change number of lines per staff

2008-03-31 Thread Matthew
number of lines in a staff from 5 -> 1? Cheers Matthew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

relative tremolo vertical spacing

2008-03-31 Thread Matthew
Hi all Is there a way to specify a relative vertical offset for a tremolo? I want to (for example) make the tremolo appear on the stem halfway between the beam and the notehead. I can't use StemTremolo #Y-offset as I've got tremolos on crotchets -> demisemiquavers, and I don't particularly want t

Breaking autobeams and stem direction with acciaccaturas

2008-03-31 Thread Matthew
Hi all (Hopefully) a quick question about break autobeams and stem direction. When I compile the following music, each embellishment that contains more than one acciaccatura breaks both the autobeaming and the stem direction that I have written in. Bars 1-2 contain the music with embellishment

Re: Breaking autobeams and stem direction with acciaccaturas

2008-04-01 Thread Matthew
Trevor Daniels treda.co.uk> writes: >Seems like the voice-context overrides have > nowhere to go if the first note is an acciaccatura and have no effect. A > work-around is to place all the voice-context overrides in the Staff context > so they apply to all voices. I did see that everything b

Re: Breaking autobeams and stem direction with acciaccaturas

2008-04-01 Thread Matthew
Mats Bengtsson ee.kth.se> writes: > Perhaps it helps to explicitly create the Voice context as well, i.e. > replace > \new Staff {...} > by > \new Staff \new Voice {...} > >/Mats > Nope, doesn't help. I've worked around it by using manual beaming; with that in, it all works.

tuplets interferring with slurs

2008-04-02 Thread Matthew
Do slurs and tuplet brackets know about each other? The following code produces a not very nice slur on the second tuplet. Additionally, it is very sensitive to the TupletNumber Y-offsett \version "2.10.33" \relative c'' { \time 2/4 \tupletUp %\override TupletNum

horizontal bracket over a single note

2008-04-03 Thread Matthew
Is it possible to produce a horizontal bracket over a single note? (currently on v. 2.10.33) I've tried playing with OttavaBracket and TextSpanner. TextSpanner doesn't work for a single note: { c4\startTextSpan\stopTextSpan } I can't get the left edge for the ottava bracket to work. I want the

Re: horizontal bracket over a single note

2008-04-04 Thread Matthew
Michael Watts gmail.com> writes: > > Try putting the textspanners into a separate voice with spacer notes. > IIRC a textspanner needs to start on a 'real' note, so your > textspanner voice would need transparent noteheads and stems. > You can put TextSpanners on spacer note. However, then spa

OttavaBracket bug?

2008-04-04 Thread Matthew
Matthew gmail.com> writes: > I can't get the left edge for the ottava bracket to work. I want there to be a > left edge, identical to the right. Is this an OttavaBracket bug? The program-reference doesn't say anything about values being hardcoded. Could it be the way th

Re: OttavaBracket bug?

2008-04-04 Thread Matthew
Neil Puttock gmail.com> writes: > > My C++ knowledge is minimal, but unless I'm mistaken, it appears that > the left edge is set to 0 after 'edge-height is read in > ottava-bracket.cc (which implements the print function for > octavations): > So is that a bug, or a feature? . Seriously, the

Re: brackets over a single note

2008-04-04 Thread Matthew
: do not have that many brackets warning: conflicting note group events. I can't start and stop an analysis bracket on the same note. . copy and paste I don't really care about; I'll be making up little macros to do all of those commands for me. Matthew __

Re: horizontal bracket over a single note

2008-04-05 Thread Matthew
How's this for an ugly hack? I use octavation brackets without the text and reset middle C so that the note doesn't change pitch. I just need the left edge to work and it's exactly what I need. \version "2.11.43" %% Unison brackets su = { #(set-octavation 1)

\incudes in \include'd files

2008-04-12 Thread Matthew
When I compile my score, I get the error: ../def/master_def.ly:4:9: error: cannot find file: `note_def.ly' Lilypond is correctly opening master_def.ly, but is then trying to open note_def.ly in the current path, rather than ../def Is there a way to have /inc

Re: \incudes in \include'd files

2008-04-12 Thread Matthew
Matthew gmail.com> writes: > > Is there a way to have /include keep relative path information? > I've got a work around that only works because of my simple, one level directory structure def/master_def.ly \version "2.11.43" \include "../def/n

Re: Orchestra file causing an init.ly error

2008-04-12 Thread Matthew
Eric Hedekar gmail.com> writes: > > > AHHH, there's the problem! I should have known better!-Eric I use Lilypondtool for jEdit -> coloured text ftw! . I've done that comment thing several times, but now that I've got coloured text, it makes it a lot easier to recognise what I've done.

