How to write slurs and ties with scheme

Hello All: I am attempting to typeset some fingerstyle guitar music. We extensively use the TabStaff for the visual representation of this music. I have a lot of trouble with Slurs and Ties in the TabStaff. If I could individually instantiate Slurs and Ties my life would be much easier. I think

Re: How to write slurs and ties with scheme

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 4:33 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Thomas Morley writes: > > > 2015-09-29 12:26 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup : > >> > >> At the current point of time, slurs are only from one chord in a Voice > >> to the next chord in a Voice. So you'd need to put your notes into > >> different

Re: creating a slur with markup

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: > 2013/6/27 Rachael Thomas Carlson : > > On 06/26/2013 05:08 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: > >> > >> \version "2.16.2" > >> > >> \new TabStaff { > >> \tabFullNotat

Re: creating a slur with markup

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:08 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Thomas Morley writes: > > > Hi Rachael, > > > > per default, LilyPond prints _one_slur between legato-chords. This is > > common praxis in nearly all printed editions. > > LilyPond provides the possibility to tweak the slurs via their > >

Re: creating a slur with markup

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:13 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Rachael Thomas writes: > > > for now you are stuck with > > > > \new Voice { c-\withMusicProperty #'spanner-id #"g" > > \tweak #'extra-offset #'(0 . -1) (( > >

Re: creating a slur with markup

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Rachael Thomas < rachael.thomas.carl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:13 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Rachael Thomas writes: >> >> > for now you are stuck with >> > >>

Re: creating a slur with markup

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Rachael Thomas < rachael.thomas.carl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Rachael Thomas < > rachael.thomas.carl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:13 A

Re: Guitars with capos

Hello Hilary: Please excuse a short notation question! This is a fun question! What's the preferred way of notating music for a guitar with capo? Sounding pitch, or as a transposing instrument (so that a guitar capoed on the third fret is effectively a guitar in E flat)? This would depend upon

Re: [LSR v2.18] "Flamenco notation" update\improvement

Hello Pierre: > Since the v2.18 output of this snippet : > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=409 > has an awfull look (see : > http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/snippets/fretted-strings#fre > tted-strings-flamenco-notation ) I completely agree! > Please find herewith my suggestion

stroke finger placement within tablature

Hello: I would like to place the stroke finger between the lines in tablature not on one of the lines as is currently the case. Here is an example of what I do not want \version "2.14.2" \score { \new TabVoice { \set strokeFingerOrientations = #'(left) 8 } } \layout { \con

Re: stroke finger placement within tablature

\tweak to place them individually: \new TabVoice { \set strokeFingerOrientations = #'(left) c - \tweak Y-offset #-.75 \RH #1 ^\markup "c '" } Rachael Thomas Carlson wrote Hello: I would like to place the stroke finger between the lines in tablature not on one of the lin

Re: picking up/down symbols in flatpicking guitar

On Thu, 2013-06-13 at 00:48 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Thomas Morley writes: > > > Well, in classical Guitar-scores the strike-direction is _always_ > > related to the pitches. What does that mean? > > Even for 0-14-14-13-0-0 ? > > > ↑ means from bottom-pitch up to top-pitch. Always. I'm no

creating a slur with markup

Hello everyone: I am wondering how one might create a slur with the \markup command. I am trying to create, in tabulature, two pull-offs that occur simultaneously in the same voice. \version "2.16.2" \new TabStaff { 8\2\4 \2\4 } I need to create a slur between both of these notes without

Re: creating a slur with markup

On 06/26/2013 05:08 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: \version "2.16.2" \new TabStaff { \tabFullNotation \set doubleSlurs = ##t 8\2\4( \2\4) } Hello Harm: Thank you for the quick reply. I think that I could possibly make this work. Would I manipulate the padding of the slur t

How to change TabNoteHead

Hello: I am attempting to change the TabNoteHead through what the documentation calls 'Modifying stencils' (chp. 5.5.3). I can't seem to get the stencil override to work. I have been able to change the TabNoteHead through the use of postscript like in one of the snippets (http://lsr.dsi.unim

Re: How to change TabNoteHead

On Saturday, July 06, 2013 08:39:15 PM Thomas Morley wrote: > 2013/7/6 Rachael Thomas Carlson : > [...] > > > Harm: > > > > Wow! > > > > You are amazing! Thank you so much. The second possibility is going > > to work very well. Also, thank you

Re: How to change TabNoteHead

On Saturday, July 06, 2013 10:25:54 PM Thomas Morley wrote: > 2013/7/6 Rachael Thomas Carlson : > [...] > > > Quick question: could you direct me to a resource that could tell me > > about this information and these functions? > > Well, I can't answer quick or

