Repeat percents and numbering ?

2005-09-25 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi, Did anyone create a way to get numbers on top of repeating measures when printed with percent symbols? Like: |2 |3|4 |5|6 |7 | etc. c c c c | % | % | % | % | % | % | Thanks in advance, Wim. ___

compound times and how to get back to normal ?

2006-04-20 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi, I usede the compound_times.ly example from the documentation web-site. It works (of course :-), but what is the correct way to go back to the normal notation when this is embedded inside a piece. E.g. - 10 bars C - 10 bars 4/4 + 2/4 (with the compound times trick) - 10 bars C In the last 1

Re: "Parallel music view" - inspiration for LilyPond editors.

2012-09-26 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 26 Sep 2012, at 14:06 , Urs Liska wrote: Oh yeah, that's something I'd second. In an ideal world these windows wouldn't only go into the same file but into the same piece of music. TexShop does this (partly) for you: 2 windows can be open on one and the same file, updates in one window

Footers on all pages?

2012-10-10 Thread Wim van Dommelen
We have a "copyright" footer on page 1 and a "tagline" on the last page. Is it possible to have also footers on all pages in between? All having the same text would do for me. Regards, Wim. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https

Re: Footers on all pages?

2012-10-10 Thread Wim van Dommelen
hould give the information you require? -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Wim van Dommelen To: Lilypond User List Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 3:29 PM Subject: Footers on all pages? We have a "copyright" footer on page 1 and a "tagline" on the last page.

Re: error message

2012-10-11 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Mark, If running it as an administrator doesn't work, it might be the other warning is more vald. The message also says "check path", so that might be wrong. Running it as an administrator will "repair" permissions., but not paths. Your system probably just cannot find the right file.

Re: error message

2012-10-11 Thread Wim van Dommelen
clean up all the errors that Lilypond found. That is just fine by me. I learn by trial and error. Thank you again for your kind attention to my plight. As a retired teacher I appreciate you patient and detailed instruction. Mark Stephen Mrotek From: Wim van Dommelen [mailto:m...@wimvd.nl] Sent

Re: Script objects avoid notes in other voices?

2012-10-18 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Use the tags for this problem, not different voices at all! Daniel's example modified: \version "2.16.0" music = \relative c'' { -\tag #'part \upbow -\tag #'part \downbow } \keepWithTag #'part { \music } Using this will NOT print the tagged strings in the score. Multiple tags are possib

Re: Script objects avoid notes in other voices?

2012-10-18 Thread Wim van Dommelen
16/Documentation/notation/different-editions-from-one-source#using-tags ) pretty dense. I think part of it was the fact that it explains \keepWithTag and \removeWithTag in separate examples, but mostly it was because I just didn't notice the part explaining the -\tag #'your-tag syntax f

Re: subdividing sixteenth-note triplet beam groups

2012-10-20 Thread Wim van Dommelen
And why not very simply: \times 2/3 { c16[ c c c c c] } Regards, Wim. On 20 Oct 2012, at 00:15 , Nick Payne wrote: On 20/10/12 08:58, Steve Yegge wrote: I would like this: \times 2/3 { c16 c c c c c } to render with two beamed groups of three notes each, with the two groups connect

Re: subdividing sixteenth-note triplet beam groups

2012-10-20 Thread Wim van Dommelen
y be simpler if it did. -steve On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Wim van Dommelen wrote: And why not very simply: \times 2/3 { c16[ c c c c c] } Regards, Wim. On 20 Oct 2012, at 00:15 , Nick Payne wrote: On 20/10/12 08:58, Steve Yegge wrote: I would like this: \times 2/3 { c16 c c

Re: Script objects avoid notes in other voices?

