Re: Forcing a DynamicText to appear inside the staff

2016-08-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Thomas Weber wrote: Great, that works! What does ##f actually stand for? This discussion has a few references: https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/4792/ Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Forcing a DynamicText to appear inside the staff

2016-08-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Thomas Weber wrote: But Lilypond insist on keeping the dynamic outside of the staff. Try { \override Staff.DynamicLineSpanner #'outside-staff-priority = ##f \override Staff.DynamicText #'X-offset = -4 \override Staff.DynamicLineSpanner #'Y-offset = 0 c' \f } and have a look at (the

Re: Arpeggio across notes of differing lengths

2016-07-06 Thread Robin Bannister
Joel C. Salomon wrote: In the score to Peter Pan I’ve come across what appears to be an arpeggio with notes of different lengths. This corresponds to the example 'Creating arpeggios across notes in different voices' in NR 1.3.3.

Re: Shorten only one system

2016-04-27 Thread Robin Bannister
matteo wrote: > I've thought about hide staff too, but I hoped there were a way without inserting a new bar in a rather complex structure with many dependencies… Take a look at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-11/msg00387.html \pauseStaffBL might serve as a starting

Re: glissando without start note?

2016-02-16 Thread Robin Bannister
BB wrote: With stringed instruments a playing technique (mainly in Rock, Pop, Blues, Jazz) to get some acoustic effect is to slide up a string to a defined fret without a real starting fret. Have a look at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-01/msg01191.html This was

Re: Poor line break decisions

2016-01-25 Thread Robin Bannister
On 23.01.2016 19:39, Chris Yate wrote: On 23 January 2016 at 18:26, Thomas Morley wrote: 2016-01-23 19:21 GMT+01:00 Chris Yate : > Does anyone else on this list use Windows, who could reproduce the problem? > > I appreciate that you need a

Re: different margins for footer and music

2016-01-14 Thread Robin Bannister
Mike Solomon wrote: I’d like to place page numbers to the left and right of the music’s margin How about duping \fill-line? evenHeaderMarkup = \markup \fill-line { \with-dimensions #'(6 . 8) #'(0 . 0) \fromproperty #'page:page-number-string \fromproperty #'header:title

Re: Clef-BarLine crash with changed break-align-orders

2015-12-11 Thread Robin Bannister
Noeck wrote: This puts the clef after the bar line. However, there is not enough space between the bar line and the clef. This looks like an old weakness. The BarLine rework left it much the same. Cheers, Robin \version "2.19.32" forcedClef = { \set Staff.forceClef = ##t \clef bass } {

Re: Break a chord glissando

2015-12-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Luca Danieli wrote: I followed this explanation to break a glissandohttp://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=break but in this code it is not able to break the glissando between two chords. Do you mean LSR940? http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=940 As it says there, you must also apply >

Re: Vertically centering a song text.

2015-12-02 Thread Robin Bannister
Robert Blackstone wrote: How can I shift the lyrics of the second part vertically > so that it is centered with respect to the first part LSR503 shows one way of doing this: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=503 I use Y-offset instead of extra-offset Cheers, Robin

Re: Layout of a (piano) hand indicator

2015-11-25 Thread Robin Bannister
David Kastrup wrote: Of course, the `let' is spurious. You can just use thumbBracketSettings directly instead of settings. The 'let' is my plodding anti-cryptic: a small step with a locally relevant name, and a slot for comment Probably as of 2.14 or something. Written with 2.12 early

Re: Layout of a (piano) hand indicator

2015-11-25 Thread Robin Bannister
David Kastrup wrote: See issue 4671: probably as of version 2.19.33, convert-ly should be able to do this by itself. Another possibility is to not use ly:music-function-extract at all but rather write #{ \whateveritwas ... #} here. That should be fairly convertible. OK. I had to pay a

Re: function to replace notes by rests

2015-11-24 Thread Robin Bannister
Marc Hohl wrote: Now I need a midi file that contains the "normal" notes only: Skips would be quiet too. notesToSkips = #(define-music-function (music) (ly:music?) (skip-of-length music)) Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Why does \fromproperty fail in instrumentName?

