Layout for dummies (fixing staves distances in a system)

2008-06-10 Thread Jayaratna
Dear members, I am reading this forum since sometimes, as I am doing my first steps in Lilypond. I am making a score in which I have two systems of eight staves each per page (I managed to do that by setting page size to a3 and shrinking it to a4 on printing it: I guess it's not really proper, b

Re: Layout for dummies (fixing staves distances in a system)

2008-06-11 Thread Jayaratna
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Explicit-staff-and-system-positioning#Explicit-staff-and-system-positioning It still looks very obscure to me, but I'll study it thoroughly and if I need some more help I'll write again. Thanks again, Andrea Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote: >

Beaming problem

2008-06-13 Thread Jayaratna
Dear subscribers, Typing this code in a 3/8 measure (version 2.10.33): e8 c16 c' c c I get a very strange strange autobeam: the second c second beam-line is not connected the following ones. The same is happening on these codes in different parts: f8 c16 d c d In this one I get the separatio

Re: Beaming problem

2008-06-14 Thread Jayaratna
\new Staff { \Violinob} >> \new Staff { \Viola} \new Staff { \Continuo} \new PianoStaff <<\cembalo >> >>

Re: Beaming problem

2008-06-14 Thread Jayaratna
I can't say why pasting the code from my file this forum generates errors here: Jayaratna wrote: > << { d'8\rest 8 8 g,8 g' f r8 8 8 }\\{d,8 f d s4. e8 g e }>> > a,8 a' g f a f d d' c > > The error disappears as soon as I edit

How to tie a note in a chord to a note outside a chord

2009-02-07 Thread Jayaratna
Dear subscribers, I am inputting some very complicated polyphonic music for keyboard. Maybe this is a newbie idiotic question, but I cannot understand how to input these two bars: the problem is printing the tied A across the measures while keeping the second one in the same chord with the upper

Re: How to tie a note in a chord to a note outside a chord

2009-02-07 Thread Jayaratna
Thank you, I think it's exactly what I needed! A James E. Bailey-3 wrote: > > > Am 07.02.2009 um 15:50 schrieb Jayaratna: > >> >> Dear subscribers, >> >> I am inputting some very complicated polyphonic music for keyboard. >> Maybe >

Re: How to tie a note in a chord to a note outside a chord

2009-02-07 Thread Jayaratna
Hi Robin, in fact I just came back to the list because I still didn't know how to tie that a: I'm trying your tieWaitForNote, which sounds like should work... Thanks!!! A Robin Bannister wrote: > > Jayaratna wrote: >> This does not seem to work: >> <&l

Re: How to tie a note in a chord to a note outside a chord

2009-02-07 Thread Jayaratna
Robin Bannister wrote: > > c2*1/2^~ > It works! But does this affect midi output? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-tie-a-note-in-a-chord-to-a-note-outside-a-chord-tp21889121p21890270.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: How to tie a note in a chord to a note outside a chord

2009-02-07 Thread Jayaratna
} \\{s2 d,2.}>> } %% James E. Bailey-3 wrote: > > Aside from the tie/stem collision, is this not what you wanted? > \version "2.12.2" > > \new Staff \relative c'' { << { \voiceOne c2~ c4 } \new Voice > { \voiceTwo g4 \voiceOne a_~ a } >>

Strange beaming pattern in 4/4

2009-04-16 Thread Jayaratna
Dear all, I am sorry if this may look like a silly question: I tryed searching but maybe the solution is so simple and yet I can't see it. Typing this: \time 4/4 g''16. (a32) bes8 a16. (bes32) c8 bes16. (a32) g8~ g fis g16. (a32) bes8 f!16. (g32) ees8 d16. (c32) bes8 f'16. (g32) ees8

Re: Strange beaming pattern in 4/4

2009-04-17 Thread Jayaratna
s16. (a32) g8~ g fis > g16. (a32) bes8 f!16. (g32) ees8 d16. (c32) bes8 f'16. (g32) ees8 > } > > Nick > > On Fri 17/04/09 1:18 PM , Jayaratna jayara...@gmail.com sent: > > Dear all, > > I am sorry if this may look like a silly question: I tryed searching &g