2012-10-22 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Marc, Thanks for adding it right-away. Fast response! Regards, Wim. On 22 Oct 2012, at 11:10 , Marc Hohl wrote: Am 18.10.2012 18:09, schrieb Wim van Dommelen: There is one thing which might interest you even more and that is a scheme script produced by Nicolas Sceaux, some years ago

Re: One staff, two voices

2012-10-28 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Janrek,Thanks for pointing to the Tiny Examples section. Didn't know this existed, good idea. In programming it is a common method to squeeze your problem to something as small as possible. Also a good start for any regression test.But the top part of the example shown uses an include-file. That

Re: Reheaseals with irregular bars

2012-10-29 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Jacques, I'm not going to answer all your questions, that is just too much. One advise: cut things in pieces and look for smaller problems. There is a LP problem in the bar numbers in this case (which I really should register as a bug, it increases the measure numbers twice for some re

Re: Reheaseals with irregular bars

2012-10-29 Thread Wim van Dommelen
ily by forcing the expected numbers explicitly. A nice day! Regards, PS> Is there some site where I could contribute the results of my Lilypondings, such as the flute and bassoon parts of this Beethoven trio? Le 29 oct. 2012 à 10:54:14, Wim van Dommelen a écrit : Hi Jacques, I&#x

Re: Reheaseals with irregular bars

2012-11-05 Thread Wim van Dommelen
can't LP keep track of what's going on in the alternatives and figure out what the partial bars lengths are? The example is attached. Thanks for your help and time! Le 29 oct. 2012 à 10:54, Wim van Dommelen a écrit : Hi Jacques, There is a LP problem in the bar numbers in this case (

Re: Version Control and Public Repository

2012-11-09 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Try IMSLP to start with. Tons of very interesting music available there. http://imslp.org/ Regards, Wim. On 9 Nov 2012, at 17:32 , Federico Bruni wrote: 2012/11/9 Urs Liska : Re public repositories: Do you know mutopiaproject.org? Is that what you mean? and it's on git: https://github

Re: convert-ly 2.17.6 does nothing

2012-11-16 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Noeck, I think that problem does point you really to the paths configured. Check (on Linux or OSX, sorry I don't use Wxx for this) these command- line commands: $ which lilypond $ which convert-ly $ lilypond --version $ convert-ly --version (Wxx doesn't know the "which" commands, but shou

Variable names? (was: Re: Adding 3-column section to score)

2012-11-18 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Harm, and others, I wondered in this discussion what you were exactly trying to achieve, so I copied your code and compiled it. Very nice! And after the copy I saw a weird thing (nothing to do with this specific example!): You use "non-standard" characters and numbers as names of the v

Re: convert-ly 2.17.6 does nothing

2012-11-19 Thread Wim van Dommelen
sure. Your conclusion is definitely wrong, I repeat: check the paths! Regards, Wim. On 17 Nov 2012, at 14:58 , Noeck wrote: Am 16.11.2012 23:42, schrieb Wim van Dommelen: Hi Noeck, I think that problem does point you really to the paths configured. Check (on Linux or OSX, sorry I

Re: Variable names?

2012-11-19 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 19 Nov 2012, at 22:16 , David Kastrup wrote: "Christopher R. Maden" writes: On 11/18/2012 05:26 PM, David Kastrup wrote: At the current point of time, the rule is that "alphabetic" is a-z, A-Z, and _any_ non-ASCII character. This is a bit excessive, but short of a reliable "is a letter"

Re: \repeat volta

2012-11-24 Thread Wim van Dommelen
It depends. Have struggled with it before.I currently still use the stable release 2.16.0 and this file (with version number changed) compiles correctly AND produces the wanted "|:" at the beginning (also when deleting the extra unnecessary vertical bar in the statement) without any adaption of the

Re: removing non-empty staves

2012-12-03 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Christopher,I'm not sure if this example matches your need, but it is a thing I once crafted for a special piece. It shows an ossia stave in a different color and size. Starting at some point and ending after I don't need it anymore. But alas not on a line break, don't know how to do thatCom

Re: Guide to Writing Orchestral Scores with Lilypond?????

2013-01-08 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Antonio, Ben, Urs, others, The idea of writing a "Guide to writing an orchestral score with LilyPond" is a very, very good idea. Not replacing the learning manual but as an addition with e.g. an orchestral example build in stages (with all the intermediate files available for who is inte

Re: Guide to Writing Orchestral Scores with Lilypond?????

