Where to look up explanation of syntax

2016-01-08 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
I downloaded a Lilypond file from the Mutopia site containing Bach's chorale prelude O Mensch Bewein. The first measure contains the following: ef8.*5/6 \mordent [f32 ef f] f8. \trill ef32 f g16 af g f32 ef ef8 g16 f | I searched, but I cannot locate the appropriate location the in the

Compiling a file results in message: Exited with return code -1073741819.

2016-01-25 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Please see the attached file. Go to line 253. The file compiles cleanly up until this point. However, when I try to add more than one note to the line 253, I receive the error message: Exited with return code -1073741819. Please let me know if I am doing something wrong or if there

Re: Subject: Compiling a file results in message: Exited with return code -1073741819

2016-01-25 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
;Re: Contents of lilypond-user digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re:Determining what parameters exist for an item (Thomas Morley) 2. Re:simplifying chromatic scale notation (Urs Liska) 3. Compiling a file results in message: Exited with return code -1073741819. (Josep

How to hide or remove the bars connecting an ossia staff to the right hand staff

2016-01-26 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Hello: I am engraving an organ piece in which I want to add an ossia staff above a measure to indicate how to perform an ornament. I can make the ossia staff appear; however, I cannot determine how to hide or remove the bar lines that connect the ossia staff to the staff for the right hand.

Cannot resolve rest collision: rest direction not set

2016-02-08 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Hello: I receive the warning "cannot resolve rest collision: rest direction not set" when I compile the code listed below. I tried to follow the recommendation in the attached post to avoid the warning: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Resolving-quot-cannot-resolve-rest-col lision-

RE: Cannot resolve rest collision: rest direction not set

2016-02-09 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
. Thanks again. Joe Srednicki -Original Message- From: Brian Barker [mailto:b.m.bar...@btinternet.com] Sent: Monday, February 8, 2016 10:37 PM To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Cc: Joseph N. Srednicki Subject: Re: Cannot resolve rest collision: rest direction not set At 19:26 08/02/2016 -0500

Tie across voices

2016-02-12 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
In the following three-beat example, I am trying to tie the upper-voice note in the second beat with the lower-voice note of the third beat. My example seems to work somewhat, but the notes of the upper and lower voices of the second and third beats do not align vertically as they should. C

RE: Tie across voices

2016-02-13 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Thanks, Nathan. Your solution worked perfectly. Joe Srednicki -Original Message- From: Nathan Ho [mailto:nat...@snappizz.com] Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 10:42 PM To: Joseph N. Srednicki Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org; lilypond-user-bounces+nathan=snappizz@gnu.org Subject: Re: Tie

How do I adjust organ pedal marks vertically?

2016-02-19 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
I am engraving the final movement of Mendelssohn's Organ Sonata 6. This movement contains many slurs. To make some slurs look decent, I must adjust them manually. When I adjust a slur manually in the pedal part, I would also like to adjust the pedal mark. See the example below where I

RE: How do I adjust organ pedal marks vertically?

2016-02-19 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Phil and Pierre: Thanks for your solutions. They both worked for me. Joe Srednicki -Original Message- From: Phil Holmes [mailto:m...@philholmes.net] Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 11:09 AM To: Pierre Perol-Schneider ; Joseph N. Srednicki Cc: lilypond-user Subject: Re: How do I

Font size of pedal marks

2016-02-19 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Is there a command to adjust the size of the pedal marks \rheel, \lheel, \rtoe, \ltoe? Please feel free to point me to the appropriate place in the documentation. I tried Google, but did not retrieve anything helpful. Thanks for your help. Joe Srednicki

RE: Font size of pedal marks

2016-02-19 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Simon and Kieran: Thanks for your useful suggestions. Joe Srednicki -Original Message- From: Kieren MacMillan [mailto:kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca] Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 1:40 PM To: Simon Albrecht Cc: Joseph N. Srednicki ; Lilypond-User Mailing List Subject: Re: Font

How to set the line thickness for slurs and ties globally

2016-02-24 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Would someone be willing to tell me the specific codes or point me to the documentation that explains how to set the line thicknesses of slurs and ties globally? I want to adjust the thicknesses only for ties and slurs and not for any other lines. Snippet http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=3

RE: How to set the line thickness for slurs and ties globally

2016-02-24 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
the thickness of a slur. Thanks again for your help. Joe Srednicki -Original Message- From: Kieren MacMillan [mailto:kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca] Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 11:24 AM To: Joseph N. Srednicki Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List Subject: Re: How to set the line

