Re: Adding metronome click track to MIDI

Francesco Petrogalli wrote: I need to add a metronome click sound to the MIDI generated with lilypond, to allow people sync up a record-from-home session. Here is a clock ticking: {wbh4 trim4 wbl4 trim4} Cheers, Robin

Re: Error while trying to put a Text above a notehead

Paolo Prete wrote: But this is not what I want; I would like to specify font-series and font-family as a parameter (as I did for \abs-fontsize)... Well, you could define your own markup command(s). Have a look at /scm/define-markup-commands.scm for examples, including \abs-fontsize.

Re: Error while trying to put a Text above a notehead

Is there an alternative for it? It is defaulting to another font. To avoid this, say text \markup \normal-text "Some text" Cheers, Robin

Re: forced \break or \pageBreak with ragged-right

Michael Winter wrote: I thought about something like that but I have tied notes that would be interrupted by that approach. Which is also why I cannot use multiple single scores. It also seems like trying to fit a square peg in a round whole. Again, I think there should be a way to have

Re: Rests vertical position problem

On 19.05.2020 09:25, Jacques Menu wrote: Is there a way to use some equivalent of \voiceOne and \voiceTwo measure-wise in such a case, using it only in measures that have more than one voice playing? The rests in measure 1 occurs while another voice is playing. The rests in measure 2

Re: lily jazz

Jeff Knox wrote: I chose these locations because the error message i get on compiling a simple .ly file gives them as "search paths" (among others). Obviously, the wrong locations as I get a message: "cannot find file: 'lily jazz.ily" Somewhere near the start of your .ly file you should

Re: Chord options in leadsheets

Jacques Menu wrote: What I don’t know is how to have only a single pair of parentheses around the two harmonies in the attached. This is discussed here and in the linked threads: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2018-12/msg2.html Cheers, Robin

Re: printing a tiny pianostaff at the beginning of a score

Sandro Santilli wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 12:46:46PM +0100, Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: Hi Sandro, > I'd like to leave some indications (rythmic, mostly) > for bass and guitar at the start of a piece. Right now > I'm doing this with a pencil, but I'm wondering how > to do it with lilypond.

Re: Distance of a grob from its reference point

Paolo Prete wrote: And I really thank you. Offsetting brackets is a *very*, *very* important feature in professional music engraving. You're welcome. I hope you don't run foul of the disadvantages too soon. See Kieren's last comment in

Re: Distance of a grob from its reference point

Paolo Prete wrote: This is *precious* info. Please, can you tell/confirm if 1) you are referring to \offset command ? No. That would be premature in this case. 2) is it applicable as a replacement for "\offset Y-offset" for *every* grob that support Y-offset ? Well, I have trouble

Re: Distance of a grob from its reference point

Paolo Prete wrote: I simply wanted to understand how to offset a bracket. And the conclusion is: avoid \offset + X/Y-offset and use 1) extra-offset (if you don't need automatic collision-avoidance) OR 2) \override X/Y-offset with a ruler (if you need automatic collision-avoidance) OR 3)

Re: Shift up OttavaBracket

David Nalesnik wrote: I'm going to investigate this. \offset requires a grob property which is assigned a default value in define-grobs.scm (from which file the IR grob reference pages are generated). This value is 0.46, inaccessible at the top of axis-group-interface.cc. Cheers, Robin

Re: Shift up OttavaBracket

Paolo Prete wrote: (A) + (B) make me suspect that the whole OttavaBracket interface is buggy. It may not be exactly what you want, but I have the feeling that you haven't tried outside-staff-padding. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/internals/outside_002dstaff_002dinterface

Re: nudging a note

On 31.12.2019 19:39, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: Robert, Thank you for your solution that works perfectly! Well, the ties across the barlines are hardly perfectly placed. When you append a corresponding corrective override to the existing \stemDown \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift

Re: nudging a note

Robin Bannister wrote: Use \voiceFour instead of \stemDown? But using \voiceFour for the middle and \voiceTwo for the bottom makes it a lot easier to follow the voices. Cheers, Robin

Re: nudging a note

Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: Please provide some suggestions/alternatives for the positioning of the first note of the middle voice. Use \voiceFour instead of \stemDown? Cheers, Robin

Re: Naming multiple midi files

kupirijo wrote: Thanks. I am aware of this method but this is not exactly what I want. I need to output one .pdf file, not many. The \book blocks I suggested will not produce .pdf files. They do not contain \layout sections. To output the .pdf file you need a single additional \book block

Re: Notes or chords sustained with a pedal

Robert Blackstone wrote: > I’m presently transcribing some piano-scores in which schords, > sustained with a pedal are notated in a way had not seen before > (see screenshot). Referring to that original screenshot, surely there is no pedal here. The pedal would blur what the right hand is

Re: Naming multiple midi files

kupirijo wrote: I would like to specify the name (or extensions) of the .midi files exported by the \midi{} command. I have multiple \scores{} in one .ly file producing one .pdf file and multiple .midi files. I do something like that by setting up a \book block for each midi output file.

Re: Notes or chords sustained with a pedal

Robert Blackstone wrote: Dear all, I’m presently transcribing some piano-scores in which schords, sustained with a pedal are notated in a way had not seen before (see screenshot). I would like to copy it but I have no idea how to do it. This thread may get you started:

Re: convert-ly problem 2

Peter Gentry wrote: Clearly these other pythons have interfered with Lily somewhere and may have a bearing on my other recent issues. Relying on the .py association is asking for these problems. Get convert-ly to work with a single .ly file first. My batch file starts with

Re: Outside staff priority

Kieren MacMillan wrote: Yes… but each of your four codes is telling Lilypond the same thing. ;) Ahh - because "\once \override" applies not to the following text, but to the musical moment, right? Exactly. And the order of items within that moment doesn’t change their priority order.

Re: input code

David Kastrup wrote: Try running LilyPond with -ddebug-parser . The output is related to the printed LilyPond grammar in the LilyPond Notation Reference appendices. That grammar appendix is still rather garbled. Attached is a less confusing version for circa 2.19.80. Cheers, Robin Grammar

Re: Jazz chords layout question

Thomas Morley wrote: meanwhile a snippet arrived at LSR caring about indenting individual lines, reflecting the discussion in this thread. Now approved as http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=1098 Thanks to the author, You're welcome. Also, feedback welcome! Cheers, Robin

Re: Not understanding outside-staff-priority

Michael Gerdau wrote: Could someone please shed some light as to why lilypond behaves the way it does? The default context for both Mark_engraver and Metronome_mark_engraver is Score. Your overrides are ineffective because you omit 'Score.' Cheers, Robin

Re: Used piano template, but need extra melody staff

Stacy Fatemi wrote: but halfway through notating the song I realized that I actually need a second melody staff. Maybe a rookie question, but how do I add one? Extend your PianoStaff \new PianoStaff << \new Staff = "upper" \upper \new Staff = "lower" \lower >> to

Re: Repeat ties within chords

Peter Toye wrote: Any ideas on how to get just the tied note showing a repeat https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-03/msg00226.html Cheers, Robin

Re: Arpeggio misbehaviour?

Thomas Morley wrote: As a workaround I'd enter an altered invisible Note in the inner Voice. Another way is to apply \once \override Arpeggio.extra-spacing-height = #(cons -inf.0 +inf.0) just before the arpeggioed 8 That corresponds to Valentin's workaround in

Re: scoops

bobr...@centrum.is wrote: I've been looking for a solution for scoops. See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-01/msg01191.html which draws a line. That was based on an earlier version which used a glyph. To get that, replace the last lines with: (markup

Re: stopStaff - startStaff End-of-System Staves

nagymusic wrote: I attached a screenshot from the ending of my score in which I used \stopStaff and \startStaff to completely hide staves at the end of the piece for performance purposes. Would anyone be willing to have a look at the attached screenshot and explain why there're small segments of

