Re: Linux question

2008-12-20 Thread M Watts
Rob Canning wrote: Ralph Palmer wrote: Hi - I realize this is marginally on topic, and I apologize if it causes anyone distress. i think this is on topic as many users might be interested in GNU/Linux environments which are lilypond friendly - so i post back to list too :) Indeed so; it's

Re: 2 muisc + tablature in 2 staves

2008-12-21 Thread M Watts
Grateful Frog wrote: Thanks for that bit! I'm sorry if I'm asking so many noobie questions, but my question is not so much about the chords, but about the notes. In the example below, you see that I have to type the same notes in both staves, i.e. c2 c2 g'4 g4 g4 g4 d1. I'm trying to find a

Re: beam settings

2008-12-22 Thread M Watts
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: \set Score.beatGrouping = #'(1 1 1 1 1 1) This is way easier than using several lines like: #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 6 8) 1 8) or similar. Also if you need to switch the tuplet numbers on and off a lot, you could make a shorthand for it, like

Re: question about transposing an interval of a 4th

2008-12-24 Thread M Watts
Tim Reeves wrote: > Umm... yeah. The fact that he thinks this answers the question > gives me *less* confidence that he knows what he's talking about. > If he wanted it a perfect fourth lower, then \transpose does the > job. And normally when somebody says "a fourth lower", they mean > a perf

Re: Season's Greetings

2008-12-25 Thread M Watts
Walter Hofmeister wrote: I just want to wish this list all the best for the Holiday Season and the new year. I second that -- Happy Christmas to all Thanks for all the help that has been offered throughout the year. People on this list who generously give their time to solve problems help

Re: Issue 714 in lilypond: let the .ly file specify the output filename

2008-12-28 Thread M Watts
2. Could I ask the developers that maybe this should be implemented as /outputfile "" As the name is likely to get used for the graphical score out .pdf, .png etc. and will probably also be used as the name for the .mid(i) file outputs. Or would you want to do this with properties, e.g. /l

Re: Diatonic/modal transposition function

2008-12-28 Thread M Watts
John Mandereau wrote: Hello, This email is a follow-up to http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-12/msg00591.html I started a new thread because I'm finally not sure whether the code below answers the initial question. I finally managed to write, debug, clean up and document diaton

Re: midi keyboard input

2008-12-31 Thread M Watts
Laura Conrad wrote: (This is in Ubuntu 8.10 linux.) I can use midi-input-mode in emacs to enter lilypond notes with my left hand, and the durations on the numeric keypad with my right hand. I can set up qsynth with jackd so that I get audio for the notes I play on the MIDI keyboard. But if I h

Re: save generated files to a separate directory

2008-12-31 Thread M Watts
Francisco Vila wrote: 2008/12/31 chip : Thanks. One more question - what do you use for your .pdf reader? I've tried close to a dozen different readers and only one has a reload option, but it lacks a status bar at the bottom of the window (therefore no line numbers when mousing over the note

Re: midi keyboard input

2008-12-31 Thread M Watts
Dave Phillips wrote: M Watts wrote: > Unfortunately, the link to Hans Lub's site (author of midi-input mode) > from linux-sound.org is dead http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/software/ A moment with Google and we find this updated URL: http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck

Re: change temporarily to custom clef

2008-12-31 Thread M Watts
Trevor Daniels wrote: Alternatively, Notation Reference 5.5.3 Modifying stencils, might be even closer to what you want. Trevor - Original Message - From: "Orm Finnendahl" To: Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:56 AM Subject: change temporarily to custom clef Hi, in contempor

Re: warning: barcheck failed at: -5/8... but... WHERE?

