Re: Pentatonic Diatonic Transposition?

2011-01-21 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
Hey Daniel, Check out http://wiki.lilynet.net/index.php/JM_diatonic-transpose.ly . Cheers, MS On Jan 20, 2011, at 9:05 PM, Daniel wrote: > Hello, > > I have recently discovered Lilypond, and wow. It is just great. I have been > looking for something like this for a long time. > > I have a que

Hairpin rotation w/ bookending dynamic

2011-02-05 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
Hey all, I'm working on a score and I can't figure out how to rotate the hairpin about the pianississimo -20ish degrees such that the sforzando moves with it. Before measuring the distance in horizontal staff space of the hairpin and working with tangents to get the correct padding override (u

Re: strange output

2011-02-15 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
Same thing hit the French list a couple days ago. Oddly, my heavily-krunked-out version of the source doesn't reproduce this result, but I would recommend (by way of Xavier Scheuer) adding \grace { s8 } to the beginning of all your parts. Cheers, MS On Feb 15, 2011, at 7:14 AM, Mario Moles wrot

Odd voice-squashing

2011-02-23 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
Hey all,In the first attached example, you'll see that the C# and D are oddly merged in the last note column. However, when I compile the code for a minimal example (\relative c' { << { d8 ~ d4 } \\ { d8 cis4 } >> }), it works just fine.  Also, when I compile the part outside of the full string qua

Re: Odd voice-squashing

2011-02-23 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Feb 23, 2011, at 4:17 PM, Nick Payne wrote: > On 24/02/11 08:04, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: >> >> Hey all, >> >> In the first attached example, you'll see that the C# and D are oddly merged >> in the last note column. However, when I compile the cod

Re: Extending stem length without affecting spacing

2011-02-26 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Feb 25, 2011, at 2:35 PM, Jérémie Lumbroso wrote: > Hello, > > I am typesetting a piano score, in which I have chords which I want to span > both staves. I've determined that this is still not possible, and found that > the only suggested workaround was to align notes on both staves and to e

Re: adjusting horizontal spacing and page turns

2011-03-04 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Mar 4, 2011, at 7:26 PM, Douglas Ridgway wrote: > I'm working on the Mozart bassoon concerto from Mutopia. I'd like to > include the tutti sections on the bassoon part, but in small notes, > because they are usually not played. I used \tiny, but the result > seems kind of stretched out, and the

Re: filename in markup

2011-03-15 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Mar 11, 2011, at 10:57 AM, MING TSANG wrote: > Thank you. > > Additional question: Can the path of the file name be printed also? > > > From: Marek Klein > To: MING TSANG > Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Sent: Fri, March 11, 2011 10:19:01 AM > Subject: Re: filename in markup > > 2011/3/11 M

Dot-notehead collision

2011-03-15 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
Hey all, \relative c' { \time 3/4 << { 4 2 } \\ { d2. } >> } Produces the attached output. Is there a way to get it so that the dot does not collide with the notehead (w/o resorting to extra offsets and the like)? Cheers, MS <>___ lilypond-user mail

Re: Dot-notehead collision

2011-03-15 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Mar 15, 2011, at 5:04 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: > - Original Message - From: "Trevor Daniels" > To: ; "lilypond-user" > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:24 PM > Subject: Re: Dot-notehead collision > > >> >> m...@apollinemike.com wrote

Re: filename in markup

2011-03-15 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Mar 15, 2011, at 1:21 PM, -Eluze wrote: > > > m...@apollinemike.com wrote: >> >> >> One issue with this solution is that if you do batch processing from the >> command line: >> >> lilypond foo.ly bar.ly >> >> Then the solutio

Re: filename in markup

2011-03-16 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
should be > simple to do. > > Dave. > > From: Trevor Daniels > To: -Eluze ; lilypond-user@gnu.org > Sent: Wed, March 16, 2011 9:46:36 AM > Subject: Re: filename in markup > > > Eluze wrote Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:31 PM > > > m...@apollinemike.

