Re: Problem with merging whole measure rests

2019-07-21 Thread Malte Meyn
Hi David, if I understand correctly you see a problem with the Merge_rests_engraver (your attached file from-NR.ly)? That engraver didn’t merge MultiMeasureRests until 2.19.65 and does so since 2.19.80 (the first prerelease for 2.20.0, hence the version number jump from 65 to 80). However, m

break-align-symbols for MetronomeMark/RehearsalMark

2019-07-22 Thread Malte Meyn
Hi list, I’m unsure whether that’s a bug, poorly documented or my error: To me it looks like some break-align-symbols work for some grobs and others for others. The following code gives output that is highly inconsistent IMO. Any idea what I’m doing or expecting wrong? Cheers, Malte %%%

Re: Colored box behind a single note

2019-07-25 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 25.07.19 um 15:26 schrieb David Kastrup: So how do you distinguish a nested bracket starting and ending at the same musical moment to ending one bracket and starting the next at the same musical moment? Good question. Slightly off-topic: Currently it’s not possible to end one bracket and

Re: Suppress Volta Starting Repeat

2019-08-26 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 26.08.19 um 03:22 schrieb keith Luke: Is it possible to suppress the a volta starting repeat? Yes, that should be possible. The following code generates a repeat in front of the g1. No, it doesn’t. Please always give a minimal *working* (i. e. compilable) example. Which LilyPond versi

Re: Horizontal spacing algorithm

2019-08-26 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 26.08.19 um 09:56 schrieb Michael Gerdau: Anyway, have you actualliy tried the provided spacing examples given in the (old?) article with a current version of lilypond? Find attached my tests with the current (2 weeks old) git version. For those who don’t want to compile from git themselv

Re: Melisma breaking converting from 2.18 to 2.19

2019-08-27 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 27.08.19 um 04:40 schrieb Vaughan McAlley: I’m trying to convert a large choral project to 2.19. When I compile with 2.19, melismas don't work at all. For example: c'4 \melisma d' e' \melismaEnd f puts a note on every syllable. […] Does this ring a bell with anyone? Yes, it does. Th

Re: Melisma breaking converting from 2.18 to 2.19

2019-08-27 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 27.08.19 um 10:56 schrieb Malte Meyn: Yes, it does. The following two scores look the same in 2.18.2 and different in 2.19.83: This changed somewhere between 2.19.13 and 2.19.14. Without testing it looks like commit df3457d8 “Allow \addlyrics to work with arbitrary contexts” could be the

Re: Global chord modifications for multiple scores

2019-09-05 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 05.09.19 um 09:27 schrieb Witold Uchman: Hi all! Is there a way to globally modify chord properties in multiple scores contained in one file? I would like all the chords to be \germanChords with chordNameLowercaseMinor = ##t, but I could not find a way to put it in the \layout block...

Re: Sacred Harp Repeats

2019-09-11 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 11.09.19 um 15:46 schrieb Anzick: 276_-_Worlds_Beyond_The_Sky.ly SHRepeats.ly Hello, I have been able to get the sacred harp style repeats to sho

Re: A periodic enquiry re 2.20

2019-09-17 Thread Malte Meyn
Probable background of Urs’ question: https://www.uni-mozarteum.at/en/kunst/music-engraving-conference.php Am 17.09.19 um 09:10 schrieb Urs Liska: To be a bit more specific: is there any chance for a release by mid-January? Am 17. September 2019 02:42:26 MESZ schrieb Andrew Bernard : Wi

Fwd: Re: drinking song symbols

2019-09-18 Thread Malte Meyn
Forgot the list … Am 17.09.19 um 22:01 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: As an idea a saw somewhere, I made a little wineglass symbol where in the song you are to take a drink, as in bar 14 in: http://aspodata.se/choir/ud/k%C3%A4y_metsolan_halki/k%C3%A4y_metsolan_halki.pdf source code in http://as

Re: transpose for baritone sax

2019-09-27 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 27.09.19 um 02:33 schrieb Francesco Petrogalli: I understand that the correct way of doing this is first write the notes in the tonality of the instrument, and _then_ use \transposition to get the correct pitches in the midi, but I already have the notes in the ly file with the orchestral pi

Re: Disabling beamExceptions and beatStructure

2019-10-03 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 03.10.19 um 10:51 schrieb Leo Correia de Verdier: Dear list! I am working on a piece with constantly changing meters and it got me wondering if there is a way to set beamExceptions to #’() and beat structure to a suitably long sequence of ones for all time signatures in the whole piece at

Re: Set /bookOutputName to Conjunction of Variable and String

2019-10-18 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 18.10.19 um 14:29 schrieb foxfanfare: David Kastrup wrote So you need to put basically anything after the assignment to "num" before calling the \include statement. Thanks for your answer David, but I'm sorry I'm not following you here. What should I call before the include statement exac

Re: Easy way of suppessing tuplet numbers?