2009-01-01 Thread M Watts
Alberto Simões wrote: Hello I am having a strange error about barchecks. Current version of the document is at http://eremita.di.uminho.pt/~ambs/piano+voz.ly (please select in the browser encoding as utf8). I just did a quick wget for your file. I get similar errors in different places,

Pdf Toolkit on Fedora 9 and 10

2009-01-03 Thread M Watts
Pdf Toolkit (http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/) is a handy commandline tool for manipulating pdfs. It's useful for extracting pages from Lilypond-generated pdfs; adding pretty titlepages made with (ahem) other apps; inserting the odd page of real Lilypond output into pdfs made with OOo; and alter

Re: using Ramdisk

2009-01-04 Thread M Watts
Thomas Fehr wrote: Hi I'd like to use Lilypond in an interactive music learning program where short response times are needed. I think running Lilypond on a ramdisk could help. Does anyone know how to do that? - Thomas Working on Lilypond files in a ramdisk (which is not exactly what you a

Re: Missing petrucci-f clef (and other missing clefs)

2009-01-04 Thread M Watts
Michael Lauer wrote: I don't know what Petrucci actually used. Obviously, he used the latest stable release of Lilypond...;) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: using Ramdisk

2009-01-04 Thread M Watts
Thomas Fehr wrote: Hi I'd like to use Lilypond in an interactive music learning program where short response times are needed. I think running Lilypond on a ramdisk could help. Does anyone know how to do that? - Thomas I mucked up part of my previous mail -- it should read: To do this a

Re: Chord names with I, IV, V, etc.

2009-01-11 Thread M Watts
Geoffrey Prewett wrote: Hi, I've recently begun using lilypond to make lead sheets. The songs I play have a tendency to get transposed to different keys, depending on the situation, so I would like to put the meta-chord (or whatever I, ii, IV, V, etc. are supposed to be called) instead of the c

Re: Long compilation times

2009-01-12 Thread M Watts
Cameron Horsburgh wrote: I've noticed scores compile much quicker on much lower specced machines, Indeed so, my 32 bit 1.6Ghz with 512 meg ram takes 4 minutes 39 seconds -- no swapsies either. >time lilypond score.ly GNU LilyPond 2.12.1 Processing `score.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music...

Re: Thin bars

2009-01-16 Thread M Watts
Fibonacci Prower wrote: Hello, Simply put, I find the default bars in lilypond too thick I find the "default bars", and other output, exactly the right weight when it's 3 feet away on my music stand! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@

Re: Trying to start once again...

2009-01-18 Thread M Watts
Michael Falkenburg wrote: mich...@michael-desktop:~/Desktop$ lilypond 6_wheeled_cycle.ly GNU LilyPond 2.12.1 Processing `6_wheeled_cycle.ly' Parsing... 6_wheeled_cycle.ly:1:8: error: quoted string expected after \version \version =2.12.1-1 6_wheeled_cycle.ly:1:9: error: syntax error, unex

Re: Markup from HTML

2009-01-20 Thread M Watts
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: Hi, does anyone of you have a script or a way to convert from (simple) html to markup like this: This is a melisma. To get: \markup { "This is a " \concat { "me" \bold \italic "lis" "ma." } } sed would do the job, but I'm too hazy on it to offer a sol

Re: Ly to SVG

2009-01-25 Thread M Watts
Givaldo de Cidra wrote: Hi,. In version 2.10 I used the command line - convert ly to svg: $ lilypond -b svg file.ly But with the new version 2.12 I couldn't to convert. Someone can help me? Change the -b to -f. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lil

Re: Why can't I post here using email

2009-01-28 Thread M Watts
Jonathan Kulp wrote: I use Thunderbird and post to the list all the time without problems. Me too -- it just works. I take it the OP's problem is solved, because his message got through! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http:/

Re: Why a \score inside \markup doesn't allow breaks?

2009-01-29 Thread M Watts
Risto Vääräniemi wrote: Hi again, Has no-one else encountered this issue? BR, Risto 2009/1/21 Risto Vääräniemi : I was wondering why a \score inside \markup doesn't allow breaks. If I insert a \break everything after it is ignored. If I want to have a multi-line piece inside a \markup I

Re: Tagline in all pages

2009-01-29 Thread M Watts
Ezequiel Sierra wrote: How can i place the tagline and copyright in all pages? Mostly taken from LSR snippet 366 by John Mandereau: - \version "2.12.1" \paper { oddFooterMarkup = \markup { \with-url #"http://lilypond.org/web/"; \fill-line{ \center-column {

