Re: More arpeggio strangeness

2009-10-08 Thread Robin Bannister
Nick Payne wrote: I have no idea why a different override is required just for that one Oh dear!. More queer things going on. The picture may give you an idea why (to a certain extent). I have the impression you missed my suggestion in the last thread.

Re: How to increase the length of an arpeggio

2009-10-08 Thread Robin Bannister
Nick Payne wrote: How can I increase the length of the arpeggio bracket on seconds and thirds, which at their default lengths are ridiculously short. You can lengthen an arpeggio using the workaround given in http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=794q=arrow which

Re: Issue 581 in lilypond: add engraver for dynamics; simplifies piano-centered-dynamics

2009-10-05 Thread Robin Bannister
Nice :-) I think this deserves a NEWS entry. Cheers, Robin ___ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond

Re: Problem spacing arpeggio

2009-09-29 Thread Robin Bannister
Kieren MacMillan wrote: in the second bar, using the same override does nothing to increase the spacing between the arpeggio and the preceding note. Hmmm... that's probably because of the multiple-voices... but seems like maybe a bug? It is as if Lilypond thinks the span

span arpeggio and single notes

2009-09-29 Thread Robin Bannister
When the connectArpeggios mode includes an arpeggio on a single note, the resultant span arpeggio may collide with a previous note. %% \version 2.12.1 d = { d'16 d'16 d'16 d'16 d'4 \arpeggio } % single note sdf = { s4 d' f'4

Re: Again: Questions about Stem #'length

2009-09-27 Thread Robin Bannister
Marc Hohl asked: why lilypond still (at least sometimes) displays stems You probably haven't enabled no-stem-extend Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Stefan Thomas wrote: I don't understand why the distance between the barline and the cis is better if it is a whole note but not, if it is a quarter note. Well, the whole note has more room because it isn't sharing the measure with any other notes. But the barline

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Stefan Thomas wrote: cis cis cis cis | % the sharp sign is too much left! gis' gis gis gis | % the note and the sharp sign are too much right! Well, erm, how far do we want to get into fine-tuning? OK, it looks like you only want one glyph at a time.

Re: Fixing Collisions

2009-09-19 Thread Robin Bannister
fiëé visuëlle wrote: Would you move the eights in the second measure to the right or combine the different note heads or what else? Would you change the stem direction? I think your specific readability criteria should determine whether you combine noteheads or change the stem direction

Re: Fine-tuning of markup positions

2009-09-18 Thread Robin Bannister
MarcHohl wrote: Is there a different approach I can use? If the three-part \fill-line is so dominant, I suppose you have to cope using ordinary lines. But \concat and \with-dimensions might make this easier to twiddle: maintain total \hspace by hand. matrix = \markup {

Re: Joining barlines at the ends of lines?

2009-09-16 Thread Robin Bannister
Andrew Giddings wrote: I've searched the manual, the mailing list archive, and the web, but I couldn't see anything directly relevant. Did you see these? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-07/msg00127.html http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=semichoirstaff

Re: Help with positioning coda glyph

2009-09-16 Thread Robin Bannister
Tim McNamara wrote: The first coda glyph should be at the end of bar 28 See LSR 432.Before the \break, add \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'break-visibility = #begin-of-line-invisible LilyPond won't put the coda glyph at the beginning of bar 31. At

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

2009-09-16 Thread Robin Bannister
Convert rule 2.11.23 replaces _any_ break-align-symbol and its symbol with a break-align-symbols list containing just that symbol. This is reported in the NEWS as a syntax change. So presumably break-align-symbols is no more than a generalisation of break-align-symbol, simply catering

Re: Trillspanner line thickness

2009-09-15 Thread Robin Bannister
Jonathan Wilkes wrote: I've tried zigzag-width, thickness [...] but with no results. These work if you use the zigzag style (which is not built from glyphs). \override TrillSpanner #'style = #'zigzag Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user

Re: text in horizontal space between staves

2009-09-13 Thread Robin Bannister
Patrick Schmidt wrote: How can I center the text vertically Texts added as in NR 1.8.1 are kept above (or below) the staff. You will find it difficult to persuade Lilypond to move these inside. [And as regards c' c' c' c' c' c' c' see \textLengthOn] [And afterstencil = ##fsay

