Re: Chords with cue notes inside

2007-08-01 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/1, Dominic Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > how do I typeset a chord of notes with one of them being a smaller > sized notehead? You might want to see http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=283 Hope this helps! Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing l

Re: connecting a arpeggio

2007-08-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/3, Peter Terpstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thank you very much, this works!, but with the "\set Staff.connectArpeggios > = ##t" option. Absolutely; I guess you found http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=294 in the LSR Regards, Valentin ___ lilypo

Re: Interpreter Reports: "Programming Error: Moment Not Increasting"

2007-08-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/5, Andy Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Can somebody help me to understand what's going on here? In case of a repeat with alternatives, you can't any longer use the \addlyrics shortcut; you have to explicitly create a voice, name it, and link the lyrics to it using \lyricsto voicename. Besid

Re: Interpreter Reports: "Programming Error: Moment Not Increasting"

2007-08-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/5, Andy Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > So, looking at what you sent me, it looks like I can \addlyrics to the > repeated music, but not to the alternative(s). Is that right? As you can see in the Documentation (7.3.3.1), the \addlyric command is just a shortcut. The real syntax is \new Lyri

Re: Trying to center lyrics

2007-08-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/6, Eric Knapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The change I need is to have the text "10.10" centered over the E and > A chord below it. This is also needed for "13.11". The text "4.3" > needs to be centered to the chord above it. I think the command you're looking for is \override LyricText #'self

Re: Reappearing time signature in 2.11.28

2007-08-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/6, Charlotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I need to get rid of all the time signatures from my current project - it's > all unmetred and I'm happy to put visible or invisible bars in as necessary > to sort out the line-breaking. This was working perfectly using /cadenzaOn > and setting the break-

Re: Reappearing time signature in 2.11.28

2007-08-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/7, Charlotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Have now made this change, and it has fixed the problem. I hadn't used this > before because I'd read elsewhere on this list that it plays havoc with the > spacing by leaving an empty space where the time sig used to be, but I guess > that's been fixed no

Re: How can i do this?

2007-08-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/8, Peter Terpstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Indeed, indeed, your'e rigth. Never had this problem with it before, but I'm > a beginner :-) By the way, don't forget to be more specific in your "Subject" field the next time you post a question on the list; it makes much easier for everyone to br

Re: lyrics collision (and thanks to Peter)

2007-08-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/8, Neil Thornock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > For the life of me I can't figure out why the lyrics in the bass line > collide in the following snippet (below). That's because (IIUC) LilyPond tries to align the lyrics with the first Voice it founds. In case you want to add different lyrics, with

Re: text in chord lines

2007-08-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/8, Fairchild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > By stumbling around, found a way to insert a \markup string in \chords. > LSR Worthy? Definitely. It's strange, though, that one can no longer include native \markups in chordmode, as \figuremode implements it perfectly... Regards, Valentin ___

How to deal with Time Signatures horizontal alignment?

2007-08-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hello everybody, In the following LSR snippet (which I added a few months ago), time signatures are printed above the staffgroup, which is really useful for large orchestral scores: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=272 However, as you can see in this snippet, I had to add the following line:

Re: How to deal with Time Signatures horizontal alignment?

2007-08-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/9, Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Valentin, Hi Kieren, thank you for answering! > If the top Staff of the StaffGroup is always present (i.e., never > gets French-ed out), then you can simply use something like the > enclosed snippet. This is unfortunately not what I need, beca

Re: How to deal with Time Signatures horizontal alignment?

2007-08-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/9, Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > To solve *that* problem, simply change the line to > \override TimeSignature #'extra-offset = #'(-2 . 7) > and all the TS's will be over the bar line. Yes, this is what I figured :) But this is by no way an automatic alignment. So

Re: How to deal with Time Signatures horizontal alignment?

2007-08-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/10, Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Valentin, Hi Neil, I'd never expect that so much people would read my mail :) > I've been messing around with RehearsalMark, and this seems to produce the > kind of output you're after: > Unfortunately it's pretty much useless, since it will only

Re: Removing bar numbers with lilypond-book

2007-08-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/12, Tim Sawyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks for that, but I'm still having trouble. You may have forgotten a capital S in \context { \Score etc... } Hope this helps! Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.

