Re: Height and vertical alignment of first system on first page

Am 09.08.2015 um 12:16 schrieb Jonathan Scholbach: Hi Ponders, I have a score with an odd number of systems. Each page has two systems (it's an eight-voiced Choirstaff), the first page gets one system (and the title-section) - fine. Lilypond stretches the first system vertically to make it fill

Re: Acciaccatura slurs

Am 09.08.2015 um 17:13 schrieb Thomas Morley: 2015-08-09 16:20 GMT+02:00 Andrew Bernard : Hi Harm, Well, are the glyphs that lilypond automatically puts in for acciaccaturas slurs or ties? I am quite confused. I thought they were slurs. The manual suggests to my way of reading that they are slu

Re: problem with installed font when set-global-staff-size is changed

Am 11.08.2015 um 18:19 schrieb Jonathan Scholbach: Hi! I would like to use the Garamond font for all the text in my sheet (header, lyrics, markup). I downloaded the EBGaramond from http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/download.html and put all the .otf-files into the directory lilypond/usr/sha

Re: Text spanner text in the middle

Am 14.08.2015 um 13:11 schrieb Malte Meyn: Am 14.08.2015 um 12:32 schrieb Andrew Bernard: Just re my own suggestion of text spanners with text in the middle, although the present need is for a repeat indication, I am well aware that this is poor design, since a textual mark does not indicate

Re: Align scores in markup

Am 14.08.2015 um 14:58 schrieb MarcM: the custom function helps for readability and reuse of score snippets. \markup { "this" \score { { c' d' e' } \layout { indent=0 } } "should be aligned with this " \score { { c d e } \layout { indent=0 } } } %% This is more conci

\transpose and quoting

Hello, I’m looking for a way to quote another voice, but in a different octave. My thinking was: ‘\quoteDuring is a music function, so it returns music, so I can wrap it into \transpose c c, {} and all’s fine.’ However, \transpose has no effect. Using \transposition doesn’t seem quite the rig

Re: \transpose and quoting

Thanks, Kieren and Paul. Pre-transposing works. Best, Simon Am 15.08.2015 um 17:31 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Simon, I’m looking for a way to quote another voice, but in a different octave. I ran into this, too. Don’t know if it’s the best way, but I used \addQuote “melody_8vb” \tran

Re: Can't find right hand fingering without string #'s

Am 16.08.2015 um 11:32 schrieb BB: Sorry, cannot find any any c-"p" in the attached code to check the allegation "putting the markup "p" below the note, not a fingering indication."! Well, just try and compile something like %% { c-"p" } %% And, yes, it is markup: insert

Re: Can't find right hand fingering without string #'s

Am 16.08.2015 um 14:02 schrieb Thomas Morley: The quite verbose \rightHandFinger #1 can be shortened as already shown in this thread. Let me quote NR again: #(define RH rightHandFinger) And since 2.19.24 we have a non-scheme alternative for this: RH = \rightHandFinger \etc Perhaps it might e

Re: Beam exceptions

Am 16.08.2015 um 05:28 schrieb Andrew Bernard: In the following MWE, I would like to have the second bar have a primary beam across all the notes, as per the first bar. I imagine it may require more than what I have here, possibly something to do with setting up beamExceptions? Unfortunately, e

Re: automatic bar number following multimeasure rest

Am 16.08.2015 um 15:27 schrieb bobr...@centrum.is: Klaus, I haven't tested that. I'm sure it probably works. Unfortunately, this is what I was trying not to do. My reason for wanting an automatic solution is for making rehearsals easier for parts with lots of rests. "Start at measure x,"

Re: Can't find right hand fingering without string #'s

Am 16.08.2015 um 16:20 schrieb BB: Well, if you say, there is a need ... you oversee the side effects, hidden for me. The quotes are not a real problem. The inconsistency is illustrated in this example: \version "2.19.2" { \voiceOne c'1-"p"} { c'1-"p" } Please be more explicit. I may only

Re: Lining up notes in staves with different rhythms and time signatures

Am 20.08.2015 um 22:46 schrieb Blöchl Bernhard: That are the interesting cases where to outsmart the optimised depiction of lilypond. Usually not an easy task! First thee is an error, as d8 d4. a16 c8. | does not sum up to 2/4. Nay be that line should read | e8 g a g | e c4. | d8 d4. | a8 c4.

