Parameterizing a LilyPond function

2012-12-02 Thread PMA
Hi List. I would like to alter this function... glissmove = { \once \override Glissando #'(bound-details left Y) = #1.3 \once \override Glissando #'(bound-details right Y) = #1.3 } to accept its 1.3 or whatever as an input parameter instead. I see docs on parameterizing Scheme functions, b

Re: Parameterizing a LilyPond function

2012-12-02 Thread PMA
prefer a cyanide pill. Pete David Kastrup wrote: PMA writes: Hi List. I would like to alter this function... glissmove = { \once \override Glissando #'(bound-details left Y) = #1.3 \once \override Glissando #'(bound-details right Y) = #1.3 } to accept its 1.3 or wh

Re: Parameterizing a LilyPond function

2012-12-02 Thread PMA
You're right, man: working dory-hunky! I promise to upgrade *BTWN* projects. Thanks again, Pete David Nalesnik wrote: Hi Peter, On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 5:00 PM, PMA wrote: David& David, Thank you Both! I'm using the one-param version, as in this score my X& Y offsets

Re: Parameterizing a LilyPond function

2012-12-03 Thread PMA
David Kastrup wrote: PMA writes: David& David, Thank you Both! I'm using the one-param version, as in this score my X& Y offsets always match. But on exec -- uh oh -- Scheme is yelling: :2:65: error: GUILE signaled an error for the expression beginning here \o

Re: OFF-TOPIC: Changing Education Paradigms [Re: Advocating non-free softwares]

2013-03-01 Thread PMA
bobr...@centrum.is wrote: An optimist believes that we are living in the best of all conceivable worlds. A pessimist _knows_ it. -- David Kastrup NICE! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l

Re: OFF-TOPIC: Changing Education Paradigms [Re: Advocating non-free softwares]

2013-03-01 Thread PMA
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Peter, An optimist believes that we are living in the best of all conceivable worlds. A pessimist _knows_ it. Yes! Got me wondering -- How might one fit the realist in here (without loss of pithitude)? I thought the same thing… What I came up with is this: An

Re: OFF-TOPIC: Changing Education Paradigms [Re: Advocating non-free softwares]

2013-03-01 Thread PMA
PMA wrote: Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Peter, An optimist believes that we are living in the best of all conceivable worlds. A pessimist _knows_ it. Yes! Got me wondering -- How might one fit the realist in here (without loss of pithitude)? I thought the same thing… What I came up with is

Re: Thank you -- Hear! Hear!

2013-03-22 Thread PMA
I've had the same experience (short of realizing). Pete "Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger" wrote: Hello List, I just want to let you know, that I continue to be _very_ thankful for all the great ideas, patient explanations and profound help I draw from this list! The amount of time most of you i

Re: Files from Lilypond workshop @ LAC 2013

2013-05-21 Thread PMA
luis jure wrote: on 2013-05-21 at 13:18 David Kastrup wrote: It would seem that you associate the term "pitch" with physical frequency. no, it's not me, it's the standard meaning of the term as used in music theory, psychoacoustics, musical acoustics, music cognition, and all the disciplines

Re: Files from Lilypond workshop @ LAC 2013

2013-05-21 Thread PMA
David Kastrup wrote: It's not as much a matter of being correct, but rather of how this term is employed within LilyPond and its documentation. LilyPond also uses "event" in a meaning that contrary to common usage does not include birthday celebrations. "Event", of course, has been in common _

Re: Mutable and immutable

2015-08-18 Thread PMA
Andrew Bernard wrote: Greetings All, Since immutable as an adjective applied to an object in most programming languages, and in normal English usage means unchanging over time, or unable to be changed, how is it that the value of immutable objects can then be changed with \override and \rever

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-08-24 Thread PMA
Michael Gerdau wrote: Anybody remembering APL ? APL was my main lang. for decades, as is now its superset/descendant, J. I've got weary trying to tell anybody why. But the curious might take a peek at http://www.jsoftware.com/ Pete ___ lilypond-

