Re: accidentals collide with time signature (was Re: position of accidentals)

2008-07-09 Thread Marc Mouries
Wilbert, I checked LilyKDE, LilyPond for KDE: http://lilykde.googlecode.com/ and it looks great. I wish something like this existed for Mac. -Marc Wilbert Berendsen wrote: Op maandag 7 juli 2008, schreef Stefan Thomas: Dear Lilypond users, in the below quoted example, the positions of th

Re: How to create shortcut to a command?

2009-05-04 Thread Marc Mouries
Thanks a lot guys this is helpful. I am trying to make the lily code easier to read. I also have many command to write the position like "^\markup { \small "IV" }" and "^\markup { \small "" }" and so on, would you know how to create a command that takes an argument? On Apr 27, 2009, a

Re: Spam u don't like

2016-03-04 Thread Marc Mouries
count at > Nabble.com. Much less likely, a hacked iPad (but what kind of > virus/worm would try going through a Nabble account next?). > > Marc? Any ideas? > > -- > David Kastrup > -- Marc Mouries 571-428-6771 ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Function to add a "-" before finger number

2010-08-03 Thread Marc Mouries
On 8/3/2010 3:25 PM, Neil Puttock wrote: c4-\shift -3 Thanks Neil. I just tried it and as you can see the number is too far on the right. I inserted a call to "make-general-align-markup X LEFT" but it did not help. Is there a way to move the "-" and the number further on the left so tha

How to set different bar number format every nth bar?

2010-09-28 Thread Marc Mouries
I'd like to have bar numbers printed on every bar with the first bar number of each line bigger. I'd like to find if there is any way to set different bar number format with a function rather than inline with the music. -Marc ___ lilypond-user mailing

\header place in \score block (doc & syntax clarification)

2010-10-05 Thread Marc Mouries
The documentation here http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/Introduction-to-the-LilyPond-file-structure#Introduction-to-the-LilyPond-file-structure says: "A \score block must always contain just one music expression, and this must appear immediately after the \sco

How to set different bar number format every nth bar?

2010-10-05 Thread Marc Mouries
I'd like to have bar numbers printed on every bar with the first bar number of each line bigger. I'd like to find if there is any way to set different bar number format with a function rather than inline with the music. I'd like to avoid to reset the bar number format for each staff like: \sco

Re: \header place in \score block (doc & syntax clarification)

2010-10-05 Thread Marc Mouries
thanks for pointing this out. I only look at the log if the compiler fails. > it seems uncritical, and so Lily continues compiling. Should it abort? I find it more handy to have the header located at the beginning of the score rather than at the end. Furthermore, If lilypond can compile corre

chord with notes of different duration

2010-10-06 Thread Marc Mouries
for practice purpose i am copying some excerpt from the Beethoven 5th symphony. It contains a chord where the duration of the top notes is longer than the others. (see attached) According to the documentation, that does not seem possible since it says: ... [duration] must go /outside/ the ang

Re: chord with notes of different duration

2010-10-06 Thread Marc Mouries
On 10/6/2010 3:44 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: Learning Manual section 4.1.4. thanks for pointing me in the right direction. However the page you pointed me to was not helpful as it dealt only with color tweaks but then i googled "tweak duration" and then found the page: http://www.kainhofer.com/

bug? fermata collides with tweaked top note of chord

2010-10-06 Thread Marc Mouries
Using a tweak i was able to typeset the following chord from the Beethoven 5th symphony where the top note has a longer duration. However using this music _expression_ in lilypond: \version "2.12.3" \include "english.ly" % chord from 5th symphony \

Re: chord with notes of different duration

2010-10-06 Thread Marc Mouries
On 10/6/2010 6:24 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Marc, 3) why a skip is needed whereas the top note is a half note (otherwise the measure is not complete)? If you make the note a half note, but tweak the other notes' durations (to become quarters), you won't have this problem. Hope this he

Re: chord with notes of different duration

2010-10-08 Thread Marc Mouries
pond-user-bounces+marc=mouries@gnu.org Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 13:44:11 To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: chord with notes of different duration On 6 October 2010 23:47, Marc Mouries wrote: >  On 10/6/2010 6:24 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: >> >> Hi Marc, >> >>&g

Re: Howto have the number of volte printed out above an end-repeat bar?