Different colours in a single word

2009-06-10 Thread Jayaratna
Dear all, I need to print in red colour the first letter in a word, but the following: \markup {\roman \with-color #(x11-color "red") "M" \with-color #(x11-color "black") "vsicvs"} creates a space between the coloured letter and the rest of the word. Any suggestions? Thank you in advance, Andr

Re: Different colours in a single word

2009-06-10 Thread Jayaratna
ncat. See the docs for details. > > Cheers, > - Graham > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:55:49AM -0700, Jayaratna wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> I need to print in red colour the first letter in a word, but the >> following: >> >> \markup {\roman \

Re: Different colours in a single word

2009-06-10 Thread Jayaratna
% Version is 2.12.2 If I delete the %\include "04_fig.ly" line, Lilypond starts giving errors from the next " character. Thank you, Andrea Trevor Daniels wrote: > > Hi > > This works fine for me. Are you including the title in a \header > { ... } block?

Re: Different colours in a single word

2009-06-11 Thread Jayaratna
Dear all, first of all thenk you for your fantastic supprt. I found the problem, which was in one of the subfiles (I forgot to type a " at the end of a markup :blush:) Trevor, you are certainly right, I don't do a good outlining of my files. Usually I don't modify the header, and when I do I pre

Re: Different colours in a single word

2009-06-11 Thread Jayaratna
In fact now it works on my other computer, which has a 2.12.2 version. Thank you so much, Andrea Mark Polesky wrote: > > > Jayaratna wrote: >> score.ly:38:23: error: stringa di escape sconosciuta: `\concat' >> tagline = \markup >>

Reflect a score

2015-10-26 Thread Jayaratna
Dear Lilypondians, is there a way to flip a score? I also need accidentals to be printed after the notes (so that when the score is flipped the accidentals will appear before notes). \version "2.18.2" \markup{ \score{ \new Staff { \relative c'' {a b cis d}} \layout{} } } Thank you,

Re: Reflect a score

2015-10-26 Thread Jayaratna
It should end up like this: -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Reflect-a-score-tp182757p182758.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Reflect a score

2015-10-26 Thread Jayaratna
Thank you, Pierre! -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Reflect-a-score-tp182757p182762.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.

Notation snippets

2015-12-27 Thread Jayaratna
Dear Lilipondians, I am trying to make a page which shows a series of music symbols, each of them appearing on a standard staff of a given measure. So far I can print clefs and other symbols, but with no staff lines. Any idea on how to make this? Thank you, A \version "2.18.2" \paper { in

Re: Notation snippets

2015-12-27 Thread Jayaratna
I hope these will be understandable: workex.ly It should be like this, but I can't extend the lines over the clefs. I also need the music symbols to be centered with

Re: Notation snippets

2015-12-27 Thread Jayaratna
I'm downloading the newest version. Hope I can keep both versions on my system. In any case, is it possible to center the last notes with the staff lines? Thank you, A -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Notation-snippets-tp185122p185128.html Sent from the U

Re: Notation snippets

2015-12-27 Thread Jayaratna
Thank you, Pierre and Schneidy, it works. What about mensural notes as well? Mensural flags are not suupported by \note-by-number... :( %% note \combine \my-staff \translate #'(2 . 0) \combine \override #'(style . petrucci) \override #'(flag-style . mensural-flag ) \note-by-numb

Re: Notation snippets

2015-12-27 Thread Jayaratna
It does not support the proper flag with bigger noteheads :_( Thank you anyway. A %% note \combine \my-staff \translate #'(0 . 0) \combine \override #'(style . mensural) %\override #'(flag-style . mensural-flag ) \note-by-number #5 #0 #UP \translate #'(1 . 0) \combine \ov

Re: Notation snippets

2015-12-27 Thread Jayaratna
Hello, Harm, all notehad styles are supported, but petrucci, semipetrucci and blackpetrucci styles do not give the proper flag: maybe I should post this on the bugs list. \version "2.19.34" my-staff = \markup\stencil #(make-

Re: Notation snippets

2015-12-27 Thread Jayaratna
Hello Simon, thanks for the advice, I've got both version running on Frescobaldinow. :D Ciao, Andy -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Notation-snippets-tp185122p185148.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Notation snippets

2015-12-27 Thread Jayaratna
Thank you so much, Harm. Maybe I could/should draw the glyphs for petrucci style flags. They should not be too much work if I can start from a draft. Andy -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Notation-snippets-tp185122p185153.html Sent from the User mailing

Re: Notation snippets

2015-12-29 Thread Jayaratna
It's only 24 glyphs, not too much work. I can export them in svg format, but I'd need two to know on what original the petrucci noteheads have been drawn after. I've never made a font, I guess the glyphs are to be precisely placed on their font slots. Stems will have to be reduced.