Re: Marching sheetmusic

2009-09-13 Thread Robin Bannister
Jeroen Heijmans wrote: But I'm not content with the results. It fills the page better if you don't zero between-system-space. Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: text in horizontal space between staves

2009-09-13 Thread Robin Bannister
Patrick Schmidt wrote: is it possible to align the coda signs underneath D.S. al? Well, this makes the markup narrower and then you start to see that we had no horizontal centering. Using a breathing sign instead of a note head makes it easy to anchor the markup in the middle of the

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-11 Thread Robin Bannister
Torsten Anders wrote: I really owe you something :) Well, it's Mark Polesky we both owe. Without him, all small-time Schemers like me would still be believing the very plausible explanation in (the 2.12) NR 5.3.4 of why \tweak cannot be used to modify accidentals. Cheers, Robin

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-11 Thread Robin Bannister
Trevor Daniels wrote: it seems like you're suggesting NR 5.3.4 is not correct. I was talking about the 2.12 NR. I understood its unqualified cannot to be the well-meaning advice: - don't waste your time trying. So I didn't. But Mark questioned this in July, and you updated the

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Torsten Anders wrote: Now, there is only a minor flaw now: the distance between a note and the related accidentals is rather big. In fact, accidentals are more close to the preceding note than the note they belong to. I'm way out of my depth here, but it looks like markup is appending

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-08 Thread Robin Bannister
Torsten Anders wrote: Lilypond does not know about multiple-sign accidentals, so I somehow have to create more horizontal space for these manually. The following code tries to adjust this spacing automatically. But I haven't tested it with your font.

Re: quadratic noteheads

2009-09-07 Thread Robin Bannister
Have a look at filled: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-10/msg00516.html hollow: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-05/msg00593.html Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-07 Thread Robin Bannister
Torsten Anders wrote: However, I failed to do the same for chord tones. Something like this? %% tweakAccidental = #(define-music-function (parser location mkup mus) (markup? ly:music?) (set! (ly:music-property mus 'tweaks) (acons 'before-line-breaking

Re: tieWaitForNote across staves

2009-09-06 Thread Robin Bannister
Jonathan Wilkes wrote: I tried fooling around with tieWaitForNote You didn't show your code, so it's not easy to guess what you tried. I have no cross-staff experience, but it looks to me like the cross-staff run is a lot better supported than the cross-staff chord (where you have to

Re: tieWaitForNote across staves

2009-09-06 Thread Robin Bannister
Jonathan Wilkes wrote: I see a cross-staff property for grobs But this doesn't mean that every sort of grob has it, or uses it. The file define-grob-properties.scm lists about a dozen grobs which do: Beam, Stem, Slur, TupletBracket, among others, but not TieColumn. So your TieColumn

Re: partial chord ties in second alternative

2009-09-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Patrick Schmidt wrote: is there a way to achieve repeated ties of selected notes of a chord ... ? This is rather like Nick Payne's LaisserVibrer question in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-04/msg00313.html because both are what Lilypond calls semi-ties. Maybe you

Re: reflect a character

2009-08-29 Thread Robin Bannister
James E. Baileywrote: for example ə? Here is a rather inconvenient way: \markup { X:\postscript # -1 1 scale (_e) show } \markup { Y:\postscript # 1 -1 scale (_e) show } Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Issue 601 - new workaround needed?

2009-08-27 Thread Robin Bannister
Alex Shanin wrote: The workaround recommended therein doesn't help. It probably only worked for collisons with notes, like in the first case, and not for collisions with things like time signatures and clefs. You could override the time signature like \once \override

Re: arpeggio placement

2009-08-25 Thread Robin Bannister
David Stocker wrote: Any hints on forcing the arpeggio line to the right to make the placement more natural would be appreciated. For the first case, fiddle with the padding. Negative works too, e.g. \override Staff.Arpeggio #'padding = #-0.4 For situations where this doesn't work, see

Re: Scheme function for ossia

2009-08-24 Thread Robin Bannister
Trevor Daniels wrote: like this: And staffName wants symbol? notstring? Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Scheme function for ossia

2009-08-24 Thread Robin Bannister
And staffName wants symbol? notstring? Sorry; forget that. The parameter given to \ossia should be #main not #'main Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: centering some markup under a bracket