2010-10-10 Thread Marc Mouries
you have to set countPercentRepeats to true. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Short-repeats#Short-repeats \relative c'' { \set countPercentRepeats = ##t \repeat percent 4 { c1 } } On 10/10/2010

markup makes bar number move

2010-10-30 Thread Marc Mouries
Hi Lilyponders, When i add text markup to indicate fingering this makes the bar number move. Is there any way to keep the bar number closer to the staff and always at the same place? <> %% fingering markup makes bar number move \version "2.12.2" \include "english.ly" melody = \relative g' { g

Re: markup makes bar number move

2010-10-31 Thread Marc Mouries
thanks, i am trying to download it but the transfer speed is very low. <> On Oct 31, 2010, at 6:21 AM, Valentin Villenave wrote: > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 5:19 AM, Marc Mouries wrote: >> When i add text markup to indicate fingering this makes the bar number move. >> Is ther

wiki or blog with lilypond

2010-11-06 Thread Marc Mouries
Dear Lilyponders, As i go about learning violin with my kids, I create practice music sheet and scores of classical and folk songs. Now I would like to set up a wiki or blog to document what we learn as we go. Would you know a blog or wiki that supports lilypond syntax? thanks, Marc __

Re: Brandenburg #3

2010-11-09 Thread Marc Mouries
On 11/9/2010 3:47 PM, Robert Margo wrote: Dear All, I am looking for .ly files for the parts for Brandenburg #3. I know that they existed on www.mutopia.org at some point but they are not there at present. If anyone has these, it would be a great help on a project. Thanks! __

Re: Brandenburg #3 - convert-ly fails

2010-11-12 Thread Marc Mouries
Excellent. I am trying to convert it to the latest version but convert-ly stops at version 2.5.18 and afterwards lilypond says "error: file too old: 2.5.18 (oldest supported: 2.7.38)"violin1pt.ly:6:2: error: GUILE signaled an error for the _expression_ beginning here #  (override-auto-beam-setting

Re: Brandenburg #3 - convert-ly fails

2010-11-12 Thread Marc Mouries
ment 1 16) \set Timing.beatStructure = #'(2 4) which is my trial of making the moment a 1/16 and then defining the beaming as 2 groups of 4 1/16. -Marc On Nov 12, 2010, at 12:55 PM, Francisco Vila wrote: > 2010/11/12 Marc Mouries : >> Excellent. I am trying to convert it to the latest versi

Re: Brandenburg #3 - convert-ly fails

2010-11-12 Thread Marc Mouries
I worked on the 1st with 2.13 which introduced changes in the auto beam --Original Message-- From: Jonathan Kulp To: Marc Mouries Cc: James Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Brandenburg #3 - convert-ly fails Sent: Nov 12, 2010 7:58 PM On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Marc Mouries

Re: Brandenburg #3 - convert-ly fails

2010-11-13 Thread Marc Mouries
Nick Payne wrote: > Then use \set beamExceptions = #'((end . (((1 . 8) . (2 2 2 2) > > %= > \version "2.13.38" > > \relative c'' { >\time 2/2 >\set beamExceptions = #'((end . (((1 . 8) . (2 2 2 2) >c8 c16 c c8

Re: Default margins in Letter truncated

2014-07-20 Thread Marc Mouries
Shouldn't it be 20 ? > > > > <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n164707/top_margin_2cm.png> > > Sure that the units are mm rather than staff spaces? > > -- > David Kastrup > -- Marc Mouries 571-428-6771 ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: paper block for little snippets for webpublishing

2010-11-18 Thread Marc Mouries
I have a related questions. is it possible with lilypond-book to set the resolution of the images generated? The default one is pretty low. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

[doc] lilypondfile options?

2010-11-18 Thread Marc Mouries
I am testing lilypond-book with html (after having tested latex, lyx). The doc here : http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-program/HTML.html#HTML says: To include separate files, say filename but i could not find what are the possible options. _

Re: printing the name of the note inside the note

2010-11-18 Thread Marc Mouries
On 11/13/2010 8:47 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 11/13/10 6:35 PM, "Marc Mouries" wrote: Is there a way to print the name of the notes inside the notes like in the example attached? Yes. They are called easy note heads. See Notation Reference section 1.1.4. Thanks, Carl tha

Re: [doc] lilypondfile options?