Re: Notation snippets

2016-01-03 Thread Jayaratna
Ouch, I thought you could import glyphs from svg: my knowledge of Metafont is = 0 -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Notation-snippets-tp185122p185496.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __

In parts but not in the score

2010-07-25 Thread Jayaratna
Dear members, I apologize if this matter should have been discussed earlier. I tried to find posts about this but maybe my English language skills are not enough to make the right search. I am copying a score because I need to make parts: I need to put some texts and other marks on single parts

New piece header in the same score

2010-07-25 Thread Jayaratna
Dear members, I apologize if this matter should have been discussed earlier. I tried to find posts about this too but maybe my English language skills are not enough to make the right search. My score has a double bar (\bar "||") before a cadenza, but the piece does not end and goes on with a d

Re: In parts but not in the score

2010-07-25 Thread Jayaratna
Jul 25, 2010 at 12:44:42AM -0700, Jayaratna wrote: >> >> I am copying a score because I need to make parts: I need to put some >> texts >> and other marks on single parts but I would like them not to appear on >> every >> line of the score, but just at the top of

Re: In parts but not in the score

2010-07-25 Thread Jayaratna
lected snippets section after \mark is > introduced in the Notation Reference > > On Jul 25, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Jayaratna wrote: > >> >> Dear Graham, >> >> thank you for your prompt answer. >> >> I just have a further question: can a \mark be pri

Re: New piece header in the same score

2010-07-25 Thread Jayaratna
> Ciao Andrea, > > I'm not sure of what you are asking. > > If you write a minimal example: > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/web/tiny-examples.it.html > > you'll make our job easier :) > > > Il giorno dom, 25/07/2010 alle 00.53 -0700,

Re: In parts but not in the score

2010-07-25 Thread Jayaratna
Thank you, Reinold, Thank you for your reply: I guess I'll hara-kiri making duplicate files for parts and score... :( Andrea, Venice, Italy Bugzilla from reinh...@kainhofer.com wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 25. Juli 2010, um 14:30:36 schrieb Jayaratna: >> thank you for you

Custom fonts don't show in score when staff size is modified in the score block

2010-07-25 Thread Jayaratna
Dear members, again I apologize if this should have been discussed previously. When I try to reduce the global staff size, music elements are not scaled accordingly. Therefore I solved it by adding #(layout-set-staff-size 20) in the score block. Now the scaling works properly, but custom fonts a

Re: Custom fonts don't show in score when staff size is modified in the score block

2010-07-25 Thread Jayaratna
Thank you, Xavier, I hope it will be mended sometimes. Ciao, Andrea, Venice, Italy Xavier Scheuer wrote: > > 2010/7/25 Jayaratna : > >> Dear members, >> >> again I apologize if this should have been discussed previously. >> >> When I try to reduce th

Re: New piece header in the same score

2010-07-25 Thread Jayaratna
> 2010/7/25 Jayaratna : > >> Ciao Federico, >> >> here is a small example: I need to create a new piece title after the >> double bar. I think James is right, I will have to use markups: I am >> not really confident with these, that's why I try to avoid

Re: New piece header in the same score

2010-07-26 Thread Jayaratna
Thanks again for all your valuable advice. Andrea Xavier Scheuer wrote: > > 2010/7/25 Jayaratna : > >> Dear Xavier, >> >> thank you. I tried to put the code you suggested in the first staff, >> and it works, but the font is bigger than in the initial one. &

Re: New piece header in the same score

2010-07-26 Thread Jayaratna
t; \fill-line { \line { "2. Variation" }} > } > > \score { > << > music for the second section goes here >>> > } > > etc. > > -- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:09:33 +0200 >> From: Xavier Scheuer >