Re: Padding around instrument names

2007-08-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/16, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Your observation is absolutely correct, so unfortunately you > have to manually adjust the "indent" parameter (or the > linewidth) to fit the instrument names. Additionally, you can use the following trick to center the instrument names (you may hav

Re: Arpeggio and lefthandfingering

2007-08-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/14, Peter Terpstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Peter Terpstra in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > > > Arpeggio and lefthandfingering > > Nobody? > > I tried it with " \override Arpeggio #'force-hshift" and differt other > objectnames but the arpeggio doe not want to come close to the notes when > there is

Re: Alignment problem with RehearsalMark

2007-08-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/14, Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Here's a layout section I'm using to allow rehearsal marks to be printed on > more than one stave in an orchestral score: > This works fine, apart from one snag: overriding #'break-align-symbol has no > effect You might want to use the new syntax, d

Re: Barré sign

2007-08-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/16, Peter Terpstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is the a barrésign macro created for lilypond? Not to my knowledge, but if you post a picture, I'd be glad to write it using postscript code. Regards, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-u

Re: Alignment problem with RehearsalMark

2007-08-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/20, Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Unfortunately, neither worked. Yes, actually I'm experiencing many problems with this tweak too; can anybody tell Neil and me if this should be regarded as a bug, or if we're doing something wrong? Valentin

Re: Arpeggio and lefthandfingering

2007-08-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/20, Peter Terpstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The lilypondtool provides met the span context, you think this is not > necessary? I can't say I understand your question... Could you be more specific? Maybe you're refering to the (veryveryvery useful, I use it 50 times a day) dialog box which po

Re: How to deal with Time Signatures horizontal alignment?

2007-08-21 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hello again, I'm trying to rewrite the LSR TimeSig snippet (and probably use it in my own score): http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=272 The two modifications I want to add are: remove the Time_signature_engraver instead of using #'transparent, AND get the time signatures aligned with the barli

Re: Multiple Titles

2007-08-21 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/21, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > A few days ago, I added an example to the LSR (see www.lilypond.org -> > Documentation) > that answers your question. However, it has still not been approved for > publication, I just approved it; here it is: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1&id=

Re: several short pieces with scored titles

2007-08-21 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/16, Gilles THIBAULT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > See Mats explications :-) ...and Mats' snippet, which I've just approved: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1&id=310 Regards, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lis

Re: How to deal with Time Signatures horizontal alignment?

2007-08-21 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/21, Joe Neeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Off the top of my head, I would suggest writing a scheme function where > something like > > \timeSig #'(3 . 4) > > will emit > > \time 3/4 > \mark "3/4" > > so that you are dealing with RehearsalMarks, which can then be aligned however > you want. Yes

Re: Aligning instrument names - another try

2007-08-21 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/21, Michael Käppler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It seems that Thies' workaround which he posted in Oct 2006 > doesn't work anymore. Yes it does: you just have to give enough amount of hspace so the instrument names can fit in. Look at the following snippet (maybe I'll add it to the LSR, unless

Re: Barré sign

2007-08-21 Thread Valentin Villenave
How about: %%%snippet%%% barr= \markup {\postscript #"0.2 setlinewidth -0.5 -3 moveto -1 -3 lineto 0 10 rlineto stroke" } { f_\barr } %%% ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Aligning instrument names - another try

2007-08-22 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/21, Michael Käppler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Maybe you could enhance your example by something like this: > % To avoid inequal spacing if some systems start with a brace and others > don't, > % make all systems have braces and then optically remove the unwanted ones. That is a good idea, bu

Re: How to deal with Time Signatures horizontal alignment?