2010-11-18 Thread Marc Mouries
On 11/18/2010 9:49 PM, Patrick McCarty wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Marc Mouries wrote: I am testing lilypond-book with html (after having tested latex, lyx). The doc here : http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-program/HTML.html#HTML says: To include separate

Re: Produce just a small png file

2010-11-18 Thread Marc Mouries
On 11/18/2010 10:00 PM, Bernardo Barros wrote: Hi all, How to make lilypond produce just a compact png file, with the size just to fit the music, without a complete page layouts. And not compiling ps/pdf, but just .png? Thanks! Bernardo ___ lilypond-

how to get half-bar used in Bach Music?

2010-11-20 Thread Marc Mouries
I searched and checked http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Bars but could not find a way to print a half-bar like Bach used in some of his music. It is not really used often so i'd not be surprised but just wanted to check with you guys just in case. -Marc __

Re: how to get half-bar used in Bach Music?

2010-11-20 Thread Marc Mouries
thanks Nick. A half-bar is Bach's writing was a bar containing the same number notes but only went over the staff from the 2nd to the 4th lines. On Nov 20, 2010, at 11:20 PM, Nick Payne wrote: > On 21/11/10 15:10, Marc Mouries wrote: >> I searched and checked >> http://li

showing counterpoint in solo music

2010-11-20 Thread Marc Mouries
I am typesetting some Bach solo work and want to emphasize the counterpoint. I found a way to typeset it like this with 2 voices \relative c' { \time 3/8 << { f16 d' b g e c | d b' g e c a' } \\ { f16[ s s s e s] | d[ s s s c s] } >> } but that means the score has to be type

Re: how to get half-bar used in Bach Music?

2010-11-21 Thread Marc Mouries
quot;2.12.3" > > \relative c' { > \override Staff.BarLine #'bar-size = #2.0 > c4 c c c | > c c c c | > } > > > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Marc Mouries wrote: > thanks Nick. A half-bar is Bach's writing was a bar containing the

Re: What setup for a Pedagogy Book?

2010-11-21 Thread Marc Mouries
were you able to see the preview image of the lilypond score in Lyx? For me on Mac as well when i open the lyx file i get an error message saying that I am missing a latex package. On Nov 21, 2010, at 4:24 PM, Damian leGassick wrote: > So... > > I just ran Onyx 2.2 and now everything works fin

How to get bar numbers very close to the staff?

2010-11-29 Thread Marc Mouries
I'd like to get bar numbers very close to the staff to avoid confusing them with fingering. Through Google i could find how to change the position UP or DOWN but i could not find how to reduce the space between the bar number and the staff. Here is the snippet for testing i created. % test bar

Re: paper block for little snippets for webpublishing

2010-12-01 Thread Marc Mouries
On 11/19/2010 4:54 AM, Bill Mooney wrote: Hi, you might try :- lilypond -f png -dresolution=600 "filename" where the 600 is an example - whatever you find is appropriate Hope this helps Regards Bill Thanks Bill. The option -d is not accepted by lilypond-book only by lilypond. Is there any way

Re: how to get half-bar used in Bach Music?

2010-12-04 Thread Marc Mouries
thanks all for your help. Browsing the lilypond doc I have stumbled upon the section on the Gregorian notation and what do i find? a half-bar! http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Typesetting-Gregorian-chant.html#Divisiones I tried to use it but apparently it is a breath mar

Re: how to get half-bar used in Bach Music?