Re: looking for a way to print inverval from 2 notes

2011-03-17 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Mar 17, 2011, at 5:55 AM, christophe 1710 wrote: > Hello all, > > i'm working on the different modal structure from a score and i woud like to > print the half or full ton from one not to the next one! > > \version "2.12.3" > \include "italiano.ly" > \header { } > TimeKey = { \key do \minor

Re: fighting with lyrics

2011-03-20 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Mar 20, 2011, at 8:11 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > Hello, > Having used Lilypond successfully for some instrumental works, I'm > typesetting a > song with it. Here's a link to the lilypond source: > http://paste.pocoo.org/show/356919/ Here's a image as it looks currently: > http://imgur.com/

Re: Notes lining up, and warnings

2011-03-26 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Mar 26, 2011, at 7:37 AM, Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: > Thanks, Peter! That fixed all the errors as well as the spacing! > There is one more thing I would like to accomplish -- to indent the > Gloria Patri words just a bit. I'm unfamiliar with the words below > systems, and have tried variou

Re: help with scheme function

2011-03-26 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Mar 26, 2011, at 8:58 AM, Damian leGassick wrote: > hi all > > as you can see below I've got some very repetitive note entry > > my attempt at a scheme substitution is not working > > can anyone help me out here? > > cheers > > Damian > > > \version "2.13.54" > > xenAccGliss = #(define-

Re: Rounds/catches with LilyPond

2011-03-26 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Mar 26, 2011, at 7:57 PM, Ben Rudiak-Gould wrote: > I think it is the sort of thing that ought to be > doable, given LilyPond's support for all kinds of crazy stuff that > almost nobody cares about, such as feathered beams. i <3 feathered beams :(

Re: Combining NoteHead and Stem stencils for rotation

2011-03-29 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Mar 29, 2011, at 9:25 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > m...@apollinemike.com writes: > >> Hey all, >> >> I'd like to rotate a note head and its stem in one fell swoop. >> >> This seems rather nightmarish to do. I can envision two solutions: >> &g

Re: problem with OS X 10.6.7 and Lily-PDFs

2011-03-31 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Mar 31, 2011, at 7:21 AM, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: > Hello List, > > I installed Mac OSX 10.6.7 and now am unable to print my beautiful sheets > from my mac! It seems to be related to a font problem in the last security > update: http://www.tidbits.com/article/12078 > Luckily I work on Ubuntu

Re: Coloring individual staff lines snippet error

2011-04-02 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Apr 2, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Paul Morris wrote: > I was trying to use this snippet to experiment with customizing staff line > colors: > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=700 > > But I get the following error when trying to compile the snippet in LilyPond: > > Parsing... > Interpreting music.

Re: Trill notation with fingering

2011-04-03 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Apr 3, 2011, at 7:31 PM, Javier Ruiz-Alma wrote: > Any ideas as to how best to approximate the trill plus fingering notiation as > shown in this image? > The closest I can get is: > > a2.\trill^markup{\finger "3 2"} > > However, this doesn't show the cap over the digits, plus lilypond seem

Re: Trill notation with fingering

2011-04-03 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Apr 3, 2011, at 7:31 PM, Javier Ruiz-Alma wrote: > Any ideas as to how best to approximate the trill plus fingering notiation as > shown in this image? > The closest I can get is: > > a2.\trill^markup{\finger "3 2"} > > However, this doesn't show the cap over the digits, plus lilypond seem

Re: Trill notation with fingering

2011-04-04 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Apr 3, 2011, at 11:42 PM, Javier Ruiz-Alma wrote: > On Apr 3, 2011, at 7:31 PM, Javier Ruiz-Alma wrote: > >> Any ideas as to how best to approximate the trill plus fingering notiation >> as shown in this image? >> The closest I can get is: >> >> a2.\trill^markup{\finger "3 2"} >> >> Howe

Re: ottavation

2011-04-06 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Apr 6, 2011, at 7:22 AM, James Lowe wrote: > From: Peter O'Doherty [mailto:k.p.odohe...@gmail.com] > Sent: 06 April 2011 12:21 > To: James Lowe > Subject: Re: ottavation > > Thanks for your reply, James. My question wasn't very clear - there are > numerous instances of ottava passages in the

Re: ottavation

2011-04-06 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
,1 > } > > }} > \layout { > \context { > % \Score ottavation=#"8" % this does not work > } }} > > > > > On 04/06/2011 01:51 PM, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: >> >> On Apr 6, 2011, at 7:22 AM, James Lowe wrote: >> >>> From

Re: intro; art song example or template?

