Re: Transparent box around notes

2024-04-28 Thread Robin Bannister
Paolo Prete wrote: Note that there's also this (no trial-and-error): https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-01/msg00142.html But it doesn't compile with 2.24... That's due to merge request !818 [1], applied between 2.23.3 and 2.23.4. Simon Albrecht ran into the same problem

Re: Transparent box around notes

2024-04-27 Thread Robin Bannister
Paolo Prete wrote: Something like: \coloredBox color offsLeft offsTop offsRight offsBottom "labelstring" labeldirection { c' e' f' } Many thanks for your help! Paolo This may get you started: https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=background+%7C+colorspan Cheers, Robin

Re: explicit arpeggio

2024-04-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Robert Garrigos wrote: I don’t find a way to do this kind of explicit arpeggio (piano): This is covered at https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/snippets/rhythms_003a-using-ties-with-arpeggios Cheers, Robin

Re: Delayed turns etc

2024-04-17 Thread Robin Bannister
Peter Mayes wrote: On 16/04/2024 23:33, Knute Snortum wrote: 3. How to stop the second line being justified out to the right? In the fuller score, something like this is followed by a page break and more music, but there is a natural break at this double bar, and it looks very

Re: LilyPond 2.25.14

2024-03-23 Thread Robin Bannister
Jonas Hahnfeld via LilyPond user discussion wrote: Windows build with Guile JIT: https://cloud.hahnjo.de/s/Ek5x9rybpiPNtoj This turns on just-in-time compilation that was added in Guile 3.0, but we had to keep disabled on Windows until now. Please test, especially on larger scores where this

Re: performance marks

2024-01-31 Thread Robin Bannister
Stan Sanderson wrote: Certain marks are used to indicate emphasis (phrase breaking) and across-staff fingering. I don't know about the phrase breaking, but you could try doing the across-staff fingering with my undocumented code, called thumbBracket. Look at the Reger 17 and 60 examples in

Re: fony-size chord wiyh bass chord

2024-01-14 Thread Robin Bannister
achar wrote: I would like to be able to change only the size of the bass in a bass chord, for example G in the F/G chord. And possibly be able to move it down and to the right of the agreement name. Add the attached layout section and adjust the numbers. Cheers, Robin \layout{ \context

Re: Changes to Notename - lost some functionality

2023-12-13 Thread Robin Bannister
Stefano Antonelli wrote: A good place to start is a minimum working example. I can't help debug this, but I put together a minimum working example that shows the problem. Maybe someone with better scheme can spot the problem. With liilypond v2.20 there is no issue. With lilypond v2.23.3

Re: Fw: I wrote a MIDI to Lily front end; also questions about video

2023-12-07 Thread Robin Bannister
Karlin High wrote: FluidSynth can do it. I use VLC Player which I think contains it. Prior post explains: My contribution to that thread is outdated: midi returned to VLC with version 3.0.8 Cheers, Robin

Re: Stand indents on the left and right.

2023-11-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Виноградов Юрий wrote: Please specify exactly what part of the code I need. The attached file is suitable for this. You can copy it to beside your current code file, or keep it in a different folder for future use. See

Re: Stand indents on the left and right.

2023-11-25 Thread Robin Bannister
Виноградов Юрий wrote: Hello. There is one snippet that allows any stan to minimize left and right. Here is the link: https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=1098 There is a very large block of code written there to be able to use these settings. My question. Is it possible to make this code

Re: LilyPond 2.25.10 with Guile 3.0

2023-11-12 Thread Robin Bannister
Jonas Hahnfeld wrote: On Sat, 2023-11-11 at 19:37 +0100, Jonas Hahnfeld wrote: We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.10. And here are the binaries with Guile 3.0, built using https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2163 and

Re: LilyPond 2.25.10 with Guile 3.0

2023-11-12 Thread Robin Bannister
Jonas Hahnfeld wrote: On Sat, 2023-11-11 at 19:37 +0100, Jonas Hahnfeld wrote: We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.10. And here are the binaries with Guile 3.0, built using https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2163 and

Re: Is there a simple way to append markup to a chordname in chordmode?