Re: Gallery of Interesting Music Notation

2015-09-01 Thread PMA
Trevor Daniels wrote: ... in the Learning Manual: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/learning/real-music-example Should the LH upper 'D' not be an E-flat? - PMA ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lis

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-10 Thread PMA
PMA wrote: Martin Tarenskeen wrote: This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users and developers? My average age is 75. Better answer -- My age is 75. I've been using Lilypond for ca 5 years, without an editor (other than VI), and entirely for original co

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-10 Thread PMA
PMA wrote: PMA wrote: Martin Tarenskeen wrote: This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users and developers? My average age is 75. Better answer -- My age is 75. I've been using Lilypond for ca 5 years, without an editor (other than VI), and entirely fo

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-12 Thread PMA
PMA wrote: Martin Tarenskeen wrote: This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users and developers? My average age is 75. Better answer -- My age is 75. I've been using Lilypond for ca 5 years, without an editor (other than VI), and entirely for original co

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-12 Thread PMA
PMA wrote: PMA wrote: Martin Tarenskeen wrote: This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users and developers? My average age is 75. Better answer -- My age is 75. I've been using Lilypond for ca 5 years, without an editor (other than VI), and entirely fo

Re: 2.18.2 - Thoughts so far

2015-10-03 Thread PMA
Hear, hear! Ivan Kuznetsov wrote: Do yourself a serious favor and learn vi ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Overlap Beams in Time?

2010-09-04 Thread PMA
Dear List: First, thank you for Lilypond -- this wonderful tool -- and for accepting my subscription. I am placing noteheads, and using beams, in a way that has little to do with common usage. Lilypond has to a considerable extent "played along", as you'll see in the attached example. But

[Fwd: Overlap Beams in Time?]

2010-09-04 Thread PMA
Fixed. For proof, see pudding attached. (And I see this was hardly a new issue.) Thanks Jay! Pete Original Message Subject: Overlap Beams in Time? Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:53:49 -0400 From: PMA To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Dear List: First, thank you for Lilypond -- this

List-email Suggestion

2010-09-05 Thread PMA
Hi List. Would it be feasible to prepend "[Lilypond]" to the forum's email Subject line? Much of my other mail arrives this way -- like that from "[Csnd]" and "[LAU]". Does wonders for auto-filing. Pete ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user

Re: List-email Suggestion

2010-09-05 Thread PMA
An FYI (not, I hope, ugly/crappy or expecting the rest of the world to change): In my Debian-Linux Iceape email server I have now a filter looking simply for "lilypond" in any Subject, From, To, Cc. So-far, it's caught whatever it should. Thanks for all suggestions! Kaz Kylheku wrote: On

Before I clobber my LilyPond V-2.10...

2010-09-06 Thread PMA
Is LilyPond 2.12.2-1 (for Debian "squeeze") likely to work on Debian "Lenny"? Alexander Kobel wrote: On 2010-09-06 15:50, Xavier Scheuer wrote: On 6 September 2010 15:29, Richie Gress wrote: I am trying to engrave music that has no meter; this is what I need help doing: I need to specify

Re: Confusion about beaming

2010-09-07 Thread PMA
as i see it, the bracket -- whether '[' or ']' - modifies the note on it's left. Marc Schonbrun wrote: Hello, I was wondering about why the decision was made in the input syntax parser to view beaming groups as follows: } \relative { c8 d [e f g a b c] } The above snippet beams from the

Re: Confusion about beaming

2010-09-07 Thread PMA
... so works more as a function than as a literal output graphic. PMA wrote: as i see it, the bracket -- whether '[' or ']' - modifies the note on it's left. Marc Schonbrun wrote: Hello, I was wondering about why the decision was made in the input syntax parser

Re: List-email Suggestion

2010-09-07 Thread PMA
I can report that my filter looking for "lilypond" in Subject/From/To/Cc catches everything I'd hoped it would -- except of course any replies to me that haven't Cc:'d the List. To that last, I'd welcome a solution, if there's one that won't enrage everybody. If not, I can live with it. Cheers,

2 pages on 1 ?