2019-10-19 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 19.10.19 um 13:23 schrieb Peter Toye: Is there an easy way to suppress tuplet numbers? When there's a long passage of triplets it gets too fussy having a "3" every time. I know it can be done with c*2/3 d*2/3 e*2/3 etc. but this takes ages to type, and is very inflexible if I decide to a

Re: How can I apply default automatic beam logic for 4/4 meter to a piece written in 2/2 meter

2019-10-19 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 19.10.19 um 13:56 schrieb 田村 淳 via lilypond-user: If I set "\time 4/4” then the automatic beam works almost perfectly. Very little manual tweaking is required. Maybe then the easiest way is to use \time 4/4 and \set timeSignatureFraction = 2/2. _

Re: Double clefs (or even triple)

2019-10-19 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 19.10.19 um 14:56 schrieb Alexandre Ficagna: Hi as Lilypond now have double G clefs with the \clef GG I'm wondering why there's no \clef FF or even more like \clef GGG and \clef FFF for 15a and 15b Hi Alexandre, I’ve never seen that, when are such clefs used? Cheers, Malte Still, I

Re: midi instrument for ChordNames

2019-10-22 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 22.10.19 um 09:54 schrieb Sandro Santilli: On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 12:15:47PM +0200, Thomas Morley wrote: please always provide a MWE, with the lily-version in it. What's MWE ? A minimal working example, see http://lilypond.org/tiny-examples for why and how to create one. __

Re: MIDI, rests and end-of-track

2019-10-22 Thread Malte Meyn
Hi Cam, please start a new thread for a new topic. (You replied to a thread about double clefs. You changed the subject but the information that it’s a reply to that thread is still there so it will be shown as part of that thread.) Am 22.10.19 um 17:06 schrieb Cam: \version "2.18.2" […]

Re: Puzzled about r1 issue in 3/4 time

2019-10-23 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 23.10.19 um 21:59 schrieb Michael Wagner: I am seeing some behavior I don’t understand. I have ended the music for “Silver Bells” into lilypond, and I am seeing a puzzling error. The song is in 3/4 time, but the rest in measure 33 seems to betaking 4 beats - I get a bar check failed and t

Re: Puzzled about r1 issue in 3/4 time

2019-10-23 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 23.10.19 um 23:09 schrieb Carl Sorensen: As you have identified, you can use “r2.” to get a ¾ note rest.  This rest will appear in the same note column as the first quarter note in the measure.  You can also use “R1*3/4” or “R2.” in ¾ time to get a ¾ note (whole measure) rest. This rest wi

Re: Puzzled about r1 issue in 3/4 time

2019-10-23 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 23.10.19 um 23:38 schrieb Michael Gerdau: Lilypond is right, r1 is 4 beats long. What you probably want is r1*3/4 or most likely (and better) R1*3/4 instead of r1. More like R2. What is the difference between R2. and R1*3/4 apart from the obvious difference in the source file? It’s

Re: Notation in Soprano Clef

2019-11-02 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 02.11.19 um 00:19 schrieb David Kastrup: Afterwards you use Frescobaldi's transpose function to transpose your input to the actual original key, proofread with soprano clef and finally reprint with treble clef. Even better: Frescobaldi does modal transpose too so you just can input note

TabStaff.keepAliveInterfaces

2019-11-02 Thread Malte Meyn
Hi list, what am I (or what is LilyPond) doing wrong here? %%% \version "2.19.83" bla = { \repeat unfold 100 e'4 } git = { \set TabStaff.keepAliveInterfaces = #'() R1*10 \repeat unfold 60 c'4 } << \new Staff \bla \new Staff \with { \RemoveAllEmptyStav

\RemoveAllEmptyStaves, TabStaff and \set commands [was: TabStaff.keepAliveInterfaces]