Re: Making a list argument reliably optional

David Kastrup wrote: A number list counts as not-number?. So I changed the not- number? predicate to also exclude number-list? but this was no better. And then I determined all the individually problematic lilypond-scheme-predicates and also excluded these in the predicate

Re: Making a list argument reliably optional

David Kastrup wrote: Could you please post an actual minimal example we could talk about usefully? OK. I'm moving, but unsure of the direction. notnumber.ly is a complete instance of trying to be more specific. It breaks at 2.19.39. Cheers, Robin % versions 2.18.2 through 2.19.38 ok %

Re: Making a list argument reliably optional

David Kastrup wrote: So your examples are much too generic to give advice. It's likely that you can solve your problem by using a much more specific predicate than list? unless the form of list that you want to admit really needs to allow something like a single-element string list. Well

Making a list argument reliably optional

Hallo all I'm having unexpected problems with a music function. It takes several arguments, the first of which expects a list, and should be optional. Today it tripped up when run with a late 2.19 version and I narrowed this down to 2.19.39. It seemed to have trouble with the second parameter

Re: Braces, stanza numbers and common lyrics

mdeneufch via lilypond-user wrote: Not exactly: I would like to display the number of each stanza, for example after the \leftBrace. Using \set stanza = "n." after the \skipFour in your solution does not work directly (the numbers are printed above the brace). Using \set stanza = "n." after

Re: Braces, stanza numbers and common lyrics

mdeneufch via lilypond-user wrote: > Is there a way to do it? Do you mean something like this? Cheers, Robin \version "2.18.2" \include "english.ly" rightBrace = \markup { \null \translate #(cons 2 0.5) \with-dimensions #(cons 0 0) #(cons 0 0) \right-brace #55 } leftBrace =

Re: arpeggio in drummode

edes wrote: I'm very close to what I want, but is there a way to tweak the length of the brackets? You can override the positions property. Try \new DrumStaff \with { \override NoteColumn.ignore-collision = ##t \override Arpeggio.thickness = #2.0 \override Arpeggio.positions =

Re: vertical position of OttavaBracket

Robin Bannister wrote: One explanation is that - concat wants to be given (markup-list?) - general-align wants to be given (markup?) So the two should be swapped: #(markup #:general-align Y UP #:concat ("16" #:teeny "ma")) This of course implies that your #{

Re: vertical position of OttavaBracket

Malte Meyn wrote: #{ \markup \concat \general-align #Y #UP { "16" \teeny "ma" } #} works but (markup #:concat #:general-align Y UP ("16" #:teeny "ma")) doesn’t and I don’t know why … One explanation is that - concat wants to be given (markup-list?) - general-align wants

Re: Jazz chords layout question

Oh dear, that recommendation was for your first code. The bass clef code needs a LeftEdge.Y-offset of -5 Cheers, Robin On 14.07.2019 12:10, Robin Bannister wrote: Jacques Menu wrote: Didn’t find a way to hide the empty part of the staff to the left of it, stopStaff/startStaff didn’t help

Re: vertical position of OttavaBracket

Malte Meyn wrote: How can this made be top- or bottom-aligned (or aligned depending according to the 'direction property)? Inside a #(define-markup-command (command-name layout props arg1 arg2 …) you can collect 'direction as follows: (let* ((dir-prop (chain-assoc-get 'direction props

Re: Jazz chords layout question

Jacques Menu wrote: Didn’t find a way to hide the empty part of the staff to the left of it, stopStaff/startStaff didn’t help. Sorry. This simplistic pseudoIndent is too fragile for general use. It needs to be made robust re vertical extents. In your case you need a LeftEdge.Y-offset of

Re: Jazz chords layout question

Jacques Menu wrote: - how can I ‘push’ the beginning of the seconda volta to the middle of the line? You could try a recent hack of mine. %% % cheap alternative to \new Score; fragile wrt. Y positioning pseudoIndent = #(define-music-function (parser location