2010-12-04 Thread Marc Mouries
r bar automatically? On Dec 4, 2010, at 9:49 PM, Marc Mouries wrote: > > thanks all for your help. Browsing the lilypond doc I have stumbled upon the > section on the Gregorian notation and what do i find? a half-bar! > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Type

Re: Lyx 2.0 Beta 1, LilyPond OS X, MacTeX etc. - got it to work with different gs

2010-12-07 Thread Marc Mouries
Talking about Ghostscript, I noticed that the latest version is GPL Ghostscript 9.00 released 2010-09-17 Wouldn't it make sense to update it in the lilypond distribution to benefit from the updates and ease the integration with other authoring software like LyX? On Dec 6, 2010, at 10:16 PM, He

Re: ANDLINUX: Easy virtualization option

2010-12-07 Thread Marc Mouries
thanks for passing the info. that's interesting. Too bad is supports only 32 bits OS. On Dec 6, 2010, at 8:54 PM, Mike Blackstock wrote: > I've attached a screenshot of Ubuntu and Windows 7 running concurrently on a > 1 gig netbook (yeah, believe it or not). andlinux has a somewhat different

Re: paper block for little snippets for webpublishing

2010-12-07 Thread Marc Mouries
Apparently the lilypond-book script does not accept Would anyone point me to the instruction to register an enhancement request? On Dec 1, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Marc Mouries wrote: > On 11/19/2010 4:54 AM, Bill Mooney wrote: >> Hi, >> you might try :- >> >> lilyp

Re: musescore

2010-12-09 Thread Marc Mouries
i just tried it and it took me forever to enter 5 notes and add text about the notes. However, looking at the lilypond file generated from MuseScore, this reminded me how big the size of the lilypond file is compared to the number of notes. %= % creat

Re: musescore

2010-12-10 Thread Marc Mouries
it's explained here: http://screenr.com/3L0 On Dec 10, 2010, at 3:32 AM, Phil Burfitt wrote: >> From: "Marc Mouries" >> >> I like however the page that allows to sync scores with youtube videos. >> Check it out it's really nice. http://musescore.

Re: Odd output

2010-12-10 Thread Marc Mouries
You get 2 stems because you created 2 voices with the signs "<<" and \\ see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Multiple-voices.html What are you trying to compose? On Dec 9, 2010, at 7:35 PM, Marco Correia wrote: > Hi, > > I just started using lilypond, so it is very p

text inside the staff close to the notes

2010-12-13 Thread Marc Mouries
I am wondering if it is possible to write text inside the staff close to the notes or without the notes like in the attached image to show the name of the notes. -Marc ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond

Re: text inside the staff close to the notes

2010-12-13 Thread Marc Mouries
} a \once \override NoteHead #'text = \markup { B } b } You'll have to do a fair bit of tweaking to get the right size and placement... Cheers, Mike On Dec 13, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Marc Mouries wrote: I am wondering if it is possible to write text inside the staff close to the no

Re: text inside the staff close to the notes

2010-12-13 Thread Marc Mouries
27;text = \markup { \lower #0.5 \fontsize #-3.5  G}     g     \once \override NoteHead #'text = \markup { \lower #0.5 \fontsize #-3.5  A}     a   }} On Dec 13, 2010, at 9:10 PM, Marc Mouries wrote:

Re: text inside the staff close to the notes

2010-12-13 Thread Marc Mouries
On Dec 13, 2010, at 11:33 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: > Make your leger lines transparent and the final A should look great. > i am not sure i am following because if the ledger line is transparent it defeats the purpose to show that the A is now on a line. What is bizarre is that the ledger line

Re: ChordName Font [was: lilypond cameo]

2010-12-14 Thread Marc Mouries
wow the font is really nice for song books. I also discovered the Gonville fonts and it would be great if those fonts be included into lilypond out of the box and the selection of font made simpler. On 12/14/2010 7:15 AM, Valentin Villenave wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:58 AM, M Watts wr

Re: ways of using Lilypond?

2010-12-20 Thread Marc Mouries
On 12/20/2010 8:54 AM, Ludo Beckers wrote: On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Marc Mouries <mailto:m...@mouries.net>> wrote: On Dec 18, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Ludo Beckers wrote: > Just wondering, has there ever been a poll about how many Lilypond users work with a certain s

fretboard diagram : alignment issue

2010-12-20 Thread Marc Mouries
Hi Lilyponders, I am trying to generate a chord chart for Violin and i have an alignment problem. I want to include the different possibilities of playing a chord and thus i can't use the command storePredefinedDiagram and thus can't use a FretBoard like this \score { << \new ChordNa

fretboard diagram : removing the fret number on the side

2010-12-20 Thread Marc Mouries
The fret diagram prints a fret number indication on the right that is confusing from a Violinist perspective. Is there any option for the fret diagram not to print it? For instance, in the 2nd D chord i'd like to get rid of the "iv" or print "i" because on the