2019-11-02 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 02.11.19 um 09:39 schrieb Malte Meyn: Seems like the \set TabStaff… partly revives the TabStaff from being hidden. I just realized that other \set commands (not involving keepAliveInterfaces) show the same problem: \version "2.19.83" bla = { \repeat unfold 100 e'4 }

Re: 'Compressing' a 1 bar full bar rest

2019-11-06 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 06.11.19 um 09:38 schrieb Jacques Menu: Hello folks, I’d like to show that explicitly with a number, i.e. to have a ‘1’ above measure 2 in this example: \version "2.19.83" {   \time 4/4   \compressFullBarRests   R1*2 |   R1*1 |   c' | } How can that be achieved? Thanks for your h

Re: Why is the notehead shifted?

2019-11-09 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 09.11.19 um 13:16 schrieb Peter Toye:  In this MWE the first  a is shifted to the left of the stem but the second one isn't. OK, it's a bit cramped, but I thought that the noteheads were scaled to the size of the staff to avoid this. Oddly, if the local staff size is changed to a global

Re: m7.5- transposed to sus#4 b3 ??

2019-11-11 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 11.11.19 um 21:38 schrieb Sandro Santilli: I transcribed an A major song with this chords snippet: ees:m7.5- | aes:7 | aes:m7.5- | des:7 | Are you sure you want those chords instead of dis:m7.5- gis:7 gis:m7.5- cis:7 ? Who wants to read a a-flat half-diminished chord (a-flat c-flat

Re: m7.5- transposed to sus#4 b3 ??

2019-11-12 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 12.11.19 um 09:56 schrieb Sandro Santilli: On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 10:08:07PM +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: Am Mo., 11. Nov. 2019 um 21:38 Uhr schrieb Sandro Santilli : I transcribed an A major song with this chords snippet: ees:m7.5- | aes:7 | aes:m7.5- | des:7 | When transposing it

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 204, Issue 61

2019-11-13 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 13.11.19 um 20:43 schrieb bill wolf: Is there another way that avoids the fiddly adjustments--or even using two voices? You’ll need the two voices because of the opposite stem directions in the second half of the measure. However you can save some typing by using { } \\ { } instead of

Re: Macro with

2019-11-14 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 14.11.19 um 10:02 schrieb David Menéndez Hurtado: I am transcribing a piece that is filled with the rhythmic motif "8. 16 8" at different pitches. Being a LaTeX user, I want to write a macro like \myrithm{c a g}. Maybe http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=465 or http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR

Re: drawing a range reguardless of transposition

2019-11-15 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 14.11.19 um 18:09 schrieb Aaron Hill: On 2019-11-14 8:53 am, Sandro Santilli wrote: In order to determine if I'm writing something that can be played by an instrument, is there a way to display on the score the supported range by that instrument ? I'd like to have something that doesn't c

Re: \epsfile

2019-11-15 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 15.11.19 um 10:47 schrieb Martin Tarenskeen: I am experimenting with the \epsfile command to include various pictures in my score. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/graphic.en.html describes:  \epsfile axis (number) size (number) file-name (string)     Inline an EPS

Re: How to color objects that cause collision

2019-11-15 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 15.11.19 um 01:50 schrieb Paolo Prete: I think that a very useful function would be a way to highlight or change the color for all the objects that are causing a collision. Is there already some code for that? Look for example at the two slurs in the following snippet: […] When there a

Re: Full measure rests does not display in partial measure

2019-11-19 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 19.11.19 um 18:34 schrieb Павел Буданов: <<    { \partial 4*3 b b b b b b b }    \\    { R1*3/4 R1 } How to solve subject problem? I did not find the answer in the archive. A partial measure is partial, not full, so why do you want a full measure rest? In 4/4 time the rest shoul

Re: \repeat percent not working for chordmode ?