Re: Lining up notes in staves with different rhythms and time signatures

Am 21.08.2015 um 20:56 schrieb Malte Meyn: Am 21.08.2015 um 20:45 schrieb Blöchl Bernhard: Interesting! New rules for basics of music. I think this is too bold an assumption. It may very well be that there is one 3/4 measure here, and I would trust the original typeset here. Not every time

Re: vertical spacing of rests

Am 23.08.2015 um 00:48 schrieb Michael Rivers: It would be nice if this were just newbie question, but all of us old-bies and have to deal with it all the time. It would be really nice if Lilypond just combined the rests as it should. That would have to be discussed, but I agree that it would be

Re: vertical spacing of rests

Hello Peter, Am 23.08.2015 um 03:11 schrieb Peter Selinger: Wait, this didn't quite work: hideRests = { \override Rest.transparent = ##t } It almost produces the correct output, but it generates a million warnings (one for each rest) about a "rest collision" that could not be resolved. I gu

Re: Way to flatten nested \include's?

Am 23.08.2015 um 15:23 schrieb Knute Snortum: I don't know of a LilyPond way to do this, but it would probably be a fairly simple Python or Perl program. And wouldn’t it be user-friendly to provide such a script with our default binaries, that is alongside convert-ly? My 2cts, Simon Knute S

Re: A call to Cantique de Fauré

Am 23.08.2015 um 20:00 schrieb Ali Cuota: Hello, Does somebody where to find the Cantique de Jean Racine in Ly? Mutopia, cpdl, imslp and so far google say no. :-( In https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-01/msg00295.html Sir Michiel Lange was asking about a solution for manual c

Re: Errors when using TabStaff with stringTunings

Hello Kevin, welcome back to the Pond :-) There have been many syntax changes since v2.12, and one of them is the culprit here, so you’ll want to get a look at . (In case you’re using Frescobaldi: Tools/Updat

Re: Change size of notes in addQuote passage

Am 24.08.2015 um 18:59 schrieb owainsut...@gmail.com: Is there a way to (a) use 'transposedCueDuring' which retains these details from the original, Yes, see . Although actually a ‘cue’, as you are prob

Re: Equal spacing of notes in a bar

Hi Bill, ‘proportional notation’ is the magic word: . HTH, Simon Am 24.08.2015 um 20:54 schrieb William Marchant: I have looked though the documentation without finding what I need. The attached code gives me a tripl

Allow LyricText/SpanBar overlapping

Hello, following 19th century practice, I am using StaffGroup for choir scores. When there are longer syllables at the end of a measure, they avoid to overlap with the span bar, which costs horizontal space. I’d prefer this to be turned off, but how? I might conduct a lengthy and imprecise se

Re: Way to flatten nested \include's?

Hi Andrew, many thanks for your work. I just tried the script and can’t avoid getting an error about lacking rights. My command was: $flatten-ly 18-der-stuermische-morgen.ly > debug.ly sudo doesn’t help and it’s regardless of whether I place the script in /usr/bin/ or in ~/. Can you tell why

Re: Way to flatten nested \include's?