Re: fretboard diagram : removing the fret number on the side

2010-12-21 Thread Marc Mouries
On 12/21/2010 10:51 AM, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 12/21/10 12:51 AM, "David Kastrup" wrote: Carl Sorensen writes: On 12/20/10 8:57 PM, "Marc Mouries" wrote: The fret diagram prints a fret number indication on the right that is confusing from a Violinist perspec

Re: fretboard diagram : alignment issue

2010-12-21 Thread Marc Mouries
On 12/21/2010 12:30 AM, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 12/20/10 8:47 PM, "Marc Mouries" wrote: Hi Lilyponders, I am trying to generate a chord chart for Violin and i have an alignment problem. I want to include the different possibilities of playing a chord and thus i can't

pb with 2.13 with doc example fret diagram

2010-12-21 Thread Marc Mouries
I just tested the example "Defining predefined fretboards for other instruments" with 2.13 and it produces a bizarre output. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Fretted-strings \paper { #(define dump-extents #t) indent = 0\mm line-wi

Re: pb with 2.13 with doc example fret diagram

2010-12-21 Thread Marc Mouries
On 12/21/2010 12:09 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 12/21/10 9:44 AM, "Marc Mouries" wrote: I just tested the example "Defining predefined fretboards for other instruments" with 2.13 and it produces a bizarre output. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/input/lsr/lilypond-snip

Re: pb with 2.13 with doc example fret diagram

2010-12-21 Thread Marc Mouries
On Dec 21, 2010, at 1:28 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: > > Well, it's supposed to be the number of semitones above middle C for each > open string, starting with the highest string. > Wow, that's really not self-explanatory but i get why it's needed. However I'll have one less argument when my frie

Re: pb with 2.13 with doc example fret diagram

2010-12-22 Thread Marc Mouries
On 12/22/2010 9:10 AM, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 12/22/10 12:12 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: Am 22.12.2010 03:43, schrieb Carl Sorensen: On 12/21/10 7:26 PM, "Marc Mouries" wrote: On Dec 21, 2010, at 1:28 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: Well, it's supposed to be the number

Re: how to write a scheme function to override glissando properties

2010-12-23 Thread Marc Mouries
This slide function is great. I always have to tweak the glissando command because it is always too small. On 12/19/2010 3:26 PM, jakob lund wrote: I 2010/12/19 Marc Hohl: Am 16.12.2010 17:04, schrieb Patrick Schmidt: [...] Hi Marc, thanks for your solution but I'm still trying to find

fretboard with fingers on the same string / scale

2010-12-23 Thread Marc Mouries
Lilyponders, I might be pushing the fretboard to its limit but i just found a very useful use after a discussion with my Violin teacher and I'd like to know if it's possible to print fingers dot on the same strings. It can also be used to print scales like

function looksSlower from LSR produces many warnings

2011-01-08 Thread Marc Mouries
I am using the function looksSlower from the snippet http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=305 and when i use it, it produces many warnings such as: - warning: stem does not fit in beam - warning: beam was started here I tested the snippet and it does not produce those warning because it does not

why chords with notes of different duration is not supported?

2011-01-11 Thread Marc Mouries
lilyponders, i'd like to know about the rationale behind not supporting chords with notes of different duration. In the case typesetting violin music it would be much simpler if the notation for chord allowed for notes of different duration. It also applies to other instruments where chords are

Re: function looksSlower from LSR produces many warnings

2011-01-11 Thread Marc Mouries
On Jan 11, 2011, at 6:34 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: > On 1/11/11 11:30 AM, "Marc M" wrote: > >> As a matter of fact, I get the same warnings without the function but with >> \stemUp with the code: >> \version "2.13.45" >> \language "english" >> \score { >> \relative g' { >><< { \stemUp g, }

Re: function looksSlower from LSR produces many warnings

2011-01-12 Thread Marc Mouries
On 1/12/2011 2:00 AM, Nick Payne wrote: On 12/01/11 16:08, Marc Mouries wrote: On Jan 11, 2011, at 6:34 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 1/11/11 11:30 AM, "Marc M" wrote: As a matter of fact, I get the same warnings without the function but with \stemUp with the code: \versio

Re: why chords with notes of different duration is not supported?