2009-08-22 Thread Robin Bannister
Denis Roegel wrote: I am trying to center a markup under a bracket This was discussed recently here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-03/msg00426.html But, instead of OUHM, you could perhaps do it like the Expressive marks snippet Center text below hairpin dynamics (cf

Re: Strumming rhythm for chord progression

2009-08-14 Thread Robin Bannister
Christian Henning wrote: I'm struggling with sus4 chords. ... unexpected STRINGsus4 This is notemode complaining. It is the default input mode: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Input-modes sus4 is meant only for chord mode. But note mode is digesting your

Re: scheme tweak doesn't work anymore

2009-08-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Maybe it used to read -\tweak #'extra-offset #'(6.2 . -5.6) Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: roman numeral chord notation below staff with pivot chord brackets?

2009-08-09 Thread Robin Bannister
lelangir wrote: Running a search for roman numeral on the one big page If you don't find things in the documentation, try searching this mailing list and the snippet repository too. Have a look at this (the example from Matthew Durell):

Re: triplet feel symbol

2009-08-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Look for swing in the LSR. http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=swing Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Option to not collapse lyrics chords?

2009-08-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Tim Walters wrote: Is there any way to [...] leave the same amount of white space as would be used if lyrics/chords were present? This amount can vary. The vertical space allotted depends on what is being typeset; e.g. Cm needs less height than Cm7 Based on a discussion last September

Re: cannot end slur

2009-08-03 Thread Robin Bannister
A phrasing slur goes all the way. (Don't ask me why!) Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: manual volta help

2009-07-28 Thread Robin Bannister
David Bobroff wrote: for some reason the rs of GFirst is coming out italicized as is. This is because the voltas use the music font and it has special letters for doing dynamics like sfz and rfz. The way described in NR.1.4.1. at Text can be included ... would in your case define markup

Re: Manipulating grob properties doesn't work

2009-07-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Marc Hohl wrote: This worked fine with ties, but when I try the same with slurs, it simply shows no difference. (display right-bound) says - Tie: #Grob TabNoteHead - Slur: #Grob NoteColumn Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Staff change in a chord

2009-07-23 Thread Robin Bannister
Mark Polesky wrote: Does anyone have a suggestion? Some time back I chose this missing bracket as a theme for a Scheme exercise. Nothing revolutionary, just to get some practice in Scheme. It has the limitations arising from misusing Arpeggio. I found it needed a lot of different tweaks

Re: Issue 635 in lilypond: PDF automatic deletion is unconvenient on GNU/Linux

2009-07-22 Thread Robin Bannister
flamingspinach wrote: would it be possible for lilypond to just recklessly try to modify the file I imagine it was Risto's post http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2008-06/msg00051.html which tipped the balance in favour of inaction on windows. I work differently now

Re: midi output without harmonies from ChordNames

2009-07-19 Thread Robin Bannister
Werner wrote: % innerhalb des score-Blockes („neben“ dem layout-Block) % Ausgabe einer Mididatei (zum Anhören/Abspielen) This bit of comment describes how to get Midi and PDF coming out the same. When you want them coming out differently, you use _two_ score blocks: - one score block has

Re: Note names above pitches

2009-07-17 Thread Robin Bannister
Adam Good wrote: I vaguely remember an example That would be the 'easy play' noteheads mentioned in NR 1.1.4. But you probably want something more like this: cabbage = { c a b b a g e } \score { \new NoteNames \cabbage \new Staff { \clef bass \cabbage } } Cheers, Robin

Re: \mark vertical alignment with Chord symbols.