2023-11-12 Thread Robin Bannister
Kevin Cole wrote: I would like to use F. Bb and Am as the "real" chords and append "(C)", "(F)" and "(Em)" as text. This may help: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2022-11/msg00416.html Cheers, Robin

Re: Cent rit between staves

2023-11-09 Thread Robin Bannister
Will Turner wrote: Thank you. I've been using Lilypond for only a couple weeks. This automatic conversion will give you the wrong impression about how readable Lilypond code can be. I thi[nk] this is the text I should insert: \new Dynamics{ s93-"rit." | } But this code will start

Re: left alignment of text lines and musical notes

2023-11-05 Thread Robin Bannister
Ad Rommel wrote: Is it possible to left align both musical notes and text? Well, both of your examples _are_ left-aligned. If you don't like the way the short line is stretched, look up ragged-right in Notation Reference 4.1.5. Your code example - errors (mysize undefined) - does not

Re: Two small issues

2023-11-02 Thread Robin Bannister
Peter Mayes wrote: I have since learned about silent notes, and I get almost what I want if I add a silent note after the advisory key change. But then the bar lengths are altered. To put the two result together: Ideally what I want is the first version, but with the stave extending just

Re: 2.22.2 and 2.24.2

2023-09-09 Thread Robin Bannister
Jean Abou Samra wrote: In short, the folder is "created" by unpacking the zip archive that you downloaded. On my win7: - I download the zip for 2.23.80 and put it in folder test_ - Looking in this folder, I can then see test_a.png - When I double-click on the .zip file, I then see

Re: Need help displaying note names in 2.22

2023-08-06 Thread Robin Bannister
David Kastrup wrote: Note names have changed to use ♯ and ♭ characters, so you need to look up "c♯" instead of "cis". I got no hits that way. An alternative is to add printAccidentalNames = #'lily to the NoteNames \with. And if I change the "es" lookup key to the more canonical "ees"

Re: Adjusting length of final line

2023-06-20 Thread Robin Bannister
Dave Shield wrote: How can I get the general spacing of the last line to be similar to the other lines in the following example? (i.e. roughly half the width of the page). Previously I would have, after \halfscale, added \stopStaff s16*20 where you adjust the 20 to taste. But this

Re: Custom text in repeats

2023-05-30 Thread Robin Bannister
Jakob Pedersen wrote: Is there any way to force lilypond to assume that it's simply text voltatekst = \markup \text { Efter sidste vers. } Cheers, Robin

Re: Changing accidental size and alignment in chord symbols

2023-05-27 Thread Robin Bannister
Lib Lists wrote: Replying to myself, as it might help someone else to give me some hints. I made some progresses following the LSR example here: https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=1057. . . . Here a MWE: \version "2.25.5" \chords { aes2 cis } Specifically, I'd like to have all the

Re: Adjusting layout to bigger notes

2023-05-23 Thread Robin Bannister
Jakob Pedersen wrote: I'm getting a warning: set-global-staff-size: not in toplevel scope error when compiling. That's with the size set in the top-level doc layout block. Move it out of the layout block. It shouldn't be inside anything else like that; just by itself. Cheers, Robin

Re: Separate dynamics from notes

2023-04-28 Thread Robin Bannister
Gianmaria Lari wrote: Your code works well but it doesn't solve the problem because it returns the "absolute" location of the notes while on the other hand in the variable where you write the dynamic you use a relative location. That's why I said primitive. One way to extend it, would be:

Re: Separate dynamics from notes

2023-04-27 Thread Robin Bannister
Gianmaria Lari wrote: This thing always seemed so inconvenient to me that I thought it was practically unusable. Or that there was some trick to maybe have Frescobaldi tell me the "position" of the note (meant as numbers of quarter or eight notes from the beginning). Here is a primitive

Re: movement in markups like TeX's `em` and `ex` units

2023-04-07 Thread Robin Bannister
Werner LEMBERG wrote: ``` Emaj = \markup { E \raise #1 maj } \markup \Emaj \markup \fontsize #10 \Emaj ``` As can be seen, `\raise #1` is not the right value in the second case. We have \translate-scaled #'(0 . 1) for doing that. A simple-minded mouthful. Cheers, Robin

Re: -dgui option dropped in 2.24 - how to stop the black box on Windows now?