2011-01-12 Thread Marc Mouries
On 1/12/2011 4:40 AM, Graham Percival wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 09:15:41AM +0100, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: Am Mittwoch, 12. Januar 2011, um 09:02:19 schrieb Graham Percival: On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:04:50AM -0500, Marc Mouries wrote: i'd like to know about the rationale behin

Re: instrumentName in StaffGroup

2011-01-15 Thread Marc Mouries
On 1/15/2011 4:56 AM, Xavier Scheuer wrote: On 14 January 2011 20:56, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: To be honest, I don't understand, why the Instrument_name_engraver is not added to all staff group contexts by default. It is a very simple engraver, so it would not induce much overhead. And it does

Re: How to start translate documents without running autoconf.sh

2011-01-25 Thread Marc Mouries
On 1/25/2011 10:48 AM, Francisco Vila wrote: 2011/1/25 Ben Luo: neuro, "中文" should be great. Francisco, Please use "中文" for Chinese in Chinese. Ok, using 中文 instead of 汉语 There are actually six ways to designate the Chinese language: hànyǔ 汉 语 (Chinese) Pǔtōnghuà 普通话 (Mandarin, Chinese s

Re: exercise notation

2011-01-26 Thread Marc Mouries
On 1/26/2011 1:08 AM, Patrick Horgan wrote: On 01/25/2011 12:25 PM, lilyp...@josebreden.nl wrote: Hello, Singing in a coral I would like to exercise the different parts (soprano, alto, bass). So I would like to generate from a single .ly-file, multiple midi-files: - all parts together (which

Re: guitarist: how write chord names like Gadd5

2011-02-01 Thread Marc Mouries
On 2/1/2011 12:02 PM, David Santamauro wrote: Hi, On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 08:27:17 -0800 (PST) Jürgen Ibelgaufts wrote: David, I agree. Still an ordinary G. Anyway, what I am looking for is a way to name them differently in order to have different chord diagrams and different names on the printed

Re: Italian translation?

2011-02-21 Thread Marc Mouries
On 2/20/2011 1:39 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: In the Gondoliers, the Contadine sing "Per voi, bei signori". According to Google translate, 'bei' does not exist. Is there an Italian speaker here who can say whether it is Italian, or whether Gilbert got it wrong? No google does not know everything!

Re: Italian translation?

2011-02-21 Thread Marc Mouries
On 2/21/2011 10:56 AM, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: "Marc Mouries" To: Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 3:53 PM Subject: Re: Italian translation? On 2/20/2011 1:39 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: In the Gondoliers, the Contadine sing "Per voi, bei signori&q

Re: Creation of a generic pattern

2011-02-27 Thread Marc Mouries
have you taken a look at this snippet: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=654 -Marc ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Marc Mouries
This is intellectually interesting but the question is not "who deserves to create good music?" but rather "who wants to listen to music made by someone that does not practice?" and who wants to listen to music played by a computer? Sure many times, nowadays, the rendition of a computer playing

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Marc Mouries
On 3/17/2011 10:57 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Marc Mouries writes: This is intellectually interesting but the question is not "who deserves to create good music?" but rather "who wants to listen to music made by someone that does not practice?" and who wants to listen

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Marc Mouries
On 3/17/2011 11:31 AM, Graham Percival wrote: Art conveys emotions which are the one thing that make us human and thus should be played by human. "should be"? Hmm. "Art conveys emotions, and thus sheet music should be engraved by a human". You are mixing unrelated things. The analogy is about

Re: Suppress NoteNames output on ties ?