2011-04-07 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Apr 7, 2011, at 3:02 PM, ivan.k.kuznet...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hello All; > > I am a first time poster. I have much experience with > linux and latex and so hopefully I will catch on > to lilypond without too much trouble. > > I am a composer of mostly atonal music, often with > a lot of ti

Re: First page completed; tweaking questions

2011-04-09 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Apr 9, 2011, at 7:08 PM, ivan.k.kuznet...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I have my first page of music notated with lilypond here: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/61572029@N04/5603253711/ > > > > CONCERNING area's marked in red A1 and A2: > > Sometimes I require one note to have two stems indic

Re: First page completed; tweaking questions

2011-04-10 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Apr 10, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Ivan Kuznetsov wrote: > m...@apollinemike.com wrote: > > > > ivan.k.kuznet...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > I have my first page of music notated with lilypond here: > > > > > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/61572029

Re: Completion_heads_engraver produces segmentation fault

2011-04-19 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Apr 19, 2011, at 7:25 AM, ornello wrote: > > Hello again, > > I thínk there is a wrong index is in completion-note-heads-engraver.cc, line > 223: > > Pitch *p_last > = unsmob_pitch (tie_note_candidate_events_[j]->get_property > ("pitch")); > > but should be > >

Re: Beaming problem introduced with 2.13.60

2011-04-20 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Apr 20, 2011, at 4:01 AM, flup2 wrote: > > I had the same problem in a score with these notes : > > d4-- c8->( g ~ g) g'->( f e) > > I had no problem before 2.13.60 > > Philippe > Your snippet compiles fine in the most recent development version. Cheers, MS _

Re: Change print-appearance of chord members to different duration, but not the logic behind.

2011-04-25 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Apr 25, 2011, at 7:09 PM, Nils wrote: > Hello, > > The goal is to have a very simple way of creating mixed-duration chords.I do > not know of any way to do this in lilypond which does not involve different > voices. > > So I want to change single notes in a so that they appear as > differ

Re: Change print-appearance of chord members to different duration, but not the logic behind.

2011-04-26 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Apr 26, 2011, at 6:04 AM, Nils wrote: > Thank you for your answer. This is what I'm looking for. > { } > because it respects notehead-styles. > > The other method mentioned is limited to one style. > The other one can use any glyph you'd like. > Do you know how breve and longa can be produ

Re: Change print-appearance of chord members to different duration, but not the logic behind.

2011-04-26 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
changes I have to replace all the noteheads. Imagine this for a > complex piano score where you need this kind of mixed-duration chords. > Yes, I know I can use variables but its still less elegant than using > duration-log. > > Nils > > > > On Tue, 26 Apr 20

Re: Drawing systems...ERROR: In procedure min: ERROR: Wrong type: lilyvartmpbh

2011-04-26 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Apr 26, 2011, at 8:02 AM, Nick Payne wrote: > This code used to work for me about a year ago, but when I try to build it > using 2.13.60, I get the weird error shown in the console log output at the > bottom. Is this a bug or not? I'm running 2.13.60 on Ubuntu 10.04 amd64. > > %=

Re: Is a cross-staff chord with ties possible in lilypond?

2011-04-27 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Apr 26, 2011, at 5:18 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Francisco Vila writes: > >> 2011/4/26 Helge Hafting : >>> 2. Cross-staff chords could get simpler too. Switch staff inside >>> a chord, and lilypond would know to connect the stems. >> >> Cross-staff chords is one of the very first features

Re: Beam avoidance of other voices and stem length for beamed notes

2011-05-04 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On May 4, 2011, at 3:16 PM, Nick Payne wrote: > Latest LP development version has inconsistency. See below. > > \version "2.13.61" > > \relative c'' { >\time 3/4 >\key d \minor > << >{ 8 r r s } >\\ >{ d, r cis r r4 } >\\ >{ g'8. f16 g8. bes16 a8. g16 } > >> > } >

Re: Beam avoidance of other voices and stem length for beamed notes

2011-05-05 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On May 5, 2011, at 2:12 AM, Nick Payne wrote: > On 05/05/11 13:21, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: >> On May 4, 2011, at 3:16 PM, Nick Payne wrote: >> >>> Latest LP development version has inconsistency. See below. >>> >>> \version "2.13.61" >

