changing that staff to an "invisible" one. Thus, the passage was engra

Re: air-tone tablature

2009-01-23 Thread Eric Flesher
Mark Polesky yahoo.com> writes: > Eric, > > I've gotten as far as I care to for now. Undoubtedly > you'll want to tweak things anyway, so I'm sending > off what I have as it is. You could re-code the > stencil using Carl's (more efficient) way, but the > code here should work fine. Let me kno

cross-staff "synchronized" grace-note figure

2008-02-29 Thread Eric Flesher
This may have been addressed before, but my search of the archives hasn't returned anything: Is it possible in a piano (grand-staff) score to create a grace-note figures such that: 1. the figure consists of 4 notes in the bass staff (beamed as small 8th notes) 2. the second note of the figure sync

Re: cross-staff "synchronized" grace-note figure

2008-03-01 Thread Eric Flesher
David Fedoruk gmail.com> writes: > > I'm not sure which notes are grace and which are not. The problem is > interesting *think* i'm encountering a similar one, but you haven't > given me enough information to tell. > All the left-hand (bass clef) pitches will look like grace notes. The right

tenuto/tie collision

2009-01-26 Thread Eric Flesher
Greetings, I'm sure this has been addressed elsewhere, although my search of the forum turns up negative: It seems that in some instances the program will default to a tie placement such that it is bound to collide with certain articulations, such as tenuto marks. It appears as if ties ar

Re: tenuto/tie collision

2009-01-27 Thread Eric Flesher
Jonathan Kulp gmail.com> writes: > > > > You might try the tweaks covered in Learning Manual 4.5.3 "Real Music > Example," which has an instance of a tie that needs to be raised to > avoid collision with something. > Right, but this is precisely the point: I'll be making dozens of such adj

decreasing spacing between staves

2009-02-08 Thread Eric Flesher
Greetings, I've looked high and low for the solution to this (rather basic, IMO) problem, and seem to be coming up empty-handed: I have a score that requires a single-line tablature staff above the main staff, which contains pitches. I need to find a way to decrease the space between the tablatur