Am 24.08.2015 um 21:57 schrieb Blöchl Bernhard: The attached file is a binary, not a lilypond file, regardless of the extension .ly? Have another look: it’s not flatten.ly, but flatten-ly – without any file name extension. It’s not a binary either, but plain text, and is used as a shell script,

Re: Errors when using TabStaff with stringTunings

Am 24.08.2015 um 22:12 schrieb Kevin Nowaczyk: Thanks for the help everyone, I would up changing the stringTungings line to: \set Staff.stringTunings = \stringTuning And everything works fine. However, I also tried the notaion: \set Staff.stringTunings = #bass-tuning but that didn't work. I'll

Re: Equal spacing of notes in a bar

acing> – or by ‘brute force’: something like \paper { system-count = 10 }. HTH, Simon On 15-08-24 03:56 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote: Hi Bill, ‘proportional notation’ is the magic word: <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/proportional-notation>. HTH, Simon Am 24.

lyric-text::interpolate-alignment

Hello, with my current project I wanted to avoid making too many manual adjustments on LyricText.self-alignment-X, and so I made an essay at having this done automatically depending on the width of the syllable. It’s not a very sophisticated approach – a really intelligent solution is still f

Re: lyric-text::interpolate-alignment

Am 26.08.2015 um 00:04 schrieb Simon Albrecht: Hello, with my current project I wanted to avoid making too many manual adjustments on LyricText.self-alignment-X, and so I made an essay at having this done automatically depending on the width of the syllable. It’s not a very sophisticated

Re: lyric-text::interpolate-alignment

Am 26.08.2015 um 01:31 schrieb David Nalesnik: Simon, On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Simon Albrecht mailto:simon.albre...@mail.de>> wrote: Am 26.08.2015 um 00:04 schrieb Simon Albrecht: Hello, with my current project I wanted to avoid making too many

Re: Allow LyricText/SpanBar overlapping

Hi Trevor, thanks, that works cleanly. In the meantime I found that it would actually better if syllables were only allowed to overlap on the right. It’s uncommon and seems odd/more difficult to read to have the syllable stick into span bar _at the left_. But that’s a more involved task, of c

Re: a basic question

Hello Paul, I do suggest using the solution Marc provided, it’s so much easier. But for the sake of completeness: Am 27.08.2015 um 09:44 schrieb B~M: Sorry to ask this silly little question. I am writing out SATB harmonies for a music exam and Ive decided to colour the bass in blue, just to m

Re: Make a new staff occupy the same vertical space as a previous staff

Am 27.08.2015 um 15:50 schrieb Joel Ebel: On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 2:53 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Oh wow. This one is seriously annoying. If you take out all \stopStaff, it is apparent that the TabStaff is alive through the whole piece. This is also the case when replacing \new Line with \new

Re: bowing change in a long trill

tically more correct than \hide c''. It’s possible to nicely wrap this into a music function: % \version "2.19.25" % music function by Simon Albrecht after an idea of David Kastrup after = #(define-music-function (t e m) (ly:duration? ly:music? ly:music?) #{ << #m { \

Re: a basic question

Am 27.08.2015 um 17:11 schrieb Marc Hohl: Am 27.08.2015 um 16:55 schrieb Marc Hohl: Am 27.08.2015 um 14:48 schrieb Simon Albrecht: Hello Paul, [...] The solution posted by Mark will not work on anything which lives at Score level, e.g. ledger lines and bar lines. Since the OP example

Re: bowing change in a long trill

Hello Robert and Paul, Am 27.08.2015 um 17:44 schrieb Robert Schmaus: Note the use of ‘s’, a spacer rest, which is semantically more correct than \hide c''. I used the hidden note to place the bowing sign in the correct height. I'm not sure if s\upbow looks good if you overlay that with c''

Re: bowing change in a long trill

Am 27.08.2015 um 20:53 schrieb Robert Schmaus: Hi Simon, I never really checked out this structure << { music } { yet more music } Awesome, I didn't know it worked that way! Simultaneous music within a voice – that’s also how often a \global variable with \tempo, \key, \mark and \bar com

Re: bowing change in a long trill

Am 28.08.2015 um 13:24 schrieb B~M: Dear Rob thanks so much for your help and all the others that helped with my little questions. Thanks also for pointing out potential copyright issues. On this point, perhaps you can educate me. I've transposed several works Hindemith wrote for Violin to Viol

Re: LilyPond crashes on \musicglyph #"space"

Am 29.08.2015 um 14:23 schrieb David Kastrup: Richard Shann writes: I just noticed that LilyPond is crashing on this: \version "2.18.0" { <> ^\markup {\musicglyph #"space"} s1*4/4 } with Interpreting music... Preprocessing graphical objects...terminate called after throwing an instance of

Re: how to get notes without tails?