Re: Persian accidentals

2009-01-29 Thread M Watts
Kees van den Doel wrote: Is there any way to print the koron (60cents flat) and sori (40 cent sharp)? I've defined these pitch alterations by modifying makam.ly but they should really be printed according to the Persian notation. koron = upside down flat, with a triangular body like |> sori = l

Re: Turning off shape notes

2009-01-29 Thread M Watts
Carl Peterson wrote: I'm using shape notes in some music I'm writing. There is one part of the music that needs to be notated as spoken. However, when I apply the override code as given in the documentation, I only get shape notes. Is there some command that I have to put in to turn shape notes

Re: svg, inkscape, fonts

2009-01-30 Thread M Watts
Matthieu Jacquot wrote: Hello, I use the pdf2svg script and then load svg files in Inkscape, it works pretty well... Works well indeed -- all notes, lines, fonts etc. just as they were in the pdf, in my quick test anyway (Inkscape 0.46 on Fedora 10). Trying to load Lilypond pdfs into 0.46

Re: \once and shortcuts

2009-01-30 Thread M Watts
Nick Payne wrote: Why is it that I can use, for example: \once \override Slur #'direction = #DOWN or \once \override Slur #'direction = #UP but \once \slurDown or \once \slurUp Generates a syntax error. The same happens with stemUp and stemDown, tieUp and tieDown, etc. I'm using 2.12.2. N

Re: scheme - notes as variables

2009-01-30 Thread M Watts
Rob Canning wrote: perl looks neat though "the swiss army chainsaw of languages" i heard it refered to as :)- In this case, a Practically Elegant Realistic Language was better than a Scarcely Comprehensible Highly Eclectic Markup Enigma. ___ lilypon

Re: svg, inkscape, fonts

2009-01-30 Thread M Watts
Francisco Vila wrote: Great :-( As pdf2svg uses poppler to convert pdf to svg, it suffers of the same problem with Thick barlines as evince does, see attached png which is a screenshot of inkscape editing a simple { c'1 c' \bar "|." } As reported on another thread, Inkscape has a bug that won't

Re: svg, inkscape, fonts

2009-01-30 Thread M Watts
Francisco Vila wrote: Great :-( As pdf2svg uses poppler to convert pdf to svg, it suffers of the same problem with Thick barlines as evince does, see attached png which is a screenshot of inkscape editing a simple { c'1 c' \bar "|." } As reported on another thread, Inkscape has a bug that won't

Re: Installing Lilly pad

2009-02-02 Thread M Watts
William Yeater wrote: we then typed in: sh lilypond-X.Y.Z.linux-x86.sh We got the no such command. Just type sh lil and press the TAB key -- the shell will complete the correct file name for you. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.

Re: libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.9' not found

2009-02-04 Thread M Watts
Jonathan Kulp wrote: wing wrote: hi, i am trying to run lilypond under some application. However, i got the following error: lilypond: /usr/lib/mozart/platform/linux-i486/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.9' not found (required by lilypond) Since i am a newbie on linux, i am not sure

Re: Tremolo / tuplet

2009-02-06 Thread M Watts
Zbyněk Burget wrote: lilypond 2.10.33 (soory) Perhaps that's the problem. This works fine with 2.12.2 -- it shows the triplet number by default, so I think it does what you want. \version "2.12.2" test = { \relative c'' { c4-. \times 2/3 { \repeat "tremolo" 3 c8 } c4-. \times 2/3 {

Re: Bug with missing 16th lines

2009-02-06 Thread M Watts
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Maarten, I'm posting this bug here Not sure this can really be called a "bug"… your input syntax is somewhat confusing. In particular, it looks like you want polyphony, but aren't actually coding polyphonic voices (which would require a \\). Here is a possible m

Re: songbook from Lily scores

2009-02-06 Thread M Watts
Francisco Vila wrote: 2009/2/6 Zoltan Kota : I have been using Lily for a year now, and I have several music scores as separate lily files. I would like to make a songbook including them, with cover page, table of contents, correct page numbering, etc. How should I start? What sectiones shoul

Re: "ignoring between-system-padding"

