Spurious time signature

2008-07-20 Thread Thomas Ruedas
>> \context Staff=lower << \ii >> >> \layout { \context { \Score } \context{ \Staff } } } -- Protest against the arrest of Japanese anti-whaling campaigners: http://www.email.greenpeace.org/snbyoobl_dzlyawqa.html ---

Re: Spurious time signature

2008-07-21 Thread Thomas Ruedas
irst note in the measure. Thomas -- Protest against the arrest of Japanese anti-whaling campaigners: http://www.email.greenpeace.org/snbyoobl_dzlyawqa.html --- Thomas Ruedas Department of Terrestrial Magnetism Carnegie Institution of Washington http://www.dtm.ciw.edu/

Simple subtitle/piece question

2008-03-24 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi, I have a three-movement piece and want to set the titles of the individual moments (and only them) above the respective movements, formatted large, bold and centered as subtitle rather than piece, which I find too small. I tried something like \header { subtitle = \markup { "III. " \endash "T

Re: Simple subtitle/piece question

2008-03-25 Thread Thomas Ruedas
On Tuesday 25 March 2008 05:12, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > The LSR is your friend: > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=306 Yes, thanks, that helped to tweak it. Thomas -- ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mail

Re: font finding problem

2005-08-12 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi, after having wasted a real lot of hours trying to install 2.6.3 which got me deep into package dependency hell and forced me to update at least a dozen other programs as well, I finally had to give up and try 2.4.4 instead, for which there is an RPM from SuSE 9.3. After having been able to

Newbie Q about stems and chords

2005-08-13 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi, after finally having succeeded in compiling v.2.4.6 from the sources on my box, I have eagerly started playing with Lilypond, and I am quite impressed. One of the things I have tried to find out concerns the notation of alternating stem orientation if one voice is distributed on both staffs

Re: Newbie Q about stems and chords

2005-08-14 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi, thanks to Graham for his almost instantaneous help. On Sunday 14 August 2005 03:08, Graham Percival wrote: > s1 means "a whole-note invisible rest" -- in other words, sixteen 16th > notes. You probably want to use s2 here. Indeed, I should do better in basic math... > The duration is specified

Re: lilypond does not work...

2005-08-21 Thread Thomas Ruedas
On Saturday 20 August 2005 18:32, Antoine Marin wrote: > I just installed lilypond 2.6.3 for any x86 with autopackage > (everything was OK > during the install process) on a laptop with FC3 and I get this : > > lilypond > GNU LilyPond 2.6.3 > ERROR: In procedure hash-fold: > ERROR: Wrong type argu

unmetered music question

2005-09-01 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi, I am trying to set a piece where no meter is given, but don't quite succeed. What I have done is to omit the \time x/y command, but lily insists on having a 4/4 meter. Furthermore, I tried to follow the instruction from doc sect. 5.3.7 "Unmetered music" by setting \score { << \set

Re: unmetered music question

2005-09-02 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi, On Friday 02 September 2005 04:50, Mehmet Okonsar wrote: > try \cadenzaOn and \cadenzaOff thanks Mehmet, that brought me at least much closer to the desired result. However, I still can't get rid of the 4/4 signature at the begin of the piece. Isn't there a way to switch that off? I also have

Re: unmetered music question

2005-09-03 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi again, On Saturday 03 September 2005 17:38, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > If you don't want any time signature printed, you can do > \override Staff.TimeSignature #'print-function = ##f ok, this was the final bit to produce something which is at least consistently structured and arithmetically correc

Re: installing lilypond vrom autopackage

2005-09-08 Thread Thomas Ruedas
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 22:18, Jobst Harders wrote: > I would like to install Lilypond on my system, using SuSE 9.1. I > downloaded the package, but get the error message that "Python language > runtime "cannot be found. I had a look in Yast and Python interpreter > is installed on my system

2 conversion problems 2.4.6->2.6.3

2005-11-03 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi, I am trying to convert some lilypond sources from 2.4.6 to 2.6.3 (as delivered with SUSE 10.0) and encounter two problems: 1.) convert-ly aborts when invoked as "convert-ly PianoSonataB_2.ly" on the command line, although this file compiled without problems under 2.4.6, and 2.6.3 also handle

Re: 2 conversion problems 2.4.6->2.6.3

2005-11-04 Thread Thomas Ruedas
On Friday 04 November 2005 09:54, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > >2.) The other problem concerns the width of the braces at the > >beginning of the piano staff. > Do you mean that they are too high or are you talking about the > horizontal width? They are too high - sorry for being unclear. The ends of th