2013-01-11 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 10 Jan 2013, at 12:16 , Urs Liska wrote: .. This morning I created a github account, What's your user name? I'd like to add you. To start with, I also created a github account: wimvd00, please add me in for this project also. .. Regards, Wim. ___

Re: context and lilypond

2013-01-21 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 20 Jan 2013, at 12:45 , Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Move? The snippet buffers are just numbered, so if you insert one before the first, all others will get re-rendered, too. I guess we could change that behaviour, e.g. use keywords or some UID per buffer. I’ll discuss that wi

Re: context and lilypond

2013-01-21 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Stefan, Sorry for my slow reply. On 21 Jan 2013, at 14:40 , Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear Wim, what do You mean by "use the md5"? Is it a directory, a command? I have no idea! Sorry, I'm not an tex-expert, altough I work frequently with latex. MD5 is an abbreviation of Message Digest Algo

Woodwind Fingering diagrams problem

2013-01-27 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi, I'm trying to get some prints with the woodwind fingering diagrams on it. When I use the basic diagram, all defined keys show up, but as soon as I enter one hole to be used some of the keyholes (not of the central one to six holes, but especially on the side keys) disappear from the d

Re: Woodwind Fingering diagrams problem

2013-01-28 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Minimal example attached, in diagram 3 lots of keys are gone.On 28 Jan 2013, at 12:03 , Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:On 01/28/2013 11:34 AM, Jeffrey Trevino wrote:It should be pointed out that it's a common notational practice to hide theunused non-center keys in fingering diagrams; this behavior

Re: Woodwind Fingering diagrams problem

2013-01-29 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 29 Jan 2013, at 16:06 , Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: For example, as I recall, Selmer bass clarinets used to have the right-hand little finger low Eb on the _upper_ rank of keys, with a low C#/Db on the lower rank. Buffet have traditionally had it the opposite way round. FYI, they ch

Re: Woodwind Fingering diagrams problem

2013-01-29 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 29 Jan 2013, at 22:29 , m...@mikesolomon.org wrote: Just a note to say thank you to all those who want to make this code better. It's tough for me to take it any farther with my non-expert knowledge of woodwind instruments, but I would be glad to answer any and on questions addressed to

Re: Woodwind Fingering diagrams problem

2013-01-29 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 29 Jan 2013, at 22:17 , Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On 01/29/2013 09:50 PM, Wim van Dommelen wrote: Since you're finding it relatively straightforward to play with the Scheme code, can I put in a feature request -- any chance of fixing the shape of the register key for clarinet

Re: Transposing instruments

2013-01-30 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Guy, Your problem is that you did not specify the language, then it defaults to Dutch. I guess you want: \transpose bes, f { ... notes ... } but: \transpose f c' { } does the same, both move you up exactly one kwint/scale. Or: \language "english"

Re: Woodwind Fingering diagrams problem

2013-01-30 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Joseph, On 29 Jan 2013, at 23:22 , Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: -- more realistic key shapes and placement for the diagrams (this is a minor quibble, but nice if it can be done); -- an option to display unused as well as used keys (Wim's request); E.g. with a property '(showal

Re: Woodwind Fingering diagrams problem

2013-02-01 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 31 Jan 2013, at 17:48 , Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On 01/30/2013 09:42 AM, Wim van Dommelen wrote: That is why the "low-bass-clarinet" stencil exists. That is (as I reverse engineer it) intended for bass-clarinet toward low-C (the concert model) whereas the "bass-c

Questions on re-organizing the woodwind (bass-)clarinet stencils

2013-02-04 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi, After last week discussions on what is / missing of / wrong in / not pretty with / wished for / the woodwind stencils, I've made a list off all things concerning the (bass-)clarinet stencils (about 20 smaller and bigger items) and I dived into the code. I've already changed some thing

Re: Questions on re-organizing the woodwind (bass-)clarinet stencils

2013-02-04 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 4 Feb 2013, at 09:44 , David Kastrup wrote: First: consider the possibility of keeping an alias "four" to the key, but let code and documentation stick with side-ees. I'll look into that. Second: when doing such a change, it might be worth trying to cook up a rule for python/convertrules

Re: Questions on re-organizing the woodwind (bass-)clarinet stencils

2013-02-05 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 5 Feb 2013, at 12:47 , Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On 02/05/2013 07:46 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Disagree. The default conversation language of LilyPond (all its command and function names) is English, the default note language is dutch. side-ees is perfectly consistent with LilyPond's