2015-11-24 Thread Robin Bannister
David Kastrup wrote: In general, those variables seem to be defined only within titling material. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-05/msg00426.html Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Accidentals in roots of chordNames: tweaking size and placement

2015-11-18 Thread Robin Bannister
alamire wrote: In the MWE below, I would like the flat in the root name to appear identical to the flat in the "m7b5" chord. I do *not* want to continue using the text markup font via unicode. You will find LilyPond's flat and sharp glyphs listed in

Re: Can I vary the system width for 1 system only

2015-11-13 Thread Robin Bannister
Peter Berlau wrote: I found a ugly solution with \stopStaffs % generates 2 invisible staffs s1 s1 \startStaff for this i have to add on same place in the \chords also 2 s1 s1 to adjust chords to the remaining bars In this case you already have a structure amenable to splitting: - 34 bars

Re: LilyPond-aware text editors

2015-11-06 Thread Robin Bannister
On 05.11.2015 21:58, Thomas Morley wrote: 2015-11-05 16:18 GMT+01:00 Urs Liska : ... Is there *any* tool around that offers more than a notepad application but doesn't try to be an IDE? ... I mostly use jEdit. Me too. IDE-wise, I feel safer with minimalist homegrown,

Re: PDF Links in Windows

2015-10-05 Thread Robin Bannister
On 05.10.2015 11:23, Urs Liska wrote: Am 05.10.2015 um 11:18 schrieb Federico Bruni: >> ... "Custom protocol handlers aren't supported by Adobe Reader X and later for security reasons." https://forums.adobe.com/message/5593888#5593888 Is this definitive? My last _abandoned_ attempt at

Re: PDF Links in Windows

2015-10-05 Thread Robin Bannister
On 05.10.2015 11:23, Urs Liska wrote: Am 05.10.2015 um 11:18 schrieb Federico Bruni: >> ... "Custom protocol handlers aren't supported by Adobe Reader X and later for security reasons." https://forums.adobe.com/message/5593888#5593888 Is this definitive? My last _abandoned_ attempt at

Re: Stacked letters in markup

2015-10-01 Thread Robin Bannister
Urs Liska wrote: How can I overlay letters in lyrics? I want to print two "D"s that overlap, one left-top, the other bottom-right. The default symbol for a double dominant. maybe: \markup \combine \translate #(cons 0.3 -0.3) "D" \translate #(cons -0.3 0.3) "D" and, not just by itself:

Re: PDF Links in Windows

2015-09-28 Thread Robin Bannister
Keith OHara wrote: C is done by converting the textedit fields to the command for your editor. Instead of LilyPond's Scheme, I use a DOS script: Just a note to avoid confusing Thomas at this early stage: Keith's 'C' is the scripting glue I mentioned. So what the editor has to do would then

Re: PDF Links in Windows

2015-09-27 Thread Robin Bannister
Thomas WillNot wrote: I looked for settings in Acrobat Reader and found none. Please let me know if this functionality is possible in Microsoft Windows. It is possible (without resorting to Frescobaldi). But there doesn't seem to be a standard way to set it up. The most direct

Re: hide repeat endings?

2015-08-29 Thread Robin Bannister
Ian Rashkin wrote: Maybe i'm going about this the wrong way... One way would be to wait until something comes of issue 3752. Until then, \repeat only offers you volta, with brackets included. As it seems to be a fairly simple structure, I would avoid \repeat and instead assemble sections

Re: hide repeat endings?

2015-08-29 Thread Robin Bannister
Ian Rashkin wrote offlist: here, I'm attaching the full ly file. [..] I'll check out issue 3752, but if you see any easy way for me to go the variable route, I would prefer that for sure. Thanks for your help! The attached untitled_refactored.ly is a cursory demo of what I meant. I also

Re: How to adjust the padding between a StemTremolo and a NoteHead?

2015-08-11 Thread Robin Bannister
Dominic wrote: At the moment I have to laboriously override the Stem.length-fraction on an individual basis, depending on how many slashes there are, which is not ideal. Any ideas? I had this problem recently and worked around it with hoist = % for moving StemTremolo beams further from

Re: How to adjust the padding between a StemTremolo and a NoteHead?

2015-08-11 Thread Robin Bannister
Malte Meyn wrote: But I already have an idea how to improve this This discussion of a similar (outdated?) attempt might be useful: http://www.lilypondforum.de/index.php?topic=415.msg2425;topicseen#msg2425 Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user

Re: How to adjust the padding between a StemTremolo and a NoteHead?