Organ pedal foot substitution

2016-02-24 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Could someone possibly tell me how to code alternate foot organ pedal substitution as shown in the attached image file attach_a.png? This image is from Dickinson, Clarence. The Technique and Art of Organ Playing. London: H. W. Gray, 1922, p. 117. (Note this book is available from the IMSLP site

Re: Organ pedal foot substitution

2016-02-25 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
/w4ueht4g9tjdozm/attach_a.png?dl=0 Attach_b.png https://www.dropbox.com/s/7wrmc5xqriscyge/attach_b.png?dl=0 Thanks for any suggestions or recommendations. Joe Srednicki From: Joseph N. Srednicki [mailto:jnsredni...@verizon.net] Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 7:46 PM To: 'lilypond

Globally change organ pedal articulations

2016-02-25 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
I would like to change the default organ pedal articulations to those that my teachers customarily use. I found some threads in the mail archive about this issue, but the articles did not describe the specifics of how to make the change globally. I would like to change the following: \ltoe

RE: Globally change organ pedal articulations

2016-02-25 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Hi Kieren: Thanks for your simple but practical solution. Joe -Original Message- From: Kieren MacMillan [mailto:kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca] Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 4:10 PM To: Joseph N. Srednicki Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List Subject: Re: Globally change organ pedal

Changing color when using \draw-line

2016-03-05 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Hello: Can anyone tell me how to change the color when using \draw-line? For example, I want to change the color of the following: rH = \rightHandFinger \markup \concat { \override #'(thickness . 3) \draw-line #'(0 . 3) \hspace #-.2 \override #'(thickness . 3)\draw-

Decreasing horizontal spacing when setting a chant

2016-03-05 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Hello: I am setting a chant using modern notation. What technique would I use to decrease the horizontal spacing in the example below? I looked in the snippets. I also trying adjusting the common shortest duration property, but to no avail. Thanks for any suggestions. Joe Sredni

Cannot reach www.lilypond.org

2016-03-10 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
It is 3:43 P.M. EST in the U.S.A. I have not been able to reach www.lilypond.org for about two hours. I tried two different browsers. I don't think my Internet connection is the issue because I can reach other web sites. Joe Srednicki

Making bar numbers bold

2016-03-13 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
I found the section of the documentation that describes the various overrides and options printing for bar numbers. However, I could not find the command or property to make bar numbers appear in bold. Would someone be willing to tell me the override command? Thanks. Joe Srednicki

FW: Making bar numbers bold

2016-03-13 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Please cancel the attached request. I just found the override: \override Score.BarNumber #'font-series = #'bold Thanks. Joe Srednicki From: Joseph N. Srednicki [mailto:jnsredni...@verizon.net] Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2016 1:34 PM To: 'lilypond-user@gnu.org'

Use a straight tick (single straight quote) for a breath mark

2016-03-21 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Hello: I found the snippet that shows how to change symbol for the \breathe command. See http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=195 Can someone tell me how to change the script value to a straight tick, similar to the straight single-quote character? Would it also be possible to make this ti

RE: Use a straight tick (single straight quote) for a breath mark

2016-03-21 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Thanks, Thomas. This works. Joe Srednicki -Original Message- From: Thomas Morley [mailto:thomasmorle...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 11:06 AM To: Joseph N. Srednicki Cc: lilypond-user Subject: Re: Use a straight tick (single straight quote) for a breath mark 2016-03-21

Make the span bar go from top to bottom through all staves

2016-03-23 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Hello: Please see the attached example of an organ score. Is it possible to make the span bars for the measures to extend through all staves of the system so that the bar lines appear as one solid line from top to bottom? Can someone advise on how to do this? I tried the various op

RE: Make the span bar go from top to bottom through all staves

2016-03-23 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
To: Joseph N. Srednicki ; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Make the span bar go from top to bottom through all staves On 24.03.2016 00:34, Joseph N. Srednicki wrote: > > Is it possible to make the span bars for the measures to extend > through all staves of the system so that the bar lin

How to add padding around whiteout text

2016-03-24 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Hello: Please see the following code example. In this example, I used the \whiteout command so that my markup looks like it interrupts or a layer on top of the spanner bar. Could someone please explain how to add some padding around the text or point me to the location in the documentation or

RE: How to add padding around whiteout text

2016-03-24 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Hi Daniel: I did not receive the error that you mentioned. I compiled with Version 2.19.35. Thanks. Joe Srednicki From: Daniel Birns [mailto:danielbi...@quantumintech.com] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 3:27 PM To: Joseph N. Srednicki Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: How to