2010-09-17 Thread PMA
Hi List. I have a LilyPond score printing to 11X17 paper in landscape mode. Most of the result -- with staves stretching fully across the page of course -- is looking okay. But one movement isn't. It's measures, nearly a half-page wide, would to my eye be most readable if they were arranged in

Re: 2 pages on 1 ?

2010-09-18 Thread PMA
And thank you all -- Nick, Ananth, David, Dmytro ! Clearly I've got some homework to do Pete ananth p wrote: Thanks for the suggestions, David & Dmytro. Have never worked with postscript. Will try that and pdflatex too. Agreed, scripting will be useful for repeated jobs. Perhaps we could

Horizontal shift

2010-10-22 Thread PMA
Hi List. I have a LilyPond score in which an arpeggiated chord tends to be preceded by a rest. And too often, the arpeggio glyph overlaps its preceding rest. How can I shift horizontally -- either the rest slightly leftwards, or the arpeggio glyph itself ever-so-slightly rightwards? I trie

[Fwd: Horizontal shift]

2010-10-22 Thread PMA
Oops, my "\tweak..." attempt did not include that initial '-'. Original Message Subject: Horizontal shift Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:35:24 -0400 From: PMA To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Hi List. I have a LilyPond score in which an arpeggiated chord tends to b

Re: Horizontal shift

2010-10-23 Thread PMA
ects -- applying either a positive value to Arpeggio, or a negative one to Rest. Thanks and greetings back! Pete Vicente Solsona wrote: On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 02:35:24 +0200, PMA wrote: Hi List. I have a LilyPond score in which an arpeggiated chord tends to be preceded by a rest. And too

Levelling sustain-pedal indications

2010-10-24 Thread PMA
In a piano page chock full of bracket-style pedalling for chords at widely different pitch levels, I've managed to align the horizontal pedalling lines vertically, via a zillion little paragraphs like \once \override Staff.PianoPedalBracket #'edge-height = #'(1 . 3.5) sustainOn ... sustainOff Tr

Re: Levelling sustain-pedal indications

2010-10-25 Thread PMA
a-Ha! pursuing -- thank you Keith! Keith E OHara wrote: On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:51:11 -0700, wrote: In a piano page chock full of bracket-style pedalling for chords at widely different pitch levels, I've managed to align the horizontal pedalling lines vertically, via a zillion little paragrap

Move Page Numbers?

2014-02-05 Thread PMA
Hi List. Most of my current score's page numbers need shifting a little, both vertically and horizontally. Can "\override ... #'extra-offset = #'( ... . ...)" or something similar be aimed at PageNumber (instead of, say, DynamicText) to shift them? I could, I know, force the issue, page-numbe

Re: Move Page Numbers?

2014-02-05 Thread PMA
Thomas Morley wrote: 2014-02-05 PMA: Hi List. Most of my current score's page numbers need shifting a little, both vertically and horizontally. Can "\override ... #'extra-offset = #'( ... . ...)" or something similar be aimed at PageNumber (instead of, say, Dynam

Re: Move Page Numbers?

2014-02-06 Thread PMA
Thomas Morley wrote: how about: ... #(define folio-offset '( ... #(define-markup-command (place-folio layout props folio) (markup?) ... \paper { ... HTH, Harm Working beautifully ("TH"d). Thanks Harm! Pete ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-

Sorta Proportional

2014-03-09 Thread PMA
enario changed since? PMA ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Proportional-Notation Durations

2014-07-08 Thread PMA
Hi List. I'm looking for a LilyPond way to specify note duration in a Proportional Notation context using exactly _one_ stemless notehead type. Perhaps the first option is a mid-level horizontal line extending distance-X from the notehead. (The space following would indicate silence.) But I wa

Re: Proportional-Notation Durations

2014-07-10 Thread PMA
Thomas Morley wrote: 2014-07-09 0:24 GMT+02:00 PMA: Hi List. I'm looking for a LilyPond way to specify note duration in a Proportional Notation context using exactly _one_ stemless notehead type. Perhaps the first option is a mid-level horizontal line extending distance-X from the not

Re: List defect?