2015-08-11 Thread Robin Bannister
Malte Meyn wrote: But unfortunately it doesn’t work properly in 2.19.24 (and 2.18.2) Yes, I think stems were reworked a lot around 2.16? Here is that override approach with a duration condition: %% \version 2.18.0 #(define (stem-stretch stem-tremolo-grob) (let ((flag-count

Re: Fit-to-single-page for lead sheets

2015-07-17 Thread Robin Bannister
Robert Schmaus wrote: Maybe that's what you're looking for ... Or, more directly: page-count to be found further down in the same section. Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Polyphonic notes slur solution

2015-06-20 Thread Robin Bannister
Nathan Ho wrote: % And, of course, the slur's too short vertically Adjust 0.3 to taste: \override Staff.Arpeggio #'positions = #(lambda (grob) (interval-widen (ly:arpeggio::calc-positions grob) 0.3)) Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Polyphonic notes slur solution

2015-06-20 Thread Robin Bannister
rsfjr wrote: It keeps throwing an error message Well, tell us some more ... - what message - with what lilypond version But preferably, send a small .ly file which has this problem. Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Global Color Changes

2015-05-09 Thread Robin Bannister
Peter Heisen wrote: Is there a way to globally change the color of an entire printed score without having to change every color property of every possible grob? Start here http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=443 Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user

Re: Precise markup position

2015-05-07 Thread Robin Bannister
Stephen MacNeil wrote: the overlay on the lsr will do this That would be Absolute positioning of markup elements http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=628 Then to position millimetre-wise, you need something like %%

Re: Precise markup position

2015-05-06 Thread Robin Bannister
Pierre G. wrote: I wonder if there is a way to position precisely a text markup One way to insert vertical millimetres is http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-04/msg00035.html This may not be the current method, but it still works e.g. \markup \mm-feed #27 in order to

Re: Line Length

2015-02-15 Thread Robin Bannister
William Marchant wrote: How can I control the length of the [bottom] line Have a look at answers in a similar thread last July: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-07/msg00341.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-07/msg00371.html Cheers, Robin

Re: Pianostaff 4-part writing and rests

2015-02-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Michael Rivers wrote: I just engraved a piece for which the standard solutions given in this thread worked especially badly. There were many 8th notes alternating with 8th rests (which should be merged by Lilypond, but can't be automatically), so switching back and forth between a polyphonic

Re: arpeggio on single note

2015-01-29 Thread Robin Bannister
MING TSANG wrote: The arpeggio did not show on the score. If you insist on it showing (for this _single_ note), try applying the workaround given for issue 794 https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=794 Result shown for 2.18.2. Cheers, Robin

Re: tie to {} \\ {}

2015-01-25 Thread Robin Bannister
My contribution of two days ago hasn't turned up on the list (yet), so here goes again: Here is a variant of Pierre's proposal: \transpose c c' { %d ees16 ~ { \once \override NoteColumn #'ignore-collision = ##t \once \hideNotes d ees ~ 16 \once \override

Re: Enlarging tenuto marks

2015-01-17 Thread Robin Bannister
David Sumbler wrote: But why doesn't '\tweak Script.font-size' work? The note g and the tenuto belong together musicwise, but in the input stream they are two separate items. Your tweak command is applied to the note g. { \tweak font-size #6 g-- } will change the notehead's font size. But

Re: Scheme function to affect a compound music expression?

2014-10-24 Thread Robin Bannister
Peter Crighton wrote: But I would like to be able to use the function [...] so it doesn’t only affect the next note, but a sequence of notes enclosed in { … }: The source file music-functions.scm defines music-map which you can use for this: bgr = #(define-music-function (parser

Re: Scheme function to affect a compound music expression?

2014-10-24 Thread Robin Bannister
Peter Crighton wrote: I don’t know why the \bgr function causes it. Any ideas? ... Are there other places to learn about Scheme in LilyPond than the Scheme tutorial? Welcome to Scheme in LilyPond. This example shows that knowing Scheme isn't enough. You have to cooperate with Lilypond,

Re: A solution I've invented for a SATB choir

2014-10-18 Thread Robin Bannister
Son_V wrote: I had two choices: to make it in a single page but really crowded or to make it in two pages. I choose another way; I divided it in SA and TB voices. I don't quite understand, unless your first choice would have been to use one staff for each voice, i.e. 4 staves in total. But

Re: String as a command?