Re: In parts but not in the score

2010-07-26 Thread Jayaratna
Dear Neil and Reinhold, this is far too advanced for me. Even trying to copy and paste your codes gives me errors (I think it's the \with thing). Anyway in my case \mark will suffice: I will study your examples in depths later, Thank you again, Andrea n.puttock wrote: > > On 25 July 2010 15

\partial with full measure rests

2010-09-07 Thread Jayaratna
Dear all, I have been checking old posts for this same problems, but my case is slightly different, and I would like to ask your opinion/advice on this. I have a score ending with a partial measure, and some parts do not play on that measure. For instance part a ends like this: \time 2/2

Lyrics slips under quotations from other instruments

2010-10-21 Thread Jayaratna
Dear all, I am asked to insert a few bars of the first violin part on a soprano staff to help the singer when there are many measures of silence before his/her entrance. I do this by adding in my vocal part: << {\tiny \quoteDuring #"violinoa" { s2.*3 } } \\ {\no

Re: Lyrics slips under quotations from other instruments

2010-10-22 Thread Jayaratna
Thank you very much, I didn't find this in the documentation. Maybe I should have looked elsewhere rather than in 'Score and parts'. Thank you again, Andrea Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 21. Oktober 2010, um 15:54:27 schrieb Jayaratna: >> I am asked

Dotted breve (and longa etc.)

2014-08-18 Thread Jayaratna
Dear members, how do I print a dotted beve? I need it for a mensural ligatura. Thank you, AM -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Dotted-breve-and-longa-etc-tp165612.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Dotted breve (and longa etc.)

2014-08-18 Thread Jayaratna
Yes, c\breve. gives out an error. A -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Dotted-breve-and-longa-etc-tp165612p165622.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lily

Re: Dotted breve (and longa etc.)

2014-08-18 Thread Jayaratna
Dear Simon, I updated my system and now it works! Thank you! A -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Dotted-breve-and-longa-etc-tp165612p165624.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypo

Lilyglyphs dummy

2014-08-19 Thread Jayaratna
Dear members, I am not sure this question belongs to this forum. I am using LilyGlyphs on a LateX document, and so far it worked wonderfully. Finally now I need to insert something more complex than the predefined commands, and I don't know where to start. Anyone could tell me how to make a mini

Custom time signature symbols

2014-09-02 Thread Jayaratna
Dear Lilypond experts, I need to type a series of examples of mensural music, in which three parts (Cantus, Altus & Bassus) contain 3 semibreves per bar, one part (Tenor) contains three breves per bar. I am notating it using 3/1 and 6/1 fractions, but I would like to use timesig.neomensural98 (str

Re: Custom time signature symbols

2014-09-02 Thread Jayaratna
Dear Pierre, thank you, it works wonderfully. I just modified the tenor like this: \new Staff \with { \override TimeSignature.stencil = #(lambda (grob) (grob-interpret-markup grob #{ \markup\concat { \musicglyph #"timesig.neomensural32"

Re: Custom time signature symbols

2014-09-02 Thread Jayaratna
Schneidy wrote > Forget \magnify #1, you do not neet it. > Cheers, > Pierre Of course! -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Custom-time-signature-symbols-tp166005p166013.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___

Use my roman font digits for time signature

2014-09-04 Thread Jayaratna
Dear members, I'd like to use my roman font digits for proportional symbols in a Renaissance score. Ho do I replace the Feta font digits with my Roman Garamond ones? I've looked at this post, but it does not work with replacing my font: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Change-time-signature

Re: Use my roman font digits for time signature

2014-09-05 Thread Jayaratna
Dear Simon, thank you for your answer. Your suggestion works, but I need to insert the change in the middle of a part. If I put your override code in the \with part, it overrides also my neomensural initial time signature. \version "2.18.2" \new Staff { \relative c' { %Tenor

Re: Use my roman font digits for time signature

2014-09-05 Thread Jayaratna
Dear Phil, this is simple and perfectly working. I'm also trying to magnify it a little adding part of Simon's code \once \override TimeSignature.font-size = 3 , but my proportion does not show any increase in size. Thank you, A -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nab

Fraction with no line

2014-09-11 Thread Jayaratna
Dear lilyexperts,, is there a function for a fraction without a separation line to be used in \markup? Something like: \markup { \fractionwithnohline 21 5 } Thank you, A -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Fraction-with-no-line-tp166333.html Sent from th