2023-04-02 Thread Robin Bannister
Richard Shann wrote: There was an option -dgui which allowed Denemo to run LilyPond in the background on Windows, but this has vanished without, as far as I can see, any entry in the Changes to account for it See

Re: Message size limit

2023-03-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Jean Abou Samra wrote: Le samedi 04 mars 2023 à 16:45 +0100, Robin Bannister a écrit : Is there any specific advice for users taking screenshots? Not sure I understand the question. Why would they differ from other kinds of attachments? If you are attaching a code file, you probably have

Re: Message size limit

2023-03-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Jean Abou Samra wrote: Hi, We've been informed that the size of messages to this list containing large attachments is occasionally clogging up the GNU list server's mail delivery queue, causing distribution delays (not just for this list, but for everyone on the hundreds of other gnu.org

Re: chord placement in Scores

2023-02-07 Thread Robin Bannister
Jeff Kopmanis wrote: I've found that when I put chords in my score, it's printing them *below* the staff rather than above, as usual. Things are normal if I'm not building a score, but I'm wondering why this is happening. Well, I'm not sure. But, to be clear, I see this happening only on the

Re: left space in front of the score

2022-12-26 Thread Robin Bannister
bernhard kleine wrote: Hello, I am working on the space frescobaldi plus Lilypond put infront of the score for long instrument names. There is only a small space after the first score when names are repeated, too small to match the instrument names which aligned to the right reach the

Re: Error when compiling snippet "Parenthesize a group of notes using a Scheme function"

2022-12-16 Thread Robin Bannister
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Joseph, If you use convert-ly on your files, it will update ParenthesesItem to Parentheses, which will eliminate the error. Yes, but: The LSR snippets don't have a \version statement. If convert-ly doesn't help, insert the line \version "2.22.0" and try again.

Re: Adding text to chord names or note names

2022-11-26 Thread Robin Bannister
On 26.11.2022 00:06, Koen van Walstijn wrote: Ideally, I would love to be able to do something like this: > > \new ChordNames {    \relative { c1^\markup { \super "6-9" } }} > > The text added to the note would get printed above the staff in a > Staff context but gets ignored by the ChordNames

Re: -dcompile-scheme-code on Windows

2022-11-20 Thread Robin Bannister
On 20.11.2022 13:56, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Ah, sorry, the snippet was silly. Please use this one instead: \version "2.23.81" #(debug-enable 'backtrace) #(ly:set-option 'compile-scheme-code) #(display (+ 2 2)) #(use-modules (ice-9 match)   (ice-9 hash-table)  

Re: -dcompile-scheme-code on Windows

2022-11-20 Thread Robin Bannister
On 20.11.2022 13:37, Jean Abou Samra wrote: I wonder if -dcompile-scheme-code is broken for everyone on Windows or just for some. (If it's broken for everyone, I'm surprised that this is only noticed now ...) Can a few people on Windows please try compiling this and report back: See

Re: debug scheme part working with Frescobaldi

2022-07-20 Thread Robin Bannister
Eef Weenink wrote: I have several lines of scheme, somewhere is probably an syntax error. The only message I get is form lilypond log: there is an error in the line # begin etcetera. (that is the first line of the scheme segment). I want to zoom in, and see what specific problem there is,

Re: [Help] How to type the symbol for indicating left/right hand

2022-06-15 Thread Robin Bannister
On 15.06.2022 09:37, xurc wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to type this right-angled symbol as seen in the attached image in LilyPond? Here is a recent answer to this question: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2022-05/msg00449.html Cheers, Robin

Re: vertical half-brackets

2022-05-31 Thread Robin Bannister
Werner LEMBERG wrote: For piano music it is common to indicate the use of the right hand in the lower staff with a 'half-bracket' (and vice versa for the upper staff), see image. Two questions. * What's the right term for this 'half-bracket'? * Has someone coded this already? I couldn't

Re: How to code a bend-up into a note

2022-05-01 Thread Robin Bannister
David Johnson wrote: bend-up How should I code the bends into the c8. and c16~? My answer is at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2019-10/msg00306.html Searching for 'scoop' in the user archives will give further hits:

Re: Is there a way to set negative spacing to objects?