2007-08-22 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/22, Joe Neeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > No, because TimeSignature already accepts an interface > (break-aligned-interface) that determines its horizontal position; it > wouldn't make sense for it to accept another one. The cleanest way of getting > this functionality into the lilypond core, i

Re: How does one write a title

2007-08-22 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/22, Malcolm Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Looks like a good programme. This is quite an euphemism :) > Could you tell me how I could write the Title "ONETWO" composed by "ML" to > the following Just insert it in a \header block: \header { title= "OneTwo" composer= "ML" } You might w

Re: Barré sign

2007-08-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
> barr= > \markup {\postscript > #"0.2 setlinewidth -0.5 -3 moveto -1 -3 lineto 0 10 rlineto stroke" > } By the way, I tried to put it in a define-markup-command, but couldn't manage to make it work. Could you show me how to do it so I can add it to the LSR, Mats? -- or anybody else with better

Re: Barré sign

2007-08-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/23, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Why would you want to make it a markup command? > The only reason would be to introduce some parameters to the > command so you could change the layout. What parameters > do you want? I wanted to make sure that the barré sign is always aligned with

Re: songbooks with guitar tablature

2007-08-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/23, Jack Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If you wish to take a look at my songbook, go to > www.jack-cooper.com/songbook and enter "guest" and "guest" > as the userid and password. The songbook file is called > lop_songbook.pdf. Hi Jack, I took the liberty to download and look at your song

Re: change Staff hara-kiri-ability on the fly? SPONSORSHIP?

2007-08-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/25, Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > p.s. This is *definitely* an LSR-worthy tip/trick! It is indeed; feel free to add it and I'll mark it as approved ASAP :) Regards, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http:/

Re: slur and system breaks

2007-08-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/26, Oded <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Greetings, > I couldn't find a solution for this problem searching through the archive > only another user posing this question 4 years ago with no replies and I > also noticed that this seems to be how slurs are done in all the examples > availbale on the web

Re: How to deal with Time Signatures horizontal alignment?

2007-08-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/26, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I think you are all thinking in too complicated directions. x-aligned-on-self !!! This is awesome! Han-Wen (if I may repeat myself), you're a God! I'm immediately adding it to the LSR. Valentin ___

Re: How to deal with Time Signatures horizontal alignment?

2007-08-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/26, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > x-aligned-on-self !!! This is awesome! Awesome, *but*... As a result, the first TimeSignature of each system is also aligned with the left barline (which puts it too far on the left, even before the Clef). For the very first TimeSign

Re: change Staff hara-kiri-ability on the fly? SPONSORSHIP?

2007-08-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/26, Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've just added it as "Forcing visibility of systems with multi-bar rests > when using \RemoveEmptyStaffContext"; I hope it's OK. http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1&id=312 A bit long, but I couldn't find any shorter title. It's approved now; howeve

Hara_kiri_engraver shouldn't handle both staves of a PianoStaff as separate single staves

2007-08-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hello everybody, I'm sending it to -user, to discuss it before making a bug report. As I said in the title, there's an annoying thing when typesetting an orchestral score with some Piano or Harp parts in it: when your harp (or piano) only plays a few notes with one single hand, the RemoveEmptySta

Re: Hara_kiri_engraver shouldn't handle both staves of a PianoStaff as separate single staves

2007-08-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/26, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The existing solutions are: > -whenever only one hand is playing, systematically add invisible notes > to the other hand so the staff doesn't disappear. As Neil mentioned, > it is ugly. Here is a quick-and-dirty functi

Re: Hara_kiri_engraver shouldn't handle both staves of a PianoStaff as separate single staves

2007-08-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/26, Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Kieren, > I disagree, and there are many hand-engraved examples to back me up > -- for example, Stravinsky's Petrushka (Edition Russe de Musique, > 1912) clearly shows the Harp I part as two staves with brace (most of > the time) AND as a single

Re: Hara_kiri_engraver shouldn't handle both staves of a PianoStaff as separate single staves

2007-08-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/26, Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Actually, it does... see for example html/lilypond-user/2006-07/msg00244.html>. I had never thought the SystemStartBrace had a collapse-height property like the SystemStartBracket; thank you for the tip (I'm addin

Re: How to deal with Time Signatures horizontal alignment?

2007-08-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/26, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2007/8/26, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > As a result, the first TimeSignature of each system is also aligned > > with the left barline (which puts it too far on the left, even before > > the Clef).