Re: Fraction with no line

2014-09-11 Thread Jayaratna
Thank you all for your nice answers, I wonder if I will ever be able to program these codes so easily as you. This is the difference between the suggested codes. Which one would you use? A -- View this message in context: http:/

lilypond-book cuts out the bottom or top parts

2014-10-02 Thread Jayaratna
Dear lily-experts, I wonder if this is a known issue. The phenomenon happens sistematically when I don't have objects down to the first line of my staves or up at the top. Suggestions? -- View this mes

Double clef (canon)

2014-10-10 Thread Jayaratna
Dear Lilyexperts, I have to reproduce the following part. I have no idea on how to type the double clef, and I can't figure out anything from the documentation. Any suggestion? Thank you, A -- View

Re: Double clef (canon)

2014-10-10 Thread Jayaratna
Dear Harm, yes, there is a breve rest after the first clef in the first line. It means the part with that clef have to wait one breve, while the part following the second clef starts first. Actually that rest is the reason why I did not choose to just make a new clef with a \markup \concat glyph.

Re: Double clef (canon)

2014-10-10 Thread Jayaratna
Hello Harm, I am going to hack your code further to adapt it to my usual mensural layout. But it works. I need time to understand everything you've made but definitely thank you. As far as I got it, you defined a commando for adding a clef next to the original, and another one to add the cleff aft

Re: Double clef (canon)

2014-10-12 Thread Jayaratna
Hi Pierre, I guess your suggestion should better the note spacing. I have to experiment on it though. Thank you, Andrea -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Double-clef-canon-tp167389p167447.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___

Re: Double clef (canon)

2014-10-12 Thread Jayaratna
Hi Harm, I don't really have a personal setup for mensural music. Recently I begun a project that involves a lot of mensural notation, therefore I am still learning and noticing . Usually I adjust flaws when they occur, just within the notation rather than on the layout level, but I guess this is

Can I \markup \concat more than one file in a row?

2014-10-29 Thread Jayaratna
Dear Lilyexperts, I have a series of short scores that I need to print all in a row, tight to each other but with a little white space in between, more or less like this: I see it is possible to concat s

Re: Can I \markup \concat more than one file in a row?

2014-10-29 Thread Jayaratna
Just experimenting. If I write: it works. But this gives errors: To get it working I have to move the layout block: But I can't move my layout block inside my included files. Is this the problem? -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Can-I-markup-concat-

Re: Can I \markup \concat more than one file in a row?

2014-10-29 Thread Jayaratna
Hi JM, I edited out the tags from both my entries, thanks -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Can-I-markup-concat-more-than-one-file-in-a-row-tp168064p168071.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __

Re: Can I \markup \concat more than one file in a row?

2014-10-29 Thread Jayaratna
Pierre, thank you for your solution. I understand how it works, and it is brilliant and simple. As far as I understand it is not possible to include a working (one which gives a pdf output when run) lilypond file in a \markup environment. This means I will have to edit all my scores and subsequen

Re: Can I \markup \concat more than one file in a row?

2014-10-29 Thread Jayaratna
By the way how do I get linebreaks inside a \concat of several scores? -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Can-I-markup-concat-more-than-one-file-in-a-row-tp168064p168077.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Double barline with white filling

2014-10-29 Thread Jayaratna
Dear Lilyexperts, can I customize a double barline \bar"||" so that the space between the two lines is white and not transparent? This would make two consecutive bars to appear as separate file. Thank you, Andrea -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Double-ba

Re: Double barline with white filling

2014-10-29 Thread Jayaratna
Hi Pierre, Yes, I guess this is the easiest way to have Lilypond setting the line breaks. I just tweaked a little your code, gap = \mark\markup { \with-color #white \with-dimensions #'(0 . 0) #'(0 . 0) \filled-box #'(-.25 . .25) #'(-5.5 . 0) #0 } and removed %\override BarLine.kern = #9.7

Lilyglyphs

2014-10-31 Thread Jayaratna
I am using Urs Liska's LilyGlyphs on a LateX document, and so far it worked wonderfully. Finally now I need to insert something more complex than the predefined commands, and I don't know where to start. Anyone could tell me how to make a minim with mensural head? I need to understand how to dra

Re: Lilyglyphs

2014-10-31 Thread Jayaratna
Dear Urs, thank you for helping me in this. I have a TexLive distro installed on a Lubuntu os. Thanks, Andrea -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Lilyglyphs-tp168113p168187.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _

Re: Where to Download the New Music Fonts?