RE: How to add padding around whiteout text

2016-03-24 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
markup? Thanks for your help. Joe Srednicki -Original Message- From: Simon Albrecht [mailto:simon.albre...@mail.de] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 5:09 PM To: Daniel Birns ; Joseph N. Srednicki Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: How to add padding around whiteout text On 24.03.2016

RE: How to add padding around whiteout text

2016-03-24 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Please ignore my last message; it crossed with this one. Thanks, Simon. Much appreciated. -Original Message- From: Simon Albrecht [mailto:simon.albre...@mail.de] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 5:07 PM To: Joseph N. Srednicki ; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: How to add padding

How to lengthen tie

2016-03-28 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Please see the attached example. In the second measure, the first tie in the upper voice appears extremely short. Is there a technique to lengthen only this tie? I recall running across something in the documentation or the mail archive on this topic a few weeks ago, but now I cannot

Placement of dots

2016-04-01 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Please see the following example. Note: There have been some recent issues of the mail programs lopping thing off such a final brace when pasting examples. I re-pasted the following example and recompiled it before sending this message. So, I am hoping that it comes through without anything missi

RE: Placement of dots

2016-04-01 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
voice move the dot significantly. Thanks again. Joe Srednicki -Original Message- From: Thomas Morley [mailto:thomasmorle...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 1, 2016 6:32 PM To: Joseph N. Srednicki Cc: lilypond-user Subject: Re: Placement of dots 2016-04-01 22:22 GMT+02:00 Joseph N

Using a tick as a bar line and vertically repositioning it

2017-03-14 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Hello: Can someone help with an answer that I cannot find by searching the Lilypond documentation? In some plainsong settings in the Hymnal 1982, a vertical tick represents a bar line. See the following tiny example. \version "2.19.54" \relative c { \time 2/4 c' c \bar"'" |

RE: Using a tick as a bar line and vertically repositioning it

2017-03-14 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Thanks. This works fine. -Original Message- From: Thomas Morley [mailto:thomasmorle...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 4:16 PM To: Joseph N. Srednicki Cc: lilypond-user Subject: Re: Using a tick as a bar line and vertically repositioning it 2017-03-14 19:57 GMT+01:00 Joseph N

Adding a brace or bracket to indicate an organ manual change

2017-03-23 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Hello: May I ask advice on how to insert a brace or bracket in a score to indicate an organ-manual change? Please see the image that I have inserted. (I am using Outlook, which places the image in the message. If you are using another email application, I hope that the image comes through a

RE: Adding a brace or bracket to indicate an organ manual change

2017-03-23 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Thanks for all three replies. This code works great. Thanks again. From: Guy Stalnaker [mailto:jimmyg...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 6:18 PM To: Pierre Perol-Schneider ; Joseph N. Srednicki Cc: lilypond-user Subject: Re: Adding a brace or bracket to indicate an

RE: Adding a brace or bracket to indicate an organ manual change

2017-03-23 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
gain. Joe Srednicki From: Guy Stalnaker [mailto:jimmyg...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 6:18 PM To: Pierre Perol-Schneider ; Joseph N. Srednicki Cc: lilypond-user Subject: Re: Adding a brace or bracket to indicate an organ manual change God I love the Frescobaldi/Lilypo

RE: Adding a brace or bracket to indicate an organ manual change

2017-03-23 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Hi: To get it to work, I removed the comment. Thanks. Joe Srednicki -Original Message- From: Simon Albrecht [mailto:simon.albre...@mail.de] Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 8:00 PM To: Guy Stalnaker ; Pierre Perol-Schneider ; Joseph N. Srednicki Cc: lilypond-user Subject: Re: Adding a

RE: Adding a brace or bracket to indicate an organ manual change

2017-03-23 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
rsday, March 23, 2017 10:40 PM To: Simon Albrecht ; Pierre Perol-Schneider ; Joseph N. Srednicki Cc: lilypond-user Subject: Re: Adding a brace or bracket to indicate an organ manual change Doh! Those comments were solely for explaining the changes I'd made in the email. I used % because it&

Offset beam positions

2017-04-07 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Hello: May I request some help? I am trying to set the following measure: In my Lilypond code below, I cannot get the beam slope to appear as desired in beats two and three. I tried using the \offset positions #'(x . x) Beam command with various values for the numbers, but cannot

RE: Offset beam positions

2017-04-07 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
-Original Message- From: David Nalesnik [mailto:david.nales...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 7, 2017 8:38 PM To: Kieren MacMillan Cc: Joseph N. Srednicki ; Lilypond-User Mailing List Subject: Re: Offset beam positions On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 7:34 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: > Hi Jos

How to shorten a tail on an eighth note?