2009-07-16 Thread Robin Bannister
Jesús Guillermo Andrade wrote: How can I put it below the chord symbol? These marks, i.e. RehearsalMark, are normally put above everything else. This is done by having the corresponding engraver in the Score context. You can move the engraver down to where your melody is by doing \layout {

Re: Help - trouble with tuplets

2009-07-09 Thread Robin Bannister
Karenee Herman wrote: Somehow, the bass line ends up offset from the treble The second bar of lower should beR2. (for a 3/4 bar). So it's not really the triplets giving trouble. please forgive me if this seems simple! Forgiven. Cheers, Robin

Re: [dal segno / da capo] - Kopf Kopf

2009-07-06 Thread Robin Bannister
For starters, have a look at these snippets in the LSR: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=coda+segno Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: \mark beneath instead of above

2009-07-06 Thread Robin Bannister
Have a look at LSR 402: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=402 (The \mark command makes a RehearsalMark.) Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Augmentation dots colliding with small noteheads

2009-06-21 Thread Robin Bannister
\version 2.12.1 \paper { ragged-right = ##t } { f' g'4. s8 \small f' g'4. s8 g' a'4. s8 a' b'4. s8 } % The augmentation dots are not shifted away from some chords % when the notehead size is reduced % this is a regression error (2.10.33 is ok) Cheers, Robin

Re: Laissez-vibrer tie of non-zero duration?

2009-06-13 Thread Robin Bannister
Kalirren wrote: In general, is it possible to create a laissez-vibrer tie that lasts a certain length of time, or until a certain note? Probably not, because IR 3.2.85 [1] says it is A tie which is only on one side connected to a note head. You could however make it _look_ longer, but then

Re: Laissez-vibrer tie of non-zero duration?

2009-06-11 Thread Robin Bannister
Kalirren wrote: Does anyone know of some other workaround? It's rather crude, but the following override makes your slur horizontal: \relative c' { \once \override Slur #'positions = #'(-3 . -3) \slurDown e8 ( r16 r8.) } Cheers, Robin

Re: scoop before note

2009-06-08 Thread Robin Bannister
Lewis Overton wrote: I'm curious about what others are doing to print a scoop I have an occasional need for this when transposing saxophone parts, and then I use brackettips as you do/did [1]. I first did such bends in a clumsy beginners way and had to put the brackettips in a dedicated

Re: scoop before note

2009-06-08 Thread Robin Bannister
Chip wrote: but no matter what numbers I put in the positions parameters the slur does not move. The \once makes this override act only on the c'2 and the c'2 has no slur. The override acts on the slur if it comes after the c'2, but it moves the slur vertically; not what you wanted.

Re: Bracketed notes

2009-05-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Mark Austin wrote: Is it possible to enclose a note in brackets? Use \parenthesize http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Inside-the-staff#Parentheses Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Page breaking and squeezing as many systems on a page as possible?

2009-05-02 Thread Robin Bannister
Does anyone have an idea why the fourth system is put on the second page I'm out of my depth here, but if your title is done the normal Lilypond way, with bookTitleMarkup, it counts as a system too. So might the pagebreaker be putting 4 systems on all pages? And have you tried

Re: Head of merged half note getting filled

2009-05-01 Thread Robin Bannister
Nick Payne wrote: If I have one note each bar that requires a direction change, then it's actually simpler to use the \once command,as \stemUp requires the corresponding \stemDown or \stemNeutral after the note. I found it quite a disappoinment to discover that apparently similar things

Re: Bar lines at beginning of a line

2009-04-28 Thread Robin Bannister
Boris Lau wrote: I thought it would be quite natural if this would do the job: \override Staff.BarLine #'break-visibility = #'#(#t #t #t) but it doesn't. Certainly a reasonable expectation. This is normally #'#(#t #t #f), but there are cases when Lilypond switches over to #'#(#t #t #t)

Re: Centered footnotes and spacing

2009-04-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Mark Austin wrote: I'm putting the finishing touches on a book of English folk tunes, but have a few problems. I suppose it's rather crude, but I like using \null for things like this. So, for the footer: \markup { Engraved ... } becomes \markup \fill-line { \null

Re: Solved: conditionals in scheme :-)

2009-04-23 Thread Robin Bannister
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: the markup appeared different when created in what appeared to us to be two equivalent ways In the tabClef* markups there is a baseline-skip override just before the final \column. But customTabClef is different; it sets baseline-skip via new-props. If you make

Re: Fingerings with Flat Symbol

2009-04-21 Thread Robin Bannister
Jonathan Townes wrote: the use of fingerings would be much faster and require less typing This nice aspect of fingerings is due to the parser knowing what a fingering looks like. But this is defined as being a single digit, so you only have ten things you can ask for (corresponding to 0 ..