2009-02-06 Thread M Watts
Tom Hall wrote: Hello List I have a generous between-system-padding = #6 for my score, but this gets overriden when the pdf is created, with the following message: warning: Can't fit systems on page -- ignoring between-system-padding Is there a way to maintain the system padding I want, at the

Re: Tremolo / tuplet

2009-02-07 Thread M Watts
Zbyněk Burget wrote: Solved by upgrade to lily 2.*13*.2 Thanks all We'll expect some great bugfixes and cool new features from you then! ;) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: strange error message with tuplet

2009-02-07 Thread M Watts
Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear lilypond-users, when compiling one of my scores I get the following error message, which I don't understand: musik/musik_ab115.ly:63:16: warning: No tuplet to end s8\fp\< s\f\> \times 4/6 { s32*5\p\< s 32\!} \pedtrem s4...\ff \startTextSpan s32 \stop

Re: My solution to rhythmic slashes and midi playback

2009-02-07 Thread M Watts
Brian wrote: Hope this helps somebody, I've been trying to get a system going for my slashes and finally found something that works! Good candidate for the LSR. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listin

Re: Starting lyrics on measure 4

2009-02-07 Thread M Watts
Jonathan Klein wrote: I am engraving a song which starts with three measures of instrumental before going into the first verse. How do I start the lyrics on measure 4? Many ways to skin a cat -- if the vocal part is in a separate voice from the accompaniment, a simple \new Lyrics \lyricsto "v

Re: slashed six in chordmode

2009-02-08 Thread M Watts
James E. Bailey wrote: Is there a way to get the slashed six from the figured bass mode into chordmode? In your chordname exceptions, just use: \markup { \slashed-digit #6 } You might want to fiddle with the font / size to get it looking right. __

Re: String number in a \markup

2009-02-08 Thread M Watts
David Stocker wrote: Hi folks, Is there a way to insert a string number into a \markup? What I need is to indicate a scordatura for a guitar piece like this: \markup { \column { \line { \small "5 = G" } \line { \small "6 = C" } } } where the '5' and '6' are identical to their analogo

[Fwd: Re: Starting lyrics on measure 4]

2009-02-08 Thread M Watts
y.com From: M Watts To: Jonathan Klein Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Saturday, February 7, 2009 8:55:24 PM Subject: Re: Starting lyrics on measure 4 Jonathan Klein wrote: > I am engraving a song which starts with three measures of instrumental before > going into the first verse. How do

Re: Customized accidentals

2009-02-08 Thread M Watts
Kees van den Doel wrote: This snippet: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=378 does not work as advertised; it prints both the normal accidentals and the custom postscript. Any suggestions on what might be wrong? Also, how could I print custom symbols like this in the key signature? Do y

Re: yet another chord question

2009-02-09 Thread M Watts
Brett Duncan wrote: Because c:9+ would be the chord rather than dis>, so it doesn't match your chord definition. Indeed; changing to in the OP example works. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listi

Re: chord symbols as plain text

2009-02-10 Thread M Watts
Tao Cumplido wrote: Hi, in the past I used to create chord symbols as plain text by just placing a Lyrics context above the staff used with an own font. I don't like the way LP handles chordsymbols right now, nor do I like the font it uses. The only thing I was missing in my way was the possib

Re: Hello! and question about jazz chords

2009-02-10 Thread M Watts
Check the LilyPond Snippet Repository for chord name exceptions. http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=459 It's basically a matter of pruning down the available information into a manageable example that does what you want. ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Hello! and question about jazz chords

2009-02-11 Thread M Watts
Tim McNamara wrote: I have not been able to figure out how to get LP to print anything like a m7b5 or a 7#9 or a 7b9 using \chordmode. This is difficult with a song like "Angel Eyes" which has a good half-dozen of these types of chords. Currently I am writing in those extensions by hand beca

Re: Hello! and question about jazz chords

2009-02-11 Thread M Watts
Tim McNamara wrote: On Feb 11, 2009, at 6:11 AM, M Watts wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: I have not been able to figure out how to get LP to print anything like a m7b5 or a 7#9 or a 7b9 using \chordmode. This is difficult with a song like "Angel Eyes" which has a good half-dozen of th

Re: How can I let the ambitus engraver ignore the key signature?

