Re: Get default Gliss endpoint Y value and add intelligently a value on top of it

2021-03-19 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2021-03-19 12:30 pm, Dimitris Marinakis wrote: I don't like manually setting Y values of glissando endpoints. I'd appreciate a more thoughtful approach. Is it possible to reference the calculation Lilypond already does and add a value to it without trying to guesstimate what the actual

Re: Cowell clusters

2021-03-19 Thread Dimitris Marinakis
Thank you! I should have checked the files more carefully. Pretty easy fix, problem solved. Dimitris On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 10:26 PM Robin Bannister wrote: > Dimitris Marinakis wrote: > > > I get some errors: version 2.23.0 > > a lot of Unsupported SCM value for format (various values that

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

Get default Gliss endpoint Y value and add intelligently a value on top of it

2021-03-19 Thread Dimitris Marinakis
I don't like manually setting Y values of glissando endpoints. I'd appreciate a more thoughtful approach. Is it possible to reference the calculation Lilypond already does and add a value to it without trying to guesstimate what the actual value is from scratch? The default placement is sometimes

Re: Cowell clusters

2021-03-19 Thread Dimitris Marinakis
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 ) Also some warnings warning: `(gs -q -dNODISPLAY -dNOSAFER -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dAutoRotatePages=/None -dPrinted=false ./tmp--tmp-3759464)' failed

Change notehead stem attachment for note-by-number markups

2021-03-19 Thread Dimitris Marinakis
I'm using the Scorlatti font and sometimes in certain font-sizes the stems of the notes inside note-by-number markups are off. Is there any way to modify the stencil so that I don't have to use fake score markups to make those notes? I tried faking the stem by reducing the stem length to #0 and

Re: why Kieren is a \relative evangelist [was “Re: Nested transposition"]

2021-03-19 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi all, > >>> imho the near universality of keyboard competence defines Western >>> Music as "can be played on a piano" and has severely damaged our >>> understanding of what music actually is. Musicians like me who >>> can't play piano are very rare ... > > As a

Re: why Kieren is a \relative evangelist [was “Re: Nested transposition"]

2021-03-19 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 12:16:49PM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: [...] > > Probably the biggest problem I encounter with \relative is when I > > enter some music and then extract a section of it into a variable > > for use somewhere else and having the original shift octaves > > somewhere in the

Re: why Kieren is a \relative evangelist [was “Re: Nested transposition"]

2021-03-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, >> imho the near universality of keyboard competence defines Western Music as >> "can be played on a piano" and has severely damaged our understanding of >> what music actually is. Musicians like me who can't play piano are very rare >> ... As a musical theatre director, college music

Re: Openlilylib status

2021-03-19 Thread Andrew Bernard
Thank you all for the supportive comments. They are more than sufficient justification to make it worthwhile to continue. I better knuckle down and reincarnate the website, the Discourse forum, and finally do the git repository refactoring. I set up a new server already. Andrew

Re: Openlilylib status

2021-03-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Andrew, > nobody has noticed the loss of the website or forum, > which did have a few members, > so I wonder if this is worth pursuing anyway. +1 to everything Carl wrote. Here’s a little more personal perspective… I freely admit that I didn’t notice the loss of the website or forum. There

Re: renaissance guitar - tablature

2021-03-19 Thread bart deruyter
Jean, thank you very much, it does really help. I think I have problems installing fonts though, I thought I had it working with frescobaldi, but I can't get frescobaldi to install fonts anymore, no clue what I'm doing wrong. But that's another issue. I've done it manually, and tada, the right

Re: renaissance guitar - tablature

2021-03-19 Thread Jean Bréfort
Hello, There has been some discussion last year on the French users list about lute tablature that might be useful to you. I add a sample I could make with the same music in both a normal score and tablature. The LeRoy font can be dowloaded from:

renaissance guitar - tablature

2021-03-19 Thread bart deruyter
Hello, I have the luck of having a partner who builds instruments. Recently she has finished her first four course (actually 7 strings, 3 pair double string, one single string) renaissance guitar. I've been looking for music, written for this type of instrument and so far I found out the music