Re: Group notes with different fonts

Francesco Petrogalli wrote: Any hint? Go to the Notation Reference at: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/inside-the-staff#selecting-notation-font-size and search for: % resize a note head Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user

Re: Change right-end placement of VoiceFollower line

DJF wrote: In the example below, I need the VoiceFollower line from the left hand to go to the A half-note in the right hand, not to the quarter rest. You could replace r4 with << s4 \new Voice r4 >> Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: The "let vibrate" tie

Vicente Sanches wrote: Example in the link bellow just in the 1st seconds of the video, in the 4th and 5th measures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEMyj-8I3pw I would use LSR715 to make the \laissezVibrer starting at the end of the fourth stretch all the way through the 5th.

Re: fingering

Gianmaria Lari wrote: If I'm not wrong to generate the two variables (myMusic and myFing) from the previous code should not be that difficult. 1 I duplicate the music expression 2 In the variable where I want to put the music I remove the fingering 3 In the variable where I want to put the

Re: fingering

Gianmaria Lari wrote: But when I finished to enter the fingering, I would definitely prefer having the fingering instruction separated by the music. Something like this (NB: it does not work correctly but I hope the idea is clear): \version "2.21.0" myMusic = {a4 b c' d'} myFing = {s4-1 s-2

a curious workaround for flabby rounded-boxes

Hallo there I was looking to revamp my DIY fingering functions in the light of features available when moving from 2.18 to 2.20, e.g. I can get tighter positioning via TextScript.parent-alignment-X. There is a 'ringed' function for fingerings which need highlighting. Its bulbous \circle

Re: Two vertical lines as breath marks

Joseph Srednicki wrote: Can someone recommend how to implement such marks in Lilypond? With \bar "||" you may have to suppress the span bar too. Here is a different method, overriding \breathe: tramlines = { \override BreathingSign.Y-offset = 0 \override BreathingSign.text = \markup

Re: Notation for string portamento

Um, sorry, I got sidetracked. This is more like your use case: { r4 \jib 50 c'4 r4 \jib 50 c''4 < \jib 50 g' \jib 50 d'' >1 } Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Notation for string portamento

Andrew Bernard wrote: Thanks for this. I came up with the same thing. But, my score is very tight, and grace notes take up space and tend to push positioning around. You want a straight bendBefore. My bends use glyphs, and repeatGliss uses \grace. But starting from Nathan's version of

Re: Grammar rules in Contributor Guide summary are fragmented

Come on, just do it ;-) Werner Lemberg has just done it. This thread was never assigned an issue corresponding to its subject. This code is now riding piggyback on his Issue 5468. https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5468/ Thanks, Werner. Cheers, Robin

Re: Emacs lilypond mode

See also http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2018-01/msg00010.html Cheers, Robin On 28.01.2019 12:33, Werner LEMBERG wrote: PS: I'll fix the `yyout2grammar' script. Done, see https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5468/ You might want to check whether Bison now

Re: parenthesized chord symbols

Sandro Santilli wrote: How do I put chord symbols in parenthesis, across two measures ? Look at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-10/msg00565.html for some suggestions re turnaround brackets. Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user

Re: lilypond distance changes from 2.11.39 to 2.18.2

Veronika Neumann wrote: How can I use the "old" layout settings with the current lilypond version? You can't. It's not just a matter of tweaking the old values. The old settings were discarded just after v2.12 - names and effects. That was so that the vertical spacing could be set up more

Re: #vspace not working after text?

Tom Campbell wrote: I want vertical space to occur after a heading. But it seems that the following still puts the space before it, or am I going insane? See also http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-04/msg00057.html Cheers, Robin

Re: Pages numbering for piano 4 hands

On 21.06.2018 09:13, Bernard Meylan wrote: I try to make a 4 hands partition for piano, with 2 files: Secundo and Primo, with for each a separate page numbering: 2, 4, 6 and so on for Secundo and 3, 5, 7 etc. for Primo. Is it possible, and if yes, how? Issue 902 doesn't look very helpful.

