Vertical lyric/stanza spacing

2006-02-01 Thread cordilow (sent by Nabble.com)
Hello, I've been trying to figure this out for months and months--ever since I started using Lilypond, anyway. I've looked at the documentation (2.6.4), and I could not find a way to change the vertical spacing, or padding, or whatever it is in this case, between verses of lyrics (stanzas). I'

Italian/Spanish: multiple vowels on one note

2006-02-01 Thread cordilow (sent by Nabble.com)
Hello, I've been searching for a way to represent what looks like an upside down breve, and also what looks like a breve spaced as low as an underscore. Anyway, I have music I want to notate, in Italian and Spanish, that uses these characters (the first for Italian, the second for Spanish).  The

piano introduction marks

2006-02-01 Thread cordilow (sent by Nabble.com)
Hello, I'm searching for a way to represent hymn-style piano introduction marks in Lilypond.  I've looked at all the unicode characters I could find, and I haven't found anything appropriate.  These are the closest characters I could find: ΓГЃгךדר But they don't exactly work professionally.  I ne

Footers/headers and line breaks

2006-02-01 Thread cordilow (sent by Nabble.com)
Hello, I was wondering how to create a footer.  The documentation talks about them, but it never says how to make them.  So far, I've only been able to make a footer by using tagline in the header. The following does not work, or compile for that matter: \footer {    poet = "some poet"    compos

problem with cue notes

2006-02-01 Thread cordilow (sent by Nabble.com)
Here's part of the bass part to a song: {         \voiceFour         b, 2 4 4 4. a,8 d2 } I want the lower notes in the interval brackets (i.e. the g, in ) mentioned to be cue notes. How is this possible, the way I have it set up?  Is it possible?  I don't want to make another voice, because it'

Re: Footers/headers and line breaks

2006-02-02 Thread cordilow (sent by Nabble.com)
Oh, That's awesome!  About the HTML, with Lilypond-book, I mean. Wow--that makes me happy.  All you have to do is surround your lilypond file in and then type something like lilypond-book -o thePathOfOurputPlusFileName nameOfFile. Of course, you have to change the extension to html instead of l

Re: piano introduction marks

2006-02-02 Thread cordilow (sent by Nabble.com)
Nevermind, actually! I think I found what I was looking for: ┌  (U+250C) and  ┐(U+2510). The tops are a little shorter than the bottoms, though, but I think that's font-dependent, anyway. View this message in context: Re: piano introduction marks Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User forum at Nab