Re: How to change TabNoteHead

On Saturday, July 06, 2013 07:51:52 PM Thomas Morley wrote: > 2013/7/6 Rachael Thomas Carlson : > > Hello: > > > > I am attempting to change the TabNoteHead through what the > > documentation calls 'Modifying stencils' (chp. 5.5.3). I can't seem to >

How to remove brackettips

Hello! I am wondering if it is possible to remove the brackettips.up and the brackettips.down from the SystemStartBar. What would be left would be a strong/bold thick line. I can't seem to think of any way to do this. Any ideas? Rachael ___ lilyp

Re: How to remove brackettips

On Monday, July 08, 2013 10:55:42 AM Nathan wrote: > On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Rachael Thomas Carlson > > wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I am wondering if it is possible to remove the brackettips.up and the > > brackettips.down from the SystemStartBar

Re: Sharing: "Capone," by Rachael [pdf]

On Tuesday, July 09, 2013 07:28:28 PM MarcM wrote: > Nice. Is there a recording of the piece we could listen to? > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Sharing-Capone-by-Rachael-pdf-tp14780 > 3p147827.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nab

Re: stylesheets, defaults, and other in-Pond-erables

o help you put together a Fingerstyle guitar stylesheet. I have been basically producing one myself; I would love to make it widely available. Please let me know how I can help. Sorry for the rambling email, Rachael Thomas Carlson ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: stylesheets, defaults, and other in-Pond-erables

On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 15:52 -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hello all, > > > I'm hoping to break out a series of stylesheets (or stylesheet sets): > > instrument (e.g., violin) solo > > piano solo > > piano + vocal > > piano + solo instrument > > organ solo > > instrumenta

How to create an extra-offset shortcut

y ideas? Thank you, Rachael Thomas Carlson ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: How to create an extra-offset shortcut

On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 18:18 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Rachael Thomas Carlson writes: > > > Hello everyone: > > > > I am trying to figure out how I can create a nifty little shortcut to > > write a \once \override with the ability to manipulate the extra-offset &

Re: How to create an extra-offset shortcut

> \version "2.16.2" > > mkTweak = > #(define-event-function (parser location x y m) (number? number? ly:music?) > #{ \tweak #'extra-offset #(cons x y) #m #}) > > { c'1\mkTweak #4.4 #-3.3 ^"XY" } > > > -Harm Thanks Harm: I am struggling with scheme. But I am slowly making my way. Thanks

Dynamics take up too much space

Dear Lilypond Users: I have been having a conundrum as of late: I use a system of notation that requires as many as six to eight textspanners to be present at any given time. I generally do not need that much (more like four or so) but the functionality needs to be present. The way that I have a

Re: Dynamics take up too much space

I think that I can refine this question more after spending most of today struggling with this problem. (I am sorry that my previous question was so poorly worded.) I am trying to figure out out to get the spacing of the dynamics non-staff line to equal zero. I do not want my dynamics context to

Re: Dynamics take up too much space

to a couple of systems that end up with funky inner vertical spacing but that is much more easily remedied than funky spacing below the system. Rachael On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 15:36 -0500, Rachael Thomas Carlson wrote: > I think that I can refine this question more after spending most of >

Re: Writing "Mouvt" abbreviation of "Mouvement"

Hello Marc: On Sat, 2013-07-27 at 10:11 -0700, MarcM wrote: > I'm trying to write "Mouvt" the abbreviation of the french word "Mouvement" > For some reason a whitespace is inserted between the 'v' and the 't' > MouvtRubato.ly >

A spacing issue

Hello: I am having an issue with spacing. I sent an email out a couple days ago without any responses (except my own responses). I thought that I had solved my \markup spacing issue but I was wrong. I am days away from finishing this score and I am at a bottleneck with this spacing issue. At t

Re: A spacing issue

On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 10:28 +1000, Nick Payne wrote: > This works with 2.17.23. I think the syntax is ok for 2.16.2. > > \version "2.16.2" > \layout { >indent=0\mm >ragged-right = ##t >\context { > \Score >\override StaffGrouper #'staffgroup-staff-spacing = >#'((b

Re: Sharing: "Capone," by Rachael [pdf]

Hello Federico: I wonder what's the meaning of the staff lines highlighted in purple... The TabStaff lines that are highlighted in purple indicate string-damping. This is where the indicated right-hand finger rests or plants upon the string indicated causing that string to *not* vibrate. The

changing the font of moderntab clef

Hello All: I am working on emulating a music publisher and this publisher uses what we would consider a moderntab clef but with a serif font not the sans-serif that we use. I have tried a bunch of different ways of changing the font but I can't seem to get it. Also, I looked in the code to