Am 30.08.2015 um 18:39 schrieb BB: On 30.08.2015 16:47, Malte Meyn wrote: Am 30.08.2015 um 16:20 schrieb BB: I actually do some work with arabic scales (maqamat) and would like notes without tails. Is there any switch in lilypond? (As example see http://maqamworld.com/maqamat/bayati.html)

Re: how to get notes without tails?

Am 30.08.2015 um 20:56 schrieb Blöchl Bernhard: It could help, if there is a parallel glossary in another mothertongue. This is not the case, as there is only an English version - AFAIK. Do you really think, a non English speaker will find a word in an English glossary one does not know? I’

Re: how to get notes without tails?

Am 30.08.2015 um 21:32 schrieb Blöchl Bernhard: Am 30.08.2015 21:11, schrieb Simon Albrecht: Am 30.08.2015 um 20:56 schrieb Blöchl Bernhard: It could help, if there is a parallel glossary in another mothertongue. This is not the case, as there is only an English version - AFAIK. Do you

Re: how to get notes without tails?

Am 30.08.2015 um 21:52 schrieb Trevor Daniels: Blöchl Bernhard wrote Sunday, August 30, 2015 7:56 PM Well, the glossary is a nice hint. But have you considered that the glossary is only available in English? So that a not anglophone could not find an expression she/he does not know! (Just the

Re: Glossary index [was: how to get notes without tails?]

Am 30.08.2015 um 22:42 schrieb Trevor Daniels: Simon Albrecht wrote Sunday, August 30, 2015 8:58 PM Am 30.08.2015 um 21:52 schrieb Trevor Daniels: It would be a great help, I think, to add all the non-English terms to the Glossary Index. That would be easy to do, but very laborious and time

Re: stacking whole notes of different size

Hello Marc, this is a known issue: see . Yours, Simon Am 31.08.2015 um 14:15 schrieb Marc Hohl: Hello list, I have songs for single voice and wanted to include an optional higher voice for those singers that are able to each the notes a

Re: Glossary index [was: how to get notes without tails?]

Am 31.08.2015 um 16:13 schrieb BB: Just to annoy again, some additional remarks concerning entry acciaccatura. I wonder that there is no English entry for acciaccatura? That’s because in English as well as in German the Italian term is used for lack of a proper consistent terminology with simi

Re: Glossary index [was: how to get notes without tails?]

Am 31.08.2015 um 17:40 schrieb BB: I avoided using "Vorhalt". A "Vorhalt" is not a proper word in this context. A "Vorhalt" is in English a "suspension". That means that in a shift of harmony from one chord to another one or more notes of the first chord are played again (or held, prolonged) ag

Re: stacking whole notes of different size

Am 31.08.2015 um 18:22 schrieb Marc Hohl: Am 31.08.2015 um 15:41 schrieb Simon Albrecht: Hello Marc, this is a known issue: see <https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/3900/>. Ok, so I managed to shift the upper note heads by using extra-offset: < g \tweak font-size #

Re: Gallery of Interesting Music Notation

Am 31.08.2015 um 21:33 schrieb Steve Lacy: I found this fascinating: http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/donbyrd/InterestingMusicNotation.html I wonder if anyone here (or elsewhere) has tried to engrave some of these, even as musical fragments? Well, in order to engrave Sorabji (with the slur with

Re: Gallery of Interesting Music Notation

Am 31.08.2015 um 21:33 schrieb Steve Lacy: I found this fascinating: http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/donbyrd/InterestingMusicNotation.html I wonder if anyone here (or elsewhere) has tried to engrave some of these, even as musical fragments? I'm sure it would be an eye-opening process. :) Per