2009-02-12 Thread M Watts
David Kastrup wrote: Hi, the following is an excerpt from a systematic listing of accordion chords with different ambitus. The ambitus engraver should not heed the first (arbitrary) key signature but rather engrave as though we were in c major. How do I do that? I guess you discovered tha

Re: Need information about Lyric spacing in Lilypond

2009-02-12 Thread M Watts
fzimmerman wrote: Dave, Thanks for the quick reply. I have two other computers in the house that have Windows on them (I run a home-based computer support business), so I can use Sibelius on them if I have to...but I would rather switch to Lilypond. A very wise choice indeed. The place to

Re: How can I let the ambitus engraver ignore the key signature?

2009-02-13 Thread M Watts
David Kastrup wrote: David Kastrup writes: M Watts writes: David Kastrup wrote: Hi, the following is an excerpt from a systematic listing of accordion chords with different ambitus. The ambitus engraver should not heed the first (arbitrary) key signature but rather engrave

Re: ugly .ps output

2009-02-13 Thread M Watts
François Labadens wrote: I tried to use the .ps output, but it's not so good as the .pdf one. It's the same thing under Windows XP or Ubuntu 7.10. Do you have any solutions ? It does look pretty grainy by itself, but it's used to produce a great looking pdf, so it shouldn't be a major worry. Wha

Re: Tweaking within markup

2009-02-14 Thread M Watts
Nick Payne wrote: Is it possible? I want to put a parenthesized natural above some notes. If I do it within a single markup, the natural sign is not aligned with the parentheses, and I haven't found any simpler way to get them aligned except by having the left parens, the natural, and the right p

Re: Tweaking within markup

2009-02-15 Thread M Watts
Mats Bengtsson wrote: To avoid all trial-and-error to figure out the relevant parameters to \raise, I would propose the following alternative (which also gets rid of the extra horizontal spacing between the parenthesis and the accidental): ^\markup { \smaller \concat { \vcenter ( \vcenter \smal

Re: How do I get initial grace note after time and key signatures?

2009-02-16 Thread M Watts
Jonathan Kulp wrote: If you remove the \new voice from your Flute variable and put it in the \score block it will work: Indeed, Jonathan's code works fine here with 2.12.2. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/m

Re: Cannot correctly code this rhythm...

2009-02-17 Thread M Watts
RandomLilyPondUser wrote: http://www.nabble.com/file/p22066496/snip.png Can anyone draw this basic triplet rhythm in lilypond? The extra notation (flams, rolls, etc) can be disregarded. Try: \version "2.12.2" qBeam = { #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end 1 8 * *) 1 4 'Staff)

Re: Cannot correctly code this rhythm...

2009-02-17 Thread M Watts
Mats Bengtsson wrote: RandomLilyPondUser wrote: http://www.nabble.com/file/p22066496/snip.png One more question - how do I make a staff with only one line with notes above and below like that? Rhythmicstaff only allows notes on the line, on my drumstaff, I tried \override Staff.StaffSy

Re: Cannot correctly code this rhythm...

2009-02-17 Thread M Watts
M Watts wrote: Mats Bengtsson wrote: RandomLilyPondUser wrote: http://www.nabble.com/file/p22066496/snip.png One more question - how do I make a staff with only one line with notes above and below like that? Rhythmicstaff only allows notes on the line, on my drumstaff, I tried

Re: Cannot correctly code this rhythm...

2009-02-19 Thread M Watts
RandomLilyPondUser wrote: I figured out the problem, and that code does work, it just didn't work under my score, paper, layout, or drumstaff section. I simply had to put it under the function being called in the drumstaff section. I only have two problems left: 1) since there is only one l

Re: Cannot correctly code this rhythm...

2009-02-21 Thread M Watts
RandomLilyPondUser wrote: Sure, that works for a new project, but what about in the context of my drum project I've attached a couple posts back? I haven't yet got the barlines lined up on each line, but I've made a start. Btw, the file rudiments.ly, as posted, is missing a ' on lines 6 and

Re: Cannot correctly code this rhythm...