Re: Hara_kiri_engraver shouldn't handle both staves of a PianoStaff as separate single staves

2007-08-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/26, Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Neil, > the engraver admitting defeat [...] Stravinsky:1 Engraver: 0 :-D Has anyone given my dirty Scheme function a try? Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org htt

Re: songbooks with guitar tablature

2007-08-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/23, Jack Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > While OpenOffice isn't technically a freeware version of Microsoft Office, > I don't know how else to describe it to folks who have never heard of it > or used it. And since I wrote these intro notes, I am more inclined > to use GIMP for image editing

A nice article by Alex Roitman on linux.com

2007-08-27 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hello everybody, While reading today's "Distrowatch Weekly", I've just seen amongst the "Rootly links" column, this link: "Editing music scores with free software" http://www.rootly.com/topics/technology/linux_unix/Editing_music_scores_with_free_software/ I immediately followed the link, wonderin

Re: repeat syntax

2007-08-27 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/27, Palmer, Ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Test.ly fails. I just tried them with quotes around Test1 in both files, > and it still failed. Is there a way to get Lilypond to recognize digits > (i.e., numerics) in a /score block? As far as I know, digits are not allowed in identifier names (ne

Re: vocal score problem(s)

2007-08-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/28, Jay Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm trying to find my mistake here, the error message keeps on saying no > music found. > If I don't add lyrics everything can be fine. > I tried to copy the formate of 3.1 in the manual and adjust it to my needs. > So I'm asuming that I have made an

Re: Hara_kiri_engraver shouldn't handle both staves of a PianoStaff as separate single staves

2007-08-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/27, Tao Cumplido <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I guess in classical music it's typical not to reduce the piano part to a > single staff, but in modern music it is. It depends: do you mean in *well-engraved* modern music? :) (no, I'm just joking) > For example in Jazz scores if you have only a c

Re: remaining Unset question

2007-08-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/19, emily atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In hopes of finding an answer to an 'unset question' Hello Emily, I'm amazed that nobody has answered you yet; the list can get very busy some weeks and if you don't get any answer, it might sometimes be appropriate to ask again another week. > Howe

Re: Invisible "sync part" - is this possible?

2007-08-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/18, Jonas Nyström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi! > > (Sorry for posting this earlier with wrong subject header..!) > > Being a Lilypond newbee, I want to check with you if this is possible: > > I want to create an inivisble "sync part" with "sync noteheads" drawn in > white. If your notes are d

Re: remaining Unset question

2007-08-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/28, emily atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I knew it had to be easy, I just kept trying the wrong combination of terms Not so easy, so to say: I had to browse the source files (ly/property-init.ly) to find the correct answer. You're right, there is an obvious lack in the Documentation; I'll m

Re: re: Score Problems

2007-08-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/28, Jay Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It didn't now I get error logs telling me that > example; > C:/Documents and Settings/Frybyte/Desktop/Hamilton/Tunnel/Tunnel.ly:25:43: > warning: Brace found at end of lyric. Did you forget a space? This is weird. I didn't get such a message when c

Re: How to deal with Time Signatures horizontal alignment?

2007-08-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/26, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This is the point; the time signatures should be aligned with the > barlines, *unless* they're at the beginning of the line (then they > have to be put after the clef). > > This is because in such orchestral sco

Re: How to deal with Time Signatures horizontal alignment?

2007-08-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/30, Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hopefully it's got a second wind. ;) Great! I didn't expect that this problem was manageable... > Whilst searching for a solution to a rehearsal mark problem, I stumbled > upon this interesting function in output-lib.scm, which might help: > > It s

Re: piano with lyrics (was I'm new to lilypond)

2007-08-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/31, Raichu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Not quite. I want it to come out like typical pop sheet music, > two staves with lyrics between. The treble stave contains > (polyphonically) both the melody line and an accompaniment. > > melodyline = \relative c' { ... } > accompaniment = \relative c' { .