Re: LilyPondTool 2.10.4-2 (help fix) released

2008-04-29 Thread Matthew
Bertalan Fodor organum.hu> writes: > > Hello, > > I've fixed the doc bug. Get it from: > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=91119 > Hi Bert! A (maybe) related question... Is there anyway to turn off autocomplete, add my own items to the autocomplete list or to make the s

How to Import MIDI and ETF files in LilyPond

2008-05-15 Thread Matthew
Please help me. I have tried to import in LilyPond some files in MIDI or ETF format. I've used command line; when I write the command, an error message is displayed; sometimes I'm told that the file is not specified. Can you give me an exemple very clear of how to write the command. Let's consid

Custom caesura command

2014-02-05 Thread Matthew
Not wanting to type a long \override command in every staff I want a caesura, I tried defining a command to shorten things for me :) . This is what I've tried so far: caesura = { \override BreathingSign.text = \markup { \musicglyph #"scripts.caesura.straight" } \breathe \override BreathingS

Re: Custom caesura command

2014-02-06 Thread Matthew
On 02/05/2014 09:36 PM, Paul Scott wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 09:17:53PM -0800, Matthew wrote: >> Not wanting to type a long \override command in every staff I want a >> caesura, I >> tried defining a command to shorten things for me :) . This is what I've >>

Re: 12/8 problems

2008-05-20 Thread Matthew Rowles
2008/5/21 Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > \time 4/4 > \set Staff.timeSignatureFraction = #'(12 . 8) Is there any reason why you're using a 4/4 time signature, but setting it to be equal to 12/8? Why not just use \time 12/8 in the first place? -- Matthew Rowles - Be Alert.

Re: 12/8 problems

2008-05-20 Thread Matthew Rowles
2008/5/21 Jonathan Siddle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Matthew, > > For whatever reason when I was trying it earlier, it didn't want to parse > correctly. Always the simplest thing...thank you very much. > > Jon maybe you wrote /time 12/8? I've

Re: incorrect beams in 16th quintuplet

2008-06-09 Thread Matthew Rowles
rks in the wild... -- Matthew Rowles - Be Alert. Australia needs lerts. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

creating png snippets that aren't the full paper size

2008-06-22 Thread Matthew Rowles
lilypond --png score.ly creates a full page image, lilypond -dpreview score.ly uses only the first line of the score (as it says in the documentation), but it is cropped to the music margins. Cheers Matthew -- Matthew Rowles - Be Alert. Australia n

Re: creating png snippets that aren't the full paper size

2008-06-22 Thread Matthew Rowles
file processed by lilypond --png myfile.ly produces a full page output. I can't find any other mentions of PNG specfic options in the docs. I am using 2.11.45. -- Matthew Rowles - Be Alert. Australia needs lerts. ___ lilypond-user mailing list li

Re: creating png snippets that aren't the full paper size

2008-06-22 Thread Matthew Rowles
2008/6/23 Francisco Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Graham has explained it perfectly in the docs, moments ago. Use > -dbackend=eps and --png this way: > > lilypond -dbackend=eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts --png myfile.ly Well, I wouldn't have guessed that! I'll give it a bash when I get

Re: where is "score wizard"? searcheable manual unresponsive.