2011-03-21 Thread Marc Mouries
On 3/21/2011 4:59 PM, Gilles THIBAULT wrote: Could/did you add this to the LSR? Done http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=760 Gilles shouldn't this be the default behavior of context NoteNames and thus changed added to the context NoteNames instead of the LSR? __

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-22 Thread Marc Mouries
On 3/22/2011 9:57 PM, Graham Percival wrote: Pop music (and thus a lot of Vocaloid stuff) gets a bad rap for using the I IV V I chord progression a lot, but I don't see that amount of predictability to be any worse than classical music's predictability of beat strength in 4/4 time (strong-weak-m

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-25 Thread Marc Mouries
On 3/25/2011 5:17 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: David, Again: staring into the sun is not overstimulation since it is not overloading the sensors with content but rather blocking them. Looking into the sun can't be characterized as "I am seeing too much". There's clearly a semantic misunderstan

Mismatch version number in 2.13.58 on Windows

2011-04-08 Thread Marc Mouries
I just installed 2.13.58 on Windows and when i run lilypond I get C:\>lilypond GNU LilyPond 2.13.54 Usage: lilypond [OPTION]... FILE... Anyone else gets that? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/li

Re: Mismatch version number in 2.13.58 on Windows

2011-04-08 Thread Marc Mouries
On 4/8/2011 5:21 PM, Marc Mouries wrote: I just installed 2.13.58 on Windows and when i run lilypond I get C:\>lilypond GNU LilyPond 2.13.54 Usage: lilypond [OPTION]... FILE... Anyone else gets that? It seems that the uninstaller of lilypond 2.14.54 did not work well. If i uninstall

abc2ly limitations?

2011-04-08 Thread Marc Mouries
I am trying to convert an Irish Fiddle tune and abc2ly complains about grace notes, repeat signs and text quotes. Are the limitations of abc2ly documented anywhere? Any workaround to import the file? http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/Perron-Miller/Dr_Gilbert

swing rhythm in midi output?

2011-04-09 Thread Marc Mouries
Is possible to write regular eight notes and set settings in midi output to generate a swing rhythm like? <> -Marc___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

how to set a partial measure after the beginning of a piece?

2011-04-09 Thread Marc Mouries
I checked the doc here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Displaying-rhythms and it says: "partial command is intended to be used only at the beginning of a piece. If you use it after the beginning, some odd warnings may occur. " Any pointer about how to achieve this? T

slur collides with ledger line & grace note size

2011-04-15 Thread Marc Mouries
I tested with both 2.12 and 2.13 and in both versions the slur collides with the ledger line In the picture of the old score i have the slur is moved below the ledger line. How can we do the same with lilypond? I also noticed that lilypond prints grac

length of stems of sextuplets is too short

2011-04-16 Thread Marc Mouries
As you can see on this snippet the length of stems of sextuplets is too short. The length of the stems extend for 32th but not for the 8th notes.Is there anything i should do or is there something wrong is the default values?<>%% the sextuplets look compressed. The stems are too short.\version "2.1

bug triplet line collides with fingering

2011-04-20 Thread Marc Mouries
In this snippet the triplet line collides with the fingering. \version "2.13.60" \language "english" Violin = \relative d'' { \times 2/3{d4 a8-4} } \score { \new Staff { \Violin } \layout {} } <> I know i could use "\once \override TupletBracket #'direction = #DOWN" but there are alrea

Re: bug triplet line collides with fingering

2011-04-20 Thread Marc Mouries
On Apr 20, 2011, at 3:04 PM, Marc Mouries wrote: > In this snippet the triplet line collides with the fingering. > > \version "2.13.60" > \language "english" > > Violin = \relative d'' { > \times 2/3{d4 a8-4} > } > \score { > \new

with 2.13.61, file on wikipedia no longer compiles

2011-05-11 Thread Marc Mouries
I tried to compile the lilypond file in for the song "Au clair de la Lune" in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ly_au_clair_de_la_lune_accords_melodie_paroles.png It used to compile with 2.11, 2.12. The log files contains 100's lines like this: programming error: invalid UTF-8 strin

Re: with 2.13.61, file on wikipedia no longer compiles

2011-05-11 Thread Marc Mouries
On 5/11/2011 10:26 PM, Nick Payne wrote: I did a copy and paste of the ly source from that web page, saved it as UTF-8, and it builds without any errors at all. Lilypond 2.13.61 running on Ubuntu amd64. Nick thanks for checking out. I converted the file to UTF-8 and now the pdf gets generated

Re: with 2.13.61, file on wikipedia no longer compiles

2011-05-11 Thread Marc Mouries
On May 11, 2011, at 10:51 PM, Nick Payne wrote: > On 12/05/11 12:46, Marc Mouries wrote: >> On 5/11/2011 10:26 PM, Nick Payne wrote: >>> I did a copy and paste of the ly source from that web page, saved it as >>> UTF-8, and it builds without any errors at all.