2022-05-01 Thread Robin Bannister
RCJacH Han wrote: I’m working on some animated score videos, and I wish to have multiple staffs contracting and expanding vertically and horizontally. For that I wish to set the distance between staves to be 0 so multiple staves are stacked on top of each other. Is there a way to do this?

Re: CG 3.6 book link needs updating

2022-04-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Jean Abou Samra wrote: Thanks for the report. Now that you are a Git expert, how about submitting a merge request to fix this? :-) Thanks for the friendly invite, but you are way off the mark. I wasn't reading CG 3, and I didn't even peek inside the book. I was just wading through

CG 3.6 book link needs updating

2022-04-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Hallo there On [1] the 'Book about Git' link leads to a francophone news magazine. The link originally pointed to the first edition of that book. A few years later it started redirecting to [2], which nowadays redirects to [3], the second edition. It looks like the progit.org domain

Re: line-break-system-details and the exact vertical position

2022-03-21 Thread Robin Bannister
On 21.03.2022 13:18, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Allow me to disagree: "vertical position on the page at which each new system will render" does not specify which refpoint in the system is aligned to the given offset. I don't see that the documentation is inaccurate. In this reading it is

line-break-system-details and the exact vertical position

2022-03-21 Thread Robin Bannister
Hallo there In the Notation Reference for v2.12 through to (currently) v2.23, the section 'Explicit staff and system positioning' says: Note that line-break-system-details takes an associative list of potentially many values, but that we set only one value here. Note, too, that the Y-offset

Re: No line break after score

2022-03-20 Thread Robin Bannister
On 14.03.2022 11:22, Robin Bannister wrote: Patrick Martin wrote: For example, in this picture, 22 follows directly on from the end of 21, and 23 from 22, etc. Or would this need to be implemented some other way? Pseudoindent could help with the horizontal aspect. https://lsr.di.unimi.it

Re: No line break after score

2022-03-14 Thread Robin Bannister
Patrick Martin wrote: For example, in this picture, 22 follows directly on from the end of 21, and 23 from 22, etc. Or would this need to be implemented some other way? Are you a Tetris fan? Pseudoindent could help with the horizontal aspect. https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=1098 You

Re: How to catch post-events inside chords in an event listener?

2022-02-06 Thread Robin Bannister
Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: What do I have to do to make my custom engraver also see post-events (here, a tie, but in my context it's a custom event type) used inside chords? I had a problem like that with tweaks, because the Tweak_engraver was called too late. See issue 3296. I had to

Re: Polychord support

2022-01-29 Thread Robin Bannister
skoop...@web.de wrote: Hello, is there meanwhile an easy way to write polychords as a chord name? I found a request on this topic, but no working solution. The ChordNames context works like a vending machine: - your chosen coffee appears in a single paper cup. The selection and dispensing

Re: Ornament question

2022-01-14 Thread Robin Bannister
Jacques Menu wrote: What is the name of the ‘up arc’ ornament on the first note in this score? Then I’ll look it up in the LPNR. Some say scoop: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2019-10/msg00274.html Cheers, Robin

Re: Feedback wanted: syntax highlighting in the LilyPond documentation

2022-01-05 Thread Robin Bannister
Jean Abou Samra wrote: [Robin] The stroke width I see is 1px (Firefox at 100%).  This makes the stroke dominated by edge effects; the surrounding white dilutes its colour. Do the WCAG recommendations recognise this?  If not, please don't apply their levels to this case. I don't know. I am

Re: Feedback wanted: syntax highlighting in the LilyPond documentation

2022-01-04 Thread Robin Bannister
'Hear hear' to these recent posts from Thomas, Paul and the two Davids! I don't object to the fixed width, but the code font has always been spindly compared to the rest of the documentation text. I find this makes it harder to read anyway. The stroke width I see is 1px (Firefox at 100%).