Re: Repeat alternative includes a tempo change

2011-05-05 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On May 5, 2011, at 9:08 PM, Ken Smith wrote: > I'm new to LilyPond (v2.12.3) and to music notation in general, so I'm just a > tad beyond the starting point on LilyPond's learning curve. I'm scratching > my head now as to how to write the repeats in my learning testfile, > "Podmoskovnye Vecher

Re: musicxml2ly - very little bug(s)

2011-05-06 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On May 6, 2011, at 7:57 AM, Werner wrote: > Hello, > > musicxml2ly always brings in the paper-block „botton-margin“ instead of > „bottom-margin“. Could somebody fix that? > Fixed in the most recent development version. > Also I would prefere a line break to get > „ \clef "treble" \key as \ma

Re: footnotes?

2011-05-06 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On May 6, 2011, at 12:20 PM, padovani wrote: > Are the footnotes working on the last development version? > Are there examples on how to use them? > Yup. If you check out the page http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/input/regression/collated-files.html and do a search for footnote, you'll see some

Re: Stem length on beamed notes incorrect in 2.13.61

2011-05-07 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On May 7, 2011, at 1:49 AM, Nick Payne wrote: > A bar excerpted from the Mertz guitar transcription of Ständchen. When I last > worked on this score about ten months ago, using 2.13.27, I didn't have the > problem with the beam on the notes in the middle voice being placed below the > stem of t

Re: footnotes?

2011-05-07 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On May 7, 2011, at 7:07 AM, luis jure wrote: > > on 2011-05-06 at 13:02 m...@apollinemike.com wrote: > >> Yup. > > wow, that's great! i had no idea footnotes had been introduced in lilypond. They snuck in when none of us were looking. > >> you'll se

Re: Glissando no longer printed within graces?

2011-05-15 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On May 14, 2011, at 4:02 PM, Xavier Scheuer wrote: > Hi, > > Since a few months I am using my own "glissandoGrace" grace-function > to print glissando without starting note (I made this "modified" grace > invisible, but the glissando visible). > > Unfortunately I see that with 2.13.61 a glissand

Lining up notes in disparate voices

2011-05-21 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
Hey all, I'm using a trick from the LSR to print string harmonics, but I'm not getting the horizontal alignment I want between note columns (ideally everything should line up horizontally @ its center). Any ideas on how to tweak this? Cheers, Mike \relative c' { << { \oneVoice

Re: Notation convention: dotted notes, duplet or else?

2011-05-31 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On May 31, 2011, at 11:17 AM, Xavier Scheuer wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question not about LilyPond itself but about notational > conventions (rules). Maybe you know better or I know some have great > references such as Ted Ross or Gardner Read. > > In 3/4 times, what would be the recommended no

Rebroadcasting events from a single timestep

2011-06-16 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
Hey all, I am working on a piece now where I need certain events to transmogrify into other events. Specifically, whole-measure rests need to turn into multi-measure rests, and given the way that the piece is algorithmically generated, it would take a lot of time for me to change all of the `r

Re: Rebroadcasting events from a single timestep

2011-06-16 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Jun 16, 2011, at 2:43 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 01:50:27PM +0200, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: >> If only it were that easy... >> I have also tweaked the rest engraver to do automatic rest grouping. >> >> For example, if in my file I hav

Re: Rebroadcasting events from a single timestep

2011-06-16 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Jun 16, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:01:18AM +0200, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: >> I am working on a piece now where I need certain events to transmogrify into >> other events. Specifically, whole-measure rests need to turn into &

Very short lilypond snippets in LaTeX

2011-06-21 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
Hey all, I am lilypond-booking a latex document where I endeavor to insert short snippets into fragments of text : The dynamic should be between \begin{lilypond} \markup { \dynamic "ppp" } \end{lilypond} and \begin{lilypond} \markup { \dynamic "pp" } \end{lilypond} . The typeset result is not n

Re: Position of slur between two notes in different chords

2011-06-21 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Jun 21, 2011, at 1:26 PM, Markus Pfaff wrote: > A slur from one chord to another is positioned relative to the complete chord. > > In my opinion this reduces readability of the score. Shouldn't the slur go > from the note inside of the chord wich it actually starts on to the note > which it

Re: footnoteGrob allowed Grob names

2011-06-24 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Jun 24, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: > Hello list, > > I am now using lilypond 2.14 and have a question to the newly introduced > \footnote command: > What grobnames are allowed? > The following works as expected: > --snip-- > \relative c'' { >\footnoteGrob #'NoteHead #'(1 .