2008-06-29 Thread Matthew Rowles
2008/6/30 plasmacarwash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi People > > Tonite at approx. 8:30 PM and 8:35PM EST USA. I tried twice to search the > online manual but got a "The server at lsr.dsi.unimi.it is taking too long > to respond" firefox message. :teeth: > > Is there a sticky somewhere about this? >

Re: Octavation in lilypond

2008-07-13 Thread Matthew Rowles
last whole note > E in the file attached. Have a look at 1.1.3 of the notation reference http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Ottava-brackets#Ottava-brackets -- Matthew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.or

Re: Beaming sixteenths sandwiched in a triplet

2008-07-14 Thread Matthew Rowles
> r4 r r > } > > Thanks! > > P.S. I'm using version 2.10.33. > > ___ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > -- Matthew Rowles - B

vertical spacing of piano staves

2007-06-21 Thread Matthew Kaner
Hi people - I'm having some real trouble trying to control the space lilypond places between my piano staves in a piece I'm working on. In lilypond 2.10 the following override could be used, but I believe it has now been removed in 2.11: \override VerticalAlignment #'forced-distance = #7 Does a

Multiple Titles

2007-08-20 Thread Matthew Tifford
I want to create a page of music with two short pieces on one page, with a title over each piece. Is lilypond-book the only way to do it? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: LilyPondTool 2.10.4-2 (help fix) released

2008-04-29 Thread Matthew Rowles
2008/4/30 Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/4/29 Matthew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > A (maybe) related question... > > > > Is there anyway to turn off autocomplete, add my own items to the > autocomplete > > list or to make th

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 66, Issue 13

2008-05-05 Thread Matthew Rowles
global-staff-size 14) just on it's own? I know that I use that line in my own music. I'm pretty sure I just whack it on the line after \version -- Matthew Rowles - Be Alert. Austalia needs lerts. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Adding notes above drumstaff

2008-05-05 Thread Matthew Rowles
2008/5/6 Stan Mulder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Kieren MacMillan sympatico.ca> writes: > > > (lilypond example snipped) > > That looks like it works. I think the notes should be smaller though so the > drummer knows they are only cues. > Try the \tiny tag..

note spacing

2005-06-16 Thread Matthew Huff
How do you adjust note spacing?   Matt Huff ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

2.4.5-2 from fink errors

2005-06-28 Thread Matthew Peltzer
t-file-name ": old relative compatibility was not use d." error: failed files: Yahweh.ly I had a glance at the file, but did not see anything obviously wrong. Any ideas? -- Matthew Pe

calculating durations

2005-09-16 Thread matthew . munz
Hi all, I am a new user of LilyPond and I am currently writing a program that transforms scores expressed in a piano-roll-like format into LilyPond scores, for the purpose of typesetting/printing. In the source format, music is expressed (like Midi, I suppose) as strings of notes with absolu

2 quick questions from a music teacher

2005-09-19 Thread Matthew Thibeault
of the basic conventions that seem to be inferred from Lilypond, such as argument, etc. Thanks for any possible help, Matthew Thibeault Snippet from sight singing (I would like a composer header to appear at the end of each line, which currently does not happen): \version "2.6.0&

Windows font problem?

2006-05-27 Thread Matthew Leerberg
I am a new user to Lilypond, and can't get the titles or footers to appear correctly in the PDF output.  Instead, it displays a series of "r"s and "p"s and commas.  Even the Lilypond tagline at the bottom appears this way.  I am using Windows.  Did I install some font file incorrectly?  Thanks for

Re: Windows font problem?

2006-05-29 Thread Matthew Leerberg
ms in the future. MattOn 5/29/06, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What version of LilyPond did you install?Also, what Windows version do you have?(Please answer to the mailing list)   /MatsQuoting Matthew Leerberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >:> I am a new user to Lilypond, and can

Lilypond-book indentation

2007-02-01 Thread Matthew Syvinski
ng a negative indent length). I'm using lilypond 2.10.12 and MiKTeX 2.5 on WindowsXP. Can anyone please help? Many, many thanks! Wayne Matthew Syvinski ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Lilypond-book indentation

2007-02-01 Thread Matthew Syvinski
surrection, O Christ" our Sa -- vior \bar "|" The an -- gels in Hea -- ven sing. \bar "|" En -- a -- ble us on earth \bar "|" to glo -- ri -- fy Thee in pur -- i -- ty of heart. \bar "|" } \score { << \new Voice = "upper" { \autoB

Re: Lilypond-book indentation

2007-02-02 Thread Matthew Syvinski
OK, I have reduced the test case and eliminated dependence on custom package liturgix. The music still indents. Here is the LaTeX file (pascha.latex): \documentclass[letterpaper,12pt]{article} \usepackage{pslatex} \usepackage{multicol} \usepackage{graphicx} \setlength{\parindent}{0in} \oddside

Printing two copies of same music (including title and composer) on same piece of paper?