Re: Fwd: Binaries of LilyPond 2.23.5 with Guile 2.2

2021-12-15 Thread Robin Bannister
A few hours ago I wrote (re 2.23.5fixed) Well, initially I ran into irrelevancies because my .ly file (for 2.22) has #on-the-fly, which is no longer acceptable. I tried running convert-ly.py, but it was missing a .dll. I will detail this later. The attached file details this in its Case 1.

Re: Fwd: Binaries of LilyPond 2.23.5 with Guile 2.2

2021-12-15 Thread Robin Bannister
David Kastrup wrote: Sounds like you might have mistakenly used % as a comment character in Scheme mode (in Scheme, the comment character rather is ; ). Yes. I found it just before taking a break. pah = #(define-music-function (chord) (ly:music?) % cf beguine #{ s8 \hS

Re: Fwd: Binaries of LilyPond 2.23.5 with Guile 2.2

2021-12-15 Thread Robin Bannister
Jonas Hahnfeld wrote: I think I got it, can you give the newly built binaries in https://cloud.hahnjo.de/index.php/s/3gpCEQnjZZAT8FJ a try? This uses https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/1061 and works on my system with a more common locale configuration, including properly

Re: Fwd: Binaries of LilyPond 2.23.5 with Guile 2.2

2021-12-08 Thread Robin Bannister
Jonas Hahnfeld wrote: Okay, now it's getting interesting. Can you give the following archive a try? (also CC'ing the other people who reported problems on Windows) https://cloud.hahnjo.de/index.php/s/yMx3nWMCPNLngAq No change here. DEBUG log exactly as before. Version log ok. Cheers,

Re: Binaries of LilyPond 2.23.5 with Guile 2.2

2021-12-07 Thread Robin Bannister
Jonas Hahnfeld wrote: Can't spot anything wrong here. All variables are set as they should, Guile should be able to find its files... My verbose log was similar. Here is a list of the files as unzipped on my system. Cheers, Robin bin\abc2ly.py bin\convert-ly.py bin\etf2ly.py

Re: Binaries of LilyPond 2.23.5 with Guile 2.2

2021-12-05 Thread Robin Bannister
Jonas Hahnfeld wrote: Oh no, please don't install this over another version of LilyPond! The official installers are built against Guile 1.8, having both version of this very fundamental library in the same directory will go very wrong. I moved my current version out before I moved this one

Re: Binaries of LilyPond 2.23.5 with Guile 2.2

2021-12-05 Thread Robin Bannister
Jonas wrote: "Which step does it get stuck on, parsing, output of Postscript, or conversion to PDF?" Attached is a DEBUG log of what happens here with a smallish .ly file. I do get a successful version log though. And take what I provide with a pinch of salt: - I have always used the

Re: How to display adjacent segno and coda symbols?

2021-10-19 Thread Robin Bannister
David Wright wrote: I've used the attached, which is from the last, and defunct, reference in: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-02/msg00133.html I haven't checked whether it's been made available elsewhere, like a snippet. That defunct reference was a message on this

Re: [Fwd: Changed behavior 2.18.0 to 2.22.1]

2021-10-05 Thread Robin Bannister
On 04.10.2021 19:42, Jean Abou Samra wrote: This is just something I noticed, not of any direct importance to me, but thought you might like to know. I checked convert-ly does not alter the file. This is registered as issue #4826, https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/4826 As an

Re: [Fwd: Changed behavior 2.18.0 to 2.22.1]

2021-10-05 Thread Robin Bannister
On 04.10.2021 19:42, Jean Abou Samra wrote: This is just something I noticed, not of any direct importance to me, but thought you might like to know. I checked convert-ly does not alter the file. This is registered as issue #4826, https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/4826 As an