Re: Complex cross-rhythms

2011-06-28 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Jun 28, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Brian Lenth wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'm attempting to create a score that uses simultaneous multiple tempi, at a > ratio of 5:7. As a test, I made this (see code below). Basically it uses the > ridiculous time signature of 42/4, with barlines inserted to crea

Re: help with pitchedtrill

2011-06-29 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Jun 29, 2011, at 3:27 PM, Alex Jones wrote: > Couple of questions: > I'm trying to use pitchedTrill, but its creating a problem when I have a tie > coming off the note: > > score.ly:125:88: warning: unterminated tie > \pitchedTrill d4~ \startTrillSpan \! ees d16 \stopTrillSpan b (g ees > \pi

Re: fret diagrams for scales and arpeggios - using finger numbers as intervals

2011-06-30 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
Have you tried (markup #:flat) ? I'm not sure if it'll work, but it's worth a shot! Cheers, MS On Jun 30, 2011, at 3:52 PM, Jay Lee wrote: > I've tried various kinds of syntax, but can't seem to include the \flat > symbol. > > \addChordShape#'DominantSeventh > #ukulele

Re: Fermata over parallel barlines

2011-07-01 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
Yup! \score { \new ChoirStaff<< \new Staff \with { \consists "Mark_engraver" } { R1 \mark \markup { \musicglyph #"scripts.ufermata" } R1 } \new Staff \with { \consists "Mark_engraver" } { R1 \mark \markup { \musicglyph #"scripts.ufermata" } R1 } \new Staff \with { \consists "Mark_engraver" } { R

Re: Odd-looking tie on a chord

2011-07-04 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Jul 4, 2011, at 11:45 AM, Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote: > On Mon 04 Jul 2011, 15:39 James Harkins wrote: >> \version "2.14.1" >> >> \include "english.ly" >> >> \score { >> \new Staff { >> \key d \major >> \numericTimeSignature >> \time 4/4 >> r4 >> \times 4/5 { 16\< > d'' b''>~ } >> 16

Re: Cowell/Ferneyhough Unconventional Meters

2011-07-04 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Jul 5, 2011, at 8:29 AM, Joey wrote: > Just wondering if Lilypond can handle this type of situation; > > In Ferneyhough's etudes transcendentales, > he employs meters such as 2/12 or 2/10, > acting as literal subdivisions of the semi-breve. > This of course translates to n-tuplets, > but frees

Re: Cowell/Ferneyhough Unconventional Meters

2011-07-05 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Jul 5, 2011, at 11:45 AM, Joseph Wakeling wrote: > On 07/05/2011 08:57 AM, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: >> On Jul 5, 2011, at 8:29 AM, Joey wrote: >> >>> In Ferneyhough's etudes transcendentales, >>> he employs meters such as 2/12 or 2/10, >>> a

Re: aleatoric squiggles

2011-07-07 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
Karim Barkati is currently typesetting a score not unlike this for viola & electronics. I'm ccing him to this e-mail: his approach also uses glissandi and looks really nice. For the arrow: \relative c' {\override Glissando #'bound-details #'right #'arrow = ##t c1 \glissando s1 c1 } For the c

Re: aleatoric squiggles

2011-07-07 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Jul 7, 2011, at 2:16 PM, James Harkins wrote: > At Thu, 7 Jul 2011 10:21:01 +0200, > m...@apollinemike.com wrote: >> >> Karim Barkati is currently typesetting a score not >> unlike this for viola & electronics. I'm ccing him to this e-mail: his >>

Re: Suggestions for a Contemporary Music Font

2011-07-10 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Jul 10, 2011, at 4:34 PM, Bernardo Barros wrote: > I'm thinking of creating a font for contemporary music with the most > commonly used symbols. > I miss a lot of specific symbols and I'm sure a lot of LilyPond users do too. > This is a fantastic idea. > I know that there are some sources fo

Re: how to change gap between beams?