2017-04-08 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Hello: See the example below. Is there a technique to shorten the tail of an eight note in such a situation? The other techniques that I have used in this situation are to shift the note on the right more or to lengthen the stem of the note on the left. However, I am wondering if

RE: How to shorten a tail on an eighth note?

2017-04-08 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Thanks, Robert. Your suggestion works. From: Robert Schmaus [mailto:robert.schm...@web.de] Sent: Saturday, April 8, 2017 12:23 PM To: Joseph N. Srednicki Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List Subject: Re: How to shorten a tail on an eighth note? There is a technique to make the flag smaller in

Parallel music, adding a voice, stem not appearing

2016-04-09 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Hello: I am using parallel music. Please see the attached two-measure example to see the issue. I have used four voices up until this point. However, in the second measure, I added a temporary voice for the a flat because it comes in as a fifth voice for two beats. However, the second m

RE: Parallel music, adding a voice, stem not appearing

2016-04-10 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
you or anyone else suggest how to make the tie appear in the soprano c in the two measures? Thanks to anyone who can offer a suggestion. Joe Srednicki From: Andrew Bernard [mailto:andrew.bern...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 9, 2016 11:13 PM To: Joseph N. Srednicki ; lilypond-user

RE: Parallel music, adding a voice, stem not appearing

2016-04-11 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
aligning them, engraving one of Mendelssohn’s organ sonatas in a great teaching exercise. I have encountered and learned to resolve so many issues. Joe Srednicki From: Stanton Sanderson [mailto:stans...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 7:26 AM To: David Kastrup Cc: Joseph N. Srednicki

Question about same-foot organ pedal substitutions

2016-05-11 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Hello I am working on an organ piece I want to notate substitutions from heel to toe and toe to heel on the same foot. I found a message from Kieren MacMillan in the mail archive. The message is dated December 27, 2007, and contains the following: \version "2.11.33" \layout { ragged-ri

RE: Question about same-foot organ pedal substitutions

2016-05-11 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
-Original Message- From: Kieren MacMillan [mailto:kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca] Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 3:55 PM To: Joseph N. Srednicki Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List Subject: Re: Question about same-foot organ pedal substitutions Hi Joe, More recently, Abraham did something nice in

RE: Question about same-foot organ pedal substitutions

2016-05-11 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Thanks, Thomas. This is great! Joe Srednicki -Original Message- From: Thomas Morley [mailto:thomasmorle...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 5:02 PM To: Joseph N. Srednicki Cc: Kieren MacMillan ; Lilypond-User Mailing List Subject: Re: Question about same-foot organ pedal

Shorten a beam stem length

2016-07-01 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Please see the code fragment below. In measure 2, I want to shorten the stems of the first two beamed notes. I tried using \override Stem.detail.beamed-lengths, but I cannot get it to work. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks for any help that you are willing to prov

Changing the color of \rtoe, \ltoe, \heel, and \rheel

2016-10-02 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Hello: I would like to change the color of \ltoe, \rtoe, \lheel, and \rheel to red in a score. Can someone tell me how to do this or point me to the location in the documentation that explains how to do so? Thanks. Joe Srednicki ___ lilyp

Problems installing Version 2.19.49 on Windows 10

2016-10-19 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Hello: I am having issues installing version 2.19.49 on Windows 10. I repeated the installation twice and received the same results. I followed these steps: 1. Uninstall the previous version. 2. Download lilypond-2.19.49-1.mingw.exe. 3. Click lilypond-2.19.49-1.m

RE: Problems installing Version 2.19.49 on Windows 10

2016-10-20 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
:02 AM To: Pierre Perol-Schneider Cc: Joseph N. Srednicki ; lilypond-user Subject: Re: Problems installing Version 2.19.49 on Windows 10 On Thu 20 Oct 2016 at 11:28:08 (+0200), Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: > Hi Joe, > > Try this: This doesn't seem very good advice to me. > -

Follow-up: organ pedal toe-to-heel shift

2016-11-02 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Please see the original message on this subject: http://osdir.com/ml/lilypond-user-gnu/2016-05/msg00210.html Can someone please tell me how to modify the attached code so that right toe-to-heel shift marks are not upside down? For example, the left toe-to-heel shift appears as desired below the