2014-11-02 Thread Jayaratna
Very interesting developements here. I love Lilypond! I am fine with the default font at the moment, just wondering if any of these fonts has specific improvements for ancient notation engraving. Thank you, A -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Where-to-Down

Re: Where to Download the New Music Fonts?

2014-11-02 Thread Jayaratna
Let alone the music spacing, I think the diamond note heads are fare too small, in general. This is taken on a 12pt score magnified at 180%, default lilypond engraving: Look at the quavers flags, and com

Re: Where to Download the New Music Fonts?

2014-11-02 Thread Jayaratna
Interesting stuff, I should try it. I guess I'll wait for the 2.19 version to become stable and try some different fonts. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Where-to-Download-the-New-Music-Fonts-tp165035p168305.html Sent from the User mailing list archive a

How to prevent natural signs from being printed when the key signature changes

2014-11-06 Thread Jayaratna
Dear Lilyfriends, I am following the steps from the notation manual at this location: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-pitches#key-signature My code is: \version "2.18.2" \score { \relative c' { \key f \major c d e f \set Staff.printKeyCancellation = ##f \clef sop

Re: How to prevent natural signs from being printed when the key signature changes

2014-11-06 Thread Jayaratna
Ok, that one was a dummy example I made to see if the 'error' happened in a context different from the one I have in my file. Maybe it would just be good to add Trevor's explanation to the website. I actually wanted to copy the following score: I just decided to keep the f key.

Tweaking key signature spacing

2014-11-07 Thread Jayaratna
Dear Lilyfriends, In the following code I need to reduce the space between the clef and the key signature (with scaled units). Thanks for your help, A \version "2.18.2" mytimesigv = { \override Staff.TimeSignature.stencil = #(lambda (grob) (grob-interpret-markup grob #{

Forcing Litlypond-book

2014-11-17 Thread Jayaratna
Dear members, I have a group of .ly files that I need to update because o some changes I have made on a layout file which is included in some files of my document (not all of them). Executing lilypond-book gives no updating, because the files themselves have not been changed. Is there a way to for

Re: Forcing Litlypond-book

2014-11-17 Thread Jayaratna
Thank you, Jacques, touch is enough for my needs at present. Andrea -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Forcing-Lilypond-book-tp168763p168768.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond

Midline system bracket

2014-11-18 Thread Jayaratna
Dear Lilypondians, is it possible to display a system bracket midline? Here is a working example: \version "2.18.2" global = { \override Staff.Clef.full-size-change = ##t \override Score.BreakAlignment #'break-align-orders = #( make-vector 3 '(

Re: Midline system bracket

2014-11-18 Thread Jayaratna
Thank you, Pierre, Very helpful, as always! :D I'll try to adapt that snippet and get back if I have problems. Andrea -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Midline-system-bracket-tp168813p168815.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Midline system bracket

2014-11-18 Thread Jayaratna
Yes, I need help, sorry. How would you make a bracket instead of a brace in this function of yours: braceBar = #(define-music-function (parser location bracExt)(number?) (define ((braceBarLine markup) grob) (ly:stencil-combine-at-edge (ly:bar-line::print grob) X LEFT (gro

Double incipit (was midline system bracket)

2014-11-19 Thread Jayaratna
Dear Lilypondians, I am trying to adapt this code by Pierre to my needs: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-05/msg00379.html So far I have made this: Three things I need to adjust: 1) the brace needs to

Re: Double incipit (was midline system bracket)

2014-11-19 Thread Jayaratna
Awesome, but I have more than 50 such snippets to aggregate... -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Double-incipit-was-midline-system-bracket-tp168820p168823.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __

Re: Double incipit (was midline system bracket)

2014-11-19 Thread Jayaratna
It should work. I don't see any such extremes in the music I need to prepare, but, for the record, look at what could happen: doubleincipit-2.ly --