Re: solve tie across voices

Ursus wrote: Not quite satisfied yet I am not sure I understand what you need, but to get the last bar looking like http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/t4044/Image_001.png I would - put the stem-down things in the second voice:| f4. e8 - let the first voice tie to just a

Re: placement of chord symbols vs. marks

Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: I have something that kind of works, based on some LSR snippets, but it moves the chord symbols above marks, rather than below. Does anyone have any suggestions for keeping the chord symbols in the same location as normal? The ChordNames

Re: Parenthesis/bracket/brace questions

Brent Annable wrote: 2. I would like to parenthesize a couple of two-note chords in the tenor part. Has anybody come up with a decent way to put parentheses around entire chords yet? I've rummaged around the old threads but can't really find anything that fits the bill. Maybe you can make do

Re: fingering

DJF wrote: perhaps someone else knows if it’s possible to control the vertical spacing within the staff; You can splay it out using Y-offset: 1 Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user

Re: Issue 5272: Add \depart

Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: In rehearsals, at least in the US, going over these markings is called going over the roadmap. Well, Diverge and Merge are the terms used by road (freeway) engineers. Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-devel mailing list

Re: Issue 5272: Add \depart (issue 337520043 by nine.fierce.ball...@gmail.com)

(new here because gmane is dud) This is a signpost at a fork in the road. I propose ForkMark This concerns junctions where you can diverge off the one-way main road. I don't experience merging junctions, e.g. Segno, as forks. So saying DivergeMark would be unneccessarily explict - unless

Re: alignment of "To" and \coda horizontally

Ming Tsang wrote: However how to make [...] to align with [...] ? { "To " \raise #1 \musicglyph #"scripts.coda" } For \raise and other more powerful methods see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/align Cheers, Robin ___

Re: bracket articulation

Craig Dabelstein wrote: Is there a way to put an articulation (a staccatissimo symbol) in square brackets above a note, such as [ ! ], where ! = a staccatissimo articulation? Here is a quick hack, based on the brackets stencil of LSR564. Warning: it sort of works with staccatissimo but that

Re: slash to indicate repeated chord?

Joseph Austin wrote: When placing chord names on a lead-sheet, sometimes a slash ( / ) is used on subsequent measures or beats to indicate repeating the previous chord. How can this be done in lilypond? Well there was a suggestion in 2012

Re: Weirdo code?

Wol's lists wrote: so this is really just a curious enquiry - why is the # required Compare the docs for 2.18 and 2.19. Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: how do i input the fingure?

Thomas Morley wrote: I'd use the generic tie-markup. This is exactly the use-case why I coded tie generic and over/undertie derived from it. Well, thanks for these new markups, which I only noticed a few days ago since I am still on 2.18.2. But to get something like his 'wanted poster' your

Re: how do i input the fingure?

This is with a recent version of lilypond: \version "2.19.80" { e''2.\finger \markup \overtie #"52" } Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Long syllable vs. span bar

Simon Albrecht wrote: LilyPond, however, distorts spacing to place the span bar after the syllable, and I can’t think of an override to change that. There were two solutions here ... http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-08/msg00595.html Cheers, Robin

Re: Grammar rules in Contributor Guide summary are fragmented

Simon Albrecht wrote: > Please let us know if you’d be willing to do this. Thanks for the kind invitation, but I'm surely not as high-powered as you seem to think I am. Getting up to a reasonable speed with that CG stuff looks to me like a steeper learning curve than for LilyPond itself.