2007-02-27 Thread Matthew Beckler
quot; \set Staff.midiInstrument = "trumpet" % phrase 1 bf4 d f4. d8 | ef g r4 r2 | f4 bf bf4. c8 | a f r4 r2 | \bar "|." }} #(set-global-staff-size 14) \book { \score { \new Staff \soloTrumpet } \score { \new Staff \soloTrumpet }

Vertical Spacing between scores

2007-02-28 Thread Matthew Beckler
? \score { \new Staff \soloTrumpet \header{title = "Title"} } } Thanks for any help in advance, Matthew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

multiple repeats

2007-03-05 Thread Matthew Simpson
I have a 4 bar passage that repeats 5 times (i.e., ||: <4 bars> :|| x 5) with no alternate endings. I'm engraving this with the "repeat volta" syntax, specifying that it's played 5 times, yet the output only has the standard double bars (meaning play twice). Can lilypond somehow automatically li

scheme: troubles adding an octave...

2007-04-15 Thread Matthew Hanna
As an exercise in learning to write lilypond scheme extensions, I've been trying to write a music-function that, given an EventChord or SequentialMusic, will return the passage in octaves, so c would return . I've run into a problem, though. When I run the following: \version "2.10.20" \relativ

Re: scheme: troubles adding an octave...

2007-04-15 Thread Matthew Hanna
Fantastic, I'm finally starting to 'get' what relative does. Thanks. On 4/15/07, Carl Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matthew Hanna gmail.com> writes: > > As an exercise in learning to write lilypond scheme extensions, I've been > trying >

Fixed Measure Widths

2004-09-10 Thread Matthew Schulkind
duplicate this. Also, is there a way to break every 4 measures automatically without manually inserting \break? Thanks, Matthew Schulkind ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

ChordName/Staff Spacing

2004-09-15 Thread Matthew Schulkind
How can I squish ChordNames and Staffs closer together than they willingly want to go? I have tried: \set Staff.minimumVerticalExtent = #'(0.2 . 0.2) \override SeparatingGroupSpanner #'padding = #'0.2 and \set ChordNames.minimumVerticalExtent = #'(0.2 . 0.2) Yet I still can't squish them as mu

triplet in lyrics warning

2005-03-08 Thread Matthew Peltzer
2. which when I think about it, is probably technically correct, but also probably superfluous. -- Matthew Peltzer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

disable rendering of a section of music

2005-03-09 Thread Matthew Peltzer
I remember it was *something* like: #if 0 %lots of music #endif %buggy music being worked on ...but I can't figure out the exact syntax -- Matthew Peltzer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.

Re: disable rendering of a section of music

2005-03-11 Thread Matthew Peltzer
On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 17:18:29 -0800, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9-Mar-05, at 4:39 PM, Matthew Peltzer wrote: > > > I'm fairly certain I've seen this in the user docs or on this list, > > but I can't seem to find out how to temporial

Lyric Alignment Problem

2002-10-31 Thread Matthew Sachs
I'm attempting to typeset a piece which has multiple parts (SATB), each of which have two verses of lyrics. I can't get the lyrics to align at all with the notes, either via \addlyrics or by manually specifying the duration of each syllable. I'm pretty new to Lilypond, pardon if I'm missing s

Pick a pitch/instrument in MIDI output

2009-04-16 Thread Matthew Rowles
c4. g c16 b' c d e16 d e f g4 g'4 r R1 } } \score { \music } \score { \music \midi { %do I put things in here to make % the output a snare drum? } } -- Matthew Rowles - Be Ale

Re: Strange beaming pattern in 4/4

2009-04-16 Thread Matthew Rowles
4? It may be due to the way the 32nd notes are (auto)beamed. If you replace the 16. 32 notes with 16 16, the beaming comes out how I would expect it. -- Matthew Rowles - Be Alert. Australia needs lerts. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-

Re: Pick a pitch/instrument in MIDI output

2009-04-17 Thread Matthew Rowles
And appendix B.4 of the manual > lists all the MIDI instrument names. > > Nick > >> -Original Message- >> From: lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.on@gnu.org >> [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.on@gnu.org] On >> Beh