Re: LSR: score for diatonic accordion

2007-08-31 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/31, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is the creator of this snippet on this list? His name is "ak"; maybe we can retrieve his mail address in the database if he left one. > The snippet includes a script for jedit; I'm not certain if that makes > sense on LSR. Although many people us

Re: LSR: score for diatonic accordion

2007-08-31 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/31, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hmm... I'd rather not have OS-specific info in LSR, and > application-specific info is even worse than OS-specific. OTOH, I guess > this script _is_ harmless. I'm not really certain what I think about it. Well, make up your mind :) As you notic

Re: Webern-style accidentals & transposition

2007-08-31 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/31, David F. Place <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am transcribing Webern's Drei Lieder Op. 25 for alto flute and > piano. Though I have studied the documentation, particularly 9.1.1 > Automatic Accidentals, I haven't been able to find what I need. > > 1.) accidentals before every note (including

Re: Webern-style accidentals & transposition

2007-08-31 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/31, Rune Zedeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > \webernAccidentals This is absolutely outrageous! As soon as I've seen your trick, I've added it to the LSR, but while I was doing so someone has posted it too! I thought I was the only guy who cares about the LSR, now what do I have left??? ;-)

Re: slur and system breaks - take 2

2007-08-31 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hi Neil, hi Oded, since Oded has given some relevant examples, and since it appears that LilyPond's default behavior isn't as nice as these examples, do you think this should be reported as a bug? Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@

Re: Webern-style accidentals & transposition

2007-08-31 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/1, Rune Zedeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > How do you manage to link to snippets so fast? > When I add stuff, I have to wait for the nightly rebuild before I can link to > my > snippet. Not at all! The snippets are compiled immediately after tiy send them (Sebastiano did great, by the way). A

Re: Webern-style accidentals & transposition

2007-08-31 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/1, Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Are you the first port of call for submitting corrections? I've noticed a > few snippets which don't work properly, e.g. > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=295 Yes I am. Or Cameron, whenever he's in the neighborhood. Thank you for remind me of corr

Just another boring question about manual cautionary accidentals...

2007-09-01 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hello everybody, after having spent months (if not years) wondering "why the hell has it to be the way it is?", today it's finally time for me to ask here if anyone knows any logical answer to the following question: The most basic syntax, in LilyPond, is: notename/accidental/octave/duration, ri

Re: Just another boring question about manual cautionary accidentals...

2007-09-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/2, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > there is no place to store exclamations inside a pitch. Oh I see. The point is: I didn't think the "pitch" as a single element. So -- correct me if I'm wrong -- what you call "pitch" should be divided into 2 parts: pitch_root (a, b, c etc.) and p

Re: Need advice re; text and lyrics combination(s)

2007-09-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/2, Jay Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thank you that is what I was looking for- and thanks for the reference. Is your snippet LSR-worthy Neil? Regards, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/

Re: "\once \override" works differently on R and r

2007-09-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/2, David F. Place <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks, Graham. I see the warning in Ch. 8.2.1 about using > MultiMeasureRestText instead of TextScript to move these markups. I > Iwas originally thrown off course, because I was trying to use the > \translate text markup command described in 8.1.

Re: accented characters

2007-09-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/3, vwf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > I would like to use accented characters in lyrics (French), but I cannot > get it working: (process:4373): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_coverage_get: > assertion `index >= 0' failed Hi, you might be interested in knowing that there is a French-speaking

Re: TeX and Lilypond

2007-09-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/3, fiëé visuëlle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > LilyPond still writes a tex file (and several others) if you try to > get an EPS. Hello, Are you sure it does? I thought it didn't anymore... Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.or

Re: tweak a LaTeX code in .ly files

2007-09-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/3, Francois Planiol-Auger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is there a reverse way of lilypond-book, > I mean something to insert LaTeX-code in Lilypond-files like: IIRC, this was possible several years ago, but the TeX backend has been removed since 2.6 or 2.8. However, the \markup command itself is

Re: Setting stems on rests

2007-09-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/5, Michael Sperone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi,I'm trying to fix a setting in my music and I can't figure out how. It's > not a standard setting (well, it's a relatively new contemporary notation) > so I don't imagine it will be too easyI need to be able to set stems on > rests. I have large

Re: Setting stems on rests

2007-09-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/5, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't see what I mean. Oops -- I meant "I don't see what you mean", of course... ...but in this case, the former is equally true :) Regards, Valentin ___ lilypond-us

Re: Metric modulation markup ... à la Carter?