Re: Arpeggios across notes in different voices

2021-08-30 Thread Robin Bannister
Dirck Nagy wrote: I am trying to extend an arpeggio line to cover the entire chord in the example below. You could try out my easyChArp, originally written for guitarists, and updated here for 2.20. Include (or paste in) its code and replace: 1 \arpeggio with : \easyChArp

Re: Extra padding between ChordNames and custom headers

2021-07-17 Thread Robin Bannister
Robin Bannister wrote: And the put-mm [1] version of this would be Forget that! Sorry for the noise. Missing Nabble's Classic overview. Cheers, Robin

Re: Extra padding between ChordNames and custom headers

2021-07-17 Thread Robin Bannister
Aaron Hill wrote: \score { \header { piece = "Curabitur condimentum" extra = \markup \vspace #0.5 } \song } And the put-mm [1] version of this would be \version "2.22.0" #(define-markup-command (mm-feed layout props amount) (number?) (let ((o-s

Re: Centering staves on the page

2021-07-15 Thread Robin Bannister
Mark Harris wrote: I want to be able to centre staves, which have varying lengths, on the page, as if they were centre-justified. Can anyone help me with the code for this? Have a look at http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=1098 keeping ragged-right and ragged-last false (and be sure to read

Re: Appending minor chords with "sus2/sus4"

2021-07-12 Thread Robin Bannister
Brent Annable wrote: Hi all, I'm currently adding chords to some music, and I can't seem to find anywhere how to create a "Gmsus2" chord name. [..] I feel like I'm just missing something, is there an easy way to display this chord type? See the discussion here:

Re: occasional ragged-right lines in the interior of mostly non-ragged-right score

2021-07-01 Thread Robin Bannister
Robert Gaebler wrote: I understand to set ragged-right = ##f to get an even (all aligned) right hand edge, and set ragged-right=##t to get a ragged right edge. However this setting affects the entire score.  I would like to make occasional exceptions here and there in the score. Have a

Re: Nabble broken?

2021-06-27 Thread Robin Bannister
Jean Abou Samra wrote: That might push us to move to another web interface for the list, who knows. Nabble has already been causing quite a few problems in the past, like mangling code samples. I haven't investigated options yet, though. When you were posting to Nabble Support [1] did you

Re: Adjusting colors and such... A snapshot of the work so far.

2021-06-16 Thread Robin Bannister
darkijah wrote: > Anyway guys, we need a English forum for this, > I am way to confused with > the email thing and finding things again. Perhaps nabble would suit you better? http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/ Cheers, Robin

Re: Notesheet Flute varibles defined and ready for call...

2021-05-17 Thread Robin Bannister
darki...@jesusgod-pope666.info wrote: I learned from the video on Varibles on youtube that the varible call should be put into a { } https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmfXHVrkG3g=PLHi8BvxILUV6x9FqEmZiYrEj6VMGmTKjt=11 But I guess that was wrong. Have you read the Learning Manual? You have

Re: Notesheet Flute varibles defined and ready for call...

2021-05-17 Thread Robin Bannister
darki...@jesusgod-pope666.info wrote: Although am getting these warnings when compiling - it does not seem to like what I have done very much - but it does work. You have two cases of the 'Unattached TextScriptEvent' warning. This sort of thing happens when LilyPond can't find the

Re: ChordNames: differentiating between 7sus4 and m7sus4

2021-04-27 Thread Robin Bannister
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Is there a better way of doing what I want? That, and mum's the word (it might be a bug). Cheers, Robin

Re: centralising markups above notes

2021-04-09 Thread Robin Bannister
Gilberto Agostinho wrote: The solution I found [...] seems very hacky to me as it's mixing two things (\center-align and parent-alignment-x) for the alignment. My take on this: it is not 'mixing' but rather 'combining' two things. You get more useful combinations with less headaches. See the

Re: Jazz chords above slash notation

2021-03-25 Thread Robin Bannister
Calvin Ransom wrote: I ran across a chord that I am not able to write the following chord, If anyone has any ideas on how I can write this I would greatly appreciate it. If you need to do a lot of these polychords, you may be better off using two ChordNames contexts. Cheers, Robin