Advanced note column handling…

Hello, in a Mendelssohn score I encountered a problem on which I’m biting my teeth off. Have a look at the attachments – that’s easier than making many words. As you can imagine, the span stem should connect the two middle voices and the top two voices not collide (no matter in which directio

Re: Gallery of Interesting Music Notation

Am 01.09.2015 um 09:08 schrieb Trevor Daniels: Simon Albrecht wrote Tuesday, September 01, 2015 1:58 AM ... especially with the complex situation often seen with Chopin). By this I actually meant the situation of textual critique, which with autograph(s) and different first editions is

Re: Advanced note column handling…

Am 01.09.2015 um 14:15 schrieb Michael Gerdau: Dear Simon, in a Mendelssohn score I encountered a problem on which I’m biting my teeth off. Have a look at the attachments – that’s easier than making many words. As you can imagine, the span stem should connect the two middle voices and the top t

Re: Advanced note column handling…

Am 01.09.2015 um 19:17 schrieb Simon Albrecht: Am 01.09.2015 um 14:15 schrieb Michael Gerdau: Dear Simon, in a Mendelssohn score I encountered a problem on which I’m biting my teeth off. Have a look at the attachments – that’s easier than making many words. As you can imagine, the span stem

Re: Help for \beamExceptions

Hello Richard, if you want to use \beamExceptions, it seems like the only way to do this is %% \version "2.19.25" { \time 4/4 \set Timing.beamExceptions = \beamExceptions { 8[] 8[ 8] 8[] 8[] 8[ 8 8] } e'8 f' g' a' b' a' g' f' } %% – that’s a bit cumbersome and IMO it sh

Re: Lyric in popular score

I’m working on an answer… Am 01.09.2015 um 22:34 schrieb Marcos Press: Dear list, Iḿ trying to add the lyric of a folk song to a score. How do I tell the lyric in wich measure to start? All the things I found in google, the manuals and snippets always deals lyrics starting at the same moment

Re: Lyric in popular score

Hello Marcos, first: welcome to the list! Second: It almost always helps if you add a compilable, possibly tiny example to your post – thus it will be easier a) to understand the problem and b) to give you a solution. Third general remark: Are you famili

Re: Lyric in popular score

Am 02.09.2015 um 18:59 schrieb tisimst: 1. Create two music expressions, one for the intro and one for the vocal part, and insert them in serial fashion in the same Staff context. 2. Put the Lyrics context in parallel with the staff, but assigned specifically to the vocal part l

Re: Lyric in popular score

Am 02.09.2015 um 16:07 schrieb David Kastrup: Well, you can just jump in with the lyrics: the Lyrics context does not need to start with \lyricsto (though synchronization is a bit queer if it doesn't, but still easier than counting syllables). Brilliant, David! It’s good to have you for such val

Re: Help for \beamExceptions

Am 02.09.2015 um 21:35 schrieb Richard Shann: On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 20:13 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: And there is a comment somewhere about using | to separate something, I guess bars with the same \time signature (or, indeed different ones). No, it's always for exactly one time signature, b

Re: Help for \beamExceptions

Am 02.09.2015 um 21:35 schrieb Richard Shann: I guess I would know the answer to this if I could find out what the alist holds initially, but my feeble attempt to elicit this via \void \displayScheme #beamExceptions gave me #> You can display the list of beam exceptions currently in effect by

Re: \breathe too close to note

Am 05.09.2015 um 05:17 schrieb MarcM: The \breathe sign collides with the note. This seems like a bug. I've read on a post that offset does not have any effect on \breathe any workaround? \version "2.19.26" \language "english" \relativ

Re: Breath mark default size and position

Am 05.09.2015 um 13:11 schrieb MarcM: The default Lilypond breath mark is rather anaemic and is placed on the top staff line rather than where I normally see it in commercial scores, which is above the staff (see attached example). Like Nick i've always seen the breath mark as a comma and higher