2019-11-20 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 20.11.19 um 15:22 schrieb Sandro Santilli: I'd like to use percent signs for chord repeats but in a \chordmode block the repeats seem to end up being just not rendered (nothing printed for the repetition measures). Is there a way to get those percent signs ? Yes, you’ll need to include t

Re: Availability of music notation font in LibreOffice

2019-11-26 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 26.11.19 um 12:45 schrieb Peter Toye: I want to write some editorial notes which will be mostly free-form test but will include some musical symbols (dynamics, notes). A word processor (I use Libre office) is easiest for the text, but how do I include the musical symbols? Is the Feta font

Re: Availability of music notation font in LibreOffice (Malte Meyn)

2019-11-27 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 27.11.19 um 12:58 schrieb Peter Toye: Bravura sounds like a good idea, except that I'm trying to work out how to get it. It seems that I have to download something (but the readme file doesn't exactly say what) from github and then install it using a proprietary installer which I've had t

Re: Availability of music notation font in LibreOffice (Malte Meyn)

2019-11-27 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 27.11.19 um 13:52 schrieb Malte Meyn: Am 27.11.19 um 12:58 schrieb Peter Toye: Bravura sounds like a good idea, except that I'm trying to work out how to get it. It seems that I have to download something (but the readme file doesn't exactly say what) from github and then

Re: 8va superscript

2019-11-28 Thread Malte Meyn
Hi Martin, AFAIK all of this can be done, yes. However, it’s a bit hacky and will be much easier in the not yet published 2.21.0 which will have improved ottava brackets. Am 28.11.19 um 10:36 schrieb Martin Tarenskeen: - 8va above the staff with the "va" superscripted like in the attached pn

Re: Markup problem

2019-12-04 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 04.12.19 um 10:19 schrieb Jacques Menu: Hello folks, In the following example, the markup doesn’t show up in the score, one only gets: Removing the \book around the \score avoids this problem, though. I’ve missed something it seems... Shouldn’t the \markup live inside the \book too?

Re: Piano Staves equidistant from Middle C?

2019-12-04 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 04.12.19 um 14:46 schrieb Kale Good: Hello, I'm trying to get my piano staves equidistant from middle C, with precisely the width of one staff-space between middle C and the top line of the bass clef and the bottom line of the treble. I’m not sure why setting values for PianoStaff.Sta

Re: Fermata below text

2017-12-04 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 04.12.2017 um 19:34 schrieb Phil Holmes: I've tried over-riding Script.outside-staff-priority Are you sure? Setting it to something < 450 works for me in 2.18.2 and 2.19.80. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gn

Re: Fontsize ornaments

2017-12-08 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 07.12.2017 um 17:57 schrieb Pieter Terpstra: Do you think this could be made in to a configuration file and store it in the /usr/share/lilypond/$VERSION/ly directory? You could have a “personal/private includes directory” in your home dir, f. e. something like ~/MyLilyIncludes

Re: How to show split stems

2017-12-10 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 10.12.2017 um 08:08 schrieb Phil Hanna: I have a measure with two notes on the same line of the staff, a D natural and a D sharp. I'm trying to figure out how to have the stems split as shown in the image, but I can't find anything obvious in the documentation. Thanks for any help. Hav

Re: Font for headers

2017-12-13 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 13.12.2017 um 16:58 schrieb Edward Neeman: I apologize if this is an obvious question: is there a way to set a font for headers only? One that applies to all header elements but not the score. Thanks, Edward Select from the following \paper block what fits your needs: %

Re: accedentals

2017-12-17 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 17.12.2017 um 15:58 schrieb Vivyan: I'm not sure why my accidentals arn't working? Screen_Shot_2017-12-17_at_14.png Please always give a minimal example of your code (as text, not screenshot); looking at a

Re: Lining up the word "subito"

2017-12-23 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 23.12.2017 um 10:10 schrieb Andrew Bernard: Also, with respect, when asking for help on the list people usually provide an MWE, a minimum working example. For a case like this just a note or two would suffice. If you give an MWE it is a lot easier for people to help out, as they don't ha

Re: Lining up the word "subito"

2017-12-23 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 23.12.2017 um 10:17 schrieb Malte Meyn: \version "2.19.65" \include "english.ly" A small, slightly off-topic remark on these lines: Instead of \including the file english.ly the standard way of setting the note name language now (since version 2.14) is using

Re: getting paid for an include (I offer)

2017-12-24 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 23.12.2017 um 20:38 schrieb Ali Cuota: Excuse me, the New German Tabulatur is my topic. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulatur#Neue_deutsche_Orgeltabulatur Hi, I would be interested maybe; coincidentally I’m just now reading Willi Apel’s book on notation and the next chapter I’ll read is