2014-10-03 Thread Robin Bannister
Jay Vara wrote: If I define lilyA, lilyB, lilyC to be strings containing lilypond commands, and I have set xyz = lilyA, is there a way to execute xyz? Does this work? #(ly:parser-include-string parser #'xyz) Maybe this thread is relevant:

Re: Generating symbols from strings

2014-09-27 Thread Robin Bannister
Jay Vara wrote: Wow, that works! This also seems to do what you want: xyz = #(eval-string abc) Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Generating symbols from strings

2014-09-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Jay Vara wrote: In the following program, I set xyz to the variable abc using scheme string-symbol as well as the usual \abc. Instead of giving the same value for xyz, the first one sets it to string abc and the second sets it to value of abc. Maybe you are reading out the symbol name (which

Re: Bracketed passages

2014-09-23 Thread Robin Bannister
Phil Holmes wrote: The difficulty would be allowing for varying staff spacing Cross-staff arpeggios will do this for you. See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-02/msg00659.html That was for version 2.12. With 2.18 you still need to cater for the closing bracket

Re: systems not automatically centered when line-width is set

2014-09-06 Thread Robin Bannister
Federico Bruni wrote: If you compile the following example, the systems are not horizontally centered. Bug or I'm missing something? \version 2.19.13 \layout { line-width = 160\mm I presume line-width is a \paper variable which is only effective in a \paper block.

Re: Breathing marks

2014-08-23 Thread Robin Bannister
Phil Holmes wrote: we only get two threes: the initial one is missing. Is there a better way of providing the 3 mark, or an override I'm missing? This is like http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-02/msg00059.html Cheers, Robin

Re: Breathing marks

2014-08-23 Thread Robin Bannister
Phil Holmes wrote: I don't _think_ it's the same. I meant just the break-visibility aspect: adding only \once \override BreathingSign.break-visibility = #all-visible gets you the initial 3 showing. But then the placement will probably not satisfy you; you have to start wrestling with -

Re: Breathing marks

2014-08-23 Thread Robin Bannister
On 23.08.2014 18:34, Robin Bannister wrote: you have to start wrestling with - breathing sign placement in break-align-orders This can get very unwieldly, which always makes the deprecated custos trick very tempting. See the (by now unfamiliar) http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond

Re: Default margins in Letter truncated

2014-07-20 Thread Robin Bannister
MarcM wrote: I am wondering if this is an expected behavior or something is wrong my computer and/or printer (HP Officejet Pro). . . . When i print with the default settings the margins are truncated and the only half of the title of the piece is printed. Does your printer maybe have an

Re: line width

2014-07-13 Thread Robin Bannister
Charles Marshall wrote: How can the length of a ragged last line be adjusted? With ragged-last-line = ##t , the line is too short to look good; with = ##f , it's right-justified and too long. Quick and nasty: at the end, append (in any voice) \stopStaff s16*40 and adjust the 40 to suit.

Re: Odp: Left hand/right hand editorial annotation

2014-05-01 Thread Robin Bannister
Thomas Ruedas wrote: [...] the second a fatal error, [...] I guess that is due to compatibility issues, because the hacks seem to be several years old But the thumbBracket code still works; see the recent http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-04/msg00520.html Just one of

Re: Organ Fingering Notation

2014-04-22 Thread Robin Bannister
Zack wrote: I'm hoping [...] someone in the musical typesetting world will know its name and can point me to how to recreate it Well, I don't know its name but I chose a private one once, slightly unlikely so as to avoid conflict with the real name. Search the user archives for my

Re: more leadsheet questions

2014-03-21 Thread Robin Bannister
Martin Tarenskeen wrote: look like Cm % % % where the % is not really a percentage sign How about the following? \version 2.18.0 simile = \markup { \bold \fontsize #1 \char ##x066A } % arabic simileCN = \once \override ChordNames.ChordName #'text

Re: [LSR v.2.18] Function to create WYGIWYM-Chord Names does not compile

2014-02-15 Thread Robin Bannister
On 15.02.2014 20:28, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: Wrong type (expecting pair): () Any idea ? Well, you can get a bit further by wrapping the single notes in angle brackets, putting them inside an EventChord like they used to be (implicitly). But this workaround is no good for rests, so you

Re: [LSR - v2.18] Displaying bar numbers on a separate staff

2014-02-14 Thread Robin Bannister
On 14.02.2014 20:05, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: [...] ask him how he would see his snippet upgraded ? http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=651 If you are referring to the horizontal distortion, this is cured by prefixing the extra-spacing-width override with Staff.. Cheers, Robin

Re: [LSR - v2.18] Cue with lyrics - cannot update.