Re: script stack order regression

2021-03-24 Thread Robin Bannister
Kevin Barry wrote: I don't think LilyPond guarantees a particular order of events occuring at the same moment, but I agree that wrapping them should not change the order. An issue has been created to track this Thanks. But the regression test script-stack-order.ly is quite explicit about

Re: Cowell clusters

2021-03-19 Thread Robin Bannister
Dimitris Marinakis wrote: I get some errors: version 2.23.0 a lot of Unsupported SCM value for format (various values that look like 0.287106 -0.72778135 ) These error messages are probably due to the internal changes that were made to LilyPond stencils between v2.20.4 and v2.20.5. The

script stack order regression

2021-03-13 Thread Robin Bannister
Hallo there I noticed this while trying to make an MWE for a different problem. Maybe it counts as a limitation rather than a bug? Cheers, Robin % MWE for post-event ordering via event-function and wrapper \markup #(lilypond-version) ts-first-second = #(define-event-function () () #{

Re: Stacked tensions for chord names

2021-03-02 Thread Robin Bannister
Aaron Hill wrote: [...] no-bs = #'(baseline-skip . 0) [...] Was there intention behind that variable name? ;-) The official reason: very short, to avoid any wrapping of code. It just happened - while culling hyphens - and then seemed fun. Cheers, Robin

Re: Stacked tensions for chord names

2021-03-01 Thread Robin Bannister
Valentin Petzel wrote: My problem is that at Position where the markup is defined the fontsize is in fact not known. I’ve solved the issue for the time being by using a on-the-fly call to modify the baseline-skip. You can fetch the font-size with#:properties ((font-size 0)) as done in

Re: Stacked tensions for chord names

2021-03-01 Thread Robin Bannister
Valentin Petzel wrote: Does anyone of you have an idea how one can set baseline-skip to be proportional to the font-size? Well, when the markup command \fontsize changes the font size, it changes the baseline-skip too, to keep it proportional. But this means that if you are overriding the

Re: Changing music font for one notehead

2021-02-18 Thread Robin Bannister
Calvin Ransom wrote: What did you type into the mailing list as I could not find that particular thread earlier? I searched in http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/ for NoteHead font-name Cheers, Robin

Re: Changing music font for one notehead

2021-02-18 Thread Robin Bannister
On 18.02.2021 07:26, Calvin Ransom wrote: I am copying a percussion score for my school's Jazz band as a previous musician lost their part. I was able to use the alternate font "lilyjazz" However, on the final note of the score it does not support a whole-note with a cross style notehead. I am

Re: Injecting Blank Space into Score with Edition-Engraver

2021-02-12 Thread Robin Bannister
Jesse Wiener wrote: I'm engraving a large orchestral score and it's working very well with 4 bars per page. For structural reasons, I'd like to have a page with 2 bars but I don't want them to stretch across - the bars are just too wide. Have a look at

Re: our quadratic triangle

2021-01-27 Thread Robin Bannister
Hallo again In the meantime it has occurred to me that moving the gratuitous magstep scaling from baseline-skip over to thickness is perhaps not the answer. Since the triangle is applied mainly as a glyph it should not respond to overrides on those two properties. Consider squashing a

our quadratic triangle

2021-01-25 Thread Robin Bannister
Hallo there The markup command \triangle has been around since 2005. The ChordName code guarantees its regular use as a major-seventh option. This command has a severe bug, as demonstrated by the following code: % same behaviour from 2.8.8 to 2.22.0

Re: I hope this is on topic, pdf indications

2020-12-21 Thread Robin Bannister
jh wrote: Hello- I'm still using 2.18.2 And my PDF 'reader' is Sumatra. Until I did an upgrade of Sumatra when my cursor was hovering over a note there was information about where in the .ly file this note was. After the upgrade this no longer happens. What could be the disconnect between

Re: Polychord

2020-11-27 Thread Robin Bannister
My advice: Don't try. Write markup for overriding the 'text property. And if you don't feel up to doing that sort of markup, you could get most of the way with an additional context: \version "2.20.0" coharmonies = \chordmode { d1:m s d:dim s fis} harmonies =