2011-07-13 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Jul 13, 2011, at 1:48 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: > Is it possible to change gap between beams (i.e. the distance between the > lines) painlessly? > \override Beam #'gap = #2 doesn't work, i don't find anything in LSR nor > Internals... > > cheers, > Janek You have to override the Beam #'lengt

Re: problem with svg-output

2011-07-18 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Jul 18, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Stefan Thomas wrote: > Dear community, > when I compile the following file with > lilypond -dbackend=svg > the svg-output looks different to the pdf, I've compiled with lilypond. > The symbol for "muchair" is not displayed correctly. > Here the example: > > \version

Re: Basic function question

2011-07-26 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Jul 26, 2011, at 10:14 AM, Urs Liska wrote: > Hello list members, > > after fiddling around too long and getting lost with the basics, I decided to > ask my question here. > I know it's basic, and I wonder why I get stuck this way, but obviously I'm > confused and unable to find the right pl

Re: Error opening 2.14.2

2011-07-26 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Jul 26, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Paul Morris wrote: > Upon opening LilyPond 2.14.2 I got the following error. (OSX 10.7) > > LilyPond Error > An unexpected error has occurred during execution of the main script > > ImportError: > dlopen(/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.6/l

Re: vector graphics spanner / OSX /packaged LP (2.15.5-1)

2011-07-26 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Jul 26, 2011, at 4:08 PM, padovani wrote: > Hello mike, > > I want to try you vgs on Lilypond 2.15.5-1 (packaged .app) / OSX 10.6.7. > > I've installed guile 1.8.7 and glpk 4.45 through macports. > Do I need to change vgs Makefile or the configure file in some way? If yes, > how exactly? >

Re: Roman numeral analysis

2011-07-29 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Jul 29, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Jerod Sommerfeldt wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to LilyPond and have been searching for a useful strategy to write > out roman numeral analyses for my class' theory worksheets. Here's what I've > come up with: > > <<{ > \clef bass > \override Score.TimeS

Lilypond lobbying?

2011-08-18 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
Hey all, I recently came across an announcement for an incredible composition competition for SIX ORGANS (1one). http://mmp.cm-cascais.pt/NR/rdonlyres/5BBEE22D-3C21-4996-AEFE-A2C0B2FAF9C9/12487/regulMCIngles2.pdf The rules state that one can only use Sibelius or Finale. Thinking that this

Re: Stem #'flag-style no longer valid

2011-09-16 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Sep 11, 2011, at 11:28 PM, Nick Payne wrote: > Just tried to rebuild one of my scores using 2.15.10, and got a number of > warnings in the log like so: > > warning: cannot find property type-check for `flag-style' (backend-type?). > perhaps a typing error? > warning: doing assignment anyway

Custom note heads in multi-staff documents

2011-09-20 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
Hey all, I'm working on a piece that uses a fair bit of spoken text. The best solution I've found so far to typeset X amount of spoken text in measure Y is : \version "2.14.0" textnote = #(define-music-function (parser location music marky) (ly:music? markup?) #{ \once \override NoteHead #'s

Re: Custom note heads in multi-staff documents

2011-09-20 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Sep 21, 2011, at 1:53 AM, Trevor Daniels wrote: > > > Tuesday, September 20, 2011 8:31 PM > >> I'm working on a piece that uses a fair bit of spoken text. >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions as to: >> >> (1) A better way to do this; and/or >> (2) If there is no better way, how to fix th

new Voices and Lyrics

2011-09-21 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
Hey users, This question has been kicked around a few times on this list, but I can't find a current response, so I'm looking for some help. In a piece I'm working on, the singers need to clap in rhythm and say text at the same time. In order to do this, I'm creating two voices - a text voice

Re: \autochange for chords

2011-09-21 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Sep 22, 2011, at 7:34 AM, Bernardo Barros wrote: > It would be possible to make \autochange work for big chords that cross > staffs? > > For example: > > \score { > \new PianoStaff { >\autochange { > < gis d, fih' disih'' ais'' dih''' fis'' cih''' eih''' gih''' > aisih''' c >

Re: High-level users?

2011-09-23 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Sep 23, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Peekay Ex wrote: > Mike > > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Urs Liska wrote: >> Am 23.09.2011 01:53, schrieb Tim Roberts: >>> >>> Janek Warchoł wrote: If your friend would like to see what Lily can do, i'd show him this: http://www.apollinemike.com/

Re: High-level users?

