Re: How to change system-spacing for cropped image

2021-04-09 Thread Thomas Breuss
Thanks for the link. So, I was not the only one with this use case. > Am 09.04.2021 um 07:04 schrieb David Wright : > > On Fri 09 Apr 2021 at 06:49:09 (+0200), Thomas Breuss wrote: >> >> Is it possible to change the system-spacing for the cropped image? >> >> The normal output looks like the

Re: Chord Name Exceptions

2021-04-09 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
> -- Forwarded message -- > From: Gabriel Borin > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2021 14:06:43 -0500 > Subject: Chord Name Exceptions > Hello, > > I have been trying to write a bass part for a big band. Although I am > mostly happy with the general

Re: Chord Name Exceptions

2021-04-09 Thread Gabriel Borin
Thank you, Aaron This code worked, thanks... \version "2.22.0" customChordNames = { -\markup \concat { m \super { 7 ( \flat 5 ) } } } customChordNameExceptions = #(append (sequential-music-to-chord-exceptions customChordNames #t) ignatzekExceptions) \new ChordNames \chordmode

Re: Version 2.22 macOS

2021-04-09 Thread Andrew Culver
Ken Many thanks. It compiled! I now have 2.22 on my macOS Catalina. Thanks needs to go to nerdling (Jeremy Lavergne) who maintains the Macports repository for LilyPond. FYI the build took about 30 minutes and generated 150,000 lines of logging output. When we build our very non-trivial web

Re: Chord Name Exceptions

2021-04-09 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi Gabriel, Am 09.04.21 um 21:06 schrieb Gabriel Borin: I have been trying to write a bass part for a big band. Although I am mostly happy with the general output of chord names, I don´t like half-diminished notation in Lilypond. I prefer the descriptive "m7(b5) or min7(b5)". I have been

Re: Chord Name Exceptions

2021-04-09 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2021-04-09 12:06 pm, Gabriel Borin wrote: Hello, I have been trying to write a bass part for a big band. Although I am mostly happy with the general output of chord names, I don´t like half-diminished notation in Lilypond. I prefer the descriptive "m7(b5) or min7(b5)". I have been trying

Re: Version 2.22 macOS

2021-04-09 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
HI Andrew; I was gently encouraged to use MacPorts to obtain Lilypond 2.22 and have MacPorts build it for me locally. It worked just fine. HIH, Ken Wolcott On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 1:22 PM Andrew Culver wrote: > > Sorry to trouble you all with this mundane matter. > > I can only find LilyPond

Re: Time bracket notation for very large scale compositions

2021-04-09 Thread Andrew Culver
Carl - Jean - Kieren - Tom: Thank you so much for your responses and suggestions and examples. I will study and test it all diligently and get back to you. One thing the first responder Shane got right: it’s a welcoming and helpful community. Very much something to be proud of. Regards,

Version 2.22 macOS

2021-04-09 Thread Andrew Culver
Sorry to trouble you all with this mundane matter. I can only find LilyPond macOS binaries up to version 2.20 and the person who posted those back in 2015 is not responding. Is there a macOS version 2.22 binary somewhere? Failing that, I’ll try to compile one myself, although that looks a

Re: Time bracket notation for very large scale compositions

2021-04-09 Thread Carl Sorensen
From: lilypond-user on behalf of AHF Date: Friday, April 9, 2021 at 10:16 AM To: "lilypond-user@gnu.org" Subject: Time bracket notation for very large scale compositions Hello LilyPeople, I am looking into using LilyPond for future works. What I like about it is the text input, which

Re: Time bracket notation for very large scale compositions

2021-04-09 Thread Andrew Culver
Tom Your comparison between a .ly - scheme - API’s and HTML/JS is very helpful. And it highlights the issue I raised about the future usability of any set of technologies. At my company iLiv our products run in browsers, currently we use a React-Relay-GrapQL-PostgreSQL stack on AWS. 10 years

Re: Time bracket notation for very large scale compositions

2021-04-09 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Andrew,  > I want to know if I should be using LilyPond. Simple answer: Yes. =) > The example below is from one of Cage’s Number pieces, demonstrating Time > Bracket notation. The important challenges for a notation program are: > - Each time bracket is centered on the page, and the system