2014-07-10 Thread PMA
I've no idea, and don't see it as clearly a defect _of the list_. Over the past few days I've had emails straggling in a day- or-so late from _several_ forums. Richard Shann wrote: On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 14:53 +0200, Simon Albrecht wrote: Hello, now there definitely seems to be something wrong

Re: List defect?

2014-07-11 Thread PMA
Simon Albrecht wrote: Hello, now there definitely seems to be something wrong with mail delivery on the list. Agreed. I had reported similar trouble with other forums' email, but now only LilyPond's hasn't returned to normal. Pete ___ lilypond-use

Re: Updating a score from version 1.4

2014-07-17 Thread PMA
I'm thinking this implies that convert-ly is best used incrementally by LP version, with no intermediate upgrading omitted. So, with original code at Ver 'A' and my destination Ver 'E', then for best results I'd install Versions B, C, D and run all four convert-ly's (A->B; B->C; C->D; D->E)? Is

Re: Updating a score from version 1.4

2014-07-17 Thread PMA
David & Harm, Thank you! I let my unresolved fuzziness on this issue (and a memory of messy cumulative system upgrades) keep me from attempting a 'convert-ly' _EVER_. Now I stand -- well, sit -- corrected, and am ready to at least _try_. Pete David Kastrup wrote: PMA

New LilyPond on Ancient Debian?

2014-07-23 Thread PMA
Hi List. My Debian version is Squeeze (oldstable), with default LilyPond at version 2.12.3-7. Has any of you successfully upgraded LP to version 2.18.0-1 on that system? Thanks, Pete ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists

Re: Proportional-Notation Durations

2014-07-24 Thread PMA
PMA wrote: Thomas Morley wrote: 2014-07-09 0:24 GMT+02:00 PMA: Hi List. I'm looking for a LilyPond way to specify note duration in a Proportional Notation context using exactly _one_ stemless notehead type. Perhaps the first option is a mid-level horizontal line extending distance-X fro

Re: Proportional-Notation Durations

2014-07-24 Thread PMA
Mike Solomon wrote: On Jul 24, 2014, at 9:08 PM, PMA wrote: PMA wrote: Thomas Morley wrote: 2014-07-09 0:24 GMT+02:00 PMA: Hi List. I'm looking for a LilyPond way to specify note duration in a Proportional Notation context using exactly _one_ stemless notehead type. Perhaps the

Reduce vertical space between \score's?

2014-08-08 Thread PMA
Hi List. An *.ly of mine has four 1-system \score's on each page, rather than one 4-system \score, because each system's "Score.proportionalNotationDuration...make-moment..." setting is different (and \score accepts only one such setting). Trouble is, the vertical space between \score's is too b

Re: Reduce vertical space between \score's?

2014-08-08 Thread PMA
P.S. I should ask alternatively: Is there a way that "proportionalNotationDuration...make-moment..." can be reset _per system_ (assuming now a multi- system \score)? PMA wrote: Hi List. An *.ly of mine has four 1-system \score's on each page, rather than one 4-system \scor

Re: Reduce vertical space between \score's?

2014-08-08 Thread PMA
Abraham Lee wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Pete, Trouble is, the vertical space between \score's is too big. This was not so in the original version (2.12.3), but is now after my upgrade to version 2.18.2. Is it possible to reduce LP-1.18.2's default value

Re: Reduce vertical space between \score's?

2014-08-08 Thread PMA
PMA wrote: Abraham Lee wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Pete, Trouble is, the vertical space between \score's is too big. This was not so in the original version (2.12.3), but is now after my upgrade to version 2.18.2. Is it possible to reduce LP-1.1

Re: Retrograde and inversion clefs

2014-08-08 Thread PMA
guoguocuozuoduo wrote: > Hi all, > > I am working on a piece that uses reversed and inverted clefs which indicate > retrograde and inversion. > The reversed clef is placed at the end of a line to indicate retrograde; the > inverted clef is placed before the main clef to indicate inversion. > >

Force auto-beaming?