Re: Pick a pitch/instrument in MIDI output

2009-04-17 Thread Matthew Rowles
riginal Message- >> From: Matthew Rowles [mailto:rowle...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Friday, 17 April 2009 20:51 >> To: Nick Payne >> Cc: lilypond-user >> Subject: Re: Pick a pitch/instrument in MIDI output >> >> I've read all of that. >> >>

Re: How to achieve chord stop with ¬

2009-05-13 Thread Matthew Rowles
2009/5/14 Stjepan Brbot : > > In chords for chord stop usually the following sign is used: ¬ > How to get this with lilypond? Have you tried using the \markup command to insert the character when you want it? -- Matthew Rowles - Be Alert. Australia ne

Lilypond Drum repeats

2009-07-04 Thread Matthew Hall
I have this code: *\header { title = "Rocky-rock-rock" composer = "Matthew Hall" meter = "1?? bpm" piece = "Rock" tagline = \markup { } } %#(set-global-staff-size 16) \include "english.ly" Some macros

Re: Centering lyrics in piano music for children

2012-09-30 Thread Matthew Collett
f << \new Staff = "right" { \new Voice = "melody" \melody } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" \text \new Staff = "left" { \clef bass s1*4 } >> } Best wishes, Matthew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: how to call these notes?

2012-10-17 Thread Matthew Collett
oggiatura', while an unslashed one represents a 'long appoggiatura'. A slashed quaver grace note in Haydn means exactly the same as an unslashed semiquaver one; the performer must decide from the context whether 'long' or 'short' is intended. Best wishes, M

gregorian.ly and line breaking

2012-11-11 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Is it possible to get lilypond to break lines for me when using gregorian.ly? having to add something like \bar "" \break by hand is a bit frustrating, given lilypond normally does quite a good job of line breaks. Thanks, Matthew -- `O'-0 `O'---.

Re: Note duration line (contemporary)

2012-11-29 Thread Matthew Probst
I find myself wishing for an O'Reilly style book "Hacking Lilypond". The user guide and the reference are fine as is, but a book with some extended examples of how to _architect_ solutions in Lilypond would be great. I already know Scheme the language, and have a basic understanding of the Lilypo

Re: Note duration line (contemporary)

2012-11-29 Thread Matthew Probst
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Olivier Biot wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Matthew Probst wrote: > >> I find myself wishing for an O'Reilly style book "Hacking Lilypond". The >> user guide and the reference are fine as is, but a book with so

Re: header on every page but the first one

2013-01-03 Thread Matthew Collett
y #not-first-page \fromproperty #'header:runningTitle " " } } then have in the header block something like: runningTitle = \markup{ A.Composer: \italic {A Short Title} } If you just want to reuse the title as is, then replace 'header:runningTitle' with

Stanza (or similar) at the end of a line?

2013-01-14 Thread Matthew Collett
new Staff << \clef treble \new Voice = "sopranos" { \sMusic } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "sopranos" { \verseOne } >> } \score { \new Staff << \clef treble \new Voice = "sopranos" { \sMusic } \new Lyrics \lyrics

Re: Stanza (or similar) at the end of a line?

2013-01-14 Thread Matthew Collett
k even then: the responsum mark never actually gets to the right-hand end, and the rest of the line gets bunched up to the left. I can get the desired _horizontal_ placement by putting \mark \markup{ \responsum } at the end of the music, but no amount of tweaking or realigning seems able to displace this vertically from its position above the staff. Best wishes, Matthew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Stanza (or similar) at the end of a line?

2013-01-16 Thread Matthew Collett
On 17/01/2013, at 12:10 am, David Kastrup wrote: > ly/gregorian.ly contains a predefined \responsum command. How does this > relate to the problem discussed here? Not at all: that simply prepends an "℟" to some text. Best

Re: lilypondbood package useful?

2013-01-16 Thread Matthew Collett
d be more flexible: LaTeX calling lilypond, rather than lilypond preprocessing the LaTeX source. Even then, something like Tikz externalisation would be wanted to stop large music excerpts being recompiled unnecessarily. Best wishes, Matthew ___ lilypon

Re: Stanza (or similar) at the end of a line?