LSR is not available

2011-05-14 Thread Marc Mouries
FYI the LSR is not available at this hour http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/ HTTP Status 404 - Servlet SearchPage is not available ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

text after dynamic

2011-05-14 Thread Marc Mouries
i need to have a "a tempo" indication right after a note with a "forte" dynamic. When i type the following lilypond code I get the text below the dynamic. That's logical as the both the dynamic and markup are attached to the note but how can i have the rallentando after the forte? \version "2.1

Re: text after dynamic (unrelated to the dynamic) / left or right markup

2011-05-14 Thread Marc Mouries
thanks for text that is related to dynamics i already use a simpler version of the same command: piuF = \markup { \italic più \dynamic f } this makes sense for text that is related to the dynamic such as molto forte, piu forte, ... but does not make sense for text that is unrelated like - fort

ppp on harmonics is too close to the bar line than normal notes

2011-05-14 Thread Marc Mouries
When a note is defined as an harmonic it creates a side effect on the position of dynamics. In this example, when the note D is a normal note the ppp does not touch the bar line however when it is an harmonic it does touch. <> %% When a note is defined as an harmonic it creates a side effec

Re: ppp on harmonics is too close to the bar line than normal notes

2011-05-17 Thread Marc Mouries
do you need more info or help to fix that ? On May 14, 2011, at 6:49 PM, Marc Mouries wrote: > > When a note is defined as an harmonic it creates a side effect on the > position of dynamics. > In this example, when the note D is a normal note the ppp does not touch the > bar li

Re: Problems when adding chords

2011-05-18 Thread Marc Mouries
On 5/18/2011 2:48 AM, Keith OHara wrote: Fabian Binz yahoo.de> writes: whenever I try to add chords to my score, I get a GhostScript-related error message when it tries to convert the ps file to pdf. Fabian, This sounds like the problem described at

Re: with 2.13.61, file on wikipedia no longer compiles

2011-05-18 Thread Marc Mouries
On 5/12/2011 4:21 AM, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: "Marc Mouries" To: "Nick Payne" Cc: Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 4:05 AM Subject: Re: with 2.13.61, file on wikipedia no longer compiles On May 11, 2011, at 10:51 PM, Nick Payne wrote: On

Re: with 2.13.61, file on wikipedia no longer compiles

2011-05-18 Thread Marc Mouries
On 5/18/2011 10:40 AM, Phil Holmes wrote: It's actually a different problem. The first was to do with accented characters in a file which was not UTF encoded. The one you refer to is a problem with the sans font and Windows 7 SP1. once the file has been encoded as UT8 i encountered the same p

convert from .mus to .ly (Bach BWV 1073: Canon )

2011-05-24 Thread Marc Mouries
I'd like to make an arrangement of Bach BWV 1073: Canon. I found the Finale 2002 source files2 on the icking-music-archive.org and would like to know if there is a way to convert them to lilypond. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org h

Re: convert from .mus to .ly (Bach BWV 1073: Canon )

2011-05-26 Thread Marc Mouries
, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Marc Mouries wrote: I'd like to make an arrangement of Bach BWV 1073: Canon. I found the Finale 2002 source files2 on the icking-music-archive.org and would like to know if there is a way to convert them to lilypond. ___ lilypond

Re: convert from .mus to .ly (Bach BWV 1073: Canon )

2011-05-26 Thread Marc Mouries
On 5/26/2011 9:27 PM, Colin Campbell wrote: On 11-05-26 11:18 AM, Marc Mouries wrote: On 5/24/2011 10:01 PM, Shane Brandes wrote: Yes. First you must convert the Finale 2002 file to a Finale version that supports exporting to a .xml version (Finale 2007 or thereabouts) and then from there it

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