Re: Change the text within a volta

nokel81 wrote: Thank you very much however, my text comes out really weird. Consider using manual repeat marks, described in http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/long-repeats#manual-repeat-marks The funny letters you are getting are meant for dynamics, which shares its font

Re: What the docs say about \markuplist

Palmer Ralph wrote: The issue has been entered as Issue #5245 markuplist not documented well. Thanks. And by the way, this was all with split HTML, if that makes a difference. I kept this purely user-oriented, leaving implementation unconsidered; that was quite easy, seeing that I still

Re: optional measure

Gianmaria Lari wrote: I'm a bit OT. I have a piece where I would like to add an "additional" measure. The notation used to write this measure should make clear that: - the measure is optional to play - the measure is not existing in the original score I know nothing about a standard way.

Re: Transposing an entire score (fwd)

Phil Holmes wrote: Incidentally - do check the log file produced. Your music is throwing lots of warnings. Mostly re AccidentalSuggestion.avoid-slur. If the corresponding overrides in \layout are commented back in, there are no more such warnings (but still no slurs). Cheers, Robin

Re: Instrument Name Not Appearing

SoundsFromSound wrote: I'd like to move it down a bit so it's centered with the middle staff line, like the other names are. Is this possible? That's the start of the fine tuning. Try: addOssiaName = #(define-scheme-function (name padding) (markup? number?) (let ((adapted

Re: Instrument Name Not Appearing

SoundsFromSound wrote: ... how I can get the "Violin" instrument name to show up next to the topmost staff? Well, in 2009 Neil Puttock said you can't, and said why. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-03/msg00123.html If that still applies, you will need a workaround. The

Re: score gone off screen?

Vivyan wrote: I'm not sure why my score at times just prints off the page? When I insert bar checks at the 'end of [nth] meter' comments lilypond reports: Parsing... Interpreting music... 1.ly:61:3: warning: barcheck failed at: 5/24 | % end of 1st meter 1.ly:73:3: warning: barcheck failed

Re: markup circle and sub

Gianmaria Lari wrote: (it writes A and 1 in two different boxes) \version "2.19.80" \mark \markup {* \box \concat {A \sub 1} *} \box will apply to each item in a subsequent list, unless you give the list to another command, like \concat, first. Cheers, Robin

Re: How to properly scale a line in markup?

Thomas Morley wrote: In the real markup-command there will be no "A", so I can't go for stencil-extent of it. . . . > Am I missing something? I have the feeling it must be me that's missing something, but can't you keep the "A" and just not print it? (let* ((ref-stil (interpret-markup

Re: Any other Thunderbird users have messages never post? (WAS: Hide slur?)

David Wright wrote: So the question is why your Message-ID: <2914e16a-e129-19ca-4fc2-b3a552123...@dabble.ch> didn't arrive on the list. Perhaps the spam scan produced a false positive. Has this started happening within the past year? I notice that your postings are submitted slightly

Re: Any other Thunderbird users have messages never post? (WAS: Hide slur?)

Karlin High wrote: Curiouser and curiouser. The part that bugs me the worst is when I do a Reply-All and the message never appears on the list, but then the other recipients of my message ALSO do a Reply-All, and have their replies to my message get posted to list, making it seem that my

Re: Incorrectly merged noteheads

Brent Annable wrote: What I want is to get the quarter note positioned to the right of the half note (as in the top example), but with the large and small quarter-notes vertically aligned. Any ideas on how to achieve this? Try replacing <<\voiceOne {\stemDown g'4 e } \new Voice

Re: Laisser vibrer over silent bar

Peter Toye wrote: In the second one I'm not sure what the "<>" is doing. Is this an empty chord to put a bit of space there or something? We have filled the last bar with the spacer s1. Lilypond errors the decrescendo if we don't stop it, e.g. with \!, But \! attached to a note works at

Re: Help with chord dictionaries

Shamus Hammons wrote: This gets closer, but the flat sign is sitting all by itself, as if it were a separate word and not part of the chord symbol (like so: "B b maj7"). OK, sorry. Instead of \line use \concat: \concat { "B" \chordFlat "maj7" } Also, doesn't address the issue of the chord