Re: change regular/staccato/staccatissimo midi duration 2.19.80

2017-12-25 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 25.12.2017 um 14:22 schrieb Gianmaria Lari: This code generate some 'regular', staccato and staccatissimo notes: \version "2.19.80" \score {   \fixed c' {c8 d e-. f-. g-! a-! r4}   \midi{}   \layout {} } Is there any way to change the default duration of 'regula

Re: Changing the car or cdr of a pair

2017-12-25 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 25.12.2017 um 17:48 schrieb Menu Jacques: The edge-height pair can be given a value with: \once \override Staff.LigatureBracket.edge-height = #'(0 . +0.7) but how can I change only one of the members of the pair, leaving the other one as it is? There are two options: Either use

Re: Changing the car or cdr of a pair

2017-12-25 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 25.12.2017 um 19:01 schrieb David Kastrup: David Kastrup writes: \once \override Staff.LigatureBracket.edge-height = #(grob-transformer 'edge-height (lambda (grob original) (cons 0.3 (cdr original For example. Malte's suggestion to use \offset does something similar internall

Re: No Time Signature

2017-12-27 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 27.12.2017 um 16:54 schrieb nokel81: Hello, is there a way so that lilypond treats an entire staff as a single bar and just break the notes where it is best? I want to do this with stem-less notes for modern chant. How about this? \version "2.19.80" \relative { \omit Staff.TimeSignatur

Re: Staff Group Bracket

2017-12-27 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 27.12.2017 um 20:59 schrieb Johannes Roeßler: Hi, is it possible (ok, its Lilypond, let me rephrase that... HOW is it possible) to tweek the distance of the staff-group bracket from the staff lines? (See attachment for clarification) Cheers Joei \version "2.19.80" \new StaffGroup \wi

Re: Dynmaic size

2017-12-27 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 27.12.2017 um 20:57 schrieb Johannes Roeßler: So I found this: (Its scheme? right?) ep = #(make-dynamic-script (markup #:dynamic "p" )) - but I have no idea how to integrate the size here. You can use #:huge and friends or #:fontsize as seen below. Or you switch to “non-scheme lilypond m

Re: TAB-problem

2017-12-28 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 28.12.2017 um 14:21 schrieb bb: I attach an example code. (Sorry, my skills are just not developed enough to shorten the code essential.) Here is a much smaller example. It’s not minimal but near. How to build such an example? Well, just leave everything out that has nothing to do with t

Re: TAB-problem

2017-12-28 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 28.12.2017 um 15:22 schrieb Malte Meyn: Set the clef stencil to ##f (\omit is a shorthand for that) and only set the stencil for the first occurence. As I realised some seconds after sending the message, this isn’t enough if you want to have the clef at the beginning of each line. Then

Re: TAB-problem

2017-12-28 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 28.12.2017 um 15:54 schrieb bb: Thank you for answering. Your code has exactly the problem I wanted to overcome. There is a "cleftext"  every time the clef changes! No it has not. Have a close look: I do \omit Clef \once \override Clef.stencil You do \override Clef.stencil That’s diffe

Re: Two short questions

2017-12-28 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 28.12.2017 um 16:03 schrieb Jérôme Plût: 1. I am typesetting some music which is in 2/1, and mark using a cut time signature. How is it possible with Lilypond to put a ℂ symbol for a 2/1 time ? (see attachment, line 1) \time 2/1 \set Score.timeSignatureFraction = 2/2 2. In virtually

Re: Two short questions

2017-12-28 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 28.12.2017 um 16:34 schrieb Malte Meyn: Am 28.12.2017 um 16:03 schrieb Jérôme Plût: 1. I am typesetting some music which is in 2/1, and mark using a cut time signature. How is it possible with Lilypond to put a ℂ symbol for a 2/1 time ? (see attachment, line 1)   \time 2/1   \set

Re: Two short questions

2017-12-28 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 28.12.2017 um 16:57 schrieb Wols Lists: My reaction would be to take your version, and rewrite all the others to call it. That way you don't break existing code, but you simplify lily itself in that there is just one function. That’s what I would do too. I just have to figure out, which fu

Re: Two short questions

2017-12-28 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 28.12.2017 um 17:11 schrieb Wols Lists: On 28/12/17 16:07, Malte Meyn wrote: Have a look at the PDF in the post linked above: The function can do both uppercase (AA) and mixedcase (Aa) (but not yet lowercase (aa)). Sorry, I did look, but obviously missed it ... :-( No problem ;) Mixed

