question about font size

Hello, I'm preparing two orchestral works for a competition. The music is ok, but I have problem with title page because I can't see the actual words. Could anyone tell me how Lilypond deal with absolute fontsize (\abs-fontsize)? Is the value for pt or px? In Microsoft Word, it deals with pt. So

Strange harp problem

Hello, I'm composing a piece. The attached harp part is ok until the last two lines of each part. When I comment out them, there is no error. When I leave them to be compiled, the following error appears, and I can't figure out what's wrong at all: programming error: no note heads for the line sp

Re: Strange harp problem

Thank you. Does this mean it's a bug of Lilypond? Regards Haipeng ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

beaming problem

Hello, I'm now composing an orchestral work, in which there are plenty of meter changes such as 5/4 and 6/4. Since I'm blind, I gave part of it to a teacher, and he told me that the beaming in 5/4 and 6/4 is incorrect. He told me the beaming must be clear for performance, so 5/4 must be 3/4+2/4,

Re: beaming problem

Thank you for your explanation, and I can manage how I want now. Regards Haipeng ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

want to report problem of musicxml2ly

Hello, I'm using musicxml2ly to process a large orchestral piece, to see how the composer deals with percussion parts with various kinds of pitched and unpitched instruments switched in the middle of the piece. But musicxml2ly reports lots of problems, and ends up with failure. I remember Reinho

Strange tie problem

Hello, I just completed an 8-minute orchestral piece for an activity. All are ok, except the passage for trombone attached. This is part of the second theme of sonata form, and the log file says there's an unterminated tie. But the tie is in the same voice, with correct pitch tied. I don't know w

Re: Strange tie problem

On 6/24/15, David Kastrup wrote: > Jacques Menu writes: > >> Hello Haipeng, >> >> Replacing r4 by s4 removes the stem problem, but the tie one remains : >> >> << >> { >> c2.\mf\< >> ~ >> c2 >> } >> \new Voice \voiceTwo { s4 g2 ~ g2 } >> >> > > Let me format this d