2014-02-14 Thread Robin Bannister
On 14.02.2014 18:46, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: I cannot find where the problem comes from. Me neither; convert-ly doesn't rearrange anything. If you move the cue voice down past the other (anonymous) voice, then \lyricsto can find it. But surely you shouldn't have to do that? Cheers,

Re: Tempo placement

2014-02-03 Thread Robin Bannister
Marc Hohl wrote: But why does LilyPond seem to ignore '(left-edge)? It seems it is not visible. The first left edge doesn't arise via a line break, so for pedantic Lilypond the _unbroken_ case applies. Try \once \override Score.LeftEdge.break-visibility = #all-visible Cheers, Robin

Re: Tempo placement

2014-02-03 Thread Robin Bannister
Marc Hohl wrote: Try \once \override Score.LeftEdge.break-visibility = #all-visible Thanks, sounds plausible, but it doesn't work either: Umm ... and with MetronomeMark ? Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Tempo placement

2014-02-03 Thread Robin Bannister
Marc Hohl wrote: Try \once \override Score.LeftEdge.break-visibility = #all-visible Thanks, sounds plausible, but it doesn't work either: Umm ... and with MetronomeMark ? Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org

Re: Tempo placement

2014-02-03 Thread Robin Bannister
Marc Hohl wrote: But why does LilyPond seem to ignore '(left-edge)? It seems it is not visible. The first left edge doesn't arise via a line break, so for pedantic Lilypond the _unbroken_ case applies. Try \once \override Score.LeftEdge.break-visibility = #all-visible Cheers, Robin

Re: Off-topic: Automatically create rehearsal files from SATB midi file

2014-01-19 Thread Robin Bannister
On 19.01.2014 13:51, Speldosa wrote: I want a file that is mixed so that the soprano part isthe loudest, for the altos I want the alto part to be the loudest, and so on. I don't understand your problem, but I do this without volume adjustments, based on several midi scores along the lines of:

Re: voice two but yet stems up towards end of piece with addlyrics

2013-10-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Annette Kusma wrote: Is this a bug or am I missing something? The example you supplied did not run without errors. You didn't mention these errors, so my impression is that you are missing the error reports contained in the log file. Lilypond specifically mentions having trouble with

Re: Is there a way to split a score across two sheets?

2013-10-17 Thread Robin Bannister
Ben Beeson wrote: I'd like to do this without splitting the notes into a left and right score in a ly file if possible. That's probably the best way (easiest to maintain), provided you can force them to stay in sync vertically. For a cheap hack, have a look at LSR502

Re: Descant

2013-10-15 Thread Robin Bannister
Emil Salim wrote: How do I add the descant line on top of the SATB The score block currently contains just a ChoirStaff context. You need to add a new Staff context which runs simultaneously. So wrap the ChoirStaff block in a pair of double angle brackets and insert the new Staff at the

Re: Tremolo/Ledger/Slur Collision

2013-10-02 Thread Robin Bannister
EdBeesleywrote: temporary fix very welcome You can move force the vertical position like this: \override StemTremolo #'Y-offset = #-2 Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Help with Chordname

2013-09-28 Thread Robin Bannister
Steve Noland wrote: I am having problems with some of the jazz chordnames engraving correctly. Specifically, a Dm7(b5) chord (D minor 7, flat 5) ... Check out this recent thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-08/msg00568.html Cheers, Robin

Re: \path command

2013-09-24 Thread Robin Bannister
MING TSANG wrote: works fine except I have undesired background image Here is a black white version. Cheers, Robin black.eps Description: PostScript document ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: fixed vertical space

2013-09-20 Thread Robin Bannister
Werner LEMBERG wrote: However, I want a fixed space between \markup and \score that doesn't get stretched. How about mm-feed? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-04/msg00057.html Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: fixed vertical space

2013-09-20 Thread Robin Bannister
Werner LEMBERG wrote: \markup \mm-feed #10 % -- here I want a fixed space of, say, 10mm Ok, maybe I get it; mm-feed gives you a fixed space (which you could use) but is followed by flexible space (which you don't want). Would it be acceptable to clobber the flexible space by adding

Re: Strummed chord as straight line arpeggio

2013-08-30 Thread Robin Bannister
Peter Bjuhr wrote: My starting point was that this could be achieved by using some kind of alternative arpeggio, but so far this has not been a successful approach. Here is a rough sketch of such an approach, without considering collisions and other subtleties. It has its own arrowdir

Re: explicit 7 on a half diminished 7

2013-08-22 Thread Robin Bannister
Derek Klinge wrote: Exactly, how do I write a chordname exception for a Half Diminished 7th? Here's one way (2.16): %% flatadj = \markup { \translate #'(0.2 . 0.2) \fontsize #-1 \flat } chExceptionMusic = { c ees ges bes1-\markup { m \super \concat {7 \hspace #0.3 \flatadj

Re: text to the *right* of staves?