2013-01-16 Thread Matthew Collett
mode { \once \override LyricText #'extra-offset = #'(2 . 0) \markup{ \bold \fontsize #-1 "℟." } } does the job nicely, thank you. (But I still see no point in using the definition of \responsum from gregorian.ly) Best wishes, Matthew

Re: Removing the line before a staff begins

2013-02-11 Thread Matthew Collett
line > breaks. Or two separate scores. Best wishes, Matthew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: a lot of accidentals. how do I notate them?

2013-03-01 Thread Matthew Collett
s actually an A-flat, then you need to write 'aes' with the default 'nederlands' language setting, or whatever the flat suffix is for the language you are using. Best wishes, Matthew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Repeating stanza numbers

2013-03-06 Thread Matthew Collett
On 7/03/2013, at 5:13 am, Laura Conrad wrote: > Matthew> shortVocalName does allow multiple verses: in the lyrics, > Matthew> wherever you say '\set stanza' also say '\set >Matthew> shortVocalName'. You may not like the position of the >

Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative

2013-03-08 Thread Matthew Collett
xtra typing but also a non-zero chance of an odd note or two being entered in the wrong octave undetected; with relative entry any octave error is immediately noticeable, since it propagates through the rest of the piece. Best wishes, Matthew _

Re: Two questions

2013-05-01 Thread Matthew Collett
less tolerable is that, if I understand things correctly, all > the "natural" ligatures between the notes disappear and need to be indicated > explicitly with "[" and "]" for example. \autoBeamOn restores automatic beaming within the cadenza. Best wishes, Matthew

Creating a ://: repeat mark?

2010-07-01 Thread Matthew Vernon
w that the final line of each verse is to be sung twice] Thanks, Matthew -- "At least you know where you are with Microsoft." "True. I just wish I'd brought a paddle." http://www.debian.org ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypon

Re: Creating a ://: repeat mark?

2010-07-02 Thread Matthew Vernon
ramming error: Glyph has no name, but font supports glyph naming. Skipping glyph U+10002AFD, file /spare/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf/CenturySchL-Roma.otf continuing, cross fingers Do I just need a more up-to-date lilypond [I have 2.12.2] , or is this a system issue? Many thank

Re: Creating a ://: repeat mark?

2010-07-02 Thread Matthew Vernon
Marc Hohl writes: > Matthew Vernon schrieb: > > M Watts writes: > > > On 07/02/2010 09:58 AM, M Watts wrote: > \markup { { \italic: } \hspace #-1.25 "/" \hspace #-1.25 "/" \hspace > #-1.25 { \italic : }} That's pretty good, although

Re: relative pitch with song sections

2014-05-15 Thread Matthew Collett
ay that marking a part as for a (B-flat) trumpet implies that it sounds a tone lower than written. I would be less persuaded by the same argument made for a guitar. Best wishes, Matthew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https:/

Re: Special Characters in Lyrics

2014-06-06 Thread Matthew Collett
try it. > Also, ideally I'd like the asterisk to be centered between "Lord" and "has" > rather than attached to "has". Is there a way to make that happen? In such situations I use: \set stanza = \markup{"*"} (Or more precisely

Re: SystemStartBracket/Brace

2014-06-09 Thread Matthew Collett
Best wishes, Matthew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Variable length bars

2014-06-27 Thread Matthew Collett
it has done the job for me on a number of occasions. Best wishes, Matthew dualtime.ly Description: Binary data ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: advice on final ad lib measure

2014-08-20 Thread Matthew Collett
re a way to tell Lilypond "from > here to the last bar this is free do not automatically add measure bars". \cadenzaOn will suppress the barlines (see http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-rhythms.html#u

Repeating predefined stanza labels

2011-06-16 Thread Matthew Collett
7; g' g' \break } >> \addlyrics { \one This is verse one; \one This is line two. \two This is verse two; \two This is the end. } } Now the stanza numbers are shown only when they change. Why is the behaviour

Re: lyrics vertical movement - help requested.