Chord Name Exceptions

2021-04-09 Thread Gabriel Borin
Hello, I have been trying to write a bass part for a big band. Although I am mostly happy with the general output of chord names, I don´t like half-diminished notation in Lilypond. I prefer the descriptive "m7(b5) or min7(b5)". I have been trying to use the snippet under this link with no

Re: Time bracket notation for very large scale compositions

2021-04-09 Thread Andrew Culver
Thank you Shane for opening up the conversation, and for expressing your confidence in LiyPond. And thanks for mentioning Scheme as a possible ally. I will look into that. Regards Andrew Culver > On Apr 9, 2021, at 14:18, Shane Brandes wrote: > > Greetings Andrew Culver, > > You have

Re: Time bracket notation for very large scale compositions

2021-04-09 Thread Tom Brennan
Hi Andrew I'm a professional software engineer, and I recently asked myself most of the questions you're asking here when evaluating Lilypond, and ultimately, I decided that for my usecases, it made more sense to use Lilypond, because I would make a lot of use of the musical modeling/abstractions

Re: skylines and custom-code

2021-04-09 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 09/04/2021 à 19:12, Kevin Barry a écrit : On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 11:49:48AM +0200, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Or did you observe the same phenomenon without cross-staff beams, Kevin? The same procedure (consider_auto_knees) is called in every case. I presume if there is only one staff involved

Re: centralising markups above notes

2021-04-09 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi Jean, On 09/04/2021 15:36, Jean Abou Samra wrote: What you are doing is more or less the proper way. Objects have two parameters for alignment because it should depend on both the extents of the aligned object and its parent. This was briefly discussed in this recent thread:

Re: Time bracket notation for very large scale compositions

2021-04-09 Thread Shane Brandes
Greetings Andrew Culver, You have posted a pretty broad swathe of questions to the LilyPond Community. I suspect people will likely give a few responses. My personal use case is limited in comparison to things you might be undertaking. The Thalberg piano concerto is the largest thing I ever have

Re: skylines and custom-code

2021-04-09 Thread Kevin Barry
By the way, it looks like this issue is not present in 2.20...? If someone already said that then I apologise for missing it. I wonder if we should be looking for the commit that changed it. Kevin

Re: skylines and custom-code

2021-04-09 Thread Kevin Barry
On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 11:49:48AM +0200, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Or did you observe the same phenomenon without cross-staff > beams, Kevin? The same procedure (consider_auto_knees) is called in every case. I presume if there is only one staff involved the extent calculations will (as you

Re: Is there a way to prevent tied notes from triggering multiple note names with \context NoteNames?

2021-04-09 Thread Matthew Probst
I tried Jean's solution and it seems to work perfectly. Need to try Phil's solution too.

Re: Drum excercise notation

2021-04-09 Thread Thomas Morley
Am Fr., 9. Apr. 2021 um 14:45 Uhr schrieb Amir : > > Hi everyone, > > I recently started with lilypond. I'm very new to this and still have to > figure things out. However, the main reasons I want to use lilypond is > to create my own drum excercises. For this I need to do something like > the

Time bracket notation for very large scale compositions

2021-04-09 Thread AHF
Hello LilyPeople, I am looking into using LilyPond for future works. What I like about it is the text input, which makes it very easy to integrate with the collection of C programs and PostgreSQL functions I use to generate and manage music for large-scale pieces. (I’m on a Mac.) I have been

Re: Is there a way to prevent tied notes from triggering multiple note names with \context NoteNames?

2021-04-09 Thread Matthew Probst
That's above and beyond what I was asking for, and gives me a way to enhance my understanding of the issues. If it requires coding beyond what you just showed me, I think I could carry on from here myself given what you provided. Thanks Jean! On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 10:39 AM Jean Abou Samra

Re: Is there a way to prevent tied notes from triggering multiple note names with \context NoteNames?

2021-04-09 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 09/04/2021 à 17:15, Matthew Probst a écrit : I've been using Lilypond to create lead sheets for a band that I'm in, and it works great for that.  Between that and a website I use for generating simple chord charts, we're covered for our notation purposes. I have some less skilled note

Re: first trial with arranger.ly

2021-04-09 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Jonas, I've download my lilypond from the lilypond-website, not from my linux distro. Stefan Am Do., 8. Apr. 2021 um 15:40 Uhr schrieb Jonas Hahnfeld : > Hi, > > Am Donnerstag, dem 08.04.2021 um 11:12 +0200 schrieb Stefan Thomas: > > Dear gilles, > > thanks very much for Your reply and Your

Is there a way to prevent tied notes from triggering multiple note names with \context NoteNames?