Re: Custom guitar chords

2009-04-15 Thread Robin Bannister
Miklos Vajna wrote: First, currently the output has Bm for my chord, but actually I would like to have it as 'Bm \super omit3/A'. Like this? (verbatim) replaceCN = #(define-music-function (parser location new) (markup?) #{\once \override ChordNames.ChordName #'stencil = #(lambda

arrow upsets short arpeggios

2009-04-13 Thread Robin Bannister
\version 2.12.1 workaround = \override Arpeggio #'positions = #(lambda (grob) (interval-widen (ly:arpeggio::calc-positions grob) 0.5)) { \override Arpeggio #'arpeggio-direction = #DOWN c' g'4 \arpeggio c' f'4 \arpeggio % \workaround c' e'4 \arpeggio c' d'4 \arpeggio % arrow too long

Re: LaissezVibrer tie on single note of chord

2009-04-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Nick Payne wrote: the laissezVibrer tie specified in the bass voice also appears on the two simultaneous notes in the treble voice. This is because of the names you gave your voices. They happen to be the same as those automatically chosen by the { } \\ { } construct. So at this point

Re: LaissezVibrer tie on single note of chord

2009-04-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Nick Payne wrote: Is this possible without faking the chord by creating two voices? Is this more what you are looking for? It is not all that easy to use: - you have to work out the position, e.g. -9, by yourself - and it won't move when you transpose. See IR 3.2.84.

Re: LaissezVibrer tie on single note of chord

2009-04-09 Thread Robin Bannister
Nick Payne wrote: Is this possible without faking the chord by creating two voices? Sometimes I like to show in my piano fingering that one finger of a chord should temporarily act as a pivot while the other fingers are moving to the the next chord. Maybe there is a recognised symbol for

Re: Tip/Trick: Double-Breve or Single-Breve-with-Double-Sidebars

2009-04-09 Thread Robin Bannister
Kieren MacMillan wrote: This function should be good at least as far back as v2.10. \draw-line was introduced after 2.10. Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: How to input keysignature or timesignature in \markup?

2009-04-07 Thread Robin Bannister
Wei-Wei Guo wrote: I still have no idea how to input some music symbols, such as a short piece of pure staff, timesignature, keysignature, and so on. Search the snippet repository for engravers. In particular, try out the (complete) snippet in http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=280

Re: shift lyrics closer to staff

2009-04-07 Thread Robin Bannister
Marek Klein wrote: I tried it using the commented line, but it didn't work You can make the cantus more approachable. Adjust the -2 to taste. \include gregorian.ly \score { \new VaticanaVoice = cantus { \override Staff.VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-2 . 4) \[

Re: script stack order easily upset

2009-04-02 Thread Robin Bannister
Joe Neeman wrote: so we move still more text below more text By all means extend the regression test if it is incomplete with regard to still more text. But how is this relevant? Your illustration shows text and more text ordered in the same way as inner up and outer up of the current

Re: Transpose

2009-03-30 Thread Robin Bannister
Ossie Wilson wrote: I have attached the Ly file After a cursory look, I would say this file is badly mangled as regards key signatures. In part one at bar 29 it helps to say \key dfinstead of\key cs because the subseqent notes are e.g. df, gf, ... Also part one should declare

Re: drum-sticking (textscript) order weird behavior

2009-03-29 Thread Robin Bannister
Roel Spruit wrote:: somehow the order in the output is reversed That's queer. With me (2.12) they both read R L from top to bottom. However, with 2.10 they both read L R from top to bottom. Are you using an intermediate version? ;-) Is this suitable as a workaround? LR = \markup

Re: repeat percent and chords

2009-03-29 Thread Robin Bannister
Kees Serier wrote: Looks good, but how to use it, I'm only a beginning Lilypond user :-( I have a vague feeling you may not have received my reply diagnosing your arabic percent problem: Kees Serier wrote: I get Guile errors GUILE signaled an error for expression started here: markup

script stack order easily upset

2009-03-29 Thread Robin Bannister
Here is the regression test script-stack-order.ly in a slightly lengthened version. \version 2.12.1 \relative c'' { c4^inner up^outer up_inner down_outer down \repeat unfold 2 c4 } The assertion Objects specified first are closest to the note. is false