Re: fixed vertical spacing within staff-group

2017-12-29 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 29.12.2017 um 05:30 schrieb Eby Mani: Hi, How to set fixed vertical spacing within staff-group ?. Hi, please always give a minimal working (and compilable) code example that shows what you are doing currently. I have tried the following in \layout { \context } section. Vertical spaci

Re: fixed vertical spacing within staff-group

2017-12-31 Thread Malte Meyn
Organ, the output is transposed to F Maj. Do let me know how to set fixed vertical spacing for staff-group. Please reply thru the lilypond user list and do not share the file on the list. Thanks. On Fri, 29/12/17, Malte Meyn wrote: \ove

Re: Guitar palm mutes - almost done

2018-01-01 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 31.12.2017 um 17:20 schrieb Neo Anderson: 1. How to change the look of the extender lines (dashes)? I'd like them to be more dense or compact. The following -\tweaks with various values won't make a difference.     -\tweak bound-details.dash-fraction #0     -\tweak bound-details.dash-per

Re: odd marcato placement

2018-01-18 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 18.01.2018 um 05:58 schrieb Shane Brandes: The following code produces what looks to me as an an unanticipated result as the second two marcato marks are slightly elevated. I fixed it with a Script.extra-offset but still wonder if this is some odd edge case. \version "2.18.2" \new Staff \

Re: Left-handed fretboard?

2018-01-18 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 17.01.2018 um 22:59 schrieb Thomas Morley: 2018-01-17 22:36 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup : Thomas Morley writes: Should we document it as is or introduce a details.subproperty setting string-distance negative? Left-handed diagrams are peculiar enough that if there is a reasonably simple expe

Re: Left-handed fretboard?

2018-01-18 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 18.01.2018 um 14:09 schrieb Torsten Hämmerle: Ah, yes, when in landscape mode, setting a negative string-distance makes the whole diagram flip below the baseline. Oh dear, another effect (in general): capo numbers and other objects that should be placed in the margin of the diagram. When se

Re: Long syllable vs. span bar

2018-01-19 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 19.01.2018 um 17:29 schrieb Torsten Hämmerle: Probably the easiest way to achieve this is just to use *ChoirStaff* and add the Span_bar_engraver to get the bar lines. That way, Lyrics will nonchalantly cross the bar lines as if they weren't there and by setting the whiteout property, you're

Re: \set TabStaff.minimumFret = #x

2018-01-21 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 21.01.2018 um 14:57 schrieb bb: I use   \set TabStaff.minimumFret = #7   \set TabStaff.restrainOpenStrings = ##t […] Is there any possibility to throw an exception for a single note or a group of notes? How about \once \unset TabStaff.minimumFret ? __

Re: Transcriber title

2018-01-21 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 22.01.2018 um 06:49 schrieb Brian Barker:   arranger = \markup {     \column {   \fill-line { " " "Arranger: Jacob Collier" }   \fill-line { " " "Transcriber: Álvaro Cáceres Muñoz" }     }   } More simple solution for the same effect (but maybe with less side effects in case

Re: Empty Staves & Overriding Sequences

2018-01-24 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 24.01.2018 um 02:58 schrieb joedavnport: Q1. Is there a way to create (and show) an empty stave in a score, rather than creating {s1 s1 s1} spaces? You can write s1*3 instead of s1 s1 s1 ;) Q2. Sometimes I want to omit a phrasing for certain files (e.g. showing repeat marks), instead of

Re: Rests vs spacers style question

2018-01-24 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 24.01.2018 um 07:28 schrieb Menu Jacques: Hello folks, P_POne_Staff_One_Voice_Two below contains rests which may seem to be make the score more difficult to read that spacers. Apart for single voice staves where rests are necessary, is there a best-practise style for multivoice staves?