Trivial (?) question re dynamics positioning

2005-12-04 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi, lately I have been wondering about how to position dynamics commands (i.e. f, p, mf, etc.) so that they are exactly in the middle between the two staves of a piano score. The way suggested in the docs is to put them into the notes of either the right or left hand, but this results in them b

Re: Trivial (?) question re dynamics positioning

2005-12-05 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi again, On Monday 05 December 2005 06:02, David Rogers wrote: > On 4-Dec-05, at 6:42 PM, Thomas Ruedas wrote: > > lately I have been wondering about how to position dynamics > > commands (i.e. f, p, mf, etc.) so that they are exactly in the > > middle between the two st

Re: Trivial (?) question re dynamics positioning

2005-12-05 Thread Thomas Ruedas
On Monday 05 December 2005 19:22, David Rogers wrote: > On 5-Dec-05, at 8:52 AM, Thomas Ruedas wrote: > > I use 2.6.3 and got the following error: > > Interpreting music... > > error: unknown translator: `Engraver_group' > In the link above, I've changed "2.

2 questions concerning skips and dynamics

2005-12-13 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi, I came back to my attempts with the staff-centered dynamics in a piano score, and while the example I was pointed to in an earlier thread essentially works, I am still confused about two issues which I don't understand from the docs either. A test example (v.2.6.3) is at the bottom. - How d

Re: 2 questions concerning skips and dynamics

2005-12-14 Thread Thomas Ruedas
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 12:47, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > The duration of the skips is handled exactly as the duration of > ordinary notes. If you insert some bar checks, you will see that > the durations are probably not what you want: Ok, thanks for confirming that. > Since the last duration s

Re: 2 questions concerning skips and dynamics

2005-12-16 Thread Thomas Ruedas
On Thursday 15 December 2005 10:50, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > The misplaced text version crescendo is just one of several > indications that the template is a quick hack that would need > polishing or an complete redesign to work fully. It's really > strange that nobody has taken the time to revise i

Re: lilypond and suse10

2006-01-12 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi, On Thursday 12 January 2006 20:04, michel pondeville wrote: > lilypond 2.6.3 is not good for suse 10; installed: yes. working > :no:. error echappement... I have the same version on Suse 10 and no problems. Can you give some more details on what exactly is not working, error messages etc.

Re: TEX-Backend

2006-01-18 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi, On Wednesday 18 January 2006 12:06, Georg Dummer wrote: > ! Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined > (inputenc)in inputencoding `latin1'. I seem to recall having seen something of that kind when saving LaTeX source files (unrelated to lilypond) with UTF-8

OT: Where to ask Rosegarden questions?

2006-03-07 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi all, sorry as this is somewhat off-topic, but as the Rosegarden MIDI editor makes some use of Lilypond, I thought some of you might know which would be the best forum to ask Rosegarden-specific questions. The places I dug up at Google didn't quite look like equivalents to this list. Thanks i

Switching between two- and three-staves piano score

2007-02-26 Thread Thomas Ruedas
imi.it/LSR/Search?q=Adding+an+extra+staff but it's not quite what I want. What I need is a full extra line in the score, potentially extending over a substantial part of the piece where it's used, but invisible/absent otherwise. Any ideas or hints for a trick on how to do that? Thom

Re: Switching between two- and three-staves piano score

2007-02-27 Thread Thomas Ruedas
context Staff=lower << \ii >> \context Staff=bass << \iii >> >> \layout { \context { \RemoveEmptyStaffContext } } So, how do I get rid of that empty staff at the beginning? Thomas -- Thomas Ruedas Departm

Re: Switching between two- and three-staves piano score

2007-02-28 Thread Thomas Ruedas
On Wednesday 28 February 2007 03:53, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > > So, how do I get rid of that empty staff at the beginning? > Just read the whole section on "Hiding staves" carefully, and you will > find the answer. I guess you refer to this sentence: The first system shows all staves in full. If emp

Re: Switching between two- and three-staves piano score

2007-03-01 Thread Thomas Ruedas
On Thursday 01 March 2007 03:51, you wrote: > The \override command as it is written in the manual, is intended to be > inserted before the first note in any of the staves. > If you wish, can also insert such an override command in a \layout > block, \layout{ > \context{ > \Score > \overr