2014-09-05 Thread PMA
Hi List. I have a \cadenzaOn score with many notes, occasional rests, and no barlines. I want beaming imposed for all consecutive (flagged) notes, interruptible only by rests. That was LP 2.12's default auto-beam behavior, but 2.18 in this context (tho with "\set Staff.autoBeaming = ##t") only

Re: Force auto-beaming?

2014-09-06 Thread PMA
Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: Hi Peter, how about a tiny example ? Cheers, Pierre Hi Pierre, Ok, I'll whittle down a big one (to remove home-grown non-culprit conditions you'd otherwise have to wonder about) and send the still-botching Tiny. All I want, really, is a command that says to the a

Re: Reduce vertical space between \score's?

2014-09-06 Thread PMA
PMA wrote: PMA wrote: Abraham Lee wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Pete, Trouble is, the vertical space between \score's is too big. This was not so in the original version (2.12.3), but is now after my upgrade to version 2.18.2. Is it possible to r

Multiple LilyPond Versions

2011-03-11 Thread PMA
Hi List. I've downloaded an old LilyPond version (lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-x386.sh) to correct some details in an old .ly score that the 2.12 & 2.13.. versions just won't stand for. The .sh is sitting now in an isolated directory. Before executing it, I want to ensure that doing so won't over

LilyPond vs Squeeze (was: LilyPond 2.12.3 and Fonts in Debian Squeeze)

2011-03-26 Thread PMA
Hi List. I have a quite different problem involving Lilypond & Squeeze. An .ly file that my lilypond version 2.13.32 processed successfully under Lenny, it (same version) fails to process under Squeeze. So-far there is just one message text... error: syntax error, unexpected STRING

Re: LilyPond vs Squeeze

2011-03-27 Thread PMA
oh for heaven's sake -- my apologies to all, for taking your time! pete James Lowe wrote: hello \paper { paper-width = 5.5\in paper-height = 11\in left-margin = 0\in right-margin = 0\in line-width = 4.0in doesn't this need a slash? 4.0\in James _

Favorite Lilypond-Score Printer?

2011-03-28 Thread PMA
Hi List. If you were shopping for a fine non-feature-crazy laser or inkjet printer to be used *only* for private publishing of your LilyPond scores (that trusty old dot-matrix will handle everything else), is there a make-&-model you would especially consider? One constraint -- it must outp

Self-Publishing (was "Favorite Lilypond-Score Printer?")

2011-04-10 Thread PMA
ts on this topic. Thanks again. Regards, Pete Original Message Subject: Favorite Lilypond-Score Printer? Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:45:02 -0400 From: PMA To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Hi List. If you were shopping for a fine non-feature-crazy laser or inkjet printer to b

Re: Self-Publishing

2011-04-17 Thread PMA
ou'll spend a LOT of time for this and it will not be, sadly, of the same quality of a professional printer. Well, I mean, don't hink that working with a pro will be so much money ! Best regards. JMarc Han-Wen Nienhuys a écrit : On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Laura Conrad wrote: &

For a Weird Key Signature

2011-04-26 Thread PMA
Dear List, I have a single clef (treble) with key signature consisting of one Natural (on 2nd-line G) and one Sharp (on above- the-staff G), as follows: \set Staff.keySignature = #`(((0 . 4) . ,NATURAL) ((1 . 4) . ,SHARP)) Unfortunately the PDF out

For a Weird Key Signature (Retry)

2011-05-01 Thread PMA
y that its signature is specific, not just to pitch class, but to octave registration. Thanks, Pete Original Message Subject: For a Weird Key Signature Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:02:38 -0400 From: PMA To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Dear List, I have a single clef (treble) with key

Fwd: Re: For a Weird Key Signature (Retry)

2011-05-03 Thread PMA
By gum, that solved it -- just right (even the value). Thanks a bunch! Original Message Subject: Re: For a Weird Key Signature (Retry) Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 10:43:55 -0400 From: PMA To: Trevor Daniels Thanks for this. I'll give it a go (and post better). Trevor Da

\RemoveEmptyStaffContext (?)