2021-04-09 Thread Matthew Probst
I've been using Lilypond to create lead sheets for a band that I'm in, and it works great for that. Between that and a website I use for generating simple chord charts, we're covered for our notation purposes. I have some less skilled note readers in the band--they can read rhythm notation, and

Re: Drum excercise notation

2021-04-09 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 09/04/2021 à 09:44, Amir a écrit : Hi everyone, I recently started with lilypond. I'm very new to this and still have to figure things out. However, the main reasons I want to use lilypond is to create my own drum excercises. For this I need to do something like the following and I

Re: centralising markups above notes

2021-04-09 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 09/04/2021 à 13:59, Gilberto Agostinho a écrit : Hi David, On 09/04/2021 12:32, David Kastrup wrote: Where does the documentation suggest that \center-align (and similar) does anything to a single item?  It aligns the things passed to it, not their outside. See the Text alignment section

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

Drum excercise notation

2021-04-09 Thread Amir
Hi everyone, I recently started with lilypond. I'm very new to this and still have to figure things out. However, the main reasons I want to use lilypond is to create my own drum excercises. For this I need to do something like the following and I don't know if lilypond is capable of doing

Re: centralising markups above notes

2021-04-09 Thread David Kastrup
Please keep the list copied. Gilberto Agostinho writes: > Hi David, > > On 09/04/2021 12:32, David Kastrup wrote: >> Where does the documentation suggest that \center-align (and similar) >> does anything to a single item? It aligns the things passed to it, not >> their outside. > > See the

Re: centralising markups above notes

2021-04-09 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi David, On 09/04/2021 12:32, David Kastrup wrote: Where does the documentation suggest that \center-align (and similar) does anything to a single item?  It aligns the things passed to it, not their outside. See the Text alignment section in

Re: centralising markups above notes

2021-04-09 Thread David Kastrup
Gilberto Agostinho writes: > Hi everyone, > > I'm trying to add centred string numbers to some notes in my > composition using markup. Using only \center-align as the > documentation suggests does not seem to do the trick, as the text is > still not centralised. Where does the documentation

centralising markups above notes

2021-04-09 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi everyone, I'm trying to add centred string numbers to some notes in my composition using markup. Using only \center-align as the documentation suggests does not seem to do the trick, as the text is still not centralised. I am only able to get them properly centred when I set

Re: No stem on chord-tremolo

2021-04-09 Thread David Kastrup
Aaron Hill writes: > On 2021-04-08 9:03 pm, Colin Hunt wrote: >> I've begun my first piano score in Lilypond after studying >> soundsfromsound's great introduction series. This code shows my >> problem: >> \version "2.22.0" >> \language "english" >> \relative >> {\time 3/4\clef bass >> \repeat

Re: skylines and custom-code

2021-04-09 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 09/04/2021 à 11:48, Thomas Morley a écrit : Am Do., 8. Apr. 2021 um 19:26 Uhr schrieb Jean Abou Samra : Well, I need correct skylines, at least when it comes to Script, TextScript, Fingerings etc It should only remove the note heads' contribution to skylines: #(ly:set-option

Re: skylines and custom-code

2021-04-09 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 08/04/2021 à 18:19, Thomas Morley a écrit : Am Do., 8. Apr. 2021 um 16:21 Uhr schrieb Kevin Barry : Hi Harm, Ok, another 5 days passed working allday on the problem, progress: zero. I give up. Some insights: (1) It would have been helpful to understand how Stems fit into a Beam, then I

Re: skylines and custom-code

2021-04-09 Thread Thomas Morley
Am Do., 8. Apr. 2021 um 19:26 Uhr schrieb Jean Abou Samra : > > > Well, I need correct skylines, at least when it comes to Script, > > TextScript, Fingerings etc > It should only remove the note heads' contribution > to skylines: > > #(ly:set-option 'debug-skylines) > > { >\override