Streamlining my thoughts on the clarinet woodwind-diagrams

2013-02-07 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Joseph, Mike, I've looked into different brand/models (as far as my friends and knowledge reaches) and had my thoughts on it (so it is may be not exhausting enough!). Meanwhile I also studied the underlying code (which is both daunting and haunting) and I see the following model(s) sch

Re: Streamlining my thoughts on the clarinet woodwind-diagrams

2013-02-07 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 7 Feb 2013, at 18:46 , Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On 02/07/2013 02:26 PM, Wim van Dommelen wrote: clarinet-family --> clarinet (what we have now, but without the "hole") "hole" ? I guess you mean the extra touchpiece on the LH 1st finger? Internal

Re: Streamlining my thoughts on the clarinet woodwind-diagrams

2013-02-08 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 7 Feb 2013, at 23:33 , Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: The regular one doesn't, the full-Boehm instrument does. See e.g. this example: http://www.clarinetsdirect.biz/RC-F279670.html But that also has the low-ees, because it still is a "soprano" it sounds higher then the low-ees in the ba

Re: Bassoon fingering charts O_o

2013-02-08 Thread Wim van Dommelen
these in the documentation some how, come to think of it. cheers,JeffOn Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:42 AM, James Harkins <jamshar...@gmail.com> wrote: On Feb 6, 2013 4:46 PM, "Wim van Dommelen" <m...@wimvd.nl> wrote: > > Hi James, > > Note that the Lilypond diagrams ar

Re: Streamlining my thoughts on the clarinet woodwind-diagrams

2013-02-08 Thread Wim van Dommelen
And hopefully "loads once" then :-) Regards, Wim. On 8 Feb 2013, at 10:49 , Werner LEMBERG wrote: But it also looks like we should look into autoload here. There is no point loading this sort of baggage into every LilyPond run. Does guile support autoload out of the box? Werner __

Re: Attempted spec for low-C bass clarinet diagrams

2013-02-08 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 8 Feb 2013, at 11:35 , Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On 02/07/2013 02:26 PM, Wim van Dommelen wrote: The "clarinet-with-low-gis", "bass-clarinet" and "low-bass- clarinet" will then be "intermediate" stencils, but otherwise complete and callab

Re: Attempted spec for low-C bass clarinet diagrams

2013-02-08 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 8 Feb 2013, at 13:55 , Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: http://www.circb.info/sites/default/files/La%20prima%20musica%20per%20clarinetto%20basso_0.pdf Thanks! I see, so it's a little-finger d for both lh and rh? Yes. Again, so Selmer has only 3 thumb keys, it's just the notes delivered

Re: Attempted spec for low-C bass clarinet diagrams

2013-02-08 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 8 Feb 2013, at 18:31 , Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On 02/08/2013 05:30 PM, Wim van Dommelen wrote: Mmmh, but the correct use of it is vital. See e.g. Sparnaay pages 57 and 58. By looking back to these pages I noticed he writes the usage of the hole with a cross in circle &quo

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-14 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Indeed, inspiring. Remembers me of a museum in Kopenhagen (mmmhh, forgot the name) I once visited where they have a small exhibition of these tools. Impressing. I was a little upset when I read "they decided to disperse the collection", but it is true, I've contacted them and you can indeed

Re: Multiple Movements -- made simple?

2013-02-24 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Arlin,A piece with 5 movements, one (solo-)part. I've stripped every movement to 2 bars. The file generates the transposed parts for a bass-clarinet, but with exactly the same input notes I also have a compiling file for the original Gamba. This is the way I do this, probably not perfect but for

Re: editor Re: final score

2013-03-04 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Sarah, TeXShop has line numbers, work OK with Lilypond. Has a possibility to compile it and open the PDF afterwards. Easy. Regards, Wim. On 4 Mar 2013, at 06:57 , Sarah k Alawami wrote: yeah I'm horrible at compiling stuff and using the terminal. i was looking for a GUI way of doin

Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative

2013-03-10 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Regards, Wim. On 9 Mar 2013, at 05:45 , Keith OHara wrote: Colin Hall gmail.com> writes: In my early days with Lilypond I learned this to my cost. I've never used \relative since then. I stopped using \relative about a year ago, because absolute note entry is vastly easier. Not if y

Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative

2013-03-10 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 10 Mar 2013, at 10:06 , David Kastrup wrote: Wim van Dommelen writes: Agree, we should have an easy way to switch from absolute to relative (Yes, everthing inside \relative { } is relative, all other is absolute, I know), like: \absolute: from here on everything is absolute like \clef

Re: Lilypond Woodwind-Diagram for Bassoon missing half-hole option for first finger

2013-03-16 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Ryan, Unfortunately this feature does not exist yet. If I understand correctly you want the result as shown in the PNG attachment. (Shown with a quick and dirty round hole, not the ellipse form) <> Regards, Wim. On 16 Mar 2013, at 02:45 , ryanmichaelmcclure wrote: I am attempting

Re: Lilypond Woodwind-Diagram for Bassoon missing half-hole option for first finger

2013-03-17 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Mike, I tried that, but 'covered' doesn't in this stencil (the 'bassoon-cc- one-key-stencil' is different from the others) if I see this right, you need a 'ring'-type stencil to do that. Or did I miss something there? I use 2.16.0 (stable). So for the solution I gave Ryan, I ALSO had t

Re: Lilypond Woodwind-Diagram for Bassoon missing half-hole option for first finger

2013-03-17 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 17 Mar 2013, at 10:07 , m...@mikesolomon.org wrote: On 17 mars 2013, at 09:31, Wim van Dommelen wrote: Hi Mike, I tried that, but 'covered' doesn't in this stencil (the 'bassoon- cc-one-key-stencil' is different from the others) if I see this right, you need

Re: Lilypond Woodwind-Diagram for Bassoon missing half-hole option for first finger

2013-03-20 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 20 Mar 2013, at 14:32 , ryanmichaelmcclure wrote: I'm unable to post the fingering chart from my professor's book because it's owned by the publisher and not him... There goes that idea. No problem, I don't want you to violate any rights. If however you find a suitable usable version on

Re: User comments on R shorthand

2013-03-20 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 20 Mar 2013, at 17:03 , Nick Baskin wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Kieren MacMillan > wrote: Hi James, All good points! > R2 (a full measure rest in 2/4 time) > R2*2 (two full measure rests in 2/4 time) > R*2 (two full measure rests in any meter) +1 Regards, Wim.

Re: how offsets and alignment works: an explanation

2013-03-25 Thread Wim van Dommelen
It of course depends on how large you want the dot and what other flexibility you want/need. But with a regular '.' (or any character- string) you could easily do this without special function code needed: \version "2.16.0" dotcolor = #red smalldotmark = \markup{\bold \with-color \dotcolor ".

Re: DiceWaltz-1.2

2013-03-27 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Marvellous. Nice for parties, can make a quiz out of this! Regards, Wim. On 27 Mar 2013, at 09:36 , Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Hi, I have updated/re-written my Python implementation of Mozart's Musical Dice Game http://imslp.org/wiki/Musikalisches_W%C3%BCrfelspiel,_K.516f_%28Mozart,_Wol

Re: musicxml2ly enhancements

2013-04-10 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 10 Apr 2013, at 11:38 , Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Just like my lilypond scores I often still write (simple) html code using just Vim. Maybe I'm just getting old and old fashioned :-) +1, we're not alone.. Regards, Wim. ___ lilypond-user m

Re: Newbie problems

2013-04-15 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 15 Apr 2013, at 08:09 , Thomas Scharkowski wrote: Original-Nachricht Thomas Scharkowski t-online.de> writes: ">>" (without quotes) is missing at the end of your code. It's more likely that your mail reader interpreted ">>" as a quoted line and didn't show it to you.