2009-02-22 Thread M Watts
Brett Duncan wrote: I've been fiddling with your files, and I cannot get the main notes to perfectly line up, even when I set proportionalNotationDuration to a very small value. The main culprits appear to be the grace notes, as Carl indicated, but also the tremolos. (A bug, maybe?) And set S

Re: Partial measures

2009-02-23 Thread M Watts
jpeters wrote: One way to do this is with measureLength: \relative c'' { \time 4/4 \repeat volta 2 { \partial 8 gis8 |

Re: Writing text in a measure

2009-02-25 Thread M Watts
Kees van den Doel wrote: I'm trying to write text in an otherwise empty measure (some special performance instructions). not above it or below, but in it. How can I do that? There is a snippet doing something like that http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=258 but when I apply it my text overwr

Re: Color of notes depending on accidentals

2009-02-25 Thread M Watts
cuco wrote: Is there is a way to authomatically color notes that are e.g. sharp? You'd need a function that says: If note name ends in "is", do \override NoteHead #'color = #red, but I don't actually know to do this :eek: ___ lilypond-user ma

Re: Canorus

2009-02-26 Thread M Watts
Tim Slattery wrote: I saw the mention of Canorus in the Lilypond FAQ, and I downloaded it and have gotten it running. But I can't figure out how to do anything in it. Is there a user's guide somewhere? I can't find one. Try their website https://canorus.berlios.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Re: Text over fermata

2009-02-26 Thread M Watts
Joseph Haig wrote: I want to put a markup over a fermata but when I try this: a'2\fermata^\markup { \italic lunga } I get the text under the fermata. How can I force it above? Thanks Joe One way is to do it as a markup: \markup { \center-column { \italic "lunga" \musicglyph #"script

Re: Parenthesizing chord names

2009-03-01 Thread M Watts
James E. Bailey wrote: El 01.03.2009, a las 01:12, Tim McNamara escribió: A common jazz lead sheet convention is to parenthesize optional chords written over the melody staff. An example is a turnaround at the end of a song that is not played the last time through. For example in "Easy Liv

Re: Parenthesizing chord names

2009-03-01 Thread M Watts
James E. Bailey wrote: El 01.03.2009, a las 12:47, M Watts escribió: James E. Bailey wrote: El 01.03.2009, a las 01:12, Tim McNamara escribió: A common jazz lead sheet convention is to parenthesize optional chords written over the melody staff. An example is a turnaround at the end of a

Re: Multiple repeats

2009-03-02 Thread M Watts
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Kees, OK, let me rephrase (and this time in the right list, sorry): is the way to indicate a 4 times repeated set of bars "\repeat volta 4 {notes}", followed by a manual annotation indicating "repeat 4 times" or is there a better method? As far as I know, that's

Single-digit time signature with different number

2009-03-09 Thread M Watts
I figured something out myself :) Now that Sigfrid Karg-Elert's works are public domain, him having been dead for over 70 years, I'm fiddling with his 25 Caprices & Sonata for solo saxophone (op. 153). The Sonata's 2nd movement is in fast 3/4 time, with one beat to the bar, and its time sign

Re: glissando up from no note to a note

2009-03-09 Thread M Watts
Chip wrote: Robin Bannister wrote: Chip wrote: it just resulted in messed up measures A judicious use of time distortion may help you here. \transpose c c'{ \hideNotes g,32\glissando \unHideNotes c'4*7/8 c'4 c'4 r4 | \hideNotes c''32\glissando \unHideNotes c'4*7/8 c'4 c'4 r4 | a1*3/4\fe

Re: New ConTeXt module

2009-03-11 Thread M Watts
fiëé visuëlle wrote: Am 2009-03-10 um 00:17 schrieb -Eluze: Valentin Villenave wrote: Perhaps Eluze was mixing up ConTeXt and ConTEXT :-) thanks - how could I ?! I had no idea the other one also exists! I agree that "context" is a bad choice as a product name, as is "latex"... Well, if

Re: a:4 chord

2009-03-14 Thread M Watts
Miklos Vajna wrote: Hi, First, sorry if this was already discussed, I did not found anything regarding this in the documentation. So I have the following block in my .ly file: \chords { a:7 } and this is properly rendered to something similar to "A^7". Now I want the same with A^4, s

