Aligning Text Above (and Below) Notes

I'm trying to layout text above, and below, a transcription to designate the hand, and tone, required for a transcription of conga rhythms. How can I align the super-text and sub-text notations to be on similar horizontal planes with each other? Sample of the output:

Re: Aligning Text Above (and Below) Notes

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Eluze wrote: > Eric Pancer wrote >> I'm trying to layout text above, and below, a transcription to >> designate the hand, and tone, required for a transcription of conga >> rhythms. How can I align the super-text and sub-text not

Re: Aligning Text Above (and Below) Notes

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Eluze wrote: > Eric Pancer wrote >>> either put these indications in a supplemental (Lyric) staff (staves) or >>> add >>> some padding: >> >> Would I use a \ChoirStaff for it, with drum notation? > > here's a sim

Re: changing spacing between title and first system

On Dec 5, 2012, at 15:54, Jeffrey Trevino wrote: > PPS -- alright, I've found how to manipulate the spacing as I wanted; > however, it would be nice to hear a resolution to the above Maybe post your solution? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-u

Re: Lilypond in Mac OS X Terminal

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Parham FH wrote: > I tried asking on IRC but got no replies. > I am curious if it is possible to run lilypond from the Mac OS X > (my case: 10.6.8) terminal since I am > generating the data for lilypond via a python application. > It would therefor be preferred to

Re: Lilypond in Mac OS X Terminal

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:32 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Paul Morris writes: > >> On Dec 12, 2012, at 9:31 AM, Parham FH wrote: >> >>> I am curious if it is possible to run lilypond from the Mac OS X >>> (my case: 10.6.8) terminal >> >> Instructions are here: >> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/

Re: Lilypond in Mac OS X Terminal

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:14 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > The libexec route appears to cater for all of that. We should use bin > just for executables supposed to be entry points of LilyPond. Please, no! >From man 1 hier [..] libexec/ system daemons & system utilities (execute

4-Drum Conga Notation in LilyPond

While writing some conga exercises (for four drums) in Lilypond, I've found I can get by using the following notes*: - bd (super tumba) - toml (tumba) - sn (conga) However, I'm looking for a 4th pitch to notate a quinto (high drum) and would like to use E6 (4th space in treble clef). Since ther

Re: Lilypond in Mac OS X Terminal

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:25 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Which is pretty much what we are talking about. I was not talking about > /libexec but libexec, like the LilyPond executables are not in /bin but > some bin (well, actually out/bin) and, after installation, in some > /usr/local/bin (so the c

Re: Lilypond in Mac OS X Terminal

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:02 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Eric Pancer writes: > >> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:25 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >>> Which is pretty much what we are talking about. I was not talking about >>> /libexec but libexec, like the LilyPond e

Re: Lilypond in Mac OS X Terminal

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:15 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > The whole point was _not_ to have it added to the PATH as it was > supposed to _only_ contain binaries used _internally_ in LilyPond. Ah! Sorry, I'll smack my own forehead :-) ___ lilypond-user ma

Re: 4-Drum Conga Notation in LilyPond

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Eric Pancer wrote: > While writing some conga exercises (for four drums) in Lilypond, I've > found I can get by using the following notes*: > - bd (super tumba) > - toml (tumba) > - sn (conga) > > However, I'm looking for a 4th

Re: Lilypond in Mac OS X Terminal

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Hans Aberg wrote: > On 12 Dec 2012, at 21:16, Eric Pancer wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:14 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >>> The libexec route appears to cater for all of that. We should use bin >>> just for executables supposed

Re: Lilypond in Mac OS X Terminal

On Dec 12, 2012, at 16:57, Hans Aberg wrote: > On 12 Dec 2012, at 23:50, Eric Pancer wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Hans Aberg wrote: >>> On 12 Dec 2012, at 21:16, Eric Pancer wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:14 PM, David Kastr

Re: 4-Drum Conga Notation in LilyPond

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: > 2012/12/12 Eric Pancer : >> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Eric Pancer wrote: [..] >> I've got this working using the following definition: >> >> #(define mydrums '( >> (bassdrum default

Re: Writing to the console (debug info)

On Dec 14, 2012, at 17:05, Olivier Biot wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a way to write text to the console in LilyPond? > > I'd like to display the file currently processed to keep track of problems on > a 60 part etude Use a "-v" flag when running it in Terminal.

Re: 4-Drum Conga Notation in LilyPond

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Eric Pancer wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Thomas Morley > wrote: >> 2012/12/12 Eric Pancer : >>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Eric Pancer wrote: > [..] >>> I've got this working using the followin

Re: 4-Drum Conga Notation in LilyPond

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: >> Is C6 considered "0"? > > Well, here I'm the one who is confused. I never heard "C6" and the > others you mention below. Apologies. "C5" is known as middle C. "C6" is the C in the third space of treble clef. etc.. >> Thank you for the exa

System Vertical Spacing and Lyric Placement

I'm working on the following file but having some issues where formatting tricks don't seem to be working. A couple of questions: 1. How can I increase the veritical space between the systems ? The \paper configuration of "markup-system-spacing #'basic-distance = #20" doesn't seem to really help t

Re: System Vertical Spacing and Lyric Placement

Thank you very much, your suggestions helped the situation. I have two more issues. On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: > 2013/7/9 Eric Pancer : >> I'm working on the following file but having some issues where >> formatting tricks don't seem to be worki