Left hand/right hand editorial annotation

2014-05-01 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi, I'm looking for a specific symbol whose name I unfortunately don't know and didn't find when browsing the documentation, but which I'm sure Lilypond has implemented somehow. In polyphonic piano music, you may sometimes have a situation where e.g. two voices are written in the lower staff fo

Re: Odp: Left hand/right hand editorial annotation

2014-05-01 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi, On 1/5/14 9:43 PM, Karol Majewski wrote: Hi Thomas. What you mean is probably so called other-hand bracket. This feature has been requested many times, but so far there is no ultimate solution. See this: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/missing-feature-piano-hand-brackets-td41551.html ht

Re: Odp: Left hand/right hand editorial annotation

2014-05-03 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi, On 2/5/14 12:47 AM, Robin Bannister wrote: Thomas Ruedas wrote: > the second a fatal error, > I guess that is due to compatibility issues, because the hacks seem to be several years old But the thumbBracket code still works; see the recent http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypon

Confused about contexts and scope of macro

2012-04-25 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi, I guess this is an easy one for more experienced users than me. I am trying to port an older Lilypond file (v.2.8) to 2.14.2 and am having trouble with the scope of a macro whose purpose is to switch staffs in a PianoStaff that is part of a score for flute and piano. My original setup used

Bug concerning acciaccatura and \time?

2012-04-25 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi, please consider the code snippet below, which is part of a larger piece. It compiles without errors on my machine, but the output is incorrect in that it produces the time signature 1/4 twice in the second bar, namely first correctly at the beginning of the bar but also after the acciaccatu

Re: Bug concerning acciaccatura and \time?

2012-04-25 Thread Thomas Ruedas
ble acciaccaturas of the same length in all staves (and also in possible Dynamics contexts). Yes, that solved it. Thanks a lot! Thomas -- ------- Thomas Ruedas http://www.dtm.ciw.edu/users/ruedas/ ___ lilypond-user mailin

\RemoveEmptyStaffContext doesn't remove empty staff

2012-04-26 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi again, I have a piano score in which there are sometimes two, sometimes three staves, and I want the empty third staff to disappear during long stretches in which it is empty. This used to work in an earlier version (2.10) but after having converted to 2.14.2, it doesn't anymore. Below foll

Re: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext doesn't remove empty staff

2012-04-26 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi Choan and Harm, thanks for the prompt reply. On 27/4/12 2:28 AM, Thomas Morley wrote: this is a new feature with 2.14. The "Keep_alive_together_engraver": Per default a PianoStaff is removed only when all staves are empty. A single staff isn't deleted any more. If you want this behaviour, remo

Re: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext doesn't remove empty staff

2012-04-26 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi Kieren, On 27/4/12 3:00 AM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: I doubt that this new default behavior reflects common practice, though As a pianist, I can tell you it absolutely does reflect common engraving practice for piano staves: It is a very rare piano score (perhaps 1/10 of 1%) that contains only

Re: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext doesn't remove empty staff

2012-04-27 Thread Thomas Ruedas
for it. Cheers, Thomas -- ----------- Thomas Ruedas http://www.dtm.ciw.edu/users/ruedas/ ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext doesn't remove empty staff

2012-04-27 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi David, On 27/4/12 10:34 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Thomas Ruedas writes: i.e., my main concern here is the situation where you may have more than two staves, which is a much more common situation. Why would you be using a PianoStaff for those? I'm not sure I understand what yo

Other-hand bracket/thumbBracket (piano notation) broken?

2025-02-24 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi, for many years I have used a hack for marking a change of hand in polyphonic piano music that I had been pointed to some 11 years ago on this group, and it had worked fine. Unfortunately, no more. The code snippet I use for that thumbBracket is given at the bottom. Most of the errors are so

Re: Other-hand bracket/thumbBracket (piano notation) broken?

2025-02-25 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Am 25.02.25 um 14:32 schrieb Robin Bannister: Thomas Ruedas wrote: for many years I have used a hack for marking a change of hand in polyphonic piano music that I had been pointed to some 11 years ago on this group, and it had worked fine. Unfortunately, no more. I updated this to the attached

Re: "note equals note" or durational equivalent

2025-06-09 Thread Thomas Ruedas
I have a related question: the proposed solution does print the rhythm markup, but it has no effect on the MIDI output. Is there a way to have the corresponding effect on the MIDI output? Thomas Am 08.06.25 um 21:26 schrieb Hans Aikema: On 8 Jun 2025, at 20:45, Dirck Nagy wrote: Dear Lily