Re: auto-beaming

2009-03-20 Thread M Watts
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Trevor Daniels wrote: Unfortunately, this will also subdivide 16th beams too. This is what I meant by "not quite possible". You would need to turn subdivideBeams on and off as required. Should we turn this into feature request to make the automatic subdivision of beams

Re: Bug? Lines disappear with rhythmic staff

2009-03-27 Thread M Watts
Peter Chubb wrote: I'm using the current 2.12.2 version of lilypond. The attached file yields, programming error: vertical alignment called before line-breaking and no lines on the staff. If I remove the \bar "|." the output is correct. \version "2.12.2" recscore= \context StaffGroup <<

Re: Bug? Lines disappear with rhythmic staff

2009-03-28 Thread M Watts
Trevor Daniels wrote: Peter Chubb wrote Saturday, March 28, 2009 8:44 AM That's right. I want no lines on the stave for the RhythmicStaff, but I do want lines for the Staff context, and no StaffGroup bracket. The OP didn't say so -- one is not a mind reader ;) Peter Have you tried settin

Re: Canorus -- help found

2009-03-28 Thread M Watts
M Watts wrote: >/> / >/Try their website/ >/https://canorus.berlios.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page/ That's where I started, of course. I downloaded the program from there, but I can't find anything like a user guide or tutorial. And the "User's guide" ch

Re: Real-world usage of Lilypond

2009-04-07 Thread M Watts
Wei-Wei Guo wrote: Christ van Willegen 写道: - Any other advice/techniques/additions/modifications we can think of. Does Lilypond has any application on music textbook? Is is possible? I find it difficult to input single/standalone music symbols, such as crotchet or quaver. Have you seen oo

Re: move lyrics closer

2009-04-09 Thread M Watts
James E. Bailey wrote: I want to move lyrics closer to each other. I've tried \layout {\context { \Lyrics \override #'baseline-skip = #-55 } } and it's not working for me. I'm sure I've just got the wrong context somewhere. Can someone point me to the right way? Do you mean move words closer

Re: Real-world usage of Lilypond

2009-04-09 Thread M Watts
Sorry Tim, I don't understand what you said. Could you point me to a link explaining those systems? Thanks! I'm not Tim, but try starting here for LilyPond syntax; also read the "see also" pages linked from the bottom: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/Simpl

Re: Tip/Trick: Double-Breve or Single-Breve-with-Double-Sidebars

2009-04-09 Thread M Watts
I think I've seen music where the breve (2 whole notes) was printed with two bars on each side. Indeed, in most hymn books I've seen, the breves have 2 lines each side, so "huzzah" for Kieren's code! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@

Re: hiding portions of slurs/ties around specific objects

2009-04-09 Thread M Watts
Questions and comments are welcome. If anyone wants to add it to the LSR, that's fine by me. Change the function name too, if you want, I couldn't think of anything better. Very awesome! It's definitely LSR worthy. +1 ___ lilypond-use

Re: Analysis brackets?

2009-04-10 Thread M Watts
Claudia wrote: Hi, I need to draw several superimposed -- although not nested -- brackets in order to evidence two melodic overlapping structures for teaching purposes. Does anyone knows how to do it? I've tried Analysis brackets but the groupings are presumed nested and so, the group openings a

Re: Lilypond crash

2009-04-11 Thread M Watts
Nick Payne wrote: I was attempting to shorten the entry required for indicating strokefingering: \version "2.12.2" i = #(define-music-function (parser location) () #{ \rightHandFinger #2 #}) \relative c' { } This causes Lilypond to crash (2.12.2, Windows). The entry in the applicatio

Re: trills

2009-04-11 Thread M Watts
Berthold Gunreben wrote: Hi, I am quite new to lilypond and stumbled over a question regarding trills. I'd like to use pitched trills which works quite well with something like: \pitchedTrill b2 \startTrillSpan cis b \stopTrillSpan However when I want to do a pitched trill over just one sin

Re: Lilypond is amazing! (engraving Reubke)