Re: hide and omit behaviour

Am 07.09.2015 um 11:00 schrieb Noeck: Hi Andrew, thanks, but I wonder why do you use a #point-stencil instead of ##f – which would be equivalent to my \omit version (if I understand things correctly), wouldn't it? Sometimes, e.g. with NoteHeads IIRC, it causes problems if you have no stencil at

shapeII (openlilylib) with v2.19.25

Hello, I have a problem with \shapeII (from openlilylib; in the override-like form) using v2.19.25. The following snippet: \version "2.19.25" \include "notation-snippets/shaping-bezier-curves/shapeII.ily" { \shapeII #'((0 . 2)) #'(Slur) c''( b) } has been

Re: shapeII (openlilylib) with v2.19.25

Am 07.09.2015 um 21:31 schrieb Noeck: Hi Simon, I have no 2.19.25 installed (so perhaps it produces the same error), but how about \shapeII #'((0 . 2)) Slur ? This is understood by older Ly versions, too. Both are exactly equivalent. I only accidentally pasted the #'(Slur) version which I had a

Re: shapeII (openlilylib) with v2.19.25

Am 07.09.2015 um 22:52 schrieb Urs Liska: Simon, please create an issue on GitHub with this information. Should be updated with a version switch. Done. I included the new file in the issue. Yours, Simon _

Re: shapeII (openlilylib) with v2.19.25

Am 07.09.2015 um 22:48 schrieb David Kastrup: Simon Albrecht writes: Hello, I have a problem with \shapeII (from openlilylib; in the override-like form) using v2.19.25. The following snippet: \version "2.19.25" \include "notation-snippets/shaping-bezier-cur

Re: Help with Auto-beaming rules

Hello Richard, Am 08.09.2015 um 13:43 schrieb Richard Shann: The attached bit of 18th century typesetting shows an 8.[ 32 32] beamed group and a series of 32[ 32 32 32] beamed groups in a 2/4 time signature. This is quite typical of the period and is IMHO more legible than if the 1/32 notes we

Re: Voice split across staves?

Hello Joel, Am 08.09.2015 um 22:47 schrieb Joel C. Salomon: I’m trying to re-create John Crook’s original score to Peter Pan (yes, it’s in the public domain) for the Mutopia project, and I’m finding that my lack of musical education is getting in the way. I’m trying to set “Pipe with the Ostric

Re: Voice split across staves?

Am 08.09.2015 um 22:47 schrieb Joel C. Salomon: I’m trying to re-create John Crook’s original score to Peter Pan (yes, it’s in the public domain) Just a sidenote: I tried to find this John Crook or any detail about his life on the web and he seems to be famously obscure – there’s no informati

Re: Fauré requiem

Am 09.09.2015 um 12:51 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: Hello list, I'm trying to make Fauré's requiem, 1893 version: http://turkos.aspodata.se/git/musik/GabrielFaur%C3%A9/Op48_Requiem/ but I haven't any source for that version, only found the 1900 version. Anyone got a link or something ? As An

Re: Hidding Staff Lines at the start of a line

Hi Zoran, Am 09.09.2015 um 12:14 schrieb zzk: Hi ponders, I was wondering if it is possible to hide staff lines between the very start of the line and the point where the notation starts. In other words, no lines over the clef, key signature and time signature. Hopefully the attached image demo

Re: midi channel

Hello Ralf, funnily enough, someone (or is roblemming an alias of yours?) posted exactly the same question three quarter hours later. Yours was unfortunately delayed somewhere in the mailing engine. See :-) HTH, Simon A

Re: Fauré requiem

Am 09.09.2015 um 16:55 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: The score is as is, but if anyone have tips on how to make it look better, please advise me. Can’t do so without PDF :-) Sorry, it's here: http://turkos.aspodata.se/choir/osthammar/faur%C3%A9/requiem.pdf Some remarks: – In choral music by

Mid-piece NullVoice creating?