Re: Polychord

2020-11-27 Thread Robin Bannister
achard wrote: This is what a user wrote to get polychords. But I would like the bottom chord to appear as C7 or Cm7 or C maj7. "If I were you, I wouldn't start from here." The approach of the Scheme snippet you have selected is extremely blinkered, catering only for combinations of

Re: Like \bendAfter but before a note

2020-11-06 Thread Robin Bannister
John Burt wrote: How can I handle the swooping up part? Look here for one way: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2019-10/msg00274.html Cheers, Robin

Re: Sprechgesang

2020-10-31 Thread Robin Bannister
Massimiliano Viel wrote: I receive the following message of error: Wrong number of arguments to ly:stencil-combine-at-edge Why is that? As far as I can understand the number of arguments is fine! The last parameter was dropped quite some time ago. You should have run it through

Re: Forzando in Lilypond 2.20

2020-10-03 Thread Robin Bannister
Mike Dean wrote: Now to hide the warning 3/4 before the start of the Trio (I can take the \time 3/4 out, but that also takes out the time sig at the start of the Trio)looking at the LSR did not give me anything to get a handle on Check out

Re: Making a click track on midi output

2020-09-13 Thread Robin Bannister
John Burt wrote: I know how to make the midi file. But I don't know how to include a click track. Can anyone help me with this? Have a look at this recent thread: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2020-06/msg00065.html Cheers, Robin

Re: How to write chords of different durations?

2020-08-15 Thread Robin Bannister
Kenneth Wolcott wrote: the right hand of one particular measure has "bf2." and "d2 f8 bf" (this is 3/4 time). How to engrave this? Do I need distinct voices for this? Yes. These voices must be made to run simultaneously. Use << >> brackets. That way, the durations in one voice don't

Re: Indent within a score

2020-08-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Павел wrote: How to make indent in the middle of a score (not first system)? In some cases, it would be very convenient. Because additional score blocks "break" the logic of input and lead to other problems: additional spaces between systems, resetting bar numeration, rehearsal marks, etc...

Re: Syntax for ligature brackets

2020-07-23 Thread Robin Bannister
Laura Conrad wrote: I'm not saying this is wrong, and I'm certainly not saying it should be changed. But it would help me remember when I haven't transcribed a ligature for a few months if someone explained why it was done this way. It seems it's ok to think it's wrong and should be

Re: Making markup functions parametric

2020-07-03 Thread Robin Bannister
Urs Liska wrote: Unfortunately I don't really have an idea what "#:circle" actually *is*, so I have no clue about getting where I need to. I think it's a sort of macro thingy, trying to be easy to be used. Look at 'Known issues and warnings' at the bottom of

Re: Problems with Internals manual

2020-06-16 Thread Robin Bannister
Peter Toye wrote: I'm trying to work out what the properties of a LyricHyphen are, but the Internals manual for that object keeps referring to rests, notes. beams. stems, See, for example, the minimum-distance property. None of these, to my mind, have much to do with lyrics or hyphens. Has

Re: Acciaccatura giving errors

2020-06-16 Thread Robin Bannister
Peter Toye wrote: An acciaccatura is giving 14 "programming error: mis-predicted force" errors and corrupt layout. The former I can live with the latter I can't. . . I've tried to produce an MWE, and one is appended, but it doesn't show the layout errors which for me are a complete

Re: cello extended position fingering

2020-06-14 Thread Robin Bannister
Gleb Rogozinsky wrote: I am the Lilypond beginner, switched from commercial software. Are you familiar with the LilyPond Snippet Repository? http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/ Have a look at LSR 999 http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=999 Cheers, Robin

Re: two lv ties on merged notehead

2020-06-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Michael Winter wrote: It seems that when a notehead is merged in two voices no matter what you do you, lilypond only adds on lv tie. There are indeed two lv ties. But in your example they are using the same (default) settings and so end up exactly superimposed. Try giving the one of them

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