Re: Newbie problems

2013-04-15 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Joram, But that alone doesn't always work, some email programs jump in, they see this extra indentation and "patch" it. So when you send out a nicely fit message, my email program (standard/default Apple OS X mail) scrambles it (and if "needed" again). Not a problem for me, but as you

LilyDev

2013-04-16 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi, I'm trying to download LilyDev, the latest pointer I could find was: http://www.philholmes.net/lilypond/LilyDev/ubuntu-LilyDev-remix-2.6.iso from the v.2.17.15 Contributor's Guide, but that pointer starts to download and stalls for hours after 16.1 MB done. Is there something wr

Re: Scheme education

2013-04-18 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 18 Apr 2013, at 16:53 , Stjepan Horvat wrote: Hi guys..i want to learn the scheme syntax and implementation in lilypond.. I'm on half of The Little Schemer by Daniel P. Friedman book (100/200p)..What would you suggest after i'm finished with it? (maybe a book) A very good reference (n

Re: Scheme-sandbox on MAC

2013-04-19 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 19 Apr 2013, at 21:41 , Joseph Austin wrote: I'm a relative newbie to Lilypond, using 2.16.2-1 on Mac OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard). I want to try some modifications, and am trying to work through the tutorial in: Manuals > Extending > Scheme Tutorial. I haven't been able to get the scheme-sandb

Re: Alignment problem with instrument name

2013-04-23 Thread Wim van Dommelen
What you need is setting the indent-values and tune these to what you need/want.'indent' in the paper block is for the first system, 'short-indent' for all others. Notation manual (v.2.16.0) page 485/486.Small compiling example attached.Another option could be to make a column out of "C.A." that de

Re: change of plans for this final project

2013-04-29 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Sarah, 1. If you write \key g \major and present this score to a clarinettist -- playing on a B-flat clarinet -- the piece will sound as \key f \major. 2. If you write \key g \major and present this score to a horn player -- playing a horn in F -- the piece will sound as \key c \major.

Re: an easier way to create the midi block

2013-05-02 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Sarah, The closing bracket } on line 34 is one too much. And in line 156 there is some strange - not lilypond - text. When I compiled this I noticed one important thing: the flute and trumpet (in C) melodies show one sharp for \key g \major, but the line you indicate with Clarinet in B-f

Re: an easier way to create the midi block

2013-05-02 Thread Wim van Dommelen
made the suggestion that there be an option to show line numbers and I tried the control e command for jumping to the error in the score but that does nothing according to voice over. Thanks. On May 2, 2013, at 12:52 AM, Wim van Dommelen wrote: Hi Sarah, The closing bracket } on line 34 i

Re: multi measure rests

2013-05-03 Thread Wim van Dommelen
I remember and use it this way: R so: R1*3 is three times the length of one whole note. Always calculate the total length you need and that it gets there. I tried simply this: Assume you want 4/4 followed by 3/4 and three full measures rest in each: { \time 4/4

Re: odd bar check errors

2013-05-11 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Sarah, Remember that error-messages do have a function. The program communicates to you that it cannot follow. Your problems start in line 14 by forgetting the opening bracket { of the \relative. But I can only guess where the closing bracket should be. The bracket don't add-up to

Re: odd bar check errors

2013-05-11 Thread Wim van Dommelen
You horn music goes wrong because the opening bracket is in line 169 instead of directly after the \relative and \transpose. And before that another one is missing. I think in the bassoon, same problem with \relative there. Sorry, I don't have enough time now to look at it in detail Re

Re: odd bar check errors

2013-05-13 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Sarah, You sure have come a long way, but I think it is already a nice result. What I see: - line 17: the opening bracket is still before the \relative instead of after. That causes a problem that the musical expression seen by the \relative is only the next statement, that is the \key g

Oboe advise needed - woodwind diagrams

2013-05-13 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi, I am looking at some of the woodwind diagrams, redesigning the clarinet part and if possible trying to judge on correctness of the others. In the Oboe diagram I see a left-hand key labeled F, but it is placed a little bit strange on top of the others. Comparing with pictures on the

Re: Oboe advise needed - woodwind diagrams

2013-05-13 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Jurgensen wrote:I don't see an attached diagram? Many oboes do have a LH F, which is a little knobbly one sort of on top of the others. If I could see it, I'll take a look.Since your email is continental, I assume you're looking for Conservatoire key system. I can help with that. On M

Re: Oboe advise needed - woodwind diagrams

2013-05-13 Thread Wim van Dommelen
for comparison. On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Wim van Dommelen wrote: I didn't attached a diagram, just the .ly file to generate it. Now the result is attached in .png, so you should see that. It shows you two layout, first one is with all keys, the second one with the "F&qu