2013-08-14 Thread Robin Bannister
Adam Spiers-5 wrote How can I put text *after* a staff? I.e. directly to the right of the final barline? And here is another way: \version 2.16.2 { \repeat unfold 44 R1 \bar |. % after final barline: \stopStaff \once \override TextScript #'Y-offset = #-0.5 s1^text at the right

Re: anyone got lilypond 2.16.2 to work on Windows Vista?

2013-08-02 Thread Robin Bannister
Robert Honoré wrote: I am attempting a complete cleanup ... This would include deleting the font cache, or rather: _all_ lilypond font caches. I had a mix-up with these caches (on XP) with somewhat similar symptoms. Check out the thread ending in

Re: Figured bass brackets (bug?)

2013-07-23 Thread Robin Bannister
Jean-Charles Malahieude wrote: Could anyone help me finish this BWV246 project? Well, I don't know anything about figured bass but it seems that Lilypond's square brackets are not intended to be spread apart. add_brackets is called eventwise, and at each call initialises its local

Re: volta bracket right-edges; also RehearsalMark conflicts

2013-06-24 Thread Robin Bannister
Mark Polesky wrote: 1) How do I get the right vertical edges of the volta spanners to print when I've overridden the bar type at those moments? They only seem to print when there's a repeat bar in the staff. Welcome back! I have an amusing workaround for this particular case, but this

Re: Notating bends

2013-05-12 Thread Robin Bannister
Jim Long wrote: I was looking for the counterpart to bendAfter This might do what you want: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-06/msg00137.html Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Whole note bracket

2013-04-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Rustik wrote: Tell me please only how can I make right-aligned bracket «]» by \arpeggio command. Have a look at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-03/msg00725.html Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: chords as markups?

2012-09-06 Thread Robin Bannister
luis jure wrote: ... chords with some non-standard notation ... i'd be very grateful for any pointers. This an old annoyance [1]. You could try using my besideCN and replaceCN. See stencilCN.ly for recent code and a demo. Make sure you update it to your lilypond version. [2] Two

Re: Vertical spacing within header blocks

2012-08-18 Thread Robin Bannister
Is there a way of adjusting the vertical spacing within a header block? See also http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-04/msg00035.html Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: subtlety or remainder from other times?

2012-07-30 Thread Robin Bannister
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: The example had both \larger and \smaller in the same markup. Maybe a copy/paste typo? http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=commitdiff;h=07f53dbc18c8a8903fc8796029faa3ec3c0e707f Cheers, Robin ___

Re: volta repeat and grace notes

2012-06-18 Thread Robin Bannister
Mike wrote: Is it known, with or without a workaround? This is a well-known bug. See http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/special-rhythmic-concerns#Known-issues-and-warnings-50 Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: besideCN seems to have stopped working

2012-06-01 Thread Robin Bannister
Gerry Prosser wrote: Removing the dollars certainly seems to work - thank you! Hopefully someone cleverer than us will be along shortly to explain why ... It was David Kastrup's work which makes it possible to remove the dollars. And please note that any dollars you remove should of course

Re: switch in/out of mensurstriche layout?

2012-04-26 Thread Robin Bannister
diekunstderfuge wrote: this has only worked for the final bar line at the end of the second system. You have modifed the mensurstrich global to do dashed, and it has done its final barline at the end of bar 3 and bar7. Is this something you want? The spacers in the mensurstrich global

Re: advanced (?) instrumentname setting

2012-04-17 Thread Robin Bannister
Gagi Petrovic wrote: somehow the \hspace command gets ignored It looks to me more like a baseline-skip problem e.g. its override is corrupted or ineffective. Note that commands like \fontsize reset baseline-skip. Cheers, Robin ___

Re: How to group whole notes/semibreves in one system?