2007-09-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/6, Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Actually this is pretty clever. And will certainly do for the snippets > that I've got in front of me right now, so thanks very much! I agree. LSR, anyone? :) Regards, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Metric modulation markup ... à la Carter?

2007-09-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/6, Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It might be useful have a reference to nested scores in section 8.2.2 for > cases more complicated than "note = note", together with a minimal example > demonstrating tuplet markup. ...Which is why your trick should be added to the LSR; then I could s

Re: using

2007-09-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
Just a detail: whenever you answer to an email (or start a new discussion) Thomas, be careful with the "Object" or "Subject" field: this discussion has now a "Re: using" object (the transposition thing is gone), which is absolutely not helpful for anyone who would browse the list archive in the fu

Re: bars not getting placed correctly

2007-09-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/8, Tim Litwiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've been working on this piece, it is set in 4/4 time and rather than > start as I think it should with a whole measure it places a 1/4 note and > then the first bar. That throws the bars off for the whole song. Just remove the \partial 4 command in

Re: sunday school music

2007-09-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/9, Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Glad it helps. > By the way... here's an improved version, which properly handles > common words with hyphens and extenders. Do you want to add it to the LSR? (with braces, maybe) Cheers, Valentin ___

Re: GDP: rearrange manual

2007-09-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
Just a question... (by the way, is it really relevant to cross post this entire discussion to -devel?) I'm finishing translating the current chapter #9 (changing-defaults) and here's what I see: 9.3.2 "Suppose we want to move the fingering indication in the fragment below:" ===> but it actually

Re: GDP: rearrangement (third attempt)

2007-09-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/10, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>+ 6.2.1 Clef > >>+ 6.2.2 Key signature > > > > Hmm, neither clefs nor key signatures affect pitches. They only affect > > how they are displayed. > > Yes, true. Rename section? Hell yes! What about : "Pitches not

Re: GDP: rearrange manual

2007-09-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/10, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Err.. we're talking about Changing defaults, a chapter which hasn't been > significantly changed in the past three years, and which you've > _already_ complained as being a pile of garbage... and using this as an > argument for changing the way the

Re: GDP: length/page-splitting of subsections

2007-09-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/10, fiëé visuëlle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > No. I always use the online manual in several tabs (the fewer single > pages, the fewer tabs!) and a Google tab with "site:lilypond.org/ > doc/...", because it also finds the commands in samples (in contrary > to the PDF), and often I only need a wor

Re: how to beam non-tuplets with tuplets?

2007-09-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/11, Adam James Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Perhaps two examples - one manually beaming non-tuplets->tuplets and > one manually beaming tuplets->non-tuplets (maybe just the examples > below) - could be added to the 2.11 manual under "tuplets?" I'd be > happy to write up a little chunk of t

Re: GTK and LilyPond

2007-09-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/11, Mark Dewey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Anyway, whenever I install LilyPond, GIMP doesn't work anymore because of > something to do with this. I don't know which GTK applications you're using, but the opposite could be done easily, i.e. standard LilyPond installation, *but* instead of using

Re: Tip: defining new contexts ... starting from existing contexts

2007-09-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/7/21, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Looks great (I've often been looking for such a tip in the past). > > I'll make a patch soon. Mmm... still haven't made any patch yet :( Sorry. Since we're talking about GDP and rewriting changing-defaults

Re: Tip: defining new contexts ... starting from existing contexts

2007-09-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/11, Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > (I've lost track of the halftime score on the doc discussion: in the > 2.11 manual, 9.2.7 "Defining new contexts" talks about this stuff; > under the 2.11 structure I would say that we rename 9.2.7 "Defining > new contexts from scratch" and then create

Re: PianoStaff spacing in 2.11

2007-09-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/11, Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It would be nice to have this set by default for PianoStaff, but I suppose > that's a bit difficult since NonMusicalPaperColumn lives in the Score > context. No: the *real* question is: who's gonna add it to the Lilypond Snippet Repository ASAP? :)

Re: GDP: flattening the manual to two layers?