Re: repeat percent and chords

2009-03-28 Thread Robin Bannister
Neil Puttock wrote: it's possible to duplicate its code in Scheme: Or its appearance in markup ;-) simile = \markup { \combine \translate #'(0.3 . 1.5) \draw-circle #0.2 #0 ##t \combine \translate #'(1.7 . 0.5) \draw-circle #0.2 #0 ##t \rotate #90 \translate#'(0 . 2) \beam #2 #-1 #0.5

Re: repeat percent and chords

2009-03-27 Thread Robin Bannister
Kees Serier wrote: I get Guile errors GUILE signaled an error for expression started here: markup # :bold #:fontsize 1 #:char #x066A Well, it works at my end. Something is corrupted. My best theory is that your version now ends #'stencil = markup #:bold #:fontsize 1 #:char

Re: Problem with arpeggio across voices and fingering

2009-03-27 Thread Robin Bannister
Nick Payne wrote: What I want is the fingering just to the left of the notes and the arpeggio just to the left of the fingering. I'm pretty sure you ought to change the order in which these things are hung onto the side of the notes. But I'm afraid I can't help you with that. As regards

Re: wide-char is wide

2009-03-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Trevor Daniels wrote: I prefer to use Unicode hexadecimal value. There are too many sorts of Unicode hexadecimal values for this to be reliably unambiguous. I think the hexadecimal bit is a red herring and only needs mentioning once, as in: where is the hexadecimal code for the

Re: wide-char is wide

2009-03-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Trevor Danielswrote: I prefer to use Unicode hexadecimal value. There are too many sorts of Unicode hexadecimal values for this to be reliably unambiguous. I think the hexadecimal bit is a red herring and only needs mentioning once, as in: where is the hexadecimal code for the

Re: repeat percent and chords

2009-03-25 Thread Robin Bannister
Kees Serier wrote: but it is the normal percent sign with open zeros, where the repeat sign has filled zeros Yes, well, those repeat signs are site-mixed as it were, and I have no idea how to persuade the contractor to do an unscheduled job in unfamiliar surroundings. But I did find

wide-char is wide

2009-03-25 Thread Robin Bannister
Where NR 3.3.3 is talking about \char it says The following example shows UTF-8 coded characters being used which got me typing in a UTF-8 byte pair after the ##x. But, of course, it is more like UTF-32. In fact, referring to UTF-32 would make it easier to google for these high code

Re: wide-char is wide

2009-03-25 Thread Robin Bannister
Francisco Vila. wrote: the right googleable word is Unicode, do you agree? Well, not fully. When I google for unicode arabic percent I certainly end up at a relevant place http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/066a/index.htm But I am not done. I need to collect whatever it is \char

Re: wide-char is wide

2009-03-25 Thread Robin Bannister
Francisco Vila wrote: Does \char accept full hex Unicode code points or rather variable-length utf-8 multibyte characters? In the source for 2.12.1 the \char markup definition at define-markup-commands.scm line 2423 calls ly:wide-char-utf-8 at general-scheme.cc line 271. This routine is

Re: repeat percent and chords

2009-03-24 Thread Robin Bannister
Kees Serier wrote: I want to have the percent sign for a duplicate chord in the next measure (in \chordmode). I don't know how particular you are. Would this be good enough? percentCN = \once \override ChordNames.ChordName #'stencil = #(lambda (grob)

Re: TrillSpanner edge-text

2009-03-23 Thread Robin Bannister
Benjamin Smedberg wrote: the tr mark is still there. Yes, you can't easily tell how near you are to getting it right. Try \override TrillSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = ##f Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: glissando up from no note to a note

2009-03-09 Thread Robin Bannister
Chip wrote: it just resulted in messed up measures A judicious use of time distortion may help you here. \transpose c c'{ \hideNotes g,32\glissando \unHideNotes c'4*7/8 c'4 c'4 r4 | \hideNotes c''32\glissando \unHideNotes c'4*7/8 c'4 c'4 r4 | a1*3/4\fermata \hideNotes d'4\glissando

Again: stemBoth problem

2009-03-05 Thread Robin Bannister
Hu Haipeng wrote: I don't know whether this gives two stems No, it doesn't. It is just a chord, and a chord (in one voice) has only one stem. In this case the still active \stemUp makes its stem go in a different direction to the following \stemDown notes and so the accompanying