Re: odd bar check errors

2013-05-13 Thread Wim van Dommelen
p. lol! so sorry if this makes no sense. Heha Oh btw thanks for the texshop program. It rocks. On May 13, 2013, at 7:26 AM, Wim van Dommelen wrote: ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: odd bar check errors

2013-05-13 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 13 May 2013, at 17:06 , Sarah k Alawami wrote: Ok. so do I have to put the right keys in at least not everything in g major after the transpose line? I did read the manual but me being a singer and I can only transpost by ear it kind of makes thing sharder. I used to be able to do this

Re: getting error already have slur in my compilation

2013-05-14 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Sarah, The transpose looks much better now! Good. But in the trumpet you still made a mistake in the order. When you use both \relative and a \transpose, do it like this: trumpetMusic = \transpose c' d { \relative c' { \key g \major \repeat volta 2 { \partial r8 | then all music is ente

Re: octave checks in the viola line of my assignment are failing.

2013-05-14 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Line 274 for Violin I should be (I think): 4 d'8 b a g 4 d'8 b a g| I assume the first note in the tritone runs in the melody also. Note that what you did in Violin II is perfect, you did put in the octave checks, LilyPond will then issue a warning AND change the note to the octave you want

Re: octave checks in the viola line of my assignment are failing.

2013-05-14 Thread Wim van Dommelen
If you want a MIDI file put \midi {} right after the line where \layout is stated, but before the last closing bracket. Regards, Wim. On 14 May 2013, at 19:03 , Sarah k Alawami wrote: Ah. except my midi file is not being created for some reason. I'll just put that part through a website

Re: octave checks in the viola line of my assignment are failing.

2013-05-14 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 14 May 2013, at 19:34 , Sarah k Alawami wrote: lol. I did that and it seems to work, but it is failing majored in the viola part. I tried to make a midi of just th part by putitn it in to a test file but it is not working correctly. I can never tell when my octaves will in your words

Re: an easier way to create the midi block

2013-05-14 Thread Wim van Dommelen
You mixed up the \score block with the music variables.This one now works. Regards,Wim. flute.ly Description: Binary data On 15 May 2013, at 01:40 , Sarah k Alawami wrote:Interesting. It worked when I did this before but now I'm unsure of how I did it lol!  here is the change I tried to make. It'

Re: concatenating/converting string variables ?

2013-05-17 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 17 May 2013, at 11:47 , Nick Payne wrote: On 17/05/13 17:45, Paul Malcolm wrote: excuse me, just a trivial question, but I cannot seem to find the answer. I want to add the date variable to one element of text in my title. I have this in the preamble date = #(strftime "%d-%m-%Y" (loca

Re: An idea for a systematic development of a large score.

2013-05-17 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 17 May 2013, at 03:26 , wjm wrote: After a lot of fiddling around I came up with this schema:- I use a similar approach. This approach is well-facilitated in Frescobaldi, using the point- and-click correlation between the output pane and the relevant input f

Question on creating an "ossia" with different times?

2010-10-29 Thread Wim van Dommelen
o can help me with a solution? (or just tell me we just can't, that's fair enough!) Regards, Wim van Dommelen. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Question on creating an "ossia" with different times?

2010-11-01 Thread Wim van Dommelen
l now. Regards, Wim van Dommelen. P.S. The alignment of the two small ossia's staffs themselves can probably be done with a context, but I'm not there yet. -- sample code: - \version "2.12.3" \paper { #(set-paper-size &qu

Re: Question on creating an "ossia" with different times?