2007-09-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/11, Eyolf Østrem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 11.09.2007 (06:41), Trevor Bača wrote: > > Question: has anyone suggested replacing the three-layer chapter / > > section / section structure with a two-layer chapter / section > > structure? I suggested avoiding subsubsections such as in current

"Volta with text" snippet needs font correcting

2007-09-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hello everybody, I don't know who has sent the following snippet, but there seems to be a bug with fonts in it: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1&id=317 If the author of the original snippet can correct it, it would be great; otherwise, anyone can feel free to post the correct input in this m

Re: PianoStaff spacing in 2.11

2007-09-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/11, Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Would you mind commenting > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=304 too? When I added > it I was still using 2.10, but obviously under 2.11 tweaking spanners is > quite different. I'll just mark it as "unapproved" for now; it works well with 2.10. If

Re: Tip: defining new contexts ... starting from existing contexts

2007-09-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/11, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We *need* to settle on the overall design of the manual before we can > start doing things like this. Hence the last sentence in my previous mail :) 2007/9/11, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > But this will take p

Re: how to beam non-tuplets with tuplets?

2007-09-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/11, Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Well, I'm no programmer, so that could explain why I've never given it a > second thought. Still; you're used to write (inside parentheses), and not outside( parentheses) aren't you? :) > The problem is, as Mats says, it's not specific to beamin

Re: GTK and LilyPond

2007-09-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/11, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This is weird! I have had GIMP and LilyPond installed on the > same machine (Win XP) and have kept updating LilyPond every > now and then. Still, GIMP works without any problems. There are many different GIMP installation packs for windows. I rememb

Re: GDP: flattening the manual to two layers?

2007-09-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/11, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ok, come on, it was hilarious! But we really need to explain this. Yes, that made me laugh quite a while indeed... > Poor Valentin thought I was swearing at him*. I, of course, was > referring to the new chapter "Text". The truth is, I had no

GDP for kids :)

2007-09-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hello everybody, hello Graham, hello John; Forget about GDP. Now. Here's *my* latest greatest Documentation project: the SDPE! (Smallest Documentation Project Ever -- it works with "Silly" too, for what it's worth). It's intended for: -beginners, -advanced users, -power users, -super power us

Re: "Volta with text" snippet needs font correcting

2007-09-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/11, Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Isn't this one of the purposes of the snippet: By default the volta brackets > seem to use the dynamics font, which has letters for p, r, f, s, z, m etc., > while all other letters look different. Thus one needs to set the font of the > volta br

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/12, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Peter pointed out the direct fifth in the counterpoint; I'll point out > that the name should be "Pond, Lily Pond" -- use a comma, not a semicolon. Oh yes. Absolutely. I just wanted it to sound like the dramatically intense two seconds pause that

Re: How to make different horizontal spacing for each staff?

2007-09-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/13, Vít Reichel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > thanks for your reply but this is not what I want. I need in general 2 > independently spaced staves in a system that have a common barline at the end > of > every system. I know this is technically not clean but for this modern piece > it > would be

Re: How to make different horizontal spacing for each staff?

2007-09-13 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/13, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't understand why you set measurePosition (which tells where the next > note is in the measure). Rather, you could set measureLength > corresponding to > the scaling of the durations that you have applied (ideally that should > be done > automa

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-13 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hello Hugo, hello Francisco, hello everybody; The source files for the two little things I showed you yesterday are available in http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/sketchbook/sources/ (don't try to look at the svg files directly in Firefox, it lacks anti-aliasing.) Don't forget the dependen

Re: Hiding an end-of-line cautionary key signature

2007-09-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/14, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've added a new example in the LSR, showing this solution (for version 2.10 > it turns out that also the time signature is playing a trick here), see > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1&id=325 Thanks; approved. Cheers, Valentin __

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