Re: smaller distance between first Staff and TimeSig

2009-03-05 Thread Robin Bannister
Stefan Thomas wrote: I can't reduce the distance between the TimeSig and the first Staff of the Score. How can I do it? Um, - don't override max-stretch? Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Parenthesizing chord names

2009-03-02 Thread Robin Bannister
Robin Bannister wrote: As addBrackets it wrapped only a single chord, but you could derive a left_only and a right_only version easily enough. I wanted to see if I could make such a pair deliver something close to what the OP illustrated, and managed this using \put-adjacent. This itself

Re: Parenthesizing chord names

2009-03-01 Thread Robin Bannister
Tim McNamara wrote: Rather than writing a separate ending, I'd like to just parenthesize the last three chords over the final two bars so they would render: F(Ab7Dbmaj7C7) ChordName outputs via text-interface, so the easiest way should be \once \override

Re: Text over fermata

2009-02-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Joseph Haigwrote: I get the text under the fermata. How can I force it above? Use \once \override Script #'script-priority = #-100 as mentioned in Controlling the vertical ordering of scripts in NR 1.3.1. Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user

Re: Writing text in a measure

2009-02-25 Thread Robin Bannister
Kees van den Doel wrote. on 2.12.2 it does *not* work. The output is attached. Bug? It seems to me that LSR 258 is demonstrating only whiteout. It is not demonstrating how to deal with the concomitant horizontal layout problems, because it cheats here: - uses ragged-right = ##f (with only

Re: Strange output from convert-ly

2009-02-18 Thread Robin Bannister
Mats Bengtsson wrote: try to nail down which conversion rule The rule for 2.1.27 (re tuning) prints this. Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Slurs and repeats

2009-02-16 Thread Robin Bannister
Tim McNamara wrote: Is there a correct way to do this that I haven't been able to figure out? No. Not yet. But see the recent thread at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-02/msg00028.html Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user

Re: NR 4.3.6 Explicit Breaks

2009-02-15 Thread Robin Bannister
Chip wrote: Lily still breaks lines where it wants to. You are fighting something very powerful and don't know it. All that blank space on those pages! It is reasonable to think that saying \pageBreak means that you are quite happy with whatever blank space is needed to skip the rest of

Re: Question: VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent

2009-02-14 Thread Robin Bannister
Thomas Scharkowski wrote: Since Lilypond 2.11. this does not work anymore I have a lot of single sheets based on a 2.10 template which ensured I had enough vertical space for pencilling in fingering. The vertical spacing rework in 2.11 gave me the same problem. This is probably to do with

Re: Colliding rests warning

2009-02-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Nick Payne wrote: I couldn't find anything in the documentation. This comment in the rest collision source code might be relevant. TODO: look at horizontal-shift to determine ordering between rests for more than two voices. So maybe you just have to ignore it? Or do something like this

Re: long text in composer / invisible TimeSignature

2009-02-09 Thread Robin Bannister
Zbyněk Burget wrote: Splitting it onto two lines is unavailing. Therefore i want way to expanding width of this line. The default layout puts poet, instrument and composer all on one line. This is not compatible with the length of your composer text. Even if instrument is unused, its

Re: long text in composer / invisible TimeSignature

2009-02-08 Thread Robin Bannister
Zbyněk Burget wrote: How I can write long text to composer to header? Try composer = \markup \right-align Some long text ... If this isn't what you want, have a look at NR 3.2.1 where the demo splits the composer text onto two lines using \center-column. Why don't hide TimeSignature? I

Re: How to tie a note in a chord to a note outside a chord

2009-02-07 Thread Robin Bannister
Jayaratna wrote: This does not seem to work: {\stemUp c2^~ c4}\\{\stemDown g4 \stemUp a4_~ a} Well, this looks like (part of) what you want! Or is it that you then don't see how to cope with the d2.? The manual mentions connecting ties across voices ( Snippets / Rhythms / Making an object

Re: controlling the alignment of FretBoards

2009-02-07 Thread Robin Bannister
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Please file a bug report Already started, now done. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2009-02/msg00014.html ? Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

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