Hello, am I doing anything wrong here? % music = { 1 } \score { \displayMusic { \new Staff << \new NullVoice \music \new Voice \music >> \break \new GrandStaff << \new Staff << \new NullVoice \music \new Voice \music >>

Re: Mid-piece NullVoice creating?

Am 10.09.2015 um 13:30 schrieb David Kastrup: Here is a clue what is really happening. Issue 4579, committed rather recently, tries explaining this phenomenon somewhat more accurately than before and describes a remedy. Sorry, but did I correctly figure out the remedy you describe? %%%

Re: Mid-piece NullVoice creating?

Am 10.09.2015 um 14:02 schrieb David Kastrup: Simon Albrecht writes: Am 10.09.2015 um 13:30 schrieb David Kastrup: Here is a clue what is really happening. Issue 4579, committed rather recently, tries explaining this phenomenon somewhat more accurately than before and describes a remedy

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

Am 10.09.2015 um 15:00 schrieb Peter Bjuhr: On 2015-08-26 22:10, Urs Liska wrote: This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users >and >developers? Remind me in two weeks and I'll start a poll on Scores of Beauty ... I send in this reminder not because I'm especially i

Re: Part of Key signature in bracket

ied this such that it doesn’t do coloring, but parenthesizing. Yours, Simon \version "2.19.23" % courtesy of David Nalesnik % http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-08/msg00414.html % % adapted for parenthesizing by Simon Albrecht #(define key-signature-parenthesiz

Minimum possible duration

Hello, states (in the last sentence) that ‘the shortest notated duration supported by any scorewriter program is the 4096th note’ in Finale. Which, obviously, is not the truth. At making a test file, I realised that in LilyPond there

Re: Minimum possible duration

Am 10.09.2015 um 21:22 schrieb David Kastrup: Simon Albrecht writes: Hello, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_hundred_fifty-sixth_note> states (in the last sentence) that ‘the shortest notated duration supported by any scorewriter program is the 4096th note’ in Finale. Which, obvious

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

Am 14.09.2015 um 14:34 schrieb BB: Tried to compile with version 2.19.25 .../tmp/frescobaldi-6V3LoT/tmpI8U_qS/text-spanner-centered-text.ly:152:20 <0>: In expression (ly:line-interface::line grob (caar exts) ...): /tmp/frescobaldi-6V3LoT/tmpI8U_qS/text-spanner-centered-text.ly:152:20 <1>: U

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

David, This is tremendous! Thank you very much. This should definitely make it’s way into the official installation once it’s reasonably finished. Yours, Simon Am 14.09.2015 um 14:22 schrieb David Nalesnik: On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 12:17 PM, David Nalesnik mailto:david.nales...@gmail.com>>

Re: Rendering cropped SVG

Am 14.09.2015 um 18:28 schrieb poto...@posteo.de: short exercises that don't fill a page Forgot to add: You can easily choose another paper format \paper { #(set-paper-size "a5" 'landscape) } or set the paper width and height directly: \paper { paper-width = 10\cm paper-height = 270\mm }

Re: Rendering cropped SVG

Please always use ‘Reply all’, including the list. That way others can chime in, follow the thread, and answers will be available from the archive. Am 14.09.2015 um 21:06 schrieb poto...@posteo.de: I'm aware that I can set the paper size manually. But I want the sheet to be cropped exactly wher

Re: Rendering cropped SVG

Only just did I see this e-mail has been rejected because the svg is too large. So – once more with only .ly… Am 14.09.2015 um 20:35 schrieb Simon Albrecht: Am 14.09.2015 um 18:28 schrieb poto...@posteo.de: Hello, I'd like to render my scores (only short exercises that don't fill a

Re: Rendering cropped SVG

Am 15.09.2015 um 20:22 schrieb poto...@posteo.de: Thanks, that works. I set up a build system for Sublime (which has Lilypond syntax highlighting with the SubLilyPond package). { "shell_cmd": "lilypond -dno-point-and-click '$file_base_name.ly'; pdfcrop --margins 1 '$file_base_name.pdf'