2012-03-29 Thread Robin Bannister
Klaus Föhl worte: the bracket should be after the notes and not in front of them. When you want that to happen you should precede the chord with \once \override Arpeggio #'direction = #RIGHT When you have got it on the other side you will see that it is still looking to the right and so

Re: How to get Glissando in front of a note

2012-03-28 Thread Robin Bannister
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Could you give me a nudge, please? Have a look at this old thread : http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-03/msg00176.html Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: inner-outer margin two-sided print

2012-03-27 Thread Robin Bannister
MING TSANG wrote: In both cases the output is the same. Did you see the warning produced by this snippet? margins do not fit with line-width, setting default values There may be other problems, but I think yout current problem is that you haven't foreseen any width for the binding-offset.

Re: Fine with dashed double barline occurring in middle of bar

2012-03-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Nick Payne: Is it possible to get a dashed double barline? I don't think that there is anything set up for this. One way to do it is to ask for a double portion. You can test barDoubled.ly for authenticity by comparing \barDoubled | with \bar ||. Cheers, Robin\version 2.15.25

Re: Slashes in leadsheets

2012-02-11 Thread Robin Bannister
Thomas Morley wrote: how about the code below? Is there something wrong with it? (Tested with 2.14.2 and 2.15.24) I thought Neil was implying it would stop working. I see it works with 2.15.29 too. But the result seems pretty halfbaked to me; what additional information is the player

Re: Slashes in leadsheets

2012-02-11 Thread Robin Bannister
what Francisco wanted [?] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-es/2012-02/jpgGbKXsMUjKS.jpg Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Slashes in leadsheets

2012-02-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Francisco Vila wrote: Perhaps http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-03/msg00705.html is of some use here? Thanks, I think yes, but I obtain Scheme errors. Maybe you can make do with the (cheap imitation) slash provided towards the end of the same thread? See simile.ly

Re: Issue 2026 (markup utility) should keep empty-markup positionless

2012-02-03 Thread Robin Bannister
Marek Klein wrote: Is this a bug report? One view: This is about a bug in the making, not yet available in an unstable version. So CG says you should relay this to dev (to which I am not subscribed). Another view: Ian's empty-markup patch passed the reg tests. This in itself is a

Issue 2026 (markup utility) should keep empty-markup positionless

2012-02-01 Thread Robin Bannister
In http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2026#c32 Ian Hulin wrote: This is fixed if we move the definition of the \null markup to the before the empty-markup declaration and change empty-markup to (define-public (empty-markup) make-null-markup)) ... It's built the docs

Re: Breathing sign at a specified staff position

2012-01-13 Thread Robin Bannister
Paolo Prete wrote: is it possible to place a breathing sign at a specified position? I can do that for a rest, in this way: \override Rest #'staff-position = #-12 In your example - replace Rest #'staff-position with BreathingSign #'Y-offset - use only half the value Cheers, Robin

Re: Scalable \markup sequence

2012-01-12 Thread Robin Bannister
Zbyněk Burget wrote: How do I make a definition that increase size of both characters? Instead of \magnify #2 use \scale #'(2 . 2). The scale command was introduced between 2.12 and 2.14. See http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/graphic Cheers, Robin

Re: Square brackets around multiple optional notes

2012-01-11 Thread Robin Bannister
Svetlana wrote: It works like a charm. But please note that in LSR377 the line after % Trick to print it after barlines and signatures: should read [ ... ] #'break-align-symbol = #'custos as in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-01/msg00580.html Cheers, Robin

Re: Status of break-align-symbol vs. break-align-symbols

2012-01-11 Thread Robin Bannister
In http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2011-04/msg00148.html Phil Holmes wrote: to my eye it looks OK. If there is still a problem, could you be explicit about what it is? See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-01/msg00183.html To make the problem _visible_,

Re: Status of break-align-symbol vs. break-align-symbols

2012-01-11 Thread Robin Bannister
Try replacing the current LSR377 demo code as in the attachment. This file (visible.ly) includes a linebreak+leftBracket combination, and thus exercises the custos trick. When the break alignment override is corrected the bracket at the start of the second line moves to the right of the key

Re: Lilypond hangs on a script after adding fingering

2011-12-31 Thread Robin Bannister
gajatko wrote: in future I will also need numbers like 9,11,13 etc. Check out LSR 756 http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=756 and some context http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2011-03/msg00138.html Cheers, Robin ___

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