Re: turning a blind eye to dotted note

2018-01-29 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 29.01.2018 um 10:53 schrieb Blöchl Bernhard: In my limited knowledge of music I think that bar is wrong because of the dotted 8th note? Regards %\version "2.19.80" \version "2.18.20" mus = \relative c'' { d4  cis8  c8  b8. ais8  a  gis } <<   \new Voice \mus LilyPond does the right

Re: quetion about slur in the "<< .... \\ .....>>"

2018-01-30 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 30.01.2018 um 09:01 schrieb mosea chen: Hi,     I found it difficult to engrave the staff as the fingure: 内嵌图片 1 the "slur" just does not work. The source is as follows: \version "2.19.80" {     \clef bass     \time 3/4     fis-2 ( e-1 d-2|     <<         { r4 ) e4 a8 ( g8  |}      

Re: Bad tie position

2018-02-19 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 19.02.2018 um 15:42 schrieb Ethan Sue: \clef bass b16 b b8 b b16 b16 ~ b4 a8 b Tie looks like a bump. Cannot reproduce (2.18.2, 2.19.81). That’s why we need *compilable* minimal examples. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org h

Re: Very small rhythmic values

2018-02-20 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 20.02.2018 um 12:04 schrieb Amir Teymuri: Hello, is a 128 the smallest possible rhythmic value one can write in Lilypond or is there a way to write even shorter values (e.g. 256 or even smaller)? Thanks in advance, - - - - - - - - - - - ateymur...@gmail.com Hi Amir, it’s possible wit

Re: Very small rhythmic values

2018-02-21 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 20.02.2018 um 16:57 schrieb Malte Meyn: it’s possible with beamed notes but not (yet) for rests and flagged notes because there are no rest/flag glyphs in the font for these note durations. But they could be added … Update: I made a patch that adds these glyphs but that will take some

Re: Three simultaneous slurs

2018-02-21 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 21.02.2018 um 15:18 schrieb David Kastrup: Marc Hohl writes: Oh sorry, it looks lie a tie between b-flat and b-flat With a syncopated rhythm adding up to a simple on-beat amount? That would be quite curious for a tie. But it’s quite common to have something like 4~ 8 instead of 4. …

Re: Extract pitch and duration from ly:music

2018-02-21 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 21.02.2018 um 15:40 schrieb Joshua Stutter: […] fun = #(define-music-function (parser location note dur) (ly:pitch? ly:duration?) #{ $note$dur #}) and create notes from pitches and durations within #{ #}. I explained that, to the best of my knowledge, this is not possible and new notes

Re: Extract pitch and duration from ly:music

2018-02-21 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 21.02.2018 um 15:44 schrieb Malte Meyn: Am 21.02.2018 um 15:40 schrieb Joshua Stutter: […] fun = #(define-music-function (parser location note dur) (ly:pitch? ly:duration?) #{ $note$dur #}) and create notes from pitches and durations within #{ #}. I explained that, to the best of my

Re: Extract pitch and duration from ly:music

2018-02-21 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 21.02.2018 um 15:46 schrieb Malte Meyn: Oh, I forgot to say: This doesn’t work with 2.18.2 so you’re partially right. And again I made a mistake: It *does* work but only if you surround the pitch by ##{ #} \version "2.18.2" fun = #(define-music-function (parser locatio

Re: OpenType in LilyPond

2018-03-03 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 03.03.2018 um 20:47 schrieb Noeck: Am 26.08.2017 um 13:16 schrieb Malte Meyn: In case someone is interested: here comes the adapted snippet (with usage example). Hi Malte, this is great news! Can this be also applied to the default font (outside the score)? For markup in general? I

Re: OpenType in LilyPond

2018-03-04 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 03.03.2018 um 22:15 schrieb Malte Meyn: Am 03.03.2018 um 20:47 schrieb Noeck: Am 26.08.2017 um 13:16 schrieb Malte Meyn: In case someone is interested: here comes the adapted snippet (with usage example). Hi Malte, this is great news! Can this be also applied to the default font

Re: How to write this note from chaconne?

2018-03-07 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 08.03.2018 um 02:01 schrieb Simon Albrecht: On 08.03.2018 01:39, Edmundo Carmona Antoranz wrote: So I asked around[1] and apparently it's a "harmonic delay" or a prolongation... There is no reason whatsoever for any fancy words. It’s just a dotted note with the dot written at the rhythmi

Re: Für Kurzentschlossene: Plätze im Linuxbus Ruhr nach Chemnitz!