2009-04-16 Thread M Watts
Arno Rog wrote: Hi, Just to learn LilyPond better I've engraved the splendid Organ Sonata "Der 94ste Psalm" by Julius Reubke (1834-1858) with LilyPond 2.13.1. The result can be seen here [1]. The 28-page score is based on the IMSLP score (first edition 1871) of this piece. [Dutch]Werkel

Re: get typical jazz swing in drums midi file

2009-04-18 Thread M Watts
Grammostola Rosea wrote: Hi, It is possible to get an typical jazz swing also in the midi file, so I hear it when playback? I think you'd have to code swing drum section just for the midi output, with something like \times 2/3 { hh4 hh8 } to get swung rhythms. ___

Re: Pick a pitch/instrument in MIDI output

2009-04-19 Thread M Watts
Matthew Rowles wrote: I've read all of that. All of those instruments are pitched. I want just a snare drum to hit out the rhythm. One way would be to play a midi file through a Jack-aware player like timidity, connecting timidity's midi output to the midi input of the Hydrogen drum machi

Re: How to achieve chord stop with ¬

2009-05-14 Thread M Watts
Marc Hohl wrote: Stjepan Brbot schrieb: In chords for chord stop usually the following sign is used: ¬ How to get this with lilypond? Have you an example of how this should look like? I haven't seen this mark ever before. The only place I've seen this sign is in symbolic logic, where it mean

Re: Bass clarinet fingering chart

2009-07-08 Thread M Watts
[Off topic] Mike Solomon wrote: 5) I read that the biblical definition of pi is 3 (1 Kings 7:23). 1) The Bible makes no such claim. 1 Kings 7:23 apparently describes a temple object with a circumference of 10 and a diameter of 30. It's perfectly correct to state measurements only to the

Re: clip-systems png output?

2009-07-23 Thread M Watts
On 07/23/2009 01:24 PM, ian rashkin wrote: hi, am a total newbie to lilypond, but way impressed, hope to use it a lot. interested in outputting clips as png, so trying various combinations, all of which are the same result. file scale.ly: \version "2.12.0" % necessary for upgrading to future L

Re: clip-systems png output?

2009-07-27 Thread M Watts
On 07/25/2009 08:09 AM, Neil Puttock wrote: I'd class this as a bug, since the documentation suggests it should work. Fortunately, it's rather easy to fix, so I'll post a patch for it soon. If you're feeling adventurous and can't wait for a new release with the fix, you can use the attached fi

Re: Speed-up compiling

2009-07-29 Thread M Watts
On 07/30/2009 04:29 AM, Patrick Horgan wrote: Here's the fix. Without buying a new computer, you can buy new RAM (Random Access Memory) and you'll THINK that you have a new computer. It will make you amazed at the difference! You will dance around and shout Huzzah! Woman will hold up their babi

Re: Request - three line drum stave

2009-07-29 Thread M Watts
On 07/30/2009 08:34 AM, Brian Lloyd wrote: Dear Lillyponders, Some of my favourite drum books (Chapin, Pickering) use a three-line stave for their notation. I like it—it has a clean look, especially when writing for snare, hh, cymbal and bass. It is similar to the timbale stave currently avail

Re: linking render frames in Scribus

2009-08-30 Thread M Watts
On 08/29/2009 09:47 AM, Federico Bruni wrote: Anybody of you has tried using Scribus 1.3.5 to render LilyPond files? See here: http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=renderframes If the score is one page only, it works fine. But if it's 2 pages or more, I could not find any way to spread

Re: Installing question

2009-12-02 Thread M Watts
On 12/03/2009 02:23 AM, Howard wrote: I have downloaded the Installer to my Limux Suse 10.2 Desktop. I see is is a Shell Script. Where do I go from here please ?? Open a terminal, cd to your Desktop directory, and type sh lil[TAB]. Pressing the tab key will complete the filename for you, then

Circular Staff in Inkscape [was Re: Lilypond vs Score]

2010-02-04 Thread M Watts
I have to admit - I tried it and it's not easy to get a staff to conform to a circle, for example. Maybe someone else can. My Inkscape skills are weak, though I love the software. Not sure how to wrap the entire staff in a circle, but you can easily draw a circular staff in Inkscape:- Dra

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