2011-09-24 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Sep 23, 2011, at 9:38 PM, Seth Williamson wrote: > This has all been very interesting. But almost nobody addressed my main > question. Namely, are there any, or many, pros out there who have chosen > LilyPond over Sibelius or Finale? I did appreciate hearing from Kieran > MacMillan. > I

Re: Apparently bogus warning with 2.15.12

2011-09-26 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Sep 26, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Nick Payne wrote: > I'm setting Bach's BWV853 (Prelude from WTC 1), using showLastLength to just > engrave the last six bars added, and as I add bars I'm getting warnings > about unterminated ties that come and go as the bars are added. The reason I > say the warn

Re: best practices for divisi string writing

2011-09-26 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Sep 25, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Shevek wrote: > > I'm a composer that has been using Finale for around 10 years, but recently > switched to Lilypond almost exclusively. The reasons for my switch are > numerous, including that I run Linux, Lilypond's beautiful engraving, and > the natural way Lilypo

Re: Accordion transposition notation

2011-09-29 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Sep 29, 2011, at 9:31 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Mike Solomon writes: > >> Hey all, >> >> If I want an accordion player to use stops to play a passage one >> octave under the written pitch, I was wondering what the appropriate >> notation was? I found the info about discant notation in the

Re: Accordion transposition notation

2011-09-29 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Sep 29, 2011, at 9:53 AM, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: > On Sep 29, 2011, at 9:31 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Mike Solomon writes: >> >>> Hey all, >>> >>> If I want an accordion player to use stops to play a passage one >>> oc

Re: Animated SVG Percussion Music

2011-09-30 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Sep 30, 2011, at 10:20 AM, Tim Sawyer wrote: > On 30/09/11 07:12, Jay Anderson wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Tim Sawyer >> wrote: >>> http://percussion360.com/ >>> >>> This works by taking SVG generated from lilypond, munging it a bit >>> (including matching it up with the .ly s

Re: wind instrument transposition (was Good work, Keith!)

2011-10-04 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Oct 4, 2011, at 10:10 PM, Tim Roberts wrote: > Tim Reeves wrote: >> >> Nothing odd about it at all. > > I disagree, but we'll get to that in a moment. > >> It would be odd if a horn part in C or E, etc. had any key signature at all. > > Why? Every other instrument has a key signature appro

Re: Custom note heads in multi-staff documents

2011-10-07 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Sep 21, 2011, at 8:12 AM, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: > On Sep 21, 2011, at 1:53 AM, Trevor Daniels wrote: > >> >> >> Tuesday, September 20, 2011 8:31 PM >> >>> I'm working on a piece that uses a fair bit of spoken text. >>> >&

Re: Custom note heads in multi-staff documents

2011-10-07 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Oct 7, 2011, at 2:04 PM, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: > On Sep 21, 2011, at 8:12 AM, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: > >> On Sep 21, 2011, at 1:53 AM, Trevor Daniels wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> Tuesday, September 20, 2011 8:31 PM >>> >>&

Re: Difference between 2.12.3 and 2.14.2

2011-10-11 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Oct 12, 2011, at 7:45 AM, GRAEME F ST CLAIR wrote: > The same .ly that gave me what I wanted at 2.12.3 is now giving me an > extraneous clef and time-signature protruding from the top left corner of the > first staff in 2.14.2. Is this intended, and if so, how can I remove it? > > GFStC. >

Re: lilypond / inkscape

2011-10-19 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Oct 19, 2011, at 11:39 AM, Gerard McConnell wrote: > I often see topics introduced here in which solutions are sought for > font-related or position-related problems. Almost all of these problems are > easily solved by creating an SVG file with Lilypond and then editing that > file with Ink

Re: Slur as TupletBracket

2011-10-22 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Oct 22, 2011, at 1:44 AM, Thomas Morley wrote: > Hi Mke > > 2011/10/21 m...@apollinemike.com > i <3 hacks > > \version "2.15.12" > \relative c'' { > \override TupletBracket #'stencil = #ly:slur::print > \override TupletBracket #