Re: Double incipit (was midline system bracket)

2014-11-19 Thread Jayaratna
Sorry again, how do you get line breaks? This does not help \markuplist { \justified-lines { \concat { \myincipit \myincipit} } } -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Double-incipit-was-midline-system-bracket-tp168820p168827.html Sent from the User mailing

Re: Double incipit (was midline system bracket)

2014-11-19 Thread Jayaratna
A lot!!! Hope my publisher will not change my line-width, but today a big gap was filled. Time to enter the music. Thank you so much, Pierre Andrea -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Double-incipit-was-midline-system-bracket-tp168820p168830.html Sent from t

Setting note durations

2014-11-21 Thread Jayaratna
Dear Lilypondians, I can't find anything about this in the Notation Manual, except this line: breveTP = #(ly:make-duration -1 0 3/2) Which makes the duration of a breve 3/2 its usual value. Where do I find a table with all the other note durations names (is it something like crotchetTP, quaverTP

Re: bottom of EPS output cut off

2014-11-21 Thread Jayaratna
It's a known bug: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=720 I found this workaround: I save my example as a pdf. Then I crop it typing this in the commandline pdftops -eps myfile.pdf cat filename.eps | ps2eps > filename_cut.eps HTH Andrea -- View this message in context: htt

Re: Setting note durations

2014-11-21 Thread Jayaratna
Thank you, Graham and Guoguocuozuoduo, I didn't get it was a setup variable (maybe working late at night doesn't help) and finally I found make-duration in the manual (maybe google doesn't work well at night either). So it's just a variable, but wonderfully it works like a new duration: \version

Multi-page markup: programming error

2010-11-21 Thread Jayaratna
Dear members, this seems to be something that has not been discussed yet. I am writing a Postface in two languages, so I made my own titles (using \markup) and put my texts inside a \markuplines section at the end of my score. Lilypond says: programming error: FT_Load_Sfnt_Table (): error. htt

Re: Italic bar numbers

2011-02-07 Thread Jayaratna
Thank you so much, this solves my problem! A Mike Solomon-2 wrote: > > On Feb 7, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Jayaratna wrote: > >> >> Dear members, >> >> I have been asked to print bar numbers in italic fontface. >> I checked the documentation and this forum

Italic bar numbers

2011-02-07 Thread Jayaratna
Dear members, I have been asked to print bar numbers in italic fontface. I checked the documentation and this forum, but if I've not missed it, i could find no help. Any suggestion? Thanks, Andrea -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Italic-bar-numbers-tp30865628p30865628.h

Expressive marks with parentheses

2011-07-20 Thread Jayaratna
Dear members, I need to print parentheses around a Staccatissimo mark. I found how to create dynamics with parentheses in Lilypond snippets. I think it's very similar with other expressive marks, but can't find how to do it. Thank you for your help, Andrea -- View this message in context: ht

Expressive marks with parentheses

2011-07-20 Thread Jayaratna
Dear members, I need to print parentheses around a Staccatissimo mark. I found how to create dynamics with parentheses in Lilypond snippets. I think it's very similar with other expressive marks, but can't find how to do it. Thank you for your help, Andrea -- View this message in context: ht

Script priority

2011-10-01 Thread Jayaratna
Dear subscribers, this issue will sound already answered, but I couldn't find anything on searching, so, please, forgive me in this case. In the following small example I'd like the staccatissimo to appear outside the slur. I tried several \override scripts, but with no results. Thank you for yo

Zigzag slurs

2013-09-16 Thread Jayaratna
Dear subscribers, I need to make something similar to this. Any clues? Thanks for your help, A -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Zigzag-slurs-tp150880.html Sent from the User mailing list ar

Re: Zigzag slurs

2013-09-16 Thread Jayaratna
Dear Pierre, thank you, this is exactly what I needed. I still have to decide if I want the thicker or the thinner one. A -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Zigzag-slurs-tp150880p150886.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __

Re: Zigzag slurs

2013-09-16 Thread Jayaratna
Dear Urs, i don't know how to say it in English: on a flute it should be a kind of staccato made with no tongue, using the diaphragm, almost like a rithmical vibrato. I hope it makes sense. A -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Zigzag-slurs-tp150880p150885.h

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