2018-03-08 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 08.03.2018 um 23:24 schrieb Carl Sorensen: I ran this through Google Translate, and it mostly worked well. Except it named Harm as "Grief", which brought me a smile. I think the German “Harm” is similar to “harm” in English ;) (see also “harmlos” = “harmless”) On topic: Ich hab sowohl Fr

Re: Absolute temporal positioning of mm-rests

2018-03-10 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 09.03.2018 um 11:45 schrieb Arttu Punkkinen: I was wondering, if there is a way to specify a multimeasure rest which length is only relatively defined so that it ends at predetermined bar number? I often find myself needing to adjust or add material between multimeasure rests, which cu

Re: Build error. MergeFonts: Can't find font: feta11.pfb

2018-03-11 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 11.03.2018 um 01:01 schrieb Lucas Werkmeister: Hi everyone, I’m getting the following error message when trying to build LilyPond from git (specifically, building the AUR lilypond-git package). […] The requested file, feta11.pfb, does not exist I have a similar problem after installin

Re: Ending repeat sign for first section in AABB form not displayed

2018-03-17 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 13.03.2018 um 06:24 schrieb Robert Schmaus: You should use just one bar sign, in your case the double bar ":|.|:" Or the double bar ":..:". That’s the default for \repeat volta, but of course it’s a matter of taste. ___ lilypond-user mailing l

Re: Build error. MergeFonts: Can't find font: feta11.pfb

2018-03-18 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 17.03.2018 um 20:01 schrieb Lucas Werkmeister: Can confirm, coredumpctl shows loads of t1asm core dumps (no idea why there’s no error message in the terminal), and downgrading to t1utils 1.39 fixed the problem (1.40 seems buggy as well). Thanks for the info! I’m back from Lisbon and can co

Re: Combine tied notes

2018-03-18 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 18.03.2018 um 12:58 schrieb paolo prete: Hello, given a sequence of tied notes/chords, is there a way to automatically combine them into a minimal sequence of long notes obtained with the sum of the sequence's durations? Something like: c4~ c4~ c4~  > c2. c4~ c4~ c4~ c4~ c4   --->

Re: MIDI tick resolution

2018-03-19 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 19.03.2018 um 14:47 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: You could try the attached rudimentary patch and recompile your lilypond source, see if that solves your problem, and report back. Would it be possible to make a patch that reads this from a context property so that the user could input someth

Re: MIDI tick resolution

2018-03-19 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 19.03.2018 um 14:59 schrieb David Kastrup: I think we'd rather want this value to be read from some \midi layout block variable when Midi is getting initialized. That would be better than reading from a context property of course. ___ lilypond-u

Re: trillspann without trill

2018-03-19 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 19.03.2018 um 18:11 schrieb Ali Cuota: Hi again, for Bach BWV 528, 2nd mvt, meas. 38-39, I need a trillspann without trill (see not-so-tiny pic). How can I achieve this? Try one of the following: \version "2.19.81" { \override TrillSpanner.bound-details.left.text = #'() b1\startTr

Re: How to write a ly:pitch? as element of a pair?

2018-03-21 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 21.03.2018 um 15:28 schrieb Urs Liska: Hi all, I have a with block where I would like to let the user enter a pair as a value, and one of the elements of the pair should be a pitch. Something like: \with {   transposition = #'( d' . "D") } But this doesn't work, just like   transpos

Re: PianoStaff and StaffGroup brackets are truncating single line DrumStaff at top left of staff system.

2018-03-22 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 22.03.2018 um 15:22 schrieb David Kastrup: I am not fixing the awful things your mail program did to your code (consider using an attachment instead). Off-topic: To me it seems as if it was your mail program that did awful things. Mine displays the code (including long lines) correctly.

Re: \offset argument order

2018-03-26 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 23.03.2018 um 19:25 schrieb David Kastrup: Why is this on the bug list? That was an accident, sorry (typed lilypond, hit enter, didn’t realise that autocompletion did not what I had expected) You get the drift. Yes, now that I got to know both versions of the command (\override and

Re: Tweaking individual BassFigures

2018-03-30 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 31.03.2018 um 00:17 schrieb Simon Albrecht: Hello everybody, it is currently not possible to tweak individual BassFigures – this: \version "2.19.80" \figures {   <\single \hide BassFigure 6 3> } gives a syntax error, unexpected MUSIC_FUNCTION. How fundamental are the reasons for this?

Re: OpenLilyLib with Windows

2018-04-01 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 31.03.2018 um 19:14 schrieb foxfanfare: - Could someone please make a quick tutorial on how include the bravura font? Have a look at section 3.4.4 of the Notation Reference: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/replacing-the-notation-font.html (this is the english version

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