2011-06-17 Thread Matthew Collett
esired effect (the default value is 5.5, so 6.5 increases that by one staff-line spacing). Best wishes, Matthew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Repeating predefined stanza labels

2011-06-17 Thread Matthew Collett
\markup instead of bare strings Yes, it works perfectly now, thank you. > markup isn't evaluated when the identifiers are parsed. That sounds like something to remember for future reference. Best wishes, Matthew ___ lilypond-user mailing lis

Re: lyrics vertical movement - help requested.

2011-06-17 Thread Matthew Collett
-distance' is the least you are willing to accept. I thought the explanation at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/flexible-vertical-spacing-_005cpaper-variables was very clear. Best wishes, Matthew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lil

Re: Music running off the page

2011-06-19 Thread Matthew Collett
ions for such things as note spacing, the possibility or desirability of line breaks and the termination of the effect of accidentals.) Best wishes, Matthew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Options (was Re: How to generate small example PNGs)

2011-06-25 Thread Matthew Collett
line (or be set by 'ly:set-options')? Section 1.2 of the Application Usage manual only offers "a few interesting options", while the description of 'ly:set-options' in A.18 of the Notation Reference does not even do that. Neither cross-refer

Re: Odd-looking tie on a chord

2011-07-04 Thread Matthew Collett
r as lilypond is concerned, whitespace *is* nothing. :) And therefore any example containing unnecessary whitespace _is_ "an example from which nothing can be removed". Going into an Anglo-Saxon attitude, Matthew ___ lilypond-user mai

Lilypond not finding plain Helvetica font

2011-07-06 Thread Matthew Collett
ith the text in which the Lilypond output is embedded. This is Lilypond 2.14.1 on Mac OS X 10.6.8, and 'lilypond -dshow-available-fonts' does report the presence of family Helvetica Helvetica:style=Regular so the required font is present and recognised. Evidently it is a configura

Re: font survey: which clef do you prefer?

2011-07-06 Thread Matthew Collett
e right one. Best wishes, Matthew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

User fonts not recognised on OS X

2011-07-10 Thread Matthew Collett
(/System/Library/Fonts) but not the user fonts (~/Library/Fonts). I added that entry, and things now work as expected, but presumably I should expect retribution at some future point for ignoring the warning 'DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE'. Best wishe

Re: Ragged right for contents but not staff?

2011-07-10 Thread Matthew Collett
nly an improvement on my current method. Now I just need to figure out how to calculate the desired width, given the paper size and the staff size. (I think I know what calculation needs to be done; the question is just whether my Scheme is up to automating it.)

Re: Ragged right for contents but not staff?

2011-07-10 Thread Matthew Collett
#x27;ve been coding on and off for 30 years in a succession of Basic, Fortran, C, Matlab, C++, Python and even the odd spot of assembler, but Scheme remains quite impenetrable to me). Best wishes, Matthew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Ragged right for contents but not staff?

2011-07-11 Thread Matthew Collett
d-staff-width > } > } That looks uncannily identical to David's solution, apart from giving it a name (which is a good idea). Perhaps it deserves to be a snippet? Thanks, Matthew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Defining 'not-last-page'

2011-07-14 Thread Matthew Collett
\on-the-fly #last-page { "No more." } } }} evenHeaderMarkup = \oddHeaderMarkup } \markup{} \pageBreak \markup{} works as expected with the 'not-last-page' line commented out. What is really going on here, and how can I get 'not-last-page' to work? Best wishes, Matthew

Re: Defining 'not-last-page'

2011-07-15 Thread Matthew Collett
On 15/07/2011, at 4:28 pm, Nick Payne wrote: > On 15/07/11 10:20, Matthew Collett wrote: >> #(define (not-last-page layout props arg) >> (if (not (book-last-page? layout props)) >> (interpret-markup layout props arg) >> empty-stencil)) >> >

Re: Defining 'not-last-page'

2011-07-15 Thread Matthew Collett
On 15/07/2011, at 11:07 pm, Matthew Collett wrote: > I still don't understand why I can use 'last-page' (defined in > titling-init.ly) with no problem, but cannot use 'book-last-page?' (also > defined in titling-init.ly) unless I redefine it myself. Some fur

Re: Defining 'not-last-page'

2011-07-15 Thread Matthew Collett
uot;No more." } } }} evenHeaderMarkup = \oddHeaderMarkup } \markup{} \pageBreak \markup{} Thanks, Matthew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

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