Re: Help with chord dictionaries

Shamus Hammons wrote: > > In the example I included, you can see that the text for the > > Bbmaj7 chord is rendered in pieces, and the chord names are generally > > farther above the diagrams than they should be. You are using \center-column to get these two things arranged vertically. It

Re: Non-Standard Rhythmic Durations

Brin Solomon wrote: I get something that looks like an eighth note instead of a half tied to an eighth. It gets closer when you add the line \set completionUnit = #(ly:make-moment 1 8) If this needs further improvement, try to understand what completionUnit and completionFactor do. [I

Re: Lilypond newbie can't compile

William Zeitler wrote: It fails to compile: Processing `C:/Users/william/Documents/Untitled.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music... Preprocessing graphical objects... Finding the ideal number of pages... Fitting music on 1 page... Drawing systems... Layout output to `Untitled.ps'... Converting

Re: Midiimport für Lilypond/Frescobaldi

Bernhard Kleine wrote: With respect to the other contributions, I have Frescobaldi/Lilypond on win 7. I have seen that VLC mediaplayer has to be supplied with softfonts e.g. fluid-softfonts. The installation proposal, however, does not state how to supply this softfonts to the actual VLC. I

Re: Differing header position depending on tallest letter

Peter Crighton wrote: Hmm, that doesn’t seem to work. I didn’t know about \strut before, and I’m not sure if I correctly understand how it works, but doesn’t the size of the box depend on the whitespace character and not on the tallest character? I once solved a lyrics spacing problem using a

Re: Switching X-axis placement of a grace note and arpeggio spanner

Knute Snortum wrote: That's it, thanks! Here's what I did, just for people searching the mailing list: Which in turn, reminded me of easyChArp: { \easyChArp #-6 \grace e''4 2 } Cheers, Robin \version "2.19.32" easyChArp = #(define-music-function (grow) (number?) ;%

Re: Lilypond hogging a processor and slowing down

Peter Toye wrote: ... it was completely hogging one processor - 24.9% utilisation on a 4-processor machine. That's quite normal. It's hard to spread the load, and Lilypond doesn't try. Maybe this is the first time you have looked this closely. Cheers, Robin

Re: Any way to get "optional" chords?

On 01.12.2016 01:14, Don Gingrich wrote: I'd be happy to have brackets, parentheses, See also this thread from a month ago http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-10/msg00565.html Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Setting the number for \mark \default

Mojca Miklavec wrote: I eventually needed to run "locate rehearsal-mark-letter.ly" on my computer and inspect the contents to arrive to the answer. I was referring to the regression tests at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/input/regression/collated-files.html This links to all the test files

Re: Setting the number for \mark \default

Mojca Miklavec wrote: Is there a way to just set the counter without printing the mark itself? (I would like to set the counter at the beginning of Coda and then use \markDefault where appropriate just like everywhere else.) Documentation points to

Re: Drawing an Oval around a group of notes

John Zeweniuk wrote: Can anybody give me some suggestions of how I would draw an oval around a group of notes on the staff? For the special case of a single chord, see the german thread http://www.lilypondforum.de/index.php?topic=378 The 2.18 version of this would read %% kringel

Re: Optional chords

Herbert Liechti wrote: In Jazz notation you find often chords symbol in parenthesis (see the attached picture for an example). It this case it indicates what to play when doing a turnaround in other cases it indicates an alternative to the standard chords. For a quick pointer to an old

Re: Accidental/natural on the same note in a polyphonic staff.

Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: Now I'm sure to have read something about this situation but I cannot find it... (A much simpler solution). Well, the following technique might be considered _simpler_ but is it acceptable as a _solution_ ? \relative c' { \omit TupletBracket \omit

Re: Switching to drummode and back

If the leadsheet needed hi-hat only in a single measure I wouldn't bother with drum mode: \version "2.18.2" \new Voice \with { \consists "Pitch_squash_engraver" } % for slash chords { \key ees \major \time 6/4 \repeat percent 4 \repeat unfold 2 { r4. \once \stemUp \tweak style

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