Re: Force Key Signature

2011-10-24 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Oct 24, 2011, at 9:38 AM, J Ruiz wrote: > I need to display again the current Clef and Key Signature. > I found this command to force Lilypond to show the current Clef: > \set Staff.forceClef = ##t > > Is there a command to also force to print the current key signature after the > clef? >

Re: slightly offtopic

2011-10-24 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Oct 24, 2011, at 10:01 PM, Ole Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone point me in the right direction, I need a little circle above the > letter (norwegian...) > like this: > å (see also attached screenshot if it is not displayed correctly) > Whats do I have to enter, I can not found the utf-

key signatures in ossias

2011-10-24 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
Hey all, I'm currently working on a bit of music with a key signature in the ossia that is not in the main voice. The typesetting is meh due to the large gap to accommodate the key signature. Is there any way to make it such that: a) the key signature is typeset before the arrival of the note

Re: Problem with glissandi in 2.15.15

2011-10-28 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Oct 28, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Nick Payne wrote: > I'm using glissandi to indicate slides in fingering. The following code > should give me a glissando between the fingering digits (it did in older > versions), but on 2.15.15 I get no glissando at all: > > \version "2.15.15" > > \relative c''

Re: Glissando on single note in chords

2011-11-01 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Nov 1, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Nick Payne wrote: > The behaviour seems to have changed - with 2.15.16 I now get a glissando > between each note. However, I'm using glissandi to indicate a fingering slide > along the same string, and only want the glissando against this one note. I > could previous

Re: Glissando on single note in chords

2011-11-01 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Nov 1, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Nick Payne wrote: > On 01/11/11 20:37, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: >> On Nov 1, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Nick Payne wrote: >> >>> The behaviour seems to have changed - with 2.15.16 I now get a glissando >>> between each note. However,

Re: Space between last note in a bar and the barline

2011-11-03 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Nov 3, 2011, at 12:56 PM, Jiri Zurek (Prague) wrote: > > How can I control the space between the last note of a bar and the barline? > There are number of tools to control the space between a barline and the > next note in the BarLine space-alist (first-note fixed-space . 1.3) > (next-note se

Re: How to change the stem-length?

2011-11-07 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Nov 6, 2011, at 4:56 AM, harm6 wrote: > > Hi, > > using a beam-stencil-override, I'd wish to adjust the stem-length within the > beam-stencil-override. The following (boiled down) function works fine in > most cases, even with kneed-beams. But when using it in a cross-staff > example with kn

Re: collision of special notehead and accidental

2011-11-14 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Nov 14, 2011, at 11:02 AM, takumi ikeda wrote: > When using special notehead, accidental and notehead collide to some specific > notes. What should I do in order to avoid this using Scheme? > > \version "2.14.2" > > triBk = > #(ly:make-stencil > (list 'embedded-ps > "gsave >

LilyPond, MetaFont and Scheme

2011-11-18 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
Hey users, I am trying to create the feta font note head stencil in Scheme so that I can bend it to my heart's liking with various tweaks, but I am running into a problem of my not being able to convert MetaFont to Scheme (mostly because I don't speak MetaFont). I did, however, get the SVG pat

Re: LilyPond, MetaFont and Scheme

2011-11-20 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Nov 18, 2011, at 11:48 PM, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: > Hey users, > > I am trying to create the feta font note head stencil in Scheme so that I can > bend it to my heart's liking with various tweaks, but I am running into a > problem of my not being able to conver

Re: OT: Karaoke tracks?

2011-11-22 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Nov 22, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Hello Lilyponderers, > > I engraved the notes for a songbook, using LilyPond of course. > Now the publisher wants to create an App with some (about 30) of the songs > and needs karakoke files (MP3+G or CDG). > > As far as I researched, t

columns in lyrics

2011-11-23 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
hey all, i have a lot of lyrics in a row where i need them to appear as : \markup \column { foo bar } \markup \column { who what } \markup \column { hello world } To avoid typing the markup command every time, I'd like to do: \command #"foo" #"bar" \command #"who" #"what" \command #"hello" #"w

Re: columns in lyrics

2011-11-24 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Nov 24, 2011, at 3:05 PM, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: > Hey Mike, > > here's one, that splits up strings to columns. So its the other way round > than your bonus point part. But it should save typing, because > > \markup \column { foo bar } \markup \column { who what } \markup \column { > hello

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