2011-08-15 Thread PMA
Hi List. I have a 40-bar LilyPond piano score notated in 3-staff systems (to accomodate a leaping-over left hand). Occasionally one staff in a system, either the middle or upper, contains rests only. I want to exclude such staves from the output, and so have defined my \score block as follows,

Re: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext (?)

2011-08-15 Thread PMA
harm6 wrote: PMA-2 wrote: Hi List. Occasionally one staff in a system, either the middle or upper, contains rests only. I want to exclude such staves from the output, and so have defined my \score block as follows, following Notation& Snippets Ref. suggestions. \score {

Re: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext (?)

2011-08-15 Thread PMA
harm6 wrote: Graham Percival-3 wrote: umm, did you try reading the lines immediately above it? %% Keep the old definitions in here for compatibility (they erase %previous %% settings to the corresponding context!). %% For new scores, one should simply insert the \RemoveEmptyStaves %settings

Re: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext (?)

2011-08-15 Thread PMA
harm6 wrote: Graham Percival-3 wrote: umm, did you try reading the lines immediately above it? %% Keep the old definitions in here for compatibility (they erase %previous %% settings to the corresponding context!). %% For new scores, one should simply insert the \RemoveEmptyStaves %settings

Re: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext (?)

2011-08-16 Thread PMA
Ok, sniffing Thanks harm6 wrote: PMA-2 wrote: I've tried again with Xavier's "RemoveEmptyStaves" code, and that in turn again with James's "Grand" substitutions. No difference so-far at all. I reckon my best next step is to download 2.14.2. Each vers

Re: was \RemoveEmptyStaffContext (?) -- now How Force a Brace?

2011-08-17 Thread PMA
harm6 wrote: at least some of the suggestions should work!! Make sure the lines to hide are really empty. Or, if you're using some other context/voice (Lyrics , Dynamics etc.), try to comment these to locate the problem. Some time ago I had a similiar one: a wrong rhythm in \new Dynamics disturb

Re: was \RemoveEmptyStaffContext (?) -- now How Force a Brace?

2011-08-18 Thread PMA
harm6 wrote: at least some of the suggestions should work!! Make sure the lines to hide are really empty. Or, if you're using some other context/voice (Lyrics , Dynamics etc.), try to comment these to locate the problem. Some time ago I had a similiar one: a wrong rhythm in \new Dynamics disturb

Is "short-indent" resettable? (formerly "How Force a Brace?")

2011-08-18 Thread PMA
After more docs-sniffing & experiments, I think my recent query to Harm probably boils down to -- Given a (global) "short-indent" setting under \paper, is it possible to "\once \override..." this value for individual score systems? Regards, Pete ___

Re: Is "short-indent" resettable? (formerly "How Force a Brace?")

2011-08-19 Thread PMA
harm6 wrote: ... I'm not aware of any possibility to \once\override short-indent or to repeat the SystemStartDelimiter in the middle of a line or something else, to do what you intend. But to force a brace, I created a workaround adding a brace to a barline, with the possibility to stretch it o

Re: Is "short-indent" resettable? P.S.

2011-08-19 Thread PMA
PMA wrote: ... I've always wished that publishers would format music (solo scores anyway) according to its measure groupings -- i.e., lay it out like poetry, for the same reason. Well o'course they won't. But now with this generous setup of yours, I can. I dream of making a Be

Re: Lilypond lobbying?

2011-08-24 Thread PMA
I'm confused. Please forgive a terribly naive question -- *If* my LilyPond output PDF were to match what Schott wants to see (in other words, a correct Schott-targeted style-sheet would not have changed it), then would Schott print my original PDF *as-is*? Thanks, Pete Urs Liska wrote: Dear F

tempo setting

2011-10-05 Thread PMA
Hi List. This is a question about notational judgment. I have a several-bar phrase in quick 5/8 time (qtr. + dotted qtr., but quick enough to allow only one felt beat per bar), and want to give its first bar a tempo spec equivalent to = 80 So, how shall I specify that value? I fi

Re: tempo setting

2011-10-06 Thread PMA
#2 will probably be easiest to interpret. On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:48 PM, PMA wrote: Hi List. This is a question about notational judgment. I have a several-bar phrase in quick 5/8 time (qtr. + dotted qtr., but quick enough to allow only one felt beat per bar), and want to give its first

Display "r2" as r1?