2010-11-01 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Thanks, that simplifies it. Almost there. But I noticed as we move the Timing-translator all the bar-numbers are also gone. That's a pity. According to what I read in the manual the Timing_translator is responsible for these bar-numbers, but apparantly it works different in a different cont

keepWithTag question

2011-08-15 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi, I'm trying to create a file using multiple tags. Inside the music typed, that is not a problem, but the \keepWithTag command only accepts one tag to filter. I would like to do: \keepWithTag #'a #'b { music } or \keepWithTag #'a { \keepWithTag #'b { music } } but either

Vertical Text alignment problem

2012-07-21 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi, I have some problems with the vertical alignment of text. I tried both the \halign, \lower inside a \markup and explicit offset commands with an \override, but I couldn't get it right. This sample shows the problem in detail. I do want to move the two "gliss." text-strings nearly on t

Re: number-pitch printed on top / below of staff

2012-07-27 Thread Wim van Dommelen
And what about using the "fingering" attribute for that: e'8-3 c''4.-1 b'4-7 etc Although no default like your note heads. Regards, Wim. On 28 Jul 2012, at 04:10 , MING TSANG wrote: Hi, lily users: Is it possible to print printed number-pitch on top or below the staff? Some user he

User-interface (was Re: mac lion)

2012-09-13 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Commends on the user-interface: Some time ago I tried to get Frescobaldi running, but didn't succeed. Too much dependencies and version conflicts and requests for some versions which are explicitly requested but don't exist anymore. However, it works on my Ubuntu-machine from the box and I

Re: User-interface (was Re: mac lion)

2012-09-13 Thread Wim van Dommelen
... ... On 13 Sep 2012, at 09:58 , David Kastrup wrote: For Mac OS X: Work is being done to create a more complete installer. You probably already saw that; I just include it to get other commentors up to date. Yep, I decided not to spend very much time to get it working, but wait fo

Re: Connected barlines between Staves ?

2012-09-14 Thread Wim van Dommelen
2012/9/14 Wim van Dommelen : Hi, I'm typesetting a multi-Staff piece, three staves of which the lowest two are a PianoStaff and the top one is an individual instrument. Now I want to have *all* the barlines vertically connected between all the staves, for the PianoStaff this is of co

Re: intractable collision of arpeggio and rest

2013-05-22 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 22 May 2013, at 10:06 , David Kastrup wrote: It's just a matter of efficiency. To find the problem, you need to boil down the code to the essential part anyway. Not doing this in advance is only efficient if the expected number of helpers is below 1 or if their time is to be valued less

Re: An idea for a systematic development of a large score.

2013-05-23 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Sarah, On 23 May 2013, at 19:46 , Sarah k Alawami wrote: I was thinking of putting my variables in each file each variable only *once* in a file, I presume that way I can do a bit less less typing, at least in that file. will this still work in the end when I compile all files in to o

Re: An idea for a systematic development of a large score.

2013-05-24 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Sorry, hobo is just the Dutch name for oboe. typo Regards, Wim. On 24 May 2013, at 00:51 , David Kastrup wrote: Wim van Dommelen writes: Yes, that is possible if I understand correctly what you want to do. For example you can make a set of files: - clarinet-1.ly, contains the

Re: An idea for a systematic development of a large score.

2013-05-24 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 24 May 2013, at 03:21 , Sarah k Alawami wrote: Actually I was thinking the variables for the piano since one of the sections repeats a lot in the right hand. Will all of that still compile if I have the files's variables like that or do I need to then create a veritable for the foe its

Re: Removing fingerings from the general score

2013-06-06 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Jacques, I use tags as follows: %(definitions from my standard include-file) % Some easy clarinet fingering abbreviations: fingercolor = #blue fLfinger = ^\markup{ \bold \with-color \fingercolor "L" } fL = -\tag #'BCLfingering \fLfinger fRfinger = ^\markup{ \bold \with-color \fingercolor "R"

Re: Indexed PDF portfolio of 2.17.20 docs

2013-06-11 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 11 Jun 2013, at 05:00 , Nick Payne wrote: On 11/06/13 12:32, Nick Payne wrote: 54Mb in size: https://www.dropbox.com/s/q9u89cbsbrgkjkc/Lilydoc-2.17.20.pdf p.s. I forgot to add - Adobe Reader is the only product I am aware of that can successfully open PDF portfolios. All the third part

Re: Indexed PDF portfolio of 2.17.20 docs

2013-06-12 Thread Wim van Dommelen
this exists? At http://lilypond.org/download/binaries/documentation/lilypond-2.17.20-1.documentation.tar.bz2 for example, as shown on the development page? -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Wim van Dommelen To: Nick Payne Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 5

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