Re: changing the font of moderntab clef

Hello Pierre: You can use a pretty old snippet : And to make it work with stable took only a grammatical change and version change. + \version "2.16.2" - > \version "2.17.25" \new TabStaff { - > \override Staff.Clef.stencil = #(lambda (grob) + \override Staff.Clef #'stencil =

Re: changing the font of moderntab clef

Hello Harm: On 09/03/2013 09:04 AM, Thomas Morley wrote: Hi Rachael, I'm in a hurry: For now a first sketch. \version "2.16.2" %% -> tablature.scm %% define tab-Clefs as a markup: #(define-markup-command (customTabClefII layout props num-strings staff-space) (in

Re: Drawing a hexagon with a number inside

Hello David: Thanks for the help. Those are not actually proper hexagons, so they are pretty easy to draw using something like \markup \path #0.25 #'((moveto 3 0) (lineto 1 2) (lineto -1 2) (lineto -3 0)

Re: Drawing a hexagon with a number inside

Hope it's still working (didn't test it with newer versions) It appears to work quite well with 2.16.2. I will need more time with this document in order to make it do exactly what I want; but it is good know of all of the wonderful possibilities of markup and scheme. It really makes me r

Re: Beam groupings

Hello Ed: 2/4 all 4 quavers will be beamed together. \version "2.16.2" \relative c'' { \time 2/4 c8 b a g | \set Timing.baseMoment = #(ly:make-moment 2 4) \set Timing.beatStructure = #'(1) \set Timing.beamExceptions = #'() c b a g | } Rachael _

Re: Beam groupings

Hello Ed: On 09/07/2013 07:38 PM, EdBeesley wrote: Thanks Andrew I was going to do that but the whole part I'm writing has the same beaming pattern throughout, so to keep it tidy I was hoping to avoid doing it manually for every bar. And I figured I might as well try and understand how it works

Re: Beam groupings

Hi Ed: You have not told us what version you are running. What version of LilyPond are you running? This code should work for 2.14, 2.16, and 2.17. Rachael On 09/07/2013 08:28 PM, EdBeesley wrote: Thanks everyone for your continued help. Rachael I'm afraid your example didn't work. I did a

Re: some original LP scores

Hello dp: "Sonatina": Prelude, m.2 should have a third position marking instead of the second position marking that is in the score at the moment. I am having some fun playing through these. Has anyone performed them? Rachael On 09/08/2013 09:53 AM, Dave Phillips wrote: Greetings, Some ti

Re: Lilypond and Vim

Hello Kale: On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 18:18 +0200, Christian Andersson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Kale Good wrote: > Can someone point me towards a place to get some good help > setting up a .vim file? I'm trying to edit the lilypond.vim to > do a few things dif

modifying the length and thickness of the footnote line

Hello all: I am attempting to modify the thickness, placement, and length of the spanner that appears at the bottom of the page when a footnote is present in the code. I have tried everything that comes to mind. I kind of expect it to be \override FootNoteSpanner #'thickness = #'0.01 But that

Re: modifying the length and thickness of the footnote line

by one's imagination, of course. Thanks again, Rachael Thomas Carlson ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Formatting long footnotes

#x27;' > > } \justify-string will do the trick. \markup { \justfiy-string #"Lorem ipsum dor sit amet,..." } Rachael Thomas Carlson ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Fedora 19 Lilypond and Vim

On 10/01 10:12 PM, Kevin Tough wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to the group and just starting my Lilypond learning. I am using > Fedora 17 and 19. My favorite editor is Vim but I am far from a power > user. I am confused about syntax highlighting for Lilypond. > > The Lilypond website: > http://www.lil

Re: Citing Lilypond in a paper?

Hello Ryan McClure: On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 19:58:10 -0700 (PDT) ryanmichaelmcclure wrote: > Would this be the way I should do it, in your opinion? > > CREATOR INFORMATION (2013). Lilypond (Version 2.17.29) [Software]. > Available from http://lilypond.org/download.html > I believe that the proper

Re: Thoughts about creating Stack Exchange page?

Hello Ryan: On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 16:30 -0700, ryanmichaelmcclure wrote: > What are your thoughts about creating a LilyPond Stack > Exchange page? I have found the LaTex Stack Exchange very useful. I think that LilyPond would definitely benefit from a Stack Exchange-type website. I don't mean