2011-11-27 Thread PMA
Hi List. With many multi-bar rests, my 10-staff StaffGroup in compilation dies of segmentation fault. With each multibar rest replaced by however many R1's, it dies still. So I've now replaced every R1 with "s2 r2" (which compiles fine), hoping next to tell Lilypond to *print* that centered "r2

Re: Display "r2" as r1? -- SOLVED!

2011-11-28 Thread PMA
.0" } \once \override Stem #'transparent = ##t e'2 } Thanks for listening. Pete PMA wrote: Hi List. With many multi-bar rests, my 10-staff StaffGroup in compilation dies of segmentation fault. With each multibar rest replaced by however many R1's, it dies still.

Re: Display "r2" as r1? -- SOLVED! P.S.

2011-11-28 Thread PMA
oh, and alto clef. PMA wrote: Here's my snake-oil function for the centered whole-rest. In 4/4 & proportional notation, it's working like a charm! REST = { s2 \once \override NoteHead #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \once \override NoteHead #'text = \markup

Re: Display "r2" as r1? -- SOLVED!

2011-11-28 Thread PMA
Xavier Scheuer wrote: On 28 November 2011 15:56, PMA wrote: Here's my snake-oil function for the centered whole-rest. In 4/4& proportional notation, it's working like a charm! REST = { s2 \once \override NoteHead #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \once \overr

Re: Display "r2" as r1? -- SOLVED!

2011-11-28 Thread PMA
Xavier Scheuer wrote: ... REST = { s2 \once \override NoteHead #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \once \override NoteHead #'text = \markup { \musicglyph #"rests.0" } \once \override Stem #'transparent = ##t e'2 } I still do not understand why you need to use such dirty hack! If there is a

Re: Display "r2" as r1? -- SOLVED!

2011-11-29 Thread PMA
Francisco Vila wrote: 2011/11/29 PMA: Xavier Scheuer wrote: ... REST = { s2 \once \override NoteHead #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \once \override NoteHead #'text = \markup { \musicglyph #"rests.0" } \once \override Stem #'transparent = ##t e'2 } I s

Re: Display "r2" as r1? -- SOLVED!

2011-12-17 Thread PMA
James wrote: Hello, On 29 November 2011 15:59, PMA wrote: Francisco Vila wrote: 2011/11/29 PMA: Xavier Scheuer wrote: ... REST = { s2 \once \override NoteHead #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \once \override NoteHead #'text = \markup { \musicglyph #"rests.0" }

Re: Display "r2" as r1? -- SOLVED!

2011-12-17 Thread PMA
Carl Sorensen wrote: ... Probably, in the learning manual, section 4.3.1 where it talks about overriding 'stencil to #f and to 'point-stencil, we should also show an example of setting it to text-interface::print, along with some discussion that any grob can have its stencil set to text-interface

Re: An easy way to convert from absolute to \relative?

2011-12-21 Thread PMA
David Kastrup wrote: Father Gordon Gilbert writes: Hi all, I have a number of pieces I entered quite a while ago (2.5.x, etc) in absolute pitch -- being the easiest for me at the time. But now I'd like to update them (2.15.x), and while convert-ly does a good job of changing up the basic syn

Re: An easy way to convert from absolute to \relative?