Re: Rendering cropped SVG

ting `/tmp/lilypond-s634Nb'... Success: compilation successfully completed at the end – the middle of these lines is the deletion of the intermediate .ps file. Yours, Simon Am 15.09.2015 um 20:25 schrieb Simon Albrecht : Am 15.09.2015 um 20:22 schrieb poto...@posteo.de: Thanks, that

Re: Rendering cropped SVG

Am 15.09.2015 um 20:59 schrieb poto...@posteo.de: My test file ist: \version "2.18.2" \pointAndClickOff \relative { c' d e f g f e d c' d e f g f e d c' d e f g f e d } \header { tagline = ##f } \paper { line-width=120\mm oddFooterMarkup=##f oddHeaderMarkup=##f bookTitleMarkup = ##f scoreTitleMa

Re: Ties and repeats

On 16.09.2015 12:03, Frank Wuest wrote: I'd like to get something like \repeatTie with parentheses akin to cautionary accidentals. Is there a way to accomplish this? Have a look at . HTH, Simon

Re: superimposing different lengths and ties across triplets

On 16.09.2015 12:43, Erich Neuwirth wrote: %% I need a tie between the second note of the first triplet and the first note of the second triplet, %% and I need the notehead of the d (upper note at first position) to be a half note. %% superimposing the half note and the triplet note gives the f

Re: Suppressing numbers on tupelos

On 16.09.2015 14:13, David Kastrup wrote: Erich Neuwirth writes: I am using only triplets in a score, and I would like to suppress all the 3s next to the beams. I probably should do somrething like \once \override TupletNumber.text = #() but that does not work. What will work? Well, the

Re: Line numbers in editor window

On 16.09.2015 18:05, David Kastrup wrote: Urs Liska writes: Am 16.09.2015 um 17:39 schrieb Erich Neuwirth: When compiling, error messages come with line numbers. Is there a way of displaying the line numbers in the editor window? of which editor? The, debugging would be easier. Indeed. Bu

Re: Ties and repeats

On 16.09.2015 12:45, David Kastrup wrote: Frank Wuest writes: Hi everyone, I'm currently transforming the bass part of a big band arrangement (8 pages, boo!) into a more usable form. That means using a bunch of repeats with alternatives, plus ties across these alternatives. Now I know that

Re: Chords and what they mean

Hello Kaj, On 17.09.2015 09:27, 70147pers...@telia.com wrote: First I will declare, that I am not 100 percent sure this is a bug, but friends of mine, musicians, say it probably is. Also, as I am not an expert, I have tried to learn by searching on among others Wikipedia. It is about chords,

Re: Chords and what they mean

On 17.09.2015 13:30, lilyp...@andis59.se wrote: On 2015-09-17 13:14, Brett Duncan wrote: @Kaj, Lilypond's format for /inputting/ chords is described at http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/chord-mode/ and I would suggest reading through this carefully to get a clearer under

Access grob name?

Hello, I’ve written a music function which applies some tweaks on dynamics to offset them. Unfortunately, it’s not possible to use the offset music function on X-offset, because it is a mutable property. Thus I have to add a displacement for DynamicText so that it is not aligned to its baseli

Re: Access grob name?

On 17.09.2015 14:20, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht writes: Hello, I’ve written a music function which applies some tweaks on dynamics to offset them. Unfortunately, it’s not possible to use the offset music function on X-offset, because it is a mutable property. What does that mean

Re: Access grob name?

On 17.09.2015 14:51, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi Simon, On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 7:20 AM, David Kastrup <mailto:d...@gnu.org>> wrote: Simon Albrecht mailto:simon.albre...@mail.de>> writes: > Hello, > > I’ve written a music function which applies some t

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

On 19.09.2015 22:48, David Kastrup wrote: However, (re-)using engravers for the "picking apart" bit in a context without its own vertical axis group might be an interesting option. Want several text spanners? Use several contexts. This reminds me: the ‘standard’ use case for this kind of text

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