2011-12-21 Thread PMA
David Kastrup wrote: PMA writes: David Kastrup wrote: Father Gordon Gilbert writes: Hi all, I have a number of pieces I entered quite a while ago (2.5.x, etc) in absolute pitch -- being the easiest for me at the time. But now I'd like to update them (2.15.x), and while conve

ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-15 Thread PMA
Hi List. I'm considering posting my scores on WIMA (now via ISMLP), and would much appreciate comment from any of you who have had experience in going that route. Most especialy, I'm wondering what regrets you may have faced after agreeing to the diluted copyright protections. Thanks in advance

Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-16 Thread PMA
P.S. By "scores" I mean only PDFs (not also their .ly sources). PMA wrote: Hi List. I'm considering posting my scores on WIMA (now via ISMLP), and would much appreciate comment from any of you who have had experience in going that route. Most especialy, I'm wondering

Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-16 Thread PMA
P.S. Selling is not an issue. PMA wrote: Thanks for your response. But I see that we are way apart on this. Adapting/customizing the result is exactly what I mean to prevent. I want these products closed indeed. Naturally, unrealized scoring improvements will remain on my head. Francisco

Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-16 Thread PMA
Thanks for your response. But I see that we are way apart on this. Adapting/customizing the result is exactly what I mean to prevent. I want these products closed indeed. Naturally, unrealized scoring improvements will remain on my head. Francisco Vila wrote: 2012/1/16 PMA: P.S. By "s

Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-17 Thread PMA
Oh -- all *my* compositions. Sorry, I should have thought to specify this. Shane Brandes wrote: Do you mean by your scores? your compositions or your typesetting of other's compositions? Shane On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:00 PM, PMA wrote: P.S. Selling is not an issue. PMA wrote: T

Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-17 Thread PMA
Francisco Vila wrote: 2012/1/17 PMA: Thanks for your response. But I see that we are way apart on this. Adapting/customizing the result is exactly what I mean to prevent. I want these products closed indeed. Naturally, unrealized scoring improvements will remain on my head. But nobody but

Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-17 Thread PMA
David Kastrup wrote: PMA writes: Oh -- all *my* compositions. Sorry, I should have thought to specify this. Well, you said you don't care about royalties. So apparently what you do care about is artistic integrity. The question is how you can achieve your goals while providing a ma

Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-17 Thread PMA
David Raleigh Arnold wrote: On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 20:26 -0500, PMA wrote: Hi List. I'm considering posting my scores on WIMA (now via ISMLP), and would much appreciate comment from any of you who have had experience in going that route. Make sure your midi, if any, has a copyright n

Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-17 Thread PMA
Thanks Hans. As I (don't really) understand, ISMLP requires a contributor of copyrighted materials to agree to their being licensed *as* public domain. Obviously for a clear view, I've got more homework ahead Hans Aberg wrote: On 16 Jan 2012, at 02:26, PMA wrote: I

Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-17 Thread PMA
Francisco Vila wrote: 2012/1/17 PMA: David Raleigh Arnold wrote: On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 20:26 -0500, PMA wrote: Hi List. I'm considering posting my scores on WIMA (now via ISMLP), and would much appreciate comment from any of you who have had experience in going that route. Make

Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-17 Thread PMA
Xavier Scheuer wrote: On 17 January 2012 21:02, PMA wrote: Your last sentence here hits on *the* issue in my original post. Why indeed would I...? But it seems that, to post on ISMLP/ WIMA, one *must* commit to public-domain-like status. I wish that was true!! As a Free Culture supporter

Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-17 Thread PMA
Jay Anderson wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 5:54 PM, PMA wrote: Thanks Hans. As I (don't really) understand, ISMLP requires a contributor of copyrighted materials to agree to their being licensed *as* public domain. IMSLP allows submission of items in the public domain and items un

Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-18 Thread PMA
David, Hans, Chris -- These are the perspectives I need. Thanks for your patience! Pete David Kastrup wrote: PMA writes: Jay Anderson wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 5:54 PM, PMA wrote: Thanks Hans. As I (don't really) understand, ISMLP requires a contributor of copyrighted mate

Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-18 Thread PMA
PMA wrote: David, Hans, Chris -- These are the perspectives I need. Thanks for your patience! Pete ... David, Hans, Chris -- These are the perspectives I've needed. Thanks for your patience! Pete Sorry, forgot to erase my top-post after copying it to the b

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